"Wells calls PHP and MySQL this generation's BASIC"
Apples to apples here man.
MySQL works very well for what it's intented to do, as does BASIC, I don't expect my RDBMS to generate HTML for me, and I don't expect BASIC (or any other language) to handle referential integrity for my record sets.
I charge everyone, my standard "can you fix my PC" rate is $50/hr, period. And if the problem is big enough I tell them to buy a Dell, because it'd be cheaper.
I even charge my own mother, it tends to make her think about a problem before calling, and maybe research it a little to see if it's really a problem and worth an hour drive for me to come look at it, it's worked so well she went from only knowing how to play freecell, to building her own system and playing World of Warcraft, in just a couple years.
as a LiveJournal user, and a California resident I'm a little confused, as per state law they are required to inform users of breaches of security like this
I'd go for the large array of telescope/x-ray laser hybrid sats
think of the global earth defense array they had in one of those star trek generations movies
a spherical array of thousands of satellites, each equiped with a telescope and an x-ray laser
we get a much better view of the sky, namely a 360, unlike our current 1 percent we'll see it all
and many of the satellites could aim at the same target or targets if the main one breaks up
I think it would work better than the nuclear blast idea some folks have, with one big blast, omni-directional, which wouldn't do diddly, you instead have hundreds or thousands of individual directed blasts focusing on a single area, or several areas depending on the shape of the object, to intentionally fracture a single large object into hundreds of smaller ones, which each can be targeted depending on size, if they are under a certain size simply ignore them as the atmosphere will likely burn them up, otherwise blast em.
why do hardware vendors so secretly guard their driver code?
I mean it's not like it contains their corporate credit card number in the source.
I've written drivers before (college, not since, just PoC, but still...) and it wasn't some huge horrible task using ultra powerful genius level insightful code, it was mainly just a lot of hacks a kludging and worked as stable as needed, but good lord it was fairly routine code.
I'd wager the apache2 hybrid multi-process/thread code is ten times as complex as the NIC driver I'm using right now, and it's open source.
But to get to a point, I do agree to a point that a binary driver api would be useful as all hell for those shallow minded groups out there that think their driver code is made up of something that might hurt national security or somesuch crap, but they better damned well start actually making drivers, I mean the knife we've had to crank into nVidia's back since the days of quake3 to get viable linux drivers has taken it's toll and they now release linux drivers almost as religiously as they release windows drivers, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't want to sit through a compile of a driver as large as nVidia's, but the 30 seconds it'll take to compile the driver for my 3com nic I can live with.
And I do still want some control over the driver, a "health check" if you will, something I can run the driver through that will spit out all the I/O the driver will do, the memory it will register, basically GDB on steroids, if I can't see the source, I can atleast see every single thing the driver will or can do.
But I'd honestly rather have open source drivers. We have open source because a single piece of code is only as good as the people who have looked at it, and if only 1 person has ever looked at it, well... but if thousands have looked at it, just look at the stability of the kernel now (or BSD, not to start a religious war but christ man we have some work to do in the kernel cause BSD really IS beating us when it comes to a couple of big factors, and I'm kind of ashamed of it being the kernel jockey around my enterprise)
I'd owe in 12 states, 4 countries and a principality.
And that's just for jobs that were "on the record"
Bit jobs and cash and carry gigs might run me closer to 30 states.
ok, so upgrade-ation isn't a word, but damnit if something breaks in Windows I have to wait, sometimes years, before it gets "fixed" usually causing more issues (XP sp2 anyone), or if there is something I don't like about Windows I'm stuck with with whatever I don't like until the next version, where it "might" get fixed.
But with Linux (and BSD to an extent), I can FIX the damned thing, being a software engineer helps yeah, but if I find a problem, I can fix it, or pay someone to fix it, for as long as I use it, can't say that about Windows, I know people who are still using NT4 simply because some application that was made for it that they based their entire company around, ONLY runs on NT4 (no philosophical debates, it ONLY runs on NT4, compatability mode in 2k and XP doesn't cut it) and you can't even PAY Microsoft to support NT4 anymore.
