I'm paying about $65/mo for 2 phones, unlimited SMS, unlimited nights and weekends (the nights don't matter, since they start after most family members are in bed), and unlimited PCS-to-PCS calling. I think there are about 700 minutes in the plan. I was paying $115 for similar service from Nextel last year...
There are other things one can reasonably expect of a modern revision control system, as well. For instance, a site using tla-pqm to manage their Arch repository can be set up such that only code which compiles and passes the unit tests can be merged into the primary repository; this is exceedingly good practice, especially on big teams.
You can do this with CVS. It's not super-easy, but there are tests that you can apply to the files on checkin. Usually the script called just does something simple like check for valid filenames or the like, but there's no reason that gcc couldn't be run instead... Well, I guess if there were files with interdependeicies that were also in different directories, that could cause a problem, since the script's called on a per-directory level instead of with a complete list of files, but that wouldn't be *that* hard to work around with some CVS tweaking.;)
Yes, lots of people think that bad folks should not be treated as good folks, and that bad folks shoudl not otherwise drain the limited resources available for all folks. Cruel? Maybe. Logical? Definately. Easy to differentiate between bad and good? Nope.
Doesn't matter - Dean wasn't undesirable enough to be president (he had bad points, but not enough). It's much better to have a race between 2 lackluster politicians than to have one that's excited about the race. He should know better than to think he could change anything, anyway.
I had a Nextel phone for 2 years. I loved the service. I dropped them because they friggin cost 2x as much as everyone else, and because my previously useful plan somehow got screwed up in a "computer upgrade" - it'd cost me $10/month to get a service that was originally included in my plan free (I'd upgraded and wanted to downgrade back to what I had), which isn't much money but is irritating on principle. That, and when the billing date got moved back 1 week, but my bill wasn't adjusted to compensate for that lost week, I had another irritating-on-principle thing...
So, I'm back with Sprint now. However, if Nextel would offer service at prices more comparable with the other providers, I'd go back. It was *sooo* nice to have a phone that just did phone things, not stupid games and pictures and misc crap that just make my current phone unstable (another rant for another day, though).
It sounds like a good idea and it makes sense. Therefore, it'll never happen unless someone can come up with a way to justfiy it that involved patriotism or saving the ever-imperiled children, while simultaneously stripping any technical benefit and lining some arsehole's pockets.
I agree that in a critical environment MySQL probably wouldn't be the first choice. However, it's not because of any of the reasons given by the person I replied to.:) Then again, I can't think of any other good reasons. Have you got one (other than "it's free, and therefore must not be as good as something expensive")?;) The write speed isn't as good as some other DBs (MySQL's better at reading than most DBs), but I'm pretty confident that it'd be acceptable - esp since it'd presumably be behind some kind of load balancer anyway (see link in previous post).
Exposing some of my own ignorance here, though: I am somewhat curious how one can achieve a backup (aka a dump) of a table that's consistent without somehow stopping writes momentarily. Can't take a snapshot if the data might change while generating the snapshot... I do my backups (in a 24x7 environment) from a replica anyway - so nothing's hurt by locking the tables for a while, since the master's still available for writing and the replcation logs just get deferred for a moment. Presumably a "real" install would have more than just the single db server...
How long has it been since you looked at MySQL's features?
How about database clustering?
I'm not sure about that one - but it seems like either regular replication or 2-way replication oughtta get those needs taken care of. Or, read This article
Or remote replication?
Replication in MySQL is easy - I'm running a couple of replicas right now for backup purposes
Or security and access roles compatible with HIPPA regulations?
MySQL's access control can grant and deny access down to the column level. I assume that you mean HIPAA, though, and any access control problems introduced can be handled by the developer planning the database / managing access control, given MySQL's pretty granular control abilities. The job of managing HIPAA-compliant access control should be at the application level and not the database level, anyway.
Or reliable data recovery compatible with large-scale backup systems like Legato or TSM or Veritas?
