This isn't really a first amendment issue. You have the right to free speech. They (potentially) have a right to fire you. Fortunately for the employees in this case, unlike Texas where I live, Alabama is a right to work state which would prevent the city in this case from firing an employee for personal comments unless they exposed internal state affairs http://www.nrtw.org/c/alrtwlaw.htm. IANAL.
And this is the perfect example of why the citizens should be protective of their rights and not allow themselves to get bullied by the TSA or any like-minded organizations. Give someone too much power without checks and balances and your entire life can be put on hold and leave you in an extremely dangerous situation. But hey, what's one woman's life in exchange for a security blanket for the masses?
Yeah, when you're spending 16k+, what's another $1000 to have an under featured car stereo/mp3/ipod jack/bluetooth syncable system when you can get after market systems with in dash DVD players with the same options for the same price. A new sucker's born every minute.
are left in shock and awe as soon as consumers find a better option and flock away in huge numbers. There will be no customer loyalty for Google if we continue to get served up crap. A bunch of clicks now may see revenue for Google now, but they'll feel the bottom line fall out from under them like a hangman's trap when 60%-80% switch to another search engine that focuses more on the science of search than the profitability of it (like Google used to be).
Unbeknown to the plebeian masses, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have been secretly funding research to extend human life. Since the materials and techniques are too expensive to replicate to anything but a select group of individuals, Gates and Buffet have invited only the most elite in to the know under the condition that they give up lots of money. Unfortunately for them, this is only the icing of achievements for Gates and Buffet in the one game they love more than anything else, knowing how to hoodwink lots of money out of people by being one step ahead of them.
causing every website that uses Google Analytics and YouTube to take a horrendous time to load. It didn't used to be this way, but within the past year Google's non-search infrastructure has really not scaled very well.
I heavily use virtualization both at work and home. I originally had an ESXi 3.5 server at home but my RAID controller was an Areca ARC-1170 which is not on the VMWare Hardware Compatibility Guide so after reviewing the off-the-shelf community help I learned how to roll my own oem.tgz to include the drivers. The system worked for a while but I then started to experience a lot of stability issues so I switch to KVM running on Fedora.
Unfortunately KVM on Fedora has had a lot of issues with the virt-manager being stable. Right now I'm on Fedora 13 and every time I open the console on virt-manager for a specific VM it causes X to crash and reload. If I boot the VM up from scratch with the console open it's less buggy. I actually had this problem originally on Fedora 11 and am still experiencing it with 13 even from a fresh reload. Fortunately it's not really an issue for me because I can just ssh or use XMing to send my X related apps.
The biggest issue with virtualization is that host memory is your most precious resource. To solve this problem, OS drivers can be installed to support memory ballooning. What memory ballooning does is make sure the guest OS frees up memory resources it is not using to the host. If you're running a lot of Microsoft Windows I definitely recommend ESXi since there are no good memory ballooning drivers available in KVM or Xen and really no roadmap for it. If you're running a lot of Linux I highly recommend KVM since current distros already have the kernel features that make memory more efficient. In fact, it is advantageous to run a homogenous distribution (i.e. all distro-X version Y) because the latest kernels have memory deduplication which will cause memory pages that are the same to be only stored once.
It's likely that the poster was referring to day-to-day testing rather than the occasional acceptance testing you are referring to. I would also have to say that with enough creative thinking you can accomplish the first two items. With item number three, if you're taking the time to test for something that isn't in your coverage then that's the perfect time to go write an automated test for it.
Check out Capybara http://github.com/jnicklas/capybara complemented with the selenium webdriver. You can locally or remotely test any website in any flavor of web browser (great for that compatibility testing). Also the Cucumber team is doing a lot to make it work with Java,.Net, and a myriad of other languages.
First off, don't do non-automated testing. It's unnecessary. Do Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber http://cukes.info./ It's massively more fun than unit testing.
"In its statement on the SEC settlement the company played down Mr Dell's personal involvement, saying that his $4m penalty was not in connection with the accounting-fraud charges being settled by the company, but was "limited to claims in which only negligence, and not fraudulent intent, is required to establish liability, as well as secondary liability claims for other non-fraud charges."" --TFA
Yes, because a deal that represents anywhere up to 76% of the companies quarterly earnings is SO likely to not have had Mr. Dell's personal and close attention when the deal was brokered with Intel. Oh, and gosh golly, it really must have slipped his mind when he was reviewing the shareholder reports before they got submitted.
