1) Define the machine's specific role(s); e.g., web server and SMB server.
2) Define a series of Y hardware configurations.
3) Allow Microsoft to recommend X number of NT administrators, allow Linux community (maybe coordinated by VA?) to recommend the same number of Linux administartors. (X should be a multiple of Y, perhaps 3 to 4 times.)
4) For each testing round, a randomly selected NT admin and a randomly selected Linux admin will be given a random hardware configuration and an equal amount of time (1-24 hours?) to configure the machine for the test.
5) Run the tests, averaging the results for each configuration.
6) Write a press release saying how badly Linux kicked NT's ass.
And for those who think that the corporate $$$ poured into Red Hat is a "bad thing", remember that these companies are going to be the driving force behind improvements in scalability, high performance file systems, etc.
That's what's important to these people, and they're going to put money into hiring people to develop to their needs and to provide them with the equipment they need.
This brings me back to a comment I made in a job interview earlier this week (by the way, anyone in the DC area looking for a good software engineer?) when the subject turned to coding style. I made it perfectly clear that when I write code, it's with ease of readability in mind, not ease of coding.
Maintenance eats up far more cost than coding. be nice to your maintainers.:)
As soon as you recognize that there's a problem that isn't going to be fixed.
I'm not suggesting that you bail out at the first sign of trouble -- you'd never hold a job for long in the industry with that approach. But if things keep happening that makes you think that no can or will stop the train wreck, start preparing to go.
How does the quote go... "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results..."
I've had several occasions where shrink-wrapped software failed to work on my Win95 box, even after I had applied all service patches. In all of these cases, we're talking games, go that shouldn't be too much of a surprise -- but it does happen.
For the record, a private company requiring drug testing is not, as you put it, a "constitutional violation". The Constitution applies only to the government, and not to individuals.
E.g.,/. can censor this post to hell and it would still be "constitutional", because this is a privately-run forum.
Unfortunately, we often get lost in these tragic, but thankfully rare, stories. The internet can be a great place for meeting people, if done properly.
Case in point: I met my wife on the internet. We started exchanging emails, seemed to have a lot in common, moved to the telephone, and then went to the face-to-face meeting step (in a public place). From that point on, who cares that we met on the net?
Now there's the flip side. A very good friend of mine met a girl in a chat room, and got himself involved in a messy long-distance relationship with what he later found out was an underage girl with some serious problems (clinical depression). He allowed himself to become co-dependent, and feared ending the relationship because of what she might do to herself.
Thankfully, he eventually managed to get free (and the girl does seem to be doing better), but I can only imagine how much worse it could have been.
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And... to acknowledge the "other languages"...
optimizing the VM means that other languages
that produce Java bytecode will also be optimized.
Think of it as a win not only for Java, but for
Python, Dylan, and other languages that have
bindings for the Java VM.
(I don't even use these languages and I'm
sticking up for them -- is this a violation of
./ flame-bait policy?)
My idea for a real benchmarking test...
1) Define the machine's specific role(s); e.g.,
web server and SMB server.
2) Define a series of Y hardware configurations.
3) Allow Microsoft to recommend X number of
NT administrators, allow Linux community (maybe
coordinated by VA?) to recommend the same number
of Linux administartors. (X should be a multiple
of Y, perhaps 3 to 4 times.)
4) For each testing round, a randomly selected
NT admin and a randomly selected Linux admin will
be given a random hardware configuration and an
equal amount of time (1-24 hours?) to configure
the machine for the test.
5) Run the tests, averaging the results for each
configuration.
6) Write a press release saying how badly Linux
kicked NT's ass.
And for those who think that the corporate $$$ poured into Red Hat is a "bad thing", remember that these companies are going to be the driving force behind improvements in scalability, high performance file systems, etc.
That's what's important to these people, and they're going to put money into hiring people to develop to their needs and to provide them with the equipment they need.
This brings me back to a comment I made in a job interview earlier this week (by the way, anyone in the DC area looking for a good software engineer?) when the subject turned to coding style. I made it perfectly clear that when I write code, it's with ease of readability in mind, not ease of coding.
:)
Maintenance eats up far more cost than coding. be nice to your maintainers.
As soon as you recognize that there's a problem that isn't going to be fixed.
I'm not suggesting that you bail out at the first sign of trouble -- you'd never hold a job for long in the industry with that approach. But if things keep happening that makes you think that no can or will stop the train wreck, start preparing to go.
How does the quote go... "Insanity is doing the
same thing over and over and expecting different
results..."
I've had several occasions where shrink-wrapped
software failed to work on my Win95 box, even
after I had applied all service patches. In
all of these cases, we're talking games, go that
shouldn't be too much of a surprise -- but it
does happen.
For the record, a private company requiring
/. can censor this post to hell and it
drug testing is not, as you put it, a
"constitutional violation". The Constitution
applies only to the government, and not to
individuals.
E.g.,
would still be "constitutional", because this
is a privately-run forum.
Case in point: I met my wife on the internet. We started exchanging emails, seemed to have a lot in common, moved to the telephone, and then went to the face-to-face meeting step (in a public place). From that point on, who cares that we met on the net?
Now there's the flip side. A very good friend of mine met a girl in a chat room, and got himself involved in a messy long-distance relationship with what he later found out was an underage girl with some serious problems (clinical depression). He allowed himself to become co-dependent, and feared ending the relationship because of what she might do to herself.
Thankfully, he eventually managed to get free (and the girl does seem to be doing better), but I can only imagine how much worse it could have been.
I tried several times in a row and could not
connect at all.
What do you mean IF all of Europe had gone Communist? They just prefer to call the same philosophy by different names (EU, "The Third way", etc.)