Jumping is a thrill. The biggest fear is moving to a new place is knowing employment is not guaranteed.
I jumped once. Four years ago, I quit what was thought to be a very good job working for the university administration in Kansas City. I moved for a sweetheart in some small Mississippi town (internet addiction does things like that.) I moved with $500 in cash. My credit card went unpaid for five months. In my case, I was lucky. I got what seemed a decent job at a decent place. Promotions came fast. Turned out I work for a very good employer. State run employment offices really do work. The only problem was I failed to do a background check on my partner. In that case, I was unlucky.
Its great we have freedom to change. In my case, even good came from the bad. Would I move due to silly laws? I'm afraid it would take more than that for me as challenges seem to be a way of life. Its easier running to something good than running away from something bad.
It would be nice to live in another country, perhaps for the experience. If some chick over the internet invited me overseas, I'd be over in a heartbeat (yeah, like that's really going to happen...) Meanwhile, I just read about the fun people have when they take long vacations or move, even if it is only across the border.
My biggest fear about jumping ship is that I only know my native language. I could find myself quite unemployed and worthless. I do not think programming fluently in several computer languages count if I needed to talk in a new place.
Beware of moving just because of stupid laws in the USA designed to strangle competition. Go somewhere else and they happen to have human rights violations in US sponsored plants, or perhaps a civil war, watch out!
All countries suck. Just pick a country that sucks less.
Many areas of technology have load balancing. Why is this novel?
At the manufacturing plant where we use steam to cure special plastic compounds, we have two boilers to balance the load during high demand. We have two electric feeds into the substations. We have a multimegawatt backup peaking generator. The list goes on and on.
In fact, load balancing does not stop with technology, it has been in our lives. Some people balance high social needs with a backup significant other. Its human nature to be redundant.
I like the idea of slashdot running the latest stuff. Its great seeing the latest kernels and tools support the slashdot effect, survive, and expose any bugs quickly. Unlike the software from a certain evil company who charges for beta testers, Linux and tools has the source and can actually be fixed. Hopefully, this recent rash of downtime spats will be temporary and in the future only see bugs limited only to the added new features.
Its fun to watch a slashdotting newsite being hacked as much exciting technology is being tested. That is what life on the bleeding edge is all about.
Ah, let me post under this -1 so I won't waste too much of your time...
I found score description an interesting idea; however, I would be worried that it might incite flames when a post is tagged as "flaimbait." However, if I was a dumbass and posted something pointless and silly, hopefully I would get the hint. Getting flagged with "bandwidth waster" would be a good awakening clue.
Out of countless thousands of readers with pushbutton posting ability, there might be a few tortured souls who had the wrong cup of coffee and this could be the thing that could make an irritating person hold a grudge and set him off in a rampage of first posts or whatever. In the end, I'm thankful many people take the time to moderate. Sometimes there are dozens of one-liner random thought replies to just about everything that loose the humor value.
Teachers get more vacation time than the average salaried technoworker? Wrong.
I'm a technician in the manufacturing plant. I get every other week free. Calculate how many days that is in one year.
My dad is a professor/assoc dean at a state university. There are great benefits of that position, but I would not hype the vacation time as one of them. He works often until midnight daily, including weekends. There may be more work involved than you give credit for in this case.
Who is gonna pay $100 for calculator if you could get 486 or even 586 (not Pentium) for that...
Calculators are simple tools...
Because calculators are small and can fit in a pocket to go anywhere. They are rugged, designed to do a job of crunching numbers, do it well, and do it for many months or years on one set of batteries. Try doing that on a WinCE color pocket heater (if it can fit.)
The HP calcs I have are older. One was made in 1975. Good as new and have a nice clicking keyboard that experienced fingers use to avoid making mistakes. They survive abuse. They will always do advanced arithmatic and never will be outdated unless they break.
That is why I like dedicated calculators for numerical jobs rather than an all purpose computer. I never had a calculator break. Even the old card reading LED display HP's still work. They will still fit in a pocket and do the same engineering jobs. A person could be really attatched to an old calculator. Especially when they don't crash or deliver wrong numbers.
I'd rather see more intelligent life on this planet before I spend my energy looking for it elsewhere. We have some short sighted morons making emergency presidential orders about privacy and encryption may be used to aid pedophiles and terrorists? There are a few serious flaws in that logic and reality and its a matter of principle. Until we can enlighten or remove the figureheads in office, I will waste my 60 watts of idle processing power to make a sad political statement.
