I've been using Linux for quite a while (since 1992 or thereabouts) both for work and gaming and have had good results with NV hardware.
However the latest drivers (301.xx or thereabouts) run the 8800gt's fans at full speed even after the system boots, which seems to be a bug affecting quite a few other users across all major distributions.
I don't think it's money that draws you into IT in the first place; if it is, it's probably a bad incentive as money can only do so much to make you happy.
What drew me into IT was passion for the subject, and I do believe that the only way you can possibly do a job for a lifetime is if you're passionate about it.
So while a bigger paycheck *may* be effective in bringing brighter people into the field, they'll probably be as ruthless in their craving to maximize their income as they'd be in other lines of better-paid work (you mentioned security traders, for instance, I'm not sure I'd want those for colleagues;-))
+1 for Django from my end, too. It can be a bit complex at times if you still know what CGI is and are used to code your web pages accordingly, but once you've got going with it it can be amazingly flexible and powerful.
Also, the built in "admin" will save you a ton of work down the road.
I'm not a full-time developer mind you, but the people I've heard good things about Django from are right up there with the best of them as far as development skills go in our company.
me too, I hate talking on the phone or having the damn thing ring when I'm in the middle of something else. I have my office phone set to the lowest possible ring tone volume (sadly it's not possible to have it just beep once like the old ones we used to have), and my mobile phone is usually muted, too except when I'm on call (for two nights about once a month).
For work, about 90% of my stuff is organized through email, and people complaining of too many useless emails probably haven't used a decent mail client like mutt or discovered procmail yet and are still stuck with outlook or some other gui-only atrocity.
Basically, it's all about food production. Once we freeze the yearly food production output at the current amount, population growth will stop. No extra famines or revolts (we're having those already, remember?).
His Book "The Story of B" contains a great analogy about the reproduction among mice.
Ascension in 2k moves? Incredible. I've been playing nethack since the late 80s / early nineties and haven't even managed to find the damn wizard (and if I found him, he'd probably kill me;-)
Nothing special planned, just a nice bbq over at a friend's place with the family. I don' think any of us is going to ascend unexpectedly, but if someone does, we'll most likely wish him / her godspeed and raise our malts in their absence;-)
Love the "dry ice shoes / helium dolls" idea though... I lol'ed;-)
I'm also a recent convert to chrom(e|ium) and have been using it almost exclusively for six months or so, but I find its print functionality severely lacking on Linux (stable builds). I still have to revert to Firefox regularly in order to print a page or two, say in landscape format.
I think those pictures he came up with first inspired an entire generation of would-be computer scientists, maths geeks, physicists and Scientific American readers. How such a simple iteration could render those fascinating patterns even on a 2d grid, remains to this day one of the big mysteries. R.I.P. Benoit, I hope you'll finally be able to make sense of the fractal nature of things from up / down there!
I thought most of those byproducts weren't wasted, but used to feed cattle? No more happy days for the cows, it seems, and Scottish milk is bound to deteriorate from now on (no more whisky flavour).
It's hard to believe that the nation that invented haggis to be able to use *all* parts of a slaughtered animal should simply toss away the byproducts of whisky-making.
"Just about every sports or race cars out there ( including Formula 1) have negative camber. You are saying that is a design default? Righhhhhht."
I think negative camber is used in racing to even out the aerodynamic and body roll effects at high speed, esp. during cornering. The more or less vertical downforce acts on the car, in effect evening out the negative camber at rest, *maximizing* the tyre contact patch to optimize mechanical traction during cornering, so it's quite the opposite goal that's being achieved here.
Of course, normal road cars don't have any aero downforce worth speaking of, to the tyres will remain at negative camber even at high speed.
If I remember correctly, GNU Emacs comes with a rather smart LaTeX mode that parses TeX error messages automagically and allows you to jump to an error's location. This is all from memory when I last used (La)TeX for my thesis a good 15 years ago or so.
Before you blame all of humanity for these things and begin to believe humans are inherently flawed, please read "Ishmael" by Dan Quinn to help cure your misanthropy;-)
I recall many "puzzling" moments at the local pool reading the latest issue of "Scientific American" where he wrote a column regularly. And no, reading this title never attracted any chicks to join me on the blanket, but this is/. after all...;-)
Wow, just wow. Hubble is going stronger than ever, it's hard to believe there was talk of retiring it because the refurbishing costs would be "too high". Yay Hubble!
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I've been using Linux for quite a while (since 1992 or thereabouts) both for work and gaming and have had good results with NV hardware.
However the latest drivers (301.xx or thereabouts) run the 8800gt's fans at full speed even after the system boots, which seems to be a bug affecting quite a few other users across all major distributions.
