In my line of work, I'm sometimes more effective "after business hours." The brain starts working on a subject and I'm able to find stuff that just doesn't click during work hours. Do I count this against work time? Nah. I'm not allowed to "work from home." But you bet that it improves my "productivity" when I return to the office the next day.
Not really so for "desk monkeys" that have to sit there and listen to some poor (l)user's problems - they can't really "work from home." But it works for some of us PHBs...
Dude. You are missing the point. *I* fixed my problem immediately. But I have lots of experience. I knew what to look for. Typical Windoze users know squat about "symlinks" or device files.
Just trying to run RHEL WS 4 today, and for some reason, my/dev/mouse gets moved to/dev/mouse0 (no clue as to why). So, naturally, X barfs and I get asked to run the mouse configurator and make things happy again. No problem. I choose the appropriate wheel mouse configuration (the same that worked before). Barfo. The only solution was to kill graphical login, go to the shell and use vim to edit/etc/X86config. Big deal? Hell, I'm a decades Unix veteran, so that's no biggie to me. But your typical Windoze user will NEVER figure that out, or even where to look.
FIX THE DAMN WINDOW MANAGERS. THEY ARE BROKE!
Please listen to Andy Hertzfeld on Bob Cringely's NerdTV. He started Easel, and his insight into "what's wrong with Linux on the desktop" is spot on.
Private industry hasn't even come close to being able to reach the orbits that NASA does routinely (remembering that NASA's vehicles are built by private industry contractors).
...due to psychopathic behaviour of caffeine withdrawal victims. I know that if I were to ever quit coffee cold turkey, I would make the BTK Killer look like a Boy Scout on ritalin...
obviously has never used Jumpstart. It's remarkably trivial to install one or one hundred Solaris servers using Jumpstart, which is included with Solaris.
VMware ESX is Linux, after all. They post their GPL'ed parts, and they provide kits that use OSS to extend scripting and management capabilities. They're pretty OSS friendly.
Wow, 93% growth in their VMWare subsidiary! We just bought two servers, and will probably grow the "farm" to four within the next two years. We like what ESX has to offer, in terms of availability and flexibility.
Wife "needs" a new laptop for her PhD work, so we're giving the 'ol iBook to our son (my suggestion that she should get a new one - she still loves it). He can't use it by himself, yet (too eager to mash keys yet), but he absolutely loves the learning games on noggin.com. Many are well designed, and age appropriate (he frequently practices vocabulary and pronunciation with Maisy's Blocks, for example).
Laptops are great. Just be sure there is compelling content with which you'll use it to access.
Is to play PS2 games now, then PS3 games when compelling titles come out. I don't own a PS2, but if the PS3 comes out next Spring, my son will be old enough to get him one. Backwards compatibility with PS2 is what will get me on that platform.
Of course, Nintendo Revolution really interests me. If it's as backwards compatible as Nintendo is promising, I might just go that direction. Much more interesting titles on that platform...
The Family and Educational Right to Privacy Act trumps FoI at public universities. It stipulates rules about disclosure of information that students have stated are to be protected. The University of Texas does a very good job of protecting this data, at least in the groups that I've worked with.
Geez, first of all, matter IS energy. This has been proven over Bikini, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc.
Secondly, it's only "dark" because we can't see it. Obviously, if it's there, but we haven't observed it yet, it's "dark matter." There is nothing inherently unique about it. We're just not omniscient.
There are at least two examples in which metamorphosis presents useful options for a species. In the first, you will note that many immature forms use a different food source than their mature parents. This lets the young feed without competing with the adults. Kind of like you getting your own Play Station, so you don't have to wait until the kids are done using theirs.
The second is a separation of environments. Mosquito larvae, dragonfly nymphs, etc. live under water. The adults are terrestrial/aerial. Not only do they no longer compete for food, they also don't compete for space (or share the same dangers). Kind of like you getting your own room to play your Play Station in, because the kids' room is full of Beanie Babies and stuff.
You would realize that the struggle, the relgion, the culture, and everything else you describe as "living life" is irrelevant. The only "purpose" to life is to create more life.
We are seriously interested in their Opteron offerings. We have been testing the W1100z and W2100z, and I am in love. Sun needs to improve Windows support for that project, since our need requires dual-booting. However, as a Linux workstation, they are astoundingly good.
Not to mention that compared to the less-than-spectacular Dell offerings (they're supposedly coming out with improved workstations soon), they are cost-competitive.
I can't wait to try the new "Ultras" (considering I used an Ultra 1, back in the "SPARC" days, I find the naming amusing- hell, I used a Sun IPC!)
But an argument that "great, now IBM can focus on the future of non-PC computing" is silly. Apple has proven time and again that it is the leader in this space. Whatever the "non-PC future" will be, bet that Apple will have created, evolved or otherwise brought it to mass market, as they have with every other "commodity" technology today (USB, IEEE-1394, WiFi, DVI, etc.). By no longer being a part of that, IBM stands to miss out.
Still, IBM isn't a powerhouse because it makes lots of chips. Rather, it utilizes a lot of technology on behalf of its customers. This won't affect them much.
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In my line of work, I'm sometimes more effective "after business hours." The brain starts working on a subject and I'm able to find stuff that just doesn't click during work hours. Do I count this against work time? Nah. I'm not allowed to "work from home." But you bet that it improves my "productivity" when I return to the office the next day.
Not really so for "desk monkeys" that have to sit there and listen to some poor (l)user's problems - they can't really "work from home." But it works for some of us PHBs...
Dude. You are missing the point. *I* fixed my problem immediately. But I have lots of experience. I knew what to look for. Typical Windoze users know squat about "symlinks" or device files.
