Re:Not only Google looks for big brains
on
Defining Google
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· Score: 2, Funny
I'm not sure I would want to work for any company that asked me this
question in an interview, as it clearly indicates that the culture in
the company is for management to pay themselves as much as possible,
whilst paying the people who actually do the work as little as
possible.
If the matrix was built on a Linux platform, it would never work, because device drivers for human beings wouldn't exist.
... and we wouldn't all be enslaved while the
evil machines suck the life out of us. Hmmm.
I'm actually beginning to see why The Matrix
is like Microsoft's business model.
I wrote my own (Perl) script, that copies all my
"important" files (basically stuff in my home
directory that can't be reconstructed by other means
and all the system config files) to a new directory
tree (using cpio) it then burns the copied tree to
CD-RW and verifies the CD against the copied tree.
I operate a 4 disc system, so I always have the
last four backups on CD and I keep the copied
trees around (uncompressed) for as long as I
have disk space. So far I've not needed the CDs
(I store 2 of them offsite in case of disaster)
but the copied filesystem trees have come in
useful a couple of times.
The only drawback of this is it's not appropriate
for backing up huge quantites of data (like lots
of audio or video files) as the CD media is quite
limited in size - but when rewritable holographic
storage comes along I'll be able to just change
my function that decides which files are
"important".
...a 16 year old teenager had a hole in his heart (a nail gun accident)...
Wow - I broke my thumb once and tried to convince
people I'd sustained it during a particularly
mouse intensive game of Quake II, but this is
just going too far.
My 9 year old HP Omnibook 600CT is showing it's
age and the 12" Powerbook is almost exactly the
same size (and has a higher resolution screen,
larger hard disk, optical drive, similar battery
life, etc).
But has anyone got this thing dual booting Linux
and OS X? If so I would be very interested in
getting one.
I did the following to enable antialiased fonts in Mozilla
- I didn't compile my own Mozilla, but I do tend to use
recent nightlies:
// for anti-aliased fonts
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/home/jim/apps/mozilla-fonts"); // if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in // it is best to leave hinting off
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false); // below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results
pref("font.antialias.min", 6);
pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", "64");
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.1");
I had the libfreetype6Debian package installed.
I made made my own font directory and copied the *.ttf files
that I needed to it, because one of my more esoteric fonts would
cause Mozilla to crash.
In the end I gave up on anti-aliased fonts because they gave me a headache
unless I made them much bigger than I'm used to with my normal "crisp"
X11 fonts.
No - don't do this.
If you fake your user agent it may help you in
the short term, but in the long run it will make
the people who run the web service think that
the only clients they need to support are IE,
and then one day when they use some component
that is only available on IE you'll be stuffed.
...the Guinness book of records, which in its last edition grants Eric a slot as owner of the world's "most practical suit of clothing".
Eric's outfits weigh 15kg...
Hmmm... this must be some new meaning of the
word "practical" that I was hitherto unaware of.
Background Applications
on
Is Mac OS X Slow?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I use an iMac to do some video editing and rendering
to VCD, and I've noticed that if I switch from
iMove to, say Finder, then the CPU usage of the
iMovie render drops dramatically, and the estimated
render time shoots up.
It looks like resources are being allocated for
the foregorund application - even if it doesn't
need them - presumably to improve the user's
perception of performance.
They missed out a feature that I found extremely
useful and find it annoying that it's not there
in pre-1.2 Mozilla, which is Ctrl-Shift-F takes
you straight to your defined search engine (which
is Google if you have a clue).
... or maybe IE does this - I wouldn't know as
#49 means I can't use IE (even if I chose to).
Hmmm... this is what man cron gives on my Debian Linux box...
Special considerations exist when the clock is changed by less than 3 hours, for example at the beginning and end of daylight savings time. If the time has moved forwards, those jobs which would have run in the time that was skipped will be run soon after the change. Conversely, if the time has moved backwards by less than 3 hours, those jobs that fall into the repeated time will not be re-run.
Only jobs that run at a particular time (not specified as @hourly, nor with '*' in the hour or minute specifier) are affected. Jobs which are specified with wildcards are run based on the new time immediately.
Clock changes of more than 3 hours are considered to be corrections to the clock, and the new time is used immediately.
I wanted to do something similar under Linux
(i.e. capturing the audio output from a quicktime
player running under WINE) and a quick bout of
Googling turned up
dsproxy
which worked very nicely, thankyou very much.
Hmmm. I think the analogy works better if you put Microsoft in the role of the terrorists - a regime that represses their subjects whilst launching unprovoked attacks on a community that is just trying to bring freedom and choice to the masses.
Software written before Java emerged on the scene - software pre-1995 - was all pretty much a hack. Much of the software that is still being written is a hack. People change slowly. Programmers have to die, almost, for this to change. - Bill Joy
Wow! For this to be true Java must have changed
a hell of a lot since I stopped using it in 1999
(when I took up Perl).
Of all the languages I have used extensively
(including C, C++, Smalltalk, Java, Tcl, Lisp, Prolog, Modula2, ML -
a few that spring to mind immediately - I have dabbled in many others), I have found Perl to
be the least annoying. With all the
others you always run up against some brick wall
that requires you admit that you can't get where
you want to be from where you are. In Perl it
always seems to be possible to get yourself out
(even when completely recoding is the right thing
to do).
