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NUI Kansas City meeting - Aug. 28 - 6-7:30pm
by Alex Monteiro 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

We are holding a Novell Users Intl. meeting on Tuesday, August 28th and would like to invite all members of the KC LUG. We'd like to discuss with members of KC LUG how we can combine our efforts for meetings in Kansas City to get maximum effort. Thanks, Alex ============================ Here is your invitation to join us for the NUI Kansas City meeting scheduled for Tuesday, August 28th. 6:00-7:30pm. We hope to see you there! What: Novell Users International Kansas City When: Tuesday, August 28th. 6:00-7:30pm Where: KIS Kansas City - 4230 S. Phelps Rd. Suite A. Independence MO. 64055 - 816-373-9900 RSVP: http://register.novell.com/login/?action=prelogin&fuse=event&id=20897&lcode… Agenda: ** Novell's training and certification roadmap presentation Election of new NUI KC officers Identifying new locations and meeting dates for future NUI meetings Open discussion/rountable Pizza & refreshments will be served. -- Alex Monteiro Business Development Manager KIS Computer Center - Kansas City o. 816-373-9900 (vmail ext. 7554) f. 816-373-9904 m. 650-279-1909 www.kiscc.com - alexm(a)kiscc.com

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by jared＠hatwhite.com 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

>Did you read in the technical description how they can not only generate >light pulses but also light that has different spectrums (colors). With >that in mind they now have the ability to build a transistor that can >have numerous gate states. Base3, Base6 and Base9 are all possible with >this. Yes, I did read it carefully, several times. But I did not notice what you pointed out, and am glad you saw it. This really opens the sky even more than it first appeared, because now, electrical flow has multiple "flavors" as well as current, voltage, &tc. They really have discovered something larger than any single team of people can explore. Note also that they described the invention as having "3 ports: Ground, amplifier, and light-emitting." You might think that _this_ number three has nothing to do with the ternary conversation we just finished, but in fact, the order of "ground, amplifier, and light-emitting" is a perfect way to express the three poles in their natural relationship to one another. Thus far we've been talking about 1, 0, and -1. But when you extend the structure into analog, you start talking about things like "ground, amplifier, and light-emitting." For example, Hegelian dialectics is another way of looking at the relationship of these three positions. First there is the declaration and then there is an opposing response, and then arising from these two, there is a third "declaration" which is composed of insights derived from the spectrum revealed by the first two. Ground, amplifier, and light-emitting, if you're able to see the poetic insight weaving all of this together. It's exciting to see that the very newest technology in transistor development is not only light-generating, but tripolar in structure. -Jared

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Security Video
by Jonathan Hutchins 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

A client of mine wants to post video clips from his home system to his colocated web host. Right now he's thinking of taking ten minute clips and uploading them with a cron job, but it seems to me there are better ways. Base system hosting the camera is an OS-X Mac, server is Linux. Suggestions or pointers to good resources for this kind of thing (web-based video security) would be appreciated.

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Emacs taken too far
by Kyle Sexton 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

I'll admit that occasionally I fall of the emacs bandwagon and start trying to put *everything* into the editor, but this is taking it a little too far. :) http://1010.co.uk/gneve.html#2 -- Kyle Sexton

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SCO never owned UNIX copyrights, owes Novell 95 percent of UNIX royalties
by Billy Crook 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

SCO never owned UNIX copyrights, owes Novell 95 percent of UNIX royalties<http://feeds.arstechnica.com/%7Er/arstechnica/BAaf/%7E3/143515758/20070812-…>from Ars Technica<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.arstechnica.com%2…>by segphault(a)arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul) A federal district judge has issued a ruling declaring that Novell is the owner of the UNIX copyrights. This will effectively put an end to SCO's litigation campaign. The judge has also determined that Novell is entitled to 95 percent of the UNIX licensing royalties SCO collected from Microsoft and Sun. Read More...<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070812-sco-never-owned-unix-copyrigh…> <http://feeds.arstechnica.com/%7Ea/arstechnica/BAaf?a=GSQZn8> I propose a good riddance party for SCO.

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Re: Kclug Digest, Vol 37, Issue 9
by gary hildebrand 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

You've discovered the high price of American labor . . . and most repairmen would rather replace something than "fix" it. Or he simply doesn't want to fuss with it, which is more likely the real reason. We are all now in a throwaway society -- don't fix anything; just go out and buy something new . . . something where the cost of labor is pennies on the dollar. Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO On 8/10/07, kclug-request(a)kclug.org <kclug-request(a)kclug.org> wrote: > > Send Kclug mailing list submissions to > kclug(a)kclug.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kclug-request(a)kclug.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kclug-owner(a)kclug.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Kclug digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Laptop repair (David Ambs) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:15:04 -0500 (CDT) > From: David Ambs <dave(a)ambs.net> > Subject: Re: Laptop repair > To: kclug(a)kclug.org > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708101010570.9761(a)surreal.mirage.org> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > >> I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with the back light gone out. I have been > >> quoted $350 for parts and $50 for labor. Would you guys think that > this is > >> a fair estimate? > > I'm no repairman, but $350 sounds pretty high for the work that's > involved. > > I replaced the inverter in my Inspiron 8600 just last year. I bought the > inverter from Hypertech<I think>, it was about $45. It's very simple to > replace if you can take the display apart. I actually replaced the bulb > first w/o luck, it took a little more work though. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug > > > End of Kclug Digest, Vol 37, Issue 9 > ************************************ >

