Odds are that you don't commute by rail. Commuting by rail has its advantages, and the magazine format coincides nicely with a hard day's use of the laptop. Especially given boot times, logins, possibly a connecting train. You get the idea.
Also, like in the movie The Accidental Tourist, its often times nice to have reading material on public transport. Gives your eyes a socially-acceptable place to focus.
That sounds like something I'd be interested in helping out with, and I am well suited to setting someone up with the latest Drupal on a decent server, so long as they chip-in themselves to learn in the long-run.
But how can I contact you directly? I've examined the/. interface w/ no joy. Maybe you've set it like me, to keep private info private. Can't blame you a bit for that. Is there a private messaging facility?
If the person that replied to you asking for help setting up a CMS leaves some kind of contact info (or a clue to my question), I'll try to help there too.
I can offer these tips from my experience making the switch from Quicken to GnuCash.
1, The first of January makes life easy, so *use* it! As in, by Jan 3rd - 5th you will have very, very little paper to 'balance' the books with, so Do It, and Stay on Top of It (like a hawk) and the repetition over time, plus relatively small workload of a few items of paper to balance and account for, download from the bank, etc. works in your favor. Much easier than 'catching up' later in the year.
2, I did the above for 2008, and I am so happy to be free from Quicken. Here in the Netherlands, no banks pay Intuit's Bank-Extortion fee, to subscribe to Intuit's system. See, what is happening here is Intuit serves two paying masters. Both end-users who pay about $40 a year, plus the banks that offer transaction downloads in Quicken formats. Because no NL banks are supported through Quicken, Intuit officially will not support any NL users. Coincidence? I think not.
3, Also note 1 of my 2 Dutch banks botches MT940 transaction downloads, so even the 'bigger' banks 'support' is questionable. Don't waste your time trying to use ABNAMRO's MT940 transaction-file download, but if you are curious why, download one from your account and notice NULL is actually written where the date should be. I called them to clarify this 'bug', and after a few weeks passed I got a very rude 'support' call from their programmer who wanted this issue buried pronto, and I was to understand there were no resources for a fix, even though I offered to help. So the lesson learned here is to do business with banks like van Lanschot (since 1733) that *can* operate their I.T. systems by themselves.
Seriously, the only thing HP has achieved in its 'Mozilla Firefox for HP Virtual Solution' is substituting-out IE and replacing it with FireFox v2, (and they are still using Flash 9). wow.
Note that HP is still using some flavor of Windows, running Trend Micro OfficeScan, plus this which gives me the shakes because its called Symantec something:
"Symantec SVS 2.1.2096 Runtime: Software Virtualization Solution (SVS) is a revolutionary approach to software management..."
So firefox is actually opensource, but I see little else that is. Why didn't they use Linux I wonder? Nothing to see here, move along.
http://www.tidbits.com/about/in-use.html
Emperor
The machine emperor.tidbits.com, also known as www.tidbits.com and just tidbits.com, is our main server. It does basically everything for us now.
Dual 1.33 GHz Xserve G4 - [Our server, sic]Emperor runs on a normal dual 1.33 GHz Xserve G4 (2 GB of RAM). Emperor is still running Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, which came with it and handles the load just fine, so we haven't had any reason to upgrade.
Web Crossing - The server software that powers all of our Internet services is Web Crossing, from the company of the same name. Web Crossing can do just about anything, since it backs up its built-in Web, FTP, email, and NNTP service with plug-ins that add mailing lists (also accessible via the Web and NNTP), RSS support, weblogs, wikis, and much more. A lot of this is possible becuase at its heart, Web Crossing includes a high-performance object-oriented database and not one but two programming languages for creating dynamic sites. Web Crossing is the software that Apple uses to host their discussions.
Oh, also jQuery seems to be a viable competitor to Adobe Flash/Flex/Air, and Microsoft's Silverlight, using conventional open DOM standards. Please note that by using a 'hook' technique (like Drupal uses) both Google Chrome & the next Mozilla Firefox puport javascript speed increases of 30x, making my first statement theoretically realistic. I can tell you I feel fairly competitive already using only Drupal and jQuery, and do not feel the need to learn Adobe Air, for example.
