>>Humpf! You haven't seen the Paris Metro, is a heck of a lot worse.
I've seen neither the London or Paris subways, but I've been told that they're still much cleaner than the New York City subway.
Wanna talk about filth? Pick any station at random, and you can almost see the garbage moving. And I don't mean the rats either. The stuff is alive. Even the rats & roaches fear it(sometimes).
Take a good look at the tunnels too. 80 to 100 years of crap are just caked on those columns and support beams. In London & Paris, at least you know it's from coal smoke or whatever. But in the NYC tunnels... you just don't know what it is.
I used to do the same thing. Every time I found an AOL magazine insert, I'd send it in.
However, I found that the free AOL floppies were of very low quality. 1 1/2 years after saving some files the discs were unreadable.
Fortunately I had a proper tape backup of most the files in question.
I'd say that 90% of them were defective. No better than the '50 for $20.00 jammies' you were able to find in Staples and Comp-USA at the time. Those discs didn't last too long either.
What I cannot understand is why a company like IBM, that has invested millions of $ and hundreds of thousands of man hours developing a rock solid, mature, scalable, enterprise class system like AIX with a _relatively_ immature OS like LINUX.
I mean, to bring LINUX up to AIX's level of functionality will require that IBM re-implement, and retest all that code. It's almost like starting over from scratch.
I mean, AIX does do everything LINUX does right? Am I missing something?
Why bother?
As a developer, I think that it makes sense to extend already existing stable systems for new needs, where it makes sense.
If IBM needs their OS to do something special, wouldn't they spend less time buidling an extension or an emulation layer then rewriting most of the OS itself?
Sorry guys, I just don't get it. I want to see LINUX succeed and get more market share. Yet I can't understand what IBM is trying to gain here.
The worst thing in that place besides the bad pizza and screaming kids, as someone else mentioned is the parody of rock music culture that goes on there.
They've got and animatronic rock band, headed by the mouse, singing cheezy remade versions of Beatles and Rolling Stones songs. There are album cover parodies on the walls. Abbey Road with 4 mice...Fleetwood Mac's Rumors with mice...The Rolling Stones Tounge coming out of a mouse's mouth.... You get the idea.
It says a lot about how cheezy Chuck E Cheeze stores really are. But I think the interesting part of the story is how these bands/songwriters allow their work to be ripped apart like that. Does Michael Jackson(who owns the beatles catalog), Mick Jagger and Mick Fleetwood need money THAT bably?
In monstrous global companies, you submit your tarballed source tree to a proprietary automated build and packaging service. Not that it's really propriatary, it's just a layer built on top of standard Sun packaging, but I digress.
After your application is packaged, you get to manually do a staging QA test, then it's back to the automated service, where your package is sent to the deployment group for(manual) wrapping and standards checking.
After the package is wrapped (by a dozen guys who know nothing about UNIX), it's sent to sit on a server for 5 days untill the deployment date.
The deployment is done by a guy who's knowledge of UNIX consists of loggging in, su, ftp, cd, and pkgadd. Think about that su. I'll touch on that later.
If anything goes wrong, the programmer gets a page, phone call and Email. 2 trouble tickets are opened. 1 for the broken production environment, and 1 for the incomplete deployment.
So you fix the problem, either by fixing the problem, or by falling back to the prior release. Assuming that your -1 package is still out there...somewhere. Then you get to close the tickets, write a post-mortem, and call your boss with the bad news.
Then your boss gets to tell his boss how you fucked up the release.
If things go OK, your boss gets to tell his boss that he had a successful deployment.
The whole turnover process is approved by your auditors, data security group, SDLC board, and 5 different 'who gives a shit' panels of internal experts.
It's the greatest thing in the world. Even though it's broken in about 100 places.
Like that it's insecure enough that if an install script within the package says something like "rm -fr/" it will wipe out the entire production box. Because the deployment guy logs in as root to do the install. (This has happened, more than once.)
The system can't be easily replaced because there are over 5000 developers using it, and no one gives a shit anyway. They're all worried about locking down SQL Server and Outlook.
