Sounds like OSI is thinking of a law suit to me, but I live in the US, not one of you more violent countries. Now, calling Seth Finklestein an asshole sounds liabelous to me. Careful, Seth might be cooking up a law suit.:-)
[Most gun nuts know what a gun is capable of and know when to use it and when to keep it locked away. I've not seen too many gun enthuseasts wave a gun around as a threat. And yes, I'm from the redneck sticks of the midwest, where I would expect there to be multiple gun carriers in most public places, like restaurants for instance.]
Joe
The corporate datacenters that I've been in didn't have individual UPSs (plural for UPS), they only had massive generators and room sized lead acid battery packs.
Joe
I have an old 486 running as a router, that I ripped all the fans out of (cpu and power supply). It runs in the attic of a garage. No problem. I did open all the slots across the back. I'm probably getting some stack effect ventilation.
Joe
HTTP (WebDAV) will peirce most firewalls, but SMB requires a standard port and NFS requires UDP (normally, I haven't used TCP/NFS) and I don't know that either can be run over SSL.
Stacking SMB on a secure connection can be done, but it requires not sharing from the client, which isn't always practical.
Joe
When traveling I work, work, work, drink a beer at the same bar everynight, work, work, work. Of course I bill hourly, so it pays. Then I get home and don't touch a computer for weeks.
Drinking a beer at the same watering hole everynight helps you feel like you have friends if you need to discuss something (if not, drink more beer), like "my wife just called from her boyfriends house...".
If you don't work hourly, build some sort of product. I built an OO database on one trip (I planned on selling it and retiring). It was pretty nice. Now sits quietly on a lost harddrive. The real result was that I learned a lot about how to write a DB. Last week I needed a custom DB and my old designed fit the bill. I wrote/tested a DB from scratch (hash on a disk in Java) in about 3 hours due to the experience gain years ago.
Joe
How do you get bc to work on columns of data? Awk is all about processing each line of a file.
If you know perl, why not use perl interatively instead of the 'num-utils'? num-utils just seem like a bad idea to me.
- weird syntax instead of standard infix notation
- weird bugs like the random thing
- opaque so you don't know about the weird bugs, unlike typing in the expressions yourself.
Joe
Your commands are already installed on my system, or aren't needed.
average
awk '{sum+=$1}END{print sum/NR}' bound
awk 'NR==1{min=$1}{max=$1>max?$1:max;min=$1 < min?$1:min}END{print min,max}' interval
awk '{print $1-last; last=$1}' numgrep ( 500 < x < 1000 or x is a multiple of 3)
awk '$1 < 1000 && $1>500 || $1%3 == 0 {print $1}' numproc
awk '{print $1 [[your math expression expressed in standard infix notation]]}' numsum
awk '{sum += $1}END{print sum}' random
awk supports rand(), bash has $RANDOM, Linux has/proc/random for a stream of random data. Any range can be chosen using 'numproc', for instance/1..10/ is 'rand() * 10 + 1' range
Why are you ever instantiatin ranges? It wastes space. Ranges should be abstractly manipulated. round(floor)
awk '{print int($1)}' round(nearest n)
awk '{print int($1/n)*n}'
These commands are easy to use and have a transparency that makes it very clear what the bugs would be, where as num-utils has warnings like
round will drop off the decimal places in decimal numbers. This may cause some calculations to be in error, depending on how you are using the data.
that make me wonder what round does if it has problems with decimal numbers.
Yah, but upgrading/security fixes are not that important for a VM. I revert my w2k vm multiple times a day. Who cares if I have a virus for 20 minutes, I hit revert and it is gone. (or make it non-persistent)
Since they may only be looking to support their legacy apps, they only need their legacy OSs in the VMs. You don't need to run your 1996 custom app on Windows 2008, you can continue to run it on Windows95 in a VM. Get it to work in a VM, take a snapshot and you are done. "Legacy" implies that it wont be changing very much. Any major changes should include a port to Linux or the web.
Really. I have an Orinoco in a garage that hasn't had a problem in 2 years.
(At the other end of the connection, I have an old 486 with ALL the fans ripped out sitting in another garage. It runs great too!)
Joe
For those of you who don't read the articles, this service wont be useful.
For those of you who read the articles, this service will be useful in that it returns the results of the search, not just links to articles, but you probably already know that since you read the articles.
I'll disreguard your silly comment about lynx. I just tried to read http://msnbc.com and it was very difficult. Now, imagine doing that with standard computer knowlege and weak English skills.
