I've been warning everybody who gets a new Barclaycard with this "feature" since I first saw it advertised.
My thoughts were somebody selling newspapers at a underground (subway) station swiping everybody who walks past at rush hour. Going home and cashing in on 1000's of £1 - 10 transactions. Not a bad afternoons work.
Here here. Woodland Management is key and in a few reports heading in the right direction now for most of Europe. Old trees can actually give off methane since they can be in a state of decay whilst still perfectly healthy, though they are very good for bio-deversity bugs and stuff which birds and small mammals go nuts for.
In the UK "Ancient Woodland" means over 400 years old. There is no woodland in the UK that has been identified that has not been under active management by humans prior to this at some point. Manage your woods replant or support regeneration plant a mix of softwood to be treated and durable hard woods for carbon lockup and a mix of short rotation coppice for bio-fuels (wood chip), all of which can be integrated into a woodland management plan, provide a living for foresters.
Leaving Trees standing and un-managed would be detrimental to the environment in the UK at least.
Sadly there is a movement for woodburners to be installed in houses and HETAS approved KILN DRIED fire wood sold to suppy them. Shows the economy is still more powerful than common sense.
Google SketchUp still does not work 100% under wine.
Currently using Ubuntu Dual Boot into windows xp Occaisionally to run my PAYE software for the my employee's taxes.
Virtualise a windows box to run Sketchup which apart from a few problems refreshing the menus works fine.
Upgrading (or side grading) to Debian in another virtualbox while making sure everything works. (Have already installed Deb onto a seperate disk and am currently testing).
I also develop some software that needs to run properly in both windows and linux and others.
I am not a full time developer but I have a need to Virtualize and it is the only solution that works for me, without having two boxes under my desk.
So there,
Either this is getting slashdotted and causing something to run slowly
or what should be javascript running locally on my
dmesg | grep CPU0:
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ stepping 01
is slower than my old 486 at rendering a mandelbrot.
I wrote my own viewer on an archimedes for a school project over 14 years ago and it was faster than this.
Any clues?
Or is this proof that browsers and scripts are only good for GUI and not actual processing?
The uk are trying to roll out 2Mb broad band for everybody. This sounds like a good thing until you try using the internet on 512kb which almost every building in the uk can receive even those right at the end of a line. It is also perfectly useable for youtube etc. I think this is purely a subsidising scheme for the telecoms company ( cough bt cough ) to upgrade all it's lines. Effectively the users pay for the service and give the company that supply the service the funds to create the service that allows them to charge them at a higher rate whether they need it or not. (Just try getting 512kb broadband in a built up area theses days...possible but I bet you'll end up on a 2Mb package anyway). All a bit useless really if the house owners don't have a laptop / desktop that will work in the next 5 years ( due to vista and xp no doubt not being supported and unable to display the latest.Net advertising schemes that most websites are covered in). So the next great idea? Free laptops for everybody! Paid for by the tax payer!
If I want a laptop and broadband I'll buy one. If somebody is on the dole and can't get a laptop. Help them get a job dont keep giving them free handouts so they can buy a massive telly an xbox a wii and play online so they can sit on thier bum not looking for jobs whilst still getting job seekers allowance.
Java is static at compile time. However class files can be chucked around and objects instantiated from them using the reflection classes over networks and across machine types. Kind of like a CORBA implementation that can do the whole spec ( you just have to write most of the code to do it but the functionality exists). I have often wondered if this was the true purpose of the java byte code/JIT method, when those Java desktop boxes appeared I always assumed they would run like a thin client, big database objects on a server, upgradable client applications on the thin client whilst running, no need to stop and start the program. So kinda mega dynamic. Manages to be horrible at the same time.
That is to say let them be brilliant and congratulate them on it, Especially when they've got you out of a tight fix with some rapid coding.
Afterward when the dust has settled get them to go through their code and comment until another member of staff can understand it. Most people quite like explaining to other people how simple/elegant their solution is.
It will encourage them to comment as they code so they spend less time explaining it to other people later, and let them get back to what they do best.