But Linux, just about every app comes with the source code (and I'm not talking free, most of the commercial apps I use on Linux come with source), so if something breaks I can fix it, if the company who wrote the app goes out of business I can STILL fix it.
Beyond that, I love being able to customize the what, how, where, when and why of my personal system. don't like the filesystem, yup, I can change that, don't like my filemanager, yup I can change that, don't like my X server, admittedly small list to choose from but yup I can change that, don't like my desktop server, yup I can change that, don't like the layout of my desktop and want dockable locations and customized GUI widgets without having to fight about which application is meant to run as the Gui Shell, yup I can change that, don't like the way my word processing program displays my toolbar, yup I can change that.
Does it take time and energy? sure, but I like to compare the whole Windows vs Linux debate to Cars, some people but what's on the dealer's floor, drive it until it breaks, and take it back to the dealer for repairs, and when the dealer says they no longer support that car, they simply buy the new one on the floor and repeat. But some people, myself included, like to buy an old shell, put in the parts that I so lovingly pick out and fine tune, bolt, wire, rivet and screw them all together, put on a custom paintjob and continue to update, upgrade, repair and maintain it until some unforseable event happens that forces me to start over again.
it's always made me a pissed off SoB when I get used to waking up at 8 and I'm forced to wake up at what was 7 just because someone thinks my lamp uses more power when it's on an hour longer.
DST is a rancid bandaid for a large scope problem, and changing DST is like pissing on that bandaid expecting it not to fester.
Many years ago, ok, not that many, early 99, I had a 3 round interview with M$ for an application development position, I had pitched myself, sent in a resume, gotten a response from them. The first interview was over the phone, lasted about a half hour and was really just confirming who I am, what I can do, what I wanted to do, the normal interview yada yada. The second was a M$ pitch session, the whole "what we can offer" and "who we are" gig, along with what I want to do in the future, where I want to go, that jazz. The third one, was more of a "thinkers" sort of interview than technical, they didn't really ask me much about programming, or application design, but more logic puzzles, I had 2 interviewers for this one, each took turns throwing me a question, the lasy would ask me logic puzzles while the man was asking some fairly difficult "if I knew that I wouldn't be here" type Jeopardy questions.
Now after about 8 or so questions each, and about 3 hours of time, the lady asks me Einstein's Riddle, which is tough enough when given a week to work on it much less maybe an hour, but as I had done Einstein's Riddle several times already in college (do it once and the rest is just a slight modification to your original process) it was easy, she thought I cheated because I answered it in less than 5 minutes, although she was using an unmodified version of the riddle so I didn't quite cheat but I didn't quite do the problem, anyway so she now dislikes me, and the guy asks me to recite Pi to 100 characters, I asked him if he had it written down or knew it by heart so he could check my answer and surprisingly he answered an honest no, so I told him that anyone who bothers to memorize Pi to 100 characters has too much time on their hands, so I told him the C code to do the same thing, this made his fairly upset and he said I didn't answer his question, so my response of "Well, do you want me to do the same for E" started a fairly heated verbal confrontation that ended with him swinging at me, I thought what I said about his wife was hilarious, but I guess some people don't have a sense of humor.
I don't know if he lost his job, but I made damned sure he spent the night in jail, judge gave him like 600 hours of community service and he had to pay for my doctor bill for my broken nose.
So, while they might be able to offer a lot, they need to work on hiring people with a certain level of professionalism.
Didn't evn bother calling them back when they called and offered to redo the interview.
Charge $10 on a TV, and I STILL can't throw it away, so I'm paying ahead of time to get rid of a monitor that I legally CAN'T get rid of...
What's next, paying a tax on murdering someone and still not being able to shoot that damned purple dinosaur?
Cornell's letting these guys get away with this PoS?
