Now there's a good one. Sun stole that line from Apollo computer. Apollo actually lived up the phrase. Anyone familiar with Domain/OS knows that the entire OS was built from day one with networking in mind.
Apollo had great engineering, but terrible marketing. Sun understood that low price and good developer support would lead to success. Apollo, like so many great technology companies, believed that superior products would win. Instead, most popular and/or cheapest usually wins.
It is sad to see NFS continues to be so widely used despite it's blatant design flaws. In contrast to MS networking, it actually looks good, but in reality, it is a nightmare. Anyone who has fought in the "Automounter Wars" can attest to that!
That's why languages like Java and C# are so valuable. When is the last time you heard of a Java buffer overrun? Never?
People bitch about how slow these languages are, but would you rather have a language with built-in safety, or hope that some flock of programmers at MS writes all the buffer checks by hand and hope they get them all. In the end, you end up with slower code that still has the chance of being vulnerable.
The worst experiences I've had are when someone tries to artificially create a tradition and force it on everyone.
Absolutely! I remember this one twitchy manager that was trying to boost team morale. He decided we would all take turns bringing donuts to the meeting at 10:30AM. Well me and my buddy refused to participate because we always went to lunch at 11:30AM. The guy nearly went postal on us. And he wondered why his team had problems...
When I was part of a large (~50) engineering group, we just did a few things during the holidays.
For example, at Halloween we dressed up. We also invited the families in to trick or treat door to door. I'll admit, I was a bit scared to see my kids go to some of the more "embedded" geeks - i.e. the office reminded you of their pungent scent.
Christmas / Hannukkah was our biggest event. We had a buffet lunch, which always sparked good conversation about food. With a diverse group from around the world, it was always interesting. Then there was the Yankee swap - a sleeper hit for us. This little gift giving game turned into a serious event. The Dilbert Calender(s) were always top prize. We also had some uber-geeky tech games, like build a paper structure to hold cafeteria trays. Most trays before collapse wins.
I'll admit, I did not RTFA. With that out of the way, I can think of some really cool (heh) cooling concepts.
I'm guessing, instead of 10s or 100s of pins, the chips will have 2-8 pins for power. What if they designed a standard power socket that is watertight. Then, immerse your scrabbleboard of chips directly into your non-conductive, cooling fluid.
That is stupid. You are saying you prefer a card that is theoretically better than another, instead of a card that is proven to be better on a real game.
Go ahead and sit and your ivory tower while I enjoy Doom 3 on my nVidia card.
What the hell is so wrong with tuning a card for a game? The real issue is when a card is tuned for a benchmark. If the card is tuned for the entire game, I'm not sure what your complaint is? Faster framerates? Damn! I hate that!
Personally, I was overwhelmingly thrilled with FC2. I was especially thrilled when I learned up2date was working, and free! I am a happy RH7.2 user looking for an upgrade path. I have found it in FC2.
You have dredged up my worst memories of dealing with HighPoint technology. I had an old mobo with a HighPoint IDE controller. ATA66 had just come out and Abit threw it on the board to say they had a fast controller.
Not working would have been great. But instead, they decided to lull you into a false sense of hope and let it function just long enough to trash your data.:-(
...Shudder... The doctor says I might live a normal life again, but to avoid any mention of the word Highpoint....Twitch...
The hot swap bays let me yank a drive out on my way out of the house if the place catches on fire. Yes, I know I should be storing that third drive at a friend's house, but it's too inconvenient to retrieve it every time I want to backup my array. So a fire may destroy everything if I'm not home or can't safely pull a drive on my way out. I'm comfortable with that.
You can resolve this issue with high-capacity, portable storage. I keep all most critical stuff (software, licenses, photos, pr0n, etc.) on my 40GB portable drive. Forget those keychain things. The FireLite SmartDisk is a USB 2.0, aluminum encased laptop drive. It draws power from USB - it even worked on my old USB 1.l system. They provide a special power cable, in case your old USB ports aren't pushing enough power. I toss thing in backpack every day and lug it all over - it has yet to show signs of weakness.
I totally agree with your configuration. For my Linux server, I've been using Linux (RH7.2) Software RAID-1 mirrored for ~3 years without a single issue.
All you whiners should spend more time earning karma so you can actually mod me down. Instead, all you can do is cry in your beer to help you forget your inferiority complex.
You are missing the other major market - the business world. In the business world, subscriptions are actually well-liked. IANAA (I Am Not An Accountant), but I have seen wall-street-types get all woozy over subscription revenue. I believe the same may be true for subscription expenses. In both cases, there is less fluctuation. The bean-counters like this because it is easier to predict the future.
