In our colo, everything has several names. 1 to refer to it's rack location, 1 to designate it, 1 for it's production task and then if it has EARNED a cool nick, it gets one (believe me it's fun to CNAME "pig-bastard", "re-booty-licious" or something similar when it is earned). If all the machines have one NIC, the A record should be the rack location and the rest CNAMES of that. Makes knowing all about a server via an NS lookup easy and sometimes fun. I've never understood why folks use only one NS record and decide to choose between cool and functional.
Spoken like somebody who has never actually listened to Rush's radio show.
I grew up in Sacramento. I heard Rush a lot on Talk 650 and have listened to the occasional episode in the past few years. I've even met Rush more than once (he's a jerk in person) and had a friend who owned a Dittoheads Diner during the 90s. I meant the post mostly in jest though there was a spot of animosity in there. You should see the moderation email from today... Up then down then up then down. It's insightful... no a troll.. no overrated.. no funny... no flaimbait...
mysql_connect() is supposed to connect to a unix-domain socket, not an IP address.
Got a reference for that? From the php manual:
resource mysql_connect ([ string $server [, string $username [, string $password [, bool $new_link [, int $client_flags ]]]]] ) Opens or reuses a connection to a MySQL server. Parameters server The MySQL server. It can also include a port number. e.g. "hostname:port" or a path to a local socket e.g. ":/path/to/socket" for the localhost. If the PHP directive mysql.default_host is undefined (default), then the default value is 'localhost:3306'. In SQL safe mode, this parameter is ignored and value 'localhost:3306' is always used. ...
echo "bar = " . array_search( '1', array_flip( bar() ) ) . PHP_EOL; // will echo 'bar = a' ?>
No extra vars at all. You will get a RAM spike if bar() contains a sufficiently large array though. Odd thing to do just to get no variables, but I love a challenge:)
I was just giving another example of apple screwing it's customers - and in the QT case, indefensibly screwing it's most loyal and free spending customers.
Now there's a statement I can get behind!:) No hard feelings. I often find myself being proud of Apple, but having that pride dashed by unabashed profiteering (accessories) and anti-user policies (such as this maneuver).
I think he understood that the community can't really fix proprietary code, that's why he said no fix could be available for them.
I may have been somewhat of a smart-ass, but the gist I got from his subject of "Thanks Community, now fix Quicktime 7.4" and the opening "It's nice that Dtrace works again. But I'm betting a lot more people use After Effects or Premiere." was that he's flustered that the community isn't "fixing" the things he expects them to fix.
I even defaulted to a diplomatic "you must be thinking of the wrong thing" in my original post rather than believe anyone could hold such an expectation. Then his reply of "The point, which seems to have eluded you, is that while it's great people are fixing DTrace Apple has also broken applications used by far more people and no fix is available for those (nor can it be)." seems to again imply that the community is somehow responsible for fixing all issues even if the community has no real means to.
I get the impression that his point is essentially "Don't waste your time fixing DTrace and do what I want you to do." as if the community were in any way cohesive and he were somehow in charge of the community or that software popularity should dictate what the community is up to. In my humble opinion not only is this a fallacious position to take since "fixing" DTrace is essentailly trivial compared to his expectations, he is being rather whiny to people who aren't obligated to fix anything in the first place. The fact that it was somehow modded Informative all the way up amazes me (though after the years I should be jaded as to how amazing moderation can be sometimes).
The point, which seems to have eluded you, is that while it's great people are fixing DTrace Apple has also broken applications used by far more people and no fix is available for those (nor can it be).
I get the point now. You are making a logical leap that since the community can "fix" something that the sources are freely available for, then they should be responsible for "fixing" everything that Apple may cripple in some way even though all of the sources to things you want fixed are proprietary. Whether or not that is even remotely possible (which you, in fact, state in your reply that it is not), you were able to vent semi-topical frustration with Apple's breaking popular applications. Even got modded "informative" for it somehow. Good for you. When you have the sources for Quicktime, let the community know and someone may fix it for you.
Also, the point that Apple essentially crippled something that was futile to cripple (remember the sources?) may have eluded you.
The UI wouldn't be half as bad if they provided some decent documentation for it.
Spot on. I'm a Maya user and it's UI has quite the learning curve as well (remember trying to keep things straight in hypergraph the first few times? How about outliner vs hypergraph vs hypershade?). The advantage is that there are countless videos, tutorials and online discussions about everything from the basics to UI customization to Maya's more arcane features. Once Blender gets the documentation to catch up to the feature set, I bet it's usage will skyrocket.
Oops, you were doing quite well up until then. Too bad that last bit lost you whatever credibility you might have started the post with.
