... than the junk providing 'tmobile' SSIDs.. Every time I try to get onto the tmobile network with my E70 the goddamn thing panics, it's the only network this happens to.
When this finally happens, it'll probably be about the time my tmo contract runs out.. Methinks it'll be time to change, if the network plans are not completely retarded..
... but my favorite is still doing Sun UFS quotas in LDAP with perl, and having to deal with that bass-ackwards quota structure (seek iforgethowmanybytes x uid) from teh 1980s.
All of it ghetto, but all of it mostly harmless.
Though the Ghetto Cluster (gclusd) failed hard a few months after I quit that job, it was entirely documented as a fail case, and had I not been forced to quit I may have even fixed that bug at some point! (STOMITH in user space without shared media can be tricky)
I wonder if there are antiparticles to these that have antimass? And what would enveloping mass with antimass fields enable you to do? What would happen to E=mc^2 if m is negative?
Might make an interesting story, if someone's already written it please link..
What makes Mr. Gates think that NGOs and international bodies WANT a bunch of demanding, hyperactive bourgeois barging into their nice little rackets and telling them how to do their phoney-baloney jobs?
International aid is a morass of neopaternalism and pseudogenerosity, and disingenuous bromides aren't worth paying attention to. It's a way to assuage guilt, not to improve outcomes.
What will improve outcomes? Smashing tariffs and subsidies, so that poor nations can climb the ladder the west did a century ago. Working conditions in Chicago were no better in the late 1800s than they are in Cambodia now, children were dodging bobbins and wearing sabots until workers were wealthy and secure enough to demand change (and frankly, to demand the removal of children from the workforce to strengthen labor's position). But poor dark people in other countries don't vote, ADM and Cargill and their welfare farmers do. Jose Bove votes and blocks traffic in order to starve Kenyans. It all goes together. And if it's not tariffs and subsidies, the Euros can drop those and keep GMO bans, in order to tsk-tsk Americans.
How to become an IT manager: * Show up on time * Dress neatly * Lay off the profanity * Do your bladder-control exercises for the meetings
How to become a GOOD IT manager (IMAO of course): * Come from the trenches in at least 1 respectable area * Set reasonable expectations both above and below * Define deliverables/milestones and hold people to them, allowing leeway once they're met * Stand up for your people but don't be an enabler for misanthropy * Don't ask anyone to do anything you wouldn't do * Plan disruptive work well in advance * Be transparent
I am the master of the CLI! Remember this fucking face, whenever you see CLI you'll see this fucking face!! I make that shit work, it does whatever the fuck I tell it to.. No one rules the CLI like me...
IIRC you got a longer bolt and you had to unscrew the armrest bolt, put the mount under the armrest, then screw in the longer bolt to fasten them together. I don't think there was a custom armrest replacement available for the Aeron, there may well have been (this is 1999-2000 timeframe) but I never got it.
The keyboard was reasonably sturdy (though it took some damage just from smacking against the edges of tables from time to time) but the real problem was the mount to the Aeron armrest, after awhile it would start to sag and one side actually stripped out the screws and fell off at one point.
I almost think that having the keyboards actually drop off the sides and losing the armrests entirely would have been a better way to go.. A better idea would have been to get a hefty VESA arm that's like 8 feet long and have it suspended over the chair appropriately, not even bothering with a desk, but back in the day I just had the 24" CRT...
Those guys aren't so bad, it's the ones that get all snippy because you end up having to use product X because the sales guy took your boss's boss's boss to an expensive seafood dinner.
Like the philosopher in Full Metal Jacket said.. "It's a huge shit sandwich and we're all gonna have to take a bite."
Most of the points in that post are applicable to sysadmin as well, at least as far as my experience has led me to believe.
... I had one bolted to an Aeron, and for the first 6 months it was AWESOME, except for the touchpad mouse. Eventually it started to fall apart. But for awhile there it was the l33test ch33z EVAR.
Now, I'd like a wooden keyboard with no characters on it at all, just little nubs on the F and J keys.
