Like, if you fit in "grid computing" in your grant proposal, the probability that you'll get funding increases. Now, if in addition to "grid" you manage to fit in "nanotechnology", "bio-informatics" and "paradigm" you'll be funded with a probability very close to 100 %!
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in The Mysterious Future! from the if-you-love-something-let-it-go dept. InnerPhalanx writes "Today, SuSE 9.2 Professional Edition has been released. SuSE writes: 'It combines a fast, secure operating system and more than 1,000 popular open source applications. It is the first complete Linux package to harness both the improved Linux kernel 2.6 and the recently enhanced GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.3 user desktop environments. Ideal for Linux enthusiasts and developers, SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2 improves support for mobile users and delivers a host of essential tools.' More information at the SuSE website. The price is $89.95. The update version is $59.95. A live DVD image is also available on the SuSE website, for use by DVD. Have fun, SuSE Pro users!" Reader tannhaus submits an early review.
I tell you one interesting thing. While it was working back in 2003, I updated a 68030 Mac Duo laptop 7.6's modem driver from Apple site. I even had support about how to add more ram. That machine is back from 1994 or something.
OS X updates aren't service packs, they are new OS'es. 10.3.0 is a new OS , 10.3.1 is a service pack.
About antivirus and anti adware? As its a BSD based real OS, its run by rights. As its a pain in the ass to code a spyware on linux, its much more harder on OS X. Guess why? OS X shows a user friendly window which is centralized by OS GUI whenever a program needs administrative access.
Oh there is a program on OS X, comes with it and has a unsolved security problem. Yes, it still exists. Guess what is it? INTERNET EXPLORER macintosh edition.
As a Maryland resident, I've tried to do my part. I contacted my elected officials and warned them about Diebold. I sent another round of faxes and emails after we learned that Diebold planned to gouge us "out the yin-yang" if we wanted verified voting. Final results: a couple form letter replies amounting to diddly squat.
The most frustrating part is that my county already had perfectly good voting machines: paper-based scantron-type forms where you mark the appropriate rectangle and a simple scanner tabulates the results. Effective, verifiable, well-understood, and relatively inexpensive. In other words, the complete opposite of what the state just bought for us.
The world's biggest fibre optic network entirely dedicated to scientific research is now in place in the US. The National Lambda Rail will allow scientists to exchange more data at faster speeds than via the internet.
"It's a landmark because it's the first time that we in the research community really own and control the underpinning infra-structure vital to advancing science," says Tom West, the CEO of NLR, based in Cypress, California, US. He will outline the benefits of NLR at the Supercomputing Conference 2004 on 6 November in Pittsburgh, US.
The days of "figuring out how to jam a lot of data into a small pipe" are numbered, explains Scott Colburn, a network engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, US, which is part of the NLR consortium - a collection of research institutions and private companies.
"It was kind of like the first computers," he says, "except back then we were trying to work with very little memory. Now we have so much memory we don't give a hoot and in future we won't give a hoot about bandwidth."
Transfer rates
NLR is entirely owned by the US research community and offers users 10 gigabits per second each. In contrast, Internet2 is a slice of internet infrastructure currently designated to the US academic community and provides a total transfer rate of 10 gigabits per second to be shared between all its users.
Both networks use a technique called Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) to send different wavelengths or "lambdas" of light through an optical fibre simultaneously, with no interference. Light is routed to its destination using prisms which extract particular wavelengths.
Whereas Internet2 dedicates just one lambda to the whole US research community, NLR dedicates 40. Its creators are now distributing cards embedded with lasers of different frequencies to the first four users of NLR, allowing them each to hook into their dedicated channel.
"NLR is another landmark in the progression towards ubiquitous high-speed computing, which is essential for our research," says Julian Bunn, a particle physicist at the California Institute of Technology, US.
Large Hadron Collider
He plans to use NLR - which is connected to existing high speed scientific networks across Europe - to link up with colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. When the collider goes live in 2007, the network will transfer terabytes of data directly to his lab in California for analysis.
The NLR will also allow US doctors to stream high resolution video of surgical procedures in real time to remote surgeons, allowing them to monitor crucial operations.
And climatologists - who must pool measurements from sources all over the world in real time to make weather predictions - will also benefit.
