You might want to peek at OpenGroupware. My colleagues and I have skimmed though what was available and it seems to be the most impressive for at least the customer management side. Though the look of the web interface will not amaze your artist friends, it seems to work well. You can interoperate with Evolution, Mozilla Calendar and some other programs - even Outlook should you want to buy the driver.
I'd strongly suggest not to be impressed by eGroupWare's feature list and cute themes (I know WE've been fooled). Seems like these guys, though talented, are not really working towards stabilizing the tree, so you see frightening changelogs - like code rewrites between 1.0RC2 and 1.0RC3. They forked from phpGroupWare lately but I can't tell if it's a more serious project.
One of my friends is completely sold to the Horde Project so you might want to try it.
All of these will not solve all your issues but no application does and as these three above are open source, you can do the linking as you like.
I know this might be a shock for you Linux users, but it's time to move on: Files are no longer files as we know them.
Files are still files; the WinFS is a layer above an existing FS.
Why? Because using normal files is just too slow. E.g. How do we know which part of a 1gb file should lie in memory, and which should not?
No matter how you call them, files or Objects or whatever concept you like, if a file is 1GiB big you'll have trouble. You might have a 1KiB metadata file describing it, but when you access the real data, the same issues come back.
This will of course need a better file-handling tool. It's just like a big database
No, no, no! files are not stored in a database, metadata is. It's a layer.
One of the major advantages of going "standard" is simply the correctness of the XHTML/HTML you'll send to the browser; no missing tags, no misordered, no proprietary tags will do 80% of the job. The W3 validator is your friend.
Most of the trouble with "IE-enhanced" pages is the interpretation of errors by parsers. If I write:
[p][strong]foo[em]bar[/strong]baz[br]
In what tags is the 'baz'? depends on who reads it, mmh?
Except for NN4, unrecognized CSS tags will just go unnoticed for lower-version browsers, so that if your structure is OK, it should be usable for most browsers.
You might want to test with Mac's browsers (IE5 at least) to make sure your ECMAscript works; some core methods are missing.
Seems like the worm must be "human-activated", a user must manually click the link received through MSN to download the worm; that's what I understand from McAfee
A guy is alone in downtown Washington, holding a spraying bottle in his hand, vaporizing his stuff with great pride. One of his friends passes by:
- Bob, what are you doing there? - I'm experimenting a new elephant repellent. - But, but,... there's no elephant around here! - Proves that my stuff works!
SQL is a standardized language (well, at least some common ground for every SQL implementation), knowledge of it has a great re-use value, and is not linked to a particular vendor.
Learn Access, and be tied to 1 platform. It's a bit like learning VB; yeah it's easier at first but afterwards you're caught in the Microsoft playground.
Education, I think, must avoid teaching proprietary technologies. I have an Access course, so to work from home I have to buy Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Access. As students are not the richest people in the world, what will they do if they can't pay for that software? pirate it?
OTOH, it'd be really easy to assemble a 1-CD Knoppix version with MySQL or whatever-your-SQL-favorite-flavour-is and distribute it legally in your class for a buck or less.
Temperature is not an issue
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Could this be the answer to problems with long-distance space travel?
We're talking about -3C, it's not that fantastic. Some fish already survive in waters colder than 0C, and Girl scouts already know about it:)
And if a space habitat can heat up to 270K, well I guess it can heat up to 288K. It's not that different compared to the one digit Kelvin temperature in space.
The Mozilla team once included (in versions <= 1.4) a build-optional SVG module; you could then use SVG as part of a multi-Doctype document (alongwith XHTML, MathML...).
The interesting side of it is that you can script SVG; like you would do with DHTML on a regular XHTML document. Text and data and instructions embedded in a SVG document are *still* accessible; oppose Flash.
Now that branch is put aside - there is no easy way to include SVG in a stable release: you must use trunk and/or do multiple source patches.
As a free replacement for proprietary technologies, it would really be nice to see some effort put into reviving SVG in Mozilla.
Booker said the problem stemmed from a program he mistakenly downloaded from the Internet that brought a continuous stream of advertising to his computer.
a Silicon Valley computer programmer (!!!)
