Please stop submitting SPR's. This is our system. We designed it, we build it, and we use it more than you do. If there are some features you think might be missing, if the system isn't as effective as you think it could be, TOUGH. Give it back, we don't need you. See figure 1.
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Figure 1.
Forget about your silly problems, let's take a look at some of the features of the VMS operating system.
1) Options. We've got lots of them. So many in fact, that you need
two strong people to carry the documentation around. So many
that it will be a cold day in hell before half of them are used.
So many that you are probably not going to do your work right
anyway. However, the number of options isn't all that important,
because we picked some interesting values for the options and
called them...
2) Defaults. We put a lot of thought into our defaults. We like
them. If we didn't, we would have made something else be the
default. So keep your cotten-picking hands off our defaults.
Don't touch. Consider them mandatory. "Mandatory defaults" has
a nice ring to it. Change them and your system crashes, tough.
See figure 1.
3) Language Processors. They work just fine. They take in source,
and often produce object files as a reward for your efforts. You
don't like the code? Too bad! You can even try to call
operating system services from them. For any that you can't, use
the assembler like we do. We spoke to the language processor
developers about this, they think a lot like we do. They said
"See figure 1.".
4) Debuggers. We've got debuggers, one we support and one we use.
You shouldn't make mistakes anyway, it is a waste of time. We
don't want to hear anything about debuggers, we're not
interested. See figure 1.
5) Error logging. Ignore it. Why give yourself an ulcer? You don't
want to give us the machine to get the problem fixed and we probably
can't do it anyway. Oh, and if something breaks between 17:00 and
18:00 or 9:30 and 10:30 or 11:30 and 13:30 or 14:30 and 15:30 don't
waste your time calling us, we're out. See figure 1.
6) Command Language. We designed it ourselves, it's perfect. We
like it so much we put our name on it, DCL - Digital's Command
Language. In fact we're so happy with it, we designed it once
for each of our operating systems. We even try to keep it the
same from release to release, sometimes we blow it though. See
figure 1.
7) Real Time Performance. We got it. Who else could have done such
a good job? So the system seems sluggish with all those priority
18 processes, no problem, just make them priority one. Anyway,
realtime isn't important anymore like it used to be. We changed
our groups name to get rid of the word realtime, we told all our
realtime users to see figure 1 a long time ago.
In conclusion, stuff your SPR. Love VMS or leave it, but DON'T complain.
I haven't used the Trakdot, but it looks interesting. Not so much an anti-theft device, more like a LoJack for your luggage. Just announced at CES. Has a subscription fee, so it might not be worth it for a one-time thing.
has become the US Congress. Never have I seen so many get paid so much to do so little. They better wake up soon, otherwise a torch bearing mob may did it for them.
Per the 3GPP specs for GSM, the SIM has an item for Emergency Call Codes (EFecc) that can contain up to 5 call codes, each up to 3 digits. If any of these codes is dialed the phone will put the call through as an emergency call. This is to allow for localization of the emergency numbers. Since in a mobile, you enter the entire number to be called then hit SEND (or the equivalent), the switch doesn't have to decide how to route your call as you are dialing it, like is done for landlines.
I think the mobile phones are the easy part, the hard part will be the 'other devices' which presumably will include landlines.
Not sure what you mean by "kicked to the curb", but OS X Java is still maintained by Apple.
Not completely. Apple maintains Java for Mac OS X through version 6. Oracle took over starting with version 7. It's not clear how long Apple will continue to provide updates for version 6, though.
Apple stopped including it as a default install with Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), I believe.
Also, I forgot about Reader until something asked me to update it. I promptly deleted it, but where did the updater spawn from?
I fired up Reader yesterday and it popped up that there was an update, so I told it to go ahead. Then a dialog came that that it needed to restart to finish the update. I clicked 'Restart' thinking that Reader was going to restart. No, it restarted my fscking PC! Reader needs to DIAF! And it's updater!
It it increases by the same factor of 7.57 over three years then in under 21 years you will all have renounced your US citizenship. Of course that is exceeding unlikely to happen but this is why you need to be concerned about large factor increases even when the numbers are small because they can grow very fast - although I don't see any reason to suspect that such a huge growth factor will be maintained.
In addition, it's generally a good assumption that productivity at a company will follow a normal distribution, in which case the median and the mean have the same value.
Apple stopped installing Java with Lion. But if you attempt to run a Java app you get a prompt asking if you want to install Java. I believe that is still the Apple Java implementation, with Apple still handling the updates.
In fall 2010, Apple announced that they were stopping their in-house Java development and was putting their support into OpenJDK. It looks like that is targeting Java SE 7, so I think that Apple must be continuing their Java development in house until that is released. So perhaps Apple is in the middle of the transition from in-house to OpenJDK; that could have caused the delay in the last Java update.
