Interesting, but from the way this product is described, its LAN use only, which means that it does not connect to a public network, and it does not seem to connect at some point to the public phone network, which means it canot be used in this case
Unfortunately Roadrunner (TimeWarner) bought out Comcast here, and are offering the same craptacular service. This is in Dallas. In Fort Worth, Charter has abused customers by having horrible outage times and refusing to refund for days / weeks down, while at the same time constantly raising your bill. DSL is becoming quite popular, and in areas where its not, I see people moving to cellular cards (although that may be because once you get outside of the city, you can hardly get decent dialup service)
Have had them for a couple of years after Charter kept uping the price. I now have 6 meg down, 3 meg up through DSL, and have never been capped. I will get in news groups, and easily download between 4.7 and 5.5 meg a second. There have been months where I have easily pulled half a terabyte, they have never said a thing to me. And at $27.99 a month, its about the best speed you can get for the price, unless maybe you have FIOS.
I've read that Lemmings is a pain on the PSP too, and for the same reason. The only reason Lemmings came out on the PSP is because Sony bought Psygnosis. Any other publisher would have put it out on the DS, on Windows Mobile, or both. Actually, Lemmings on the PS3 is remarkably well done. Good play control, redesigned levels, and they sell the thing for like $5.
Since when did emulators become news on slashdot? Its still buggy too. No mouse support (makes playing Lemmings a pain), graphic corruption in some places in Lemmings, arrow keys get effed up when playing Prince of Persia, no sound support, and, well, its kinda slow. Some lagging in Prince of Persia, and I am on a p4. Now, did the original post say that they wanted to use this to test viruses? Please tell me they are not planning on installing windows on this thing.
Although I would smile if they installed Windows 3.1 and the thing dropped into dosshell when you exited. Of course many licensing things there. I guess there is no licensing issues showing off a product you are trying to license with shareware titles, is there?
End users are becoming more savy, and as such, while there is still a large market for desktop support, salleries are lower now, because you have so many techs right out of high school that can do the same thing.
Get your MCSE and Cisco Certifications, and go for networking. You will be treated like crap, expected to work extended hours without the benefits of overtime pay, but you will secure yourself a job.
Focus less on webdev. Focus more on application and Intranet dev. HTML is being taught in gradeschool, most high schoolers can do Flash and know how to use photoshop, but how many do you know that know.NET, ASP, SQL, Pearl, Python, and C? My company is hurting for skilled Python developers, and we pay a pretty penny for them.
Just because we all love Linux inside and out does not mean that everyone uses it. The last few companies I have worked at have been Microsoft houses, and now I work at a company that also has some Apple stuff. Make sure you know your Windows Server 2003 and Apple XServ
We have legitimate business needs for just about everything you can find on the internet, so we do not filter anything. Of course, this leads to huge spyware issues and the occassional virus, but for a company our size, its not too big of a hassel. You will get fired, of course, for illegal activities, such as child-porn and piracy. Other than that, we have a big, fat, unfiltered fiber connection to the internet. Its nice downloading software updates at 1.5Mbps-3Mbps, depending on the time of day.
There are some cases where I can see blocking of webmail sites, such as government contractors. Truthfully, though, corporate America (and other coutries) really do not have too big of a reason to worry about personal webmail sites, unless you are worried about corporate espianage or something. But as far as viruses and such like that, they can get those off of going to other sites on the internet. You should be working on keeping your Antivirus and Spyware software up to date rather than worrying that Yahoo alows the delivery of vbs files. A good antivirus software will block the executing of those things anyways.
That is actually why I bought a PS3, as it was a cheap bluray player (relatively speaking).
I would not predict doom though for HDDVD quite yet. The article stated that this list is updated every hour. So a BluRay disc tops the top 10 for just one hour. Big deal. Its a huge movie and is going to sell well when it first goes on sale. My question is where did it stand in sales an hour later, the next day, and so forth. Is it even still in the top 100?
Putting this to the test, Håkon has published a book using HTML and CSS. Strange, when I click on the link, it takes me to a page with several links. The top one is a book about using HTML and CSS, and is distributed as a PDF. Seems to me that if you are wanting to make a point about using HTML and CSS to distrubute data, you would distribute your paper arguring this case in the same format.
I whole-heartedly agree, especially with the low-flying aircraft. I work in a major city on the 32nd floor of a highrise building. There is a huge city airport less than five miles to the north of us. All the planes landing have to come in from the south, litterally meaning that most of these planes come within a hundred or so feet of skimming the tops of these buildings on their landings. It can be quite disconcerting.
My question was, were these signs up in regular advertising locations? It seems odd that if you are going to advertise something, you would have to have advertising space. Most likely, this space has had ads there before.