So, I see. Installs stuff "mistakenly". And what about other stuff he didn't notice? not all spyware stuff spawn pop-ups.
I guess his machine is infected with crap; now this guy writes code - probably distributes binaries. It seems to me that he is clueless about what is running on his machine - didn't even install a spam filter. He's a programmer, not aunt Sally, that's frightening.
What was the name of the company he was working for, again?
They're telling the public: Don't trust them, don't trust the voting equipment.
Is public faith in the system more important than overall system security?
The trouble is with that 5-letter word: faith. Anything that handles data in an obscure way (read closed-source) relies on user's faith.
Anytime you start a closed-source program, faith in the coders/packagers is what makes you believe that nothing will go wrong. You can't double-check anything; if source is available, you don't need faith: just read the code. I guess for the majority it's the same: they don't understand so they must have faith in those who do.
But I feel it's just like a car: most people don't understand the inner workings - but they wouldn't buy one on which the hood is sealed.
...the agency wanted to use a 512-bit key for the ECC system. This is the equivalent of an RSA key of 15,360 bits.
Brute-force decoding of these schemes is not recommended for the faint of heart, but I wonder: how can they tell that a 2 ^ 512 possibility range is as secure as a 2 ^ 15360 probabilities scheme?
If I can reduce a RSA 1024 bits to a new method using only 4 bits, how can my way be as secure?
It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM.
When I was a kid, I used to think that a 2400 modem was really fast. You could download a 300KB game in a few minutes. And I could store dozens of them on my 20MB hard drive.
When I hear newbies complaining about their slow 300KB/s connections and too small 100GB storage units, I feel anger inside. They just can't appreciate the value of technology.
When E-mail was introduced 30 years ago, it was an amazing feat: you could send messages across the country in less time than regular postal service. Wow.
Now we're complaining about limitations of a 30-year old technology that works as intended. Come on. It's still amazing. There are IMs, IRC channels all over the place for these "urgent needs".
Don't blame the hammer if it doesn't mow your lawn.
I'm a proud user of a Happy Hacking keyboard, and though I feel I'm more productive typing on it, when I can only use one hand (holding a coffee, mouse, cigarette, name them all minus one:) it's more of an annoyance than a regular keyboard.
That keyboard is really intended for touch-typists; they have less keys, so to compensate for F-keys, Home, End, Insert, and so on you have yo use key-combos. The lack of two "Control" keys would also be a nightmare for you (hey folks try to do a Ctrl-P with your left hand using the left Control key).
And, should your other side be okay, I really suggest these keyboards - the feel is really right. On the downside, watch out after you're used to them: I just recently noticed most of all other PC keyboards are broken (ctrl/caps misplaced, Escape too high, Backspace too far away,...):)
How many murders today are attributed to the murderer? Video games, insanity, sad infancy, television and lots of other "causes" are presented to us as the real murderers.
A kid commits a violent crime. Now, in our society, it can't be the kid's fault (they're so cute and innocent) - and we must find someone or something guilty. Look at the past of this kid. What's (even in little doses) abnormal? ahHA! he plays Quake. We found a murderer, the child is thereby "innocent", everybody's happy.
The sad thing is that this principle applies to adults too. There are not any more murderers left, only bad luck, bad circumstances, bad influences.
Am I the only one tired of this "It's never the criminal's fault" fashion?
It's videogame's fault, television's fault, society's fault, and so on - when they don't blame insanity or psychological disabilities.
Here in Canada, a girl who got drunk in an office party - thanks to the boss, with an open bar - drove her car and had an accident.
She sued her boss and won.
I mean, with DNA analysis kicking in, in a couple of years, there will be no more responsability for any crime.... but on the other hand, people, when they succeed at something, are 100% responsible for it.
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GnuWin is a nice burnable collection of free software for Windows.
I personally always include a "GPL" when I search for Windows software; helps filter out the cripppleware.
I'd guess so for OS X. It's written in Objective-C, using WebObjects in a GNUStep environment, so the environment is kinda familiar for the Mac OS.
You might want to peek at OpenGroupware. My colleagues and I have skimmed though what was available and it seems to be the most impressive for at least the customer management side. Though the look of the web interface will not amaze your artist friends, it seems to work well. You can interoperate with Evolution, Mozilla Calendar and some other programs - even Outlook should you want to buy the driver.
