I tried this WAMP setup. PHP, MySQL and Apache all in one. It was really easy.
In no time, I had some PHP software up and running on it.
Don't know if it's the best or not, but it worked for me on my Windows box right away. Just install and it has a nice control-panel based thing to use. I use it for an intranet site at work.
BBC has a number of TV channels and do some really indepth stuff. They seem to have stuff on all the time, suiting a variety of interests, whereas CBC doesn't do as much. Even if they did, there isn't the market I don't think.
Also, the BBC has way more than just The Office...
But hey, The CBC is great - and maybe some of it is the fault of the public. There are way more information channels here than I ever got on Rogers cable. Briton's seem more interested in what's going on around the world and with documentaries and stuff. I've seen tons of specials on everything from Organic food to the history of astrology...
But, we pay 120 GBP ($265 CDN) for a TV license each year, per flat/house. And for that we get the BBC. I especially like movies without a lot of commercial breaks....
Still, I really miss Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour has 22 Minutes... My friends from the UK didn't think either were funny at all...:)
From the US, I miss the Daily Show with John Stewart...
Start buying from the little guy and see all of this disappear.
Seriously - most slashdotters seem to be on the left of centre and don't like the big corporations -- So stop shopping from them.
Where does the money end up anyway? Probably with someone who's got way too much money, drives a huge SUV and pollutes the world on their huge yacht.
Want to make a difference? Stick with the little guy who's been recommended by a friend. You'll have less stress and probably make a much more positive impact on your community than the big box stores with their huge parking lots.
So it costs $20 more? So what? Put your money where your mouth is.
Speaking as someone who lives WITHIN the congestion zone, I say this: There isn't much parking, and its already expensive.
But whats interesting, is the type of people that drive in this area to begin with. I think they could probably care less about 5 pounds ($8 USD) - as I see mostly BMW's, Mercedes, Jaguars, people with their own chauffeurs, etc, etc... (truth be known its mostly cabs and busses, but there are enough cars to get in the way and slow that down.)
And this notion that people will drive as close as they can and park doesn't really fly, because there isn't that much parking. I think if their destination is central London, and they've decided not to drive, that they will likely get onto the train asap instead of driving for as long as possible because it would just be more of a hassle all around...
Central London is very congested as is many other parts of London. Its not like Central London is the only area with the problem. People ride trains in from a very long way away, and most ppl would drive if they could. Maybe this will solve problems for surrounding areas of London by removing people all trying to drive to the centre.
I don't expect to see a huge decrease as CEO's and such aren't paying for parking in their buildings anyway, but perhaps it will get rid of all the random people who decided to drive in...
I recently purchased that Maxtor drive, thinking I was getting an ATA/100 drive, and was pleasantly surprised to find out I'd have a drive that my controller may someday catch up with...:)
But the really great thing about this drive, is that its the single quietest drive I have seen.
Its phenominal!!!
For those of you that care about a quiet PC, I hightly recommend this drive.
The Canadian Rules are quite similar to those posted for the US
(at JunkBusters.com)
The Canadian rules can be found in this article at the CRTC
I didn't dig too deep, but I expect, given this document, that there may be even tougher laws coming soon!
While I personally believe the first step to Low Emissions are Hybrid cars like the Honda Insight (saves up energy in batteries and then when you accelerate (where all your gas is really used) it uses the batteries instead. Gives you a smoother ride and 70mpg!), I think we have to examine the bigger issue.
Reducing emission is one thing, but what about the environmental damage of building a car and the degregation of cars once they're used up?
But even that isn't the biggest issue.
More efficient cars simply means MORE cars. The way our suburbs are being designed is disgraceful. Everything is segregated into areas where we work, where we play, and where we live. So much space is wasted. Cars could become much less necessary with higher-density living environments where people live closer to where they work and play.
Why do millions of people wake up and drive for sometimes hours to get to work? We're all doing the same thing, why not structure our living environments around our needs. Bakeries, grocery stores, office environments, Hockey arenas, could all be more integrated and an efficient affordable public transportation system put in place.
There could be so many more unique living environments where people could be so much happier.
I believe it will take a few hundred years and then suddenly the environmental consequences will become expontially great and then the environment will become a political issue.
