An Ultra 5 is retro? Worth getting nostalgic about? My main desktop at work was a SparcStation 5 until 18 months ago.
A friend uses a bunch of old sparcs to run his network - easier to use a load of small boxes than one big one. Pretty reliable too:
4:46pm up 454 day(s), 20:02, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.05, 0.03
4:48pm up 253 day(s), 47 min(s), 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.02
4:48pm up 454 days, 19:56, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I'd say that the reverse is true in BF1942. The sniper is very hard to get many kills with, but many people seem to like playing as a sniper. As long as you don't run in a straight line in the open for too long (which is pretty stupid), you're a pretty hard target to hit.
So you get lots of snipers sitting around doing bugger all for the team, wildly shooting rounds in the vague direction of the enemy team. In the meantime the enemy storms in with assaults and captures all the flags.
I think it's just some sort of universal law of theatres. Before every film I see these days, there are something like five warnings in big letters on the screen saying "turn your mobile phone off". In different colours and styles - with amusing film clips to make the message more palatable. Even the mobile phone adverts end with "Don't let a mobile ruin the film...".
But they still go off. Only Stephen Hawking can explain I feel.
I'm sorry but if someone connects utility control systems to the net then they are the ones who should be strung up.
I was dozing in a dull control systems keynote at a conference the other day (I'm a process systems engineer) when I was woken up by a slide titled "Process Control Web Interface" with a screenshot of a web page, complete with pretty coloured sensor output, valve status etc.
The next slide had their network topography - with [Process Control], [Firewall] and [Internet] blocks.
From what I understood, many big chemical companies now have extended control networks, so some PHB in Boston can check the status of Valve A402 in Mumbai. All transmitted over a WAN of some sort, with at least some connection to and usage of the internet.
Given the pro-Microsoft stance of most of the conference, I wouldn't be all too confident in their security, either.
There's no "don't download from server" filter action still, though. That was enough to keep my parents using Outlook Express (barf), despite all its problems.
Please Please Please! Will people shut up about merging GNOME and KDE. It's won't happen, can't happen, shouldn't happen. IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
You want reasons? OK.
- One is C, the other C++. Many programmers of each project would find it difficult to switch over. I write C++ almost exclusively - switching to pure C is a wrench for me and I don't enjoy it so much. I can't imagine what a complex C++ class hierachy like KDE would look like after a bunch of C programmers 'maintained' it. - Doubling the number of programmers even on a commercial project where everyone is paid to work doesn't double output. On projects where most of the work is on a volunteer basis, so people have to *really want* to work, the ratio would be even worse. Factor in the arguments caused by all those developers with different ideas, and you could end up actually lowering productivity. - You can't tell volunteer developers what to do. If you shut down GNOME and said "now work on KDE", I guarantee that most of the GNOME developers would start up their own DWARF project within a week. - Choice is GOOD. I don't like GNOME. Others don't like KDE. Who is right? Neither of us - it's a personal judgement.
What is a good thing is the increasing agreement on standard protocols for exchange between the two. "Desktop Linux" is not a product produced by development teams. They just make the components - distro makers take the projects and make an integrated desktop from them.
I've worked in plenty of crappy jobs in my time. Assembling toilet roll holders, mail order picking/packing. Many had a high percentage of long-term staff (five years plus) because they:
- Paid well - Gave decent breaks - Had a reasonable pension and perks scheme. - Had a promotion structure for good workers.
The places that were almost entirely temps and had high turnover did none of those (if you're ever on Brighton pier, please take the time to punch one of the managers for me).
Many workers piss about and don't work because, if the only down side of pissing around is that you lose a crappy job you hate anyway, there's no reason not too.
His 50 employees would often "buddy-punch,"... "They're typical workers," Mr. Nordmann said. "It's not nice work. You have a lot of turnover. You have them one week, and the next week they're gone. You can't tell the faces any more."
What a wonderful view of workers. Sort of Victorian workhouse style. He could always try treating his staff well enough that they don't cheat the system or quit all the time.
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
UK!=England.
So I guess anyone in the commonwealth can be given an honour. However, TBL is British, so it doesn't matter.
Except that it's not really an honour from the queen. Decisions are made by some top secret bunch of civil servants, vetted by the Prime Minister and then "suggested" to the queen. Not much better, admittedly, but an improvement none the less. Reform is coming, but the present style of system won't go away until the monarchy finally keels over. I'll celebrate as much as anyone on that day, but until then the honours system is the only way to formally recognise people's acheivements. Inventing Hypertext certainly deserves some recognition IMHO.
