If folks borrow my internet, that's fine by me. If they park for a while I ask them to move along.
Frankly, I'm very disappointed that the http://nocat.net/ project seems to have died off. I would very much like a standard distribution where I would monitor and modify access to my wifi using a trivial web interface. A micro linux or *bsd ROM image with a couple of configuration file that I could run in a VM would be ideal.
Saying that Apple makes its money of hardware is disingenuous. Nobody (you 3 don't count) buys macs to run linux or windows - though both run fine. And there are plenty of folks who will tell you that apple phones and tablets are nothing special, hardware-wise.
Apple sells systems. Well integrated, easy to use systems.
I happen to like 'em because they also run *nix. (I don't care that you 3 don't like the flavor)
Lots of folks have said good things about weekly meetings, good software, and etc. As a telecommuting veteran, I have found that it is extremely helpful to be consistently available. Whatever hours you (or anyone) work, whenever you are, be consistent. Everyone on the team should know the hours that Johnny and Jill are online and available for chat - without having to look at a spreadsheet or calendar to see if they have changed things up this week. Being busy and/or in a meeting is fine - that happens no matter what the environment. But folks should 'just know' when people are around.
Our tools in rough order of use: HipChat Email Skype gcal
Does anyone really care if their search results pop up in 0.5 seconds rather than 1?
As a developer of web apps, I care. If we can reduce our webserver load and improve our customer's experience by a tenth of a second, it's a HUGE win for us. Not only is it a better experience for our users, but it also means we can support more users with less hardware.
He's saying that he needs package management to get those 3 installed? I don't get it. He says that textmate sucks so he'd rather use emacs on linux? emacs runs fine on osx. I don't get it. He says that the package managers on osx tend to compile from source instead of install binaries, so he'd rather use linux? I don't get it. He's doing work on what I suppose is a cloud based web platform that is scaled across multiple systems, and I suppose his primary coding language is python (script), and implies that running on a linux laptop would be substantially closer to his deployment environment than a mac laptop? I don't get it.
He was a mac fanboy before OS X? Ah - things begin to come into focus: he's bent.
It doesn't matter how safe they are, the forces of extreme environmentalists and Luddites will say No! No! No!
Already idiots in Congress, without knowing anything more than the hyperbolic news reports, are calling for shut downs and "slow downs" and endless Congressional Investigations where people who know about Nuclear Power try to convince people that don't that you can't burn a hole in the earth straight through to China
I'm eternally optimistic that our fine congressfolk know better. Most of 'em, anyway. And that they are calling for shutdowns and slow downs as a response to their constituents - because they are spineless and because nobody [at the top] has stood up and said "we can and should make better, safer reactors."
California, near (10-15 miles) a nuke plant. We have an earthquake box with enough food stuff to last weeks. We have at least a week of water and there is a river running through town where we could get more for double boiling. We have a couple of camp stoves and a BBQ. Cold weather isn't an issue. We have 2 bikes in good condition for getting around should gas become a problem. We have iodide pills if the nuke plant has a little trouble.
If the nuke plant has serious trouble we toss the bikes in the pickup with as much food as is easy to get our hands on and head any direction but west as far as we need to. We have friends & family about 250 miles in opposite directions if there is a local event.
America can't be a socialist state - you don't help the needy at all! Otherwise you'd have a universal/socialised health care system - something every other civilised nation in the world has.
That's a common misconception. We do have socialized medicine - we just use the emergency room instead of managing it well. That's why it's so expensive and also so bad.
I, too, would like to find a place where the editors edit. Maybe even research a little. And where they don't comment in the stories. Where non-stories don't get posted. I mean - this is/. You would think that an editor could pick up the phone and actually call the subject of a story on rare occasion and maybe get a little insight into what is really going on.
Oh, and a site that doesn't end up slashdotting the subject without warning.
We have 4 Macs (2 iMac, 2 Powerbook) that have been in the shop a total of five times (1 iMac twice, everything else once). Their build quality has gone down a lot.
Oh yeah? Well my anecdotal is bigger than yours! N = 7 S = 1
Slashdot Mirror
As I mentioned in another post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2111634&cid=35964896), I wish that nocat.net was updated
If folks borrow my internet, that's fine by me. If they park for a while I ask them to move along.
Frankly, I'm very disappointed that the http://nocat.net/ project seems to have died off. I would very much like a standard distribution where I would monitor and modify access to my wifi using a trivial web interface. A micro linux or *bsd ROM image with a couple of configuration file that I could run in a VM would be ideal.
Saying that Apple makes its money of hardware is disingenuous. Nobody (you 3 don't count) buys macs to run linux or windows - though both run fine. And there are plenty of folks who will tell you that apple phones and tablets are nothing special, hardware-wise.
Apple sells systems. Well integrated, easy to use systems.
I happen to like 'em because they also run *nix. (I don't care that you 3 don't like the flavor)
Lots of folks have said good things about weekly meetings, good software, and etc. As a telecommuting veteran, I have found that it is extremely helpful to be consistently available. Whatever hours you (or anyone) work, whenever you are, be consistent. Everyone on the team should know the hours that Johnny and Jill are online and available for chat - without having to look at a spreadsheet or calendar to see if they have changed things up this week. Being busy and/or in a meeting is fine - that happens no matter what the environment. But folks should 'just know' when people are around.
