We had homer, bart, lisa, and maggie for production servers, them selma and patty for the development/test environments at one location. At another, we had various liquors and chocolates. Sometimes, the hostname and the DBMS name would be a pair, i.e. pepper and SALT.
I myself at one point had workstations named 'dax', 'bajor', 'ds9' and 'terak-nor'. Ironically, 'dax' has outlived them all.
You should hear my 4-1/2 year old daughter singing "Pancreas"... it's her favorite song, just before "White and Nerdy" (she sings the chorus, although it usually sounds more like 'white and dirty', which makes no sense).
It reminds me of the email Scott Adams reprinted in "The Dilbert Principle", where programmers were paid by the bug they found, and fixed (quite a profit center until Management came to). It is difficult to create a meaningful measurement when the measurer is the measuree, and can manipulate the data to their benefit.
HHGtoG would be nice, but I am banking on the book from
"The Diamond Age", wireless interaction with real people
(I know what you're thinking...). The educational implications
are impressive.
My son and I saw the trail as we were packing his hockey gear (south of Dulles Airport, due west of DC proper)... I had no idea that it was from a rocket at the time (makes perfect sense now).
Cool to be returning to the good ol' days of small-scale spaceflight, especially outside my front window.
If you can get past the fact that it's run by The Mouse...
DisneyQuest has floors filled with the classic arcade games... hell,
some that I, as a nearly-40-year-old, hadn't seen before,
like Spacewar (as implemented from Slug Russell's
designs back in the 1960's at MIT.
So then, you always take whatever non-bills you obtain when purchasing something with
cash and put it in the tip jar?
As a coin collector, and I imagine there is a fair percentage
of/.ers that are as well, I find the occasion need to keep coins on one's person, if not for purchasing items.
Replace? What replace? My household has (at the moment):
1 1976-era Atari 2600 (10 carts)
1 Atari Flashback 2 (un-modded)
1 N64
1 Gamecube
1 PS2
1 Xavix
2 Gameboy Color
2 Gameboy Advance
2 Gameboy Advance SP
1 DS
N RCA-plugin-style game-in-a-joystick things (where N is in the neighborhood of 3)
Aside from the classic Atari (which is attached to a TV in an inconvenient location:
guest bedroom), all of the above get some play at some point during a given week.
New systems just makes more options of what/where to play; I love watching my 11 y/o
son get frustrated because the bat keeps carrying his sword away in Adventure, more so
than his wielding some key-sword thing in Kingdom Hearts 2.
Replace means something is broken, not something is no longer the 'it' system.
I am in a similar situation to the OP. I have been manually running Retrospect (when I remember), but
have had zero luck in getting anything useful out of them. I have a pair of WD USD drives I rotate
to keep one in a firesafe while the other is attached, so SyncToy sounds good to me.
My situation is made more complicated as I have an iMac that needs backups as well as the pair
of WinXP boxen. One of these days I will just write up a Shell script to run tar and write
it to the WD over Samba.
Similar path here: 1981, western Oregon, VIC-20, Compute!
Personally, I am giving my nearly-12-year-old son my Learning Perl, 3ed, and
telling him, "get through the first few chapters, then tell me what you want a program
to do, and I will help you get there". Given the problems I have with adult customers,
this should be interesting.
Imagine if, instead of glass and mirrors you had an opaque set of monitors that was providing
images of what is all around your car: drive-by-wire, as it were...
Of course, the safety-minded wouldn't like the fact that, if in a system failure, you
were travelling at N mph in a ton or so of metal that you can't see to control... maybe,
by then the cars will drive themselves, and the viewport is just for recreation purposes.
this is the same argument I make for all-in-one stereo systems... if the tape deck fails, will I just not listen to tapes or chuck it for an all-new system? (the manufacturers are betting on the latter).
I would rather have the highest quality components that I can afford (which explains why my MP3 player and Zaurus share the CF card format, and I have
Outlook configured to update both my Zaurus address book and my phone's phonebook. If one is not working/present, it shouldn't affect me.
First, was the VIC-20 (high school), followed by the 64 (during stint in USAF:
used the SID file of the theme to Star Trek II as an alarm clock)...
Good times, good times...
The only proper comparison would be to take the box office receipts from
Episode III in this universe, and compare it to those of a quantum universe
where the eight decided to go play golf instead of leaking the movie.
...until Tom Ridge & Co. figure out that this could be used for surveillance by "people they don't want taking pictures of stuff".
Person:... flying a kite way up high... Gov: Say, do you have a pilot's license for that? Person: What, for the kite? Gov: Yeah... bring that down here so I can search it for surveillance equipment... can't be too careful nowadays. Person: You want to inspect my kite? Gov: Sir, turn the string over, and no one gets uncomfortable. Person:...brings kite in... Gov:...inspects kite... finds camera and GPS Gov: Sir, you have some explaining to do...
