I would say that the self-absorbed assholes are the people who think that they're entitled to never hear another person carry on a conversation in a public place.
Whatever happened to the wooly mammoth? Years ago, some company was going to try to clone one, and have an elephant carry it to birth. That would have been cool.
A neanderthal, though? I dunno. There's just something creepy about cloning something to study... that can be embarrassed by the fact that it's being studied.
On the upside, I have no doubt that he/she would make it big in fetish porn.
Having a decent math score should be the rule... but getting a perfect score simply WILL NOT be.
I think that math is a wonderfully important life skill, but not everyone is the same. You can no more expect everyone to get a perfect score in math than you can expect everyone to have the same sexual orientation.
Some folks would think that spending time on poetry should be the norm. Depenging on their gender, I'd slap them in the face, or punch them in the balls. Maybe both, just for fun.
"So don't sweat it. She will likely land in the right place for her eventually."
I wouldn't count on it. Surprisingly few of the people I know have ended up in the right place for them... for the reason that by the time they've really figured out what the right place for them is, it's much more difficult for them to make it happen.
There are exceptions, though... after a few years of producing some of the most spectacular code I've ever seen, he decided that programming wasn't for him any more. He took a year off, rode a motorcycle around the country, and settled in NYC doing programming. I figure if he had a year off to think about it and look for other options (including school if he wanted it), yet still went back... it must not be that bad.
"Virtually no one I went to school with is still doing what they started out in school for."
When I was in college, I could not believe how many people had no freaking idea what they even wanted to study... and we're talking sophmores and juniors, not first-semester freshmen. It completely blew my mind.
Now that I think about it... I'd say that at least 75% of them were girls.
You don't know many architects, do you? While a very few get into it because they're brilliant artists, a LOT get into it because they aren't smart enough for engineering.
The architects don't make sure that the buildings don't fall down, that's the engineer's job. And you'd be amazed at how often the engineers tell the architects what is required to make that happen, the architects to off, draw something up, and turn it over to the engineers... who realize that the architects failed in exactly the same way they were warned NOT to.
I've know a bunch of architects, and the only one who every impressed me had quit architecture and went on to other things.
And... of the architects I've known, those who aren't the "cream of the crop" haven't really made that good of money, considering their degree.
" The rub is that she doesn't like math or science, even though she finds them easy. "
When I took the ACT, I got a perfect score on math as well, even though I hadn't taken a math class in the last 1.5 years, I'd been slacking off.
But... I don't care for math, either. I don't dislike it, but it doesn't excite me. Once, talking to a girl in my physics class, I said something about how only people with the most psychotic minds would major in math... to be informed that she was a math major. Ah, well.
Let's see... no engineering or "scientist" position, yet science-oriented. Doctor? I would have said genetecist, but that's probably a bit to "scientisty" for her. The awesome thing about being a doctor is that it encompasses a pretty wide range, from "I want to nurture and help little kids" to "I don't want to deal with people, I just want to cut them up." Something for every personality!
They're only worried about it happening to them, they don't seem to care if it happens to anyone else.
In otherwords, they're not worried enough to do sufficient egress filtering, or to cut off their infected customers in order to keep it from happening to other people. Almost a "NIMBY" situation, but not quite.
I haven't done a 7TB array, but I've done a fair number of 3 and 4TB drives... and if they're implemented on quality hardware, it's not bad at all. 7TB wouldn't be that bad.
Assuming that you'll have another drive fail before it can rebuild is pretty alarmist. Sure, it can happen... I've *seen* it happen. But it's not the norm.
Most people who run RAID5 are running pretty poor hardware implementations. But on a board with Raptors, via multiple (quality) SATA controllers each connected via PCI-E (avoiding bus contention), I've seen RAID5 rebuilds of over 200 MB/sec. That's a pretty far cry from something like 8 drives hooked to a 32-bit, 33MHz PCI SX8, and getting a tenth of that.
I can't believe how many job listings I see for entry-level programmers. It's insane.
Granted, they don't pay squat. I assume that since you have your degree, you want the big bucks. But either get in where you can and pay your dues, or you're going to be stuck in QA for a looong time.
Not only that, google did statistical analysis of a LOT of hard drives, and found that within a certain range, they actually lasted LONGER as temperatures went up.
In one place I had during college, I didn't pay the electric bill... but the owner refused to allow decent heating. So I just left every electrical appliance on all of the time. It worked pretty well.:D
Two weeks ago, I went to my brother's trial. Upon entering the courthouse, I passed my laptop through the scanner, then the laptop bag.
While I was turning on the laptop, one deputy (US Marshalls) quietly said something to the other, and he quickly grabbed my laptop bag and started rifling through it.
After a minute of turning up nothing but the normal stuff, he whispered to the deputy at the scanner again, who replied, and I overheard "three sticks of dynamite."
At that point, I was seriously thinking "WTF???", and let them keep rifling through the bag. After another couple of minutes, I asked "Are you really looking for three sticks of dynamite?"
