At the cost of a (slightly) slower initial runspeed at least.
I am asuming you have allready DISABLED/UNINSTALLED all the services you don't actually need.
Now head into/etc/rc.d/init.d and edit the files for the services you do actually use.
Be carefull here, this should ONLY be done for daemons that you run like mysql or httpd not system processes. For one thing, leave/etc/rc.sysinit alone for this one.
Now you are in the startup script for your first server 'k. Go the section for start. If it calls a function, go to that function. Find the line that actually calls the server process.
Stick an ampersand(&) at the end of it.
I hear you ask: why on earth put a service in the background, isn't it there allready ?
Yes my friends services RUN in the background, but they don't normally start there. And your distro patiently waits for it to finish starting before going on. What you are doing here is to put it in the background right from the getgo. The server initializes as a background process now. That way the system can keep going, running the next bootup script - until eventually it fires up your terminal/display manager. The catch is that because you put service startup in the background, you may not actually be able to access mysql or whatever for a few secconds after bootup. And your first few secconds after the login comes up, some resources may still be busy starting servers, but that should end very fast.
One big hint, never do this with XFS or a display manager. If you try to start X without XFS fully loaded it buggers (this is especially likely with display managers running) and dm's hate to launch from the background (don't ask me why).
But you seem to have missed my point. 15 years ago the mother two did not pay the techie to install her drivers. She read the manual with her new hardware, and typed the dos command herself.
15 years ago, the mother of two had read the dos users guide, and set up a nice tiered application menu using.bat files customized to order her different apps the way she likes them ordered.
Then windows came on the scene, and we are left with a generation of people who believe themselves to be idiots. I am not saying everybody is or should be a geek.
I dissagree with you on what is user friendly. True userfriendlyness is very easy to define. I human have a personal working style suited to my personality. My computer follows that style exactly.
Yes this means that users will need to first teach the computer what their style is like, but that does not have to be so bad. The core thing I am saying is that while they mother of two need not be a technologists, it is inexcusable for her to be a technophobe. Bill Gates crime is that he encourages technophobia - people who are scared of their computers will buy his mathematically impossible claim that THIS IS HOW IT WORKS AND THAT IS BEST FOR EVERYBODY.
Here is the essence: choice is never bad for anybody - in fact it is the crucial ellement of having your computer adapt to you instead of vice versa.
What we need to be doing is to ensure that the choices are easier to make. Get rid of those stupid windows-like menus, and give us a system that makes choosing the right app for the task quick and painless. There have been some good ideas on that in this thread.
When you want to write a CD, the system should present the options for doing it with, along with a brief description of which task each is best at and the best overall should be shown as recommended.
Whichever the user chooses then becomes the default next time, unless the user reading the briefs, realizes that for todays work, program X will be better than program Y.
We dont need to remove choice, we need to remove the guesswork from choice. Instead of scrapping remote desktops, why not integrate them into the GUI - there should be a simple button somewhere that says: Remote App When you mouse over it should inform you thus: Run commands from another machine on your lan.
When you click it, it should present you with a browsable list of machines on your lan, AND the option to type in a hostname. Then it should ask you for a username and password. do xhost+ $REMOTE_HOST ssh into it, and present the default applauncher menu from the remote machine (or a launch menu based on its content) so you can launch your app.
Voila, X networking usefull for the mother of two.
There is no such thing as a useless feature, basic statistics will tell you that somebody somewhere needs it. There are features that are too hard to use, but that means the GUI needs to be improved, not the features removed.
Actually there is such a word, but you all got it wrong. Presidence, would be the state in which you find yourself when you preside over something.
E.G. A company chairman can be said to have presidence over a board meeting.
This is correct grammer, allthough it will make you *sound* stupid. It is far better therefore to just say that the Chairman presided over the meeting.
I struggle to find an example where the word presidence could be used, without an easier replacement.
Sorry man, but you just don't get what choice actually means. Choice means EVERY single user can get ANY feature HE wants. Choice means nobody tells you how your desktop should look. Choice is why I can run Mandrake at work, Slack at home, Debian on my servers.
All the things you want to ditch are needed. Networking code, such an absolute waste hey. Tell that to ltsp.org - considdering that right there Linux has entered several huge markets because pretty much nothing else out there can do what we can, and you want to scrap the essential feature that made it possible ?
All these X features you don't use - OTHER people DEPEND ON. How can you claim to promote choice if you are suggesting the removal of every innovation you do not use yourself ?
