How about the bug where half the text is white, and half is randomly black? And the only way to read it is to mouse-highlight the missing text, and only the missing text...
This little problem appeared for me something around 0.8... Only happens once in a while, but it happens on the Article link for me...
Well, for the forseeable future, maintenance shouldn't be a problem since the three remaining shuttles have all had extensive OMDP periods already.
And servicing a shuttle is a sunk cost. You have to pay for those people somehow. What it means is that if one shuttle is flying, you likely can't have cargo installed in one of the other two in preparation for a rescue launch. Since cargo installs are done at the launch pad, there's no worry about having the launch stack assembled, only fueling it, and making the proper launch window.
I don't understand. It's either: release software that works with dual core CPUs, or get replaced by software that does. Or ensure that only XP Pro gets installed on dual core CPUs, and I don't think that's going to be acceptable to OEMs fighting with tight profit margins.
They don't have a choice. Microsoft has the cushion to take the profit hit...
That article you linked to explicitly states that XP Professional is fully capable of SMP... There's nothing preventing Microsoft from doing a dual-core WindowsUpdate for those people who do install XP Home to enable dual core support, and nothing preventing them from releasing a service pack to OEMs to support dual core on default installs.
I'm don't remember seeing them state this will be a future policy, but their committment to support dual core as single CPU's for the sake of per-CPU licensing would seem to indicate that this is a future possibility.
Excuse me? 32 bit Windows has been multiprocessor capable since WindowsNT 3.1 was released in 1993. Modern/recent incarnations are even better at it. Windows is no limitation to multiprocessing, today or in the future. Applications aren't even the limitation. Everyone running a modern OS (Linux/Windows/OSX) will benefit from Dual Core. Since even the most recent Linux kernel is almost completely preemptible, there's little reason to not move to dual core architectures from an application standpoint. EVERYONE will benefit.
Many operating systems have a concept of processor affinity, whereby due to caching issues wish to ensure that thread/process migration from CPUs does not occur. WindowsNT once had a problem whereby you could ensure that after every context switch your thread had migrated to a new processor, invalidating it's cached data and killing performance. Some applications require this sort of thing, and if you want to ensure that this migration behavior occurs as little as possible, then you can set affinity flags that clue the OS into this fact. It will then attempt to migrate your thread only as a last resort.
So, Windows can do this, even though it's only a guideline, as opposed to a true enforcement. I understand Linux has this capability, however I'm not positive.
That, IMHO, is untrue. Remembering that most modern OSes, like Windows NT from 3.1 to Windows 20003 and recent incarnations of the Linux kernel are fully preemptible, ANY user will benefit from the addition of a second CPU or Dual Core processor.
I can state emphatically that with the most demanding graphics application I have ever used, Pro/ENGINEER (CAD/CAM), I was successfully able to run a full regression suite while building the software tools that build Pro/ENGINEER.
You will definitely be able to digitize video and do other work at the same time. You may not approach the full potential, but in general your two CPUs will nearly approach 180% with mainstream tasks.
Why the fuck, oh why, oh why, cannot these damn onboard RAID or Hardware RAID chipsets provide a standard IDE emulation interface so that volume one, consisting of a RAID 1 mirror of physical disk 1 and 2 appear as one logical disk 1 to the Operating system? WHY!?!?!?!?!
I'm set to dump my Promise SuperTrak for an IDE enclosure with built in mirroring that presents the disk as a single IDE mirror. I'm sick of being unable to do kernel upgrades because my vendors driver is randomly incompatible with certain versions...
I could understand needing a driver for management capabilities, but the Linux driver for the Supertrak doesn't implement those...
http://arcoide.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD& St ore_Code=ADPS&Product_Code=EzRAID&Category_Code=EZ _FAMILY
I think you missed his point, or maybe I misread it, but *YOUR* data is on *YOUR* USB keychain, possibly along with the base browser and some accelerators.
