That not true. The code is deployed in two phases, Phase I, which is jsut enough to make the roadway work; and Phase II, which is what we need to make the roadway completely functional. A new version of the software is installed in field about every 2 months or so, though it will be less once the roadway opens (as we can't afford the down time an install takes).
The problem is not the programmers. Its the **** software we were given to work with.
The problem starts with the fact that we are the second contractor to pickup this problem, and we are required to adapt the first contractor's software to our needs. The software we have been given to work with is shoddy, badly coded, and still targets VAX C (even though it runs on an Alpha). Problems tend to crop up, and no one here really understands the system, including our contractors from the original system.
We also have all sorts of problems hiring (due to problems both on our side and their side of the table). We are never given enough money or time, and everyone here is vastly overworked.
The CA/T (Central Artery/Tunnel, or the BigDig) doesn't understand our needs or concerns, and getting help from them and their reps is like pulling teeth. Its like going to a frickin' Wrestling match, with petty arguments and name calling and bullshit all around.
Their requirements are frequently illogical and unclear, meaning time has to be spent on fixing the requirments that could better be spend on coding. We have all sorts of reliablity problems with the Alphas and assoicated hardware. It also takes about a pound of paper work and 3 days to be able to do anythign to the production systems in Boston.
The project is just one political mess, and to be honset, we are the CA/T's bitch, and get blamed for anything. The truth is that ev eryone is behind schedule, and that even if we are late deliviering, it will not matter because the tunnel will not be physically completed anyway. Kinda hard for the software to work if there's nothing out there for it to work with.
Ok, enough ranting for now. Feel free to reply or e-mail questions.
But I've always OS is synoymous with the Kernel. OS to me, means the lowest common demoninator you need to use it. Everything else is part of the Operating Environment. As such, Linux is the OS, and maybe GNU/Linux is the OE, if the OE is *pure* GNU utilities. Since Linux and *BSD use at least a GNU C/C++ toolchain, the GNU/Linux argument is out and foolish.
Its perfectly feasible and possible to create a Linux distribution that uses no GNU utilites, and instead uses original BSD utilities or the like. Then it would have to be called BSD/Linux by their arguments, which makes no sense.
What this really boils down to is that RMS has a huge-ass ego (and a small-ass dick) and he's throwing around this name to compensate for one or the other.
Go take a 2.4GHz freq. counter and antenna and stick it out in front of any new microwave oven. I guarantee that you will see a fair amount of radition leaking out of that think (unless they were in concrete, they're gonna leak RF). Its not really enough to harm you, since it doesn't travel very far (microwaves don't have high gain). But it if it is in a straight line path between a card and an AP, it can easily block it, if part of the spead spectrum falls within the microwave's frequency.
More importantly, I think everyone forgets that most people who pirate music are not likely to buy it anyway. MOst of my friends who actively download music off the internet don't listen to any of it, nor would they ever buy it. They just do it because its convinent and free. They never buy any cds, and its not because they can download music. They'd rather smoke weed then listen to 'tunes.
OTOH, several of my friends do download music, but its usually stuff they can't get in the states, is live music, or unqiue-type stuff. And they own lots of cds (300-400+).
All of these were signed into law before War was declared. They are therefore, unconstitutional. Also, I don't think a formal declaration of war was ever signed, which is needed to suspend constitutional rights.
I just graduated from a high school where we had a good 450 of those iPaq things floating around. I went to River Hill High School in Clarksville, MD (AKA Rich White Boy School).
The handheld program has been nothing but a failure.
First year, they tried giving them all to the 9th graders. All they did was download porn over the 802.11b (I'm not kidding), and play games. Forget actually using them for anything. The 'school' software we had never worked, and was served off crappy Compaq Armada laptops that never stayed on for very long. Not to mention how often the kids broke them and refused to pay.
After that mess, they tried making 5 or 6 classrooms digital. The most we ever used it for was to browse the web, except when we were showing off for the newspapers and TV. Given the fact that a full unit cost $700 (color IPaq, expansion sleeve, keyboard, case, Cisco 802.11b card), I'd just as soon see the money into buying eMacs or Dells instead of this. Then at least, we could see what we're browsing on the web.
