I had a similar issue at an old apartment. I tracked it down to my 2.4GHz phone - whenever it would ring or we would talk on it, it would knock our 802.11abg router signal out. They both operate at 2.4GHz, causing the interference. I replaced my phone with a 5.8GHz phone, and that took some of it away. Our neighbors also had a 2.4GHz phone, and whenever they would get on the same thing would happen. My final solution was to move:) I've had few issues since I moved to a 5.8GHz phone and 802.11n router.
We have a very diverse group of people where I work. We select people based on their skillset and experience. That being said, we have found that we've had a very disproportionate number of applicants who are not native english speakers. Unfortunately, we've found this to be a very large issue when attempting to put together a project or explain a task. Many of our non-english speakers have a lot of trouble understanding what is being put forth, even though they do understand english. We've found this to cause productivity to fall through the floor, and frustration levels to run high!
We're at this point attempting to find either native english speakers, or very gluent english speakers to fill 2 developer positions. This has proven to be difficult, but we are trying to hold out for this for in order to improve our workflow and work experience.
Although not well documented yet, it does now support multi-master replication. I've done some testing with it (it is one of the main features I REALLY need for my current project) and have had no problems this far.
I'm a perl hacker, and my first intro to PHP was in needing to maintain a very large and intricate system designed by an ex-employee of the company (never met her). Upon first glance at the code, the glaring mis-spellings were horrific! The most glaring was the use (in GET variables in the URL no less!!) of the word 'partician'.
The code she wrote was completely crazy. I've been going through the code and rewriting it bit by bit, and have been boggled by what I find. Things like if statements where all that's inclosed is a $var == 'something' statement (duh) followed by 10 more lines of code doing the same thing she was intending, but in a different way because the first way didn't do what she thought it would. The code is so spaghetti that I finally told my boss that the only real way to go was to tear it down and start from scratch.
As I stated I write perl, so I'm used to condensing things that in other languages might take 4 lines into 1 line of Perl and still having it be easily understood. In this case (and I'm not a good PHP coder quite yet) I usually take 50 lines of her code and make at most 5! It's really preposterous. Unfortunately I'm the only one that's masochistic enough to even touch the code...
And the most silly part of the story is that this person was the lead programmer at the company for a couple of years! We've since re-educated the boss that she was totally incompetant and to completely disregard anything she ever told him, since she would consistently blow smoke up his @$$ whenever she did not know how to accomplish a given task, and apparently the use of a search engine was beyond her grasp....
I've been running various incarnations of fedora/ubuntu on my desktop/laptop (respectively) for a few years. I'm not a HEAVY DUTY gamer on the PC (turn on the xbox for that) but I do occasionally play games on it.
Half Life 2 was the last one that I really played a LOT. The graphics were amazing and the gameplay awesome! No windows installs in my home though, I found Cedega to be more than up to the task of fulfilling my gaming desires. You might want to check it out: http://www.transgaming.com/
For christmas I got (after lots and lots or research) the Viewsonic VP201S lcd. I'm a programmer and occasional gamer (hard to game too much in linux) and so was looking for a large lcd with good response time, and I've always insisted on running @ 1600x1200. This monitor fits the bill perfectly. No ghosting that I've seen so far, the screen is REALLY bright. The viewing angles are as good as I need them to be. It's (apparently) ready for an hdtv signal (doubt I'll ever use that feature).
Basicly, although this is definitely not a low-end model (cost @ newegg: $740 US) it definitely competes quite nicely with the 19" CRT's I've been using for years, and those were nice CRT's (dell with Sony Trinitron tube). I've got to say that I love this monitor. Everything is crisp, color quality is good. No ghosting, no dead pixels, can't see pixels at all without REALLY trying.
So no, this was not an emotionally charged LCD-TV purchase, it was a well thought-out LCD-monitor purchase and I can't be happier!
My Mother's a Nurse-Educator at a major NYC Hospital. She was working on a Powerpoint Presentation for weeks to teach a class. She had made a backup to CD, but there was a problem reading the CD when the data went missing.
The presentation LOOKED like it was there on her computer at work, but when she attempted to open it, PowerPoint would crash (who would have thought??) and she had no way of getting at her finished copy. She called her infinitely wise tech support staff at the hospital, and after telling them what was going on, they explained to her what had to have happened:
"You see, there's a little drive inside your computer that the data gets stored on. Sometimes holes develop on the disk, and Windows should know about these holes and protect your data from being hurt. You Windows must not be working right, and so your data must have fallen through one of the holes. Sorry, there's nothing we can do to retrieve it."
