I think that your presuming that because a school isn't doing well it's automatically the fault of the school board or teacher's union is simplifying things a bit much (as well as being a bit insulting to teachers). So is assuming that everything a school board is for is automatically self-serving status quo preservation--votes on budgeting for facilities or textbooks are the simplest counter example there.
Regardless, an elected representative who wants to improve education but is deemed hostile by the school boards is unlikely to get anywhere on reform. Now that I poke into this a bit more, it looks like support for the Kansas school board is highly correlated with party, where democrats are usually for and republicans against the issues they're interested in. Does this mean that all the democrats are, as you say, in the pocket of the school board? I think you're reading a conspiracy into what's a standard party issue.
Arlen Siegfreid looks like a standard republican here, and it sure appears any pro-education stance is lip service unsupported by his voting record. Sean Tevis doesn't have any voting record here, but he's aligned with the more educational friendly party, and he does seem to at least have a decent vision--even if (as the parent post kicking this all off points out) his actual tactics to achieve that aren't very fleshed out.
Not that I support either of these guys, mind you--as a libertarian I think the state shouldn't be involved in education at all.
Well, look at his opponent's issues page and you'll find even less than that. According to vote smart, the incumbent has voted in line with the Kansas Association of School Boards only 10% of the time in 2006, despite his claims of supporting "Quality Education". It's hard to imagine Sean doing worse.
Actually, the worst they can do is not apply it and decide you're incompetent/don't play by the rules/etc. Then you risk your future submissions being less likely to be considered even if you improve later. The person who wastes the time of a patch reviewer is not soon forgotten by that reviewer.
It really is better to not submit a patch at all if you don't know what's going on yet, which is exactly why guides like this one are helpful. I've worked on a similar one for PostgreSQL because it's hard for new people to pick up the unique requirement quirks of a group of developers, and lowering that barrier improves the health of the project.
This started in XP actually. The problem is that Microsoft sets the read-only attribute on the special folders that get custom views. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549 for information about the root cause of the problem reported on this blog. Fixing it on the Windows side requires one to go all old-school and use attrib; cracked me up.
Making up your own answers like the ones you suggest might seem fine, but just you wait until someone at the bank challenges you on the phone with to confirm your answer to "what's your favorite sport?" and you have to answer "Moorcock".
The PR damage to Novell's open-source customers from "Novell sues Sun for releasing OpenSolaris" would be substantial--more harmful to their reputation than the potential money they might collect here. Having gone through the PR wringer after their deal with Microsoft, I would doubt Novell wants to look like the bad guy here again. SCO will fall apart quite nicely without needing to do that.
If you've got an application that relies on fsync at all to ensure consistency, like many database applications, any single program running on the X4500 is limited to a commit every time the disk spins, just under 120/second for the 7200RPM disks used. Whereas something with a larger battery-backed cache can safely buffer all those writes and give you thousands per second even to a single client. I was not speculating--I have a database app I run on my cheap PC at home with a $300 SATA RAID card that runs 10X faster there than on the X4500 I moved it to, and there are certainly other types of applications that you might run into this same limitation on.
No matter how many disks you have in an array, sometimes there are situations where you're limited by how fast a single disk is. The individual ones in the X4500 are slow in a number of ways, and the complete lack of persistent write caching just aggravates that situation.
The X4500 doesn't have any write cache beyond what's in the drives themselves, which means it can have awful performance for some types of write-heavy loads. It's not difficult to find tasks where a small RAID array, with only a few disks, running with a good RAID controller having a 256MB write cache can outperform an X4500.
I've found the more comprehensive Project & Integration Management Professional certification to be more useful than this one. The main advantage of that more comprehensive program is that if anyone disagrees with your project plan, you are allowed to smack them with your cane.
Your conclusion may be true, but the supporting details are a bit off. Check out Tru64. While the original OSF/1 code was started in the late 80's, the first release wasn't until 1992. The earliest reference anybody on Wikipedia has found to AdvFS being available dates to 1993.