Linux continues the Unix tradition of disarray and persnicketiness that just does not appeal to normal people. I'm glad to have an interface tyrant, even when I disagree with his decisions, because I've lived in the alternate universe of complete lack of restriction (and direction).
I am fixing to build my own xMac over the next few weeks, since Apple continues to refuse to do it themselves. I'll even buy a 'family' edition of Leopard so I can put a sticker on the case and have a technically "Apple-labeled" computer. I'm just looking for the most compatible and least hacky hardware combination for the task before I go on teh newegg spr33.
I was hoping that Toshiba would keep selling the 1080i/720p player for $100, because that's where the mass market takes notice. It was encouraging to see that pricing for the black friday specials, but not so much now that the price is more like $169 or so..
And for the substantial majority of installed HDTV, 1080i/720p is fine as that's what their set is. By the time a majority of installed HDTVs are 1080p, I would hope that both HDDVD and Bluray (or whichever is the final winner) or combo players are $99 or less at 1080p.
BTW, at least on the HDDVD side, well over 90% of discs are 1080p24 (film) VC-1 or AVC, and catalog stuff on Amazon is like $20/disc.
How much juice can these things generate? Can one be self-sufficient with, say, covering a home + garage with these and putting a battery in the basement/shed?
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... to be able to flash older phones which have the hardware support to handle Android..
I'm lookin at YOU E70.. (Or Treo..)
... than the junk providing 'tmobile' SSIDs.. Every time I try to get onto the tmobile network with my E70 the goddamn thing panics, it's the only network this happens to.
When this finally happens, it'll probably be about the time my tmo contract runs out.. Methinks it'll be time to change, if the network plans are not completely retarded..
.... Got the 56" anyway :p
(shoulda gone for the 65")
... This is not the sort of thing they tell you at Best Buy, eh?
Guess I'm boned, just have to find something else to do...
... but my favorite is still doing Sun UFS quotas in LDAP with perl, and having to deal with that bass-ackwards quota structure (seek iforgethowmanybytes x uid) from teh 1980s.
All of it ghetto, but all of it mostly harmless.
Though the Ghetto Cluster (gclusd) failed hard a few months after I quit that job, it was entirely documented as a fail case, and had I not been forced to quit I may have even fixed that bug at some point! (STOMITH in user space without shared media can be tricky)
Where does he stand in all this?
;)
Maybe they could build a Ron Pervo bot out of a pony keg
I must have misread the article, I thought it was saying that mass is the charge of a Higgs particle in a Higgs field?
I wonder if there are antiparticles to these that have antimass? And what would enveloping mass with antimass fields enable you to do? What would happen to E=mc^2 if m is negative?
Might make an interesting story, if someone's already written it please link..
What makes Mr. Gates think that NGOs and international bodies WANT a bunch of demanding, hyperactive bourgeois barging into their nice little rackets and telling them how to do their phoney-baloney jobs?
International aid is a morass of neopaternalism and pseudogenerosity, and disingenuous bromides aren't worth paying attention to. It's a way to assuage guilt, not to improve outcomes.
What will improve outcomes? Smashing tariffs and subsidies, so that poor nations can climb the ladder the west did a century ago. Working conditions in Chicago were no better in the late 1800s than they are in Cambodia now, children were dodging bobbins and wearing sabots until workers were wealthy and secure enough to demand change (and frankly, to demand the removal of children from the workforce to strengthen labor's position). But poor dark people in other countries don't vote, ADM and Cargill and their welfare farmers do. Jose Bove votes and blocks traffic in order to starve Kenyans. It all goes together. And if it's not tariffs and subsidies, the Euros can drop those and keep GMO bans, in order to tsk-tsk Americans.
Cynic? Moi?
