The main article is statistically inaccurate. The scan is in reality only 5% reliable if I remember rightly. It is only 90% effective when it comes to real positives, but the prevalence of false positives is so high as to remove any efficacy.
I have been programming for one year, sysadminning for the better part of ten years. Not a single programming day goes by where I am not working with mathematics. Sometimes it is low level stuff A + B/c^2 things, this last one though was implementing a timber Engineering equation, which integrates shear forces and bending moments, as well as environmental factors. I not just need to have a good understanding of raw mathematics, but also of a specific sector of Engineering in order to do my job.
Yes, math is important for the really interesting stuff.
Get yourself a good business-level machine. We've got the above, using 3rd party ink wax blocks. We just replaced an 8200n with an 8560 after 5 years and 120,000 pages. Our older 8560 is sitting at 80,000 pages and just had a stripped nylon gear replaced. Good machine, it does color, and is fast if you choose the right mode. Just don't laminate anything that comes out of it, unless you can do cold lamination.
Depending on how uniform your servers are, keep one version of CentOS and one version of Ubuntu running in a VM, and have these notify you when updates are available. When updates are available, test against these VMs, and do the local repository thing suggested by another person here. Do one system at a time to make sure something doesn't kill everything at once.
Web based apps with admin privs are fine as long as they're only accessable via the intranet, strongly passworded, and no one else knows they're there. If you need to do remotely, VPN in to the site, and SSH into each box. You're an Administrtor, start administratorizing. Some things just shouldn't be automated.
What more could I want? Ability to import Access.mdb files, and comparable reporting. I haven't tested the latest iteration of oo.org Base, but what I remember would involve a complete re-write of our code.
We've got a few business critical apps built solely in Access. I am working on moving the backend out of Access and into MySQL, but the frontend has to stay in Access (Not my decision). That in itself is quite a task, as I'm re-writing all our code anyways, but my wishlist includes Access integration into OO.org.
As an aside, I use OO.org at home, on a Debian box, and find it more than sufficient for my needs.
Not that hard, just become a residential supplier, and give all their customers a gmail address, and a "free" PC running gOS and there ya go.. the energy supply is just the hook to get you using their services.
Well, just give me a few billion dollars for my right to vote. I'll wisely invest it, and in a few years, I won't NEED to vote, and my opinion will be worth more than the votes of an entire State.
After all, it would be in the best interests of their customers, the viewers. The viewers are not the broadcaser's customers. The advertisers are. The viewers provide no revenue to the broadcasters, and if the viewers stop watching advertisements,there goes the incentive for the advertisers to be the customer of said broadcaster, so why make it easy to skip the adverts?
Really.. I've not not noticed the up and down menu levels. Then again my remote has buttons that take me straight to my dvd player, recorded tv, live tv, video library, music library, just about everything I use often has it's own direct button. If I had more buttons then everything would.
The big loser is Gateway. Now, the company cannot win. Would you buy a Gateway computer after reading the Slashdot article? Not likely. Why anyone who reads/. would buy a Gateway computer before reading this article is beyond me.
I went the xubuntu to mythtv route, since I needed my mythtv box to act as a bog-standard desktop as well. Sure it's got it's flaws. The frontend regularly crashes when listening to music, a power outage will completely fry the MySQL database, and may even do some damage to the filesystem, and the times for shows are never right. Would I swap it for a TiVo? Heck no. One Hauppage DVB-T tuner card does me just fine. Maybe I'll get another card eventually so I have fewer conflicts. I'll also grab TV shows from bittorrent or import dvd's from online dvd rental for movies.
My wife also has no problems with mythtv. My daughter likes it as well, since we can have her shows at any time she wants. That's a mixed blesing as she's only 3 and the stuff on Cbeebies she likes grates the nerves.
and those of the native people is the fact that his Adobe buildings are fired after construction, turning them basically into gigantic bricks. Read "Racing Alone" and "Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture" if you're really interested in the building techniques he uses.
The Cal-Earth project is really an interesting place. I got to talk to Mr Khalili on a visit there and asked him a few questions about building his homes where I live in Scotlad. He told me that the houses held in heat very well when needed, and could generate heat when needed. The homes of similar design found in his native Iran not only need to deal with extreme heat, but also very cold nghts. Heating is easily achieved, through built-in fireplaces as well as more modern heating methods.
His superadobe bags are just an easy way of creating the mud walls, sandbags filled with mud can to the same job, but potentially takes more time. Rammed Earth is another technique he discusses in "Ceramic Houses" as well as pre-made adobe blocks, and a mud slurry for cement if you don't fancy any above techniques.
If we do manage to get land and planning permission for one of his superadobe buildings, it'll be a lot more affordable than buying a house in this market... even if we do invite him and a team to do the building.
