Working for a.com that "re-orginased" it's staff several times, we had a room full of unused monitors. Most of the team now use two monitors. It really helps with apps like Visual Studio. I tried four monitors once, this was great, the only drawback was I kept loosing the mouse pointer.
You know somethings gone very bad when people do a song to promote technology.
I was at an MS conferance on converting apps to VB.net, thay were playing the "VB Rap Song". Don't know about the other delegates, but if MS need a bunch or rappers to try and make Visual Basic look cool i think it's time to choose C#. I'd love to get the MP3 of it by the way, it was sooo bad.
I agree, good job there is no Nobel Prize for Techies.
The nomainations are: (o) Gilbert van Nork for his "Spider Case" modification. (o) David Bradley for the "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" key combination. (o) Trevor Blackwell for his home made Segway. (o) Cowboy Neil.
I have an Aussie mate who was on a plane home last year, and sat next to a middle-aged American lady. She was talking about TV, and asked if they have cable in Australia. He said his family had just got their first TV, but that the guy next door was going to get one that showed things in colour instead of black and white. He then asked the lady what a video was, and she went into a long detailed explanation of how you could set it to record a program when you were out, then come back and watch it later. Much to the amusement of the twenty or so Aussies who were in hearing range of her explanation.
We do have some good TV in the UK. I just heard you guys over the water are getting you'r own version of "Coupling".
Please, do yourselves a favour and download the original episodes from iMesh, Direct Connect, or whatever.
From the site:
"NBC is promoting Coupling as sexy and risque but it has backed down over throwaway jokes about swallowing and refused outright to allow Moynihan's Jeff to refer to girlfriends you can't get rid of as "unflushables"."
Without Jeff's "Unflushables", your are really missing out...
The amount of energy in food is measured in kilocalories (kCal), check your Cola-Light, 1 kcal per can (1,000 calories), but they say its "One Calorie". How the hell do they get away with that?
Shit, I need to lose 10 kilograms, and I should be running 10 kilometers a week. Think i'll just chnge the units, run 10 meters, and lose 10 grams.
>>I've searched the web, but most of the sites that supposedly have information of this type just want you to sign up for their seminars.
There's a great book "Rapid Developemnt" by Steve McConnel, I recomment every developer/project manager to read it. I remember reading a good section on how to say 'No' in a professionl way.
He has a bunch of exerpts and articles here: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/
"you can use GS/TCP to implement a standard BSD socket interface, allowing you to connect via SLIP, MacIP, and soon PPP on a GNO/ME (GNO Multitasking Environment) UNIX system for the IIgs"
Sorry, but I have no idea what any of that means. Either I'm loosing my touch with IT issue, or there is another level of extreme geekdom that I have never before encountered. Is this kind of stuff relevant in today's IT industry, or is it mealy the electronic masturbation of the great un-shaved?
What a coincidence -- I actually had to take my work KB (a new IBM mush-model similar to the one in the article) aart to fix it Monday because the 'P' key was getting less and less reliable, and my tying was steadily getting worse.
When I oed the 'P' key off and looked underneath, the rubber contact mat was off center, like it had been stretched underneath so the contact didn't line u under the key. I ulled a few screws, blew out the dust and the rubber sring mat that lies on the contacts was misaligned by, like, 1/4 inch in areas. I ulled it off and tried to re-align it roerly when I realized that the lastic/mylar/whatever contact sheet on the bottom wasn't flat either - like a rug that wasn't quite cut the correct shae for a room, there was a hum in it. I loosened the screws around the contacts to the CB and I was able to then flatten the contact sheet and retighten, then realign the rubber sringmat and reassemble.
Voila! erfect. I want to oint out three things.
1) It's still not a model M. If you find an old one GET IT, even if it's missing a few keys. Your neighbors' neighbors will hate all the clicking, but your fingers will be very, very hay. I ersonally have one of these as well as an original Northgate Omnikey Ultra urchased by me from Northgate Inc. in 1990 which was in use until March of this year. I relaced it because I bought a new C and wanted a wireless KB. Every collector's shelf should have a Northgate on it, too.
2) This new IBM has way more contacts inside than keys. I realize this is so they can roduce one electronic assembly to suort 15 languages, but I wonder what the other contacts would do if I hit them. Maybe I'll get bored later today.
3) IBM's subassembly quality control has really hit the can. I realize this is a $5 keyboard, which by its design exects a certain number of defects, but if you could see how badly aligned the sringmat was in this thing... SHEESH!
In the UK a while back, they tried to put people off buying bootleg VHS tapes from dodgey dealers buy saying stuff like "If you buy a childrens cartoon, you might find that the tape has been used before, and contains hard core pornography at the end."
The guys selling those tapes must have thought christmas had come early. Hundreds of man in raincoats saying "You got any Pokemon, nudge nudge wink wink, you know what I mean...".
