Blame the stupid user because they don't read the source for every web page they go to? Come on. Are you, the highly intelligent informed user, going to start doing that now, even though there are no visual cues on the rendered page that something is amiss?
Interesting... I copied the link from Firefox (Copy Link Location), pasted it into scite editor, and got http://www.p?ypal.com/. Pasting it back into Firefox gets me http://www.paypal.com/
I still use my one and only PDA, a Palm III. I used to try out 3rd party applications, but hardly do anymore. When I rode the subway to work, I'd download the news and read it, but now, notes to self, alarms, and contact list are its purposes for me. I don't expect I'll buy a newer all-in-one PDA/Web browser/MP3 player/balance-my-checkbook device. But then again, I don't even have a cellphone (you ignorant clod!).
I have one in my home and it works. It still has the number inside the center of its dial - FAirfax 3584. Actually, it predates me (but we had rotary phones for the longest time). My parents had it for years and never used it. You could probably kill someone if you hit them in the head with it, it's so hefty.
Zope has a ton of configuration files? You mean etc/zope.conf in your Instance home? Also, I have several production Zope apps connected to PostgreSQL, the setup involved installing the driver (psycopg), then adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH to my Zope startup script. For other production sites, the ZODB works fine. One of my apps uses ZODB for most storage, and LDAP for the user store. Does Rails give me user authentication, session management, LDAP connectivity, a security/roles management API out of the box, or do I have to roll my own?
There hasn't been an improvement in productivity like this in recent programming-history.
Explain how this framework is orders of magnitude better than, say, Zope (which I'm most familiar with of the web app frameworks). I skimmed through the Hibbs' demo and wasn't so wowed. I thought it was cool that the framework takes care of the ORB-ing through 'generate' commands and then automatically picks up the changes to the table structure, but Rails isn't alone in making the brokering easy. I might give it a try, but it's yet another framework, and yet another language for me, without (to me) the amazing benefits you claim for it.
The original was made by Austin Morris, which was the merger between Austin and Morris, and part of BMG. Its model name was "Mini". John Cooper later modified it into what was called the "Mini Cooper". The Mini was sold under both the Austin and the Morris badges. There was not a company named "Mini" which produced a "Cooper".
Thank you, thank you for the link. When I read parent, I immediately thought of "that guy who wrote similar hilarious stuff about Commie Linus users" years ago, but couldn't recall the name.
Contractors in IT? Or as managers or something else? I'm a (non-ex-military) contractor in DoD, and I'm quite a few figures short of making 6 figures a year.
This question (and its replies) seem centered on the tech job environment in USA. But I'm an American who's curious about IT opportunities abroad, particularly Europe. What is the situation there for tech workers (software developers)?
Heh, thanks for the memories... I saw that it's first time on prime-time TV. Really, really awful, even to a little kid. On the other hand, Duel (same era) was tense.
I saw a recent posting of Unisys job announcements and was pleased to see Linux among the "looking for" skills, along with the usual J2EE, Oracle, etc etc. But they want someone with 10 to 15 years of Linux experience. Kind of like the postings for Java jobs that only Gosling could qualify for.
I've read much discussion about the button order in GNOME and although I really don't care which way they do it, I have to disagree with people who say that the eye will naturally fall to the right-hand option, and so that option should be the default choice (such as "OK"). Not only do you take this line, but you also say it's sensible for left-to-right languages. The left-to-right argument is usually advanced by those preferring the opposite order of "OK", "Cancel", instead of "Cancel", "OK". Ask yourself this: in a printed page of survey questions, aren't options usually presented as "Yes" "No" "Maybe"? That is, as your eye scans left-to-right, the positive option is the first you encounter. Who scans down the right edge of a page looking for their choices? The default-on-right UI seems equivalent to a survey offering its options as "No" "Maybe" "Yes". Doesn't seem natural to me, as an English reader. And to claim that people who disagree with GNOME's button order choice do so because they're used to (inferior) MS Windows is unfair and a cheap way to discredit their arguments.
