There is no restriction in the concept of SMP to run even numbers of processors, unlike what the article implies. I've had plenty of systems that could scale with whatever number of processors I could get my hands on. I've got a couple of three processor Suns running right now.
Architecturally, however, there is some simplicity in at least designing for an even number.
You did know that not only did you have to update the zone stuff in Linux, but reboot as well, or at least restart all applications that make use of it (including syslog, apache, etc.)? Some vendors seem to have forgotten that bit of info in their instructions. We did some independent research to find out that updating the zoneinfo files alone wasn't enough - and then we started to see updated instructions from at least one vendor, where they tacked on the need to reboot...
This is why its scary to work for any big company these days...maybe what you do next doesn't compete now, but it could potentially compete later, etc.
I had the good fortune(!) to be laid of from my Extremely Large Employer that bought my group from my former Small Employer, so they really didn't have much to say in the matter. Even the Small Employer was known for being nasty at times over things like this.
It seems often that the ELEs don't care if they have a basis to sue you. You don't even need a basis to find suit - its up to the Finder Of Fact (judge or jury) to decide if they had the basis - but most ELEs don't expect it to get that far...they'll hope you'll settle because you can't afford to go against the ELE and their Extremely Large Army of Lawyers.
Is there anything on the books (or perhaps a bill) that make an ELE not only pay legal fees, but perhaps treble damages or some such for bringing suit without basis?
Messing with Texas"? Come on...its normal for the business to be done this way when you are buying lots of land from many sellers.
It has, after all, been done before...
- This is only on DirecTV. Don't have DirecTV? You ain't gonna see it.
- It airs on Channel 101 (normally CDUSA) in the late evening.
- Tonight (9/10), you can catch all three episodes, plus some animated shorts in between, starting at 6PM ET. Check your EPG to be sure - the west coast may have second feed that would air it later.
Let them start out with punch cards and toggle switches...make them WORK to program. They can learn binary, hex, ASCII, and how computers work all at once.
Sigh...for the days of deugging assembly with just a pencil and paper, step by step...
After they pass that course, then they can use whatever the hell they want.
I've had a studnet argue with me that UNIX (circa '92) should have included graphics libraries. I argued that if he was a CS major he should have been able to program them himself.
I've had people in an Advanced UNIX Programming class that had only ever programmed in Turbo C++.
I knew of a CS PhD candidate who only ever used a Mac.
They will never learn the implications of their programming if they don't learn it the hard way.
"A number of recent reports and columns are portraying Blackberry (and similar solutions) as time wasting, productivity lowering behemoths that don't deserve to exist."
Well, I'm losing my job Tuesday because of outsourcing - or offshoring, or whatever you want to call it. I'm a senior UNIX guy, and after a Very Large Consulting Company bought my group from much smaller company (they wanted the contract we had, we couldn't bring in affordable talent to go 24x7 like the customer wanted), we brought a group out of Bangalore into our work.
We suffered through retention problems, scheduling problems, and generally a lack of knowledge - we couldn't even get experienced admins - we got college grads. Turnover rate was 30-40%, and this wasn't for some helpdesk script-reader - this required some knowledge and talent, and even those who have been doing it for a year pale in comparison to the work we did - with just three people we could outperform 15 in Bangalore.
Last year, we got traded internally within our own company - and they relocated our work to Toronto, and basically said bye-bye - thanks for documenting everything.
Fortunately things didn't go so well to start, that we've been kept on until now.
I've been looking STRONGLY for a few months. Recruiters talk up a lot of jobs, but I never seem to see the ones I like - instead its all customer-service-type roles instead of traditional admin roles. So I hit the unemployment line Wednesday unless something radically changes.
So, yeah, there are jobs out there. But some places DON'T WANT senior people. I've seen a number of job postings that actually state they want NO MORE THAN X years of experience, etc.
Let's see - water splits into 2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom...hydrogen in the presense of oxygen can be ignited to produce water vapor, which contains...umm...2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, leaving...ummm...nothing?
What excess oxygen are they talking about? Sure, the hydrogen could combine with the oxygen in the room that's already there, and therefore there would be excess from the original separation, but we are talking a net zero gain...it's no like we're adding oxygen to our home, which really has no benefit...
Would it be that difficult to simple wire in a loop to a contact button, such that the induction circuit is open unless you press the button, and thus the induction field itself is not enough to read the card?
I find that, since I sit on the right-hand side of the couch which has a decently wide-yet-soft-and-rounded arm, a nice thick and stiff hardbound book (I use the "Black And Decker Complete Guide to Home Repair") with a simple cheap soft mousepad works great with my Logitech wireless optical mouse.
Those with some sort of RSI may need to adjust, but it doesn't bother me at all.
