I thought he was making a stand for what he believes in.
No, I actually think he was standing in what he beleives in. I also hope he wipes his shoes before he tracks it all over.
I think that message was "Geeks are paranoid kooks that shouldn't be taken seriously unless your computer needs the porn cleaned off of it".
Thank's Richard for setting the cause of technology back another 10 years. He's our version of Pat Robertson.
Hello, this is OnStar, we've noticed you car seems to be disabled in a remote area and is rocking violently. We'll dispatch law enforcement immediately...
True, but a fighter with what looks like two refrigerators strapped under the wings will be mistaken for some guys making a beer run, so it will be steathly.
I'm sure the first phrase after they switch it on will be "I said BUD LITE you ^%$hole, not a bright light!".
I have two people on my team from Rio, one in country being trained in by the person whose job their taking, the other still in Rio because of Visa problems. If development dips maintenance work will drop to two domestic (me and one other) and the two Rio folks. Not long after that I'm sure they'll say "let's just manage it from Rio" and boom I'm out the door. We're a small location in a big company, but they won't pay relocation to places that need people (HR types figure it's cheaper to get locals off the street). I can hang my contractor shingle back up or relocate with another company that picks up the tab, but it's pretty clear the there won't be many (if any) domestic technical types for big companies. Large companies are too brain dead to understand the difference between technical skills and the ability to apply those skills to a business problem. You can teach monkeys to code, they proved it during Y2K. Translating a business need into code is different, and requires knowledge of the company processes and the culture where that company resides, things that offshore programmers don't have.
I know that experience first-hand from some time in Pakistan. We didn't know their culture or processes, so even though our team was technically skilled we did not have the best ways to solve their problems.
You can get that ability over time, but time costs money, and companies value money more than people or their skills. To them one person with 5 years VB, 5 years Java, or n Years myLang are the same as any other. Interchangable as car tires. Executives are the only ones that think "their" experience in "running companies" is appropriate and work being paid for.
In reality, I'll end up hanging the shingle up and taking a big pay cut for long enough to restablish a customer base or product to sell, but it's tempting at this point I'm about two steps away from saying "screw it" and doing grunt work like lawn care which all I need to learn is Spanish. Facing the inevitable may be better, since the profession I enjoyed really sucks now.
There is no right to travel anonymously anyway.
First off, it wasn't flight 800, it was Locherbie, which wasn't a mechanical failure. The process put in place was for baggage matching, so bags didn't get put on planes if the person that checked them didn't board. The ID check made it asier to verify that the same person that was issued a boarding pass used it to board the plane.
This has nothing to do with the Patriot Act or an other recent nonsense. We as a ticket buying public demanded changes, the airlines implemented them as cheaply as possible because we demanded low air fares. Anyone that doesn't like it needs to stop whining and start driving instead of flying. The only right you've lost is the ability to go to Hawaii, so give it up already. You've always had to show id to cross borders.
Duh, why, because companies like EDS make their money by paying as little as possible for the tech personnel.
Duh, because the companies that hire them want to save money on a support function that is primarily wage based. To solve the problem companies "outsource" to save the trouble of laying off the people themselves. The outsources keep the "transitioned" people around long enough to move the work to some third world rat hole and still make the SLA's. You get what you pay for and in outsourcing the only people that come out on top are CEO's.
From what I saw from the reports is was Flight Operations (FOS). TPF based. Unlikely it was a TPF failure or hardware. One report mentioned database curruption, which means some programmer's going to be in deep dodo in the am.
I'll know in the morning, one of my guys used to work on FOS.
Nope. FOS is on TPF and odds are TPF didn't tank, the database got currupted. YOu can duplicate the hardware, make the software non-stop, but if some dork loads a bad module that currupts the data you're down.
No it's not, never has been. FOS (Flight Operations System) is on TPF.
Since TPF doesn't go down for more than a couple minutes a year, and the hardware IS redundant, the only plausable explanation is the one given then mangeled by the press. The database was currupted.
That's the achilles heel of all real-time systems, since while you can duplex it and do all sorts of stuff to keep it up, the data itself is shared between the primary and back system (and has to be to support fallover).
Years back I was in a big meeting with the Air Force and we were talking about the various networking options available with their fancy new front-end network processors.
They liked the idea of the network being independent of the hosts and the ability to ship data around and log into any machine on the national ring.
Then we had our discussion about following out a full OS refresh for the various logitical systems and a Colonel looking at the network map asks me "What's going to be the fastest way to get everything to the logisticas centers?".
My reply was obvious. "Fed-Ex".
I thought the thing was that people shouldn't buy software. The whole FSF theory is programmers need to live in their parents basement and write code for free. It's only moral to charge the people that can't figure out how to download, build, install, configure, troubleshoot , etc. You also aren't allowed to charge enough to make a living or help people that aren't truely worthly, like WebTV users.
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Write it right the first time you're in good shape. If you didn't write it right, it's probobly faster to throw it away and start over anyway.
I thought he was making a stand for what he believes in. No, I actually think he was standing in what he beleives in. I also hope he wipes his shoes before he tracks it all over.
I think that message was "Geeks are paranoid kooks that shouldn't be taken seriously unless your computer needs the porn cleaned off of it". Thank's Richard for setting the cause of technology back another 10 years. He's our version of Pat Robertson.
