Since I havn't read the article I may not understand this one but in the fine slashdot tradition I'll post anyway.
The first part, passing cached information from site to sight sounds kind of pernicious so perhaps a patent isn't a bad thing - the idea won't spread as fast.
The second part was used by dogpile and some other meta search engines since quite a while back... wouldn't that be the equivelent of the pipe "|"?
locate blah |grep.rpm
Maybe patent inspector should be a bit better paid job. "would you like fries with that?"
Does anyone else think that mice are a clunky replacement for the track ball? Mice are supposed to have a trackball, right? It was such an improvement when the 5 button optical trackballs w/ scroll started appearing for PC hardware, but I'm wondering, why would anyone want to use anything else?
--End missquote Self absorb much? Your working on some serious assumptions and opinions that you are taking as facts. Why is this a front page item?
Thank you very much! The real details on this seem to be pretty scare. I wish there had been a solution that came with your post, but I guess we will just have to wait.
BTW.. MOD PARENT UP! (not my post but flumignan's) + Informative
I wish they would fix the problem with printing from Adobe to Linux CUPS queues. It produces a PICT/PS format- PICT w/ embedded PS - data stream that only the OS X cups filter can handle (pictpwtops filter).
Send this to a Linux CUPS broadcast queue and it goes in the bit bucket or starts spewing garbage.
"Just Works" my derriere. Only Apple could take an open printing system and make it proprietary.
The default OSX terminal is giving one of my users trouble when they are telneting to their pine/client account. It seems to eat Ctr-o used for postponing messages in pine. Anyway to tell it not to do that, or any suggestions for an alternative terminal/text window that still supports the mac hotkeys and interface but works better?
Bite the bullet and move to CUPS. I did and while it has its own pains and problems I just can't consider moving back to LPD/LPRNG.
Its not perfect. I would say it has about 80% of the functionality it claims, but that is still about %200 more than I had before. Just imagine, Never having create a printcap again. localhost:631 is your friend.
Double posting? Normal. Twice on the same page? Amusing but not really unbelievable. Thrice in one Day... Gotta be April first (I hope).
Since there was about a 2 minute delay between hitting reply and getting a post window I'm assuming this is already redundent:(
I thought US won the "war" in Afghanistan +RANT
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Recent update from http://www.debka.com/
"State Department issues worldwide terror alert for US citizens. Fox News TV reports 1000 US troops amount offensive against al Qaeda in Afghanistan."
Hmm according to the government propaganda machines, hadn't the US alreay "won" there? Doing a marvelous job of bringing them democracy freedom and safety arn't we...
Please don't read the rest of this post. It will make you mad, or sad, or disgusted. You will probably just think I'm an idiot.
Still here? Well you were warned.
Don't you feel safer now? Don't you just feel the urge to hop a plane and take a tour of Europe, knowing that as an American every one you meet will greet you with respect and friendship for your brave and compassionate membership in the world community?
Just say No! to Homicidal Cowboys of Mass Destruction.
How do you fight terrorism when the terrorists already won the election? Well... sort of. Kind of Ironic looking back on the court decisions saying that any more recounts would bad for the nation...
I wish I could say something insightful and compelling to persuade my fellow readers and posters of my position. But I can't. I'm just too filled with rage, fury, disgust, shame, despair, and helplessness. No good words will come. Only this filth and verbage of rage.
A draft dodging, C student, carried on his fathers coat-tails, who has never left the country and probably couldn't have pointed out Afghanistan on a map when he took office, has commited us to a war that will eliminate no threat to my nation, make it even less safe for me to travel, produce thousands of martyrs, breed a whole new generation of hating minds, put kill of those brave enough to serve the US in a capacity he cowardly fled, and alienated all of our allies. (Well I guess we've got a few select government officials in England and Spain, -wow-,but they won't be in office much longer.) I want to pull my hair out. AND I CAN'T DO A DAMN THING ABOUT IT! I have never felt as patriotic in my life - I want what is best for my nation, politically and morally, but even though I religiously vote in every election ( even my recent local one with 6 ! canidates - 2 running un-opposed) I have no way to stop this nation from commiting diplomatic suicide and morally bankrupting itself.
