Standards of teaching are getting better? Or just that more people google? Though I'd hate to be downgraded because I didn't copy work I found on google, because others have.
Fortunarly there is this, and I can be pure again.
Your feeling I'll, so you pop along to the doctor. Hey Doc, I have a problem can you fix it. The Doc has an Idea what's wrong, could be complicated, but: throws a load of drugs at you does a some tests, your a bit better but, well have some nasty side affects. Changes some of the drugs, and gives you a few more......
In the end, your sort of all right, but a drug addict, and occasionally have to go back and get a different fix from the Doc.
Not-so eXtreme Medicine. Your feeling I'll, so you pop along to the doctor. 'Hey Doc, I have a problem can you fix it.' The Doc has an Idea what's wrong, could be complicated.
I'll put you on some light medication and get an appointment with a consultant.
The consultant comes along, has a word, still not sure, advises the Doc on some better medication gets in a specialist for one of you conditions.
The doc treats most of you conditions, and some have already cleared up. The specialist takes a look at you and give the Doc some more advise and training. After a few months you in perfect health.
seriously the percentage of projects I've seen with features that don't work because that's what the client asked for. Or are poorly put together is amazing.
You can't test if you don't have a design to test against. You can't design if you haven't consulted the requirements.
You may complain against all this greed, isn't that the whole basis of government in the US.
Here's a simple overview and reasons why it's a good idea.
Company X has a good idea/is successfull. They lobby government, or hire expensive lawyers.
Since company X has enough money to do this, the company must be run in a way that benefits the US economy/people.
Weaker people/companies with less money/power aren't doing so well and don't benefit the US so much.
So the rich win because there good enough to be rich. The poor loose because, well, you could be rich and win if you were better. Can't say fairer than that.
My morals are a little bit to the left of that viewpoint.
My uptimes almost a month (since I compiled the kernel).
And yes the 2.4 kernel is shit on the desktop, and windows is shit on the server side.
For the short time I spend re-compiling, fixing &co the kernel I have a mail/web/file server/NAT router running postgress, all easy to maintain and all 'free'.
I know if there's a cash I can probably fix the cause, or at least pass it directly to someone who can.
I'm all for supporting hard up developers, I was once one my self. If anyone lives in the Newbury/Reading/Basingstoke area (UK) and could really do with some extra kit, I've probably got some spare bits floatings around (256MB ram a couple of HDD's, boxed Mandrake 8.0) drop me a mail and I'll see what I can do.
"only helps when you compile exactly the same source for a second time",
That's not what it says on the box, though it seems a bit strange. "If you ever run "make clean; make" then you can probably benefit from ccache."... I do make clean to remove the cache (.o) files kicking around. "...can get exactly the same effect as "make clean; make" but much faster. ", umm... nope/
"......which constantly does clean builds of Samba on about 30 machines after each CVS commit. On some of those machines the build took over an hour. By using ccache we get the same effect as clean builds but about 6 times faster."
This is kinda what developers would be doing, though I'm still a little confused about the make clean.
1: Get an email account with unlimited addresses. 2: when registering use a unique address e.g. slashdot@mydomain.com 3: Make sure you check/uncheck the give my email address to mailing lists. 4: If ever you get spam to that account get litigious.
Use something like mailinglists@mydomain.com, and block anything that doesn't come from mailing lists you've subscribed to.
Cool, that gentoo build doesn't look so bad now...
I'll look at distcc too since I've more than one PC at home.
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? you may have to relink I suppose or are the core API's/interfaces getting changed on an ad-hoc bases?
I can compile core.c and is turns into core.o I can compile fish.c that depends on core.h compiles to fish.o I link fish.o that depends on core.o
If I change core.h (an API change) then I must recompile fish.c If I chnage core.c then I only need to relink fish.o against core.o
If i use dynamic libraries then I don't need to relink atall.
Changes to core.h should be in the form of, 'Right lads, were changing the API, get you design and documentation heads on'
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Have you tried KDE 3.1 with a 2.5 kernel, it's actually slick, even with my crap unacellerated GFX card. The kernel made more of a differnace than anything else, with kernel 2.4.19 with CK performance patchset KDE is clunky as hell, xine skips frames and isn't smooth. kernel 2.5.54 smooth KDE no missing frames in XINE.
If KDE is slick on a crap PC then it's going to run like a dream on a 1.4 GHz Athlon, 512 MB RAM
(or have a div(0) if someones put a bad timing loop in there!).
Also....
