"Most of our support has been in the area of servers," Dargo said. "We'll be looking to add enabling Linux as a client for Oracle applications via the Mozilla browser, so Oracle customers can use Mozilla to access Oracle applications. We're looking at not just supporting Linux as a server but looking at supporting Linux as a client."
There is more involved in having a DBMS than just the database, you know. You gotta have the client tools to actually work with it.
Agreed, I've got a 6310i myself and it's great. Definetly rock solid. You also forgot to mention the great battery it has.;-)
Unfortunetly though, Nokia kind of fell through on their bluetooth implementation. (i.e. don't go walking around with bluetooth enabled on it. Think wardriving for cell phones, kind of). Another poster also mentioned that it doesn't support iSync. Shame for both of those
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While I admire the fact that you want to go help out the third world (and specifically a university - has the potential for lots of great things there), I think this is one of those things were you need to go through every single part of your plan with a fine toothed comb.
While I've never been to Uganda myself, I did work for the Zambian government for a number of months setting up an IT department at one of their agencies (I've posted to slash about it in the past, feel free to ask specifics though).
A few things to consider:
DSL is quite likely out of the price range of the university. Where I was working in Lusaka, DSL lines went for $1000USD/month. The best you could do for any reasonable price was ISDN-ish microwave connections and the like. You wouldn't believe the lag.
The power supply ain't what it is in North America (even with deregulation) - every computer/station will likely have to be connected to a UPS, and these will likely need to be purchased as (I would imagine), they're difficult to get donated.
What is going to happen when things go wrong - will they have the expertise to fix it, or will the computers just sit there dead? You can't take for granted that they'll be bale to hop onto google and find out what's causing problem x or to get solution y. As much as I think OSS could be great for developing nations, from what I've seen the majority of people who are proposing that they switch over to Linux/OpenOffice/etc.. haven't got any real experience in the third world (much less IT experience). The majority of population in these places haven't had technology permeate their societies the way we have in North America and are consequently much further down the learning curve.
Now all that being said, I don't want to dissuade you from your plan. I just suggest that you talk with people 'in the know.' I'm sure that the good fellows at GeekCorps or TakingITGlobal could point you in the right direction. Good luck!
While this isn't a feature of Evolution per-se, you can integrate bogofilter into it pretty easily. I use it myself and other than a bunch of false positives from a few mailing lists, it's great.
I had some problems with my ipods harddrive the other month and my warranty has since expired, Ever since then I've been paranoid about it breaking again and not being able to fix it (which apple did excellently!)
Yeah, except that the MicroSerfs article you reference was an excerpt from a Douglas Copeland book. It was meant to be fictional and wasn't portrayed otherwise.
I don't know about Flash, but I use Dreamweaver a lot for the web-related aspects of my job (mostly building ColdFusion apps) and I can tell you firsthand that there aren't that many big differences between Dreamweaver MX and 2004. Other than the CSS improvements (which, honestly are quite nice) I'd say that there are few big reasons to upgrade.
Macromedia has a page with the changes here.
No, you're right. But the CD says it's 'copy-controlled' (whatever that means).
As for the under over-21 thing - I feel your pain. Well, maybe not anymore, but I've certainly been there. It seems to be a big problem for artists to play underages shows since the bar usually recoups most of the cost of having them there through drink sales. Then again, isn't that what fake ID is for?
I did the same last month for a band who I really like and want to support (they're not that popular and IMHO make very good music). While it did have the 'copy protected' or whatever logo on it, I was happily able to rip it with CDex and am now listening to it pretty regularly on my iPod. Insofar as my experience goes, I haven't really noticed any difference from regular cd's (yet).
While it's possible that the copy protection on it could be different from the one that everyone's talking about, I doubt it. There hasn't really been any mention of multiple copy-protections schemes from where I sit. That still sucks that you're not able to listen to the cd you bought, but it certainly isn't unethical (or probably illegal) to rip a cd which you own for your own purposes.
The run is set up so that there are a lot of false trails, obstacles (sp?) and holds - meaning that even if you have people who are sprinting and people who are walking, they more or less stay together for the better part of the run.
