I'll check this out, but I'm betting the bloat is still there. Nepomuk and its family are probably still required. I don't want or need it but it insists on running a MySQL server and piles of other daemons.
I used KDE from about 2000 to the end of 2010, then tried Awesome (too minimal for me, but interesting and FAST) and LXDE (no sessions?) before settling on Gnome. I don't love Gnome (and probably never will), but it works and I have reasonably fine-grained control over its bloatedness.
Read "The Art of Software Testing" by Glenford Myers. Even if you only get a few chapters in, you'll get a lot of ideas that will improve your testing. "Testing Computer Software" by Cem Kaner is another good one.
I like the scroll wheel. It's not perfect, but the UI on the Hiptop is far superior to the waggle-wheel on the blackberry and the pinhead-keys on the Treo (though there are TONS more apps for the Treo).
Other comments about Hiptops and T-Mobile are right on. Spotty service, mostly-good (or better) customer service), cheap phone if you buy on Amazon with voice service. The phone part is a good phone, though it is pretty much impossible to use while driving. I consider that a good thing, but not everyone can ignore a ringing phone even when digging for it and looking for the right button to push can endanger your life.
As I understand it, it's really really hard to build LCOS TVs because there the three color chips have to be aligned perfectly in order to get a crisp picture.
From a pure technology perspective, LCOS may be better then DLP, but when you consider that people (and machines) have to be able to produce these things before you can put one on your wall, LCOS obviously lost the battle.
MS would have to set Exchange to reject non-Sender-ID'd email by default, which would mean that 90% (I'm guessing) of email would be rejected. I haven't figured out how they can use this to hold the majority of MTA users hostage. They need our cooperation; Sender ID won't work unless the majority of domains are using it.
The web won't be affected. Only email can be affected, and only if everyone agrees to play the Sender ID game.
Testing is not a job that exercises a lot of creativity, unlike development.
Thanks for the laugh.
I guess it depends on what you're testing, and whether you hire QA people or testers.
Testers generally run other people's test plans, but who wrote that test plan, and did they have a spec, or just a few conversations with the developers? I've only had one contract where the test plans I wrote were based on a complete specification. I've never had a job where we got even 80% of a spec before the test plans were due. And I have worked for two software companies that are in the top 10 in the industry.
So you, the arrogant developer who knows SO much more than anyone in the QA department could possibly know, create features out of your ass (or your team lead's ass), and we lowly uncreative QA folks have to try to keep up. Oh, and when you're late (note that I didn't say 'if you're late'; more often than not, there's no 'if'), whose schedule gets compressed to make the ship date so the product manager can get his bonus for shipping on time, development's. or QA's?
Thanks you soooo much for stooping to build testability into your code, or to provide test tools so that we can make good use of the two weeks we get to test your million lines of code.
What's the point of this? I want to be in the water, watch the waves, enjoy other surfers' rides and get my own. Unless there's some serious satellite imaging that will let me see the sets coming, this will be completely useless on the water, and even then reading the conditions is a critical part of surfing. I don't think I'd give up that challenge.
I do wear a watch, though (geek factor: it has a tide chart on it). Gotta get back home in time to get the kid to school...
I'm setting up drbd and heartbeat on a couple servers that will go into my colo cabinet this month. Everything the parent mentioned is positive (and true), so I'll provide a little balance by mentioning a few of the negatives.
First, it's not trivial to set up. If configuring one server is 1 unit, configuring redundancy is (1+n)^2 units of work where 'n' is the number of services that need to fail over. Maybe that's a little high; ((1+n)^2)-n might be closer.
If the machine is internal-only (no public IP), you don't need to worry about upgrades too much, but if it's on the public internet, consider how an apt-get (or equivalent) will affect your drbd devices, remembering that only one server at a time can mount the shared space.
In general, admin overhead is about double because you have to think a LOT more before you do anything that affects the configuration, especially of services that use the drbd device.
And last on my list, drbd.org isn't the final answer for very many of your questions, once you really get into it. You'll have to hang out on the email lists and search the list archives. drbd/heartbeat is not as mature as e.g. Samba.
...why would a person NOT use the fan provided by Intel...?
Because it won't fit in a 1U case? Which happens to have 4 fans and completely cycles the air in the case about every 2 seconds. There are vent slots in the case so that cool air is pulled across a heatsink that just barely fits under the top cover.
The CPU seems to run cool as long as the top cover is on. The HD is another story... I'll be drilling some vent holes near the HD before these installed in the rack.
