I was involved in a DSL project in Japan that used a piece of third-party software that was, essentially, a program that would examine your system and create a file that contained things like OS, Memory, CPU, Disk Size, monitor type, and anything else like this that it could find out.
This file was supposed to sit there until the DSL provider requested it behind the scenes. The purpose? Database Marketing. By knowing how old your system is, they can target you for new system sales. By knowing how small your monitor is, they can target you for sale of a bigger one. And so on.
I left before I heard about successful launch. So I don't know if it ever went live. But do _NOT_ for one minute believe that there is "nothing to this kind of report." I've seen it. I can't say for sure that this is, in fact, what the Yahoo!DSL in the US is up to, but let's say it would not surprise me.
Cisco can have my regexps when they pry then from my cold, dead hands.
Wait, I have carpal.
Cisco can have my regexps when they pry then from my dead hands.
The sysadmins sound so... disturbing.
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Everything backed up... neat stacks of CAT5... no emergencies... no rushing...
Are we quite sure these guys are HUMAN sysadmins, not evil intergalactic sysadmins from Myronacia here to lure us all into their evil plot of low-stress jobs and a life of being eaten?
From the rules: The goal of this competition is for the race vehicle to complete the course as fast as possible. Interfering with other race vehicles will not be allowed.
I think they just ruled out 90% of the best bot designers in the US. I mean, who wouldn't want to see Toro or Ronincharge up on some weinie scientist's bot and tear it to pieces?
Patriotic Americans arise. 12 bits to a byte, 7 bytes to a word, 13 words to a sentence and 1764 bits to a chain.
Speaking as a yank who favors logical measurements, that's pretty damn funny. I've never read the absurdity of our systems of measurements summed up so neatly.
Wonderful things, scientific measuring systems and such. All units are nicely and neatly arranged, though not without their own random elements. Such units as:
liter - "a metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints)"
meter - "approximately the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian."
gram - "approximately equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density."
candela (my favorite) - "A unit of luminous intensity equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a blackbody radiating at the temperature of solidification of platinum"
Which of course explains why the pub still serves you all in pints. LONG LIVE THE DRAM!
Largest Outdoor Spiders' Web
In October, 1998, a cobweb that covered the entire 4.54-ha (11.2-acre) playing field at Kineton High School, Warwick, England, was discovered by Ken Thompson - the school's caretaker. It had been created by thousands of black money spiders.
I seem to remember another huge one that was ongoing, but I don;t remember where I saw it...
Where does the laser go if they miss the shell?
Disperse into a cloud? Hit a passing 747? Birdstrike? Internation Space Station? Mars? Passing alien ship?
Sounds to me like an easy way to make a lot of enemies.
Take his "implications of the case we should consider" under consideration for a moment.
From the SearchKing take on the suit:
"If someone gives you an evaluation of your site without your requesting it or giving permission for it, and then the company distributes that evaluation to the public for free, does that evaluation belong to you or to the company giving it? Do you have the right to consider the evaluation a value to you or only to the person giving it?"
So, if I went to see, say, Resident Evil (which I did), and then I post in a forum "God, that movie sucked so bad I walked out of it," (Which it did and which I did), by this logic, that post now becomes property of Sony?
Does this mean Sony can sue me now? Wow, they could get both my dollars. I better not post that anywhere.
While I agree that human eyes can find bugs better and faster than robotic ones, I disagree on your main point. And I suspect it came from being exposed to automated test novices.
Complicated applications do require a more complicated approach, but they are the reason automation can WORK.
Seasoned automated test engineers write API style code, not scripts for specific tasks. This can take longer on the front end but pay off in spades on the backend. In once case, I had to automate insurance application testing. Take 50 states * 39 questions * positive+negative testing * 20 carriers. That's 78,000 test cases. Simulate THAT by hand.
API style approaches to complex applications is where the real meat to automated testing is to be found. Anyone can play a script. It takes an indepth knowledge of the subject to make the tool sing.
Rather than just searching for "+automated +test +tool" and picking what looks good, download and install them ALL and see what works for you.
Some words of advice if you care to follow them.
First off, ignore anything with the words "stress" or "performance" in the titles or descriptions. They are not the tools you want, and are focused primarily on simulating multiple clients rather than simulating users.
Second off, seperate the kinds of testing you want to do. Simple form validation requirements will most likely mean you can get away with a tool that bypasses the browser interface (typically a unit testing tool). More complicated user simulation should be done by a tool that actually drives the browser, such as SilkTest or Rational.
Finally - Hire a dedicated resource just for this purpose. A QA Engineer with experience in automated testing, REAL experience, not just playback and record experience. (My resume is available on demand).
I make 34 entries on alone. 24 individual sales, 2 lots of 2, 2 lots of 5, 1 lot of 8, 3 lots of 10 and 2 lots of 100. Ranging in price from around a buck each to 5 bucks each.
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Ok, ok, enough with the Pie jokes. There is plenty of good material here without them:
Are you sure this machine wasn't stolen? From the pictures, it looks kinda hot.
Are you sure she wasn't just trying to burn her first CD?
Insert OB Overclocking Joke Here
"Ma'am, I feally think you are missing the point of FireWire."
The Olsen twins are not attending my local University?
You just got a fan. Or a friend. Or something like that.
Cedar Point's Millenium Force coaster is 310 feet high.
The current highest out and back coaster, according to Guinness, is the Steel Dragon in Japan.
I was involved in a DSL project in Japan that used a piece of third-party software that was, essentially, a program that would examine your system and create a file that contained things like OS, Memory, CPU, Disk Size, monitor type, and anything else like this that it could find out.
