I'm not sure if anyone else does this, but I always set the swap size manually. I try to estimate the total amount of RAM I may need, using 3x my physical ram as a guidline.
So my 'big' box has 256M of ram, so the swap is set to 768M. On my 'little' box which has only 64M, I set the swap to 384M.
I guess you work at a company where there is some guy called an 'installer'? I've always had to write my software and then make sure that it is actually deployable.
In the shops that have testers, then the testers test it. Otherwise, the developers test it.
There are lots of problems with installation on Windows machines. One of the most common is making sure that licenses for any 3rd party components get installed. Another is making sure that you app can properly connect to databases, remote filesystems etc. Since you have all that stuff set up on your dev box, your app never breaks. Sometimes it takes installing to a clean machine to realize you forgot to include a DSN or a component, or some image file, etc.
If you read the post, you noticed that he said he allows the developer to develop on an open system, and then he can only test his app on a locked down system.
So my question was, how do you install your app on the locked down system.
Lets say there are going to 25 iterations of testing. Thats 25 installs. Do you mean I have to go track down some network admin 25 times in the course of 2 weeks?
I don't think you described this, but I've always wondered:
If you have a RAID System (I'm sure only certain levels, and think RAID 1 is one of them) which stores duplicate data on drives, the idea is that a certain percentage of the drives could fail, and your data would not be lost. So if I had a 2 drive RAID 1 system, couldn't I just rip out a drive, send it somewhere and call it a backup? Then, I can put in a blank drive, and the RAID controller will reload all the data?
If I need some data off of the back up, I could stick the disk in an identical machine (or the same machine), power it on, copy stuff off to a network drive, etc?
Microsoft has a product that helps the Admin types keep you from controlling your machine. Its called SMS. I pride my self on my expert techniques for evading its control.
Here's how: SMS creates a folder called C:\SMS (IIRC). The trick is to deny all rights to these files except LIST. If you try to delete them, SMS will reinstall itself. If you just remove everyone's rights to execute the files, the program will just fail.
But how do I change permissions on the files if I am not an admin on the box? Well, you can't. But if you know this type of stuff is about to start in your company, then create a local admin account. You can be sneaky and name it IWAM_machinename1 or something official looking.
If you can't do that in time, then try the following: Get TomsRTBT disk (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and load up the NTFS drivers (I imagine a bootable linux disk will do), copy off the SAM file, and use l0phtcrack to get the local admin password from the box.
www.speakeasy.net has some nice packages where you can control your upstream/downstream ratio. Would colo'ing on a T3 offer significantly better performance?
Before everyone starts going nuts because I just asked if a T3 is better than a DSL, let me just say that I mean, how much would the gameplay be improved? Would it mean that you could handle more 'players'? Are you sure your hardware could support more users than the DSL could?
I'm not giving you a hard time, I'd really like to know how all this stuff works. I just play games, I don't host them:).
I wish there were 'status' pages instead of 'news'
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I found it irritating on cnn.com that you might find this list of headlines:
3 cases of Anthrax in Florida
CDC reports that 5 media cases isolated.
22 testing in DC, 4 positive in early results.
Second man dies of Anthrax.
Two reported dead due to Anthrax.
The point is, you never really get a clear picture of how many cases there are, where they are, etc. You might think that there were way more cases and deaths because they keep getting rereported, and its not clear if they are totals or new cases.
A map with all of the cases and a color code for death, infection, exposure would be nice.
For example, lets say you wanted to write an application like quicken/money/gnucash. You could write a bunch of custom interfaces to all the banks, or you could subscribe to Microsofts.Net My Services Banking Service. This gives you one common interface, and Microsoft manages everything. You may not even need a database, because they will do all that for you.
I'm both a Microsoft and Open Source developer, with all of the anti-Microsoft leanings of your average slashdotter.
I just thought I'd set the record straight by pointing out that these costs are not for developing applications using the.NET platform, these are fees for accessing Microsoft's.NET services.
