I also vote for AVG not because they offer me a free edition for personal use or their paid products are cheaper, it's simply more powerful.
I don't want to bore you with my personal experience, AVG can really detect virus/adware that Norton ignored, and these are not false-negative detection.
Unless, of course, you're a perfectionist that you believe Linux must be installed natively, but I beg you try it and examine its features before judging it. There's no harm in trying.
I don't want to repost this old debate that I believe every geeks should have read it; but since nobody post it yet. I repost it for anybody who haven't read about this famous debate between Linus and Prof. Tanenbaum on microkernel.
"It gives designers a free hand," he said. "With intelligent fasteners, they no longer have to worry about providing a tool path when they design a product."
But we might need to design a new path to replace the batteries.:)
(well, I haven't read the spec., may be they doesn't require battery replacement or self-charging something....)
You're arguing with your wife again. It seems she's missed her spending quota again this quarter. A proud patriot, you have no problem spending 85% and sometimes 90% of your income on consumer goods, yet she can't manage to spend even close to the 75% required by law. It's that foreign mentality, you suppose--that's what happens when you are educated overseas and without the benefit of a corporate sponsor. You have to remind her that if the Internal Consumer's Service (ICS) catches her, she'll be doing time in Philip Morris(TM) Prison like her uncle.
Oh well, hopefully a night at the town's AOL-Time-Warner-Clear-Channel-Blockbuster(TM) Authorized Media Distribution Center will smooth things over with her. That reminds you--you need to have your eye- and ear-implants inspected for this quarter again, otherwise you won't even be allowed in tonight.
You haven't attended church services for a while. Although your wife is a devout follower of God's Customers(TM) and shops in the Church Store at LEAST five tiems a quarter, you're not yet convinced that converting from Consumers For Jesus(TM) was that sound an investment.
Your son Rick has just graduated from the local McDonalds(TM) High School. You want him to go to Pepsi(TM) University like his sister, but he wants to go to Coke(TM) College. Not that it matters--the permits you get at either school are the same. Although he really wanted to attend Stanford(TM), his corporate sponsors rejected that proposal, based on what it might do to his credit rating.
Your youngest daughter just graduated Pepsi(TM) U. It was expensive, but she is all set now, having received a Creative Thought Permit and a Entrepreneurship License. On top of that she's accepted a job at Fortune 10 corporation. Of course almost everyone works for a Fortune 10 nowadays, there being only thirty-some corporations left. It's too bad she had to sign all those NDA's though--you'd really like to be allowed to know where she would be living and how to get in touch with her. Ahh well, it's the price you pay for our corporate security.
Your older daughter, after twenty quarters of employment, was finally permitted to tell you that she is working in middle-management at AT&T. Of course, every job in the United Corporations of America is middle-management. The cheaper--skilled--labor is all outsourced to Those Other Countries, whatever they are called. In ten more quarters, assuming her credit rating remains good and she has attained Shareholder status, she'll be allowed to talk face-to-face (no encrypted channel) with us again!
Apparently, her five year old daughter has been grounded again, this time for racking up a $6000 fine--singing "Happy Birthday(TM)" at a party without a Media Distribution License. She really needs to be taught a lesson--that as a patriotic Consumer of the UCA, she needs to respect the rights of Shareholders and property owners. What a dangerous thoughts she has! She thinks she should be allowed to say whatever she pleases, no matter what it does to someone else's portfolio! No one can get it through to her that terrorist ideas like that will land her in one of those "special" schools--and she'd be subjected to a lower quarterly limit on all her credit cards.
Fax from your wife--she'll be late tonight. Corporate HQ has re-instated fourteen-hour work days until the end of this quarter. It's too bad she's not allowed to quit her job--you could get her a pretty sweet management position any time in your department at Microsoft.
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Layoff 15,000 Employees, shut down user group, now firing key persons in R&D.....even the dumbest employee could tell what's in their CEO Carly's mind - cutting as much cost as possible, create a artificial short-term profit hype, so that she can retreat with huge severance package for her 'accomplishment'; but what'd that leave HP? A living hell of disolation, without any competitive edge to continue their business as usual.
How could the board approve of her action which is obviously doing nothing more than achieving her own personal goal while damaging the company as a whole? Unless, of course, the major investors who back Carly approve of this. I cannot tell for sure, but that's very possible - the major investors believe that HP is doomed.
I don't know the rest of the world, but Hong Kong has 1G bps home broadband, now, by using IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, over Fiber directly to home users.
