Agree. And generally they're all the same question with no answer. The other problem are the mistyped domain folks and search engine scammers. You can tell since your search term is part of a long string of alphabetized search terms.
Bing just doesn't have the scumbags infesting the database yet.
Plus you have the crowd effect. I've been to plays and concerts where I didn't think it deserved a standing ovation and based on other folks sitting, they didn't either. But a bunch of people stand, then the folks around them stand, and it continues until everyone is on their feet. But it doesn't cost me 20% of the ticket price and it's a good chance to start out for the car:)
Worse is that work uses Blue Coat filters. So sites are blocked based on someone else's definition of a site. I'm amazed that I can still get to Slashdot though.
We used to have access to Facebook as well as many forums but I guess folks were taking too much time out of work to socialize and they're blocked. I can still get in to my webmail accounts though and ESPN is still unblocked. There are a few sub-Yahoo! domains that I can't get to including my profile (identified as social networking). I imagine work will figure out which google servers are the social ones and block them.
The article said it was a popular place to get pictures of the sunset. Likely it's the same reason the webcam was up especially since she was watching the sunset as well.
Since it's popular, according to the police there are several incidents of tourists going out onto the ice to get those sunset pictures and getting disoriented and missing the shore, especially as it was covered in snow.
Yep, me too. My Powerbook is my workhorse to support my table-top gaming. I'm running mysql and apache with php with several wikis and php scripts.
I've been having so many problems with Firefox crashing and increasing the temp of the powerbook I switched back to Safari 4 a few months ago. I have to deal with ads but at least my browser doesn't crash any more.
Bit late. Mine was programming at 8 and this was back in 1986:) Now she's working for a small company as a DBA/support person and getting ready to fly out of the country to help set up a call center for the company.
Stonebridge Games in Longmont Colorado. Mainly a board game shop with a few RPG's and card games kicking around.
Fantasy Flight Games has several board games that go up to $100 for just the one box and complete sets are a lot more. Arkham Horror is at about $325 now.
Actually I thought there was a new Board Game from FFG at $100. I forget the name and don't have access to look it up from work. I have Arkham Horror also from FFG. The whole set runs about $325.
Speaking of Fantasy Flight Games, I have Arkham Horror and the expansions. Each of the big boxes are $50 and the small ones are $25 I think. Roughly $325 for the set. So far.
It's a fun cooperative game and the group enjoys it. But it's not cheap.
The funny thing is that I originally got into programming because of my interests in gaming (D&D, Car Wars, Traveller). I wrote programs to help me with the games.
From there I got a part time job maintaining Basic programs. Then a full time job programming. I was working on cleaning up the program I was managing because it was such a hack (Funeral Home software running on a Baby-36) when I was instructed to get it wrapped up and on a disk to send to a vendor who wanted to sell it. I went to the manager and said it wasn't ready to go out the door yet. It wasn't resolved as the company had failed to pay Employee Taxes and was being investigated by the IRS so I headed out the door.
My next job was as a LAN Admin though and not a programmer. See, I like programming. I like it enough to not get paid for it. I kept programming. Usenet news reader, 3com network tools, BBS Doors, gaming tools, scripts like perl, php, javascript.
Now I'm a Senior Unix Admin. I don't have anyone insisting I create this module their way. I don't have to work long hours except when something breaks. And due to my programming skills, I'm able to make use of a lot of tech to make my job easier and to keep me from having to work long hours.
And I still program. Because I like to program. And I still like to program because I'm not doing it as a day job.
I do get the occasional monthly spam to my whois address which includes the Chinese guy who wants to sell me their version of one of the domains I own (well, rent:) ) or the one time that someone wanted to buy one of my domains.
Interesting. I would have thought there was a higher percentage of folks using mysql for more powerful tasks. I know we're using mysql for a few production projects that need more power than that. Heck, we were considering kicking Oracle out and going with just MySQL because of the high costs involved.
Heck, Oracle costs have kept us from upgrading our Sun hardware. With the license increase for multi-cores, upgrading our T2000's is out of the question.
But you do have a point. There are probably quite a few folks dinking around with mysql. I don't think it's 99% though:)
I'm actually not too bad with the iPhone as far as typing goes. With my oversized hands and especially thumbs, I do tend to make a few mistakes here and there. Hitting the shift vs 'a' and space vs 'n' or 'm' are the biggest issues. Add in the word replacement the iPhone does for errors which fixes most of the worst mistakes but does replace non-standard gaming words with more common words and I can fly along.
The worst problem with the iPhone right now is replying to forum posts. You can't scroll within a text box so you're limited to the available space.
Funny thing is that I'm watching the 3rd season now since I received the 4th season for Christmas (I've watched the 1st and 2nd over the past few weeks when I have time).
Oracle Express only supports 4 Gigs per database, you can only run one instance at a time, limited to 1 Gig of RAM even if you have more, one processor again even if you're running SMP, and only 32 bit?
Slashdot Mirror
Don't know if it was the first, but their Terraserver (?) site was pretty interesting.
[John]
Agree. And generally they're all the same question with no answer. The other problem are the mistyped domain folks and search engine scammers. You can tell since your search term is part of a long string of alphabetized search terms.
Bing just doesn't have the scumbags infesting the database yet.
[John]
Plus you have the crowd effect. I've been to plays and concerts where I didn't think it deserved a standing ovation and based on other folks sitting, they didn't either. But a bunch of people stand, then the folks around them stand, and it continues until everyone is on their feet. But it doesn't cost me 20% of the ticket price and it's a good chance to start out for the car :)
[John]
Worse is that work uses Blue Coat filters. So sites are blocked based on someone else's definition of a site. I'm amazed that I can still get to Slashdot though.
