FedEx recommends you package anything you ship so that it can withstand multiple 4-foot drops. If you take it in to a shipcenter (a real one, operated by FedEx, not a Mailbuckets Etc.) they will be happy to advise you on packaging.
It will take multiple 3 to 4 foot drops, and probably be packed under a hundred pounds or more of other packages for the flights to and from Memphis.
They'll also happily sell you insurance.
Take this all with a grain of salt, since the other important thing they do is pay my salary.
And furthermore, when their people come in and audit these practices, and report them as "unacceptable", there's often tremendous pressure (up to and including "change that to passing and sign it, or you're fired") to simply ignore it, report it cryptically or just plain lie, and go on with your business. Especially in the military, but even in the "civilian" agencies that should know better, such as NSA.
I don't know why you think I would care about other programmers.
Because if 499 out of every 500 programmers are out of work, you'll be competing against 499 times as many people for every job that exists.
And I'm fairly confident I can get a job regardless.
Well, if you're that much better than everybody else, you probably have nothing to worry about.
Unless, of course, you use Open Source software; which also won't get written if most of the industry is out of work. Ex-programmers who switch to being K-Mart managers don't tend to contribute a lot to the important projects.
You do use software written by other people, don't you? You didn't write your web browser yourself? Your OS? The tools used to build your web browser and OS?
But sometimes (most of the time even?) they aren't interested in supporting programmers so much as getting various programs for internal use.
The code has to come from somewhere. Somebody has to write it, and unless it's "sexy" or of general necessity, that's not going to be hobbiests.
Again, there are reasons why the vast majority of code is written by in-house programmers or consultants for in-house use. There are also reasons why most of the folks who write Open Source work for a living, and most people who are good enough coders to be contributing to real projects want to make their living at what they do best; coding.
Folks who get paid just to write Open Source are very much the exception. That is never going to change, ever. It is not in our best interest that it change, because the only way it will change involves there being a hell of a lot less market for programmers. If the Fortune 500 doesn't need 500 programs, but instead shares just one Open Source program, 499 out of every 500 programmers in the Fortune 500 will be out of a job.
You're also ignoring the fact that most development is done for in-house projects, which has no business reason for being closed.
Actually, most in-house code has the strongest reason for being closed. If you have to pay a bunch of programmers to write your business software, and your competition then uses your code for free, you are at a disadvantage. It looks great to say "gee, we'll get our development for free, we'll just use the community's code", but that pyramid scheme rolls up on somebody who's getting paid to write that stuff.
And the last thing you want is for there to no longer be a market for all those programmers; Open Source wouldn't exist without people to write it, and most of them are also coding to put food on the table.
There were no ISPs in my home town, not even Compuserve or AOL. I'd used Unix in college, so I figured if I had to dial long-distance anyway, I'd find one that would give me a shell cheap.
That was Seattle's Cyberspace.com, even though I was in Oklahoma, because one long distance call is as good as another.
For years I did all my Internet that way, from a Unix shell, while also running Fidonet bulletin boards (eventually starting my own Net as NC, and serving as NEC most of the time as well). My own home was always wired, starting with three-wire serial networks and working up to Ethernet as it became available, so I eventually combined my knowledge of networking and home system administration into a small consulting business, mostly doing small office peer-to-peer networks.
One of my customers, an Indian tribe, decided to start an ISP. Since I had come in and cleaned up their wiring when two other local companies had screwed it up (one was trying to put 10base2 connectors on speaker wire), and had been the first person to suggest to them that switching from NetBEUI to TCP/IP might make their network easier to manage, they hired me to serve as the technical lead for building that ISP.
This meant a crash course in Unix administration. A later successful hack forced me to become a security "expert" too.
After a couple of years there, I got fired for refusing to break the law and refusing to defraud customers, so I immediately went to work for another company that also sucked, but paid me a lot more and had a Solaris box to administrate (in addition to the vast quantity of NT servers and workstations, the AS/400, and the two OS/2 servers.)
After a while there, I determined that I'd rather be boiled alive in vegetable oil than work on NT for a living, so I went off on my own for a while again, servicing orphaned Unix servers put in place by companies that had gone out of business, and turning down unrealistically-funded offers to start other ISPs. Eventually I got sick of the continued Windows work I had to do to make ends meet at this, and took a job that is 99% pure Solaris administration, with a little HP/UX thrown in just to prove Solaris is the worst commercial Unix in the world, except for all the other commercial Unixes.
Now I live in sunny Orlando, Florida, I only have to use Windows on one workstation for a couple of applications, I do all my work from a Linux workstation on Solaris servers, and I'm happier than a pig eating shit, as my dad back in rural Oklahoma would say.
