Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me
As they rove around the girth
Of our lovely mother planet
Of the cool, green hills of Earth.
We rot in the moulds of Venus,
We retch at her tainted breath.
Foul are her flooded jungles,
Crawling with unclean death.
[ --- the harsh bright soil of Luna ---
--- Saturn's rainbow rings ---
--- the frozen night of Titan --- ]
We've tried each spinning space mote
And reckoned its true worth:
Take us back again to the homes of men
On the cool, green hills of Earth.
The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
And the lights below us fade.
Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps a race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet ---
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the friendly skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The seven astronauts were explorers and would have understood, even though there was always a chance they wouldn't get their 'last landing' they did what they had to do. Others will take their place, the 'arching sky' will always be calling us, there's too much still unknown to give up now.
From the original New Scientist article... Each individual computer makes occasional checks with randomly-chosen others, to ensure it is properly synchronised. "This means each individual processor only has to communicate with a finite number of others," says Korniss.
To me this would imply processors being 'grouped' with different groups checking with one another randomly. e.g. if you have 2 groups of 2 processors (to keep the example simple) group A gets it's timings by checking with a random processor in group B and vice versa. This way a whole group cannot go out of sync because it's timings are determined by a different group.
Of course if I'm talking crap I'm absolutely certain someone will tell me.
Shuttle breaks up
The space shuttle Columbia broke up today as it descended over central Texas toward a planned landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Seven crew members were aboard. The White House said the shuttle's altitude -- over 200,000 feet -- made it "highly unlikely" that the shuttle fell victim to a terrorist act. Source: CNN
On launch day, a piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank came off during liftoff and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle.
Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, had assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard. Source: cnn.com
Before everyone gets hung up on terrorism...
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SDF Punted, Due to DDOS
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On launch day, a piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank came off during liftoff and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle.
Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, had assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard.
Source: cnn.com
The sdf.lonestar.org link isn't slashdotted, that's the server that's had it's link terminated. Don't ask me why the link was included in the writeup...
Assuming it can't have been slashdotted already (like seconds after posting) what the yellow rubbery fuck is the point of posting a link to a server that's no longer on the net?
I work in tech support (I know, I'm scum, the lowest of the low etc.) for an outsourcing company and we were actually set up that way from the start. All the customer facing parts of the company are UK based (apart from the US branch but that's needlessly complicating things) along with the network infrastructure engineering types while majority of the NOC/software development peeps are based in India. By local standards they get paid extremely well but in global terms they get paid less than I do, economically it makes sense for both the company and the Indian economy.
Welcome to globalisation people, it's not going to go away.
The current MS desktop is XP, the current AMD desktop ship series is the XP. The next big MS release keeps getting put back. The next big AMD release just got put back. There is, however, no link between these facts and you'd be a fool and a communist to think so;)
Myson MTDxxx, real cheap and (for serious use) probably utter crap but for connecting my housemate's P200 to my linux box it's more than fine:). Now I've got it working anyway lol.
indviduals will be able to help distribute free content by donating their spare bandwidth and disk space to the network.
Sarcasm aside, while I can see where they're going with this I can't see it ever seriously taking off. Most of the world are still on 56k (or less) and I know I regularly hunt for things to delete so I can squeeze something else on my hard drive.
Anyways, instead of buying just the first NIC that comes around, inform yourself a bit what will run on Linux and buy *that*. That philosophy works very well.
It had linux drivers with it (unnecessary as they're part of the kernel now) and was a good price:)
I have to agree with you about learning a lot though. It was a necessary learning experience and (as I said) one most of us have been through. Seems not everyone took as long as me to learn though:(
At a place like Duke, does it even occur to this guy that he's not *getting* the students who really are complete academic failures? That he doesn't *see* the ones who are completely incapable of writing a comprehensible paper, the ones who can't find a standard deviation in statistics even when handed a calculator that does it for them?
I'd say he does realise this, they (in theory at least) shouldn't get in in the first place but if they did they'd be the ones getting 5-10% on the papers. It still doesn't alter the fact that there has to be demarcation of those who did get in. A paper that would maybe get a 95% at college certainly doesn't deserve anything like the same grade at university level(forgive me if I get the college/university thing slightly wrong, I'm in the UK so used to a different system). There will always be those on university courses who deserve a third (US equivalent anyone?) and those who deserve a first. The whole point of the system is it's hard to get a good degree (BSc/BA/Whatever), only the very top students get a first and that's what makes them stand out from the crowd. Take a look at the Norrington Table to see how many firsts/other grades are handed out by Oxford university. If you don't have 4-5 straight A grades at 'A' level (UK equivalent of a US college degree) then you can forget about getting in yet they still give more '2nd class' degrees than '1st class'. First class degrees should be as rare as rocking horse shit rather than given away with a packet of cornflakes.
