"I'm afraid now, I have somehow missed this message," says a Windows developer who asked not to be named. "Was it buried in too many marketing messages? Was it dependent on me searching it out?"
Was it SO OBVIOUS that you even had to be specifically told to test your apps on a new version of their target platform?
No news here. Next hot tip, some stuff may not work with the latest kernel image from linus and the gang.
English is the de-facto language of international trade. Wah wah, it's really just the way it is.
And noone in the news media cares about a 1500 dollar erector set for nerds. This thing has no feedback, sensors, anything. Just a steppermotor controller and a bunch of brackets.
Take how much it costs to run your business, divide by the number of employee's. In MSFTs case thats close since there are no "raw material" costs to writing code. Pretty simple.
It's no different if you use DVDs, HDDs or punchcards. If the datas in another building, yeah, you have to go there to get it.
Different servers have different backup and recovery needs. It's all about common sense and good practices.
My companies source code archive, for instance, is fully backed up twice every month, one copy goes home with the boss. It's incrementally backed up every night, those copies stay on site.
If the server bombs, we can get it back up in a few hours and not lose any work. If the office burned down, we could lose (at most) a months worth of work - which would be acceptable to us, since we're all jack-of-all-trades and generally dont sit down knocking out code all day.
Now and then when a significant update gets put into the tree, something that I'd dread having to re-do, I'll go down and hand-bomb a backup for my own piece of mind.
We tried backup to disk in house to see how it would behave - backing up big SQL Server clusters.
The problem that killed it for us is when you're transfering to an 80 gig drive over firewire, you completely hog the hell out of the system, making it all but unavailable during the meantime. I don't know of any way to "throttle" the backup, there's probably some obscure tweak though.
Tape transfer rates are comparitively slow, which leave plenty of room for the computer to carry on it's tasks. Sure it might take all night to do a full back up, but the servers available during that time.
Until optical media surpasses them in storage capacity, ease of use, and reliability, I don't see tape technology going anywhere. They serve a specific purpose and serve it well.
I'm sure you'd prefer that they do it the American government way, by spending 12 million on naming comittees and house votes to name each frickin rock they drive past on mars.
Why name them at all? A numeric serial number or designation would be more efficient in terms of database storage. It's just for press releases, and I should hope they dont spent more than about 15 seconds on the problem. "Hey! That rocks shaped like Tenessee, lets call it Tenessee"
It's just a case of "plan for the worst, hope for the best". Worst case scenario, the rovers will work for 90 days. Well, worst would be they just crash and get teh broken.
My beef with the download manager is it puts everythign in the same spot. I'd like to filter by extension, mime type, etc.. Put all the.zips and.exes here, all the.jpgs there, all the.avis hither and yonder.
I hate sorting through a pile of crap to find the pdf howto I downloaded a month ago. And I hate software that makes me act like it's filing clerk.
It's a simple modification, mozilla boys.. Hop to it!
a P2P network would be the last place where I would download software, just too much chance that you are downloading a trojan onto your computer
Why do you think the trojans are there? Because there are so many people on there downloading software.
Bittorrent is P2P too, and it's changing the scene. It used to be the elite got fast connections to 0-day stuff, bittorrent by it's design makes the hottest most popular stuff the most available.
Now, I believe the industry is shrinking due to natural causes. There's frankly enough software there. People have programs to do the stuff they want, they really don't see the need for new ones.
Of course I'm talking about "not games". But I've been using the same handful of apps dialy for years.
Worst that could happen is if power dropped in the middle of flashing a BIOS, but that's recoverable via a quick trip to the nearest little computer shop that has an EPROM burner (or warranty replacement if your bios is a TSOP)
Self-employed tradesmen are fewer and far-between these days.
Why look in the yellow pages for local Jim the plumber, when the Roto-Rooter(tm) commercial is blaring on the radio?
Why look for a carpenter, electrician, etc, when HandymanUSA is there to meet your needs.
Why look for a local independant mechanic when Jiffy Lube is right there?
By the same token, why go to a small cramped computer shop when the selection and great prices at Best Buy are just so darn convenient.
Does your town have a local mom&pop vegetable market, or a SuperFresh - or hell, that's too independent, a WalMart SuperCenter. Any mom&pop video stores, I bet not, but I'm sure you have a Blockbuster.
It's about the same here, though I have the option of dialing in to a client from home after hours. I can do pretty much any sort of support (short of downloading a 3 gig database file) this way.
When the bill comes I expense out any long distance calls I've made for the company.
Dont know why so many slashdotters have such shitty jobs. Sheesh, I'd switch careers if that's the best I could find.
Of course, if it's their resource, then they can dictate how it's to be used (ie; running Kazaa? Yer fired!)
I had this discussion with my bosses. For me to VPN under Comcasts EULA, I need the commercial edition for twice what I pay. If they want me to have it, I'll wind up with two cablemodems, one mine, one theirs.
They don't pay for the broadband - there's been no need to, but they do pay for the cellphone which I promptly turn off as soon as I leave the office. (Hey, they only had me promise to carry it with me, not answer it)
FM Modulation is redundant. FM stands for Frequency Modulation as we all know.