Needless to say, after being infuriated by their complete lack of respect and willingness to do their job to help my mom, I've gotten quite a few laughs out of that one since then.
ps - we did get her data back, only slightly corrupted. She ended up getting a new hdd on her work pc.
I've got firsthand info from the man cited in the 5th paragraph (David Griffin) as to the validity of the OSS Software being used for both the OS and the DB. He is my co-worker and friend before that, and is not lying about his use of OSS. Furthermore, this is one of the few sites that's been slashdotted without being brought to it's knees, so that's got to say something??:)
Apparently, Dave received word from the site owner (his friend is the cited editor of the OED) about his 5 minutes of fame on/.... Apparently the server is doing just fine; processor load is a bit high but it's reponsive.
As far as I know, there were swastika wingdings in the package. Why MS would put a swastika in it to begin with is beyond me, but that is the case.
The bigger question is why it is necessary to remove them. Although they are offensive to most people because of what they represent, they do have a place in history. There are probably legitimate reasons for using them in many documents. IE. A school report on WW2 or Nazi Germany.
There is absolutely no censorship as far as language goes on the channels. You will here every cuss, as well as full versions of songs as already mentioned (I'm speaking of XM, as that's what I've had for two years now... Can't speak for sirius.) This was one of the big selling points for me, as well as clear reception.
Now, as far as censoring content, I don't know. Since the news channels (Fox, CNN, etc) are big broadcast stations, I'll assume that I get as much censorship on them as I would from TV. For mostly uncensored news, I tune in to the BBC station.
Googlewhack is when you type in two saerch terms in google, and the result is 1 hit (displaying 1-1 of 1 results). Once the googlewhack is reported to the googlewhack website, the googlewhack will no longer exist, as the results for those specific search terms will henceforth contain not only the original googlewhack, but the resulting googlewhack report reported to the googlewhack tracker. This allows ones googlewhack to be recorded as their own, as no one can googlewhack their original googlewhack once it's been googlewhacked.
Wow... That (the premise of the story) is VERY VERY close to Tad Williams Otherland series. Check it out. Not the same story you are talking about, but if you enjoy the idea behind the story you just described, you'll like Otherland.
The last few servers the guys and I got to name at my late company got a few fun (but dirty) names:
Dirtysanchez Donkeypunch Teabag
Was lots of fun talking to each other about them... was a bit more interesting when we needed to use our "hand and eyes" service at our colo one day when Dirtysanchez didn't make it back from a reboot. The tech on duty had a good laugh at the name, and made a comment about liking our naming conventions:) Certainly a bit more interesting to them to sit and watch a teabag for a few minutes than an HPNYWB23!
I agree with you on finishing school, and I AM planning to. Waiting to find the right set of courses available in an "online" undergrad program. I know that it's going to be important a few years down the road, just for the mere fact that you have a piece of paper that says "yes, I can sit and put up with as much BS as you can throw at me for as long as you wish." From what I've seen, that's really what I would get from that education... proof that I CAN put up with the bs. The things I was learning in school were things I had known 5-10 years earlier just from using a pc, and I got REALLY bored, RELLY fast... At the time, a high paying job in my field was an excellent alternative. I've learned a tremendous amount in the last 2 years at my current position, and the experience I've gained far outweighs the cost of quitting school at the moment. As I have time/resources, college will be completed (only have 3 semesters left anyways) while I hold my job and continue to gain salary/experience/etc.
I didn't finish my undergrad work yet, and took a job in the linux field. Love linux, hated learning crap MS propoganda in school, so I left... Will finish eventually, but not yet... Enjoying what I do way too much...:)
Yes, my ASUS mobo has the normal 4 IDE channels, plus it has 2 more ide ports (capable of raid1:)) making for a total of 8 ide hdds onboard... add another promise ide controller (pci) and you can add another 4 hdds. You can go on and on... plus external (firewire/usb) hdds, and the possibilities are endless...
BUT, I also highly doubt each pc had over a TB of warez on it. That's just a preposterous number. People would archive to CD before it got that big. HDD's do cost money, after all, and so do all those promise ide controllers... and a large part of the juarez scene is not having to pay for shit... lol
"My point is that writing a new operating system that is closely tied to any
particular piece of hardware, especially a weird one like the Intel line,
is basically wrong."
