Yeah - I ended up *having* to slipstream the nForce drivers for a system I built for someone recently. Even with all the files on the floppy, it wouldn't copy the files.
Had to combine files from the latest nForce for 410 with the nForce for AMD.
For me, a sausage sandwich is a good motivator to either go early (for breakfast) or whenever I get hungry sometime a bit later.
The voting is the important bit (and only takes a few minutes if you know where the less-major polling stations are), but grabbing a bite to eat makes it a lot more pleasant.
I must admit, I voted informally (for the first time ever) at my most recent local elections. I didn't know who my council members were (I'd only recently moved into the shire) but they seemed to be doing a good job. I'll never donkey-vote, so the only option was to vote informally.
Agnosticism absolutely is *not* a religion. It is in many ways the antithesis of a religion - because it's basically "I don't know".
Religion requires belief. Anostics simply do not have that belief - as opposed to athiests, who *believe* that there is no god (gods, etc). I also don't feel that qualifies atheism as a religion, but some people argue that way.
For me, it's "I don't know - there could be a god, any number of gods, some primal force, etc. But it doesn't seem to impact me, so who cares?"
If you can find some way to make a religion out of that, I think you're a very scarey individual.
Technically, I guess that if they can't afford a house, and others can, they are by definition "the lower end of society". It's just that the upper end only covers about 3 people...
Every day I have to walk past smokers standing right at the doorway of my work building. I hold my breath, but I still end up breathing at least some of their disgusting smoke. This makes me cough, feel bad, and stink (from the smoke on my clothes). If I get into a lift where there's a smoker (or has been) I have to either get out and wait for another one (inconveniencing me, and other people in the lift) or try not to breathe while in the lift (fortunately, I only have to go 3 floors, but it's still hard).
Note: these are people smoking directly in front of "No smking" signs, but building management won't do anything. And you won't believe how rude they can be if you suggest that they could move around the side of the building where they are allowed to smoke.
Wow - that sucks. I successfully used Xerces (and Xalan) to transform ~500MB files in less an hour. And these weren't trivial transformations - there was some pretty complex stuff in there. Network topologies, with SNMP data to be transformed to HTML-based reports. Lots and lots of SNMP variables and tables to be processed...
The naive method of just feeding the entire thing in (as it was originally done) just doesn't scale - the problem with those libraries is that they load the entire file into memory and then transform them. That's not a good way to operate.
So I simply wrote a program in Python which split the files up into multiple valid XML files (each conforming to the DTD, but containing only parts of the original), transformed those, then stitched them back together. Never went over 20MB of memory used. There were additional advantages to splitting up the file - namely, other parts of the application only needed the outline, not the specific detail that took up approx 95% of the data file.
Profile, Know your data. Optimise the algorithm. Don't get stuck on only using one technology. It's very rare that you should need to get into micro-optimisations - and pointer arithmetic vs array access should only be a consideration for a *very* small group of people.
Fortunately, Python 2.5 is going to have context managers with a much nicer syntax than the Ruby syntax: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0343.html (note: that's not quite up to date - there's been a slight change recently on python-dev).
with opening("filename"):
do stuff
which will open the file, do stuff with it, and ensure that it is closed. Any generator can be changed into a context manager, and any class can likewise be a context manager (or a manageable context - that's the new bit).
Everyone's tastes differ. IMO Kiki is Miyazaki's best work. One of my co-workers thinks that Laputa is. Another votes for Totoro (which I put as #2, then Spirited Away). I don't rate Nausicaa as highly as the others, but that may be because the Nausicaa manga is my favourite, and the movie only covers a short portion of the manga (with significant changes).
But it's so hard to choose between them. All of the Miyazaki movies have IMO been very good to superb. I can't say the same for all Studio Ghibli work (The Cat Returns left me pretty cold) but Miyazaki's work - watch them all.
And whilst most of them are written with children in mind (this from the mouth of Miyazaki himself - not my opinion), all of them are immensely enjoyable by people of any age. The only one I probably wouldn't show to a child under 10 is Mononoke.
This is no joke. Our IT&T department has just forced the latest version of McAfee on us. Now everyone gets bluescreens when the McAfee service starts (DFS error). We *think* is a combination of McAfee, ClearCase and Windows XP. Apparently Microsoft has been aware of it for some time, but doesn't have a patch for public consumption.
The workaround is to unplug your network connection(s).