MySQL uses files and directories that *any* backup system can use, even those that cost lots of money. Want a backup? Lock the table, dump the table, unlock the table. It's not hard. Read more about backing up MySQL. It doesn't get much more reliable than that.
I have a replicated, reliably backed up pair of mysql servers behind me. They're not HIPAA compliant, because that's a pain, but it'd be largely trivial to implement. Com back when you've researched your gripes.
FireFox with Thunderbird for email works real nicely on my personal linux workstation, and on most of the windows workstations I support at work (some users use other email programs). I like thunderibrd enough to use it rather than mutt most of the time, and I'm a die-hard mutt fan. Work email is HTML'd or has atatchments too often for me to use mutt for everything, though (even with html mail piped through lynx - it just doesn't work perfectly).
Are you sure that your phone problems aren't happening due to noise on the phone line, and that the noisy line isn't coincidentally caused by the cpu load increasing?:) I've seen ismilar things happen when the load increases on a machine...
You oughtta update to FireFox 0.8 - it loads quicker than the full mozilla thing, and is generally fairly nice (as well as back on-topic).:)
Regarding the winmodem failing during periods of high CPU activity, you could possibly renice the userland component of the driver (assuming a daemon runs in userland) or the ppp processes, giving them higher priority. Look at the man page for "nice". Similarly, you shoudl probably change the cronjob that runs updatedb around so that it runs when you're sleeping. You could probably wrap the updatedb program inside of a shell script that checks to see if pppd is running or not before it lets updatedb run, otherwise it sleeps for a few minutes, checks again, sleeps, checks, etc. I'm inclined to believe that the problem lies in hardware, though, if you corrolate disk access with the modem failure. Check your motherboard manual to make sure the IDE controller and PCI slot for the winmodem don't share an interrupt, and check to see that nothing else si sharing an IRQ with the winmodem either. It could be that you just have the modem sharring an IRQ with a particularly noisy device (like the disk controller, for example).
I thought that something like a basicstamp would not be fast enough to handle the sample rate required to track RPMs, but I guess that 6000 RPMs is still only 100 revs/sec, which just requires what, 36KHz sampling to maintain acuracy within one degree at 6K RPMs? It would be a lot easier to retard (buffer) the timing from a known advance, though, wouldn't it?:) I'm glad something there helped...
If you wanna build your own igniton, you might look into the Megaspark Project. It's related to Megasquirt, which is a DIY EFI controller. Lots of fun, lots of online support, and lots of money saved over buying a commercial EFI controller that you can't really tweak much anyway.:)
Replying to an A/C again - I should really stop this...
$12000 US is $15243 Australian - which is not *that* big of a difference (checking ford.com, though, the MSRP is $13.5K US for a base focus now - so I was off by a few dollars). I didn't realize that the Australians paid so much more for crappy little cars. Holdens cost less than the equivilent GM cars in the US, so I figured all cars were a better deal down there. Anyway, who said anything about buying a brand new Focus? If you can't find a 4-year old car selling for less than the cost of a brand new one, well, your get rich quick scheme probably won't work (note, 20,000 isn't a 100% increase over 12,000 - it's about 2/3 or 66%).
Regarding the other point - $60K AU is presently $47,202 US. I've got less than $47K US in both of my cars, too (just under $25K, actually). A Honda s2000 costs $33,260 US brand new here in the states. Looks like both *still* cost less than the Alfa. The Focus ST170 equiv in the US, the SVT, starts at $19,375 US, BTW, and could run with the Alfa pretty well too.
So, what was the point? Just to illustrate that Anonymous Couwards are incapable of doing research, I guess, and to illustrate the usefulness of Yahoo! currency convertor.
Do you know exactly how the ignition system on your car works?
Generally, there's a crank or cam position sensor that an ignition control uses to determine when to discharge the ignition coil through the appropriate plug wire (which could be selected via a rotating distributor cap or one of several individual coils). The spark normally happens around 5-10 degrees before the piston reaches top dead center at low speeds, increasing to somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 degrees BTDC at higher speeds.
