Interactive, force feedback virtual edition of Leisure suit larry...
Lets just hope any of the...ahem... attachments are USB 1.0 or 2.0, gawd I'd hate to have to put *any* appendage into a device with firewire... gives new meaning to "red handed" and "hot box'ing"...owie!
I suppose when the Microsoft driver comes out, you will need a glove for both hands, so when you click the no button on a passport query, one hand will reach out and slap the other one.
Or, make you grab yourself by the short n curlies...hell, they got us there already metaphorically, why not physically?
Wandering back on topic, "Power Glove" anyone?
I seem to recall this was useful in vr labs (maybe that was a hollywood thing, dunno) but for games?
Well, maybe it could be useful in Quake3 for when you get blown to bits, have the glove run your taunts via gestures:
Flip off: Fsck you (playername)
shake fist: you'll pay for this!
salute: Well done
Peace sign: peace dude.
Fist slams on table: Grrrrrr.
Touch screen: NOOOOOooooooooo....(whimper)
Groups that signed the agreement included the Recording Industry Association of America, a recording industry trade group, and two major artists' trade unions, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the American Federation of Musicians.
I'm surprised a RIAA spokesdroi^H^H^H^person did not say "In the words of Bill Gates, 'It was a fair agreement'..."
Translation: The fat lady ain't never going to sing because that song is copyrighted on a protected disk. And no, you can't have the mp3 version!
Heh, Microsoft can "take their ball and go home", as it were.
the MP|RI AA can take the ball, the bat, the bases, the field, the speakers, announcers, the concessions et al.
I'd sing the National Anthem right now, but I can't be sure if I'll get sued or not, seeing as my brain is an anti-circumvention device.
(at least it is good for something this weekend).
How about something similar to the "full support of the p4" code set that XP has for Athlon proc's?
In a twisted way, it would be leveraging a duopoly for the greater good. Use Microsoft's...ahem...talents for pushing/pulling/dragging the industry over to AMD chip/sets.
I forget off hand if this was an OEM thing or a MS thing, but it would be quite nice.
Call up a OEM or Screwdrive shop and say "I'd like a 6bay tower, AMD/Intel, MB (speed/stability) and XXX amt of memory, disk space, OS, etc, etc.
At this moment we can do exactly that, save for OS and Processor.
After all, it is not called the Wintel duopoly for nothing, and if AMD's holy trinity dream is to come to fruition, the'd better act fast while the trial drags on or join the fray.
(let's just hope the trinity does not equate to an equilateral triagle whose side length is 6).
I'll admin I have second hand knowledge about project management, but I learned what I know from those that are/were very good at it.
Most people in a team/project enviornment fall into one of these catagories:
1) Coder; the one that can hack code like there is no tomorrow.
2) Cheerleader; the person that "cheers" everyone on and tries to motivate everyone.
3) Idea man; a person with a gift of "thinking outside" the problem. Usually very smart and somewhat competent as a coder/pseudocoder. Usually thinks of everything except the "how" to do something.
4) diplomat; Usually the project manager him/her self. The one that can "herd cats" or talk to the previous 3, iron out differences and balance all the powers of 1 thru 3.
The more you think about it, the more it is dead on. I've had the advantage, if you will, of observing several teams after learning this little tidbit. Once you see it, you can not un-see it.
The point is: You need all of these types, period.
As the PM you need to recognise these talents reguardless of working in person or via email/IM or whatever communications are your norm.
I give you Linus and Bill G. as prime examples.
They know how to motivate people by using their natural talents, they both know when to say "good job", "work on it some more" or (bill g, IIRC) "that is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard of".
As a PM you have the most challenging job, but have to realise that w/o the 3 types, the project is hobbled or dead.
Example of MS/FSF, again offers plenty of insight as to what goes right/wrong with development.
With MS, the divisions are political, social, and idealogical.
With Free Software, timezones/distance, language barriers and occasionally egos.
So, if a book is not around to help, go to a university nearby, and see these dynamics for yourself.
Never know, you might be the one to write the book yourself, with or without the help of a psychology and computer sci. phd.
as if Covalent trying to put a 'feather in its cap'.
(security through obscurity does not work, so I'm trying humor thru obsucrity.)
I'll admit, I'm not versed in marketiod speak but this caught my attention:
Covalent has taken a great web server -- Apache -- and added key functionality that enhances enterprise customers' experience."
