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Joel Spolsky (from Joel on Software), wrote an article awhile back about trying to do many things at once...which just isn't possible. You can try and context-switch, but just like David Allen states, you're wasting time and breaking your flow.

For a programmer's perspective on this issue, check out the article here.

I've read Getting Things Done as well. Highly recommend if you want to get organized and have a "mind like water" like Allen talks about.

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"Is it compiled into native code? I know this is more a Python thing but even mentioning an application server built in a scripting language will have me ridiculed out the door."

You're saying you'll be ridiculed for proposing an application server using an interpreted language, because it supposedly can't keep up with a J2EE server?

Maybe Zope, Inc.'s customers disagree. Or photo.net, a site getting over 10,000,000 hits a day that's written in OpenACS, which is itself written totally in Tcl?

If you feel forced to keep using J2EE because you'll be ridiculed otherwise for using a "non-compiled" app server, go ahead. But other developers are likely gaining a lot of productivity by using more dynamic and "slower" interpreted languages. Check out this 22MB quicktime demo movie of the Ruby on Rails framework...pretty awesome stuff.

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Regarding why web clients haven't taken over...because MS doesn't want them to naturally. If web apps had good interfaces (approaching rich clients), and worked in any web browser, there'd be no need for Windows and IE.

MS has control over rich web interfaces being available because of this: the *vast* majority of browsers are IE. So if MS doesn't allow rich web interfaces in IE, web developers won't attempt to make a web app that can't be used by the majority of users.

I think it's possible to get close to rich web apps using JavaScript, DHTML, and other technologies, but it's very painful for web developers to get it to work correctly across Firefox, IE, Safari, etc. For an example, see oddpost.com webmail. It's very rich, but only works in IE 5.5+.

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For those of you who don't know what barratry is (I had no idea until 2 minutes ago): Wikipedia's Barratry entry.

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I've got a Spire backpack w/ sleeve for my TiBook. Highly recommended. I originally had a Timbuk2 bag, but I guess I just don't find messenger bags comfortable (distribution of weight)?

When I was shopping around for my Powerbook bag, I found bagreview.com to be a great resource. He reviews many different kinds of bags, loads them up with a laptop, iPod, CD, cables, etc, and puts them through their paces. Definitely worth checking out.

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Is anyone aware of smaller companies coming together to battle SCO if need be?

As a small company who's lifeblood depends on Linux, it'd be great if we came together to fight SCO if and when the time comes. Pooling our resources would likely work much better than going it alone. It really does give me pause when wondering what I'd do if I were the recipient of this letter.

This whole deal is aggravating to others I'm sure; we want to focus our time and energy on technology, not on what we'll do if SCO starts demanding thousands of dollars from us.

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I've worked for enough good-sized companied to know that a difference of a few thousand (even a few hundred-thousand) dollars isn't as important as reliability when you get into enterprise-level systems. The old saying, 'nobody ever got fired for buying IBM', rings true for Intel as well.

This is definitely right, but I wonder if the name-brand is worth it if they're paying twice the amount for Intel vs. AMD.

The article says Linux Networx got the contract for just under $10 million, and will deliver 2816 Opterons.

Now, I've no idea how much the hardware costs them, but let's assume $8 million; the other $2 million goes towards salaries/profit.

$8 million / 2816 Opterons = $2850.91 per Opteron.

Compare that to the PowerEdge 3250 (Itanium) from Dell: $6229 per Itanium.

I'm sure Intel has quite a mark-up on Itaniums and could get the price lower when trying to win a contract, but AMD is in the same position with the Opteron as well.

Either way, a nice win for AMD, as it seems that the Opteron really is the best x86 processor at the moment.

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Safari doesn't use internal SPIs to speed up rendering. Even if it did, it doesn't matter since WebCore (the renderer) is open-sourced by Apple.

I'm not sure where Mac IEs renderer came from, but you'd assume it was written specifically for MacOS.

Compare this to Safari, which has a bridge layer converting Cocoa -> QT and back again.

Anyway's, since the WebCore source is free to download and use, MS can't claim Apple has an advantage there.

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David Pouge's Mac OS X: The Missing Manual is a well-respected book for showing both converts from OS 9 and the Unix/Windows world how things are done in OS X.

To get into the gritty Unix stuff, you can also pick up Mac OS X for Unix Geeks.

The combination of these two books might better server you rather than one "everything and the kitchen sink" Mac OS X book.

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It's useless to call in and try to ask questions about this. I'm sure it'll be brought up by the financial analysts dialed in, and the SCO people will weasel out with something like "This just came to our attention today. We will be looking at the validity of the claims but are confident blah blah blah..."

You won't today be hearing a full-out apology to the OSS community, if ever at all. They might just quietly drop the whole thing while they figure out the next best lawsuit.

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