1: tput, xset, setterm as in TFA. Can set colors, cursor position, etc. Nice for spinners, showing no characters on password input, etc. Take control of the terminal. Disable or alter that bell. Specify the number of columns, on and on..
2: dialog, as in TFA. Kind of kludgey, but very useful to present the "Top 10 features of this system." as a shell replacement. 'usermod -s/opt/corp/bin/fooscript.sh luser'
3: functions to provide all manner of jazzy enhancements. Write a spinner() function, a log() routine relevant to your org, a time-of-day dependent shell prompt, etc.
A word of advice on GUI notifications: Stick to your native toolkit. In my experience, they can be hit or miss. In the early days of Zenity, my test application worked as expected in my Gnome session, but when I turned it over for testing, the KDE krew's desktop session was notified, pop-up boxed, and task bar icon blinked into a swift CTRL-ALT-BKSP.
Also, test your foofery at the console as well as in xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc.
There's no grizzled, cigar smoking boss behind the scenes, like in a boxing hero story. Nobody (especially?) - not even the "Director" who is (supposedly) "in charge" of things at your Dream Job (TM) is able to judge you like your professors have evaluated and coached you. That's their job.
They don't know what questions to ask to provoke the response you really want to give. The companies you're trying to get a job with are forever attempting to mitigate risk, often preempting other activities. Assure them you are a shoe-in, an absolute Perfect Fit (TM) beyond compare.
Your CV/Resume and cover letter are your key, and usually your only hope. If you have the benefit of recruiter calling you, even better, because they will Do Anything (TM) to get you in - all they care about is how well you stack up against the requirements of the opening.
Use the resume/cover letter process to your advantage: probe for any/all information (stock price, board of directors, etc.) put it all together, identify as many places you can apply individual attention to, and follow through. Simply knowing what will come up during an interview, people who will be mentioned, technologies in play, business model, locations, all will define the nature of the conversation.
If you are able to interview, and things go well, leave something behind for them to remember you by - some printed material that demonstrates your capabilities. Pretty-print some clean, well documented code, some charts, a CD-R with a descriptive label, something someone will look at on their desk and bring about internal dialog about your prowess and apparent "sureness" in capability and the minimal risk presented by selecting you.
Bottom line: nobody is going to come up and tap you on the shoulder.
The price per GB is one concern, reliability and data transfer rate are two others. There are more - thermal considerations/power consumption, portability, media life (bit rot).
Most people have storage tiers - you can have fast/slow JBODs ready and waiting to accept and retrieve data, incorporating slower, offline tape which is SAN-connected, and managed by a robot, which can be transported via station wagon for great justice.
Price-wise, LTO-4 cartridges hold 800GB at a cost of around US$35, which also requires a minimum of one US$300 device to read/write the tape, and likely a dedicated connection on a dedicated interface (some flavor of SCSI), which may tack on another $100-$400.
I can go to Foo-Mart and buy 1TB of SATA for $100 or less - perhaps with it's own (slow by comparison) interface, enclosure and power supply.
The people do not directly get to vote on things like, oh, I dunno.. Health Care Bills, whether we go to war, who we want as President. Input is offered, sometimes accepted, but let's face it - once the reins are in someone else's hands the ego prevents a welcome and good-natured pass.
It's about control and structure, not about pure natural selection at the hands of plebes.
Ubuntu is just as Democratic as the USA, for better or worse.
You may be right, and for good reason - for all those tantalizing features would be paired with equal evils.
- The free phone would only work through MSN. - The cancers cured would be unpopular, and only those of the target demographic. - 9.5 years of battery life - when used according to a reverse-engineered use case, derived from massaged statistics. Likely lots of standby and minimal 'push-only' feature use, again through MSN.
Bleh.
Productized technology makes me grimace. I don't want orange juice at an inflated price - I want wholesale-priced oranges so I can do what I damned well please.
Plus, we're talking about Olympic-scale ice events, vs. Semi-pro/Pro hockey. More resurfacing required, at a higher standard.
For the hockey events, the host arena is GM Place, which presumably has its own fossil-powered Zambonii, leaving the Richmond Oval as the sole justification for electric Zamboni-like ice resurfacing machines.
It's a large oval, with a hollow center, so there's a lower percentage of ice surface/sq.m., but I would wager the resurfacing counts and overall to be higher, with the machines only able to perform arena hockey level duty.
