*LMFAO* You're thinking of 3M makers of PostIts, Scotch Tape and all kinds of nifty paper products...not 3Com the makers of some of the best NIC cards ever made *LMFAO*
I'm/sure/ that was a joke....it was a joke...right?
You know, i couldn't resist, sure 'nuf, it's a site...aoltimewarner.comComing soon... The World's First Media and Communications Company for the Internet Age
Do you find that the SubGenius religion and the Linux mindset go well together?:) In all seriousness though, what first caught your attention to linux and made you like it enough to want to distribute it?
Out of curiousity...how difficult was it to port the Quake ]|[ code and did it take very long? And do you have any advice for porting DOS/Windows code to Linux?
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I was curious as to how you percieved big money and the compention vs. cooperation debate in the open source community. In other words, how much should be cooperative between you and your fellow linux distrobuters and how much should be compentition?
And i know, one per post, but I've always wondered. Should big money support developers directly by hiring them, or by donating to development groups? I sure wish a big company would pay me to work on opensource projects from home, I could do a lot more work if i didn't have to go to my job every day;)
Keep in mind that this craft is 11 years old...it's ancient in terms of spacecraft. It's original 2 year mission was extened another 2 years and is AGAIN being extened 2 more years...so we definatly got our money's worth out of it...and then some. we got 4 extra years out of a space craft that traveled a great distance, don't complain, we should retire it with dignity and honour.
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You think Oedipus had a problem -- Adam was Eve's mother.
If i see another JonKatz article that ends in the phrase "What about you?", "What do you think?", "Talk among yourselves", I will SCREAM, and the funny thing is...it's the biggest gripe i have against the man...it just seems....patronizing somehow. Other then that...i find it intresting that JonKatz posted a movie review....maybe he/is/ taking our messages to heart and is trying to be an active member of the community?
Correct me if I'm wrong but the leap year rules are as follows, leap years occur when the year is divisible by 4, except when the year is divisible by 100 unless the year is divisible by 1000.
Well..you asked for it *LOL* you're mostly right...but it's except when the year is divisible by 100 UNLESS it's divisible by 400 hence 1700, 1800, and 1900 were all NOT leap years. which would make 1000 NOT a leap year...right?
should have known....the link ended in ".de" *lol*
Computer breakdowns by intercalary day in Japan
The intercalary day on today's Tuesday, 29 February, caused some surprising computer disturbances in the Hightech country Japan. As the press agency Reuters announces, in post offices due to Jahr-2000-Fehlern, which were released by the intercalary day, 1200 cash machines failed. The Japanese weather service has problems with the entry of local temperatures and precipitation. According to the report 43 stations distributed over the country transmit false data since this morning. Already on Monday some 24-Stunden-Vorhersagen with an error had been printed out: Instead of " 29. " became " 1. " as end of the validity period indicated. In north Japan the devices failed for the display of seismic activities with 20 local offices. Differently than to the change of year however no breakdowns were announced in the Japanese nuclear power stations (cp/c't)
First Phase; to design and to manufacture a prototype of a computer system in a form of a PCI card that will run GNU/Linux:
we define a design and verification methodologies we design a library of small reusable components such as adders, multipliers etc we design a basic set of IP cores (microprocessor, PCI and SDRAM controller and communication controllers) we design and manufacture a prototype board with several hundred thousand gates FPGAs we support our microprocessor architecture with a port of GNU C Compiler, GNU Binutils, GNU Debugger and architectural/implementation simulator we support our microprocessor architecture with a port of Linux kernel
This is a project that should have been started a looooooong time ago. Of course the monetary barrier of entry was quite high, but that's all changed....next we'll have LinBoard with the LinProcessor....ooooooh, and all open sourced...
also i just wanted to point out that this is/much/ more then JUST Processor cores...check out this list of stuff:
Comm Controllers ATM AALx Eth MAC 10Mbps FireWire IP Engine Serial UART USB Controller
Agreed, when you look at it from the whole company's stand point, bad idea, if you look at it from the MS Office group / MS Application group however, it looks a lot more sensible...but don't worry, some one from higher up will beat that idea 6 feet into the ground:)
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It's a pretty well known fact that/most/ of MS's income is from their applications, specfically office, making them only compatible with windows helps keep a monoply status and hence more money...but...and this is a big BUT....someone at MicroSoft sees that Linux is a big up and comer, then perhaps porting to Linux would make good finacial sense, as Linux gains more speed, people would want to use what they're familar with...ie Office....it could actually be a/smart/ life-saving move for Microsoft...but really...do you think anyone there is that far thinking? Hell...next we're hear rumours that the port will be GPL'd:)
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If a man is not a liberal at 25, he has no heart. If he's not a conservative by 45, he has no brain.
