Take a look at PROTEUS. It's a 12 node massively parallel Mini-ITX cluster. It was built by Glen Gardner. According to Glen it has the processing power of between four and six 2.6GHz Pentium IV boards. The nodes run FreeBSD 4.6 and use MPICH 1.2.5.2 for message passing.
YaST is a great installer. Does anyone know how portable it is? One of the major things that the up and comming Debian installer has going for it is it's nearly toatal platform agnosticism.
I know that YaST is a lot more refined and user friendly then d-i but the later was designed more as a highly portable framework that can be imporved upon with shiny GUIs as people see fit.
I want to be clear YaST was great last time I used it and I applaud Novell for opening the source. I'm just currious about it's portability. It's been some time since I've installed SuSE on anything.
So far a lot of people have been suggesting to get some training in art, graphic design or to hire someone with such experience. I think people are confusing nice looking with usable. I have seen a lot of great looking sites that are an absolute bitch to use. Things like site navigation theory and methods are not generally a skill that artists or graphic designers have worked to master. Usability engineering is something separate from both graphic presentation and back-end nuts and bolts design.
I don't really have any suggestions on where to acquire the required skills but I think it is important to realize that usability work is it's own independent skill.
I'm in the market for a cell phone right now. I had planned on getting a specific number that meant something to me. Untill recently (of course) this number has been left unused in AT&T Wirless' pool. Now just as I go to get a phone someone was assigned this number. If I could reach a [montetary] agreement with the current user of the number is it possible to get it transfered? How does one go about this? If it matters I was even planning on getting service through AT&T Wireless. I've asked people that work in various AT&T Wireless retail stores but all I ever get back is blank stares.
I would recomend brining this up on the linux-kernel and/or linux-usb mailing lists. I can't immagine that it would be too difficult for someone to write a simple device driver for the extra non-standard buttons on this. If the extra buttons ended up being a seperate device in the input subsys maybe a virtual mouse could be created to bind the two devices (mouse and buttons) together into something that looks like a typical four button HID device.
I was under the impression that code created by a government agency that was to be released to the public always had to be entered into the public domain. IIRC this was the case with the Enhanced Machine Controller project from the NIST. The idea is that anything the the United States Govenrment creates is owned by by the public as the US Govenrment is "of the people, by the people and for the people"
Why not turn off the TV for a few days and read a good book? If you need sugjestions I would recomend Farenhite 451 or for a longer title take a look at Crime and Punishment.
Put an IR-sensitive video cam in a room with such a keyboard
Actaully a video camera wouldn't work for this. A video camera is only capable of ~30 frames per second and the baud rate of just about any IR keyboard (maybe even the one with my old IBM PC Jr) is going to be higher then that. IIRC according to some theroms on sampling you would actually need a sample rate quite a bit higher (assuming that you can't sync the sample rate with the baud rate) then the rate at which the keyboard emits it's signals.
This is kind of off topic but I was currious if any of the wireless keyboards out there are even slightly secure. I haven't read the Bluetooth spec, does it include any sort of encryption (even if it does I'm not sure that I would feel comfortable trusting a vendor to properly implement it).
IIRC, copper conducts heat better than silver...
Actuall silver is a better conductor of heat. Silver has a conductivity 428 W/m*K compared to copper's 398 W/m*K. Diamond is the best known conductor IIRC with a theoretical conductivity of 2500 W/m*K for a perfectly formed flawless diamond.
It's almost letting your subconscious thought processes work on the problem instead of trying to tackle it directly.
Isn't this kind of the basis of Zen? Letting your mind relax and revert to a almost child like state where you are "open" to most anything. They call this "the beginner's mind".
What I don't understand about the rear spoiler is that the damn car is front wheel drive. Spoilers on the rear are there to produce more down-force to increase traction on rear wheel drive cars, they do absolutly nothing for front wheel drives. Well.... other then making the owner look like a totall moron (assuming he even needs any help with that).
