2) Some McDonald's don't want patrons staying for more than a half hour...
I'm actually working with a local coffee shop in Philly to set up Wifi access. We are using custom software that will cut people after 2 hours, and turns the access off when the place it busy at night. She just didn't want to turn the place into a giant office.
What I love about TCL is once the code becomes too complex, nasty or slow, you can easily write a C extension as a drop in replacement.
I have some libraries that I have written that, depending on your platform, will use a C level extension, an operating system call, or run a TCL procedure designed to emulate the behavior. The scripts are fat dumb and happy.
TCL doesn't try to be anything but that 100 mph tape that holds your application together.
Though truth be told my biggest problem is compiling my stuff for all the different platforms my extensions are used on. I haven't owned a MacOS box in years and I can't find anyone who can relink the library for new Tcl versions.
And add irregarless to the list of words I hate. The real word to use is regarless. (The ir at the front is redundant when paired with the less at the end.)
With the english language I grew up with it should be Insight. As in sight, to see. Insite sounds like either a revolution in progress, or a Newsism for something going on within one's own facility.
Of course they would probably have a co-conspirator shoot me with a high-caliber rifle for pointing that out. Whenever I see this fluff passed for english I just keep thinking of 1984...
(As an aside a co-consipirator is not a real world. A rifle, by definition, is a high-caliber weapon.)
Nah actually he/she is going to be raised to be the next ruler of the world. Unfortunately there are no console ports of Civilization yet.
OTOH all that exposure to simulated gunfire and carnage will certainly aid them on their path to utter domination. Say has anyone seen the one-ring? Somebody misplaced it about 3000 years ago...
On the other hand, if the tech is really almost done, do they want to wait until XMas 2004?
That's easy: To give developers some time to come up with games that require all that horsepower. If I have learned anything from watching Sony, they never just sell you a product. They sell you a platform. (Which may partly explain the Sony Vaio on my desk that talks to my Sony Digital-8 camcorder over a sony Ilink...er...ieee1394 cable.
They know people aren't going to buy a system just because it is faster or can display more polygons. They want to sell you a system that is going to do something the previous system couldn't do. I can't tell you how many of my friends bought a PS2 because it ALSO played DVD's.
I think between the very friendly response to the Linux hackers, and an emphasis on networking, Sony may be making a run at an alternative platform for home computers.
...to which a lot of people that grew up on NES/SNES are loyal...
My wife wants a gamecube for that very reason. Okay, it's really for the kid... who is due in October... but when they are finally old enough to hold the controller he/she (we don't know yet) will want to play Mario cart and Zelda...
Sony may be winning the console war, but I'd say their hold on their lead is pretty tenuous. They need to keep people buying their systems.
Funny. I was under the impression that they were beating the pants off of everyone else. Hell, I'm seeing PC games being ported to the PS2. Sony's brilliant move was to be loose with the licenses so that developers could afford to take a risk. This may explain the 5 racks of PS2 games at the local game stop as opposed to the 1 rack of Xbox, and the 5 racks of games for the PC.
Frankly I do see a difference between the major game consoles in performance, but if Intel has taught us anything it is be the first with the worst. The PS2 does and adaquate job with every game I've thrown in it. For the price, the selection, and the fact it doesn't eat an entire shelf by itself, PS2 wins.
That said, consoles are gettign to be so cheap that you can afford to have more than one. My wife is talking about getting a gamecube for the little one. I'm for anything that keeps the kids off my PC.
we never used anywhere near the amount of available bandwidth.
No, but bandwidth is like sewer pipes: you NEVER try to fill it up. At 10% you start dropping packets. You go much above 25% full and service is degraded. At 50% the network is pretty much useless. I DO work in a NOC. I DO know.
Why would anyone spoof a MAC address? Do you know what would happen to the sorry SOB that tried to roll out on an ethernet with a duplicated MAC? Neither MAC would work. Plus, you have to have your MAC registered somewhere for traffic to get through.
If you "make up" a mac address you are hosed. If you duplicate someone's make you are hosed. (And I have tools that will find you out. Muhahahaha.) And what luser really understands how to flash a Mac address into an ethernet card? (Cue the enterprising shareware author, I know.)
Credit card numbers are easy to spoof, why use them? Student ID numbers are easy to spoof...
We have been fighting bandwidth wars with the Staff. One nice thing about clamping down on employees is that we are sending checks to THEM, not vice verse.
You just make sure you use a local mirror to do you linux installs, and stick to stories and still photos for pr0n. I mean, videos are nice but its the law of diminishing returns.
The only thing funnier than people whimpering that bandwidth is a right are the folks who get mad when you don't really feel like giving your DSL line away for free through WIFI.
On my network I have seen some very sad, sorry, and sloppy things go down. I have folks who clog up the network and don't even know it. They just install some p2p software, fill up their hard drive, and leave the software running.
(Cue BOFH) and they are always so surprised so come in on Monday to a reformatted machine...
So, now the government spends MORE money putting through bills that say stuff along the lines of "let's save money"...pretty stupid really, but I guess that's what government is all about.
And don't you forget it!
But seriously, I rather like the idea of them wasting money on something I geniunely care about. I rather like government waste when it comes to too many compitent teachers at schools. It brings a tear to my eye to see pork going into providing health care for the poor.
