Oh, give me a locus Where the gravitons focus Where the three body problem is solved Where microwaves play, down at 3 degrees K And the cold virus never evolved.
Home, home on LaGrange, Where the space debris always collects We possess, so it seems Two of man's greatest dreams Solar power and zero-gee sex.
In the long run a Palin presidency would be a disaster for Democrats and Republicans, not to mention Americans in general.
Sometimes, you have to bottom out, before you can get better. Maybe if she was elected, and it was a disaster, we wouldn't have to worry about electing people like her, ever again.
If you have a PDP machine to connect them to, I have a pair of DEC 8-inch floppy drives, though I don't know if they still work. I want to use them to recover a few 8" OSI floppies I have, but I need to figure out a way to connect them to my Catweasel controller.
Well, odds are this would only be available to those that could afford it, while the general masses die off.
It took a minute for this to occur to me, but your above statement (if true) seems like it would result in a world where all the wealthiest people have been around for hundreds of years, while everyone else has a normal lifespan. If you think there's a lot of revisionist history out there now, imagine what it would be like in that scenario. The ability to control "the masses" would be unprecedented and class mobility would be eliminated.
We've actually had some pretty good experiences with their Netboxes. They're small enough to mount on the back of a monitor and, at $450, fully equipped, they're cheap. My only complaint is that, when you actually do mount them on a monitor, the power switch is difficult to reach. If only there was some way to have the machine turn on, automatically, when you turn on the monitor...
Lemme know when we *actually* hit the wall in ANY of these
Well, we've already hit a wall with CPU clock speed, haven't we? According to this page, CPUs hit 3.6GHz in 2005. I haven't seen anything faster, since then - at least, not in the Intel product line. Yes, IBM's POWER chips are up to 5GHz, but that's not much of an increase. If clock speed had maintained its trend, we'd be up to 9 or 10 GHz, by now.
I expect that, in the not-too-distant future (10 years, maybe), the rest of the computing attributes will hit their wall, too.
Umm... no. One of our main data servers is an AIX (Power 5) machine. It's old enough that we'll be replacing it soon. Its replacement is an Intel-based HP server. (It's so new, we haven't even finished testing it, yet.) Why? Because in my experience, IBM doesn't want to bother with customers that don't have a lot of money to spend. They just don't cut it, anymore, in the lower-end (less than $100,000) server market.
Even Steve Jobs himself admitted that PPC was shit for the desktop and switched to Intel.
First, we're talking about server CPUs here, not desktops. Second, did he make that decision based on raw performance, or price/performance ratio? The desktop CPU market is much more sensitive to that kind of stuff.
Calling it the fastest CPU is extremely misleading.
I doubt it, in this case. Last time I checked (which, admittedly, was a few years ago), Power CPUs were capable of doing slightly less than twice the work of an Intel CPU, at the same clock speed. If that still holds true, that 5.2GHz Power CPU is roughly the equivalent of a 10GHz Intel CPU. Of course, I measured this with my own (probably subjective) benchmarks, so your results may vary.
all the knowledge of BASIC in the world won't help if you can't make spreadsheets etc.
Baloney. It might be true, if you're training office workers, but if you read the summary, you'd see he's trying to give students a more in-depth knowledge of IT. I have nearly 30 years of experience in IT, and I've never used a spreadsheet. I wouldn't even know where to begin. In my area of expertise, sed and awk are much more useful.
Also teach them internet etiquette- why tone of voice isn't as easily conveyed, why grammar matters
I was glad to see Trek - it was the first game I ever played on a computer.
Me too, actually. However, if you remember "Creative Computing" magazine, they published the source to their own Super Star Trek game. The gameplay was basically the same, but a little more comprehensive. A few of my friends spent something like three days typing it in.
Later, when I got better at programming, I made a bunch of modifications - black holes and supernovae, increased the maximum number of Klingons in a sector, cheat mode, etc. I finally had to quit when I exhausted the 24K of available memory.
The real difficulty I see right now in playing older games is with Win95/Win98 games.
Interesting you should mention this, now. In the past five days, I've managed to get the original Myst, Myst III, and Civilization II working on Linux, under Wine. I'll be honest and admit it did require a fair amount of futzing, but once I did, but I was able to play a game of Myst all the way through. The only thing I haven't resolved, yet, is getting Intel's Indeo video drivers working, for Civ2. (The game is still playable, I just can't see any of the video portions, which aren't really that important for the gameplay, anyway.)
People are egocentric, they usually see their failure at understanding as the other party's failure to communicate.
If that's true, we really need some type of mechanism to communicate science to the public better.
As an example, a few months ago, my boss (who's 10 years older than me) told me he was taught in school that the Earth's gravity was caused by its rotation. I'm pretty sure that all scientists born after about 1900 knew that was wrong, so I found it hard to believe, but chalked it up to the fact that it takes time to distribute scientific knowledge and he was in school 10 years before me. Later that week, I was talking to my sister (who's 7 years younger than me) and she said she was taught the same thing. Obviously, I was flabbergasted.