Europe and the US in the 18th and 19th century weren't really that different from China: small ruling classes, great concentration of wealth and power
What the different is the fact that the current Chinese government is much more powerfull in respect to it's people then the US or the typical European country was in the 18th and 19th century. The Chinese government is much more efficient at "keeping the people in-line". Sure, you could go live in the hills as a peasant to avoid a great deal of the opression (in a way) but most likely you aren't. People are attracted to the blinking lights of "modern society and seem to be willing to endure massive injustice to be able to "enjoy it". It's almost like drug addiction. Before you have experienced it, it looks so attractive and glamourous. For awhile it's great, "look at all this neat shit I can buy". Then you realize that you aren't getting anywere, can't figure out how you got here and have no idea why you would ever want to be here. The thing is, your one of us, your part of socitey now, your stuck.
You might want to take a look at the Neutral Message Language, NML. Developed at the Intelligent Systems Division of the National Instute of Standards and Technology is was intended from the start for use in real-time/time critical situations. I know that it currently has support cor C, C++ and Java.
Since Selective Availability has come to an end. Does differentially corrected GPS (differential GPS or simply DGPS) provide any more of an accurate position then just plain GPS? In the area I live in I have access to two U.S. Navy DGPS signals. What kind of accuracy can one expect from GPS and DGPS now days? Do the nicer units provided more accuracy possibly due to better timers/clock generators? Where should I look for a highly accurate display-less unit for connection to a laptop/embedded system? Are there specific units out there that are maybe "survey grade"?
Just out of curriousity, how much logging data would servers like the ones in question produce per day/week/month? It's got to be quite a bit with all the various packages like an httpd, ftpd, MTA and all the typical syslog data.
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YaST is a great installer. Does anyone know how portable it is? One of the major things that the up and comming Debian installer has going for it is it's nearly toatal platform agnosticism.
I know that YaST is a lot more refined and user friendly then d-i but the later was designed more as a highly portable framework that can be imporved upon with shiny GUIs as people see fit.
I want to be clear YaST was great last time I used it and I applaud Novell for opening the source. I'm just currious about it's portability. It's been some time since I've installed SuSE on anything.
So far a lot of people have been suggesting to get some training in art, graphic design or to hire someone with such experience. I think people are confusing nice looking with usable. I have seen a lot of great looking sites that are an absolute bitch to use. Things like site navigation theory and methods are not generally a skill that artists or graphic designers have worked to master. Usability engineering is something separate from both graphic presentation and back-end nuts and bolts design.
I don't really have any suggestions on where to acquire the required skills but I think it is important to realize that usability work is it's own independent skill.
Maybe people just want a new elctronic device so they can attempt to port Linux and/or NetBSD.
I'm in the market for a cell phone right now. I had planned on getting a specific number that meant something to me. Untill recently (of course) this number has been left unused in AT&T Wirless' pool. Now just as I go to get a phone someone was assigned this number. If I could reach a [montetary] agreement with the current user of the number is it possible to get it transfered? How does one go about this? If it matters I was even planning on getting service through AT&T Wireless. I've asked people that work in various AT&T Wireless retail stores but all I ever get back is blank stares.
I would recomend brining this up on the linux-kernel and/or linux-usb mailing lists. I can't immagine that it would be too difficult for someone to write a simple device driver for the extra non-standard buttons on this. If the extra buttons ended up being a seperate device in the input subsys maybe a virtual mouse could be created to bind the two devices (mouse and buttons) together into something that looks like a typical four button HID device.
I was under the impression that code created by a government agency that was to be released to the public always had to be entered into the public domain. IIRC this was the case with the Enhanced Machine Controller project from the NIST. The idea is that anything the the United States Govenrment creates is owned by by the public as the US Govenrment is "of the people, by the people and for the people"
Can anyone comment on this? IANAL.
Why not turn off the TV for a few days and read a good book? If you need sugjestions I would recomend Farenhite 451 or for a longer title take a look at Crime and Punishment.