If you haven't experienced any of this, you havent worked at a sufficiently HUGE DNA-OWNING MEGA COMPANY.
O'reilly and Microsoft Press will join forces to publish Mono(poly) In A Nutshell.
The book cover will be XP green & blue. There will be a penguin on the cover. Tim O'reilly, Edie Freeman, and a team of faceless punks from MS press are negotiating exactly how the penguin should be depicted.
The O'reilly team is pushing to use a smiling, happy Tux.
The MS team however wants the penguin to look submissive. Perhaps depicting Tux having his manhood removed with a power tool.
OK, so other countries don't spend the same proportions of money on their military. They have the the right to do what they will.
A higher quality of life? Define higher quality. We could sit down, and spend hours discussing this. There are so many different ways to look at this. Voting rights, freedom of speech, access to free healthcare, class division(royalty, caste) seperation........
The US govt isn't perfect, but at it's core I truly believe that it tries to d owhat's right for it's citizens, and the world.
I felt this way about the USA//long// before there was a CNN propaganda machine.
Don't let YOUR media fool you. We are not the evil empire some make us out to be. When your country is in trouble(doesn't matter who you are), there will be Americans there to help you.
Who helps us? Who sent rescue workers to the WTC, or OKC? Who sends crews to us when WE have catastrophic earthquakes or storms, or floods?
Almost no-one. The UK, Canada. Few others. As a side note, Fidel Castro offered to help with the 911 effort. That guy showed a lot more class than some of our European or Asian friends.
Don't slam us. We do more good than harm, and get almost nothing in return.
>>Yes! Immagine all that money being used on education, safety of healthcare instead of being used as some military recruitment/propaganda toy. WHAT A WASTE THAT WOULD BE!
Um.
Without our military, we wouldn't have this country and the freedom that we enjoy. Much less the freedom to worry about and debate education and healthcare issues.
I wish that more people in the post-Vietnam generation would get this into their heads. Our freedom is not free. Our government puts money into the military because it's necessary to ensure our freedom, and our way of life.
Don't believe me? Go find some dude who's come here from a less privleged country and ask him what it's REALLY like out there.
Personally, I think we as a country should be even stronger. It frightens me sometimes to think that in our current state that we couldn't fight on more than 2 Iraq sized fronts at the same time.
I sometimes think that this lack of understanding/complacity is what will eventually kill this country.
>>They don't even want me sampling the music to alleviate their no returns policy
It seems that they're trying to address the sampling issue. Every music and bookstore I've been in over the last year has a couple of those fancy-schmansy scan the barcode and listen to the CD through headphones machines.
The sample box (as I call it) has kept me from buying more than one filler-filled CD/non standard music disk/whatever.
4. Showing the next generation of web application, on my laptop, during an interview will be great in so many, many different ways. (Using a different code base than my current job's of course)
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>>...not to mention a deep cleaning!
>>Humpf! You haven't seen the Paris Metro, is a heck of a lot worse.
I've seen neither the London or Paris subways, but I've been told that they're still much cleaner than the New York City subway.
Wanna talk about filth? Pick any station at random, and you can almost see the garbage moving. And I don't mean the rats either. The stuff is alive. Even the rats & roaches fear it(sometimes).
Take a good look at the tunnels too. 80 to 100 years of crap are just caked on those columns and support beams. In London & Paris, at least you know it's from coal smoke or whatever. But in the NYC tunnels... you just don't know what it is.
Thank god I can take the bus most of the time.
>>The version of gcc for dos: DJGPP had a DOS extender and 32-bit support but it was slower than Watcom by a large amount
Though that didn't stop ID software from using DJGPP to build Quake 1 way back in 96.
Maybe do it like this?
/
% su -l
********
% rm -fr
So how many Libraries Of Congress will we be able to save on a medium the size of an O'Reilly book?
I used to do the same thing. Every time I found an AOL magazine insert, I'd send it in.
However, I found that the free AOL floppies were of very low quality. 1 1/2 years after saving some files the discs were unreadable.
Fortunately I had a proper tape backup of most the files in question.
