Just recently I had a neighbor hire me to do a concept animation of a machine he was going to build. I used truespace 5.2. It was insanely detailed down to individual links on the bicycle chain drive.
The poly count got so high that my P4 was going to take 3 days to render it. My computer could hardly handle moving around in the scene anymore. I told the neighbor I had brought the scene as far as it could go on my P4 and I couldn't go any further without a new machine. He gave me $2500 to work with so this was what I built.
Dual Xeon P4 2.0ghz 1 Gig RDRAM Maxtor 80gig IDE drive DVD-R(by his request)
The system definetly cut the rendering time down, to 24 hours,but something just didn't feel right about the new render time. I could have bought 2 more p4 1.4ghz and accomplished the same for less. What really got me was when my friend rendered the scene on his single athalonMP 2200.
14 hours
A single athalonMP 2200 was smokin my dual xeon setup! Well, this is all it took for me to write off intel forever. Intel fuck you and your shitty CPU's, you've lost my trust forever!
Anyone that is even considering using a Intel solution as a renderstation, please don't waste the money. You can do a lot more with a lot less using AMD.
You forgot the question mark dumbass. Adding a "D" to the end of prejudice makes it past tense, and we're not talking about the past, we're talking about the present.
You have the attention span of a gerbil and the english skills to match.
This is a reprint of this post I made, with an update.
A few months back I was having a lan party in my garage. Pretty hot, so the door was closed to about a foot. Halfway through playing the neighbors 16 yro ritilin hyped Add kid (aunt later told me this) kid crawled under the 1 foot gap in the garage.
I consider myself a computer philanthopist (yeah right, i'm unemployed:P) So I never miss a chance to infuence people into computers. Kid said he played CS so I invited him to play on a station not being used.
Well about 10 rounds later kid turns to me and asks, "Know where to get any dope?" I ask him his age, find out he's 16 and intruct him never to speak of that again in my house in order to maintain neighborhood harmony. After a few more minutes he takes off till about 8.
Now anyone that has ever been to a private lan party knows that after many straight hours of interactive gaming a break of non-interactivity is required. So we were sitting around watching funny pr0n when I looked over and the kid was back! He didn't announce himself or anything, he was just sitting there all quiet (creepy like)
Well, earlier that day I had fried the bios on a friends computer. So I payed him no mind and went back to searching the web for a fix when his mother and aunt came over. They both seemed pretty drunk and started flirting with my friends. I mean heavy flirting, like one of my buddies has japanese kanji characters tattood on his arm, and she was tracing the outline while running her fingers through his hair. These bitches were straight FREAKY DEEKS! No BS here, these middle age broads were down for some young cock!
Well, i'm still staring at my screen trying to not pay attention to whats going on when the kids mom started rubbing up on me. I got pissed (any true get gets pissed when someone breaks their concentration) so I thought I would make a smart ass remark to her..
"HEY TELL YOUR KID TO QUIT HITTIN MY FRIENDS UP FOR DOPE!!"
Everyone started laughing, she went up to her son, said his name in a whiny tone of voice NooooLAAAN and sorta hugged him. He sheepishly grinned and I thought that was that. I had told the kid no askin, and I had let the parent know what happened. I thought I had done my duty as a neighbor and went back to fixing that bios.
She went home, about 5 minutes later the kids stepdad comes out. NOLAN TOQER! COME HERE I WANNA TALK TO YOU! I told the guys to wait there, wasn't a big deal and i'd be back in a minute.
Well, I followed the guy out front, he got 6 inches in my face and started holding a fist, threatening to call the cops on me for delinquency to a minor, and was just being drunk and nasty (I could hella smell it on his breath)
"Hey if you want to come over here to get a point across thats cool, but getting 6 inches in my face isn't, now if you would just take a step back and a breath, maybe we can talk about this rationally" I took a step back while sayin that just in case, he started lurching forward so I started yelling "GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!! GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!!"
Well, by that time the clan had stood up, and his wife was over there pulling him back across the street apogizing the whole time.