Ummm... So did you. An explanation even with a picture for those of you that still don't understand why a fresh vinyl recording is better. I will give you the fact that old, worn vinyl will always suck - but a freshly pressed disc is the closest to pro quality that consumer gear ever got.
note: This very same point has been made countless times over the last 10 years on/.. You'd think by now we'd all know.
It's kinda hard to find technical specifications on these mainframes beyond marketing fluff.
Part of that is because IBM will customize the machines to your heart's content. The sky and your budget are the only limits. They leave a good many of the loadout details (xGB/TB of RAM, DASD storage size, # of CPUs per card, # of CPU cards, even number of mainframes - they can be chained in parallel). You should look at the Z series hardware specs for the general details and look up what details you don't know.
If you're looking for benchmarks or comparisons to x86/x86-64 or other commodity architectures good luck - they are nearly impossible to find. This is due to the implementations being on entirely different scales. The best comparison you an find is the MIPS per CPU. You can find some slightly stale numbers here (BTW: an LPAR is something that's been around on mainframes for several decades - one LPAR can run up to several hundred x86 VMs concurrently).
Did the government put that there or did the citizens? Anyone here remember that PSA with the Indian looking out over trash, and then a closeup of a tear coming into his eye?
I'm conscious of it. Even to the point that I gave up driving 4 years ago. I either bike or take public transit everywhere (yep, I'm in a city). I'll pick up trash and dispose of it if I have the chance (especially bottles in the gutter or street - hazards). The sad part is that almost all of the people I know think I'm crazy when they see or find out these things.
Yes folks, our government is a reflection of ourselves.
In the long term, this will create more than 80 jobs by the time the lake becomes a giant superfund site (Hazmat jobs pay good money!). Of course, people may die from the pollution but that will only improve the jobless rate as well. Wildlife doesn't vote or contribute, so who cares if wildlife dies? C'mon, government only thinks of the long-term benefit for the people. Right?
Application software can't bluescreen Windows, only drivers can.
Said poster did mention printing the document. Perhaps it passed malformed data to his printer driver, which in turn bluescreened the box. Perhaps not entirely the fault of the app, but the app did trigger it.
I picked up one of these just over a year ago thinking it would be a disposable keyboard. It's made of soft rubber so it's quiet for heavy typers like me. It can roll up and be tucked in a backpack. But the bonus I didn't expect was that I can rinse it off under hot tap water and wipe it dry/clean with a cloth or paper towel. It takes me about 2 minutes to fully clean my keyboard so I don't mind doing it often. I now have two rubber keyboards because I liked it so much.
But there's always a catch... it does take some getting used to typing on it. First, it's flat - which is arguably ergonomic since I'm not flexing my wrists backward at all. The keys are also pretty bouncy, so you end up missing letters a lot at first. Once you get acclimatized to it though, these add up to a bonus as well: Nobody at my office likes to use it so they leave my desk alone;)
Never actually seen it happen in front of me, it always seems to be one of those "it happened to a friend of a friend" type stories.
I've done it. One time I remember vividly. I was modding a case using old parts (well installing into an odd plastic case actually). While testing, I booted the thing and _then_ realized I hadn't plugged in the keyboard. Thinking I could beat the BIOS, I hastily plugged in a PS2 keyboard and the screen went black with the resounding "thwim" of a CRT. That motherboard never came back.
One of the things I was left wondering after reading TFA is "But does the Kodak software try to take over my computer and is it a resource hog?" That, not the cartridge gouging, is what made me swear never to buy another HP. I was already saying "cool" about actually buying the printer at a reasonable price and letting the ink be a normal price. If Kodak has decent, non-obtrusive software, I'm thoroughly sold.
Will this revolution in music cause a Panic! At The Disco?
Eh, I know you and you cannot sing. I don't think many here will get a reference as obscure as The Smiths (though I bet many would agree with the theme if they knew).
P2P File Sharing Ruining Physical Piracy Business
Man, I thought I hit the wrong link and was looking at The Onion for a second there. I know it makes perfect sense, but that obviousness was part of the reaction.
If you want to see through a search engine's eyes, open the page in Lynx. The funniest part about showing that method to another developer is when they think Lynx is broken because the page is empty. "It didn't load. How do I refresh the page? This browser sucks." Heh. Endless fun.
Slashdot Mirror
In our colo, everything has several names. 1 to refer to it's rack location, 1 to designate it, 1 for it's production task and then if it has EARNED a cool nick, it gets one (believe me it's fun to CNAME "pig-bastard", "re-booty-licious" or something similar when it is earned). If all the machines have one NIC, the A record should be the rack location and the rest CNAMES of that. Makes knowing all about a server via an NS lookup easy and sometimes fun. I've never understood why folks use only one NS record and decide to choose between cool and functional.
