I've actually told my current boss that I was looking for another job.
Our company restructured and we ended up with a small group of technical people reporting directly to a VP with absolutely no technical skills at all (and, in retrospect, not much business sense either). When I first told her that I didn't want to work in that situation, she was mad at me, but came back a few hours later and thanked me for being honest about it. She then proceeded to sell my skill set to other managers in the company and got me a better job in another department. Needless to say, I was quite shocked by this behavior. While I still don't think I'd want to work directly for her, my opinion of her went up as a result of this.
Since it was a dot-com, we all got laid off six months later anyway.
I usually get in the 27 to 28 range, but most of my driving is rural/suburban, neither of which matches the EPA's definition of city or highway driving.
The minute the 2.5L 6 cylinder TDI diesel engine is available in the US, I'm trading it in. More torque, better mileage, whoo-hoo!
OK, so you're saying that because I didn't pay for it, it's OK that it doesn't work? There goes the entire open source movement right down the tubes if everyone adopts your attitude.
We're talking about the installer here. A rather basic piece of software that prevents me from actually using Fedora (or any previous version of RedHat after version 7) on this box or any other box with an Intel L440GX+ motherboard. If the installer doesn't work, I can't use it.
So, have they fixed bug 29555, which has been around since RedHat 7.1? You get part way into the installation, and it hangs on loading the aic7xxx SCSI driver.
I don't mean to be picky, but this seems pretty basic. It worked in 6.x, and stopped working in 7.1 (or maybe 7.0). It was still broken in Fedora Core 1.
Now, if you read the bug report, you'll see they blame all sorts of things, and have all sorts of workarounds that don't seem to actually work. The very same machine has had Windows NT, FreeBSD 4.8, FreeBSD 5.2 and some old version of OpenBSD on it, all of which worked fine.
Before you complain and say that I must be using some weird piece of hardware, this machine has an Intel L440GX+ motherboard with a built in aic7xxx controller. The L440GX+ was relatively common in low-end servers (including those sold by VA-Linux).
So, is it fixed yet? 'Cause I'm not wasting my time on one more Linux install that can't get past loading the SCSI driver.
This is great news for all those case modders out there. Instead of blue neon lighting around the edges, you can cover the entire case in a OLED sheet. Imagine the possibilities!
What about using electric shavers while driving? I'm amazed by the number of guys I see shaving in the car on the way to work in the morning. How long does it take to shave before you get in the car? A minute? Two minutes?
When you're driving a car, you should be driving and not doing anything else. At all. Not a thing.
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Had you actually RTFA, you'd know that the HyperSoar is able to deal with excess heat by radiatiing it into space at the top of each "skip".
Of course, since this is Slashdot, why would I expect you to read the article you're commenting on in the first place?
The only downside is t-mobile service, but if you live in an area they service well, it's not bad.
Well, that leaves out all of southeastern Pennsylvania then. A friend of mine has t-mobile and I've started refusing to answer calls from him on the grounds that t-mobile is going to drop any call in our area within a minute anyway.
So I think this 2 or 3 days a year lost time is an overestimate, by a factor of 10 or so.
Sorry, not an overestimation, actual fact in this case.
When I said 2 or 3 days a year, I was referring to my workplace (a small division of a large pharmaceutical company at a remote satellite location), year-to-date. Most network services were down for 2 days this past week, and I think we were down for a day early in spring from some other worm.
Generally, desktop machines were fine, but access to network drives (especially in remote locations), email, web browsing, etc was very spotty due to the amount of traffic generated by MS Blaster. Corporate IS supposedly used SMS to patch our machines on Monday, but several of the "patched" machines ended up getting infected on Tuesday. Our Norton AV definitions are also updated via SMS, and they updated us with ones that were out of date. All in all, it was a fiasco. In the end, we ended up walking around with CDs to every machine in our building and running the patch and the cleanup thingy from Symantec.
Needless to say, my boss was rather pissed that he had to have his employees walking around cleaning up what the holier-than-thou priests of corporate IS back at HQ messed up. He did, however, find it amusing that they had to manually patch several thousand machines at HQ and we only had to do around 90.
AFAIK, we never had any problems internally with SoBig, however, delivery of external email was slow.
After the MSBlaster worm and SoBig virus activity of the last few weeks, you'd think that there'd be a little more than a passing reference on page 3 of the article saying that Linux is "virtually virus-free".
I'll bet that none of these expensive studies ever include the cost of cleaning up after the virus/worm of the week that comes with running Microsoft NT/2000/XP. Having everyone in your company having 2 or 3 days a year when their desktop/laptop/server/whatever is unavailable because of cleanup activity should have a definite negative impact on TCO or ROI.
