And back on topic in response, a 27gb RAID-5 is still not a bad file server, even if I wouldn't throw too many computers at it. It reminds me of the story of the 733 p3 desktop IDE, slow hard drive, and Windows 98 running as a psuedo-server, compared to the 60MHZ P1 with a SCSI drive and Novell. My friend (a junior sysadmin) was amazed to see how fast, relatively, that old box was.
Apples to Oranges? Of course! However, the lesson is that CPU speed is a poor judgement on many servers.
Oh, and see if you can't put that puppy into Raid-0 just to see how fast it reacts.:)
It's more efficent to go into EVERY file, individually type in keywords for over 100 photos every time you upload a set of photos?
As opposed to popping open irfanview, going through the photos and sorting them into individual folders?
I'm definitely missing something.
It's quicker for me to set things into groups of 20 quickly and search through those 20, then spend the time upfront with these keywords.
I feel the same way about spatial browsing. If I place something in a folder, I will know where to find what I want. That's preferable to grouping everything together and depending on remembering what keywords I chose so that I can search for it.
But then again, I prefer MDI, so I've already gained the experts' ire.
I knew better than to read Ask/. hoping for an answer.
Headphones, at least for me, cause discomfort and pain after 45 minutes or so with music at a reasonable volume. (Reasonable volume being where I can still hear a coworker's typing.)
Noise-cancelling headphones are even worse. I've never found a pair that I could stand having on more than five minutes. I'd imagine I'm not the only one.
For programming? It's great. In java, you should be able to explain polymorphism, for example, or how to prevent memory leaks even with garbage collection, etc.
This is opposed to an interview, where you can ask more off the wall questions. A test is really only a bar - do you have the basic knowledge or are you bluffing? The interview will select the good people.
Full disclosure: I work for a public health company as a developer.
The company I work for gives its source code to its clients, but isn't Open Source. Why? Selling to states or communities, many of these products take dozens of man-years to create. No one state can afford all of the tools that technology can afford, so companies lose money on the first, hoping to gain money on the sale to other states.
That's the ultimate problem in this niche market. Either the states have to provide their own staff (which is problematic, because it's expensive to hire and release employees for government) or they have to pay the true cost of developing the software, rather than spreading the cost out through maintenance and other states.
That said, the company I work for is dependent on the Apache and Jakarta set of projects for our work. Our developers have also contributed code back to open source projects.
Start out on a local DDR machine. http://www.ddrfreak.com/ has a game locator. Play 20 bucks worth, and see if it's worth investing in.
If it is, get a good, durable pad. DDRFreak will have suggestions. You can get the pads for Playstation or PC.
There are also instructions on building your own, but if you have trouble with the motivation to exercise already, just buy a pad. Don't give yourself excuses.
IT hates to deploy an application of dozens to thousands of computers over hundreds of offices.
Much easier to have everything on the server rather than having to program self-updates.
The alternative, of course, is to install X-Windows on every system so that they can all run clients off a central UNIX box. This has its own political challenges, especially in a unix-only setup.
Through college, I was teaching computer skills and doing computer handiwork for clients, including one psychic.
When she fell on hard times, I traded some work for psychic readings. My opinion of them as a genre changed tremendously over that period of time.
Now, I'm not exactly sure that I believe in the metaphysical aspects, but what I *am* sure of is that spiritual mediums were some of the original therapists. She has a series of clients and ends up using her intuition to give advice and help people through problems.
Frankly, I trust her years of training as much as I do the counselors I've know, and certainly better than a Ph.D psychologist in non-diagnostic work. (Hint: Not all psychologists are trained specifically in counseling.)
Oh, and she didn't need any information to tell me that a romantic interest was a flake. Lo and behold...:D
From the way you use the past tense about your friend, it sounds like the whole matter is unfortunately finalized, but if not, I hope he still has some presence of mind and can somehow consider that just maybe the doctors and meds ARE the way God would work in his life.
We drifted apart when he went to a different church.
I think I'd mentioned that he wouldn't take them specifically because he believed God would heal. He took it as a sign of his faith. If he's taking the meds, he thought his faith had no action.
