1. Read the first few paras till you come to know the subject. If you don't like the subject go to 100.
2. Read the last para and chk out the conclusion. If you trust the author and the conclusion is bad got to 100.
3. Chk the size of the review..if it is short enough read it, and go to 5.
4. (REview is too frickin long case) Read the user comments and see if they agree with the reviewer. If the comments agree with the conclusion... then depending on hum much you liked the subject you will read the review.
5. goto 101
6. If you do not trust trust the author but you are really interested, go to other sites (amazon? is the best) for more reviews and go to 101 else go to 100.
7. If you reach here get an AMD processor.:-)
8. NOP 9. NOP . . 99. NOP
100. exit (1)
101. exit (0)
The above algo has many loose ends. Each reader should fill them up in his own way. That's life for you.:-)
Over and out CP P.S: Would appreciate if someone can give a more efficient algo.:-)
1. How much banner sales are you expection to make this year?
2. How much time will it take for your banner sales to touch 250K?
3. Do you have a predictable growth rate?
4. Are you still in love with your website? Or, after spending so much time you want to move on.
5. If you are going to handle the website (ala/.) after the sale, are you happy with the terms at which you will control the site in the future.
6. If any company in the similar category has been sold, then how much was it sold for?
7. If you think that you are a bottleneck for expansion of the site (in terms of providing finance/hours for more content), then have you thought of financing.
8. If you are an ecommerce company, is your growth rate comparable to the industry?
I had some more stuff in mind; but can't recall it now. Meanwhile people can add questions to this list as appropriate.
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whoi s?STRING=all+ does not show all teh domains registered by person_name. There could be more domains also.
My theory is based on the arg that " "all" means to search all fields":-)
From what I gather...one needs to create a business plan which would contain data like the potential size of the market, potential customers... etc etc.
Would appreciate if someone could give pointers to sites/books which provide the details.
Now that/. and ANDN have a lot of money what are the changes we will see in operation of/. and ANDN since you have to put the money to use to generate some real revenue (and not ad revenue)
I was recently reading about bluetooth. A vast number of vendors are supporting its development. It has got a good speed also. (cant remember it right now).Bluetooth is a very viable technology for home users and the speed is sufficient for printers, scanners, keyboards, mouse etc devices.
I am not sure if firewire/usb can be useful for home users or for anyone else for that matter.
I have been thinking about the working of a search engine lately and this post just comes at the right time.
Some of the challanges which will be faced for search the web in the future will be :
1. Displaying matching URLs as well as links which match the type of content. This is important. If I search for "throat infection" on a search engine..apart from the pages which mention "throat infection"..the web engine should give me a link to drkoop.com, webmd.com (AFAIK, these sites do not allow search engines to copy their content) and so on. Search engines will have to maintain huge databases linking words to categories. And with the proliferation of hte internet the number of sites carrying content and disallowing search engines is going to increase. Search engines need a intelligent way to get around this.
2. Search engines will need "help" users with their searches. For example if I just search for "throat" the search engine should have a helper section where it can ask me more...whether I am searching for "throat infection" or "study off throat" and so on.
3. Search assisted by humans. This is also one of the concepts picking up these days. Basically you submit a question and there will be some person searching the web, and you will get you answer in a few hours/days. Chk out www.xpertsite.com.
4. Tools for better maintenance of bookmarks. I for one usually bookmark all relevant stuff and then I spend a full weekend arranging them so that I can find the relevant stuff from the bookmarks quickly. The current bookmarking scheme is very primitive causing a lot of users to "reinvent teh wheel" (searching for URLs which are already bookmarked).
Phew!
I'll jot down more thoughts later. Gotta work now.
". Due to the high demands Quake 3 puts on the client/server architecture of this implemetation, running Quake3 is not recommended. XFree86 4.0 will have a direct rendering architecture needed to use the 3D hardware effectively with Quake 3."
I havent been able to come across a single place which lists which cards are supported and which are not. And what kind of hacks are needed to support some of the cards?
Any pointers...anyone? This should be nice info even for home (read layman) linux users.
I havent been able to come across a single place which lists which cards are supported and which are not. And what kind of hacks are needed to support some of the cards?
Any pointers...anyone? This should be nice info even for home linux users.
Sometimes teh eye fights back and you will have to wear those specs. There is a new technology (dont remember hte name) where they insert a lens in the eye and it can be removed if there is change in the vision. Totally undestruvtive as compared to laser correction.
CP
muttrc file with pine key bindings
on
Mutt Hits 1.0
·
· Score: 1
I tried looking for a muttrc file with pine like key binding. Unfortunately couldnt find one. The muttrc file shipped with mutt is too primitive for my tastes.
