So you're a research microbioligist dealing with food irradiation?
What kind of pay raise are they offering? Do you they think you can help the team become productive? If you can do it, you would have proven yourself to do well in higer level positions. If you can't, you may lose the position like the guy you'd be replacing and get stuck in lower job or on the street. And of course there's the fun factor. Then there's what they might think of you if you turned it down. They might already have someone lined up to fill in your current job, and so on going down the line. And it may make you appear selfish if you turn it down. They may think you'll make the difference between that project's success or failure. It's all about risks, rewards, and sacrifices, and since you're the one faced with it, you understand them better than any of us.
It was up for a while. I had about a minute to click around their site before it started saying "server busy". Members get to see new articles several minutes before everyone else, but this time it went down while it was still visible to members only.
It was slashdotted before it the article was visible to non-subscribers. Sorry I was unable to make a copy for the rest of you. But basically it gives no more information than you see here.
Everything he claims can go wrong with open source can go wrong with closed source, but with closed source you have fewer people watching to catch malicious code additions before stable release.
The assembly output for i386 vs i686 is nearly identical, which most exceptions relating to floating point and 64 bit math, which the majority of apps don't rely on heavily.
Perhaps your problems were unrelated to whether it was an i386 or i686 distribution.
They have it compiling to i386 instructions, but optimizing for i686. Plus the kernel has cpu detection, so in many places it will use i686 instructions when built for i386. I haven't been able to find benchmarks, but I suspect that for most apps the performance hit is minimal, with the exception of those that rely heavily on floating point or 64 bit math.
Though you do have a point that they really don't need to do that anymore. If someone wants to put Linux on a 386, they shouldn't use the newest Redhat anyway.
I don't know. It's a great language, but somehow it never caught on with the masses. I learned it in my first high school programming class, and loved it, but I've only rarely encountered it since then and it's no longer one of my everyday languages.
BlueArc appears to charge about $100/gb for storage solutions, and claims that its price is less than its competitors. At first, this looks to me like an insanely high price because my last hard disk cost $0.88/gb. But after some thought to the other hardware involved, I figure I could build an almost equally capable solution for $8-$20/gb, not counting software development costs. But adding the cost of the room to hold it all, plus the insane electrical and air conditioning costs, $100/mb is starting to look fairly reasonable for those who really need what they offer, and need it soon.
Maybe I went overboard on the title, but it really is a very flexible scripting language. Many programmers fail to realize its full capability.
The last three games I wrote for my website, where I release some of my smaller projects into open source, are all written in javascript. If you ever wanted to see vector (polygon) graphics done in html+javascript, check it out.
I wouldn't say everything, at least when the hacking has to be done over a network. The chance of having a vulnerability increases with the complexity of the program and the functionality it exposes. But some programs written with security and minimalism in mind have faired very well against hacking attempts.
SELinux I've heard adds finer grained security features to limit each program's access to exactly what it needs, on top of the user level security, to further limit the damage that can be done by breaking a single program.
That's less than teachers, at the very bottom of the list. You'd think they could use their incredible skills of psychological manipulation to negotiate a better salary.
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He probably just caught on to the idea that if you say something outrageous enough in your books, like math is wrong, people will buy them.
There actually is a big difference, despite them producing the same machine code.
The GNU assembler (as) used by gcc uses AT&T's assembly syntax while most of the dos/windows assemblers, including those embedded in compilers like vc++ use Intel's assembly syntax. The two look very different. AT&T's is more type strict in the syntax (like movl instead of mov), and the operand order is different for most instructions, with the source and destination swapped.
This is just in general. You can find Intel and AT&T style assemblers for both platforms nowadays.
Complain. Complain to your CC company. Complain Microsoft. Complain to press. Call them criminals. Maintain that you haven't used their service in over 6 months. Tell them everything you told us.
