[Menlo Park, CA] Today, Epic Games, makers of the popular Unreal(tm) series of games, announced that its latest version, Unreal Tournament 2003, would include, in addition to open-source audio format Ogg Vorbis, the entire open-source office package, OpenOffice, build 632a. Lead developer Thomas Hunterson was quoted as saying "We decided to expand into the corporate market, where games are furtively played. We're hoping to open it up to a greater level of acceptance by introducing game modes like 'Capture the Profits' and 'Team Presentationwatch'. This is truly a new day for gaming"
for instance... try "news for nerds" in teoma. Should be a no-brainer. Slashdot. In google it's #1. Then, I tried "prairie dogz" (an online comic my friend does) No useful returns in teoma. Google gives it as first too results.
I don't know if it's teoma's limited search pool, or whether it's the search engine itself that's to blame, but I don't see it beating google in the near future.
VNC, which you can use anywhere you have a web browser, and I suppose, X-windows over LWP[?], and, well, God help me, but I've seen some pretty impressive results with Terminal Server.
Oh no! We might have to think about MANAGEMENT!
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Linus Does Not Scale
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First of, Linus is Right. There, I said it. Why?
Because 10 is the practical limit to the number of people any project manager can be expected to directly deal with. And five is 'almost perfect'. Now, I will agree that, from a technical standpoint, Linus might need a second, not just for the "Bus Factor", but also for sanity-checking sake, to help smooth out issues where others might complain that Linus is playing napoleon. "Well, Alan agrees with me, so suck it"
I also think that we need to start thinking of development along honest PM guidelines. And Linus is right, here again. The maintainers for the various modules should be accepting and testing packages. OR, we need a set of people who will be responsible for various functional units of kernel design, a Portability Penguin, a Process Penguin, a Memory Subsystem Penguin, a Filesystem Penguin, a Networking Penguin, &c, who collect patches from the various maintainers. An org. chart where any single node has more than ten connections is useless, just as Linus suggests. These various, and God Help me, Project Managers, would be responsible for accepting patches and making sure they worked with the more core systems, and that things should be checked from whatever the most central modules are to the rest. And it all needs to be documented. There needs to be a Documentation Penguin, too. Dear god, people. Maybe we should all go read the Mythical Man-Month or something.
But then, I'm a freak. You can't build a car in a Bazaar.
I'm raising my glass of vodka to Vladimir Ilyushin, the man who went before him, whose parachute failed to deploy, who returned not a hero, but an invalid. But still. the first.
Welcome to your new futuristic dystopia. Just for the record, I've read some of your books, but never bought them. I borrowed them from friends, or from the library. Li-bra-ry. Look it up, foamy-face. So I've read your works, but you don't have a red cent of my money. And all this happened before the internet. In-ter-net. Why don't you put down the keyboard or dict-a-phone or quill or whatever it is you're using, call your publisher and say "Hey, dipshits, why aren't you publishing my books in ebook format? I've found a market for it." Yeah, on the face of it, someone's publishing your works without your permission. That's wrong. Bla bla bla. But do you sue the post office when they deliver junk mail? Say that I were to whip out my line-O-type machine and set myself a few galleys of your work, print it up, and mail it to my friends. Who's at fault? Me, my friends, or the post office that delivered a piece of mail that had printed on the envelope "Copies of Harlan Ellison's Novel"? You'd say "Well, you, of course, you rat-faced jackass." and you'd be right. I printed it and used a public utility to distribute it. And, while ISPs and web sites that accept unmonitored content may be private companies, they have the status, for better or worse, of public utilities. Like the Post Office.
So, yes, we all want to read your books for free. And we do. At the library. Because nobody but 40-year-old bachelors who live with their parents read e-books. And if you shut down the libraries, I'm going to beat you over the head with Ray Bradbury.
--A pissed off fan
Go to one of the other offers, and accept. Then, go back and tell off every excreble middle-manager in your current job. Tell them in excruciating detail where, why, and how they moved the company in the wrong direction. Then, try your best to offer your co-workers as an existing well-honed team to your new employer.
Um. Just to complain on one point. The Registry IS set up like you suggest. All of the keys under HKEY_CURRENT_USER (or HKEY_USERS/) should store all of the application-specific user data. The data in these keys is kept in a separate USER registry file that is parsed when they log in. It only appears to be in the same place in REGEDIT.