Do that and we have become microsoft version 2. "From the needs of all our users, we picked the once most frequently asked for, then implemented a lowest common denominator operating system based on that". Sorry man, the single most important technical innovation of open-source is complete and utter customizabillity. Whatever you need, it either exists or anybody can add it. The only people who see this as a bad thing are those who believe that the microsoft created world where "users don't want to know, choice scares users" etc. are a good thing, or at least an irrevocably bad thing. In the days of dos, everybody worked quite pleasantly on the command line, every computer on earth was customized as far as it could go, batch files, menu apps you name it. Then came windows, and here just a little over ten years later, we have a generation of computer users who think changing the desktop background is beyond them. I believe that state of things is wrong. Microsoft created it willfully, exploiting their authoritive voice to essentially tell people:"you are too stupid to own a computer, don't touch anything, you'll break the expensive equipment." And people believed them. I say, the computer belongs to the one who pays for it. It is a tool designed to do it's owners bidding. It must adapt to it's owners UNIQUE needs and preffered working style. Every single customization that cannot be done, no matter how hard to imagine, is a failure on the part of software developers as a whole. Our lifelong goal should be to reach the point where nobody on earth has to live without a customization he wants ever. That is a noble goal.
Some people like click-to-focus, some people like focus-follows-mouse, some like KDE, some (like me) think ION is the best thing since sliced bread, and they all should be able to get what they like. Linux is the only operating system remotely able to deliver that - and I will oppose all who (like you) are suggesting we remove it.
I hope as CTO that you use a spell checker before sending out memos. I hope you have the logic skils to realize that I take my work a lot more seriously than/.
But let me get this straight, your company is the second largest OSS company in your country but the largest on the continent. Is your country on your continent?
Apparently I was wrong about those logic skills. Think about it, inside this country, we have a smaller turnabout and fewer employees than they do. But they don't do business outside this country at all. Thus on the rest of the continent they don't count, and we are larger than everybody else in any of those countries. Also, while our turnabout/employee numbers inside this country is smaller than theirs, on the continent as a whole, our turnabout/employees are almost five times as many. We are the biggest OSS company on the continent by a long stretch, but they have a bigger slice of the specific local market in one country than we do (the only case where that is true, and only because they are one of the oldest OSS companies in the world).
And is your continent Antarctica? If you had finished highschool, you would know that Antarctica has no countries, thus ruling it out as a possible guess. Don't worry, only six to go - you're sure to guess write sooner or later. But if I felt like discussing my continent, I would have told you which one it was. The point is moot, hence not worthy of further reply.
And by the way, you are not an engineer. According to your own statements, your are a CTO. You are a manager. Do not disrepect actual engineers by calling yourself one
You obviously have no idea what being an engineer means. Most engineers in other fields sooner or later end up managing other people. Do they cease to be engineers when they're success in the field is rewarded with promotion ? My official title is C.T.O, but I only spend about five percent of my time on managerial work. I am in charge of all design, developement and production. I created our processes, I wrote our design guidelines and coding style rulesets. And I spend many hours of the week writing actual code to complete those designs, writing the first draft documentation so the professional docwriters will have some idea of what to say etc.
Computers don't fit neatly into one category, there are in fact at least three: Engineering: The act of applying science to real world problems - most application programs, device drivers etc, can be said to be works that fit this definition.
Theoretical science: What we traditionally think of computer science, where we learn about datastructures, common algorythms etc. And more importantly design new ones. Theoritical computer science creates the theories, engineering happens when it is used.
Experimental science: Most people don't realize this but there is a very important experimental aspect to computer science, generally called "hacking code". The shunning of this action (which is prevalent in this discussion) is equivalent to a theoritical physisist who shuns the use of particle accelerators to determine whether quarks behave as predicted...they never do that.
In short: Theorists: Predicted Quarks, Meson and other quantum particles as well as particle states. Experimenters: Confirmed the above using experimental processes. Engineers: Applied the knowledge, gave us the cat-scanner. Of course the first two steps happen in reverse order all the time, the latter however, is always last.
Theorists: Thought up the balanced tree structure. Experimenters/Hackers: Wrote balanced tree based algorythms for wierd things. Engineers: Applied the knowledge of theory and hacks, then wrote ReiserFS.
Is it so hard to understand really ?
