I bought a 120GB drive for by DirecTivo from Hinsdale. Now I have 146 hrs (approx). I didn't really have the time to play with it, nor the spare PC to mess with preping the drive, so I paid the premium. Instructions were excellent and it worked without a hitch. Check it out.
I returned it because our need was not met. We need a 64-bit OS (> 4GB of RAM). That is the sole reason I returned it. It was heartbreaking, since the machine is an engineering marvel. The inside of the box was truly beautiful. And, it had the biggest damn heatsink I've ever seen.
If your definition of 64-bit is a 32-bit operating system around a 64-bit
chip, then the G5 is a 64-bit platform. Mac
OS X 10.2.7 (and the upcoming 10.3) is not a 64-bit operating system.
This is particularly frustrating because Apple's marketing machine has very
carefully crafted their message to
make a reasonable person believe the operating system is 64-bit, especially if
you download and read Power
Mac G5 Tech Overview (PDF). Apple says about the G5 version of Mac OS
X that it runs all of your software -- and runs it faster -- with a version of Mac OS X Jaguar specially tuned for the PowerPC G5 processor, providing a seamless transition to 64-bit power.
That's only the beginning of the smoke and mirrors. The 64-bit power only
gives users two things: the operating system can address up to 8GB of RAM,
though user
programs are still limited to 4GB, and some of the G5 numerical hardware is
available with a special version of GCC (3.3). That is very far from what
I thought. In fact, we returned the G5 we got last week for a full refund
(didn't have to pay the 10% open box fee either), after about 2 hours on
the phone. Buyer beware.
You said "about to" but then say you don't "like it one bit". Hmmmm, sounds like you made up your mind *before* trying it. Tsk, tsk.
The truth about pair programming is that only the right mix of personalities and skills will work. I've done it with people where it worked great. With others, really badly.
and the annotations are a little sparse/terse. They seemed to me just "notes to self", and many are just a single (short) sentence. If the newest one has the same annotation, I'd pass on it. Just get the book and read it!
For the last few weeks when I visit my local Safeway, the enormous widescreen LCD displays hanging in the produce department that normally beam ads directly into our brains have had a single dialog box displayed on them about some NT service that couldn't start. First time I saw it I just stood there and laughed. To see it on each subsequent visit for almost a month (for all I know it's still there), was even funnier!
"Has never made money..." What you really meant to say was "is not profitable..." since they clearly "make money" since they sell for a price > $0.00. And, just how do you know whether or not their development tools are profitable? That's a pretty bold claim.
If you can't ask someone how they feel and know whether they're giving you a load of BS, that's your problem, not mine. I've hired lots of people, and I have made bad choices, but never on stuff like this.
If you ask someone how they feel about something and they give you a short "positive" answer, that's an indication that they are hiding something. If they, on the other hand, gush for 10 minutes how "bad" SCO was, I'd tend to believe them. Only the most sociopathic people will be able to manufacture that type of lie.... and if you're interviewing that type of person, you'll problably get fooled, if you don't check references (or can't find a reference that will be honest).
If I had a job opening, and someone applied who had stuck with SCO all these months, I wouldn't reject them flat-out, but it would sure set off a warning signal to me. I want loyal employees, sure, but I also want ethical employees. Someone who sticks with an employer of the SCO/Enron caliber is someone who will allow my company to go to Hell in a handbasket. I hire people not only for what they can do, but for what they will say "no" to.
They're interviewing with you because they're leaving SCO. Doesn't that given them good ethical points? Secondly, I didn't say I'd give them a pass for being from SCO, I'd grill them.
For all your disagreement with me, your stance is remarkably like mine.
You're an idiot. There is no evidence that SCO programmers support their nutty leaders/lawyers.
In Nazi Germany, the leaders told the troops to kill people. What have the SCO leaders told their troops to do? This isn't about future SCO output, it's about a legal battle about the past, and that DOES NOT INVOLVE future code written by current SCO programmers.
If I were hiring and had an SCO resume that looked nice, I'd ask the person how he felt about the SCO debacle. Now that's a FAIR way to treat another human.
