You can actually specify any date in the future and the transaction will validate
This may be true for poorly-designed sites, but certainly not for all sites.
A good website will do the actual card authorisation online in realtime. This way there is no need for storage of credit cards details on Internet-connected systems. I've built such sites. It's not cheap, and certainly requires some development, but it's reliable and can be significantly more secure when properly implemented.
Of course, it's the cheapo sites that need to store credit cards that are most likely to have poor security, so your chances of suffering from credit card fraud are much higher when shopping on the dodgy sites than on the good.
As the site's name implies, the review is oriented towards examining the video cards on current SMP (two-CPU) systems.
There's hundreds of non-SMP reviews out there, but here's one that's useful for those among us that have duals. You know, to actually do things as well as play games, to be able to really multitask, and to develop for SMP (read: server) environments. Add improved stability, and you've got a case for improved productivity despite the increased cost.
It's just as shame they didn't include the high-end cards.
Their SCSI drives were good until they started releasing those IDE drives with SCSI connector converters. Those converters were the cause of much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Their email tech support also sucked/sucks eggs. If you managed to get a response, it was always to the effect of PEBKAC. Funnily enough in my case, the problem was alsways resolved by replacing the often-flawed Yamaha hardware.
Life's rule #44583: if it appears that something really, really stupid has been said/posted, check and re-check your assumptions about what is stupid, or your response is likely to be really, really stupid.
The reference here is to burning images -- as in pictures -- onto the CD.
Read the article before rushing to get fp next time.
Further, it's not the average frames/second that informed gamers are interested in as much as the minimum fps, which if it ever drop below the optimal amount will mean the display goes from smooth to jerky.
My flamebait comment of the day: sure, all the half-blind programmers and sysadmins here on/. may not notice the individual pixels on the screen when running 1600x1200 on a 19" screen, but other people can, and it does not look "real".
Until I can't differentiate visually between what's on my screen and what I see in the big blue room outside my house, 3D graphics are not good enough.
"I have tried to work with MS C and C++ from DOS times via Win 3.11 till NT 4.0 and their compiler always was a beast... and the documentation a large pile of sh*t"
These are DOS times, nor Win3.11 times, nor NT4.0 times. We are in 2003, so compare what is available now vs the competition as it is at present. Look at VS.NET and come back to me.
"these guys obviously do not know anything about how an index should be organized"
Again, that was how it was 5+ years ago. We're in 2003, and thorough indexing and searching has been standard for quite some time in the MSDN library.
"i am looking forward to the not-so-far-away day when i get the same at my job what i use at home: linux, postgresql, netbeans, eclipse, ant..."
I am all for competition. I too hope that I can soon develop enterprise-class applications on linux for those customers that prefer it. Too bad that right now postgresql is a slow, clunky POS, and that it's the best the OSS world has to offer in the database space. On the bright side, some commercial DBMS solutions have become and are becoming available on linux, meaning that in the business application space linux can be a viable option in cases.
That's all well and good, but it's running on Windows, which is apparently not "enterprise class", yet manages to beat all the competition at the enterprise level.
My bias in this case is based upon experience and facts. I have backed my assertion with linkage, unlike the ad-hom you've resorted to.
I was merely showing that contrary to the claim made by the AC I replied to, Microsoft can and has brought windows to an "enterprise class" level.
Yes, MS is one of the Transaction Processing Council's Full Members. As are IBM, Oracle, SGI and Sun Microsystems, amongst others. Lovely how your own bias allows you to mention only part of the facts, but my own bias is inherent worse because it supports M$. Dear me.
If the big linux vendors are confident in linux's ability to beat MS in this space, why do they not publish their own results?
Regardless of what Sony would have me do, I will replace my trusty 19" CRT only when a display with OLED technology become available at a reasonable price-point.
Vibrant colour, excellent resolution, quick refresh, cheap to manufacture and makes an LCD look chunky. Sony just wants to make money off LCD before OLED comes along and forces them to write off their LCD investments.
hmmm.... will we target a market with a few hundred or maybe even a few thousand potential 500-node licenses, or a market with potentially hundreds of millions of client licenses and associated server licenses? Microsoft has chosen the latter, and it's revenues confirm a sound financial decision.
The desktop and associated server infrastructure is where the money is. Good on Linux for being useful in the supercomputing space, but most of the world's userbase does not care.
"If microsoft can't get windows... up to enterprise class"
Linux's clustering capabilities are indeed better than those of Windows, but only in the engineering and scientific calculation space.
You seem to be overlooking the enterprise database space, where Microsoft has thoroughly smacked-down the competition, both in overall performance and price-performance.
