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After observing that you can't spell correctly (batchelors) or use proper English grammar (insistency...to requre), it seems to me that this requirement has some merit.
Actually, if you listen to the director's commentary track on the special edition DVD, Peter Jackson says the head-bumping incident with Gandalf was an accident.
It's a tribute to Sir Ian McKellen that he was able to go right on acting as if it was scripted...seems to have fooled a lot of people, including myself at first glance.
...or, in this case, the fault of the air through which the hammer traveled, for not providing enough resistance.
Yes, I am lame for replying to my own post, but this seemed like an appropriate addendum.
I was all excited to build the new kernel, and then I discovered that doing a 'make menuconfig' would only allow me the choice of saving to an alternate configuration file, with no way to configure the kernel...upon investigating, I found these errors:
Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 22694 Segmentation fault awk "$1"
Awk died with error code 139. Giving up.
....scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu11: line 108: syntax error: unexpected end of file
......scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu17: line 121: syntax error: unexpected end of file
..scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu19: line 151: syntax error: unexpected end of file........scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu26: line 150: syntax error: unexpected end of file
....scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu3: line 127: syntax error: unexpected end of file
...............scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu43: line 93: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu43: line 94: syntax error: unexpected end of file
................scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu58: line 361: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu58: line 362: syntax error: unexpected end of file
..scripts/Menuconfig:./MCmenu6: line 76: syntax error: unexpected end of file
...done.
Anybody else have this problem, or know of a fix for it?
CS541 has not been offered in the three years that I've been here.
CS445, CS488, CS521 are not currently offered. I took CS487, we did not mention UML once. We use an archaic text by Robert Pressman and we spend our time drawing DFD's.
Find me a class that actively teaches you PERL or VHDL in the curriculum right now - you can't. As far as MIPS assembly, you are tought a small subset of it that is not useful in practical situations.
I have plenty of books, and I have done a lot to advance my body of knowledge. Contrary to what you may think, I understand a great deal about the inner workings of the department. Whether or not you choose to believe me is your concern -- it does not matter to me.
If I am the "dumbest bastard alive", then I am forced to wonder what you are by posting such blatant flamebait. Go write some real code, work on a project or two in the real world. Get some experience, then you will know what you are talking about.
Why is IIT not a good university...hmm...that's a toughie...
Let's see, would you like the answer from the point of view of your typical undergrad or a CS major? I can provide both...here goes:
- We go to school in a warzone. You cannot venture away from campus without genuine fear of being shot.
- There is no culture. We have like 6 frats, where everyone gets drunk. There are no businesses around the campus. We have a 7-11 and an overpriced, incompetant bookstore.
- For being an institute of technology, it is pretty low-tech. Until recently, we couldn't even register for classes on line.
- The dorms smell. They are infested with rodents. They overbooked the freshmen class this year, so we have people sleeping in the boiler room (yes, you read that right).
Now, as a CS major:
- We are not tought programming or computer science. We are tought C++. At IIT, there is no notion of other languages.
- I was a TA one semester, where I had a student tell me "Why should I have to turn in my work on time? This is a CS class, right? Nobody turns in their work on time in a CS class..."
- There are no UNIX labs on the campus, save one cluster of 6 year-old SGI Indys.
- People in a third-year Algorithms course have never heard of quicksort.
- People come out of a data structres course without knowing what a Hash Table is.
- All the classes stress the use of MS Visual C++ on windows. There are graduate students who have never used UNIX for God's sake!
- There is not a compilers class at any level. We do not have a modern software engineering class (What's UML again?)
- They force us to take a class where we write book reports as a graduation requirement (It's called Computers in Society).
Call me paranoid, but consider the following... The NSA commissions Secure Computing to make a high-security linux distribution, and SC returns only gthe binaries to the NSA, not requiring the release of the source (via the internal changes clause in the GPL). Now there's an official NSA-sanctioned "secure" linux, and all of a sudden everyone who carse about security is using it. Doesn't sound so bad... But what if the NSA has a back door put in? If there's no source, then the only people that know it's there are the NSA themselves, and SC, who I'm sure will be forced to sign an NDA of some sort. I know it sounds paranoid, but this could be viewed as just another provision for "National Security"...
