MTV videos started the depressing slide into 'attention avoidance' by flipping a scene every 1-2 seconds. At that rate there just isn't time to *focus* on anything. The result is that the brain enters passive mode and just avoids paying attention to anything.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
A whole generation is now incapable of focusing on *anything* for a whole hour.
Runs very well under QEMU. I've also tried it on VirtualBox. Works Ok, but VB doesn't support all BSDs equally well. Here's a shot of all 4 BSDs under QEMU
Interesting factoids-
Host:
IBM T40 laptop with 1GB RAM. running FreeBSD 7.1-RC1.
Guests:
FreeBSD 7.1-RC1, (two VMs)
NetBSD 4.0.1
OpenBSD 4.4
DragonFlyBSD 2.0.1-RELEASE.
QEMU version 0.9.1.
AQEMU version 0.5 (01/09/2008)
I'm working on using it for BSD Professional Certification lab exams.
UUCP - the store and forward network of the 20th century. Will be interesting to see if they come up with alternative naming, and whether Harri's Lament still holds- "All the good ones are taken!"
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Justice Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice 1928 Source:dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
"Men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the executive be under the law." Justice Robert H. Jackson Source:Sam Ervin, The Whole Truth
"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority." Justice David Davis (1815-1886) U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1862-1877 Source: Ex parte Milligan 71 U.S. 2 (1866) DAVIS, J., Opinion of the Court http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/David.Davis.Quote.5879 [liberty-tree.ca]
Every US citizen should regularly read quotes from The Supremes:
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice 1928
Source:dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
"Men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the executive be under the law."
Justice Robert H. Jackson
Source:Sam Ervin, The Whole Truth
"The Constitution of the United States is a law
for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace,
and covers with the shield of its protection
all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences,
was ever invented by the wit of man than
that any of its provisions can be suspended
during any of the great exigencies of government.
Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism,
but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false;
for the government, within the Constitution,
has all the powers granted to it,
which are necessary to preserve its existence;
as has been happily proved by the result
of the great effort to throw off its just authority."
Justice David Davis
(1815-1886) U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1862-1877
Source: Ex parte Milligan 71 U.S. 2 (1866) DAVIS, J., Opinion of the Court
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/David.Davis.Quote.5879
The survey will run through at least the end of September, so these numbers will obviously change.
We can use your help. Join the mailing list and contribute ideas and expertise. We're in need of business as well as technical expertise. Let us know what you can contribute with the 'Contact Us' form on the website www.bsdcertification.org.
UMI does this as a business. They've
even got your specific need covered for next time: XanEdu
The company's XanEdu division provides electronic learning support materials for college students. Professors use XanEdu resources to create online CoursePacks, a unique way to provide comprehensive, up-to-date information packets to supplement other educational materials. Students access CoursePacks via the Web and download information as needed.
I worked at Bechtel the following year as a 'nuclear technologist' (basically a clerical job) on 79-01B responses for three plants, QuadCities, Dresden, and... I forget the other. Basically, the reg said that every piece of equipment located in areas that might be subjected to hazardous environments (read high-pressure steam bath, possibly radioactive) had to be qualified to work under those conditions. "Qualified" meant that the piece (actuator, pump, switch, whatever) had to be tested or analyzed to determine whether or not it would work.
Thousands of pieces of gear were individually checked, tested, or analyzed via engineering computations. The NRC required a report to be delivered for each plant with all these qualifications individually listed. IIRC, the reports we generated were over 5 inches thick.
Harry and the Hendersons(1987) with John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon with a guest spot by Don Ameche. That Lithgow phone call to the cops ranks as one of the funniest scenes of '80s Hollywood (well before his 3rd Rock thing) - and "...nip it in the bud..." has new meaning for me now.
One reviewer here
calls it the "Best Movie Ever Made" but I think that's a stretch...
I recall seeing you in an historical film called 'The Bastard' set during the Revolutionary War, which I thought was much more your style. Will you turn your attention and acting talents to more historical (classical) roles, or continue to fly around the galaxy?
* Excellent documentation. Used to fill several shelves. Writtent by engineers, and very well cross referenced.
* Very good C compiler *for the time*. Used it extensively in early 80s at EDS & GM
* Excellent system level IPC. The Message Box interfaces were extremely easy to use. Easily built large distributed systems with these.
* Excellent, multi-layer security model. Much better than the Unix model(s) even today.
* Good network *at the time*. DecNet beat the pants off IBM SNA for engineering and distributed systems work. Faded gradually with the rise of IP. Don't know if anyone still builds DecNet networks except in the CCIE labs.