There's a lot of good open source software out there. You might find several useful to your company. But I haven't found any really complete OSS business solutions that don't rely on proprietary software. Like that Compiere makes me wonder if it was made by Oracle just to attract customers.
Just remember that your ultimate goal is increasing profit, which is often helped by reducing expenditures but not always if it forces you to use something that's of lower quality. Most Linux projects have Windows ports, and chances are you're already running Windows, and your new PC's have it preinstalled accounting for $50 of the cost.
Don't shut out proprietary software but don't shut out Open Source either. Use whatever will lead to the best profits. You'll probably want at least one good Linux server for general purpose use. There are many good groupware related websites you can install on it for your intranet. OpenOffice works as well as MS Office for most tasks, sometimes better. If you use Microsoft Access, there aren't any OSS alternatives for running your preexisting Access apps, but you can find and download the little known free Access Runtime which works for most of them.
So to summarize, Windows desktops for compatibility, OSS software running on top, Linux servers wherever you're not locked in to Windows, and the free Access Runtime if you need Access but wish to use OpenOffice.
I guess I didn't word that well. After our rank dropped, and I fixed all that I could think of, I noticed the insanely low price of adwords and quickly recommended that we invest in them. This was Tuesday afternoon, and I'm a student who works only one day a week, so we don't have them yet.
One of our framed sites where I work mysteriously dropped from page 1 to page 20 or so in the Google rankings, though we can't think of anything that we've done that can be considered search engine spamming. We've fixed all the minor possibilities we can find though, and will just have to wait for the next re-index.
We're thinking of buying into Google ad-words. A large percentage of the people who go to our site buy our products.
Always be cautious when hiring an "expert" to optimize your site. A lot of "experts" recommend tactics that used to work but can now get you banned on Google.
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So you're a research microbioligist dealing with food irradiation?
What kind of pay raise are they offering? Do you they think you can help the team become productive? If you can do it, you would have proven yourself to do well in higer level positions. If you can't, you may lose the position like the guy you'd be replacing and get stuck in lower job or on the street. And of course there's the fun factor. Then there's what they might think of you if you turned it down. They might already have someone lined up to fill in your current job, and so on going down the line. And it may make you appear selfish if you turn it down. They may think you'll make the difference between that project's success or failure. It's all about risks, rewards, and sacrifices, and since you're the one faced with it, you understand them better than any of us.
It was up for a while. I had about a minute to click around their site before it started saying "server busy". Members get to see new articles several minutes before everyone else, but this time it went down while it was still visible to members only.
They'd only be sued by the FSF if they had put GPL'd code into Windows.
It was slashdotted before it the article was visible to non-subscribers. Sorry I was unable to make a copy for the rest of you. But basically it gives no more information than you see here.
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Well, I registered once, but keep forgetting my login.
Plus, why do they need our email addresses unless they plan to sell our addresses to spammers once they get enough "free" registrations?
Everything he claims can go wrong with open source can go wrong with closed source, but with closed source you have fewer people watching to catch malicious code additions before stable release.
The assembly output for i386 vs i686 is nearly identical, which most exceptions relating to floating point and 64 bit math, which the majority of apps don't rely on heavily.
Perhaps your problems were unrelated to whether it was an i386 or i686 distribution.
They have it compiling to i386 instructions, but optimizing for i686. Plus the kernel has cpu detection, so in many places it will use i686 instructions when built for i386. I haven't been able to find benchmarks, but I suspect that for most apps the performance hit is minimal, with the exception of those that rely heavily on floating point or 64 bit math.
Though you do have a point that they really don't need to do that anymore. If someone wants to put Linux on a 386, they shouldn't use the newest Redhat anyway.
That'll be up to the law to decide I guess.
Too bad I'm all out of mod points.
I don't know. It's a great language, but somehow it never caught on with the masses. I learned it in my first high school programming class, and loved it, but I've only rarely encountered it since then and it's no longer one of my everyday languages.
