It is probably a redundant reply but it can't be stressed enough. What changed is the death of one of the better CUP architectures. The death of the Alpha is one of those great mistakes in the history of computers.
Heh, not quite. They are trying to use the general publics ignorance of how this whole business financial systems works to get them to sue RH in order for "those bastards" to get a lot of money. They don't care about the general public. As someone already posted, go google and see for yourself. Or read the link I referenced.
There's a great piece on this whole thing by Melanie Hollands in the IT Manager's Journal that goes into excruciating detail on this topic. RH is doing nothing wrong. It's a normal happening in the business world. The use of the term "Ambulance chasers" in the original post was dead on. I don't particularly like nor dislike RH but this kind of greedy BS that Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP are doing smells of the same stench as TSG & Microsoft.
Back about 10 years ago, when I was still of a mind to build my own systems, i was putting together a MoBo and accedently put the CUP in upsidedown. When I turned on the power I noticed that the normal boot sequence wasn't happening. Luckily I hadn't put the case back on 'cause all of a sudden there was a pinpoint glow on the back of the CPU. It started out orange then went to bright red and finally got to a blinding white by the time I yelled "Oh shit!!" and pulled the power. There was a nice little hole where the pin had melted through the chip.
I should have saved that as a reminder to be more careful but it doesn't matter now as I don't do HW anymore.
I still don't understand why the holdouts have not converted to the metric system. I moved from the US to Germany when I was 13. I knew the Imperial system (not well, but enough). It first I kept trying to convert centemeters to inches and meters to feet but that was just such a pain. Finally I decided it didn't matter what the Imperial measurments were and just ignored them. If something was 2 meters then I just thought about it as 2 meters. In less than 3 months I was up to speed on all the weaghts and measures of the Metric system. A meter was a meter, a liter was a liter, a gram was a gram... It was quite easy.
When we moved to the States in the late 80's I had to do it all in reverse. It took a lot longer than a few months to get back to the Imperial system, though. Once you've become familiar with the Metric system you see how insane inches & pounds & gallons are.
I realize that the biggest cost of changing over would be the recalibration of all the machinery and production plants and equipment. But I don't think it'd be prohibitavly expensive. All the manyfacturing plants already product things in Metric for sale outside their countries. Most vehicles have duel speedometers so just swap the smaller Metric and the larger Imperial for a little while. There would be a lot of work involved but the long term savings and benifit would far outweigh it.
The fact of the matter is that there's no critical or compelling reason not to change to Metric.
Don't put up partitions. They bring more problems than productivity. Every place I've worked that had partitions had the same problems; people talking very loud on the phone because they feel like they are isolated or in their own room because of the "walls", people playing music loud for the same reason, it hinders any ability to foster cross pollination and the ability to form cohesive working teams and it just makes things less easy to organize.
The best environments I've ever worked in were when everyone in the same branch/group/team were in one room with no dividers.
> Jim Morrison of Symantec goes step-by-step in looking at how the Blaster worm got > out of control so quickly, and what lessons can be learned from that event...
Lesson #1 - Don't run Microsoft OS
Lesson #2 - Don't run any Microsoft apps
Lesson #3 - See lesson #1
If you want to stop viruses (and spam, it seems) you cannot run any MS software.
> Microsoft could be heading for a disaster that even Bill's billions won't dig them out of
The title says it all. Once can only hope that something, somehow knocks MS down hard so that we can finally get some real progress and innovation in the Tech field.
In F1 the buttons all mean something. There's the gear shift adjuster, the pit lane speed limiter, the clutch, the radio transmit button... While it may be true that buttons and knobs are for show in passanger cars, they definitely aren't for F1. I'd recomend you go to the F1 site for more info.
> How will they ever be ready in time for the November elections?
Answer: They won't. Until the world realizes that they need a truily open standard for electronic voting no "solution" will ever be ready to impliment.
I was rather surprized at the results of the test. I knew perl would be on top. Whether it's best or not it will always be in the winners circle because it is the "tool of choice" even when it isn't the best tool for the job. ruby was nice to see up there. It's a really good language; kind of what you'd bet if perl and python had a baby. But the real shocker was that sh was picked. In any kind of "test" like this the Bourne shell should always be a run away winner. UNIX shell programing, with all the UNIX command line tools (awk, sed, grep, etc.) if the hands down best generic scripting option for simple to medium level, cross platform, portable scripts. Hell, that's what it was created for.
One of the down sides to the advancement of the free "as in everything" OSs is that people are learning lots of perl and python and such but not learning shell. Whether you are a developer, sysadmin, user or tinkerer you should learn shell first and always add it to the list of tools to evaluate for any situation that comes up.
In a previous life I was a programmer. I was still coding when our son was born. Because I worked for the US Federal Government. Specifically the DoD/US Army. I was quite lucky in the flexibility available to me (I even got paid paternity leave). I know a number of people who worked in the civilian sector and, while they didn't have the benefits and support from the company that I had, most of the companies were smart enough to realize that helping parents with childcare costs and flexible schedules meant that they got more productive employees. You should check with your company to see what their policies are for parents.
