Life is full of surprises, don't let social pressures get you bogged down. The important thing is: are you happy? If you are, then you can get any job that you want. If a PH.D sounds like it would be fun, go for it.
Look in the long term... when you get gray and start growing that big long goatee, you can head back to academia to teach all the youngsters your lifelong experiences in hacking. You can ride an old rickety bicycle to class. You can even fart while your teaching! It'd rock man!
HP's OfficeJet 5100 seen here is an excellent choice. The fax, scanner and color print works great. Although you're limited to one regular-sized page faxes, it does the trick for 95% of the work.
The Fax functionality works without the computer on, which is another plus that you do not find with other multi-function printers with software drivers that process the fax messages. You just have to plug the printer into the phone and away you go.
Hint: if you want to color print stuff, the computer should be on at the time of printing.
Well, it was actually Tivoli's Director software that monitors a cluster by extracting all the system information and allowing you to use a central system to manage everything. So, yes, it may have been too sweeping of a statement. Their failure to manage objects in a way that conserves memory usage brought one of my key production servers down, which in turn cascaded to other systems. This is not acceptable, in my opinion.
Therefore, I no longer use Tivoli's Director on these systems as the risk is much greater than the dividends the software itself produces.
Furthermore, I am quite familiar with the Java programming language, Garbage Collection, runtime environments. Blah blah. I know the pro-Java Extinguish The Myths sites preach: 1) Java isn't slow, and 2) Memory management is a past bygone of C programmer lore.
However, these anti-myth statements instill further programming rot in the brain of a programmer. Classes are carelessly created; CASE tools haphazardly spew out a mess of XML-encoded logic which is in turn molded into a maze of Java code that some how is supposed to emphasize RAD. All of which at the expense of properly run programs.
There are costs. And there is balance. Mine is a warning that states the applications I've experienced from Tivoli, with respect to Director, do nothing more than eat up your physical memory and your on-disk swap space until the O.S. is left with no choice but to kill processes to cope.
Maybe this is no problem on Win2k. Of course, there goes another wrench in the wheel of Java: being cross-platform independent. So, preach all you want about GC, runtime environments, abstraction layers from hell, platform independence and all the rest... the fact remains its up to the programmer to wield the tools in his hand properly to construct a suitable program. Whether it's Eifel, C, Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, Assembly, C++, Java, Pike, Python, Perl, Ruby or whatever I've left out.
It was akin to the CPU being at 100%. But, whenever I told the customer to check, it would only be at 17 ~ 20%. It may be that this worm has some kind of cycle where it goes berserk on the CPU every couple of hours.
Not my problem. That's both the end customer's and prime contractor's problem. It's extremely stupid. I've already sent out an email that describes why you want firewalls even inside your corporate firewall.
But, mainly, they use it for "convenience". See, they can use VNC and other things to remote manage their systems from inside of their offices rather than in the fabrication facility itself.
One major manufacturing facility in Taiwan that I work with had its internal network hit including control devices running on Windows NT. It probably caused between 1 to 2 million dollars in damage because of production delays.
I had to stay up till 12am trying to figure what the crap was going on with my equipment when it was communicating with those stupid NT servers. We're running Redhat and I was sitting there using tcpdump trying to figure out what was wrong with the packets.
It looks normal from the Redhat side, but you'll get no responses from the Application layer on the NT side. It must flood the send pipe in the TCP/IP socket layer on the NT side.
WARNING: If you're running Linux in the Enterprise and you're interfacing NT, you'll be blamed first. Just know it ain't your fault.
Many of Tivoli's products are written in Java and it sucks memory up so bad your other critical processes will begin dying after you run out of memory. We had the Tivoli monitoring software installed on IBM x335 Series 1U servers for awhile. There are memory leaks, if you can believe it. One computer ate up to 950MB of RAM and killed our database daemon which partially brought down a production facility. This was an eventual process which took months and snuck underneathe the covers without our knowledge.
The problem is you don't sue them. You don't complain to executives. You don't try the legal way.
Nor would anyone who could barely buy a $500 machine -- which is the market focus of the article and most of the comments posted already.
That won't work against Free Software though.
Sure it can. Get with a leading distro, say Redhat or SuSE, and for a handsome amount of funding every year, you can get the guarantees required to make yourself happy.
I'll tell you one thing, the price points required for "fanatical" support from Free Software companies and programmers cuts lower than any other proprietary outfit could possibly even offer. And, I would take a risk to say that the quality of that support is more in line with what a customer would want.
I think we need to start some kind of a campaign. The masses must join together to provide something to Joe user that won't scare him. Don't try to explain everything to them, just give them a CD...
