Okay but I'm going to bring this back to my original point that Linux and samba can create a better domain controller and active directory setup then windows. Maybe for medical applications you do need windows, I don't know as I'm not in that field but as for domain controllers I would go samba over windows in 100% of all cases.
I know exactly what I'm talking about, in my experience the only people who blast Linux are really covering up the fact they don't understand it. Windows is capable because Microsoft slapped a over bloated GUI on. I've used many Windows and Linux servers and I have yet to see a case where Linux wasn't the better choice in 99% of all cases. That 1% is for the "special" software that some VP wants installed that only runs on Windows.
I've had many people complain that they have to learn the command line to use Linux and they need to understand how the network works and etc.... but I tell them to grab a book and learn. Out out the 100's of Linux servers I managed I would down grade 0 of them to Windows, from my personal experience Windows gets in the way and allows slop on my network, Linux keeps it neat and running fast, even the master Domain controller which is used for something like 1000 people to log onto the network is Linux based. Before I started the Domain controller was a Windows Server and the login time wasn't horrible, after I upgraded it to a Linux server we shaved about 1/2 second off the login times and another 20% on resource use. So my statement holds, If you don't want to use Linux for your network then you either don't understand it or you don't want to put effort in upfront.
Samba 4 is an EXCELLENT replacement for Active Directory. Any first year IT / Networking student should be able to configure a complete domain controller and master PC using Samba. In many cases Samba out preforms Active Directory on Windows. Samba uses less resources, less over head and that all get returned in speed. Infact the only case where I would consider using Windows Server in place of a Linux Server is if I could only hire grade 10 IT nerds who have no idea what there doing. If you want a server you want Linux, Windows is for people who want to show off there GUI instead of getting work done.
I personally think it looks horrible, it's a big triangle, it looks like a mac book case and overall it bulky and retro styled in a bad way. I would of expected to see something like this in an old star trek episode as a "future yacht", I would never of thought that anyone would build a massive yacht and make this ugly on purpose.
I completely understand what your saying, I just personally don't like being tied into a defined style. Well your right that you can find some errors with ease when you format your code in a more appropriate style, it's wrong to force that style on to everyone. In the case when you working with old code I think the worst thing to find is a lack of comments. I will gladly take poorly formatted code then no comments.
Coders should spend their time looking at the code, not getting distracted by style variations.
I just saw that line, I agree, a developer shouldn't waste his time being distracted by style variations. A developer should program the way they want and how they want and commit the code. If coding style is GD important to certain people then they can write a code format script and give it to me, I'll follow what the IDE wants me to and never look back.
If your writing code you can't read then it doesn't matter if your following a style or not. If you have a block of code that fails because you make a typo because of slop then you've proven you don't test your code, which again isn't a coding style issue.
Well white space I believe can help the majority of programmers, white spaces wont help every programmer. I think it's far smarter to develop a style which works for your self, that allows you to read code quickly, that keeps your work clean and arranges your logic then it is for you to submit to a 3rd party style. What I find nice and easy to work with wont always be what you want to work with. I can get more and better coding done coding comfortably my way and you can get more and better code done coding your way.
Maybe ( and this isn't true ) I prefer no white space in an if statement, if(x==y){x++}else{y--} or maybe I prefer to use x==y?x++:y--; If that is what I like to program with then I should be allowed to write my code my way. If I make a typo or a mistake because I didn't A) test my code and B) write slop I can't read then I've only show I need to grow up and pull my head of out my ass. On the exact other side of the coin I might have the worlds most beautiful coding format setup, but it wont stop me from doing if( x = y ) which is a clear typo, I can surf on by it for weeks, after all I believe an exact bug like this caused AT&T to crash.
Over all I believe that every programmer should use there own style, use what works for them.
You didn't rest any case, all you demonstrated was that you can write garbage. If you make a typo in your code then you made a typo, the best code style in the world doesn't prevent mistakes. If I wrote a module for a program you were working on and you wanted my module to look a certain way then you can have your IDE or Text Editor format it with one click. Regardless of how it's formatted mistakes will exist, if you make it hard to read on purpose then your just an ass. Out of all honestly can you read that? If your formatting code in such a way you can't read it then the problem isn't the coding style, it's maturity. In the same right I'm not going to complain to someone if I don't like how the code is formatted, I'll format the code myself by pressing the format button.
I'm not bashing your belief in coding styles but I'm pointing out how I personally don't like them, after all there is a reason code formatting is built into modern IDE's and Text Editors, we should make use of them rather then rely on the programmer to work on style.
