And who decided D.C. was a likely meeting place for programmers?
All of the Python core team (including Guido until recently) live in DC. Granted, it's better if the conference was held in Vegas, on a cruise ship or in Monaco parhaps, but you're forgetting that the organizers of it are volunteers and do not get paid. The days when you could get a sponsor to shell out a few hundred grand to fly everyone to Vegas are gone.
DC is home to places like NASA, NIST, NIH... Quite a few well known open source folk live out this way.
I don't get out much these days, but before the.com craze, there were quite a few interesting places for programmers to meet. The DCLUG (past meetings) was one of them. I don't know what the status of the DCLUG is these days, but I remember Linus's talk in 95, this is way before most people even heard of Linux.
This is an ambigous question, and the articles cited aren't very clear either. It seems that both articles transferred data over very long distances, but still, I couldn't figure out from reading them what the main constraints were.
An OC-192 SONET circuit is (IIRC) 9.6 Gbps and are used in lots of places.
My guess is that they were referring to serial transmittion (i.e. one bit at a time - a "truck with tapes" wouldn't qualify) specifically across the atlantic, using existing circuits. Otherwise, those numbers don't sound like much of a record.
It's entirely possible that these records are beat on routine bases by telco's/ISP's, perhaps they just don't necessarily care to disclose it.
I have a house, family, investments, extra income, you name it, and I will probably just use the TurboTax online.
The tax pros are good the first time you file and itemize, but after the first time you'll feel like you're paying them while you do their work.
FWIW, I had pretty good luck with partimage. The NTFS support worked fine for me back in 2001, which was about when I used partimage last... Don't know whether it has improved since.
, cheap eMachines killed HP, cheap Dells killed eMachines and cheap what is going to kill Dell?
All this is true on the assumption that cheap is good. Cheap is good so long as computers are expensive (i.e. over $300 in my opinion). When the price gets to about this level, cheap will stop equating to good, and people will start looking for what is really better. In this scenario high quality makers like Apple and Sony will be the winners.
As a comparison - look at the audio/video equipment. People no longer look for the cheapest camera/dvd player/tv, they look for the highest quality (for as long as it is not obscenely expensive, and even then it's not a problem). I made the mistake of buying a cheap cd-player last month for the kids - it lasted about a week. I think computers are going this route as well.
You can have it with dinner, at a party, or even for breakfast.
Breakfast... It's 2:30pm and I haven't had breakfast yet, writing code while the kids demolish the house.... Champagne sounds like a great idea right now!
Here is the obligatory reference to my spammeter. It is definitely growing, although, interestingly enough there appears to be a drop from a peak in mid-december. Don't know if this can be attributed to recent anti-spam efforts by the governments, more likely it's just the spammers taking christmas vacations....
An interesting tidbit about very large lenses and mirrors is that in some instances it can take months and even years for the molten glass to cool inside the mold, and that supposedly it's such an intricate process that only few places in the world can manufacture them.
I've got an LG VX4400, it's a great phone, I can connect to the internet with it @ about 64K using Verizon's ExpressNetwork, but as far as I've been able to figure out, there isn't anything I can do with the GPS.
The LG phones are supposed to programmable via qualcomm BREW, but I don't know first thing about it - perhaps there is some API to read GPS, and may be another to initiate an IP connection and send it somewhere?
5.x has much better jail(8) support than the 4.x. IMHO jail is a killer app of FreeBSD.
What I really wish for is private Sys V IPC and multiple IP's for jails to be available as standard features. Currently, there are some patches out there, but they seem outdated.
Perhaps my question is off-mark, in which case mod it down, I'm a bit new to the downloadable mu$ic scene.
What I find interesting is that some songs are available in one service, but not others. So if you think of downloadable mu$ic as equivalent of a physical music store, it's not quite, becase a CD is a CD, and no matter where you buy it, you can play/rip it anywhere, on anything (capable of playing CD's, that is).
So there's still an insentive to buy CD's. But not as much, not enough to keep CD stores in business, I would not be surprised if they start closing soon. After that happens - what do you do to get a song that's only available from one service, but not the other?
Will there ever be a way to buy once play anywhere?
In the meantime python.org has dissapeared!
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I was going to look at how old Python is, but it seems that xs4all.nl dropped its DNS... Is just me, or is python.org presently gone (12:25am EST)?
The flag is mostly for decoration - you never raise it, because it's like shouting "steal my mail!".
Inside there is a little clip into which you place outgoing mail. When the mailman comes by to deliver incoming mail, he will open the little door to deposit it, and the outgoing mail will stick out.
But the instructions say that if you're really serious, you will put your mail into a post office drop off box.
If your mailbox is on the curbside like mine, seriously consider getting a secure lockable one where the mailman can only drop mail off, but a key is required to retreive it. I just received mine from oregontrailbox. I did some research, there are a few places that sell those under different names, but the ones I liked are actually the same box that seems to be manufactured by pinnacle (or pinnacle is yet another reseller of the same box made by a unknown third party....)
In any event, I will be installing my Heavy Duty Standard tomorrow...
