After upgrading a server, we watched a client verify the server through his daily application. The client entered data and clicked on submit, the next screen appeared instantly. "This is not possible" said the client "it takes about two seconds to submit data to the database"!
"But the new server is much faster!" we said. It didn't matter, the client refused to believe the data was really submitted.
We held a meeting about this 'problem'. One developer suggested to add a two second 'do nothing' loop to the submit button.
So we patched the server and asked the client to verify again. He entered data, clicked 'submit' and was very happy to have his two second delay back! "Now it works..." he said "...now the data is entering the database!".
We admitted our fault (knowing very well that all we added was a two second delay).
At work I prefer OS+function, like redsmtp, debweb and ubusql. At home I have only seven computers that are active, all named after dead dogs: laika, wolf, pasha, shaka, barry, raika, blacky. (Appliances are named after Buffy/Angel characters)
LFS is overrated for learning, cause you basically spend two days compiling stuff.
A lot of bookstores however have very good Linux books, use those as a start and continue with manpages and google. The Linux Documentation Project is at tldp.org.
It also helps to install different distro's in vmware to play with. System Administration of Red Hat servers is different from Ubuntu/Debian...
http://www.redhat.com/docs/ is not too bad, but does contain errors:( (docs.sun.com can also be useful, even for linux)
You are all forgetting that with Gmail pop access you DO NOT get your "Sent Mail", only the Inbox. I would like to see an option to have a local backup copy of All Mail, not just the Inbox.
One of the first articles about this fusion reactor test appeared here english.people.com.cn. (They often copy from xinhua, maybe they are linked...)
It clearly says: During the experiment, deuterium and tritium atoms were forced together at a temperature of 100 million Celsius. and : The first tests lasted nearly three seconds, and generated an electrical current of 200 kiloamperes, Wan Yuanxi, general manager of EAST, told Xinhua.
And while your shuttle fleet was grounded, they launched two manned spacecraft in orbit.
Yeah, with a copy (they have blueprints) of a Russian Soyuz capsule. They didn't innovate, they copied. Welcome to the space race, 40 years late...
Pretty soon your shuttles are grounded forever, and you're going back to having nothing to send people into orbit. Oh, and a couple of years later your planned CEV ( a copy of the Russian Soyuz) might launch. Guess where China will be when the US launches the first CEV...
And while your country is spending gazillions on invading Iraq and others, they improve their economy with 10 percent each year.
Since when? And for how long? I'm skeptical of the figure but I will tell you this, rises are followed by falls. And if you think the american economy is crappy... well you don't live here and you have no idea. I can't complain... gas is cheap again and I take home more than it costs me to live... but irradiated seeds? Any first-year biology student will tell you what happens with irradiated seeds.
Since 1978 or something. They have room for a lot more economic expansion. Looking at the American Poverty Rate i don't think your economy is that great since 2000!
As for the space seeds, your NASA is doing the same thing.
While we in the US were watching Atlantis take off on what turned out to be a successful ISS construction mission, the Chinese were launching a quarter-ton of seeds into space:
And while your shuttle fleet was grounded, they launched two manned spacecraft in orbit.
And while your country is spending gazillions on invading Iraq and others, they improve their economy with 10 percent each year.
The whole world knows that China is the real innovator and the next world superpower, when will Americans realize this ?
At least with Solaris stuff GODDAMNIT SUN WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE works
Sun has invented a lot of stuff that we use on linux today!
Sun... yeah. There's nothing like the warm embrace of Sparc heavy hardware and Solaris. It's bulletproof. But... it's convoluted and impersonal. It's like a Calculus professor - it does exactly what it's supposed to do, but it doesn't go out of its way to be friendly about it.
docs.sun.com is not so bad, at least Sun has correct and complete docs. Compare that to Microsoft Official Curriculum or MS Technet, both contain really big errors!
And yes, an MCSA / MCSE is still worth something. People say you can just glance at a book and pass it, but the thing takes 9 tests, some of which are so anal that you do actually have to study, and it helps to have seen it in practice.
Being MCSE on NT4, it took me only two tests to become MCSE2000 and two more for MCSE2003.
How many people do you actually know with an up to date MCSE? About twenty people, (but i work freelance for different Microsoft training centers).
I know 1. I'm sure on slashdot a lot of people actually have one, or work with a lot of people that have one, but when someone says "Oh, MCSE is a breeze, 10 minutes of studying and I could take it", take them up on it, offer to pay the $100 if they can pass "Exam 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure" or "Exam 70-285: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003". I bet you 95 out of 100 can't do it without studying.