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After observing that you can't spell correctly (batchelors) or use proper English grammar (insistency...to requre), it seems to me that this requirement has some merit.
oh, you DO pay. It's called massive tuition :)
Actually, if you listen to the director's commentary track on the special edition DVD, Peter Jackson says the head-bumping incident with Gandalf was an accident. It's a tribute to Sir Ian McKellen that he was able to go right on acting as if it was scripted...seems to have fooled a lot of people, including myself at first glance.
...or, in this case, the fault of the air through which the hammer traveled, for not providing enough resistance. Yes, I am lame for replying to my own post, but this seemed like an appropriate addendum.
If I use a hammer to break someone's face, then it's obviously the fault of the hammer...
You're color blind?
I was all excited to build the new kernel, and then I discovered that doing a 'make menuconfig' would only allow me the choice of saving to an alternate configuration file, with no way to configure the kernel...upon investigating, I found these errors:
Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 22694 Segmentation fault awk "$1"
Awk died with error code 139. Giving up.
....scripts/Menuconfig:
......scripts/Menuconfig:
..scripts/Menuconfig:
....scripts/Menuconfig:
...............scripts/Menuconfig:
scripts/Menuconfig:
................scripts/Menuconfig:
scripts/Menuconfig:
..scripts/Menuconfig:
...done.
Anybody else have this problem, or know of a fix for it?
CS541 has not been offered in the three years that I've been here.
CS445, CS488, CS521 are not currently offered. I took CS487, we did not mention UML once. We use an archaic text by Robert Pressman and we spend our time drawing DFD's.
Find me a class that actively teaches you PERL or VHDL in the curriculum right now - you can't. As far as MIPS assembly, you are tought a small subset of it that is not useful in practical situations.
I have plenty of books, and I have done a lot to advance my body of knowledge. Contrary to what you may think, I understand a great deal about the inner workings of the department. Whether or not you choose to believe me is your concern -- it does not matter to me.
If I am the "dumbest bastard alive", then I am forced to wonder what you are by posting such blatant flamebait. Go write some real code, work on a project or two in the real world. Get some experience, then you will know what you are talking about.
Why is IIT not a good university...hmm...that's a toughie...
Let's see, would you like the answer from the point of view of your typical undergrad or a CS major? I can provide both...here goes:
- We go to school in a warzone. You cannot venture away from campus without genuine fear of being shot.
- There is no culture. We have like 6 frats, where everyone gets drunk. There are no businesses around the campus. We have a 7-11 and an overpriced, incompetant bookstore.
- For being an institute of technology, it is pretty low-tech. Until recently, we couldn't even register for classes on line.
- The dorms smell. They are infested with rodents. They overbooked the freshmen class this year, so we have people sleeping in the boiler room (yes, you read that right).
Now, as a CS major:
- We are not tought programming or computer science. We are tought C++. At IIT, there is no notion of other languages.
- I was a TA one semester, where I had a student tell me "Why should I have to turn in my work on time? This is a CS class, right? Nobody turns in their work on time in a CS class..."
- There are no UNIX labs on the campus, save one cluster of 6 year-old SGI Indys.
- People in a third-year Algorithms course have never heard of quicksort.
- People come out of a data structres course without knowing what a Hash Table is.
- All the classes stress the use of MS Visual C++ on windows. There are graduate students who have never used UNIX for God's sake!
- There is not a compilers class at any level. We do not have a modern software engineering class (What's UML again?)
- They force us to take a class where we write book reports as a graduation requirement (It's called Computers in Society).
- I could go on and on and on...
Get the point yet?
...but it will not fit in the margins of this comment box...
In the article, the reviewer mentions that WP2000 has a 467MB Memory footprint. I think he means disk space :)
I wish that journalists would at least take the time to proofread their articles...sheesh.
Call me paranoid, but consider the following... The NSA commissions Secure Computing to make a high-security linux distribution, and SC returns only gthe binaries to the NSA, not requiring the release of the source (via the internal changes clause in the GPL). Now there's an official NSA-sanctioned "secure" linux, and all of a sudden everyone who carse about security is using it. Doesn't sound so bad... But what if the NSA has a back door put in? If there's no source, then the only people that know it's there are the NSA themselves, and SC, who I'm sure will be forced to sign an NDA of some sort. I know it sounds paranoid, but this could be viewed as just another provision for "National Security"...