People who put ++++ in front of the NO CARRIER joke have obviously never used a modem, other than to plug it in and let windows plug & pray auto find it for them.
When you get a *real* NO CARRIER signal, while connected to a BBS for example, you wouldn't see the +++. You would *maybe* get a few garbage characters before the NO CARRIER, but usually the modem simply stops recieving text, then drops.
The +++ is when you are in the terminal program and want to stop the modem sending text to the remote system and send a command to the modem itself. So, if you *do* see a +++ preceding the NO CARRIER, it means YOU have told the modem to hang up, not the remote system.
And, you didn't even get it right.. it would be +++ATH0. The modem would then reply NO CARRIER.
Not trying to single you out, but it's a pet peeve!
I just finished reading a book about making independent movies. The last few chapters are on marketing your movie, how to get it distributed, etc.
The sobering fact is, that even if a low budget independent movie does well, the writer/director/crew will often see no money. The guys that are making all the money are the distributor and the composer.
So, in essence, you write a script for a year, shoot and produce your movie for another year and get to *pay* for the privilege. The distributor and composer do a couple of weeks work each and absolutely *rake* it in (comparitively). The author of the book made the comment that the RIAA has it's shit together when protecting artists rights, the movie industry dosen't.
What is a 'true' independent film? One thats shot on S16mm for under 10k? Id much prefer a good story, well told to a film that passes inexperience in shooting, lighting and acting off as 'art'.
This sort of thing isn't new. My boss used to work in a high level position in Ford USA. He told me the tale of Ford In the early 1900's, when they used to 'own' an entire town. (can't remember where - Im not USAian)
You did you banking at the Ford bank. You went to the Ford corner shop. You bought your gas from the Ford gas station. You kids went to the Ford school.
Err, what clueful roots? They've never had a clue and I doubt they'll inherit one within the next decade.
I guess you are too young to remember PMG.
Incidently, I don't know why people get up-in-arms at Telstra. Ill let you in on a little secret: All telephone companies suck. I've lived the last 3 years in the UK and believe me, BT sucks just as hard as Telstra.
I used to work for Telstra about 2 years ago, doing performance testing. I was there for 3 years. It dosen't surprise me that they are dumping IGSA - there was talk about it when I was there. The guys did mainly Facilities management are really did suck.
As the article says, there are alot of Solaris and HP-UX systems already in place and the platform of choice when I was there was Unix. Of course, there will still be custom windows solutions for alot of their in-house products which will still need Windows, however since most of their stuff is done in-house, it wouldn't be a huge step in rewriting an app for a different platform.
The FBI will be arresting someone.. Hm. I wonder if thats Kevin Mitnick/Guantanamo Bay-style "will be arresting" or they really will arrest him so he can have a proper trial.
Of course, "back in the day", we never used to write 31337 either. It was always 'leet or elite.
But then again, this was '91 man! All the good shit had been done back in the 80's and there was nothing left to crack! BB don't work nomore! (an aside: I really & truely boxed ONCE. And I got the wrong fucking number. Never could repeat it)
I had "a friend" who wrote shareware programs and accidently deleted the source for the key generation program, so he couldn't generate keys for people who had registered.
Damn, I was glad someone else had made a key generator *that* day..
Code reviews are a whitebox testing technique. Im not a coder, Im a tester. I can't do a code review, because Im not familiar with the code.
Its up to the developer to follow the required standards and up to the architect to make sure bad design decisions are not made.
The grandparent was implying that it was the fault of a tester that the bug went undetected. My point is that in the absence of a spec, mistakes such as this can only be discovered and repaired by the developers.
(Im also not trying to shift blame, Im just saying it's almost impossible for a tester who is doing his job properly to find this)
Which part of the testing phase do you thing this would get picked up in?
Im really not being a smartarse, Id really like to know.
Since a tester can only test off a spec and there was no spec (because if there was, somebody would have read it and this wouldn't have happened), then I can't see how using black-box testing techniques you can find this sort of problem.
Sure, you can do performance testing, but you wouldn't test multiuple instances of the hardware, you would test the throughput of a single instance of the hardware.
So I ask again.. where do you think this would have been picked up?
Yeah, except at the moment they need 8 servers to support 80 users. Thats 10 users per server.
Sure, its only just being developed, but you would need 10x that sort of performance to make it viable..
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dude, are you seriously calling the burnt piece of dogshit they put in hot water, gorumet coffee? You need to get out more...
