HDD pales in comparison to SSD for reliability, performance, and power consumption.
Very true. Except the HDD only accounts for 4 to 7% of power consumption of a laptop, see this link, page 8. So it's worthless concentrating just on this part.
I only prefer make when I really need the control that a manual build offers. For all that stuff that is secondary to my company its needs, a quick apt or yum is a big time saver.
It's easy to beat. People often forget about the power usage of a PC. That thing is bleeding 100 to 300 watts and that probably makes the Netgear equipment much cheaper.
Amen, brother. After having read the story, I think to myself: if as an office manager, you have to point the customer to the fine print, have you done well?
No, of course not. The point is NOT that you are legally in your rights. The point is that the customer is dissatisfied. The office manager should've said:
"Look I know you're disappointed. This is the way we work and I can clearly see that it had been better if it was explained to you before hand. There is no way I can get your old drive back, but do you already have a webcam for your laptop?"
For the upcoming show, the wanna-be actors have to act out a scene that's invented on the spot by the producer. When they pass this test, they undergo the second test: a nice slap in the face with a sledgehammer. To emulate KITTs acceleration.
After reading your post and having a vision on how this would came to pass, I can draw but one conclusion: You'd be one hell of a richest guy in the world.:-)
I'll be listening in and I'm really hoping for a lively debate with lots of ad hominem attacks.
Jeff: "... and the document size is excellent!"
Roy: "Yeah, but tell me one thing: why should we believe someone who cheats on his wife?"
Are you sure you've got your facts right? As far as I can tell, all changes that Codeweavers makes, are rolled back into Wine. What they do is wrap it packaged friendly and the like. One of the big people behind the Wine project, Alexandre, is actually CTO at Codeweavers.
Well, MySQL is very resource-friendly when configured correctly (assuming you share that under the 'real database' caption, which I admit is generous). And generally the datasets that people use for websites, aren't that big at all. BerkeleyDB files can be put on a ramdisk to force them into memory.
Thanks for the moderate reply. Anyway, I really should stop being all absolute and admit that for me it's very much a personal issue and I've seen others really be more productive this way. For me personally the best way would be rooms with 4-6 people. I've been in an open office and my solution was to start early and get the thinking work done. Then after lunch, when the lunch dip kicks in anyway, plan meetings if possible.
That's pretty funny you should mention that. I'm in the business of (amongst others) hosted virtual machines and the smallest plan has 64 MB. People sometimes ask me, "What can I do with such a small amount of RAM?". When I basically answer "everything, but you might have to tweak some config files and heavy scripts", they're very surprised.
I think there's something fundamental about having a space of your own, no matter how small or humble, and I wonder how long this will last before people start claiming a particular place.
Yep. That's why I took the example from my neighbor's dog and started "marking" my area in the open office plan.
It worked well. Also, I took the liberty to sniff the crotches of any female secretaries that still walked into my area.
Still, I'm not sure why you view this so negatively, or have such bad feelings towards management.
Because I'm sick and tired of managers trying to sell another cost reduction as a good thing. Communication is good within a team, but I'm having trouble concentrating when people outside the team make loud phone calls or morning conversations. And a DND area is not always provided. If there are separate rooms, then it's often claimed by people as an area for meetings.
I noticed your sig, calling for donation to Wine. Have you thought about just buying the Codeweavers products? Of course it's not the same, but it's a nice alternative that gets you a solidly-working MS Office under Linux.
Say what you want, but the masses aren't running to IRC anymore. It's Jabber, MSN, Yahoo chat etc that are being used. Now you can answer GP with smart questions like 'it's solved at the client level' and while you are right, the point is that there is a lot more development effort aimed at the IM market.
Bypassing his agency's computer technicians, Mr. Bloch phoned for
Regardless of whether there was ill intent, I'd just wanted to mention this bypassing happens all the time. I knew a business manager once who said that when wishing for a simple application, he would run into their internal department who were used to big projects. So instead of starting building (or even analyzing) with said app, they'd respond with giving him forms for access to new servers, allocating helpdesk people, assigning a project manager, et cetera.
