I think this really comes down to what you are choosing to have as your true goals. If you want cost, speed, redundancy, scalability or any other factor.
You need to decide what things are important to you and start making choices.
In the end, you will need to trade off all of these things to find your solution.
Personally, I do a lot of work with banks at the moment. They want brand name, proven tech. Not necesarily the latest greatest. On top of which, they are willing to pay for brand names. As a result, I would spring for a RAID tower coupled with a Sun box running Oracle. But, if I wanted cost, I would probably pick up a VA box or custom built with a RAID tower and run linux with oracle or maybe try postgresql.
Tariffs are a bitch. I smuggled my computer/transformer/other electronics through customs. I was lucky enough that I just said "personal effects: used" on my form. Otherwise, I would have had to pay taxes/tariffs, etc.
17.5% VAT (sales tax, basically) on nearly all goods like that plus tariffs.
Case in point: pretty much everything here is scaled to wage. A person making 25k (USD) in the US can expect to make closer to 30-35k (Dfl) here. On the average, this ratio works out. Generally your health care/pensions are greater, but you pay tax like a bastard. 50% tax rate after 48kDfl. Although, some foreign recruited people can apply for a 35% ruling which gives your first 35% tax-free (I am crossing my fingers on my application). But, I didn't bring a monitor with me when I came. So, I went shopping. I am finding a Phillips 17" monitor (which I would say is comparable to a viewsonic) is 700Dfl. Thats just around $325USD. DAMN expensive. But, there is a used place in my town that had new Unisys' for 400Dfl. Its the only place that cheap.
On the other hand, I hear that the UK has better prices on almost everything like that. I know a guy here who has a Dukati 750 motorcycle. Paid $8kDfl for it in the UK, imported it w/o paying tariffs by keeping a UK plate. The same bike here is about $12kDfl. I think that people here tend to have a little less in the toy department than those in the US. More geeks in the US have more gear than around here.
I am currently in NL, working for Allshare, a Dutch banking software firm. I am an American, recent college grad. I have been here a month and it is quite nice. I think the hours and perks are better in Europe, not too mention ISDN/cable modems are much more likely to be available. The bitch is that everywhere in the EU is drastically expensive to buy any computer hardware.
I have tried to find the answer to this question before, but to no avail. What happens if you have a program that is made up of 5 libraries. In order to fully run the program, you need all 5. They use each other's header files and binaries. I GPL 2/5. Is this legal? What happens when I use a library, such as GnuPG, in a commercial non-GPL app?
What software would be recommended for such a thing? More curiously, is there any free software (either as in beer or speech) that can accomplish this??
I remember using my cousins C64 with a 300 baud external. I was over there everyday to try to find 'elite' areas for games and such.
When I finally got a machine, it was a Leading Edge 8088 (circa 1986-7) and two years later I bought a 1200 baud internal modem. another year later I got a 2400 baud. My first 14.4 was purchased for that same 8088 for the sole purpose of BBS'ing. I bought a 14.4 because only 1 of the 5 BBS's I frequented had a 28.8. Those were the days........
It is most amazing to me how shocked we are all at the idea of a $2500 computer. I remember when I bought by 'badass' P120 with 32 rocking megs of RAM, a 1.7 gig HD and a shitty 17" monitor that blew out 15 days after purchase for $2600. All that was one of the cheapest ones out of the old favorite Computer Shopper. Now we are amazed at a similar price. Kinda weird.
A friend of mine was saying in Linux/Apache frequently used files would automagically go into RAM. For example, a web server serving static pages would automagically have those files in RAM for serving out. Thus, increasing the speed.
Is this a load of hooey? Could someone perhaps explain or give a link to an explanation to the memory management in Linux?
As I recall, during his first year at school (or maybe it was high school), Bill Gates and Paul Allen invented a traffic data getter thingy. I think it printed out paper that then got analyzed in the standard punch card method.
