Other than the binary-vs-compiled issues, part of my personal love/hate relationship with BSD has been related to IO tools and issues.
I find that FreeBSD's resource-usage monitoring to be quite a bit nicer than 'nix. One example is just pressing "m" in "top" to get a per-CPU list of usage rather than the 300% = roughly 3-of-4 CPU's in heavy use.
Stats on disk IO have always seemed to work for me, whereas in 'nix I've tended to need more specialized drivers compiled in the kernel. It could be that I just got lucky and always had supported hardware, but it has been much less of a trial.
Managing IO on certain devices in BSD has been much more of a pain though at times. The drivers of certain less-expensive RAID cards (often used in Dell servers) have been a true pain to optimize. They don't actually break, but all seem to have different buffer-depths requiring special config to prevent overruns which lead to poor performance.
Actually, you'll probably do quite a bit of compiling in FreeBSD too. While you can pull binary packages, most people I know prefer to use a package manager like portsnap and compile source packages.
If you have a script to take care of compiling the common stuff, then just "make config" everything that need user input and let it fly. Granted, most servers I've used BSD on have been dual or quad core Xeon/AMD PC's with a fair bit of RAM, so it is overall a fairly quick process, though it was still not too bad on a few P4-era celerons.
The nice thing about FreeBSD source-compiled apps that I truly did love compared to BSD is the little tweaks you could do to avoid tons of crap dependencies. Debian used to be fairly "clean" as far as deps, but both Ubuntu and Deb are now getting quite ugly in that you get rather unwanted stuff in order to get the package you want. In most FreeBSD stuff, for example, I can check the "No X Server" box and happily compile my apps without any X support whatsoever. On Debian/Ubuntu I end up trying to install some CLI system monitoring tool or CUPS, whatever, and end up with a whackload of x.org stuff because it's tied to some font which is loosely tied to the actual package I'm trying to install. On Ubuntu desktops, trying to exorcize the demons of "Evolution" without having it remove other important stuff due to deps is near impossible. Sometimes there's a separate branch for a "cleaner" install, but often enough not.
Of course, BSD ain't perfect. Linux tends to have a lot of "new" stuff that BSD is a little more "conservative" in bringing into the mainline (iSCSI support for example was a fairly recent addition compared to 'nix), but overall the package system is powerful indeed.
Having not used Gentoo (yet) but knowing others who have, it seems like it might be somewhat similar in concept. The issues I've heard with are mostly in people getting to the up-and-running stage, but - similar to BSD - avoid annoying little conflicts or unwanted cruft is a lot easier than Debian/Ubuntu's precompiled binaries. Of course, I've also heard of much frustration in both if you have find halfway through a *long* compile that you missed something you should have flagged/included.
Their "forgot my password" system happily emails you the actual password, not a token, which means that it's being stored in a non-hashed manner somewhere.
How about the Indiana Jones movies, etc. Are those also banned in German as well then (or edited)? Death to Smoochy? Anything else with that particular symbol (whether glorifying it or opposing it)?
XXIX: Intentional circumvention of the preceding by the government or its agents should be chargeable as TREASON to all voluntarily participating parties, will the maximum sentence for such to be execution, implemented with utmost haste.
A good portion of jobs that could have been moved offshore, have. Yes, they might move some others, but there would be other issues beyond the "none of the CEO's want to move to India"
There *are* plenty of skilled workers/programmers/etc in the US. Moving to another country would lose a lot of talent, likely ending up with delay or lower-quality products, not to mention the potential security issues.This isn't to say that all workers in $foreign_country are unskilled, but rather that there are plenty of other considerations, and you would still need to *find* the skilled workers (and not just those padding their resumes) overseas to replace the ones you've lost from the local pool. I'd imagine the PR damage could be pretty bad too what with the "Buy American" focus lately, which would lose additional revenues.
Seriously, if MS could save big bucks by moving their labor pool outside the US, they would already have done so even not considering the tax issues.
