Ah, but getting the case open without damaging
anything, that might be the rub. Given the size
of the thing, I wouldn't be terribly suprised if
it was rather a pain to get open given how tightly
it must be designed. Of course, only time will
tell (I'll let other people guinea pig that one;)).
It's kind of a moot point for me anyway, as their
price for the 512 upgrade isn't that far out of
line for what I'd expect a ram stick that size to go for, and nothing I'd be using a mini for would require more than that anyway.
Not to mention good taste in music, what with
the references to Front 242's Headhunter I
saw in the lower left of one of the Mac mini
pages (I don't remember which one and the
site is pretty slammed at the moment so I'm
disinclined to go looking again).
As somebody who uses postgres a lot, if you haven't done so already you should take a look at the configuration parameters (debian sticks them in/etc/postgres(ql?)/postgresql.conf or something like that). By default it usually ships with fairly conservative parameters, and you can tune it for much higher performance (albeit at the expense of using more ram). I seem to recall using
this
article to get started on that, though as with any database performancing tuning is a black art involving query optimization, schema optimization (table design, indexing, etc.), parameter optimization, and hardware tuning.
I agree that RHEL is overpriced (there's a reason
I lead the initiative at my company to convert all of our RH machines to debian...), but to be slightly more detailed, what kills you on the MSFT offering is CALs. Depending on what you're doing, that can get real expensive, real quick.
There are no simple problems, and by extension
no simple answers when it comes to society-large
problems like "education." I'm sure that in your
mind Things Were Better In The Olden Days (tm),
spare the rod/spoil the child and all that, but that isn't Interesting or Insightful, its trite bullshit.
You want a short list of the things that give the
US problems with education? Here you go: property
owners that don't want to pay adequate property
taxes to fund solid educational infrastructure,
teachers unions that resist any effots to hold
teachers to a high standard, parents that have three-letter babysitters (ABC, NBC, CBS, MTV, etc.), and students that are surrounded by role-models who are subpar academically and intellectually such as basically every sports star and politician. The system was not designed to
provide a high standard of academic excellence
to begin with, just good mill workers, and now its
had over a hundred years to atrophy and degrade.
Want to have a great school? Have a community that is willing to pay for it, hire good teachers with that money and don't let them get complacent in tenure, and have parents be involved with their kids' lives. With those three things, most any other educational barrier can be overcome other than outright stupidity in the child, which is rare compared to the organizational/infrastructural ills enumerated above.
We made the war unwinnable by the occupying limey forces by making it expensive (both in real and political capital) to continue it. It's the classic guerilla war scenario, wherein the guerrilas don't have to *win*, they just have to *not lose*. The viet cong pulled the same shit on us in 'Nam, then the mujahedeen pulled the same shit on the Soviets in Afghanistan, and now a bunch of irritated nationalists, islamists, and wannabe mujahedeen are doing it to us again in Iraq. Google around sometime for "asymmetrical conflict". AC tends to work better if there is a foreign power bankrolling the guerillas (e.g. Russia and China in vietnam, the us in afghanistan, and probably one or more of {Iran,Syria, elements of Jordanian society, elements of Saudi Arabian society,etc.} in Iraq:P), but it's not absolutely required for success.
Amen. I've managed to remain employed throughout
the entire downturn, moving from dot-com jobs on
to more traditional industries. I can't say that
it's been fun, but it's not this apocalyptic wasteland that some people like to describe. If you've got skills, a brain, and the willingness to work hard and adapt to any situation that comes your way, you'll never hurt for work IMHO. Sooner or later the winter of our discontent will end, good times will return, and those of us who stuck with it will be in that much better of a position to reap the benefits (and be wise enough to prepare for the next downturn, hello business cycle!).
Java was the same for server-side image generation until JDK1.4 (adding -Djava.awt.headless=true iirc is the fix).
Stupid? Totally. But sadly not rare...
The difference is that the.223 has one hell of
a larger powder charge behind it. It can sure
as shit ruin your day, even if it is smaller than
some other cartridges (the main reason it was
kept small was to increase the number of rounds
that could be carried).
Semiautomatic weapons do make it easy to have
a larger rate of fire, as there is no requirement
of external action before the next round is ready
(such as moving a bolt or similar). While not
as rapidly firing as automatic weapons, they are
usable in area denial/anti-crowd roles (e.g. when
you want to stalk from cubicle to cubicle pumping
round after round from your gas-operated semiautomatic AR-15 into the twitching bodies of
your coworkers.;)).