I'd strongly suggest not to be impressed by eGroupWare's feature list and cute themes (I know WE've been fooled). Seems like these guys, though talented, are not really working towards stabilizing the tree, so you see frightening changelogs - like code rewrites between 1.0RC2 and 1.0RC3. They forked from phpGroupWare lately but I can't tell if it's a more serious project.
One of my friends is completely sold to the Horde Project so you might want to try it.
All of these will not solve all your issues but no application does and as these three above are open source, you can do the linking as you like.
One of the major advantages of going "standard" is simply the correctness of the XHTML/HTML you'll send to the browser; no missing tags, no misordered, no proprietary tags will do 80% of the job. The W3 validator is your friend.
Most of the trouble with "IE-enhanced" pages is the interpretation of errors by parsers. If I write:
[p][strong]foo[em]bar[/strong]baz[br]
In what tags is the 'baz'? depends on who reads it, mmh?
Except for NN4, unrecognized CSS tags will just go unnoticed for lower-version browsers, so that if your structure is OK, it should be usable for most browsers.
You might want to test with Mac's browsers (IE5 at least) to make sure your ECMAscript works; some core methods are missing.
And, should you need an incentive to go table-less, there is a great presentation that summarizes the advantages.
The css Zen garden is a great example if you want to show colleagues why separating presentation from content is a neat idea.
Seems like the worm must be "human-activated", a user must manually click the link received through MSN to download the worm; that's what I understand from McAfee
It can't be harmful if it comes from a friend!
A guy is alone in downtown Washington, holding a spraying bottle in his hand, vaporizing his stuff with great pride. One of his friends passes by:
... there's no elephant around here!
- Bob, what are you doing there?
- I'm experimenting a new elephant repellent.
- But, but,
- Proves that my stuff works!
SQL is a standardized language (well, at least some common ground for every SQL implementation), knowledge of it has a great re-use value, and is not linked to a particular vendor.
Learn Access, and be tied to 1 platform. It's a bit like learning VB; yeah it's easier at first but afterwards you're caught in the Microsoft playground.
Education, I think, must avoid teaching proprietary technologies. I have an Access course, so to work from home I have to buy Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Access. As students are not the richest people in the world, what will they do if they can't pay for that software? pirate it?
OTOH, it'd be really easy to assemble a 1-CD Knoppix version with MySQL or whatever-your-SQL-favorite-flavour-is and distribute it legally in your class for a buck or less.
We're talking about -3C, it's not that fantastic. Some fish already survive in waters colder than 0C, and Girl scouts already know about it
And if a space habitat can heat up to 270K, well I guess it can heat up to 288K. It's not that different compared to the one digit Kelvin temperature in space.
Hibernation is the real issue here.
There is a site devoted to video/audio codecs.
As a sidenote, I'd strongly suggest you try the latest MPlayer builds for Windows. Powerful stuff. Shameless plug.
The Mozilla team once included (in versions <= 1.4) a build-optional SVG module; you could then use SVG as part of a multi-Doctype document (alongwith XHTML, MathML...).
The interesting side of it is that you can script SVG; like you would do with DHTML on a regular XHTML document. Text and data and instructions embedded in a SVG document are *still* accessible; oppose Flash.
Now that branch is put aside - there is no easy way to include SVG in a stable release: you must use trunk and/or do multiple source patches.
As a free replacement for proprietary technologies, it would really be nice to see some effort put into reviving SVG in Mozilla.
a Silicon Valley computer programmer (!!!)
So, I see. Installs stuff "mistakenly". And what about other stuff he didn't notice? not all spyware stuff spawn pop-ups.
I guess his machine is infected with crap; now this guy writes code - probably distributes binaries. It seems to me that he is clueless about what is running on his machine - didn't even install a spam filter. He's a programmer, not aunt Sally, that's frightening.
What was the name of the company he was working for, again?
They're telling the public: Don't trust them, don't trust the voting equipment.
Is public faith in the system more important than overall system security?
The trouble is with that 5-letter word: faith. Anything that handles data in an obscure way (read closed-source) relies on user's faith.
