I've got six Windows 2000 Server boxes running at work. They've been on since August 2000. But after exactly 365 days, they lose network connectivity and have to be rebooted. Other machines on the net can see them, they can't see anything else. All hostnames are in local files, but they can't ping IPs either. No service packs have been installed. Anyone else seen or heard of this? Strange.
who said a rabbi had to do it? i'm sure a physician would do it at any age, just like they do most of them on newborns in the hospital. i doubt they'd care why, even if you're 22.
My Dad is 65 years old. He works in coal mine, about 500 feet underground. Remember the coal miners in PA earlier this year? They were trapped about half that deep. I've been down in the mine with him. Turn off the hat lamp and you could be dead - no sound (in some spots), no light, nothing. He's doing hard manual labor. He's currently working shifts - 5 days day shift, weekend, 5 days afternoon, weekend, 5 days midnight. Repeat. Try that and see what it does to your sleep schedule and energy. Now think about doing it when you're 65.
Now think about how hard your slave driving PHB makes you work to fix that last bug. 80 hours a week sitting on your ass in front of a computer, never lifting anything heavier than some liquid caffeine. Sorry, no sympathy from me.
Every day I think how lucky I am to have gone to college and got a job sitting on my ass in front of a computer. You should too.
Dr. David Ebert was one of my best friends as an undergrad at THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY and one of the smartest guys I've ever met. If he says this is a big deal, then I believe him. He's a world-renowned graphics researcher. You might want to read his book Texturing and Modeling.
David was the kind of guy that, if he got a different answer on a homework problem than I did, then I knew I was wrong!
His homepage, with lots of pretty pictures, is here.
Maryland (and probably many other US states) are exactly the same. That is, a few large pockets of voters generally determine the election. Maryland has (I think) 22 counties plus Baltimore city. The candidates for governor concentrate on two counties and Baltimore city; the winner of those three usually wins the election. The rural western state (forested, coal miners, poor) and the developing east (the ocean, chicken farms, middle-class) are ignored.
So, yes, the governor may get the majority of the votes, but s/he certainly doesn't represent the concerns of a large part of the state.
I've got a half-dozen W2K machines, part of a distributed system with other Solaris and Linux boxes. I've done nothing to any of them over the past couple years as far as service packs, upgrades, etc. They're on an isolated network that just runs our software. The W2K boxes have reliably stayed up for 365 days at a time. But on that 365th day, they all lose their network connectivity and have to be rebooted. Other machines can see them, ping, telnet, etc. But the W2K boxes can't do anything out - can't ping any other boxes on the net. They all use local files, no DNS or NIS. Strange. Anyone know if this is a known W2K problem? The Linux boxes have been up since day one without a reboot. The Solaris boxes have been rebooted a few times.
I had a similar experience recently, looking for some electronics. Nearly every link Google gave me pointed to a page that pointed back to Amazon. My guess is that this is another Internet "get rich quick" schemes. Amazon or whoever probably pays for each referral. So it's the referring sites that are trying to stack the odds in their favor, hoping to get rich from the referrals. Not.
For C, get "Expert C Programming" (aka the ugly fish book), by Peter Van Der Linden. Excellent in-depth coverage of topics that your average "Learn C" book never even mentions.
What app(s) under Linux actually let you print the Chinese?! Or Japanese, or Cyrillic, or Hebrew, or... I've not seen a browser yet that will print a page in charset gb2312, koi8, etc. They display fine, but printing is worthless. UNFORTUNATELY, MS IE works perfectly.
Suppose they're right, and OpenSource is easier to hack. Doesn't fixing the bugs count? Would you rather wait for MS to admit the bug, fix the bug, release the fix, etc. or let all the open source crowd fix it in an hour?
(i submitted this story monday morning, and it was rejected....oh well;-)
Probably posting too late for anyone to read this, but here goes. I used to write the Tip of the Week column for LinuxLookup. It hasn't been updated since September, but there's still a year's worth of tips on interesting ways of using various Unix commands, shell tricks, and other tools. The last columns I wrote and the archive of past articles are all here.
Better yet, teach them "man -k". "man" is nice, but not if you don't know the names of the commands.
Prepare a cheat sheet of commands for them, showing the Windows and the Linux version (e.g. cp and copy, rm and del, etc.).
Check out a very intro book ("Linux for Dummies"?) just to see some of the topics it might cover.
"Think Unix" is a great book for teaching the how and _why_ of the command line.
Try to come up with some things that they might want to do under Windows that would be hard to do but easy to do under Linux. Use that example to show commands and pipes. For example - "tell me how many machines accessed this webpage last month". Maybe that's easy to do under Windows, I don't know. But show how you'd do it under Linux, with a pipeline of cat, cut, sort, uniq, and wc. That might be a complex example (for a simple question!) but it shows the power of the command line.
Most of all, make it fun. Show them what's cool. Show them that they can do the same things under Linux that they can do under Windows. Like playing MP3s, videos, reading Office documents, running Word (with Wine), and even playing Solitaire and Minesweeper!
Someone from my LUG posted a much more detailed review to our mailing list and a similar one to NewsForge. Read it there for a detailed review from a Linux user's point of view.
Bottom line, it's nice, but still has some snags. We in the Linux community need to accept that it has some flaws and even try to help fix them. Hopefully Sharp will see it through another revision to work out all the kinks. With some of the problems it sees to have, the market may not be kind to it.
