What do you as an IT professional want to read in a review for a
server OS Security, scalability, robustness. Use your common sense
when thinking of a definition of those terms.
or a high-speed switch
Managed how? (ssh, telnet, www?) Any layer 3 routing or filtering
capabilities? Packets per second? Backplane speed?
or a big iron server or proprietary workstation? For our
research we're phasing out our SGI machines and going to free OSs (Linux
cluster, Free OSs on the desktop) so that's not applicable here.
What tests should we run? What results and feature comparisons
are going to be most meaningful to you? Doom 3 framerate?:)
Actually, isn't the CIA supposed to investigate us evil foreigners? What would they do with information they gather on domestic folks, pass it to the FBI?
received $157,673 from the CIA and NSF for their proposal of 'a system to be deployed in the background of any chat room as a silent listener for eavesdropping
Sheesh... years ago I did a crap 1 liner in BitchX that took the conversations in one channel and msg'd them to another. Can I have some money, too?
It assumes no prior knowledge of Perl or of programming in general.
Does it mention the need for chicken blood, human tallow candles and pentagrams made from ground baby skull? Sorry, I liked Perl Back In The Day but the OO is just bolted on and I can't do anything with it I can't accomplish with Python (or Ruby although I'm still learning that).
They list some other artists there and none of them are any better. Yet they later say they want PI to be have the most "diverse" content. Yeah, right - everything from Britney Spears to Jessica Simpson!
I've been using eMusic.com for several weeks now. I really like it: track prices are very reasonable, no DRM (you get MP3s) and there are loads of great and diverse bands you can find without having to wade through Britney and Justin.
I have no affiliation, just a very satisfied customer.
Are the files distributed on that network DRM'd somehow? If so that will doom it and give the RIAA more ammo for the "illegal P2P is killing us!" rant.
What advice can you guys give me on not becoming a PHB? What are qualities that you wish your manager(s) had
Speaking as someone who has been on both sides:
Don't be a fake, your people will pick up on it.
Don't pick sides. You aren't there to make friends, you're there to get a job done.
Don't be afraid to say "I don't know" and defer to one of your people. It boosts their morale.
Ensure you can back up your decisions with facts and data. Bad decisions will cost you respect and potential promotions. They may even get you demoted or unemployed.
Don't talk shop with your people outside of work on a social level. Those that don't go out socially could perceive your decisions as biased. Ideally you'll minimize social interaction with small groups of your people.
You can't demand respect from your people, it must be earned.
A good manager should be though of as firm yet fair. Not a friend, not a drinkin' buddy, not someone easily influenced.
Basically: you're a Grown-Up now. Your options are quite simple: take the ball and run with it or fail and go back to where you were. Heh, I re-read that and I thought "Man, you sound old." and I'm only 38...:)
i>and the cost of development and deployment is almost 3x that of an embedded linux
When a spacecraft millions of kilometers from Earth packs it in I'm sure a project leader at NASA would be happy they saved 2/3 of the price on a relatively small ticket item.
So jailing people during prohibition was legitimate punishment for that subversive behaviour? I think the big dealers should be nailed, that's a given, but if someone chooses to sit there on their own property they should be able to inject pretty much whatever they want into their bodies. I don't need old, grey men thinking for me.
Mind you, I'm in Canada so you can write me off as a filthy Leftist:)
That's not wise. Without uproar to counter these corporatism-driven laws you'll end up in jail for behaviour you thought legal. Ignorance is no excuse.
Senator John McCain stated his opposition to this bill, and specifically cited the anti-commercial skipping feature: "Americans have been recording TV shows and fast-forwarding through commercials for 30 years," he said. "Do we really expect to throw people in jail in 2004 for behavior they've been engaged in for more than a quarter century?"
Your jails are full of fellow citizens that dared to smoke pot. That "crime" has been on the books far, far longer Senator.
The paper trail is a red herring, if you ask me. What is really needed is publicly-available source code that anyone can view.
