I think a fairly straight forward explanation such as "Would you want to drive a car that hadn't been independently crash tested?" or something. The ability to test encryption schemes would be easier for the lay person to understand.
A couple of women I work with firmly believe that most men do not multitask well. I think I might even be inclined to agree. They make exceptions for system administrators, who are probably the most multitasking people in computers. I am almost incluined to believe.
Personally, I hate questions like that. Those questions have obvious answers, and your supposed to answer them in a particular way. The test is whether you will conform:)
I've interviewed a few candidates over the last year or so. We tend to do team interviews. We ask some funny questions sometimes, almost as a joke, but often the answer speaks of how they will mesh the team. We have even asked "what's your favorite shell" and "what's your favorite editor" and "what's your favorite os":)
Seriously though, I would ask about experience with multiple unixes (assuming a unix admin position), backup systems, perl scripting, shell scripting, shared file system experience (we use AFS where I work), "special project" experience (like beowulf clusters, firewalling, etc). Often a sysadmin is already a particular personality...my experience has been that they seem to have a great uniformity of character. Trust your instincts...not very many people will be able to give adequate answers to 3 of the questions above without being sysadmin material. Oh, and another good question..."Describe an experience that yoiu had with a difficult user". this will show if they have a "screw the user" attitude or have a realization that the user is the job.
The rdesktop project implements RDP 4 (aka terminal services) on most unix platforms. I've been using it for the better part of a year as my only windows desktop. It rocks.
I might also add that I have had no problem whatsoever with norton on terminal services.
And as for a win98 client, you can make one off your win2k server. Look under your control panel.
and I mean, I buy a lot of books..probably at least one a week. Anyhow, this will be nice for a lot of the stuff I like to read for enjoyment...those paperbacks that are a light read (sci-fi, fantasy, my wife and her romance novels). Of course, being able to feel the book before purchasing is a good thing, but I suppose they could have a "demo model" on the shelf. You know what's going to suck though? Someone is going to try and make a scheme out of this that will be effectively a book lease. They will insist that you are just renting the book or some crap like that.
only sort of good news. the good news is he got money to send a letter to defend himself (and his most excellent work). The bad news is that it's a legal battle, and they suck as a whole. I truly truly hope that it works out for the benefit of the Gnome AOL Interactive Metatranslator;) but I just dunno...I don't know what the statute of limitations on the "protect your trademark or lose it" thing is, and it seems fairly clear that it is a derived named. then again, they could just _hire_ the guy to make it for AOL, under the same license, and everyone would be happy.
Can you imagine? A little less AOL bashing on slashdot!
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It is a nice machine, I will grant you. If you need firewire and video out, it's a very good choice (maybe the only one) but hardly the only thing in that price range with that level of features.
it's nice to see cheaper laptops out. I can't wait til the 15" screen become this cheap.
> there are many non-lethal and justifiable uses for guns, so regulation is contraversial.
like what many? I can only think of target shooting, and that in itself could easily be construed as just practicing with the tool in preparation for the real purpose.
Not that I belong to the NRA or anything, but guns don't kill people, people kill people, guns are merely the mechanism. People killed each other before guns.
But I digress, but the point is clear. People hacked before rootkits, they will continue to hack with them.
Is there any way that the use of the term viral in relation to free osftware could be construed as slander (if MS says it) or libel (if they write it in a license)? Defamation of who? FSF perhaps?
I'm curious to know why you believe Islam is a made up religion. Although I am not Muslim, I do know enough about the Koran and the beliefs of the religion to know that you should _not_ base your opinion on the perversions of it that you see in the news media. Seeing rebel fighters claiming holy war on others is not what islam is about. Indeed, Mohammed was all for peace and love. Read a little before you jsut lump it in with every religion.
Your point is valid in a lot of other ways though. A belief system is a belief system is a belief system. You'll still kill for it, you'll still put down others in it's defense.
I seem to remember there being (and me using) a link to the published document. www.cryptome.something blah...I can't remember or find it in my history..hmm..
I'm happy to see that IBM is putting so much effort into it, but damn, that binary only kernel version dependent crap has got to stop...
Let me be a karma whoring p4 lover...
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We got in a single p4 1.5 Ghz machine with 512 megs of RDRAM along with a dual 1 ghz machine with a like amount and kind of ram. We ran some benchmarks. Actually, we ran real applications that the scientists at our lab run (chemistry codes).
The short of the story is this...the p4 plastered the p3, the athlon, and everything else, save for an alpha, which it gave a run for the money.
The first test we did was a large matrix inversion in octave. Same version, same kernels, etc. Same disks (scsi/160). The p4 ran it in 1/3 the time of the p3, with only 1/2 again as many ghz. Same speed ram. That memory bus mooooves things. Boy does it move.
