To summarize the article, it comes down to 2 keys: Diet and Exercise. What is never talked about (sometimes hinted at or briefly touched on) is the 3rd Key:
Emotional Bandwidth (or perhaps, emotional strength or support.)
The author did say that at 1 or 2 points that weightloss certainly requires discipline, but that doesn't really explain it fully.
In order to be truly successful at achieving a healthy weight on a long term basis, one needs a good deal of emotional support/strength/will-power/whathaveyou. This is why when you're part of a Weight Watchers group or are part of a team that trains regularly or you have a personal trainer, things tend to go well.
When life is not going so well, many of us compensate by stopping the hard workouts and eating more (both of which make us feel better in the short term.) Then once we get used to the extra feeling of more food and sitting around, it becomes habit.
More needs to be said about how to bolster Emotional Bandwidth (strength, support, discipline, etc.)
I've found Metacritic to be a good aggregator of scores, but more importantly, the "users" scores (and reviews) tend to be more reliable in terms of not being overly critical of games that are generally pretty good, but don't meet the expectations of "hard core" gamers.
The summary is cut short which requires me to click into the article. That's not fun. While I won't exactly say F-beta, I certainly don't like this either. Dice should go back to the way it was.
This is something that I have never dealt with directly, but I saw a similar post on StackOverflow a few months ago and bookmarked it because it seemed useful.
In short, the software would still work, but re-direct people to a page letting them know that they've been "caught" pirating software and that they should really purchase it. This won't stop everyone, but some people (especially in a business environment) won't risk "being caught", so they will purchase the software knowing that you know that they know they are pirating your software.
Once salary is satisfied, what drives us all are 3 things: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.
I get the sense from my friends who work on the West Coast that they get these things from their jobs. On the East Coast, it doesn't seem to occur as often (or at the very least is harder to find.) I'm not surprised that young 20-somethings bail as often as they do in such an environment.
Step 2: Print out all the code (in very small font) and paste the code up on the wall Step 3: Identify all the classes, functions, DBs, etc. Step 4: Create a visual map (on a white board) of how they're all linked together. Step 5: PROFIT!
As previously mentioned, try switching to 5GHz if you can. It won't go through walls, which means that you need to locate the AP carefully to make sure you have coverage where you need it.
Agreed. The 5Ghz spectrum always seems so open and free. Not to mention that 802.11a allows for dozens of *discrete* (read: non-overlapping) channels.
To help with the "not going thru walls well" problem of 802.11a, I've found that a simple reflector placed on every antenna of your WAP can boost your signal by 10 - 12 dB (in a single direction) -- This is enough to make it through walls of a condo. It also helps reduce noise coming into your WAP as well as pick up the signal from your devices better.
They're very simple and cheap to make, too. Instructions can be found at the Free Antennas website. The designs work great for all Wifi standards.
I'm still getting the hang of Threading in C# myself, but I found this eBook immensely helpful in getting me understand some of the difficult issues such as Thread Safety, Cross-threading issues, Race Conditions, and Event-Delegate pairs.
Lightbulbs that use Fluorescent tube technology, but screw right into the sockets of regular bulbs. - They use ~25% of the power of regular bulbs (for the equivalent light output) - They tend to last 5 times longer - The electronic balasts of modern CFB don't cause flicker (and thus avoid headaches...) - Modern CFBs use better phosphorescents that match the color temperature of typical incandescents.
The only real downside is that they *are* more expensive than regular bulbs, but the energy (money) you save in the first few months allows it to quickly pay for itself.
There are new toothpastes that are now arriving on the market that are designed to "remineralize" the enamel and restore small-to-tiny dental decay. Some people may remember "Enamelon" (which went out of business). Well, it seems that there are 3 products that are not likely to go out of business any time soon, but use essentially the same technology.
Teeth (like bones) breakdown and rebuild every day. Bones via the bloodstream. Teeth via saliva and enzymes and minerals found in the saliva. Fluoride definitely helps strengthen teeth against acid attack and helps attract calcium and phosphate to the enamel. These new toothpastes sound like they work pretty much the same: They make calcium and phosphate ions more bio-available (sounds like marketing, I know) such that they increase the strength of the enamel. Current research indicates that used daily over a few months has a dramatic impact on enamel remineralization.
