If you're already using a Mac, you might be interested in Sandvox from Karelia Software. It does a lot of what iWeb did with some other customizations possible. You'd still have to find hosting, thought.
TextMate is a great text editor and it has a pretty sophisticated templating & tab-trigger system. You could define your own tab-triggers to produce templates that you fill in with the equations. The bonus here is that you can define your own.
I use the templating system for writing code, but the same concepts would apply to using it for equations.
I think you're confusing what Rendezvous is doing. It's just a discovery protocol. On the server side, it advertises the existence of a service available on a particular port. On the client side, it browses for services of a particular type. It does this only on the local subnet.
When a client tries to contact a server, that's when the firewall rules/access control lists/what-have-you kick in. There's nothing keeping you from restricting the incoming connections by IP, or having the server ask for a password. The former is a firewall-level restriction, and the latter is about the specific protocol you're using.
My father was a dentist (he recently retired). A number of the family friends were therefore also medical people (other dentists, orthopedic surgeons, general pracititioners, surgeons, etc.).
Growing up going to Christmas parties, it would frequently come to pass that someone would walk up to my father and say "Merry Christmas, Doc! Listen, I've got this tooth that's a bit sore..." and then proceed to open his mouth and point at the tooth in question and make noises that tried to sound reasonable while still letting Dad have a view of the canapes lodged in their molars.
My father has been getting the last laugh, however. Because now (15 years later) when we're together at a Christmas party, people say "Hey, aren't you in computers or something?" and then proceed to tell me about their latest woes connecting their latest toy. Or they want to know who this "General Protection Fault" guy is and what the military is doing in their computer.
Although I have to admit: telling them I don't use Windows and can't help them does result in a marvelous blank look from them I use to run away and see about some more canapes.
For what it's worth (to be just a little bit on topic), I've been using Win2K and Linux at home and OS X on a G3 Mac at work. The 10.1 update to OS X along with the Omniweb browser has made that my favorite platform, bar none, to surf the web. For games, it sucks.
Yeah, but this really shouldn't surprise anyone - the G3's video card is an old ATI. What're you comparing it against?
Honestly, I would rather not have OS X on Intel hardware--it is dog slow even on this 400 MHz G3 after all the updates/patches have been applied. What I would like is just a browser as nice as Omniweb.
Running OS X on a 400Mhz G3 is roughly like running Win XP on a PII 333 or so. Yes, it's going to be a bit on the slow side. Throwing lots of RAM at it helps, though. But expecting the responsiveness of a high end machine off that 400Mhz G3 is probably asking a lot.
I know that that's been the current thinking, but how accurate is it?
People have a right to know who is controlling elements of a public resource, so whois records should be open to all.
I'm not convinced that domain names are public resources. I certainly will agree that the registries are essentially public resources, preventing domain name collisions, but the domain name itself I really don't see as a public resource.
If I start a company, I have to come up with a name for that company to establish presence in my area. I'm required to do a name search for that company name to ensure that I'm not infringing on a name already in use. The name of my company is my own - tied up in its identity.
The same is true of the domain name system. If I want a domain name, I do a search to find one that hasn't been taken. If someone beat me to the domain name, then I either have to come up with a new one or negotiate with the current holder to turn it over. If the current holder has no legitimate interest in the domain, then there has to be some existing law regarding corporate/personal identity to cover this.
I suppose I'm also not convinced that ICANN's processes for this are any good, but that's a rant for another time.
Incoming students for this year and last year have been required to purchase laptops. The laptop required has been some flavor of IBM ThinkPad. Last year it was a 600e. This year it was a T20. Since the school was buying ~1500 at a time, they got a good deal on them. But there's a lot of infrastructure that has to be in place first.
RPI's repair group is on anywhere from a 3-5 week backlog and although there are loaners, the loaners are generally all in use. They've been expanding the staff, but remember: we're only 1/2 way done with every student getting a laptop. If they double the repair staff and the loaners in the next two years, it's a holding action - they'll still be on the same backlog.
There's been precious little actual curriculum reform at RPI. Maple is state-of-the-art in math classes and concerns about actually knowing the material have been raised and stomped on here. They've actually started offering courses over streaming video that were taped a year and a half ago and being replayed. Progress? I don't think so but they didn't ask me.:)
The UNIX workstations in the labs (O2s, RS6000s, Suns) have been taken out and replaced by tables with power and network jacks. Yes, they've got a uniform computing environment, but at what cost? It's Microsoft Campus 2000 here with some notable exceptions (the recent FreeBSD and Linux installfests). The school has basically pushed the cost of maintaining labs on to the students.