I'd managed to avoid receiving the "update" be not rebooting since it started, but I had to move desks yesterday. Now both of my machines are bluescreening:(
FWIW, I have 3 ASUS motherboards at home working right now - A7M266, A7V600, A7V600-X. I've also recommended ASUS boards to friends.
However, I've had more than one case where things being run just slightly out of spec caused instability. For example, a stick of PC2700 RAM. Should work fine in a 333MHZ FSB board - that's what it's designed for. Unfortunately, it turns out this particular stick is *very* close to spec - it runs fine at 333MHz, and starts getting intermittent errors at 335MHz.
I don't want motherboards to be running the rest of the system out of spec by default. If I want to run things out of spec, I'll do it myself.
I've thrown out quite a few old computers during council cleanups. Cases with dud power supplies (it's not worthwhile getting a new power supply for a crappy case), non-working machines (dead motherboards, etc) and once 3 working Pentium Pros.
Almost invariably, they get taken immediately. However, people are getting pickier. Last time I threw out two old cases - 1 mid-tower, 1 full-tower. The mid-tower got taken immediately, but the full-tower was looked at and left. It had no power supply (the PSU on the other didn't work BTW). Eventually someone took the side panels off the full-tower...
BTW, I end up with lots of machines as I'm the family/friend machine builder, etc. When I build a new machine for someone I take the old one as payment (using what I can from the old one e.g. CD/DVD drives, etc). Anything left over from the old machine gets salvaged, and I usually end up using the bits to build a low-end machine for someone else. My work also has an auction of old machines sometimes - that's where I got the Pentium Pros - the machines were crap, but the hard drives, CDs, floppies and NICs were useful. My best pick up though was about 3 years ago - a *completely* stripped Pentium 3 866 for AU$75 (didn't even have the drive cage - just case, mobo and CPU). *That* became my server, and later my Dad's current machine...
Fallout and Fallout 2 were awarded RPGs of the year by some places (esp. Fallout), but most went for Baldur's Gate rather than Fallout 2.
Morrowind was awarded RPG of the year nearly everywhere.
Better gameplay? Fallout (esp. Fallout 2).
Better story? Fallout (esp. Fallout 1).
Better graphics? Morrowind (arguably - I actually much prefer the look of Fallout, but most people would say Morrowind).
Time I've spent playing?
Fallout 1/2: Well over 2000, completing them over 40 times each (longest game over 100 hours).
Morrowind: ~200 hours, never completed it (started many times) because it was impossible to keep track of what I was doing, and it all got boring really quickly.
BTW, I use to play FPS games back in the day of Marathon. These days I get vertigo looking at the screen. Better graphics means I cannot play the game.
No kidding. I got no more than 10-15KB/sec download (approx same upload) on a Duron 1.3GHz with 512MB RAM while downloading the Azureus update (with approx 10000 seeds). No NAT issues. Didn't matter if I set it for 200 max connections or 5 - it was still limited to those speeds. It also severely affected the performance of the rest of my network (this has been established over the last week of using it).
I downloaded BitComet last night and downloaded the Azureus update again. Immediately 50KB/sec (might have gone higher, but the files isn't that large) with much less impact on the rest of the network.
I don't know what Azureus was doing, but it's gone.
Some of us manage to wear t-shirts (I prefer collared t-shirts) and shorts or jeans, and sandals every day, and earn a lot of money (6 figures base salary). Without contracting - in fact, I wore "better" clothes when contracting - I wore boots.
Actually, when contracting I was willing to wear shirt and tie. If they asked about it, I told them up-front it would cost and additional $20/hour.
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Yeah - I ended up *having* to slipstream the nForce drivers for a system I built for someone recently. Even with all the files on the floppy, it wouldn't copy the files.
Had to combine files from the latest nForce for 410 with the nForce for AMD.
For me, a sausage sandwich is a good motivator to either go early (for breakfast) or whenever I get hungry sometime a bit later.
The voting is the important bit (and only takes a few minutes if you know where the less-major polling stations are), but grabbing a bite to eat makes it a lot more pleasant.
I must admit, I voted informally (for the first time ever) at my most recent local elections. I didn't know who my council members were (I'd only recently moved into the shire) but they seemed to be doing a good job. I'll never donkey-vote, so the only option was to vote informally.
Agnosticism absolutely is *not* a religion. It is in many ways the antithesis of a religion - because it's basically "I don't know".