I REALLY want a job in the Netherlands. I have been talking to many different firms and found they are either unwilling to talk to someone 6 months before graduation or are 100% Microsoft shops, which means they don't want me nor do I want them. (MAN, ASP is crap. I can't imagine companies focusing on that garbage. ticks me off, php and perl all the way, but anyway..)
I have had some trouble with finding places to list my resume. Anyone have any experience with European firms and what job sites they look at?
In a note to firms: I graduate with a BS in CS this May. I have close family ties to the Netherlands and am ready for work in May of 2000. Check out my resume if you would like to.
I started with PHP last spring and really like it. Previous to that I did a lot of Perl stuff. When it comes to server side, basic types of stuff, php3 is really nice.
I use it a lot in semi dynamic web sites where the managers don't want to learn html. Separate the header stuff, the body and the footer and just and watch the fun begin.
I also think that slamming between php and html is handy for some web sites. I love for loops such as : HTML CRAP . I know there is perl stuff for that too, but php is really quite nice.
I love perl. I love php. I find perl has a lot of more powerful features that I miss in php (good regex setup is one thing, php's pseudo perl regex's are a pain), but for cheap and fast html, I can't find better than php.
Plus, with PHP4 it will be compilable which means less of my day wasted fixing "webmasters" "improvements".
I really like the idea of a woman to cook, clean, rub my shoulders and everything else. Being a geek in a three year relationship (and at a point in our lives where we are planning longer term together), I would like to be the first to say that expectations for a woman need to be zero. Nothing. You can't expect a single thing. That way you will work for a good relationship and show extreme gratitude whenever she does anything for you. The biggest thing is to find a girl who will be your best friend. Above everything, that is what counts.
Ohhh ohhh ohh that is the ultimate coding music. I love astral projection and consider them the ultimate coding music above all others. But, when one gets into a particularly crunchy bit of code, kraftwerk lightens the spirits and makes everyone happy.
Hope College in Holland, MI (www.hope.edu) was good enough for Rob, Nate, Jeff, CowboyNeal and kurt.
Specific languages isn't that important, but I really wish Hope would get more intensive on C and C++. The push has been to move towards Java as a teaching language (not bad idea).
I have personally not used Cold Fusion or Zope. But, I require *nix based solutions doing basically the same stuff you have done.
I think PHP is great. Its fast, it works well and is very well featured. I think that it works best statically built into apache, and I have only used it with Linux and FreeBSD. I think you are best off to wait on PHP4. Just start with 3, and then migrate as needed. I don't forsee too much incompatibility between the two, and as someone who gets way to many "Its broke" phone calls, I can't imagine delivering a beta backend for an important app.
As for Zope, it looked to me to be a simpler language than PHP, although powerful. I think it is good for dynamic web pages, but big web apps (such as the sort I create) are out of its scope.
I think that sticking with NT and CF is a poor choice. My firm almost always either hosts the web app for the client (we have one client that is a conglomerate of 300 companies nationwide) or delivering an inexpensive unix (linux, freebsd) dedicated server. I think that web apps are so easy to decompile, or just yank the source, that clients think they can edit it, and you have to fix it. I prefer to lock them out unless I truly feel they know how to code at all. I think NT is a terrible OS and that you need to get away from that, fast.
Ok, first of all. I have worked at several "tech" firms ranging from ISPs to programming houses. All small, same policies ("not on company time"). Although they didn't care what happened off company time. At one firm the boss loved to show off the hottest stuff off newsgroups.
Needless to say, the only filthy things that arrive via email tend to be ads for web sites. Thats all I get and I get WAY too much of it. I would think that those scans would yield endless garbage.
I feel there is nothing wrong with doing this as long as everyone knows. At my father's firm (large construction firm, very conservative), all mail is opened and checked out by the president. When my parents went through a divorce, my dad would talk to the lawyer who was sending faxes 15 sec before he did to make sure he was the one who got it. To prevent office gossip. I find very little wrong with this. Work is work and just that.
