Re:FUD and MISINFORMATION ABOUND!! see link
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Trust me on this one.
You must have inside knowledge then. So, this guy to the same level that he learned Linux, learned Mac OS X, FreeBSD, etc, and came to the conclusion that Linux was the answer?
I love linux, I use nothing else, but I find this unlikely.
Re:FUD and MISINFORMATION ABOUND!! see link
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I'm not sure about M$ licensing or anything in that ballpark, but I too sensed some sort of misinformation when this guy who "knew nothing about linux" was able to do some pretty advanced things. Like using "dd" to duplicate disks. Maybe distro docs are more advanced than I give them credit for, but I doubt that a novice would embrace the dd command so quickly. Setting up a firewall and redirecting all web trafic (via wireless no doubt) through squid. My God! This is a pretty intense thing. I mean I've done it, but I'm more versed in Linux than this guy says he is, but wolalla he inserts some Mandrake CD and this stuff sets itself up? I don't think so. I mean M$ doesn't even have a wizard for this. How is this a case study or sucessess report? I doubt this is anything like "I saved Christmas!" or equivalent that the apple people are using for their switch campaign.
Maybe this is a feature of newer releases of gcc, but I've never heard of -j doing auto SMP. There is a -j option for parallel makes with gnu make, but this is only for the compilation and not runtime.
I can be held legally liable if I give advice, even if it is free.
Sad thing is that this applies to medical help also (at least in the US). Some doctors will not help a person dying in the street out of fear of being sued for trying to save their life!?!
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On a side note, some supercomputing center in Minnesota, or somewhere like that where its really cold in the winter, pipes out their heat into the parking garage to help the cars start.
Also, the Pittsburg Supercomputing Center's heat output is equivalent to 169 pounds of coal an hour!.
Yeah, it is fun, especially when it "drips" fire:)
Anyway, back to the notion of "learning by osmosis", where the hell did this come from? Osmosis is the transfer of _water_ through a semi-permiable membrane. So "learning by osmosis" is as silly as learning by drinking water, because I guess the water between you and the book is going to make you smart right? Would "learning by diffusion" make a better joke, or does osmosis sound like a smarter word?
I disagree with your "hiring manager" completely. If anyone sits on their laurels from what they did years ago, then yeah, their value to the company is going to go down. Look at any profession, they change as time goes on, and the people working in that profession must keep up with those changes.
My father is a banker, and he had to leave the field temporarly due to cutbacks, and when he returned to banking, he said it was pretty much like it was when he left, but now there were computers. He has to use Excell, do presentations in powerpoint, etc. And guess what? Do you think that he would be there if he didn't keep up with those skills? Its the same for medical doctors as well. Would you get a surgery done by some doctor that refused to learn microsurgury, etc and have 2 to 3 times the recovery time because he just cut you wide open like they did 15-20 years ago? Do you think your insurance company would pay for it?
Yeah, the new kid on the block has all the current skills and will get paid less, but anyone worth keeping their job will have those same skills plus experience. That is something that cannot be taught.
The article talks about H1B visa ppl, well I know 2 of them, one that worked in bioinformatics and the other worked with the space program with NASA, and guess where they will be tomorrow? Their visas have been revoked, and they will be back in Russia. There's 1 enginering job and a bioinformatics job open.
Job markets change, and jobs change. Just look at what most people were doing 100 years ago. They were farmers. How many farmers do you know today?
I think its time that we start speaking of "technology" like any other "ology" like cosmology, psychology, philosophy, etc. and not as if its some thing that has come from aliens. Its not. technology
is the knowledge and ability to use such "modern devices", and these devices are created by people for people. How far would a kid who cannot read or do arithmatic get with an advanced programmable calculator?
Now for the Christmas in 2050. It meantions the robot assistant in the kitchen. Where the hell are these things now? Just the other day I wanted a small robot to feed my cats when I was out of town. I'd buy one in a heartbeat. And there are many other simple repetitions physical tasks like this that can be done by robots, but noone has them. Not even the "rich and famous". Why is this? Robots have been around for a long time in industrial settings, and they haven't taken over the world or anything, but there are 0 home robots. We have been writing about robots since at least the 20's with Buck Rogers. Am I the only person out there that would buy a little personal robot for something like feeding the cats?
