Being salaried should not always proclude getting overtime pay. It is pretty easy to figure out your hourly rate and how much you should be compensated for overtime. Convincing your employer that you should be paid that ammount is another matter. On a work term of mine there was much overtime needed to get the job done. We worked 80hrs or more a week. The manager authorized overtime and both salaried and hourly paid were compensated with time and a half. However the salaried worked the first 4 hours "free." In this situation the overtime was a rare occurance and lasted about 4-5 weeks. Once the job was done, we went back to our 40hrs weeks.
If you find that you and your team are continually working 50-60hrs weeks when you signed on for 40hrs then your employer needs to do something. Either hire more people or raise your salary. If it is significant ammounts of occasional overtime then maybe your employer should pay you for it, or give you an equal ammount of time off instead. The time off deal seems quite common among my friends.
Myself I am salaried and wouldn't have it any other way for reasons given by other posters.
SGI came to be a hardware company because they needed specialised hardware to run their very cool graphics software. Their hardware did amazing stuff and people who did 3D graphics were willing to buy SGIs. Many cars were designed on SGI's. Even a little custom machine shop back home had an SGI running Engineering Pro. But that was yesterday.
Today the little machine shop is running AutoCad on a cheap but overpowered Intel box. A local 3D animation studio is using dual P2s with 3DMax. They looked at an SGI. It was sweet. It was faster. But not 6 times faster and that is how much more it cost. The Wintel stuff is dirt cheap and quite powerfull. SGI dosen't enjoy the nearly same performance magin that it did less then 5 years ago. The auto makers may still be buying the SGI stuff, but for how long?
SGI has been going down hill since atleast 1996. It is around that time they tried to get into the web server market with the Origin 200. The Origin 200 was a cool machine. With its CRAYLink you could connect two machines and nearly double you performance. However it was much more power then you needed and IRIX never had a reputation for security.
There is some insane bandwidth across Canada but can't remember what it is. I believe it is more of a theoretical "if we had the cash to buy everything" network. As you said it is rather pricey. Then again Nortel is one of the private sponsors
As far as amplification goes you can do it all optically. A specially doped fiber optic is used. A laser is spliced onto the fiber and the laser light "pumps" electrons in the fiber up to a higher energy state. When a passing signal photon collides with one of the higher state electrons a second identical photon is produced. The signal is amplified. This is the paraphrased version from my fiber optics notes. Either JDS Fitel and/or Lucent is doing this.
Ofcourse you do get more from those big packages. More proxies, more auth methods, more filter methods, and in the case of FW-1 more bugs (read bugtraq):-)
I fixed the ghosting with a better video cable. It looks great now!
I found timing parameters for the SUN GX and TGX in the Sun framebuffer FAQ found on sunhelp.org. There are actual modelines for the TGX in the FAQ. Unfortunately I can't test any of them as my video card dosen't have a fast enough dot clock. Despite what a lot of web pages say (many are wrong) the GDM-1962B has fixed horizontal refresh or line rates of 61.9KHz and 71.7KHz. I don't believe it actually supports 1024x768 at all. My modeline uses a 60.3KHz line refresh for a resolution of 1024x768. This shouldn't be supported. The monitor is old and I have played around with some of the internal adjustments, so I suspect that it is running outside of its factory specs.:-)
If you are having trouble with image position or pincusion take the GDM-1962's cover off. I found a bunch of fairly well labled adjustment screws.
Sad but true. Local kid kept hurting himself and others trying to emulate moves from a Mortal Kombat style game. He once had his console removed for a month and normalised. It was pretty obvious that this kid should have limited exposure to some types of games.
What is the take home message? Are these kinds of video games bad? Ofcourse not. But the claim that they are harmless is false, and some kids should not be playing them.
I believe that the idea is that you are allowed to make only one mp3 of a particular track per licence. That way a DJ company can't buy only one licence and do two or more events at the same time playing the same music. The DJ needs one licence per set of mp3s. If the licence does actually specify "per hard drive" as opposed to the reporter's interpretation of the licence, then it probably needs to be reworded to "per computer" or "per copy of an mp3 collection."
You are correct that it dosen't make sense to licence per HD. Legally it would be foolish.
