Some people prefer how Mac hardware looks. There's also a "cool" or "wtf" factor involved; I'd imagine you could get some really interesting reactions from people.
Computer Science programs have been steadily inching towards Software Engineering programs for a long time. While the basics of Computer Science are still taught at the undergraduate level, the primary focus now is on correct software implementation. Beyond that, a Computer Engineering which encompasses both Software and Hardware engineering is another type of program that would be useful.
I graduated a year ago from with a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science; I didn't REALLY get into the CS part until my 4th semester, and it took me another year to realize exactly what you said: that it was really more "how to be a good programmer" degree program than CS. I guess the CS department heads were realists because the courses seemed to follow the path of: learn what you need to know to do what people will pay you for. RPI has a "Computer Systems Engineering" program, but from what I understand, it's really more about designing the hardware than what you describe; useful yes, but its goal isn't to turn out good computer scientists.
I'll say right away that I don't have much experience with data centers, but it sounds like IBM's Tivoli software might be what you're looking for, except for the price factor. There's a whole load of inventory, monitoring (hardware and software), and event correlation / notification services available for the Tivoli Framework; there's no problem running it on VMWare systems, and it scales very well. I was just wondering if there are extra tools that a data center would need that Tivoli doesn't supply, or if you knew at all.
For a site that thrives on being pedantic, modding the parent "Flamebait" is very hypocritical. What the fuck is wrong with the mods these past few weeks?
I want the last song too, but unfortunately it's all one track and I haven't gotten around to doing it yet either... ;-)
What's that sound comin' from the dresser on a night as black as pitch?
Both my grandfathers died of cancer. My living grandmother survived mild melanoma. Laughter is one of the ways I cope... I don't want to explain the humor to you.
I'm in the same boat and AFAIK, it's pretty typical for the geeky and (relatively) rich. I personally have 5 working computers but only 2 of them are typically on at any given time: my server which I use as a testbed & file server, and my gaming computer. The other computer that's usually on is my dad's gaming computer (nearly identical to mine and yes I still live with my parents - recent college grad:p ). My others are: a small, low power computer for my car (had an accident and need to modify it to fit my new vehicle), another testbed computer that I use when I'm doing something stupid (overclocking is fun!), and the 3rd is my laptop which needs a new hard drive (mostly a work computer otherwise).
The rest of my computers (the non-functional ones) probably would work but I just haven't had the motivation to play with them yet... I mostly use them for spare parts now (cabling, expansion port covers, power supplies, non-computer projects that need sheet metal, etc).
Most of my acquaintances are in the same boat as me: middle or upper middle class. The technologically inclined ones tend to collect computers, too. Others have different interests: one has a 25 gallon beer brewery in his hallway closet. Those of my friends who aren't as obsessed with technology tend to have one computer per person or less (in a household). My less wealthy acquaintances usually have one family computer that's more than a few years old; my most recent friend's-computer-that-needed-a-little-work belongs to a single 20-something mom of 2.
Computers are just another hobby, even though they fit into so many categories they seem like something else. If they're your thing, the more disposable income and free time you have, the more computers you'll end up collecting.
I feel like I should have helpful advice here, but I can't think of anything more profound than: don't worry about it, you're a normal geek.
Welcome to slashdot; that's what a lot of people do here. Glad to have wasted your time, too. I hope you don't respond to everyone that way, it's rude and it can end up wasting a lot more time.
Now you're perpetuating your mistake, acknowledging it but not learning from it.
If you'd read the next paragraph, you'd see that I didn't perpetuate my mistake. And what exactly makes you think I didn't learn from it?
... Oh what the hell, I have karma to burn:
<antagonize> Howzabout "Gee, that was boneheaded, sorry, won't do that again", and then contributing positively in the future?
If I were sorry, I'd certainly say so. This is fun, keep talking dirty to me;-* </antagonize>
Jeez. Some people really need to wash the sand out of their vaginas.
I made an assumption. A bad one. I thought the story wasn't well covered, and since the creator of the contest said that the results would be posted on that page, I didn't bother looking elsewhere.
Now that I know that it was more publicized than I thought, it really only took a minute of looking to find out that (as others have posted) there were no successful break-in attempts. It would have taken you just as long to do that as to berate me for not looking it up myself. Thanks for trying to get my goat, it makes me happy when people do that:)
Shit. I didn't preview. Here's what I meant to say.
What happened with the U of Wisconsin test? It was supposed to run until Friday, then he shortened the deadline and removed the reference to the Friday end time, and then I forgot to log back into it at midnight. Now the URL gives a "could not find host" error and I can't even ping the IP... So what happened? What was the end result?
Here, I'll selectively deny access to part of your comment for you.
The parent is correct. The article is describing an effort to reclassify documents that were released. That is a dumb idea, it has to do with rewriting history.
