LOL. after reading about the symmetrix data loss at the gun auction website i wouldve thought people would take a hard look before buying EMC. HDS is the only reliable vendor out there with a refund policy if data is lost. i think the HDS9660 comes with it. 1/3 of the purchase price back every time any hardware causes a data loss.
err..they already have done this right ? Winforms libs are already proprietary to win32. and they're too big for anyone to implement on *nix. The thing is that it doesnt matter. if i have a subset of.NET on *nix i can write my code for that subset. As long as the subset compiles on win32 (or the CLR runs) i've achieved portability. Unless there is some really critical block of code that's winforms specific in general the subset is all that matters. the GUI stuff will have to be rewritten but since.NET involves SOAP to abstract the GUI anyway, it doesnt really matter. i cant see how M$ could do this with.NET (make it proprietary while still keeping ECMA happy) with the ECMA subset of C#/.NET . But i can definitely see Sun doing it with Java -- theres no oversight commitee to bash Sun over the head if it decides to completely close java.
i do this all the time. just ssh into sourceforge.net using your web browser and the free mindterm applet. voila. instant access to sourceforge unix boxes, compilers, dev tools and 100 megs worth of your files. obviously any ISP with a decent unix box which you can colocate could provide the same thing.
yup. join the club of people who release GPL software anonymously. although in my case it was a fear of being sued for reverse engineering stuff from multiple companies.
shouldnt you be in university getting a degree rather than messing around on open source contract projects with minimal pay ? get a career and quit living in a basement.
considering she does porn for a living thats not too far fetched....
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hmm...Event Horizon didnt have too many flashes of gore. Lots of nice flame and blood flow renderings but nothing more than that. no chunks of body parts floating around. i actually thought even horizon was fairly decent. One of the better movies ive seen compared ot the crap spewed outta hollywood. of course i saw the uncut version not the censored american version.
uuh...NO. they arent a backup medium. ever read the warranty information on the box ? they are most certainly NOT a backup medium. CDR's, AIT/DLT tapes are a backup medium. Basically you back it up as many times as is ecenomically viable. nothing lasts forever and you will loose data -- no such thing as data you cannot loose unless its printed out on acid free paper and stored in a vault. and no, no company is going to provide data recovery services. its not viable to sell a $100 drive with a $5 catridge if you need to spend $5000/customer recovering some idiots data who thought your product was a "backup medium".
Enter a combination or a definition. Names are single characters; whitespace is ignored An empty definition like "P=" undefines a name Predefined names are Y ? U S $ P K I 1 0 Example inputs are: Sxyz, U"I110", 2fx=f(fx), Z=222(P0), U"Z" Sxyz of size 4 head reduces in 1 steps to xz(yz) of size 4 xy=x defines x as SSK(S(K(*))K)K of size 13 222(P0)$ of size 25 head reduces in 0 steps to 222(S(*)(KK)K)(KK) of size 25 "Z" java.lang.RuntimeException: Variable can't toBinaryString()
hardly. have a look at some code segments from one of my applications as an example: static FieldPtr SetFieldTextFromStr(FieldPtr fieldP, CharPtr strP, ULong size) { Handle txtH; VoidPtr textPtr; size = size + 1;/* add '\0' size */ txtH= (Handle) MemHandleNew(size); if (!txtH) return NULL; textPtr = MemHandleLock((VoidHand) txtH); MemMove(textPtr,strP,size); // MemHandleUnlock((VoidHand) txtH); MemPtrUnlock(textPtr); ClearFieldText(fieldP); return SetFieldTextFromHandle(fieldP,txtH); }
more than half the functions above are calls to system libraries which look awfully like object oriented code to me. or another example: static void StopApplication(void) { if (g_dbID != 0){ CloseDoc(); } // FldFreeMemory(DOC_Field.field); FldEraseField(DOC_Field.field); FrmCloseAllForms(); }
again passing object like structures around. Doc_Field.field looks awfully like an object reference with a variable..
i know its not object oriented and it is normal C but it looks pretty close to an object oriented language.
umm...palm applications arent installed. they're synced to the device as PRC files with one PRC per app. that means the JRE will have ot have a seperate PRC and your app will have one or more PRCs which the user loads manually and runs. thats the equivalent of installing the JDK on a PC *manually* and then installing the class files for the app *manually* and then running it from the command line while ensuring class paths are correct. A royal pain in the ass.
hmm..actually the C on PalmOS is not really C..its got a bunch of the object oriented libraries instead of regular C calls which makes it look a lot like Java without the VM and safety. I used to hack on PalmOS 2.x a lot and handled the weird database like memory/file i/o structure on the palm which was a royal pain. i dont know how Java file i/o can be translated into the 4K record database type memory structure on the palm without making it slow as heck.