I personally hate coding styles, a coding style gets in the way of producing code. If someone wants my code formatted in a certain way then they should format it when they get it. Almost all commercial IDE's and Text Editors can format code at the click of a button so if someone really wants my code formatted they should set up the rules and do it themselves, after all if the argument is they can't click a button then it's not my fault.
100 years ago your day included throwing on overalls and going farming. Everything was X, Y, Z, you could write it down, follow it and have it work. Even the early industrial movement showed thinking that followed X, Y, Z. As humanity has progressed and started to apply philosophical ideals to tasks we have developed systems where a job that was once X, Y, Z is now a complex equation of variable introduction. Fundamentally everything has seen this shift, from farming up to global commerce. So why have the IQ score gone up, well I would say it's probably because of the mental level of application required to grasp the basic ideas.
Wow, who would put real information on sites like Facebook, MySpace etc... If your going to put real details up use a site like LinkedIn, anywhere else if someone needs to know who you are then you can take it offline. The security risk of putting your info online is huge.
I went a "technical" college / university and I can tell you in 75% of cases I out weighted the profs technically. The profs were better technically endowed but still lacked a lot of basic skill. Everything we did was Windows based, we weren't allowed to step to far outside the box and we used mainly closed source wide spread software to run everything. Really to be honest it would of been worth my time and money to go to a normal college and tech it up myself. Now that I'm graduated I would honestly recommend to not put to much trust in a tech college, do it your own and rock it!.
They want you to think of Windows 8 as a replacement that is so good they need not have a sp2 for 7. They also want to give the impression they're stopping support for 7 so anyone who wants customer service will have to upgrade, which in the end all lends itself to profile.
The first thing I do when ever I sit down to work on old code that I haven't developed is to comment every ( or almost every ) line of code. Once I fill in all the comments I can get a much better sense of what the developer was trying to do and in some cases fix those awful blocks that almost stun the mind. The second thing I do is upload the code to a SCM system like GIT and then fork it so I'm always working off a separate branch. Beyond that I just usually need a lot of coffee, a few good cigars and loud music because lets face it 70%+ of old code is beyond the state of crap.
The issue here is that the mobile platform isn't even okay at doing these jobs. It's really bad, if you bought a camera or GPS that performed at the level the phone does you wouldn't just send it back you would besmirch the name of the company for eternity. The GPS in my phone can't even lock onto a single satellite, I've tried it a few times for fun and just gave up. The "new" iPhone and Samsung S3 take pictures which frankly look about as good as a 10 dollar point a click. You would assume or think for the $600+ price tag you get something better then poor.
Whats interesting and what I just thought of is this, You wouldn't ask a single contractor to overhaul your house, do the plumbing, electrical, wood working and etc.... So why would you buy a phone to be a jack of all trades. The more you can do in a smaller package the lower quality you can do it. Sure a contractor can do electrical and plumbing and frame a house but the work wont come close in quality as it would if you hired an electrician and plumber.
However I will give you that some times snapping a photo on a phone is nice, or just jumping on Facebook for an update. However I would say those are option which the phone can be used for as opposed to being used in a capacity to replace ( If that makes sense ). I'm one of those people who believe that when a device exists to solve a real problem, if exist for a reason. For instance GPS was created out of need, high quality cameras were created a need and the same with mobile phones. If I want to take a picture I wont go buy a GPS with a camera. That might be just me and a small handful of others.
1) Social networking
2) High res photos ( I bought this new device called a camera!!!!!!!! )
3) GPS ( I own a GPS:-O )
4) High speed browsing ( I can use a computer )
I can not believe they have kids wearing id cards that can be tracked!!!! Has anyone thought about the right to privacy, this is inconceivable and goes against everything the US stands for. It's a good thing we let our kids use debit / credit cards and allows them mobile phone / computer access all the time, for a minutes it was almost as if they weren't already being tracked non stop and targeted. Nope thank god, but this id card that is the issue that we need to hear bitched about for weeks now.
The US has officially 0 credit, after running laps in gym class got banned it's clear the US doesn't really care about health. Sugary drinks, banning "bad" school lunch, cutting gym class, getting rid of laps, what is next to assure 100% doubt that the US has a clue on health.
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Okay but I'm going to bring this back to my original point that Linux and samba can create a better domain controller and active directory setup then windows. Maybe for medical applications you do need windows, I don't know as I'm not in that field but as for domain controllers I would go samba over windows in 100% of all cases.