MasterCard (and other credit cards probably too) have an automatic "extended warranty" that applies to stuff that you purchase with the card. I don't remember the exact details, but it either extends the manufacturers warranty an additional year or else doubles it.
I used my MasterCard when I purchased my PowerBook two years ago. The DVD drive developed intermittent problems about two months after the one year warranty ran out. The replacement cost for the slot loading DVD drive was around $400. I took the machine to an Apple dealer, paid for the repair with the same card, called an 800 number, filled out some forms and eventually was credited for the $400.
It sounds like something that crocodile guy on Animal Planet could put to good use.
Seriously though, this sounds great for amateur naturalists. You could do your own tracking of the local animal population (once you get the tags on them, which I'm sure is the hard part).
Is it small enough for a cat collar?
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With something like this I may finally be able to find out just where it is that the cat goes when he demands to be let out at 4am.
And for only $25, I won't care too much when he loses it.
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The beetle is the car favored by teenage girls, but no one else.
So that's why all those teenage girls kept following me around until I sold my '99 Beetle....
Because Linux by default isn't MEANT to be a print server. The problem isn't Linux printing, the problem is people like you who try to use a wrench to nail in a hammer.
Damn. RedHat is going to have to update their website to remove all the pages that say "It is ideally suited for network, file, print, mail, Web, and custom or packaged business applications."
The "Java 1.4.1 Developer Tools Update" available via https://connect.apple.com/ -- after you log in, it's under "Java" under "Download Software". There used to be "Recent Updates" section where they put stuff like this, but it seems to have gone missing.
What I really want to know is why it's 48.6mb for the dev tools on top of the 26mb (I didn't write it down, so I could be wrong) for Java 1.4.1 itself.
Poster: In regards to customer service, many of the most sucessful online games have a group of players who are in a "mentor" role. They answer questions, help out newbies, etc.
Article: Moreover, any massively multiplayer game that relies on volunteers to support other customers or run events is opening itself up for huge lawsuits.
First off, I like the concept, but speaking as a former Oracle DBA, I have several issues:
1) You're limited by how much RAM you have on your server, not how much disk space you have
2) If you're making a lot of data changes and have a crash or power outage, I'd imagine that it can take a while to replay the log to get things back to the most recent point in time (you can have the same problem with Oracle, but your checkpoints would be a lot closer together than "once a day")
3) There are millions of people that already know SQL and can write a decent query with it. How does this help them? Never underestimate the power of SQL.
On the other hand, for projects dealing with small amounts of data I can see how implementing this would be far easier than integrating with Mysql, Postgresql or Oracle.
Nobody asked why they don't use FreeBSD but I suspect its because Linux has better hardware support and Google builds their own machines with numerous different components based on the latest technology.
I keep seeing people say that Linux has better hardware support than FreeBSD, but it has not been my experience. In the past year, I've had three machines that Redhat 7.3 and 8.0 refuse to work on. Redhat 7.x installers would choke and the 8.0 installer works but leaves you with an unbootable machine when it finishes. Linux just doesn't get along with the Adaptec AIC-789x controller that was built into the motherboard on these machines. FreeBSD, on the other hand, installs and boots fine without any problems.
5. Not as good hardware support on FreeBSD as Linux, or games.
I don't agree with this. I just spent most of the weekend attempting to install RedHat 8.0 on a hand-me-down server. The server uses an Intel L440GX+ motherboard. RedHat 7.x installers choke on this motherboard. The RedHat 8.0 installer works, but the machine won't finish booting afterwards (Linux of any variety doesn't get along well with the Adaptec AIC-789x built into the motherboard). Maybe it's just me, but this is about the 3rd machine in the past year that I've had serious install issues with Linux. All of them have been older machines that older versions of Linux worked fine on.
It took me about two hours to install FreeBSD 4.7 on it instead. The installer ran fine. The machine booted fine after the install. I like FreeBSD.
The most fun I had last year was making up a rumor out of thin air and sending it to MOSR. I waited a few days and then sent him a similar rumor from a different email address. Two days later he printed it word for word and then went on to say "multiple sources have confirmed blah blah blah".
Needless to say, I'm wracking my brains to come up with a good one to send him prior to MacWorld in January.
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I've actually told my current boss that I was looking for another job.
Our company restructured and we ended up with a small group of technical people reporting directly to a VP with absolutely no technical skills at all (and, in retrospect, not much business sense either). When I first told her that I didn't want to work in that situation, she was mad at me, but came back a few hours later and thanked me for being honest about it. She then proceeded to sell my skill set to other managers in the company and got me a better job in another department. Needless to say, I was quite shocked by this behavior. While I still don't think I'd want to work directly for her, my opinion of her went up as a result of this.
