Yea, we use a lot of FGPAs in our inhouse product. They're nice because you can completely change functionality on the fly or fix bugs on the rare occasion the hardware is at fault.
Here here! Get VMware workstation. The snapshot functionality works wonders (gets you back to a state where the box truly worked, not the crap "restore" that XP has). It doesn't really matter what your IT setup is, just install linux then vmware (a bit of a bear to install on some machines, just look up vmware-any-update), then get the resident IT admin to add your "machine" to the domain and install any extra apps you might have. Then splurge and get a dual screen graphics card (and steal a monitor from someone else's desk) and you practically have 2 machines, but with vmware-tools, you can copy and paste between the two. Since you'll be doing most of your work on the linux side other than maybe opening email or using some assinine IE only intranet site, you don't have to worry about crashes. I've been running like this at work for over a year now and have not had any problems. The only annoying thing is that I have to recompile the vmware module every time I install an updated kernel and that's merely running a script and giving it the default options. It's almost too easy!
It doesn't matter how intelligent a user is if a poorly written driver causes a slow memory leak or when you leave an app up that takes a lot of memory then XP caches it out, but for some reason doesn't bring it back in.
Because of this, limited specialized software may be able to utilize such hardware for a few applications, but not for general purpose computing such as is done with PCs today. Even for people, problems cannot be easily broken down so that many workers can get a job done more quickly than only a few. Putting 80 people to work digging a 20 foot ditch would be slower than if there were only a few, say 4, for example. Most things we encounter in the real world are that way. In most jobs the output of one worker becomes the input of the next one. There are not that many jobs that can be done in parallel.
I just wanted to point out that you have a serious flaw in your argument. By saying the output of one worker is the input of the next one, you just illustrated how having more workers is a good thing (i.e. what Henry Ford realized 100 years ago). You figure out how many small task can be repeated quickly with given inputs and outputs then you pass it on to the next task. And you ditch digging exercise... depends on how you have the people working. Sure, if you have 80 people with shovels, they'll only get in your way, but you have some people digging, some people running wheelbarrows full of dirt, some people managing etc. Almost any task can be broken down into a smaller subset of tasks then re-assembled into a whole.
The more cameras you have, the better for motion capture. It allows you to track the shiny parts from multiple angles. I would dare say that three is a bare minimum. At the UTD motion capture lab, they have 30 cameras (or did when I saw it). When capturing in real time, it still lost track of the balls on occasion.
My group where I work has been dealing with headaches invovled with timing a lot recently. The jitter will definitely kill you. It is acceptable for NTP to be off by 10 milliseconds between a host and a client.
No seriously, when she types, she turns on capslock for each upper case letter then turns it back off again... She formed the habbit before anyone informed her of what a shift key was. Now she can't use a shift key. I don't have the heart to introduce her to a SUN keyboard...
You will not regret buying this printer unless you want color (I've had one for 8 months and I love it). I have it hooked up to a windows XP box which shares it accross to other PCs in the house. The installation was a snap, and the drivers aren't half bad.
For me on a Optiplex gx620 with a upgraded video card running FC5 with ati drivers from livna... (lot of information, I know) it runs as well as or better than the same system running windows.
I have one bone to pick with VmWare right now (I'm running Workstation 5.5 on top of Fedora Core 5). Whenever a virtual machine hangs (a la windows), it hangs the vmware process; thus you cannot totally kill the vmware process. Not sure if it is the same in windows, but I would be surprised if it was any better. So my beef is: why can a virtual environment kill the host environment?
While I don't usally agree with the moaning and groaning about slashdot articles. I swear I've read this exact post before. Come on! FC5 has been out for awhile now (and the install hasn't really changed either).
Designed for extensibility so that independent software vendors and enterprise developers can easily build custom tools and utilities to administer their software.
Looks like it might not be that hard to create a bash wrapper or similar (python anyone?)
I work for a company that uses embedded linux. We also have a division that uses embedded windows. I can tell you for sure that the linux product is much easier to configure, is much more intuitive, and work a whole lot better for what the product is designed to do.
I completely agree!! My motivation for messing around with computers was games. My 7 year old brother learned to type so he could play games with me and my brothers.
I work for a telecom network analysis company, and all are products can run on standard 120V AC or 48V DC (you have inputs for +48 and -48) depending on the power supply. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm pretty sure you can run an AC one and a DC one at the same time (redundant power supplies). From what I understand, a lot of the telecom companies (especially US ones) require DC in there labs (and have for awhile now). Also, talking to a couple of guys who have setup equipment, DC is much more painful to get shocked by than AC.
