I don't see why Linus should volunteer to be drug through politicial nonsense. He is taking the reasonable stance of being the creator of something great, not becoming our messiah and leading us through the murky waters of capitalism.
He's an engineer working for himself, his job is to create first and foremost what he wants. If it so happens to be what the rest of the world needs, well it's really nice that he is sharing his work with us and helping us all understand how to make a better operating system.
In any event, Linus may WANT to wage war, but he HAS to keep quiet precisely because of these lawsuits. If it in any way appears he has an agenda, it could be problematic for Linux's future. His decisions thus far represent what i would consider heroic acts of discretion. Let him be.
I (MS in EE) learned hash tables, b-tree's and all the other standard data structures and algorithms in high school computer science. It's not that they don't teach this stuff in school as part of a CS (or hell, EE) requirement.
The old axiom remains: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can lead a student to knowledge, but you can't make him think. If your intent is to go to school to get a degree ONLY because there's money in that career, 99.9% of the time your education will suffer.
That's not to say that you can't get a 4.0 GPA. As my employer (a complete school/degree elitist place) is learning the hardware, GPA & ivy league don't mean anything. At the peak we had "the best and brightest" from MIT, Princeton, Stanford etc. working here and realized:
a) Those schools teach the same material
b) Students cheat just as much, or more
c) The quality of student is universally shitty regardless of degree or institution.
Yet when I'm faced with interviewing someone, I always am hard pressed to identify THE good guy in the crowd. They all have excellent creditials (HR sees to that), but most everyone seems blah. The one and only one guy I hired, shouldn't have even gotten an interview (gpa of 3.4, local school), but I hired him because he appeared to actually enjoy the subject. HE turned out to be truly excellent, not because he was the smartest, but because he loved what he did and wanted to do it best.
I loved my Asus A7N8X motherboards so much I bought 4 of em. Nothing intel can do can pry me away from this! If they want my business, they gotta drop the prices.
You're definitely on the fast track to that PhD in sociology.
1) If you think dieticians are real scientists, you must be a sociology major. (Belief that raw statistical data, especially of human subjects, constitutes actual research)
2) Belief that reading many books a week is useful only to improve spelling and grammar, is exactly the kind of conclusion I expect from sociology students. (Are you reading hooked on phonics?)
3) Talking about "mathematics" as if it were a cult conspiracy to overthrow the purely rational knowledge that everyone "knows", qualifies you as a sociology major. After all, what everyone believes MUST be true, right? (The world is FLAT, and the universe revolves around the earth!)
4) Science is opinion. Yeah, the universe's opinion. In some sense, no one elses opinion matters. Case in point, many phys ed and liberal arts students may choose to BELIEVE that if you drop a sledge hammer and a tennis ball off a roof, that the sledge hammer will land first. The universe disagrees. Scientists and engineers know this, because 1) we have done it and 2) we have modelled the action by an evil conspiracy called mathematics and science. You're cut out for sociology because you choose to believe what everyone else thinks, rather than reality. Some people never quite get out of high school.
5) We are narrow minded and cynical. As a group, you're right! Excellent conclusion my sociologist friend. Unfortunately your "science" or understanding isn't quite useful enough to fix the problem is it? Probably that your spelling and grammar hasn't improved enough yet! Keep trying! See narrow minded and cynical that we are, our job is actually to fix problems. Problem: Humans can't fly, Solution: Airplanes. Problem: Walking is to slow and horses are hard to maintain? Solution: Cars, busses, trains, bycycles etc.
6) Go get a degree in electrical engineering. CS is too easy to wiggle out of, you could (and I have a CS degree as well, so I'm not really bashing CS students) theoretically do nothing technical and get a degree, much like you are now. Show me how easy it is. If you can pull of a GPA (you've heard of that right?) of better than 3.5/4.0 in an accredited institution, I'll eat my matlab and go back for some humanities.
Installing a DSL system in your condo is hard, and I think it'll run you over $250k easily. That said, it's not impossible. We construct this stuff in our labs for test purposes. You need knowledge of ATM and IP routing. Unfortunately very few all IP systems exist, although that is certainly the future, unless your corporation is like mine and caters to telephone company monopolies (ILECs).
server and to help your clients get configured.
Given this, you need several pieces of equipment. We use a setup that looks basically like: add/drop mux for T1, to router, to DSLAM. You will want a "radius server" connected to that router I imagine, but I know nothing about those. You'll also need to make sure the line cards you get for the DSLAM are compatible with whatever CPE equipment (DSL modem) you plan to install. I recommend going with all ADSL (G.DMT) based stuff right now. Especially if you only have a single T1.
Then you hook it all up, and spend a week or so learning how to configure the DSLAM and then the router. It's not easy, but not too hard if you know IP and ATM. Supporting this will be a little tricky...
I'm legally bound not to discuss price, but this is a somewhat expensive solution that's going to cost you over $250k not to mention support. You might be able to get away with a standard ethernet installation and just forget DSL. Personally if I had the money you are planning to invest in DSL, I would instead think about fiber & ethernet. All my interaction with "new" data line installatinos indicates most people don't want the cost or mess of DSL, ATM, telco's and their vendors.
I just upgraded my three PC's from pentium 2's to Athlon XPs.
Putting in the slowest 333MHz FSB XP chip, ran about as well as the fastest (I could lay my hands on, 2800+). The difference over my previous setup of pentium 2's (@400MHz? can't remember) was night and day. I had a pentium 3 1GHz at work, wasn't much of an improvement, but DUAL DDR and the faster front side bus is amazing.
