Remember, if you can telecommute, that means you're job can go to India. So it will. The only people whom can telecommute will be the poorest lowest paid people in the entire world. So unless you live in Somalia or India or Bangladesh you are not going to be telecommuting any time soon.
Most of my "TV episode" DiVX collection is in the general area of about 350 megabytes for a 45 minute show. Now about a minute with Octave will show that 350 / (45*60) * 8 is about a megabit per second.
That sounds reasonable considering the bandwidth of real digital TV mpeg streams.
So we will assume you need about a megabit a second.
I guess that would rule out ArcNET or a 9600 baud SLIP but everything newer than say, 10 meg HDX thinnet, will work. You're asking if a net tech a hundred times faster than necessary will work or should you go for one a thousand times faster than necessary.
You need to optimize something else... heat production, or latency, or pretty much everything else before you concern yourself with those questions.
Why bother? More women in CS just means more jobs to eventually outsource to India. The few Americans whom are left in the US tech industry need less competition from new grads not more.
In general, workers should never encourage people of any type to enter their field. Managers always encourage people to join their employees field because more people in CS means lower salaries for those currently in the field.
Lets compare... young guy gets BS and MS CS degree in 7 years, makes $75K for 5 years, skills are obsolete, his job is sent to India, and he will never work in "tech" again. Or, young girl gets nursing degree, makes $50K plus paid overtime for the rest of her life. Who is the "smart" one? Obviously the young girl.
Re:Make sure Katie's book sinks like a stone
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You contribute by going to amazon.com, and any other online bookseller you can, and then blast the book by describing the facts of the situation.
I'm happy to see that there are now dozens of reviews at amazon explaining this situation. Come on you slashdotters get off your lazy butts and get the number of negative reviews up to at least a thousand.
# cat/proc/version Linux version 2.6.7-1-686 (dilinger@toaster.hq.voxel.net) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-2)) #1 Thu Jul 8 05:36:53 EDT 2004 # pvscan
PV/dev/hda4 VG vg1 lvm1 [4.78 GB / 1.03 GB free]
Total: 1 [4.78 GB] / in use: 1 [4.78 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] # lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/tmp' [512.00 MB] normal
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/home' [1.00 GB] normal
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/var' [256.00 MB] normal
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/usr' [1.00 GB] normal
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/root' [1.00 GB] normal
Wait until they barcode money so they can track whom spends what bill where. Each bill currently has a non-machine readable serial number, but add a barcode at the ATM and at the bank and they'll be set.
PSTN is not having a problem due to lack of numbers. npa-nxx-xxxx after all provides 10 billion numbers and there are only about a thirtieth of that here.
The problem is the little "competitive" dot-bombs that recently formed and want number space for sparsely populated LATAs
Example... Ma Bell wastefully allocated (123)-45x-xxxx to the city of Bozo. Now Bozo only has 100 residents so thats quite wasteful but tolerable, as Ma Bell planned for such wast 50 years ago. However, what happens when 5 new dot-bomb companies move in and want to sell local telephone service? That's right they all get x-xxxx sized number blocks. So now 50000 phone numbers are tied up by the metropolis of Bozo which only has 100 residents anyway.
That is why there were a zillion NPA splits in the late ninties and why the rate of growth has slowed: 1) The dot bombs are going away 2) The software is improving so instead of assigning 10000 number blocks you can assign perhaps 100 number blocks.
Upgrading your skills only makes you more overqualified than you currently are, thus making you even more unemployable.
Never put in more swap than you're willing to use
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Never put in more swap than you're willing to use.
It's "easy" with exploding disk sizes to give yourself several gigs of swap.
However, transfer rates have NOT increased in proportion to disk size.
Several years ago I could flood my 16 megs of swap in a few seconds to minutes. It would take "hours" to flood a couple gigs.
For a good time make a graph of how long it takes to "read an entire hard drive" from the 80s to today. It's gone from reading the whole device in less than a minute to taking several hours in some cases.
When you have a bug that allocates all your memory you will have to wait for the swap to flood full before the oom-killer will zap that process. A huge swap space makes a huge delay, may as well just reboot instead of waiting.
