What has this to do with QA? I installed qmail by following the instructions in INSTALL, and I got a working tested qmail install. Now, changing how it works is a little arcane, but no more than other unix mailers, and at least in a more logical (to me) way.
While it's funny, and probably true (I'm also a brit), I have to say that from my experience, a population of typical Americans is far more likely to bitch and whine about a given situation (like a late plane takeoff) where a population of typical Brits would stoically sit and wait for things to get better.
I was in a cinema at the weekend watching Mummy Returns when the sound died, and people pretty much sat at waited for about 5 minutes while it was sorted without complaint.
So it's all relative, as Einstein said.
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Yep, although not all that often.
I added a BJ10ex driver to Ghostscript. Start of a GEM driver for GNUplot (never finished that). Tweaks to GD to make it work more how I expected.
Mostly tweaky things, rather than big chunks of functionality.
...something as familiar and well-defined as an OS...
MSDOS, QNX, BeOS, Windows 2000, Linux kernel, Redhat Linux distro, Kallisti OS and many others are all described by their creators as an "OS". They all offer very different 'levels of service' and facilities to their client processes.
We are dealing with a group within UBS Warburg at work at the moment, and not only do they have the huge disclaimer, but whatever mail software they use structures mails thusly:
1) Plain text section - big-ass disclaimer only
2) 1 or more arbitrarily name RTF files for the body, and possibly the message being replied to
I think it's HP OpenMail, but whatever it is, it really sucks.
It was originally designed by Ti Kan, the guy who wrote xmcd - the first CDDB-supporting CD player.
The server software was written by someone called Blue Moon Software (IIRC), and at some stage was at least available-source. You could also download the whole database up to a certain point in time, originally so that you could run a local mirror (it was an entirely volounteer effort).
They became Gracenote about 18 months ago, coinciding with requiring license agreements and branding (Powered by...) from anyone using their database. It was in Slashdot at the time...
It's our valuable intellectual property that's underlying all this."
valuable intellectual property largely built for free, by volounteers donating their time to enter track listings. Don't you get a warm fuzzy feeling adding to the CDDB?
Have a look at quietpc.com. I've just finished sorting out my 1Ghz Tbird to get it down to an acceptable temperature and noise level. They do silent/quiet PSUs approved by AMD, fans, drive enclosures and other bits. The noisiest thing in my PC now is the 25mm fan in the back of my CDR, which sounds like it's about to fail - Papst have just announced a quiet 25mm fan, but it's not actually available yet.
What they don't mention is what was in a news post last week at viahardware.com (which I can't find again now, drat!) - AMD recommends at least a 450W power supply to run the two Athlons. Cooling the system containing these things must be a whole lot of fun too.
nope, I know what a buffer underflow looks like - this is with a P3-500 and more recently a TBird 1Ghz system, Yamaha SCSI CRW-824 & 2Mb buffer.
With branded disks both systems are quite happy to write while I compile & debug DC stuff in the foreground. These disks are so cruddy you can more or less see through them, and in a couple of cases rub the foil off with your fingers. They're are sold as own-brand disks through PC World (UK equivalent of CompUSA, roughly).
I have 3 sparcs at home off a 56k modem connection - two IPCs and a SS1. I was *given* the SS1, and got the two IPCs for $30. One IPC runs OpenBSD, the SS1 runs NetBSD (the other IPC is butchered for bits). Both work great, in their limited performance range. If it wasn't for the hellish noise the IPC makes, I'd use it as a workstation to connect to other boxes. As it is, the SGI Indy wins.
Anyway, the point was, there are an awful lot of IPC/IPX class machines falling off the end of their life in CS labs at the moment. If only I could find a decent priced ELC, I'd have one of those too. Don't assume it's all corporate.
you can argue on performance for SCSI (*), but reliability? Of the drives I've had fail on me over the course of perhaps 50 machines, 2 were seagate IDE, one was seagate SCSI, and one was WD SCSI. As a result, I generally avoid Seagate, but not IDE.
(*) and there are many who will claim not even then.