When non-scientists have such a poor understanding of even the most basic science, I'm not surprised scientists are mistrusted as much as they are, today.
As far as I know, this approach to handling files has been supported for a long time
I knew you could handle files that way, but I didn't know it preserved special characters.
One thing I will say: bash is generally better about this than ksh, on real Unix systems. If I remember correctly, something like "for file in *" in bash will ignore special characters and run the loop once, for each actual file. Ksh, on the other hand, will pay attention to special characters.
Ummm... yeah. Try "tar tf file.tar | xargs rm", when some of the files in the archive contain spaces (or other shell special characters).
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I'd be wary of suggesting that we ever will or should have an official desktop
I'll agree with you, for the most part. However, the desktop environment should be a user choice, not a programmer choice. Currently, if I want to write a GUI program for Linux, I have to choose Gnome, or KDE, or whatever. Instead, I should be able to write a single program and have it run equally well in any of the existing environments, so the user can choose whatever they want, and not have to worry about things like compatibility, look and feel, etc.
I'll admit, it sort of works now, but it's not perfect, and it requires that you have all the desktops you might need (for any possible application) loaded on your system.
Crap. I wish I had seen the GP, before I posted a comment above.
what is your reply?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd reply "Chances are, when someone compromises your account, they install a back door." After that, you can change your password as much as you want, and the hacker will still be able to connect.
some of those hosts have passwords which expire every 30 days
This is slightly off-topic, but I have to question how useful it is to require people to change their passwords often. Chances are, when someone breaks into your computer, they're going to leave a back door, so they can get in, regardless of the actual password. Anyone have any thoughts on that?
Unfortunately, the limitless funds do not allow you to turn back time and change the past.
I suppose I can't argue with you there, but that mistake could easily have been avoided by anyone with half a brain, even as much as 10 years ago. While I'm sure someone will try to tell you "hindsight is 20/20", sorry, that's BS, in this case.
Hey, let's start with an easy project: Try to convince any manager that his internal-only project has to support more than one "standard" browser.
That should be plenty easy, now. Just point out the situation you're currently in.
You have: A mission critical web application, written for IE6.
See, that's your real problem: whoever bought that application, in the first place, should be fired. When you're buying a web-based application, you make sure it works on every browser you can get your hands on. If it doesn't, DON'T BUY IT. That's what capitalism is all about. As long as people keep buying sub-standard software, developers will keep selling it and trapping people like you, in the process.
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Reminds me of something I read a *long* time ago:
Oh, give me a locus
Where the gravitons focus
Where the three body problem is solved
Where microwaves play, down at 3 degrees K
And the cold virus never evolved.
Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects
We possess, so it seems
Two of man's greatest dreams
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
Sometimes, you have to bottom out, before you can get better. Maybe if she was elected, and it was a disaster, we wouldn't have to worry about electing people like her, ever again.
If you have a PDP machine to connect them to, I have a pair of DEC 8-inch floppy drives, though I don't know if they still work. I want to use them to recover a few 8" OSI floppies I have, but I need to figure out a way to connect them to my Catweasel controller.
It took a minute for this to occur to me, but your above statement (if true) seems like it would result in a world where all the wealthiest people have been around for hundreds of years, while everyone else has a normal lifespan. If you think there's a lot of revisionist history out there now, imagine what it would be like in that scenario. The ability to control "the masses" would be unprecedented and class mobility would be eliminated.
Scary.
We've actually had some pretty good experiences with their Netboxes. They're small enough to mount on the back of a monitor and, at $450, fully equipped, they're cheap. My only complaint is that, when you actually do mount them on a monitor, the power switch is difficult to reach. If only there was some way to have the machine turn on, automatically, when you turn on the monitor...
Well, we've already hit a wall with CPU clock speed, haven't we? According to this page, CPUs hit 3.6GHz in 2005. I haven't seen anything faster, since then - at least, not in the Intel product line. Yes, IBM's POWER chips are up to 5GHz, but that's not much of an increase. If clock speed had maintained its trend, we'd be up to 9 or 10 GHz, by now.
I expect that, in the not-too-distant future (10 years, maybe), the rest of the computing attributes will hit their wall, too.
Umm... no. One of our main data servers is an AIX (Power 5) machine. It's old enough that we'll be replacing it soon. Its replacement is an Intel-based HP server. (It's so new, we haven't even finished testing it, yet.) Why? Because in my experience, IBM doesn't want to bother with customers that don't have a lot of money to spend. They just don't cut it, anymore, in the lower-end (less than $100,000) server market.
First, we're talking about server CPUs here, not desktops. Second, did he make that decision based on raw performance, or price/performance ratio? The desktop CPU market is much more sensitive to that kind of stuff.