The difference in quality depends on the type of music. MP3s work well for pop music that tend to have most of the sound in a fairly narrow band at any given time. The sound band moves around, but generally there is one dominant sound. Of course pop is also written to sound decent on low end comsumer electronics. Other kinds of music can have a lot of sound all over the spectrum. I imagine that a lot of classical is like that (I haven't really listened to much). You are meant to hear both the continueing echo of the kettle drums as well as the delicate sound of the flutes. In most pop music you only need to hear the initial thump of the bass or drum while you concentrate on the voice or guitar. MP3 does not encode the broad spectrum stuff very well. When I tried to encode some new age stuff I found that it dumped in a lot of high frequency noise while muting the bass. It didn't really matter what encoder I used or which bitrate they all sounded pretty awfull. Anything less then 196kbits/s actually started giving me a head ache.
I am still encodeing much of my CD collection into mp3. Even 128kbit/s MP3s aren't bad for some music.
Linux works for me on my desktop. That is all I care about. I don't care if it ever becomes a real challenge to Windows. Sure it might be nice to see some more apps, but if that does not happen, Linux won't become less usefull to me. It is unfortunate that less tehcnical users (ie the mainstream public) don't have an open sourced OS to use. However they aren't exactly stuck with Windows. There is BEOS. (which I really should try)
If you do want to see Linux more "user friendly" I encorage you to work on Gnome and/or KDE. However I am not convinced that a Unix-like platform will ever be a suitable platform for non-technical admins. I disagree with you that the "complexity of the Linux kernel seeps trough." I believe it is all the others bits that make Linux a Unix-like operating system that get in the way. The filesystem and the security model in particular seem to get in the way.
It is a test lab. If the power goes off, the machines go off. No big deal. We dont' even bother with UPSes in the lab. As far as tightly packed goes what I have is nothing compared to the production machine "room". I am guessing they have 2 or 3 times the machines I do crammed into a closet.
I don't see what you problem with KVMs are. We haven't had any problems with them since we went to decent quality "active/smart" boxes. Ones that have electronics in them instead of physical switches. The old ones we used were flaky but the Linksys ones we use now are great.
The problem with a monitor and keyboard for every server is not the cost, rather the real estate. Monitors and keyboards are bulky. The desk I often work at has 9 machines under it, but I can only put 3 monitors on it. For me a KVM is a must. As far as reliabilty goes the Linksys KVMs I am using are more reliable then the PC hardware attached to them.
What a coincidence. I just set this up yesterday. I use the following modeline with an S3Trio64 attached to a Sun 1962B monitor. I am using a cable that was hacked together by someone else so I have no idea how it is connected.
It looks awfull due to a lot of ghositng/aliasing. I will check out those links you posted to see if I can get a better modeline. As far as I know if you want 1152x870 you need a 100Mhz dot clock.
To get that modeline I first used some numbers pulled from some nontechnical sites most of which were wrong. By pure luck I eventually came up with something that synced just enough so that I could almost run 'xvidtune' on. Then it was just trial and error. (mostly error)
Lowers the voltage driving the fan. The only thing that you have to worry about is that the fan can still start from a dead stop/power off. It needs more power to start.
As per the other posters suggestion I would recomend a couple of diodes in series with the fan as you will have better control over the voltage. Ofcourse if all you have is a resitor use that
If you wanted to be a real smart ass you could rectify the signal from the fan's tac and use that in conjuction with a transistor and maybe an amplifier to control the fan's speed more precisely.
It was probably an IBM 386 with Micro Channel Architechture (MCA). The connectors are either physically the same or very similar. Please note that the electrical pinout is completely different. The PCI arch has been around for a while, but it is post 486.
Yours and mine. What I hate equally is trying to turn that kind of behaviour off. Sometimes it it pretty easy: there is a option within the program, or it is in the "StartUp" folder. What I really hate is when you have to hunt throught the registry to disable this "feature."
Then again this is one of the reasons I use Linux:-)
I specifically bought my HoonTech Trident 4DWaveNX because of the ALSA support. (http://www.project-alsa.org) It took me a while to find a company that sold 4Dwave but I am glad I did instead of buying one of the SB cards that all the local stores are pushing.
