I'd argue against anyone trying to classify my use of fuel as "frivolous" or otherwise. If I want to buy a hundred gallons of gasoline and burn it on my rural property, it's no one's damn business but me and the folks downwind. If Chuck the party kid wants to drive 100 miles in a weekend for no reason whatsoever, thats fine too. People are far to willing to give up their freedoms or use taxes to price people out of exercising their freedoms.
The only way to make a significant change to this "unnecessary" fossil fuel consumption is to provide a more efficient and more attractive alternative. If it's cheaper for me to drive an electric Jeep that performs as well as (or better than) my gasoline guzzling Jeep, I'll be first in line to upgrade. Otherwise, the tree huggers can mind their own damn business. Real change will only happen when there is a better commercial alternative... they won't get any support from me by limiting my freedom to waste however much fuel I damn well please.
Here's a little tidbit that most people don't realize...
The Sun JVM implementation implements it's own DNS caching for any name resolution done by the networking APIs. By default the TTL for cached entries is... FOREVER. Not only that, but they will cache NEGATIVE LOOKUPS, so that if your resolution fails the first time it will fail forever.
The only solution is to restart your app (duh) or set the TTL as a system property on JVM startup.
I personally spent a few minutes staring at the monitor in shock when I first found this behavior by debugging a problem all the way down to the Java API source. Boggles the mind. Everyone else I've read who've 'discovered' this little known problem have had similar reactions.
This is unrelated to the TTL issue discussed in the article, but I try to take every opportunity possible to scream 'WTF Sun!?!?'
Yeah, that's a great idea, I'll resurrect an old 386 with a 11 year old linux distribution, put it on the net, and watch all 11 years of security holes get exploited! yay!
I don't recommend that anyone put any of those distro's on a network without a pretty restrictive firewall, but then again, I'm one of those idiots that run a crap load of boxen at home with no firewalls at all. Heck, my passwords are 3-5 characters, that should be secure enough!
Dude, if you already have a Neil Peart, you have no need for a Peter Criss. I don't know if you dig them, but Dream Theater's drummer is exceptionally kind to fans and one of the best rock drummers I've ever seen live. Long live Mike Portnoy!
I swear, if NASA awakens Cthulu, Shub-Niggurath, or any evil Fungi from Yuggoth I'm going to be mighty... uh... angry. I don't want to be eaten by any cosmic evil, not yet, not at least until my own evil grows powerful enough to counter it.
Thats right, I'm here to give Pitr a run for his money.
Yeah, but music streams are easily buffered, I don't know how much I want to time delay response from a scapel cut. I think the point with remote surgery is make things as instantanious as possible and be aware of any network delays that crop up, rather than buffering the connection for continuity.
Now if you played Twisted Sisters 'Under The Blade' with no buffering and the surgeon could hear any skips, that may be useful.
Let me tell you, this crap is uber annoying. It's enough to make me want to shut down the Messaging service, or at least get off my rear end and set up a firewall. Hell, ZoneAlarm should be able to block out the WinPopUp spam, but there will always be schmoes like me too lazy to protect their home networks for these guys to annoy...
If I can use this thing to finally pump MP3's off an NFS or samba mount on a server through my surround sound home theater out the optical 5.1 connector it will be well worth the money. I simply can't wait for decent MP3 playing software that lets you navigate playlists with the Dualshock controller and switches to full screen visualizations with the touch of a button.
Rather than building a new box that won't match my existing stereo components, using the PS/2 for this will be absolutely perfect... no new hardware required.
Skyline is definately great grub, I eat it regularly, I'm just saying for part of the population it causes foul and mysterious odors. One of my brother's ex-girlfriends works at the Skyline in Hamilton and the bill is usually an order of magnitude smaller than it should be. Reason enough to eat there.:)
I didn't realize that this was the same Bradley Kuhn that posted to the one.net newsgroups. It's a small, small world.
LaRosa's is a close second, but they actually HAVE a LaRosa's in my town. I guess that makes it the best pizza within an 30 minute drive.:)
If a fearless reader is fortunate enough to spend any time in Cincinnati, a pizza from Adriatico's is definately on the agenda.
When I was an undergrad at the University of Cincinnati my physics professor would order in Adiaticos when my small honors class would take exams... that was my first experience with Adriatico's... grrreeeaat pizza.
Unless you want to spend the evening on the toilet, I suggest you stay away from both Skyline and Gold Star. Cincinnati chili is good, but a bit purging.:)
I don't know about speed numbers (everything I've done server side has been extremely fast) but development time is great with JSP/Servlet/EJB. It's easy to build a great OO design, implement it, and deploy it on gobs of web/app servers.
