1) I never boot my Mac... so how and why should I dual boot?
Well for a Mac zealot like yourself; you may not. For others who like to do different things like play certain games or use other software that isn't support by OSX then they may want to dual boot.
2) No one having a Mac would boot into Windows, why? Because he likely has no access to his Data on the Mac Partition, no eMails, no Adresses, no Calendar etc. It makes no sense to boot into Windows.
Hmm again zealot propaganda, how about use software that isn't support on OSX. Access to your data? Well, I suppose you just don't want too. It's not that you can't do it. Email? calendar? Hmm, your limiting yourself if you can't use them on both. (Hell Apple created iCal) If you are using pop3 for email then you should probably think about changing. Thats not an OS issue, it's a user issue.
No sane Mac user will use MS Office for Mail (Outlook etc.) and/or IE for browsing but will use his Mac Software for most of his work, so booting into Windows is very unlikely.
What are you going to use if you have a Exchange server? MS Entourage? My company supports that train wreck today and it's the best OSX Exchange client we've found thus far.
I like OSX, but.. It has it's limitations. Just like all other OS do. I run what allows me to do what I want to do. My OS list includes Windows...
Creating a CSO position may be viewed by some as an admission of weakness.
I don't think so. I think it's an admission that you arn't a self-centered egotistical fathead who is actually dumb as a stump. Security is always an issue. No matter how well you *think* you are protected.
I think it has most to do with the fact that the language was developed first, then adapted to the required needs instead of the other way around. It's also why VB is considered bloated from the "Get go". The design was flawed and they tried to fix it. Just like the Windows kernel. MS kept altering a bad design trying to make it better, then finally just dumped it. (Vista)
The PS3 is starting to look more and more like a Daikatana scenario. Is Sony changing the specs trying to make it better considering the competition? (As John Romero did with Daikatana) This could be ugly for Sony. All of the Kings of the Industry always come tumbling down sooner or later. (3dfx->NVidia->ATI, Sears->Walmart, etc)
I think you would be better off just using apt-get. I think CRN is mainly to make updating your computer simple. If you have 6 computers, chances are apt-get isn't going to be that hard for you to use or even script updates. Now, if someone not so computer literate manages their own, then you may want to give them CRN.
If it comes out anywhere near $900, I declare Xbox 360 the winner and declare Sony a fool....wait, didn't they release a rootkit? I guess my second declaration would be moot.
and most of the time the CPU is closer to idle than to full usage
True, but the benchmarks tell more of a story than what the reviewer said. The difference was about 5% at zero load (favor AMD) at full load the difference was 25%. (favor Intel) Thats not just 5x the difference, it's 8x the difference. Three watts difference compared to twenty four watts. (3/24=8)
What use does anyone have for a 64-bit laptop today? Run Oracle in very large memory configurations? No. I really don't see the point in rushing out to get a 64-bit laptop. Sure, maybe in the future, but then only because all software is written 64-bit.
Don't get me wrong, I'm an AMD user. Though, my laptop is a Pentium M and I'm very happy with it.
They both are very good PHP security guys, but Stefan Esser is quite pathetic. Reading him can be like listening to someone speaking Spanglish. (flipping back and forth between languages) One minute he is professional, the next minute he is a 12 year old. Chris Shiflett should just ignore him and do what he needs to do to get it right. Obviously he made a mistake. Fix it and move on.
It all started in 4th grade. I was put in an advanced learning class that had three TSR 80s. (Otherwise known as Trash 80) The first program I used was a picture store about the Hindenburg. Then a friend down the street got a Commodore 64 which we recreated songs in basic, and created digital dice for AD&D. After that, my father bought a Tandy 1000, which followed by 7th Computer Literacy class and we had a room of Tandy 1000s. That is were I advanced my GW-Basic programming skills;) My friend upgraded to a 286 laptop with Compuserve. Then dad upgraded to a 386sx 16 with Windows3.1 and I started the upgrade to Q-Basic, then Borlands Turbo C++. Friend upgraded to a 486, then I finally was able to by my very own PC. Pentium 75 with a MONSTER 1.275GB hard drive!!! From there a Pentium 200MMX, Pentium II 333, and from there it's a big blur. Today I have a laptop and 2 other desktop Athlon boxes ranging from 1.4-2.2ghz that are in peices and I just haven't cared enough to rebuild.