The current toothpaste and technologies are:
Prospec MI Paste (Recaldent)
Oravive (Novamin)
Arm & Hammer Liquid Calcium (???)
The Arm & Hammer you can buy in stores now. The Oravive can be ordered from the company website. The Prospec MI Paste must be obtained from your dentist or thru a dental supplier which is kind of surprising because it is apparently so safe that you can swallow it without worry. (Oddly, it is supposed to be applied after you brush your teeth.) Recaldent can also be found in Trident White chewing gum.
Lastly, Xylitol (a 5-carbon sugar alcohol) has been shown to have a positive impact on the reduction of bad bacteria in the mouth. Some new chewing gums are being flavor with Xylitol just for this reason. Though I can't figure out why Trident White (with their teeth strengthening Recaldent) isn't flavored with Xylitol. They had a line of chewing gum called "Trident for Kids" which had both, but they've since discontinued it. Maybe it works too well... O_o ???
Even at $150, the Nano would be priced a bit too high for such a range.
Yup, the Shuffle is all about capturing that "long tail" (ie. the people who want to spend significantly less than $200 for an MP3 player.) I'm sure that the Shuffle is relativately inexpensive for Apple to produce, so even though the Shuffle probably doesn't bring in *that* much revenue, they probably have wide profit margins on them.
Apple has always been good at creating a demand for products with big profit margins. I can't imagine them screwing this up now and giving up a section of the digital audio player market that they've already cornered.
I'd guess that 90% of Flash is used for advertising. Block Flash and you block mostly advertising. And typically very annoying advertising at that. (Whatever happened to the good old animated GIF?) Then you add exceptions for certain sites like, oh, Slashdot, Homestar Runner, JibJab, etc.
No, this is not a good thing. The fonts should be fixed thru a W3C standard. Not some proprietary hack to load on top of something else. (Not that anybody ever listens to the W3C, but I digress...)
> Everytime there's a power outage in my house, my Gateway
>> Well, there's your problem right there! Buy yourself a new computer and quit bothering us.
Better yet, learn to build your own computer and install the OS from scratch. No vendor out there ever installs Windows without tons of crap trialware that ultimately ends up bogging down your machine. ('cept maybe Alienware...)
As someone who has worked behind a tech support desk and who has to occasionally call tech support and deal with (incompetant) level 1 tech support, I always remember the old adage "Kill 'em with kindness".
Whether you *are* the tech or you are talking *to* the tech, taking your emotions out of the equation makes the whole transaction soooooo much smoother. Sure, it's hard to do, especially when you're at wits end, but it usually pays off.
Once you hang-up the phone, then you can blow off all the steam that you want... Just don't blow your top... Health insurance doesn't usually cover that.
After reading this article, I closed the window and wondered where my browser with FARK.com had gone. I was sure the "obvious" tag had trumped "amusing" or "interesting". I was genuinely shocked to find this post on Slashdot (but not so suprised to find it coming from MSNBC...) Seems this one was too obvious to make it even to Fark. Maybe it will show up later in the day, though... Heh.
From what I know, the ex-Mambo devs who just departed from Mambo are working on getting Mambo fully working with ADODB so that you can use any database. Not just MySQL.
Regarding caching, Mambo does have a few caching mechanisms. Of the Global Configuration options, you should try tweaking the "cache" settings.:-) I think it is turned off by default. You may also want to lengthen the cache time from 900 seconds (15 minutes) to something like 1800 or 3600 seconds.
You may want to enable GZIP Page compression to speed up the sending of data. I don't know how much CPU load GZIP Page comp causes. Under a big load, it might actually slow down your machine if your DB server is on the same machine as the web server... Though I'm not certain about this. You may just have to try it both on and off.
This gesture by Miro is an empty one. It seems to me that Miro has shot themselves in the foot over this Mambo Foundation and made themselves look awfully foolish. Right now they are attempting damage control by trying to appear like "good guys" with all these disingenuous gestures.
