If you actually want to do something useful ask around with your friends and co-students for your average small Company with the standard overworked IT Department. For someone who can actually cut it, theres no better place to earn some RL experience. The other Staff will basically have no Choice but to let you run with stuff, cause theres _no way_ they can find the Time to do it themselves. Again this shows the value of Networking, cause that is where the Opportunities are hidden. When i leave my current Job theres 10-20 People i came in Contact with during this Job i would check up on for Leads. And of course there still are all my Aquaintances from University, who mostly have Jobs now too....
Would i oike un DRMd music, sure i would, and a regular audio CD is about 15, i can rip it to mp3/ogg/whatever and im fine. Of course, to actually get it for 15 ill have to go to el big music store and stand in line for 30mins.
Now, if i buy th same album in iTMS i only pay 9.99, dont have to stand in line and can listen to it a couple of minutes later. In exchange i can only burn the hole album 7 times, big deal, i dont even KNOW 7 people who like the same music as me. I can Burn it to audio CD an rerip it if i want to, and seriously, neither you nor me is gonna able to notice the sound degradation because we dont really have the equipment to listen to it at that degree of fidelity.
So, for 1/3rd off the price i might (or might not) have to jump through some little hoops. I for one can deal with that.
Lets be real people. 128kbit is just fine, period. Yes, a musician with a good stereo hooked up to a decent soundcard with proper wiring and all will be able to dicern between the 128kbit song and true CD quality. Some people will be able to hear thast theres differences between the songs. Most people wont really notice the difference unless its pointed out to them.
And thats with decent Equipment
Now looking at my 2 Roomates (non geek Masters of Education Candidates) one doesent even bother to hook up his laptop to the stereo half the time and just plays the builtin speakers (quote "sounds okay enough when you dont wanna turn it up and anyways the stereo is 15 years old") and the oether never bothered replacing his stereo and has 50$ creative speakers hooked up to his 'walmart desktop'. Most People (i would say at least 80%) dont care enough about music to actually be bother by 128kbit. yes, maybe they should, but they never will despite whatever we say
As for me, after reading some reviews i have a Logitech 5.1 System hooking up my Desktop, PS2 and Cyberhome DVD Player. This is about the best non audiophiles will normally have, and even i have a problem discerning between 'true' CD quality and 128kbit.
My Dad is happily running my crappy old PII 400, because he doesent care enough to get something better. Same probably goes for most Dads. Most people are happy with crappy 128kbit because they dont care enough to get something better. This probably also works to explain modern day pop music;-)
80% of a random group of people will be morons, idiots or fuckwits. This is true from the point of view of any given member of the group
He said that the myrinet cards are very heat sensitive and get unstable at too much temperature, and that therfore the placement is a major concern. And infiniband is even worse.
Well, first of im not a native speaker, so im allowed some freedom with capitalization. And Second , i can't even get capitalization right in my native Language, so whatever.
Last Thursday there was a little HPC Event by IBM at my University. And apart from the usual Balde Center for Scale Out Computing PR Blurb there also was a 1 Hour Presentation by one of IBM's Senior Strategy Analysts. What i found most interesting how they basically use embedded Processors for Blue Gene due to Cooling and Power Consumption Issues. He talked about Thermal Design, from the Basic Components right to where you compute Heat Dissipation for the whole room so you know where to put the very heat sensitive myrinet/infiniband components.
the reason that they are getting so heavy is that all that eye candy and stuff is what most people actually want. You can Slim Down both KDE and GNOME quite considerably, and if thats not enough theres always your XFCE and even fvwm and friends. So stop the girly whining and deal with it
Well, this really isnt an issue around here. While my dorm Room only had 3 usable power outlets i put powerstrips on all of them, one of the powerstrips had 2 monitors and 3 puters (dual athlon, p2, powerbook plus accessories (dts5.1, printer, external usb disk, regular desktop speakers, ipod, zire) hooked up to it. Even in the case of parralel reboot (aka power outage) this didnt trigger the breakers. In Germany the specs for how good the wiring has to be are so high its VERY unlikely youll ever manage to trigger something with regular electronics.
get switches wich can filter on mac adresses then put a filter corresonding to the mac adress of the connected box on each port. build a web interface to make admin easy. Then, once you identify a troublesome machine block the port. build a smart firewall wich looks for excessive traffic or you might hook your NIDS into it
im a CS major at the university of dortmund, germany. Here just about every course encourages teamwork, even in the teoretical classes we are allowed to work in 3 man teams. The software labs in 3 and 8 semester have team sizes of 8-16 ppl. The coding assignments in the practical courses are often designed in such a way that you need at least 3 pople to complete them on time.