I was working in Africa last summer and found that for me the best way to meet people was by joining the local Hash House Harriers. I won't get into too much detail, but it basically bills itself as "a drinking club with a running problem." The runs were typically on farms and in the woods just outside of the city where I was staying and the landscapes were beautiful. Plus, the runnning was good and the beer was insanely cheap.:-)
You didn't really give any details about where you're going, but if it's anywhere internationally, chances are there's a local HHH. It's got a lot to do with the whole ex-patriot community.
... the answer is not a whole lot (on the hardware side). Seriously, any server running linux will undoubtbly be good enough for you. As for bandwidth, the club which I'm the webmaster for just piggybacks off the schools connection. If you can arrange something like that, go for it... but from the sounds of it, you can't.
To give you an idea, we were running our server up until about a year and a half ago on an old P150 with no problems. The current box is about a 1.4Ghz box with a bunch of harddrive space.
Although I haven't used Delphi recently, I think you're a bit confused about it.
They didn't 'rename' anything with Delphi. Delphi is a RAD tool which utilizes Object Pascal as it's base language (Okay... so they renamed it to 'Object Pascal'... that's what happens when you make it OO). Having used it myself in the past (well, about 5-6 years ago), I can say that in my opinion it's ***way*** better than VB. The code seems to me to be a lot cleaner and nowadays you can port your stuff to Linux really easily via Kylix (or so I understand - not having used it myself).
I don't know about you, but my Nokia 6310i does pretty much all that. All in all, I'm quite pleased with it. Plus the fact that its got some other nice goodies on there such as bluetooth and J2ME (well, MIDP 1... which isn't good for much) are just icing on the cake.
I wonder if the "I want a phone that's just a phone" argument crowd around here are just getting their kicks out of complaining about how much they don't need features like this are just complaining for the heck of it. Sure there aren't articles about solid phone-cellphones, but that's just because they're not worth writing home about. Been there, done that.
As an aside, I can think of how this might be a neat feature to have. Using Presence and Availibility Management (PAM), the phone company can tell where I am pretty accurately at any time. It would be neat if my phone automatically bought me a coffee on the way to work every morning as I walk up to the nearby coffee shop or paid for my bus fare home.
I was just discussing this the other week on another thread, but I think it's worth repeating... it's worth it to join the ADC student program and use the ADC student hardware purchase program. This way you also get access to ADC which has a lot of nice toys and in the end, from what I've seen of fairly recent pricelists for Canada, the discount is pretty substantial.
The only drawback is that it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.:-)
Because not everyone lives in the US. You do know that outside of the US, pretty much everyone has accepted the metric system as standard I hope. Sure, many people (including myself) still use imperial measurements for many things, but on the whole metric is where its at.
The point here is this would provide a fix to the issue of standardized postal codes in the long term. Just because it's not status-quo doesn't mean it isn't a good idea.
Another strategy, that I'll be using myself shortly, is to join the Apple Developer Connection (for about $100) as a student and then use their hardware seeding program, which gives you about 10-20% off your first hardware purchase with them.
Plus, the program has a bunch of developer tools and other discounts included. It's certainly wortha look.
Last summer I was working on a development project in the Zambian government where I set up the IT department at a government agency. While I did use OSS whenever I could, I really couldn't see anyway around the windows domination 'problem.' For one thing, there is no real support infrastrcture for Linux outside of the technically savvy IT people (of which I saw maybe 2 shops total with linux boxen) whereas there are several Microsoft Partners willing to provide a reasonable level of support given the rest of the environment. The other main limiting factor that people back in the west don't really consider is the bandwidth issue - internet access in Zambia was archaic. DSL lines cost upwards of $1000USD (well outside of the budgets of most small/medium organizations there) and there was terrible latency. Downloading ISOs for various distros was an exercise in patience to say the least.
Anyway, just to reiterate your point - Linux adoption there will happen, but the environment for it just isn't quite right at the moment.
While it's certainly not anything I'm responsible for, a good friend of mine is the project lead/one of the project admins for EDT, which is going to be an eiffel plugin for Eclipse. You might want to check that out - there should be a release RSN.
Some other guy at our university is working on a BON plugin for Eclipse, but I don't really know anything about its status.
Cryptome is hosting more information on the whole rebuilding effort in Iraq. One such article is this one which is the text of a new york times article and two pdf's from USAID. Should be of interest to anyone who's following the whole Iraq war and is interested in the aftermath.