One day, the RIAA is going to set up a few hundred nodes full of files which look like pirated music. Instead they will contain anti-piracy messages. The RIAA will keep up with p2p tools which try to verify checksums and signatures of music. After a while, it will be difficult to find music as 10%, 20%, 50%, 70% of the files available are actually anti-piracy messages instead of the song you think they are.
I think the above post is slightly misleading. If you release methane, it is a very harmful greenhouse gas. However, if you burn it, its not too bad. References below:
I have Road Runner in Orlando, and have monitored it pretty consistently (that is because it was always going down, and I had to be able to tell them when it was going down. Turned out to be some borked signal amplifier down the street).
Like most people here my ping times varied greatly. My set of test pings to local ISPs and to internic.net would go from 15ms to 300ms and back in a matter of 10 minutes. I actually see the worst performance during the business day.
The techs said that this big AT+T building next door was using RR for business purposes so maybe that was the cause.
I've never had 'poor' performance, I've always been happy with it. I've certainly never seen it slow down to near-dialup speeds like some have mentioned.
In Windows Explorer, Click on 'Tools' and then 'Folder Options'. Now you have the Folder Options dialog box, click on 'File Types' and you get "a simple, forthrightly labeled control panel that sits right on every user's desktop and asks, in plain English, "Which program would you like to open Web pages? Or text files? Or MP3 audio files? Or photo files?" "
Not only that, but if you leave the 'Always use this program...' box blank, Windows will still remember which program you used and add it to the pop-up menu when you right-click that type of file in the future.
I'm trying to escape the mother company like the rest of us, but this article is a little off track I think.
It can't be that hard to take control of file types...hell, RealPlayer runs even when I DON'T click on anything:)
I've always wanted something like this to come along. You could put more powerful relays in cars, and then you phone only has to broadcast loud enough for the nearest car-based repeater to hear it!
If you read the link, it finds in favor of Yahoo.com. Pertinent info below:
From the Australian Trade Marks Office:
Yahoo Serious v Yahoo! Inc [2001] ATMO 74 (13 August 2001)
The evidence shows that Mr Serious does not use his name, Yahoo Serious, or his forename, to distinguish goods or services. It is true that he writes, directs and produces motion picture films in which he stars; however, it is not apparent in the evidence that either of the words `Yahoo Serious', or the word `Yahoo' are used as a trade mark in relation to the films. The closest that I can find in the evidence to use of any sign that might be as a trade mark is the repeated use of the words, a `Serious Production' or `Serious Entertainment' on promotional material associated with the motion pictures. However, this use is obviously of no assistance to Mr Serious as the opposed trade mark is the word YAHOO! and I therefore do not have to decide whether this use of the word SERIOUS is as a trade mark.
The article never mentions how many times you could charge you phone with this thing. Obviously, if its just once, you could just carry another charged battery. Does anyone have an idea on how much electricity could be produced with "an area the size of a ballpoint pen's ink holder" of methane?
If you had read the article, you would have noted that the fuel cell is used to charge your cell phone's normal battery. The fuel cell is just an alternative (and portable) way to charge your phone.
I think that most of us understand the concept that anything that is playable is copyable. I first don't really understand how they can write the disc in such a way that a CD player from 1995 can play it, but that the cracker community can't write a device driver for.
Aside from that, you know how your old tape player had High Speed dubbing? I wonder if someone could rig a CD player to play that way, and then capture the sound digitally and slow it back down. That way you don't have to wait the full length of the CD. Its not so easy as ripping is right now, but I'll bet it wouldn't be too bad. It could probably even figure out where songs started and stopped just like old tape players!
Re:the unanswered question
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Dell just redirects to .com
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You can't load dell.info, but you can load www.dell.info. It promptly redirects you to dell.com.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure if anyone else does this, but I always set the swap size manually. I try to estimate the total amount of RAM I may need, using 3x my physical ram as a guidline.
So my 'big' box has 256M of ram, so the swap is set to 768M. On my 'little' box which has only 64M, I set the swap to 384M.
From the post:
In a more realistic world you would have a more open development platform but all testing would be performed on a locked-down PC.