Just trying to run RHEL WS 4 today, and for some reason, my /dev/mouse gets moved to /dev/mouse0 (no clue as to why). So, naturally, X barfs and I get asked to run the mouse configurator and make things happy again. No problem. I choose the appropriate wheel mouse configuration (the same that worked before). Barfo. The only solution was to kill graphical login, go to the shell and use vim to edit /etc/X86config. Big deal? Hell, I'm a decades Unix veteran, so that's no biggie to me. But your typical Windoze user will NEVER figure that out, or even where to look.
FIX THE DAMN WINDOW MANAGERS. THEY ARE BROKE!
Please listen to Andy Hertzfeld on Bob Cringely's NerdTV. He started Easel, and his insight into "what's wrong with Linux on the desktop" is spot on.
Private industry hasn't even come close to being able to reach the orbits that NASA does routinely (remembering that NASA's vehicles are built by private industry contractors).
...due to psychopathic behaviour of caffeine withdrawal victims. I know that if I were to ever quit coffee cold turkey, I would make the BTK Killer look like a Boy Scout on ritalin...
when we can have baboons, fish and any other creature with eight asses. What a glorious day that will be!
I want to perform laser surgery out of a shrunken-down micro submersible, injected into someone's bloodstream!
A female assistant with a tight scuba suit would also help...
obviously has never used Jumpstart. It's remarkably trivial to install one or one hundred Solaris servers using Jumpstart, which is included with Solaris.
http://www.amorin.org/professional/jumpstart.php
"I've got to be careful. So, what I'm gonna do is sneak up on it and jam my thumb in its butthole."
that Ogg is the format of thieves and vagabonds, as I have always suspected...
is the Geek vs. Nerd gene. I mean, we all know that Nerds are nerds, but Geeks are nerds with skills. As a PHB, I want to know which one I'm hiring :)
Tim wants more good pr0n!
VMware ESX is Linux, after all. They post their GPL'ed parts, and they provide kits that use OSS to extend scripting and management capabilities. They're pretty OSS friendly.
Wow, 93% growth in their VMWare subsidiary! We just bought two servers, and will probably grow the "farm" to four within the next two years. We like what ESX has to offer, in terms of availability and flexibility.
Wife "needs" a new laptop for her PhD work, so we're giving the 'ol iBook to our son (my suggestion that she should get a new one - she still loves it). He can't use it by himself, yet (too eager to mash keys yet), but he absolutely loves the learning games on noggin.com. Many are well designed, and age appropriate (he frequently practices vocabulary and pronunciation with Maisy's Blocks, for example).
Laptops are great. Just be sure there is compelling content with which you'll use it to access.
Is to play PS2 games now, then PS3 games when compelling titles come out. I don't own a PS2, but if the PS3 comes out next Spring, my son will be old enough to get him one. Backwards compatibility with PS2 is what will get me on that platform.
Of course, Nintendo Revolution really interests me. If it's as backwards compatible as Nintendo is promising, I might just go that direction. Much more interesting titles on that platform...
The Family and Educational Right to Privacy Act trumps FoI at public universities. It stipulates rules about disclosure of information that students have stated are to be protected. The University of Texas does a very good job of protecting this data, at least in the groups that I've worked with.
It is officially: The University of Texas at Austin
The "The" must be capitalized, as must "University," "Texas" and "Austin." I shit you not. This is the official rule.
HOOK EM!
Especially if our female astronauts come back looking like Jessica Alba! Yum!
You're wrong. The "no fraternizing" clause mentions nothing about "while in uniform." That has to do with the "solicitation" clause.
Why don't you READ the actual decision?
Geez, first of all, matter IS energy. This has been proven over Bikini, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc.
Secondly, it's only "dark" because we can't see it. Obviously, if it's there, but we haven't observed it yet, it's "dark matter." There is nothing inherently unique about it. We're just not omniscient.
There are at least two examples in which metamorphosis presents useful options for a species. In the first, you will note that many immature forms use a different food source than their mature parents. This lets the young feed without competing with the adults. Kind of like you getting your own Play Station, so you don't have to wait until the kids are done using theirs.
The second is a separation of environments. Mosquito larvae, dragonfly nymphs, etc. live under water. The adults are terrestrial/aerial. Not only do they no longer compete for food, they also don't compete for space (or share the same dangers). Kind of like you getting your own room to play your Play Station in, because the kids' room is full of Beanie Babies and stuff.
You would realize that the struggle, the relgion, the culture, and everything else you describe as "living life" is irrelevant. The only
"purpose" to life is to create more life.
So get out there and procreate!
We are seriously interested in their Opteron offerings. We have been testing the W1100z and W2100z, and I am in love. Sun needs to improve Windows support for that project, since our need requires dual-booting. However, as a Linux workstation, they are astoundingly good.
Not to mention that compared to the less-than-spectacular Dell offerings (they're supposedly coming out with improved workstations soon), they are cost-competitive.
I can't wait to try the new "Ultras" (considering I used an Ultra 1, back in the "SPARC" days, I find the naming amusing- hell, I used a Sun IPC!)
People in Nigeria need to learn to feed themselves, before they need instant messaging or blogging.
Think I'm being elitist? Nope. I'm just lucky to have been born in the USA, where food and farm labour is abundant.
But an argument that "great, now IBM can focus on the future of non-PC computing" is silly. Apple has proven time and again that it is the leader in this space. Whatever the "non-PC future" will be, bet that Apple will have created, evolved or otherwise brought it to mass market, as they have with every other "commodity" technology today (USB, IEEE-1394, WiFi, DVI, etc.). By no longer being a part of that, IBM stands to miss out.
Still, IBM isn't a powerhouse because it makes lots of chips. Rather, it utilizes a lot of technology on behalf of its customers. This won't affect them much.