I ran the vanilla kernel on Gentoo for a while and didn't have a single crash in months of uptime. That was back around 2.6.9 or so, on a server. Does that help?
(I'm now running a mixture of Gentoo and Debian kernels. No crashes from them either.)
I guess my point is that, right or wrong, I associate MCP and MCSE and the like with people who have bought in to the whole scam and drunk the Microsoft Kool-Aid; people who will push a Windows/Microsoft solution over all others, even when it's technically unwise.
Merely having extensive experience with Microsoft products isn't a problem--in fact, in this industry it's practically a requirement for any job. However, paying for Microsoft-approved certification, I think, goes beyond that and enters the realm of propping up the whole edifice. It indicates a willingness to stand up and be counted as a Microsoft supporter.
Then again, I've never had to choose between working for Microsoft or living in a cardboard box. Whereas I know people who have gotten close to that point.
Highly insightful! In fact, the entire point of Java seems to me to be to enforce safety and good design in the language as much as possible, so that you can implement corporate projects using a RAIJP--a Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Interchangeable Java Programmers.
Programming for myself, I don't find that Java makes my code any more reliable; and it certainly makes it harder to write. However, if I were on a project with a bunch of inexperienced developers and careless code hackers, having the Java training wheels forced on everyone would be a good tradeoff.
- You're not going to work out degree-level physics on your own.
- It's going to take an enormous of money to outfit yourself with the necessary lab equipment.
- You'll also need to network a lot to find people to act as tutors, and probably pay them too.
Some of the same problems apply to CS. Could I have bought myself a 370 mainframe and leading-edge graphics workstations, bought CAD software and chip fabrication facilities, outfitted an electronics lab, hired leading knowledgeable people in the field to assist me with the difficult concepts, and basically done the equivalent of my CS degree in my spare time? I guess so, but it was a lot easier to go to college.
To put it another way: if your CS degree really only covers stuff that you could learn on your own in your spare time with a book, then you went to a really crappy college.
If you were doing anything involving science, engineering or math, you almost certainly used the industry-standard BLAS routines--in which case you never wrote a line of AltiVec code, and your source code will compile straight to SSE optimized x86 code.
I don't know what multimedia software companies use, but I suspect the only one that might not already have Intel versions of all their DSP routines is Apple itself.
They're going to have to change the rules again. The current rules say nobody from a country that has BSE. Well, America now has BSE. So, either their donations are going to be very slim, or the rules are going to need revising again.
Why do you think that the British Broadcasting Corporation has any interest in making their content available outside the United Kingdom?
Money. The more cash they can get from people like me who would gladly pay to get BBC TV, the less they have to keep going back to the government for increases in the license fee.
(Sheesh, even for an AC comment, that was pretty dumb.)
Rude words get bleeped, and in some cases naughty bits get blurred out and offensive scenes cut. Can't have an arse on US cable TV, what would the kids do if they knew what an arse looked like?
They show the censored versions of Monty Python, for example.
Well, I've posted before about the PSP not being on display anywhere. I haven't seen a reason to get a PSP yet; I'd probably like WipeOut Pure, but I'm not going to drop $300 on an unseen system to play it.
I'd be much more likely to get the PSP if it was opened up to 3rd party developers, though.
Oh, but the "PSP sucks" and "PSP doomed" articles are just part of Zonk's output. The rest is ads for the Nintendo DS, such as today's ads for Metroid Prime: Hunters and Nintendogs.
The guy's clearly a raving Nintendo fanboy, and all semblance of balance has long gone.
(Speaking as someone who owns a GameCube and a Game Boy Advance.)
Courier IMAP is pretty poor. UW-IMAP is a piece of crap. Binc might be good now (it has the right goals), but was too immature when I looked at it.
Switch to Dovecot. Also, if you haven't already, switch to Maildir for your storage format. The mbox format is a disaster when dealing with IMAP clients like Apple's Mail, which opens multiple folders at once, thereby locking them all and blocking mail delivery.
I just got back from Best Buy, where there was a rack full of PSP shovelware--crappy movies re-released on UMD, in the laughable hope that someone will want to pay $25 again to watch a movie on a 4" screen.
The BBC jacked up the price of all Dr Who shows. No US network wanted to pay what they were asking, so not only do we not get the new series, you'll also notice old Dr Who episodes have stopped running on PBS stations.
(In spite of the name, "BBC America" is actually part of the Discovery Channel family of networks.)
It's worth pointing out that Little Britain and The Private Life of Plants have been shown in the USA. New series of Little Britain starts any day now, in fact. (BBC America.)
The BBC jacked up the price of all Dr Who shows. No US network wanted to pay what they were asking, so not only do we not get the new series, you'll also notice old Dr Who episodes have stopped running on PBS stations.
Right! Contrary to many of the comments, the BBC still *doesn't* get it.
