get the dns name of the advertiser (may have to view page source) and add a line to your hosts file in linux/windows such as: 127.0.0.1 advertiser.dns.address.
The moon would be feasible only if a more stable means of energy production were available to be placed there (solar panels don't count, too expensive and heavy for significant electric power). In Mars there is at least an atomosphere (95% CO2 +1-2% Argon) - this would allow for an open cycle modular gas reactor (some of which that have been proposed would use "spent fuel" as fuel (extracting the plutonium) that could operate on a combined open cycle CO2 + closed cycle Argon cycle that could be quite efficient considering the resident temp on mars is well below zero deg C (delta T accross reactor is directly proportional to effiency and is limited by the material constraints (lower inlet temp = greater delta T). The bottom line is that once you have an established,reliable power source on Mars there is really no need for an interim station because the big cost is transporting stuff outside the earth's gravitational field, not transporting it accross open space. The only way an interim station would help is if it served as some sort of manufacturing plant, but if an effective energy source is available on Mars, the same thing could be accomplished there.
Who really expected them to follow through? There continual refusals to provide proof of Linux infringing on SCO patents is ample evidence that their lawsuit has no basis. They (SCO executives) would be wise to not further expand their lawsuits, as each company they sue can countersue for defamation. Overall this seems like a big scam - intimidate businesses into giving SCO money for linux licenses,causing SCOX to rise, and enriching McBride & co at the expense of the clueless investors who continue to buy worthless stock.
that my not be as far off as you think - my dad work's for DOD as an IT admin and they're making him switch completely to win2k and install identical security applications - sort of cookie-cut servers - the dowside is once you can breach one you can breach them all.
I don't know about CompE, but in nuclear the department claims that the average salary is just above $55k. I've personally known some guys with gpa's just above 2.5 that got jobs paying close to $60k with only a B.S. (some of the guys with navy nuke experience get even more). I think in all branches of engineering you get paid well if you can get a job. At this time the market seems to be saturated with CompE/CS degrees - I know a guy that's in the EE/CompE track at Texas A&M who has close to a 4.0 that's worried about even getting accepted to grad school.
This is the kind of logic that drives one to drink - BTW, it took a while to write this as I couldn't decide which of the four keyboards acutally existed.
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I usually watch the superbowl for the cheerleaders... Well that and the hot chicks on the bud-light commericals. It has come to the point that I pray for more scores so I can see more of the cheerleaders and at least one bud-light commercial.
I'm an engineering student and it's not unusual to spend $130+ per course per semester. I spent $130 last semester on a paperback textbook on thermal hydraulics - the hardback costs over $200. I'm not allowed to sell tickets for the TU/A&M football game thus 'scalping' the buyer (who has a choice BTW), but universities are allowed to make $90+ per text from students, texts that we are forced to buy if we want to pass classes. Maybe one of these days someone will sue one of the major universities and get textbooks down to an affordable price range.
I agree. I think Itanium will catch on given two things happen: first, Intel needs to lower the price - I just bought a 1U server and would have loved to have gotten an Itanium - but it's prohibitively expensive compared to P4s or Xeons. Second, the x86 emulation is going to have to improve if Itanium is going to gain acceptance as a desktop cpu (granted if this happens, there will likely be an Itanium clone much line athlon-64 and the opteron). Otherwise I think Itanium is likely to go the way of alphas - a great design but overpriced and with poor application support.
I'm actually surprised MS is delaying xbox2 release. I half expected them to release xbox2 in early March, and require users to buy it in order to play halo 2. On the other hand it is feasible that once the xbox2 is released MS can release new versions of halo/halo 2 with improved graphics as an incentive to upgrade to xbox2 (otherwise I don't see why people would upgrade).
I can see the headline now... SCO Group claims patent infringement by Chaucer - it is claimed that Chaucer stole key intellectual property in duplicating the methodology found in UNIX V manuals.
I actually ordered one of the dimension 2400n's this weekend to replace my aging server at home - for $498 you get a 2.4 ghz P4 (not celeron) with dvd/cdrw, 10/100/1000, 512mb, and a 40 gig drive - I used to build my own stuff but dell's selling things cheaper than you can build them for these days.
