Only slightly related to the story, more to your comment:
I do not understand why more people/corporations in the USA do not take legal action against their electric power suppliers. You guys suffer brown-outs, interupptions, and so on. Why, one slashdot poll was "how many surge protectors do you own?" or something like that.
It's about time that we had more _even_ rights to complain (compare class action against ciggy manufacturers with lack of people complaining about electric power delivery.
Sure, you discover comets. But these are tiny, and, as the article says, will evaporate as they get close to the sun. There's no new science. There's no great contribution to the knowledge of mankind.
They're just clogging up the internet and stopping you from downloading ISO images of your favourite distrobution.
To that father of 3 kids in the UK: What a waste of energy. Go and spend some more time with your kids!
To the rest of you: Leave the bandwidth for others!
It's good to see that they're thinking about the possibility of buggeruing up the earth with strange stuff.
However, more and more countries are tinkering with GM crops which are in turn mixing with traditional crops and are liable to shaft our food production system.
AC says: Govt. study some 10 years agoa showed that it takes 17 hours to learn Windows and 5 hours to learn the Mac OS
Fortunately, Windows is a lot easier to use ten years on. I reckon that the money and research that MS have done into usability is probably their most important work in makeing computers more accessible.
Here in the UK, half or more new cars come with a 1-year warranty. Voiding it isn't much of an issue.
However, unless you disclose modificatins such as "chipping" to your insurance company, then you may find that your insurance is void. If you have a serious accident in a performance car, and they'll probably check under the bonnet for a different engine management chip. These are often soldered in place, and if the car is so seriously damaged to be undrivable, there's probably little chance of getting to the car to remove the evidence before the insurance company have a look.
From my point of view, having invalid insurance is much more serious than a crappy warranty running our.
Let's say "Mobile", "GSM", "PDA", "Wireless". In the near future, the scope for cyber-skiiving increases dramatically.
They can't stop you using these tools, if they're your own. (OK, they can ban them, but you just go to the restroom, a quiet meeting room, or whatever).
What'll be next, banning non-company PDAs and mobile phones?
If you trust your workforce, then let 'em do what they want (but educate them about potential risks and remind them that they are there to work now and again!). If you don't trust your workforce, the company has problems, and rules won't change that.
The company that I work for has over 1000 servers. We are also limited to 8 characters. The convention we use is 2-3-3.
2 - Data Center
3 - Function
3 - Number.
We started using this convention before we had multiple data centers. Granted, we are limited to 1000 servers of each type at each data center...
Huh? You only use digits [0-9] for function and number? (10**3 = 1000). With letters alone you'd have 17K at each, and with alphanumeric you'd have over 45K names to play with.
At least if you start off with numbers, you can expand to alphanumeric later....
The more important point is that I think that alphabetics can be easier to remember.
... I attempted to take ie out of win 2k sp2 and it broke using urls in file explorer,... The easiest way to avoid file protection is to do everything in safe mode. There's absolutely no checking then.
There is no safe mode in Win2K (though there is VGA mode. Perhaps you're confusing w2K with winME?
Think about the fact that these things are waiting at "stops". So one with passengers comes along, and there are 20 in front - do the passengers get out and move to the first one in line? No way, there are points/switches. These can easily be jammed, I'm sure.
Also, they stop when something is in the way. Squad of scrotes wait by the track line, Mr & Mrs Decent get "cab" (I coin the term "personal bus" here) home from the theatre/dinner/whatever. Scrotes block cab path, cab stops, scrotes say "give us all your money or we'll cover you in permanent marker"). A nice little line of punters stream home.
Of course, there'll be CCTV, and people have mobiles, but you get the idea, someone is bound to do it.
Not to mention that if the tracks are at all circuititous, then one failed "personal bus" (TM) could block off a lot of the track and bring the systemto the halt.
How many units will have to be free to allow free ones at every stop 80% of the time? Maybe that's why it costs so much, they have twice as many as ever used!
Well, after reading all that (I had no idea my story had been accepted until today!), I've had a look at Doxygen, as it seemed to get the most favourable comments/moderator points.
It's pretty impressive. I downloaded a win32 binary, ran the "wizard", pointed it at a few directories, and a few hours of 90% CPU usage later I have a pretty good HTML resource.
Part of my problem has been finding out what's defined where (there are three main areas of development, each of which is split into five to ten subsystems, and subsystem 1 in area 1 is a bit like subsystem 7 in area 2, etc), and this really helps. Click on a class, it takes you to a doc on the header file.
I haven't got any relationships between classes (I don't know if doxygen can do this, yet), but I'm impressed. It managed to parse a lot of the crazy preprocesor definitions (y'know DECLARE_SINGLETON kind of thing) without a hiccup.
The points about learning how the system is put together the hard way are well made, I agree with the sentiments, but when time is limited the tools make a difference to productivity.
Thank you all for your comments, most informative. If I ever get the time, I'll look at some of those other tools.
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I do not understand why more people/corporations in the USA do not take legal action against their electric power suppliers. You guys suffer brown-outs, interupptions, and so on. Why, one slashdot poll was "how many surge protectors do you own?" or something like that.
It's about time that we had more _even_ rights to complain (compare class action against ciggy manufacturers with lack of people complaining about electric power delivery.
Sure, you discover comets. But these are tiny, and, as the article says, will evaporate as they get close to the sun. There's no new science. There's no great contribution to the knowledge of mankind.
They're just clogging up the internet and stopping you from downloading ISO images of your favourite distrobution.
To that father of 3 kids in the UK: What a waste of energy. Go and spend some more time with your kids!
To the rest of you: Leave the bandwidth for others!
It's good to see that they're thinking about the possibility of buggeruing up the earth with strange stuff.
However, more and more countries are tinkering with GM crops which are in turn mixing with traditional crops and are liable to shaft our food production system.
Nice, bacteria-free earth, but no more plants.
AC says: Govt. study some 10 years agoa showed that it takes 17 hours to learn Windows and 5 hours to learn the Mac OS
Fortunately, Windows is a lot easier to use ten years on. I reckon that the money and research that MS have done into usability is probably their most important work in makeing computers more accessible.
Here in the UK, half or more new cars come with a 1-year warranty. Voiding it isn't much of an issue.
However, unless you disclose modificatins such as "chipping" to your insurance company, then you may find that your insurance is void. If you have a serious accident in a performance car, and they'll probably check under the bonnet for a different engine management chip. These are often soldered in place, and if the car is so seriously damaged to be undrivable, there's probably little chance of getting to the car to remove the evidence before the insurance company have a look.
From my point of view, having invalid insurance is much more serious than a crappy warranty running our.
Let's say "Mobile", "GSM", "PDA", "Wireless". In the near future, the scope for cyber-skiiving increases dramatically.
They can't stop you using these tools, if they're your own. (OK, they can ban them, but you just go to the restroom, a quiet meeting room, or whatever).
What'll be next, banning non-company PDAs and mobile phones?
If you trust your workforce, then let 'em do what they want (but educate them about potential risks and remind them that they are there to work now and again!). If you don't trust your workforce, the company has problems, and rules won't change that.
2 - Data Center
3 - Function
3 - Number.
We started using this convention before we had multiple data centers. Granted, we are limited to 1000 servers of each type at each data center...
Huh? You only use digits [0-9] for function and number? (10**3 = 1000). With letters alone you'd have 17K at each, and with alphanumeric you'd have over 45K names to play with.
At least if you start off with numbers, you can expand to alphanumeric later....
The more important point is that I think that alphabetics can be easier to remember.
 
