Wow - um ok. Guess your initial message was out of context. Thanks. -Cameron
On 1/15/06, Ray Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 one's 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 > >List<[email protected]> > >To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing > >List<[email protected]> > >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 > > > >-- > >Cameron Childress > >Sumo Consulting Inc > >http://www.sumoc.com > >--- > >cell: 678.637.5072 > >aim: cameroncf > >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Reply to DFWCFUG: > > [email protected] > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists1.safesecureweb.com/mailman/listinfo/list > >List Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40list.dfwcfug.org/ > > http://www.mail-archive.com/list%40dfwcfug.org/ > >DFWCFUG Sponsors: > > www.HostMySite.com > > www.teksystems.com/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don't just search. Find. 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