Well, the redesign contest had the stated requiremenat that things had to remain more or less the same. A polish, rather then redesign contest, as it were. As for the logo: logos are not the kind of thing you should change. They may have been desigined to a paticular fashion, or not, but if they are good (or well known, which for a logo may be the definition of good), then they just are. Polish, tweeks, sure. But they should remain more or less the same.
FF 3 will (more heavily) use cairo, which is unavailable for older versions of Windows. FF 3 is currently scheduled for release Q1 2007, but as FF2.0 is now at least two months behind schedule, I cant see how they can keep the 3.0 timeframe. (well, since I first started paying some attention, mid-spring, 2.0 has lost 2 months, and the dates for 3 have remained unchanged..) In any event, 98 and ME were EOLd... a couple of weeks ago... On paper, FF3 and Vista should be out at the same time so, realisticly, by then all windows users should be at at least XP.
Except that with currently available hardware, XEN isn't a VM layer, its a hypervisor. Technology asside, that means that only OS's that have been specificly altered to run on it work, and so far that includes only (some) OSS OSs, unless you have an accademic/research license with Microsoft or work in Provo.
I dont agree that XEN is the reason for the zero-costing of these products. MS undercut VMWare on the workstation product line. VMWare noticed/realized/always-planned that the money was on the server, and (significnatly) server management side of things. So they cut MS off at the knees, producing a zero cost player, and then eventually zero cost Server.
XEN might have changed the timetable by a few months, or a year, but VMWare wasnt going to ship things for free just to keep up the numbers, unless they had a way to make money. The money is in the management.
You do not need CALs for:
(1)any user or device that accesses your instances of the server software only through the Internet without being authenticated or otherwise individually identified by the server software or through any other means,.....
I diddn't know that myself, but the wording seems to go out of its way to make it clear that MS can try and charge you for CALs for anything that uses even the most basic authentication methods.
I cant believe that anyone who has drunk enough green vodka to turn their shit green had it together enough to check out its IO colour. Unless, of couse, he drank enough to have an unscheduled core dump.
Well, quite possibly over the long term, there will be next to zero companies trying to sell "just an OS".
Arguably, Novell is doing this now. Yes, you can buy "just SUSE", but it also comes sliced and diced and bundled as a component of other things. Open Enterprise Server; Groupwise with bundled OS license; Novell Linux Desktop: coporate polished, with bundled ZENWorks licenses, etc.
An auction site would, I think, have comparable technological requirements to GMail. How can you run multi gigabyte email system and not make money? Inline, targeted, adds. I can all but gaurentee that inline adds on a Google auction site would have significantly higher click-through rates then on GMail, which means more revenue-per-page. I dont know if GMail is profitable, but those PHds are clearly doing something right...
When Google starts getting a thousand extortion bills from a thousand separate carriers, there's no way they can track which ones are valid.
Yes, clearly the luddites over at Google, still using quills to write up invoices, would have to make the hard choice between making their cadre of 12 year old indentured servents work 17 (instead of 15) hour days collating invoices, or just paying them all. I mean, how would it ever be possible to reconcile invoicers and whois records of netblock owners?
The day Netscape released the source to Navigator I compiled it and gaz.....
No, you did not. The source code that Netscape thrust on the world did not so much as compile for months afterwords. It was missing both third party libraries and the complicated build enviroment required to make it.
I find it abhorrent to copy/paste something more then once. Retyping something is something I just dont do.
Both Excel and Access can be (*cough*) accessed programaticly, with just about any Windows tools worth mentioning (including each other). You've got yourself a stupid system, but it should be possible to work within that stupid system better then copy/paste. Activestate perl can do this, but if your using (complex) excell and Access, assumably you have some local experience with VBA or, at worst, some domain specific VBA to use as examples.
Look at the top of your screen. Ive been seeing rackspace banner adds for a decade. In the Internet world, that means something. Go with them, or one of their high-volume cookie cutter competitors.
A better choice might be a local "solutions" company. They might not have backup generators, or n+1 AC units, but there are plenty of places better then your closet.. If your in a city with, say, >500,000 people then you have at least a couple of consulting shops who would do hosting. Their "management" might be only monitoring, with time/materials for actual responses/requests. With an SLA that clearly states what is their fault, and thus part of the monthly bill, then even if you get hit for $100/hr calls, they will be minimal, and worth it. With more-and-more VMWare hosting partners popping up, the hosting itself could be very minimal.