Religion requires belief. Anostics simply do not have that belief - as opposed to athiests, who *believe* that there is no god (gods, etc). I also don't feel that qualifies atheism as a religion, but some people argue that way.
For me, it's "I don't know - there could be a god, any number of gods, some primal force, etc. But it doesn't seem to impact me, so who cares?"
If you can find some way to make a religion out of that, I think you're a very scarey individual.
Technically, I guess that if they can't afford a house, and others can, they are by definition "the lower end of society". It's just that the upper end only covers about 3 people ...
You've never heard of "writing by committee"?
Every day I have to walk past smokers standing right at the doorway of my work building. I hold my breath, but I still end up breathing at least some of their disgusting smoke. This makes me cough, feel bad, and stink (from the smoke on my clothes). If I get into a lift where there's a smoker (or has been) I have to either get out and wait for another one (inconveniencing me, and other people in the lift) or try not to breathe while in the lift (fortunately, I only have to go 3 floors, but it's still hard).
Note: these are people smoking directly in front of "No smking" signs, but building management won't do anything. And you won't believe how rude they can be if you suggest that they could move around the side of the building where they are allowed to smoke.
In Ankh-Morpork, there were hundreds of women who listed their profession as "seamstress". Oh - and two needles.
Wow - that sucks. I successfully used Xerces (and Xalan) to transform ~500MB files in less an hour. And these weren't trivial transformations - there was some pretty complex stuff in there. Network topologies, with SNMP data to be transformed to HTML-based reports. Lots and lots of SNMP variables and tables to be processed...
The naive method of just feeding the entire thing in (as it was originally done) just doesn't scale - the problem with those libraries is that they load the entire file into memory and then transform them. That's not a good way to operate.
So I simply wrote a program in Python which split the files up into multiple valid XML files (each conforming to the DTD, but containing only parts of the original), transformed those, then stitched them back together. Never went over 20MB of memory used. There were additional advantages to splitting up the file - namely, other parts of the application only needed the outline, not the specific detail that took up approx 95% of the data file.
Profile, Know your data. Optimise the algorithm. Don't get stuck on only using one technology. It's very rare that you should need to get into micro-optimisations - and pointer arithmetic vs array access should only be a consideration for a *very* small group of people.
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0343.html (note: that's not quite up to date - there's been a slight change recently on python-dev).which will open the file, do stuff with it, and ensure that it is closed. Any generator can be changed into a context manager, and any class can likewise be a context manager (or a manageable context - that's the new bit).
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Blakes 7
The Time Machine
Farscape
Space: Above and Beyond
Well, one game that broke on Windows 2000 but ran on XP is Master of Orion II. It broke at Windows 200 SP3.
No idea if it worked with SP4.
In Sydney, Australia.
Everyone's tastes differ. IMO Kiki is Miyazaki's best work. One of my co-workers thinks that Laputa is. Another votes for Totoro (which I put as #2, then Spirited Away). I don't rate Nausicaa as highly as the others, but that may be because the Nausicaa manga is my favourite, and the movie only covers a short portion of the manga (with significant changes).
But it's so hard to choose between them. All of the Miyazaki movies have IMO been very good to superb. I can't say the same for all Studio Ghibli work (The Cat Returns left me pretty cold) but Miyazaki's work - watch them all.
And whilst most of them are written with children in mind (this from the mouth of Miyazaki himself - not my opinion), all of them are immensely enjoyable by people of any age. The only one I probably wouldn't show to a child under 10 is Mononoke.
By default, IE is configured to "just go to the most likely site" when what's typed in the address bar doesn't resolve as a URL.
It just so happens that the most likely result (from MSN or wherever IE searches) is the search page from Google.
This is no joke. Our IT&T department has just forced the latest version of McAfee on us. Now everyone gets bluescreens when the McAfee service starts (DFS error). We *think* is a combination of McAfee, ClearCase and Windows XP. Apparently Microsoft has been aware of it for some time, but doesn't have a patch for public consumption.
:(
The workaround is to unplug your network connection(s).
I'd managed to avoid receiving the "update" be not rebooting since it started, but I had to move desks yesterday. Now both of my machines are bluescreening
There's a significant difference to being insulted within the game (by other characters, etc) and being insulted directly by the game author/designer.
One is part of the game, and can contribute positively to the game experience. The other is just going to convince people not to play the game.
The point is, sometimes it isn't stable.