But the crime was commited by the kid. Guilty as charged. As for the admin and adware, you don't learn near as much from success as you do from failure. I bet the hospital tightens security after this. As for the adware... Well, they will learn if it fits into their business practices.
I'm not a huge fan of Rudy Giuliani the person, but as a mayor and what he did for New York (I'm not talking about 9/11 I mean how he cleaned up the sesspool that was New York) he was a great major. He makes Bloomberg a cut rate second class salesmen IMHO. I believe this guy played a lot more Solitare (or done other things) than he claimed, but he should have been reprimanded as he noted rather than just flat out fired. Of course, this where were people like Bloomberg come from. There business sense is win or die trying. Those that don't give 100% all the time are hurting the business. I admit, type A people (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, the Google guys, etc) are more apt to succeed, but not everyone is type A. This guy has a small baby and Bloomberg just cans him with *real* cause. It's a shame, but this guy is better off. $27k isn't that much. He should be able to do better with some initiative. I couldn't imagine this guy living in the NYC area and surviving on $27k with a toddler....
Both have pros and cons. Standardizing on a single language limits the knowledge required to do the job. Using many different languages (The right tool for the job) saves development time money, and headaches.
My beleive is a using different languages, but limiting the langauges used. The last thing you want is 40 languages floating around your office. Then again, you don't want a basic applications taking 3 weeks to a month to write in Java or C that could have been written in 1 or 2 weeks (or even days) written in Python or Ruby.
Verizon is just trying to take back the income that VoIP stole from them. (and still is) You can't have that incrediable bulk if someone is siphoning your cash flow.
I even used electric space heaters in the winter (the only heat option the apartment had was a fireplace or leaving the gas oven on, which wasn't too safe).
Electric space heaters are notorious for causing home fires and are quite expensive to run.
As for paid utilities apartments in the US. Well, many places pay water/radiator heat/garbage collections (results may very on location) but all bills paid apartments are generally quite *ghetto*.
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The ads are removed, anyone can download and use it, and you may be right about your claim when you say "most of us", but that doesn't include me. Just because something is closed source doesn't make it bad.
As for my view, I find that people who think *everything* should be "Free as in beer" and "Open Source" are naive and selfish. There are benefits abound on both sides of the street. These capitalistic companies that have closed source software/hardware laid the ground-work within which we walk today. Intel, IBM, Bell Labs, Sun, HP, VM Ware, etc...
It took lots of money to make today possible. John and his best friend Jose wouldn't have created todays processors in their basement. They wouldn't have been able to write the databases of today without the inroads made by Oracle, IBM, Ingres, Microsoft, etc.
Compare Opera to IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, Symantec, Intel, and just about any other corporation out there. Hell, Apple has this huge following and in my opinion they are nothing but a Microsoft wannabe. (Look at the iPod and all the law suits that Apple filed because people wanted to interface with there iPod without being forced to use iTunes) The Aqua debacle, Apple's hardware, etc...
I don't hate any of these companies, but if I had to say one of them was a good guy. Opera.
Disclaimer: I'm using Opera to post this message.;)
and in the end, no one wants to pay that kind of money for things they don't need or won't use.
Exactly. If you don't *need* Oracle, don't use it. On the other hand; If your database is the life blood of your business and downtime can cost your business it's life. You would be a fool not to use it.
Oracle is what it is and you pay for what it is. I use a mix of many different databases, but our most critical and complexed applications run Oracle. Why? Because the only way you will lose data in a Oracle database is if you shouldn't be managing an Oracle database.