Actually, you drop the.jpg icon in the.exe and make it the default icon, and then there is no way of telling. But outlook 98 here at work shows file extensions for everything, regardless of what windows is set to do. Hmm...
Guess what, I can on my dual 7200RPM IDE system: rip or compile.. not both.. and expect to get any work done. Even then, the system still gets latency.
Slocate's cron job is even worse if I'm up late.
I'm rarely at my home computer, so I have to be able to queue and automate everything as much as possible. That includes being able to pound the living crap out of my drives.
Most things are tremenoudlsy hard-drive bound, you just don't realize it. 512MB of ram goes a long way to caching.
Is regulations and cost. Does anyone here know how much a Telco pays to get space on anyone's tower? Thousands of dollars a month. Because they don't have to maintain it. Believe me, as soon as the Telco finds out about your tower (if you rent it, and setting up commerical towers is even more so expensive), they will buy it out from under your feet.
In the US at any rate, the regulations on such things are completely insane. Remember that there is no allocated bandwidth for wireless communications, meaning that if the US changes the rules, you could be in for some serious equipment changes later in the game. I don't know how it is Down Under, but I would guess your FCC-eqiv has similar rules. So I'd do it, but don't go wireless.
But the thing is, that was NLS hyperlinking and this is <i>Internet</i> hyperlinking. I mean, come on, the two must be sooo different! Why should the patent not be enforced? I mean then, we can sue every person who's every made a webpage and only be the biggest company on Earth? Really now!:)<p>
The fact is, Open source is bad for IP. If someone takes your source and steals it, and places it in a closed-source program, you are going to have a hard time proving it. If you haven't noticed, people really don't care about what you use open source software for, that's really what the GPL is all about (sharing software while protecting the author's rights). However, open APIs are good for IP. AFter all, what good is a piece of software if nobody can program it because all the specs are locked up? I think the answer is nothing, but please correct me if I am wrong. Second off, open APIs encourgage more people to use your software, lots of people aren't willing to pay thousands of dollars for an API they may use once. Not that any of this matters to Microsoft. For the time being, the have the monopoly, and they can do whatever they want, including force people to pay fortunes for software. They just don't have any realy competition. Now in time, this all may change, or maybe not.
Well, this is probably offtopic.., but does anyone here realize that the TI-89 has a m68k chip running around 10 MHz? My friend and I were gonna try to get a Linux kernel booted on the thing... and I think he's trying to get a group set up. I think it'd be cool if it worked, but I dunno seems like he might be getting into more than he can handle
That would be nice... but until Linux becomes mor standardized... it probably won't happen. How about RedHat gets together with all the people that copy very close off their distribution (i.e. Mandrake) and build one exam that covers all of them. As it turns out most of the difference between Mandrake and RedHat is what is installed and where it is installed. Everything else is almost identical. Debian could do the same w/ Corel. That might work... but a standarized class would be too hard (you could devote a whole year just to package management). So I say we should create a standardized certification as part of the Linux Standards Project
Couldn't this be the start of using like PGP or some other public-key system as ids? what if everyone in the world had 1 pgp key... and it was used for all sorts of transactions. This could be good or bad... depending on how you look at it. I think it would be pretty sweet until someone figured out how to take out the encryptions scheme in a hurry. then id theft would be a problem but then we could jsut use a different scheme.. stronger one. I think this might be a neat id.. though I jsut don't want to be a pgp id.
This kind of stuff is pointless. If a person is going to execute something on the level of Columbine, its probably going to happen. This nation has messed itself up so bad we can't see it coming. Now if we started putting some God back in the schools, maybe we see some results. If an when I end up taking the test, I am going to bomb the test so everybody will think I am some Satanist, Computer hacking freak, and going to kill everyone tommorow. Actually I am well-behaved, mostly pacifist, Christian, computer-hacking freak.
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The work crews aren't on time either. Wherever you read that, including the offical webpage, is complete and utter crap.
That's roughly exactly what's happening.
As we perfer to say:
We're their BITCH!
That not true. The code is deployed in two phases, Phase I, which is jsut enough to make the roadway work; and Phase II, which is what we need to make the roadway completely functional. A new version of the software is installed in field about every 2 months or so, though it will be less once the roadway opens (as we can't afford the down time an install takes).
