SharePoint 2016 was released officially today (it's been out a while but General Availability was announced today). During the announcement webcast they previewed many of these features. So it wasn't so much overhauled today as it was shown publicly for the first time today...
The Lab for Scientific Computing at the University of Notre Dame has, for many years now, had a Dome Cam set up with an optional ascii version. So this isn't that new. http://lisa.ee.nd.edu/DomeCam/. Of course, it seems to be down right now...
Re:OT: Download you Bubbling Load Monitor here :-)
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bubbling load monitor rocks! even tho i've not yet upgraded to the latest version, i'm still using the one i fixed to not segfault... hopefully once projects are done (sometime after tomorrow) i'll get back around to playing with it... =)
I'm involved with the programming team here at Notre Dame. We actually went to the regionals, which for our region were held at Waterloo. The guys at Waterloo rocked.
Anyway, some advice:
read over all the problems at the beginning and find the easy ones fast. It's important to get those done first, because that'll help your score a good deal.
practice as a team. Ideally you'll want to download a sample problem set from somewhere, limit yourselves to a few hours, sit down at one computer, and get used to the whole scenario. The biggest problem our team had was a keyboard bottleneck. I had written up on paper code to solve one of the problems, but didn't get enough keyboard time to debug at the end. When all was over and I was back home, I downloaded the code I'd been working on, and it took me about 10 minutes and 5 lines of code to get what I was working on functional. Those 10 minutes would have made the difference between us getting 3 problems right and being in sixth, and getting 4 problems right and possibly getting third place and going to world. This was the first major programming contest for the three of us on our team, so we hadn't practiced using one machine amongst three of us, and it takes some getting used to.
If you're allowed to bring in printed materials, I'd recommend not bringing too much, you will probably want to limit yourselves to a good algorithms book, a calculus book, maybe a geometry book, and maybe printouts of man pages for useful C functions.
Be comfortable with manipulating numbers in different bases, sometimes problems throw a problem at you where input isn't in base 10. If you know how to handle this, it won't be a problem, but if you don't, you'll waste time...
realize that the data sets they test your program with will probably be much larger than the sample data sets, so even if your program seems to run fast, it may not. It doesn't hurt to know basic complexity analysis. I saw a recursive program once that ran quite quick on a sample data set, but after some simple complexity analysis I realized it would run for 10^30 years on a larger data set.
Don't underestimate the powers of the modulus operator (% in C).
I was gonna point out the same thing, but since you've already done it, I don't have to. I can instead just add worthless bits to the bucket.
In entirely unrelated news, I really don't think that looking up prices in a catalog is fitting for a cse class. that seems more like business class activity. but i have to anyway, and since this assignment is like at most 5% of my grade, and since i only need to pass this course to graduate, i really am having a hard time getting motivated to finish it. So that's why I'm posting worthless drivel to slashdot.
Well, I just discovered that I really should've known better than to have a token called EOF in my compiler seeing how that caused all sorts of grief. So now that it finally compiles again, I've returned to good ol'/.... at least it's not due for another 4 weeks...
I must admit, it's been a while since I've found myself entertained by comments on/., and it was certainly mildly embarrassing to realize I'd responded to a troll (i shoulda read more of the responses to your initial post before I responded), but then again, it was a troll with a score of 4, so a response probably wasn't completely unwarranted... oh well, onwards...
However: I sure did make a very broad, sweeping, and wrong generalization to the effect that libertarians are humorless zealots, and for that I apologize.
heh. thanks.
Thanks for being patient.
No problem. There's no reason not to be, seeing how there's still plenty of beer left in the world. Besides, if I were to let myself get really worked up about this, then that'd be a real sign I need to chill out...
well, i suppose i'm lucky enough to not have been called a mindless moron. if i didn't have a compiler to write, this might be a fun way to spend the afternoon
By the way, I judge people by their actions rather than by the ideals they claim to have.
do you judge them by their general actions, or only by their actions at a time when you've insulted their fundamental beliefs?
Isn't that how you'd judge the Communists? I know I would.
