No. Just no. You might think it helps but all it really does is make you more incoherent and hard to deal with. If you code while high (or drunk) it really produces a buggy hard to fix mess.
The only people I know whose job performance doesn't seem to get worse with drug use are graphic designers.
It really would have been helpful to know what hardware you tested on. I get that the CPU and GPU both likely downclocked when idle but Does it have a HD that spins slower (WD greendrive and friends) when not in use? Does it have an SSD card? What monitor did it have? Was it an LED backlight or one of the older ones that use more power?
I also can't imagine anyone not setting their monitor to power off when idle.
That is a common reason for firing. A couple of years ago some programmers wanted me to support them with the boss on switching a project written in python to Java. Their justification? The python programmer called them a bunch of monkeys. No technical arguments at all.
Unfortunately the boss sided with the monkeys and I was next on the chopping block for pointing out that a 200 Bingo player max using 3 machines (1 web 1 db, 1 backup db) was a design flaw.
Years ago (my first full time job) I got a panicked call from the company head of sales. One of our clients thought it would be funny to send our sales guy a link that opened 10 child porn sits and each side opened another 10 and before he knew it his computer was overloading and deep into swap with hundreds of child porn windows. I walked in, figured I would rather deal with a broken windows 2000 install than any amount of viewing child porn and pulled the power cord from the machine.
I would have no problem with arresting everyone who views child porn if we could somehow guarantee that each person arrested willingly went with the intent to view it but is far too easy for some other jerk to be the reason for viewing child porn for simple viewing to be a crime.
No way I'm slapping down that kind of money for a bulb unless I can be sure the thing is really going to last, and that the company has enough faith in it to put their money where their mouth is. I'd hate to buy a bunch of those only to have some local brownouts blow them in their first year (and find out the company won't back their product up with a replacement or refund).
That's actually the best part about the change to LED bulbs. I have found that they are much more tolerant when dealing with power browns and being flipped on and off a lot. I have been swapping my bulbs for LED and so far the only one to break in 2 years was the one I dropped.
Really though, there are more than just philosophical reasons for proprietary software in GNU/Linux being a bad thing. If I compile my program in Ubuntu, will you be able to run it in Gentoo? There are an enormous number of incompatible distributions out there, and I doubt that Steam will be available on all of them. In practical terms, proprietary software for GNU/Linux is difficult to push for this very reason, so there are two outcomes:
Whatever distros popular proprietary software is available for become the distros that people use, thus allowing proprietary software vendors to exert control over the community. This already happens with some packages; we really do not need more.
Steam becomes irrelevant on GNU/Linux because it does not work everywhere, and then the short-lived experiment dies. This has also happened with other software in the past.
This is classic FUD. There is plenty of software that releases only a single binary for all Linux distros. Aside from Flash, there have been games such as Wolfenstein Enemy Territory that still works on my brand new 64 bit debian install with only a minor fix needed to work around a sound issue and that binary is 6 years old.
It just isn't possible to build a road that really lasts as long as the contractors know that if the road breaks next year they will get payed to fix it. The system needs changing to one where the contractor guarantees the work for x number of years so they aren't motivated to pull crap like overheating the asphalt to save trucking costs (makes the road last for a much shorter time).
The last time someone came up with a replacement for an Nvidia driver was for the ethernet drivers and Nvdia ended up discontinuing their own and contributing to the open source driver instead. If this happens again we are all better off.
That is mainly because Castro likes the embargo and has actively worked against being removed. The half baked embargo allowed Fidel Castro to blame the Americans for everything that went wrong in Cuba even if it had nothing to do with the embargo. Check this out
Clinton noted that in 1996, when her husband former President Bill Clinton was seeking to improve ties, Cuba shot down two small U.S. planes that were distributing leaflets. The incident effectively ended that overture.
Since then he has made sure to lob insults at both Bush and Obama near the beginning of their terms just to make sure the embargo sticks.
