There are no predefined tags (beyond the initial processing instructions which you'll just copy from a template when you need it)
Open a tag like this: <TAG>
Close the tag like this: </TAG>
Case matters
Group properly -- <A><B>DATA</B></A>
What else do you need to know? Oh, to be useful, XML must be accompanied by DTDs or (better) XDRs. Find industry-standard ones -- if you roll your own, you either need fiat or luck.
Now, the truly useful aspects of "XML" have little to do with XML itself. For example, you need to intelligently plan a XSLT for translation and presentation. The W3C DOM is a must for programming. XPATH! SAX... SAX2... oy vey....
Perhaps they do, but you failed the reading comprehension test: my point was not the relative merits of the CrystalScan, but how short-term exposure to the Toshiba LCD changed my appreciation of what had been satisifactory previously.
I'll contribute my ancedotal experience... I just bought a Toshiba 2805-201 (13.3 TFT LCD). Up to now, I had been a happy user of a Gateway CrystalScan (17") since Feb 1997. Yet after only two days of using the Toshiba, I am spoiled. Text is crisper, my eyes focus easier, overall: much less strain. I didn't realize how much better my eyes liked the LCD until I went back to the CRT -- what a difference! It actually was uncomfortable to use the CRT (I had to squint).
I don't know the science or the stats, but I know my eyes: TFT LCD bests any CRT I've used.
That said, unless I could get 1024x768 resolution I would even dream of using a LCD (I need the space!).
If nothing else, the story contains excellent examples of polite yet passioned, respectful yet <% $counter-balancing-word-starting-with-r %> email exchanges. By making the exchange pleasant the author focused the debate on the issues (iD choice and sweatshop accusation). If the author had said, "You scum bags are sweatshop pigs!" his campaign would have ended with the first missive.
May we all learn such passionate civility in supporting our causes.
That page works just fine for me -- running 2.2.16 (SuSe 7.0) with 192 MB RAM and a 64MB swap partition with Mozilla 2001021503 (.8).
What IS annoying is that Mozilla is taking *huge* amounts of RAM and has pushed my system into using swap! Usually, I run Linux 2.2.16, KDE2, Citrix ICAClient (to access corporate Winframe server for email), Win4Lin with Windows 98SE (so I can run Internet Explorer -- needed for my web development work, sorry), apache + mod_perl + mason (for local testing) -- all this WITHOUT USING ANY SWAP! But, now I'm running Mozilla -- without Win4Lin or Windows 98SE or IE5.5 -- and I'm swapping like nuts.
I'd like to be able to run only Open Source products on my laptop, but I cannot as long as IE5.5 is the leading browser (not just in market share).
''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he said.
At least it's an admission that MSFT HASN'T... Don't boast -- do it. Instead of speaking to lawmakers about the "dangers" of Open Source distroying innovation, innovate.
What model produced the Internet revolution? Open Source; Open Standards. Yes, Microsoft has produced a nice browser. Yes, Windows is convenient to use for most people (heck, right now I'm using IE5.5 on Win98SE running via Win4LIn on my SuSe/KDE2 desktop;why? because my development work for the web requires IE5.5...because Windows is ubiquitous). I and many other prefer choice -- sometimes that choice is Microsoft, believe it or not.
Open Source against Intellectual Property? NO! Open Source is not against Intellectual Property! The GPL enforces the rights of the author -- even though the source is distributed, it must be handled according to the terms of the license -- that is Intellectual Property enforcement. Does not the author maintain the rights to his/her software under the GPL? Yes. The difference between closed source and open source is not intellectual property but full disclosure. What is running on my mission critical servers? -- with MSFT products God knows; with Open Source products, I know (or, at least, disinterested third parties can know, too; call it, peer review). I personally can trust Microsoft (and Lotus, etc) with the secretaries desktop machine. But not my business' servers. I didn't care about this issue until our SCO UNIX servers started having mystery crashes in the early 90's. Then our DEC Alpha servers began having mystery file corruption in 1997 -- and DEC engineers were summoned to fix the problem. Being a software company we had talent in house that could have made use of the source -- but SCO and DEC were closed source. We were at the mercy of their engineers. Then, in 1999, after we had been running Linux servers for 2.5 years for mission critical applications, we ran into a tty limitation. A quick look through the source revealed our problem unambigously -- and the problem was solved in days. That was an invaluable lesson and is the main reason we choose Open Source versus closed source tools.
