Anyone get all those images from ebay and his hopepage that they want to post on a mirror. we/.'ed it, and used up all his bandwidth.
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This is just another linux distro, like all the others. It runs the linux kernel, GNU, xfree86, add all the other fun apps that all distros use. What it has over everyone else is, everything installed on there is gonna be brand spanking new.
Who is this for?
NOT EVERYONE!
There has been so many threads about people saying this is not good for them. Well, you know what, then it isn't. This distro is for the people that want to have everything up to date. It won't be the Best distro in the world since the combination of all the different apps you are installing has not been testing, but it leaves you with something that is setup the way YOU want it setup, not the way some developer over at (insert distro name here) decided to do it.
Look for the good in the distro, don't just go hounding it.
If you go over to kernel.org, and browse through their repository here you will notice they are working on the 2.2.21 kernel. And in pre-1, the First thing they fixed:
o Fix alpha build (Kim Heino)
Could go get pre-2 and use it on your systems.
Here at Iowa State, we have been using something similar for our two data structures classes CS227 and CS228. Most any other class in the department where people turn in code, the code is run through the same kind of thing. And not just exact matched.. but % different between certain ones (only 5% difference raises suspition).
As far as I know, this process has been in place for at least 2 years now, maybe longer.
It's amazing to see NVidia's dedication to forwarding their technology and continually improving a seemingly perfect line of cards, but with all this power, are we running out of an application to utilize this power?
You have to realize that game developers limit the actually quality of what they are producing. To use more of the graphics card, all a company like sierra would have to do is boost the number of polygons they use to make up walls/players/whatever. They could also improve the lighting effect to use more of the graphics card for processing shadows of objects.
If you ever try and go writting some 3d graphics yourself, you would be amazed how limited systems actually are. Game developers use a lot of tricks to increase frame rates and keep everything running smooth.
I am guessing a lot of you have tried to see the source code for the main page.. and maybe... just maybe find where all the pictures were hidden, so you could look at all of em at one. Well. Go for it. Look.
Welcome to the source code for this page. Not much here.The picture filenames all took a one-way trip to MD5 city to mask their true identity (if that is what you were looking for)..... And some more to it too.. go look for yourself.
As a student in a CS program also, I know how this works. I am a teaching assistance to a data structures class in c++. Cheating is an issue we have always talked about, because it is so easy to copy from other people, or from previous years. Taking part in running a course, all teachers can do to try to stop it, is to change assignments from year to year. But that can only go so far. I know we also have a simple program that compares students assignments for parts that look alike. It has been used to find some similarities, but not many.
My part. I am a student here at Iowa State, and yes the VRAC (the c6 cube) is the shit. First off, how we got it. Howe Hall was built just last summer, and was built completely from money give by aerospace engineering alumni.
As far as writing code for the VRAC here, all it is, is a special toolkit for c++ that does all the cool stuff for it, and is powered by 6 SGI systems (dont remember what kinda processors). The VRAC team consists of around 5 people, all graduate students with degrees in computer science and computer engineering.
A newly formed game developers club here (I am friends with all the guys that started that) have been talking with the VRAC team to start writting games for the C6, and they were hoping to do Quake 3 (but that has already been done).
I will tell some people today, and I might be able to see it run before the end of the semesters.. (gotta set those hopes high).
(Howe Hall webpage)
http://www.eng.iastate.edu/etrc/
Most people (me, myself, and I) are fans of Blizzard, and enjoy their games. And I think it is great that Blizzard does beta testings for their games, even if it is for them to stress test their servers, it opens it up to the public before it actually goes gold.
Here is the problem I have with it. I beta tests Diablo 2 before its release. It spoils your enjoyment of the game. It's great and being able to play a game before anyone else, but when you play a game that is well (I think) for online play, and you are playing with suck a limited crowd in a beta, you will get burned out. As I did, when playing D2 beta, I played it so much, that when it came out, and I got a the final release of the game, I was already burned out. There was no enjoyment really left.
Well, so I regestered for beta testing again, shoot me. I just love being able to say, "Ya, I am a beta tester, eat it!".
