Of course, that short little bar that represents Oct 2005 -> Jan 2006...yeah, that's be when I bought my 20" iMac G5 w/iSight. The guides don't always work. The iMac line upgrade standard deviation is very large. I think they must upgrade the line every time Steve sneezes.
China, which makes up a good porition of the world, always does dates (and most things) in the order of more general to more specific. So for a date it's always year, month and then day.
I open up files all the time tofiddle with some numbers without affecting the actual file. My bosses come up to me with little questions all the time - I just open the file with the data, do some minor manipulations, give them their answer and then close it. I care to retain that information.
Then again, I could have wildly misunderstood the question - wouldn't be the first time.
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They aren't just mount points for volumes. You can mount a volume to multiple places with junctions. You can also use a junction to link C:\temp\directory to X:\anotherplace\asubdir\destination.
The pain (or feature) with junctions is the source directory doesn't have to be empty. As a System Administrator in the Managed Storage group this can be an incredible pain. If the destination points to another drive you don't want to include it in the backups since things will get backed up twice (since the os would see C:\temp\directory as on the C:\ drive and on the X:\ drive) so the best way to handle that is exclude it from the C:\ drive backup. The problem with junctions is if there were files in C:\temp\directory before you linked it to the directory on the X:\ drive you will see a bunch of files - some on C:\ and some on the mount point.
You have 1144 2.4 GHz CPU's in the old cluster. You add 250 dual 3.4GHz Xeon blade systems. You also have an increase of 50% in performance.
That means that 250 of the new systems is roughly equal to 572 of the old systems.
If they are single CPU 2.8 GHz P4's that mean it's just 250*2 = 500 3.4 GHz CPUs to 572 2.4 GHz CPUs. Or a 14.4% increase in performance per CPU for the upgrade of 2.8 GHz to 3.4 GHz (a 21% increase in CPU clock speed).
When Apple added fast user switching Steve said that the fast user switching was one thing that the boys in Redmond had done first, but Apple was about to do it better.
But as much encouragement as possible is always good.
This of course, is all in my own experience.
I used to drink 6-8 cans of coke a day - if I missed drinking for any period of time (14 hours or so) I could feel it. I drank coke in the morning to avoid the headaches. One day I just stopped. I haven't touched a soft drink in almost two years.
The best advice I can say, is never faulter. If you allow yourself to fail once, then it is opening the door and welcoming failure in the future.
With any practice of conviction (such as not wanting to have sex before marriage), I find that if you make a decision while you are level headed (no hormones or addictions to please) and put that thought into your mind when you find yourself tested by temptation and find your decision wavering you can always go back to the thought you had before and know that in an emotional state you don't always make the right decisions.
For me, this works. Anything that I decide to change in myself I always do cold-turkey. For others, I know they can't do it this way. Good luck to you.
Although they probably won't fit in a picket easily you could likely have the cutest beawulf cluster out there - it would be like playing with blocks. I'd love to have a server room that looked like this.
When you load up iTunes here in Canada you get the following: "The iTunes Music Store is not available in your country yet. You will be able to browse music and listen to previews, but you won't be able to purchase music unless your billing address is in the United States."
It's only your billing address that matters -- it shouldn't matter what your computer is set for. It would be interesting to see if I see my computer to the US what it would say.
I'd like to recommend a Mac OS X program for you: CodeTek VirtualDesktop.
It adds the following to OS X: => Virtual Desktops (up to 100) => Edge flipping between desktops => Hotkeys to switch between desktops (I have it be the same as my Enlightenment settings) => The ability to handle individual applications differently that normal settings => Focus follows mouse
That does not address all of your concerns of course, but it does make using OS X a little more like a real Unix system.
Personally I like the CMD-C, CMD-V to copy and paste. I always have to stop myself under other Unix systems from copying a URL I want to view, going to my browser, selecting the URL and pasting the first URL overtop. You can't do that on more Unix system because it'll copy the URL you are trying to paste over automatically. That was one of my pet-peeves with I work in 100% Linux. For you, it's the reverse.
As for your points, 1, 3 and 4 are handled by CodeTek Virtual Desktop (I particularly enjoy 3, I have a desktop for each task that I have, browsing, instant messaging, e-mail, etc...).
