And Guido can tell you beforehand that if you list more than one vote, he breaks your legs. So this system would only work if there was the option to NOT phrase your true vote (giving you no way to verify your vote on one hand, but saving your legs)
Re:What about teachin them some math, physics and
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Well, some people have learned this. Keep in mind that even some college professors won't accept references from any sort of Internet source.
Specifically, unstable can be successfully implemented in a production environment IF you pull you're own copy of it to a local mirror periodically, and then verify on a non-critical machine that updating does not foobar things. Installing straight from unstable to a real machine can cause headaches.
Perhaps the information on the reader could be encrypted with some sort of "dead man's switch", except that it is triggered to release the information to the library in the event that the book is not returned in a timely fashion. At this point, the encrypted record is purged from the system.
Now if only the government would give us some decent restaurants, we'd be all set! (not that I dislike Momo's, Gordo's, and the like, but it would be nice to actually have the option of a nice dinner with my girlfriend occassionally.
That and finish the campuswide wireless. Can't stray to far from my office yet. =)
I first found out about the WTC crashes this morning, 9:30 EST, in my political science class. I learned greater details after getting out of class, and met up with a friend on the way to our next class. Our class ended up being canceled (as were all other classes today) and we ended up strolling across campus discussing how much the attacks sucked and such. It was all quite difficult to comprehend at the time.
Fast forward to 7:30 tonight - my parents happen to call. My mom's cousin was on the flight that crashed outside of Pittsburgh; he was flying home from visiting his aunt for her 100th birthday.
I hardly know the man, but I have met him once or twice, and I remember him as a great person, yet it hurts to picture him onboard that plane, diving into the ground in the pilot's attempt to save the lives of those in the target building. I can't even imagine what those of you who lost someone close are feeling; my condolances go out to you.
Actually, yes, sometimes a budget server with massive disk space is just what one needs. I currently maintain a mirror site (various flavors of Linux, BSD, etc...). We can't really afford to utilize our most powerful server for this task (though it isn't too shabby of a box) but have equipped it with a 3Ware IDE RAID controller and 240-gigs of data space (it has a 9-gig scsi boot disk). (FWIW, one of the 2 120-gig RAIDs just ran out of space last night; going to move to an 8-port 3Ware =)
Anyway, my point is that the data is totally expendable. All of it can be restored simply by running the same scripts that keep the data updated with rsync.
How do those of us lucky enough to be at one of the I2 sites take advantage of this network, be it for accessing a superfast linux mirror or for any of the other (relatively few) services running on the network?
Personally, I leave FTP running on my machines, but only for anonymous (the daemon is configured to disallow users from logging in). Real users have no choice but to use scp.
This is absurd for the very same reason that one should NOT be able to sue just because your machine is placed on the RBL. It is a private list that one chooses to subscribe to, or in this case a proxy type thing that one chooses to install.
I've had a similar problem with my TNT2 and Half-Life/CounterStrike. Everything (walls, guns, etc...) turns semi-transparent, stuff sometimes flickers when I move. Granted, it can be kinda cool at times, but I'd really prefer it fixed.
Take a look at http://www.nvidia.com/apple. A password protected realm labeled "/marketing/oem"? It sounds like there might be some truth to the rumors after all.
I'm on a cable modem (ISPChannel, specifically). Last time I checked the EUA, there was no mention of servers at all. Not only that, but after emailing and calling them a dozen times, I was able to get them to set the reverse DNS for my 3 IPs to my liking. Then again, this month my latancy/packet loss went in the shitter, so I can't say I'm happy.
66 MHz? Not quite the oldest; I've got a 60MHz 6100 sitting right next to me, piping along quite well. Granted, the CD-ROM drive is broken and it has an external 1-gig hard drive hanging off it (which I ought to move inside since the CD-ROM is of no use...), but it runs MkLinux quite well and serves as a nice dumb terminal on my desk, freeing up my 19" workstation for other tasks.
I think one of the issues in using a laptop vs. desktops at school is configuration. I for one am a lot less productive when given a randomly configured (or specifically configured by the school, for that matter) machine to work on, as opposed to a machine I use every day and have set up exactly how I want it.
If students have their own laptops, they can install whatever, run Linux/Windows dual-boot, or even Linux only if school-related material is distributed in a standards-compliant matter. It gives the students the option of setting up their own working environment, rather than using a cookie-cutter school desktop.