There are already several organizations measuring climate and environmental conditions. So many, there are open file formats to support data sharing.
Part of the recent US budget includes $433 million to support similar science.
Who are you looking to for validation that Cap & Trade works? How do you measure that and trust the results?
If climate science has progressed far enough to provide results, and so much depends on a safe climate - both for progress and survival, someone needs to keep an eye on things.
What if the National Climate Service predicted earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, as well as space weather events, tidal flow, and provided the data for processing, taking the other open data from organizations studying extra-planetary events, animal vocalizations, and large-scale earth harmonics, and they all pointed to one, big thing?
I can say one thing - it would be fun to work on, and may hint at a return to the large, funded labs of the 1960's.
You acknowledge and agree that Verizon (a) is not responsible for invalid destinations, transmission errors, or the corruption of your data; and (b) does not guarantee your ability to access all websites, servers or other facilities or that the Service is secure or will meet your needs.
Surprised at the time? How about being surprised that the n900 is a phone running a PowerPC emulator, which, when initially released didn't run OS X any faster.
ARM > PearPC > XNU
Atom > XNU
No direct comparison may be made. XNU runs natively on Atom cores (or used to). For the n900, XNU PPC is running on an *emulated* cpu, running on a low-power, essentially PDA-class CPU.
Personally, I am downright impressed with the time required. My n810 would barf.
You buy Apple-branded hardware which grants you the privilege of licensing Apple's Operating System Software for use on that hardware. You don't ever 'buy' the OS, just permission to use it.
They only grant that permission to owners of 'official' devices. Apple retains all ownership of the software, even the low-level software on the computer *you purchased* that allows it to run the licensed software, which is a proprietary wedge between you and your ability to exercise freedom of choice.
When you buy a Mac, you don't own squat, *except for* a SATA hard disk and a few empty PCIe slots, except for a round, shiny disk and some cardboard. The same is triply true for anything in the iFamily (TV, Pod, Pad, Phone, etc).
Steve's focus has shifted. What does he have to prove? The challenge and thrill of pushing the curve of personal computing are for younger men. No longer do you hear Steve talk about how awesome, fast, and powerful something is. Now, it's about making it sleek and clean, at the expense of expansion, user access (batteries, RAM, all a thing of the past) and function (unitasking? how is that not a step backward? vendor lock-in?)
It's now a matter of what's easiest to use, most comfortable, and what develops the relationship between Apple the device vendor, and Apple the content vendor.
If you think the Mac OS has a future, you're looking squarely at it. What the iMac did for floppy drives, USB, and the iPod did for CDs, and Apple TV seeks to do with video and TV, the iPad aims to accomplish with the next most precariously positioned medium - print.
People will always need tools to create content, it's true, but you can bet as online application delivery becomes the norm, and iPod-style dashboard apps take prevalence over shrinkwrapped retail media, so will the look and feel of the environment for running those apps.
If someone aquires your project, it's "good" - if the primary goal is recognition for your work.
If someone aquires your company, it's "good", in the traditional American Capitalist sense - if recognition and profit are your goals.
I have known and worked for companies whose primary goal was to be aquired. Become profitable or successful in your own right, and let the reflection of your moral values tell you "good" or "bad".
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1: tput, xset, setterm as in TFA. Can set colors, cursor position, etc. Nice for spinners, showing no characters on password input, etc. Take control of the terminal. Disable or alter that bell. Specify the number of columns, on and on..
2: dialog, as in TFA. Kind of kludgey, but very useful to present the "Top 10 features of this system." as a shell replacement. 'usermod -s /opt/corp/bin/fooscript.sh luser'
3: functions to provide all manner of jazzy enhancements. Write a spinner() function, a log() routine relevant to your org, a time-of-day dependent shell prompt, etc.
A word of advice on GUI notifications: Stick to your native toolkit. In my experience, they can be hit or miss. In the early days of Zenity, my test application worked as expected in my Gnome session, but when I turned it over for testing, the KDE krew's desktop session was notified, pop-up boxed, and task bar icon blinked into a swift CTRL-ALT-BKSP.
Also, test your foofery at the console as well as in xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc.
I don't think anything short of full access to the sum total of IBM mainframers' braindumps can catapult Hercules into successful competition.
It's all that proprietary IBM equipment that makes the technology worthwhile - memory access, disks, when emulated lose most of their benefit.