What this say to me is "Apache kicks ass, now any idio^H^H^H^enterprise customer can use it with our new point and click gui!"
(shaking head)
A few minutes on freshmeat.net, dudes, would probably solve most of your problems if you are looking for a gui to configure this stuff.
If that is not the case, well, my programming days are over and the comments on the trade offs with what Covalent is doing just leave me to hope it does not reflect badly on Apache.
"any" key, which knowing the government, probaly is listed under the 500 dollar hammer.
I hate to rag on government employees (in some respect I "R" one) but we are not talking about the best and the brightest in the business.
Most are administration, working joes/janes who just want to do thier job...not unix/window/computer security professionals.
Does the "F" surprise me? Nope. Can this be improved...oh yes it can. Of course the optimist in me (and the cynic, too) thinks everything above an "F" is an improvement, and I'd be right.
Let's just hope they don't discover the wonders of Passport because knowing how secure Passport is and the grade they made it would probably be best not to see "if it can get any worse".
it will take for "clippy" the office assistant to become the windowsupdate/security advisor?
I can see the paper clip now, popping up and asking:
"I see you've been exploited by the latest worm. Would you like to:
a) Write a letter to the "freedom to Innovate" foundation celebrating this cool new worm that 'we' made possible (passport required)?
b) thank the virus writer via email using the viruses built in SMTP engine or outlook (passport required)?
c) Launch IE and go to windowsupdate (passport required)
d) thank the DOJ and help pay our legal fees (passport required)
OK(passport required) Cancel (passport required).
OS X.1 on X86, where art thou?
C'mon Apple 'grow some brass ones' and as was stated before "let loose the dogs of war an port OS X to X86...consequences be damned if you want that 'other 90%' running your wares".
I have a dream, that one day Bill Gates and the Devil himself will ask the same question at the same time:
"Why is it so damn cold, and just where did all these fricking penguins come from?"
Hey, I can dream, can't I? (passport not required, yet).
Why is it during a discussion such as this when I read "devil's advocate"...I think, on no, you're admitting to being a Microsoft shill right off the bat?
(kidding, btw(
But, I digress...
I have a two word response:
Track Record
When it comes to security, bugs, bug fixes, whining about code/exploits and actually doing something for the good of the consumer/economy et all... Think of Microsoft and re-read the two word response again.
I'm going to take a quote completely out of context here from a Sun rep...
"...Microsoft sees sun in its rear view mirror trying to catch up and thinks it is in the lead. Poor MS does not realize they are about to get lapped, again..."
I think the context was server software/os's, which, MS is setting its sights on.
Maybe they should name their next server code base "Icarus" because you know if they fly too close to the "Sun"... I think the results will be...ummm...{Jafar}...Interesting...{/end}
The fat lady ain't sung yet, but the trial so far has been so anticlimatic that I wonder if the (trans)script was made up by the MPAA.
I've babbled on long enuf, so before I get off topic...I'll say g'nite all.
IE can certainly be removed from windows. I've done it several times. same here, up to 98se click here
See, the point is during the trial in front of Judge Jackson, they committed purjury...why MS's legal team or it's officers did not wind up in Jail for a few nites is beyond me.
Lying, Doctoring evidence, delaying (granted not illegal) and such a condecending attitude during the trial...sheesh, even 5 seconds upon leaving the courthouse and hitting the cameras.
Shock the sh*t out of me that no one used thier finegaling *in the court of public opinion* against them...If they did, then I missed it somehow.
Oh, back on the train of thought:
a 98lite'd system is actuall quite stable to the point of being shocking.
Once you "unbolt" I.E from 98se, feed the program a 95b cd (need 5 files, IIRC) it *screams* on even a lowly PII.
I got a p200/64M and it is *very* usable.
Can't remove IE...bullshit! MS can, but then how would they keep their monopoly in browser software?
Crap, just asked and answerd my own question...I seem to be getting quite good at that.
PCI-X seems to exist, but looks something like AGP 4X to 6X in light of this comment:
At it's maximum 133 MHz frequency, a PCI-X bus only supports one slot, but allows segmenting using PCI-X to PCI-X bridging for additional slots.
AAAAAaarrrrrruuuuugggghhhh!!!
Am I losing (or loosing, either works) my grip on reality or was the whole point to have all your cards belong to us and on the same damn freq/speed/clock perhaps at the FSB rather than a seperate timing?
