I'd prefer a smaller memory foot print. Between GNOME, Mozilla, and X 512Megs of RAM is minimum required. I remember the days when I could run X on 32 Megs of RAM.. I miss those days.
Okay, then I am not experiencing deja vu:-)/. did f-up!
I've had no problems coding stuff for IE 5/6 and Firefox, using external css. You just have to know how to do it.
I'd really prefer MS to support the XMLHttpRequest object as part of the browser, rather than the Active X object that can be blocked by security settings.
Oh, our documentation person has had only a few problems with CSS, but they are actually minor.
Think of it this way, you don't have to buy that CSS2 / CSS 3 book:-)
no seriously.. I have a similar problem. I have recenetly installed 'its time' on my computer. It basically is setup to make me take a 5 minute break every 45 minutes. This makes me get off my butt and take a break. It locks me out of my computer, which can be annoying sometimes. I have managed to deal with it, and everyone at my office knows about this.
If that is to extreme for you, then you need to take the initiative to get off your butt and take breaks. Its your life not your bosses. Ask about telecommuting, or look for another job. A good employer will understand you need to take a break or work at home. If this one doesn't.. we'll watch the movie office space then and get a clue.
In looking at the article, it says that ISP must offer a way to block this content. In essance, all an ISP has to do to meet that criteria is ship a copy of net nanny or something like that, or even offer it for download. Having not seen the actual legislation its hard to say what the real scope of this is.
Personally I don't think ISP should be required to be responsible, I think parents should be forced to buy their own copy of net nanny.
All this kind of legislation is going to do is, its going to give ISP's in Utah an excuse why they need to charge their customers there more money. Oh, I have to tack on a $5 a month 'minor safety charge', so your bill is going up.
Maybe 5 years is to short, maybe 10 years or 8 years would be better. I understand your point, but for one company to monopolize the industry and pricing is outrageous. The problem here is that drug companies and software companies are getting patents and then using them for what is often NOT in the best interest of society as a whole.
EG: Amazon and their 'one click'. MS and the patents that they are going for. Yes and there are more too.
Part of the problem is that people are submitting patents today for things that were never really intended to be patented. The patent office is overwhelmed with patents that the examiners have no clue how to deal with so people get patents on things that they should not.
In the case of the drug companies, they get patents on chemical compounds. So if two companies would eventually come up with the same compound, which I believe they would, the first one gets the patent and locks the market for 20 years. They then take 2 or 3 years to get FDA approval, and then sell the drugs that people need at inflated prices. This is really not in the best interest of the people. But then again I like to change my habits instead of taking drugs, so that's how I screw the drug companies, but this does not work in all cases, like diabetics and many other diseases.
Actually I think that the better idea is to reform the patent laws. Rather than having a 20 year patent, how about 5 years instead. You get a patent, you have 5 years to make your money off it it. After that it is in the public domain.
If you think about all the patents out there this makes more sense. After 5 years, new ideas come along and often technology is old anyway and its time for a better technology to come along.
This also forces these companies to be more inventive, so that they cannot just ride the wave of 1 invention. Imagine if Ford was able to keep the patents on the car for all these years. We'ld all be driving fords and buying a car every 5 years, or found on road dead.
I didn't think Microsoft supported IE 5? Do they still?
I made a desision when I started developing a web applicaiton 2 years ago, for the company I work at. First I said NS 6.1+ or IE 6+ are required to run it, I'm not supporting anything else. The second thing is that JavaScript usage would be limited.
I dropped my second rule. I have a calendar that people can use for selection done as JavaScript object with properties and all. Everyone loves it, and it removes the please enter a date in mm dd yy format or parsing a date or anything, because I control the date without having to provide dropdowns. I suppose I could have done CC YY MM DD dropdowns.
IN any caseI have found that JavaScript can be very useful in web apps these days. Problem is it WILL limit what browser can run your application.
Manipulaing the DOM is a big plus. Each time you have to hit a server, its overhead. While I try to limit the JS to onchange setfiel, on click set variable. I have also implemented JS as edit checks for form submission and the 'submit' buttons are all buttons, that call form.submit. While I know people here at slashdot may say I suck for doing this, I could come up with no easier way to deal with a form that could have UP TO 10 different buttons on it. Edit, Clone, Delete, are all back end server funcitons and almost all updates have them. Then there is search and other funcitons. While it could use some rethought, Using JS has been the fastet way to get this up and running and to market.
Hey thanks! I had to load every midi module before/proc/asound/oss/sndstat showed up with synth and midi devices. Once they showed up sfxload was able to load my SB sound fonts. I had to do this for by othe opl3 and SB Live cards. I've now installed rosegarder4 and run it. WOW! Its f***in HOT!
