Actually the G9x was the best gaming mouse Logitech ever produced. No nonsense, rock solid, adjustable weight, adjustable grip, and the usual adjustable profiles. It was so reliable, I still have two working after over 10 years, I almost suspect it was the reason Logitech stopped making it. Once you owned one you never needed to buy another gaming mouse again. I must not be the only person to think so as original boxed versions go for hundreds of dollars on Ebay.
> A system that requires more support is good business for them.
I don't think you understand how a Redhat subscription works. What sane business would go "our product is broken, please pay us even more money to fix it" ?
I'm curious if Redhat are regretting their decision on the early hard switch to systemd in RHEL7. I know for a fact their support system was flooded with issues from early adopters. I have friends in the industry still on RHEL6 as the upgrade to version 7 is a logistical nightmare and one who works at a reasonably large enterprise considering ditching Redhat entirely to go to a systemd-less alternative.
That faster boot time sure helps with servers that are only restarted once a year...
Several years ago my Pointy-haired Boss was reading technology articles (bad idea) and caught the "Big Data" bug. It spread to our CTO, CIO and all department heads like wildfire. This led to our Development team being turned into NoSQL zombies who said words like "Hadoop", "Shark", "Spark" in response to any new product requirement. It was a glorious vision of a magical backend system that would take all our data from every platform, that would scale up and out forever, and could be asked any question and give us exactly the results we wanted all instantly. The fact no one in the entire company had ever used any of the technology before or the fact we didn't even have any Java experience to setup even the base Hadoop installation were just minor points not worth discussing. I would like to say I was the lone dissenting voice, well I was and said lets just stick to SQL, but even I got caught up in the hype eventually.
18 months later and a sickening amount of man-years wasted and contractor money spent with no usable products or services the conclusion was NoSQL isn't a good fit for our data or platform use case. So they all went back to standard MySQL and completed 90% of the delayed projects in under 4 weeks.
On the plus side management heads did roll. I have a new My Pointy-haired Boss and CTO. However they have now started to drop in the words "Microservices" and "Docker" into all discussions. I can see a new hype-train arriving shortly...
Huh? That's the best response I can give without using spoilers but I'm not sure you've read all 3 books.
As for the series I'm not sure I liked all of it, the later two books certainly dragged on slightly too long and probably should have been compressed into one novel. However the series as a whole, especially the first book, certainly know how to generate an incredibly creepy atmosphere with everyone lost in a strange world of paranoia and genuine weirdness.
I'm no fan of M$, far from it, but despite that I'll be the first to admit that Visual Studio has always been a very good product. You can tell those that write the IDE also use it themselves and know what developers need / want. So a cross platform version is certainly interesting.
The Frostbite Game Engine is the best looking one around at present so yes, these scenes may have been generated real-time but it will be just like those in other games using the engine. Cut-scenes like this turn off unwanted background game processing and then set gfx settings up to the max. In game =/= In engine.
Sure it looks pretty but there are enough negatives to make me want to avoid this
> EA > DLC, DLC, and some more DLC with a side helping of micro-transactions. > Buggy DiCE software > Combat is even more simplified than Call-of-Duty.
PHP is popular because it's easy for beginners to learn, easy to get stuff done quickly & simply, and easy for programmers familiar in C & C++ to start web development without having to grok a completely unfamiliar language.
PHP is bad because it's easy for everyone using it to write insecure code.
I hope so. We've put our upgrade from RHEL 6 to version 7 on permanent hold basically because of systemd and all other associated forced-down-your-throat changes they have made. This is no longer a seamless, non-intrusive upgrade unlike every previous major release.
For desktop users, yeah I understand it's probably a non-issue for them. But if you are a sysadmin managing thousands of servers with possibly tens of thousands of VM's on top of that it's a major issue.
I thought the majority of voice circuits in the US were restricted to the callerid they could display? Only certain VoIP services and carrier level interconnects would allow you to set anything you wanted?
I'm currently the senior sysadmin for several thousand Redhat/CentOS servers and everything about systemd is giving me a headache. Myself and every other person on my team dislike it to varying degrees and none of us want to use it. This is now a blocker to us upgrading from RHEL6 to RHE7. There are lots of nice new features in the updated release we want or need to use but we are refusing to upgrade. This isn't a philosophical argument. I've tested it in various scenarios and it's almost not fit for purpose and throws out countless decades of experience in the team.
Frankly I'm shocked that RedHat have steam-rollered this into version 7, they are normally a very conservative distro (a very good thing in an enterprise environment!) Though I guess I shouldn't be that surprised since the lead developer works for them. I'd be looking at other distributions but they all seem to be switching too. I'd say RedHat have lost some business but I'm not sure what options I have to switch to?