How to become an IT manager:
* Show up on time
* Dress neatly
* Lay off the profanity
* Do your bladder-control exercises for the meetings
How to become a GOOD IT manager (IMAO of course):
* Come from the trenches in at least 1 respectable area
* Set reasonable expectations both above and below
* Define deliverables/milestones and hold people to them, allowing leeway once they're met
* Stand up for your people but don't be an enabler for misanthropy
* Don't ask anyone to do anything you wouldn't do
* Plan disruptive work well in advance
* Be transparent
Some combination of the two = success
Are you kidding? Antisemitism is all the rage again in Europe.. Old fashions always come back into style..
I am the master of the CLI! Remember this fucking face, whenever you see CLI you'll see this fucking face!! I make that shit work, it does whatever the fuck I tell it to.. No one rules the CLI like me...
IIRC you got a longer bolt and you had to unscrew the armrest bolt, put the mount under the armrest, then screw in the longer bolt to fasten them together. I don't think there was a custom armrest replacement available for the Aeron, there may well have been (this is 1999-2000 timeframe) but I never got it.
The keyboard was reasonably sturdy (though it took some damage just from smacking against the edges of tables from time to time) but the real problem was the mount to the Aeron armrest, after awhile it would start to sag and one side actually stripped out the screws and fell off at one point.
I almost think that having the keyboards actually drop off the sides and losing the armrests entirely would have been a better way to go.. A better idea would have been to get a hefty VESA arm that's like 8 feet long and have it suspended over the chair appropriately, not even bothering with a desk, but back in the day I just had the 24" CRT...
Those guys aren't so bad, it's the ones that get all snippy because you end up having to use product X because the sales guy took your boss's boss's boss to an expensive seafood dinner.
Like the philosopher in Full Metal Jacket said.. "It's a huge shit sandwich and we're all gonna have to take a bite."
Most of the points in that post are applicable to sysadmin as well, at least as far as my experience has led me to believe.
... I had one bolted to an Aeron, and for the first 6 months it was AWESOME, except for the touchpad mouse. Eventually it started to fall apart. But for awhile there it was the l33test ch33z EVAR.
Now, I'd like a wooden keyboard with no characters on it at all, just little nubs on the F and J keys.
Sounds like the kid is in the pretentious fuck larval phase..
"It's a Mini Victrola..."
Well, I mean, you didn't just start at 40, didja? You you gotta low-ball these things so you have a place to go.
Linux continues the Unix tradition of disarray and persnicketiness that just does not appeal to normal people. I'm glad to have an interface tyrant, even when I disagree with his decisions, because I've lived in the alternate universe of complete lack of restriction (and direction).
I am fixing to build my own xMac over the next few weeks, since Apple continues to refuse to do it themselves. I'll even buy a 'family' edition of Leopard so I can put a sticker on the case and have a technically "Apple-labeled" computer. I'm just looking for the most compatible and least hacky hardware combination for the task before I go on teh newegg spr33.
I mean, if Dvorak says it sucked.. And if Bob Metcalfe agrees with him, it must have been an AWESOME year.
:(
No xMac though
I was hoping that Toshiba would keep selling the 1080i/720p player for $100, because that's where the mass market takes notice. It was encouraging to see that pricing for the black friday specials, but not so much now that the price is more like $169 or so..
And for the substantial majority of installed HDTV, 1080i/720p is fine as that's what their set is. By the time a majority of installed HDTVs are 1080p, I would hope that both HDDVD and Bluray (or whichever is the final winner) or combo players are $99 or less at 1080p.
BTW, at least on the HDDVD side, well over 90% of discs are 1080p24 (film) VC-1 or AVC, and catalog stuff on Amazon is like $20/disc.
The more the merrier, if that's what it takes to keep crime down. Chemotherapy may kill many healthy cells, but if it saves the organism, so be it.
Presumably they'll be building a police-spec model with extra batteries, crash protection (crash bars and maybe even a good back pad), etc?
:/
And I can't see this replacing highway patrol bikes, not enough speed.
I just hate to think they'd replace bicycle patrols too
How much juice can these things generate? Can one be self-sufficient with, say, covering a home + garage with these and putting a battery in the basement/shed?
Seriously, I want one buried in my backyard. Do they have an even smaller unit for individual homes? Like maybe the size of a Sun V890 or something?