This should have come from the "what-could-possibly-go-wrong" dept.... voice-activated desktop actions, GAWD help us all ;-)
I don't think it's money that draws you into IT in the first place; if it is, it's probably a bad incentive as money can only do so much to make you happy.
What drew me into IT was passion for the subject, and I do believe that the only way you can possibly do a job for a lifetime is if you're passionate about it.
So while a bigger paycheck *may* be effective in bringing brighter people into the field, they'll probably be as ruthless in their craving to maximize their income as they'd be in other lines of better-paid work (you mentioned security traders, for instance, I'm not sure I'd want those for colleagues ;-))
+1 for Django from my end, too. It can be a bit complex at times if you still know what CGI is and are used to code your web pages accordingly, but once you've got going with it it can be amazingly flexible and powerful.
Also, the built in "admin" will save you a ton of work down the road.
I'm not a full-time developer mind you, but the people I've heard good things about Django from are right up there with the best of them as far as development skills go in our company.
me too, I hate talking on the phone or having the damn thing ring when I'm in the middle of something else. I have my office phone set to the lowest possible ring tone volume (sadly it's not possible to have it just beep once like the old ones we used to have), and my mobile phone is usually muted, too except when I'm on call (for two nights about once a month).
For work, about 90% of my stuff is organized through email, and people complaining of too many useless emails probably haven't used a decent mail client like mutt or discovered procmail yet and are still stuck with outlook or some other gui-only atrocity.
Dan Quinn has some very insteresting ideas you might want to check out:
http://www.ishmael.org/
Basically, it's all about food production. Once we freeze the yearly food production output at the current amount, population growth will stop. No extra famines or revolts (we're having those already, remember?).
His Book "The Story of B" contains a great analogy about the reproduction among mice.
Ascension in 2k moves? Incredible. I've been playing nethack since the late 80s / early nineties and haven't even managed to find the damn wizard (and if I found him, he'd probably kill me ;-)
Another vote for Linux Mint 11, maybe try pinguey which is supposed to be even easier.
Nothing special planned, just a nice bbq over at a friend's place with the family. I don' think any of us is going to ascend unexpectedly, but if someone does, we'll most likely wish him / her godspeed and raise our malts in their absence ;-)
Love the "dry ice shoes / helium dolls" idea though... I lol'ed ;-)
Uwe
Hmm, nice mission acryonm, makes we wonder what they'll name the TItan Thermal Sensors on that probe ;-)
I'm also a recent convert to chrom(e|ium) and have been using it almost exclusively for six months or so, but I find its print functionality severely lacking on Linux (stable builds). I still have to revert to Firefox regularly in order to print a page or two, say in landscape format.
org-mode here, too (and emacs, of course)
I think those pictures he came up with first inspired an entire generation of would-be computer scientists, maths geeks, physicists and Scientific American readers. How such a simple iteration could render those fascinating patterns even on a 2d grid, remains to this day one of the big mysteries. R.I.P. Benoit, I hope you'll finally be able to make sense of the fractal nature of things from up / down there!
I thought most of those byproducts weren't wasted, but used to feed cattle? No more happy days for the cows, it seems, and Scottish milk is bound to deteriorate from now on (no more whisky flavour).
It's hard to believe that the nation that invented haggis to be able to use *all* parts of a slaughtered animal should simply toss away the byproducts of whisky-making.
A thousand times *this*. The Emperor hath no clothes....
I think negative camber is used in racing to even out the aerodynamic and body roll effects at high speed, esp. during cornering. The more or less vertical downforce acts on the car, in effect evening out the negative camber at rest, *maximizing* the tyre contact patch to optimize mechanical traction during cornering, so it's quite the opposite goal that's being achieved here.
Of course, normal road cars don't have any aero downforce worth speaking of, to the tyres will remain at negative camber even at high speed.
If I remember correctly, GNU Emacs comes with a rather smart LaTeX mode that parses TeX error messages automagically and allows you to jump to an error's location. This is all from memory when I last used (La)TeX for my thesis a good 15 years ago or so.
Before you blame all of humanity for these things and begin to believe humans are inherently flawed, please read "Ishmael" by Dan Quinn to help cure your misanthropy ;-)
That laff was much needed, thanks ;-)
I recall many "puzzling" moments at the local pool reading the latest issue of "Scientific American" where he wrote a column regularly. And no, reading this title never attracted any chicks to join me on the blanket, but this is /. after all... ;-)
Godspeed Martin, your wit & humor will be missed.
Where's the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag when you need it?
anyone else read this as "Auror" at the first glance? ;-)
Wow, just wow. Hubble is going stronger than ever, it's hard to believe there was talk of retiring it because the refurbishing costs would be "too high". Yay Hubble!
FTA: "OpenMoku".... pfffft ;-)
Congrats guys, keep up the good work.