"With the recent proliferation of optical mice I'm thinking this could be the next best input device for linear barcodes. I have limited knowledge about mouse drivers and the actual design of these mice."
They could at least have tried to make it less obvious. Next week, will there be an announcement about hot new.NET coding tools from "billg@microsoft.com"?
- A.P.
WTF. It's 5/7/5, people.
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Haiku vs Spam
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· Score: 5, Funny
Damn, you guys are 'tards. Learn to write proper haiku. (I could teach my dog.)
When is the last time you absolutely needed to capture 1600x1200 video? I'm sure the manufacturer made sure the drivers allowed for TV capture, otherwise there would be a lot of unsatisfied customers.
If you need a system customized for running a traffic ticket managment system, then Linux can be customized to do so. Do you need a way to keep track of city salaries, Linux can do a better job of managing a database of names and income levels.
Oh, really?
What evidence do you have of this?
How many cities do you know of that use Linux to run their traffic lights, manage their employee information, or do any of the other things you mention?
Getting ahead now is fine, but what is Microsft going to say 5 years from now when its time to upgrade again? Do you really think they'll allow the city to keep its copies of Windows XP when the special license agreement says they must upgrade or else?
I have never seen such an agreement on any piece of software (Microsoft included) I have owned. Can you explain the terms of this agreement further, or are you just FUD-mongering?
Ten seconds of annoying ringtones and assault are such comparable actions. Your enjoyment of the movie is far more important than the physical well-being of others. Right. I hope you don't have kids, I'd hate to think of the punishment you'd find appropriate for some of their misbehavior.
Are you slashbots sure other companies haven't tried things like this before? Don't you find it funny that a lot of the colleges in that Google search have gotten funding and done collaborative work with Sun Microsystems and -- strange! -- some of their courses are taught in Java?
Do you really, really think other companies don't do this? Do you seriously think it's bad just because it was Microsoft and C#, and not Allegro and Common Lisp?
And I defy any of you to tell me why it should matter that some students are taught C# as their introductory programming courses, whilst others are taught Java, C++, or C. They're supposed to be learning the fundamentals of programming, not learning how to write a fuckin' application. Why the fuck does it matter what language a college finds this easiest to teach in?
Actually, no, I don't. I don't think I've ever found myself wishing computers that weren't designed and built around one particular operating system were able to run Linux, or any other OS. I consider myself a better, saner person for this.
This is a really ignorant/uninformed question.
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Is FORTRAN Still Kicking?
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Fortran is used HEAVILY in very specialized industries -- almost any mechanical design or scientific modelling program has some Fortran code in it.
What do you want to do with it? Model fluid dynamics? Do structural or materials analysis? (Such software already exists.) Or do you simply want to find a better way to encode your DivX files?
It appears to me as though you are trying to select the proper tool for driving nails into wood, while looking in the screwdriver section of the hardware store. If you need to ask why you should learn Fortran, you probably shouldn't learn it.
Running raid0 gave about 110MB/s sustained (at best) with an IO mix of 2/3 reads with 50/50 random/sequential mix. I believe in that case it was my 1Gb FC connection that was the bottleneck.
It would have been. I've seen similar performance over a single FC channel (through a Brocade switch) to a Hitachi SAN. You'll need more FC cards if you really want to do performance testing. (The added failure protection is nice too.)
However, this doesn't make for "The Right Way". Hacking at something - figuring out how it works, seeing how you can do it better (or less expensively), and enjoying the process - is the source of solutions that Just Work.
No. Generally, in my experience, it's the source of solutions that Almost Work. Or solutions that Work Unless You Do This. Or solutions that Just Worked Last Week, What the Hell Did We Change That Broke It?
"[G]eneral lackluster performance of the contraption in question" is the result of not understanding something enough to do it well. Many off-the-shelf solutions suck - Windows 98, anyone? So do many home-brew setups. The problems doesn't come from the nature of a rig, it comes from the effort and intelligence of the creator.
No, the problem comes from the continual poor reinvention of the wheel on Ask Slashbots. In this situation, KVM-IP switches are the answer. Not a 486 with a bunch of TV cards in it. Not a rat's nest of cables. If this person worked for me and proposed this solution, I would have a hard time signing his checks from then on.