Anyway you word it it comes out the same way. It's an ultimatum. If you want to use our software; you pretty much have to give up your copyright legal protections. The problem is; owner rights and users rights. The current standards are all or nothing. How do you manage the middle ground in a digital world? To this point; You can't.
My thoughts arn't exactly with Linus, but they damn sure arn't anywhere near RMS.
This is just like the tobacco law suits. It's painfully obvious what can happen. Crank up the volume, go deaf. If you choose to listen to your music loud, smoke, or any other thing thats obviously dangerous to your health. It's your own fault, not the company that sold it to you. They didn't force your hand, trick you into doing it, or lie to you claiming there wasn't any danger. Just like those that skydive and other dangerous things. They know well in advance the risk they take. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price. John Kiel's hearing loss it a product of his own stupidity.
I doubt that will happen for a while. At least not until they fix all the performance issues with the Mach kernel. I just wouldn't use OS X for any type of heavy DB (of any app other of the same nature) use until then.
This is very common with small consulting firms. We have one that helps with our Oracle on very advanced issues. (always much easier than ticketing Oracle) They also cover off-hour issues if I'm fly off to Chicago, San Fran, or "the wide open spaces of Antarctica" for a long weekend.
The firm we deal with consists of five people each having their own specialty, (Oracle, programming, systems admin, etc) but each generally knowledgable in most aspects of operations of OS, programming, DBA, and other different software applications.
Check all different kinds of user groups. They can be very helpful in locating help. Sometimes, the users group itself has exactly the person you're looking for. You may not even need a consulting firm, just an extra guy that will help when needed.
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1) I never boot my Mac ... so how and why should I dual boot?
Well for a Mac zealot like yourself; you may not. For others who like to do different things like play certain games or use other software that isn't support by OSX then they may want to dual boot.
2) No one having a Mac would boot into Windows, why? Because he likely has no access to his Data on the Mac Partition, no eMails, no Adresses, no Calendar etc. It makes no sense to boot into Windows.
Hmm again zealot propaganda, how about use software that isn't support on OSX. Access to your data? Well, I suppose you just don't want too. It's not that you can't do it. Email? calendar? Hmm, your limiting yourself if you can't use them on both. (Hell Apple created iCal) If you are using pop3 for email then you should probably think about changing. Thats not an OS issue, it's a user issue.
No sane Mac user will use MS Office for Mail (Outlook etc.) and/or IE for browsing but will use his Mac Software for most of his work, so booting into Windows is very unlikely.
What are you going to use if you have a Exchange server? MS Entourage? My company supports that train wreck today and it's the best OSX Exchange client we've found thus far.
I like OSX, but.. It has it's limitations. Just like all other OS do. I run what allows me to do what I want to do. My OS list includes Windows...
Creating a CSO position may be viewed by some as an admission of weakness.
I don't think so. I think it's an admission that you arn't a self-centered egotistical fathead who is actually dumb as a stump. Security is always an issue. No matter how well you *think* you are protected.
I think it has most to do with the fact that the language was developed first, then adapted to the required needs instead of the other way around. It's also why VB is considered bloated from the "Get go". The design was flawed and they tried to fix it. Just like the Windows kernel. MS kept altering a bad design trying to make it better, then finally just dumped it. (Vista)
The PS3 is starting to look more and more like a Daikatana scenario. Is Sony changing the specs trying to make it better considering the competition? (As John Romero did with Daikatana) This could be ugly for Sony. All of the Kings of the Industry always come tumbling down sooner or later. (3dfx->NVidia->ATI, Sears->Walmart, etc)
I think you would be better off just using apt-get. I think CRN is mainly to make updating your computer simple. If you have 6 computers, chances are apt-get isn't going to be that hard for you to use or even script updates. Now, if someone not so computer literate manages their own, then you may want to give them CRN.