For number 6, I use the shell, I use Perl, I use Applescript and I use bash (sometimes I'll use C or C++ too, depending on what I'm doing). I can't think of what I did under Linux scripting-wise that I can't do under Mac OS X.
For number 7, I actually will load up KDE or TWM on one of my desktops if I want the nice classic feel (this also gives the same feel for your number 2).
Oh, yeah, I couldn't think of anything to help you with number 5 - I couldn't find it:-)
I'm not trying to say 'You should use Mac OS X', but I would like to think that people shouldn't discount it because people think that Mac OS X is just simplifying Unix by removing features. I find that all it takes is a little looking around in order to find how to do what you want on OS X. I now work 100% with OS X. My OS X, although is still had the aqua theme (which I can get rid of) it doesn't look at all like a normal OS X workstation.
For me, I have found that with enough poking around I can get a system to work for me whether its Linux, OS X, Windows or BeOS. I found that Linux was the easiest to configure (outside the norm) - even more than OS X (that was much easier to configure within the norm).
I've had the DWL-1000AP for just over two years now and it has never had a problem and I have updated the firmware a couple times. The downside now is the product is no longer supported.
I find that's the biggest problem in the high tech sector - unless you buy very expensive technology and pay for the support you will likely own the product longer than it's supported.
Some companies are a little better than others when it comes to supporting older products. A quick check of ATI shows they still have very old driver (EGA/VGA cards) available to download.
The only arcade that I know that really works here in Ottawa is at the University of Ottawa. The games are $0.25 to play, the pool is $0.75 per game or you can rent a snooker table or ping pong table for $5/hour. For students this is much better than paying $1 per game like is common at other arcades in town. The arcade is owned by the student organisation.
The most popular game there is Soul Calibur 2. It's a great arcade game since we all compete against each other. I'll go in and (after waiting for 5 people who were in line before me) log in, see who's fought me and then go and pick on a friend of mine and hopefully help out my team to conquer the world (in the game that is). This is probably the best thing - 150 get together and compete in a tight knit group. It's not as big as the internet (less dealing with crap) and it's bigger than the average group of friends (for an engineer).
Because of this one game only we have noticed quite a fair share of Carleton University (the other university in town) students show up and compete against us since their arcade is $1 per game and $1.50 per round of pool.
A nice touch is the jukebox that people can select their music from - $0.25 per song and is usually cued up with a couple songs. if you don't like that's playing you go over and cue up some that you do like.
All and all, it's a nice place to hang out - not good for the grades though. I doubt that they make a lot of money from it (in comparision to other arcades) but it's almost always full.
Oh yeah, there is couches all over the place too with coffee tables - a great place to do ones homework. I just wish there was a similar place to my house - the key being CHEAP video games that involve interaction with other people or there is no difference than me playing video games home alone.
I know - I managed to figure it out. Only two things left for me to figure out. The first is how to remove the US keyboard now that I use US Extended (the option to remove it is greyed out). The second is how to do a u that has a tone on it in addition to the umlaut.
I don't have my mac on me, but as I recall the third and forth tones when you input them they highlight in yello and then if you press a vowel afterwards the accent will be put over top the character. The other two accents (first and second) are available as extended keys but they don't do the same - they only print the accent, you can't put a character under it.
I have found é and à accents. What I would like to know is how to do other accents - in particluar, for use writing pinyin. In Mandarin é would be the third tone, à would be the fourth tone. I'd like to know how to write the first and second tones for a letter.
(First tone is a bar on top of the letter, second is a little u on top of the letter - to indicate a falling then rising tone).
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Of course, that short little bar that represents Oct 2005 -> Jan 2006...yeah, that's be when I bought my 20" iMac G5 w/iSight. The guides don't always work. The iMac line upgrade standard deviation is very large. I think they must upgrade the line every time Steve sneezes.
China, which makes up a good porition of the world, always does dates (and most things) in the order of more general to more specific. So for a date it's always year, month and then day.
Of course...
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Maybe I should have read the article....maybe even the summary...
I open up files all the time tofiddle with some numbers without affecting the actual file. My bosses come up to me with little questions all the time - I just open the file with the data, do some minor manipulations, give them their answer and then close it. I care to retain that information.
