OK... we got a politician from Colorado where several large IT companies have built humongous data centers. Since money is now considered free speech, I'm sure Bennet "heard" quite a bit from his constituents about this heinous overtime problem. Same goes for North Carolina. There's at least one well known, publicly traded software company headquartered there and a lot more with a large presence in the state. I'm sure a lot of free speech was directed toward Hagan by their lobbyists.
As for the Republithugs that are co-sponsoring this, well, they'll do anything to screw over workers so I'm actually surprised that more didn't choose to pile on.
I recently retired an old 2GB DEC drive (an RZ28 removed from the StorageWorks brick back in the mid '90s) that was starting to log numerous errors. It had been running almost continuously since it had been built, IIRC, in '91 (its birth based on the dates on the controller chips). Heck, I've still got a few of the RZ28s and RZ29s running in Linux systems. On the other hand, I've yet to find a SATA drive that hasn't started logging errors far, far sooner than that old RZ28. Granted, there are quite a few more blocks to deal with on those SATA drives but when they start logging errors before I've finished installing the operating system, that's way too soon. As a result of those SATA experiences, I won't use them in a non-mirrored configuration. Pity the drives that can work in a RAID setup cost so much more than what I can get at the local big box store.
Geez... That seems like a lot more trouble than merely taking off the cover of the phone and removing the two round bells. If you really didn't want to remove them (God forbid you should lose them in case you needed to return the phone) wrapping 2-3 layers of masking tape around the open end of the bells muted the bells quite nicely leaving you with nothing but a quiet and easy to tune out thumping sound when the phone rang.
``This is great if you have an external system to log to - if not, you're boned.''
Seriously, how hard it is to set one of these up? Not very. How expensive is to do this? Not very. Are we going to toss out the current method of logging because of the folks who only have Linux running on a laptop and have that as their only computer?
You certainly would not need a tremendously powerful PC to sit out on your network and do nothing but accept syslog messages from other systems.
``you can log to both the Journal and good old text based log files. That way you can still use your existing tools on the text file while still being notified of log file alteration''
My understanding (someone correct me if I'm wrong on this) is that there will be only a single logging system, not one doing this Journal format and another for text logs. The text available from the Journal would have to come from a tool that uses certain new library calls to extract information from the Journal. Users would have to pipe the output of that, one supposes, into tools to search for error messages of interest. It's not terribly hard to use but...
``backward compatibility will have to be taken into account by the devs''
Not necessarily. Several of the summaries I've read about this new logging system indicate the the format hasn't been agreed on and may change from time to time. And... there is no guarantee when they'll get around to documenting the format. Good grief! First we have to change all of our log file search scripts to use the new Journal dumping tool. Then the format changes so we have to modify our scripts again. And again, perhaps, whenever it suits Lennart. How nice!
Yeah, right. Like the corporate drafters of SOPA didn't consider how it would make virtually anything done beyond passively viewing their content a felony. They'll deny it , of course, but they know full well that a prosecutor would be able twist the provisions of SOPA to fit anything they want to nail someone.
"Ah, puny citizen... you are charged with violating section 27.1.14 of the EULA that was updated on the vendor's website six months after you last read it. How do you plead?"
It's in the Republicans' DNA to attack civil rights and to support their moneyed sugar daddies.
I don't see them holding the House next year so SOPA may well be watered down in a year or so if it passes during this session. Here's to hoping, anyway.
"...they are trying to impose 8 character user names"
That limit is in force on previous versions of Solaris, isn't it? I know I've encountered it in the past on UNIX variants available from various big-iron vendors.
Do you have any personal projects that might rekindle your interest in programming? What about a website oriented around some hobby that you have where you could get into some back-end programming or writing extensions to the OSS that you're using to support the site? It might not help you deal with the "manipulative jerks" but it might help you get fired up about development again.
Alternatively, is there a internal move you could make to get away from the jerks? I wonder if those clowns aren't the real cause of your loss of enthusiasm about coding.
"Microsoft will just offer to give the software for free."