Hello, this is OnStar, we've noticed you car seems to be disabled in a remote area and is rocking violently. We'll dispatch law enforcement immediately...
True, but a fighter with what looks like two refrigerators strapped under the wings will be mistaken for some guys making a beer run, so it will be steathly. I'm sure the first phrase after they switch it on will be "I said BUD LITE you ^%$hole, not a bright light!".
but should Gates be working on a OS that doesn't crash first?
http://www.cityofws.org/Wi-Fi/Wi-Fi-info/wi-fi-inf o.html
Turtle Wax? Since this is a thread about San Francisco shouldn't it be Rice-a-Roni?
Thanks for explaining that. I thought they lined up 1800 marketing executives and yanked down their underwear.
Darn thing's gotta come down somewhere...
I bet he first used "resistance is futile!" on dates.
I have two people on my team from Rio, one in country being trained in by the person whose job their taking, the other still in Rio because of Visa problems. If development dips maintenance work will drop to two domestic (me and one other) and the two Rio folks. Not long after that I'm sure they'll say "let's just manage it from Rio" and boom I'm out the door. We're a small location in a big company, but they won't pay relocation to places that need people (HR types figure it's cheaper to get locals off the street). I can hang my contractor shingle back up or relocate with another company that picks up the tab, but it's pretty clear the there won't be many (if any) domestic technical types for big companies. Large companies are too brain dead to understand the difference between technical skills and the ability to apply those skills to a business problem. You can teach monkeys to code, they proved it during Y2K. Translating a business need into code is different, and requires knowledge of the company processes and the culture where that company resides, things that offshore programmers don't have. I know that experience first-hand from some time in Pakistan. We didn't know their culture or processes, so even though our team was technically skilled we did not have the best ways to solve their problems. You can get that ability over time, but time costs money, and companies value money more than people or their skills. To them one person with 5 years VB, 5 years Java, or n Years myLang are the same as any other. Interchangable as car tires. Executives are the only ones that think "their" experience in "running companies" is appropriate and work being paid for. In reality, I'll end up hanging the shingle up and taking a big pay cut for long enough to restablish a customer base or product to sell, but it's tempting at this point I'm about two steps away from saying "screw it" and doing grunt work like lawn care which all I need to learn is Spanish. Facing the inevitable may be better, since the profession I enjoyed really sucks now.
There is no right to travel anonymously anyway. First off, it wasn't flight 800, it was Locherbie, which wasn't a mechanical failure. The process put in place was for baggage matching, so bags didn't get put on planes if the person that checked them didn't board. The ID check made it asier to verify that the same person that was issued a boarding pass used it to board the plane. This has nothing to do with the Patriot Act or an other recent nonsense. We as a ticket buying public demanded changes, the airlines implemented them as cheaply as possible because we demanded low air fares. Anyone that doesn't like it needs to stop whining and start driving instead of flying. The only right you've lost is the ability to go to Hawaii, so give it up already. You've always had to show id to cross borders.
Duh, why, because companies like EDS make their money by paying as little as possible for the tech personnel. Duh, because the companies that hire them want to save money on a support function that is primarily wage based. To solve the problem companies "outsource" to save the trouble of laying off the people themselves. The outsources keep the "transitioned" people around long enough to move the work to some third world rat hole and still make the SLA's. You get what you pay for and in outsourcing the only people that come out on top are CEO's.
Unlikely the OS (which was TPF BTW) crashed at all. Title says "database curruption" not OS or hardware crash.
From what I saw from the reports is was Flight Operations (FOS). TPF based. Unlikely it was a TPF failure or hardware. One report mentioned database curruption, which means some programmer's going to be in deep dodo in the am. I'll know in the morning, one of my guys used to work on FOS.
Nope. FOS is on TPF and odds are TPF didn't tank, the database got currupted. YOu can duplicate the hardware, make the software non-stop, but if some dork loads a bad module that currupts the data you're down.
No it's not, never has been. FOS (Flight Operations System) is on TPF. Since TPF doesn't go down for more than a couple minutes a year, and the hardware IS redundant, the only plausable explanation is the one given then mangeled by the press. The database was currupted. That's the achilles heel of all real-time systems, since while you can duplex it and do all sorts of stuff to keep it up, the data itself is shared between the primary and back system (and has to be to support fallover).
No Jovial or PLUS, it's like half my life disappeared in the blink of a PDF.
Certainly brings up new possibilities for the Blue Screen of Death.
Years back I was in a big meeting with the Air Force and we were talking about the various networking options available with their fancy new front-end network processors. They liked the idea of the network being independent of the hosts and the ability to ship data around and log into any machine on the national ring. Then we had our discussion about following out a full OS refresh for the various logitical systems and a Colonel looking at the network map asks me "What's going to be the fastest way to get everything to the logisticas centers?". My reply was obvious. "Fed-Ex".
I thought the thing was that people shouldn't buy software. The whole FSF theory is programmers need to live in their parents basement and write code for free. It's only moral to charge the people that can't figure out how to download, build, install, configure, troubleshoot , etc. You also aren't allowed to charge enough to make a living or help people that aren't truely worthly, like WebTV users.