Heh, an auto manufacture that says you can have all the torque you want, but one wheel at a time.
If my memory serves (occasionally it does) PCI-X has been "on the drawing board" for, what?, the past 5 fricking years?
Quick with the acronyms, slow delivering anything useful...heck not delivered anything yet from what I've seen.
3GIO, Infiniband and Hypertransport...remains to be seen. But at least there is a 1 out of 3 something showing up and relieving these "low bandwidth blues".
Isn't Hypertransport supported by the AMA?
whoops, acronym abuse...Apple, Microsoft and AMD?
Seeing as Hypertransport is AMD's brain child.
We'll see, but it winds up being a matter of "the chips falling where they may", especially in the hands of motherboard makers, where they belong.
Whoever comes out with an actual working spec could say "Get on the bus, come ride with us" in a commercial and not be referring to city transit.
Point:
1) It just happened (hehe, "mee too")
2) I/We were trying
3) Where did this bastard come from? Let's put him to work.
point one is overwealming, to say the least.
Speaking for myself, Unix Admins aren't born...ok technically, they are, but a prerequisite seems to be "being dropped on one's head after birth" or a "masochistic tendancies coupled with penguin, CPU and GPU fetishes."
That which does not kill me only pisses me off even more... muahahaha.
Seriously, tho, I recommend finding a spare box and literally installing whatever distro you can get your hands on.
Try Linux, BSD, and whatever else you can pick up off a ftp site or cdrom or "gimmes".
Heck I came late to the party unix wise, because I d/l'ed slackware and waited a year or so before installing even tho I had the boot disks and such working. I simply did not want to mess up a working machine...just because you can, does not mean you should (especially when starting out).
When I got a second box, the old one was running slack a few hours later.
Personally I think installing *nix's is harder than running, but way easier than securing.
And if you run into trouble you'll need 2 things:
1) access to a guru and documentation
2) Win98se. Because windows is still the best hardware detection utility that a unix user could ever hope for.
While the G4e has fairly standard, fairly unremarkable floating-point hardware, the PPC ISA does things the way they're supposed to be done
[snip]
The P4, on the other hand, has slightly better hardware but is hobbled by the legacy x87 ISA.
I could have sworn tomshardware stated it best as "Essentially we have a P4(86) 2Ghz".
I'm paraphrasing, mind you and possibly taking it out of context, *but* instead of increasing the cache (instruction/data/registers) they combined and dropped it down to 8k of instruction and data.
Oh, and on the P4 vs AMD's XP chip, how would this analogy be changed or overhauled as it stands with the P4 vs G4e?
I'd really like to know. Or have a better "real world" analogy geared for the newbie user who usually winds up asking me, and I have to be able to explain complex things in simple terms to myself first.
Yep, that is what the GIS stands for, I'm actuall the admin for the network...at the moment wrestling with a network install...Arugh!
To get back to your question:
Never heard of a program called Grass, right now "we" are using Erdas Imagine (erdas.com) and Arc view/info/gis packages.
There are demo versions available if I'm not mistaken, plus if you work for/with a university you should be able to legally get a copy off of that university's license...*IF* I understand the way our lic. works.
What "we" do is useful and neat, but some times it seem like "we" are just making a lot of pretty pictures...:)
The Tunney Act requires that the judge would review the deal to ensure that it is in the public interest and is not politically motivated.
I gotta stop doing that...
Not politically motivated--the current deal when the DOJ was inexplicably *cowed* despide their victories left and right?
I don't know, but I recall hearing "Those that do not engage in politics, will invariably be done in by it".
Sadly, this is the current situation with the tech sector/slashdot crowd. Heck, I'm just as guilty of "being too busy" or "I'll never make a difference" kind of defeatist thinking.
I'm going to finish the articl and clean the coffee off my work area, and then I'll think of a question that should be asked.
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't this get done with a cathedral using the original unreal engine? The name of the cathedral escapes me at the moment, but I do know I downloaded it because it was an interesting virtual tour and use of the Unreal Engine.
I'm surprised nobody remembered.
Doh! Quick google search gave me this and the Nodtra Dame....Sheesh, only the most famous cathedral in the world, prolly.
I really should take the brain out of the bell tower once in a while.
Star Office will support Mac OS X.
SO drops support.
Gobe makes an office suite for Be...Be drops off the face of the planet, BeOs wise.
Gobe wrote the precursor to Appleworks (i.e. claris works) Dropped or Sold? Dunno.
