I use apt-get on redhat too, so there is no distro-war here. Of course I had to install it, but that was painless. Nothing to see people, go about your business.
Month-based job listings are so tedious. One time when I was laid off, they brought in job-placement and employment specialists to help everyone polish their resume, teach those who didn't know how to do an interview, what to say about being laid off etc. One thing they specifically mentioned was the way you list your previous positions. They recommended just listing the years because most people reading the resume were only looking at the highlights anyway.
The sole purpose of a resume is to get you an interview. You should not lie on it about anyting, but simply putting the year in which you worked at a job is not lying--its shorthand.
I believe that every school child should be required to recite the Pledge of Allegience, just as they should be made to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution and other articles of our government and history. To me, there is not much difference.
The Pledge does not require you to say "I do this under God" or that you have anything to do with any God--just that America is a nation under God, and as another poster pointed out, the average American does believe in a God. Some believe in lots of gods and some do not believe that any god exists at all. Each is welcome to their own opinion.
I think more is being made over this than there should be. I also think that the small point over whether or not the father can actually bring the case to court may be telling, since he didn't have custody of the child, and the child's mother, who does have custody, has no problem with the pledge. The mother even goes so far as to state that the daughter has no problems with pledge--she's not uncomfortable with it at all. Its all her father's problem. Technically, he is not being injured by the action, so he has no right to bring the case.
I find the article's amusing suggestion that MS could send update CDs to everyone on the planet scary. Its bad enough that I get my monthly AOL CD. I don't want a quarterly MS CD either.
Ah, I'm saved. I didn't see any Digital Underground either.
I was surprised to see some of the music on there. Erasure? I have not listened to them in years. Many of the artists (?) that had the largest list of songs were ones that I have not even heard of, must less heard their music. The notable exception here is Michael Jackson, but he doesn't really count anymore anyway.
Please don't even remind me about homebrew rackmount watercooling... Just remember to always check if the water is not leaking anywhere before you turn it on together with $15000 equipment. This is a lesson I learned the hard way...
I couldn't help but laugh as I looked at your message then looked at your sig about a superior intellect.
1 - it will be deemed evasion of the law, and you will be tossed in jail for that alone. And most likely cause presumed guilt for the first offence too..
The only way it could be deemed evasion of the law is if the law said it was mandatory to have this device. Right now its complete optional--GM has taken the lead on having lots of data in the EDR, but others, such as Chrysler, have less data in the EDR.
As other posters have said, I think that trying to mod the chip would be dangerous. This data feed is likely to be the same one that goes to important things like anti-lock brakes, traction control, etc.
DFossmeister
We all have seen the clauses in the Terms of Service that say that email is not private, that this is univerisity owned equipment and such. I can understand if they were going to scan incoming email for attachments, but it would appear that they want to scan the student's personal computer too!
My bet is that if they scan the student's computers that they are going to find more porn than music...
I always thought that was CA. They bought lots of good software products, bastardized it, and lost their marketshare.
At a pharm. where I used to work, when CA bought a product we were using, we immediately contacted all of our sales folks to find a replacement solution.
I have to refute this. Yahoo's spam filtering catches about 80% of the spam that I receive on my account there.
Just now I checked my Yahoo account, and I had 78 emails in the bulk folder and 15 in the Inbox. Of that 15, 14 were SPAM. That is 77.5% just for today.
This is good. I use my Yahoo account primarily for things that I suspect might clog up my real email account.
Several comes to mind--Test Perspective, LoadPro, ActiveTest, etc. You can also buy your own software to do this, or write something in a script language.
I'm most familiar with LoadPro and Test Perspective..and of course scripting it.
With Test Perspective, you can record the way the web app works, then have them play it back for you with lots of variations with however many number of users you want.
LoadPro (http://www.keynote.com/solutions/html/keyreadines s_works.html) has the ability to randomly fill in forms with lists of data you give it. It will figure out what form it is, select the right list of data, submit the form and go to the next one. It can validate that the form returns the correct data too.
Scripting it yourself is pretty easy too, but you want to make sure you use one that does http 1.1 (perl LWP doesn't) and you want to model your users accurately.
As for purchasing a tool, there is SILK Performer and Segue, both traditional functionality testing tools
There are many possibilies for this that aren't available yet. Adaptec was mentioned as building an ASIC to handle this, but they are behind due to the IPsec requirement.