So what if they do. Plenty of schools are not going to be able to undertake a wholesale replacement of their existing computers with something beefy enough to run whatever Microsoft decides to give away for free. When's the last time you saw a version of Windows require a less powerful computer than the previous release? Heck, for that matter, when's the last time you saw a new release of your favorite Linux distribution require less computer than it used to. But... when's the last time you saw a system running Windows outperform the same computer running Linux? I don't know about anybody else but I can't say I've ever seen that happen. The Windows system I have to use for work can barely make it through the boot process to a point where it's stable enough to begin running application in less than ten minutes. Oh yeah, let's toss the next release of Windows on that hardware.I can't even imagine throwing the load on it that I regularly run in the ten virtual desktops I have set up on my Linux system (an aging P4-based box; certainly older than the hardware that Windows is running on). IMHO, you get the biggest bang for your hardware buck/peso/whatever if you run Linux on it.
If you believe that virtual "property" has any real monetary value, you probably believe that the $70+ trillion in derivatives that are floating around the financial system -- larger than the real GDP of the entire planet -- have real value, too.
Of course, the bankers/gamblers will argue that they do but they have just a little bit of a conflict of interest in the matter. One would suspect that having an eight-figure bonus that depends on their having real value is the most important thing on their minds and not whether these financial constructs actually have any real meaning in the world.
Because if it was Lotus Notes -- IBM's fave -- I can understand why the folks that kept everything in their Inbox were able to find stuff faster. Lotus Notes' search function sucks like a tornado then you ask it to so anything even mildly complex. (And to me searching through a tree of folders shouldn't actually be complex.)
"The Million Monkeys project has finished every work of Shakespeare. "
Uh, whatever the folks behind this might have planned for the next project, I suggest we ask them to not turn these monkeys loose on typing up all the names of God. OK?
"...he tolls cost double if you pay using the manual method... I'm sure there's other roads that you can drive on, although they won't be as quick or direct.
The tolls are not quite double but they are higher if you use the manual toll lanes. (There was a recent announcement about hiking the tools so that may have changed now.) And, around Chicago, there are tons of alternatives that'll allow you to avoid the toll roads. I rarely use the toll roads for a couple of reasons. The traffic is crazy and if you're not driving 20 miles/hour over the speed limit you're getting tailgated or idiots who feel the need to drive 25-30 mi/hr over the limit are weaving in and out of traffic. And... I find that at those speeds, my gas mileage is so bad that I more than make up the difference in the tolls at my next fill-up. As I mentioned above, I rarely find a need to use the toll road because of the the places I need to travel to/from have other ways to get there. Lucky me, I guess. Now I do use them when the winter weather hits us hard since they're more likely to have been recently plowed than the surface streets that depend on individual towns to get the roads plowed.
I'm wondering what's going to become of the physicists that work at Fermilab. I know one of them from my college days. He's worked there since graduating in the late '70s, one of the few physics majors I knew that actually found employment doing work in physics. (Many others seemed to go into software development.)
Anyone know if it's possible to transfer the stored passwords from a previous version into the latest version? In the past, whenever I upgraded, I've found my self having to recreate the saved passwords by revisiting a lot of web sites and referring to a screen print of the prior version's password manager listing. (And, oh boy, is that ever fun.) With the increasing frequency of Firefox releases, it'd sure be nice to have an easier upgrade process.
Ah.... I remember him. When I was a kid there was Mr. Wizard on the tube on weekdays and a couple of science shows on Saturday morning -- Discovery 66 (67?) and another one I can't recall the name of. After a while my mom knew not to pester me to turn off the TV and go outside and play until after my hour of science programming was finished. I didn't much care for the cartoons on Saturdays but the science shows were great. I'm glad to see some of that coming back even if it's only a portion of Sesame Street. It's a start. And I'm hopeful it'll be better than Bill Nye (not so-o-o bad but I agree with your "fluffy" assessment) and the execrable Beakman's World (aka: science trivia for the short attention span afflicted and, man, talk about your freak show). The show I'd like to see return to the airwaves is the one that was a lecture done by some college professor (MIT? Caltech?) that included some very simple computer graphics that demonstrated the principles being discussed. I remember seeing these on TV back in the early 80s and the shows were probably targetted at at least high school age kids. I can't recall the name but I'm sure that some other Slashdotter does.
I've been able to built PCs from components for 20 years. That's a pretty long-lived fad. Something tells me that the death of the desktop PC is not going to be coming as soon as Apple and the other tablet manufacturers would like. (Oddly, I'm posting this from a laptop -- rescued from the corporate dumpster -- and not from one of several desktop systems here at home.)