In the US shrinkwrap software industry, I have seen no management support for detailed specifications or documented and repeatable processes. Yet the Indian companies regularly (and loudly) tout their CMM level 5 ratings. The companies that outsource to them also claim that as a benefit.
If it's a benefit, why wasn't it worth doing when the developers were US citizens working in the US?
If 'flexibility' (the opposite of pre-planned repeatable process) is so important, how will you get that flexibility from offshore developers?
Do they want the 911 location, or the PATRIOT location? This seems like a law enforcement requirement, more than an emergency requirement at this stage of the game.
Sorry, you've been infected with the Lotus Notes Virus. It infects humans who then lose their power to reason about anything related to Notes, and feel obligated to suggest Notes as a solution for EVERY problem, whether it fits or not.
"We can script that! It will be great!"
"Oh, that's built in! It will only take a little scripting!"
Pointing out that URLs with an 80-char hash in them are practically unusable gets a stony glare, and an equally stony silence. One Notes-infected manager told me once that you can create aliases for the way-too-long URLs that you use a lot... No, sorry, the ADMIN can create those aliases.
Notes has some value in some situations. It is NOT God's Swiss army knife.
And I don't think this thread is relevant to the interesting research results presented in the linked article.
I think you're going a little slow on recognizing your kids' growth.
My daughter is 4 (reading at about 2nd grade level), and is pretty good at finding what she wants with Google. She doesn't receive her own email, my wife and I filter it for her. So she gets no direct porn links. And she's not interested! She's 4!
When she's old enough to be interested, I'll tell her that the only way to the web is through my proxy, and it logs everything. I don't expect to have to point out what that means, and I do expect to have to prove to her that I review the logs.
After that, I expect her to discuss questionable sites (and she'll be the judge of what's questionable) with me before I find them in the proxy logs.
I've never done this 'raising kids' thing before, but I try to think of how my parents raised me (in the pre-internet days) and consider carefully whether or not that works for me. It's not easy, but the rewards are great.
If we should accept this (incorrect) pronunciation, then does this require us to accept 'nucleus' and 'nuculus' as interchangable words?
This is not a random combination of letters representing a sound that that just popped into existence; it was DERIVED from another word!
I can see your point if the issue were 'newclear' vs 'nu cle ar', but that's not what we're talking about; people who say it Carter's way are making up a new word. This is not pronunciation in my book.
If I called you (by your/. handle) 'elfux', would you answer? That's the most analogous example I can think of. Is that just a different pronunciation of 'efflux'?
Lawyers can write clear english documents; my attorney (Steve Schneider in Los Gatos, CA) does, and he also explains the chunks of legalese that are required in some documents (by tradition as well as other factors) clearly. (I get nothing for this; he charges me the same ridiculous Silicon Valley rates that he charges everyone else)
I was told by a law student once (so take this with a boulder of salt) that a judge will usually enforce the intent of a layman's contract, if the intent is clear. So to write a binding non-legalese contract, give clear examples of the kinds of things you want to make your intent clear.
She's honest and ethical, and has dropped contracts with companies after hearing from ex-employees (who she had placed somewhere else) that the company was slimy, abusive, or otherwise not good for people.
supposedly it actually matter where you physically do the work
I've heard of this being an issue in the reverse direction; say you live in Washington state and work as a contractor in California; you want to keep your CA time below a certain number to avoid having to pay CA for nexus in that state.
I've never heard of it being a problem in the other direction. If you're paying CA taxes as if you're a resident, why would the state care where you really are? The CA Franchise Tax Board (the most vicious collection agency in the US) doesn't get more money for finding you to be a non-resident, so they're not going to spend time trying to do that.
As for the 'labor board', I've been converted from an employee to a contractor and never heard a peep. Who's going to complain to them?
12" screen, 6G disk, docks into a base that has a CD or floppy and lots of ports. It's more a micro-notebook than a subnotebook, but it's thin, reasonably fast, and I got mine for free. Runs Linux just fine; make sure your firmware is updated.
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I'll check this out, but I'm betting the bloat is still there. Nepomuk and its family are probably still required. I don't want or need it but it insists on running a MySQL server and piles of other daemons.
I used KDE from about 2000 to the end of 2010, then tried Awesome (too minimal for me, but interesting and FAST) and LXDE (no sessions?) before settling on Gnome. I don't love Gnome (and probably never will), but it works and I have reasonably fine-grained control over its bloatedness.
