My company actually still has a couple of old databases in Paradox that they still use. I developed in Paradox (PAL) for about 8 years. It was a great platform that blew away anything else at the time, short of maybe Foxpro. We had several CRM systems built on it.
Paradox for Windows was a complete flop, and because DOS Paradox used native Novell server file sharing/locking- it was unusable on a Windows network. I think that's what ultimately killed it.
I have a lot of fond memories of Turbo Pascal from the 80s and early 90s. It was inexpensive and fast- a combination that was hard to get in those days.
I have to admit though- I thought Borland died years ago.
We have a mix of them at my office. We often have "emergency" needs thanks to a constantly shifting cube-farm, so end up making a lot of our own. But- when time permits- I prefer to purchase them. It's one less thing for me to get blamed for if it fails. We are only running 1Gb Ethernet though, so I don't know if I would trust my cable-making skills to anything faster than that, especially for something as mission-critical as this story suggests.
I agree- this does seem odd, especially given that everyone is jumping on the "green" bandwagon. This is still Dell equipment, even if it is older. The equipment should be returned to Dell for recycling, or donated to a charitable organization.
I'm not an electrical engineer, so this may be a stupid question/idea: Are these things any more efficient than current solar cell technology? Would an array of these mounted on or under a sheet of metal and painted flat-black generate more electricity than a similar-sized solar panel? Would it be cheaper to produce?
(Sorry if it was already brought up. I can only get through 3-4 slides at instructables.com before I get too annoyed at all the ads to continue.)
This really pissed me off. The whole Colbert thing was a joke from the beginning, as I'm sure even Colbert would admit, but the winner of the contest among names CHOSEN BY NASA was "Serenity".
With the exception of naming the treadmill after Colbert- they COMPLETELY IGNORED their own poll. Way to go NASA- great way to generate public support. I'm sure people will really be eager to take part in your next naming poll, knowing that you will just ignore the results anyway.
There is generally a lot of talk here on Slashdot (and all over the Internet) about the lack of protection of privacy for citizens in European (and Asian, for that matter) countries. This puts the good 'ol USA on par with the rest of 'em...
When do I get my Web filter and CCTV camera? I need to be protected from terrorists! Who needs privacy.
It all really comes down to the same problem with things like gun control, drug laws, and DRM- this sort of shit really just hurts honest, hard working people- criminals and "terrorists" will always find a way to circumvent laws like this. If they (government) seriously think they can "shut down" the Internet and prevent criminals/terrorists from communicating- they should probably re-visit those drug laws they are likely violating. All this will do is force more honest people to start encrypting everything they do.
Face it- if Red Hat hadn't done it, M$ probably would have. It's likely a "defensive" patent they are unlikely to use unless provoked. It's all just a game. A big, high-stakes, unfortunate game.
They clearly don't care about a loyal SF audience. That was clear several years ago when they killed "Farscape". More recently, with the demise of both "Stargate" series' and Battlestar Galactica, there just isn't really anything left.
The only thing I will watch on SyFy (if that really ends up being its name) is "Eureka", but it's fairly obvious they don't want to continue that show either after a 10-month "mid-season" break.
Um, they have already done this. Sci Fi, or SyFy has very little actual SF content anymore. They now feature "wrestling" and crappy reality and game shows, along with god-awful made-for-tv monster movies, which I suppose COULD be considered SF if they weren't so badly done.
With no more "Stargate" or "Battlestar Galactica", they have almost nothing going for them anymore. I had hoped "Sanctuary" might redeem them a little bit, but I lost interest after the first few episodes. Once "Eureka" is done this summer, I'm probably going to get a cheaper satellite package, as I'm pretty sure Sci Fi is the only reason I have my current one.
Based on the look-and-feel of the site, and the great error message (already posted by someone else) if you try to send them feedback- I'd say they are completely uneducated.
It honestly looks like the site was done using the first version of FrontPage, on a very-poorly configured IIS that appears to be running on someone's desktop.
The really sad thing this is supposed to be for the Colorado State "Office of Information Technology". I live in Colorado, and this is REALLY embarrassing.
I'm from Colorado. Most of the time I feel the State Government here is on crack. If I write them an email using Thunderbird, I wonder if it would be rejected because it didn't come via Outlook?
I reviewed about a dozen Web CMS systems for a project for my company. We wanted something that we could just release to our content providers and let them submit their content. We didn't want to get heavily invested in the engineering, or have to deal with a lot of background maintenance just to keep it going. Wordpress was far easier to set-up and get our users working, than anything else we tested, including Joomla. Wordpress may not be as flexible and expandable as some of the others, but it also doesn't take nearly as much tweaking and plug-in hunting. It met our needs with only a couple of plug-ins, and was a no-brainer to install. As always- YMMV.
There just isn't anything in Linux that comes close in a corporate environment, period. I could have everyone in my office on Linux and/or Macs if it wasn't for that. It doesn't run (very well or at-all) under Wine or CrossOver, and there is no native Linux alternative that works reliably (or at all with Exchange 2007).
