American Science and Surplus sells many small parts that could be used in robots. They have a whole "robot part" section.
They sell surplus equipment of just about every geek persuasion. Beakers to supermagnets to glow in the dark stickers to discounted microscopes from Russia. Periscopes from WWII Sherman Tanks, white coveralls (with a hood and an input for your oxygen tanks), with witty descriptions for every product.
Great for geeks, great for robots, great for halloween.
It's probably one of the funnest geek sites out there, check em out at sciplus.com.
Hey, I'm with you. I want a cheap box on which to learn Solaris. I recently lost my job, so cheap is essential.
However, it appears that the new Solaris9 on x86 requires specific Sun hardware to run. It won't just run on your old 200-Mhz box , it requires some special Sun architecture (or something).
While there probably are better ways to gauge public opinion, $150,000 is small change when compared to the hundreds-of-millions that Florida (or any other state) spends on roads or mass transit systems.
The VAST majority of spam eminates from the US (or at least seems to be on behalf of US companies).
That's probably true, but American's own a large portion of the internet, so all other things being equal, it makes sense that a large portion of criminals come from America.
Their DMCA is wreaking havoc with personal freedom and even threatens the future of OS software.
Here's something I don't understand. The DMCA is an American law. If it's so terrible, then why do the European governments go along with it? Do they lack a willingness to fight for the freedoms of their citizens? Do they have no teeth?
Their "entertainment" companies want control over all electronic storage devices, etc etc etc.
Last I checked, non-american companies Sony & BMG were part of this "anti piracy" coalition.
The fact is that the XServe runs a bunch of IDE hard drives which would seem worthless for any real-world applications without any sort of RAID
I was working with an Xserve yesterday. The drives were SCSI, not IDE. But you are correct, there was no RAID, which was probably the biggest dissapointment about the machine.
Thanks muchly. I wasn't really sure what the process was called. A google search for CM reveals a whole new world out there.
I've seen the term 'SCM' thrown around from time to time, but mostly by marketing people from large VC vendors (like Rational's Clearcase); and none of the marketers have really been able to give me an example...
You have some interesting ideas. We use a similar process here, and I'd like to investigate it some more on my own (And I'll be loosing my job next week, so I'd need to learn this on my own, along with relearning some Version Control tricks (We use Clearcase here, I'd like to learn more CVS & Subversion techniques).
Do you know of any books or documentation which dicusses this process?
That way, any of your developers could simply set their $PROJECT , and YOU as the administrator, don't need to clean up when they fscked up the shared user account.
It has been argued that using corn-derived ethanol as a fuel costs more in energy than what is produced.
Can someone point me to a fuel source that doesn't follow this formula?
It took more energy to produce oil then what is produced, but since the production happened millions of years ago, we don't really think about the energy that went into the production (And then you need to expend the energy to convert the oil into a usable fuel source like gasoline or diesel).
If you had a fuel source that cost LESS energy to create then to produce, couldn't you harness the surplus, and use that to produce more fuel, etc, etc.... thereby creating an endless energy source?
Or am I misunderstanding things (Haven't had my coffee yet, but we all know that it takes more energy to produce coffee then the energy I derive from the 'fuel source').
Slashdot must have quite a backlog of article submissions.
I mean, one article about a 1961 wristwatch, now an article about a 1982 movie.
I just submitted an article about this awsome new kind of game called Castle Wolfenstein 3D, it's like the old Castle Wolfenstein game on the Apple IIe , but from the FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE. It's really damn cool, but it doesn't work with my 8-bit Adlib Soundcard.
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Plus it would be interesting to see the backlog of the queue. It must be HUGE, I mean, this article was submitted over 30 years ago and they only just approved it.
No wonder they haven't approved my sumbmission on the new Apple Lisa....
Disney is coming out with a new movie called "Spots", which is about aliens who create mystious blobs on city sidewalks the world over.
As part of the marketing campaign, Disney employees were going to paint spots on sidewalks in many major cities; to promote the movie via word-of-mouth.
But since this is a low budget movie, they only made it to Camden...
PS - E-Mail the Alexis Park letting them know their site isn't cross-browser compatible. Not everyone uses IE and NS;)"
Oh, I have a sneaking suspicion that one of the Defcon attendees will 'fix' the page for them.
Message to the soon-to-be [h]cracker of the Alexis Park webpage, while you are modifying the Alexis Park webpage, please remember to "demonstrate security bugs" in the Alexis Park employment database and "Flash" the webmaster out of the system.
I use many of the projects at sourceforge.net , but this may not be the best example of the SF capabilities.
Many of the smaller projects don't really use the bugtracker or task manager, and simply use SF.net as a file hosting and download location (See Sawfish for an example.
Overall, not that impressive. But as I said before, the small projects on SF.net may not be the best example of what SF can do for me and my organization (We run several java-based websites with thousands of files each. Currently we use Rational's Clearcase for SCM, but don't really have much of a Project Mangement software system).
Does anyone have a large project which uses SF for product management, bug tracking, etc?
I would love to see a SF example or demo on a large, active project.