So let me get this straight, a terrorist is going to post the same symbol, in several parts of the city, in an advertising location, then light it up with lights to attract attention to itself? This isn't a matter of overreacting, as its a matter of being stupid. And, as has been said, the sign was up in many other major cities as well, and attracted no attention. Truthfully, I don't think Cartoon Network should pay Boston a dime, rather, I feel that Cartoon Network should couter-sue for defacement of private property, and for slander.
We have to give one thing to the city of Boston, though - because of their reactions, this has turned into one of the single most successful ad campaigns of all time - people the world over now know who Cartoon Network is, what Adult Swim is, and what Aqua Teen Hunger Force is. A two million dollar fine is peanuts compared to what Cartoon Network is now going to make from their increased ratings on selling advertising time.
Vista killed my iPod. Luckely I got the 2 year extended warrenty on it. It will not even boot up now, I get the Apple logo and then start getting lines and stuff. Its awful!
Grrr, another user using the slashdot story submission to draw traffic to his personal site. If I was to blog about my recent experience with BluRay movies and the PS3, could I post a Slashdot story and have people come to my site? Oh wait, let me get my ads up so that I can get something for the traffic.
We are in a mixed enviornment, about 50% pc, 50% mac. Entourage is deffinately not the same as Outlook, but most of the features are there (if not as highly polished). Entourage deffinately works for our needs. And the webhook is not such a bad thing. Now supposedly when the next version of Office gets released for the mac, Entourage is supposed to be more highly polished and be much more like Outlook than the current version.
Shoot, I am a godparent, and monitor my godchildren's Myspace. Me and their parents. When the kids are at my house, I am always there with them when they are online. I have their passwords, and can login to their stuff. I check their friends, and their friends' friends. I have reported several to Myspace, and had accounts deleted. If the kids complain, or try to change their password, then we do not let them on the internet. That simple. Kids can scream all they want, but if they want to use the internet, then they will be monitored. Now they do get some privacy. I mean, if I go into their mail and its from someone we know, I won't read it. If they got invites from strange people or strange e-mails, then I look at them. And on top of all of that, we teach them right and wrong, not to talk to strangers, and all of this other stuff. Yes, it takes some work, but if you want your kids to be safe, then YOU have to take the initiative.
Ha, Outlook is not simply a Pop and SMTP e-mail client. The major thing behind outlook is the Exchange Server, without this, Outlook is simply an overblown e-mail program. I wish I could go into all the great stuff that Outlook and the exchange server offer, but I am relatively new here. However, many of the features that Outlook have are also present in Lotus Notes. Now I am not sure between the Domino server and the Exchange server which is more efficient, but on the client end, Outlook is loads better than Lotus.
Both of these programs use features that are integral to businesses, such as booking of conference rooms, sharing of calenders, event invites, managing of tasks, the abiltiy to set up delegates (if a CEO wants his secretary to have access to his e-mail, for instance), and so forth.
Now have you actually tried Office 2007, or are you just building on hype? Its actually a pretty cool little program (although I am having some bugs with the beta of Outlook, but hey, it IS a beta). Granted, the system resources it takes up are much higher than Open Office, the price is astronomical, etc.
Truthfully, if all you want is to write text documents and dabble in spreadsheets and do an ocassional presentation, OpenOffice is all you need. I run it at home, I got NeoOffice installed on my Mac, its a great program. Office 2007 under Vista, however, is an AWSOME program, and I am sure it will really change the way stuff is done. I have been messing mostly with Outlook and Word, but the additions to Word are AWSOME! There are actually several features that are in there that was in Word 2003, but I did not know about them, but the ribbon bar really does have a nice way of laying stuff out.
I have had one annoyance with Word 2007 and that is when trying to save it as an HTML file. It litterally encodes the page to render differently in IE and in Firefox. For example, I did some 3D effects on a graphic I imported into the document. It saved two version of this, a JPEG for displaying in IE and a GIF for displaying in Firefox, purposely making the page look like crap in Firefox. Pretty low in my opinion.
This could really screw us up. As far as I know, no BluRay or HDDVDs out yet have HDCP enabled. This is great, as I can currently watch my BluRay discs on my PS3 at 1080i on my older HDTV through the component connection. Now, they will start enabling HDCP on all these discs. What the hell were these pirates thinking?
BTW, a couple of HDDVD movies were posted in the past couple of weeks in the newsgroup alt.binaries.hdtv as well.
Only reason I am tagging onto this reply is that I wanted to use the "it doesn't matter" subject.
I agree, but for different reasons. Truthfully, I think Apple finally got it. Look at their recent ads which feature the PC and the Mac personalities. PCs are better at doing some things, Macs at others. I work in an IT department where our clients are about 50% pc, 50% mac. I have an older g4 iMac dualbooting YellowDog and OSX Tiger, a Dell laptop running XP SP2, and a MacPro that I dualboot with OSX Tiger and Vista x64 Ultimate RC2, which I am using more and more.