No issue with data security, viruses, etc. It's an interesting take on the WebTV model, without restricting the users to a cheesy low-resolution interface. In this case, it's even better, particularly if the interface was designed for disconnected usage, and could work off a local copy of the data/applications. It's the panacea of the ASP model, because let's face it, sometimes your workstations will not be connected, either due to power requirements, or reception issues.
I'm primarily a solo diver, or when boat diving, I do a lot of "same day, same ocean" diving. I've trained at it, and have the equipment to do it as safely as possible, but ice diving and cave/wreck diving is quite different... Not paranoid, but I just don't know any dive buddies well enough to trust them with my life...
If a contributor is reluctant to sign an assignment for a large change, and is willing to sign a disclaimer instead, that is acceptable, so you should offer this alternative if it helps you reach agreement. We prefer an assignment for a larger change, so that we can enforce the GNU GPL for the new text, but a disclaimer is enough to let us use the text.</quote>
There's no saying you cannot keep copyright of your own code while also sharing it with the FSF in a legally enforceable manner.
I'm building a data entry tool at the moment for remote field operators. Since disconnected operation is important, I need to have a database to store data from Excel source files, rather than parse that Excel data in real time. Cloudscape fits that need, since I've chosen not to use.Net and COM.
I just finished a project for a client built around Access 2000. When I found out that the requirements changed, and the clients were using a mix of Access2000, Access XP, and Access 2003 versions, I had some serious issues with getting Access Forms to work successfully with all three. Suffice it to say, I pinned them to Access XP to make their deadline (Dec 31), with further work postponed. Who knows if that work will come.
Never again will I write an Access Forms application. I'd rather write it in a stable target (J2SE 1.4.2 or.Net 1.1) and use Access via ODBC than ever build another Access application.
As such, I'm forcing myself to relearn Java (and my love/hate relationship with GridBags) and to learn.Net simply to address this issue, as I'm getting more and more requests for these types of applications these days.
Years of VBA through ASP has crippled me....
Any application database, however, should be somewhat ODBC/JDBC compliant. Deduping and data normalization tools are a PITA to rewrite. Reusability is key when I want disconnected access in an application, but also want the ability to seamlessly integrate that data.
Look at the respective sizes of the FSF and BSD communities, and you'll see why the GPL is so successful. People know that their work isn't going to be coopted by a commercial outfit without further benefit to the community.
I'm not complaining about the CDDL; I'm disappointed in Sun, but it's their choice. As is your choice to use a BSD license. The GPL is my choice.
Yeah, but I was an annoying helpless newbie using lynx on a dialup to a VAX at Fitchburg Sate College in Massachusetts. AOL is for chumps. Except for AIM.:-D
More importantly, a good manager can be each type to each person. I had a period in time where depression caused me to need being micromanaged. A good boss would have let me roll along in my "hands-off" mode that I usually work so well in, until it got to the point I needed a decent piece torn out of me, but my boss recognized I was slipping quickly, and adjusted to meet my new needs. The refocus helped keep the depression from worsening and helped me perform better in a trying time.
You can be both things to different people. You just need to know your people. Start off in hands-off mode, especially with people you're not familiar with (new employees, transfers, etc) and evaluate them for a few weeks to a month to see how they perform. They may need more attention and can't ask for it.
Because when 99% of the Internet infrastructure needs to be able to properly handle SSL, you leave nothing to chance; you spell EVERYTHING out. You'd think the TCP/IP Protocol would be fairly simple too, no?
Oil is a petrochemical formed from biological matter, with heat and pressure applied. Anything we can make with oil, we can generate from biomass. It's just a matter of cost and time. And if oil is no longer cheap ($200 USD/bbl), then biomass will step in to fill in the gap.
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How about the bug where half the text is white, and half is randomly black? And the only way to read it is to mouse-highlight the missing text, and only the missing text...
This little problem appeared for me something around 0.8... Only happens once in a while, but it happens on the Article link for me...
no, because the rescue crew brings up fresh food and supplies.
Well, for the forseeable future, maintenance shouldn't be a problem since the three remaining shuttles have all had extensive OMDP periods already.