My job involves a lot of all three, everyday. So yes, at least some of the time I am an egineer, and the other things mentioned - like claiming responsibility etc. although not actually in any way part of engineering - I do that too. If my personel wrote bad code - I am the one who would take the flack, because it is my job to ensure that they don't.
I wrote my first computer program at the age of 9. It was a silly hello world, but I was in love. I churned out code almost everyday for the rest of my life (at some cost to my prior to that excellent grades) and loved it ever more with each day. I learned about all the theories you mention, and milions you don't. I learned the principles of AI and Alife, of database management, and device drivers.
I learned it all by devouring every book I could get my hands on. Later, by usurping the internet, and largely bu just damnwell figuring it out for myself.
But I came from a poor family. I got to finish highschool, and there was no money for college, my now average grades earned my no bursaries, and according to the goverment I wasn't needy enough.
So I got a job on a hel-desk, worked myself to death, coding at night.
After two years, I stepped out of the huge corporation, and into a small coding-house, where I stayed for another year.
Now at the age of 23 I am Chief Technology Officer for seccond the largest OSS company in my country specifically, the largest on the continent as a whole. I manage two hundred technicians, spread over fourty offices, I developed the software I use to keep track of it.
I have a severe quality asurance system. My bosses never interfere with the technical side of the businesss, they handle money, I handle tech, and our product is the best of it's kind in the world - none of our competitors have survived because they just couldn't keep up with what I know.
Now, after the fact I am studying for a C.S. degree by correspondence. I have never had a class, never had time to open a book, and aced ever subject for the past two years.
Everything you mention can also be learned on your own. It takes ten times the dedication, ten times the effort and ten times the time. I started at age nine where most code-monkeys begin at age 19. But don't tell me it can't be done.
I outearn most graduates because I know more than them. I have both the theory and the experience, and I got it the hard way, I never had a proffessor to teach me. Even now I am doing the degree for the paper, they haven't taught me anything yet nor has the exams given me a hint that they could have.
I will be damned if I do not get to call myself an engineer. I worked myself into a near coma (and once into a small but actual nervous breakdown) to get there without the cash for university. I will not have my achievement shunned because there are VB-monkeys and MCSE's out there.
I can hold my own with any licensed engineer in my field, because of sheer hard work. Why am I less deserving ? Why does my effort count less than his ? But people like that would love to rip the title from me, after all it means less competition in the job-market.
I am an engineer. Engineering whatever/.'rs may believe is defined as: The act of applying scientific knowledge to solving real world problems. That is my job, every day of my life I solve real world problems by applying computer science to them. My lack of formal training gives me an edge, because it allows me to go beyond that though, I do not apply only C.S. I apply C.S. in conjunction with phylosophy, linguistics and many other fields in which I have varying degrees of training but sufficient interest to learn.
Our education system will be complete, when (As in the Orson Scott Card books) anyone even a three year old, can take any exam asuming only that a prior graduate has had a preliminary interview with the person and ensured that he or she is understands the nature of the profession, the knowledge for it can be left to the examiner. In short, neither age nor money nor background should ever be allowed to prevent somebody from being fully recognized for their expertise.
I can say that, because it took me a hell of a long time to prove that I do in fact know these things, because nobody would let me write the damn exams without paying for the classes, classes that has long since ceased to having anything to teach me.
I doubt you believe me but that luckilly is not my concern, my bosses do, they can see it by the profit margin on the products I create.
And that day the spirits of Turing and Von Neumann spoke unto Moore of Intel granting him insight and wisdomn to understand the future. And Moore was with chip and he brought forth the chip and named it 4004. And Moore did bless the chip saying: "Thou art a breakthrough, with my own corporation have I fabricated thee. Thou art yet as small as a dust mote, yet shall thou grow and replicate unto the size of a mountain and conquer all before thee. This blessing I give unto thee: Every eighteen months shall thou double in capacity, until the end of the age." This is Moores law, which endures to this day.
Do not mess with our religion:-)
Untill the end of the epoch, Amen.
PS. With thanks to a source which I hope is obvious.
Where's the surprize ?
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Everbody knows that after Woz left, apples don't do anything, so they do it just as well after you bake them....big surprize.
Move along, nothing to see here.
P.S. I rather like apples, so I believe I have the right to joke about them a little. This is not intended to be flamebait.
I was talking about the kind of fans you would use to cool your house if you live (like me) in the subtropics. Think 17" steel blades attached to a 100KW motor.