You can't guarantee the code you look at is what's in the machine. In my city of ~680K people in.CA we have a paper ballot for the elections. ANY CITIZEN LEGAL TO VOTE is able to sit in and watch the people open the sealed boxes and count the paper ballots. It only takes a short while as there are a lot of polling stations.
Electronic voting is a solution in search of a problem, it's a bunch of crap.
With all that storage George Lucas will still find a way to re-re-re-release the bastardized Star Wars movies one-per BluRay disc and people will still buy them. "More Ewoks! More pouty Anaki! More lifelike JarJar! All in THX certified Dolby Megadigital 24+3 Digital Sound!"
we'll have genetically engineered winged monkeys who will fly all our nuclear waste into outer space.
Those won't work, the wings are useless in space. We have to wait for the genetically engineered monkeys with liquid oxygen and fuel tanks. That'll be another few hundred years.
Exactly the reason Windows on the desktop is such an entrenched force. Just Saturday I was getting my hair cut. The woman said something about viruses her husband downloaded. "Oh, you're using Windows I guess." I said a bit bluntly. "Yeah, it's all we know and we can't afford a Mac." So right there that told me A) inertia will keep them using Windows until they die and B) many people think the Mac is the only alternative (and are too expensive)
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That explains why the shows have been getting onto BitTorrent a minute or two later.
The plan calls for Nintendo to create a movie based on one of its own franchises for theatrical release in 2006
Sadly, it will be marketed to the kids and useless parents who cannot say "No!" will take the sprogs, ensuring huge profits.
Also watch for:
The McSuper McMario Happy Meal!
Metroid Special Edition Pepsi!
Mr. Driller Bubble Gum Flavoured Toothpaste!
and the drones will gobble it all up...
AVG is great but it's only free for personal use. I hope your workplace has paid for it.
What do you as an IT professional want to read in a review for a server OS
Security, scalability, robustness. Use your common sense when thinking of a definition of those terms.
or a high-speed switch
Managed how? (ssh, telnet, www?) Any layer 3 routing or filtering capabilities? Packets per second? Backplane speed?
or a big iron server or proprietary workstation?
For our research we're phasing out our SGI machines and going to free OSs (Linux cluster, Free OSs on the desktop) so that's not applicable here.
What tests should we run? What results and feature comparisons are going to be most meaningful to you?
Doom 3 framerate?
I can run the older unix-based apps I need to for work, and use Microsoft programs and play fancy games when I want
That's good, they aren't making any more unix-based apps from what I've heard. What kind of silly statement is that?
Actually, isn't the CIA supposed to investigate us evil foreigners? What would they do with information they gather on domestic folks, pass it to the FBI?
received $157,673 from the CIA and NSF for their proposal of 'a system to be deployed in the background of any chat room as a silent listener for eavesdropping
Sheesh... years ago I did a crap 1 liner in BitchX that took the conversations in one channel and msg'd them to another. Can I have some money, too?
It assumes no prior knowledge of Perl or of programming in general.
Does it mention the need for chicken blood, human tallow candles and pentagrams made from ground baby skull? Sorry, I liked Perl Back In The Day but the OO is just bolted on and I can't do anything with it I can't accomplish with Python (or Ruby although I'm still learning that).
No hard feelings.
Nah, none taken. I don't look 38 (39 on xmas eve) and I certainly don't act 38.
They list some other artists there and none of them are any better. Yet they later say they want PI to be have the most "diverse" content. Yeah, right - everything from Britney Spears to Jessica Simpson!
I've been using eMusic.com for several weeks now. I really like it: track prices are very reasonable, no DRM (you get MP3s) and there are loads of great and diverse bands you can find without having to wade through Britney and Justin.
I have no affiliation, just a very satisfied customer.
Are the files distributed on that network DRM'd somehow? If so that will doom it and give the RIAA more ammo for the "illegal P2P is killing us!" rant.
