It's MIT for crying out loud. I don't think they are going to have to look far for engineers;) The biggest problem will be getting professors to type up their course notes. If they had the bandwith they could just tape lecures, but I don't think 3rd world net users would prefer that format. Audio sucks because you can't pass it through Babelfish.
SETI is all about the screen saver. Most people who use SETI do it because of the cool blocks of FFT that get assembeled before their eyes, not because they are going to find ET. Anyone know of some cross platform (OpenGL??) screen savers one could use as the front end for a distributed computing project? SETI has proved that marketing is way more important to content for desktop supercomputing.
A cool screen saver and a spiffy website is all I need to get people to do my genetic programming runs for me. hehe...
If it is good enough for "Big Blue" it is good enough for you.
Just show your manager IBM's Linux sites. For most I doubt that they will need more convincing that Linux is ready for prime time in the desktop market.
You said you were an Information Systems major? For most universities that means you know Visual Basic, and Cobol.
"Knowing the big picture is good, but how do
you get to that level if you don't have any skills?"
This is where general education comes in handy. Take lots of Math an Computer Science courses so you know how to break down problems you come across into bite size chunks. Take science courses so you can understand how your company's products work. Take humanities courses so you know how to relate to your customers. And take business courses to boost your GPA.
Why not set up a non-profit oganization to donate your old software to? Going to throw out that old PII box? Why not donate the software and wipe the drive before you sell it for parts?
Maybee the EFF could set this up. You would be able to buy great software like Excel97 for peanunts, and M$ would get the shaft. Licence management would be tricky, but as long as you have the origninal CDs and certificate of authenticity I doubt M$ could have any valid legal claims.
I spent some time in industry, but for me nothing beats acadamia. No, you won't be a millionare but it is way more fun. With the IT glut there has been a shortage of hackers staying at universities. Almost every department is in bad need of someone to code for them. And not just database front ends, fun stuff.
Financial agents for the Economics department. Star models for the Physics department. Biologists have so much data on their hands right now you could data mine untill the cows come home. Chemists are figuring out computer models are much easier to work with for many problems. No matter what kind of hacks you like to do a university would be more than willing to pay you for it. And the best part is you can get your masters/PhD degree in Uber Geek studies on the side.
The government would either have to issue everyone a private key, or pass a law making it a crime not to hand over the keys. Although this only relates to detectable encryptions.
If you were a terrorist you would probably hide messages via a digital watermark in an image file/video file to get around this. Therefore making the laws useless.
I hope you all enjoy. The BBC ususaly is better at reporting anyway.
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Why not make this a feature? Write an extremely simple virtual machine that would perform calculations as asked. Way smaller than java. Simple enough that you could write a proof that it couldn't try to play outside its sandbox.
You could give it a small chunk of memory to use, run it at a VERY low priority, and use SSH like transmission where the packets are automaticaly compressed and only a list of certain IPs would be accepted. All you would have to do is download the IPs of the distributed projects you wanted to work on and the virtual machine would accept packets from them. No specific clients to download for each project, and you would get distributed computing easily on all your machines.
Any projects like this? It would be great to have an always on and client secure distributed computing platform.
It's sad that this plug-in isn't free software, but I wouldn't mind buying it because they do contribute a fair amount to the WINE project. It would be great if the FSF or some government organization would buy the code and GPL it.
If the US government spent as much money in grants to write free software as they do fighting M$ the computer world would be a much happier place.
The real limitation of Beowolf style computing is RAM. Beowolf is great if you have programs that paralellize with little intercommunication and low RAM usage. The bigger problem is RAM. Big iron like Crays/SUNs/SGIs all have about a Terabyte of RAM in one place. When you are trying to do large physics calculations you usually have a huge data set you need to store for every time series. Supercomputers aren't cool just because they are fast, but because they can hold HUGE amounts of data in RAM for easy acess. Until PCs get a few gigs of RAM per box cluster computing is still going to be Kludgy no matter what kind of message passing scheme you use.
"By contrast, the telecom network is the opposite: a smart network with dumb terminals. The intelligence and thus control of the network is contained in the switching technology, allowing the operator to ensure and contract a given quality of service. This allowed the pre-breakup AT&T to promote their famous "Five 9s" performance, 99.999% reliability. The ability to control access and routing also allowed higher margins, and thus profitability, despite the high startup costs."
How does seting up a monopoly help the general consumer? Yes, ATT would love to have a private Internet, but the end user gets the shaft. I think the author of this article was a little myopic (ohh I actualy used a word I learned in ECON101). The Internet is something you need to look at from a macroeconomic level. 95% of the worlds population could care less about the share price of M$,ATT, and AOL.