This rocks is all i can say to that. In My experience when working in teams students get stuck and frustrated far less than when having to work on their own. Talking though problems with others often significantly increases understanding the problems at hand.
By making us work in teams the problems we are tasked to solve can be far more complex and thgus more interesting.
Of course in the larger labs teamwork can suck, when some people refuse to do their share or simply are not up to speed, but thats life. This will happen IRL too, so it helps you build experience in dealing with this
is the reasonable state. As heise (the company publishing telepolis) reported today, the german government will use provisions in the european version of the DMCA to allow private copies of copyrighted materials. Thus Copy Control Mechanisms will HAVE to aloow the user to make limited copies (the article talks of aboput 3 or 4) before kicking in. Apart from the fact i dont know of a copy control scheme in existance wich can do this and that this would be the death sentence to the upcoming copy protected cds (whee) i dont think that anxyone will be able to create such a system in a reasonably secure way.
I have made very good experiences running qmail togehter with qmail scanner.
While qmail itself offers of course many advantages compared to sendmail (security, speed modularity) the one that mopst impresses me in my day to day work is the modularity.
Qmails modularity allows in case of qmail scanner, to intercept the mail before it enters the system queue, and run one or several of the antivirus scanners available for linux on it.
Qmail scnner in conjunction with the tnef package is even able to scan inside those stupid tnef attachments ms products like to use.
I usual run it with AVP as a viruscanner (price/performance) but as i already said it runs with any of the Virus Scanners available for linux.
Altough i havent really yet played with it a lot AVP also comes with a daemon wich will accpet files thru sockets, this should make it realitvel easy to write some little app to provide remote scanning capabilities
Well, one has to keep in mind that Sun is primarily a hardware vendor. It might well be possible that they see StarOffice/StarPortal mainly as a way to sell their big hardware. And what do you think will be necessary to run StarPortal for several hundred users??
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Yes,and it hurts to see the shortcuts they had to take to get these 48GB/sec fillrate
the PS2 only has 4Megs of Video Ram
This means that at 640x480 there isnt much place left for textures and stuff
To avoid having to fetch the textures from system RAM and thus slowing everyhting down a LOT, they are forced to lower the Resolution to 640x240 or 320x480
Considering how everyone slaers over the PS2 all the time, am i the only one finding that to be acceptable?
I dont really know what the status in other countries is, but here in germany there are a lot of call by call prviders. So assuming you have an modem with all the necessary plugs it should be possible to use them instead of an expensive global coverage plan
The Problem here is that the newer cards do part of the decrypt in software they wrote some "tamper proof" drivers for windows, but they seem to think that that is too risky considering the technical expertise of the linux community
Well, the idea of a prior art pool is good in itself, the problems arise when trying toenforce them. If a Company with deep pockets comes along and starts a fight in court all the prior art enabling you to prove that their claim is bogus wont help you if you dont have the resources to go to court with them. This would require an well funded Organization wich would take care of this stuff. This raises the question of where to get the funds for such an Organization. Perhaps some companies who found themselves with loads of money during the last months should think about this.
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http://www.stresslinux.org/
nice single purpose linux distro to stress test a system
If you actually want to do something useful ask around with your friends and co-students for your average small Company with the standard overworked IT Department. For someone who can actually cut it, theres no better place to earn some RL experience. The other Staff will basically have no Choice but to let you run with stuff, cause theres _no way_ they can find the Time to do it themselves.
Again this shows the value of Networking, cause that is where the Opportunities are hidden.
