No matter what your mother-in-law says, you're not an insect. It is an insecticide of sorts and is a useful way for the plant to prevent insect problems. Caffeine has very different effects on humans.
I'm not convinced that Oracle is doing a good (enough) job of testing their patches, or more accurately, they are not _able_ to do to a good job no matter how hard they try. Their support matrixes are huge, with many Oracle packages interacting with other Oracle software, along with the OS, and other vendors software. We caught a bug with a patch set, the first customors to find it. An older yet supported software version didn't want to play nice with a newer oracle application. I ment horrible service and a lot of downtime for our users. Unfortunately the problem only showed up under huge loads that we weren't able to reproduce in our test environments. Maybe Oracle should have more publicly available benchmarking software.. but maybe the marketing dept. nixed such ideas.
I wish Oracle would trim down their support list, and dump older versions of software from support. Oracle would be able to better test for strange and arcane interactions. Who knows, maybe they'd spend more time fixing security issues across their whole code base rather than in the one app a security advisory was published on.
Woah! I shuddered when I read that. You are either a sociopath who can easily manipulate and dominate committees, or you just haven't worked in the same fields I have.
If you're still in school, may a suggest a career in politics or the corporate world?;-)
>Does anyone else here get the feeling from this that doctors have a sort of "well, that's how it's always been done" approach to medicine?
Yes, I do. Our pediatrician mentioned a condition called pyloric stenosis after I brought our infant son in for a checkup. He had thrown up the night before. Details here. Basically the doctor said our son didn't have this condition and not to worry. Of course like many dads, I did worry a little bit. I went home and looked up information on it. The surgical process used to relieve the pyloric stenosis is over a 100 years old and is very successful. Well my thoughts were that an old procedure may be great, but there has to have been some new thinking on how to relieve the problem. Sure enough after about thirty long minutes of Googling, I did find a new procedure in the Indian Journal of Pediatrics (thank you for printing that in English, whoever). They developed a non-surgical method using a power muscle rexalant that you'd normally not think to use at all. I printed out the journal entry and brought it into our Pediatric doctor for my son's next visit. She remembered our conversation and was impressed I found the journal entry and was even more impressed with the simple solution laid out within. She kept the printout to show to some of her surgeon friends. I left very impressed with our son's doctor. Most doctors I've had hate educated patients like me and certainly don't take the time to listen. They bad doctors act like prescription despensing machines.
Another note about your comment: When the Roman doctor Galen wrote out his medical works and thoughts they influenced medicine for centuries. Doctors followed his work methods blindly at times. His work was so advanced for his time that, for awhile, future doctors didn't bother to improve upon them.
Have you used Mulberry? I've been using it for over five years. It is very standards based, works well, and is cross-platform, running on Linux/UNXI, MacOSX, and Win32. It also lacked the cartoony Edura style UI that even seems to have rubbed off onto Thunderbird in small ways. I would be suprised if the code base is a "closed-source hack with two, maybe three comments in the whole thing." Cyrus was very responsive to input from sane users too.
I was very disapointed yesterday afternoon when a friend of mine told me they'd gone bankrupt. I had just downloaded the latest Linux version of Mulberry just two days before hand. Mulberry is one of the very few closed-source applications that I really liked and cared for at all.
US Citizens can't be declared either enemy combatants.
However, what's to stop a out of control governmental agent/body from making a false claim that you voluntairly denied/gave up your US citizen ship prior to your arrest?
Anonymous sources say it was bad sectors on the flash memory, not a total failure. Copy all data off the flash memory, mark the bad sectors and then copy back.
Is it just me or is all of this really quite moot. Between what we are exposed to outside naturally or what we subject ourselves to daily what is on our workstation is hardly going to really make a difference one way or another
Keep in mind that one of things people do while taking breaks from typing is to rub their eyes. Certain parts of the eyes, such as the cornea don't get alot of direct blood flow, so fighting off infection is more difficult. Trying to work on a computer with an eye infection that just doesn't seem to want to go away is not fun.
Also, most sane people will wash their hands after using the toliet. Most people do not wash their hands before or after using a keyboard/mouse - so perhaps we shouldn't disregard this warning.
