Symbian or Java phones have had ebook readers for a while.
We published a few posts on the topic (in italian, use babelfish or follow urls)
here,
here,
and here.
The author and many other "Enterprise Linux" writers should try working for a large company. I work for one (40k employess) and being one of the few Linux users of the lot, once a year I get to play for a few weeks with the vendor of the moment (Sun, Novell, etc.) with a desktop pilot.
We're still far away from a viable Enterprise Linux. What's missing is:
- seamless Active Directory integration (no thanks, nss_ldap and the like are not Enterprise class, winbind is better but not enough)
- Kerberos support in cifs, cifs tools, support for Windows2003 shares (Enterprise support, not pathces or digging into obscure mailing list threads)
- desktop lockdown (Sun JDS is getting there)
And I'm not flaming, since I've been using Linux since 1993, have lots of Linux servers around both at home and at work, am writing this on my Slackware 10.0 laptop, and am using Linux only on my office desktop.
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hmmm your observations on firebird are mostly FUD, and should be modded down:
1 - if you change your dir layout, a symlink pointing to the new db locations is enough (helloooo, stop thinking in terms of apps, learn some basic sysadmin)
2 - Firebird has a new isql with readline capabilities, and there are plenty of good frontends (ibexpert is one) for interbase, isql is a tool of last resort
3 - same as no. 2, but I wonder which IB you were using, SuperServer or Classic? you should specify that
4 - YMMV, I never experienced any corruption and I suspect it's a hardware issue; there's a tool (gfix) to fix the db anyway which usualy works, and hot backups are so easy (gbak -B -V dbfile.gdb bakfile.gbk) you should do them often
5 - you can extract metadata, I'm not sure about SQL statements, but as you say it's not difficult todo it by hand; good clients (eg IBExpert) have a "data pump" to do exactly that
IB is stable, has a small footprint and lots of goodies only found in major league RDBMSs.
A problem I see every day where I work (60k employees organization) is that PP is used for EVERYTHING, not only presentations. In fact, upper management EXPECTS complex issues to be analyzed with a short Power Point document. Anything longer, they just don't read it.
Power Point makes you dumb by giving you the illusion of performing a deep, logical analysis of an issue, when in fact all you're doing is presenting it in a very superficial way.
it may help using project or, better IMHO, an issue-tracking system so that requests can come in via the web or email, and users can see the status of their request anytime and its level of importance related to other requests.
A very good issue tracking system is roundup http://roundup.sf.net it runs as a cgi or as a standalone app.
Once you have such a system in place, send out weekly status reports on everything accomplished during the week, pending issues, etc.
Visibility is one of the most important things in organizations.
Oh and when you have difficult situations, ask your boss showing him the pending issues in relative order of importance, their timeline etc.
try playing around with the settings for the no. of buttons, I had a similar problem with my MS optical trackball and solved it in 5 minutes trying different combinations for ZAxisMapping in XF86Config. If I'm off topic, hmmmm......I admit I did not read the post very carefully, since it looks more like a Usenet-type of question than a Slashdot post.
Jedit (http://www.jedit.org) has the basic XML features (syntax highlighting, validation, etc.) amda few nice XML plugins, they allow you to build an interactive tree of the current XML doc and to insert tags/attrs by looking them up in the DTD. J (http://armedbear.org) is more lightweight than Jedit and faster, has better CVS integration, and supports a few basic XML-related features: a navigable tree of the current doc, syntax highlighting and indentation. Oh, and validation too.
as a previous poster said already, hardware is not the most important factor. you will eventually find yourself working on old or semi-obsolete hardware anyway, so getting top stuff is not a priority, especially given the number of users.
What I would concentrate in is:
a single source for authentication (login) and profiling (groups, home dirs location, etc.); study pam a bit, a good option is to store everything in ldap and use pam_ldap; if security is a primary concern, consider kerberos
network file sharing; you don't want your users' data scattered around on every desktop (your management costs will increase dramatically, and your backup strategy will be much more complex); nfs is quick and easy, but offers only decent performance and poor security; a good (but complex) alternative is openafs or IBM's DFS (which is the evolution of afs
centralized backup on a single server, possibly running amanda so that you can backup different servers on a single medium; mondo rescue is a good option to backup systems periodically on bootable cds for quick recovery;
standard distro, eg pick Redhat or Debian or whatever, based on a number of factors like ease of automating installation, software distribution and package management options, etc., and stick with it; reme,ber that you have to know your patricular distro well to handle emergencies (and emergencies DO happen);
standard desktop, eg pick one of gnome or kde, develop suitable policies and management strategies, and stick with it; one of the factors in deciding a desktop is the toolkit used and its licensing, if you intend to develop custom software in the future;
software distribution strategy, plan or at least try to learn a bit about possible ways to handle updates and software installation on your desktops (and servers); you can automate package management (apt or rpm) or enterprise software (red carpet or rhn);
printing system, again for printing you have different options: lprng, cups, etc; check what printers/plotters you already have in house and if they're supported by printing systems;
Just a quick overview, to sum it up I would second the advice somebody else gave you in a previous posting: hire a decent sysadmin and plan things with him.
