I'm using it now to post this comment, and then I'm switching right back. The toolbar is ugly (granted it is beta),
Windows is getting gradually more ugly over time. It is like MS is trying WAY too hard to come up with flashy/cool GUI designs. They really need to stick to something. I was all about the simple, mimimalist Win95 design back in the day. Up through Win2k things were OK. And them came XP. What were they thinking with that cheap toy plastic look? Ugh. And what's worse is that it is so inconsisent now. Every other app has to have a slightly different look to it.
Don't get me wrong. I like eye-candy as much as the next guy. OS X's Aqua, for example, looks great. MS is just going about the eye-candy in all the wrong ways.
To be fair, Apple does much the same thing with their web browser. Although they make some effort to separate the browser front end from the libraries that render the HTML. That is, you don't need Safari, per se. But you do need to have WebKit installed for a lot of things to work. This is how it should be, IMO.
You decide upon your political allegiances You decide upon your religion beliefs You do not Choose your sexual preference.
Not to quibble, but I'm not entirely certain that one really does decide on one's religious beliefs. Either a certain belief or faith feels right or it doesn't. One can rationalize it anyway one wnats. One can even convince oneselves that they choose a belief because it is the most reasonable or whatever, but in the end, we believe what feels right. Same way with sexuality.
No kidding. I used to get real tired in the evening while driving. So tired that I would zone out and nearly fall asleep at the wheel. What's wierd is that I am find before and after getting in the car. It is just cars that make me sleepy. I tried coffee (i'm still sensitive to caffiene) and ephedrine. Nothing seemed to work very well. I would still space out. Then I discovered that all I needed was proper hydration. A bottle of water or sports drink (not energy drink) and I was good to go.
If hydration is the problem, caffeine can actually make the problem worse because it is a diuretic. I advise anyone who is having energy or concentration problems to try drinking more water and do some stretching.
Having been involved in several hobbyist/student films myself, I can say that it is a fair assumption. For a larger for-profit project, maybe it is appropriate to pay the cast/crew. But if it is done for fun, there is no need to account for the intangibles.
First of all, a good 400GB SATA drive runs around $300. Note that it isn't even SATA2 which one would probably want for a high performance RAID (NCQ et al).
Second, 36GB is hardly the top end for SCSI drives. For a little more than $300 you can get 147GB SCSI drives. Also keep in mind that more drives means more striped performance. So more drives isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Granted, it is still more expensive for teh SCSI setup. I just think you should make a fair comparison.
$27.15 is a lot to pay for a indefensible claim to lunar land. Even for a "gag" gift. But then I guess if people are willing to pay money to name a star....
Maybe a space elevator could double as as a a "space extension cord." Or maybe we could beam the energy back with a REALLY strong laser which is converted back to electricity here on Earth.
Umm, isn't libata for individual disk access not hardware RAID? Any serious (PC based) storage implmentation is going to be hardware RAID and that pretty much makes libata irrelevent. These devices either show up as SCSI or generic block devices. The NCQ and all that would be implemented on the controller, AFAIK.
The problem with disk backup is that it is difficult to maintain multiple archives. And maintaining offsite backups can be a pain. Several times I've had to go back months to retrieve old data. And unless you know exactly what you might need to archive and can put it on DVD (pain in teh butt compared to regular tape rotations), you're going to want archives of everything. There is a reason why people still use tape and it isn't because they are stubborn.
Sure, but Google is hardly that successful at this point. Unless that money is going back into the company, I can't help but see this as an elaborate pump-and-dump scam. I know if I was investing Google (by purchasing shares), I'd be pretty pissed to see my investment squandered like that.
I hate to be the one to suggest it, but perhaps you were more "senior" than "talent." I mean, if he was getting the numbers, maybe he was doing something right. Unless, of course. he was simply pushing you too hard and causing people to burn out. I'm not sure what you meant by "stepped on."
What was cool about the floppy born virus is that it is easy for collectors to store. I knew I guy who had a big box full of infected floppies. Hundreds of em'. All labeled with the virus that was on them. Some had multiple viruses. Neat stuff.
To be fair to Windows (ha!), I have found that the useful life of a Linux installation is a lot shorter than Windows. I would never consider installing a Linux distribution from 2000, but Win2k isn't all that bad (as Windows goes) even 6 years later.
