This reminded me of a story my old man told me a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, it was one of those 'back in the old days', but it was kind of interesting.
Anyways, 'back in the old days', he used to go to footy training, and after training he and a few of his mates were chatting on the corner, and the local police guy who was walking the beat (they had cops who walked around?) would soon do his lap and tell them "You boys must just be going home? Good.". At which point they started to break up heading their various directions. Most were locals, so walking (you walked?). Anyways, it happened that he and 2 mates were heading the same direction so off they go. Sure enough, they wander into the same cop. "Well, well, well. You boys must be getting tired. I better not see you again".
So I said to my dad, "What would have happened if he saw you again or you just ignored him?"
Your exercise for this evening: - Finish the story - Compare and contrast this to what you would expect to see and hear today. - Compare and contrast pre 'war on terrorism' to 'war on terrorism' days.
And I already gave you a couple of points.... ws
PS For those interested I guess it was in the Strathfield area of Sydney around the late 1940s.
For you Linux-ers who have ATI cards with no PowerPlay (it's disabled in my video BIOS - bastards!!), I'd recommend checking out rovclock.
While it doesn't actually reduce voltage, it can be used to underclock GPU and memory speed. My somewhat unscientific testing has shown no major differences between fglrx and radeon + rovclock with 2D, but I did note a 27% decrease in battery draw for 3D using the fglrx driver.
Of course, you're trading performance for battery life, and why you'd want to eg, play a 3D game on battery I wouldn't really understand
I am glad to see this rated as Interesting as I think it is an interesting approach.
One thing that I have always wondered about this would be whether it would reduce or increase the level of politics in an organisation. The parallels between this and a modern 'democratic' voting societies appear fairly close.
Eg, if I want to be that project manager, I start to curry favours with other project members. Maybe I start offering concessions, or institute policies that benefit those members. Maybe it's a flat out bribe. And the more people who are interested in a particular position, the more nasty it would get.
We don't often see the *truly* best candidate for a prime minister/president [insert public office here] get the job, so I wonder if that would be any different in a more localised version within a company.
I'd be interested if anyone has some references or other insights into this.
What they mean is that the consultants can come in and say that the cost of the software is $0.
Of course, the consulting fees for implementation are large, but perhaps not quite as much in total as the cost for licenses of < insert off the shelf s'ware > + implementation.
Back many moons ago when I was in a large consulting firm we would often discount the software as heavily as possible. Our money was made, and all our targets/bonuses were based on how many hours we could charge, so we really didn't care if we made $0 on software license revenue or hardware mark ups.
I can't believe anyone would recommend anything else for a geek besides the NSLU2!!
It runs based on Linux, so you can replace the firmware Not only do you have a NAS device, which you can mirror disks on, but then you can basically add on whatever you want, eg Firewall, web/mail/file server, music center, VOIP PBX, use NFS as well as Samba etc.
And if you're interested in more information, CmdrTaco I've found this other site where you can often find some good information from users about techy related stuff that matters.
I've been a bit worried following the whole Blu-Ray thing because of the various DRM issues that have been raised many times (net connection, phone home, and err, let's just say Sony's reputation from the whole root kit thing).
But now I've got another problem - that Matsushita/Panasonic are involved.
Here's why: I have the misfortune of a MATSHITA UJ-811 DVD drive in my notebook. After moving continents with a bunch of DVDs. I ran into a region code problem.After googling around a lot, I found that:
"MMC standard requires, that a drive should not reveal a title key on a region mismatched CSS protected disc. (It should return "Illegal request - region code does not match"). Some drives are even less restrictive and even give you the title key on region mismatch. But AnyDVD can usually reveal the title key with a brute force attack, as long as the drive allows you to read the scrambled sectors. Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do not! You CANNOT read the scrambled data, if the region code doesn't match. No other drive behaves this way, only Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do, as the standard does not require a drive to not reveal the protected data on region mismatch, but Matsushita (Panasonic) drives are more restrictive as they need to be. "
You can imagine I was pissed and so Matsushita and Panasonic are now on my 'do not buy' list.
