Your search was for too narrow. Even my search for intelligent political leadership near the Milky Way yielded no results.
My search for intellicent future leadership revealed only one canidate: me. Saddly I suspect that your results will varry on this one. Write me in for the next ellection though.
Several times I've made a long list of things that I'd like in the perfect girl (each list very different). Then I found a girl that met everything on the latest list, with one exception: we could not stand each other.
My list is now down to: Single girl who I can stand to be around. Unfortunatly I'm still a geek, given an opportunity to meet new girls I'd get scared and run to the computer for a nice coding session.
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I read several of the reviews, and all stuck with 32 bit code for the comparition between the Intel P4 and the AMD Athalon 64. Linux runs on the Atahlon in 64 bit mode, wouldn't be hard to compile PovRay and Doom on a 64 bit compiler and see if anything changes. Thats just for an easy test.
Many real world (science?) applications benifit from 64 bit processors, find some (presumably running on UltraSparc, PPC, Alpha, or such) and port them over to see how the 64bit abilities of this chip compares to the other existing chips.
I run open source OSes, and open Source applications. I don't care about 32 bit performance because I'm fairly sure that if I did have an Athalon 64 I wouldn't run 32 bit code very often. I can choose between many chips, compatable instruction sets to me means gcc (or other compiler) has an output for them. 32 bit x86 compatiabily is nice for the few times I have to run something 32 bit (normally in Wine) and that doesn't happen very often.
I had to do similear for one project I was on. I know exactly how we handle it when someone walks up and pulls the active CPU and data bus, because I've done it: It doesn't work. It only works in marketing's imangination and customer's data centers. The latter is more luck than I ever thought could exist in the real world, now that I know all the different ways data could silently get lost.
Sometimes engineering makes you too pessimistic about the real world. I'm just glad that all the customers who might pull a CPU, use the product to prepare bills (that might be sent to me), and not to process something like interest payments to me.
Why not. Physics taught me that there is no center point. You can pick any point you want to to base your frame of reference on. Normally they suggest that there are points where calculations become much easier and suggest you pick that. There is no reason you can't pick your zero point as the center of the earth, if you really like overly complex calculations.
P.S. Next time you get the classic problem about the distance a fly traveling between 2 trains heading at each other... Pick jupiter as your reference point, and make sure you account for the relative rotation of the planets. If you assume distance traveled by the fly's own efforts you should get the same answer as everyone else, but the calculations will be so complex, and the numbers in between so large that the teacher won't be able to follow. Note that I claim no responsibilit for any mistakes you make in the calculations.
Sure, lets run some models of a very complex chaotic system on a comptuer with not near enough power (supercomputers are not near powerful enough for this work, at least not to get results in any meaningful timeline), when we don't even know all the inputs we need, or exactly how they relate.
Those models are interesting, but those who are running them will admit they made a lot of asumptions that may or may not be true.
Microsoft has done more than get help from hardware manufactures. They have activly forced hardware manufactures to give up on some stupid designs. You can't put a designed for windows sticker on a PC if you have ISA slots. You have to have USB. And a lot of other restrictions designed to get rid of old hardware that was hard to detect and replace it with new hardware that is detectable. Linux benifits from this, on a new PC you can be sure that linux will correctly detect and identify all the hardware. Unfortunatly you can't be sure that linux will know more than that it is there because only Microsoft gets drivers, but at least it won't get in the way of linux.
Although honestly I think Microsoft should have insisted on some different details, overall I call the changes Microsoft has forced on hardware good.
Cool idea. I eat lunch at my desk often, so I'd get paid lunch, as would everyone who eats in the caffiteria. Not to mention the time spent in the exercise room.
I'm not a lawyer, and I do not normally post obvious legal disclaimers. However here is an attempt.
NetBSD makes a best effort attempt to support all general purpose computing devices with a minimal required set of hardware abilities and legally obtainable specifications. However no gaurentee is made that any particular device is supported.
Happy now? I'm sure a real lawyer could not only word that better, but also find some loophole that I missed, but you get the idea.
Seriously though, linux may from time to time support more systems, or different systems. However except for a few popular platforms the support is very lacking. NetBSD supports the most platforms and makes the best effort to make the code easially portable to new platforms.
