Nice scenario. A friend of mine runs a VERY large desktop support organization at a Fortune 1000 company. His view on these things (yes there was a no tolerance policy there 5 years ago) was that as long as I don't HAVE to know about it, I don't (close to the don't ask don't tell policy). That said, there was an employee with a ton of MP3 files on his desktop shared to the network. Said employee compained about slow network access...
Friend looked at top N talkers on the subnet, it was all NFS/SMB traffic to this guys box from ALL over the group. Friend looks at what is being shared and at that point had no choice to report it...
Moral of the story is, if you have a large quantity of files shared, don't bitch about slow network access
Would you stop the guy outside from taking a picture of your car?
Many celbrities do this, they fall under various anti-stalking laws. I bet Princess Dianna would have loved to have those people chasing her car at high speed stop... After all they were just wanting to make a copy of her and her boyfriend
Just in case you didn't guess, this is a cluster of Linux servers, not a single server
If you have a task that can be easily partitioned off (oh like each individual frame would be an easy break for this) you can send each task to a different machine allowing you to parellelize the task.
This is a poor mans version of NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) created and popularized by Sequent (now a division of IBM) where rather than have a single pool of addressable memory, you have multiple pools of memory, some with very fast access, some with slower.
What I am wondering is what do they do for the cluster cross connect. In large scale cluster environments, this tends to be a significant bottleneck. In large scale clusters you start seeing things like HIPPI, VIA, and soon to be Infiniband... wonder what this is stocked up with
It is a short conference... why bother, put a 64 bit WEP key that you hand out to participants. How many people do you expect to "steal" the bandwidth anyway. If you are concerned, run a Top N talkers through your RMON MIB on your router, and if any of the top N talkers aren't conference participants, put a MAC address filter in the access point.
The IETF has been providing wireless service to conference participants for years now, wide open, you can use a key if you want to, but most people don't.
Why an airplane anyway ?
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Ok, things falling through an atmosphere hit a terminal velocity (depending on it's weight to wind resistance, etc.) as it falls....
Calculate the altitude that a bowling ball will reach terminal velocity, add 100 ft. or so, then just launch it that high using a trebuchette (better than a PC), a rocket, or something like that. I would guess that it would only take 100-200 ft to reach terminal velocity anyway, so what do you need the airplane and the extra altitude for
What is stopping you from replacing the fan, replacing it with a low vibration replacement and then you have low heat, AND low vibration.
The other thing is newer drives seem to be quite a bit more prone to failure than drives even 5 years ago, don't know if that is because of cost reduction, or higher speeds
Simple. Get a secure camera on the system that will log the person sitting there, if it isn't you don't allow ANY login to succeed. I've seen demo's that do this from years back, is pretty cool...
If it isn't you sitting at the computer, the computer says, do you want to leave a message for the owner of the computer, and allows you to type a message in
For vacations to somewhere you don't have experience with I would recomend the Travel Agent. Specifically a travel agent that specializes in the activity you want to do. The reason is simple, a good travel agent has been to the area, knows specific attractions that you might like, and can simplify travel significantly. That said, you are using several hours of this persons time, expect to pay for the service...
Business travel where you are going to go sit in a hotel on a specific itenerary, ALWAYS book online with priceline
As a long term WSJ reader (my dad has subscribed me since I was in college, I highly recomend it as a paper) there are some formatting issues to know about this article. The WSJ has for as long as I know about run a human interest/humorous article in the center column of the front page. These usually have SOME tie to the business world, but are selected I believe for whimsy, humor value. This article was todays Page 1 center column article, take it for what it is worth.
Was told to sign one of these, another thing on the list was
"I do not own property within 1/4 mile of a company facility, or proposed facility"
Well I called to find out why, turns out if you know where they are going to put a new facility it might be profitable to buy the land next to it because people will want to put in apartments, resturants, etc. Well I told them that the company had bought land close to my house years after I bought the house, I didn't know if it was within 1/4 mile or not, and I wasn't about to pay for a survey to find out. Their response was to cross out all statements that you didn't like, sign it and send it in...
So I crossed out all the lines, signed it and sent it in... No one bothered me about it and the problem went away
You Think this is bad, you should look at insider trading. Talk about guilty until proven innocent, was looking at buying 100 shares in a publicly traded beaten down stock, turns out company decided to buy the whole damned thing 2 days later... Wow, I would have made over 50% in two days, bad because I found out my manager was on the Due Dilligence team - We would have both been liable for the gains I made because I couldn't have proven that we didn't talk and have him whisper 4 letters into my ear... Scary but this is how insider trading works
Not only is this a local public high school, where kids are showing a lot of interest in science, but there website is still completely available after being posted on slashdot...