I would rather look for intelligent life elsewhere, but I think it is more urgent to look for it here first.
you would do 7 4 + 5 2 * 3 4 / + / which is 11 keystrokes compared to 19, almost half the number!
If this seems complicated to someone who is not familiar with RPN, think of it a PUSH and POP on a stack. Its a very simple way of dealing with numbers and microprocessors do it this way natively. It does take a few days to appreciate this unusual format, but it really is more elegant.
To me, it seems our eyes quickly parse the normal algebriac format and we don't think about it, but the RPN format is more logical when you actually want to crunch the numbers. Typing RPN is actually fun and enjoyable compared to the laborous, pretty, spelled out equation format.
Perhaps Linux should have one secure filesystem with journaling, software raid/mirror possiblity and so on.
I want a feature...
I used to have a few VMS accounts on a VAX and a nice feature was when a file was updated, a new file with an incremented revision suffix was made. Example:
test.c test.c.1 test.c.2...and so on.
This made it nice when making revisions to a source file and along the way I made some grave errors. Going back and finding a version was an easy process as the filesystem did the same to the binaries. If this was annoying and took up disk space, the incremental file flag could be turned off for directories or files.
There were many other dodads in the VMS filesystem, like ACL's and all that. Most I didn't use, but it was nice that they were there.
Are things like these an option for me with my Linux box?
I thought it was the ease of RPN as fewer keystrokes are needed to get the job done. Its a stack based type of input and the logical choice when the equations get long. I'm such an RPN diehard, typing 2+2=4 seems ugly. Its that extra = key that I have to type that gets annoying. RPN is a wonderful shortcut.
Damn. Back in my day, we were allowed to take exams with the aid of a graphite loaded wooden instrument and thin sheets of fiberous wooden pulp. No electronic devices allowed. We never had it this easy back then. Exams were grueling with the beads of sweat dripping and smearing the paper during the hour or two allowed in attempts to finish.
The world has it too easy these days. I guess teachers have come to realize when you are on the job, a calculator will sport your desk anyways, so why not?
What is this with no traditional IR port? To prevent cheating? This is an advanced calculator. There's enough onboard mathmatical power to simulate someone with intelligence on an exam, so I am not sure how much more of an advantage a direct link to your test taking neighbor would do. There is nothing wrong with a high powered IR port, but the paranoia.
I still have my 28S and have found the wireless IR port quite nice to print. No need for a cable to tangle on the desk.
Microsoft is a mixed blessing. Without the insane rate of resourse requirements with each "service pack" and such, I feel the hardware industry would have stagnated.
In 1990, I ran Word under Windows 3.1 with my 386sx laptop that had 1MB of ram and it was fast too! It had a massive 40MB hard drive that I filled with movie flicks to entertain the electronics lab. I had no idea that I would ever own a "supercomputer" with 160MB of ram, 30GB of hardrive and 464 bogomips?
I also remember back then that if a person wanted hardware specs, it often came with the computer, or in the case of IBM, you could pick up the IBM Technical Reference Manual with all the neat schematics and such. That made the PC platform great for classroom exercises and experiments and possibly why the PC architecture is so popular today. Open standards inspire and allow people to learn. I never learned much from the several years of mucking with DOS than a few years hacking Linux.
I don't know if it worth feeding the wintel machine. It has grown at a tremendous rate and fast computers are mandatory for today's consumer. Its a big monster.
Where does one get an unsupported cd drive?
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Time Review of Linux
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· Score: 1
Anyone run into one of these cd drives? I'm curious and surprised why something simple like a cd player would become non-standard enough to be recognized.
I can understand add on things like mpeg decoder modules and such not being recognized, but what is this difficulty in reading raw data itself? Who makes it?
Sometimes the best topics are debates. Good discussions like these are sometimes labeled as flames. Someone with a moderation stick seems to be very opinionated and is trying to unfairly hit people.
That's why I leave my preferences set at -1 so I can see how silly people get sometimes. You should have bonus points for your efforts due to the good points you address. I may disagree, but diversity is what makes the world so great.
10 people assigned to closely watch Linux. They well, no doubt, be installing, tweaking, and really getting under the hood.
My question is are these people assigned to Linux or people associated with Linux? Do I have a "Microsoft Buddy?" Are they looking out for my interests or do they have their nose in it?
I can understand the uneducated bitching as I have seen the less than intelligent responses of disgruntled NT users have done. To date, I have counted 3 busted in (expensive!) touchscreen monitors running NT. What surprises me is that no one gets blamed. I see a moblike atmosphere that needs to clean up its act.
