Not quite as ugly as doing the module uninstall/reinstall dance and it works on my zv6015 under Fedora Core 4 (Test 3). The only issue I currently have is trying to get the wireless NIC working. Everything I've read indicates that ndiswrapper should make it work but, so far, no joy.
I've had so much trouble getting the wireless NIC working that I haven't really had a chance to try Eclipse.
Meat, ummmmm. Yummy. One of the best "roasts" I ever had was elk but my brother-in-law didn't "shoot" it by clicking a mouse. Ditto for some deer jerky one of the folks I used to work with brought in.
*EVERY* developer should be sentenced to maintaining someone else's code early in their career so they will understand why commenting is important.
I have a "knack" for undertsanding other people's code. I can generally read code and understand what it does. This doesn't help me at all when I'm trying to determine what the original author was *thinking* when he or she wrote the code. Generally, the hardest bugs to figure out are those that involve broken abstractions. The code, per se, is correct but it being used in a way that breaks the developer's abstraction. I can diagnose the problem a lot faster if I have comments to help me understand what that abstraction is and what its limitations are.
It seems like the only way people develop an appreciation for how important this level of commenting is is by being forced to try to fix someone else's sparsely commented code. They especially appreciate the irony of:
a 32 bit extension and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
I haven't had this good of a laugh in a long time. All the heated debates about why it can't work based on different assumptions of how *it doesn't work* are hilarious. The link to IBM is appreciated.
Adding insult to injury, it also appears that one of our all-knowing moderators has then modded you down (comment was at 3 when I first read it, now it's at 2) probably for insulting slashduh. Of course, this comment of mine will get modded down, too, for daring to insult the moderators.
Best joke/cartoon about it was during the 1980s eruptive sequence. A guy is standing in a ticket booth with a steaming volcano behind him and what's supposed to be a ski lift running up one side. The sign says "Mt. St. Helens Ski Area". The caption reads, "Sure we know how to make it stop but did you ever try to find a female virgin at a ski area?"
That's the main reason for doing the trip this time of year. Stable air of the middle of the continent because it's still winter, a strong jet stream, nothing like hurricanes to worry about over the Atlantic, etc. In a couple of weeks, it would be too late since the tornado season will have started.
Picking Kansas wasn't an accident. I'm sure the logistics would have been easier if they had flown out of Mojave like Rutan and Yeager for the first unrefueled, around the world flight but, if I remember correctly, they damaged a winglet on take-off because they caught a little cross wind. So, nice stable, cold, dense air to get started. No mountains to climb over or cause turbulence until long after he had a chance to gain some altitude, plenty of places to come back down if anything went wrong early on.
I caught a news article about Northrop testing their "surrogate" (still has a pilot during development) Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAV. The plane is being developed with, you guessed it, Scaled Composites. Here's a picture.
I would bet that the plane is actually fairly fragile and an unexpected gust of wind from the wrong direction could ruin Mr. Fossett's day. It's tricky enough doing a cross wind landing in something forgiving like a Cessna without having to try it in a plane that needs parachutes to give it a decent rate of descent.
Unfortunately, I must have nuked the original GIF. You may be able to find it at the Dilbert web site: www.dilbert.com. I'm fairly certain about the date (7/4/03) but Scott Adams needs to work on his hand-writing because the 4 (at least I think its a 4) is pretty ugly.
We keep a copy of a "Dilbert" cartoon from a while ago (7/4/03). The scenes are:
1) Alice hearing somebody's cell phone going off on the other side of the cube wall. 2) Alice glaring at cell phone sitting on work-surface (owner missing). 3) The owner asking Alice if she has seen his cell phone and her responding "Was it metallic, noisy and flushable?"
A copy generally finds its way to the people who leave their phone at their desk. Most people get the hint so we haven't flushed one yet.