Lets see 160 Dollars per man/woman/child in america (Aprox pop of U.S.A. is 1/4 billion) over 18 years is under 10 dollars a person.
I'd rather see this than farm subsidies, paying for enforcing a bizintine tax structure (IRS), or any of about 10,000 random pieces of pork spent by congress over the last 18 years
Interesting question... What election did Al Gore win ??? He certainly didn't win the election in 2000 despite what partisan politicians want you to believe, he lost in Florida, he lost in the electorial college, heck he lost in his own homestate of Tennesee.
Now show me the result of the presidential election that has Al Gore with more votes than George W...
Trust me Microsoft is Debt Free... I don't count my credit cards as debts as I use them, and pay them off interest free every month. Compare this balance sheet with Intels (that is virtually debt free, they actually have just under a billion in long term debt last time I looked) vs someone like General Motors that has about 154 Billion in Long term debt, plus another 66 Billion in other liabilities. Notice that these are all Dow stocks, major US companies that have completely different debt structures.
Microsoft is debt free (they pay their credit cards every month, but yes, they do use them), Intel is a low debt company that could pay off their debt, but doesn't for strategic reasons, and GM is a higher debt company that would take many years to pay off their debt (They are carrying a large credit card balance)
Now I am not an ecconomics guru but last time I checked with my accountant, liability is about the same as debt
Not quite, lets break that 12 B of liabilities down...
Accounts Payable 1.2B - This is the amount of money that they owe people, CD manufacturers, contractors, etc. Anyone who they have received a service for, but haven't payed out yet... Basically this is the amount on their credit card, they will pay it when it is due, but no need to pay it today
Accrued Compensation 1.1 B - This is usually the amount of money needed to pay all of their corprate accrued vacation... If you quit, you get this ammount paid to you, but Microsoft won't get any useful work out of you. This is why HP told all of their employees to take vacation a couple summers ago, it reduces this number, therefor makes the balance sheet look better
Income Taxes 2.0 B - Just like you and I Microsoft has to pay taxes. This is the amount of taxes that their operations up to this point in the year have cost them. The money is sitting in the bank waiting for the check to be written to the IRS at the end of the year
Short term unearned revenue 5.9 B Other 2.5 B - Don't know what these are, but they aren't debt.
Looking at this yes Microsoft is Debt free, kinda like I am debt free, I abuse my credit cards every month, but pay them off each month as well... (Getting the benefit of moneyback, frequent flier miles whatever)
Looks like there is a patent filed in the space (covered in Slashdot in 1999), however a quick reference to the patent database gives us
USPTO
So let the users frantically taking notes charge the batteries for them (I wonder if I should file a follow-up patent to use the USB mouse movements to charge the USB bus). Of course Compaq (now HP) owns this patent, so it looks like you will have to change vendors for you laptops.
Of course it depends on what you are doing, but using a 11 Mbit connection to access the internet at 1.5Mbit is no problem at all...
Of course if you are busy trying to copy a 1GByte Divx over the wireless link then you will want a wired connection. Of course what I do is use the wireless for convienient connectivity to the internet (corprate VPN, surfing, games etc.) then if I have to do some large internal transfers, I can walk to my computer room, plug a wire in and have a full 100Mbit connection...
YWLMV (Your Workload May Vary)
I have been nothing but absolutely pleased with my 802.11 network for 2 years now.
Ok, I have a two story, 4 br 2000 sq ft house. I have the WAP in the downstairs computer room at one end of the house, and I have a perfect signal upstairs at the other end of the house. I have no problem outside anywhere on my property and down the street for a couple of houses.
There may be reasons that cell phones don't work inside (like it was all ready a dicey connection outside and wrapping a tissue wrapped around the antenna breaks the connection outside). I would go get a 802.11b (not a, range is way lower, and walls really mater) from somewhere that will accept a return, put it in where you want it, then run around your house with a laptop and see what the signal strength is.
Where I used to work was a large office building and some people installed some "ad-hoc" wireless points in a very busy office environment (elevators running, cubicles, conference rooms etc.) and a single access point worked for almost a whole floor, many times the footprint of my house. In fact where I am now, I get my corprate WAP, plus one downstairs...
