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  1. Re:DEBIAN (was: Are you writing custom application on Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    I just switched my workstation from Debian to RH9.0, because of stability. The servers run debian stable.

    VMWare crashed on both stable and test, but not on RedHat.

    Joe

  2. Re:A good project. on Interview Responses From BitTorrent's Bram Cohen · · Score: 1

    I think your issue is 3M/128k. You're not sharing.

    Anyone know anything about BT and multicast?
    Joe

  3. Re:Hydrogen balooney on Microbes Pass Valuable Gas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In Indiana we average 1.5 kW. 13,018 kilowatt-hours per year in 1999.

    You weren't constantly blowing breakers, just during the peak.

    This system might need batteries, but it could work.

    Joe

  4. Re:old hat on IP over Firewire Updated · · Score: 1

    Also, that is 3 ports on the same 1394 bus, so it would be 400/3 Mb/s on each cable. I had the same thought (I also investigated IP/SCSI), but ethernet is the best value in this price range.

    Joe

  5. Re:Programming shortcuts on Summary of JDK1.5 Language Changes · · Score: 1

    Uhm. Large projects have lots of programers who are not in a position to dictate how things are put together and have to use what they are given.

    Though I've always thought that arbitrary operators would be nice, I wouldn't take that code to work.

    Joe

  6. Re:Do Not Underestimate Customers on Widescreen (Finally) Winning · · Score: 1

    That's funny. I was confused for a while, because I was buying full screen and it left black bars on the sides of the picture.

    Joe

  7. Re:Nothing wrong with DOS on Open Source OS that Uses BIOS for Drive Access? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I had a few boot disks lying about. I've only bought 3 MS products, DOS3.1 in 1986, WinNT 4.0 in 2000 and W2k in 2001. My 5 1/4 floppies for DOS3.1 don't work so well anymore.

  8. Re:And never use a VPN when.... on SSH or IPSec? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The best part is using mindterm to tunnel ssh over https through my clients firewalls. It always freaks them out to see my homeoffice desktop via vnc over ssh over https with a zero foot print client.

    Joe

  9. Re:Another reason to cancel landlines on Phone Companies Bill Public for Nonexistent Equipment · · Score: 2, Insightful

    7 addresses in 3 years and they don't send you your bills on time? Now that's a head scratcher.

    My problem with ATT wireless was that when the tower was down (we have one tower in this town), there was nothing they would do, nor would they compensate us for loss of service, so we switched to Verizon.

    Joe

  10. Re:Indeed on Energy From Vibrations · · Score: 1

    Connect the wrist strap to the phone via blue tooth! :-)

  11. Re:....what the hell..... on The Rutan SpaceShipOne Revealed · · Score: 1

    Yah, it's 20000 mi (I was wrong earlier).

    No, I checked. The satellites that were above me earlier are exactly where they were (above me) (give or take some wobble). I haven't moved; they haven't moved. Zero change in position relative to me. As far as I'm concerned, they have zero velocity (0 m change in position/ 1 hr).

    Joe

  12. Ouch.... on The Rutan SpaceShipOne Revealed · · Score: 1

    s/80000/20000/g

    I screwed up. Between typos and sarcasm, I'm mostly unintelligible today. Glad it's Friday.

    Joe

  13. Re:....what the hell..... on The Rutan SpaceShipOne Revealed · · Score: 1

    Uhm no. The geosynchronous satellites have a velocity of zero (relative to me). What are you talking about?

    Joe

  14. Re:....what the hell..... on The Rutan SpaceShipOne Revealed · · Score: 1

    There is lots of stuff 80,000 miles up with a ground speed of zero that has me worried now. Why isn't it falling back down?

    Do you pick up ground speed as you acclerate straight line from Earth?

    Joe

  15. Re:....what the hell..... on The Rutan SpaceShipOne Revealed · · Score: 1

    huh? If you go "up" (away from Earth) at 100 mph for 800 hours, then deccelerate by 100mph. What happens? I think you just hang out for a very long time.