Back in school (84) we learnt Basic on Commadore Pets. We were taught that if you wanted to calculate finances for your business, you wrote a Basic program to do it. There was no real word processors, spreadsheets, database apps that were used. Kids could either write code, or play games.
Nowerdays theres a lot of creative stuff to do with computers, learning how to use the web, office software, graphics applications etc. Lots of these skills are more useful for a broad career path than coding.
As for asperint neards, it's harder to get into coding, the Beginners guides tend to be 1000+ pages, and the size of the API and class libraries is daunting.
I would recommend HTML -> JavaScript -> ASP / JSP -> Java / VB / C# as a good route. Start with something simple and visual, then increace the complexity. Having a grasp of Java or C# will be a plus for further studies.
(But then again, my dad said spelling and handwriting would be a plus, as when I got a job, the company I worked for may not have a computer...)
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>>Your research should include the side of the can, where it says "Serve extra cold".
That's so the 'Widget' with the CO2 inside works more effectivly. The canned draught bitters also work better when cold, but it's not the correct temperature that the beer should be drunk at.
Windows 95 is unstable....Windows 2000 was a huge improvement.
Windows 2000 Server is insecure....The 2003 servers ARE a big step in the right direction.
If they progress as far in the next decade as in the past decade, they will be delivering stable, relyable and secure servers. If that happens I dont see Linux based systems able to offer too much competition.
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The BBC have all their radio stations available with Real Audio feeds here.
"Microsoft Longhorn"
Now there's an oxymoron for you.
I think he got away quite litely. When you consider how the Open Source community punishes such behaviour he did quite will.
Working for a .com that "re-orginased" it's staff several times, we had a room full of unused monitors. Most of the team now use two monitors. It really helps with apps like Visual Studio.
I tried four monitors once, this was great, the only drawback was I kept loosing the mouse pointer.
When creating the first series:
Director: We want to do a space-sci-fi-time-traveling show. We need a big spaceship, with lots of flashing lights, and fins and things.
Props man: This is the BBC, scale it down a bit.
Director: OK, we need a cheep plastic model spaceship that hangs on wires that we can do cheesy fly-by shots with.
Props man: This is the BBC, scale it down a bit.
Director: Well, we need something. What have you got?
Props man: Well, we have this old police phone box from "Dixon of Dock Green.", it needs a lick of paint but...
.. Next version:
"The prohpesy will be forfilled soon, but before it can be, the SQL Server must be consulted."
You know somethings gone very bad when people do a song to promote technology.
I was at an MS conferance on converting apps to VB.net, thay were playing the "VB Rap Song". Don't know about the other delegates, but if MS need a bunch or rappers to try and make Visual Basic look cool i think it's time to choose C#.
I'd love to get the MP3 of it by the way, it was sooo bad.
I agree, good job there is no Nobel Prize for Techies.
The nomainations are:
(o) Gilbert van Nork for his "Spider Case" modification.
(o) David Bradley for the "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" key combination.
(o) Trevor Blackwell for his home made Segway.
(o) Cowboy Neil.
Cast your votes.
I have an Aussie mate who was on a plane home last year, and sat next to a middle-aged American lady. She was talking about TV, and asked if they have cable in Australia. He said his family had just got their first TV, but that the guy next door was going to get one that showed things in colour instead of black and white.
He then asked the lady what a video was, and she went into a long detailed explanation of how you could set it to record a program when you were out, then come back and watch it later. Much to the amusement of the twenty or so Aussies who were in hearing range of her explanation.
"Ironically, the winners in each event received new computer hardware."
What????
We do have some good TV in the UK. I just heard you guys over the water are getting you'r own version of "Coupling".
Please, do yourselves a favour and download the original episodes from iMesh, Direct Connect, or whatever.
From the site:
"NBC is promoting Coupling as sexy and risque but it has backed down over throwaway jokes about swallowing and refused outright to allow Moynihan's Jeff to refer to girlfriends you can't get rid of as "unflushables"."
Without Jeff's "Unflushables", your are really missing out...
>>Everything should be done low-budget.
Come on, this is the BBC we are talking about.
When creating the first series:
Director: We want to do a space-sci-fi-time-traveling show. We need a big spaceship, with lots of flashing lights, and fins and things.
Props man: This is the BBC, scale it down a bit.
Director: OK, we need a cheep plastic model spaceship that hangs on wires that we can do cheesy fly-by shots with.
Props man: This is the BBC, scale it down a bit.
Director: Well, we need something. What have you got?
Props man: Well, we have this old police phone box from "Dixon of Dock Green.", it needs a lick of paint but...
How can "Java == SUV". it does not support operator overloads?
Maybe Java.equals (SUV).
The amount of energy in food is measured in kilocalories (kCal), check your Cola-Light, 1 kcal per can (1,000 calories), but they say its "One Calorie". How the hell do they get away with that?
