It's cross-browser and it's very good at what it does.
I've used it and loved it for a long, long time.
But they announced a closure, so I switched by sync apps around.
I'm not going to go back to them "just in case" they decide to stay in business.
Things change - if the company feels that a certification is now necessary to do the job, then that's what they get.
If you choose not to have the certification, then you'll be competing with those who do have it for a job that requires it.
FYI - I have chosen not to be certified in anything. It makes the hiring process more difficult for me, but I enjoy flaunting my knowledge in the face of those who are certified:0)
I traveled to Egypt a couple of months back with an older XP laptop.
I was able to connect wirelessly almost anywhere that there was an access point (the Cairo airport was difficult - but I suspect I was accessing things that I wasn't supposed to:0).
And, most AC adapters for laptops are 110/220 - so you'll only need a plug converter to convert to UK plugs.
If someone asks, I'll try and help them.
If they become a pain, I'll arrange things so they cannot contact me to whine.
When they eventually do contact me, my response is "Bring it into the shop, it's too complicated to troubleshoot remotely."
When they get to the shop, I turn them over to another person who'll help them (forewarning the other person). The reason that I give is that I'm really tied up in an important job just now.
Retire - then you can do what you want.
I retired in 2003 - and now I give away my services. If the customer isn't appreciative - I just walk out on them.
But couldn't the "keyboard" adapt/learn one's keystroke/handspan? While the keystroke would be limited to the flat surface, software could interpret the direction and force of the key strike and could interpret the desired key.
Met my wife online also. Yesterday was our 6th anniversary.
Don't look, let it find you. But it can't find you if you don't go some where (either online or realspace).
Good luck!
It all depends upon your ultimate goal. Is it the people that you deal with, your bosses, or the work?
You can see less people by working at a computer shop - and still work on systems.
You can get different bosses by getting another job.
You can move into a different sort of work, but it all depends on the opportunities that you make for yourself - either by education, networking, or pounding the pavement.
I've been waiting on a particular domain for a couple of years now. I got the.org and.net, but the.com is occupied by a squatter.
What I've found is that any interest at all will result in the price going up - and offers (if you've identified yourself) to sell it to you.
Even a domain watch (such as those that GoDaddy offers) will result in them holding onto it in the hopes that they'll get some money for it.
You can either wait them out, or pay the premium that they're asking (and fund their future squatting).
The critical portion of this is the veterinary software. That will control what you can build.
I upgraded my wife's veterinary office from a DOS veterinary software to a Windows veterinary software several years ago. The software isn't readily compatible with Vista, so we've remained with XP for most of the workstations (6 workstations, 1 file server).
About a year ago I upgraded a Windows 2000 server network to a Windows 2003R2 server network - and it was relatively painless because of the compatibility of the software.
If you do the work, you become the IT department for the practice. It's not much of a hassle, but it does require that you drop what you're doing to fix their computers (I got a call recently to rush over to the practice - only to replace a keyboard and run back to my primary job).
OTOH it's more expensive to have an outsider do the work - but it's easier for you to supervise the work.
The backup strategy is the key here (IMO). If you've got good backups you can start over at the drop of a hat. I'm starting to experiment with RAID 1 for the practice, and I backup the file server 3 ways (to another drive, to another computer, and to another location).
You can do it without a degree - but it'll take much longer to get there.
I don't have a degree, nor do I have any certifications - yet I'm moderately successful. I have no desire to be a manager - so I was hired despite the lack of a degree (because I'm not a threat)
I worked my way up through the years (I'm 56) while others with degrees have lagged. I'm successful because I work hard and I know my stuff. The degree is a foot in the door - without it you've got to work for years to establish that. Once in the door tho', you'll meet different kinds of resistance depending on how the powers that be view the need for a degree.
If it's version 6.0 and it's buggy, you've just shot yourself in the foot and no one will want to buy future releases of your product. If it's v1.0, then there's more leeway given.
Version hopping is for those who have learned enough to be dangerous. Those who don't know are blissfully unaware of the version of their product. Those who do have the knowledge don't upgrade just because there's a new version. It's those in the middle that equate newer with better - and they quickly learn their lesson as their wallet is emptied.
This is a prime example of a business that's more interested in immediate profits than it is in retaining a loyal customer base. I'd suggest looking for employment elsewhere.
Swap file size doesn't have any strict correlation to your physical RAM. Some systems can work just fine without them, others will insist upon one. This is also affected by the amount of physical RAM that you have - the less RAM, the more frequently the system will have to rely on the swap file.
It depends on how your system utilizes the swap file, and how the programs that you have installed use it. The only "sure" way to tell is to monitor swap file usage to see what the maximum value is.
Investigating the downgrade options will show you that it's mostly limited to business use (particularly from HP).
My store has probably sold hundreds of Vista PC's since it's introduction - and we've only downgraded 2 or 3. IMO the reason for this is that it's more expensive to downgrade (for the average user) than it is to replace the incompatible programs.
If you let someone else select your books, you'll get books that are to someone else's taste.
That being said, I'd have to agree with bball99 - Tor has sent me about 10 books for free and so far I've read (and liked) the first 3.
I've done this at the wife's office, even with good quality cameras (in the $100 range) the image quality is questionable. In the 2 instances where we've needed it, it has failed for us.
The first one was just that it was too grainy to make out the license number of the car. The second was a failure of the automatic parking lot lighting - but even when the police came we couldn't read their license plates.
