We used svn + \include. Our 10 page Engineering paper was divided into 6 files, one per chapter. 3 of us sat in the same room on our laptops and used the svn server on my dreamhost.com domain. We'd commit & update everytime we'd fix something up the way we liked. I must say it worked really well!
Polls opened at 7:00 AM, I was in line at 6:40 AM. We use "complete the arrow using this marker" paper ballots which are optically scanned. Everything was smooth this morning here in Wisconsin.
I've owned an iMacG5 for a little over 3 years now. The monitor is still great, but the single core 1.8 GHz G5 PPC processor is... not. I've maxed out the RAM and replaced the HD, but that's about all I can do. I'd love an option to buy a Mac Medium.... bigger than the (doomed?) Mini, yet not the $2500 Mac Pro.
I agree with you, but most companies like Best Buy have 14 day price protection. The guy posting the ads probably screwed up, but in reality only cost the amount of $$ from purchasers who wouldn't have gotten their partial refund.
I'd prefer they stay in business. If selling unidentifiable data to advertisers lets them create better ads by nuking the useless ones, then more power to them.
Usually to start a discussion. I'm guessing the majority of Slashdot's readership is on the younger side of the general population, and are probably just getting to the point where they help interview at their company.
Because I try to limit terminal widths for vim to a reasonable amount, just having the widescreen aspect helps a ton. It allows me to have multiple sessions open side-by-side, with the windows stretched to fill the entire height. 30" would seem I could tile them veritically as well as horizontally.
I've been using Python for scripting glue at work for about a year now, but I recently had a small side project come up that was better served having a web interface to a database. Like everyone else, I downloaded/installed Rails. I had given Django a peek, but given that this is a side project, I didn't have the time nor energy to keep up with a rapidly developing platform. Django's website cautions about framework upgrades until 1.0 when the base API will be locked, so I went with Rails. Other than learning yet-another-scripting-language, using Rails (without even really understanding it) hasn't been much of an issue.
Choice is both good and bad, in my opinion. It sounds like TurboGears and Django specialize in different things, when it would be preferred for occasional users like myself that there were one clear winner that was evangelized and well supported for all applications. Perhaps out of this competition this will happen for both platforms -- this is where choice is good!
I've always had it in the back of my mind that I could get hit in a layoff, so we have been *very* anal about keeping about 6-months of living expenses tucked away. I figure I could find a new job within a month or 2, so 6 months is a worst-case scenario. This is 6 normal months, not 6 months of complete shutdown (cancel everything but the car payment, house payment, and utilities bill).
I've never understood people who get laid off for 3 years... they've got to have either unrealistic salary expectations or are one of those bubble people who went from being a Wal-mart cashier in 1997 to being an "HTML programmer" with 15k pre-IPO options at some fancy web startup, and after being laid off as the market cooled to the point where monkeys were no longer being hired for programming tasks, they couldn't find another identical job. *shrug*
You've got to love it that when a computer is so efficent that it's only limited by the speed at which data can be fed into it.
Well, considering Moore's law doesn't apply to DRAM and Hard Disk Drives, I'd say almost all machines these days are thusly limited when given a problem set larger than its L3 cache.
If you designed your untrusted channels with some type of sliding window go-back-and-retry protocol, you'd know if you broke a wire or it's otherwise noisy.
All chip design/verification/physical EDA software that Synopsys and Cadence create has Linux binaries. Maybe not "CAD", but it's engineering software nonetheless.
Unfortunately, once you use up the "local" processors you're forced to branch off to other attached machines. If the app is embarrassingly parallel, you only need 2 tin cans and a string. However, if these application rely on low latency, high bandwidth connections between processors, you're going to get greatly dimished returns by using clusters connected by 10G Ethernet or Myrinet.
They're big in consoles, very very tiny in PC games. However, since many PC/console titles are released on 15 platforms all at the same time, it's a safe bet that PC games are neutered just because they [came from]/[will go to] consoles.
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We used svn + \include. Our 10 page Engineering paper was divided into 6 files, one per chapter. 3 of us sat in the same room on our laptops and used the svn server on my dreamhost.com domain. We'd commit & update everytime we'd fix something up the way we liked. I must say it worked really well!
Polls opened at 7:00 AM, I was in line at 6:40 AM. We use "complete the arrow using this marker" paper ballots which are optically scanned. Everything was smooth this morning here in Wisconsin.
Wow, $10k per Gb? Actually, that's a deal compared to the cost of cellular phone text message bandwidth here in the US.