But NLR is also exciting for researchers who want to experiment with the network itself. Colburn likens it to the pioneer spirit surrounding the earliest version of the internet - ARPAnet - which was purely a research endeavour.
"NLR will provide us with the infra-structure to do things that could potentially bring the network down," he explains. "Commercial internet providers can't allow us to do experiments willy-nilly because the net is mission critical."
These "destabilising" experiments could include trying out new protocols, probing how data should best be routed from one place to another and testing whether decision-making software works better when it is installed on the fringes of the network or at the core.
Researchers have been able to test some of this using a virtual software network called PlanetLab, which sits on top of the internet in a similar way to which the internet sits on top of the telephone network. But this research is subject to internet bandwidth constraints.
Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies
Hardware Hacking
Books
Posted by timothy in The Mysterious Future!
donour (Donour Sizemore) writes "I recently bought a high-performance automobile that has a reputation for its tuning potential. Before making the purchase, I joined several online forums for enthusiasts in order to get a good reading on how happy people are with the particular model. I was amazed at the vibrant communities built around websites such as evolutionm.net and nasioc.com. A wealth of information is available, but the data is surrounded by noise. For every knowledgeable enthusiast, there are many more misinformed or incorrect speculators whose opinions usually spring from personal preference or a need to hear themselves talk. Enter David Vespremi's Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies." Read on for the rest of Sizemore's review.
Holy crap, you're right. I found it very unlikely, given that all their other players have OGG support, but NOOOOO. They had to ship a linux-based player without native OGG support.
If by satellite, you mean "cessna at 2000 feet with a guy taking pictures out the window", then yes, they have been offering them. Ever wondered why there were no clouds in ANY of the images?
Slashdot Mirror
This turns out true... $50,000 in legal expenses.
America losing all faith in it's electoral processs... Civil War
John Titor being right... Priceless For all your time-travel needs, theres cash, for everything else, there's mastercard.
Just think of the increase in ambient noise levels if they didn't do that, delayed it again, and threw on another six months of polish.
I would bet you could hear the screams ten miles from civilisation.
Like, if you fit in "grid computing" in your grant proposal, the probability that you'll get funding increases. Now, if in addition to "grid" you manage to fit in "nanotechnology", "bio-informatics" and "paradigm" you'll be funded with a probability very close to 100 %!
Cut and paste Karma troll.i d=5921431
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=63686&c
Your shuttle a splode!
Posted by michael in The Mysterious Future!
from the if-you-love-something-let-it-go dept.
InnerPhalanx writes "Today, SuSE 9.2 Professional Edition has been released. SuSE writes: 'It combines a fast, secure operating system and more than 1,000 popular open source applications. It is the first complete Linux package to harness both the improved Linux kernel 2.6 and the recently enhanced GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.3 user desktop environments. Ideal for Linux enthusiasts and developers, SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2 improves support for mobile users and delivers a host of essential tools.' More information at the SuSE website. The price is $89.95. The update version is $59.95. A live DVD image is also available on the SuSE website, for use by DVD. Have fun, SuSE Pro users!" Reader tannhaus submits an early review.
I tell you one interesting thing. While it was working back in 2003, I updated a 68030 Mac Duo laptop 7.6's modem driver from Apple site. I even had support about how to add more ram. That machine is back from 1994 or something.
OS X updates aren't service packs, they are new OS'es. 10.3.0 is a new OS , 10.3.1 is a service pack.
About antivirus and anti adware? As its a BSD based real OS, its run by rights. As its a pain in the ass to code a spyware on linux, its much more harder on OS X. Guess why? OS X shows a user friendly window which is centralized by OS GUI whenever a program needs administrative access.
Oh there is a program on OS X, comes with it and has a unsolved security problem. Yes, it still exists. Guess what is it? INTERNET EXPLORER macintosh edition.
The most frustrating part is that my county already had perfectly good voting machines: paper-based scantron-type forms where you mark the appropriate rectangle and a simple scanner tabulates the results. Effective, verifiable, well-understood, and relatively inexpensive. In other words, the complete opposite of what the state just bought for us.
US scientists enjoy big bandwidth boost
15:21 26 October 04
NewScientist.com news service
The world's biggest fibre optic network entirely dedicated to scientific research is now in place in the US. The National Lambda Rail will allow scientists to exchange more data at faster speeds than via the internet.