To which I would reply:
Absolutely! Context is extremely important to fully understand our ancestors' intentions. Without the proper context, anything could be misinterpreted or misunderstood. And like the cliched saying, "if we do not learn from history we are bound to repeat it", we cannot learn from history if we don't have the proper context. By denying access to certain, select documents, that is exactly what wlil happen.
<tinfoil hat>
I have another quote that sort of fits here too, but it's from Douglas Adams which means that it's funny: "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." Maybe this is why the Unwashed Masses don't care about this happening.
</tinfoil hat>
I had to Google search for the "official" name of the Mac 512k because I thought they were just called "Fat Macs". My parents got one secondhand when I was about 9 or 10. We had 2 floppy drives so that we didn't have to keep removing the system disks, and we had a very, very slow modem; 1200 baud I think, that we never used. That thing rocked, I'm just glad that I hadn't heard about programming because I never would have gone outside to play.
It takes dc and supplies dc. Doesn't that make it more of a converter?
Not really. If TFA hadn't been/.ed, you might have been able to read it and see that it's a full-featured ATX PSU. They don't give many details, but google does. From the first hit there gives a nice picture. You can even see the molex connectors out.
And if so, it's no big deal. You can buy decent switched cap converters at Digi-key for a couple of bucks. I bought one not too long ago to step 14v down to 5 and supply 4 or so amps, and it was about the same size. The small footprint at 120w is fairly nifty, but otherwise I don't see the big deal.
Well, since it has ATX functionality, you couldn't exactly do the same thing with converters, and this thing also doesn't need 14V, just 12V. That makes it nice for one specific application that I know a little about: car computers. It seems like a good deal for a car, except that the 12V input would still need to be regulated, which is a pretty big drawback.
If you want big air cannon muscle, let me suggest some sched. 160 pipe, caps and elbows from them, along with flanges and a large flanged ball valve (steam rated). If you get a solenoid too, you can pop that valve open very quickly. Unfortunately, most construction compressors won't give you enough pressure. 130 psi is far below the 700 or so that those pipes and valves are meant to handle on a daily basis...
The same friend as I mentioned earlier made his own poppet valve-actuated air spudgun using that kind of stuff. He machined some of the parts on a CNC milling machine just because he could, and we took it about against my 7' long hairspray gun. They shot about the same distance, but I think his barrel could have been about 3 feet longer than it was given the amount of air in the chamber. Also, I think I was getting better seals on the potato to the barrel.
Still, we found a rusted-out hulk of a car and using his gun we shot a potato through the bumper. Be careful if you go do this stuff:)
Let me get this straight---you get parts for your potato guns via FedEx? What ever happened to foraging behind the tool shed?
I usually did about 1 pet project per semester back in school, and this potato gun just happened to be it that time; and I guess it wasn't strictly a potato gun because the barrel was just right for paintballs. Due to its design we needed to make it very compact, foraging in the school's metal shop (where we were both TA's) didn't produce the parts we needed eithr. Actually now that I think about it, the parts we ordered never got used in the design. We wanted to be able to screw on a flash suppressor / silencer, but never got around to making those... I might have to go dig that thing up and work on it now:)
Two questions come to mind:
(1) How in the hell do you have that kind of time and money on hand?
We took a few hours per day for about 3 days straight. Time management and picking days where homework assignments were sparse was the trick here. As for money: we spent about $10 each for the guns. I made about $20 / week working in the machine shop as a TA, which also gave me instant access to all the machines in there whenever I wanted or needed to use them.
It's not a computer supply company and my personal experiences with them have been non-commercial and always to the same address, but McMaster Carr is by far my favorite online store.
I first visited it on a recommendation of a friend; we needed very specific fittings for a potato cannon that we were building, and the parts were nowhere to be found in any of the hardware stores we drove to. I ordered the parts on a Tuesday around noon, and the parts were waiting in the mailbox the next day when I got home around 6. I think they came UPS or FedEx but it was a few years ago so I don't recall exactly. I had similar experiences with the rest of my orders from them (2 or 3 more orders). Also, most of their inventory is geared towards commercial purposes, so even though my order was non-commercial, I believe that they deal with companies regularly.
Want keyed Torx wrenches? Want a fire hose nozzle? Want an 18" long 0.25" diameter drill bit? No problem.
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Some people prefer how Mac hardware looks. There's also a "cool" or "wtf" factor involved; I'd imagine you could get some really interesting reactions from people.
Aw, you went and ruined all the fun :(
Computer Science programs have been steadily inching towards Software Engineering programs for a long time. While the basics of Computer Science are still taught at the undergraduate level, the primary focus now is on correct software implementation. Beyond that, a Computer Engineering which encompasses both Software and Hardware engineering is another type of program that would be useful.