Read "The Art of Software Testing" by Glenford Myers. Even if you only get a few chapters in, you'll get a lot of ideas that will improve your testing. "Testing Computer Software" by Cem Kaner is another good one.
This (sorry; podcast, but at least it's short) is the best answer I've heard. I'm going to put this on my Asterisk system.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688001238/
He was widely derided as a wacko. What has changed that makes this so new and wonderful now?
For web prototyping, there's DENIM from Berkeley. It produces functional web pages from sketches. Another Java app.
awkward scroll
I was with you up to this point.
I like the scroll wheel. It's not perfect, but the UI on the Hiptop is far superior to the waggle-wheel on the blackberry and the pinhead-keys on the Treo (though there are TONS more apps for the Treo).
Other comments about Hiptops and T-Mobile are right on. Spotty service, mostly-good (or better) customer service), cheap phone if you buy on Amazon with voice service. The phone part is a good phone, though it is pretty much impossible to use while driving. I consider that a good thing, but not everyone can ignore a ringing phone even when digging for it and looking for the right button to push can endanger your life.
As I understand it, it's really really hard to build LCOS TVs because there the three color chips have to be aligned perfectly in order to get a crisp picture.
From a pure technology perspective, LCOS may be better then DLP, but when you consider that people (and machines) have to be able to produce these things before you can put one on your wall, LCOS obviously lost the battle.
MS would have to set Exchange to reject non-Sender-ID'd email by default, which would mean that 90% (I'm guessing) of email would be rejected. I haven't figured out how they can use this to hold the majority of MTA users hostage. They need our cooperation; Sender ID won't work unless the majority of domains are using it.
The web won't be affected. Only email can be affected, and only if everyone agrees to play the Sender ID game.
Testing is not a job that exercises a lot of creativity, unlike development.
Thanks for the laugh.
I guess it depends on what you're testing, and whether you hire QA people or testers.
Testers generally run other people's test plans, but who wrote that test plan, and did they have a spec, or just a few conversations with the developers? I've only had one contract where the test plans I wrote were based on a complete specification. I've never had a job where we got even 80% of a spec before the test plans were due. And I have worked for two software companies that are in the top 10 in the industry.
So you, the arrogant developer who knows SO much more than anyone in the QA department could possibly know, create features out of your ass (or your team lead's ass), and we lowly uncreative QA folks have to try to keep up. Oh, and when you're late (note that I didn't say 'if you're late'; more often than not, there's no 'if'), whose schedule gets compressed to make the ship date so the product manager can get his bonus for shipping on time, development's. or QA's?
Thanks you soooo much for stooping to build testability into your code, or to provide test tools so that we can make good use of the two weeks we get to test your million lines of code.
But I'm not bitter. Oh no.
What's the point of this? I want to be in the water, watch the waves, enjoy other surfers' rides and get my own. Unless there's some serious satellite imaging that will let me see the sets coming, this will be completely useless on the water, and even then reading the conditions is a critical part of surfing. I don't think I'd give up that challenge.
I do wear a watch, though (geek factor: it has a tide chart on it). Gotta get back home in time to get the kid to school...
I'm setting up drbd and heartbeat on a couple servers that will go into my colo cabinet this month. Everything the parent mentioned is positive (and true), so I'll provide a little balance by mentioning a few of the negatives.
First, it's not trivial to set up. If configuring one server is 1 unit, configuring redundancy is (1+n)^2 units of work where 'n' is the number of services that need to fail over. Maybe that's a little high; ((1+n)^2)-n might be closer.
If the machine is internal-only (no public IP), you don't need to worry about upgrades too much, but if it's on the public internet, consider how an apt-get (or equivalent) will affect your drbd devices, remembering that only one server at a time can mount the shared space.
In general, admin overhead is about double because you have to think a LOT more before you do anything that affects the configuration, especially of services that use the drbd device.
And last on my list, drbd.org isn't the final answer for very many of your questions, once you really get into it. You'll have to hang out on the email lists and search the list archives. drbd/heartbeat is not as mature as e.g. Samba.
...why would a person NOT use the fan provided by Intel...?
Because it won't fit in a 1U case? Which happens to have 4 fans and completely cycles the air in the case about every 2 seconds. There are vent slots in the case so that cool air is pulled across a heatsink that just barely fits under the top cover.
The CPU seems to run cool as long as the top cover is on. The HD is another story... I'll be drilling some vent holes near the HD before these installed in the rack.
Yeah, the message bandwidth isn't a big deal, but consider 100k database queries per hour. That's where the load was.