Now, I read slashdot, salon, and a few other things every day from work. I take my break time and split it up.
I think that everyone should know about monitoring policies and should deal with it themselves. If you want a personal email, get an account somewhere else.
I disgree. I was full-time linux for over a year. Had to stop 3 months ago when I got a new job, and to access the shares on the net, we use samba, and encrypted passwords. smbfs (last time I used it) denies the power of encryption.
Needless to say, as a programmer, linux was all I needed. StarOffice, WordPerfect and the like kept me cool with writing documents, vim is my own integrated development enviroment. What more do you need?
I actually know a guy who got a wife from the Phillipines. He flew over there, spent 1 week scoring with underage girls, then went into some warehouse and picked out his "wife" out of 200 girls. Went to her house and met her family ("Yeah, I just bought your daughter"), then waited for 6 months for her to arrive. He was really excited and she was ok when she first got here. I haven't seen him lately, but I am really curious. It was his third wife and he looked like a 70's disco throwback. It was most humorous.
When I switched to my current job, I was a Java, Perl, C-C++ programmer, mostly. Over here we use a lot of PHP3 which is rather cool. I still prefer perl cgi's, but PHP3 is quick, easy and rather dirty. Which I like.
Our next project we researched using Zope, as it seemed to be similar. As I see the two languages, I believe Zope is only for what I call dynamic HTML. It will change web pages, but if you need a large program that does a million and one things, but uses the Web as an interface, it seems to be lacking. PHP seems to be a stronger language and more powerful.
We hope to utilize Zope sometime here, but I think the reality is that it is just not powerful enough to fit our needs.
FTP is actually 2 connections: -a stateless UDP for data transfer -a stated TCP control.
By using UDP, which requires no acknowledgement of packets, FTP is significantly speedier than its retarded cousin, HTTP. I recommend you read some RFC's.
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I think this really comes down to what you are choosing to have as your true goals. If you want cost, speed, redundancy, scalability or any other factor.
You need to decide what things are important to you and start making choices.
In the end, you will need to trade off all of these things to find your solution.
Personally, I do a lot of work with banks at the moment. They want brand name, proven tech. Not necesarily the latest greatest. On top of which, they are willing to pay for brand names. As a result, I would spring for a RAID tower coupled with a Sun box running Oracle. But, if I wanted cost, I would probably pick up a VA box or custom built with a RAID tower and run linux with oracle or maybe try postgresql.
It all ends up being a trade off.
Tariffs are a bitch. I smuggled my computer/transformer/other electronics through customs. I was lucky enough that I just said "personal effects: used" on my form. Otherwise, I would have had to pay taxes/tariffs, etc.
17.5% VAT (sales tax, basically) on nearly all goods like that plus tariffs.
Case in point: pretty much everything here is scaled to wage. A person making 25k (USD) in the US can expect to make closer to 30-35k (Dfl) here. On the average, this ratio works out. Generally your health care/pensions are greater, but you pay tax like a bastard. 50% tax rate after 48kDfl. Although, some foreign recruited people can apply for a 35% ruling which gives your first 35% tax-free (I am crossing my fingers on my application). But, I didn't bring a monitor with me when I came. So, I went shopping. I am finding a Phillips 17" monitor (which I would say is comparable to a viewsonic) is 700Dfl. Thats just around $325USD. DAMN expensive. But, there is a used place in my town that had new Unisys' for 400Dfl. Its the only place that cheap.
On the other hand, I hear that the UK has better prices on almost everything like that. I know a guy here who has a Dukati 750 motorcycle. Paid $8kDfl for it in the UK, imported it w/o paying tariffs by keeping a UK plate. The same bike here is about $12kDfl. I think that people here tend to have a little less in the toy department than those in the US. More geeks in the US have more gear than around here.