We ran Gaussian on it. We saw a linear increase in relation to processor speed. This may seem "normal" but it is not. You almost never see that in this particular application.
We ran lmbench on it vs a ultrasparcIII. It embarassed the US3 so badly that we felt that it just wasn't a fair benchmark (gotta find something better for the suns).
I like the p4. It'll be a win for scientific ocmputing, regardless of what the consumer market thinks.
Well, I'm sure it'll be back, but last time I tried medusa, it slowed my machine to a crawl while it was running (p2-300, not state of the art, but still...).
I find this interesting, because they have apparently patented the seed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but under trademark law (not patent law), you have to protect your product from being diluted. It seems to me that they took inadequate protections to keep their product safe. Of course, because it's patent law, it doesn't matter. Maybe it should be uinder different law. Maybe companies should leave his retirement fund alone...of course, I'm just sticking up for the little guy now. He may have been malicious for all I know;)
Arcades have been going away for a while, but I think it's really starting to die seriously. There have been very few new games to hit the arcades in a long time.
I, for one, will be very sad to see them go. They were a part of my growing up. I actually learned the value of money there, because it was valuable for me to play those games.
It is damn near impossible to get the 3650 currently. I've had mine on backorder for a month. Now vendors are hiking up the original price because of the demand...I saw them going for upward of $900 on streetprices.com.
It's really sad that they chose to use this route to show off their cool tech. If the first line had read something more like "I have a small company that makes cat5 to fc adapters, and I figured the slashdot crowd would have been interested", I probably would have bought some of their little product. Now, because of their successful attempt to fool slashdot moderators into posting free advertising and not calling it as such, I can only assume that they will attempt to fool me the consumer on other things. Now I _won't_ buy from this company....
I mean, think about it...ram is not _that_ pricey. There must be a lot of research dollars to compensate for. You can get 512megs of pc133 for ~US$200, so why does it cost outrageous sums for the drives? It's not like scsi itself can make up all that cost. Heck, even old edo would give faster performance than our current drives. Slap a bunch of that in a box, put on a scsi controller and I think a lot of people woud be happy. Or even better, put it in a pci card. The main problem with the pci card being physical space...
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C++ builder for linux? where might I see something semi official regarding this?
I think a fairly straight forward explanation such as "Would you want to drive a car that hadn't been independently crash tested?" or something. The ability to test encryption schemes would be easier for the lay person to understand.
It's running a win2k frontend with a solaris backend.
A couple of women I work with firmly believe that most men do not multitask well. I think I might even be inclined to agree. They make exceptions for system administrators, who are probably the most multitasking people in computers. I am almost incluined to believe.
:)
Personally, I hate questions like that. Those questions have obvious answers, and your supposed to answer them in a particular way. The test is whether you will conform
I've interviewed a few candidates over the last year or so. We tend to do team interviews. We ask some funny questions sometimes, almost as a joke, but often the answer speaks of how they will mesh the team. We have even asked "what's your favorite shell" and "what's your favorite editor" and "what's your favorite os" :)
Seriously though, I would ask about experience with multiple unixes (assuming a unix admin position), backup systems, perl scripting, shell scripting, shared file system experience (we use AFS where I work), "special project" experience (like beowulf clusters, firewalling, etc). Often a sysadmin is already a particular personality...my experience has been that they seem to have a great uniformity of character. Trust your instincts...not very many people will be able to give adequate answers to 3 of the questions above without being sysadmin material. Oh, and another good question..."Describe an experience that yoiu had with a difficult user". this will show if they have a "screw the user" attitude or have a realization that the user is the job.
The rdesktop project implements RDP 4 (aka terminal services) on most unix platforms. I've been using it for the better part of a year as my only windows desktop. It rocks.
I might also add that I have had no problem whatsoever with norton on terminal services.
And as for a win98 client, you can make one off your win2k server. Look under your control panel.
especially over a slow connection...
ssh -C -L localport:vncmachine:remoteport and tunnel it
vncviewer -encodings "hextile"
of course, I have not gotten to try tightvnc.
and I mean, I buy a lot of books..probably at least one a week. Anyhow, this will be nice for a lot of the stuff I like to read for enjoyment...those paperbacks that are a light read (sci-fi, fantasy, my wife and her romance novels). Of course, being able to feel the book before purchasing is a good thing, but I suppose they could have a "demo model" on the shelf. You know what's going to suck though? Someone is going to try and make a scheme out of this that will be effectively a book lease. They will insist that you are just renting the book or some crap like that.
Please, just don't let someone screw this up.
only sort of good news. the good news is he got money to send a letter to defend himself (and his most excellent work). The bad news is that it's a legal battle, and they suck as a whole. I truly truly hope that it works out for the benefit of the Gnome AOL Interactive Metatranslator ;) but I just dunno...I don't know what the statute of limitations on the "protect your trademark or lose it" thing is, and it seems fairly clear that it is a derived named. then again, they could just _hire_ the guy to make it for AOL, under the same license, and everyone would be happy.