I can cope with Apple being a bit miffed about
someone cloning their interface, but complaining
about the name "xtunes" seems a bit rich coming
from the company that called used exactly the same
symbol (although not name) for their operating
system as a popular and well established window
system - X.
They also seem to be in a habit of calling their
products after popular Unix programs that have
been around for years - consider "Xserve" only
only one letter short of "Xserver", and "eMac"
is only one letter short of "emacs". Maybe their
next product will be called "gre", "Linu" or
"Mozill".
From someone who remembers when
ical
was a Tk/Tcl application.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure I would want to work for any company that asked me this question in an interview, as it clearly indicates that the culture in the company is for management to pay themselves as much as possible, whilst paying the people who actually do the work as little as possible.
And here was I imagining the police armed with these [Amazon link].
Anyone else notice if you go to wintercorp.com it states:
Makes you wonder how definitive this survey really is.
And so it seems do a lot of other people.
If you're running Debian I'd add http://marillat.free.fr/ to your /etc/apt/sources.list and use the video/multimedia packages from there.
You need to have the qt6codecs package installed to view this trailer.
I wrote my own (Perl) script, that copies all my "important" files (basically stuff in my home directory that can't be reconstructed by other means and all the system config files) to a new directory tree (using cpio) it then burns the copied tree to CD-RW and verifies the CD against the copied tree.
I operate a 4 disc system, so I always have the last four backups on CD and I keep the copied trees around (uncompressed) for as long as I have disk space. So far I've not needed the CDs (I store 2 of them offsite in case of disaster) but the copied filesystem trees have come in useful a couple of times.
The only drawback of this is it's not appropriate for backing up huge quantites of data (like lots of audio or video files) as the CD media is quite limited in size - but when rewritable holographic storage comes along I'll be able to just change my function that decides which files are "important".
Wow - I broke my thumb once and tried to convince people I'd sustained it during a particularly mouse intensive game of Quake II, but this is just going too far.
My 9 year old HP Omnibook 600CT is showing it's age and the 12" Powerbook is almost exactly the same size (and has a higher resolution screen, larger hard disk, optical drive, similar battery life, etc).
But has anyone got this thing dual booting Linux and OS X? If so I would be very interested in getting one.
I did the following to enable antialiased fonts in Mozilla - I didn't compile my own Mozilla, but I do tend to use recent nightlies:
I had the libfreetype6 Debian package installed.
I made made my own font directory and copied the *.ttf files that I needed to it, because one of my more esoteric fonts would cause Mozilla to crash.
In the end I gave up on anti-aliased fonts because they gave me a headache unless I made them much bigger than I'm used to with my normal "crisp" X11 fonts.
Are you sure - it doesn't look as though it's divisible by 10.
Now of you'd said 27720, that would be different...
No - don't do this. If you fake your user agent it may help you in the short term, but in the long run it will make the people who run the web service think that the only clients they need to support are IE, and then one day when they use some component that is only available on IE you'll be stuffed.
So us non-Maccies don't feel left out, us Linux users can use aaxine (part of the excellent xine project).
.My favourite quote from the article:
Hmmm... this must be some new meaning of the word "practical" that I was hitherto unaware of.
I use an iMac to do some video editing and rendering to VCD, and I've noticed that if I switch from iMove to, say Finder, then the CPU usage of the iMovie render drops dramatically, and the estimated render time shoots up.
It looks like resources are being allocated for the foregorund application - even if it doesn't need them - presumably to improve the user's perception of performance.
I should think TBL would be more concerned about the implication that he is dead.
They missed out a feature that I found extremely useful and find it annoying that it's not there in pre-1.2 Mozilla, which is Ctrl-Shift-F takes you straight to your defined search engine (which is Google if you have a clue).
M-x hanoi
According to the Camel book Perl may output the following error:
but only if there's a bug in the regexp parser. (I've certainly never seen it).IIRC awk on HP-UX used to only have one error, something along the lines of:
And I remember a long time ago seeing some Windows service fail to start "due to the following error: Success".
Hmmm... this is what man cron gives on my Debian Linux box...
I wanted to do something similar under Linux (i.e. capturing the audio output from a quicktime player running under WINE) and a quick bout of Googling turned up dsproxy which worked very nicely, thankyou very much.
Hmmm. I think the analogy works better if you put
Microsoft in the role of the terrorists - a regime
that represses their subjects whilst launching
unprovoked attacks on a community that is just
trying to bring freedom and choice to the masses.
No. But it means it will be denser.
Wow! For this to be true Java must have changed a hell of a lot since I stopped using it in 1999 (when I took up Perl).
Of all the languages I have used extensively (including C, C++, Smalltalk, Java, Tcl, Lisp, Prolog, Modula2, ML - a few that spring to mind immediately - I have dabbled in many others), I have found Perl to be the least annoying. With all the others you always run up against some brick wall that requires you admit that you can't get where you want to be from where you are. In Perl it always seems to be possible to get yourself out (even when completely recoding is the right thing to do).
I can cope with Apple being a bit miffed about someone cloning their interface, but complaining about the name "xtunes" seems a bit rich coming from the company that called used exactly the same symbol (although not name) for their operating system as a popular and well established window system - X.
They also seem to be in a habit of calling their products after popular Unix programs that have been around for years - consider "Xserve" only only one letter short of "Xserver", and "eMac" is only one letter short of "emacs". Maybe their next product will be called "gre", "Linu" or "Mozill".
From someone who remembers when ical was a Tk/Tcl application.