All the coding talent that was behind Mambo has since left to form their own foundation. To find out what the ex-developers of Mambo are up to, visit OpenSourceMatters
Remote Desktop is definitely a security risk. It seems to me that if you plan on accessing your home machine remotely, it would be wise to put it behind your router/NAT/firewall and never port forward to it. Then setup a VPN connection to your home network and connect that way. Naturally, the trouble is that if you are not tech savvy, setting up VPN is not something that is trivial. (Well, maybe if you have a Linksys WRT54G and patch it with one of those 3rd party firmwares, it might not be so bad...)
I actually ran into this problem at a customer's site this weekend. They had Trend Micro AV and the computer was utterly crippled. It was like it had some utterly malicious virus on it gobbling up all the cpu time.
Using SysInternal's Process Explorer, I was ultimately able to see that a module (running as a part of the "system" process) called "TmXPflt.sys" was running 4 simultaneous threads each using about 25% of the CPU. Since the "system" process is given higher priority than all other processes, the system naturally slowed to a crawl.
I rebooted into safe mode and renamed this file and restarted. The system behaved like normal again. The file said it was a Trend Micro "XP Post Filter" (mail filter?) - After all that, I thought that it was particularly weird that I hadn't read about some problem from Trend Micro on a major news outlet (like Slashdot):-)
Slashdot Mirror
To summarize the article, it comes down to 2 keys: Diet and Exercise. What is never talked about (sometimes hinted at or briefly touched on) is the 3rd Key:
Emotional Bandwidth (or perhaps, emotional strength or support.)
The author did say that at 1 or 2 points that weightloss certainly requires discipline, but that doesn't really explain it fully.
In order to be truly successful at achieving a healthy weight on a long term basis, one needs a good deal of emotional support/strength/will-power/whathaveyou. This is why when you're part of a Weight Watchers group or are part of a team that trains regularly or you have a personal trainer, things tend to go well.
When life is not going so well, many of us compensate by stopping the hard workouts and eating more (both of which make us feel better in the short term.) Then once we get used to the extra feeling of more food and sitting around, it becomes habit.
More needs to be said about how to bolster Emotional Bandwidth (strength, support, discipline, etc.)
I've found Metacritic to be a good aggregator of scores, but more importantly, the "users" scores (and reviews) tend to be more reliable in terms of not being overly critical of games that are generally pretty good, but don't meet the expectations of "hard core" gamers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
This Programmer Competency Matrix has been instrumental in helping me "know what I don't know".
The summary is cut short which requires me to click into the article. That's not fun. While I won't exactly say F-beta, I certainly don't like this either. Dice should go back to the way it was.
I found this answer on SO a couple years ago and flagged it as a favorite because I figured I might need it some day.
The short version is a lot like what people have already said, have cracked keys be detectable and then decide from there what to do.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3550556/ive-found-my-software-as-cracked-download-on-internet-what-to-do
This guy decided to redirect the users to a website to inform them that they're using a cracked key and that they should really purchase the software.
His studies seem to indicate that it works well.
This is something that I have never dealt with directly, but I saw a similar post on StackOverflow a few months ago and bookmarked it because it seemed useful.
The answer it seems is something called "Partial Key Verification": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3550556/ive-found-my-software-as-cracked-download-on-internet-what-to-do
In short, the software would still work, but re-direct people to a page letting them know that they've been "caught" pirating software and that they should really purchase it. This won't stop everyone, but some people (especially in a business environment) won't risk "being caught", so they will purchase the software knowing that you know that they know they are pirating your software.
Once salary is satisfied, what drives us all are 3 things: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.
I get the sense from my friends who work on the West Coast that they get these things from their jobs. On the East Coast, it doesn't seem to occur as often (or at the very least is harder to find.) I'm not surprised that young 20-somethings bail as often as they do in such an environment.
Here's a TED talk about it: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
Step 2: Print out all the code (in very small font) and paste the code up on the wall
Step 3: Identify all the classes, functions, DBs, etc.
Step 4: Create a visual map (on a white board) of how they're all linked together.
Step 5: PROFIT!
That wasn't so hard, now, was it? :)
As previously mentioned, try switching to 5GHz if you can. It won't go through walls, which means that you need to locate the AP carefully to make sure you have coverage where you need it.
