I personally had no problem getting 2.6 to work.. However, of the two friends of mine that use Linux exclusively, both are having problems getting 2.6 to boot correctly. They were able to do 2.4 compiles no problem.
Here at UC Davis and probably most UC's, there seems to be a line of classes that many CS/CE/EE people take from Semiconductor Physics to Software Engineering. At the one end, emphasis is on semiconductors, properties of electrons.. the basis of any piece of hardware.. Other classes then move towards transistors and gates. Another puts them together into hardware design and using hardware modelling languages. Then computer architecture which links assembly and machine code to what's physically going on. Then assembly. Then C, C++. Then classes on Operating Systems and embedded controllers linking more of the previous classes together. This continue to the other end which is the high level software design.
My point is that I'm in CE, and I focus on the left side and middle of that scale. CS focus on the right but trails into the left. EE focuses on the left and trails off the chart. You can't just learn the high-level languages and expect to fully understand much of CS is all about. You can't learn just the low-level stuff and expect to get far without understanding what's built upon it.
Ok fine, you -can- get far just being a code monkey, but how fulfilling is that?
Try Azureus. It's an open sourced bit torrent implementation written in Java that I like a lot more than the other ones I've tried. You can set the max upload rate among other useful settings.
From what I found, they are allowed to tell me that I can't mount it on the building.. They just can't disallow use of the tripod and dish on the balcony.
Also, if you own a house that's part of a homeowner's association, they have to allow you to mount it on your house. They can't say it's an eyesore and make you take it down.
When your son is older, think about a vacation out to San Francisco.. It's easy to get tickets to see the screensavers live and it's -very- fun to watch.
I'm a student living in an area with Comcast.. For the first two years we had Comcast because we're all used to having cable. It was okay, nothing special.. Eventually, I got fed up with Comcast not carrying some channels I wanted (Food Network and TechTV) and they kept inching the price up. I found DirecTV had a deal for three free months and a monthly fee less than that of cable.
Installation was a slight pain because we live in an apartment and couldn't mount the dish onto the building.. I bought a $25 tripod and a $3 piece of pipe (as the installer suggested, since it's cheaper than buying it from them). The reception is clear but you do notice some artifacts once in a while (similar to what a DivX looks like) in the picture due to the compression. The local channels are actually clearer than they were with cable and we get a lot more good channels. We've only lost the signal twice from two bad storms when our tripod literally tipped over. None of this "vanishing signal" like the cable commercials imply. Heck, we lost the cable signal at least once or twice a year during a bad storm. It doesn't degregate during storms, but we don't get snow, which I hear really kills the signal.
Overall, I'm glad we switched.. If you're happy with basic extended cable channels, I'd stick with comcast. If you want some of the extra channels, go satellite. I'm not sure which has NASAtv or if it's an add-on channel or something.. I see now that you can get a Tivo for cheap if you sign up for satellite and I think the Tivo monthly service fee is less also.
I compare them to rice rockets.. Most people don't need to soup up their cars like that, as it's utterly useless for them to waste their money and time on it.
Back in the day, I had the BH6/300a combo that overclocked well to 450. It's not worth it for me today.. Now, I only keep up on what hardware overclocks well because if some hardware can be pushed that hard, it probably runs rock solid at non-overclocked speeds.
I used to use Verizon's prepaid phone service before switching to a annual plan.. I pretty much always had reception, but not necessarily the best sound quality (compared to GSM). They cover pretty much all of the US, but it looks like their prepaid service charges extra for roaming if you're out of their coverage area. I was also able to sell my phone on Ebay when I was done with it.
If you know the general areas you'll be, check out the coverage maps and prepaid services. I know Tmobile, Cingular and AT&T have prepaid services. AT&T also has a Go Phone service which is a rate plan without the annual contracts.
Nowadays the tests take that into consideration. The testmakers expect everyone to have a graphing calculator and design the test accordingly. You -could- get by with just a scientific calculator, but would be bogged down with a lot of busy work during the test.
