taleman - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Could he be retried for one of the hit attempts (Score 2) 339

by taleman on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:47AM (#65108751) Attached to: Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Pardoned

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán maybe gets pardoned tomorrow. Agent Orange must free up space in prisons to make room for Biden, Harris, their families and their supporters.

I noticed Trump signs those executive orders with a very thick felt tip pen. Signing with a crayon might be more suitable for his style.

Submission + - I learned computer programming in my 50s – here's what I discovered 2

Submitted by Mirnotoriety on Sunday September 01, 2024 @12:52AM

Mirnotoriety writes: I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – here’s what I discovered

“A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and the invaluable lesson it taught him about the modern world”

Submission + - Nearly half of corporate donations in 2024 are from crypto corps (citizen.org) 1

Submitted by drinkypoo on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @08:33PM

drinkypoo writes: Public Citizen reports that 48% of all corporate contributions in 2024 elections have come from cryptocurrency corporations, with over $119 million spent influencing federal elections. Only fossil fuel companies have spent more over the last ten years. The crypto sector's chosen SuperPACs won their preferred outcomes in 36 out of 42 primary races they invested in. Is this undue influence when only 7% of Americans have used cryptocurrency?

Comment What about Ada? (Score 2) 220

by taleman on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:42AM (#63229532) Attached to: Rust Safety Is Not Superior To C++, Bjarne Stroustrup Says

Ada is supposed to be memory safe. It's just that nobody seem to be using it outside of aerospace industry.

Submission + - Preventing code releases of code lacking user testing and acceptance

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16, 2017 @06:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: My office uses source control and bug tracking systems to develop on 6 week "sprints", on a system with 1 million+ lines of code, that has been in existence for 10+ years. In theory users report bugs, the developers "fix" the bugs, the users test and accept the fix, and finally the "fix" gets released to production as part of a larger change-set. In practice, the bug is reported, the developers implement "a fix", no one else tests it (accept for the developer(s) ), and the "fix" gets released with the larger code change set, to production.

We (the developers) don't want to release "fixes" that users haven't accepted but the code changes often include changes at all levels of the stack (database, DOAs, Business Rules, Webservices and multiple front-ends). Multiple code changes could be occurring in the same areas of code by different developers at the same time making merges of branches very complex and error prone. Many fingers are in the same pie.

Our team size, structure and locations prevent having a single gate keeper for code check-ins. Our development process requires code check-ins to include a "fix" in a test build for our users to test and accept the "fix".

What tools and procedures do you use to prevent un-approved fixes from being deployed to production as part of the larger code change sets?

Comment Submitter forgot link to article in text (Score 1) 1

by taleman on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:12PM (#53929231) Attached to: Why Did Greenland's Vikings Vanish?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-greenland-vikings-vanished-180962119/ Copied that from subject

Submission + - CMS - Drupal, Joomla, WordPress Recommendations 2

Submitted by pipingguy on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:07PM

pipingguy writes: I've inherited a 2012 install of Joomla 1.5.26 that I'm about to update to 3.5 with SP Upgrade. Not being much of a CMS guy, it's proving to be interesting. I've built more than a few static websites (I use Sublime Text 3 or Atom, not some fancy-pants WYSIWYG doohickey) and am quite familiar with CSS, but databases not so much. I've been through lots of online documentation and am a bit bewildered but I'm following the recommendations regarding backups and the like.

What are Slashdot readers' latest opinions on the three most popular CMSes — Drupal, Joomla and WordPress?

Any tips for me before I accidentally blow away the existing site and have to rebuild everything and get yelled at?

Comment What about Ubuntu One cloud Storage? (Score 1) 197

by taleman on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:13AM (#46089543) Attached to: OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive

https://one.ubuntu.com/

Does Microsoft for some reason want to keep on using names that are similar to what others are already using?

Comment Also bird brains (Score 4, Interesting) 202

by taleman on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @05:22AM (#45266863) Attached to: Did Snakes Help Build the Primate Brain?

Seems also birds are afraid of snakes. I place rubber snakes on places like boat decks and balconies, they are very effective and birds stay away.

Comment Last repairman? (Score 5, Insightful) 201

by taleman on Thursday September 12, 2013 @06:48AM (#44828105) Attached to: He Fixed 300,000+ Machines - America's Oldest Typewriter Repairman Dies At 96

Are there repair persons anymore? Seems stuff is so shoddy nowadays it is not expected to last more than one or two years. Even if I want to have my machines repaired, they are either impossible to repair or it is cheaper to purchase a new one.

Comment Are they safe? (Score 4, Insightful) 233

by taleman on Monday May 06, 2013 @02:48PM (#43645381) Attached to: New Flying Car Design Unveiled

What happens when flying cars collide with buildings or other infrastructure?

Submission + - The Coming Internet Video Crash (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Friday October 05, 2012 @03:57PM

snydeq writes: "First, it was data caps on cellular, and now caps on wired broadband — welcome to the end of the rich Internet, writes Galen Gruman. 'People are still getting used to the notion that unlimited data plans are dead and gone for their smartphones. The option wasn't even offered for tablets. Now, we're beginning to see the eradication of the unlimited data plan in our broadband lines, such as cable and DSL connections. It's a dangerous trend that will threaten the budding Internet-based video business — whether from Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, Windows Store, or Google Play — then jeopardize Internet services of all sorts. It's a complex issue, and though the villains are obvious — the telecom carriers and cable providers — the solutions are not. The result will be a metered Internet that discourages use of the services so valuable for work and play.'"

Submission + - Unusual New Species of Dinosaur Identified (nytimes.com)

Submitted by cervesaebraciator on Friday October 05, 2012 @03:33PM

cervesaebraciator writes: A new species of heterodontosaur, called Pegomastax, has been identified. Paul Sereno, a University of Chicago paleontologist, published a description of this species in a recent issue of ZooKeys. Although this diminutive (60 cm or less) species was herbivorous, it also possessed a set of sharp, stabbing canines in its parrot-shaped beak. Dr. Sereno holds that these canines where likely "for nipping and defending themselves, not for eating meat.” Perhaps the most imaginatively intriguing aspect of all, the body of the Pegomastix might have been covered in porcupine-like quills, making for perhaps the least attractive dinosaur of all time. You can almost hear Dieter Stark screaming 'Helvetes jävlar!'

Submission + - Most SSDs now under a dollar per gigabyte (techreport.com)

Submitted by

crookedvulture

on Friday October 05, 2012 @01:43PM

crookedvulture writes: "SSD prices continue plummeting. In just the past quarter, street prices have fallen by double-digit percentages for most models, with some slashed by 30% or more. We've reached the point where the majority of drives cost less than a dollar per gigabyte, and that's without the special coupon codes and mail-in rebates usually attached to weekly deals. Lower-capacity drives seem more resistant to deep price cuts, making 120-256GB offerings the best values right now. It's nice to see a new class of devices go from prohibitively expensive to eminently affordable in such a relatively short amount of time."

Comment Backup all files with BackupPC (Score 1) 440

by taleman on Sunday September 02, 2012 @10:47AM (#41205661) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files?

BackupPC does deduplication. So if You take a backup from all your filesystems with BackupPC, You have identical files stored only once. BackupPC uses hard links to do the deduplication, so another copy of a file only takes a directory entry. You can then discard you current backups, if need be.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

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