Just for curiousity. Been wanting to do things like map the garage v. house and the like.
*) the items I have found are quite expensive -- $300+ for even the low end stuff.
or
*) it requires a wire be run all the way from the PC to where you want to monitor. This may or may not be easy depending on the house and whether or not you rent v. own. These are still in the $100+ range.
Every few support calls I get an email from Dell asking me to fill out a survey. On a recent one I complained about the poor quality of support I had received. After dealing mainly with the people from the server support division the complete lack of clue and ability was very, very obvious. Good to know companies still listen to their consumers. Seems obvious, but many don't.
I was talking with a woman yesterday who said she was getting very bad service from HP's support system. But she never complained to anyone. We as consumers must remember that if we just idly accept whatever the corporates throw at us this is the kind of treatment to expect. I can't speak for the rest of the world but here in America the desire for the absolute cheapest solution possible is slowly killing us. We complain about poor service, no help, etc. but then we go shop at the Super Mega Mart because their product is 5 cents cheaper.
Sorry for the vent. My point is, we need to vote with our money and complain to the management when things are not how we want them.
The difference is in who is doing it. In the old, old days the greed was predominantly in the ruling class and their lackeys. Nowadays anyone who wants to play the greed game can. The barrier to entry is much, much lower.
Look at the snobbery between the born rich and the new rich (sorry, can't spell the French version). Then look at the new rich versus the middle class trying to be new rich.
IMAP is not all that much better for this task. POP3's biggest failing is that it defaults to being VERY insecure. SSL and other additions have largely cleared that up.
IMAP's big advantages are (from the client's perspective):
1) mail in folders 2) better handling of lots of email
Both of these have been solved by mail readers for a long time.
IMAP is really better for the admins of the world and the security conscious. For most people POP3 is good enough.
Ok, so a few other posts haved commented that this style of lable is nothing new. For those of us stuck with only radio offerings how do you find the underground / indie music? Simple web searches can take quite a while to dig through the offerings and many only have like one or two songs available.
For corporates the router connected to the internet has statistics in it like packets sent, received etc. There are many tools to monitor these routers some open others you pay for. If you start to notice spikes or a general increase in volume you can contact the upstream to try to get some of it blocked.
Another place to get the data is from the firewall. At this level you can get the data broken down by access type -- ICMP, GRE, HTTP, DNS, etc.
There is a new breed of SAN out there -- iSCSI. No more expensive fibre channel. For *most* uses the speed difference is not worth it and the cost savings are tremendous.
1) no buying fibre hardware (hidden costs) 2) the actual SAN is an order of magnitude cheaper as well
Microsoft has software based iSCSI controllers, Intel and several others sell hardware controllers (think a NIC meets a scsi card).
Yes, it is new tech. Obviously many here haven't heard about it. I know some people have allergies to new things. But it is something intriguing to look at.
my issue is I have to pay per receiver. for car and home that is 15.99. Want a portable radio while you work out -- that's another 6.99 too.
All of these little monthly utilities add up quickly. Plus, there is the concern that it is cheap now but will become more and more like cable as things progress.
No surprise people are not willing to give up free broadcast radio just yet.
The paranoid among us might see this as a way to come out with games that still require an actual GameBoy instead of the attachment for the GameCube. I intend to own the attachment because I hate staring at a dinky screen even if they did finally add backlighting.
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eh? In C++ the compiler will not let you access private methods or variables. The author is talking about writing code that the is allowed by the.NET runtime/compiler to access supposedly hidden data.
The.NET issue *CAN* be a security hole if people were incorrectly led to believe that private meant private.
*) *NO* speaker phones. I always seem to be stuck next to someone who spends his day chatting on the phone.
*) quiet cell phones. People with the star spangled banner, show theme songs and what not just need to be shot.
*) headphones at decent levels. My current cube neighbor has headphones but may as well be using speakers.
*) tall cube walls. Prevent gophering and helps with the noise.
*) people who need to work together should be near each other. Sales and marketing should be nowhere near the engineers. They tend to violate the first two rules above. It should not be difficult to wander near the people you need to talk to. Avoid mazes.
*) easy to acquire rooms with doors and either no windows visible from cube land or easily covered ones. My current employer has accordion blinds which is a good solution. Nothing worse than managers wandering into meetings to steal people.
*) some number of the easy to acquire rooms should be set aside for war rooms and not be reservable as meeting spaces. Sometimes you need to get 3 people together and hash things out. This is not limited to programmers either.
*) a whiteboard (or 2) in every cube
*) as much as possible the major flow paths should not have cube openings on it. People constantly walking behind you is not conducive to productivity.
a friend and former co-worker had an article in Linux Journal (or was it Mag?) about how to put $HOME into cvs.
His approach is to break it up into functional groups and then checkout the groups he needs or fit the current location/use. Even all of his email lives in cvs. It is quite amazing.
Having seen many a distributed homedir server die or disappear in my time, I would rather have to only depend on the network for setup. Personally I have been waiting for a project like arch or subversion to mature so I did not have to deal with the downsides of cvs like file/directory moving.
I know this does not apply to many people but here is why I like it.