...20,000 sensors are used to track wafer lots in front-opening unified pods that are transported from one tool to the next on rails using linear induction motors. The setup resembles an intricate monorail system tuned to millimeter-precision specs. A central control system monitors all stations...
Anyone remember the Denver airport baggage handling system fiasco?
Slashdot Mirror
Enders Game : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/ Well, soon to be art, anyway...
There, fixed that for you.
Funniest comment I've read here in quite some time. Well punned!
They are patenting the food chain.
They are patenting the food chain.
They are patenting the food chain.
MTV videos started the depressing slide into 'attention avoidance' by flipping a scene every 1-2 seconds. At that rate there just isn't time to *focus* on anything. The result is that the brain enters passive mode and just avoids paying attention to anything.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
A whole generation is now incapable of focusing on *anything* for a whole hour.
it was PLAYABLE?? Oh Damn!
Interesting factoids-
Host: IBM T40 laptop with 1GB RAM. running FreeBSD 7.1-RC1. Guests: FreeBSD 7.1-RC1, (two VMs) NetBSD 4.0.1 OpenBSD 4.4 DragonFlyBSD 2.0.1-RELEASE. QEMU version 0.9.1. AQEMU version 0.5 (01/09/2008)
I'm working on using it for BSD Professional Certification lab exams.
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Jim B.
UUCP - the store and forward network of the 20th century. Will be interesting to see if they come up with alternative naming, and whether Harri's Lament still holds- "All the good ones are taken!"
With a bang ("Goodbye- thanks for posting!") or a whimper ("0 replies", "0 replies", "0 replies",...) ???
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice 1928 Source:dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
"Men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the executive be under the law."
Justice Robert H. Jackson Source:Sam Ervin, The Whole Truth
"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority."
Justice David Davis (1815-1886) U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1862-1877 Source: Ex parte Milligan 71 U.S. 2 (1866) DAVIS, J., Opinion of the Court http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/David.Davis.Quote.5879 [liberty-tree.ca]
Every US citizen should regularly read quotes from The Supremes:
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice 1928 Source:dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
"Men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the executive be under the law."
Justice Robert H. Jackson Source:Sam Ervin, The Whole Truth
"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority."
Justice David Davis (1815-1886) U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1862-1877 Source: Ex parte Milligan 71 U.S. 2 (1866) DAVIS, J., Opinion of the Court http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/David.Davis.Quote.5879
Find them. Read them. Absorb them.
"Honey, does this cable make me look fat?"
Survey is less than a week old and there are at this moment over 2200 responses in several languages!
- Usage: FreeBSD 74%,OpenBSD 32%,NetBSD 20%,DragonFly 3%
- Number of companies with less than 10 systems- 1515; more than 1000 systems- 18
- Where used: North America 44%; Europe 46%; Austrailia/New Zealand 6%; Asia 6%
- Company size: Less than $500K- 1199; Greater than $100M- 117
Coolest 'Uses' comments:- Running large computational fluid dynamic model
- Building access control
- impress chicks on saturday night
- Specialized image processing, touchscreen office appliance
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Thanks to everyone who filled out the survey!
After all, an apple a day keeps the doctor away...
Thousands of pieces of gear were individually checked, tested, or analyzed via engineering computations. The NRC required a report to be delivered for each plant with all these qualifications individually listed. IIRC, the reports we generated were over 5 inches thick.
Never heard what happened after that...
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/f dp-primer/index.html
I wanted to know much more about the guy, then *poof* the article was over.
Sheesh...
Harry and the Hendersons(1987) with John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon with a guest spot by Don Ameche. That Lithgow phone call to the cops ranks as one of the funniest scenes of '80s Hollywood (well before his 3rd Rock thing) - and "...nip it in the bud..." has new meaning for me now.
One reviewer here calls it the "Best Movie Ever Made" but I think that's a stretch...
"3rd floor; stereos, TVs, radios..."
"203rd floor; binoculars, range finders..."
"56,304th floor: parachutes, hang gliders..."
"124,202nd floor; helium baloons, oxygen tanks..."
"973,404th floor; motion sickness pills, glare filters..."
Turn off your computer. Duh.
Why?
* Very good C compiler *for the time*. Used it extensively in early 80s at EDS & GM
* Excellent system level IPC. The Message Box interfaces were extremely easy to use. Easily built large distributed systems with these.
* Excellent, multi-layer security model. Much better than the Unix model(s) even today.
* Good network *at the time*. DecNet beat the pants off IBM SNA for engineering and distributed systems work. Faded gradually with the rise of IP. Don't know if anyone still builds DecNet networks except in the CCIE labs.
Anyone remember the Denver airport baggage handling system fiasco?