Beyond all of the great software available for the HP 48s/g/gx series, and the wonderful IR port and serial port, there is one reason why engineers continue to purchase HP calculators over TI: the switchgear. If I had to pick one thing out of the inumerable things I hate about TI calulators, it would be that aweful switchgear. How much are they saving with those cheap switches, $1?
Listen to me, TI. I want the buttons on my calculator to move on one axis only!
Thanks for spreading misinformation. FDR was dead when people started coming back from the war. DDE was the one who started the interstate highway program, and he started it as a crucial part of the post-war defense infrastructure.
Umm, hi. I don't know if you live out here but how can you consider San Jose part of the San Francisco metro area? It's a long damn way from SF to SJ, with Santa Clara, Daly City, South SF, and a zillion other little burgs standing in-between.
As for you other point, there are plenty of major peering points in SF. China Basin has a really massive coloc facility. There are several others.
Take a walk in SOMA in zone bounded by market, first, townsend, and 3rd. Walk around in the streets and look at the spraypaint on the blacktop. Those little words that say "USA", "GC", "ATT", "PBI", "SPRINT", "MCI", "ABV", and many, many more are the names of major bandwidth providers. There is so much fiber buried under 2nd street that there isn't room for any more.
Better to allow both parties to come to an agreement on a hardware setup.
The bottom line for a business is price/performance. I have always believed that the only fair kind of benchmark would be one where experts from both sides were given a lump of cash and asked to build the best system possible for that price. Microsoft would never go for that, though, because the Linux camp would get an extra $10,000 worth of hardware that the NT camp would have to spend on Windows NT licensing.
Since we are trying to test the software here, I don't think this is too much of a problem. When one is selecting hardware, one usually considers the software to be run. So let the software guys pick the best CPUs, RAM, and NICs that they can get for the money, and let them go after it.
I suspect that a smart linux camp would spend their $50,000 on a dozen uniprocessor Pentium IIs and a proxy server.
I'm not sure what you mean. The RSA algorithm is well-known and has been studied by cryptanalysts and cryptographers exhaustively. Nobody, not even suits at large corporations, would trust a cryptosystem with an unknown algorithm.
The closed part of most closed cryptosystems is the implementation. Of course, nobody should trust a crypto implementation for which they do not have the source, lest the code be mailing your private keys back to the manufacturer/NSA/whomever.
It is you who knows not of what you speak. With Perl, your programs are treated by unix-like OSs as DATA pages, not CODE pages. This means that, after a few requests, each of your mod_perl httpd processes inherits a private copy of your perl code and data.
So in practice, your httpd processes share a few megs of Apache, and do not share any of your perl code or data. This makes them very expensive.
You silly doof! Don't let your expensive mod_perl+mysql processes sit there pushing bytes down 28.8 & 56K pipes. Use squid in reverse proxy mode to buffer the output of mod_perl and then let squid, which has extremely cheap threads, twiddle its thumbs waiting for the client to receive.
The point is not about the law. The implicit agreement between a producer and a consumer is that the consumer can consume under certain conditions. If the consumer accepts the agreement (by consuming) and then proceeds to violate the agreement, the consumer is a backstabbing pig-dog.
The proper thing to do, if you don't like the conditions of the agreement, is to find another producer, or cut back on your consumption.
I don't see what is so key about your point. Is it "I am a lazy fuck, so I will screw the other guy."?
You pirate CDs and movies for one reason only: you have no respect for the copyright of the owner, and your own convenience comes before their proprietary rights.
I am really angry that none of you seem to have a problem with the distribution of these pirated films. Anyone who is involved in trading these wares is
A criminal in most jurisdictions
A threat to free software
The only thing that protects free software from being undermined by greedy proprietary software makers is the GPL and other licenses under which free software is released. These licenses protect the openness of our projects and also are the reason why we can claim the moral high ground. The open source revolution, part of a larger backlash against proprietary information, is founded in its software licenses.
Because of this, all of us would be justifiably tweaked if part of the Linux kernel was lifted and included in a proprietary software product. We would rant on about how they had violated our license. We would call for the offending company's figurative head, a revocation of their charter, monetary damages, criminal prosecution, and multiple types of medieval torture. And we would be right, because the copyright an open source product is sacred.
But many of those self-same potential indignant open software boosters are here bragging about the magnitude of their stolen film collection. Let me say for better effect.
Stolen
None of us has any justification for stealing these films from their owners: the studio which holds the copyright. They alone can, unilaterally and arbitrarily, set the conditions under which their product can be distributed and consumed. If we violate their copyright, we might as well discard the GPL, because it will be clear to everyone else that we don't really take the issue seriously.