Hoontech can be found at http://www.hoontech.com/.
If you are in Canada you can order HoonTech products from Votron Electronics (in Ontario) at http://www.votronelectronics.com/hoontech/order.ht m
Thinking of HoonTech, does anyone have one of thier amps? I was thinking of getting the PA2000 to connect my machine to a couple of nice big unpowered speakers. It looks like it should fit into a 5 1/2 drive bay, does it?
I have no idea what the specs on the SB live are, but they are alot faster then that. For one thing, it is 4 channel not 2, so 48k * 4 * 16 bits = 3Mbits/sec. But that is totally imaterial as that is the is the output speed of the sound samples. While it is spitting out 3Mbits/s, the DSP needs a whole lot of clock cycles to apply all the effects. In addition it needs time to combine all the seperate digital input channels as well as sampling the line-in, mic-in and other analog inputs.
Comparing free software (thought, not beer) and the "gift-culture" to various -isms is a topic that seems to show up fairly often. Invariably the "debate" degenerates into a flame fest as too few people really understand what the various -isms really mean (myself included). The general mistake made is that communism and socialism are equated with a lack of rights and a repressive government. While several very repressive governments have claimed communism it is usually not practiced. Conversly several rather sucessfull socialist democracys exist (Canada, Sweden, and Finland to name a few.)
While the communism vs. open source comparision is valid I would suggest it is more of a socialist democracy. The philosophy of free and open software for everyone is socialist. The fact that the best software gets used (ie elected) is democracy.
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Being salaried should not always proclude getting overtime pay. It is pretty easy to figure out your hourly rate and how much you should be compensated for overtime. Convincing your employer that you should be paid that ammount is another matter. On a work term of mine there was much overtime needed to get the job done. We worked 80hrs or more a week. The manager authorized overtime and both salaried and hourly paid were compensated with time and a half. However the salaried worked the first 4 hours "free." In this situation the overtime was a rare occurance and lasted about 4-5 weeks. Once the job was done, we went back to our 40hrs weeks.
If you find that you and your team are continually working 50-60hrs weeks when you signed on for 40hrs then your employer needs to do something. Either hire more people or raise your salary. If it is significant ammounts of occasional overtime then maybe your employer should pay you for it, or give you an equal ammount of time off instead. The time off deal seems quite common among my friends.
Myself I am salaried and wouldn't have it any other way for reasons given by other posters.
SGI came to be a hardware company because they needed specialised hardware to run their very cool graphics software. Their hardware did amazing stuff and people who did 3D graphics were willing to buy SGIs. Many cars were designed on SGI's. Even a little custom machine shop back home had an SGI running Engineering Pro. But that was yesterday.
Today the little machine shop is running AutoCad on a cheap but overpowered Intel box. A local 3D animation studio is using dual P2s with 3DMax. They looked at an SGI. It was sweet. It was faster. But not 6 times faster and that is how much more it cost. The Wintel stuff is dirt cheap and quite powerfull. SGI dosen't enjoy the nearly same performance magin that it did less then 5 years ago. The auto makers may still be buying the SGI stuff, but for how long?
SGI has been going down hill since atleast 1996. It is around that time they tried to get into the web server market with the Origin 200. The Origin 200 was a cool machine. With its CRAYLink you could connect two machines and nearly double you performance. However it was much more power then you needed and IRIX never had a reputation for security.
The problem is, how does a 23 year old man tell his parents he wants Legos for Christmas?
"Mom, Dad, I would like the Lego Mindtorms RIS 1.5 set for Christmas... No, seriously."
Dear Mom and Dad
I would like the Lego Mindtorms RIS 1.5 set for Christmas.
Works for me!
There is some insane bandwidth across Canada but can't remember what it is. I believe it is more of a theoretical "if we had the cash to buy everything" network. As you said it is rather pricey. Then again Nortel is one of the private sponsors
As far as amplification goes you can do it all optically. A specially doped fiber optic is used. A laser is spliced onto the fiber and the laser light "pumps" electrons in the fiber up to a higher energy state. When a passing signal photon collides with one of the higher state electrons a second identical photon is produced. The signal is amplified. This is the paraphrased version from my fiber optics notes. Either JDS Fitel and/or Lucent is doing this.