If they're involved with Blu-Ray stuff, you can bet they will take it up the ass from Sony...
I've been following the laptop hard disks for a little while looking for an upgrade. For those interested another review is at Tom's hardware.
At any rate, as well as missing the Toshiba drives, I noticed they were using the Samsung Spinpoint M40 80GB for review. I'd discounted that previously because of it's lacklustre performance (also highlighted in the Tom's Hardware review).
But (you knew there would be one!) there's the newer M60 series that was released recently. The HM100JC looks interesting. Better transfer rate as well as lower power consumption, which is always handy for the laptop users.
Anyways, if anyone has one of these baby's pls post your impressions.
Let me just add that even before I saw my first version of Windows - 2.something? - there were other alternatives around for PC's.
Quarterdeck's Desqview was vastly superior at that time. There's even a wikipedia entry for it! I rest my case.
Desqview got a look in only because of Quarterdeck's QEMM. Does anyone even remember that ? The good old days of really needing an expanded memory manager - never to be confused with an extended memory manager ? And that some of the key programs during that period worked with expanded memory and some worked with extended memory? And how the way you loaded your drivers and then your programs *mattered*?
Same applies to animals. And the Aussie icon the Kangaroo.
When the first white settlers saw a Kangaroo and asked "WTF is THAT?", the local aborigines replied "Kunguru", which meant "I don't know" or in other words I don't understand what your saying.
They must have got a giggle every time people said "There goes a mob of I don't knows".
IMHO, the big trap, particularly for newbies to javascript is using features/functions that are not part of the standard without knowing it.
ie it should be very recognisable that you are using something that is not part of the ECMA standard.
In Java land, that's made somewhat obvious by the import statement - the namespace for standard is java/javax, and, eg com.* or org.* etc are for everything else.
Actually the same should be the case for HTML etc.It should be obvious when there are tags/features being used outside of the standard just by looking.
The best way to let people code to standards is making it easy as hell to tell what is standard or not - without reading a gazillion pages of specs that they may not even understand.
Well, despite the fact I'm a little dubious about using excel as a programming language/platform, it reminded me of a program I had seen many years ago that was 'interesting'.
It's called Baler and basically took a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet (with macros) and compiled it into a self executing exe. (Yes it was that many years ago that 1-2-3 was the dominant s/sheet under DOS:-/ )
Your tax information and data will be protected -- Privacy and Security concerns
* Tax return preparation is accomplished using proprietary software approved by the IRS; transmittal is through the established IRS e-file system. * Each company must attain a third party privacy and security certification. * Alliance companies must comply with all federal rules and regulations on taxpayer privacy for paying and free customers. These rules prohibit use of tax return data for purposes not specifically authorized by the taxpayer. * The IRS monitors the progress of each of the companies. If any problems develop, the companies are required to alert the IRS. If appropriate, the IRS will remove the company from the IRS.gov site until the problem is resolved. * For more information about IRS Privacy, please visit the IRS Privacy Policy.
I guess you need to read the fine print on what those company's can do with your info
Now we're going to see the Java equivalent of emacs vs vi: Hibernate vs EJB vs JDO.
If you wanted those flame wars, you could just head over to theserverside
But on a slightly more serious note, it seems that there are moves afoot for reconciliation between EJB and JDO. There's a link with discussions here.
Enjoy the reading. theserverside does have some infamous trolls and makes slashdot look like the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Having done some research on Novell about 6 months ago, there's some things that are not pointed out in the article that relate directly to cashflow.
It is true that their share of server sales has dwindled from a high of 80% down to low double digits. You can actually see that the impact of the introduction of WinNT. Over more recent years, the decline is actually due to Linux. What people frequently misunderstand is that this relates to NEW server sales.
What is not mentioned is the actual installed base. In this arena, Novell is huge. IIRC, a study that I saw put it at something like 3 to 5 million machines are running Netware.That's far more than all *nix combined, and was only matched by Windows.