Use a high end ICP Vortex controller with 15K RPM Cheetah SCSI drives or Fujitsu drives. Its the only combo I trust in any of my PC servers. Alternatively you could try Sun's A3500 FCAL drive arrays with the 15K cheetahs for non PC hardware.
rpm can show ya where it dumps stuff. its just a keyword option. note that even with your claims of make install and reading what make install does you will still end up with cruft on your system. want proof ? install sentinel from zurk.sourceforge.net (it installs only in/opt/sentinel so you can delete it when you want to uninstall) and run it with the init option. if it stops with an error check that file. 9 times out of 10 the file is cruft or a corrupted file. lather, rinse, repeat (its painful the first time--gets easier). i run it myself around once a month and usually end up with 2-3 errors on each run even with my nicely installed debian stable system. cruft is a fact of life...nothing can prevent it.
no. the 8-bit psuedocolor offers programmers a lot more choices at manipulating pixels than the 24 bit truecolor. read/write isnt supported nicely with truecolor and moving the color palette around doesnt work properly either. just one of the X-windows library handicaps. it needs to be fixed.
umm..your animation work is not wasted. blender files are just openinventor files (iv). just rename em and any 3D app can import em. ive used blender models with 3DS Max, Maya, TrueSpace and others. they even work ok as VRML files.
Version 2.23 can be downloaded from here: http://www.download.blender.pl/mirror/versions/ 2.2 3/ I think version 2.25 was the latest but it got wiped before they could release it to the public and the mirrors could catch up. real pity -- i really like blender.
how does the MITRE one compare to yours ? The mitre one is at : http://www.mitre.org/technology/alembic-workbench/ ANLP97-bigger.html and http://www.mitre.org/technology/alembic-workbenc h/
isnt that what wask jeeves was all about ? type a question in and it comes up with a list of relevant results. problem is that pages are not easy to interpret. what happens if some of the words are GIFs or the page is a troll page from a porn site or its a/. comment listing with a huge range of topics? its a complex problem to solve. computer systems dont do language very well. they cant think or reason without formalised instruction segments which have been predefined for them. sad state of affairs but thats the way it is right now.
just name the servers after the *functions* they serve rather than a theme or other crap. for example: MR237BWEB01 - Mail Room number 237B Webserver 1. CONF225FIL01 - Conference room 225 File Server 1. EXTCOMPWEB01 - External Company web server 1. alternatively you could also do the theme thing and assign some genre to a particular department. for example, all accounting servers could be named after fish e.g. bluefish, haddock, trout, etc. or colors or star wars themes or anything else. i prefer the dept/room number/server type/server number scheme myself and using acronyms you could easily keep it under 8 characters for the host name. Of course be sure to add the host names into a comma delimited file with an explanation and ip address/subnet and room location of the server (or rack location). Make sure you keep the file someplace publically accessible like on a webserver someplace.
you can interoperate between Java and C# but only if youre really careful by using the Apache SOAP implementation for Java and C#/.NET's built in SOAP functions. If you do most of the coding in Java or C# deploy the functions as exported APIs which cna then be accessed through anything. M$ of course broke the C#/SOAP implementation slightly to discourage this but with a bit of creative coding and apache soap configs you can get around it if you ignore the warnings.
I'd recommend doing most of the heavy coding in Java for all the operational stuff while you wait for the Mono implementation of C# to be finished.. For basic functions Java and C# are functionally and syntactically identical so a simple search and replace can convert one to the other...even starting out in Java means you can convert it to C# whenever its really required.
i'll second this. ive been on/. for an incredibly long time as an AC before i finally bit the bullet and got an account. its unfortunate that/. has not thought it through. From working at large companies i've seen this attitude in action several times. The percieved stability of a large company insulates employees to the fact that it is just as vulnerable as a small business whether it is public or not. You *HAVE* to maximise revenue flow in order to be profitable.
Its just that large companies have public IPOs and large cash reserves so they can get away with a large number of mistakes (but they WILL eventually bite the bullet). You have to be smart to run a business --/. isnt being smart in this case.
redhat doesnt have any clustering technology whatsoever. all their clustering work is repackaged versions of GPLed software such as LVS for the HA web server clustering and kimberlite for clustering samba/NFS etc etc. i think they have a MOSIX based processing cluster as well but im not sure. ive not seen redhat actively develop any software completely on their own other than the distro/rpm and the gui installer.
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LOL. after reading about the symmetrix data loss at the gun auction website i wouldve thought people would take a hard look before buying EMC.