And for all the slamming I've seen (ok, and done, too) of Microsoft... I've played with the GM of Office for X... all I can say is "wow".
Silly me for hoping Star Office would get there first and "save me".
(colorful series of explicatives deleted)...for all of the proclamations that Microsoft does not give the consumer a choice...I have to ask myself now "Do their competitors?"
I'm dead serious.
Maybe it is a sign of the times that Microsoft owns Windows and Macintosh computers lock, stock and little/big endian bits, or maybe comptitors have just given up trying altogether.
Has MS proven "that he who tries to be strong everywhere, ends up being strong nowhere" the phrase wrong?
Saying there is no competition because 1 player owns the marked is one thing.
Saying there is no competition because no one is trying at all, is another.
Someone give me a reality check, please!
Either I'm missing some critical piece, or I've hit the problem dead on....only thing is I don't know which.
Microsoft doesn't allow consumers to vote with their wallets so we need to get the word out using other means. Pro/Con, get the word out.
I agree, Microsoft doesn't allow people to vote with their wallets, but that is what passport's wallet function is for...only thing is when it is time to vote, with said "wallet" who is going to be stuffing the ballot box?
Slashdot Mirror
Interactive, force feedback virtual edition of Leisure suit larry...
...ahem... attachments are USB 1.0 or 2.0, gawd I'd hate to have to put *any* appendage into a device with firewire... gives new meaning to "red handed" and "hot box'ing"...owie!
Lets just hope any of the
I suppose when the Microsoft driver comes out, you will need a glove for both hands, so when you click the no button on a passport query, one hand will reach out and slap the other one.
Or, make you grab yourself by the short n curlies...hell, they got us there already metaphorically, why not physically?
Wandering back on topic, "Power Glove" anyone?
I seem to recall this was useful in vr labs (maybe that was a hollywood thing, dunno) but for games?
Well, maybe it could be useful in Quake3 for when you get blown to bits, have the glove run your taunts via gestures:
Flip off: Fsck you (playername)
shake fist: you'll pay for this!
salute: Well done
Peace sign: peace dude.
Fist slams on table: Grrrrrr.
Touch screen: NOOOOOooooooooo....(whimper)
It could work, I suppose.
Groups that signed the agreement included the Recording Industry Association of America, a recording industry trade group, and two major artists' trade unions, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the American Federation of Musicians.
I'm surprised a RIAA spokesdroi^H^H^H^person did not say "In the words of Bill Gates, 'It was a fair agreement'..."
Translation: The fat lady ain't never going to sing because that song is copyrighted on a protected disk. And no, you can't have the mp3 version!
Heh, Microsoft can "take their ball and go home", as it were.
the MP|RI AA can take the ball, the bat, the bases, the field, the speakers, announcers, the concessions et al.
I'd sing the National Anthem right now, but I can't be sure if I'll get sued or not, seeing as my brain is an anti-circumvention device.
(at least it is good for something this weekend).
Yeah, I'm thrilled. Can't you tell?
How about something similar to the "full support of the p4" code set that XP has for Athlon proc's?
...ahem...talents for pushing/pulling/dragging the industry over to AMD chip/sets.
In a twisted way, it would be leveraging a duopoly for the greater good. Use Microsoft's
I forget off hand if this was an OEM thing or a MS thing, but it would be quite nice.
Call up a OEM or Screwdrive shop and say "I'd like a 6bay tower, AMD/Intel, MB (speed/stability) and XXX amt of memory, disk space, OS, etc, etc.
At this moment we can do exactly that, save for OS and Processor.
After all, it is not called the Wintel duopoly for nothing, and if AMD's holy trinity dream is to come to fruition, the'd better act fast while the trial drags on or join the fray.
(let's just hope the trinity does not equate to an equilateral triagle whose side length is 6).
I'll admin I have second hand knowledge about project management, but I learned what I know from those that are/were very good at it.
Most people in a team/project enviornment fall into one of these catagories:
1) Coder; the one that can hack code like there is no tomorrow.
2) Cheerleader; the person that "cheers" everyone on and tries to motivate everyone.
3) Idea man; a person with a gift of "thinking outside" the problem. Usually very smart and somewhat competent as a coder/pseudocoder. Usually thinks of everything except the "how" to do something.
4) diplomat; Usually the project manager him/her self. The one that can "herd cats" or talk to the previous 3, iron out differences and balance all the powers of 1 thru 3.