Installed base == support/maintenance/upgrade revenue - ie services revenue. Novell has a cash cow there, that's for sure. Check out their 10Qs. And I should note that all their other 'businesses' - be it identity or ex Collabra or whatever are basically immaterial in comparison to their "software division formerly known as Netware".
But that revenue is still not sufficient. It was clear that if they didn't buy SUSE, they would lose their installed base to Linux for file/print services over time. And BTW, the Linux NEW server sales have been increasing rapidly. I always see that Linux is increasing at the expense of Windows and/or Unix, but never Novell. That is what surprised me most in my travels....
Obviously, migrating existing customers from Netware to Linux doesn't prevent leakage to either Windows or other Linux flavors, but now, they at least have a clear path for customers, and it will probably be the easiest path for their installed base.
Anways, that's my rant. And I wish Novell the best of luck. Successful linux companies will mean even better corporate acceptance.
I ran into an interesting thing. When I was living in California, most times all I could buy at the local supermarket were Australian navel oranges. I thought "Wow! Maybe the trade thing is working out for the Aussies".
When I was back in Australia, yep you guessed it. Only California navel oranges.
They're using LPG(liquid petroleum gas as it's called here in Oz) in taxis! All the taxis in Sydney. I was in one the other night with 850K kms. That's over 500K miles. The car was a 1998 Ford Falcon.
The driver, who happened to be the owner, claimed he'd never had a problem with the car. They run the darn taxis about 23 hours a day. 2 drivers on shifts. The only 'down time' is when they stop for 'lunch break'.
There's also plenty of private owners out there that have retrofitted LPG - or quite often dual fuel. My bro in law's 4WD has it in it. I've seen plenty of those with 250K - 500K kms as well.
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"...but the Nat'l Geo team found the presence of structures that demonstrated that the knee was trying to heal."
Perhaps the mummy was regenerating ?!!???!!!
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Run !! Must get away!
This reminded me of a story my old man told me a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, it was one of those 'back in the old days', but it was kind of interesting.
Anyways, 'back in the old days', he used to go to footy training, and after training he and a few of his mates were chatting on the corner, and the local police guy who was walking the beat (they had cops who walked around?) would soon do his lap and tell them "You boys must just be going home? Good.". At which point they started to break up heading their various directions. Most were locals, so walking (you walked?). Anyways, it happened that he and 2 mates were heading the same direction so off they go. Sure enough, they wander into the same cop. "Well, well, well. You boys must be getting tired. I better not see you again".
So I said to my dad, "What would have happened if he saw you again or you just ignored him?"
Your exercise for this evening:
- Finish the story
- Compare and contrast this to what you would expect to see and hear today.
- Compare and contrast pre 'war on terrorism' to 'war on terrorism' days.
And I already gave you a couple of points....
ws
PS For those interested I guess it was in the Strathfield area of Sydney around the late 1940s.
For you Linux-ers who have ATI cards with no PowerPlay (it's disabled in my video BIOS - bastards!!), I'd recommend checking out rovclock.
While it doesn't actually reduce voltage, it can be used to underclock GPU and memory speed. My somewhat unscientific testing has shown no major differences between fglrx and radeon + rovclock with 2D, but I did note a 27% decrease in battery draw for 3D using the fglrx driver.
Of course, you're trading performance for battery life, and why you'd want to eg, play a 3D game on battery I wouldn't really understand
YMMV
ws
I am glad to see this rated as Interesting as I think it is an interesting approach.
One thing that I have always wondered about this would be whether it would reduce or increase the level of politics in an organisation. The parallels between this and a modern 'democratic' voting societies appear fairly close.
Eg, if I want to be that project manager, I start to curry favours with other project members. Maybe I start offering concessions, or institute policies that benefit those members. Maybe it's a flat out bribe. And the more people who are interested in a particular position, the more nasty it would get.