For the first time in US history we have engaged in a blatant, unprovoked war of aggression. We have set a precedent that we can't take back. Whats next? Will India invade Pakistan to protect the Pakastani people from their dictator? Will Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, and the new Iraqi Democracy invade Isreal for refusing to comply with the 30 year old UN security Council resolutions stating they have to get out of the Occupied Territories?
If the world accepts our actions, then we will have to accept the same when others do it. Or we can refuse, and then we are telling the world "Might makes Right," and every school yard bully DID have the right to pick on you just because he was bigger. We will be saying we accept the rule double standards - that those with power make the rules.
Please, citizens of the world. Do not judge the people of the US by the pretender who has seized power here. Most of us really didn't vote for him.* He does not represent all of us. He does not speak for all of us.
Lets talk about France. France learned its lesson in world war II. Germany learned its lesson. In the recent propaganda blitz and burst of jingoism France has been accused of "apeasement" in regards to Iraq. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is quite the reverse. The Britich Prime minister is the one most guilty of this in the current case. The French, Germans, Chinese, Russians, and just about everybody else learned their lesson and refused to apease the ol' Monkey Face. They are acting as the UN should - to stop Big nations from trying to force their will on others and arbitrate disputes between countries so as to avoid armed co
Robin Cook -Resigned British Foreign Sec.
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This letter was published in the Hindustant Times - an Indian newspaper.
Why I had to leave the cabinet? Robin Cook March 18
I have resigned from the cabinet because I believe that a fundamental principle of Labour's foreign policy has been violated. If we believe in an international community based on binding rules and institutions, we cannot simply set them aside when they produce results that are inconvenient to us. I cannot defend a war with neither international agreement nor domestic support. I applaud the determined efforts of the prime minister and foreign secretary to secure a second resolution. Now that those attempts have ended in failure, we cannot pretend that getting a second resolution was of no importance. In recent days, France has been at the receiving end of the most vitriolic criticism. However, it is not France alone that wants more time for inspections. Germany is opposed to us. Russia is opposed to us. Indeed, at no time have we signed up even the minimum majority to carry a second resolution. We delude ourselves about the degree of international hostility to military action if we imagine that it is all the fault of President Chirac. The harsh reality is that Britain is being asked to embark on a war without agreement in any of the international bodies of which we are a leading member. Not Nato. Not the EU. And now not the Security Council. To end up in such diplomatic isolation is a serious reverse. Only a year ago we and the US were part of a coalition against terrorism which was wider and more diverse than I would previously have thought possible. History will be astonished at the diplomatic miscalculations that led so quickly to the disintegration of that powerful coalition. Britain is not a superpower. Our interests are best protected, not by unilateral action, but by multilateral agreement and a world order governed by rules. Yet, tonight the international partnerships most important to us are weakened. The European Union is divided. The Security Council is in stalemate. Those are heavy casualties of war without a single shot yet being fired. The threshold for war should always be high. None of us can predict the death toll of civilians in the forthcoming bombardment of Iraq. But the US warning of a bombing campaign that will "shock and awe" makes it likely that casualties will be numbered at the very least in the thousands. Iraq's military strength is now less than half its size at the time of the last Gulf war. Ironically, it is only because Iraq's military forces are so weak that we can even contemplate invasion. And some claim his forces are so weak, so demoralised and so badly equipped that the war will be over in days. We cannot base our military strategy on the basis that Saddam is weak and at the same time justify pre-emptive action on the claim that he is a serious threat. Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of that term -- namely, a credible device capable of being delivered against strategic city targets. It probably does still have biological toxins and battlefield chemical munitions. But it has had them since the Eighties when the US sold Saddam the anthrax agents and the then British government built his chemical and munitions factories. Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a military capacity that has been there for 20 years and which we helped to create? And why is it necessary to resort to war this week while Saddam's ambition to complete his weapons programme is frustrated by the presence of UN inspectors? I have heard it said that Iraq has had not months but 12 years in which to disarm, and our patience is exhausted. Yet, it is over 30 years since Resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. We do not express the same impatience with the persistent refusal of Israel to comply.
