I inherited support for a corporate document repository a couple of years ago. This system was written in-house, and completely built and managed by the developers.
Here's a quick idea: Server was floor standing in a wiring closet at the location the developers worked in. Not, in a rack at the corporate data center (with redundant power, switches, etc).
The server had 10 (!) 100BT NICs. They were all teamed and run into a 10/100 hub on the floor that then had one uplink at 10BT.
Server had a very nice 6 channel RAID controller that was completely unused. Instead the hard drives were connected to the internal SCSI and software RAIDed.
Moral to this story: Yes, developers and admins should work together, but each should respect the other in their field of expertise. If the admin tells a developer something is a bad idea, they probably have a reason for saying that.
Max Lyons has just posted on his site what it seems to be the first 1 Gigapixel picture, created from 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite.
And thus became the first person to ever be slashdotted by only one visitor.
Ghost works great if you are willing to have your system down for a few hours while the data is being backed up. I am interested in creating images of Production Servers thus Ghost isn't really an option. TrueImage supposedly will take an image while the OS is running (a dream come true), but when you go to restore the image you have to have a DHCP server give you an IP address. Well, in the data center there is no DHCP. I wrote their staff to tell them that I'd buy a site license if they'd give me the ability to specify an IP address...haven't heard back.
I can't believe that no vender has yet to create a product that can take an image of a production server (including the OS drive) with no down time, and allow you to restore it w/o DHCP.
me: I've received 3 scam e-mails today which are trying to get me to give up my credit card number. Do you have a special card number I can give them that will set off an alert when someone attempts to use it, so that you can apprehend these people?
CC Company: No, but that sounds like a great idea.
me: Yes. Now do something about it.
What do you think the odds are that the idea ever got past the person I talked to on the phone?
I have been thinking seriously about investing in the robot market but it appears that most of the companies aren't public. Where would the robotic investor put their money?
Hmmm...it hadn't occurred to me that the 2) might be considered the last number in the area code. It's the first. I guess I can use that as an excuse if she doesn't call me.
We can levitate almost a pound using an ion wind created by 120,000 volts. Strikes me that you could send a pound half-way around the earth using 120,000 volts and a rail gun.
Anyone else think Wired authors get paid by the word, with no maximum?
Sorry for the lame reply, I was trying to think of something witty just so I'd get modded up and the right person would read my sig.:)
I personally can't wait until Cursive writing is gone. For a really good article on the subject check out this web site: http://www.agt.net/public/rali/RALI_VOL1_No2_PART3.html (scroll down a bit).
Here's an excerpt:
1. IT'S FASTER
No, it isn't. Anything we practise for many years naturally becomes faster. This is not to say that practice always makes perfect. Practice makes permanent. Slow illegible cursive writing becomes fast illegible cursive writing. Research shows that printing is as fast as cursive writing; there is economy of movement - no retracing. And, as regards legibility, there is no contest. Why else does every form we fill out say: Please Print. Imagine the speed, to say nothing of the legibility, if we constantly practised printing for twelve years instead of just the first two.
2. YOU CAN'T PRINT YOUR SIGNATURE
Yes, you can. In fact, handwriting experts say a printed signature is more difficult to forge than a handwritten one.
3. IT'S MORE ADULT
Really? This sounds like a mature rationale: Let's learn handwriting because it's more grown-up.
4. CURSIVE WRITING ENABLES A UNIQUENESS OF STYLE TO BE DEVELOPED
Certainly everyone adds flourishes and embellishments - often the source of illegibility - to their writing style to establish its uniqueness (contrary to what is recommended in the curriculum guide) and this would occur - though to a far lesser extent - with manuscript. But the essential point is that the separation of the letters in printing would ensure legibility is retained. Printing styles would vary no more than prints fonts vary in word processors. e.g. Monaco, Times, Helvetica...