"Well... that's what it looks like on the scanner."
I pulled out my spare battery, which internally has three rows of lithium cells, and said "It's just a battery." The deputies realized how dumb their mistake was, laughed, and apologized.
Nobody took me into a room and cavity-searched me, nobody tackled me, or confiscated my laptop. I just went along my way.
So... why not spend an extra $10, and have an extra gig of memory that would, at the least, provide more disk cache - and possibly provide for situations when you actually need more than a gig?
The days of people only being limitted to a gig by economic, chipset, or number-of-slot limitations has mostly past us by. 8 gigs of good, decent memory can be had for less than $100.
First, I make sure that my machines have adequate RAM for their usage. That includes sufficient disk cache.
At that point, swap doesn't do a whole lot. I don't need to move programs out of RAM to run new programs. And I don't need to move long-unused programs out to make room for disk cache.
Now, occasionally, truly obscene things happen that make the machine need far more memory than it actually happens. If the machine has cache, then it starts thrashing, swapping, and going into a big, unresponsive death spiral, affecting all other services on the machine. Not a good solution.
If the machine doesn't have swap, then the offending memory hogs get killed (or simply can't continue in their consumption), but other services have vastly more chance of continuing undisturbed.
Swap is nothing more than a way to replace RAM with disk. That made sense when RAM was outrageously expensive, but prices have come down to less than 1/1000th of what they were in those days.
Except in truly unusual situations, there's simply no more economic reason to replace a good medium with one that has a thousand times more latency, and less than a thousandth of the bandwidth.
The link (fiber) may be able to handle 1gbps, but users aren't going to get that much in reality. Why not? It's the routing. Call up your favorite router vendor, and ask what it would take to route 100 gigabits. Then consider that with the density of living in Japan, you could put one of those in every neighborhood, and still not be able to get even half of the people up to full gigabit speed.
Since DNS info would (usually) change quite infrequently compared to the frequency of DB updates, it makes more sense to simply write a script which dumps out the database when changes are actually made.
I do that to maintain quite a large number of domains (incidentally, with some having state-based subdomains as the OP mentioned). Running an RDBMS query for DNS seems pretty silly to me in nearly all cases, and in the few cases where it's not... there's probably a better way to solve the problem.
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Ah, I see. NONE of those things happen without cell phones.... right?
I would say that the self-absorbed assholes are the people who think that they're entitled to never hear another person carry on a conversation in a public place.
Whatever happened to the wooly mammoth? Years ago, some company was going to try to clone one, and have an elephant carry it to birth. That would have been cool.
A neanderthal, though? I dunno. There's just something creepy about cloning something to study... that can be embarrassed by the fact that it's being studied.
On the upside, I have no doubt that he/she would make it big in fetish porn.
Having a decent math score should be the rule... but getting a perfect score simply WILL NOT be.
I think that math is a wonderfully important life skill, but not everyone is the same. You can no more expect everyone to get a perfect score in math than you can expect everyone to have the same sexual orientation.
Some folks would think that spending time on poetry should be the norm. Depenging on their gender, I'd slap them in the face, or punch them in the balls. Maybe both, just for fun.
"So don't sweat it. She will likely land in the right place for her eventually."
I wouldn't count on it. Surprisingly few of the people I know have ended up in the right place for them... for the reason that by the time they've really figured out what the right place for them is, it's much more difficult for them to make it happen.
There are exceptions, though... after a few years of producing some of the most spectacular code I've ever seen, he decided that programming wasn't for him any more. He took a year off, rode a motorcycle around the country, and settled in NYC doing programming. I figure if he had a year off to think about it and look for other options (including school if he wanted it), yet still went back... it must not be that bad.
"Virtually no one I went to school with is still doing what they started out in school for."
When I was in college, I could not believe how many people had no freaking idea what they even wanted to study... and we're talking sophmores and juniors, not first-semester freshmen. It completely blew my mind.
Now that I think about it... I'd say that at least 75% of them were girls.
They let women fly, now? When did that happen?
You don't know many architects, do you? While a very few get into it because they're brilliant artists, a LOT get into it because they aren't smart enough for engineering.
The architects don't make sure that the buildings don't fall down, that's the engineer's job. And you'd be amazed at how often the engineers tell the architects what is required to make that happen, the architects to off, draw something up, and turn it over to the engineers... who realize that the architects failed in exactly the same way they were warned NOT to.
I've know a bunch of architects, and the only one who every impressed me had quit architecture and went on to other things.
And... of the architects I've known, those who aren't the "cream of the crop" haven't really made that good of money, considering their degree.
" The rub is that she doesn't like math or science, even though she finds them easy. "
When I took the ACT, I got a perfect score on math as well, even though I hadn't taken a math class in the last 1.5 years, I'd been slacking off.
But... I don't care for math, either. I don't dislike it, but it doesn't excite me. Once, talking to a girl in my physics class, I said something about how only people with the most psychotic minds would major in math... to be informed that she was a math major. Ah, well.
