> Before allowing commit access to your repository, or accepting patches from someone, have them submit a signed affidavit specifically stating that they will not contribute any code they do not have the rights to
Best ensure they're insured, too...
We have about 15 employees but 5 servers. They're kept in a small room - maybe 12 by 5 feet. For cooling we'd like a professional install but never get approval, so we bought this split unit (image only - didn't buy from that company) and replaced a window with an extractor fan. The fan actually shoves air into the building; in winter this is sufficient and the A/C goes off, while in the summer we get fresh air into the building and it acts as a failsafe if the A/C dies.
The extractor is on the UPS while the A/C isn't, but it takes more time for the room to cook without A/C than it does for the UPS to run out (3 hours). Emails go out to blackberries when the UPSes trip; as another user mentioned, these cheapo units require manual attention when the power comes back on.
We gave multi-CPU AMD offerings a chance - 1.5 years of purchasing. Unfortunately it was at the time of the 760MP / 760MPX chipsets which proved fast but unreliable...
People seem to be missing the point about Core 2. Where CPU performance is considered, Core 2 doesn't just have to take on AMD's current offerings - it needs to be compared with Intel's previous offerings too. Here are some quick real-world numbers from my company where we've just bought a twin-CPU Core 2 Duo Xeon 5160 system for a performance-critical task.
Systems Involved
Dual P4 Xeon 3.4GHz (will refer to this as "P4")
Dual Core 2 Duo Xeon 5160 3.0GHz (will refer to this as "Core2")
Test suite for our software in Studio.NET 2003
P4: 12 hours
Core2: 5 hours
...that 3D graphics have been used to display web data. Back in the early 90s, CompuServe had a virtual mall which was a bit like that. It was painfully slow; a real gimmick. I can't see any benefit beyond the gimmick for then, and now.
I've an alternative: Buy a fscking windows license
Err... I have a legitimate licence and I just renamed wgatray as explained. The tool provides me, personally, with no benefit whatsoever and so I don't want it running on my machine. I also don't like the idea that it, like any software, could go wrong and produce a false positive. In fact, Microsoft have already admitted this is actually quite likely by requiring this 'phone home' feature. Just because someone displays a distaste for, and desire to disable, such tools does not mean that they're a pirate.
You know, this really gets old. Since this comment is almost always from someone living in some part of the former British empire, usually the UK or Australia, I'm going to explain it to you in a way you might be able to understand.
WTF? In the UK, nobody cares about baseball except people who used to live in the US or Japan. Most schools don't teach it; I don't even know the rules. I'm not knocking it - it's much better than cricket simply because it's over in hours (minutes?) rather than days, but the country is just not interested.
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> Before allowing commit access to your repository, or accepting patches from someone, have them submit a signed affidavit specifically stating that they will not contribute any code they do not have the rights to Best ensure they're insured, too...
!111one
Yawn...
What about CowboyNeal?
>Won't somebody think of the children
Good point - article tagged!
Curse those pesky blue lasers and the factories that fail to produce them quick enough...
bandwidth? sharing user accounts?
This is on slashdot because?
Er... I find Wikipedia's search to be pretty rubbish, so in my FireFox address bar I type "google wikipedia (searchquery)"
When I saw the nano, the first thing I thought was "wow, if only this was a phone too".
Here's an Apple business plan - free of charge.
1) Buy RIM, improve battery technology, sell Nanos and iPod Videos with phone and push email.
2) ???
3) Profit.
also it's all about what you need - I mean, all I do is browse the internets, read email, play music and chat on MSN - so I only need 4 cores...
largely impractical - LOL
The extractor is on the UPS while the A/C isn't, but it takes more time for the room to cook without A/C than it does for the UPS to run out (3 hours). Emails go out to blackberries when the UPSes trip; as another user mentioned, these cheapo units require manual attention when the power comes back on.
We gave multi-CPU AMD offerings a chance - 1.5 years of purchasing. Unfortunately it was at the time of the 760MP / 760MPX chipsets which proved fast but unreliable...
Systems Involved
Dual P4 Xeon 3.4GHz (will refer to this as "P4")
Dual Core 2 Duo Xeon 5160 3.0GHz (will refer to this as "Core2")
Test suite for our software in Studio .NET 2003
P4: 12 hours
Core2: 5 hours
Compiling our software
P4: 9 hours
Core2: 3 hours
Source code check of our software (using Lint)
P4: 6 hours
Core2: 1hr 20min
I'm not an Intel fanboy but I am understandably smitten with Core 2.
...but does it run Linux?
our datacenter is extremely redundant lol...
1) Build something Google will want :)
2) Get it slashdotted
3) ???
4) Sell to Google and retire at 30
Er... he said one of the heaviest currencies...
...and I almost always agree with the "stupid" tags...
Can you imagine the terror some parents will feel when their child's battery runs out?
...so you keep gaming while satisfying your wife?
...that 3D graphics have been used to display web data. Back in the early 90s, CompuServe had a virtual mall which was a bit like that. It was painfully slow; a real gimmick. I can't see any benefit beyond the gimmick for then, and now.
Err... I have a legitimate licence and I just renamed wgatray as explained. The tool provides me, personally, with no benefit whatsoever and so I don't want it running on my machine. I also don't like the idea that it, like any software, could go wrong and produce a false positive. In fact, Microsoft have already admitted this is actually quite likely by requiring this 'phone home' feature. Just because someone displays a distaste for, and desire to disable, such tools does not mean that they're a pirate.
WTF? In the UK, nobody cares about baseball except people who used to live in the US or Japan. Most schools don't teach it; I don't even know the rules. I'm not knocking it - it's much better than cricket simply because it's over in hours (minutes?) rather than days, but the country is just not interested.