What they are basicly saying is that some people sold some stuff, then MAYBE gave the money to the bad guys. This is like saying that capitalism fund terror.
This is like the really awful adds they have been running in the states where they talk about drug money funding terrorists.
What this means is that the US "War on drugs" fund s terrorism, as it is the current laws that artificially inflate the prices of narcotics to the point where it is highly profitable to sell them. You would think the US would have learned this lesson during Prohibition when the banning of alcohol pushed usage through the roof and funded the growth of organized crime.
Artificial scarcity has created the whole drug economy. Remove that factor and it will no longer have the huge profit margin. Remove the profit margin and incentive to produce and distribute will be reduced, as well as the money available to be spent on weapons, bribes, and other criminal/terrorist groups.
Will it end drug traffic? No. Will it make it a heck of a lot harder for the organized groups involved to pay for weapons, transport, and bribes? Yes. You have to ask yourself which is more dangerous. People screwing themselves over of their own free will as they already do, or large well funded, armed, influencial groups that are activly working to increase their sales and protect their profit.
A Synchrotron is a High Energy Photon Source of - wait for it - Synchrotron Radiation or as you or I would call it Really High Power X-rays. Like an earlier comment pointed out, its not for smashing atoms to see what falls out.
Synchrotron radiation is used for things like molecular crystalography (used for drug research amoung other things) http://imca.aps.anl.gov, Biology research (examining how a flys wings work for instance http://www.anl.gov/OPA/frontiers2002/c1facil.html) or medical research like very early detection of Breast Cancer http://www.anl.gov/OPA/news99/news990304.htm
For more information you would need to talk to someone who actually works in the field. I just fix their computers;)
All those URLs are for the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab. The APS is one of the brightest Synrotron Radiation sources in the US. I work with some of those folks so I thought I would give them their props.
Have your recieved them yet? I am thinking of changing vendors, my current local "put the pieces together guy" is getting out of the buisness, and I'm looking for a new source. Their Storage servers look very reasonable, but the SMP workstations seemed a bit more than I was used to paying for. (local vendor puts together dual athlon systems, 1G Reg. ECC Ram, 120G WD HD, Tyan Tiger MB, generic 32M video for about $1500- no Monitor)
So, do you think they are worth the extra your paying? How are they peforming? Any compatibility issues? Hows their support?
Xeon, is something else I've been considering, but the serious price jump per workstation has rather curtailed my chances to experiment.
Your right, most of the apps my users run/write are fotran, but they generally use GCC for compiling, or pre compiled binaries from Fermilab. The experiements they are working on have some pre prepared software sets used throughout that they are loathe to change or recompile for fear of adding any additional factors (or so it was explained to me - I'm not a researcher, just the SysAdmin.)
I guess I should find out what Compiler they are using "upstream".
Quite a Nice article, and useful to me since I'm consistantly building workstations for use in physics research, but what changes would be made for a linux based system?
The information on GPU's was great, if your running in windows and doing visualizations, but most of science doesn't use Windows. They started their projects on Big Iron Unix and are now moving to linux.
Our current spec out looks like this: 2 Athlon MP 2400 Tyan Tiger MPX
We were using Thunder, but found we didn't need the onboard SCSI so moved to tiger. After the fits I've been having w/ Gigabit cards and the AMD MP chipset though I'm considering going back to the Thunder for built in gigabit. 2Gig Kingston ValueRam EEC RAM (its what tyan suggests) 120GB WD Spc. Ed. 8M cache HD Additional Promise IDE controllers for new HD's when needed. Generic TNT2 or Gforce2 Video. (they are just math boxes) Plextor ide CDRW Still looking for the prefect tower. Extra case fans.
The CPU's have been changing over the last year or so as the MP's get faster, And we have moved from 1 to 2G of ram.
Biggest problem I'm still having is the system sounds like a 747 taking off and I've had official AMD CPU fans burn out on me. I would still love to get a bit more oomph out of this though if there are any suggestions.
