The problem with Eco Terrorism is this: It leads to reverse terrorism.
If Ecoterroists burned the SUV of some of the folks I know, their "Innocent Media Spokesman" would have to watch his butt for a LONG time. When you play outside the "rules" don't be surprised of other folks come out to play too
Ok folks,
This is for the MSDN Universal Subscription DOWNLOAD site. For those of you who are NOT in the Microsoft developer world, the MSDN Universal subscription site allows you to download EVERY non game product Microsoft sell, with NO fee beyond your subscription
The problem was/is the site is a simple ID/Password setup. What's to prevent you from using it at home/giving it to a friend, etc? Not much
When you setup passport, your ONLY going to get in with that Passport PC (or maybe at home) - You sure as heck aren't going to give the info out on the net
It's a pure "If you want it, BUY it" move. The MSDN Univeral Subscription is a GREAT buy (at least compared to "Other" Microsoft prices), so they don't want it shared. That $2000 subscription is cheap compared to the individual prices. Think what a copy of W2K Enterprise, SQL2K Enterprise, and a full copy of Visual Studio cost "retail" and then look at that 2K Price again
You mean Manhattan (I can tell by the brokers you listed)
I found the Realtor.com did a good job out in Queens. It seems there are 2 MLSs dealing with Eastern Queens, LIBOR, and I forget the name of the other. Talking with the agents, even thier "In House" stuff delas with these 2 MLSs. One is dieing, as there system sucks, the other gets the info to the brokers FAST, and also puts the info right into realtor.com
The BIG problem in Eastern Queens right now is that the market is VERY hot, and most houses go before they make the MLS system!
An example - I'm in the middle of buying/selling. The house I bought was on the market 2 days, and was MLS from the first day. The house I'm selling, the agent asked me to let him have a 5 day exclusive (aka, NOT on the MLS system) - The house was gone the 2nd day of showings, and I had multiple offers
I know that I found the realtor that I used to just go to contract via the net, and I looked at a LOT of houses (Including one I made an offer on) via the net. The house I'm buying never made it to the net.
The thing is, I knew the exact areas I wanted to buy in, and could weed the listings on Realtor.com close enough that 90% matched the area. That lead me close enough to email my realtor to say "setup a showing"
Doesn't work in windows, and I've been telling developers this for years.
First, some background - I'm a windows developer, and have been since Windows 3.0 (programming for a living since 82), and I even played around with development before that
Windows, when looking for a NON OLE DLL, first looks in MEMORY, then in the local application directory, then the Windir, Then Winsysdir, then apppath. When loading an OLE type DLL (as most are today), it looks where the REGISTERED version is, and ignores all other copies on your system
Putting the NON OLE DLL in your applications directory works fine, IF you ONLY run that one app at a time. What happens if you run the app the uses the OLD version of the DLL FIRST, then load the second app at the same time - RIGHT the dll is already in memory
What is supposed to be done, and I've spent years yelling at some of my co workers is this
YOU NEVER BREAK BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY WITHOUT RENAMING the DLL. It will bite you in the ass. Your install program should NEVER overwrite a newer version of a DLL with an older version.
The BIG problems are the following
1)Developers writing non backwards compatible DLLS - Crystal Reports is famous for this. CTRL3D32 is also a example
2)MANY companies thing that running install programs is too much work, because their in house developers come out with "The Version Of The Day", so they use batch files to overwrite DLLs/programs without checking versions or what is in the registry
Folks, MSFT has said "Don't Do That" for years. Unfortunately, they don't prevent you from doing this. That is why XP is supposed to (last I heard) load a different copy of the DLL for each application - then the idea of "DLL in the application directory" works great - The.NET project is also supposed to fix this - we'll see.
Shared libs will cause this same descent into hell if we're not careful to prevent this problem. The answer is NOT "Make sure you install the latest RPMs (debs)" assuming that they will be backwards compatible - this WILL fail. It's the same answer Microsoft took - "If you do it right, it works". The problem is, when you become the OS that sits everywhere, people WILL do it work, and then complain
Yes, there are many other factors. Please go read "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", and think about the parallels.
