If you're writing 10,000 lines in a single file regularly, then your probably need to re-evaluate your coding methods (and you're probably not writing "good stuff"). An IDE does more than just allowing you to fill a file with many lines of text, it keeps your 10,000 lines over multiple files organised... and you know... a huge number of other helpful things (code-completion/etc).
I agree about the 10,000 line files. It shows something else is wrong that an IDE, vi, emacs, or whatever can't directly solve. My point was that choosing an IDE over emacs because IDE's handle 10,000 line files better doesn't make sense.
From what I've seen IDE's help people write code faster, but they don't help people write better code. Maybe I should try out this Eclipse thing just to see what all the fuss is about.
Vi is arcane but it does some powerful stuff that you don't get in gedit. Get used to vi and you will see a productivity improvement.
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If anyone says Emacs or Vi they are insane and have never done 10k lines of code in a modern environment.
There's the thing, it's not about 'modern environment', pretty displays, or cute graphics. It's about writing good stuff and cuteness is just a distraction from that.
Both vi and emacs can handle files with 10k lines easily. Chances are they both can handle much longer files before swapping then any IDE.
I only have one tip: label cables clearly at both end.
I would not do that for every cable, only for multi-vlan trunks or for anything unusual. I rely on color coded cables so I can tell what vlan things are at a glance.
Draw a horrible diagram in Visio (or similar) of what's connected where without any indication how it actually works!
There are certainly a lot of pretty but unhelpful visio diagrams in the world. That's why Visio sucks. It's pretty, really pretty, but for network diagrams you don't need pretty you need accurate and easy to read and update.
I'll stick to mediawiki and graphviz and get my updates done in much less time, with built in versioning, and accessible over the intranet to anyone who cares.
XP brings nothing new to the windows 2000 user. There are no real improvements at all. XP has a firewall that sucks, but the anti-virus software you are forced to buy likely has a better one.
XP, Vista, 7, none of these things have any advantage over 2000. The whole windows product line is based on the lie that newer is better. The whole gui setup on all windows products is piss-poor compared to KDE 3 and windows security is and always has been almost totally lacking.
You have been charged with the crime and the mental illness of curiosity. You will be beaten, and your property taken, until you choose ignorance about the world and all things in it.
At least that's how it worked in the thatcher-era English school system.
"Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever built. It's also the most secure OS on the planet, including Linux and open source and Apple Leopard. It's the safest and most secure OS on the planet today."
Translation:
I have more lawyers than you, I can lie my ass off and nobody can do anything about it. And I know there are people out there who will believe anything.
Sales people bend the truth. Sometimes they bend it really far.
it seems that a single error on a large capacity chip is getting more and more trivial. Isn't it a waste to throw away a whole DIMM? Why isn't it possible to "remap" this known-bad address, or allocate some amount of RAM for parity the way software like PAR2 works?
The poster is talking about how spooky solar radiation or background radioactivity flips a random bit every so often. Remapping would not help at all as you don't know you have a problem until it's too late and then it won't happen in the same place again.
The only RAID level that would really help is RAID 2 but it does not do anything that ECC ram does not already do so it doesn't seem to useful either.
The only way to reduce the solar rays problem is ECC ram which is why high end servers insist on it. The question people should be asking is 'is the extra uptime worth the extra money?'
Any anyway, if you have don't have evidence to back up libelous allegations, don't publish them? Nobody is forced to make allegations about other people. There is always the option to wait until you have actual evidence.
That's not the way these things work in practice because only the very rich can afford to deal with foreign court cases. Everyone else looses by default.
If you are 100% right about an allegation and can prove it beyond any doubt you will still loose unless you can afford good lawyers.
Why is it that companies allow the bad guys to p0wn their computers? Sure windows is a pile of horse-crap but it's possible to implement good firewalls and application proxies and to run the proper applications on proper OS's.
Perhaps if we get rid of all the 'professional manager' types and fake idiots types in IT things will improve.
The UK had its first snowfall in October in 74 YEARS!
That's totally untrue. The UK has had snow about every other year for at least 30 years. I've walked though it, driven though it, and as a kid played in it.
Open Office is very similar to Office. GIMP is very similar to Photoshop.
You try giving an accountant openoffice calc instead of excel and just watch the fireworks. Openoffice is different enough to cause them significant pain.
GIMP is very similar to Photoshop.
Try that on someone who does graphical work for a living and you won't make it out of the door. GIMP is a great tool for the kind of stuff normal people do but it's at heart a bad photoshop rip-off.
You are the IT Manager, it's your job to fix this. I hate software licenses as much as the next guy but being complicit in criminal behavior is not an option.
I would do the following:
1) Make a list of all the software you need. Ask all the users what they need so you can pass the buck back to them when you miss something they never told you about.