Everyone wins.
I use to work for a small company producing about 30 machines a month. They in themselves were quite complicated bits of kit with many modular components.
Each component would come in through the door. Be Unpacked mounted and wired and the final machine was repacked and sent out.
The amount of packaging we had to dispose of was insane. As an experiment I stored up the amount of packaging for one of our units that we disposed of and compared it to the amount of packaging that we sent out.
What the end user sees land on the door step isn't half of the total packaging in production.
I'd advise not taking the burden of sole responsibility yourself.
I worked for a small medical electronics manufacturer in the UK. They had no software development team apart from me. I was fresh out of college and eager. I replaced the previous "software guy" who had walked out. No documentation or code was actually in place. The software standards that we were supposed to abide by were considered by the management to only be important when a product was finished. I ended up stuck in the middle between the customer the management, the marketing team and the hardware boys. I became quite adept at software/hardware debugging (for that project at least) and all the while attempting to keep the documentation going ( which was considered a waste of time by management of all levels).
The crunch came when they took an order for 30 finished units before the prototype was finished (including documentation, third party software/unit tests etc..) despite my constant protests.
I burned my self out and am now a green oak carpenter. I blame my own young naive mind. And the fact that I trusted the management to be dealing with this sort of stuff.
If you don't abide by standards and have a half decent software development work flow organized by the management you're going to be in a fire fight. Get vocal and demand it now before you become a gibbering wreck trying to keep everybody happy. And the management will keep their jobs not doing there jobs.
George in an interview on one of the digitally remastered videos ( but before they added scenes etc..) says that the ewoks were wookies. But.. when producing the first film he loved wookies so much he had to have them in, not knowing whether he would be making any more, so he replaced Hans co-pilot with a wookie. Having introduced wookies already before Jedi he had to invent ewoks.
Something like that anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
It says they are stored under /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
I have the info for my wired and wireless connections, but he passwords are definitely not stored in there plain-text or otherwise...
Which leads me to ask where does it store them?
first post++
but i'm still waiting for x to start...
I've been warning everybody who gets a new Barclaycard with this "feature" since I first saw it advertised.
My thoughts were somebody selling newspapers at a underground (subway) station swiping everybody who walks past at rush hour. Going home and cashing in on 1000's of £1 - 10 transactions. Not a bad afternoons work.
Here here. Woodland Management is key and in a few reports heading in the right direction now for most of Europe. Old trees can actually give off methane since they can be in a state of decay whilst still perfectly healthy, though they are very good for bio-deversity bugs and stuff which birds and small mammals go nuts for.
In the UK "Ancient Woodland" means over 400 years old. There is no woodland in the UK that has been identified that has not been under active management by humans prior to this at some point. Manage your woods replant or support regeneration plant a mix of softwood to be treated and durable hard woods for carbon lockup and a mix of short rotation coppice for bio-fuels (wood chip), all of which can be integrated into a woodland management plan, provide a living for foresters.
Leaving Trees standing and un-managed would be detrimental to the environment in the UK at least.
Sadly there is a movement for woodburners to be installed in houses and HETAS approved KILN DRIED fire wood sold to suppy them. Shows the economy is still more powerful than common sense.
Google SketchUp still does not work 100% under wine.
Currently using Ubuntu Dual Boot into windows xp Occaisionally to run my PAYE software for the my employee's taxes.
Virtualise a windows box to run Sketchup which apart from a few problems refreshing the menus works fine.
Upgrading (or side grading) to Debian in another virtualbox while making sure everything works. (Have already installed Deb onto a seperate disk and am currently testing).
I also develop some software that needs to run properly in both windows and linux and others.
I am not a full time developer but I have a need to Virtualize and it is the only solution that works for me, without having two boxes under my desk.
So there,
Either this is getting slashdotted and causing something to run slowly or what should be javascript running locally on my
dmesg | grep CPU0:
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ stepping 01
is slower than my old 486 at rendering a mandelbrot.
I wrote my own viewer on an archimedes for a school project over 14 years ago and it was faster than this.
Any clues?
