I worked in two government research labs that did this (Air Force Research Lab and Navy Research Lab...I understand that the Army does it as well, and just about every civil-service-job-that-doesn't-interact-with-the-public-on-a-daily-basis does it this way).
I rather enjoyed it. My Fridays were spent backpacking, kayaking, bicycling, sometimes even hobby programming, or Getting Things Done like doing banking/other paperwork. I wished that my private sector job did it. And as for managers respecting it, you bet they did...my managers all had Friday off as well.
At the Air Force lab, we could choose which Friday to take off (or we could take off any other day of our choosing...one guy I worked with took off Wednesdays for some bizarre reason:)). We tried to keep about half of us there each Friday in case someone called and needed answers. At the Navy, everybody took off on the same Friday and the place was all but shut down on the off-Fridays.
Good luck. It's a fun system, just be sure not to abuse it so that your bosses don't change their minds.
So, it seems to me that the important discovery is that there could be a relatively massive supply of a chemical compound which is able to produce breathable oxygen, if and when we can ever get people to Mars.
I noted a far more subtle problem with SSL in Firefox about a year ago that deals with Client certificates. They allow users to use a non-repudiation certificate for authentication, which is a subtle but bad thing. It ends up giving the US DoD a free pass while messing with the security of everybody else that uses client certificates.
One good thing has come out of it: when I was interviewing for jobs, I brought this issue up with all of my potential companies. It was a great conversation-piece to hear what different companies would do in the Firefox Position: bow to the wishes of the DoD, screw the DoD in the name of the specifications, or something else entirely...
Hopefully nVidia catches whoever started this one and successfully sues them for conspiracy to affect stock price, defamation, and a slew of other fun charges that I no doubt have never heard of...
No, you misunderstood: You use this thing to get to and from your Cessna. The question is, can your Cessna hold an additional 250 lbs that bulky?
In that case, I'll take two!
Yeah, I think a 172 could carry 250 pounds okay, though it would be noticeably slower. I have to wonder: if you're going to fly your jetpack to the airport, what's the point of having a short-range, slow aircraft?:).
Who are these mythical 4 people who fit in a 172? I guess if two of them are small children then yes, but no luggage!:-)
Note that I said, "can carry four people, or 2-3 people with some gear" The jetpack can carry just one person with little to no gear.
A pilot and me in a 172 on a day that is over seventy degrees and the pilot starts thinking about how much fuel he can have and still get off the ground.
Interesting pilot. I used to fly with my housemate who belonged to an aero club. We took Cessna 150s and 152s out, which are a lot less powerful than the 172. He did say that I slowed his plane down a lot (I weighed 200 pounds then:_)), though it wasn't a big deal getting airborne or even that big a deal for pleasure flying, concerning fuel weight. We always topped off the tank before taking off...
I just looked at your link, none of those under $50k planes list engine time.
You should look again. Almost every plane lists engine time since major overhaul as well as total airframe time. Like this one, this one, this one. Only a small minority do not list time since overhaul...
Anyway I don't think I would ever buy a plane, unless I was starting an aero club or plane cooperative. Aero clubs aren't too expensive (a lot less than buying and maintaining my own aircraft, anyway:)).
Consider the total cost of a private pilot's license is about $10k, and the cost of a used Cessna 172 can be had for about $50k in great condition (which, keep in mind, can carry four people, or 2-3 people with some gear, pretty comfortably), I think that the jetpack would have a hard time selling.
I suppose that there could be some niche market for this sort of thing though...though even a well-equipped Harley costs significantly less than many cars still.
Company contacts Person offering to fix the problem.
Person now feels, "creeped out," making allegations that Company is Big Brother.
Conclusion:
If Person did not want Company to read about Problem, then Person should not have posted a Complaint on a Public Forum. Me, I would call this sort of behavior Good Business -- a company actively seeking out customers that feel they have been wronged, and trying to make things right is just that. Comcast will never have my business over their P2P crapola, but they might, and more importantly should, win some people over with this behavior...
Sorry, I can't parse that. Do you mind explaining what you mean?
The gp stated, 'Satellite Radio is not a monopoly; it is competing against FREE terrestrial radio, mp3 players, ipods, FREE internet radio, etc.'
