One time I was writing some code to control hardware and the boss wanted it to watch for a condition and then alert the supervisors. I thought it was a good idea and asked him what symptoms defined this condition he wanted to watch for. He said "just let the computer figure it out." I don't think I ever got him to understand the computer doesn't think but just follows rules and until the rules are defined the computer won't know what to do. I ended up making a guess for rules and kept tweeking as I watched for false positives and negatives.
A entrepreneur needs to understand how computes work and how algorithms work or it's going to be a cluster.
Depending on what type of job you are doing, bandwidth could be an issue. As a sysadmin, when a server goes down my boss expects me to fix it "right now". Excuses like storms took down my internet connection aren't acceptable. I was expected to have alternate internet and as a last resort, drive into the data center to fix the problem.
Some Linux servers only had GUI interfaces for the hardware connection. Dial-up wasn't fast enough for these.
A programmer could be off line for a few days and still be productive as long as phone service was available so conversations with coworkers could still take place.
I've tried 6 different browsers on 4 different platforms and none of them render slashdot properly. All of them render something different than the others. Firefox on Solaris was so bad I gave up reading slashdot at work. I would think Firefox on Linux would render it properly but it leaves out major chunks of screen that show up in Opera.
Is anyone going to acturally quality test your changes this time?
I'm on the north side of 65 and am still employed as a sysadmin for a little more than 100k. I was 54 when I was hired and offered the second highest salary of my small group of sysadmins.
Being old isn't a handicap yet. I have one company waiting for me to retire from my current employer just so they can have me work part time for them. I've never let my skills get rusty by studing both inside and outside the company. I'm considered the go-to guy for any weird Linux or Solaris problems and the person to see for ksh or perl coding help.
I'll let you know in another 5 years if being old has become a problem.
I second the suggestion for spinrite. It worked wonders for me back then.
The biggest problem you have is the compression. Since the compression algorithm depends on previous data in the file, once you get to an unreadable sector everything after is lost. For some algorithms is any part is missing, all is lost.
You might be able to read the raw disk sectors under linux. I remember doing something like that long ago but don't remember how to do it anymore. Reading it under linux has the benefit of not corrupting the data even with multiple read attempts.
There is a second fat table on floppies but MS never used it. Linux will use it if the first seems corrupted.
It's not scruffed and the person is holding the feet up. If that animal were unhappy (like some of my ferrets get) there would be some serious blood from bites and claw rips.
My Honda gets 60 mpg. With a 60 mile round trip that is about a $6 a day saving in gas over my pickup. I find taking the back roads home very relaxing. On the other hand there is no public transportation between my home and work so I don't really have the choice of public/private transportation. Mostly I ride when there is no ice on the roads and it's not raining on my drive in. I don't care if I get wet driving home. This year I started riding the bike in April and will continue until the snow flies which is usually in mid December.
My 1998 Ford F-150 pickup which is in pretty good condition can be sold on the street for about $3000 but the voucher system would only give me $2000 for it. Hmmm, should I sell it or take a $1000 loss on the voucher? That being said, I've been looking for a high milage utility vehicle for the last five years with no luck. I keep thinking a Geo Tracker with VW's diesel would be a great combination but I doubt I'll ever see it.
Some coders are dsylexic like me. I am the best coder on our team of 20 sysadmins. I regularly get pulled out of our group to code for other groups including dedicated coding groups. That being said I can't write code on a whiteboard to save my life. 80% of the words would have backwards letters or be misspelled. I'd need to do line and word inserts which just doesn't work on a whiteboard. We dsylexics just don't think like everyone else and plain stright forward writing of code just doesn't work for us. Normally I write in my own version of pseudo code and then go back and replace lines with real code and usually more pseudo code. Easy to do in an editor but impossible on a whiteboard.
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I had posted this problem on numerious forums, googled extensively and read all the man pages I could but found nothing that worked.
Your suggestion works. Thank you very much.
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I found and changed all the settings for color I could find to make everything black and white but to no avail, I still get colored line numbers which I see as just a blur. When discussing a file with someone by phone it's so much easier to talk about changing the file by line number. Mostly I use plain old vi when I have the choice. I can see everything it does.
I was wondering why I can normally see captchas but saw nothing in the sample box. Being colorblind I need to force most pages to colors I can see. Since my browser doesn't allow me to set colors for one site but not another, even the good sites get changed.