I do agree with you that markerters in the U.S. push anti-bacterial soaps and products. I don't really see the need for it. I'll just wash my hands with soap and water. If I get a cut, I'll use good 'ol rubbing alcohol. The sting means it's working.:-)
A professor at a local US University handed our help desk a CD labeled "Adobe & Macromedia's Greatest Hits, Vol. II"
She wanted us to install Photoshop and Dreamweaver off the disk. The help deskers explained how it was a pirated copy, and how her dept. could legally purchase the software for significant discount for educational purposes. She protested, saying it was legit because she'd paid 5 dollars for it on her travels in Malaysia.
>I can no longer think of a single good reason anyone would want to buy a PowerMac
Well, it's missing the one thing my coworker wanted. A second video out. The mirroring is nice, but it's no second monitor. That video card wouldn't have much trouble doing a second display either. Apple probably didn't opt for it to force users who need that to get the PowerMac line.
>Why not run 4 cables in the first place? This cube farm was setup for finance initially and they would never need two ports, let alone four. And since the ceiling under you is finished plaster and the floor is wall to wall carpet now, you aren't going to be able to run a new line.
This is why you don't wire a room/building for it's current occupants when starting fresh. You make sure to meet needs of the current occupants but leave room for growth. Cable is cheap. We recently finished wiring an old building. During the process we wired a storage room. The building occupants said we didn't need to, but we insisted anyways. True to form, 3 months later they converted the storage space into office space and needed several connections.
My favorite UPS ground experience was when shipped a package across the country... we followed the directions, labeled everything properly and in the right place. We tracked the package as it moved from the west coast towards the east coast. It got to the middle of the country where it then turned around and was delivered back to us. Some UPS employees got lazy and decided they'd rather ship it to the return address for no apparent reason, even though the TO: address was front, center, and bold.
After getting some severly damaged boxes looking exactly like the one in the photos delivered by UPS (containing metal racks, which sustained little damage fortunately) I wonder if it's just cheaper and safer to use USPS or go with the more expensive FedEx.
Here's what I'd do. Realize you still have a good thing going here. This is excellent work experience even if you're doing the dog's work now.
Talk to the boss and tell them you like what you're doing and understand that alot of the repetive work will fall to you and the other students, but you really want to learn all you can.. so what other new things can they slip into the schedule too? Tell them you want to do more, learn more, make your self more valuable to them all the while increasing your skill levels.
Have fun while you're at it too!
well, having worked in a university doing help desk support for the IT team, I can tell you that most professors are about half as smart as mechanics.:)
It often boils down to political warfare not from the IT dept. vs students or professors, but from professors yelling at the IT dept. for not support X and Y while the IT dept. just looks up to the deans and big whigs with bug puppy eyes asking for more funding to support these cool new things professors and students want.
Be careful about "sneaking" power you've produced onto the grid. Normal Joe and Jane power co. employees can get hurt when they think they've turned off power to the area they're working on, but in reality they get a jolt from your upstream power. Messy messed up explanation, but anyways...
One of the reasons they use 7 digits for local (or one of the reasons we like it) is because human short term memory can hold around 5-7 items w/o the use of memory tricks.
Of course if you start chunking info then 5-7 items can turns into 5-7 chunks.
So the 7 digit local numbers are nice because you don't have to expend a huge effort to remember them.
Businesses freak out over these changes cause they worry about the impact to their printed materials etc.
You don't need 200FPS, but when the action hits and there's alot going on in the screen the normal FPS can drop significantly. I've been fine playing with 30fps or less and had no problem kicking butt. Perhaps if I was playing for money I'd want overkill of having 200FPS, but it'd still be overkill in most situations.
Where did you get Windows 95 from ? I said 95 % of people..
Whoops. Sorry about that.
Well, from reading the OpenBSD misc-list I get the feeling that even though there are plenty of users not running the current version of OpenBSD, they still like to apply all the patches so their non-current OpenBSD system is still up to snuff.
My eyes must have been tired to turn that 95% into win95. Either that or supporting win95 boxes for the users is driving me mad.
Carefully read through the quotes supplied on the article:
Todd Miller an OpenBSD developer responded to this question with the following:
"As one of the people who took part in the audit I can honestly say that we didn't think they *were* exploitable. There was no intention of hiding any fixes, we just went through the entire source tree (we did not target privileged programs specifically) and fixed format string problems where we found them and released patches for those we knew to be exploitable (like xlock)."
