thats cool but on the whole for most people 500 take home a day is a large amount of money. If you figure in taxes (~40% for this tax bracket) that means you have to make over 800 dollars a day which for a yearly salary would be ~192,000 (4 weeks vacation). Now your talking about a very very small percentage of the population.
$500 a day doesn't include a little thing called taxes... I mean seriously how many people do you know that take home 500 a day (and no I'm not including strippers)?
You know what I strive on stress but the fact of the matter is like my outside life. I enjoy hanging out with friends, I enjoy skiing and snowboarding. I learned a while ago working 80 hours a week is just not good for you. You need time outside the hell hole.
Other than the metadata server whats the difference? I mean AFS has clients for all the major OS's. mount a cell and your ready to go. Plus you can mount many other cells (CMU,MIT,IBM ) lots of good stuff out there.
That could easily happen. We where 30 minutes off the canadian border in northern NY (2 hours north of syracuse). We didn't have any my years at school but I've heard of it happening. I remember one week of -20 temps and wind chills in the -40s that was just nasty.
I'm still on VC++ 6.0 and I know there is still a bug. A co-worker got ran across it ia while ago in some poorly written C code. The scope was wrong and ended up looping on the wrong piece of code.
My OS group got hammered and re-worked part of the Minix File system. I kinda enjoy getting slammed and coding... come to think of it I just like drinking.
I used to work with a girl named "Ha". It was always weird passing her in the hall. Its like what do you say "Hi Ha","Hello Ha" , "Hows it hangin Ha"... never did come up with a good answer.
I know/work with a bunch of people (not to mention I lived in MA for a few years). They are very smart and nice but honestly not my cup of tequila.
I like partying with Clarkson U. grads.... now I'm biased because I went there but I still find out in the field even the 50 grads know how to throw down. I think its something about being in the middle of no where that teaches you how to have fun with booze and -20 temps.
Would you really want to be processing large amounts of data through a machine that is overclocked? How can you say the data is reliable when you're pushing your gear way out of spec.
As much as the onboard memory control increases speed I still don't think its as fast as 2 athlon 2800s. Not to mention most of us aren't going to get luck and find it almost half off.
Don't get me wrong I think the new 64bit chips are awesome and I'd love to get my hands on 1 or 2 of them but for me right now I'm going to go with 2 2800s.
I don't know the FX51 is nice but for roughly the price of the chip you could get a nice tyan mb,2 athlon MP 2800 and gig of ECC ram. Now I know it doesn't have the 64bit extentions and its only pc2100 ram but all in all alot of horse power for not alot of money.
But why? Well written C code amongst unix is very portable, and if written properly can be ported to windows (GUI not withstanding).
You have to remember most software written is not for off the shelf stuff but rather custom jobs (stuff that can't be replaced with COTS). Why write something to run on many plateforms when you can customize it to one?
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thats cool but on the whole for most people 500 take home a day is a large amount of money. If you figure in taxes (~40% for this tax bracket) that means you have to make over 800 dollars a day which for a yearly salary would be ~192,000 (4 weeks vacation). Now your talking about a very very small percentage of the population.
$500 a day doesn't include a little thing called taxes ... I mean seriously how many people do you know that take home 500 a day (and no I'm not including strippers)?
You know what I strive on stress but the fact of the matter is like my outside life. I enjoy hanging out with friends, I enjoy skiing and snowboarding. I learned a while ago working 80 hours a week is just not good for you. You need time outside the hell hole.
Well he sure as hell isn't driving a Bus in boston ... I can't think of a more stressful job ...
You know I use a flash card player for any active music I like my little Compaw PA-1. Light, small,stable , nice enough interface.
Now all I have to do is finish my Mac OS X driver for it and I'll have everything squared away.
Personally I'm an X.25 guy ..... 64K channels of goodness
Other than the metadata server whats the difference? I mean AFS has clients for all the major OS's. mount a cell and your ready to go. Plus you can mount many other cells (CMU,MIT,IBM ) lots of good stuff out there.
That could easily happen. We where 30 minutes off the canadian border in northern NY (2 hours north of syracuse). We didn't have any my years at school but I've heard of it happening. I remember one week of -20 temps and wind chills in the -40s that was just nasty.
I'm still on VC++ 6.0 and I know there is still a bug. A co-worker got ran across it ia while ago in some poorly written C code. The scope was wrong and ended up looping on the wrong piece of code.
My OS group got hammered and re-worked part of the Minix File system. I kinda enjoy getting slammed and coding ... come to think of it I just like drinking.
Yeah thankfully that only happened a few times. And the tree thing only happened once but that was damn funny. Passed out in the crook of the tree :)
My friends always passed out in snow banks or trees ...
For home use I always go with linksys never had any problems.
This is a pretty cheap 10/100/1000 8 port switch here
No I think it more like "because we got into bondage that day"
Yeah but thats because troy is shit hole. I looked at RPI and decided there was no way I was living in troy.
I used to work with a girl named "Ha". It was always weird passing her in the hall. Its like what do you say "Hi Ha" ,"Hello Ha" , "Hows it hangin Ha" ... never did come up with a good answer.
That reminds me of the NH congressman named richard sweat ... or as his signs read "Vote for Dick Sweat"
Yeah I'm sure that was the case ;-)
I don't really want to get into an arguement over who parties to death hard MIT or clarkson.
I know/work with a bunch of people (not to mention I lived in MA for a few years). They are very smart and nice but honestly not my cup of tequila.
.... now I'm biased because I went there but I still find out in the field even the 50 grads know how to throw down. I think its something about being in the middle of no where that teaches you how to have fun with booze and -20 temps.
I like partying with Clarkson U. grads
You haven't hungout with many people from MIT have you ... they make Ben & Matt look cool.
Would you really want to be processing large amounts of data through a machine that is overclocked? How can you say the data is reliable when you're pushing your gear way out of spec.
As much as the onboard memory control increases speed I still don't think its as fast as 2 athlon 2800s. Not to mention most of us aren't going to get luck and find it almost half off.
Don't get me wrong I think the new 64bit chips are awesome and I'd love to get my hands on 1 or 2 of them but for me right now I'm going to go with 2 2800s.
I don't know the FX51 is nice but for roughly the price of the chip you could get a nice tyan mb,2 athlon MP 2800 and gig of ECC ram. Now I know it doesn't have the 64bit extentions and its only pc2100 ram but all in all alot of horse power for not alot of money.
I don't know I've done some backdoor work with nobel intent ;-)
But why? Well written C code amongst unix is very portable, and if written properly can be ported to windows (GUI not withstanding).
You have to remember most software written is not for off the shelf stuff but rather custom jobs (stuff that can't be replaced with COTS). Why write something to run on many plateforms when you can customize it to one?