Good heavens...I was just being ironic. How it might be construed as foolishness I have no idea, unless perhaps you took me as one of those "literal word of God" folks.
I *do* have *two* shiny plastic fish on the back of my car, but one says "Darwin", and has feet, while the other says "Linux" and sports a shark fin. (thanks to the gang at www.thinkgeek.com). I also have a pentagram sticker in the back window, next to the AOPA wings and rainbow triangle.:-)
Paranoid? No more paranoid than to want to have personal control of my personal information, and to want to hold the reins on my own use of strong crypto, when I think it's necessary.
I solved that problem by attaching the lanyard of my Maglite Marquis (which happens to be exactly the length of the knife) to my Victorinox. The Victorinox is the "Space Shuttle" model, issued to STS crew as part of their personal gear. (No, you can't get them any more, AFAIK). Having the light around makes up for the minor inconvenience when trying to use the Phillips screwdriver.
The SAK lives in my pants pocket, with my Leatherman on standby in my purse. (I know a woman who asked for and got a Leatherman laser-engraved with the Aircraft Owner's and Pilot's Association logo for Mother's Day).
In the *other* pants pocket is my Gerber Applegate-Fairbairn Combat Folder. That one doesn't really get used much, though. +grin+
Oh yeah...know how to +make+ a Phillips screwdriver? Two shots of vodka and an ounce of Milk of Magnesia.
So, I guess you wouldn't want to see *your* post moderated up either? Even though it links to an advertisement for your company? Oops, too late--I've posted into this discussion.:-)
More frequency allocation conflicts? Sure. Smile, you're on CopTV:
from ARRL, the amateur radio organizaion:
ARLB079 League Opposes LA County Experimental Video Proposal
The ARRL has asked the FCC to deny an experimental license application by Los Angeles County, California, to develop a public safety video system on the 2.4 GHz band. The LA County proposal, filed August 9, seeks FCC authorization to develop an experimental system using four 10-MHz channels to transmit video images from helicopter-borne cameras to five remote receiving sites with active tracking antennas. The signals then would be retransmitted via terrestrial links to the public safety agencies involved.
In its objection, filed September 23 with the FCC, the League called the LA County proposal a ''foot in the door'' toward gaining a permanent berth in the 2.4 GHz band. ''It is obvious from the experimental proposal that the County wishes to construct the entire system and then simply stay there,'' the League said. The ARRL said the FCC should authorize nothing more than a single 10-MHz video channel for a single transmitter aboard a single helicopter, to allow interference studies to be conducted.
LA County already is licensed for video operations on a single 2.4 GHz channel but says it encounters operational conflicts with broadcasters. The proposal targets the 2402-2448 MHz band, characterizing it as ''underutilized'' and asserting that current occupants--including Amateur Radio and industrial, scientific and medical instrumentation--would not suffer harmful interference. Amateurs have a primary domestic allocation at 2402-2417 MHz.
The League's objection said LA County's 2.4 GHz monitoring study was ''significantly flawed'' and ''woefully insufficient,'' and that LA County would be unable to avoid causing ''constant, harmful interference'' to incumbent users. Citing ATV repeaters and video links as well as proposed amateur satellite operation, the League said, the 2.4 GHz band enjoys significant use by the LA area Amateur Radio community. The League said these systems, and those of other amateur users, would be ''seriously degraded or displaced'' by deployment of the proposed experimental system.
The decision to grant the proposed experimental license is up to the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology's Experimental Licensing Division. In making its decision, however, the OET is expected to consult with the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, which oversees Amateur Radio and the other affected services on 2.4 GHz.
In a separate, but related, filing on September 1, Los Angeles County and the cities of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Burbank requested a declaratory ruling from the FCC to ''clarify its rules to facilitate public safety operations on the 2450-2483 MHz band'' and to explore other spectrum allocations ''to accommodate the growing demand for public safety airborne operation.''
XML is decidedly not a joke. But people who speak to the press with a straight face and imply that XML is a *competitor* to Java ("Several analysts said that Microsoft would use XML to compete with...Java...") demostrate only that they know little about Java, and nothing about XML.
And I have to say that having "Microsoft Daily News" in the sidebar, even (or perhaps *especially*) with the "Advertisement" label above it, does nothing for the content's credibility.
Microsoft occasionally lets something good slip out. The biggest problems with IDC are that it's too simple, too reliable, isn't riddled with security exposures and doesn't need any bloated GUI development environments to do the job.
I'm in favor of anything that lets me work without giving a bazillion dollars to MS for development tools that will soon only be available on a rental basis...as if they aren't effectively that already anyhow.