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FPGA
by Jared 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Wow. I'm excited! The emerging idea of putting tiny processors onto the memory chips, and thus creating a micronetwork of decentralized microprocessors which can be delegated to specialized memory microtasks IS TERNARY in structure. I have been waiting for this for a long time. I believe it heralds the beginning of Pattern-based computing systems, which will eventually mature into full ternary hardware and software, and carries a whole new way to interact with the computer, as a learning, teaching, and data processing device. First things first: Since we're still on the subject of Field Programmable Gate Arrays, here is a computer-tinkerists project to consider: 1. All standard ternary logic gates can be emulated by arranging a subset of binary gates. Therefore, an entirely ternary design is possible TODAY using an ordinary off-the-shelf FPGA. 2. Among other things, a ternary chip processes Analog-to-Digital data more efficiently than a binary chip. It becomes significantly more efficient with each "trit." To start: a lot of toys use 1 bit D/A converters for sound. A one bit trinary converter has almost twice the quality of a binary system. Here is more on this idea: http://www.trinary.cc/Tutorial/Interface/Analog.htm 3. All modern programming languages are essentially binary in structure, heavily relying on binary branching and counting loops such as IF and FOR. Programmers are therefore increasingly thinking in binary thought patterns, as an incremental social phenomenon. This has long-term consequences on the way we perceive our own future, as a culture, because programmers are designing the computer systems which increasingly shape our interactions with each other. 4. Electricity is itself ternary: A wire conducts in one direction, or the other, or not at all. This is a ternary switch in its most simple form. A native ternary chip is more efficient than binary because all three states of electrical flow are used, instead of only ON/OFF. It is silly to use binary-only algorithms on a ternary chip, just as it is difficult to build a ternary chip out of binary pieces. Both are possible, but waste effort. 5. Artificial intelligence algorithms and some sophisticated search algorithms often exploit this efficient ternary design, but none are doing it at the hardware level, AFAIK. 6. Some of the first computers built (in the 1950s and 1960s) were ternary computers, and worked very well. When silicon overtook the mechanical switches, designers opted for binary, and we've been stuck with it ever since. 7. Ternary processing is more like the way your own brain processes information. That is why AI keeps exploring ternary algorithms. And I believe THIS is the most important reason to experiment with this project. Now for the project: Build a ternary CPU on a FPGA, and use the inherent affinity for analog processing to perform some advanced experiments in generating truly random numbers. I believe it is possible to generate a continual stream of purely random numbers with a ternary design. There are some good uses for such a stream, including truly secure encryption. The question: WHY NOT DO THIS IN BINARY? Well, you _can_ but you need to generate entropy with an analog interface (like moving your mouse around, etc). So I respond: why not do it in ternary? Here is a second justification: Donald Knuth in The Art of Computer Programming, writes "Balanced ternary notation is the most beautiful of all." Some calculations which are quite difficult in binary (&tc), requiring several steps of data movement, are incredibly elegant in ternary, sometimes requiring a simple inversion of the "trits." There is a third justification which goes like this: Because of the latent necessity of designing algorithms which MUST branch TRUE or FALSE because this is simply extending the physical capability of the underlying chip, all programmers naturally think and consider their options from within a binary thinking process. This is an artificial and inefficient extension of our natural ternary mind (which, being electrical, utilizes all three states of the switch described earlier). I personally want to demonstrate that a significant number of difficult processing challenges are more easily managed by a programmer who "thinks" in the native mode of electrical flow, instead of thinking in a limited subset of that same flow. I also want to demonstrate that a PATTERN-based access to data is a thousandfold more efficient than the TREE-based access which all binary systems utilize today. Tree-based access is necessary because binary systems cannot "leap" into undefined space. Everything must be carefully linked to what has gone before, in the shape of a tree. Pattern-based access can utilize the same switches for multiple layers of information, and can thus "leap" into undefined space without corrupting what is already there. This idea is nearly inconceivable from within binary thought processes, because it appears to be a form of DIVIDE-BY-ZEROing data into place (What, you mean you want the data to be in a continual state of crashing my computer?). In fact, it is much more efficient, because layers and layers of data can be built up with the same switches, as long as the switches can be triggered by a time-based pattern event which originates with a particular "seed" shape. Thus the "tree" still exists, but moves into a third dimension, not just laterally like ordinary binary databases and filesystems. This is the actual reason I want to work on this project. I think that a whole new way of thinking about computers and the structure of our own mind is buried in the fact that some of the first computers ever designed were ternary in structure. Now, if that did not convince you, here is one of the most interesting things you have ever seen, in the way of computers. It is one of the oldest mechanical computers ever built, and, it was ternary.

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Re: How About a 710Ghz CPU in the near future
by Jared 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

> Well, it looks like they may have found a way to get > over the wall. Check out this article > (http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb06/2800) and see what the latest > transistor technology is. This article goes into some really heavy > technical descriptions of what is being worked on. Very interesting. Clearly we are looking at something entirely new in the way of switching transistors. Hmmm. We're now feasibly approaching the terahertz processor milestone. I am glad you sent the link. The detailed technical description was some of the best I've ever seen on the subject. -Jared

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How About a 710Ghz CPU in the near future
by Phil Thayer 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

For many years the semiconductor industry has been looking at ways to make the transistor smaller and faster. As chip dies got down below 10 microns and transistors are working at the atomic level they have hit a wall that nature has in place that they have been trying to get over. Well, it looks like they may have found a way to get over the wall. Check out this article (http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb06/2800) and see what the latest transistor technology is. This article goes into some really heavy technical descriptions of what is being worked on. Very interesting. Enjoy. Phil

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Laptop repair
by Tim reid 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

For all you laptop enthusiasts out there: I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with the back light gone out. I have been quoted $350 for parts and $50 for labor. Would you guys think that this is a fair estimate? TIA Tim

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