People don't want multiple platforms -- they want the rest of the world to conform to their own way of doing things. This replays in politics, religion, culture, etc. We're basically herd animals. All that Microsoft has to do is gain a marketplace majority, and the world will bleat a path to their doorstep.
Yeah, right, like people all strive to drive the same car, dress the same, and have one chanel of television that shows the same show.
But people do want and expect standards. That enables all of the different cars to use the same kinds of fuel and drive within reasonable speeds with each other. People want a size 10 shoe to fit a "size 10" foot, and have multiple channels of TV that work with their television.
Regarding MS's aquisition of Macromedia, I could care less about flash. To me, it doesn't exist. I don't enable the plugin because I cannot stop the animations (unlike gifs), and it is a distraction when I am trying to read the content of the website. I mean that is why I am on the page, isn't it? Now MS's control over Dreamweaver is a problem. That means that they will pretty much have a verticle monopoly of the web, which is what they are trying to do. Think about it, Dreameweaver in the creation, IIS and ASP at the server front end,.NET at the server backend, and IE at the user level. Doesn't leave much else now does it?
My question for Macromedia is this. Do you believe in your company and your products? What is your desire to loose what you have worked for? Is a little cash (or alot) now really worth it? MS can only aquire Macromedia if Macromedia allows them to do so. I see no long term gain for them to sell out.
But since the door has been opened, the Grateful Dead has a whole line of live recordings called the "Dick's Picks" series, and I just bought one last weekend. Why? 1) I wanted to support the band (or I guess GDM now) and my local record store 2) It was a killer show (11/1/85), and I know that Dick's Picks are about the best quality out there (although there are incredible recordings on Etree! Go tapers!). 3) I could afford to buy the damned thing! I work for a living, and have downloaded _lots_ of stuff for free, so why can't I pay for a recording that has been hand picked and professionally mastered, etc.
Regarding the "honor system" and no DRM, etc. Isn't this what we have been doing in the past with music?
I don't think that Phish or any other band is being a bad guy for selling something that they have made. I do it every day at my job, don't you? Plus for 10/13 bucks a pop, that is not bad. You know that the server will not drop you, unlike Etree. Anyone who has done etree for a while knows what it feels like to have a couple songs missing from a show. Also, the GD tradition is to allow paying concert goers to freely tape and distribute those tapes, there is nothing that says they will tape and freely distribute their shows.
I've never heard of the term "portwalling" before, and google only returned 3 matches on the term.
However, this idea is a useful and easy tool to make things a little more secure, especially if you are on a private lan. For completeness, it should be mentioned that xinetd , sendmail, apache, and most well writen daemons support this mechanism. See the bind(2) manpage, basically you provide the source address to be something specific besides INADDR_ANY.
I've been thinking about this for a few weeks now. Why is sex suppressed and violence tolerated?
My recent theory is this. Both sex and violence are, for the most part, outlets for agressive tendancies in males, and there are other forms of agression, such as sports and competition. This agression is part of the male existance and must be outleted in some kind of way. Our society allows this aggression to be outletted via sports, competition, and "raw violence" like that shown on TV. However, aggression towards sexual avenues are suppressed because it is believed (primarily by women) that it will cause the male to leave them and the kids.
If you do not think that sex is aggression, listen how the work "fuck" is used. Look up the root for vagina. Don't you remember talking with the guys about a girl as if you were hunting? You know what I mean.
For what its worth, I've read recently in a newspaper that it is now illegal for a cable company to require upgrades to get a premium channel. Sorry I don't have a reference, but I read it from a newspaper while visiting my parents.
