The editor said they got it early? So, you're saying that the editor of a relatively unknown review magazine (that even reviews furniture) got 480mhz processors almost a year in advance? I'm laughing my pants off right now.
Of course, I'm wondering why the editor got it, and not the author of the article. Further, I'm wondering why the author of the article says they're available "now", when he wrote it in March of 2000.
How many more holes do I have to blow through this story before you give up?
March? But yet you say that it was taken offline until December. Then all the sudden it is made a front page article? But it mentioned 480mhz processors which weren't available or even discussed in March?
Please come up with another story to explain this. I'm waiting for a good laugh about the 480mhz processors available in March of 2000... especially since I can't even get them for the E10k (only the E450) right now.
Let's see. Would it be more likely that the "editor" or an unknown magazile would steal an article and try to get it published on Slashdot to make a great deal of money on advertisement revenues, or someone would bring up the connection to a view that they created on a view site in order to protect less than $1 in revenue? You tell me.
Come on. You'd have us believe that a "software engineer" would have the amount of experience necessary to write a review of the E10k like that? I hate to inform you, but a software engineer doesn't have a thing to do with the administration of a Sun Enterprise 10000. Yet another lie that's been caught. Gratz and thanks.
You've got a special line to this editor? He doesn't leave me nearly as many eamil as he did you, a random user of his site who happened to submit the articles to Slashdot in the first place.
BTW, has anyone else noticed how redir, the person who originally submitted the article, is so vigirous in defending the authenticity of the reviews? Amazing for someone who just found a really interesting article and then submitted it.
Go ahead. Show me some of the trails of this so-called "well known" author on the web. I'd love to see some of this other articles. But I'm curious what a guy with a PHD in computer science would be doing as a lowly UNIX Admin. Yet he's very well known! Your story just doesn't hold water. I think I'm going to search the originating site for other plagairism at this point.
Here's the editor's latest reply. It is completely laugable.
The author works for Novadigm and is currently working with over 100 of
these machines in an ongoing project for the U.S. Government. He holds a
PH.D. in computer science and is a well known individual in good
standing. You sir are a fraud.
100s of E10ks? 100s!??!!? **NO** site has 100s of them. The largest customer, as far as I am aware, is AT&T. The second largest company that uses E10ks is the company that I work for, and "dozens" may be stretching it quite a ways.
Not even AT&T has hundreds of these machines. Your latest statement is further evidence of the fraud going on here.
Gee, here's some further evidence. You are the one who submitted the article to Slashdot in the first place. And now, all the sudden, you're defending the authenticity of the article? That strikes me as a little odd.
redir writes "There is an interesting article on Reviewboard.com about
Sun's bigboy E10k million dollar servers.
And you seem to have some really inside knowledge about the site. RIGHT. It appears obvious to me that you work for the site that hosted the article and are now trying to cover some tracks. CONGRATULATIONS. YOU'VE BEEN CAUGHT.
The "spinner" concept is unique to our site. And as mentioned by another user, their stole a paragraph that another Epinions user wrote in August. Here's an email from their "editor":
I bet, however this review has been on our site for over 2 months. You have
a lot of sand to come to us and say you wrote this. Our review was posted
10/25/2000 at 1:57p.m. We moved it to the front cover of the site for a
promotion we are doing on our server section.
I'd love to meet the "so-called author" of this article. All that E10k hands-on experience and a LOT of details.. And when pressed, the editor says the original date is "conveniently" made two months ago. Riiiiigggghtttt.
The style of writing is my own. The unique concept my own. And I *will* go the extra mile to prove this. This is an INSULT to me.
This was an opinion I wrote on Epinions in the middle of the night. In fact, it was my first review for the site. You can read my review HERE.. Now read THEIR ARTICLE. Their nearly 100% identical. Paragraphs have been outright stolen.
