I used to do consulting for a dentist who specialized in dentures. Every few months he'd call and complain that his computers were acting wonky. The dust that came from the denture material was conductive, and the computers would start doing strange things. I would pick the computer up, take it home where I would disassemble it completely. Then I'd give the components a full shower with hot water, followed up by drying with a blow dryer on medium heat and compressed air. Since it was Wyoming, there was little humidity and I was able to re-assemble the computers the next day. The computers lasted for years this way. Moral of the story: Water doesn't hurt electronics. I'd say wash them with warm water and a toothbrush, then blow-dry with warm air and compressed air. Don't re-assemble until they are completely dry, at least 24 hours or more depending on your climate.
You can make the choice now to do what you are happy doing in life. Or you can become dependent on the high salary. If you choose the higher paying job you'll have an unbelievably hard time later choosing a much lower paying job that will make you happier. Choosing.Net is a great career move. There are tons of jobs. Choosing Perl (or for many these days, Python or Ruby) is a great personal move. Choose the thing that has the best chance of making you happy and live within the means of that salary range. Trust me on this one. You can almost never go backwards in salary comfortably, so make the choice to do what makes you happy and live in that comfort range.
BTW, you don't have to choose between Perl and.Net long term. You should always continue to learn new tools and apply them to your jobs where they are appropriate. The Perl job probably understands that. The.Net corporate place probably doesn't.
Yes, they block 80 and 25 at a minimum. I used some free online dns thing that redirects your address@port 80 to your address @pickanotherport. Works great.
It's awesome. They block common ports (80, 25, others?) for serving to force you to upgrade to their static IP business class service at $99. Even at $99 these speeds would be sweet with a static IP. The service is absolutely never down, never hiccups, never troubled. With Comcast I used to recycle my cable modem once a week. With Qwest I rebooted my dsl adapter nearly every other day. I haven't even power cycled my ClarkConnect linux firewall in the several months I've had FIOS. It's a great service and well worth the price. I have 15/2 service and pay 45/mo I think. And I hear they're upgrading it to 20/2 for the same fee shortly. At these speeds I start to wonder if my highly traffic'd wireless-g network isn't becoming my bottleneck even before the router.
BTW I tossed the DLINK router they sent and use the ClarkConnect box with an Apple Airport Extreme hanging off of it. The dlink isn't special at all and not required for the service.
As a bonus, over the same fiber they can delvier IPTV and telephone service -- neither of which I use. People with nice structured wiring in their home will love this service.
YMMV
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There are a few books by Joe Celko like SQL For Smarties that are in the position of honor on my bookshelf. If you're beyond "select * from emp" and want to really learn how to efficiently get things done in a relational database, Celko is your guy.
The best part about this article is that it was written by Mike Clark from the Pragmatic Studio. I took their class when it rolled through Denver, and I couldn't recommend it higher. Mike and Dave Thomas put on a great class.
You can try to grow your skills and knowledge in the office, or you can remove that self-imposed limitation and learn all day long. I may just love my line of work too much (software development), but when a shiny new technology comes along, you have to remind me to get sleep. Choosing to learn cool things will make you more productive and ultimately happier. Asking slashdot whether you should wait for the man to foot the bill on some geek training is certainly a sign that you ought to change professions.
I don't want to have to build web templates, create image tags, resize things, convert things, etc. when I'm putting up a photo album of the adorable thing the 3 year old did. The target audience of my.mac consumption is the grandparents. I spend $99/year so I don't have to do a lot of work to share stuff. It is worth it.
Oh Yeah. She can give me a direct order any day. Maybe she isn't the thing for all you young whipper-snappers. But we old farts...that's a different story entirely.
Somebody tell me this went to charity and not to George. I'm a starwars geek like the rest, but for the love of pete, this money could be used so much better elsewhere.
I live at the former Stapleton Airport in Denver, which has been redeveloped into a nice urban community by Forest City, Inc. (not to be confused with Detroit's OCP) I always wondered which part of the airport I was living on, and this answers that question handily. The new roads of the "map" are superimposed over the old satellite photos of the airport! I'm living square in the middle of the east/west runway! I love you Google.
I switched last year and won't be looking back anytime soon. I'm also a windows developer by day, and I've purchased a Mac Mini that perches atop my P4 winxp development machine. Now the only app that I use in Windows is Visual Studio.Net while the rest of my day-to-day activities are accomplished on the Mac.
The podcasting support in iTunes is awesome. The only real issue I have with it is the inability to navigate through the directory like you can with the regular music library. For example, when you choose the topic "Technology", you get into the full 3 pane browse view, where you can't go back to the main page through their breadcrumb-button feature. Once they get the navigation ironed out, this is going to be really nice. I've already downloaded a metric assload of podcasts, and am contentedly listening to them right now.