I argue that satellite radio is a far different way of using our airwaves than terrestrial radio. Terrestrial radio is bound by ground-wave propagation -- I can't listen to Philadelphia's radio stations when I'm in my car driving in Seattle. I can listen to XM/Sirius wherever I am, though. The FCC limited terrestrial radio in this way by design. So satellite radio is not competing against free terrestrial radio. mp3 players and the like are also no comparison to the service that satellite radio offers, because they aren't broadcast (I can't get breaking news on my ipod). So satellite radio is not competing against mp3 player and ipods. And internet 'radio' doesn't exactly use radio waves, unless you count wifi. So satellite radio is not competing against internet 'radio.'
I argue that satellite radio really doesn't face competition from those mechanisms that the gp states -- satellite is a very very different kind of service. Since satellite radio is using a resource that I own (a chunk of the wireless spectrum), I would like for our government to ensure that the satellite radio company works in my best interest. Terrestrial commercial broadcasters, for example, are required to play public service announcements and news in exchange for the ability to use the airwaves.
The easiest and cheapest way of making this best-interest assurance is to require a competitor. If I don't think that XM/Sirius is working in my best interest, I could at least change carriers. I know, I know, it sounds horribly European. Sorry about that. Really, the other option to make sure that a satellite radio company provides unbiased public information services is to have constant and intense oversight of Sirius/XM by the FCC. In a sense, I'm really making the 'smaller' government argument here;-).
Because Satellite Radio is not a monopoly; it is competing against FREE terrestrial radio, mp3 players, ipods, FREE internet radio, etc.
That's kind of like saying that Internet access is competing against FREE bulletin board systems. We saw how well BBSes fared through the early to mid 90s...
I dunno if maybe this just means that it's terrestrial radio's time to exit stage right. Maybe it is? It brings a little bit of sadness to my eyes though...hopefully nobody can fault me for that. And jeez, I'm talking like this and I'm not even thirty years old...
My trouble is, I guess, that we (you and I) own the radio spectrum [assuming that you are a US citizen;-)]. The FCC should only give people access to this shared resource if those people are willing to play by a few ground rules. One of those ground rules should be healthy competition, e.g. the FCC should grant at least two companies access to the medium and spectrum in question, so that customers [not 'consumers', because I hate that word] deserve a choice. I worry if only one company will now have the ability to access this nifty service on our public airwaves...because while they may be competing with other services, it doesn't have the look and feel that they are competing on a level playing field. I certainly can't listen to terrestrial radio, mp3 players, ipods, nor internet radio under the same conditions that I can listen to satellite radio.
When you have IT people, they're going to have control of your IT infrastructure. Sorry, but there's not much you can do about that. They need access to your data and your equipment to do the job that you want them to do. You'd better find trustworthy people.
This is kind of like complaining, "I have a chaffeur, but I'm nervous that he might go crazy some day and drive me off a bridge, or head-on into a semi." Yes, that is a risk that you'd face by having a driver. And I'm sorry, but no amount of technology gobbledy-gook is going to prevent disaster if your driver does, indeed go crazy.
You face risks whenever you have someone do something for you -- that they might do it wrong, or that they might try to screw you. You're giving them control of some portion of your life. If you're not okay with that, or you don't trust the person that you've hired, you'd better rethink whether you're in the right business...
Jeez, I just read your exchange. I can summarize it like this:
Him: "Hey, your software is cool, here's some detailed info on what I think is broken." You: "Oh, wow, thanks! Okay, let me look at this...okay, I think you're right about this, but wrong about this. Did you click the metric button or something?" Him: "Thanks for the response. Yeah, I clicked the metric button, which is why you're seeing metric units. Well, I kinda think I'm right about the second thing. Here's why...man, these screen shots were hard to attach and format commentary for, while I'm still writing this, I'd like to add that you should consider using some other software for this forum." You: "Metric confuses me [ed: who knows why you made a 'Metric' button if Metric confuses you]. Please RTFM. Also, I ignore a bunch of stuff right now but I think it's unimportant." Him: "Awesome, thanks. By the way, I found this other weird stuff. And I do think this stuff is important, because saying its accurate could actually hurt or kill people. Just sayin'." You: "Okay. And wow, I didn't look at that other thing. Here's how I fixed it. Thanks! Also RTFM." Him: "Cool. But I think your fix is wrong because of this disastrous situation that could put a kid's eye..." You: "You're wrong. **EDIT** Oh, you're right! I'll make that more clear. **TO SLASHDOT** OMG TEH TROLLZz!!11!!"