Remind anyone of "640 K should be enough for anyone!" (Gates)
And ANY MS product IS release quality?? With a new virus of the day for Outlook, IE, etc, how can you say that?? MS refuses even to patch the new IE bug, figuring that if they don't tell you it's there, you won't bitch. IMHO, I'd rather use OSS software any day as at least the community is willing to look at the code, admit there is a problem, and fix it in an orderly, timely fashion. (WUFtpd excluded!:) )
When I upgraded all my ssh servers to fix this last month (after being attacked... argghhh!) I start a new ssh process listening on another port, then connect to that port and restart ssh2 on port 22 from there... then kill my current ssh connection, login back on port 22, and kill the other sshd that i ran on the other port. Probably a roundabout way of doing it, but I locked myself out of a box once accidentally, and it was a PITA to get back in...
But it seems that XP is going there performance-wise... Maybe it's the fact that they keep adding "new features" to old products and expecting them to be faster? The amount of code in XP mus tbe tremendous, since they ARE building on old systems, tweaking here and there, but essentially keeping the same framework...
Maybe MS will catch on one day, and decide to write something that truly is "new and improved" from scratch; maybe linux really will have a "run for it's money" then... until then, I think the marketshare is going to leaving Billy-Bob's side of the pie.
PS- Just imagine all the "new and improved" worms and virii that will come out of the new XP code... Should be tons of fun!! I'm glad I'm working mainly on linux systems now!:)
I'd have to agree with you on this one. This is a GREAT remote... Picked it up at The Wiz for ~$50.00, not really knowing how good it was (I didn't research and went on a compulsive electronics buying spree) and have been VERY pleasantly surprised at the versatility of this remote. You can reprogram any of the regular device buttons to do any function (ie, I have my volume buttons set up to control my receiver volume when I'm in tv/dvd/vcr mode) via IR-learning, or mapping from one mode to another. Definitely a good one to think about.
"You must make sure you have your cookies enabled, for this link will give your computer a cookie that will disallow X10 pop-under ads from appearing on your computer as you "surf" the Internet.
This seems a bit too mystical to me... This magical cookie your computer can eat to make all your pop-under X10 ads disappear! Does it go in the cup holder tray, or the knife sharpener slot?
Also notice the use of quotes around the word surf... Because no one really knows what that might be yet, right??
Slashdot Mirror
I had a similar issue at an old apartment. I tracked it down to my 2.4GHz phone - whenever it would ring or we would talk on it, it would knock our 802.11abg router signal out. They both operate at 2.4GHz, causing the interference. I replaced my phone with a 5.8GHz phone, and that took some of it away. Our neighbors also had a 2.4GHz phone, and whenever they would get on the same thing would happen. My final solution was to move :) I've had few issues since I moved to a 5.8GHz phone and 802.11n router.
For those not entirely sure of what all of the various raid levels mean, this sums it up quite nicely: http://www.epidauros.be/raid.jpg
We have a very diverse group of people where I work. We select people based on their skillset and experience. That being said, we have found that we've had a very disproportionate number of applicants who are not native english speakers. Unfortunately, we've found this to be a very large issue when attempting to put together a project or explain a task. Many of our non-english speakers have a lot of trouble understanding what is being put forth, even though they do understand english. We've found this to cause productivity to fall through the floor, and frustration levels to run high!
We're at this point attempting to find either native english speakers, or very gluent english speakers to fill 2 developer positions. This has proven to be difficult, but we are trying to hold out for this for in order to improve our workflow and work experience.
Although not well documented yet, it does now support multi-master replication. I've done some testing with it (it is one of the main features I REALLY need for my current project) and have had no problems this far.
So ebay runs windows, and from the netcraft page:
Last reboot 11 days ago
I'm a perl hacker, and my first intro to PHP was in needing to maintain a very large and intricate system designed by an ex-employee of the company (never met her). Upon first glance at the code, the glaring mis-spellings were horrific! The most glaring was the use (in GET variables in the URL no less!!) of the word 'partician'.
The code she wrote was completely crazy. I've been going through the code and rewriting it bit by bit, and have been boggled by what I find. Things like if statements where all that's inclosed is a $var == 'something' statement (duh) followed by 10 more lines of code doing the same thing she was intending, but in a different way because the first way didn't do what she thought it would. The code is so spaghetti that I finally told my boss that the only real way to go was to tear it down and start from scratch.
As I stated I write perl, so I'm used to condensing things that in other languages might take 4 lines into 1 line of Perl and still having it be easily understood. In this case (and I'm not a good PHP coder quite yet) I usually take 50 lines of her code and make at most 5! It's really preposterous. Unfortunately I'm the only one that's masochistic enough to even touch the code...
And the most silly part of the story is that this person was the lead programmer at the company for a couple of years! We've since re-educated the boss that she was totally incompetant and to completely disregard anything she ever told him, since she would consistently blow smoke up his @$$ whenever she did not know how to accomplish a given task, and apparently the use of a search engine was beyond her grasp....