Now, for my two cents:
The only time I've crashed W2K was while playing games. Now, before you complain that W2K shouldn't allow that, let's all ask ourselves "Who do I log in as to play DOOM?" Gotcha.
I do NT administration for, well, some web company I won't give the name of. I work with 4 Unix admins, and the sites break up in a similar manner, 4 unix sites for every 1 NT site. NT is cake. Once a month, I reboot things when they break. Sure, I use PCAnywhere to do it, or VNC when I'm away from my desk, which is an "additional product" I suppose, but all in all, I don't see a difference between the two. Java kills their systems, the occasional ODBC-using program kills mine. I've seen development from both ends, and on NT it seems to go faster and be more stable. Sure, it might not be as fast, but the recent changes to IIS 5 change that.
I hate to say it, but W2K is every bit as reliable as unix. The only bad things? There's no cron-like functionality (I'd like to run things more than once a day, Bill) And scripting support is god-awful (WSH? [and not that thing you use in IRIX] HAHAH! I wouldn't trust the scripting host alone with my grandmother, much less my web site) But to be honest, I don't need them unless something's broken.
Now, don't get me wrong... I use linux every day, and am fairly familiar with unix system administration, and to be perfectly honest, if there was "Adobe Photoshop for Linux" [shut up! gimp isn't the same- it is a hideous example of "commiteeware"], if Tribes2 ran on linux, and if Mozilla was DONE, then I would have a linux desktop, no problem. But until then, too bad. My main workstation is W2K. Despite what the AlphaServer and the Indigo behind me want. [note: okay, the indigo runs IRIX, but that's NMF]
You know, all of you self-righteous linux users say to yourselves "this sort of thing could never happen on unix because it has better security and none of this VBS scripting crap that microsoft has! My arse. It would be just as easy to write a shell script to do the exact same thing-- overwrite.jpg and.mp3 files, then e-mail itself to everyone in the user's address list (although, you'd have to have cases for pine, netscape, mutt, maybe elm....) but still, this is well within the realm of the possible. "But wait!", you say, "Linux has better file security!" Ha! Suppose you have a linux shop where all users have rights on an ?/stock_images/ directory, and read/write permissions on the files. Why shouldn't they? They use the files. They need to read and write to them. The designers need rights to the/htdocs directories on the web server. All the programmers have a shared mp3/ directory... and they've chmod g+rw on the files... Uh-oh! there goes all your work and all your Metallica tracks! "Now," you say, "Unix users won't run shell scripts from mail!" Ha! I remember getting.shar archives from people and saying to myself "what the hell!" and opening them. And then there were those mail messages designed to show animation on your VT-100 terminal. Get serious. The only reason unix users would be less susceptible is because they are more likely to see an.sh (or a.vbs) extension and say "hey... this looks a little odd" then page through the thing before running it. user education is the only issue. Not microsoft. If I write a worm in Perl, would you scream "someone should break Larry Wall's Legs!"
You know, it seems to me that if you can bend light with the gravity from a star or galaxy or planet or what-have-you, then you cannot say, as he does, that a photon has null gravitational mass. Sure, it might if you could get one to hold still while you weighed it. But photons move. And therefore have energy, which, as has been drilled into everyone's head, means they have what you might call an inertial mass, so he's just wrong. QED.
Geeks are ugly. Or, more to the point, people who sit around all day doing softare or electrical design, aren't usually the sort who live in their bodies. They tend to live in their heads, and sod all with that bag of flesh down below.
A search of dejanews came up with this quote, from a chemistry professor in Israel: "Actually, if the descriptions of the model that we got here were accurate, then there's a bigger problem than the lack of experimental evidence. As I understand it, the basic principle of the "hydrino" theory is that when the Bohr equation predicts something that contradicts the Schroedinger equation, we go with the Bohr equation. Since the Bohr equation is essentially an ad-hoc fit to the observed spectrum of the H atom, while the Schroedinger equation can be derived from first principles, I am a bit uneasy when someone presents me with a wave function that is inconsistent with the Schroedinger equation and expects me to believe that it's likely to be an accurate description of an atom's behavior. ----- Richard Schultz schultr@mail.biu.ac.il Department of Chemistry tel: 972-3-531-8065 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel fax: 972-3-535-1250 ----- "I don't know why you are wrong, but my data shows you are completely off." --Jed Rothwell, sci.physics.fusion, 21 Jul 1992 " Interesting, no?