In Soviet Russia, the sensor net watches Y...ah...that didn't really work did it?
On a somewhat more serious note, how hard are these things to fool? Electronic gadgetry is notorious for it's ability to get things wrong, how is this one (I assume it is somehow) different?
Flamebait? Come ON! This was based on my tribulations a few weeks ago trying to get a new NIC to work under RH8 (it's about the only chipset RH don't compile suport for in their kernel)! I had to DL the stock kernel from kernel.org and it still took me 3 days to get a complete compile out of it, something that only when I removed the SCSI support. It was supposed to be amusing,we've all had similar problems right?
I usually start quoting the Sale of Goods act (I'm in the UK) and use phrases like "fit for the purpose for which it was bought", that usually does the trick:). That said, I only buy components not complete systems.
On a side issue, today I've had one funny post modded redundant and one serious post (the parent to this) modded funny. It's a funny old world...
...but this one carries an $800 price tag as it is." Even if it has issues...
For $800 I sure as hell don't want it to have 'issues'. Linux has 'issues', I'm willing to deal with them because it's free. If it cost $800 I'd laugh and ask for a refund.
...the most best game on linux was a gambling game called 'kernel compile'.
"Ladies and gentlemen place your bets here, we have added a new NIC and are using a stock 2.4.20 kernel, SCSI suport IS enabled as is USBHCI. Place your bets on the final outcome! Successful compile pays 100-1!"
Day 1: Start smoking nicotine free ciggies. Maybe these aren't so bad.
Day 2: Ladedadeda...I'm fine, just don't talk to me.
Day 3: Jesus Christ, why do I work with such idiots?
Day 4: Are all users fucking morons or something? Jesus, what sort of prick can't set up Outlook?
Day 5: Ok, that's it, I've had enough of ALL of you! SOMEONE HAND ME THE AMMUNITION!
Day 6: Profi...oops, got carried away there.
Put another way, you can have my nicotine sticks when you prise them from my cold dead cancer ridden hand;)
Slashdot Mirror
The Green Hills of Earth
Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me
As they rove around the girth
Of our lovely mother planet
Of the cool, green hills of Earth.
We rot in the moulds of Venus,
We retch at her tainted breath.
Foul are her flooded jungles,
Crawling with unclean death.
[ --- the harsh bright soil of Luna ---
--- Saturn's rainbow rings ---
--- the frozen night of Titan --- ]
We've tried each spinning space mote
And reckoned its true worth:
Take us back again to the homes of men
On the cool, green hills of Earth.
The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
And the lights below us fade.
Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps a race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet ---
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the friendly skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The seven astronauts were explorers and would have understood, even though there was always a chance they wouldn't get their 'last landing' they did what they had to do. Others will take their place, the 'arching sky' will always be calling us, there's too much still unknown to give up now.
From the original New Scientist article...
Each individual computer makes occasional checks with randomly-chosen others, to ensure it is properly synchronised.
"This means each individual processor only has to communicate with a finite number of others," says Korniss.
To me this would imply processors being 'grouped' with different groups checking with one another randomly. e.g. if you have 2 groups of 2 processors (to keep the example simple) group A gets it's timings by checking with a random processor in group B and vice versa. This way a whole group cannot go out of sync because it's timings are determined by a different group.
Of course if I'm talking crap I'm absolutely certain someone will tell me.
Shuttle breaks up The space shuttle Columbia broke up today as it descended over central Texas toward a planned landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Seven crew members were aboard. The White House said the shuttle's altitude -- over 200,000 feet -- made it "highly unlikely" that the shuttle fell victim to a terrorist act.
:(
Source: CNN
Requisat im pace
On launch day, a piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank came off during liftoff and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle. Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, had assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard.
Source: cnn.com
On launch day, a piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank came off during liftoff and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle. Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, had assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard.
Source: cnn.com
The sdf.lonestar.org link isn't slashdotted, that's the server that's had it's link terminated. Don't ask me why the link was included in the writeup...
They have a temporary forum for discussion (top comment atm is about making the front page at /.).
Assuming it can't have been slashdotted already (like seconds after posting) what the yellow rubbery fuck is the point of posting a link to a server that's no longer on the net?
So, as long as you don't hit the skin, you're fine.
Like someone who's been hit with a rocket launcher is gonna get chance to complain!
I work in tech support (I know, I'm scum, the lowest of the low etc.) for an outsourcing company and we were actually set up that way from the start. All the customer facing parts of the company are UK based (apart from the US branch but that's needlessly complicating things) along with the network infrastructure engineering types while majority of the NOC/software development peeps are based in India. By local standards they get paid extremely well but in global terms they get paid less than I do, economically it makes sense for both the company and the Indian economy.