It's a pretty simple system, and knowing how it works is fairly useful when you turn the key and there's no vroom. "Hmm, engine's cranking, exhaust smells like fuel, must be no ignition. I should check to be sure the ignition fuse is intact, that the ignition wires are all in place, and that there's a spark coming out of the wire."
Infrared generally works the same way as a serial bus - a start signal followed by a series of pulses following a pre-defined clock. It's also pretty simple.
There. Now you know how everything works, which is good because you can solve simple problems on your own instead of having to rely on "experts" to check whether or not your browser's set to "work offline" or not.:) Experts - whose time was previously wasted on simple, user-solvable problems - collectively emit a sigh of relief.;)
From the article: "We believe the 147 lines up strongly against the Mini Cooper S, Subaru WRX, Mazda RX-8 and Nissan 350Z." And it'll do 0-62 in 6.3 seconds? Over 6 seconds? My $12K Ford Focus with about $300 in simple bolt ons would do it in 7 flat, and I sold it because it was too darned slow (and because the shifter was weak). Then again, anything that "compares favorably" with a mini cooper S couldn't be that amazing.
While we're off-topic, I have 2 V8 musclecars, and I'm pretty sure that neither of them would be "scared" by that Alfa. They could both outrun the Alfa by a pretty wide margin, though, so I guess it doesn't matter if they were scared or not. The handling might be a closer game, but I'd bet it's not that different either. I've got far less than $60K in both cars combined, though. Maybe that's the scary part - realizing that an Alfa owner could have had 2 cars that outperform his one car *and* enough money left to put in an in-ground pool.:)
It's nice to know that there are some european-influenced "ricers," though, thinking that a turbocharger and wing somehow makes a puny engine competetive with a big one. They forget that the big engines can be modified, too...
I've got DishNetwork and the PVR, no land line, and no problems - with either TV or phone service anyway...:)
Sell the Tivo and DirecTV receiver, and get a Dish PVR setup. They usually have good deals going on - and the 701 receiver is Linux-based (and expensive).
I dunno - is the system merely using volume or does it also take pitch variance into account? It's [seemingly] pretty easy to tell the difference between an angry yell, a happy yell, and a terrified yell - esp. if given the "normal" voice as a baseline. I figure that, if this thing's really newsworthy, it probably takes more into account than simple volume increases that could also result from things like varying the distance between the handset and mouth.:)
Dean's "blarghlemarth!" didn't really sound much different in intonation than his usual speech, IMHO.
Sigh. Improved writing skills my eye. The above's right - look at any online message board, and witness the abhorrent spelling 'n grammar. Even basic sentence structure eludes most IM-ers, which makes sense. The goal is speed, with accuracy being a distant second. I find it rather unlikely that downplaying the importance of accuracy somehow *improves* accuracy...:)
You're not trolling - the whole time I read the article (all few seconds of it) I was thinking "wow, someone put the documentary stuff from that DVD set onto the *web*! This is news!"
Honestly, I think the char AI they developed for the batle scenes (mentioned in another post) was *far* more interesting than the use of expensive Apple-brand portable hard drives and teleconferencing software. *I* have used portable hard drives and teleconferencing software (much like many here have), but I've never developed software to make realistic large-scale battle scenes.:)
Why not - Wired somehow managed to decide that was somehow newsworth. I can't run very fast, but I'll bet I can loot and steal just as well as fast people... Maybe Wired will do an article on me, 'cause I'm "overcoming my disability" and therefore, a hero.
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I'm paying about $65/mo for 2 phones, unlimited SMS, unlimited nights and weekends (the nights don't matter, since they start after most family members are in bed), and unlimited PCS-to-PCS calling. I think there are about 700 minutes in the plan. I was paying $115 for similar service from Nextel last year...