"This whole rigmarole has amused me from the start - there has never, ever been any guarantees that Sun would have kept MySQL going as a commercially supported project (lots of periods with very low rates of activity while Sun was in charge)..."
I always thought the Sun/MySQL arrangement was odd from the start. I've seen full Solaris installations include a "postgres" user and the PostgreSQL database software (which I was glad to see) so Sun was already working along side an open source database. So what was the deal with MySQL all about? Besides being some sort of half-cocked attempt at upping Sun's FOSS street cred, that is.
... the shark that Burning Man jumped had already jumped another shark. IMHO, Burning Man stopped being somewhat relevant about the time that Wired magazine stopped thinking that tiny lime green text on an orange background was hip.
Any corporate manager who goes public with a story like is either a.) crazy or b.) recently informed about an incurable disease and figures "What have I got to lose? May as well go out with some publicity."
(And it's Domino's? Geez, can you think of a more boring pizza? Now if it was Uno's that was doing this... Unfortunately I still remember the experience of eating non-Chicago Uno's pizza and I've changed my mind. Too much of a chance of that horrible stuff I ate in Columbus making its way off-world. Let's keep our pizza here on Earth.)
"It is more likely that we are invaded because other planets are sick of watching our reality TV broadcasts."
That's worried me since the '70s ever since I heard Chris Rush's comedy bit about aliens where, after having seen enough of our TV broadcasts, they'd declare "They're pretty funky. Destroy them!" Reality TV isn't the first hunk of cosmic RF pollution that we've beamed into the heavens. After "Happy Days", "Dallas" and countless others reach the receivers of enough alien civilizations, I'd say we've got it coming.
I'd open my Inbox and only find legitimate emails in it. Then the current spike in spam started. Deadly? No. It's nithing that Ctrl-click-click-click-...-Delete can't handle. Annoying? Yep. And a little insulting. Do these bozo spammers really think I'm -- or anyone for that matter -- going to open an attachment from an email that has the same Subject: line as eight other emails in my Inbox? And do they really think that all of my UPS shipments have been going to the wrong address? Or that I would be expecting invoices from 17 different companies per day? (And I'm not even counting the daily Cialis, Viagra, and fake Rolex watch come-ons.) Come on you idiots. You're going to have to try harder than that.
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OK... we got a politician from Colorado where several large IT companies have built humongous data centers. Since money is now considered free speech, I'm sure Bennet "heard" quite a bit from his constituents about this heinous overtime problem. Same goes for North Carolina. There's at least one well known, publicly traded software company headquartered there and a lot more with a large presence in the state. I'm sure a lot of free speech was directed toward Hagan by their lobbyists.
As for the Republithugs that are co-sponsoring this, well, they'll do anything to screw over workers so I'm actually surprised that more didn't choose to pile on.
I recently retired an old 2GB DEC drive (an RZ28 removed from the StorageWorks brick back in the mid '90s) that was starting to log numerous errors. It had been running almost continuously since it had been built, IIRC, in '91 (its birth based on the dates on the controller chips). Heck, I've still got a few of the RZ28s and RZ29s running in Linux systems. On the other hand, I've yet to find a SATA drive that hasn't started logging errors far, far sooner than that old RZ28. Granted, there are quite a few more blocks to deal with on those SATA drives but when they start logging errors before I've finished installing the operating system, that's way too soon. As a result of those SATA experiences, I won't use them in a non-mirrored configuration. Pity the drives that can work in a RAID setup cost so much more than what I can get at the local big box store.
Geez... That seems like a lot more trouble than merely taking off the cover of the phone and removing the two round bells. If you really didn't want to remove them (God forbid you should lose them in case you needed to return the phone) wrapping 2-3 layers of masking tape around the open end of the bells muted the bells quite nicely leaving you with nothing but a quiet and easy to tune out thumping sound when the phone rang.
Seriously, how hard it is to set one of these up? Not very. How expensive is to do this? Not very. Are we going to toss out the current method of logging because of the folks who only have Linux running on a laptop and have that as their only computer?
You certainly would not need a tremendously powerful PC to sit out on your network and do nothing but accept syslog messages from other systems.
