Oh it wouldn't be a discussion on/. about programming languages without the obligatory bust on PERL! I think we need Wall's law to compliment Goodwin's Law.
You've surveyed all 40,000+ people?;-) I work for the Genome Sciences department which is part of the School of Medicine. Our current disk usage comes in at about 25TB and is growing rapidly. I think one year's worth of backups is probably about 100TB. It's just not economically feasible to backup that much data to disk.
TiVo's patent is for a particular method of recording one program, while watching another using low cost components. Clearly someone can come up with some other method of achieving this using low cost components or use just use more expensive components and not infringe on their patent.
I was looking to relocate from New York to Seattle, but recruiters constantly called me about jobs on the east coast. I specified in the proper place as well as stating it at least once on my resume that I was looking to relocate to Seattle. They just don't seem to read anything on your page except your current location and basic skills. Perhaps they have unlimited time to expend, but I do not.
I've spoken with an SGI engingeer about the Altix systems and he said all the memory and communications considerations are automatically handled in hardware. The system will automatically pick the closest memory and processors to work together. Writing programs on it is no different than writing programs on any SMP machine.
One word... FUD. The main purpose of this entire ordeal is to legally encumber Linux and OSS. What better way to do this than to say general things and hide the specifics (which probably have no merit)?
Such high penalties for copyright infringement exist due to people potentially profiting due to redistribution of copyrighted material. They're not going to fine you 33 million for downloading a season of some TV show. However they may if you're making copies of the copyrighted material and selling them.
I've never gotten good results scanning slides using an adapter on a flat bed scanner. This could be your main problem. There are some lower priced slide scanners these days that produce good results. Canon makes a rather affordable slide scanner. Mid-hundreds, but not thousands. Another suggestion would be trying it under windows and seeing if that produces any better results. I think your hardware is more of a problem than your software though.
I'm sick of this tired old argument. PERL is not object oriented (or has poor object oriented support), so PERL is bad. There are plenty of programs which do not benefit at all from being object oriented. I've written hundreds of programs in PERL, some of them very complex, and none of them have ever been object oriented or would benefit from being object oriented.
CNBC employees responsible for content are not allowed to own any stock. Those not responisble for content are only allowed to own mutuals funds and other groups of stocks they do not control.
I use Backup Express made by SyncSort. I've been pretty happy with it overall. It's designed with very large libraries in mind though, which can be semi-annoying if you don't have a very large library, like me. You have to define media before the backup begins, i.e. if you put in blank tape, the software won't automatically use the tape if the software needs a blank tape. You have to define each tape to be in a certain media pool. If you have a very large library, you'd define everything once and let it go at it. It's not a major inconvenience, but it is my one complaint.
It has most of the features of more expensive packages for quite a bit less money. They have good, responsive tech support, with technicians you can actually understand, unlike some other companies, *cough* CA. They also offer a demo period, a month or more, when you have an unrestricted copy of the software and full access to their technical support staff, so you can get a good idea if it will work for you.
For our environment, 15 Windows clients, 5 Solaris clients, 3 Linux clients, a 2 drive 14 slot library, and a 1 drive 10 slot library, including a year of support and upgrades for about $18,000.
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Oh it wouldn't be a discussion on /. about programming languages without the obligatory bust on PERL! I think we need Wall's law to compliment Goodwin's Law.
You've surveyed all 40,000+ people? ;-) I work for the Genome Sciences department which is part of the School of Medicine. Our current disk usage comes in at about 25TB and is growing rapidly. I think one year's worth of backups is probably about 100TB. It's just not economically feasible to backup that much data to disk.
Read the Fucking Patent.
TiVo's patent is for a particular method of recording one program, while watching another using low cost components. Clearly someone can come up with some other method of achieving this using low cost components or use just use more expensive components and not infringe on their patent.
I was looking to relocate from New York to Seattle, but recruiters constantly called me about jobs on the east coast. I specified in the proper place as well as stating it at least once on my resume that I was looking to relocate to Seattle. They just don't seem to read anything on your page except your current location and basic skills. Perhaps they have unlimited time to expend, but I do not.
Your spelling should do that.
I've spoken with an SGI engingeer about the Altix systems and he said all the memory and communications considerations are automatically handled in hardware. The system will automatically pick the closest memory and processors to work together. Writing programs on it is no different than writing programs on any SMP machine.
One word ... FUD. The main purpose of this entire ordeal is to legally encumber Linux and OSS. What better way to do this than to say general things and hide the specifics (which probably have no merit)?
Apparently you need to allocate more of your brain capacity to grammar.
Such high penalties for copyright infringement exist due to people potentially profiting due to redistribution of copyrighted material. They're not going to fine you 33 million for downloading a season of some TV show. However they may if you're making copies of the copyrighted material and selling them.
I've never gotten good results scanning slides using an adapter on a flat bed scanner. This could be your main problem. There are some lower priced slide scanners these days that produce good results. Canon makes a rather affordable slide scanner. Mid-hundreds, but not thousands. Another suggestion would be trying it under windows and seeing if that produces any better results. I think your hardware is more of a problem than your software though.
I'm sick of this tired old argument. PERL is not object oriented (or has poor object oriented support), so PERL is bad. There are plenty of programs which do not benefit at all from being object oriented. I've written hundreds of programs in PERL, some of them very complex, and none of them have ever been object oriented or would benefit from being object oriented.
CNBC employees responsible for content are not allowed to own any stock. Those not responisble for content are only allowed to own mutuals funds and other groups of stocks they do not control.
Back in my Mac OS 7.X days I found Black Night. This program does the best job I've seen on a Mac.
Those penguins sure don't look like they're selling ketchup to me!
Those are some saucy looking penguins ;-)
I use Backup Express made by SyncSort. I've been pretty happy with it overall. It's designed with very large libraries in mind though, which can be semi-annoying if you don't have a very large library, like me. You have to define media before the backup begins, i.e. if you put in blank tape, the software won't automatically use the tape if the software needs a blank tape. You have to define each tape to be in a certain media pool. If you have a very large library, you'd define everything once and let it go at it. It's not a major inconvenience, but it is my one complaint.
It has most of the features of more expensive packages for quite a bit less money. They have good, responsive tech support, with technicians you can actually understand, unlike some other companies, *cough* CA. They also offer a demo period, a month or more, when you have an unrestricted copy of the software and full access to their technical support staff, so you can get a good idea if it will work for you.
For our environment, 15 Windows clients, 5 Solaris clients, 3 Linux clients, a 2 drive 14 slot library, and a 1 drive 10 slot library, including a year of support and upgrades for about $18,000.