GaryOlson

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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Flash? Really? I thought this was a trust service; not an entertainment service.
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
quote from the article: ...the music industry, when it began to feel the effects of the technological change coming, doubled down on stupid.... And the video industry is providing the sincerest form of flattery.
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Scott Adams has made a fortune for decades documenting this development. I've never seen an MBA who comprehended or laughed or groaned with Dilbert. The skills necessary to engineer and build effectively usually require a certain patience a
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
A completely reworked security framework; among other major changes. We've had a RHEL 6 installation for a few months and are still working thru the changes. Basic Linode users might want to wait unless you really need the Python updates.
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Investment company buyouts of entrenched education infrastructure are all about cash. The investment firm will cut any product development budget, raise prices, cut customer service, and eventually drive all the customers away. In the meant
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Current computer security for companies is analogous to medieval castles: large crude systems with large support requirements and little concern for the security of small individual contributors. Once computer infrastructure effectively mov
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Richardson, TX College of Engineering Computing Services Manager http://www.utdallas.edu/hrm/work/ http://ecs.utdallas.edu Work with faculty and staff in Electrical, Mechanical, Material Sciences, BioMedical, Telecom, and Computer Eng
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
makezombie.c is a fake. No processes called "zombie" are running on the system after I invoke this. Also, a real zombie program should randomly chew on other processes until the other process itself is a zombie. This needs more work.
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
If the flickr image is the actual size, then no wonder it was not noticed. No matter how much I customize all my interfaces -- and with the increasing pixel count of displays -- interfaces are constantly populated with immutable 8 point fon
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Get FIOS Business service; not the residential. The technical help is more capable; but you pay for it.
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
So those who do not attend college don't have access to do substantive work? I agree. Too many job postings minimum requirements include a college degree even if the actual work -- substantive or not -- do not need a college education. So,
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Many of us won't disagree with the need for building skills thru standard exercises. But, when the maximum efficiency/minimum-personal-commitment bureaucrats have too much input, risk based learning is replaced with no-personal-risk rote le
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Working with project based learning is not all joy and bubbles. 1) learning is the product of the work Just wait until you get industrial sponsorship of the project. Learning gets less focus. 2)students learn from doing Assuming the st
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
If one were alive today, I am sure a buggy whip manufacturing apprentice could provide the same type of nostalgic reminiscence: the smell of the leather, the suppleness of the whip, the acrid taste of the dyes. And comparisons how that new
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Start by killing all the lawyers. Grade quality, cheating, and instructional quality have all been degraded by litigious students and parents. Caught cheating? Bad grade? Don’t like the faculty? Can’t collaborate with your project group? Un
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Although great points were made in the article, I find this to be a failure on the part of the CEO and COO. Their individual profiles on justin.tv are both vague and lacking in focus; public statements often reflect management styles and ob
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Standardization per se is not the problem. Standardization creates a base pool of knowledge and skills which are necessary to formulate, innovate, collaborate, and build projects. Instead, standardization should be limited to a well defined
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by GaryOlson 15y ago
Because the alternative is to become just like HP -- where technology and engineering is just an advertising slogan. And one HP is enough.
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by GaryOlson 16y ago
With cream cheese frosting in a cake, they are irresistible.
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by GaryOlson 16y ago
Single, dual, multi-blade or electric? Seriously, do you go for the clean contoured shave or multifaceted polygonal surfacing? Is a shave effectively different from peeling?