However I have noticed a marked increase in the backlash against systemd in the last few months, probably from the fact that now people are having to use it and all these discussions are definitely a good thing, if slightly too late.
What's the problem with that? Linux still has a serious weakness making itself an option for normal Desktop users. It'll never be a Windows replacement in it's current state. So replacing a simple text based boot system that sysadmin have been using for 20 years with a complex & monolithic control system that is amalgamating several tried and tested services into borg-like hive system with binary logging makes perfect sense. Just look at Microsoft with the Windows registry and how well that works.
please note, I may be using some sarcasm in this post.
As someone who has used various BSD's and Linux in large scale environments, and is a fan of both, I've configured servers with multi-10Gb interfaces and handling 100k+ requests a second I honestly can't think of any example of where Linux has been inferior. The often repeated line that FreeBSD has a better networking stack was probably true over 10 years ago with Linux 2.2 and earlier, but since then I'd say that myth is just bullcrap.
Maybe Facebook are talking about some specific IPv6 or cutting edge features like MPTCP they need on their network, but as a general statement it's utterly misleading.
I've always considered elegant code to have a few criteria.
There is no unnecessary complexity in the code.
The code base is "clean" and consistent. That can be the file system layout, filenames, variable names and function naming. Also a non-consistent comment and white space convention is a personal irk of mine.
Where most programmers would write several hundred lines of dense code to solve a particular problem, the elegant coder will write a few simple lines instead as they really understood the problem.
It's just a shame he could only make 7p/minute from it. What happened to £1/minute premium rate lines?
This isn't a new trick to me since I work for a telco that provides the infrastructure for a lot of these cold callers, I've seen it before.
The premium rate 09 lines you are talking about are separately regulated and abuse is prosecuted. However the guy missed an opportunity here. He should have actually chosen an 070 number which is allocated by Ofcom for use of Personal Numbering Services, these can cost 50p - £1 to call. But since they start 07 most people think it's just another mobile number.
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Actually the G9x was the best gaming mouse Logitech ever produced. No nonsense, rock solid, adjustable weight, adjustable grip, and the usual adjustable profiles. It was so reliable, I still have two working after over 10 years, I almost suspect it was the reason Logitech stopped making it. Once you owned one you never needed to buy another gaming mouse again. I must not be the only person to think so as original boxed versions go for hundreds of dollars on Ebay.
> A system that requires more support is good business for them.
I don't think you understand how a Redhat subscription works. What sane business would go "our product is broken, please pay us even more money to fix it" ?
I'm curious if Redhat are regretting their decision on the early hard switch to systemd in RHEL7. I know for a fact their support system was flooded with issues from early adopters. I have friends in the industry still on RHEL6 as the upgrade to version 7 is a logistical nightmare and one who works at a reasonably large enterprise considering ditching Redhat entirely to go to a systemd-less alternative.
That faster boot time sure helps with servers that are only restarted once a year ...
Several years ago my Pointy-haired Boss was reading technology articles (bad idea) and caught the "Big Data" bug. It spread to our CTO, CIO and all department heads like wildfire. This led to our Development team being turned into NoSQL zombies who said words like "Hadoop", "Shark", "Spark" in response to any new product requirement. It was a glorious vision of a magical backend system that would take all our data from every platform, that would scale up and out forever, and could be asked any question and give us exactly the results we wanted all instantly. The fact no one in the entire company had ever used any of the technology before or the fact we didn't even have any Java experience to setup even the base Hadoop installation were just minor points not worth discussing. I would like to say I was the lone dissenting voice, well I was and said lets just stick to SQL, but even I got caught up in the hype eventually.
18 months later and a sickening amount of man-years wasted and contractor money spent with no usable products or services the conclusion was NoSQL isn't a good fit for our data or platform use case. So they all went back to standard MySQL and completed 90% of the delayed projects in under 4 weeks.
On the plus side management heads did roll. I have a new My Pointy-haired Boss and CTO. However they have now started to drop in the words "Microservices" and "Docker" into all discussions. I can see a new hype-train arriving shortly ...
Yeah, JMS mentions his politics here in a good obituary - http://www.epictimes.com/07/28...
So true, the green movement needs a new motto:
Stop Global Warming, Stop The Sun!
Agreed. What he meant to say was "BlackBerry will not comply with that sort of directive ... unless it makes economic sense to do so"
I'm so glad I now know that taking a selfie while swimming with sharks is not a good idea.
Huh? That's the best response I can give without using spoilers but I'm not sure you've read all 3 books.
As for the series I'm not sure I liked all of it, the later two books certainly dragged on slightly too long and probably should have been compressed into one novel. However the series as a whole, especially the first book, certainly know how to generate an incredibly creepy atmosphere with everyone lost in a strange world of paranoia and genuine weirdness.