And I wasn't comparing the cooling we got, just pointing out that his method also got good results.
When the average room temperature is 35+ in a place, CPU lives are allready shortened, if you overclock them at that, you start frying eggs on the cases. Hence our severe overkill in cooling - round here, it's not really that much overkill.
Everyday I see UPS's switches and other expensive things overheating and literally melting unless you took extreme cooling precautions - I'm talking sticking about aircon's in the cabinet for some places.
I hear you. My previous system was heavilly overclocked, and ran very hot. The solution ? I took a standard desk fan (the type you use to cool yourself) mounted the box on a pair of legs, removing the bottom, and stuck the fan in there blowing upwards. Heat preffers the upwards route anyway, and I had a 200 RPM fan helping it out that way.
The old Mobo ran all well and good at about 14 Deg C - in summer time, thats about 20 degrees cooler than room temperature in this country.
Of course it was a huge noisemaker.
A friend of mine cooled his box by mounting a radiator fan from a car to the side of it, ran at about 18 degrees, and the radiator fans have a pretty decent noise filter built in.
So there you go. The best cooling for an overclocker (who doesn't mind some noise) is a HUGE fan powered from the outside. Of course I should add since I upgraded to my athlon I have not overclocked again, and cannot speak for newer cpu's.
On a serious note, this is still too novel for anybody to think about it insightfully (at least in the way/.'ers define the term). I mean sci-fi gave us years of phylosophy on cloning to think about before we had to deal with the concept for real.
I sure aint never read about the human printer in a sci-fi story. Truth is also we know that it's early days yet. They would need something with a much greater capacity for layered printing before this is more than a science novelty.
Frankly the concept just lends itself very well to humour so we joke. Insightfull and Interesting posts require you to have shown insight into the ramifications of the tech first - and frankly there just wasn't time. How many insightful comments on September 11 did you hear before September 12 (allthough of course not a lot of people joked about that one, but nobody was being insightful either)...come to think of it, the only insightfull response to 9/11 I have read so far was on the EFF website.
More's the pity that everything I have seen on a.gov website would (if it was a slashdot comment) have deserved to be modded either redundant or troll.
But I digress, point is I think it's just there has been no time for insight into this tech yet. But it takes 2 secconds to remember 'wierd science' - which was a comedy. Nobody ever seriously thought this could happen, so nobody ever seriously thought about it at all.
Aaaah. But you got it spelled wrong anyways, correctly written the name would use only the letters/pictograms/binary symbols from the Ancient Language, The divine language spoken throughout the universe since before time was time.
Been done. It's called G.W. Bush...only one of the asses involved is on the wrong end of it's digestive system and is currently spewing crap at it's fellow americans.
" Hillary Rosen is little more than a spokesperson/figurehead" Eh, don't you mean snurf gun target ? Hey somebody call the international legion of pie throwers...the mpeg will go beautifully next to the one of Bill getting splotched...
Jeez, now I am a troll for thinking questioning a mod ? You know today was the first time in over three years of slashdotting I ever got modded down. What the hell, I got karma to burn, do your worst moronaters.
The old SCO used to hand out a free version (which could only handle two simultaneous incoming network connections) of UnixWare 7 at trade shows.
I think I got about six copies. Then I installed one, played with it for a week. Decided it totally suxored in it's inadequacy and stuck debian back on the box.
Somebody should suggest to them that the reason they are not making money is not that other people are using the same ideas they had, but that other people actually use it to DO SOMETHING.
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Here is yet another nice trick to cut boottimes.
/etc/rc.d/init.d and edit the files for the services you do actually use.
/etc/rc.sysinit alone for this one.
At the cost of a (slightly) slower initial runspeed at least.
I am asuming you have allready DISABLED/UNINSTALLED all the services you don't actually need.
Now head into
Be carefull here, this should ONLY be done for daemons that you run like mysql or httpd not system processes. For one thing, leave
Now you are in the startup script for your first server 'k. Go the section for start. If it calls a function, go to that function. Find the line that actually calls the server process.
Stick an ampersand(&) at the end of it.
I hear you ask: why on earth put a service in the background, isn't it there allready ?
Yes my friends services RUN in the background, but they don't normally start there. And your distro patiently waits for it to finish starting before going on. What you are doing here is to put it in the background right from the getgo. The server initializes as a background process now. That way the system can keep going, running the next bootup script - until eventually it fires up your terminal/display manager.