I doubt it, in this case. Last time I checked (which, admittedly, was a few years ago), Power CPUs were capable of doing slightly less than twice the work of an Intel CPU, at the same clock speed. If that still holds true, that 5.2GHz Power CPU is roughly the equivalent of a 10GHz Intel CPU. Of course, I measured this with my own (probably subjective) benchmarks, so your results may vary.
Baloney. It might be true, if you're training office workers, but if you read the summary, you'd see he's trying to give students a more in-depth knowledge of IT. I have nearly 30 years of experience in IT, and I've never used a spreadsheet. I wouldn't even know where to begin. In my area of expertise, sed and awk are much more useful.
This I'd probably agree with.
Having lived about half a mile from there, I'd have to agree with you. That's a pretty run-down area, even for Pittsburgh.
I even mentioned this story to my wife, who said she couldn't imagine giving someone directions to the site, from the nearest freeway.
I can't believe no one's posted Guy Steele's Magic/More Magic story, yet:
http://everything2.com/user/Accipiter/writeups/Magic
Me too, actually. However, if you remember "Creative Computing" magazine, they published the source to their own Super Star Trek game. The gameplay was basically the same, but a little more comprehensive. A few of my friends spent something like three days typing it in.
Later, when I got better at programming, I made a bunch of modifications - black holes and supernovae, increased the maximum number of Klingons in a sector, cheat mode, etc. I finally had to quit when I exhausted the 24K of available memory.
Interesting you should mention this, now. In the past five days, I've managed to get the original Myst, Myst III, and Civilization II working on Linux, under Wine. I'll be honest and admit it did require a fair amount of futzing, but once I did, but I was able to play a game of Myst all the way through. The only thing I haven't resolved, yet, is getting Intel's Indeo video drivers working, for Civ2. (The game is still playable, I just can't see any of the video portions, which aren't really that important for the gameplay, anyway.)
If that's true, we really need some type of mechanism to communicate science to the public better.
As an example, a few months ago, my boss (who's 10 years older than me) told me he was taught in school that the Earth's gravity was caused by its rotation. I'm pretty sure that all scientists born after about 1900 knew that was wrong, so I found it hard to believe, but chalked it up to the fact that it takes time to distribute scientific knowledge and he was in school 10 years before me. Later that week, I was talking to my sister (who's 7 years younger than me) and she said she was taught the same thing. Obviously, I was flabbergasted.
When non-scientists have such a poor understanding of even the most basic science, I'm not surprised scientists are mistrusted as much as they are, today.
I knew you could handle files that way, but I didn't know it preserved special characters.
One thing I will say: bash is generally better about this than ksh, on real Unix systems. If I remember correctly, something like "for file in *" in bash will ignore special characters and run the loop once, for each actual file. Ksh, on the other hand, will pay attention to special characters.
Doggone it! You'd think, after 25 years of Unix, I'd know about that option. That's a good one. Thanks.
I guess I'll have to read the man pages a little more often.
I'm inclined to agree, given that I've written several dynamic web pages in shell.
Ummm... yeah. Try "tar tf file.tar | xargs rm", when some of the files in the archive contain spaces (or other shell special characters).
I'll agree with you, for the most part. However, the desktop environment should be a user choice, not a programmer choice. Currently, if I want to write a GUI program for Linux, I have to choose Gnome, or KDE, or whatever. Instead, I should be able to write a single program and have it run equally well in any of the existing environments, so the user can choose whatever they want, and not have to worry about things like compatibility, look and feel, etc.
I'll admit, it sort of works now, but it's not perfect, and it requires that you have all the desktops you might need (for any possible application) loaded on your system.
Crap. I wish I had seen the GP, before I posted a comment above.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd reply "Chances are, when someone compromises your account, they install a back door." After that, you can change your password as much as you want, and the hacker will still be able to connect.
I was going to ask the same thing. Wasn't there some hacking contest a while ago, where someone hacked into a Mac in something like 10 seconds?
This is slightly off-topic, but I have to question how useful it is to require people to change their passwords often. Chances are, when someone breaks into your computer, they're going to leave a back door, so they can get in, regardless of the actual password. Anyone have any thoughts on that?
I suppose I can't argue with you there, but that mistake could easily have been avoided by anyone with half a brain, even as much as 10 years ago. While I'm sure someone will try to tell you "hindsight is 20/20", sorry, that's BS, in this case.
That should be plenty easy, now. Just point out the situation you're currently in.
While I'd like people to mod you up, I feel that, for full disclosure, I should point out:
Yes.
I have two cars. One is 11 and the other is 16.
See, that's your real problem: whoever bought that application, in the first place, should be fired. When you're buying a web-based application, you make sure it works on every browser you can get your hands on. If it doesn't, DON'T BUY IT. That's what capitalism is all about. As long as people keep buying sub-standard software, developers will keep selling it and trapping people like you, in the process.