How much would it cost for an AOL-type campaign for Linux? What would it take to make 30 million CDs and mail them to the world? Those that don't want it can use it as wall decoration, just like the AOL CDs!
Funny thing is, these are the same phrases found in that computer science book everyone loathed, you know, that "proof" book. Only thing that's missing is: "It's left as an exercise for the reader".
Hmm... whatever happened to ESR's RERO recommendation in all of his admired open source paraphernalia? Release Early, Release Often seems to have been thrown away to the auspices of elitism. Oh well, I guess time will tell which projects will be successful.
See www.codeweavers.com. It does load faster: under wine! Good luck boyz.
*rant* Plus, I'm tired of the constant replies: upgrade to whizbang version 5000.34.2.1 Build 39480 with Shmackeroo patch in order for the speed to increase. They've replied in this manner with artsd in kde for years: it still don't work and it still is choppy.
Some programs you write in C, others in C++, others in Java. But you never write everything in one language just because its "superior". Imagine the Linux kernel written in Java.... */rant*
Remember, there has to be strategically placed articles in order for VA or other higher-ups to do some market analysis. In this case, they tested how fast one can utilize Google to come up with an answer or something along a similar vein.
The question was easy. The search was easy. Always take posts with a grain o' salt; especially those with the following when trying to look them up:
The user you requested does not exist, no matter how much you wish this might be the case.
You'd a thunk, the user search would pull something up: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=Not+Randy +At+A ll&op=users&author=&tid=§ion=&sort =1
They're inviting those who mock and scorn the bad spellers. Obviously, if you've read enough posting here, there appears to be a 20:1 ratio of bad spellers to good spellers. So, there are still some who they can extract sufficient proofreading capabilities from.
These guys are just jealous because they got wooped at UT2k3 last week and they need to use their unrighteous dominion to put down the gamers that did it to them.
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Dear LordNimon:
... when you get gray and start growing that big long goatee, you can head back to academia to teach all the youngsters your lifelong experiences in hacking. You can ride an old rickety bicycle to class. You can even fart while your teaching! It'd rock man!
Life is full of surprises, don't let social pressures get you bogged down. The important thing is: are you happy? If you are, then you can get any job that you want. If a PH.D sounds like it would be fun, go for it.
Look in the long term
take care
Mark me troll, but isn't Java and Tiny an oxymoron? Someone help me out here...
1. Throw a copy of chernobyl specs together.
2. Ship it to Mars.
3. ???
4. Power!
HP's OfficeJet 5100 seen here is an excellent choice. The fax, scanner and color print works great. Although you're limited to one regular-sized page faxes, it does the trick for 95% of the work.
The Fax functionality works without the computer on, which is another plus that you do not find with other multi-function printers with software drivers that process the fax messages. You just have to plug the printer into the phone and away you go.
Hint: if you want to color print stuff, the computer should be on at the time of printing.
Cut the main before beginning work.
thanks
my etymological skills aren't up to par. thanks for the tip.
French?! I thought we were renaming anything French into its American equivalent! Are we digressing?
(j/k btw)
Well, it was actually Tivoli's Director software that monitors a cluster by extracting all the system information and allowing you to use a central system to manage everything. So, yes, it may have been too sweeping of a statement. Their failure to manage objects in a way that conserves memory usage brought one of my key production servers down, which in turn cascaded to other systems. This is not acceptable, in my opinion.
... the fact remains its up to the programmer to wield the tools in his hand properly to construct a suitable program. Whether it's Eifel, C, Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, Assembly, C++, Java, Pike, Python, Perl, Ruby or whatever I've left out.
Therefore, I no longer use Tivoli's Director on these systems as the risk is much greater than the dividends the software itself produces.
Furthermore, I am quite familiar with the Java programming language, Garbage Collection, runtime environments. Blah blah. I know the pro-Java Extinguish The Myths sites preach: 1) Java isn't slow, and 2) Memory management is a past bygone of C programmer lore.
However, these anti-myth statements instill further programming rot in the brain of a programmer. Classes are carelessly created; CASE tools haphazardly spew out a mess of XML-encoded logic which is in turn molded into a maze of Java code that some how is supposed to emphasize RAD. All of which at the expense of properly run programs.
There are costs. And there is balance. Mine is a warning that states the applications I've experienced from Tivoli, with respect to Director, do nothing more than eat up your physical memory and your on-disk swap space until the O.S. is left with no choice but to kill processes to cope.
Maybe this is no problem on Win2k. Of course, there goes another wrench in the wheel of Java: being cross-platform independent. So, preach all you want about GC, runtime environments, abstraction layers from hell, platform independence and all the rest
It was akin to the CPU being at 100%. But, whenever I told the customer to check, it would only be at 17 ~ 20%. It may be that this worm has some kind of cycle where it goes berserk on the CPU every couple of hours.
