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  1. Creating Life on The Los Alamos Bug · · Score: 1

    Isn't it just easier to have sex to create life? Buncha nerds.

  2. Speaker Security / Other Devices on TCP/IP Speakers · · Score: 1

    Now we need to setup a firewall and encryption to make sure that no one injects sublimital messages into your speakers. I wonder what it would sound like when there isn't enough bandwidth to send the music stream when someone ping floods your speaker. What about microphones, guitars and drum sets with ip addresses? "Hey man, my bands subnet id is 123.45.68.0".

  3. Speaker Security on TCP/IP Speakers · · Score: 1

    Now we will have to install a firewall and setup encryption to insure that no one will inject sublimital messages into your speakers. I wonder what it will sound like when there isn't enough bandwidth to send the music stream when someone ping floods your speaker. How about a microphone, guitar and drum set with ip addresses? Hey man, my bands subnet id is 123.22.33.0

  4. Bob and Lisa on How the Lisa Changed Everything · · Score: 1

    Can you install MS Bob on top of Lisa?

    =)

  5. The Worst Office Politics on Implementing the Bureaucratic Black Arts? · · Score: 1

    The worst places I saw office politics were Cisco and Juniper. I mean they do it so well its almost unnoticable. I found that just not caring and moving forward with the occasional reference to dilbert to squash things.. Its funny what happens.. they have this mail room guy with a cart and a CB radio attached to it with someone screaming "Gilbert, Gilbert Where are you?". That cart is used for other purposes when they need to remotely send a message. I even saw the IT guys at juniper purpose tell me they are going to put one of my servers in a "Better Place" and hack into it and crash it.. as if it was an accomplishment when they have admin access. Also at cisco the guys in the cubes next to me were making my machine crash with stupid kiddies scripts or something. I would have to disconnect my machine from the network when I left and setup filtering and a firewall. Some developers would almost refuse to develop the most important parts of the project and code very slowly on the key parts so they can make more money on their contracts. I swear some people purposely coded bad code for job security. Then the fuqing lab managers kept having me move my rack mounted servers to the point of where I kept getting better and better locations and was pissing them off. Or here one I've seen twice, so I immediately saw it coming but no one believed me. Cisco threatened to buy another prodcut to replace our project in order to motivate us to finish it faster (of course they were lying). I really pissed them off by finding some open source on sourceforge referenced by the "competitor" on source forge and patched it together with our code and it was sweet. When management found out about it the open source immediately disappeard from source forge including the link and they asked me to stop developing the solution. They seem deathtly afraid of open source and were coming up with every excuse to not use it. I even installed linux and connected it to the network and it was blocked of and it was constantly emailing me about how theres a virus in the machine I connect and it was just a vanilla fedora installation. They are also deathly afraid of linux and every attempt i made was squashed with some bullshit story. Many more stories where that came from. I'm out of the corporate world man.

    Supporting a world where all software is honestly open source and greed free by opening the source to M$ Windoze and giving it for free and banning all binary distributions of Linux so only those who can compile the kernel using drivers they wrote for the Windoze dependent hardware they purchased can use Linux until they open source hardware somehow.
    c0d3r

  6. Low Quality on Rio Brand Closes Doors · · Score: 1

    I bought 2 Rio's and they both messed up with the same error within weeks.. They should QA their products better.. I'm sure the RMAs killed them..

  7. Yahoo can't do nothing - because of Linux on What Can Yahoo Do To Compete with Google? · · Score: 1

    Yahoo can't do nothing - because of googles Linux base. Maybe if yahoo reinstalls all of their servers to Linux they can start to compete.

  8. .NET XML - Relational Mapping on Do XML-based Databases Live Up to the Hype? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In .NET you go to the Server explorer and choose your database and table from a tree control and drag the tables directly to a canvas to design a dataset. You can then define releations. Then, you drag a data adapter to a web page or windows form, type the sql and visually associate it with the data set. Its done all visually except for the sql and even that can be generated.

  9. Use comments only when needed on Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I disagree when writing Java and C#. These languages are inherintley readable if you write clean, understandable code with good variable names. Comments should be used whey you implement something that you can't understand by reading the code. Its quickker for me to read clean code, and comments often get in the way and get outdated and hurt more than they help. Maintainance is the Iceburg.

  10. Re:Java scripting on Job Market for Developers Evaluated · · Score: 1

    Its better to compare java to .NET then.. they are both platforms.. c# you can compare with the java language or j# for that matter.