Before people start dissin me, let me explain some known things about this cat. 1. He only bought his house 3 months ago 2. He's pissed every neighbor off by leaving his dog out front all day while he's at work so it wont shit in his backyard (guess where it goes?) 3. He's gotten into fights with 4 neighbors 4. nobody, and I mean nobody in the neighborhood likes this cat. 5. Oh and just today the mailman had to mace his dog, and told me he wont deliver mail to the neighborhood if his dog keeps getting left out. 6. If this guy is worried about his stepson being around dope, he shouldn't go asking his neighbors himself where he can get it.
Well, i'm really not that much of a fighter. I'm 29, pack a day smoker since I was like 10, and I really REALLY am a pencil neck geek. So yeah, basically i'm scared because this house I bought and planned on living in for the next 30 years has some drunken fat surly construction worker living across the street wanting to kick my ass. What to do???
Well, MY GEEK POWERS COMBINED! I set up a video capture card and camera combo. I mounted the camera in an electrical box, and put tinted plexiglass over the front. It now points at my frontyard waiting to catch his dog shitting on my yard, or my neighbors yard. The camera goes into a MS WMS on a win2k server (If someone can point me to something open source i'll use it)
The trusted neighbors all know about the camera and connect to it over our cat5 fence network to watch it. Currently I can store 24 hours of low quality video on the crud equipment I have.
*UPDATE* Since we've installed the system, we've shown the cops video of this guy letting his dog loose to relieve himself in our yards. As a result his dog is either contained or on leash. Let's hear it for geek inginuity!
Where is my subspace communications capability? I was promised flying cars and subspace communication ability by 2000. Not only that where is my computers that try and kill people. Weren't we supposed to be headed for Jupiter by now?
I should be able to go anywhere and watch any movie while my computer tries to kill me in the silence of space.
Try goin back to 300 baud and those good ol atari atasci 8 bit days:P
My only rebute to your statement is history has shown, anything that can be made can be cloned, humans included. I would hate for someone to use my ID to commit a crime.
What's your fuckin problem with me? Where do you get off callin me prejudice? I point out to you the difference between a direct and indirect pronoun and you have a fit.
Just yesterday on oprah they had a story about a whistleblower at a pharmacutical company.
Basically what was happening was Doctors were recieving kickbacks from the pharmacutical company for prescribing their pills. These kicksbacks ranged from vcr's and tv's all the way up to exotic trips to lavish resorts.
It didn't just stop at bribary either. The phamacutical company went as far as to show doctors how to overcharge medicare and keep the difference..
Unless you're digging ditches or pushing a lawn mower, most corporations are devoid of morals. Bottom line is to make investors happy, screw the employees and customers.
My best advice, do whatever the hell makes you happy and keeps your interest. Yeah times are hard now on all of us computer geeks. My friends that worked construction during the.com boom love to remind me of how i'm out of work now. I love to remind them that I have to charge them now VS fixing their computers for free. It's funny to watch their faces turn white when I tell them $50@hour
Umm... All I had to do was right click the taskbar button and select "Close." It didn't even slow my machine down. Damn that Windows XP! Unless you're good with kill or task manager don't click it.
Obviously you could handle it then. Try it on a 98 box.
Every time another window opens, another instance of the browser has to be launched which can result in an overload of resources to the machine.
This link is purely an educational tool, it will continually launch popups until your machine comes to a halt. Unless you're good with kill or task manager don't click it. A reboot and your machine will be fine.
I think by law, ads should be rendered on the same page as the article and not in a popup or popunder window.
Sites like slash should have a "Yellow Pages" of ads. I'd go browse a bunch of banners if they were presented like my yellow pages if I needed a service.
Hmm, maybe we should ask Stallman if popups can be considered spam.
That could provide a cultural insight as to why china would be so open to open source?
As an american slashdotter, i'd like to point out why the US doesn't more readily adopt linux.
1. Microsoft lobbyist 2. Microsoft license sweeps 3. Microsoft Strongarm tactics 4. [insert your own M$ reason]
Technically from what I know of Bill Gates (throwing a fit at ppl pirating his altair basic) and what I know of chinese copyright laws (nearly non-existant) I guess the only conclusion is it's quality that is winning out in china.