Evolution tried, and failed. I don't really blame them though- Microsoft will probably NEVER release their internals for the Outlook/Exchange marriage, and will continually change the way they communicate just to throw off any competition that tries. Microsoft knows that Outlook is one of the only things keeping many businesses from moving to Linux right now, especially after the Vista fiasco.
That said- I would much rather see Red Hat support existing solutions that already work well in Linux, like xVM/VirtualBox, than sign any kind of agreement with Microsoft. Microsoft's visualization solutions are garbage compared to VMWare and xVM. Sure- it would be nice if they supported Linux, but who would really want to run Linux on a Windows host except to "play" with it? When I'm running virtual machines- I like to have the host OS be rock-solid, not the other way around.
So- a lot of Linux people run Windows VMs just to use Outlook, because their home office tells them they have to. There are also still a few other Windows apps that there are no good Linux alternatives for, but that list keeps getting shorter. There are also still brain-dead companies that insist on writing all of their online applications using.NET and M$ DRM. If you are stuck dealing with such companies- a Windows VM is a necessity.
I was thinking the same thing... Does this make a public library's book reading for kids illegal? If a parent reads their child a story at night- do they need to buy a performance license?
It's nice to see authors are now employing RIAA and MPAA tactics- bravo!
The same sorry/lazy/whatever idiots who are unprepared for this now will be unprepared for it in June as-well. I have no sympathy for these people at all, and it's nice to know the new administration will still pander to the weakest link... (For the record- I actually like Obama, but this is sad.)
I used to have great names for my servers. When I started working for my current employer- most of the servers were named after Star Trek ships. After I took over server management, and because we were running out of names, I started naming servers after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, usually based on their mythology. (Athena for a security/firewall server, for example.)
The owner of the company got pissed apparently because of the "Pagan" naming scheme (he's apparently "born-again"), and decreed that servers can only be named for their function. So now our email server is named "email", our sales database server is called "sales", Web server is called "web", you get the picture. It didn't matter that the only people who actually dealt with the servers by name on a day-to-day basis were in my IT department. Nice way to kill creativity and create a dull workplace...
I'd be much more concerned about a "Brave New Word with Leonardo DiCaprio" than a sequel to Blade Runner. Gag!
I've actually always thought a sequel to Blade Runner IF DONE RIGHT could be really cool. I suppose it is just because I watched the director's cut again last week.
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My company actually still has a couple of old databases in Paradox that they still use. I developed in Paradox (PAL) for about 8 years. It was a great platform that blew away anything else at the time, short of maybe Foxpro. We had several CRM systems built on it.
Paradox for Windows was a complete flop, and because DOS Paradox used native Novell server file sharing/locking- it was unusable on a Windows network. I think that's what ultimately killed it.
I have a lot of fond memories of Turbo Pascal from the 80s and early 90s. It was inexpensive and fast- a combination that was hard to get in those days.
I have to admit though- I thought Borland died years ago.
I was thinking man-boobs and testicles the size of peas.
We have a mix of them at my office. We often have "emergency" needs thanks to a constantly shifting cube-farm, so end up making a lot of our own. But- when time permits- I prefer to purchase them. It's one less thing for me to get blamed for if it fails. We are only running 1Gb Ethernet though, so I don't know if I would trust my cable-making skills to anything faster than that, especially for something as mission-critical as this story suggests.
Yeah, but it won't be released until the second half of 2010.
And it won't actually be usable until SP1.
(Duck and run.)
I agree- this does seem odd, especially given that everyone is jumping on the "green" bandwagon. This is still Dell equipment, even if it is older. The equipment should be returned to Dell for recycling, or donated to a charitable organization.
I sincerely doubt Tiger Direct cares.
I'm not an electrical engineer, so this may be a stupid question/idea: Are these things any more efficient than current solar cell technology? Would an array of these mounted on or under a sheet of metal and painted flat-black generate more electricity than a similar-sized solar panel? Would it be cheaper to produce?
(Sorry if it was already brought up. I can only get through 3-4 slides at instructables.com before I get too annoyed at all the ads to continue.)
I really doubt it was a copyright issue. I also doubt that Joss would have any issues with it.
This really pissed me off. The whole Colbert thing was a joke from the beginning, as I'm sure even Colbert would admit, but the winner of the contest among names CHOSEN BY NASA was "Serenity".
With the exception of naming the treadmill after Colbert- they COMPLETELY IGNORED their own poll. Way to go NASA- great way to generate public support. I'm sure people will really be eager to take part in your next naming poll, knowing that you will just ignore the results anyway.
There is generally a lot of talk here on Slashdot (and all over the Internet) about the lack of protection of privacy for citizens in European (and Asian, for that matter) countries. This puts the good 'ol USA on par with the rest of 'em...
When do I get my Web filter and CCTV camera? I need to be protected from terrorists! Who needs privacy.
It all really comes down to the same problem with things like gun control, drug laws, and DRM- this sort of shit really just hurts honest, hard working people- criminals and "terrorists" will always find a way to circumvent laws like this. If they (government) seriously think they can "shut down" the Internet and prevent criminals/terrorists from communicating- they should probably re-visit those drug laws they are likely violating. All this will do is force more honest people to start encrypting everything they do.