We had a lot of Digital DECstation workstations. One of them stopped working, so I called Field Service, and our usual guy comes out. Although it is a straight-up motherboard swap, he needs to do some diagnosis to put on the tag to engineering.
As is, the system wouldn't POST. He took the cover off, tested it again, and it POSTed fine. Figuring something was loose, he tightened all the connections. Put the cover on, system wouldn't POST. Took the cover off, system would POST. Lather, rinse, repeat.
We decide NOT to put hte cover completely on, but just lay it down on top, upside down so the internals were covered, but nothing scresed in or possibly shorting. Won't work. Take it off, works fine.
New theory - took a piece of cardboard laying nearby, and covered the case. Wouldn't work. Took it off, and it worked. Took a piece of paper, covered parts of the motherboard at a time, and slowly narrowed down the location.
The DECstation 5000s had a pair of large EPROMS with labels on them. The labels covered small round windows which I assume was for "flashing" the EPROM to wipe it out and reprogram. Apparently, they had somehow developed a sensitivity to light. A single sheet of paper was enough to block the light to prevent them from working.
I'm no electrical engineer, but this was bizarre.
The field service engineer put "afraid of the dark" on the tag, and left it at that.
The body of the article says "Beagle 2 Mars lander has failed to broadcast its landing confirmation signal", but it should more correctly read that the "Beagle 2 Mars lander landing confirmation signal has not been received". They have no way to know at this point if it was broadcast or not - they simply did not pick it up when expected using a piece of equipment they aren't certain would pick it up anyways.
Jodrell Bank (I believe Britain's largest radio telescope) should be able to pick it up if it is out there when it gets pointed at it (2200GMT).
My soon-to-be wife and I on our first trip to WDW in 1997 got stuck in the Horizons ride in Epcot - it was a continuous motion ride much like Spaceship Earth, and we only were there for about 20-25 minutes. The problem was the ride had two VERY large dome projection screens, and we got stuck at one of them, with a continuous loop that included a flight clip where you are swooping down and turning, making you feel like you are moving. Sit through that for 20 straight minutes and you can develop a serious case of vertigo.
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There is no restriction in the concept of SMP to run even numbers of processors, unlike what the article implies. I've had plenty of systems that could scale with whatever number of processors I could get my hands on. I've got a couple of three processor Suns running right now.
Architecturally, however, there is some simplicity in at least designing for an even number.
You did know that not only did you have to update the zone stuff in Linux, but reboot as well, or at least restart all applications that make use of it (including syslog, apache, etc.)? Some vendors seem to have forgotten that bit of info in their instructions. We did some independent research to find out that updating the zoneinfo files alone wasn't enough - and then we started to see updated instructions from at least one vendor, where they tacked on the need to reboot...
I had the good fortune(!) to be laid of from my Extremely Large Employer that bought my group from my former Small Employer, so they really didn't have much to say in the matter. Even the Small Employer was known for being nasty at times over things like this.
It seems often that the ELEs don't care if they have a basis to sue you. You don't even need a basis to find suit - its up to the Finder Of Fact (judge or jury) to decide if they had the basis - but most ELEs don't expect it to get that far...they'll hope you'll settle because you can't afford to go against the ELE and their Extremely Large Army of Lawyers.
Is there anything on the books (or perhaps a bill) that make an ELE not only pay legal fees, but perhaps treble damages or some such for bringing suit without basis?
Messing with Texas"? Come on...its normal for the business to be done this way when you are buying lots of land from many sellers. It has, after all, been done before...
No, but it is media fodder...
Since there are so many questions:
- This is only on DirecTV. Don't have DirecTV? You ain't gonna see it.
- It airs on Channel 101 (normally CDUSA) in the late evening.
- Tonight (9/10), you can catch all three episodes, plus some animated shorts in between, starting at 6PM ET. Check your EPG to be sure - the west coast may have second feed that would air it later.
I think Jaime and Adam should check this one out. They've played with lightning and electrical shocks to bodies before...
So, would that make this cloud "Moonshine"?
Let them start out with punch cards and toggle switches...make them WORK to program. They can learn binary, hex, ASCII, and how computers work all at once.
Sigh...for the days of deugging assembly with just a pencil and paper, step by step...
After they pass that course, then they can use whatever the hell they want.
I've had a studnet argue with me that UNIX (circa '92) should have included graphics libraries. I argued that if he was a CS major he should have been able to program them himself.
I've had people in an Advanced UNIX Programming class that had only ever programmed in Turbo C++.
I knew of a CS PhD candidate who only ever used a Mac.
They will never learn the implications of their programming if they don't learn it the hard way.
"A number of recent reports and columns are portraying Blackberry (and similar solutions) as time wasting, productivity lowering behemoths that don't deserve to exist."
:)
You mean, like, say, the Internet?
No replies here yet, and its already slashdotted... :) Must be allergic to the ponies...