It seems to be universal, when a country rises to power, it's citizens become soft. They don't want to work or think, and you end up with "Bread and Circuses". You soon end up with the downfall of that country, and another becomes the world leader.
If the citizens of the old power are lucky, the fall is smooth, and they get to sit back in their country's old age, and enjoy life at a slower pace. If they are unlucky, the new power isn't so nice, and a lot of people die
They don't start that way - they start with a clean, well structured design, and then they end up in maintainence mode. Guess what happens then? Yep, it all breaks down. The biggest reason for this is feature creep. We all say it won't happen, but when the end user (who pays the bills - remember programmers are overhead) says "I need X, and the fact that I don't have it is a bug", it doesn't do any good to show them a spec, they want the feature. So it gets added. When the end user says "we need this new feature in 3 days, OR ELSE", what do you do?
Gee folks, it's the Bazaar model! When you go to the bazaar, there are no fixed prices - the price depends on what you want to pay, and what the vendor wants to sell for
(I seem to remember a software movement based upon open knowledge, something like this )
Not even talking about the table (why would they need a table?)
NASA and the astronauts both said that they need more "Hands On" folks.
This, in the era where we are removing things like shop classes in our schools, because we don't need them to get into college. The "I'm not going to work with my hands" mentality
Most school systems in the US no long teach any shop. It's a shame.
Joke is, some of the BEST academic schools out there still require you to take drafting or CAD classes. Maybe you can figure out HOW to build something
Having known a company that got audited, it's a bitch, but here's my question
Let's say I have a shop with NO Microsoft software, and that has NEVER had any Microsoft software. Can they audit me, and , if they can, what gives them the right?
Jim,
Your right - for the budget, you can't beat what's out there. Now, if you want to spend BUCKS, I can point you to some folks (Did I mention I used to work for a power supply company)
I once wrote a shrink wrap program for a nitch market that was the best selling in the nitch.
I can tell you about a (true) Sev 2 (or maybe sev 1, as the main part of the program didn't work) bug that was LOW priority
Way back when, HP made a card that went into you PC that accelerated your Laser Printer. What it did was offload any graphics processing from the printer to the PC - If I remember right, it was called a LaserDirect card
Well anyway, we found a bug after we shipped - The the client was running a PS2 Model 80, in a certain video mode, with this HP card, NO report printing worked, AT ALL. When you consider the main purpose of the app was to print these reports, it was fairly bad
The thing is, in the first 6 months the app was out there, we found ONE customer who hit that bug. We had a simple answer - we gave them their money back, and said, "Sorry"
Jim,
Not arguing your line loss figures, but you can always use a power supply with remote sense lines to make up for the line loss. I used to work in electronics, and we HAD to do it on some of our higher power boxes. When your pushing 120 amps of 5VDC with a +- 50mV spec, you have NO choice
You mean something like this?
Those shakers are nothing but BIG stiff air or water cooled speakers - They typically start at around 10 KILOWATS and go up from there. One of the systems I ran was 23 KVA, and the other was a tad over 100 KVA. I had the biggest amps on the block
They make all kinds of vibration control stuff - good for low amplitude stuff like you are seeing
Remember one important thing, a poorly designed vibration damper can make things MUCH worse! If the resonant frequency of the damper happens to fall near the fundamental frequency of the vibration, you will get amplification, NOT reduction! Worse yet, if those frequencies happen to be near the critical (aka resonant) frequencies of your hard drives. BTW the greater the damping over the longer the bandwidth, the larger the amplification
These guys offer a bunch of information on vibration and shock. I took Wayne's course at his old company back when I was doing vibration testing for a living - They were the only guys doing vibration testing courses in the early 80s
The PROBLEM with making threats is the the bullies have learned where the "edges" of the system are, and how to manipulate the system for their own gain. You make a threat, THEY go to the adminstrator, and use THAT to bully you!
Let me tell you what DID work for ME
I was the kid in Jr high that got picked on all the time, and beat on at least twice a week, and even stabbed with an xacto knife once. I tried the school administrators, I tried Mom and Dad. Nothing worked, until...