All the sudden, this ends up as a review with a different author at another web site? What the HELL is going on? If you have questions, please EMAIL ME. jmccorm@galstar.com
This REALLY PISSES ME OFF! MY article pre-dates theirs. Hell, I should know. I wrote it in the middle of the night. And I don't see any date on their publication. I'm assuming it was published today or yesterday. I demand credit for my work. Hell, this is worth an article.
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The difference between CS and CIS, in my experience as a CS major, has been that CS folk learn why things are the way they
are, CIS folk learn how to use them.
I agree with this. For example, CS majors are taught how a database works. CIS majors are taught how to use a database.
The CIS folks, however, will need to be constantly retrained (more than CS folk) to learn how to use the
new stuff, so getting stuck writing Program X on Platform Y is common.
Only as a generality, I would agree with this. It still should be judged on an individual basis. And it may be the effect (because weaker students go for CIS) rather than the cause (CIS creating weaker students). Hmmmm. I wonder if I really believe that?
I've done CS and migrated to CIS/MIS.
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Before going to college, I had excellent computer skills. (Actually, they atrophied a bit during the college experiece, although the early Internet exposure was invaluable to me later.) I went with the conventional wisdom "CS is for real computer people, and CIS is a cop-out".
However, 10 credit hours of a foreign language, and absurd math classes (with non-English native speakers) changed my mind after two years. I thought I was taking the easy road when I switched to MIS.
It may have been. But looking back, it was the best decision I made. I learned the skills I *didn't* have -- business skills and business speak. And the ability to become and entrepreneur. Even a (giggle) management class!
I left college with a degree in MIS with a minor in CS. (I didn't have to take any of the weaker MIS computer classes, luckily.) For some, this path might even be ideal.
About the original question, did my employer care about MIS vs CS (or in my case, MIS with a minor in CS)? Not at all. All they wanted to see was a degree. The only relevence that CS vs CIS had in the workplace was my background going into it. For me, CIS was the better choice.
For a future Systems Administrator, CIS may be far better because they only offered 1 credit hour in UNIX under the CS degree. And the business skills are very valuable when dealing with the non-technical components that an SA has to do.
"The concensus among my peers is that..." followed by dumping a hardcopy of the Slashdot discussion on their desk.
They'll probably explode after reading it. Hmmmm... maybe you'd want to hold of presenting it until the exit interview.:) Nothing will grate them more than reading this.
To a company, grunt work is easier to find than managerial talent.
Probably not as true for a large company. From what I've seen, its just the reverse. Management is everywhere. But it takes forever to find a competent DBA or SA.
By refusing the promotion, it looks to the company like you'll forever be a gruntworker--a dead end
investment if you will. What in 5 years would make you worth more to the company? nothing. in fact, you'll probably be worth
signifigantly less due to loss of knowledge and skill compared to the "young" crop of that time.
I'll dispute the logic here you use to justify your argument. As long as I keep my job skills up, there is no reason to even consider management until I get into my 40's. Technical specialization really helps here. Does any company running Oracle think they need to get rid of their DBAs five years down the road?
Its kind of funny how those Suits think. The prevailing theory is that the lack of oxygen at the higher stratospheres of the org chart, combined with the obligitory strangulation devices they place around their necks, are able to explain their odd behavior.
Management thinks that all people, like them, actually want to become managers. I recall leaving a job, one of the reasons given is that there isn't any room for growth. "But there's plenty of opportunity to become management here!" You can imagine the shock and annoyance on the suit's face when I explained that I was talking about technical growth, and I had no interest in management.
Today, I have prevented getting myself in such a position by directly telling my management that a management position does not interest me. Explaining from a management point of view helps (want to stay directly in the details, that sort of thing). It works.
I guess it depends on how you want to go after leaks. I wrote the first hit your search found on Freshmeat called "leak". I was looking at memory leaks (or increased memory usage that wasn't necessarily a "leak") on a system with a large number of different long-running processes.
I first run the program to create a baseline on memory utilization. I run it again after a period of time (1 day, for example) to see what has increased. A sysadmin would want to run this on a box that is losing virtual memory over time, and without a good explanation.