$0.28 for an 80 minute CD-R (in 100 silver spindles)
I've always found I get about a 30-50% failure rate on those spindles too, enough to make it worth extra for branded disks... making them about $0.80 each to avoid having to reburn the stupid things.
GBP 75.9 per litre surely 0.759:) It's expensive, but not that expensive - I fill my car for about UKP35 ($50ish).
Sprinkling real news with the occasional farce might even make the real news more interesting
This is already a Slashdot Feature - go into the User Preferences page, then Customize Homepage, and make sure you have the "CmdrTaco" tickbox cleared. I found that ticking this box improved the coherency of Slashdot a great deal, at least as far as the stories were concerned.
Besides: if NeXT were so easy to develop for, and every progammer's dream, why did that not help it become viable?
My memory of NeXTStep from the time it was released was that the developers edition was damn expensive for something that you didn't know anything about!:) I was at college at the time, which does mean anything > $150 is "damn expensive" - although I think it was nearer $3000.
"...Discovery Channel...-- it's educational and interesting and thought-provoking"
Two words: Shark Week.
(for those who don't have Discovery, this is the reasonably regular week where Discovery show nothing but programs about Sharks attacking people in cages, and people telling the story of how they are attacked. You learn one valuable fact from this week of programming - don't go near shark's mouths.)
To be fair, I have seen some quite nice stuff of Discovery too, and UK Horizons (which is a UK cable channel mainly re-running BBC documentaries).
Slashdot Mirror
Heh - when they did this for people entering and leaving the Superbowl, it was pure evil in the eyes of many Slashdotters...
Still, it's a neat trick.
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the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
Christ man, have you ever tried to install Qmail?
What has this to do with QA? I installed qmail by following the instructions in INSTALL, and I got a working tested qmail install. Now, changing how it works is a little arcane, but no more than other unix mailers, and at least in a more logical (to me) way.
While it's funny, and probably true (I'm also a brit), I have to say that from my experience, a population of typical Americans is far more likely to bitch and whine about a given situation (like a late plane takeoff) where a population of typical Brits would stoically sit and wait for things to get better.
I was in a cinema at the weekend watching Mummy Returns when the sound died, and people pretty much sat at waited for about 5 minutes while it was sorted without complaint.
So it's all relative, as Einstein said.
Yep, although not all that often.
I added a BJ10ex driver to Ghostscript. Start of a GEM driver for GNUplot (never finished that). Tweaks to GD to make it work more how I expected.
Mostly tweaky things, rather than big chunks of functionality.
...something as familiar and well-defined as an OS...
MSDOS, QNX, BeOS, Windows 2000, Linux kernel, Redhat Linux distro, Kallisti OS and many others are all described by their creators as an "OS". They all offer very different 'levels of service' and facilities to their client processes.
It's not well-defined.
We are dealing with a group within UBS Warburg at work at the moment, and not only do they have the huge disclaimer, but whatever mail software they use structures mails thusly:
1) Plain text section - big-ass disclaimer only
2) 1 or more arbitrarily name RTF files for the body, and possibly the message being replied to
I think it's HP OpenMail, but whatever it is, it really sucks.
bitter much?
It was originally designed by Ti Kan, the guy who wrote xmcd - the first CDDB-supporting CD player.
The server software was written by someone called Blue Moon Software (IIRC), and at some stage was at least available-source. You could also download the whole database up to a certain point in time, originally so that you could run a local mirror (it was an entirely volounteer effort).
They became Gracenote about 18 months ago, coinciding with requiring license agreements and branding (Powered by...) from anyone using their database. It was in Slashdot at the time...
It's our valuable intellectual property that's underlying all this."
valuable intellectual property largely built for free, by volounteers donating their time to enter track listings. Don't you get a warm fuzzy feeling adding to the CDDB?
Have a look at quietpc.com. I've just finished sorting out my 1Ghz Tbird to get it down to an acceptable temperature and noise level. They do silent/quiet PSUs approved by AMD, fans, drive enclosures and other bits. The noisiest thing in my PC now is the 25mm fan in the back of my CDR, which sounds like it's about to fail - Papst have just announced a quiet 25mm fan, but it's not actually available yet.