Enough venting.
I've been running various incarnations of fedora/ubuntu on my desktop/laptop (respectively) for a few years. I'm not a HEAVY DUTY gamer on the PC (turn on the xbox for that) but I do occasionally play games on it.
Half Life 2 was the last one that I really played a LOT. The graphics were amazing and the gameplay awesome! No windows installs in my home though, I found Cedega to be more than up to the task of fulfilling my gaming desires. You might want to check it out: http://www.transgaming.com/
For christmas I got (after lots and lots or research) the Viewsonic VP201S lcd. I'm a programmer and occasional gamer (hard to game too much in linux) and so was looking for a large lcd with good response time, and I've always insisted on running @ 1600x1200. This monitor fits the bill perfectly. No ghosting that I've seen so far, the screen is REALLY bright. The viewing angles are as good as I need them to be. It's (apparently) ready for an hdtv signal (doubt I'll ever use that feature).
Basicly, although this is definitely not a low-end model (cost @ newegg: $740 US) it definitely competes quite nicely with the 19" CRT's I've been using for years, and those were nice CRT's (dell with Sony Trinitron tube). I've got to say that I love this monitor. Everything is crisp, color quality is good. No ghosting, no dead pixels, can't see pixels at all without REALLY trying.
So no, this was not an emotionally charged LCD-TV purchase, it was a well thought-out LCD-monitor purchase and I can't be happier!
My Mother's a Nurse-Educator at a major NYC Hospital. She was working on a Powerpoint Presentation for weeks to teach a class. She had made a backup to CD, but there was a problem reading the CD when the data went missing.
The presentation LOOKED like it was there on her computer at work, but when she attempted to open it, PowerPoint would crash (who would have thought??) and she had no way of getting at her finished copy. She called her infinitely wise tech support staff at the hospital, and after telling them what was going on, they explained to her what had to have happened:
"You see, there's a little drive inside your computer that the data gets stored on. Sometimes holes develop on the disk, and Windows should know about these holes and protect your data from being hurt. You Windows must not be working right, and so your data must have fallen through one of the holes. Sorry, there's nothing we can do to retrieve it."
Needless to say, after being infuriated by their complete lack of respect and willingness to do their job to help my mom, I've gotten quite a few laughs out of that one since then.
ps - we did get her data back, only slightly corrupted. She ended up getting a new hdd on her work pc.
I've got firsthand info from the man cited in the 5th paragraph (David Griffin) as to the validity of the OSS Software being used for both the OS and the DB. He is my co-worker and friend before that, and is not lying about his use of OSS. Furthermore, this is one of the few sites that's been slashdotted without being brought to it's knees, so that's got to say something?? :)
/. ... Apparently the server is doing just fine; processor load is a bit high but it's reponsive.
Apparently, Dave received word from the site owner (his friend is the cited editor of the OED) about his 5 minutes of fame on
As far as I know, there were swastika wingdings in the package. Why MS would put a swastika in it to begin with is beyond me, but that is the case.
The bigger question is why it is necessary to remove them. Although they are offensive to most people because of what they represent, they do have a place in history. There are probably legitimate reasons for using them in many documents. IE. A school report on WW2 or Nazi Germany.
There is absolutely no censorship as far as language goes on the channels. You will here every cuss, as well as full versions of songs as already mentioned (I'm speaking of XM, as that's what I've had for two years now... Can't speak for sirius.) This was one of the big selling points for me, as well as clear reception.
Now, as far as censoring content, I don't know. Since the news channels (Fox, CNN, etc) are big broadcast stations, I'll assume that I get as much censorship on them as I would from TV. For mostly uncensored news, I tune in to the BBC station.
Googlewhack is when you type in two saerch terms in google, and the result is 1 hit (displaying 1-1 of 1 results). Once the googlewhack is reported to the googlewhack website, the googlewhack will no longer exist, as the results for those specific search terms will henceforth contain not only the original googlewhack, but the resulting googlewhack report reported to the googlewhack tracker. This allows ones googlewhack to be recorded as their own, as no one can googlewhack their original googlewhack once it's been googlewhacked.
:)
Whew...
Wow... That (the premise of the story) is VERY VERY close to Tad Williams Otherland series. Check it out. Not the same story you are talking about, but if you enjoy the idea behind the story you just described, you'll like Otherland.
These are REALLY cool over here. Took a minute or two to make it work, but they're pretty beautiful.
