Your kidding right? You don't see the point. Mundie and Rosen were picked just for that reason, to show what we're up against. The old, know your opponent...Yeah this guy has no idea what he's doing, O'Reilly GPL'ed the Linux Device Driver book to encourage the development of Linux drivers, that company must be crazy...They're actually trying to help the community..that's unbelievable..
My only suggestion is that Microsoft has seemed to one-up slashdot on the Developers section, I think it should be titled "Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers" One better...
This article from The Register has a some info. on the Intel server processor roadmap, although not much about processor speeds. Last I heard the McKinely was going to ramp up to 1.5GHz and seeing that the Madison will start at 1GHz that one is probably the best bet for getting to 2GHz and according to the Register article, its not set to be released until early 2003.
Unfortunately I don't have much advice on where to go to find jobs, but one thing to avoid may be the consulting agencies especially in the current economic environment. Some employers may just ignore the consultants when they call (although they won't admit it) because they don't feel like paying the extra money to hire someone through them, especially now when money is tight and there seems to be a surplus of people to hire.
As said earlier, you'd be surprised how far networking can get you..Whether at a social gathering or through your friends, let everyone know that you are looking and keep contact information handy, you never know when something might come up. Get in contact with some previous co-workers who you go along with, alot of times they may know of an opening at their company or a past job. Hope that helps...
I was thinking about taking a look at the source too, maybe I'll do that tonight and see what I find, although my Java skills are minimal...but my first guess is that it maybe something they do on the client end once the app. receives the search results, like how you can filter on connection speeds and the 'star rating', because Limewire does state that their app. is "compatible with the Gnutella file-sharing protocol and can connect with anyone else running Gnutella-compatible software." Although as we all know, compatible does not always mean 100% compliant.
I believe that Limewire does support some sort of boolean searches. I've noticed that using '+' with a search further limits the results you get e.g 'foo+fighters+everlong' returns almost only that song not anything else. Like you said though, I too cannot find any info. on this feature.
It looks like there were many fixes to the VM, which is good news. Hopefully this is the one we can all be happy with (well that will never happen, but at least be content for a bit) and let the Linux team move on to 2.5. The VM talk has seemed to calm down a bit on the LKML.
I found it a little interesting how Porten says while answering the question about should QT replace X:
"I..fail to see why we should be interested in replacing any of them [meaning X or other graphical platforms]."
But later on in the same answer states that "KDE and Qt Palmtop are existing examples of how this framework then can be used to build a complete desktop."
This question could have definetly used a follow-up, too bad it was an email interview...
Well I think this is what you are looking for. All its doing is supplying power to the 2.5" connector power pins from the desktop PSU and converting the form factor of the 2.5" to a 3.5" IDE connector...I've seen these things in other places too, you can probably get them even cheaper...
And to take it one step further, this is just the source code, not an actual product. I don't understand how this is a patent issue. If I post source code that implements the MPEG audio layer III algorithm in such a way that it falls under the Fraunhofer patent, am I accountable for the source? I'm not actually implementing it (compiling and distributing binaries), just providing the source code. If someone does implement it then they have to pay the royalties, like the ISO source code for MPEG audio, any one can distribute the source, but if you compile and distribute the binaries you have to pay.
As much as my hacker mentallity tempted me to start messing around with my DCT-2000, after I read the leasing agreement from my cable company, I decided not too...I guess someones gotta take the chance, but make sure you know what you are getting into, my cable company has some pretty hefty fees for messing around with it...
I've been trying to get that $2.56 for years, but its the best $2.56 I've ever worked for because I've learned a lot along the way..Don't think I'd have a chance at stumping him...(Yeah, I own all 3 books of The Art, I'm a geek...)
Are you sure about the 'Yew Ess Ar'
I couldn't find any reference to that, and in fact the only thing I did find was a couple of Intro. to Unix courses that all said/usr is pronounced "user". And also usr totally goes along with the whole unix drop the vowels thing. I think you're gonna have to back this one up with some hard proof...although I see you decided to AC this post...hmmm
And it's worth it just for the tabbed browsing. I don't think I could live without this feature now, it's great, especially for opening semi-slashdotted pages, you just open the link in a new tab and come back to it later...Gestures are neat too, but I haven't quite got the hang of it yet, although in linux it was a little tricky to install the gesture plugin... (yeah, yeah, i know opera had both a while ago...)
After further reading on this thing, it doesn't sound as great as it did in the beginning, turns out you need some form of DOS to get this thing loaded...from release notes:
Developer release 5. The install utility is only available for DOS/Windows 9x/Me. When you do not have DOS or Windows 9x installed, you can use either FreeDOS or DR-DOS. For both a floppy image can be downloaded at the download area. When FreeDOS is used, you will only be able to install XOSL to a dedicated partition. DR-DOS will also allow you to install XOSL to a FAT16 DOS drive.