In a globally connected world, it simply doesn't work to make TV programs available in one part of the world but not others. The real demand for Dr Who torrents isn't from the UK, it's from everywhere else on the planet; and the BBC still has no credible plan for reaching the rest of the planet.
"BBC America" is largely a waste of time. It's run by The Discovery Channel, censors the shows (sometimes heavily), and shows them in pan-and-scan format. At any given time it shows a very limited selection of content, padded out with endless re-runs of cheap bad 30 year old content (e.g. Benny Hill).
The BBC needs to set up satellite rebroadcasting of content from their own channels, and manage it themselves. Don't go through some clueless American media corporation. Make it a premium channel, get DirecTV to offer it, and I'll subscribe.
The FCC was considering forcing unbundling of channels. They had a comments period. I took the time to write in with comments and suggestions, including how to do it in such a way that the content companies didn't just jack up the prices of the individual channels to force everyone to buy bundles anyway.
However, the big money in the industry lobbied the FCC heavily, and the idea was abandoned as unworkable.
I've been working on the new IBM briefing center in Chicago. The machine room there is behind a wall of glass so it's visible from the reception area, and of course it's all jet-black IBM rack-mount kit with blinky lights; the power units are hidden away at the back, because they're not black. The reception itself is behind a curved glass wall made from panels of glass suspended from industrial-looking metal joints. The reception desk looks like it was made from printed circuit boards. I'm implementing the software to drive the flat panels suspended from the ceiling and mounted to the wall outside each room.
Anyhow, my suggestion for what to include in a NOC would be an espresso bar...
There was an actual doctor writing precriptions for these drugs, not just some sleazy smuggler from bolivia or some nutjob with a lab for making counterfeit placebo replacements.
That shouldn't be a surprise. There are going to be sleazy crooks in any profession, medicine is no exception. I mean, Harold Shipman was a doctor; he was murdering old people with prescriptions of medical-grade heroin, and he still bumped off 250 people before they caught him.
Furthermore, if you wait a month or so, you'll be able to walk into a store and find piles of Xbox 360s sitting unsold, because that's how it was with the first Xbox.
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I ran the vanilla kernel on Gentoo for a while and didn't have a single crash in months of uptime. That was back around 2.6.9 or so, on a server. Does that help?
(I'm now running a mixture of Gentoo and Debian kernels. No crashes from them either.)
Well, you say that, but:
# uname -r
2.6.8-gentoo-r3
# uptime
09:55:26 up 299 days, 19:41, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.10
# uname -r
2.6.7-gentoo-r11
# uptime
10:00:01 up 252 days, 19:58, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.29, 0.18
So clearly Gentoo kernels aren't necessarily the kiss of death for stability. Maybe it's a recent development in Gentoo-land.
A good pragmatic answer.
I guess my point is that, right or wrong, I associate MCP and MCSE and the like with people who have bought in to the whole scam and drunk the Microsoft Kool-Aid; people who will push a Windows/Microsoft solution over all others, even when it's technically unwise.
Merely having extensive experience with Microsoft products isn't a problem--in fact, in this industry it's practically a requirement for any job. However, paying for Microsoft-approved certification, I think, goes beyond that and enters the realm of propping up the whole edifice. It indicates a willingness to stand up and be counted as a Microsoft supporter.
Then again, I've never had to choose between working for Microsoft or living in a cardboard box. Whereas I know people who have gotten close to that point.
Clearly we must ban this "money" immediately if it encourages criminal behavior.
Highly insightful! In fact, the entire point of Java seems to me to be to enforce safety and good design in the language as much as possible, so that you can implement corporate projects using a RAIJP--a Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Interchangeable Java Programmers.
Programming for myself, I don't find that Java makes my code any more reliable; and it certainly makes it harder to write. However, if I were on a project with a bunch of inexperienced developers and careless code hackers, having the Java training wheels forced on everyone would be a good tradeoff.
Except realistically:
- You're not going to work out degree-level physics on your own.
- It's going to take an enormous of money to outfit yourself with the necessary lab equipment.
- You'll also need to network a lot to find people to act as tutors, and probably pay them too.
Some of the same problems apply to CS. Could I have bought myself a 370 mainframe and leading-edge graphics workstations, bought CAD software and chip fabrication facilities, outfitted an electronics lab, hired leading knowledgeable people in the field to assist me with the difficult concepts, and basically done the equivalent of my CS degree in my spare time? I guess so, but it was a lot easier to go to college.
To put it another way: if your CS degree really only covers stuff that you could learn on your own in your spare time with a book, then you went to a really crappy college.
Well, how would you react to someone who listed "ENRON Certified Accountant" on their résumé?
If you were doing anything involving science, engineering or math, you almost certainly used the industry-standard BLAS routines--in which case you never wrote a line of AltiVec code, and your source code will compile straight to SSE optimized x86 code.