We get a lot more "mileage" out of the signs that we have posted.:0)
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It's cross-browser and it's very good at what it does. I've used it and loved it for a long, long time. But they announced a closure, so I switched by sync apps around. I'm not going to go back to them "just in case" they decide to stay in business.
Things change - if the company feels that a certification is now necessary to do the job, then that's what they get. If you choose not to have the certification, then you'll be competing with those who do have it for a job that requires it. FYI - I have chosen not to be certified in anything. It makes the hiring process more difficult for me, but I enjoy flaunting my knowledge in the face of those who are certified :0)
I traveled to Egypt a couple of months back with an older XP laptop. I was able to connect wirelessly almost anywhere that there was an access point (the Cairo airport was difficult - but I suspect I was accessing things that I wasn't supposed to :0).
And, most AC adapters for laptops are 110/220 - so you'll only need a plug converter to convert to UK plugs.
If someone asks, I'll try and help them. If they become a pain, I'll arrange things so they cannot contact me to whine. When they eventually do contact me, my response is "Bring it into the shop, it's too complicated to troubleshoot remotely." When they get to the shop, I turn them over to another person who'll help them (forewarning the other person). The reason that I give is that I'm really tied up in an important job just now.
Retire - then you can do what you want. I retired in 2003 - and now I give away my services. If the customer isn't appreciative - I just walk out on them.
But couldn't the "keyboard" adapt/learn one's keystroke/handspan? While the keystroke would be limited to the flat surface, software could interpret the direction and force of the key strike and could interpret the desired key.
Met my wife online also. Yesterday was our 6th anniversary. Don't look, let it find you. But it can't find you if you don't go some where (either online or realspace). Good luck!
It all depends upon your ultimate goal. Is it the people that you deal with, your bosses, or the work? You can see less people by working at a computer shop - and still work on systems. You can get different bosses by getting another job. You can move into a different sort of work, but it all depends on the opportunities that you make for yourself - either by education, networking, or pounding the pavement.
I've been waiting on a particular domain for a couple of years now. I got the .org and .net, but the .com is occupied by a squatter.
What I've found is that any interest at all will result in the price going up - and offers (if you've identified yourself) to sell it to you.
Even a domain watch (such as those that GoDaddy offers) will result in them holding onto it in the hopes that they'll get some money for it.
You can either wait them out, or pay the premium that they're asking (and fund their future squatting).
The critical portion of this is the veterinary software. That will control what you can build. I upgraded my wife's veterinary office from a DOS veterinary software to a Windows veterinary software several years ago. The software isn't readily compatible with Vista, so we've remained with XP for most of the workstations (6 workstations, 1 file server). About a year ago I upgraded a Windows 2000 server network to a Windows 2003R2 server network - and it was relatively painless because of the compatibility of the software. If you do the work, you become the IT department for the practice. It's not much of a hassle, but it does require that you drop what you're doing to fix their computers (I got a call recently to rush over to the practice - only to replace a keyboard and run back to my primary job). OTOH it's more expensive to have an outsider do the work - but it's easier for you to supervise the work. The backup strategy is the key here (IMO). If you've got good backups you can start over at the drop of a hat. I'm starting to experiment with RAID 1 for the practice, and I backup the file server 3 ways (to another drive, to another computer, and to another location).
And that's why beta's shouldn't be public.
You can do it without a degree - but it'll take much longer to get there. I don't have a degree, nor do I have any certifications - yet I'm moderately successful. I have no desire to be a manager - so I was hired despite the lack of a degree (because I'm not a threat) I worked my way up through the years (I'm 56) while others with degrees have lagged. I'm successful because I work hard and I know my stuff. The degree is a foot in the door - without it you've got to work for years to establish that. Once in the door tho', you'll meet different kinds of resistance depending on how the powers that be view the need for a degree.
If it's version 6.0 and it's buggy, you've just shot yourself in the foot and no one will want to buy future releases of your product. If it's v1.0, then there's more leeway given. Version hopping is for those who have learned enough to be dangerous. Those who don't know are blissfully unaware of the version of their product. Those who do have the knowledge don't upgrade just because there's a new version. It's those in the middle that equate newer with better - and they quickly learn their lesson as their wallet is emptied. This is a prime example of a business that's more interested in immediate profits than it is in retaining a loyal customer base. I'd suggest looking for employment elsewhere.
Swap file size doesn't have any strict correlation to your physical RAM. Some systems can work just fine without them, others will insist upon one. This is also affected by the amount of physical RAM that you have - the less RAM, the more frequently the system will have to rely on the swap file. It depends on how your system utilizes the swap file, and how the programs that you have installed use it. The only "sure" way to tell is to monitor swap file usage to see what the maximum value is.
Yep, DOS would be it for me also
Investigating the downgrade options will show you that it's mostly limited to business use (particularly from HP). My store has probably sold hundreds of Vista PC's since it's introduction - and we've only downgraded 2 or 3. IMO the reason for this is that it's more expensive to downgrade (for the average user) than it is to replace the incompatible programs.
If you let someone else select your books, you'll get books that are to someone else's taste. That being said, I'd have to agree with bball99 - Tor has sent me about 10 books for free and so far I've read (and liked) the first 3.
I've done this at the wife's office, even with good quality cameras (in the $100 range) the image quality is questionable. In the 2 instances where we've needed it, it has failed for us. The first one was just that it was too grainy to make out the license number of the car. The second was a failure of the automatic parking lot lighting - but even when the police came we couldn't read their license plates. We get a lot more "mileage" out of the signs that we have posted. :0)