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My wife is in a similar boat, but hers is such that her eyes focus out of phase from each other. 3-D movie glasses are useless, as her mind gets the red, then the blue, then the red, et cetera, and is unable to combine to two images into simulated 3-D. Burned $8 at the theater for Spy Kids 3-D (well, it was more like $24 plus snacks, 'cause the movie sucked).
I subscribed at issue #4 from Dr. Orwant himself (Usenix 1997), and I agree: the EarthWeb deal was the start of the downward spiral. I remember how EW wanted you to subscribe to their website (credit cards only, thanks), and they would throw the print version at no additional charge... I would still send my money in the old fashioned way. I suppose TPJ is yet another victim of the dot-com-bustables and the down ad market.
As the most recent Best of Show (2000) recipient, I am very saddened to hear of TPJ's demise: it robs me of defending my title with this sort of stuff:
This contest gave me an outlet to keep my production code from complete incomprehensibility.
I have been cooking up entries for over a year now, waiting to hear the opening bell for the next contest, which it appears will now not ring.
P.S.: if anyone wants to see Yahtzee implemented in
less than 1k, drop me a mail.
Here is a battle I fought (and won) in the
bowels of the Pentagon, when I was a lowly enlisted man (USAF) in 1994:
Boss: You need to update the documentation for your system [IBM RS/6000 running AIX]; use MSWord. Me: That format is not standard; we need to use HTML. Boss: Not standard? Of course it's standard, everyone with Windows has MSWord. Me: Not everyone is using Windows; most members of our team use XStations. Boss: Hmm, will I be able to read the documents from here [Windows 3.x]? Me: Yes, just as I am reading them from here [FreeBSD running on same class of hardware as boss], or from here [XStation connected to internal RS/6000]. Boss: Ok, I suppose you can do that.
Considering the previous format was troff, which only I (in a shop of 6 people) could still read and write, HTML seemed the logical choice.
I shudder to think of how I would have viewed the docs on the XStation on the production floor if we had to use MS products...
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We had homer, bart, lisa, and maggie for production servers, them selma and patty for the development/test environments at one location. At another, we had various liquors and chocolates. Sometimes, the hostname and the DBMS name would be a pair, i.e. pepper and SALT. I myself at one point had workstations named 'dax', 'bajor', 'ds9' and 'terak-nor'. Ironically, 'dax' has outlived them all.
You should hear my 4-1/2 year old daughter singing "Pancreas"... it's her favorite song, just before "White and Nerdy" (she sings the chorus, although it usually sounds more like 'white and dirty', which makes no sense).
A method of tracking individuals wherever they may be within a building, viewable on a display... hmm, sounds like the Marauder's Map to me.
It reminds me of the email Scott Adams reprinted in "The Dilbert Principle", where programmers were paid by the bug they found, and fixed (quite a profit center until Management came to). It is difficult to create a meaningful measurement when the measurer is the measuree, and can manipulate the data to their benefit.
HHGtoG would be nice, but I am banking on the book from "The Diamond Age", wireless interaction with real people (I know what you're thinking...). The educational implications are impressive.
My son and I saw the trail as we were packing his hockey gear (south of Dulles Airport, due west of DC proper)... I had no idea that it was from a rocket at the time (makes perfect sense now). Cool to be returning to the good ol' days of small-scale spaceflight, especially outside my front window.
If you can get past the fact that it's run by The Mouse... DisneyQuest has floors filled with the classic arcade games... hell, some that I, as a nearly-40-year-old, hadn't seen before, like Spacewar (as implemented from Slug Russell's designs back in the 1960's at MIT.
So then, you always take whatever non-bills you obtain when purchasing something with cash and put it in the tip jar? As a coin collector, and I imagine there is a fair percentage of /.ers that are as well, I find the occasion need to keep coins on one's person, if not for purchasing items.
Replace? What replace? My household has (at the moment): 1 1976-era Atari 2600 (10 carts) 1 Atari Flashback 2 (un-modded) 1 N64 1 Gamecube 1 PS2 1 Xavix 2 Gameboy Color 2 Gameboy Advance 2 Gameboy Advance SP 1 DS N RCA-plugin-style game-in-a-joystick things (where N is in the neighborhood of 3) Aside from the classic Atari (which is attached to a TV in an inconvenient location: guest bedroom), all of the above get some play at some point during a given week. New systems just makes more options of what/where to play; I love watching my 11 y/o son get frustrated because the bat keeps carrying his sword away in Adventure, more so than his wielding some key-sword thing in Kingdom Hearts 2. Replace means something is broken, not something is no longer the 'it' system.
