The larger hard drives seem to fail more than the smaller ones. I have a 2 yr old Seagate 20gig that is dead and a 60 gig Maxtor that is a little over a year old that is going to die anyday.
The added difficulty in both writing and reliably reading back the much higher bit densities on the platters is also cause for failure, I'm sure.
How about "lead": "He put the dog on a lead". "The element with symbol Pb is called lead". In this case both are nouns, they're even pronounced differently but they are spelt the same.
Base and Bass are another nasty one. the latter has two pronounciations, and two meanings based on the pronounciation.
Do the Open Office DB components allow one to manage third party databases by point and click?
No, they dont -- good point. I use DataArchitect from TheKompany for that, although it too is not perfect.
Say what you will about Adabas, but it works quite well as a desktop database.
Its installtion is hideous. Wholly and totally hiedous. Its documentation is even worse. For single-user installs a local DB is required, but for all of the work I've run across the DB is required for everyone so I have PostgreSQL on a server somewhere and everyone uses it. It sure beats a hundred.mdb files scattered all over.:-)
(As an aside, she's holding off upgrading to Open Office until the database integration is more complete. Her primary use for an office suite is the database.)
I use OO (and SO) every day with the db components -- what is it missing?
Now granted SO comes with Adabas which blows diseased yaks but all I ever do is connect to the Postgres database server.
But when will we see some decent parallel port support? VMWare's too heavy for what many of us embedded people need; we just need decent Win32 parallel port accesses so we can connect up our in-circuit emulators and run the IDEs through WINE.
Yeah, because anyone who has a child of course is sitting looking at a wall for 6 years, missing out on all the great movies (well...at least for 4 months or so until it's on DVD, which is the route which many people without babies follow...and presuming that their area is backwards and doesn't have special movie showings [cinebabies.com] for parents). It's not like they're having an experience that almost all of them will forever describe as the best time of their life. Oh wait, yes it is.
I have three small children. My wife and I see movies all the time. The secret is called a sitter.
Jesus christ are/. types that far removed from the real world? Sure, it costs you $50 every time you want to take 4-5 hours off without the kids, but that's part of what being a parent is about -- spending time with your kids.
Now if only I could get this ancient HPLJ to work under Red Hat!
But anyhow, I have an HP 672C Deskjet that worked fine with RedHat 5.2 back in 1999.
Hmm, you can't get your LaserJet working or your DeskJet? Admittedly the DeskJets aren't peaches and cream to set up, but CUPS seems to do a pretty good job with them. I haven't got a lot of experience with the DeskJets though. IIRC I once got a 690 to work just fine but it was all done via CUPS and its own interfaces. The printer ended up eating crackers thanks to my daughter and it's never worked the same (at all) since.:-)
Now if only I could get this ancient HPLJ to work under Red Hat!
HP LaserJets (any vintage) have to be one of the most Linux-friendly hardware devices on the planet. I've personally had LaserJet II/III/4V/4MV/5P/6Ls hooked up to Linux at one point or another, in both parallel and JetDirect setups.
What, specifically is your problem? There has to be something simple that you've overlooked.
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Although the LFS folks have been making the claim of an 8 or 5 meg installation, I've yet to see any clear docs on how to do it. I'd like to.
That's because you need to learn it yourself.:-)
Honestly though, I personally have a LFS-based firewall system (kernel+netfilter+ipsec+ssh+snmp+ntp+vim+perl (yes perl)) that fits in to an 8M CompactFlash card. Now I use 16M cards and add a 3M boot/config partition with grub, but making small linux distros is dead simple with uClibc and busybox (both are in the LFS hints).
The basic recipe is to use uclibc and busybox, optimize for size (-Os), strip everything you can and once all of that is done, go through and remove any unnecessary libraries and files. Big hint: you don't need documentation on small distros.