As for me? I'm not a believer anymore for different reasons.
One was with my friend's mother, which was confounded with bipolar. It started in her thirties under quite a bit of stress, but medication and counseling has been sufficent for her to get her life back together.
The other was with a friend with a more sever case. He was fine when he was taking his medication, but we couldn't get him to keep taking it. His parents couldn't, noone could. It's not like you can just pull an ultimatum, either. I mean, they're not thinking in the same way you are. (He had this belief that God would heal him. When you look at all the TV shows and the Bible, he had enough evidence he needed.)
You don't mention her age. She's probably a little bit older, as it starts in women later than in men usually. All I can offer is my condolances, and suggest http://schizophrenia.com/
Schizophrenia was once a catch-all diagnosis. Just about any disorder could go into it. It wasn't until the idea of a DSM came around that disorders started getting segmented.
As for MPD, sorry. That's just not true. It makes for a good conspiracy theory, though.
For a terrorist with an advanced biology degree, the difference between 5,000 dollars and 5 million dollars is relatively insignificant, when we're talking the mass destruction that this would cause.
The information is out there, and if you wanted to just place a few dozen people through innocuous biology degrees, they could read through enough research and duplication to manage such a conclusion. If you can get a few through advanced degrees without being identified, all the better!
Who knows if they might already have gone through? Perhaps they've been working in industry for years to get experience?
I'm waiting for someone to create a virus/antidote, and command money for the antidote after millions had already died.
The point behind Mozilla always was to have a platform from which people could create full fledged cross-platform applications using CSS, HTML, ECMAscript and XML.
It just so happens that the first major application was a web browser.
I'm starting to subtly push taking advantage of Mozilla's front end capibilities within my company's application, myself.
I'm sorry, you're right. I had mentioned that I was going up a steep hill when the battery went too low to work, but hadn't explicitly said I was going 55 up that hill.
It is difficult, but possible, to have the electric motor run out of juice.
Flooring the thing for a few miles would probably do it. I remember taking the bugger to 100 and that engine was working way too hard to fuel the electric battery.
The one time I ran out of juice from normal usage was going through Western New Mexico to Albuquerque with no stops. There is a long incline going into the city after a slight incline over the whole trip. The car wasn't ready for it and had to slow down to 55.
Yes, that motor is only good enough to keep you sustained at 55 by itself.
(Note: I still heartily reccomend the car for most everyone, and the 2004 model has a higher HP gas engine so I'm sure the problem isn't pronounced.)
but Novell is trying to be a competitor to Microsoft. (Or, rather, they've been competiting since Windows NT.)
Novell's goal is to make a Corporate-friendly server and desktop combination.
Miguel is scared for Ximian and Novell. Mono is about Ximian and Novell, though the purists will likely get some benefit from it too.
As for me? I'm glad we have some people to put money into real user testing. We don't need a complex gui to do everything like windows does; after all, that's what we have the CLI for! I think that's the path Ximian and GNOME are taking, and it might be the right idea for all of us.
GNU is not a nice word, but I find infinite recursion quite witty.
To a programmer, that's a bug.:D
But when you are talking to corporate people, or making press statements, you are always mentioning (or at least shoud, but my feeling is that it is respected) Microsoft... and for good reason...
I've heard of Microsoft referred to, I've heard Windows referred to, but rarely in the same sentence outside a press release.
Who is that 'us' ? And furthermore, the BSD tools are using GCC, a GNU tool.
Okay, I was mistaken on that point. GCC is unique. However, If I'm not mistaken again BSD has its own libc and utilities that came out of the settlement, so GCC is the only GNU "essential." I'm glad they're there, but again, the exclusive honorific is unnecessary.
And who are "we?" Go back to the question. Someone was talking about the "FSF Bashing" around here. I took a collection of the usual barbs.
the legal foundations to create a free software operating system. X, Qt, GTK are irrelevant in that context, since they are not essential to create a functional OS.
