I had a SPARC IPX on my desk when I received the Canter and Siegal email. I immediately generated a core dump and set a cron job to mail it to them every 10 minutes. I wish that were still possible.
Amen about the minidisc. My son got one a few years back and current models are even better. His model is rechargeable but mine (only $99) is not non-rechargeable. Big deal! AA batteries last many times longer than an iPod charge and are cheap. I can fit 4 CDs onto one disc and carry 5 more disks in a pocket.
For the geek who likes music, here is guaranteed geeky music. Yeah, sure, lots of guys play guitars, drums, etc. Some may even scratch on a violin. But how many play the bagpipes! Hard to learn? Sure, but so was programming. It's a challenge. But when he learns, think how sexy he'll look in a kilt!
WARNING: If you own a dog, the duets may be less than melodious.
I spent a few years as a parachute infantry officer in the 82d Airborne. Rifle and mortar platoon leader was fun. Except for having to bust dopers (this was the late '70s), this was the sort of macho stuff I had dreamed of. Then one day I was pulled into battalion and told I was to be the support platoon leader/assistant supply officer. Arrgh! The guys in that shop were paratroopers but not infantry--they were truck drivers and generally stoned. My 'office' a such as a desk on the back of a loading platform where assorted trucks sat beleching fumes. Even when the doors were closed, it was still miserable. The windows wouldn't close because the security bars had been welded on during the summer (when the windows were open) and fitted too close to let the windows swing up and back in place. We froze in winter.
I groan at one reason cited near the end of the article--that U.S. students are shying away from math and science. Does that mean we'll get stuck with all the lawyers and M.B.A.s? We got only ourselves (meaning, our citizens) to blame.
That way rather than trying to collect the cows now that the gate has been left open, Microsoft would have several thousand free employees helping to fix all the problems with Longhorn.
Our house sits at a 4-way intersection with two of the four directions leading to dead ends. But MapQuest and a few other major maps show one of these streets to be through to the a road the other side of the cul-de-sac. Heck, you can't even see the other road from the cul-de-sac. I've seen plenty of folk driving around the cul-de-sac with a quizical look. But even if it were a through street, I dunno how many people would take it--at that point the other 'street' is, in fact, a narrow dirt track leading for a few miles over a creek and up a steep hill before turning to asphalt. Gawd, I love the country life!
Jeez, and I thought #2 stunk! The review from the Washington Post was caustic: "Neo, schmeo! In "The Matrix Revolutions," directors Andy and Larry Wachowski give up on character; instead, they try havoc and let slurp the dogs of war. The film is a soggy mess, essentially a loud, wild 100-minute battle movie bookended by an incomprehensible beginning and a laughable ending." I'll sit this out.
Actually, I was thinking that we should just submit the names of the MS Windows development team, especially the dudes responsible for VB and Windows scripting.
Have you seen the Apple G5 case? A terrific setup with a enclosed area and special fan just for the CPU. When the case is closed, the fan moves at a slow speed, drawing air front to back. When opened ('cause everyone has to look inside to admire its layout) the air channel is no longer as efficient and the fan picks up speed. Why can't my Dell be made that way?
I can just see it now--some Intel-made chip somewhere starts to overheat or interfer with some other chip somewhere deep in a ammunition storage bunker. BOOM! Let's see Bush try to blame that on Al Qaeda!
Face facts: In our litigious society, schools--rightly or wrongly--get sued when parents realize that little Johnny has been skipping class or that little Jannie has been smoking dope and giving BJs behind the gym during lunch. The jurors that render judgment are made up of the same parents that fail to acknowledge their responsibility for their kids behavior. The schools must protect themselves. The cost of one of those lawsuits--imagine if the kid gets himself killed--could well be more than the cost of these RFIDs over a five year period.
I've about reached this point with the Swen worm. Since this past Saturday, about 80% of my email--home and office--is either the fake MS support announcement or message errors that tell me that my address was faked in trying to send Swen (got to be faked--I only run KMail on Linux). As my home email is dial-up (the pains of rural life) this is a real burden. Honest to God, are people really THAT STUPID? Until Microsloth can get it act together, we need to start blocking IE, Outlook, and Windows in general. Maybe then people would wise up and either fix there PCs or run a reliable OS.
It is a limitation with PostgreSQL 6. I thought at first that I must be doing something wrong. Then I found Postgresql: Developer's Handbook by Ewald Geschwinde, et al (published by SAMS) at a local B&N and looked up transaction management. It spelled out the bad news in a way the PostgreSQL docs only hinted at--sure enough, you can't independently manage transactions. Close one and you close them all.
