I've been less than pleased with the kwality of Atlassian software, namely Confluence & JIRA. Neither seems to be able to stay up much longer than 24 hours before consuming a lot of resources and refusing to respond. It's gotten to the point where, for stability's sake, I have cronjobs stop them, then kill -9 any leftover java processes, then start them. Every. Night. There are some other problems I have with them, too, but this isn't necessarily the place to air those.
I agree with you on the submitter's summary, though. Then again, he's like that all the time, and I just try to completely ignore him these days.
I plan to just use more data. Or rather, I would, if I got a decent signal everywhere. No network seems to work well where I live, although AT&T seems better (FSVO) than most.
There's the problem. We only want to save the cute animals, don't we? Yeah. Why don't we just have animal auditions. Line 'em up one by one and interview them individually. "What are you?" "I'm an otter." "And what do you do?" "I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands." "You're free to go." "And what are you?" "I'm a cow." "Get in the fucking truck, ok pal!" "But I'm an animal." "You're a baseball glove! Get on that truck!" "I'm an animal, I have rights!" "Yeah, here's yer fucking cousin, get on the fucking truck, pal!" We kill the cows to make jackets out of them and then we kill each other for the jackets we made out of the cows.
So, since the example in TFA didn't restart Chrome between incognito windows, I decided to see what happened when I followed the steps with "4.5 Exit chrome completely, then restart", and can confirm that even when Chrome fully exits and is restarted, it remembers the zoom level used in a URL only ever visited in an incognito window.
This annoys me to no end, too, but it's 1 more time than Amazon lets you lend books. That being said, as much as I'm being drawn to the nook, I think I'll still hold off.
It seems to me that it's more the large number of developers, and the diversity of games/apps, that could be a bigger issue. Sure, immediacy is nice, but...if Nintendo keeps up the policy of charging multi-thousands of dollars for a dev kit, with a requirement that it _must_ be a business location (no home offices), I don't see 3G as being much help...
To quote from the summons from when I had jury duty a few weeks ago:
You will go through Security before entering the building. NOT ALLOWED in the building are: sharp objects (scissors, pen knives, etc.), cameras, video cameras or camera phones.
This was from the middle of August, 2009, and other directions in the list had been updated to reflect a newly-finished parking garage next to the courthouse...
If you have jury duty, you spend a lot of time _waiting_. At least, when I did, it was hours of waiting before even seeing a courtroom to narrow down to 12 jurors. Even then, it was another few hours of questions, many one-on-one with 1 potential juror, the judge, the lawyers...
... when all these folks bring new ipods to jury duty or other federal/state buildings that prohibit cameras. That's gonna be a fun time for someone who expected to while away the hours sitting there by listening to music...
The ath5k driver would be a suspect, if I ever got it working under 2.6.26. As it is, it locks up under a newly-restored-from-the-sekrit-partition XP. Still. It's going back Wednesday for a new one.
This past weekend, the wife picked up an Acer Aspire One (AO751h) @ Costco for about $330. Came w/ 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 11.6" screen, WinXP Home w/ SP3, Atheros 802.11b/g. My impression of it, up until last night when we finally booted it w/ a USB-stick live linux distro was, in a nutshell, "worthless piece of crap that can't stay running more than a few hours".
I mean, quite literally, every few minutes, to every few hours, this new from box thing would just randomly lock hard, no keyboard, touchpad, or even power button response. Unpingable. Needed a battery pull to recover. This is with the from-factory supplied OS (WinXP Home 32-bit, w/ SP3, remember). Even sitting idle, it would do this. With or without any USB devices plugged in. Connected or disconnected from the network. With or without AV software running. With the original or updated BIOS or drivers (newest from Acer's site).
As of last night, booting off a USB-based Debian Lenny, trying to exercise as much of the machine as possible, from memtest86+ to md5summing the entire 160G drive, to just sitting idle all night long, it's _still_ running, as of about an hour ago with no lockups. Go figure. Alas, lenny's too old to have decent ath5k support (not sure that'll even really work), so I wasn't able to connect to our WPA2-protected wireless network, to see if that caused issues.
The only other caveat I've found so far, is that it uses the Intel GMA 500 graphics chipset which...isn't very well supported at all (the only Intel GMA one that isn't). Vesa resolutions are OK, but not 1366x768 native (IIRC, it's coming up 1024x768). A little too blurry/not crisp for me, but the wife seems happy enough, coming from a Thinkpad T30 that looks downright dull in comparison.
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That's what I had... Compaq Deskpro 8088... I almost miss the days of booting off a floppy to play Moon Patrol...
Am I the only person who always left Turbo on, unless I was playing an older game that used timing loops?
And supposedly even AT&T is going to loosen the reigns about that, what with the growing Amazon App Store for Android... (or just root your phone)
Well, for a start, I don't keep hot grits anywhere near my graphics rig...