Folks, lemme tell you whatever you remember from learning javascript is largely irrelevant, especially memorizing and learning to 'read' all those ugly syntactical structures of text.
In a word, jQuery is 'efficient'.
Also, you know all those ajax modal & pop-up windows you see on 'web 2.0' sites, with the soft rounded corners. That's probably jQuery, more likely than not, and it is *easy* to code for, across browser. If you've avoided learning Ajax, you were smart to wait for jQuery.
from memory (mine) the 1st 2 GBs are free. So far that's all that's available because the firm is still in 'beta'. My understanding is once they come out of beta, they'll offer larger packages for a fee. I'll venture a guess versioning will arrive at some point too.
Google makes money by offering an alternative eco-system conducive to Google's world view; which by the way can differ from Microsoft's. Google *is* web-services for example and MS just discovered the word 'Cloud'.
From Google's perspective, if they didn't offer mobile and PC clients (i.e. Chrome) the alternatives are limited, and don't necessarily present Google apps in the best light, (especially if the world otherwise coded for Active-X).
No kidding! Once I did PCI consulting for a firm that did nothing to support my quality work, trying to build a really secure, yet user-friendly and fully functional workgroup infrastructure (with Ubuntu workstation proto-types avail.). Please trust me when I say I Delivered on A Secure Plan with open-source Goods, and no budget. It didn't matter, because everyone really wanted their Windows & their iPods & Smartphones, and didn't see how I delivered, in meeting Requirements for the nature of my client's Transaction Processing Company.
All I needed was support and actual authority from the management to do my job. So I went to the management and I said point blank, "What did you hire me for? To deliver on a secure, auditable, Network Security Monitoring (NSM) infrastructure, which seems like a good investment, and worthy of my fees; or did you just hire me to help you pass a test?
I never received a Direct answer to my question, other than I could go on describing little details of how our business relationship ended.
I was using dreamhost.com servers and over (a short) time the spam became unbearable and I sought other solutions. I chose tuffmail and all my problems went away. I'm now in year 2. Maybe a single spam slips through now, a day.
OMG! This ain't no Poniez. Is the full-on Backtrack CD (just google backtrack for the link). Most users know it on either Live-CD or USB-stick boot-up form. I don't know of any manufacturers until now, that offer it pre-installed, tweaked, and (semi?) supported.
You think its news when Dell pre-loads Ubuntu on a laptop? In certain circles, this is *much* bigger news. It makes auditing one's own network a much more routine task, because this is a handy little wifi tool!
Even *with* a live CD or USB stick, Good Luck acquiring or tweaking the wifi hardware to run the Backtrack distro well. This is a really compelling tool for people responsible for securing wifi networks.
And its a PHONE too; that just happens to run Debian/Gnome. I want one BAD. All it needs is a bluetooth folding keyboard and its Golden; and I'm certain that's do-able. Oh, a thumb-scanner would be cool too. Schweeet!
OK, I know you're going to call me an old curmudgeon, but where can I run your Cocoa code? Pretty much all the customers in my market use Windows, but might be open to Linux. And we're all focused more heavily on servers too. New Apple hardware is going to be a tough sell too.
At least with javascript, I can expect a universal, albeit lowest-common-denominator client-base.
Seriously, couldn't they come up with a more down-to-earth solution?
In Amsterdam, if you are walking a dog, the police may stop you and request to see the bags you are carrying in case your dog takes a dump, and you need to pick it up. No bags + dog = ticket.
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--> in addition to being behind bars with his hands cuffed.
It would at least slow him down if his hands were cuffed behind his back.
At least I imagine so. Hell, I can't touch type when both hands are in front of me. Sounds difficult anyway.
I see a future without hardcopy magazines at all.
Odds are that you don't commute by rail. Commuting by rail has its advantages, and the magazine format coincides nicely with a hard day's use of the laptop. Especially given boot times, logins, possibly a connecting train. You get the idea.
Also, like in the movie The Accidental Tourist, its often times nice to have reading material on public transport. Gives your eyes a socially-acceptable place to focus.