I mean, the guy wrote a total of five posts (which puzzling make up over 12% of the total posts on your "recently popular" forums), and they all used a lot of "I" messages, none were inflammatory, and they all had a lot of detail about what's wrong with your app (I mean, the guy posted screenshots of your app detailing what he thought was wrong...it's pretty clear that he spent a *long* time writing up what he wrote up).
That he followed up in the same thread with new problems, well, maybe you could say, "let's start a new thread for that new problem." For the most part, the "new problems," were very related to your responses, though.
I think that you need to start taking criticism and suggestions more openly, especially if you're going to operate a forum about your website. And please, please, don't think that I'm a jerk for telling you all of this. I really mean it in the best way. Internet software is cool, and I'm glad to see you writing something fun, so keep on writing the good write, and keep on foruming.
And don't dismiss guys that criticize your software, especially if they use screenshots to do so:).
1) Default Permit. Use of firewalls (even 'intelligent' firewalls) allows all traffic through, except that traffic that looks somehow bad. 2) Enumerating Badness. Kind of like #1, you're blacklisting the bad stuff. There's a helpful chart in the article to show why this is dumb. 6) Action is Better than Inaction. 'Nuff said.
Just wait...if Cuomo discovers that child porn is shared via HTTP, he might force ISPs to drop access to the web.
I have dug a lot of Cuomo's recent suits for their customer/consumer-friendliness (recently he settled with Verizon when they advertised unlimited cell phone use and then dropped customers who talked too much, and also sued Dell for failing to deliver support). This is kind of silly, though. I mean, it's essentially declaring war on a protocol. It reminds me strip #2 of Get Your War On.
A question that I always ask interview candidates is whether they do any programming outside of work. It's a great question to learn whether a person is a Real Geek...folks that program because it's fun for them almost always get involved with some outside project. While I understand that a passionate civil engineer might not have the time/money to build bridges in their free time;-), software is cheap to do as a hobby. 'Fun' stuff would be great to show your potential employer. Assuming, of course, that you do some;-).
I dunno if I'd say that she was 'really' into male homosexuality. Of the hundred or so relationships explored in the Pern books, there were a few mentions of homosexuality and one or two actual homosexual relationships (I recall two male scientists in Dragonfall and I think one other couple in one of the later series...typically her homosexual relationships were defined by their dragons coupling [okay now that I write that it's got some humor to it]). I'd consider the Pern universe on par with what the Real World looks like...mostly straight, but pretty much everyone knows a gay person or two. Besides, for a pre-teen, it could be a good thing to read (especially if they're going to turn out gay).
I'm not gay, though I'm glad I read that stuff when I was young. I think I was ten or eleven when I did read most of McCaffrey's works, still at an age when girls had cooties, but it definitely opened up my mind as I got older.
This is the grail, holy or not, energy for nothing.... or close to that.
Except that this will cause extra megawatts of tidal drag on the earth from the moon, slowing our rotation more quickly, lengthening our days more quickly, and quite possibly contributing to global climate change in a slightly different way than the one that we are used to thinking about.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for alternative energy like this (even tidal). It'll likely help more than it hurts. Everything has a price, though.
Thats an insane amount. I can't even vaguely imagine how I would use more than 30 gig a month downloads.
The trouble with putting a cap on an internet connection is this: Define "download."
If I have an OC-12 at work, and I decide for no good reason to send you 1500 byte ICMP Echo Requests all day every day as quickly as I can, will the cable company label this you "downloading" the data? If not, then we've just found a neat way to circumvent the limit (put your download data in the ICMP payload). If it does count as you downloading, give me your IP address and let's see if you can hit the 30 Gig limit this month:).
Actually you can. http://blog.leschinsky.in.ua/tag/dns-323/ Although you need serial console during own firmware development you can flash device via its default web-interface.
You can? I thought it required a signed firmware?
If you are able to upload your new firmware to the device via the web interface, I will definitely have to give it a try!
AT&T took down their ad, but it was pretty funny in a sick sort of way. If you didn't catch their new ad, it was on their bill-pay site last week. I kept a little archive of it here. Enjoy.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: the DNS-323 sucks. I have one.