I'd say that 90% of them were defective. No better than the '50 for $20.00 jammies' you were able to find in Staples and Comp-USA at the time. Those discs didn't last too long either.
Well, I learned a lot about the media from that article.
Thank you for posting it.
It's sad that the subject matter is what it is.
Also, that Challenger reference is freakin spooky.
Anyone remember this one from the Arcades?
It was a crappy game, and was basically an advertisement for one of Journey's albums (Escape? Frontiers? whatever.
This was 1983 or 84 I think.
You know, I love LINUX as much as the next guy.
What I cannot understand is why a company like IBM, that has invested millions of $ and hundreds of thousands of man hours developing a rock solid, mature, scalable, enterprise class system like AIX with a _relatively_ immature OS like LINUX.
I mean, to bring LINUX up to AIX's level of functionality will require that IBM re-implement, and retest all that code. It's almost like starting over from scratch.
I mean, AIX does do everything LINUX does right? Am I missing something?
Why bother?
As a developer, I think that it makes sense to extend already existing stable systems for new needs, where it makes sense.
If IBM needs their OS to do something special, wouldn't they spend less time buidling an extension or an emulation layer then rewriting most of the OS itself?
Sorry guys, I just don't get it. I want to see LINUX succeed and get more market share. Yet I can't understand what IBM is trying to gain here.
Slightly off topic...
The worst thing in that place besides the bad pizza and screaming kids, as someone else mentioned is the parody of rock music culture that goes on there.
They've got and animatronic rock band, headed by the mouse, singing cheezy remade versions of Beatles and Rolling Stones songs. There are album cover parodies on the walls. Abbey Road with 4 mice...Fleetwood Mac's Rumors with mice...The Rolling Stones Tounge coming out of a mouse's mouth.... You get the idea.
It says a lot about how cheezy Chuck E Cheeze stores really are. But I think the interesting part of the story is how these bands/songwriters allow their work to be ripped apart like that. Does Michael Jackson(who owns the beatles catalog), Mick Jagger and Mick Fleetwood need money THAT bably?
Well, at least Mick Jagger doesn't.
>>Um, I don't know how you interpret "The Bringer of Pong", but I doubt most people would disagree that it implies he invented it.
Sort of like how Microsoft is the bringer of the Windowing System.
They didn't invent it. They just sell it.
No innovation there.
In monstrous global companies, you submit your tarballed source tree to a proprietary automated build and packaging service. Not that it's really propriatary, it's just a layer built on top of standard Sun packaging, but I digress.
/" it will wipe out the entire production box. Because the deployment guy logs in as root to do the install. (This has happened, more than once.)
After your application is packaged, you get to manually do a staging QA test, then it's back to the automated service, where your package is sent to the deployment group for(manual) wrapping and standards checking.
After the package is wrapped (by a dozen guys who know nothing about UNIX), it's sent to sit on a server for 5 days untill the deployment date.
The deployment is done by a guy who's knowledge of UNIX consists of loggging in, su, ftp, cd, and pkgadd. Think about that su. I'll touch on that later.
If anything goes wrong, the programmer gets a page, phone call and Email. 2 trouble tickets are opened. 1 for the broken production environment, and 1 for the incomplete deployment.
So you fix the problem, either by fixing the problem, or by falling back to the prior release. Assuming that your -1 package is still out there...somewhere. Then you get to close the tickets, write a post-mortem, and call your boss with the bad news.
Then your boss gets to tell his boss how you fucked up the release.
If things go OK, your boss gets to tell his boss that he had a successful deployment.
The whole turnover process is approved by your auditors, data security group, SDLC board, and 5 different 'who gives a shit' panels of internal experts.
It's the greatest thing in the world. Even though it's broken in about 100 places.
Like that it's insecure enough that if an install script within the package says something like "rm -fr
The system can't be easily replaced because there are over 5000 developers using it, and no one gives a shit anyway. They're all worried about locking down SQL Server and Outlook.
If you haven't experienced any of this, you havent worked at a sufficiently HUGE DNA-OWNING MEGA COMPANY.
