Why don't the Wikipedia people allow their site to be mirrored? A lot of people have some extra bandwidth and disk space to share. It could be hosted in multiple places similar to the way the Jargon File is distributed?
This would be a great problem for a wiki grid or something.
Many vendors offer the source code be placed in escrow in case of such an event. However this is only something you'll get for large, enterprise software products, not some utility or tool.
This is all conjecture on Cringley's part. Who said Macs are half as easy to administer? And why does he expect us all to buy xServes since Apple has only been in the server market 1-2 years? Ok, we'll throw away our Suns/Compaqs/IBMs for your little newbie pizza box.
He's a Mac zealot and is off his rocker this time.
When this book came out a year ago, I bought it, but was in the middle of massive death march. Frankly, the first three chapters depressed me! It hit a little too close to home. Of course, I wasn't sleeping either, and that turned out to be more important than reading
I bought MSDN myself and registered for the giveaway and it was supposed to ship earlier this month but I didn't get it. So I called the 800 number and they said I had to wait another 8-12 weeks. So what gives?
.NET a definite upgrade, good competition for Java
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If you've been building Windows apps for a while you have welcomed.NET because it makes building Windows apps much simpler than the complexities of VC++ and rescues us from having to deal with the hoakiness of VB. As a long-time Java developer as well I am glad to have a full set of OOP features in a VM-like environment like there is in Java available to me. If Java supported the Windows desktop more elegantly and efficiently then.NET wouldn't matter as much, but Swing is dismally slow and cumbersome for Windows apps, though JDK 1.4.2 is supposed to be better. But look at the rift IBM's SWT has caused in the Java/desktop community.
And I don't agree.NET is just about desktop apps. It makes building distributed apps easier as well, if you want to use web services. I do believe, however, J2EE is still a stronger alternative for large-scale distributed apps. But let's face it, nobody cared much about web services until.NET. Not that a lot of people care too much now, but it's seen as the future of distributed computing, from an internet-scale basis, by just about everybody. What else is there, CORBA? RMI? EJBs? Puhleeze. Firewall unfriendliness is the biggest challenges for these protocols. And the Java camp has been working feverishly to add web services support to their platform and developers have been demanding it. See J2EE 1.4, Apache Axis, Sun's WSDP, BEA's "as-easy-as-VB" WebLogic Workshop IDE for building web services, etc.
The best thing.NET has done perhaps is light a fire under the pants of those in the Java camps. Since.NET's release Sun and the major Java vendors have been scrambling to "answer" some of the advantages of.NET and the cool features of C#. The JCP is trying to respond more quickly. The upcoming JDK 1.5 will have most language changes since 1.1 (generics, foreach iterations, attributes) in an attempt to meet or beat some of C#'s strengths over Java, etc. And the prospect of open-sourcing Java is becoming more of a reality as Sun's stranglehold on the standard has slowed the pace of Java's improvement and started to cause some splintering among some previously strong supporters of Java (aka, IBM, creating SWT, not showing up at this year's JavaOne, etc.)
Seems like there is some anouncement on the/. homepage about the birthday of some technology. Do we really need this? All of this birthday cake and ice cream is really putting on the pounds.
This new law probably won't matter because it seems like most of the telemarketing calls I've been getting lately have been coming from India. If MCI hires an Indian telemarketing company to call me did MCI break this law? How does this apply to overseas telemarketers?
I can imagine the IE developers put this in there for their testing purposes, like for testing their automated bug reporting software. They probably just forgot to take it out.
While BT was cool downloading the RedHat 9 ISOs, it'I was able to download the trailer from the AOL website with 1+Mbps throughput just fine, and BT was estimating a 5hr download. BitTorrent peers has been/.-ed!:)
And the resolution is pretty high, my 933MHz Pentium III with GeForce4 4200 was fairly jumpy.
It doesn't matter. If sysadmins change their title to be X people will still refer to them as sysadmins. Just like "software engineers", "developers", "systems architect", etc. are still called "programmers" by most people.
