Luckily I have had no significant problems with ReiserFS or XFS. I had more time with the former as I was using SuSE for quite awhile. After switching my Linux istalls to Gentoo, I'm all XFS.
Your drifting into FUD with that one. It is not any more legitimate to blame the XFS developers for stabillity problems caused by VFS code they might not have even seen than when people blamed ReiserFS or Ext3 for the same issue. If you look closely r7 versus r8 or r9 are different beasties.
Many people are quite happy with the stabillity of XFS on linux. That said Daniel Robbins (surely a big name at Gentoo) is not one of them. His issue with XFS is focused on problems with XFS if your system reboots while completely overwriting files. On the whole, he thinks ReiserFS is more stable but obviously YMMV.
Wake me up when you've found the perfect file system.
Broody is reporting that he won't be purchasing next year's Intel processors which include hardware support for "Palladum" nor installing M$ software supporting M$'s DRM system. Sadly since AMD seems to have sold out as well it seems likely 2003 will be year of the PPC for him baring sudden SPARC price drops.
On a more serious note, I doubt this will last into next year. It will be probably be one of those flash in the pan ideas that you can disable in the BIOS like PSN once the grumbling starts and the masses bust out the tinfoil hats. Of course, if they push it to track terrorists, all bets are off.
I'd like a CD with both clients and a registration card asking me which one is my primary gaming platform. Of course, being a cheapskate for internet access leads me to want CDs with everything but the kitchen sink.
In the last 100 years no country has successfully invaded another. The world just doesn't take to kindly to that. There is a few possible exceptions (china and tibet),
V-E day 1945, just for one massive counter-example to your nonesensical theory.
I more or less was considering the same thing coming out of school. Research all you want but the only real way to know is to just do it.
I ended up taking a job as contractor (well contractor to contractor to contractor) on a large federal contract. This experience was enough for me to realize that working directly for the government was not for me. I stayed a consultant for six years (on federal contracts in the DC metro) and enjoyed it.
After the economy went to hell after 9/11 and my contract ended a few months later, I began to wonder if perhaps being an employee would be a better fit. I did a temp to perm deal, and now I know I don't ever want to be a regular employee again. The stabillity of being an employee is not real IMHO and the restrictions are annoying. For good or ill, I may soon be free of my obligation to the project and back on the market. I know I will never try for employee gigs unless I become truly desperate.
My advice would be to try each of the things you are cosidering in rough order of the things you think you would like most paired with opportunity. It's not like you cannot change your direction after completing a project and tying up the loose ends.
As a consumer I care about the quality of the end product, not the process that creates it. I am sure that statement gets those Six Sigma and ISO900X gurus' panties in a bunch but it remains true. If someone writes quality work, I could care less how long it took to write.
As for all these Frameworks; can any single one of you actually describe, in under 200 words, exactly what the.NET Framework is, what its comprised of, and why I should find it so exciting?...
Will anyone take the challenge, I wonder?
Don't confuse this with advocacy,.Net is a a know they enemy technology. Below you will find my 188 word summary. Comments and corrections are welcomed. I think Passport.NET has been canned but I am not certain.
Microsoft.NET is a product, note not a standard, intended to develop enterprise class web services. Microsoft.NET is comprised of ASP.NET,.NET managed components, and Host Integration Server, with additional hooks for SQL Server, Passport.NET, Exchange, Commerce Server, Application Center, etc. ASP.NET can render interfaces in HTML, XHTML, XML or using Windows forms.
Microsoft.NET is mostly a rewrite of Windows DNA with enhanced language support and web services. The primary 'benefit' is language independence and inter-operability. The.NET framework includes the Common Language Runtime (CLR) which operating as an intermediary layer providing automatic garbage collection, cross-language inheritance, and concurrent execution of different versions of a.NET component. It also provides SOAP, WSDL, UDDI support for web services and will soon support ebXML.
There are several pluses for the Mircosoft.NET framework and a great deal of draws with J2EE. The programming model is simpler than J2EE. The.NET framework provides language neutrality rather than forcing you to treat other languages as separate applications. Both.NET and J2EE require training, can create enterprise web services today, offer scalable enterprise solutions, and are available on the low end.
Install hassles or install fees and I am moving soon. Why not just wait?
Linux and Solaris treated like second class systems.
Why bother? I don't have it now and it doesn't hurt me.
I'm never be around to let the damn tech into my house.
Apathy
That said a month to month contract (and no install fees) for a reasonably priced Unix and Unix like friendly provider with a self install kit in NoVA and I'd probably grab it.
Actually after a bit of reflection some of the training that I have had is invaluable. CMM, ISO 9000/9001, and Six Sigma to mention the big ones. Notice I did not saying brimmming with excitement or technical but not everything useful is...
The "training" that I have been sent to was exteremly expensive, worthless from a technical standpoint, and took me away from actively working on the project. I suppose for someone with less of a DIY ethic it might have been worthwhile but I didn't need someone endlessly repeating business process modeling methods or telling me how to use a freaking GUI. I can RTFM and figure it out myself. The manuals exceeded anything offered in any of the courses.
