Shouldn't that be ihnp4!stolaf!bungia!foundln!john?
I used to give "{The Twilight Zone}!ihnp4!isucs1!s1tracy" as mine, since all you needed was the path FROM one of the main domains. Ahh, the days of ucbvax, decwrl, seismo and utzoo. Whatever happend to Chris Torek, anyway?
Counterexample: they serve drinks drinks in first class before takeoff. Nothing like a wee bit o' Scotch to make the takeoff nice and smooozzzzzzzz....
I think a large part of your problem was in expecting Apache to function as an app server (which is what Netscape was[is?]) instead of a web server (which is what Apache is). Apache+Tomcat will give you a bare-bones app server, but nothing like a full-fledged app server (q.v. Web{Logic|Sphere}, JBoss).
Seriously, my wife does FEA work, and when she had her 286, she got a Weitek numeric coprocessor to handle the FP. She was so pumped when she got a 486 and could run stuff over the weekend and know that it would be done by Monday.
Later, she got an Alpha, and she could run the same stuff over lunch....
I can't believe that Disney of all companies backed this. I mean, I don't know any household with kids that doesn't have at least a few Disney movies, and they're watched over and over and over again. Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a copy of "The Little Mermaid" and then try to explain to a sobbing five-year-old that they can't watch their movie anymore.
Yeah, smoke that Sun crack, baby! If you're at all interested in performance, you'll avoid entity beans like a plague of suits. Check out this paper on EJB performance. Using entity beans means a >50% performance hit for database access. CMP, BMP, 1.1, 2.0, doesn't matter, you're gonna pay. If you really, really need to distribute your application across an eight-way cluster, then you might win with entity beans, but if you're running single-node, just save yourself the painful "performance review meeting" the week after your application goes live and just make JDBC calls from your session beans.
A purist would tell you all Porsche sucks since 87 (?) when they stopped making their own engines
??? Don't know what you've been smoking, but Porsche still makes their own engines. They consulted with some Japanese engineers to bring manufacturing costs down, but they still design and build the engines in-house.
Oh please -- the RX-7 was a pathetic copy of the Porsche 924. And wonder why they got so fat and ugly with the "series II" cars? It's because they failed miserably to copy the 944. It's a good thing they were cheap, or they'd never have sold.
I just told my employer that I wouldn't cancel my vacation when the person I was supposed to hand my project off to quit. They wanted me to stick around until final QA was complete (another 4-5 days),while I had family flying in from all over the country to visit. I told them no, they told me goodbye. Oh well, it isn't hard to leave a job like that, it's just hard to find a better one.:/
I was wondering when someone would bring this up. It's a frigging OS, you run whatever version supports the apps that keep your business running. Unless you're hosting shell accounts or something, look at your applications. Most large companies (think SAP or Manugistics or i2) won't support their apps on an OS that's more than a couple of years/revisions old. And what about new apps? When your business gets big enough that they need some new CRM app, you won't be able to get one because you're not running a supported platform.
Unless all you're running are in-house apps and you KNOW that's all you're ever going to run, stick with something that's "supported" (by more than just the manufacturer!).
This same shit's been going on in the compiler world since Whetstone was the hot benchmark. Everybody optimizes code paths for benchmarks, and the only real test is how something works for your application.
Dude, you have NOT used a mainframe! Mainframes are for shuffling huge amounts of bitage around. Need to calculate charges and print monthly billing statements for, oh, say Citibank? You'll need a mainframe. Same for, say, tracking daily account activity at Bank of America. You'll take hundreds of millions of transactions from a file, post them to a couple more files, adjust a couple million account balances, then spool several gig of print off to a print subsystem. And a mainframe will do this before anything that runs Solaris can finish sorting the first file.
Mainframes may be a bitch for interactive use (WYLBUR, anyone?), but for mass data processing, you can't touch them.
The original poster said popular OS. The only one I can think of is VMS, virtually all of which was written in BLISS. I wouldn't be surprised if large parts of the UCSD p-System were written in Pascal, but I don't know for sure.
I spent the buXX0rs for a 19" Hitachi 751 when they came out four-five years back, and haven't regretted it. I run it at 1600x1200 and have no problem working with it for 20 hours straight. If I was gainfully employed, I'd probably be shopping for another just to have a spare.
OTOH, I was given an old NEC MultiSync 17", and after I took some contact cleaner to the cables & connectors and tweaked the pots to clear up the focus, it rocks! My wife uses it, and complains that the monitor she has at work (some Dell-branded thing) isn't anywhere near as good.
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I think we got 360K just by going to double-sided. The original PC floppies were 160K, then they added an extra sector per track to get up to 180K, then going double-sided took it up to 360.
I remember my roommate coming home with his first PC. Totally maxed, with FOUR half-height floppies! And a 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodem! Man, we were livin' large, doing our class assignments in Turbo Pascal, then uploading the source to the VAX and printing it out from home so we could just swing by and pick it up on our way to class.
Now I spend my days glaring at this pathetic 600MHz P/// that takes 30+ seconds to load Eclipse, and won't compile my Java system in under two minutes. But at least I can surf Slashdot while I wait...
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Shouldn't that be ihnp4!stolaf!bungia!foundln!john?
I used to give "{The Twilight Zone}!ihnp4!isucs1!s1tracy" as mine, since all you needed was the path FROM one of the main domains. Ahh, the days of ucbvax, decwrl, seismo and utzoo. Whatever happend to Chris Torek, anyway?
Counterexample: they serve drinks drinks in first class before takeoff. Nothing like a wee bit o' Scotch to make the takeoff nice and smooozzzzzzzz....
If it doesn't work, then how did you type it?
