Continental Airlines, at least. The 777s in which I flew recently had the seat-back entertainment systems in economy class. Those systems, BTW, run Linux - I managed to crash one while playing a game and the thing awarded me with kernel boot-up messages.
Just how old is the current system? DOS era computing? CTOS? ENIAC?
The FAA's flight plan system uses two Philips DS714 computers. Network World ran an article in 2005 when the FAA announced that they'd be replacing them with two Stratus ftServer boxes. It's not difficult to imagine that they haven't come close to that goal yet.
If you want to see how creaky the DS714s are, take a look here.
My belief is that Stephenson still hasn't found a way to finish a novel properly, so he keeps writing them longer and longer, trying to find the ending.
What's so bad about diff that you're not using it already? Certainly it would be a better choice for dealing with multiple text files: make a working copy (which can be an entire directory tree), do your changes on the working copy, and then run diff against the original and working copies. And I bet that there's an Emacs mode for that too.
Well, this wouldn't be the first time Nvidia drivers are responsible for instability.
At 28.8%, nVidia still has a long way to go to reach the epitome of device driver excellence that is ATI's collection of video drivers. Those extrusions of fecal material have accounted for more cases of alopecia on users than most other kinds of software. I'm actually surprised that the submitter didn't take a swipe at ATI while writing about driver crashes; the urge to do that must've been immense. In fact, ATI driver problems where the single biggest contributor to Jerry Pournelle's best writing ever in Byte Magazine's Chaos Manor column.
I have word from a "reliable source" that the next Wii upgrade will go by the name of Superfly Johnson (Suupaa Dankon in Japan). The bundled game will be Daikatana 2: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.
If a big Cisco or Juniper is running WDRP (Wiggly Dance Routing Protocol), does each line card do a different dance from the other cards in the chassis? What would such a router be called then, a hoedown? If the line cards started dancing "Thriller", will the router turn white and start chatting to young boys on IM?
I went to the Observatory nearly two years ago, and they had a smallish visitors centre at the base of one of the three support towers. The centre has a balcony right at the edge of the dish, which possibly causes vertigo to a few people. Access is much better now too, just a few minutes west of PR-10 (a four-lane arterial). Even with that and the little souvenir shop however, I don't think that they could ever make up for the loss in funding.
Seeing that I'm in Puerto Rico now, maybe I should visit the big dish again.
And the Windows Vista driver sucks, somewhat hilariously.
It wasn't too long ago that I was at Microsoft's Philadelphia offices for an Exchange 2007 presentation. The first thing that they wanted to show was a short video on a projection screen -- what they actually showed the audience was a Vista laptop with ATI graphics choking half way through a two-minute video and then puking an error message saying that the video driver crashed and was being restarted. And some guy behind me said "Twelve years later and they still can't get the presentation right."
You don't need to wait for the auto manufacturers -- simply replace the stock ECU with a MegaSquirt ECU, for which source code and schematics are available. You can buy a kit with all of the parts and the pre-programmed EEPROM, or you can buy a pre-assembled and pre-programmed from here -- even plug-and-play wiring harnesses are available.
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they may very well BE morons, but at least give them a chance to respond before being pilloried by Linus
He's following Ext3 writeback semantics. You'll have to wait for a patch to fix his behaviour.
We're using a much more robust solution called JIRA.
Automatic JIRA or Manual JIRA?
10Base-T? They'll chew through that even more quickly.
Oh, you meant 10Base-5. Get your cabling denominations straight.
Continental Airlines, at least. The 777s in which I flew recently had the seat-back entertainment systems in economy class. Those systems, BTW, run Linux - I managed to crash one while playing a game and the thing awarded me with kernel boot-up messages.
I'll bet my ex-wife and a bucket of used kitty litter."
I bet your ex-wife felt like a bucket of used kitty litter. Hah!
Of course. If you're going to get shafted, you'd better derive some benefit from it.
000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. KILL-SARAH-CONNOR.
000300
000400*
000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. SKYNET.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. T-800.