 
 
 
 
There is no safe mode in Win2K (though there is VGA mode. Perhaps you're confusing w2K with winME?
I think not. Nothing can be vandal-proof.
Think about the fact that these things are waiting at "stops". So one with passengers comes along, and there are 20 in front - do the passengers get out and move to the first one in line? No way, there are points/switches. These can easily be jammed, I'm sure.
Also, they stop when something is in the way. Squad of scrotes wait by the track line, Mr & Mrs Decent get "cab" (I coin the term "personal bus" here) home from the theatre/dinner/whatever. Scrotes block cab path, cab stops, scrotes say "give us all your money or we'll cover you in permanent marker"). A nice little line of punters stream home.
Of course, there'll be CCTV, and people have mobiles, but you get the idea, someone is bound to do it.
Not to mention that if the tracks are at all circuititous, then one failed "personal bus" (TM) could block off a lot of the track and bring the systemto the halt.
How many units will have to be free to allow free ones at every stop 80% of the time? Maybe that's why it costs so much, they have twice as many as ever used!
Of course, catching VD from the seats is probobly still going to be a problem, just like the bus :)
Depends on what you get up to in the bus, I guess. Good Luck
Well, after reading all that (I had no idea my story had been accepted until today!), I've had a look at Doxygen, as it seemed to get the most favourable comments/moderator points. It's pretty impressive. I downloaded a win32 binary, ran the "wizard", pointed it at a few directories, and a few hours of 90% CPU usage later I have a pretty good HTML resource. Part of my problem has been finding out what's defined where (there are three main areas of development, each of which is split into five to ten subsystems, and subsystem 1 in area 1 is a bit like subsystem 7 in area 2, etc), and this really helps. Click on a class, it takes you to a doc on the header file. I haven't got any relationships between classes (I don't know if doxygen can do this, yet), but I'm impressed. It managed to parse a lot of the crazy preprocesor definitions (y'know DECLARE_SINGLETON kind of thing) without a hiccup. The points about learning how the system is put together the hard way are well made, I agree with the sentiments, but when time is limited the tools make a difference to productivity. Thank you all for your comments, most informative. If I ever get the time, I'll look at some of those other tools.