Once Adaptec and other storage vendors get their act together, there will be better integrations of this technology. For instance, you have a controller card for this that has a NIC integrated into it. It has NVRAM on it that remembers connections, keys, etc. on it. You plug this card into your Fe/Ge switch. The card has a static or DHCP address, boots its own internal IP stack and presents a scsi interface to the host machine. Instead of the OS issues mentioned in the parent, you would load a block device to access the card and its all done. It can be totally transparent to the OS. Configuration could be done in software on the fly to add/remove disks.
I personally think this is wonderful technology! There will be evolutions in how you configure an infrastructure to handle this (separate switches for this on Ge)--give it a few months after IETF 1.0 draft.
Regardless of what I think, the market will decide. If it was supported at the card level now, I'd buy it today.
I read that RedHat yanked all of their mp3 players off their site due to fears over the $0.75 charge that was now applicable to them. With the removal of that one line from the license policy, it appears that they might be right--at least for boxed sets. They sell the box sets of RedHat, thus selling the software inside of it.
You want local folks to compete for spectrum with the baby bells? I don't know how much money you have to contribute to this effort, but the millions of dollars that corporations pay for spectrum is out of my reach, and I would imagine most other individual's reach too.
Corps who pay this much for their slice of spectrum expect some return on their investment. I may not like it that they charge us so much to use it, but I cannot help but understand it.
Until then, I'll keep up my plans to lay my own fiber in my area (and hope my neighbors stop reporting me for trespassing.)
The corps also have to pay right of way and easement fees to property owners, not steal it like you are. There are real costs to doing business that must be considered. I also have to wonder where you are getting that fiber from--multimode cable is not the cheapest thing to buy, not to mention the transceivers and repeaters you'll need.
O'Reilly has such a book out on this called Physics for Game Developers that goes into much details on this sort of thing. There is an article on O'Reilly's site by the author of the book talking about it.
Colliding billiard balls. Missile trajectories. Cornering dynamics in speeding cars. By applying the laws of physics, you can realistically model nearly everything in games that bounces around, flies, rolls, slides, or isn't sitting still, to create compelling, believable content for computer games, simulations, and animation.
Physics for Game Developers serves as the starting point for enriching games with physics-based realism.
Now, I have a copy of the book, and even cracked the cover on it once, but I don't recall if it had any real code in it or what language the code was in, assuming that said code exists. The concepts were really cool though.
DFossMeister
This *might* be a good, but unlikely
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Of course, with a Q4 release, who is to know? As they say, the proof is in the pudding.
I will be more interested in this discussion when the 1.1 version of this new combined distro is released. I've not actually used any of these distros for any period of time. I purchased Caldera back in 1999, but found it to be weak, so I went back to RedHat.
It will be difficult for these guys to break into the business market unless what they have is really overwhelming--and their support has to really ROCK! I admin over 100 servers using Redhat 7.[12] now, and its very smooth. I don't look forward to having to rewrite my admin scripts for a new distro, get used to a new way of doing things, etc.
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I know that I have never consiously opted-in for spam, but I get it on my "registration" email account quite frequently (I maintain a registration account that I only use when registering for things--thus I do not need to pay attention to it often).
When registering for things over the net, sometimes the terms of service require that you accept email from them. Of course their privacy statement says that they will never divulge your information, but we all know that this is not true. Just think about EggHead, or any other company that sold its assets while getting their listing on fuckedcompany.com.
Then there is the fine print on the email. "By reading this email, you consent to be included in our email list. If you with to unsubscribe, please click on this link which really doesn't work anyway."
All in all, I think this is a good step by the SPAM company to limit its liability. If someone sues the spammer, he can point his finger elsewhere and say that they bought a list of verified opt-in email addresses, and that in good faith, he wasn't sending SPAM to anyone who didn't want it.
$12 for 4000 impressions? I wasn't aware that the ad market had gotten so lucrative. Most places only want to pay a few cents per 1000 impressions, not a few dollars per 1000 impressions. And text ads are less expensive to serve too!
I wish them the best of luck, but I don't see many advertisers paying that much.
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I use apt-get on redhat too, so there is no distro-war here. Of course I had to install it, but that was painless. Nothing to see people, go about your business.
