When are they going to make the package systems journaled like a transactional database? I haven't messed with Debian in about 2 years but I remember asking the Debian Project Manager about this back then. Said something like it would be great if someone did that.
I simply want to be able to install a new package and if I want to roll it back to exactly like things were before the install I could.
Ability to rollback to a specific time would be cool too.
If you are a Physician I am assuming you have a large amount of dough or could have that if you want.
Right now is probably the best time ever to find really good computer engineering, software, hardware talent in the U.S. A lot of really good people are looking for work. So if I were you I would get some basic education on areas you may not know as well. I.e. Data modeling, good basic object oriented classes, some Comp Sci history, database Principles, etc. Then start a company with all the good talent around looking for work doing what you enjoy most.
I could think of many areas in medical technology that if good techies were paired up with an actual physician would have extreme potential and it would be very rewarding work.
If all people ever did was take orders we wouldn't have oh well...
The World Wide Web Any good software Good movies Good books etc.
While following and giving orders works for digging ditches it doesn't do squat for innovation or creativity. Both of which have given us some pretty worthwhile advancements.
Western societies, decisions are made on the basis of input from those involved
I think this varies a lot. Different software development teams I have been involved with have done this very differently.
This is kind of like the Rebels vs. Darth Vader arguement of governing philosophies. Having a massive senate and everyone argue and discuss decisions is great in some areas but can be slow to the point of never getting anything done. Darth on the other hand can simply make it so.
While I think the massive input is good in stopping really bad decisions from happening it is also bad at stopping really good decisions from happening because not all involved might understand why said decision is good or for some other agenda stop it. This is very similar to what happens in Open Source vs. Proprietary Software.
So while both systems of governance suck, the arguement/not get a whole lot done seems to suit me best. As far as software development arguements can be made for both.
So I think in government what keeps the "rebel model" from failing in the U.S. is the much forgotten Judicial branch. Yes they are the Darth's of the Rebels for they can say make it so.
So in Open Source Software I don't think we have the needed Darth's. Although some of the big boys like Red Hat and HP are kind of stepping into this role. If they are good Darth's it might work...
I'd really like to see what the Viking landers look like after all this time.
I like to imagine, although it will likely be after my lifetime if ever, that we will build nice domes over these sites in the future to preserve them before terraforming.
Then they will be the memorials and history exhibits of the future of our first steps off of Earth.
Been hard to find any articles on how things are going but a USA Today article had these two tidbits I found informative -
In effect, scientists said, the computer onboard is sensing a problem or problems and repeatedly trying to reboot -- about 60 times since Wednesday. The problem could be in software or hardware, Theisinger said.
Early Thursday, NASA initially heard nothing from Spirit that would indicate it was in "fault mode," a state that the rover enters by itself when it has experienced a problem. Later, NASA sent a command to Spirit as if it were in fault mode, anyway. Spirit acknowledged with a beep that it received the command, indicating an onboard problem. That puzzled engineers.
With the wheels they can dig I believe an 8 inch hole. There are small brushes and scapers inside the abrasion tool. Little ones just used in the process of getting the rock sraped away for the spectrometers.
I would like to see them flip over or push over one of the rocks. To see what the unexposed side looks like. Maybe they will try that towards the end of the mission.
GW did this a few state of the unions back. Floated some "go to the moon" "go to the mars" propaganda to get the tech crowd to think more favorably of him before the speech but didn't say it in the speech, probably won't this time either. Works well I will give him that, but you know what I want to actually do this stuff. They can take as much of my tax dollars to do it as they want.
It's the most lucrative good ole boy network the world has ever seen. A smart and organized one too. So how does one stop such actions?
I think the first thing I would do is make these companies give real numbers as to actions like percent of temp workers, percent of outsourced overseas workers, percent layed off workers annually, percent rehired (and quite a few more) available easily online or wherever else it is easy to get access to. Then you give people who are investing in mutual funds in 401k's and not in 401k's the ability to exclude companies from getting their investments. Say you want the Vangaurd 500 fund (S&P 500), but you don't want to give any money to those pigs at M$ and HP because they are bad. Click exclude my money from them and walllah!
I think this would put some more power into the average investors, especially if groups of them got organized to influence innapropriate behaviour and over pay of execs.
Also does anyone know why they even use Tiff's? Is it scientifically that much better. I would have thought with the amount of terrain they need to traverse they would just go all.jpg's? Maybe the sending of the Tiff's is compressed so it doesn't hurt it that much?