Mary Ann Fisher, IBM's Linux Program Director, World Wide Sector, spoke at the CALUG meeting in June. She discussed the why's, how's, and when's of IBM's Linux involvement. You can hear her talk here. No guarantees on the audio quality or the site capacity!
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Goodle has nothing on them there. Haven't you ever heard "Oops, the server is all Microsofted-up again!"
So yes they support it (or rather Nvidia supports it), but no, it doesn't come "out of the box".
Which I wouldn't say is "most" people. Well, I guess everyone could file that one, but you might lose out on a few things like itemized deductions.
I've got six Windows 2000 Server boxes running at work. They've been on since August 2000. But after exactly 365 days, they lose network connectivity and have to be rebooted. Other machines on the net can see them, they can't see anything else. All hostnames are in local files, but they can't ping IPs either. No service packs have been installed. Anyone else seen or heard of this? Strange.
-f: fix bug
What else would you need?!
who said a rabbi had to do it? i'm sure a physician would do it at any age, just like they do most of them on newborns in the hospital. i doubt they'd care why, even if you're 22.
Now think about how hard your slave driving PHB makes you work to fix that last bug. 80 hours a week sitting on your ass in front of a computer, never lifting anything heavier than some liquid caffeine. Sorry, no sympathy from me.
Every day I think how lucky I am to have gone to college and got a job sitting on my ass in front of a computer. You should too.
David was the kind of guy that, if he got a different answer on a homework problem than I did, then I knew I was wrong!
His homepage, with lots of pretty pictures, is here.
So, yes, the governor may get the majority of the votes, but s/he certainly doesn't represent the concerns of a large part of the state.
I've got a half-dozen W2K machines, part of a distributed system with other Solaris and Linux boxes. I've done nothing to any of them over the past couple years as far as service packs, upgrades, etc. They're on an isolated network that just runs our software. The W2K boxes have reliably stayed up for 365 days at a time. But on that 365th day, they all lose their network connectivity and have to be rebooted. Other machines can see them, ping, telnet, etc. But the W2K boxes can't do anything out - can't ping any other boxes on the net. They all use local files, no DNS or NIS. Strange. Anyone know if this is a known W2K problem? The Linux boxes have been up since day one without a reboot. The Solaris boxes have been rebooted a few times.
randy
I had a similar experience recently, looking for some electronics. Nearly every link Google gave me pointed to a page that pointed back to Amazon. My guess is that this is another Internet "get rich quick" schemes. Amazon or whoever probably pays for each referral. So it's the referring sites that are trying to stack the odds in their favor, hoping to get rich from the referrals. Not.
For C, get "Expert C Programming" (aka the ugly fish book), by Peter Van Der Linden. Excellent in-depth coverage of topics that your average "Learn C" book never even mentions.
What app(s) under Linux actually let you print the Chinese?! Or Japanese, or Cyrillic, or Hebrew, or... I've not seen a browser yet that will print a page in charset gb2312, koi8, etc. They display fine, but printing is worthless. UNFORTUNATELY, MS IE works perfectly.
Suppose they're right, and OpenSource is easier to hack. Doesn't fixing the bugs count? Would you rather wait for MS to admit the bug, fix the bug, release the fix, etc. or let all the open source crowd fix it in an hour?
;-)
(i submitted this story monday morning, and it was rejected....oh well
Probably posting too late for anyone to read this, but here goes. I used to write the Tip of the Week column for LinuxLookup. It hasn't been updated since September, but there's still a year's worth of tips on interesting ways of using various Unix commands, shell tricks, and other tools. The last columns I wrote and the archive of past articles are all here.
Better yet, teach them "man -k". "man" is nice, but not if you don't know the names of the commands.
Prepare a cheat sheet of commands for them, showing the Windows and the Linux version (e.g. cp and copy, rm and del, etc.).
Check out a very intro book ("Linux for Dummies"?) just to see some of the topics it might cover.
"Think Unix" is a great book for teaching the how and _why_ of the command line.
Try to come up with some things that they might want to do under Windows that would be hard to do but easy to do under Linux. Use that example to show commands and pipes. For example - "tell me how many machines accessed this webpage last month". Maybe that's easy to do under Windows, I don't know. But show how you'd do it under Linux, with a pipeline of cat, cut, sort, uniq, and wc. That might be a complex example (for a simple question!) but it shows the power of the command line.
Most of all, make it fun. Show them what's cool. Show them that they can do the same things under Linux that they can do under Windows. Like playing MP3s, videos, reading Office documents, running Word (with Wine), and even playing Solitaire and Minesweeper!
randy
Someone from my LUG posted a much more detailed review to our mailing list and a similar one to NewsForge. Read it there for a detailed review from a Linux user's point of view.
Bottom line, it's nice, but still has some snags. We in the Linux community need to accept that it has some flaws and even try to help fix them. Hopefully Sharp will see it through another revision to work out all the kinks. With some of the problems it sees to have, the market may not be kind to it.
randy
...except maybe the "word" BOXEN.
randy
Outsourcing does seem to be the future. See this article at Wired about the XBox manufacturing process. Makes me want to go buy some FLEX right now!
randy
Mary Ann Fisher, IBM's Linux Program Director, World Wide Sector, spoke at the CALUG meeting in June. She discussed the why's, how's, and when's of IBM's Linux involvement. You can hear her talk here. No guarantees on the audio quality or the site capacity!