God Dammit! We don't yet have a singe reason to think that there was anything but a technical failure. I was getting pissed with all the news stations immediatly jumping around speculationg about security and terrorism, making worse a terrible tragedy and playing into the current propaganda machine. I'm disgusted to see this same sort of non-rational fearmongering here on slashdot.
Wait. Watch. Pay attention. We don't need more noise in the signal.
Ok, I don't know a kind way of putting this... The reason your not published is your work isn't any good yet. I just read as much of Golden City as I could and well... its derivitive, disconjointed, and not funny. It MIGHT work as a web comic but your style will just never work for a novel. I applaud your ambition, and persistance, but strongly suggest you take a few more creative writing courses before trying to compare your work to folks like Gibson or the late Mr. Adams.
I'm not writing this to be an ass, I'm telling you because you seem to be honestly unaware that your work is still substandard. When I first read the story I was going to go very easy on it since I thought it was written by a very young author, but your 21, and need a bit of honest critique.
I don't mean to discourage you, as we really need some more good authors, but you need to step back take a hard objective look at your works, take it apart and start from scratch.
These other authors like gibson, adams, knowling are not published because they have inside connections. They are published because they are much much better writers. You can be too, but first you have to accept that you currently are NOT a good writer. Sadly far far from it. Once you accept that, then you can figure out why and begin to advance in your craft.
I highly recommend Mozilla. In my experience it is even more durable under windows than it is Linux. It has tabbed browsing, popup blocking, good security options and loads pages pretty quick. It DOES have a monster memory footprint and the mail client leaves a lot to be desired. If you JUST want a browser, you might take a look at Pheonix the stripped down version of mozilla. I can't activly recommend it though as I have almost no experience with it. I tried it once on a 98 box a while back, but it just wouldn't load net pages at all. Others report much better experiences and I'm going to be giving it another shot soon.
I have a Cannon A40 (great camera!) but I tried taking a photo of a page of Linux magazine (glossy paper) in normal mode, w/ flash, and it came out unreadable. Now it could be I just didn't do it right, but take this as a caveat. Try the camera you are considerng buying and see if it works for you before investing $300(US) in a camera for scanning.
The bill just passed in the House of Representatives, but still has to be passed in the Senate. This means that while it is well on it's way, it it is not yet a law. The bill can still be rejected or even just reviewed and changed when it gets to the Senate. (this happens frequently. Poloticians seem to like the taste of things better once they have pissed in it)
Editorials aside, if you object to the bill you have a small window of time here where you can still do something about it. Write your SENATORS. If you really want it to have an effect, sport for a stamp and send your letter via snail-mail. (Rumor has it that most parts of government ignore email these days) But i that is too hard, write them an email at least, it may not help, but it can't hurt.
Finally, not all of the bill is absolutly horrible. But a few parts need serious scrutiny. You will come off soundling less like the lunatic fringe if you suggest revisions backed by logical concerns.
The parts that seem to be most "dangerous" are the following (from the MSNBC article):
If the Senate also approves CSEA, the new law would also: * Require the U.S. Sentencing Commission to revise sentencing guidelines for computer crimes. The commission would consider whether the offense involved a government computer, the "level of sophistication" shown and whether the person acted maliciously. * Formalize the existence of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. The center, which investigates and responds to both physical and virtual threats and attacks on America's critical infrastructure, was created in 1998 by the Department of Justice, but has not been authorized by an act of Congress. The original version of CSEA set aside $57.5 million for the NIPC; the final version increases the NIPC's funding to $125 million for the 2003 fiscal year. * Specify that an existing ban on the "advertisement" of any device that is used primarily for surreptitious electronic surveillance applies to online ads. The prohibition now covers only a "newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication."
After 1 and 2 it makes you wish you could vote a franchise out of its creators control, and give it to someone else that would stop desecrating our memorys:P
Slashdot Mirror
Since I havn't read the article I may not understand this one but in the fine slashdot tradition I'll post anyway.
The first part, passing cached information from site to sight sounds kind of pernicious so perhaps a patent isn't a bad thing - the idea won't spread as fast.