I used it to find some problems with some java code, and with the Sybase Replication Server. Their heaps were growing and growing over time.
Of course, this won't catch *everything*. Like short running processes or ever increasing number of processes. Or kernel memory bloat. But it's helped me figure out a few weird problems here and there.
Probably of marginal use to programmer types. This is more for the SA trying to find the bad guy. Cheers.
Naturally, I'm going to make the assumption that many others have had and guess that he has stunted social skills. Its questionable if you will or won't be able to teach such a child those things at this age.
However, if the prodigy doesn't grasp the social skills naturally, you can teach the technical side of social interaction, which is non-verbal communication.
Some information communicated non-verbally is obvious. Others are subtle and can be very valuable to someone with deficient social skills.
The one problem with the prodigy is that they must be constantly stimulated and be put on a real path with an achievable career. The "constantly stimulated" is important. Take a prodigy and send them to college for four years or so. They'll lose their edge and probably claim they were smarter before they went. Keep the process of discovery going. Stagnation kills the prodigy mind.
I think the biggest one of the group has been the GIF patent and how it has been treated. (Thanks Unisys, Compuserve!) It quickly became THE standard for images, and only once it was popular did they mention anything about their software patents. If that was known from day one, GIF would have died a quick death.
Completely missed: Things that are NOT new.
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Some of the greatest geek toys aren't the things you find right off the shelf. A really good geek gift is to find something suitable to a geek's interest that a project can be made out of. Some good ones are mentioned here.
Video game or arcade geek?
Remember the Atari 2600p? (Go back and read the Slashdot stories.) If they've got a video game fetish, how about an Atari 2600 and a handheld television to kick-start a project?
Something just as good is one of the old arcade games which can be purchased for far less money than you think!
Best advise for buying for a geek: Talk to another geek who knows your geek well. Admit that you don't know much, but you want to get him something technological, and maybe components to build a project with. (Otherwise, they'll say things like "CD ROM Burner" or ""Electric Cattle Prod".
Best thing to go with a geek present: receipts. They're hard to please!
PS: Television watching geeks LOVE having a TiVo, but I recommend NOT connecting it to the primary television in your house, otherwise you'll never see the news (or anything else) because Babylon 5 and Doctor Who are being recorded during YOUR favorite shows. (Unless you get a super fancy model.)
Final Physics Question:
Moore's law predicts 10ghz (1/10,000,000 of a second clock cycles) by 2005, and that the clock rate doubles every 1.5 years. At what year does time allowed by Moore's Law exceed the speed at which light can traverse the length of ten hydrogen atoms? Please round to the nearest month.
Of course, we all know that people are going to make Moore's law happen. I'm waiting for the technology to do my processing in alternate dimensions (or time warping of our own). Can anyone smell a 500Thz Beowuulf Cluster across ten dimensions?
And the graphics look like... ASS?
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EverQuest - Sony $29.95 (plus $9.89 monthly service fee) Addictive
multiplayer game lets you collaborate with others on the Net. Suitable even
for a 200-MHz PC with a 28K connection. And the graphics look like
ass. But I have many friends who've lost countless productive hours all for
the lucrative reward of being able to take a bear by yourself in a virtual
world.
I don't know about you, but why would I want to play a multiuser game with graphics that look like ASS?
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Of course, I'm wondering why the editor got it, and not the author of the article. Further, I'm wondering why the author of the article says they're available "now", when he wrote it in March of 2000.
How many more holes do I have to blow through this story before you give up?
Please come up with another story to explain this. I'm waiting for a good laugh about the 480mhz processors available in March of 2000... especially since I can't even get them for the E10k (only the E450) right now.
Let's see. Would it be more likely that the "editor" or an unknown magazile would steal an article and try to get it published on Slashdot to make a great deal of money on advertisement revenues, or someone would bring up the connection to a view that they created on a view site in order to protect less than $1 in revenue? You tell me.
You've got a special line to this editor? He doesn't leave me nearly as many eamil as he did you, a random user of his site who happened to submit the articles to Slashdot in the first place.