I have heard about the open markets in china where you can purchase bootlegs of any software for near the cost of the CD. If the choice is between M$ at.5 dollars and Linux at.5 dollars linux wins.
Sorry, I was just kinda scrapin for some insightfullness there.
Quoted from tom: However, this elegant new standard does have its limitations. Serial ATA adapters use the PCI bus, which restricts the theoretical maximum data transfer rate of 150 MByte/s to the 133 MByte/s that the PCI bus allows.
I bought an adaptec 29160 a while ago. The card is sort of extended for 64bit PCI. I went back to fry's for years after I bought it to find a desktop class mobo to support it.
All I could find was dual CPU mobo's with 160scsi already built in! Why isn't there a single CPU board that supports 64bit PCI?
Maybe I just haven't looked in a while, but I was at fry's last saturday (when I saw the via eden board) and looked for a 64bit PCI mobo for my p4, nothing but high end dual mobo's had it.
The year was 1998. I had just scored a job as an IT guy for a small silicon valley company that was going to revelutionize the world by building a netmeeting for radiologists.
Well somewhere along the line, my paranoid overly mormon CTO began to think I was satan and thusly ordered all my root priveledges be taken from all servers..
I'm not going to go into too much detail about why, we'll just leave it at he was a lunatic. I could no longer add users to the mail system, apply patches or do anything a person in my job would normally do, so I just sat there browsing the web all day. Surfing the web and getting paid is pretty fun to say the least.
This psychotic CTO thought it would be a good idea to put the burden of sysadmin'ing to the coders beneath him. That lasted about 2 weeks.
Secretary calls, "I forgot my mail password" me, "Sorry but since I had my admin rights taken away I can no longer fix those problems" CEO calls, "I just got an email saying 1 million porn spams for dildos just passed through our unprotected SMTP server is this true?" Me, "Sorry sir, but without access to the logs I cannot verify this, here talk to the coder kendyl put in charge of that"
Where everyone was used to issues being resolved in 10 to 15 minutes with one phone call now turned into a trapeze act of phone calls trying to track down which coder was in charge of what system. It prevented me from doing my job, it made the coders jobs harder from fielding stupid questions, and the CEO was very pissed off about the whole thing. Coders were wasting up to 2 hours a day each to deal with stupid network shit.
Well eventually the CTO was fired for being a stark raving lunatic. The coders that held alligence with him blamed me for his downfall. One in paticular would do shit like run a samba server to fuck with my PDC, due to oslevel=1000000 my NT box would never become PDC.
The company brought in a new group to rewrite the product from scratch, and they brought with them a very wise admin named Ed Goldthorpe (If his resume ever crosses your desk, hire him, he's worth whatever he's asking) Ed slowly but surely got the coders to co-operate with him and got the network turned around in about 3 months. We had VPN, started running qmail, and basically everything was good.
I sort of faded into the background from then on. I still fielded support calls from our socal office and the one I worked out of.
The office moved 2 hours away from my house, where before it had been only 15 minutes. I put up with the 4 hour commutes by spending less time in the office. Eventually the company threatened to put me on hourly, I told them to fuck off and went to find another job. Maybe i'll write about the next job if we get an on topic story for it.
So going back to the point i'm trying to make. Most of these companies that are ditching the full time IT staff and doubling the load on their engineers will feel the burn in about 6 months. They will realize that an engineer pestered by idiots who can't change a font all day isn't a happy engineer.
IT acts as that buffer too keep the animals from eating the engineers/coders alive. When you throw away IT, you'll be losing a few good engineers too. It happened at my company, and it will happen at yours.
Hey good point on HDTV but what about the threat of internet movie distribution? Live from Iran, Film88
An earlier/. story.
If network capacity has a moores law to it, then the next generation of internet broadband may run at 10megs if most of us have 1 meg down on DSL now. At that point I think even HDTV will have a shelf life.
Or maybe i'm a geek who spends too much time rotting away in front of my computer on slashdot.
When trying to get friends and coworkers to switch to Linux, by far the hardest hurdle I have to overcome is the stereotype of Linux users as freeloading, dirty, overzealous pigs who try to shove their dogma down the throats of anyone who talks to them. Things like Speck's shameless pot-promotion do little to help overcome this. I hope this post of mine will help him come to his senses.