The ban was always fairly silly, and I say this as someone very left of center. The only portion that even made sense at all was the reduction of
magazine capabilities, which was a functional way to reduce the effective rate of fire of the weapons.
You're thinking of Tsar Bomba (The King of Bombs)
that the Soviets detonated. It's theoretical
yield was over 100MT, but as they only tested
two of the three stages, actual yield was in the
50-60 range (estimates vary from 51 to 57).
It is widely speculated for a number of reasons
that the weapon was more of a political gesture
than an actual weapon system intended for deployment.
But hey, don't forget, no matter what breaks,
falls over, catches on fire, blows up, or has a bad day during the reign of Bush II, it's Always Clinton's Fault! Members of your friendly neighborhood homeland security agency will be by shortly with the proper educational materials.
I think not having itchy bums from using
things like corn husks and such has probably
contributed more to world peace than any other
single human invention.;)
On the other hand, there is the question of
his actions being "speech," and in the
class of "speech" protected by the first amendment.
(I use quotes around speech because the Supreme Court has established precedents that delineate more
than the literal act of vocalizing words as "speech", such as Cohen v. California in the 70s.)
Precisely whether or not his actions fall into
that protected class and trumping the local charges
with federal law will, of course, be a matter for
the courts.
Personally I thought it was a neat hack, and
since I'm completely in sympathy with the protestors instead of the establishment, I'm
sorry to see him busted.
Read his links more closely. Ming is a library
to programmatically generate flash from any
number of languages (really a closer competitor to Generator than Flash MX, but that saves you even more money, so...).
Unisys sucks. I've known a number of people
who've had to work there to make ends meet
over the years, and to a (wo)man, they've all
described it as a really toxic environment
to work in, like a wanna-be EDS (which has
been described to me as the 7th circle
of IT hell).
Frankly, without even needing to RTFA, unless
something really unexpected is happening here,
this is just another example of a crass, stupid
company trying to cover itself in the magic
pixie dust of Linux or Open Source in the pursuit of a stock price bump.
It's easy to talk the talk, but few walk the walk.
I mean web page design is so easy these days that grade school kids can do it so why should I pay 50K to someone to do it?
You get what you pay for. I can design a
web page, using standards compliant, hand-tuned
code obeying a number of acronyms that would make
your head spin, but I'm a programmer. If you want
something that looks really good as well as
functions well, you need a good graphic designer.
Graphic design is such a tightly-coupled interaction between client and designer, and relies on so many subtle cultural cues, that if you outsource this you're asking for trouble.
Just my two cents as a professional working in the
field. (You also get what you pay for on the
back end, but that's a rant of a different color.)
your point 1), I agree with. My bachelors will
be in chemistry, but that hasn't stopped me from getting over five years of professional experience at this point. Employers seem to like people
that can solve problems.;)
your point 2), you probably meant GHWB. I don't think that GHWB's rather anemic economic policies can fully or even partially explain the boom of the 90s. If anything, the economy sucked
pretty well through '94, two years after he'd left
office. I'm not sure what Sen. Kerry's service
in Vietnam has to do with this. Re: alternative
energy: (a) ford just announced a hybrid,
the japanese makers pretty much all have at least
one hybrid model at this point. (b)There's a lot of
argument in science about fusion, especially the
Big Physics establishment that seems to have gathered and self-perpetuated around that area of research in the last fifty years. Too many egos
and careers are tied up in that for some to look
in directions other than multi-ton fusion testbeds, and those "some" typically run departments and otherwise hold positions of power.
Re: Sen. Kerry's "flipflopping", IMHO it's
high time we had somebody in office willing to
change course if something isn't working, rather
than stupidly and doggedly tilting at whatever windmill seems
useful, poltically convenient, or profitable.
*shrug* you started off good, but somewhere
in there derailed into a rant.;)
(actually, with the increasing sophistication
of implanted prosthetics like pacemakers and
such... someday it very well might.
"root@heart# echo 60 >/proc/sys/heart/bpm" )
Just a word of warning, the 3ware 9000 series
are a little problematic in linux right now.
Apparently a driver is going to go in 2.6.8. Until this is stable, you're probably better off with a 7500 or 8500 series card. (I built a ~1TB raid server for work with a 3ware 7506 and it worked like a charm, and a coworker built a home fileserver with an 8000 series sata card with good success.)
Subject pretty much says it all. That
was also the time I ssh'd to work to check
out a bug that I'd gotten emailed, for a telecommute
distance of a little over eight thousand miles. Dealing with that much latency required an almost Zen level of patience, which I guess was kind of appropriate given where I was.