I guess you work at a company where there is some guy called an 'installer'? I've always had to write my software and then make sure that it is actually deployable.
In the shops that have testers, then the testers test it. Otherwise, the developers test it.
There are lots of problems with installation on Windows machines. One of the most common is making sure that licenses for any 3rd party components get installed. Another is making sure that you app can properly connect to databases, remote filesystems etc. Since you have all that stuff set up on your dev box, your app never breaks. Sometimes it takes installing to a clean machine to realize you forgot to include a DSN or a component, or some image file, etc.
If you read the post, you noticed that he said he allows the developer to develop on an open system, and then he can only test his app on a locked down system.
So my question was, how do you install your app on the locked down system.
Lets say there are going to 25 iterations of testing. Thats 25 installs. Do you mean I have to go track down some network admin 25 times in the course of 2 weeks?
I don't think you described this, but I've always wondered:
If you have a RAID System (I'm sure only certain levels, and think RAID 1 is one of them) which stores duplicate data on drives, the idea is that a certain percentage of the drives could fail, and your data would not be lost. So if I had a 2 drive RAID 1 system, couldn't I just rip out a drive, send it somewhere and call it a backup? Then, I can put in a blank drive, and the RAID controller will reload all the data?
If I need some data off of the back up, I could stick the disk in an identical machine (or the same machine), power it on, copy stuff off to a network drive, etc?
Microsoft has a product that helps the Admin types keep you from controlling your machine. Its called SMS. I pride my self on my expert techniques for evading its control.
Here's how: SMS creates a folder called C:\SMS (IIRC). The trick is to deny all rights to these files except LIST. If you try to delete them, SMS will reinstall itself. If you just remove everyone's rights to execute the files, the program will just fail.
But how do I change permissions on the files if I am not an admin on the box? Well, you can't. But if you know this type of stuff is about to start in your company, then create a local admin account. You can be sneaky and name it IWAM_machinename1 or something official looking.
If you can't do that in time, then try the following: Get TomsRTBT disk (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and load up the NTFS drivers (I imagine a bootable linux disk will do), copy off the SAM file, and use l0phtcrack to get the local admin password from the box.
Yummy!
The only problem is, if testing is to be done on a "Locked Down" machine, how will I install my software (the software to be tested, that is)?
www.speakeasy.net has some nice packages where you can control your upstream/downstream ratio. Would colo'ing on a T3 offer significantly better performance?
:).
Before everyone starts going nuts because I just asked if a T3 is better than a DSL, let me just say that I mean, how much would the gameplay be improved? Would it mean that you could handle more 'players'? Are you sure your hardware could support more users than the DSL could?
I'm not giving you a hard time, I'd really like to know how all this stuff works. I just play games, I don't host them
I found it irritating on cnn.com that you might find this list of headlines:
3 cases of Anthrax in Florida
CDC reports that 5 media cases isolated.
22 testing in DC, 4 positive in early results.
Second man dies of Anthrax.
Two reported dead due to Anthrax.
The point is, you never really get a clear picture of how many cases there are, where they are, etc. You might think that there were way more cases and deaths because they keep getting rereported, and its not clear if they are totals or new cases.
A map with all of the cases and a color code for death, infection, exposure would be nice.
You guys have it all wrong.
.Net My Services Banking Service. This gives you one common interface, and Microsoft manages everything. You may not even need a database, because they will do all that for you.
.NET platform, these are fees for accessing Microsoft's .NET services.
.NET My Services are just that: 'Services'.
For example, lets say you wanted to write an application like quicken/money/gnucash. You could write a bunch of custom interfaces to all the banks, or you could subscribe to Microsofts
I'm both a Microsoft and Open Source developer, with all of the anti-Microsoft leanings of your average slashdotter.
I just thought I'd set the record straight by pointing out that these costs are not for developing applications using the
> What would you do if you were human
I will let you know when I become a human.