I've owned an iMacG5 for a little over 3 years now. The monitor is still great, but the single core 1.8 GHz G5 PPC processor is ... not. I've maxed out the RAM and replaced the HD, but that's about all I can do. I'd love an option to buy a Mac Medium.... bigger than the (doomed?) Mini, yet not the $2500 Mac Pro.
I agree with you, but most companies like Best Buy have 14 day price protection. The guy posting the ads probably screwed up, but in reality only cost the amount of $$ from purchasers who wouldn't have gotten their partial refund.
I'd prefer they stay in business. If selling unidentifiable data to advertisers lets them create better ads by nuking the useless ones, then more power to them.
I think you meant to say "memory". 1 core gets an entire set of DDR2 controllers. 4 cores get... to share the same set of DDR2 controllers.
More cores per socket, but the socket's DDR2 bandwidth stays the same. Let's hope your kernels fit in the L2/L3.
Usually to start a discussion. I'm guessing the majority of Slashdot's readership is on the younger side of the general population, and are probably just getting to the point where they help interview at their company.
This is why digg is so very popular, guys. There's no cranky /. editors to bust through! :)
Google's HPC "innovations" are surely software-based, are they not? Not sure they've done anything in the hardware arena that warrants press releases.
Garmin Rino products do this for 2-way radios.
Because I try to limit terminal widths for vim to a reasonable amount, just having the widescreen aspect helps a ton. It allows me to have multiple sessions open side-by-side, with the windows stretched to fill the entire height. 30" would seem I could tile them veritically as well as horizontally.
Pandora's recommendations are really spot on. I rarely have to give one the thumbs down.
Agreed. Open Source is meant for viewing by many eyes (and AIs) to make it perfect. It takes an internet to raise a browser.
Moving to OSX made me miss virtual desktops, but adding a second monitor coupled with Expose` made the longing disappear.
People at work called them "Optermerons" for the longest time... :(
I've been using Python for scripting glue at work for about a year now, but I recently had a small side project come up that was better served having a web interface to a database. Like everyone else, I downloaded/installed Rails. I had given Django a peek, but given that this is a side project, I didn't have the time nor energy to keep up with a rapidly developing platform. Django's website cautions about framework upgrades until 1.0 when the base API will be locked, so I went with Rails. Other than learning yet-another-scripting-language, using Rails (without even really understanding it) hasn't been much of an issue.
Choice is both good and bad, in my opinion. It sounds like TurboGears and Django specialize in different things, when it would be preferred for occasional users like myself that there were one clear winner that was evangelized and well supported for all applications. Perhaps out of this competition this will happen for both platforms -- this is where choice is good!
Score another one for http://www.sarbanes-oxley.com/. EETimes.com has been keeping a count of other companies in hot water for back-dating stock option grants at http://www.eetimes.com/scandal.html
I've always had it in the back of my mind that I could get hit in a layoff, so we have been *very* anal about keeping about 6-months of living expenses tucked away. I figure I could find a new job within a month or 2, so 6 months is a worst-case scenario. This is 6 normal months, not 6 months of complete shutdown (cancel everything but the car payment, house payment, and utilities bill).
I've never understood people who get laid off for 3 years... they've got to have either unrealistic salary expectations or are one of those bubble people who went from being a Wal-mart cashier in 1997 to being an "HTML programmer" with 15k pre-IPO options at some fancy web startup, and after being laid off as the market cooled to the point where monkeys were no longer being hired for programming tasks, they couldn't find another identical job. *shrug*
Well, considering Moore's law doesn't apply to DRAM and Hard Disk Drives, I'd say almost all machines these days are thusly limited when given a problem set larger than its L3 cache.
If you designed your untrusted channels with some type of sliding window go-back-and-retry protocol, you'd know if you broke a wire or it's otherwise noisy.
All chip design/verification/physical EDA software that Synopsys and Cadence create has Linux binaries. Maybe not "CAD", but it's engineering software nonetheless.
$ cat /etc/motd
Welcome to Darwin!
Unfortunately, once you use up the "local" processors you're forced to branch off to other attached machines. If the app is embarrassingly parallel, you only need 2 tin cans and a string. However, if these application rely on low latency, high bandwidth connections between processors, you're going to get greatly dimished returns by using clusters connected by 10G Ethernet or Myrinet.
They're big in consoles, very very tiny in PC games. However, since many PC/console titles are released on 15 platforms all at the same time, it's a safe bet that PC games are neutered just because they [came from]/[will go to] consoles.