Even if the browser can't get to systems-level stuff, there are still plenty of bad things it could do to or with your data, if the browser is running
as your user and all that. Credit card numbers, financial data of any sort, corporate documents, love letters, blah blah... all of those things have intrinsic value that is independent of their lack of "function" in a systems sense.
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Ah, but getting the case open without damaging anything, that might be the rub. Given the size of the thing, I wouldn't be terribly suprised if it was rather a pain to get open given how tightly it must be designed. Of course, only time will tell (I'll let other people guinea pig that one ;)).
It's kind of a moot point for me anyway, as their
price for the 512 upgrade isn't that far out of
line for what I'd expect a ram stick that size to go for, and nothing I'd be using a mini for would require more than that anyway.
Not to mention good taste in music, what with the references to Front 242's Headhunter I saw in the lower left of one of the Mac mini pages (I don't remember which one and the site is pretty slammed at the moment so I'm disinclined to go looking again).
As somebody who uses postgres a lot, if you haven't done so already you should take a look at the configuration parameters (debian sticks them in /etc/postgres(ql?)/postgresql.conf or something like that). By default it usually ships with fairly conservative parameters, and you can tune it for much higher performance (albeit at the expense of using more ram). I seem to recall using
this
article to get started on that, though as with any database performancing tuning is a black art involving query optimization, schema optimization (table design, indexing, etc.), parameter optimization, and hardware tuning.
I agree that RHEL is overpriced (there's a reason I lead the initiative at my company to convert all of our RH machines to debian...), but to be slightly more detailed, what kills you on the MSFT offering is CALs. Depending on what you're doing, that can get real expensive, real quick.
There are no simple problems, and by extension no simple answers when it comes to society-large problems like "education." I'm sure that in your mind Things Were Better In The Olden Days (tm), spare the rod/spoil the child and all that, but that isn't Interesting or Insightful, its trite bullshit.
You want a short list of the things that give the US problems with education? Here you go: property owners that don't want to pay adequate property taxes to fund solid educational infrastructure, teachers unions that resist any effots to hold teachers to a high standard, parents that have three-letter babysitters (ABC, NBC, CBS, MTV, etc.), and students that are surrounded by role-models who are subpar academically and intellectually such as basically every sports star and politician. The system was not designed to provide a high standard of academic excellence to begin with, just good mill workers, and now its had over a hundred years to atrophy and degrade.
Want to have a great school? Have a community that is willing to pay for it, hire good teachers with that money and don't let them get complacent in tenure, and have parents be involved with their kids' lives. With those three things, most any other educational barrier can be overcome other than outright stupidity in the child, which is rare compared to the organizational/infrastructural ills enumerated above.
We made the war unwinnable by the occupying limey forces by making it expensive (both in real and political capital) to continue it. It's the classic guerilla war scenario, wherein the guerrilas don't have to *win*, they just have to *not lose*. The viet cong pulled the same shit on us in 'Nam, then the mujahedeen pulled the same shit on the Soviets in Afghanistan, and now a bunch of irritated nationalists, islamists, and wannabe mujahedeen are doing it to us again in Iraq. Google around sometime for "asymmetrical conflict". AC tends to work better if there is a foreign power bankrolling the guerillas (e.g. Russia and China in vietnam, the us in afghanistan, and probably one or more of {Iran,Syria, elements of Jordanian society, elements of Saudi Arabian society,etc.} in Iraq :P), but it's not absolutely required for success.
Amen. I've managed to remain employed throughout the entire downturn, moving from dot-com jobs on to more traditional industries. I can't say that it's been fun, but it's not this apocalyptic wasteland that some people like to describe. If you've got skills, a brain, and the willingness to work hard and adapt to any situation that comes your way, you'll never hurt for work IMHO. Sooner or later the winter of our discontent will end, good times will return, and those of us who stuck with it will be in that much better of a position to reap the benefits (and be wise enough to prepare for the next downturn, hello business cycle!).
It's way too terse.
I wonder how many Centrises that equates to...
:)
At a guess, all of them.
*shrug* If you had better taste in music, ;)
perhaps your neighbors wouldn't be driven
to acts of property damage?
Java was the same for server-side image generation until JDK1.4 (adding -Djava.awt.headless=true iirc is the fix). Stupid? Totally. But sadly not rare...
The difference is that the .223 has one hell of
a larger powder charge behind it. It can sure
as shit ruin your day, even if it is smaller than
some other cartridges (the main reason it was
kept small was to increase the number of rounds
that could be carried).
;)).
