What they are claiming is that they are the first to use the information for maintaining task lists in real time.
I am unsure if their claim is correct but, even if it is, it should have been thrown out as a totally obvious extension to routine, long standing software development methodologies.
Exactly! Converting a batch process to an interactive one is quite routine and is "obvious to anyone practised in in the art"
Yeah, half the price and half the quality. Have you ever tried using one of those with an iPod in the car, for example?
This is a broadcast quality xmitter with a 100 foot range, not a cheap low-quality device. You might as well say that an iPod is no better than a cheap flash memory based player
Seriously. Do you know how often muggings happen where and when you travel? How big is that risk compared to where you used to live. My guess is that London is not the place where you grew up and that is why you are feel so vulnerable.
For corporate jobs, two weeks paid vacation is the absolute minimum you'll get in most parts Canada (i.e. the legal minimum for someone fresh out of school). As an experienced person, you may be able to negotiate more (3 weeks? 4?). Not as nice as Europe or Oz, but still an improvement...
I bike commute year round and the trip time is roughly the same, winter or summer (about 1/2 hour in my case). Winter is only slower when there is heavy snow
Some things to consider if you ride in winter:
Ride a cheap bike and keep it clean. Salt and sand are very hard on the drive train
Dress for wind, not for warmth. You will be generating plenty of heat after 5 minutes of riding, but frostbite is not pretty, nor is it pleasant. A rule of thumb is that you should feel slightly chilled when you start out.
Index shifters often stop working when the temperature drops below -10C to -15C (14F to 5F) This is due to the close tolerances needed to fit all those gears in a small space. Ride a cheap bike that has 7 or fewer gears on the rear deraileur and you'll be able to shift gears when it gets really cold
Riding in VERY cold weather is usually safer and much more comfortable than riding when it's near freezing (0C/32F). This is because you won't get wet and the streets are covered with hard packed snow (not hidden patches of ice)
BTW - What do you mean by "hash winter weather"? -20C (-4F) is quite comfortable if you are properly dressed
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The City of Calgary moved their Oracle servers to Linux and saved a pile of $$$. They are looking at migrating the rest of their unix servers to linux as well. Virtually all desktops are Windows NT (migrating to XP) except for some graphic arts types who have macs.
Web servers are mostly Windows/IIS and sometimes Sun/Apache, but occasionally there's a kewl oddball
Too bad nobody is combining those with a SMTP engine that can see the messages comming in and accept them VERY SLOWLY. (ie.: 1 byte per second)
That's precisely what spamd daemon does. The -s parameter sets the delay for each character sent to the client by the specified amount of seconds. Defaults to 1. What OpenBSD 3.5 adds is greylisting.
The last time you bought a six-pack of Bud Light at the Piggly Wiggly, Anheuser servers most likely recorded what you paid, when that beer was brewed, whether you purchased it warm or chilled, and whether you could have gotten a better deal down the street.
...but they didn't track who you are, only where and how the beer was bought. In other words: you are not trackable. So what's the privacy problem?
what is an IT professional exactly? In your words anyhow
In the context of my post, it's a shorthand way of saying: Computer Science degree in 1981. Past president of the local Unix Users Group. Have worked as a programmer, got mentioned in Dr. Dobbs (Dec 1986 - Turbo Pascal hack). Have also been a systems analyst, project manager, supervisor of unix & network support group. Currently systems analyst/team lead; and I do freelance programming from time to time
but Try taking OSX and putting it on your old mac. Try putting new hardware in your mac and customizing it. My response is simple, yes, if you take exactly what the manufacturer gave you, and you never change anything hardware wise you'll be fine.
My primary desktop at home is a circa 1995 Powermac 7600 running OS X. There is an open source driver that lets you run OSX on older macs. Performance is just fine, in fact a Linux/Windoze buddy was quite impressed with the speed.