My understanding (someone correct me if I'm wrong on this) is that there will be only a single logging system, not one doing this Journal format and another for text logs. The text available from the Journal would have to come from a tool that uses certain new library calls to extract information from the Journal. Users would have to pipe the output of that, one supposes, into tools to search for error messages of interest. It's not terribly hard to use but...
Not necessarily. Several of the summaries I've read about this new logging system indicate the the format hasn't been agreed on and may change from time to time. And... there is no guarantee when they'll get around to documenting the format. Good grief! First we have to change all of our log file search scripts to use the new Journal dumping tool. Then the format changes so we have to modify our scripts again. And again, perhaps, whenever it suits Lennart. How nice!
Yeah, right. Like the corporate drafters of SOPA didn't consider how it would make virtually anything done beyond passively viewing their content a felony. They'll deny it , of course, but they know full well that a prosecutor would be able twist the provisions of SOPA to fit anything they want to nail someone.
Think that won't happen?
It's in the Republicans' DNA to attack civil rights and to support their moneyed sugar daddies.
I don't see them holding the House next year so SOPA may well be watered down in a year or so if it passes during this session. Here's to hoping, anyway.
Ah... but these zones go to (Solaris) 11.
That limit is in force on previous versions of Solaris, isn't it? I know I've encountered it in the past on UNIX variants available from various big-iron vendors.
Do you have any personal projects that might rekindle your interest in programming? What about a website oriented around some hobby that you have where you could get into some back-end programming or writing extensions to the OSS that you're using to support the site? It might not help you deal with the "manipulative jerks" but it might help you get fired up about development again.
Alternatively, is there a internal move you could make to get away from the jerks? I wonder if those clowns aren't the real cause of your loss of enthusiasm about coding.
So what if they do. Plenty of schools are not going to be able to undertake a wholesale replacement of their existing computers with something beefy enough to run whatever Microsoft decides to give away for free. When's the last time you saw a version of Windows require a less powerful computer than the previous release? Heck, for that matter, when's the last time you saw a new release of your favorite Linux distribution require less computer than it used to. But... when's the last time you saw a system running Windows outperform the same computer running Linux? I don't know about anybody else but I can't say I've ever seen that happen. The Windows system I have to use for work can barely make it through the boot process to a point where it's stable enough to begin running application in less than ten minutes. Oh yeah, let's toss the next release of Windows on that hardware.I can't even imagine throwing the load on it that I regularly run in the ten virtual desktops I have set up on my Linux system (an aging P4-based box; certainly older than the hardware that Windows is running on). IMHO, you get the biggest bang for your hardware buck/peso/whatever if you run Linux on it.
Virtual != Real
If you believe that virtual "property" has any real monetary value, you probably believe that the $70+ trillion in derivatives that are floating around the financial system -- larger than the real GDP of the entire planet -- have real value, too.
Of course, the bankers/gamblers will argue that they do but they have just a little bit of a conflict of interest in the matter. One would suspect that having an eight-figure bonus that depends on their having real value is the most important thing on their minds and not whether these financial constructs actually have any real meaning in the world.
... The parts inside are quite capable of servicing themselves. (And, soon, defending themselves.)
Because if it was Lotus Notes -- IBM's fave -- I can understand why the folks that kept everything in their Inbox were able to find stuff faster. Lotus Notes' search function sucks like a tornado then you ask it to so anything even mildly complex. (And to me searching through a tree of folders shouldn't actually be complex.)
Uh, whatever the folks behind this might have planned for the next project, I suggest we ask them to not turn these monkeys loose on typing up all the names of God. OK?
The tolls are not quite double but they are higher if you use the manual toll lanes. (There was a recent announcement about hiking the tools so that may have changed now.) And, around Chicago, there are tons of alternatives that'll allow you to avoid the toll roads. I rarely use the toll roads for a couple of reasons. The traffic is crazy and if you're not driving 20 miles/hour over the speed limit you're getting tailgated or idiots who feel the need to drive 25-30 mi/hr over the limit are weaving in and out of traffic. And... I find that at those speeds, my gas mileage is so bad that I more than make up the difference in the tolls at my next fill-up. As I mentioned above, I rarely find a need to use the toll road because of the the places I need to travel to/from have other ways to get there. Lucky me, I guess. Now I do use them when the winter weather hits us hard since they're more likely to have been recently plowed than the surface streets that depend on individual towns to get the roads plowed.