Don't wait for 100Mbps, 1000Mbps is there already.:)
- do not even have the agility to perform double-click
- are dumb enough to resize the taskbar to over half-screen and live with it for entire year
- are so hysteric to scream at every single funny, innovative animation "OMG IT'S DISAPPEARING GOD HELP ME!!!!!"
Usually located in dark alleys, these cyber-cafes are usuallly a room without any door sign outside, in which you could find boys and girls crowded together to earn that little.56 cents. Windows and doors are closed to evade laws enforcement official, usually no air-conditioning...
However, consider the cost to stay online is just 2 renmin (~0.24 cents), that's almost 100% profit margin.
That's quite different from those sweat shops in which kids are forced to work for their living because in these cyber-cafes, they would love to stay for no money, let alone earning that little cash...
If you worked for Culturecom then surely you must remember the EasyReader electronic book that they have been developing for years (I still have one). I suspect they bought the company to replace the Via Dragon chip in the original version and put a Transmeata into their next release of EasyReader (a colour version maybe?) for the China mar
They're not buying their production line just for replacing Via dragon chip from their EasyReader electronic book. This product is history. There's no point in making such a huge business deal for a product that failed miserably.
Culturecom has also bought the royalty of distributing Midori Linux in the deal, if you come to think of it, there's infinite possibilities in an embedded system like this, e.g. a portable media player, integrated network appliance, GPS navigating system for vehicle, etc.
Don't expect your EasyReader would have CPU upgrade anytime soon. Sell it to eBay now.:)
Your empahsis this in order to convince people that this deal is bad?
I think quite the opposite, because I know Culturecom pretty well.
Culturecom Holdings, under which they've companies sells comics books, publishing press and magazine; they also manage properties, and they also have a technology company, which releases its own Linux distro (China 2k) for use in their line of Linux specific workstation and terminal server selling to China since 1998. Their distro originally released for office use and now porting to embedded system. Buying transmeta's production line is a sensible and wise choice for a proactive technology company devoted to Linux business like Culturecom.
I don't know others, but I feel good to hear that a company devoted to Linux business since boom still around and kicking and decided to enhance their Linux business.
Disclamer: I worked for Culturecom even before they started their Linux business.
Not only Google looks for big brains
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Google uses aptitude tests, which it has even placed in technical magazines, hoping some really big brains would tackle the hardest problems
Almost all hightech companies look for big brains. Typical questions would look like this:
five pirates have 100 gold coins. they have to divide up the loot. in order of seniority (suppose pirate 5 is most senior, pirate 1 is least senior), the most senior pirate proposes a distribution of the loot. they vote and if at least 50% accept the proposal, the loot is divided as proposed. otherwise the most senior pirate is executed, and they start over again with the next senior pirate. what solution does the most senior pirate propose? assume they are very intelligent and extremely greedy (and that they would prefer not to die).
The answer is in the no. 63 of techInterview. Don't feel depress when you couldn't come up with the right answer, and don't bother memorizing all those answers before going to interview. They probably wouldn't reuse any of them anyway. If you don't have extremely high IQ, you probably want to learn techniques to solve those problems.
As a matter of fact, questions as such are mostly problems in Game Theory(Yes, Game Theory as in the movie A Beautiful Mind). Pirates problem above is a typical game that can be solved by backward induction on an extended subgame. I've actually seen this question in a final examination of Game Theory in my prograduate Economics studies.
Twenty years ago, it was conceivable that the USSR would roll into Canada and attack the United States, or would start raining hellfire on the country as a whole.
Don't make us force our way into yours if you refused to let us protect you. We can reinitiate Canada invasion plan anytime we see fit.
For the humor impaired, it's supposed to be a joke.
In a junction outside an university there is a newly implemented traffic light control. The mechanism is so simple: if a button is not pressed, the traffic light wouldn't stop the cars for people crossing. There is a fucking big instruction above it.
Everyday I'd encounter a group of at least 20(mostly in suits suggesting their discipline of study), obviously having already been stuck there for at least 15 minutes, swearing at the damn traffic light, and about how the Government only do things in flavors of drivers blah blah blah.
I'd then proundly walk into the crowd, use most explicit motion to press the magic button, and enjoy watching the puzzling crowd in awe.
This is the first ever traffic light control I've ever seen adaptive to GEEKS!