"Sorry about that negligence and those pesky SEC and their rules. Oh, and I can keep my job too because I f'ing said so (notice the company isn't called Shareholder Computer Corp). Sincerely, M. Dell."
Isn't it customary with other industries to issue re-call notices and for companies to partner with local repair businesses (which in this case could be on or off site service technicians) to repair or replace machines that get identified by customers as part of the recall? When will this be standard practice in the computer industry like it is in others?
the Star Wars kid is filing a suit against the Slashdot community for not building him a Millenium Falcon fort. In a recent interview Ghyslain Raza exclaims, ".. that is totally the coolest thing and all I got was this #@!%$^* iPod".
There's ton's of copyright infringing material all over the net. Check out Super Mario Bros Z or a simple google search. Most of them are well done, but I'm sure no-one asked Nintendo or Sega if it was okay.
Google must having something to hide by encrypting access to their servers. Fortunately that didn't stop the Chinese from invading their privacy. I seriously hope this was misquoted, because if it isn't, I have officially declared Google and evil company. I'm really disappointed.
One of the biggest targets for data de-duplication is for efficient off-site replication which you see in the EMC Avamar product line. This is advantageous when your WAN links aren't fast enough so that you can't do synchronous replication and a scheduled asynchronous replication would take too long. I'd like to see the SDSF storage engine be intelligent enough to snapshot the data, then when the next "backup/replication" occurs, it gathers up all the hashes of the blocks that have changed since the snapshot was created, communicates those hashes to the off-site system, and then transfer just the blocks that currently don't have a comparable hash on the target system, the target system receives a complete hash table update of the snapshot block difference from the source, and then both systems merge their snapshots and then take a new snapshot to get ready for the next replication cycle.
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This isn't really a first amendment issue. You have the right to free speech. They (potentially) have a right to fire you. Fortunately for the employees in this case, unlike Texas where I live, Alabama is a right to work state which would prevent the city in this case from firing an employee for personal comments unless they exposed internal state affairs http://www.nrtw.org/c/alrtwlaw.htm. IANAL.
A POS linux distro for a POS computer company.
And this is the perfect example of why the citizens should be protective of their rights and not allow themselves to get bullied by the TSA or any like-minded organizations. Give someone too much power without checks and balances and your entire life can be put on hold and leave you in an extremely dangerous situation. But hey, what's one woman's life in exchange for a security blanket for the masses?
Anybody who programs in Ruby/RoR uses either vi or Rubymine.
Yeah, when you're spending 16k+, what's another $1000 to have an under featured car stereo/mp3/ipod jack/bluetooth syncable system when you can get after market systems with in dash DVD players with the same options for the same price. A new sucker's born every minute.
are left in shock and awe as soon as consumers find a better option and flock away in huge numbers. There will be no customer loyalty for Google if we continue to get served up crap. A bunch of clicks now may see revenue for Google now, but they'll feel the bottom line fall out from under them like a hangman's trap when 60%-80% switch to another search engine that focuses more on the science of search than the profitability of it (like Google used to be).
Unbeknown to the plebeian masses, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have been secretly funding research to extend human life. Since the materials and techniques are too expensive to replicate to anything but a select group of individuals, Gates and Buffet have invited only the most elite in to the know under the condition that they give up lots of money. Unfortunately for them, this is only the icing of achievements for Gates and Buffet in the one game they love more than anything else, knowing how to hoodwink lots of money out of people by being one step ahead of them.
causing every website that uses Google Analytics and YouTube to take a horrendous time to load. It didn't used to be this way, but within the past year Google's non-search infrastructure has really not scaled very well.
I don't type on a freakin' iPad touchscreen keypad.
I heavily use virtualization both at work and home. I originally had an ESXi 3.5 server at home but my RAID controller was an Areca ARC-1170 which is not on the VMWare Hardware Compatibility Guide so after reviewing the off-the-shelf community help I learned how to roll my own oem.tgz to include the drivers. The system worked for a while but I then started to experience a lot of stability issues so I switch to KVM running on Fedora.
Unfortunately KVM on Fedora has had a lot of issues with the virt-manager being stable. Right now I'm on Fedora 13 and every time I open the console on virt-manager for a specific VM it causes X to crash and reload. If I boot the VM up from scratch with the console open it's less buggy. I actually had this problem originally on Fedora 11 and am still experiencing it with 13 even from a fresh reload. Fortunately it's not really an issue for me because I can just ssh or use XMing to send my X related apps.