What does a legal foundation have to do with GNU/this and GNU/that? I'm glad it's there, but that doesn't mean that the pettiness over the naming scheme is warranted. That's a major reason Stallman gets the flack he does.
What would be any free OS without GCC nor GLIBC ? Without the GPL (that led to other free licenses afterwards) ? You answer, because I'm not able to do it.
A few years behind? BSD was released via settlement. Work may have started with a commercial compiler until one could be built. The BSD license would have kept the licensing clause, perhaps. It's a different history, granted. However, again, it doesn't excuse the pettiness.
and, for unicorn's sakes, it doesn't excuse EMACS.
Furthermore, it's not the FSF. The FSF does many worthwhile things. Lessig's universally respected. Many of the philosophy points have been key to a major portion of software development, and without the free software movement, the Internet's growth would have been severly retarded. (That's not to say something wouldn't have taken its place, or that code sharing is dependant on the Free Software movement (The Forum Bulletin Board Software was shared, for example)
It's a few select policies.
1. GNU must be said before Linux. (addressed above)
2. Free Software is always the only ethical solution.
2a. Propriatary software is The Enemy.
End of line from me, because this is just getting too far off topic.
To start with something that sounds trivial yet annoying for many of us, GNU (Guh-new) is perhaps the worst acronym in the software world. It sounds harsh, and the thought of an infinite recursion point wrankles a lot of us.
English speakers, as a generality, hate having a common term with more than three syllables. GNU/Linux brings it up to 4. There's a reason we don't always call it "Microsoft Windows."
Many of us also get annoyed with this sense of self-importance. The build system is a big deal, but it only bought us a few years of time. Three years later and Linux would have been built using the BSD tools. (Or perhaps Torvalds would have helped fix up 386BSD... who knows?)
Without Xfree86 (another horrible name that just gets shortened to X with good reason) and the GTK and QT toolkits above it have been more important to bringing people away from the windows world. Very few people were going to investigate this operating system that didn't even have a GUI. We can go through a list of items that are used every day in the Linux world, and noone things to prepend that to the word Linux.
Most importantly, many of us subscribe to ESR's philosophy more than RMS's. This is not a battle for the soul of the next five hundred years of culture for many of us. We just want to get our work done. My life wouldn't be any more fulfilling if suddenly all software was libre. This whole inflated sense of purpose grates against many of us.
We appreciate GCC, GLIBC, and the various GNU tools. The GPL was a nifty idea that spurred other libre and open licenses. I can even forgive EMACS. However, I'm not ready to swear fealty over this.
And that's why many of us bash the FSF for its zealotry.
Well... if you're willing to put in a few day's worth, you too can build a simple installer.
Step 1: Find a simple ftp client engine. http://www.marshallsoft.com/fce4c.htm is one I googled for C - http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/959/index.htm if you want to write your own.
Step 2: Write a simple GUI. Visual C++ can do this, or NetBeans for Java. However, if you're using Java then you have Java Web Start and why are you complaining, anyway?
Step 3: Set your program up on an FTP somewhere.
You're golden!
But you're supposed to be a programmer who's capable of independant thought...
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Hrmmn...
A local exploit is found in kde. or how about a remote one found in Gaim?
Everyone is reccomended to upgrade.
Can grandma do this? Most linewbies couldn't. I mean, I'd think twice about waiting until the next distro; with current rpm packaging systems, I've broken things past my knowledge of repair more than once.
It could be said that a point release wouldn't be as dramatic, but all but the largest projects just tell people to upgrade to the new version. How long will even KDE keep up with older releases?
Oh, and that's not even mentioning if the problem is with the kernel...
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It was a joke, folks!
:)
And back on topic in response, a 27gb RAID-5 is still not a bad file server, even if I wouldn't throw too many computers at it. It reminds me of the story of the 733 p3 desktop IDE, slow hard drive, and Windows 98 running as a psuedo-server, compared to the 60MHZ P1 with a SCSI drive and Novell. My friend (a junior sysadmin) was amazed to see how fast, relatively, that old box was.