The second part was used by dogpile and some other meta search engines since quite a while back... wouldn't that be the equivelent of the pipe "|"?
locate blah |grep
Maybe patent inspector should be a bit better paid job. "would you like fries with that?"
Does anyone else think that mice are a clunky replacement for the track ball? Mice are supposed to have a trackball, right? It was such an improvement when the 5 button optical trackballs w/ scroll started appearing for PC hardware, but I'm wondering, why would anyone want to use anything else?
--End missquote
Self absorb much? Your working on some serious assumptions and opinions that you are taking as facts. Why is this a front page item?
Thank you very much! The real details on this seem to be pretty scare. I wish there had been a solution that came with your post, but I guess we will just have to wait.
BTW.. MOD PARENT UP! (not my post but flumignan's)
+ Informative
I wish they would fix the problem with printing from Adobe to Linux CUPS queues. It produces a PICT/PS format- PICT w/ embedded PS - data stream that only the OS X cups filter can handle (pictpwtops filter).
Send this to a Linux CUPS broadcast queue and it goes in the bit bucket or starts spewing garbage.
"Just Works" my derriere.
Only Apple could take an open printing system and make it proprietary.
The default OSX terminal is giving one of my users trouble when they are telneting to their pine/client account. It seems to eat Ctr-o used for postponing messages in pine. Anyway to tell it not to do that, or any suggestions for an alternative terminal/text window that still supports the mac hotkeys and interface but works better?
Bite the bullet and move to CUPS. I did and while it has its own pains and problems I just can't consider moving back to LPD/LPRNG.
Its not perfect. I would say it has about 80% of the functionality it claims, but that is still about %200 more than I had before. Just imagine, Never having create a printcap again. localhost:631 is your friend.
Double posting? Normal. Twice on the same page? Amusing but not really unbelievable. Thrice in one Day... Gotta be April first (I hope).
Since there was about a 2 minute delay between hitting reply and getting a post window I'm assuming this is already redundent
Recent update from http://www.debka.com/
,but they won't be in office much longer.) I want to pull my hair out. AND I CAN'T DO A DAMN THING ABOUT IT! I have never felt as patriotic in my life - I want what is best for my nation, politically and morally, but even though I religiously vote in every election ( even my recent local one with 6 ! canidates - 2 running un-opposed) I have no way to stop this nation from commiting diplomatic suicide and morally bankrupting itself.
"State Department issues worldwide terror alert for US citizens. Fox News TV reports 1000 US troops amount offensive against al Qaeda in Afghanistan."
Hmm according to the government propaganda machines, hadn't the US alreay "won" there? Doing a marvelous job of bringing them democracy freedom and safety arn't we...
Please don't read the rest of this post. It will make you mad, or sad, or disgusted. You will probably just think I'm an idiot.
Still here? Well you were warned.
Don't you feel safer now? Don't you just feel the urge to hop a plane and take a tour of Europe, knowing that as an American every one you meet will greet you with respect and friendship for your brave and compassionate membership in the world community?
Just say No! to Homicidal Cowboys of Mass Destruction.
How do you fight terrorism when the terrorists already won the election? Well... sort of. Kind of Ironic looking back on the court decisions saying that any more recounts would bad for the nation...
I wish I could say something insightful and compelling to persuade my fellow readers and posters of my position. But I can't. I'm just too filled with rage, fury, disgust, shame, despair, and helplessness. No good words will come. Only this filth and verbage of rage.
A draft dodging, C student, carried on his fathers coat-tails, who has never left the country and probably couldn't have pointed out Afghanistan on a map when he took office, has commited us to a war that will eliminate no threat to my nation, make it even less safe for me to travel, produce thousands of martyrs, breed a whole new generation of hating minds, put kill of those brave enough to serve the US in a capacity he cowardly fled, and alienated all of our allies. (Well I guess we've got a few select government officials in England and Spain, -wow-
For the first time in US history we have engaged in a blatant, unprovoked war of aggression. We have set a precedent that we can't take back. Whats next? Will India invade Pakistan to protect the Pakastani people from their dictator? Will Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, and the new Iraqi Democracy invade Isreal for refusing to comply with the 30 year old UN security Council resolutions stating they have to get out of the Occupied Territories?
