nah, since it terminates in the US and is not owned by a hostile foreign government they just tap it by tapping it at the terminating router. They only had to tap the Russian lines undersea because the endpoint was on Russian soil.
Wow, a troll mod for something that is a true statement that Sun executives have even mentioned???? Slashdot is on crack again. Motif is ugly as all hell and lacks a lot of functionality that modern WM's and toolkits have.
You should really talk to the local parish wher I live then. They told my wife that she had to get her marriage in order so that she could be a good christian. This after it was their f'ing diocese that told us we couldn't be married in the church (something about not enough time being provided between pre-canna classes and the wedding date, what BS). Since the priest made that remark we have not been back to the church and we don't really plan to unless our son tells us he wishes to pursue that branch of religion.
Verizon does NOT have the best coverage, at least in my experience. I have a Verizon phone that can't get a digital OR analog signal in much of rural Ohio. On the other hand my AT&T phone has never told me it couldn't find a tower. I have used it in grand canyon national park, throughout the easter apalachians, and other areas where you wouldn't expect cell coverage. AT&T's digital coverage area may not be as big as Verizons but their analog backfill is VASTLY superior IMHO and experience. Btw it's not just totally rural areas, I was between Akron and Canton, the center of a population area of ~1.6 Million and couldn't get a signal.
Looks good but it's 1/10th the size and not nearly as flexible. For instance when we shut down one facility we just moved the physical printers into the area the employees would be occupying in the new building and transfered the queue's and DNS assignment to the new locations existing print server, almost no client side changes and very little muss on the printer side, I know the MS solution wouldn't be that easy =) But really going from 6 admins for one campus to one and all for only 1K printers isn't that tremendous, it never should have been that bad to begin with!
F60.2 Dissocial (Antisocial) Personality Disorder
Personality disorder, usually coming to attention because of a gross disparity between behaviour and the prevailing social norms, and characterized by at least 3 of the following:
(a) callous unconcern for the feelings of others;
(b) gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules and obligations;
(f) marked proneness to blame others, or to offer plausible rationalizations, for the behaviour that has brought the patient into conflict with society.
Those three seems to fit the people I label as antisocial pretty well. And remember this is a clinical diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder, many people might not quite fit the clinical definition but would still fall under the lay definition I use =)
from dictionary.com:
Antisocial
1. Shunning the society of others; not sociable.
2. Hostile to or disruptive of the established social order; marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores: gangs engaging in vandalism and other antisocial behavior.
3. Antagonistic toward or disrespectful of others; rude.
1 and 3 again match the term as I used it. I don't often use a term I don't mean.
I wasn't talking about people who are unable to effectivly communicate, I am talking about people who's best work environment is NOT in the middle of a high traffic area with lots of distractions. You can be antisocial and still communicate effectivly. I do it all the time. Whenever there are large meetings which do not pertain to my job I tend to duck out because they make me uncomfortable, I do the same thing at large family gatherings. Yet in my day to day job I have to interact with many customers on different technical levels, everything from receptionists to IT admin's who know easily as much about the product I am fixing as I do. I do that part well but I would be miserable if I were forced to work in the middle of a bunch of noisy distracting people. Facts of life, not everyone has the same best work environment and any HR plan that doesn't recognize that is going to come up with an inefficient solution.
in the enterprise datacenter has to be Cisco Enterprise Printing System of CEPS for short. With CEPS Cisco has over 10K printers in thousands of sites around the world with only 2 print admin's!! CEPS is based around SAMBA and CUPS and allows windows, linux, and unix clients to print to printers in a way that is unmatched for redundancy in any other product commercial or otherwise. Remote print servers can take over controll of print queues quickly in the event of a print server failure and queues can be rerouted to a new print device should a physical printer fail all without client reconfiguration! Cisco was nice enough to give the system back to the world. They have a sourceforge project available for anyone interested.
They can be, but the traits that lead to them are much more common in males then in females. Not only that but the potential in females of that caliber is often unrecognized and not prodded and sheperded. Young females that show the signs of being introverted and overachieving are oscracized much more than their male counterparts. This is fortunatly less true today then it was just a few decades ago. As a good example my slightly autistic cousin who is also a genious (175 IQ on most tests) met his fiance who is also mildy autistic in one of his grad classes. They were both younger than any of the other students in their classes so they kind of naturally attracted. After talking with her family it turns out they have a long line of very bright but mildy twisted females in their family, unfortunatly for society she was the first to go to college despite the family being fairly well off and educated for many generations.
Lookup Mythical Man Month and one-ten engineers. These are the men that do the real work in any engineering firm. They are the men that can do the work of ten others and who's work needs less error checking because the design is cohesive and standardized, not to an arbitrary standard but to the only one that matters, internal cohesiveness. Many but not all of the people who fit the definition are introverted. They look into themselves to solve the problem and do not do well with outside distractions. They are often ADD or mildly autistic, it's the flipside of many geniuses.
