I have a Promise SX6000, RAID5, WD200 HD's running under WinXP. Don't use the synchronize option! It _will_ corrupt your data. For example, I did a chkdsk (NTFS) to make sure the array is ok. Then I do a synchronization through the management program. After it is done, I run chkdsk again and get a bunch of random errors all over the hard drive. If you made the array your boot drive, the OS is toast. For WinXP, the sympton is a blank screen after the bootscreen animation is done.
The Promise card does not work well with AMD related chipsets. It tends to crash under high loads (eg. dumping a large file across the network for backup)
The management program can't seem to enable S.M.A.R.T. on the array.
I don't see dual monitor setups mentioned in the article. Does ATI's output quality stand up to NVidia's?
I have a Radeon 8500, and I can tell you that ATI has some serious issues with output signal quality. On my main crt monitor, I can still see occasional sheering and small display glitches. The 2nd monitor quality was even worse. I am using a pci TNT card to get 2nd monitor suupport.
Judging by the picture of the ATI card, the second DVI connection may have problems. It is an extra board so there is not a continuous trace which can introduce all sorts of problems (like contact resistance, oxidation, etc.) Yes, it is a digital signal, but it's like putting an ide ribbon cable with really short wires. You are going to get all sorts of problems...
People should have to have a licence to own a computer and take a test so that they understand security issues. Now I realise that sounds a little extreme but if you take into account the the cost in bussiness that worms cause then it might be a good idea. It would certainly get rid of the ignorance defense.
Thank goodness I am not the only one thinking that. We have gone through too many people at work who didn't know how to use a computer (even though they claimed they are good) and thus werent' able to do their job. Sadly, the only 'license' out there (for enduser) is the Microsoft Office User Specialist(MOUS), but at least it's a start!
You have a very good point there. My Windows updates are free and they download in the background. My RedHat Linux updates? They *require* me to answer questionairs to get updates for 'free', or pay an annual fee. They don't automatically download, and I have to schedule them for download.
Sigh... So, can anyone recommend a Linux vendor that has really free updates (no questionairs or strings attached) and background download?
Recently we bought a HP 2500 Color laser for ~$800. There are other cheaper color laser out there, but having used a few Xerox (Tektronics) laser printers at work, the HP's work much better.
It's sad for me to see another fellow programmer throwing their work away because of the frustrations like this. So here my take on money and open source mainly for other programmers on/.
I have looked at pro's and con's of different licensing for my own programs and here's my conclusion. If you are a programmer (eg, you are/will make your living on coding) don't release your program under the GPL or any open source software when you first release it. Why?
1) Because you aren't going to get that much code contribution anyways. The majority of your contribution will come in the form of bug reports whether your program is closed or open sourced.
2) Your time is worth something, the GPL essentially says it is worth zero. The GPL is great for hobby programmers, it's like gardening. You give your produce to friends and get bragging rights.
3) Employer don't care whether the software on your resume is open source or not as long as you wrote it.
3) If you want a way for people to contribute code, code in modules instead, and/or release an open sourced plugin SDK instead. Keep control of the core code. Dual licensing does not do this.
So when should you release it as an OSS? I believe when the project is worth zero. Because then it won't hurt you (emotionally or financially) to release it for free under the GPL.
I suggest always creating a RSA key for login and use that instead of a password. Even better, also disable passphrase login in sshd after creating the key so that passwords can't be used/guessed in the future remotely.
did anyone consider moving to where the jobs are going, India? Sure your pay will be less than half, but cost of living in India is low. Plus, you will have a job.
My advice would be to license the source code under the GPL for OSS projects, and additionally under a commercial license for businesses.
IANAL, but the source code is already under the MIT license. The only way to do those kind of licensing you are talking about is if he doesn't release future versions under the MIT license. As it is currently licensed, anyone can 'hijack' the project, including a commercial entity.
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A customer installed it on his computer and several programs including application I support ceased to function, and these were the apps he needed to do his job. The only way we could fix it was to re-image the hard drive.
