courtesy Raymond Chen's blog:
During the run-up to Windows XP Service Pack 2 Beta in December of last year, there was a list of five bugs that the release management team decided were so critical that they were going to slip the beta until those bugs got fixed.
The third bug on the list: Deer Hunter 4 won't run.
Deer Hunter has the power to stop a beta.
I was the only CM engineer (configuration manager, aka build monkey) for 3 development teams of 40 engineers on the US East Coast (GMT-5), US West Coast (GMT-8) and Walldorf Germany (GMT+1). I was located on the East Coast.
Each team produced multiple software products for QA. Each product had a different schedule and slightly different needs. The most complicated build were 2 products (a client and a server) that could be built in 3 flavors (original and rebranded for 2 OEMs) which each had 3 encryption levels (0, 40, 128).
If you install it, it doesn't work, and you don't have time/interest to google for answers, you never become an experienced Linux user. I tend to agree with Hani's view of linux.
Due to the severe damage suffered during the President's Day snow storm, all areas of the B&O Railroad Museum are closed and all events have been cancelled for the year of 2003. Please click on the below links for further information.
Sorry, the 28" of snow collapsed the roof of the museam and it's out of comission.
Reviews I write go to multiple sites (/., amazon, etc). Who cares, as long as it's the case of the same person writing the same review in each place? If you plagarize another person's review, that's another story.
âoeIt is key that members of IT teams see themselves and their work as core to the business itself, and not view the IT function as an appendage of the business.â
I think this is already true. What needs to change is management's perception of IT as a giant sinkhole that costs money but never produces "measurable results" like other revenue bearing projects in the organization (which is what the whole focus of the book is). I just had to speak up against this unfair characterization of IT teams.
IT is a necessary part of doing business. You can't do business without phone, electricity and office space. IT is right up there. Don't short change your most important business function.
I "liked it", meaning that I had set the movie portion of my brain from "standard hollywood bollocks" to "kubrick."
But the thing that really made me want to get out of my seat and yell "WTF!" to the screen was the "HEY, DON'T FORGET IT'S A SPEILBERG MOVIE" ending. What the hell was that? Talk about a strap-on. If the movie had just ended with HJO transfixed on the blue fairy until his Energizers ran out I would have been perfectly content. But no, we had to have "close encounters part 3: how can we fill another reel"?
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Tim Bray is blogging his move from his current dev platform of linux/osx to Solaris 10. Very honest, and very interesting.
'sup?
I tried it from my TMobile phone and didn't get an answer, who is your provider?
What will drive the next crop of OS'? Is it in hardware innovations, new programming languages?
courtesy Raymond Chen's blog: During the run-up to Windows XP Service Pack 2 Beta in December of last year, there was a list of five bugs that the release management team decided were so critical that they were going to slip the beta until those bugs got fixed. The third bug on the list: Deer Hunter 4 won't run. Deer Hunter has the power to stop a beta.
I was the only CM engineer (configuration manager, aka build monkey) for 3 development teams of 40 engineers on the US East Coast (GMT-5), US West Coast (GMT-8) and Walldorf Germany (GMT+1). I was located on the East Coast.
Each team produced multiple software products for QA. Each product had a different schedule and slightly different needs. The most complicated build were 2 products (a client and a server) that could be built in 3 flavors (original and rebranded for 2 OEMs) which each had 3 encryption levels (0, 40, 128).
It was the longest 10.5 months of my life.
a Beowulf cluster of th+++NO CARRIER
Only if you're an inexperienced Linux user.
If you install it, it doesn't work, and you don't have time/interest to google for answers, you never become an experienced Linux user. I tend to agree with Hani's view of linux.
Agreed. The oldest law of linux still holds true: "Linux is free if your time is worth nothing."
Sorry, the 28" of snow collapsed the roof of the museam and it's out of comission.
coming to you live on Network 23.
Video + Blogging = Max Headroom
Reviews I write go to multiple sites (/., amazon, etc). Who cares, as long as it's the case of the same person writing the same review in each place? If you plagarize another person's review, that's another story.
I think this is already true. What needs to change is management's perception of IT as a giant sinkhole that costs money but never produces "measurable results" like other revenue bearing projects in the organization (which is what the whole focus of the book is). I just had to speak up against this unfair characterization of IT teams.
IT is a necessary part of doing business. You can't do business without phone, electricity and office space. IT is right up there. Don't short change your most important business function.
According to this article on theserverside.com, in one person's benchmarks, .NET is slower than Java. YMMV and all that.
according to slashdot, the user 'java1dev' doesn't exist. What does this mean?
WITH FEELING
I love the jokes today, but we really need to start being more innovative.
Click and Clack demonstrate the proper technique. Arms at the ready!
The title is a line from Thoreau's Walden:
"The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary
as the music of the spheres."
I'd bet my Pulitzer on it!
All I need to hear is that it has Christopher Walken in it.
"I GOTTA HAVE MORE COWBELL!"
Forgot a few:
Empire of the Sun
Smoke Signals
Heathers
Pump Up the Volume
Diner
Glengarry Glen Ross
Wag the Dog
There's a standard list of movies that I'm shocked when I hear people haven't seen them:
Marvin's Room
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Sling Blade
LA Story
Waiting for Guffman
Hollywood Shuffle
Bottle Rocket
Kentucky Friend Movie
Yes. Yes you are.
I "liked it", meaning that I had set the movie portion of my brain from "standard hollywood bollocks" to "kubrick."
But the thing that really made me want to get out of my seat and yell "WTF!" to the screen was the "HEY, DON'T FORGET IT'S A SPEILBERG MOVIE" ending. What the hell was that? Talk about a strap-on. If the movie had just ended with HJO transfixed on the blue fairy until his Energizers ran out I would have been perfectly content. But no, we had to have "close encounters part 3: how can we fill another reel"?
sigh. It is monday isn't it?