The control MS wields over developers though the development tools market is stultifying, and soon the latest generation of "developers" weaned on Visual won't be able to do *anything* without Redmond's approval.
Truthfully though, there's nothing you can do in IDC/HTX that wouldn't make a trivial JSP or servlet, and if "doing your customers a service" includes application portability, then that's the way to go.
And a small postscript..I started with the caveat "if you're wedded to IIS". For those not enamoured of such a misalliance, Servlets and/or JSP look *very* attractive. Why sell your soul to Redmond?
IDC/HTX is not being supported my MS going forward. I am pretty sure that support for it is gone under IIS4, and most certainly under IIS5.
That's news to me. Can you cite a source at MS on that, or are you shooting from the hip?
It's only an ISAPI DLL; if they're not binary compatible there are a *lot* of things that are gonna break.
As for the ASP development tools...oh, my goodness. the mind boggles.
I used Notepad. *grin* The conversion tool is part of that "bury it" effort I was talking about. A lot of cool things escaped (rather than "were released") from niches in the NT development organization just as NT 4.0 came out of beta. Most of them have been sanitized from the documentation, but can be found in the bowels of the NT Resource Kit, especially it's early incarnations.
By all means, go for ASP/RDO then...stability issues....quirky problems...*and* the marvelous tools, that's certainly a combination you can't beat...:-)
If you're wedded to IIS, and want to talk to ODBC without messing with ASP and the rest of the Micro(do it Our way)soft server-side stuff, you might want to look at Internet Database Connector: it's been a native IIS/ISAPI facility since the beta before IISv1, and it's fairly reliable.
MS has been trying to bury it ever since, probably because it plays too well with other (read: non MS) DBs, but they can't make it go away. If you're not doing any really fancy scripting it might fill the bill. I wrote a fairly sizable intranet app largely in IDC/HTX, with an occasional excursion to Regina REXX/CGI and Servlets just to make things interesting, and it's been fairly stable for three years now.
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." - Thomas Jefferson
OK, can we have a URL for *your* page please? Oh, that's right...anonymous...coward...Sorry, I forgot. Ah, to be both young and 31337. The mind boggles!
Why a *closet* TS? What's wrong with an out TS woman? They're more fun, IMHO. Ya can't get reassignment surgery while you're still in the closet, for one thing.
I think there's many more people in computing than in physics, so your sample size is just plain bigger. I will concede, thought, that there are piles of incompetant people in computing, drawn in by the demand, who have no business there. And when their incompetance starts showing, they often resort to being obnoxious in order to distract people.
It's not a matter of there being *secrets* as such. But a matter of the social aspects of programming. I'll certainly grant that the hacker community is probably the *most* gender neutral of the computing subcultures. And overall, computing generally is the most gender-neutral of the engineering disciplines.
You certainly don't have to leave to my imagination how "popular" a woman in hacking--or even more generally computing --can be...as long as we define "popular" as being sought after sexually. That's not the same as the kind of learning processes, knowlege transfer and corporate advancement that occurs face-to-face in business, as opposed to largely online in hackerdom. But hackerdom != computing, especially computing as a means of earning a living.
People, I'm here to tell ya I've been on *both* sides of this fence, having been in computing for thirty years, most of them as a male. And while I'd never go back to being male, there most assuredly *is* a difference in attitudes and social interations in dealing with women in computing as an overall field.
That there is no *concious conspiracy* to keep women out of computing misses the point. Computing is still, in many circles, a "boys club". Not every part of the computing social fabric is this way, but overall it's painted as male space. Most attitudes that feed gender prejudice and an exclusionary tone are quite invisible to the people holding them.
I felt a calling to get into computing, long ago. My calling to be a woman is of a somewhat later vintage, however.:-) My boss is most likely to forget his manners and use a male pronoun in reference to me when he's referring to me doing something that's demanding technically.
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I *do* have *two* shiny plastic fish on the back of my car, but one says "Darwin", and has feet, while the other says "Linux" and sports a shark fin. (thanks to the gang at www.thinkgeek.com). I also have a pentagram sticker in the back window, next to the AOPA wings and rainbow triangle. :-)
Paranoid? No more paranoid than to want to have personal control of my personal information, and to want to hold the reins on my own use of strong crypto, when I think it's necessary.
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
(Revelation 13:17-18)
The SAK lives in my pants pocket, with my Leatherman on standby in my purse. (I know a woman who asked for and got a Leatherman laser-engraved with the Aircraft Owner's and Pilot's Association logo for Mother's Day).