You paint all blacklists with the same brush. That is COMPLETELY UNFAIR.
My company uses a blacklist that is VERY fair and conservative and I've never seen one single complaint. I'm not going to tell anyone which one we use, because I don't want a DDoS launched against it...
I agree there are good and bad blacklist maintainers. Not all are good and not all are bad.
This indicates that the network that the train signaling stations are on is not protected by firewalls, at least to block ports 135 and 444 where the DCOM vulnerability is attacked.
Or it could mean that someone ran an executable email attachment inside the firewall.
Not according to HR people I've talked to. The problem comes in when a significant percentage of your workers are contractors. It then looks like you're trying to prevent paying them benefits. My conversations with HR people had nothing to do with the MS case, btw.
Agreed. But, companies can't just get out of paying benefits by hiring shitloads of contractors. MS already knows this because they lost a lawsuit on this very subject.
If a company employs an occassional contractor, no problem (and no benefits). If we're talking about wholesale moving workers from A to B, where B is India or home, the home solution _will_ entail benefits because of the "wholesale" part.
but if you outsource to India you don't have to pay benefits. Remember that big settlement that MS had to pay, which gave contractors benefits? It was because current law (IANAL) says that you can't just hire contractors to get out of paying benefits.
This all means that even if your area has 1/2 the salaries of The Valley, you'll still be paid significantly more than someone in India.
Since I got TiVo (my new DirecTivo is being hooked up tomorrow.... two tuners, biiiiiatch!), I find that I watch some commercials. The ones that have "something" that hooks me. Often it's a movie preview, but it can be for anything.
I've talked with other TiVo owners and I'm not alone in this.
Personally, I can only work out in the evening. If I workout in the morning or at lunch, for the rest of the day I carry a bit of a "buzz" that makes my vision a little fuzzy and my thinking a little too bohemian. It's great for off-days, but on programming days it's like professional suicide.
Word up. Having a donut before noon does the same thing to me, coicidentally. So, I do my gym and donuts after lunch...
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I bought a 120GB drive for by DirecTivo from Hinsdale. Now I have 146 hrs (approx). I didn't really have the time to play with it, nor the spare PC to mess with preping the drive, so I paid the premium. Instructions were excellent and it worked without a hitch. Check it out.
Apple have said that Panter will be a 32-bit OS.
I returned it because our need was not met. We need a 64-bit OS (> 4GB of RAM). That is the sole reason I returned it. It was heartbreaking, since the machine is an engineering marvel. The inside of the box was truly beautiful. And, it had the biggest damn heatsink I've ever seen.
If your definition of 64-bit is a 32-bit operating system around a 64-bit chip, then the G5 is a 64-bit platform. Mac OS X 10.2.7 (and the upcoming 10.3) is not a 64-bit operating system. This is particularly frustrating because Apple's marketing machine has very carefully crafted their message to make a reasonable person believe the operating system is 64-bit, especially if you download and read Power Mac G5 Tech Overview (PDF). Apple says about the G5 version of Mac OS X that it runs all of your software -- and runs it faster -- with a version of Mac OS X Jaguar specially tuned for the PowerPC G5 processor, providing a seamless transition to 64-bit power. That's only the beginning of the smoke and mirrors. The 64-bit power only gives users two things: the operating system can address up to 8GB of RAM, though user programs are still limited to 4GB, and some of the G5 numerical hardware is available with a special version of GCC (3.3). That is very far from what I thought. In fact, we returned the G5 we got last week for a full refund (didn't have to pay the 10% open box fee either), after about 2 hours on the phone. Buyer beware.
there are just more non-spam hits that got moved up... D'oh!
this search is fixed (displays more than 1 result).
You said "about to" but then say you don't "like it one bit". Hmmmm, sounds like you made up your mind *before* trying it. Tsk, tsk.
The truth about pair programming is that only the right mix of personalities and skills will work. I've done it with people where it worked great. With others, really badly.
When I send mail to a user in a non-existent domain, I get a bounce.