I downloaded 5.2 the day of its release and so far I concur with the author's opinion that it's not quite as robust as 5.1... I have an nvidia fx5700 ultra card and freebsd is giving me fits with X. I tried using the nv driver without any acceleration (using the same settings in xf86config as I have on my working X installation under linux). It seems to be messing up the refresh rate (the picture is skewed) - I tried pkg_add the nvidia drivers, but it asks for a kernel.config file (admittedly not knowing how to deal with this is more likely due to my ignorance of freebsd but the nv driver should have worked without the nvidia drivers). I had high hopes for 5.2 - 5.1 performed much better on my dual xeon/scsi based system than linux - but it seems like there's still a few bugs to work out first...
I think the best keyboard/mouse are the Logitech MX series (wired,not wireless). I use an MX300 mouse and it's got the best response time I've seen in games and such - especially when you remove the steel block they screw into the top of the mouse to weight it down. As far as the extra buttons go, I like the volume control built into the keyboard (one of these days I hope linux will support it) although the F-lock should be enabled by default when the system boots so the keyboard acts like a standard ATX keyboard rather than some of the windows shortcuts I use once every three months.
SCO (SCOX) has recently announced a change in the mission of the company. Citing failures to produce revenue growth chairman Darl McBride has decided to initiate a corporate injury law firm. "We already have several important clients (SCO v. IBM,SCO v. Novell, Redhat v. Novell) and this is proof that we can draw out lawsuits for many years, producing extraordinary increases in stock value." In other news the recently bankrupt Redback Networks has filed with SCO to sue Cisco for alleged patent infringement. When the Redback CEO was asked about the details of this infringement he replied "due to the potential damage to Redback such details cannot be provided. However we recognize that the corporations who purchased infringing hardware from Cisco did so without prior knowledge, so we are introducing a new licensing fee of $500 per unit until the end of the summer, at which time the said fee will be raised to $1000".
I wonder - is the author of the bugtraq really worried about spyware? It sounds like he's more concerned about his cash supply (darn it when he tried to use that 20 from his spyware-scanner at wal-mart the other day the cashier asked him why it was blue).
I've already a couple like those mentioned on tvguide's listing page (some kind of biography channel commercial with sound - every time you click to see the description of a program listing it replays it) - disabling all scripting seems to take care of it but at the same time it's rather aggravating because other websites like espn don't load properly anymore.
First of all I don't like MS's approach to software development (particularly the activation garbage you have to go through now) but I don't see that anyone has a right to force MS to stop using IE (yeah they technically weren't forced but the lawsuit threat initiated their response). Take Apple for example - practically everthing on a Mac is proprietary Apple software and you don't see the Mac people going ballistic over it. Forcing MS to make changes to their OS for anything other than privacy violations/blatant security holes isn't right. To illustrate the absurdity of the DOJ policy consider this: I do some scientific programming myself and I usually use the excel plugins for C to generate tables/graphs - if MS is forced to change their OS why shouldn't someone be able to force me to write a program in such away as to force me to generate charts using openoffice/staroffice or even Corel's wordperfect suite? If people don't like MS's software change to linux/freeBSD/MacOS where you can do whatever you want - it just isn't equitable to MS to force them to change stuff in their OS just because a group of people dislike IE (for gosh sakes if you didn't like MS why would you spend the $100+ to use their software?).
"Most Internet users generally trust the information they find online," he wrote via e-mail... I guess should've ordered that official MIT nuclear engineering diploma for $14.95 offered in that email a couple a months... But damn I must've deleted it. I guess now I'll have to go back to class next week. So much for the easy way...
I have a dual xeon 2.4GHz at home and I don't see any performance change when hyperthreading is enabled on WinXP. Hyperthreading is really a liability rather than an asset if a program tries to use only a single processor in hyperthreading mode rather than using the second processor. I can say that when I installed FreeBSD 5.1 with hyperthreading disabled it was significantly faster than when I installed it with hyperthreading enabled. I'd say that hyperthreading is more or less worthless at this point in time for multi-processor systems (at least until software properly recognizes it), though admittedly it does have its advantages in single processor configuration.
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get the dns name of the advertiser (may have to view page source) and add a line to your hosts file in linux/windows such as: 127.0.0.1 advertiser.dns.address.