There are other things one can reasonably expect of a modern revision control system, as well. For instance, a site using tla-pqm to manage their Arch repository can be set up such that only code which compiles and passes the unit tests can be merged into the primary repository; this is exceedingly good practice, especially on big teams.
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You can do this with CVS. It's not super-easy, but there are tests that you can apply to the files on checkin. Usually the script called just does something simple like check for valid filenames or the like, but there's no reason that gcc couldn't be run instead... Well, I guess if there were files with interdependeicies that were also in different directories, that could cause a problem, since the script's called on a per-directory level instead of with a complete list of files, but that wouldn't be *that* hard to work around with some CVS tweaking.
Yes, lots of people think that bad folks should not be treated as good folks, and that bad folks shoudl not otherwise drain the limited resources available for all folks. Cruel? Maybe. Logical? Definately. Easy to differentiate between bad and good? Nope.
Doesn't matter - Dean wasn't undesirable enough to be president (he had bad points, but not enough). It's much better to have a race between 2 lackluster politicians than to have one that's excited about the race. He should know better than to think he could change anything, anyway.
I had a Nextel phone for 2 years. I loved the service. I dropped them because they friggin cost 2x as much as everyone else, and because my previously useful plan somehow got screwed up in a "computer upgrade" - it'd cost me $10/month to get a service that was originally included in my plan free (I'd upgraded and wanted to downgrade back to what I had), which isn't much money but is irritating on principle. That, and when the billing date got moved back 1 week, but my bill wasn't adjusted to compensate for that lost week, I had another irritating-on-principle thing...
So, I'm back with Sprint now. However, if Nextel would offer service at prices more comparable with the other providers, I'd go back. It was *sooo* nice to have a phone that just did phone things, not stupid games and pictures and misc crap that just make my current phone unstable (another rant for another day, though).
It sounds like a good idea and it makes sense. Therefore, it'll never happen unless someone can come up with a way to justfiy it that involved patriotism or saving the ever-imperiled children, while simultaneously stripping any technical benefit and lining some arsehole's pockets.
:)
Yeah, cynicism is great.
I agree that in a critical environment MySQL probably wouldn't be the first choice. However, it's not because of any of the reasons given by the person I replied to. :) Then again, I can't think of any other good reasons. Have you got one (other than "it's free, and therefore must not be as good as something expensive")? ;) The write speed isn't as good as some other DBs (MySQL's better at reading than most DBs), but I'm pretty confident that it'd be acceptable - esp since it'd presumably be behind some kind of load balancer anyway (see link in previous post).
Exposing some of my own ignorance here, though: I am somewhat curious how one can achieve a backup (aka a dump) of a table that's consistent without somehow stopping writes momentarily. Can't take a snapshot if the data might change while generating the snapshot... I do my backups (in a 24x7 environment) from a replica anyway - so nothing's hurt by locking the tables for a while, since the master's still available for writing and the replcation logs just get deferred for a moment. Presumably a "real" install would have more than just the single db server...
How long has it been since you looked at MySQL's features?
How about database clustering?
I'm not sure about that one - but it seems like either regular replication or 2-way replication oughtta get those needs taken care of. Or, read This article
Or remote replication?
Replication in MySQL is easy - I'm running a couple of replicas right now for backup purposes
Or security and access roles compatible with HIPPA regulations?
MySQL's access control can grant and deny access down to the column level. I assume that you mean HIPAA, though, and any access control problems introduced can be handled by the developer planning the database / managing access control, given MySQL's pretty granular control abilities. The job of managing HIPAA-compliant access control should be at the application level and not the database level, anyway.
Or reliable data recovery compatible with large-scale backup systems like Legato or TSM or Veritas?
MySQL uses files and directories that *any* backup system can use, even those that cost lots of money. Want a backup? Lock the table, dump the table, unlock the table. It's not hard. Read more about backing up MySQL. It doesn't get much more reliable than that.
