In my experience, the engineers are fine but it's the secretaries who cause all the fuss - getting viruses from their Hotmail account, clicking yes to popups etc...
If the company can stomach the up front costs for locking down the systems - then yes their ok, and the engineers need more help, but for smaller companies that are more reactive, the AIM using, Arery form printing, spyware downloading secretaries are a pain in the butt.
On a PostgreSQL install, I almost quadrulpeled performance on FreeBSD 4.10 by bumping up the SHMMAX in FreeBSD, then tweaking PostgreSQL to use it for queries and indexes.
Make sure FreeBSD has DMA turned on as well, and make CFLAGS somthing other than a 486.
All of the *BSD are *VERY VERY* conservative and will do a lot better when properly configured.
On a serious note, I don't really understand why console manufacturers are so tight when it comes to memory.
The manufactures don't want to get caught with their pants down when it suddenly costs three times as much to buy RAM as is did when the console launched. They can mitigate the risk with options and contracts but it's still a risk that they want to mitigate - considering that companies like Mircosoft have to prop up their flagging console by selling them below cost, it's no wonder that the specs are skimpy.
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"United Nations officials report a mysterious 50,000 percent increase in Ethiopian pr0n online...
The great thing about Ethiopian Pt0n is that it compresses realy well.
It Was A Dark And Stormy Night by Snoopy Part I It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed.
Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!
While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.
Part II
A light snow was falling, and the little girl with the tattered shawl had not sold a violet all day.
At that very moment, a young intern at City Hospital was making an important discovery. The mysterious patient in Room 213 had finally awakened. She moaned softly.
Could it be that she was the sister of the boy in Kansas who loved the girl with the tattered shawl who was the daughter of the maid who had escaped from the pirates?
The intern frowned.
"Stampede!" the foreman shouted, and forty thousand head of cattle thundered down on the tiny camp. The two men rolled on the ground grappling beneath the murderous hooves. A left and a right. A left. Another left and right. An uppercut to the jaw. The fight was over. And so the ranch was saved.
The young intern sat by himself in one corner of the coffee shop. he had learned about medicine, but more importantly, he had learned something about life.
Of course not; everyone knows that taxpayer dollars should have gone to corporate coffers instead.
It's not just that - our government is now in charge of confiscating the efforts of many and using the money to please the powerful.
The social security taxes of the young are used to buy off the votes of the elderly. The income taxes of us all are used to buy off the votes of the welfare classes. The teriff we pay on imports is used to buy off the votes of the protected Unions.
It's not just large corporations who gain when government is powerful.
Are you kidding? Confined to constricted areas for entire years. Limited interpersonal action creating a sociopath. Far, far too much free time on their hands. Die hard video game players. Always ready to take it up the butt.
Are you describing the prison, or the cube farm at Microsoft?
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Give the fact that the Iraqis are mart, tough and well armed - the fact that Americans are *not* not coming home is cargo ships full of body bags says a lot.
In war - to overtake a country and occupy it for a year with only 1,200 deaths means only one thing - that the invading army is liked better than the old army.
The Iraqis do not like us there at *all*, but most of them are smart enough to realize that we're there only for the short term.
200,000 insurgents is a bunch of BS - if that were true, our soldiers would be dying by the thousands.
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Well it depends on your goals...
If you want to just vent - then you did fine.
If you want to educate then you failed - your missive did not enlighten, it just polarized.
As a counter point, it's a tough call - as an American I sometimes wished we just said fuck you to the world and stopped playing cop. But then again, isolationism would have been fatal if we had rolled up and whimpered after Pearl Harbor. There's no easy answers. Even in Iraq it's clear that the Iraqi's themselves tolerate us better than the Butcher of Bagdad - we've royally fucked things up, but we've done some good as well.
50 years from now, we'll all know the answers. From here, things are not so easy.
On balance, I think we have done as good as others would have in our situation.