General wisdom suggests that some of those companies do unsubscribe you, but then they sell your email as a verified good address. By unsubscribing you they can claim in court that they are honest and ethical, afterall they can prove they unsubscribe everyone who requests it. Selling that address is sleezy, but they figgure they have a better chance of getting away with things, plus make some money.
Well, they shouldn't but.nu belongs to Niue, and so long as the proxy for the people (goverment) doesn't mind I don't have a problem with that they do. If I lived on Niue I would have a problem with it, but I belive in letter other people do stupid things. However.com and.net belong to the internet as a whole, and that means everyone needs to agree with what happens there. (Note, everyone in the wolrd,.us belongs to the USA, and those in other countries shouldn't be concerned about the stupid things.us is doing, while those in the US should)
This is the way I live my life: Don't harm anyone but yourself and I'll leave you alone. I won't agree with what you do, and speak against it, but so long as it doesn't harm others I don't care.
I have no clue how the goverment of Niue is overall, having never heard of them before. If they are "Evil", I might help those in the country to change things, but that is a completely different story and has nothing to do with domain naming.
I run FreeBSD on my "linux" machine. There is also NetBSD and OpenBSD for those concerned that linux isn't diverse enough.
Sure Linux is the most popular openSource OS kernel, but it isn't the only one. FreeBSD averages out just as good. (better in some areas, worse in others - mostly you can't tell the difference) The others aren't as good overall, but each claims something major that might make it worth running anyway. (openBSD is secure, netBSD runs on everything)
Upgrade the UPS. The batteries are likely nearly dead on the old one, so you need to replace one of the most expensive parts anyway. Your new UPS will come with a USB adaptor. At least all the ones I've seen come with USB now. I have no idea if the protocol is compatable with linux though, wouldn't surprize me at all if the manufactures changed their protocol just to be incompatable with linux machines. It shuts them out of a large part of the server market, but at least they don't have to support other OSes.
Warning, make sure your UPS plugs directly into the computer, much less a chance that something will go wrong that way. (Like pluging a powered hub into an non-battery backup socket and then the UPS into that)
Perhaps, but don't bet on it. The US would not be pleased with China controling Taiwan. Not sure we would react, but China isn't stupid enough to be sure either. Both sides have no major interest in a war of the scale of US vs China. I would personally guess that most of Europe would step in too. No way to be sure, all I really know is the situation would be messy.
Spits your card out?! that is a big problem. It should eat the card (some ATMs can appearently decide to store the card internally instead of giving it back, used to take any card belonging to a thief), and have your bank send you a new card. this is easy to do, and makes sure that nobody leaves (without thinking, or thinking the machine won't come back) their card behind and someone else picks it up.
And which power plant got hit by a virus despite having a seperate network? Sure your network is seperate, but people find it too easy to move a (infected) computer betweeen seperate networks to get something done.
In the past I would have agreed with you. Today USB (high speed) is fast enough and universial enough that you can buy a keyboard, mouse, and USB hub for both work and home, and all you plug in is the hub. Want to expand? USB has you covered, and suddenly you plug in the hub at work and also have your scanner, network (wireless would be better, but perhaps not secure enough) and cd burner. At home you plug in and also get your printer and two gamepads. Or whatever combonations you can come up with.
You still have to plug it into mains power of course, but that is a lot less connections, and a lot more versitile. I'd recomend a seperate monitor if you work in one spot often, but that may or may not be best for you. At most you have 3 connections, and the duplicated equpiment is cheap.
I was out of work from July -> october last year when I realized that I needed an income so I went to construction until september (just a couple weeks ago). Jobs are out there, they are just hard to find. Take something to pay the bills, look at your resume, and then keep working.
The resume that got me this job was the same one I'd been useing since the previous July. The difference is I stumbled across a little company, and that looked at my resume and litterly said "We never get coders of your quality". They hired me despited not having the budget for it, lest I find a different job. Many programs are as good as me, but they don't see them. (I fit their needs slightly better than most because I understand the details of SCSI and networking, but I'm not unique there)
So all I can say is keep trying. Look for little companies that never get resumes. If you need to, take a entery level job to pay the bills, and cut back, but keep your skills up to date, and keep looking.