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http://www.lpsi.barc.usda.gov/emusnow/stereo/ster
Also, look at the other electron-microscope images here http://www.lpsi.barc.usda.gov/emusnow/default.htm
The last few servers the guys and I got to name at my late company got a few fun (but dirty) names:
:) Certainly a bit more interesting to them to sit and watch a teabag for a few minutes than an HPNYWB23!
Dirtysanchez
Donkeypunch
Teabag
Was lots of fun talking to each other about them... was a bit more interesting when we needed to use our "hand and eyes" service at our colo one day when Dirtysanchez didn't make it back from a reboot. The tech on duty had a good laugh at the name, and made a comment about liking our naming conventions
I agree with you on finishing school, and I AM planning to. Waiting to find the right set of courses available in an "online" undergrad program. I know that it's going to be important a few years down the road, just for the mere fact that you have a piece of paper that says "yes, I can sit and put up with as much BS as you can throw at me for as long as you wish." From what I've seen, that's really what I would get from that education... proof that I CAN put up with the bs. The things I was learning in school were things I had known 5-10 years earlier just from using a pc, and I got REALLY bored, RELLY fast... At the time, a high paying job in my field was an excellent alternative. I've learned a tremendous amount in the last 2 years at my current position, and the experience I've gained far outweighs the cost of quitting school at the moment. As I have time/resources, college will be completed (only have 3 semesters left anyways) while I hold my job and continue to gain salary/experience/etc.
I didn't finish my undergrad work yet, and took a job in the linux field. Love linux, hated learning crap MS propoganda in school, so I left... Will finish eventually, but not yet... Enjoying what I do way too much... :)
ps- First Post?
Yes, my ASUS mobo has the normal 4 IDE channels, plus it has 2 more ide ports (capable of raid1 :)) making for a total of 8 ide hdds onboard... add another promise ide controller (pci) and you can add another 4 hdds. You can go on and on... plus external (firewire/usb) hdds, and the possibilities are endless...
BUT, I also highly doubt each pc had over a TB of warez on it. That's just a preposterous number. People would archive to CD before it got that big. HDD's do cost money, after all, and so do all those promise ide controllers... and a large part of the juarez scene is not having to pay for shit... lol
From Tanenbaum:
"My point is that writing a new operating system that is closely tied to any particular piece of hardware, especially a weird one like the Intel line, is basically wrong."
Remind anyone of "640 K should be enough for anyone!" (Gates)
And ANY MS product IS release quality?? With a new virus of the day for Outlook, IE, etc, how can you say that?? MS refuses even to patch the new IE bug, figuring that if they don't tell you it's there, you won't bitch. IMHO, I'd rather use OSS software any day as at least the community is willing to look at the code, admit there is a problem, and fix it in an orderly, timely fashion. (WUFtpd excluded! :) )
When I upgraded all my ssh servers to fix this last month (after being attacked... argghhh!) I start a new ssh process listening on another port, then connect to that port and restart ssh2 on port 22 from there... then kill my current ssh connection, login back on port 22, and kill the other sshd that i ran on the other port. Probably a roundabout way of doing it, but I locked myself out of a box once accidentally, and it was a PITA to get back in...
But it seems that XP is going there performance-wise... Maybe it's the fact that they keep adding "new features" to old products and expecting them to be faster? The amount of code in XP mus tbe tremendous, since they ARE building on old systems, tweaking here and there, but essentially keeping the same framework...
:)
Maybe MS will catch on one day, and decide to write something that truly is "new and improved" from scratch; maybe linux really will have a "run for it's money" then... until then, I think the marketshare is going to leaving Billy-Bob's side of the pie.
PS- Just imagine all the "new and improved" worms and virii that will come out of the new XP code... Should be tons of fun!! I'm glad I'm working mainly on linux systems now!
I'd have to agree with you on this one. This is a GREAT remote... Picked it up at The Wiz for ~$50.00, not really knowing how good it was (I didn't research and went on a compulsive electronics buying spree) and have been VERY pleasantly surprised at the versatility of this remote. You can reprogram any of the regular device buttons to do any function (ie, I have my volume buttons set up to control my receiver volume when I'm in tv/dvd/vcr mode) via IR-learning, or mapping from one mode to another. Definitely a good one to think about.
"You must make sure you have your cookies enabled, for this link will give your computer a cookie that will disallow X10 pop-under ads from appearing on your computer as you "surf" the Internet.
This seems a bit too mystical to me... This magical cookie your computer can eat to make all your pop-under X10 ads disappear! Does it go in the cup holder tray, or the knife sharpener slot?
Also notice the use of quotes around the word surf... Because no one really knows what that might be yet, right??