Does any/. reader have a muttrc file with pine key bindings so that I may not reinvent the wheel.
try to compare the installer with rpms. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a graphical rpm installation versus a loiki setup installation? Try to also highlight the deficiencies of both rpm and setup.
Software industryis different. S/w engg never write s/w without bugs. Try to find out how many people today are still fixing bugs and enhancing software in the 1970's and 80's. You will be surprised. The problem with this industry is that there is no good proven quality standards being followed. More than 50% jobs today are maintenance related.
If you want to survive in this industry you have to be on the bleeding edge of technology. Good enggs just cannot afford to do a 9-5 job and go home , They have to do extra reading to keep up with the new technology. People who dont keep up with technology are the ones who will bet left behind. I usually classify technology in two branches :
- Hard. This one takes a lot of time to learn and you got to have solid grasp of concepts to be working in this area. example writing protocol software, OS's etc.
- Soft. This one is easy to leanr. You dont really need a BS degree. A six month course is all that you need. This technology can get outdated easily..but it is also easy to learn similar new soft tech existing at that point in time. example html, perl etc.
I havent got time to organize my thoughts...but a last thought is..if we really predict that the world is going to see major technological advances next century and I am sure there will be many related to new internet technologies (access, interface) I dont really see a point where the glut os s/w engg will end.
Some important predictions for the short term future are:-
1. Thrid world countries get on the internet.
2. Internet telephony allows for cheap communication. Business flourishes because of the internet. It is no longer important that you are in the same geographic zone as your customer.
3. Deployment of 3rd generation of wireless in Europe and Asia.
4. Virtual cities are created. Everyone has virtual identity.
There can be a lot of interesting changes in life because of internet. Would love to see someone predict those.
Can you disable time reporting for postings done by Anonymous cowards. It would be possible for employers to find out out who has posted a cetain post if they look at the anonymous coward posting time and then at the time in their http logs.
http://www.domainsurfer.com/ allows one to search the whole database for a domain name (full or part). Someone can probably write a script which can recreate the database at his/her end.
I am surprised that a company trying to do good and pass on benifits to the developer community is being held responsible from spam. Cmon guys dont be so paranoid. There is a human side to Redhat.
Slashdot Mirror
Algo for getting the most out of reviews
... then depending on hum much you liked the subject you will read the review.
:-)
:-)
:-)
1. Read the first few paras till you come to know the subject. If you don't like the subject go to 100.
2. Read the last para and chk out the conclusion. If you trust the author and the conclusion is bad got to 100.
3. Chk the size of the review..if it is short enough read it, and go to 5.
4. (REview is too frickin long case) Read the user comments and see if they agree with the reviewer. If the comments agree with the conclusion
5. goto 101
6. If you do not trust trust the author but you are really interested, go to other sites (amazon? is the best) for more reviews and go to 101 else go to 100.
7. If you reach here get an AMD processor.
8. NOP
9. NOP
.
.
99. NOP
100. exit (1)
101. exit (0)
The above algo has many loose ends. Each reader should fill them up in his own way. That's life for you.
Over and out
CP
P.S: Would appreciate if someone can give a more efficient algo.
No you can't. The source code of windows is copyrighted.
Ask yourself the following questons.
1. How much banner sales are you expection to make this year?
2. How much time will it take for your banner sales to touch 250K?
3. Do you have a predictable growth rate?
4. Are you still in love with your website? Or, after spending so much time you want to move on.
5. If you are going to handle the website (ala
6. If any company in the similar category has been sold, then how much was it sold for?
7. If you think that you are a bottleneck for expansion of the site (in terms of providing finance/hours for more content), then have you thought of financing.
8. If you are an ecommerce company, is your growth rate comparable to the industry?
I had some more stuff in mind; but can't recall it now. Meanwhile people can add questions to this list as appropriate.
Hope this helps.
CP
I meanti s?STRING=all+"person_name"
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/who
Sorry..the html screwed it up.
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whoi s?STRING=all+ does not show all teh domains registered by person_name. There could be more domains also.
:-)
My theory is based on the arg that " "all" means to search all fields"
CP
From what I gather...one needs to create a business plan which would contain data like the potential size of the market, potential customers... etc etc.
Would appreciate if someone could give pointers to sites/books which provide the details.
Thanks
The subject says it all ....
CP
CP
Now that /. and ANDN have a lot of money what are the changes we will see in operation of /. and ANDN since you have to put the money to use to generate some real revenue (and not ad revenue)
CP
I was recently reading about bluetooth. A vast number of vendors are supporting its development. It has got a good speed also. (cant remember it right now).Bluetooth is a very viable technology for home users and the speed is sufficient for printers, scanners, keyboards, mouse etc devices.
I am not sure if firewire/usb can be useful for home users or for anyone else for that matter.
What do you fellas think?
CP
I have been thinking about the working of a search engine lately and this post just comes at the right time.