If it comes out anywhere near $900, I declare Xbox 360 the winner and declare Sony a fool. ...wait, didn't they release a rootkit? I guess my second declaration would be moot.
and most of the time the CPU is closer to idle than to full usage
True, but the benchmarks tell more of a story than what the reviewer said. The difference was about 5% at zero load (favor AMD) at full load the difference was 25%. (favor Intel) Thats not just 5x the difference, it's 8x the difference. Three watts difference compared to twenty four watts. (3/24=8)
What use does anyone have for a 64-bit laptop today? Run Oracle in very large memory configurations? No. I really don't see the point in rushing out to get a 64-bit laptop. Sure, maybe in the future, but then only because all software is written 64-bit.
Don't get me wrong, I'm an AMD user. Though, my laptop is a Pentium M and I'm very happy with it.
Today you are, what about tomorrow when your Good ol' PowerPC chip is no longer supported?
They both are very good PHP security guys, but Stefan Esser is quite pathetic. Reading him can be like listening to someone speaking Spanglish. (flipping back and forth between languages) One minute he is professional, the next minute he is a 12 year old. Chris Shiflett should just ignore him and do what he needs to do to get it right. Obviously he made a mistake. Fix it and move on.
It all started in 4th grade. I was put in an advanced learning class that had three TSR 80s. (Otherwise known as Trash 80) The first program I used was a picture store about the Hindenburg. Then a friend down the street got a Commodore 64 which we recreated songs in basic, and created digital dice for AD&D. After that, my father bought a Tandy 1000, which followed by 7th Computer Literacy class and we had a room of Tandy 1000s. That is were I advanced my GW-Basic programming skills ;) My friend upgraded to a 286 laptop with Compuserve. Then dad upgraded to a 386sx 16 with Windows3.1 and I started the upgrade to Q-Basic, then Borlands Turbo C++. Friend upgraded to a 486, then I finally was able to by my very own PC. Pentium 75 with a MONSTER 1.275GB hard drive!!! From there a Pentium 200MMX, Pentium II 333, and from there it's a big blur. Today I have a laptop and 2 other desktop Athlon boxes ranging from 1.4-2.2ghz that are in peices and I just haven't cared enough to rebuild.
But the crime was commited by the kid. Guilty as charged. As for the admin and adware, you don't learn near as much from success as you do from failure. I bet the hospital tightens security after this. As for the adware... Well, they will learn if it fits into their business practices.
I'm not a huge fan of Rudy Giuliani the person, but as a mayor and what he did for New York (I'm not talking about 9/11 I mean how he cleaned up the sesspool that was New York) he was a great major. He makes Bloomberg a cut rate second class salesmen IMHO. I believe this guy played a lot more Solitare (or done other things) than he claimed, but he should have been reprimanded as he noted rather than just flat out fired. Of course, this where were people like Bloomberg come from. There business sense is win or die trying. Those that don't give 100% all the time are hurting the business. I admit, type A people (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, the Google guys, etc) are more apt to succeed, but not everyone is type A. This guy has a small baby and Bloomberg just cans him with *real* cause. It's a shame, but this guy is better off. $27k isn't that much. He should be able to do better with some initiative. I couldn't imagine this guy living in the NYC area and surviving on $27k with a toddler....
Both have pros and cons. Standardizing on a single language limits the knowledge required to do the job. Using many different languages (The right tool for the job) saves development time money, and headaches.
My beleive is a using different languages, but limiting the langauges used. The last thing you want is 40 languages floating around your office. Then again, you don't want a basic applications taking 3 weeks to a month to write in Java or C that could have been written in 1 or 2 weeks (or even days) written in Python or Ruby.
Verizon is just trying to take back the income that VoIP stole from them. (and still is) You can't have that incrediable bulk if someone is siphoning your cash flow.
This just says the employer has to keep records of every person that applies for employment in a way that fits within the specified guidelines listed.
It doesn't mean said employer will not consider me if I *didn't* follow those guidelines.
I even used electric space heaters in the winter (the only heat option the apartment had was a fireplace or leaving the gas oven on, which wasn't too safe).
Electric space heaters are notorious for causing home fires and are quite expensive to run.