Stop being a victim. Forget your resume. Think of something you can provide to others, put up a web site, start participating in local user groups on the subject, writing articles, posting to discussion forums, etc, to promote your business.
Become your own CEO, and run your business like you think it should be run.
If every laid off techie would think this way rather than hopelessly mailing their resume for the past 12 months, we'd be in a much better economy by now IMHO.
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Speaking as a member of the Apache HTTP Server project, I am curious - why aren't you moving to Apache 2.0?
All of the Python core team (including Guido until recently) live in DC. Granted, it's better if the conference was held in Vegas, on a cruise ship or in Monaco parhaps, but you're forgetting that the organizers of it are volunteers and do not get paid. The days when you could get a sponsor to shell out a few hundred grand to fly everyone to Vegas are gone.
DC is home to places like NASA, NIST, NIH... Quite a few well known open source folk live out this way.
I don't get out much these days, but before the .com craze, there were quite a few interesting places for programmers to meet. The DCLUG (past meetings) was one of them. I don't know what the status of the DCLUG is these days, but I remember Linus's talk in 95, this is way before most people even heard of Linux.
An OC-192 SONET circuit is (IIRC) 9.6 Gbps and are used in lots of places.
My guess is that they were referring to serial transmittion (i.e. one bit at a time - a "truck with tapes" wouldn't qualify) specifically across the atlantic, using existing circuits. Otherwise, those numbers don't sound like much of a record.
It's entirely possible that these records are beat on routine bases by telco's/ISP's, perhaps they just don't necessarily care to disclose it.
My $0.02
FWIW, I had pretty good luck with partimage. The NTFS support worked fine for me back in 2001, which was about when I used partimage last... Don't know whether it has improved since.
All this is true on the assumption that cheap is good. Cheap is good so long as computers are expensive (i.e. over $300 in my opinion). When the price gets to about this level, cheap will stop equating to good, and people will start looking for what is really better. In this scenario high quality makers like Apple and Sony will be the winners.
As a comparison - look at the audio/video equipment. People no longer look for the cheapest camera/dvd player/tv, they look for the highest quality (for as long as it is not obscenely expensive, and even then it's not a problem). I made the mistake of buying a cheap cd-player last month for the kids - it lasted about a week. I think computers are going this route as well.
Breakfast... It's 2:30pm and I haven't had breakfast yet, writing code while the kids demolish the house.... Champagne sounds like a great idea right now!
Here is the obligatory reference to my spammeter. It is definitely growing, although, interestingly enough there appears to be a drop from a peak in mid-december. Don't know if this can be attributed to recent anti-spam efforts by the governments, more likely it's just the spammers taking christmas vacations....
Here is a link that mentions it.
An interesting tidbit about very large lenses and mirrors is that in some instances it can take months and even years for the molten glass to cool inside the mold, and that supposedly it's such an intricate process that only few places in the world can manufacture them.
This link seems to have some relevant info.
The LG phones are supposed to programmable via qualcomm BREW, but I don't know first thing about it - perhaps there is some API to read GPS, and may be another to initiate an IP connection and send it somewhere?
I justed added some notes on how it's done at the bottom of the page.
Enjoy!
May be his high-paying job as a senior software analyst got offshored?
What I really wish for is private Sys V IPC and multiple IP's for jails to be available as standard features. Currently, there are some patches out there, but they seem outdated.
What I find interesting is that some songs are available in one service, but not others. So if you think of downloadable mu$ic as equivalent of a physical music store, it's not quite, becase a CD is a CD, and no matter where you buy it, you can play/rip it anywhere, on anything (capable of playing CD's, that is).
So there's still an insentive to buy CD's. But not as much, not enough to keep CD stores in business, I would not be surprised if they start closing soon. After that happens - what do you do to get a song that's only available from one service, but not the other?
Will there ever be a way to buy once play anywhere?
I was going to look at how old Python is, but it seems that xs4all.nl dropped its DNS... Is just me, or is python.org presently gone (12:25am EST)?
The flag is mostly for decoration - you never raise it, because it's like shouting "steal my mail!".
Inside there is a little clip into which you place outgoing mail. When the mailman comes by to deliver incoming mail, he will open the little door to deposit it, and the outgoing mail will stick out.
But the instructions say that if you're really serious, you will put your mail into a post office drop off box.
If your mailbox is on the curbside like mine, seriously consider getting a secure lockable one where the mailman can only drop mail off, but a key is required to retreive it. I just received mine from oregontrailbox. I did some research, there are a few places that sell those under different names, but the ones I liked are actually the same box that seems to be manufactured by pinnacle (or pinnacle is yet another reseller of the same box made by a unknown third party....)
In any event, I will be installing my Heavy Duty Standard tomorrow...
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What I would really like to see is multiple IP's and private System V IPC in jails. It doesn't look like it made it into 5.2, unfortunately....
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Become your own CEO, and run your business like you think it should be run.
If every laid off techie would think this way rather than hopelessly mailing their resume for the past 12 months, we'd be in a much better economy by now IMHO.
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