Comment Re:Sort It. (Score 1) 142
ANY change meets resistance from userspace. You want me to start changing my password, and I can't use my name? I don't like it, Sir.
Comment 'box' Mac (Score 1) 587
ahh, the dull glow of the Mac, in all of its 128K glory.
Comment Re:Virtual Machines (Score 1) 212
^^Win.
The beverage manufacturer I work for has many of the same ancient PLCs, and we run VMWare Player in Win7 with an XP guest OS and a USB>Serial converter. Gets the job done.
Comment Re:Education ? (Score 1) 182
Can you come to CA and do some hiring? I have no sheepskins, but I'd like work.
When I talk to people, they say, you need experience. If you had sheepskins, we'd give you a job. You have not gotten enough experience, and no sheepskins, so no job.
Yet all the people in the industry don't care about sheepskins...., and I cannot get a job without experience, which I cannot have without sheepskins....aaargh!!!!
Comment Glad I'm not the only one. (Score 1) 458
I'm what I would consider a 'normal' Linux user, if that exists. I'm comfortable in Linux and with the terminal. I tend to freak out during partitioning anyway, because most of my systems are dual-boot with ntfs and ext partitions. I do not like the new partition creator.
FWIW, after the install I went back to beefy miracle, but for issues more related to legacy hardware than anything else.
Submission + - This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For (whitehouse.gov)
fractalVisionz writes: The White House officially responded to the petition to secure resources and funding to begin Death Star construction by 2016, as previously covered by Slashdot. With costs estimated over $850,000,000,000,000,000 (that's quadrillion), and a firm policy stating "The Administration does not support blowing up planets" the US government will obviously pass. However, that is not to say that we do not already have a death star of our own, floating approximately 120 miles above the earth's surface.
The response ends in a call to those interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields of study:
The response ends in a call to those interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields of study:
If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Submission + - Why do entrepreneurs innovate better than managers? (networkworld.com)
netbuzz writes: "New research from MIT suggests that entrepreneurs innovate better than managers not because they try more often but rather because when they do try they apply more of their available brainpower to the task. “We found, somewhat surprisingly, that managers and entrepreneurs did not differ in the probability with which they would undertake explorative (potentially innovative) courses of action. But when entrepreneurs did select explorative tasks, they used both the left and right sides of the frontal cortex of their brain whereas managers only used their left parts of the frontal cortex,” says the lead researcher, MIT Sloan School of Management Visiting Prof. Maurizio Zollo. This is an important difference, he notes, “because the right side of the frontal cortex is associated with creative thinking, involving to a larger extent emotional processes, whereas the left side is associated with rational decision-making and logic.”"
Submission + - Crowd funding for crank physics (physicscentral.com)
BuzzSkyline writes: A new design for bicycle cranks violates basic principles of physics, but that's not stopping the inventor of Z-Torque cranks from trying to raise thousands in start-up capital through crowd funding.
Submission + - Russians Retrieve First Sample of Lake Vostok (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "Russian drilling operations at Lake Vostok, Antarctica, have succeeded in collecting a long-sought core sample of water frozen into the borehole from the glacier-covered, 20 million-year-old lake they cracked into last year. "The first core of transparent lake ice, two meters long, was obtained on Jan. 10, at a depth of 3,406 meters (11,174.5 feet). Inside it was a vertical channel filled with white bubble-rich ice,” stated the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, part of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring."
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