I'm pretty comfortable working in a u*ix environment, but a niggling detail has thusfar escaped me...how do you compile a large application on one box, and distribute it to a bunch of other machines.
Example: I've downloaded the latest code for snort, I./configure; make; make install to compile and use it on the current box. But if I want a barebones little snort sensor that doesn't have a comiler on it, do I need to physically deconstruct the script for 'make install' or is there an easy packager (rpm?) I can use to take the compiled code and install it on a remote machine. (ignore actually GETTING the bits to the other computer...unless there's an easy way to do that other than scp/sftp)
Cause the improvements I've seen over the last 20 years don't qualify as Ironic.
When I was a kid, we got two and a half channels with crummy reception. A few years later, we got a 15 foot dish and watched much better signals before the channels started encrypting....but they STILL had issues with sparklies when sunspots were active....18-32 analog channels on 10-15 satellites, requiring a dish to rotate to get to them. Then we went to an 18" dish that gets 150+ channels on two satellites that don't require repositioning, and all look uniformly good (some compression artifacting) especially when compared to two and a half channels in the late 1970s.
Have them pay for an alpha pager and move your alerts there. Really, quitting
over the use of a device you've become
addicted to is not the
smartest reason to terminate employment.
You're kidding, right? In 1988, I had _7_ casettes and 3 or 4 records...my iPod has over 200 albums worth of content and it's 25% of my (legal) collection. The surest way to get predicting the future is to TRY to predict the future. Ya think Back to the future part II was over the top when it failed to predict disposeable cellphones, electric paper, and MEMS? (all of which are really here now.)
That's only because the costs to create a car are expensive, just wait til your desktop 3-d lithography printer can build you spare parts for your GM vehicle for pennies on the dollar.
The meta-information on the word document they sent out had a slightly different flavor:
At Toyota, we're R&Ding a robot to walk and play trumpet because Honda has been R&Ding asimo for YEARS and we don't wanna look like we're not paying attention. (We also don't want to be too far behind when Honda releases a car with legs instead of wheels)
The only problem with that is: You build it, and they'll wanna charge $999 for it. (look at Viewsonic as a good implementation with a DUMB price.) It's better to just get a $700-$800 laptop for the money involved.
Ditto, I'd also like to add that I use our home 'pokey' laptop to ssh and remote desktop into much faster/less portable computers. Think of it as a wireless console and it's CPU horsepower doesn't matter AT ALL.
There were these carbon molecules in a Erlinmeyer flask. They wanted to see the world in a way no other carbon molecules had before. So they held hands and created a buckeyball....
Well, maybe not an interesting yarn for YOU, Carbon based Ugly bag of mostly-water, but the little carbonettes just EAT these stories up!
Has anybody considered building a cabinet for the home? Okay, that's not as stupid a question as it first sounds...I'm thinking a weighted pedistal, a platform for the controls and a slot that would hold a laptop so that the display was held at the appropriate angle.
You'd end up with a much more visually interesting piece of furniture, and it wouldn't take up as much space as a cabinet. Yes, it doesn't have the back glass artwork, nor does it have the coin slots, but if it's a stand up microswitch joystick experience you want, it seems like you could build a better result.
I was at the local Apple Store Yesterday picking up an iTrip for the 10gb iPod I got on clearance from amazon. In my 10 minutes there, I saw three mini sales and the following conversation between two stereotypical female blonde mallrats:
bmr1: "Man, I really WANT one of these things" bmr2: "So BUY it, what color would you get?" bmr1: "Blue-no-pink, I like the pink, but my credit card bill already sucks." bmr2: "Girlfriend, untill your visa's got three grand on it, I don't even wanna hear you bitch about your credit card bill."
I'm thinking 'Bravo for managing your debt' and 'Good god, I thought bmr's only existed in movies'. Shows what happens when you got to a mall less than twice a year, I guess.
Note the word in there, that 'buy' one. They may MAKE cars like this, doesn't mean I'd plop down my cash for it.
Of course, I'll not be buying and Volvos in the near future anyway, so have at it boys!
(BTW, Porsches are notorious for having motors that need mechanics to do work on....the Boxter's powerplant is rather hidden from view, with a nice little exposed pod for checking oil, coolant, etc.)
Those are not 1984 haircuts....Flock of Seagulls had 1984 haircuts....these are the haircuts of people that don't give a lot of wattage to personal apperance.