And there are cases where IE doesn't render standard DHTML properly. Try this: create a page with a hidden layer, and some control such as a hyperlink that switches the layer's visibility on. Have the layer appear around a form select element (especially a multiple select), or make a draggable layer that you then drag over the select element when visible. In IE, your layer will be below (and hidden by) the select element, no matter what you do with z-index (at least not according to anything I've read). Moz, Firefox - no problem. The layer covers up the select element as intended.
I blame Microsoft for making the general public think *all* slashes are backslashes. Do you know how many people read off a URL to me as "http colon backslash backslash..."?
How odd, they do just the opposite for me. No other fast food burger has the same effect, but within 30 minutes of eating a McD's burger, I'm off and running....
And yet they have the balls to have a poll on their site asking "Should Ignalum Linux 9 be considered as one of the best free offerings among linux distros?"
I got a laugh when our security team sent out an update to their vulnerability notice for Sasser (doesn't affect my servers, hehe).
"[We] have learned of issues loading the Windows 2000 patch in MS04-011 when complying with [vulnerability ID].... systems can stop responding, users cannot log on to Windows, or CPU usage for the system process approaches 100 percent after installation of the security update. Additionally, [we] have heard that some systems may require a complete rebuild once the patch causes system to crash."
And the kicker, "Systems Administrators are advised to proceed with caution when patching Windows 2000 systems." Um, how exactly does one do that, with one hand on the power cord, or click the install button very slowly? Does applying the patch warn you "About to hose your system, proceed?"
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I don't have OpenLDAP available to me right here, but I believe both groups and the email attribute for people is in the OpenLDAP core schema.
Blame the stupid user because they don't read the source for every web page they go to? Come on. Are you, the highly intelligent informed user, going to start doing that now, even though there are no visual cues on the rendered page that something is amiss?
Interesting... I copied the link from Firefox (Copy Link Location), pasted it into scite editor, and got http://www.p?ypal.com/. Pasting it back into Firefox gets me http://www.paypal.com/
I still use my one and only PDA, a Palm III. I used to try out 3rd party applications, but hardly do anymore. When I rode the subway to work, I'd download the news and read it, but now, notes to self, alarms, and contact list are its purposes for me. I don't expect I'll buy a newer all-in-one PDA/Web browser/MP3 player/balance-my-checkbook device. But then again, I don't even have a cellphone (you ignorant clod!).
I have one in my home and it works. It still has the number inside the center of its dial - FAirfax 3584. Actually, it predates me (but we had rotary phones for the longest time). My parents had it for years and never used it. You could probably kill someone if you hit them in the head with it, it's so hefty.
Zope has a ton of configuration files? You mean etc/zope.conf in your Instance home? Also, I have several production Zope apps connected to PostgreSQL, the setup involved installing the driver (psycopg), then adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH to my Zope startup script. For other production sites, the ZODB works fine. One of my apps uses ZODB for most storage, and LDAP for the user store. Does Rails give me user authentication, session management, LDAP connectivity, a security/roles management API out of the box, or do I have to roll my own?
There hasn't been an improvement in productivity like this in recent programming-history.
Explain how this framework is orders of magnitude better than, say, Zope (which I'm most familiar with of the web app frameworks). I skimmed through the Hibbs' demo and wasn't so wowed. I thought it was cool that the framework takes care of the ORB-ing through 'generate' commands and then automatically picks up the changes to the table structure, but Rails isn't alone in making the brokering easy. I might give it a try, but it's yet another framework, and yet another language for me, without (to me) the amazing benefits you claim for it.
I chuckled at this Peoplesoft employee's comment, related to the bit about some employees preferring no job to a job with Oracle:
"Peoplesoft had an easygoing, relaxed atmosphere. Oracle has an edgy, aggressive atmosphere that's not conducive to innovative production."
And who's taking over whom? If Peoplesoft's "atmosphere" was so conducive, why aren't they taking over Oracle?
Correction, that should be BMC, British Motor Corporation. Not BMG, the music conglomerate!