If there's one season worth skipping, IMHO it's Trial of a Timelord. Colin Baker's probably my least favorite Doctor...
That's what Twitter themselves say. Looking at the clients listed in my tweet stream, I'd say it's closer to 10%...
But you *do* have to demonstrate a proficiency in English to become a naturalized citizen of the US... From General Path to Citizenship:
I've been less than pleased with the kwality of Atlassian software, namely Confluence & JIRA. Neither seems to be able to stay up much longer than 24 hours before consuming a lot of resources and refusing to respond. It's gotten to the point where, for stability's sake, I have cronjobs stop them, then kill -9 any leftover java processes, then start them. Every. Night. There are some other problems I have with them, too, but this isn't necessarily the place to air those.
I agree with you on the submitter's summary, though. Then again, he's like that all the time, and I just try to completely ignore him these days.
No, no he's not. http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm100
Well, look at the submitter, who also authored TFA. The epitome of "factually incorrect, barely coherent"...
I plan to just use more data. Or rather, I would, if I got a decent signal everywhere. No network seems to work well where I live, although AT&T seems better (FSVO) than most.
And to quote Denis Leary...
No, the apps that compete with theirs. Otherwise, there'd never be all the fart apps and such...
I should mention this is with google-chrome-unstable 6.0.401.1-r47050 on Linux. YMMV.
So, since the example in TFA didn't restart Chrome between incognito windows, I decided to see what happened when I followed the steps with "4.5 Exit chrome completely, then restart", and can confirm that even when Chrome fully exits and is restarted, it remembers the zoom level used in a URL only ever visited in an incognito window.
This annoys me to no end, too, but it's 1 more time than Amazon lets you lend books. That being said, as much as I'm being drawn to the nook, I think I'll still hold off.
Black and white isn't too much of a problem. Lack of waterproofing would be.
Fortunately, both the Kindle and nook should be able to fit into a large zip-top plastic bag, so waterproofing is taken care of!
It seems to me that it's more the large number of developers, and the diversity of games/apps, that could be a bigger issue. Sure, immediacy is nice, but...if Nintendo keeps up the policy of charging multi-thousands of dollars for a dev kit, with a requirement that it _must_ be a business location (no home offices), I don't see 3G as being much help...
To quote from the summons from when I had jury duty a few weeks ago:
This was from the middle of August, 2009, and other directions in the list had been updated to reflect a newly-finished parking garage next to the courthouse...
If you have jury duty, you spend a lot of time _waiting_. At least, when I did, it was hours of waiting before even seeing a courtroom to narrow down to 12 jurors. Even then, it was another few hours of questions, many one-on-one with 1 potential juror, the judge, the lawyers...
... when all these folks bring new ipods to jury duty or other federal/state buildings that prohibit cameras. That's gonna be a fun time for someone who expected to while away the hours sitting there by listening to music...
The ath5k driver would be a suspect, if I ever got it working under 2.6.26. As it is, it locks up under a newly-restored-from-the-sekrit-partition XP. Still. It's going back Wednesday for a new one.
This past weekend, the wife picked up an Acer Aspire One (AO751h) @ Costco for about $330. Came w/ 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 11.6" screen, WinXP Home w/ SP3, Atheros 802.11b/g. My impression of it, up until last night when we finally booted it w/ a USB-stick live linux distro was, in a nutshell, "worthless piece of crap that can't stay running more than a few hours".
I mean, quite literally, every few minutes, to every few hours, this new from box thing would just randomly lock hard, no keyboard, touchpad, or even power button response. Unpingable. Needed a battery pull to recover. This is with the from-factory supplied OS (WinXP Home 32-bit, w/ SP3, remember). Even sitting idle, it would do this. With or without any USB devices plugged in. Connected or disconnected from the network. With or without AV software running. With the original or updated BIOS or drivers (newest from Acer's site).
As of last night, booting off a USB-based Debian Lenny, trying to exercise as much of the machine as possible, from memtest86+ to md5summing the entire 160G drive, to just sitting idle all night long, it's _still_ running, as of about an hour ago with no lockups. Go figure. Alas, lenny's too old to have decent ath5k support (not sure that'll even really work), so I wasn't able to connect to our WPA2-protected wireless network, to see if that caused issues.
The only other caveat I've found so far, is that it uses the Intel GMA 500 graphics chipset which...isn't very well supported at all (the only Intel GMA one that isn't). Vesa resolutions are OK, but not 1366x768 native (IIRC, it's coming up 1024x768). A little too blurry/not crisp for me, but the wife seems happy enough, coming from a Thinkpad T30 that looks downright dull in comparison.
I'm not sure I'd get one for myself.
500?! Egads, that's gonna cost a _fortune_ at today's txting rates!