As far as running old versions of Win95, well OpenBSD users are quite different from Win95 general users. People who are running OpenBSD like to apply those patches,etc.
Sometimes I ask myself the same question, why isn't this on the front page? Then I get my wish on the next BSD story and the nearly all the posts on the front page BSD story are worthless. People bicker about how *BSD is dead, not as good as Linux, or how they don't like Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD because they heard something somewhere about him, the list goes on and on. So basically 90% of the posts are off-topic for the story. It's too bad people miss the point and the good news of the story.
It's nice to hear another story about FreeBSD standing up to the challenge. I'm sure they'll be breaking the record again soon in the near future. Mabye cdrom.com will have a go at the record again. Anyway, I'd never heard about Terasolutions before. They have a nice plain website. Yet another vendor who supports BSD.
But what does he do if he strongly believes that children should not be allowed to view pornographic images on the systems he's setting up? How does he stick to both ideals?
I was looking through the article, but mabye I missed it. Will these be G4e or the current line up but speed bumped G4 processors?
Either way they need to get those processors running faster. They can add multiple chips in desktops to get things up to competition when MacOS X is viable, but they're not likely gonna have that option (multiple CPUs) in laptops. Too much power used.
Oh man, Schwann cells.... that brought back a flood of memories of final exams - biopsych. Yuck. Well I guess if Schwann cells are classified as Glial then myelin can be classified as glial. I guess when someone says Glial cells, the first thing to come to mind isn't Schwann cells. I guess between the 3 of us we're getting somewhere. But this whole notion of "Use All Your Brain, Not Only Neurons?" (from the/. article title) is news is kinda silly. Of course we use our whole brain. It is a whole system. Each part is pretty necessary.
(Biopsych finals... hmmm. I'm glad I work now.;) Fun subject, but the trick question exams sucked.)
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No matter what your mother-in-law says, you're not an insect. It is an insecticide of sorts and is a useful way for the plant to prevent insect problems. Caffeine has very different effects on humans.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffiene
And better yet, read: The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug
I'm not convinced that Oracle is doing a good (enough) job of testing their patches, or more accurately, they are not _able_ to do to a good job no matter how hard they try. Their support matrixes are huge, with many Oracle packages interacting with other Oracle software, along with the OS, and other vendors software. We caught a bug with a patch set, the first customors to find it. An older yet supported software version didn't want to play nice with a newer oracle application. I ment horrible service and a lot of downtime for our users. Unfortunately the problem only showed up under huge loads that we weren't able to reproduce in our test environments. Maybe Oracle should have more publicly available benchmarking software.. but maybe the marketing dept. nixed such ideas.
I wish Oracle would trim down their support list, and dump older versions of software from support. Oracle would be able to better test for strange and arcane interactions. Who knows, maybe they'd spend more time fixing security issues across their whole code base rather than in the one app a security advisory was published on.
> Logically, we should do Everything by committee
;-)
Woah! I shuddered when I read that. You are either a sociopath who can easily manipulate and dominate committees, or you just haven't worked in the same fields I have.
If you're still in school, may a suggest a career in politics or the corporate world?
>Does anyone else here get the feeling from this that doctors have a sort of "well, that's how it's always been done" approach to medicine?
Yes, I do. Our pediatrician mentioned a condition called pyloric stenosis after I brought our infant son in for a checkup. He had thrown up the night before. Details here. Basically the doctor said our son didn't have this condition and not to worry. Of course like many dads, I did worry a little bit. I went home and looked up information on it. The surgical process used to relieve the pyloric stenosis is over a 100 years old and is very successful. Well my thoughts were that an old procedure may be great, but there has to have been some new thinking on how to relieve the problem. Sure enough after about thirty long minutes of Googling, I did find a new procedure in the Indian Journal of Pediatrics (thank you for printing that in English, whoever). They developed a non-surgical method using a power muscle rexalant that you'd normally not think to use at all. I printed out the journal entry and brought it into our Pediatric doctor for my son's next visit. She remembered our conversation and was impressed I found the journal entry and was even more impressed with the simple solution laid out within. She kept the printout to show to some of her surgeon friends. I left very impressed with our son's doctor. Most doctors I've had hate educated patients like me and certainly don't take the time to listen. They bad doctors act like prescription despensing machines.
