I think you could be on to something.. What Microsoft *could* do is offer little $5 - $10 checks in the mail to developers who contribute the best solutions to small problems. Perhaps something alongs the lines of the contests at topcoder.com.
This is the only thing I could come up with. I honestly can't imagine myself working for Microsoft without getting something back. In the open source community, I consider the reward for my contributions to be getting other open-source solutions that I did not make in return.
the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years, and the number of programmers, analysts, and support specialists has fallen 15% since the first six months of 2004.
Wow! That explains a lot!!
I wonder what Microsoft is going to now that they know that many of their programmers were really Art History Majors.
I've had my ST36451A 6.4 gig hard drive for over 5 years. I had bought it back in the day when I was running a 133 Mhz Pentium on Windows 95. I had upgraded my computer many times, switching from that to a 300 Mhz AMD K6-2 (Quake 2 on Windows 98!) Baby-AT mobo then to a 600 Mhz Athlon (Quake 2&3 on Linux!!) in a new ATX case. I'm still getting much use out of the same hard drive. I carried the thing to a friends house once to prove the Compaq tech support wrong when they had misdiagnosed a boot-sector virus as a "bad motherboard/disk controller". It held up during the trip there and back in my backpack.
Within the past 2-3 years, it has started to run excessively hot to the point where I believed it was causing Windows 98 to crash. I was able fix this with a bay cooler. Nowadays, I run it in my linux box. I've never had a Seagate drive fail on me.. Ever...
I bought my first computer dirt cheap at a "computer show" and it had a 2 gig IBM drive which failed within 2 weeks of bringing the system home. Not sure if I should blame IBM, myself, or the dude who sold me the system.
"will run a single Linux operating system image across 1,024 Intel Corp. Itanium 2 processors..."
"The National Center for Supercomputing Applications will use it for research"
1. Make a system that generates more heat than a supernova.
2.Research a solution to global warming.
3. Profit!
Sounds like you don't have your ports set up right. Check to see if you are making any connections on ports 6881-6999. If you have them firewalled off, it can greatly slow down your transfer rate. BT always maxes out my connection.
Another thing you can do is get your hands on the BitTornado client. If there is a green light, then everything is set up right. I'm pretty sure that there is a version in Debian Sarge right now. It gives a lot more control and information than the regular BitTorrent package.
Ever tried to set up a 56k modem in linux? Don't go there.
Yes, I have an external "U.S. Robotics Sportster Faxmodem X2"
Took about 3 minutes and I didn't even have to read a How-to. I plugged it in to the serial port, the wall outlet, and then after that I ran the configuration in KPPP with default settings.
It just worked, nothing to it.
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I don't see why keyboards can't just come with different caps that you press onto the keyboard.
I don't think you realize how insanely expensive plastic is these days.
Being paid.
I think you could be on to something.. What Microsoft *could* do is offer little $5 - $10 checks in the mail to developers who contribute the best solutions to small problems. Perhaps something alongs the lines of the contests at topcoder.com. This is the only thing I could come up with. I honestly can't imagine myself working for Microsoft without getting something back. In the open source community, I consider the reward for my contributions to be getting other open-source solutions that I did not make in return.
the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years, and the number of programmers, analysts, and support specialists has fallen 15% since the first six months of 2004.
Wow! That explains a lot!! I wonder what Microsoft is going to now that they know that many of their programmers were really Art History Majors.
I've had my ST36451A 6.4 gig hard drive for over 5 years. I had bought it back in the day when I was running a 133 Mhz Pentium on Windows 95. I had upgraded my computer many times, switching from that to a 300 Mhz AMD K6-2 (Quake 2 on Windows 98!) Baby-AT mobo then to a 600 Mhz Athlon (Quake 2&3 on Linux!!) in a new ATX case. I'm still getting much use out of the same hard drive. I carried the thing to a friends house once to prove the Compaq tech support wrong when they had misdiagnosed a boot-sector virus as a "bad motherboard/disk controller". It held up during the trip there and back in my backpack. Within the past 2-3 years, it has started to run excessively hot to the point where I believed it was causing Windows 98 to crash. I was able fix this with a bay cooler. Nowadays, I run it in my linux box.
I've never had a Seagate drive fail on me.. Ever...
I bought my first computer dirt cheap at a "computer show" and it had a 2 gig IBM drive which failed within 2 weeks of bringing the system home. Not sure if I should blame IBM, myself, or the dude who sold me the system.
"will run a single Linux operating system image across 1,024 Intel Corp. Itanium 2 processors..."
"The National Center for Supercomputing Applications will use it for research"
1. Make a system that generates more heat than a supernova.
2.Research a solution to global warming.
3. Profit!
Sounds like you don't have your ports set up right. Check to see if you are making any connections on ports 6881-6999. If you have them firewalled off, it can greatly slow down your transfer rate. BT always maxes out my connection.
Another thing you can do is get your hands on the BitTornado client. If there is a green light, then everything is set up right.
I'm pretty sure that there is a version in Debian Sarge right now. It gives a lot more control and information than the regular BitTorrent package.
Ever tried to set up a 56k modem in linux? Don't go there. Yes, I have an external "U.S. Robotics Sportster Faxmodem X2" Took about 3 minutes and I didn't even have to read a How-to. I plugged it in to the serial port, the wall outlet, and then after that I ran the configuration in KPPP with default settings. It just worked, nothing to it.
You can say that again...
I installed Minix 2.0.0 on my Mitsubishi 286L a few months ago... Runs pretty good, but it lacks the ram needed to run more than a couple terminals.