I program C# about 50% of the time, do internal user support 10% of the time, reply to emails 10% time (this annoys me), deal with external customer support another 10% of the time. The remaining 20% is probably spent on administration etc.
If the world changed tomorrow to 85 percent Mac "OS x86"
If it did in fact get to that stage (not tomorrow but over time), would Apple be able to produce Macs in that kind of volume on their own? 85% is a lot of Macs. Or would they need to go down the old "Mac clone" route I wonder?
He's the troll alter-ego of Linus Torvalds. He doesn't do any Linux development work, he just sits around all day shouting "Windows is for lusers, Macs are just toys".;)
On a side note: it bugs me how Debian installs some app launchers in a "Debian Menu" sub-menu in Gnome, but others go in the main menu. Makes it hard to find stuff sometimes.:-/
What if a CD copy-protection system was developed, which did not compromise sound quality nor cause compatibility problems, and still allowed for your 'rights' to make a limited amount of personal copies (*.DRM)?
Or what if companies stopped spending so much time and money developing more and more elaborate DRM systems, and trusted their customers instead?
Couldn't agree more. I've had a Thinkpad T20 (which I bought second-hand) for nearly 3 years and it has been an excellent laptop. Solidly built and works great with Linux too. The hard drive did fail last year, but IBM Australia promptly sent me out a brand new drive under warranty, no questions asked. This is on a nearly 3-year-old second hand laptop bought in another country! Their warranty service is nothing short of fantastic.
If the quality of Thinkpads and their warranty service drops, I don't know which supplier I'd switch to. Can anyone recommend a decent, reliable x86 laptop manufacturer with excellent warranty support, whose machines run Linux well?
Bleep's music previewer is fantastic also, as you can listen to any part of the track in 30-second segments just by sliding the cursor around. None of this "fixed 30-second clip" crap.
They recently added a whole load of other labels too. I buy from them regularly.:)
I bought this book a couple of weeks ago. It's very good. I like the way it covers the general topic of "how to write applications well" as opposed to focusing purely on writing in PHP.
My only criticisms of the book are: (1) It would be nice to see more OO patterns stuff in there (particularly database access patterns), (2) There are a couple of mistakes in the code that got me puzzled for a while. On the whole though, an excellent read.
In multiple years of working with both, perl just has become synonymous with higher system load.
Here are some benchmarks you might find interesting. Particularly:
The results of PHP were not what we expected. Being exposed to the hype that rules on the Internet about PHP, we expected it to be at least at the second place. It did not scale well (see BENCH4) and exhausted system processing power when it run, leaving it unusable. We must admit that PHP is tightly linked to MySQL, which was not how we used it, but it is our belief that a fast system can be fast irrelevant its environment.
You can see from the graphs that mod_perl performs way better than PHP on the whole, and places less load on the server than PHP. They were not using MySQL.
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I program C# about 50% of the time, do internal user support 10% of the time, reply to emails 10% time (this annoys me), deal with external customer support another 10% of the time. The remaining 20% is probably spent on administration etc.
;)
But that leaves 0% for posting to Slashdot!
If the world changed tomorrow to 85 percent Mac "OS x86"
If it did in fact get to that stage (not tomorrow but over time), would Apple be able to produce Macs in that kind of volume on their own? 85% is a lot of Macs. Or would they need to go down the old "Mac clone" route I wonder?
Also, who is Linus Trolvalds?
;)
He's the troll alter-ego of Linus Torvalds. He doesn't do any Linux development work, he just sits around all day shouting "Windows is for lusers, Macs are just toys".
And one can't expect it to be in the format which the document specifies... it just got approved after all.
Yes we can, dammit!
Does that price include a $699.00 SCO Linux licence? I want to make sure I'm legal with all this...
Simply save it to a shell script called view_grandchild_photos and give it desktop link. Voila - she'll be running in stealth mode in no time! ;)
On a side note: it bugs me how Debian installs some app launchers in a "Debian Menu" sub-menu in Gnome, but others go in the main menu. Makes it hard to find stuff sometimes. :-/
Perhaps he should have titled his blog "So slashdot me"
In other news, Microsoft decides that "We Need to Make IE More Secure!".
;)
Good to see the penny dropping twice in one week.
And how am I supposed to tell if your "script" isn't actually a trojan in disguise? It's in Perl for God's sake! ;)
:)
Seriously though -- great script.
What if a CD copy-protection system was developed, which did not compromise sound quality nor cause compatibility problems, and still allowed for your 'rights' to make a limited amount of personal copies (*.DRM)?
Or what if companies stopped spending so much time and money developing more and more elaborate DRM systems, and trusted their customers instead?
Couldn't agree more. I've had a Thinkpad T20 (which I bought second-hand) for nearly 3 years and it has been an excellent laptop. Solidly built and works great with Linux too. The hard drive did fail last year, but IBM Australia promptly sent me out a brand new drive under warranty, no questions asked. This is on a nearly 3-year-old second hand laptop bought in another country! Their warranty service is nothing short of fantastic.
If the quality of Thinkpads and their warranty service drops, I don't know which supplier I'd switch to. Can anyone recommend a decent, reliable x86 laptop manufacturer with excellent warranty support, whose machines run Linux well?
Using very large golden gradient shadowed GIFs each worth over 4K to represent the numbers 1 - 10
:P
Not to mention the lack of ALT text, using "Click Here" as a link, etc etc. Maybe he should have run his web page past Jakob first?
I prefer the approach taken by this Kiwi ATM (Queenstown, 1999)!
It's called the SCOPO. This infringes our intellectual property. The charge will be $699 per headset.
Thanks,
Darl
What does he think Linux is - a company?!
I have to ask, what has MS done that is actually useful since Windows 2000?
:P
You mean, apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health?
Oh, wait - that was the Romans
Bleep's music previewer is fantastic also, as you can listen to any part of the track in 30-second segments just by sliding the cursor around. None of this "fixed 30-second clip" crap.
:)
They recently added a whole load of other labels too. I buy from them regularly.
I bought this book a couple of weeks ago. It's very good. I like the way it covers the general topic of "how to write applications well" as opposed to focusing purely on writing in PHP.
My only criticisms of the book are: (1) It would be nice to see more OO patterns stuff in there (particularly database access patterns), (2) There are a couple of mistakes in the code that got me puzzled for a while. On the whole though, an excellent read.
Can this run my digital camera? Can I run the Sims on this?
And the answers for Linux would be: Probably, and Yes.
How the hell do you pronounce "XAML"?
Here are some benchmarks you might find interesting. Particularly:
You can see from the graphs that mod_perl performs way better than PHP on the whole, and places less load on the server than PHP. They were not using MySQL.
I think Koolio is on strike...
Damn! I wish I had a job where I could say "Let's fire up the particle accelerator"...