First all..CONGRATS.....second of all....anyone notice the irony of the 10,000th story being the 10,000 story story?:) All and all....it's been a fun ride, here's to many more
The price, in case anyone is wondering and hasn't visited the site is about $450, which puts it...about what, mid-range in the line...when are they going to release the VIIc?
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sorry...got the link right, but the text should read http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/16/202122 1&mode=thread
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Just because no one else mentioned it and i have karma to burn....looks like someone did a replace of all the "?" with " ' " hence the link http://slashdot.org/article.pl'sid=00/02/16/202122 1&mode=thread being proken when it should be http://slashdot.org/article.pl'sid=00/02/16/2021221&mode=thread just an observation...poor MS WORD...
check out the 4 easy steps you have to go through in order to get it....
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The link to the person who submitted the article Masterdevelopers.com just happens to have a nice little interview with our one and only hemos it's a nice little, fluff piece:) read it if you like
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Grandpa Charnock's Law: You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
[I thought it was when your kids learned to drive. Ed.]
Oh i realize that, however every 11 years it goes from being a once in a while occurince to a bombardment, and the flares tend to get a bit more nastier as well. I never mentioned anything about them NOT happening, just that we're more likely to get hit with a big bad mo-fo of a flare NOW, and more often, hence affecting a greater number of systems. Personally, i think ANYTHING we're going to put out into space should damn well be shielded enough to withstand a solar flare..unless they don't mind burning a million bucks here and there and pissing off alot of customers
A news report i read...not too long ago actually, regarding something just like this....reported that there were approx 600 satellites in orbit in 1989 whereas today there are over 2,000...i think those are the numbers anyway....
Slashdot Mirror
*LMFAO* You're thinking of 3M makers of PostIts, Scotch Tape and all kinds of nifty paper products...not 3Com the makers of some of the best NIC cards ever made *LMFAO*
/sure/ that was a joke....it was a joke...right?
I'm
can't wait for aoltimewarner.com
;)
You know, i couldn't resist, sure 'nuf, it's a site...aoltimewarner.com Coming soon... The World's First Media and Communications Company for the Internet Age
Gotta love it
*ROTFLMFAO* Sorry I wasted my moderator points ealier...someone mod that up PLEASE *LMFAO*
sorry
easily solved by typing in "installpkg workbone[TAB KEY]"
:)
autocompletion is a wonderful thing
Sgt Pepper
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Fortune:
Boy, I sure wish that I could be in the
'Advanced Systems Development' group!
Do you find that the SubGenius religion and the Linux mindset go well together? :) In all seriousness though, what first caught your attention to linux and made you like it enough to want to distribute it?
;)
Hail Eris
Sgt Pepper
Out of curiousity...how difficult was it to port the Quake ]|[ code and did it take very long? And do you have any advice for porting DOS/Windows code to Linux?
Sgt Pepper
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Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
I was curious as to how you percieved big money and the compention vs. cooperation debate in the open source community. In other words, how much should be cooperative between you and your fellow linux distrobuters and how much should be compentition?
;)
And i know, one per post, but I've always wondered. Should big money support developers directly by hiring them, or by donating to development groups? I sure wish a big company would pay me to work on opensource projects from home, I could do a lot more work if i didn't have to go to my job every day
Keep in mind that this craft is 11 years old...it's ancient in terms of spacecraft. It's original 2 year mission was extened another 2 years and is AGAIN being extened 2 more years...so we definatly got our money's worth out of it...and then some. we got 4 extra years out of a space craft that traveled a great distance, don't complain, we should retire it with dignity and honour.
Sgt Pepper
Lame Sig Shamelessly Ripped from
Fortune:
You think Oedipus had a problem -- Adam was Eve's mother.
What about you?
/is/ taking our messages to heart and is trying to be an active member of the community?
If i see another JonKatz article that ends in the phrase "What about you?", "What do you think?", "Talk among yourselves", I will SCREAM, and the funny thing is...it's the biggest gripe i have against the man...it just seems....patronizing somehow. Other then that...i find it intresting that JonKatz posted a movie review....maybe he
Correct me if I'm wrong but the leap year rules are as follows, leap years occur when the year is divisible by 4, except when the year is
divisible by 100 unless the year is divisible by 1000.
Well..you asked for it *LOL* you're mostly right...but it's except when the year is divisible by 100 UNLESS it's divisible by 400 hence 1700, 1800, and 1900 were all NOT leap years. which would make 1000 NOT a leap year...right?