That sounds like something I'd be interested in helping out with, and I am well suited to setting someone up with the latest Drupal on a decent server, so long as they chip-in themselves to learn in the long-run. But how can I contact you directly? I've examined the /. interface w/ no joy. Maybe you've set it like me, to keep private info private. Can't blame you a bit for that. Is there a private messaging facility?
If the person that replied to you asking for help setting up a CMS leaves some kind of contact info (or a clue to my question), I'll try to help there too.
http://www.spacex.com/falcon9.php (Please make source articles more complete)
I can offer these tips from my experience making the switch from Quicken to GnuCash.
1, The first of January makes life easy, so *use* it! As in, by Jan 3rd - 5th you will have very, very little paper to 'balance' the books with, so Do It, and Stay on Top of It (like a hawk) and the repetition over time, plus relatively small workload of a few items of paper to balance and account for, download from the bank, etc. works in your favor. Much easier than 'catching up' later in the year.
2, I did the above for 2008, and I am so happy to be free from Quicken. Here in the Netherlands, no banks pay Intuit's Bank-Extortion fee, to subscribe to Intuit's system. See, what is happening here is Intuit serves two paying masters. Both end-users who pay about $40 a year, plus the banks that offer transaction downloads in Quicken formats. Because no NL banks are supported through Quicken, Intuit officially will not support any NL users. Coincidence? I think not.
3, Also note 1 of my 2 Dutch banks botches MT940 transaction downloads, so even the 'bigger' banks 'support' is questionable. Don't waste your time trying to use ABNAMRO's MT940 transaction-file download, but if you are curious why, download one from your account and notice NULL is actually written where the date should be. I called them to clarify this 'bug', and after a few weeks passed I got a very rude 'support' call from their programmer who wanted this issue buried pronto, and I was to understand there were no resources for a fix, even though I offered to help. So the lesson learned here is to do business with banks like van Lanschot (since 1733) that *can* operate their I.T. systems by themselves.
Seriously, the only thing HP has achieved in its 'Mozilla Firefox for HP Virtual Solution' is substituting-out IE and replacing it with FireFox v2, (and they are still using Flash 9). wow.
That's true as of this tech note dated September 22, 2008, 1 link from TFA: https://kb.altiris.com/display/1n/articleDirect/index.asp?aid=41672&r=0.4010279
Note that HP is still using some flavor of Windows, running Trend Micro OfficeScan, plus this which gives me the shakes because its called Symantec something:
"Symantec SVS 2.1.2096 Runtime: Software Virtualization Solution (SVS) is a revolutionary approach to software management..."
So firefox is actually opensource, but I see little else that is. Why didn't they use Linux I wonder? Nothing to see here, move along.
What you're suggesting means only criminals would choose to be using public wifi points. The rest of us would need our own.
Of course this can't be true! If the hypothetical balloon had a hole in it, it would not be a balloon. Duh.
Oh, wait...
Not a mention of encryption anywhere in that statement either. I wish/hope the missing data is somehow safely encrypted.
http://www.tidbits.com/about/in-use.html Emperor The machine emperor.tidbits.com, also known as www.tidbits.com and just tidbits.com, is our main server. It does basically everything for us now.
Dual 1.33 GHz Xserve G4 - [Our server, sic]Emperor runs on a normal dual 1.33 GHz Xserve G4 (2 GB of RAM). Emperor is still running Mac OS X Server 10.2.8, which came with it and handles the load just fine, so we haven't had any reason to upgrade.
Web Crossing - The server software that powers all of our Internet services is Web Crossing, from the company of the same name. Web Crossing can do just about anything, since it backs up its built-in Web, FTP, email, and NNTP service with plug-ins that add mailing lists (also accessible via the Web and NNTP), RSS support, weblogs, wikis, and much more. A lot of this is possible becuase at its heart, Web Crossing includes a high-performance object-oriented database and not one but two programming languages for creating dynamic sites. Web Crossing is the software that Apple uses to host their discussions.
Oh, also jQuery seems to be a viable competitor to Adobe Flash/Flex/Air, and Microsoft's Silverlight, using conventional open DOM standards. Please note that by using a 'hook' technique (like Drupal uses) both Google Chrome & the next Mozilla Firefox puport javascript speed increases of 30x, making my first statement theoretically realistic. I can tell you I feel fairly competitive already using only Drupal and jQuery, and do not feel the need to learn Adobe Air, for example.