*Cough* *Cough*
passes Starship Trooper the bong.
When you have a picture of linus taking a bong rip or the tux penguin with a spliff in his mouth then you can start to worry. Last time I heard linux was being used to decode folding protiens and search for aliens, not marijuana promotion.
Even though I don't agree with the parent post (look at my name for petes sake) I think he pointed out something very interesting that made me go back and take a second look. Now we can have a nice thread amungsts us geeks about marijuana prohibition here on slash and I have the parent post to thank for that.
A comment should never be moderated down unless it's completely stupid.
Crawling through tunnels in the rubble cut off transmission. But Chapin thinks he has a solution to thatâ"a networked group of rats that would act as repeaters.
Suddenly I picture 100 rats marching single file down a tunnel. Now if they can teach them to build bridges, dig across, dig down, parachute, block and explode you could play lemmings for real!
Makes me picture pinky and the brain.
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Brain: Pinky we have to get out of here Pinky: NARF how we gonna do that brain Brain: Pinky what is that riduclous thing on your head? Pinky: ZOGG! Oh this? The nice lady put this over my head so my mind control implants can't be set off by radio's Brain: That's it! We'll reverse engineer your mind control implants and adapt them to humans. We'll control them via radio waves! Pinky: Why would you wanna do a thing like that brain? Brain: WHy, WHY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
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start>run>cmd (if you're using 2k and above)
ipv6 install
at the command prompt
Truespace has had SSE2 and 3DNOW optimizations since 4.2. It's the cpu, simple as that.
Just recently I had a neighbor hire me to do a concept animation of a machine he was going to build. I used truespace 5.2. It was insanely detailed down to individual links on the bicycle
chain drive.
The poly count got so high that my P4 was going to take 3 days to render it. My computer could hardly handle moving around in the scene anymore. I told the neighbor I had brought the scene as far as it could go on my P4
and I couldn't go any further without a new machine. He gave me $2500 to work with so this was what I built.
Dual Xeon P4 2.0ghz
1 Gig RDRAM
Maxtor 80gig IDE drive
DVD-R(by his request)
The system definetly cut the rendering time down, to 24 hours,but something just didn't feel right about the new render time. I could
have bought 2 more p4 1.4ghz and accomplished the same for less. What really got me was when my friend rendered the scene on his single athalonMP 2200.
14 hours
A single athalonMP 2200 was smokin my dual xeon setup! Well, this is all it took for me to write off intel forever. Intel fuck you and your shitty CPU's, you've lost my trust forever!
Anyone that is even considering using a Intel solution as a renderstation, please don't waste the money. You can do a lot more with a lot less using AMD.
You forgot the question mark dumbass. Adding a "D" to the end of prejudice makes it past tense, and we're not talking about the past, we're talking about the present.
You have the attention span of a gerbil and the english skills to match.
Yeah I tried it, in other words this sucks!
This is a reprint of this post I made, with an update.
A few months back I was having a lan party in my garage. Pretty hot, so the door was closed to about a foot. Halfway through playing the neighbors 16 yro ritilin hyped Add kid (aunt later told me this) kid crawled under the 1 foot gap in the garage.
:P) So I never miss a chance to infuence people into computers. Kid said he played CS so I invited him to play on a station not being used.
I consider myself a computer philanthopist (yeah right, i'm unemployed
Well about 10 rounds later kid turns to me and asks, "Know where to get any dope?" I ask him his age, find out he's 16 and intruct him never to speak of that again in my house in order to maintain neighborhood harmony. After a few more minutes he takes off till about 8.
Now anyone that has ever been to a private lan party knows that after many straight hours of interactive gaming a break of non-interactivity is required. So we were sitting around watching funny pr0n when I looked over and the kid was back! He didn't announce himself or anything, he was just sitting there all quiet (creepy like)
Well, earlier that day I had fried the bios on a friends computer. So I payed him no mind and went back to searching the web for a fix when his mother and aunt came over. They both seemed pretty drunk and started flirting with my friends. I mean heavy flirting, like one of my buddies has japanese kanji characters tattood on his arm, and she was tracing the outline while running her fingers through his hair. These bitches were straight FREAKY DEEKS! No BS here, these middle age broads were down for some young cock!