Of course, distributions such as Debian make up for this in being very easy (and cheap!) to upgrade to the latest version, but still. I've run into situations where I really want to upgrade a Debian system but fear breaking something. Eventually I just bite the bullet and do it. Things usually work out pretty well, but if it were Windows, I would be able to upgrade individual programs without worrying about support from the underlying OS because most programs work on all Windows platforms going back to NT 4.0.
Just something to keep in mind next time you lament the Windows upgrade cycle...
As a long time Debian user trying out FreeBSD, I must say the package management is pretty bad in FreeBSD by comparison. However, I think FreeBSD makes up for it by always having cutting edge ports available through cvsup. Sarge is great now, but in a year or two, you're going to be lamenting not having the latest packages available to you without backporting headaches or risking your solid system by mixing unstable packages with stable.
MySQL does have transaction logging if you make sure to use the InnoDB table ISAM when you create the tables.
As for reducing development time, you may want to look into using Ruby on Rails. I know the Java fanboys here will throw a fit, but for the size of project you are talking about, Rails sounds like a perfect fit. You should be able to have something useful up in a matter of days if not hours. Just look at the of the demos and follow a couple tutorials and see what I mean. Java is NOT the way to go for reduced development time. Especially if you are a novice.
Still, when someone says a product works with.NET, it's safe to assume that it's supported with at least VB.NET and C#, whereas most Java products are supported with Java as the language only.
Who cares? What serious programmer actually uses VB.NET anyway? It is just there to attract the VB code monkeys. Might as well just be C#.. which is so much like Java anyway, the only real difference is the frameworks.
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But seriously, yeah, statistics don't mean much.
That is only true %66.7 of the time.
-matthew
I'm using it now to post this comment, and then I'm switching right back. The toolbar is ugly (granted it is beta),
Windows is getting gradually more ugly over time. It is like MS is trying WAY too hard to come up with flashy/cool GUI designs. They really need to stick to something. I was all about the simple, mimimalist Win95 design back in the day. Up through Win2k things were OK. And them came XP. What were they thinking with that cheap toy plastic look? Ugh. And what's worse is that it is so inconsisent now. Every other app has to have a slightly different look to it.
Don't get me wrong. I like eye-candy as much as the next guy. OS X's Aqua, for example, looks great. MS is just going about the eye-candy in all the wrong ways.
-matthew
To be fair, Apple does much the same thing with their web browser. Although they make some effort to separate the browser front end from the libraries that render the HTML. That is, you don't need Safari, per se. But you do need to have WebKit installed for a lot of things to work. This is how it should be, IMO.
-matthew
You decide upon your political allegiances
You decide upon your religion beliefs
You do not Choose your sexual preference.
Not to quibble, but I'm not entirely certain that one really does decide on one's religious beliefs. Either a certain belief or faith feels right or it doesn't. One can rationalize it anyway one wnats. One can even convince oneselves that they choose a belief because it is the most reasonable or whatever, but in the end, we believe what feels right. Same way with sexuality.
-matthew
No kidding. I used to get real tired in the evening while driving. So tired that I would zone out and nearly fall asleep at the wheel. What's wierd is that I am find before and after getting in the car. It is just cars that make me sleepy. I tried coffee (i'm still sensitive to caffiene) and ephedrine. Nothing seemed to work very well. I would still space out. Then I discovered that all I needed was proper hydration. A bottle of water or sports drink (not energy drink) and I was good to go.
If hydration is the problem, caffeine can actually make the problem worse because it is a diuretic. I advise anyone who is having energy or concentration problems to try drinking more water and do some stretching.
-matthew
Sure,but I believe the OP mentioned the need to access serial ports. Can you do stuff like that from TCL/Tk?
-matthew
What about higher end MS applications like VisualStudio or the .Net framework?
At some point you have to ask yourself why you are running Linux at all.
-matthew
Let me guess. The virus spreads through biting.
-matthew
Having been involved in several hobbyist/student films myself, I can say that it is a fair assumption. For a larger for-profit project, maybe it is appropriate to pay the cast/crew. But if it is done for fun, there is no need to account for the intangibles.
-matthew
First of all, a good 400GB SATA drive runs around $300. Note that it isn't even SATA2 which one would probably want for a high performance RAID (NCQ et al).