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Power of 10 nothing, CD-R's break apart at roughly the equivilant of 100-150X CDROM which would only be ~20-30X DVD drives. 60-100K RPM is the hard numbers, which is for an undamaged disk, damaged disk can go at slightly over 25K RPM's which is the speed of a 48X CDROM or an 8X DVD player.
just for being antisocial? I think that we now know why Bill Joy left! Some of the best geeks I know are antisocial miscreants who given a project and deadline will outperform 5 of their peers but who do NOT want to have to deal with others on a minute by minute basis, they can basically handle weekly update meetings and the like but they would HATE to be in them all the time.
Of course, we were testing 12-18 hours a day depending on the point during the product cycle and people tended to eat lunch or the free popcorn whenever they got hungry. The lab results were more refined because they isolated the specific source of the noise, in a non-lab environment a spot transient source like a microwave might be hard to identify.
If your microwave is interfering with any WiFi device not adjacent to it then throw it out and get a new one. Any properly shielded microwave should NOT be interfering with your WiFi signal. I worked for 2.5 years with the guys at Cisco/Aironet and we could only find one 15 year old off brand microwave that we could get to cause any noticable loss of signal in our testing shacks (basically an RF isolated chamber enclosed by a Faraday cage). None of the microwaves in the building ever caused us any problems even though we had more WiFi equipment than any place on earth. And if you don't want to/can't replace the microwave then get an 802.11a capable radio, different spectrum =)
All those huge windows results are made with large shared nothing clusters with basically no redundancy. These are the antithesis of how people run realworld large database systems.
Yeah, I just interviewed with a large parts chain store group and they ran a LOT of their systems off of SCO Unix because the code had started out on AT&T UNIX back before the PC era. I asked if they were looking to porting to Linux and their response was that they were not because they were risk averse. When I heard that I wanted to say something but I didn't want to ruin my chances at the job. I ended up not getting the position, maybe it was for the best =)
The biggest problem with porting the toolset is that they used C++ Builder and were relying on Kylix to be able to do a fairly quick and painless port. Unfortunatly that was not the case as they kept running into bugs and problems with Kylix. Not only that but they were getting little support from Borland, it seems Borland jumped on the Linux bandwagon to keep their name in the game and had little real expectations of keeping up Kylix. Hell there have been few updates to Kylix in the last 2 years and none are forthcoming from what I saw in eweek a couple weeks ago.
Actually Bioware chose Bink because they had experience with it and they were origionally told by the makers of Bink that there would be a Linux port. When push came to shove the developers wanted a large pile of cash to do the conversion which Bioware was not able to justify. As to the last part of your statement, you can skip all the videos with some simple.ini file changes under windows or a shortcut with commandline options to start straight to an option like multiplayer. Even better is the ability to have a shortcut to a specific server, if you frequently play on one PW then you can hardcode a link to their IP or DNS name.
DB2 in the same league as Foxpro, you have to be joking, right???? DB2 is the largest deployed enterprise database in the world. It's bigger than Oracle in all but a few markets (like SAP/Peoplesoft and a few other ERMS's). It's also scalable and reliable beyond anything else bar Terredata's data warehousing stuff. Gartner has shown DB2 growing since late 2000, mostly at the expense of Oracle, people are more and more finding that good old DB2 is just as capable at a fraction of the price. I don't mean to sound like a DB zelot, but lumping DB2 with Foxpro is just too much for me to handle =)
If the site isn't conforming to the specifications that Mozilla claims to support, then yes it is fine. But more often than not Mozilla failing to work is due to some crappy server side client dection script that doesn't know what to do with Mozilla and so it just sends the equivilant of, "go away, we don't want your kind around here." My normal response is "fine, then I will take my business where I am apreciated". I got both of my banks (credit card and checking accounts) to support Mozilla by kindly asking a few times to have it added. Since many, many web developers use Mozilla because of its great standards compliance and it's lack of crashing it's often not hard if you ask the right people in the right way =)
Not really, the 2.4Ghz spectrum that the.11b and.11g protocols use is an ISM band which is basically the FCC's term for junk spectrum that can be used for virtually anything. This is unliscensed space and the rules are pretty lax. So long as you aren't exceeding power requirements and aren't bleeding into adjacent frequency spaces you are pretty much ok. The frequency seperations used in.11b and.11g are IEEE standards not FCC ones.
That being said we observed this with Atheros's.11b channel ganging tech. Not only were they using two channels but their side interference in that mode went from bad in their normal mode to absolutely atrocious in the "turbo" mode.
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nah, since it terminates in the US and is not owned by a hostile foreign government they just tap it by tapping it at the terminating router. They only had to tap the Russian lines undersea because the endpoint was on Russian soil.
