I'm sure I'm just displaying my ignorance here, but what fields that aren't science or engineering require intelligent, technical people? I honestly tried to think of one, and just can't. Especially one that doesn't have a huge gender gap.
Oh, and 2003 remote agent installs STILL isn't supported. It works about half the time, the other half it fails with auth errors even when I got frustrated and tried installing it with the Enterprise Admin account and I've gone over every scrap of domain and local policy on these machines personally. Who the fuck knows why it doesn't work? Symantec tech support certainly doesn't, and that doesn't seem to bother them much either.
I love my job, every last user that forgets their password every day, even the ones that have a mystical talent for breaking their machines, but GOD I HATE THIS FUCKING SOFTWARE. It is single-handedly responsible for me coming home stressed-out after a 14-hour day because the god-damn backups are fucked up again! Aargh!
Templates are great, but you'll run into bug after bug after bug as soon as you try a job with the slightest complexity. Go ahead, call tech support. The first thing they'll recommend is that you set up the jobs manually. It only takes an hour or two to convince them that the templates are one of the only decent features their horrible product has, for all the good that'll do you; more than likely, you'll just end up finding out exactly how patient you are.
Funny, I've had the exact opposite experience. The agent crashes if you use timestamp-based incremental backups on x64 machines. The problem existed in 10d also. It was a known issue, yet it took roughly 16 hours with support which achieved absolutely nothing except me having to find a place for a few terabytes of storage when they refused to help me further unless I wiped my backup store, and that was only acknowledged when I narrowed the problem down myself with god only knows how many more hours of shotgun testing and then spent another 4 hours over as many phone calls in two days refusing to speak with anyone but an engineer or someone who knew what the problem was. The engineer told me they were pretty sure they fixed it in 11, I was on 10 at the time, but when I went to download 11 their licensing site was screwed up for over a week and the only answer I could get is them telling me to wait. Running multiple simultaneous jobs means crippling fragmentation, a problem they fixed with a patch and registy hack in 10d, that's come right back in 11, no pre-alloc patch yet. It performs horrily if you have more than 100 or so backup-to-disk files, so I cant make them small enough to fit on a DVD if I wanted to back up particular files semi-permanently without restoring them to a redirected folder and re-backing them up to a separate backup-to-disk folder that I can size differently. The DLO agent cripples performance, uses double disk-space for any files you want to back up, blue-screens Windows when random files are backed up or restored, interferes with 16-bit apps (yeah, I know, but it's a business and there's no choice) by locking the 16-bit subsystem, and now for added fun in 11 the program itself crashes too.
There's more, but that's all I can think of now. And yes, this is the official position of my employer, in as much as I'm invested to speak for them as the sole network admin, which is probably not at all. Basically, this and every other piece of Symantec software I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with is the worst piece of trash I've ever seen. I will never willingly buy so much as a wallpaper from them as long as I live, nor will any company I work for unless they want to see me looking for another job ASAP. My current employer I don't blame, since this shit was recommended by my idiot predecessor, but as soon as the maintenance contracts (HA! WHAT A JOKE!) expire and I can justify buying something else, we're off their backup, their shit virus scanner, and any other lumps I find. Bah!
I've always wondered why there isn't an NNTP version of Slashdot. It seems perfect for it: almost no graphics, minimal formatting even, and you can't edit or retract comments. Advertisements would be easy, as long as text-only is acceptable (worked for Google), bandwidth cost could be much lower, server load brought to nearly nothing when you compare LAMP to an NNTP server. Other than moderation, there's no downside, and that could be taken care of so easily it's ridiculous.
The upside of course, is using the NNTP client of your choice, proper threading, no more lost-between-pages threads, and all the other goodies you get when you can use 15+ years of software development on a standard protocol.
You're going to take somebody's overly general and comically exaggerated statement that had nothing to do with you in particular as a personal insult, but not what I said?
Man, I don't even know what to say. Thanks, I guess:P You guys' dedication to avoiding any sort of introspection is just amazing.
OK, do you see how you're taking some random twit's generalization as a personal attack on you?
Classic "boss" behavior, and when you boil it down you'll find that you, and for some reason I have yet to understand, almost anyone with even a scrap of real or imagined power, is nothing more than a spoiled child more concerned with where to place blame than actual results.
After you're done freaking out, try to remember this the next time you want something NOW. Stamp your foot for full effect, and try to convince everyone who witnesses your tantrum that it's anger, not embarrassment that's staining your cheeks red.
Just want to say, Dovecot rocks! I started on Courier because that was all that was out at the time, but it was way too slow with the 5000+ mails I have in some folders, and a pain in the ass to configure and crashed a lot to boot. Then I went to Binc, but it was just as slow, if not as crappy otherwise. Finally, I went to Dovecot, who came up with the brilliant (obvious) idea of indexing Maildirs! I can't get over how fast it is. Supposedly they keep a close eye on security too. Well, I recently changed to LDAP/Kerberos/PAM for my authentication, so now I have it (and Evolution) authenticating with GSSAPI.
Back on topic, if Thunderbird supported GSSAPI/Kerberos and had an option to not fall back to subject threading I'd switch in a second. Anybody know if one/both of those are possible?