Ofcourse you do get more from those big packages. More proxies, more auth methods, more filter methods, and in the case of FW-1 more bugs (read bugtraq) :-)
I fixed the ghosting with a better video cable. It looks great now!
I found timing parameters for the SUN GX and TGX in the Sun framebuffer FAQ found on sunhelp.org. There are actual modelines for the TGX in the FAQ. Unfortunately I can't test any of them as my video card dosen't have a fast enough dot clock. Despite what a lot of web pages say (many are wrong) the GDM-1962B has fixed horizontal refresh or line rates of 61.9KHz and 71.7KHz. I don't believe it actually supports 1024x768 at all. My modeline uses a 60.3KHz line refresh for a resolution of 1024x768. This shouldn't be supported. The monitor is old and I have played around with some of the internal adjustments, so I suspect that it is running outside of its factory specs. :-)
If you are having trouble with image position or pincusion take the GDM-1962's cover off. I found a bunch of fairly well labled adjustment screws.
Sad but true. Local kid kept hurting himself and others trying to emulate moves from a Mortal Kombat style game. He once had his console removed for a month and normalised. It was pretty obvious that this kid should have limited exposure to some types of games.
What is the take home message? Are these kinds of video games bad? Ofcourse not. But the claim that they are harmless is false, and some kids should not be playing them.
It all comes back to parents being responsible.
These guys were great. Thank you.
I believe that the idea is that you are allowed to make only one mp3 of a particular track per licence. That way a DJ company can't buy only one licence and do two or more events at the same time playing the same music. The DJ needs one licence per set of mp3s. If the licence does actually specify "per hard drive" as opposed to the reporter's interpretation of the licence, then it probably needs to be reworded to "per computer" or "per copy of an mp3 collection."
You are correct that it dosen't make sense to licence per HD. Legally it would be foolish.
The difference in quality depends on the type of music. MP3s work well for pop music that tend to have most of the sound in a fairly narrow band at any given time. The sound band moves around, but generally there is one dominant sound. Of course pop is also written to sound decent on low end comsumer electronics. Other kinds of music can have a lot of sound all over the spectrum. I imagine that a lot of classical is like that (I haven't really listened to much). You are meant to hear both the continueing echo of the kettle drums as well as the delicate sound of the flutes. In most pop music you only need to hear the initial thump of the bass or drum while you concentrate on the voice or guitar. MP3 does not encode the broad spectrum stuff very well. When I tried to encode some new age stuff I found that it dumped in a lot of high frequency noise while muting the bass. It didn't really matter what encoder I used or which bitrate they all sounded pretty awfull. Anything less then 196kbits/s actually started giving me a head ache.
I am still encodeing much of my CD collection into mp3. Even 128kbit/s MP3s aren't bad for some music.
The password remembering feature is a good thing??
Moz M11 is nice otherwise
Linux works for me on my desktop. That is all I care about. I don't care if it ever becomes a real challenge to Windows. Sure it might be nice to see some more apps, but if that does not happen, Linux won't become less usefull to me. It is unfortunate that less tehcnical users (ie the mainstream public) don't have an open sourced OS to use. However they aren't exactly stuck with Windows. There is BEOS. (which I really should try)
If you do want to see Linux more "user friendly" I encorage you to work on Gnome and/or KDE. However I am not convinced that a Unix-like platform will ever be a suitable platform for non-technical admins. I disagree with you that the "complexity of the Linux kernel seeps trough." I believe it is all the others bits that make Linux a Unix-like operating system that get in the way. The filesystem and the security model in particular seem to get in the way.
It is a test lab. If the power goes off, the machines go off. No big deal. We dont' even bother with UPSes in the lab. As far as tightly packed goes what I have is nothing compared to the production machine "room". I am guessing they have 2 or 3 times the machines I do crammed into a closet.
I don't see what you problem with KVMs are. We haven't had any problems with them since we went to decent quality "active/smart" boxes. Ones that have electronics in them instead of physical switches. The old ones we used were flaky but the Linksys ones we use now are great.