Now those JBoss under the hood training sessions sound like they rock.
Go to Nolo and start reading. Read the small business guide (my guess is you'll want an LLC), read the Independant Contractors guide, Web and Software legal guide, and Copyright Your Software. You can probably find all the titles in the local library, though not the newest of some of them.
I can tell by the way you ask the question, you have a lot of homework to do. Find someone who has worked on their own and ask for help. Good luck but that is all the free advice you get on a Saturday afternoon.
Actually, the sin is avarice meant in that context as inordinate desire for a supposed "good" rather than simple greed. The sin includes verve for a particular outcome or standing in the physical world and is contrasted with the virtue of selfless transcendent generosity through works. At heart, belief in this duality implies spiritual suffering results from moving beyond a subsistence level without practicing a tithe or acheiving reknown outside the bounds of the church. The underpinnings of this particular sin, along with many others, reinforce the obligation of the individual practitioner to the Catholic Church as an institutional body.
Is it nonesense? Sure. Just complicated nonesense, like much of the accumlated belief surrounding Jehovah.
Who gives a fuck about the xtian faith? So some stuffy fellow wrote a whole book, he called the Purgatorio, that called Averice (and greed by extension) a sin. Are you going to live you whole life according to a damn book?
From my perspective it is not the value of IT that has waned but rather the budget. The question that I constantly here these days is what is the minimum number of people and the minimum amount of resources that I need to do 80% of the job. Persistance, sweat, luck, and "damn the torpedos" has to get me that last 20%.
I find myself wearing too many hats but at least I am employed again. In some ways things are quite interesting, all new technologies, working in all kinds of roles that in a boom I wouldn't have the chance. The downside is it takes siginifcantly more time on my own to retool my skillset just to keep in the game.
From my perspective, since the IT bust you have to do more than every before and delegate everything you possibly can or you are screwed. The herd is still being culled. It's the recession stupid, everyone is cutting costs.
The people I truly pity are those recent college grads that were sold all the boom hype and graduate with whopping debt to the bust.
It sounds like what your looking for is really an object-relational wrapper rather than an XML based RDBMS. Take a look at OJB and see if it is not really what you are seeking.
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I'm not saying any filesystem is perfect.
Luckily I have had no significant problems with ReiserFS or XFS. I had more time with the former as I was using SuSE for quite awhile. After switching my Linux istalls to Gentoo, I'm all XFS.
Nothing is a substitute for a backup.
Your drifting into FUD with that one. It is not any more legitimate to blame the XFS developers for stabillity problems caused by VFS code they might not have even seen than when people blamed ReiserFS or Ext3 for the same issue. If you look closely r7 versus r8 or r9 are different beasties.
Many people are quite happy with the stabillity of XFS on linux. That said Daniel Robbins (surely a big name at Gentoo) is not one of them. His issue with XFS is focused on problems with XFS if your system reboots while completely overwriting files. On the whole, he thinks ReiserFS is more stable but obviously YMMV.
Wake me up when you've found the perfect file system.
Broody is reporting that he won't be purchasing next year's Intel processors which include hardware support for "Palladum" nor installing M$ software supporting M$'s DRM system. Sadly since AMD seems to have sold out as well it seems likely 2003 will be year of the PPC for him baring sudden SPARC price drops.
On a more serious note, I doubt this will last into next year. It will be probably be one of those flash in the pan ideas that you can disable in the BIOS like PSN once the grumbling starts and the masses bust out the tinfoil hats. Of course, if they push it to track terrorists, all bets are off.
I'd like a CD with both clients and a registration card asking me which one is my primary gaming platform. Of course, being a cheapskate for internet access leads me to want CDs with everything but the kitchen sink.
In the last 100 years no country has successfully invaded another. The world just doesn't take to kindly to that. There is a few possible exceptions (china and tibet),
V-E day 1945, just for one massive counter-example to your nonesensical theory.
Wizards of the Coast, who became a subsidiary of Hasbrow, and own AD&D after buying out TSR.
I more or less was considering the same thing coming out of school. Research all you want but the only real way to know is to just do it.
I ended up taking a job as contractor (well contractor to contractor to contractor) on a large federal contract. This experience was enough for me to realize that working directly for the government was not for me. I stayed a consultant for six years (on federal contracts in the DC metro) and enjoyed it.
After the economy went to hell after 9/11 and my contract ended a few months later, I began to wonder if perhaps being an employee would be a better fit. I did a temp to perm deal, and now I know I don't ever want to be a regular employee again. The stabillity of being an employee is not real IMHO and the restrictions are annoying. For good or ill, I may soon be free of my obligation to the project and back on the market. I know I will never try for employee gigs unless I become truly desperate.
My advice would be to try each of the things you are cosidering in rough order of the things you think you would like most paired with opportunity. It's not like you cannot change your direction after completing a project and tying up the loose ends.
Ramble, ramble. YMMV.
Oh well.
As a consumer I care about the quality of the end product, not the process that creates it. I am sure that statement gets those Six Sigma and ISO900X gurus' panties in a bunch but it remains true. If someone writes quality work, I could care less how long it took to write.