It seems to me that innovation has continued to exponentiate since Open Source came into its own. Hey, Microsoft, you might even join us. There's room for you, too. Just, don't think you will be able to take over. Once the source is open, so are the choices.
My company is getting ready to implement... a centralized DB. The consultants that we have talked with are all SQL Server and VB based. I'm pro-open source stuff and want to do what I can to help sway this decision to go Open Source.... What do you guys think would be the best way of approaching this?
First, consider PostgreSQL instead of MySQL (lots of reasons, but the first is that PostgreSQL is production quality in a datacenter capacity). MySQL is great and getting beter, but from what we've seen, PostgreSQL is a candidate replacement for Oracle.Try this Google search.
Second, if your company has only spoken with VB/SQLServer consultants does that reflect a management decision to stick with MSFT products? If they haven't talked to an Oracle guy/gal or two, that's what it sounds like.
Third, who maintains this beast after the consultants leave? If it's an inhouse team then what technologies are inhouse already? If you're in a MSFT-shop, then it will be a hard, hard sell to centralize using non-MSFT tools. What's more, if your people are MSFT-centric I'd say stay with the toolset. This is a business decision.
Anyway, there's a lot of things to consider. If your company is starting fresh then the field is wide open and open source tools could be the way to go (should, IMO). If you're entrenched...keep digging!
I cannot believe that some idoit replied to my half-assed joke post with racist garabage! First, the accusations are ignorant, and second the idoit poster (anonymous, of course!) posted his trash on a Score: 1 post that has no chance of being modded up.
The poster doesn't need to fear a race -- just his own stupidity.
(Oh, I refuse to post a reply to his (safe assumption!) post, so I post it here.)
Thank you. I wish there was a way to moderate above 5 -- your post corrects a mistake in the question and answers the question that was probably intended.
Re:Do YOU remeber where you was when you heard ...
on
The Challenger
·
· Score: 1
Yes, I remember. I was standing with a number of fellow students in the TV room in our dorm at the University of North Texas (then, NTSU). We were watching the launch -- I don't know why we were so interested...perhaps because of the time of day of the launch?...anyway, we were glued to the TV.
It was unbelieveable. The technician giving altitude and speed just kept speaking, even though something horrible had gone wrong. The cameras captured everything...just as if nothing was wrong. There was no "mood music" -- unlike a movie -- so there was no cue for the emotion.
We were silent. Unbelieving. Someone said something was wrong. Then it's a blur.
This was the day I realized we could not control life with our technology -- and how fragile our life is.
And the reason Google already has a copy of this breaking news expose' is that...
it was published October 17, 2000!
Anyway, let's hope Apple doesn't fold completely before the new NeXT has a chance to get off the ground. (If it does, I'll be a user! I loved the original NeXT...)
Who would run Gnome or KDE when they can have Aqua - a professionally designed UI which has undergone professional usability testing?
A joke, right? I can see it now: "Hmmmm...I need a new OS...and this time one that has undergone professional usability testing, dammit!"
Not a chance.
Seen any ads (ever) touting professional usability testing as a reason to buy a Mac or Windows or Solaris? I haven't. I used to sell Macs (and PCs...and the NeXT -- the original OSX machine) with Businessland while I was in college. Not _once_ did I ever have 'professional usability testing' arise as a consideration -- or as a passing comment. And I was selling to the corporate IT departmenmts of national banks, etc. NO ONE CARES!
I mean, come on, Mr. Usability himself worked for Sun -- well known for ease of use, right?
Will OSX run on my existing Intel-centric computer system?