For "enterprise" computing, what is more important: scientific calculations or databases? I think you will find the latter more critical to the overwhelming majority. Many, if not most, enterprises do not perform the kinds of engineering and scientific calculations that grid computing targets, while most would be hard-pressed to find a company that does not use a database.
I'm not trying to ridicule the apparent success of linux in this space, but don't delude yourself into thinking that this is the be-all and end-all of computing just yet.
I'd like to see how you would have behaved as an 18-year-old man in Nazi Germany or what you would have done as a peasant in Maoist China.
It's easy to say what you have while sitting comfortably at home in front of your PC, whilst living in a country where one's freedom of speech is considered a God-given right, and have the liberty to do as one pleases within a permissive, tolerant society.
Your ideal is well-meaning, but comparing the guilt one should feel when choosing to work for a company where ethics are disregarded to that felt by a man forced by threat of death to fight is not appropriate. Avoiding one is easy save for the greed factor. Avoiding the other is heroic.
Of course I'd like to think that I'd do the right thing, but verbally condemning the millions of men who have fought and died at the behest of tyrannical regimes under pain of death is not exactly fair when you are so far removed from the situation.
"Palm was and is far superior to Newton and PocketPC in almost every way that is actually important to people"
Wow. You've spoken every man, woman and child on the planet and all of them said the Palm was far superior to the Pocket PC in every way that is actually important. I beg to differ, and I think the other 40-something percent of the handheld market that use Pocket PCs might, too:p
"Linux Network Servers 24 Seven" by Craig Hunt was thorough in it's treatment of Linux and remarkably easy to understand -- though as the title notes, it's geared towards servers, not desktops.
I use my PocketPC to remind me of meetings, important events, etc, both immediately prior to the event, and to be able to tell at a glance whether or not I am available at a particular date/time.
I am on call for systems support at work, and having the PocketPC and my bluetooth mobile phone means I can dial into work and use Terminal Services to fix ailing servers without leaving the pub/club I'm in when I'm out.
If I'm sitting in a bus, train or plane, I can play games, read an eBook and/or listen to MP3s.
While I'm driving, my GPS CompactFlash card and software can help me out when I'm heading somewhere I've never been before. As an added bonus, there's no "steal me!" in-car GPS system advertising itself to thieves. I can even use this feature while hiking through the mountains, as long as I'm careful with how much exposure the PPC has to the elements.
The discipline factor in reliable programmers cannot be understated. Despite the supposed trend towards hiring young guns in the IT field, several of the companies I've worked in go the other way and hire mature developers, as not only do they have the skills, they have experience and are generally more level-headed.
It was the companies with the older developers that delivered on time and under budget --- and not because of ridiculous over-quoting.
This is no problem, as chances are their next-door neighbour, or in-law, or child, or friend can help them with whatever they need.
For the advanced users (read: sysadmins and programmers) there is a huge community. Just because many of you folks (being Linux users) do not know about it, does not mean it's not there. There are thousands of books, LUGs (typically application-specific), events, conferences, websites, etc.
you get into the platform, and right away, you are presented with resources and information on where to get help
Windows has built-in help and support, with extensive links to the web. For developers, when you install Visual Studio, you get the MSDN library, which is a massive collection of MS documentation. There are web resources, newsgroups, etc just like for Linux and Mac.
in windows, you do not have this advertisment
Funnilly enough, advertisement of the product is not needed. Could it's marketshare have anything to do with it?
do those people talk about the famouse Windows community members
Again, simply because you obviously have little exposure to the Windows community (ie. TechEd, PDC, MS Insights Roadshows) does mean it does not exist. Yes, there are people who are well-known within the Windows community.
even if Windows does have a community, it is so pitifuly weak and diluted, that it has no impact on 95% of the windows user base
It is so vast that it has a trickle-down effect on the 95% of the Windows community who are regular (read: non-technical) people. Remember, most Windows users are normal people, not geeks like the majority of Linux users. They do not and should not have to care about the Windows community.
Yes, both the Linux and Mac communities exist and are helpful. But do not allow your parochialism blind you to the Windows community.
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You can actually specify any date in the future and the transaction will validate
This may be true for poorly-designed sites, but certainly not for all sites.
A good website will do the actual card authorisation online in realtime. This way there is no need for storage of credit cards details on Internet-connected systems. I've built such sites. It's not cheap, and certainly requires some development, but it's reliable and can be significantly more secure when properly implemented.
Of course, it's the cheapo sites that need to store credit cards that are most likely to have poor security, so your chances of suffering from credit card fraud are much higher when shopping on the dodgy sites than on the good.
