I used to work for the IBM PC Company Tech Support Center, and I wrote the cgi script that handled the search form[ibm.com] for the FTP site there. This was around 1994 and it was a simple search index into an ftp site. Anyhow, I left the company in 1997 but an easter egg in the search.cgi was still there up until sometime last year. If you typed in my name or a colleague's name (Jesse Tilly) along with your search keywords it would return the old perl saying "The three great virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."
The funny things are: 1) I never expected that script to last until 1997, much less until 2001 2) I wrote the cgi in C.
Tesla was a "loony" but he was hella better of an inventor and scientist than Thomas "FUD" Edison.
And personally I don't think that his surety that his equipment was picking up signals from aliens was so loony. Given the time period, and the zeitgeist caused by the great leaps of science and industry at the time, he wasn't the only one who found extra terrestrials easy to believe in.
What was loony was his obsession with the numbers that are multiples of three (if he walked around a block once, he had to do it two more times or it would drive him bonkers) and his neurotic fear of germs.
I've been looking at these for awhile now, and decided after following that link to purchase one.
But I got a bit nervous when I checked the security certificate information for their SSL connection like I always do, and noticed it was some other webiste I'd never heard of.
Well that could just be their purchasing service, but just to be safe I decided to call their listed phone number (631) 474-4405 and that turned out to be no longer valid. I didn't call the new number given yet; I know I'm paranoid, and frankly I like it that way, but does anyone know if this is the legit link?
I dunno, Katz. There seemed to be a few faux dramatic moments. I'm not a rocket scientist, so maybe I'm just missing something, but I can't believe they stayed up all night chalking up a board and stroking a slide rule and no one realized until the last moment that they could just point the dish at the moon to be in the general vicinity of picking up the apollo 11 again. Shouldn't someone have just said, "hey let's point it at the moon when it rises" early on?
Customers paying 7500 pretty pennies a month can sustain a business if you get enough of them. I agree with a previous poster, their problem is marketing. I started using the riochet 28.8 service years ago and plan on going 128 soon. People are always excited when they see me using it out and about...that's the problem, they didn't know it existed until they see it in use.
Perhaps your friend should look for a new job, maybe Houston isn't ready yet. However I don't expect to see the whole company go under. They just need to concentrate on a larger customer base in core communities first in order to achieve sustainability.
I notice that nowhere in there product web page or their pdf Product Overview brochure do they mention Linux. At least I didn't find it, and neither did the browser/acroread search function. I'm sure the original poster is correct, but I wonder why they choose not to mention the actual OS? Perhaps it would frighten their target market.
"I did not use the Source Fragment Disclosure Vulnerability, but used an exploit I wrote myself," he said. The exploit is software tool that Mansur developed and then used to gain access to the servers.
That's my favorite too, it's the one that initiated my desire to become a computer programmer! Soon after I'd bought a C64 and started messing with sprites:)
If you're really traumatized by the thought that no single coder previously mastered all of the code then you have little/no experience with non-trivial software engineering projects.
I just happened to run across this article concering the open source release of Inprise's InterBase yesterday. This is already an enterprise level and commercially tested & deployed RDBMS isn't it? As I was reading the article I was wondering why the PostgreSQL or similarly talented folks just didn't throw their efforts behind it.
Note, I use PostgreSQL on my server and I have no problems with it (except for weird blown buffer errors during inserts with the perl lib), but InterBase sounded like a pretty solid system from the article.
By the way, I ran across that article while looking for comparison reviews on OSS Linux EJB containers. Anyone know where I can find such a thing? Please email me, I had no luck.
Here's an example from perlre.pod that shows how balanced parenthesized groups can be matched. $re = qr{ \( (?: (?> [^()]+ ) # Non-parens without backtracking | (?p{ $re }) # Group with matching parens )* \) }x; print $& if "abc(def(),ghi());" =~ $re; __END__ (def(),ghi())
Can anyone explain this to a C/C++/Java geek? Thanks.
It might work for the poster, but it won't for everybody. If your wrists ache to the point of actually constituting a repetitive stress injury such as tedonitis (which I have), then you have to undertand that you are fighting a battle to improve the health of your wrists.
What you really need is proper physical therapy. You should see your doctor of course, and she or an assigned PT should give you daily exercises which improve the strength of your wrists.
There's probably nothing wrong with taking a week off from typing, but you can't simply let your wrists atrohpy. It is imperative that they receive proper physical therapy in order to win the battle.
Just to share some anecdotal details: I have been typing on average of >8 hours a day for about a decade with no wrist problems. Last fall I took off on about 20 days of vacation in a 45 days period where I hardly typed at all. Soon after returning to regular work I went into a 4 day code frenzy (~15 hour days). On day 5 I had a finished project and I couldn't type my name without excruciating pain. I was in a panic for weeks, certain my career was over. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
Working with my doctor and a physical therapist, I can now function at an acceptable level.
Daily wrist exercises with a special rubber band you can get form a physical therapist.
a few minutes of wrist stretches and rest for every 20 minutes of typing.
Ice is your friend. I bought an ice-bag from a drug store an apply it a few times every day. Ice is your friend.
Do get wrist braces. Don't get the generic ones from a drugstore, get a set from your doctor or physical therapist, they are more comfortable. Wear them every night while you sleep, but only when you sleep.
I replaced all of my keyboards with cheap ($30) Memorex MX 3000 split-ergo keyboards. This was difficult because I've always used and loved IBM fullsized trackpoint keyboard (I hate reaching away from the keyboard for the mouse), HOWEVER I can work all day on the split keyboards, but 5 minutes on a regular flat keyboard cripples me. I would NEVER have believed a split keyoard would help this much until my wrists became so sensitive to stress. It is really a HUGE difference. EVERYONE should stop using flat keyboards.