Funny, I read a VERY similar review of the Roomba in the wall street journal several weeks ago. If you want your news fresh, the WSJ publishes articles and editorials LONG before main street news seems to get them, everything from 3 days in advance for editorials to several weeks in advance for product reviews like this one...
And as a side bonus you get to learn how the bussiness side of things work, and fail misserably, so hopefully you can invest your hard earned cash wisely.
The Deadline by Tom Demarco - ISBN: 0932633390; (July 1997)
One of my favorite books on Project management. This book is a work of fiction by one of the great authors in Computer Science. This book is a work of Fiction, where the books main character is kidnapped by the ruthless King Bill (who just spent his money buying a country), and forced to manage a team of engineers producing knockoffs of popular desktop applications.
You might recognize some of the other cameo appearances as well. This is a great read, perfect for a flight on a business trip, or handed to any manager you might find yourself working for.
For about 10 years I have been working with C compilers that would (depending on optimization settings of course) inline functions with a code size under a certain threshold. Don't need a keyword, just a optimization threshold.
That said, you are looking to refactor your software anyway, you might as well do it right, possibly starting with picking a newer more modern toolset, architecting the code differently to allow you to optimize for stack/code/data space, and many other factors. Will this take time, of course, but it might not take as long as a simple little hack, plus give you better results, and the ability to improve in the future. Will management buy it ??? Probably not, so just tell them you are inlining everything, and give them so much more out the back end.
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Friend looked at top N talkers on the subnet, it was all NFS/SMB traffic to this guys box from ALL over the group. Friend looks at what is being shared and at that point had no choice to report it...
Moral of the story is, if you have a large quantity of files shared, don't bitch about slow network access
Many celbrities do this, they fall under various anti-stalking laws. I bet Princess Dianna would have loved to have those people chasing her car at high speed stop... After all they were just wanting to make a copy of her and her boyfriend
Well there is cloning directly, so no man needed... what cult is doing this now ?
If you have a task that can be easily partitioned off (oh like each individual frame would be an easy break for this) you can send each task to a different machine allowing you to parellelize the task.
This is a poor mans version of NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) created and popularized by Sequent (now a division of IBM) where rather than have a single pool of addressable memory, you have multiple pools of memory, some with very fast access, some with slower.
What I am wondering is what do they do for the cluster cross connect. In large scale cluster environments, this tends to be a significant bottleneck. In large scale clusters you start seeing things like HIPPI, VIA, and soon to be Infiniband... wonder what this is stocked up with
The IETF has been providing wireless service to conference participants for years now, wide open, you can use a key if you want to, but most people don't.
Calculate the altitude that a bowling ball will reach terminal velocity, add 100 ft. or so, then just launch it that high using a trebuchette (better than a PC), a rocket, or something like that. I would guess that it would only take 100-200 ft to reach terminal velocity anyway, so what do you need the airplane and the extra altitude for
Oh never mind, I'll leave you back to your regularly scheduled drivel
The other thing is newer drives seem to be quite a bit more prone to failure than drives even 5 years ago, don't know if that is because of cost reduction, or higher speeds
If it isn't you sitting at the computer, the computer says, do you want to leave a message for the owner of the computer, and allows you to type a message in
Business travel where you are going to go sit in a hotel on a specific itenerary, ALWAYS book online with priceline
As a long term WSJ reader (my dad has subscribed me since I was in college, I highly recomend it as a paper) there are some formatting issues to know about this article. The WSJ has for as long as I know about run a human interest/humorous article in the center column of the front page. These usually have SOME tie to the business world, but are selected I believe for whimsy, humor value. This article was todays Page 1 center column article, take it for what it is worth.
"I do not own property within 1/4 mile of a company facility, or proposed facility"
Well I called to find out why, turns out if you know where they are going to put a new facility it might be profitable to buy the land next to it because people will want to put in apartments, resturants, etc. Well I told them that the company had bought land close to my house years after I bought the house, I didn't know if it was within 1/4 mile or not, and I wasn't about to pay for a survey to find out. Their response was to cross out all statements that you didn't like, sign it and send it in...