Back in the ancient days of Fidonet, there was a local guy who'd been a node since the very early days (mid to late 80's I believe). Sometime in the late 90's he passed away. However, his BBS and Fido node kept running for many months after. This was a testament to the stability of BBSs back in the day as well as the work he did to make things useful on his board. Finally his widow had to shut the board down. He hadn't left his passwd or any of the other bits of info for her to be able to pass the board on to someone. It was interesting that the users of his board didn't know he was gone for quite a wile.
The only reason I have the first three Tremors movies is because my son loves them. So do my two nieces, for that matter. Burt Gummer is a hero as far as they are concerned. Hey, if it were just me I'd have stopped at the first one. But a 7 year old tends to trump a 41 year old on matters like this.
> Are we noticing an emergence of a new trend of media to look for original plot ideas
> from wilds the 'net?"
Show business needs to look somewhere for original plot ideas. They most definitely have none in Hollywood nor with the studio Exec's in NY and FL. There is so very little decent, quality programming on TV. And in movies it's almost not worth owning a VCR/DVD player, or a TV for that matter.
I have the fortune of having a 7 year old son. It's just him and me picking our own entertaimment. For that reason I tend to watch a number of cartoons on Nick and the Cartoon Network. He loves "Spounge Bob" & "Kids Next Door." I can watch them with him but I don't get the same enjoyment from them as he does. However, there is a block on the Cartoon Network now called "Migusi" which airs from 1700 to 1900. We watch "Totally Spies", "Code Lyoko", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Teen Titans". Code Lyoko is really fun and out there. The Turtles have always been a hoot and the Teen Titans are just plane cool. Not to mention their theme song is by Puffy AmiYumi.
As for moview, we have the majority of the Godzilla collection and the first three Tremmors movies (still need the 4th one). Got a number of Pokemon and assorted cartoons (not to mention the virtually manditory Disney movies). My personal movie collection, i.e. the ones daddy gets to watch, are about half F&SF and half Kurosawa/Mifune/Shimura films and their like (CT/HD & The Last Samuri being the most recently made). We'll just skip over the videos in the box on the top shelf of my bedroom closet for now.;-)
What was I talking about?!? Oh, yeah! That the "entertainment industry" is full of brainless idiots who wouldn't know a good story or show if it hit them in the head.
I've been using iBlog for a while and it's not bad. It only works on a Mac OS X system and with a.Mac account so it's very "propriatery" but it's fairly decent as blogs go.
It's true, I have never been to a university computer center. I didn't really spend much time in university at all, for that matter. Maybe my statement on funkyness should have been limited primarily to commercial sites. Or even more specifically Millitary sites, as that is where I have been since I was 19.
but I'm to lazy to do anything about it. The "opposite sex repulsion" I can deal with but the "less than ideal personal hygiene routine" is just insulting. In 22 years I haven't met a techie/geek who's personal hygiene was questionable. Dubious interpersonal communications skills, yes (it can be hard to interface with the humans). An over abundance of pompousness, sure. But we don't stink.
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Heh, just like the car alarm. A great idea that never should have been invented. One of those, "What were they thinking?" kinda things.
It is probably a redundant reply but it can't be stressed enough. What changed is the death of one of the better CUP architectures. The death of the Alpha is one of those great mistakes in the history of computers.
Heh, not quite. They are trying to use the general publics ignorance of how this whole business financial systems works to get them to sue RH in order for "those bastards" to get a lot of money. They don't care about the general public. As someone already posted, go google and see for yourself. Or read the link I referenced.
There's a great piece on this whole thing by Melanie Hollands in the IT Manager's Journal that goes into excruciating detail on this topic. RH is doing nothing wrong. It's a normal happening in the business world. The use of the term "Ambulance chasers" in the original post was dead on. I don't particularly like nor dislike RH but this kind of greedy BS that Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP are doing smells of the same stench as TSG & Microsoft.
- vi(m)
- mc
- xterm
- nano
- Sprite/7-Up/Sierra Mist
- Chocolate
- Doritos (or any kind of flavored chip)
- Skoal
- More Doritos
- Even More Sprite/7-Up/Sierra Mist
Obviously the only real answers are 1-3 with a very occasional use of 4.I never really liked them anyway.
I should have saved that as a reminder to be more careful but it doesn't matter now as I don't do HW anymore.
- SysAdmin Magazine
- Linux Journal
- Linux Magazine
- Software Development Magazine
- Mac World
- Dragon Magazine
I also get a boatload of other magazines like SD Times and FCN and other "free" ones that I never have time for.I am, however, still waiting for my first issue of Sci Fi Magazine. Got two bills from them but no mag.
When we moved to the States in the late 80's I had to do it all in reverse. It took a lot longer than a few months to get back to the Imperial system, though. Once you've become familiar with the Metric system you see how insane inches & pounds & gallons are.
I realize that the biggest cost of changing over would be the recalibration of all the machinery and production plants and equipment. But I don't think it'd be prohibitavly expensive. All the manyfacturing plants already product things in Metric for sale outside their countries. Most vehicles have duel speedometers so just swap the smaller Metric and the larger Imperial for a little while. There would be a lot of work involved but the long term savings and benifit would far outweigh it.