I graduated a year ago from with a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science; I didn't REALLY get into the CS part until my 4th semester, and it took me another year to realize exactly what you said: that it was really more "how to be a good programmer" degree program than CS. I guess the CS department heads were realists because the courses seemed to follow the path of: learn what you need to know to do what people will pay you for. RPI has a "Computer Systems Engineering" program, but from what I understand, it's really more about designing the hardware than what you describe; useful yes, but its goal isn't to turn out good computer scientists.
In short: good call.
I'll say right away that I don't have much experience with data centers, but it sounds like IBM's Tivoli software might be what you're looking for, except for the price factor. There's a whole load of inventory, monitoring (hardware and software), and event correlation / notification services available for the Tivoli Framework; there's no problem running it on VMWare systems, and it scales very well. I was just wondering if there are extra tools that a data center would need that Tivoli doesn't supply, or if you knew at all.
I suppose I should start meta-modding more often.
For a site that thrives on being pedantic, modding the parent "Flamebait" is very hypocritical. What the fuck is wrong with the mods these past few weeks?
I've had a lot of people tell me that :)
I want the last song too, but unfortunately it's all one track and I haven't gotten around to doing it yet either...
;-)
What's that sound comin' from the dresser on a night as black as pitch?
Both my grandfathers died of cancer. My living grandmother survived mild melanoma. Laughter is one of the ways I cope... I don't want to explain the humor to you.
I hope no one gets the terrible idea to try treating their cancer themselves by...
:)
What the fuck am I saying? This could be hilarious!
I hope to hell that someone gets the idea to treat their cancer using the most direct method possible... and I hope that it ends up in the news
I'm in the same boat and AFAIK, it's pretty typical for the geeky and (relatively) rich. I personally have 5 working computers but only 2 of them are typically on at any given time: my server which I use as a testbed & file server, and my gaming computer. The other computer that's usually on is my dad's gaming computer (nearly identical to mine and yes I still live with my parents - recent college grad :p ). My others are: a small, low power computer for my car (had an accident and need to modify it to fit my new vehicle), another testbed computer that I use when I'm doing something stupid (overclocking is fun!), and the 3rd is my laptop which needs a new hard drive (mostly a work computer otherwise).
The rest of my computers (the non-functional ones) probably would work but I just haven't had the motivation to play with them yet... I mostly use them for spare parts now (cabling, expansion port covers, power supplies, non-computer projects that need sheet metal, etc).
Most of my acquaintances are in the same boat as me: middle or upper middle class. The technologically inclined ones tend to collect computers, too. Others have different interests: one has a 25 gallon beer brewery in his hallway closet. Those of my friends who aren't as obsessed with technology tend to have one computer per person or less (in a household). My less wealthy acquaintances usually have one family computer that's more than a few years old; my most recent friend's-computer-that-needed-a-little-work belongs to a single 20-something mom of 2.
Computers are just another hobby, even though they fit into so many categories they seem like something else. If they're your thing, the more disposable income and free time you have, the more computers you'll end up collecting.
I feel like I should have helpful advice here, but I can't think of anything more profound than: don't worry about it, you're a normal geek.
...Instead you wasted folks time posting it. ...
... Oh what the hell, I have karma to burn:
;-*
Welcome to slashdot; that's what a lot of people do here. Glad to have wasted your time, too. I hope you don't respond to everyone that way, it's rude and it can end up wasting a lot more time.
Now you're perpetuating your mistake, acknowledging it but not learning from it.
If you'd read the next paragraph, you'd see that I didn't perpetuate my mistake. And what exactly makes you think I didn't learn from it?
<antagonize> Howzabout "Gee, that was boneheaded, sorry, won't do that again", and then contributing positively in the future?
If I were sorry, I'd certainly say so. This is fun, keep talking dirty to me
</antagonize>
Jeez. Some people really need to wash the sand out of their vaginas.
:)
I made an assumption. A bad one. I thought the story wasn't well covered, and since the creator of the contest said that the results would be posted on that page, I didn't bother looking elsewhere.
Now that I know that it was more publicized than I thought, it really only took a minute of looking to find out that (as others have posted) there were no successful break-in attempts. It would have taken you just as long to do that as to berate me for not looking it up myself. Thanks for trying to get my goat, it makes me happy when people do that
Shit. I didn't preview. Here's what I meant to say.
What happened with the U of Wisconsin test? It was supposed to run until Friday, then he shortened the deadline and removed the reference to the Friday end time, and then I forgot to log back into it at midnight. Now the URL gives a "could not find host" error and I can't even ping the IP... So what happened? What was the end result?
What happened with the text? It was supposed to run until Friday, then he shortened the deadline and removed the reference to the Friday end time, and then I forgot to log back into it at midnight. Now the URL gives a "could not find host" error and I can't even pign the IP..... so what happened? What was the end result?
Here, I'll selectively deny access to part of your comment for you.