People who put ++++ in front of the NO CARRIER joke have obviously never used a modem, other than to plug it in and let windows plug & pray auto find it for them.
When you get a *real* NO CARRIER signal, while connected to a BBS for example, you wouldn't see the +++. You would *maybe* get a few garbage characters before the NO CARRIER, but usually the modem simply stops recieving text, then drops.
The +++ is when you are in the terminal program and want to stop the modem sending text to the remote system and send a command to the modem itself. So, if you *do* see a +++ preceding the NO CARRIER, it means YOU have told the modem to hang up, not the remote system.
And, you didn't even get it right.. it would be +++ATH0. The modem would then reply NO CARRIER.
Not trying to single you out, but it's a pet peeve!
The sobering fact is, that even if a low budget independent movie does well, the writer/director/crew will often see no money. The guys that are making all the money are the distributor and the composer.
So, in essence, you write a script for a year, shoot and produce your movie for another year and get to *pay* for the privilege. The distributor and composer do a couple of weeks work each and absolutely *rake* it in (comparitively). The author of the book made the comment that the RIAA has it's shit together when protecting artists rights, the movie industry dosen't.
Those H1-B's are taking our jobs again! Damn you Microsoft!
Why does this sound like a quote from a drug dealer?
What is a 'true' independent film? One thats shot on S16mm for under 10k? Id much prefer a good story, well told to a film that passes inexperience in shooting, lighting and acting off as 'art'.
Yes, but it's the first independent, low budget and full length film (The other one had a budget of 1.9Mil & was only 32min)
You did you banking at the Ford bank. You went to the Ford corner shop. You bought your gas from the Ford gas station. You kids went to the Ford school.
Thats what you get for hitting submit before Preview...
Err, what clueful roots? They've never had a clue and I doubt they'll inherit one within the next decade. I guess you are too young to remember PMG. Incidently, I don't know why people get up-in-arms at Telstra. Ill let you in on a little secret: All telephone companies suck. I've lived the last 3 years in the UK and believe me, BT sucks just as hard as Telstra.
As the article says, there are alot of Solaris and HP-UX systems already in place and the platform of choice when I was there was Unix. Of course, there will still be custom windows solutions for alot of their in-house products which will still need Windows, however since most of their stuff is done in-house, it wouldn't be a huge step in rewriting an app for a different platform.
I thought all those RFID tags already HAD a unique number. So you don't need barcodes *at all*..
The FBI will be arresting someone.. Hm. I wonder if thats Kevin Mitnick/Guantanamo Bay-style "will be arresting" or they really will arrest him so he can have a proper trial.
But then again, this was '91 man! All the good shit had been done back in the 80's and there was nothing left to crack! BB don't work nomore! (an aside: I really & truely boxed ONCE. And I got the wrong fucking number. Never could repeat it)
ne1 got any virgin cc's?
But which to choose?
Damn, I was glad someone else had made a key generator *that* day..
Maybe someone should write an email virus that listens on the Kazza ports and reports back gigs and gigs of shared mp3's to anyone who asks.
Then, when people get busted, they can say "It was a virus".
Of course, this would make the search feature of Kazza useless...
Its up to the developer to follow the required standards and up to the architect to make sure bad design decisions are not made.
The grandparent was implying that it was the fault of a tester that the bug went undetected. My point is that in the absence of a spec, mistakes such as this can only be discovered and repaired by the developers.
(Im also not trying to shift blame, Im just saying it's almost impossible for a tester who is doing his job properly to find this)
Im really not being a smartarse, Id really like to know.
Since a tester can only test off a spec and there was no spec (because if there was, somebody would have read it and this wouldn't have happened), then I can't see how using black-box testing techniques you can find this sort of problem.
Sure, you can do performance testing, but you wouldn't test multiuple instances of the hardware, you would test the throughput of a single instance of the hardware.
So I ask again.. where do you think this would have been picked up?
I knew there was a reason I failed maths...
Yeah, except at the moment they need 8 servers to support 80 users. Thats 10 users per server. Sure, its only just being developed, but you would need 10x that sort of performance to make it viable..
When doing so, IBM's GameGrid software typically operated with latencies of 50 microseconds or less, according to Hammer.
I hope thats a typo..
80 Users stress the system? 80 isn't really alot of users, especially since they are talking about implementing the technology for MMORPGs.
1. Get the RIAA/MPAA to go after SCO
2. ???
3. Profit!
Queue the 100 slashdot jokes regarding running the guys webserver off the setup, or something related.