What advice can you guys give me on not becoming a PHB? What are qualities that you wish your manager(s) had
Speaking as someone who has been on both sides:
Don't be a fake, your people will pick up on it.
Don't pick sides. You aren't there to make friends, you're there to get a job done.
Don't be afraid to say "I don't know" and defer to one of your people. It boosts their morale.
Ensure you can back up your decisions with facts and data. Bad decisions will cost you respect and potential promotions. They may even get you demoted or unemployed.
Don't talk shop with your people outside of work on a social level. Those that don't go out socially could perceive your decisions as biased. Ideally you'll minimize social interaction with small groups of your people.
You can't demand respect from your people, it must be earned.
A good manager should be though of as firm yet fair. Not a friend, not a drinkin' buddy, not someone easily influenced.
:)
Basically: you're a Grown-Up now. Your options are quite simple: take the ball and run with it or fail and go back to where you were. Heh, I re-read that and I thought "Man, you sound old." and I'm only 38...
hah, I was wondering why no one had commented on that yet.
PS: Serious about the iPod in your sig?
i>and the cost of development and deployment is almost 3x that of an embedded linux
When a spacecraft millions of kilometers from Earth packs it in I'm sure a project leader at NASA would be happy they saved 2/3 of the price on a relatively small ticket item.
This could lead quite soon to a new definition of the second
Now all we need is a13 year old to update the wikipedia entry.
So jailing people during prohibition was legitimate punishment for that subversive behaviour? I think the big dealers should be nailed, that's a given, but if someone chooses to sit there on their own property they should be able to inject pretty much whatever they want into their bodies. I don't need old, grey men thinking for me.
Mind you, I'm in Canada so you can write me off as a filthy Leftist
Let's ignore our legislators
That's not wise. Without uproar to counter these corporatism-driven laws you'll end up in jail for behaviour you thought legal. Ignorance is no excuse.
Senator John McCain stated his opposition to this bill, and specifically cited the anti-commercial skipping feature: "Americans have been recording TV shows and fast-forwarding through commercials for 30 years," he said. "Do we really expect to throw people in jail in 2004 for behavior they've been engaged in for more than a quarter century?"
Your jails are full of fellow citizens that dared to smoke pot. That "crime" has been on the books far, far longer Senator.
The paper trail is a red herring, if you ask me. What is really needed is publicly-available source code that anyone can view.
You can't guarantee the code you look at is what's in the machine. In my city of ~680K people in
Electronic voting is a solution in search of a problem, it's a bunch of crap.
With all that storage George Lucas will still find a way to re-re-re-release the bastardized Star Wars movies one-per BluRay disc and people will still buy them. "More Ewoks! More pouty Anaki! More lifelike JarJar! All in THX certified Dolby Megadigital 24+3 Digital Sound!"
It doesn't ruin the originals but it cheapens the "franchise". Look at how the Alien series degraded to corn-laden turds after Alien and Aliens.
Next we'll see remakes of Blade Runner, Citizen Kane and Casablanca. All staring Ben Affleck. All title tracks by Eminem.
NO MR. RAIMI! Don't do it or, as Linda and Cheryl said,
we'll have genetically engineered winged monkeys who will fly all our nuclear waste into outer space.
Those won't work, the wings are useless in space. We have to wait for the genetically engineered monkeys with liquid oxygen and fuel tanks. That'll be another few hundred years.
And people like to stick with what they know.
Exactly the reason Windows on the desktop is such an entrenched force. Just Saturday I was getting my hair cut. The woman said something about viruses her husband downloaded. "Oh, you're using Windows I guess." I said a bit bluntly. "Yeah, it's all we know and we can't afford a Mac." So right there that told me A) inertia will keep them using Windows until they die and B) many people think the Mac is the only alternative (and are too expensive)
Can the two continue growing together?
I've used OpenBSD on my desktop for ages. Pick a nice WM and you're set.
Security does not preclude usability.