    Joe

  16. Re:Anyone like me out there? on Building a Cube Farm that Sucks Less? · · Score: 1

    I agree. We ripped out the hall side walls of our cubes, so that the team of 8-10 programmers could better communicate. We all faced into the hall and wore headphones when you didn't want to be bothered. Worked Great! We learned from one another faster than any one of us could have learned isolated with books.

    Privacy was an issue. You had to respect others when they turned their back to the hall; they may have been picking thier nose. For personal phone calls, we did escape to a conference room or a break room picnic table.

    Joe

  17. Re:the truth on Tech Jobs Projected to Double by 2010 · · Score: 1

    Good mechanics, garage owners and mechanics that specialize can make 6 figures they that's their goal. Most mechanics I know just want to put in the time and get by. Same goes for programmers.

    Joe

  18. Re:Fractal = better compression? on GZipping Life Forms: Deflate Reveals Bare-Bones · · Score: 1

    Right. I agree with you.

    1. GZip doesn't do fractal compression.

    2. There just aren't that many visibly fractal structures in life. There are some structures that are obviously fractals life (as mentioned in some other posts), but that is also true in rocks.

    Joe

  19. Re:The fractal geometry of nature? on GZipping Life Forms: Deflate Reveals Bare-Bones · · Score: 1

    Could you give some examples of fractal structures in a human?

    GZip doesn't do fractal compression. It will compress repeating patterns though. (My two arms will be compressed because they are similar, not because that look like little humans.)

    I don't think there are many fractal structures in nature. Rocks are different than sand. Humans are different than cells. A field is different than grass, which is different than cells, which is different than molecules.

    Joe

  20. Re:The PC case AMPLIFIES the vibrations. on Off-board/External ATX Power Supplies? · · Score: 1

    I concur. I spent big money on a 400W quiet power supply. It is very, very quiet compared to the CPU fans. I haven't had a good excuse to buy quiet cpu fans yet though. Anyone want to lobby my wife?

    Joe

  21. Re:Bad Idea on Software Tariffs and US IT Outsourcing? · · Score: 1

    The curriculum is outdated and in most cases concentrates on practical know-how when theory would be much more appropriate given the 5 year time lag between actual practice and curriculum.

    Right. That's why it doesn't matter if they teach in pascal, logo, haskel, lisp, or smalltalk. In school, my classes were taught in Ada, Pascal, lisp, SML, Mathematica, C. I haven't used any of those languages in the last 10 years. I've used ObjC, C++, Java, perl, javascript, delphi and some custom languages. I learned the theory. That's whats important.

    Joe

  22. Re:It Was OK, It's His Fault on The Ethics of Stealing Wireless Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    In my home town, 25% of the folks leave their keys in their car on purpose. Dad's keys are probably rusted in the truck ignition.

    If you moved someone's car so the street sweaper could get buy, they'd thank you; if you drove thier car across town to the bar, you might end up with a pants load of buckshot.

    Joe

  23. Re:My resolution gripe on LCD Overtaking CRT · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could buy 4 LCDs.

  24. Re:Well, on Free Software Operating Systems for Old Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Debian requires a couple hundred to install without hassles. I just failed to install on a 130MB drive. This ain't the Linux of '93.

    Joe

  25. Re:someone please explain... on Choosing the Right XML Database? · · Score: 1

    Apparently we wont come to an agreement on software development. My experience indicates that no amount of research will best quickly evolving software (XP, prototyping, what ever today's buzz words are). XML databases are better suited to support evolving software than relational databases, due to the lack of or the flexibility of the schema. Relational database can be better optimized than XML databases. OO databases (or hierarchical) can be best optimized, but in my opinion are rarely needed.

    You can make an organic attribute system using relational also. It is just not the best course of action in most cases.

    Right. Then you have the funtionality of an XML database, which you sometimes need. Just buy the XML database.

    What is an example that you think is glossed over, but hard?
    Changing schemas or designing 'an organic attribute system'. (As a side note, I've seen a shrink wrapped telephone network management system that used Oracle to store the configuration... in one table (name char(24), value char(24)). The company is now out of business, but over 20 years did quite well.)

    BYW, nice website. You are wrong :-), but nice site. (My back ground is large company IT projects.)