I would never hire a sysadmin for sysadmins. Sysadmins can do their own sysadmining. Each can have their own server, or everyone can know the root password. In fact you can do a round robin system or just nominate one sysadmin to have the root password. Why would you want to get a doctor for doctors (beside one of the doctors) or using the car analogy, a driver for a busload of drivers?
If you have sysadmins admining different branches and you want a super sysadmin, you'd want a more senior admin, one who has used a diverse set of vertical and horizontal solutions.
"it may be racist to suggest that a nation that funded Bin Ladin, passed sensitive information to him, had top level meetings with him, recognized the Taliban, and was home to two of the 9/11 hijackers might not be trustworthy"
You mean the United States is a racist nation? No way!!
They're not. Honest. Just ask any black or indian dude.
I'm gonna so sue Atari. Their pacman game of 2600 showed pacman jumping out as 3D.
I suppose game designers will now include one 'breathtaking' scene in each game just to qualify putting it on the cover. So expect the framerate of one special stage in each game to be real choppy.
Wait till the apps and OS are old. There are times of the year when you need to upgrade things across the board. Use that to upgrade the hardware as well.
Case in point: Say all desktop machines are windows2000. Wait till its 2005 and both Windows and Office 2000 are about 5 years old and close to being not supported. Then get batches of new machines with WindowsXP and Office 2003. If you have CAL limits just auction the desktops around the same time. This is best at the beginning of the semester when students need to buy computers. This also allows you to just get machines with new OS and apps rather than worry about moving the OS and app licenses and selling the OS-less machines. PITA.
However if the whole campus is going towards a laptop model, just make hotspots everywhere and start out by letting the students use their laptops everywhere. Later you can mandate laptops for new students like some colleges. This will put all the desktops in disuse. Just sell em, no worries about CALS etc. You can swap the machines of the staff in the end, again by letting the OS and apps grow old enough not to be worth 'moving'.
Please dont forget to wipe drives before you auction them. Students can just use the stickers with serial keys when they reinstall the OS.
Send a message "Hey Nincompoop. Theres a guy whose applied and is waiting for an answer. Just send a message you dont want him".
Or more realistically just that the employer hasnt replied to the application and isnt likely to give you an interview. Also check employers' application to employment rate and post that to be sorted with. I dont want to white a cover letter for an employer who has had 2000 jobs posted and noone employed in the last year.
I know there exist 'white devils' and 'evil white people' in some African languages, but dont know the connections of 'black' and 'white'. I'm asian and we have black=shameful, evil too, but white isnt necessarily good. In fact I can think of two expressions in which white is used negatively. (Chim Safid), which is literally 'white eyes' and means stubborn in a negative way. (White face) means scared.
I wonder why in the English language 'white' is always good and 'black' is quite bad. It must make the language of english-speaking black people quite ironic.
Such linguistics blacken the face of european languages. Such niggardly use of language should be stopped.
"or risk losing the battle for the minds of Muslims"
Try not invading countries on false pretexts, imposing sanctions that kill millions of children, lifting embargoes that crush countries and being more fair with the palestinians.
No propaganda machine could possibly change the effects of the ground realities.
Come to think of it even the nonwallwart devices I have, really switch it down to mostly 12V. Opened up various machines: PCs step it down to 12V and -5v. Routers etc all step it down to 5V or 3.3V. So its just the TV/monitor, microwave and incadescent bulbs. Even bulbs can easily run with lower voltage if you remove their resistance. The bright halogen lights use 12v or less. LCD panels use about 25V in one spot, the rest are all 5V inside. Mircowaves and CRTs upconvert power to way above 110V anyway, theres no reason why they cant do that with a 12V input.
I think all electronics as they stand today can take 12V inputs. One can wire his house in this voltage. Even better would be a setup where you'd only use 5V electronics and the wall sockets would look like female USB plugs. In your average PC, it takes 12V too but I dont know where that gets used. The datasheets of the CPU, chipset, GPU, PCI/AGP busses, IDE connectors, USB connectors etc all show 5V at best. I think its more than 5V for the monitor connector and the RS232, but who uses RS232 anyway, and I suspect the DVI connector uses 5V at best.
