Cameron, and All
How is evryone?
First,
As someone pointed out to me. He thought I was trying to start a FLAME War.
No. That is the farthest thing from the truth.
It seemed to me that Dave Schuck was suffering with a migraine over his
server problems. As he said he is a product of the '80s, LSIs we big then.
If you do not know what an LSI is it is Large Scale Integration. A computer
(PDP-11) the entire thing had been scaled down to the size of an 81/2 by 11
sheet of paper. Big stuff in 80. In the late 80s VSLI. Very Large Scale
Integration even smaller computer.
Today that whole computer is only ¼ inch square chip part of a whole set of
multi integrated chips in your cell phone. The same 16 bit computer that
used to take up a 19 inch wide equipment rack for about 24 inched deep (
front to back) and about 24 inched tall( top to Bottom) square about 6 cubic
feet which is now a ¼ square inch chip and used to take about 30 Amp at 120
volts ac to run all of this is now all in your cell phone running on a
little battery for about 4 days. It is amazing what miniaturization and
power conservation has done for us in hardware.
I am product of a much early set of trail blazers, A former Computer GOD
which had hundreds of customers begging for my golden hands to be laid upon
the sick and dead Computers prior to the 80s.
We would walk in and lay our golden hands upon the computer Lazerth and
raise him from the dead.
Much to the grateful appreciation of the many users the especially the
owners.
As computer were once the enormously huge hardware behemoths and required
many rituals to be preformed before the tribes of user could be blessed by
their God they are not now. There were many of us Computer GODs in the old
days. Now with PCs and laptops that are no need for the former golden hand
Computer GODs to raise Lazerth from the dead. Now days if the hardware
becomes sick or dead it is just like a tire. Just replace it.
As for the air inside the tire you always have a backup copy.
As for Dave Schuck, I have pounded my head against many computer problems
and one thing that we Computer GODs learned was is that at times we just
need to step back from a problem once we have the migraine.
It seemed to me that he was becoming very frustrated over his problem.
If you would take a minute to read, I know that is a hard thing to do these
days is read.
I had made, What I thought was some humorous remarks.
First the long standing, Sacrifice the entrails of a goat upon the
keyboard.
Even before my time when I was first stating out some old salts calmed me
down about a problem that I was working on. Yes I stepped back and relaxed
and thought about the problem just as quick found the correct answer. The
term they used Sacrifice the entrails of a goat upon the keyboard. It is
an old old term for stepping back, a look at the problem, relax.
Second the "incense process is a pun on INSENSE burning . Burning insence
bring about a calming or soothing effect through aroma therapy. The incense
I refer to is the madding nature (sometimes) of computer software.
Third the reference be sure to use High Octane aviation gas during the
incense process. That sometime the nature of is the madding nature of
computer software problems drive one to almost becoming out of control.
Fourth that the Computer GODs might be appeased by making a burnt offering
upon the keyboard. As everyone knows that the best keyboards to the ones
that are total ash. ( Cannot do any work that way)
Now as to the peak of the process when the aviation gas is in the
transformation process progressing thru the chemical and thermal process of
metamorphous from a liquid single compound state to an highly excited
vaporous state of smaller different compounds one then at that point should
make praises to the computer software God. That at this peak of thermal
activity surely the God must be appeased. Another pun ( Cannot do any work
that way)
Now as to the make praises to the computer software God. As in Major league
one of the players did not believe in Jobuti and Eddie Harris (Chelcie
Ross ) stole Jobuti rum. Bad thing in that movie. If you have not seen
this movie you missed some good comedy.
Jobuti reached out and touched Eddie. That is the pun in line 4.
Now I do not want anything bad to happened to anyone and especially Dave
Schuck.
Therefore I thought a little humor would help Dave step back and relax and
look at the problem from a rested and relaxed perspective.
I hope this further deeping of ones thought will help to enlighten everyone
to the deep humor I tried to present..........
From: Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing
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To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing
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Subject: Re: [DFW CFUG] Has humor died?
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:03:43 -0800
I'm not sure I see the humor in JVM tuning. But if it makes you feel
better I will chuckle quietly while wondering what you could possibly
be talking about.
-Cameron
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Cameron Childress
Sumo Consulting Inc
http://www.sumoc.com
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On 1/13/06, Ray Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What!
>
> Not even one small chuckle.
>
> Has humor died?
>
>
> >From: Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing
> >List<[email protected]>
> >To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing
> >List<[email protected]>
> >Subject: Re: [DFW CFUG] Ghost In the Machine
> >Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:30:33 -0800
> >
> >Patrick's suggestion about turning off debug is a good one. Another
> >possibility is that you are witnessing a particularly harsh garbage
> >collection. There's alot of information about GC in CFMX and JVM
> >tuning out there, and if debug's already off and it's not the problem,
> >you might Google for "CFMX JVM Tuning" or "CFMX Garbage Collection"
> >for more help.
> >
> >-Cameron
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