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In 90% of the subprojects of construction, a manager can walk by in a few seconds gauge
I respectfully disagree - especially on large projects!
I write construction management software and work with construction project managers - they have the same problems as we do.
Does the concrete have enough water to sure properly, with the rebar rust in two years, will the subcontractors change order spur more change orders?
You'd think id be east for a construction project manager to figure out the state of a project - but there's so many different levels of completion:
Accounting measures completion by progress payments. Employees measure completion by hours left to finish. Subs may measure by deliverables. Owners measure compleation by what looks good and looks finished. Foreman measure completion by some random method that nobody can figure out.
Etc... Being a PM in construction, or software or on an assembly line is just plain hard!
If the allegations of that site are true, however, and the Democrats did commit some sort of subtle, large-scale conspiracy across the state (without any whistleblowers going to the media)
As I read it - all the problems were in King County. The rest of the state has it's ups and downs, but nothing too odd. King County is either a case of vote fraud OR massive incompetence and either way, some people should be spending time behind bars or should be fired.
Soundpolitics.com is certainly from the right - but I'm gladdened that a lot of my Democrat friends are also pissed off 'round here. Democratic primaries have also been 'close' - so It's in all our interests to weed out the fraud.
Been spending more time analyzing the newly posted precinct canvass of the King County manual recount, and the differences with the canvass of the machine recount.
The story seems to be that at every opportunity where new ballots were somehow introduced into the mix, Gregoire benefited disproportionately.
As mentioned in an earlier post, 266 ballots seemed to disappear, while 325 magically materialized. Again, these are not just a matter of reinterpration of marks on paper, these are entire sheets of paper that either vanished or appeared out of thin air. Christine Gregoire added a net 47 new votes to her total, Dino Rossi lost a net 12 from his.
Dig deeper.
There were 238 precincts that found new ballots, 291 precincts that lost ballots, and 2087 precincts where the ballot count didn't change from the machine count.
In the precincts where the ballot count didn't change, new votes were added to/subtracted from the candidates counts by reinterpreting the undervotes and overvotes. In these precincts, Rossi gained +23 and lost -27; Gregoire gained +47 and lost -36. (1 was a Rossi that flipped to Gregoire) Out of the under/over-votes reawarded to a candidate, Gregoire won 68%, significantly more than her 59% share of the vote in King County overall. Of the candidate votes that were reinterpreted to be under/overvotes, Gregoire lost only 58%, slightly less than her share of the vote.
In the precincts that discovered new ballots, but didn't change the number of under/overvotes, Gregoire won 131 (69%) of the 200 newly added ballots. In the precincts where ballots vanished, but the number of under/overvotes did not change, Gregoire lost 108 (58%) of the disappeared ballots.
When ballots disappeared, they disappeared proportionally from both candidates. When ballots appeared, they appeared disproportionally for Gregoire.
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Shh!!!!
Don't give out the secret - that will stop the flow of the checks they send me. By squirrel.
Hank Asher->DataBase->TIA->Matrix->40k>CIA->KGB
Looks like Art Bell has been sharing his bong again...
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In my experience, the engineers are fine but it's the secretaries who cause all the fuss - getting viruses from their Hotmail account, clicking yes to popups etc...
If the company can stomach the up front costs for locking down the systems - then yes their ok, and the engineers need more help, but for smaller companies that are more reactive, the AIM using, Arery form printing, spyware downloading secretaries are a pain in the butt.
In the US, we just hid our tax-free gadgets stuff in our drug stash. They never find then...
On a PostgreSQL install, I almost quadrulpeled performance on FreeBSD 4.10 by bumping up the SHMMAX in FreeBSD, then tweaking PostgreSQL to use it for queries and indexes.
Make sure FreeBSD has DMA turned on as well, and make CFLAGS somthing other than a 486.
All of the *BSD are *VERY VERY* conservative and will do a lot better when properly configured.
On a serious note, I don't really understand why console manufacturers are so tight when it comes to memory.