The problem is not the programmers. Its the **** software we were given to work with.
The problem starts with the fact that we are the second contractor to pickup this problem, and we are required to adapt the first contractor's software to our needs. The software we have been given to work with is shoddy, badly coded, and still targets VAX C (even though it runs on an Alpha). Problems tend to crop up, and no one here really understands the system, including our contractors from the original system.
We also have all sorts of problems hiring (due to problems both on our side and their side of the table). We are never given enough money or time, and everyone here is vastly overworked.
The CA/T (Central Artery/Tunnel, or the BigDig) doesn't understand our needs or concerns, and getting help from them and their reps is like pulling teeth. Its like going to a frickin' Wrestling match, with petty arguments and name calling and bullshit all around.
Their requirements are frequently illogical and unclear, meaning time has to be spent on fixing the requirments that could better be spend on coding. We have all sorts of reliablity problems with the Alphas and assoicated hardware. It also takes about a pound of paper work and 3 days to be able to do anythign to the production systems in Boston.
The project is just one political mess, and to be honset, we are the CA/T's bitch, and get blamed for anything. The truth is that ev eryone is behind schedule, and that even if we are late deliviering, it will not matter because the tunnel will not be physically completed anyway. Kinda hard for the software to work if there's nothing out there for it to work with.
Ok, enough ranting for now. Feel free to reply or e-mail questions.
But I've always OS is synoymous with the Kernel. OS to me, means the lowest common demoninator you need to use it. Everything else is part of the Operating Environment. As such, Linux is the OS, and maybe GNU/Linux is the OE, if the OE is *pure* GNU utilities. Since Linux and *BSD use at least a GNU C/C++ toolchain, the GNU/Linux argument is out and foolish.
Its perfectly feasible and possible to create a Linux distribution that uses no GNU utilites, and instead uses original BSD utilities or the like. Then it would have to be called BSD/Linux by their arguments, which makes no sense.
What this really boils down to is that RMS has a huge-ass ego (and a small-ass dick) and he's throwing around this name to compensate for one or the other.
Go take a 2.4GHz freq. counter and antenna and stick it out in front of any new microwave oven. I guarantee that you will see a fair amount of radition leaking out of that think (unless they were in concrete, they're gonna leak RF). Its not really enough to harm you, since it doesn't travel very far (microwaves don't have high gain). But it if it is in a straight line path between a card and an AP, it can easily block it, if part of the spead spectrum falls within the microwave's frequency.
More importantly, I think everyone forgets that most people who pirate music are not likely to buy it anyway. MOst of my friends who actively download music off the internet don't listen to any of it, nor would they ever buy it. They just do it because its convinent and free. They never buy any cds, and its not because they can download music. They'd rather smoke weed then listen to 'tunes.
OTOH, several of my friends do download music, but its usually stuff they can't get in the states, is live music, or unqiue-type stuff. And they own lots of cds (300-400+).
All of these were signed into law before War was declared. They are therefore, unconstitutional. Also, I don't think a formal declaration of war was ever signed, which is needed to suspend constitutional rights.
To your first problem:
apt-get autoclean
To your second:
My last KDE build needed roughly 1.2GB of swap, 400MB for sources, and 1GB for the compile (its called make clean).
IT is technically illegal. In most states, its illegal to anything that distracts your from your primary focus (i.e. driving). That also means that:
Touching your AC is illegal
Playing with your stereo is illegal
Getting road-head is illegal.
Oh darn.
Here's one I found and never figure out why: :
The busted line was
number 8;
To bitshift the number left 8 times.
When I ran it, no matter what, I got a Floating point error.
Worked in GCC. Gotta love Micro$haft(TM).
I just graduated from a high school where we had a good 450 of those iPaq things floating around. I went to River Hill High School in Clarksville, MD (AKA Rich White Boy School).
The handheld program has been nothing but a failure.
First year, they tried giving them all to the 9th graders. All they did was download porn over the 802.11b (I'm not kidding), and play games. Forget actually using them for anything. The 'school' software we had never worked, and was served off crappy Compaq Armada laptops that never stayed on for very long. Not to mention how often the kids broke them and refused to pay.