My personal beef is with spending a few trillion for a "money saving" fighter jet.
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It is evil, but like all evil things, you can twist it to do good sometimes.
I'm actually working with a local coffee shop in Philly to set up Wifi access. We are using custom software that will cut people after 2 hours, and turns the access off when the place it busy at night. She just didn't want to turn the place into a giant office.
It doesn't hurt that my linux-based equipment is a LOT cheaper than commercial billing software.
I'm seeing a new symbol with a pair of arches personally...
No, no, it would be either Gigabytes and Gibabytes served, or Over 1 Gigageek Served.
Whew, good thing they made it to the kernel.
Well sure. I actually have written/still use a few wrappers for SQL interfaces that use Incr Tcl.
I have some libraries that I have written that, depending on your platform, will use a C level extension, an operating system call, or run a TCL procedure designed to emulate the behavior. The scripts are fat dumb and happy.
TCL doesn't try to be anything but that 100 mph tape that holds your application together.
Though truth be told my biggest problem is compiling my stuff for all the different platforms my extensions are used on. I haven't owned a MacOS box in years and I can't find anyone who can relink the library for new Tcl versions.
Actually the word is incite. Man, teach me to try to play grammer nazi.
The D was stuck on my keyboard...yeah...that's the ticket...
And add irregarless to the list of words I hate. The real word to use is regarless. (The ir at the front is redundant when paired with the less at the end.)
Of course they would probably have a co-conspirator shoot me with a high-caliber rifle for pointing that out. Whenever I see this fluff passed for english I just keep thinking of 1984...
(As an aside a co-consipirator is not a real world. A rifle, by definition, is a high-caliber weapon.)
OTOH all that exposure to simulated gunfire and carnage will certainly aid them on their path to utter domination. Say has anyone seen the one-ring? Somebody misplaced it about 3000 years ago...
That's easy: To give developers some time to come up with games that require all that horsepower. If I have learned anything from watching Sony, they never just sell you a product. They sell you a platform. (Which may partly explain the Sony Vaio on my desk that talks to my Sony Digital-8 camcorder over a sony Ilink...er...ieee1394 cable.
They know people aren't going to buy a system just because it is faster or can display more polygons. They want to sell you a system that is going to do something the previous system couldn't do. I can't tell you how many of my friends bought a PS2 because it ALSO played DVD's.
I think between the very friendly response to the Linux hackers, and an emphasis on networking, Sony may be making a run at an alternative platform for home computers.
My wife wants a gamecube for that very reason. Okay, it's really for the kid... who is due in October... but when they are finally old enough to hold the controller he/she (we don't know yet) will want to play Mario cart and Zelda...
I finally broke down and had my parents buy me one for Christmas.
Funny. I was under the impression that they were beating the pants off of everyone else. Hell, I'm seeing PC games being ported to the PS2. Sony's brilliant move was to be loose with the licenses so that developers could afford to take a risk. This may explain the 5 racks of PS2 games at the local game stop as opposed to the 1 rack of Xbox, and the 5 racks of games for the PC.
Frankly I do see a difference between the major game consoles in performance, but if Intel has taught us anything it is be the first with the worst. The PS2 does and adaquate job with every game I've thrown in it. For the price, the selection, and the fact it doesn't eat an entire shelf by itself, PS2 wins.
That said, consoles are gettign to be so cheap that you can afford to have more than one. My wife is talking about getting a gamecube for the little one. I'm for anything that keeps the kids off my PC.
Which is when you bust out the blackmail you have obtained from observing the observer...
I was quoting figures based on ethernet.
(But I really don't think that qualifies as Flamebait. Geeze, can a guy get a break.)
No, but bandwidth is like sewer pipes: you NEVER try to fill it up. At 10% you start dropping packets. You go much above 25% full and service is degraded. At 50% the network is pretty much useless. I DO work in a NOC. I DO know.
If you "make up" a mac address you are hosed. If you duplicate someone's make you are hosed. (And I have tools that will find you out. Muhahahaha.) And what luser really understands how to flash a Mac address into an ethernet card? (Cue the enterprising shareware author, I know.)
Credit card numbers are easy to spoof, why use them? Student ID numbers are easy to spoof...
We have been fighting bandwidth wars with the Staff. One nice thing about clamping down on employees is that we are sending checks to THEM, not vice verse.
You just make sure you use a local mirror to do you linux installs, and stick to stories and still photos for pr0n. I mean, videos are nice but its the law of diminishing returns.
The only thing funnier than people whimpering that bandwidth is a right are the folks who get mad when you don't really feel like giving your DSL line away for free through WIFI.
On my network I have seen some very sad, sorry, and sloppy things go down. I have folks who clog up the network and don't even know it. They just install some p2p software, fill up their hard drive, and leave the software running.
(Cue BOFH) and they are always so surprised so come in on Monday to a reformatted machine...
And don't you forget it!
But seriously, I rather like the idea of them wasting money on something I geniunely care about. I rather like government waste when it comes to too many compitent teachers at schools. It brings a tear to my eye to see pork going into providing health care for the poor.
My personal beef is with spending a few trillion for a "money saving" fighter jet.