I am a PC tech, but as far as how often I use it, I probably use my Macs 40% of the time (that is, in an Apple OS). Guess what, I can run Photoshop and Premiere and AfterEffects and GIMP in Windows. Have been for years. I can run Microsoft Office, NeoOffice or OpenOffice (with the help of X11, which is messy on a Mac) on the Mac. At the end of the day, I mean, they are both PCs (personal computers), with just different operating systems on them. Its a prefrence thing. The biggest question is at the end of the day, can you get your work done?
Working in an IT departmetn in a company that has so many Macs, though, I can say that there are almost just as many problems with the Macs as with the PCs. Interestingly, the Macs seem to have worse hardware problems, whereas the PCs seem to have more security issues. Just wait until you get an iMac with leaking capacitors, and we have started having issues with power supplies in some of the newer Mac towers. That does not mean that there are not user issues with the Macs as well. Just look at what happens to Adobe CS2 when the user decides they are going to try to remove some Asian fonts because they do not use them. Users tend to manually install fonts into the wrong font folders. Saving files in system folders. Having so many things on their desktop that icons overlap, and they wonder why their comptuer is so slow. The untrained Mac user who takes the DMG file and drags that to the Dock rather than opening it up and dragging the app to the application folder and then draging a shortcut to the dock like it should be (not intuitive if you don't know). Running a filesystem check on a Mac requires booting into the terminal and knowing the commands, whereas in windows, you simply right click on the drive and go to properties and tools.
I tend to have more crashes in OSX than in XP. If its not a Kernal Panic, than its some application (usually boinc) that will lock up the machien and requrie a hard reboot.
Point is, you can do what you need to do in either OS. Both OSes have their strengths and weaknesses. If you have an investment in software on one platform, chances are you are not going to dish that OS and go to another. Your Mac users will stay Mac users, your Windows Users will stay Windows users, and whiel there are a fair number of people who will convert from one OS to the other (or to Linux, or back from Linux)this will not be a huge number of your people out there.
Imagine getting highly relevant messages, without even pressing a button, simply because you are in the vicinity and your preferences match the content of the post." Why would you need GPS to do this? Bonjour already does it. At least, it discovers people around you who are already on Bonjour using iChat, Adium, who are sharing files or printers through Bonjour, etc. How much harder would it be to do a blog or something like that? Bonjour has been open sourced, and Apple has even released an early (printer only) version of Bonjour for Windows. Seems overkill to put GPS recievers in the hardware to do something that is already built into Tiger.
Why bother? Yeah, so the license is transferable. Yeah, so 2000 has lower system requirements.
Do you really think your laptop will still be working in 5 to 10 years? Do you remember what we had 5-10 years ago?
5 years ago, my system was top of the line. 500 MHz. 192 meg of ram, an insane amount for the time.
10 years ago, had a pentium 90 MHz, with a whole 16 meg of ram, running the newest Windows 95 operating system.
Really, do you think you are going to keep your laptop that long?
So your license is transferable. Chances are, unless you are buying laptops from eBay or third party refurbished stuff, your laptop will come with a license for xp or vista. Why bother with your unpatched 2000 that has a transferable license?
What is up with all these people who say that they will never consider using XP or Vista? I think too many people are thinking of XP back when it was first released. Yes, there were all kinds of issues with it. It was a major rewrite of Windows - in a good way. Software vendors had to write better code, new drivers had to be made, and microsoft released some service packs..... and the result is that 5 years later, xp is not a half bad operating system. Yes, the OS is unforgiving to the ignorant, but patch your OS, run Spybot and the TeaTimer (the beta fixes the graphical glitches), and you ALREADY HAVE AN XP LICENSE ON THIS MACHINE!
Vista, in my testing enviornments, is proving to be a pretty freakin awsome operating systems. I would still say wait before upgrading for at least a few months, to let some of the security patches come out, but if you are going to buy a laptop with vista preinstalled, leave it on there. I mean, why purposely cripple yourself with an unsupported OS?
I have seen a few people complain how there are no longer updates for 98. The operating system is freakin 9 years old, 2000 is eight years old. Shoot, you would not have been trying to run Dos 3.3 on an computer in 1995 or 1997 and be complaining that you do not get new features and stuff like that would you? You would be laughed at.
Its 2007, dude! Windows 2000 came out at the end of 1999. Five years from now this operating system will be 13 years old!
If you are going to run a Microsoft OS, just run the one that comes bundled with your new computer. Shoot, Apple feakin releases a new version of their Operating System practically every year. Thank God that Microsoft's life expectancy for an OS seems to be hovering around the 6 year mark.
Even Linux distros stop supporting their old distros after a while. I am too lazy to look for this, but there was an article on Slashdot a couple of days ago that Fedora was going to stop updates for its early versions.