Back off topic, does anyone know of a decent Kerberos ticket manager? Man. Windows might get a lot of things wrong, but at least their Kerberos stays out of the way and Just Works (tm).
"The bubble-era vision of a Utopian Internet is dented and dirty... The Lexus has collided with the olive tree, and its crumpled hulk spins in a ditch as the orchard smolders."
This metaphor is a can of Pringles, and its vigor is enhanced by venomous ducks that flip it daily with a caterpillar that just won't shut up.
No, the type is int*. The syntax of multi-variable declarations in C and C++ is simply wrong (and stupid), and shouldn't be used. This is coming from the man himself if you've ever read The C++ Programming Language.
From the way you described it, you would think that the variable name is *ptr, and that the declaration allocates memory for an int and that it is initialized pointing to a valid int.
Preach on! I cry when I see a pointer cast other than what you named, the occasional dynamic_cast and very very rarely, a const_cast or reinterpret_cast. What really makes me weep my way through a bottle of Jack Daniel's though, is seeing a C-style cast. Nonononononononono no NO! Bad!
There's no problem ethically or legally, but your friend wanted to get laid, and I'll let you in on a secret: a little macho, applied in the right way, will get you laid. Not to mention, there's nothing wrong with it, but that doesn't mean they have to like it, and if you don't like something you're going to do what you can to stop it, up to and including putting on a princess act so the guy with you goes up and breaks the camera. Try blowing a gentle breeze up a tiger's asshole sometime. It doesn't hurt the tiger at all, and maybe it makes you happy, but I bet the tiger's gonna have something to say about it. You were horrifies because somebody used muscle assertively, and appearantly you've got issues about that.
I suppose you've never heard of a head unit with "Line In"? Parent said nothing about a dock, a tape sounds like shit played through a tape adapter, and you're a twat.
Lesson: Don't admit you were in a frat unless you're around a bunch of other people that were in frats. These days most people, although they are too polite to say anything about it, look down on frats/sororities.
Know the social group you're in. Middle/upper management is probably a good place to advertise that. Slashdot is about the worst place. Look at us, half of us probably beat off to Revenge of the Nerds. Now get outta here before someone starts taunting you with Monty Python quotes.
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It's not insightful (should be obvious to anyone) and it's not interesting (obvious usually isn't), but here's a virtual "+1, awesomely correct."
I'm sure I'm just displaying my ignorance here, but what fields that aren't science or engineering require intelligent, technical people? I honestly tried to think of one, and just can't. Especially one that doesn't have a huge gender gap.
Sure, get back to us when you've come up with a global weather control system.
How did you manage to get this one wrong?
Well, it'd be pretty weird if Consumer Reports was a pain in the ass company.
BTW, no, the x64 problem is not fixed in 11.
Oh, and 2003 remote agent installs STILL isn't supported. It works about half the time, the other half it fails with auth errors even when I got frustrated and tried installing it with the Enterprise Admin account and I've gone over every scrap of domain and local policy on these machines personally. Who the fuck knows why it doesn't work? Symantec tech support certainly doesn't, and that doesn't seem to bother them much either.
I love my job, every last user that forgets their password every day, even the ones that have a mystical talent for breaking their machines, but GOD I HATE THIS FUCKING SOFTWARE. It is single-handedly responsible for me coming home stressed-out after a 14-hour day because the god-damn backups are fucked up again! Aargh!
Templates are great, but you'll run into bug after bug after bug as soon as you try a job with the slightest complexity. Go ahead, call tech support. The first thing they'll recommend is that you set up the jobs manually. It only takes an hour or two to convince them that the templates are one of the only decent features their horrible product has, for all the good that'll do you; more than likely, you'll just end up finding out exactly how patient you are.
Funny, I've had the exact opposite experience. The agent crashes if you use timestamp-based incremental backups on x64 machines. The problem existed in 10d also. It was a known issue, yet it took roughly 16 hours with support which achieved absolutely nothing except me having to find a place for a few terabytes of storage when they refused to help me further unless I wiped my backup store, and that was only acknowledged when I narrowed the problem down myself with god only knows how many more hours of shotgun testing and then spent another 4 hours over as many phone calls in two days refusing to speak with anyone but an engineer or someone who knew what the problem was. The engineer told me they were pretty sure they fixed it in 11, I was on 10 at the time, but when I went to download 11 their licensing site was screwed up for over a week and the only answer I could get is them telling me to wait. Running multiple simultaneous jobs means crippling fragmentation, a problem they fixed with a patch and registy hack in 10d, that's come right back in 11, no pre-alloc patch yet. It performs horrily if you have more than 100 or so backup-to-disk files, so I cant make them small enough to fit on a DVD if I wanted to back up particular files semi-permanently without restoring them to a redirected folder and re-backing them up to a separate backup-to-disk folder that I can size differently. The DLO agent cripples performance, uses double disk-space for any files you want to back up, blue-screens Windows when random files are backed up or restored, interferes with 16-bit apps (yeah, I know, but it's a business and there's no choice) by locking the 16-bit subsystem, and now for added fun in 11 the program itself crashes too.