After seeing Dr. David Suzuki and Dr. Ralph Torrie speak during the Canadian Environment Week presentations in Ottawa, it opened my eyes to just how Simple sustainable development is. But its not on any politician's agenda and most people are pretty apathetic to things like where their car will go when it dies.
my two cents....apathy will be the death of our planet.
Could you imagine if M$ released a seperate operating system for those people using ATA66 and other 'new' hardware?
/.'ers would be bashing M$ left right and centre!!! Yet the Linux community applauded Abit for giving them hardware support.
Sure, Abit was one of the first with ATA66 support, (thumbs up!), but Should I really have to install a completely different distro??
NO!
(I was quite disappointed when this all happened because I bought a whole new $3000+ system last September and linux supported almost NONE of it at the time with no future support in sight. I've been watching hardware support improve, but its taken way too long. While companies _are_ getting better about linux drivers, I hope my next system will be better supported!)
Read the previous posts. Its not Tux beating M$ to the punch. Just look at the history of ATA/66.
Once you switch to ATA/66 you'll never go back. Think of all the times - even if its just for a millisecond - that your system accesses your HD. Each time, it can access it much more quickly and read more data off of it.
It makes a huge difference to overall system performance! (at least for me!)
I have to agree on this one. I have an ATA66 controller and drivers for Linux were over 1/2 a year later than the MS ones. As for installing NT on an ATA66 drive? It was a breeze, just read the directions. Its not that hard. I was able to install 98 and NT on an ata66 drive. linux however, didn't like it... nice to see linux may be on the ball for ata100 though!:)
Power is so cheap that many business run all kinds of NT Servers/Workstations for whatever business they happen to be in.
Stock Brokerages, Accounting firms, Banks, Investment firms, Governments and just regular businesses, all use NT for many purposes beyond entertainment.
Take an average investment company... 10 to 20,000 people all with NT on their desktop advising clients on where to invest? Thats not entertainment, and there's a lot of NT Servers serving those workstations!!!
Embedded devices are unnoticed, and way more important or valuable ($$) than most people realize, so I'm not discounting that point.
But,
W2k/98/NT are way more than just entertainment machines!!!!
As a coder, programming VC++, I agree completely. 2000 works on all kinds of hardware, where as Linux doesn't didn't support my video card or ATA/66 controller until only recently, when I've had them for 5 1/2 months!!! !?!
Thats unacceptable in todays world.
While I think Linux is extremely cool, it has a long way to go. Its a game of catch-up.
Whenever I say to a Linux user: "Linux doesn't do this." or "I need it to do this." I get: "Well that will be out in the next version of X." or "this distro has it."
Well, sorry. I need one thing that works, cause I don't have time to screw around.
Maybe its not fair, but with things like MFC, linux is going to have a hard time keeping up...
Ignorance is not only bliss, It is the SINGLE LARGEST SECURITY WHOLE.
Knowing about everything that needs to be fixed, from the major bugs to the tiny little color changes is a major feat. It shows Responsibility, and EXTREMELY good knowledge of what needs to be fixed with their products BEFORE IT HITS THE MARKETPLACE!!!
Linux users are SO willing to turn the blind eye to little errors. Which is all fine and good until you're working on a project where people are actually relying on your product day in and day out.
Its days like today that I lose a great amount of respect for the Linux Community.
Its quite unfortunate, but thats life.
I'd like to have a conversation with only those who actually work on BIG OOP type projects for a large number of users, especially those doing mission critical work.
THAT would be a better base to have a grounded conversation on the topic.
Me? W2k is rock solid. I've had zero problems, 95% less reboots, high speeds, no SMP problems.
I love linux too, its great!! However, I agree: Linux may be very cool, but it has a long way to go to catch up with W2k. Anyone who wants to bash W2k and pump linux, has to prove to me that they can use linux for a Well Rounded application. Server end, client end (easy to use, stable, etc), Communications end (nation wide networking, wireless satellite communications, etc.), and integration with other linux products.
Linux IS COOL! However, when people do cool stuff with linux, it requires all kinds of fucking around, tweeking, and experimentation. Who has TIME for that? Time is money. When we need something to work, we need it work now, and tomorrow, without days wasted of screwing around.