5280 feet per mile times 70 miles per hour divided by 3600 seconds per hour times 2 seconds gives me:
bc
scale=2
5280 * 70 / 3600 * 2
205.32
car lengths are usually considered to be 18 feet so that would be about 11 car lengths. Or if you are using 16 feet cars (short cars) that would be about 13 car lengths.
Not sure how you got 315 feet and 24 car lengths.
there's no such thing as short-selling by using options!
What he would be refering to is "put" options. Buying puts allows you to sell at the put price. If the stock drops in price you buy shares cheaply then sell to the put holder at the fixed price.
Mostly I do Solaris sysadmin but I also support one company using SCO. I've moved everything of theirs I can off the SCO box to Linux boxes except for one expensive database accounting program. That program won't run on Linux (I've tried) and would bankrupt the company to try to replace it in this economy
In my spare time I've introduced quite a few people and companies to Linux often using free setup and consultation to get them to use Linux. I'm currently helping a SCO reseller to move to a Linux based business.
So I am one of those clueless people ultrabot is complaining about.
One more reason to download from SCO is if they are found to be in violation of kernel coders copyrights then the penalty is per copy distributed. Please keep a nice written record of what you downloaded, when you downloaded it and the url of your download site. Your records could add another $150,000 to someones infringment suit.
I wasn't safty issues that caused the problem it was handicap access. The city required the nuns to retrofit elevators into the buildings. That's very expensive and the nuns couldn't afford it.
it is ok for the open source crowd to simply remove the offending code, but not for those who have GPL violations, like OpenTV to
simply remove their offending code?
This shouldn't have been modded insightful.
There is a world of difference between the two. The Linux crowd is waiting to be shown the infringing code so it can be replaced. I expect it will be replaced within 24 hours of being found.
The OpenTV group have been told where their violation was over a year ago and have declined to repair their error or even acknowlege it exists.
Because what you or your parents consider a fault, I or your children may well consider a merit.
You have an interesting point. I'm dsylexic which many people would choose to cure but I would hate to lose. The up side is I am very good with 3D imageing and grasping concepts. The down side is I am poor at spelling, speaking and reading. I feel the good side of dyslexica over rides the bad part.
rsync will do block compares on large files and transfer only the necessary blocks. Granted the man page doesn't mention it but I think you can find details on www.rsync.samba.org
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One time I was writing some code to control hardware and the boss wanted it to watch for a condition and then alert the supervisors. I thought it was a good idea and asked him what symptoms defined this condition he wanted to watch for. He said "just let the computer figure it out." I don't think I ever got him to understand the computer doesn't think but just follows rules and until the rules are defined the computer won't know what to do. I ended up making a guess for rules and kept tweeking as I watched for false positives and negatives.
A entrepreneur needs to understand how computes work and how algorithms work or it's going to be a cluster.
Depending on what type of job you are doing, bandwidth could be an issue. As a sysadmin, when a server goes down my boss expects me to fix it "right now". Excuses like storms took down my internet connection aren't acceptable. I was expected to have alternate internet and as a last resort, drive into the data center to fix the problem.
Some Linux servers only had GUI interfaces for the hardware connection. Dial-up wasn't fast enough for these.
A programmer could be off line for a few days and still be productive as long as phone service was available so conversations with coworkers could still take place.
I've tried 6 different browsers on 4 different platforms and none of them render slashdot properly. All of them render something different than the others. Firefox on Solaris was so bad I gave up reading slashdot at work. I would think Firefox on Linux would render it properly but it leaves out major chunks of screen that show up in Opera.
Is anyone going to acturally quality test your changes this time?
I take it you don't know about ADA...
I'm on the north side of 65 and am still employed as a sysadmin for a little more than 100k. I was 54 when I was hired and offered the second highest salary of my small group of sysadmins. Being old isn't a handicap yet. I have one company waiting for me to retire from my current employer just so they can have me work part time for them. I've never let my skills get rusty by studing both inside and outside the company. I'm considered the go-to guy for any weird Linux or Solaris problems and the person to see for ksh or perl coding help. I'll let you know in another 5 years if being old has become a problem.
I second the suggestion for spinrite. It worked wonders for me back then. The biggest problem you have is the compression. Since the compression algorithm depends on previous data in the file, once you get to an unreadable sector everything after is lost. For some algorithms is any part is missing, all is lost. You might be able to read the raw disk sectors under linux. I remember doing something like that long ago but don't remember how to do it anymore. Reading it under linux has the benefit of not corrupting the data even with multiple read attempts. There is a second fat table on floppies but MS never used it. Linux will use it if the first seems corrupted.
quote: Poor thing looks absolutely terrified.