I know exactly what I'm talking about, in my experience the only people who blast Linux are really covering up the fact they don't understand it. Windows is capable because Microsoft slapped a over bloated GUI on. I've used many Windows and Linux servers and I have yet to see a case where Linux wasn't the better choice in 99% of all cases. That 1% is for the "special" software that some VP wants installed that only runs on Windows.
I've had many people complain that they have to learn the command line to use Linux and they need to understand how the network works and etc.... but I tell them to grab a book and learn. Out out the 100's of Linux servers I managed I would down grade 0 of them to Windows, from my personal experience Windows gets in the way and allows slop on my network, Linux keeps it neat and running fast, even the master Domain controller which is used for something like 1000 people to log onto the network is Linux based. Before I started the Domain controller was a Windows Server and the login time wasn't horrible, after I upgraded it to a Linux server we shaved about 1/2 second off the login times and another 20% on resource use. So my statement holds, If you don't want to use Linux for your network then you either don't understand it or you don't want to put effort in upfront.
Samba 4 is an EXCELLENT replacement for Active Directory. Any first year IT / Networking student should be able to configure a complete domain controller and master PC using Samba. In many cases Samba out preforms Active Directory on Windows. Samba uses less resources, less over head and that all get returned in speed. Infact the only case where I would consider using Windows Server in place of a Linux Server is if I could only hire grade 10 IT nerds who have no idea what there doing. If you want a server you want Linux, Windows is for people who want to show off there GUI instead of getting work done.
Artificial Misting System Allows Reintroduction of Extinct Toad.
Where in that title does it say wild? It should say
Artifical Misting System Allows Reintroduction of Endangered Toad
By using the word Extinct in the title the post to follow implies that regardless of location the toad is exinct.
My bad! either way, not extinct.
extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
Indangered yes, but not extinct.
I personally think it looks horrible, it's a big triangle, it looks like a mac book case and overall it bulky and retro styled in a bad way. I would of expected to see something like this in an old star trek episode as a "future yacht", I would never of thought that anyone would build a massive yacht and make this ugly on purpose.
I completely understand what your saying, I just personally don't like being tied into a defined style. Well your right that you can find some errors with ease when you format your code in a more appropriate style, it's wrong to force that style on to everyone. In the case when you working with old code I think the worst thing to find is a lack of comments. I will gladly take poorly formatted code then no comments.
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Coders should spend their time looking at the code, not getting distracted by style variations.
I just saw that line, I agree, a developer shouldn't waste his time being distracted by style variations. A developer should program the way they want and how they want and commit the code. If coding style is GD important to certain people then they can write a code format script and give it to me, I'll follow what the IDE wants me to and never look back.
If your writing code you can't read then it doesn't matter if your following a style or not. If you have a block of code that fails because you make a typo because of slop then you've proven you don't test your code, which again isn't a coding style issue.
Well white space I believe can help the majority of programmers, white spaces wont help every programmer. I think it's far smarter to develop a style which works for your self, that allows you to read code quickly, that keeps your work clean and arranges your logic then it is for you to submit to a 3rd party style. What I find nice and easy to work with wont always be what you want to work with. I can get more and better coding done coding comfortably my way and you can get more and better code done coding your way.
Maybe ( and this isn't true ) I prefer no white space in an if statement, if(x==y){x++}else{y--} or maybe I prefer to use x==y?x++:y--; If that is what I like to program with then I should be allowed to write my code my way. If I make a typo or a mistake because I didn't A) test my code and B) write slop I can't read then I've only show I need to grow up and pull my head of out my ass. On the exact other side of the coin I might have the worlds most beautiful coding format setup, but it wont stop me from doing if( x = y ) which is a clear typo, I can surf on by it for weeks, after all I believe an exact bug like this caused AT&T to crash.
Over all I believe that every programmer should use there own style, use what works for them.
You didn't rest any case, all you demonstrated was that you can write garbage. If you make a typo in your code then you made a typo, the best code style in the world doesn't prevent mistakes. If I wrote a module for a program you were working on and you wanted my module to look a certain way then you can have your IDE or Text Editor format it with one click. Regardless of how it's formatted mistakes will exist, if you make it hard to read on purpose then your just an ass. Out of all honestly can you read that? If your formatting code in such a way you can't read it then the problem isn't the coding style, it's maturity. In the same right I'm not going to complain to someone if I don't like how the code is formatted, I'll format the code myself by pressing the format button.
I'm not bashing your belief in coding styles but I'm pointing out how I personally don't like them, after all there is a reason code formatting is built into modern IDE's and Text Editors, we should make use of them rather then rely on the programmer to work on style.
