Just yesterday, I had a discussion with the CTO of a current client. He’s a 20 year industry veteran and he was wondering why Microsoft hadn’t stopped in their tracks and underwent some massive code reviews to get rid of the problem for once and for all.ChristophDotNet
Because it’s a very hard problem? How many lines of old code have you and the CTO personally reviewed and decided were completely bug free?
I’m editing a wedding video at present. I’m using Pinnacle Expression to write it to DVD. I have a dual xeon 2ghz machine with hyper threading enabled and it insists on using no more than 25% of my cpu…
It doesn’t seem to be IO bound. I’ve tried boosting it’s priority, but nothing I do will make it use more than exactly 25% of cpu. I guess it’s trying really hard to be nice to me, I wish it wouldn’t.
I had just sold management in the company I am clienting for on the ability of W2K3 to avoid these, with the line that during the Windows Security Push, all 9,000+ Windows developers stopped and poured over essentially every line of Windows code remove these kinds of situations and make W2K3 the most secure OS. Now two of these in the last month. To say that this has stopped a massive redeployment is an understatement.
It seems that iNTj’s are big into contingency planning and, in general, most other people aren’t; that explains a lot…
Whenever I find myself in an unexpected situation the first thing I always think is “what’s the worst case scenario?”. Once I’ve explored the worst case and worked through an exit strategy from that I start to work on the more likely outcomes, but I always do the worst case first.
Why do any of us do this stuff? Why do we read so many books on the subject? Go to user group meetings? Fly across the country to hear people talk?
Why do you code? Seriously. I want to know.
Rory Blyth - Neopoleon.com - WHY DO YOU CODE?
Because I have to?
I code because I can. I code because I couldn’t not code.
I feel so at peace when my mind is immersed in building executable abstractions.
So, I saw all this stuff over on Scoble and Chris Sells’ blogs about Microsoft being full of ENTJ’s and wondered what the hell they were on about.
Myers-Briggs personality types; I took the test, apparently I’m an INTJ…
Well, the descriptions read about right; though I expect my Michelle and my sister might have something to say about them…
Who are you? and why are you here?
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It’s amazing what a day or two away can do. I came back to the tests with a fresh mind this morning and dealt with the issues that had caused me problems at the tail end of last week before I got my morning coffee.
Ok, so I don’t take coffee until 11.30. I still think I did pretty good…
I’d written the bulk of the tests on thursday evening. Unfortunately I’d made one of those mistakes that you just can’t see until you walk away and come back with a clean brain.
Michelle and I had a skate lesson with Ben Roberts on Saturday morning. It was a group lesson that ended up being just the two of us and which was really good and great value for money.
Ben was my instructor when I had my course at Citiskate. They’ve since gone their seperate ways but Ben’s been in the business for a long time and he’s one of those instructors who just wants to teach people, and it shows.
Further to my recent wailings about being responsible for family member’s PCs… I decided to deal with the internet connection sharing issue at the hardware level… So far the Netgear MR814v2 firewalled, DSL router, WIFI access point seems to rock…
The MR814v2 is a nice piece of kit. It’s a DSL router with configurable WAN MAC address; you can make it pretend its the PC you’ve always been connecting to your cable provider with and neatly sidestep any issues regarding re-registering your MAC address.