Not "does it run Linux", but rather "will it work with Linux?" It seems that the app used to bridge serial over network (similar to PPPOE in concept?) is windows-based.
"Weâ(TM)re using Windows, so we grabbed the freeware version of Virtual Serial Port Emulator, a simple port redirector. If you have Linux or OSX suggestions, please leave them in the comments"
Does anyone know a working method to create a network-bound serial port for 'nix? It looks like a fair bit of stuff could be done with the "matrix Orbital-style LCD commands" sent no the listening port, but I'd prefer to interface directly with the LCD if possible.
Definitely so. Unfortunately some people often seem to thing that they're above the controls in place, or that "just one little tweak to live" isn't going to hurt anything.
I think that there's a big difference between loving your job, and loving your work. I quite enjoy coding, maintaining servers, and all sorts of things technical. In my last job (Sr SysAdmin position), I found that the days could fly by when I was engaged in a complex task, whether it was coding or re-optimizing a server. However, being woken up to fix a downed server (often because somebody uploaded improperly tested code etc) or having to continually cancel my weekend plans due to unforeseen "issues" really sucked.
My current job leaves me with a lot more free time, and isn't often as exciting as the last. With more free time, I have more time to work on learning/re-learning coding. I'd imagine if I had enough money to not need a "day job" I'd continue along the same path, although I'd probably be buying a few books, dev-kits, or course-hours as well.
For those that entered tech/coding, I'd imagine it would be a similar situation (it is for those I know). There are those who entered the market more the cash, or no longer like what they do, but there must be some who feel the same.
Really, you should probably add that to the wikipedia entry. It makes a lot more sense Of course they'll probably be anal about citations, so if you have any that would help too.
People will Dells or many other prebuilt computers? They tend not to be friendly standard components/mainboards/etc... I tried cramming some in Dell cases to no avail People with newer boards and older cases (again, some parts don't fit) Those who insist on the newest case-de-jour that looks like ET with LED eyes...
I have a friend who has three daughters. Actually I don't know him that well myself, but he's best buddies with my roomate. While he was visiting, his daughters ended up making a plaything of me and climbing about and bonking at my head, etc (not hard enough to be painful).
When they left they all insisted they have hugs. They were *very* friendly little girls compared to most there, and for awhile I was a put put-off/confused about such attention from non family-members. Now I'm more used to it, and I think part of it has to do with the fact that their dad is a rather extensively muscled ex-prison guard. I'm fairly sure he taught his daughters to beware of strangers, but when daddy's around they have little to fear as any potential pervs would likely end shaped like a pretzel before they could try anything.
Many parents take the protection/care thing to the point of overbearing, stifling kids natural tendency to be friendly. This is quite sad, really,and likely a detriment to us all as a society in the future.
Never, never, offer a strange kid candy (exempting parental permission or Halloween trick-or-treaters). Even if it were a woman who did this I'd find it creepy and more than a bit suspicious.
What was done may have been with good intentions, but I don't think that the freaked-out reaction was due to your gender. The tackle may have been, but then I'd regard a 220/6'3" due as more likely to be a physical threat in a fair fight than a 110lb 5'3" soccer mom...
The broken nose sucks (and you might have a case for assault), but dude, in this day and age you're lucky not to be posting from a prison cell for attempted abduction.
Tethered or no, the phone is still subject to the service and/or bandwidth limitations imposed by your carrier/plan/contract. I have a 1GB/mo data plan and if I were to blow past that because I tethered, I'll be the one footing the bill.
I haven't tried though, since I don't have much use for tethering, but how I use my data should not be for Apple to decide if I happen to be on an "unapproved" provider.
Actually, for the graphical capabilities of the day, Lemmings did pretty well. While the lems themselves weren't all that complicated, the maps and backgrounds were generally quite pretty, and the music (once I got a soundcard instead of PC speaker) was also very nice.
Craigslist is for local listings. It works well enough if you're in the same location as the buyer/seller, but doesn't work so well if you're in different physical areas.
I found this a few times with large dialogs on me EEE. One thing I actually find very useful in 'nix is holding ALT and dragging the window around, which should work for you.
