When I was working in Europe for a while, we had an IT director who assumed that he knew everything possible about Unix. (It should go without saying that he didn't.)
When I was hired on, I promulgated the first initial+last name standard. Considering this company was around thirty people, and was never expected to grow past about forty-five, this scheme seemed to work well.
However, he threatened to fire anyone who didn't use his standard: first letter of first name + second letter of first name + first letter of last name!
Now, with my scheme, we had zero collisions. With his, we had about four. His solution?
first letter of first name + third letter of first name + first letter of last name! And so on...
Okay, this isn't a troll...I'm just curious - I'm a 100% Unix guy, and I'd just like to know what remote-administration options are built-in with Windows. I know you can use PCAnywhere, but I don't understand how anyone could consider it a "server OS" if you can't administer the damn thing remotely.
(Like I said, if you can administer it remotely, then I'd love to be proven wrong...)
Yet another thing that just encourages people not to exercise, and just get fatter and lazier. I mean, they're not building any strength or endurance sitting on their asses popping pills!
It's a pretty well-proven fact that regular contact with loved ones keeps you healthier. So this could actually prove to be either a good thing or a bad thing...
Assume that these robots become friends to the patients. They will get their daily dose of contact from someone whose patience never gives out, and gives them someone to talk to about war stories or crocheting or whatever it is old people talk about nowadays.
But I'm worried that this may prove to create some problems too. It's already difficult enough to drag some people to see grandma in the home, and now they will have the excuse "she's not lonely, she's got CompanionBot!"...
So maybe this will actually reduce the interpersonal contact experienced by the elderly.
Wow, imagine a DOE Science Grid Virtual Supercomputer of those!
I did this...
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Actually, I've used nothing but Solaris on my Ultra10 at home for years. But, then when I had to move overseas, I sold everything, and bought a laptop. My friend works at Apple, and got me a good deal on an iBook. This things rock.
OSX really is the nicest Unix I've ever used. I can play The Sims and CivII, and with the adddition of Fink, you even get nice things like apt-get! It's great.
So, just for the record, I'm a old-skool-Unix-to-MacOS X boy, and it really does rock my socks. I recommend it to anyone. It's extremely Unix-y, but with a great frontend.
First, some kudos to the GnuPG team. I think this is one example of free software really taking over a given market. I only know of one person who uses the commercial version of PGP, and that's because his job requires it. Everyone else I know uses GPG.
Now:
For those of you lucky enough to be using MacOS X (go ahead a flame me - I've been using Unix for ten years, and MacOS X rox my sox), just grab a copy of GnuPG from Fink and install GnuPG.
After that, grab a copy of PGPMail from Sente, and use the easy, one-drag install. It's still in beta, but it's damn nice integration.
For reference, I'm running MacOS X 10.1.3. When I send an email to someone whose public key is in my keyring, I just click the button "Encrypt" before I click send. Voila. When I receive something encrypted, I have the option of having it automatically decrypt, or I just click "decrypt" in the toolbar. Very nice.
I have to do a radio interview at 10 tonight, and eat dinner.
I'd like to watch Junkyard wars w/ kathleen;)
but I'll keep going for a bit.
Dear lord, I want this man's life. My fiancee won't even watch a movie with me if it has a computer in it. *sigh* Some bastards have all the luck.
Now, to be on topic: I think this could've been handled a bit better. I think people would've been more open to the whole thing, had the term "tip jar" been used from the beginning, instead of "subscription"...
I have a real problem with anyone using ad blockers, especially at community sites like Slashdot.
Slashdot agrees to give you content, if you view the ads. If you don't want to view the ads, don't look at the content. Using an ad blocker just screws Slashdot out of their cut.
There seems to be this view of "I shouldn't have to pay for anything, whine whine whine" (and before you say it: I have bought copies of Slackware, RedHat, Debian, FreeBSD, BeOS, several pieces of shareware...) Well, sorry everyone - things actually cost money. And even if they didn't, it's Slashdot's right to charge if they want to.
If you don't like it, fine, but don't go and screw them out of their cut. That *is* theft, whether you admit to it or not.
As for the subscriptions, I would subscribe, but not on a pay-per-view basis. Monthly, fine, yearly, fine, but not pay-per-view. I won't subscribe with that.
But I'll happily view the ads they send me, and keep up my end of the bargain. Remember, the world does not owe you everything for free.
This is going to be modded as a troll. I'm okay with that. Moderators: It's probably also off topic.
Here's my problem with most of the people who bitch about Product Activation, the GPL, Linux, RIAA, MPAA, etc, etc.
Most people who bitch the most vocally don't give a shit about the rights of the artist (who deserve much more than they get) or about how onerous Microsoft's licensing scheme is (which it is) - they just are selfish little people who want their software/movies/music for free.