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The main article is statistically inaccurate. The scan is in reality only 5% reliable if I remember rightly. It is only 90% effective when it comes to real positives, but the prevalence of false positives is so high as to remove any efficacy.
I have been programming for one year, sysadminning for the better part of ten years. Not a single programming day goes by where I am not working with mathematics. Sometimes it is low level stuff A + B /c^2 things, this last one though was implementing a timber Engineering equation, which integrates shear forces and bending moments, as well as environmental factors. I not just need to have a good understanding of raw mathematics, but also of a specific sector of Engineering in order to do my job.
Yes, math is important for the really interesting stuff.
Get yourself a good business-level machine. We've got the above, using 3rd party ink wax blocks. We just replaced an 8200n with an 8560 after 5 years and 120,000 pages. Our older 8560 is sitting at 80,000 pages and just had a stripped nylon gear replaced. Good machine, it does color, and is fast if you choose the right mode. Just don't laminate anything that comes out of it, unless you can do cold lamination.
Good luck with that.
Depending on how uniform your servers are, keep one version of CentOS and one version of Ubuntu running in a VM, and have these notify you when updates are available. When updates are available, test against these VMs, and do the local repository thing suggested by another person here. Do one system at a time to make sure something doesn't kill everything at once.
Web based apps with admin privs are fine as long as they're only accessable via the intranet, strongly passworded, and no one else knows they're there. If you need to do remotely, VPN in to the site, and SSH into each box. You're an Administrtor, start administratorizing. Some things just shouldn't be automated.
Now my downloading of Linux ISO's and pre-release movies is going to be mingled with horse porn. Just what I always wanted.
and this got modded informative?
What more could I want? Ability to import Access .mdb files, and comparable reporting. I haven't tested the latest iteration of oo.org Base, but what I remember would involve a complete re-write of our code.
We've got a few business critical apps built solely in Access. I am working on moving the backend out of Access and into MySQL, but the frontend has to stay in Access (Not my decision). That in itself is quite a task, as I'm re-writing all our code anyways, but my wishlist includes Access integration into OO.org.
As an aside, I use OO.org at home, on a Debian box, and find it more than sufficient for my needs.
I know the above is a +5 funny comment, but seriously, this would be a perfect opportunity for students to do what they used to do best. Protest.
Not that hard, just become a residential supplier, and give all their customers a gmail address, and a "free" PC running gOS and there ya go.. the energy supply is just the hook to get you using their services.
Well, just give me a few billion dollars for my right to vote. I'll wisely invest it, and in a few years, I won't NEED to vote, and my opinion will be worth more than the votes of an entire State.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko_under_QEMU Try it yourself, there's a Windows QEMU binary in there. Runs slow on my laptop, but it is an emulated environment
I tried to RTFA, it reads like a High School student's English essay. I want my ten minutes back.
Really.. I've not not noticed the up and down menu levels. Then again my remote has buttons that take me straight to my dvd player, recorded tv, live tv, video library, music library, just about everything I use often has it's own direct button. If I had more buttons then everything would.
I went the xubuntu to mythtv route, since I needed my mythtv box to act as a bog-standard desktop as well. Sure it's got it's flaws. The frontend regularly crashes when listening to music, a power outage will completely fry the MySQL database, and may even do some damage to the filesystem, and the times for shows are never right. Would I swap it for a TiVo? Heck no. One Hauppage DVB-T tuner card does me just fine. Maybe I'll get another card eventually so I have fewer conflicts. I'll also grab TV shows from bittorrent or import dvd's from online dvd rental for movies.
My wife also has no problems with mythtv. My daughter likes it as well, since we can have her shows at any time she wants. That's a mixed blesing as she's only 3 and the stuff on Cbeebies she likes grates the nerves.
and those of the native people is the fact that his Adobe buildings are fired after construction, turning them basically into gigantic bricks. Read "Racing Alone" and "Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture" if you're really interested in the building techniques he uses. The Cal-Earth project is really an interesting place. I got to talk to Mr Khalili on a visit there and asked him a few questions about building his homes where I live in Scotlad. He told me that the houses held in heat very well when needed, and could generate heat when needed. The homes of similar design found in his native Iran not only need to deal with extreme heat, but also very cold nghts. Heating is easily achieved, through built-in fireplaces as well as more modern heating methods. His superadobe bags are just an easy way of creating the mud walls, sandbags filled with mud can to the same job, but potentially takes more time. Rammed Earth is another technique he discusses in "Ceramic Houses" as well as pre-made adobe blocks, and a mud slurry for cement if you don't fancy any above techniques. If we do manage to get land and planning permission for one of his superadobe buildings, it'll be a lot more affordable than buying a house in this market... even if we do invite him and a team to do the building.