I've been running SMTP from my home for years. Comcast blocks nothing. Any blockage you are experiencing is from the receiving end. A lot of ISPs are now shunning "private" mail servers. For those ISPs, like AOL, I have a sendmail rule to relay to the comcast outbound server. The list is getting longer, so I am thinking of just relaying everything through comcast's server.
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Attendant: Out of gas.
Jake: Yep. Fill 'er up.
Attendant: No. We're out of gas!
Sadly, this topic is pertinent but less from IBM and more from Microsoft and their slew of patents surrounding Longhorn. SCO's case will die but MS has figured out that they can beat OS through the legal system rather than through competition.
That is what I fear. The current system rewards corporations for revealing patents after a technology has become pervasive. Who's to say Microsoft can't sit on some patents and then pull the rabbit out of the hat when they feel the time is right.
This seems like a really smart idea. Dont go an get the Ultra-Gigaherz-Processor but a descend, processor that consumes only a low amount of power -> Longer batterylife for laptops -> Silent PCs -> Longer lifetime of the processor (?)
I agree. I care more about building a silent, but capable PC than than a blazing overclocked hot rod.
While the author's point seems to be that optimization and performance are not all that important
I think you have missed the point of the article. He is saying that optimization and performance still matter, but it is being done by the programmer at a higher level.
As a Java webapp developer, I know exactly what he means. The optimization process is safer. You don't have to worry about twiddling the wrong bits and blowing up your program. However, he neglects to say that optimization at the higher level can still be dangerous. For example a caching algorithm could introduce out-of-sync errors.
I learned early on that before you tackle a performance problem, you must first measure. I am fond of tools like JProbe for making this task easier. One of the other points made by the author is that old assumptions can be made irrelevant by improvements in hardware. Just look at the first three letters in that word.
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Now there's a good one. Sun stole that line from Apollo computer. Apollo actually lived up the phrase. Anyone familiar with Domain/OS knows that the entire OS was built from day one with networking in mind.
Apollo had great engineering, but terrible marketing. Sun understood that low price and good developer support would lead to success. Apollo, like so many great technology companies, believed that superior products would win. Instead, most popular and/or cheapest usually wins.
It is sad to see NFS continues to be so widely used despite it's blatant design flaws. In contrast to MS networking, it actually looks good, but in reality, it is a nightmare. Anyone who has fought in the "Automounter Wars" can attest to that!
That's why languages like Java and C# are so valuable. When is the last time you heard of a Java buffer overrun? Never?
People bitch about how slow these languages are, but would you rather have a language with built-in safety, or hope that some flock of programmers at MS writes all the buffer checks by hand and hope they get them all. In the end, you end up with slower code that still has the chance of being vulnerable.
C++ should be shot in the head.
It's a 128-bit filesystem, so doesn't that make it the last 8 words?
The worst experiences I've had are when someone tries to artificially create a tradition and force it on everyone.
Absolutely! I remember this one twitchy manager that was trying to boost team morale. He decided we would all take turns bringing donuts to the meeting at 10:30AM. Well me and my buddy refused to participate because we always went to lunch at 11:30AM. The guy nearly went postal on us. And he wondered why his team had problems...
When I was part of a large (~50) engineering group, we just did a few things during the holidays.
For example, at Halloween we dressed up. We also invited the families in to trick or treat door to door. I'll admit, I was a bit scared to see my kids go to some of the more "embedded" geeks - i.e. the office reminded you of their pungent scent.
Christmas / Hannukkah was our biggest event. We had a buffet lunch, which always sparked good conversation about food. With a diverse group from around the world, it was always interesting. Then there was the Yankee swap - a sleeper hit for us. This little gift giving game turned into a serious event. The Dilbert Calender(s) were always top prize. We also had some uber-geeky tech games, like build a paper structure to hold cafeteria trays. Most trays before collapse wins.
Your mileage may vary.
Please, do we have to hear this comment every time Java comes up? It was cool to say that in the 1990's, but it's a little out of fashion now.
I tried "frist post" and similar variants to no avail, but I think the typo comment is actually quite relevant. :-)
I'll admit, I did not RTFA. With that out of the way, I can think of some really cool (heh) cooling concepts.
I'm guessing, instead of 10s or 100s of pins, the chips will have 2-8 pins for power. What if they designed a standard power socket that is watertight. Then, immerse your scrabbleboard of chips directly into your non-conductive, cooling fluid.
That is stupid. You are saying you prefer a card that is theoretically better than another, instead of a card that is proven to be better on a real game.
Go ahead and sit and your ivory tower while I enjoy Doom 3 on my nVidia card.