Its not like I am telling you to upgrade - the new OSes are already installed on your system, you have a freakin license. Why are you creating all this trouble DOWNGRADING your operating system, limiting your functionality, limiting your access to software, and limiting yourself from getting updates? You like 2000? Fine. Right click on your start bar in XP / Vista, goto properties, choose the custom start bar. Right click on your desktop, go to wallpaper, and turn off the windows bliss wallpaper. Then go to the Appearance tab and change the button layout and style from XP or Vista to Windows Classic. Whalla, you now have an operating system that looks like the Windows you know and love, but will recieve security patches. Your recycle bin just may be a different icon.
I am going to end this with stating what I have said over and over again in this reply - stop crippling yourself. Microsoft, in this case, did not screw you over by making you buy an upgrade, and its not like you are running some legacy hardware that will not run the new OSes. You already have them, you have the licensces, they came preinstalled on your machine, you were in no way inconvienineced by XP being preloaded on your system as that you do use Windows. YOU are the one who uninstalled it, YOU are the one who created thes
Wait a second, I think I missed something:
2. Keep running with it connected via a cable. He says it mostly works when 'hardwired', I assume he meant cabled and although he's having DNS issues, he says it works some of the times. So he is having problems with wireless? And he is blaiming the Operating System? Wireless has always been an issue, and I have never found this problem to be with an OS, but rather crappy drivers. Did he even attempt to download the drivers for his wireless card?
5. Try Vista RC2 or a later build of RC1? Wasn't 5600 the last one they released? No, build 5744, otherwise known as RC2, was the last one released
I have had no problems with RC2. Now I admit that I could not get GAIM to work, but this is unrelated to networking - its not that GAIM will not connect, its that it won't even freakin start. Seems to be an application error. AIM Triton, Windows Live Messanger, and Yahoo all work fine.
In fact, in my experience with Vista on two different computers on two different routers (one a Airlink, one a Linksys), I have actually experienced improved network performance over XP and, wait for it, even over Linux and OSX.
I will admit that there was a heck of a problem with RC1 and networking, I had all sorts of issues.
Yes, there was issues with RC1, that is why an RC2 was released. And there was a non-public beta or two released between RC2 and the final release candidate, and Microsoft is planing on having more patches when the final release gets released to the public on January 30th.
My advice, upgrade to RC2 or wait for the freakin release, and then see if you have issues. Don't post questions to Slashdot about issues that have already been patched.
Ack, I don't know why, but it seems as if this was attached to the wrong article. This was supposed to be attached to an ask slashdot article about video editing and vista
I truthfully have not had this issue. My first surprise is that you are making content on Windows rather than a Mac. I do this, but its for personal use. If I was making content commercially, I would be using a Mac.
That aside, I doubt you will have this problem unless you are using Microsoft's tools (which, in using RC1 and RC2, I have been quite impressed with). I use Adobe Premiere usually, and I have not had any problems. Hook it with Canopus Procoder and/or some codec pack (yes, I use codec packs, so sue me), and you should be fine. I am dualbooting XP and Vista, and its not like Vista goes in and puts DRM in all your media files or something wierd like that.
The only issue I have had is trying to use the 64 bit version of Vista - there are practically no supported codecs for it. A handful of codecs, such as Quicktime, will let you install and work with them. VLC works, but of course, I am pretty sure VLC uses its own built in codecs. As such, I can get videos to play in VLC on Vista x64 that I cannot get to work in WMP on there, because of lack of codecs. However, if youare running the 32 bit version of Vista, this should not be a problem. I am also sure in a few months, there will be 64 bit codec packs out there.
So I say, if you really want to upgrade to Vista, go ahead. Of course, going from Windows 2000 to Vista, you will notice a HUGE difference in system requirements. I could run 2000 on 64 meg of ram, on some higher end Pentium 1s. Heaven help you if you try running Vista on a machine older than a P4 or a 1GHz Athlon with under 512 meg of ram. If you are doing content editing in Vista, I recommend some dual-core processor, with a minumum of 1 gig of ram, preferably 2 gig.
Most programmers are horrible at commenting. Many others are bad at not using variable names that describe what they are doing. Try helping out a first year comp sci major who does not comment or pseudocode, and uses variable names such as x, y, z, a, b, c, a1, a2, and temp. A lot of times not even they know what they are doing.
Pseudocode is a great thing, IMHO. I use it ALL the freakin time. It allows you to lay out the logic of your program in a simple to follow code, then you just copy it into your program, change up a few things, and, if you are go0od at writting pseudocode, you have a working program.
Sorry, I got off track on commenting.
The second thing is his choice of programming language. From what I understand, this code is being executed on his webserver, so you would have to put it in a language or format that is installed on the server. If his server allows executable files, from what his screenshots were showing, then.Net is a great language. It will speed up the execution (of course, with a program this small, running in the background, the fact that its compiled rather than interpreted probably will not make much of a difference).
I may get some heat for this, but if I was to rewrite this program for use with anyone with any server, I would write it in Pearl (or at least, I would if I knew the language, that's on my todo list). The reason behind this is just about all webservers from a hosting provider will have the Perl libraries installed. Most servers will let you execute a cron job, so just set a cron job to execute this script say, every 8 hours, and there you go.