I need to get some better midi patches, but its way better than the old rosegarden. To many features to learn all at onces, but its got pretty good documentation in the help. I really love this, thanks a bunch.
It seems that neither OSS nor ALSA support the SBLIve midi device very well or at all. I have heard about some success, but not much. Nor have I been able to get my other computer's opl3sa2 midi device to work with ALSO or OSS.
Kinda a bummer, to have to use timidiy to play sound.
I was going to suggest that if Oracle does that, then people will just use Sybase or mysql. We do that at my company. Clients that we want to sell our product to and charge them less, we sell them Sybase. The small clients we sell to don't care what the database is, just that our product makes their lives easier and works.
go to the better business bureaus, I have and I have had success in getting money back. www.bbb.org
You can file a report and they will send the company a letter and stuff for you. It also has company ratings. So if a company has pulled crap on customers before then they may have a record in their database. It is free too.
right now my company has chosen to develop the new web front end in java. Part of our application however does document generation. The document generation is ms word docs templates that get mailmerges from a database and then converted to pdf. It works okay, but to do this using java, I have had to use jacob the java com / active x bridge and make this a web service on a windows box. I'd rather see a solution done all in java on one box. By open xml format, we maybe able to do this, but it will require us to do some changes to our stuff.
I guess I better get rid of all my linux servers right now and replace them with Windows.. oh wait, I saved myself, how many $$$ on licensing costs by not using MS?
Hmm, I'd like to know if anyone here has created a Windows System that is totally runable off a CDROM, like I have with my Linux and BSD distros? I mean, I'd really like to see a hacker hack my CDROM firewall. Lets see them replace ls on a cd-r! Oh wait a minute you can't create a bootable cd-r with windows and make a dedicated firewall using only 32Megs of RAM and a cdrom.
Hmm My favorite security thing about windows lately is the new spy bots. Processes running in your process table that you can't delete. How secure is that?
So what is their defination of 'ready for the enterprise'? Evolution, OpenOffice aren't ready?
What's their defination of 'developer tools'? Perl, gtk+, qt, python, php, C, gcc, kdevelop, qt-developer, aren't developer tools?
NetBSD usually has pretty good hardware support. It usualy recgonizes most network cards. Especially wireless support in NetBSD is better IMHO. FreeBSD used to lock up my laptop with my netgear ma301 wifi nic, while NetBSD runs pretty nicely.
Configuring things to start up on the BSD's is all done in the/etc/rc.conf file, so once they are installed they are all very similar. Kernel is in/usr/src/sys and they have no GUI kernel config like Linux does (AFAIK). So if you have ever manually edited a.config for Linux you'll be right at home.
FreeBSD seems to have more software in the ports than netbsd does. I'm not sure about OpenBSD. OpenBSD never like my hardware. NetBSD actually recgonized my sound card better than Linux or FreeBSD on my laptop so that makes is more desirable.
If you need to use framebuffer programs that use svgalib or want to use them, and not run X windows, then FreeBSD is the choice. FreeBSD has a framebuffer that does graphics, fairly easily, while NetBSD does not.
NetBSD's SMP support is newer than FreeBSD, but it did no sound like that was an issue.
My suggestion is number them 1(NetBSD), 2(FreeBSD), 3(OpenBSD) and create a random number generator that picks it for you. Pretty much once you install one of them, the others are pretty close and easy to learn where things are.
yes and anyone that is left to compete has to sell their product at an even lower price or give it away ( open office ) just to get people to use it...
But then again non standard file formats dont help either.. IE ms word, excel
One issue I encountered was a win 98 vs win NT issue. The way that they handle memory allocating and freeing. In the win98 machine it seemed to always give the same memory for the login screens (yes screens). In particular the title of the screen was always the same memory location. We were developing on Windows 98 at that time. When we started testing / QA on NT. NT allocated different memory for the title bar. It was a bizare C memory leak. NT started showing garbage in the title of the second login screen. It turned out that it was either a none null terminated char pointer, or unallocated memory. I can't remmeber which.
Its hard to test and hit every scenerio. That's just a fact of software development that we all have to live with. You cannot ever test every situation so you go with what you got.
At my current job, there is a HUGE difference between dev and prod, and QA is someone closer to prod, but still on a dev box. In our dev world out env vars are much different than our prod world. Also our boxes are not pristine, they have been used and abused.
I'd add in the mandatory xml also and xslt. Why? Because XHTML 1.0 standard is out and it is where things should probably be going. XHTML does require the document to be standard xml, only with html tags, and more rules. XML and xslt can be rendered by any browser (IE / NS 6.x+ / Opera and some others) so learning that should be something else also.