Face it- if Red Hat hadn't done it, M$ probably would have. It's likely a "defensive" patent they are unlikely to use unless provoked. It's all just a game. A big, high-stakes, unfortunate game.
I'd be happy with a 75-degree data center.
They have used the name "Sci Fi" for many years now, and it all-of-the-sudden (sorry Stewie) has become a legal issue?
If anything- I suppose someone could sue them for false advertising as implied by their name, given the waning amount of SF content they provide.
They clearly don't care about a loyal SF audience. That was clear several years ago when they killed "Farscape". More recently, with the demise of both "Stargate" series' and Battlestar Galactica, there just isn't really anything left.
The only thing I will watch on SyFy (if that really ends up being its name) is "Eureka", but it's fairly obvious they don't want to continue that show either after a 10-month "mid-season" break.
Um, they have already done this. Sci Fi, or SyFy has very little actual SF content anymore. They now feature "wrestling" and crappy reality and game shows, along with god-awful made-for-tv monster movies, which I suppose COULD be considered SF if they weren't so badly done.
With no more "Stargate" or "Battlestar Galactica", they have almost nothing going for them anymore. I had hoped "Sanctuary" might redeem them a little bit, but I lost interest after the first few episodes. Once "Eureka" is done this summer, I'm probably going to get a cheaper satellite package, as I'm pretty sure Sci Fi is the only reason I have my current one.
Based on the look-and-feel of the site, and the great error message (already posted by someone else) if you try to send them feedback- I'd say they are completely uneducated.
It honestly looks like the site was done using the first version of FrontPage, on a very-poorly configured IIS that appears to be running on someone's desktop.
The really sad thing this is supposed to be for the Colorado State "Office of Information Technology". I live in Colorado, and this is REALLY embarrassing.
I just did the same thing... What a f*cking joke.
I'm from Colorado. Most of the time I feel the State Government here is on crack. If I write them an email using Thunderbird, I wonder if it would be rejected because it didn't come via Outlook?
I reviewed about a dozen Web CMS systems for a project for my company. We wanted something that we could just release to our content providers and let them submit their content. We didn't want to get heavily invested in the engineering, or have to deal with a lot of background maintenance just to keep it going. Wordpress was far easier to set-up and get our users working, than anything else we tested, including Joomla. Wordpress may not be as flexible and expandable as some of the others, but it also doesn't take nearly as much tweaking and plug-in hunting. It met our needs with only a couple of plug-ins, and was a no-brainer to install. As always- YMMV.
One word: Outlook
There just isn't anything in Linux that comes close in a corporate environment, period. I could have everyone in my office on Linux and/or Macs if it wasn't for that. It doesn't run (very well or at-all) under Wine or CrossOver, and there is no native Linux alternative that works reliably (or at all with Exchange 2007).
Evolution tried, and failed. I don't really blame them though- Microsoft will probably NEVER release their internals for the Outlook/Exchange marriage, and will continually change the way they communicate just to throw off any competition that tries. Microsoft knows that Outlook is one of the only things keeping many businesses from moving to Linux right now, especially after the Vista fiasco.
That said- I would much rather see Red Hat support existing solutions that already work well in Linux, like xVM/VirtualBox, than sign any kind of agreement with Microsoft. Microsoft's visualization solutions are garbage compared to VMWare and xVM. Sure- it would be nice if they supported Linux, but who would really want to run Linux on a Windows host except to "play" with it? When I'm running virtual machines- I like to have the host OS be rock-solid, not the other way around.
So- a lot of Linux people run Windows VMs just to use Outlook, because their home office tells them they have to. There are also still a few other Windows apps that there are no good Linux alternatives for, but that list keeps getting shorter. There are also still brain-dead companies that insist on writing all of their online applications using .NET and M$ DRM. If you are stuck dealing with such companies- a Windows VM is a necessity.
Sure- you just need to purchase a performance license first...
I was thinking the same thing... Does this make a public library's book reading for kids illegal? If a parent reads their child a story at night- do they need to buy a performance license?
It's nice to see authors are now employing RIAA and MPAA tactics- bravo!
What a load of crap...
The same sorry/lazy/whatever idiots who are unprepared for this now will be unprepared for it in June as-well. I have no sympathy for these people at all, and it's nice to know the new administration will still pander to the weakest link... (For the record- I actually like Obama, but this is sad.)
I used to have great names for my servers. When I started working for my current employer- most of the servers were named after Star Trek ships. After I took over server management, and because we were running out of names, I started naming servers after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, usually based on their mythology. (Athena for a security/firewall server, for example.)
The owner of the company got pissed apparently because of the "Pagan" naming scheme (he's apparently "born-again"), and decreed that servers can only be named for their function. So now our email server is named "email", our sales database server is called "sales", Web server is called "web", you get the picture. It didn't matter that the only people who actually dealt with the servers by name on a day-to-day basis were in my IT department. Nice way to kill creativity and create a dull workplace...
I'd be much more concerned about a "Brave New Word with Leonardo DiCaprio" than a sequel to Blade Runner. Gag!
I've actually always thought a sequel to Blade Runner IF DONE RIGHT could be really cool. I suppose it is just because I watched the director's cut again last week.