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[Menlo Park, CA] Today, Epic Games, makers of the popular Unreal(tm) series of games, announced that its latest version, Unreal Tournament 2003, would include, in addition to open-source audio format Ogg Vorbis, the entire open-source office package, OpenOffice, build 632a. Lead developer Thomas Hunterson was quoted as saying "We decided to expand into the corporate market, where games are furtively played. We're hoping to open it up to a greater level of acceptance by introducing game modes like 'Capture the Profits' and 'Team Presentationwatch'. This is truly a new day for gaming"
for instance... try "news for nerds" in teoma. Should be a no-brainer. Slashdot. In google it's #1. Then, I tried "prairie dogz" (an online comic my friend does) No useful returns in teoma. Google gives it as first too results.
I don't know if it's teoma's limited search pool, or whether it's the search engine itself that's to blame, but I don't see it beating google in the near future.
VNC, which you can use anywhere you have a web browser, and I suppose, X-windows over LWP[?], and, well, God help me, but I've seen some pretty impressive results with Terminal Server.
First of, Linus is Right. There, I said it. Why?
Because 10 is the practical limit to the number of people any project manager can be expected to directly deal with. And five is 'almost perfect'. Now, I will agree that, from a technical standpoint, Linus might need a second, not just for the "Bus Factor", but also for sanity-checking sake, to help smooth out issues where others might complain that Linus is playing napoleon. "Well, Alan agrees with me, so suck it"
I also think that we need to start thinking of development along honest PM guidelines. And Linus is right, here again. The maintainers for the various modules should be accepting and testing packages. OR, we need a set of people who will be responsible for various functional units of kernel design, a Portability Penguin, a Process Penguin, a Memory Subsystem Penguin, a Filesystem Penguin, a Networking Penguin, &c, who collect patches from the various maintainers. An org. chart where any single node has more than ten connections is useless, just as Linus suggests. These various, and God Help me, Project Managers, would be responsible for accepting patches and making sure they worked with the more core systems, and that things should be checked from whatever the most central modules are to the rest. And it all needs to be documented. There needs to be a Documentation Penguin, too. Dear god, people. Maybe we should all go read the Mythical Man-Month or something.
But then, I'm a freak. You can't build a car in a Bazaar.
I'm raising my glass of vodka to Vladimir Ilyushin, the man who went before him, whose parachute failed to deploy, who returned not a hero, but an invalid. But still. the first.
well, crap:
they ARE available in ebook format
Welcome to your new futuristic dystopia. Just for the record, I've read some of your books, but never bought them. I borrowed them from friends, or from the library. Li-bra-ry. Look it up, foamy-face. So I've read your works, but you don't have a red cent of my money. And all this happened before the internet. In-ter-net. Why don't you put down the keyboard or dict-a-phone or quill or whatever it is you're using, call your publisher and say "Hey, dipshits, why aren't you publishing my books in ebook format? I've found a market for it."
Yeah, on the face of it, someone's publishing your works without your permission. That's wrong. Bla bla bla. But do you sue the post office when they deliver junk mail? Say that I were to whip out my line-O-type machine and set myself a few galleys of your work, print it up, and mail it to my friends. Who's at fault? Me, my friends, or the post office that delivered a piece of mail that had printed on the envelope "Copies of Harlan Ellison's Novel"? You'd say "Well, you, of course, you rat-faced jackass." and you'd be right. I printed it and used a public utility to distribute it. And, while ISPs and web sites that accept unmonitored content may be private companies, they have the status, for better or worse, of public utilities. Like the Post Office.
So, yes, we all want to read your books for free. And we do. At the library. Because nobody but 40-year-old bachelors who live with their parents read e-books. And if you shut down the libraries, I'm going to beat you over the head with Ray Bradbury.
--A pissed off fan
Go to one of the other offers, and accept. Then, go back and tell off every excreble middle-manager in your current job. Tell them in excruciating detail where, why, and how they moved the company in the wrong direction. Then, try your best to offer your co-workers as an existing well-honed team to your new employer.