Shit, I need to lose 10 kilograms, and I should be running 10 kilometers a week. Think i'll just chnge the units, run 10 meters, and lose 10 grams.
You can do it with ndoc. C# has XML commenting, but the doc generation in VS.net is pretty poor.
ndoc will create a chm file for you.
In England we have Videophones
In Japan they have Cars that drive themselves
And the french have a Moving Sidewalk
X-Prize?
They win an X-Box?
>>I've searched the web, but most of the sites that supposedly have information of this type just want you to sign up for their seminars.
There's a great book "Rapid Developemnt" by Steve McConnel, I recomment every developer/project manager to read it. I remember reading a good section on how to say 'No' in a professionl way.
He has a bunch of exerpts and articles here:
http://www.stevemcconnell.com/
"you can use GS/TCP to implement a standard BSD socket interface, allowing you to connect via SLIP, MacIP, and soon PPP on a GNO/ME (GNO Multitasking Environment) UNIX system for the IIgs"
Sorry, but I have no idea what any of that means. Either I'm loosing my touch with IT issue, or there is another level of extreme geekdom that I have never before encountered. Is this kind of stuff relevant in today's IT industry, or is it mealy the electronic masturbation of the great un-shaved?
What a coincidence -- I actually had to take my work KB (a new IBM mush-model similar to the one in the article) aart to fix it Monday because the 'P' key was getting less and less reliable, and my tying was steadily getting worse.
When I oed the 'P' key off and looked underneath, the rubber contact mat was off center, like it had been stretched underneath so the contact didn't line u under the key. I ulled a few screws, blew out the dust and the rubber sring mat that lies on the contacts was misaligned by, like, 1/4 inch in areas. I ulled it off and tried to re-align it roerly when I realized that the lastic/mylar/whatever contact sheet on the bottom wasn't flat either - like a rug that wasn't quite cut the correct shae for a room, there was a hum in it. I loosened the screws around the contacts to the CB and I was able to then flatten the contact sheet and retighten, then realign the rubber sringmat and reassemble.
Voila! erfect. I want to oint out three things.
1) It's still not a model M. If you find an old one GET IT, even if it's missing a few keys. Your neighbors' neighbors will hate all the clicking, but your fingers will be very, very hay. I ersonally have one of these as well as an original Northgate Omnikey Ultra urchased by me from Northgate Inc. in 1990 which was in use until March of this year. I relaced it because I bought a new C and wanted a wireless KB. Every collector's shelf should have a Northgate on it, too.
2) This new IBM has way more contacts inside than keys. I realize this is so they can roduce one electronic assembly to suort 15 languages, but I wonder what the other contacts would do if I hit them. Maybe I'll get bored later today.
3) IBM's subassembly quality control has really hit the can. I realize this is a $5 keyboard, which by its design exects a certain number of defects, but if you could see how badly aligned the sringmat was in this thing... SHEESH!
>>You go for Pokemon, you get porn
In the UK a while back, they tried to put people off buying bootleg VHS tapes from dodgey dealers buy saying stuff like "If you buy a childrens cartoon, you might find that the tape has been used before, and contains hard core pornography at the end."
The guys selling those tapes must have thought christmas had come early. Hundreds of man in raincoats saying "You got any Pokemon, nudge nudge wink wink, you know what I mean...".
Back in school (84) we learnt Basic on Commadore Pets. We were taught that if you wanted to calculate finances for your business, you wrote a Basic program to do it. There was no real word processors, spreadsheets, database apps that were used. Kids could either write code, or play games.
Nowerdays theres a lot of creative stuff to do with computers, learning how to use the web, office software, graphics applications etc. Lots of these skills are more useful for a broad career path than coding.
As for asperint neards, it's harder to get into coding, the Beginners guides tend to be 1000+ pages, and the size of the API and class libraries is daunting.
I would recommend HTML -> JavaScript -> ASP / JSP -> Java / VB / C# as a good route. Start with something simple and visual, then increace the complexity. Having a grasp of Java or C# will be a plus for further studies.
(But then again, my dad said spelling and handwriting would be a plus, as when I got a job, the company I worked for may not have a computer...)
>>Your research should include the side of the can, where it says "Serve extra cold".
That's so the 'Widget' with the CO2 inside works more effectivly. The canned draught bitters also work better when cold, but it's not the correct temperature that the beer should be drunk at.
... bad news for Linux etc. when it does.
...95 was a big improvement.
...Windows 2000 was a huge improvement.
...The 2003 servers ARE a big step in the right direction.
Windows 3 was crap.
Windows 95 is unstable.
Windows 2000 Server is insecure.
If they progress as far in the next decade as in the past decade, they will be delivering stable, relyable and secure servers. If that happens I dont see Linux based systems able to offer too much competition.
This guy.
No, no, awfully sorry that's not quite what were looking for, NEXT!