Slashdot Mirror
... for those who don't actually read it.
"Most of our support has been in the area of servers," Dargo said. "We'll be looking to add enabling Linux as a client for Oracle applications via the Mozilla browser, so Oracle customers can use Mozilla to access Oracle applications. We're looking at not just supporting Linux as a server but looking at supporting Linux as a client."
There is more involved in having a DBMS than just the database, you know. You gotta have the client tools to actually work with it.
Agreed, I've got a 6310i myself and it's great. Definetly rock solid. You also forgot to mention the great battery it has. ;-)
Unfortunetly though, Nokia kind of fell through on their bluetooth implementation. (i.e. don't go walking around with bluetooth enabled on it. Think wardriving for cell phones, kind of). Another poster also mentioned that it doesn't support iSync. Shame for both of those
While I admire the fact that you want to go help out the third world (and specifically a university - has the potential for lots of great things there), I think this is one of those things were you need to go through every single part of your plan with a fine toothed comb.
While I've never been to Uganda myself, I did work for the Zambian government for a number of months setting up an IT department at one of their agencies (I've posted to slash about it in the past, feel free to ask specifics though).
A few things to consider:
Now all that being said, I don't want to dissuade you from your plan. I just suggest that you talk with people 'in the know.' I'm sure that the good fellows at GeekCorps or TakingITGlobal could point you in the right direction. Good luck!
While this isn't a feature of Evolution per-se, you can integrate bogofilter into it pretty easily. I use it myself and other than a bunch of false positives from a few mailing lists, it's great.
Oh man, I wish I had some mod points for you.
I had some problems with my ipods harddrive the other month and my warranty has since expired, Ever since then I've been paranoid about it breaking again and not being able to fix it (which apple did excellently!)
Thanks
Yeah, except that the MicroSerfs article you reference was an excerpt from a Douglas Copeland book. It was meant to be fictional and wasn't portrayed otherwise.
It's also a great book. One of his best IMHO.
Great post - I wish I had mod points for you, but it looks like you're already at the cap anyway.
I don't know about Flash, but I use Dreamweaver a lot for the web-related aspects of my job (mostly building ColdFusion apps) and I can tell you firsthand that there aren't that many big differences between Dreamweaver MX and 2004. Other than the CSS improvements (which, honestly are quite nice) I'd say that there are few big reasons to upgrade. Macromedia has a page with the changes here.
At least for me this is A-OK
No, you're right. But the CD says it's 'copy-controlled' (whatever that means).
As for the under over-21 thing - I feel your pain. Well, maybe not anymore, but I've certainly been there. It seems to be a big problem for artists to play underages shows since the bar usually recoups most of the cost of having them there through drink sales. Then again, isn't that what fake ID is for?
I did the same last month for a band who I really like and want to support (they're not that popular and IMHO make very good music). While it did have the 'copy protected' or whatever logo on it, I was happily able to rip it with CDex and am now listening to it pretty regularly on my iPod. Insofar as my experience goes, I haven't really noticed any difference from regular cd's (yet).
While it's possible that the copy protection on it could be different from the one that everyone's talking about, I doubt it. There hasn't really been any mention of multiple copy-protections schemes from where I sit. That still sucks that you're not able to listen to the cd you bought, but it certainly isn't unethical (or probably illegal) to rip a cd which you own for your own purposes.
The run is set up so that there are a lot of false trails, obstacles (sp?) and holds - meaning that even if you have people who are sprinting and people who are walking, they more or less stay together for the better part of the run.
I was working in Africa last summer and found that for me the best way to meet people was by joining the local Hash House Harriers. I won't get into too much detail, but it basically bills itself as "a drinking club with a running problem." The runs were typically on farms and in the woods just outside of the city where I was staying and the landscapes were beautiful. Plus, the runnning was good and the beer was insanely cheap. :-)
You didn't really give any details about where you're going, but if it's anywhere internationally, chances are there's a local HHH. It's got a lot to do with the whole ex-patriot community.
-Gameboy, Lusaka HHH
... the answer is not a whole lot (on the hardware side). Seriously, any server running linux will undoubtbly be good enough for you. As for bandwidth, the club which I'm the webmaster for just piggybacks off the schools connection. If you can arrange something like that, go for it... but from the sounds of it, you can't.