We were supposed to have software parity - but the student who purchased the 600es last year got Maple 5. The students who got the T20s got Maple 6. Now, the students with Maple 5 are being "given" the opportunity to upgrade to Maple 6 for $50 apiece. This problem with software licensing has wound up kicking RPI in the butt more times than they can count conveniently.
The biggest problem with all of this is that none of the faculty or schools decided to start a laptop program: their Admissions offices did. It's a bullet point on a brochure. "We're better preparing your kid for the 21st century because we're requiring that they buy a laptop to come here." Unfortunately all the important stuff like curriculum reform, infrastructure upgrades, and new support staff hiring comes way after the fact - and it's too little too late.
I don't think there's much of an argument about the fact that a significant amount of mp3s on Napster are copyright violations. What I'm more interested in is the potential legislative result that'll come out of this case.
If legislators can't separate the software from the content the software's sharing out, what could happen to the requirements for making data available on the Internet? I think this is what David Touretzky from CMU was touching on, but it has wider ramifications.
Possible scenario: Napster gets shut down and any filesharing software of that kind comes under fire regardless of content. I find that spooky. Smacks a bit of the silliness about cryptographic export and how some of that is (was? I don't remember) classified as a crime.
They -are- aware of it, but as far as my understanding goes Ralf's use of WML as Website Meta Language predates the WAP people using it as Wireless Markup Language. The mailing list is archived someplace, and I'm pretty sure you can look at it somewhere off of http://www.engelschall.com/sw/wml/.
WML's pretty slick - it's a preprocessor basically with 9 passes and there's nothing keeping you from embedding PHP in it. In fact with the right amount of handwaving you can even have it generate code -inside- the PHP for multi-language sites. I use it for a bunch of sites - it's well worth looking in to.
I'm using Lucent's Silver WaveLAN card with Apple's AirPort base on my FreeBSD laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E). I don't know about the 3Com or Cisco cards, but the Silver WaveLAN was ~$150 from all the places I priced it. For $299 ($281 if you're at an.edu) and $150 for the card, it's a pretty good deal.
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If you're already using a Mac, you might be interested in Sandvox from Karelia Software. It does a lot of what iWeb did with some other customizations possible. You'd still have to find hosting, thought.
TextMate is a great text editor and it has a pretty sophisticated templating & tab-trigger system. You could define your own tab-triggers to produce templates that you fill in with the equations. The bonus here is that you can define your own.
I use the templating system for writing code, but the same concepts would apply to using it for equations.
...that China would get that bent out of shape about version control.... Go figure.
I think you're confusing what Rendezvous is doing. It's just a discovery protocol. On the server side, it advertises the existence of a service available on a particular port. On the client side, it browses for services of a particular type. It does this only on the local subnet.
When a client tries to contact a server, that's when the firewall rules/access control lists/what-have-you kick in. There's nothing keeping you from restricting the incoming connections by IP, or having the server ask for a password. The former is a firewall-level restriction, and the latter is about the specific protocol you're using.
My father was a dentist (he recently retired). A number of the family friends were therefore also medical people (other dentists, orthopedic surgeons, general pracititioners, surgeons, etc.).
Growing up going to Christmas parties, it would frequently come to pass that someone would walk up to my father and say "Merry Christmas, Doc! Listen, I've got this tooth that's a bit sore..." and then proceed to open his mouth and point at the tooth in question and make noises that tried to sound reasonable while still letting Dad have a view of the canapes lodged in their molars.
My father has been getting the last laugh, however. Because now (15 years later) when we're together at a Christmas party, people say "Hey, aren't you in computers or something?" and then proceed to tell me about their latest woes connecting their latest toy. Or they want to know who this "General Protection Fault" guy is and what the military is doing in their computer.
Although I have to admit: telling them I don't use Windows and can't help them does result in a marvelous blank look from them I use to run away and see about some more canapes.
For what it's worth (to be just a little bit on topic), I've been using Win2K and Linux at home and OS X on a G3 Mac at work. The 10.1 update to OS X along with the Omniweb browser has made that my favorite platform, bar none, to surf the web. For games, it sucks.
Yeah, but this really shouldn't surprise anyone - the G3's video card is an old ATI. What're you comparing it against?