Unless you have infinite patience I would not use suggest using more than a quarter gig or so of swap.
Home depot will rent a nice truck for $19 for two hours here in the USA. I've rented that truck about 5 times in 4 years.
Now at the price difference between a giant SUV and my little car, I only have to rent the home depot truck 500 times before it would be "cheaper" to buy the truck (not counting insurance and gas and tires for the giant truck)
Except that email sent to you will bounce with a message similar to: "no MX record exists" whereas if your DNS was up while your mailserver was unreachable, the sending mailserver would spool the message and retry at various intervals until it went thru, with no error messages generated.
This is another one of those "ask slashdot" questions that summarize to, read the oreilly book...
You can't test for non-traditional statistical problems without testing. What if the capacitors dry out or there's a chemical reaction after 2 years? You can't detect that by building 1000K panels and running each of them for 1/10 of a year until ONE panel dies and then make up that useless statistic. A team of nine women cannot make a baby in one month.
Realize that 100K hours is: 100K/24 = about 4K days
4K days is: 4K / 365 = about 11 years
I don't think they turned on their test panel in 1993.
Slashdot Mirror
Check out this link from the defcon presentation
The stories about "cooperating" with the FBI and also the multi-day outages pretty much sum the whole thing up.
Isn't the main problem with the plasmak(tm) concept that it's (tm)?
The trademarking really makes it look like questionable science.
Remember, if you can telecommute, that means you're job can go to India. So it will. The only people whom can telecommute will be the poorest lowest paid people in the entire world. So unless you live in Somalia or India or Bangladesh you are not going to be telecommuting any time soon.
When will someone add those moons to orbiter?
Orbiter's home page
The debian guys already wrote one called apt-get.
As in "apt-get update" "apt-get upgrade".
It works fine for me.
Well lets think about this here.
Most of my "TV episode" DiVX collection is in the general area of about 350 megabytes for a 45 minute show. Now about a minute with Octave will show that 350 / (45*60) * 8 is about a megabit per second.
That sounds reasonable considering the bandwidth of real digital TV mpeg streams.
So we will assume you need about a megabit a second.
I guess that would rule out ArcNET or a 9600 baud SLIP but everything newer than say, 10 meg HDX thinnet, will work. You're asking if a net tech a hundred times faster than necessary will work or should you go for one a thousand times faster than necessary.
You need to optimize something else... heat production, or latency, or pretty much everything else before you concern yourself with those questions.
Why bother? More women in CS just means more jobs to eventually outsource to India. The few Americans whom are left in the US tech industry need less competition from new grads not more.
In general, workers should never encourage people of any type to enter their field. Managers always encourage people to join their employees field because more people in CS means lower salaries for those currently in the field.
Lets compare... young guy gets BS and MS CS degree in 7 years, makes $75K for 5 years, skills are obsolete, his job is sent to India, and he will never work in "tech" again. Or, young girl gets nursing degree, makes $50K plus paid overtime for the rest of her life. Who is the "smart" one? Obviously the young girl.
You contribute by going to amazon.com, and any other online bookseller you can, and then blast the book by describing the facts of the situation.
I'm happy to see that there are now dozens of reviews at amazon explaining this situation. Come on you slashdotters get off your lazy butts and get the number of negative reviews up to at least a thousand.
This only helps a little, but if everyone does this it'll have "some" effect.
Go to Amazon.com, look up the book, find the negative reviews, and click "Was this review helpful to you: Yes"
Theres no LVM in 2.6 ?
/proc/version /dev/hda4 VG vg1 lvm1 [4.78 GB / 1.03 GB free]
# cat
Linux version 2.6.7-1-686 (dilinger@toaster.hq.voxel.net) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-2)) #1 Thu Jul 8 05:36:53 EDT 2004
# pvscan
PV
Total: 1 [4.78 GB] / in use: 1 [4.78 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
# lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/tmp' [512.00 MB] normal
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/home' [1.00 GB] normal
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/var' [256.00 MB] normal
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/usr' [1.00 GB] normal
ACTIVE '/dev/vg1/root' [1.00 GB] normal
Not even close.