If computers bring out the worst in people, I might consider changing pace and perhaps take up something like farming or fishing as a career.
Yes, the company still had a choice, and people are free to choose. The question is, what is abuse? How far can a monopoly influence decisions? What is ethical? What is illegal? Can you do the same to government officials?
Remember, we are dealing with a monopoly power that is having some legal problems. Perhaps you might want to be critical and consider what effects business practices like this will lead to? It looks to me this company is declaring war on competition. That is not cool.
Choice at work might not be an issue to you, but I feel differently.
Let me tell you about choice at work. I'm 100% vested in my company and I am concerned with things that do not work. As a matter of fact, I am a senior electronic technician. Working on the hardware side of things, it appalls me to see an operating system pee all over itself on most of the computers, especially the ones controlling production lines. Perhaps these issues do not affect you.
I am curious why you staunchly defend Microsoft. Are you a consultant or employee?
Perhaps you do not see a problem here. I do. I see perfectly good software and companies dissapear so a troublesome operating system line from a single vendor is the only choice I have at work. This may not be a problem for you. In fact, it may strengthen your ideas of freedom. After all, laws just get in the way and trying to control a monopoly is out of control.
I'm happy NT works for you. For me, NT is a different story. A few years ago, I tried NT at home. I can tell you about it crashing every few hours, crashing on the login screen, and the need to reinstall every month. I learned my lesson when I found other operating systems exist and work 100% of the time.
Now, I still work with NT and not because of choice. I know it has improved, but when it comes to reliability, it is Not There. Doing everyday things in NT makes me wish I was at home on my Linux boxen. I prefer my 386 laptop with Linux over a 128MB NT Pentium II box, because I can work faster and without fear of loosing information. Linux provides me with tight security that can be infinitly configured for the boxen connected directly to the internet.
I also found NT very difficult to configure when I wanted something different than simple email. I do not have the money and patience to try every third party product that makes claims and has the potential to introduce a virus on a system that has minimal security.
I wouldn't joke about this. Microsoft appears to be very serious with this project. They are trying to protect their market by putting the screws to Linux. Be afraid. Very afraid.
Slashdot Mirror
Jumping is a thrill. The biggest fear is moving to a new place is knowing employment is not guaranteed.
I jumped once. Four years ago, I quit what was thought to be a very good job working for the university administration in Kansas City. I moved for a sweetheart in some small Mississippi town (internet addiction does things like that.) I moved with $500 in cash. My credit card went unpaid for five months. In my case, I was lucky. I got what seemed a decent job at a decent place. Promotions came fast. Turned out I work for a very good employer. State run employment offices really do work. The only problem was I failed to do a background check on my partner. In that case, I was unlucky.
Its great we have freedom to change. In my case, even good came from the bad. Would I move due to silly laws? I'm afraid it would take more than that for me as challenges seem to be a way of life. Its easier running to something good than running away from something bad.
It would be nice to live in another country, perhaps for the experience. If some chick over the internet invited me overseas, I'd be over in a heartbeat (yeah, like that's really going to happen...) Meanwhile, I just read about the fun people have when they take long vacations or move, even if it is only across the border.
My biggest fear about jumping ship is that I only know my native language. I could find myself quite unemployed and worthless. I do not think programming fluently in several computer languages count if I needed to talk in a new place.
Beware of moving just because of stupid laws in the USA designed to strangle competition. Go somewhere else and they happen to have human rights violations in US sponsored plants, or perhaps a civil war, watch out!
All countries suck. Just pick a country that sucks less.
Many areas of technology have load balancing. Why is this novel?
At the manufacturing plant where we use steam to cure special plastic compounds, we have two boilers to balance the load during high demand. We have two electric feeds into the substations. We have a multimegawatt backup peaking generator. The list goes on and on.
In fact, load balancing does not stop with technology, it has been in our lives. Some people balance high social needs with a backup significant other. Its human nature to be redundant.
Patents are evil.
I like the idea of slashdot running the latest stuff. Its great seeing the latest kernels and tools support the slashdot effect, survive, and expose any bugs quickly. Unlike the software from a certain evil company who charges for beta testers, Linux and tools has the source and can actually be fixed. Hopefully, this recent rash of downtime spats will be temporary and in the future only see bugs limited only to the added new features.
Its fun to watch a slashdotting newsite being hacked as much exciting technology is being tested. That is what life on the bleeding edge is all about.
Ah, let me post under this -1 so I won't waste too much of your time...