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I don't see why Linus should volunteer to be drug through politicial nonsense. He is taking the reasonable stance of being the creator of something great, not becoming our messiah and leading us through the murky waters of capitalism.
He's an engineer working for himself, his job is to create first and foremost what he wants. If it so happens to be what the rest of the world needs, well it's really nice that he is sharing his work with us and helping us all understand how to make a better operating system.
In any event, Linus may WANT to wage war, but he HAS to keep quiet precisely because of these lawsuits. If it in any way appears he has an agenda, it could be problematic for Linux's future. His decisions thus far represent what i would consider heroic acts of discretion. Let him be.
I (MS in EE) learned hash tables, b-tree's and all the other standard data structures and algorithms in high school computer science. It's not that they don't teach this stuff in school as part of a CS (or hell, EE) requirement. The old axiom remains: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can lead a student to knowledge, but you can't make him think. If your intent is to go to school to get a degree ONLY because there's money in that career, 99.9% of the time your education will suffer. That's not to say that you can't get a 4.0 GPA. As my employer (a complete school/degree elitist place) is learning the hardware, GPA & ivy league don't mean anything. At the peak we had "the best and brightest" from MIT, Princeton, Stanford etc. working here and realized: a) Those schools teach the same material b) Students cheat just as much, or more c) The quality of student is universally shitty regardless of degree or institution. Yet when I'm faced with interviewing someone, I always am hard pressed to identify THE good guy in the crowd. They all have excellent creditials (HR sees to that), but most everyone seems blah. The one and only one guy I hired, shouldn't have even gotten an interview (gpa of 3.4, local school), but I hired him because he appeared to actually enjoy the subject. HE turned out to be truly excellent, not because he was the smartest, but because he loved what he did and wanted to do it best.
I loved my Asus A7N8X motherboards so much I bought 4 of em. Nothing intel can do can pry me away from this! If they want my business, they gotta drop the prices.
vote for the autonomous dildo bot Those are called men. Not exactly robots, not exactly human.
You're definitely on the fast track to that PhD in sociology. 1) If you think dieticians are real scientists, you must be a sociology major. (Belief that raw statistical data, especially of human subjects, constitutes actual research) 2) Belief that reading many books a week is useful only to improve spelling and grammar, is exactly the kind of conclusion I expect from sociology students. (Are you reading hooked on phonics?) 3) Talking about "mathematics" as if it were a cult conspiracy to overthrow the purely rational knowledge that everyone "knows", qualifies you as a sociology major. After all, what everyone believes MUST be true, right? (The world is FLAT, and the universe revolves around the earth!) 4) Science is opinion. Yeah, the universe's opinion. In some sense, no one elses opinion matters. Case in point, many phys ed and liberal arts students may choose to BELIEVE that if you drop a sledge hammer and a tennis ball off a roof, that the sledge hammer will land first. The universe disagrees. Scientists and engineers know this, because 1) we have done it and 2) we have modelled the action by an evil conspiracy called mathematics and science. You're cut out for sociology because you choose to believe what everyone else thinks, rather than reality. Some people never quite get out of high school. 5) We are narrow minded and cynical. As a group, you're right! Excellent conclusion my sociologist friend. Unfortunately your "science" or understanding isn't quite useful enough to fix the problem is it? Probably that your spelling and grammar hasn't improved enough yet! Keep trying! See narrow minded and cynical that we are, our job is actually to fix problems. Problem: Humans can't fly, Solution: Airplanes. Problem: Walking is to slow and horses are hard to maintain? Solution: Cars, busses, trains, bycycles etc. 6) Go get a degree in electrical engineering. CS is too easy to wiggle out of, you could (and I have a CS degree as well, so I'm not really bashing CS students) theoretically do nothing technical and get a degree, much like you are now. Show me how easy it is. If you can pull of a GPA (you've heard of that right?) of better than 3.5/4.0 in an accredited institution, I'll eat my matlab and go back for some humanities.
Installing a DSL system in your condo is hard, and I think it'll run you over $250k easily. That said, it's not impossible. We construct this stuff in our labs for test purposes. You need knowledge of ATM and IP routing. Unfortunately very few all IP systems exist, although that is certainly the future, unless your corporation is like mine and caters to telephone company monopolies (ILECs). server and to help your clients get configured. Given this, you need several pieces of equipment. We use a setup that looks basically like: add/drop mux for T1, to router, to DSLAM. You will want a "radius server" connected to that router I imagine, but I know nothing about those. You'll also need to make sure the line cards you get for the DSLAM are compatible with whatever CPE equipment (DSL modem) you plan to install. I recommend going with all ADSL (G.DMT) based stuff right now. Especially if you only have a single T1. Then you hook it all up, and spend a week or so learning how to configure the DSLAM and then the router. It's not easy, but not too hard if you know IP and ATM. Supporting this will be a little tricky... I'm legally bound not to discuss price, but this is a somewhat expensive solution that's going to cost you over $250k not to mention support. You might be able to get away with a standard ethernet installation and just forget DSL. Personally if I had the money you are planning to invest in DSL, I would instead think about fiber & ethernet. All my interaction with "new" data line installatinos indicates most people don't want the cost or mess of DSL, ATM, telco's and their vendors.
I just upgraded my three PC's from pentium 2's to Athlon XPs. Putting in the slowest 333MHz FSB XP chip, ran about as well as the fastest (I could lay my hands on, 2800+). The difference over my previous setup of pentium 2's (@400MHz? can't remember) was night and day. I had a pentium 3 1GHz at work, wasn't much of an improvement, but DUAL DDR and the faster front side bus is amazing.