2) Make a nice sheet in excel, wiki, or whatever detailing what licenses you have and what licenses you need.
3) Buy the software or replace it with OSS. Normally buying the same tool causes less resistance but money might be tight. Tell the users it's an upgrade, throw in a bit more RAM, and tell the users something about upgrading 'the network'. They will at least think they are getting something out of this.
4) Profit! Assuming you don't get sacked for causing too much nuisance send your full reports to management and look like a hero. Even bad management love it when you give them a list of problems they no longer have.
Always keep clear records. If the BSA ( or whoever ) do turn up management will blame you in a heartbeat and you will need every scrap of evidence to prove you, and your company, are doing the right thing.
Seriously, I don't even think KVM runs on Windows at all.
I never said it did. The RHEV management console runs as a.net application on windows 2003. VMware ESXi and the commercial xen offering both also require windows consoles. It's like some sick joke the virtulization work is playing on us.
KVM is going to be slower than XEN unless you have a super-duper-mega-new CPU with Intel EPT or AMD RVI support.
You mean like any CPU either have released in oh... about the past 3 years?
Ok, say EPT/RVI has been in every chip produced for the last 3 years. Do you seriously expect industry to change all its servers within 3 years? Or throw out servers that work perfectly well with Xen only to spend money buying something new that runs at the same speed. Responsible IT is about staying off the upgrade treadmill.
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If you're writing 10,000 lines in a single file regularly, then your probably need to re-evaluate your coding methods (and you're probably not writing "good stuff"). An IDE does more than just allowing you to fill a file with many lines of text, it keeps your 10,000 lines over multiple files organised... and you know... a huge number of other helpful things (code-completion/etc).
I agree about the 10,000 line files. It shows something else is wrong that an IDE, vi, emacs, or whatever can't directly solve. My point was that choosing an IDE over emacs because IDE's handle 10,000 line files better doesn't make sense.
From what I've seen IDE's help people write code faster, but they don't help people write better code. Maybe I should try out this Eclipse thing just to see what all the fuss is about.
I'm sure lots of people are happy with emacs.
I'm sure lots of people are happy with American cars too, but we have objective standards for a reason.
Are there objective standards for how productive a coder is? It doesn't seem an easy thing to measure.
I'm more than happy with gedit and make.........
Vi is arcane but it does some powerful stuff that you don't get in gedit. Get used to vi and you will see a productivity improvement.
If anyone says Emacs or Vi they are insane and have never done 10k lines of code in a modern environment.
There's the thing, it's not about 'modern environment', pretty displays, or cute graphics. It's about writing good stuff and cuteness is just a distraction from that.
Both vi and emacs can handle files with 10k lines easily. Chances are they both can handle much longer files before swapping then any IDE.
Just vi. It's all about function not cuteness.
But lets not start the whole vi V emacs thing again, I'm sure lots of people are happy with emacs.
All you are doing is wasting your companies money paying you salary for doing what they probably don't care about.
Doing a good job isn't just about doing what you are told. Just because management don't care about something doesn't mean you get to not care too.
Sometimes you have to do the right thing and often the right thing is helping the next guy who gets your job so that everything says running.
I only have one tip: label cables clearly at both end.
I would not do that for every cable, only for multi-vlan trunks or for anything unusual. I rely on color coded cables so I can tell what vlan things are at a glance.
Draw a horrible diagram in Visio (or similar) of what's connected where without any indication how it actually works!
There are certainly a lot of pretty but unhelpful visio diagrams in the world. That's why Visio sucks. It's pretty, really pretty, but for network diagrams you don't need pretty you need accurate and easy to read and update.
I'll stick to mediawiki and graphviz and get my updates done in much less time, with built in versioning, and accessible over the intranet to anyone who cares.
Totally agree about the wiki. I use a wiki because it's easy to write and fast to update.
All my network diagrams are done in graphviz in mediawiki which is also easy to write and fast to update once you get used to it.
As a bonus mediawiki keeps every old version of your documentation so you can easily prove what great work you have been doing.
XP brings nothing new to the windows 2000 user. There are no real improvements at all. XP has a firewall that sucks, but the anti-virus software you are forced to buy likely has a better one.
XP, Vista, 7, none of these things have any advantage over 2000. The whole windows product line is based on the lie that newer is better. The whole gui setup on all windows products is piss-poor compared to KDE 3 and windows security is and always has been almost totally lacking.
In my experience, most cops are decent people who are trying to make the community better.
I don't know what paradise you live in but that's not my experience of the police.
My experience is that they took the job so they could feel superior to other people and don't care one jot about the victims of crime.
You have been charged with the crime and the mental illness of curiosity. You will be beaten, and your property taken, until you choose ignorance about the world and all things in it.
