This is not a good idea: imagine what happens when they discover that life can be better and more productive when they do not waste their time with google services...
Shortwave radio (SW) has been around for years, and if we look at what happened behind the iron curtain, it seems that SW radio was a quite effective communications medium. Sending jazz and news from the free world to Moscow was easy despite KGB jamming attempts. But no, now we have internet, digital media, satellite radio, and most of the SW stations have been dismantled so that the land covered by their antenna could be sold for real estate development. Then sometimes somebody somewhere shuts down internet, jails all opponents who have a parabolic antenna on their roof and voila', another iron curtain has been raised. And now what ?!?
Totally second this: fortran legacy is wonderful (just think about BLAS, LINPACK, EISPACK, etc...), but we can use it from wherever environment we want.
Sorry, this is no more true. Furthermore, having personally developed several FDFT algorithm both in fortran and in C, I can tell that rivaling fortran performances isn't that difficult. IMHO undergraduates should rather learn very well how to use data structures and algorithms: rem tene, fortran sequentur...
Knoppix is used here as well, and it can help you to save your data in many situations. One suggestion: not every network card is supported by the standard knoppix distributions, so either you burn a custom knoppix CD tailored for your system, or you keep a disk at hand with the appropriate drivers.
I develop plenty of number-crunching code on different *NIX hosts, but I login to the network form a Windows computer. I found that BVRDE offers a rather pleasant developing environment. I also looked at NetBeans, but BVRDE allows to access remote sources through (S)FTP, a feature that is mandatory here.
where BSOD = big screw of death...
I was serving under the Army, and in our office we had a 8086 PC who had a sistematic HD failure. It was finally solved when the technician found a memo from the PC manufacturer, recommending to install the HD in the PC case using shorter screws. The screws enclosed with the HD actually caused friction against the HD head mount, and this eventually fried the HD motor.
The very same PC producer issued an installation sheet for adding a 8087 math coprocessor. If one followed the instructions, the 8087 would ended up installed at reverse in the coprocessor socket, causing its immediate failure.
Needless to say, the manufacturer went belly-up a few years later.
I remember that years ago, visiting a data center in London, the system engineer showed me a water-cooled CPU used on IBM9000 mainframes. It was amazingly engineered, with water in- and outlets running through the thermal dissipator.
I think that Cray used a more aggressive approach dipping the whole computer into a cooled bath of Fomblin(TM). It is nice to see this technology kicking back...
Why ?!? It seems to me that at least one of the guys involved has a regular ham radio license
What is disappoining is the smugness demonstrated by some slashdotters about what the canadian guys actually did. If you read the story and their blog, they had to understand how the whole thing works, to built antennas, to learn how to track the bird and to operate. It isn't rocket science, but it is not easy to do. After all, this can be the beginning of a career, just like it happened to me about twenty years ago, when through ham radio I got involved into science and signal processing.
I am now a senior scientist for a Fortune100 company, but I am no more involved into ham radio: just a few years after my graduation I stared smelling into ham radio this kind of smugness that appears in some of the answers to this story, and I quitted. I had nothing more to learn, and people I met through the hobby were too proud of themselves to be interested in learning something new from me. Maybe the fault is not with young people, isn't it ?!?
rather than buying stocks of your company, selling them short ?!? Seriously, given the way economy is falling, you could make plenty of money with a put option while your company stocks fall.
...the keystrokes, when there is more fun in encrypting them ?!? Just imagine this:
grab one of those powerful (and somewhere illegal) CB radio, and connect it to an antenna
interface the radio to a PC equipped with a software capable of encrypting a sequence of keystrokes according to the standard used by those lame wireless keyboards
set the trasmitting frequency as needed (wireless keyboards use the CB band)
select an 8 bit key to use for encryption
transmit the sequence e command format c: y
repeat steps 4) and 5) changhing the encryption key
....
profit!
I hope they will come out with better wireless keyboards...it is one of the finest examples of "design by stupidity" I ever met.
You are wrong. The link points to a mailing list used by radio enthusiasts and ham radio operators: their nerves have been for sure fried by exposure to radio frequency fields.
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This is not a good idea: imagine what happens when they discover that life can be better and more productive when they do not waste their time with google services...