Now I am sure that there are going to be some Python lovers out there who will give me heat. I am currently learning this language, and its quite elegant. Problem is, Python is not normally installed by default - you have to install mod_python seperately. At least, this is how you do it in Apache, I am not sure about IIS.
Truthfully, I think your grading of a C+ / B- is harsh. His code gets the job done, and his task was to make it work for him, not for everyone else. He had a problem, and came up with a working solution. I would give it an A-, because his code does not spit otu an HTML message that he can look at directly inside of GMail and has to go through an extra step of saving the code and reopening it in a webbrowser.
I just landed a job as PC Desktop support whose side job is to manage a couple of servers, and learn Python for an internally developed program we have at this company, yet I am still being paid as a PC Desktop support person
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Interesting, but from the way this product is described, its LAN use only, which means that it does not connect to a public network, and it does not seem to connect at some point to the public phone network, which means it canot be used in this case
Unfortunately Roadrunner (TimeWarner) bought out Comcast here, and are offering the same craptacular service. This is in Dallas. In Fort Worth, Charter has abused customers by having horrible outage times and refusing to refund for days / weeks down, while at the same time constantly raising your bill. DSL is becoming quite popular, and in areas where its not, I see people moving to cellular cards (although that may be because once you get outside of the city, you can hardly get decent dialup service)
Have had them for a couple of years after Charter kept uping the price. I now have 6 meg down, 3 meg up through DSL, and have never been capped. I will get in news groups, and easily download between 4.7 and 5.5 meg a second. There have been months where I have easily pulled half a terabyte, they have never said a thing to me. And at $27.99 a month, its about the best speed you can get for the price, unless maybe you have FIOS.
Since when did emulators become news on slashdot? Its still buggy too. No mouse support (makes playing Lemmings a pain), graphic corruption in some places in Lemmings, arrow keys get effed up when playing Prince of Persia, no sound support, and, well, its kinda slow. Some lagging in Prince of Persia, and I am on a p4. Now, did the original post say that they wanted to use this to test viruses? Please tell me they are not planning on installing windows on this thing.
Although I would smile if they installed Windows 3.1 and the thing dropped into dosshell when you exited. Of course many licensing things there. I guess there is no licensing issues showing off a product you are trying to license with shareware titles, is there?
End users are becoming more savy, and as such, while there is still a large market for desktop support, salleries are lower now, because you have so many techs right out of high school that can do the same thing.
.NET, ASP, SQL, Pearl, Python, and C? My company is hurting for skilled Python developers, and we pay a pretty penny for them.
Get your MCSE and Cisco Certifications, and go for networking. You will be treated like crap, expected to work extended hours without the benefits of overtime pay, but you will secure yourself a job.
Focus less on webdev. Focus more on application and Intranet dev. HTML is being taught in gradeschool, most high schoolers can do Flash and know how to use photoshop, but how many do you know that know
Just because we all love Linux inside and out does not mean that everyone uses it. The last few companies I have worked at have been Microsoft houses, and now I work at a company that also has some Apple stuff. Make sure you know your Windows Server 2003 and Apple XServ
We have legitimate business needs for just about everything you can find on the internet, so we do not filter anything. Of course, this leads to huge spyware issues and the occassional virus, but for a company our size, its not too big of a hassel. You will get fired, of course, for illegal activities, such as child-porn and piracy. Other than that, we have a big, fat, unfiltered fiber connection to the internet. Its nice downloading software updates at 1.5Mbps-3Mbps, depending on the time of day.
There are some cases where I can see blocking of webmail sites, such as government contractors. Truthfully, though, corporate America (and other coutries) really do not have too big of a reason to worry about personal webmail sites, unless you are worried about corporate espianage or something. But as far as viruses and such like that, they can get those off of going to other sites on the internet. You should be working on keeping your Antivirus and Spyware software up to date rather than worrying that Yahoo alows the delivery of vbs files. A good antivirus software will block the executing of those things anyways.
That is actually why I bought a PS3, as it was a cheap bluray player (relatively speaking).
I would not predict doom though for HDDVD quite yet. The article stated that this list is updated every hour. So a BluRay disc tops the top 10 for just one hour. Big deal. Its a huge movie and is going to sell well when it first goes on sale. My question is where did it stand in sales an hour later, the next day, and so forth. Is it even still in the top 100?
I whole-heartedly agree, especially with the low-flying aircraft. I work in a major city on the 32nd floor of a highrise building. There is a huge city airport less than five miles to the north of us. All the planes landing have to come in from the south, litterally meaning that most of these planes come within a hundred or so feet of skimming the tops of these buildings on their landings. It can be quite disconcerting.
My question was, were these signs up in regular advertising locations? It seems odd that if you are going to advertise something, you would have to have advertising space. Most likely, this space has had ads there before.