I am going to my Digital Design class in about 40 minutes, the lab to be more exact. Here we work with a FPGA device by http://www.altera.com/. They seem to be a large maker of devices like that. They can actually do some interesting things, but getting em to work right can suck.
Back in the day when I actually had free time, and was coding for fun, me and a few friends thought that would be the best client ever to right. I do agree that IRC would be a good alternative to all these IM services, but if a client was developed that acted as an IM client while using IRC server, you would be set. You could have it connect to some popular irc networks (not just one, for backup reasons), and just go from there... would not be that hard.
I did research for sterio equipment in december, so I have some input here.
When shopping I did the usual of going to best buy and just playing with their speakers and all that fun stuff, but I did not get a good feel for everything. So I jumped over the the local United Audio Center (now owned by Tweater). They have a great setup to test all the fun audio equipment. (Side note: you CAN haggle prices at United audio, just get an idea of prices from the web for the same product, and go to work).
I tested different recievers with different speakers with different subwoofers. In the end I ended up with the Yamaha RX-V596 reciever, 4 of the Klipsch Synergy 8.5 speakers (like a 6" midrange plus a horn), and a Klipsch KSW-12 subwoofer (12" cone, 400watt, with 105watt amp). I already had a JBL HLS-Center speakers.
Now how this compares to the rest. I played with JBL, Bose, Sony, Yamaha, Mirage, and Klipsch speakers. I do have to say that I was fond of the JBL speakers, but I could not find what I was looking for. The Klipsch are WONDERFUL speakers for someone like me (college student). They are made so you can turn your system up REALLY loud and not blow out the speakers. All Klipsch's come with a build in horn (tweater), which makes it quite nice, and if you look at the rear channel speakers, some come with a dual bi-polar horn system with a midrange... Really nice stuff.
As far as recievers, I went with Yamaha since I got more bang for the buck. Looking at Pioneer, Sony, Yamaha, and Dennon, I liked the Yamaha the most. The Sony and Pioneer look cool and all (nice interface and front displays), but you do not get the power that you would with a Yamaha of the same price. The Dennon's did not see to be that good, the company just makes really nice high-end receivers ($2000 for a reciever... NICE STUFF!!).
List price for the synergy 8.5's is like $300 or so, I payed $150 each, so that was not too bad. The sub is listed as $500, I paid $450, you could pay less the $400 if you shop. The JBL center I paid $170 for at bestbuy (its really nice, handles well), the receiver I also paid $450 for. Plus you gotta through in like another $100 to get all the nice cables and such. Grand total without the center was about $1700.
I am happy with it all, now I just need to master placement of everything to make it sound cool.
SMP support. I know with the 760 chipset (a revision of the chipset at least), is supposed to have support for 2 processors. DDR is great and all, but when you can scale to 2 1.2 GHz Thunderbirds, imagine the power you can have. You could have 2 Netscape windwos open in Gnome, each running on a seperate processor. It will double the chances of getting that f1r5t p05t on/.
Total video game software and hardware sales in the United States reached $8.9 billion last year, versus $7.3 billion for movie box-office receipts. Of that, $6.6 billion of the videogame receipts were from software sales, retail and online.
The question is now. Is that $8.9 billion only from the consumer market. If you think about it, businesses are going to be forking out new money for hardware more often to keep their machines top of the line (in the places that need it that is).
Looking at those screen shots, I almost get sick. Sadly to say my computer is running Windows 2000 Pro right now (I do have a slackware firewall setup though). I think microsoft forgot the fact that the NT series of machines are ment for Workstations and Servers. Its not ment for the standard idiot, err... consumer.
What Microsoft should do is take a completely different path, and make a distro of Linux. Design their own GUI and all the fun stuff. That way they will be starting off right.
There has to be something we can do to stop these OEM's from doing to the public. If there was a guildline that that OEM dealers had to follow that if they clocked a computer past its designed speed, they would have to label the computer CLEARLY that they did this, that would be the way to stop them.
We all know that companies would still do this, but if there was a large enough penalty for doing this, it would scare OEMs from trying to do it, that would be the thing.