I have a replicated, reliably backed up pair of mysql servers behind me. They're not HIPAA compliant, because that's a pain, but it'd be largely trivial to implement. Com back when you've researched your gripes.
FireFox with Thunderbird for email works real nicely on my personal linux workstation, and on most of the windows workstations I support at work (some users use other email programs). I like thunderibrd enough to use it rather than mutt most of the time, and I'm a die-hard mutt fan. Work email is HTML'd or has atatchments too often for me to use mutt for everything, though (even with html mail piped through lynx - it just doesn't work perfectly).
:) I've seen ismilar things happen when the load increases on a machine...
Are you sure that your phone problems aren't happening due to noise on the phone line, and that the noisy line isn't coincidentally caused by the cpu load increasing?
So, either you're a George Carlin fan, or you're a fan of spomeone who steals Gorge Carlin's work. :)
You oughtta update to FireFox 0.8 - it loads quicker than the full mozilla thing, and is generally fairly nice (as well as back on-topic). :)
:) I'm glad something there helped...
Regarding the winmodem failing during periods of high CPU activity, you could possibly renice the userland component of the driver (assuming a daemon runs in userland) or the ppp processes, giving them higher priority. Look at the man page for "nice". Similarly, you shoudl probably change the cronjob that runs updatedb around so that it runs when you're sleeping. You could probably wrap the updatedb program inside of a shell script that checks to see if pppd is running or not before it lets updatedb run, otherwise it sleeps for a few minutes, checks again, sleeps, checks, etc. I'm inclined to believe that the problem lies in hardware, though, if you corrolate disk access with the modem failure. Check your motherboard manual to make sure the IDE controller and PCI slot for the winmodem don't share an interrupt, and check to see that nothing else si sharing an IRQ with the winmodem either. It could be that you just have the modem sharring an IRQ with a particularly noisy device (like the disk controller, for example).
I thought that something like a basicstamp would not be fast enough to handle the sample rate required to track RPMs, but I guess that 6000 RPMs is still only 100 revs/sec, which just requires what, 36KHz sampling to maintain acuracy within one degree at 6K RPMs? It would be a lot easier to retard (buffer) the timing from a known advance, though, wouldn't it?
If you wanna build your own igniton, you might look into the Megaspark Project. It's related to Megasquirt, which is a DIY EFI controller. Lots of fun, lots of online support, and lots of money saved over buying a commercial EFI controller that you can't really tweak much anyway. :)
Replying to an A/C again - I should really stop this...
$12000 US is $15243 Australian - which is not *that* big of a difference (checking ford.com, though, the MSRP is $13.5K US for a base focus now - so I was off by a few dollars). I didn't realize that the Australians paid so much more for crappy little cars. Holdens cost less than the equivilent GM cars in the US, so I figured all cars were a better deal down there. Anyway, who said anything about buying a brand new Focus? If you can't find a 4-year old car selling for less than the cost of a brand new one, well, your get rich quick scheme probably won't work (note, 20,000 isn't a 100% increase over 12,000 - it's about 2/3 or 66%).
Regarding the other point - $60K AU is presently $47,202 US. I've got less than $47K US in both of my cars, too (just under $25K, actually). A Honda s2000 costs $33,260 US brand new here in the states. Looks like both *still* cost less than the Alfa. The Focus ST170 equiv in the US, the SVT, starts at $19,375 US, BTW, and could run with the Alfa pretty well too.
So, what was the point? Just to illustrate that Anonymous Couwards are incapable of doing research, I guess, and to illustrate the usefulness of Yahoo! currency convertor.
Do you know exactly how the ignition system on your car works?
Generally, there's a crank or cam position sensor that an ignition control uses to determine when to discharge the ignition coil through the appropriate plug wire (which could be selected via a rotating distributor cap or one of several individual coils). The spark normally happens around 5-10 degrees before the piston reaches top dead center at low speeds, increasing to somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 degrees BTDC at higher speeds.