Uh, no.
The current rendition of it is the MINI, by BMW.
The original was made by Austin Morris, which was the merger between Austin and Morris, and part of BMG. Its model name was "Mini". John Cooper later modified it into what was called the "Mini Cooper". The Mini was sold under both the Austin and the Morris badges. There was not a company named "Mini" which produced a "Cooper".
Thank you, thank you for the link. When I read parent, I immediately thought of "that guy who wrote similar hilarious stuff about Commie Linus users" years ago, but couldn't recall the name.
Ahh, Tang... and Space Food Sticks. Those were the days!
Contractors in IT? Or as managers or something else? I'm a (non-ex-military) contractor in DoD, and I'm quite a few figures short of making 6 figures a year.
This question (and its replies) seem centered on the tech job environment in USA. But I'm an American who's curious about IT opportunities abroad, particularly Europe. What is the situation there for tech workers (software developers)?
Heh, thanks for the memories... I saw that it's first time on prime-time TV. Really, really awful, even to a little kid. On the other hand, Duel (same era) was tense.
I know the history. The point is, I doubt the people who write the job requirements do.
I saw a recent posting of Unisys job announcements and was pleased to see Linux among the "looking for" skills, along with the usual J2EE, Oracle, etc etc. But they want someone with 10 to 15 years of Linux experience. Kind of like the postings for Java jobs that only Gosling could qualify for.
I've read much discussion about the button order in GNOME and although I really don't care which way they do it, I have to disagree with people who say that the eye will naturally fall to the right-hand option, and so that option should be the default choice (such as "OK"). Not only do you take this line, but you also say it's sensible for left-to-right languages. The left-to-right argument is usually advanced by those preferring the opposite order of "OK", "Cancel", instead of "Cancel", "OK". Ask yourself this: in a printed page of survey questions, aren't options usually presented as "Yes" "No" "Maybe"? That is, as your eye scans left-to-right, the positive option is the first you encounter. Who scans down the right edge of a page looking for their choices? The default-on-right UI seems equivalent to a survey offering its options as "No" "Maybe" "Yes". Doesn't seem natural to me, as an English reader. And to claim that people who disagree with GNOME's button order choice do so because they're used to (inferior) MS Windows is unfair and a cheap way to discredit their arguments.
"You don't happen to use "formally" instead of "formerly" too, such as in, "I formally had credibility, but then I used 'wala' instead of 'voilà'"?"
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Well, he could of, but that would be a whole nother topic.
And there are cases where IE doesn't render standard DHTML properly. Try this: create a page with a hidden layer, and some control such as a hyperlink that switches the layer's visibility on. Have the layer appear around a form select element (especially a multiple select), or make a draggable layer that you then drag over the select element when visible. In IE, your layer will be below (and hidden by) the select element, no matter what you do with z-index (at least not according to anything I've read). Moz, Firefox - no problem. The layer covers up the select element as intended.
I blame Microsoft for making the general public think *all* slashes are backslashes. Do you know how many people read off a URL to me as "http colon backslash backslash..."?
How odd, they do just the opposite for me. No other fast food burger has the same effect, but within 30 minutes of eating a McD's burger, I'm off and running....
Then we can expect all the compositions to be adagios? ;)
And yet they have the balls to have a poll on their site asking "Should Ignalum Linux 9 be considered as one of the best free offerings among linux distros?"
I got a laugh when our security team sent out an update to their vulnerability notice for Sasser (doesn't affect my servers, hehe).
"[We] have learned of issues loading the Windows 2000 patch in MS04-011 when complying with [vulnerability ID].... systems can stop responding, users cannot log on to Windows, or CPU usage for the system process approaches 100 percent after installation of the security update. Additionally, [we] have heard that some systems may require a complete rebuild once the patch causes system to crash."
And the kicker, "Systems Administrators are advised to proceed with caution when patching Windows 2000 systems." Um, how exactly does one do that, with one hand on the power cord, or click the install button very slowly? Does applying the patch warn you "About to hose your system, proceed?"