It looks like some pretty solid evidence that Apple is working with Transitive Technologies, the company that allows binaries from one platform to execute at near native speeds on another platform.
I bought the new Dave Matthews Band CD through the ITMS this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see that the 55MB video that downloaded along with my purchased songs was of extremely high quality. Playing at full screen on my 23" apple studio cinema display, there was hardly any noticable artifacting. The video was as clear as a DBS satellite broadcast on a regular television. That's impressive considering the small size of the video and the many pixels the 23" monitor pushes. I bet the apple types would say it's that new codec H.1234 or whatever it is. Sure was purty.
Whichever side of the mouse fence you sit on, after watching my 3 year old pick up his mousing skills in less than 20 minutes when we bought him his new Mac Mini a few weeks ago, I have to say that there is most certainly good reason to start with a one button mouse and progress from there. He clicks with his whole hand. And he's pressing anywhere on the mouse that he wants to in order to generate that click. I would venture a small wager that he wouldn't be having such luck with a multi-button mouse. When he's older, more dextrous, and more likely to use complex functions, he can have one of my multi-button mice. But I'm awfully glad I had an extra one button Apple Mouse laying around for him.
One person has already mentioned iTunes, but I can vouch from personal experience that the Airport Express is a fantastic idea. I've got several airport express stations and I can stream music to any of them from any computer that has itunes. It wouldn't take much complication to setup one central iTunes machine with its library shared out to any number of other machines on your local subnet. Then no matter which machine you're on, you either VNC/RDP to the machine that is streaming, or start streaming from the machine you happen to be near. My non-geek and non-apple loving wife thinks our setup is the best thing since sliced bread, so there is a very high WifeApprovalFactor(tm). Go to Apple.com for all the details. YMMV, professional drivers on a closed course, blah.
Is win2k3 better? I have an MSDN subscription, and thought about bringing up a 2003 directory server, but I remember the last time I tried I ran into a bunch of Kerberos authentication problems and gave up trying to connect to the smb shares. Forget about binding the mac to AD. So I'm interested in anyone's success stories with win2k3 server. At least my win2000 server works.
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I used to do consulting for a dentist who specialized in dentures. Every few months he'd call and complain that his computers were acting wonky. The dust that came from the denture material was conductive, and the computers would start doing strange things. I would pick the computer up, take it home where I would disassemble it completely. Then I'd give the components a full shower with hot water, followed up by drying with a blow dryer on medium heat and compressed air. Since it was Wyoming, there was little humidity and I was able to re-assemble the computers the next day. The computers lasted for years this way. Moral of the story: Water doesn't hurt electronics. I'd say wash them with warm water and a toothbrush, then blow-dry with warm air and compressed air. Don't re-assemble until they are completely dry, at least 24 hours or more depending on your climate.
You can make the choice now to do what you are happy doing in life. Or you can become dependent on the high salary. If you choose the higher paying job you'll have an unbelievably hard time later choosing a much lower paying job that will make you happier. Choosing .Net is a great career move. There are tons of jobs. Choosing Perl (or for many these days, Python or Ruby) is a great personal move. Choose the thing that has the best chance of making you happy and live within the means of that salary range. Trust me on this one. You can almost never go backwards in salary comfortably, so make the choice to do what makes you happy and live in that comfort range.
.Net long term. You should always continue to learn new tools and apply them to your jobs where they are appropriate. The Perl job probably understands that. The .Net corporate place probably doesn't.
BTW, you don't have to choose between Perl and
Yes, they block 80 and 25 at a minimum. I used some free online dns thing that redirects your address@port 80 to your address @pickanotherport. Works great.
It's awesome. They block common ports (80, 25, others?) for serving to force you to upgrade to their static IP business class service at $99. Even at $99 these speeds would be sweet with a static IP. The service is absolutely never down, never hiccups, never troubled. With Comcast I used to recycle my cable modem once a week. With Qwest I rebooted my dsl adapter nearly every other day. I haven't even power cycled my ClarkConnect linux firewall in the several months I've had FIOS. It's a great service and well worth the price. I have 15/2 service and pay 45/mo I think. And I hear they're upgrading it to 20/2 for the same fee shortly. At these speeds I start to wonder if my highly traffic'd wireless-g network isn't becoming my bottleneck even before the router.
BTW I tossed the DLINK router they sent and use the ClarkConnect box with an Apple Airport Extreme hanging off of it. The dlink isn't special at all and not required for the service.
As a bonus, over the same fiber they can delvier IPTV and telephone service -- neither of which I use. People with nice structured wiring in their home will love this service.
YMMV
There are a few books by Joe Celko like SQL For Smarties that are in the position of honor on my bookshelf. If you're beyond "select * from emp" and want to really learn how to efficiently get things done in a relational database, Celko is your guy.
Like VMWare?