They won't hire Ameriacans. Yet we allow Guptas to come here on H1-B's and steal our jobs from us.
Is it me, or is something wrong with this picture?
O'reilly and Microsoft Press will join forces to publish Mono(poly) In A Nutshell.
The book cover will be XP green & blue.
There will be a penguin on the cover.
Tim O'reilly, Edie Freeman, and a team of faceless punks from MS press are negotiating exactly how the penguin should be depicted.
The O'reilly team is pushing to use a smiling, happy Tux.
The MS team however wants the penguin to look submissive. Perhaps depicting Tux having his manhood removed with a power tool.
Please mod this guy up as interesting or informative.
That tarball of 2002 stock quotes used to feed your stock research system.
The database files themselves, in the system.
One more thing.
If the continental US was invaded and overrun, who would send forces to help liberate us? Fucking who?
Again, the UK. Canada. Australia? Few others.
But remember, we help everyone. Every fucking body. If there was another Hitler in Europe or anywhere, we'd be there dying to stop him.
Typical? OK, I'll take that. Sure.
//long// before there was a CNN propaganda machine.
OK, so other countries don't spend the same proportions of money on their military. They have the the right to do what they will.
A higher quality of life? Define higher quality. We could sit down, and spend hours discussing this. There are so many different ways to look at this. Voting rights, freedom of speech, access to free healthcare, class division(royalty, caste) seperation........
The US govt isn't perfect, but at it's core I truly believe that it tries to d owhat's right for it's citizens, and the world.
I felt this way about the USA
Don't let YOUR media fool you. We are not the evil empire some make us out to be. When your country is in trouble(doesn't matter who you are), there will be Americans there to help you.
Who helps us? Who sent rescue workers to the WTC, or OKC? Who sends crews to us when WE have catastrophic earthquakes or storms, or floods?
Almost no-one. The UK, Canada. Few others. As a side note, Fidel Castro offered to help with the 911 effort. That guy showed a lot more class than some of our European or Asian friends.
Don't slam us. We do more good than harm, and get almost nothing in return.
>>Why should you "fight on more than two Iraq-sized fronts at the same time"?
If someting the size of WW2 breaks out again (for the sake of this discussion, please forget who causes it), we'd have to.
And we'd get involved, even if it didn't affect us directly, to protect our friends or to stop a threat.
Hopefully though, it will never happen.
>>Yes! Immagine all that money being used on education, safety of healthcare instead of being used as some military recruitment/propaganda toy. WHAT A WASTE THAT WOULD BE!
Um.
Without our military, we wouldn't have this country and the freedom that we enjoy. Much less the freedom to worry about and debate education and healthcare issues.
I wish that more people in the post-Vietnam generation would get this into their heads. Our freedom is not free. Our government puts money into the military because it's necessary to ensure our freedom, and our way of life.
Don't believe me? Go find some dude who's come here from a less privleged country and ask him what it's REALLY like out there.
Personally, I think we as a country should be even stronger. It frightens me sometimes to think that in our current state that we couldn't fight on more than 2 Iraq sized fronts at the same time.
I sometimes think that this lack of understanding/complacity is what will eventually kill this country.
Crap for Nerds. None of it really matters.
What else is there to say?
Hurry up. Let's get below. I'm so hot right now.
>>They don't even want me sampling the music to alleviate their no returns policy
It seems that they're trying to address the sampling issue. Every music and bookstore I've been in over the last year has a couple of those fancy-schmansy scan the barcode and listen to the CD through headphones machines.
The sample box (as I call it) has kept me from buying more than one filler-filled CD/non standard music disk/whatever.
Don't forget the whores, and lawyers.
Or is that whores/lawyers?
>>but to imply that Sun may be going out of business is moronic.
Actually, to be running a business on their machines and not thinking about the possibility of them going out of business is moronic.
If you personally were running your own shop, wouldn't you think about this? I know I would.
4. Showing the next generation of web application, on my laptop, during an interview will be great in so many, many different ways. (Using a different code base than my current job's of course)