Did I see Caldera Systems in that list? I am just sure that they are going to support placing Java under the GPL.
Caldara, now SCO would love to just sue someone over their rights that they have because of being on the Executive Committee.
That post said 2001--when are the next elections?
Month-based job listings are so tedious. One time when I was laid off, they brought in job-placement and employment specialists to help everyone polish their resume, teach those who didn't know how to do an interview, what to say about being laid off etc. One thing they specifically mentioned was the way you list your previous positions. They recommended just listing the years because most people reading the resume were only looking at the highlights anyway.
The sole purpose of a resume is to get you an interview. You should not lie on it about anyting, but simply putting the year in which you worked at a job is not lying--its shorthand.
I believe that every school child should be required to recite the Pledge of Allegience, just as they should be made to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution and other articles of our government and history. To me, there is not much difference.
The Pledge does not require you to say "I do this under God" or that you have anything to do with any God--just that America is a nation under God, and as another poster pointed out, the average American does believe in a God. Some believe in lots of gods and some do not believe that any god exists at all. Each is welcome to their own opinion.
I think more is being made over this than there should be. I also think that the small point over whether or not the father can actually bring the case to court may be telling, since he didn't have custody of the child, and the child's mother, who does have custody, has no problem with the pledge. The mother even goes so far as to state that the daughter has no problems with pledge--she's not uncomfortable with it at all. Its all her father's problem. Technically, he is not being injured by the action, so he has no right to bring the case.
I find the article's amusing suggestion that MS could send update CDs to everyone on the planet scary. Its bad enough that I get my monthly AOL CD. I don't want a quarterly MS CD either.
Did anyone else notice this, or was it just me?
Ah, I'm saved. I didn't see any Digital Underground either.
I was surprised to see some of the music on there. Erasure? I have not listened to them in years. Many of the artists (?) that had the largest list of songs were ones that I have not even heard of, must less heard their music. The notable exception here is Michael Jackson, but he doesn't really count anymore anyway.
I couldn't help but laugh as I looked at your message then looked at your sig about a superior intellect.
The only way it could be deemed evasion of the law is if the law said it was mandatory to have this device. Right now its complete optional--GM has taken the lead on having lots of data in the EDR, but others, such as Chrysler, have less data in the EDR.
As other posters have said, I think that trying to mod the chip would be dangerous. This data feed is likely to be the same one that goes to important things like anti-lock brakes, traction control, etc. DFossmeister
They want to scan their email too?
We all have seen the clauses in the Terms of Service that say that email is not private, that this is univerisity owned equipment and such. I can understand if they were going to scan incoming email for attachments, but it would appear that they want to scan the student's personal computer too!
My bet is that if they scan the student's computers that they are going to find more porn than music...
Why did the USGS stop measuring these uncorrellated events after 1993? It seems like a good source of interesting information to me...
DFossmeister
I always thought that was CA. They bought lots of good software products, bastardized it, and lost their marketshare.
At a pharm. where I used to work, when CA bought a product we were using, we immediately contacted all of our sales folks to find a replacement solution.
DFossmeister
I have to refute this. Yahoo's spam filtering catches about 80% of the spam that I receive on my account there.
Just now I checked my Yahoo account, and I had 78 emails in the bulk folder and 15 in the Inbox. Of that 15, 14 were SPAM. That is 77.5% just for today.
This is good. I use my Yahoo account primarily for things that I suspect might clog up my real email account.
DFossmeister
Arg..I screwed up the link.
s _works.html
LoadPro can be found at http://www.keynote.com/solutions/html/keyreadines
DFossmeister
Several comes to mind--Test Perspective, LoadPro, ActiveTest, etc. You can also buy your own software to do this, or write something in a script language.
s s_works.html) has the ability to randomly fill in forms with lists of data you give it. It will figure out what form it is, select the right list of data, submit the form and go to the next one. It can validate that the form returns the correct data too.
I'm most familiar with LoadPro and Test Perspective..and of course scripting it.
With Test Perspective, you can record the way the web app works, then have them play it back for you with lots of variations with however many number of users you want.
LoadPro (http://www.keynote.com/solutions/html/keyreadine
Scripting it yourself is pretty easy too, but you want to make sure you use one that does http 1.1 (perl LWP doesn't) and you want to model your users accurately.