- It uses ext2 filesystem, which isn't great - Its ability to rebuild a raid-1 array is questionable (lots of people have reported the device 'Doing the Wrong Thing' when they slap in a new drive) - Its ability to deal with unicode characters on the filesystem sucks, even with the latest 1.04 firmware - The device has a tendency to pretend that it wrote a file when it actually failed. This is most noticeable when I copy huge directories that contain many thousands of small files (e.g. doing rsync backups). This failure occurs chiefly over the SMB server provided, and still occurs in the 1.04 firmware (so it could be a filesystem problem?). It has happened to me recently when running rsync from the DNS-323 to sync up to a remote machine over ssh, so I'm not 100% sure that this a samba problem... - There are quality control issues in the hardware (the leds tend to fail, often the ones that tell you that your hard drive has failed) - You cannot load your own firmware on the device to fix any of the problems that I've mentioned, without soldering a serial port onto the mainboard - D-Link support sucks
It has been about two years since D-Link released the thing, and it still isn't right. I don't think that they have enough incentive to fix the problems that it has, which is funny because all of the problems are already fixed in the latest versions of the open source software that they use. I'd really like them to just make us able to load our own firmware on the device easily, as that would allow me to fix all the troubles. Anyway, I'd stay away from this one unless you want to play with a soldering iron.
You are correct, and so is the quiz. Note the wording of the question, "which of the following is *not* an obligation of FooCorp" (emphasis mine). Specifically, you *don't* have to make your source code available, you only have to release your modified version of LGPL'd library LibIdo.
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I worked in two government research labs that did this (Air Force Research Lab and Navy Research Lab...I understand that the Army does it as well, and just about every civil-service-job-that-doesn't-interact-with-the-public-on-a-daily-basis does it this way).
I rather enjoyed it. My Fridays were spent backpacking, kayaking, bicycling, sometimes even hobby programming, or Getting Things Done like doing banking/other paperwork. I wished that my private sector job did it. And as for managers respecting it, you bet they did...my managers all had Friday off as well.
At the Air Force lab, we could choose which Friday to take off (or we could take off any other day of our choosing...one guy I worked with took off Wednesdays for some bizarre reason :)). We tried to keep about half of us there each Friday in case someone called and needed answers. At the Navy, everybody took off on the same Friday and the place was all but shut down on the off-Fridays.
Good luck. It's a fun system, just be sure not to abuse it so that your bosses don't change their minds.
The fact that RealTek does not make -or may never make- hardware for Macs is immaterial.
But they do! RealTek makes chips which are placed on PCI wifi cards (check out the RTL8185).
With this driver, those wifi cards can be used in a Mac Pro or Power Macintosh with PCI slots.
So Realtek has a legitimate reason to make these drivers. osx86 support is just a side effect.
The canonical NASA JPL Video...
I would say, "Learn enough Java to know what you're talking about," and then mention Java's limitations in your interview.
So, it seems to me that the important discovery is that there could be a relatively massive supply of a chemical compound which is able to produce breathable oxygen, if and when we can ever get people to Mars.
Sweet! I am suddenly reminded of Total Recall....
I noted a far more subtle problem with SSL in Firefox about a year ago that deals with Client certificates. They allow users to use a non-repudiation certificate for authentication, which is a subtle but bad thing. It ends up giving the US DoD a free pass while messing with the security of everybody else that uses client certificates.
One good thing has come out of it: when I was interviewing for jobs, I brought this issue up with all of my potential companies. It was a great conversation-piece to hear what different companies would do in the Firefox Position: bow to the wishes of the DoD, screw the DoD in the name of the specifications, or something else entirely...
Reid
Who even comes up with this stuff?
Probably someone trying to make money on stock...
Hopefully nVidia catches whoever started this one and successfully sues them for conspiracy to affect stock price, defamation, and a slew of other fun charges that I no doubt have never heard of...
No, you misunderstood: You use this thing to get to and from your Cessna. The question is, can your Cessna hold an additional 250 lbs that bulky?
In that case, I'll take two!
Yeah, I think a 172 could carry 250 pounds okay, though it would be noticeably slower. I have to wonder: if you're going to fly your jetpack to the airport, what's the point of having a short-range, slow aircraft? :).