We don't often see the *truly* best candidate for a prime minister/president [insert public office here] get the job, so I wonder if that would be any different in a more localised version within a company.
I'd be interested if anyone has some references or other insights into this.
The min specs are 2.5GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, 256MB of vram.
How many people can really run this??
What they mean is that the consultants can come in and say that the cost of the software is $0.
Of course, the consulting fees for implementation are large, but perhaps not quite as much in total as the cost for licenses of < insert off the shelf s'ware > + implementation.
Back many moons ago when I was in a large consulting firm we would often discount the software as heavily as possible. Our money was made, and all our targets/bonuses were based on how many hours we could charge, so we really didn't care if we made $0 on software license revenue or hardware mark ups.
ws
Mod parent up.
I can't believe anyone would recommend anything else for a geek besides the NSLU2!!
It runs based on Linux, so you can replace the firmware
Not only do you have a NAS device, which you can mirror disks on, but then you can basically add on whatever you want, eg Firewall, web/mail/file server, music center, VOIP PBX, use NFS as well as Samba etc.
Tom's Networking has a little howto on this.
And if you're interested in more information, CmdrTaco I've found this other site where you can often find some good information from users about techy related stuff that matters.
You're giving them ideas !!!!
:-D
Even though that was funny
I've been a bit worried following the whole Blu-Ray thing because of the various DRM issues that have been raised many times (net connection, phone home, and err, let's just say Sony's reputation from the whole root kit thing).
But now I've got another problem - that Matsushita/Panasonic are involved.
Here's why:
I have the misfortune of a MATSHITA UJ-811 DVD drive in my notebook. After moving continents with a bunch of DVDs. I ran into a region code problem.After googling around a lot, I found that:
"MMC standard requires, that a drive should not reveal a title key on a region mismatched CSS protected disc. (It should return "Illegal request - region code does not match"). Some drives are even less restrictive and even give you the title key on region mismatch.
But AnyDVD can usually reveal the title key with a brute force attack, as long as the drive allows you to read the scrambled sectors.
Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do not! You CANNOT read the scrambled data, if the region code doesn't match.
No other drive behaves this way, only Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do, as the standard does not require a drive to not reveal the protected data on region mismatch, but Matsushita (Panasonic) drives are more restrictive as they need to be. "
You can imagine I was pissed and so Matsushita and Panasonic are now on my 'do not buy' list.
If they're involved with Blu-Ray stuff, you can bet they will take it up the ass from Sony...
I've been following the laptop hard disks for a little while looking for an upgrade.
For those interested another review is at Tom's hardware.
At any rate, as well as missing the Toshiba drives, I noticed they were using the Samsung Spinpoint M40 80GB for review. I'd discounted that previously because of it's lacklustre performance (also highlighted in the Tom's Hardware review).
But (you knew there would be one!) there's the newer M60 series that was released recently. The HM100JC looks interesting. Better transfer rate as well as lower power consumption, which is always handy for the laptop users.
Anyways, if anyone has one of these baby's pls post your impressions.
Quarterdeck's Desqview was vastly superior at that time. There's even a wikipedia entry for it! I rest my case.
Desqview got a look in only because of Quarterdeck's QEMM. Does anyone even remember that ? The good old days of really needing an expanded memory manager - never to be confused with an extended memory manager ? And that some of the key programs during that period worked with expanded memory and some worked with extended memory? And how the way you loaded your drivers and then your programs *mattered*?
Goddam you young 'uns have it easy.
Same applies to animals. And the Aussie icon the Kangaroo.
When the first white settlers saw a Kangaroo and asked "WTF is THAT?", the local aborigines replied "Kunguru", which meant "I don't know" or in other words I don't understand what your saying.
They must have got a giggle every time people said "There goes a mob of I don't knows".
I've recently completed a port of HJ-Split to Linux.
So far, I've only completed a command line interface which I've called 'split' and 'cat'.
It should be available on most distros. Let me know what you guys think!
...just hump around a 12 volt car battery which weighs a fair bit less...