Another note about your comment:
When the Roman doctor Galen wrote out his medical works and thoughts they influenced medicine for centuries. Doctors followed his work methods blindly at times. His work was so advanced for his time that, for awhile, future doctors didn't bother to improve upon them.
Have you used Mulberry? I've been using it for over five years. It is very standards based, works well, and is cross-platform, running on Linux/UNXI, MacOSX, and Win32. It also lacked the cartoony Edura style UI that even seems to have rubbed off onto Thunderbird in small ways. I would be suprised if the code base is a "closed-source hack with two, maybe three comments in the whole thing." Cyrus was very responsive to input from sane users too.
I was very disapointed yesterday afternoon when a friend of mine told me they'd gone bankrupt. I had just downloaded the latest Linux version of Mulberry just two days before hand. Mulberry is one of the very few closed-source applications that I really liked and cared for at all.
US Citizens can't be declared either enemy combatants.
However, what's to stop a out of control governmental agent/body from making a false claim that you voluntairly denied/gave up your US citizen ship prior to your arrest?
Anonymous sources say it was bad sectors on the flash memory, not a total failure. Copy all data off the flash memory, mark the bad sectors and then copy back.
Is it just me or is all of this really quite moot. Between what we are exposed to outside naturally or what we subject ourselves to daily what is on our workstation is hardly going to really make a difference one way or another
:-)
Keep in mind that one of things people do while taking breaks from typing is to rub their eyes. Certain parts of the eyes, such as the cornea don't get alot of direct blood flow, so fighting off infection is more difficult. Trying to work on a computer with an eye infection that just doesn't seem to want to go away is not fun.
Also, most sane people will wash their hands after using the toliet. Most people do not wash their hands before or after using a keyboard/mouse - so perhaps we shouldn't disregard this warning.
I do agree with you that markerters in the U.S. push anti-bacterial soaps and products. I don't really see the need for it. I'll just wash my hands with soap and water. If I get a cut, I'll use good 'ol rubbing alcohol. The sting means it's working.
Journawhatilism? This is Slashdot. They don't even care about spelling. It's entertainment. Laugh a little :)
A professor at a local US University handed our help desk a CD labeled "Adobe & Macromedia's Greatest Hits, Vol. II"
She wanted us to install Photoshop and Dreamweaver off the disk. The help deskers explained how it was a pirated copy, and how her dept. could legally purchase the software for significant discount for educational purposes. She protested, saying it was legit because she'd paid 5 dollars for it on her travels in Malaysia.
>I can no longer think of a single good reason anyone would want to buy a PowerMac
Well, it's missing the one thing my coworker wanted. A second video out. The mirroring is nice, but it's no second monitor. That video card wouldn't have much trouble doing a second display either. Apple probably didn't opt for it to force users who need that to get the PowerMac line.
>Why not run 4 cables in the first place? This cube farm was setup for finance initially and they would never need two ports, let alone four. And since the ceiling under you is finished plaster and the floor is wall to wall carpet now, you aren't going to be able to run a new line.
This is why you don't wire a room/building for it's current occupants when starting fresh. You make sure to meet needs of the current occupants but leave room for growth. Cable is cheap. We recently finished wiring an old building. During the process we wired a storage room. The building occupants said we didn't need to, but we insisted anyways. True to form, 3 months later they converted the storage space into office space and needed several connections.
My favorite UPS ground experience was when shipped a package across the country... we followed the directions, labeled everything properly and in the right place. We tracked the package as it moved from the west coast towards the east coast. It got to the middle of the country where it then turned around and was delivered back to us. Some UPS employees got lazy and decided they'd rather ship it to the return address for no apparent reason, even though the TO: address was front, center, and bold.
After getting some severly damaged boxes looking exactly like the one in the photos delivered by UPS (containing metal racks, which sustained little damage fortunately) I wonder if it's just cheaper and safer to use USPS or go with the more expensive FedEx.
Here's what I'd do. Realize you still have a good thing going here. This is excellent work experience even if you're doing the dog's work now.