An a side not to that, why do they even have the camera in black and white? Why not do all color?
Wish NASA had a FAQ page with stuff like that instead of the ones they have. You would think a bunch of NASA geeks would have FAQ's like that but maybe they are so smart they don't frequently have to ask a lot of questions.
Have they succeeded in subpoenoing (sp?) Torvalds or have they just issued a request to have him subpoened that a judge may deny? Isn't that how it works or do they just get to subpoena anyone they want?
Also another question to the legal wise out there. There is little doubt in my mind Microsoft funding and incentive is pulling the strings behind SCO. Isn't this extremely illegal for them to do based on the ruling of the previous judgements? Obviously they get out of a lot of legal holes by using SCO as a proxy attacker of Linux but it is nonetheless doing this for reasons of destroying a competitor.
So what can Debian do that Redhat, Gentoo, Slackware and the others can't? None of them can be easy multimedia desktop replacements, yet. Not for the average user anyways.
Exactly the point. Why have every distro do all of that? It is a terrible amount of reduncy having coders, testers, etc. make that work in all of them. Why not have the extra work put into multimedia desktops instead of package management, base system, etc. That area has been great for years. Multimedia will always suck if everyone just keeps doing that and the Multimedia people spend all their time coding to all the different distributions instead of one. It is making it harder for them.
My opinion anyway, I am not one of the multimedia coders.
I see all these people saying "what is so great about Linux is all these different distro's to try, and Debian is only one".
I don't think you have used Debian. I love Debian because I can put the bare minimum on my machines and then build up from there whether it be Gnome or KDE or a strict web server box with no GUI. To build it up all I have to do is grab the packages I want with apt. I can roll my own distro in a way.
Not to mention Stable, Testing and Unstable are really all different distributions anyway.
Someone correct me if I get the bacteria or the cancer wrong but if I remember right 3rd world countries have a much lower rate of prostate cancer because they have more exposure to E Coli bacteria.
Obvioulsy big bad doses of E Coli in meat kill us so we don't want to run out and do that but you get the point.
I am quite suprised this isn't mentioned more in the media. What are College grads doing? Are they actually finding jobs?
Nothing like getting out of college 100k in debt and hardly able to get a job as a Wal-Mart greeter. Oh, and once you get that job houses now cost about 3 times as much as they did when you started college so have fun with that one.
"While newer languages, such as Java and Microsoft's C#, garner more attention than C++, research firm IDC projected that C and C++ professionals will remain the largest group of developers through 2005."
Try 2105. While ton's of Perl, PHP and the rest are out there, the core stuff is going to be C and C++ for the rest of our carears.
I doubt the C++.Net and shell scripting are even a few percent on the usage scale.
While I agree there are a lot of varieties the VAST majority would still be C and C++. Look at your web browser, the OS you are using, your word processor, your email client, Kazaa:-) etc. All of them C and C++.
Besides goals how about better out of the box thinking management?
Seems the engineers who get to be managers seem to suffer from goals that are a little to modest for my tastes. Many time's we see this with entrenched established engineers and scientists who just go with the status quo.
Seems if we had politician's running the show which because they are in charge of the money they kind of do run the show, things would get even worse.
So who should we have dictating policy?
Clearly it should be the science fiction writers. Put them in charge of NASA's goals. They seem to know what technology will allow us to do better than the scientists and engineers in some cases because they have such great imagination. Now funding their projects is another story but would be great if they could figure out a way to do that too.
I think you are missing the point. Separating the crew and cargo is not solely for safety.
When you only send cargo you do not have to keep it alive. Hence all the complexitites of the life support systems need not be included.
On your crew missions the ship does not need to be as large so it is more agile, uses less fuel. In design you don't have to take into account as many factors about cargo hauling either. Just people moving. Simplifies it somewhat.
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When are they going to make the package systems journaled like a transactional database? I haven't messed with Debian in about 2 years but I remember asking the Debian Project Manager about this back then. Said something like it would be great if someone did that.
I simply want to be able to install a new package and if I want to roll it back to exactly like things were before the install I could.
Ability to rollback to a specific time would be cool too.
If you are a Physician I am assuming you have a large amount of dough or could have that if you want.