If the world accepts our actions, then we will have to accept the same when others do it. Or we can refuse, and then we are telling the world "Might makes Right," and every school yard bully DID have the right to pick on you just because he was bigger. We will be saying we accept the rule double standards - that those with power make the rules.
Please, citizens of the world. Do not judge the people of the US by the pretender who has seized power here. Most of us really didn't vote for him.* He does not represent all of us. He does not speak for all of us.
Lets talk about France. France learned its lesson in world war II. Germany learned its lesson. In the recent propaganda blitz and burst of jingoism France has been accused of "apeasement" in regards to Iraq. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is quite the reverse. The Britich Prime minister is the one most guilty of this in the current case. The French, Germans, Chinese, Russians, and just about everybody else learned their lesson and refused to apease the ol' Monkey Face. They are acting as the UN should - to stop Big nations from trying to force their will on others and arbitrate disputes between countries so as to avoid armed co
This letter was published in the Hindustant Times - an Indian newspaper.
Why I had to leave the cabinet?
Robin Cook
March 18
I have resigned from the cabinet because I believe that a fundamental
principle of Labour's foreign policy has been violated.
If we believe in an international community based on binding rules and
institutions, we cannot simply set them aside when they produce results
that are inconvenient to us.
I cannot defend a war with neither international agreement nor domestic
support. I applaud the determined efforts of the prime minister and
foreign secretary to secure a second resolution. Now that those attempts
have ended in failure, we cannot pretend that getting a second resolution
was of no importance.
In recent days, France has been at the receiving end of the most vitriolic
criticism. However, it is not France alone that wants more time for
inspections. Germany is opposed to us. Russia is opposed to us. Indeed, at
no time have we signed up even the minimum majority to carry a second
resolution. We delude ourselves about the degree of international
hostility to military action if we imagine that it is all the fault of
President Chirac.
The harsh reality is that Britain is being asked to embark on a war
without agreement in any of the international bodies of which we are a
leading member. Not Nato. Not the EU. And now not the Security Council.
To end up in such diplomatic isolation is a serious reverse. Only a year
ago we and the US were part of a coalition against terrorism which was
wider and more diverse than I would previously have thought possible.
History will be astonished at the diplomatic miscalculations that led so
quickly to the disintegration of that powerful coalition.
Britain is not a superpower. Our interests are best protected, not by
unilateral action, but by multilateral agreement and a world order
governed by rules. Yet, tonight the international partnerships most
important to us are weakened. The European Union is divided. The Security
Council is in stalemate. Those are heavy casualties of war without a
single shot yet being fired.
The threshold for war should always be high. None of us can predict the
death toll of civilians in the forthcoming bombardment of Iraq. But the US
warning of a bombing campaign that will "shock and awe" makes it likely
that casualties will be numbered at the very least in the thousands.
Iraq's military strength is now less than half its size at the time of the
last Gulf war. Ironically, it is only because Iraq's military forces are
so weak that we can even contemplate invasion. And some claim his forces
are so weak, so demoralised and so badly equipped that the war will be
over in days.
We cannot base our military strategy on the basis that Saddam is weak and
at the same time justify pre-emptive action on the claim that he is a
serious threat. Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the
commonly understood sense of that term -- namely, a credible device capable
of being delivered against strategic city targets. It probably does still
have biological toxins and battlefield chemical munitions. But it has had
them since the Eighties when the US sold Saddam the anthrax agents and the
then British government built his chemical and munitions factories.
Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a
military capacity that has been there for 20 years and which we helped to
create? And why is it necessary to resort to war this week while Saddam's
ambition to complete his weapons programme is frustrated by the presence
of UN inspectors?
I have heard it said that Iraq has had not months but 12 years in which to
disarm, and our patience is exhausted. Yet, it is over 30 years since
Resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.
We do not express the same impatience with the persistent refusal of
Israel to comply.
What they are basicly saying is that some people sold some stuff, then MAYBE gave the money to the bad guys. This is like saying that capitalism fund terror.
This is like the really awful adds they have been running in the states where they talk about drug money funding terrorists.