As the site's name implies, the review is oriented towards examining the video cards on current SMP (two-CPU) systems.
There's hundreds of non-SMP reviews out there, but here's one that's useful for those among us that have duals. You know, to actually do things as well as play games, to be able to really multitask, and to develop for SMP (read: server) environments. Add improved stability, and you've got a case for improved productivity despite the increased cost.
It's just as shame they didn't include the high-end cards.
Their SCSI drives were good until they started releasing those IDE drives with SCSI connector converters. Those converters were the cause of much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Their email tech support also sucked/sucks eggs. If you managed to get a response, it was always to the effect of PEBKAC. Funnily enough in my case, the problem was alsways resolved by replacing the often-flawed Yamaha hardware.
Life's rule #44583: if it appears that something really, really stupid has been said/posted, check and re-check your assumptions about what is stupid, or your response is likely to be really, really stupid.
The reference here is to burning images -- as in pictures -- onto the CD.
Read the article before rushing to get fp next time.
Good points, all. I need a bigger monitor with the same pixel size :)
The number is higher than 60, and varies depending upon the individual. For an explanation, go to:
h tm
/. may not notice the individual pixels on the screen when running 1600x1200 on a 19" screen, but other people can, and it does not look "real".
http://www.penstarsys.com/editor/30v60/30v60p1.
Further, it's not the average frames/second that informed gamers are interested in as much as the minimum fps, which if it ever drop below the optimal amount will mean the display goes from smooth to jerky.
My flamebait comment of the day: sure, all the half-blind programmers and sysadmins here on
Until I can't differentiate visually between what's on my screen and what I see in the big blue room outside my house, 3D graphics are not good enough.
"I have tried to work with MS C and C++ from DOS times via Win 3.11 till NT 4.0 and their compiler always was a beast ... and the documentation a large pile of sh*t"
..."
These are DOS times, nor Win3.11 times, nor NT4.0 times. We are in 2003, so compare what is available now vs the competition as it is at present. Look at VS.NET and come back to me.
"these guys obviously do not know anything about how an index should be organized"
Again, that was how it was 5+ years ago. We're in 2003, and thorough indexing and searching has been standard for quite some time in the MSDN library.
"i am looking forward to the not-so-far-away day when i get the same at my job what i use at home: linux, postgresql, netbeans, eclipse, ant
I am all for competition. I too hope that I can soon develop enterprise-class applications on linux for those customers that prefer it. Too bad that right now postgresql is a slow, clunky POS, and that it's the best the OSS world has to offer in the database space. On the bright side, some commercial DBMS solutions have become and are becoming available on linux, meaning that in the business application space linux can be a viable option in cases.
That's all well and good, but it's running on Windows, which is apparently not "enterprise class", yet manages to beat all the competition at the enterprise level.
My bias in this case is based upon experience and facts. I have backed my assertion with linkage, unlike the ad-hom you've resorted to.
I was merely showing that contrary to the claim made by the AC I replied to, Microsoft can and has brought windows to an "enterprise class" level.
Yes, MS is one of the Transaction Processing Council's Full Members. As are IBM, Oracle, SGI and Sun Microsystems, amongst others. Lovely how your own bias allows you to mention only part of the facts, but my own bias is inherent worse because it supports M$. Dear me.
If the big linux vendors are confident in linux's ability to beat MS in this space, why do they not publish their own results?
Regardless of what Sony would have me do, I will replace my trusty 19" CRT only when a display with OLED technology become available at a reasonable price-point.
Vibrant colour, excellent resolution, quick refresh, cheap to manufacture and makes an LCD look chunky. Sony just wants to make money off LCD before OLED comes along and forces them to write off their LCD investments.
hmmm.... will we target a market with a few hundred or maybe even a few thousand potential 500-node licenses, or a market with potentially hundreds of millions of client licenses and associated server licenses? Microsoft has chosen the latter, and it's revenues confirm a sound financial decision.
The desktop and associated server infrastructure is where the money is. Good on Linux for being useful in the supercomputing space, but most of the world's userbase does not care.
"If microsoft can't get windows ... up to enterprise class"
Linux's clustering capabilities are indeed better than those of Windows, but only in the engineering and scientific calculation space.
You seem to be overlooking the enterprise database space, where Microsoft has thoroughly smacked-down the competition, both in overall performance and price-performance.
For "enterprise" computing, what is more important: scientific calculations or databases? I think you will find the latter more critical to the overwhelming majority. Many, if not most, enterprises do not perform the kinds of engineering and scientific calculations that grid computing targets, while most would be hard-pressed to find a company that does not use a database.