No. It might have been at onetime, back when there was much less problems with the internet (it was at one time my net machine, but that was when a 386 was still considered a useful machine, and 4 bogomips was faster than most people got). Today it sits behind a NAT firewall (freebsd-stable) that doesn't let anything into it. It can still get out, but unless you cracked it 5 years ago and had it check in with you, you can't get at it. AFAIK, only fetchmail hits the internet from that machine.
I'd show you the uptime of my mailserver, but it is loaded enough already. Anyone care to guess how long it takes for a 386 with loads > 8, to respond to an uptime request? It ain't pretty I'll warn you in advance.
That machine has been due for retirement since before anyone mainstream worried about y2k, but I've never got around to it and the 80MB harddrive hasn't crashed yet.
Yes I have seen 2x4s that measured 2"x4". They were older than me. Many old 2x4s were actually measurements. Not a majority though, each manufacture had their own size until a stanard was made. I know of a house built in 1880 that uses 2x4s with the exact same dimintions as a modern stanard 2x4.
Not that even with stanard you cannot count on the size of lumber without checking. I was in carpentry for a while, and we saw many 2x6s (2x4s are used much less than in the past for insulation reasons - in the north anyway) that measured 1/8th too big.
Your junk C=64 machine sucks. My Atari rules. ATASCII is soo much better than that ugly ASCII you have to use.
I was going to post this in all caps like any kid back then would have, but I decided to save everyone's eyes. (I think the lameness filter would have stoped that)
Wrong, I have one of these things. When I reboot my computer (I was running an unstable kernel for a while so this happened often) the keyboard went to a mode where it sent something other than the F key codes unless you press the f-lock button. Each F key has something printed on it, (eg: undo) presumably with windows (and thier driver) you would press that button and have the action taken. I know of no way to disable this.
In the US at least, the americans with disabilities act does something to prevent you from losing your job if there is a medical reason you can't get there in time. Only a lawyer could tell you how/if it applies to you.
For the rest: I didn't mean to imply it is easy. You need to find what works for you to get you there in time though. (I recomend a different job - but they are hard to find)
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Your search was for too narrow. Even my search for intelligent political leadership near the Milky Way yielded no results.
My search for intellicent future leadership revealed only one canidate: me. Saddly I suspect that your results will varry on this one. Write me in for the next ellection though.
As soon as I know what I want...
Several times I've made a long list of things that I'd like in the perfect girl (each list very different). Then I found a girl that met everything on the latest list, with one exception: we could not stand each other.
My list is now down to: Single girl who I can stand to be around. Unfortunatly I'm still a geek, given an opportunity to meet new girls I'd get scared and run to the computer for a nice coding session.
I read several of the reviews, and all stuck with 32 bit code for the comparition between the Intel P4 and the AMD Athalon 64. Linux runs on the Atahlon in 64 bit mode, wouldn't be hard to compile PovRay and Doom on a 64 bit compiler and see if anything changes. Thats just for an easy test.
Many real world (science?) applications benifit from 64 bit processors, find some (presumably running on UltraSparc, PPC, Alpha, or such) and port them over to see how the 64bit abilities of this chip compares to the other existing chips.
I run open source OSes, and open Source applications. I don't care about 32 bit performance because I'm fairly sure that if I did have an Athalon 64 I wouldn't run 32 bit code very often. I can choose between many chips, compatable instruction sets to me means gcc (or other compiler) has an output for them. 32 bit x86 compatiabily is nice for the few times I have to run something 32 bit (normally in Wine) and that doesn't happen very often.
I had to do similear for one project I was on. I know exactly how we handle it when someone walks up and pulls the active CPU and data bus, because I've done it: It doesn't work. It only works in marketing's imangination and customer's data centers. The latter is more luck than I ever thought could exist in the real world, now that I know all the different ways data could silently get lost.
Sometimes engineering makes you too pessimistic about the real world. I'm just glad that all the customers who might pull a CPU, use the product to prepare bills (that might be sent to me), and not to process something like interest payments to me.
Why not. Physics taught me that there is no center point. You can pick any point you want to to base your frame of reference on. Normally they suggest that there are points where calculations become much easier and suggest you pick that. There is no reason you can't pick your zero point as the center of the earth, if you really like overly complex calculations.
