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  1. Re:That's because on The Practical SQL Handbook: Using SQL Variants (4th ed.) · · Score: 1

    NONONONO

    It is not Scuzzy...it is

    SEXY

    (remeber that one?)

  2. Re:Theory of Computation on Parsing Algorithms and Resources? · · Score: 1

    Wow, somebody stole my Rant!

    Language Theory and Computer Theory go Hand in Hand. RegEx is just the start. Push Down Automata, and Turing Machines are where my Comp Theory course finished up, with the next semester leading to Compilers.

    But that stuff is old hat. Neural Networks and pattern recognition in 3D is much funner.

  3. GPS on Father's Day, Geek Style? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My dad is so into his GPS, it is a little scary.

    He takes it everywhere he drives when he travels. He sails and uses it to navigate on the Water as well.The later models are in Color and Have downloadable detailed maps for local areas.

  4. How we deal with it on How Do You Sync Database Schemas? · · Score: 1

    We perform Nightly backups of the dynamic tables of the database. We can use these to rereate on our staging machine the state of live. We have a separate table (updates) that stores the current update level. We have a script called updateXXXX.pl which contains all the sql code necessary to update the DB. the XXXX is replaced with the update number (update0016.pl is our current). When the script runs, it checks the update table to see what the last script run was. If you are attempting to run update 15, and 14 hasn't been run, it will stop you.

    This is part of our QA process. Before a build goes to staging, we wipe out the staging database and replace it with the copy from live. Ten we run the update and push the build code. Once a staging build is blessed, we can push it live.

  5. Re:Mandating compatibility is a good idea, but... on U.S. Asked to Put Purchasing Power to Good Use · · Score: 1

    Ada Rocks!

    Was that your point?
    ;)

  6. Re:with all the lego book reviews on Core Lego Mindstorms Programming · · Score: 1

    Need to do it in several locations, since \. is read world wide

  7. Sample Curriculumn on Questions to Ask University CS Departments? · · Score: 1

    Here's what my cirriculum looked like.
    Basic Programmin Course: same as everyone in an engineering program took. Students can test out with AP.
    Advanced programming course: OO, threading, etc.
    Algorithms. Discrete Mathmatics. OS (two semesters). Comparitive programming languages. Networks. Software engineering. Computer Organization (Assembly). Digital Logic Design. Databases, Graphics and AI were electives. We also had a senior level seminar with discussions with local programming experts from IBM and Bell labs.

    This was at West Point back in 1989-1993. The big push was on ADA, so we kind of missed out on the C coding, which I felt was aweakness. They focused more on Pascal and Ada. The copmaritive languages class was vital in overcoming the language bias.

    Also, Our OS course focused on the Design of OS/2, which in Retrospect was a big waster of time, but back then was expected to be the next big thing.

    To graduate, we wre required to take 40+ courses of 3 credit or more. A baseline CS degree was 44 courses, slighly more than half were in the CS cirriculum. Core Math/Sci?eng courses were courses were: 2 Semesters of Physics, 2 Calculus, 1 Diff Equations, 1 Prob and Stats, 2 Chemistry.

    Hope this helps.

  8. Sample Web Site Bad Example on Bringing Tech to Market: The Rules of Innovation · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not that I think the there is a problem with the concept of helping students Cram for exams.

    But the url www.cramming.com forwards you over to a pornographic website.

    I don't think that this is the type of cramming he had in mind.

  9. Re:Examples, please! on Bitter Java · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, that example is where you realize that the relationship[between that person and manager is not is-a (But TOm is a Manger you might say)
    No. Tom has the role of manager. Tom has that role in the context of his employment to a certain company.

    Don't throw out the E-R model when you start to use UML

  10. Re:Brilliant! on Siva Vaidhyanathan On Copyrights and Wrongs · · Score: 1

    Gotta second the Spearhead thing, although not all of their music is rap.

  11. Rackmounts on PC Cases with Side or Top Mounted Drive Bays? · · Score: 1

    One machine I've worked with that is very easy to access is the Dell 4U Rackmount. It is a top end machine, so I don't recommend people go out and pick one up for personal use, but it is almost completely toolless in it's approach, rich down to the rails. The only place you need a screw driver is if you want to go in to where the CPUs and Cards are. One screw, to make sure you really want to do it. The drivces are hot swappable, requireing only a push of a lever. The Power supplies are triply redunadant and again are hot swappable w/out tools.Even the fans.

    I'd love to see some of that technology come down to the PC. 4 Hard drive bays, where you can add and mount a new disk system. MMMM

    I assume your big complain is that the sound car your using has a port off the fron of the machine, where you are pluggin in MIDI/Mic/Speaker cables and you want to be able to have that separate from the Hard drives?Personally, I have a tower, and keep emn separte through sheer bulk, but it isn't really a scalable solution.

