Thank you... I really get sick of blaming Bush for the bubble and economic downturn. That was setup and executed by an insane market and corporate environment... during the Clinton administration if you care to blame.
Without exception, my IT friends/colleagues are much better off now than at the beginning of the Bush administration. They have better jobs with more certain stable futures.
I totally agree. I pay far more attention to commercials while I fast forward. If I wasn't fast forwarding I'd be in a different room doing something else entirely.
On the other hand I have noticed that I tend to miss movie previews.
Windows is hands-off? I have several years experience at an MSP and I can tell you that your experience with Windows being more hands off is very irregular. We had customers that all we did for them was reboot nodes in their Windows Server farms a dozen times a day when certain monitors failed.
Anyways, almost without exception it was Windows servers that would be the boxes with perpetual problems.
This is actually the reason I stopped doing distributed.net. Not only the power consumption of the Athlons never being idles, but in my computer room it is hard enough to control the heat and A/C costs a lot.
Seeing your Athlons near operating maximums all the time has got to wear on the equipment. I started seeing instabilities with RAM (which I had to replace at a cost of a few hundred dollars).
When the Processor is idle most of the time the system runs significantly cooler.
With a young family (a 2yr old and an infant) my wife and I seldom go out. Sometimes we will go see a movie but only if we *really* want to see it, otherwise we'll rent the DVD or get it on DirecTV.
I do enjoy the theatre experience, maybe because I haven't spent money on building a huge home theatre. To get me there they are going to have to make something better than the new Star Wars episodes or Lord of the Rings though.
Correct... the DirecTivo has a dual tuner so if you have a dual LNB dish you can use the 2 channels independently. I almost never watch live TV so for me this means that I can record 2 channels while watching a previously recorded show.
I'm probably one of the few people who find this interesting since I was working on such devices as a software engineer up to 3 years ago. I think we were doing 1-2bits per second mud pulsing and 7-10bits per second with EMF pulsing (this is in the field). You know... the kind of place where the tools still use 8051's because you can get military grade components and need to operate at 175degC. I wonder what kind of bandwidth they get at what depths.
Kind of interesting when you are dealing with trying to decode data where you get 10-50psi pulses (maybe lasting around.5 seconds) but your baseline can change 300psi a second. Anyways, it was a fun project.
My first thought was... hmm.. wonder if I can compile GEP for WinGAIM. I use Trillian frequently because of the pseudo-SecureIM they have and many friends use it (it was standard use at my last company). Of course I spent a couple of days last week dissecting the Trillian SecureIM packets in hopes of implementing gaim support for it (got all but the hardwired prime... which I have some guesses at).
Anyways, if I can get GEP to build I'll abandon that and have my friends switch... especially since Trillian has become minor nagware since the 0.74 release. Of course the current GEP in sourceforge needs about 20 lines of bogus code commented out to work... ironically WinGAIM file dialog code doesn't work and I can't see the plugins directory to load the other modules (have to get the source and patch that).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gep You have to pull it down out of CVS and build it yourself after applying this patch that simply removes the bogus code that tries to make a read-only text field look grey (of course something you could never to with Trillian)... nevermind the short patch didn't pass the slashdot junk filter. Just comment out everything in gep.c from lines 306 through 326.
That's assuming the gene didn't exist in the first place and the presence of it in the gene pool increased because all the bacteria without the gene got killed off.
But yes, as someone who now finds evolution to be a crock when it goes beyond shifts in the gene pool, bacteria's resistance to antibiotics is the first thing I think of when it comes to potential "beneficial" mutations.
Yeah... disgusting eh? If you get a really nice parking spot down town (small lot right next to the 2 main roads), then the alley is the shortest distance to "downtown".
The guy could have picked much better places to grab some food though.
I was hoping to find the guy drove by the house of some people I know down there... looks like he just missed them... I'm sure they are running 802.11:)
OK... I'm confused... this is extrmeley off-topic and I've never touched BeOS (besides failing to install it) so I don't know what I'm talking about.
Are you saying that in a multi-threaded program BeOS was so finely preemptible w/ small time slices that you couldn't be sloppy with resource contention like you can get away with on most UP platforms? I can't see any other way a scheduler would effect a user application.
Or maybe the application framework you used for BeOS applications allowed events to be handled in parallel? Or...?
Sounds like your company is getting as much business as it can handle. You seem mostly to be upset because you end up doing the same things day after day.
In this situation the only way you are going to do anything different is if you can convince management that you can improve scalability (ie service more customers with less effort) with some a new development effort. But remember if you are going to make what you are doing now easy enough for someone less talented (hint: less expensive) to do then you might find yourself out of work if the company doesn't want to explore new products.
A reasonably good idea in theory... a former colleague had one just so he could stay out of trouble.
Sure enough, he gets pulled over after a company party and explains yes he has been drinking but he took a breathalyzer test and he's under the limit. Officer has him try his and he's over the limit. The guy even showed him taking the test on his device... apparently his driving was showing symptoms so none of it really matters.
So he gets to ride his bike 80mile round trip to work for the next 6 months.