I am in the same boat, freshman taking entry-level c++. I had experience through high school taking Computer Science AP classes, so I know what I am doing. In our class, we have to be able to make our program computer under OSF/1 or HP-UX, using g++. I do have to say; using g++ makes me feel so much more at home.
Now on to the point. You have to keep in mind college classes. I don't know the full setup of your college, but as with mine, my CS228 class is a lecture. Meaning, there is a shit load of programs turned in. I don't know how many classes the instructor for the class actually teaches. Also with the department getting a budget cut, we currently have no TA's to help out. You also have to keep in mind, when you start getting into pointer manipulation or anything beyond basic C, you can run into small variations in the compiler or in the libraries. I wrote and compiled a program using Visual C++, and then moved the code to my Slackware box, and then tried to compile it with g++, I got an error in the passing of a variable. After a little tweaking of the code, I got it to work. But imagine if the instructor had to do this for 300 people. If he was getting code that would not compile, I don't think that teacher would want to check the code to see if it's some strange error. As they do here, if a program does not compile, you will automatically get a 0 for that program.
I truthfully think that the compiler is not that big of a deal, unless you are being taught API, or GUI programming. I am not sure of other colleges too, but as far as I know with 2 of the colleges that I have information on their Computer Science major, they focus more on theory of programming then actually programming. Learning and language and the commands for that language are not truly as important as learning the theory behind programming. You can work with C++ your entire college life, and when you go out into the real world and get a job, you could be programming Java. You have to spend a few weeks to learn the general syntax for that language, but as you start learning you will be like, "WOW, I remember this stuff from when I was programming C++". Then you just have to apply the theory of programming to the current compiler you are using to make it work.
One thing I would like to point out too. The music industry had record sales last year with the internet booming with mp3s and places like mp3.com and napster. If anything I think mp3s are feeding the music industry. Its not what it is, its something else.
In the past few weeks, I have actually noticed that.. Bah, who needs sceince to tell us about reality. While at work and semi-sleep deprived (not as bad as college students, but like 2 hours sleep and a long day), I can do the same work or more WHILE holding converstation with people around me, which normally can not be done on a good nights sleep. My job also calls for working either mornings or nights, and if I am working nights (till like midnight), I just with it more, while the people we serve are pissed off and taking it all out on you.... Would be nice to be in a bad mood at the same time as our customers, then we take agression out on them too.
This year with ordering online has been pretty good so far. But you still can't beat going out to the mall to get all the shopping done. And while your out shopping, you can preview all the ladies.
Its not what it is, its something else.
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That is a very good idea for very young kids. But as they start to get older (ie: 5-6 years old), I don't believe that they should be learning old machines, they should experience the technolegy (spelling) of today. If you really want your kids to learn dos, great, let them (or linux, if you really want you kids to be geeks). But I still say, should let them learn on the products of today.
I don't have any personal experience with an AMD chip, but from friends that have had them, they never really liked then as much as Intel cpu's. Since I heard about the K7, I have been reading every artical I could find on it. What is said on tomshardware is just restating what was said by the firing-squad when they did thier first comparisons of the P3-550 and the K7-600. And then recently with thier P3-600 (and the oc'ed version P3-660) vs the K7-600.
But the thing is, will big corperations be willing to use/trust another processor maker for new servers. With server market being run by Intel, Sun, and DEC, will there be enough room for AMD to pop up and show off its stuff. I personally will not get the K6 untill they implament the.18 micron and have the Viper chipset for it. Another factor for not getting a K7 now, is waiting for the commercial release of a new, faster type of ram that can advantage of the fast EV6 bus better.
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This is just another linux distro, like all the others. It runs the linux kernel, GNU, xfree86, add all the other fun apps that all distros use. What it has over everyone else is, everything installed on there is gonna be brand spanking new.
Who is this for?
NOT EVERYONE!
There has been so many threads about people saying this is not good for them. Well, you know what, then it isn't. This distro is for the people that want to have everything up to date. It won't be the Best distro in the world since the combination of all the different apps you are installing has not been testing, but it leaves you with something that is setup the way YOU want it setup, not the way some developer over at (insert distro name here) decided to do it.