Well, it really depends on the situation. The "communist" regime in russia is something I judge to have been evil, based on their actions, yes. However, due to my catholic upbringing (which I try to not let get in the way of my thinking) I have a tendency to try to do as little judging as possible. Unfortunately I fail at that. So although my personal political philosophy is libertarian, I don't judge somebody who holds a different philosophy as being wrong or something. As Op Ivy once said, "All I Know is That I Don't Know Nothing," and despite the double negative, those are pretty wise words. I am quite possibly or likely wrong, and have no problem admitting I don't know all the answers. However, by misrepresenting the libertarian philosophy, you misrepresent what I believe in, and what you said was basically "Pete would have no problem violating the GPL, cuz Pete's a libertarian," and that is where the problem lies, because that is not something I believe, and even though I will admit I may be wrong about what I believe, I definitely do not want people saying things that are not true about what I believe in...
It happens I go a step further and hold you guys to the same standard. You do come out better than Stalin did, of course:)
Well, I'm certainly happy to hear that. =) And please realize I do have a sense of humor (a rather sarcastic one at that), and I'm only take this semi-seriously, but please realize there are times when you can't expect everyone to just laugh along after you've insulted them...
It was goddamn inevitable that some asshead was going to build something on the Quake source and then turn Libertarian and refuse to abide by the GPL.
Do you realize how offensive, stupid, and wrong what you said is? I happen to be very libertarian, yet I have a great respect for the GPL. In fact, I pretty much use only open source software, and I have realized GPL'd software. I have several friends who are libertarian or who have libertarian leanings, who are also big proponents of the GPL.
I have no idea what you think libertarian ideals are, but breaking contracts is not one of them. Libertarians are strongly in favor or private property and the rights of people to enter contracts without government interference. In fact, one of the few purposes that libertarians think a government should serve is to enforce contracts. Please do a little more research before making statements of this sort.
Although the concept is quite cool, I don't think these will ever replace ramen and similar things as the food for geeks. I can buy a package of ramen for anywhere between 10 and 25 cents. perfect for my budget. I doubt anything with the dilbert label will be nearly as cheap.
either way, i'll probably end up wasting money on at least one package of these things, just to try 'em.
Re:NAACP == "guilt"?! You're insane.
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> No doubt you think that makes me a felon.
I'd just like to let you all know that I decided against making a horrible felon/feline pun at this point.
I find them to be the best characters on the show... I mean, certainly they lack the sex appeal that scully has, but I think those guys just have way more character than mulder and scully...
I think there is probably enough of a following of those guys that such a show would have some degree of success, tho prolly not nearly as much as the parent show... but I mean, come on, I've got a lone gunmen t-shirt, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who envies their life style, and hey, marketing people have had success before by marketing their stuff toward punks like me...
OK, I apologize for posting this, since it is diverging into the realms of "off-topic" and "flamebait" but your post really irritated me.
First, Hawk (as usual) made some good points and followed them up with good arguments. You, however, make wild claims such as "Basic economics do not apply to the net. (Yet.)" without any kind of argument to back up your claim. Both my intuition and my limited knowledge of economics are telling me that your claim seems utterly wrong. Could you please state some kind of argument if you're going to make claims of this sort?
The cost of internet service has gone down. Why is this? Well, probably because of increased demand and a decreased cost for hardware, among a variety of reasons. This seems like economics at work to me. Would internet costs be lower if spam didn't exist? Maybe. The total cost of spam averaged across every ISP account is probably negligible, but I still think it is there. And even if economics does not yet apply to the net, that does not say anything about whether or not economics apply to internet service, which is just another part of our economy, regardless of what the net itself is.
Please, pretty please, clarify/back up your claims if you're going to make them.
Your argument doesn't make that much sense, I don't think. I agree that netscape should not have news readers or mail readers (I never use those parts anyway), but what is wrong with it having cookie filters? I mean, cookies are (kind of) part of the http specification, and netscape is an http client, so why should I have to install a different piece of software to act as a middle man between the client (netscape) and the server (the sites netscape is viewing)?
Mozilla on its first birthday has yet to provide its parent Netscape with a final release product, and rival Microsoft's newly released Internet Explorer browser, version 5.0, is way ahead of Netscape in standards support and componentization.
so apparently the big thing for 5.0 browsers is standards support, but more importantly (since i saw it in other portions of articles) componentization.
doh, i can't read... the 5.5 mentioned in the article was in reference to IE. stupid IE. I hate IE for the sole fact that you can't middle-mouse button paste a url into the IE window under unix. that is the winning factor of netscape...
mozilla rules! all it needs is stability and filters for cookies... so i don't have to hit cancle a dozen times when i go to stupid websites...
but the article at one point mentions netscape 5.5... is netscape inflating version numbers already? or is that a typo?