What this means is that the US "War on drugs" fund s terrorism, as it is the current laws that artificially inflate the prices of narcotics to the point where it is highly profitable to sell them. You would think the US would have learned this lesson during Prohibition when the banning of alcohol pushed usage through the roof and funded the growth of organized crime.
Artificial scarcity has created the whole drug economy. Remove that factor and it will no longer have the huge profit margin. Remove the profit margin and incentive to produce and distribute will be reduced, as well as the money available to be spent on weapons, bribes, and other criminal/terrorist groups.
Will it end drug traffic? No. Will it make it a heck of a lot harder for the organized groups involved to pay for weapons, transport, and bribes? Yes. You have to ask yourself which is more dangerous. People screwing themselves over of their own free will as they already do, or large well funded, armed, influencial groups that are activly working to increase their sales and protect their profit.
Whoops!! That should have been:
http://www.imca.aps.anl.gov/
A Synchrotron is a High Energy Photon Source of - wait for it - Synchrotron Radiation or as you or I would call it Really High Power X-rays. Like an earlier comment pointed out, its not for smashing atoms to see what falls out.
)
;)
Synchrotron radiation is used for things like molecular crystalography (used for drug research amoung other things) http://imca.aps.anl.gov, Biology research (examining how a flys wings work for instance http://www.anl.gov/OPA/frontiers2002/c1facil.html
or medical research like very early detection of Breast Cancer http://www.anl.gov/OPA/news99/news990304.htm
For more information you would need to talk to someone who actually works in the field. I just fix their computers
All those URLs are for the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab. The APS is one of the brightest Synrotron Radiation sources in the US. I work with some of those folks so I thought I would give them their props.
Thanks for the update.
Once they arrive, could you let me know your opinion on them? You can reach me at ehle@NOSPAMMMERS!!.iit.edu if you edit out the caps and "!!"
Thanks!!
David.
Have your recieved them yet? I am thinking of changing vendors, my current local "put the pieces together guy" is getting out of the buisness, and I'm looking for a new source. Their Storage servers look very reasonable, but the SMP workstations seemed a bit more than I was used to paying for.
(local vendor puts together dual athlon systems, 1G Reg. ECC Ram, 120G WD HD, Tyan Tiger MB, generic 32M video for about $1500- no Monitor)
So, do you think they are worth the extra your paying? How are they peforming? Any compatibility issues? Hows their support?
Xeon, is something else I've been considering, but the serious price jump per workstation has rather curtailed my chances to experiment.
Your right, most of the apps my users run/write are fotran, but they generally use GCC for compiling, or pre compiled binaries from Fermilab. The experiements they are working on have some pre prepared software sets used throughout that they are loathe to change or recompile for fear of adding any additional factors (or so it was explained to me - I'm not a researcher, just the SysAdmin.)
I guess I should find out what Compiler they are using "upstream".
Quite a Nice article, and useful to me since I'm consistantly building workstations for use in physics research, but what changes would be made for a linux based system?
The information on GPU's was great, if your running in windows and doing visualizations, but most of science doesn't use Windows. They started their projects on Big Iron Unix and are now moving to linux.
Our current spec out looks like this:
2 Athlon MP 2400
Tyan Tiger MPX
We were using Thunder, but found we didn't need the onboard SCSI so moved to tiger. After the fits I've been having w/ Gigabit cards and the AMD MP chipset though I'm considering going back to the Thunder for built in gigabit.
2Gig Kingston ValueRam EEC RAM (its what tyan suggests)
120GB WD Spc. Ed. 8M cache HD
Additional Promise IDE controllers for new HD's when needed.
Generic TNT2 or Gforce2 Video. (they are just math boxes)
Plextor ide CDRW
Still looking for the prefect tower.
Extra case fans.
The CPU's have been changing over the last year or so as the MP's get faster, And we have moved from 1 to 2G of ram.
Biggest problem I'm still having is the system sounds like a 747 taking off and I've had official AMD CPU fans burn out on me. I would still love to get a bit more oomph out of this though if there are any suggestions.