FWIW: http://openlpos.org/zDev/
Show up, clean and quiet with a shirt and a tie. That's your advice to counter 400 posts?
Might as well tell the guy to shine his shoes, while you're at it - everyone knows shoes tell all there is to know about a person.
The figure I quoted was from a BTO session at HP.
This is a bare internal drive, and actually I may be $500 off or thereabouts.
Even more to the point, if the drive is $1,300..
There's no grizzled, cigar smoking boss behind the scenes, like in a boxing hero story. Nobody (especially?) - not even the "Director" who is (supposedly) "in charge" of things at your Dream Job (TM) is able to judge you like your professors have evaluated and coached you. That's their job.
They don't know what questions to ask to provoke the response you really want to give. The companies you're trying to get a job with are forever attempting to mitigate risk, often preempting other activities. Assure them you are a shoe-in, an absolute Perfect Fit (TM) beyond compare.
Your CV/Resume and cover letter are your key, and usually your only hope. If you have the benefit of recruiter calling you, even better, because they will Do Anything (TM) to get you in - all they care about is how well you stack up against the requirements of the opening.
Use the resume/cover letter process to your advantage: probe for any/all information (stock price, board of directors, etc.) put it all together, identify as many places you can apply individual attention to, and follow through. Simply knowing what will come up during an interview, people who will be mentioned, technologies in play, business model, locations, all will define the nature of the conversation.
If you are able to interview, and things go well, leave something behind for them to remember you by - some printed material that demonstrates your capabilities. Pretty-print some clean, well documented code, some charts, a CD-R with a descriptive label, something someone will look at on their desk and bring about internal dialog about your prowess and apparent "sureness" in capability and the minimal risk presented by selecting you.
Bottom line: nobody is going to come up and tap you on the shoulder.
The price per GB is one concern, reliability and data transfer rate are two others. There are more - thermal considerations/power consumption, portability, media life (bit rot).
Most people have storage tiers - you can have fast/slow JBODs ready and waiting to accept and retrieve data, incorporating slower, offline tape which is SAN-connected, and managed by a robot, which can be transported via station wagon for great justice.
Price-wise, LTO-4 cartridges hold 800GB at a cost of around US$35, which also requires a minimum of one US$300 device to read/write the tape, and likely a dedicated connection on a dedicated interface (some flavor of SCSI), which may tack on another $100-$400.
I can go to Foo-Mart and buy 1TB of SATA for $100 or less - perhaps with it's own (slow by comparison) interface, enclosure and power supply.
Are they interchangeable as a solution? Nope.
People who want do to things the "UNIX" way sure as hell aren't running Ubuntu.
Complaints in a pile is just a bunch of bitching. Draw connections between the points voiced therein, and you can call it data.
Validity is another thing altogether. One man's wheat is another's chaff.
The people do not directly get to vote on things like, oh, I dunno.. Health Care Bills, whether we go to war, who we want as President. Input is offered, sometimes accepted, but let's face it - once the reins are in someone else's hands the ego prevents a welcome and good-natured pass.
It's about control and structure, not about pure natural selection at the hands of plebes.
Ubuntu is just as Democratic as the USA, for better or worse.
They're adolescents. Intelligent, but likely haven't developed the ego centrism found in 'professionals'. They're still in the egg.
You may be right, and for good reason - for all those tantalizing features would be paired with equal evils.
- The free phone would only work through MSN.
- The cancers cured would be unpopular, and only those of the target demographic.
- 9.5 years of battery life - when used according to a reverse-engineered use case, derived from massaged statistics. Likely lots of standby and minimal 'push-only' feature use, again through MSN.
Bleh.
Productized technology makes me grimace. I don't want orange juice at an inflated price - I want wholesale-priced oranges so I can do what I damned well please.
Your car that gets 2000MPG at 30MPH just became the new carbon offset target wet dream.
The numbers this car introduces skew everything everyone knew about efficiencies derivatives, which is little.
Imagine the dark twisty passages of the Excel spreadsheets forcing action in D.C. and the monkeywrench this could introduce. Hooray.
Really?
Pfft.
Not even proofsniffed.
Plus, we're talking about Olympic-scale ice events, vs. Semi-pro/Pro hockey. More resurfacing required, at a higher standard.