P.S. Next time you get the classic problem about the distance a fly traveling between 2 trains heading at each other... Pick jupiter as your reference point, and make sure you account for the relative rotation of the planets. If you assume distance traveled by the fly's own efforts you should get the same answer as everyone else, but the calculations will be so complex, and the numbers in between so large that the teacher won't be able to follow. Note that I claim no responsibilit for any mistakes you make in the calculations.
Sure, lets run some models of a very complex chaotic system on a comptuer with not near enough power (supercomputers are not near powerful enough for this work, at least not to get results in any meaningful timeline), when we don't even know all the inputs we need, or exactly how they relate.
Those models are interesting, but those who are running them will admit they made a lot of asumptions that may or may not be true.
Microsoft has done more than get help from hardware manufactures. They have activly forced hardware manufactures to give up on some stupid designs. You can't put a designed for windows sticker on a PC if you have ISA slots. You have to have USB. And a lot of other restrictions designed to get rid of old hardware that was hard to detect and replace it with new hardware that is detectable. Linux benifits from this, on a new PC you can be sure that linux will correctly detect and identify all the hardware. Unfortunatly you can't be sure that linux will know more than that it is there because only Microsoft gets drivers, but at least it won't get in the way of linux.
Although honestly I think Microsoft should have insisted on some different details, overall I call the changes Microsoft has forced on hardware good.
Cool idea. I eat lunch at my desk often, so I'd get paid lunch, as would everyone who eats in the caffiteria. Not to mention the time spent in the exercise room.
I'm not a lawyer, and I do not normally post obvious legal disclaimers. However here is an attempt.
NetBSD makes a best effort attempt to support all general purpose computing devices with a minimal required set of hardware abilities and legally obtainable specifications. However no gaurentee is made that any particular device is supported.
Happy now? I'm sure a real lawyer could not only word that better, but also find some loophole that I missed, but you get the idea.
Seriously though, linux may from time to time support more systems, or different systems. However except for a few popular platforms the support is very lacking. NetBSD supports the most platforms and makes the best effort to make the code easially portable to new platforms.
General wisdom suggests that some of those companies do unsubscribe you, but then they sell your email as a verified good address. By unsubscribing you they can claim in court that they are honest and ethical, afterall they can prove they unsubscribe everyone who requests it. Selling that address is sleezy, but they figgure they have a better chance of getting away with things, plus make some money.
Well, they shouldn't but .nu belongs to Niue, and so long as the proxy for the people (goverment) doesn't mind I don't have a problem with that they do. If I lived on Niue I would have a problem with it, but I belive in letter other people do stupid things. However .com and .net belong to the internet as a whole, and that means everyone needs to agree with what happens there. (Note, everyone in the wolrd, .us belongs to the USA, and those in other countries shouldn't be concerned about the stupid things .us is doing, while those in the US should)
This is the way I live my life: Don't harm anyone but yourself and I'll leave you alone. I won't agree with what you do, and speak against it, but so long as it doesn't harm others I don't care.
I have no clue how the goverment of Niue is overall, having never heard of them before. If they are "Evil", I might help those in the country to change things, but that is a completely different story and has nothing to do with domain naming.
I run FreeBSD on my "linux" machine. There is also NetBSD and OpenBSD for those concerned that linux isn't diverse enough.
Sure Linux is the most popular openSource OS kernel, but it isn't the only one. FreeBSD averages out just as good. (better in some areas, worse in others - mostly you can't tell the difference) The others aren't as good overall, but each claims something major that might make it worth running anyway. (openBSD is secure, netBSD runs on everything)
Upgrade the UPS. The batteries are likely nearly dead on the old one, so you need to replace one of the most expensive parts anyway. Your new UPS will come with a USB adaptor. At least all the ones I've seen come with USB now. I have no idea if the protocol is compatable with linux though, wouldn't surprize me at all if the manufactures changed their protocol just to be incompatable with linux machines. It shuts them out of a large part of the server market, but at least they don't have to support other OSes.