  12. Re:MySQL? on German Elections Go Open Source · · Score: 1

    Except Jetty hasn't supported the 1.3 servlet spec, which allows dynamic page incluides. No dynamic includes was the reason I was originally going to use PHP in place of JSP for the front end. Nothing against PHP, just wanted to stick to all one Language, which I was able to do w/ Catalina (Tomcat 4)

  13. This is super on Optical Waveguides in Photonic Crystals · · Score: 2, Funny

    so when does Kal-el file for patent infringement.

    When this is done, will I be able to take a green glowing crystal, throw it at an ice field, and have a huge building grow?

  14. Re:The glass protected stations on Vegas: Monorails v. Gridlock · · Score: 1

    I read the AOTC in your SIG as Attack of the Clones

  15. Re:Rock Climbing on Geek Outdoor Hobbies? · · Score: 1

    What do you mean not geeky. It has the #1 Criteria:

    Toys....er- I mean equipment..

    Ropes, carabiners, Stoppers, Harness, Spring Loaded Camming Devives, Ascenders (ooh) autolocking self ascenders, portaledges. Comon!

    And you need to know how to put them together. Try coming up with a trad-anchor using only the gear that you are not going to want for the next pitch, with three securer points, equalized, with a directional for upward pull. Only a true geek would take peleasure in figuring that one out.

  16. Re:Sorry this is so offtopic. on ASCI White Detonates The First E-Bomb · · Score: 1

    Considering that A sig gets calculated for each person when the article is rendered, figureing out Karma dynamically can't be that hard/big of a DB hit.

  17. OT rambling logic equivalent of the grammar police on Star Wars as Pulp Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    Points are not valid.
    Points are true or false
    Arguments are valid

    A valid argument is based that the conclusion follows the rules of logic from the premise

    If the premises are true and the argument is valid, then then conclusion is true.

    An argument is a connected...sorry, I was channeling Michael Palin for a second.

    Was this the half hour argument or just the five minute?

  18. Sounds like the Apafche Toolkit on A Walk Through the Gentoo Linux Install Process · · Score: 1

    THis is a very similar type project/setup as the Apache toolkit, which is what I use to configure nd compile apache sources. (AT is Perl based, and this sounds like it is python based)

    AT has the same problems as gentoo, the babysitting. Seems to me that this is a case of needing to figure out up front what questions need to be asked. The scripts for how to a build a particular component should contain that info. If you specify that you want to build under apache the jakarta stuff, you actually need Java, jakarta-ant, and Jakarta-tomcat.

    This is probably what makes Red Hat so successful: they have most of the dependencies front loaded so you don't need to baby sit for the long installs.

  19. Sun Needs to on .NET at JavaONE · · Score: 1

    Stop focusing on MS. They have a bettwer product in the things that they focus on (Scalability, OS) and better parteners they can turn to for Support (Oracle has nothing to Fear from Sun). Java is a great langauge, and a clear direction to go. Who cares what MS comes up with? Sun and MS, believe it or not, are in different markets. There is overlap, in the development strategy they are pushing, but not in their core strengths.

  20. Sorry this is so offtopic. on ASCI White Detonates The First E-Bomb · · Score: 1

    50+3+1-1+2-1=49? Methinks the cap coder screwed the pooch. How about we apply batch net karma at 1am GMT daily?

    No, the problem is that Karma is updated with each Entry. It would be bettwer if a Karma Score were calculated for an article, and then a person's Karma was a summation of of all the articles Karma Scores.

    So it should be 50 + article

    article = 3+1-1+2-1 = 4

    Karma stays at 50

  21. Re:Why was this posted? on Open Source Genetic Image Generation Software · · Score: 2

    Because it is something worth noting. SOmebody decided that it was news for nerds/stuff that matters.

    Genetic Algorithms are a cool concept, and w/o a PhD in CS, something that is beyond most peoples understanding. There has been a lot of atalk about it, and now there is a sample project so hackers that want to take a look at source code can dig through it.

    I will agree that there are thousands of things on SourceForge that are neglected. Mostly they are neglected by the people that posted them there.

  22. Re:[OT] Re:Cigarettes on Most Outrageous Vendor Lie Ever Told? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think it was a bunch of bananas.
    No, wait, if they attack with the banans, pull the lever releasing the 200lb weight.

  23. Re:Sun for freedom? What happened to StarOffice 6? on Sun Works With Apache Software Foundation · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Open office is still open, and better than SO6 for the same reasons mozilla is better'n netscape 6.
    And for the same reason netbeans is better'b forte for java, although I hear the Enterprise stuff in FFJ is nice.

  24. Re:1.3 petabytes? on Science Grid Genesis · · Score: 1

    Modules to load at start up:
    Used to be under conf.modules,
    and then modules.conf

  25. Start with on Open Source... Television? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A Digital Camera, and A Website.

    It's called a web cast.

    I don't think anyone would want the Raw footage, just the edited stuff. Basically, he's saying it would be freely redsitributeable. This is not the same as open source. Open Source (and Free Software) is a solution to the problem of people getting you dependent on a software product with not way to alter it. But with film, there is not source code.

    At least with music, you can claim open source by offering the sheet music or something. Maybe the script for a play as well. But again, that is a little different.