Since it was a dot-com, we all got laid off six months later anyway.
There is no diesel equivalent for the catalitic converter.
Wrong! My VW Beetle TDI has a catalytic converter.
Stop spreading FUD about diesels.
EPA says 21/29.
I usually get in the 27 to 28 range, but most of my driving is rural/suburban, neither of which matches the EPA's definition of city or highway driving.
The minute the 2.5L 6 cylinder TDI diesel engine is available in the US, I'm trading it in. More torque, better mileage, whoo-hoo!
Yes, i was bitter too ... but the problem actually is the fubared bios.
Ahhh, but FreeBSD, OpenBSD & NT work, even with the allegedly fubared bios. I'm not buying that excuse.
the problem was quicky worked around.
Worked around in Fedora Core 2? If so, I'm a happy man.
OK, so you're saying that because I didn't pay for it, it's OK that it doesn't work? There goes the entire open source movement right down the tubes if everyone adopts your attitude.
We're talking about the installer here. A rather basic piece of software that prevents me from actually using Fedora (or any previous version of RedHat after version 7) on this box or any other box with an Intel L440GX+ motherboard. If the installer doesn't work, I can't use it.
So, have they fixed bug 29555, which has been around since RedHat 7.1? You get part way into the installation, and it hangs on loading the aic7xxx SCSI driver.
I don't mean to be picky, but this seems pretty basic. It worked in 6.x, and stopped working in 7.1 (or maybe 7.0). It was still broken in Fedora Core 1.
Now, if you read the bug report, you'll see they blame all sorts of things, and have all sorts of workarounds that don't seem to actually work. The very same machine has had Windows NT, FreeBSD 4.8, FreeBSD 5.2 and some old version of OpenBSD on it, all of which worked fine.
Before you complain and say that I must be using some weird piece of hardware, this machine has an Intel L440GX+ motherboard with a built in aic7xxx controller. The L440GX+ was relatively common in low-end servers (including those sold by VA-Linux).
So, is it fixed yet? 'Cause I'm not wasting my time on one more Linux install that can't get past loading the SCSI driver.
(Yes, I'm bitter.)
This is great news for all those case modders out there. Instead of blue neon lighting around the edges, you can cover the entire case in a OLED sheet. Imagine the possibilities!
OLEC - Organic Light Emitting Case.
What about using electric shavers while driving? I'm amazed by the number of guys I see shaving in the car on the way to work in the morning. How long does it take to shave before you get in the car? A minute? Two minutes?
When you're driving a car, you should be driving and not doing anything else. At all. Not a thing.
Had you actually RTFA, you'd know that the HyperSoar is able to deal with excess heat by radiatiing it into space at the top of each "skip".
Of course, since this is Slashdot, why would I expect you to read the article you're commenting on in the first place?
The only downside is t-mobile service, but if you live in an area they service well, it's not bad.
Well, that leaves out all of southeastern Pennsylvania then. A friend of mine has t-mobile and I've started refusing to answer calls from him on the grounds that t-mobile is going to drop any call in our area within a minute anyway.
So I think this 2 or 3 days a year lost time is an overestimate, by a factor of 10 or so.
Sorry, not an overestimation, actual fact in this case.
When I said 2 or 3 days a year, I was referring to my workplace (a small division of a large pharmaceutical company at a remote satellite location), year-to-date. Most network services were down for 2 days this past week, and I think we were down for a day early in spring from some other worm.
Generally, desktop machines were fine, but access to network drives (especially in remote locations), email, web browsing, etc was very spotty due to the amount of traffic generated by MS Blaster. Corporate IS supposedly used SMS to patch our machines on Monday, but several of the "patched" machines ended up getting infected on Tuesday. Our Norton AV definitions are also updated via SMS, and they updated us with ones that were out of date. All in all, it was a fiasco. In the end, we ended up walking around with CDs to every machine in our building and running the patch and the cleanup thingy from Symantec.
Needless to say, my boss was rather pissed that he had to have his employees walking around cleaning up what the holier-than-thou priests of corporate IS back at HQ messed up. He did, however, find it amusing that they had to manually patch several thousand machines at HQ and we only had to do around 90.
AFAIK, we never had any problems internally with SoBig, however, delivery of external email was slow.
After the MSBlaster worm and SoBig virus activity of the last few weeks, you'd think that there'd be a little more than a passing reference on page 3 of the article saying that Linux is "virtually virus-free".
