is that the genetic re-engineered T-Cell might rebel and take over the control of your body; the plus side is that nobody else would notice and life goes on.
Yeah I know eVB sucks. I'm not the one who chose this platform; If I were, I'd definitely chose C++ or Java. I wish you were my PM/SA - they chose eVB because it's free, regardless of its downside.:(
It appears before 1 April so I must be true. I've found drobbins the other day in a pub surrounded by hot chicks wore nothing but undersized red-hat t-shirts. He was sold obviously. It was not suprising in view of his track record - I really saw him speaking good of all-evil-gnu-veiled JFS, while he should have praise the other pure GNU projects which don't have backed by evil-empires-as-you-know-them, and then I saw buckets of money on his desks with blue thank you notes. He has been sold no less than once, why would I surprise next time he migrate.NET to Gentoo!
I'm an O2 developer. O2 is basically an iPaq+mobile phone combo. Our clients believed that it's powerful yet easy to develop apps on it. The biggest mistake was adopting Embedded VB 3.0 for our development.
Turn out this is an extremely crippled software - lacking dll it's supposed to have(xml dll, for example, and we must import the win2k's version because we don't have source to compile it natively, and pray it works well on CE), and crap SQL parser(can't select numeric field! No select count(*).. sorry!), etc. It's like hell working with it, when the apps requirements getting more complicated.
Our hope for better version of it is totally shattered by Microsoft's initiative in 'Smartphone' and their next dev. platform Smart Device is totally incompatible with EmVB. Oh dear EmVB, RIP!:(
Now let me get this straight Microsoft, you make products obsoleted our every major development on your ever changing handheld OS, now you want us to pay to sigh so as to make our stuffs run, then you may obsolete our work pretty soon in next major initiative?
GET REAL!
*continue maintaining crappy EmVB code after ranting*
*sob*
I among one of the handheld developers don't understand why should we spend time on something strictly controlled by a proprietary vendor, while we have so many otherplatforms to work with, and with much bigger market share?
Does anybody know if there are other sourceforge installations that dedicate themselves to some specific "sub-genre"?
apt-get install sourceforge
Whoa! There you go. Whatever you like it to be?:)
Just kidding. It's very much depending on what sub-genre you'd like, and approach those who'd most likely sponsor it. Whatever it is, your sponsor must have huge resources at his disposal. May be given a trial on this big iron to start with?
Is there really a *significant* increase in speed to justify the hours in CPU time to recompile everything with unrolling loops and athlon-tbird or whatever specific code?
Warning: read my warning in the post before using these flags
Of course, you need to justify the time taken to benchmark individual optimization flag to yield such a result. It took me a day to obtain a optimal CFLAG and another week to fully optimize a system.:)
Older processors gain less performance boost over source optimization. I've little problem boosting a newer box to 19% and beyond.(compare to normal -O3 compilation).
There're few stability issues(if you'd take my warning down my post), but it's still good for desktop processing(games!). For servers I would not risk it and use some other binary-distro instead.
Of course, it's up to you. If you think you need extra performance boost for your production servers and you've management justification and you've given enough resources to test, why not.:)
I think the companies could make the best judgement when hire people.
That reminds me of an interesting interviewee:
Me: What engineer discipline you acquire?
Interviewee: MCSE as stated in my resume.
Me: but MCSE is not an acceptable engineer chartership.
Interviewee: It is. Its full name is Microsoft Certified System Engineer. I just got it a month ago.
Me: I too aware of its name, but I don't see how Microsoft could charter an engineer.
Interviewee: *tension built* Microsoft is big and it's qualified enough to charter engineers.
Me: You might be also aware that we are bigger than Microsoft, and it's not way implying that we could charter a engineers.
Interviewee: this is your Fuc(he paused briefly) problem.
I could still hear he mummered 'Fuck' on his way out.