5. THE CONTINUOUS FLOW OF HANDWRITING ALLOWS MORE PEN CONTROL FOR THOSE STUDENTS WITH POOR FINE MOTOR COORDINATION
I doubt this is the case. Raising the pen momentarily allows for a re-positioning and re-alignment of the next letter in a sequence - a corrective feedback process. Once tracking is skewed with handwriting, the misalignment continues to be accentuated.
All I need is some soothing music, some candles, a woman, nine months, and I can build my own awesome "computer" that runs on a neural network, billions of neurons running simultaneously.
What you mean is, if you had the soothing music, etc, that you might be able to convince a woman to build the computer for you!:) Your involvement in this is pretty trivial.
I've read two excellent books lately that I'd recommend to any intelligent audience... The Code Book, and The Selfish Gene. We'll see what the other slashdotters think of my suggestions...
Sounds interesting on a personal level, but completely unworkable on a city level. How would mega-stores get their inventory on a daily basis? How do you get cement to build bulding with? How would you erect a telephone pole?
The much more challenging problem would be making Mt Fuji stay in place. Currently it's rotating around a central point (the center of the Earth) at approx 1,000 MPH. Not only that, it's also orbiting around the sun at an some (unknown to me) speed. It is constantly moving! QED.
The real problem, as is often true, is a poorly worded question. (And I wonder why I don't seem to get that many job offers:)
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I inherited support for a corporate document repository a couple of years ago. This system was written in-house, and completely built and managed by the developers.
Here's a quick idea:
Server was floor standing in a wiring closet at the location the developers worked in. Not, in a rack at the corporate data center (with redundant power, switches, etc).
The server had 10 (!) 100BT NICs. They were all teamed and run into a 10/100 hub on the floor that then had one uplink at 10BT.
Server had a very nice 6 channel RAID controller that was completely unused. Instead the hard drives were connected to the internal SCSI and software RAIDed.
Moral to this story: Yes, developers and admins should work together, but each should respect the other in their field of expertise. If the admin tells a developer something is a bad idea, they probably have a reason for saying that.
Max Lyons has just posted on his site what it seems to be the first 1 Gigapixel picture, created from 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite.
And thus became the first person to ever be slashdotted by only one visitor.
All of the lame-o indie movies won't have a chance to knock Lord of the Rings from getting it's well deserved Oscars.
Clearly screeners aren't necessary. You can judge how good a movie is just based on the trailers...oh wait, maybe you're a traveler from the future?
Ghost works great if you are willing to have your system down for a few hours while the data is being backed up. I am interested in creating images of Production Servers thus Ghost isn't really an option. TrueImage supposedly will take an image while the OS is running (a dream come true), but when you go to restore the image you have to have a DHCP server give you an IP address. Well, in the data center there is no DHCP. I wrote their staff to tell them that I'd buy a site license if they'd give me the ability to specify an IP address...haven't heard back.
I can't believe that no vender has yet to create a product that can take an image of a production server (including the OS drive) with no down time, and allow you to restore it w/o DHCP.
me: I've received 3 scam e-mails today which are trying to get me to give up my credit card number. Do you have a special card number I can give them that will set off an alert when someone attempts to use it, so that you can apprehend these people?
CC Company: No, but that sounds like a great idea.
me: Yes. Now do something about it.
What do you think the odds are that the idea ever got past the person I talked to on the phone?
I have been thinking seriously about investing in the robot market but it appears that most of the companies aren't public. Where would the robotic investor put their money?
the Texas team just might win the race to 100km altitude. At least if some of the other teams don't get there first.
In other words, they might just capture first place, if someone else doesn't.
Biology: first documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species. Links and pictures are available from the official Web site...
Great! Now, when people say the internet is too foul I can just point them to a love story about two fowls.
I won't buy it until it plays ogg vorbis files.
Finally, at last we can fill in all of the steps.
1. Download song from Apple.
2. Post song to Ebay.
3. $9,699 profit!
If you were interested in what you were doing, you wouldn't even have time to break away and post this question.
Maybe what /. needs is a ROT13 function. That way they could obfuscate the spoiler bits. Oh, and some of the posters! :)
What if your bosses told you you had to fuck 10 women by 5pm Friday afternoon?