And I'm making well over twice what that assplug who fired me was making, and over three times what he was paying me. But only twice what each of the three people he had to hire to replace me made...
Unfortunately so many linux projects have become so obsessed with attracting Windows users (why? Do we really expect these people to switch over? Get real!)
It isn't about inducing Windows home users to switch over; it's about convincing management that they don't have to inflict Windows on us at work.
People in this world don't usually have the freedom to set up separate countries because they disagree with the policies of their current country, last I checked.
Not any more, because all the land has been used up. But go back and recall how the United States of America got here in the first place.
Now, you can pretty much find a country somewhere that's close to your beliefs.
A perfect example is what's going on right now with Afghanistan. Do you want people who think there should be a government-mandated religion to be making your laws? Wouldn't it better if people who think there should be a government mandated religion could go to countries where that's the case, and those of us who don't could stay in countries where it isn't?
I'm not too sure what India has to do with it.
Over one billion people, that's what India has to do with it. In a few years they'll be bigger than China. If there were a world government, and it had any kind of citizen vote allowed, China and India would control every issue on every election. There wouldn't even be a reason to bother campaigning in the U.S.A., it'd be like a presidential candidate visiting Ada, Oklahoma.
I don't want my freedoms to be determined by a vote dominated by 2 billion people who have completely different standards than I do. I don't want my vote stacked up against 1 billion Chinese on the question of whether I should be free to speak out against my government's policies. I don't want 1 billion Indians stacked up against me on the question of whether or not I get to eat beef.
And I'm evidently not alone in this, based on the Indian and Chinese people I work with who moved here to get away from their countries' policies.
Conversely, I wouldn't want to begrudge one of my American co-workers the right to move to China or India, if he agreed with their policies and would thus be more comfortable there.
Situations like this are going to bring about an eventual world government. the case being that there seems to be a need now for some sort of *enforceable* world law or common standard between nations.
Why is there a need?
Since the beginning of time we've been telling people "if you don't like it and you can't change it, leave." Shouldn't that continue to be an option?
Why would we even WANT a world in which people don't have the freedom to set up seperate countries so that those who have wildly differing beliefs can congregate together and live according to their tenets? Why would we want a world where, say, our economic laws are set by majority vote when the majority are from countries with shitty economies?
Do you want the largest voting block in decisions about, say, your free speech rights to be China and India?
There is no reason why use shouldn't use ReiserFS.
This is insightful? I kinda figured a post had to be RIGHT to be insightful...
There are several reasons not to use Reiser. There are lots of reasons to use it, as well, but you can't claim there are no reasons not to use it.
One reason not to use Reiser might be that you're building a box that doesn't need it. A firewall with a very small hard drive and a good power backup, for instance.
Another might be vendor support for your specific distribution. RedHat supports ext3 better currently, for instance.
Just because their FAQ says there are no reasons doesn't mean there aren't any.
Adic's got silos now. They had some pretty impressive stuff at Storage Networking World; fast, and huge capacity. Had you not posted your response I'd have said almost the same thing, only recommending Adic in addition to StorageTek. (With the caveats that I've not used Adic, and that we're currently having major fits with StorageTek that have moved things back to our IBM silos in some places.)
Plus they had squeezy penguins.
Oh, and watch out for Veritas' HSM product. It has a nasty habit of showing undocumented limitations, such as the 64 filesystem limit. Don't ask me why we had 64 filesystems, though...
Last but not least, I was going to mention Arcus Data Security for tape storage, but it appears Iron Mountain bought them...
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The court ruled it legal to fuck the voters by running out the clock, and demonstrated how to do it.
And then the press, in order to prove Gore won, did a recount, which showed that Bush won.
So they did another recount, which just finished last week. It also showed that Bush won.
I didn't vote for the guy either, but get over it.
Do me a favor; please don't ever apply for a job with FedEx.
FedEx recommends you package anything you ship so that it can withstand multiple 4-foot drops. If you take it in to a shipcenter (a real one, operated by FedEx, not a Mailbuckets Etc.) they will be happy to advise you on packaging.
It will take multiple 3 to 4 foot drops, and probably be packed under a hundred pounds or more of other packages for the flights to and from Memphis.
They'll also happily sell you insurance.
Take this all with a grain of salt, since the other important thing they do is pay my salary.
The LCD is your main sticking point. Forget it.
Get goggles. A head-mounted display will be lighter, use less power, be easier to protect against harm, give more privacy, and be way more 'leet.
Darn, I was pushing for "Kamiokande-Z".