I don't care how much you say the RIAA was screwing the artists - Napster screwed them more (the RIAA at least gave them *some* money) - same with product activation. Amazingly enough, these people want to get paid for their work. Heaven forbid that happens.
I think this whole debate needs a little dose of sanity.
And for some reason...
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And for some reason, we kept getting all these different screenplays...something called "Hamlet", and another called "Othello"...
That and complaints about having wires jammed in its brain...
I've read the whole list of emails between Bernie and everyone else. Yeah, I know, the guy's not very smart, and he *did* spam them, and he was pretty rude about it...
But, you know, the other side could've dropped it, too. They didn't have to goad him on. I mean, this guy could be trying to feed his kids or something. All they needed to do was forward (silently!) his email to his ISP, and put his address in their killfile.
I mean, this has gone way out of proportion, and I don't really like the malicious glee on the part of the anti-spam people in ruining this guy.
What I don't understand from this theory is how bacteria can survive the reentry pressure and especially heat that is generated! Or does the inside of a big enough asteroid stay cool? I wouldn't think so but does anybody have a definitive answer?
Actually, you don't need to worry about heat. The massive amount of heat generated by the shuttle reentry and other such things has to reasons:
1) The shuttle is moving very, very fast relative to the atmosphere
2) The shuttle has a large ablative surface area
Assuming an assload of spores hits the Earth, a lot of them will be burned up (wrong trajectory, etc), but plenty of them will survive and simple drift down.
...I always stopped myself from deactiving Katz stories from the main page, because I liked seeing the news on Slashdot. It made me all happy to see a new article, and I would start reading it...
...then I noticed I could always tell when it was Katz. *sigh* Has anyone here read "The Art of the Freshman Essay"? It basically says that someone who doesn't know anything about the subject matter will use inflammatory speech, the largest possible words, the airiest possible analogies, and the most breathless superlatives to mask that he doesn't really know what he's talking about.
Wow...I didn't realise it was supposed to be biographical.:)
Actually, that's a low opinion of it - some things are better represented visually, and object-oriented systems are one of them. Database schemas are another.
But you run into a problem here, in that, to be really useful, the UML diagram has to be almost as detailed as the code. This is why flowcharts fell out of popularity - they were so intertwined with the code that it took twice as much effort to update the program (one pass for the code, the other for the flowchart.)
So, UML has it's place at the top of the conceptual stack, but once you start getting to the second or third layers, it's time to just break out the/* */'s.
...it depends on a lot of things. You are the expert, and I most definantely am not, but I could maybe still help.
I'm assuming with the Intel solution, you're planning on going with a cluster of some sort. You run into the problem of the already lower memory-CPU bandwidth of the Intel architecture, and making it worse by making it transfer things over the network interconnect. If it's an easily divisible problem (once again - not an expert), this may not be a big deal. Or it could be a huge one.
Another thing: SGIs are used for this for a reason. As some other people have said, ask your software vendor what they would recommend. Sure, the Intel may give you more computation-for-price, but there are things other than raw CPU power.
Finally, it comes to level of mathematical precision. If you need 64-bit precision, a 32-bit processor isn't going to do it as quickly as something with a 64-bit native integer type. (Although, I may be wrong about the exact architecture of the MIPS - it may just be a 64-bit address bus.)
Anyway, in closing - talk to your vendor. They'd know best.
I don't know about the binary watch, but I know here in Luxembourg it is next to impossible (and, sometimes, quite illegal) to pay remotely. If I want to pay my doctor, I have to go to my bank and sign a paper transferring money from one person to another.
I could do web banking, but there are two problems: One, it's Windows only (and not due to a limitation in the browser - you get a smart-card reader that only works with Windows. It is *really* secure, though), and two: it's *really* expensive.
So, it's not that odd that they don't take credit cards...
No, but Slashdot is an American site, and most of its readers are American. I'm European, but I don't expect Slashdot to put, every time it discusses anything international, every single possible variation on the phrase.
I'm also a little upset with people bitching that the US has limited everyone's access to the ISS. The US has poured far more money into it than any other participant, AND has had to cover for things when other members (Russia, mainly) defaulted on debts. So don't act like it's just the Americans' fault.
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When I was working in Europe for a while, we had an IT director who assumed that he knew everything possible about Unix. (It should go without saying that he didn't.)
When I was hired on, I promulgated the first initial+last name standard. Considering this company was around thirty people, and was never expected to grow past about forty-five, this scheme seemed to work well.
However, he threatened to fire anyone who didn't use his standard: first letter of first name + second letter of first name + first letter of last name!
Now, with my scheme, we had zero collisions. With his, we had about four. His solution?
first letter of first name + third letter of first name + first letter of last name! And so on...
Never work for these people, they're insane...