No. I tried several brands of those and you are right they are annoying to type on and I hated them all. This is the HP Washable keyboard another bonus was that I used to have an ancient keyboard that I loved because it felt *solid* but I lost it when I moved out of my parents house 11 years ago. This is the first keyboard that I've owned since then that feels solid enough that I actually don't find myself wishing for my old keyboard.
I honestly tried to use the tablet my boss gave me more often but all I ended up with was a neck cramp. My PC has a nice Ergotron dual monitor stand that keeps my monitors at exactly the height to keep my neck from bothering me after hours of use and until they come up with a way to do that with the tablet, it will remain on my office desk, unused.
I gave up on the new Ubuntu pretty quickly while installing a friend's notebook last month and ended up installing debian + xfce + wicd. No complaints from him at all.
For servers, it's hard to beat debian + dotdeb repo.
I used to love hand compiling everything but then I got my first full time sysadmin job. The job came with 20 servers and thankfully 15 of them ran Debian. When you have to do something repeatedly it gets old quickly so now I want the OS to do as much as possible and script most of the rest.
Some of that is Wordpress' fault for not having an easy way to run mass upgrades. My employer has 15 different sites running on Wordpress and the fact that I have to log in to each one manually after upgrading the files and click a link to handle the database update is annoying.
Except it made no difference whatsoever, from what I hear from what I'm hearing Bodog's credit card processor hasn't seen much change in their processing rates. Bodog was well prepared for this.
That was a reminder that I shouldn't post after 1 am no matter how pissed off I am about a certain topic. The meeting with the two dunces was 45 minutes at a restaurant I was stuck in for an hour.. On the upside the other 25 minutes taught me where I can buy armored cars and body armor in Madrid but I'm not certain I'll ever need that info.
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No. Just no. You might think it helps but all it really does is make you more incoherent and hard to deal with. If you code while high (or drunk) it really produces a buggy hard to fix mess.
The only people I know whose job performance doesn't seem to get worse with drug use are graphic designers.
It really would have been helpful to know what hardware you tested on. I get that the CPU and GPU both likely downclocked when idle but Does it have a HD that spins slower (WD greendrive and friends) when not in use? Does it have an SSD card? What monitor did it have? Was it an LED backlight or one of the older ones that use more power?
I also can't imagine anyone not setting their monitor to power off when idle.
That is a common reason for firing. A couple of years ago some programmers wanted me to support them with the boss on switching a project written in python to Java. Their justification? The python programmer called them a bunch of monkeys. No technical arguments at all.
Unfortunately the boss sided with the monkeys and I was next on the chopping block for pointing out that a 200 Bingo player max using 3 machines (1 web 1 db, 1 backup db) was a design flaw.
Don't know about that.. I've known some pretty useless IT people who had CS degrees.
Been awhile since I've looked but tschn.com will have some but you can find more on aliexpress.com if you don't mind doing a bit of hunting.
Some of the $30 - $50 Chinese thin clients are a lot more flexible than that. Your other option is XRDP.
Years ago (my first full time job) I got a panicked call from the company head of sales. One of our clients thought it would be funny to send our sales guy a link that opened 10 child porn sits and each side opened another 10 and before he knew it his computer was overloading and deep into swap with hundreds of child porn windows. I walked in, figured I would rather deal with a broken windows 2000 install than any amount of viewing child porn and pulled the power cord from the machine.
I would have no problem with arresting everyone who views child porn if we could somehow guarantee that each person arrested willingly went with the intent to view it but is far too easy for some other jerk to be the reason for viewing child porn for simple viewing to be a crime.
No way I'm slapping down that kind of money for a bulb unless I can be sure the thing is really going to last, and that the company has enough faith in it to put their money where their mouth is. I'd hate to buy a bunch of those only to have some local brownouts blow them in their first year (and find out the company won't back their product up with a replacement or refund).
That's actually the best part about the change to LED bulbs. I have found that they are much more tolerant when dealing with power browns and being flipped on and off a lot. I have been swapping my bulbs for LED and so far the only one to break in 2 years was the one I dropped.
