Do you consider stuff like research in quantum computing to be "Computer Science" ? How about more efficient compression algorithms, or encryption/decryption work? What is the difference in your mind between a degree in "software development" vs "software engineering" vs "computer engineering" vs "computer science" ?
You could also mirror the various jquery stuff hosted at ajax.google.com on your local machine, served up by a local web server. Then just reference your local ip/localhost as the IP for ajax.google.com in your hosts file.
Does it matter? Fast CPU, fast RAM, fast disks is like having no speed limits on every race track in the world - but in order to get from track to track you have to go on the interstates or perhaps back country roads (PCI bus, etc). Sure, each component is fast and getting faster, but the way those components connect to each other hasn't changed all that much...
On the flip side, being to specific is also bad. A programmer thinking he has to update his code that is served up via tomcat before a new SSL certificate can be installed, etc. Knowing *something* about all of the other fields is required still...
Wasn't there a datacenter guy who posted here on/. when Katrina hit about all the stuff they went through keepign things up and running at some sort of minimal level?
Been drinking and google-fu is off but perhaps someone can post it. IIRC it included a blog of what was goign on, etc.
Make a map of what you have, what the main issues are with each piece, and then a plan for replacement/updating/whatever. Try to include some rough (and higher than you really think it will be) cost estimates. Then present to a boss, and get buy-in. If you don't get buy-in, start updating your CV and look for another job.
It's struck me, too, how the trash collection vehicles that come by my house are mostly piloted robots already; the humans are there to deal with problems and control the joysticks, but hydraulic arms lift and empty the garbage containers themselves.
Where I am, the human drives the truck, gets it lined up with the can, etc. If some asshat homeowner puts the bin out too far from the curb, or turned "wrong" (sideways or backwards or not mostly square to the road), said worker has to hop out and get the bin in position for the arms to grab, slaps teh big red button on the side of the truck, and the hydraulics/mechanics/robotics take over from there.
The human is still needed for the fuzzy logic stuff - driving, checking distance of the bin to the road, orientation of the bin, etc - but with a halfway considerate homeowner they don't need to get out of the truck that often. Big change from the "hop out, toss 2 full cans up and dump 'em in, compact it, head to next set of cans" model that was around a few years back...
Indeed. Even in the 80s California emissions laws kept certain models of cars from being imported, like hte Porsche 930 turbo. Hence the M491 option on the 911 (factory turbo look - a turbo car without the rear windshield wiper, or turbo script on the back end, and the NA 3.2L engine instead of the turbo charged version)
That sound is from the exhaust design, not the engine design - attach the exhaust from a Porsche 356 or an aftermarket Bursch or Dansk and it will sound *much* better.
Now, if you hear one rattling like a drawer full of spoons that could be very loosely adjusted valves (iirc spec is a gap of 009 for push rods and valve rocker arms) or something funky happening with the generator pulley.
Bought a Nissan Versa early last year that had 21k on it. Average MPG at the time was at 36.something. Had it reset when I did teh first oil change, with my driving it is steady hanging at 39.1mpg - mostly highway or country roads, but some city.
The most important certs just about anyone can get that most will never put on a resume would be a First Aid/CPR/BLS course. If you are an outdoors person around bodies of water a lot, a lifeguard course wouldn't be too bad to have under your belt as well.
After that, certs really become more specialized training in whatever your work field is...
And Porsche AG was the one to first produce a car that had "Porsche" on the back end of it... Ferdinand's work was as a design engineer, but until Ferry and the '48 Gmund cars nothing had ever been badged as "Porsche".
One of the first cars Dr Ferdinand Porsche designed was electric, had motors on all 4 wheels.
His son Ferry is the Porsche car maker we all know... and did the 356.
But for the cost of a high end rebuild on a 356 engine, you can convert them to electric. Same conversion should owrk on any model with the 200mm clutch - 356, 912, 914 - as well as later (post '64 IIRC) VW bugs and busses.
Or something like the "Breakfast Club" where the weird, geek, goth, jock, and stoner are all forced together for X amount of time, only distractions being a D&D game...
I would imagine that if someone had access to get a DB dump of passwords, they also had access to the code that created them. If it wasn't compiled code, then the salting method and actual value for whatever salt was used would be available...
If you aren't stuck on the flat object-ness of the tablet form factor, Dell has some decent Windows 10 laptops that have touchscreens. Works well so far, except my son kept exiting the "good" on-screen keyboard so I had to set the service to always restart it if it stopped. The inability to totally disable the analytics stuff still bothers me, but for $500 including a 3 year "accidental damage and spills" next day on site warranty (buy from the business side!) I consider it a *much* better deal than anything I've seen tablet wise.
Even with a free monitor, for the $80-ish a Pi will cost - not to mention the tech know how required, etc. then perhaps one of the cheap Android laptop devices would have a better cost/benefit ratio?
Did a spur of the moment one way flight from N Florida to Denver CO a few weeks ago, only myself and a backpack with a change of clothes, a book, and my phone charger. No questions about any of it. Bought the ticket 36 hours before take off.
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Do you consider stuff like research in quantum computing to be "Computer Science" ? How about more efficient compression algorithms, or encryption/decryption work? What is the difference in your mind between a degree in "software development" vs "software engineering" vs "computer engineering" vs "computer science" ?
Or maybe even worry about the massive crime problem his city has and let the school board worry about education standards?
You could also mirror the various jquery stuff hosted at ajax.google.com on your local machine, served up by a local web server. Then just reference your local ip/localhost as the IP for ajax.google.com in your hosts file.