I guess it's kind of like that car that turns into a boat. It's all for the girlfriends.
Who are these mythical 4 people who fit in a 172? I guess if two of them are small children then yes, but no luggage! :-)
Note that I said, "can carry four people, or 2-3 people with some gear" The jetpack can carry just one person with little to no gear.
A pilot and me in a 172 on a day that is over seventy degrees and the pilot starts thinking about how much fuel he can have and still get off the ground.
Interesting pilot. I used to fly with my housemate who belonged to an aero club. We took Cessna 150s and 152s out, which are a lot less powerful than the 172. He did say that I slowed his plane down a lot (I weighed 200 pounds then :_)), though it wasn't a big deal getting airborne or even that big a deal for pleasure flying, concerning fuel weight. We always topped off the tank before taking off...
I just looked at your link, none of those under $50k planes list engine time.
You should look again. Almost every plane lists engine time since major overhaul as well as total airframe time. Like this one, this one, this one. Only a small minority do not list time since overhaul...
Anyway I don't think I would ever buy a plane, unless I was starting an aero club or plane cooperative. Aero clubs aren't too expensive (a lot less than buying and maintaining my own aircraft, anyway :)).
Reid
Consider the total cost of a private pilot's license is about $10k, and the cost of a used Cessna 172 can be had for about $50k in great condition (which, keep in mind, can carry four people, or 2-3 people with some gear, pretty comfortably), I think that the jetpack would have a hard time selling.
I suppose that there could be some niche market for this sort of thing though...though even a well-equipped Harley costs significantly less than many cars still.
So let me get this straight:
Person complains about Company on a Public Forum.
Company contacts Person offering to fix the problem.
Person now feels, "creeped out," making allegations that Company is Big Brother.
Conclusion:
If Person did not want Company to read about Problem, then Person should not have posted a Complaint on a Public Forum. Me, I would call this sort of behavior Good Business -- a company actively seeking out customers that feel they have been wronged, and trying to make things right is just that. Comcast will never have my business over their P2P crapola, but they might, and more importantly should, win some people over with this behavior...
Sorry, I can't parse that. Do you mind explaining what you mean?
The gp stated, 'Satellite Radio is not a monopoly; it is competing against FREE terrestrial radio, mp3 players, ipods, FREE internet radio, etc.'
I argue that satellite radio is a far different way of using our airwaves than terrestrial radio. Terrestrial radio is bound by ground-wave propagation -- I can't listen to Philadelphia's radio stations when I'm in my car driving in Seattle. I can listen to XM/Sirius wherever I am, though. The FCC limited terrestrial radio in this way by design. So satellite radio is not competing against free terrestrial radio. mp3 players and the like are also no comparison to the service that satellite radio offers, because they aren't broadcast (I can't get breaking news on my ipod). So satellite radio is not competing against mp3 player and ipods. And internet 'radio' doesn't exactly use radio waves, unless you count wifi. So satellite radio is not competing against internet 'radio.'
I argue that satellite radio really doesn't face competition from those mechanisms that the gp states -- satellite is a very very different kind of service. Since satellite radio is using a resource that I own (a chunk of the wireless spectrum), I would like for our government to ensure that the satellite radio company works in my best interest. Terrestrial commercial broadcasters, for example, are required to play public service announcements and news in exchange for the ability to use the airwaves.
The easiest and cheapest way of making this best-interest assurance is to require a competitor. If I don't think that XM/Sirius is working in my best interest, I could at least change carriers. I know, I know, it sounds horribly European. Sorry about that. Really, the other option to make sure that a satellite radio company provides unbiased public information services is to have constant and intense oversight of Sirius/XM by the FCC. In a sense, I'm really making the 'smaller' government argument here ;-).
Reid
Because Satellite Radio is not a monopoly; it is competing against FREE terrestrial radio, mp3 players, ipods, FREE internet radio, etc.
That's kind of like saying that Internet access is competing against FREE bulletin board systems. We saw how well BBSes fared through the early to mid 90s...
I dunno if maybe this just means that it's terrestrial radio's time to exit stage right. Maybe it is? It brings a little bit of sadness to my eyes though...hopefully nobody can fault me for that. And jeez, I'm talking like this and I'm not even thirty years old...