... unless the test changed in the last 4 years (which it very well may have).
I work for a hosting company and AOL is the biggest pain in the arse when it comes to this. For the longest time we couldn't figure out why they kept blocking us. The logs showed no one spamming and we weren't blacklisted as far as we could tell..
Well, a good number of our clients have their domain mail forwarded to their aol/hotmail/yahoo mail account. When the people doing this with AOL received spam that was forwarded through their domain on our system and the client marked it as spam in AOL's mail client, we sometimes got blacklisted. AOL said that since the mail went through our system, the system automatically blocked that server. Silently, too.. no bounce backs. What BS.
Either the clients stopped marking their spam, they whitelisted us on that system, or they changed the system since I haven't seen it in a couple months. That sure was a pain.
Whenever I got to Yosemite, they make a big fuss about keeping food locked up so the bears can't get it. They'll tear through car windows/doors for a stick of chapstick. Keeping an Apple in there is just asking for trouble...
I've had an Eastpak backpack with a laptop pocket and it's worked great for the last few years. Even better, it doesn't scream "I HAVE A LAPTOP INSIDE ME" since it's designed as a regular backpack. Their website shows a couple, and I'm sure other companies make them as well. Find them where you would buy a backpack (Target, where I got mine or a sports store).
(assuming the battery doesn't crap out before that due to old age.)
Which is exactly what all rechargable batteries do. It'll die after a couple years whether you charge it a lot or not. Still, a couple of years is a long time in terms of electronics.
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Well that doesn't seem to stop them...
I personally had no problem getting 2.6 to work.. However, of the two friends of mine that use Linux exclusively, both are having problems getting 2.6 to boot correctly. They were able to do 2.4 compiles no problem.
Here at UC Davis and probably most UC's, there seems to be a line of classes that many CS/CE/EE people take from Semiconductor Physics to Software Engineering. At the one end, emphasis is on semiconductors, properties of electrons.. the basis of any piece of hardware.. Other classes then move towards transistors and gates. Another puts them together into hardware design and using hardware modelling languages. Then computer architecture which links assembly and machine code to what's physically going on. Then assembly. Then C, C++. Then classes on Operating Systems and embedded controllers linking more of the previous classes together. This continue to the other end which is the high level software design.
My point is that I'm in CE, and I focus on the left side and middle of that scale. CS focus on the right but trails into the left. EE focuses on the left and trails off the chart. You can't just learn the high-level languages and expect to fully understand much of CS is all about. You can't learn just the low-level stuff and expect to get far without understanding what's built upon it.
Ok fine, you -can- get far just being a code monkey, but how fulfilling is that?
Try Azureus. It's an open sourced bit torrent implementation written in Java that I like a lot more than the other ones I've tried. You can set the max upload rate among other useful settings.
From what I found, they are allowed to tell me that I can't mount it on the building.. They just can't disallow use of the tripod and dish on the balcony.
Also, if you own a house that's part of a homeowner's association, they have to allow you to mount it on your house. They can't say it's an eyesore and make you take it down.
Comcast in the bay area (where techtv is located) doesn't carry TechTV either..
When your son is older, think about a vacation out to San Francisco.. It's easy to get tickets to see the screensavers live and it's -very- fun to watch.
I'm a student living in an area with Comcast.. For the first two years we had Comcast because we're all used to having cable. It was okay, nothing special.. Eventually, I got fed up with Comcast not carrying some channels I wanted (Food Network and TechTV) and they kept inching the price up. I found DirecTV had a deal for three free months and a monthly fee less than that of cable.
Installation was a slight pain because we live in an apartment and couldn't mount the dish onto the building.. I bought a $25 tripod and a $3 piece of pipe (as the installer suggested, since it's cheaper than buying it from them). The reception is clear but you do notice some artifacts once in a while (similar to what a DivX looks like) in the picture due to the compression. The local channels are actually clearer than they were with cable and we get a lot more good channels. We've only lost the signal twice from two bad storms when our tripod literally tipped over. None of this "vanishing signal" like the cable commercials imply. Heck, we lost the cable signal at least once or twice a year during a bad storm. It doesn't degregate during storms, but we don't get snow, which I hear really kills the signal.