The catch is that because you put service startup in the background, you may not actually be able to access mysql or whatever for a few secconds after bootup. And your first few secconds after the login comes up, some resources may still be busy starting servers, but that should end very fast.
One big hint, never do this with XFS or a display manager. If you try to start X without XFS fully loaded it buggers (this is especially likely with display managers running) and dm's hate to launch from the background (don't ask me why).
But you seem to have missed my point. 15 years ago the mother two did not pay the techie to install her drivers. She read the manual with her new hardware, and typed the dos command herself.
.bat files customized to order her different apps the way she likes them ordered.
15 years ago, the mother of two had read the dos users guide, and set up a nice tiered application menu using
Then windows came on the scene, and we are left with a generation of people who believe themselves to be idiots. I am not saying everybody is or should be a geek.
I dissagree with you on what is user friendly. True userfriendlyness is very easy to define.
I human have a personal working style suited to my personality. My computer follows that style exactly.
Yes this means that users will need to first teach the computer what their style is like, but that does not have to be so bad. The core thing I am saying is that while they mother of two need not be a technologists, it is inexcusable for her to be a technophobe. Bill Gates crime is that he encourages technophobia - people who are scared of their computers will buy his mathematically impossible claim that THIS IS HOW IT WORKS AND THAT IS BEST FOR EVERYBODY.
Here is the essence: choice is never bad for anybody - in fact it is the crucial ellement of having your computer adapt to you instead of vice versa.
What we need to be doing is to ensure that the choices are easier to make. Get rid of those stupid windows-like menus, and give us a system that makes choosing the right app for the task quick and painless. There have been some good ideas on that in this thread.
When you want to write a CD, the system should present the options for doing it with, along with a brief description of which task each is best at and the best overall should be shown as recommended.
Whichever the user chooses then becomes the default next time, unless the user reading the briefs, realizes that for todays work, program X will be better than program Y.
We dont need to remove choice, we need to remove the guesswork from choice.
Instead of scrapping remote desktops, why not integrate them into the GUI - there should be a simple button somewhere that says:
Remote App
When you mouse over it should inform you thus:
Run commands from another machine on your lan.
When you click it, it should present you with a browsable list of machines on your lan, AND the option to type in a hostname.
Then it should ask you for a username and password. do xhost+ $REMOTE_HOST ssh into it, and present the default applauncher menu from the remote machine (or a launch menu based on its content) so you can launch your app.
Voila, X networking usefull for the mother of two.
There is no such thing as a useless feature, basic statistics will tell you that somebody somewhere needs it. There are features that are too hard to use, but that means the GUI needs to be improved, not the features removed.
Actually there is such a word, but you all got it wrong.
:-)
Presidence, would be the state in which you find yourself when you preside over something.
E.G. A company chairman can be said to have presidence over a board meeting.
This is correct grammer, allthough it will make you *sound* stupid. It is far better therefore to just say that the Chairman presided over the meeting.
I struggle to find an example where the word presidence could be used, without an easier replacement.
Just being a tad pedantic
Sorry man, but you just don't get what choice actually means.
:"you are too stupid to own a computer, don't touch anything, you'll break the expensive equipment."
Choice means EVERY single user can get ANY feature HE wants.
Choice means nobody tells you how your desktop should look.
Choice is why I can run Mandrake at work, Slack at home, Debian on my servers.
All the things you want to ditch are needed.
Networking code, such an absolute waste hey. Tell that to ltsp.org - considdering that right there Linux has entered several huge markets because pretty much nothing else out there can do what we can, and you want to scrap the essential feature that made it possible ?
All these X features you don't use - OTHER people DEPEND ON. How can you claim to promote choice if you are suggesting the removal of every innovation you do not use yourself ?
Do that and we have become microsoft version 2.
"From the needs of all our users, we picked the once most frequently asked for, then implemented a lowest common denominator operating system based on that".
Sorry man, the single most important technical innovation of open-source is complete and utter customizabillity. Whatever you need, it either exists or anybody can add it.
The only people who see this as a bad thing are those who believe that the microsoft created world where "users don't want to know, choice scares users" etc. are a good thing, or at least an irrevocably bad thing.
In the days of dos, everybody worked quite pleasantly on the command line, every computer on earth was customized as far as it could go, batch files, menu apps you name it.