At least that's how it worked in the thatcher-era English school system.
Microsoft - getting rich with crappy code since '75.
> KDE updated to 4.2.2... ... which is the best reason yet to not upgrade.
Great work from the FreeBSD project but KDE 4 is a joke.
"Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever built. It's also the most secure OS on the planet, including Linux and open source and Apple Leopard. It's the safest and most secure OS on the planet today."
Translation:
I have more lawyers than you, I can lie my ass off and nobody can do anything about it. And I know there are people out there who will believe anything.
Sales people bend the truth. Sometimes they bend it really far.
it seems that a single error on a large capacity chip is getting more and more trivial. Isn't it a waste to throw away a whole DIMM? Why isn't it possible to "remap" this known-bad address, or allocate some amount of RAM for parity the way software like PAR2 works?
The poster is talking about how spooky solar radiation or background radioactivity flips a random bit every so often. Remapping would not help at all as you don't know you have a problem until it's too late and then it won't happen in the same place again.
The only RAID level that would really help is RAID 2 but it does not do anything that ECC ram does not already do so it doesn't seem to useful either.
The only way to reduce the solar rays problem is ECC ram which is why high end servers insist on it. The question people should be asking is 'is the extra uptime worth the extra money?'
Any anyway, if you have don't have evidence to back up libelous allegations, don't publish them? Nobody is forced to make allegations about other people. There is always the option to wait until you have actual evidence.
That's not the way these things work in practice because only the very rich can afford to deal with foreign court cases. Everyone else looses by default.
If you are 100% right about an allegation and can prove it beyond any doubt you will still loose unless you can afford good lawyers.
Why is it that companies allow the bad guys to p0wn their computers? Sure windows is a pile of horse-crap but it's possible to implement good firewalls and application proxies and to run the proper applications on proper OS's.
Perhaps if we get rid of all the 'professional manager' types and fake idiots types in IT things will improve.
The UK had its first snowfall in October in 74 YEARS!
That's totally untrue. The UK has had snow about every other year for at least 30 years. I've walked though it, driven though it, and as a kid played in it.
You don't do backups, you do redundancy. If your IT model depends on one server doing its thing right, you have already gone down the path the doom.
You need point in time backups of all code and user data as well. Even the brightest people delete or alter the wrong thing every once in a while.
It is goes off site encrypt it. That's what I do.
You have to compress the data first as the tape drive can't do its own compression on encrypted data.
The only exception is content that's meant to be public in the first place.
"shitcanned" isn't the right word. "liberated" is the right word. Better to be free and hungry than fat and fucked up.
Is that what passes for wisdom on slashdot? You would not say that if you had ever actually been hungry.
Surely some compromise between the extremes is better.
Open Office is very similar to Office. GIMP is very similar to Photoshop.
You try giving an accountant openoffice calc instead of excel and just watch the fireworks. Openoffice is different enough to cause them significant pain.
GIMP is very similar to Photoshop.
Try that on someone who does graphical work for a living and you won't make it out of the door. GIMP is a great tool for the kind of stuff normal people do but it's at heart a bad photoshop rip-off.
You are the IT Manager, it's your job to fix this. I hate software licenses as much as the next guy but being complicit in criminal behavior is not an option.
I would do the following:
1) Make a list of all the software you need. Ask all the users what they need so you can pass the buck back to them when you miss something they never told you about.
2) Make a nice sheet in excel, wiki, or whatever detailing what licenses you have and what licenses you need.
3) Buy the software or replace it with OSS. Normally buying the same tool causes less resistance but money might be tight. Tell the users it's an upgrade, throw in a bit more RAM, and tell the users something about upgrading 'the network'. They will at least think they are getting something out of this.
4) Profit! Assuming you don't get sacked for causing too much nuisance send your full reports to management and look like a hero. Even bad management love it when you give them a list of problems they no longer have.
Always keep clear records. If the BSA ( or whoever ) do turn up management will blame you in a heartbeat and you will need every scrap of evidence to prove you, and your company, are doing the right thing.
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Seriously, I don't even think KVM runs on Windows at all.
I never said it did. The RHEV management console runs as a .net application on windows 2003. VMware ESXi and the commercial xen offering both also require windows consoles. It's like some sick joke the virtulization work is playing on us.
KVM is going to be slower than XEN unless you have a super-duper-mega-new CPU with Intel EPT or AMD RVI support.
You mean like any CPU either have released in oh... about the past 3 years?
Ok, say EPT/RVI has been in every chip produced for the last 3 years. Do you seriously expect industry to change all its servers within 3 years? Or throw out servers that work perfectly well with Xen only to spend money buying something new that runs at the same speed. Responsible IT is about staying off the upgrade treadmill.