Right now is probably the best time ever to find really good computer engineering, software, hardware talent in the U.S. A lot of really good people are looking for work. So if I were you I would get some basic education on areas you may not know as well. I.e. Data modeling, good basic object oriented classes, some Comp Sci history, database Principles, etc. Then start a company with all the good talent around looking for work doing what you enjoy most.
I could think of many areas in medical technology that if good techies were paired up with an actual physician would have extreme potential and it would be very rewarding work.
If all people ever did was take orders we wouldn't have oh well...
The World Wide Web
Any good software
Good movies
Good books
etc.
While following and giving orders works for digging ditches it doesn't do squat for innovation or creativity. Both of which have given us some pretty worthwhile advancements.
Western societies, decisions are made on the basis of input from those involved
I think this varies a lot. Different software development teams I have been involved with have done this very differently.
This is kind of like the Rebels vs. Darth Vader arguement of governing philosophies. Having a massive senate and everyone argue and discuss decisions is great in some areas but can be slow to the point of never getting anything done. Darth on the other hand can simply make it so.
While I think the massive input is good in stopping really bad decisions from happening it is also bad at stopping really good decisions from happening because not all involved might understand why said decision is good or for some other agenda stop it. This is very similar to what happens in Open Source vs. Proprietary Software.
So while both systems of governance suck, the arguement/not get a whole lot done seems to suit me best. As far as software development arguements can be made for both.
So I think in government what keeps the "rebel model" from failing in the U.S. is the much forgotten Judicial branch. Yes they are the Darth's of the Rebels for they can say make it so.
So in Open Source Software I don't think we have the needed Darth's. Although some of the big boys like Red Hat and HP are kind of stepping into this role. If they are good Darth's it might work...
I'd really like to see what the Viking landers look like after all this time.
I like to imagine, although it will likely be after my lifetime if ever, that we will build nice domes over these sites in the future to preserve them before terraforming.
Then they will be the memorials and history exhibits of the future of our first steps off of Earth.
Been hard to find any articles on how things are going but a USA Today article had these two tidbits I found informative -
In effect, scientists said, the computer onboard is sensing a problem or problems and repeatedly trying to reboot -- about 60 times since Wednesday. The problem could be in software or hardware, Theisinger said.
Early Thursday, NASA initially heard nothing from Spirit that would indicate it was in "fault mode," a state that the rover enters by itself when it has experienced a problem. Later, NASA sent a command to Spirit as if it were in fault mode, anyway. Spirit acknowledged with a beep that it received the command, indicating an onboard problem. That puzzled engineers.
"* Mars is colonized by 4 dimensional beings, we can't see them."
Their defense systems determined we were preparing to send commands to drill, and hence shut us down.
Solar wind windmills. Can make them giant since lower gravity and the lack of atmosphere gets you enough solar wind.
They can use the rover wheels to do most of that.
With the wheels they can dig I believe an 8 inch hole. There are small brushes and scapers inside the abrasion tool. Little ones just used in the process of getting the rock sraped away for the spectrometers.
I would like to see them flip over or push over one of the rocks. To see what the unexposed side looks like. Maybe they will try that towards the end of the mission.
GW did this a few state of the unions back. Floated some "go to the moon" "go to the mars" propaganda to get the tech crowd to think more favorably of him before the speech but didn't say it in the speech, probably won't this time either. Works well I will give him that, but you know what I want to actually do this stuff. They can take as much of my tax dollars to do it as they want.
It's the most lucrative good ole boy network the world has ever seen. A smart and organized one too. So how does one stop such actions?
I think the first thing I would do is make these companies give real numbers as to actions like percent of temp workers, percent of outsourced overseas workers, percent layed off workers annually, percent rehired (and quite a few more) available easily online or wherever else it is easy to get access to. Then you give people who are investing in mutual funds in 401k's and not in 401k's the ability to exclude companies from getting their investments. Say you want the Vangaurd 500 fund (S&P 500), but you don't want to give any money to those pigs at M$ and HP because they are bad. Click exclude my money from them and walllah!
I think this would put some more power into the average investors, especially if groups of them got organized to influence innapropriate behaviour and over pay of execs.
Also does anyone know why they even use Tiff's? Is it scientifically that much better. I would have thought with the amount of terrain they need to traverse they would just go all .jpg's? Maybe the sending of the Tiff's is compressed so it doesn't hurt it that much?
An a side not to that, why do they even have the camera in black and white? Why not do all color?
Wish NASA had a FAQ page with stuff like that instead of the ones they have. You would think a bunch of NASA geeks would have FAQ's like that but maybe they are so smart they don't frequently have to ask a lot of questions.