China is an amalgam that has been held together by force rather than by desire. Like the former Soviet Empire, Communist Yugoslavia, British India, et. al., the Chinese "nation" will disintegrate into smaller parts once a central government becomes unable to control the provinces by brute force.
I agree with you that a nation would be at risk of breaking up if it helds its people together with brute force rather than principles, and history has already proved that repeatedly.
However, while you'd disagree with their believes, they hold them very tight, tightier than anyone would have thought. Just recently, China shutdowns millions of cyber cafe(thought not really shutting them down, some of them are still operating door closed during the raid), and monitors blogs, messaging, SMS and forums.
You can yell loudly against this, and you may be enraged by this, but they DO hold people together by applying their principles. On the other hand, they DO have strong forces in control as well. Given all this, breaking up is very unlikely to happen.
I'm not speaking for anyone here. Just in case this offend anybody.:)
Turn up the volume on my reciever loud enoguh so you can't hear the fans, or the wife complaining.
You obviously don't have a wife. No loud speaker on earth could stand against wife's complaining. Common tactics by her including, and not limited to:
1) Hitting your foot with full-powered vacuum cleaner (no, not even 1000W speaker could beat a 1000W vacuum cleaner)
2) Unplugging the speaker wire on the wrong end, and when it still doesn't work
3) Yelling directly into one side of your ear
# mkdir/mnt/server # mount server:/remote/dir/mnt/server # dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > /mnt/server/winimage.img.gz (wait a while...) # reboot
I don't want to be an asspicker but I believe you'd like to set the block size so as to lower the chance of backup failure in case of network traffic jittering:
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I also vote for AVG not because they offer me a free edition for personal use or their paid products are cheaper, it's simply more powerful.
I don't want to bore you with my personal experience, AVG can really detect virus/adware that Norton ignored, and these are not false-negative detection.
I boot it with Knoppix Live CD
Better yet, a live Knoppix DVD.
Unless, of course, you're a perfectionist that you believe Linux must be installed natively, but I beg you try it and examine its features before judging it. There's no harm in trying.
And you'd find it surprisingly featureful.
"The inaccurate perception of its distance and speed ... prevented DART from taking effective action to avoid a collision," the summary said.
Next time, DUCK!!!1!
They don't call themselves 'Creative' for nothing.
retrain their vast array of lawyers on their area they should excel?
I don't want to repost this old debate that I believe every geeks should have read it; but since nobody post it yet. I repost it for anybody who haven't read about this famous debate between Linus and Prof. Tanenbaum on microkernel.
Linus vs. Tanenbaum - "Linux is obsolete" Jan,1992
(Save your mod point for someone who really need them thanks!)
"It gives designers a free hand," he said. "With intelligent fasteners, they no longer have to worry about providing a tool path when they design a product."
:)
But we might need to design a new path to replace the batteries.
(well, I haven't read the spec., may be they doesn't require battery replacement or self-charging something....)
You're absolutely right. I can't wait to remind people what future that is ahead of us....doom on us DOOOOOOM
Easy. ^_^
It is 3Q 2030.
You're arguing with your wife again. It seems she's missed her spending quota again this quarter. A proud patriot, you have no problem spending 85% and sometimes 90% of your income on consumer goods, yet she can't manage to spend even close to the 75% required by law. It's that foreign mentality, you suppose--that's what happens when you are educated overseas and without the benefit of a corporate sponsor. You have to remind her that if the Internal Consumer's Service (ICS) catches her, she'll be doing time in Philip Morris(TM) Prison like her uncle.
Oh well, hopefully a night at the town's AOL-Time-Warner-Clear-Channel-Blockbuster(TM) Authorized Media Distribution Center will smooth things over with her. That reminds you--you need to have your eye- and ear-implants inspected for this quarter again, otherwise you won't even be allowed in tonight.
You haven't attended church services for a while. Although your wife is a devout follower of God's Customers(TM) and shops in the Church Store at LEAST five tiems a quarter, you're not yet convinced that converting from Consumers For Jesus(TM) was that sound an investment.
Your son Rick has just graduated from the local McDonalds(TM) High School. You want him to go to Pepsi(TM) University like his sister, but he wants to go to Coke(TM) College. Not that it matters--the permits you get at either school are the same. Although he really wanted to attend Stanford(TM), his corporate sponsors rejected that proposal, based on what it might do to his credit rating.