  11. Help Desk at Cisco on Cisco IT Manager Targeting 70% Linux · · Score: 1

    I just started working at Cisco, and awhile back, I gave up asking help desk for support. They often take 3 days, and if its a stupid request, they will just close it. I've found its easier to just figure it out your self and all help desk seems to do is create accounts.

  12. Source? on IT Salaries to Grow 0.5% in 2005 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The source is robert half technology. They are a head hunting firm that agressively robs its consultants. I think they just want to pay less to engineers so are posting these bogus rates. In the silicon valley you can add 20k to each one of those numbers easily.

  13. Keep the jobs in America! on Business Under Fire · · Score: 1

    On my last contract with Juniper Networks, it seemed as if 85% of the IT people were H1 visas. They should pay them the same to avoid outsourcing and keeping the skilled people here. Seems like big companies are just out to save money while screwing up the economy and ruining the job market for americans. What we need is a UNION for the IT fields to ensure balance in the market.

  14. Re:Juniper Ain't so Great, Just to be Fair... on BusinessWeek On XORP vs. Cisco · · Score: 1

    Thats correct.. they fuqing grind you to the ground. I got fired because my hard disk crashed and I lost 1 month of code. I said i'd re-implement it in 5 days -- 3 with a free bottle of wine. When i stayed up 3 days and got to the point of replacing the code, They canned me. I may sue them, but they are giving me a job reference. They might not even do that. 90% of all people at juniper are from india and they have some internal secret to set artificial deadlines and hearing that was probably what ended me. I'm gonna checkout www.junipergreed.com.

  15. Maximum Program Length on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Belive it or not back in the dos 2.x with basica / gwbasic i was writing a chess program and hit the maximum line number. its 32k lines from line number 1 with each line incremented by 1. It simply told me "Out of memory"

  16. Complete references on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 1

    Complete, dead tree, references work the
    best with a quick paced tutorial.

    mb

  17. How Gnutella is done. on Gnutella at One Year · · Score: 1

    My approach:
    First need to find an ip address to a server.
    Need to connect to a database that holds the
    list of servers. When downloading a gnutella
    clone get an up-to-date list of servers. Connect to those servers and they all agree and elect servers in a tree structure based on ping times or ipaddress heirachical order which should reflect geographical location. These servers (which are the same as clients as everyone is a server and a client in a peer-to-peer environment) replicate data (as an enterprise would) to keep state (send file lists), with redundancy and elect servers (somewhat as netbios does) based on uptime and must be recoverable just like dynamic routing protocols such as ospf and must have a short convergence time.

    mb

  18. CS or CE on Computer Science vs. Computer Engineering? · · Score: 1

    It depends on whether the school you go to is more practical application or more theory. Most good schools don't even have computer engineering.. its often cs or ee or eecs.

  19. Re:umm on Making Sense Of An Employee IP Agreement · · Score: 1

    i'm an mcse but i work as a java developer. MCSEs are dirt in the valley... cisco people laugh at them.. i never used my mcse skills hardly and i'm almost ashamed to say i'm one. Java developers (good ones make more than twice what an mcse makes) mb

  20. hardest to transform on Complete Transformers Generation One Set on ebay · · Score: 1

    my favorite and first was the original megatron.. probably the hardest transformer to undo and redo. it was a hand gun and it could be transformed into multiple things.. wish i could get just that one.. mb

  21. The standard rate for big companies on Is There Still A Contract Market For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    150/hr.. i worked in the finance dept.. the interviewers can't see your rate.. but they won't be questioned unless its over that.. i've personally done 130 at most just to keep it from the barrier.. i've seen some at 250+ /hr on the hr systems. Just have some skill thats tough to get.. like working on systems that are expensive.(erps, or expensive app servers.. sap, iplanet,netdynamics, mainframe).. you'll be tested for 2 weeks and if you can't hang they'll throw you out.. if so then you just become part of the process like any other employee..

  22. BSD on Custom Kernels Used In Comp. Sci Programs? · · Score: 1

    Guess which one University of California at Berkeley uses. Some nachos thing.. they should use BSD.. mb

  23. Competency War on The IT Labor Shortage · · Score: 1

    Its very difficult to find good developers/IT people here in the silicon valley. But the good people have total flexibility of choice of jobs at standard rates of 150/hr or over 100k salaried. Want a job.. i'll get you one if you're competent, but i'm not a recruiter.

    C0D3r