Apples to Oranges? Of course! However, the lesson is that CPU speed is a poor judgement on many servers.
Oh, and see if you can't put that puppy into Raid-0 just to see how fast it reacts.
So... wait...
Let me make sure I get this...
It's more efficent to go into EVERY file, individually type in keywords for over 100 photos every time you upload a set of photos?
As opposed to popping open irfanview, going through the photos and sorting them into individual folders?
I'm definitely missing something.
It's quicker for me to set things into groups of 20 quickly and search through those 20, then spend the time upfront with these keywords.
I feel the same way about spatial browsing. If I place something in a folder, I will know where to find what I want. That's preferable to grouping everything together and depending on remembering what keywords I chose so that I can search for it.
But then again, I prefer MDI, so I've already gained the experts' ire.
George, is that you?
If so, the blackmail won't work. The wife just confronted my mistress.
I knew better than to read Ask /. hoping for an answer.
Headphones, at least for me, cause discomfort and pain after 45 minutes or so with music at a reasonable volume. (Reasonable volume being where I can still hear a coworker's typing.)
Noise-cancelling headphones are even worse. I've never found a pair that I could stand having on more than five minutes. I'd imagine I'm not the only one.
Now gimme that damn red stapler back.
Frankly, it depends on the job.
For programming? It's great. In java, you should be able to explain polymorphism, for example, or how to prevent memory leaks even with garbage collection, etc.
This is opposed to an interview, where you can ask more off the wall questions. A test is really only a bar - do you have the basic knowledge or are you bluffing? The interview will select the good people.
Full disclosure: I work for a public health company as a developer.
The company I work for gives its source code to its clients, but isn't Open Source. Why? Selling to states or communities, many of these products take dozens of man-years to create. No one state can afford all of the tools that technology can afford, so companies lose money on the first, hoping to gain money on the sale to other states.
That's the ultimate problem in this niche market. Either the states have to provide their own staff (which is problematic, because it's expensive to hire and release employees for government) or they have to pay the true cost of developing the software, rather than spreading the cost out through maintenance and other states.
That said, the company I work for is dependent on the Apache and Jakarta set of projects for our work. Our developers have also contributed code back to open source projects.
Start out on a local DDR machine. http://www.ddrfreak.com/ has a game locator. Play 20 bucks worth, and see if it's worth investing in.
If it is, get a good, durable pad. DDRFreak will have suggestions. You can get the pads for Playstation or PC.
There are also instructions on building your own, but if you have trouble with the motivation to exercise already, just buy a pad. Don't give yourself excuses.
She did. :D
No, really. 'Course, it wouldn't take a psychic to see that everyone was going to have troubles after September 2001.
Err... :s/unix-only/windows-only
Fingers faster than brain today.
Very simple...
IT hates to deploy an application of dozens to thousands of computers over hundreds of offices.
Much easier to have everything on the server rather than having to program self-updates.
The alternative, of course, is to install X-Windows on every system so that they can all run clients off a central UNIX box. This has its own political challenges, especially in a unix-only setup.
Through college, I was teaching computer skills and doing computer handiwork for clients, including one psychic.
:D
When she fell on hard times, I traded some work for psychic readings. My opinion of them as a genre changed tremendously over that period of time.
Now, I'm not exactly sure that I believe in the metaphysical aspects, but what I *am* sure of is that spiritual mediums were some of the original therapists. She has a series of clients and ends up using her intuition to give advice and help people through problems.
Frankly, I trust her years of training as much as I do the counselors I've know, and certainly better than a Ph.D psychologist in non-diagnostic work. (Hint: Not all psychologists are trained specifically in counseling.)
Oh, and she didn't need any information to tell me that a romantic interest was a flake. Lo and behold...
From the way you use the past tense about your friend, it sounds like the whole matter is unfortunately finalized, but if not, I hope he still has some presence of mind and can somehow consider that just maybe the doctors and meds ARE the way God would work in his life.
We drifted apart when he went to a different church.
I think I'd mentioned that he wouldn't take them specifically because he believed God would heal. He took it as a sign of his faith. If he's taking the meds, he thought his faith had no action.