Folks, lemme tell you whatever you remember from learning javascript is largely irrelevant, especially memorizing and learning to 'read' all those ugly syntactical structures of text. In a word, jQuery is 'efficient'. Also, you know all those ajax modal & pop-up windows you see on 'web 2.0' sites, with the soft rounded corners. That's probably jQuery, more likely than not, and it is *easy* to code for, across browser. If you've avoided learning Ajax, you were smart to wait for jQuery.
from memory (mine) the 1st 2 GBs are free. So far that's all that's available because the firm is still in 'beta'. My understanding is once they come out of beta, they'll offer larger packages for a fee. I'll venture a guess versioning will arrive at some point too.
Google makes money by offering an alternative eco-system conducive to Google's world view; which by the way can differ from Microsoft's. Google *is* web-services for example and MS just discovered the word 'Cloud'.
From Google's perspective, if they didn't offer mobile and PC clients (i.e. Chrome) the alternatives are limited, and don't necessarily present Google apps in the best light, (especially if the world otherwise coded for Active-X).
Ars technica did a nice review of Dropbox, titled, "How Dropbox ended my search for seamless sync on Linux" (but it works on OSX 7 Windows too) http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080914-how-dropbox-ended-my-search-for-seamless-sync-on-linux.html
You broke me dude. I confess to being partial to the music-video known as "white 'n nerdy", by Weird Al. Sometimes, I can relate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
Modded informative?
/. format soon, really. (but isn't he just weird, and not really technical?)
Oh, right, this is News for Nerds; and Weird Al just made some News.
I'll figure out this
No kidding! Once I did PCI consulting for a firm that did nothing to support my quality work, trying to build a really secure, yet user-friendly and fully functional workgroup infrastructure (with Ubuntu workstation proto-types avail.). Please trust me when I say I Delivered on A Secure Plan with open-source Goods, and no budget. It didn't matter, because everyone really wanted their Windows & their iPods & Smartphones, and didn't see how I delivered, in meeting Requirements for the nature of my client's Transaction Processing Company.
All I needed was support and actual authority from the management to do my job. So I went to the management and I said point blank, "What did you hire me for? To deliver on a secure, auditable, Network Security Monitoring (NSM) infrastructure, which seems like a good investment, and worthy of my fees; or did you just hire me to help you pass a test? I never received a Direct answer to my question, other than I could go on describing little details of how our business relationship ended.
Um, excuse me sir. Would you like to see my pending patent?
I was using dreamhost.com servers and over (a short) time the spam became unbearable and I sought other solutions. I chose tuffmail and all my problems went away. I'm now in year 2. Maybe a single spam slips through now, a day.
OMG! This ain't no Poniez. Is the full-on Backtrack CD (just google backtrack for the link). Most users know it on either Live-CD or USB-stick boot-up form. I don't know of any manufacturers until now, that offer it pre-installed, tweaked, and (semi?) supported.
You think its news when Dell pre-loads Ubuntu on a laptop? In certain circles, this is *much* bigger news. It makes auditing one's own network a much more routine task, because this is a handy little wifi tool! Even *with* a live CD or USB stick, Good Luck acquiring or tweaking the wifi hardware to run the Backtrack distro well. This is a really compelling tool for people responsible for securing wifi networks. And its a PHONE too; that just happens to run Debian/Gnome. I want one BAD. All it needs is a bluetooth folding keyboard and its Golden; and I'm certain that's do-able. Oh, a thumb-scanner would be cool too. Schweeet!
OK, I know you're going to call me an old curmudgeon, but where can I run your Cocoa code? Pretty much all the customers in my market use Windows, but might be open to Linux. And we're all focused more heavily on servers too. New Apple hardware is going to be a tough sell too.
At least with javascript, I can expect a universal, albeit lowest-common-denominator client-base.
In Amsterdam, if you are walking a dog, the police may stop you and request to see the bags you are carrying in case your dog takes a dump, and you need to pick it up. No bags + dog = ticket.