The best way I have found to combat spyware/virus/etc, is to run Win2K or WinXP and take away administrative privilage for normal users so that things don't get installed unintentionally and virus problems are somewhat contained. Running Win9x is just asking for things like this to happen
SGI did not write FSV (File System Visualizer), Daniel Richard did that and infact was inspired by FSN. FSN (Fusion) is the 3d file system navigator featured in Jurassic Park, but SGI hasn't updated it for awhile (it only works on IRIX versions 5.3 and below.
If your program never crashes, then you will never need to create patches/service packs/etc, which is usually an incentive for people to buy support contracts from you.
"In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years."
I am a linux geek since the days of slackware 4, and I didn't have a jounaling file system until two years ago using ext3. Was there an earlier production level jfs that I didn't know about??
Let me make a hypothesis. Dark matter is matter with zero vibration and has determinate position and moment (may be they are all free floating atoms?). It has mass to act as 'glue' for the galaxy, but we are unable to detect it via other means because it doesn't give off any energy.
I have also noticed that Sun's website doesn't use jsp very much (or if they did, why won't they display the.jsp extension?). So far, all the forms I have only found submit to.cgi, which normally indicates that it's not a Java backend. Compare this with Microsoft's site which uses asp pages (even it's just for show, at least they are using _something_).
I tried to do some programming on the Mac by using the provided (free) documentation about a month after the iMac came out (this was during school and we had a Mac rep). Unfortunatly, their documentation sucked. I couldn't find info on writing a C++ program to display "hello world"! All they had was some tutorial on using their beutiful interface builder and Nextstep API/Objective-C stuff. Great.
Note that the Mac Rep was a CS student and even he couldn't get "hello world" to work...
Finally in June 2002 (5 month after launch!), they finally came out with a simple tutorial telling people how to do that. No wonder there's a lack of programs for the Mac...
The doc may be better now, but it still doesn't compare to MSDN Library.
So if a patch can only deliver micronutrients, why not make a full body patch to deliver a large amounts of nutrients? You can make the wearable patch to be underwear, thermos, unitards, etc. and take advantage of the skin's large surface area.
printing to a file for debuging doesn't work too well for multithreaded applications because the printing can and will affect how your resources are locked and unlocked.
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Argh, all the news lately have been one day late... May be we should call it 'Slashdot, olds for Nerds, Stuff that mutters'
I have a Promise SX6000, RAID5, WD200 HD's running under WinXP. Don't use the synchronize option! It _will_ corrupt your data. For example, I did a chkdsk (NTFS) to make sure the array is ok. Then I do a synchronization through the management program. After it is done, I run chkdsk again and get a bunch of random errors all over the hard drive. If you made the array your boot drive, the OS is toast. For WinXP, the sympton is a blank screen after the bootscreen animation is done. The Promise card does not work well with AMD related chipsets. It tends to crash under high loads (eg. dumping a large file across the network for backup) The management program can't seem to enable S.M.A.R.T. on the array.
I don't see dual monitor setups mentioned in the article. Does ATI's output quality stand up to NVidia's?
I have a Radeon 8500, and I can tell you that ATI has some serious issues with output signal quality. On my main crt monitor, I can still see occasional sheering and small display glitches. The 2nd monitor quality was even worse. I am using a pci TNT card to get 2nd monitor suupport.
Judging by the picture of the ATI card, the second DVI connection may have problems. It is an extra board so there is not a continuous trace which can introduce all sorts of problems (like contact resistance, oxidation, etc.) Yes, it is a digital signal, but it's like putting an ide ribbon cable with really short wires. You are going to get all sorts of problems...
Thank goodness I am not the only one thinking that. We have gone through too many people at work who didn't know how to use a computer (even though they claimed they are good) and thus werent' able to do their job. Sadly, the only 'license' out there (for enduser) is the Microsoft Office User Specialist(MOUS), but at least it's a start!
You have a very good point there. My Windows updates are free and they download in the background. My RedHat Linux updates? They *require* me to answer questionairs to get updates for 'free', or pay an annual fee. They don't automatically download, and I have to schedule them for download.
Sigh... So, can anyone recommend a Linux vendor that has really free updates (no questionairs or strings attached) and background download?