When all he needed was a speedy and communicative developer. Yes sometimes the big mill has to start churning. And at other times, we just need a little app for a limited time.
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Thanks for the links. I really like the Via. Just like you said, it could be a drop-in replacement for that beige box.
Amen, brother. After having read the story, I think to myself: if as an office manager, you have to point the customer to the fine print, have you done well?
No, of course not. The point is NOT that you are legally in your rights. The point is that the customer is dissatisfied. The office manager should've said:
"Look I know you're disappointed. This is the way we work and I can clearly see that it had been better if it was explained to you before hand. There is no way I can get your old drive back, but do you already have a webcam for your laptop?"
For the upcoming show, the wanna-be actors have to act out a scene that's invented on the spot by the producer. When they pass this test, they undergo the second test: a nice slap in the face with a sledgehammer. To emulate KITTs acceleration.
After reading your post and having a vision on how this would came to pass, I can draw but one conclusion: You'd be one hell of a richest guy in the world. :-)
I agree that vim isn't really light anymore, however a lot depends on how it was compiled.
Most Linux distros install a very minimal version by default. When you want more, there's a -common, -x11 or even -enhanced version available.
Myself, I don't really care about footprint since it's an editor and not a daemon. And it's still too fast for me.
- catty comments or frankly inappropriate language
- They call people names
- They make inappropriate comments
- "can you believe that [expletive] is complaining about this?"
- "I can't believe she's pregnant at such an inconvenient time at work."
I was like Oh My God, can you imagine the billions and billions of dollars that must be pumped into lawsuits regarding these comments?Nope, me neither.
I'll be listening in and I'm really hoping for a lively debate with lots of ad hominem attacks.
Jeff: "... and the document size is excellent!"
Roy: "Yeah, but tell me one thing: why should we believe someone who cheats on his wife?"
Are you sure you've got your facts right? As far as I can tell, all changes that Codeweavers makes, are rolled back into Wine. What they do is wrap it packaged friendly and the like. One of the big people behind the Wine project, Alexandre, is actually CTO at Codeweavers.
Well, MySQL is very resource-friendly when configured correctly (assuming you share that under the 'real database' caption, which I admit is generous). And generally the datasets that people use for websites, aren't that big at all. BerkeleyDB files can be put on a ramdisk to force them into memory.
Thanks for the moderate reply. Anyway, I really should stop being all absolute and admit that for me it's very much a personal issue and I've seen others really be more productive this way. For me personally the best way would be rooms with 4-6 people. I've been in an open office and my solution was to start early and get the thinking work done. Then after lunch, when the lunch dip kicks in anyway, plan meetings if possible.
That's pretty funny you should mention that. I'm in the business of (amongst others) hosted virtual machines and the smallest plan has 64 MB. People sometimes ask me, "What can I do with such a small amount of RAM?". When I basically answer "everything, but you might have to tweak some config files and heavy scripts", they're very surprised.
It worked well. Also, I took the liberty to sniff the crotches of any female secretaries that still walked into my area.
Don't kid yourselves, this is just about some PHB wanting to save on office space, cramming yet another dozen workers in the same space.
I noticed your sig, calling for donation to Wine. Have you thought about just buying the Codeweavers products? Of course it's not the same, but it's a nice alternative that gets you a solidly-working MS Office under Linux.
Hehheh yeah, that's true. Actually I was jesting and meant 'the last .com domains *ever*'
This 'first 100 .com' stuff is all nice and dandy, but what I want to see is the LAST one hundred .com domains.
Say what you want, but the masses aren't running to IRC anymore. It's Jabber, MSN, Yahoo chat etc that are being used. Now you can answer GP with smart questions like 'it's solved at the client level' and while you are right, the point is that there is a lot more development effort aimed at the IM market.
When all he needed was a speedy and communicative developer. Yes sometimes the big mill has to start churning. And at other times, we just need a little app for a limited time.