And furthermore, when their people come in and audit these practices, and report them as "unacceptable", there's often tremendous pressure (up to and including "change that to passing and sign it, or you're fired") to simply ignore it, report it cryptically or just plain lie, and go on with your business. Especially in the military, but even in the "civilian" agencies that should know better, such as NSA.
Actually, Beta/VHS is an interesting comparison for a Linux/Windows discussion, as well as this AMD/Intel discussion.
VHS gets used by the consumers, but Beta is heavily used in "production" applications.
Guns aren't the threat; Gnus are.
I don't know why you think I would care about other programmers.
Because if 499 out of every 500 programmers are out of work, you'll be competing against 499 times as many people for every job that exists.
And I'm fairly confident I can get a job regardless.
Well, if you're that much better than everybody else, you probably have nothing to worry about.
Unless, of course, you use Open Source software; which also won't get written if most of the industry is out of work. Ex-programmers who switch to being K-Mart managers don't tend to contribute a lot to the important projects.
You do use software written by other people, don't you? You didn't write your web browser yourself? Your OS? The tools used to build your web browser and OS?
But sometimes (most of the time even?) they aren't interested in supporting programmers so much as getting various programs for internal use.
The code has to come from somewhere. Somebody has to write it, and unless it's "sexy" or of general necessity, that's not going to be hobbiests.
Again, there are reasons why the vast majority of code is written by in-house programmers or consultants for in-house use. There are also reasons why most of the folks who write Open Source work for a living, and most people who are good enough coders to be contributing to real projects want to make their living at what they do best; coding.
Folks who get paid just to write Open Source are very much the exception. That is never going to change, ever. It is not in our best interest that it change, because the only way it will change involves there being a hell of a lot less market for programmers. If the Fortune 500 doesn't need 500 programs, but instead shares just one Open Source program, 499 out of every 500 programmers in the Fortune 500 will be out of a job.
It's not RMS/Linux he's pushing for, for example, it's GNU/Linux.
Yeah, and it's not Gates Office, it's Microsoft Office.
You're also ignoring the fact that most development is done for in-house projects, which has no business reason for being closed.
Actually, most in-house code has the strongest reason for being closed. If you have to pay a bunch of programmers to write your business software, and your competition then uses your code for free, you are at a disadvantage. It looks great to say "gee, we'll get our development for free, we'll just use the community's code", but that pyramid scheme rolls up on somebody who's getting paid to write that stuff.
And the last thing you want is for there to no longer be a market for all those programmers; Open Source wouldn't exist without people to write it, and most of them are also coding to put food on the table.
There were no ISPs in my home town, not even Compuserve or AOL. I'd used Unix in college, so I figured if I had to dial long-distance anyway, I'd find one that would give me a shell cheap.
That was Seattle's Cyberspace.com, even though I was in Oklahoma, because one long distance call is as good as another.
For years I did all my Internet that way, from a Unix shell, while also running Fidonet bulletin boards (eventually starting my own Net as NC, and serving as NEC most of the time as well). My own home was always wired, starting with three-wire serial networks and working up to Ethernet as it became available, so I eventually combined my knowledge of networking and home system administration into a small consulting business, mostly doing small office peer-to-peer networks.
One of my customers, an Indian tribe, decided to start an ISP. Since I had come in and cleaned up their wiring when two other local companies had screwed it up (one was trying to put 10base2 connectors on speaker wire), and had been the first person to suggest to them that switching from NetBEUI to TCP/IP might make their network easier to manage, they hired me to serve as the technical lead for building that ISP.
This meant a crash course in Unix administration. A later successful hack forced me to become a security "expert" too.
After a couple of years there, I got fired for refusing to break the law and refusing to defraud customers, so I immediately went to work for another company that also sucked, but paid me a lot more and had a Solaris box to administrate (in addition to the vast quantity of NT servers and workstations, the AS/400, and the two OS/2 servers.)
After a while there, I determined that I'd rather be boiled alive in vegetable oil than work on NT for a living, so I went off on my own for a while again, servicing orphaned Unix servers put in place by companies that had gone out of business, and turning down unrealistically-funded offers to start other ISPs. Eventually I got sick of the continued Windows work I had to do to make ends meet at this, and took a job that is 99% pure Solaris administration, with a little HP/UX thrown in just to prove Solaris is the worst commercial Unix in the world, except for all the other commercial Unixes.
Now I live in sunny Orlando, Florida, I only have to use Windows on one workstation for a couple of applications, I do all my work from a Linux workstation on Solaris servers, and I'm happier than a pig eating shit, as my dad back in rural Oklahoma would say.