The parent is correct. The article is describing an effort to reclassify documents that were released. That is a dumb idea, it has to do with rewriting history.
To which I would reply:
Absolutely! Context is extremely important to fully understand our ancestors' intentions. Without the proper context, anything could be misinterpreted or misunderstood. And like the cliched saying, "if we do not learn from history we are bound to repeat it", we cannot learn from history if we don't have the proper context. By denying access to certain, select documents, that is exactly what wlil happen.
<tinfoil hat>
I have another quote that sort of fits here too, but it's from Douglas Adams which means that it's funny: "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." Maybe this is why the Unwashed Masses don't care about this happening. </tinfoil hat>
I had to Google search for the "official" name of the Mac 512k because I thought they were just called "Fat Macs". My parents got one secondhand when I was about 9 or 10. We had 2 floppy drives so that we didn't have to keep removing the system disks, and we had a very, very slow modem; 1200 baud I think, that we never used. That thing rocked, I'm just glad that I hadn't heard about programming because I never would have gone outside to play.
Dr Mario gets my vote too.
:)
I have Dr Mario for Gameboy and I've been playing it every day for the past month or so. I can now repeatedly beat level 20 on high speed
Well said, and thank you for clarifying that.
It takes dc and supplies dc. Doesn't that make it more of a converter?
/.ed, you might have been able to read it and see that it's a full-featured ATX PSU. They don't give many details, but google does. From the first hit there gives a nice picture. You can even see the molex connectors out.
Not really. If TFA hadn't been
And if so, it's no big deal. You can buy decent switched cap converters at Digi-key for a couple of bucks. I bought one not too long ago to step 14v down to 5 and supply 4 or so amps, and it was about the same size. The small footprint at 120w is fairly nifty, but otherwise I don't see the big deal.
Well, since it has ATX functionality, you couldn't exactly do the same thing with converters, and this thing also doesn't need 14V, just 12V. That makes it nice for one specific application that I know a little about: car computers. It seems like a good deal for a car, except that the 12V input would still need to be regulated, which is a pretty big drawback.
If you want big air cannon muscle, let me suggest some sched. 160 pipe, caps and elbows from them, along with flanges and a large flanged ball valve (steam rated). If you get a solenoid too, you can pop that valve open very quickly. Unfortunately, most construction compressors won't give you enough pressure. 130 psi is far below the 700 or so that those pipes and valves are meant to handle on a daily basis...
:)
The same friend as I mentioned earlier made his own poppet valve-actuated air spudgun using that kind of stuff. He machined some of the parts on a CNC milling machine just because he could, and we took it about against my 7' long hairspray gun. They shot about the same distance, but I think his barrel could have been about 3 feet longer than it was given the amount of air in the chamber. Also, I think I was getting better seals on the potato to the barrel.
Still, we found a rusted-out hulk of a car and using his gun we shot a potato through the bumper. Be careful if you go do this stuff
Let me get this straight---you get parts for your potato guns via FedEx? What ever happened to foraging behind the tool shed?
:)
I usually did about 1 pet project per semester back in school, and this potato gun just happened to be it that time; and I guess it wasn't strictly a potato gun because the barrel was just right for paintballs. Due to its design we needed to make it very compact, foraging in the school's metal shop (where we were both TA's) didn't produce the parts we needed eithr. Actually now that I think about it, the parts we ordered never got used in the design. We wanted to be able to screw on a flash suppressor / silencer, but never got around to making those... I might have to go dig that thing up and work on it now
Two questions come to mind:
(1) How in the hell do you have that kind of time and money on hand?
We took a few hours per day for about 3 days straight. Time management and picking days where homework assignments were sparse was the trick here. As for money: we spent about $10 each for the guns. I made about $20 / week working in the machine shop as a TA, which also gave me instant access to all the machines in there whenever I wanted or needed to use them.
(2) Are they still hiring?
Yup, if you're an RPI student.
It's good to know that my experiences with them haven't been atypical.
I hope I don't get modded OT for this one...
It's not a computer supply company and my personal experiences with them have been non-commercial and always to the same address, but McMaster Carr is by far my favorite online store.
I first visited it on a recommendation of a friend; we needed very specific fittings for a potato cannon that we were building, and the parts were nowhere to be found in any of the hardware stores we drove to. I ordered the parts on a Tuesday around noon, and the parts were waiting in the mailbox the next day when I got home around 6. I think they came UPS or FedEx but it was a few years ago so I don't recall exactly. I had similar experiences with the rest of my orders from them (2 or 3 more orders). Also, most of their inventory is geared towards commercial purposes, so even though my order was non-commercial, I believe that they deal with companies regularly.
Want keyed Torx wrenches? Want a fire hose nozzle? Want an 18" long 0.25" diameter drill bit? No problem.
Was I the drunk guy?
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