My trouble is, I guess, that we (you and I) own the radio spectrum [assuming that you are a US citizen ;-)]. The FCC should only give people access to this shared resource if those people are willing to play by a few ground rules. One of those ground rules should be healthy competition, e.g. the FCC should grant at least two companies access to the medium and spectrum in question, so that customers [not 'consumers', because I hate that word] deserve a choice. I worry if only one company will now have the ability to access this nifty service on our public airwaves...because while they may be competing with other services, it doesn't have the look and feel that they are competing on a level playing field. I certainly can't listen to terrestrial radio, mp3 players, ipods, nor internet radio under the same conditions that I can listen to satellite radio.
I've written this one before.
When you have IT people, they're going to have control of your IT infrastructure. Sorry, but there's not much you can do about that. They need access to your data and your equipment to do the job that you want them to do. You'd better find trustworthy people.
This is kind of like complaining, "I have a chaffeur, but I'm nervous that he might go crazy some day and drive me off a bridge, or head-on into a semi." Yes, that is a risk that you'd face by having a driver. And I'm sorry, but no amount of technology gobbledy-gook is going to prevent disaster if your driver does, indeed go crazy.
You face risks whenever you have someone do something for you -- that they might do it wrong, or that they might try to screw you. You're giving them control of some portion of your life. If you're not okay with that, or you don't trust the person that you've hired, you'd better rethink whether you're in the right business...
Jeez, I just read your exchange. I can summarize it like this:
Him: "Hey, your software is cool, here's some detailed info on what I think is broken."
You: "Oh, wow, thanks! Okay, let me look at this...okay, I think you're right about this, but wrong about this. Did you click the metric button or something?"
Him: "Thanks for the response. Yeah, I clicked the metric button, which is why you're seeing metric units. Well, I kinda think I'm right about the second thing. Here's why...man, these screen shots were hard to attach and format commentary for, while I'm still writing this, I'd like to add that you should consider using some other software for this forum."
You: "Metric confuses me [ed: who knows why you made a 'Metric' button if Metric confuses you]. Please RTFM. Also, I ignore a bunch of stuff right now but I think it's unimportant."
Him: "Awesome, thanks. By the way, I found this other weird stuff. And I do think this stuff is important, because saying its accurate could actually hurt or kill people. Just sayin'."
You: "Okay. And wow, I didn't look at that other thing. Here's how I fixed it. Thanks! Also RTFM."
Him: "Cool. But I think your fix is wrong because of this disastrous situation that could put a kid's eye..."
You: "You're wrong. **EDIT** Oh, you're right! I'll make that more clear. **TO SLASHDOT** OMG TEH TROLLZz!!11!!"
I mean, the guy wrote a total of five posts (which puzzling make up over 12% of the total posts on your "recently popular" forums), and they all used a lot of "I" messages, none were inflammatory, and they all had a lot of detail about what's wrong with your app (I mean, the guy posted screenshots of your app detailing what he thought was wrong...it's pretty clear that he spent a *long* time writing up what he wrote up).
That he followed up in the same thread with new problems, well, maybe you could say, "let's start a new thread for that new problem." For the most part, the "new problems," were very related to your responses, though.
I think that you need to start taking criticism and suggestions more openly, especially if you're going to operate a forum about your website. And please, please, don't think that I'm a jerk for telling you all of this. I really mean it in the best way. Internet software is cool, and I'm glad to see you writing something fun, so keep on writing the good write, and keep on foruming.
And don't dismiss guys that criticize your software, especially if they use screenshots to do so :).
Every time I read some new whiz-bang security tool, I look back to Marcus Ranum's terrific The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security article.
This idea meets three of the 'dumb' criteria:
1) Default Permit. Use of firewalls (even 'intelligent' firewalls) allows all traffic through, except that traffic that looks somehow bad.
2) Enumerating Badness. Kind of like #1, you're blacklisting the bad stuff. There's a helpful chart in the article to show why this is dumb.
6) Action is Better than Inaction. 'Nuff said.
Reid
Just wait...if Cuomo discovers that child porn is shared via HTTP, he might force ISPs to drop access to the web.
I have dug a lot of Cuomo's recent suits for their customer/consumer-friendliness (recently he settled with Verizon when they advertised unlimited cell phone use and then dropped customers who talked too much, and also sued Dell for failing to deliver support). This is kind of silly, though. I mean, it's essentially declaring war on a protocol. It reminds me strip #2 of Get Your War On.