Shortwave radio (SW) has been around for years, and if we look at what happened behind the iron curtain, it seems that SW radio was a quite effective communications medium. Sending jazz and news from the free world to Moscow was easy despite KGB jamming attempts. But no, now we have internet, digital media, satellite radio, and most of the SW stations have been dismantled so that the land covered by their antenna could be sold for real estate development. Then sometimes somebody somewhere shuts down internet, jails all opponents who have a parabolic antenna on their roof and voila', another iron curtain has been raised. And now what ?!?
Totally second this: fortran legacy is wonderful (just think about BLAS, LINPACK, EISPACK, etc...), but we can use it from wherever environment we want.
Sorry, this is no more true. Furthermore, having personally developed several FDFT algorithm both in fortran and in C, I can tell that rivaling fortran performances isn't that difficult. IMHO undergraduates should rather learn very well how to use data structures and algorithms: rem tene, fortran sequentur...
But they just obtained it, isn't it ?!? I would second administratium , but they found too much protons
Knoppix is used here as well, and it can help you to save your data in many situations. One suggestion: not every network card is supported by the standard knoppix distributions, so either you burn a custom knoppix CD tailored for your system, or you keep a disk at hand with the appropriate drivers.
Nope, it is fall-proof ;-)
I develop plenty of number-crunching code on different *NIX hosts, but I login to the network form a Windows computer. I found that BVRDE offers a rather pleasant developing environment. I also looked at NetBeans, but BVRDE allows to access remote sources through (S)FTP, a feature that is mandatory here.
where BSOD = big screw of death... I was serving under the Army, and in our office we had a 8086 PC who had a sistematic HD failure. It was finally solved when the technician found a memo from the PC manufacturer, recommending to install the HD in the PC case using shorter screws. The screws enclosed with the HD actually caused friction against the HD head mount, and this eventually fried the HD motor. The very same PC producer issued an installation sheet for adding a 8087 math coprocessor. If one followed the instructions, the 8087 would ended up installed at reverse in the coprocessor socket, causing its immediate failure. Needless to say, the manufacturer went belly-up a few years later.
I remember that years ago, visiting a data center in London, the system engineer showed me a water-cooled CPU used on IBM9000 mainframes. It was amazingly engineered, with water in- and outlets running through the thermal dissipator. I think that Cray used a more aggressive approach dipping the whole computer into a cooled bath of Fomblin(TM). It is nice to see this technology kicking back...
googlecat!
And all but one end with digit 1.
wget your_web_page | lpr -# 100 Then glue the printouts on the billboards located close to your target community.
...and if she is a Banach spherical gilfriend, you can get two of them at the price of one!
Why ?!? It seems to me that at least one of the guys involved has a regular ham radio license What is disappoining is the smugness demonstrated by some slashdotters about what the canadian guys actually did. If you read the story and their blog, they had to understand how the whole thing works, to built antennas, to learn how to track the bird and to operate. It isn't rocket science, but it is not easy to do. After all, this can be the beginning of a career, just like it happened to me about twenty years ago, when through ham radio I got involved into science and signal processing. I am now a senior scientist for a Fortune100 company, but I am no more involved into ham radio: just a few years after my graduation I stared smelling into ham radio this kind of smugness that appears in some of the answers to this story, and I quitted. I had nothing more to learn, and people I met through the hobby were too proud of themselves to be interested in learning something new from me. Maybe the fault is not with young people, isn't it ?!?
...is a virus that does a low-level formatting of your GDrive.
rather than buying stocks of your company, selling them short ?!? Seriously, given the way economy is falling, you could make plenty of money with a put option while your company stocks fall.
...is powered by Whisky and soda ?!?
into the micro-brewery business http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbrewery
...Codesmith, what else ?!?
short circuit city ?!?
I add it to my collection of oxymorons.
- grab one of those powerful (and somewhere illegal) CB radio, and connect it to an antenna
- interface the radio to a PC equipped with a software capable of encrypting a sequence of keystrokes according to the standard used by those lame wireless keyboards
- set the trasmitting frequency as needed (wireless keyboards use the CB band)
- select an 8 bit key to use for encryption
- transmit the sequence e command format c: y
- repeat steps 4) and 5) changhing the encryption key
- ....
- profit!
I hope they will come out with better wireless keyboards...it is one of the finest examples of "design by stupidity" I ever met.You are wrong. The link points to a mailing list used by radio enthusiasts and ham radio operators: their nerves have been for sure fried by exposure to radio frequency fields.
http://jody140.dsl.frii.net/SWE/ProgEvol