Then again, I could have wildly misunderstood the question - wouldn't be the first time.
They aren't just mount points for volumes. You can mount a volume to multiple places with junctions. You can also use a junction to link C:\temp\directory to X:\anotherplace\asubdir\destination.
The pain (or feature) with junctions is the source directory doesn't have to be empty. As a System Administrator in the Managed Storage group this can be an incredible pain. If the destination points to another drive you don't want to include it in the backups since things will get backed up twice (since the os would see C:\temp\directory as on the C:\ drive and on the X:\ drive) so the best way to handle that is exclude it from the C:\ drive backup. The problem with junctions is if there were files in C:\temp\directory before you linked it to the directory on the X:\ drive you will see a bunch of files - some on C:\ and some on the mount point.
Not surprising.
You have 1144 2.4 GHz CPU's in the old cluster.
You add 250 dual 3.4GHz Xeon blade systems.
You also have an increase of 50% in performance.
That means that 250 of the new systems is roughly equal to 572 of the old systems.
If they are single CPU 2.8 GHz P4's that mean it's just 250*2 = 500 3.4 GHz CPUs to 572 2.4 GHz CPUs. Or a 14.4% increase in performance per CPU for the upgrade of 2.8 GHz to 3.4 GHz (a 21% increase in CPU clock speed).
Not true.
When Apple added fast user switching Steve said that the fast user switching was one thing that the boys in Redmond had done first, but Apple was about to do it better.
So, they aren't beyond copying a good idea.
If I were you I'd forward that address to the guys.
But as much encouragement as possible is always good.
This of course, is all in my own experience.
I used to drink 6-8 cans of coke a day - if I missed drinking for any period of time (14 hours or so) I could feel it. I drank coke in the morning to avoid the headaches. One day I just stopped. I haven't touched a soft drink in almost two years.
The best advice I can say, is never faulter. If you allow yourself to fail once, then it is opening the door and welcoming failure in the future.
With any practice of conviction (such as not wanting to have sex before marriage), I find that if you make a decision while you are level headed (no hormones or addictions to please) and put that thought into your mind when you find yourself tested by temptation and find your decision wavering you can always go back to the thought you had before and know that in an emotional state you don't always make the right decisions.
For me, this works. Anything that I decide to change in myself I always do cold-turkey. For others, I know they can't do it this way. Good luck to you.
Although they probably won't fit in a picket easily you could likely have the cutest beawulf cluster out there - it would be like playing with blocks. I'd love to have a server room that looked like this.
Microsoft has more lawyers than God.
That may be true but I highly doubt they have more lawyers than Satan.
Please don't give Sun any ideas on numbering the versions of their products.....
Nothing would please me more than being able
to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
Hmmm.....I guess this means they never paid up -- I'm still waiting on the good software for us hobbyists.
When you load up iTunes here in Canada you get the following:
"The iTunes Music Store is not available in your country yet. You will be able to browse music and listen to previews, but you won't be able to purchase music unless your billing address is in the United States."
It's only your billing address that matters -- it shouldn't matter what your computer is set for. It would be interesting to see if I see my computer to the US what it would say.
I'd like to recommend a Mac OS X program for you: CodeTek VirtualDesktop.
:-)
It adds the following to OS X:
=> Virtual Desktops (up to 100)
=> Edge flipping between desktops
=> Hotkeys to switch between desktops (I have it be the same as my Enlightenment settings)
=> The ability to handle individual applications differently that normal settings
=> Focus follows mouse
That does not address all of your concerns of course, but it does make using OS X a little more like a real Unix system.
Personally I like the CMD-C, CMD-V to copy and paste. I always have to stop myself under other Unix systems from copying a URL I want to view, going to my browser, selecting the URL and pasting the first URL overtop. You can't do that on more Unix system because it'll copy the URL you are trying to paste over automatically. That was one of my pet-peeves with I work in 100% Linux. For you, it's the reverse.
As for your points, 1, 3 and 4 are handled by CodeTek Virtual Desktop (I particularly enjoy 3, I have a desktop for each task that I have, browsing, instant messaging, e-mail, etc...).