BlueArc appears to charge about $100/gb for storage solutions, and claims that its price is less than its competitors. At first, this looks to me like an insanely high price because my last hard disk cost $0.88/gb. But after some thought to the other hardware involved, I figure I could build an almost equally capable solution for $8-$20/gb, not counting software development costs. But adding the cost of the room to hold it all, plus the insane electrical and air conditioning costs, $100/mb is starting to look fairly reasonable for those who really need what they offer, and need it soon.
Maybe I went overboard on the title, but it really is a very flexible scripting language. Many programmers fail to realize its full capability.
The last three games I wrote for my website, where I release some of my smaller projects into open source, are all written in javascript. If you ever wanted to see vector (polygon) graphics done in html+javascript, check it out.
Good point. There must be a reason he left MS too. Maybe he wants revenge.
Looking at their list, there can't be more than a thousand lines there. Most of the matches are about 5-10 lines each.
And they're ALL written by IBM. And IBM's perpetual license says they own their contributions.
I wouldn't say everything, at least when the hacking has to be done over a network. The chance of having a vulnerability increases with the complexity of the program and the functionality it exposes. But some programs written with security and minimalism in mind have faired very well against hacking attempts.
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SELinux I've heard adds finer grained security features to limit each program's access to exactly what it needs, on top of the user level security, to further limit the damage that can be done by breaking a single program.
It doesn't take much skill to write an email virus.
That's less than teachers, at the very bottom of the list. You'd think they could use their incredible skills of psychological manipulation to negotiate a better salary.
He probably just caught on to the idea that if you say something outrageous enough in your books, like math is wrong, people will buy them.
There actually is a big difference, despite them producing the same machine code.
The GNU assembler (as) used by gcc uses AT&T's assembly syntax while most of the dos/windows assemblers, including those embedded in compilers like vc++ use Intel's assembly syntax. The two look very different. AT&T's is more type strict in the syntax (like movl instead of mov), and the operand order is different for most instructions, with the source and destination swapped.
This is just in general. You can find Intel and AT&T style assemblers for both platforms nowadays.
Complain. Complain to your CC company. Complain Microsoft. Complain to press. Call them criminals. Maintain that you haven't used their service in over 6 months. Tell them everything you told us.
There's a lot of good open source software out there. You might find several useful to your company. But I haven't found any really complete OSS business solutions that don't rely on proprietary software. Like that Compiere makes me wonder if it was made by Oracle just to attract customers.
Just remember that your ultimate goal is increasing profit, which is often helped by reducing expenditures but not always if it forces you to use something that's of lower quality. Most Linux projects have Windows ports, and chances are you're already running Windows, and your new PC's have it preinstalled accounting for $50 of the cost.
Don't shut out proprietary software but don't shut out Open Source either. Use whatever will lead to the best profits. You'll probably want at least one good Linux server for general purpose use. There are many good groupware related websites you can install on it for your intranet. OpenOffice works as well as MS Office for most tasks, sometimes better. If you use Microsoft Access, there aren't any OSS alternatives for running your preexisting Access apps, but you can find and download the little known free Access Runtime which works for most of them.
So to summarize, Windows desktops for compatibility, OSS software running on top, Linux servers wherever you're not locked in to Windows, and the free Access Runtime if you need Access but wish to use OpenOffice.
I guess I didn't word that well. After our rank dropped, and I fixed all that I could think of, I noticed the insanely low price of adwords and quickly recommended that we invest in them. This was Tuesday afternoon, and I'm a student who works only one day a week, so we don't have them yet.
One of our framed sites where I work mysteriously dropped from page 1 to page 20 or so in the Google rankings, though we can't think of anything that we've done that can be considered search engine spamming. We've fixed all the minor possibilities we can find though, and will just have to wait for the next re-index.
We're thinking of buying into Google ad-words. A large percentage of the people who go to our site buy our products.
Always be cautious when hiring an "expert" to optimize your site. A lot of "experts" recommend tactics that used to work but can now get you banned on Google.