Unfortunately, any group tends to have it's selection of self-important, infantile, self-righteous whiners. Equally unfortunately, they tend to be the more vocal members of said groups.
Don't let the leetiods scare you off, there are plenty of sane linux users or admins around here. Filter out the rest and all will be well.
Mind you, Linux is for those that have a reason to use it (even if the reason is just curiosity), so exempting the leetiots perhaps you need a stronger reason yet to "join the community," just don't worry that a frontal lobotomy is a requirement for such.
I've had similar instances. There are certain areas around town here where a call just doesn't work, but a text-message can get through in either direction (you get all the "missed calls" texts but no actual calls). In some cases I've had more luck with (super-slow) email than voice calls too.
My NIC didn't come with a network cable, my soundcard came with a cable to hook up its external box, but didn't come with audio cables, my videocard didn't come with a DVI or VGA cable, and so on. It was left to me to purchase the cables in the length and of the type I required.
A lot of these come with the accompanying hardware though:
My NIC didn't come with a network cable: Neither did mine (not that I've had a NIC that's not internal the last year or so), but my router, modem, NAS unit etc did. The motherboard also came with drive cables etc etc
soundcard came with a cable to hook up its external box, but didn't come with audio cables: Nope, but your speakers come with their own cables, and any other device is likely to have special cables (RCA jacks, etc)
my videocard didn't come with a DVI or VGA cable: My monitor did, my video card didn't, but then it was generally an upgrade/replacement to an existing card
While the "lubed up" discussion is perhaps a bit more visual its predecessors, I fail to see why you find this is any more offensive than the term "they've got you bent over the barrel" etc etc. Essentially it just dumbs down to: they've got you in a semi-helpless and very uncomfortable position, with the lube analogy used to emphasis rather than describing actual sexuality.
I bought the "Arcade" version of the 360 that came with HDMI output
And this is actually another good point. It's not just that the consoles don't come with the cables,but for the 360, they often don't even have the connectors. Most of the earlier 360's I've seen only have the composite/YUV port+adaptor and NO HDMI, mine included. However, that being said the YUV cable gives a beautiful picture on a 42" 1080p TV. I'm not sure if the YUV signal is 1080p, but I'll be comparing it sometime soon as the old console RROD'ed and I'm replacing it with one that happens to have HDMI.
Could it allow one to "challenge" courses as a more accredited college/university? One might end up having to re-take various courses but it could be useful for a head-start.
I've seen plenty of teams where many of the members were willing, but the skill/effort level was - to say the least - weak (or lopsided). There were some cases where the weaker-skilled members WANT to learn, and benefited from the skills/knowledge of the others, but plenty of other times where there was a team member of two who simply did not give a shit.
Now perhaps this does reflect the real-world in that getting saddled with a semi-useless team-member can often happen, but it also encourages the lazy ones to develop habits where they latch on to skilled workers, do little, and take as much credit as they can. I highly doubt teachers are unaware of this, as often they like to mix these individuals with the more skilled workers, but it would make sense if the grades reflected this rather than giving the lazies a free pass.
I've had team members of many calibers. Brilliant workers who also excel in teams are - of course - quite rare, but are a real treat to work with. I've had some team-mates who were simply under-skilled/under-taught, in which case they actually became very helpful when brought up to speed. I can even drop my ego enough to admit I've been there myself, learning new tricks/skills from somebody in the group who knew more about X than I did. I've also had team members who simply couldn't seem to grasp the material at hand despite strong effort. The best solution in that case was to funnel them to whatever tasks they could manage best, and leave them off the core work but hope to help them understand it as best they could. Y ou also get lone-wolves that can't seem to work well in groups. You can usually do well with them if you can set them to something tasking but requiring minimal interaction. The last two categories are the voluntarily-useless and the credit-takers. The most frustrating part is that they're often quite clever, but can in no way be motivated to learn or attend to the task at hand, and would rather show up hung-over from weekend partying while everyone else was burning the weekend-oil. Thus far the best approach I've seen to this was to have the other team members document and account for their own tasks as well as possible to avoid the credit-stealing aspect, and then treat the rest as "damage control"
Slashdot Mirror
Other than the binary-vs-compiled issues, part of my personal love/hate relationship with BSD has been related to IO tools and issues.