The best part about this article is that it was written by Mike Clark from the Pragmatic Studio. I took their class when it rolled through Denver, and I couldn't recommend it higher. Mike and Dave Thomas put on a great class.
You can try to grow your skills and knowledge in the office, or you can remove that self-imposed limitation and learn all day long. I may just love my line of work too much (software development), but when a shiny new technology comes along, you have to remind me to get sleep. Choosing to learn cool things will make you more productive and ultimately happier. Asking slashdot whether you should wait for the man to foot the bill on some geek training is certainly a sign that you ought to change professions.
I don't want to have to build web templates, create image tags, resize things, convert things, etc. when I'm putting up a photo album of the adorable thing the 3 year old did. The target audience of my .mac consumption is the grandparents. I spend $99/year so I don't have to do a lot of work to share stuff. It is worth it.
They're not even predicting the weather. They're reporting on it.
Oh Yeah. She can give me a direct order any day. Maybe she isn't the thing for all you young whipper-snappers. But we old farts...that's a different story entirely.
There is something inherently sexy about a female space captain. Even Janeway got me bothered every now and again.
Somebody tell me this went to charity and not to George. I'm a starwars geek like the rest, but for the love of pete, this money could be used so much better elsewhere.
I live at the former Stapleton Airport in Denver, which has been redeveloped into a nice urban community by Forest City, Inc. (not to be confused with Detroit's OCP) I always wondered which part of the airport I was living on, and this answers that question handily. The new roads of the "map" are superimposed over the old satellite photos of the airport! I'm living square in the middle of the east/west runway! I love you Google.
I switched last year and won't be looking back anytime soon. I'm also a windows developer by day, and I've purchased a Mac Mini that perches atop my P4 winxp development machine. Now the only app that I use in Windows is Visual Studio.Net while the rest of my day-to-day activities are accomplished on the Mac.
The podcasting support in iTunes is awesome. The only real issue I have with it is the inability to navigate through the directory like you can with the regular music library. For example, when you choose the topic "Technology", you get into the full 3 pane browse view, where you can't go back to the main page through their breadcrumb-button feature. Once they get the navigation ironed out, this is going to be really nice. I've already downloaded a metric assload of podcasts, and am contentedly listening to them right now.
I was reading MacSlash and came across this. link
It looks like some pretty solid evidence that Apple is working with Transitive Technologies, the company that allows binaries from one platform to execute at near native speeds on another platform.
Very interesting days indeed.
I bought the new Dave Matthews Band CD through the ITMS this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see that the 55MB video that downloaded along with my purchased songs was of extremely high quality. Playing at full screen on my 23" apple studio cinema display, there was hardly any noticable artifacting. The video was as clear as a DBS satellite broadcast on a regular television. That's impressive considering the small size of the video and the many pixels the 23" monitor pushes. I bet the apple types would say it's that new codec H.1234 or whatever it is. Sure was purty.
I'm not up on my xBSD's, so can someone explain how hard this would be to port to the Mac? This would be perfect for cloning my son's Mac Mini.
Whichever side of the mouse fence you sit on, after watching my 3 year old pick up his mousing skills in less than 20 minutes when we bought him his new Mac Mini a few weeks ago, I have to say that there is most certainly good reason to start with a one button mouse and progress from there. He clicks with his whole hand. And he's pressing anywhere on the mouse that he wants to in order to generate that click. I would venture a small wager that he wouldn't be having such luck with a multi-button mouse. When he's older, more dextrous, and more likely to use complex functions, he can have one of my multi-button mice. But I'm awfully glad I had an extra one button Apple Mouse laying around for him.
May the heavens part and rain fast broadband, high speed hard disks and copious amounts of DDR Ram upon you. Thank YOU!
That's the first thing I thought. Well, I cursed the dirty Tleilaxu first, then I thought of their damn eyes.
I am an apple zealot, so I couldn't be happier about getting all of my Mac news and rumors from Slashdot's front page.
Thanks Slashdot!
One person has already mentioned iTunes, but I can vouch from personal experience that the Airport Express is a fantastic idea. I've got several airport express stations and I can stream music to any of them from any computer that has itunes. It wouldn't take much complication to setup one central iTunes machine with its library shared out to any number of other machines on your local subnet. Then no matter which machine you're on, you either VNC/RDP to the machine that is streaming, or start streaming from the machine you happen to be near. My non-geek and non-apple loving wife thinks our setup is the best thing since sliced bread, so there is a very high WifeApprovalFactor(tm). Go to Apple.com for all the details. YMMV, professional drivers on a closed course, blah.
Is win2k3 better? I have an MSDN subscription, and thought about bringing up a 2003 directory server, but I remember the last time I tried I ran into a bunch of Kerberos authentication problems and gave up trying to connect to the smb shares. Forget about binding the mac to AD. So I'm interested in anyone's success stories with win2k3 server. At least my win2000 server works.