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Yea, we use a lot of FGPAs in our inhouse product. They're nice because you can completely change functionality on the fly or fix bugs on the rare occasion the hardware is at fault.
Sounds like you had the same professor I did...
Here here! Get VMware workstation. The snapshot functionality works wonders (gets you back to a state where the box truly worked, not the crap "restore" that XP has). It doesn't really matter what your IT setup is, just install linux then vmware (a bit of a bear to install on some machines, just look up vmware-any-update), then get the resident IT admin to add your "machine" to the domain and install any extra apps you might have. Then splurge and get a dual screen graphics card (and steal a monitor from someone else's desk) and you practically have 2 machines, but with vmware-tools, you can copy and paste between the two. Since you'll be doing most of your work on the linux side other than maybe opening email or using some assinine IE only intranet site, you don't have to worry about crashes. I've been running like this at work for over a year now and have not had any problems. The only annoying thing is that I have to recompile the vmware module every time I install an updated kernel and that's merely running a script and giving it the default options. It's almost too easy!
It doesn't matter how intelligent a user is if a poorly written driver causes a slow memory leak or when you leave an app up that takes a lot of memory then XP caches it out, but for some reason doesn't bring it back in.
My thoughts exactly
Bahh... Dual switched lights are easy. It just take a couple seconds to remember how you want it to work.
You sir, beat me to that punchline... Why the A/C?
Never thought I'd be able to say data mining and dumpster diving in the same sentence.
The more cameras you have, the better for motion capture. It allows you to track the shiny parts from multiple angles. I would dare say that three is a bare minimum. At the UTD motion capture lab, they have 30 cameras (or did when I saw it). When capturing in real time, it still lost track of the balls on occasion.
My group where I work has been dealing with headaches invovled with timing a lot recently. The jitter will definitely kill you. It is acceptable for NTP to be off by 10 milliseconds between a host and a client.
SUN keyboards had the light embedded in the keys as well (they just put capslock where control goes and the only control key is where capslock goes).
My wife uses capslock you insensitive clod!!!
No seriously, when she types, she turns on capslock for each upper case letter then turns it back off again... She formed the habbit before anyone informed her of what a shift key was. Now she can't use a shift key. I don't have the heart to introduce her to a SUN keyboard...
You will not regret buying this printer unless you want color (I've had one for 8 months and I love it). I have it hooked up to a windows XP box which shares it accross to other PCs in the house. The installation was a snap, and the drivers aren't half bad.
For me on a Optiplex gx620 with a upgraded video card running FC5 with ati drivers from livna... (lot of information, I know) it runs as well as or better than the same system running windows.
Dang-it... with the pirate bay shutdown, global warming is sure to pick up speed now.
You must also not forget that a Gb is not the same as Ghz! I hate it when CS!! students mix those two up.
I have one bone to pick with VmWare right now (I'm running Workstation 5.5 on top of Fedora Core 5). Whenever a virtual machine hangs (a la windows), it hangs the vmware process; thus you cannot totally kill the vmware process. Not sure if it is the same in windows, but I would be surprised if it was any better. So my beef is: why can a virtual environment kill the host environment?
yea, but you still have to configure it vi /etc/ntp.conf
service ntp start
chkconfig ntp 35 on
I can tell you for sure that in TX, you can fire someone without any reason. Quite a few people got fired on Monday for leaving work to protest.
While I don't usally agree with the moaning and groaning about slashdot articles. I swear I've read this exact post before. Come on! FC5 has been out for awhile now (and the install hasn't really changed either).
Looks like it might not be that hard to create a bash wrapper or similar (python anyone?)
I work for a company that uses embedded linux. We also have a division that uses embedded windows. I can tell you for sure that the linux product is much easier to configure, is much more intuitive, and work a whole lot better for what the product is designed to do.
I completely agree!! My motivation for messing around with computers was games. My 7 year old brother learned to type so he could play games with me and my brothers.
I work for a telecom network analysis company, and all are products can run on standard 120V AC or 48V DC (you have inputs for +48 and -48) depending on the power supply. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm pretty sure you can run an AC one and a DC one at the same time (redundant power supplies). From what I understand, a lot of the telecom companies (especially US ones) require DC in there labs (and have for awhile now). Also, talking to a couple of guys who have setup equipment, DC is much more painful to get shocked by than AC.