I'll take your word for it and give it shot after the old Slashdot effect chills.
...and slow as molasses.
As for all these Frameworks; can any single one of you actually describe, in under 200 words, exactly what the .NET Framework is, what its comprised of, and why I should find it so exciting? ...
.Net is a a know they enemy technology. Below you will find my 188 word summary. Comments and corrections are welcomed. I think Passport.NET has been canned but I am not certain.
.NET managed components, and Host Integration Server, with additional hooks for SQL Server, Passport.NET, Exchange, Commerce Server, Application Center, etc. ASP.NET can render interfaces in HTML, XHTML, XML or using Windows forms.
.NET framework includes the Common Language Runtime (CLR) which operating as an intermediary layer providing automatic garbage collection, cross-language inheritance, and concurrent execution of different versions of a .NET component. It also provides SOAP, WSDL, UDDI support for web services and will soon support ebXML.
.NET framework provides language neutrality rather than forcing you to treat other languages as separate applications. Both .NET and J2EE require training, can create enterprise web services today, offer scalable enterprise solutions, and are available on the low end.
Will anyone take the challenge, I wonder?
Don't confuse this with advocacy,
Microsoft.NET is a product, note not a standard, intended to develop enterprise class web services. Microsoft.NET is comprised of ASP.NET,
Microsoft.NET is mostly a rewrite of Windows DNA with enhanced language support and web services. The primary 'benefit' is language independence and inter-operability. The
There are several pluses for the Mircosoft.NET framework and a great deal of draws with J2EE. The programming model is simpler than J2EE. The
You don't really know very many women, do you?
Toronto sounds better and better. Who is your ISP anyway?
Thanks.
That said a month to month contract (and no install fees) for a reasonably priced Unix and Unix like friendly provider with a self install kit in NoVA and I'd probably grab it.
Red Hat supports numerous open source projects with manpower and materials, hosts numerous other projects, distributes ISO images of their product, and supports the LSB. Yeah sure, just like Mircrosoft.
Actually after a bit of reflection some of the training that I have had is invaluable. CMM, ISO 9000/9001, and Six Sigma to mention the big ones. Notice I did not saying brimmming with excitement or technical but not everything useful is...
The "training" that I have been sent to was exteremly expensive, worthless from a technical standpoint, and took me away from actively working on the project. I suppose for someone with less of a DIY ethic it might have been worthwhile but I didn't need someone endlessly repeating business process modeling methods or telling me how to use a freaking GUI. I can RTFM and figure it out myself. The manuals exceeded anything offered in any of the courses.
Now those JBoss under the hood training sessions sound like they rock.
Some languages are more productive than others, some are faster than others, and some are safer than others.
Damn it. You forgot to say pick two.
What does it provide that the Vim HOWTO doesn't? This strikes me as useful as a 'Developers Guide to ctags'.
Go to Nolo and start reading. Read the small business guide (my guess is you'll want an LLC), read the Independant Contractors guide, Web and Software legal guide, and Copyright Your Software. You can probably find all the titles in the local library, though not the newest of some of them.
I can tell by the way you ask the question, you have a lot of homework to do. Find someone who has worked on their own and ask for help. Good luck but that is all the free advice you get on a Saturday afternoon.
Funny link.
Actually, the sin is avarice meant in that context as inordinate desire for a supposed "good" rather than simple greed. The sin includes verve for a particular outcome or standing in the physical world and is contrasted with the virtue of selfless transcendent generosity through works. At heart, belief in this duality implies spiritual suffering results from moving beyond a subsistence level without practicing a tithe or acheiving reknown outside the bounds of the church. The underpinnings of this particular sin, along with many others, reinforce the obligation of the individual practitioner to the Catholic Church as an institutional body.
Is it nonesense? Sure. Just complicated nonesense, like much of the accumlated belief surrounding Jehovah.
Who gives a fuck about the xtian faith? So some stuffy fellow wrote a whole book, he called the Purgatorio, that called Averice (and greed by extension) a sin. Are you going to live you whole life according to a damn book?
Oh yeah, your a xtian. Nevermind.
From my perspective it is not the value of IT that has waned but rather the budget. The question that I constantly here these days is what is the minimum number of people and the minimum amount of resources that I need to do 80% of the job. Persistance, sweat, luck, and "damn the torpedos" has to get me that last 20%.
I find myself wearing too many hats but at least I am employed again. In some ways things are quite interesting, all new technologies, working in all kinds of roles that in a boom I wouldn't have the chance. The downside is it takes siginifcantly more time on my own to retool my skillset just to keep in the game.
From my perspective, since the IT bust you have to do more than every before and delegate everything you possibly can or you are screwed. The herd is still being culled. It's the recession stupid, everyone is cutting costs.
The people I truly pity are those recent college grads that were sold all the boom hype and graduate with whopping debt to the bust.
Your looking in the wrong place.
It sounds like what your looking for is really an object-relational wrapper rather than an XML based RDBMS. Take a look at OJB and see if it is not really what you are seeking.