My old cheap 17" monitor (old means something like 7 years old), no brand just a standard "Made in China". I once threw it on the floor in a fit of rage (ehm I don't usually do stuff like that), it landed on a corner cracking the plastic case, has been working perfectly ever since......
I've had 2 L7000 (one 7200 and one 7300 I seem to remember) for something less than a couple of years, and they have benn very good machine. They were relatively cheap, and Linux installed with no problems. Support was good too (in Italy), replacing an lcd cover at no cost, though in no great hurry. Their only problem was the audio chip set, which sometimes failed both in windows and in linux, but I guess they've improved it by now.
I has a similar problem recently, in designing a press releases site (http://press.ducati.com) in italian and english. What I did was use templates, and store the language preference in a session variable (I have only registered users, so the lang pref is set according to the user preferences, and can be changed with a link on each page, overriding the session variable). Once you do that, you just have to check the variable when declaring templates. Using the template class from phplib (http://phplib.netuse.de) you would do: $tpl->set_file(array( "mypage" => $lang . "pagetemplate.html", "myblock" => $lang . "pagetemplate.html" )); That's it! Easy to do, easy to maintain. If you're using php, a great template class is the one above, waiting for the release of the php templating module, which is in the works. If you're using (ehm) asp, you canuse my jscript port of the fasttemplate class (http://www.sumatrasolutions.com/asptemplate)
Initially GPRS handsets and data cards will be capable of operating at speeds five to ten times faster than on current GSM networks.
current GSM data rate is 9.6KBs, so 9.6 x 10 = a (maximum) rate of 96KBs, comparable to 1.5 ISDN B channels. I also wonder about lags, since the user is "virtually" on, but the actual packets transmissions tackes place only when data is coming to (or going from) the user.
A couple of weeks ago I installed RH6.1 for a major Italian bank. They are currently running Domino on NT servers (IBM Netfinity servers), and they are unhappy on the performance/price, so they are testing Linux on smaller servers (the server I installed is a Compaq Proliant 1600 with 256MB RAM and a Compaq SmartArray RAID controller). I don't know anout the States, but things are moving fast here...:)
To people like me, that live in non-US countries (Italy, in my case) and like reading US books, electronic books are a gift. Yeah, I prefer printed books, but just think that an amazon order takes almost 3 months to get here (unless you pay fedex shipping, but after a few orders it would be cheaper to fly to the US and buy books "live").
(forgive me for bad syntax/etc., I'm italian) His post is the analogous to the Open Source vs commercial debate. It clearly demonstrates the influence and MARKET power of geeks sites/culture/etc. A friend of mine had a similar experience as JonK (apart from the/. effect) with a big italian publishing house, and I found JK article VERY interesting in demonstrating how a good book can survive marketing/sales tyranny.
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Symbian or Java phones have had ebook readers for a while. We published a few posts on the topic (in italian, use babelfish or follow urls) here, here, and here.
The author and many other "Enterprise Linux" writers should try working for a large company. I work for one (40k employess) and being one of the few Linux users of the lot, once a year I get to play for a few weeks with the vendor of the moment (Sun, Novell, etc.) with a desktop pilot.
We're still far away from a viable Enterprise Linux. What's missing is:
- seamless Active Directory integration (no thanks, nss_ldap and the like are not Enterprise class, winbind is better but not enough)
- Kerberos support in cifs, cifs tools, support for Windows2003 shares (Enterprise support, not pathces or digging into obscure mailing list threads)
- desktop lockdown (Sun JDS is getting there)
And I'm not flaming, since I've been using Linux since 1993, have lots of Linux servers around both at home and at work, am writing this on my Slackware 10.0 laptop, and am using Linux only on my office desktop.
Describes with more details what others have found, see Hugo Schotman or podcasters.org.
Mine has worked out of the box in Slack 9.0, 9.1, 10 and various "current" upgrades. All it took was insert it into a PCMCIA slot :)
OMG, did you say that comparing Interbase and Postgresql is like comparing Python and Cobol? in a message modded +4??????
I'm curious to know how you use Python (or COBOL), LOL
hmmm your observations on firebird are mostly FUD, and should be modded down:
1 - if you change your dir layout, a symlink pointing to the new db locations is enough (helloooo, stop thinking in terms of apps, learn some basic sysadmin)
2 - Firebird has a new isql with readline capabilities, and there are plenty of good frontends (ibexpert is one) for interbase, isql is a tool of last resort
3 - same as no. 2, but I wonder which IB you were using, SuperServer or Classic? you should specify that
4 - YMMV, I never experienced any corruption and I suspect it's a hardware issue; there's a tool (gfix) to fix the db anyway which usualy works, and hot backups are so easy (gbak -B -V dbfile.gdb bakfile.gbk) you should do them often
5 - you can extract metadata, I'm not sure about SQL statements, but as you say it's not difficult todo it by hand; good clients (eg IBExpert) have a "data pump" to do exactly that
IB is stable, has a small footprint and lots of goodies only found in major league RDBMSs.