That is the question. And the ability to successfully answer it is a big reason for Linux's popularity -- the OS that came into being because a CompSci student wanted to learn about his Intel 386.
I worked summers at the family ranch in Southwest Texas (between Del Rio and Sonora -- near a town called Juno, TX). Hot. Humid. (Not as bad as Houston, admittedly).
The summer between 9th and 10th grades I was wondering what I would do with my life. I was bored in school and listless. Then I went out to the ranch and, for the first time, joined the working crew and built fence on a hill that was inaccessible to our truck -- meaning all our equipment and material had to be hauled by us each time we went to the site. (I still shudder when I see that hill). Anyway, that summer I decided to focus on getting a computer job -- because then I could be inside with airconditioning!
Almost took a job with a company just because they used a Model U3 and Starbucks coffee for their office morale (they were "closely" related to MSFT, though, and I was already heading back to my *nix roots (pun not intended)).
Slashdot Mirror
- Know HTML? Fine. Forget everything except <, > and
/. - There are no predefined tags
- Open a tag like this: <TAG>
- Close the tag like this: </TAG>
- Case matters
- Group properly -- <A><B>DATA</B></A>
What else do you need to know? Oh, to be useful, XML must be accompanied by DTDs or (better) XDRs. Find industry-standard ones -- if you roll your own, you either need fiat or luck.(beyond the initial processing instructions which you'll just copy from a template when you need it)
Now, the truly useful aspects of "XML" have little to do with XML itself. For example, you need to intelligently plan a XSLT for translation and presentation. The W3C DOM is a must for programming. XPATH! SAX... SAX2... oy vey....
Perhaps they do, but you failed the reading comprehension test: my point was not the relative merits of the CrystalScan, but how short-term exposure to the Toshiba LCD changed my appreciation of what had been satisifactory previously.
I don't know the science or the stats, but I know my eyes: TFT LCD bests any CRT I've used.
That said, unless I could get 1024x768 resolution I would even dream of using a LCD (I need the space!).
Thank you. Its sickining, ain't it?
May we all learn such passionate civility in supporting our causes.
What IS annoying is that Mozilla is taking *huge* amounts of RAM and has pushed my system into using swap! Usually, I run Linux 2.2.16, KDE2, Citrix ICAClient (to access corporate Winframe server for email), Win4Lin with Windows 98SE (so I can run Internet Explorer -- needed for my web development work, sorry), apache + mod_perl + mason (for local testing) -- all this WITHOUT USING ANY SWAP! But, now I'm running Mozilla -- without Win4Lin or Windows 98SE or IE5.5 -- and I'm swapping like nuts.
I'd like to be able to run only Open Source products on my laptop, but I cannot as long as IE5.5 is the leading browser (not just in market share).
At least it's an admission that MSFT HASN'T... Don't boast -- do it.
Instead of speaking to lawmakers about the "dangers" of Open Source distroying innovation, innovate.
What model produced the Internet revolution? Open Source; Open Standards. Yes, Microsoft has produced a nice browser. Yes, Windows is convenient to use for most people (heck, right now I'm using IE5.5 on Win98SE running via Win4LIn on my SuSe/KDE2 desktop;why? because my development work for the web requires IE5.5...because Windows is ubiquitous). I and many other prefer choice -- sometimes that choice is Microsoft, believe it or not.
Open Source against Intellectual Property?
NO! Open Source is not against Intellectual Property! The GPL enforces the rights of the author -- even though the source is distributed, it must be handled according to the terms of the license -- that is Intellectual Property enforcement. Does not the author maintain the rights to his/her software under the GPL? Yes. The difference between closed source and open source is not intellectual property but full disclosure. What is running on my mission critical servers? -- with MSFT products God knows; with Open Source products, I know (or, at least, disinterested third parties can know, too; call it, peer review). I personally can trust Microsoft (and Lotus, etc) with the secretaries desktop machine. But not my business' servers. I didn't care about this issue until our SCO UNIX servers started having mystery crashes in the early 90's. Then our DEC Alpha servers began having mystery file corruption in 1997 -- and DEC engineers were summoned to fix the problem. Being a software company we had talent in house that could have made use of the source -- but SCO and DEC were closed source. We were at the mercy of their engineers. Then, in 1999, after we had been running Linux servers for 2.5 years for mission critical applications, we ran into a tty limitation. A quick look through the source revealed our problem unambigously -- and the problem was solved in days. That was an invaluable lesson and is the main reason we choose Open Source versus closed source tools.