This file was supposed to sit there until the DSL provider requested it behind the scenes. The purpose? Database Marketing. By knowing how old your system is, they can target you for new system sales. By knowing how small your monitor is, they can target you for sale of a bigger one. And so on.
I left before I heard about successful launch. So I don't know if it ever went live. But do _NOT_ for one minute believe that there is "nothing to this kind of report." I've seen it. I can't say for sure that this is, in fact, what the Yahoo!DSL in the US is up to, but let's say it would not surprise me.
Cisco can have my regexps when they pry then from my cold, dead hands.
Wait, I have carpal.
Cisco can have my regexps when they pry then from my dead hands.
Everything backed up... neat stacks of CAT5... no emergencies... no rushing...
Are we quite sure these guys are HUMAN sysadmins, not evil intergalactic sysadmins from Myronacia here to lure us all into their evil plot of low-stress jobs and a life of being eaten?
I think any patent claims on any organism would likely fall to a prior art claim from $DEITY
But that could be an interesting problem. Considering most laywers work for $EVILDEITY
This is excellent news!
Now, if only someone could solve the Mysterious Mystery of ChickenFoot
"I can name that star with 4 tables."
"I can name that star with 3 tables!"
NAME THAT STAR!
Humor, meet Zruty. Zruty, this is Humor.
From the rules: The goal of this competition is for the race vehicle to complete the course as fast as possible. Interfering with other race vehicles will not be allowed.
I think they just ruled out 90% of the best bot designers in the US. I mean, who wouldn't want to see Toro or Ronincharge up on some weinie scientist's bot and tear it to pieces?
Maybe this will spark a new arena for bot-combat.
Patriotic Americans arise. 12 bits to a byte, 7 bytes to a word, 13 words to a sentence and 1764 bits to a chain.
Speaking as a yank who favors logical measurements, that's pretty damn funny. I've never read the absurdity of our systems of measurements summed up so neatly.
Wonderful things, scientific measuring systems and such. All units are nicely and neatly arranged, though not without their own random elements. Such units as:
Which of course explains why the pub still serves you all in pints. LONG LIVE THE DRAM!
The above method still throws up empty popups. To get them to go away, you need to go one step further:
Alias to localhost, run a local webserver with 404 that closes itself. So all these aliases give 404 errors and simply dissappear.
Yes, occasioanlly I will lose a browser window with an embedded ad in it, but it's a small price to pay.
If I was smart I'd just run mozilla.
Oops.
Largest Outdoor Spiders' Web In October, 1998, a cobweb that covered the entire 4.54-ha (11.2-acre) playing field at Kineton High School, Warwick, England, was discovered by Ken Thompson - the school's caretaker. It had been created by thousands of black money spiders.
I seem to remember another huge one that was ongoing, but I don;t remember where I saw it...
Where does the laser go if they miss the shell? Disperse into a cloud? Hit a passing 747? Birdstrike? Internation Space Station? Mars? Passing alien ship?
Sounds to me like an easy way to make a lot of enemies.
Dear god, please don't ever make me imagine Jesse Helms as a bedfellow.
"If someone gives you an evaluation of your site without your requesting it or giving permission for it, and then the company distributes that evaluation to the public for free, does that evaluation belong to you or to the company giving it? Do you have the right to consider the evaluation a value to you or only to the person giving it?"
So, if I went to see, say, Resident Evil (which I did), and then I post in a forum "God, that movie sucked so bad I walked out of it," (Which it did and which I did), by this logic, that post now becomes property of Sony?
Does this mean Sony can sue me now? Wow, they could get both my dollars. I better not post that anywhere.
Complicated applications do require a more complicated approach, but they are the reason automation can WORK.
Seasoned automated test engineers write API style code, not scripts for specific tasks. This can take longer on the front end but pay off in spades on the backend. In once case, I had to automate insurance application testing. Take 50 states * 39 questions * positive+negative testing * 20 carriers. That's 78,000 test cases. Simulate THAT by hand.
API style approaches to complex applications is where the real meat to automated testing is to be found. Anyone can play a script. It takes an indepth knowledge of the subject to make the tool sing.
Some words of advice if you care to follow them.
First off, ignore anything with the words "stress" or "performance" in the titles or descriptions. They are not the tools you want, and are focused primarily on simulating multiple clients rather than simulating users.
Second off, seperate the kinds of testing you want to do. Simple form validation requirements will most likely mean you can get away with a tool that bypasses the browser interface (typically a unit testing tool). More complicated user simulation should be done by a tool that actually drives the browser, such as SilkTest or Rational.
Finally - Hire a dedicated resource just for this purpose. A QA Engineer with experience in automated testing, REAL experience, not just playback and record experience. (My resume is available on demand).
It's that strange books in dead languages with lots of Astronomy illustrations are best left UNDECIPHERED!
I can see it, three weeks from now, a new article:
Well Meaning Hackers Awaken The Great Cthulhu
Stastics also show that people who eat breakfast are in better shape than people who skip breakfast.
That doesn't mean that an unhealthy person will lose weight by suddenly starting to eat breakfast.
There is a significant difference between a causitive relationship and a correlation.
That doesn't mean anything though. You can use stastics to prove anything. 85% of all people know that.
Tried an Auction Site?
I make 34 entries on alone. 24 individual sales, 2 lots of 2, 2 lots of 5, 1 lot of 8, 3 lots of 10 and 2 lots of 100. Ranging in price from around a buck each to 5 bucks each.
How many do you need? More than 276?
The human body is an ecosystem.
Bad things happen when you introduce foreign living things into an ecosystem.
A significant lesson could be learned from examining what the Cane Toad did to Australia as a good example of what happens when you do this.