Depends on the motor design, really. I'm assuming that a proper vector drive is spinning the shaft here -- a typical NEMA design A or B motor can pull about 12x nominal torque in this situation. The Marathon Blue and Black Max motors are significantly higher, having very (very!) peaky breakdown torque curves -- 25x nominal torque IIRC. Of course you're drawing significant current to get to these torque levels, as you stated.
I thought that most EV designs regenerated when braking / going downhill to try and conserve some energy. It's not a perfect conversion but at least you're not just wasting it.
I don't see how being a sales support person or engineering support person is leaving the tech industry.
Perhaps it's a perception -- I've always been into hardcore engineering -- systems design, reverse engineering, research. Moving towards FAE is kind of a big jump in that context.:-)
Why is it people seem to think you have to choose between "Family" and "Career"? And often they are pooh-poohing achievement because it means you "neglected your family". WTF? Where does that come from?
<blink> I stated any of those things? Are you reading the same comment that I wrote?
We have no problem working non-stop 3 or 4 months, until a project is finished. When it is, we take off out of town for a weekend, or go out on the boat. My partner is happy, and I don't buy this argument that by working I'm neglecting my family-- they certainly are working as well.
Well Bully for you. You've found something that works. I don't recall saying anything to that effect was impossible.
Cause this idea that you can't be successful AND spend quality time with your family is just bullshit.
Being successful does not mean spending 2/3 of your day in your career. Personally I plan on working under 30 hours a week and being successful. It takes some upfront work though, and I've got most of that done.
You know, sometimes "The good things in life" really are ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS.
Amen -- I agree with you. But not all good things in life (which admittedly you are not stating).
Any friend who leaves you because you work to much is not a friend.
By the same token, any friend who works too much can't be much of a friend. I mean realistically where is the time to be friends?
It's amazing that you make a (somewhat) personal affront about losing family and friends due to time spent in front of a computer, while going on to state you _still_ do the same thing, come on, get a fucking life. I'm still not sure how your troll of a post managed a 5-insightful.
Perhaps because I wasn't tripping over myself, trying to prove how fuckwitted the guy I was responding to was? I mean seriously did you read my post before tagging me a foe and replying?
I said nothing about losing family/friends due to spending time in front of the computer -- I said that spending most of your waking hours honing your career doesn't do a whole fuck of a lot of good for your social life. To some, that doesn't mean shit and that's fine -- it doesn't make my point any less correct.
While you're right, it's not worth it to be glued to your computer for hours on end when you've got family to attend to, a couple hours after work isn't hurting anyone (did Magnetar even state that he was having problems because of it? Nope.)
No, but he did state "Its a full time job - outside of your full time job - to stay proficient in this industry." -- sounds like it's more than a "couple hours after work" to me.
The whole gist of my reply to him was to refute that a) it's a full time job to keep up on the tech and that b) the original poster WAS being too harsh.
I didn't claim that spending a couple hours on the computer after work would ruin your life. Don't put words in my mouth.
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Whoever said that you should turn your hobby into a career should be shot. All that does is turn your hobby into work and all that entails (manager, deadlines, 8 hours a day of your "hobby"). I'd prefer my hobbies to stay enjoyable.
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*clap*clap*clap*clap*clap*clap*clap*clap* Amen, brother. I wished I have learned that 8 years ago.
My wife doesn't understand why I come home from work and immediately jump on a computer and then spend another couple of hours (outside of work) on it.
And you know what, my wife asks the same thing. I gave the same excuses. Now (with 3 kids) I see her point. What the fuck good is keeping that honed, that general a knowledge at the risk of losing your family, friends and life?
I spent a good portion of my youth and young adult years learning this shit inside and out, backward, frontward and sideways. There's things I haven't touched on in ages but give me an hour and I'll be in the 95th percentile on proficiency. When it comes to computing, electronics and software things just do not change that much. You got 'em down once, you'll get them down much more quickly the second time. There's no need to spend 10 hours at work and another 5 or 6 at home on it.
personally I've got it down to about 8 at work and 2 or 3 at home, and planning on getting it down further yet.