I'm no fan of M$, far from it, but despite that I'll be the first to admit that Visual Studio has always been a very good product. You can tell those that write the IDE also use it themselves and know what developers need / want. So a cross platform version is certainly interesting.
The Frostbite Game Engine is the best looking one around at present so yes, these scenes may have been generated real-time but it will be just like those in other games using the engine. Cut-scenes like this turn off unwanted background game processing and then set gfx settings up to the max. In game =/= In engine.
Sure it looks pretty but there are enough negatives to make me want to avoid this
> EA
> DLC, DLC, and some more DLC with a side helping of micro-transactions.
> Buggy DiCE software
> Combat is even more simplified than Call-of-Duty.
These aren't jokes. Jokes are supposed to be funny.
Make it stop please.
Blaming the language for bad code is asinine.
It's not asinine but it is probably overly harsh.
PHP is popular because it's easy for beginners to learn, easy to get stuff done quickly & simply, and easy for programmers familiar in C & C++ to start web development without having to grok a completely unfamiliar language.
PHP is bad because it's easy for everyone using it to write insecure code.
"Removing unneeded components .." like systemd .. oh damn, someone beat me to that joke already.
I think /. needs to audit their own posts ...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
Obligatory car analogy: Worrying about systemd seems like worrying about what brand of spark plugs are in your new car.
Only a valid analogy if those new spark plugs also want to control your entry system, brakes, transmission and radio too.
Red Hat is about to learn this the hard way.
I hope so. We've put our upgrade from RHEL 6 to version 7 on permanent hold basically because of systemd and all other associated forced-down-your-throat changes they have made. This is no longer a seamless, non-intrusive upgrade unlike every previous major release.
For desktop users, yeah I understand it's probably a non-issue for them. But if you are a sysadmin managing thousands of servers with possibly tens of thousands of VM's on top of that it's a major issue.
I thought the majority of voice circuits in the US were restricted to the callerid they could display? Only certain VoIP services and carrier level interconnects would allow you to set anything you wanted?
I'm currently the senior sysadmin for several thousand Redhat/CentOS servers and everything about systemd is giving me a headache. Myself and every other person on my team dislike it to varying degrees and none of us want to use it. This is now a blocker to us upgrading from RHEL6 to RHE7. There are lots of nice new features in the updated release we want or need to use but we are refusing to upgrade. This isn't a philosophical argument. I've tested it in various scenarios and it's almost not fit for purpose and throws out countless decades of experience in the team.
Frankly I'm shocked that RedHat have steam-rollered this into version 7, they are normally a very conservative distro (a very good thing in an enterprise environment!) Though I guess I shouldn't be that surprised since the lead developer works for them. I'd be looking at other distributions but they all seem to be switching too. I'd say RedHat have lost some business but I'm not sure what options I have to switch to?
However I have noticed a marked increase in the backlash against systemd in the last few months, probably from the fact that now people are having to use it and all these discussions are definitely a good thing, if slightly too late.
What's the problem with that? Linux still has a serious weakness making itself an option for normal Desktop users. It'll never be a Windows replacement in it's current state. So replacing a simple text based boot system that sysadmin have been using for 20 years with a complex & monolithic control system that is amalgamating several tried and tested services into borg-like hive system with binary logging makes perfect sense. Just look at Microsoft with the Windows registry and how well that works.
please note, I may be using some sarcasm in this post.
As someone who has used various BSD's and Linux in large scale environments, and is a fan of both, I've configured servers with multi-10Gb interfaces and handling 100k+ requests a second I honestly can't think of any example of where Linux has been inferior. The often repeated line that FreeBSD has a better networking stack was probably true over 10 years ago with Linux 2.2 and earlier, but since then I'd say that myth is just bullcrap.
Maybe Facebook are talking about some specific IPv6 or cutting edge features like MPTCP they need on their network, but as a general statement it's utterly misleading.
I've always considered elegant code to have a few criteria.
There is no unnecessary complexity in the code.
The code base is "clean" and consistent. That can be the file system layout, filenames, variable names and function naming. Also a non-consistent comment and white space convention is a personal irk of mine.
Where most programmers would write several hundred lines of dense code to solve a particular problem, the elegant coder will write a few simple lines instead as they really understood the problem.
30 Giant Hornets v 30,000 Bees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ1eAM8CChc
It's just a shame he could only make 7p/minute from it. What happened to £1/minute premium rate lines?
This isn't a new trick to me since I work for a telco that provides the infrastructure for a lot of these cold callers, I've seen it before.
The premium rate 09 lines you are talking about are separately regulated and abuse is prosecuted. However the guy missed an opportunity here. He should have actually chosen an 070 number which is allocated by Ofcom for use of Personal Numbering Services, these can cost 50p - £1 to call. But since they start 07 most people think it's just another mobile number.