As for me? I'm not a believer anymore for different reasons.
One was with my friend's mother, which was confounded with bipolar. It started in her thirties under quite a bit of stress, but medication and counseling has been sufficent for her to get her life back together.
The other was with a friend with a more sever case. He was fine when he was taking his medication, but we couldn't get him to keep taking it. His parents couldn't, noone could. It's not like you can just pull an ultimatum, either. I mean, they're not thinking in the same way you are. (He had this belief that God would heal him. When you look at all the TV shows and the Bible, he had enough evidence he needed.)
You don't mention her age. She's probably a little bit older, as it starts in women later than in men usually. All I can offer is my condolances, and suggest http://schizophrenia.com/
Schizophrenia was once a catch-all diagnosis. Just about any disorder could go into it. It wasn't until the idea of a DSM came around that disorders started getting segmented.
As for MPD, sorry. That's just not true. It makes for a good conspiracy theory, though.
Imagine that biodiesel and blends catches on to the extent that you don't know if you're using it or not.
Would PETA demand a boycott of all diesel?
Now imagine that this somehow kept fuel prices down even a few pennies. Not wearing a fur coat is one thing, but paying more for gas?
Animal rights is doomed.
(It's funny. Laugh.)
For a terrorist with an advanced biology degree, the difference between 5,000 dollars and 5 million dollars is relatively insignificant, when we're talking the mass destruction that this would cause.
The information is out there, and if you wanted to just place a few dozen people through innocuous biology degrees, they could read through enough research and duplication to manage such a conclusion. If you can get a few through advanced degrees without being identified, all the better!
Who knows if they might already have gone through? Perhaps they've been working in industry for years to get experience?
I'm waiting for someone to create a virus/antidote, and command money for the antidote after millions had already died.
Mozilla != the UNIX philosophy.
The point behind Mozilla always was to have a platform from which people could create full fledged cross-platform applications using CSS, HTML, ECMAscript and XML.
It just so happens that the first major application was a web browser.
I'm starting to subtly push taking advantage of Mozilla's front end capibilities within my company's application, myself.
I'm sorry, you're right. I had mentioned that I was going up a steep hill when the battery went too low to work, but hadn't explicitly said I was going 55 up that hill.
It is difficult, but possible, to have the electric motor run out of juice.
Flooring the thing for a few miles would probably do it. I remember taking the bugger to 100 and that engine was working way too hard to fuel the electric battery.
The one time I ran out of juice from normal usage was going through Western New Mexico to Albuquerque with no stops. There is a long incline going into the city after a slight incline over the whole trip. The car wasn't ready for it and had to slow down to 55.
Yes, that motor is only good enough to keep you sustained at 55 by itself.
(Note: I still heartily reccomend the car for most everyone, and the 2004 model has a higher HP gas engine so I'm sure the problem isn't pronounced.)
but Novell is trying to be a competitor to Microsoft. (Or, rather, they've been competiting since Windows NT.)
Novell's goal is to make a Corporate-friendly server and desktop combination.
Miguel is scared for Ximian and Novell. Mono is about Ximian and Novell, though the purists will likely get some benefit from it too.
As for me? I'm glad we have some people to put money into real user testing. We don't need a complex gui to do everything like windows does; after all, that's what we have the CLI for! I think that's the path Ximian and GNOME are taking, and it might be the right idea for all of us.
GNU is not a nice word, but I find infinite recursion quite witty.
:D
To a programmer, that's a bug.
But when you are talking to corporate people, or making press statements, you are always mentioning (or at least shoud, but my feeling is that it is respected) Microsoft... and for good reason...
I've heard of Microsoft referred to, I've heard Windows referred to, but rarely in the same sentence outside a press release.
Who is that 'us' ? And furthermore, the BSD tools are using GCC, a GNU tool.
Okay, I was mistaken on that point. GCC is unique. However, If I'm not mistaken again BSD has its own libc and utilities that came out of the settlement, so GCC is the only GNU "essential." I'm glad they're there, but again, the exclusive honorific is unnecessary.