To give you an idea, we were running our server up until about a year and a half ago on an old P150 with no problems. The current box is about a 1.4Ghz box with a bunch of harddrive space.
Although I haven't used Delphi recently, I think you're a bit confused about it.
They didn't 'rename' anything with Delphi. Delphi is a RAD tool which utilizes Object Pascal as it's base language (Okay... so they renamed it to 'Object Pascal'... that's what happens when you make it OO). Having used it myself in the past (well, about 5-6 years ago), I can say that in my opinion it's ***way*** better than VB. The code seems to me to be a lot cleaner and nowadays you can port your stuff to Linux really easily via Kylix (or so I understand - not having used it myself).
Anyway, this is pretty much totally offtopic...
I don't know about you, but my Nokia 6310i does pretty much all that. All in all, I'm quite pleased with it. Plus the fact that its got some other nice goodies on there such as bluetooth and J2ME (well, MIDP 1... which isn't good for much) are just icing on the cake.
I wonder if the "I want a phone that's just a phone" argument crowd around here are just getting their kicks out of complaining about how much they don't need features like this are just complaining for the heck of it. Sure there aren't articles about solid phone-cellphones, but that's just because they're not worth writing home about. Been there, done that.
As an aside, I can think of how this might be a neat feature to have. Using Presence and Availibility Management (PAM), the phone company can tell where I am pretty accurately at any time. It would be neat if my phone automatically bought me a coffee on the way to work every morning as I walk up to the nearby coffee shop or paid for my bus fare home.
I was just discussing this the other week on another thread, but I think it's worth repeating... it's worth it to join the ADC student program and use the ADC student hardware purchase program. This way you also get access to ADC which has a lot of nice toys and in the end, from what I've seen of fairly recent pricelists for Canada, the discount is pretty substantial.
The only drawback is that it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. :-)
Actually I was wrong again as this page demonstrates...http://developer.apple.com/students /sthardware.html
You`re right - that`s what I get for not reading the fine print.
Nevertheless, there are still discounts for students which amount to about the same.
Because not everyone lives in the US. You do know that outside of the US, pretty much everyone has accepted the metric system as standard I hope. Sure, many people (including myself) still use imperial measurements for many things, but on the whole metric is where its at.
The point here is this would provide a fix to the issue of standardized postal codes in the long term. Just because it's not status-quo doesn't mean it isn't a good idea.
Another strategy, that I'll be using myself shortly, is to join the Apple Developer Connection (for about $100) as a student and then use their hardware seeding program, which gives you about 10-20% off your first hardware purchase with them.
Plus, the program has a bunch of developer tools and other discounts included. It's certainly wortha look.
Use IPSec, or some other VPN technology. They seem to fix the problem pretty well.
Dude, I couldn't agree more.
Last summer I was working on a development project in the Zambian government where I set up the IT department at a government agency. While I did use OSS whenever I could, I really couldn't see anyway around the windows domination 'problem.' For one thing, there is no real support infrastrcture for Linux outside of the technically savvy IT people (of which I saw maybe 2 shops total with linux boxen) whereas there are several Microsoft Partners willing to provide a reasonable level of support given the rest of the environment. The other main limiting factor that people back in the west don't really consider is the bandwidth issue - internet access in Zambia was archaic. DSL lines cost upwards of $1000USD (well outside of the budgets of most small/medium organizations there) and there was terrible latency. Downloading ISOs for various distros was an exercise in patience to say the least.
Anyway, just to reiterate your point - Linux adoption there will happen, but the environment for it just isn't quite right at the moment.
So go browse the CVS and add a patch. Isn't that what open source is about?
While it's certainly not anything I'm responsible for, a good friend of mine is the project lead/one of the project admins for EDT, which is going to be an eiffel plugin for Eclipse. You might want to check that out - there should be a release RSN.
Some other guy at our university is working on a BON plugin for Eclipse, but I don't really know anything about its status.
Cryptome is hosting more information on the whole rebuilding effort in Iraq. One such article is this one which is the text of a new york times article and two pdf's from USAID. Should be of interest to anyone who's following the whole Iraq war and is interested in the aftermath.