I find that FreeBSD's resource-usage monitoring to be quite a bit nicer than 'nix. One example is just pressing "m" in "top" to get a per-CPU list of usage rather than the 300% = roughly 3-of-4 CPU's in heavy use.
Stats on disk IO have always seemed to work for me, whereas in 'nix I've tended to need more specialized drivers compiled in the kernel. It could be that I just got lucky and always had supported hardware, but it has been much less of a trial.
Managing IO on certain devices in BSD has been much more of a pain though at times. The drivers of certain less-expensive RAID cards (often used in Dell servers) have been a true pain to optimize. They don't actually break, but all seem to have different buffer-depths requiring special config to prevent overruns which lead to poor performance.
Actually, you'll probably do quite a bit of compiling in FreeBSD too. While you can pull binary packages, most people I know prefer to use a package manager like portsnap and compile source packages.
If you have a script to take care of compiling the common stuff, then just "make config" everything that need user input and let it fly. Granted, most servers I've used BSD on have been dual or quad core Xeon/AMD PC's with a fair bit of RAM, so it is overall a fairly quick process, though it was still not too bad on a few P4-era celerons.
The nice thing about FreeBSD source-compiled apps that I truly did love compared to BSD is the little tweaks you could do to avoid tons of crap dependencies. Debian used to be fairly "clean" as far as deps, but both Ubuntu and Deb are now getting quite ugly in that you get rather unwanted stuff in order to get the package you want. In most FreeBSD stuff, for example, I can check the "No X Server" box and happily compile my apps without any X support whatsoever. On Debian/Ubuntu I end up trying to install some CLI system monitoring tool or CUPS, whatever, and end up with a whackload of x.org stuff because it's tied to some font which is loosely tied to the actual package I'm trying to install. On Ubuntu desktops, trying to exorcize the demons of "Evolution" without having it remove other important stuff due to deps is near impossible. Sometimes there's a separate branch for a "cleaner" install, but often enough not.
Of course, BSD ain't perfect. Linux tends to have a lot of "new" stuff that BSD is a little more "conservative" in bringing into the mainline (iSCSI support for example was a fairly recent addition compared to 'nix), but overall the package system is powerful indeed.
Having not used Gentoo (yet) but knowing others who have, it seems like it might be somewhat similar in concept. The issues I've heard with are mostly in people getting to the up-and-running stage, but - similar to BSD - avoid annoying little conflicts or unwanted cruft is a lot easier than Debian/Ubuntu's precompiled binaries. Of course, I've also heard of much frustration in both if you have find halfway through a *long* compile that you missed something you should have flagged/included.
Their "forgot my password" system happily emails you the actual password, not a token, which means that it's being stored in a non-hashed manner somewhere.
How about the Indiana Jones movies, etc. Are those also banned in German as well then (or edited)?
Death to Smoochy?
Anything else with that particular symbol (whether glorifying it or opposing it)?
XXIX: Intentional circumvention of the preceding by the government or its agents should be chargeable as TREASON to all voluntarily participating parties, will the maximum sentence for such to be execution, implemented with utmost haste.
A good portion of jobs that could have been moved offshore, have. Yes, they might move some others, but there would be other issues beyond the "none of the CEO's want to move to India"
There *are* plenty of skilled workers/programmers/etc in the US. Moving to another country would lose a lot of talent, likely ending up with delay or lower-quality products, not to mention the potential security issues.This isn't to say that all workers in $foreign_country are unskilled, but rather that there are plenty of other considerations, and you would still need to *find* the skilled workers (and not just those padding their resumes) overseas to replace the ones you've lost from the local pool. I'd imagine the PR damage could be pretty bad too what with the "Buy American" focus lately, which would lose additional revenues.