By passing the -display option, I am able to run a debugger outside of X (perhaps on another machine, perhaps just on console) and test apps without fear of any problems if I blow up. One of the projects I work on is a window manager. If it dies you can no longer use X at all so this functionality is absolutely required there.
people keep implying that computers are nice and cheap, so just go buy another one. For some this is not really an option. All those unemployed geeks out there are looking for neat projects that may not cost much. Cheap is relative.
Also, this just has the interesting factor. Sure you could just plug in another computer but why not try to optimize the hardware that already exists. Many people own a ghz level processor and still only need to surf the web and read email. A setup like this would work fine for me and my wife.
On top of this you only use the power of one computer as well.
my experience in corporate America is that the bit bangers APPEAR to be more productive but are actually less or even counter productive. If programmer A takes 2 hours to code a crap solution and 3 days to fix it versus the craftsman who take 2 days to do it once and do it right, programmer A looks good initially but becomes a liability.
A friend of mine is definately the tortoise, slow as it goes, programmer type. Some of the younger hackers mock him. But if you look at the total output he comes out on top because he spends far less time debugging. Managers need to understand that simple output is an invalid measure and look more at the whole process. This is especially valid in places that do a devel cycle followed by a cleanup cycle. The friend I referenced earlier often spends the cleanup phase of projects helping the bit bangers out because he has nothing else to do.
For some reason many of the scripts which maintain our archives were simply named after women. We have katie, linda, etc. Makes zero sense when you are trying to remember what script does what.
c) many developers prefer puzzling out the code on pen and paper then walking it in a debugger. Quite a few I have talked to believe that they make better code if they can solve the problem without resorting to debuggers. This BTW is why Linus does not like kernel debuggers.
d) most of the debuggers are good enough and as we all know from open source, a good enough solution will live forever. The existence of a debugger that mostly works gives most people a reason to spend their time elsewhere.
In my experience I have truly benefited more from programs like Purify or Insure (and now the great valgrind) than I have from a debugger.
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Just for curiousity. Been wanting to do things like map the garage v. house and the like.
*) the items I have found are quite expensive -- $300+ for even the low end stuff.
or
*) it requires a wire be run all the way from the PC to where you want to monitor. This may or may not be easy depending on the house and whether or not you rent v. own. These are still in the $100+ range.
maybe he is married (-: My wife has been complaining non-stop about how low I keep the thermostat. Finally compromised with 64.
Every few support calls I get an email from Dell asking me to fill out a survey. On a recent one I complained about the poor quality of support I had received. After dealing mainly with the people from the server support division the complete lack of clue and ability was very, very obvious. Good to know companies still listen to their consumers. Seems obvious, but many don't.
I was talking with a woman yesterday who said she was getting very bad service from HP's support system. But she never complained to anyone. We as consumers must remember that if we just idly accept whatever the corporates throw at us this is the kind of treatment to expect. I can't speak for the rest of the world but here in America the desire for the absolute cheapest solution possible is slowly killing us. We complain about poor service, no help, etc. but then we go shop at the Super Mega Mart because their product is 5 cents cheaper.
Sorry for the vent. My point is, we need to vote with our money and complain to the management when things are not how we want them.
That is the most brilliant idea I have heard in a while!
You don't vote and it costs you money -- that will definitely get people to the ballot box.
I love it, the States should definately do that.
(no, this was not sarcasm)
The difference is in who is doing it. In the old, old days the greed was predominantly in the ruling class and their lackeys. Nowadays anyone who wants to play the greed game can. The barrier to entry is much, much lower.
Look at the snobbery between the born rich and the new rich (sorry, can't spell the French version). Then look at the new rich versus the middle class trying to be new rich.
I often wonder if those are attempts to find valid addresses.
IMAP is not all that much better for this task. POP3's biggest failing is that it defaults to being VERY insecure. SSL and other additions have largely cleared that up.
IMAP's big advantages are (from the client's perspective):
1) mail in folders
2) better handling of lots of email
Both of these have been solved by mail readers for a long time.
IMAP is really better for the admins of the world and the security conscious. For most people POP3 is good enough.
Ok, so a few other posts haved commented that this style of lable is nothing new. For those of us stuck with only radio offerings how do you find the underground / indie music? Simple web searches can take quite a while to dig through the offerings and many only have like one or two songs available.
yeah, their rock/metal offerings are not great (yet ...) but I have really enjoyed listening to their world selections and some of their electronica.
Rock is my standard music choice, but I like the other stuff for coding and the like.
Like others here I have been listening for about 2 weeks and have been considering giving them money.
For corporates the router connected to the internet has statistics in it like packets sent, received etc. There are many tools to monitor these routers some open others you pay for. If you start to notice spikes or a general increase in volume you can contact the upstream to try to get some of it blocked.
Another place to get the data is from the firewall. At this level you can get the data broken down by access type -- ICMP, GRE, HTTP, DNS, etc.
There is a new breed of SAN out there -- iSCSI. No more expensive fibre channel. For *most* uses the speed difference is not worth it and the cost savings are tremendous.
