Prof. Raphael Finkel (about)has been offering a "Linux Internals" course for a few years now. He started it with the 2.4 kernel with Understanding the Linux Kernel (2nd Edition) by Bovet & Cesati as the text book; he's even updated the course to the 2.6 kernel and uses both Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development (2nd edition) and Bovet & Cesati(3rd Edition) as references. Check out the syllabus here:
At first sight the word e-waste looked like it meant waste data. Does anyone else think it's a misnomer?
It could be just me. I was just shopping online for a second external hard drive after the first one got full, with some useful but mostly 'can't delete yet-might need in future' kind of stuff.
Yahoo Mail attempts to emulate the desktop type feel, while Gmail is just doin' it's own thing.:D
That's exactly what I thought about Yahoo Beta. Yahoo, trying to be as creative, tried to link the familiarity of Outlook interface with web. Well, there's not much originality there - the interface is from Outlook, so they didn't have too much to do there; then making a successful desktop app to be web-based, I have heard that before from Google spreadsheets, and the rumours of a Google OS. It's just a combination act, but nothing very fresh about it.
Coming to the actual product, one thing that troubles me most is the amount of space that's taken by all the buttons and links, leaving very less area for the actual mail.
The key for this technology is concentration of the light, probably to the size of our bulbs. Though, as you said, we all have used sun light to lit up our insides for-ever, but to tap the sunlight in to a bulb for everyday use is special. And to integrate it with the electrical system to maintain certain luminosity (like ACs do for temperature) is just too good.
This is very very useful in tropical places, especially if the 'pipes' can be priced low.
It is somewhat surprising that France, China and India are ahead of Iraq in searches, when there is so much going on in the Mid-East; Google News home page consistently has a new item on Iraq.
Don't know why France got sooo popular, but China and India are there because of BPO.
Oh..OK...Iraq and BPO(job losses) both were election issues.
I guess people read about Iraq once in the morning, and were looking at India and China about jobs rest of the day. Also, it shows that personal issues are always higher than those of nation or the world.
The reason a person is punished is because based on his past actions, he is deemed harmful for the society. If given a punishment, he will regret doing such things and (hopefully) not repeat them.
For example, a murderer is imprisoned because his current state of mind (beliefs, ideals, instincts, etc) allows him to do a murder, essentially an act against humanity. It is assumed that spending some time in prison (or any other punishment)will bring about a change in his mind and make it conducive to live in line with humanity.
Now Anderson's neglect for human safety is harmful for the humanity. If not punished accordingly, his mental state remains the same and he will continue to act with similar ideals in future.
The amount of punishment required for a particular offense was decided by some experts when the laws were made (I honestly don't know who). Therefore I think any amount of repentence (or self punishment) behind closed doors, while defending himself in public, will not do the trick.
Making the web a 'web of meaning' looks very very far if not impossible to realize. But some of the work will probably be in mean time used to enhance the current state of the web adding some meaning to it (but not enough to call it a 'web of meaning').
It's analogous to C and Smalltalk. C++ and Java evolved, but are not as purely object-oriented as Smalltalk is.
Either it is not a good model in its entirety or time is not right for it. (though I believe it's the former)
Ofcourse Q&D methods are called quick and dirty for a reason. 'Quick' for quick rise and quick(er?) fall. 'Dirty' for all the dirty work done now and more of it later. If the company is old enough, it must have already realized the fact.
So, the answer (for which method to choose) is simple -- if your goal is to make some quick bucks and disappear, you can go for Q&D. If you want to stay long, then you have work to develop and maintain good will among the customers, put eforts in choosing the proper development process and maintain such ohter ethics.
Now, if you do not have enough power in your hands to modify the development process, how about trying the down-up procedure. Try convincing the co-workers why it's dirty and suggest the better process of doing it. Even if they don't follow you now, once the idea is put in their heads, you can sit back. They will observe them(the reasons for change of process) for themselves as they encounter problems. Once this level is achieved, the idea goes up the tree to the person who has the power to change, process repeats, and eventually the change (if good) will occur. As anything significant it takes lot of patience and faith.
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Got to appreciate the humor in this situation - telling the hunter not to use a certain weapon.
http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/courses/CS585.html
I think this is one of the best Linux kernel training courses you can get anywhere.
So google is the Internet police now, with it's own laws?
Interestingly, these laws are also people driven.
It could be just me. I was just shopping online for a second external hard drive after the first one got full, with some useful but mostly 'can't delete yet-might need in future' kind of stuff.
Yahoo Mail attempts to emulate the desktop type feel, while Gmail is just doin' it's own thing. :D
That's exactly what I thought about Yahoo Beta. Yahoo, trying to be as creative, tried to link the familiarity of Outlook interface with web. Well, there's not much originality there - the interface is from Outlook, so they didn't have too much to do there; then making a successful desktop app to be web-based, I have heard that before from Google spreadsheets, and the rumours of a Google OS. It's just a combination act, but nothing very fresh about it.
Coming to the actual product, one thing that troubles me most is the amount of space that's taken by all the buttons and links, leaving very less area for the actual mail.This is very very useful in tropical places, especially if the 'pipes' can be priced low.
It is somewhat surprising that France, China and India are ahead of Iraq in searches, when there is so much going on in the Mid-East; Google News home page consistently has a new item on Iraq.
Don't know why France got sooo popular, but China and India are there because of BPO.
Oh..OK...Iraq and BPO(job losses) both were election issues.
I guess people read about Iraq once in the morning, and were looking at India and China about jobs rest of the day. Also, it shows that personal issues are always higher than those of nation or the world.
But France is still an enigma to me.
The reason a person is punished is because based on his past actions, he is deemed harmful for the society. If given a punishment, he will regret doing such things and (hopefully) not repeat them.
For example, a murderer is imprisoned because his current state of mind (beliefs, ideals, instincts, etc) allows him to do a murder, essentially an act against humanity. It is assumed that spending some time in prison (or any other punishment)will bring about a change in his mind and make it conducive to live in line with humanity.
Now Anderson's neglect for human safety is harmful for the humanity. If not punished accordingly, his mental state remains the same and he will continue to act with similar ideals in future.
The amount of punishment required for a particular offense was decided by some experts when the laws were made (I honestly don't know who). Therefore I think any amount of repentence (or self punishment) behind closed doors, while defending himself in public, will not do the trick.
It's analogous to C and Smalltalk. C++ and Java evolved, but are not as purely object-oriented as Smalltalk is.
Either it is not a good model in its entirety or time is not right for it. (though I believe it's the former)
Ofcourse Q&D methods are called quick and dirty for a reason. 'Quick' for quick rise and quick(er?) fall. 'Dirty' for all the dirty work done now and more of it later. If the company is old enough, it must have already realized the fact. So, the answer (for which method to choose) is simple -- if your goal is to make some quick bucks and disappear, you can go for Q&D. If you want to stay long, then you have work to develop and maintain good will among the customers, put eforts in choosing the proper development process and maintain such ohter ethics. Now, if you do not have enough power in your hands to modify the development process, how about trying the down-up procedure. Try convincing the co-workers why it's dirty and suggest the better process of doing it. Even if they don't follow you now, once the idea is put in their heads, you can sit back. They will observe them(the reasons for change of process) for themselves as they encounter problems. Once this level is achieved, the idea goes up the tree to the person who has the power to change, process repeats, and eventually the change (if good) will occur. As anything significant it takes lot of patience and faith.