... or two in honor of the Tevatron's long run.
I'm wondering what's going to become of the physicists that work at Fermilab. I know one of them from my college days. He's worked there since graduating in the late '70s, one of the few physics majors I knew that actually found employment doing work in physics. (Many others seemed to go into software development.)
Anyone know if it's possible to transfer the stored passwords from a previous version into the latest version? In the past, whenever I upgraded, I've found my self having to recreate the saved passwords by revisiting a lot of web sites and referring to a screen print of the prior version's password manager listing. (And, oh boy, is that ever fun.) With the increasing frequency of Firefox releases, it'd sure be nice to have an easier upgrade process.
Ah.... I remember him. When I was a kid there was Mr. Wizard on the tube on weekdays and a couple of science shows on Saturday morning -- Discovery 66 (67?) and another one I can't recall the name of. After a while my mom knew not to pester me to turn off the TV and go outside and play until after my hour of science programming was finished. I didn't much care for the cartoons on Saturdays but the science shows were great. I'm glad to see some of that coming back even if it's only a portion of Sesame Street. It's a start. And I'm hopeful it'll be better than Bill Nye (not so-o-o bad but I agree with your "fluffy" assessment) and the execrable Beakman's World (aka: science trivia for the short attention span afflicted and, man, talk about your freak show). The show I'd like to see return to the airwaves is the one that was a lecture done by some college professor (MIT? Caltech?) that included some very simple computer graphics that demonstrated the principles being discussed. I remember seeing these on TV back in the early 80s and the shows were probably targetted at at least high school age kids. I can't recall the name but I'm sure that some other Slashdotter does.
I've been able to built PCs from components for 20 years. That's a pretty long-lived fad. Something tells me that the death of the desktop PC is not going to be coming as soon as Apple and the other tablet manufacturers would like. (Oddly, I'm posting this from a laptop -- rescued from the corporate dumpster -- and not from one of several desktop systems here at home.)
I always thought the Sun/MySQL arrangement was odd from the start. I've seen full Solaris installations include a "postgres" user and the PostgreSQL database software (which I was glad to see) so Sun was already working along side an open source database. So what was the deal with MySQL all about? Besides being some sort of half-cocked attempt at upping Sun's FOSS street cred, that is.
... the shark that Burning Man jumped had already jumped another shark. IMHO, Burning Man stopped being somewhat relevant about the time that Wired magazine stopped thinking that tiny lime green text on an orange background was hip.
It's gotta be a joke story. Right?
Any corporate manager who goes public with a story like is either a.) crazy or b.) recently informed about an incurable disease and figures "What have I got to lose? May as well go out with some publicity."
(And it's Domino's? Geez, can you think of a more boring pizza? Now if it was Uno's that was doing this... Unfortunately I still remember the experience of eating non-Chicago Uno's pizza and I've changed my mind. Too much of a chance of that horrible stuff I ate in Columbus making its way off-world. Let's keep our pizza here on Earth.)
The percentage of people who ask to try out or otherwise use other peoples' iPads and other tablets has decreased sharply.
That's worried me since the '70s ever since I heard Chris Rush's comedy bit about aliens where, after having seen enough of our TV broadcasts, they'd declare "They're pretty funky. Destroy them!" Reality TV isn't the first hunk of cosmic RF pollution that we've beamed into the heavens. After "Happy Days", "Dallas" and countless others reach the receivers of enough alien civilizations, I'd say we've got it coming.
I'd open my Inbox and only find legitimate emails in it. Then the current spike in spam started. Deadly? No. It's nithing that Ctrl-click-click-click-...-Delete can't handle. Annoying? Yep. And a little insulting. Do these bozo spammers really think I'm -- or anyone for that matter -- going to open an attachment from an email that has the same Subject: line as eight other emails in my Inbox? And do they really think that all of my UPS shipments have been going to the wrong address? Or that I would be expecting invoices from 17 different companies per day? (And I'm not even counting the daily Cialis, Viagra, and fake Rolex watch come-ons.) Come on you idiots. You're going to have to try harder than that.