I am currently in NL, working for Allshare, a Dutch banking software firm. I am an American, recent college grad. I have been here a month and it is quite nice. I think the hours and perks are better in Europe, not too mention ISDN/cable modems are much more likely to be available. The bitch is that everywhere in the EU is drastically expensive to buy any computer hardware.
how about if I had a commercial app that utilized GnuPG as another program?
I.e. ProgX uses GnuPG as a program, pipes it data, and retrieves it.
Doesn't that therefore make commercial apps for linux a violation? They are linking against linux (GPL's) libs....
I have tried to find the answer to this question before, but to no avail. What happens if you have a program that is made up of 5 libraries. In order to fully run the program, you need all 5. They use each other's header files and binaries. I GPL 2/5. Is this legal? What happens when I use a library, such as GnuPG, in a commercial non-GPL app?
What software would be recommended for such a thing? More curiously, is there any free software (either as in beer or speech) that can accomplish this??
Make sure you check out the story of bluetooth. It reminds me of the smurfs. Rather humorous to find that sort of thing on a web site like that.
286!!! You were a rich bastard!
I remember using my cousins C64 with a 300 baud external. I was over there everyday to try to find 'elite' areas for games and such.
When I finally got a machine, it was a Leading Edge 8088 (circa 1986-7) and two years later I bought a 1200 baud internal modem. another year later I got a 2400 baud. My first 14.4 was purchased for that same 8088 for the sole purpose of BBS'ing. I bought a 14.4 because only 1 of the 5 BBS's I frequented had a 28.8. Those were the days........
It is most amazing to me how shocked we are all at the idea of a $2500 computer. I remember when I bought by 'badass' P120 with 32 rocking megs of RAM, a 1.7 gig HD and a shitty 17" monitor that blew out 15 days after purchase for $2600. All that was one of the cheapest ones out of the old favorite Computer Shopper. Now we are amazed at a similar price. Kinda weird.
A friend of mine was saying in Linux/Apache frequently used files would automagically go into RAM. For example, a web server serving static pages would automagically have those files in RAM for serving out. Thus, increasing the speed.
Is this a load of hooey? Could someone perhaps explain or give a link to an explanation to the memory management in Linux?
Thanks.
As I recall, during his first year at school (or maybe it was high school), Bill Gates and Paul Allen invented a traffic data getter thingy. I think it printed out paper that then got analyzed in the standard punch card method.
Just an interesting tidbit.
I have had some trouble with finding places to list my resume. Anyone have any experience with European firms and what job sites they look at?
In a note to firms: I graduate with a BS in CS this May. I have close family ties to the Netherlands and am ready for work in May of 2000. Check out my resume if you would like to.
heheh.... my php code got wacked out. Oops.
I started with PHP last spring and really like it. Previous to that I did a lot of Perl stuff. When it comes to server side, basic types of stuff, php3 is really nice.
I use it a lot in semi dynamic web sites where the managers don't want to learn html. Separate the header stuff, the body and the footer and just and watch the fun begin.
I also think that slamming between php and html is handy for some web sites. I love for loops such as : HTML CRAP . I know there is perl stuff for that too, but php is really quite nice.
I love perl. I love php. I find perl has a lot of more powerful features that I miss in php (good regex setup is one thing, php's pseudo perl regex's are a pain), but for cheap and fast html, I can't find better than php.
Plus, with PHP4 it will be compilable which means less of my day wasted fixing "webmasters" "improvements".
I really like the idea of a woman to cook, clean, rub my shoulders and everything else. Being a geek in a three year relationship (and at a point in our lives where we are planning longer term together), I would like to be the first to say that expectations for a woman need to be zero. Nothing. You can't expect a single thing. That way you will work for a good relationship and show extreme gratitude whenever she does anything for you. The biggest thing is to find a girl who will be your best friend. Above everything, that is what counts.
Yes it did. Sometime during college. If memory serves me, it was the summer of 97.
He lost a hell of a lot in that one. Several computers and things.
Ohhh ohhh ohh that is the ultimate coding music. I love astral projection and consider them the ultimate coding music above all others. But, when one gets into a particularly crunchy bit of code, kraftwerk lightens the spirits and makes everyone happy.