A question that I always ask interview candidates is whether they do any programming outside of work. It's a great question to learn whether a person is a Real Geek...folks that program because it's fun for them almost always get involved with some outside project. While I understand that a passionate civil engineer might not have the time/money to build bridges in their free time ;-), software is cheap to do as a hobby. 'Fun' stuff would be great to show your potential employer. Assuming, of course, that you do some ;-).
I dunno if I'd say that she was 'really' into male homosexuality. Of the hundred or so relationships explored in the Pern books, there were a few mentions of homosexuality and one or two actual homosexual relationships (I recall two male scientists in Dragonfall and I think one other couple in one of the later series...typically her homosexual relationships were defined by their dragons coupling [okay now that I write that it's got some humor to it]). I'd consider the Pern universe on par with what the Real World looks like...mostly straight, but pretty much everyone knows a gay person or two. Besides, for a pre-teen, it could be a good thing to read (especially if they're going to turn out gay).
I'm not gay, though I'm glad I read that stuff when I was young. I think I was ten or eleven when I did read most of McCaffrey's works, still at an age when girls had cooties, but it definitely opened up my mind as I got older.
This is the grail, holy or not, energy for nothing.... or close to that.
Except that this will cause extra megawatts of tidal drag on the earth from the moon, slowing our rotation more quickly, lengthening our days more quickly, and quite possibly contributing to global climate change in a slightly different way than the one that we are used to thinking about.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for alternative energy like this (even tidal). It'll likely help more than it hurts. Everything has a price, though.
Thats an insane amount. I can't even vaguely imagine how I would use more than 30 gig a month downloads.
The trouble with putting a cap on an internet connection is this: Define "download."
If I have an OC-12 at work, and I decide for no good reason to send you 1500 byte ICMP Echo Requests all day every day as quickly as I can, will the cable company label this you "downloading" the data? If not, then we've just found a neat way to circumvent the limit (put your download data in the ICMP payload). If it does count as you downloading, give me your IP address and let's see if you can hit the 30 Gig limit this month :).
Actually you can. http://blog.leschinsky.in.ua/tag/dns-323/ Although you need serial console during own firmware development you can flash device via its default web-interface.
You can? I thought it required a signed firmware?
If you are able to upload your new firmware to the device via the web interface, I will definitely have to give it a try!
Thanks,
Reid
AT&T took down their ad, but it was pretty funny in a sick sort of way. If you didn't catch their new ad, it was on their bill-pay site last week. I kept a little archive of it here. Enjoy.
Reid
I've said it before, I'll say it again: the DNS-323 sucks. I have one.
- It uses ext2 filesystem, which isn't great
- Its ability to rebuild a raid-1 array is questionable (lots of people have reported the device 'Doing the Wrong Thing' when they slap in a new drive)
- Its ability to deal with unicode characters on the filesystem sucks, even with the latest 1.04 firmware
- The device has a tendency to pretend that it wrote a file when it actually failed. This is most noticeable when I copy huge directories that contain many thousands of small files (e.g. doing rsync backups). This failure occurs chiefly over the SMB server provided, and still occurs in the 1.04 firmware (so it could be a filesystem problem?). It has happened to me recently when running rsync from the DNS-323 to sync up to a remote machine over ssh, so I'm not 100% sure that this a samba problem...
- There are quality control issues in the hardware (the leds tend to fail, often the ones that tell you that your hard drive has failed)
- You cannot load your own firmware on the device to fix any of the problems that I've mentioned, without soldering a serial port onto the mainboard
- D-Link support sucks
It has been about two years since D-Link released the thing, and it still isn't right. I don't think that they have enough incentive to fix the problems that it has, which is funny because all of the problems are already fixed in the latest versions of the open source software that they use. I'd really like them to just make us able to load our own firmware on the device easily, as that would allow me to fix all the troubles. Anyway, I'd stay away from this one unless you want to play with a soldering iron.
Reid
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You are correct, and so is the quiz. Note the wording of the question, "which of the following is *not* an obligation of FooCorp" (emphasis mine). Specifically, you *don't* have to make your source code available, you only have to release your modified version of LGPL'd library LibIdo.