As a web developer myself, if I were to be hiring someone now, I'd say they MUST know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, Java/Jsp/Servlets, and eitehr perl or php, and knowledge of VB and C wouldn't hurt. While I am not using php or perl for my project, I feel that knowledge of a scripting language other than JSP or JavaScript is a must. Perl and php are good easy ways to learn about hashtable and arrays.
ditto here. I've had problems on both OS and the BSD's when not admin. Some Firefox extensions install in user profile, others are global. The global ones are the ones that cause problems, probably for both OS.
I'd like to point out something. You can't always install software in linux without being an admin, unless you do --prefix=/home/you on most software, and if you get an RPM, then you need to be admin ( root ) to install those, or you need some admin rights.
Its not just windows, all OSes have this problem.
Typically where I have worked, the way sysadmins do it, is everyone gets admin rights. When someone becomes a problem to support, IE they install virus software, uninstall office, or do something really stupid to their computer, they generall loose admin rights on their computer, unless they are a VP or higherup manager.
Oh, yeah I forgot to mention, I have over 3 years worth of his data, and graphing it is not something anyone needs in tester. Diabetics would more likely need to know their 14 day average, and their 6 week average. It would also be nice it there was a way to bring the 6 week avereage test that they doctors use when he goes to his checkups to a home test kit as well.
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I'd prefer a smaller memory foot print. Between GNOME, Mozilla, and X 512Megs of RAM is minimum required. I remember the days when I could run X on 32 Megs of RAM .. I miss those days.
Funny thing is.. I thought MS was on the board that determined many of these standards it chooses to ignore.
I've had no problems coding stuff for IE 5/6 and Firefox, using external css. You just have to know how to do it.
I'd really prefer MS to support the XMLHttpRequest object as part of the browser, rather than the Active X object that can be blocked by security settings.
Oh, our documentation person has had only a few problems with CSS, but they are actually minor.
Think of it this way, you don't have to buy that CSS2 / CSS 3 book :-)
Actually I didn't have the option of a raise. I was able to get a 19"lcd, but still, noone here has gotton a raise....
I forfeitted a raise for a 19" lcd, so yes.. think of all the benifits you get. 1) save gas, 2 save time, 3) save stress...
If that is to extreme for you, then you need to take the initiative to get off your butt and take breaks. Its your life not your bosses. Ask about telecommuting, or look for another job. A good employer will understand you need to take a break or work at home. If this one doesn't.. we'll watch the movie office space then and get a clue.
In looking at the article, it says that ISP must offer a way to block this content. In essance, all an ISP has to do to meet that criteria is ship a copy of net nanny or something like that, or even offer it for download. Having not seen the actual legislation its hard to say what the real scope of this is.
Personally I don't think ISP should be required to be responsible, I think parents should be forced to buy their own copy of net nanny.
All this kind of legislation is going to do is, its going to give ISP's in Utah an excuse why they need to charge their customers there more money. Oh, I have to tack on a $5 a month 'minor safety charge', so your bill is going up.
we all want decent porn if we are going to pay for it LOL....
EG: Amazon and their 'one click'. MS and the patents that they are going for. Yes and there are more too.
Part of the problem is that people are submitting patents today for things that were never really intended to be patented. The patent office is overwhelmed with patents that the examiners have no clue how to deal with so people get patents on things that they should not.
In the case of the drug companies, they get patents on chemical compounds. So if two companies would eventually come up with the same compound, which I believe they would, the first one gets the patent and locks the market for 20 years. They then take 2 or 3 years to get FDA approval, and then sell the drugs that people need at inflated prices. This is really not in the best interest of the people. But then again I like to change my habits instead of taking drugs, so that's how I screw the drug companies, but this does not work in all cases, like diabetics and many other diseases.
If you think about all the patents out there this makes more sense. After 5 years, new ideas come along and often technology is old anyway and its time for a better technology to come along.
This also forces these companies to be more inventive, so that they cannot just ride the wave of 1 invention. Imagine if Ford was able to keep the patents on the car for all these years. We'ld all be driving fords and buying a car every 5 years, or found on road dead.
I made a desision when I started developing a web applicaiton 2 years ago, for the company I work at. First I said NS 6.1+ or IE 6+ are required to run it, I'm not supporting anything else. The second thing is that JavaScript usage would be limited.
I dropped my second rule. I have a calendar that people can use for selection done as JavaScript object with properties and all. Everyone loves it, and it removes the please enter a date in mm dd yy format or parsing a date or anything, because I control the date without having to provide dropdowns. I suppose I could have done CC YY MM DD dropdowns.
IN any caseI have found that JavaScript can be very useful in web apps these days. Problem is it WILL limit what browser can run your application.