Dad decided it was time for me to play the bullies own game back. Dad taught me to FIGHT. Not "clean" like most kids, but dirty. HOW dirty? Dad was in the OSS (Folks, these guys were the foundation of ALL US Military special forces). He taught me a bunch of what they taught him
I didn't make ANY threats. I just kicked the crap out of the bullies. Believe it or not, you'll probably get suspended for LESS time (Heck, the bullies don't get tossed, right?). After you take out the top one or two bullies once or twice, it ENDS. They realize you are no longer the easy target
The VoltAmp spec CAN be useful, if it's coupled with numbers like what KIND of power factors the UPS can deliver the VAs into, and with what kind of distortion
That said, I used to work for a company that made REALLY high grade UPS systems, but it's been more than 10 years since I worked there.
There are UPS units out there that will deliver a pure sine wave (.002% THD) into any load from pure inductive to pure capactive - BUT your looking at BIG units, at BIG dollars
Want to know why there are now black boxes/web cams? These guys spend MEGA bucks trimming weight, so that they can even launch the darned thing. If they have a kilo or two of "spare" weight "budget", they'll tack on another experiment!
One of the hard parts in satelite design is figuring out what experiments go, and which get cut. Picture telling some researcher somewhere that has been working for 20 years on a theory, "Sorry, we don't have the 2 lbs for your instrament"
What to know the REAL answer to the post? Simple, I saw the oportunity to make the oldest drummer joke going, and figured I'd Karma Whore for a funny rating!
Actually, Linux is my weakest point, and my knitting USED to be good, but I haven't done it in years. Cars (well, older ones - pre electronics) I can fix.
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The problem with Eco Terrorism is this: It leads to reverse terrorism.
If Ecoterroists burned the SUV of some of the folks I know, their "Innocent Media Spokesman" would have to watch his butt for a LONG time. When you play outside the "rules" don't be surprised of other folks come out to play too
Ok folks,
This is for the MSDN Universal Subscription DOWNLOAD site. For those of you who are NOT in the Microsoft developer world, the MSDN Universal subscription site allows you to download EVERY non game product Microsoft sell, with NO fee beyond your subscription
The problem was/is the site is a simple ID/Password setup. What's to prevent you from using it at home/giving it to a friend, etc? Not much
When you setup passport, your ONLY going to get in with that Passport PC (or maybe at home) - You sure as heck aren't going to give the info out on the net
It's a pure "If you want it, BUY it" move. The MSDN Univeral Subscription is a GREAT buy (at least compared to "Other" Microsoft prices), so they don't want it shared. That $2000 subscription is cheap compared to the individual prices. Think what a copy of W2K Enterprise, SQL2K Enterprise, and a full copy of Visual Studio cost "retail" and then look at that 2K Price again
If your in the NYC area, I'll be glad to get together
So, try and setup a keysigning!
If anyone is interested in NYC/Long Island, let me know!
Russ,
Thanks - Didn't know that it had made it into W2K (which is what I run at work and on one of my home machines)
You mean Manhattan (I can tell by the brokers you listed)
I found the Realtor.com did a good job out in Queens. It seems there are 2 MLSs dealing with Eastern Queens, LIBOR, and I forget the name of the other. Talking with the agents, even thier "In House" stuff delas with these 2 MLSs. One is dieing, as there system sucks, the other gets the info to the brokers FAST, and also puts the info right into realtor.com
The BIG problem in Eastern Queens right now is that the market is VERY hot, and most houses go before they make the MLS system!
An example - I'm in the middle of buying/selling. The house I bought was on the market 2 days, and was MLS from the first day. The house I'm selling, the agent asked me to let him have a 5 day exclusive (aka, NOT on the MLS system) - The house was gone the 2nd day of showings, and I had multiple offers
I know that I found the realtor that I used to just go to contract via the net, and I looked at a LOT of houses (Including one I made an offer on) via the net. The house I'm buying never made it to the net.