Er, no. All they have to do is include in their "terms of use" that they will scan data for "illegal" material. You have a number of well established rights to privacy with regard to mail and phone use that requires the government to get a court order before opening your mail or tapping your phone. It remains to be seen whether those same "rights to privacy" get extended to the internet.
Current throughput on our product is around 30mbs and that is with it "looking" for significantly more complicated patterns than a "digital fingerprint" in a stream. Using a load ballancer, we've hit 200mbs by ganging several systems.
No, but it's trivial to decrypt all of the connections this way and look for a signature as the original article proposed. Lots of traffic goes into the bit bucket and the interesting traffic gets recorded (or at least enough of it to form the basis of a criminal complaint).
There are already commercially available products on the market that do the filtering part I just described (I work for a company that makes one of them). It would simply be a matter of setting up the SSL "man-in-the-middle" attack to allow such a filter to look for the "signature".
But he left off SPITBOL (Speed Implementation of SNOBOL).
The real question is whether the graph is supposed to be comprehensive or just informative. As an example, around 1985 I briefly was exposed to a language called CMS-2L that was specific to the U.S. Navy's AN-UYK43 family of shipboard computers. Oddly, I don't see it lsted on the chart. I wonder how many other obscure languages that ran only on obscure computers of the 60's, 70's and 80's are also missing and if their absence really matters.
...
high-level support options:
Yeah, you're right here. But as far as I'm concerned, if the bosses hired you, they should have confidence in your skills and your resourcefulness. ...
and ease of administration:
See above. After you got the initial infrastructure in place, it would be a breeze. Assuming everything works out right. But hey, they hired you to admin the systems, right? That's what you're there for. ...
For your consideration: most IT types never compile a line of code. They are busy doing other things like taking care of user needs, trouble-shooting problems (system and/or network), etc. You seem to think the guy asking the question sits around all day with nothing to do. So, besides a lot of additional work, what does this guy get by using the standard Gentoo package set? Besides no high-level support and nominal Linux security that is? At most a couple of percent more through-put on his systems because he compiled for the specific processor in each box?
The one positive I can see is some real job security since no one else would be able to take over a customized gentoo compile farm and update scheme like you propose.
This warning was prompted by reports of two school-based incidences, in which a teacher experienced a 10-day after-image and a cheerleader suffered vision loss from laser pointer exposures.
I guess the "do not pose a risk to adults" part explains the cheerleader not blinking and thus having problems but not the teacher. Again, these incidents would probably be at distances of say within a classroom (the teacher) or at most across a football field (the cheerleader).
BTW, from a different article on the incident... The bozo warned one of the cops not to look into the beam because, "... it could blind him."
... as you are driving at high speed on a narrow mountain road and tell us whether "...some physical damage could have been done..." to your vehicle. Yeah, chances are the laser beam wouldn't affect the vehicle directly.
The problem is that most of the other terms the article could have used (illuminated, painted, shined on, etc.) don't indicate the gravity of the danger this bozo was causing. Here is a brief article explaining some of the risks of even very low power lasers such as laser pointers (Class 3a laser generally with a power level of less than 5 milliwatts).
All passwords are not created equal but I have yet to find an IT shop that didn't apply the same password policy to everyone. Thus, if I come up with some really hard to guess password that is constructed using typical techniques (e.g., take a phrase, take the first letter from each word in the phrase, substitute numbers and special characters for some of the characters, randomly mix case on the remaining alphabetic characters), I still get my password expired after 30 days the same as some bozo who uses "password" (or their name, or their SO's name, etc.) as their password.
So now multiply that seven different passwords by 12 and then assume that some of the systems won't be accessed as frequently as others ("Now was the mnemonic for the server? 'Mary had a little lamb?' Or was that last month's? Or is that the inventory database? Or was that junior's new password?").
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
I think this was in reference to Churchill defending Stalin after Hitler invaded Russia.