I am in a similar situation to the OP. I have been manually running Retrospect (when I remember), but have had zero luck in getting anything useful out of them. I have a pair of WD USD drives I rotate to keep one in a firesafe while the other is attached, so SyncToy sounds good to me. My situation is made more complicated as I have an iMac that needs backups as well as the pair of WinXP boxen. One of these days I will just write up a Shell script to run tar and write it to the WD over Samba.
Similar path here: 1981, western Oregon, VIC-20, Compute! Personally, I am giving my nearly-12-year-old son my Learning Perl, 3ed, and telling him, "get through the first few chapters, then tell me what you want a program to do, and I will help you get there". Given the problems I have with adult customers, this should be interesting.
Imagine if, instead of glass and mirrors you had an opaque set of monitors that was providing images of what is all around your car: drive-by-wire, as it were... Of course, the safety-minded wouldn't like the fact that, if in a system failure, you were travelling at N mph in a ton or so of metal that you can't see to control... maybe, by then the cars will drive themselves, and the viewport is just for recreation purposes.
this is the same argument I make for all-in-one stereo systems... if the tape deck fails, will I just not listen to tapes or chuck it for an all-new system? (the manufacturers are betting on the latter). I would rather have the highest quality components that I can afford (which explains why my MP3 player and Zaurus share the CF card format, and I have Outlook configured to update both my Zaurus address book and my phone's phonebook. If one is not working/present, it shouldn't affect me.
Only eaten there because they offer a WeightWatchers-based menu for some stuff... spending too much time reading /.
First, was the VIC-20 (high school), followed by the 64 (during stint in USAF: used the SID file of the theme to Star Trek II as an alarm clock)... Good times, good times...
The only proper comparison would be to take the box office receipts from Episode III in this universe, and compare it to those of a quantum universe where the eight decided to go play golf instead of leaking the movie.
If you have a non-decent judge, you better hope his robe stays closed...
Person: ... flying a kite way up high... ...brings kite in... ...inspects kite... finds camera and GPS
Gov: Say, do you have a pilot's license for that?
Person: What, for the kite?
Gov: Yeah... bring that down here so I can search it for surveillance equipment... can't be too careful nowadays.
Person: You want to inspect my kite?
Gov: Sir, turn the string over, and no one gets uncomfortable.
Person:
Gov:
Gov: Sir, you have some explaining to do...
My wife is in a similar boat, but hers is such that her eyes focus out of phase from each other. 3-D movie glasses are useless, as her mind gets the red, then the blue, then the red, et cetera, and is unable to combine to two images into simulated 3-D. Burned $8 at the theater for Spy Kids 3-D (well, it was more like $24 plus snacks, 'cause the movie sucked).
- Mercury: division of GM
- Venus: line of ladies' razors
- Mars: candy bars
- Jupiter: nothing comes to mind... Bueller?
- Saturn: another division of GM
- Uranus: too easy
- Neptune: washing machines by Maytag
- Pluto: Disney character
So many lawsuits, so little time...The fourth item, specifically avatars, reminded me of The Modular Man, a reasonable piece of science fiction (so far...)
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "server farm"...
I subscribed at issue #4 from Dr. Orwant himself (Usenix 1997), and I agree: the EarthWeb deal was the start of the downward spiral. I remember how EW wanted you to subscribe to their website (credit cards only, thanks), and they would throw the print version at no additional charge... I would still send my money in the old fashioned way. I suppose TPJ is yet another victim of the dot-com-bustables and the down ad market.
$;=q(,225:332.711,242.913,233:543:253:357:777,233: 626;422:345);p lit(//,"dbfa");) =split(//,$_);
$,=length($0.$^T);$:=join"",map{chr(hex("2$_"))}s
for(unpack("A4"x++$,,$;)){eval"y|.:;,|$:|";($,,@,
print chr(ord('`')+eval join($,,@,));}print"\n";
This contest gave me an outlet to keep my production code from complete incomprehensibility.
I have been cooking up entries for over a year now, waiting to hear the opening bell for the next contest, which it appears will now not ring.
P.S.: if anyone wants to see Yahtzee implemented in less than 1k, drop me a mail.
Boss: You need to update the documentation for your system [IBM RS/6000 running AIX]; use MSWord.
Me: That format is not standard; we need to use HTML.
Boss: Not standard? Of course it's standard, everyone with Windows has MSWord.
Me: Not everyone is using Windows; most members of our team use XStations.
Boss: Hmm, will I be able to read the documents from here [Windows 3.x]?
Me: Yes, just as I am reading them from here [FreeBSD running on same class of hardware as boss], or from here [XStation connected to internal RS/6000].
Boss: Ok, I suppose you can do that.
Considering the previous format was troff, which only I (in a shop of 6 people) could still read and write, HTML seemed the logical choice.
I shudder to think of how I would have viewed the docs on the XStation on the production floor if we had to use MS products...