Agreed. The 5Ghz spectrum always seems so open and free. Not to mention that 802.11a allows for dozens of *discrete* (read: non-overlapping) channels.
To help with the "not going thru walls well" problem of 802.11a, I've found that a simple reflector placed on every antenna of your WAP can boost your signal by 10 - 12 dB (in a single direction) -- This is enough to make it through walls of a condo. It also helps reduce noise coming into your WAP as well as pick up the signal from your devices better.
They're very simple and cheap to make, too. Instructions can be found at the Free Antennas website. The designs work great for all Wifi standards.
I'm still getting the hang of Threading in C# myself, but I found this eBook immensely helpful in getting me understand some of the difficult issues such as Thread Safety, Cross-threading issues, Race Conditions, and Event-Delegate pairs.
http://www.albahari.com/threading/
Lightbulbs that use Fluorescent tube technology, but screw right into the sockets of regular bulbs.
- They use ~25% of the power of regular bulbs (for the equivalent light output)
- They tend to last 5 times longer
- The electronic balasts of modern CFB don't cause flicker (and thus avoid headaches...)
- Modern CFBs use better phosphorescents that match the color temperature of typical incandescents.
The only real downside is that they *are* more expensive than regular bulbs, but the energy (money) you save in the first few months allows it to quickly pay for itself.
There are new toothpastes that are now arriving on the market that are designed to "remineralize" the enamel and restore small-to-tiny dental decay. Some people may remember "Enamelon" (which went out of business). Well, it seems that there are 3 products that are not likely to go out of business any time soon, but use essentially the same technology.
Teeth (like bones) breakdown and rebuild every day. Bones via the bloodstream. Teeth via saliva and enzymes and minerals found in the saliva. Fluoride definitely helps strengthen teeth against acid attack and helps attract calcium and phosphate to the enamel. These new toothpastes sound like they work pretty much the same: They make calcium and phosphate ions more bio-available (sounds like marketing, I know) such that they increase the strength of the enamel. Current research indicates that used daily over a few months has a dramatic impact on enamel remineralization.
The current toothpaste and technologies are:
Prospec MI Paste (Recaldent)
Oravive (Novamin)
Arm & Hammer Liquid Calcium (???)
The Arm & Hammer you can buy in stores now. The Oravive can be ordered from the company website. The Prospec MI Paste must be obtained from your dentist or thru a dental supplier which is kind of surprising because it is apparently so safe that you can swallow it without worry. (Oddly, it is supposed to be applied after you brush your teeth.) Recaldent can also be found in Trident White chewing gum.
Lastly, Xylitol (a 5-carbon sugar alcohol) has been shown to have a positive impact on the reduction of bad bacteria in the mouth. Some new chewing gums are being flavor with Xylitol just for this reason. Though I can't figure out why Trident White (with their teeth strengthening Recaldent) isn't flavored with Xylitol. They had a line of chewing gum called "Trident for Kids" which had both, but they've since discontinued it. Maybe it works too well... O_o ???
Even at $150, the Nano would be priced a bit too high for such a range.
Yup, the Shuffle is all about capturing that "long tail" (ie. the people who want to spend significantly less than $200 for an MP3 player.) I'm sure that the Shuffle is relativately inexpensive for Apple to produce, so even though the Shuffle probably doesn't bring in *that* much revenue, they probably have wide profit margins on them.
Apple has always been good at creating a demand for products with big profit margins. I can't imagine them screwing this up now and giving up a section of the digital audio player market that they've already cornered.
Yeah, Ars Technica said that the MacBook Pro battery life was around 3 hours.
IMO, this is indeed a Good Thing (TM).
Except for those of us using the FlashBlock Firefox Extension: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
I'd guess that 90% of Flash is used for advertising. Block Flash and you block mostly advertising. And typically very annoying advertising at that. (Whatever happened to the good old animated GIF?) Then you add exceptions for certain sites like, oh, Slashdot, Homestar Runner, JibJab, etc.
No, this is not a good thing. The fonts should be fixed thru a W3C standard. Not some proprietary hack to load on top of something else. (Not that anybody ever listens to the W3C, but I digress...)