HDS is the only reliable vendor out there with a refund policy if data is lost. i think the HDS9660 comes with it. 1/3 of the purchase price back every time any hardware causes a data loss.
err..they already have done this right ? Winforms libs are already proprietary to win32. and they're too big for anyone to implement on *nix. .NET on *nix i can write my code for that subset. As long as the subset compiles on win32 (or the CLR runs) i've achieved portability. .NET involves SOAP to abstract the GUI anyway, it doesnt really matter. .NET (make it proprietary while still keeping ECMA happy) with the ECMA subset of C#/.NET . But i can definitely see Sun doing it with Java -- theres no oversight commitee to bash Sun over the head if it decides to completely close java.
The thing is that it doesnt matter. if i have a subset of
Unless there is some really critical block of code that's winforms specific in general the subset is all that matters. the GUI stuff will have to be rewritten but since
i cant see how M$ could do this with
i do this all the time. just ssh into sourceforge.net using your web browser and the free mindterm applet. voila. instant access to sourceforge unix boxes, compilers, dev tools and 100 megs worth of your files.
obviously any ISP with a decent unix box which you can colocate could provide the same thing.
yup. join the club of people who release GPL software anonymously.
although in my case it was a fear of being sued for reverse engineering stuff from multiple companies.
shouldnt you be in university getting a degree rather than messing around on open source contract projects with minimal pay ? get a career and quit living in a basement.
considering she does porn for a living thats not too far fetched....
hmm...Event Horizon didnt have too many flashes of gore. Lots of nice flame and blood flow renderings but nothing more than that. no chunks of body parts floating around.
i actually thought even horizon was fairly decent.
One of the better movies ive seen compared ot the crap spewed outta hollywood. of course i saw the uncut version not the censored american version.
uuh...NO. they arent a backup medium. ever read the warranty information on the box ? they are most certainly NOT a backup medium. CDR's, AIT/DLT tapes are a backup medium.
Basically you back it up as many times as is ecenomically viable. nothing lasts forever and you will loose data -- no such thing as data you cannot loose unless its printed out on acid free paper and stored in a vault.
and no, no company is going to provide data recovery services. its not viable to sell a $100 drive with a $5 catridge if you need to spend $5000/customer recovering some idiots data who thought your product was a "backup medium".
Actually i think number 9 had the first 128bit graphics chip on board not 128 megs of memory.
again i could be wrong.
Here's how to crash the machine :
Enter a combination or a definition.
Names are single characters; whitespace is ignored
An empty definition like "P=" undefines a name
Predefined names are
Y ? U S $ P K I 1 0
Example inputs are: Sxyz, U"I110", 2fx=f(fx), Z=222(P0), U"Z"
Sxyz
of size 4
head reduces in 1 steps to xz(yz) of size 4
xy=x
defines x as SSK(S(K(*))K)K of size 13
222(P0)$
of size 25
head reduces in 0 steps to 222(S(*)(KK)K)(KK) of size 25
"Z"
java.lang.RuntimeException: Variable can't toBinaryString()
err...DLOC doesnt work either. which is what this article was trying to get across. did you even read it ?
hardly. have a look at some code segments from one of my applications as an example : /* add '\0' size */
:
// FldFreeMemory(DOC_Field.field);
static FieldPtr SetFieldTextFromStr(FieldPtr fieldP, CharPtr strP, ULong size)
{
Handle txtH;
VoidPtr textPtr;
size = size + 1;
txtH= (Handle) MemHandleNew(size);
if (!txtH) return NULL;
textPtr = MemHandleLock((VoidHand) txtH);
MemMove(textPtr,strP,size);
// MemHandleUnlock((VoidHand) txtH);
MemPtrUnlock(textPtr);
ClearFieldText(fieldP);
return SetFieldTextFromHandle(fieldP,txtH);
}
more than half the functions above are calls to system libraries which look awfully like object oriented code to me.
or another example
static void StopApplication(void)
{
if (g_dbID != 0){
CloseDoc();
}
FldEraseField(DOC_Field.field);
FrmCloseAllForms();
}
again passing object like structures around. Doc_Field.field looks awfully like an object reference with a variable..
i know its not object oriented and it is normal C but it looks pretty close to an object oriented language.
umm...palm applications arent installed. they're synced to the device as PRC files with one PRC per app. that means the JRE will have ot have a seperate PRC and your app will have one or more PRCs which the user loads manually and runs.
thats the equivalent of installing the JDK on a PC *manually* and then installing the class files for the app *manually* and then running it from the command line while ensuring class paths are correct. A royal pain in the ass.
hmm..actually the C on PalmOS is not really C..its got a bunch of the object oriented libraries instead of regular C calls which makes it look a lot like Java without the VM and safety. I used to hack on PalmOS 2.x a lot and handled the weird database like memory/file i/o structure on the palm which was a royal pain. i dont know how Java file i/o can be translated into the 4K record database type memory structure on the palm without making it slow as heck.