I personally hate coding styles, a coding style gets in the way of producing code. If someone wants my code formatted in a certain way then they should format it when they get it. Almost all commercial IDE's and Text Editors can format code at the click of a button so if someone really wants my code formatted they should set up the rules and do it themselves, after all if the argument is they can't click a button then it's not my fault.
100 years ago your day included throwing on overalls and going farming. Everything was X, Y, Z, you could write it down, follow it and have it work. Even the early industrial movement showed thinking that followed X, Y, Z. As humanity has progressed and started to apply philosophical ideals to tasks we have developed systems where a job that was once X, Y, Z is now a complex equation of variable introduction. Fundamentally everything has seen this shift, from farming up to global commerce. So why have the IQ score gone up, well I would say it's probably because of the mental level of application required to grasp the basic ideas.
You have the right to be forcefully searched, gropped, sexuaslly abused and treated as a terrorist by the TSA.
Wow, who would put real information on sites like Facebook, MySpace etc... If your going to put real details up use a site like LinkedIn, anywhere else if someone needs to know who you are then you can take it offline. The security risk of putting your info online is huge.
I went a "technical" college / university and I can tell you in 75% of cases I out weighted the profs technically. The profs were better technically endowed but still lacked a lot of basic skill. Everything we did was Windows based, we weren't allowed to step to far outside the box and we used mainly closed source wide spread software to run everything. Really to be honest it would of been worth my time and money to go to a normal college and tech it up myself. Now that I'm graduated I would honestly recommend to not put to much trust in a tech college, do it your own and rock it!.
They want you to think of Windows 8 as a replacement that is so good they need not have a sp2 for 7. They also want to give the impression they're stopping support for 7 so anyone who wants customer service will have to upgrade, which in the end all lends itself to profile.
The first thing I do when ever I sit down to work on old code that I haven't developed is to comment every ( or almost every ) line of code. Once I fill in all the comments I can get a much better sense of what the developer was trying to do and in some cases fix those awful blocks that almost stun the mind. The second thing I do is upload the code to a SCM system like GIT and then fork it so I'm always working off a separate branch. Beyond that I just usually need a lot of coffee, a few good cigars and loud music because lets face it 70%+ of old code is beyond the state of crap.
The issue here is that the mobile platform isn't even okay at doing these jobs. It's really bad, if you bought a camera or GPS that performed at the level the phone does you wouldn't just send it back you would besmirch the name of the company for eternity. The GPS in my phone can't even lock onto a single satellite, I've tried it a few times for fun and just gave up. The "new" iPhone and Samsung S3 take pictures which frankly look about as good as a 10 dollar point a click. You would assume or think for the $600+ price tag you get something better then poor.
Whats interesting and what I just thought of is this, You wouldn't ask a single contractor to overhaul your house, do the plumbing, electrical, wood working and etc.... So why would you buy a phone to be a jack of all trades. The more you can do in a smaller package the lower quality you can do it. Sure a contractor can do electrical and plumbing and frame a house but the work wont come close in quality as it would if you hired an electrician and plumber.
However I will give you that some times snapping a photo on a phone is nice, or just jumping on Facebook for an update. However I would say those are option which the phone can be used for as opposed to being used in a capacity to replace ( If that makes sense ). I'm one of those people who believe that when a device exists to solve a real problem, if exist for a reason. For instance GPS was created out of need, high quality cameras were created a need and the same with mobile phones. If I want to take a picture I wont go buy a GPS with a camera. That might be just me and a small handful of others.
1) Social networking :-O )
2) High res photos ( I bought this new device called a camera!!!!!!!! )
3) GPS ( I own a GPS
4) High speed browsing ( I can use a computer )
I can not believe they have kids wearing id cards that can be tracked!!!! Has anyone thought about the right to privacy, this is inconceivable and goes against everything the US stands for. It's a good thing we let our kids use debit / credit cards and allows them mobile phone / computer access all the time, for a minutes it was almost as if they weren't already being tracked non stop and targeted. Nope thank god, but this id card that is the issue that we need to hear bitched about for weeks now.
The US has officially 0 credit, after running laps in gym class got banned it's clear the US doesn't really care about health. Sugary drinks, banning "bad" school lunch, cutting gym class, getting rid of laps, what is next to assure 100% doubt that the US has a clue on health.
I don't ever know what to say about this, how can they say that you don't own what you buy. I wold be shocked and amazed if this got passed.