I don't know what multimedia software companies use, but I suspect the only one that might not already have Intel versions of all their DSP routines is Apple itself.
They're going to have to change the rules again. The current rules say nobody from a country that has BSE. Well, America now has BSE. So, either their donations are going to be very slim, or the rules are going to need revising again.
Money. The more cash they can get from people like me who would gladly pay to get BBC TV, the less they have to keep going back to the government for increases in the license fee.
(Sheesh, even for an AC comment, that was pretty dumb.)
Rude words get bleeped, and in some cases naughty bits get blurred out and offensive scenes cut. Can't have an arse on US cable TV, what would the kids do if they knew what an arse looked like?
They show the censored versions of Monty Python, for example.
Well, I've posted before about the PSP not being on display anywhere. I haven't seen a reason to get a PSP yet; I'd probably like WipeOut Pure, but I'm not going to drop $300 on an unseen system to play it.
I'd be much more likely to get the PSP if it was opened up to 3rd party developers, though.
Oh, but the "PSP sucks" and "PSP doomed" articles are just part of Zonk's output. The rest is ads for the Nintendo DS, such as today's ads for Metroid Prime: Hunters and Nintendogs.
The guy's clearly a raving Nintendo fanboy, and all semblance of balance has long gone.
(Speaking as someone who owns a GameCube and a Game Boy Advance.)
Courier IMAP is pretty poor. UW-IMAP is a piece of crap. Binc might be good now (it has the right goals), but was too immature when I looked at it.
Switch to Dovecot. Also, if you haven't already, switch to Maildir for your storage format. The mbox format is a disaster when dealing with IMAP clients like Apple's Mail, which opens multiple folders at once, thereby locking them all and blocking mail delivery.
I just got back from Best Buy, where there was a rack full of PSP shovelware--crappy movies re-released on UMD, in the laughable hope that someone will want to pay $25 again to watch a movie on a 4" screen.
The BBC jacked up the price of all Dr Who shows. No US network wanted to pay what they were asking, so not only do we not get the new series, you'll also notice old Dr Who episodes have stopped running on PBS stations.
(In spite of the name, "BBC America" is actually part of the Discovery Channel family of networks.)
It's worth pointing out that Little Britain and The Private Life of Plants have been shown in the USA. New series of Little Britain starts any day now, in fact. (BBC America.)
The BBC jacked up the price of all Dr Who shows. No US network wanted to pay what they were asking, so not only do we not get the new series, you'll also notice old Dr Who episodes have stopped running on PBS stations.
Right! Contrary to many of the comments, the BBC still *doesn't* get it.
In a globally connected world, it simply doesn't work to make TV programs available in one part of the world but not others. The real demand for Dr Who torrents isn't from the UK, it's from everywhere else on the planet; and the BBC still has no credible plan for reaching the rest of the planet.
"BBC America" is largely a waste of time. It's run by The Discovery Channel, censors the shows (sometimes heavily), and shows them in pan-and-scan format. At any given time it shows a very limited selection of content, padded out with endless re-runs of cheap bad 30 year old content (e.g. Benny Hill).
The BBC needs to set up satellite rebroadcasting of content from their own channels, and manage it themselves. Don't go through some clueless American media corporation. Make it a premium channel, get DirecTV to offer it, and I'll subscribe.
The FCC was considering forcing unbundling of channels. They had a comments period. I took the time to write in with comments and suggestions, including how to do it in such a way that the content companies didn't just jack up the prices of the individual channels to force everyone to buy bundles anyway.
However, the big money in the industry lobbied the FCC heavily, and the idea was abandoned as unworkable.
I've been working on the new IBM briefing center in Chicago. The machine room there is behind a wall of glass so it's visible from the reception area, and of course it's all jet-black IBM rack-mount kit with blinky lights; the power units are hidden away at the back, because they're not black. The reception itself is behind a curved glass wall made from panels of glass suspended from industrial-looking metal joints. The reception desk looks like it was made from printed circuit boards. I'm implementing the software to drive the flat panels suspended from the ceiling and mounted to the wall outside each room.
Anyhow, my suggestion for what to include in a NOC would be an espresso bar...
(Opinions mine, not IBMs.)
That shouldn't be a surprise. There are going to be sleazy crooks in any profession, medicine is no exception. I mean, Harold Shipman was a doctor; he was murdering old people with prescriptions of medical-grade heroin, and he still bumped off 250 people before they caught him.
Seriously, why would I want to use a library that the authors don't consider good enough to use themselves?
You're right about memory management, but Windows 95 wasn't fully pre-emptive either. An errant program could still lock up the entire system.
Furthermore, if you wait a month or so, you'll be able to walk into a store and find piles of Xbox 360s sitting unsold, because that's how it was with the first Xbox.