The thing is, I knew the exact areas I wanted to buy in, and could weed the listings on Realtor.com close enough that 90% matched the area. That lead me close enough to email my realtor to say "setup a showing"
Doesn't work in windows, and I've been telling developers this for years.
.NET project is also supposed to fix this - we'll see.
First, some background - I'm a windows developer, and have been since Windows 3.0 (programming for a living since 82), and I even played around with development before that
Windows, when looking for a NON OLE DLL, first looks in MEMORY, then in the local application directory, then the Windir, Then Winsysdir, then apppath. When loading an OLE type DLL (as most are today), it looks where the REGISTERED version is, and ignores all other copies on your system
Putting the NON OLE DLL in your applications directory works fine, IF you ONLY run that one app at a time. What happens if you run the app the uses the OLD version of the DLL FIRST, then load the second app at the same time - RIGHT the dll is already in memory
What is supposed to be done, and I've spent years yelling at some of my co workers is this
YOU NEVER BREAK BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY WITHOUT RENAMING the DLL. It will bite you in the ass. Your install program should NEVER overwrite a newer version of a DLL with an older version.
The BIG problems are the following
1)Developers writing non backwards compatible DLLS - Crystal Reports is famous for this. CTRL3D32 is also a example
2)MANY companies thing that running install programs is too much work, because their in house developers come out with "The Version Of The Day", so they use batch files to overwrite DLLs/programs without checking versions or what is in the registry
Folks, MSFT has said "Don't Do That" for years. Unfortunately, they don't prevent you from doing this. That is why XP is supposed to (last I heard) load a different copy of the DLL for each application - then the idea of "DLL in the application directory" works great - The
Shared libs will cause this same descent into hell if we're not careful to prevent this problem. The answer is NOT "Make sure you install the latest RPMs (debs)" assuming that they will be backwards compatible - this WILL fail. It's the same answer Microsoft took - "If you do it right, it works". The problem is, when you become the OS that sits everywhere, people WILL do it work, and then complain
Yes, there are many other factors. Please go read "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", and think about the parallels.
It seems to be universal, when a country rises to power, it's citizens become soft. They don't want to work or think, and you end up with "Bread and Circuses". You soon end up with the downfall of that country, and another becomes the world leader.
If the citizens of the old power are lucky, the fall is smooth, and they get to sit back in their country's old age, and enjoy life at a slower pace. If they are unlucky, the new power isn't so nice, and a lot of people die
Ok, it's slight OT - But does anyone know of a regular keysigning in NYC, or does anyone want to set one up? I'm game
Charlie
Gee, I thought it already exists - they call it APL
Guess what? Most systems are that bad!
They don't start that way - they start with a clean, well structured design, and then they end up in maintainence mode. Guess what happens then? Yep, it all breaks down. The biggest reason for this is feature creep. We all say it won't happen, but when the end user (who pays the bills - remember programmers are overhead) says "I need X, and the fact that I don't have it is a bug", it doesn't do any good to show them a spec, they want the feature. So it gets added. When the end user says "we need this new feature in 3 days, OR ELSE", what do you do?
Gee folks, it's the Bazaar model! When you go to the bazaar, there are no fixed prices - the price depends on what you want to pay, and what the vendor wants to sell for
(I seem to remember a software movement based upon open knowledge, something like this )
Not even talking about the table (why would they need a table?)
NASA and the astronauts both said that they need more "Hands On" folks.
This, in the era where we are removing things like shop classes in our schools, because we don't need them to get into college. The "I'm not going to work with my hands" mentality
Most school systems in the US no long teach any shop. It's a shame.
Joke is, some of the BEST academic schools out there still require you to take drafting or CAD classes. Maybe you can figure out HOW to build something
OK, They get a tip from the BSA, but so what? I have NO agreement with them, so I say "No, you can't come in, pound sand, I have no business with you"
Having known a company that got audited, it's a bitch, but here's my question
Let's say I have a shop with NO Microsoft software, and that has NEVER had any Microsoft software. Can they audit me, and , if they can, what gives them the right?