God Dammit! We don't yet have a singe reason to think that there was anything but a technical failure. I was getting pissed with all the news stations immediatly jumping around speculationg about security and terrorism, making worse a terrible tragedy and playing into the current propaganda machine. I'm disgusted to see this same sort of non-rational fearmongering here on slashdot.
Wait. Watch. Pay attention. We don't need more noise in the signal.
Ok, I don't know a kind way of putting this... The reason your not published is your work isn't any good yet. I just read as much of Golden City as I could and well... its derivitive, disconjointed, and not funny. It MIGHT work as a web comic but your style will just never work for a novel. I applaud your ambition, and persistance, but strongly suggest you take a few more creative writing courses before trying to compare your work to folks like Gibson or the late Mr. Adams.
I'm not writing this to be an ass, I'm telling you because you seem to be honestly unaware that your work is still substandard. When I first read the story I was going to go very easy on it since I thought it was written by a very young author, but your 21, and need a bit of honest critique.
I don't mean to discourage you, as we really need some more good authors, but you need to step back take a hard objective look at your works, take it apart and start from scratch.
These other authors like gibson, adams, knowling are not published because they have inside connections. They are published because they are much much better writers. You can be too, but first you have to accept that you currently are NOT a good writer. Sadly far far from it. Once you accept that, then you can figure out why and begin to advance in your craft.
Best of luck
I highly recommend Mozilla. In my experience it is even more durable under windows than it is Linux. It has tabbed browsing, popup blocking, good security options and loads pages pretty quick. It DOES have a monster memory footprint and the mail client leaves a lot to be desired. If you JUST want a browser, you might take a look at Pheonix the stripped down version of mozilla. I can't activly recommend it though as I have almost no experience with it. I tried it once on a 98 box a while back, but it just wouldn't load net pages at all. Others report much better experiences and I'm going to be giving it another shot soon.
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The only change that would be sufficient would be the permanent end to my heartbeat.
I have a Cannon A40 (great camera!) but I tried taking a photo of a page of Linux magazine (glossy paper) in normal mode, w/ flash, and it came out unreadable. Now it could be I just didn't do it right, but take this as a caveat. Try the camera you are considerng buying and see if it works for you before investing $300(US) in a camera for scanning.
Heh, If it was a Compaq computer, it wouldn't work ;)
The bill just passed in the House of Representatives, but still has to be passed in the Senate. This means that while it is well on it's way, it it is not yet a law. The bill can still be rejected or even just reviewed and changed when it gets to the Senate. (this happens frequently. Poloticians seem to like the taste of things better once they have pissed in it)
Editorials aside, if you object to the bill you have a small window of time here where you can still do something about it. Write your SENATORS. If you really want it to have an effect, sport for a stamp and send your letter via snail-mail. (Rumor has it that most parts of government ignore email these days) But i that is too hard, write them an email at least, it may not help, but it can't hurt.
Finally, not all of the bill is absolutly horrible. But a few parts need serious scrutiny. You will come off soundling less like the lunatic fringe if you suggest revisions backed by logical concerns.
The parts that seem to be most "dangerous" are the following (from the MSNBC article):
If the Senate also approves CSEA, the new law would also:
* Require the U.S. Sentencing Commission to revise sentencing guidelines for computer crimes. The commission would consider whether the offense involved a government computer, the "level of sophistication" shown and whether the person acted maliciously.
* Formalize the existence of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. The center, which investigates and responds to both physical and virtual threats and attacks on America's critical infrastructure, was created in 1998 by the Department of Justice, but has not been authorized by an act of Congress. The original version of CSEA set aside $57.5 million for the NIPC; the final version increases the NIPC's funding to $125 million for the 2003 fiscal year.
* Specify that an existing ban on the "advertisement" of any device that is used primarily for surreptitious electronic surveillance applies to online ads. The prohibition now covers only a "newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publication."
Just my $.02.
After 1 and 2 it makes you wish you could vote a franchise out of its creators control, and give it to someone else that would stop desecrating our memorys :P
"Will I ever get the bang for my MS buck?"
Only if you like being banged while holding your ankles...