As for purchasing a tool, there is SILK Performer and Segue, both traditional functionality testing tools
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There are many possibilies for this that aren't available yet. Adaptec was mentioned as building an ASIC to handle this, but they are behind due to the IPsec requirement.
Once Adaptec and other storage vendors get their act together, there will be better integrations of this technology. For instance, you have a controller card for this that has a NIC integrated into it. It has NVRAM on it that remembers connections, keys, etc. on it. You plug this card into your Fe/Ge switch. The card has a static or DHCP address, boots its own internal IP stack and presents a scsi interface to the host machine. Instead of the OS issues mentioned in the parent, you would load a block device to access the card and its all done. It can be totally transparent to the OS. Configuration could be done in software on the fly to add/remove disks.
I personally think this is wonderful technology! There will be evolutions in how you configure an infrastructure to handle this (separate switches for this on Ge)--give it a few months after IETF 1.0 draft.
Regardless of what I think, the market will decide. If it was supported at the card level now, I'd buy it today.
DFossMeister
I read that RedHat yanked all of their mp3 players off their site due to fears over the $0.75 charge that was now applicable to them. With the removal of that one line from the license policy, it appears that they might be right--at least for boxed sets. They sell the box sets of RedHat, thus selling the software inside of it.
DFossmeister
Why don't you run Adabas, DB2 or Oracle on the linux boxes then? Doesn't seem that hard to me.
DFossmeister
If I see any aliens with lasers pointed at me, I plan to run! I'm not taking any chances.
DFossMeister
Is it just me or has anyone else thought about the comparison/contrast with the gnomes of Krynn?
Krynnish gnomes have names long enough to bore an Ent, but the gnomes speak way, way fast.
The Krynnish gnomes take as long as Ents to decide anything, but that's because of the committees.
DFossMeister
Corps who pay this much for their slice of spectrum expect some return on their investment. I may not like it that they charge us so much to use it, but I cannot help but understand it.
The corps also have to pay right of way and easement fees to property owners, not steal it like you are. There are real costs to doing business that must be considered. I also have to wonder where you are getting that fiber from--multimode cable is not the cheapest thing to buy, not to mention the transceivers and repeaters you'll need.
DFossmeister
To quote from the book description:
Now, I have a copy of the book, and even cracked the cover on it once, but I don't recall if it had any real code in it or what language the code was in, assuming that said code exists. The concepts were really cool though.
DFossMeister
Of course, with a Q4 release, who is to know? As they say, the proof is in the pudding.
I will be more interested in this discussion when the 1.1 version of this new combined distro is released. I've not actually used any of these distros for any period of time. I purchased Caldera back in 1999, but found it to be weak, so I went back to RedHat.
It will be difficult for these guys to break into the business market unless what they have is really overwhelming--and their support has to really ROCK! I admin over 100 servers using Redhat 7.[12] now, and its very smooth. I don't look forward to having to rewrite my admin scripts for a new distro, get used to a new way of doing things, etc.
DFossmeister
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How about Kommon Desktop Environment, as a spoof of CDE (Common Desktop Environment), a [sort of] popular commercial desktop.
I know that I have never consiously opted-in for spam, but I get it on my "registration" email account quite frequently (I maintain a registration account that I only use when registering for things--thus I do not need to pay attention to it often).
When registering for things over the net, sometimes the terms of service require that you accept email from them. Of course their privacy statement says that they will never divulge your information, but we all know that this is not true. Just think about EggHead, or any other company that sold its assets while getting their listing on fuckedcompany.com.
Then there is the fine print on the email. "By reading this email, you consent to be included in our email list. If you with to unsubscribe, please click on this link which really doesn't work anyway."
All in all, I think this is a good step by the SPAM company to limit its liability. If someone sues the spammer, he can point his finger elsewhere and say that they bought a list of verified opt-in email addresses, and that in good faith, he wasn't sending SPAM to anyone who didn't want it.
DFossMeister
$12 for 4000 impressions? I wasn't aware that the ad market had gotten so lucrative. Most places only want to pay a few cents per 1000 impressions, not a few dollars per 1000 impressions. And text ads are less expensive to serve too!
I wish them the best of luck, but I don't see many advertisers paying that much.