Like on older TV shows and movies you'd see army guys saying "Roger Wilco!"
"Roger" means "I understand"
"Wilco" means "I understand and will comply"
so "Roger Wilco" means "I understand, I understand and will comply". Ridiculous.
And broadband means you have a wide (broad) band of frequencies in which to piggyback your data, as opposed to narrowband. It really has nothing to do with the amount of data. A 3kbps service could technically be "broadband" while a gigabit service could be "narrowband".
Of course, why split hairs. Just accept the common use of the term: Broadband means "bunches faster than dial up modems".
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It sounds about right to me.
Consider there's a good chunk of the US population with no computer, or no internet access at all.
Of the remainder, a good chunk has no access to broadband. America is largely rural, and you don't even have to be that remote to not have broadband options. I lived 15 minutes from Annapolis, MD and had no options. Too expensive to string cable across the chesapeake.
Of those who have it available, most dont need it. I know plenty of people who had it, and cancelled it. If all they do is read e-mail and pay bills online, it's hard to justify 50 bucks a month when a dial-up account can be had for 10 bucks.
Not everyone finds all this internet stuff as gee-whiz as slashdotters do. Their reaction to "hey you can get free music on the internet!" is "hey I can turn on the radio and not get sued".
The killer-app for broadband internet has yet to appear, something that no sane person could live without. Maybe one day streaming video will be watchable, online gaming will be enjoyable, who knows.
IIRC, TinyDNS can integrate with LDAP, then you can SSH in and use an ldap browser/client to modify and add records..
It's a better solution, on paper, since LDAP is optimized for the fastest retrieval, at the expense of write time. RDBMS's are generally the other way around, or at least balanced.
Of course, you can have OpenLDAP use mysql as a backend if you really want to bring that abomination into the equation.
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"I'm afraid now, I have somehow missed this message," says a Windows developer who asked not to be named. "Was it buried in too many marketing messages? Was it dependent on me searching it out?"
Was it SO OBVIOUS that you even had to be specifically told to test your apps on a new version of their target platform?
No news here. Next hot tip, some stuff may not work with the latest kernel image from linus and the gang.
English is the de-facto language of international trade. Wah wah, it's really just the way it is.
And noone in the news media cares about a 1500 dollar erector set for nerds. This thing has no feedback, sensors, anything. Just a steppermotor controller and a bunch of brackets.
Noone will see the Romulans (or any other characters) in this film either.
They might as well release it straight to Beta for all the interest in Star Trek these days.
Sheesh. Time to move on to some other crappy sci-fi drek.
Desks, computers, servers, phones, office space, office equipment, orginizational overhead, etc..
Take how much it costs to run your business, divide by the number of employee's. In MSFTs case thats close since there are no "raw material" costs to writing code. Pretty simple.
It's no different if you use DVDs, HDDs or punchcards. If the datas in another building, yeah, you have to go there to get it.
Different servers have different backup and recovery needs. It's all about common sense and good practices.
My companies source code archive, for instance, is fully backed up twice every month, one copy goes home with the boss. It's incrementally backed up every night, those copies stay on site.
If the server bombs, we can get it back up in a few hours and not lose any work. If the office burned down, we could lose (at most) a months worth of work - which would be acceptable to us, since we're all jack-of-all-trades and generally dont sit down knocking out code all day.
Now and then when a significant update gets put into the tree, something that I'd dread having to re-do, I'll go down and hand-bomb a backup for my own piece of mind.
We tried backup to disk in house to see how it would behave - backing up big SQL Server clusters.
The problem that killed it for us is when you're transfering to an 80 gig drive over firewire, you completely hog the hell out of the system, making it all but unavailable during the meantime. I don't know of any way to "throttle" the backup, there's probably some obscure tweak though.
Tape transfer rates are comparitively slow, which leave plenty of room for the computer to carry on it's tasks. Sure it might take all night to do a full back up, but the servers available during that time.
Until optical media surpasses them in storage capacity, ease of use, and reliability, I don't see tape technology going anywhere. They serve a specific purpose and serve it well.
I'm sure you'd prefer that they do it the American government way, by spending 12 million on naming comittees and house votes to name each frickin rock they drive past on mars.
Why name them at all? A numeric serial number or designation would be more efficient in terms of database storage. It's just for press releases, and I should hope they dont spent more than about 15 seconds on the problem. "Hey! That rocks shaped like Tenessee, lets call it Tenessee"
It's just a case of "plan for the worst, hope for the best". Worst case scenario, the rovers will work for 90 days. Well, worst would be they just crash and get teh broken.
Sure, you'll see plenty of intersections with a gas station on each corner. Why not a starbucks?
My beef with the download manager is it puts everythign in the same spot. I'd like to filter by extension, mime type, etc.. Put all the .zips and .exes here, all the .jpgs there, all the .avis hither and yonder.
I hate sorting through a pile of crap to find the pdf howto I downloaded a month ago. And I hate software that makes me act like it's filing clerk.
It's a simple modification, mozilla boys.. Hop to it!
a P2P network would be the last place where I would download software, just too much chance that you are downloading a trojan onto your computer
Why do you think the trojans are there? Because there are so many people on there downloading software.