Let's see... no engineering or "scientist" position, yet science-oriented. Doctor? I would have said genetecist, but that's probably a bit to "scientisty" for her. The awesome thing about being a doctor is that it encompasses a pretty wide range, from "I want to nurture and help little kids" to "I don't want to deal with people, I just want to cut them up." Something for every personality!
They're only worried about it happening to them, they don't seem to care if it happens to anyone else.
In otherwords, they're not worried enough to do sufficient egress filtering, or to cut off their infected customers in order to keep it from happening to other people. Almost a "NIMBY" situation, but not quite.
Naturally-resistant bone marrow is probably worth what, about 5 million dollars per gram?
One on hacking and system penetraion. Or "How to commit identity fraud".
But what's left over for the rest of the OS besides the desktop???
RAM is actually a good point... maybe they can put 16 tiny cores on the chip, and use the rest of the real estate for SRAM.
Just think... we'll be able to have 198 cores doing nothing, now!
I haven't done a 7TB array, but I've done a fair number of 3 and 4TB drives... and if they're implemented on quality hardware, it's not bad at all. 7TB wouldn't be that bad.
Assuming that you'll have another drive fail before it can rebuild is pretty alarmist. Sure, it can happen... I've *seen* it happen. But it's not the norm.
Most people who run RAID5 are running pretty poor hardware implementations. But on a board with Raptors, via multiple (quality) SATA controllers each connected via PCI-E (avoiding bus contention), I've seen RAID5 rebuilds of over 200 MB/sec. That's a pretty far cry from something like 8 drives hooked to a 32-bit, 33MHz PCI SX8, and getting a tenth of that.
I can't believe how many job listings I see for entry-level programmers. It's insane.
Granted, they don't pay squat. I assume that since you have your degree, you want the big bucks. But either get in where you can and pay your dues, or you're going to be stuck in QA for a looong time.
Not only that, google did statistical analysis of a LOT of hard drives, and found that within a certain range, they actually lasted LONGER as temperatures went up.
In one place I had during college, I didn't pay the electric bill... but the owner refused to allow decent heating. So I just left every electrical appliance on all of the time. It worked pretty well. :D
Two weeks ago, I went to my brother's trial. Upon entering the courthouse, I passed my laptop through the scanner, then the laptop bag.
While I was turning on the laptop, one deputy (US Marshalls) quietly said something to the other, and he quickly grabbed my laptop bag and started rifling through it.
After a minute of turning up nothing but the normal stuff, he whispered to the deputy at the scanner again, who replied, and I overheard "three sticks of dynamite."
At that point, I was seriously thinking "WTF???", and let them keep rifling through the bag. After another couple of minutes, I asked "Are you really looking for three sticks of dynamite?"
"Well... that's what it looks like on the scanner."
I pulled out my spare battery, which internally has three rows of lithium cells, and said "It's just a battery." The deputies realized how dumb their mistake was, laughed, and apologized.
Nobody took me into a room and cavity-searched me, nobody tackled me, or confiscated my laptop. I just went along my way.
So... why not spend an extra $10, and have an extra gig of memory that would, at the least, provide more disk cache - and possibly provide for situations when you actually need more than a gig?
The days of people only being limitted to a gig by economic, chipset, or number-of-slot limitations has mostly past us by. 8 gigs of good, decent memory can be had for less than $100.
First, I make sure that my machines have adequate RAM for their usage. That includes sufficient disk cache.
At that point, swap doesn't do a whole lot. I don't need to move programs out of RAM to run new programs. And I don't need to move long-unused programs out to make room for disk cache.
Now, occasionally, truly obscene things happen that make the machine need far more memory than it actually happens. If the machine has cache, then it starts thrashing, swapping, and going into a big, unresponsive death spiral, affecting all other services on the machine. Not a good solution.
If the machine doesn't have swap, then the offending memory hogs get killed (or simply can't continue in their consumption), but other services have vastly more chance of continuing undisturbed.
Swap is nothing more than a way to replace RAM with disk. That made sense when RAM was outrageously expensive, but prices have come down to less than 1/1000th of what they were in those days.
Except in truly unusual situations, there's simply no more economic reason to replace a good medium with one that has a thousand times more latency, and less than a thousandth of the bandwidth.
The link (fiber) may be able to handle 1gbps, but users aren't going to get that much in reality. Why not? It's the routing. Call up your favorite router vendor, and ask what it would take to route 100 gigabits. Then consider that with the density of living in Japan, you could put one of those in every neighborhood, and still not be able to get even half of the people up to full gigabit speed.
Since DNS info would (usually) change quite infrequently compared to the frequency of DB updates, it makes more sense to simply write a script which dumps out the database when changes are actually made.
I do that to maintain quite a large number of domains (incidentally, with some having state-based subdomains as the OP mentioned). Running an RDBMS query for DNS seems pretty silly to me in nearly all cases, and in the few cases where it's not... there's probably a better way to solve the problem.