For something that is "important", and by that I mean making money for someone, I couldnt recommend shared hosting under any circumstances. Rackspace somewhere will almost definitly be cheaper then a last-mile connection with a good SLA.
This battle is about getting wide spread support for a open document format. Currently the best app implementing that (well, best implementation of ODF by an app) happens to be an OSS package.
But for this battle it is OK, and possibly better, if MS adopts the format. Its better, over the mid term, because it would mean that on the next upgrade cycle everyone MS users would just get ODF support, implicitly. And that would mean that future purchasing decisions wouldnt have the same high profile, and thus would be less likely to be politicalicized. And that would mean that in 2012, OpenOffice 3.5 and MS Office 2015 would compete on technical and price considerations alone.
The thing is that serious web developers dont write XHTML. They write programms that write HTML. Or they write CSS stylesheets to manage the display of XHTML written by programms, which are written by programmers.
Design "flaw", or just "design"? The goals of the design was for a system that would have a catostrpohic failure 1 in whatever number of flights. The shuttle has a record that significnatly beats that requirement.
Yes, but your choice of gravity (definitly) and type of path (perhaps) would be arbitrary. Humans, being humans, would choose nice round numbers. But these are only nice round numbers if you are a species with 10 fingers.
Consider the periodic table. Its arrangement is a direct reflection of the sub-atomic structure of the things it describes. And more importantly, this paticular description of subatomic structure is reflected in the properties of those elements in the macro world.
Planets are not so neat and orderly. And applying a strict definitio to them is stupid. The ocean/sea/bay/sound analogy isnt bad. An "Ocean" is a body of water which has the word "ocean" in its name.
Perhaps with the exception of about:jwz,/. was the first 'blog'. Neither may conform to the current cookiecutter format that is a blog, but thats what they are.
If your using straight IP, then it wont be a one hop connection. In which case, you might as well have your files on a server in Outer Mongolia. If you want a single-hop solution, thats bluetooth and all the various standarish higher level things that go with that. Configuration, BT, ditto.
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Well, the redesign contest had the stated requiremenat that things had to remain more or less the same. A polish, rather then redesign contest, as it were. As for the logo: logos are not the kind of thing you should change. They may have been desigined to a paticular fashion, or not, but if they are good (or well known, which for a logo may be the definition of good), then they just are. Polish, tweeks, sure. But they should remain more or less the same.
FF 3 will (more heavily) use cairo, which is unavailable for older versions of Windows. FF 3 is currently scheduled for release Q1 2007, but as FF2.0 is now at least two months behind schedule, I cant see how they can keep the 3.0 timeframe. (well, since I first started paying some attention, mid-spring, 2.0 has lost 2 months, and the dates for 3 have remained unchanged..) In any event, 98 and ME were EOLd... a couple of weeks ago... On paper, FF3 and Vista should be out at the same time so, realisticly, by then all windows users should be at at least XP.
Except that with currently available hardware, XEN isn't a VM layer, its a hypervisor. Technology asside, that means that only OS's that have been specificly altered to run on it work, and so far that includes only (some) OSS OSs, unless you have an accademic/research license with Microsoft or work in Provo.
I dont agree that XEN is the reason for the zero-costing of these products. MS undercut VMWare on the workstation product line. VMWare noticed/realized/always-planned that the money was on the server, and (significnatly) server management side of things. So they cut MS off at the knees, producing a zero cost player, and then eventually zero cost Server.
XEN might have changed the timetable by a few months, or a year, but VMWare wasnt going to ship things for free just to keep up the numbers, unless they had a way to make money. The money is in the management.
You /can/ transfer storage resources across the ether, but it all works best when the VMWare cluster is backed by SAN, iSCSI or other NAS.
I cant believe that anyone who has drunk enough green vodka to turn their shit green had it together enough to check out its IO colour. Unless, of couse, he drank enough to have an unscheduled core dump.
Well, quite possibly over the long term, there will be next to zero companies trying to sell "just an OS".
Arguably, Novell is doing this now. Yes, you can buy "just SUSE", but it also comes sliced and diced and bundled as a component of other things. Open Enterprise Server; Groupwise with bundled OS license; Novell Linux Desktop: coporate polished, with bundled ZENWorks licenses, etc.