Does it matter? Fast CPU, fast RAM, fast disks is like having no speed limits on every race track in the world - but in order to get from track to track you have to go on the interstates or perhaps back country roads (PCI bus, etc). Sure, each component is fast and getting faster, but the way those components connect to each other hasn't changed all that much...
On the flip side, being to specific is also bad. A programmer thinking he has to update his code that is served up via tomcat before a new SSL certificate can be installed, etc. Knowing *something* about all of the other fields is required still...
Isnt this what they did for the notification anyway?
Wasn't there a datacenter guy who posted here on /. when Katrina hit about all the stuff they went through keepign things up and running at some sort of minimal level?
Been drinking and google-fu is off but perhaps someone can post it. IIRC it included a blog of what was goign on, etc.
Make a map of what you have, what the main issues are with each piece, and then a plan for replacement/updating/whatever. Try to include some rough (and higher than you really think it will be) cost estimates. Then present to a boss, and get buy-in. If you don't get buy-in, start updating your CV and look for another job.
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It's struck me, too, how the trash collection vehicles that come by my house are mostly piloted robots already; the humans are there to deal with problems and control the joysticks, but hydraulic arms lift and empty the garbage containers themselves.
Where I am, the human drives the truck, gets it lined up with the can, etc. If some asshat homeowner puts the bin out too far from the curb, or turned "wrong" (sideways or backwards or not mostly square to the road), said worker has to hop out and get the bin in position for the arms to grab, slaps teh big red button on the side of the truck, and the hydraulics/mechanics/robotics take over from there.
The human is still needed for the fuzzy logic stuff - driving, checking distance of the bin to the road, orientation of the bin, etc - but with a halfway considerate homeowner they don't need to get out of the truck that often. Big change from the "hop out, toss 2 full cans up and dump 'em in, compact it, head to next set of cans" model that was around a few years back...
Indeed. Even in the 80s California emissions laws kept certain models of cars from being imported, like hte Porsche 930 turbo. Hence the M491 option on the 911 (factory turbo look - a turbo car without the rear windshield wiper, or turbo script on the back end, and the NA 3.2L engine instead of the turbo charged version)
That sound is from the exhaust design, not the engine design - attach the exhaust from a Porsche 356 or an aftermarket Bursch or Dansk and it will sound *much* better.
Now, if you hear one rattling like a drawer full of spoons that could be very loosely adjusted valves (iirc spec is a gap of 009 for push rods and valve rocker arms) or something funky happening with the generator pulley.
Horsepower is for those who can't keep their speed up in the corners...
Also, it is more fun to drive a slow car fast than it is to drive a fast car slow
Bought a Nissan Versa early last year that had 21k on it. Average MPG at the time was at 36.something. Had it reset when I did teh first oil change, with my driving it is steady hanging at 39.1mpg - mostly highway or country roads, but some city.
Especially if they could get Office/Outlook/etc. ported to it.
The most important certs just about anyone can get that most will never put on a resume would be a First Aid/CPR/BLS course. If you are an outdoors person around bodies of water a lot, a lifeguard course wouldn't be too bad to have under your belt as well.
After that, certs really become more specialized training in whatever your work field is...
And Porsche AG was the one to first produce a car that had "Porsche" on the back end of it... Ferdinand's work was as a design engineer, but until Ferry and the '48 Gmund cars nothing had ever been badged as "Porsche".
Ferdinand != Ferry
Ferry started the car company - Ferdinand was an engineer and worked for Mercedes, VW, etc.
One of the first cars Dr Ferdinand Porsche designed was electric, had motors on all 4 wheels.
His son Ferry is the Porsche car maker we all know... and did the 356.
But for the cost of a high end rebuild on a 356 engine, you can convert them to electric. Same conversion should owrk on any model with the 200mm clutch - 356, 912, 914 - as well as later (post '64 IIRC) VW bugs and busses.
http://www.evwest.com/catalog/...
Also, I thought the 918 Spyder was electric?
Finally, Saturday is the 19th - not just Talk Like a Pirate Day, it is Ferry Porsche's birthday and Drive Your Porsche Day.
So how is this any different than someone using the free and open wifi at a Starbucks, McDonalds, Flying J truck stop, etc? Just as anonymous ...
Two Bits!
Four Bits!
Six Bits!
A byte!
All for the coders, stand up and unite!
with great apologies to Mr Two Bits - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or something like the "Breakfast Club" where the weird, geek, goth, jock, and stoner are all forced together for X amount of time, only distractions being a D&D game...
I would imagine that if someone had access to get a DB dump of passwords, they also had access to the code that created them. If it wasn't compiled code, then the salting method and actual value for whatever salt was used would be available...
If you aren't stuck on the flat object-ness of the tablet form factor, Dell has some decent Windows 10 laptops that have touchscreens. Works well so far, except my son kept exiting the "good" on-screen keyboard so I had to set the service to always restart it if it stopped. The inability to totally disable the analytics stuff still bothers me, but for $500 including a 3 year "accidental damage and spills" next day on site warranty (buy from the business side!) I consider it a *much* better deal than anything I've seen tablet wise.
Even with a free monitor, for the $80-ish a Pi will cost - not to mention the tech know how required, etc. then perhaps one of the cheap Android laptop devices would have a better cost/benefit ratio?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Min...
I have an older version of this (wm8650 based) and it works fine...
Did a spur of the moment one way flight from N Florida to Denver CO a few weeks ago, only myself and a backpack with a change of clothes, a book, and my phone charger. No questions about any of it. Bought the ticket 36 hours before take off.