Thank god for 'em. I landed a job because of it!
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I'm working on several projects right now dealing with these problems. The thing is that you're right. These misnomers are hacky things done by not-so-good programmers.
Unfortuanetly explain that to a FORTRAN program that was written in the early 70s and didn't have a pointer. It had to use an integer.
Yes, a lot of old stuff is shit and now programmers who thought, "If it's not broke don't fix it" are getting burned.
At the best, they'll do like most companies and say that you have to "opt-out" every year to keep your information from being sold.
Think about it though. Even if you're sitting at your computer at the right time logged in and ready to click the button at the exact second you have to opt-out, they could a nano-second before you click zip your personal information to a third party.
Not to mention if they say, "Well, we'll send you a letter first to say you have the option to opt-out, but you'll be optted-in as soon as you recieve the letter giving them several days to pass your information along for money."
Why else would they have us opt-out instead of in?Seriously, you can answer that question. I'm an openminded person.
I'm afraid to actually check that out. Because if that is truely his address and phone number I feel really sorry for him. For sure latter tonight he'll hear:
"Hello, Alan, Have you heard the sad news? Steven King is dead at 54! Apparently he..."
As well as, "First Phone Call!"
And of course, "Hey, I've 1) Called you. 2) Uhhh... 3) PROFIT!!!! BTW, FreeBSD/Linux/etc are dying!"
But not before, "Hey Ralsky ol buddy. I think this call just might be one of several beowulf of phone calls!"
Here's more information on this scum bag: scum bag info
I'm still looking for the physical adress of his *new* home/data center. If anyone finds it as well as his phone number, or his email *he* uses. Post it!
Where in the article did it say he conveyed this personaly to Bill Gates. All I saw was that he conveyed it to ET.
I thought I was going to see a quote around the lines of, "Madhya walked up to Bill, spat in his face and said, 'Take that Billy Boy. You monopolistic capitlistic pig. I'm going to use something free as in getting really drunk'"
Alas I'm missing something here.
The new-guy-in-the-red-shirt formula
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Seriously who's idea was it to come up with the new-guy-in-the-red-shirt dies every time you, Bones, and Spock went to the surface?
Was it one of you guys or was it a writer? If so, which writer/writers was it?
Yea and if they did release it, then surely it'd just be an overview with numereous plugs in there for their other books such as:
p. 5, 10, 15, 20, 35
"We'll talk more about the chemical toliet in a latter chapter..."
p. 35
"The color of the Chemical Toliet is way beyond the scope of this book. Please refer to the 'OReilly Defininive Guide to Fecese and the thrones in which they are spawned'."
p. 6, 11, 16, 21, 36
"We'll talk more of the 'Red Hat Tour' in a latter chapter. For now, let's discuss other brief technologies that we have books about in which you can buy."
p. 200
"Although we mentioned 'The scope of the Red Hat Tour' in the title of this book, explaning it any deeper would be beyond the scope of this book. Lukily, we offer another book entitled 'Advanced Red Hat Tour description' in which you can purchase.
It's called job security. What else do I have to do? I know that it will create hundreds of bugs. The best part is that it is part of an advanced and very touchy calculus system that I have no clue about. Oh, and I'm a first year employee. Mahahaahahahaha! Nothing like cutting your teeth the proper way.
When told to convert Fortran code over to C (over a million lines) I knew it was going to take me forever. f2c doesn't work in this case since the code is soooo messed up to begin with. So, I found myself doing repetitive conversions over and over again that are specific to the code base.
Solution:
Created a perl script that translates parts of it for me and highlights the rest that has to be hand changed and looked over.
So, to solve one probem I created a slew of more problems with the script freaking out and messing up code.
So far though, it's saved me every bit of that time that I would have spent working on tedious simple stuff. Which in turn allows me to post to Slashdot more!!!!
That people already have been encrypting their messages through reverse engineered AIM protocol clients which aren't the standard one that AIM allows people to download.
And on the flip side, people already have been snooping on AIM conversations through the regular sniffing tools that come with any standard linux distribution.
But! If you make it official that you will remain in control of your protocol instead of opening it up, and roll your own equivalent tools up, and sell them at a decent price, then they will bite. I agree.
However, at 35 bucks a head a year at a large company, I'd be tempted to just have the employees use a stock client distribution with/without encryption abilities and hire a technie to take care of the snooping if I care to do that. Or just ditch AOL and use one of those others ones like jabber with all the same abilites.