Recently we bought a HP 2500 Color laser for ~$800. There are other cheaper color laser out there, but having used a few Xerox (Tektronics) laser printers at work, the HP's work much better.
It's sad for me to see another fellow programmer throwing their work away because of the frustrations like this. So here my take on money and open source mainly for other programmers on /.
I have looked at pro's and con's of different licensing for my own programs and here's my conclusion. If you are a programmer (eg, you are/will make your living on coding) don't release your program under the GPL or any open source software when you first release it. Why?
1) Because you aren't going to get that much code contribution anyways. The majority of your contribution will come in the form of bug reports whether your program is closed or open sourced.
2) Your time is worth something, the GPL essentially says it is worth zero. The GPL is great for hobby programmers, it's like gardening. You give your produce to friends and get bragging rights.
3) Employer don't care whether the software on your resume is open source or not as long as you wrote it.
3) If you want a way for people to contribute code, code in modules instead, and/or release an open sourced plugin SDK instead. Keep control of the core code. Dual licensing does not do this.
So when should you release it as an OSS? I believe when the project is worth zero. Because then it won't hurt you (emotionally or financially) to release it for free under the GPL.
I suggest always creating a RSA key for login and use that instead of a password. Even better, also disable passphrase login in sshd after creating the key so that passwords can't be used/guessed in the future remotely.
did anyone consider moving to where the jobs are going, India? Sure your pay will be less than half, but cost of living in India is low. Plus, you will have a job.
The best way I have found to combat spyware/virus/etc, is to run Win2K or WinXP and take away administrative privilage for normal users so that things don't get installed unintentionally and virus problems are somewhat contained. Running Win9x is just asking for things like this to happen
SGI did not write FSV (File System Visualizer), Daniel Richard did that and infact was inspired by FSN. FSN (Fusion) is the 3d file system navigator featured in Jurassic Park, but SGI hasn't updated it for awhile (it only works on IRIX versions 5.3 and below.
If your program never crashes, then you will never need to create patches/service packs/etc, which is usually an incentive for people to buy support contracts from you.
fresh buttered bread + cat = Free electricity
"In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years."
I am a linux geek since the days of slackware 4, and I didn't have a jounaling file system until two years ago using ext3. Was there an earlier production level jfs that I didn't know about??
Where's the kitchen sink?
"SXSW - Live!" Not anymore.
There are already lots of so called '3D OS'. Some samplers
Microsoft Task Gallery
3DTop
3Dwm
Win3D
don't forget your local meetup. :)
Let me make a hypothesis. Dark matter is matter with zero vibration and has determinate position and moment (may be they are all free floating atoms?). It has mass to act as 'glue' for the galaxy, but we are unable to detect it via other means because it doesn't give off any energy.
I have also noticed that Sun's website doesn't use jsp very much (or if they did, why won't they display the .jsp extension?). So far, all the forms I have only found submit to .cgi, which normally indicates that it's not a Java backend. Compare this with Microsoft's site which uses asp pages (even it's just for show, at least they are using _something_).
I tried to do some programming on the Mac by using the provided (free) documentation about a month after the iMac came out (this was during school and we had a Mac rep). Unfortunatly, their documentation sucked. I couldn't find info on writing a C++ program to display "hello world"! All they had was some tutorial on using their beutiful interface builder and Nextstep API/Objective-C stuff. Great. Note that the Mac Rep was a CS student and even he couldn't get "hello world" to work... Finally in June 2002 (5 month after launch!), they finally came out with a simple tutorial telling people how to do that. No wonder there's a lack of programs for the Mac... The doc may be better now, but it still doesn't compare to MSDN Library.
So if a patch can only deliver micronutrients, why not make a full body patch to deliver a large amounts of nutrients? You can make the wearable patch to be underwear, thermos, unitards, etc. and take advantage of the skin's large surface area.
printing to a file for debuging doesn't work too well for multithreaded applications because the printing can and will affect how your resources are locked and unlocked.
I don't how this is related to News for nerds. Stuff that matters... Must be a slow day, and it's only 12:48am!