Also, has anyone else noticed that the stability of netscape is kinda non-deterministic? I install it once, it works fairly well (fairly well meaning it only crashes once or twice a day), but I install the same version a different time, and it crashes regularly... I can't figure it out...
Indeed, it would be a good thing if y2k actually did cause some havoc with the banking system. But you know, I actually thing the one accurate part of this movie was the fact that banks didn't get messed up. Then again, banks getting messed up by y2k isn't exactly exciting disaster movie material.
But speaking of banks, I suggest everyone begin by reading Murry Rothbards "The Mystery of Banking" and then we all work out a way to ban the federal reserve. The amount of money the government and the banks make off of what they do is insane. And then we have all these great laws in place to protect the consumer. All they do is allow the banks to get away with what they do. And the burden of all this is placed on those of lesser financial resources.
And although it'd be great for my college loans if the banks went away, I don't think y2k is even an issue for them... they've been having to deal with it for a long while now, what with 25 year long term loans and such...
I think my superpower of choice would be to be able to argue economics without a strong background in that field... oh wait, I already do that!
We used the dino book at ND for cse 341 -- the undergrad OS class...
but i've still never quite understood how the authors made the leap from operating systems to dinosaurs... and i don't recall finding any answer to that question inside the book...
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SharePoint 2016 was released officially today (it's been out a while but General Availability was announced today). During the announcement webcast they previewed many of these features. So it wasn't so much overhauled today as it was shown publicly for the first time today...
> For root, substitute final > with #
actually, just use %# instead, tcsh will replace it with a # if the user is root, and with > otherwise. cuz tcsh rocks like that.
set prompt="[%P] %B%n@%M%b:%l [%~] (%?)\nprompt-fu =%# "
yes, I did waste some time reading the tcsh man page. yes, it was worth it.
well, maybe not quite the same thing. I don't think the ascii dome cam is quite live. but it's still tons o' fun.
The Lab for Scientific Computing at the University of Notre Dame has, for many years now, had a Dome Cam set up with an optional ascii version. So this isn't that new. http://lisa.ee.nd.edu/DomeCam/. Of course, it seems to be down right now...
bubbling load monitor rocks! even tho i've not yet upgraded to the latest version, i'm still using the one i fixed to not segfault... hopefully once projects are done (sometime after tomorrow) i'll get back around to playing with it... =)
Dr. Nick:
"HI EVERYBODY!!"...
"Hi, Dr. Nick!!"
you're right, i did wanna.
Anyway, some advice:
- read over all the problems at the beginning and find the easy ones fast. It's important to get those done first, because that'll help your score a good deal.
- practice as a team. Ideally you'll want to download a sample problem set from somewhere, limit yourselves to a few hours, sit down at one computer, and get used to the whole scenario. The biggest problem our team had was a keyboard bottleneck. I had written up on paper code to solve one of the problems, but didn't get enough keyboard time to debug at the end. When all was over and I was back home, I downloaded the code I'd been working on, and it took me about 10 minutes and 5 lines of code to get what I was working on functional. Those 10 minutes would have made the difference between us getting 3 problems right and being in sixth, and getting 4 problems right and possibly getting third place and going to world. This was the first major programming contest for the three of us on our team, so we hadn't practiced using one machine amongst three of us, and it takes some getting used to.
- If you're allowed to bring in printed materials, I'd recommend not bringing too much, you will probably want to limit yourselves to a good algorithms book, a calculus book, maybe a geometry book, and maybe printouts of man pages for useful C functions.
- Be comfortable with manipulating numbers in different bases, sometimes problems throw a problem at you where input isn't in base 10. If you know how to handle this, it won't be a problem, but if you don't, you'll waste time...
- realize that the data sets they test your program with will probably be much larger than the sample data sets, so even if your program seems to run fast, it may not. It doesn't hurt to know basic complexity analysis. I saw a recursive program once that ran quite quick on a sample data set, but after some simple complexity analysis I realized it would run for 10^30 years on a larger data set.
- Don't underestimate the powers of the modulus operator (% in C).