Yes, it is possible to get answers to many of the questions with google. But why not Ask Slashdot? The Slashdot readership is still, despite a lot of wannabes, in general extremely knowledgeable. I imagine many other readers have implemented this kind of thing and have (*gasp*) real-world experience of how this sort of thing works out. Good luck finding that on Google anywhere but on mailing lists and Slashdot. By posting on the Slashdot front page and collecting a few hundred comments, the story poster gets his question answered many times over, and everyone else considering implementing this gets a large page of ideas.
The DDR and SDR Geforce2 MXs are virtually identical in performance - the DDR one should be a few percent slower, as it has the same memory bandwidth but a slightly higher latency (IIRC). That's because the SDR has a 128bit bus, while the DDR has a 64bit bus, at double-speed. Same bandwidth pretty much. It's nothing to do with cheap RAM.
Perens reasoning seems basically to be that, given limited developer and artist time, and a desire to simplify support issues, having only one possible GUI in a distro is better, even if that GUI isn't everybody's perfect choice.
Of course, this is only in the special case of UserLinux, which I doubt very many linuxgeeks will use.
But companies realised that durability doesn't sell. If things last for ever, nobody buys new ones. And nobody bases their electronics purchasing decisions on durability these days - instead going for price and "flashiness" factor. So what if it breaks after 12 months and a day and I have to buy a new one? I saved $10 when I bought it and it looks cool. Stupid but true.
My first portable CD player survived six years of continuous use, including being dropped six feet onto a hard floor. The flashy new one I replaced it with gave up after two years being carried around in a padded CD player bag.
A program written in an interpreted language running on an interpreter running in a virtual machine running from inside a database? It's madness, I tell you!
Damn, my head hurts too much today to post correctly. I meant to say having the source for a program doesn't necessarily mean you have the right to redistribute it. But then I typed Open Source with caps, so...oh forget it, I'm going back to bed.
But I could get pretty much any software for free. Just because I can download Windows for free doesn't mean it's legal to do so, and it certainly doesn't make it free(beer) software.
Open Source!=Free(beer) software!=Free(speech) Software
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They're not my boxes, and they're not internet facing anyway :). Anyway, doesn't Solaris' patch system rarely require a reboot anyway?
An Ultra 5 is retro? Worth getting nostalgic about? My main desktop at work was a SparcStation 5 until 18 months ago.
A friend uses a bunch of old sparcs to run his network - easier to use a load of small boxes than one big one. Pretty reliable too:
4:46pm up 454 day(s), 20:02, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.05, 0.03
4:48pm up 253 day(s), 47 min(s), 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.02
4:48pm up 454 days, 19:56, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
All Bf1942 weapons model bullet flight time. I guess that's why snipers aren't such a strong class in it.
I'd say that the reverse is true in BF1942. The sniper is very hard to get many kills with, but many people seem to like playing as a sniper. As long as you don't run in a straight line in the open for too long (which is pretty stupid), you're a pretty hard target to hit.
So you get lots of snipers sitting around doing bugger all for the team, wildly shooting rounds in the vague direction of the enemy team. In the meantime the enemy storms in with assaults and captures all the flags.
I think it's just some sort of universal law of theatres. Before every film I see these days, there are something like five warnings in big letters on the screen saying "turn your mobile phone off". In different colours and styles - with amusing film clips to make the message more palatable. Even the mobile phone adverts end with "Don't let a mobile ruin the film...".
But they still go off. Only Stephen Hawking can explain I feel.
I'm sorry but if someone connects utility control systems to the net then they are the ones who should be strung up.
I was dozing in a dull control systems keynote at a conference the other day (I'm a process systems engineer) when I was woken up by a slide titled "Process Control Web Interface" with a screenshot of a web page, complete with pretty coloured sensor output, valve status etc.
The next slide had their network topography - with [Process Control], [Firewall] and [Internet] blocks.
From what I understood, many big chemical companies now have extended control networks, so some PHB in Boston can check the status of Valve A402 in Mumbai. All transmitted over a WAN of some sort, with at least some connection to and usage of the internet.
Given the pro-Microsoft stance of most of the conference, I wouldn't be all too confident in their security, either.
That's only because the sparcstations are physically indestructible. They're like the cockroaches of the computer world.
There's no "don't download from server" filter action still, though. That was enough to keep my parents using Outlook Express (barf), despite all its problems.
Please Please Please! Will people shut up about merging GNOME and KDE. It's won't happen, can't happen, shouldn't happen. IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
You want reasons? OK.
- One is C, the other C++. Many programmers of each project would find it difficult to switch over. I write C++ almost exclusively - switching to pure C is a wrench for me and I don't enjoy it so much. I can't imagine what a complex C++ class hierachy like KDE would look like after a bunch of C programmers 'maintained' it.
- Doubling the number of programmers even on a commercial project where everyone is paid to work doesn't double output. On projects where most of the work is on a volunteer basis, so people have to *really want* to work, the ratio would be even worse. Factor in the arguments caused by all those developers with different ideas, and you could end up actually lowering productivity.