As a side note, Apple is not the only vendor to have their own Java. If you go to the Oracle Java download page it lists only Windows, Solaris and Linux versions. IBM and HP do their own. Looks like IBM spun their update quickly after Oracle, but HP took about a month for their update.
The Software Update only notifies you of an available update and optionally downloads it in the background. It does not install the update automatically, a user has to click to start the update (and would have to provide admin authentication if they weren't logged into an admin account).
The idea of the Time Machine is good, but it's not well executed. From deleting old backups automatically for space (I might want to save some of those old things)
If you have something you want to keep, keep it. Don't depend on TM to know that you want it. The deleting old backups is a tradeoff; would you rather it fail to run a new backup due to lack of space?
to using a nth degree differential backups that depend on the root and the entire backup tree to work...
That's not the way TM works. No diffs are involved at all. It creates hards links to files/folders that didn't change since the last backup. You can delete older backups and files in it that have hard links from newer backups will be retained.
Each time it runs you risk corrupting something so bad the backups will be worthless. I'd rather apple would let me chose folders and just do full zipped/encrypted copies of those I choose. Time Machine just lulls most into a false sense of security
I won't dispute that TM can get corrupted. But you certainly can set up your own backup mechanism of files of your choice.
You jest, but I actually had to do that once. I was running a program with a very tall (non-resizeable) dialog box on my laptop; the OK button was off the bottom of the screen. So I rotated the display, clicked the button and rotated it back. Very annoying piece of software.
I don't think the patch fixes already infected Macs, it just fixes the vulnerability used to infect. But Apple is working on a tool to remove Flashback.
Apple is developing software that will detect and remove the Flashback malware.
In addition to the Java vulnerability, the Flashback malware relies on computer servers hosted by the malware authors to perform many of its critical functions. Apple is working with ISPs worldwide to disable this command and control network.
So set up an encrypted tunnel to your home machine and set it up so you can browse the web through the tunnel as if you were at home. Slower perhaps, but worth it. If they are injecting stuff, then what else are they doing? Looking at your traffic?
How do you know it's gov property? There's no identification on it. It's stuck to your property. I'd say you own it and are free to do with it as you please.
If they ask for it back, say they have to prove it's theirs. And give you a receipt that you returned it.
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We use the Lava Flow methodology.
VMS VERSION 4.1: (An official DEC memo)
Please stop submitting SPR's. This is our system. We designed it,
we build it, and we use it more than you do. If there are some
features you think might be missing, if the system isn't as
effective as you think it could be, TOUGH. Give it back, we don't
need you. See figure 1.
(slashdot whitespace filter won't allow the ASCII art middle finger graphic that should be here)
Figure 1.
Forget about your silly problems, let's take a look at some of the
features of the VMS operating system.
1) Options. We've got lots of them. So many in fact, that you need
two strong people to carry the documentation around. So many
that it will be a cold day in hell before half of them are used.
So many that you are probably not going to do your work right
anyway. However, the number of options isn't all that important,
because we picked some interesting values for the options and
called them...
2) Defaults. We put a lot of thought into our defaults. We like
them. If we didn't, we would have made something else be the
default. So keep your cotten-picking hands off our defaults.
Don't touch. Consider them mandatory. "Mandatory defaults" has
a nice ring to it. Change them and your system crashes, tough.
See figure 1.
3) Language Processors. They work just fine. They take in source,
and often produce object files as a reward for your efforts. You
don't like the code? Too bad! You can even try to call
operating system services from them. For any that you can't, use
the assembler like we do. We spoke to the language processor
developers about this, they think a lot like we do. They said
"See figure 1.".
4) Debuggers. We've got debuggers, one we support and one we use.
You shouldn't make mistakes anyway, it is a waste of time. We
don't want to hear anything about debuggers, we're not
interested. See figure 1.
5) Error logging. Ignore it. Why give yourself an ulcer? You don't
want to give us the machine to get the problem fixed and we probably
can't do it anyway. Oh, and if something breaks between 17:00 and
18:00 or 9:30 and 10:30 or 11:30 and 13:30 or 14:30 and 15:30 don't
waste your time calling us, we're out. See figure 1.
6) Command Language. We designed it ourselves, it's perfect. We
like it so much we put our name on it, DCL - Digital's Command
Language. In fact we're so happy with it, we designed it once
for each of our operating systems. We even try to keep it the
same from release to release, sometimes we blow it though. See
figure 1.
7) Real Time Performance. We got it. Who else could have done such
a good job? So the system seems sluggish with all those priority
18 processes, no problem, just make them priority one. Anyway,
realtime isn't important anymore like it used to be. We changed
our groups name to get rid of the word realtime, we told all our
realtime users to see figure 1 a long time ago.
In conclusion, stuff your SPR. Love VMS or leave it, but DON'T complain.
--
R.I.P. Malcolm
I still haven't perfected the skill of omniscience. (This is of course, impossible). ;)
How do you know?