So let me get this straight, a terrorist is going to post the same symbol, in several parts of the city, in an advertising location, then light it up with lights to attract attention to itself? This isn't a matter of overreacting, as its a matter of being stupid. And, as has been said, the sign was up in many other major cities as well, and attracted no attention. Truthfully, I don't think Cartoon Network should pay Boston a dime, rather, I feel that Cartoon Network should couter-sue for defacement of private property, and for slander.
We have to give one thing to the city of Boston, though - because of their reactions, this has turned into one of the single most successful ad campaigns of all time - people the world over now know who Cartoon Network is, what Adult Swim is, and what Aqua Teen Hunger Force is. A two million dollar fine is peanuts compared to what Cartoon Network is now going to make from their increased ratings on selling advertising time.
Vista killed my iPod. Luckely I got the 2 year extended warrenty on it. It will not even boot up now, I get the Apple logo and then start getting lines and stuff. Its awful!
Grrr, another user using the slashdot story submission to draw traffic to his personal site. If I was to blog about my recent experience with BluRay movies and the PS3, could I post a Slashdot story and have people come to my site? Oh wait, let me get my ads up so that I can get something for the traffic.
We are in a mixed enviornment, about 50% pc, 50% mac. Entourage is deffinately not the same as Outlook, but most of the features are there (if not as highly polished). Entourage deffinately works for our needs. And the webhook is not such a bad thing. Now supposedly when the next version of Office gets released for the mac, Entourage is supposed to be more highly polished and be much more like Outlook than the current version.
Shoot, I am a godparent, and monitor my godchildren's Myspace. Me and their parents. When the kids are at my house, I am always there with them when they are online. I have their passwords, and can login to their stuff. I check their friends, and their friends' friends. I have reported several to Myspace, and had accounts deleted. If the kids complain, or try to change their password, then we do not let them on the internet. That simple. Kids can scream all they want, but if they want to use the internet, then they will be monitored. Now they do get some privacy. I mean, if I go into their mail and its from someone we know, I won't read it. If they got invites from strange people or strange e-mails, then I look at them. And on top of all of that, we teach them right and wrong, not to talk to strangers, and all of this other stuff. Yes, it takes some work, but if you want your kids to be safe, then YOU have to take the initiative.
Ha, Outlook is not simply a Pop and SMTP e-mail client. The major thing behind outlook is the Exchange Server, without this, Outlook is simply an overblown e-mail program. I wish I could go into all the great stuff that Outlook and the exchange server offer, but I am relatively new here. However, many of the features that Outlook have are also present in Lotus Notes. Now I am not sure between the Domino server and the Exchange server which is more efficient, but on the client end, Outlook is loads better than Lotus.
Both of these programs use features that are integral to businesses, such as booking of conference rooms, sharing of calenders, event invites, managing of tasks, the abiltiy to set up delegates (if a CEO wants his secretary to have access to his e-mail, for instance), and so forth.
Now have you actually tried Office 2007, or are you just building on hype? Its actually a pretty cool little program (although I am having some bugs with the beta of Outlook, but hey, it IS a beta). Granted, the system resources it takes up are much higher than Open Office, the price is astronomical, etc.
Truthfully, if all you want is to write text documents and dabble in spreadsheets and do an ocassional presentation, OpenOffice is all you need. I run it at home, I got NeoOffice installed on my Mac, its a great program. Office 2007 under Vista, however, is an AWSOME program, and I am sure it will really change the way stuff is done. I have been messing mostly with Outlook and Word, but the additions to Word are AWSOME! There are actually several features that are in there that was in Word 2003, but I did not know about them, but the ribbon bar really does have a nice way of laying stuff out.
I have had one annoyance with Word 2007 and that is when trying to save it as an HTML file. It litterally encodes the page to render differently in IE and in Firefox. For example, I did some 3D effects on a graphic I imported into the document. It saved two version of this, a JPEG for displaying in IE and a GIF for displaying in Firefox, purposely making the page look like crap in Firefox. Pretty low in my opinion.
This could really screw us up. As far as I know, no BluRay or HDDVDs out yet have HDCP enabled. This is great, as I can currently watch my BluRay discs on my PS3 at 1080i on my older HDTV through the component connection. Now, they will start enabling HDCP on all these discs. What the hell were these pirates thinking?
BTW, a couple of HDDVD movies were posted in the past couple of weeks in the newsgroup alt.binaries.hdtv as well.
Only reason I am tagging onto this reply is that I wanted to use the "it doesn't matter" subject.
I agree, but for different reasons. Truthfully, I think Apple finally got it. Look at their recent ads which feature the PC and the Mac personalities. PCs are better at doing some things, Macs at others. I work in an IT department where our clients are about 50% pc, 50% mac. I have an older g4 iMac dualbooting YellowDog and OSX Tiger, a Dell laptop running XP SP2, and a MacPro that I dualboot with OSX Tiger and Vista x64 Ultimate RC2, which I am using more and more.