Ultralight limited to 55 mph vs this class at 120
Ultralight limited to 254 lbs dry weight vs this class at over 1200 lbs
Ultralights are pretty much toy looking, whereas these are "real" small aircraft.
The difference in size and performance is roughly the same ratio as Yugo vs Ford Exploder.
The digest form of the north american network operators group is an efficient way to keep up with the world of the net
Wait until they barcode money so they can track whom spends what bill where. Each bill currently has a non-machine readable serial number, but add a barcode at the ATM and at the bank and they'll be set.
The question is would that info be of any use.
PSTN is not having a problem due to lack of numbers. npa-nxx-xxxx after all provides 10 billion numbers and there are only about a thirtieth of that here.
The problem is the little "competitive" dot-bombs that recently formed and want number space for sparsely populated LATAs
Example... Ma Bell wastefully allocated (123)-45x-xxxx to the city of Bozo. Now Bozo only has 100 residents so thats quite wasteful but tolerable, as Ma Bell planned for such wast 50 years ago. However, what happens when 5 new dot-bomb companies move in and want to sell local telephone service? That's right they all get x-xxxx sized number blocks. So now 50000 phone numbers are tied up by the metropolis of Bozo which only has 100 residents anyway.
That is why there were a zillion NPA splits in the late ninties and why the rate of growth has slowed:
1) The dot bombs are going away
2) The software is improving so instead of assigning 10000 number blocks you can assign perhaps 100 number blocks.
And, you forgot the weight of they oxygen you'd need to carry in order to burn the carbon.
MAHA MH-C777 PLUS-II comes with a 12V car charger and was maybe $75 when I got it a few years ago. Works great for my purposes.
Upgrading your skills only makes you more overqualified than you currently are, thus making you even more unemployable.
Never put in more swap than you're willing to use.
It's "easy" with exploding disk sizes to give yourself several gigs of swap.
However, transfer rates have NOT increased in proportion to disk size.
Several years ago I could flood my 16 megs of swap in a few seconds to minutes. It would take "hours" to flood a couple gigs.
For a good time make a graph of how long it takes to "read an entire hard drive" from the 80s to today. It's gone from reading the whole device in less than a minute to taking several hours in some cases.
When you have a bug that allocates all your memory you will have to wait for the swap to flood full before the oom-killer will zap that process. A huge swap space makes a huge delay, may as well just reboot instead of waiting.
Unless you have infinite patience I would not use suggest using more than a quarter gig or so of swap.
Home depot will rent a nice truck for $19 for two hours here in the USA. I've rented that truck about 5 times in 4 years.
Now at the price difference between a giant SUV and my little car, I only have to rent the home depot truck 500 times before it would be "cheaper" to buy the truck (not counting insurance and gas and tires for the giant truck)
Don't forget GNU screen
Except that email sent to you will bounce with a message similar to:
"no MX record exists"
whereas if your DNS was up while your mailserver was unreachable, the sending mailserver would spool the message and retry at various intervals until it went thru, with no error messages generated.
This is another one of those "ask slashdot" questions that summarize to, read the oreilly book...
Sure you can telecommute... From Bangalore..
Yeah and you need to get an AS number and IP space from ARIN (or RIPE or APNIC).
Isn't going to happen due to the cost, and the ISP will not be amused that you flap your BGP session up and down every day, if not more often.
If you have debian installed, use "apt-cache search keyword" instead.
"apt-cache stats" and "apt-cache show packagename" are also entertaining... try "man apt-cache" first.
100,000 hours is made up B.S.
You can't test for non-traditional statistical problems without testing. What if the capacitors dry out or there's a chemical reaction after 2 years? You can't detect that by building 1000K panels and running each of them for 1/10 of a year until ONE panel dies and then make up that useless statistic. A team of nine women cannot make a baby in one month.
Realize that 100K hours is:
100K/24 = about 4K days
4K days is:
4K / 365 = about 11 years
I don't think they turned on their test panel in 1993.
So that is a totally made up number.