"It's a landmark because it's the first time that we in the research community really own and control the underpinning infra-structure vital to advancing science," says Tom West, the CEO of NLR, based in Cypress, California, US. He will outline the benefits of NLR at the Supercomputing Conference 2004 on 6 November in Pittsburgh, US.
The days of "figuring out how to jam a lot of data into a small pipe" are numbered, explains Scott Colburn, a network engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, US, which is part of the NLR consortium - a collection of research institutions and private companies.
"It was kind of like the first computers," he says, "except back then we were trying to work with very little memory. Now we have so much memory we don't give a hoot and in future we won't give a hoot about bandwidth."
Transfer rates
NLR is entirely owned by the US research community and offers users 10 gigabits per second each. In contrast, Internet2 is a slice of internet infrastructure currently designated to the US academic community and provides a total transfer rate of 10 gigabits per second to be shared between all its users.
Both networks use a technique called Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) to send different wavelengths or "lambdas" of light through an optical fibre simultaneously, with no interference. Light is routed to its destination using prisms which extract particular wavelengths.
Whereas Internet2 dedicates just one lambda to the whole US research community, NLR dedicates 40. Its creators are now distributing cards embedded with lasers of different frequencies to the first four users of NLR, allowing them each to hook into their dedicated channel.
"NLR is another landmark in the progression towards ubiquitous high-speed computing, which is essential for our research," says Julian Bunn, a particle physicist at the California Institute of Technology, US.
Large Hadron Collider
He plans to use NLR - which is connected to existing high speed scientific networks across Europe - to link up with colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. When the collider goes live in 2007, the network will transfer terabytes of data directly to his lab in California for analysis.
The NLR will also allow US doctors to stream high resolution video of surgical procedures in real time to remote surgeons, allowing them to monitor crucial operations.
And climatologists - who must pool measurements from sources all over the world in real time to make weather predictions - will also benefit.
But NLR is also exciting for researchers who want to experiment with the network itself. Colburn likens it to the pioneer spirit surrounding the earliest version of the internet - ARPAnet - which was purely a research endeavour.
"NLR will provide us with the infra-structure to do things that could potentially bring the network down," he explains. "Commercial internet providers can't allow us to do experiments willy-nilly because the net is mission critical."
These "destabilising" experiments could include trying out new protocols, probing how data should best be routed from one place to another and testing whether decision-making software works better when it is installed on the fringes of the network or at the core.
Researchers have been able to test some of this using a virtual software network called PlanetLab, which sits on top of the internet in a similar way to which the internet sits on top of the telephone network. But this research is subject to internet bandwidth constraints.
"NLR will
This is just fucking rediculous. That is so clearly fair use, yet they still get by. When will the bullshit end? When you TAKE A STAND!
Add Nintendo to the list of people to not buy anything from.
Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies
Hardware Hacking
Books
Posted by timothy in The Mysterious Future! donour (Donour Sizemore) writes "I recently bought a high-performance automobile that has a reputation for its tuning potential. Before making the purchase, I joined several online forums for enthusiasts in order to get a good reading on how happy people are with the particular model. I was amazed at the vibrant communities built around websites such as evolutionm.net and nasioc.com. A wealth of information is available, but the data is surrounded by noise. For every knowledgeable enthusiast, there are many more misinformed or incorrect speculators whose opinions usually spring from personal preference or a need to hear themselves talk. Enter David Vespremi's Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies." Read on for the rest of Sizemore's review.
Workin' on it, trying to find a good tracker...
Anyone know of one?
Bet this will make the GNAA happy.
Sorry mods, I had to do it.
Holy crap, you're right. I found it very unlikely, given that all their other players have OGG support, but NOOOOO. They had to ship a linux-based player without native OGG support.
Ijust wanted to finally tell someone to RTFA....
Luckily, I know what that is, but still, that's mean.
You must be new here!
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
This isn't UBB. You have to use HTML here.
topic
/karma to burn.
It ratted out the chinese porn sites.
Care to tell us what this game is about?
5. Much more hot grits.
If by satellite, you mean "cessna at 2000 feet with a guy taking pictures out the window", then yes, they have been offering them. Ever wondered why there were no clouds in ANY of the images?
Maybe MSN doesn't like your user name.
If you interpret that literally, that would work.