That's all I can think of right now. A really good source for sample problems is on Waterloo's webpage: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/. Also feel free to look at the page I maintain for the ND programming team: http://prijks.esgeroth.org/puters/acm/I'll stop now, I think.
I was gonna point out the same thing, but since you've already done it, I don't have to. I can instead just add worthless bits to the bucket.
In entirely unrelated news, I really don't think that looking up prices in a catalog is fitting for a cse class. that seems more like business class activity. but i have to anyway, and since this assignment is like at most 5% of my grade, and since i only need to pass this course to graduate, i really am having a hard time getting motivated to finish it. So that's why I'm posting worthless drivel to slashdot.
Well, I just discovered that I really should've known better than to have a token called EOF in my compiler seeing how that caused all sorts of grief. So now that it finally compiles again, I've returned to good ol' /. ... at least it's not due for another 4 weeks...
/., and it was certainly mildly embarrassing to realize I'd responded to a troll (i shoulda read more of the responses to your initial post before I responded), but then again, it was a troll with a score of 4, so a response probably wasn't completely unwarranted... oh well, onwards...
I must admit, it's been a while since I've found myself entertained by comments on
However: I sure did make a very broad, sweeping, and wrong generalization to the effect that libertarians are humorless zealots, and for that I apologize.
heh. thanks.
Thanks for being patient.
No problem. There's no reason not to be, seeing how there's still plenty of beer left in the world. Besides, if I were to let myself get really worked up about this, then that'd be a real sign I need to chill out...
Sorry :)
:)
well, i suppose i'm lucky enough to not have been called a mindless moron. if i didn't have a compiler to write, this might be a fun way to spend the afternoon
By the way, I judge people by their actions rather than by the ideals they claim to have.
do you judge them by their general actions, or only by their actions at a time when you've insulted their fundamental beliefs?
Isn't that how you'd judge the Communists? I know I would.
Well, it really depends on the situation. The "communist" regime in russia is something I judge to have been evil, based on their actions, yes. However, due to my catholic upbringing (which I try to not let get in the way of my thinking) I have a tendency to try to do as little judging as possible. Unfortunately I fail at that. So although my personal political philosophy is libertarian, I don't judge somebody who holds a different philosophy as being wrong or something. As Op Ivy once said, "All I Know is That I Don't Know Nothing," and despite the double negative, those are pretty wise words. I am quite possibly or likely wrong, and have no problem admitting I don't know all the answers. However, by misrepresenting the libertarian philosophy, you misrepresent what I believe in, and what you said was basically "Pete would have no problem violating the GPL, cuz Pete's a libertarian," and that is where the problem lies, because that is not something I believe, and even though I will admit I may be wrong about what I believe, I definitely do not want people saying things that are not true about what I believe in...
It happens I go a step further and hold you guys to the same standard. You do come out better than Stalin did, of course
Well, I'm certainly happy to hear that. =) And please realize I do have a sense of humor (a rather sarcastic one at that), and I'm only take this semi-seriously, but please realize there are times when you can't expect everyone to just laugh along after you've insulted them...
It was goddamn inevitable that some asshead was going to build something on the Quake source and then turn Libertarian and refuse to abide by the GPL.
Do you realize how offensive, stupid, and wrong what you said is? I happen to be very libertarian, yet I have a great respect for the GPL. In fact, I pretty much use only open source software, and I have realized GPL'd software. I have several friends who are libertarian or who have libertarian leanings, who are also big proponents of the GPL.
I have no idea what you think libertarian ideals are, but breaking contracts is not one of them. Libertarians are strongly in favor or private property and the rights of people to enter contracts without government interference. In fact, one of the few purposes that libertarians think a government should serve is to enforce contracts. Please do a little more research before making statements of this sort.
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which also happens to be the german word for duck, believe it or not...
Although the concept is quite cool, I don't think these will ever replace ramen and similar things as the food for geeks. I can buy a package of ramen for anywhere between 10 and 25 cents. perfect for my budget. I doubt anything with the dilbert label will be nearly as cheap.
either way, i'll probably end up wasting money on at least one package of these things, just to try 'em.
> No doubt you think that makes me a felon.
I'd just like to let you all know that I decided against making a horrible felon/feline pun at this point.
rock on...
I find them to be the best characters on the show... I mean, certainly they lack the sex appeal that scully has, but I think those guys just have way more character than mulder and scully...