I compiled this thing, but it took my compiler SIX DAYS to finish it, and on the seventh, my compiler wouldn't restart, as if it was resting or something.....
It must have more to it than it appears... space in the pillars, perhaps.
One pillar holds the server rooms, and one holds the living quarters.
The history page says that 200 soldiers were stationed there (presumably, at the same time), and the little hut on top isn't enough room for 25 and their food and gear, much less 200.
No, 200 people cannot live on that thing at the same time.
Think about it: it was a platform for anti-aircraft guns, and not many guns could fit on that deck. You don't need 200 people to man a handful of anti-aircraft guns.
I read an article once (which I could find the link) which talked a bit about the admins at HavenCo. There are 1-3 admins present at a time (I think they are the owners of HavenCo also), and one of their biggest complaints was that there was nowhere to go on your break. You could go for a walk around the platform, but that would keep you occupied for about 5 minutes.
Anyone else think it's odd that this article is on the front page, but the Article describing the bug was hidden under the "Apache" section, which is not turned on by default (and thus not read by most Slashdot users?
Anyone sense anti-Microsoft bias here? This exploit is a MAJOR problem, you can't turn a blind eye to it and expect the problem to go away.
Fire away...
(For the record, I love Apache, and manage it daily).
The Prius is an Echo with a different powerplant to give you a sense of the bigger size.
There are more differences then just the engine.
The Prius is like an Echo, but with much better sound insulation and better shocks. Riding in an Echo is loud and bumpy. The Prius is quiet and smooth. Acceleration in an economy Echo can be pretty slow (But I've never tried a "Turbo Echo" if there is one). The Prius accelerates great (not a sports car, but I can get from 0 - 65 quickly enough to merge with aggressive Bay Area traffic).
My brother-in-law & his wife have driven a Prius for about a year now. I've probably spent a good hundred hours in that car, as a driver & a passenger. I've also rented an Echo over a couple of weekends.
The cars may looks similar, but the Prius is much more comfortable then an Echo.
I would never buy an Echo. I am considering a Prius.
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American Science and Surplus sells many small parts that could be used in robots. They have a whole "robot part" section.
They sell surplus equipment of just about every geek persuasion. Beakers to supermagnets to glow in the dark stickers to discounted microscopes from Russia. Periscopes from WWII Sherman Tanks, white coveralls (with a hood and an input for your oxygen tanks), with witty descriptions for every product.
Great for geeks, great for robots, great for halloween.
It's probably one of the funnest geek sites out there, check em out at sciplus.com.
Hey, I'm with you. I want a cheap box on which to learn Solaris. I recently lost my job, so cheap is essential.
However, it appears that the new Solaris9 on x86 requires specific Sun hardware to run. It won't just run on your old 200-Mhz box , it requires some special Sun architecture (or something).
The survey, which will cost about $150,000,
While there probably are better ways to gauge public opinion, $150,000 is small change when compared to the hundreds-of-millions that Florida (or any other state) spends on roads or mass transit systems.
The VAST majority of spam eminates from the US (or at least seems to be on behalf of US companies).
That's probably true, but American's own a large portion of the internet, so all other things being equal, it makes sense that a large portion of criminals come from America.
Their DMCA is wreaking havoc with personal freedom and even threatens the future of OS software.
Here's something I don't understand. The DMCA is an American law. If it's so terrible, then why do the European governments go along with it? Do they lack a willingness to fight for the freedoms of their citizens? Do they have no teeth?
Their "entertainment" companies want control over all electronic storage devices, etc etc etc.
Last I checked, non-american companies Sony & BMG were part of this "anti piracy" coalition.
okok, I'm wrong.
It DOESN'T have a scsi drive (I didn't actually look, I was relying on comments from my coworker).
The fact is that the XServe runs a bunch of IDE hard drives which would seem worthless for any real-world applications without any sort of RAID
I was working with an Xserve yesterday. The drives were SCSI, not IDE. But you are correct, there was no RAID, which was probably the biggest dissapointment about the machine.
Thanks muchly. I wasn't really sure what the process was called. A google search for CM reveals a whole new world out there.
I've seen the term 'SCM' thrown around from time to time, but mostly by marketing people from large VC vendors (like Rational's Clearcase); and none of the marketers have really been able to give me an example...
So once again, thanks for the tip!
You have some interesting ideas. We use a similar process here, and I'd like to investigate it some more on my own (And I'll be loosing my job next week, so I'd need to learn this on my own, along with relearning some Version Control tricks (We use Clearcase here, I'd like to learn more CVS & Subversion techniques).
Do you know of any books or documentation which dicusses this process?
Rather then logging in as different users, I would just setup a set of shell scripts which contain a PROJECT variable.
The shell scripts could be shared by different users, so each user could set their environment to one of the four phase-project environments.
Script1: PROJECT=beta-foo
Script2: PROJECT=alpha-foo
That way, any of your developers could simply set their $PROJECT , and YOU as the administrator, don't need to clean up when they fscked up the shared user account.
the rest of us will just have to suffer.
And given our new knowledge about changes in the speed of light, you'll suffer a little more slowly then you are used to.