This Mozilla roadmap is good. I've switched from IE as my default browser and have used Phoenix and Mozilla. I liked Phoenix (0.6) a lot but it seemed to crash more often then I wanted. I've been using Mozilla 1.3 for a while now and like it.
Since I still use IE for some things, I was just curious, is Microsoft even working on an IE 7.0? If so, what will it be like? Since they've won the browser wars, do they even care about IE anymore? They seem pretty bogged down upgrading their next revs of Office and Windows Server, their major cash cows. Still, is there a next rev of IE in the works? What are its feature sets? Seems like Mozilla and Opera are doing all of the innovation.
BTW, my book didn't come with a nylon bookmark. That would have been useful. My GoF patterns book has a book marker. I think the use of embedded book markers and hard-bound covers are an attempt to represent the book as more cannonical, a biblical tech reference of sorts. Quite a few of the Addison Wesley books seem to follow this model, like GoF, as well as my 3 volume "TCP/IP Ilustrated" books.
We have a design patterns study group that meets in Santa Ana twice a month to study this book. If anybody in the SoCal/Orange County area of California wish to join us please visit our website for more information.
When is stealing ever ethical? The fact that you say you are stealing should be answer enough.
On the other hand, how do you know you were stealing? Maybe the owner of the WLAN intended for it to be a public access point since they didn't take any measures to protect it. Maybe they are naive, but I think people who install WLANs are obliged to take some simple security measures that are not hard to find out about or learn about. If they are technical enough to configure it to work on a network they should be able to at least set up an encryption key.
It's down because of the /. effect
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If you guys would stop posting stories about their website then maybe they'd stay up and running!:)
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Have you looked at Java RMI or Jini?
Why don't the Wikipedia people allow their site to be mirrored? A lot of people have some extra bandwidth and disk space to share. It could be hosted in multiple places similar to the way the Jargon File is distributed?
This would be a great problem for a wiki grid or something.
Many vendors offer the source code be placed in escrow in case of such an event. However this is only something you'll get for large, enterprise software products, not some utility or tool.
Try these protocls/apps and run a P2P network in-house
JXTA
BitTorrent
Or, you can create your own Gnutella client, using some an open-source Gnutella package, like JTella
This is all conjecture on Cringley's part. Who said Macs are half as easy to administer? And why does he expect us all to buy xServes since Apple has only been in the server market 1-2 years? Ok, we'll throw away our Suns/Compaqs/IBMs for your little newbie pizza box.
He's a Mac zealot and is off his rocker this time.
Dude, for eqarthquake regulation purposes, there are no basements in California (unless the home is really old).
So we can get our name/website mentioned on the /. home page, why else?
Sheesh, somebody get this man some Prozac!
I bought MSDN myself and registered for the giveaway and it was supposed to ship earlier this month but I didn't get it. So I called the 800 number and they said I had to wait another 8-12 weeks. So what gives?
If you've been building Windows apps for a while you have welcomed .NET because it makes building Windows apps much simpler than the complexities of VC++ and rescues us from having to deal with the hoakiness of VB. As a long-time Java developer as well I am glad to have a full set of OOP features in a VM-like environment like there is in Java available to me. If Java supported the Windows desktop more elegantly and efficiently then .NET wouldn't matter as much, but Swing is dismally slow and cumbersome for Windows apps, though JDK 1.4.2 is supposed to be better. But look at the rift IBM's SWT has caused in the Java/desktop community.
.NET is just about desktop apps. It makes building distributed apps easier as well, if you want to use web services. I do believe, however, J2EE is still a stronger alternative for large-scale distributed apps. But let's face it, nobody cared much about web services until .NET. Not that a lot of people care too much now, but it's seen as the future of distributed computing, from an internet-scale basis, by just about everybody. What else is there, CORBA? RMI? EJBs? Puhleeze. Firewall unfriendliness is the biggest challenges for these protocols. And the Java camp has been working feverishly to add web services support to their platform and developers have been demanding it. See J2EE 1.4, Apache Axis, Sun's WSDP, BEA's "as-easy-as-VB" WebLogic Workshop IDE for building web services, etc.