The biggest issue with virtualization is that host memory is your most precious resource. To solve this problem, OS drivers can be installed to support memory ballooning. What memory ballooning does is make sure the guest OS frees up memory resources it is not using to the host. If you're running a lot of Microsoft Windows I definitely recommend ESXi since there are no good memory ballooning drivers available in KVM or Xen and really no roadmap for it. If you're running a lot of Linux I highly recommend KVM since current distros already have the kernel features that make memory more efficient. In fact, it is advantageous to run a homogenous distribution (i.e. all distro-X version Y) because the latest kernels have memory deduplication which will cause memory pages that are the same to be only stored once.
I've been talking about it for about a year now. I'm going to stop using MySQL and only use PostgreSQL from here on out.
It's likely that the poster was referring to day-to-day testing rather than the occasional acceptance testing you are referring to. I would also have to say that with enough creative thinking you can accomplish the first two items. With item number three, if you're taking the time to test for something that isn't in your coverage then that's the perfect time to go write an automated test for it.
Check out Capybara http://github.com/jnicklas/capybara complemented with the selenium webdriver. You can locally or remotely test any website in any flavor of web browser (great for that compatibility testing). Also the Cucumber team is doing a lot to make it work with Java, .Net, and a myriad of other languages.
First off, don't do non-automated testing. It's unnecessary. Do Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber http://cukes.info./ It's massively more fun than unit testing.
"In its statement on the SEC settlement the company played down Mr Dell's personal involvement, saying that his $4m penalty was not in connection with the accounting-fraud charges being settled by the company, but was "limited to claims in which only negligence, and not fraudulent intent, is required to establish liability, as well as secondary liability claims for other non-fraud charges."" --TFA
Yes, because a deal that represents anywhere up to 76% of the companies quarterly earnings is SO likely to not have had Mr. Dell's personal and close attention when the deal was brokered with Intel. Oh, and gosh golly, it really must have slipped his mind when he was reviewing the shareholder reports before they got submitted.
"Sorry about that negligence and those pesky SEC and their rules. Oh, and I can keep my job too because I f'ing said so (notice the company isn't called Shareholder Computer Corp). Sincerely, M. Dell."
Isn't it customary with other industries to issue re-call notices and for companies to partner with local repair businesses (which in this case could be on or off site service technicians) to repair or replace machines that get identified by customers as part of the recall? When will this be standard practice in the computer industry like it is in others?
the Star Wars kid is filing a suit against the Slashdot community for not building him a Millenium Falcon fort. In a recent interview Ghyslain Raza exclaims, ".. that is totally the coolest thing and all I got was this #@!%$^* iPod".
You'll notice that Google hasn't finished the federation stuff and what they currently have loses all data on restart.
I saw a live virtual machine migration across processor families and types. Wish they would release that tech soon rather than work on getting Xen support back.
support more than 2GB of RAM? Add any OS and the memory hungry Firefox and I'm already out of available RAM and the netbook is performing like crap.
I'd better prepare the tin foil to head off my 60Ghz allergy.
There's ton's of copyright infringing material all over the net. Check out Super Mario Bros Z or a simple google search. Most of them are well done, but I'm sure no-one asked Nintendo or Sega if it was okay.
Google must having something to hide by encrypting access to their servers. Fortunately that didn't stop the Chinese from invading their privacy. I seriously hope this was misquoted, because if it isn't, I have officially declared Google and evil company. I'm really disappointed.
How about you sell more database licenses because your users don't have to spend part of their budget on OS licenses?
One of the biggest targets for data de-duplication is for efficient off-site replication which you see in the EMC Avamar product line. This is advantageous when your WAN links aren't fast enough so that you can't do synchronous replication and a scheduled asynchronous replication would take too long. I'd like to see the SDSF storage engine be intelligent enough to snapshot the data, then when the next "backup/replication" occurs, it gathers up all the hashes of the blocks that have changed since the snapshot was created, communicates those hashes to the off-site system, and then transfer just the blocks that currently don't have a comparable hash on the target system, the target system receives a complete hash table update of the snapshot block difference from the source, and then both systems merge their snapshots and then take a new snapshot to get ready for the next replication cycle.