Most non-tech people i know already have to make an effort to place two stereo speakers correctly in their livingroom, placing six or eight is often too much trouble.
My first computer: Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ first basic instruction: plot plot receives two coordinates and puts a dot on that location on the screen.
second computer: Commodore Amiga 500 it took me several weeks to figure out how to put a dot on the screen in 68000 assembler. When the dot finally was there, i stared at it for ten minutes, it was one of the best moments in my life....which probably explains why i am single now;-)
People should know nothing about computers, just like most know nothing about a phone/TV/car/radio/battery etc...
The computer should work and be secure by design.
But i do admire the intend to write a book for 'the people'. (Make sure they know that a virus is just another application, written in a programminglanguage by a real person.)
How about inventing a device to put into everybody's house (at least in the living room, maybe even the bed room) that, through some kind of electro-magnetic radiation or something, makes them more tranquil and less critical so it is easier to rule over them. Just think of the opportunities of such sort of devices - you could teach an entire population what (or who) is "good" or "bad" and you can pull off just about anything without the fear of being held responsible for your actions. I shall call it "thought vehicle" or short TV.
very good, thank you, i have a new sig for my e-mails now!
Slashdot Mirror
After upgrading a server, we watched a client verify the server through his daily application. The client entered data and clicked on submit, the next screen appeared instantly. "This is not possible" said the client "it takes about two seconds to submit data to the database"!
"But the new server is much faster!" we said. It didn't matter, the client refused to believe the data was really submitted.
We held a meeting about this 'problem'. One developer suggested to add a two second 'do nothing' loop to the submit button.
So we patched the server and asked the client to verify again. He entered data, clicked 'submit' and was very happy to have his two second delay back! "Now it works..." he said "...now the data is entering the database!".
We admitted our fault (knowing very well that all we added was a two second delay).
cheers
Because hextets would be written as 65536.65536.65536.65536 instead of 512.512.512.512
At work I prefer OS+function, like redsmtp, debweb and ubusql.
At home I have only seven computers that are active, all named after dead dogs: laika, wolf, pasha, shaka, barry, raika, blacky. (Appliances are named after Buffy/Angel characters)
cheers,
paul
I see many people claiming "How are we going to download Firefox without a preinstalled browser?".
It is dead simple to create a setup-wizard or icon that uses ftp or bittorrent to download!
There's a math nerd party in the movie (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000569/) where a rock band performs a song named i (the imaginary number).
I can't believe that 400 posts in this thread fail to mention that this is a hoax.
I liked the livejournal of user spuller a lot: http://spuller.livejournal.com/
Anyone know where he moved to ?
LFS is overrated for learning, cause you basically spend two days compiling stuff.
:(
A lot of bookstores however have very good Linux books, use those as a start and continue with manpages and google.
The Linux Documentation Project is at tldp.org.
It also helps to install different distro's in vmware to play with.
System Administration of Red Hat servers is different from Ubuntu/Debian...
http://www.redhat.com/docs/ is not too bad, but does contain errors
(docs.sun.com can also be useful, even for linux)
You are all forgetting that with Gmail pop access you DO NOT get your "Sent Mail", only the Inbox.
I would like to see an option to have a local backup copy of All Mail, not just the Inbox.
Paul
mod parent +1 informative
Mod parent +1 informative!
One of the first articles about this fusion reactor test appeared here english.people.com.cn.
(They often copy from xinhua, maybe they are linked...)
It clearly says: During the experiment, deuterium and tritium atoms were forced together at a temperature of 100 million Celsius.
and : The first tests lasted nearly three seconds, and generated an electrical current of 200 kiloamperes, Wan Yuanxi, general manager of EAST, told Xinhua.
I would expect this website to rectify the story!
And while your shuttle fleet was grounded, they launched two manned spacecraft in orbit.
...
Yeah, with a copy (they have blueprints) of a Russian Soyuz capsule. They didn't innovate, they copied. Welcome to the space race, 40 years late
Pretty soon your shuttles are grounded forever, and you're going back to having nothing to send people into orbit.
Oh, and a couple of years later your planned CEV ( a copy of the Russian Soyuz) might launch.
Guess where China will be when the US launches the first CEV...
And while your country is spending gazillions on invading Iraq and others, they improve their economy with 10 percent each year.
Since when? And for how long? I'm skeptical of the figure but I will tell you this, rises are followed by falls. And if you think the american economy is crappy... well you don't live here and you have no idea. I can't complain... gas is cheap again and I take home more than it costs me to live... but irradiated seeds? Any first-year biology student will tell you what happens with irradiated seeds.
