So write them down and run the search the next time you're connected. Maybe hack together an app to store your odd questions then use Google's API to run the queries when you get online and dump the results to your hard drive.
How about starting the search by looking at what software was available when the PC was considered current? You know the software will work OK on it because that's all there was at the time, and it won't really be taxing the machine.
If you're looking to go the Linux/BSD/similar route, you can probably do fine starting with a base install that's more recent (as the core stuff hasn't gotten so heavy a P100 can't handle it fine), just with a stripped-down window manager (no KDE/Gnome), and applications you may want to recompile with optimizations and stripping out things you don't need.
I think Mozilla 1.1 Beta has crashed maybe 3 times for me. 1.0 crashed fewer than that. I restarted the browser and I was back in business.
IE6 brought my home 2000 Server machine to its knees last night and the one at work down this afternoon. At home it took 10 minutes to log me out so I could log in and start over, at work I had to hard reset as it wouldn't even log out properly. And it's far from the first time for either of those boxes it's happened.
Let's assume what you said holds true. If my company sends me to another state for 2 weeks to do a server installation or LAN setup or whatever in another office of the same company, then I would have to pay the taxes for the 2 weeks worked in that other state. Fill out the proper tax forms for each state to start working there, etc.
But I don't think that happens. When I go out of state for my job, I'm still "on the clock" (I'm not a contractor, I'm employed by and do work for the company that pays me directly) as far as the company's concerned, but I don't pay that state's taxes on wages.
We tried Homer. It was OK, but we very quickly came to the ends of its capabilities. It doesn't simulate an actual user; rather, it acts as a proxy when you record your script, watching all your HTTP requests. It then plays that back, and you can parameterize some of the values.
What it doesn't let you do is make a hop from HTTP to HTTPS, nor does it simulate caching of images, nor many other things that an actual user would do. JavaScript is right out. For small, simple apps, it worked OK, but start getting complex and Home just can't handle it. D'OH!
For people doing 75-80, they won't bother, plus the time sync issues between stations (exits) could introduce enough error to make their measurements suspect at best.
But at over twice the speed limit you can bet someone's going to notice.
I used to live about 20 minutes north of Albany, and it was a 2-hour run to Plattsburgh. P-burgh to the border is another 15-20 minutes.
HOWEVER, keep in mind that once you get north of Warrensburgh (I-81 exit 23), you can kick up to 80 as long as you've got a radar detector. And even faster between Lake Placid (exit 30) and just south of P-Burgh (exit 34 or so) - I paced a half-dozen Montreal-bound trucks (empty) at 85 or so last winter. Once it's dark up there, no one's on I-81 and you can just cruise.
The government has no record of vehicle ownership. They have a record of who is the vehicle's keeper - they are not neccessarily the same thing.
In the US, it's the other way around. The DMV, through the car's registration, has on record who legally owns the vehicle. If you're driving around with a car that doesn't have your name & address on the registration, you better be able to prove the person whose name is on that slip of paper is OK with you driving their car around.
For 2003 there will be a Civic 4-door hybrid, with basically the next iteration of the Insight's technology. From the one report I saw about it, it's almost impossible to tell the difference between it and "conventional" Civic.
most of us actually got good specs? Been close to 3 years now for me. With half-assed specs derived from business users who A) don't know what they want and B) don't know when they're out of their league when talking about how something should work you're pretty much screwed from the beginning.
Often, when writing documentation we leave out things because we take them for granted or "well, it's just like that." Other people without that experience don't know that, and the gaps become apparent QUICK.
Documentation AND experience. One can't take up the slack for the other being weak.
Doesn't matter how good your resume is, how l337 you are, if you don't have that magic number on there, you won't get an interview.
When I was campaigning for jobs towards the end of college, I put in a bid for an interview with a company that I won't name but it's the parent company for one of the Big Three TV networks in the US, a company known primarily by its 2 initials. I got called by the interviewer ahead of time, and she said "your GPA is lower than we usually look for, but you worked for us 3 summers, who'd you work for so I can talk to them?" I told her, she made some calls.
Got the interview even though my GPA wasn't what they were looking for. Did pretty well at the interview, she passed me on to other areas of the company. Someone at corporate HQ called me, and didn't have my resume in hand. She asked me to tell her about myself, then cut me off - "what's your GPA?" I told her, she said "I don't understand why you were even given a resume, you shouldn't have been. Send me your resume." I did, and never heard from that company again.
I never liked putting "not" in a variable name like this. It makes if statements later on klunky to read. Using if (!isNotNull) to determine if something is null can be difficult to wrap one's head around. I prefer to use the positive case: if (isNull) {
do something } else {
do something else } I think you'll find that in Code Complete (previously recommended in this story) as well.
My apartment is in a wood & brick building, I have only one PC, a window air conditioner, and my cell had such bad reception I cancelled it altogether. That was Cingular
But my company cell phone was always fine in the same apartment. That phone is on Verizon.
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So write them down and run the search the next time you're connected. Maybe hack together an app to store your odd questions then use Google's API to run the queries when you get online and dump the results to your hard drive.
My previous comment posted to the Ask /. about Website Load Testing tools.
How about starting the search by looking at what software was available when the PC was considered current? You know the software will work OK on it because that's all there was at the time, and it won't really be taxing the machine.