Or is this proof that browsers and scripts are only good for GUI and not actual processing?
How not to do it.
Game was unplayable with a joystick (digital) . Couldn't even get round the first bend.
The uk are trying to roll out 2Mb broad band for everybody. This sounds like a good thing until you try using the internet on 512kb which almost every building in the uk can receive even those right at the end of a line. It is also perfectly useable for youtube etc. I think this is purely a subsidising scheme for the telecoms company ( cough bt cough ) to upgrade all it's lines. Effectively the users pay for the service and give the company that supply the service the funds to create the service that allows them to charge them at a higher rate whether they need it or not. (Just try getting 512kb broadband in a built up area theses days...possible but I bet you'll end up on a 2Mb package anyway). All a bit useless really if the house owners don't have a laptop / desktop that will work in the next 5 years ( due to vista and xp no doubt not being supported and unable to display the latest .Net advertising schemes that most websites are covered in). So the next great idea? Free laptops for everybody! Paid for by the tax payer!
If I want a laptop and broadband I'll buy one. If somebody is on the dole and can't get a laptop. Help them get a job dont keep giving them free handouts so they can buy a massive telly an xbox a wii and play online so they can sit on thier bum not looking for jobs whilst still getting job seekers allowance.
Sorry just realised I was ranting.
Java is static at compile time. However class files can be chucked around and objects instantiated from them using the reflection classes over networks and across machine types. Kind of like a CORBA implementation that can do the whole spec ( you just have to write most of the code to do it but the functionality exists). I have often wondered if this was the true purpose of the java byte code/JIT method, when those Java desktop boxes appeared I always assumed they would run like a thin client, big database objects on a server, upgradable client applications on the thin client whilst running, no need to stop and start the program. So kinda mega dynamic. Manages to be horrible at the same time.
That is to say let them be brilliant and congratulate them on it, Especially when they've got you out of a tight fix with some rapid coding.
Afterward when the dust has settled get them to go through their code and comment until another member of staff can understand it. Most people quite like explaining to other people how simple/elegant their solution is.
It will encourage them to comment as they code so they spend less time explaining it to other people later, and let them get back to what they do best.
Everyone wins.
I use to work for a small company producing about 30 machines a month. They in themselves were quite complicated bits of kit with many modular components.
Each component would come in through the door. Be Unpacked mounted and wired and the final machine was repacked and sent out.
The amount of packaging we had to dispose of was insane. As an experiment I stored up the amount of packaging for one of our units that we disposed of and compared it to the amount of packaging that we sent out.
What the end user sees land on the door step isn't half of the total packaging in production.
Try ice
www.totl.net/Eunuch
486 & Half Life Ha Ha
I'd advise not taking the burden of sole responsibility yourself.
I worked for a small medical electronics manufacturer in the UK. They had no software development team apart from me. I was fresh out of college and eager. I replaced the previous "software guy" who had walked out. No documentation or code was actually in place. The software standards that we were supposed to abide by were considered by the management to only be important when a product was finished. I ended up stuck in the middle between the customer the management, the marketing team and the hardware boys. I became quite adept at software/hardware debugging (for that project at least) and all the while attempting to keep the documentation going ( which was considered a waste of time by management of all levels). The crunch came when they took an order for 30 finished units before the prototype was finished (including documentation, third party software/unit tests etc..) despite my constant protests.
I burned my self out and am now a green oak carpenter. I blame my own young naive mind. And the fact that I trusted the management to be dealing with this sort of stuff.
If you don't abide by standards and have a half decent software development work flow organized by the management you're going to be in a fire fight. Get vocal and demand it now before you become a gibbering wreck trying to keep everybody happy. And the management will keep their jobs not doing there jobs.
George in an interview on one of the digitally remastered videos ( but before they added scenes etc..) says that the ewoks were wookies. But.. when producing the first film he loved wookies so much he had to have them in, not knowing whether he would be making any more, so he replaced Hans co-pilot with a wookie. Having introduced wookies already before Jedi he had to invent ewoks. Something like that anyway.
Clapham Common