A statesman is a politician (living or dead) who is admired and respected. Dead politicians are more often elevated to being called "statesmen" since they no longer need to be political animals and can be judged strictly by their accomplishments. The manuevers necessary to respond to the politics of the moment tend to make all politicians look alike and statesmanship is rarely one of the attributes that is visible.
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I put the following in rc.local:
/sys/bus/serio/devices/serio0/drvctl
# Kludge so touchpad works
echo -n "reconnect" >
Not quite as ugly as doing the module uninstall/reinstall dance and it works on my zv6015 under Fedora Core 4 (Test 3). The only issue I currently have is trying to get the wireless NIC working. Everything I've read indicates that ndiswrapper should make it work but, so far, no joy.
I've had so much trouble getting the wireless NIC working that I haven't really had a chance to try Eclipse.
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Meat, ummmmm. Yummy. One of the best "roasts" I ever had was elk but my brother-in-law didn't "shoot" it by clicking a mouse. Ditto for some deer jerky one of the folks I used to work with brought in.
*EVERY* developer should be sentenced to maintaining someone else's code early in their career so they will understand why commenting is important.
/* Increment x */
I have a "knack" for undertsanding other people's code. I can generally read code and understand what it does. This doesn't help me at all when I'm trying to determine what the original author was *thinking* when he or she wrote the code. Generally, the hardest bugs to figure out are those that involve broken abstractions. The code, per se, is correct but it being used in a way that breaks the developer's abstraction. I can diagnose the problem a lot faster if I have comments to help me understand what that abstraction is and what its limitations are.
It seems like the only way people develop an appreciation for how important this level of commenting is is by being forced to try to fix someone else's sparsely commented code. They especially appreciate the irony of:
x++;
as the lone comment in a pile of spaghetti code.
Windows is:
a 32 bit extension and a graphical shell for
a 16 bit patch to
an 8 bit operating system originally coded for
a 4 bit microprocessor, written by
a 2 bit company, that can't stand
1 bit of competition.
My only (very lame) suggestion is:
"a 64 bit recompilation of"
Other suggestions are welcome.
I haven't had this good of a laugh in a long time. All the heated debates about why it can't work based on different assumptions of how *it doesn't work* are hilarious. The link to IBM is appreciated.
Adding insult to injury, it also appears that one of our all-knowing moderators has then modded you down (comment was at 3 when I first read it, now it's at 2) probably for insulting slashduh. Of course, this comment of mine will get modded down, too, for daring to insult the moderators.
Best joke/cartoon about it was during the 1980s eruptive sequence. A guy is standing in a ticket booth with a steaming volcano behind him and what's supposed to be a ski lift running up one side. The sign says "Mt. St. Helens Ski Area". The caption reads, "Sure we know how to make it stop but did you ever try to find a female virgin at a ski area?"
Oh well, I guess you had to be there.
That's the main reason for doing the trip this time of year. Stable air of the middle of the continent because it's still winter, a strong jet stream, nothing like hurricanes to worry about over the Atlantic, etc. In a couple of weeks, it would be too late since the tornado season will have started.
Picking Kansas wasn't an accident. I'm sure the logistics would have been easier if they had flown out of Mojave like Rutan and Yeager for the first unrefueled, around the world flight but, if I remember correctly, they damaged a winglet on take-off because they caught a little cross wind. So, nice stable, cold, dense air to get started. No mountains to climb over or cause turbulence until long after he had a chance to gain some altitude, plenty of places to come back down if anything went wrong early on.
Pretty pictures of ugly weather though.
I caught a news article about Northrop testing their "surrogate" (still has a pilot during development) Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAV. The plane is being developed with, you guessed it, Scaled Composites. Here's a picture.
Stable air.
I would bet that the plane is actually fairly fragile and an unexpected gust of wind from the wrong direction could ruin Mr. Fossett's day. It's tricky enough doing a cross wind landing in something forgiving like a Cessna without having to try it in a plane that needs parachutes to give it a decent rate of descent.