Thats it. I'm building a USB-socket house. Even better we can build a central switch whereby all USB devices will be connectable to any host out there, so you can switch your living room dvd player to your pc in the bedroom for control through their power sockets (5V USB). Can also use the ethernet this way so you dont need an ethernet connector either.
Depending on the performance $900 may be worth it. They may not be able to sell that to 14 year olds, but if the cell is server-worthy and kicks the ass of Athlon64, its damn well worth the price. I'm thinking along the lines of using it as a PC as well.
Of course if all its good at is games, I'll wait till I find one for under $400 CAD
"Sleeping on a big decision, such as buying a car or house, is more likely to produce a result people remain happy with"
Obviously. We can place our decisions on inner desires or whats objectively good for us. Going with your gut feeling will make you happier... ask the mid-income guy with the ferrari.
There has been a recent surge in the cool factor of console gaming. However PC gaming will always be on the top. Heres why.
The cpu power per dollar is highest on wintel platforms due to the huge market. Thats part of the reason why Apple went to get Intel chips. You buy one machine and it does many other things, PVR, game machine, computer, dvd player... a given nonx86 console would be hard pressed to match what a PC can do... for the price. PCs also have the largest install base. Since no one company dominates the platform, its future is also guaranteed (I know MSFT dominates the OS market, but doesnt OWN the PC). So building games for the PC makes sense. Its really building a game for one console, and not for the PC that makes little sense. So far PCs also have the best array of available controls, from wheels and joysticks to the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse for FPS games. Make a good game for a PC... it'll sell. PCs are also more cutting edge. The best graphic cards and CPUs are available for it.
I guess the only console that can beat the PC is something thats really specialized for its game genres or one that is based on a PC (the older xbox comes to mind). Even that would be more expensive than walmart/dell/beige box PCs.
Most people will say FPGAs but thats different than real hardcore VLSI silicon.
I did such a search a while ago when I had an idea incorporating an ARM core and some other stuff. There are VLSI-named mailing lists or groups where I found the names of such companies who do provide this service. For low volume theyre really expensive mind you.
I forgot where I saw that but the prices put me off. Do your own googling before posting to slashdot.
Linux for example will run for a long time while support for it (as in knowledgeable people) will remain available. I think 20 years later people will still be easily capable of fixing kernel 2.6 issues. How many people do you know know how to fix issues with windows 3.1?
If you want the OS to change very little over time, BSDs are better at that. Expect OpenBSD to be around and to change little in 20-30 years. It'll change enough to accommodate the new hardware etc but thats it. How much has BSD changed in the past 25 years? Use NetBSD for embedded hardware.
But I still dont get what you meant by sustainability. The OS sustaining the hardware? The company supporting its OS? Community support?
Or even better limit the amount of memory FF uses. We can place a hard limit (100mb) and even have FF malloc the entire amount from the getgo for speed. It then uses the memory with no collisions or fragmentation while other heavy processes are running, and the other processes wont take a hit when you have 15 tabs open... especially on production solaris and rs6000 machines. (i know i know bad idea).
It only makes sense. They much prefer people to crack OSX and be all happy about it. For the same reason Microsoft is playing it easy against people and governments using its OS... so people remain stuck with it. I'm sure Jobs wants OSX to be 'out there' big enough to make a difference. He wanted slashdot readers to be all excited, fire up their torrents and start running and developing on OSX... people who wouldve not paid for it anyhow.
He owns the platform. He builds and sells the hardware. He has full control over the hardware's design. Remember people could never run OSX or macos 9 on IBM PPC machines. Remember you cant run the much older m68k macoses on cisco 2500 routers or ancient HP machines.
All you really have to do is change the whole addressing structure, change the boot location etc and add one or two (or remove legacy) gates between the CPU and northbridge to make it completely incompatible with PCs. Nobody could run DOS on the cisco PIX 501.