Then came windows, and here just a little over ten years later, we have a generation of computer users who think changing the desktop background is beyond them. I believe that state of things is wrong.
Microsoft created it willfully, exploiting their authoritive voice to essentially tell people
And people believed them.
I say, the computer belongs to the one who pays for it. It is a tool designed to do it's owners bidding. It must adapt to it's owners UNIQUE needs and preffered working style.
Every single customization that cannot be done, no matter how hard to imagine, is a failure on the part of software developers as a whole.
Our lifelong goal should be to reach the point where nobody on earth has to live without a customization he wants ever.
That is a noble goal.
Some people like click-to-focus, some people like focus-follows-mouse, some like KDE, some (like me) think ION is the best thing since sliced bread, and they all should be able to get what they like. Linux is the only operating system remotely able to deliver that - and I will oppose all who (like you) are suggesting we remove it.
That download.com story should have include this program the best program ever written in that category.
Parent funny :-)
Try this one as well cute.
I hope as CTO that you use a spell checker before sending out memos. /.
I hope you have the logic skils to realize that
I take my work a lot more seriously than
But let me get this straight, your company is the second largest OSS company in your country but the largest on the continent. Is your country on your continent?
Apparently I was wrong about those logic skills.
Think about it, inside this country, we have a smaller turnabout and fewer employees than they do. But they don't do business outside this country at all. Thus on the rest of the continent they don't count, and we are larger than everybody else in any of those countries. Also, while our turnabout/employee numbers inside this country is smaller than theirs, on the continent as a whole, our turnabout/employees are almost five times as many. We are the biggest OSS company on the continent by a long stretch, but they have a bigger slice of the specific local market in one country than we do (the only case where that is true, and only because they are one of the oldest OSS companies in the world).
And is your continent Antarctica?
If you had finished highschool, you would know that Antarctica has no countries, thus ruling it out as a possible guess. Don't worry, only six to go - you're sure to guess write sooner or later. But if I felt like discussing my continent, I would have told you which one it was. The point is moot, hence not worthy of further reply.
And by the way, you are not an engineer. According to your own statements, your are a CTO. You are a manager. Do not disrepect actual engineers by calling yourself one
You obviously have no idea what being an engineer means. Most engineers in other fields sooner or later end up managing other people. Do they cease to be engineers when they're success in the field is rewarded with promotion ?
My official title is C.T.O, but I only spend about five percent of my time on managerial work. I am in charge of all design, developement and production. I created our processes, I wrote our design guidelines and coding style rulesets.
And I spend many hours of the week writing actual code to complete those designs, writing the first draft documentation so the professional docwriters will have some idea of what to say etc.
Computers don't fit neatly into one category, there are in fact at least three:
Engineering: The act of applying science to real world problems - most application programs, device drivers etc, can be said to be works that fit this definition.
Theoretical science: What we traditionally think of computer science, where we learn about datastructures, common algorythms etc. And more importantly design new ones. Theoritical computer science creates the theories, engineering happens when it is used.
Experimental science: Most people don't realize this but there is a very important experimental aspect to computer science, generally called "hacking code". The shunning of this action (which is prevalent in this discussion) is equivalent to a theoritical physisist who shuns the use of particle accelerators to determine whether quarks behave as predicted...they never do that.
In short:
Theorists: Predicted Quarks, Meson and other quantum particles as well as particle states.
Experimenters: Confirmed the above using experimental processes.
Engineers: Applied the knowledge, gave us the cat-scanner. Of course the first two steps happen in reverse order all the time, the latter however, is always last.
Theorists: Thought up the balanced tree structure.
Experimenters/Hackers: Wrote balanced tree based algorythms for wierd things.
Engineers: Applied the knowledge of theory and hacks, then wrote ReiserFS.
Is it so hard to understand really ?
My job involves a lot of all three, everyday. So yes, at least some of the time I am an egineer, and the other things mentioned - like claiming responsibility etc. although not actually in any way part of engineering - I do that too.
If my personel wrote bad code - I am the one who would take the flack, because it is my job to ensure that they don't.
End Rant.
I take it we will not be seeing your GF modeling the apparel in question ?
Forgive the cliche but...
It would be da bomb.
*wink*
Well your litle bash script don't run.
:-)
:-)
First it told me that the : is an unknown identifier, then after removing first one, then both colons, it died even more beautifully.