We also don't have time for getting things to work in the FUTURE. With W2k you know there will be apps for all sorts of things, that will work, out of the box, without screwing around....
dido to everything you said.
These people bashing W2k need to use it. And need to use it in a real environment developing enterprise level (or at least large) applications to really see all the benefits....
I'm all for well rounded conversation, but these little 'jump on the bandwagon MS bashers' make me sick.
I would imagine the VAST majority are in getting past applications to work with W2k.
MS has SO many products, that if you change your platform and try to get them all working perfectly on the new platform, you're bound to have problems... I would also question how many of those are really serious and how many will go unnoticed...
Question:
# of MS Products / 65000 = ?????
or more correctly:
# of combinations of products that work together / 65000 = ?????
'bugs' is a very ambiguous word and the fact that they have a list of things to 'enhance' or 'fix' is pretty damn good considering it hasn't been out very long...
I know at my job, people report duplicate bugs, and many of the things are quite little. The client and management can be quite picky. So many little things get reported, and of course, anyone can be picky enough to nail a whole pile of little things...
And everyone expects them to be fixed right away... But many of the little ones, simply 1. won't affect anyone, and 2. would cost crazy amounts to fix. I don't think most of the people bashing MS are actual industry coders working on large projects.
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I tried this WAMP setup. PHP, MySQL and Apache all in one. It was really easy.
In no time, I had some PHP software up and running on it.
Don't know if it's the best or not, but it worked for me on my Windows box right away. Just install and it has a nice control-panel based thing to use. I use it for an intranet site at work.
http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php
(and I didn't need a book to set it up...)
I think it's just volume and budget.
:)
BBC has a number of TV channels and do some really indepth stuff. They seem to have stuff on all the time, suiting a variety of interests, whereas CBC doesn't do as much. Even if they did, there isn't the market I don't think.
Also, the BBC has way more than just The Office...
But hey, The CBC is great - and maybe some of it is the fault of the public. There are way more information channels here than I ever got on Rogers cable. Briton's seem more interested in what's going on around the world and with documentaries and stuff. I've seen tons of specials on everything from Organic food to the history of astrology...
But, we pay 120 GBP ($265 CDN) for a TV license each year, per flat/house. And for that we get the BBC. I especially like movies without a lot of commercial breaks....
Still, I really miss Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour has 22 Minutes... My friends from the UK didn't think either were funny at all...
From the US, I miss the Daily Show with John Stewart...
CBC has some really great stuff, it's sad more people don't pay attention...
Since moving to Britian, I've seen how far something like the CBC could go: The BBC.
The BBC kicks serious ass. Wide range of great programming. Really insightful stuff...
http://www.bbc.co.uk
And it's not fear mongering like the American news channels. (and yes, we got plenty of them in Canada...)
Start buying from the little guy and see all of this disappear.
Seriously - most slashdotters seem to be on the left of centre and don't like the big corporations -- So stop shopping from them.
Where does the money end up anyway? Probably with someone who's got way too much money, drives a huge SUV and pollutes the world on their huge yacht.
Want to make a difference? Stick with the little guy who's been recommended by a friend. You'll have less stress and probably make a much more positive impact on your community than the big box stores with their huge parking lots.
So it costs $20 more? So what? Put your money where your mouth is.
Speaking as someone who lives WITHIN the congestion zone, I say this:
There isn't much parking, and its already expensive.
But whats interesting, is the type of people that drive in this area to begin with. I think they could probably care less about 5 pounds ($8 USD) - as I see mostly BMW's, Mercedes, Jaguars, people with their own chauffeurs, etc, etc... (truth be known its mostly cabs and busses, but there are enough cars to get in the way and slow that down.)
And this notion that people will drive as close as they can and park doesn't really fly, because there isn't that much parking. I think if their destination is central London, and they've decided not to drive, that they will likely get onto the train asap instead of driving for as long as possible because it would just be more of a hassle all around...
Central London is very congested as is many other parts of London. Its not like Central London is the only area with the problem. People ride trains in from a very long way away, and most ppl would drive if they could. Maybe this will solve problems for surrounding areas of London by removing people all trying to drive to the centre.
I don't expect to see a huge decrease as CEO's and such aren't paying for parking in their buildings anyway, but perhaps it will get rid of all the random people who decided to drive in...