I haven't heard of anything being done to add this capability to PostgreSQL 7. I hope someone puts it on top of their list. There were things I prefered about embedded SQL with PostgreSQL vs. Firebird but PostgreSQL's limited transaction management killed all my work with it.
PostgreSQL still needs better transaction handling before I'd call it ready for prime time. I found its limitations the hard way, attempting to port 13K lines of Oracle Embedded SQL. Imagine transaction A searching a database. Now you want transaction B to do something. It might be just two user queries open at the same time or one transaction reading one table while the second writes to another table. All well and good until one transaction closes. Then all transactions close! That just plain sucks.
However, I was able to port the entire application to Firebird--IMHO a far better database.
Why can't the Justice Department just brand these guys, SPAMmers, and the like cyber terrorists? Then (based on what they seem to be doing to other terrorists) they can lock them up, throw away key, and civil rights be damned.
It is cool but it's no Gandalff--only rings, no ships. Actually, one of the guys here has one--along with a air blaster and a rubber band machine gun. Serious toys in this shop (the company founder restores pipe organs and music boxes). I think that's why my wife thinks I can run all the errands or make all the daytime phone calls: This place hardly seems like work!
Amen! I attended the 1st ApacheCon and they had an party in the Exploratorium. What a place to turn loose several hundred geeks that you've loaded down with food and beer. Almost made you forget that there were so few chicks!
Amen! If there is no gym close by, get up early and work out in the morning. Get some dumbbells and do a 15 minute routine. Mix this up with mornings of situps and pushups. Follow that with a jog. Work up to 2-3 miles a day. No records here--take it easy. In the Army they call it the airborne shuffle: 8.5-9 minute miles. Even us older guys can handle that. If you don't like running or think winters are too cold, buy a Nordic Track. They take some getting used to but are great! At a modest pace, twenty minutes on one burns 200+ calories. You can even read while you do it. And don't forget to stretch before and after a workout.
Make up the lost time by cutting back on evening TV and eating lunch at your desk. Supermarket salad bars provide quick, easy, healthly lunches.
Above all, don't go thinking you're too valuable or too busy to take some time away from your desk. The first week or so will be hard but you'll end up being fresher and brighther for staying in shape.
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I had a SPARC IPX on my desk when I received the Canter and Siegal email. I immediately generated a core dump and set a cron job to mail it to them every 10 minutes. I wish that were still possible.
...that that's why there are canals. And y'all thought he was no rocket scientist.
Amen about the minidisc. My son got one a few years back and current models are even better. His model is rechargeable but mine (only $99) is not non-rechargeable. Big deal! AA batteries last many times longer than an iPod charge and are cheap. I can fit 4 CDs onto one disc and carry 5 more disks in a pocket.
Now if the software only ran on Linux...
I also looks to me that Budweiser drinks may be more inclined to drink on the job than those of us who are looking for taste vs. cheap alcohol.
For the geek who likes music, here is guaranteed geeky music. Yeah, sure, lots of guys play guitars, drums, etc. Some may even scratch on a violin. But how many play the bagpipes! Hard to learn? Sure, but so was programming. It's a challenge. But when he learns, think how sexy he'll look in a kilt!
WARNING: If you own a dog, the duets may be less than melodious.
I spent a few years as a parachute infantry officer in the 82d Airborne. Rifle and mortar platoon leader was fun. Except for having to bust dopers (this was the late '70s), this was the sort of macho stuff I had dreamed of. Then one day I was pulled into battalion and told I was to be the support platoon leader/assistant supply officer. Arrgh! The guys in that shop were paratroopers but not infantry--they were truck drivers and generally stoned. My 'office' a such as a desk on the back of a loading platform where assorted trucks sat beleching fumes. Even when the doors were closed, it was still miserable. The windows wouldn't close because the security bars had been welded on during the summer (when the windows were open) and fitted too close to let the windows swing up and back in place. We froze in winter.
I groan at one reason cited near the end of the article--that U.S. students are shying away from math and science. Does that mean we'll get stuck with all the lawyers and M.B.A.s? We got only ourselves (meaning, our citizens) to blame.
How about a gift from Dave Barry's Gift Guide? I see he even listed an item from Think Geek!
That way rather than trying to collect the cows now that the gate has been left open, Microsoft would have several thousand free employees helping to fix all the problems with Longhorn.
Our house sits at a 4-way intersection with two of the four directions leading to dead ends. But MapQuest and a few other major maps show one of these streets to be through to the a road the other side of the cul-de-sac. Heck, you can't even see the other road from the cul-de-sac. I've seen plenty of folk driving around the cul-de-sac with a quizical look. But even if it were a through street, I dunno how many people would take it--at that point the other 'street' is, in fact, a narrow dirt track leading for a few miles over a creek and up a steep hill before turning to asphalt. Gawd, I love the country life!