For number 6, I use the shell, I use Perl, I use Applescript and I use bash (sometimes I'll use C or C++ too, depending on what I'm doing). I can't think of what I did under Linux scripting-wise that I can't do under Mac OS X.
For number 7, I actually will load up KDE or TWM on one of my desktops if I want the nice classic feel (this also gives the same feel for your number 2).
Oh, yeah, I couldn't think of anything to help you with number 5 - I couldn't find it
I'm not trying to say 'You should use Mac OS X', but I would like to think that people shouldn't discount it because people think that Mac OS X is just simplifying Unix by removing features. I find that all it takes is a little looking around in order to find how to do what you want on OS X. I now work 100% with OS X. My OS X, although is still had the aqua theme (which I can get rid of) it doesn't look at all like a normal OS X workstation.
For me, I have found that with enough poking around I can get a system to work for me whether its Linux, OS X, Windows or BeOS. I found that Linux was the easiest to configure (outside the norm) - even more than OS X (that was much easier to configure within the norm).
That's just my $0.02 CDN.
I've had the DWL-1000AP for just over two years now and it has never had a problem and I have updated the firmware a couple times. The downside now is the product is no longer supported.
I find that's the biggest problem in the high tech sector - unless you buy very expensive technology and pay for the support you will likely own the product longer than it's supported.
Some companies are a little better than others when it comes to supporting older products. A quick check of ATI shows they still have very old driver (EGA/VGA cards) available to download.
Is there a good resource for learning assembly specifically on a PowerPC system?
$150 per console loss and now they're trying to lower the price? They must be getting desperate after having...
Close by wrong. They are trying to reduce the cost of producing the X-Box, not reducing the cost to the comsumer (ie. they'll loose less money).
Read the last two sentences of the article.
The only arcade that I know that really works here in Ottawa is at the University of Ottawa. The games are $0.25 to play, the pool is $0.75 per game or you can rent a snooker table or ping pong table for $5/hour. For students this is much better than paying $1 per game like is common at other arcades in town. The arcade is owned by the student organisation.
The most popular game there is Soul Calibur 2. It's a great arcade game since we all compete against each other. I'll go in and (after waiting for 5 people who were in line before me) log in, see who's fought me and then go and pick on a friend of mine and hopefully help out my team to conquer the world (in the game that is). This is probably the best thing - 150 get together and compete in a tight knit group. It's not as big as the internet (less dealing with crap) and it's bigger than the average group of friends (for an engineer).
Because of this one game only we have noticed quite a fair share of Carleton University (the other university in town) students show up and compete against us since their arcade is $1 per game and $1.50 per round of pool.
A nice touch is the jukebox that people can select their music from - $0.25 per song and is usually cued up with a couple songs. if you don't like that's playing you go over and cue up some that you do like.
All and all, it's a nice place to hang out - not good for the grades though. I doubt that they make a lot of money from it (in comparision to other arcades) but it's almost always full.
Oh yeah, there is couches all over the place too with coffee tables - a great place to do ones homework. I just wish there was a similar place to my house - the key being CHEAP video games that involve interaction with other people or there is no difference than me playing video games home alone.
On a related note, I wonder what Bill's name would be if he appeared in one of Flynt's works?
Not sure what his name would be but the film might be called 'Microshaft'.
I know - I managed to figure it out. Only two things left for me to figure out. The first is how to remove the US keyboard now that I use US Extended (the option to remove it is greyed out). The second is how to do a u that has a tone on it in addition to the umlaut.
I don't have my mac on me, but as I recall the third and forth tones when you input them they highlight in yello and then if you press a vowel afterwards the accent will be put over top the character. The other two accents (first and second) are available as extended keys but they don't do the same - they only print the accent, you can't put a character under it.
I have found é and à accents. What I would like to know is how to do other accents - in particluar, for use writing pinyin. In Mandarin é would be the third tone, à would be the fourth tone. I'd like to know how to write the first and second tones for a letter.
(First tone is a bar on top of the letter, second is a little u on top of the letter - to indicate a falling then rising tone).
Thanks!
Just to let you know, your sig has a typo.
But I'm the best basketball palyer on my programming team;
I normally don't point typos out but it's in your sig.
hmmm....you're right. Dang. Thanks for the correction.