Through my amazing future prediction ability, and a small Perl script, I can predict the rebuttals that will come from the skript kiddie crowd. I will now answer them.
skript kiddie: "But, the movie theaters are operated by The Man!"
jwb: Don't patronize them.
skript kiddie: "Most people go to movies after watching the pirated film."
jwb: Is this a reasonable statement: "While Microsoft acknowledges having stolen Linux kernel code, it pledges that most of the affected products will eventually be released under a similar license."? No, it clearly is not.
skript kiddie: "Movies are too expensive."
jwb: Don't attend them, and The Man will get the point. Better still, build your own studio, theater, and marketing machine and charge less for the movies you make.
You would be right except for one thing. Next to a superconducting supercooled particle accelerator, a few KW doesn't seem like a very big deal anymore.
With this areal density, your wouldn't go for today's form factors. You could make a thumbnail-sized drive that would hold a few gigs, assuming that you could shrink the electronics, rotor, and servo down to similar scales.
One pressing question is whether today's rotary voice coil head actuators are accurate enough to position the head within +- 20 nm or so. Probably not.
I recently bought and read this book on the recommendation of a colleague. I quite enjoyed it, and would advise any serious programmer to read it. This book is in the category with other books like Writing Solid Code which are not about languages or algorithms, but about how programming works at a much more abstract level. Even though each chapter in this work covers a specific programming task, the issues that are tackled are lofty things like debugging, automatic code generation, clarity and maintainability. I do have some issues with the cover art. What's with the wiener-dog? As usually, anything by K or R gets props: 10/10.
These guys have a tough row to hoe. VMWare is a really stupendous product. It has worked perfectly ever since I have been using it.
To those who question the usefulness of a product like this, consider my workplace. I have a Dell laptop in addition to my workstation. The laptop is for running Windows software, like Rational's Rose and Requisite Pro, plus Outlook. I can run all of these programs in a VMWare session with remarkable performance. When I am not using VMWare, I can simply suspend it and it no longer consumes CPU.
Now what do you think costs more, an extra hard drive for my workstation, or a Pentium II laptop?
Wouldn't it be possible to export all of your Linux header files over to, say, a windows box, compile the code with VC++, then link it against the appropriate libraries?
People did this with BeOS when CodeWarrior/x86 was spitting out terrible machine code. Say what you must about M$, but their x86 codegen kicks serious butt.
For alphas, how about building the code on DEC Unix with the cool compilers?
XML goes beyone Unicode UTF-8, implementing the entire ISO 31-bit character set. It describes, according to the specification, "all human languages and some non-human languages."
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Listen to me, TI. I want the buttons on my calculator to move on one axis only!
-jwb
-jwb
As for you other point, there are plenty of major peering points in SF. China Basin has a really massive coloc facility. There are several others.
Take a walk in SOMA in zone bounded by market, first, townsend, and 3rd. Walk around in the streets and look at the spraypaint on the blacktop. Those little words that say "USA", "GC", "ATT", "PBI", "SPRINT", "MCI", "ABV", and many, many more are the names of major bandwidth providers. There is so much fiber buried under 2nd street that there isn't room for any more.
The bottom line for a business is price/performance. I have always believed that the only fair kind of benchmark would be one where experts from both sides were given a lump of cash and asked to build the best system possible for that price. Microsoft would never go for that, though, because the Linux camp would get an extra $10,000 worth of hardware that the NT camp would have to spend on Windows NT licensing.
Since we are trying to test the software here, I don't think this is too much of a problem. When one is selecting hardware, one usually considers the software to be run. So let the software guys pick the best CPUs, RAM, and NICs that they can get for the money, and let them go after it.
I suspect that a smart linux camp would spend their $50,000 on a dozen uniprocessor Pentium IIs and a proxy server.
Later,
-jwb
The closed part of most closed cryptosystems is the implementation. Of course, nobody should trust a crypto implementation for which they do not have the source, lest the code be mailing your private keys back to the manufacturer/NSA/whomever.
-jwb
-jwb
So in practice, your httpd processes share a few megs of Apache, and do not share any of your perl code or data. This makes them very expensive.
You silly doof! Don't let your expensive mod_perl+mysql processes sit there pushing bytes down 28.8 & 56K pipes. Use squid in reverse proxy mode to buffer the output of mod_perl and then let squid, which has extremely cheap threads, twiddle its thumbs waiting for the client to receive.
This is all well documented in recent discussions on mod_perl@apache.org. See also the mod_perl guide and the mod_perl mailing list archives.
The proper thing to do, if you don't like the conditions of the agreement, is to find another producer, or cut back on your consumption.