And servicing a shuttle is a sunk cost. You have to pay for those people somehow. What it means is that if one shuttle is flying, you likely can't have cargo installed in one of the other two in preparation for a rescue launch. Since cargo installs are done at the launch pad, there's no worry about having the launch stack assembled, only fueling it, and making the proper launch window.
I don't understand. It's either: release software that works with dual core CPUs, or get replaced by software that does. Or ensure that only XP Pro gets installed on dual core CPUs, and I don't think that's going to be acceptable to OEMs fighting with tight profit margins.
They don't have a choice. Microsoft has the cushion to take the profit hit...
That article you linked to explicitly states that XP Professional is fully capable of SMP... There's nothing preventing Microsoft from doing a dual-core WindowsUpdate for those people who do install XP Home to enable dual core support, and nothing preventing them from releasing a service pack to OEMs to support dual core on default installs.
I'm don't remember seeing them state this will be a future policy, but their committment to support dual core as single CPU's for the sake of per-CPU licensing would seem to indicate that this is a future possibility.
I don't mod, but thanks for calling me an idiot.
Wouldn't that wear off after a certain period of time? Having not seen new Canadian notes, I'm interested in knowing how robust they are...
I've never seen paper money with braille on it, so I'm curious how blind people ANYWHERE manage paper money?
Excuse me? 32 bit Windows has been multiprocessor capable since WindowsNT 3.1 was released in 1993. Modern/recent incarnations are even better at it. Windows is no limitation to multiprocessing, today or in the future. Applications aren't even the limitation. Everyone running a modern OS (Linux/Windows/OSX) will benefit from Dual Core. Since even the most recent Linux kernel is almost completely preemptible, there's little reason to not move to dual core architectures from an application standpoint. EVERYONE will benefit.
Many operating systems have a concept of processor affinity, whereby due to caching issues wish to ensure that thread/process migration from CPUs does not occur. WindowsNT once had a problem whereby you could ensure that after every context switch your thread had migrated to a new processor, invalidating it's cached data and killing performance. Some applications require this sort of thing, and if you want to ensure that this migration behavior occurs as little as possible, then you can set affinity flags that clue the OS into this fact. It will then attempt to migrate your thread only as a last resort.
So, Windows can do this, even though it's only a guideline, as opposed to a true enforcement. I understand Linux has this capability, however I'm not positive.
That, IMHO, is untrue. Remembering that most modern OSes, like Windows NT from 3.1 to Windows 20003 and recent incarnations of the Linux kernel are fully preemptible, ANY user will benefit from the addition of a second CPU or Dual Core processor.
I can state emphatically that with the most demanding graphics application I have ever used, Pro/ENGINEER (CAD/CAM), I was successfully able to run a full regression suite while building the software tools that build Pro/ENGINEER.
You will definitely be able to digitize video and do other work at the same time. You may not approach the full potential, but in general your two CPUs will nearly approach 180% with mainstream tasks.
Why the fuck, oh why, oh why, cannot these damn onboard RAID or Hardware RAID chipsets provide a standard IDE emulation interface so that volume one, consisting of a RAID 1 mirror of physical disk 1 and 2 appear as one logical disk 1 to the Operating system? WHY!?!?!?!?!
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I'm set to dump my Promise SuperTrak for an IDE enclosure with built in mirroring that presents the disk as a single IDE mirror. I'm sick of being unable to do kernel upgrades because my vendors driver is randomly incompatible with certain versions...
I could understand needing a driver for management capabilities, but the Linux driver for the Supertrak doesn't implement those...
http://arcoide.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD
I think you missed his point, or maybe I misread it, but *YOUR* data is on *YOUR* USB keychain, possibly along with the base browser and some accelerators.
No issue with data security, viruses, etc. It's an interesting take on the WebTV model, without restricting the users to a cheesy low-resolution interface. In this case, it's even better, particularly if the interface was designed for disconnected usage, and could work off a local copy of the data/applications. It's the panacea of the ASP model, because let's face it, sometimes your workstations will not be connected, either due to power requirements, or reception issues.