When i leave my current Job theres 10-20 People i came in Contact with during this Job i would check up on for Leads. And of course there still are all my Aquaintances from University, who mostly have Jobs now too....
Would i oike un DRMd music, sure i would, and a regular audio CD is about 15, i can rip it to mp3/ogg/whatever and im fine.
Of course, to actually get it for 15 ill have to go to el big music store and stand in line for 30mins.
Now, if i buy th same album in iTMS i only pay 9.99, dont have to stand in line and can listen to it a couple of minutes later.
In exchange i can only burn the hole album 7 times, big deal, i dont even KNOW 7 people who like the same music as me.
I can Burn it to audio CD an rerip it if i want to, and seriously, neither you nor me is gonna able to notice the sound degradation because we dont really have the equipment to listen to it at that degree of fidelity.
So, for 1/3rd off the price i might (or might not) have to jump through some little hoops. I for one can deal with that.
i can higly recommend the civilization boardgame
Lets be real people. 128kbit is just fine, period. Yes, a musician with a good stereo hooked up to a decent soundcard with proper wiring and all will be able to dicern between the 128kbit song and true CD quality. Some people will be able to hear thast theres differences between the songs. Most people wont really notice the difference unless its pointed out to them. ;-)
And thats with decent Equipment
Now looking at my 2 Roomates (non geek Masters of Education Candidates) one doesent even bother to hook up his laptop to the stereo half the time and just plays the builtin speakers (quote "sounds okay enough when you dont wanna turn it up and anyways the stereo is 15 years old") and the oether never bothered replacing his stereo and has 50$ creative speakers hooked up to his 'walmart desktop'. Most People (i would say at least 80%) dont care enough about music to actually be bother by 128kbit.
yes, maybe they should, but they never will despite whatever we say
As for me, after reading some reviews i have a Logitech 5.1 System hooking up my Desktop, PS2 and Cyberhome DVD Player. This is about the best non audiophiles will normally have, and even i have a problem discerning between 'true' CD quality and 128kbit.
My Dad is happily running my crappy old PII 400, because he doesent care enough to get something better. Same probably goes for most Dads. Most people are happy with crappy 128kbit because they dont care enough to get something better. This probably also works to explain modern day pop music
80% of a random group of people will be morons, idiots or fuckwits. This is true from the point of view of any given member of the group
Transgamings wineX has pretty good support for battlefield1942, so i doubt there is gonna be a port.
He said that the myrinet cards are very heat sensitive and get unstable at too much temperature, and that therfore the placement is a major concern.
And infiniband is even worse.
Well, first of im not a native speaker, so im allowed some freedom with capitalization. And Second , i can't even get capitalization right in my native Language, so whatever.
Last Thursday there was a little HPC Event by IBM at my University. And apart from the usual Balde Center for Scale Out Computing PR Blurb there also was a 1 Hour Presentation by one of IBM's Senior Strategy Analysts. What i found most interesting how they basically use embedded Processors for Blue Gene due to Cooling and Power Consumption Issues. He talked about Thermal Design, from the Basic Components right to where you compute Heat Dissipation for the whole room so you know where to put the very heat sensitive myrinet/infiniband components.
the reason that they are getting so heavy is that all that eye candy and stuff is what most people actually want.
You can Slim Down both KDE and GNOME quite considerably, and if thats not enough theres always your XFCE and even fvwm and friends.
So stop the girly whining and deal with it
windows3 was the first really sucessful windows and won them the client os monopoly
IE3 was the first really sucessful IE and won them the Browser Wars
XBOX3 will be the first really sucessful XBOX and win them the console wars???
didnt work with Windows2003, their third server OS release tho, so who knows...
Well, this really isnt an issue around here.
While my dorm Room only had 3 usable power outlets i put powerstrips on all of them, one of the powerstrips had 2 monitors and 3 puters (dual athlon, p2, powerbook plus accessories (dts5.1, printer, external usb disk, regular desktop speakers, ipod, zire) hooked up to it.
Even in the case of parralel reboot (aka power outage) this didnt trigger the breakers.