Yeah, that isn't a huge load either. I see that in a few minutes when load testing web apps.
Still, it's interesting as a "tech in society" thing, isn't it?
In the US shrinkwrap software industry, I have seen no management support for detailed specifications or documented and repeatable processes. Yet the Indian companies regularly (and loudly) tout their CMM level 5 ratings. The companies that outsource to them also claim that as a benefit.
If it's a benefit, why wasn't it worth doing when the developers were US citizens working in the US?
If 'flexibility' (the opposite of pre-planned repeatable process) is so important, how will you get that flexibility from offshore developers?
Do they want the 911 location, or the PATRIOT location? This seems like a law enforcement requirement, more than an emergency requirement at this stage of the game.
Sorry, you've been infected with the Lotus Notes Virus. It infects humans who then lose their power to reason about anything related to Notes, and feel obligated to suggest Notes as a solution for EVERY problem, whether it fits or not.
"We can script that! It will be great!"
"Oh, that's built in! It will only take a little scripting!"
Pointing out that URLs with an 80-char hash in them are practically unusable gets a stony glare, and an equally stony silence. One Notes-infected manager told me once that you can create aliases for the way-too-long URLs that you use a lot... No, sorry, the ADMIN can create those aliases.
Notes has some value in some situations. It is NOT God's Swiss army knife.
And I don't think this thread is relevant to the interesting research results presented in the linked article.
Under US law, the CEO must ALSO obey the law. The law has a few things to say about fraud and misrepresentation, not to mention frivolous lawsuits.
I think you're going a little slow on recognizing your kids' growth.
My daughter is 4 (reading at about 2nd grade level), and is pretty good at finding what she wants with Google. She doesn't receive her own email, my wife and I filter it for her. So she gets no direct porn links. And she's not interested! She's 4!
When she's old enough to be interested, I'll tell her that the only way to the web is through my proxy, and it logs everything. I don't expect to have to point out what that means, and I do expect to have to prove to her that I review the logs.
After that, I expect her to discuss questionable sites (and she'll be the judge of what's questionable) with me before I find them in the proxy logs.
I've never done this 'raising kids' thing before, but I try to think of how my parents raised me (in the pre-internet days) and consider carefully whether or not that works for me. It's not easy, but the rewards are great.
If we should accept this (incorrect) pronunciation, then does this require us to accept 'nucleus' and 'nuculus' as interchangable words?
/. handle) 'elfux', would you answer? That's the most analogous example I can think of. Is that just a different pronunciation of 'efflux'?
This is not a random combination of letters representing a sound that that just popped into existence; it was DERIVED from another word!
I can see your point if the issue were 'newclear' vs 'nu cle ar', but that's not what we're talking about; people who say it Carter's way are making up a new word. This is not pronunciation in my book.
If I called you (by your
(can you say "-1 offtopic"? Sure you can!)
Lawyers can write clear english documents; my attorney (Steve Schneider in Los Gatos, CA) does, and he also explains the chunks of legalese that are required in some documents (by tradition as well as other factors) clearly. (I get nothing for this; he charges me the same ridiculous Silicon Valley rates that he charges everyone else)
I was told by a law student once (so take this with a boulder of salt) that a judge will usually enforce the intent of a layman's contract, if the intent is clear. So to write a binding non-legalese contract, give clear examples of the kinds of things you want to make your intent clear.
She's honest and ethical, and has dropped contracts with companies after hearing from ex-employees (who she had placed somewhere else) that the company was slimy, abusive, or otherwise not good for people.
I've heard of this being an issue in the reverse direction; say you live in Washington state and work as a contractor in California; you want to keep your CA time below a certain number to avoid having to pay CA for nexus in that state.
I've never heard of it being a problem in the other direction. If you're paying CA taxes as if you're a resident, why would the state care where you really are? The CA Franchise Tax Board (the most vicious collection agency in the US) doesn't get more money for finding you to be a non-resident, so they're not going to spend time trying to do that.
As for the 'labor board', I've been converted from an employee to a contractor and never heard a peep. Who's going to complain to them?
Good luck; sounds like a fun adventure.
I've heard of a treatment for ADHD kids using neurofeedback; anyone have experience with that?
It sounds interesting, but I haven't seen any data on its effectiveness for adults.
It would be a MUCH better world for lawyers.
12" screen, 6G disk, docks into a base that has a CD or floppy and lots of ports. It's more a micro-notebook than a subnotebook, but it's thin, reasonably fast, and I got mine for free. Runs Linux just fine; make sure your firmware is updated.