Look for the good in the distro, don't just go hounding it.
If you go over to kernel.org, and browse through their repository here you will notice they are working on the 2.2.21 kernel. And in pre-1, the First thing they fixed: o Fix alpha build (Kim Heino) Could go get pre-2 and use it on your systems.
Here at Iowa State, we have been using something similar for our two data structures classes CS227 and CS228. Most any other class in the department where people turn in code, the code is run through the same kind of thing. And not just exact matched.. but % different between certain ones (only 5% difference raises suspition).
As far as I know, this process has been in place for at least 2 years now, maybe longer.
It's amazing to see NVidia's dedication to forwarding their technology and continually improving a seemingly perfect line of cards, but with all this power, are we running out of an application to utilize this power?
You have to realize that game developers limit the actually quality of what they are producing. To use more of the graphics card, all a company like sierra would have to do is boost the number of polygons they use to make up walls/players/whatever. They could also improve the lighting effect to use more of the graphics card for processing shadows of objects.
If you ever try and go writting some 3d graphics yourself, you would be amazed how limited systems actually are. Game developers use a lot of tricks to increase frame rates and keep everything running smooth.
There is always need for improvement.
I am guessing a lot of you have tried to see the source code for the main page.. and maybe... just maybe find where all the pictures were hidden, so you could look at all of em at one. Well. Go for it. Look.
Welcome to the source code for this page. Not much here.The picture filenames all took a one-way trip to MD5 city to mask their true identity (if that is what you were looking for)..... And some more to it too.. go look for yourself.
I see it Now. Browsing SourceForge, and I could across a new project.. "WhiteWorm". Open sources virus anti-virus.
As a student in a CS program also, I know how this works. I am a teaching assistance to a data structures class in c++. Cheating is an issue we have always talked about, because it is so easy to copy from other people, or from previous years. Taking part in running a course, all teachers can do to try to stop it, is to change assignments from year to year. But that can only go so far. I know we also have a simple program that compares students assignments for parts that look alike. It has been used to find some similarities, but not many.
Its not what it is, its something else.
My part. I am a student here at Iowa State, and yes the VRAC (the c6 cube) is the shit. First off, how we got it. Howe Hall was built just last summer, and was built completely from money give by aerospace engineering alumni.
As far as writing code for the VRAC here, all it is, is a special toolkit for c++ that does all the cool stuff for it, and is powered by 6 SGI systems (dont remember what kinda processors). The VRAC team consists of around 5 people, all graduate students with degrees in computer science and computer engineering.
A newly formed game developers club here (I am friends with all the guys that started that) have been talking with the VRAC team to start writting games for the C6, and they were hoping to do Quake 3 (but that has already been done).
I will tell some people today, and I might be able to see it run before the end of the semesters.. (gotta set those hopes high).
(Howe Hall webpage)
http://www.eng.iastate.edu/etrc/
Its not what it is, its something else.
Most people (me, myself, and I) are fans of Blizzard, and enjoy their games. And I think it is great that Blizzard does beta testings for their games, even if it is for them to stress test their servers, it opens it up to the public before it actually goes gold.
Here is the problem I have with it. I beta tests Diablo 2 before its release. It spoils your enjoyment of the game. It's great and being able to play a game before anyone else, but when you play a game that is well (I think) for online play, and you are playing with suck a limited crowd in a beta, you will get burned out. As I did, when playing D2 beta, I played it so much, that when it came out, and I got a the final release of the game, I was already burned out. There was no enjoyment really left.
Well, so I regestered for beta testing again, shoot me. I just love being able to say, "Ya, I am a beta tester, eat it!".
Its not what it is, its something else.
I am going to my Digital Design class in about 40 minutes, the lab to be more exact. Here we work with a FPGA device by http://www.altera.com/. They seem to be a large maker of devices like that. They can actually do some interesting things, but getting em to work right can suck.
Its not what it is, its something else.
Back in the day when I actually had free time, and was coding for fun, me and a few friends thought that would be the best client ever to right. I do agree that IRC would be a good alternative to all these IM services, but if a client was developed that acted as an IM client while using IRC server, you would be set. You could have it connect to some popular irc networks (not just one, for backup reasons), and just go from there... would not be that hard.
