Saw this the other day.
Anyway, I wish they would take that money and make the rest stops worth a crap. The one just outside of Big Spring on I-20 is horrible.
OO is also written in Java, so unless you have the 1.5b JRE (which provides a wonderful speed boost and much less ugly to apps which use java widgets), it can take a while.
On XP, it goes like this:
Firefox - Can't stand IE.
GIMP - Mmmm...
Metapad (to replace notepad) - Always have something getting coded in there.
Thunderbird
PuTTY - So I can SSH into my Slack box.
Trillian
Semagic - For updating my lj.
Winamp 2.91
SmartFTP
McAffe Internet Security - It *is* a Windows box, and I only trust my router firewalls so much.
Java SDK (gotta get my coding on)
To be fair, the US is a great deal larger than Austria, and has a much lower population density. Other forms of transit such as airtravel or rail don't even come close to sating the need for travel, just because of the range one can find oneself from the nearest population center.
Take one of the trips I make regularly, from my home in West Texas to visit my family in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. Such a trip is about 600 miles or so, which I believe a journey of similar length would take a person into a different nation, were it to start just about any point in Austria. Getting there takes a good 10 hours by car, but making the trip otherwise is prohibitively expensive. Airtravel there involves flying to Albuquerque, and then either relying on a spotty small plane service (Mesa air, which runs planes that hold ~8 people including crew), or renting a car and driving the additional 200 some odd miles there. Flying on that small airline and the larger one for the first leg of the trip would run around $300, depending on season, whereas driving the trip would cost maybe a third of that. This is a case (and not unique by any standard to the United States, especially in the western section) where travel by automobile is much more inexpensive then by other means.
One could also make the case for people living in smaller (~100,000) areas whose city and county governments cannot maintain such localized public transit over the widespread city area that is typical of a town in the western US and Texas. Getting around town from most resedential areas requires a vehicle, especially for those who live in surrounding areas of 5,000 to 20,000 people and rely on the 100-200k population centers for much of their shopping and entertainment.
On the other hand, a small attempt is being made at public transport on a small scale in such areas. We'll see if it works, but to be honest, unless the oil supply were to disappear entirely, I doubt such measures will be all that successful. Even if that were to happen, I want my electric car, dammit. =)
I've thought about it. There's a hack floating around some student's page that involves slapping a 2.4GHz omnidirectional antenna on a hacked Orinoco card, but it doesn't work with my little USB thing.
It also may be a blessing that I'm willing (and able) to pay for my own connection, since some other guys seem to really dislike the setup here.
I understand that. When I went off to college this year, I found that I had very little time to watch TV...so I didn't turn it on at all. Now, when I'm bored, I can't stand to watch anything.
Although, I did discover that I could sit down and watch Star Trek III and enjoy it...yet I'm not a Trek fan. Odd.
In the on campus apartments, there is only wireless. They have 802.11b throughout all of the housing, as well as what's listed on that map.
To be honest I think it's a good thing. Many of my CS professors do all coursework submission through an online service, so students can keep up with what's posted on it and point out when things aren't posted as they should be in class, rather than by e-mail after class. The EE/CS building is the most widely covered, and while a bit flaky in a few lecture halls, it seems to be quite functional.
The only downside to having a totally wireless network in the housing end is that the positioning of the repeaters in the apartemnt buildings was bad enough that I cannot get a decen t enough signal in my bedroom (I fork out for cable).
As if setting up a wireless network in an apartment wasn't a big enough pain in the ass already, now I've got to worry about the yokel next door hogging all the available channels?
This is going to casue more problems in resedential areas than it will solve.
This may be quite a bit OT, but
I have an A7N8X running 2.6.4 *quite* well, Athlon XP 3000+ running at speed, 1GB of Corsair DDR 333, with no problems at all. Everything stays reasonably cool (granted, I did up the heatsink/fan to something a bit better than the one out of the PIB), none of the onboard components turned off, and really it's been quite a robust system. 2.4.22 faired somewhat the same, though I had no sound when I first installed Slackware on this box.
The only problem I did have was infant failure when I built the machine last summer. A quick RMA later, and I had a working board that I honestly can't be more pleased with.
Makes be wonder about the quality of ink used, as I've seen some of the cheap stuff my university uses degrade to illegibility in about three months. Election disputes certainly can draw on for quite a while, and thus raises a red flag with me. Can't recount the votes if you can't see what's on the paper.
It seems to me (even with my limited knowledge of programming and software engineering) that when such statements are made about the death (or undeath...mmm...CZombie...."HEADERS....HEADERSSS") , the idea that C# has its place in fitting in with the.NET framework, C has its place in things like...say...stuff like the Linux kernel (though that isn't near its only use), Java and it's being cross platform, etc is totally ignored.
Just because you can hammer in a screw if you try hard enough doesn't mean the screw driver is dead.
Adding the clock of both processors doesn't equate to the system speed, but it's still a desirable solution, especially given the ability to compile more than one thing at once under Gentoo.
Slashdot Mirror
It comes with like two useful applications. Pretty soon it'll be down to the shell and a handful of .dll files.
It's a slick little console mp3 player with playlist support. It is quite nice to have when I do something to b0rk X.
Here's the origional article
Saw this the other day. Anyway, I wish they would take that money and make the rest stops worth a crap. The one just outside of Big Spring on I-20 is horrible.
OO is also written in Java, so unless you have the 1.5b JRE (which provides a wonderful speed boost and much less ugly to apps which use java widgets), it can take a while.
It's no so bad with the new runtime environment.
Not true. There are ways to deal with that.
Legal docs have quite a few all-caps sections, I believe.