It seems to me that innovation has continued to exponentiate since Open Source came into its own. Hey, Microsoft, you might even join us. There's room for you, too. Just, don't think you will be able to take over. Once the source is open, so are the choices.
First, consider PostgreSQL instead of MySQL (lots of reasons, but the first is that PostgreSQL is production quality in a datacenter capacity). MySQL is great and getting beter, but from what we've seen, PostgreSQL is a candidate replacement for Oracle.Try this Google search.
Second, if your company has only spoken with VB/SQLServer consultants does that reflect a management decision to stick with MSFT products? If they haven't talked to an Oracle guy/gal or two, that's what it sounds like.
Third, who maintains this beast after the consultants leave? If it's an inhouse team then what technologies are inhouse already? If you're in a MSFT-shop, then it will be a hard, hard sell to centralize using non-MSFT tools. What's more, if your people are MSFT-centric I'd say stay with the toolset. This is a business decision.
Anyway, there's a lot of things to consider. If your company is starting fresh then the field is wide open and open source tools could be the way to go (should, IMO). If you're entrenched...keep digging!
The poster doesn't need to fear a race -- just his own stupidity.
(Oh, I refuse to post a reply to his (safe assumption!) post, so I post it here.)
Nah...let's hold out until we can afford to retire in San Jose, CA...
Thank you. I wish there was a way to moderate above 5 -- your post corrects a mistake in the question and answers the question that was probably intended.
It was unbelieveable. The technician giving altitude and speed just kept speaking, even though something horrible had gone wrong. The cameras captured everything...just as if nothing was wrong. There was no "mood music" -- unlike a movie -- so there was no cue for the emotion.
We were silent. Unbelieving. Someone said something was wrong. Then it's a blur.
This was the day I realized we could not control life with our technology -- and how fragile our life is.
It's good to reflect on this.
Anyway, let's hope Apple doesn't fold completely before the new NeXT has a chance to get off the ground. (If it does, I'll be a user! I loved the original NeXT...)
That's what it sounds like...
But, to answer your question as to taking time off when you're the only admin:
That's the answer.I meant to say:
(The lameness filter doesn't like my post.)
Not a chance.
Seen any ads (ever) touting professional usability testing as a reason to buy a Mac or Windows or Solaris? I haven't. I used to sell Macs (and PCs...and the NeXT -- the original OSX machine) with Businessland while I was in college. Not _once_ did I ever have 'professional usability testing' arise as a consideration -- or as a passing comment. And I was selling to the corporate IT departmenmts of national banks, etc. NO ONE CARES!
I mean, come on, Mr. Usability himself worked for Sun -- well known for ease of use, right?
That is the question. And the ability to successfully answer it is a big reason for Linux's popularity -- the OS that came into being because a CompSci student wanted to learn about his Intel 386.
I worked summers at the family ranch in Southwest Texas (between Del Rio and Sonora -- near a town called Juno, TX). Hot. Humid. (Not as bad as Houston, admittedly).
The summer between 9th and 10th grades I was wondering what I would do with my life. I was bored in school and listless. Then I went out to the ranch and, for the first time, joined the working crew and built fence on a hill that was inaccessible to our truck -- meaning all our equipment and material had to be hauled by us each time we went to the site. (I still shudder when I see that hill). Anyway, that summer I decided to focus on getting a computer job -- because then I could be inside with airconditioning!
True story.
Great punchline. Perfect delivery. Topical and rings true. Very funny post.
I'm sending the above link to my office manager!
That's the title I should have used for the above post!