Its not what it is, its something else.
I did research for sterio equipment in december, so I have some input here.
When shopping I did the usual of going to best buy and just playing with their speakers and all that fun stuff, but I did not get a good feel for everything. So I jumped over the the local United Audio Center (now owned by Tweater). They have a great setup to test all the fun audio equipment. (Side note: you CAN haggle prices at United audio, just get an idea of prices from the web for the same product, and go to work).
I tested different recievers with different speakers with different subwoofers. In the end I ended up with the Yamaha RX-V596 reciever, 4 of the Klipsch Synergy 8.5 speakers (like a 6" midrange plus a horn), and a Klipsch KSW-12 subwoofer (12" cone, 400watt, with 105watt amp). I already had a JBL HLS-Center speakers.
Now how this compares to the rest. I played with JBL, Bose, Sony, Yamaha, Mirage, and Klipsch speakers. I do have to say that I was fond of the JBL speakers, but I could not find what I was looking for. The Klipsch are WONDERFUL speakers for someone like me (college student). They are made so you can turn your system up REALLY loud and not blow out the speakers. All Klipsch's come with a build in horn (tweater), which makes it quite nice, and if you look at the rear channel speakers, some come with a dual bi-polar horn system with a midrange... Really nice stuff.
As far as recievers, I went with Yamaha since I got more bang for the buck. Looking at Pioneer, Sony, Yamaha, and Dennon, I liked the Yamaha the most. The Sony and Pioneer look cool and all (nice interface and front displays), but you do not get the power that you would with a Yamaha of the same price. The Dennon's did not see to be that good, the company just makes really nice high-end receivers ($2000 for a reciever... NICE STUFF!!).
List price for the synergy 8.5's is like $300 or so, I payed $150 each, so that was not too bad. The sub is listed as $500, I paid $450, you could pay less the $400 if you shop. The JBL center I paid $170 for at bestbuy (its really nice, handles well), the receiver I also paid $450 for. Plus you gotta through in like another $100 to get all the nice cables and such. Grand total without the center was about $1700.
I am happy with it all, now I just need to master placement of everything to make it sound cool.
Its not what it is, its something else.
SMP support. I know with the 760 chipset (a revision of the chipset at least), is supposed to have support for 2 processors. DDR is great and all, but when you can scale to 2 1.2 GHz Thunderbirds, imagine the power you can have. You could have 2 Netscape windwos open in Gnome, each running on a seperate processor. It will double the chances of getting that f1r5t p05t on /.
Its not what it is, its something else.
Total video game software and hardware sales in the United States reached $8.9 billion last year, versus $7.3 billion for movie box-office receipts. Of that, $6.6 billion of the videogame receipts were from software sales, retail and online.
The question is now. Is that $8.9 billion only from the consumer market. If you think about it, businesses are going to be forking out new money for hardware more often to keep their machines top of the line (in the places that need it that is).
Its not what it is, its something else.
Al Gore. I thought he created the Internet.
Its not what it is, its something else.
Looking at those screen shots, I almost get sick. Sadly to say my computer is running Windows 2000 Pro right now (I do have a slackware firewall setup though). I think microsoft forgot the fact that the NT series of machines are ment for Workstations and Servers. Its not ment for the standard idiot, err... consumer.
What Microsoft should do is take a completely different path, and make a distro of Linux. Design their own GUI and all the fun stuff. That way they will be starting off right.
Its not what it is, its something else.
There has to be something we can do to stop these OEM's from doing to the public. If there was a guildline that that OEM dealers had to follow that if they clocked a computer past its designed speed, they would have to label the computer CLEARLY that they did this, that would be the way to stop them.
We all know that companies would still do this, but if there was a large enough penalty for doing this, it would scare OEMs from trying to do it, that would be the thing.
It happend to me back when P-233 was the shit.
Its not what it is, its something else.
I am in the same boat, freshman taking entry-level c++. I had experience through high school taking Computer Science AP classes, so I know what I am doing. In our class, we have to be able to make our program computer under OSF/1 or HP-UX, using g++. I do have to say; using g++ makes me feel so much more at home.