Manipulaing the DOM is a big plus. Each time you have to hit a server, its overhead. While I try to limit the JS to onchange setfiel, on click set variable. I have also implemented JS as edit checks for form submission and the 'submit' buttons are all buttons, that call form.submit. While I know people here at slashdot may say I suck for doing this, I could come up with no easier way to deal with a form that could have UP TO 10 different buttons on it. Edit, Clone, Delete, are all back end server funcitons and almost all updates have them. Then there is search and other funcitons. While it could use some rethought, Using JS has been the fastet way to get this up and running and to market.
I need to get some better midi patches, but its way better than the old rosegarden. To many features to learn all at onces, but its got pretty good documentation in the help. I really love this, thanks a bunch.
Kinda a bummer, to have to use timidiy to play sound.
I was going to suggest that if Oracle does that, then people will just use Sybase or mysql. We do that at my company. Clients that we want to sell our product to and charge them less, we sell them Sybase. The small clients we sell to don't care what the database is, just that our product makes their lives easier and works.
You can file a report and they will send the company a letter and stuff for you. It also has company ratings. So if a company has pulled crap on customers before then they may have a record in their database. It is free too.
right now my company has chosen to develop the new web front end in java. Part of our application however does document generation. The document generation is ms word docs templates that get mailmerges from a database and then converted to pdf. It works okay, but to do this using java, I have had to use jacob the java com / active x bridge and make this a web service on a windows box. I'd rather see a solution done all in java on one box. By open xml format, we maybe able to do this, but it will require us to do some changes to our stuff.
Hmm, I'd like to know if anyone here has created a Windows System that is totally runable off a CDROM, like I have with my Linux and BSD distros? I mean, I'd really like to see a hacker hack my CDROM firewall. Lets see them replace ls on a cd-r! Oh wait a minute you can't create a bootable cd-r with windows and make a dedicated firewall using only 32Megs of RAM and a cdrom.
Hmm My favorite security thing about windows lately is the new spy bots. Processes running in your process table that you can't delete. How secure is that?
So what is their defination of 'ready for the enterprise'? Evolution, OpenOffice aren't ready?
What's their defination of 'developer tools'? Perl, gtk+, qt, python, php, C, gcc, kdevelop, qt-developer, aren't developer tools?
You just gotta love that MS FUD!
Haven't these people seen the movie yet?
First Glofish, now this... wtf!
Configuring things to start up on the BSD's is all done in the /etc/rc.conf file, so once they are installed they are all very similar. Kernel is in /usr/src/sys and they have no GUI kernel config like Linux does (AFAIK). So if you have ever manually edited a .config for Linux you'll be right at home.
FreeBSD seems to have more software in the ports than netbsd does. I'm not sure about OpenBSD. OpenBSD never like my hardware. NetBSD actually recgonized my sound card better than Linux or FreeBSD on my laptop so that makes is more desirable.
If you need to use framebuffer programs that use svgalib or want to use them, and not run X windows, then FreeBSD is the choice. FreeBSD has a framebuffer that does graphics, fairly easily, while NetBSD does not.
NetBSD's SMP support is newer than FreeBSD, but it did no sound like that was an issue.
My suggestion is number them 1(NetBSD), 2(FreeBSD), 3(OpenBSD) and create a random number generator that picks it for you. Pretty much once you install one of them, the others are pretty close and easy to learn where things are.
But then again non standard file formats dont help either.. IE ms word, excel
.. use it.. I personally would not use it, but I know some people who want to be so tech connected they will find a way to pay for it...
Its hard to test and hit every scenerio. That's just a fact of software development that we all have to live with. You cannot ever test every situation so you go with what you got.
At my current job, there is a HUGE difference between dev and prod, and QA is someone closer to prod, but still on a dev box. In our dev world out env vars are much different than our prod world. Also our boxes are not pristine, they have been used and abused.
As a web developer myself, if I were to be hiring someone now, I'd say they MUST know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, Java/Jsp/Servlets, and eitehr perl or php, and knowledge of VB and C wouldn't hurt. While I am not using php or perl for my project, I feel that knowledge of a scripting language other than JSP or JavaScript is a must. Perl and php are good easy ways to learn about hashtable and arrays.
I'd like to point out something. You can't always install software in linux without being an admin, unless you do --prefix=/home/you on most software, and if you get an RPM, then you need to be admin ( root ) to install those, or you need some admin rights.
Its not just windows, all OSes have this problem.
Typically where I have worked, the way sysadmins do it, is everyone gets admin rights. When someone becomes a problem to support, IE they install virus software, uninstall office, or do something really stupid to their computer, they generall loose admin rights on their computer, unless they are a VP or higherup manager.
Oh, yeah I forgot to mention, I have over 3 years worth of his data, and graphing it is not something anyone needs in tester. Diabetics would more likely need to know their 14 day average, and their 6 week average. It would also be nice it there was a way to bring the 6 week avereage test that they doctors use when he goes to his checkups to a home test kit as well.