The more you think about it, the more it is dead on. I've had the advantage, if you will, of observing several teams after learning this little tidbit. Once you see it, you can not un-see it.
The point is: You need all of these types, period.
As the PM you need to recognise these talents reguardless of working in person or via email/IM or whatever communications are your norm.
I give you Linus and Bill G. as prime examples.
They know how to motivate people by using their natural talents, they both know when to say "good job", "work on it some more" or (bill g, IIRC) "that is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard of".
As a PM you have the most challenging job, but have to realise that w/o the 3 types, the project is hobbled or dead.
Example of MS/FSF, again offers plenty of insight as to what goes right/wrong with development.
With MS, the divisions are political, social, and idealogical.
With Free Software, timezones/distance, language barriers and occasionally egos.
So, if a book is not around to help, go to a university nearby, and see these dynamics for yourself.
Never know, you might be the one to write the book yourself, with or without the help of a psychology and computer sci. phd.
Cheers,
GISboy
as if Covalent trying to put a 'feather in its cap'.
(security through obscurity does not work, so I'm trying humor thru obsucrity.)
I'll admit, I'm not versed in marketiod speak but this caught my attention:
Covalent has taken a great web server -- Apache -- and added key functionality that enhances enterprise customers' experience."
What this say to me is "Apache kicks ass, now any idio^H^H^H^enterprise customer can use it with our new point and click gui!"
(shaking head)
A few minutes on freshmeat.net, dudes, would probably solve most of your problems if you are looking for a gui to configure this stuff.
If that is not the case, well, my programming days are over and the comments on the trade offs with what Covalent is doing just leave me to hope it does not reflect badly on Apache.
anyone old enough to remember various management styles, would probably refer to this as the "Open Door Policy".
In my brief stint at a Panasonic refurbishing depot, the management there also had the same policy.
"My door is always open, as long as you never walk in, it will remain so."
"First rule of management; EVERYTHING is your fault" --Hopper, A Bug's Life.
(note: misfiring neurons due to my son startling me awake at 5am. sigh.)
"any" key, which knowing the government, probaly is listed under the 500 dollar hammer.
I hate to rag on government employees (in some respect I "R" one) but we are not talking about the best and the brightest in the business.
Most are administration, working joes/janes who just want to do thier job...not unix/window/computer security professionals.
Does the "F" surprise me? Nope. Can this be improved...oh yes it can. Of course the optimist in me (and the cynic, too) thinks everything above an "F" is an improvement, and I'd be right.
Let's just hope they don't discover the wonders of Passport because knowing how secure Passport is and the grade they made it would probably be best not to see "if it can get any worse".
My Humble Opinion.
it will take for "clippy" the office assistant to become the windowsupdate/security advisor?
I can see the paper clip now, popping up and asking:
"I see you've been exploited by the latest worm. Would you like to:
a) Write a letter to the "freedom to Innovate" foundation celebrating this cool new worm that 'we' made possible (passport required)?
b) thank the virus writer via email using the viruses built in SMTP engine or outlook (passport required)?
c) Launch IE and go to windowsupdate (passport required)
d) thank the DOJ and help pay our legal fees (passport required)
OK(passport required) Cancel (passport required).
OS X.1 on X86, where art thou?
C'mon Apple 'grow some brass ones' and as was stated before "let loose the dogs of war an port OS X to X86...consequences be damned if you want that 'other 90%' running your wares".
I have a dream, that one day Bill Gates and the Devil himself will ask the same question at the same time:
"Why is it so damn cold, and just where did all these fricking penguins come from?"
Hey, I can dream, can't I? (passport not required, yet).
Let me play devil's advocate (seriously):
Why is it during a discussion such as this when I read "devil's advocate"...I think, on no, you're admitting to being a Microsoft shill right off the bat?
(kidding, btw(
But, I digress...
I have a two word response:
Track Record
When it comes to security, bugs, bug fixes, whining about code/exploits and actually doing something for the good of the consumer/economy et all... Think of Microsoft and re-read the two word response again.
I'm going to take a quote completely out of context here from a Sun rep...
"...Microsoft sees sun in its rear view mirror trying to catch up and thinks it is in the lead. Poor MS does not realize they are about to get lapped, again..."
I think the context was server software/os's, which, MS is setting its sights on.