Our tools in rough order of use:
HipChat
Email
Skype
gcal
So... pretty soon? :-)
Does anyone really care if their search results pop up in 0.5 seconds rather than 1?
As a developer of web apps, I care. If we can reduce our webserver load and improve our customer's experience by a tenth of a second, it's a HUGE win for us. Not only is it a better experience for our users, but it also means we can support more users with less hardware.
This.
Fire the editors.
He's saying that he needs package management to get those 3 installed? I don't get it.
He says that textmate sucks so he'd rather use emacs on linux? emacs runs fine on osx. I don't get it.
He says that the package managers on osx tend to compile from source instead of install binaries, so he'd rather use linux? I don't get it.
He's doing work on what I suppose is a cloud based web platform that is scaled across multiple systems, and I suppose his primary coding language is python (script), and implies that running on a linux laptop would be substantially closer to his deployment environment than a mac laptop? I don't get it.
He was a mac fanboy before OS X? Ah - things begin to come into focus: he's bent.
This is it. When real companies pay real money for IP4 addresses, it is the beginning of the end.
Suddenly IP6 day seems a lot more interesting.
Is the US "most likely" to be affected by this?
Yes - if you count psychologically.
Yeah. This is only a myth if you're willing to discount multiple studies that show that multiple monitors do increase productivity.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=do+multiple+monitors+increase+productivity
Way to go, editors.
It doesn't matter how safe they are, the forces of extreme environmentalists and Luddites will say No! No! No!
Already idiots in Congress, without knowing anything more than the hyperbolic news reports, are calling for shut downs and "slow downs" and endless Congressional Investigations where people who know about Nuclear Power try to convince people that don't that you can't burn a hole in the earth straight through to China
I'm eternally optimistic that our fine congressfolk know better. Most of 'em, anyway. And that they are calling for shutdowns and slow downs as a response to their constituents - because they are spineless and because nobody [at the top] has stood up and said "we can and should make better, safer reactors."
California, near (10-15 miles) a nuke plant.
We have an earthquake box with enough food stuff to last weeks. We have at least a week of water and there is a river running through town where we could get more for double boiling. We have a couple of camp stoves and a BBQ. Cold weather isn't an issue. We have 2 bikes in good condition for getting around should gas become a problem. We have iodide pills if the nuke plant has a little trouble.
If the nuke plant has serious trouble we toss the bikes in the pickup with as much food as is easy to get our hands on and head any direction but west as far as we need to. We have friends & family about 250 miles in opposite directions if there is a local event.
THP makes memory-heavy stuff anywhere up to 5% faster based on some quick testing I did with it on folding@home.
5% is pretty impressive for a kernel update.
I mean - that's about what they're limiting it to, anyway, aren't they? Oh, I guess you already have to have video form them, so why bother...
So.. why bother?
What does that mean? Is it like 20% faster? I dunno - I think 5% would be a lot faster. But .5% or less? what are we talking about, here?
Seagate has had a 3TB drive on the market for -months.- They were the first on the scene, in fact. How'd you miss this?
You're new, here, aren't you? Still expecting editors to do the things editors are supposed to do? You'll get over it.
Well crap, that sounds useful. Why on Earth did they do the stupid trendy "drop the e" thing with the name?
Because the apache foundation is primarily interested in web 2.0-y things, so that's what they want their projects to look/sound like?
Besides, e-solr may be a little over-the-top. :-)
You're right, of course. /. editors suck.
SOLR is [related to] a text search technology that is often used in parallel with a database.
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/#intro
Wow. That earns a big FU for the editors.
Thanks for the information.
America can't be a socialist state - you don't help the needy at all! Otherwise you'd have a universal/socialised health care system - something every other civilised nation in the world has.
That's a common misconception. We do have socialized medicine - we just use the emergency room instead of managing it well. That's why it's so expensive and also so bad.
I, too, would like to find a place where the editors edit. Maybe even research a little. And where they don't comment in the stories. Where non-stories don't get posted. I mean - this is /. You would think that an editor could pick up the phone and actually call the subject of a story on rare occasion and maybe get a little insight into what is really going on.
Oh, and a site that doesn't end up slashdotting the subject without warning.
I use
* http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/ for nano tech news
* http://www.macrumors.com/ for mac news
I would like to find outlets for :-)
* Programmer related news (in addition to http://thedailywtf.com/
* Hardware related news
* Tech/Social new
To be fair, I think /. has done a pretty good job of covering tech and the recent middle-east events. It's just the other 95% that's pretty much crap.
Right, like you won't be exterminated for being useless by that time.
Are you kidding? Just think of all the heat his/her body generates. With that and some form of fusion, the computers could power anything they need!
We have 4 Macs (2 iMac, 2 Powerbook) that have been in the shop a total of five times (1 iMac twice, everything else once). Their build quality has gone down a lot.
Oh yeah? Well my anecdotal is bigger than yours!
N = 7
S = 1
Yeah, I happend to find unicorns at the center of that same star. My current theory is that the fluid they discovered is actually unicorn urine.