I've seen better out of an ITT
Seriously, these guys made a scalable serial controlled bar mixer, sort of the same design here, but it hooked up to a PC running software to mix drinks, so it was quite a bit more impressive, especially since adding a new type of alcohol or mixer was as simple as a new module being built and a number set on it with dip switches, then adding the drink in the software.
Last I saw of it, they were working on adding a shaker.
By comparison this "big red" sucks.
"Caching - The caching mechanism eliminates database queries increasing performance and reducing the server's load. Not only can the caching be tuned in real time, while your site is under load, but it has been successfully tested under a "slashdotting" and performed extremely well."
but when I went earlier, during the relatively MILD/. effect the developers section causes, sure enough there was a "mysql too many connections" message on the screen.
it's a D-Link, it'll SAY it has all sorts of useful and great features on the box, but when you plug it in and go to configure it you'll find out those features don't actually WORK, like D-Link's PPTP Client feature of some of their routers, it WILL connect to a PPTP server, but it's only a client for the router itself, not anyone behind the router, so it's not really all that bloody useful as a PPTP client now is it?
I HATE D-Link, had 3 products from them, 1 had a meltdown turning a 10/100 switch into a 1Kb switch, 1 print server that fried after a year causing endless line feeds, and a VPN router that couldn't ACTUALLY be used for either end of a VPN connection.
3 strikes, they're out, screw D-Link!
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"Wells calls PHP and MySQL this generation's BASIC"
Apples to apples here man.
MySQL works very well for what it's intented to do, as does BASIC, I don't expect my RDBMS to generate HTML for me, and I don't expect BASIC (or any other language) to handle referential integrity for my record sets.
The Protochicken came first! which opens the question, which came first, the protochicken, or the protoegg?
and the best looking fighters they can show look like theyr came straight out of Tron?
I charge everyone, my standard "can you fix my PC" rate is $50/hr, period.
And if the problem is big enough I tell them to buy a Dell, because it'd be cheaper.
I even charge my own mother, it tends to make her think about a problem before calling, and maybe research it a little to see if it's really a problem and worth an hour drive for me to come look at it, it's worked so well she went from only knowing how to play freecell, to building her own system and playing World of Warcraft, in just a couple years.
I order mine by type - fiction or non, then by major subject, then minor subject, then by book title if its non-fiction, author if its fiction.
But then I have my non-fiction in one room, fiction in another.
Bullshit!
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as a LiveJournal user, and a California resident I'm a little confused, as per state law they are required to inform users of breaches of security like this
I'd go for the large array of telescope/x-ray laser hybrid sats
think of the global earth defense array they had in one of those star trek generations movies
a spherical array of thousands of satellites, each equiped with a telescope and an x-ray laser
we get a much better view of the sky, namely a 360, unlike our current 1 percent we'll see it all
and many of the satellites could aim at the same target or targets if the main one breaks up
I think it would work better than the nuclear blast idea some folks have, with one big blast, omni-directional, which wouldn't do diddly, you instead have hundreds or thousands of individual directed blasts focusing on a single area, or several areas depending on the shape of the object, to intentionally fracture a single large object into hundreds of smaller ones, which each can be targeted depending on size, if they are under a certain size simply ignore them as the atmosphere will likely burn them up, otherwise blast em.
why do hardware vendors so secretly guard their driver code?
I mean it's not like it contains their corporate credit card number in the source.
I've written drivers before (college, not since, just PoC, but still...) and it wasn't some huge horrible task using ultra powerful genius level insightful code, it was mainly just a lot of hacks a kludging and worked as stable as needed, but good lord it was fairly routine code.
I'd wager the apache2 hybrid multi-process/thread code is ten times as complex as the NIC driver I'm using right now, and it's open source.