Okay, this isn't a troll...I'm just curious - I'm a 100% Unix guy, and I'd just like to know what remote-administration options are built-in with Windows. I know you can use PCAnywhere, but I don't understand how anyone could consider it a "server OS" if you can't administer the damn thing remotely.
(Like I said, if you can administer it remotely, then I'd love to be proven wrong...)
Yet another thing that just encourages people not to exercise, and just get fatter and lazier. I mean, they're not building any strength or endurance sitting on their asses popping pills!
Oh...wait...I guess they are...
It's a pretty well-proven fact that regular contact with loved ones keeps you healthier. So this could actually prove to be either a good thing or a bad thing...
Assume that these robots become friends to the patients. They will get their daily dose of contact from someone whose patience never gives out, and gives them someone to talk to about war stories or crocheting or whatever it is old people talk about nowadays.
But I'm worried that this may prove to create some problems too. It's already difficult enough to drag some people to see grandma in the home, and now they will have the excuse "she's not lonely, she's got CompanionBot!"...
So maybe this will actually reduce the interpersonal contact experienced by the elderly.
Wow, imagine a DOE Science Grid Virtual Supercomputer of those!
Actually, I've used nothing but Solaris on my Ultra10 at home for years. But, then when I had to move overseas, I sold everything, and bought a laptop. My friend works at Apple, and got me a good deal on an iBook. This things rock.
OSX really is the nicest Unix I've ever used. I can play The Sims and CivII, and with the adddition of Fink, you even get nice things like apt-get! It's great.
So, just for the record, I'm a old-skool-Unix-to-MacOS X boy, and it really does rock my socks. I recommend it to anyone. It's extremely Unix-y, but with a great frontend.
First, some kudos to the GnuPG team. I think this is one example of free software really taking over a given market. I only know of one person who uses the commercial version of PGP, and that's because his job requires it. Everyone else I know uses GPG.
Now:
For those of you lucky enough to be using MacOS X (go ahead a flame me - I've been using Unix for ten years, and MacOS X rox my sox), just grab a copy of GnuPG from Fink and install GnuPG.
After that, grab a copy of PGPMail from Sente, and use the easy, one-drag install. It's still in beta, but it's damn nice integration.
For reference, I'm running MacOS X 10.1.3. When I send an email to someone whose public key is in my keyring, I just click the button "Encrypt" before I click send. Voila. When I receive something encrypted, I have the option of having it automatically decrypt, or I just click "decrypt" in the toolbar. Very nice.
I have to do a radio interview at 10 tonight, and eat dinner.
;)
I'd like to watch Junkyard wars w/ kathleen
but I'll keep going for a bit.
Dear lord, I want this man's life. My fiancee won't even watch a movie with me if it has a computer in it. *sigh* Some bastards have all the luck.
Now, to be on topic: I think this could've been handled a bit better. I think people would've been more open to the whole thing, had the term "tip jar" been used from the beginning, instead of "subscription"...
But, what's past is past...
I have a real problem with anyone using ad blockers, especially at community sites like Slashdot.
Slashdot agrees to give you content, if you view the ads. If you don't want to view the ads, don't look at the content. Using an ad blocker just screws Slashdot out of their cut.
There seems to be this view of "I shouldn't have to pay for anything, whine whine whine" (and before you say it: I have bought copies of Slackware, RedHat, Debian, FreeBSD, BeOS, several pieces of shareware...) Well, sorry everyone - things actually cost money. And even if they didn't, it's Slashdot's right to charge if they want to.
If you don't like it, fine, but don't go and screw them out of their cut. That *is* theft, whether you admit to it or not.
As for the subscriptions, I would subscribe, but not on a pay-per-view basis. Monthly, fine, yearly, fine, but not pay-per-view. I won't subscribe with that.
But I'll happily view the ads they send me, and keep up my end of the bargain. Remember, the world does not owe you everything for free.
When I first saw the headline, I thought it meant "pupil" as in "eye"...
And I though...I have to pay if I want wireless transmission of pupil data? So if I don't pay, what, do I have to jam fiber optics into both eyes?
Storm: What happens when you cook a Palm Pilot?
Storm: The same thing that happens to everything else.
...Everyone voted for CowboyNeal!
Hi, I just got this book, and I can't seem to figure out how to open it.
Oh, I didn't know humidity would cause it to stick shut...What? No, sorry, I don't have any distilled mineral salts.
Sure, I've got a power cord right here - now I need to do what? Ionize the electricity with some saline? But I don't...Oh, sure I could do that....
*sticks power cord in mouth*
ZZZZZZZZZT *thunk*
Tivo owners watch the Super Bowl? But...but...sunlight, outdoors...sports...
I don't know, it doesn't seem right. Shouldn't they be downloading Linux or trying to destroy the WTO or something?