I have upgraded my mac in fits & starts over the years... A simple (3rd party) daughterboard swap upgraded the processor to a G3. RAM is now 560mb (the motherboard allows up to 1gb). Replaced the original hard drive with an 18gb scsi. A 3rd party ATA-133 card controls the second big hard drive and a (3rd party) CDRW. Threw in a cheap USB card so I could use my digital camera. With the exception of a trivial tweak for the CD burner everything was working properly the minute I plugged it in and restarted the machine.
a Mac, for someone with computer experience is a poor choice
My mac has all the advantages of a BSD unix with (arguably) the best GUI in the business. I've been an IT professional since 1991. I think I know what I'm doing.
... because I built my computer in very little time, and even since turning it into a beast, putting it into this gigantic Chieftec case so I could add more drives,
Your solution is to only support the minority because minority operating systems don't get viruses?
If you actually read the post you'd see that:
viruses are the not the main reason that the poster only supports Macs
Windoze PCs are not the only systems he complains about and won't support (he mentioned IRIX for pete's sake!)
The point of the post is that you don't have to dink around for hours to get a Mac to work. Stuff really does just work when you plug it in.
Now Macs DO have the virus/worm issues that Windows currently has in the real world
Nope. There are zero known viruses for Mac OS X, none, nada, zippity-do-da. There are about 60 viruses for OS 9, as well as a few that macro viruses that infect MS Office (which runs on both Windows and Mac)
I suppose this makes Mac Data recovery Canada's 2nd largest export
According to the CIA factbook, it's actually industrial machinery. Canada's major exports are (in order) motor vehicles and parts, industrial machinery, aircraft, telecommunications equipment; chemicals, plastics, fertilizers; wood pulp, timber, crude petroleum, natural gas, electricity, aluminum
Canada is also the USA's largest trading partner by a wide margin, accounting for 23% of all US exports and 18% of all US imports. The next most important nation, Mexico, has about 60% of Canada's trade (14% of exports and 11% of imports)
dude, forget it, I'll come by your place with VNC after i finish shopping, that'll make things easier
The problem with helping out, is that quite often friends and family need help right f***ing now. VNC is a godsend. A good friend of mine installed it on his mom's computer, it saves him a trip across town whenever she has trouble with it (note: she is having problems, often the pc is perfectly ok).
I've set up VNC on my mac at home for similar reasons (via an ssh tunnel of course). My sweetie is an intelligent woman, but actively ignorant about computers. When she gets into trouble, I can look over her virtual shoulder
Piracy is manufacture & sale of counterfeit albums (ie. real crooks). It is not ordinary citizens lending the music they listen to to others. It is not consumers creating personal "mix cds" or ripping mp3s to play on their computers.
Funny how the industry lumps everything together. Funny how the press still hasn't figured this out.
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Exactly! Converting a batch process to an interactive one is quite routine and is "obvious to anyone practised in in the art"
This is a broadcast quality xmitter with a 100 foot range, not a cheap low-quality device. You might as well say that an iPod is no better than a cheap flash memory based player
100 foot (30 m) range. Works with your current stereo and any portable radio. Half the price. For example Canakit's UK333
How Ironic! Back in the 90's rumour had it that Sun was out to aquire Apple
Have you ever been mugged?
Seriously. Do you know how often muggings happen where and when you travel? How big is that risk compared to where you used to live. My guess is that London is not the place where you grew up and that is why you are feel so vulnerable.
Yup
For corporate jobs, two weeks paid vacation is the absolute minimum you'll get in most parts Canada (i.e. the legal minimum for someone fresh out of school). As an experienced person, you may be able to negotiate more (3 weeks? 4?). Not as nice as Europe or Oz, but still an improvement...
I bike commute year round and the trip time is roughly the same, winter or summer (about 1/2 hour in my case). Winter is only slower when there is heavy snow
Some things to consider if you ride in winter:
BTW - What do you mean by "hash winter weather"? -20C (-4F) is quite comfortable if you are properly dressed
The City of Calgary moved their Oracle servers to Linux and saved a pile of $$$. They are looking at migrating the rest of their unix servers to linux as well. Virtually all desktops are Windows NT (migrating to XP) except for some graphic arts types who have macs. Web servers are mostly Windows/IIS and sometimes Sun/Apache, but occasionally there's a kewl oddball
- Copy XPostFacto to a convenient location on your hard drive. You do not need to put it in a special location.