..the web engine should give me a link to drkoop.com, webmd.com (AFAIK, these sites do not allow search engines to copy their content) and so on.
Some of the challanges which will be faced for search the web in the future will be :
1. Displaying matching URLs as well as links which match the type of content. This is important. If I search for "throat infection" on a search engine..apart from the pages which mention "throat infection"
Search engines will have to maintain huge databases linking words to categories. And with the proliferation of hte internet the number of sites carrying content and disallowing search engines is going to increase. Search engines need a intelligent way to get around this.
2. Search engines will need "help" users with their searches. For example if I just search for "throat" the search engine should have a helper section where it can ask me more...whether I am searching for "throat infection" or "study off throat" and so on.
3. Search assisted by humans. This is also one of the concepts picking up these days. Basically you submit a question and there will be some person searching the web, and you will get you answer in a few hours/days. Chk out www.xpertsite.com.
4. Tools for better maintenance of bookmarks. I for one usually bookmark all relevant stuff and then I spend a full weekend arranging them so that I can find the relevant stuff from the bookmarks quickly. The current bookmarking scheme is very primitive causing a lot of users to "reinvent teh wheel" (searching for URLs which are already bookmarked).
Phew!
I'll jot down more thoughts later. Gotta work now.
CP
Mastering Perl Device Drivers? :-)
The FAQ on nvidia.com says
w are_drivers.html
". Due to the high demands Quake 3 puts on the client/server architecture of this implemetation, running Quake3 is not recommended. XFree86 4.0 will have a direct rendering architecture needed to use the 3D hardware effectively with Quake 3."
URL : http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/soft
I havent been able to come across a single place which lists which cards are supported and which are not. And what kind of hacks are needed to support some of the cards?
Any pointers...anyone? This should be nice info even for home (read layman) linux users.
CP
I havent been able to come across a single place which lists which cards are supported and which are not. And what kind of hacks are needed to support some of the cards?
Any pointers...anyone? This should be nice info even for home linux users.
CP
Sometimes teh eye fights back and you will have
to wear those specs. There is a new technology (dont remember hte name) where they insert a lens in the eye and it can be removed if there is change in the vision. Totally undestruvtive as compared to laser correction.
CP
I tried looking for a muttrc file with pine like key binding. Unfortunately couldnt find one. The muttrc file shipped with mutt is too primitive for my tastes.
/. reader have a muttrc file with pine key bindings so that I may not reinvent the wheel.
Does any
Thanks
CP
try to compare the installer with rpms. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a graphical rpm installation versus a loiki setup installation? Try to also highlight the deficiencies of both rpm and setup.
:-)
That would be very informational.
My $0.02
CP
Software industryis different. S/w engg never write s/w without bugs. Try to find out how many people today are still fixing bugs and enhancing software in the 1970's and 80's. You will be surprised. The problem with this industry is that there is no good proven quality standards being followed. More than 50% jobs today are maintenance related.
If you want to survive in this industry you have to be on the bleeding edge of technology. Good enggs just cannot afford to do a 9-5 job and go home , They have to do extra reading to keep up with the new technology. People who dont keep up with technology are the ones who will bet left behind. I usually classify technology in two branches :
- Hard. This one takes a lot of time to learn and you got to have solid grasp of concepts to be working in this area. example writing protocol software, OS's etc.
- Soft. This one is easy to leanr. You dont really need a BS degree. A six month course is all that you need. This technology can get outdated easily..but it is also easy to learn similar new soft tech existing at that point in time. example html, perl etc.
I havent got time to organize my thoughts...but a last thought is..if we really predict that the world is going to see major technological advances next century and I am sure there will be many related to new internet technologies (access, interface) I dont really see a point where the glut os s/w engg will end.
CP
Some important predictions for the short term future are :-
1. Thrid world countries get on the internet.
2. Internet telephony allows for cheap communication. Business flourishes because of the internet. It is no longer important that you are in the same geographic zone as your customer.
3. Deployment of 3rd generation of wireless in Europe and Asia.
4. Virtual cities are created. Everyone has virtual identity.
There can be a lot of interesting changes in life because of internet. Would love to see someone predict those.
CP
If your aim is just to utilize the free space on all the machines, why cant you use NFS?
CP
Hey Rob,
Can you disable time reporting for postings done by Anonymous cowards. It would be possible for employers to find out out who has posted a cetain post if they look at the anonymous coward posting time and then at the time in their http logs.
CP
Link http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ dosent work.
Is this the correct link?
http://www.domainsurfer.com/ allows one to search the whole database for a domain name (full or part). Someone can probably write a script which can recreate the database at his/her end.
What say u ppl?
CP
I am surprised that a company trying to do good
and pass on benifits to the developer community is being held responsible from spam. Cmon guys dont be so paranoid. There is a human side to Redhat.