I found score description an interesting idea; however, I would be worried that it might incite flames when a post is tagged as "flaimbait." However, if I was a dumbass and posted something pointless and silly, hopefully I would get the hint. Getting flagged with "bandwidth waster" would be a good awakening clue.
Out of countless thousands of readers with pushbutton posting ability, there might be a few tortured souls who had the wrong cup of coffee and this could be the thing that could make an irritating person hold a grudge and set him off in a rampage of first posts or whatever. In the end, I'm thankful many people take the time to moderate. Sometimes there are dozens of one-liner random thought replies to just about everything that loose the humor value.
Teachers get more vacation time than the average salaried technoworker? Wrong.
I'm a technician in the manufacturing plant. I get every other week free. Calculate how many days that is in one year.
My dad is a professor/assoc dean at a state university. There are great benefits of that position, but I would not hype the vacation time as one of them. He works often until midnight daily, including weekends. There may be more work involved than you give credit for in this case.
Who is gonna pay $100 for calculator if you could get 486 or even 586 (not Pentium) for that...
Calculators are simple tools...
Because calculators are small and can fit in a pocket to go anywhere. They are rugged, designed to do a job of crunching numbers, do it well, and do it for many months or years on one set of batteries. Try doing that on a WinCE color pocket heater (if it can fit.)
The HP calcs I have are older. One was made in 1975. Good as new and have a nice clicking keyboard that experienced fingers use to avoid making mistakes. They survive abuse. They will always do advanced arithmatic and never will be outdated unless they break.
That is why I like dedicated calculators for numerical jobs rather than an all purpose computer. I never had a calculator break. Even the old card reading LED display HP's still work. They will still fit in a pocket and do the same engineering jobs. A person could be really attatched to an old calculator. Especially when they don't crash or deliver wrong numbers.
I'd rather see more intelligent life on this planet before I spend my energy looking for it elsewhere. We have some short sighted morons making emergency presidential orders about privacy and encryption may be used to aid pedophiles and terrorists? There are a few serious flaws in that logic and reality and its a matter of principle. Until we can enlighten or remove the figureheads in office, I will waste my 60 watts of idle processing power to make a sad political statement.
I would rather look for intelligent life elsewhere, but I think it is more urgent to look for it here first.
e.g. (7+3)/((5*2)+(3/4))
you would do 7 4 + 5 2 * 3 4 / + /
which is 11 keystrokes compared to 19, almost half the number!
If this seems complicated to someone who is not familiar with RPN, think of it a PUSH and POP on a stack. Its a very simple way of dealing with numbers and microprocessors do it this way natively. It does take a few days to appreciate this unusual format, but it really is more elegant.
To me, it seems our eyes quickly parse the normal algebriac format and we don't think about it, but the RPN format is more logical when you actually want to crunch the numbers. Typing RPN is actually fun and enjoyable compared to the laborous, pretty, spelled out equation format.
Perhaps Linux should have one secure filesystem with journaling, software raid/mirror possiblity and so on.
...and so on.
I want a feature...
I used to have a few VMS accounts on a VAX and a nice feature was when a file was updated, a new file with an incremented revision suffix was made. Example:
test.c
test.c.1
test.c.2
This made it nice when making revisions to a source file and along the way I made some grave errors. Going back and finding a version was an easy process as the filesystem did the same to the binaries. If this was annoying and took up disk space, the incremental file flag could be turned off for directories or files.
There were many other dodads in the VMS filesystem, like ACL's and all that. Most I didn't use, but it was nice that they were there.
Are things like these an option for me with my Linux box?
I thought it was the ease of RPN as fewer keystrokes are needed to get the job done. Its a stack based type of input and the logical choice when the equations get long. I'm such an RPN diehard, typing 2+2=4 seems ugly. Its that extra = key that I have to type that gets annoying. RPN is a wonderful shortcut.
Damn. Back in my day, we were allowed to take exams with the aid of a graphite loaded wooden instrument and thin sheets of fiberous wooden pulp. No electronic devices allowed. We never had it this easy back then. Exams were grueling with the beads of sweat dripping and smearing the paper during the hour or two allowed in attempts to finish.
The world has it too easy these days. I guess teachers have come to realize when you are on the job, a calculator will sport your desk anyways, so why not?
What is this with no traditional IR port? To prevent cheating? This is an advanced calculator. There's enough onboard mathmatical power to simulate someone with intelligence on an exam, so I am not sure how much more of an advantage a direct link to your test taking neighbor would do. There is nothing wrong with a high powered IR port, but the paranoia.