It's really a shame Sun is giving Java such a bad name around hard core GNU/Linux peeps. It's such a pretty, robust, fun environment to code in.
Try it. You'll like it. Or you'll vomit.
Maybe it's the fact that I'm unemployed, my dot com folded, and today for the first time in what seems like years I got up at 6 AM so I could make it to an 8AM interview at a consulting firm. Maybe it's that I just finished reading The Lord of the Rings from my hardback Houghton Mifflin Co collectors edition I got for Christmas a year ago. Maybe I'm just a sappy, sentimental fool who has read The Lord of the Rings at least once a year ever since he discovered "The Hobbit" in his elementary school library in third grade. Whatever the case may be, I drag my techie butt out of bed to drink a Dew and check/. before I shower and sell my soul to corporate America, and what do I find? The Lord of the Rings trailer has been released. I watch in awe, thanking my maker for DSL.
This has got to be the most anticipated movie of my lifetime. Of course it will never live up to my expectations. As literature so often points out, it's the longing to have something that is the best experience. I don't know if thats true, but if it is Peter Jackson has just given me 11 months of bliss.
I have a buddy who knew absolutely nothing about Linux or any other Unix flavor, he was a self taught Win95 monkey. (no college, no training at all, plays lots of games tho:) ) Linuxgruven came in to town and offered him a network engineer job if he got a certification, so he took a month of nightly Linuxgruven training classes and started on the SAIR tests. I've been helping him study (he needs a Linux box to study on, and my skill with google exceeds his:) ) and the tests don't look too bad. By far the toughest is the Networking test, which he's failed 3 times. His score keeps improving, and I'm certain the next time he takes it he'll pass.
The moral of the story is that Linuxgruven takes a bunch of knuckleheads (my buddy was at the top of his training class) and gives them a month long introduction to Linux. Some of these guys truly are knuckleheads and have NO chance of passing, but my buddy with a bit of hard work is going to pass all the SAIR tests just two months after he first logged in to a Linux box.
You have to know some details, and they have questions about netstat, arp, route, ifconfig, ipchains, kernel modules, samba, apache, anon ftp, sendmail, etc... but if you've been working with Linux for 3 years and you review the material covered by the tests, you shouldn't have a problem.
A friend of mine was in line last night at 9PM for a PS2. He and a friend where able to pick up 2 at the local Walmart... they didn't go on sale until 7AM and they ended up sleeping on concrete, but it wasn't a bad deal. Some people unplugged the pop machines and hooked up a TV and an N64... that along with the cooler of beer made it a party...
Anyway, he started his eBay auctions last week, made sure they ended this morning, and sold one for $1000 and one for $1600. He was getting email like crazy and made phone contact with the final buyers before he ended the auction... one guy is FedExing the check and the other guy is paypal'n the payment through.
All in all it's a sweet deal and he would have been an idiot not to do it... $2k profit for 1 nights work... and the work was sitting around outside for a few hours.
You sort of feel bad that there is less to go around for the local kids, but on the other hand, he was able to make $$ off of Sony's hype. Why not?
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Obviously you've never seen my toilet seat.
I'd argue against anyone trying to classify my use of fuel as "frivolous" or otherwise. If I want to buy a hundred gallons of gasoline and burn it on my rural property, it's no one's damn business but me and the folks downwind. If Chuck the party kid wants to drive 100 miles in a weekend for no reason whatsoever, thats fine too. People are far to willing to give up their freedoms or use taxes to price people out of exercising their freedoms.
The only way to make a significant change to this "unnecessary" fossil fuel consumption is to provide a more efficient and more attractive alternative. If it's cheaper for me to drive an electric Jeep that performs as well as (or better than) my gasoline guzzling Jeep, I'll be first in line to upgrade. Otherwise, the tree huggers can mind their own damn business. Real change will only happen when there is a better commercial alternative... they won't get any support from me by limiting my freedom to waste however much fuel I damn well please.
Here's a little tidbit that most people don't realize...
The Sun JVM implementation implements it's own DNS caching for any name resolution done by the networking APIs. By default the TTL for cached entries is... FOREVER. Not only that, but they will cache NEGATIVE LOOKUPS, so that if your resolution fails the first time it will fail forever.
The only solution is to restart your app (duh) or set the TTL as a system property on JVM startup.
I personally spent a few minutes staring at the monitor in shock when I first found this behavior by debugging a problem all the way down to the Java API source. Boggles the mind. Everyone else I've read who've 'discovered' this little known problem have had similar reactions.