1) no buying fibre hardware (hidden costs)
2) the actual SAN is an order of magnitude cheaper as well
Microsoft has software based iSCSI controllers, Intel and several others sell hardware controllers (think a NIC meets a scsi card).
Yes, it is new tech. Obviously many here haven't heard about it. I know some people have allergies to new things. But it is something intriguing to look at.
my issue is I have to pay per receiver. for car and home that is 15.99. Want a portable radio while you work out -- that's another 6.99 too.
All of these little monthly utilities add up quickly. Plus, there is the concern that it is cheap now but will become more and more like cable as things progress.
No surprise people are not willing to give up free broadcast radio just yet.
gigabit is almost as cheap as 100mbit these days. For company's who are willing to put quality ahead of cost it gigabit is an easy add-on.
I would probably be into more tool based hobbies but my dinky apartment gives me no place to work or store equipment.
He's an actual UNIX geek. Only gnu tar supports gzip. 'real' tar on Sun, HPUX, etc requires a pipe.
The paranoid among us might see this as a way to come out with games that still require an actual GameBoy instead of the attachment for the GameCube.
I intend to own the attachment because I hate staring at a dinky screen even if they did finally add backlighting.
eh? In C++ the compiler will not let you access private methods or variables. The author is talking about writing code that the is allowed by the .NET runtime/compiler to access supposedly hidden data.
.NET issue *CAN* be a security hole if people were incorrectly led to believe that private meant private.
The
voice dictation is practically worthless for coders, html writers, etc. The only people who gain are those who input pure text all day.
I would not want to dictate something like the following:
if ((value | mask) & thing) {
do_something(value);
}
Things I have observed:
*) *NO* speaker phones. I always seem to be stuck next to someone who spends his day chatting on the phone.
*) quiet cell phones. People with the star spangled banner, show theme songs and what not just need to be shot.
*) headphones at decent levels. My current cube neighbor has headphones but may as well be using speakers.
*) tall cube walls. Prevent gophering and helps with the noise.
*) people who need to work together should be near each other. Sales and marketing should be nowhere near the engineers. They tend to violate the first two rules above. It should not be difficult to wander near the people you need to talk to. Avoid mazes.
*) easy to acquire rooms with doors and either no windows visible from cube land or easily covered ones. My current employer has accordion blinds which is a good solution. Nothing worse than managers wandering into meetings to steal people.
*) some number of the easy to acquire rooms should be set aside for war rooms and not be reservable as meeting spaces. Sometimes you need to get 3 people together and hash things out. This is not limited to programmers either.
*) a whiteboard (or 2) in every cube
*) as much as possible the major flow paths should not have cube openings on it. People constantly walking behind you is not conducive to productivity.
a friend and former co-worker had an article in Linux Journal (or was it Mag?) about how to put $HOME into cvs.
His approach is to break it up into functional groups and then checkout the groups he needs or fit the current location/use. Even all of his email lives in cvs. It is quite amazing.
Having seen many a distributed homedir server die or disappear in my time, I would rather have to only depend on the network for setup. Personally I have been waiting for a project like arch or subversion to mature so I did not have to deal with the downsides of cvs like file/directory moving.
I know this does not apply to many people but here is why I like it.
By passing the -display option, I am able to run a debugger outside of X (perhaps on another machine, perhaps just on console) and test apps without fear of any problems if I blow up. One of the projects I work on is a window manager. If it dies you can no longer use X at all so this functionality is absolutely required there.
people keep implying that computers are nice and cheap, so just go buy another one. For some this is not really an option. All those unemployed geeks out there are looking for neat projects that may not cost much. Cheap is relative.
Also, this just has the interesting factor. Sure you could just plug in another computer but why not try to optimize the hardware that already exists. Many people own a ghz level processor and still only need to surf the web and read email. A setup like this would work fine for me and my wife.
On top of this you only use the power of one computer as well.
my experience in corporate America is that the bit bangers APPEAR to be more productive but are actually less or even counter productive. If programmer A takes 2 hours to code a crap solution and 3 days to fix it versus the craftsman who take 2 days to do it once and do it right, programmer A looks good initially but becomes a liability.
A friend of mine is definately the tortoise, slow as it goes, programmer type. Some of the younger hackers mock him. But if you look at the total output he comes out on top because he spends far less time debugging. Managers need to understand that simple output is an invalid measure and look more at the whole process. This is especially valid in places that do a devel cycle followed by a cleanup cycle. The friend I referenced earlier often spends the cleanup phase of projects helping the bit bangers out because he has nothing else to do.
For some reason many of the scripts which maintain our archives were simply named after women. We have katie, linda, etc. Makes zero sense when you are trying to remember what script does what.
a) it is hard to make money on debuggers
b) making a good debugger is definately not easy
c) many developers prefer puzzling out the code on pen and paper then walking it in a debugger. Quite a few I have talked to believe that they make better code if they can solve the problem without resorting to debuggers. This BTW is why Linus does not like kernel debuggers.
d) most of the debuggers are good enough and as we all know from open source, a good enough solution will live forever. The existence of a debugger that mostly works gives most people a reason to spend their time elsewhere.
In my experience I have truly benefited more from programs like Purify or Insure (and now the great valgrind) than I have from a debugger.