People "burned out by tech jobs" are people who got into "tech jobs" because it was hot.
You must be a bazillionaire, you can read people's minds so well.
I've been in tech for probably 10-12 years now. Hardware, Software, Firmware... design, research, you name it. I'm considering leaving the tech industry. Why? I want some more people contact, frankly.
It didn't make itself known back then. Hacking away for all hours, tweaking this and that, learning the ins and outs of anything I could get my hands on... that's all I wanted. Now that I've had a taste for sales support (i.e. field applications engineering) I'm thinking that that is where my future lies. Going places, talking to people, solving problems, applying my knowledge -- not sticking around in a room and designing widgets, living like some lab rat and never seeing what impact what I make has on the world around me. I've been there and done that, and I want some more interaction. Maybe I'll keep my hardcore tech lust for my own projects now, which may make it fun again.
So because I want to do this, leave the hardcore tech industry, I am suddenly incompetent? Only there because it was cool at the time? Leaving because the party's over? I think you've overinflated your cranial cavity. Not everything happens the way you expect it to, and not everything happens because of how you claim it to.
I don't really need server names, the main purpose is just for sharing certain files and/or IPX/SPX connections (for LAN games). No need for domain names as nobody will be using this connection to go anywhere but in.
I mean you need to send the WINS server info so you can get NetBIOS resolution. i.e. \\someserver instead of \\server.ip.address.here.
What are you doing to implement [Win2k x509 IPSec]?
This is where I got started. I was most confused when creating the certificates, and later (on win2k) when I realized that the software it asks you to install is just a wrapper for the code win2k already has.
Not if you're a competent sysadmin, and PATCH YOUR BOXES like you should...
An exploit is released on a Thursday or Friday like this. The code is posted, but the patch is not. You must be one fucking amazingly competent sysadmin to be able to patch this hole already. And no, shutting off the service is not always an option.
I would really like to hear more about how you set this up.
It's pretty straightforward but you must (through PPP negotiation) tell your PPTP clients where the WINS server is or you will not be able to go anywhere by name. We use PoPToP fairly regularly but are migrating to IPSec with certificates since Win2k supports it and it's a much better standard.
"The worms, Slapper.B and Slapper.C, which exploits a known buffer overrun vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer 2.0 (SSLv2) handshake process has infected thousands of Web servers worldwide, according to Helsinki-based F-Secure Corp., a computer and network security company. "
Time to grab a coffee.. I thought it said "thanks to Helsinki-based F-Secure Corp.":-)
First it was web browsers.
Then an office suite.
Now an 'outlook' killer.
What next?
Well, for us at least, it's something that can compete with AutoDesk Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop. Then it's something that can compete with OrCAD (no, Eagle doesn't cut it). After that, it's getting Microchip's IDE to work. No, it won't talk to the ICE2000 over the parallel port in WINE.
After all that, it's a decent inventory management/accounting package, perhaps some decent MRP/ERP functionality. And finally after that, it's something that can compete with MacroMedia DreamWeaver -- quanta is for those who know HTML.
So yeah you're right, we've got a long way to go before it can replace everything. But for most office types, what we have is pretty damned good.
But you're right, we need some way to spread viruses around via email quickly. I don't know how business ever survived without that.:-)
I'd help but I'm no C programmer... and C++ is plain evil (in my opinion) I dont know GTK, or Qt (Please PLEASE stay with GTK so I can use it with xfce or another window managet that is sane in size and resources needed)
I'd suggest using Qt for the exact same reasons -- With GTK I need about three dozen dependencies to just get the goddamned libraries working! Use Qt (or even KDE) and be done with it. And if you use just plain Qt, you can run on OSX and Win32 without using Cygwin, which most people won't want to use anyway.
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The larger hard drives seem to fail more than the smaller ones. I have a 2 yr old Seagate 20gig that is dead and a 60 gig Maxtor that is a little over a year old that is going to die anyday.