Joe
My ISP went out of business giving me 6 business hours to do anything about it. It should be up by the end of the week. There's nothing there but an outdated resume anyway.
Joe at SolidDesign.net
As a contract "application architect" (I architect/design/develop/mentor IT projects in Java/C/C++/perl), I'm seeing rates drop in half. Rates are still pretty good compared to digging ditches, but not where they were and I'm having to compete more directly with Indians here in the states. The quality coming out of India is improving. Right now, one of my competitive edges is that I am perceived to relate to and understand the midwestern American office worker better than an Indian consultant, but that is changing. I don't know what I'm going to do in 5 years. I've already taken a 35% pay cut over the last two years.
I think protectionist policies are not the answer. I need to learn a new skill or accept the same compensation as my world wide counterparts.
May be this is only effecting the incompetent and the contractors now, but I think you'll start seeing changes soon enough. A manager and three DBAs in India are cheaper than one Chicago based DBA.
Joe
Once data is in XML I can manipulate it without having to write a parser. This is pretty handy in an enterprise setting where data is coming from all over and headed somewhere else.
Efficiency of the overall business process is important, not the efficiency of my program.
Joe
All three of your references cite the SGI optimizer, which has the limitation that I pointed out. From the MIPSpro(TM) Auto-Parallelizing Option Programmer's Guide:
By default, the Auto-Parallelizing Option does not parallelize a loop that contains a function call because the function in one iteration of the loop may modify or depend on data in other iterations.
Furthermore my mention that C is very hard to parallelize is also mentioned in the same chapter.
The C and C++ languages have features that make them more difficult than Fortran to automatically parallelize. These features are often related to the use of pointers, such as implementing multidimensional arrays as pointer accesses and not as true arrays. The following practices involving pointers interfere with the Auto-Parallelizing Option's effectiveness:
int a; void doSomeCalculations(int i) {
a = doSomethingElse(a + i); }
Would fail (multiple threaded access to a). It is extremely difficult to detect sideffects in C. I've never seen a "smart" compiler as you put it, though there are systems where the programmers can explicitely parallelize a loop.
My brother has been hounding me for years to get clipless pedals.
My history is a late 60' Schwin Voyager with clip pedals and the original ultra hard leather saddle, an early 80's Schwin Traveler with same pedals and saddle, and now a bright yellow, trendy Canondale with clipless pedals and a new gel saddle.
The new saddle is good to my 31 year old butt, but I'm still not sold on the pedals. While crusing there is very little difference and while crashing it is just frightening. Here in the very flat mid Indiana there isn't much else. Cleats may be cool the first time you stop to for ice cream or what ever, but then they are just a huge pain. I can't use my bike to commute to work, run to the grocery, go for a ride with the kids, etc.
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Sounds like OSI is thinking of a law suit to me, but I live in the US, not one of you more violent countries. Now, calling Seth Finklestein an asshole sounds liabelous to me. Careful, Seth might be cooking up a law suit. :-)
[Most gun nuts know what a gun is capable of and know when to use it and when to keep it locked away. I've not seen too many gun enthuseasts wave a gun around as a threat. And yes, I'm from the redneck sticks of the midwest, where I would expect there to be multiple gun carriers in most public places, like restaurants for instance.]
Joe
They even mentioned this on Bob and Tom this morning. I think Chic has a Mac. Joe
I wonder what the cost to society has been. Just consider the lost time due to geeks reading the /. stories about SCO!
Joe
The corporate datacenters that I've been in didn't have individual UPSs (plural for UPS), they only had massive generators and room sized lead acid battery packs. Joe
Like you know if you're in a room with a washing machine and it finishes, and suddenly you're aware of how quiet everything is?
Or in a datacenter when the power goes out!
Joe
I have an old 486 running as a router, that I ripped all the fans out of (cpu and power supply). It runs in the attic of a garage. No problem. I did open all the slots across the back. I'm probably getting some stack effect ventilation. Joe
HTTP (WebDAV) will peirce most firewalls, but SMB requires a standard port and NFS requires UDP (normally, I haven't used TCP/NFS) and I don't know that either can be run over SSL. Stacking SMB on a secure connection can be done, but it requires not sharing from the client, which isn't always practical. Joe
When traveling I work, work, work, drink a beer at the same bar everynight, work, work, work. Of course I bill hourly, so it pays. Then I get home and don't touch a computer for weeks. Drinking a beer at the same watering hole everynight helps you feel like you have friends if you need to discuss something (if not, drink more beer), like "my wife just called from her boyfriends house...". If you don't work hourly, build some sort of product. I built an OO database on one trip (I planned on selling it and retiring). It was pretty nice. Now sits quietly on a lost harddrive. The real result was that I learned a lot about how to write a DB. Last week I needed a custom DB and my old designed fit the bill. I wrote/tested a DB from scratch (hash on a disk in Java) in about 3 hours due to the experience gain years ago. Joe
How do you get bc to work on columns of data? Awk is all about processing each line of a file. If you know perl, why not use perl interatively instead of the 'num-utils'? num-utils just seem like a bad idea to me. - weird syntax instead of standard infix notation - weird bugs like the random thing - opaque so you don't know about the weird bugs, unlike typing in the expressions yourself. Joe
that make me wonder what round does if it has problems with decimal numbers.