I'll bet that none of these expensive studies ever include the cost of cleaning up after the virus/worm of the week that comes with running Microsoft NT/2000/XP. Having everyone in your company having 2 or 3 days a year when their desktop/laptop/server/whatever is unavailable because of cleanup activity should have a definite negative impact on TCO or ROI.
Yet one more reason to use Linux, *BSD or OS X.
MasterCard (and other credit cards probably too) have an automatic "extended warranty" that applies to stuff that you purchase with the card. I don't remember the exact details, but it either extends the manufacturers warranty an additional year or else doubles it.
I used my MasterCard when I purchased my PowerBook two years ago. The DVD drive developed intermittent problems about two months after the one year warranty ran out. The replacement cost for the slot loading DVD drive was around $400. I took the machine to an Apple dealer, paid for the repair with the same card, called an 800 number, filled out some forms and eventually was credited for the $400.
Why would you embed Mozilla, which is acknowledged to be bloated even by its supporters, instead of Apple's WebKit (based on KHTML, used in Safari)?
WebKit Docs
It sounds like something that crocodile guy on Animal Planet could put to good use.
Seriously though, this sounds great for amateur naturalists. You could do your own tracking of the local animal population (once you get the tags on them, which I'm sure is the hard part).
With something like this I may finally be able to find out just where it is that the cat goes when he demands to be let out at 4am.
And for only $25, I won't care too much when he loses it.
The beetle is the car favored by teenage girls, but no one else.
So that's why all those teenage girls kept following me around until I sold my '99 Beetle....
Because Linux by default isn't MEANT to be a print server. The problem isn't Linux printing, the problem is people like you who try to use a wrench to nail in a hammer.
Damn. RedHat is going to have to update their website to remove all the pages that say "It is ideally suited for network, file, print, mail, Web, and custom or packaged business applications."
The "Java 1.4.1 Developer Tools Update" available via https://connect.apple.com/ -- after you log in, it's under "Java" under "Download Software". There used to be "Recent Updates" section where they put stuff like this, but it seems to have gone missing.
What I really want to know is why it's 48.6mb for the dev tools on top of the 26mb (I didn't write it down, so I could be wrong) for Java 1.4.1 itself.
Poster:
In regards to customer service, many of the most sucessful online games have a group of players who are in a "mentor" role. They answer questions, help out newbies, etc.
Article:
Moreover, any massively multiplayer game that relies on volunteers to support other customers or run events is opening itself up for huge lawsuits.
Did I miss something?
First off, I like the concept, but speaking as a former Oracle DBA, I have several issues:
1) You're limited by how much RAM you have on your server, not how much disk space you have
2) If you're making a lot of data changes and have a crash or power outage, I'd imagine that it can take a while to replay the log to get things back to the most recent point in time (you can have the same problem with Oracle, but your checkpoints would be a lot closer together than "once a day")
3) There are millions of people that already know SQL and can write a decent query with it. How does this help them? Never underestimate the power of SQL.
On the other hand, for projects dealing with small amounts of data I can see how implementing this would be far easier than integrating with Mysql, Postgresql or Oracle.
Nobody asked why they don't use FreeBSD but I suspect its because Linux has better hardware support and Google builds their own machines with numerous different components based on the latest technology.
I keep seeing people say that Linux has better hardware support than FreeBSD, but it has not been my experience. In the past year, I've had three machines that Redhat 7.3 and 8.0 refuse to work on. Redhat 7.x installers would choke and the 8.0 installer works but leaves you with an unbootable machine when it finishes. Linux just doesn't get along with the Adaptec AIC-789x controller that was built into the motherboard on these machines. FreeBSD, on the other hand, installs and boots fine without any problems.
5. Not as good hardware support on FreeBSD as Linux, or games.
I don't agree with this. I just spent most of the weekend attempting to install RedHat 8.0 on a hand-me-down server. The server uses an Intel L440GX+ motherboard. RedHat 7.x installers choke on this motherboard. The RedHat 8.0 installer works, but the machine won't finish booting afterwards (Linux of any variety doesn't get along well with the Adaptec AIC-789x built into the motherboard). Maybe it's just me, but this is about the 3rd machine in the past year that I've had serious install issues with Linux. All of them have been older machines that older versions of Linux worked fine on.
It took me about two hours to install FreeBSD 4.7 on it instead. The installer ran fine. The machine booted fine after the install. I like FreeBSD.
The most fun I had last year was making up a rumor out of thin air and sending it to MOSR. I waited a few days and then sent him a similar rumor from a different email address. Two days later he printed it word for word and then went on to say "multiple sources have confirmed blah blah blah".
Needless to say, I'm wracking my brains to come up with a good one to send him prior to MacWorld in January.