What the hell is so wrong with tuning a card for a game? The real issue is when a card is tuned for a benchmark. If the card is tuned for the entire game, I'm not sure what your complaint is? Faster framerates? Damn! I hate that!
Just boot into run level 3 (command line only).
No more whining about which desktop is best.
Now you can whine about which shell is best.
Personally, I was overwhelmingly thrilled with FC2. I was especially thrilled when I learned up2date was working, and free! I am a happy RH7.2 user looking for an upgrade path. I have found it in FC2.
HighPoint rocket raid 100
:-(
...Shudder... The doctor says I might live a normal life again, but to avoid any mention of the word Highpoint. ...Twitch...
Aiiiiieeeeehhhhhhh!!! The horror. The horror.
You have dredged up my worst memories of dealing with HighPoint technology. I had an old mobo with a HighPoint IDE controller. ATA66 had just come out and Abit threw it on the board to say they had a fast controller.
Not working would have been great. But instead, they decided to lull you into a false sense of hope and let it function just long enough to trash your data.
The hot swap bays let me yank a drive out on my way out of the house if the place catches on fire. Yes, I know I should be storing that third drive at a friend's house, but it's too inconvenient to retrieve it every time I want to backup my array. So a fire may destroy everything if I'm not home or can't safely pull a drive on my way out. I'm comfortable with that.
You can resolve this issue with high-capacity, portable storage. I keep all most critical stuff (software, licenses, photos, pr0n, etc.) on my 40GB portable drive. Forget those keychain things. The FireLite SmartDisk is a USB 2.0, aluminum encased laptop drive. It draws power from USB - it even worked on my old USB 1.l system. They provide a special power cable, in case your old USB ports aren't pushing enough power. I toss thing in backpack every day and lug it all over - it has yet to show signs of weakness.
I totally agree with your configuration. For my Linux server, I've been using Linux (RH7.2) Software RAID-1 mirrored for ~3 years without a single issue.
Hmmm, that deep crater looks like a good place to park the Millenium Falcon while we wait for that Star Destroyer to leave.
In Soviet Russia, we belong to all your gateways.
All you whiners should spend more time earning karma so you can actually mod me down. Instead, all you can do is cry in your beer to help you forget your inferiority complex.
All your gateways are belong to us
You are missing the other major market - the business world. In the business world, subscriptions are actually well-liked. IANAA (I Am Not An Accountant), but I have seen wall-street-types get all woozy over subscription revenue. I believe the same may be true for subscription expenses. In both cases, there is less fluctuation. The bean-counters like this because it is easier to predict the future.
I've been running SMTP from my home for years. Comcast blocks nothing. Any blockage you are experiencing is from the receiving end. A lot of ISPs are now shunning "private" mail servers. For those ISPs, like AOL, I have a sendmail rule to relay to the comcast outbound server. The list is getting longer, so I am thinking of just relaying everything through comcast's server.
Attendant: Out of gas.
Jake: Yep. Fill 'er up.
Attendant: No. We're out of gas!
They had boxes at Best Buy for pre-ordering. I saw the box and nearly wet my pants. Then I read the pre-order caption. Doh!
Sadly, this topic is pertinent but less from IBM and more from Microsoft and their slew of patents surrounding Longhorn. SCO's case will die but MS has figured out that they can beat OS through the legal system rather than through competition.
That is what I fear. The current system rewards corporations for revealing patents after a technology has become pervasive. Who's to say Microsoft can't sit on some patents and then pull the rabbit out of the hat when they feel the time is right.
Sadly, I believe this threat will ultimately make the SCO debacle pale in comparison.
This seems like a really smart idea. Dont go an get the Ultra-Gigaherz-Processor but a descend, processor that consumes only a low amount of power -> Longer batterylife for laptops -> Silent PCs -> Longer lifetime of the processor (?)
I agree. I care more about building a silent, but capable PC than than a blazing overclocked hot rod.
While the author's point seems to be that optimization and performance are not all that important
I think you have missed the point of the article. He is saying that optimization and performance still matter, but it is being done by the programmer at a higher level.
As a Java webapp developer, I know exactly what he means. The optimization process is safer. You don't have to worry about twiddling the wrong bits and blowing up your program. However, he neglects to say that optimization at the higher level can still be dangerous. For example a caching algorithm could introduce out-of-sync errors.
I learned early on that before you tackle a performance problem, you must first measure. I am fond of tools like JProbe for making this task easier. One of the other points made by the author is that old assumptions can be made irrelevant by improvements in hardware. Just look at the first three letters in that word.
The colloquial term for this is marriage.
Oh no! They've got SCMODS. State, County, Municipal Offender Data System.