Also, 'Waldo' can go ahead and campaign in a geeky manner to the tech/engineering groups in the area... GE Fanuc... Northrop Grumman... Siemens... etc.
I'll disagree with the current (7:15 AM EST) moderation of 'flamebait'; I'll rather claim that you are ignorant of the existence of:
* MPW and POSIXy environments that have existed on Mac for years
* A/UX, which was Apple's previous UNIX used for services (some bizarre mutation of SVR3). Please do not confuse A/UX with AIX.
This is a tautology, because cancer is simply cells that do not die. They simply grow and divide and grow and divide ad infinitum So they grow out of control, choking off resources that other cells can use.
This is because every time a cell divides, the telomeres at the end of each chromosome become shorter and shorter. Eventually, a cell cannot divide any more; growth stops, and wear and tear sets in. Cancerous cells do not shorten their telomeres.
The shortening of telomeres is beneficial for many reasons: it allows for the paring away of certain cells. For example, the differentiation of fingers and toes on our hands, or (more uselessly) the detachment of earlobes from the head. In fact, I'd like to see a study done to see if people with attached earlobes and stubby fingers live longer, but it would have to be done in isolation. More generally, without shortened telomeres, and uncontrolled cell growth (in short, if all of our cells were "cancer"), we'd become a giant amorphous blob and then Akira would come and Neo-Tokyo would explode. Again.
I don't mean to sound rude or hurtful when I say this, but are you being particularly cocky around the workplace? Allow me to explain:
I'm 22 and I'm currently working a midlevel developer job at a contractor for the NIH. Just about everyone else is older; mainly in their forties. Because I'd worked my way through university in several entry-level developer jobs, I had some experience on my belt, but I made it a point not to appear like some sort of "whiz kid". While many of my coworkers have styles of thought which I, personally, find outdated (they mainly come from a COBOL on IBM mainframe background), I don't belittle their ideas nor do I try to "convert" or "convince" them my way is better. Why? Because even if it's right in a technical sense, politically, it's suicide.
There are many ways of getting things done; sometimes it's worth taking a hit in terms of efficiency if it means sparing the cohesiveness of the team. After all, in the I.T. fields, learning is constant; a 40 year old will be learning new things as will a 20 year old. If you think Java on UNIX is going to last forever, you're mistaken; thus, it's fair that you allow your older coworkers to learn and stumble without pointing out how or why they're wrong (no matter how justified it may seem).
Finally, and on a slightly more personal note, there's something to be said about learning from your elders. Believe it or not, there's often wisdom from the elders. Sometimes it's technical, sometimes it's operational, sometimes it's personal advice. Even if you don't agree with it, smile, nod, thank them, and keep it in the back of your mind. You wouldn't turn down a free computer, if it was crappy, right? You'd keep it in the back room in case you needed a router. You wouldn't turn down a free car, even if it was a beat up old Ford Escort, right? You'd keep it around, or at the very least, donate it and write it off as a tax deduction. Treat advice the same way; it's free, and you never know when you'll use it.
I guess it's obligatory to say YMMV, but I think the advice is sensible enough to apply. And if you feel that you've been following all of the above conditions, and you've double checked and triple checked it, then take heart in the knowledge that you're an agreeable person and they are not, and look elsewhere.
The NeXT-based DisplayPostScript (actually, in OS X, DisplayPDF) *is* network transparent. I can remotely start up NeXT applications between by cube and my slab. In addition, with 'public sound server' option, the sound is also network transparent (which ESD and ARTS have caught up to).
Of course, if you do this, you'll need to probably enable "Encapsulate PostScript" option to prevent malicious inline PS code from being executed on object refreshes.
I bought a Parsytec Supercluster at the UMD surplus store for $75. From the etchings on the VME boards we contacted the designer, Herr Wassmann. The rest is history..
% After just about every movie that is an adaptation of a book, endless droids pipe on about how it "wasn't as good as the book": % Is this not a given? Has there ever been a movie that's been "as good" as the book?
\begin{opinion}[mine]
I'd make the claim that \textit{Fight Club} was a much better movie than book; while there are many good things about \ref{Palahniuk's} writing style, the visual interplay between Norton and Pitt make the eventual plot twists of the book that much more impressive (and you kick yourself because you could see it all along). Of course, that's IMO; YMMV. (IHBT? IHL. HAND. ETC.)