In Germany the specs for how good the wiring has to be are so high its VERY unlikely youll ever manage to trigger something with regular electronics.
get switches wich can filter on mac adresses
then put a filter corresonding to the mac adress of the connected box on each port.
build a web interface to make admin easy.
Then, once you identify a troublesome machine block the port.
build a smart firewall wich looks for excessive traffic or you might hook your NIDS into it
as icq still is the dominant IM around here
im a CS major at the university of dortmund, germany. Here just about every course encourages teamwork, even in the teoretical classes we are allowed to work in 3 man teams. The software labs in 3 and 8 semester have team sizes of 8-16 ppl. The coding assignments in the practical courses are often designed in such a way that you need at least 3 pople to complete them on time.
This rocks is all i can say to that. In My experience when working in teams students get stuck and frustrated far less than when having to work on their own. Talking though problems with others often significantly increases understanding the problems at hand.
By making us work in teams the problems we are tasked to solve can be far more complex and thgus more interesting.
Of course in the larger labs teamwork can suck, when some people refuse to do their share or simply are not up to speed, but thats life. This will happen IRL too, so it helps you build experience in dealing with this
is the reasonable state. As heise (the company publishing telepolis) reported today, the german government will use provisions in the european version of the DMCA to allow private copies of copyrighted materials. Thus Copy Control Mechanisms will HAVE to aloow the user to make limited copies (the article talks of aboput 3 or 4) before kicking in. Apart from the fact i dont know of a copy control scheme in existance wich can do this and that this would be the death sentence to the upcoming copy protected cds (whee) i dont think that anxyone will be able to create such a system in a reasonably secure way.
I have made very good experiences running qmail togehter with qmail scanner.
While qmail itself offers of course many advantages compared to sendmail (security, speed modularity) the one that mopst impresses me in my day to day work is the modularity.
Qmails modularity allows in case of qmail scanner, to intercept the mail before it enters the system queue, and run one or several of the antivirus scanners available for linux on it.
Qmail scnner in conjunction with the tnef package is even able to scan inside those stupid tnef attachments ms products like to use.
I usual run it with AVP as a viruscanner (price/performance) but as i already said it runs with any of the Virus Scanners available for linux.
Altough i havent really yet played with it a lot AVP also comes with a daemon wich will accpet files thru sockets, this should make it realitvel easy to write some little app to provide remote scanning capabilities
Well, one has to keep in mind that Sun is primarily a hardware vendor.
It might well be possible that they see StarOffice/StarPortal mainly as a way to sell their big hardware.
And what do you think will be necessary to run StarPortal for several hundred users??
of course thats supposed to be unacceptable instead of acceptable
--
Yes,and it hurts to see the shortcuts they had to take to get these 48GB/sec fillrate
the PS2 only has 4Megs of Video Ram
This means that at 640x480 there isnt much place left for textures and stuff
To avoid having to fetch the textures from system RAM and thus slowing everyhting down a LOT, they are forced to lower the Resolution to 640x240 or 320x480
Considering how everyone slaers over the PS2 all the time, am i the only one finding that to be acceptable?
I dont really know what the status in other countries is, but here in germany there are a lot of call by call prviders.
So assuming you have an modem with all the necessary plugs it should be possible to use them instead of an expensive global coverage plan
The Problem here is that the newer cards do part of the decrypt in software
they wrote some "tamper proof" drivers for windows, but they seem to think that that is too risky considering the technical expertise of the linux community
the vast array of homepages doing nothing but aggrandizing the owner, his hobbies his cat/dog/car etc ad nauseam
hmm, then i must be imagining perlQT pythonQT etc. yes?
Well, the idea of a prior art pool is good in itself, the problems arise when trying toenforce them.
If a Company with deep pockets comes along and starts a fight in court all the prior art enabling you to prove that their claim is bogus wont help you if you dont have the resources to go to court with them.
This would require an well funded Organization wich would take care of this stuff.
This raises the question of where to get the funds for such an Organization.
Perhaps some companies who found themselves with loads of money during the last months should think about this.