But hey, sometimes you just get that knack to spend your corporate money you know?
From an analysis from the register I'd like your opinion on the committe being appointed.
Here's a snip from
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27913.html
And it's a good thing that Microsoft helps choose the people who will police it, explains the Judge:
"...the committee will likely foster an environment of cooperative resolution, rather than one of persistent conflict and litigation. Otherwise, attempts at enforcement have a greater potential to take on the tenor of adversary proceedings, resolved in most instances with great difficulty and delay."
See subject. That's all I'm really interested in. Not so excited about hips and arms waving around. It's good that they do have arms though. So that way mabey somebody could hack the software and write a program to enable it to....
Get me a beer out of the fridge.
Then I'd buy it for sure. It's such a damn pain to get up out of my chair every 5 minutes for one.
No, I'm not going to buy one of those little ones and hook them up either, when I just bought a huge GE double doored fridge
Probably most people like me are looking for something that is smart enough to take over mundane household tasks like the laundry, vacumming, mowing the lawn. etc...
;)
You know, preferably one that happens to be cheaper than having a kid.
I don't think anyone has to remind you about how much finacial dependence we have on the internet in general. I doubt if it gets shut down our government, educational systems, banks can just write and send out paper checks to other governments, educational systems, banks.
What about "First Strike" Senario's being the reason the whole internet was created by the Department of Defense.
But I'm sure they can just trust some guy on the phone if anything needs to be launced. Hey if it sounds like Bush has to be right?
Well what you could do is use PERL for checking/retrieving data properly and easily through a web page with less of a risk of buffer overflows since PERL has some great extensions to help in this process compared to another language such as C but then use another language such as C to pass that data (once it's been checked) so that the data's interpretation could be done exubrantly fast.
It's all about the right tool for the right part of the job.
Unfortuanetly, I am suppose to fill those shoes. I work on math intensive code that was developed by mathmaticians and engineer's.
They made a mess and hired me to clean it up. The worst part, though, is that they don't care about teaching me any of the math. I scored C's in all of my Calculus classes. But, I'm not as math illiterite as they suppose me to be. Of course, standarized tests can't be wrong, right? =P
So, there's two groups. The first being the development group. They almost soley consist of mathematicians and others who don't know how to code very well. Then there's maintainence. That's the team I'm on. We're the people who have blindfolds on when we do our work, because the other team doesn't write any proper documentation and come from the knowledge-is-power-I-won't-tell-you perspective.
I'm looking frantically to get out ASAP. I doubt it'll happen any time soon though.
Well, enough ranting. You've been another cool dude that I've met over the years. Thanks for being a part of the never-ending-show I like to refer to as life.
HAHAHAHA!
You lamenated the horrible spagetti code? I almost did that too with this one routine. Isn't horrible to see all these routines just lying around gathering dust until they hire someone new to take care of them. They should have been taken care of the whole time. If code is grown instead of written, then these routines I see every day are like a child who's been neglected his whole life. The code needs a counsler not a programmer. I'm in that boat right now, and I want out fast! But, alas, I have no choice at the momement. It pays the bills quite nicely.
Man, I skipped them and ended up getting burned bad! They made it where you can't enable Direct Memory access on your dvd player unless you modify/etc/modules.conf and put a options line in it. I banged my head on my desk for hours wondering why I couldn't get my DVD player to work right until I read a note on Ogle's FAQ. So, just a reminder to all you DVD playing cats out there, read the release notes!
DMA is disabled on CD-ROM drives in this release in a different but
more reliable way than previously. If you are sure that your CD-ROM
drive is capable of IDE DMA, place the following line in the/etc/modules.conf file:
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I'm working on several projects right now dealing with these problems. The thing is that you're right. These misnomers are hacky things done by not-so-good programmers.
Unfortuanetly explain that to a FORTRAN program that was written in the early 70s and didn't have a pointer. It had to use an integer.
Yes, a lot of old stuff is shit and now programmers who thought, "If it's not broke don't fix it" are getting burned.
That the complexity of the SIM games as well as others are appearing to surpase that of other software packages such as Operating Systems.
Note I said appear.
At the best, they'll do like most companies and say that you have to "opt-out" every year to keep your information from being sold.
Think about it though. Even if you're sitting at your computer at the right time logged in and ready to click the button at the exact second you have to opt-out, they could a nano-second before you click zip your personal information to a third party.