For the hockey events, the host arena is GM Place, which presumably has its own fossil-powered Zambonii, leaving the Richmond Oval as the sole justification for electric Zamboni-like ice resurfacing machines.
It's a large oval, with a hollow center, so there's a lower percentage of ice surface/sq.m., but I would wager the resurfacing counts and overall to be higher, with the machines only able to perform arena hockey level duty.
There are already several organizations measuring climate and environmental conditions. So many, there are open file formats to support data sharing.
Part of the recent US budget includes $433 million to support similar science.
Who are you looking to for validation that Cap & Trade works? How do you measure that and trust the results?
If climate science has progressed far enough to provide results, and so much depends on a safe climate - both for progress and survival, someone needs to keep an eye on things.
What if the National Climate Service predicted earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, as well as space weather events, tidal flow, and provided the data for processing, taking the other open data from organizations studying extra-planetary events, animal vocalizations, and large-scale earth harmonics, and they all pointed to one, big thing?
I can say one thing - it would be fun to work on, and may hint at a return to the large, funded labs of the 1960's.
You acknowledge and agree that Verizon (a) is not responsible for invalid destinations, transmission errors, or the corruption of your data; and (b) does not guarantee your ability to access all websites, servers or other facilities or that the Service is secure or will meet your needs.
So, the service doesn't meet your needs? FUUU
BeOS would be a yawn inducer. The biggest gripe would be a lack of Flash in NetPositive.
Surprised at the time? How about being surprised that the n900 is a phone running a PowerPC emulator, which, when initially released didn't run OS X any faster.
ARM > PearPC > XNU
Atom > XNU
No direct comparison may be made. XNU runs natively on Atom cores (or used to). For the n900, XNU PPC is running on an *emulated* cpu, running on a low-power, essentially PDA-class CPU.
Personally, I am downright impressed with the time required. My n810 would barf.
You buy Apple-branded hardware which grants you the privilege of licensing Apple's Operating System Software for use on that hardware. You don't ever 'buy' the OS, just permission to use it.
They only grant that permission to owners of 'official' devices. Apple retains all ownership of the software, even the low-level software on the computer *you purchased* that allows it to run the licensed software, which is a proprietary wedge between you and your ability to exercise freedom of choice.
When you buy a Mac, you don't own squat, *except for* a SATA hard disk and a few empty PCIe slots, except for a round, shiny disk and some cardboard. The same is triply true for anything in the iFamily (TV, Pod, Pad, Phone, etc).
Steve's focus has shifted. What does he have to prove? The challenge and thrill of pushing the curve of personal computing are for younger men. No longer do you hear Steve talk about how awesome, fast, and powerful something is. Now, it's about making it sleek and clean, at the expense of expansion, user access (batteries, RAM, all a thing of the past) and function (unitasking? how is that not a step backward? vendor lock-in?)
It's now a matter of what's easiest to use, most comfortable, and what develops the relationship between Apple the device vendor, and Apple the content vendor.
If you think the Mac OS has a future, you're looking squarely at it. What the iMac did for floppy drives, USB, and the iPod did for CDs, and Apple TV seeks to do with video and TV, the iPad aims to accomplish with the next most precariously positioned medium - print.
People will always need tools to create content, it's true, but you can bet as online application delivery becomes the norm, and iPod-style dashboard apps take prevalence over shrinkwrapped retail media, so will the look and feel of the environment for running those apps.
So is mindless repitition.
We already have fucking UNIX, why write another?
When does black become white?
#CCCCCC or #888888
Is there overlap with Flamebait?
When does an otherwise 'troll' moderation-worthy comment lose out on status that could validate 19 responses, with 50% scoring +2?
Sometimes a troll is a troll, but sometimes its just a shadow.
You know, some days, I could really use a dark little Faraday cage. Would fit nicely inside my cube.
Heads-up display, much like the system used in Cadillacs.
http://cars.about.com/od/cadillac/ig/2008-Cadillac-STS-gallery/2008-Cadillac-STS-HUD.htm
viewing a map with turn by turn superimposed over the windshield would be killer app
If someone aquires your project, it's "good" - if the primary goal is recognition for your work.
If someone aquires your company, it's "good", in the traditional American Capitalist sense - if recognition and profit are your goals.
I have known and worked for companies whose primary goal was to be aquired. Become profitable or successful in your own right, and let the reflection of your moral values tell you "good" or "bad".