I haven't used the Trakdot, but it looks interesting. Not so much an anti-theft device, more like a LoJack for your luggage. Just announced at CES. Has a subscription fee, so it might not be worth it for a one-time thing.
Isn't Portland where young people go to retire?
has become the US Congress. Never have I seen so many get paid so much to do so little. They better wake up soon, otherwise a torch bearing mob may did it for them.
We need to push them off the physical cliff!
I think the mobile phones are the easy part, the hard part will be the 'other devices' which presumably will include landlines.
That's nothing, I could tell you what the Milky Way is made of.
Here's the list of ingredients.
Not sure what you mean by "kicked to the curb", but OS X Java is still maintained by Apple.
Not completely. Apple maintains Java for Mac OS X through version 6. Oracle took over starting with version 7. It's not clear how long Apple will continue to provide updates for version 6, though.
Apple stopped including it as a default install with Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), I believe.
But instead of getting each of two kids an iPad, a single Kindle Fire for both is viable...
I'm guessing that you don't have two (or more) kids. Share is typically not in their vocabulary.
Also, I forgot about Reader until something asked me to update it. I promptly deleted it, but where did the updater spawn from?
I fired up Reader yesterday and it popped up that there was an update, so I told it to go ahead. Then a dialog came that that it needed to restart to finish the update. I clicked 'Restart' thinking that Reader was going to restart. No, it restarted my fscking PC! Reader needs to DIAF! And it's updater!
I'm wondering why no one makes a 'dimpled' car, a la Mythbusters. Seem like a good idea for a fiberglass 'kit car' manufacturer.
Thanks for the link.
It it increases by the same factor of 7.57 over three years then in under 21 years you will all have renounced your US citizenship. Of course that is exceeding unlikely to happen but this is why you need to be concerned about large factor increases even when the numbers are small because they can grow very fast - although I don't see any reason to suspect that such a huge growth factor will be maintained.
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In addition, it's generally a good assumption that productivity at a company will follow a normal distribution, in which case the median and the mean have the same value.
No, not at my company. We're all above average!
Apple stopped installing Java with Lion. But if you attempt to run a Java app you get a prompt asking if you want to install Java. I believe that is still the Apple Java implementation, with Apple still handling the updates.
In fall 2010, Apple announced that they were stopping their in-house Java development and was putting their support into OpenJDK. It looks like that is targeting Java SE 7, so I think that Apple must be continuing their Java development in house until that is released. So perhaps Apple is in the middle of the transition from in-house to OpenJDK; that could have caused the delay in the last Java update.
As a side note, Apple is not the only vendor to have their own Java. If you go to the Oracle Java download page it lists only Windows, Solaris and Linux versions. IBM and HP do their own. Looks like IBM spun their update quickly after Oracle, but HP took about a month for their update.
The Software Update only notifies you of an available update and optionally downloads it in the background. It does not install the update automatically, a user has to click to start the update (and would have to provide admin authentication if they weren't logged into an admin account).
The idea of the Time Machine is good, but it's not well executed. From deleting old backups automatically for space (I might want to save some of those old things)
If you have something you want to keep, keep it. Don't depend on TM to know that you want it. The deleting old backups is a tradeoff; would you rather it fail to run a new backup due to lack of space?
to using a nth degree differential backups that depend on the root and the entire backup tree to work...
That's not the way TM works. No diffs are involved at all. It creates hards links to files/folders that didn't change since the last backup. You can delete older backups and files in it that have hard links from newer backups will be retained.
Each time it runs you risk corrupting something so bad the backups will be worthless. I'd rather apple would let me chose folders and just do full zipped/encrypted copies of those I choose. Time Machine just lulls most into a false sense of security
I won't dispute that TM can get corrupted. But you certainly can set up your own backup mechanism of files of your choice.
Good luck doing that with a laptop.
You jest, but I actually had to do that once. I was running a program with a very tall (non-resizeable) dialog box on my laptop; the OK button was off the bottom of the screen. So I rotated the display, clicked the button and rotated it back. Very annoying piece of software.
Apple is developing software that will detect and remove the Flashback malware.
In addition to the Java vulnerability, the Flashback malware relies on computer servers hosted by the malware authors to perform many of its critical functions. Apple is working with ISPs worldwide to disable this command and control network.
So set up an encrypted tunnel to your home machine and set it up so you can browse the web through the tunnel as if you were at home. Slower perhaps, but worth it. If they are injecting stuff, then what else are they doing? Looking at your traffic?
FireFox + QuickProxy FTW!
I use that combo when traveling. You just have to set up a machine at home to accept a ssh tunnel.
How about Michael Crichton's Airframe?
More (much more) info
I'll leave the expansion up to the reader.
How do you know it's gov property? There's no identification on it. It's stuck to your property. I'd say you own it and are free to do with it as you please.
If they ask for it back, say they have to prove it's theirs. And give you a receipt that you returned it.