Second, 36GB is hardly the top end for SCSI drives. For a little more than $300 you can get 147GB SCSI drives. Also keep in mind that more drives means more striped performance. So more drives isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Granted, it is still more expensive for teh SCSI setup. I just think you should make a fair comparison.
-matthew
just more proof that we're related to our simian cousins -- even in our society, certain monkeys decide to become cops.
And sometimes even president!
-matthew
Indeed. I'd sure like to see high fructose corn syrup powering cars rather than making people fat and diabetic.
-matthew
$27.15 is a lot to pay for a indefensible claim to lunar land. Even for a "gag" gift. But then I guess if people are willing to pay money to name a star....
-matthew
Maybe a space elevator could double as as a a "space extension cord." Or maybe we could beam the energy back with a REALLY strong laser which is converted back to electricity here on Earth.
-matthew
Umm, isn't libata for individual disk access not hardware RAID? Any serious (PC based) storage implmentation is going to be hardware RAID and that pretty much makes libata irrelevent. These devices either show up as SCSI or generic block devices. The NCQ and all that would be implemented on the controller, AFAIK.
-matthew
The problem with disk backup is that it is difficult to maintain multiple archives. And maintaining offsite backups can be a pain. Several times I've had to go back months to retrieve old data. And unless you know exactly what you might need to archive and can put it on DVD (pain in teh butt compared to regular tape rotations), you're going to want archives of everything. There is a reason why people still use tape and it isn't because they are stubborn.
-matthew
So... when do I start?
-matthew
Sure, but Google is hardly that successful at this point. Unless that money is going back into the company, I can't help but see this as an elaborate pump-and-dump scam. I know if I was investing Google (by purchasing shares), I'd be pretty pissed to see my investment squandered like that.
-matthew
I hate to be the one to suggest it, but perhaps you were more "senior" than "talent." I mean, if he was getting the numbers, maybe he was doing something right. Unless, of course. he was simply pushing you too hard and causing people to burn out. I'm not sure what you meant by "stepped on."
-matthew
What was cool about the floppy born virus is that it is easy for collectors to store. I knew I guy who had a big box full of infected floppies. Hundreds of em'. All labeled with the virus that was on them. Some had multiple viruses. Neat stuff.
-matthew
To be fair to Windows (ha!), I have found that the useful life of a Linux installation is a lot shorter than Windows. I would never consider installing a Linux distribution from 2000, but Win2k isn't all that bad (as Windows goes) even 6 years later.
Of course, distributions such as Debian make up for this in being very easy (and cheap!) to upgrade to the latest version, but still. I've run into situations where I really want to upgrade a Debian system but fear breaking something. Eventually I just bite the bullet and do it. Things usually work out pretty well, but if it were Windows, I would be able to upgrade individual programs without worrying about support from the underlying OS because most programs work on all Windows platforms going back to NT 4.0.
Just something to keep in mind next time you lament the Windows upgrade cycle...
-matthew
As a long time Debian user trying out FreeBSD, I must say the package management is pretty bad in FreeBSD by comparison. However, I think FreeBSD makes up for it by always having cutting edge ports available through cvsup. Sarge is great now, but in a year or two, you're going to be lamenting not having the latest packages available to you without backporting headaches or risking your solid system by mixing unstable packages with stable.
-matthew
Eh?
apt-get install cupsys cupsys-driver-gimpprint cupsys-client cupsys-pt
http://localhost:631/
Login as root and setup a printer.
Or is the problem finding the right device to use?
-matthew
MySQL does have transaction logging if you make sure to use the InnoDB table ISAM when you create the tables.
As for reducing development time, you may want to look into using Ruby on Rails. I know the Java fanboys here will throw a fit, but for the size of project you are talking about, Rails sounds like a perfect fit. You should be able to have something useful up in a matter of days if not hours. Just look at the of the demos and follow a couple tutorials and see what I mean. Java is NOT the way to go for reduced development time. Especially if you are a novice.
-matthew
Still, when someone says a product works with .NET, it's safe to assume that it's supported with at least VB.NET and C#, whereas most Java products are supported with Java as the language only.
Who cares? What serious programmer actually uses VB.NET anyway? It is just there to attract the VB code monkeys. Might as well just be C#.. which is so much like Java anyway, the only real difference is the frameworks.
-matthew