Now on to the point. You have to keep in mind college classes. I don't know the full setup of your college, but as with mine, my CS228 class is a lecture. Meaning, there is a shit load of programs turned in. I don't know how many classes the instructor for the class actually teaches. Also with the department getting a budget cut, we currently have no TA's to help out. You also have to keep in mind, when you start getting into pointer manipulation or anything beyond basic C, you can run into small variations in the compiler or in the libraries. I wrote and compiled a program using Visual C++, and then moved the code to my Slackware box, and then tried to compile it with g++, I got an error in the passing of a variable. After a little tweaking of the code, I got it to work. But imagine if the instructor had to do this for 300 people. If he was getting code that would not compile, I don't think that teacher would want to check the code to see if it's some strange error. As they do here, if a program does not compile, you will automatically get a 0 for that program.
I truthfully think that the compiler is not that big of a deal, unless you are being taught API, or GUI programming. I am not sure of other colleges too, but as far as I know with 2 of the colleges that I have information on their Computer Science major, they focus more on theory of programming then actually programming. Learning and language and the commands for that language are not truly as important as learning the theory behind programming. You can work with C++ your entire college life, and when you go out into the real world and get a job, you could be programming Java. You have to spend a few weeks to learn the general syntax for that language, but as you start learning you will be like, "WOW, I remember this stuff from when I was programming C++". Then you just have to apply the theory of programming to the current compiler you are using to make it work.
Its not what it is, its something else.
One thing I would like to point out too. The music industry had record sales last year with the internet booming with mp3s and places like mp3.com and napster. If anything I think mp3s are feeding the music industry.
Its not what it is, its something else.
In the past few weeks, I have actually noticed that.. Bah, who needs sceince to tell us about reality. While at work and semi-sleep deprived (not as bad as college students, but like 2 hours sleep and a long day), I can do the same work or more WHILE holding converstation with people around me, which normally can not be done on a good nights sleep. My job also calls for working either mornings or nights, and if I am working nights (till like midnight), I just with it more, while the people we serve are pissed off and taking it all out on you.... Would be nice to be in a bad mood at the same time as our customers, then we take agression out on them too.
Its not what it is, its something else.
This year I went around ordering parts for a new computer. For two of the pieces (Athlon 550MHz CPU, and an Enlight case), I just pointed my browser over to PriceWatch and just found the cheapest price. Placed my order for those 2 parts on the 17th, and all those got here on the 22nd. The other three parts I ordered (Asus K7M motherboard, IBM Deskstar harddrive, and some ram) I order from TCComputers. I did this with two seperate orders, but only one of the orders arrived. I placed the one that arrived I placed on the 17th also, but the one that has yet to arrive I placed on the 18th. I was actually quite amazed that everything amazed myself. Had a lot of problems 2 years ago with ordering online, stupid company kept on screwing me over.
This year with ordering online has been pretty good so far. But you still can't beat going out to the mall to get all the shopping done. And while your out shopping, you can preview all the ladies.
Its not what it is, its something else.
That is a very good idea for very young kids. But as they start to get older (ie: 5-6 years old), I don't believe that they should be learning old machines, they should experience the technolegy (spelling) of today. If you really want your kids to learn dos, great, let them (or linux, if you really want you kids to be geeks). But I still say, should let them learn on the products of today.
I don't have any personal experience with an AMD chip, but from friends that have had them, they never really liked then as much as Intel cpu's. Since I heard about the K7, I have been reading every artical I could find on it. What is said on tomshardware is just restating what was said by the firing-squad when they did thier first comparisons of the P3-550 and the K7-600. And then recently with thier P3-600 (and the oc'ed version P3-660) vs the K7-600.
.18 micron and have the Viper chipset for it. Another factor for not getting a K7 now, is waiting for the commercial release of a new, faster type of ram that can advantage of the fast EV6 bus better.
But the thing is, will big corperations be willing to use/trust another processor maker for new servers. With server market being run by Intel, Sun, and DEC, will there be enough room for AMD to pop up and show off its stuff. I personally will not get the K6 untill they implament the