*Please* go after them for bundling IIS with Win NT/2k.
We are talking about a license where you pay nearly $1k USD more to purchase a license you can use someone else's Web Server with... which just so happens to make you pay for IIS at the same time.
Why Bush's popularity is increasing. With all the criticism of his intelligence he certainly makes reasonable decisions... I don't care if it is him or the people he surrounds himself with.
This thread of articles is getting old. MS isn't attacking open source, they are saying people need to pay attention to what the particular open source license they are dealing with actually says. In particular they are arguing that the GPL is virus like.
So what... it is... there is little question that that is the case (or maybe the BORG collective is a slightly better description). Anyone who has tried to use a GPL'd project in their non-GPL'd product would know that.
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One of the problems is people still have working Palm Pilots they upgraded years back. For many people the original Palms work great. It shows a lot of good design and forethought on Palm's part... but also that they haven't come up with new ideas that people must have.
I agree... since when did open source mean GPL or GPL compatible? I think it is great that other companies are working out open source licenses that suit their business needs. The big concern for me is making sure that the licenses are such that you can use libraries that are under other licenses.
Which my "ideal" open source'ish license goes basically like this:
- Source code available but no ability to redistribute for N months
- A given revision of source code becomes Public Domain after N months
This way I get control over my open source project as long as I'm actively developing it with features people want. If the project dies (as is common), the source code becomes Public Domain so anyone wishing to take it over can put it under any license they want (including making modifications proprietary).
I really hate this... there *is* a difference between a Language and a Library. C++ is a Language and STL is a Template Library (I won't go into my loathing of the STL as anything other than a compiler test suite). I really wish they'd stop putting this stuff in the Language spec. Make an ANSI C++ Standard Library Set spec.
Like in Java... it's a Language, a set of Libraries, and a Virtual Machine.
Actually, that's not true. Turning the A/C off is more efficient (physics) though more painful when you get home. I takes less energy to bring a room from 85=>75 than 100=>75, but it takes more energy to maintain the temperature at 85 all day than the difference.
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Last I checked IBM's own pSeries boxes shipped with Linux couldn't run WebSphere MQ. DB2 Server was released for it just within the last year.
Thank you... I really get sick of blaming Bush for the bubble and economic downturn. That was setup and executed by an insane market and corporate environment... during the Clinton administration if you care to blame.
Without exception, my IT friends/colleagues are much better off now than at the beginning of the Bush administration. They have better jobs with more certain stable futures.
I totally agree. I pay far more attention to commercials while I fast forward. If I wasn't fast forwarding I'd be in a different room doing something else entirely.
On the other hand I have noticed that I tend to miss movie previews.
Brian Macy
Windows is hands-off? I have several years experience at an MSP and I can tell you that your experience with Windows being more hands off is very irregular. We had customers that all we did for them was reboot nodes in their Windows Server farms a dozen times a day when certain monitors failed.
Anyways, almost without exception it was Windows servers that would be the boxes with perpetual problems.
This is actually the reason I stopped doing distributed.net. Not only the power consumption of the Athlons never being idles, but in my computer room it is hard enough to control the heat and A/C costs a lot.
Seeing your Athlons near operating maximums all the time has got to wear on the equipment. I started seeing instabilities with RAM (which I had to replace at a cost of a few hundred dollars).
When the Processor is idle most of the time the system runs significantly cooler.
Brian Macy
With a young family (a 2yr old and an infant) my wife and I seldom go out. Sometimes we will go see a movie but only if we *really* want to see it, otherwise we'll rent the DVD or get it on DirecTV.
I do enjoy the theatre experience, maybe because I haven't spent money on building a huge home theatre. To get me there they are going to have to make something better than the new Star Wars episodes or Lord of the Rings though.
Brian Macy
Correct... the DirecTivo has a dual tuner so if you have a dual LNB dish you can use the 2 channels independently. I almost never watch live TV so for me this means that I can record 2 channels while watching a previously recorded show.
Brian Macy
I'm probably one of the few people who find this interesting since I was working on such devices as a software engineer up to 3 years ago. I think we were doing 1-2bits per second mud pulsing and 7-10bits per second with EMF pulsing (this is in the field). You know... the kind of place where the tools still use 8051's because you can get military grade components and need to operate at 175degC. I wonder what kind of bandwidth they get at what depths.
.5 seconds) but your baseline can change 300psi a second. Anyways, it was a fun project.
Kind of interesting when you are dealing with trying to decode data where you get 10-50psi pulses (maybe lasting around
Brian Macy
My first thought was... hmm.. wonder if I can compile GEP for WinGAIM. I use Trillian frequently because of the pseudo-SecureIM they have and many friends use it (it was standard use at my last company). Of course I spent a couple of days last week dissecting the Trillian SecureIM packets in hopes of implementing gaim support for it (got all but the hardwired prime... which I have some guesses at).