Your youngest daughter just graduated Pepsi(TM) U. It was expensive, but she is all set now, having received a Creative Thought Permit and a Entrepreneurship License. On top of that she's accepted a job at Fortune 10 corporation. Of course almost everyone works for a Fortune 10 nowadays, there being only thirty-some corporations left. It's too bad she had to sign all those NDA's though--you'd really like to be allowed to know where she would be living and how to get in touch with her. Ahh well, it's the price you pay for our corporate security.
Your older daughter, after twenty quarters of employment, was finally permitted to tell you that she is working in middle-management at AT&T. Of course, every job in the United Corporations of America is middle-management. The cheaper--skilled--labor is all outsourced to Those Other Countries, whatever they are called. In ten more quarters, assuming her credit rating remains good and she has attained Shareholder status, she'll be allowed to talk face-to-face (no encrypted channel) with us again!
Apparently, her five year old daughter has been grounded again, this time for racking up a $6000 fine--singing "Happy Birthday(TM)" at a party without a Media Distribution License. She really needs to be taught a lesson--that as a patriotic Consumer of the UCA, she needs to respect the rights of Shareholders and property owners. What a dangerous thoughts she has! She thinks she should be allowed to say whatever she pleases, no matter what it does to someone else's portfolio! No one can get it through to her that terrorist ideas like that will land her in one of those "special" schools--and she'd be subjected to a lower quarterly limit on all her credit cards.
Fax from your wife--she'll be late tonight. Corporate HQ has re-instated fourteen-hour work days until the end of this quarter. It's too bad she's not allowed to quit her job--you could get her a pretty sweet management position any time in your department at Microsoft.
This document is hereby released to the public domain. You may (and are encouraged to) reproduce, republish, read, modify, and/or archive it without limitation.
Orignal story by Accord MT
If they try to garnish my wages, I swear to God, I'll fly a jet into the BellSouth tower...
No wonder BellSouth has that many damnaged buildings ready to donate.
Thanks for all the reply. I should be modded (-1, Get out of your cave). :(
Layoff 15,000 Employees, shut down user group, now firing key persons in R&D.....even the dumbest employee could tell what's in their CEO Carly's mind - cutting as much cost as possible, create a artificial short-term profit hype, so that she can retreat with huge severance package for her 'accomplishment'; but what'd that leave HP? A living hell of disolation, without any competitive edge to continue their business as usual.
How could the board approve of her action which is obviously doing nothing more than achieving her own personal goal while damaging the company as a whole? Unless, of course, the major investors who back Carly approve of this. I cannot tell for sure, but that's very possible - the major investors believe that HP is doomed.
I don't know the rest of the world, but Hong Kong has 1G bps home broadband , now, by using IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, over Fiber directly to home users.
:)
Don't wait for 100Mbps, 1000Mbps is there already.
how can we teach those users who:
- do not even have the agility to perform double-click
- are dumb enough to resize the taskbar to over half-screen and live with it for entire year
- are so hysteric to scream at every single funny, innovative animation "OMG IT'S DISAPPEARING GOD HELP ME!!!!!"
Usually located in dark alleys, these cyber-cafes are usuallly a room without any door sign outside, in which you could find boys and girls crowded together to earn that little .56 cents. Windows and doors are closed to evade laws enforcement official, usually no air-conditioning...
However, consider the cost to stay online is just 2 renmin (~0.24 cents), that's almost 100% profit margin.
That's quite different from those sweat shops in which kids are forced to work for their living because in these cyber-cafes, they would love to stay for no money, let alone earning that little cash...
Guess we can shut down public schools then, now, eh?
Law enforcement can be outsourced to some good company who could make law enforcement robots with human brains, too!
Stop wasting taxplayers' money on something that can be done well by profit making companies!
If you worked for Culturecom then surely you must remember the EasyReader electronic book that they have been developing for years (I still have one). I suspect they bought the company to replace the Via Dragon chip in the original version and put a Transmeata into their next release of EasyReader (a colour version maybe?) for the China mar
:)
They're not buying their production line just for replacing Via dragon chip from their EasyReader electronic book. This product is history. There's no point in making such a huge business deal for a product that failed miserably.
Culturecom has also bought the royalty of distributing Midori Linux in the deal, if you come to think of it, there's infinite possibilities in an embedded system like this, e.g. a portable media player, integrated network appliance, GPS navigating system for vehicle, etc.
Don't expect your EasyReader would have CPU upgrade anytime soon. Sell it to eBay now.
Your empahsis this in order to convince people that this deal is bad?