Sounding more and more like its not all its cracked up to be...
I agree, not everyone knows every acronym, this is from acronymfinder.com (pop-up warning)
my pick is: Standard Operating Environment
Other listings:
Safe Operating Envelope
Sales Order Entry
Schedule Of Events
Secretary of Energy (sometimes seen as 'S of E')
Sega of Europe
Sequence Of Events
Special Operations Executive
Standard Option Equipment
Standards of Excellence
State-Owned Enterprise
Status Of Equipment
Sum Of Errors
An ogg vorbis player would be great, I just don't know if it's caught on enough. Just think of how prevelant mp3's had to be before we really saw some legitmate standalone players, although you would think with a linux based player it wouldn't be hard to add....
On the other hand I think we still need a few more rev's of the ogg vorbis tools before it can go mainstream. I'm still hearing a few artifacts every now and then when encoding and the encoder itself needs much optimizing. But it's continuing to get better, and I will continue to use it..Plus its free (as in beer and air and birds)
I totally agree. There should be some kind of review (and if there already is, it needs to be fixed) before a story is posted. I like the comments that the authors add to the submissions, they usually start interesting discussions, but when the authors sound like idiots because they can not spell or they use horrible grammar, it detracts from the submission and the authors' comments. I know all this has probably been said before, but I believe if/. really wants to move in a paysite direction, they need to be a little more professional.
(and because this is a grammar/spelling post I probably spelled at least two things wrong and made three grammatical errors...)
From kernel config for NTFS read support:
NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT. Say Y if you want to get read access to files on NTFS partitions...see Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt....
Now for write support it's a different story, NTFS write support is marked DANGEROUS, from config help:
If you say Y here, you will (maybe) be able to write to NTFS file systems as well as read from them. The read-write support in NTFS is far from being complete and is not well tested. If you say Y here, back up your NTFS volume first, since it will probably get damaged. Also, download the Linux-NTFS project distribution from Sourceforge at and always run theincluded ntfsfix utility after writing to an NTFS partition from Linux to fix some of the damage done by the driver. You should run ntfsfix _after_ unmounting the partition in Linux but _before_ rebooting into Windows. When Windows next boots, chkdsk will be run automatically to fix the remaining damage.
Please note that write support is limited to Windows NT4 and earlier versions.
One thing you have to understand is that those people (maybe just one person mainly) working on NTFS are basically reverse engineering it, so this can be very time consuming and produce only small results for a while. I now that updates to NTFS are seen regularly in the change logs, so it is still being worked on, and according to the kernel documentation it appears that Legato Systems has sponsered Anton Altaparmakov to develop NTFS on Linux since June 2001, so that might help too.
Someone once told me when I was in college, I think it was one of my engineering professors, that you don't go to college to learn, you go there to learn how to learn. I can't begin to tell you how true that has turned out to be.
At the start of a new project, you're usually at the bottom of the learning curve, now do you memorize all the new specfications there are about the project? No, you research them, understand them, and pool together the resources you will need to find information on that topic. I still open my first year C programming book at least a few times a month, and looking at a man page to get some info on a command line switch is a very common occurence also. Engineering specs. for whatever project I'm working on are always close at hand too. A search on the internet to verify and find out more info on a topic also very common. I think about all the classes I took in college and what percentage of that actual knowledge I use on a daily basis and its probably around 10-20%. Now if I look at all the stuff I've learned since then, enormous. And the more you learn, the more you learn how much more there is to learn. (sorry for all the cliche-like lines, but they're really true)
So basically, what I'm trying to say here, is take the stuff you learn in class as a seed, and then use it to grow from, you don't have to retain all that information, just know that you can find it if you need it at some point.
Hope that helps...
If the candidate thinks Cisco is that white lard stuff you put on your baking pans, he's probably not ready for the job...
But seriously, I think scenario based questions are great, like this doesn't work, what are the steps you would take to trouble-shoot it. Or given this budget, and bandwidth requirements, etc..what would you set up in this situation. And it depends on the nature of the job what areas to focus on. It also helps you find out if this person is going to b.s. you or not. I'd rather have someone say, well I'm not sure, than jump in the deep end with no way to swim out. Hope that helps...
Actually I f-ed up, I should have read the article more closely:
"Customers are under no obligation to return the camera to the store or collect their prints, once the service fee is paid."
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Your kidding right? You don't see the point. Mundie and Rosen were picked just for that reason, to show what we're up against. The old, know your opponent...Yeah this guy has no idea what he's doing, O'Reilly GPL'ed the Linux Device Driver book to encourage the development of Linux drivers, that company must be crazy...They're actually trying to help the community..that's unbelievable..