Not to mention if they say, "Well, we'll send you a letter first to say you have the option to opt-out, but you'll be optted-in as soon as you recieve the letter giving them several days to pass your information along for money." Why else would they have us opt-out instead of in?Seriously, you can answer that question. I'm an openminded person.
We live in an IT dominated world now.
Information is $$$$$
I'm afraid to actually check that out. Because if that is truely his address and phone number I feel really sorry for him. For sure latter tonight he'll hear:
"Hello, Alan, Have you heard the sad news? Steven King is dead at 54! Apparently he..."
As well as, "First Phone Call!"
And of course, "Hey, I've 1) Called you. 2) Uhhh... 3) PROFIT!!!! BTW, FreeBSD/Linux/etc are dying!"
But not before, "Hey Ralsky ol buddy. I think this call just might be one of several beowulf of phone calls!"
Here's more information on this scum bag:
scum bag info
I'm still looking for the physical adress of his *new* home/data center. If anyone finds it as well as his phone number, or his email *he* uses. Post it!
Where in the article did it say he conveyed this personaly to Bill Gates. All I saw was that he conveyed it to ET.
I thought I was going to see a quote around the lines of, "Madhya walked up to Bill, spat in his face and said, 'Take that Billy Boy. You monopolistic capitlistic pig. I'm going to use something free as in getting really drunk'"
Alas I'm missing something here.
Seriously who's idea was it to come up with the new-guy-in-the-red-shirt dies every time you, Bones, and Spock went to the surface?
Was it one of you guys or was it a writer? If so, which writer/writers was it?
Yea and if they did release it, then surely it'd just be an overview with numereous plugs in there for their other books such as:
p. 5, 10, 15, 20, 35
"We'll talk more about the chemical toliet in a latter chapter..."
p. 35
"The color of the Chemical Toliet is way beyond the scope of this book. Please refer to the 'OReilly Defininive Guide to Fecese and the thrones in which they are spawned'."
p. 6, 11, 16, 21, 36
"We'll talk more of the 'Red Hat Tour' in a latter chapter. For now, let's discuss other brief technologies that we have books about in which you can buy."
p. 200
"Although we mentioned 'The scope of the Red Hat Tour' in the title of this book, explaning it any deeper would be beyond the scope of this book. Lukily, we offer another book entitled 'Advanced Red Hat Tour description' in which you can purchase.
It's called job security. What else do I have to do? I know that it will create hundreds of bugs. The best part is that it is part of an advanced and very touchy calculus system that I have no clue about. Oh, and I'm a first year employee. Mahahaahahahaha! Nothing like cutting your teeth the proper way.
That's the sort of mentality people around have kept and I'm paying for it now as well as they are through their pockets.
Becuase it is broke! We're migrating over to 64 bits and using an integer the way they used them causes the system to crash
When told to convert Fortran code over to C (over a million lines) I knew it was going to take me forever. f2c doesn't work in this case since the code is soooo messed up to begin with. So, I found myself doing repetitive conversions over and over again that are specific to the code base.
Solution:
Created a perl script that translates parts of it for me and highlights the rest that has to be hand changed and looked over.
So, to solve one probem I created a slew of more problems with the script freaking out and messing up code.
So far though, it's saved me every bit of that time that I would have spent working on tedious simple stuff. Which in turn allows me to post to Slashdot more!!!!
...who spent many a days staring directly into the sun on one of their trips. Now they can say, "Wow man, this really is a better picture. oooooo."
But with AIM you could write very important messages across the battefiled such as
:-(
:-)
:-O
;)
Solider5554: Sarge! We're under fire! We need help!
Sarge0034: Hang in there. You're doing a great job solider
Solider5554: Arrrghhh!!!! I've been hit!
Sarge0034: God, these whining soliders never know when to quit, that god they're dispensible.
Sarge0034: Oppsss. Wrong person sorry.
Solider5554: What!? I need a chopper. I'm losing a lot of blood over here. >:-@
Sarge0034 (warn 10%): Hey, just because you've warned me anonymously, doesn't mean I don't know it's you.
Sarge0034: brb *door slam* as sarge leaves
*door open* as sarge enters
Sarge0034: Sorry had to reboot, did I miss anything?
Solider324: uuuuhhhhhh I don't think I'm going to make it
That people already have been encrypting their messages through reverse engineered AIM protocol clients which aren't the standard one that AIM allows people to download.