Bittorrent is P2P too, and it's changing the scene. It used to be the elite got fast connections to 0-day stuff, bittorrent by it's design makes the hottest most popular stuff the most available.
Now, I believe the industry is shrinking due to natural causes. There's frankly enough software there. People have programs to do the stuff they want, they really don't see the need for new ones.
Of course I'm talking about "not games". But I've been using the same handful of apps dialy for years.
Why would cutting power kill your motherboard?
Worst that could happen is if power dropped in the middle of flashing a BIOS, but that's recoverable via a quick trip to the nearest little computer shop that has an EPROM burner (or warranty replacement if your bios is a TSOP)
You can wash a circuit board, just make sure it has ample time to dry out completely. I'm talking days to be safe, not minutes..
You're better off using alcohol, but hey, sometimes you get peanut butter and jelly all over your brand new Radeon card. Shit happens.
I've done so and been none the worse for wear.
Building PC's is the easiest thing in the world, all it takes is a little common sense.
Take all the case fans off your case. Your PC will run fine, even if you have a fancy 3.4 ghz megalon 2000 processor.
All that water cooling and fan stuff is case modder idiocy.
Not that a case fan isn't a good idea, but it's hardly as important as the moron sites make them out to be.
Self-employed tradesmen are fewer and far-between these days.
Why look in the yellow pages for local Jim the plumber, when the Roto-Rooter(tm) commercial is blaring on the radio?
Why look for a carpenter, electrician, etc, when HandymanUSA is there to meet your needs.
Why look for a local independant mechanic when Jiffy Lube is right there?
By the same token, why go to a small cramped computer shop when the selection and great prices at Best Buy are just so darn convenient.
Does your town have a local mom&pop vegetable market, or a SuperFresh - or hell, that's too independent, a WalMart SuperCenter. Any mom&pop video stores, I bet not, but I'm sure you have a Blockbuster.
It's just the times, it's happening all over.
Plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, or pretty much any tradesman, are expected to have their own tools.
Hell, McDonalds' employees pay for their uniforms.
Is it really that unreasonable to expect computer professionals to have a computer and internet access?
It's about the same here, though I have the option of dialing in to a client from home after hours. I can do pretty much any sort of support (short of downloading a 3 gig database file) this way.
When the bill comes I expense out any long distance calls I've made for the company.
Dont know why so many slashdotters have such shitty jobs. Sheesh, I'd switch careers if that's the best I could find.
They're going to pay for it.
Of course, if it's their resource, then they can dictate how it's to be used (ie; running Kazaa? Yer fired!)
I had this discussion with my bosses. For me to VPN under Comcasts EULA, I need the commercial edition for twice what I pay. If they want me to have it, I'll wind up with two cablemodems, one mine, one theirs.
They don't pay for the broadband - there's been no need to, but they do pay for the cellphone which I promptly turn off as soon as I leave the office. (Hey, they only had me promise to carry it with me, not answer it)
End of story.
FM Modulation is redundant. FM stands for Frequency Modulation as we all know.
Like on older TV shows and movies you'd see army guys saying "Roger Wilco!"
"Roger" means "I understand"
"Wilco" means "I understand and will comply"
so "Roger Wilco" means "I understand, I understand and will comply". Ridiculous.
And broadband means you have a wide (broad) band of frequencies in which to piggyback your data, as opposed to narrowband. It really has nothing to do with the amount of data. A 3kbps service could technically be "broadband" while a gigabit service could be "narrowband".
Of course, why split hairs. Just accept the common use of the term: Broadband means "bunches faster than dial up modems".
Wash that down with a cup of Java, which looks as though it has 10 year old chunks of crap floating around in it.
Hey this is fun!
Teh jerk store called, they're all out of you!
... i slept with your wife!
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well
It sounds about right to me.
Consider there's a good chunk of the US population with no computer, or no internet access at all.
Of the remainder, a good chunk has no access to broadband. America is largely rural, and you don't even have to be that remote to not have broadband options. I lived 15 minutes from Annapolis, MD and had no options. Too expensive to string cable across the chesapeake.
Of those who have it available, most dont need it. I know plenty of people who had it, and cancelled it. If all they do is read e-mail and pay bills online, it's hard to justify 50 bucks a month when a dial-up account can be had for 10 bucks.
Not everyone finds all this internet stuff as gee-whiz as slashdotters do. Their reaction to "hey you can get free music on the internet!" is "hey I can turn on the radio and not get sued".
The killer-app for broadband internet has yet to appear, something that no sane person could live without. Maybe one day streaming video will be watchable, online gaming will be enjoyable, who knows.
Not only that, Vint Cerf's name is Paul Vixie!
/. editors learn.
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IIRC, TinyDNS can integrate with LDAP, then you can SSH in and use an ldap browser/client to modify and add records..
It's a better solution, on paper, since LDAP is optimized for the fastest retrieval, at the expense of write time. RDBMS's are generally the other way around, or at least balanced.
Of course, you can have OpenLDAP use mysql as a backend if you really want to bring that abomination into the equation.