1)ferrari 2)insurance 3)??? 4)broke
I think your missing option is
3) speeding tickets
Netscape as a web server
I think a large part of your problem was in expecting Apache to function as an app server (which is what Netscape was[is?]) instead of a web server (which is what Apache is). Apache+Tomcat will give you a bare-bones app server, but nothing like a full-fledged app server (q.v. Web{Logic|Sphere}, JBoss).
One word: Weitek
Seriously, my wife does FEA work, and when she had her 286, she got a Weitek numeric coprocessor to handle the FP. She was so pumped when she got a 486 and could run stuff over the weekend and know that it would be done by Monday.
Later, she got an Alpha, and she could run the same stuff over lunch....
I can't believe that Disney of all companies backed this. I mean, I don't know any household with kids that doesn't have at least a few Disney movies, and they're watched over and over and over again. Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a copy of "The Little Mermaid" and then try to explain to a sobbing five-year-old that they can't watch their movie anymore.
Yes, but did you find it on MSDN, or did you wind up finding it through Google?
the USPTO is on crack, and the government has been using that scheme for a long time..
What, having their offices be crackhouses? Hmmm, on second thought, that would explain a lot...
Who would ever voluntarily go through re-entry in a shuttle with a hand-patched wing?
Hmmmm, certain death when oxygen depleted, vs. chancy re-entry after repairs? I know my I'd certainly volunteer to test the repair...
Yeah, smoke that Sun crack, baby! If you're at all interested in performance, you'll avoid entity beans like a plague of suits. Check out this paper on EJB performance. Using entity beans means a >50% performance hit for database access. CMP, BMP, 1.1, 2.0, doesn't matter, you're gonna pay. If you really, really need to distribute your application across an eight-way cluster, then you might win with entity beans, but if you're running single-node, just save yourself the painful "performance review meeting" the week after your application goes live and just make JDBC calls from your session beans.
How many people who buy Porsche 911's actually drive 175MPH?
It's not about driving 175. It's about taking an off-ramp marked 25 at 75 and then wondering where that Mustang that was following you went...
A purist would tell you all Porsche sucks since 87 (?) when they stopped making their own engines
??? Don't know what you've been smoking, but Porsche still makes their own engines. They consulted with some Japanese engineers to bring manufacturing costs down, but they still design and build the engines in-house.
Oh please -- the RX-7 was a pathetic copy of the Porsche 924. And wonder why they got so fat and ugly with the "series II" cars? It's because they failed miserably to copy the 944. It's a good thing they were cheap, or they'd never have sold.
I just told my employer that I wouldn't cancel my vacation when the person I was supposed to hand my project off to quit. They wanted me to stick around until final QA was complete (another 4-5 days),while I had family flying in from all over the country to visit. I told them no, they told me goodbye. Oh well, it isn't hard to leave a job like that, it's just hard to find a better one. :/
doing a little PCR and sequencing
Wow, drugs sure have changed since I was in college...
Actually, the F-111 had an "ejection module" that would work at both supersonic speed and at zero altitude with only 50kts forward speed. Details here
I was wondering when someone would bring this up. It's a frigging OS, you run whatever version supports the apps that keep your business running. Unless you're hosting shell accounts or something, look at your applications. Most large companies (think SAP or Manugistics or i2) won't support their apps on an OS that's more than a couple of years/revisions old. And what about new apps? When your business gets big enough that they need some new CRM app, you won't be able to get one because you're not running a supported platform.
Unless all you're running are in-house apps and you KNOW that's all you're ever going to run, stick with something that's "supported" (by more than just the manufacturer!).
This same shit's been going on in the compiler world since Whetstone was the hot benchmark. Everybody optimizes code paths for benchmarks, and the only real test is how something works for your application.
Nothing to flame here, move along...
Dude, you have NOT used a mainframe! Mainframes are for shuffling huge amounts of bitage around. Need to calculate charges and print monthly billing statements for, oh, say Citibank? You'll need a mainframe. Same for, say, tracking daily account activity at Bank of America. You'll take hundreds of millions of transactions from a file, post them to a couple more files, adjust a couple million account balances, then spool several gig of print off to a print subsystem. And a mainframe will do this before anything that runs Solaris can finish sorting the first file.
Mainframes may be a bitch for interactive use (WYLBUR, anyone?), but for mass data processing, you can't touch them.
I don't remember the part where ET comes back and tells Elliot to move out to the desert and get a bunch of wives
I think that was only in the DVD version.
...not to look into the eyes of the sun.
"But Momma, that's where the fun is!"
The original poster said popular OS. The only one I can think of is VMS, virtually all of which was written in BLISS. I wouldn't be surprised if large parts of the UCSD p-System were written in Pascal, but I don't know for sure.
I spent the buXX0rs for a 19" Hitachi 751 when they came out four-five years back, and haven't regretted it. I run it at 1600x1200 and have no problem working with it for 20 hours straight. If I was gainfully employed, I'd probably be shopping for another just to have a spare.
OTOH, I was given an old NEC MultiSync 17", and after I took some contact cleaner to the cables & connectors and tweaked the pots to clear up the focus, it rocks! My wife uses it, and complains that the monitor she has at work (some Dell-branded thing) isn't anywhere near as good.
I think we got 360K just by going to double-sided. The original PC floppies were 160K, then they added an extra sector per track to get up to 180K, then going double-sided took it up to 360.
I remember my roommate coming home with his first PC. Totally maxed, with FOUR half-height floppies! And a 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodem! Man, we were livin' large, doing our class assignments in Turbo Pascal, then uploading the source to the VAX and printing it out from home so we could just swing by and pick it up on our way to class.
Now I spend my days glaring at this pathetic 600MHz P/// that takes 30+ seconds to load Eclipse, and won't compile my Java system in under two minutes. But at least I can surf Slashdot while I wait...