Thanks for the link. I *will* report this theft.
Epinions Review vs Reviewboard Review. The "CIO/CTO" paragraph was a good example.
BTW, has anyone else noticed how redir, the person who originally submitted the article, is so vigirous in defending the authenticity of the reviews? Amazing for someone who just found a really interesting article and then submitted it.
Go ahead. Show me some of the trails of this so-called "well known" author on the web. I'd love to see some of this other articles. But I'm curious what a guy with a PHD in computer science would be doing as a lowly UNIX Admin. Yet he's very well known! Your story just doesn't hold water. I think I'm going to search the originating site for other plagairism at this point.
Fine. Point to a SINGLE search engine that has this article. RIGHT NOW. Go ahead. I dare you.
The author works for Novadigm and is currently working with over 100 of these machines in an ongoing project for the U.S. Government. He holds a PH.D. in computer science and is a well known individual in good standing. You sir are a fraud.
100s of E10ks? 100s!??!!? **NO** site has 100s of them. The largest customer, as far as I am aware, is AT&T. The second largest company that uses E10ks is the company that I work for, and "dozens" may be stretching it quite a ways.
Not even AT&T has hundreds of these machines. Your latest statement is further evidence of the fraud going on here.
redir writes "There is an interesting article on Reviewboard.com about Sun's bigboy E10k million dollar servers.
And you seem to have some really inside knowledge about the site. RIGHT. It appears obvious to me that you work for the site that hosted the article and are now trying to cover some tracks. CONGRATULATIONS. YOU'VE BEEN CAUGHT.
I bet, however this review has been on our site for over 2 months. You have
a lot of sand to come to us and say you wrote this. Our review was posted
10/25/2000 at 1:57p.m. We moved it to the front cover of the site for a
promotion we are doing on our server section.
I'd love to meet the "so-called author" of this article. All that E10k hands-on experience and a LOT of details.. And when pressed, the editor says the original date is "conveniently" made two months ago. Riiiiigggghtttt.
The style of writing is my own. The unique concept my own. And I *will* go the extra mile to prove this. This is an INSULT to me.
Yes. The ones running 400mhz have a 100mhz backside bus. Otherwise, it is 83mhz.
All the sudden, this ends up as a review with a different author at another web site? What the HELL is going on? If you have questions, please EMAIL ME. jmccorm@galstar.com
This REALLY PISSES ME OFF! MY article pre-dates theirs. Hell, I should know. I wrote it in the middle of the night. And I don't see any date on their publication. I'm assuming it was published today or yesterday. I demand credit for my work. Hell, this is worth an article.
I agree with this. For example, CS majors are taught how a database works. CIS majors are taught how to use a database.
The CIS folks, however, will need to be constantly retrained (more than CS folk) to learn how to use the new stuff, so getting stuck writing Program X on Platform Y is common.
Only as a generality, I would agree with this. It still should be judged on an individual basis. And it may be the effect (because weaker students go for CIS) rather than the cause (CIS creating weaker students). Hmmmm. I wonder if I really believe that?
However, 10 credit hours of a foreign language, and absurd math classes (with non-English native speakers) changed my mind after two years. I thought I was taking the easy road when I switched to MIS.
It may have been. But looking back, it was the best decision I made. I learned the skills I *didn't* have -- business skills and business speak. And the ability to become and entrepreneur. Even a (giggle) management class!
I left college with a degree in MIS with a minor in CS. (I didn't have to take any of the weaker MIS computer classes, luckily.) For some, this path might even be ideal.
About the original question, did my employer care about MIS vs CS (or in my case, MIS with a minor in CS)? Not at all. All they wanted to see was a degree. The only relevence that CS vs CIS had in the workplace was my background going into it. For me, CIS was the better choice.
For a future Systems Administrator, CIS may be far better because they only offered 1 credit hour in UNIX under the CS degree. And the business skills are very valuable when dealing with the non-technical components that an SA has to do.
