The mfile website runs an ITCS-developed software package named "file drawers". This is a web-based file manager which talks to an AFS filesystem back-end. We have plans to extend it to handle ext2/ext3 and possibly NFS.
We intend to make the file drawers source code available via anonymous CVS under an open source license in the near future. However, the source code is not yet ready for distribution as a generic web-based file manager. The source contains a large number of graphics, hooks, and links which are specific to the University of Michigan computing environment. Creating a non-umich version is a substantial ongoing project.
When the software is released there will be a link to the anonymous CVS repository. Please watch the file drawers website for further updates.
Sometimes it's far more than a stuck pixel. Unfortunately, it can be every other word, or perhaps their grammar is so bad that I read something entirely different from what they meant.
Honestly, when I read someone's poor english (and I know they're a native speaker), I stop paying attention to what they've written, and I start dwelling on how stupid they must be.
Yeah, you already have the infrastructure to do this... DV recorder and a bunch of DV tapes. You should try out DV Backup.
DV Backup is a shareware application for MacOS X 10.2 and 10.3
which lets you backup any data files to a MiniDV or Digital8 camcorder.
With up to 17.5GB of storage on each low cost, high capacity 60 minute MiniDV (or Video8/Hi8) tape, a single one hour tape can store nearly four times as much data as a 4.7GB DVD disc, and more than twice as much as a dual-layer DVD.
After a year's worth of work doing web programming at my second job (I graduated 2 years earlier with a BS in stats), I was introduced to a new hire, and asked to bring him up to speed. He had freshly earned a masters in CS, had his theory down pat.
However, when I created an account for him, the system asked him to enter a password. It didn't accept it because it was based on a dictionary word. So, he tried again, and again, and again. I gave him some suggestions of using an acronym and tossing in some numbers or punctuation... 20 minutes worth of trying later, he finally had a password that the system would accept. The rest of our session was nearly as painful because well, he had never used a system like this, and that the lab at school was set up "just right".
Yeah.
Lesson: get some real experience doing some hands-on stuff. Keep refining your skills after you've started your job. Toy with things you're interested in after-hours.
A hungry mind will have a far better chance of suceeding in this world.
many people are just resentful of the fact that intelligent people do not need to go to school to get ahead.
I think it's unfortunate how difficult it is to find work at a job as further education. I've learned far more in the last few years than I ever did in school, and look - I'm getting paid too!
About two years ago, we started replacing our central web, email, and distribued filesystem (AFS) infrastructure, and sites computing services hardware to intel. We switched from Solaris to our own linux from scratch and have seen tremendous improvements - mostly due to price and performance benefits.
You may ask, how do we run 300+ linux from scratch machines without running into major software version control issues? radmind.
Our LFS is tightly integrated with radmind, which allows us to control every part of the filesystem that we choose. I can bring up a hotspare with a blank hard drive from CD, and add it to the production pool 10 minutes later, and with the latest software.
There's more information available here, unfortunately, the article is 13 months old, and doesn't show the current depth of services we offer that run on linux.
p.s. Netcraft seems to be showing our networking infrastructure, and not our webservers, or other equipment.
At least if astronomers find out that an asteroid is heading our way, we can do something about it, but if there is a gamma burst, we get no warning. And if we did, would there be any way to protect the planet?
Well, at least us geeks who spend so much time in our data centers will survive...
Compared to it, America chocolate tasted sort of chalky and brittle at best, 1984-style-chocolate-ration at worst.
Yes, mainstream American chocolate sucks, as does mainstream American beer (Bud, MGD, etc.). But it doesn't have to.
Ghirardelli makes some rather good mass-produced chocolate, and it's probably easy to find in grocery stores near you. If you want to go really gourmet, check out Jacques Torres, that's Mr. Chocolate to you. Also, the Rosengarten Report on chocolate has some really tasty pointers.
Most who missed out on the rebates forgot to redeem them (41%). Others lost the forms, receipts or product bar codes (25%), didn't feel the rebate was worth the effort (20%) or thought the redemption process was too complicated (14%), according to a survey by Leflein Associates Inc.
Guess what? 41+25+20+14 = 100%. This was a survey, and they asked people the question, they responded why they didn't file their rebate. 41% of those people who didn't file their rebate forgot to do it. This doesn't mean that 41% of all people who purchased a product with a rebate forgot. It means that was the most common reason why they didn't.
Unfortunately, the article doesn't state how many didn't file for their rebate... if it had, you could do some math to figure out who many had forgotten. For example, if only 50% of rebates were fulfilled, then you could say that 20.5% of all shoppers forgot to submit theirs.
This doesn't take a stats degree to figure out, it takes some rudimentary logic.
Getting another cheap piece of commodity PC hardware out into the markey isn't the point. The point is that this is a small, cheap multi-media piece of hardware.