So I crossed out all the lines, signed it and sent it in... No one bothered me about it and the problem went away
You Think this is bad, you should look at insider trading. Talk about guilty until proven innocent, was looking at buying 100 shares in a publicly traded beaten down stock, turns out company decided to buy the whole damned thing 2 days later... Wow, I would have made over 50% in two days, bad because I found out my manager was on the Due Dilligence team - We would have both been liable for the gains I made because I couldn't have proven that we didn't talk and have him whisper 4 letters into my ear... Scary but this is how insider trading works
Good job
Lets see 160 Dollars per man/woman/child in america (Aprox pop of U.S.A. is 1/4 billion) over 18 years is under 10 dollars a person. I'd rather see this than farm subsidies, paying for enforcing a bizintine tax structure (IRS), or any of about 10,000 random pieces of pork spent by congress over the last 18 years
Now show me the result of the presidential election that has Al Gore with more votes than George W...
Oh, better write quick, 2.5.47 is just around the corner I bet
Microsoft is debt free (they pay their credit cards every month, but yes, they do use them), Intel is a low debt company that could pay off their debt, but doesn't for strategic reasons, and GM is a higher debt company that would take many years to pay off their debt (They are carrying a large credit card balance)
Not quite, lets break that 12 B of liabilities down...
Accounts Payable 1.2B - This is the amount of money that they owe people, CD manufacturers, contractors, etc. Anyone who they have received a service for, but haven't payed out yet... Basically this is the amount on their credit card, they will pay it when it is due, but no need to pay it today
Accrued Compensation 1.1 B - This is usually the amount of money needed to pay all of their corprate accrued vacation... If you quit, you get this ammount paid to you, but Microsoft won't get any useful work out of you. This is why HP told all of their employees to take vacation a couple summers ago, it reduces this number, therefor makes the balance sheet look better
Income Taxes 2.0 B - Just like you and I Microsoft has to pay taxes. This is the amount of taxes that their operations up to this point in the year have cost them. The money is sitting in the bank waiting for the check to be written to the IRS at the end of the year
Short term unearned revenue 5.9 B Other 2.5 B - Don't know what these are, but they aren't debt.
Looking at this yes Microsoft is Debt free, kinda like I am debt free, I abuse my credit cards every month, but pay them off each month as well... (Getting the benefit of moneyback, frequent flier miles whatever)
So let the users frantically taking notes charge the batteries for them (I wonder if I should file a follow-up patent to use the USB mouse movements to charge the USB bus). Of course Compaq (now HP) owns this patent, so it looks like you will have to change vendors for you laptops.
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Of course it depends on what you are doing, but using a 11 Mbit connection to access the internet at 1.5Mbit is no problem at all...
Of course if you are busy trying to copy a 1GByte Divx over the wireless link then you will want a wired connection. Of course what I do is use the wireless for convienient connectivity to the internet (corprate VPN, surfing, games etc.) then if I have to do some large internal transfers, I can walk to my computer room, plug a wire in and have a full 100Mbit connection...
YWLMV (Your Workload May Vary)
I have been nothing but absolutely pleased with my 802.11 network for 2 years now.
There may be reasons that cell phones don't work inside (like it was all ready a dicey connection outside and wrapping a tissue wrapped around the antenna breaks the connection outside). I would go get a 802.11b (not a, range is way lower, and walls really mater) from somewhere that will accept a return, put it in where you want it, then run around your house with a laptop and see what the signal strength is.
Where I used to work was a large office building and some people installed some "ad-hoc" wireless points in a very busy office environment (elevators running, cubicles, conference rooms etc.) and a single access point worked for almost a whole floor, many times the footprint of my house. In fact where I am now, I get my corprate WAP, plus one downstairs...
The only Microsoft will ever produce a product that doesn't suck is if they get into the Vacuum Cleaner bussiness
And as a side bonus you get to learn how the bussiness side of things work, and fail misserably, so hopefully you can invest your hard earned cash wisely.
One of my favorite books on Project management. This book is a work of fiction by one of the great authors in Computer Science. This book is a work of Fiction, where the books main character is kidnapped by the ruthless King Bill (who just spent his money buying a country), and forced to manage a team of engineers producing knockoffs of popular desktop applications.
You might recognize some of the other cameo appearances as well. This is a great read, perfect for a flight on a business trip, or handed to any manager you might find yourself working for.
That said, you are looking to refactor your software anyway, you might as well do it right, possibly starting with picking a newer more modern toolset, architecting the code differently to allow you to optimize for stack/code/data space, and many other factors. Will this take time, of course, but it might not take as long as a simple little hack, plus give you better results, and the ability to improve in the future. Will management buy it ??? Probably not, so just tell them you are inlining everything, and give them so much more out the back end.