Sorry pal
grep -i $BLONDE;date;
cd ~;touch;finger;mount;uptime;umount;sleep
It's fun and it can run
Because some of us could never afford it.
/.'rs may believe is defined as: The act of applying scientific knowledge to solving real world problems.
I wrote my first computer program at the age of 9.
It was a silly hello world, but I was in love.
I churned out code almost everyday for the rest of my life (at some cost to my prior to that excellent grades) and loved it ever more with each day.
I learned about all the theories you mention, and milions you don't. I learned the principles of AI and Alife, of database management, and device drivers.
I learned it all by devouring every book I could get my hands on. Later, by usurping the internet, and largely bu just damnwell figuring it out for myself.
But I came from a poor family. I got to finish highschool, and there was no money for college, my now average grades earned my no bursaries, and according to the goverment I wasn't needy enough.
So I got a job on a hel-desk, worked myself to death, coding at night.
After two years, I stepped out of the huge corporation, and into a small coding-house, where I stayed for another year.
Now at the age of 23 I am Chief Technology Officer for seccond the largest OSS company in my country specifically, the largest on the continent as a whole.
I manage two hundred technicians, spread over fourty offices, I developed the software I use to keep track of it.
I have a severe quality asurance system. My bosses never interfere with the technical side of the businesss, they handle money, I handle tech, and our product is the best of it's kind in the world - none of our competitors have survived because they just couldn't keep up with what I know.
Now, after the fact I am studying for a C.S. degree by correspondence. I have never had a class, never had time to open a book, and aced ever subject for the past two years.
Everything you mention can also be learned on your own. It takes ten times the dedication, ten times the effort and ten times the time. I started at age nine where most code-monkeys begin at age 19. But don't tell me it can't be done.
I outearn most graduates because I know more than them. I have both the theory and the experience, and I got it the hard way, I never had a proffessor to teach me. Even now I am doing the degree for the paper, they haven't taught me anything yet nor has the exams given me a hint that they could have.
I will be damned if I do not get to call myself an engineer. I worked myself into a near coma (and once into a small but actual nervous breakdown) to get there without the cash for university. I will not have my achievement shunned because there are VB-monkeys and MCSE's out there.
I can hold my own with any licensed engineer in my field, because of sheer hard work. Why am I less deserving ? Why does my effort count less than his ? But people like that would love to rip the title from me, after all it means less competition in the job-market.
I am an engineer. Engineering whatever
That is my job, every day of my life I solve real world problems by applying computer science to them. My lack of formal training gives me an edge, because it allows me to go beyond that though, I do not apply only C.S. I apply C.S. in conjunction with phylosophy, linguistics and many other fields in which I have varying degrees of training but sufficient interest to learn.
Our education system will be complete, when (As in the Orson Scott Card books) anyone even a three year old, can take any exam asuming only that a prior graduate has had a preliminary interview with the person and ensured that he or she is understands the nature of the profession, the knowledge for it can be left to the examiner.
In short, neither age nor money nor background should ever be allowed to prevent somebody from being fully recognized for their expertise.
I can say that, because it took me a hell of a long time to prove that I do in fact know these things, because nobody would let me write the damn exams without paying for the classes, classes that has long since ceased to having anything to teach me.
I doubt you believe me but that luckilly is not my concern, my bosses do, they can see it by the profit margin on the products I create.
This one is in the EU, where socialist policies have no compunctuation about just grabbing MS's cash. That'd work, too.
My your just begging for someone to make an "In Soviet Russia" joke now aren't you....
But I do agree, wipe out the dark lords of redmond, one desktop at a time (or should that be one lawsuit at a time ?)
And that day the spirits of Turing and Von Neumann spoke unto Moore of Intel granting him insight and wisdomn to understand the future. And Moore was with chip and he brought forth the chip and named it 4004. And Moore did bless the chip saying: "Thou art a breakthrough, with my own corporation have I fabricated thee. Thou art yet as small as a dust mote, yet shall thou grow and replicate unto the size of a mountain and conquer all before thee. This blessing I give unto thee: Every eighteen months shall thou double in capacity, until the end of the age." This is Moores law, which endures to this day.
:-)
Do not mess with our religion
Untill the end of the epoch, Amen.
PS. With thanks to a source which I hope is obvious.
Everbody knows that after Woz left, apples don't do anything, so they do it just as well after you bake them....big surprize.
Move along, nothing to see here.
P.S. I rather like apples, so I believe I have the right to joke about them a little. This is not intended to be flamebait.