Maybe they should name their next server code base "Icarus" because you know if they fly too close to the "Sun"... I think the results will be...ummm...{Jafar}...Interesting...{/end}
The fat lady ain't sung yet, but the trial so far has been so anticlimatic that I wonder if the (trans)script was made up by the MPAA.
I've babbled on long enuf, so before I get off topic...I'll say g'nite all.
IE can certainly be removed from windows. I've done it several times.
same here, up to 98se click here
See, the point is during the trial in front of Judge Jackson, they committed purjury...why MS's legal team or it's officers did not wind up in Jail for a few nites is beyond me.
Lying, Doctoring evidence, delaying (granted not illegal) and such a condecending attitude during the trial...sheesh, even 5 seconds upon leaving the courthouse and hitting the cameras.
Shock the sh*t out of me that no one used thier finegaling *in the court of public opinion* against them...If they did, then I missed it somehow.
Oh, back on the train of thought:
a 98lite'd system is actuall quite stable to the point of being shocking.
Once you "unbolt" I.E from 98se, feed the program a 95b cd (need 5 files, IIRC) it *screams* on even a lowly PII.
I got a p200/64M and it is *very* usable.
Can't remove IE...bullshit! MS can, but then how would they keep their monopoly in browser software?
Crap, just asked and answerd my own question...I seem to be getting quite good at that.
(pulling foot out of mouth...pheh, pheh)
PCI-X seems to exist, but looks something like AGP 4X to 6X in light of this comment:
At it's maximum 133 MHz frequency, a PCI-X bus only supports one slot, but allows segmenting using PCI-X to PCI-X bridging for additional slots.
AAAAAaarrrrrruuuuugggghhhh!!!
Am I losing (or loosing, either works) my grip on reality or was the whole point to have all your cards belong to us and on the same damn freq/speed/clock perhaps at the FSB rather than a seperate timing?
Heh, an auto manufacture that says you can have all the torque you want, but one wheel at a time.
Lovely.
If my memory serves (occasionally it does) PCI-X has been "on the drawing board" for, what?, the past 5 fricking years?
Quick with the acronyms, slow delivering anything useful...heck not delivered anything yet from what I've seen.
3GIO, Infiniband and Hypertransport...remains to be seen. But at least there is a 1 out of 3 something showing up and relieving these "low bandwidth blues".
Isn't Hypertransport supported by the AMA?
whoops, acronym abuse...Apple, Microsoft and AMD?
Seeing as Hypertransport is AMD's brain child.
We'll see, but it winds up being a matter of "the chips falling where they may", especially in the hands of motherboard makers, where they belong.
Whoever comes out with an actual working spec could say "Get on the bus, come ride with us" in a commercial and not be referring to city transit.
(can you tell I want to go home an hour early?)
Faster than a speeding packet,
More powerful than a triple lattee,
Able to leap Full Towers in a single bound.
It's a Nerd!
It's a Pain!
NO!
It's Super Admin!
Point:
1) It just happened (hehe, "mee too")
2) I/We were trying
3) Where did this bastard come from? Let's put him to work.
point one is overwealming, to say the least.
Speaking for myself, Unix Admins aren't born...ok technically, they are, but a prerequisite seems to be "being dropped on one's head after birth" or a "masochistic tendancies coupled with penguin, CPU and GPU fetishes."
That which does not kill me only pisses me off even more... muahahaha.
I like that one, but "Must Consult Someone Experienced always good for a laff.
A bullsh*tter in Counter Strike?
Seriously, tho, I recommend finding a spare box and literally installing whatever distro you can get your hands on.
Try Linux, BSD, and whatever else you can pick up off a ftp site or cdrom or "gimmes".
Heck I came late to the party unix wise, because I d/l'ed slackware and waited a year or so before installing even tho I had the boot disks and such working. I simply did not want to mess up a working machine...just because you can, does not mean you should (especially when starting out).
When I got a second box, the old one was running slack a few hours later.
Personally I think installing *nix's is harder than running, but way easier than securing.
And if you run into trouble you'll need 2 things:
1) access to a guru and documentation
2) Win98se. Because windows is still the best hardware detection utility that a unix user could ever hope for.
GISboy.
Unix: Because pain works...Make it WORK for YOU!
They'll re-invent the "power glove" for Leisure Suit Larry.
Heck, if they really want to make it more enjoyable a force...ahem...feedback and vacuum-cleaner attach...oh, never mind.
Work + Games....yeah, that sounds like a wiener.