They'll probably explode after reading it. Hmmmm... maybe you'd want to hold of presenting it until the exit interview.
Probably not as true for a large company. From what I've seen, its just the reverse. Management is everywhere. But it takes forever to find a competent DBA or SA.
By refusing the promotion, it looks to the company like you'll forever be a gruntworker--a dead end investment if you will. What in 5 years would make you worth more to the company? nothing. in fact, you'll probably be worth signifigantly less due to loss of knowledge and skill compared to the "young" crop of that time.
I'll dispute the logic here you use to justify your argument. As long as I keep my job skills up, there is no reason to even consider management until I get into my 40's. Technical specialization really helps here. Does any company running Oracle think they need to get rid of their DBAs five years down the road?
Management thinks that all people, like them, actually want to become managers. I recall leaving a job, one of the reasons given is that there isn't any room for growth. "But there's plenty of opportunity to become management here!" You can imagine the shock and annoyance on the suit's face when I explained that I was talking about technical growth, and I had no interest in management.
Today, I have prevented getting myself in such a position by directly telling my management that a management position does not interest me. Explaining from a management point of view helps (want to stay directly in the details, that sort of thing). It works.
I first run the program to create a baseline on memory utilization. I run it again after a period of time (1 day, for example) to see what has increased. A sysadmin would want to run this on a box that is losing virtual memory over time, and without a good explanation.
I used it to find some problems with some java code, and with the Sybase Replication Server. Their heaps were growing and growing over time.
Of course, this won't catch *everything*. Like short running processes or ever increasing number of processes. Or kernel memory bloat. But it's helped me figure out a few weird problems here and there.
Probably of marginal use to programmer types. This is more for the SA trying to find the bad guy. Cheers.
However, if the prodigy doesn't grasp the social skills naturally, you can teach the technical side of social interaction, which is non-verbal communication.
Some information communicated non-verbally is obvious. Others are subtle and can be very valuable to someone with deficient social skills.
The one problem with the prodigy is that they must be constantly stimulated and be put on a real path with an achievable career. The "constantly stimulated" is important. Take a prodigy and send them to college for four years or so. They'll lose their edge and probably claim they were smarter before they went. Keep the process of discovery going. Stagnation kills the prodigy mind.
Is that AOL + Time - Warner, or AOL + "Time Warner" as opposed to AOL + (Time - Warner)?
I think the biggest one of the group has been the GIF patent and how it has been treated. (Thanks Unisys, Compuserve!) It quickly became THE standard for images, and only once it was popular did they mention anything about their software patents. If that was known from day one, GIF would have died a quick death.
Video game or arcade geek?
Remember the Atari 2600p? (Go back and read the Slashdot stories.) If they've got a video game fetish, how about an Atari 2600 and a handheld television to kick-start a project?
Something just as good is one of the old arcade games which can be purchased for far less money than you think!
Best advise for buying for a geek: Talk to another geek who knows your geek well. Admit that you don't know much, but you want to get him something technological, and maybe components to build a project with. (Otherwise, they'll say things like "CD ROM Burner" or ""Electric Cattle Prod".
Best thing to go with a geek present: receipts. They're hard to please! PS: Television watching geeks LOVE having a TiVo, but I recommend NOT connecting it to the primary television in your house, otherwise you'll never see the news (or anything else) because Babylon 5 and Doctor Who are being recorded during YOUR favorite shows. (Unless you get a super fancy model.)
Moore's law predicts 10ghz (1/10,000,000 of a second clock cycles) by 2005, and that the clock rate doubles every 1.5 years. At what year does time allowed by Moore's Law exceed the speed at which light can traverse the length of ten hydrogen atoms? Please round to the nearest month.
Of course, we all know that people are going to make Moore's law happen. I'm waiting for the technology to do my processing in alternate dimensions (or time warping of our own). Can anyone smell a 500Thz Beowuulf Cluster across ten dimensions?
I don't know about you, but why would I want to play a multiuser game with graphics that look like ASS?