- Insert the Mac OS X Install CD (or Darwin, or Mac OS X Server, as the case may be)
- Launch XPostFacto
- Select the Install CD as the volume to start up from
- Select the target volume that you want to install Mac OS X to
- Click on the "Install" button
- Sit back and watch the action
You can read about it hereIn the context of my post, it's a shorthand way of saying: Computer Science degree in 1981. Past president of the local Unix Users Group. Have worked as a programmer, got mentioned in Dr. Dobbs (Dec 1986 - Turbo Pascal hack). Have also been a systems analyst, project manager, supervisor of unix & network support group. Currently systems analyst/team lead; and I do freelance programming from time to time
...of course, I also code for fun
My primary desktop at home is a circa 1995 Powermac 7600 running OS X. There is an open source driver that lets you run OSX on older macs. Performance is just fine, in fact a Linux/Windoze buddy was quite impressed with the speed. I have upgraded my mac in fits & starts over the years... A simple (3rd party) daughterboard swap upgraded the processor to a G3. RAM is now 560mb (the motherboard allows up to 1gb). Replaced the original hard drive with an 18gb scsi. A 3rd party ATA-133 card controls the second big hard drive and a (3rd party) CDRW. Threw in a cheap USB card so I could use my digital camera. With the exception of a trivial tweak for the CD burner everything was working properly the minute I plugged it in and restarted the machine.
My mac has all the advantages of a BSD unix with (arguably) the best GUI in the business. I've been an IT professional since 1991. I think I know what I'm doing.
You sound like someone who loves to tinker
If you actually read the post you'd see that:
- viruses are the not the main reason that the poster only supports Macs
- Windoze PCs are not the only systems he complains about and won't support (he mentioned IRIX for pete's sake!)
The point of the post is that you don't have to dink around for hours to get a Mac to work. Stuff really does just work when you plug it in.Nope. There are zero known viruses for Mac OS X, none, nada, zippity-do-da. There are about 60 viruses for OS 9, as well as a few that macro viruses that infect MS Office (which runs on both Windows and Mac)
Considering that Microsoft just bought Virtual PC from Connectix, backward compatability is very much a possibility
Perception is in the aye of the beerholder. Bite me... and I mean that in the nicest possible way
According to the CIA factbook, it's actually industrial machinery. Canada's major exports are (in order) motor vehicles and parts, industrial machinery, aircraft, telecommunications equipment; chemicals, plastics, fertilizers; wood pulp, timber, crude petroleum, natural gas, electricity, aluminum
Canada is also the USA's largest trading partner by a wide margin, accounting for 23% of all US exports and 18% of all US imports. The next most important nation, Mexico, has about 60% of Canada's trade (14% of exports and 11% of imports)
I doubt many businesses in S. Korea would be created by this worm... however I expect that many businesses will be Affected by it
Nope. I feel smug, just like the rest of my cult... err... community
The problem with helping out, is that quite often friends and family need help right f***ing now. VNC is a godsend. A good friend of mine installed it on his mom's computer, it saves him a trip across town whenever she has trouble with it (note: she is having problems, often the pc is perfectly ok).
I've set up VNC on my mac at home for similar reasons (via an ssh tunnel of course). My sweetie is an intelligent woman, but actively ignorant about computers. When she gets into trouble, I can look over her virtual shoulder
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ROTFLMAO!
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...and yet, I bought an Alfa after I crashed the 124 spider
Piracy is manufacture & sale of counterfeit albums (ie. real crooks). It is not ordinary citizens lending the music they listen to to others. It is not consumers creating personal "mix cds" or ripping mp3s to play on their computers.
Funny how the industry lumps everything together. Funny how the press still hasn't figured this out.
We also vote for school board trustees; usually during the municipal elections.