How will anyone be able to tell if it has an effect?
Disclaimer: I am an Aussie, and I still want to know the answer
I knew those Terminator's would never kill John Connor or his mother.
Humans rule!
IMHO, the big trap, particularly for newbies to javascript is using features/functions that are not part of the standard without knowing it.
ie it should be very recognisable that you are using something that is not part of the ECMA standard.
In Java land, that's made somewhat obvious by the import statement - the namespace for standard is java/javax, and, eg com.* or org.* etc are for everything else.
Actually the same should be the case for HTML etc.It should be obvious when there are tags/features being used outside of the standard just by looking.
The best way to let people code to standards is making it easy as hell to tell what is standard or not - without reading a gazillion pages of specs that they may not even understand.
ws
Well, despite the fact I'm a little dubious about using excel as a programming language/platform, it reminded me of a program I had seen many years ago that was 'interesting'.
:-/ )
:-)
It's called Baler and basically took a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet (with macros) and compiled it into a self executing exe. (Yes it was that many years ago that 1-2-3 was the dominant s/sheet under DOS
So I did a quick google and found there is a visual baler. Check out
http://the-ciba.com/vbaler/vbaler.html
Knock yourself out, if that's your kind of thing
It's called a "Proxy server which doesn't work properly".
I guess you need to read the fine print on what those company's can do with your info
If you wanted those flame wars, you could just head over to theserverside
But on a slightly more serious note, it seems that there are moves afoot for reconciliation between EJB and JDO. There's a link with discussions here. Enjoy the reading. theserverside does have some infamous trolls and makes slashdot look like the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Having done some research on Novell about 6 months ago, there's some things that are not pointed out in the article that relate directly to cashflow.
It is true that their share of server sales has dwindled from a high of 80% down to low double digits. You can actually see that the impact of the introduction of WinNT. Over more recent years, the decline is actually due to Linux. What people frequently misunderstand is that this relates to NEW server sales.
What is not mentioned is the actual installed base. In this arena, Novell is huge. IIRC, a study that I saw put it at something like 3 to 5 million machines are running Netware.That's far more than all *nix combined, and was only matched by Windows.
Installed base == support/maintenance/upgrade revenue - ie services revenue. Novell has a cash cow there, that's for sure. Check out their 10Qs. And I should note that all their other 'businesses' - be it identity or ex Collabra or whatever are basically immaterial in comparison to their "software division formerly known as Netware".
But that revenue is still not sufficient. It was clear that if they didn't buy SUSE, they would lose their installed base to Linux for file/print services over time. And BTW, the Linux NEW server sales have been increasing rapidly. I always see that Linux is increasing at the expense of Windows and/or Unix, but never Novell. That is what surprised me most in my travels....
Obviously, migrating existing customers from Netware to Linux doesn't prevent leakage to either Windows or other Linux flavors, but now, they at least have a clear path for customers, and it will probably be the easiest path for their installed base.
Anways, that's my rant. And I wish Novell the best of luck. Successful linux companies will mean even better corporate acceptance.
I ran into an interesting thing. When I was living in California, most times all I could buy at the local supermarket were Australian navel oranges. I thought "Wow! Maybe the trade thing is working out for the Aussies".
When I was back in Australia, yep you guessed it. Only California navel oranges.
Me: "WTF??"
Typical slashdot.
Damn *no-one* has read the fucking article.
Err, hang on....
They're using LPG(liquid petroleum gas as it's called here in Oz) in taxis! All the taxis in Sydney. I was in one the other night with 850K kms. That's over 500K miles. The car was a 1998 Ford Falcon.
The driver, who happened to be the owner, claimed he'd never had a problem with the car. They run the darn taxis about 23 hours a day. 2 drivers on shifts. The only 'down time' is when they stop for 'lunch break'.
There's also plenty of private owners out there that have retrofitted LPG - or quite often dual fuel. My bro in law's 4WD has it in it. I've seen plenty of those with 250K - 500K kms as well.