One day, the RIAA is going to set up a few hundred nodes full of files which look like pirated music. Instead they will contain anti-piracy messages. The RIAA will keep up with p2p tools which try to verify checksums and signatures of music. After a while, it will be difficult to find music as 10%, 20%, 50%, 70% of the files available are actually anti-piracy messages instead of the song you think they are.
How are we going to stop this?
I think the above post is slightly misleading. If you release methane, it is a very harmful greenhouse gas. However, if you burn it, its not too bad. References below:
http://www.naturalgas.org/ENVIRON2.HTM
http://www.iclei.org/efacts/natgas.htm
Also you can actually harvest naturally occurring methane to power things:
http://www.att.com/press/0692/920625.cha.html
I have Road Runner in Orlando, and have monitored it pretty consistently (that is because it was always going down, and I had to be able to tell them when it was going down. Turned out to be some borked signal amplifier down the street).
Like most people here my ping times varied greatly. My set of test pings to local ISPs and to internic.net would go from 15ms to 300ms and back in a matter of 10 minutes. I actually see the worst performance during the business day.
The techs said that this big AT+T building next door was using RR for business purposes so maybe that was the cause.
I've never had 'poor' performance, I've always been happy with it. I've certainly never seen it slow down to near-dialup speeds like some have mentioned.
In Windows Explorer, Click on 'Tools' and then 'Folder Options'. Now you have the Folder Options dialog box, click on 'File Types' and you get "a simple, forthrightly labeled control panel that sits right on every user's desktop and asks, in plain English, "Which program would you like to open Web pages? Or text files? Or MP3 audio files? Or photo files?" "
Not only that, but if you leave the 'Always use this program...' box blank, Windows will still remember which program you used and add it to the pop-up menu when you right-click that type of file in the future.
:)
I'm trying to escape the mother company like the rest of us, but this article is a little off track I think.
It can't be that hard to take control of file types...hell, RealPlayer runs even when I DON'T click on anything
You could use these to recharge PocketPC's too!!
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I've always wanted something like this to come along. You could put more powerful relays in cars, and then you phone only has to broadcast loud enough for the nearest car-based repeater to hear it!
MUHAHAHAA
If you read the link, it finds in favor of Yahoo.com. Pertinent info below:
From the Australian Trade Marks Office:
Yahoo Serious v Yahoo! Inc [2001] ATMO 74 (13 August 2001)
The evidence shows that Mr Serious does not use his name, Yahoo Serious, or his forename, to distinguish goods or services. It is true that he writes, directs and produces motion picture films in which he stars; however, it is not apparent in the evidence that either of the words `Yahoo Serious', or the word `Yahoo' are used as a trade mark in relation to the films. The closest that I can find in the evidence to use of any sign that might be as a trade mark is the repeated use of the words, a `Serious Production' or `Serious Entertainment' on promotional material associated with the motion pictures. However, this use is obviously of no assistance to Mr Serious as the opposed trade mark is the word YAHOO! and I therefore do not have to decide whether this use of the word SERIOUS is as a trade mark.
I can't believe that the slashdot effect is number one. WOW! Congratz all around!
The article never mentions how many times you could charge you phone with this thing. Obviously, if its just once, you could just carry another charged battery. Does anyone have an idea on how much electricity could be produced with "an area the size of a ballpoint pen's ink holder" of methane?
If you had read the article, you would have noted that the fuel cell is used to charge your cell phone's normal battery. The fuel cell is just an alternative (and portable) way to charge your phone.
I think that most of us understand the concept that anything that is playable is copyable. I first don't really understand how they can write the disc in such a way that a CD player from 1995 can play it, but that the cracker community can't write a device driver for.
Aside from that, you know how your old tape player had High Speed dubbing? I wonder if someone could rig a CD player to play that way, and then capture the sound digitally and slow it back down. That way you don't have to wait the full length of the CD. Its not so easy as ripping is right now, but I'll bet it wouldn't be too bad. It could probably even figure out where songs started and stopped just like old tape players!
visual interface?
You can't load dell.info, but you can load www.dell.info. It promptly redirects you to dell.com.