.NET has done perhaps is light a fire under the pants of those in the Java camps. Since .NET's release Sun and the major Java vendors have been scrambling to "answer" some of the advantages of .NET and the cool features of C#. The JCP is trying to respond more quickly. The upcoming JDK 1.5 will have most language changes since 1.1 (generics, foreach iterations, attributes) in an attempt to meet or beat some of C#'s strengths over Java, etc. And the prospect of open-sourcing Java is becoming more of a reality as Sun's stranglehold on the standard has slowed the pace of Java's improvement and started to cause some splintering among some previously strong supporters of Java (aka, IBM, creating SWT, not showing up at this year's JavaOne, etc.)
And I don't agree
The best thing
Univ Calif, Irvine's CS dept has a Bioinformatics specialty/emphasis for graduate students.
UCI's Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics
UCI ICS Informatics in Biology and Medicine
They just got a $4.2M grant from the NIH to strengthen and consolidate their Bioinformatics group. Maybe they'll offer scholarships.
Seems like there is some anouncement on the /. homepage about the birthday of some technology. Do we really need this? All of this birthday cake and ice cream is really putting on the pounds.
This new law probably won't matter because it seems like most of the telemarketing calls I've been getting lately have been coming from India. If MCI hires an Indian telemarketing company to call me did MCI break this law? How does this apply to overseas telemarketers?
If we had cured the common cold we may not have stumbled upon this...
I can imagine the IE developers put this in there for their testing purposes, like for testing their automated bug reporting software. They probably just forgot to take it out.
While BT was cool downloading the RedHat 9 ISOs, it'I was able to download the trailer from the AOL website with 1+Mbps throughput just fine, and BT was estimating a 5hr download. BitTorrent peers has been /.-ed! :)
And the resolution is pretty high, my 933MHz Pentium III with GeForce4 4200 was fairly jumpy.
It doesn't matter. If sysadmins change their title to be X people will still refer to them as sysadmins. Just like "software engineers", "developers", "systems architect", etc. are still called "programmers" by most people.
You might want to look at what Microsoft has published about standards first, use that as a foundation
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
This Mozilla roadmap is good. I've switched from IE as my default browser and have used Phoenix and Mozilla. I liked Phoenix (0.6) a lot but it seemed to crash more often then I wanted. I've been using Mozilla 1.3 for a while now and like it.
Since I still use IE for some things, I was just curious, is Microsoft even working on an IE 7.0? If so, what will it be like? Since they've won the browser wars, do they even care about IE anymore? They seem pretty bogged down upgrading their next revs of Office and Windows Server, their major cash cows. Still, is there a next rev of IE in the works? What are its feature sets? Seems like Mozilla and Opera are doing all of the innovation.
BTW, my book didn't come with a nylon bookmark. That would have been useful. My GoF patterns book has a book marker. I think the use of embedded book markers and hard-bound covers are an attempt to represent the book as more cannonical, a biblical tech reference of sorts. Quite a few of the Addison Wesley books seem to follow this model, like GoF, as well as my 3 volume "TCP/IP Ilustrated" books.
We have a design patterns study group that meets in Santa Ana twice a month to study this book. If anybody in the SoCal/Orange County area of California wish to join us please visit our website for more information.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocpatterns/
When is stealing ever ethical? The fact that you say you are stealing should be answer enough.
On the other hand, how do you know you were stealing? Maybe the owner of the WLAN intended for it to be a public access point since they didn't take any measures to protect it. Maybe they are naive, but I think people who install WLANs are obliged to take some simple security measures that are not hard to find out about or learn about. If they are technical enough to configure it to work on a network they should be able to at least set up an encryption key.
If you guys would stop posting stories about their website then maybe they'd stay up and running! :)
You have to strike deals with game producers and distributors, probably giving them some portion of the rental fees collected.
P.S. Blockbuster rents games, don't you have a blockbuster nearby?
The product is called "Microsoft Offswitch"