Overall, I'm glad we switched.. If you're happy with basic extended cable channels, I'd stick with comcast. If you want some of the extra channels, go satellite. I'm not sure which has NASAtv or if it's an add-on channel or something.. I see now that you can get a Tivo for cheap if you sign up for satellite and I think the Tivo monthly service fee is less also.
I know most of you are too lazy to look at the photos.. but please look. That setup is amazing.
While you all argue over which text editor to use, the real debate is on which gauge is best. You N and O scale ain't got nothin' on my HO.
That article was in the daily SCO story posted yesterday. However, you were modded up so I guess people didn't see it then. =)
I compare them to rice rockets.. Most people don't need to soup up their cars like that, as it's utterly useless for them to waste their money and time on it.
Back in the day, I had the BH6/300a combo that overclocked well to 450. It's not worth it for me today.. Now, I only keep up on what hardware overclocks well because if some hardware can be pushed that hard, it probably runs rock solid at non-overclocked speeds.
I did a reverse dns lookup on the list.. It's kinda funny that University of Utah Printing Services and UC Berkeley Printing Services both come up on the list..
Take a look at the full list (note: these are only the ones that returned something)
Nonono.. they need magic to help SCO management disappear once this whole thing ends.
As a comparison, 3.5 Billion dollars were spent on ring tones last year.. Personally, I think that money would be better spent by NASA.
I just use my cell phone..
I used to use Verizon's prepaid phone service before switching to a annual plan.. I pretty much always had reception, but not necessarily the best sound quality (compared to GSM). They cover pretty much all of the US, but it looks like their prepaid service charges extra for roaming if you're out of their coverage area. I was also able to sell my phone on Ebay when I was done with it.
If you know the general areas you'll be, check out the coverage maps and prepaid services. I know Tmobile, Cingular and AT&T have prepaid services. AT&T also has a Go Phone service which is a rate plan without the annual contracts.
They're small
What will they do now that they've used up all the toilet paper?
I work for a hosting company and AOL is the biggest pain in the arse when it comes to this. For the longest time we couldn't figure out why they kept blocking us. The logs showed no one spamming and we weren't blacklisted as far as we could tell..
Well, a good number of our clients have their domain mail forwarded to their aol/hotmail/yahoo mail account. When the people doing this with AOL received spam that was forwarded through their domain on our system and the client marked it as spam in AOL's mail client, we sometimes got blacklisted. AOL said that since the mail went through our system, the system automatically blocked that server. Silently, too.. no bounce backs. What BS.
Either the clients stopped marking their spam, they whitelisted us on that system, or they changed the system since I haven't seen it in a couple months. That sure was a pain.
Whenever I got to Yosemite, they make a big fuss about keeping food locked up so the bears can't get it. They'll tear through car windows/doors for a stick of chapstick. Keeping an Apple in there is just asking for trouble...
I've had an Eastpak backpack with a laptop pocket and it's worked great for the last few years. Even better, it doesn't scream "I HAVE A LAPTOP INSIDE ME" since it's designed as a regular backpack. Their website shows a couple, and I'm sure other companies make them as well. Find them where you would buy a backpack (Target, where I got mine or a sports store).
(assuming the battery doesn't crap out before that due to old age.)
Which is exactly what all rechargable batteries do. It'll die after a couple years whether you charge it a lot or not. Still, a couple of years is a long time in terms of electronics.
"Eight Maids-a-Milking 41.20 (Regular)"
$5.15 for a maid? Dang, I want to know where to buy 'em from..
"12 Drummers Drumming 687.50 (Internet)"
Internet?! Does that include overnight shipping?