I'm not trying to ridicule the apparent success of linux in this space, but don't delude yourself into thinking that this is the be-all and end-all of computing just yet.
Not after they've been nuked for 10 seconds in a microwave oven set to "High". Trust me, or better yet, try it :)
I'd like to see how you would have behaved as an 18-year-old man in Nazi Germany or what you would have done as a peasant in Maoist China.
It's easy to say what you have while sitting comfortably at home in front of your PC, whilst living in a country where one's freedom of speech is considered a God-given right, and have the liberty to do as one pleases within a permissive, tolerant society.
Your ideal is well-meaning, but comparing the guilt one should feel when choosing to work for a company where ethics are disregarded to that felt by a man forced by threat of death to fight is not appropriate. Avoiding one is easy save for the greed factor. Avoiding the other is heroic.
Of course I'd like to think that I'd do the right thing, but verbally condemning the millions of men who have fought and died at the behest of tyrannical regimes under pain of death is not exactly fair when you are so far removed from the situation.
Wow. You've spoken every man, woman and child on the planet and all of them said the Palm was far superior to the Pocket PC in every way that is actually important. I beg to differ, and I think the other 40-something percent of the handheld market that use Pocket PCs might, too :p
You're overlooking a popular option: water cooling. Properly designed, it is silent and even more effective at cooling than those noisy fans.
... and /. is renowned for getting news to it's readers in a timely fashion, so this would be intolerable.
"Linux Network Servers 24 Seven" by Craig Hunt was thorough in it's treatment of Linux and remarkably easy to understand -- though as the title notes, it's geared towards servers, not desktops.
and what better way to ensure your dual AthlonMPs with 2GB of RAM are kept fully utilised that by attaching a Seagate Cheetah 15.3K drive or three?
I use my PocketPC to remind me of meetings, important events, etc, both immediately prior to the event, and to be able to tell at a glance whether or not I am available at a particular date/time.
I am on call for systems support at work, and having the PocketPC and my bluetooth mobile phone means I can dial into work and use Terminal Services to fix ailing servers without leaving the pub/club I'm in when I'm out.
If I'm sitting in a bus, train or plane, I can play games, read an eBook and/or listen to MP3s.
While I'm driving, my GPS CompactFlash card and software can help me out when I'm heading somewhere I've never been before. As an added bonus, there's no "steal me!" in-car GPS system advertising itself to thieves. I can even use this feature while hiking through the mountains, as long as I'm careful with how much exposure the PPC has to the elements.
The e570 was not released to the retail market in the US. Enterprise customers could buy it modified to order.
The e570 was released to the retail market elsewhere around the world.
The discipline factor in reliable programmers cannot be understated. Despite the supposed trend towards hiring young guns in the IT field, several of the companies I've worked in go the other way and hire mature developers, as not only do they have the skills, they have experience and are generally more level-headed.
It was the companies with the older developers that delivered on time and under budget --- and not because of ridiculous over-quoting.
Eyecandy?!? From the screenshots posted elsewhere, it doesn't even come close to MacOS X and Windows XP. GNOME still has quite a way to go.
Good on the GNOME team for getting as far as it has in the time it has taken.
On his bicycle, he's going to be too busy dodging soccer mums in SUVs to look at his PDA.
most windows users do not know of the community
This is no problem, as chances are their next-door neighbour, or in-law, or child, or friend can help them with whatever they need.
For the advanced users (read: sysadmins and programmers) there is a huge community. Just because many of you folks (being Linux users) do not know about it, does not mean it's not there. There are thousands of books, LUGs (typically application-specific), events, conferences, websites, etc.
you get into the platform, and right away, you are presented with resources and information on where to get help
Windows has built-in help and support, with extensive links to the web. For developers, when you install Visual Studio, you get the MSDN library, which is a massive collection of MS documentation. There are web resources, newsgroups, etc just like for Linux and Mac.
in windows, you do not have this advertisment
Funnilly enough, advertisement of the product is not needed. Could it's marketshare have anything to do with it?
do those people talk about the famouse Windows community members
Again, simply because you obviously have little exposure to the Windows community (ie. TechEd, PDC, MS Insights Roadshows) does mean it does not exist. Yes, there are people who are well-known within the Windows community.
even if Windows does have a community, it is so pitifuly weak and diluted, that it has no impact on 95% of the windows user base
It is so vast that it has a trickle-down effect on the 95% of the Windows community who are regular (read: non-technical) people. Remember, most Windows users are normal people, not geeks like the majority of Linux users. They do not and should not have to care about the Windows community.
Yes, both the Linux and Mac communities exist and are helpful. But do not allow your parochialism blind you to the Windows community.