I think there is probably enough of a following of those guys that such a show would have some degree of success, tho prolly not nearly as much as the parent show... but I mean, come on, I've got a lone gunmen t-shirt, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who envies their life style, and hey, marketing people have had success before by marketing their stuff toward punks like me...
heh... tho not very often... =)
OK, I apologize for posting this, since it is diverging into the realms of "off-topic" and "flamebait" but your post really irritated me.
First, Hawk (as usual) made some good points and followed them up with good arguments. You, however, make wild claims such as "Basic economics do not apply to the net. (Yet.)" without any kind of argument to back up your claim. Both my intuition and my limited knowledge of economics are telling me that your claim seems utterly wrong. Could you please state some kind of argument if you're going to make claims of this sort?
The cost of internet service has gone down. Why is this? Well, probably because of increased demand and a decreased cost for hardware, among a variety of reasons. This seems like economics at work to me. Would internet costs be lower if spam didn't exist? Maybe. The total cost of spam averaged across every ISP account is probably negligible, but I still think it is there. And even if economics does not yet apply to the net, that does not say anything about whether or not economics apply to internet service, which is just another part of our economy, regardless of what the net itself is.
Please, pretty please, clarify/back up your claims if you're going to make them.
Your argument doesn't make that much sense, I don't think. I agree that netscape should not have news readers or mail readers (I never use those parts anyway), but what is wrong with it having cookie filters? I mean, cookies are (kind of) part of the http specification, and netscape is an http client, so why should I have to install a different piece of software to act as a middle man between the client (netscape) and the server (the sites netscape is viewing)?
... =)
besides, emacs rocks. (score: -1, flamebait
I will however take a look at junkbuster, thanks.
just found this:
Mozilla on its first birthday has yet to provide its parent Netscape with a final release product, and rival Microsoft's newly released Internet Explorer browser, version 5.0, is way ahead of Netscape in standards support and componentization.
so apparently the big thing for 5.0 browsers is standards support, but more importantly (since i saw it in other portions of articles) componentization.
i found the above quote at the JWZ article linked off of the netscape article: http://news.cnet.c om/news/0-1005-201-340684-1.html?tag=st.ne.1005.
perhaps the big must-have feature for fifth-generation browsers will be stability...
heh, heh. who am i kidding?
but yeah, rereading the article helped, but still, they should be more explicit when they throw out version numbers... i suck at math!
doh, i can't read... the 5.5 mentioned in the article was in reference to IE. stupid IE. I hate IE for the sole fact that you can't middle-mouse button paste a url into the IE window under unix. that is the winning factor of netscape...
also, i mispelled cancel. cuz i suck. =)
mozilla rules! all it needs is stability and filters for cookies... so i don't have to hit cancle a dozen times when i go to stupid websites...
... is netscape inflating version numbers already? or is that a typo?
but the article at one point mentions netscape 5.5
Also, has anyone else noticed that the stability of netscape is kinda non-deterministic? I install it once, it works fairly well (fairly well meaning it only crashes once or twice a day), but I install the same version a different time, and it crashes regularly... I can't figure it out...
Indeed, it would be a good thing if y2k actually did cause some havoc with the banking system. But you know, I actually thing the one accurate part of this movie was the fact that banks didn't get messed up. Then again, banks getting messed up by y2k isn't exactly exciting disaster movie material.
But speaking of banks, I suggest everyone begin by reading Murry Rothbards "The Mystery of Banking" and then we all work out a way to ban the federal reserve. The amount of money the government and the banks make off of what they do is insane. And then we have all these great laws in place to protect the consumer. All they do is allow the banks to get away with what they do. And the burden of all this is placed on those of lesser financial resources.
And although it'd be great for my college loans if the banks went away, I don't think y2k is even an issue for them... they've been having to deal with it for a long while now, what with 25 year long term loans and such...
I think my superpower of choice would be to be able to argue economics without a strong background in that field... oh wait, I already do that!
2001 is odd, but not all the digits in 2001 are odd. So basically that 2 is going to prevent us from having another odd day for a long while...
We used the dino book at ND for cse 341 -- the undergrad OS class...
but i've still never quite understood how the authors made the leap from operating systems to dinosaurs... and i don't recall finding any answer to that question inside the book...