Concrete Mathematics by Grahm, Knuth and Patashnik
The book unvails the wonderfull world of Mathematics that goes into computer programming. It is a must have in any library, especially if you want to understand TAOCP.
I hope the courts come to a similar decision in M$ vs. everyone. Microsoft has, by virtue of it's monopoly, illegaly claimed rights over the device drivers of almost every PC hardware company in the world without paying a dime.
The source code for Windows device drivers should be bought by the government with a small programming fee going out to each manufacuer, and be placed in public domain.
The money they will get out of this has little to do with the single user search engine, and everything to do with the data mining. Companines like Google can mine their databases to do marketing queries on a HUGE scale. The search engine is great for the rest of us and a great advertising tool for them, but it is not where the money is.
800-833-6687 from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm Pacific Standard Time, seven days a week.
Sample Questions:
"How do I get a copy of ElcomSoft's AEBPR (Advanced E-Book Processor)?"
"Excuse me do I have the right Windows registry hack? [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Elcom\Advanced eBook Processor\Registration] "Code"="LEPR-T2K7-NA8Z-3DUE-EVDQS-TMPV-MBAUB"
"Can you tell me how to rotate an image with the Gimp?"
"Is it a violation of the DMCA to read.pdf files under Ghostview?"
Looks to me like they are producing ethanol from garbage. Big deal. Much cheaper to ferment corn, sugar beets, and anything else that has a higher content of fruitrose.
Come on. Lisp/Scheme/ML are functional. Everything is a function. How much more maintainable can you get?? If you don't like part of the program modify the function(s) that are bothering you. No classes to mess with, no brackets, little Microsoft obfiscation...
Quest has already screwed us. We noticed that they were over-charging us for long distance, so we switched to ATT. Next month we get slapped with a $20 "disconnect" fee. Boycott Qwest, they deserve it
Actually we had the same probelm this summer doing some stuff with face recognition. Try averageing all the shots for the last minute or so. That way you can filter out natural lighting changes like the sun, cloud cover,...
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It's MIT for crying out loud. I don't think they are going to have to look far for engineers ;) The biggest problem will be getting professors to type up their course notes. If they had the bandwith they could just tape lecures, but I don't think 3rd world net users would prefer that format. Audio sucks because you can't pass it through Babelfish.
SETI is all about the screen saver. Most people who use SETI do it because of the cool blocks of FFT that get assembeled before their eyes, not because they are going to find ET. Anyone know of some cross platform (OpenGL??) screen savers one could use as the front end for a distributed computing project? SETI has proved that marketing is way more important to content for desktop supercomputing.
A cool screen saver and a spiffy website is all I need to get people to do my genetic programming runs for me. hehe...
Thanks for the offtopic mod ;)
Here is a link to some Case Studies that IBM has done on using Linux that I should have posted above.
If it is good enough for "Big Blue" it is good enough for you.
Just show your manager IBM's Linux sites. For most I doubt that they will need more convincing that Linux is ready for prime time in the desktop market.
You said you were an Information Systems major? For most universities that means you know Visual Basic, and Cobol.
"Knowing the big picture is good, but how do
you get to that level if you don't have any skills?"
This is where general education comes in handy. Take lots of Math an Computer Science courses so you know how to break down problems you come across into bite size chunks. Take science courses so you can understand how your company's products work. Take humanities courses so you know how to relate to your customers. And take business courses to boost your GPA.
Why not set up a non-profit oganization to donate your old software to? Going to throw out that old PII box? Why not donate the software and wipe the drive before you sell it for parts?
Maybee the EFF could set this up. You would be able to buy great software like Excel97 for peanunts, and M$ would get the shaft. Licence management would be tricky, but as long as you have the origninal CDs and certificate of authenticity I doubt M$ could have any valid legal claims.
I spent some time in industry, but for me nothing beats acadamia. No, you won't be a millionare but it is way more fun. With the IT glut there has been a shortage of hackers staying at universities. Almost every department is in bad need of someone to code for them. And not just database front ends, fun stuff.
Financial agents for the Economics department. Star models for the Physics department. Biologists have so much data on their hands right now you could data mine untill the cows come home. Chemists are figuring out computer models are much easier to work with for many problems. No matter what kind of hacks you like to do a university would be more than willing to pay you for it. And the best part is you can get your masters/PhD degree in Uber Geek studies on the side.
The government would either have to issue everyone a private key, or pass a law making it a crime not to hand over the keys. Although this only relates to detectable encryptions.
If you were a terrorist you would probably hide messages via a digital watermark in an image file/video file to get around this. Therefore making the laws useless.
Who said anything about getting rid of Israel? They just need to give Palistinians basic human rights.
Apartied/segregation is evil.
