Flamebait my ass, I didn't even think of that... Most of Microsoft's moves these days have google directly in the crosshairs, why would this be any different?
And by a thesaurus, you mean MS Word. Long live easy A's from pompous englsh high school teachers! (If they could teach worth a damn they'd be professors anyway)
For what it's worth, we have maybe 150 local servers, mostly windows 2000, a few win2003, and a handful of legacy nt4 boxes whch don't handle anything critical. We're talking corperate scale.
Incidentally, my location ran 2 unix database racks under constant 70% load, which have years of uptime. It was only 2 boxes though... ymmv (obviously).
Where I interned over the summer, the windows print server (running win2k) crashed once every two weeks for about 2 months before magically fixing itself (at least for the remainder of my time there), and one box running the time reporting web service (also w2k) was formally restarted every monday at noon as a preemptive fix for a periodic crash. Just because you have had a good windows experience doesn't make mine FUD. Contrary to your belief, it's not outdated. This company does have tens of servers, and yes, most of them do operate reliably. Client crashes are sometimes a problem but easily fixed with a ghost or application uninstall/reinstall.
My post was about out-of-class effort, not active learning. *Shrug* I agree with you about the kids who play video games in class... hell, I do it in my programming courses. The difference is 1) I already know the material and 2) If the course got harder and/or I begain doing poorly, I wouldn't bitch about the teacher... I'd start paying attention in class, and begin doing the ungraded assignments. I wish more teachers would give us collected, ungraded homework assignments with useful feedback on them (too often they just hand it over to a TA who takes 30 seconds per assignment to mark a big X if the problem is incorrect).
While telling me I was wrong, you affirmed my argument. Go you....so how about this new CSS slashdot comment interface? Nice and shiney and a post as ascii mode! yay
The best solution is to not have any such system and simply DO example problems in lecture. The thing that college lectures lack is not something captivating (like hitting the button on a remote is actually captivating...) or innovative, but BETTER LECTURES. Period. Lecturers tend to go over things in too much of an 'overview' format (at least in the science/tech classes) and avoid doing actual example problems that might help us LEARN.
You know, you sound like one of those assholes who doesn't do homework and bitches about it when (gasp!) you get poor grades! Professors, please don't waste lecture time for the people who actually put forth the effort to learn the material and actually present the material before throwing us into problem sets. Two hours a week to cover an entire subject leaves little enough time for teaching, let alone wasting your time walking babies like vectorian798 through the stuff they should be learning on their own time.
Can we get this on the slashdot front page? Article links get cached through bittorrent, and with the slashdot effect, we will be downloading the files lightning fast and freenet-style latency won't even be a problem with a custom tracker specialized for serving small files. Of course, it doesn't work when nobody reads the articles anyway..:)
I worked as an IS intern at a very large corperation this summer. When users called in for password resets, we are told to ask for nothing more than their logon ID. Anyone could call helpdesk and give a fradulent logon ID and hijack someone's account with ease. I'm surprised we haven't had a massive leak of confidential information...
EA wouldn't be allowing you to download games... they would be allowing you to download free content like demos which are already available through HTTP. If they devoted even half of their existing HTTP download bandwidth for seeding bittorrent, downloads would be lightning fast...
EA wins by cutting hosting costs significantly, the users win with far superior download times and no gay waiting in line at fileplanet. If they want to charge a premium, give them a dedicated http mirror with guaranteed 300kB download like the already do at download centers.
Slashdot Mirror
which is why we are in iraq.
more accurately, uncle sam tells us not to kill *civilians*
This was also my impression when I tried it again a few months ago...
Flamebait my ass, I didn't even think of that... Most of Microsoft's moves these days have google directly in the crosshairs, why would this be any different?
And by a thesaurus, you mean MS Word. Long live easy A's from pompous englsh high school teachers! (If they could teach worth a damn they'd be professors anyway)
For what it's worth, we have maybe 150 local servers, mostly windows 2000, a few win2003, and a handful of legacy nt4 boxes whch don't handle anything critical. We're talking corperate scale.
Incidentally, my location ran 2 unix database racks under constant 70% load, which have years of uptime. It was only 2 boxes though... ymmv (obviously).
Where I interned over the summer, the windows print server (running win2k) crashed once every two weeks for about 2 months before magically fixing itself (at least for the remainder of my time there), and one box running the time reporting web service (also w2k) was formally restarted every monday at noon as a preemptive fix for a periodic crash. Just because you have had a good windows experience doesn't make mine FUD. Contrary to your belief, it's not outdated. This company does have tens of servers, and yes, most of them do operate reliably. Client crashes are sometimes a problem but easily fixed with a ghost or application uninstall/reinstall.
My post was about out-of-class effort, not active learning. *Shrug* I agree with you about the kids who play video games in class... hell, I do it in my programming courses. The difference is 1) I already know the material and 2) If the course got harder and/or I begain doing poorly, I wouldn't bitch about the teacher... I'd start paying attention in class, and begin doing the ungraded assignments. I wish more teachers would give us collected, ungraded homework assignments with useful feedback on them (too often they just hand it over to a TA who takes 30 seconds per assignment to mark a big X if the problem is incorrect).
While telling me I was wrong, you affirmed my argument. Go you. ...so how about this new CSS slashdot comment interface? Nice and shiney and a post as ascii mode! yay
Yup. I'm currently purposefully remote administering your machine as we speak.
Can we get this on the slashdot front page? Article links get cached through bittorrent, and with the slashdot effect, we will be downloading the files lightning fast and freenet-style latency won't even be a problem with a custom tracker specialized for serving small files. Of course, it doesn't work when nobody reads the articles anyway.. :)
why should they mark it as updated? Keep the 'update' stamps for relevant changes, not 'update: added h in scheme'
mod parent up?
what does your sig do?
Are you kidding? The honeymoon is the height of marriage, it's downhill from there...
At least they are't suing each other...
I worked as an IS intern at a very large corperation this summer. When users called in for password resets, we are told to ask for nothing more than their logon ID. Anyone could call helpdesk and give a fradulent logon ID and hijack someone's account with ease. I'm surprised we haven't had a massive leak of confidential information...
How about Now there's one more reason for your friends to switch to Gentoo...
# Please try to keep posts on topic. # Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads.
EA wouldn't be allowing you to download games... they would be allowing you to download free content like demos which are already available through HTTP. If they devoted even half of their existing HTTP download bandwidth for seeding bittorrent, downloads would be lightning fast...
EA wins by cutting hosting costs significantly, the users win with far superior download times and no gay waiting in line at fileplanet. If they want to charge a premium, give them a dedicated http mirror with guaranteed 300kB download like the already do at download centers.
Acid2 isn't even a standards test, really... acid2 throws broken code at a browser to make sure it renders broken code corectly.
Who the fuck cares if a browser renders broken code prettily, if it didn't, maybe tag soup wouldn't be an issue anymore... long live xhtml 2