If you follow the link to the SCO site, they say it is sponsored by Microlite (the logo on this page is the same as the one on the SCO page).
Btw, this is one of my top 5 books of all time.
For the last few weeks when I visit my local Safeway, the enormous widescreen LCD displays hanging in the produce department that normally beam ads directly into our brains have had a single dialog box displayed on them about some NT service that couldn't start. First time I saw it I just stood there and laughed. To see it on each subsequent visit for almost a month (for all I know it's still there), was even funnier!
"Has never made money..." What you really meant to say was "is not profitable..." since they clearly "make money" since they sell for a price > $0.00. And, just how do you know whether or not their development tools are profitable? That's a pretty bold claim.
I'll make a bold claim: you're high on crack.
If you can't ask someone how they feel and know whether they're giving you a load of BS, that's your problem, not mine. I've hired lots of people, and I have made bad choices, but never on stuff like this.
If you ask someone how they feel about something and they give you a short "positive" answer, that's an indication that they are hiding something. If they, on the other hand, gush for 10 minutes how "bad" SCO was, I'd tend to believe them. Only the most sociopathic people will be able to manufacture that type of lie.... and if you're interviewing that type of person, you'll problably get fooled, if you don't check references (or can't find a reference that will be honest).
They're interviewing with you because they're leaving SCO. Doesn't that given them good ethical points? Secondly, I didn't say I'd give them a pass for being from SCO, I'd grill them.For all your disagreement with me, your stance is remarkably like mine.
You're an idiot. There is no evidence that SCO programmers support their nutty leaders/lawyers.
In Nazi Germany, the leaders told the troops to kill people. What have the SCO leaders told their troops to do? This isn't about future SCO output, it's about a legal battle about the past, and that DOES NOT INVOLVE future code written by current SCO programmers.
If I were hiring and had an SCO resume that looked nice, I'd ask the person how he felt about the SCO debacle. Now that's a FAIR way to treat another human.
I don't think anyone claims Bill Gates wrote DOS or VB. He hired poeple to write them.
OTOH, Bill Joy actually wrote csh, vi, and parts of the BSD kernel (along with many other people).
So, there's no comparison at all between Gates and Joy.
You paint all blacklists with the same brush. That is COMPLETELY UNFAIR.
My company uses a blacklist that is VERY fair and conservative and I've never seen one single complaint. I'm not going to tell anyone which one we use, because I don't want a DDoS launched against it...
I agree there are good and bad blacklist maintainers. Not all are good and not all are bad.
Or it could mean that someone ran an executable email attachment inside the firewall.
Too late, he already served the time.... if you had actually read the article you'd know this!
And, if not more than Arnold, do you think this puts you at a distinct disadvantage should the debates turn ugly?
I love this charger. It charges each cell (AAA or AA) independently.
For toys and such, I use cheaper NiMH batteries, since there's no reason to use the high output ones (which I use for digital cameras).
Not according to HR people I've talked to. The problem comes in when a significant percentage of your workers are contractors. It then looks like you're trying to prevent paying them benefits. My conversations with HR people had nothing to do with the MS case, btw.
Agreed. But, companies can't just get out of paying benefits by hiring shitloads of contractors. MS already knows this because they lost a lawsuit on this very subject.
If a company employs an occassional contractor, no problem (and no benefits). If we're talking about wholesale moving workers from A to B, where B is India or home, the home solution _will_ entail benefits because of the "wholesale" part.
but if you outsource to India you don't have to pay benefits. Remember that big settlement that MS had to pay, which gave contractors benefits? It was because current law (IANAL) says that you can't just hire contractors to get out of paying benefits.
This all means that even if your area has 1/2 the salaries of The Valley, you'll still be paid significantly more than someone in India.
That's OK, you can still rent "The Sixth Sense". The parent to your post gave away the ending to "The Sixth Sence".
Since I got TiVo (my new DirecTivo is being hooked up tomorrow.... two tuners, biiiiiatch!), I find that I watch some commercials. The ones that have "something" that hooks me. Often it's a movie preview, but it can be for anything.
I've talked with other TiVo owners and I'm not alone in this.