Put an IR-sensitive video cam in a room with such a keyboard
Actaully a video camera wouldn't work for this. A video camera is only capable of ~30 frames per second and the baud rate of just about any IR keyboard (maybe even the one with my old IBM PC Jr) is going to be higher then that. IIRC according to some theroms on sampling you would actually need a sample rate quite a bit higher (assuming that you can't sync the sample rate with the baud rate) then the rate at which the keyboard emits it's signals.
This is kind of off topic but I was currious if any of the wireless keyboards out there are even slightly secure. I haven't read the Bluetooth spec, does it include any sort of encryption (even if it does I'm not sure that I would feel comfortable trusting a vendor to properly implement it).
Sorry to reply to my own post but if you want some more (easy to digest) information on thermal conductivity take a look at this entry at Wikipedia.
IIRC, copper conducts heat better than silver...
Actuall silver is a better conductor of heat. Silver has a conductivity 428 W/m*K compared to copper's 398 W/m*K. Diamond is the best known conductor IIRC with a theoretical conductivity of 2500 W/m*K for a perfectly formed flawless diamond.
It's almost letting your subconscious thought processes work on the problem instead of trying to tackle it directly.
Isn't this kind of the basis of Zen? Letting your mind relax and revert to a almost child like state where you are "open" to most anything. They call this "the beginner's mind".
What I don't understand about the rear spoiler is that the damn car is front wheel drive. Spoilers on the rear are there to produce more down-force to increase traction on rear wheel drive cars, they do absolutly nothing for front wheel drives. Well.... other then making the owner look like a totall moron (assuming he even needs any help with that).
Europe and the US in the 18th and 19th century weren't really that different from China: small ruling classes, great concentration of wealth and power
What the different is the fact that the current Chinese government is much more powerfull in respect to it's people then the US or the typical European country was in the 18th and 19th century. The Chinese government is much more efficient at "keeping the people in-line". Sure, you could go live in the hills as a peasant to avoid a great deal of the opression (in a way) but most likely you aren't. People are attracted to the blinking lights of "modern society and seem to be willing to endure massive injustice to be able to "enjoy it". It's almost like drug addiction. Before you have experienced it, it looks so attractive and glamourous. For awhile it's great, "look at all this neat shit I can buy". Then you realize that you aren't getting anywere, can't figure out how you got here and have no idea why you would ever want to be here. The thing is, your one of us, your part of socitey now, your stuck.
I don't suppose... could Keyser Soze be one of the MPlayer developers?
"as she prefers small for her devices"
What does that say about your father?
The Cobalt software can be found at: open.CobaltQube.org and the ROM can be found at SourceForge.
You might want to take a look at the Neutral Message Language, NML. Developed at the Intelligent Systems Division of the National Instute of Standards and Technology is was intended from the start for use in real-time/time critical situations. I know that it currently has support cor C, C++ and Java.
Is it possible to combine WAAS and DGPS to achive a more precise position?
Since Selective Availability has come to an end. Does differentially corrected GPS (differential GPS or simply DGPS) provide any more of an accurate position then just plain GPS? In the area I live in I have access to two U.S. Navy DGPS signals. What kind of accuracy can one expect from GPS and DGPS now days? Do the nicer units provided more accuracy possibly due to better timers/clock generators? Where should I look for a highly accurate display-less unit for connection to a laptop/embedded system? Are there specific units out there that are maybe "survey grade"?
While it's a nice step, it's no replacement for an official Microsoft patch.
No, but Mozilla, or Konqueror or Safari are.
10,000 monkeys on 10,000 exercise bikes connected to generators?
Although, if one were using 16 PCI Express lanes they could acheive 4GB/second (thats 32 gigabits per second).
Just out of curriousity, how much logging data would servers like the ones in question produce per day/week/month? It's got to be quite a bit with all the various packages like an httpd, ftpd, MTA and all the typical syslog data.