Call me naive or whatever, but this new powerbook comes with a 867MHz processor.
And while I realize that's not a direct measure of speed, I have to ask:
Is apple falling way behind? How do these systems compete with the 2 and 3 GHz intel systems coming out?
The reviewer stated that this model was much faster than their 450. Well, ya, its double, but its not a 2.4GHz chip or anything....??
Thanks for your comments,
mj
As long as Hitachi still puts cash into R&D then we should still see cool technology come out of this new company.
It will still have all same IBM employees -- the same people who came up with the cool technology in the first place.
Also available for OS X.
(same URL)
Folding at Home
I run the Folding @ Home client on Linux, and it runs quite well!
I prefer to use my spare cycles for Medical research.
http://folding.stanford.edu
I recall hearing that other wireless technologies like cell phone towers, are driving certain birds away, amongst other nature-related problems.
Does anyone know if wireless networks are perpetuating the same issues?
I'd be especially concerned in an area like Hawaii -- where to me, it all seems so unnecessary.
I recently purchased that Maxtor drive, thinking I was getting an ATA/100 drive, and was pleasantly surprised to find out I'd have a drive that my controller may someday catch up with... :)
But the really great thing about this drive, is that its the single quietest drive I have seen.
Its phenominal!!!
For those of you that care about a quiet PC, I hightly recommend this drive.
The Canadian Rules are quite similar to those posted for the US
(at JunkBusters.com)
The Canadian rules can be found in this article at
the CRTC
I didn't dig too deep, but I expect, given this document, that there may be even tougher laws coming soon!
fyi...Anything I've ever created in office 2000 can be opened by users of office 97...
While I personally believe the first step to Low Emissions are Hybrid cars like the Honda Insight (saves up energy in batteries and then when you accelerate (where all your gas is really used) it uses the batteries instead. Gives you a smoother ride and 70mpg!), I think we have to examine the bigger issue.
Reducing emission is one thing, but what about the environmental damage of building a car and the degregation of cars once they're used up?
But even that isn't the biggest issue.
More efficient cars simply means MORE cars. The way our suburbs are being designed is disgraceful. Everything is segregated into areas where we work, where we play, and where we live. So much space is wasted. Cars could become much less necessary with higher-density living environments where people live closer to where they work and play.
Why do millions of people wake up and drive for sometimes hours to get to work? We're all doing the same thing, why not structure our living environments around our needs. Bakeries, grocery stores, office environments, Hockey arenas, could all be more integrated and an efficient affordable public transportation system put in place.
There could be so many more unique living environments where people could be so much happier.
I believe it will take a few hundred years and then suddenly the environmental consequences will become expontially great and then the environment will become a political issue.
After seeing Dr. David Suzuki and Dr. Ralph Torrie speak during the Canadian Environment Week presentations in Ottawa, it opened my eyes to just how Simple sustainable development is. But its not on any politician's agenda and most people are pretty apathetic to things like where their car will go when it dies.
my two cents....apathy will be the death of our planet.
Could you imagine if M$ released a seperate operating system for those people using ATA66 and other 'new' hardware?
/.'ers would be bashing M$ left right and centre!!! Yet the Linux community applauded Abit for giving them hardware support.
Sure, Abit was one of the first with ATA66 support, (thumbs up!), but Should I really have to install a completely different distro??
NO!
(I was quite disappointed when this all happened because I bought a whole new $3000+ system last September and linux supported almost NONE of it at the time with no future support in sight. I've been watching hardware support improve, but its taken way too long. While companies _are_ getting better about linux drivers, I hope my next system will be better supported!)
Read the previous posts. Its not Tux beating M$ to the punch. Just look at the history of ATA/66.
Once you switch to ATA/66 you'll never go back. Think of all the times - even if its just for a millisecond - that your system accesses your HD. Each time, it can access it much more quickly and read more data off of it.
It makes a huge difference to overall system performance! (at least for me!)
I have to agree on this one. :)
I have an ATA66 controller and drivers for Linux were over 1/2 a year later than the MS ones.
As for installing NT on an ATA66 drive? It was a breeze, just read the directions. Its not that hard. I was able to install 98 and NT on an ata66 drive.
linux however, didn't like it... nice to see linux may be on the ball for ata100 though!