In the *other* pants pocket is my Gerber Applegate-Fairbairn Combat Folder. That one doesn't really get used much, though. +grin+
Oh yeah...know how to +make+ a Phillips screwdriver? Two shots of vodka and an ounce of Milk of Magnesia.
So, I guess you wouldn't want to see *your* post moderated up either? Even though it links to an advertisement for your company? Oops, too late--I've posted into this discussion. :-)
He pronounced it:
Also, let's distinguish here between *collecting* shoes and *accumulating* them. My GF does the former, I do the latter. And not fast enough.
from ARRL, the amateur radio organizaion:
And I have to say that having "Microsoft Daily News" in the sidebar, even (or perhaps *especially*) with the "Advertisement" label above it, does nothing for the content's credibility.
Microsoft occasionally lets something good slip out. The biggest problems with IDC are that it's too simple, too reliable, isn't riddled with security exposures and doesn't need any bloated GUI development environments to do the job.
I'm in favor of anything that lets me work without giving a bazillion dollars to MS for development tools that will soon only be available on a rental basis...as if they aren't effectively that already anyhow.
The control MS wields over developers though the development tools market is stultifying, and soon the latest generation of "developers" weaned on Visual won't be able to do *anything* without Redmond's approval.
Truthfully though, there's nothing you can do in IDC/HTX that wouldn't make a trivial JSP or servlet, and if "doing your customers a service" includes application portability, then that's the way to go.
And a small postscript..I started with the caveat "if you're wedded to IIS". For those not enamoured of such a misalliance, Servlets and/or JSP look *very* attractive. Why sell your soul to Redmond?
It's only an ISAPI DLL; if they're not binary compatible there are a *lot* of things that are gonna break.
As for the ASP development tools...oh, my goodness. the mind boggles.
I used Notepad. *grin* The conversion tool is part of that "bury it" effort I was talking about. A lot of cool things escaped (rather than "were released") from niches in the NT development organization just as NT 4.0 came out of beta. Most of them have been sanitized from the documentation, but can be found in the bowels of the NT Resource Kit, especially it's early incarnations.
By all means, go for ASP/RDO then...stability issues....quirky problems...*and* the marvelous tools, that's certainly a combination you can't beat...:-)
MS has been trying to bury it ever since, probably because it plays too well with other (read: non MS) DBs, but they can't make it go away. If you're not doing any really fancy scripting it might fill the bill. I wrote a fairly sizable intranet app largely in IDC/HTX, with an occasional excursion to Regina REXX/CGI and Servlets just to make things interesting, and it's been fairly stable for three years now.
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." - Thomas Jefferson
OK, can we have a URL for *your* page please? Oh, that's right...anonymous...coward...Sorry, I forgot. Ah, to be both young and 31337. The mind boggles!
Only on appropriate occasions.
BTW, I'm a guy...
No kidding...
BTW:MHz=megaherz (frequency)
mh=millihenrys (inductance)
73s de KB3DXS
Mine are turbine-driven. :-)
Come to think of it, in addition to being gender-biased, this discussion is awfully hetero-centrist too...
Bi/trans/poly/geek/grrl...that's me.
The courage to hit on one, or become one?
Why a *closet* TS? What's wrong with an out TS woman? They're more fun, IMHO. Ya can't get reassignment surgery while you're still in the closet, for one thing.
It's the *ratio* that sucks, right?
And I'm sure that's where the Microsofties learned it, too..
Wine and dine him? Unlikely...they'll just send a FUD hit squad to speak to the upper management he mentioned.
I think there's many more people in computing than in physics, so your sample size is just plain bigger. I will concede, thought, that there are piles of incompetant people in computing, drawn in by the demand, who have no business there. And when their incompetance starts showing, they often resort to being obnoxious in order to distract people.
Can I moderate somebody up simply for having a very funny mailsig? :-)
You certainly don't have to leave to my imagination how "popular" a woman in hacking--or even more generally computing --can be...as long as we define "popular" as being sought after sexually. That's not the same as the kind of learning processes, knowlege transfer and corporate advancement that occurs face-to-face in business, as opposed to largely online in hackerdom. But hackerdom != computing, especially computing as a means of earning a living.
People, I'm here to tell ya I've been on *both* sides of this fence, having been in computing for thirty years, most of them as a male. And while I'd never go back to being male, there most assuredly *is* a difference in attitudes and social interations in dealing with women in computing as an overall field.
I felt a calling to get into computing, long ago. My calling to be a woman is of a somewhat later vintage, however. :-) My boss is most likely to forget his manners and use a male pronoun in reference to me when he's referring to me doing something that's demanding technically.