But to get to a point, I do agree to a point that a binary driver api would be useful as all hell for those shallow minded groups out there that think their driver code is made up of something that might hurt national security or somesuch crap, but they better damned well start actually making drivers, I mean the knife we've had to crank into nVidia's back since the days of quake3 to get viable linux drivers has taken it's toll and they now release linux drivers almost as religiously as they release windows drivers, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't want to sit through a compile of a driver as large as nVidia's, but the 30 seconds it'll take to compile the driver for my 3com nic I can live with.
And I do still want some control over the driver, a "health check" if you will, something I can run the driver through that will spit out all the I/O the driver will do, the memory it will register, basically GDB on steroids, if I can't see the source, I can atleast see every single thing the driver will or can do.
But I'd honestly rather have open source drivers.
We have open source because a single piece of code is only as good as the people who have looked at it, and if only 1 person has ever looked at it, well...
but if thousands have looked at it, just look at the stability of the kernel now (or BSD, not to start a religious war but christ man we have some work to do in the kernel cause BSD really IS beating us when it comes to a couple of big factors, and I'm kind of ashamed of it being the kernel jockey around my enterprise)
just because it's fermented doesn't mean it's BEER
no alcohol, no hops, means no beer
it's just fermented coffee
I'd owe in 12 states, 4 countries and a principality. And that's just for jobs that were "on the record" Bit jobs and cash and carry gigs might run me closer to 30 states.
ok, so upgrade-ation isn't a word, but damnit if something breaks in Windows I have to wait, sometimes years, before it gets "fixed" usually causing more issues (XP sp2 anyone), or if there is something I don't like about Windows I'm stuck with with whatever I don't like until the next version, where it "might" get fixed.
But with Linux (and BSD to an extent), I can FIX the damned thing, being a software engineer helps yeah, but if I find a problem, I can fix it, or pay someone to fix it, for as long as I use it, can't say that about Windows, I know people who are still using NT4 simply because some application that was made for it that they based their entire company around, ONLY runs on NT4 (no philosophical debates, it ONLY runs on NT4, compatability mode in 2k and XP doesn't cut it) and you can't even PAY Microsoft to support NT4 anymore.
But Linux, just about every app comes with the source code (and I'm not talking free, most of the commercial apps I use on Linux come with source), so if something breaks I can fix it, if the company who wrote the app goes out of business I can STILL fix it.
Beyond that, I love being able to customize the what, how, where, when and why of my personal system.
don't like the filesystem, yup, I can change that, don't like my filemanager, yup I can change that, don't like my X server, admittedly small list to choose from but yup I can change that, don't like my desktop server, yup I can change that, don't like the layout of my desktop and want dockable locations and customized GUI widgets without having to fight about which application is meant to run as the Gui Shell, yup I can change that, don't like the way my word processing program displays my toolbar, yup I can change that.
Does it take time and energy? sure, but I like to compare the whole Windows vs Linux debate to Cars, some people but what's on the dealer's floor, drive it until it breaks, and take it back to the dealer for repairs, and when the dealer says they no longer support that car, they simply buy the new one on the floor and repeat. But some people, myself included, like to buy an old shell, put in the parts that I so lovingly pick out and fine tune, bolt, wire, rivet and screw them all together, put on a custom paintjob and continue to update, upgrade, repair and maintain it until some unforseable event happens that forces me to start over again.
how out of nowhere can you be when you show up to LinuxWorld to display your product?
so we're replacing a 30 year old design with 50 year old technology
yeah, because re-entry by doing a flying brick into the ocean has always been a good idea
god I can't wait for a commercial venture to put nasa in their place
lately they've been proving to don't have to be a rocket scientist to actually BE a rocket scientist!
>>When was the last time a light switch turned itself off?
c h.html/
http://www.energy-solution.com/off-equip/occ_swit
really?
it's always made me a pissed off SoB when I get used to waking up at 8 and I'm forced to wake up at what was 7 just because someone thinks my lamp uses more power when it's on an hour longer.