Seriously, if MS could save big bucks by moving their labor pool outside the US, they would already have done so even not considering the tax issues.
Not "does it run Linux", but rather "will it work with Linux?"
It seems that the app used to bridge serial over network (similar to PPPOE in concept?) is windows-based.
"Weâ(TM)re using Windows, so we grabbed the freeware version of Virtual Serial Port Emulator, a simple port redirector. If you have Linux or OSX suggestions, please leave them in the comments"
Does anyone know a working method to create a network-bound serial port for 'nix? It looks like a fair bit of stuff could be done with the "matrix Orbital-style LCD commands" sent no the listening port, but I'd prefer to interface directly with the LCD if possible.
Definitely so. Unfortunately some people often seem to thing that they're above the controls in place, or that "just one little tweak to live" isn't going to hurt anything.
I think that there's a big difference between loving your job, and loving your work. I quite enjoy coding, maintaining servers, and all sorts of things technical. In my last job (Sr SysAdmin position), I found that the days could fly by when I was engaged in a complex task, whether it was coding or re-optimizing a server. However, being woken up to fix a downed server (often because somebody uploaded improperly tested code etc) or having to continually cancel my weekend plans due to unforeseen "issues" really sucked.
My current job leaves me with a lot more free time, and isn't often as exciting as the last. With more free time, I have more time to work on learning/re-learning coding. I'd imagine if I had enough money to not need a "day job" I'd continue along the same path, although I'd probably be buying a few books, dev-kits, or course-hours as well.
For those that entered tech/coding, I'd imagine it would be a similar situation (it is for those I know). There are those who entered the market more the cash, or no longer like what they do, but there must be some who feel the same.
Really, you should probably add that to the wikipedia entry. It makes a lot more sense
Of course they'll probably be anal about citations, so if you have any that would help too.
People will Dells or many other prebuilt computers? They tend not to be friendly standard components/mainboards/etc... I tried cramming some in Dell cases to no avail
People with newer boards and older cases (again, some parts don't fit)
Those who insist on the newest case-de-jour that looks like ET with LED eyes...
I have a friend who has three daughters. Actually I don't know him that well myself, but he's best buddies with my roomate. While he was visiting, his daughters ended up making a plaything of me and climbing about and bonking at my head, etc (not hard enough to be painful).
When they left they all insisted they have hugs. They were *very* friendly little girls compared to most there, and for awhile I was a put put-off/confused about such attention from non family-members. Now I'm more used to it, and I think part of it has to do with the fact that their dad is a rather extensively muscled ex-prison guard. I'm fairly sure he taught his daughters to beware of strangers, but when daddy's around they have little to fear as any potential pervs would likely end shaped like a pretzel before they could try anything.
Many parents take the protection/care thing to the point of overbearing, stifling kids natural tendency to be friendly. This is quite sad, really,and likely a detriment to us all as a society in the future.
Never, never, offer a strange kid candy (exempting parental permission or Halloween trick-or-treaters). Even if it were a woman who did this I'd find it creepy and more than a bit suspicious.
What was done may have been with good intentions, but I don't think that the freaked-out reaction was due to your gender. The tackle may have been, but then I'd regard a 220/6'3" due as more likely to be a physical threat in a fair fight than a 110lb 5'3" soccer mom...
The broken nose sucks (and you might have a case for assault), but dude, in this day and age you're lucky not to be posting from a prison cell for attempted abduction.
Tethered or no, the phone is still subject to the service and/or bandwidth limitations imposed by your carrier/plan/contract. I have a 1GB/mo data plan and if I were to blow past that because I tethered, I'll be the one footing the bill.
I haven't tried though, since I don't have much use for tethering, but how I use my data should not be for Apple to decide if I happen to be on an "unapproved" provider.
Actually, for the graphical capabilities of the day, Lemmings did pretty well.
While the lems themselves weren't all that complicated, the maps and backgrounds were generally quite pretty, and the music (once I got a soundcard instead of PC speaker) was also very nice.
