My editor (http://ultraedit.com/, when I hit the tab key, insert 4 spaces.
*THIS HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD*
You've got it configured to *insert* spaces when you hit tab. I don't recall ultraedit doing that by default (haven't used it in a few years tho). Most editors I use by default will *RENDER* a tab as X spaces, not actually *CREATE* X spaces. If it renders as X, you can easily change the rendering. But once they've become spaces, you can't go back (easily anyway).
At least using it under Linux, my Neuros needed some special software to upload stuff into the neuros 'database'. My iriver just shows up as a standard usb device I can drag/drop to, without any extra software needed.
Can you do the fancy stuff like toggle duplex printing (printing on both sides of the sheet) and change the print quality? I find I can do basic printing from Linux to most printers, but can't normally change many of the printers' print settings.
The neuros mp3 player will let you record from fm, and even broadcast FM to another receiver (though I never got this feature to work very well).
I've got an older one you can buy for $50 - contact me if you're interested (mgkimsal2@yahoo.com). It's just 128 meg - no HD. You can buy a HD separately if you like the player. I don't recall if there's a MIC line in or not, but there's a built-in MIC you can record from.
Funny you say that. I was recently working at a bank that was using PHP for all front end and middleware stuff. The 'bank' code itself (which calculated interest and all that jazz) was Oracle and thousands of stored procedures and triggers, but everything else was in PHP. A large contingent of PHP people left at the same time, however, so I'm not sure they'll stick with PHP long term, but that's a business/resource issue, not a technology issue. PHP can talk SOAP to external systems as well as.net or java, which is mostly what was required for that type of system.
This is a great point. I think/hope that PHP5 has a faster adoption rate amongst hosting companies, but it'll still take some time.
PHP5 *does* make sense for corporate/internal developers, or anyone else writing for a more controlled environment. For average joe, however, widespread PHP5 support is still minimally months off, if not years (I hope not!)
Can't tell if this is intended to be 'funny' or not (modded as such, but still can't tell).
I've not seen a walmart yet that sells linux machines, so I highly doubt your claim about seeing the students looking at cheap Linux PCs. If it's true, where was this walmart located?
There aren't Linux equivalents of some of these types of software you mentioned, so use Windows instead. No big deal either way.
Enough use individual features that it makes it impossible (or difficult) for those users to switch away. Each niche feature may only appeal to a small % of users, but taken collectively, there are a much larger number of those users who depend on those features too much to move away.
Additionally, it's not even about features for many people - it's about compatibility. Many of my family members use MSOffice at their offices and won't switch because the cost of converting and testing their Excel macros is too much to justify the conversion. And that's being generous assuming that 100% of what needs to be achieved in Excel via macros *could* be accomplished via StarBasic or whatever it's called in ooo.
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I'm not sure grep would always find the metadata in those - maybe it would. As another person pointed out, SXW files wouldn't easily be searchable (haven't looked at metadata for those). Assume that though all those file formats *do* have metadata available, wouldn't having a standard way to search and filter all those various metadata formats in one file dialog be a good thing? If this (or another) project would do that, I'd be all for it. And for those file formats that don't support metadata, this system would allow for the creation of metadata for those files.:)
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therefore, doing searches on a relational database filesystem (find me all music files with dates between last week and last month: SELECT * from files WHERE files.type = "music" and files.date NOW() - 7days
you _can't_ do that sort of thing on a traditional filesystem.
Argh! Don't say things like that - someone will throw down a shell script which WILL do it (probably in one line) combining find, file, grep, perl/python and some other crap. Which, while it may work for some, entirely misses the real point, is that there's no *easy* way to do this. We've got GUI bindings for opening/saving/editing files, but nothing for harnessing the power of searching. Don't say it can't be done (because it can somehow) just say that it can't be done easily, which is the bigger point.:)
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"grep" - why didn't anyone else on the planet think of that one? That's fantastic. Now I just HOPE to goodness I've always managed to always save everything under ~/Documents, never anywhere else, and then make sure I'm only searching for ASCII data inside any files. I'm all set! Thanks. You've made it much easier for me to find all my pictures and audio files related to various topics.
Thanks - that was my point. People keep wondering why postgres isn't used more. For large hosting companies, if you had to create a shell account for each db user (which I guess you don't but it seemed to me that you did, based on the books/tutorials I've read) that would be a massive headache.
Also, when I started doing web work, the choice was mysql, msql and postgres. msql is *too* basic, postgres couldn't store more than 8k in a row. Trying to write a discussion forum with that limitation just didn't cut the mustard.
I've only ever seen the shell 'createuser' used, and seem(ed|s) to rely too much on the underlying OS having a good shell to do that sort of stuff with. Perception being reality and all, I wonder if that's turned off others too.
I'm a bit late to the game, but there's been more than a few postgres posts lately, so I'll ask,
It *seems* to me (after the few pg books and articles I've read) that I need to create shell/system accounts for users to grant those users access to the postgres database. Is that correct? If so, I can see why mysql has taken off more from an administration standpoint - it has its own set of internal users separate from the system its running on.