That's about all I notice when I skim over a license agreement, anyway.
God forbid I preview anything... Anyway, there should be a [tab] after /Sy...but you might have guessed that.
What I call for is a feature that completes a partially typed file or directory when you hit a key.
/Sy does the job, no space for typoes, and you can actually understand what's there if you are new to *nix.
Oh wai-.
I absolutely have to have close boxes in all tabs
Not that this is a full solution, but if you are in windows, middle click on the tab. Sadly, it pastes when in Linux, and annoys me to no end.
And you just thought that green tea was good to drink.
No, not really.
On XP, it goes like this:
Firefox - Can't stand IE.
GIMP - Mmmm...
Metapad (to replace notepad) - Always have something getting coded in there. Thunderbird
PuTTY - So I can SSH into my Slack box.
Trillian
Semagic - For updating my lj.
Winamp 2.91
SmartFTP
McAffe Internet Security - It *is* a Windows box, and I only trust my router firewalls so much. Java SDK (gotta get my coding on)
My uni offers SE.
Difference between CS and SE as of the 2002-2004 schedule: 5 classes. Needless to say I'm going for both. =D
*cough*college students*cough*
To be fair, the US is a great deal larger than Austria, and has a much lower population density. Other forms of transit such as airtravel or rail don't even come close to sating the need for travel, just because of the range one can find oneself from the nearest population center.
Take one of the trips I make regularly, from my home in West Texas to visit my family in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. Such a trip is about 600 miles or so, which I believe a journey of similar length would take a person into a different nation, were it to start just about any point in Austria. Getting there takes a good 10 hours by car, but making the trip otherwise is prohibitively expensive. Airtravel there involves flying to Albuquerque, and then either relying on a spotty small plane service (Mesa air, which runs planes that hold ~8 people including crew), or renting a car and driving the additional 200 some odd miles there. Flying on that small airline and the larger one for the first leg of the trip would run around $300, depending on season, whereas driving the trip would cost maybe a third of that. This is a case (and not unique by any standard to the United States, especially in the western section) where travel by automobile is much more inexpensive then by other means.
One could also make the case for people living in smaller (~100,000) areas whose city and county governments cannot maintain such localized public transit over the widespread city area that is typical of a town in the western US and Texas. Getting around town from most resedential areas requires a vehicle, especially for those who live in surrounding areas of 5,000 to 20,000 people and rely on the 100-200k population centers for much of their shopping and entertainment.
On the other hand, a small attempt is being made at public transport on a small scale in such areas. We'll see if it works, but to be honest, unless the oil supply were to disappear entirely, I doubt such measures will be all that successful. Even if that were to happen, I want my electric car, dammit. =)
Most of the stuff is rather old, but it is still good to have around. GNUwin
I've thought about it. There's a hack floating around some student's page that involves slapping a 2.4GHz omnidirectional antenna on a hacked Orinoco card, but it doesn't work with my little USB thing.
It also may be a blessing that I'm willing (and able) to pay for my own connection, since some other guys seem to really dislike the setup here.
I understand that. When I went off to college this year, I found that I had very little time to watch TV...so I didn't turn it on at all. Now, when I'm bored, I can't stand to watch anything.
Although, I did discover that I could sit down and watch Star Trek III and enjoy it...yet I'm not a Trek fan. Odd.
UT Dallas Wireless coverage
In the on campus apartments, there is only wireless. They have 802.11b throughout all of the housing, as well as what's listed on that map.
To be honest I think it's a good thing. Many of my CS professors do all coursework submission through an online service, so students can keep up with what's posted on it and point out when things aren't posted as they should be in class, rather than by e-mail after class. The EE/CS building is the most widely covered, and while a bit flaky in a few lecture halls, it seems to be quite functional.
The only downside to having a totally wireless network in the housing end is that the positioning of the repeaters in the apartemnt buildings was bad enough that I cannot get a decen t enough signal in my bedroom (I fork out for cable).
That might sic some of the Baptists down in Aztec on you, as well.
Good country up around the Animas and San Juan rivers.
As if setting up a wireless network in an apartment wasn't a big enough pain in the ass already, now I've got to worry about the yokel next door hogging all the available channels?
This is going to casue more problems in resedential areas than it will solve.
Guh?
This may be quite a bit OT, but I have an A7N8X running 2.6.4 *quite* well, Athlon XP 3000+ running at speed, 1GB of Corsair DDR 333, with no problems at all. Everything stays reasonably cool (granted, I did up the heatsink/fan to something a bit better than the one out of the PIB), none of the onboard components turned off, and really it's been quite a robust system. 2.4.22 faired somewhat the same, though I had no sound when I first installed Slackware on this box.
The only problem I did have was infant failure when I built the machine last summer. A quick RMA later, and I had a working board that I honestly can't be more pleased with.
Prints out a paper ballot, eh?
Makes be wonder about the quality of ink used, as I've seen some of the cheap stuff my university uses degrade to illegibility in about three months. Election disputes certainly can draw on for quite a while, and thus raises a red flag with me. Can't recount the votes if you can't see what's on the paper.
It seems to me (even with my limited knowledge of programming and software engineering) that when such statements are made about the death (or undeath...mmm...CZombie...."HEADERS....HEADERSSS") , the idea that C# has its place in fitting in with the .NET framework, C has its place in things like...say...stuff like the Linux kernel (though that isn't near its only use), Java and it's being cross platform, etc is totally ignored.
Just because you can hammer in a screw if you try hard enough doesn't mean the screw driver is dead.
Adding the clock of both processors doesn't equate to the system speed, but it's still a desirable solution, especially given the ability to compile more than one thing at once under Gentoo.