Warning, make sure your UPS plugs directly into the computer, much less a chance that something will go wrong that way. (Like pluging a powered hub into an non-battery backup socket and then the UPS into that)
Perhaps, but don't bet on it. The US would not be pleased with China controling Taiwan. Not sure we would react, but China isn't stupid enough to be sure either. Both sides have no major interest in a war of the scale of US vs China. I would personally guess that most of Europe would step in too. No way to be sure, all I really know is the situation would be messy.
Spits your card out?! that is a big problem. It should eat the card (some ATMs can appearently decide to store the card internally instead of giving it back, used to take any card belonging to a thief), and have your bank send you a new card. this is easy to do, and makes sure that nobody leaves (without thinking, or thinking the machine won't come back) their card behind and someone else picks it up.
And which power plant got hit by a virus despite having a seperate network? Sure your network is seperate, but people find it too easy to move a (infected) computer betweeen seperate networks to get something done.
In the past I would have agreed with you. Today USB (high speed) is fast enough and universial enough that you can buy a keyboard, mouse, and USB hub for both work and home, and all you plug in is the hub. Want to expand? USB has you covered, and suddenly you plug in the hub at work and also have your scanner, network (wireless would be better, but perhaps not secure enough) and cd burner. At home you plug in and also get your printer and two gamepads. Or whatever combonations you can come up with.
You still have to plug it into mains power of course, but that is a lot less connections, and a lot more versitile. I'd recomend a seperate monitor if you work in one spot often, but that may or may not be best for you. At most you have 3 connections, and the duplicated equpiment is cheap.
I was out of work from July -> october last year when I realized that I needed an income so I went to construction until september (just a couple weeks ago). Jobs are out there, they are just hard to find. Take something to pay the bills, look at your resume, and then keep working.
The resume that got me this job was the same one I'd been useing since the previous July. The difference is I stumbled across a little company, and that looked at my resume and litterly said "We never get coders of your quality". They hired me despited not having the budget for it, lest I find a different job. Many programs are as good as me, but they don't see them. (I fit their needs slightly better than most because I understand the details of SCSI and networking, but I'm not unique there)
So all I can say is keep trying. Look for little companies that never get resumes. If you need to, take a entery level job to pay the bills, and cut back, but keep your skills up to date, and keep looking.
No. It might have been at onetime, back when there was much less problems with the internet (it was at one time my net machine, but that was when a 386 was still considered a useful machine, and 4 bogomips was faster than most people got). Today it sits behind a NAT firewall (freebsd-stable) that doesn't let anything into it. It can still get out, but unless you cracked it 5 years ago and had it check in with you, you can't get at it. AFAIK, only fetchmail hits the internet from that machine.
I'd show you the uptime of my mailserver, but it is loaded enough already. Anyone care to guess how long it takes for a 386 with loads > 8, to respond to an uptime request? It ain't pretty I'll warn you in advance.
That machine has been due for retirement since before anyone mainstream worried about y2k, but I've never got around to it and the 80MB harddrive hasn't crashed yet.
Yes I have seen 2x4s that measured 2"x4". They were older than me. Many old 2x4s were actually measurements. Not a majority though, each manufacture had their own size until a stanard was made. I know of a house built in 1880 that uses 2x4s with the exact same dimintions as a modern stanard 2x4.
Not that even with stanard you cannot count on the size of lumber without checking. I was in carpentry for a while, and we saw many 2x6s (2x4s are used much less than in the past for insulation reasons - in the north anyway) that measured 1/8th too big.
Your junk C=64 machine sucks. My Atari rules. ATASCII is soo much better than that ugly ASCII you have to use.
I was going to post this in all caps like any kid back then would have, but I decided to save everyone's eyes. (I think the lameness filter would have stoped that)
Wrong, I have one of these things. When I reboot my computer (I was running an unstable kernel for a while so this happened often) the keyboard went to a mode where it sent something other than the F key codes unless you press the f-lock button. Each F key has something printed on it, (eg: undo) presumably with windows (and thier driver) you would press that button and have the action taken. I know of no way to disable this.
In the US at least, the americans with disabilities act does something to prevent you from losing your job if there is a medical reason you can't get there in time. Only a lawyer could tell you how/if it applies to you.
For the rest: I didn't mean to imply it is easy. You need to find what works for you to get you there in time though. (I recomend a different job - but they are hard to find)
Sendmail has never had a good reputation for code quality. MS doesn't either. Whats your point?