This is unrelated to the TTL issue discussed in the article, but I try to take every opportunity possible to scream 'WTF Sun!?!?'
You bastards! Thanks for cutting my chances of winning an iPod down 100x.
... and you call yourself 'nerds'.
A quick Google for "java MD5" gives a code example in the first hit, http://www.bombaydigital.com/arenared/2003/10/10/1
Think before you whine.
... and I thought the military created SkyNet...
Yeah, that's a great idea, I'll resurrect an old 386 with a 11 year old linux distribution, put it on the net, and watch all 11 years of security holes get exploited! yay!
I don't recommend that anyone put any of those distro's on a network without a pretty restrictive firewall, but then again, I'm one of those idiots that run a crap load of boxen at home with no firewalls at all. Heck, my passwords are 3-5 characters, that should be secure enough!
Dude, if you already have a Neil Peart, you have no need for a Peter Criss. I don't know if you dig them, but Dream Theater's drummer is exceptionally kind to fans and one of the best rock drummers I've ever seen live. Long live Mike Portnoy!
I sincerely enjoyed seeing Roger Water's screw up the lyrics to 'Mother' on stage in Indianapolis in '99 or '00. That was fantastic.
Thats right, I'm here to give Pitr a run for his money.
evilmoe
Yeah, but music streams are easily buffered, I don't know how much I want to time delay response from a scapel cut. I think the point with remote surgery is make things as instantanious as possible and be aware of any network delays that crop up, rather than buffering the connection for continuity.
Now if you played Twisted Sisters 'Under The Blade' with no buffering and the surgeon could hear any skips, that may be useful.
Oh well, time to go to work.
Rather than building a new box that won't match my existing stereo components, using the PS/2 for this will be absolutely perfect... no new hardware required.
It's stupid shit like this that makes me want to throw my computers out the window and become a construction worker.
I didn't realize that this was the same Bradley Kuhn that posted to the one.net newsgroups. It's a small, small world.
LaRosa's is a close second, but they actually HAVE a LaRosa's in my town. I guess that makes it the best pizza within an 30 minute drive. :)
When I was an undergrad at the University of Cincinnati my physics professor would order in Adiaticos when my small honors class would take exams... that was my first experience with Adriatico's... grrreeeaat pizza.
Unless you want to spend the evening on the toilet, I suggest you stay away from both Skyline and Gold Star. Cincinnati chili is good, but a bit purging. :)
I think it's only a matter of time till /. opens popups to poopsex.com when you try and close your browser...
They call me Moe
I don't know about speed numbers (everything I've done server side has been extremely fast) but development time is great with JSP/Servlet/EJB. It's easy to build a great OO design, implement it, and deploy it on gobs of web/app servers. It's really a shame Sun is giving Java such a bad name around hard core GNU/Linux peeps. It's such a pretty, robust, fun environment to code in. Try it. You'll like it. Or you'll vomit.
And tears well up in my eyes... it's like the first time I heard Yes play The Revealing Science of God live...
This has got to be the most anticipated movie of my lifetime. Of course it will never live up to my expectations. As literature so often points out, it's the longing to have something that is the best experience. I don't know if thats true, but if it is Peter Jackson has just given me 11 months of bliss.
The moral of the story is that Linuxgruven takes a bunch of knuckleheads (my buddy was at the top of his training class) and gives them a month long introduction to Linux. Some of these guys truly are knuckleheads and have NO chance of passing, but my buddy with a bit of hard work is going to pass all the SAIR tests just two months after he first logged in to a Linux box.
You have to know some details, and they have questions about netstat, arp, route, ifconfig, ipchains, kernel modules, samba, apache, anon ftp, sendmail, etc... but if you've been working with Linux for 3 years and you review the material covered by the tests, you shouldn't have a problem.
moe
If I hear another journalist talk about Microsoft's "source codes" I think I'm going to kill myself. What's up with that?
The subject says it all... :)
Anyway, he started his eBay auctions last week, made sure they ended this morning, and sold one for $1000 and one for $1600. He was getting email like crazy and made phone contact with the final buyers before he ended the auction... one guy is FedExing the check and the other guy is paypal'n the payment through.
All in all it's a sweet deal and he would have been an idiot not to do it... $2k profit for 1 nights work... and the work was sitting around outside for a few hours.
You sort of feel bad that there is less to go around for the local kids, but on the other hand, he was able to make $$ off of Sony's hype. Why not?
OK... so I made most of it up. Sorry. :)