"Building KDE on my modern desktop (1.4 GHz Athlon, 512 MB RAM) takes 6-8 hours. Many developers are working on systems which cannot fully build KDE in under 24 hours"
What? 1: get the pre-compiled header patched version of GCC 2: Do you always build the whole tree every time? A kernel compile takes 30mins or so my PC, but if I change a module is takes 1min because everything else is build already and I don't make clean/mrproper.
Hmm... Missed out one of the most important rules.
Give your customer what they want, not what they think they want. This is the whole point of consultancy, to aid the customer in finding the solution that best fits there needs, which is quite frequently not fully what they wanted to start with.
I'm currently working on a nightmare project, were giving the customer what they asked for, even if there are contradictions. I don't think the multinational I work for's ever thought of consultancy.
Etiher,
provide the product that is being charged for for free. (The original GPL version) or
provide the product that is being charged for for free (A coppied [pirated] version)
How are they unscrupulous compaired to the rest of India, China and Africa?
The Western companies that litigare are unscrupulous
No seriously, look at the porn industry. There's more free porn than you could throw a stick at, but there are still pay sites and I presume they do quite well (or not too bad). There's not that much porn on Kazaa and that that is is more freek show than porn!
Porn is the uncrowned king of distributed media. Maybe the RIAA and MPAA should swtich to porn grove and when hary meet sally.
Ok it was this bit here (it made my head go a bit fuzzy )
"For example, if my mail server had a self-signed cert, and another mail server sends me mail without ever before having done so, how can it know that the contacted server (supposedly mine) is really my server and no man-in-the-middle attack is taking place? DNS is *not* failure-proof."
You use the same CA, one that the man-in-the-middle doesn't have access too.
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Standards of teaching are getting better?
Or just that more people google?
Though I'd hate to be downgraded because I didn't copy work I found on google, because others have.
Fortunarly there is this, and I can be pure again.
Do you even know what a Soviet is?
Anyhow the USSR, was not a communist government, if anything it was like a corporate state.
Yet another reason I feel good about fidgeting at school.
1, it burns of calories, around 300 per day.
2, I don't get DVT...
So, I suppose school causes more DVT than work, since at my school the seats were hard plastic, non-reclining.
At work I generally lay back and spread my weight.
GENETICLY ENGENERED yada yada yada grown by AMISH farmers?
And Jesus took the genetically enginered crop, and it was a good smoke.
You run that on a redundant system that you move to live after it has been testes right?
eXtreme Medicine.
Your feeling I'll, so you pop along to the doctor.
Hey Doc, I have a problem can you fix it.
The Doc has an Idea what's wrong, could be complicated, but:
throws a load of drugs at you
does a some tests, your a bit better but, well have some nasty side affects.
Changes some of the drugs, and gives you a few more......
In the end, your sort of all right, but a drug addict, and occasionally have to go back and get a different fix from the Doc.
Not-so eXtreme Medicine.
Your feeling I'll, so you pop along to the doctor.
'Hey Doc, I have a problem can you fix it.'
The Doc has an Idea what's wrong, could be complicated.
I'll put you on some light medication and get an appointment with a consultant.
The consultant comes along, has a word, still not sure, advises the Doc on some better medication gets in a specialist for one of you conditions.
The doc treats most of you conditions, and some have already cleared up.
The specialist takes a look at you and give the Doc some more advise and training.
After a few months you in perfect health.
Do they even consult?
seriously the percentage of projects I've seen with features that don't work because that's what the client asked for. Or are poorly put together is amazing.
You can't test if you don't have a design to test against. You can't design if you haven't consulted the requirements.
You may complain against all this greed, isn't that the whole basis of government in the US.
Here's a simple overview and reasons why it's a good idea.
Company X has a good idea/is successfull.
They lobby government, or hire expensive lawyers.
Since company X has enough money to do this, the company must be run in a way that benefits the US economy/people.
Weaker people/companies with less money/power aren't doing so well and don't benefit the US so much.
So the rich win because there good enough to be rich. The poor loose because, well, you could be rich and win if you were better. Can't say fairer than that.
My morals are a little bit to the left of that viewpoint.
No, but you have to install a patch Bi-weekly.
My uptimes almost a month (since I compiled the kernel).
And yes the 2.4 kernel is shit on the desktop, and windows is shit on the server side.
For the short time I spend re-compiling, fixing &co the kernel I have a mail/web/file server/NAT router running postgress, all easy to maintain and all 'free'.
I know if there's a cash I can probably fix the cause, or at least pass it directly to someone who can.
I'm all for supporting hard up developers, I was once one my self.
If anyone lives in the Newbury/Reading/Basingstoke area (UK) and could really do with some extra kit, I've probably got some spare bits floatings around (256MB ram a couple of HDD's, boxed Mandrake 8.0) drop me a mail and I'll see what I can do.