The added difficulty in both writing and reliably reading back the much higher bit densities on the platters is also cause for failure, I'm sure.
How about "lead": "He put the dog on a lead". "The element with symbol Pb is called lead". In this case both are nouns, they're even pronounced differently but they are spelt the same.
Base and Bass are another nasty one. the latter has two pronounciations, and two meanings based on the pronounciation.
Do the Open Office DB components allow one to manage third party databases by point and click?
No, they dont -- good point. I use DataArchitect from TheKompany for that, although it too is not perfect.
Say what you will about Adabas, but it works quite well as a desktop database.
Its installtion is hideous. Wholly and totally hiedous. Its documentation is even worse. For single-user installs a local DB is required, but for all of the work I've run across the DB is required for everyone so I have PostgreSQL on a server somewhere and everyone uses it. It sure beats a hundred .mdb files scattered all over. :-)
(As an aside, she's holding off upgrading to Open Office until the database integration is more complete. Her primary use for an office suite is the database.)
I use OO (and SO) every day with the db components -- what is it missing?
Now granted SO comes with Adabas which blows diseased yaks but all I ever do is connect to the Postgres database server.
but the flip side of that coin is that it is substantially less facehugging, although it has its own annoyances
...facehugging?
But when will we see some decent parallel port support? VMWare's too heavy for what many of us embedded people need; we just need decent Win32 parallel port accesses so we can connect up our in-circuit emulators and run the IDEs through WINE.
Yeah, because anyone who has a child of course is sitting looking at a wall for 6 years, missing out on all the great movies (well...at least for 4 months or so until it's on DVD, which is the route which many people without babies follow...and presuming that their area is backwards and doesn't have special movie showings [cinebabies.com] for parents). It's not like they're having an experience that almost all of them will forever describe as the best time of their life. Oh wait, yes it is.
I have three small children. My wife and I see movies all the time. The secret is called a sitter.
Jesus christ are /. types that far removed from the real world? Sure, it costs you $50 every time you want to take 4-5 hours off without the kids, but that's part of what being a parent is about -- spending time with your kids.
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- Now if only I could get this ancient HPLJ to work under Red Hat!
But anyhow, I have an HP 672C Deskjet that worked fine with RedHat 5.2 back in 1999.Hmm, you can't get your LaserJet working or your DeskJet? Admittedly the DeskJets aren't peaches and cream to set up, but CUPS seems to do a pretty good job with them. I haven't got a lot of experience with the DeskJets though. IIRC I once got a 690 to work just fine but it was all done via CUPS and its own interfaces. The printer ended up eating crackers thanks to my daughter and it's never worked the same (at all) since. :-)
Now if only I could get this ancient HPLJ to work under Red Hat!
HP LaserJets (any vintage) have to be one of the most Linux-friendly hardware devices on the planet. I've personally had LaserJet II/III/4V/4MV/5P/6Ls hooked up to Linux at one point or another, in both parallel and JetDirect setups.
What, specifically is your problem? There has to be something simple that you've overlooked.
Although the LFS folks have been making the claim of an 8 or 5 meg installation, I've yet to see any clear docs on how to do it. I'd like to.
That's because you need to learn it yourself. :-)
Honestly though, I personally have a LFS-based firewall system (kernel+netfilter+ipsec+ssh+snmp+ntp+vim+perl (yes perl)) that fits in to an 8M CompactFlash card. Now I use 16M cards and add a 3M boot/config partition with grub, but making small linux distros is dead simple with uClibc and busybox (both are in the LFS hints).
The basic recipe is to use uclibc and busybox, optimize for size (-Os), strip everything you can and once all of that is done, go through and remove any unnecessary libraries and files. Big hint: you don't need documentation on small distros.
Electric motors have very good low speed torque.