It's a pretty simple system, and knowing how it works is fairly useful when you turn the key and there's no vroom. "Hmm, engine's cranking, exhaust smells like fuel, must be no ignition. I should check to be sure the ignition fuse is intact, that the ignition wires are all in place, and that there's a spark coming out of the wire."
Infrared generally works the same way as a serial bus - a start signal followed by a series of pulses following a pre-defined clock. It's also pretty simple.
There. Now you know how everything works, which is good because you can solve simple problems on your own instead of having to rely on "experts" to check whether or not your browser's set to "work offline" or not. :) Experts - whose time was previously wasted on simple, user-solvable problems - collectively emit a sigh of relief. ;)
From the article: "We believe the 147 lines up strongly against the Mini Cooper S, Subaru WRX, Mazda RX-8 and Nissan 350Z." And it'll do 0-62 in 6.3 seconds? Over 6 seconds? My $12K Ford Focus with about $300 in simple bolt ons would do it in 7 flat, and I sold it because it was too darned slow (and because the shifter was weak). Then again, anything that "compares favorably" with a mini cooper S couldn't be that amazing.
:)
While we're off-topic, I have 2 V8 musclecars, and I'm pretty sure that neither of them would be "scared" by that Alfa. They could both outrun the Alfa by a pretty wide margin, though, so I guess it doesn't matter if they were scared or not. The handling might be a closer game, but I'd bet it's not that different either. I've got far less than $60K in both cars combined, though. Maybe that's the scary part - realizing that an Alfa owner could have had 2 cars that outperform his one car *and* enough money left to put in an in-ground pool.
It's nice to know that there are some european-influenced "ricers," though, thinking that a turbocharger and wing somehow makes a puny engine competetive with a big one. They forget that the big engines can be modified, too...
I've got DishNetwork and the PVR, no land line, and no problems - with either TV or phone service anyway... :)
Sell the Tivo and DirecTV receiver, and get a Dish PVR setup. They usually have good deals going on - and the 701 receiver is Linux-based (and expensive).
I dunno - is the system merely using volume or does it also take pitch variance into account? It's [seemingly] pretty easy to tell the difference between an angry yell, a happy yell, and a terrified yell - esp. if given the "normal" voice as a baseline. I figure that, if this thing's really newsworthy, it probably takes more into account than simple volume increases that could also result from things like varying the distance between the handset and mouth. :)
Dean's "blarghlemarth!" didn't really sound much different in intonation than his usual speech, IMHO.
But then you have to wait for a timeout ('cause some people are *really* slow to push buttons). Waiting sucks. I want to yell at someone NOW!
Because you confuse enthusiasm with anger?
I writre good now, LOL!
:)
Sigh. Improved writing skills my eye. The above's right - look at any online message board, and witness the abhorrent spelling 'n grammar. Even basic sentence structure eludes most IM-ers, which makes sense. The goal is speed, with accuracy being a distant second. I find it rather unlikely that downplaying the importance of accuracy somehow *improves* accuracy...
So, *you're* the one who assigned Linux to MyDoom? Now we'll never know if they were equivalent before or not... :)
Linux render farm on commodity x86 hardware.
You're not trolling - the whole time I read the article (all few seconds of it) I was thinking "wow, someone put the documentary stuff from that DVD set onto the *web*! This is news!"
:)
Honestly, I think the char AI they developed for the batle scenes (mentioned in another post) was *far* more interesting than the use of expensive Apple-brand portable hard drives and teleconferencing software. *I* have used portable hard drives and teleconferencing software (much like many here have), but I've never developed software to make realistic large-scale battle scenes.
Why not - Wired somehow managed to decide that was somehow newsworth. I can't run very fast, but I'll bet I can loot and steal just as well as fast people... Maybe Wired will do an article on me, 'cause I'm "overcoming my disability" and therefore, a hero.
Your job sucks. Start looking for a new one, preferably not in China.