The fact of the matter is that there's no critical or compelling reason not to change to Metric.
The best environments I've ever worked in were when everyone in the same branch/group/team were in one room with no dividers.
> out of control so quickly, and what lessons can be learned from that event...
- Lesson #1 - Don't run Microsoft OS
- Lesson #2 - Don't run any Microsoft apps
- Lesson #3 - See lesson #1
If you want to stop viruses (and spam, it seems) you cannot run any MS software.Sorry. Since F1, along with Ozumo, are my favorite sports it's sometimes hard to tell the humor from the uninformed.
The title says it all. Once can only hope that something, somehow knocks MS down hard so that we can finally get some real progress and innovation in the Tech field.
In F1 the buttons all mean something. There's the gear shift adjuster, the pit lane speed limiter, the clutch, the radio transmit button... While it may be true that buttons and knobs are for show in passanger cars, they definitely aren't for F1. I'd recomend you go to the F1 site for more info.
Answer: They won't. Until the world realizes that they need a truily open standard for electronic voting no "solution" will ever be ready to impliment.
One of the down sides to the advancement of the free "as in everything" OSs is that people are learning lots of perl and python and such but not learning shell. Whether you are a developer, sysadmin, user or tinkerer you should learn shell first and always add it to the list of tools to evaluate for any situation that comes up.
- Security
- Stability
- Flexability
- Better user interface (especially with XFce)
- Compatability
- A bunch of other "-ability" adjectives I can't think of off-hand 'cause my brain is fried from work
The fact is that there's absolutely no reason to run any Microsoft OS and little reason to run any of their apps.I still prefer to do my COBOL coding in all caps, even though lower/mixed case has been supported for a while. It just doesn't look the same.
In a previous life I was a programmer. I was still coding when our son was born. Because I worked for the US Federal Government. Specifically the DoD/US Army. I was quite lucky in the flexibility available to me (I even got paid paternity leave). I know a number of people who worked in the civilian sector and, while they didn't have the benefits and support from the company that I had, most of the companies were smart enough to realize that helping parents with childcare costs and flexible schedules meant that they got more productive employees. You should check with your company to see what their policies are for parents.
Back in the ancient days of Fidonet, there was a local guy who'd been a node since the very early days (mid to late 80's I believe). Sometime in the late 90's he passed away. However, his BBS and Fido node kept running for many months after. This was a testament to the stability of BBSs back in the day as well as the work he did to make things useful on his board. Finally his widow had to shut the board down. He hadn't left his passwd or any of the other bits of info for her to be able to pass the board on to someone. It was interesting that the users of his board didn't know he was gone for quite a wile.
The only reason I have the first three Tremors movies is because my son loves them. So do my two nieces, for that matter. Burt Gummer is a hero as far as they are concerned. Hey, if it were just me I'd have stopped at the first one. But a 7 year old tends to trump a 41 year old on matters like this.
> from wilds the 'net?"
Show business needs to look somewhere for original plot ideas. They most definitely have none in Hollywood nor with the studio Exec's in NY and FL. There is so very little decent, quality programming on TV. And in movies it's almost not worth owning a VCR/DVD player, or a TV for that matter.
I have the fortune of having a 7 year old son. It's just him and me picking our own entertaimment. For that reason I tend to watch a number of cartoons on Nick and the Cartoon Network. He loves "Spounge Bob" & "Kids Next Door." I can watch them with him but I don't get the same enjoyment from them as he does. However, there is a block on the Cartoon Network now called "Migusi" which airs from 1700 to 1900. We watch "Totally Spies", "Code Lyoko", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Teen Titans". Code Lyoko is really fun and out there. The Turtles have always been a hoot and the Teen Titans are just plane cool. Not to mention their theme song is by Puffy AmiYumi.
As for moview, we have the majority of the Godzilla collection and the first three Tremmors movies (still need the 4th one). Got a number of Pokemon and assorted cartoons (not to mention the virtually manditory Disney movies). My personal movie collection, i.e. the ones daddy gets to watch, are about half F&SF and half Kurosawa/Mifune/Shimura films and their like (CT/HD & The Last Samuri being the most recently made). We'll just skip over the videos in the box on the top shelf of my bedroom closet for now. ;-)
What was I talking about?!? Oh, yeah! That the "entertainment industry" is full of brainless idiots who wouldn't know a good story or show if it hit them in the head.
I've been using iBlog for a while and it's not bad. It only works on a Mac OS X system and with a .Mac account so it's very "propriatery" but it's fairly decent as blogs go.
It's true, I have never been to a university computer center. I didn't really spend much time in university at all, for that matter. Maybe my statement on funkyness should have been limited primarily to commercial sites. Or even more specifically Millitary sites, as that is where I have been since I was 19.
but I'm to lazy to do anything about it. The "opposite sex repulsion" I can deal with but the "less than ideal personal hygiene routine" is just insulting. In 22 years I haven't met a techie/geek who's personal hygiene was questionable. Dubious interpersonal communications skills, yes (it can be hard to interface with the humans). An over abundance of pompousness, sure. But we don't stink.