Depends on the motor design, really. I'm assuming that a proper vector drive is spinning the shaft here -- a typical NEMA design A or B motor can pull about 12x nominal torque in this situation. The Marathon Blue and Black Max motors are significantly higher, having very (very!) peaky breakdown torque curves -- 25x nominal torque IIRC. Of course you're drawing significant current to get to these torque levels, as you stated.
I thought that most EV designs regenerated when braking / going downhill to try and conserve some energy. It's not a perfect conversion but at least you're not just wasting it.
I don't see how being a sales support person or engineering support person is leaving the tech industry.
Perhaps it's a perception -- I've always been into hardcore engineering -- systems design, reverse engineering, research. Moving towards FAE is kind of a big jump in that context. :-)
Why is it people seem to think you have to choose between "Family" and "Career"? And often they are pooh-poohing achievement because it means you "neglected your family". WTF? Where does that come from?
<blink> I stated any of those things? Are you reading the same comment that I wrote?
We have no problem working non-stop 3 or 4 months, until a project is finished. When it is, we take off out of town for a weekend, or go out on the boat. My partner is happy, and I don't buy this argument that by working I'm neglecting my family-- they certainly are working as well.
Well Bully for you. You've found something that works. I don't recall saying anything to that effect was impossible.
Cause this idea that you can't be successful AND spend quality time with your family is just bullshit.
Being successful does not mean spending 2/3 of your day in your career. Personally I plan on working under 30 hours a week and being successful. It takes some upfront work though, and I've got most of that done.
You know, sometimes "The good things in life" really are ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS.
Amen -- I agree with you. But not all good things in life (which admittedly you are not stating).
Any friend who leaves you because you work to much is not a friend.
By the same token, any friend who works too much can't be much of a friend. I mean realistically where is the time to be friends?
It's amazing that you make a (somewhat) personal affront about losing family and friends due to time spent in front of a computer, while going on to state you _still_ do the same thing, come on, get a fucking life. I'm still not sure how your troll of a post managed a 5-insightful.
Perhaps because I wasn't tripping over myself, trying to prove how fuckwitted the guy I was responding to was? I mean seriously did you read my post before tagging me a foe and replying?
I said nothing about losing family/friends due to spending time in front of the computer -- I said that spending most of your waking hours honing your career doesn't do a whole fuck of a lot of good for your social life. To some, that doesn't mean shit and that's fine -- it doesn't make my point any less correct.
While you're right, it's not worth it to be glued to your computer for hours on end when you've got family to attend to, a couple hours after work isn't hurting anyone (did Magnetar even state that he was having problems because of it? Nope.)
No, but he did state "Its a full time job - outside of your full time job - to stay proficient in this industry." -- sounds like it's more than a "couple hours after work" to me.
The whole gist of my reply to him was to refute that a) it's a full time job to keep up on the tech and that b) the original poster WAS being too harsh.
I didn't claim that spending a couple hours on the computer after work would ruin your life. Don't put words in my mouth.
Whoever said that you should turn your hobby into a career should be shot. All that does is turn your hobby into work and all that entails (manager, deadlines, 8 hours a day of your "hobby"). I'd prefer my hobbies to stay enjoyable.
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*clap*clap*clap*clap*clap*clap*clap*clap* Amen, brother. I wished I have learned that 8 years ago.
My wife doesn't understand why I come home from work and immediately jump on a computer and then spend another couple of hours (outside of work) on it.
And you know what, my wife asks the same thing. I gave the same excuses. Now (with 3 kids) I see her point. What the fuck good is keeping that honed, that general a knowledge at the risk of losing your family, friends and life?
I spent a good portion of my youth and young adult years learning this shit inside and out, backward, frontward and sideways. There's things I haven't touched on in ages but give me an hour and I'll be in the 95th percentile on proficiency. When it comes to computing, electronics and software things just do not change that much. You got 'em down once, you'll get them down much more quickly the second time. There's no need to spend 10 hours at work and another 5 or 6 at home on it.
personally I've got it down to about 8 at work and 2 or 3 at home, and planning on getting it down further yet.