Top 10 Reasons to Free Palestine:
10.OPEC plays nice with oil prices
9.Saddam has one less flag to wave
8. We can wory about the AIDS epedimic
7. First freeing of a nation since the cold war
6. Terrorists on welfare.
5.Israel saves millions on rockets.
4. US saves billions in aid to Israel
3. Arafat retires because he no longer has a cause
2. Palistinian coders have something better to do than deface Israel websites
1. Thousands of greatfull Palistinians
This is the story at BBC.
I hope you all enjoy. The BBC ususaly is better at reporting anyway.
Why not make this a feature? Write an extremely simple virtual machine that would perform calculations as asked. Way smaller than java. Simple enough that you could write a proof that it couldn't try to play outside its sandbox.
You could give it a small chunk of memory to use, run it at a VERY low priority, and use SSH like transmission where the packets are automaticaly compressed and only a list of certain IPs would be accepted. All you would have to do is download the IPs of the distributed projects you wanted to work on and the virtual machine would accept packets from them. No specific clients to download for each project, and you would get distributed computing easily on all your machines.
Any projects like this? It would be great to have an always on and client secure distributed computing platform.
It's sad that this plug-in isn't free software, but I wouldn't mind buying it because they do contribute a fair amount to the WINE project. It would be great if the FSF or some government organization would buy the code and GPL it.
If the US government spent as much money in grants to write free software as they do fighting M$ the computer world would be a much happier place.
The real limitation of Beowolf style computing is RAM. Beowolf is great if you have programs that paralellize with little intercommunication and low RAM usage. The bigger problem is RAM. Big iron like Crays/SUNs/SGIs all have about a Terabyte of RAM in one place. When you are trying to do large physics calculations you usually have a huge data set you need to store for every time series. Supercomputers aren't cool just because they are fast, but because they can hold HUGE amounts of data in RAM for easy acess. Until PCs get a few gigs of RAM per box cluster computing is still going to be Kludgy no matter what kind of message passing scheme you use.
"By contrast, the telecom network is the opposite: a smart network with dumb terminals. The intelligence and thus control of the network is contained in the switching technology, allowing the operator to ensure and contract a given quality of service. This allowed the pre-breakup AT&T to promote their famous "Five 9s" performance, 99.999% reliability. The ability to control access and routing also allowed higher margins, and thus profitability, despite the high startup costs."
How does seting up a monopoly help the general consumer? Yes, ATT would love to have a private Internet, but the end user gets the shaft. I think the author of this article was a little myopic (ohh I actualy used a word I learned in ECON101). The Internet is something you need to look at from a macroeconomic level. 95% of the worlds population could care less about the share price of M$,ATT, and AOL.
Concrete Mathematics by Grahm, Knuth and Patashnik
The book unvails the wonderfull world of Mathematics that goes into computer programming. It is a must have in any library, especially if you want to understand TAOCP.
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I hope the courts come to a similar decision in M$ vs. everyone. Microsoft has, by virtue of it's monopoly, illegaly claimed rights over the device drivers of almost every PC hardware company in the world without paying a dime. The source code for Windows device drivers should be bought by the government with a small programming fee going out to each manufacuer, and be placed in public domain.
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The money they will get out of this has little to do with the single user search engine, and everything to do with the data mining. Companines like Google can mine their databases to do marketing queries on a HUGE scale. The search engine is great for the rest of us and a great advertising tool for them, but it is not where the money is.
bash-2.04$
800-833-6687 from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm Pacific Standard Time, seven days a week.
.pdf files under Ghostview?"
Sample Questions:
"How do I get a copy of ElcomSoft's AEBPR (Advanced E-Book Processor)?"
"Excuse me do I have the right Windows registry hack? [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Elcom\Advanced eBook Processor\Registration] "Code"="LEPR-T2K7-NA8Z-3DUE-EVDQS-TMPV-MBAUB"
"Can you tell me how to rotate an image with the Gimp?"
"Is it a violation of the DMCA to read
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So does this mean Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics will be back up?
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Why is the Linux version the same price as the WinCE version? Is M$ giving CE away for free, or am I missing something?
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Looks to me like they are producing ethanol from garbage. Big deal. Much cheaper to ferment corn, sugar beets, and anything else that has a higher content of fruitrose.
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Come on. Lisp/Scheme/ML are functional. Everything is a function. How much more maintainable can you get?? If you don't like part of the program modify the function(s) that are bothering you. No classes to mess with, no brackets, little Microsoft obfiscation...
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Quest has already screwed us. We noticed that they were over-charging us for long distance, so we switched to ATT. Next month we get slapped with a $20 "disconnect" fee. Boycott Qwest, they deserve it
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Actually we had the same probelm this summer doing some stuff with face recognition. Try averageing all the shots for the last minute or so. That way you can filter out natural lighting changes like the sun, cloud cover, ...
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