- You can't tell volunteer developers what to do. If you shut down GNOME and said "now work on KDE", I guarantee that most of the GNOME developers would start up their own DWARF project within a week.
- Choice is GOOD. I don't like GNOME. Others don't like KDE. Who is right? Neither of us - it's a personal judgement.
What is a good thing is the increasing agreement on standard protocols for exchange between the two. "Desktop Linux" is not a product produced by development teams. They just make the components - distro makers take the projects and make an integrated desktop from them.
I've worked in plenty of crappy jobs in my time. Assembling toilet roll holders, mail order picking/packing. Many had a high percentage of long-term staff (five years plus) because they:
- Paid well
- Gave decent breaks
- Had a reasonable pension and perks scheme.
- Had a promotion structure for good workers.
The places that were almost entirely temps and had high turnover did none of those (if you're ever on Brighton pier, please take the time to punch one of the managers for me).
Many workers piss about and don't work because, if the only down side of pissing around is that you lose a crappy job you hate anyway, there's no reason not too.
His 50 employees would often "buddy-punch," ... "They're typical workers," Mr. Nordmann said. "It's not nice work. You have a lot of turnover. You have them one week, and the next week they're gone. You can't tell the faces any more."
What a wonderful view of workers. Sort of Victorian workhouse style. He could always try treating his staff well enough that they don't cheat the system or quit all the time.
Honestly, the quality of geek on Slashdot these days is declining. Go find "!=" here:
m l
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/tut1-3.ht
Queen's official title:
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
UK!=England.
So I guess anyone in the commonwealth can be given an honour. However, TBL is British, so it doesn't matter.
Except that it's not really an honour from the queen. Decisions are made by some top secret bunch of civil servants, vetted by the Prime Minister and then "suggested" to the queen. Not much better, admittedly, but an improvement none the less.
Reform is coming, but the present style of system won't go away until the monarchy finally keels over. I'll celebrate as much as anyone on that day, but until then the honours system is the only way to formally recognise people's acheivements. Inventing Hypertext certainly deserves some recognition IMHO.
Yes, it is possible to get answers to many of the questions with google. But why not Ask Slashdot? The Slashdot readership is still, despite a lot of wannabes, in general extremely knowledgeable. I imagine many other readers have implemented this kind of thing and have (*gasp*) real-world experience of how this sort of thing works out. Good luck finding that on Google anywhere but on mailing lists and Slashdot.
By posting on the Slashdot front page and collecting a few hundred comments, the story poster gets his question answered many times over, and everyone else considering implementing this gets a large page of ideas.
Ha - 16700 over and my first computer was a Sinclair Spectrum. OK, so it was the 128K+2, not the rubber keypad one. Still, some geek cred.
The DDR and SDR Geforce2 MXs are virtually identical in performance - the DDR one should be a few percent slower, as it has the same memory bandwidth but a slightly higher latency (IIRC).
That's because the SDR has a 128bit bus, while the DDR has a 64bit bus, at double-speed. Same bandwidth pretty much. It's nothing to do with cheap RAM.
Perens reasoning seems basically to be that, given limited developer and artist time, and a desire to simplify support issues, having only one possible GUI in a distro is better, even if that GUI isn't everybody's perfect choice.
Of course, this is only in the special case of UserLinux, which I doubt very many linuxgeeks will use.
But companies realised that durability doesn't sell. If things last for ever, nobody buys new ones. And nobody bases their electronics purchasing decisions on durability these days - instead going for price and "flashiness" factor. So what if it breaks after 12 months and a day and I have to buy a new one? I saved $10 when I bought it and it looks cool. Stupid but true.
My first portable CD player survived six years of continuous use, including being dropped six feet onto a hard floor. The flashy new one I replaced it with gave up after two years being carried around in a padded CD player bag.
A program written in an interpreted language running on an interpreter running in a virtual machine running from inside a database? It's madness, I tell you!
And what would all the monkeys do for a living if there were no MCSE jobs? Won't somebody think of the monkeys!
Preferences->Homepage->exclude stories->Microsoft.
I'm sure an enterprising geek could write a script to do that for them. You could even cron job it to give MS free days/weeks.
The BBC is saying the US did DNA tests to prove it was really him.
Damn, my head hurts too much today to post correctly. I meant to say having the source for a program doesn't necessarily mean you have the right to redistribute it. But then I typed Open Source with caps, so...oh forget it, I'm going back to bed.
But I could get pretty much any software for free. Just because I can download Windows for free doesn't mean it's legal to do so, and it certainly doesn't make it free(beer) software.
Open Source!=Free(beer) software!=Free(speech) Software