000900
001000 DATA DIVISION.
001100 FILE SECTION.
001200
100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100100
100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
100400 PERFORM UNTIL SarahConnorIsDead.
100500 FIND SARAH CONNOR.
100600 SHOOT SARAH CONNOR.
100700 END-PERFORM.
100800 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
100900 EXIT.
Just how old is the current system? DOS era computing? CTOS? ENIAC?
The FAA's flight plan system uses two Philips DS714 computers. Network World ran an article in 2005 when the FAA announced that they'd be replacing them with two Stratus ftServer boxes. It's not difficult to imagine that they haven't come close to that goal yet.
If you want to see how creaky the DS714s are, take a look here.
My belief is that Stephenson still hasn't found a way to finish a novel properly, so he keeps writing them longer and longer, trying to find the ending.
What's so bad about diff that you're not using it already? Certainly it would be a better choice for dealing with multiple text files: make a working copy (which can be an entire directory tree), do your changes on the working copy, and then run diff against the original and working copies. And I bet that there's an Emacs mode for that too.
HAMMER-time!
Yes, but which HAMMER-time? HAMMER-atime, HAMMER-ctime, or HAMMER-mtime?
lol. If my boss read slashdot, he would probably be a better programmer.
You mean, reading Slashdot causes beard growth? No wonder I have to shave regularly.
Oh, yeah, I'm also not a very good programmer.
Geez, and here I was thinking it was 10 with just a little bit extra.
These go to eleven.
Well, this wouldn't be the first time Nvidia drivers are responsible for instability.
At 28.8%, nVidia still has a long way to go to reach the epitome of device driver excellence that is ATI's collection of video drivers. Those extrusions of fecal material have accounted for more cases of alopecia on users than most other kinds of software. I'm actually surprised that the submitter didn't take a swipe at ATI while writing about driver crashes; the urge to do that must've been immense. In fact, ATI driver problems where the single biggest contributor to Jerry Pournelle's best writing ever in Byte Magazine's Chaos Manor column.
PGSql isn't so bad.
"Piggy-SQL" definitely isn't kosher either.
I like to think of the different modes as:
5 obnoxious people,
4 clueless ushers,
3 rude teenagers,
2 ticket takers,
and a manager to sit in your den.
Your comment. I fixed it for you.
I have word from a "reliable source" that the next Wii upgrade will go by the name of Superfly Johnson (Suupaa Dankon in Japan). The bundled game will be Daikatana 2: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.
In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman uses a Beowulf cluster built by CowboyNeal to submit a first post with the comment "frosty piss".
There you go, you can scratch one off of your list. You're welcome.
Now we'll have routers do the wiggly bee dance
If a big Cisco or Juniper is running WDRP (Wiggly Dance Routing Protocol), does each line card do a different dance from the other cards in the chassis? What would such a router be called then, a hoedown? If the line cards started dancing "Thriller", will the router turn white and start chatting to young boys on IM?
I went to the Observatory nearly two years ago, and they had a smallish visitors centre at the base of one of the three support towers. The centre has a balcony right at the edge of the dish, which possibly causes vertigo to a few people. Access is much better now too, just a few minutes west of PR-10 (a four-lane arterial). Even with that and the little souvenir shop however, I don't think that they could ever make up for the loss in funding.
Seeing that I'm in Puerto Rico now, maybe I should visit the big dish again.
In other news, Doraemon is still scared of mice.
"How to lay pipe."
And the Windows Vista driver sucks, somewhat hilariously.
It wasn't too long ago that I was at Microsoft's Philadelphia offices for an Exchange 2007 presentation. The first thing that they wanted to show was a short video on a projection screen -- what they actually showed the audience was a Vista laptop with ATI graphics choking half way through a two-minute video and then puking an error message saying that the video driver crashed and was being restarted. And some guy behind me said "Twelve years later and they still can't get the presentation right."
You don't need to wait for the auto manufacturers -- simply replace the stock ECU with a MegaSquirt ECU, for which source code and schematics are available. You can buy a kit with all of the parts and the pre-programmed EEPROM, or you can buy a pre-assembled and pre-programmed from here -- even plug-and-play wiring harnesses are available.