Good post, and interesting perspective, BUT....
You forget how POWERFUL our desktop PC's are now.
Power is so cheap that many business run all kinds of NT Servers/Workstations for whatever business they happen to be in.
Stock Brokerages, Accounting firms, Banks, Investment firms, Governments and just regular businesses, all use NT for many purposes beyond entertainment.
Take an average investment company... 10 to 20,000 people all with NT on their desktop advising clients on where to invest? Thats not entertainment, and there's a lot of NT Servers serving those workstations!!!
Embedded devices are unnoticed, and way more important or valuable ($$) than most people realize, so I'm not discounting that point.
But,
W2k/98/NT are way more than just entertainment machines!!!!
Here Here!
As a coder, programming VC++, I agree completely. 2000 works on all kinds of hardware, where as Linux doesn't didn't support my video card or ATA/66 controller until only recently, when I've had them for 5 1/2 months!!! !?!
Thats unacceptable in todays world.
While I think Linux is extremely cool, it has a long way to go. Its a game of catch-up.
Whenever I say to a Linux user:
"Linux doesn't do this." or "I need it to do this."
I get:
"Well that will be out in the next version of X." or "this distro has it."
Well, sorry. I need one thing that works, cause I don't have time to screw around.
Maybe its not fair, but with things like MFC, linux is going to have a hard time keeping up...
That's Hole, not whole.
Exactly.
Ignorance is not only bliss, It is the SINGLE LARGEST SECURITY WHOLE.
Knowing about everything that needs to be fixed, from the major bugs to the tiny little color changes is a major feat. It shows Responsibility, and EXTREMELY good knowledge of what needs to be fixed with their products BEFORE IT HITS THE MARKETPLACE!!!
Linux users are SO willing to turn the blind eye to little errors. Which is all fine and good until you're working on a project where people are actually relying on your product day in and day out.
I completely agree.
Its days like today that I lose a great amount of respect for the Linux Community.
Its quite unfortunate, but thats life.
I'd like to have a conversation with only those who actually work on BIG OOP type projects for a large number of users, especially those doing mission critical work.
THAT would be a better base to have a grounded conversation on the topic.
Me? W2k is rock solid. I've had zero problems, 95% less reboots, high speeds, no SMP problems.
I love linux too, its great!! However, I agree: Linux may be very cool, but it has a long way to go to catch up with W2k. Anyone who wants to bash W2k and pump linux, has to prove to me that they can use linux for a Well Rounded application. Server end, client end (easy to use, stable, etc), Communications end (nation wide networking, wireless satellite communications, etc.), and integration with other linux products.
Linux IS COOL! However, when people do cool stuff with linux, it requires all kinds of fucking around, tweeking, and experimentation. Who has TIME for that? Time is money. When we need something to work, we need it work now, and tomorrow, without days wasted of screwing around.
We also don't have time for getting things to work in the FUTURE. With W2k you know there will be apps for all sorts of things, that will work, out of the box, without screwing around....
dido to everything you said.
These people bashing W2k need to use it. And need to use it in a real environment developing enterprise level (or at least large) applications to really see all the benefits....
I'm all for well rounded conversation, but these little 'jump on the bandwagon MS bashers' make me sick.
I would imagine the VAST majority are in getting past applications to work with W2k.
MS has SO many products, that if you change your platform and try to get them all working perfectly on the new platform, you're bound to have problems... I would also question how many of those are really serious and how many will go unnoticed...
Question:
# of MS Products / 65000 = ?????
or more correctly:
# of combinations of products that work together / 65000 = ?????
I couldn't agree more.
'bugs' is a very ambiguous word and the fact that they have a list of things to 'enhance' or 'fix' is pretty damn good considering it hasn't been out very long...
I know at my job, people report duplicate bugs, and many of the things are quite little. The client and management can be quite picky. So many little things get reported, and of course, anyone can be picky enough to nail a whole pile of little things...
And everyone expects them to be fixed right away... But many of the little ones, simply
1. won't affect anyone, and
2. would cost crazy amounts to fix.
I don't think most of the people bashing MS are actual industry coders working on large projects.