I think quite the opposite, because I know Culturecom pretty well.
Culturecom Holdings, under which they've companies sells comics books, publishing press and magazine; they also manage properties, and they also have a technology company, which releases its own Linux distro (China 2k) for use in their line of Linux specific workstation and terminal server selling to China since 1998. Their distro originally released for office use and now porting to embedded system. Buying transmeta's production line is a sensible and wise choice for a proactive technology company devoted to Linux business like Culturecom.
I don't know others, but I feel good to hear that a company devoted to Linux business since boom still around and kicking and decided to enhance their Linux business.
Disclamer: I worked for Culturecom even before they started their Linux business.
Google uses aptitude tests, which it has even placed in technical magazines, hoping some really big brains would tackle the hardest problems
Almost all hightech companies look for big brains. Typical questions would look like this:
five pirates have 100 gold coins. they have to divide up the loot. in order of seniority (suppose pirate 5 is most senior, pirate 1 is least senior), the most senior pirate proposes a distribution of the loot. they vote and if at least 50% accept the proposal, the loot is divided as proposed. otherwise the most senior pirate is executed, and they start over again with the next senior pirate. what solution does the most senior pirate propose? assume they are very intelligent and extremely greedy (and that they would prefer not to die).
The answer is in the no. 63 of techInterview. Don't feel depress when you couldn't come up with the right answer, and don't bother memorizing all those answers before going to interview. They probably wouldn't reuse any of them anyway. If you don't have extremely high IQ, you probably want to learn techniques to solve those problems.
As a matter of fact, questions as such are mostly problems in Game Theory(Yes, Game Theory as in the movie A Beautiful Mind). Pirates problem above is a typical game that can be solved by backward induction on an extended subgame. I've actually seen this question in a final examination of Game Theory in my prograduate Economics studies.
Twenty years ago, it was conceivable that the USSR would roll into Canada and attack the United States, or would start raining hellfire on the country as a whole.
Don't make us force our way into yours if you refused to let us protect you. We can reinitiate Canada invasion plan anytime we see fit.
For the humor impaired, it's supposed to be a joke.
Online edition
In a junction outside an university there is a newly implemented traffic light control. The mechanism is so simple: if a button is not pressed, the traffic light wouldn't stop the cars for people crossing. There is a fucking big instruction above it.
Everyday I'd encounter a group of at least 20(mostly in suits suggesting their discipline of study), obviously having already been stuck there for at least 15 minutes, swearing at the damn traffic light, and about how the Government only do things in flavors of drivers blah blah blah.
I'd then proundly walk into the crowd, use most explicit motion to press the magic button, and enjoy watching the puzzling crowd in awe.
This is the first ever traffic light control I've ever seen adaptive to GEEKS!
China is an amalgam that has been held together by force rather than by desire. Like the former Soviet Empire, Communist Yugoslavia, British India, et. al., the Chinese "nation" will disintegrate into smaller parts once a central government becomes unable to control the provinces by brute force.
:)
I agree with you that a nation would be at risk of breaking up if it helds its people together with brute force rather than principles, and history has already proved that repeatedly.
However, while you'd disagree with their believes, they hold them very tight, tightier than anyone would have thought. Just recently, China shutdowns millions of cyber cafe(thought not really shutting them down, some of them are still operating door closed during the raid), and monitors blogs, messaging, SMS and forums.
You can yell loudly against this, and you may be enraged by this, but they DO hold people together by applying their principles. On the other hand, they DO have strong forces in control as well. Given all this, breaking up is very unlikely to happen.
I'm not speaking for anyone here. Just in case this offend anybody.
Turn up the volume on my reciever loud enoguh so you can't hear the fans, or the wife complaining.
You obviously don't have a wife. No loud speaker on earth could stand against wife's complaining. Common tactics by her including, and not limited to:
1) Hitting your foot with full-powered vacuum cleaner (no, not even 1000W speaker could beat a 1000W vacuum cleaner)
2) Unplugging the speaker wire on the wrong end, and when it still doesn't work
3) Yelling directly into one side of your ear
# mount server:/remote/dir
# dd if=/dev/hda | gzip >
/mnt/server/winimage.img.gz
(wait a while...)
# reboot
I don't want to be an asspicker but I believe you'd like to set the block size so as to lower the chance of backup failure in case of network traffic jittering:
/mnt/server/winimage.img.gz
# dd bs=512 if=/dev/hda | gzip >