...if you are anywhere BUT the Americas for the most part. It's April 1st in most of the world now.
Argghhh...I....can't...see....blinded...must...plu ck...out...eyes...
Well, I'm losing my job Tuesday because of outsourcing - or offshoring, or whatever you want to call it. I'm a senior UNIX guy, and after a Very Large Consulting Company bought my group from much smaller company (they wanted the contract we had, we couldn't bring in affordable talent to go 24x7 like the customer wanted), we brought a group out of Bangalore into our work.
We suffered through retention problems, scheduling problems, and generally a lack of knowledge - we couldn't even get experienced admins - we got college grads. Turnover rate was 30-40%, and this wasn't for some helpdesk script-reader - this required some knowledge and talent, and even those who have been doing it for a year pale in comparison to the work we did - with just three people we could outperform 15 in Bangalore.
Last year, we got traded internally within our own company - and they relocated our work to Toronto, and basically said bye-bye - thanks for documenting everything.
Fortunately things didn't go so well to start, that we've been kept on until now.
I've been looking STRONGLY for a few months. Recruiters talk up a lot of jobs, but I never seem to see the ones I like - instead its all customer-service-type roles instead of traditional admin roles. So I hit the unemployment line Wednesday unless something radically changes.
So, yeah, there are jobs out there. But some places DON'T WANT senior people. I've seen a number of job postings that actually state they want NO MORE THAN X years of experience, etc.
Does anyone else find this funny?
Let's see - water splits into 2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom...hydrogen in the presense of oxygen can be ignited to produce water vapor, which contains...umm...2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, leaving...ummm...nothing?
What excess oxygen are they talking about? Sure, the hydrogen could combine with the oxygen in the room that's already there, and therefore there would be excess from the original separation, but we are talking a net zero gain...it's no like we're adding oxygen to our home, which really has no benefit...
Would it be that difficult to simple wire in a loop to a contact button, such that the induction circuit is open unless you press the button, and thus the induction field itself is not enough to read the card?
They do know that the "light" side of the moon spends 14 days out of 28 in darkness, right?
Dude, you've duped again...
I find that, since I sit on the right-hand side of the couch which has a decently wide-yet-soft-and-rounded arm, a nice thick and stiff hardbound book (I use the "Black And Decker Complete Guide to Home Repair") with a simple cheap soft mousepad works great with my Logitech wireless optical mouse.
Those with some sort of RSI may need to adjust, but it doesn't bother me at all.
I had an opposite issue in a sense...
We had a lot of Digital DECstation workstations. One of them stopped working, so I called Field Service, and our usual guy comes out. Although it is a straight-up motherboard swap, he needs to do some diagnosis to put on the tag to engineering.
As is, the system wouldn't POST. He took the cover off, tested it again, and it POSTed fine. Figuring something was loose, he tightened all the connections. Put the cover on, system wouldn't POST. Took the cover off, system would POST. Lather, rinse, repeat.
We decide NOT to put hte cover completely on, but just lay it down on top, upside down so the internals were covered, but nothing scresed in or possibly shorting. Won't work. Take it off, works fine.
New theory - took a piece of cardboard laying nearby, and covered the case. Wouldn't work. Took it off, and it worked. Took a piece of paper, covered parts of the motherboard at a time, and slowly narrowed down the location.
The DECstation 5000s had a pair of large EPROMS with labels on them. The labels covered small round windows which I assume was for "flashing" the EPROM to wipe it out and reprogram. Apparently, they had somehow developed a sensitivity to light. A single sheet of paper was enough to block the light to prevent them from working.
I'm no electrical engineer, but this was bizarre.
The field service engineer put "afraid of the dark" on the tag, and left it at that.
Try and debug that one on a help desk phone...
Perhaps you weren't being serious, but...it's been optioned for movies...
The press release is from January, and they've talked about it back as far as August 2001...
The body of the article says "Beagle 2 Mars lander has failed to broadcast its landing confirmation signal", but it should more correctly read that the "Beagle 2 Mars lander landing confirmation signal has not been received". They have no way to know at this point if it was broadcast or not - they simply did not pick it up when expected using a piece of equipment they aren't certain would pick it up anyways.
Jodrell Bank (I believe Britain's largest radio telescope) should be able to pick it up if it is out there when it gets pointed at it (2200GMT).
I forgot to mention that Horizons closed sometime after, and was completely rebuilt as Mission: Space...
My soon-to-be wife and I on our first trip to WDW in 1997 got stuck in the Horizons ride in Epcot - it was a continuous motion ride much like Spaceship Earth, and we only were there for about 20-25 minutes. The problem was the ride had two VERY large dome projection screens, and we got stuck at one of them, with a continuous loop that included a flight clip where you are swooping down and turning, making you feel like you are moving. Sit through that for 20 straight minutes and you can develop a serious case of vertigo.