Well, i'm still staring at my screen trying to not pay attention to whats going on when the kids mom started rubbing up on me. I got pissed (any true get gets pissed when someone breaks their concentration) so I thought I would make a smart ass remark to her..
"HEY TELL YOUR KID TO QUIT HITTIN MY FRIENDS UP FOR DOPE!!"
Everyone started laughing, she went up to her son, said his name in a whiny tone of voice NooooLAAAN and sorta hugged him. He sheepishly grinned and I thought that was that. I had told the kid no askin, and I had let the parent know what happened. I thought I had done my duty as a neighbor and went back to fixing that bios.
She went home, about 5 minutes later the kids stepdad comes out. NOLAN TOQER! COME HERE I WANNA TALK TO YOU! I told the guys to wait there, wasn't a big deal and i'd be back in a minute.
Well, I followed the guy out front, he got 6 inches in my face and started holding a fist, threatening to call the cops on me for delinquency to a minor, and was just being drunk and nasty (I could hella smell it on his breath)
"Hey if you want to come over here to get a point across thats cool, but getting 6 inches in my face isn't, now if you would just take a step back and a breath, maybe we can talk about this rationally" I took a step back while sayin that just in case, he started lurching forward so I started yelling "GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!! GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!!"
Well, by that time the clan had stood up, and his wife was over there pulling him back across the street apogizing the whole time.
Before people start dissin me, let me explain some known things about this cat.
1. He only bought his house 3 months ago
2. He's pissed every neighbor off by leaving his dog out front all day while he's at work so it wont shit in his backyard (guess where it goes?)
3. He's gotten into fights with 4 neighbors
4. nobody, and I mean nobody in the neighborhood likes this cat.
5. Oh and just today the mailman had to mace his dog, and told me he wont deliver mail to the neighborhood if his dog keeps getting left out.
6. If this guy is worried about his stepson being around dope, he shouldn't go asking his neighbors himself where he can get it.
Well, i'm really not that much of a fighter. I'm 29, pack a day smoker since I was like 10, and I really REALLY am a pencil neck geek. So yeah, basically i'm scared because this house I bought and planned on living in for the next 30 years has some drunken fat surly construction worker living across the street wanting to kick my ass. What to do???
Well, MY GEEK POWERS COMBINED! I set up a video capture card and camera combo. I mounted the camera in an electrical box, and put tinted plexiglass over the front. It now points at my frontyard waiting to catch his dog shitting on my yard, or my neighbors yard. The camera goes into a MS WMS on a win2k server (If someone can point me to something open source i'll use it)
The trusted neighbors all know about the camera and connect to it over our cat5 fence network to watch it. Currently I can store 24 hours of low quality video on the crud equipment I have.
*UPDATE*
Since we've installed the system, we've shown the cops video of this guy letting his dog loose to relieve himself in our yards. As a result his dog is either contained or on leash. Let's hear it for geek inginuity!
Where is my subspace communications capability? I was promised flying cars and subspace communication ability by 2000. Not only that where is my computers that try and kill people. Weren't we supposed to be headed for Jupiter by now?
I should be able to go anywhere and watch any movie while my computer tries to kill me in the silence of space.
the underwear gnome thing is about as cool as the beowulf cluster comments. Just my opinion though...
Been with the scene since Dos 3.0 and ZModem
:P
Try goin back to 300 baud and those good ol atari atasci 8 bit days
My only rebute to your statement is history has shown, anything that can be made can be cloned, humans included. I would hate for someone to use my ID to commit a crime.
What's your fuckin problem with me? Where do you get off callin me prejudice? I point out to you the difference between a direct and indirect pronoun and you have a fit.
And this brilliant english advice is coming from a person named busty.. wonderful.
Just yesterday on oprah they had a story about a whistleblower at a pharmacutical company.