If he really wants OSX not to be leaked to PCs, then hes made a major design mistake. Apple Intel hardware is already out. He'll have to make another shift to a new x86 architecture and release OSX incompatible with current apple intel hardware... to get out of all this. I dont think hes that dumb. I think he intends to tackle Microsoft's market head-on.
Intel has changed a few names and are out in full force at the press conference.
Makes me wonder if thats the best theyre going to do... a nice new website and shedding the Pentium name which is over 15 years old. Also Viiv is a list of technologies for the home media. Does that mean like, a PVR, game console, mp3 player and quite possibly a podcaster? If yes, then Viiv is a small collection of stickers.
I'm pretty sure Intel can do more than that. With awesome fabs under their thumb, they'll find ways to get back at AMD. However they should get rid of their overzealous marketing department, and invest more in engineers. Release a quad core chip, that'll take my attention. Even better, an 8-core chip like Sun. Make a chip with the first 8MB of Ram built in as fast sram and possibly a reasonable GPU as well to make a real motherboard-on-a-chip, and sell it for under $50. Release the 10-gbit ethernet card for cheap and sell 100-gbit cards too. Release a compiler that is truly gcc-compatible, along with a Linux kernel compiled with it to prove it, and make a compiler that can really optimise code for 8+ cores with no problems. But dont give me a Solo Core Duo Core crap.
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I would never hire a sysadmin for sysadmins. Sysadmins can do their own sysadmining. Each can have their own server, or everyone can know the root password. In fact you can do a round robin system or just nominate one sysadmin to have the root password. Why would you want to get a doctor for doctors (beside one of the doctors) or using the car analogy, a driver for a busload of drivers?
If you have sysadmins admining different branches and you want a super sysadmin, you'd want a more senior admin, one who has used a diverse set of vertical and horizontal solutions.
"it may be racist to suggest that a nation that funded Bin Ladin, passed sensitive information to him, had top level meetings with him, recognized the Taliban, and was home to two of the 9/11 hijackers might not be trustworthy"
You mean the United States is a racist nation? No way!!
They're not. Honest. Just ask any black or indian dude.
Go around shooting cops and prostitutes and youll get rich. Learn it well.
I'm gonna so sue Atari. Their pacman game of 2600 showed pacman jumping out as 3D.
I suppose game designers will now include one 'breathtaking' scene in each game just to qualify putting it on the cover. So expect the framerate of one special stage in each game to be real choppy.
Linux isnt UNIX. FreeBSD isnt UNIX either.
Are these two taking market share away from UNIX?
Is Windows the top spot because BSD and Linux are different from Solaris and HPUX? Or because commercial UNIX is getting cheaper?
We'll just leave it to the persons.
Wait till the apps and OS are old. There are times of the year when you need to upgrade things across the board. Use that to upgrade the hardware as well.
Case in point: Say all desktop machines are windows2000. Wait till its 2005 and both Windows and Office 2000 are about 5 years old and close to being not supported. Then get batches of new machines with WindowsXP and Office 2003. If you have CAL limits just auction the desktops around the same time. This is best at the beginning of the semester when students need to buy computers. This also allows you to just get machines with new OS and apps rather than worry about moving the OS and app licenses and selling the OS-less machines. PITA.
However if the whole campus is going towards a laptop model, just make hotspots everywhere and start out by letting the students use their laptops everywhere. Later you can mandate laptops for new students like some colleges. This will put all the desktops in disuse. Just sell em, no worries about CALS etc. You can swap the machines of the staff in the end, again by letting the OS and apps grow old enough not to be worth 'moving'.
Please dont forget to wipe drives before you auction them. Students can just use the stickers with serial keys when they reinstall the OS.
Try making employers REPLY to jobs.
Send a message "Hey Nincompoop. Theres a guy whose applied and is waiting for an answer. Just send a message you dont want him".