My only suggestion is that Microsoft has seemed to one-up slashdot on the Developers section, I think it should be titled "Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers" One better...
This article from The Register has a some info. on the Intel server processor roadmap, although not much about processor speeds. Last I heard the McKinely was going to ramp up to 1.5GHz and seeing that the Madison will start at 1GHz that one is probably the best bet for getting to 2GHz and according to the Register article, its not set to be released until early 2003.
Unfortunately I don't have much advice on where to go to find jobs, but one thing to avoid may be the consulting agencies especially in the current economic environment. Some employers may just ignore the consultants when they call (although they won't admit it) because they don't feel like paying the extra money to hire someone through them, especially now when money is tight and there seems to be a surplus of people to hire.
As said earlier, you'd be surprised how far networking can get you..Whether at a social gathering or through your friends, let everyone know that you are looking and keep contact information handy, you never know when something might come up. Get in contact with some previous co-workers who you go along with, alot of times they may know of an opening at their company or a past job. Hope that helps...
I was thinking about taking a look at the source too, maybe I'll do that tonight and see what I find, although my Java skills are minimal...but my first guess is that it maybe something they do on the client end once the app. receives the search results, like how you can filter on connection speeds and the 'star rating', because Limewire does state that their app. is "compatible with the Gnutella file-sharing protocol and can connect with anyone else running Gnutella-compatible software." Although as we all know, compatible does not always mean 100% compliant.
I believe that Limewire does support some sort of boolean searches. I've noticed that using '+' with a search further limits the results you get e.g 'foo+fighters+everlong' returns almost only that song not anything else. Like you said though, I too cannot find any info. on this feature.
It looks like there were many fixes to the VM, which is good news. Hopefully this is the one we can all be happy with (well that will never happen, but at least be content for a bit) and let the Linux team move on to 2.5. The VM talk has seemed to calm down a bit on the LKML.
I found it a little interesting how Porten says while answering the question about should QT replace X:
"I..fail to see why we should be interested in replacing any of them [meaning X or other graphical platforms]."
But later on in the same answer states that "KDE and Qt Palmtop are existing examples of how this framework then can be used to build a complete desktop."
This question could have definetly used a follow-up, too bad it was an email interview...
Well I think this is what you are looking for. All its doing is supplying power to the 2.5" connector power pins from the desktop PSU and converting the form factor of the 2.5" to a 3.5" IDE connector...I've seen these things in other places too, you can probably get them even cheaper...
And to take it one step further, this is just the source code, not an actual product. I don't understand how this is a patent issue. If I post source code that implements the MPEG audio layer III algorithm in such a way that it falls under the Fraunhofer patent, am I accountable for the source? I'm not actually implementing it (compiling and distributing binaries), just providing the source code. If someone does implement it then they have to pay the royalties, like the ISO source code for MPEG audio, any one can distribute the source, but if you compile and distribute the binaries you have to pay.
KidA
As much as my hacker mentallity tempted me to start messing around with my DCT-2000, after I read the leasing agreement from my cable company, I decided not too...I guess someones gotta take the chance, but make sure you know what you are getting into, my cable company has some pretty hefty fees for messing around with it...
KidA
I've been trying to get that $2.56 for years, but its the best $2.56 I've ever worked for because I've learned a lot along the way..Don't think I'd have a chance at stumping him...(Yeah, I own all 3 books of The Art, I'm a geek...)
KidA
Are you sure about the 'Yew Ess Ar' /usr is pronounced "user". And also usr totally goes along with the whole unix drop the vowels thing. I think you're gonna have to back this one up with some hard proof...although I see you decided to AC this post...hmmm
I couldn't find any reference to that, and in fact the only thing I did find was a couple of Intro. to Unix courses that all said
KidA
And it's worth it just for the tabbed browsing. I don't think I could live without this feature now, it's great, especially for opening semi-slashdotted pages, you just open the link in a new tab and come back to it later...Gestures are neat too, but I haven't quite got the hang of it yet, although in linux it was a little tricky to install the gesture plugin... (yeah, yeah, i know opera had both a while ago...)
KidA
Why not just use the 640k limit and we wouldn't have any of these problems...
KidA
I always thought GNUs were herbavores...learn something new every day...
KidA
After further reading on this thing, it doesn't sound as great as it did in the beginning, turns out you need some form of DOS to get this thing loaded...from release notes:
Developer release 5. The install utility is only available for DOS/Windows 9x/Me. When you do not have DOS or Windows 9x installed, you can use either FreeDOS or DR-DOS. For both a floppy image can be downloaded at the download area. When FreeDOS is used, you will only be able to install XOSL to a dedicated partition. DR-DOS will also allow you to install XOSL to a FAT16 DOS drive.