From your perspective where the native Microsoft formats can be considered legacy documents that only need to be converted to a newer one, it appears you don't actually work in any sort of corporation. Lucky you.
This problem may go away in a couple of years as the ISO standard gains traction. Right now, I run Office in a VM when I need it on a Linux system, and if I could use Wine more simply in that emulation role that's a nice additional option. Being able to use a true standard document format instead remains a dream at every company I work with, and that will unfortunately continue to be the case for quite some time.
No, it's much higher--for me Open Office fails to be a suitable replacement for Word/Excel during every single attempt to interoperate with the genuine article. Documents never look right, and I don't dare edit anything and send it back lest I corrupt something that destroys the file.
I find OO a useful tool for basic previewing of MS Office documents and doing trivial word processing and spreadsheet tasks. For those purposes, it's nice, and I really appreciate having it available. The GP's view that it's 99% there is a still a wild overestimation of its utility from where I sit.
If you consider the commentary on political threads here to be useful, you may be the one who needs to get out a bit more here. I like The Economist myself. Check out the comments on the articles at their site if you want to see a whole different class of politically informed Internet writer than this site attracts.
But I sure wouldn't ask there about, say, what to do wite a gigantic pile of leftover hard drives--a thread that's collected twice as many comments here as this one has in about the same amount of active time, since you brought up comment count as a metric of worthiness. That's the sort of thing I like and expect to read here, if I want politics I go to a real politics site.
And this is somehow important enough to nerds to be convered here because? Great guy, sorry he's gone, but is this really worth clogging the site with? I'm sure the tiny fraction of readers here who care about US politics would inevitably come across news of his death via sites that cover political news, which should only be this one when said politics directly impacts technology.
Those kneeling chairs were really awesome for me...when I was 20. Too much coding on one of them later in life left both my knees and my hips in bad shape from all the pressure it was putting on them.
There's actually a big clue to found in that observation: many people pick a chair based on it not aggrevating whatever their current symptoms are. But if it instead aggrevates others, that's not really an improvement.
Systems with a terabyte of RAM are not unusual in the government installations here in the DC metro area. Putting 16TB of RAM in a server will cost millions dollars right now, but it's by no means out of the question. See this SGI press release for a sample with 28TB of RAM.
But if you're given an arbitrary cube, how do you know if it's been tampered with such that it's no longer solvable? It may be the case that the simplest way to determine that, that works in every case, is to try and solve the cube and discover you can't. I don't believe it's a trivial problem to stare at a cube and figure out if a simple change like a rotated corner has been made to it.
I last typed on my of my dozen Model M keyboards over the weekend. Still as fast as ever. If you think it's slow, you probably never learned how to type correctly on an old-school keyboard, and I also have some words for you about my lawn.
I picked up one of the Unicomp keyboards a few years ago to compare. Not the same, a pale shadow of the original. Even the Model M went downhill in its later years. The "Manufactured for IBM by Lexmark" models I have from 93 and 94 are slightly off from the original design but are still quite nice. Their 95 and 96 models are obviously inferior and it's just been a downhill slide from there.
The bigger problem with the Model M isn't speed, I can still pound away as fast as ever on one. But I don't use them very much because my hands just aren't happy with typing using that much force anymore. Right now I've switched to the very lightweight touch of the Logitech diNovo Edge which has the least physically stressful design of any of the retail keyboards I've found. You'd have to get one of the multi-hundred dollar units from somebody like Kinesis to get any easier to type on.
There are two entries in the FAQ about this. Short answer is "PCI is more popular with users of FPGA kits" and "PCI-X is backward compatible with your 32-bit 33MHz PCI slots".
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I think that your presuming that because a school isn't doing well it's automatically the fault of the school board or teacher's union is simplifying things a bit much (as well as being a bit insulting to teachers). So is assuming that everything a school board is for is automatically self-serving status quo preservation--votes on budgeting for facilities or textbooks are the simplest counter example there.
