Preach on.
The first thing I thought when I saw "super-cool" was that the poster is probably more concerned with doing something "fun" than truly coming up with the best solution. Once you get even a little experience with system development, especially LARGE system development, you quickly realize how a "super-cool" and fun idea turns out to be much more complicated/time-consuming/painful than originally though. Plus you have to completely support its users and update it and patch the servers every week and deal with power failures and....ugh. Consultants that host the app can lighten that load considerably. Then again, I am biased.
However, if they are going to charge you $100,000 for "hello world" then bail out and write it yourself.:)
I've actually been happily surprised by Exchange in our 20 user environment.
Coming from sendmail, I expected it to be about 10 times annoying than it has been. Of course, by typing that, my Exchange server is crashing this very minute.
Anyway, it's nice to see them finally coming around with a client for OS X. I was very surprised that it was not in the original Entourage release in the first place.
I am fairly sure that MS flight sim 2002 works across two displays in full-screen mode...you can setup the instrument panel on one screen which is slick.
I am just trying to make that happen with Falcon 4.0 - the greatest military flight sim ever made.:)
That is so funny b/c it is so true for me too. I have yet to ever own a faster-than-dialup connection, so everytime I sit down to do even a 1MB d/l I end up cleaning up the room or doing the dishes.:)
All I know is, if a human ear is able to hear it, it can be recorded. The quality might be a touch less than a true digital conversion, and it might take a few more days for the mp3s to get on the net, but in the end it makes no difference. The companies are simply wasting valuable time. I guess it is good fodder for share holder meetings though
Yeah, just running thru my apache error_log and I noticed this "OLD" attempt using a similar GET call:
[Tue Jul 3 15:23:20 2001] [error] [client 62.161.100.102] File does not exist:/home/httpd/html/msadc/..À..À..À..//winnt/syste m32/cmd.exe
July 3l; pretty old. Don't know how related it is to the new stuff though, but it sure looks similar.
If you're interesting in looking at some java source that hooks outlook to a Nokia phone, check out this month's issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com). Starting on page 73 of the Sept 2001 issue, the article lays out the entire design of the system. Depends on some outlook components though...so windows only. Here's the source: http://www.ddj.com/ftp/2001/2001_09/mphones.txt
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Preach on. The first thing I thought when I saw "super-cool" was that the poster is probably more concerned with doing something "fun" than truly coming up with the best solution. Once you get even a little experience with system development, especially LARGE system development, you quickly realize how a "super-cool" and fun idea turns out to be much more complicated/time-consuming/painful than originally though. Plus you have to completely support its users and update it and patch the servers every week and deal with power failures and....ugh. Consultants that host the app can lighten that load considerably. Then again, I am biased. However, if they are going to charge you $100,000 for "hello world" then bail out and write it yourself. :)
I've actually been happily surprised by Exchange in our 20 user environment. Coming from sendmail, I expected it to be about 10 times annoying than it has been. Of course, by typing that, my Exchange server is crashing this very minute. Anyway, it's nice to see them finally coming around with a client for OS X. I was very surprised that it was not in the original Entourage release in the first place.
I am fairly sure that MS flight sim 2002 works across two displays in full-screen mode...you can setup the instrument panel on one screen which is slick. I am just trying to make that happen with Falcon 4.0 - the greatest military flight sim ever made. :)
Two words: "Mountain Dew"
That is so funny b/c it is so true for me too. I have yet to ever own a faster-than-dialup connection, so everytime I sit down to do even a 1MB d/l I end up cleaning up the room or doing the dishes. :)
All I know is, if a human ear is able to hear it, it can be recorded. The quality might be a touch less than a true digital conversion, and it might take a few more days for the mp3s to get on the net, but in the end it makes no difference. The companies are simply wasting valuable time. I guess it is good fodder for share holder meetings though
I'd have to agree. The first time i saw a preview I was positive that it was another sci-fi show. Maybe it was the music (and the blue chick).
Yeah, just running thru my apache error_log and I noticed this "OLD" attempt using a similar GET call: [Tue Jul 3 15:23:20 2001] [error] [client 62.161.100.102] File does not exist: /home/httpd/html/msadc/..À..À..À..//winnt/syste m32/cmd.exe
July 3l; pretty old. Don't know how related it is to the new stuff though, but it sure looks similar.
One article states that Bush in fact did NOT get into this issue: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,33790,00.html
If you're interesting in looking at some java source that hooks outlook to a Nokia phone, check out this month's issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com). Starting on page 73 of the Sept 2001 issue, the article lays out the entire design of the system. Depends on some outlook components though...so windows only. Here's the source: http://www.ddj.com/ftp/2001/2001_09/mphones.txt
It's a nice read, even if it's not THAT helpful.