Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.... Don't cross the (tty) streams.
The real problem here, after reading many of the replies is that average programmers (who populate most of the software development teams nowadays), could give two licks about how a function works. They will use bubble-sort as long as it returns an ordered set, regardless of its efficiency for the better or the worse.
Developers have become dependent on faster hardware, and increasing resources to improve their code. There used to be a time when efficiency in programming was celebrated -- now it's all about meeting deadlines, and churning out lines of code. No concerns about how well the application runs or what kind of resources it consumes, unless it happens to break or not meet some metric in testing -- in which case, they just throw hardware or half-assed caching at the issue.
I see this every day, simple applications turned into bloated, inefficient code, and developers demanding "more memory" or "more and/or faster cpus" to reduce compute time. It's absurd. If they spent the proper time to streamline the apps, and gave thought as to how they were utilizing their clock cycles and memory allocations, we could cut our resource consumptions down significantly.
We could build a containment wall around these cities and use their infrastructure to support our growing prison population.
Why not? Worked well enough for the Australians -- they eventually recovered and prospered!
Innocent until proven guilty, yes.
However, it says nothing about being inconvenienced. That's the unfortunate side to our legal system: although we pretend the burden is on the prosecution to prove guilt, you still are left dealing with the issue, even if innocent. Expect legal fees, court dates, evidence collection, and with all of that comes time off of work, phone calls, stress, etc..
I'm trying to figure out how he found the pea-sized rock that hit him. If it hit hard enough to leave a one-foot hole, how did it possibly survive? That rock would have smashed to pieces I would think. Why are there no photos of the impact crater?
It's like you've been watching me all day. I do pretty much the exact same thing, except my domain has a small amount of text and a tag for humor.
Just to add -- I also setup some honey-pot email addresses on my domain for accounts I never use.. I make sure hosts that delivery to those boxes get blacklisted asap. Catches a few hundred messages per week.
I just don't buy that the CEO of Sony has altruistic motives for protecting artists. This is all about the losses that continually climb from their Entertainment branches due to box office flops. They need a place to put blame, and since piracy is the big boogey man in the closet, it's become the reason for falling earnings.
People have much more troubling issues if they are consuming 2-9 LITERS of cola per day, which is what the study was based on. I'm sorry, but your pancreas is probably on FIRE trying to process that input.
I think my first linux experience was with Slackware as well. Slackware 3.2, Kernel 2.0.28? It was installed a second harddrive still formatted FAT. There was a handy tool that came installed that let you boot straight into Linux from Windows.. but you had to reboot again to get back into Windows. I mostly used the linux side to experiment with compiling and coding..
I later decided the dual-boot thing wasn't worth it, and built a machine frmo spare parts to run Slack 3.2. The box ran for 5 years straight without rebooting, as my primary mail, dns, web and ftp server. I finally shut it down after I moved for the second time (on UPS for the first one, in the back of my trunk), not due to any technical reasons, I just had finally outlived the 486dx4-100/32mb it ran on.
ken's labyrinth, Catacombs 3D for sure.. then Wolf-3D.
Ultima Underworld came out later I think, but was vastly superior as far as story and gameplay. Too bad the movement interface was terrible.
I think I've found that hiring passionate people, whether loaded with experience, or fresh out of college is the key. Someone who is passionate about technology and their job will ultimately lead you to a better work place, and will continually strive to improve on their work.
Some people may be good because they've been doing it for a long time, but if they don't particularly care about the job, you can't expect them to continually want to do great things for your company, nor stick around all that long.
MajorMUD single handedly killed most of the BBS's. Mudders would hose up all the lines either scripting or questing. I seem to recall more mud players than PPP/SLIP connections on most boards I used in the late 90's, until they were no longer able to support themselves because of the mudders sucking up dedicated phone lines. The subscription ratio was just too steep.
Many telnet only MajorBBS's/WG's still operate and run MajorMUD to this day though, and quite effectively.
That is exactly the case. People are so used to "apt-get" or "yum install" that they are unable to resolve library dependencies on their own for software that falls outside of the distribution.
Whether this is good or bad is to be determined -- software should not be so difficult to install, but admins should be competent enough to adapt. Providing tools like apt-get and yum do aid in speed of service delivery, but don't give much hope to future admins who have never heard of "./configure" or "make all"
VirtualBox's success aside, it would seem the management of Sun's virtualization, paravirtualization, and domains has always fallen short. I truly do hope they work this out and provide something intuitive and attractive. I find this is a critical point to success in a world of consolidation (which is no doubt the leading driver of virtualization and hypervisors). If I were to consolidate 20 hosts down to 1, I need to be absolutely confident in my abilities to manage those 20 instances, and monitor for any issues.
As I mentioned, VMWare seems to be the king of management right now, but their VMWare Infrastructure products can be a bit flakey at times, and are restricted to Windows only platform. I think may expose a weakness that Sun, Redhat, or any other vendor could improve upon.
I don't think it will be as successful as they hoped. Sun is far too late to this x86 virtualization game. LDOM's and Containers, and Xen are great technologies, but they just haven't been nearly as flexible as VMWare's offering. Management of the environments (LDOM/Containers/Xen guests) has been very kludgy. This is where VMWare has really gained dominance, and I suspect will retain it. They are years ahead in virtualization management.
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Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. ...
Don't cross the (tty) streams.