- A.p.
'Ask Slashdot' has taught me something.
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Cheap KVM Over IP?
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Namely this: There are two ways to do things: The right way, and the Slashdot way.
The Right Way involves spending a little more money up front, but its benefits are manyfold: A proven solution, vendor support, reliability, stability, and various and sundry other good things.
The Slashdot Way involves duct tape, bailing wire, and, sometimes, a 386 running RedHat. Its generally insignificant up-front savings are offset by the countless hours of configuration, tuning, tweaking, prodding, poking, and general lackluster performance of the contraption in question.
You have chosen to go The Slashdot Route. I wish you luck as you set up your TV cards and serial ports. You will need as much luck as you can get, and an awful lot of patience.
Large-format plotters are few and relatively expensive. Why on earth would you spend $100,000 on a plotter and then become all cheap-ass when it came time to hook it up to a plot server?
Shell out the money for something that will work properly. Don't waste your employer's time and money trying to find an open-source "solution", and, if there's a payware UNIX solution, make sure it's fully supported by your plotter vendor.
Do not skimp on stuff that matters. It's like buying a Ferrari but not being able to afford the racing gasoline.
Find me a network that can handle 100,000 users, a large fraction of which are heavy bandwidth users, and can do so for less than $4 million dollars a month, and I will help you kick your crack habit.
Slashdot Mirror
"With the recent proliferation of optical mice I'm thinking this could be the next best input device for linear barcodes. I have limited knowledge about mouse drivers and the actual design of these mice."
I will let this speak for itself.
- A.P.
Hm. Coincidence? olin01... Olin college... nah!
.NET coding tools from "billg@microsoft.com"?
They could at least have tried to make it less obvious. Next week, will there be an announcement about hot new
- A.P.
Damn, you guys are 'tards.
Learn to write proper haiku.
(I could teach my dog.)
- A.P.
When is the last time you absolutely needed to capture 1600x1200 video? I'm sure the manufacturer made sure the drivers allowed for TV capture, otherwise there would be a lot of unsatisfied customers.
- A.P.
If you need a system customized for running a traffic ticket managment system, then Linux can be customized to do so. Do you need a way to keep track of city salaries, Linux can do a better job of managing a database of names and income levels.
Oh, really?
What evidence do you have of this?
How many cities do you know of that use Linux to run their traffic lights, manage their employee information, or do any of the other things you mention?
Getting ahead now is fine, but what is Microsft going to say 5 years from now when its time to upgrade again? Do you really think they'll allow the city to keep its copies of Windows XP when the special license agreement says they must upgrade or else?
I have never seen such an agreement on any piece of software (Microsoft included) I have owned. Can you explain the terms of this agreement further, or are you just FUD-mongering?
- A.P.
Ten seconds of annoying ringtones and assault are such comparable actions. Your enjoyment of the movie is far more important than the physical well-being of others. Right. I hope you don't have kids, I'd hate to think of the punishment you'd find appropriate for some of their misbehavior.
You used to get beat up a lot, didn't you?
- A.P.
Jesus christ, people. Get off this guy's dick.
Repeat after me:
"Steve Jobs is not the messiah."
- A.P.
If Microsoft is giving away free nugs, I'm signed up.
I hear the stuff they grow up in that part of the country is pretty dank.
- A.P.
Anyone who actually makes this "distinction" needs to be beaten into unconsciousness.
A spade is a spade, sir.
- A.P.
Are you slashbots sure other companies haven't tried things like this before? Don't you find it funny that a lot of the colleges in that Google search have gotten funding and done collaborative work with Sun Microsystems and -- strange! -- some of their courses are taught in Java?
Do you really, really think other companies don't do this? Do you seriously think it's bad just because it was Microsoft and C#, and not Allegro and Common Lisp?
And I defy any of you to tell me why it should matter that some students are taught C# as their introductory programming courses, whilst others are taught Java, C++, or C. They're supposed to be learning the fundamentals of programming, not learning how to write a fuckin' application. Why the fuck does it matter what language a college finds this easiest to teach in?
Grow up, people.
- A.P.
"It doesn't sound quite as good but who cares!"
Yeah. I buy speakers because they look good.
- A.P.