If they were closer to New York, we could give the Fab 5 a call! (http://bravotv.com/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Guy/)
Arcade games USDE to be about equipment, graphics and gamingin experience the average guy couldn't duplicate at home. Now that the average console has millions of polys/sec and 5.1 surround, the only other area an arcade machine can compete is the immersion. I don't know many homes that have a mechwar LAN, or a three monitor Ferrari F355 simulator. (I spend the first $5 in THAT game just turning donuts on the infield, giggling like a schoolgirl. It ACCURATELY protrayed the way that car feels and performs.)
The 700r4 doesn't deal well with more than about 400 ft-lbs of torque (it's not the HP that kills it, it's the twist)
The point is: It isn't wise to add a whole lotta 'go', if you don't also add some 'whoah'.
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Manufacturers build in a given factor of safety overdesign to reduce the amount of warranty repairs they have to foot the bill for. They also design a vehicle holistically - The engine will not produce more power than the brakes can handle, the factory alignment won't allow a low-performance driver to get in trouble.
Just because a fishtank valve can give a Supra another 100hp, does not mean the rest of the equation is up to the task.
That said, i've seen some VERY impressive software upgrades in deisel pickups. I only wonder if the radiator is up to cooling the uprated potential heat generated and if the transmission is capabile of living under the added stress.
(in the interests of fair reporting, this comes from a guy who built a 475 hp/500 ft-lb Corvette...and upgraded teh brakes at the same time...only to be stuck with a tranny bill when said motor had it's way with it.)
Bullshit. There's NO reason why a windows box can't be just as stable and secure as any alternative. None (and I mean ZERO) machines on our network were affected by any of the mydoom variants.
Sane creation of a network topology, email subsystem, proactive network monitoring, and general patch management is NECESSARY to operate a large internet connected environment, reguardless of the Operating System of Choice.
(and to head off the usual Mac'noids, show me a mac based application that scans, OCRs, and backs up to multiple Optical drives 20,000 documents an hour.)
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I'm pretty comfortable working in a u*ix environment, but a niggling detail has thusfar escaped me...how do you compile a large application on one box, and distribute it to a bunch of other machines.
./configure; make; make install to compile and use it on the current box. But if I want a barebones little snort sensor that doesn't have a comiler on it, do I need to physically deconstruct the script for 'make install' or is there an easy packager (rpm?) I can use to take the compiled code and install it on a remote machine. (ignore actually GETTING the bits to the other computer...unless there's an easy way to do that other than scp/sftp)
Example:
I've downloaded the latest code for snort, I
Cause the improvements I've seen over the last 20 years don't qualify as Ironic.
When I was a kid, we got two and a half channels with crummy reception. A few years later, we got a 15 foot dish and watched much better signals before the channels started encrypting....but they STILL had issues with sparklies when sunspots were active....18-32 analog channels on 10-15 satellites, requiring a dish to rotate to get to them. Then we went to an 18" dish that gets 150+ channels on two satellites that don't require repositioning, and all look uniformly good (some compression artifacting) especially when compared to two and a half channels in the late 1970s.
So what if I don't WANT to install spyware?
and the thoughts of young male geeks everywhere turn to.....DEATH!
Apple's dying!
TiVO's dying!
We're ALL Dying!
But how many people have truely lived? - Mel Gibson
FREEEEEEEDOM!
Have them pay for an alpha pager and move your alerts there. Really, quitting over the use of a device you've become addicted to is not the smartest reason to terminate employment.
You're kidding, right? In 1988, I had _7_ casettes and 3 or 4 records...my iPod has over 200 albums worth of content and it's 25% of my (legal) collection. The surest way to get predicting the future is to TRY to predict the future. Ya think Back to the future part II was over the top when it failed to predict disposeable cellphones, electric paper, and MEMS? (all of which are really here now.)
_45_ year old, _smoking_, _grandfathers_ with more discretionary income than sence.
Will make MILLIONS, boys! MILLIONS!
That's only because the costs to create a car are expensive, just wait til your desktop 3-d lithography printer can build you spare parts for your GM vehicle for pennies on the dollar.
The meta-information on the word document they sent out had a slightly different flavor:
At Toyota, we're R&Ding a robot to walk and play trumpet because Honda has been R&Ding asimo for YEARS and we don't wanna look like we're not paying attention. (We also don't want to be too far behind when Honda releases a car with legs instead of wheels)
The only problem with that is: You build it, and they'll wanna charge $999 for it. (look at Viewsonic as a good implementation with a DUMB price.) It's better to just get a $700-$800 laptop for the money involved.
Ditto, I'd also like to add that I use our home 'pokey' laptop to ssh and remote desktop into much faster/less portable computers. Think of it as a wireless console and it's CPU horsepower doesn't matter AT ALL.