Can you imagine? A little less AOL bashing on slashdot!
Ok, no problem (although not much of a fraction :)
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It is a nice machine, I will grant you. If you need firewire and video out, it's a very good choice (maybe the only one) but hardly the only thing in that price range with that level of features.
it's nice to see cheaper laptops out. I can't wait til the 15" screen become this cheap.
> there are many non-lethal and justifiable uses for guns, so regulation is contraversial.
like what many? I can only think of target shooting, and that in itself could easily be construed as just practicing with the tool in preparation for the real purpose.
Not that I belong to the NRA or anything, but guns don't kill people, people kill people, guns are merely the mechanism. People killed each other before guns.
But I digress, but the point is clear. People hacked before rootkits, they will continue to hack with them.
would be a nursing home
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Is there any way that the use of the term viral in relation to free osftware could be construed as slander (if MS says it) or libel (if they write it in a license)? Defamation of who? FSF perhaps?
I'm curious to know why you believe Islam is a made up religion. Although I am not Muslim, I do know enough about the Koran and the beliefs of the religion to know that you should _not_ base your opinion on the perversions of it that you see in the news media. Seeing rebel fighters claiming holy war on others is not what islam is about. Indeed, Mohammed was all for peace and love. Read a little before you jsut lump it in with every religion.
Your point is valid in a lot of other ways though. A belief system is a belief system is a belief system. You'll still kill for it, you'll still put down others in it's defense.
I seem to remember there being (and me using) a link to the published document. www.cryptome.something blah...I can't remember or find it in my history..hmm..
anyways...what happened slashdot???
I'm happy to see that IBM is putting so much effort into it, but damn, that binary only kernel version dependent crap has got to stop...
We got in a single p4 1.5 Ghz machine with 512 megs of RDRAM along with a dual 1 ghz machine with a like amount and kind of ram. We ran some benchmarks. Actually, we ran real applications that the scientists at our lab run (chemistry codes).
The short of the story is this...the p4 plastered the p3, the athlon, and everything else, save for an alpha, which it gave a run for the money.
The first test we did was a large matrix inversion in octave. Same version, same kernels, etc. Same disks (scsi/160). The p4 ran it in 1/3 the time of the p3, with only 1/2 again as many ghz. Same speed ram. That memory bus mooooves things. Boy does it move.
We ran Gaussian on it. We saw a linear increase in relation to processor speed. This may seem "normal" but it is not. You almost never see that in this particular application.
We ran lmbench on it vs a ultrasparcIII. It embarassed the US3 so badly that we felt that it just wasn't a fair benchmark (gotta find something better for the suns).
I like the p4. It'll be a win for scientific ocmputing, regardless of what the consumer market thinks.
Well, I'm sure it'll be back, but last time I tried medusa, it slowed my machine to a crawl while it was running (p2-300, not state of the art, but still...).
I find this interesting, because they have apparently patented the seed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but under trademark law (not patent law), you have to protect your product from being diluted. It seems to me that they took inadequate protections to keep their product safe. Of course, because it's patent law, it doesn't matter. Maybe it should be uinder different law. Maybe companies should leave his retirement fund alone...of course, I'm just sticking up for the little guy now. He may have been malicious for all I know ;)
Arcades have been going away for a while, but I think it's really starting to die seriously. There have been very few new games to hit the arcades in a long time.
I, for one, will be very sad to see them go. They were a part of my growing up. I actually learned the value of money there, because it was valuable for me to play those games.
It is damn near impossible to get the 3650 currently. I've had mine on backorder for a month. Now vendors are hiking up the original price because of the demand...I saw them going for upward of $900 on streetprices.com.
It's really sad that they chose to use this route to show off their cool tech. If the first line had read something more like "I have a small company that makes cat5 to fc adapters, and I figured the slashdot crowd would have been interested", I probably would have bought some of their little product. Now, because of their successful attempt to fool slashdot moderators into posting free advertising and not calling it as such, I can only assume that they will attempt to fool me the consumer on other things. Now I _won't_ buy from this company....
I mean, think about it...ram is not _that_ pricey. There must be a lot of research dollars to compensate for. You can get 512megs of pc133 for ~US$200, so why does it cost outrageous sums for the drives? It's not like scsi itself can make up all that cost. Heck, even old edo would give faster performance than our current drives. Slap a bunch of that in a box, put on a scsi controller and I think a lot of people woud be happy. Or even better, put it in a pci card. The main problem with the pci card being physical space...
I should be smacked..that's disk replication..good lord, save me
I know that afs has disreplication abilities. I'm by no means an expert on it, however