Tried FreeCiv?
Really though, there are more than just philosophical reasons for proprietary software in GNU/Linux being a bad thing. If I compile my program in Ubuntu, will you be able to run it in Gentoo? There are an enormous number of incompatible distributions out there, and I doubt that Steam will be available on all of them. In practical terms, proprietary software for GNU/Linux is difficult to push for this very reason, so there are two outcomes:
This is classic FUD. There is plenty of software that releases only a single binary for all Linux distros. Aside from Flash, there have been games such as Wolfenstein Enemy Territory that still works on my brand new 64 bit debian install with only a minor fix needed to work around a sound issue and that binary is 6 years old.
They could just use a mailing list for public meetings and have people comment that way.
It just isn't possible to build a road that really lasts as long as the contractors know that if the road breaks next year they will get payed to fix it. The system needs changing to one where the contractor guarantees the work for x number of years so they aren't motivated to pull crap like overheating the asphalt to save trucking costs (makes the road last for a much shorter time).
The last time someone came up with a replacement for an Nvidia driver was for the ethernet drivers and Nvdia ended up discontinuing their own and contributing to the open source driver instead. If this happens again we are all better off.
That is mainly because Castro likes the embargo and has actively worked against being removed. The half baked embargo allowed Fidel Castro to blame the Americans for everything that went wrong in Cuba even if it had nothing to do with the embargo.
Check this out
Clinton noted that in 1996, when her husband former President Bill Clinton was seeking to improve ties, Cuba shot down two small U.S. planes that were distributing leaflets. The incident effectively ended that overture.
Since then he has made sure to lob insults at both Bush and Obama near the beginning of their terms just to make sure the embargo sticks.
More like "we were attacked so now we will add another layer of bureaucracy in the hopes of making us more secure."
An ops center is worthless if the individual departments aren't installing security updates.
No. I tried several brands of those and you are right they are annoying to type on and I hated them all. This is the HP Washable keyboard another bonus was that I used to have an ancient keyboard that I loved because it felt *solid* but I lost it when I moved out of my parents house 11 years ago. This is the first keyboard that I've owned since then that feels solid enough that I actually don't find myself wishing for my old keyboard.
I honestly tried to use the tablet my boss gave me more often but all I ended up with was a neck cramp. My PC has a nice Ergotron dual monitor stand that keeps my monitors at exactly the height to keep my neck from bothering me after hours of use and until they come up with a way to do that with the tablet, it will remain on my office desk, unused.
My washable keyboard didn't cost that much more than a regular and I just stick it in the shower once a week to keep it looking nice.
I gave up on the new Ubuntu pretty quickly while installing a friend's notebook last month and ended up installing debian + xfce + wicd. No complaints from him at all.
For servers, it's hard to beat debian + dotdeb repo.
Awesome, thanks for the heads up.
I used to love hand compiling everything but then I got my first full time sysadmin job. The job came with 20 servers and thankfully 15 of them ran Debian. When you have to do something repeatedly it gets old quickly so now I want the OS to do as much as possible and script most of the rest.
Some of that is Wordpress' fault for not having an easy way to run mass upgrades. My employer has 15 different sites running on Wordpress and the fact that I have to log in to each one manually after upgrading the files and click a link to handle the database update is annoying.
With TCP that's true but remember that ADSL is running over ATM which will retransmit if there is any packet loss or congestion causing extra latency.
Except it made no difference whatsoever, from what I hear from what I'm hearing Bodog's credit card processor hasn't seen much change in their processing rates. Bodog was well prepared for this.
That was a reminder that I shouldn't post after 1 am no matter how pissed off I am about a certain topic. The meeting with the two dunces was 45 minutes at a restaurant I was stuck in for an hour.. On the upside the other 25 minutes taught me where I can buy armored cars and body armor in Madrid but I'm not certain I'll ever need that info.