I still have my 28S and have found the wireless IR port quite nice to print. No need for a cable to tangle on the desk.
Microsoft is a mixed blessing. Without the insane rate of resourse requirements with each "service pack" and such, I feel the hardware industry would have stagnated.
In 1990, I ran Word under Windows 3.1 with my 386sx laptop that had 1MB of ram and it was fast too! It had a massive 40MB hard drive that I filled with movie flicks to entertain the electronics lab. I had no idea that I would ever own a "supercomputer" with 160MB of ram, 30GB of hardrive and 464 bogomips?
I also remember back then that if a person wanted hardware specs, it often came with the computer, or in the case of IBM, you could pick up the IBM Technical Reference Manual with all the neat schematics and such. That made the PC platform great for classroom exercises and experiments and possibly why the PC architecture is so popular today. Open standards inspire and allow people to learn. I never learned much from the several years of mucking with DOS than a few years hacking Linux.
I don't know if it worth feeding the wintel machine. It has grown at a tremendous rate and fast computers are mandatory for today's consumer. Its a big monster.
Anyone run into one of these cd drives? I'm curious and surprised why something simple like a cd player would become non-standard enough to be recognized.
I can understand add on things like mpeg decoder modules and such not being recognized, but what is this difficulty in reading raw data itself? Who makes it?
Sometimes the best topics are debates. Good discussions like these are sometimes labeled as flames. Someone with a moderation stick seems to be very opinionated and is trying to unfairly hit people.
That's why I leave my preferences set at -1 so I can see how silly people get sometimes. You should have bonus points for your efforts due to the good points you address. I may disagree, but diversity is what makes the world so great.
10 people assigned to closely watch Linux. They well, no doubt, be installing, tweaking, and really getting under the hood.
My question is are these people assigned to Linux or people associated with Linux? Do I have a "Microsoft Buddy?" Are they looking out for my interests or do they have their nose in it?
I can understand the uneducated bitching as I have seen the less than intelligent responses of disgruntled NT users have done. To date, I have counted 3 busted in (expensive!) touchscreen monitors running NT. What surprises me is that no one gets blamed. I see a moblike atmosphere that needs to clean up its act.
If computers bring out the worst in people, I might consider changing pace and perhaps take up something like farming or fishing as a career.
Yes, the company still had a choice, and people are free to choose. The question is, what is abuse? How far can a monopoly influence decisions? What is ethical? What is illegal? Can you do the same to government officials?
Remember, we are dealing with a monopoly power that is having some legal problems. Perhaps you might want to be critical and consider what effects business practices like this will lead to? It looks to me this company is declaring war on competition. That is not cool.
Choice at work might not be an issue to you, but I feel differently.
Let me tell you about choice at work. I'm 100% vested in my company and I am concerned with things that do not work. As a matter of fact, I am a senior electronic technician. Working on the hardware side of things, it appalls me to see an operating system pee all over itself on most of the computers, especially the ones controlling production lines. Perhaps these issues do not affect you.
I am curious why you staunchly defend Microsoft. Are you a consultant or employee?
I doubt M$ sends shotgun squads with their sales people. Once again get a grip.
No, but I think they send something even more convincing. "Its an offer you can't refuse!"
Monopoly power? Nah, it couldn't be...
I sympathise; however, I disagree.
Perhaps you do not see a problem here. I do. I see perfectly good software and companies dissapear so a troublesome operating system line from a single vendor is the only choice I have at work. This may not be a problem for you. In fact, it may strengthen your ideas of freedom. After all, laws just get in the way and trying to control a monopoly is out of control.
I'm happy NT works for you. For me, NT is a different story. A few years ago, I tried NT at home. I can tell you about it crashing every few hours, crashing on the login screen, and the need to reinstall every month. I learned my lesson when I found other operating systems exist and work 100% of the time.
Now, I still work with NT and not because of choice. I know it has improved, but when it comes to reliability, it is Not There. Doing everyday things in NT makes me wish I was at home on my Linux boxen. I prefer my 386 laptop with Linux over a 128MB NT Pentium II box, because I can work faster and without fear of loosing information. Linux provides me with tight security that can be infinitly configured for the boxen connected directly to the internet.
I also found NT very difficult to configure when I wanted something different than simple email. I do not have the money and patience to try every third party product that makes claims and has the potential to introduce a virus on a system that has minimal security.
No Thanks!
I wouldn't joke about this. Microsoft appears to be very serious with this project. They are trying to protect their market by putting the screws to Linux. Be afraid. Very afraid.