FTA: Intel on Wednesday showed off its living room PC of the future--and it looks a lot like the Mac Mini.
This can easily play DVDs, mp3s, record TV (think tivo or myth for that matter). How long until either Apple releases the software for running your own Tivo, or importing TV directly into iMovie. This is meant to be the digital jukebox that you use when you're not "working", but instead enjoying life.
overlooks much of the hard work it takes to successfully develop interoperable products – namely, ensuring that the "contract" defined by a specification is successfully implemented
That's why they're using an ASCII standards-compliant – hyphen. The irony is thick here.
Windows always used to piss me off, since there are about 6 different key combinations to copy and paste information, depending on which application you're using. For example, highlight with the right mouse button to copy in one app, use cntrl-F1-p to paste in another.
They only accelerate fast IF YOU'RE STARING THE ENGINE AT ZERO RPM.
Great, fantastic. And just how many times do you start your car at zero MPH with an RPM above idling speed? Is that what's really driving modern-day auto sales, is how well a car can perform in a drag-race? Well, damn, I better take my trusty Honda Civic back to the dealer, and tell him that despite that 300 mile trip I just took on a 10 gallon tank of gas, the leather-wearing bitch down the street beat my pants off in a drag-race. My ride's no good, I need some better fucking wheels man!
No, most people accelerate from a stop with their engine running at a very low rate. They do it from red lights, or from the parking lot, etc. I seriously think this is an impressive feat for an electric car, and makes me want to buy one of these instead of those Priuses that have been winning all sorts of awards.
If you want to kill an animal do it with your own hands on a weapon, not on a mouse button.
I agree with you, but you added 3 words too many: "on a weapon". Seriously, if you're going to kill something - end it's life, for fun... you should give your opponent as much of a chance as you have.
Fight it bare-handed. Now that's a real sport. Shooting an animal that we've left behind in evolution is simply exploitative. Otherwise, why not send a
UAV armed with a laser-guided smart bomb to wipe out Bambi?
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they've decided to fork?
The mfile website runs an ITCS-developed software package named "file drawers". This is a web-based file manager which talks to an AFS filesystem back-end. We have plans to extend it to handle ext2/ext3 and possibly NFS.
We intend to make the file drawers source code available via anonymous CVS under an open source license in the near future. However, the source code is not yet ready for distribution as a generic web-based file manager. The source contains a large number of graphics, hooks, and links which are specific to the University of Michigan computing environment. Creating a non-umich version is a substantial ongoing project.
When the software is released there will be a link to the anonymous CVS repository. Please watch the file drawers website for further updates.
Sometimes it's far more than a stuck pixel. Unfortunately, it can be every other word, or perhaps their grammar is so bad that I read something entirely different from what they meant.
Honestly, when I read someone's poor english (and I know they're a native speaker), I stop paying attention to what they've written, and I start dwelling on how stupid they must be.
DV Backup is a shareware application for MacOS X 10.2 and 10.3 which lets you backup any data files to a MiniDV or Digital8 camcorder.
With up to 17.5GB of storage on each low cost, high capacity 60 minute MiniDV (or Video8/Hi8) tape, a single one hour tape can store nearly four times as much data as a 4.7GB DVD disc, and more than twice as much as a dual-layer DVD.
After a year's worth of work doing web programming at my second job (I graduated 2 years earlier with a BS in stats), I was introduced to a new hire, and asked to bring him up to speed. He had freshly earned a masters in CS, had his theory down pat.
However, when I created an account for him, the system asked him to enter a password. It didn't accept it because it was based on a dictionary word. So, he tried again, and again, and again. I gave him some suggestions of using an acronym and tossing in some numbers or punctuation... 20 minutes worth of trying later, he finally had a password that the system would accept. The rest of our session was nearly as painful because well, he had never used a system like this, and that the lab at school was set up "just right".
Yeah.
Lesson: get some real experience doing some hands-on stuff. Keep refining your skills after you've started your job. Toy with things you're interested in after-hours.
A hungry mind will have a far better chance of suceeding in this world.
many people are just resentful of the fact that intelligent people do not need to go to school to get ahead.
I think it's unfortunate how difficult it is to find work at a job as further education. I've learned far more in the last few years than I ever did in school, and look - I'm getting paid too!
...ummm - the mac mini doesn't come with a mouse at all. You have to supply your own.
umm... cuz it runs OSX?
Or if that's too much work, one could also argue that Google ranks IIS down!
Which sounds remarkably like the "liberal biased media" claim.
We are, we have been.
About two years ago, we started replacing our central web, email, and distribued filesystem (AFS) infrastructure, and sites computing services hardware to intel. We switched from Solaris to our own linux from scratch and have seen tremendous improvements - mostly due to price and performance benefits.