There were these carbon molecules in a Erlinmeyer flask. They wanted to see the world in a way no other carbon molecules had before. So they held hands and created a buckeyball....
Well, maybe not an interesting yarn for YOU, Carbon based Ugly bag of mostly-water, but the little carbonettes just EAT these stories up!
Has anybody considered building a cabinet for the home? Okay, that's not as stupid a question as it first sounds...I'm thinking a weighted pedistal, a platform for the controls and a slot that would hold a laptop so that the display was held at the appropriate angle.
You'd end up with a much more visually interesting piece of furniture, and it wouldn't take up as much space as a cabinet. Yes, it doesn't have the back glass artwork, nor does it have the coin slots, but if it's a stand up microswitch joystick experience you want, it seems like you could build a better result.
I was at the local Apple Store Yesterday picking up an iTrip for the 10gb iPod I got on clearance from amazon. In my 10 minutes there, I saw three mini sales and the following conversation between two stereotypical female blonde mallrats:
bmr1: "Man, I really WANT one of these things"
bmr2: "So BUY it, what color would you get?"
bmr1: "Blue-no-pink, I like the pink, but my credit card bill already sucks."
bmr2: "Girlfriend, untill your visa's got three grand on it, I don't even wanna hear you bitch about your credit card bill."
I'm thinking 'Bravo for managing your debt' and 'Good god, I thought bmr's only existed in movies'. Shows what happens when you got to a mall less than twice a year, I guess.
"Plenty of letters left in the alphabet" - J. L. Picard
NO car I buy will have it's hood welded shut.
Note the word in there, that 'buy' one. They may MAKE cars like this, doesn't mean I'd plop down my cash for it.
Of course, I'll not be buying and Volvos in the near future anyway, so have at it boys!
(BTW, Porsches are notorious for having motors that need mechanics to do work on....the Boxter's powerplant is rather hidden from view, with a nice little exposed pod for checking oil, coolant, etc.)
"and the haircuts of 1984"
y /)
Those are not 1984 haircuts....Flock of Seagulls had 1984 haircuts....these are the haircuts of people that don't give a lot of wattage to personal apperance.
If they were closer to New York, we could give the Fab 5 a call! (http://bravotv.com/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Gu
I know a distressingly large amount of trivial about what USED to be my 1989 Corvette. Just about the only stock part left is the distributor _shaft_.
This means our astronauts will have an unlimited supply of table salt!
Apologies to Most Extreme Elimination Challenge:
AAAAAAAsssstronaut!
Arcade games USDE to be about equipment, graphics and gamingin experience the average guy couldn't duplicate at home. Now that the average console has millions of polys/sec and 5.1 surround, the only other area an arcade machine can compete is the immersion. I don't know many homes that have a mechwar LAN, or a three monitor Ferrari F355 simulator. (I spend the first $5 in THAT game just turning donuts on the infield, giggling like a schoolgirl. It ACCURATELY protrayed the way that car feels and performs.)
The 700r4 doesn't deal well with more than about 400 ft-lbs of torque (it's not the HP that kills it, it's the twist) The point is: It isn't wise to add a whole lotta 'go', if you don't also add some 'whoah'.
Manufacturers build in a given factor of safety overdesign to reduce the amount of warranty repairs they have to foot the bill for. They also design a vehicle holistically - The engine will not produce more power than the brakes can handle, the factory alignment won't allow a low-performance driver to get in trouble.
Just because a fishtank valve can give a Supra another 100hp, does not mean the rest of the equation is up to the task.
That said, i've seen some VERY impressive software upgrades in deisel pickups. I only wonder if the radiator is up to cooling the uprated potential heat generated and if the transmission is capabile of living under the added stress.
(in the interests of fair reporting, this comes from a guy who built a 475 hp/500 ft-lb Corvette...and upgraded teh brakes at the same time...only to be stuck with a tranny bill when said motor had it's way with it.)
_I_ can turn alcohol to Hydrogen too. (and other various sulfrous compounds)
Bullshit. There's NO reason why a windows box can't be just as stable and secure as any alternative. None (and I mean ZERO) machines on our network were affected by any of the mydoom variants.
Sane creation of a network topology, email subsystem, proactive network monitoring, and general patch management is NECESSARY to operate a large internet connected environment, reguardless of the Operating System of Choice.
(and to head off the usual Mac'noids, show me a mac based application that scans, OCRs, and backs up to multiple Optical drives 20,000 documents an hour.)