Along the lines of fixing your filesystem (because you can't boot, even in safe mode...)
/r C:
BartPE is your friend: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Download the basic BartPE CD builder and have it make you a standard BartPE ISO. Burn it to disk and then boot off the CD.
Once it's done loading, launch a command window and run:
chkdsk
(checkdisk "repair" C:-drive)
Or whatever drive needs fixing. Once it's done, reboot. This should repair your filesystem and probably get you going again.
> Everytime there's a power outage in my house, my Gateway
>> Well, there's your problem right there! Buy yourself a new computer and quit bothering us.
Better yet, learn to build your own computer and install the OS from scratch. No vendor out there ever installs Windows without tons of crap trialware that ultimately ends up bogging down your machine. ('cept maybe Alienware...)
Oooh. I like this corrollary. After thinking about how I deal with people on both ends, I probably end up unwittingly hypnotizing them. Nice!
:-)
You're a smart man, spooky_nerd.
As someone who has worked behind a tech support desk and who has to occasionally call tech support and deal with (incompetant) level 1 tech support, I always remember the old adage "Kill 'em with kindness".
Whether you *are* the tech or you are talking *to* the tech, taking your emotions out of the equation makes the whole transaction soooooo much smoother. Sure, it's hard to do, especially when you're at wits end, but it usually pays off.
Once you hang-up the phone, then you can blow off all the steam that you want... Just don't blow your top... Health insurance doesn't usually cover that.
After reading this article, I closed the window and wondered where my browser with FARK.com had gone. I was sure the "obvious" tag had trumped "amusing" or "interesting". I was genuinely shocked to find this post on Slashdot (but not so suprised to find it coming from MSNBC...) Seems this one was too obvious to make it even to Fark. Maybe it will show up later in the day, though... Heh.
From what I know, the ex-Mambo devs who just departed from Mambo are working on getting Mambo fully working with ADODB so that you can use any database. Not just MySQL.
:-) I think it is turned off by default. You may also want to lengthen the cache time from 900 seconds (15 minutes) to something like 1800 or 3600 seconds.
Regarding caching, Mambo does have a few caching mechanisms. Of the Global Configuration options, you should try tweaking the "cache" settings.
You may want to enable GZIP Page compression to speed up the sending of data. I don't know how much CPU load GZIP Page comp causes. Under a big load, it might actually slow down your machine if your DB server is on the same machine as the web server... Though I'm not certain about this. You may just have to try it both on and off.
This gesture by Miro is an empty one. It seems to me that Miro has shot themselves in the foot over this Mambo Foundation and made themselves look awfully foolish. Right now they are attempting damage control by trying to appear like "good guys" with all these disingenuous gestures.
All the coding talent that was behind Mambo has since left to form their own foundation. To find out what the ex-developers of Mambo are up to, visit OpenSourceMatters
Disclosure: Yes, I'm the one who wrote the Mambo developer exodus report on Ars Technica.
Remote Desktop is definitely a security risk. It seems to me that if you plan on accessing your home machine remotely, it would be wise to put it behind your router/NAT/firewall and never port forward to it. Then setup a VPN connection to your home network and connect that way. Naturally, the trouble is that if you are not tech savvy, setting up VPN is not something that is trivial. (Well, maybe if you have a Linksys WRT54G and patch it with one of those 3rd party firmwares, it might not be so bad...)
I actually ran into this problem at a customer's site this weekend. They had Trend Micro AV and the computer was utterly crippled. It was like it had some utterly malicious virus on it gobbling up all the cpu time.
:-)
Using SysInternal's Process Explorer, I was ultimately able to see that a module (running as a part of the "system" process) called "TmXPflt.sys" was running 4 simultaneous threads each using about 25% of the CPU. Since the "system" process is given higher priority than all other processes, the system naturally slowed to a crawl.
I rebooted into safe mode and renamed this file and restarted. The system behaved like normal again. The file said it was a Trend Micro "XP Post Filter" (mail filter?) - After all that, I thought that it was particularly weird that I hadn't read about some problem from Trend Micro on a major news outlet (like Slashdot)