Actually, no, I don't. I don't think I've ever found myself wishing computers that weren't designed and built around one particular operating system were able to run Linux, or any other OS. I consider myself a better, saner person for this.
What is so bad about Mac OS X?
- A.P.
I wonder if it is logical to describe "errors" on this scale in such euphemistic terms?
Well, in the computer industry, we call bugs "features" and massive security holes "buffer overflows".
It's all relative. We all say stupid shit.
- A.P.
Everyone I know who's owned one has had it fall apart on them after a year or so. Stay far away from Apex players, if you know what's good for you.
They're cheap, cheap pieces of crap.
- A.P.
Here's what happens when you give a concert at MIT and need something to talk about.
- A.P.
Fortran is used HEAVILY in very specialized industries -- almost any mechanical design or scientific modelling program has some Fortran code in it.
What do you want to do with it? Model fluid dynamics? Do structural or materials analysis? (Such software already exists.) Or do you simply want to find a better way to encode your DivX files?
It appears to me as though you are trying to select the proper tool for driving nails into wood, while looking in the screwdriver section of the hardware store. If you need to ask why you should learn Fortran, you probably shouldn't learn it.
- A.P.
Running raid0 gave about 110MB/s sustained (at best) with an IO mix of 2/3 reads with 50/50 random/sequential mix. I believe in that case it was my 1Gb FC connection that was the bottleneck.
It would have been. I've seen similar performance over a single FC channel (through a Brocade switch) to a Hitachi SAN. You'll need more FC cards if you really want to do performance testing. (The added failure protection is nice too.)
- A.P.
All this post did was show me that hardware RAID is faster than software RAID. Well, no duh!
Let's not compare apples to Buicks.
- A.P.
time dd if=/dev/zero of=largefile2 bs=1024k count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
real 0m10.015s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m7.810s
This gives me about 107MBytes/second for writes.
The RAID-1 system drive is significantly slower.
- A.P.
However, this doesn't make for "The Right Way". Hacking at something - figuring out how it works, seeing how you can do it better (or less expensively), and enjoying the process - is the source of solutions that Just Work.
No. Generally, in my experience, it's the source of solutions that Almost Work. Or solutions that Work Unless You Do This. Or solutions that Just Worked Last Week, What the Hell Did We Change That Broke It?
"[G]eneral lackluster performance of the contraption in question" is the result of not understanding something enough to do it well. Many off-the-shelf solutions suck - Windows 98, anyone? So do many home-brew setups. The problems doesn't come from the nature of a rig, it comes from the effort and intelligence of the creator.
No, the problem comes from the continual poor reinvention of the wheel on Ask Slashbots. In this situation, KVM-IP switches are the answer. Not a 486 with a bunch of TV cards in it. Not a rat's nest of cables. If this person worked for me and proposed this solution, I would have a hard time signing his checks from then on.
- A.p.
Namely this: There are two ways to do things: The right way, and the Slashdot way.
The Right Way involves spending a little more money up front, but its benefits are manyfold: A proven solution, vendor support, reliability, stability, and various and sundry other good things.
The Slashdot Way involves duct tape, bailing wire, and, sometimes, a 386 running RedHat. Its generally insignificant up-front savings are offset by the countless hours of configuration, tuning, tweaking, prodding, poking, and general lackluster performance of the contraption in question.
You have chosen to go The Slashdot Route. I wish you luck as you set up your TV cards and serial ports. You will need as much luck as you can get, and an awful lot of patience.
- A.P.
Oh yeah...now I remember...I "rebooted" last month. Never again.
Just out of curiousity, what is your IP address?
- A.P.
The music-stealing industry has never been particularly honorable.
- A.P.
Large-format plotters are few and relatively expensive. Why on earth would you spend $100,000 on a plotter and then become all cheap-ass when it came time to hook it up to a plot server?
Shell out the money for something that will work properly. Don't waste your employer's time and money trying to find an open-source "solution", and, if there's a payware UNIX solution, make sure it's fully supported by your plotter vendor.
Do not skimp on stuff that matters. It's like buying a Ferrari but not being able to afford the racing gasoline.
- A.P.
Find me a network that can handle 100,000 users, a large fraction of which are heavy bandwidth users, and can do so for less than $4 million dollars a month, and I will help you kick your crack habit.
- A.P.