"only helps when you compile exactly the same source for a second time",
That's not what it says on the box, though it seems a bit strange.
"If you ever run "make clean; make" then you can probably benefit from ccache."... I do make clean to remove the cache (.o) files kicking around.
"...can get exactly the same effect as "make clean; make" but much faster. ", umm... nope/
"......which constantly does clean builds of Samba on about 30 machines after each CVS commit. On some of those machines the build took over an hour. By using ccache we get the same effect as clean builds but about 6 times faster."
This is kinda what developers would be doing, though I'm still a little confused about the make clean.
Apart from when you running wineX.
1: Get an email account with unlimited addresses.
2: when registering use a unique address e.g. slashdot@mydomain.com
3: Make sure you check/uncheck the give my email address to mailing lists.
4: If ever you get spam to that account get litigious.
Use something like mailinglists@mydomain.com, and block anything that doesn't come from mailing lists you've subscribed to.
I found this in one of the posts, looks promising.
Cached compliation, basicly like pre-compiled headers on a per make run basis. No changes required.
Cool, that gentoo build doesn't look so bad now...
I'll look at distcc too since I've more than one PC at home.
? you may have to relink I suppose or are the core API's/interfaces getting changed on an ad-hoc bases?
I can compile core.c and is turns into core.o
I can compile fish.c that depends on core.h compiles to fish.o
I link fish.o that depends on core.o
If I change core.h (an API change) then I must recompile fish.c
If I chnage core.c then I only need to relink fish.o against core.o
If i use dynamic libraries then I don't need to relink atall.
Changes to core.h should be in the form of, 'Right lads, were changing the API, get you design and documentation heads on'
Have you tried KDE 3.1 with a 2.5 kernel, it's actually slick, even with my crap unacellerated GFX card.
The kernel made more of a differnace than anything else, with kernel 2.4.19 with CK performance patchset KDE is clunky as hell, xine skips frames and isn't smooth. kernel 2.5.54 smooth KDE no missing frames in XINE.
If KDE is slick on a crap PC then it's going to run like a dream on a 1.4 GHz Athlon, 512 MB RAM
(or have a div(0) if someones put a bad timing loop in there!).
Also....
"Building KDE on my modern desktop (1.4 GHz Athlon, 512 MB RAM) takes 6-8 hours. Many developers are working on systems which cannot fully build KDE in under 24 hours"
What?
1: get the pre-compiled header patched version of GCC
2: Do you always build the whole tree every time? A kernel compile takes 30mins or so my PC, but if I change a module is takes 1min because everything else is build already and I don't make clean/mrproper.
Hmm... Missed out one of the most important rules.
Give your customer what they want, not what they think they want.
This is the whole point of consultancy, to aid the customer in finding the solution that best fits there needs, which is quite frequently not fully what they wanted to start with.
I'm currently working on a nightmare project, were giving the customer what they asked for, even if there are contradictions. I don't think the multinational I work for's ever thought of consultancy.
umm... didn't the EULA change in the last 'service pack'
Etiher,
provide the product that is being charged for for free. (The original GPL version)
or
provide the product that is being charged for for free (A coppied [pirated] version)
How are they unscrupulous compaired to the rest of India, China and Africa?
The Western companies that litigare are unscrupulous
from the artical it didn't look like TCO was a factor.
1: they liked versioning in postgress.
2: they liked the open source comunity.
3: Oracle didn't have anything over postgress[that wsa usefull]
Maybe 2 relates to TCO, the amount you'd have to pay to get the same level of developer support on oracle would be huge.
If that's all you had to do there would be millions of geeks out there who would never look at porn again.
All I have to do to produce music is get an empty cake tin, and a microphone for my PC and record hiting the cake tin.
Seriously, there's a lot of porn done with studio lighting etc... a bit more than a digital camera and a couple of chicks.
No seriously, look at the porn industry.
There's more free porn than you could throw a stick at, but there are still pay sites and I presume they do quite well (or not too bad).
There's not that much porn on Kazaa and that that is is more freek show than porn!
Porn is the uncrowned king of distributed media.
Maybe the RIAA and MPAA should swtich to porn grove and when hary meet sally.
Ok it was this bit here (it made my head go a bit fuzzy )
"For example, if my mail server had a self-signed cert, and another mail server sends me mail without ever before having done so, how can it know that the contacted server (supposedly mine) is really my server and no man-in-the-middle attack is taking place? DNS is *not* failure-proof."
You use the same CA, one that the man-in-the-middle doesn't have access too.