[John]
We used to have access to Facebook as well as many forums but I guess folks were taking too much time out of work to socialize and they're blocked. I can still get in to my webmail accounts though and ESPN is still unblocked. There are a few sub-Yahoo! domains that I can't get to including my profile (identified as social networking). I imagine work will figure out which google servers are the social ones and block them.
[John]
Now it'll block Google. Guess I'll be forced to use Bing!
[John]
The article said it was a popular place to get pictures of the sunset. Likely it's the same reason the webcam was up especially since she was watching the sunset as well.
Since it's popular, according to the police there are several incidents of tourists going out onto the ice to get those sunset pictures and getting disoriented and missing the shore, especially as it was covered in snow.
Carl
Yep, me too. My Powerbook is my workhorse to support my table-top gaming. I'm running mysql and apache with php with several wikis and php scripts.
I've been having so many problems with Firefox crashing and increasing the temp of the powerbook I switched back to Safari 4 a few months ago. I have to deal with ads but at least my browser doesn't crash any more.
[John]
Bit late. Mine was programming at 8 and this was back in 1986 :) Now she's working for a small company as a DBA/support person and getting ready to fly out of the country to help set up a call center for the company.
[John]
Stonebridge Games in Longmont Colorado. Mainly a board game shop with a few RPG's and card games kicking around.
Fantasy Flight Games has several board games that go up to $100 for just the one box and complete sets are a lot more. Arkham Horror is at about $325 now.
[John]
Agreed. There is a whole other level of board games after Scrabble. (bofh on BBG :) ).
[John]
Actually I thought there was a new Board Game from FFG at $100. I forget the name and don't have access to look it up from work. I have Arkham Horror also from FFG. The whole set runs about $325.
[John]
Speaking of Fantasy Flight Games, I have Arkham Horror and the expansions. Each of the big boxes are $50 and the small ones are $25 I think. Roughly $325 for the set. So far.
It's a fun cooperative game and the group enjoys it. But it's not cheap.
[John]
The funny thing is that I originally got into programming because of my interests in gaming (D&D, Car Wars, Traveller). I wrote programs to help me with the games.
From there I got a part time job maintaining Basic programs. Then a full time job programming. I was working on cleaning up the program I was managing because it was such a hack (Funeral Home software running on a Baby-36) when I was instructed to get it wrapped up and on a disk to send to a vendor who wanted to sell it. I went to the manager and said it wasn't ready to go out the door yet. It wasn't resolved as the company had failed to pay Employee Taxes and was being investigated by the IRS so I headed out the door.
My next job was as a LAN Admin though and not a programmer. See, I like programming. I like it enough to not get paid for it. I kept programming. Usenet news reader, 3com network tools, BBS Doors, gaming tools, scripts like perl, php, javascript.
Now I'm a Senior Unix Admin. I don't have anyone insisting I create this module their way. I don't have to work long hours except when something breaks. And due to my programming skills, I'm able to make use of a lot of tech to make my job easier and to keep me from having to work long hours.
And I still program. Because I like to program. And I still like to program because I'm not doing it as a day job.
[John]
I do get the occasional monthly spam to my whois address which includes the Chinese guy who wants to sell me their version of one of the domains I own (well, rent :) ) or the one time that someone wanted to buy one of my domains.
[John]
And yet there are still people doing that as well.
[John]
Cool, I'll have to try that out. It did seem to be a weird omission. Thanks.
[John]
Interesting. I would have thought there was a higher percentage of folks using mysql for more powerful tasks. I know we're using mysql for a few production projects that need more power than that. Heck, we were considering kicking Oracle out and going with just MySQL because of the high costs involved.
Heck, Oracle costs have kept us from upgrading our Sun hardware. With the license increase for multi-cores, upgrading our T2000's is out of the question.
But you do have a point. There are probably quite a few folks dinking around with mysql. I don't think it's 99% though :)
[John]
Cool. A technical reply on Slashdot is modded as a troll. How special.
[John]
I'm actually not too bad with the iPhone as far as typing goes. With my oversized hands and especially thumbs, I do tend to make a few mistakes here and there. Hitting the shift vs 'a' and space vs 'n' or 'm' are the biggest issues. Add in the word replacement the iPhone does for errors which fixes most of the worst mistakes but does replace non-standard gaming words with more common words and I can fly along.
The worst problem with the iPhone right now is replying to forum posts. You can't scroll within a text box so you're limited to the available space.
[John]
Funny thing is that I'm watching the 3rd season now since I received the 4th season for Christmas (I've watched the 1st and 2nd over the past few weeks when I have time).
Still fricking hilarious!
[John]
I know I won't be using it based on the Oracle FAQ. It's too limited for my usage.
[John]
Oracle Express only supports 4 Gigs per database, you can only run one instance at a time, limited to 1 Gig of RAM even if you have more, one processor again even if you're running SMP, and only 32 bit?
Why would I want to use Oracle Express again?
[John]
Wait. So Oracle Express only supports 4 Gigs of database, one instance at a time, 1 Gig of RAM, one processor, and only 32 bit?
Why would I want to use Oracle Express again? It looks like it wouldn't work at all for my current projects.
[John]
Oh yeah? I'm running a Shadowrun Google Wave game _while_ I reply to Slashdot.
[John]