You may ask, how do we run 300+ linux from scratch machines without running into major software version control issues? radmind.
Our LFS is tightly integrated with radmind, which allows us to control every part of the filesystem that we choose. I can bring up a hotspare with a blank hard drive from CD, and add it to the production pool 10 minutes later, and with the latest software.
There's more information available here, unfortunately, the article is 13 months old, and doesn't show the current depth of services we offer that run on linux.
p.s. Netcraft seems to be showing our networking infrastructure, and not our webservers, or other equipment.
At least if astronomers find out that an asteroid is heading our way, we can do something about it, but if there is a gamma burst, we get no warning. And if we did, would there be any way to protect the planet?
Well, at least us geeks who spend so much time in our data centers will survive...
You're right - it did crash and burn several years ago. At least, the stock price did...
Ahhh... then you weren't paying close enough attention. They all move out to the sides when you enter... it works a lot like the dock.
Compared to it, America chocolate tasted sort of chalky and brittle at best, 1984-style-chocolate-ration at worst.
Yes, mainstream American chocolate sucks, as does mainstream American beer (Bud, MGD, etc.). But it doesn't have to.
Ghirardelli makes some rather good mass-produced chocolate, and it's probably easy to find in grocery stores near you. If you want to go really gourmet, check out Jacques Torres, that's Mr. Chocolate to you. Also, the Rosengarten Report on chocolate has some really tasty pointers.
41% of shoppers never send in their rebates.
This is plain wrong. RTFA:
Most who missed out on the rebates forgot to redeem them (41%). Others lost the forms, receipts or product bar codes (25%), didn't feel the rebate was worth the effort (20%) or thought the redemption process was too complicated (14%), according to a survey by Leflein Associates Inc.
Guess what? 41+25+20+14 = 100%. This was a survey, and they asked people the question, they responded why they didn't file their rebate. 41% of those people who didn't file their rebate forgot to do it. This doesn't mean that 41% of all people who purchased a product with a rebate forgot. It means that was the most common reason why they didn't.
Unfortunately, the article doesn't state how many didn't file for their rebate... if it had, you could do some math to figure out who many had forgotten. For example, if only 50% of rebates were fulfilled, then you could say that 20.5% of all shoppers forgot to submit theirs.
This doesn't take a stats degree to figure out, it takes some rudimentary logic.
You mean you won't get messages anymore telling you that "you need to enlarge your tool"?
Getting another cheap piece of commodity PC hardware out into the markey isn't the point. The point is that this is a small, cheap multi-media piece of hardware.
FTA: Intel on Wednesday showed off its living room PC of the future--and it looks a lot like the Mac Mini.
This can easily play DVDs, mp3s, record TV (think tivo or myth for that matter). How long until either Apple releases the software for running your own Tivo, or importing TV directly into iMovie. This is meant to be the digital jukebox that you use when you're not "working", but instead enjoying life.
one-hundred-meeelion-dollars!
overlooks much of the hard work it takes to successfully develop interoperable products – namely, ensuring that the "contract" defined by a specification is successfully implemented
That's why they're using an ASCII standards-compliant – hyphen. The irony is thick here.
You mean they weren't talking about "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh"?
Maybe a program that uses SFTP, but with a nice GUI, but again, I'm not writing my own programs here.
What? like Fugu?
What consistency?
Windows always used to piss me off, since there are about 6 different key combinations to copy and paste information, depending on which application you're using. For example, highlight with the right mouse button to copy in one app, use cntrl-F1-p to paste in another.
Didn't they make a movie about this type of thing back in '71?
They only accelerate fast IF YOU'RE STARING THE ENGINE AT ZERO RPM.
Great, fantastic. And just how many times do you start your car at zero MPH with an RPM above idling speed? Is that what's really driving modern-day auto sales, is how well a car can perform in a drag-race? Well, damn, I better take my trusty Honda Civic back to the dealer, and tell him that despite that 300 mile trip I just took on a 10 gallon tank of gas, the leather-wearing bitch down the street beat my pants off in a drag-race. My ride's no good, I need some better fucking wheels man!
No, most people accelerate from a stop with their engine running at a very low rate. They do it from red lights, or from the parking lot, etc. I seriously think this is an impressive feat for an electric car, and makes me want to buy one of these instead of those Priuses that have been winning all sorts of awards.
If you want to kill an animal do it with your own hands on a weapon, not on a mouse button.
I agree with you, but you added 3 words too many: "on a weapon". Seriously, if you're going to kill something - end it's life, for fun... you should give your opponent as much of a chance as you have.
Fight it bare-handed. Now that's a real sport. Shooting an animal that we've left behind in evolution is simply exploitative. Otherwise, why not send a UAV armed with a laser-guided smart bomb to wipe out Bambi?