The advantage of a Compaq Alpha system is NOT in processor speed, but rather in its buses. Its I/O is something to be amazed at. I think the inter-QBB connection (a QBB is a Quad Building block of four processors in a NUMA configuration; one QBB gives you an ES40; four, a fully stocked GS160, eight, a fully stocked GS320) is something like 14GB/sec. Absolutely amazing (my employer, uses exclusively Tru64 on GS160's for the database backend)
Also, I used to think NUMA was a buzzword for graphics monkeys before I started adminning these systems. NUMA-aware apps save a lot of work and enhance performance. A NUMA-aware implementation of Oracle means you don't have to configure the SGA to be striped across QBBs (will do that itself) or use the runon() command, it will figure out these things itself...
There's always Berkely DB: It's not particularly full featured, but it's fast, reasonably robust, portable, and can maintain referential integrity (technically, if you reduce your relations to BCNF, they're all binary relations anyway).
Well, this picture is a total fake, but that fact aside -- since the NeXT ran on a 25Mhz 68040 and was decently responsive, it's conceivable that the original mach/BSD-4.4 subsystem could run nicely on a machine wth a 25-33mhz processor; in short, something nice like a Palm pilot maybe?
Given that the latest generation of pda's are running StrongARM processors ~200mhz, and given that Quartz can be slimmed down to NeXTish levels, and given that NeXTstep/mach runs on intel, motorola 680x0, powerPC, sparc, and PA-RISC, it's conceivable it can run on any decent PDA hardware.
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I invoke Godwin's Law. You lose. The thread is now closed.
Use nidump and niload; you'll be able to modify to your heart's content.
There is a way in NeXTstep to turn NetInfo off...
Regarding your problem with the use if netinfo:
if you want to modify text files, nidump what you want, modify the file, and niload them again.
Also, 'Waldo' can go ahead and campaign in a geeky manner to the tech/engineering groups in the area... GE Fanuc... Northrop Grumman... Siemens... etc.
I'll disagree with the current (7:15 AM EST) moderation of 'flamebait'; I'll rather claim that you are ignorant of the existence of:
* MPW and POSIXy environments that have existed on Mac for years
* A/UX, which was Apple's previous UNIX used for services (some bizarre mutation of SVR3). Please do not confuse A/UX with AIX.
But now you are less so.
This is a tautology, because cancer is simply cells that do not die. They simply grow and divide and grow and divide ad infinitum So they grow out of control, choking off resources that other cells can use.
This is because every time a cell divides, the telomeres at the end of each chromosome become shorter and shorter. Eventually, a cell cannot divide any more; growth stops, and wear and tear sets in. Cancerous cells do not shorten their telomeres.
The shortening of telomeres is beneficial for many reasons: it allows for the paring away of certain cells. For example, the differentiation of fingers and toes on our hands, or (more uselessly) the detachment of earlobes from the head. In fact, I'd like to see a study done to see if people with attached earlobes and stubby fingers live longer, but it would have to be done in isolation. More generally, without shortened telomeres, and uncontrolled cell growth (in short, if all of our cells were "cancer"), we'd become a giant amorphous blob and then Akira would come and Neo-Tokyo would explode. Again.
I don't mean to sound rude or hurtful when I say this, but are you being particularly cocky around the workplace? Allow me to explain:
I'm 22 and I'm currently working a midlevel developer job at a contractor for the NIH. Just about everyone else is older; mainly in their forties. Because I'd worked my way through university in several entry-level developer jobs, I had some experience on my belt, but I made it a point not to appear like some sort of "whiz kid". While many of my coworkers have styles of thought which I, personally, find outdated (they mainly come from a COBOL on IBM mainframe background), I don't belittle their ideas nor do I try to "convert" or "convince" them my way is better. Why? Because even if it's right in a technical sense, politically, it's suicide.
There are many ways of getting things done; sometimes it's worth taking a hit in terms of efficiency if it means sparing the cohesiveness of the team. After all, in the I.T. fields, learning is constant; a 40 year old will be learning new things as will a 20 year old. If you think Java on UNIX is going to last forever, you're mistaken; thus, it's fair that you allow your older coworkers to learn and stumble without pointing out how or why they're wrong (no matter how justified it may seem).