And on the flip side, people already have been snooping on AIM conversations through the regular sniffing tools that come with any standard linux distribution.
But! If you make it official that you will remain in control of your protocol instead of opening it up, and roll your own equivalent tools up, and sell them at a decent price, then they will bite. I agree.
However, at 35 bucks a head a year at a large company, I'd be tempted to just have the employees use a stock client distribution with/without encryption abilities and hire a technie to take care of the snooping if I care to do that. Or just ditch AOL and use one of those others ones like jabber with all the same abilites.
But hey, sometimes you just get that knack to spend your corporate money you know?
From an analysis from the register I'd like your opinion on the committe being appointed.
Here's a snip from
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27913.html
And it's a good thing that Microsoft helps choose the people who will police it, explains the Judge:
"...the committee will likely foster an environment of cooperative resolution, rather than one of persistent conflict and litigation. Otherwise, attempts at enforcement have a greater potential to take on the tenor of adversary proceedings, resolved in most instances with great difficulty and delay."
See subject. That's all I'm really interested in. Not so excited about hips and arms waving around. It's good that they do have arms though. So that way mabey somebody could hack the software and write a program to enable it to....
Get me a beer out of the fridge.
Then I'd buy it for sure. It's such a damn pain to get up out of my chair every 5 minutes for one.
No, I'm not going to buy one of those little ones and hook them up either, when I just bought a huge GE double doored fridge
Thanks for the info, though
If not, it isn't worth the price tag.
;)
Probably most people like me are looking for something that is smart enough to take over mundane household tasks like the laundry, vacumming, mowing the lawn. etc...
You know, preferably one that happens to be cheaper than having a kid.
I don't think anyone has to remind you about how much finacial dependence we have on the internet in general. I doubt if it gets shut down our government, educational systems, banks can just write and send out paper checks to other governments, educational systems, banks.
What about "First Strike" Senario's being the reason the whole internet was created by the Department of Defense.
But I'm sure they can just trust some guy on the phone if anything needs to be launced. Hey if it sounds like Bush has to be right?
Well what you could do is use PERL for checking/retrieving data properly and easily through a web page with less of a risk of buffer overflows since PERL has some great extensions to help in this process compared to another language such as C but then use another language such as C to pass that data (once it's been checked) so that the data's interpretation could be done exubrantly fast.
It's all about the right tool for the right part of the job.
dada-desktop?
Crap! Redudancy here I come.
Well, if you're a true FSF ideological fan, then you'll instead pay the extra $2.30 and boycott Amazon due to their patent stance.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html
*sigh*
Unfortuanetly, I am suppose to fill those shoes. I work on math intensive code that was developed by mathmaticians and engineer's.
They made a mess and hired me to clean it up. The worst part, though, is that they don't care about teaching me any of the math. I scored C's in all of my Calculus classes. But, I'm not as math illiterite as they suppose me to be. Of course, standarized tests can't be wrong, right? =P
So, there's two groups. The first being the development group. They almost soley consist of mathematicians and others who don't know how to code very well. Then there's maintainence. That's the team I'm on. We're the people who have blindfolds on when we do our work, because the other team doesn't write any proper documentation and come from the knowledge-is-power-I-won't-tell-you perspective.
I'm looking frantically to get out ASAP. I doubt it'll happen any time soon though.
Well, enough ranting. You've been another cool dude that I've met over the years. Thanks for being a part of the never-ending-show I like to refer to as life.
HAHAHAHA!
You lamenated the horrible spagetti code? I almost did that too with this one routine. Isn't horrible to see all these routines just lying around gathering dust until they hire someone new to take care of them. They should have been taken care of the whole time. If code is grown instead of written, then these routines I see every day are like a child who's been neglected his whole life. The code needs a counsler not a programmer. I'm in that boat right now, and I want out fast! But, alas, I have no choice at the momement. It pays the bills quite nicely.
Man, I skipped them and ended up getting burned bad! They made it where you can't enable Direct Memory access on your dvd player unless you modify /etc/modules.conf and put a options line in it. I banged my head on my desk for hours wondering why I couldn't get my DVD player to work right until I read a note on Ogle's FAQ. So, just a reminder to all you DVD playing cats out there, read the release notes!
/etc/modules.conf file:
DMA is disabled on CD-ROM drives in this release in a different but more reliable way than previously. If you are sure that your CD-ROM drive is capable of IDE DMA, place the following line in the
options ide-cd dma=1