Unfortunately, I must have nuked the original GIF. You may be able to find it at the Dilbert web site: www.dilbert.com. I'm fairly certain about the date (7/4/03) but Scott Adams needs to work on his hand-writing because the 4 (at least I think its a 4) is pretty ugly.
We keep a copy of a "Dilbert" cartoon from a while ago (7/4/03). The scenes are:
1) Alice hearing somebody's cell phone going off on the other side of the cube wall.
2) Alice glaring at cell phone sitting on work-surface (owner missing).
3) The owner asking Alice if she has seen his cell phone and her responding "Was it metallic, noisy and flushable?"
A copy generally finds its way to the people who leave their phone at their desk. Most people get the hint so we haven't flushed one yet.
Er, no. All they have to do is include in their "terms of use" that they will scan data for "illegal" material. You have a number of well established rights to privacy with regard to mail and phone use that requires the government to get a court order before opening your mail or tapping your phone. It remains to be seen whether those same "rights to privacy" get extended to the internet.
Current throughput on our product is around 30mbs and that is with it "looking" for significantly more complicated patterns than a "digital fingerprint" in a stream. Using a load ballancer, we've hit 200mbs by ganging several systems.
No, but it's trivial to decrypt all of the connections this way and look for a signature as the original article proposed. Lots of traffic goes into the bit bucket and the interesting traffic gets recorded (or at least enough of it to form the basis of a criminal complaint).
There are already commercially available products on the market that do the filtering part I just described (I work for a company that makes one of them). It would simply be a matter of setting up the SSL "man-in-the-middle" attack to allow such a filter to look for the "signature".
But he left off SPITBOL (Speed Implementation of SNOBOL).
The real question is whether the graph is supposed to be comprehensive or just informative. As an example, around 1985 I briefly was exposed to a language called CMS-2L that was specific to the U.S. Navy's AN-UYK43 family of shipboard computers. Oddly, I don't see it lsted on the chart. I wonder how many other obscure languages that ran only on obscure computers of the 60's, 70's and 80's are also missing and if their absence really matters.
THINK that they are above average drivers.
When was the last time you talked to someone who admitted that they were a bad driver?
The one positive I can see is some real job security since no one else would be able to take over a customized gentoo compile farm and update scheme like you propose.
Try The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary. Sadly, Bullfighter is no longer available.
...the author is probably going to be stresed out. Maybe he should read a good book about dealing with stressful situations.
The expression showed up on BuzzWhack last week. Seems somewhat insulting to rats to compare common vermin to these bastards.
BTW, from a different article on the incident... The bozo warned one of the cops not to look into the beam because, "... it could blind him."
The problem is that most of the other terms the article could have used (illuminated, painted, shined on, etc.) don't indicate the gravity of the danger this bozo was causing. Here is a brief article explaining some of the risks of even very low power lasers such as laser pointers (Class 3a laser generally with a power level of less than 5 milliwatts).
All passwords are not created equal but I have yet to find an IT shop that didn't apply the same password policy to everyone. Thus, if I come up with some really hard to guess password that is constructed using typical techniques (e.g., take a phrase, take the first letter from each word in the phrase, substitute numbers and special characters for some of the characters, randomly mix case on the remaining alphabetic characters), I still get my password expired after 30 days the same as some bozo who uses "password" (or their name, or their SO's name, etc.) as their password.
So now multiply that seven different passwords by 12 and then assume that some of the systems won't be accessed as frequently as others ("Now was the mnemonic for the server? 'Mary had a little lamb?' Or was that last month's? Or is that the inventory database? Or was that junior's new password?").
Yes, it is way too much to ask.
A statesman is a politician (living or dead) who is admired and respected. Dead politicians are more often elevated to being called "statesmen" since they no longer need to be political animals and can be judged strictly by their accomplishments. The manuevers necessary to respond to the politics of the moment tend to make all politicians look alike and statesmanship is rarely one of the attributes that is visible.