People "burned out by tech jobs" are people who got into "tech jobs" because it was hot.
You must be a bazillionaire, you can read people's minds so well.
I've been in tech for probably 10-12 years now. Hardware, Software, Firmware... design, research, you name it. I'm considering leaving the tech industry. Why? I want some more people contact, frankly.
It didn't make itself known back then. Hacking away for all hours, tweaking this and that, learning the ins and outs of anything I could get my hands on... that's all I wanted. Now that I've had a taste for sales support (i.e. field applications engineering) I'm thinking that that is where my future lies. Going places, talking to people, solving problems, applying my knowledge -- not sticking around in a room and designing widgets, living like some lab rat and never seeing what impact what I make has on the world around me. I've been there and done that, and I want some more interaction. Maybe I'll keep my hardcore tech lust for my own projects now, which may make it fun again.
So because I want to do this, leave the hardcore tech industry, I am suddenly incompetent? Only there because it was cool at the time? Leaving because the party's over? I think you've overinflated your cranial cavity. Not everything happens the way you expect it to, and not everything happens because of how you claim it to.
I don't really need server names, the main purpose is just for sharing certain files and/or IPX/SPX connections (for LAN games). No need for domain names as nobody will be using this connection to go anywhere but in.
I mean you need to send the WINS server info so you can get NetBIOS resolution. i.e. \\someserver instead of \\server.ip.address.here.
What are you doing to implement [Win2k x509 IPSec]?
This is where I got started. I was most confused when creating the certificates, and later (on win2k) when I realized that the software it asks you to install is just a wrapper for the code win2k already has.
Not if you're a competent sysadmin, and PATCH YOUR BOXES like you should...
An exploit is released on a Thursday or Friday like this. The code is posted, but the patch is not. You must be one fucking amazingly competent sysadmin to be able to patch this hole already. And no, shutting off the service is not always an option.
I would really like to hear more about how you set this up.
It's pretty straightforward but you must (through PPP negotiation) tell your PPTP clients where the WINS server is or you will not be able to go anywhere by name. We use PoPToP fairly regularly but are migrating to IPSec with certificates since Win2k supports it and it's a much better standard.
7-11 to take a shit
7-11's have public washrooms?
"The worms, Slapper.B and Slapper.C, which exploits a known buffer overrun vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer 2.0 (SSLv2) handshake process has infected thousands of Web servers worldwide, according to Helsinki-based F-Secure Corp., a computer and network security company. "
Time to grab a coffee.. I thought it said "thanks to Helsinki-based F-Secure Corp." :-)
First it was web browsers.
Then an office suite.
Now an 'outlook' killer.
What next?
Well, for us at least, it's something that can compete with AutoDesk Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop. Then it's something that can compete with OrCAD (no, Eagle doesn't cut it). After that, it's getting Microchip's IDE to work. No, it won't talk to the ICE2000 over the parallel port in WINE.
After all that, it's a decent inventory management/accounting package, perhaps some decent MRP/ERP functionality. And finally after that, it's something that can compete with MacroMedia DreamWeaver -- quanta is for those who know HTML.
So yeah you're right, we've got a long way to go before it can replace everything. But for most office types, what we have is pretty damned good.
But you're right, we need some way to spread viruses around via email quickly. I don't know how business ever survived without that. :-)
I'd help but I'm no C programmer... and C++ is plain evil (in my opinion) I dont know GTK, or Qt (Please PLEASE stay with GTK so I can use it with xfce or another window managet that is sane in size and resources needed)
I'd suggest using Qt for the exact same reasons -- With GTK I need about three dozen dependencies to just get the goddamned libraries working! Use Qt (or even KDE) and be done with it. And if you use just plain Qt, you can run on OSX and Win32 without using Cygwin, which most people won't want to use anyway.