The problem with a monitor and keyboard for every server is not the cost, rather the real estate. Monitors and keyboards are bulky. The desk I often work at has 9 machines under it, but I can only put 3 monitors on it. For me a KVM is a must. As far as reliabilty goes the Linksys KVMs I am using are more reliable then the PC hardware attached to them.
What a coincidence. I just set this up yesterday. I use the following modeline with an S3Trio64 attached to a Sun 1962B monitor. I am using a cable that was hacked together by someone else so I have no idea how it is connected.
It looks awfull due to a lot of ghositng/aliasing. I will check out those links you posted to see if I can get a better modeline. As far as I know if you want 1152x870 you need a 100Mhz dot clock.To get that modeline I first used some numbers pulled from some nontechnical sites most of which were wrong. By pure luck I eventually came up with something that synced just enough so that I could almost run 'xvidtune' on. Then it was just trial and error. (mostly error)
Lowers the voltage driving the fan. The only thing that you have to worry about is that the fan can still start from a dead stop/power off. It needs more power to start.
As per the other posters suggestion I would recomend a couple of diodes in series with the fan as you will have better control over the voltage. Ofcourse if all you have is a resitor use that
If you wanted to be a real smart ass you could rectify the signal from the fan's tac and use that in conjuction with a transistor and maybe an amplifier to control the fan's speed more precisely.
On the web page it specifically states that he intends to keep close to the original.
It was probably an IBM 386 with Micro Channel Architechture (MCA). The connectors are either physically the same or very similar. Please note that the electrical pinout is completely different. The PCI arch has been around for a while, but it is post 486.
Just my pet peeve. :)
Yours and mine. What I hate equally is trying to turn that kind of behaviour off. Sometimes it it pretty easy: there is a option within the program, or it is in the "StartUp" folder. What I really hate is when you have to hunt throught the registry to disable this "feature."
Then again this is one of the reasons I use Linux :-)
I hate to be an AOLer, but "Me Too" :-)
I specifically bought my HoonTech Trident 4DWaveNX because of the ALSA support. (http://www.project-alsa.org) It took me a while to find a company that sold 4Dwave but I am glad I did instead of buying one of the SB cards that all the local stores are pushing.
Hoontech can be found at http://www.hoontech.com/.
If you are in Canada you can order HoonTech products from Votron Electronics (in Ontario) at http://www.votronelectronics.com/hoontech/order.ht m
Thinking of HoonTech, does anyone have one of thier amps? I was thinking of getting the PA2000 to connect my machine to a couple of nice big unpowered speakers. It looks like it should fit into a 5 1/2 drive bay, does it?
First MP3 speeds are in kbits/sec not kbytes/sec
I have no idea what the specs on the SB live are, but they are alot faster then that. For one thing, it is 4 channel not 2, so 48k * 4 * 16 bits = 3Mbits/sec. But that is totally imaterial as that is the is the output speed of the sound samples. While it is spitting out 3Mbits/s, the DSP needs a whole lot of clock cycles to apply all the effects. In addition it needs time to combine all the seperate digital input channels as well as sampling the line-in, mic-in and other analog inputs.
Trust me that DSP can process a lot data at once.
It is "fucking bullshit" that the cops can arrest you for doing something illegal? ok you da boss.
If you want to be able to grow "herbs" in your backyard don't bitch about a new method of getting caught. Work on changing the laws to make it legal.
Has anyone compiled Mozilla on OpenBSD 2.5 (sparc)? I would like to know how it went before I upgrade a bunch of packages to be able to give it a try.
Comparing free software (thought, not beer) and the "gift-culture" to various -isms is a topic that seems to show up fairly often. Invariably the "debate" degenerates into a flame fest as too few people really understand what the various -isms really mean (myself included). The general mistake made is that communism and socialism are equated with a lack of rights and a repressive government. While several very repressive governments have claimed communism it is usually not practiced. Conversly several rather sucessfull socialist democracys exist (Canada, Sweden, and Finland to name a few.)
While the communism vs. open source comparision is valid I would suggest it is more of a socialist democracy. The philosophy of free and open software for everyone is socialist. The fact that the best software gets used (ie elected) is democracy.