Use a high end ICP Vortex controller with 15K RPM Cheetah SCSI drives or Fujitsu drives. Its the only combo I trust in any of my PC servers.
Alternatively you could try Sun's A3500 FCAL drive arrays with the 15K cheetahs for non PC hardware.
rpm can show ya where it dumps stuff. its just a keyword option. /opt/sentinel so you can delete it when you want to uninstall) and run it with the init option. if it stops with an error check that file. 9 times out of 10 the file is cruft or a corrupted file. lather, rinse, repeat (its painful the first time--gets easier). i run it myself around once a month and usually end up with 2-3 errors on each run even with my nicely installed debian stable system.
note that even with your claims of make install and reading what make install does you will still end up with cruft on your system.
want proof ?
install sentinel from zurk.sourceforge.net (it installs only in
cruft is a fact of life...nothing can prevent it.
no. the 8-bit psuedocolor offers programmers a lot more choices at manipulating pixels than the 24 bit truecolor. read/write isnt supported nicely with truecolor and moving the color palette around doesnt work properly either.
just one of the X-windows library handicaps. it needs to be fixed.
umm..your animation work is not wasted. blender files are just openinventor files (iv). just rename em and any 3D app can import em. ive used blender models with 3DS Max, Maya, TrueSpace and others. they even work ok as VRML files.
Version 2.23 can be downloaded from here :/ 2.2 3/
http://www.download.blender.pl/mirror/versions
I think version 2.25 was the latest but it got wiped before they could release it to the public and the mirrors could catch up.
real pity -- i really like blender.
how does the MITRE one compare to yours ?/ ANLP97-bigger.htmlc h/
The mitre one is at : http://www.mitre.org/technology/alembic-workbench
and
http://www.mitre.org/technology/alembic-workben
isnt that what wask jeeves was all about ? type a question in and it comes up with a list of relevant results. problem is that pages are not easy to interpret. what happens if some of the words are GIFs or the page is a troll page from a porn site or its a /. comment listing with a huge range of topics? its a complex problem to solve.
computer systems dont do language very well. they cant think or reason without formalised instruction segments which have been predefined for them. sad state of affairs but thats the way it is right now.
just name the servers after the *functions* they serve rather than a theme or other crap. :
for example
MR237BWEB01 - Mail Room number 237B Webserver 1.
CONF225FIL01 - Conference room 225 File Server 1.
EXTCOMPWEB01 - External Company web server 1.
alternatively you could also do the theme thing and assign some genre to a particular department.
for example, all accounting servers could be named after fish e.g. bluefish, haddock, trout, etc.
or colors or star wars themes or anything else.
i prefer the dept/room number/server type/server number scheme myself and using acronyms you could easily keep it under 8 characters for the host name.
Of course be sure to add the host names into a comma delimited file with an explanation and ip address/subnet and room location of the server (or rack location). Make sure you keep the file someplace publically accessible like on a webserver someplace.
you can interoperate between Java and C# but only if youre really careful by using the Apache SOAP implementation for Java and C#/.NET's built in SOAP functions. If you do most of the coding in Java or C# deploy the functions as exported APIs which cna then be accessed through anything. M$ of course broke the C#/SOAP implementation slightly to discourage this but with a bit of creative coding and apache soap configs you can get around it if you ignore the warnings.
I'd recommend doing most of the heavy coding in Java for all the operational stuff while you wait for the Mono implementation of C# to be finished.. For basic functions Java and C# are functionally and syntactically identical so a simple search and replace can convert one to the other...even starting out in Java means you can convert it to C# whenever its really required.
i'll second this. ive been on /. for an incredibly long time as an AC before i finally bit the bullet and got an account. its unfortunate that /. has not thought it through. From working at large companies i've seen this attitude in action several times. The percieved stability of a large company insulates employees to the fact that it is just as vulnerable as a small business whether it is public or not. You *HAVE* to maximise revenue flow in order to be profitable. /. isnt being smart in this case.
Its just that large companies have public IPOs and large cash reserves so they can get away with a large number of mistakes (but they WILL eventually bite the bullet).
You have to be smart to run a business --
redhat doesnt have any clustering technology whatsoever. all their clustering work is repackaged versions of GPLed software such as LVS for the HA web server clustering and kimberlite for clustering samba/NFS etc etc. i think they have a MOSIX based processing cluster as well but im not sure.
ive not seen redhat actively develop any software completely on their own other than the distro/rpm and the gui installer.