Must be Thursday.
Hmmm...it hadn't occurred to me that the 2) might be considered the last number in the area code. It's the first. I guess I can use that as an excuse if she doesn't call me.
We can levitate almost a pound using an ion wind created by 120,000 volts. Strikes me that you could send a pound half-way around the earth using 120,000 volts and a rail gun.
:)
Anyone else think Wired authors get paid by the word, with no maximum?
Sorry for the lame reply, I was trying to think of something witty just so I'd get modded up and the right person would read my sig.
If you think you can take a break from kissing your mother! You can find me at: www.microsoft.com
Disclaimer: Message meant purely in jest, I know you were just seeing if the chocolate pie was really as good as she said it was.
Maybe, now that it's patent-unencumbered, we can convince to use this technology. :)
I'd be happy if people could just pronounce it. Do you seriously say Jraphics Interchange Format?
Just fill those files with Evil Bits.
Such information could be vital to firefighters battling a blazing skyscraper...
Finally, a solution for all of those brick skyscrapers.
You forgot Step three.
Step Three, "Profit!"
I personally can't wait until Cursive writing is gone. For a really good article on the subject check out this web site: http://www.agt.net/public/rali/RALI_VOL1_No2_PART3 .html (scroll down a bit).
Here's an excerpt:
1. IT'S FASTER
No, it isn't. Anything we practise for many years naturally becomes faster. This is not to say that practice always makes perfect. Practice makes permanent. Slow illegible cursive writing becomes fast illegible cursive writing. Research shows that printing is as fast as cursive writing; there is economy of movement - no retracing. And, as regards legibility, there is no contest. Why else does every form we fill out say: Please Print. Imagine the speed, to say nothing of the legibility, if we constantly practised printing for twelve years instead of just the first two.
2. YOU CAN'T PRINT YOUR SIGNATURE
Yes, you can. In fact, handwriting experts say a printed signature is more difficult to forge than a handwritten one.
3. IT'S MORE ADULT
Really? This sounds like a mature rationale: Let's learn handwriting because it's more grown-up.
4. CURSIVE WRITING ENABLES A UNIQUENESS OF STYLE TO BE DEVELOPED
Certainly everyone adds flourishes and embellishments - often the source of illegibility - to their writing style to establish its uniqueness (contrary to what is recommended in the curriculum guide) and this would occur - though to a far lesser extent - with manuscript. But the essential point is that the separation of the letters in printing would ensure legibility is retained. Printing styles would vary no more than prints fonts vary in word processors. e.g. Monaco, Times, Helvetica...
5. THE CONTINUOUS FLOW OF HANDWRITING ALLOWS MORE PEN CONTROL FOR THOSE STUDENTS WITH POOR FINE MOTOR COORDINATION
I doubt this is the case. Raising the pen momentarily allows for a re-positioning and re-alignment of the next letter in a sequence - a corrective feedback process. Once tracking is skewed with handwriting, the misalignment continues to be accentuated.
All I need is some soothing music, some candles, a woman, nine months, and I can build my own awesome "computer" that runs on a neural network, billions of neurons running simultaneously.
:) Your involvement in this is pretty trivial.
What you mean is, if you had the soothing music, etc, that you might be able to convince a woman to build the computer for you!
I've read two excellent books lately that I'd recommend to any intelligent audience...
The Code Book, and The Selfish Gene. We'll see what the other slashdotters think of my suggestions...
Sounds interesting on a personal level, but completely unworkable on a city level. How would mega-stores get their inventory on a daily basis? How do you get cement to build bulding with? How would you erect a telephone pole?
The much more challenging problem would be making Mt Fuji stay in place. Currently it's rotating around a central point (the center of the Earth) at approx 1,000 MPH. Not only that, it's also orbiting around the sun at an some (unknown to me) speed. It is constantly moving! QED.
:)
The real problem, as is often true, is a poorly worded question. (And I wonder why I don't seem to get that many job offers