Welcome to globalisation people, it's not going to go away.
The current MS desktop is XP, the current AMD desktop ship series is the XP. The next big MS release keeps getting put back. The next big AMD release just got put back. There is, however, no link between these facts and you'd be a fool and a communist to think so ;)
Not really. If Linus were to flip his lid and totally lose the plot we'd all be running AC kernels in short order.
Myson MTDxxx, real cheap and (for serious use) probably utter crap but for connecting my housemate's P200 to my linux box it's more than fine :). Now I've got it working anyway lol.
indviduals will be able to help distribute free content by donating their spare bandwidth and disk space to the network.
Sarcasm aside, while I can see where they're going with this I can't see it ever seriously taking off. Most of the world are still on 56k (or less) and I know I regularly hunt for things to delete so I can squeeze something else on my hard drive.
Anyways, instead of buying just the first NIC that comes around, inform yourself a bit what will run on Linux and buy *that*. That philosophy works very well. It had linux drivers with it (unnecessary as they're part of the kernel now) and was a good price :)
:(
I have to agree with you about learning a lot though. It was a necessary learning experience and (as I said) one most of us have been through. Seems not everyone took as long as me to learn though
At a place like Duke, does it even occur to this guy that he's not *getting* the students who really are complete academic failures? That he doesn't *see* the ones who are completely incapable of writing a comprehensible paper, the ones who can't find a standard deviation in statistics even when handed a calculator that does it for them?
I'd say he does realise this, they (in theory at least) shouldn't get in in the first place but if they did they'd be the ones getting 5-10% on the papers. It still doesn't alter the fact that there has to be demarcation of those who did get in. A paper that would maybe get a 95% at college certainly doesn't deserve anything like the same grade at university level(forgive me if I get the college/university thing slightly wrong, I'm in the UK so used to a different system). There will always be those on university courses who deserve a third (US equivalent anyone?) and those who deserve a first. The whole point of the system is it's hard to get a good degree (BSc/BA/Whatever), only the very top students get a first and that's what makes them stand out from the crowd. Take a look at the Norrington Table to see how many firsts/other grades are handed out by Oxford university. If you don't have 4-5 straight A grades at 'A' level (UK equivalent of a US college degree) then you can forget about getting in yet they still give more '2nd class' degrees than '1st class'. First class degrees should be as rare as rocking horse shit rather than given away with a packet of cornflakes.
In Soviet Russia, the sensor net watches Y...ah...that didn't really work did it? On a somewhat more serious note, how hard are these things to fool? Electronic gadgetry is notorious for it's ability to get things wrong, how is this one (I assume it is somehow) different?
Flamebait? Come ON! This was based on my tribulations a few weeks ago trying to get a new NIC to work under RH8 (it's about the only chipset RH don't compile suport for in their kernel)! I had to DL the stock kernel from kernel.org and it still took me 3 days to get a complete compile out of it, something that only when I removed the SCSI support. It was supposed to be amusing ,we've all had similar problems right?
I usually start quoting the Sale of Goods act (I'm in the UK) and use phrases like "fit for the purpose for which it was bought", that usually does the trick :). That said, I only buy components not complete systems.
On a side issue, today I've had one funny post modded redundant and one serious post (the parent to this) modded funny. It's a funny old world...
...but this one carries an $800 price tag as it is." Even if it has issues...
For $800 I sure as hell don't want it to have 'issues'. Linux has 'issues', I'm willing to deal with them because it's free. If it cost $800 I'd laugh and ask for a refund.
I'm (temporarily) using Windows with ICS (don't ask, it's too complicated) and would you believe it the default XP firewall settings block the ads.
...the most best game on linux was a gambling game called 'kernel compile'. "Ladies and gentlemen place your bets here, we have added a new NIC and are using a stock 2.4.20 kernel, SCSI suport IS enabled as is USBHCI. Place your bets on the final outcome! Successful compile pays 100-1!"
Doh! I'd only just got out of bed, that's my story and I'm sticking to it...
:)
Or to put it another way, good point well made
I use an old Voodoo3 card with XP, the drivers are on the XP disk and signed by MS, where's the problem?
Day 1: Start smoking nicotine free ciggies. Maybe these aren't so bad.
;)
Day 2: Ladedadeda...I'm fine, just don't talk to me.
Day 3: Jesus Christ, why do I work with such idiots?
Day 4: Are all users fucking morons or something? Jesus, what sort of prick can't set up Outlook?
Day 5: Ok, that's it, I've had enough of ALL of you! SOMEONE HAND ME THE AMMUNITION!
Day 6: Profi...oops, got carried away there.
Put another way, you can have my nicotine sticks when you prise them from my cold dead cancer ridden hand