It has been argued that using corn-derived ethanol as a fuel costs more in energy than what is produced.
Can someone point me to a fuel source that doesn't follow this formula?
It took more energy to produce oil then what is produced, but since the production happened millions of years ago, we don't really think about the energy that went into the production
(And then you need to expend the energy to convert the oil into a usable fuel source like gasoline or diesel).
If you had a fuel source that cost LESS energy to create then to produce, couldn't you harness the surplus, and use that to produce more fuel, etc, etc.... thereby creating an endless energy source?
Or am I misunderstanding things (Haven't had my coffee yet, but we all know that it takes more energy to produce coffee then the energy I derive from the 'fuel source').
Slashdot must have quite a backlog of article submissions.
I mean, one article about a 1961 wristwatch, now an article about a 1982 movie.
I just submitted an article about this awsome new kind of game called Castle Wolfenstein 3D, it's like the old Castle Wolfenstein game on the Apple IIe , but from the FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE. It's really damn cool, but it doesn't work with my 8-bit Adlib Soundcard.
Plus it would be interesting to see the backlog of the queue. It must be HUGE, I mean, this article was submitted over 30 years ago and they only just approved it.
No wonder they haven't approved my sumbmission on the new Apple Lisa....
Disney is coming out with a new movie called "Spots", which is about aliens who create mystious blobs on city sidewalks the world over.
As part of the marketing campaign, Disney employees were going to paint spots on sidewalks in many major cities; to promote the movie via word-of-mouth.
But since this is a low budget movie, they only made it to Camden...
If it's Filipino , isn't it Filipines?
We have "Generation X"
Since when did "Generation X" mean "Generation 10" (1956 - 1976)?
There's nothing wrong with being 40, but they ain't "gen xers"...
PS - E-Mail the Alexis Park letting them know their site isn't cross-browser compatible. Not everyone uses IE and NS ;)"
Oh, I have a sneaking suspicion that one of the Defcon attendees will 'fix' the page for them.
Message to the soon-to-be [h]cracker of the Alexis Park webpage, while you are modifying the Alexis Park webpage, please remember to "demonstrate security bugs" in the Alexis Park employment database and "Flash" the webmaster out of the system.
I use many of the projects at sourceforge.net , but this may not be the best example of the SF capabilities.
Many of the smaller projects don't really use the bugtracker or task manager, and simply use SF.net as a file hosting and download location (See Sawfish for an example.
Overall, not that impressive. But as I said before, the small projects on SF.net may not be the best example of what SF can do for me and my organization (We run several java-based websites with thousands of files each. Currently we use Rational's Clearcase for SCM, but don't really have much of a Project Mangement software system).
Does anyone have a large project which uses SF for product management, bug tracking, etc?
I would love to see a SF example or demo on a large, active project.
I compiled this thing, but it took my compiler SIX DAYS to finish it, and on the seventh, my compiler wouldn't restart, as if it was resting or something. ....
My office celebrates System Admin Appreciation Day.
This week, I got layed off!
Are the drug dealers on your street harassing you?
Don't fight, quit complaining, JUST MOVE OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
Beer. Lots of it.
That's GNU/Beer to you, mister!
It must have more to it than it appears... space in the pillars, perhaps.
One pillar holds the server rooms, and one holds the living quarters.
The history page says that 200 soldiers were stationed there (presumably, at the same time), and the little hut on top isn't enough room for 25 and their food and gear, much less 200.
No, 200 people cannot live on that thing at the same time.
Think about it: it was a platform for anti-aircraft guns, and not many guns could fit on that deck. You don't need 200 people to man a handful of anti-aircraft guns.
I read an article once (which I could find the link) which talked a bit about the admins at HavenCo. There are 1-3 admins present at a time (I think they are the owners of HavenCo also), and one of their biggest complaints was that there was nowhere to go on your break. You could go for a walk around the platform, but that would keep you occupied for about 5 minutes.
Anyone else think it's odd that this article is on the front page, but the Article describing the bug was hidden under the "Apache" section, which is not turned on by default (and thus not read by most Slashdot users?
Anyone sense anti-Microsoft bias here? This exploit is a MAJOR problem, you can't turn a blind eye to it and expect the problem to go away.
Fire away...
(For the record, I love Apache, and manage it daily).
The Prius is an Echo with a different powerplant to give you a sense of the bigger size.
There are more differences then just the engine.
The Prius is like an Echo, but with much better sound insulation and better shocks. Riding in an Echo is loud and bumpy. The Prius is quiet and smooth. Acceleration in an economy Echo can be pretty slow (But I've never tried a "Turbo Echo" if there is one). The Prius accelerates great (not a sports car, but I can get from 0 - 65 quickly enough to merge with aggressive Bay Area traffic).
My brother-in-law & his wife have driven a Prius for about a year now. I've probably spent a good hundred hours in that car, as a driver & a passenger. I've also rented an Echo over a couple of weekends.
The cars may looks similar, but the Prius is much more comfortable then an Echo.
I would never buy an Echo. I am considering a Prius.