I bought one of those Gyro- exercise balls which work your wrists and forearms. They are really cool, however it is still a little advanced for my stage of physical therapy.
My doctor put me on Naproxen which is basically an industrial strength ibuprofen.
When I was in my worst stage, I found that IBM ViaVoice technology was a great boon. Voice recognition technology has improved greatly in the past few years. I was able to dictate emails and IRC well enough. I'd really love to integrate viavoice with Konqueror.
Well I know this has been long winded, but I hope this can help.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course.
I've mirrored the videos on KaZaA. Here's the names:
e tting.mpg
r otary_flow.mpg
/. channel on some P2P network for mirrored multmedia files.
dispenser_slow.mpg
droplet_200hz.mpg
electrow
form_rotate_3.mpg
form_rotate_5.mpg
side_moving.mpg
And I put 'Mike Pollack' in the author field.
There oughta be a
The funny things are:
1) I never expected that script to last until 1997, much less until 2001
2) I wrote the cgi in C.
Tesla was a "loony" but he was hella better of an inventor and scientist than Thomas "FUD" Edison.
And personally I don't think that his surety that his equipment was picking up signals from aliens was so loony. Given the time period, and the zeitgeist caused by the great leaps of science and industry at the time, he wasn't the only one who found extra terrestrials easy to believe in.
What was loony was his obsession with the numbers that are multiples of three (if he walked around a block once, he had to do it two more times or it would drive him bonkers) and his neurotic fear of germs.
no
we've been using planet of the apes (original series) character names, btw.
I've been looking at these for awhile now, and decided after following that link to purchase one.
But I got a bit nervous when I checked the security certificate information for their SSL connection like I always do, and noticed it was some other webiste I'd never heard of.
Well that could just be their purchasing service, but just to be safe I decided to call their listed phone number (631) 474-4405 and that turned out to be no longer valid. I didn't call the new number given yet; I know I'm paranoid, and frankly I like it that way, but does anyone know if this is the legit link?
That article read less like science than marketing hype.
Wouldn't work on me in any case, as I read that article I did my usual: leave the mouse where it is, use the keyboard to move the page up and down.
It's just a jump to the left...
It's playing at the Embarcadero Center right now.
I dunno, Katz. There seemed to be a few faux dramatic moments. I'm not a rocket scientist, so maybe I'm just missing something, but I can't believe they stayed up all night chalking up a board and stroking a slide rule and no one realized until the last moment that they could just point the dish at the moon to be in the general vicinity of picking up the apollo 11 again. Shouldn't someone have just said, "hey let's point it at the moon when it rises" early on?
Customers paying 7500 pretty pennies a month can sustain a business if you get enough of them. I agree with a previous poster, their problem is marketing. I started using the riochet 28.8 service years ago and plan on going 128 soon. People are always excited when they see me using it out and about ...that's the problem, they didn't know it existed until they see it in use.
Perhaps your friend should look for a new job, maybe Houston isn't ready yet. However I don't expect to see the whole company go under. They just need to concentrate on a larger customer base in core communities first in order to achieve sustainability.
Just my opinion.
Looks like one way is to just look for /usr/src/.poop directory since he doesn't mention that it cleans up that stuff.
The virus cause an email to be sent to z14xym432@yahoo.com so I suppose you can email your comments to him/her there.
I notice that nowhere in there product web page or their pdf Product Overview brochure do they mention Linux. At least I didn't find it, and neither did the browser/acroread search function. I'm sure the original poster is correct, but I wonder why they choose not to mention the actual OS? Perhaps it would frighten their target market.
"I did not use the Source Fragment Disclosure Vulnerability, but used an exploit I wrote myself," he said. The exploit is software tool that Mansur developed and then used to gain access to the servers.
you halfway get it, genius.
first off, bozo, the deragatory word for italians is wop. and B) .wap is for Wireless Application Protocol and three: shut up you fuck.
That's my favorite too, it's the one that initiated my desire to become a computer programmer! Soon after I'd bought a C64 and started messing with sprites :)
Smell the smoke from all around
(well, ignoring the appeal process)
so what's your startup going to do?
YWDMV
If you're really traumatized by the thought that no single coder previously mastered all of the code then you have little/no experience with non-trivial software engineering projects.
Note, I use PostgreSQL on my server and I have no problems with it (except for weird blown buffer errors during inserts with the perl lib), but InterBase sounded like a pretty solid system from the article.
By the way, I ran across that article while looking for comparison reviews on OSS Linux EJB containers. Anyone know where I can find such a thing? Please email me, I had no luck.
Can anyone explain this to a C/C++/Java geek? Thanks.
It might work for the poster, but it won't for everybody. If your wrists ache to the point of actually constituting a repetitive stress injury such as tedonitis (which I have), then you have to undertand that you are fighting a battle to improve the health of your wrists.
What you really need is proper physical therapy. You should see your doctor of course, and she or an assigned PT should give you daily exercises which improve the strength of your wrists.
There's probably nothing wrong with taking a week off from typing, but you can't simply let your wrists atrohpy. It is imperative that they receive proper physical therapy in order to win the battle.
Just to share some anecdotal details: I have been typing on average of >8 hours a day for about a decade with no wrist problems. Last fall I took off on about 20 days of vacation in a 45 days period where I hardly typed at all. Soon after returning to regular work I went into a 4 day code frenzy (~15 hour days). On day 5 I had a finished project and I couldn't type my name without excruciating pain. I was in a panic for weeks, certain my career was over. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
Working with my doctor and a physical therapist, I can now function at an acceptable level.
Well I know this has been long winded, but I hope this can help.
-Dav