the bottom line is sun hardware is more expensive than intel. sure sun is better but better means more expensive, which some IT shops don't want to pay for. I wonder what the support level will be for open source solaris 10. I think linux will still reign. It is a desparate attempt of sun to get back on the map, and stop losing money but spurring hardware sales. They should have done this years ago, the problem is the real margins is in software, not hardware.
why does this thread turn political? I don't see when another country's government turn off the M$ machine, do/.'ers start the political commentary. Why Israel? Its best to keep this forum A-Political.
when I was working at HP, i had to repartition my disk on my laptop to install RH Linux. The IT guys freaked. I was "cut off" from support. I was on my own, which really sucked especially after my hard drive went.
could you post an example of this? perhaps on your website. I am too an consultant/developer and use servlets quite heavily. I understand what you are getting at, but sometimes I need to see it to really get it.
great thread! I love it when people plan their social activities around TV, "well, I'd like to go out and have some fun on Thursday, but I have ER (or whatever)." Once, I in town and hadn't seen these guys in a year, and asked them what they were up to tonight, they said, "well tonight is our ritual watching of.... (some stupid TV show)." Its like VCR's aren't even good enough, we gotta get together and experience this bullshit together, live. Get a life...
Good article but I found some technical misnomers in the features of wap...
Wireless Sessions- actually wap support connection orientated and connection-less sessions, which means you have to choose the connection orientated session in both the client and the server(the default in most servers is connection-less). Connection orientated sessions are slower because they have the overhead of tcp/ip like handshake.
Device Abstraction - this is a bad thing! it is simliar to the problems writing html content for IE and netscape. Here you are creating special versions for specific phones. Isn't this what standards are suppposed to avoid?
Bearer Abstraction - this is wap's biggest strength.
Data/Header Compression - actually they are compiled to byte code.
Reliability - wap doesn't support fragmentation, which means if you send a packet that is too big for the phone (i.e. Nokia 7110 has a max page size of less than 1400 bytes) it blows!
Otherwise a good article, although a bit biased towards the author's company. Also no mention of the open source wap gateway project Kannel
I was interviewing with a startup (who hadn't even picked a name yet). They had a process where we would first meet with the 2 founders (one tech, one biz), talk about ourselves, experiences, expectations, etc...
Then, if you got called back for a second meeting they get into salary issues. After you work that out, the last step is disclosure (with an NDA). They claim 100% of their candidates who get to this stage sign a contract. I thought it was strange at first but realized that perhaps they are smart about this. Essentially, what is more important, the project (i.e. what languages/platforms/processes you will write) or the company (i.e. the people, financials, vision)?
usenet is the single greatest resource on the web today. Its "imminent" death is exagerated. However port 119 often is not open behind corporate firewalls, and although there are public newservers around, often you can't post to them. This should change. -hoz
Great Book! Lots of code to learn from instead of longwinded commentary, accomplished author and its free online at http://www.eckelObjects.com/javabook.html
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did they opensource this? I heard way back they killed support for x86
the bottom line is sun hardware is more expensive than intel. sure sun is better but better means more expensive, which some IT shops don't want to pay for. I wonder what the support level will be for open source solaris 10. I think linux will still reign. It is a desparate attempt of sun to get back on the map, and stop losing money but spurring hardware sales. They should have done this years ago, the problem is the real margins is in software, not hardware.
why does this thread turn political? I don't see when another country's government turn off the M$ machine, do /.'ers start the political commentary. Why Israel? Its best to keep this forum A-Political.
when I was working at HP, i had to repartition my disk on my laptop to install RH Linux. The IT guys freaked. I was "cut off" from support. I was on my own, which really sucked especially after my hard drive went.
if i wanted to get into CGI (computer generated images), what software do the pros use?
if I were building a new IDE, I would add things like a multiple select option, say select and copy only lines 5 and 10. That would be cool
could you post an example of this? perhaps on your website. I am too an consultant/developer and use servlets quite heavily. I understand what you are getting at, but sometimes I need to see it to really get it.
Anyone know what the market is like in Toronto? Who is hiring over there and what is hot? -hoz
great thread! I love it when people plan their social activities around TV, "well, I'd like to go out and have some fun on Thursday, but I have ER (or whatever)." Once, I in town and hadn't seen these guys in a year, and asked them what they were up to tonight, they said, "well tonight is our ritual watching of .... (some stupid TV show)." Its like VCR's aren't even good enough, we gotta get together and experience this bullshit together, live. Get a life...
Good article but I found some technical misnomers in the features of wap...
Wireless Sessions- actually wap support connection orientated and connection-less sessions, which means you have to choose the connection orientated session in both the client and the server(the default in most servers is connection-less). Connection orientated sessions are slower because they have the overhead of tcp/ip like handshake.
Device Abstraction - this is a bad thing! it is simliar to the problems writing html content for IE and netscape. Here you are creating special versions for specific phones. Isn't this what standards are suppposed to avoid?
Bearer Abstraction - this is wap's biggest strength.
Data/Header Compression - actually they are compiled to byte code.
Reliability - wap doesn't support fragmentation, which means if you send a packet that is too big for the phone (i.e. Nokia 7110 has a max page size of less than 1400 bytes) it blows!
Otherwise a good article, although a bit biased towards the author's company. Also no mention of the open source wap gateway project Kannel
I was interviewing with a startup (who hadn't even picked a name yet). They had a process where we would first meet with the 2 founders (one tech, one biz), talk about ourselves, experiences, expectations, etc... Then, if you got called back for a second meeting they get into salary issues. After you work that out, the last step is disclosure (with an NDA). They claim 100% of their candidates who get to this stage sign a contract. I thought it was strange at first but realized that perhaps they are smart about this. Essentially, what is more important, the project (i.e. what languages/platforms/processes you will write) or the company (i.e. the people, financials, vision)?
usenet is the single greatest resource on the web today. Its "imminent" death is exagerated. However port 119 often is not open behind corporate firewalls, and although there are public newservers around, often you can't post to them. This should change. -hoz
Great Book! Lots of code to learn from instead of longwinded commentary, accomplished author and its free online at http://www.eckelObjects.com/javabook.html