Talk to the boss and tell them you like what you're doing and understand that alot of the repetive work will fall to you and the other students, but you really want to learn all you can.. so what other new things can they slip into the schedule too? Tell them you want to do more, learn more, make your self more valuable to them all the while increasing your skill levels.
Have fun while you're at it too!
well, having worked in a university doing help desk support for the IT team, I can tell you that most professors are about half as smart as mechanics. :)
It often boils down to political warfare not from the IT dept. vs students or professors, but from professors yelling at the IT dept. for not support X and Y while the IT dept. just looks up to the deans and big whigs with bug puppy eyes asking for more funding to support these cool new things professors and students want.
Be careful about "sneaking" power you've produced onto the grid. Normal Joe and Jane power co. employees can get hurt when they think they've turned off power to the area they're working on, but in reality they get a jolt from your upstream power. Messy messed up explanation, but anyways...
One of the reasons they use 7 digits for local (or one of the reasons we like it) is because human short term memory can hold around 5-7 items w/o the use of memory tricks.
Of course if you start chunking info then 5-7 items can turns into 5-7 chunks.
So the 7 digit local numbers are nice because you don't have to expend a huge effort to remember them.
Businesses freak out over these changes cause they worry about the impact to their printed materials etc.
Hullo?
It was a joke. Laugh. It's okay.
You don't need 200FPS, but when the action hits and there's alot going on in the screen the normal FPS can drop significantly. I've been fine playing with 30fps or less and had no problem kicking butt. Perhaps if I was playing for money I'd want overkill of having 200FPS, but it'd still be overkill in most situations.
Where did you get Windows 95 from ? I said 95 % of people..
Whoops. Sorry about that.
Well, from reading the OpenBSD misc-list I get the feeling that even though there are plenty of users not running the current version of OpenBSD, they still like to apply all the patches so their non-current OpenBSD system is still up to snuff.
My eyes must have been tired to turn that 95% into win95. Either that or supporting win95 boxes for the users is driving me mad.
Carefully read through the quotes supplied on the article:
Todd Miller an OpenBSD developer responded to this question with the following:
"As one of the people who took part in the audit I can honestly say that we didn't think they *were* exploitable. There was no intention of hiding any fixes, we just went through the entire source tree (we did not target privileged programs specifically) and fixed format string problems where we found them and released patches for those we knew to be exploitable (like xlock)."
As far as running old versions of Win95, well OpenBSD users are quite different from Win95 general users. People who are running OpenBSD like to apply those patches,etc.
Sometimes I ask myself the same question, why isn't this on the front page? Then I get my wish on the next BSD story and the nearly all the posts on the front page BSD story are worthless. People bicker about how *BSD is dead, not as good as Linux, or how they don't like Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD because they heard something somewhere about him, the list goes on and on. So basically 90% of the posts are off-topic for the story. It's too bad people miss the point and the good news of the story.
It's nice to hear another story about FreeBSD standing up to the challenge. I'm sure they'll be breaking the record again soon in the near future. Mabye cdrom.com will have a go at the record again. Anyway, I'd never heard about Terasolutions before. They have a nice plain website. Yet another vendor who supports BSD.
But what does he do if he strongly believes that children should not be allowed to view pornographic images on the systems he's setting up? How does he stick to both ideals?
I was looking through the article, but mabye I missed it. Will these be G4e or the current line up but speed bumped G4 processors?
Either way they need to get those processors running faster. They can add multiple chips in desktops to get things up to competition when MacOS X is viable, but they're not likely gonna have that option (multiple CPUs) in laptops. Too much power used.
Oh man, Schwann cells.... that brought back a flood of memories of final exams - biopsych. Yuck. Well I guess if Schwann cells are classified as Glial then myelin can be classified as glial. I guess when someone says Glial cells, the first thing to come to mind isn't Schwann cells. I guess between the 3 of us we're getting somewhere. /. article title) is news is kinda silly. Of course we use our whole brain. It is a whole system. Each part is pretty necessary.
;) Fun subject, but the trick question exams sucked.)
But this whole notion of "Use All Your Brain, Not Only Neurons?" (from the
(Biopsych finals... hmmm. I'm glad I work now.