Regardless, an elected representative who wants to improve education but is deemed hostile by the school boards is unlikely to get anywhere on reform. Now that I poke into this a bit more, it looks like support for the Kansas school board is highly correlated with party, where democrats are usually for and republicans against the issues they're interested in. Does this mean that all the democrats are, as you say, in the pocket of the school board? I think you're reading a conspiracy into what's a standard party issue.
Arlen Siegfreid looks like a standard republican here, and it sure appears any pro-education stance is lip service unsupported by his voting record. Sean Tevis doesn't have any voting record here, but he's aligned with the more educational friendly party, and he does seem to at least have a decent vision--even if (as the parent post kicking this all off points out) his actual tactics to achieve that aren't very fleshed out.
Not that I support either of these guys, mind you--as a libertarian I think the state shouldn't be involved in education at all.
Well, look at his opponent's issues page and you'll find even less than that. According to vote smart, the incumbent has voted in line with the Kansas Association of School Boards only 10% of the time in 2006, despite his claims of supporting "Quality Education". It's hard to imagine Sean doing worse.
Well, sure, that's how outraged FreeBSD kernel developers handle people who send bad patches, but we were talking about Linux.
Actually, the worst they can do is not apply it and decide you're incompetent/don't play by the rules/etc. Then you risk your future submissions being less likely to be considered even if you improve later. The person who wastes the time of a patch reviewer is not soon forgotten by that reviewer.
It really is better to not submit a patch at all if you don't know what's going on yet, which is exactly why guides like this one are helpful. I've worked on a similar one for PostgreSQL because it's hard for new people to pick up the unique requirement quirks of a group of developers, and lowering that barrier improves the health of the project.
This started in XP actually. The problem is that Microsoft sets the read-only attribute on the special folders that get custom views. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549 for information about the root cause of the problem reported on this blog. Fixing it on the Windows side requires one to go all old-school and use attrib; cracked me up.
Making up your own answers like the ones you suggest might seem fine, but just you wait until someone at the bank challenges you on the phone with to confirm your answer to "what's your favorite sport?" and you have to answer "Moorcock".
The PR damage to Novell's open-source customers from "Novell sues Sun for releasing OpenSolaris" would be substantial--more harmful to their reputation than the potential money they might collect here. Having gone through the PR wringer after their deal with Microsoft, I would doubt Novell wants to look like the bad guy here again. SCO will fall apart quite nicely without needing to do that.
This sport, combining complicated tax work with being fucked hard, already exists: they call it "getting an audit".
If you've got an application that relies on fsync at all to ensure consistency, like many database applications, any single program running on the X4500 is limited to a commit every time the disk spins, just under 120/second for the 7200RPM disks used. Whereas something with a larger battery-backed cache can safely buffer all those writes and give you thousands per second even to a single client. I was not speculating--I have a database app I run on my cheap PC at home with a $300 SATA RAID card that runs 10X faster there than on the X4500 I moved it to, and there are certainly other types of applications that you might run into this same limitation on.
No matter how many disks you have in an array, sometimes there are situations where you're limited by how fast a single disk is. The individual ones in the X4500 are slow in a number of ways, and the complete lack of persistent write caching just aggravates that situation.
The X4500 doesn't have any write cache beyond what's in the drives themselves, which means it can have awful performance for some types of write-heavy loads. It's not difficult to find tasks where a small RAID array, with only a few disks, running with a good RAID controller having a 256MB write cache can outperform an X4500.
It's just a wee bit loud for most people, too.
I've found the more comprehensive Project & Integration Management Professional certification to be more useful than this one. The main advantage of that more comprehensive program is that if anyone disagrees with your project plan, you are allowed to smack them with your cane.
Your conclusion may be true, but the supporting details are a bit off. Check out Tru64. While the original OSF/1 code was started in the late 80's, the first release wasn't until 1992. The earliest reference anybody on Wikipedia has found to AdvFS being available dates to 1993.