Slashdot is always an interesting place to post :)
I can fix that stuff right away. It'll cost you:
When you've gathered all of that together, give me a call.
-Jobs
I may have been somewhat of a smart-ass, but the gist I got from his subject of "Thanks Community, now fix Quicktime 7.4" and the opening "It's nice that Dtrace works again. But I'm betting a lot more people use After Effects or Premiere." was that he's flustered that the community isn't "fixing" the things he expects them to fix.
I even defaulted to a diplomatic "you must be thinking of the wrong thing" in my original post rather than believe anyone could hold such an expectation. Then his reply of "The point, which seems to have eluded you, is that while it's great people are fixing DTrace Apple has also broken applications used by far more people and no fix is available for those (nor can it be)." seems to again imply that the community is somehow responsible for fixing all issues even if the community has no real means to.
I get the impression that his point is essentially "Don't waste your time fixing DTrace and do what I want you to do." as if the community were in any way cohesive and he were somehow in charge of the community or that software popularity should dictate what the community is up to. In my humble opinion not only is this a fallacious position to take since "fixing" DTrace is essentailly trivial compared to his expectations, he is being rather whiny to people who aren't obligated to fix anything in the first place. The fact that it was somehow modded Informative all the way up amazes me (though after the years I should be jaded as to how amazing moderation can be sometimes).
I get the point now. You are making a logical leap that since the community can "fix" something that the sources are freely available for, then they should be responsible for "fixing" everything that Apple may cripple in some way even though all of the sources to things you want fixed are proprietary. Whether or not that is even remotely possible (which you, in fact, state in your reply that it is not), you were able to vent semi-topical frustration with Apple's breaking popular applications. Even got modded "informative" for it somehow. Good for you. When you have the sources for Quicktime, let the community know and someone may fix it for you.
Also, the point that Apple essentially crippled something that was futile to cripple (remember the sources?) may have eluded you.
Drats!
Ummm... So did you. An explanation even with a picture for those of you that still don't understand why a fresh vinyl recording is better. I will give you the fact that old, worn vinyl will always suck - but a freshly pressed disc is the closest to pro quality that consumer gear ever got.
note: This very same point has been made countless times over the last 10 years on /.. You'd think by now we'd all know.
Part of that is because IBM will customize the machines to your heart's content. The sky and your budget are the only limits. They leave a good many of the loadout details (xGB/TB of RAM, DASD storage size, # of CPUs per card, # of CPU cards, even number of mainframes - they can be chained in parallel). You should look at the Z series hardware specs for the general details and look up what details you don't know.
If you're looking for benchmarks or comparisons to x86/x86-64 or other commodity architectures good luck - they are nearly impossible to find. This is due to the implementations being on entirely different scales. The best comparison you an find is the MIPS per CPU. You can find some slightly stale numbers here (BTW: an LPAR is something that's been around on mainframes for several decades - one LPAR can run up to several hundred x86 VMs concurrently).
In the long term, this will create more than 80 jobs by the time the lake becomes a giant superfund site (Hazmat jobs pay good money!). Of course, people may die from the pollution but that will only improve the jobless rate as well. Wildlife doesn't vote or contribute, so who cares if wildlife dies? C'mon, government only thinks of the long-term benefit for the people. Right?
I picked up one of these just over a year ago thinking it would be a disposable keyboard. It's made of soft rubber so it's quiet for heavy typers like me. It can roll up and be tucked in a backpack. But the bonus I didn't expect was that I can rinse it off under hot tap water and wipe it dry/clean with a cloth or paper towel. It takes me about 2 minutes to fully clean my keyboard so I don't mind doing it often. I now have two rubber keyboards because I liked it so much.
But there's always a catch... it does take some getting used to typing on it. First, it's flat - which is arguably ergonomic since I'm not flexing my wrists backward at all. The keys are also pretty bouncy, so you end up missing letters a lot at first. Once you get acclimatized to it though, these add up to a bonus as well: Nobody at my office likes to use it so they leave my desk alone ;)
One of the things I was left wondering after reading TFA is "But does the Kodak software try to take over my computer and is it a resource hog?" That, not the cartridge gouging, is what made me swear never to buy another HP. I was already saying "cool" about actually buying the printer at a reasonable price and letting the ink be a normal price. If Kodak has decent, non-obtrusive software, I'm thoroughly sold.
P2P File Sharing Ruining Physical Piracy Business Man, I thought I hit the wrong link and was looking at The Onion for a second there. I know it makes perfect sense, but that obviousness was part of the reaction.
If you want to see through a search engine's eyes, open the page in Lynx. The funniest part about showing that method to another developer is when they think Lynx is broken because the page is empty. "It didn't load. How do I refresh the page? This browser sucks." Heh. Endless fun.
(method does not account for image crawlers)