Semiautomatic weapons do make it easy to have a larger rate of fire, as there is no requirement of external action before the next round is ready (such as moving a bolt or similar). While not as rapidly firing as automatic weapons, they are usable in area denial/anti-crowd roles (e.g. when you want to stalk from cubicle to cubicle pumping round after round from your gas-operated semiautomatic AR-15 into the twitching bodies of your coworkers.
The ban was always fairly silly, and I say this as someone very left of center. The only portion that even made sense at all was the reduction of magazine capabilities, which was a functional way to reduce the effective rate of fire of the weapons.
You're thinking of Tsar Bomba (The King of Bombs) that the Soviets detonated. It's theoretical yield was over 100MT, but as they only tested two of the three stages, actual yield was in the 50-60 range (estimates vary from 51 to 57). It is widely speculated for a number of reasons that the weapon was more of a political gesture than an actual weapon system intended for deployment.
more info here
But hey, don't forget, no matter what breaks, falls over, catches on fire, blows up, or has a bad day during the reign of Bush II, it's Always Clinton's Fault! Members of your friendly neighborhood homeland security agency will be by shortly with the proper educational materials.
And toilet paper!
I think not having itchy bums from using things like corn husks and such has probably contributed more to world peace than any other single human invention. ;)
Hey, thanks for the links!
On the other hand, there is the question of his actions being "speech," and in the class of "speech" protected by the first amendment. (I use quotes around speech because the Supreme Court has established precedents that delineate more than the literal act of vocalizing words as "speech", such as Cohen v. California in the 70s.) Precisely whether or not his actions fall into that protected class and trumping the local charges with federal law will, of course, be a matter for the courts.
Personally I thought it was a neat hack, and since I'm completely in sympathy with the protestors instead of the establishment, I'm sorry to see him busted.
Read his links more closely. Ming is a library to programmatically generate flash from any number of languages (really a closer competitor to Generator than Flash MX, but that saves you even more money, so...).
I have developed a really elegant perl script to do as you desire, but the comment box is too small and the lameness filter objected. :)
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Unisys sucks. I've known a number of people who've had to work there to make ends meet over the years, and to a (wo)man, they've all described it as a really toxic environment to work in, like a wanna-be EDS (which has been described to me as the 7th circle of IT hell).
Frankly, without even needing to RTFA, unless something really unexpected is happening here, this is just another example of a crass, stupid company trying to cover itself in the magic pixie dust of Linux or Open Source in the pursuit of a stock price bump. It's easy to talk the talk, but few walk the walk.
your point 1), I agree with. My bachelors will be in chemistry, but that hasn't stopped me from getting over five years of professional experience at this point. Employers seem to like people that can solve problems. ;)
your point 2), you probably meant GHWB. I don't think that GHWB's rather anemic economic policies can fully or even partially explain the boom of the 90s. If anything, the economy sucked pretty well through '94, two years after he'd left office. I'm not sure what Sen. Kerry's service in Vietnam has to do with this. Re: alternative energy: (a) ford just announced a hybrid, the japanese makers pretty much all have at least one hybrid model at this point. (b)There's a lot of argument in science about fusion, especially the Big Physics establishment that seems to have gathered and self-perpetuated around that area of research in the last fifty years. Too many egos and careers are tied up in that for some to look in directions other than multi-ton fusion testbeds, and those "some" typically run departments and otherwise hold positions of power. Re: Sen. Kerry's "flipflopping", IMHO it's high time we had somebody in office willing to change course if something isn't working, rather than stupidly and doggedly tilting at whatever windmill seems useful, poltically convenient, or profitable.
*shrug* you started off good, but somewhere in there derailed into a rant. ;)
(actually, with the increasing sophistication of implanted prosthetics like pacemakers and such... someday it very well might. "root@heart# echo 60 > /proc/sys/heart/bpm" )
Just a word of warning, the 3ware 9000 series are a little problematic in linux right now. Apparently a driver is going to go in 2.6.8. Until this is stable, you're probably better off with a 7500 or 8500 series card. (I built a ~1TB raid server for work with a 3ware 7506 and it worked like a charm, and a coworker built a home fileserver with an 8000 series sata card with good success.)
Subject pretty much says it all. That was also the time I ssh'd to work to check out a bug that I'd gotten emailed, for a telecommute distance of a little over eight thousand miles. Dealing with that much latency required an almost Zen level of patience, which I guess was kind of appropriate given where I was.
Even if the browser can't get to systems-level stuff, there are still plenty of bad things it could do to or with your data, if the browser is running as your user and all that. Credit card numbers, financial data of any sort, corporate documents, love letters, blah blah... all of those things have intrinsic value that is independent of their lack of "function" in a systems sense.