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  1. Re:What is Hudson on Oracle Plans To Hand Hudson To Eclipse · · Score: 1

    CI systems also provide a handy central location to track all SW dev activity for all projects. You can tie all different dev platforms (Linux, Mac, Win, etc) to Jenkins and see build stats for everything in real time. Build node fail overs are automatically handled if you have a cloud of connected build servers so hardware problems are removed from causing any interruption to your SW deployment. Even if the underlying tasks are accomplished on the individual machines by Ant, MSBuild, windows .bat, there is still a central location to track & assign everything. I used to build for a dozen different SW projects manually.... logging on to the build nodes, checking out from SVN, pulling in dependencies, and then manually calling all the VisualStudio build targets. Jenkins greatly simplifies and automates those manual tasks, even if under the hood the same tasks are performed.

  2. Too Late on Oracle Plans To Hand Hudson To Eclipse · · Score: 1

    Oracle is, as usual, too late. I operate a large Hudson cluster for a top 5 tech company (dozens of build nodes, quartets of backup servers, big SAN storage for all the artifacts) and we immediately jumped on Jenkins and have no plans of looking back at Hudson no matter who runs it. We are sticking with where ever Kawaguchi takes this project, as are most of Hudson's users. Given that some of our engineer's revisions and new features have been or are being rolled into Jenkins, we are not going to be wooed back by anything Oracle does (or doesn't do). I have a suspicion that a vast majority of Hudson's user base feels the same.

  3. Re:Actually sounds useful on SlashTweaks Let YOU Micro-Edit Slashdot · · Score: 1

    if fairness, /. isn't writing all these joke articles, just linking to them. So if nothing else, they just lack good editorial sense instead of lacking creativity.

    Or both?

  4. Vender Lockin on Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution · · Score: 1

    Hungary, beware of vender lock in!

  5. Re:Prize for peace... on WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    May be you didn't read BBC reports that he DID order troops to open fire, but taht rank officers on the scene refused. Of course the BBC coudl be wrong, but that was one of the reports I watched.

  6. Bold Decisions on WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Bold decisions such as awarding a no one, who had done nothing a prize that is supposed to celebrate renowned people for their actual accomplishments?

  7. place bets now! on New Internal Cavity X-ray Technology for Airports · · Score: 1

    How Long Till Colonoscopy Scanners Roll Out States Side?

    PLACE BETS NOW!

  8. Re:USB Drive, SAN/NAS, LTO ... on How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? · · Score: 2

    I'll tell you who.... someone tired of his 8+ sata drives in a stack that wants a single storage location that can grow with time/tech/price advances.

    yeah I've already consumed about 4TB of storage (non-redundant) so a DroBo (or other NAS) is looking pretty dang good.

  9. Re:Oh common.. on Real-Life Gadgets For Real-Life Superheroes · · Score: 1

    a lot of taggers are the lowest rank in a gang, or are trying to be initiated into the gang. that doesn't mean they wont' be armed, but that they are likely to be newbs. but newbs with guns, running around scared as they try to impress the higher ups is a combination for wildly unpredictable results.

  10. Re:Health risk on Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van · · Score: 1

    I was wondering that myself. soft x-rays my ass. These scanners look through metal shipping containers. That requires a hell of a lot more power than just going through cotton.

  11. Re: Health concerns are probably overblown. on Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van · · Score: 1

    multiply that by how many vans could eventually be in a city, and depending on your commute, soon the US public will be getting a few chest x-rays a week.

  12. Re:Dumb to use away from points of entry on Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van · · Score: 1

    bingo. if some security camera at an oblique angle (or a backscatter scanner at the checkout aisle) finds the carry, and police / security stop you and tell you to drop your weapon, I'd tell them to walk their lazy ass over and do a proper search if they want it but my hands aren't moving.

  13. Re:Dumb to use away from points of entry on Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van · · Score: 1

    I officially propose my intent to create a new business selling selling fake bundles of drugs, plugged AK-47 rifles, rubber banded stacks of fake money, and realistic dummy's stuffed into trunks.

    No easier way to find out where these are used than to plant false positives on the public at large and draw out the authorities with illegal 4th amendment Search & Seizures stops that tip their hand.

  14. Re:Finders Keepers? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    dang dude. wait to make me hate this government even more. I didn't think that was even possible. But as a father with a 7month old daughter I guess I would have to choose family time over jail time until she gets old enough to know who are the villains and why.

  15. Test Techs & Engineers Rejoice At Your Lazines on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the job! I work in SW QA at (big company).

    There is NOTHING that will make manual testing suck less. It just does. I have written many a test plan for the manual test monkeys (both stateside and offshore) and I have performed many a manual test. It just sucks. There is no way around it.

    I suggest heavy stimulant use or psychoactive drugs (warning, your employer might not be as friendly to my suggestions).

  16. Re:this is backdoor regulation on HP Board Sued Over Hurd Departure · · Score: 1

    references to Tea party bigots, though in retrospect it appears as though you aren't tossing all Tea Party peeps in the same bucket. My apologies for the knee jerk. I'll have a doc check that out. heh.

  17. Re:Flying pasties on Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images · · Score: 1

    hummm NSFW site? better wait till at home. hehe.

  18. Re:You say fiduciary, I say felatio, on HP Board Sued Over Hurd Departure · · Score: 1

    exactly. higher stock price generally affects long term positions and longer term options, so short dumps are that great of a benefit to persons paid in options.

  19. Re:this is backdoor regulation on HP Board Sued Over Hurd Departure · · Score: 1

    I knew some doofus would bring out that line. lol. and it isn't even Tuesday!

  20. Re:boards and ceos scratch each other's back on HP Board Sued Over Hurd Departure · · Score: 1

    exactly. Hurd is on the board of Yahoo, and it is likely that other CEOs are board members at HP, or that HP board members are board members at other companies.

    It is corporate incest.

  21. Re:HOW much of a golden parachute? on HP Board Sued Over Hurd Departure · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't that the money was given after the termination, but that it was agreed upon PRIOR to hiring Hurd and that the contract didn't stipulate a zero bonus clause if the termination was due to misconduct. Even then, boards can do stupid things like allow a "consensus" resignation which technically skirts the definition of a "termination" allowing the CEO to make off with the contractually guaranteed severance bonus despite the malfeasance.

  22. Re:You don't get it on HP Board Sued Over Hurd Departure · · Score: 1

    This.

    Drivers are usually around 30MB now, but the print software (usually needed to take advantage of scanners, faxes) is the bloat.

    And I work there making those software packages.

  23. Re:Flash cookies remain too on Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What a rookie..... you left IP address traces on the gateway logs of your ISP. better nuke your ISP from orbit just to be safe.

  24. we need a new undershirt on Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We need an undershirt with metalic paint (or anythign that shows up as high contrast in those scanners) in big block letters that says "Fuck You TSA."

    I'd love to see a new market for Anti-TSA underwear.

  25. Re:The only feasible explanation... on String Quartets On the Web? · · Score: 1

    You probably haven't even tried to find a specific recording have you? Classical music as a few more variables in complexity than other music because (generally speaking) anyone can perform the work, and even the same ensemble with a change of conductors can produce a drastically different recording. The director, ensemble, & composer all add to the equation for what defines "a recording" and as mentioned above, even a soloist recording the same works after a time span can offer a different interpretation worth comparing.