Not my problem. That's both the end customer's and prime contractor's problem. It's extremely stupid. I've already sent out an email that describes why you want firewalls even inside your corporate firewall.
But, mainly, they use it for "convenience". See, they can use VNC and other things to remote manage their systems from inside of their offices rather than in the fabrication facility itself.
One major manufacturing facility in Taiwan that I work with had its internal network hit including control devices running on Windows NT. It probably caused between 1 to 2 million dollars in damage because of production delays.
I had to stay up till 12am trying to figure what the crap was going on with my equipment when it was communicating with those stupid NT servers. We're running Redhat and I was sitting there using tcpdump trying to figure out what was wrong with the packets.
It looks normal from the Redhat side, but you'll get no responses from the Application layer on the NT side. It must flood the send pipe in the TCP/IP socket layer on the NT side.
WARNING: If you're running Linux in the Enterprise and you're interfacing NT, you'll be blamed first. Just know it ain't your fault.
Many of Tivoli's products are written in Java and it sucks memory up so bad your other critical processes will begin dying after you run out of memory. We had the Tivoli monitoring software installed on IBM x335 Series 1U servers for awhile. There are memory leaks, if you can believe it. One computer ate up to 950MB of RAM and killed our database daemon which partially brought down a production facility. This was an eventual process which took months and snuck underneathe the covers without our knowledge.
You've been warned.
The problem is you don't sue them. You don't complain to executives. You don't try the legal way.
Nor would anyone who could barely buy a $500 machine -- which is the market focus of the article and most of the comments posted already.
That won't work against Free Software though.
Sure it can. Get with a leading distro, say Redhat or SuSE, and for a handsome amount of funding every year, you can get the guarantees required to make yourself happy.
I'll tell you one thing, the price points required for "fanatical" support from Free Software companies and programmers cuts lower than any other proprietary outfit could possibly even offer. And, I would take a risk to say that the quality of that support is more in line with what a customer would want.
I think we need to start some kind of a campaign. The masses must join together to provide something to Joe user that won't scare him. Don't try to explain everything to them, just give them a CD ...
How much would it cost for an AOL-type campaign for Linux? What would it take to make 30 million CDs and mail them to the world? Those that don't want it can use it as wall decoration, just like the AOL CDs!
Funny thing is, these are the same phrases found in that computer science book everyone loathed, you know, that "proof" book. Only thing that's missing is: "It's left as an exercise for the reader".
I guess no one cares.
Hmm ... whatever happened to ESR's RERO recommendation in all of his admired open source paraphernalia? Release Early, Release Often seems to have been thrown away to the auspices of elitism. Oh well, I guess time will tell which projects will be successful.
The Loki Installer stuff is pretty sweet: http://www.megastep.org/makeself/
Never used it for windows.
> It will be more interesting to how well the State enforces this,or how it will be enforced.
;)
Hmm, 10K per spam... I think I'll apply to work for the Michigan Spam Swat Team. I've used nmap a couple of times.
Funny?
See www.codeweavers.com. It does load faster: under wine! Good luck boyz.
*rant*
Plus, I'm tired of the constant replies: upgrade to whizbang version 5000.34.2.1 Build 39480 with Shmackeroo patch in order for the speed to increase. They've replied in this manner with artsd in kde for years: it still don't work and it still is choppy.
Some programs you write in C, others in C++, others in Java. But you never write everything in one language just because its "superior". Imagine the Linux kernel written in Java....
*/rant*
Here goes my karma ...
y +At+A ll&op=users&author=&tid=§ion=&sort =1
... thanks Cliff!
Remember, there has to be strategically placed articles in order for VA or other higher-ups to do some market analysis. In this case, they tested how fast one can utilize Google to come up with an answer or something along a similar vein.
The question was easy. The search was easy. Always take posts with a grain o' salt; especially those with the following when trying to look them up:
The user you requested does not exist, no matter how much you wish this might be the case.
You'd a thunk, the user search would pull something up:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=Not+Rand
Yup, this post has been canned
So long and thanks for all the fish.
>> From there, things get difpferent.
Great job charlie!
They're inviting those who mock and scorn the bad spellers. Obviously, if you've read enough posting here, there appears to be a 20:1 ratio of bad spellers to good spellers. So, there are still some who they can extract sufficient proofreading capabilities from.
Proofread that.
These guys are just jealous because they got wooped at UT2k3 last week and they need to use their unrighteous dominion to put down the gamers that did it to them.
I'm stunned that a guy named Don P Mitchell has copyrights on photos made by a russian satellite.