OTOH, if "the database box" is the responsibility of "the database guy", then "the database guy" will just hit Oracle speed dial to get support.
In any event, its not about more Linux support calls, its about more support calls, period.
An auction site would, I think, have comparable technological requirements to GMail. How can you run multi gigabyte email system and not make money? Inline, targeted, adds. I can all but gaurentee that inline adds on a Google auction site would have significantly higher click-through rates then on GMail, which means more revenue-per-page. I dont know if GMail is profitable, but those PHds are clearly doing something right...
Well, I guess that the 9 $0.50 CT bills that I have in my top drawer could fetch better then face value on eBay as "Very Rare".
No, you did not. The source code that Netscape thrust on the world did not so much as compile for months afterwords. It was missing both third party libraries and the complicated build enviroment required to make it.
A summary of the standards that IE7 can/will support? "Better CSS 2" just isnt all that helpful.
I find it abhorrent to copy/paste something more then once. Retyping something is something I just dont do. Both Excel and Access can be (*cough*) accessed programaticly, with just about any Windows tools worth mentioning (including each other). You've got yourself a stupid system, but it should be possible to work within that stupid system better then copy/paste. Activestate perl can do this, but if your using (complex) excell and Access, assumably you have some local experience with VBA or, at worst, some domain specific VBA to use as examples.
Look at the top of your screen. Ive been seeing rackspace banner adds for a decade. In the Internet world, that means something. Go with them, or one of their high-volume cookie cutter competitors.
A better choice might be a local "solutions" company. They might not have backup generators, or n+1 AC units, but there are plenty of places better then your closet.. If your in a city with, say, >500,000 people then you have at least a couple of consulting shops who would do hosting. Their "management" might be only monitoring, with time/materials for actual responses/requests. With an SLA that clearly states what is their fault, and thus part of the monthly bill, then even if you get hit for $100/hr calls, they will be minimal, and worth it. With more-and-more VMWare hosting partners popping up, the hosting itself could be very minimal.
For something that is "important", and by that I mean making money for someone, I couldnt recommend shared hosting under any circumstances. Rackspace somewhere will almost definitly be cheaper then a last-mile connection with a good SLA.
This battle is about getting wide spread support for a open document format. Currently the best app implementing that (well, best implementation of ODF by an app) happens to be an OSS package.
But for this battle it is OK, and possibly better, if MS adopts the format. Its better, over the mid term, because it would mean that on the next upgrade cycle everyone MS users would just get ODF support, implicitly. And that would mean that future purchasing decisions wouldnt have the same high profile, and thus would be less likely to be politicalicized. And that would mean that in 2012, OpenOffice 3.5 and MS Office 2015 would compete on technical and price considerations alone.
For the love of all that is holy, please dont ever bring up OpenDoc again.
plus materials, and shipping.
At a reasonable price. My billable rate is CAD$78/hr. Minimum 3 hour callout, plus materials, and shipping.
HTH, HAND
The thing is that serious web developers dont write XHTML. They write programms that write HTML. Or they write CSS stylesheets to manage the display of XHTML written by programms, which are written by programmers.
Design "flaw", or just "design"? The goals of the design was for a system that would have a catostrpohic failure 1 in whatever number of flights. The shuttle has a record that significnatly beats that requirement.
Yes, but your choice of gravity (definitly) and type of path (perhaps) would be arbitrary. Humans, being humans, would choose nice round numbers. But these are only nice round numbers if you are a species with 10 fingers.
Consider the periodic table. Its arrangement is a direct reflection of the sub-atomic structure of the things it describes. And more importantly, this paticular description of subatomic structure is reflected in the properties of those elements in the macro world.
Planets are not so neat and orderly. And applying a strict definitio to them is stupid. The ocean/sea/bay/sound analogy isnt bad. An "Ocean" is a body of water which has the word "ocean" in its name.
Perhaps with the exception of about:jwz, /. was the first 'blog'. Neither may conform to the current cookiecutter format that is a blog, but thats what they are.
You must not have a penis. Because if you did, you would know that dance clubs have very little to do with dancing.
If your using straight IP, then it wont be a one hop connection. In which case, you might as well have your files on a server in Outer Mongolia. If you want a single-hop solution, thats bluetooth and all the various standarish higher level things that go with that. Configuration, BT, ditto.