You pirate CDs and movies for one reason only: you have no respect for the copyright of the owner, and your own convenience comes before their proprietary rights.
I am really angry that none of you seem to have a problem with the distribution of these pirated films. Anyone who is involved in trading these wares is
The only thing that protects free software from being undermined by greedy proprietary software makers is the GPL and other licenses under which free software is released. These licenses protect the openness of our projects and also are the reason why we can claim the moral high ground. The open source revolution, part of a larger backlash against proprietary information, is founded in its software licenses.
Because of this, all of us would be justifiably tweaked if part of the Linux kernel was lifted and included in a proprietary software product. We would rant on about how they had violated our license. We would call for the offending company's figurative head, a revocation of their charter, monetary damages, criminal prosecution, and multiple types of medieval torture. And we would be right, because the copyright an open source product is sacred.
But many of those self-same potential indignant open software boosters are here bragging about the magnitude of their stolen film collection. Let me say for better effect.
Stolen
None of us has any justification for stealing these films from their owners: the studio which holds the copyright. They alone can, unilaterally and arbitrarily, set the conditions under which their product can be distributed and consumed. If we violate their copyright, we might as well discard the GPL, because it will be clear to everyone else that we don't really take the issue seriously.
Through my amazing future prediction ability, and a small Perl script, I can predict the rebuttals that will come from the skript kiddie crowd. I will now answer them.
skript kiddie: "But, the movie theaters are operated by The Man!"
jwb: Don't patronize them.
skript kiddie: "Most people go to movies after watching the pirated film."
jwb: Is this a reasonable statement: "While Microsoft acknowledges having stolen Linux kernel code, it pledges that most of the affected products will eventually be released under a similar license."? No, it clearly is not.
skript kiddie: "Movies are too expensive."
jwb: Don't attend them, and The Man will get the point. Better still, build your own studio, theater, and marketing machine and charge less for the movies you make.
You would be right except for one thing. Next to a superconducting supercooled particle accelerator, a few KW doesn't seem like a very big deal anymore.
I dunno what is wrong with your Apache, but my production Apaches always run with 30000, and I use mod_perl. No leaks have been observed.
-jwb
With this areal density, your wouldn't go for today's form factors. You could make a thumbnail-sized drive that would hold a few gigs, assuming that you could shrink the electronics, rotor, and servo down to similar scales.
One pressing question is whether today's rotary voice coil head actuators are accurate enough to position the head within +- 20 nm or so. Probably not.
if (strcmp(x,y) == 0)
Why do you prefer that? What is the difference between all of the following:
if (!strcmp(x,y))
if (strcmp(x,y) == 0)
if ((strcmp(x,y) == 0) == 1)
if (((strcmp(x,y) == 0) == 1) == 1)
I don't do C++, so maybe I am missing something. But I don't think I am. The first one is the idiomatic form.
I recently bought and read this book on the recommendation of a colleague. I quite enjoyed it, and would advise any serious programmer to read it. This book is in the category with other books like Writing Solid Code which are not about languages or algorithms, but about how programming works at a much more abstract level. Even though each chapter in this work covers a specific programming task, the issues that are tackled are lofty things like debugging, automatic code generation, clarity and maintainability. I do have some issues with the cover art. What's with the wiener-dog? As usually, anything by K or R gets props: 10/10.
These guys have a tough row to hoe. VMWare is a really stupendous product. It has worked perfectly ever since I have been using it.
To those who question the usefulness of a product like this, consider my workplace. I have a Dell laptop in addition to my workstation. The laptop is for running Windows software, like Rational's Rose and Requisite Pro, plus Outlook. I can run all of these programs in a VMWare session with remarkable performance. When I am not using VMWare, I can simply suspend it and it no longer consumes CPU.
Now what do you think costs more, an extra hard drive for my workstation, or a Pentium II laptop?
Yeah, a really shitty TV
I bet your head still hurts from where your mother dropped you years ago.
Wouldn't it be possible to export all of your Linux header files over to, say, a windows box, compile the code with VC++, then link it against the appropriate libraries?
People did this with BeOS when CodeWarrior/x86 was spitting out terrible machine code. Say what you must about M$, but their x86 codegen kicks serious butt.
For alphas, how about building the code on DEC Unix with the cool compilers?
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XML goes beyone Unicode UTF-8, implementing the entire ISO 31-bit character set. It describes, according to the specification, "all human languages and some non-human languages."
That ought to be good enough.
If anyone is interested in joining a mailing list for putting together a new, open, CDDB-like database, please send me email at jwb@cp.net.
I expect to have a list up by the end of the day.
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Hey, I tried to send you mail but your address (bigboss@my(dot)dejanews.com) bounces.