As for paid utilities apartments in the US. Well, many places pay water/radiator heat/garbage collections (results may very on location) but all bills paid apartments are generally quite *ghetto*.
The ads are removed, anyone can download and use it, and you may be right about your claim when you say "most of us", but that doesn't include me. Just because something is closed source doesn't make it bad.
;)
As for my view, I find that people who think *everything* should be "Free as in beer" and "Open Source" are naive and selfish. There are benefits abound on both sides of the street. These capitalistic companies that have closed source software/hardware laid the ground-work within which we walk today. Intel, IBM, Bell Labs, Sun, HP, VM Ware, etc...
It took lots of money to make today possible. John and his best friend Jose wouldn't have created todays processors in their basement. They wouldn't have been able to write the databases of today without the inroads made by Oracle, IBM, Ingres, Microsoft, etc.
Compare Opera to IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, Symantec, Intel, and just about any other corporation out there. Hell, Apple has this huge following and in my opinion they are nothing but a Microsoft wannabe. (Look at the iPod and all the law suits that Apple filed because people wanted to interface with there iPod without being forced to use iTunes) The Aqua debacle, Apple's hardware, etc...
I don't hate any of these companies, but if I had to say one of them was a good guy. Opera.
Disclaimer: I'm using Opera to post this message.
and in the end, no one wants to pay that kind of money for things they don't need or won't use.
Exactly. If you don't *need* Oracle, don't use it. On the other hand; If your database is the life blood of your business and downtime can cost your business it's life. You would be a fool not to use it.
Oracle is what it is and you pay for what it is. I use a mix of many different databases, but our most critical and complexed applications run Oracle. Why? Because the only way you will lose data in a Oracle database is if you shouldn't be managing an Oracle database.
Anyway you word it it comes out the same way. It's an ultimatum. If you want to use our software; you pretty much have to give up your copyright legal protections. The problem is; owner rights and users rights. The current standards are all or nothing. How do you manage the middle ground in a digital world? To this point; You can't.
My thoughts arn't exactly with Linus, but they damn sure arn't anywhere near RMS.
This is just like the tobacco law suits. It's painfully obvious what can happen. Crank up the volume, go deaf. If you choose to listen to your music loud, smoke, or any other thing thats obviously dangerous to your health. It's your own fault, not the company that sold it to you. They didn't force your hand, trick you into doing it, or lie to you claiming there wasn't any danger. Just like those that skydive and other dangerous things. They know well in advance the risk they take. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price. John Kiel's hearing loss it a product of his own stupidity.
Welcome to the wonderful world of French Canadians. They can be idiotic jerks of the highest order without any real cause.
I can vouch for the "not speaking french will piss them off". (Air Canada ticketing agent at Trudeau (Dorval) international airport)
Now, don't let me stereotype *all* French Canadians, but I would definitely include more than half.
"I recently got sent a copy of Bruce Tate's newest book Beyond Java - A Glimpse at the Future of Programming Languages.
Shouldn't this read:
"I recently got sent a copy of Bruce Tate's newest book Beyond Java - A Glimpse at the Future of Programming in Ruby.
I see nothing about "future programming languages", I see "Ruby is the next big thing!"
I doubt that will happen for a while. At least not until they fix all the performance issues with the Mach kernel. I just wouldn't use OS X for any type of heavy DB (of any app other of the same nature) use until then.
A cheap file server with X-Serve. Sure!
This is very common with small consulting firms. We have one that helps with our Oracle on very advanced issues. (always much easier than ticketing Oracle) They also cover off-hour issues if I'm fly off to Chicago, San Fran, or "the wide open spaces of Antarctica" for a long weekend.
The firm we deal with consists of five people each having their own specialty, (Oracle, programming, systems admin, etc) but each generally knowledgable in most aspects of operations of OS, programming, DBA, and other different software applications.
Check all different kinds of user groups. They can be very helpful in locating help. Sometimes, the users group itself has exactly the person you're looking for. You may not even need a consulting firm, just an extra guy that will help when needed.