Craigslist is for local listings. It works well enough if you're in the same location as the buyer/seller, but doesn't work so well if you're in different physical areas.
I found this a few times with large dialogs on me EEE. One thing I actually find very useful in 'nix is holding ALT and dragging the window around, which should work for you.
Unfortunately, any group tends to have it's selection of self-important, infantile, self-righteous whiners. Equally unfortunately, they tend to be the more vocal members of said groups.
Don't let the leetiods scare you off, there are plenty of sane linux users or admins around here. Filter out the rest and all will be well.
Mind you, Linux is for those that have a reason to use it (even if the reason is just curiosity), so exempting the leetiots perhaps you need a stronger reason yet to "join the community," just don't worry that a frontal lobotomy is a requirement for such.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there in many cases allowances specifically made for inter-operability/compatibility?
I've had similar instances. There are certain areas around town here where a call just doesn't work, but a text-message can get through in either direction (you get all the "missed calls" texts but no actual calls). In some cases I've had more luck with (super-slow) email than voice calls too.
My NIC didn't come with a network cable, my soundcard came with a cable to hook up its external box, but didn't come with audio cables, my videocard didn't come with a DVI or VGA cable, and so on. It was left to me to purchase the cables in the length and of the type I required.
A lot of these come with the accompanying hardware though:
While the "lubed up" discussion is perhaps a bit more visual its predecessors, I fail to see why you find this is any more offensive than the term "they've got you bent over the barrel" etc etc. Essentially it just dumbs down to: they've got you in a semi-helpless and very uncomfortable position, with the lube analogy used to emphasis rather than describing actual sexuality.
I bought the "Arcade" version of the 360 that came with HDMI output
And this is actually another good point. It's not just that the consoles don't come with the cables,but for the 360, they often don't even have the connectors. Most of the earlier 360's I've seen only have the composite/YUV port+adaptor and NO HDMI, mine included. However, that being said the YUV cable gives a beautiful picture on a 42" 1080p TV. I'm not sure if the YUV signal is 1080p, but I'll be comparing it sometime soon as the old console RROD'ed and I'm replacing it with one that happens to have HDMI.
Could it allow one to "challenge" courses as a more accredited college/university? One might end up having to re-take various courses but it could be useful for a head-start.
I've seen plenty of teams where many of the members were willing, but the skill/effort level was - to say the least - weak (or lopsided). There were some cases where the weaker-skilled members WANT to learn, and benefited from the skills/knowledge of the others, but plenty of other times where there was a team member of two who simply did not give a shit.
Now perhaps this does reflect the real-world in that getting saddled with a semi-useless team-member can often happen, but it also encourages the lazy ones to develop habits where they latch on to skilled workers, do little, and take as much credit as they can. I highly doubt teachers are unaware of this, as often they like to mix these individuals with the more skilled workers, but it would make sense if the grades reflected this rather than giving the lazies a free pass.
I've had team members of many calibers. Brilliant workers who also excel in teams are - of course - quite rare, but are a real treat to work with.
I've had some team-mates who were simply under-skilled/under-taught, in which case they actually became very helpful when brought up to speed. I can even drop my ego enough to admit I've been there myself, learning new tricks/skills from somebody in the group who knew more about X than I did.
I've also had team members who simply couldn't seem to grasp the material at hand despite strong effort. The best solution in that case was to funnel them to whatever tasks they could manage best, and leave them off the core work but hope to help them understand it as best they could. Y
ou also get lone-wolves that can't seem to work well in groups. You can usually do well with them if you can set them to something tasking but requiring minimal interaction.
The last two categories are the voluntarily-useless and the credit-takers. The most frustrating part is that they're often quite clever, but can in no way be motivated to learn or attend to the task at hand, and would rather show up hung-over from weekend partying while everyone else was burning the weekend-oil. Thus far the best approach I've seen to this was to have the other team members document and account for their own tasks as well as possible to avoid the credit-stealing aspect, and then treat the rest as "damage control"