You are absolutely right! Slashdotters don't need any stinking beginners Linux/BSD/Windows/OSX books. Instead, we need this. (miniture size for emergency situation, if any)
22 dead out of 750 infected is definitely not insignificant. Assuming a rate of 20 deaths out of 1000 infections, and a 30% infection rate, equals what, 150k deaths in the US? Not trivial.
Left-brainer like you could find a good position in Government.:)
What we must know about SARS is that:
1) it's fatal - no vaccine, no cure.
2) the origin is unknown(sadly the suspected origin - China - refused to disclose full story to WHO/CDC which make the investigation impossible)
3) regardless of what they say, the method of infection is UNKNOWN. People don't need close contact to be infected.
4) All Governments are lying.
FUD? Nah, I'm right at the center of epicenter. People are like living in hell here.
I didn't want to scare you but the fatal figures in China is untrue. They said only 10 were killed by SARS in China, but in fact most bodies were burnt to ashes within 3 hours BEFORE their relatives could ever see their last faces, and the fact that they refused to turn in the specimen to WHO or CDC...
Hong Kong is an exception, their Government works closely with southeast China, WHO and CDC, and progress has been made. Hopefully vaccine would be made within...hmm...months.
Afaik there's only one new case 'announced' in Beijing recently, don't panic...yet.
The 32-bit operating system also offered enhanced multimedia capabilities, more powerful features for mobile computing, and integrated networking
I think the author pulled this straight out of Microsoft's propaganda. I don't know what qualify Windows 95 as a 32-bit OS.
Windows 95 cannot perform preemptive multitasking when 16-bit applications are running. Therefore if you plan to use mostly older 16-bit applications, you should not expect to see productivity improvements. There are also times when Windows 95 cannot multitask 32-bit applications. Windows 95 uses older 16-bit code for two very important modules( Window management and Graphics Device
Interface). When an application needs to use these modules, they have to wait in line until the previous application gives up control, the operating system cannot preempt it. If a 32-bit application needs to use one of these two modules, it may have to wait for it. That application is not able to multitask while it waits. In addition, 16-bit applications can inhibit the multitasking related performance of the 32-bit applications. When you run a mix of 16-bit and 32-bit applications, Windows 95 resorts to a less sophisticated form of multitasking called cooperative multitasking.
It's true. In case somebody still not convinced, you may run MSINFO.EXE, right below the directory of C:\WINDOWS\MSAPP. You can see Windows 95 has coded 'Windows 3.95' on 'MSDOS 6.xx'.
How do I know? My office is still using Windows 95. Pathetic, isn't it?
Once I got severe electric shock when plugging a parallel cable to a pretty old computer. I believe I saw a flash of lighting between the plug and the socket before I was bounced back.
The cable has 'changed' internally but no one could tell until one tries to plug it into a live computer - and gets the same shocking experience I had. I didn't throw it away, but mark it with 'X' instead. It becomes 'X-Cable' as in 'X-Men' - it's now possessing super-power after the disaster.
I hate it when I get mold growing inside my monitor!
You think it's worse until you discover an entire colony of unknown species which sounds like the cross-breed of flies and roaches to you when you open the case of a legacy hardware which has been running for more than 15 years.
And I suspected this living creatures are new life form evolved after I spilled coffee on this damn thing 10 years ago, which I didn't tell anybody.
Slashdot Mirror
http://bioinformatics.org/
End of thread
The sooner we send this scourge of the seaways to Davy Jones' locker, the better.
...shouldn't it be Davy Jones's locker?....
*rimshot*
That's very kind of you. Thanks in advance.
is that the genetic re-engineered T-Cell might rebel and take over the control of your body; the plus side is that nobody else would notice and life goes on.
Yeah I know eVB sucks. I'm not the one who chose this platform; If I were, I'd definitely chose C++ or Java. I wish you were my PM/SA - they chose eVB because it's free, regardless of its downside. :(
Free piece of crap is still crap.