(slap me down if you must, but I can't keep this one from slipping out)
A new Movie about Microsoft:
forget Antitrust, wait till you see:
Crouching Monopolist, Hidden Agenda.
we now have SNARE, what is next, SNEPILADY?
Or how about SMEEE? Serving Microsoft's Embrace Extend Extinguish?
....or, SMITE, Server Migration Information Technology Epicenter? Call up the vendor of a product and say "I'd like you to SMITE me".
And Captain Vulture said to his troops "Carrion".
GISboy
Of which, I "R" in that group.
While the G4e has fairly standard, fairly unremarkable floating-point hardware, the PPC ISA does things the way they're supposed to be done
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The P4, on the other hand, has slightly better hardware but is hobbled by the legacy x87 ISA.
I could have sworn tomshardware stated it best as "Essentially we have a P4(86) 2Ghz".
I'm paraphrasing, mind you and possibly taking it out of context, *but* instead of increasing the cache (instruction/data/registers) they combined and dropped it down to 8k of instruction and data.
Oh, and on the P4 vs AMD's XP chip, how would this analogy be changed or overhauled as it stands with the P4 vs G4e?
I'd really like to know. Or have a better "real world" analogy geared for the newbie user who usually winds up asking me, and I have to be able to explain complex things in simple terms to myself first.
Thanks.
GISboy
Kinda hard to reply to an AC, hope you see this:
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Yep, that is what the GIS stands for, I'm actuall the admin for the network...at the moment wrestling with a network install...Arugh!
To get back to your question:
Never heard of a program called Grass, right now "we" are using Erdas Imagine (erdas.com) and Arc view/info/gis packages.
There are demo versions available if I'm not mistaken, plus if you work for/with a university you should be able to legally get a copy off of that university's license...*IF* I understand the way our lic. works.
What "we" do is useful and neat, but some times it seem like "we" are just making a lot of pretty pictures...
The Tunney Act requires that the judge would review the deal to ensure that it is in the public interest and is not politically motivated.
I gotta stop doing that...
Not politically motivated--the current deal when the DOJ was inexplicably *cowed* despide their victories left and right?
I don't know, but I recall hearing "Those that do not engage in politics, will invariably be done in by it".
Sadly, this is the current situation with the tech sector/slashdot crowd. Heck, I'm just as guilty of "being too busy" or "I'll never make a difference" kind of defeatist thinking.
I'm going to finish the articl and clean the coffee off my work area, and then I'll think of a question that should be asked.
Hey! Round *is* a *shape*!
Did we learn nothing in kindergarden?
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't this get done with a cathedral using the original unreal engine? The name of the cathedral escapes me at the moment, but I do know I downloaded it because it was an interesting virtual tour and use of the Unreal Engine.
I'm surprised nobody remembered.
Doh! Quick google search gave me this and the Nodtra Dame....Sheesh, only the most famous cathedral in the world, prolly.
I really should take the brain out of the bell tower once in a while.
Star Office will support Mac OS X.
SO drops support.
Gobe makes an office suite for Be...Be drops off the face of the planet, BeOs wise.
Gobe wrote the precursor to Appleworks (i.e. claris works) Dropped or Sold? Dunno.
And for all the slamming I've seen (ok, and done, too) of Microsoft... I've played with the GM of Office for X... all I can say is "wow".
Silly me for hoping Star Office would get there first and "save me".
(colorful series of explicatives deleted)...for all of the proclamations that Microsoft does not give the consumer a choice...I have to ask myself now "Do their competitors?"
I'm dead serious.
Maybe it is a sign of the times that Microsoft owns Windows and Macintosh computers lock, stock and little/big endian bits, or maybe comptitors have just given up trying altogether.
Has MS proven "that he who tries to be strong everywhere, ends up being strong nowhere" the phrase wrong?
Saying there is no competition because 1 player owns the marked is one thing.
Saying there is no competition because no one is trying at all, is another.
Someone give me a reality check, please!
Either I'm missing some critical piece, or I've hit the problem dead on....only thing is I don't know which.
Help.
Microsoft doesn't allow consumers to vote with their wallets so we need to get the word out using other means. Pro/Con, get the word out.
I agree, Microsoft doesn't allow people to vote with their wallets, but that is what passport's wallet function is for...only thing is when it is time to vote, with said "wallet" who is going to be stuffing the ballot box?
Not the consumer, I think.