Here here! I only have a 12x burner and have burned hundreds of cds, almost all of them at 8x. Why? So I can reliably multitask and do something else while the burn is going on. When cdrecord ejects the disk, I take the one that just finished, label it, and put it in a stack with the rest and slap another one in the drive, rinse repeat. I was never in a hurry to burn a cd, I guess because I could burn them faster than I could listen/archive them.
Oh yeah, etree rocks!
I believe that analog is better than digital because sound is analog. Microphones and speakers are analog and for a digital format to become digital it must go through an A->D converter and then from a D->A converter on playback. Ever since the CD came out digital was the buzword. Even today low end loudspeakers are claiming their speakers are "digital ready", which means nothing, but it has the important D word.
The best digital recording would have an infinite sample rate and infinite bits in the signal. Which would bring you right back to analog.
I'm a Linux/Unix admin. And one of the things I tell people when I'm interviewing is that being an admin of these kind of machines isn't that difficult because they are reliable, and when there is a problem, the problem usually has a clear solution (ie, good error messages, much much better error messages than windows). Anyway, as far as TCO goes, since admining these boxes isn't that taxing, I can do _other_ things like program. This is something that I have never heard of a MCSE doing.
Btw, I have a part time admin job (3 days a week) of 63 Linux machines, and the other days of the week I help out with another 100+ machines (admined by one person full time, who also programs), as well as supporting a number of lower priority machines.
There was a similar thing near where I live. A newscrew went to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (before 9/11/01) and went to the front gate, and said "I would like to look at the boats here". They were told "No!". So the reporters got into a little boat with a motor and camera and touched one of the boats and hung out a while.
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I worked at a library, and yeah, we would get a couple of complaints like this a year. For web wierdness we has a proxy server that logged all web requests. So we could trace from the log what machine generated the request. The "hot spots" were often dark corners of the library with a computer or 2 there. Sometimes ppl got caught "with their pants down", litterally:)
considering the prologue that was given to the "announcement"? I had to reread the title and the little snippet a few times to figure out what the hell this thing was. For a split second I thought it was an Ask slashdot question.
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Trust me on this one.
You must have inside knowledge then. So, this guy to the same level that he learned Linux, learned Mac OS X, FreeBSD, etc, and came to the conclusion that Linux was the answer?
I love linux, I use nothing else, but I find this unlikely.
I'm not sure about M$ licensing or anything in that ballpark, but I too sensed some sort of misinformation when this guy who "knew nothing about linux" was able to do some pretty advanced things. Like using "dd" to duplicate disks. Maybe distro docs are more advanced than I give them credit for, but I doubt that a novice would embrace the dd command so quickly. Setting up a firewall and redirecting all web trafic (via wireless no doubt) through squid. My God! This is a pretty intense thing. I mean I've done it, but I'm more versed in Linux than this guy says he is, but wolalla he inserts some Mandrake CD and this stuff sets itself up? I don't think so. I mean M$ doesn't even have a wizard for this. How is this a case study or sucessess report? I doubt this is anything like "I saved Christmas!" or equivalent that the apple people are using for their switch campaign.
Maybe this is a feature of newer releases of gcc, but I've never heard of -j doing auto SMP. There is a -j option for parallel makes with gnu make, but this is only for the compilation and not runtime.
The portland group compiler and the intel compiler. Do support some auto-parallalization via openmp and threads.
I can be held legally liable if I give advice, even if it is free.
Sad thing is that this applies to medical help also (at least in the US). Some doctors will not help a person dying in the street out of fear of being sued for trying to save their life!?!
On a side note, some supercomputing center in Minnesota, or somewhere like that where its really cold in the winter, pipes out their heat into the parking garage to help the cars start. Also, the Pittsburg Supercomputing Center's heat output is equivalent to 169 pounds of coal an hour!.
I'm not a gamer, so bear with me, but where does one get a monitor that has a refresh rate over 200 Hz at 1600x1200?
I am correct in that your game's fps cannot be faster than the gun in your crt, right?