I disagree - the lack of sex drives the internet!
The moon would be feasible only if a more stable means of energy production were available to be placed there (solar panels don't count, too expensive and heavy for significant electric power). In Mars there is at least an atomosphere (95% CO2 +1-2% Argon) - this would allow for an open cycle modular gas reactor (some of which that have been proposed would use "spent fuel" as fuel (extracting the plutonium) that could operate on a combined open cycle CO2 + closed cycle Argon cycle that could be quite efficient considering the resident temp on mars is well below zero deg C (delta T accross reactor is directly proportional to effiency and is limited by the material constraints (lower inlet temp = greater delta T). The bottom line is that once you have an established,reliable power source on Mars there is really no need for an interim station because the big cost is transporting stuff outside the earth's gravitational field, not transporting it accross open space. The only way an interim station would help is if it served as some sort of manufacturing plant, but if an effective energy source is available on Mars, the same thing could be accomplished there.
Who really expected them to follow through? There continual refusals to provide proof of Linux infringing on SCO patents is ample evidence that their lawsuit has no basis. They (SCO executives) would be wise to not further expand their lawsuits, as each company they sue can countersue for defamation. Overall this seems like a big scam - intimidate businesses into giving SCO money for linux licenses,causing SCOX to rise, and enriching McBride & co at the expense of the clueless investors who continue to buy worthless stock.
do you think they will accept the easy payment plan?
that my not be as far off as you think - my dad work's for DOD as an IT admin and they're making him switch completely to win2k and install identical security applications - sort of cookie-cut servers - the dowside is once you can breach one you can breach them all.
I don't know about CompE, but in nuclear the department claims that the average salary is just above $55k. I've personally known some guys with gpa's just above 2.5 that got jobs paying close to $60k with only a B.S. (some of the guys with navy nuke experience get even more). I think in all branches of engineering you get paid well if you can get a job. At this time the market seems to be saturated with CompE/CS degrees - I know a guy that's in the EE/CompE track at Texas A&M who has close to a 4.0 that's worried about even getting accepted to grad school.
This is the kind of logic that drives one to drink - BTW, it took a while to write this as I couldn't decide which of the four keyboards acutally existed.
I usually watch the superbowl for the cheerleaders... Well that and the hot chicks on the bud-light commericals. It has come to the point that I pray for more scores so I can see more of the cheerleaders and at least one bud-light commercial.
I'm an engineering student and it's not unusual to spend $130+ per course per semester. I spent $130 last semester on a paperback textbook on thermal hydraulics - the hardback costs over $200. I'm not allowed to sell tickets for the TU/A&M football game thus 'scalping' the buyer (who has a choice BTW), but universities are allowed to make $90+ per text from students, texts that we are forced to buy if we want to pass classes. Maybe one of these days someone will sue one of the major universities and get textbooks down to an affordable price range.
After all, all you have to do is rip it on its first play.
I agree. I think Itanium will catch on given two things happen: first, Intel needs to lower the price - I just bought a 1U server and would have loved to have gotten an Itanium - but it's prohibitively expensive compared to P4s or Xeons. Second, the x86 emulation is going to have to improve if Itanium is going to gain acceptance as a desktop cpu (granted if this happens, there will likely be an Itanium clone much line athlon-64 and the opteron). Otherwise I think Itanium is likely to go the way of alphas - a great design but overpriced and with poor application support.
I'm actually surprised MS is delaying xbox2 release. I half expected them to release xbox2 in early March, and require users to buy it in order to play halo 2. On the other hand it is feasible that once the xbox2 is released MS can release new versions of halo/halo 2 with improved graphics as an incentive to upgrade to xbox2 (otherwise I don't see why people would upgrade).
I can see the headline now... SCO Group claims patent infringement by Chaucer - it is claimed that Chaucer stole key intellectual property in duplicating the methodology found in UNIX V manuals.
I actually ordered one of the dimension 2400n's this weekend to replace my aging server at home - for $498 you get a 2.4 ghz P4 (not celeron) with dvd/cdrw, 10/100/1000, 512mb, and a 40 gig drive - I used to build my own stuff but dell's selling things cheaper than you can build them for these days.
45 pages? This is /. Look at posts on other articles, you're lucky to get us to read a 1 page article much less 45.