You seem to have misunderstood me a litle.
I was talking about the kind of fans you would use to cool your house if you live (like me) in the subtropics.
Think 17" steel blades attached to a 100KW motor.
And I wasn't comparing the cooling we got, just pointing out that his method also got good results.
When the average room temperature is 35+ in a place, CPU lives are allready shortened, if you overclock them at that, you start frying eggs on the cases. Hence our severe overkill in cooling - round here, it's not really that much overkill.
Everyday I see UPS's switches and other expensive things overheating and literally melting unless you took extreme cooling precautions - I'm talking sticking about aircon's in the cabinet for some places.
I hear you.
My previous system was heavilly overclocked, and ran very hot.
The solution ?
I took a standard desk fan (the type you use to cool yourself) mounted the box on a pair of legs, removing the bottom, and stuck the fan in there blowing upwards.
Heat preffers the upwards route anyway, and I had a 200 RPM fan helping it out that way.
The old Mobo ran all well and good at about 14 Deg C - in summer time, thats about 20 degrees cooler than room temperature in this country.
Of course it was a huge noisemaker.
A friend of mine cooled his box by mounting a radiator fan from a car to the side of it, ran at about 18 degrees, and the radiator fans have a pretty decent noise filter built in.
So there you go. The best cooling for an overclocker (who doesn't mind some noise) is a HUGE fan powered from the outside.
Of course I should add since I upgraded to my athlon I have not overclocked again, and cannot speak for newer cpu's.
Funny indeed.
But what sort of geek are you using 3ds files ?
Real geeks print text based hotties
Does this show the /. mentality ? Yip.
/.'ers define the term). I mean sci-fi gave us years of phylosophy on cloning to think about before we had to deal with the concept for real.
.gov website would (if it was a slashdot comment) have deserved to be modded either redundant or troll.
On a serious note, this is still too novel for anybody to think about it insightfully (at least in the way
I sure aint never read about the human printer in a sci-fi story. Truth is also we know that it's early days yet. They would need something with a much greater capacity for layered printing before this is more than a science novelty.
Frankly the concept just lends itself very well to humour so we joke. Insightfull and Interesting posts require you to have shown insight into the ramifications of the tech first - and frankly there just wasn't time.
How many insightful comments on September 11 did you hear before September 12 (allthough of course not a lot of people joked about that one, but nobody was being insightful either)...come to think of it, the only insightfull response to 9/11 I have read so far was on the EFF website.
More's the pity that everything I have seen on a
But I digress, point is I think it's just there has been no time for insight into this tech yet. But it takes 2 secconds to remember 'wierd science' - which was a comedy. Nobody ever seriously thought this could happen, so nobody ever seriously thought about it at all.
I've been outgeeked...oh the horror the horror.
Aaaah.
But you got it spelled wrong anyways, correctly written the name would use only the letters/pictograms/binary symbols from the Ancient Language, The divine language spoken throughout the universe since before time was time.
You mean lilo ...and no.
Lilo was grown from genes using cell duplication.
Does bring up an interesting movie idea...drumroll please
Lexmark Park
Atack of the copied copywrite laywers.
Been done.
It's called G.W. Bush...only one of the asses involved is on the wrong end of it's digestive system and is currently spewing crap at it's fellow americans.
No slashdotters [d]evolved from mucus monsters.
Ancient terrible lizzard like monsters probably evolved into Jack Valenity.
" Hillary Rosen is little more than a spokesperson/figurehead"
Eh, don't you mean snurf gun target ? Hey somebody call the international legion of pie throwers...the mpeg will go beautifully next to the one of Bill getting splotched...
Well what can we say ?
Ding dong the witch is dead
Which old witch ?
the wicked old witch !!!
Ding dong the witch is dead the witch is dead....
Jeez, now I am a troll for thinking questioning a mod ?
You know today was the first time in over three years of slashdotting I ever got modded down.
What the hell, I got karma to burn, do your worst moronaters.
The old SCO used to hand out a free version (which could only handle two simultaneous incoming network connections) of UnixWare 7 at trade shows.
I think I got about six copies. Then I installed one, played with it for a week. Decided it totally suxored in it's inadequacy and stuck debian back on the box.
Somebody should suggest to them that the reason they are not making money is not that other people are using the same ideas they had, but that other people actually use it to DO SOMETHING.
Stupid Corporate Operations.