.com boom love to remind me of how i'm out of work now. I love to remind them that I have to charge them now VS fixing their computers for free. It's funny to watch their faces turn white when I tell them $50@hour
Basically what was happening was Doctors were recieving kickbacks from the pharmacutical company for prescribing their pills. These kicksbacks ranged from vcr's and tv's all the way up to exotic trips to lavish resorts.
It didn't just stop at bribary either. The phamacutical company went as far as to show doctors how to overcharge medicare and keep the difference..
Unless you're digging ditches or pushing a lawn mower, most corporations are devoid of morals. Bottom line is to make investors happy, screw the employees and customers.
My best advice, do whatever the hell makes you happy and keeps your interest. Yeah times are hard now on all of us computer geeks. My friends that worked construction during the
Umm... All I had to do was right click the taskbar button and select "Close." It didn't even slow my machine down. Damn that Windows XP!
Unless you're good with kill or task manager don't click it.
Obviously you could handle it then. Try it on a 98 box.
I'm one of the least qualified people to correct mistakes, but your question should read:
Are there any chinese slashdotters?
It's fine to use Is at the beginning of a sentance as long as it isn't followed by a directive pronoun.. I.E.
Is you correct on grammar.
In that case, are would grammatically correct in the beginning of the sentace. (Unless you have an ebonics influence)
There was not a directive pronoun, it's an indirective pronoun therefore my grammar was correct.
And you can fuck off for trying to point that out.
--CC honors english motherfucker.
Every time another window opens, another instance of the browser has to be launched which can result in an overload of resources to the machine.
This link is purely an educational tool, it will continually launch popups until your machine
comes to a halt. Unless you're good with kill or task manager don't click it. A reboot and your machine will be fine.
I think by law, ads should be rendered on the same page as the article and not in a popup or popunder window.
Sites like slash should have a "Yellow Pages" of ads. I'd go browse a bunch of banners if they were presented like my yellow pages if I needed a service.
Hmm, maybe we should ask Stallman if popups can be considered spam.
We're in license violation? Who is this publisher? The author should have included a link to the publisher so we can give them a good slashdotting!
I read your entire comment dude, very well written (I especially liked the meaty quotes you grabbed)
:)
Thank you for answering my question
--toq
That could provide a cultural insight as to why china would be so open to open source?
.5 dollars and Linux at .5 dollars linux wins.
As an american slashdotter, i'd like to point out why the US doesn't more readily adopt linux.
1. Microsoft lobbyist
2. Microsoft license sweeps
3. Microsoft Strongarm tactics
4. [insert your own M$ reason]
Technically from what I know of Bill Gates (throwing a fit at ppl pirating his altair basic) and what I know of chinese copyright laws (nearly non-existant) I guess the only conclusion is it's quality that is winning out in china.
I have heard about the open markets in china where you can purchase bootlegs of any software for near the cost of the CD. If the choice is between M$ at
Sorry, I was just kinda scrapin for some insightfullness there.
Quoted from tom:
However, this elegant new standard does have its limitations. Serial ATA adapters use the PCI bus, which restricts the theoretical maximum data transfer rate of 150 MByte/s to the 133 MByte/s that the PCI bus allows.
I bought an adaptec 29160 a while ago. The card is sort of extended for 64bit PCI. I went back to fry's for years after I bought it to find a desktop class mobo to support it.
All I could find was dual CPU mobo's with 160scsi already built in! Why isn't there a single CPU board that supports 64bit PCI?
Maybe I just haven't looked in a while, but I was at fry's last saturday (when I saw the via eden board) and looked for a 64bit PCI mobo for my p4, nothing but high end dual mobo's had it.
Anyone got any thoughts? Suggestions? Please?
Man, I love to spin a good yarn.
The year was 1998. I had just scored a job as an IT guy for a small silicon valley company that was going to revelutionize the world by building a netmeeting for radiologists.
Well somewhere along the line, my paranoid overly mormon CTO began to think I was satan and thusly ordered all my root priveledges be taken from all servers..
I'm not going to go into too much detail about why, we'll just leave it at he was a lunatic. I could no longer add users to the mail system, apply patches or do anything a person in my job would normally do, so I just sat there browsing the web all day. Surfing the web and getting paid is pretty fun to say the least.