A problem I see every day where I work (60k employees organization) is that PP is used for EVERYTHING, not only presentations. In fact, upper management EXPECTS complex issues to be analyzed with a short Power Point document. Anything longer, they just don't read it.
Power Point makes you dumb by giving you the illusion of performing a deep, logical analysis of an issue, when in fact all you're doing is presenting it in a very superficial way.
...keep a schedule of everything
it may help using project or, better IMHO, an issue-tracking system so that requests can come in via the web or email, and users can see the status of their request anytime and its level of importance related to other requests.
A very good issue tracking system is roundup http://roundup.sf.net it runs as a cgi or as a standalone app.
Once you have such a system in place, send out weekly status reports on everything accomplished during the week, pending issues, etc.
Visibility is one of the most important things in organizations.
Oh and when you have difficult situations, ask your boss showing him the pending issues in relative order of importance, their timeline etc.
try playing around with the settings for the no. of buttons, I had a similar problem with my MS optical trackball and solved it in 5 minutes trying different combinations for ZAxisMapping in XF86Config.
If I'm off topic, hmmmm......I admit I did not read the post very carefully, since it looks more like a Usenet-type of question than a Slashdot post.
Jedit (http://www.jedit.org) has the basic XML features (syntax highlighting, validation, etc.) amda few nice XML plugins, they allow you to build an interactive tree of the current XML doc and to insert tags/attrs by looking them up in the DTD.
J (http://armedbear.org) is more lightweight than Jedit and faster, has better CVS integration, and supports a few basic XML-related features: a navigable tree of the current doc, syntax highlighting and indentation. Oh, and validation too.
yes, you can transfer partial content with HTTP/1.1 see eg http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10. html#sec10.2.7
What I would concentrate in is:
Just a quick overview, to sum it up I would second the advice somebody else gave you in a previous posting: hire a decent sysadmin and plan things with him.
hmmm island in the middle of the desert? maybe you mean an oasis......
My old cheap 17" monitor (old means something like 7 years old), no brand just a standard "Made in China". I once threw it on the floor in a fit of rage (ehm I don't usually do stuff like that), it landed on a corner cracking the plastic case, has been working perfectly ever since......
http://sfandf.owlcroft.com/authors.shtml, many of them may be found as ebooks, either legaly or ehm you know what I mean =)
noticed nobody mentioned the Assassin series by Robin Hobb (aka Megan Lindholm), one of the best books i've read in the past couple of years.
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I has a similar problem recently, in designing a press releases site (http://press.ducati.com) in italian and english.
What I did was use templates, and store the language preference in a session variable (I have only registered users, so the lang pref is set according to the user preferences, and can be changed with a link on each page, overriding the session variable).
Once you do that, you just have to check the variable when declaring templates. Using the template class from phplib (http://phplib.netuse.de) you would do:
$tpl->set_file(array(
"mypage" => $lang . "pagetemplate.html",
"myblock" => $lang . "pagetemplate.html"
));
That's it! Easy to do, easy to maintain.
If you're using php, a great template class is the one above, waiting for the release of the php templating module, which is in the works.
If you're using (ehm) asp, you canuse my jscript port of the fasttemplate class (http://www.sumatrasolutions.com/asptemplate)
I also wonder about lags, since the user is "virtually" on, but the actual packets transmissions tackes place only when data is coming to (or going from) the user.
A couple of weeks ago I installed RH6.1 for a major Italian bank.
They are currently running Domino on NT servers (IBM Netfinity servers), and they are unhappy on the performance/price, so they are testing Linux on smaller servers (the server I installed is a Compaq Proliant 1600 with 256MB RAM and a Compaq SmartArray RAID controller).
I don't know anout the States, but things are moving fast here...:)
To people like me, that live in non-US countries (Italy, in my case) and like reading US books, electronic books are a gift. Yeah, I prefer printed books, but just think that an amazon order takes almost 3 months to get here (unless you pay fedex shipping, but after a few orders it would be cheaper to fly to the US and buy books "live").
(forgive me for bad syntax/etc., I'm italian) /. effect) with a big italian publishing house, and I found JK article VERY interesting in demonstrating how a good book can survive marketing/sales tyranny.
His post is the analogous to the Open Source vs commercial debate. It clearly demonstrates the influence and MARKET power of geeks sites/culture/etc.
A friend of mine had a similar experience as JonK (apart from the