There's more, but that's all I can think of now. And yes, this is the official position of my employer, in as much as I'm invested to speak for them as the sole network admin, which is probably not at all. Basically, this and every other piece of Symantec software I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with is the worst piece of trash I've ever seen. I will never willingly buy so much as a wallpaper from them as long as I live, nor will any company I work for unless they want to see me looking for another job ASAP. My current employer I don't blame, since this shit was recommended by my idiot predecessor, but as soon as the maintenance contracts (HA! WHAT A JOKE!) expire and I can justify buying something else, we're off their backup, their shit virus scanner, and any other lumps I find. Bah!
I've always wondered why there isn't an NNTP version of Slashdot. It seems perfect for it: almost no graphics, minimal formatting even, and you can't edit or retract comments. Advertisements would be easy, as long as text-only is acceptable (worked for Google), bandwidth cost could be much lower, server load brought to nearly nothing when you compare LAMP to an NNTP server. Other than moderation, there's no downside, and that could be taken care of so easily it's ridiculous.
The upside of course, is using the NNTP client of your choice, proper threading, no more lost-between-pages threads, and all the other goodies you get when you can use 15+ years of software development on a standard protocol.
You're going to take somebody's overly general and comically exaggerated statement that had nothing to do with you in particular as a personal insult, but not what I said?
Man, I don't even know what to say. Thanks, I guess :P You guys' dedication to avoiding any sort of introspection is just amazing.
OK, do you see how you're taking some random twit's generalization as a personal attack on you?
Classic "boss" behavior, and when you boil it down you'll find that you, and for some reason I have yet to understand, almost anyone with even a scrap of real or imagined power, is nothing more than a spoiled child more concerned with where to place blame than actual results.
After you're done freaking out, try to remember this the next time you want something NOW. Stamp your foot for full effect, and try to convince everyone who witnesses your tantrum that it's anger, not embarrassment that's staining your cheeks red.
I'll take "The Penis Mightier" for $1,000!
Just want to say, Dovecot rocks! I started on Courier because that was all that was out at the time, but it was way too slow with the 5000+ mails I have in some folders, and a pain in the ass to configure and crashed a lot to boot. Then I went to Binc, but it was just as slow, if not as crappy otherwise. Finally, I went to Dovecot, who came up with the brilliant (obvious) idea of indexing Maildirs! I can't get over how fast it is. Supposedly they keep a close eye on security too. Well, I recently changed to LDAP/Kerberos/PAM for my authentication, so now I have it (and Evolution) authenticating with GSSAPI.
Back on topic, if Thunderbird supported GSSAPI/Kerberos and had an option to not fall back to subject threading I'd switch in a second. Anybody know if one/both of those are possible?
Back off topic, does anyone know of a decent Kerberos ticket manager? Man. Windows might get a lot of things wrong, but at least their Kerberos stays out of the way and Just Works (tm).
One word: pancakes.
Ha ha, you got the sucky one!
"The bubble-era vision of a Utopian Internet is dented and dirty... The Lexus has collided with the olive tree, and its crumpled hulk spins in a ditch as the orchard smolders."
This metaphor is a can of Pringles, and its vigor is enhanced by venomous ducks that flip it daily with a caterpillar that just won't shut up.
Seriously... what?
At 100Gbps, your processor's L1 cache is a bottleneck.
No, the type is int*. The syntax of multi-variable declarations in C and C++ is simply wrong (and stupid), and shouldn't be used. This is coming from the man himself if you've ever read The C++ Programming Language.
From the way you described it, you would think that the variable name is *ptr, and that the declaration allocates memory for an int and that it is initialized pointing to a valid int.
Preach on! I cry when I see a pointer cast other than what you named, the occasional dynamic_cast and very very rarely, a const_cast or reinterpret_cast. What really makes me weep my way through a bottle of Jack Daniel's though, is seeing a C-style cast. Nonononononononono no NO! Bad!
There's no problem ethically or legally, but your friend wanted to get laid, and I'll let you in on a secret: a little macho, applied in the right way, will get you laid. Not to mention, there's nothing wrong with it, but that doesn't mean they have to like it, and if you don't like something you're going to do what you can to stop it, up to and including putting on a princess act so the guy with you goes up and breaks the camera. Try blowing a gentle breeze up a tiger's asshole sometime. It doesn't hurt the tiger at all, and maybe it makes you happy, but I bet the tiger's gonna have something to say about it. You were horrifies because somebody used muscle assertively, and appearantly you've got issues about that.
I suppose you've never heard of a head unit with "Line In"? Parent said nothing about a dock, a tape sounds like shit played through a tape adapter, and you're a twat.
So far nobody's managed to losslessly downsample an Ogg. Theoretically it's possible though :P
FLAC only encodes PCM.
What is best in life?
Lesson: Don't admit you were in a frat unless you're around a bunch of other people that were in frats. These days most people, although they are too polite to say anything about it, look down on frats/sororities.
Know the social group you're in. Middle/upper management is probably a good place to advertise that. Slashdot is about the worst place. Look at us, half of us probably beat off to Revenge of the Nerds. Now get outta here before someone starts taunting you with Monty Python quotes.