Or more realistically just that the employer hasnt replied to the application and isnt likely to give you an interview. Also check employers' application to employment rate and post that to be sorted with. I dont want to white a cover letter for an employer who has had 2000 jobs posted and noone employed in the last year.
I'm sick of people who were asking for 5 years of Windows 2000 experience. ... in 2002.
And are now expecting at least 5 years of Windows 2003 experience.
"what do you really want in a jobs web site?"
Try Jobs.
And not the Apple type.
The OSX project need not put any links to maxxuss' website or anything else. All they need to do is post who made a patch and what version.
Google will do the rest.
I know there exist 'white devils' and 'evil white people' in some African languages, but dont know the connections of 'black' and 'white'. I'm asian and we have black=shameful, evil too, but white isnt necessarily good. In fact I can think of two expressions in which white is used negatively. (Chim Safid), which is literally 'white eyes' and means stubborn in a negative way. (White face) means scared.
Real men type 'date' in bash. The women move the mice to the lower right corner of the screen. Why do you need plastic wrapped around a limb?
Hmm.
I wonder why in the English language 'white' is always good and 'black' is quite bad. It must make the language of english-speaking black people quite ironic.
Such linguistics blacken the face of european languages. Such niggardly use of language should be stopped.
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Your linguistic white knight.
"or risk losing the battle for the minds of Muslims"
Try not invading countries on false pretexts, imposing sanctions that kill millions of children, lifting embargoes that crush countries and being more fair with the palestinians.
No propaganda machine could possibly change the effects of the ground realities.
Come to think of it even the nonwallwart devices I have, really switch it down to mostly 12V. Opened up various machines: PCs step it down to 12V and -5v. Routers etc all step it down to 5V or 3.3V. So its just the TV/monitor, microwave and incadescent bulbs. Even bulbs can easily run with lower voltage if you remove their resistance. The bright halogen lights use 12v or less. LCD panels use about 25V in one spot, the rest are all 5V inside. Mircowaves and CRTs upconvert power to way above 110V anyway, theres no reason why they cant do that with a 12V input.
I think all electronics as they stand today can take 12V inputs. One can wire his house in this voltage. Even better would be a setup where you'd only use 5V electronics and the wall sockets would look like female USB plugs. In your average PC, it takes 12V too but I dont know where that gets used. The datasheets of the CPU, chipset, GPU, PCI/AGP busses, IDE connectors, USB connectors etc all show 5V at best. I think its more than 5V for the monitor connector and the RS232, but who uses RS232 anyway, and I suspect the DVI connector uses 5V at best.
Thats it. I'm building a USB-socket house. Even better we can build a central switch whereby all USB devices will be connectable to any host out there, so you can switch your living room dvd player to your pc in the bedroom for control through their power sockets (5V USB). Can also use the ethernet this way so you dont need an ethernet connector either.
Possibilities...
Depending on the performance $900 may be worth it. They may not be able to sell that to 14 year olds, but if the cell is server-worthy and kicks the ass of Athlon64, its damn well worth the price. I'm thinking along the lines of using it as a PC as well.
Of course if all its good at is games, I'll wait till I find one for under $400 CAD
"Sleeping on a big decision, such as buying a car or house, is more likely to produce a result people remain happy with"
Obviously. We can place our decisions on inner desires or whats objectively good for us. Going with your gut feeling will make you happier... ask the mid-income guy with the ferrari.
There has been a recent surge in the cool factor of console gaming. However PC gaming will always be on the top. Heres why.
The cpu power per dollar is highest on wintel platforms due to the huge market. Thats part of the reason why Apple went to get Intel chips. You buy one machine and it does many other things, PVR, game machine, computer, dvd player... a given nonx86 console would be hard pressed to match what a PC can do... for the price. PCs also have the largest install base. Since no one company dominates the platform, its future is also guaranteed (I know MSFT dominates the OS market, but doesnt OWN the PC). So building games for the PC makes sense. Its really building a game for one console, and not for the PC that makes little sense. So far PCs also have the best array of available controls, from wheels and joysticks to the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse for FPS games. Make a good game for a PC... it'll sell. PCs are also more cutting edge. The best graphic cards and CPUs are available for it.