DST is a rancid bandaid for a large scope problem, and changing DST is like pissing on that bandaid expecting it not to fester.
two thumbs down
Many years ago, ok, not that many, early 99, I had a 3 round interview with M$ for an application development position, I had pitched myself, sent in a resume, gotten a response from them.
The first interview was over the phone, lasted about a half hour and was really just confirming who I am, what I can do, what I wanted to do, the normal interview yada yada.
The second was a M$ pitch session, the whole "what we can offer" and "who we are" gig, along with what I want to do in the future, where I want to go, that jazz.
The third one, was more of a "thinkers" sort of interview than technical, they didn't really ask me much about programming, or application design, but more logic puzzles, I had 2 interviewers for this one, each took turns throwing me a question, the lasy would ask me logic puzzles while the man was asking some fairly difficult "if I knew that I wouldn't be here" type Jeopardy questions.
Now after about 8 or so questions each, and about 3 hours of time, the lady asks me Einstein's Riddle, which is tough enough when given a week to work on it much less maybe an hour, but as I had done Einstein's Riddle several times already in college (do it once and the rest is just a slight modification to your original process) it was easy, she thought I cheated because I answered it in less than 5 minutes, although she was using an unmodified version of the riddle so I didn't quite cheat but I didn't quite do the problem, anyway so she now dislikes me, and the guy asks me to recite Pi to 100 characters, I asked him if he had it written down or knew it by heart so he could check my answer and surprisingly he answered an honest no, so I told him that anyone who bothers to memorize Pi to 100 characters has too much time on their hands, so I told him the C code to do the same thing, this made his fairly upset and he said I didn't answer his question, so my response of "Well, do you want me to do the same for E" started a fairly heated verbal confrontation that ended with him swinging at me, I thought what I said about his wife was hilarious, but I guess some people don't have a sense of humor.
I don't know if he lost his job, but I made damned sure he spent the night in jail, judge gave him like 600 hours of community service and he had to pay for my doctor bill for my broken nose.
So, while they might be able to offer a lot, they need to work on hiring people with a certain level of professionalism.
Didn't evn bother calling them back when they called and offered to redo the interview.
Charge $10 on a TV, and I STILL can't throw it away, so I'm paying ahead of time to get rid of a monitor that I legally CAN'T get rid of... What's next, paying a tax on murdering someone and still not being able to shoot that damned purple dinosaur?
I've seen that model at a couple trade shows, it's a larger than life representation of what one of their smaller fans looks like
Mostly used as an attractor to their booth because it's big and shiny
like a poorman's booth girl
and no, it's not functional, just a big damned model
Cornell's letting these guys get away with this PoS? I've seen better out of an ITT Seriously, these guys made a scalable serial controlled bar mixer, sort of the same design here, but it hooked up to a PC running software to mix drinks, so it was quite a bit more impressive, especially since adding a new type of alcohol or mixer was as simple as a new module being built and a number set on it with dip switches, then adding the drink in the software. Last I saw of it, they were working on adding a shaker. By comparison this "big red" sucks.
quoted from their features
/. effect the developers section causes, sure enough there was a "mysql too many connections" message on the screen.
"Caching - The caching mechanism eliminates database queries increasing performance and reducing the server's load. Not only can the caching be tuned in real time, while your site is under load, but it has been successfully tested under a "slashdotting" and performed extremely well."
but when I went earlier, during the relatively MILD
it's a D-Link, it'll SAY it has all sorts of useful and great features on the box, but when you plug it in and go to configure it you'll find out those features don't actually WORK, like D-Link's PPTP Client feature of some of their routers, it WILL connect to a PPTP server, but it's only a client for the router itself, not anyone behind the router, so it's not really all that bloody useful as a PPTP client now is it? I HATE D-Link, had 3 products from them, 1 had a meltdown turning a 10/100 switch into a 1Kb switch, 1 print server that fried after a year causing endless line feeds, and a VPN router that couldn't ACTUALLY be used for either end of a VPN connection. 3 strikes, they're out, screw D-Link!
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