Jim,
Your right - for the budget, you can't beat what's out there. Now, if you want to spend BUCKS, I can point you to some folks (Did I mention I used to work for a power supply company)
I once wrote a shrink wrap program for a nitch market that was the best selling in the nitch.
I can tell you about a (true) Sev 2 (or maybe sev 1, as the main part of the program didn't work) bug that was LOW priority
Way back when, HP made a card that went into you PC that accelerated your Laser Printer. What it did was offload any graphics processing from the printer to the PC - If I remember right, it was called a LaserDirect card
Well anyway, we found a bug after we shipped - The the client was running a PS2 Model 80, in a certain video mode, with this HP card, NO report printing worked, AT ALL. When you consider the main purpose of the app was to print these reports, it was fairly bad
The thing is, in the first 6 months the app was out there, we found ONE customer who hit that bug. We had a simple answer - we gave them their money back, and said, "Sorry"
Jim,
Not arguing your line loss figures, but you can always use a power supply with remote sense lines to make up for the line loss. I used to work in electronics, and we HAD to do it on some of our higher power boxes. When your pushing 120 amps of 5VDC with a +- 50mV spec, you have NO choice
You mean something like this?
Those shakers are nothing but BIG stiff air or water cooled speakers - They typically start at around 10 KILOWATS and go up from there. One of the systems I ran was 23 KVA, and the other was a tad over 100 KVA. I had the biggest amps on the block
Check out EAR
They make all kinds of vibration control stuff - good for low amplitude stuff like you are seeing
Remember one important thing, a poorly designed vibration damper can make things MUCH worse! If the resonant frequency of the damper happens to fall near the fundamental frequency of the vibration, you will get amplification, NOT reduction! Worse yet, if those frequencies happen to be near the critical (aka resonant) frequencies of your hard drives. BTW the greater the damping over the longer the bandwidth, the larger the amplification
These guys offer a bunch of information on vibration and shock. I took Wayne's course at his old company back when I was doing vibration testing for a living - They were the only guys doing vibration testing courses in the early 80s
The PROBLEM with making threats is the the bullies have learned where the "edges" of the system are, and how to manipulate the system for their own gain. You make a threat, THEY go to the adminstrator, and use THAT to bully you!
Let me tell you what DID work for ME
I was the kid in Jr high that got picked on all the time, and beat on at least twice a week, and even stabbed with an xacto knife once. I tried the school administrators, I tried Mom and Dad. Nothing worked, until...
Dad decided it was time for me to play the bullies own game back. Dad taught me to FIGHT. Not "clean" like most kids, but dirty. HOW dirty? Dad was in the OSS (Folks, these guys were the foundation of ALL US Military special forces). He taught me a bunch of what they taught him
I didn't make ANY threats. I just kicked the crap out of the bullies. Believe it or not, you'll probably get suspended for LESS time (Heck, the bullies don't get tossed, right?). After you take out the top one or two bullies once or twice, it ENDS. They realize you are no longer the easy target
The VoltAmp spec CAN be useful, if it's coupled with numbers like what KIND of power factors the UPS can deliver the VAs into, and with what kind of distortion
That said, I used to work for a company that made REALLY high grade UPS systems, but it's been more than 10 years since I worked there.
There are UPS units out there that will deliver a pure sine wave (.002% THD) into any load from pure inductive to pure capactive - BUT your looking at BIG units, at BIG dollars
Want to know why there are now black boxes/web cams? These guys spend MEGA bucks trimming weight, so that they can even launch the darned thing. If they have a kilo or two of "spare" weight "budget", they'll tack on another experiment! One of the hard parts in satelite design is figuring out what experiments go, and which get cut. Picture telling some researcher somewhere that has been working for 20 years on a theory, "Sorry, we don't have the 2 lbs for your instrament"
What to know the REAL answer to the post? Simple, I saw the oportunity to make the oldest drummer joke going, and figured I'd Karma Whore for a funny rating!
Actually, Linux is my weakest point, and my knitting USED to be good, but I haven't done it in years. Cars (well, older ones - pre electronics) I can fix.
What can I tell you