This psychotic CTO thought it would be a good idea to put the burden of sysadmin'ing to the coders beneath him. That lasted about 2 weeks.
Secretary calls, "I forgot my mail password"
me, "Sorry but since I had my admin rights taken away I can no longer fix those problems"
CEO calls, "I just got an email saying 1 million porn spams for dildos just passed through our unprotected SMTP server is this true?"
Me, "Sorry sir, but without access to the logs I cannot verify this, here talk to the coder kendyl put in charge of that"
Where everyone was used to issues being resolved in 10 to 15 minutes with one phone call now turned into a trapeze act of phone calls trying to track down which coder was in charge of what system. It prevented me from doing my job, it made the coders jobs harder from fielding stupid questions, and the CEO was very pissed off about the whole thing. Coders were wasting up to 2 hours a day each to deal with stupid network shit.
Well eventually the CTO was fired for being a stark raving lunatic. The coders that held alligence with him blamed me for his downfall. One in paticular would do shit like run a samba server to fuck with my PDC, due to oslevel=1000000 my NT box would never become PDC.
The company brought in a new group to rewrite the product from scratch, and they brought with them a very wise admin named Ed Goldthorpe (If his resume ever crosses your desk, hire him, he's worth whatever he's asking) Ed slowly but surely got the coders to co-operate with him and got the network turned around in about 3 months. We had VPN, started running qmail, and basically everything was good.
I sort of faded into the background from then on. I still fielded support calls from our socal office and the one I worked out of.
The office moved 2 hours away from my house, where before it had been only 15 minutes. I put up with the 4 hour commutes by spending less time in the office. Eventually the company threatened to put me on hourly, I told them to fuck off and went to find another job. Maybe i'll write about the next job if we get an on topic story for it.
So going back to the point i'm trying to make. Most of these companies that are ditching the full time IT staff and doubling the load on their engineers will feel the burn in about 6 months. They will realize that an engineer pestered by idiots who can't change a font all day isn't a happy engineer.
IT acts as that buffer too keep the animals from eating the engineers/coders alive. When you throw away IT, you'll be losing a few good engineers too. It happened at my company, and it will happen at yours.
Live from Iran, Film88
An earlier /. story.
If network capacity has a moores law to it, then the next generation of internet broadband may run at 10megs if most of us have 1 meg down on DSL now. At that point I think even HDTV will have a shelf life.
Or maybe i'm a geek who spends too much time rotting away in front of my computer on slashdot.
When trying to get friends and coworkers to switch to Linux, by far the hardest hurdle I have to overcome is the stereotype of Linux users as freeloading, dirty, overzealous pigs who try to shove their dogma down the throats of anyone who talks to them. Things like Speck's shameless pot-promotion do little to help overcome this. I hope this post of mine will help him come to his senses.
*Cough* *Cough*
passes Starship Trooper the bong.
When you have a picture of linus taking a bong rip or the tux penguin with a spliff in his mouth then you can start to worry. Last time I heard linux was being used to decode folding protiens and search for aliens, not marijuana promotion.
How about we mod you down?
Even though I don't agree with the parent post (look at my name for petes sake) I think he pointed out something very interesting that made me go back and take a second look. Now we can have a nice thread amungsts us geeks about marijuana prohibition here on slash and I have the parent post to thank for that.
A comment should never be moderated down unless it's completely stupid.
Crawling through tunnels in the rubble cut off transmission. But Chapin thinks he has a solution to thatâ"a networked group of rats that would act as repeaters.
Suddenly I picture 100 rats marching single file down a tunnel. Now if they can teach them to build bridges, dig across, dig down, parachute, block and explode you could play lemmings for real!
Brain: Pinky we have to get out of here
Pinky: NARF how we gonna do that brain
Brain: Pinky what is that riduclous thing on your head?
Pinky: ZOGG! Oh this? The nice lady put this over my head so my mind control implants can't be set off by radio's
Brain: That's it! We'll reverse engineer your mind control implants and adapt them to humans. We'll control them via radio waves!
Pinky: Why would you wanna do a thing like that brain?
Brain: WHy, WHY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!