After that mess, they tried making 5 or 6 classrooms digital. The most we ever used it for was to browse the web, except when we were showing off for the newspapers and TV. Given the fact that a full unit cost $700 (color IPaq, expansion sleeve, keyboard, case, Cisco 802.11b card), I'd just as soon see the money into buying eMacs or Dells instead of this. Then at least, we could see what we're browsing on the web.
Actually, you drop the .jpg icon in the .exe and make it the default icon, and then there is no way of telling. But outlook 98 here at work shows file extensions for everything, regardless of what windows is set to do. Hmm...
Guess what,
I can on my dual 7200RPM IDE system:
rip or compile.. not both.. and expect to get any work done. Even then, the system still gets latency.
Slocate's cron job is even worse if I'm up late.
I'm rarely at my home computer, so I have to be able to queue and automate everything as much as possible. That includes being able to pound the living crap out of my drives.
Most things are tremenoudlsy hard-drive bound, you just don't realize it. 512MB of ram goes a long way to caching.
Is regulations and cost. Does anyone here know how much a Telco pays to get space on anyone's tower? Thousands of dollars a month. Because they don't have to maintain it. Believe me, as soon as the Telco finds out about your tower (if you rent it, and setting up commerical towers is even more so expensive), they will buy it out from under your feet.
In the US at any rate, the regulations on such things are completely insane. Remember that there is no allocated bandwidth for wireless communications, meaning that if the US changes the rules, you could be in for some serious equipment changes later in the game. I don't know how it is Down Under, but I would guess your FCC-eqiv has similar rules. So I'd do it, but don't go wireless.
But the thing is, that was NLS hyperlinking and this is <i>Internet</i> hyperlinking. I mean, come on, the two must be sooo different! Why should the patent not be enforced? I mean then, we can sue every person who's every made a webpage and only be the biggest company on Earth? Really now! :)<p>
The fact is, Open source is bad for IP. If someone takes your source and steals it, and places it in a closed-source program, you are going to have a hard time proving it. If you haven't noticed, people really don't care about what you use open source software for, that's really what the GPL is all about (sharing software while protecting the author's rights). However, open APIs are good for IP. AFter all, what good is a piece of software if nobody can program it because all the specs are locked up? I think the answer is nothing, but please correct me if I am wrong. Second off, open APIs encourgage more people to use your software, lots of people aren't willing to pay thousands of dollars for an API they may use once. Not that any of this matters to Microsoft. For the time being, the have the monopoly, and they can do whatever they want, including force people to pay fortunes for software. They just don't have any realy competition. Now in time, this all may change, or maybe not.
Well, this is probably offtopic.., but does anyone here realize that the TI-89 has a m68k chip running around 10 MHz? My friend and I were gonna try to get a Linux kernel booted on the thing... and I think he's trying to get a group set up. I think it'd be cool if it worked, but I dunno seems like he might be getting into more than he can handle
That would be nice... but until Linux becomes mor standardized... it probably won't happen. How about RedHat gets together with all the people that copy very close off their distribution (i.e. Mandrake) and build one exam that covers all of them. As it turns out most of the difference between Mandrake and RedHat is what is installed and where it is installed. Everything else is almost identical. Debian could do the same w/ Corel. That might work... but a standarized class would be too hard (you could devote a whole year just to package management). So I say we should create a standardized certification as part of the Linux Standards Project
Couldn't this be the start of using like PGP or some other public-key system as ids? what if everyone in the world had 1 pgp key... and it was used for all sorts of transactions. This could be good or bad... depending on how you look at it. I think it would be pretty sweet until someone figured out how to take out the encryptions scheme in a hurry. then id theft would be a problem but then we could jsut use a different scheme.. stronger one. I think this might be a neat id.. though I jsut don't want to be a pgp id.
This kind of stuff is pointless. If a person is going to execute something on the level of Columbine, its probably going to happen. This nation has messed itself up so bad we can't see it coming. Now if we started putting some God back in the schools, maybe we see some results. If an when I end up taking the test, I am going to bomb the test so everybody will think I am some Satanist, Computer hacking freak, and going to kill everyone tommorow. Actually I am well-behaved, mostly pacifist, Christian, computer-hacking freak.