From your perspective where the native Microsoft formats can be considered legacy documents that only need to be converted to a newer one, it appears you don't actually work in any sort of corporation. Lucky you.
This problem may go away in a couple of years as the ISO standard gains traction. Right now, I run Office in a VM when I need it on a Linux system, and if I could use Wine more simply in that emulation role that's a nice additional option. Being able to use a true standard document format instead remains a dream at every company I work with, and that will unfortunately continue to be the case for quite some time.
No, it's much higher--for me Open Office fails to be a suitable replacement for Word/Excel during every single attempt to interoperate with the genuine article. Documents never look right, and I don't dare edit anything and send it back lest I corrupt something that destroys the file.
I find OO a useful tool for basic previewing of MS Office documents and doing trivial word processing and spreadsheet tasks. For those purposes, it's nice, and I really appreciate having it available. The GP's view that it's 99% there is a still a wild overestimation of its utility from where I sit.
If you consider the commentary on political threads here to be useful, you may be the one who needs to get out a bit more here. I like The Economist myself. Check out the comments on the articles at their site if you want to see a whole different class of politically informed Internet writer than this site attracts.
But I sure wouldn't ask there about, say, what to do wite a gigantic pile of leftover hard drives--a thread that's collected twice as many comments here as this one has in about the same amount of active time, since you brought up comment count as a metric of worthiness. That's the sort of thing I like and expect to read here, if I want politics I go to a real politics site.
And this is somehow important enough to nerds to be convered here because? Great guy, sorry he's gone, but is this really worth clogging the site with? I'm sure the tiny fraction of readers here who care about US politics would inevitably come across news of his death via sites that cover political news, which should only be this one when said politics directly impacts technology.
Those kneeling chairs were really awesome for me...when I was 20. Too much coding on one of them later in life left both my knees and my hips in bad shape from all the pressure it was putting on them.
There's actually a big clue to found in that observation: many people pick a chair based on it not aggrevating whatever their current symptoms are. But if it instead aggrevates others, that's not really an improvement.
Systems with a terabyte of RAM are not unusual in the government installations here in the DC metro area. Putting 16TB of RAM in a server will cost millions dollars right now, but it's by no means out of the question. See this SGI press release for a sample with 28TB of RAM.
Obviously this is because the female characters are off-balance due to their breasts shrinking.
I'd wager there was a lot of 4:20 time influencing how long of a delay it's been for this title to be completed.
Wow, something that combines eating Pizza Hut pizza and listening to Bose speakers? Just when I thought neither of those two could get any worse...
But if you're given an arbitrary cube, how do you know if it's been tampered with such that it's no longer solvable? It may be the case that the simplest way to determine that, that works in every case, is to try and solve the cube and discover you can't. I don't believe it's a trivial problem to stare at a cube and figure out if a simple change like a rotated corner has been made to it.
Have you tried http://www.opentick.com/ ? It's not always free, but it's so cheap it's close.
I last typed on my of my dozen Model M keyboards over the weekend. Still as fast as ever. If you think it's slow, you probably never learned how to type correctly on an old-school keyboard, and I also have some words for you about my lawn.
I picked up one of the Unicomp keyboards a few years ago to compare. Not the same, a pale shadow of the original. Even the Model M went downhill in its later years. The "Manufactured for IBM by Lexmark" models I have from 93 and 94 are slightly off from the original design but are still quite nice. Their 95 and 96 models are obviously inferior and it's just been a downhill slide from there.
The bigger problem with the Model M isn't speed, I can still pound away as fast as ever on one. But I don't use them very much because my hands just aren't happy with typing using that much force anymore. Right now I've switched to the very lightweight touch of the Logitech diNovo Edge which has the least physically stressful design of any of the retail keyboards I've found. You'd have to get one of the multi-hundred dollar units from somebody like Kinesis to get any easier to type on.
There are two entries in the FAQ about this. Short answer is "PCI is more popular with users of FPGA kits" and "PCI-X is backward compatible with your 32-bit 33MHz PCI slots".