The real problem here, after reading many of the replies is that average programmers (who populate most of the software development teams nowadays), could give two licks about how a function works. They will use bubble-sort as long as it returns an ordered set, regardless of its efficiency for the better or the worse. Developers have become dependent on faster hardware, and increasing resources to improve their code. There used to be a time when efficiency in programming was celebrated -- now it's all about meeting deadlines, and churning out lines of code. No concerns about how well the application runs or what kind of resources it consumes, unless it happens to break or not meet some metric in testing -- in which case, they just throw hardware or half-assed caching at the issue. I see this every day, simple applications turned into bloated, inefficient code, and developers demanding "more memory" or "more and/or faster cpus" to reduce compute time. It's absurd. If they spent the proper time to streamline the apps, and gave thought as to how they were utilizing their clock cycles and memory allocations, we could cut our resource consumptions down significantly.
We could build a containment wall around these cities and use their infrastructure to support our growing prison population. Why not? Worked well enough for the Australians -- they eventually recovered and prospered!
Innocent until proven guilty, yes. However, it says nothing about being inconvenienced. That's the unfortunate side to our legal system: although we pretend the burden is on the prosecution to prove guilt, you still are left dealing with the issue, even if innocent. Expect legal fees, court dates, evidence collection, and with all of that comes time off of work, phone calls, stress, etc..
I'm trying to figure out how he found the pea-sized rock that hit him. If it hit hard enough to leave a one-foot hole, how did it possibly survive? That rock would have smashed to pieces I would think. Why are there no photos of the impact crater?
I tried to process this statement a few times trying to comprehend why you were shooting fish with missles. Guess I'll learn to read the subject..
Unless you have Verizon FIOS, and your UPS battery has died.
It's like you've been watching me all day. I do pretty much the exact same thing, except my domain has a small amount of text and a tag for humor. Just to add -- I also setup some honey-pot email addresses on my domain for accounts I never use.. I make sure hosts that delivery to those boxes get blacklisted asap. Catches a few hundred messages per week.
Clearly you haven't been to Clearwater -- they are already easy to spot..
I just don't buy that the CEO of Sony has altruistic motives for protecting artists. This is all about the losses that continually climb from their Entertainment branches due to box office flops. They need a place to put blame, and since piracy is the big boogey man in the closet, it's become the reason for falling earnings.
People have much more troubling issues if they are consuming 2-9 LITERS of cola per day, which is what the study was based on. I'm sorry, but your pancreas is probably on FIRE trying to process that input.
I think my first linux experience was with Slackware as well. Slackware 3.2, Kernel 2.0.28? It was installed a second harddrive still formatted FAT. There was a handy tool that came installed that let you boot straight into Linux from Windows.. but you had to reboot again to get back into Windows. I mostly used the linux side to experiment with compiling and coding.. I later decided the dual-boot thing wasn't worth it, and built a machine frmo spare parts to run Slack 3.2. The box ran for 5 years straight without rebooting, as my primary mail, dns, web and ftp server. I finally shut it down after I moved for the second time (on UPS for the first one, in the back of my trunk), not due to any technical reasons, I just had finally outlived the 486dx4-100/32mb it ran on.
Blarg.
Judean People's Front can suck it! People's Front of Judea 4 LIFE!
ken's labyrinth, Catacombs 3D for sure.. then Wolf-3D. Ultima Underworld came out later I think, but was vastly superior as far as story and gameplay. Too bad the movement interface was terrible.
Reminds me of SimCity 2000 (yes, the OLD one, just after the original SimCity) and the bio domes/cork screw buildings.
I think I've found that hiring passionate people, whether loaded with experience, or fresh out of college is the key. Someone who is passionate about technology and their job will ultimately lead you to a better work place, and will continually strive to improve on their work. Some people may be good because they've been doing it for a long time, but if they don't particularly care about the job, you can't expect them to continually want to do great things for your company, nor stick around all that long.
MajorMUD single handedly killed most of the BBS's. Mudders would hose up all the lines either scripting or questing. I seem to recall more mud players than PPP/SLIP connections on most boards I used in the late 90's, until they were no longer able to support themselves because of the mudders sucking up dedicated phone lines. The subscription ratio was just too steep. Many telnet only MajorBBS's/WG's still operate and run MajorMUD to this day though, and quite effectively.
A quick search shows that while the reactions are sped up, it also increases the rate of oxidation, and rate of undesirable chemical reactions, causing a "scorched" taste. See the abstract: http://www.ajevonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/23?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=ultrasound&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT
That is exactly the case. People are so used to "apt-get" or "yum install" that they are unable to resolve library dependencies on their own for software that falls outside of the distribution. Whether this is good or bad is to be determined -- software should not be so difficult to install, but admins should be competent enough to adapt. Providing tools like apt-get and yum do aid in speed of service delivery, but don't give much hope to future admins who have never heard of "./configure" or "make all"
Reboot it three times.
s/gold/copper/
VirtualBox's success aside, it would seem the management of Sun's virtualization, paravirtualization, and domains has always fallen short. I truly do hope they work this out and provide something intuitive and attractive. I find this is a critical point to success in a world of consolidation (which is no doubt the leading driver of virtualization and hypervisors). If I were to consolidate 20 hosts down to 1, I need to be absolutely confident in my abilities to manage those 20 instances, and monitor for any issues. As I mentioned, VMWare seems to be the king of management right now, but their VMWare Infrastructure products can be a bit flakey at times, and are restricted to Windows only platform. I think may expose a weakness that Sun, Redhat, or any other vendor could improve upon.
I don't think it will be as successful as they hoped. Sun is far too late to this x86 virtualization game. LDOM's and Containers, and Xen are great technologies, but they just haven't been nearly as flexible as VMWare's offering. Management of the environments (LDOM/Containers/Xen guests) has been very kludgy. This is where VMWare has really gained dominance, and I suspect will retain it. They are years ahead in virtualization management.