This does sound like a plea for help as much as anything, but gathering information is your first step in fixing a situation.
Here are some comparisons from my recent past. Currently, I'm the only tech guy, and I do everything. But that's because I just left my last job to found a start up:-)
Prior to that, I was one of three developers in a department that also had a designer, a writer, and a project manager. That was to service an organization of ~1,100 people. Some departments also had their own techish people who'd do departmental sites and the like. We did no ecommerce at all nor any desktop support, just interweb stuff (we wrote and maintained a fairly sophisticated Struts-based CMS system), and we were stretched way thin -- there was a greater demand for our services than we could reasonably comply with. We were also a non-profit, which meant more people wasn't a realistic option.
Before that I worked for a company with ~30,000 employees worldwide, and while I was there we were just rolling out ecommerce. We had three dedicated developers, a DBA, a network guy, two support people (just for the web site, they didn't do desktops) and two managers. That was some years ago, I believe they've grown since then. This was mostly to maintain a site -- the design and development of it has initially been outsourced. This felt like reasonable manpower, but again, we were doing incremental change on a project that had been built by a larger team. And the pace was, shall we say, bureaucratic.
It's possible to educate managers about what resources are required for a given volume of work, but you'll have to communicate well and be direct when you know you're right. Good luck.
This may already exist, but I'm thinking, if head motion equates to mouse motion with a head mouse, could blinks be correlated to clicks? It would require a camera or some other feedback mechanism, but it seems possible -- I think I may have heard of blink-responsive communication systems for people with ALS. I imagine such a system would make FPS-type games easier.
Just wanted to point out that there's a very large Muslim population in India; it would be nice if India's space program was good for them, too, and not another point of departure for the Hindu nationalists currently doing so much harm in India.
Interesting that the initial post was modded a 2, despite being about the wrong topic:-)
Cats hate scissors, and the buzz of an electric haircutter freaks them out even worse. The only effective way to de-hair a cat is with nair. Unless you're a horrible sadist, in which case, opt for tweezers.
guess they fixed something with the 800. i have a previous gen 667, and it sometimes doesn't get reception in the same frickin room (small room, at that) as my airport. in fact, i'm on my way to the hardware store to get a torx wrench and open the box up -- i'm wondering if the card is somehow installed incorrrectly.
points 1 and 2 i see, but i've never gotten the argument that the TiBook is fragile. i take mine literally everywhere (half the reason i got it is that it's so light for a full-screen laptop), i'm not particularly gentle with it, and to date is has no dents or scratches (knock on wood).
i might have agreed, if 'south park' wasn't one of the funniest movies ever. i had low hopes for that, and was shocked and amazed at how frickin funny and well done it was. so, who knows.
"the current 7450/7455 G4 chips have more than enough "under the hood"
This hasn't been my experience. I own a 667 Mhz PowerBook with 512MB RAM, which has a133 Mhz bus -- a relatively new and high-end machine, in other words. And it's sloooow, even when I'm not doing much. There's often a perceptible lag drawing windows; in fact there's often a perceptible lag doing just about anything. I'm not talking about rendering video, I'm talking about using MS Word or CodeWarrior when I have a few other programs running.
I like OS X, I like the industrial design of this thing a lot, and I really like having an attractive face on a Unix, but Apple's speed issues are real -- it's a problem. Let's hope GPUL, or whatever they end up calling it, is real, and ships in a reasonable timeframe. Apple needs it.
I just launched a new ecommerce site for my parent's toy company, WJFantasy.com, using Tomcat 4.0, and we have no complaints -- seems plenty fast. We had a few problems with stability initially, due mostly, I think, to our ISP having limited familiarity with Tomcat. They worked it out, though, and we've had no problems for a while now. Admittedly, our traffic level isn't that high yet.
I have a friend who heads web development at a very large media company, and they just migrated a number of their most heavily trafficked sites from Tomcat to Resin. While I think Tomcat was working marginally well for them, he claims a 10x speed improvement since moving to Resin. More impressive still, he says they did the migration in a day and without having to make a single code change.
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This does sound like a plea for help as much as anything, but gathering information is your first step in fixing a situation.