Wow, a troll mod for something that is a true statement that Sun executives have even mentioned???? Slashdot is on crack again. Motif is ugly as all hell and lacks a lot of functionality that modern WM's and toolkits have.
Ummm, more like Solaris needs something a little more modern than Motif.
You should really talk to the local parish wher I live then. They told my wife that she had to get her marriage in order so that she could be a good christian. This after it was their f'ing diocese that told us we couldn't be married in the church (something about not enough time being provided between pre-canna classes and the wedding date, what BS). Since the priest made that remark we have not been back to the church and we don't really plan to unless our son tells us he wishes to pursue that branch of religion.
*agggggggggghhhhhhhh*
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Verizon does NOT have the best coverage, at least in my experience. I have a Verizon phone that can't get a digital OR analog signal in much of rural Ohio. On the other hand my AT&T phone has never told me it couldn't find a tower. I have used it in grand canyon national park, throughout the easter apalachians, and other areas where you wouldn't expect cell coverage. AT&T's digital coverage area may not be as big as Verizons but their analog backfill is VASTLY superior IMHO and experience. Btw it's not just totally rural areas, I was between Akron and Canton, the center of a population area of ~1.6 Million and couldn't get a signal.
Looks good but it's 1/10th the size and not nearly as flexible. For instance when we shut down one facility we just moved the physical printers into the area the employees would be occupying in the new building and transfered the queue's and DNS assignment to the new locations existing print server, almost no client side changes and very little muss on the printer side, I know the MS solution wouldn't be that easy =) But really going from 6 admins for one campus to one and all for only 1K printers isn't that tremendous, it never should have been that bad to begin with!
From the first hit on google for antisocial
F60.2 Dissocial (Antisocial) Personality Disorder
Personality disorder, usually coming to attention because of a gross disparity between behaviour and the prevailing social norms, and characterized by at least 3 of the following:
(a) callous unconcern for the feelings of others;
(b) gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules and obligations;
(f) marked proneness to blame others, or to offer plausible rationalizations, for the behaviour that has brought the patient into conflict with society.
Those three seems to fit the people I label as antisocial pretty well. And remember this is a clinical diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder, many people might not quite fit the clinical definition but would still fall under the lay definition I use =)
from dictionary.com:
Antisocial
1. Shunning the society of others; not sociable.
2. Hostile to or disruptive of the established social order; marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores: gangs engaging in vandalism and other antisocial behavior.
3. Antagonistic toward or disrespectful of others; rude.
1 and 3 again match the term as I used it. I don't often use a term I don't mean.
I wasn't talking about people who are unable to effectivly communicate, I am talking about people who's best work environment is NOT in the middle of a high traffic area with lots of distractions. You can be antisocial and still communicate effectivly. I do it all the time. Whenever there are large meetings which do not pertain to my job I tend to duck out because they make me uncomfortable, I do the same thing at large family gatherings. Yet in my day to day job I have to interact with many customers on different technical levels, everything from receptionists to IT admin's who know easily as much about the product I am fixing as I do. I do that part well but I would be miserable if I were forced to work in the middle of a bunch of noisy distracting people. Facts of life, not everyone has the same best work environment and any HR plan that doesn't recognize that is going to come up with an inefficient solution.
in the enterprise datacenter has to be Cisco Enterprise Printing System of CEPS for short. With CEPS Cisco has over 10K printers in thousands of sites around the world with only 2 print admin's!! CEPS is based around SAMBA and CUPS and allows windows, linux, and unix clients to print to printers in a way that is unmatched for redundancy in any other product commercial or otherwise. Remote print servers can take over controll of print queues quickly in the event of a print server failure and queues can be rerouted to a new print device should a physical printer fail all without client reconfiguration! Cisco was nice enough to give the system back to the world. They have a sourceforge project available for anyone interested.
They can be, but the traits that lead to them are much more common in males then in females. Not only that but the potential in females of that caliber is often unrecognized and not prodded and sheperded. Young females that show the signs of being introverted and overachieving are oscracized much more than their male counterparts. This is fortunatly less true today then it was just a few decades ago. As a good example my slightly autistic cousin who is also a genious (175 IQ on most tests) met his fiance who is also mildy autistic in one of his grad classes. They were both younger than any of the other students in their classes so they kind of naturally attracted. After talking with her family it turns out they have a long line of very bright but mildy twisted females in their family, unfortunatly for society she was the first to go to college despite the family being fairly well off and educated for many generations.
Lookup Mythical Man Month and one-ten engineers. These are the men that do the real work in any engineering firm. They are the men that can do the work of ten others and who's work needs less error checking because the design is cohesive and standardized, not to an arbitrary standard but to the only one that matters, internal cohesiveness. Many but not all of the people who fit the definition are introverted. They look into themselves to solve the problem and do not do well with outside distractions. They are often ADD or mildly autistic, it's the flipside of many geniuses.