Honestly, I would rather not have OS X on Intel hardware--it is dog slow even on this 400 MHz G3 after all the updates/patches have been applied. What I would like is just a browser as nice as Omniweb.
Running OS X on a 400Mhz G3 is roughly like running Win XP on a PII 333 or so. Yes, it's going to be a bit on the slow side. Throwing lots of RAM at it helps, though. But expecting the responsiveness of a high end machine off that 400Mhz G3 is probably asking a lot.
I know that that's been the current thinking, but how accurate is it?
I'm not convinced that domain names are public resources. I certainly will agree that the registries are essentially public resources, preventing domain name collisions, but the domain name itself I really don't see as a public resource.
If I start a company, I have to come up with a name for that company to establish presence in my area. I'm required to do a name search for that company name to ensure that I'm not infringing on a name already in use. The name of my company is my own - tied up in its identity.
The same is true of the domain name system. If I want a domain name, I do a search to find one that hasn't been taken. If someone beat me to the domain name, then I either have to come up with a new one or negotiate with the current holder to turn it over. If the current holder has no legitimate interest in the domain, then there has to be some existing law regarding corporate/personal identity to cover this.
I suppose I'm also not convinced that ICANN's processes for this are any good, but that's a rant for another time.
Incoming students for this year and last year have been required to purchase laptops. The laptop required has been some flavor of IBM ThinkPad. Last year it was a 600e. This year it was a T20. Since the school was buying ~1500 at a time, they got a good deal on them. But there's a lot of infrastructure that has to be in place first.
:)
RPI's repair group is on anywhere from a 3-5 week backlog and although there are loaners, the loaners are generally all in use. They've been expanding the staff, but remember: we're only 1/2 way done with every student getting a laptop. If they double the repair staff and the loaners in the next two years, it's a holding action - they'll still be on the same backlog.
There's been precious little actual curriculum reform at RPI. Maple is state-of-the-art in math classes and concerns about actually knowing the material have been raised and stomped on here. They've actually started offering courses over streaming video that were taped a year and a half ago and being replayed. Progress? I don't think so but they didn't ask me.
The UNIX workstations in the labs (O2s, RS6000s, Suns) have been taken out and replaced by tables with power and network jacks. Yes, they've got a uniform computing environment, but at what cost? It's Microsoft Campus 2000 here with some notable exceptions (the recent FreeBSD and Linux installfests). The school has basically pushed the cost of maintaining labs on to the students.
We were supposed to have software parity - but the student who purchased the 600es last year got Maple 5. The students who got the T20s got Maple 6. Now, the students with Maple 5 are being "given" the opportunity to upgrade to Maple 6 for $50 apiece. This problem with software licensing has wound up kicking RPI in the butt more times than they can count conveniently.
The biggest problem with all of this is that none of the faculty or schools decided to start a laptop program: their Admissions offices did. It's a bullet point on a brochure. "We're better preparing your kid for the 21st century because we're requiring that they buy a laptop to come here." Unfortunately all the important stuff like curriculum reform, infrastructure upgrades, and new support staff hiring comes way after the fact - and it's too little too late.
I don't think there's much of an argument about the fact that a significant amount of mp3s on Napster are copyright violations. What I'm more interested in is the potential legislative result that'll come out of this case.
If legislators can't separate the software from the content the software's sharing out, what could happen to the requirements for making data available on the Internet? I think this is what David Touretzky from CMU was touching on, but it has wider ramifications.
Possible scenario: Napster gets shut down and any filesharing software of that kind comes under fire regardless of content. I find that spooky. Smacks a bit of the silliness about cryptographic export and how some of that is (was? I don't remember) classified as a crime.
Any ideas or thoughts on this?
They -are- aware of it, but as far as my understanding goes Ralf's use of WML as Website Meta Language predates the WAP people using it as Wireless Markup Language. The mailing list is archived someplace, and I'm pretty sure you can look at it somewhere off of http://www.engelschall.com/sw/wml/.
WML's pretty slick - it's a preprocessor basically with 9 passes and there's nothing keeping you from embedding PHP in it. In fact with the right amount of handwaving you can even have it generate code -inside- the PHP for multi-language sites. I use it for a bunch of sites - it's well worth looking in to.
I'm using Lucent's Silver WaveLAN card with Apple's AirPort base on my FreeBSD laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E). I don't know about the 3Com or Cisco cards, but the Silver WaveLAN was ~$150 from all the places I priced it. For $299 ($281 if you're at an .edu) and $150 for the card, it's a pretty good deal.