Finally, and on a slightly more personal note, there's something to be said about learning from your elders. Believe it or not, there's often wisdom from the elders. Sometimes it's technical, sometimes it's operational, sometimes it's personal advice. Even if you don't agree with it, smile, nod, thank them, and keep it in the back of your mind. You wouldn't turn down a free computer, if it was crappy, right? You'd keep it in the back room in case you needed a router. You wouldn't turn down a free car, even if it was a beat up old Ford Escort, right? You'd keep it around, or at the very least, donate it and write it off as a tax deduction. Treat advice the same way; it's free, and you never know when you'll use it.
I guess it's obligatory to say YMMV, but I think the advice is sensible enough to apply. And if you feel that you've been following all of the above conditions, and you've double checked and triple checked it, then take heart in the knowledge that you're an agreeable person and they are not, and look elsewhere.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
If she dumped you, she's not your fiancee.
The NeXT-based DisplayPostScript (actually, in OS X, DisplayPDF) *is* network transparent. I can remotely start up NeXT applications between by cube and my slab. In addition, with 'public sound server' option, the sound is also network transparent (which ESD and ARTS have caught up to).
Of course, if you do this, you'll need to probably enable "Encapsulate PostScript" option to prevent malicious inline PS code from being executed on object refreshes.
I bought a Parsytec Supercluster at the UMD surplus store for $75. From the etchings on the VME boards we contacted the designer, Herr Wassmann. The rest is history..
% After just about every movie that is an adaptation of a book, endless droids pipe on about how it "wasn't as good as the book":
% Is this not a given? Has there ever been a movie that's been "as good" as the book?
\begin{opinion}[mine]
I'd make the claim that \textit{Fight Club} was a much better movie than book; while there are many good things about \ref{Palahniuk's} writing style, the visual interplay between Norton and Pitt make the eventual plot twists of the book that much more impressive (and you kick yourself because you could see it all along). Of course, that's IMO; YMMV. (IHBT? IHL. HAND. ETC.)
\end{opinion}
idiots...
all this fuss about cloning a human.
why bother?
clone() isn't even POSIX.
Use pthread_create() instead.
fools...
Where to now?
;-)
We should meet after work for drinks
So the beers were your inspiration behind 'log'?
But irony IS funny...
Why not be efficient and compress it by just using +1, funny?
;-)
testing -- ignore this. thank you
Can I borrow your tinning kit for a second? This wumpus corpse isn't getting any fresher!
The advantage of a Compaq Alpha system is NOT in processor speed, but rather in its buses. Its I/O is something to be amazed at. I think the inter-QBB connection (a QBB is a Quad Building block of four processors in a NUMA configuration; one QBB gives you an ES40; four, a fully stocked GS160, eight, a fully stocked GS320) is something like 14GB/sec. Absolutely amazing (my employer, uses exclusively Tru64 on GS160's for the database backend)
Also, I used to think NUMA was a buzzword for graphics monkeys before I started adminning these systems. NUMA-aware apps save a lot of work and enhance performance. A NUMA-aware implementation of Oracle means you don't have to configure the SGA to be striped across QBBs (will do that itself) or use the runon() command, it will figure out these things itself...
But a GS(160/320) only has a 1.1 Ghz processor...
There's always Berkely DB: It's not particularly full featured, but it's fast, reasonably robust, portable, and can maintain referential integrity (technically, if you reduce your relations to BCNF, they're all binary relations anyway).
Apparently you haven't heard of 'esddsp' or 'artsdsp', which basically does what you're saying.
Or, alternately, you can use ALsa 0.90 which does this at the driver level.
Well, this picture is a total fake, but that fact aside -- since the NeXT ran on a 25Mhz 68040 and was decently responsive, it's conceivable that the original mach/BSD-4.4 subsystem could run nicely on a machine wth a 25-33mhz processor; in short, something nice like a Palm pilot maybe?
Given that the latest generation of pda's are running StrongARM processors ~200mhz, and given that Quartz can be slimmed down to NeXTish levels, and given that NeXTstep/mach runs on intel, motorola 680x0, powerPC, sparc, and PA-RISC, it's conceivable it can run on any decent PDA hardware.
Thus marking the only time anything involvign Yahoo Serious was every considered funny.
Just to be nitpicky, Farsi and Persian are different terms for the same language.
The language, by the way, uses the Arabic alphabet. There is no "Farsi" alphabet as such.
Incidentally, wouldn't it be the last day of October that the dead would arise? Halloween and all.
Whoever moderated this +1, Funny should really be beaten with a tire iron.
;-)
I'd flame the guy who wrote this, but you know the jazz about taking it out on The_Messenger