There will be no spam because now all such advertisements will be contained in a MS newsletter that is mandatory to obtain patches!
I downloaded 5.2 the day of its release and so far I concur with the author's opinion that it's not quite as robust as 5.1... I have an nvidia fx5700 ultra card and freebsd is giving me fits with X. I tried using the nv driver without any acceleration (using the same settings in xf86config as I have on my working X installation under linux). It seems to be messing up the refresh rate (the picture is skewed) - I tried pkg_add the nvidia drivers, but it asks for a kernel .config file (admittedly not knowing how to deal with this is more likely due to my ignorance of freebsd but the nv driver should have worked without the nvidia drivers). I had high hopes for 5.2 - 5.1 performed much better on my dual xeon/scsi based system than linux - but it seems like there's still a few bugs to work out first...
I think the best keyboard/mouse are the Logitech MX series (wired,not wireless). I use an MX300 mouse and it's got the best response time I've seen in games and such - especially when you remove the steel block they screw into the top of the mouse to weight it down. As far as the extra buttons go, I like the volume control built into the keyboard (one of these days I hope linux will support it) although the F-lock should be enabled by default when the system boots so the keyboard acts like a standard ATX keyboard rather than some of the windows shortcuts I use once every three months.
SCO (SCOX) has recently announced a change in the mission of the company. Citing failures to produce revenue growth chairman Darl McBride has decided to initiate a corporate injury law firm. "We already have several important clients (SCO v. IBM,SCO v. Novell, Redhat v. Novell) and this is proof that we can draw out lawsuits for many years, producing extraordinary increases in stock value." In other news the recently bankrupt Redback Networks has filed with SCO to sue Cisco for alleged patent infringement. When the Redback CEO was asked about the details of this infringement he replied "due to the potential damage to Redback such details cannot be provided. However we recognize that the corporations who purchased infringing hardware from Cisco did so without prior knowledge, so we are introducing a new licensing fee of $500 per unit until the end of the summer, at which time the said fee will be raised to $1000".
I wonder - is the author of the bugtraq really worried about spyware? It sounds like he's more concerned about his cash supply (darn it when he tried to use that 20 from his spyware-scanner at wal-mart the other day the cashier asked him why it was blue).
I've already a couple like those mentioned on tvguide's listing page (some kind of biography channel commercial with sound - every time you click to see the description of a program listing it replays it) - disabling all scripting seems to take care of it but at the same time it's rather aggravating because other websites like espn don't load properly anymore.
First of all I don't like MS's approach to software development (particularly the activation garbage you have to go through now) but I don't see that anyone has a right to force MS to stop using IE (yeah they technically weren't forced but the lawsuit threat initiated their response). Take Apple for example - practically everthing on a Mac is proprietary Apple software and you don't see the Mac people going ballistic over it. Forcing MS to make changes to their OS for anything other than privacy violations/blatant security holes isn't right. To illustrate the absurdity of the DOJ policy consider this: I do some scientific programming myself and I usually use the excel plugins for C to generate tables/graphs - if MS is forced to change their OS why shouldn't someone be able to force me to write a program in such away as to force me to generate charts using openoffice/staroffice or even Corel's wordperfect suite? If people don't like MS's software change to linux/freeBSD/MacOS where you can do whatever you want - it just isn't equitable to MS to force them to change stuff in their OS just because a group of people dislike IE (for gosh sakes if you didn't like MS why would you spend the $100+ to use their software?).
"Most Internet users generally trust the information they find online," he wrote via e-mail... I guess should've ordered that official MIT nuclear engineering diploma for $14.95 offered in that email a couple a months... But damn I must've deleted it. I guess now I'll have to go back to class next week. So much for the easy way...
I have a dual xeon 2.4GHz at home and I don't see any performance change when hyperthreading is enabled on WinXP. Hyperthreading is really a liability rather than an asset if a program tries to use only a single processor in hyperthreading mode rather than using the second processor. I can say that when I installed FreeBSD 5.1 with hyperthreading disabled it was significantly faster than when I installed it with hyperthreading enabled. I'd say that hyperthreading is more or less worthless at this point in time for multi-processor systems (at least until software properly recognizes it), though admittedly it does have its advantages in single processor configuration.