:-)
Here are some comparisons from my recent past. Currently, I'm the only tech guy, and I do everything. But that's because I just left my last job to found a start up
Prior to that, I was one of three developers in a department that also had a designer, a writer, and a project manager. That was to service an organization of ~1,100 people. Some departments also had their own techish people who'd do departmental sites and the like. We did no ecommerce at all nor any desktop support, just interweb stuff (we wrote and maintained a fairly sophisticated Struts-based CMS system), and we were stretched way thin -- there was a greater demand for our services than we could reasonably comply with. We were also a non-profit, which meant more people wasn't a realistic option.
Before that I worked for a company with ~30,000 employees worldwide, and while I was there we were just rolling out ecommerce. We had three dedicated developers, a DBA, a network guy, two support people (just for the web site, they didn't do desktops) and two managers. That was some years ago, I believe they've grown since then. This was mostly to maintain a site -- the design and development of it has initially been outsourced. This felt like reasonable manpower, but again, we were doing incremental change on a project that had been built by a larger team. And the pace was, shall we say, bureaucratic.
It's possible to educate managers about what resources are required for a given volume of work, but you'll have to communicate well and be direct when you know you're right. Good luck.
This may already exist, but I'm thinking, if head motion equates to mouse motion with a head mouse, could blinks be correlated to clicks? It would require a camera or some other feedback mechanism, but it seems possible -- I think I may have heard of blink-responsive communication systems for people with ALS. I imagine such a system would make FPS-type games easier.
Ivory league schools: very clean. And EPERTISE, sounds like a late nineties marketing slogan: we have ePertise in eMachines.
Just wanted to point out that there's a very large Muslim population in India; it would be nice if India's space program was good for them, too, and not another point of departure for the Hindu nationalists currently doing so much harm in India.
:-)
Interesting that the initial post was modded a 2, despite being about the wrong topic
Cats hate scissors, and the buzz of an electric haircutter freaks them out even worse. The only effective way to de-hair a cat is with nair. Unless you're a horrible sadist, in which case, opt for tweezers.
guess they fixed something with the 800. i have a previous gen 667, and it sometimes doesn't get reception in the same frickin room (small room, at that) as my airport. in fact, i'm on my way to the hardware store to get a torx wrench and open the box up -- i'm wondering if the card is somehow installed incorrrectly.
points 1 and 2 i see, but i've never gotten the argument that the TiBook is fragile. i take mine literally everywhere (half the reason i got it is that it's so light for a full-screen laptop), i'm not particularly gentle with it, and to date is has no dents or scratches (knock on wood).
padded mount? sounds dirty.
i might have agreed, if 'south park' wasn't one of the funniest movies ever. i had low hopes for that, and was shocked and amazed at how frickin funny and well done it was. so, who knows.
This hasn't been my experience. I own a 667 Mhz PowerBook with 512MB RAM, which has a133 Mhz bus -- a relatively new and high-end machine, in other words. And it's sloooow, even when I'm not doing much. There's often a perceptible lag drawing windows; in fact there's often a perceptible lag doing just about anything. I'm not talking about rendering video, I'm talking about using MS Word or CodeWarrior when I have a few other programs running.
I like OS X, I like the industrial design of this thing a lot, and I really like having an attractive face on a Unix, but Apple's speed issues are real -- it's a problem. Let's hope GPUL, or whatever they end up calling it, is real, and ships in a reasonable timeframe. Apple needs it.
yeah, i've had the same problem on mac os x. reverted to 1.0, stability returned. updated to 1.0.1 a few days ago, it's been stable too.
Guess that trademark can be challenged now -- I saw a 'frownie' in that original Fahlman thread, and I'd say that counts as prior art.
I just launched a new ecommerce site for my parent's toy company, WJFantasy.com, using Tomcat 4.0, and we have no complaints -- seems plenty fast. We had a few problems with stability initially, due mostly, I think, to our ISP having limited familiarity with Tomcat. They worked it out, though, and we've had no problems for a while now. Admittedly, our traffic level isn't that high yet.
I have a friend who heads web development at a very large media company, and they just migrated a number of their most heavily trafficked sites from Tomcat to Resin. While I think Tomcat was working marginally well for them, he claims a 10x speed improvement since moving to Resin. More impressive still, he says they did the migration in a day and without having to make a single code change.