Also try http://home.swipnet.se/tr/silence.html for more lots of info regarding 'Silent PCs', TCO99, and what manufacturers can help you.
actually, it does mention it, doesn't it? :)
more coffee required this morning.
What they don't mention is what was in a news post last week at viahardware.com (which I can't find again now, drat!) - AMD recommends at least a 450W power supply to run the two Athlons. Cooling the system containing these things must be a whole lot of fun too.
nope, I know what a buffer underflow looks like - this is with a P3-500 and more recently a TBird 1Ghz system, Yamaha SCSI CRW-824 & 2Mb buffer.
With branded disks both systems are quite happy to write while I compile & debug DC stuff in the foreground. These disks are so cruddy you can more or less see through them, and in a couple of cases rub the foil off with your fingers. They're are sold as own-brand disks through PC World (UK equivalent of CompUSA, roughly).
I have 3 sparcs at home off a 56k modem connection - two IPCs and a SS1. I was *given* the SS1, and got the two IPCs for $30. One IPC runs OpenBSD, the SS1 runs NetBSD (the other IPC is butchered for bits). Both work great, in their limited performance range. If it wasn't for the hellish noise the IPC makes, I'd use it as a workstation to connect to other boxes. As it is, the SGI Indy wins.
Anyway, the point was, there are an awful lot of IPC/IPX class machines falling off the end of their life in CS labs at the moment. If only I could find a decent priced ELC, I'd have one of those too. Don't assume it's all corporate.
SCSI hard drives NO IDE
you can argue on performance for SCSI (*), but reliability? Of the drives I've had fail on me over the course of perhaps 50 machines, 2 were seagate IDE, one was seagate SCSI, and one was WD SCSI. As a result, I generally avoid Seagate, but not IDE.
(*) and there are many who will claim not even then.
$0.28 for an 80 minute CD-R (in 100 silver spindles)
:) It's expensive, but not that expensive - I fill my car for about UKP35 ($50ish).
I've always found I get about a 30-50% failure rate on those spindles too, enough to make it worth extra for branded disks... making them about $0.80 each to avoid having to reburn the stupid things.
GBP 75.9 per litre surely 0.759
Push Over, in 1990 (1991?) for the Atari ST had Cheese Quavers ads in it.
:)
Tapper, in 1984 or so was chock-full of Bud ads.
It's not even the 90's
Why the hell would I want a JVM for it? I like not having to have 1Gb RAM. Besides, since when did Application == Java?
Sprinkling real news with the occasional farce might even make the real news more interesting
This is already a Slashdot Feature - go into the User Preferences page, then Customize Homepage, and make sure you have the "CmdrTaco" tickbox cleared. I found that ticking this box improved the coherency of Slashdot a great deal, at least as far as the stories were concerned.
Besides: if NeXT were so easy to develop for, and every progammer's dream, why did that not help it become viable?
:) I was at college at the time, which does mean anything > $150 is "damn expensive" - although I think it was nearer $3000.
My memory of NeXTStep from the time it was released was that the developers edition was damn expensive for something that you didn't know anything about!
wireless network rendering on a napsack full of iPAQs?
aka: imagine a beowulf-like cluster of these.
Last 40 years of billboard or gallup music chart positions. This definitely exists, but not (AFAIK) online.
It's worked for me every time I've seen an NYT story that sounds interesting enough to read - maybe all the good stories are kept on one server :)
"...Discovery Channel...-- it's educational and interesting and thought-provoking"
Two words: Shark Week.
(for those who don't have Discovery, this is the reasonably regular week where Discovery show nothing but programs about Sharks attacking people in cages, and people telling the story of how they are attacked. You learn one valuable fact from this week of programming - don't go near shark's mouths.)
To be fair, I have seen some quite nice stuff of Discovery too, and UK Horizons (which is a UK cable channel mainly re-running BBC documentaries).
or ignore it altogether, as many people keep posting, by replacing www with channel:7 QU AN.html
http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/03/27/science/2