It appears before 1 April so I must be true. I've found drobbins the other day in a pub surrounded by hot chicks wore nothing but undersized red-hat t-shirts. He was sold obviously. It was not suprising in view of his track record - I really saw him speaking good of all-evil-gnu-veiled JFS, while he should have praise the other pure GNU projects which don't have backed by evil-empires-as-you-know-them, and then I saw buckets of money on his desks with blue thank you notes. He has been sold no less than once, why would I surprise next time he migrate .NET to Gentoo!
I'm an O2 developer. O2 is basically an iPaq+mobile phone combo. Our clients believed that it's powerful yet easy to develop apps on it. The biggest mistake was adopting Embedded VB 3.0 for our development.
:(
Turn out this is an extremely crippled software - lacking dll it's supposed to have(xml dll, for example, and we must import the win2k's version because we don't have source to compile it natively, and pray it works well on CE), and crap SQL parser(can't select numeric field! No select count(*).. sorry!), etc. It's like hell working with it, when the apps requirements getting more complicated.
Our hope for better version of it is totally shattered by Microsoft's initiative in 'Smartphone' and their next dev. platform Smart Device is totally incompatible with EmVB. Oh dear EmVB, RIP!
Now let me get this straight Microsoft, you make products obsoleted our every major development on your ever changing handheld OS, now you want us to pay to sigh so as to make our stuffs run, then you may obsolete our work pretty soon in next major initiative?
GET REAL!
*continue maintaining crappy EmVB code after ranting* *sob*
I among one of the handheld developers don't understand why should we spend time on something strictly controlled by a proprietary vendor, while we have so many other platforms to work with, and with much bigger market share?
Does anybody know if there are other sourceforge installations that dedicate themselves to some specific "sub-genre"?
:)
apt-get install sourceforge
Whoa! There you go. Whatever you like it to be?
Just kidding. It's very much depending on what sub-genre you'd like, and approach those who'd most likely sponsor it. Whatever it is, your sponsor must have huge resources at his disposal. May be given a trial on this big iron to start with?
Is there really a *significant* increase in speed to justify the hours in CPU time to recompile everything with unrolling loops and athlon-tbird or whatever specific code?
:)
:)
:)
Yes if 19% is significant enough for you.
Quote from the link:
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
model name : AMD Athlon(TM) MP 2000+
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
model name : AMD Athlon(TM) MP 2000+
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
gcc version 3.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Result: '-O3 -march=athlon-mp -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -fforce-mem -s -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -fdelete-null-pointer-checks -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fschedule-insns'
Performance gain(compare to -O3 only) ~ 19.6%
Warning: read my warning in the post before using these flags
Of course, you need to justify the time taken to benchmark individual optimization flag to yield such a result. It took me a day to obtain a optimal CFLAG and another week to fully optimize a system.
Older processors gain less performance boost over source optimization. I've little problem boosting a newer box to 19% and beyond.(compare to normal -O3 compilation).
There're few stability issues(if you'd take my warning down my post), but it's still good for desktop processing(games!). For servers I would not risk it and use some other binary-distro instead.
Of course, it's up to you. If you think you need extra performance boost for your production servers and you've management justification and you've given enough resources to test, why not.
I think the companies could make the best judgement when hire people.
That reminds me of an interesting interviewee:
Me: What engineer discipline you acquire?
Interviewee: MCSE as stated in my resume.
Me: but MCSE is not an acceptable engineer chartership.
Interviewee: It is. Its full name is Microsoft Certified System Engineer. I just got it a month ago.
Me: I too aware of its name, but I don't see how Microsoft could charter an engineer.
Interviewee: *tension built* Microsoft is big and it's qualified enough to charter engineers.
Me: You might be also aware that we are bigger than Microsoft, and it's not way implying that we could charter a engineers.
Interviewee: this is your Fuc(he paused briefly) problem.
I could still hear he mummered 'Fuck' on his way out.
Its rigid and feels durable.
It's better to compare its durability in term of no. of r/w it can do before failure, but we can't really compare it without those figures.
