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heheheh .. that's funny Gotta love those experts.

Naaaaaaaaaairi ... missed ya in the tech section!!! Thanks ... I don't know if I'll keep this one long but the other one was starting to get annoying. I keep staring at this one trying to decide whether he is serious or smiling. By the way, Fad, LMAO at the "meat receptors"

With CRT's, sometimes after long use when I close my eye, I can "see" the flicker. With LCDs, I sometimes get headaches after like 10-12 hours straight but no "heat" ... my guess is your brain is interpreting fatigue incorrectly.

A Marine was deployed to Afghanistan. While he was there he received a letter from his girlfriend.In the letter she explained that she had slept with two guys while he had been gone and she wanted to break up with him. AND, she wanted pictures of herself back. So the Marine did what any squared-away Marine would do. He went around to his buddies and collected all the unwanted photos of women he could find. He then mailed about 25 pictures of women (with clothes and without) to his girlfriend with the following note: "I don't remember which one you are. Please remove your picture and send the rest back

On a related note, the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics went The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India.

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I'll reply in detail soon but I just wanted to say that I hope we are nerdy enough that we won't go down this line of "XP crashes" versus "Linux crashes" because in my experience, both kernels are quite stable. Whenever you say "crash", I hope you would be kind enough to specify what you mean by a crash ... a driver, an application, a random system stall/reset etc. And to add on top of this, if it is a random "crash", it is almost never the fault of the OS either in case of linux or XP. Edit #1: Also, making statements like "Mandrake performs better than XP" definitely needs to be elaborated on!!!! As in DOING WHAT? What other services are running in the background and how is this performance measured (gut feeling is also valid here ). Edit #2: By the way, I don't need to be convinced that Linux/Unix are far more superior to windows in multi-user enviornments. But Windows is very hard to beat in the single user "PC" context IMO.

Octave = Matlab SciLab = Simulink? I haven't used either one myself but use Matlab a lot. LaTex = MikTex There's no reason the mapping should only be away from windows

The problem is that if all the applications I use migrate to Java I will probably denounce computers all together and go become a monk in Tibet. Unless I see processors being developed that can execute native Java byte code, anytime I hear Java I am going to immediately think WASTED performance. I am just looking at my system right now and I got around 3 Ghz pumping through the processor and a GIG of ram and it's still not performing that much better than my 486 with less than 1/20 of all those resources. Why? Because of all this wasted layers ... virtual machines and hardware abstraction layers and inter operable this and that. Basically, my problem is, that with all these widely varying architectures for computers, I do not think having a unifying software platform and forcing every architecture to execute the same "byte code" is a good thing. It sounds good in theory, but in reality it SUCKS.

The term "hack" and "hacking" when dealing with computers has two big definitions. Most non computer people seem to know the bad connotation associated with a "hacker". The dictionary says: and for "hacker" they say: When I say to "hack" the linux kernel, I mean it more as in get to know how everything works, change source code, recompile it to work differently, or add/remove functionality from it. Basically, any serious computer science or computer engineering operating systems class you take at a university should make you do all that. If you want to learn how the linux kernel works, there is a LOT of books, texts, sites, and info on it and it's not something I can teach you in a post or two. Best way is to get your hands on some real linux distribution, install EVERYTHING (including the source code), and start experimenting with it. If you mean to "hack into the kernel" to gain unauthorized access, that's a totally different story. And it really depends on what it is you are trying to do and what kind of access you have to the system. Most often, it's not easy doing anything bad to a system if you don't have root access. So most attemptes at "hacking" are to get root access (administrator) somehow. Once you are root, you can do pretty much anything.

That's not true. Even C compilers are written in C! At some point someone had to write a really basic C compiler in assembler ... sure. But then you write you fancy C compiler, compile it using the basic compiler, and then recompile yourself with yourself and Voila! Heck even Windows is written in C. And when I say C I mean C/C++. But as far as Java, it's a lot like Visual Basic vs C ... if you really want to be a true nerd, you'll get to use what really matters. If you just want to be a developer and release "fine" products that follow sound OO design practices, object reuse, platform independence, etc etc, you'll use Java. When the time comes to REAL performance and real power, Java ain't got nothin on C! Especially when you are dealing with real hardware. How the heck does one read or write to a specific memory address, do memory mapped IO, or write a low level driver in Java? I guess the answer is using libraries written in C or assembly I definitely think Java is headed towards being a fancy version of what Visual Basic was. What I can't stand is how they are teaching it now as the standard language to COMPUTER ENGINEERING studnets!!!! These poor kids show up and have no idea how to hack a linux kernel, write low level driver code, mess with memory managers, or even do basic sockets in C! "Automatic garbage collection?" Who the heck needs automatic garbage collection when you're writing code for an mp3 player, cel phone, or in the main controller of a car engine? Though I understand wanting to teach Java to more "software engineering" type students ... but for God's sake, NOT to hard core hardware and embedded systems guys! [/rant off]

FYI, Unix, Linux, Java, and JVM's are all written in C.

asexual cause he has no bone

http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/hf/ash.jpg Talking of Persian, now this is some LAV ASH!

I read a bit. It says it can make ISOs but no mention of any actual burning ability .. I didn't see anything in the screen shots either. I got interested because that problem of splitting files in optimal way is not that easy to solve.

"The program analyses the files and folders in a folder you specify, and groups them in the best possible way. Most likely BTTB will find a near-perfect solution for you within one second, and a perfect one in just a couple more." Theoretically, it can be proven that this program can't find the "perfect" solution in seconds (or hours, or days ...) But I don't doubt that it can find good solutions for most practical cases quickly. By the way, it doesn't sound like this program does any actual CD burning ... I think it's more of a file selection/grouping tool to fill multiple CDs as much as possible.

I setup a small mysql based forum to coordinate a few of my students that are working on the same project. I am thinking to also add CVS to do some version control but we are not there yet. I have been fighting with the admin people there to get the firewall port opened to my server there but that's another loooooooong story

Nope ... you can also get the windows installers with precompiled Win32 binaries and it works great. For php, their installer is not of much use. I'd recommend to just download the zip with all the win32 binaries and do a manual install (I use it as a apache module). For mysql, you can also get windows installers with binaries already included. It comes with a great config tool that is great for basic installations.

Flush windows? That's crazy talk I love windows! Just 2 days ago I installed apache with php 5.0 and Mysql server on windows XP ... and all of it literally took 10 minutes!

I don't know about your question but I bought Nero 6 a while back. I think it's well worth the money.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...5_chimeras.html Any thoughts on this? All of a sudden the "creationist" perspective doesn't sound as absurd since we now get to play "God" ourselves

"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." - Albert Einstein

Gides inchka sirun aghchkerke ke shatanan? AYO AYO ANPAYMAN!!!!

http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/hf/beauty.jpg Maybe it's just me, but I feel the same way about this pic as Armat feels about his. Now that's beautiful.