What's this world coming to...
This is going to be modded as a troll. I'm okay with that. Moderators: It's probably also off topic.
Here's my problem with most of the people who bitch about Product Activation, the GPL, Linux, RIAA, MPAA, etc, etc.
Most people who bitch the most vocally don't give a shit about the rights of the artist (who deserve much more than they get) or about how onerous Microsoft's licensing scheme is (which it is) - they just are selfish little people who want their software/movies/music for free.
I don't care how much you say the RIAA was screwing the artists - Napster screwed them more (the RIAA at least gave them *some* money) - same with product activation. Amazingly enough, these people want to get paid for their work. Heaven forbid that happens.
I think this whole debate needs a little dose of sanity.
And for some reason, we kept getting all these different screenplays...something called "Hamlet", and another called "Othello"...
That and complaints about having wires jammed in its brain...
I've read the whole list of emails between Bernie and everyone else. Yeah, I know, the guy's not very smart, and he *did* spam them, and he was pretty rude about it...
But, you know, the other side could've dropped it, too. They didn't have to goad him on. I mean, this guy could be trying to feed his kids or something. All they needed to do was forward (silently!) his email to his ISP, and put his address in their killfile.
I mean, this has gone way out of proportion, and I don't really like the malicious glee on the part of the anti-spam people in ruining this guy.
Even if he is an idiot.
What I don't understand from this theory is how bacteria can survive the reentry pressure and especially heat that is generated! Or does the inside of a big enough asteroid stay cool? I wouldn't think so but does anybody have a definitive answer?
Actually, you don't need to worry about heat. The massive amount of heat generated by the shuttle reentry and other such things has to reasons:
1) The shuttle is moving very, very fast relative to the atmosphere
2) The shuttle has a large ablative surface area
Assuming an assload of spores hits the Earth, a lot of them will be burned up (wrong trajectory, etc), but plenty of them will survive and simple drift down.
...I always stopped myself from deactiving Katz stories from the main page, because I liked seeing the news on Slashdot. It made me all happy to see a new article, and I would start reading it...
:)
...then I noticed I could always tell when it was Katz. *sigh* Has anyone here read "The Art of the Freshman Essay"? It basically says that someone who doesn't know anything about the subject matter will use inflammatory speech, the largest possible words, the airiest possible analogies, and the most breathless superlatives to mask that he doesn't really know what he's talking about.
Wow...I didn't realise it was supposed to be biographical.
Actually, that's a low opinion of it - some things are better represented visually, and object-oriented systems are one of them. Database schemas are another.
/* */'s.
But you run into a problem here, in that, to be really useful, the UML diagram has to be almost as detailed as the code. This is why flowcharts fell out of popularity - they were so intertwined with the code that it took twice as much effort to update the program (one pass for the code, the other for the flowchart.)
So, UML has it's place at the top of the conceptual stack, but once you start getting to the second or third layers, it's time to just break out the
...it depends on a lot of things. You are the expert, and I most definantely am not, but I could maybe still help.
I'm assuming with the Intel solution, you're planning on going with a cluster of some sort. You run into the problem of the already lower memory-CPU bandwidth of the Intel architecture, and making it worse by making it transfer things over the network interconnect. If it's an easily divisible problem (once again - not an expert), this may not be a big deal. Or it could be a huge one.
Another thing: SGIs are used for this for a reason. As some other people have said, ask your software vendor what they would recommend. Sure, the Intel may give you more computation-for-price, but there are things other than raw CPU power.
Finally, it comes to level of mathematical precision. If you need 64-bit precision, a 32-bit processor isn't going to do it as quickly as something with a 64-bit native integer type. (Although, I may be wrong about the exact architecture of the MIPS - it may just be a 64-bit address bus.)
Anyway, in closing - talk to your vendor. They'd know best.
Now we can prove that raindrops were not simply "created", but evolved from simpler raindrops!
I don't know about the binary watch, but I know here in Luxembourg it is next to impossible (and, sometimes, quite illegal) to pay remotely. If I want to pay my doctor, I have to go to my bank and sign a paper transferring money from one person to another.
I could do web banking, but there are two problems: One, it's Windows only (and not due to a limitation in the browser - you get a smart-card reader that only works with Windows. It is *really* secure, though), and two: it's *really* expensive.
So, it's not that odd that they don't take credit cards...
No, but Slashdot is an American site, and most of its readers are American. I'm European, but I don't expect Slashdot to put, every time it discusses anything international, every single possible variation on the phrase.
I'm also a little upset with people bitching that the US has limited everyone's access to the ISS. The US has poured far more money into it than any other participant, AND has had to cover for things when other members (Russia, mainly) defaulted on debts. So don't act like it's just the Americans' fault.
...to dual-boot MacOS and BSD. It's called MacOS X.