Gotta love Drude this made the headline on DrudgeReport....check it out here at yahoo....the report makes more sense in straight english :)
should have known....the link ended in ".de" *lol*
Computer breakdowns by intercalary day in Japan
The intercalary day on today's Tuesday, 29 February, caused some
surprising computer disturbances in the Hightech country Japan. As
the press agency Reuters announces, in post offices due to
Jahr-2000-Fehlern, which were released by the intercalary day, 1200
cash machines failed. The Japanese weather service has problems with
the entry of local temperatures and precipitation. According to the
report 43 stations distributed over the country transmit false data
since this morning. Already on Monday some 24-Stunden-Vorhersagen
with an error had been printed out: Instead of " 29. " became " 1. "
as end of the validity period indicated. In north Japan the devices
failed for the display of seismic activities with 20 local offices.
Differently than to the change of year however no breakdowns were
announced in the Japanese nuclear power stations (cp/c't)
First Phase; to design and to manufacture a prototype of a computer system in a form of a PCI card that will run GNU/Linux:
/much/ more then JUST Processor cores...check out this list of stuff:
:)
we define a design and verification methodologies
we design a library of small reusable components such as adders, multipliers etc
we design a basic set of IP cores (microprocessor, PCI and SDRAM controller and communication controllers)
we design and manufacture a prototype board with several hundred thousand gates FPGAs
we support our microprocessor architecture with a port of GNU C Compiler, GNU Binutils, GNU Debugger and
architectural/implementation simulator
we support our microprocessor architecture with a port of Linux kernel
This is a project that should have been started a looooooong time ago. Of course the monetary barrier of entry was quite high, but that's all changed....next we'll have LinBoard with the LinProcessor....ooooooh, and all open sourced...
also i just wanted to point out that this is
Comm Controllers
ATM AALx
Eth MAC 10Mbps
FireWire
IP Engine
Serial UART
USB Controller
DSP Cores
FIR Filter
MAC unit
Microprocessors
OpenRISC 1000
OpenRISC 2000
System Controllers
ATA-3 (EIDE)
PCI 32 Bridge
PCI 64 Bridge
SDRAM Controller
Video Controllers
CRT (VGA)
LCD
Prototype Boards
Micro FPGA board
Super FPGA board
now granted some of that is "wanted", but some of it is there....this IS cool tech
here'sa bit of a rundown at PDAGroove.com
Agreed, when you look at it from the whole company's stand point, bad idea, if you look at it from the MS Office group / MS Application group however, it looks a lot more sensible...but don't worry, some one from higher up will beat that idea 6 feet into the ground :)
Sgt Pepper
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Fortune:
You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.
It's a pretty well known fact that /most/ of MS's income is from their applications, specfically office, making them only compatible with windows helps keep a monoply status and hence more money...but...and this is a big BUT....someone at MicroSoft sees that Linux is a big up and comer, then perhaps porting to Linux would make good finacial sense, as Linux gains more speed, people would want to use what they're familar with...ie Office....it could actually be a /smart/ life-saving move for Microsoft...but really...do you think anyone there is that far thinking? Hell...next we're hear rumours that the port will be GPL'd :)
Sgt Pepper
Lame Sig Shamelessly Ripped from
Fortune:
If a man is not a liberal at 25, he has no heart.
If he's not a conservative by 45, he has no brain.
First all..CONGRATS.....second of all....anyone notice the irony of the 10,000th story being the 10,000 story story? :) All and all....it's been a fun ride, here's to many more
Lame sig not here
The price, in case anyone is wondering and hasn't visited the site is about $450, which puts it...about what, mid-range in the line...when are they going to release the VIIc?
sorry...got the link right, but the text should read http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/16/202122 1&mode=thread
Just because no one else mentioned it and i have karma to burn....looks like someone did a replace of all the "?" with " ' " hence the link http://slashdot.org/article.pl'sid=00/02/16/202122 1&mode=thread being proken when it should be http://slashdot.org /article.pl'sid=00/02/16/2021221&mode=thread just an observation...poor MS WORD...
oh man.....they should have a Withstanding-The-Slashdot-Effect-HOWTO
Sgt Pepper
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Fortune:
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
-- Jay Gould
check out the 4 easy steps you have to go through in order to get it....
The link to the person who submitted the article Masterdevelopers.com just happens to have a nice little interview with our one and only hemos it's a nice little, fluff piece :) read it if you like
Sgt Pepper
Lame Sig Shamelessly Ripped from
Fortune:
Grandpa Charnock's Law:
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
[I thought it was when your kids learned to drive. Ed.]
Oh i realize that, however every 11 years it goes from being a once in a while occurince to a bombardment, and the flares tend to get a bit more nastier as well. I never mentioned anything about them NOT happening, just that we're more likely to get hit with a big bad mo-fo of a flare NOW, and more often, hence affecting a greater number of systems. Personally, i think ANYTHING we're going to put out into space should damn well be shielded enough to withstand a solar flare..unless they don't mind burning a million bucks here and there and pissing off alot of customers
A news report i read...not too long ago actually, regarding something just like this....reported that there were approx 600 satellites in orbit in 1989 whereas today there are over 2,000...i think those are the numbers anyway....