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  1. Re:maybe to ruby, not python on Departure Of The Java Hyper-Enthusiasts? · · Score: 1

    Swing was made in the days when JNI calls were bloody expensive. Back in Java 1.2 or 1.3, when they first came out with Swing, doing one big JNI call was faster than bunch of tiny JNI calls.

    I don't know how things are now, with JNI call speed, though. They might have gotten better or worse.

  2. Re:There are so many options on A Programmer's Bookshelf · · Score: 1

    It's usually not the syntax, it's the surrounding libraries, that make C++ so huge.

    A book about C++, for OO programmers, won't be that huge. Sure, you'll have to go into bits like templates and virtual functions, as well as inheritance rules, etc., but as long as you're not writing about OO using C++, I seriously doubt it'll be 5x the size of K&R.

  3. Re:I am not a nephrologist on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. Its pH is normally from 6.5 to 7.5ish. When you have UTI, you're told to drink more cranberry juice, to bring it down closer to the 6.5 range.

  4. Re:How strange. on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 1

    I agree. Give me Ted Baker, Zegna or Thomas Pink anyday.

  5. What does this mean? on Supreme Court Rejects Microsoft Eolas Appeal · · Score: 1

    Does this mean Microsoft will pay $bignum amount to Eolas?

  6. Re:Double standard? on Sex.com Hijacker Captured in Mexico · · Score: 1

    Wow, there's a US Consulate in Tijuana? Considering San Diego is a very short jaunt away, I'd thought there wouldn't be one there. Interesting :)

  7. Re:There are. on Silent Water Cooling on the SLI · · Score: 1

    IIRC, DI Water is a very strong solvent and is rather corrosive though, and I don't trust the crap inside these consumer-grade cooling kits to not leech out enough ions to make it conductive.

  8. Re:Define enterprise on SSH Claims Draw Open Source Ire · · Score: 1

    Two examples from my own experience. We attempted integration with RSA and OpenSSH had significant problems that we had to resolve and in the end we could not resolve the final problem which was a session would hang after exiting the shell if the session was authenticated using the RSA PAM module.

    One example from my own experience: I ran ssh-keygen from OpenSSH, copied the RSA public keys around, and it just worked. I do believe you've had different luck, but I suspect my case is more typical.

    I don't think the GP was talking about RSA public/private keys, but instead about RSA SecurID. Having said that, I haven't implemented this for ssh authentication, so I don't know how it goes. If the GP was indeed talking about public/private key authentication, then yeah, they deserve to pay for everything.

  9. Re:Depends on SSH Claims Draw Open Source Ire · · Score: 1

    Just adding to your post, but not only do you have to weigh paying the personnel to write the pieces to do all that, but you'll also have to estimate how much it will cost in maintaining it.

  10. Re:Maybe it's just me, but... on New IBM Ultra Fast Printer · · Score: 1

    You're willing to pay $500k so you can save 25 minutes? Hello Mr. Gates! :)

  11. Re:Another question on Comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL 2 · · Score: 1

    The email feature is meant to be used when a critical business or system event needs to be communicated immediately to Those In Charge. For that reason, I can see it being a Good Thing. However, you can do the same in most commercial RDBMSs by invoking an external script. I think a lot of Microsoft Features are there because for a long time, they lacked coherent scripting and such, and these features/bloat are a legacy of this symptom.

  12. Re:Another question on Comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL 2 · · Score: 1

    Here, have a clarification :)

    Instead, use a trigger to place an item in a queue that an external program can use to send it. This way if your transaction rolls back after the email is sent.... ;-)

    Unless I'm misunderstading you, that cannot happen. Assuming your emailer is a little app that sits on top of the mail queue table and periodically issues "select * from...", then it never sees the queued message, because it doesn't de-cloak until the transaction commits. I think that was your point.

    You are misunderstanding the grandparent. Some RDBMS (like MS SQL Server) let you send email directly from the database. Unfortunately, that "feature" isn't within the transactional control; when you tell the DB to send email, the email gets sent immediately, but later when your app rolls back that transaction, your email's still sent. By putting the email logic in an external program that does a e.g. select * from emailqueue..., the grandparent is saying you can control that.

  13. Re:He is a manager - what do you expect? on Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal? · · Score: 1
    It's like having a captain at the helm of a large oil tanker that knows nothing of basic seamenship. They rely on their underlings to do their job well, and fake their way through it but good luck if the underlings don't agree on the right course of action, or if you come into a real emergency!