And who are "we?" Go back to the question. Someone was talking about the "FSF Bashing" around here. I took a collection of the usual barbs.
the legal foundations to create a free software operating system. X, Qt, GTK are irrelevant in that context, since they are not essential to create a functional OS.
What does a legal foundation have to do with GNU/this and GNU/that? I'm glad it's there, but that doesn't mean that the pettiness over the naming scheme is warranted. That's a major reason Stallman gets the flack he does.
What would be any free OS without GCC nor GLIBC ? Without the GPL (that led to other free licenses afterwards) ? You answer, because I'm not able to do it.
A few years behind? BSD was released via settlement. Work may have started with a commercial compiler until one could be built. The BSD license would have kept the licensing clause, perhaps. It's a different history, granted. However, again, it doesn't excuse the pettiness.
and, for unicorn's sakes, it doesn't excuse EMACS.
Not quite...
Rational discourse with zealots is impossible.
(It's also been attempted... many times.)
Furthermore, it's not the FSF. The FSF does many worthwhile things. Lessig's universally respected. Many of the philosophy points have been key to a major portion of software development, and without the free software movement, the Internet's growth would have been severly retarded. (That's not to say something wouldn't have taken its place, or that code sharing is dependant on the Free Software movement (The Forum Bulletin Board Software was shared, for example)
It's a few select policies.
1. GNU must be said before Linux. (addressed above)
2. Free Software is always the only ethical solution.
2a. Propriatary software is The Enemy.
End of line from me, because this is just getting too far off topic.
Not FSF per se, but GNU in particular.
To start with something that sounds trivial yet annoying for many of us, GNU (Guh-new) is perhaps the worst acronym in the software world. It sounds harsh, and the thought of an infinite recursion point wrankles a lot of us.
English speakers, as a generality, hate having a common term with more than three syllables. GNU/Linux brings it up to 4. There's a reason we don't always call it "Microsoft Windows."
Many of us also get annoyed with this sense of self-importance. The build system is a big deal, but it only bought us a few years of time. Three years later and Linux would have been built using the BSD tools. (Or perhaps Torvalds would have helped fix up 386BSD... who knows?)
Without Xfree86 (another horrible name that just gets shortened to X with good reason) and the GTK and QT toolkits above it have been more important to bringing people away from the windows world. Very few people were going to investigate this operating system that didn't even have a GUI. We can go through a list of items that are used every day in the Linux world, and noone things to prepend that to the word Linux.
Most importantly, many of us subscribe to ESR's philosophy more than RMS's. This is not a battle for the soul of the next five hundred years of culture for many of us. We just want to get our work done. My life wouldn't be any more fulfilling if suddenly all software was libre. This whole inflated sense of purpose grates against many of us.
We appreciate GCC, GLIBC, and the various GNU tools. The GPL was a nifty idea that spurred other libre and open licenses. I can even forgive EMACS. However, I'm not ready to swear fealty over this.
And that's why many of us bash the FSF for its zealotry.
Well... if you're willing to put in a few day's worth, you too can build a simple installer.
Step 1: Find a simple ftp client engine. http://www.marshallsoft.com/fce4c.htm is one I googled for C - http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/959/index.htm if you want to write your own.
Step 2: Write a simple GUI. Visual C++ can do this, or NetBeans for Java. However, if you're using Java then you have Java Web Start and why are you complaining, anyway?
Step 3: Set your program up on an FTP somewhere.
You're golden!
But you're supposed to be a programmer who's capable of independant thought...
Hrmmn...
A local exploit is found in kde. or how about a remote one found in Gaim?
Everyone is reccomended to upgrade.
Can grandma do this? Most linewbies couldn't. I mean, I'd think twice about waiting until the next distro; with current rpm packaging systems, I've broken things past my knowledge of repair more than once.
It could be said that a point release wouldn't be as dramatic, but all but the largest projects just tell people to upgrade to the new version. How long will even KDE keep up with older releases?
Oh, and that's not even mentioning if the problem is with the kernel...