Anytime you start a closed-source program, faith in the coders/packagers is what makes you believe that nothing will go wrong. You can't double-check anything; if source is available, you don't need faith: just read the code. I guess for the majority it's the same: they don't understand so they must have faith in those who do.
But I feel it's just like a car: most people don't understand the inner workings - but they wouldn't buy one on which the hood is sealed.
You can get international locations (using longitude/latitude/timezone) on the Lunar Eclipse Computer
Brute-force decoding of these schemes is not recommended for the faint of heart, but I wonder: how can they tell that a 2 ^ 512 possibility range is as secure as a 2 ^ 15360 probabilities scheme?
If I can reduce a RSA 1024 bits to a new method using only 4 bits, how can my way be as secure?
Pidget is a graphical toolkit that abstracts HTML in PHP5
So it's just another templating toolkit for PHP.
You don't have to know HTML (but make sure you learn pRadio, pSelect, pTextarea)
Won't make designers quit their Photoshops and Dreamweavers
SCO complaint vs. IBM, March 2003:
It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM.
When I was a kid, I used to think that a 2400 modem was really fast. You could download a 300KB game in a few minutes. And I could store dozens of them on my 20MB hard drive.
When I hear newbies complaining about their slow 300KB/s connections and too small 100GB storage units, I feel anger inside. They just can't appreciate the value of technology.
When E-mail was introduced 30 years ago, it was an amazing feat: you could send messages across the country in less time than regular postal service. Wow.
Now we're complaining about limitations of a 30-year old technology that works as intended. Come on. It's still amazing. There are IMs, IRC channels all over the place for these "urgent needs".
Don't blame the hammer if it doesn't mow your lawn.
I'm a proud user of a Happy Hacking keyboard, and though I feel I'm more productive typing on it, when I can only use one hand (holding a coffee, mouse, cigarette, name them all minus one :) it's more of an annoyance than a regular keyboard.
...) :)
That keyboard is really intended for touch-typists; they have less keys, so to compensate for F-keys, Home, End, Insert, and so on you have yo use key-combos. The lack of two "Control" keys would also be a nightmare for you (hey folks try to do a Ctrl-P with your left hand using the left Control key).
And, should your other side be okay, I really suggest these keyboards - the feel is really right. On the downside, watch out after you're used to them: I just recently noticed most of all other PC keyboards are broken (ctrl/caps misplaced, Escape too high, Backspace too far away,
How many murders today are attributed to the murderer? Video games, insanity, sad infancy, television and lots of other "causes" are presented to us as the real murderers.
A kid commits a violent crime. Now, in our society, it can't be the kid's fault (they're so cute and innocent) - and we must find someone or something guilty. Look at the past of this kid. What's (even in little doses) abnormal? ahHA! he plays Quake. We found a murderer, the child is thereby "innocent", everybody's happy.
The sad thing is that this principle applies to adults too. There are not any more murderers left, only bad luck, bad circumstances, bad influences.
Responsability is the keyword here, man.
Simple: don't put your file cabinet next to your 3GHz overheating workstation.
Am I the only one tired of this "It's never the criminal's fault" fashion?
... but on the other hand, people, when they succeed at something, are 100% responsible for it.
It's videogame's fault, television's fault, society's fault, and so on - when they don't blame insanity or psychological disabilities.
Here in Canada, a girl who got drunk in an office party - thanks to the boss, with an open bar - drove her car and had an accident.
She sued her boss and won.
I mean, with DNA analysis kicking in, in a couple of years, there will be no more responsability for any crime.
Will these changes finally fix the object tag, which is not only for ActiveX?
Currently, for any object tag to work in IE, you have to enable ActiveX scripting.
And will that fix the display-everything-in-every-object-tag bug too? I guess I'm asking for too much here.
Reminds me of the Netscape4-era when you couldn't use CSS unless javascript was active.
After all the experiences with Ogg Vorbis, will they use that as *the* format?
Unfortunately Ogg Theora is not ready yet for video...
Then if there is a Windows worm in the wild, all OpenBSD routers on the net can redirect the Windows traffic to windowsupdate.com ...?