    No. It's like an Admiral of a fleet knowing about seamanship. They still need it in an abstract way, to know their ships' capabilities while fightinig, but they don't need to remember how to take a destroyer out of port. Instead, they need to manage different problems.They get paid more not because their job is somehow more important, but because their job comes with more responsibility.

  14. Re:Nuclear batteries on Intel Reveals Next-Gen CPUs · · Score: 1

    Important distinction, though. Pacemakers are often placed in people well after their reproductive prime, while laptops are used by everyone. In addition, your heart is fair distance away from your reproductive system, and well, you may not want your sperm/eggs to be subjected to radiation.

    Having said all that, iirc, beta particles are fairly non-penetrating; a thin bit of metal should do the job.

  15. Re:Meanwhile in real life on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android · · Score: 1

    Uhm. English is nearly universally taught. Cities like Miami, New York, London, etc. use English as primary languages, lowering the barrier of immigration that much lower. BTW, what's the immigrant quotient of other Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur or Shanghai?

  16. Re:Indeed, but in _real_ real life... on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android · · Score: 5, Informative

    Japan is not isolationist. However, Japanese people are some of the most racist people you'll meet. Before you start turning on your flame throwers, please bear in mind I am Japanese. I grew up there for a while, moved to the US, and then spent 2.5 years there as an adult.

    Having said all that, if you're white or Japanese, then you have nothing to fear from their racism. Heavens help you if you're any other ethnicity; the stereotype is that you're poor and you're probably going to end up as a criminal.

    Fortunately, these views are changing, but it will take a long, long time before cultural outlook and stereotype change sufficiently.

  17. Re:Why are the japanese so intrested in bullet tra on Japan Tests New Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    Except 100% of the tracks for the Tokaido Shinkansen line are elevated dedicated right-of-way tracks surrounded by concrete walls designed to contain the damage.

    Plus, in the 40+ years of operating all the shinkansen lines, there were only one derailment, and that was caused by a freak earthquake that happened just below a speeding train.

  18. Re:Why are the japanese so intrested in bullet tra on Japan Tests New Bullet Train · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you factored in the cost of transportation to/from city centers? Time it takes to get to their respective airports?

    Haneda is at best, from Otemachi, 45 min train ride. Ditto for Osaka International to the business centers. Taking the Shinkansen, however, you're taking the train from either Tokyo station or Shinagawa, and you're dropped off at Shin-Osaka, which is a stone's throw from downtown.

    Plus you don't have to go through all the hassles associated with air travel.

  19. Re:More like instant boot on Flash Drives in Future Apple Laptops? · · Score: 1

    So read/write to it in parallel. Simple, huh? :)

  20. Re:Why upgrade now? on Apple Moves to All Dual-Processor Power Mac Lineup · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sods like me who waited too long? :)

  21. Re:Example of a Rejected Photo on Your Digital Photos Are Too Professional · · Score: 1

    Just a nitpick: soft-filters and out-of-focus lenses achieve VERY different results.

  22. Re:How it works on Nanotech Trojan Horse That Kills Cancer · · Score: 1

    No. Your cells are going cancerous every day, but your immune system keeps that in check.

  23. Re:No, it isn't. on Double Your Fun with DoubleSight · · Score: 1


    Sorry, 1 should've read: if you're running the same commands on multiple machines, you're doing something wrong.



    As for Sysadmins doing development, in large environments, sysadmins do not do development. They may assist developers in new configurations, implementations of software, etc., but it would be very disingenious to call that "development".



    And yes, I do know what I'm talking about -- my company supports the very "sysadmins" that you seem to be so fond of being, but ones who work for tier 1 banks, and I'm in a very customer-facing environment.

  24. Re:Okay, I give up on Wi-Fi Coming on U.S. Domestic Flights · · Score: 1

    It did take a while to add the "whisper mode" on the mobiles.

    My first mobile there didn't have it, but my second one did. Also, the higher-end ones sound much better than cheapo phones from here (for example, my Razr sounds just as good, my Nokia 6100, not so much), so there's less psychological onus to yell into them.

  25. Re:No, it isn't. on Double Your Fun with DoubleSight · · Score: 1

    See, from a monitoring perspective:

    1. If you're running commands on multiple machines, you're doing something wrong.
    2. If you're looking at logfiles, either something went wrong, or you're doing something wrong.

    Seriously. A good monitoring solution, when set up, frees people from the mundane and repetitive -- takes the potential human error out of these things and frees these expensive resources to do other things.