Jeez, and I thought #2 stunk! The review from the Washington Post was caustic: "Neo, schmeo! In "The Matrix Revolutions," directors Andy and Larry Wachowski give up on character; instead, they try havoc and let slurp the dogs of war. The film is a soggy mess, essentially a loud, wild 100-minute battle movie bookended by an incomprehensible beginning and a laughable ending." I'll sit this out.
Actually, I was thinking that we should just submit the names of the MS Windows development team, especially the dudes responsible for VB and Windows scripting.
...is it okay with Bill if his daughter is a little bit pregnant?
Have you seen the Apple G5 case? A terrific setup with a enclosed area and special fan just for the CPU. When the case is closed, the fan moves at a slow speed, drawing air front to back. When opened ('cause everyone has to look inside to admire its layout) the air channel is no longer as efficient and the fan picks up speed. Why can't my Dell be made that way?
I can just see it now--some Intel-made chip somewhere starts to overheat or interfer with some other chip somewhere deep in a ammunition storage bunker. BOOM! Let's see Bush try to blame that on Al Qaeda!
Face facts: In our litigious society, schools--rightly or wrongly--get sued when parents realize that little Johnny has been skipping class or that little Jannie has been smoking dope and giving BJs behind the gym during lunch. The jurors that render judgment are made up of the same parents that fail to acknowledge their responsibility for their kids behavior. The schools must protect themselves. The cost of one of those lawsuits--imagine if the kid gets himself killed--could well be more than the cost of these RFIDs over a five year period.
I've about reached this point with the Swen worm. Since this past Saturday, about 80% of my email--home and office--is either the fake MS support announcement or message errors that tell me that my address was faked in trying to send Swen (got to be faked--I only run KMail on Linux). As my home email is dial-up (the pains of rural life) this is a real burden. Honest to God, are people really THAT STUPID? Until Microsloth can get it act together, we need to start blocking IE, Outlook, and Windows in general. Maybe then people would wise up and either fix there PCs or run a reliable OS.
Especially in a public high school! I don't know how my wife does it...
It is a limitation with PostgreSQL 6. I thought at first that I must be doing something wrong. Then I found Postgresql: Developer's Handbook by Ewald Geschwinde, et al (published by SAMS) at a local B&N and looked up transaction management. It spelled out the bad news in a way the PostgreSQL docs only hinted at--sure enough, you can't independently manage transactions. Close one and you close them all.
I haven't heard of anything being done to add this capability to PostgreSQL 7. I hope someone puts it on top of their list. There were things I prefered about embedded SQL with PostgreSQL vs. Firebird but PostgreSQL's limited transaction management killed all my work with it.
PostgreSQL still needs better transaction handling before I'd call it ready for prime time. I found its limitations the hard way, attempting to port 13K lines of Oracle Embedded SQL. Imagine transaction A searching a database. Now you want transaction B to do something. It might be just two user queries open at the same time or one transaction reading one table while the second writes to another table. All well and good until one transaction closes. Then all transactions close! That just plain sucks.
However, I was able to port the entire application to Firebird--IMHO a far better database.
Why can't the Justice Department just brand these guys, SPAMmers, and the like cyber terrorists? Then (based on what they seem to be doing to other terrorists) they can lock them up, throw away key, and civil rights be damned.
Is someone gonna do a duck human or will Daffy be left ever 2d best?
It is cool but it's no Gandalff--only rings, no ships. Actually, one of the guys here has one--along with a air blaster and a rubber band machine gun. Serious toys in this shop (the company founder restores pipe organs and music boxes). I think that's why my wife thinks I can run all the errands or make all the daytime phone calls: This place hardly seems like work!
Amen! I attended the 1st ApacheCon and they had an party in the Exploratorium. What a place to turn loose several hundred geeks that you've loaded down with food and beer. Almost made you forget that there were so few chicks!
Amen! If there is no gym close by, get up early and work out in the morning. Get some dumbbells and do a 15 minute routine. Mix this up with mornings of situps and pushups. Follow that with a jog. Work up to 2-3 miles a day. No records here--take it easy. In the Army they call it the airborne shuffle: 8.5-9 minute miles. Even us older guys can handle that. If you don't like running or think winters are too cold, buy a Nordic Track. They take some getting used to but are great! At a modest pace, twenty minutes on one burns 200+ calories. You can even read while you do it. And don't forget to stretch before and after a workout.
Make up the lost time by cutting back on evening TV and eating lunch at your desk. Supermarket salad bars provide quick, easy, healthly lunches.
Above all, don't go thinking you're too valuable or too busy to take some time away from your desk. The first week or so will be hard but you'll end up being fresher and brighther for staying in shape.