Since 1978 or something. They have room for a lot more economic expansion. Looking at the American Poverty Rate i don't think your economy is that great since 2000!
As for the space seeds, your NASA is doing the same thing.
While we in the US were watching Atlantis take off on what turned out to be a successful ISS construction mission, the Chinese were launching a quarter-ton of seeds into space:
And while your shuttle fleet was grounded, they launched two manned spacecraft in orbit.
And while your country is spending gazillions on invading Iraq and others, they improve their economy with 10 percent each year.
The whole world knows that China is the real innovator and the next world superpower, when will Americans realize this ?
better list...
Kim Clijsters
Justine Henin
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Father Damian
Victor Horta
Mercator
Eddy Merckx
Hercule Poirot
Dr Evil!
The Smurfs
What ? No hotmail ?? No Altavista ???
also missing... tucows, download.com, suprnova and piratebay...
At least with Solaris stuff GODDAMNIT SUN WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE works
Sun has invented a lot of stuff that we use on linux today!
Sun... yeah. There's nothing like the warm embrace of Sparc heavy hardware and Solaris. It's bulletproof. But... it's convoluted and impersonal. It's like a Calculus professor - it does exactly what it's supposed to do, but it doesn't go out of its way to be friendly about it.
docs.sun.com is not so bad, at least Sun has correct and complete docs. Compare that to Microsoft Official Curriculum or MS Technet, both contain really big errors!
cheers,
Paul
And yes, an MCSA / MCSE is still worth something. People say you can just glance at a book and pass it, but the thing takes 9 tests, some of which are so anal that you do actually have to study, and it helps to have seen it in practice.
s 2003/
It takes only seven tests, not nine: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcse/window
Being MCSE on NT4, it took me only two tests to become MCSE2000 and two more for MCSE2003.
How many people do you actually know with an up to date MCSE?
About twenty people, (but i work freelance for different Microsoft training centers).
I know 1. I'm sure on slashdot a lot of people actually have one, or work with a lot of people that have one, but when someone says "Oh, MCSE is a breeze, 10 minutes of studying and I could take it", take them up on it, offer to pay the $100 if they can pass "Exam 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure" or "Exam 70-285: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003". I bet you 95 out of 100 can't do it without studying.
Yes you can, it takes at most an hour to study a braindump. I took 15 Microsoft exams, and never failed ( http://www.cobbaut.be/cobbaut.php?blad=cv ).
On the other hand, I am glad I'm back to being a Linux admin, where things make sense.
Same here! At least with Linux and Solaris stuff just works!
cheers,
paul
Roomba has already saved me hours of cleaning. Are useful robots excluded or something ?
Most non-tech people i know already have to make an effort to place two stereo speakers correctly in their livingroom,
placing six or eight is often too much trouble.
I have a Solaris web server with an uptime of 2436 days
Please put a picture of this hero online.
Why is no-one mentioning BRLCAD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/) ?
o up_id=105292
Some screenshots:
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?gr
A sample script:
http://www.cobbaut.be/stok.sh.txt
My first computer: Sinclair ZX Spectrum+
...which probably explains why i am single now ;-)
:)
first basic instruction: plot
plot receives two coordinates and puts a dot on that location
on the screen.
second computer: Commodore Amiga 500
it took me several weeks to figure out how to put
a dot on the screen in 68000 assembler.
When the dot finally was there, i stared at it for ten minutes,
it was one of the best moments in my life.
pol
I've signed up for tons of stuff and nobody sends anything to my $sys$@gmail.com account."
> At the risk of sounding like a total dumb ass, what does $sys$ mean?
$sys$ was used by the Sony rootkit to hide files.
People should know nothing about computers,
:)
just like most know nothing about a phone/TV/car/radio/battery etc...
The computer should work and be secure by design.
But i do admire the intend to write a book for 'the people'.
(Make sure they know that a virus is just another application,
written in a programminglanguage by a real person.)
cheers,
pol
How about inventing a device to put into everybody's house (at least in the living room, maybe even the bed room) that, through some kind of electro-magnetic radiation or something, makes them more tranquil and less critical so it is easier to rule over them. Just think of the opportunities of such sort of devices - you could teach an entire population what (or who) is "good" or "bad" and you can pull off just about anything without the fear of being held responsible for your actions. I shall call it "thought vehicle" or short TV.
:)
very good, thank you, i have a new sig for my e-mails now!
cheers,
pol
PS I do not own a TV!