Joe
Yah, but upgrading/security fixes are not that important for a VM. I revert my w2k vm multiple times a day. Who cares if I have a virus for 20 minutes, I hit revert and it is gone. (or make it non-persistent)
Since they may only be looking to support their legacy apps, they only need their legacy OSs in the VMs. You don't need to run your 1996 custom app on Windows 2008, you can continue to run it on Windows95 in a VM. Get it to work in a VM, take a snapshot and you are done. "Legacy" implies that it wont be changing very much. Any major changes should include a port to Linux or the web.
Joe
Really. I have an Orinoco in a garage that hasn't had a problem in 2 years. (At the other end of the connection, I have an old 486 with ALL the fans ripped out sitting in another garage. It runs great too!) Joe
Can anyone compare IM to the pbm tools?
The phone company provides taps, they don't hide what is happening on their networks. Joe
For those of you who don't read the articles, this service wont be useful. For those of you who read the articles, this service will be useful in that it returns the results of the search, not just links to articles, but you probably already know that since you read the articles. I'll disreguard your silly comment about lynx. I just tried to read http://msnbc.com and it was very difficult. Now, imagine doing that with standard computer knowlege and weak English skills. Joe
My ISP went out of business giving me 6 business hours to do anything about it. It should be up by the end of the week. There's nothing there but an outdated resume anyway. Joe at SolidDesign.net
As a contract "application architect" (I architect/design/develop/mentor IT projects in Java/C/C++/perl), I'm seeing rates drop in half. Rates are still pretty good compared to digging ditches, but not where they were and I'm having to compete more directly with Indians here in the states. The quality coming out of India is improving. Right now, one of my competitive edges is that I am perceived to relate to and understand the midwestern American office worker better than an Indian consultant, but that is changing. I don't know what I'm going to do in 5 years. I've already taken a 35% pay cut over the last two years. I think protectionist policies are not the answer. I need to learn a new skill or accept the same compensation as my world wide counterparts. May be this is only effecting the incompetent and the contractors now, but I think you'll start seeing changes soon enough. A manager and three DBAs in India are cheaper than one Chicago based DBA. Joe
waverider.com claims 2 Mb on their hardware and ranges of up to 2 miles without antennas.
Once data is in XML I can manipulate it without having to write a parser. This is pretty handy in an enterprise setting where data is coming from all over and headed somewhere else. Efficiency of the overall business process is important, not the efficiency of my program. Joe
Bull.
int a;
void doSomeCalculations(int i) {
a = doSomethingElse(a + i);
}
Would fail (multiple threaded access to a). It is extremely difficult to detect sideffects in C. I've never seen a "smart" compiler as you put it, though there are systems where the programmers can explicitely parallelize a loop.
Threads can't be migrated. Only processes can be migrated.
p li cations%20using%20pthreads
http://howto.ipng.be/openMosixWiki/index.php/Ap
You have to write your application as a bunch of processes to take advantage of a mosix cluster.
Joe
My brother has been hounding me for years to get clipless pedals.
My history is a late 60' Schwin Voyager with clip pedals and the original ultra hard leather saddle, an early 80's Schwin Traveler with same pedals and saddle, and now a bright yellow, trendy Canondale with clipless pedals and a new gel saddle.
The new saddle is good to my 31 year old butt, but I'm still not sold on the pedals. While crusing there is very little difference and while crashing it is just frightening. Here in the very flat mid Indiana there isn't much else. Cleats may be cool the first time you stop to for ice cream or what ever, but then they are just a huge pain. I can't use my bike to commute to work, run to the grocery, go for a ride with the kids, etc.
Joe
Both xine and mplayer will play more formats than Media Player. It is easier for me to deal with video on Linux than W2K due to format support.
Running our app in W2K/VMWare(single threaded) on Linux on a dual PIII/800Mhz was faster than running our app on a native P4/1.3Ghz.
Joe