It's not scruffed and the person is holding the feet up. If that animal were unhappy (like some of my ferrets get) there would be some serious blood from bites and claw rips.
My Honda gets 60 mpg. With a 60 mile round trip that is about a $6 a day saving in gas over my pickup. I find taking the back roads home very relaxing. On the other hand there is no public transportation between my home and work so I don't really have the choice of public/private transportation. Mostly I ride when there is no ice on the roads and it's not raining on my drive in. I don't care if I get wet driving home. This year I started riding the bike in April and will continue until the snow flies which is usually in mid December.
My 1998 Ford F-150 pickup which is in pretty good condition can be sold on the street for about $3000 but the voucher system would only give me $2000 for it. Hmmm, should I sell it or take a $1000 loss on the voucher? That being said, I've been looking for a high milage utility vehicle for the last five years with no luck. I keep thinking a Geo Tracker with VW's diesel would be a great combination but I doubt I'll ever see it.
Some coders are dsylexic like me. I am the best coder on our team of 20 sysadmins. I regularly get pulled out of our group to code for other groups including dedicated coding groups. That being said I can't write code on a whiteboard to save my life. 80% of the words would have backwards letters or be misspelled. I'd need to do line and word inserts which just doesn't work on a whiteboard. We dsylexics just don't think like everyone else and plain stright forward writing of code just doesn't work for us. Normally I write in my own version of pseudo code and then go back and replace lines with real code and usually more pseudo code. Easy to do in an editor but impossible on a whiteboard.
I had posted this problem on numerious forums, googled extensively and read all the man pages I could but found nothing that worked. Your suggestion works. Thank you very much.
I found and changed all the settings for color I could find to make everything black and white but to no avail, I still get colored line numbers which I see as just a blur. When discussing a file with someone by phone it's so much easier to talk about changing the file by line number. Mostly I use plain old vi when I have the choice. I can see everything it does.
I was wondering why I can normally see captchas but saw nothing in the sample box. Being colorblind I need to force most pages to colors I can see. Since my browser doesn't allow me to set colors for one site but not another, even the good sites get changed.
5280 feet per mile times 70 miles per hour divided by 3600 seconds per hour times 2 seconds gives me: bc scale=2 5280 * 70 / 3600 * 2 205.32 car lengths are usually considered to be 18 feet so that would be about 11 car lengths. Or if you are using 16 feet cars (short cars) that would be about 13 car lengths. Not sure how you got 315 feet and 24 car lengths.
That's why it's called "Mother Earth"; it keeps changing it's mind about which way to go.
Hmmmm... Car accident? Overdose of viagra? Die jumping out the window of a basement apartment?
What he would be refering to is "put" options. Buying puts allows you to sell at the put price. If the stock drops in price you buy shares cheaply then sell to the put holder at the fixed price.
There's already a very simple way to ignore these SCO stories.
Don't click the $%#@! link!
In my spare time I've introduced quite a few people and companies to Linux often using free setup and consultation to get them to use Linux. I'm currently helping a SCO reseller to move to a Linux based business.
So I am one of those clueless people ultrabot is complaining about.
One more reason to download from SCO is if they are found to be in violation of kernel coders copyrights then the penalty is per copy distributed. Please keep a nice written record of what you downloaded, when you downloaded it and the url of your download site. Your records could add another $150,000 to someones infringment suit.
I wasn't safty issues that caused the problem it was handicap access. The city required the nuns to retrofit elevators into the buildings. That's very expensive and the nuns couldn't afford it.
This shouldn't have been modded insightful.
There is a world of difference between the two. The Linux crowd is waiting to be shown the infringing code so it can be replaced. I expect it will be replaced within 24 hours of being found.
The OpenTV group have been told where their violation was over a year ago and have declined to repair their error or even acknowlege it exists.
You have an interesting point. I'm dsylexic which many people would choose to cure but I would hate to lose. The up side is I am very good with 3D imageing and grasping concepts. The down side is I am poor at spelling, speaking and reading. I feel the good side of dyslexica over rides the bad part.
rsync will do block compares on large files and transfer only the necessary blocks. Granted the man page doesn't mention it but I think you can find details on www.rsync.samba.org
Are you suggesting that there is a fault line anywhere near Michigan running east-west?
Everything I've seen shows most of the plate movement is predomanently east/west due to north/south plate faults.