FWIW, I have 3 ASUS motherboards at home working right now - A7M266, A7V600, A7V600-X. I've also recommended ASUS boards to friends.
However, I've had more than one case where things being run just slightly out of spec caused instability. For example, a stick of PC2700 RAM. Should work fine in a 333MHZ FSB board - that's what it's designed for. Unfortunately, it turns out this particular stick is *very* close to spec - it runs fine at 333MHz, and starts getting intermittent errors at 335MHz.
I don't want motherboards to be running the rest of the system out of spec by default. If I want to run things out of spec, I'll do it myself.
I usually turn the music off in games because it annoys me, but there is one game I always leave it on for - Arcanum.
The music is absolutely perfect - I often find myself da-da-da-da-da-da-ing it when I'm not playing the game.
I've thrown out quite a few old computers during council cleanups. Cases with dud power supplies (it's not worthwhile getting a new power supply for a crappy case), non-working machines (dead motherboards, etc) and once 3 working Pentium Pros.
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Almost invariably, they get taken immediately. However, people are getting pickier. Last time I threw out two old cases - 1 mid-tower, 1 full-tower. The mid-tower got taken immediately, but the full-tower was looked at and left. It had no power supply (the PSU on the other didn't work BTW). Eventually someone took the side panels off the full-tower
BTW, I end up with lots of machines as I'm the family/friend machine builder, etc. When I build a new machine for someone I take the old one as payment (using what I can from the old one e.g. CD/DVD drives, etc). Anything left over from the old machine gets salvaged, and I usually end up using the bits to build a low-end machine for someone else. My work also has an auction of old machines sometimes - that's where I got the Pentium Pros - the machines were crap, but the hard drives, CDs, floppies and NICs were useful. My best pick up though was about 3 years ago - a *completely* stripped Pentium 3 866 for AU$75 (didn't even have the drive cage - just case, mobo and CPU). *That* became my server, and later my Dad's current machine
The Twelve Kingdoms (for a recently completed series).
Kiki's Delivery Service (for a much older movie).
Come back when you've watched these.
Fallout and Fallout 2 were awarded RPGs of the year by some places (esp. Fallout), but most went for Baldur's Gate rather than Fallout 2.
Morrowind was awarded RPG of the year nearly everywhere.
Better gameplay? Fallout (esp. Fallout 2).
Better story? Fallout (esp. Fallout 1).
Better graphics? Morrowind (arguably - I actually much prefer the look of Fallout, but most people would say Morrowind).
Time I've spent playing?
Fallout 1/2: Well over 2000, completing them over 40 times each (longest game over 100 hours).
Morrowind: ~200 hours, never completed it (started many times) because it was impossible to keep track of what I was doing, and it all got boring really quickly.
BTW, I use to play FPS games back in the day of Marathon. These days I get vertigo looking at the screen. Better graphics means I cannot play the game.
Occasionally I like a short game - as short as Freecell.
However, I've played Fallout 1 & 2 over 40 times each *to completion*. My shortest game is around 10 hours. My longest is over 100 hours.
I *much* prefer a long game, that I can play *at my own pace*.
No kidding. I got no more than 10-15KB/sec download (approx same upload) on a Duron 1.3GHz with 512MB RAM while downloading the Azureus update (with approx 10000 seeds). No NAT issues. Didn't matter if I set it for 200 max connections or 5 - it was still limited to those speeds. It also severely affected the performance of the rest of my network (this has been established over the last week of using it).
I downloaded BitComet last night and downloaded the Azureus update again. Immediately 50KB/sec (might have gone higher, but the files isn't that large) with much less impact on the rest of the network.
I don't know what Azureus was doing, but it's gone.
I should have mentioned that is 6 figures *Australian* (about US$75,000). Reached in in my last raise - and that excludes the 5-figure bonus.
...
Maybe my company thinks I'm worth a fair bit of money to them.
And what do you mean by faded T's? Nice, reasonably-new collared T's, thank you. And what the hell are birks?
But the last time I ironed *anything* was 3 years ago, for a wedding. The time before that was for a wedding too
Some of us manage to wear t-shirts (I prefer collared t-shirts) and shorts or jeans, and sandals every day, and earn a lot of money (6 figures base salary). Without contracting - in fact, I wore "better" clothes when contracting - I wore boots.
Actually, when contracting I was willing to wear shirt and tie. If they asked about it, I told them up-front it would cost and additional $20/hour.