The manufactures don't want to get caught with their pants down when it suddenly costs three times as much to buy RAM as is did when the console launched. They can mitigate the risk with options and contracts but it's still a risk that they want to mitigate - considering that companies like Mircosoft have to prop up their flagging console by selling them below cost, it's no wonder that the specs are skimpy.
"United Nations officials report a mysterious 50,000 percent increase in Ethiopian pr0n online...
The great thing about Ethiopian Pt0n is that it compresses realy well.
(ducks)
Um, why is using slower memory a GOOD thing?
Most non-volitile memroy (Flash memroy) is VERY slow.
IF the coumputer uses mostly flash memory - then i'd be hard to loose your work. That would be quite nice!
Snoopy wrote a nastly little mockery of bad writing:
Bits a peices of it would apprear in Penuts - Penut's fans were eventually able to stich it together.
From:Here
It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
by Snoopy
Part I
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out!
A door slammed. The maid screamed.
Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!
While millions of people were starving, the king lived
in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was
growing up.
Part II
A light snow was falling, and the little girl with the
tattered shawl had not sold a violet all day.
At that very moment, a young intern at City Hospital was
making an important discovery. The mysterious patient in
Room 213 had finally awakened. She moaned softly.
Could it be that she was the sister of the boy in Kansas
who loved the girl with the tattered shawl who was the
daughter of the maid who had escaped from the pirates?
The intern frowned.
"Stampede!" the foreman shouted, and forty thousand head
of cattle thundered down on the tiny camp. The two men
rolled on the ground grappling beneath the murderous hooves.
A left and a right. A left. Another left and right. An
uppercut to the jaw. The fight was over. And so the ranch
was saved.
The young intern sat by himself in one corner of the
coffee shop. he had learned about medicine, but more
importantly, he had learned something about life.
TH
Windows would be nothing without TCP/IP.
If it wasen't for TCP/IP - Windows would still be using BEUI or whatever the *$&@ they called it.
Of course not; everyone knows that taxpayer dollars should have gone to corporate coffers instead.
It's not just that - our government is now in charge of confiscating the efforts of many and using the money to please the powerful.
The social security taxes of the young are used to buy off the votes of the elderly.
The income taxes of us all are used to buy off the votes of the welfare classes.
The teriff we pay on imports is used to buy off the votes of the protected Unions.
It's not just large corporations who gain when government is powerful.
You forgot to tell us how Bill Gates's dick tastes.
He found out Bill was gay - his dick tastes like shit.
I still will be setting the home-page setting of all my users to www.google.com
On a 56K connection Microsoft's effort is still slow and clunky.
The only thing keeping Nintendo alive is Mario and a couple of other never-ending nostalgia franchises, plus their kid-friendly image
Nintendo is 2nd consoles.
Nintendo is 1st in portable consoles.
*THAT'S* what's keeping Nintendo not only alive, but very profitable.
to contract with XBOX:
Microsoft is 3rd in consoles.
Microsoft has no portable console.
XBOX is only alive because of monopoly rents charged by Microsoft for Windows XP and Office.
Are you kidding? Confined to constricted areas for entire years. Limited interpersonal action creating a sociopath. Far, far too much free time on their hands. Die hard video game players. Always ready to take it up the butt.
Are you describing the prison, or the cube farm at Microsoft?
Try Festival !!!!
Festival speech
75% as good at AT&T Natural Voices - and it's free, with a BSD like license.
Quite good when set up properly.
I like him
I like 'em too! He done made ma' Karma real good!
Give the fact that the Iraqis are mart, tough and well armed - the fact that Americans are *not* not coming home is cargo ships full of body bags says a lot.
In war - to overtake a country and occupy it for a year with only 1,200 deaths means only one thing - that the invading army is liked better than the old army.
The Iraqis do not like us there at *all*, but most of them are smart enough to realize that we're there only for the short term.
