It's got plenty of geeky goodness: solar system-wide distributed computing, forcasting of the future using computer models, lots on how SETI of the future might. I like the book, because Sheffield clearly has the technical background down solid (hence the "hard science fiction" genre applied to the novel). And the plot and characterizations aren't bad either.
Also, for what it's worth, keeping organized and clean is second nature to me, since I'm obsessive-compulsive. Hell, I even act as a "consultant" for my friends and neighbors in cleaning and organizing their rooms. If any of you out there would care for such assistance, email me!:-)
is required to get to books on Amazon. The rest of that junk is your Amazon ID, referral information, and so forth.
(Besides which, it's good practice to use linked text like so, instead of a long URL. It's just easier for people to use. The status window at the bottom of the browser will tell people where the link goes, if they want to know.)
I rarely went to the professors' office hours (I'm a senior... almost done!). In fact, I only went *once* by choice when I was actively enrolled in a class--and that was to drop the class (my calculus skills are... lacking:)
Other than that, I visited with my two favorite professors (both are psych. guys) after I finished taking their courses, and I still visit periodically.
For what it's worth, at my institution, the office hours tend to be *short*. I was surprised when I saw people talking about 10-20 hours per week. Here it's more like 4-5 a week, mostly because professors here are either: A) super active in research, and/or B) have jobs in private industry outside of teaching (e.g. clinical psychologists that do teaching on the side, programmers that do teaching on the side, etc.).
As someone who works for an organization which tried to use Zope, I'd like to add my experience. I found that Zope, in theory, works great. But, as with anything, implementation is key. We had problems with:
Uploading files from Windows client machines (e.g. one could not uploaded a large set of directories without lots of manual entry of the names of the Zope containers)
Permissions/groups were a nightmare. This probably stemmed from the way in which a few people at the top doled out permissions to everyone else. I had to go to someone many times to upgrade my permissions and those of the users I was supporting.
Along the same lines, adding modules to the system was difficult, because we had no access to the UNIX-ish installation area.
I'm sure Zope can work great for other organizations (in fact, it *has* worked for other departments within the university). But you'll need sane management and administration of the system.
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If you've read all the classics, you should check out a newer book (2002) by Charles Sheffield:
Dark as Day
It's got plenty of geeky goodness: solar system-wide distributed computing, forcasting of the future using computer models, lots on how SETI of the future might. I like the book, because Sheffield clearly has the technical background down solid (hence the "hard science fiction" genre applied to the novel). And the plot and characterizations aren't bad either.
Disjointed? Sure you didn't get the multipart download and missed a few chunks? ;-)
"emerge --clean world" is your friend. :-)
Also, for what it's worth, keeping organized and clean is second nature to me, since I'm obsessive-compulsive. Hell, I even act as a "consultant" for my friends and neighbors in cleaning and organizing their rooms. If any of you out there would care for such assistance, email me! :-)
Since it's sorta on topic (security, privacy), you should know that only this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710996/
is required to get to books on Amazon. The rest of that junk is your Amazon ID, referral information, and so forth.
(Besides which, it's good practice to use linked text like so, instead of a long URL. It's just easier for people to use. The status window at the bottom of the browser will tell people where the link goes, if they want to know.)
I rarely went to the professors' office hours (I'm a senior... almost done!). In fact, I only went *once* by choice when I was actively enrolled in a class--and that was to drop the class (my calculus skills are... lacking:)
Other than that, I visited with my two favorite professors (both are psych. guys) after I finished taking their courses, and I still visit periodically.
For what it's worth, at my institution, the office hours tend to be *short*. I was surprised when I saw people talking about 10-20 hours per week. Here it's more like 4-5 a week, mostly because professors here are either: A) super active in research, and/or B) have jobs in private industry outside of teaching (e.g. clinical psychologists that do teaching on the side, programmers that do teaching on the side, etc.).
As someone who works for an organization which tried to use Zope, I'd like to add my experience. I found that Zope, in theory, works great. But, as with anything, implementation is key. We had problems with:
I'm sure Zope can work great for other organizations (in fact, it *has* worked for other departments within the university). But you'll need sane management and administration of the system.
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Your post was great... until the mental image of a bunch of sweaty UNIX sysadmins popped into my head. ;-)
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