.... COMPUTER LOVE!"
"Call dis numba, call dis numba
Hope College in Holland, MI (www.hope.edu) was good enough for Rob, Nate, Jeff, CowboyNeal and kurt.
Specific languages isn't that important, but I really wish Hope would get more intensive on C and C++. The push has been to move towards Java as a teaching language (not bad idea).
I have personally not used Cold Fusion or Zope. But, I require *nix based solutions doing basically the same stuff you have done.
I think PHP is great. Its fast, it works well and is very well featured. I think that it works best statically built into apache, and I have only used it with Linux and FreeBSD. I think you are best off to wait on PHP4. Just start with 3, and then migrate as needed. I don't forsee too much incompatibility between the two, and as someone who gets way to many "Its broke" phone calls, I can't imagine delivering a beta backend for an important app.
As for Zope, it looked to me to be a simpler language than PHP, although powerful. I think it is good for dynamic web pages, but big web apps (such as the sort I create) are out of its scope.
I think that sticking with NT and CF is a poor choice. My firm almost always either hosts the web app for the client (we have one client that is a conglomerate of 300 companies nationwide) or delivering an inexpensive unix (linux, freebsd) dedicated server. I think that web apps are so easy to decompile, or just yank the source, that clients think they can edit it, and you have to fix it. I prefer to lock them out unless I truly feel they know how to code at all. I think NT is a terrible OS and that you need to get away from that, fast.
But, I suppose I am a bit of a zealot. grin....
Needless to say, the only filthy things that arrive via email tend to be ads for web sites. Thats all I get and I get WAY too much of it. I would think that those scans would yield endless garbage.
I feel there is nothing wrong with doing this as long as everyone knows. At my father's firm (large construction firm, very conservative), all mail is opened and checked out by the president. When my parents went through a divorce, my dad would talk to the lawyer who was sending faxes 15 sec before he did to make sure he was the one who got it. To prevent office gossip. I find very little wrong with this. Work is work and just that.
Now, I read slashdot, salon, and a few other things every day from work. I take my break time and split it up.
I think that everyone should know about monitoring policies and should deal with it themselves. If you want a personal email, get an account somewhere else.
I disgree. I was full-time linux for over a year. Had to stop 3 months ago when I got a new job, and to access the shares on the net, we use samba, and encrypted passwords. smbfs (last time I used it) denies the power of encryption.
Needless to say, as a programmer, linux was all I needed. StarOffice, WordPerfect and the like kept me cool with writing documents, vim is my own integrated development enviroment. What more do you need?
I actually know a guy who got a wife from the Phillipines. He flew over there, spent 1 week scoring with underage girls, then went into some warehouse and picked out his "wife" out of 200 girls. Went to her house and met her family ("Yeah, I just bought your daughter"), then waited for 6 months for her to arrive. He was really excited and she was ok when she first got here. I haven't seen him lately, but I am really curious. It was his third wife and he looked like a 70's disco throwback. It was most humorous.
When I switched to my current job, I was a Java, Perl, C-C++ programmer, mostly. Over here we use a lot of PHP3 which is rather cool. I still prefer perl cgi's, but PHP3 is quick, easy and rather dirty. Which I like.
Our next project we researched using Zope, as it seemed to be similar. As I see the two languages, I believe Zope is only for what I call dynamic HTML. It will change web pages, but if you need a large program that does a million and one things, but uses the Web as an interface, it seems to be lacking. PHP seems to be a stronger language and more powerful.
We hope to utilize Zope sometime here, but I think the reality is that it is just not powerful enough to fit our needs.
Good luck!
Quite simple, if you understood networking.
FTP is actually 2 connections:
-a stateless UDP for data transfer
-a stated TCP control.
By using UDP, which requires no acknowledgement of packets, FTP is significantly speedier than its retarded cousin, HTTP. I recommend you read some RFC's.