And I'm making well over twice what that assplug who fired me was making, and over three times what he was paying me. But only twice what each of the three people he had to hire to replace me made...
And I'm tempted to disregard any arguments that start with something as ridiculously juvenile as "Bzz. Try again."
Especially if they quote the previous message all in a jumble with their response.
Unfortunately so many linux projects have become so obsessed with attracting Windows users (why? Do we really expect these people to switch over? Get real!)
It isn't about inducing Windows home users to switch over; it's about convincing management that they don't have to inflict Windows on us at work.
People in this world don't usually have the freedom to set up separate countries because they disagree with the policies of their current country, last I checked.
Not any more, because all the land has been used up. But go back and recall how the United States of America got here in the first place.
Now, you can pretty much find a country somewhere that's close to your beliefs.
A perfect example is what's going on right now with Afghanistan. Do you want people who think there should be a government-mandated religion to be making your laws? Wouldn't it better if people who think there should be a government mandated religion could go to countries where that's the case, and those of us who don't could stay in countries where it isn't?
I'm not too sure what India has to do with it.
Over one billion people, that's what India has to do with it. In a few years they'll be bigger than China. If there were a world government, and it had any kind of citizen vote allowed, China and India would control every issue on every election. There wouldn't even be a reason to bother campaigning in the U.S.A., it'd be like a presidential candidate visiting Ada, Oklahoma.
I don't want my freedoms to be determined by a vote dominated by 2 billion people who have completely different standards than I do. I don't want my vote stacked up against 1 billion Chinese on the question of whether I should be free to speak out against my government's policies. I don't want 1 billion Indians stacked up against me on the question of whether or not I get to eat beef.
And I'm evidently not alone in this, based on the Indian and Chinese people I work with who moved here to get away from their countries' policies.
Conversely, I wouldn't want to begrudge one of my American co-workers the right to move to China or India, if he agreed with their policies and would thus be more comfortable there.
Situations like this are going to bring about an eventual world government. the case being that there seems to be a need now for some sort of *enforceable* world law or common standard between nations.
Why is there a need?
Since the beginning of time we've been telling people "if you don't like it and you can't change it, leave." Shouldn't that continue to be an option?
Why would we even WANT a world in which people don't have the freedom to set up seperate countries so that those who have wildly differing beliefs can congregate together and live according to their tenets? Why would we want a world where, say, our economic laws are set by majority vote when the majority are from countries with shitty economies?
Do you want the largest voting block in decisions about, say, your free speech rights to be China and India?
Never ever had any downtime, I don't believe.
If by "never" mean "not in the last week", you're still wrong.
It also says that Alan Cox will take over 2.4 once 2. 5 is opened which is wrong...
Just in case somebody doesn't believe you, here's the proof.
The stuff that turns oil into a butter-like substance that is far, far worse for your arteries than butter.
The stuff that made the Hindenburg burst into flames.
The stuff that combines with carbon to make greenhouse gases that will supposedly plunge us all into Venus-like hell.
The stuff that sent the space shuttle Challenger to a watery grave.
People are scared of Hydrogen. We need better examples, the ones you used are linked in people's minds with bad events.
My submission (early yesterday) had a better title:
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All Your Domain Are Belong to
They tried this on Star Trek, and it went berserk and blew up starships. It'll all end in tears, mark my words.
There is no reason why use shouldn't use ReiserFS.
This is insightful? I kinda figured a post had to be RIGHT to be insightful...
There are several reasons not to use Reiser. There are lots of reasons to use it, as well, but you can't claim there are no reasons not to use it.
One reason not to use Reiser might be that you're building a box that doesn't need it. A firewall with a very small hard drive and a good power backup, for instance.
Another might be vendor support for your specific distribution. RedHat supports ext3 better currently, for instance.
Just because their FAQ says there are no reasons doesn't mean there aren't any.
Adic's got silos now. They had some pretty impressive stuff at Storage Networking World; fast, and huge capacity. Had you not posted your response I'd have said almost the same thing, only recommending Adic in addition to StorageTek. (With the caveats that I've not used Adic, and that we're currently having major fits with StorageTek that have moved things back to our IBM silos in some places.)
Plus they had squeezy penguins.
Oh, and watch out for Veritas' HSM product. It has a nasty habit of showing undocumented limitations, such as the 64 filesystem limit. Don't ask me why we had 64 filesystems, though...
Last but not least, I was going to mention Arcus Data Security for tape storage, but it appears Iron Mountain bought them...
Semi, hell; I end up using mod points on him all the time. 75% of the time I even agree with what I'm modding up.