While the idea of desktops literally on each desk is nice, the ZIP disk idea is horrible. (they get broken, lost, etc... really easily, moreso than laptops, and the speed/capacity is limited) What would be more effective here would be network storage, available from school and also from home via the Internet. (I use a similiar strategy with my MP3s; they are stored on a Linux server running netatalk and can be appleshare mounted from school)
So, the real question is, do we want students to have their own machines and the control over them, or not?
I remember a movie, I believe called The Colony, that was about a neighborhood filled with smart houses. In this case, however, the development company was really evil, spied on the people in the houses, and brainwashed the children in the private school.
Now that I think about it, this post wasn't very relevent. =)
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Re:Creepy. Reminds me of that recent commercial...
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Nah, I'm not a luddite, but spare me the day when I let a machine tell me that I need to go to the doctor, and make sure I pick up some milk on the way home... even if it looks like Claire Danes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't girlfriends and wives already provide this functionality to the masses? =)
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And Guido can tell you beforehand that if you list more than one vote, he breaks your legs. So this system would only work if there was the option to NOT phrase your true vote (giving you no way to verify your vote on one hand, but saving your legs)
Well, some people have learned this. Keep in mind that even some college professors won't accept references from any sort of Internet source.
Specifically, unstable can be successfully implemented in a production environment IF you pull you're own copy of it to a local mirror periodically, and then verify on a non-critical machine that updating does not foobar things. Installing straight from unstable to a real machine can cause headaches.
Personally, the first thing that popped into my head was the Dentist from Cryptonomicon, along with all his lawyers.
Daniel
Microwave power stations were great, until the beam lost its tracking slightly, sending it on a spectacular journey through your city.
Perhaps the information on the reader could be encrypted with some sort of "dead man's switch", except that it is triggered to release the information to the library in the event that the book is not returned in a timely fashion. At this point, the encrypted record is purged from the system.
Hey, I just turned off a connection machine (big red blinky!) last year. Nice space heater. :)
Daniel
Now if only the government would give us some decent restaurants, we'd be all set! (not that I dislike Momo's, Gordo's, and the like, but it would be nice to actually have the option of a nice dinner with my girlfriend occassionally.
That and finish the campuswide wireless. Can't stray to far from my office yet. =)
Daniel
See above.
I first found out about the WTC crashes this morning, 9:30 EST, in my political science class. I learned greater details after getting out of class, and met up with a friend on the way to our next class. Our class ended up being canceled (as were all other classes today) and we ended up strolling across campus discussing how much the attacks sucked and such. It was all quite difficult to comprehend at the time.
Fast forward to 7:30 tonight - my parents happen to call. My mom's cousin was on the flight that crashed outside of Pittsburgh; he was flying home from visiting his aunt for her 100th birthday.
I hardly know the man, but I have met him once or twice, and I remember him as a great person, yet it hurts to picture him onboard that plane, diving into the ground in the pilot's attempt to save the lives of those in the target building. I can't even imagine what those of you who lost someone close are feeling; my condolances go out to you.
Daniel
Anyway, my point is that the data is totally expendable. All of it can be restored simply by running the same scripts that keep the data updated with rsync.
Daniel
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No Debian mirror?
How do those of us lucky enough to be at one of the I2 sites take advantage of this network, be it for accessing a superfast linux mirror or for any of the other (relatively few) services running on the network?
Daniel
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Take a look at http://www.nvidia.com/apple. A password protected realm labeled "/marketing/oem"? It sounds like there might be some truth to the rumors after all.
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If students have their own laptops, they can install whatever, run Linux/Windows dual-boot, or even Linux only if school-related material is distributed in a standards-compliant matter. It gives the students the option of setting up their own working environment, rather than using a cookie-cutter school desktop.
While the idea of desktops literally on each desk is nice, the ZIP disk idea is horrible. (they get broken, lost, etc... really easily, moreso than laptops, and the speed/capacity is limited) What would be more effective here would be network storage, available from school and also from home via the Internet. (I use a similiar strategy with my MP3s; they are stored on a Linux server running netatalk and can be appleshare mounted from school)
So, the real question is, do we want students to have their own machines and the control over them, or not?
Daniel
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I remember a movie, I believe called The Colony, that was about a neighborhood filled with smart houses. In this case, however, the development company was really evil, spied on the people in the houses, and brainwashed the children in the private school.
Now that I think about it, this post wasn't very relevent. =)
Daniel
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Nah, I'm not a luddite, but spare me the day when I let a machine tell me that I need to go to the doctor, and make sure I pick up some milk on the way home... even if it looks like Claire Danes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't girlfriends and wives already provide this functionality to the masses? =)
Daniel
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