Yeah, it is fun, especially when it "drips" fire :)
Anyway, back to the notion of "learning by osmosis", where the hell did this come from? Osmosis is the transfer of _water_ through a semi-permiable membrane. So "learning by osmosis" is as silly as learning by drinking water, because I guess the water between you and the book is going to make you smart right? Would "learning by diffusion" make a better joke, or does osmosis sound like a smarter word?
If the editors don't really have anything to say about a story, why post it? There are plenty of other articles that you could post.
I disagree with your "hiring manager" completely. If anyone sits on their laurels from what they did years ago, then yeah, their value to the company is going to go down. Look at any profession, they change as time goes on, and the people working in that profession must keep up with those changes.
My father is a banker, and he had to leave the field temporarly due to cutbacks, and when he returned to banking, he said it was pretty much like it was when he left, but now there were computers. He has to use Excell, do presentations in powerpoint, etc. And guess what? Do you think that he would be there if he didn't keep up with those skills? Its the same for medical doctors as well. Would you get a surgery done by some doctor that refused to learn microsurgury, etc and have 2 to 3 times the recovery time because he just cut you wide open like they did 15-20 years ago? Do you think your insurance company would pay for it?
Yeah, the new kid on the block has all the current skills and will get paid less, but anyone worth keeping their job will have those same skills plus experience. That is something that cannot be taught.
The article talks about H1B visa ppl, well I know 2 of them, one that worked in bioinformatics and the other worked with the space program with NASA, and guess where they will be tomorrow? Their visas have been revoked, and they will be back in Russia. There's 1 enginering job and a bioinformatics job open.
Job markets change, and jobs change. Just look at what most people were doing 100 years ago. They were farmers. How many farmers do you know today?
Now for the Christmas in 2050. It meantions the robot assistant in the kitchen. Where the hell are these things now? Just the other day I wanted a small robot to feed my cats when I was out of town. I'd buy one in a heartbeat. And there are many other simple repetitions physical tasks like this that can be done by robots, but noone has them. Not even the "rich and famous". Why is this? Robots have been around for a long time in industrial settings, and they haven't taken over the world or anything, but there are 0 home robots. We have been writing about robots since at least the 20's with Buck Rogers. Am I the only person out there that would buy a little personal robot for something like feeding the cats?
Yeah, right, like people all strive to drive the same car, dress the same, and have one chanel of television that shows the same show.
But people do want and expect standards. That enables all of the different cars to use the same kinds of fuel and drive within reasonable speeds with each other. People want a size 10 shoe to fit a "size 10" foot, and have multiple channels of TV that work with their television.
Regarding MS's aquisition of Macromedia, I could care less about flash. To me, it doesn't exist. I don't enable the plugin because I cannot stop the animations (unlike gifs), and it is a distraction when I am trying to read the content of the website. I mean that is why I am on the page, isn't it? Now MS's control over Dreamweaver is a problem. That means that they will pretty much have a verticle monopoly of the web, which is what they are trying to do. Think about it, Dreameweaver in the creation, IIS and ASP at the server front end, .NET at the server backend, and IE at the user level. Doesn't leave much else now does it?
My question for Macromedia is this. Do you believe in your company and your products? What is your desire to loose what you have worked for? Is a little cash (or alot) now really worth it? MS can only aquire Macromedia if Macromedia allows them to do so. I see no long term gain for them to sell out.
Being that humans are much, much more visually oriented vs aurally oriented, what about JPEGS or DVDs? Are they too screwing up our brains?
1st, Phish are Phish, not the Grateful Dead.
But since the door has been opened, the Grateful Dead has a whole line of live recordings called the "Dick's Picks" series, and I just bought one last weekend. Why? 1) I wanted to support the band (or I guess GDM now) and my local record store 2) It was a killer show (11/1/85), and I know that Dick's Picks are about the best quality out there (although there are incredible recordings on Etree! Go tapers!). 3) I could afford to buy the damned thing! I work for a living, and have downloaded _lots_ of stuff for free, so why can't I pay for a recording that has been hand picked and professionally mastered, etc.