200,000 insurgents is a bunch of BS - if that were true, our soldiers would be dying by the thousands.
Well it depends on your goals...
If you want to just vent - then you did fine.
If you want to educate then you failed - your missive did not enlighten, it just polarized.
As a counter point, it's a tough call - as an American I sometimes wished we just said fuck you to the world and stopped playing cop. But then again, isolationism would have been fatal if we had rolled up and whimpered after Pearl Harbor. There's no easy answers. Even in Iraq it's clear that the Iraqi's themselves tolerate us better than the Butcher of Bagdad - we've royally fucked things up, but we've done some good as well.
50 years from now, we'll all know the answers. From here, things are not so easy.
On balance, I think we have done as good as others would have in our situation.
Dude...
Chill out.
Keyboard ain't going anywhere. Expect it to exist for as long as there are words to type.
lol - u r gr8.
In 90% of the subprojects of construction, a manager can walk by in a few seconds gauge
I respectfully disagree - especially on large projects!
I write construction management software and work with construction project managers - they have the same problems as we do.
Does the concrete have enough water to sure properly, with the rebar rust in two years, will the subcontractors change order spur more change orders?
You'd think id be east for a construction project manager to figure out the state of a project - but there's so many different levels of completion:
Accounting measures completion by progress payments.
Employees measure completion by hours left to finish.
Subs may measure by deliverables.
Owners measure compleation by what looks good and looks finished.
Foreman measure completion by some random method that nobody can figure out.
Etc... Being a PM in construction, or software or on an assembly line is just plain hard!
Plus
Wordperfect does word-counts properly. MS Word's count funciton is buggy.
This matters because certain courts have limits to the length of certain pleadings, breifs etc - and if the count goes over, you loose!
If the allegations of that site are true, however, and the Democrats did commit some sort of subtle, large-scale conspiracy across the state (without any whistleblowers going to the media)
As I read it - all the problems were in King County. The rest of the state has it's ups and downs, but nothing too odd. King County is either a case of vote fraud OR massive incompetence and either way, some people should be spending time behind bars or should be fired.
Soundpolitics.com is certainly from the right - but I'm gladdened that a lot of my Democrat friends are also pissed off 'round here. Democratic primaries have also been 'close' - so It's in all our interests to weed out the fraud.
From SoundPolitics.com
Been spending more time analyzing the newly posted precinct canvass of the King County manual recount, and the differences with the canvass of the machine recount.
The story seems to be that at every opportunity where new ballots were somehow introduced into the mix, Gregoire benefited disproportionately.
As mentioned in an earlier post, 266 ballots seemed to disappear, while 325 magically materialized. Again, these are not just a matter of reinterpration of marks on paper, these are entire sheets of paper that either vanished or appeared out of thin air. Christine Gregoire added a net 47 new votes to her total, Dino Rossi lost a net 12 from his.
Dig deeper.
There were 238 precincts that found new ballots, 291 precincts that lost ballots, and 2087 precincts where the ballot count didn't change from the machine count.
In the precincts where the ballot count didn't change, new votes were added to/subtracted from the candidates counts by reinterpreting the undervotes and overvotes. In these precincts, Rossi gained +23 and lost -27; Gregoire gained +47 and lost -36. (1 was a Rossi that flipped to Gregoire) Out of the under/over-votes reawarded to a candidate, Gregoire won 68%, significantly more than her 59% share of the vote in King County overall. Of the candidate votes that were reinterpreted to be under/overvotes, Gregoire lost only 58%, slightly less than her share of the vote.
In the precincts that discovered new ballots, but didn't change the number of under/overvotes, Gregoire won 131 (69%) of the 200 newly added ballots. In the precincts where ballots vanished, but the number of under/overvotes did not change, Gregoire lost 108 (58%) of the disappeared ballots.
When ballots disappeared, they disappeared proportionally from both candidates. When ballots appeared, they appeared disproportionally for Gregoire.
Oddly enough!