I am a PC tech, but as far as how often I use it, I probably use my Macs 40% of the time (that is, in an Apple OS). Guess what, I can run Photoshop and Premiere and AfterEffects and GIMP in Windows. Have been for years. I can run Microsoft Office, NeoOffice or OpenOffice (with the help of X11, which is messy on a Mac) on the Mac. At the end of the day, I mean, they are both PCs (personal computers), with just different operating systems on them. Its a prefrence thing. The biggest question is at the end of the day, can you get your work done?
Working in an IT departmetn in a company that has so many Macs, though, I can say that there are almost just as many problems with the Macs as with the PCs. Interestingly, the Macs seem to have worse hardware problems, whereas the PCs seem to have more security issues. Just wait until you get an iMac with leaking capacitors, and we have started having issues with power supplies in some of the newer Mac towers. That does not mean that there are not user issues with the Macs as well. Just look at what happens to Adobe CS2 when the user decides they are going to try to remove some Asian fonts because they do not use them. Users tend to manually install fonts into the wrong font folders. Saving files in system folders. Having so many things on their desktop that icons overlap, and they wonder why their comptuer is so slow. The untrained Mac user who takes the DMG file and drags that to the Dock rather than opening it up and dragging the app to the application folder and then draging a shortcut to the dock like it should be (not intuitive if you don't know). Running a filesystem check on a Mac requires booting into the terminal and knowing the commands, whereas in windows, you simply right click on the drive and go to properties and tools.
I tend to have more crashes in OSX than in XP. If its not a Kernal Panic, than its some application (usually boinc) that will lock up the machien and requrie a hard reboot.
Point is, you can do what you need to do in either OS. Both OSes have their strengths and weaknesses. If you have an investment in software on one platform, chances are you are not going to dish that OS and go to another. Your Mac users will stay Mac users, your Windows Users will stay Windows users, and whiel there are a fair number of people who will convert from one OS to the other (or to Linux, or back from Linux)this will not be a huge number of your people out there.
Why bother? Yeah, so the license is transferable. Yeah, so 2000 has lower system requirements.
Do you really think your laptop will still be working in 5 to 10 years? Do you remember what we had 5-10 years ago?
5 years ago, my system was top of the line. 500 MHz. 192 meg of ram, an insane amount for the time.
10 years ago, had a pentium 90 MHz, with a whole 16 meg of ram, running the newest Windows 95 operating system.
Really, do you think you are going to keep your laptop that long?
So your license is transferable. Chances are, unless you are buying laptops from eBay or third party refurbished stuff, your laptop will come with a license for xp or vista. Why bother with your unpatched 2000 that has a transferable license?
What is up with all these people who say that they will never consider using XP or Vista? I think too many people are thinking of XP back when it was first released. Yes, there were all kinds of issues with it. It was a major rewrite of Windows - in a good way. Software vendors had to write better code, new drivers had to be made, and microsoft released some service packs..... and the result is that 5 years later, xp is not a half bad operating system. Yes, the OS is unforgiving to the ignorant, but patch your OS, run Spybot and the TeaTimer (the beta fixes the graphical glitches), and you ALREADY HAVE AN XP LICENSE ON THIS MACHINE!
Vista, in my testing enviornments, is proving to be a pretty freakin awsome operating systems. I would still say wait before upgrading for at least a few months, to let some of the security patches come out, but if you are going to buy a laptop with vista preinstalled, leave it on there. I mean, why purposely cripple yourself with an unsupported OS?
I have seen a few people complain how there are no longer updates for 98. The operating system is freakin 9 years old, 2000 is eight years old. Shoot, you would not have been trying to run Dos 3.3 on an computer in 1995 or 1997 and be complaining that you do not get new features and stuff like that would you? You would be laughed at.
Its 2007, dude! Windows 2000 came out at the end of 1999. Five years from now this operating system will be 13 years old!
If you are going to run a Microsoft OS, just run the one that comes bundled with your new computer. Shoot, Apple feakin releases a new version of their Operating System practically every year. Thank God that Microsoft's life expectancy for an OS seems to be hovering around the 6 year mark.
Even Linux distros stop supporting their old distros after a while. I am too lazy to look for this, but there was an article on Slashdot a couple of days ago that Fedora was going to stop updates for its early versions.
Its not like I am telling you to upgrade - the new OSes are already installed on your system, you have a freakin license. Why are you creating all this trouble DOWNGRADING your operating system, limiting your functionality, limiting your access to software, and limiting yourself from getting updates? You like 2000? Fine. Right click on your start bar in XP / Vista, goto properties, choose the custom start bar. Right click on your desktop, go to wallpaper, and turn off the windows bliss wallpaper. Then go to the Appearance tab and change the button layout and style from XP or Vista to Windows Classic. Whalla, you now have an operating system that looks like the Windows you know and love, but will recieve security patches. Your recycle bin just may be a different icon.