I'm primarily a solo diver, or when boat diving, I do a lot of "same day, same ocean" diving. I've trained at it, and have the equipment to do it as safely as possible, but ice diving and cave/wreck diving is quite different... Not paranoid, but I just don't know any dive buddies well enough to trust them with my life...
I've been dying to try it, but I cannot find anyone I trust enough to hold the rope...
If a contributor is reluctant to sign an assignment for a large change, and is willing to sign a disclaimer instead, that is acceptable, so you should offer this alternative if it helps you reach agreement. We prefer an assignment for a larger change, so that we can enforce the GNU GPL for the new text, but a disclaimer is enough to let us use the text.</quote>
There's no saying you cannot keep copyright of your own code while also sharing it with the FSF in a legally enforceable manner.
I'm building a data entry tool at the moment for remote field operators. Since disconnected operation is important, I need to have a database to store data from Excel source files, rather than parse that Excel data in real time. Cloudscape fits that need, since I've chosen not to use .Net and COM.
On the backend, I'm a PostgreSQL/MSSQL guy.
I just finished a project for a client built around Access 2000. When I found out that the requirements changed, and the clients were using a mix of Access2000, Access XP, and Access 2003 versions, I had some serious issues with getting Access Forms to work successfully with all three. Suffice it to say, I pinned them to Access XP to make their deadline (Dec 31), with further work postponed. Who knows if that work will come.
.Net 1.1) and use Access via ODBC than ever build another Access application.
.Net simply to address this issue, as I'm getting more and more requests for these types of applications these days.
Never again will I write an Access Forms application. I'd rather write it in a stable target (J2SE 1.4.2 or
As such, I'm forcing myself to relearn Java (and my love/hate relationship with GridBags) and to learn
Years of VBA through ASP has crippled me....
Any application database, however, should be somewhat ODBC/JDBC compliant. Deduping and data normalization tools are a PITA to rewrite. Reusability is key when I want disconnected access in an application, but also want the ability to seamlessly integrate that data.
Thankfully, Cloudscape has both (even if beta).
I know that the FSF *recommended* a copyright transfer, or at least specific rights to enforce code as a legally bound interested party.
I know you can offer certain copyright rights to other parties without impinging your own rights if you want to dual license your code.
Look at the respective sizes of the FSF and BSD communities, and you'll see why the GPL is so successful. People know that their work isn't going to be coopted by a commercial outfit without further benefit to the community.
I'm not complaining about the CDDL; I'm disappointed in Sun, but it's their choice. As is your choice to use a BSD license. The GPL is my choice.
Yeah, but I was an annoying helpless newbie using lynx on a dialup to a VAX at Fitchburg Sate College in Massachusetts. AOL is for chumps. Except for AIM. :-D
More importantly, a good manager can be each type to each person. I had a period in time where depression caused me to need being micromanaged. A good boss would have let me roll along in my "hands-off" mode that I usually work so well in, until it got to the point I needed a decent piece torn out of me, but my boss recognized I was slipping quickly, and adjusted to meet my new needs. The refocus helped keep the depression from worsening and helped me perform better in a trying time.
You can be both things to different people. You just need to know your people. Start off in hands-off mode, especially with people you're not familiar with (new employees, transfers, etc) and evaluate them for a few weeks to a month to see how they perform. They may need more attention and can't ask for it.
Because when 99% of the Internet infrastructure needs to be able to properly handle SSL, you leave nothing to chance; you spell EVERYTHING out. You'd think the TCP/IP Protocol would be fairly simple too, no?
Oil is a petrochemical formed from biological matter, with heat and pressure applied. Anything we can make with oil, we can generate from biomass. It's just a matter of cost and time. And if oil is no longer cheap ($200 USD/bbl), then biomass will step in to fill in the gap.
The bracket quoting. [] I've used many a third party SQL based tool, and done much SQL myself, I've only seen the quoting in Access databases.