How come they don't report on all the executive jobs that will be lost because of the computer programs we write to replace them?
Have they succeeded in subpoenoing (sp?) Torvalds or have they just issued a request to have him subpoened that a judge may deny? Isn't that how it works or do they just get to subpoena anyone they want?
Also another question to the legal wise out there. There is little doubt in my mind Microsoft funding and incentive is pulling the strings behind SCO. Isn't this extremely illegal for them to do based on the ruling of the previous judgements? Obviously they get out of a lot of legal holes by using SCO as a proxy attacker of Linux but it is nonetheless doing this for reasons of destroying a competitor.
So what can Debian do that Redhat, Gentoo, Slackware and the others can't? None of them can be easy multimedia desktop replacements, yet. Not for the average user anyways.
Exactly the point. Why have every distro do all of that? It is a terrible amount of reduncy having coders, testers, etc. make that work in all of them. Why not have the extra work put into multimedia desktops instead of package management, base system, etc. That area has been great for years. Multimedia will always suck if everyone just keeps doing that and the Multimedia people spend all their time coding to all the different distributions instead of one. It is making it harder for them.
My opinion anyway, I am not one of the multimedia coders.
I see all these people saying "what is so great about Linux is all these different distro's to try, and Debian is only one".
I don't think you have used Debian. I love Debian because I can put the bare minimum on my machines and then build up from there whether it be Gnome or KDE or a strict web server box with no GUI. To build it up all I have to do is grab the packages I want with apt. I can roll my own distro in a way.
Not to mention Stable, Testing and Unstable are really all different distributions anyway.
Someone correct me if I get the bacteria or the cancer wrong but if I remember right 3rd world countries have a much lower rate of prostate cancer because they have more exposure to E Coli bacteria.
Obvioulsy big bad doses of E Coli in meat kill us so we don't want to run out and do that but you get the point.
Maybe a biologist could explain this better.
I am quite suprised this isn't mentioned more in the media. What are College grads doing? Are they actually finding jobs?
Nothing like getting out of college 100k in debt and hardly able to get a job as a Wal-Mart greeter. Oh, and once you get that job houses now cost about 3 times as much as they did when you started college so have fun with that one.
Ahhh good times, good times.
Thing is lawmakers already passed laws giving the FCC the authority to do this. Lawmakers are already complaining about the ruling because of this.
This screams of bought out judge. Wow it had to be a lot of money and with how evil those calls tend to be probably his soul too.
"While newer languages, such as Java and Microsoft's C#, garner more attention than C++, research firm IDC projected that C and C++ professionals will remain the largest group of developers through 2005."
:-) etc. All of them C and C++.
Try 2105. While ton's of Perl, PHP and the rest are out there, the core stuff is going to be C and C++ for the rest of our carears.
I doubt the C++.Net and shell scripting are even a few percent on the usage scale.
While I agree there are a lot of varieties the VAST majority would still be C and C++. Look at your web browser, the OS you are using, your word processor, your email client, Kazaa
Besides goals how about better out of the box thinking management?
Seems the engineers who get to be managers seem to suffer from goals that are a little to modest for my tastes. Many time's we see this with entrenched established engineers and scientists who just go with the status quo.
Seems if we had politician's running the show which because they are in charge of the money they kind of do run the show, things would get even worse.
So who should we have dictating policy?
Clearly it should be the science fiction writers. Put them in charge of NASA's goals. They seem to know what technology will allow us to do better than the scientists and engineers in some cases because they have such great imagination. Now funding their projects is another story but would be great if they could figure out a way to do that too.
For those wondering what a neoconservative is click here for a nice summary.
Personal opinion on it is this may be the worst school of thought to come along since fascism.
I think you are missing the point. Separating the crew and cargo is not solely for safety.
When you only send cargo you do not have to keep it alive. Hence all the complexitites of the life support systems need not be included.
On your crew missions the ship does not need to be as large so it is more agile, uses less fuel. In design you don't have to take into account as many factors about cargo hauling either. Just people moving. Simplifies it somewhat.
Wow 7 completely different acronyms in one story post. Not bad.
Well said.
:-).
God does not play dice with the universe because He alreay knows what any roll yields and can throw any number He wants.
Might say that takes the fun out of it but throw humans in the mix instead of dice and I think that adds the fun back in it for Him