I am going to end this with stating what I have said over and over again in this reply - stop crippling yourself. Microsoft, in this case, did not screw you over by making you buy an upgrade, and its not like you are running some legacy hardware that will not run the new OSes. You already have them, you have the licensces, they came preinstalled on your machine, you were in no way inconvienineced by XP being preloaded on your system as that you do use Windows. YOU are the one who uninstalled it, YOU are the one who created thes
I have had no problems with RC2. Now I admit that I could not get GAIM to work, but this is unrelated to networking - its not that GAIM will not connect, its that it won't even freakin start. Seems to be an application error. AIM Triton, Windows Live Messanger, and Yahoo all work fine.
In fact, in my experience with Vista on two different computers on two different routers (one a Airlink, one a Linksys), I have actually experienced improved network performance over XP and, wait for it, even over Linux and OSX.
I will admit that there was a heck of a problem with RC1 and networking, I had all sorts of issues.
Yes, there was issues with RC1, that is why an RC2 was released. And there was a non-public beta or two released between RC2 and the final release candidate, and Microsoft is planing on having more patches when the final release gets released to the public on January 30th.
My advice, upgrade to RC2 or wait for the freakin release, and then see if you have issues. Don't post questions to Slashdot about issues that have already been patched.
Ack, I don't know why, but it seems as if this was attached to the wrong article. This was supposed to be attached to an ask slashdot article about video editing and vista
I truthfully have not had this issue. My first surprise is that you are making content on Windows rather than a Mac. I do this, but its for personal use. If I was making content commercially, I would be using a Mac.
/or some codec pack (yes, I use codec packs, so sue me), and you should be fine. I am dualbooting XP and Vista, and its not like Vista goes in and puts DRM in all your media files or something wierd like that.
That aside, I doubt you will have this problem unless you are using Microsoft's tools (which, in using RC1 and RC2, I have been quite impressed with). I use Adobe Premiere usually, and I have not had any problems. Hook it with Canopus Procoder and
The only issue I have had is trying to use the 64 bit version of Vista - there are practically no supported codecs for it. A handful of codecs, such as Quicktime, will let you install and work with them. VLC works, but of course, I am pretty sure VLC uses its own built in codecs. As such, I can get videos to play in VLC on Vista x64 that I cannot get to work in WMP on there, because of lack of codecs. However, if youare running the 32 bit version of Vista, this should not be a problem. I am also sure in a few months, there will be 64 bit codec packs out there.
So I say, if you really want to upgrade to Vista, go ahead. Of course, going from Windows 2000 to Vista, you will notice a HUGE difference in system requirements. I could run 2000 on 64 meg of ram, on some higher end Pentium 1s. Heaven help you if you try running Vista on a machine older than a P4 or a 1GHz Athlon with under 512 meg of ram. If you are doing content editing in Vista, I recommend some dual-core processor, with a minumum of 1 gig of ram, preferably 2 gig.
I must agree with your comments comment.
.Net is a great language. It will speed up the execution (of course, with a program this small, running in the background, the fact that its compiled rather than interpreted probably will not make much of a difference).
Most programmers are horrible at commenting. Many others are bad at not using variable names that describe what they are doing. Try helping out a first year comp sci major who does not comment or pseudocode, and uses variable names such as x, y, z, a, b, c, a1, a2, and temp. A lot of times not even they know what they are doing.
Pseudocode is a great thing, IMHO. I use it ALL the freakin time. It allows you to lay out the logic of your program in a simple to follow code, then you just copy it into your program, change up a few things, and, if you are go0od at writting pseudocode, you have a working program.
Sorry, I got off track on commenting.
The second thing is his choice of programming language. From what I understand, this code is being executed on his webserver, so you would have to put it in a language or format that is installed on the server. If his server allows executable files, from what his screenshots were showing, then
I may get some heat for this, but if I was to rewrite this program for use with anyone with any server, I would write it in Pearl (or at least, I would if I knew the language, that's on my todo list). The reason behind this is just about all webservers from a hosting provider will have the Perl libraries installed. Most servers will let you execute a cron job, so just set a cron job to execute this script say, every 8 hours, and there you go.
Now I am sure that there are going to be some Python lovers out there who will give me heat. I am currently learning this language, and its quite elegant. Problem is, Python is not normally installed by default - you have to install mod_python seperately. At least, this is how you do it in Apache, I am not sure about IIS.
Truthfully, I think your grading of a C+ / B- is harsh. His code gets the job done, and his task was to make it work for him, not for everyone else. He had a problem, and came up with a working solution. I would give it an A-, because his code does not spit otu an HTML message that he can look at directly inside of GMail and has to go through an extra step of saving the code and reopening it in a webbrowser.
I just landed a job as PC Desktop support whose side job is to manage a couple of servers, and learn Python for an internally developed program we have at this company, yet I am still being paid as a PC Desktop support person