If you're looking to go the Linux/BSD/similar route, you can probably do fine starting with a base install that's more recent (as the core stuff hasn't gotten so heavy a P100 can't handle it fine), just with a stripped-down window manager (no KDE/Gnome), and applications you may want to recompile with optimizations and stripping out things you don't need.
Unless you're counting "Other" and "added capacity" as "well, they would have run Windows on them, so we'll count it as a steal" I don't see it.
I think Mozilla 1.1 Beta has crashed maybe 3 times for me. 1.0 crashed fewer than that. I restarted the browser and I was back in business.
IE6 brought my home 2000 Server machine to its knees last night and the one at work down this afternoon. At home it took 10 minutes to log me out so I could log in and start over, at work I had to hard reset as it wouldn't even log out properly. And it's far from the first time for either of those boxes it's happened.
Water is wet, and water-based ice is cold.
Let's assume what you said holds true. If my company sends me to another state for 2 weeks to do a server installation or LAN setup or whatever in another office of the same company, then I would have to pay the taxes for the 2 weeks worked in that other state. Fill out the proper tax forms for each state to start working there, etc.
But I don't think that happens. When I go out of state for my job, I'm still "on the clock" (I'm not a contractor, I'm employed by and do work for the company that pays me directly) as far as the company's concerned, but I don't pay that state's taxes on wages.
We tried Homer. It was OK, but we very quickly came to the ends of its capabilities. It doesn't simulate an actual user; rather, it acts as a proxy when you record your script, watching all your HTTP requests. It then plays that back, and you can parameterize some of the values.
What it doesn't let you do is make a hop from HTTP to HTTPS, nor does it simulate caching of images, nor many other things that an actual user would do. JavaScript is right out. For small, simple apps, it worked OK, but start getting complex and Home just can't handle it. D'OH!
For people doing 75-80, they won't bother, plus the time sync issues between stations (exits) could introduce enough error to make their measurements suspect at best.
But at over twice the speed limit you can bet someone's going to notice.
If the optional waterproof cover is required, it's not very optional, is it?
"If it's north of New York City, then it's upstate New York" system"
The majority of Upstaters do use that system. Actually, anything north of the PA border if you extend the line across to CT.
Albany weather can get pretty nasty; they had more storms there this past winter than the lake-effect snow belt (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse).
I used to live about 20 minutes north of Albany, and it was a 2-hour run to Plattsburgh. P-burgh to the border is another 15-20 minutes.
HOWEVER, keep in mind that once you get north of Warrensburgh (I-81 exit 23), you can kick up to 80 as long as you've got a radar detector. And even faster between Lake Placid (exit 30) and just south of P-Burgh (exit 34 or so) - I paced a half-dozen Montreal-bound trucks (empty) at 85 or so last winter. Once it's dark up there, no one's on I-81 and you can just cruise.
Well, yes. But then he couldn't get his name on Ask Slashdot and it's not "geeky" enough, it's just plain practical.
In the US, it's the other way around. The DMV, through the car's registration, has on record who legally owns the vehicle. If you're driving around with a car that doesn't have your name & address on the registration, you better be able to prove the person whose name is on that slip of paper is OK with you driving their car around.
For 2003 there will be a Civic 4-door hybrid, with basically the next iteration of the Insight's technology. From the one report I saw about it, it's almost impossible to tell the difference between it and "conventional" Civic.
You neglected to mention that the EULA has been revised.
He can do that with email too.
most of us actually got good specs? Been close to 3 years now for me. With half-assed specs derived from business users who A) don't know what they want and B) don't know when they're out of their league when talking about how something should work you're pretty much screwed from the beginning.
Often, when writing documentation we leave out things because we take them for granted or "well, it's just like that." Other people without that experience don't know that, and the gaps become apparent QUICK.
Documentation AND experience. One can't take up the slack for the other being weak.
Doesn't matter how good your resume is, how l337 you are, if you don't have that magic number on there, you won't get an interview.
When I was campaigning for jobs towards the end of college, I put in a bid for an interview with a company that I won't name but it's the parent company for one of the Big Three TV networks in the US, a company known primarily by its 2 initials. I got called by the interviewer ahead of time, and she said "your GPA is lower than we usually look for, but you worked for us 3 summers, who'd you work for so I can talk to them?" I told her, she made some calls.
Got the interview even though my GPA wasn't what they were looking for. Did pretty well at the interview, she passed me on to other areas of the company. Someone at corporate HQ called me, and didn't have my resume in hand. She asked me to tell her about myself, then cut me off - "what's your GPA?" I told her, she said "I don't understand why you were even given a resume, you shouldn't have been. Send me your resume." I did, and never heard from that company again.
Yeah, it's such a terrible burden to have to write HTML-compliant code, instead of having IE render just about anything you throw at it.
Write correct, clean code and you won't have any trouble with Mozilla-based browsers.
I never liked putting "not" in a variable name like this. It makes if statements later on klunky to read. Using if (!isNotNull) to determine if something is null can be difficult to wrap one's head around. I prefer to use the positive case:
if (isNull) {
do something
}
else {
do something else
}
I think you'll find that in Code Complete (previously recommended in this story) as well.
My apartment is in a wood & brick building, I have only one PC, a window air conditioner, and my cell had such bad reception I cancelled it altogether. That was Cingular
But my company cell phone was always fine in the same apartment. That phone is on Verizon.