Sounding more and more like its not all its cracked up to be...
I agree, not everyone knows every acronym, this is from acronymfinder.com (pop-up warning)
my pick is: Standard Operating Environment
Other listings:
Safe Operating Envelope
Sales Order Entry
Schedule Of Events
Secretary of Energy (sometimes seen as 'S of E')
Sega of Europe
Sequence Of Events
Special Operations Executive
Standard Option Equipment
Standards of Excellence
State-Owned Enterprise
Status Of Equipment
Sum Of Errors
An ogg vorbis player would be great, I just don't know if it's caught on enough. Just think of how prevelant mp3's had to be before we really saw some legitmate standalone players, although you would think with a linux based player it wouldn't be hard to add....
On the other hand I think we still need a few more rev's of the ogg vorbis tools before it can go mainstream. I'm still hearing a few artifacts every now and then when encoding and the encoder itself needs much optimizing. But it's continuing to get better, and I will continue to use it..Plus its free (as in beer and air and birds)
KidA
I totally agree. There should be some kind of review (and if there already is, it needs to be fixed) before a story is posted. I like the comments that the authors add to the submissions, they usually start interesting discussions, but when the authors sound like idiots because they can not spell or they use horrible grammar, it detracts from the submission and the authors' comments. I know all this has probably been said before, but I believe if /. really wants to move in a paysite direction, they need to be a little more professional.
(and because this is a grammar/spelling post I probably spelled at least two things wrong and made three grammatical errors...)
From kernel config for NTFS read support:
NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT. Say Y if you want to get read access to files on NTFS partitions...see Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt....
Now for write support it's a different story, NTFS write support is marked DANGEROUS, from config help:
If you say Y here, you will (maybe) be able to write to NTFS file systems as well as read from them. The read-write support in NTFS is far from being complete and is not well tested. If you say Y here, back up your NTFS volume first, since it will probably get damaged. Also, download the Linux-NTFS project distribution from Sourceforge at and always run theincluded ntfsfix utility after writing to an NTFS partition from Linux to fix some of the damage done by the driver. You should run ntfsfix _after_ unmounting the partition in Linux but _before_ rebooting into Windows. When Windows next boots, chkdsk will be run automatically to fix the remaining damage.
Please note that write support is limited to Windows NT4 and earlier versions.
One thing you have to understand is that those people (maybe just one person mainly) working on NTFS are basically reverse engineering it, so this can be very time consuming and produce only small results for a while. I now that updates to NTFS are seen regularly in the change logs, so it is still being worked on, and according to the kernel documentation it appears that Legato Systems has sponsered Anton Altaparmakov to develop NTFS on Linux since June 2001, so that might help too.
KidA
There was also mentioned in a /. article about a month ago...check it out, this could turn out to be a really good thing.
KidA
Someone once told me when I was in college, I think it was one of my engineering professors, that you don't go to college to learn, you go there to learn how to learn. I can't begin to tell you how true that has turned out to be.
At the start of a new project, you're usually at the bottom of the learning curve, now do you memorize all the new specfications there are about the project? No, you research them, understand them, and pool together the resources you will need to find information on that topic. I still open my first year C programming book at least a few times a month, and looking at a man page to get some info on a command line switch is a very common occurence also. Engineering specs. for whatever project I'm working on are always close at hand too. A search on the internet to verify and find out more info on a topic also very common. I think about all the classes I took in college and what percentage of that actual knowledge I use on a daily basis and its probably around 10-20%. Now if I look at all the stuff I've learned since then, enormous. And the more you learn, the more you learn how much more there is to learn. (sorry for all the cliche-like lines, but they're really true)
So basically, what I'm trying to say here, is take the stuff you learn in class as a seed, and then use it to grow from, you don't have to retain all that information, just know that you can find it if you need it at some point.
Hope that helps...
KidA
If the candidate thinks Cisco is that white lard stuff you put on your baking pans, he's probably not ready for the job...
But seriously, I think scenario based questions are great, like this doesn't work, what are the steps you would take to trouble-shoot it. Or given this budget, and bandwidth requirements, etc..what would you set up in this situation. And it depends on the nature of the job what areas to focus on. It also helps you find out if this person is going to b.s. you or not. I'd rather have someone say, well I'm not sure, than jump in the deep end with no way to swim out. Hope that helps...
Actually I f-ed up, I should have read the article more closely:
"Customers are under no obligation to return the camera to the store or collect their prints, once the service fee is paid."
Oops..