Regarding the "honor system" and no DRM, etc. Isn't this what we have been doing in the past with music?
I don't think that Phish or any other band is being a bad guy for selling something that they have made. I do it every day at my job, don't you? Plus for 10/13 bucks a pop, that is not bad. You know that the server will not drop you, unlike Etree. Anyone who has done etree for a while knows what it feels like to have a couple songs missing from a show. Also, the GD tradition is to allow paying concert goers to freely tape and distribute those tapes, there is nothing that says they will tape and freely distribute their shows.
I've never heard of the term "portwalling" before, and google only returned 3 matches on the term.
However, this idea is a useful and easy tool to make things a little more secure, especially if you are on a private lan. For completeness, it should be mentioned that xinetd , sendmail, apache, and most well writen daemons support this mechanism. See the bind(2) manpage, basically you provide the source address to be something specific besides INADDR_ANY.
Oh, I remember Netscape. Didn't they make a web browser or something like that?
My havn't you gotten soft in a couple of days, because you were not very fond of "addicts" in this reply.
I've been thinking about this for a few weeks now. Why is sex suppressed and violence tolerated?
My recent theory is this. Both sex and violence are, for the most part, outlets for agressive tendancies in males, and there are other forms of agression, such as sports and competition. This agression is part of the male existance and must be outleted in some kind of way. Our society allows this aggression to be outletted via sports, competition, and "raw violence" like that shown on TV. However, aggression towards sexual avenues are suppressed because it is believed (primarily by women) that it will cause the male to leave them and the kids.
If you do not think that sex is aggression, listen how the work "fuck" is used. Look up the root for vagina. Don't you remember talking with the guys about a girl as if you were hunting? You know what I mean.
For what its worth, I've read recently in a newspaper that it is now illegal for a cable company to require upgrades to get a premium channel. Sorry I don't have a reference, but I read it from a newspaper while visiting my parents.
Here here! I only have a 12x burner and have burned hundreds of cds, almost all of them at 8x. Why? So I can reliably multitask and do something else while the burn is going on. When cdrecord ejects the disk, I take the one that just finished, label it, and put it in a stack with the rest and slap another one in the drive, rinse repeat. I was never in a hurry to burn a cd, I guess because I could burn them faster than I could listen/archive them. Oh yeah, etree rocks!
I believe that analog is better than digital because sound is analog. Microphones and speakers are analog and for a digital format to become digital it must go through an A->D converter and then from a D->A converter on playback. Ever since the CD came out digital was the buzword. Even today low end loudspeakers are claiming their speakers are "digital ready", which means nothing, but it has the important D word.
The best digital recording would have an infinite sample rate and infinite bits in the signal. Which would bring you right back to analog.
I'm a Linux/Unix admin. And one of the things I tell people when I'm interviewing is that being an admin of these kind of machines isn't that difficult because they are reliable, and when there is a problem, the problem usually has a clear solution (ie, good error messages, much much better error messages than windows). Anyway, as far as TCO goes, since admining these boxes isn't that taxing, I can do _other_ things like program. This is something that I have never heard of a MCSE doing.
Btw, I have a part time admin job (3 days a week) of 63 Linux machines, and the other days of the week I help out with another 100+ machines (admined by one person full time, who also programs), as well as supporting a number of lower priority machines.
I would hardly call the inverse of this as "tweaking".
There was a similar thing near where I live. A newscrew went to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (before 9/11/01) and went to the front gate, and said "I would like to look at the boats here". They were told "No!". So the reporters got into a little boat with a motor and camera and touched one of the boats and hung out a while.
I worked at a library, and yeah, we would get a couple of complaints like this a year. For web wierdness we has a proxy server that logged all web requests. So we could trace from the log what machine generated the request. The "hot spots" were often dark corners of the library with a computer or 2 there. Sometimes ppl got caught "with their pants down", litterally :)
considering the prologue that was given to the "announcement"? I had to reread the title and the little snippet a few times to figure out what the hell this thing was. For a split second I thought it was an Ask slashdot question.