Um. Just to complain on one point. The Registry IS set up like you suggest. All of the keys under HKEY_CURRENT_USER (or HKEY_USERS/) should store all of the application-specific user data. The data in these keys is kept in a separate USER registry file that is parsed when they log in. It only appears to be in the same place in REGEDIT. Now, for my two cents: The only time I've crashed W2K was while playing games. Now, before you complain that W2K shouldn't allow that, let's all ask ourselves "Who do I log in as to play DOOM?" Gotcha. I do NT administration for, well, some web company I won't give the name of. I work with 4 Unix admins, and the sites break up in a similar manner, 4 unix sites for every 1 NT site. NT is cake. Once a month, I reboot things when they break. Sure, I use PCAnywhere to do it, or VNC when I'm away from my desk, which is an "additional product" I suppose, but all in all, I don't see a difference between the two. Java kills their systems, the occasional ODBC-using program kills mine. I've seen development from both ends, and on NT it seems to go faster and be more stable. Sure, it might not be as fast, but the recent changes to IIS 5 change that.
I hate to say it, but W2K is every bit as reliable as unix. The only bad things? There's no cron-like functionality (I'd like to run things more than once a day, Bill) And scripting support is god-awful (WSH? [and not that thing you use in IRIX] HAHAH! I wouldn't trust the scripting host alone with my grandmother, much less my web site) But to be honest, I don't need them unless something's broken.
Now, don't get me wrong... I use linux every day, and am fairly familiar with unix system administration, and to be perfectly honest, if there was "Adobe Photoshop for Linux" [shut up! gimp isn't the same- it is a hideous example of "commiteeware"], if Tribes2 ran on linux, and if Mozilla was DONE, then I would have a linux desktop, no problem. But until then, too bad. My main workstation is W2K. Despite what the AlphaServer and the Indigo behind me want. [note: okay, the indigo runs IRIX, but that's NMF]
You know, all of you self-righteous linux users say to yourselves "this sort of thing could never happen on unix because it has better security and none of this VBS scripting crap that microsoft has! .jpg and .mp3 files, then e-mail itself to everyone in the user's address list (although, you'd have to have cases for pine, netscape, mutt, maybe elm....) but still, this is well within the realm of the possible. /htdocs directories on the web server. All the programmers have a shared mp3/ directory... and they've chmod g+rw on the files... Uh-oh! there goes all your work and all your Metallica tracks! .shar archives from people and saying to myself "what the hell!" and opening them. And then there were those mail messages designed to show animation on your VT-100 terminal. Get serious. The only reason unix users would be less susceptible is because they are more likely to see an .sh (or a .vbs) extension and say "hey... this looks a little odd" then page through the thing before running it.
My arse.
It would be just as easy to write a shell script to do the exact same thing-- overwrite
"But wait!", you say, "Linux has better file security!" Ha! Suppose you have a linux shop where all users have rights on an ?/stock_images/ directory, and read/write permissions on the files. Why shouldn't they? They use the files. They need to read and write to them. The designers need rights to the
"Now," you say, "Unix users won't run shell scripts from mail!" Ha! I remember getting
user education is the only issue. Not microsoft. If I write a worm in Perl, would you scream "someone should break Larry Wall's Legs!"
You know, it seems to me that if you can bend light with the gravity from a star or galaxy or planet or what-have-you, then you cannot say, as he does, that a photon has null gravitational mass. Sure, it might if you could get one to hold still while you weighed it. But photons move. And therefore have energy, which, as has been drilled into everyone's head, means they have what you might call an inertial mass, so he's just wrong. QED.
Geeks are ugly. Or, more to the point, people who sit around all day doing softare or electrical design, aren't usually the sort who live in their bodies. They tend to live in their heads, and sod all with that bag of flesh down below.
A search of dejanews came up with this quote, from a chemistry professor in Israel: "Actually, if the descriptions of the model that we got here were accurate, then there's a bigger problem than the lack of experimental evidence. As I understand it, the basic principle of the "hydrino" theory is that when the Bohr equation predicts something that contradicts the Schroedinger equation, we go with the Bohr equation. Since the Bohr equation is essentially an ad-hoc fit to the observed spectrum of the H atom, while the Schroedinger equation can be derived from first principles, I am a bit uneasy when someone presents me with a wave function that is inconsistent with the Schroedinger equation and expects me to believe that it's likely to be an accurate description of an atom's behavior. ----- Richard Schultz schultr@mail.biu.ac.il Department of Chemistry tel: 972-3-531-8065 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel fax: 972-3-535-1250 ----- "I don't know why you are wrong, but my data shows you are completely off." --Jed Rothwell, sci.physics.fusion, 21 Jul 1992 " Interesting, no?