Power of 10 nothing, CD-R's break apart at roughly the equivilant of 100-150X CDROM which would only be ~20-30X DVD drives. 60-100K RPM is the hard numbers, which is for an undamaged disk, damaged disk can go at slightly over 25K RPM's which is the speed of a 48X CDROM or an 8X DVD player.
just for being antisocial? I think that we now know why Bill Joy left! Some of the best geeks I know are antisocial miscreants who given a project and deadline will outperform 5 of their peers but who do NOT want to have to deal with others on a minute by minute basis, they can basically handle weekly update meetings and the like but they would HATE to be in them all the time.
Of course, we were testing 12-18 hours a day depending on the point during the product cycle and people tended to eat lunch or the free popcorn whenever they got hungry. The lab results were more refined because they isolated the specific source of the noise, in a non-lab environment a spot transient source like a microwave might be hard to identify.
If your microwave is interfering with any WiFi device not adjacent to it then throw it out and get a new one. Any properly shielded microwave should NOT be interfering with your WiFi signal. I worked for 2.5 years with the guys at Cisco/Aironet and we could only find one 15 year old off brand microwave that we could get to cause any noticable loss of signal in our testing shacks (basically an RF isolated chamber enclosed by a Faraday cage). None of the microwaves in the building ever caused us any problems even though we had more WiFi equipment than any place on earth. And if you don't want to/can't replace the microwave then get an 802.11a capable radio, different spectrum =)
All those huge windows results are made with large shared nothing clusters with basically no redundancy. These are the antithesis of how people run realworld large database systems.
Yeah, I just interviewed with a large parts chain store group and they ran a LOT of their systems off of SCO Unix because the code had started out on AT&T UNIX back before the PC era. I asked if they were looking to porting to Linux and their response was that they were not because they were risk averse. When I heard that I wanted to say something but I didn't want to ruin my chances at the job. I ended up not getting the position, maybe it was for the best =)
Hell, IBM's annual retainer for all their lawyers is probably bigger than SCO's market cap =)
I thought he was talking about the yarns he's been pulling out of his arse for months now =)
Note to mod's:
A yarn is a newengland colloquialism for a tall tale.
The biggest problem with porting the toolset is that they used C++ Builder and were relying on Kylix to be able to do a fairly quick and painless port. Unfortunatly that was not the case as they kept running into bugs and problems with Kylix. Not only that but they were getting little support from Borland, it seems Borland jumped on the Linux bandwagon to keep their name in the game and had little real expectations of keeping up Kylix. Hell there have been few updates to Kylix in the last 2 years and none are forthcoming from what I saw in eweek a couple weeks ago.
Actually Bioware chose Bink because they had experience with it and they were origionally told by the makers of Bink that there would be a Linux port. When push came to shove the developers wanted a large pile of cash to do the conversion which Bioware was not able to justify. As to the last part of your statement, you can skip all the videos with some simple .ini file changes under windows or a shortcut with commandline options to start straight to an option like multiplayer. Even better is the ability to have a shortcut to a specific server, if you frequently play on one PW then you can hardcode a link to their IP or DNS name.
DB2 in the same league as Foxpro, you have to be joking, right???? DB2 is the largest deployed enterprise database in the world. It's bigger than Oracle in all but a few markets (like SAP/Peoplesoft and a few other ERMS's). It's also scalable and reliable beyond anything else bar Terredata's data warehousing stuff. Gartner has shown DB2 growing since late 2000, mostly at the expense of Oracle, people are more and more finding that good old DB2 is just as capable at a fraction of the price. I don't mean to sound like a DB zelot, but lumping DB2 with Foxpro is just too much for me to handle =)
If the site isn't conforming to the specifications that Mozilla claims to support, then yes it is fine. But more often than not Mozilla failing to work is due to some crappy server side client dection script that doesn't know what to do with Mozilla and so it just sends the equivilant of, "go away, we don't want your kind around here." My normal response is "fine, then I will take my business where I am apreciated". I got both of my banks (credit card and checking accounts) to support Mozilla by kindly asking a few times to have it added. Since many, many web developers use Mozilla because of its great standards compliance and it's lack of crashing it's often not hard if you ask the right people in the right way =)
Not really, the 2.4Ghz spectrum that the .11b and .11g protocols use is an ISM band which is basically the FCC's term for junk spectrum that can be used for virtually anything. This is unliscensed space and the rules are pretty lax. So long as you aren't exceeding power requirements and aren't bleeding into adjacent frequency spaces you are pretty much ok. The frequency seperations used in .11b and .11g are IEEE standards not FCC ones.
.11b channel ganging tech. Not only were they using two channels but their side interference in that mode went from bad in their normal mode to absolutely atrocious in the "turbo" mode.
That being said we observed this with Atheros's