I guess the only console that can beat the PC is something thats really specialized for its game genres or one that is based on a PC (the older xbox comes to mind). Even that would be more expensive than walmart/dell/beige box PCs.
Most people will say FPGAs but thats different than real hardcore VLSI silicon.
I did such a search a while ago when I had an idea incorporating an ARM core and some other stuff. There are VLSI-named mailing lists or groups where I found the names of such companies who do provide this service. For low volume theyre really expensive mind you.
I forgot where I saw that but the prices put me off. Do your own googling before posting to slashdot.
They in turn reside on filesystems.
As an additional bonus, there are FOLDERS available to sort out your historic work.
I dont get your question.
Linux for example will run for a long time while support for it (as in knowledgeable people) will remain available. I think 20 years later people will still be easily capable of fixing kernel 2.6 issues. How many people do you know know how to fix issues with windows 3.1?
If you want the OS to change very little over time, BSDs are better at that. Expect OpenBSD to be around and to change little in 20-30 years. It'll change enough to accommodate the new hardware etc but thats it. How much has BSD changed in the past 25 years? Use NetBSD for embedded hardware.
But I still dont get what you meant by sustainability. The OS sustaining the hardware? The company supporting its OS? Community support?
Or even better limit the amount of memory FF uses. We can place a hard limit (100mb) and even have FF malloc the entire amount from the getgo for speed. It then uses the memory with no collisions or fragmentation while other heavy processes are running, and the other processes wont take a hit when you have 15 tabs open... especially on production solaris and rs6000 machines. (i know i know bad idea).
It only makes sense. They much prefer people to crack OSX and be all happy about it. For the same reason Microsoft is playing it easy against people and governments using its OS... so people remain stuck with it. I'm sure Jobs wants OSX to be 'out there' big enough to make a difference. He wanted slashdot readers to be all excited, fire up their torrents and start running and developing on OSX... people who wouldve not paid for it anyhow.
He owns the platform. He builds and sells the hardware. He has full control over the hardware's design. Remember people could never run OSX or macos 9 on IBM PPC machines. Remember you cant run the much older m68k macoses on cisco 2500 routers or ancient HP machines.
All you really have to do is change the whole addressing structure, change the boot location etc and add one or two (or remove legacy) gates between the CPU and northbridge to make it completely incompatible with PCs. Nobody could run DOS on the cisco PIX 501.
If he really wants OSX not to be leaked to PCs, then hes made a major design mistake. Apple Intel hardware is already out. He'll have to make another shift to a new x86 architecture and release OSX incompatible with current apple intel hardware... to get out of all this. I dont think hes that dumb. I think he intends to tackle Microsoft's market head-on.
Intel has changed a few names and are out in full force at the press conference.
Makes me wonder if thats the best theyre going to do... a nice new website and shedding the Pentium name which is over 15 years old. Also Viiv is a list of technologies for the home media. Does that mean like, a PVR, game console, mp3 player and quite possibly a podcaster? If yes, then Viiv is a small collection of stickers.
I'm pretty sure Intel can do more than that. With awesome fabs under their thumb, they'll find ways to get back at AMD. However they should get rid of their overzealous marketing department, and invest more in engineers. Release a quad core chip, that'll take my attention. Even better, an 8-core chip like Sun. Make a chip with the first 8MB of Ram built in as fast sram and possibly a reasonable GPU as well to make a real motherboard-on-a-chip, and sell it for under $50. Release the 10-gbit ethernet card for cheap and sell 100-gbit cards too. Release a compiler that is truly gcc-compatible, along with a Linux kernel compiled with it to prove it, and make a compiler that can really optimise code for 8+ cores with no problems. But dont give me a Solo Core Duo Core crap.
(Typed on a Duo Core AMD machine)