Anyways, if I can get GEP to build I'll abandon that and have my friends switch... especially since Trillian has become minor nagware since the 0.74 release. Of course the current GEP in sourceforge needs about 20 lines of bogus code commented out to work... ironically WinGAIM file dialog code doesn't work and I can't see the plugins directory to load the other modules (have to get the source and patch that).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gep
You have to pull it down out of CVS and build it yourself after applying this patch that simply removes the bogus code that tries to make a read-only text field look grey (of course something you could never to with Trillian)... nevermind the short patch didn't pass the slashdot junk filter. Just comment out everything in gep.c from lines 306 through 326.
That's assuming the gene didn't exist in the first place and the presence of it in the gene pool increased because all the bacteria without the gene got killed off.
But yes, as someone who now finds evolution to be a crock when it goes beyond shifts in the gene pool, bacteria's resistance to antibiotics is the first thing I think of when it comes to potential "beneficial" mutations.
Yeah... disgusting eh? If you get a really nice parking spot down town (small lot right next to the 2 main roads), then the alley is the shortest distance to "downtown".
:)
The guy could have picked much better places to grab some food though.
I was hoping to find the guy drove by the house of some people I know down there... looks like he just missed them... I'm sure they are running 802.11
Brian Macy
OK... I'm confused... this is extrmeley off-topic and I've never touched BeOS (besides failing to install it) so I don't know what I'm talking about.
Are you saying that in a multi-threaded program BeOS was so finely preemptible w/ small time slices that you couldn't be sloppy with resource contention like you can get away with on most UP platforms? I can't see any other way a scheduler would effect a user application.
Or maybe the application framework you used for BeOS applications allowed events to be handled in parallel? Or...?
Brian Macy
Sounds like your company is getting as much business as it can handle. You seem mostly to be upset because you end up doing the same things day after day.
In this situation the only way you are going to do anything different is if you can convince management that you can improve scalability (ie service more customers with less effort) with some a new development effort. But remember if you are going to make what you are doing now easy enough for someone less talented (hint: less expensive) to do then you might find yourself out of work if the company doesn't want to explore new products.
Brian Macy
A reasonably good idea in theory... a former colleague had one just so he could stay out of trouble.
Sure enough, he gets pulled over after a company party and explains yes he has been drinking but he took a breathalyzer test and he's under the limit. Officer has him try his and he's over the limit. The guy even showed him taking the test on his device... apparently his driving was showing symptoms so none of it really matters.
So he gets to ride his bike 80mile round trip to work for the next 6 months.
Brian Macy
*Please* go after them for bundling IIS with Win NT/2k.
We are talking about a license where you pay nearly $1k USD more to purchase a license you can use someone else's Web Server with... which just so happens to make you pay for IIS at the same time.
Brian Macy
Why Bush's popularity is increasing. With all the criticism of his intelligence he certainly makes reasonable decisions... I don't care if it is him or the people he surrounds himself with.
Brian Macy
OS/2 likely has a lot of code in it with Microsoft copyrights. Probably other company copyrights too.
Brian Macy
This thread of articles is getting old. MS isn't attacking open source, they are saying people need to pay attention to what the particular open source license they are dealing with actually says. In particular they are arguing that the GPL is virus like.
So what... it is... there is little question that that is the case (or maybe the BORG collective is a slightly better description). Anyone who has tried to use a GPL'd project in their non-GPL'd product would know that.
Brian Macy
One of the problems is people still have working Palm Pilots they upgraded years back. For many people the original Palms work great. It shows a lot of good design and forethought on Palm's part... but also that they haven't come up with new ideas that people must have.
Brian Macy
I agree... since when did open source mean GPL or GPL compatible? I think it is great that other companies are working out open source licenses that suit their business needs. The big concern for me is making sure that the licenses are such that you can use libraries that are under other licenses.
Which my "ideal" open source'ish license goes basically like this:
- Source code available but no ability to redistribute for N months
- A given revision of source code becomes Public Domain after N months
This way I get control over my open source project as long as I'm actively developing it with features people want. If the project dies (as is common), the source code becomes Public Domain so anyone wishing to take it over can put it under any license they want (including making modifications proprietary).
Brian Macy
I really hate this... there *is* a difference between a Language and a Library. C++ is a Language and STL is a Template Library (I won't go into my loathing of the STL as anything other than a compiler test suite). I really wish they'd stop putting this stuff in the Language spec. Make an ANSI C++ Standard Library Set spec.
Like in Java... it's a Language, a set of Libraries, and a Virtual Machine.
Brian Macy
Actually, that's not true. Turning the A/C off is more efficient (physics) though more painful when you get home. I takes less energy to bring a room from 85=>75 than 100=>75, but it takes more energy to maintain the temperature at 85 all day than the difference.
Brian Macy
Yep... I've done it. There are a few quirks but it works quite well. From my experience it is more than acceptable for an internal production system.
Brian Macy
I was talking to an IP lawyer friend about this some. He said the trademark was issued in the US on Dec 2000.
Brian Macy
'We can build a better product than Linux,' he said. 'There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free.'
:)
Note he doesn't say they *do* build a better product. He's claiming the "we haven't been trying" defense
Brian Macy