You are absolutely right! Slashdotters don't need any stinking beginners Linux/BSD/Windows/OSX books. Instead, we need this. (miniture size for emergency situation, if any)
22 dead out of 750 infected is definitely not insignificant. Assuming a rate of 20 deaths out of 1000 infections, and a 30% infection rate, equals what, 150k deaths in the US? Not trivial.
:)
Left-brainer like you could find a good position in Government.
What we must know about SARS is that:
1) it's fatal - no vaccine, no cure.
2) the origin is unknown(sadly the suspected origin - China - refused to disclose full story to WHO/CDC which make the investigation impossible)
3) regardless of what they say, the method of infection is UNKNOWN. People don't need close contact to be infected.
4) All Governments are lying.
FUD? Nah, I'm right at the center of epicenter. People are like living in hell here.
I didn't want to scare you but the fatal figures in China is untrue. They said only 10 were killed by SARS in China, but in fact most bodies were burnt to ashes within 3 hours BEFORE their relatives could ever see their last faces, and the fact that they refused to turn in the specimen to WHO or CDC...
Hong Kong is an exception, their Government works closely with southeast China, WHO and CDC, and progress has been made. Hopefully vaccine would be made within...hmm...months.
Afaik there's only one new case 'announced' in Beijing recently, don't panic...yet.
Anybody thinking this is interesting needs to go back to high school.
:)
That is a big jump for him/her! Consider this moderator obviously comes from elementary grade.
CERT is a joke, they announce security vulns days late, often skipping arbitrarily vulns that are on a massive scale. Unsubscribed a year ago.
Did you, hmm, pay?
Most vulns can only be seen for a subscritpion fee. That's why we don't pay up on our own - our company does.
it doesn't has any oil repository.
Or it'd be declared Evil Planet any time soon.
The 32-bit operating system also offered enhanced multimedia capabilities, more powerful features for mobile computing, and integrated networking
I think the author pulled this straight out of Microsoft's propaganda. I don't know what qualify Windows 95 as a 32-bit OS.
Windows 95 cannot perform preemptive multitasking when 16-bit applications are running. Therefore if you plan to use mostly older 16-bit applications, you should not expect to see productivity improvements. There are also times when Windows 95 cannot multitask 32-bit applications. Windows 95 uses older 16-bit code for two very important modules( Window management and Graphics Device Interface). When an application needs to use these modules, they have to wait in line until the previous application gives up control, the operating system cannot preempt it. If a 32-bit application needs to use one of these two modules, it may have to wait for it. That application is not able to multitask while it waits. In addition, 16-bit applications can inhibit the multitasking related performance of the 32-bit applications. When you run a mix of 16-bit and 32-bit applications, Windows 95 resorts to a less sophisticated form of multitasking called cooperative multitasking.
You see, 'pure 32-bit OS mode' will never happen.
It's true. In case somebody still not convinced, you may run MSINFO.EXE, right below the directory of C:\WINDOWS\MSAPP. You can see Windows 95 has coded 'Windows 3.95' on 'MSDOS 6.xx'.
How do I know? My office is still using Windows 95. Pathetic, isn't it?
Saddam has already fled and on his way to North Korea. Don't ask me how I know.
:)
You may think I'm trolling. Mod me down if you hear the news about him being killed or caught. Until then, wait and see.
Shouldn't it be 'Think Differently? *throws that Practical English Grammer away*
Once I got severe electric shock when plugging a parallel cable to a pretty old computer. I believe I saw a flash of lighting between the plug and the socket before I was bounced back.
The cable has 'changed' internally but no one could tell until one tries to plug it into a live computer - and gets the same shocking experience I had. I didn't throw it away, but mark it with 'X' instead. It becomes 'X-Cable' as in 'X-Men' - it's now possessing super-power after the disaster.
Spare parallel cable? Sure!
aren't looking hard enough.
And this online repository is useful too. Look at its archive section.