I think the Beach Boys had a big 'brian is back' campaign in the late '70s. The only thing remotely resembling a hit happened years later in the form of Kokomo (without Brian's involvement).
I predict this Java is Back hype will have about the same ending.:)
Insert obligatory references to 'surfing' somewhere here.
Not a perfect system, but is something which can help people come up with something more secure than 'password' while incorporating numbers and punctuation marks.
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My editor (http://ultraedit.com/, when I hit the tab key, insert 4 spaces.
*THIS HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD*
You've got it configured to *insert* spaces when you hit tab. I don't recall ultraedit doing that by default (haven't used it in a few years tho). Most editors I use by default will *RENDER* a tab as X spaces, not actually *CREATE* X spaces. If it renders as X, you can easily change the rendering. But once they've become spaces, you can't go back (easily anyway).
At least using it under Linux, my Neuros needed some special software to upload stuff into the neuros 'database'. My iriver just shows up as a standard usb device I can drag/drop to, without any extra software needed.
Damn people! Am I the *only* one who read it like that?
Can you do the fancy stuff like toggle duplex printing (printing on both sides of the sheet) and change the print quality? I find I can do basic printing from Linux to most printers, but can't normally change many of the printers' print settings.
Songs downloaded from iTunes are not supported. It's their choice, not ours.
I'm glad someone has put it in such basic terms, rather than in small print.
The neuros mp3 player will let you record from fm, and even broadcast FM to another receiver (though I never got this feature to work very well).
I've got an older one you can buy for $50 - contact me if you're interested (mgkimsal2@yahoo.com). It's just 128 meg - no HD. You can buy a HD separately if you like the player. I don't recall if there's a MIC line in or not, but there's a built-in MIC you can record from.
Funny you say that. I was recently working at a bank that was using PHP for all front end and middleware stuff. The 'bank' code itself (which calculated interest and all that jazz) was Oracle and thousands of stored procedures and triggers, but everything else was in PHP. A large contingent of PHP people left at the same time, however, so I'm not sure they'll stick with PHP long term, but that's a business/resource issue, not a technology issue. PHP can talk SOAP to external systems as well as .net or java, which is mostly what was required for that type of system.
This is a great point. I think/hope that PHP5 has a faster adoption rate amongst hosting companies, but it'll still take some time.
PHP5 *does* make sense for corporate/internal developers, or anyone else writing for a more controlled environment. For average joe, however, widespread PHP5 support is still minimally months off, if not years (I hope not!)
Can't tell if this is intended to be 'funny' or not (modded as such, but still can't tell).
I've not seen a walmart yet that sells linux machines, so I highly doubt your claim about seeing the students looking at cheap Linux PCs. If it's true, where was this walmart located?
There aren't Linux equivalents of some of these types of software you mentioned, so use Windows instead. No big deal either way.
Funny, but my 'tools' menu doesn't have 'options' in it. I have 'edit->preferences' then an 'advanced' option in that preferences area.
Is the terminology different on different versions?
With apologies to Ralph Wiggum.
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I guess it was just a hiccup after all. :0
I'm only getting 'service unavailable'. Anyone else seeing anything? :(
And how many people actually use those features?
Enough use individual features that it makes it impossible (or difficult) for those users to switch away. Each niche feature may only appeal to a small % of users, but taken collectively, there are a much larger number of those users who depend on those features too much to move away.
Additionally, it's not even about features for many people - it's about compatibility. Many of my family members use MSOffice at their offices and won't switch because the cost of converting and testing their Excel macros is too much to justify the conversion. And that's being generous assuming that 100% of what needs to be achieved in Excel via macros *could* be accomplished via StarBasic or whatever it's called in ooo.
Password is empty - just click through it.
I'm not sure grep would always find the metadata in those - maybe it would. As another person pointed out, SXW files wouldn't easily be searchable (haven't looked at metadata for those). Assume that though all those file formats *do* have metadata available, wouldn't having a standard way to search and filter all those various metadata formats in one file dialog be a good thing? If this (or another) project would do that, I'd be all for it. And for those file formats that don't support metadata, this system would allow for the creation of metadata for those files. :)
therefore, doing searches on a relational database filesystem (find me all music files with dates between last week and last month: SELECT * from files WHERE files.type = "music" and files.date NOW() - 7days
:)
you _can't_ do that sort of thing on a traditional filesystem.
Argh! Don't say things like that - someone will throw down a shell script which WILL do it (probably in one line) combining find, file, grep, perl/python and some other crap. Which, while it may work for some, entirely misses the real point, is that there's no *easy* way to do this. We've got GUI bindings for opening/saving/editing files, but nothing for harnessing the power of searching. Don't say it can't be done (because it can somehow) just say that it can't be done easily, which is the bigger point.
"grep" - why didn't anyone else on the planet think of that one? That's fantastic. Now I just HOPE to goodness I've always managed to always save everything under ~/Documents, never anywhere else, and then make sure I'm only searching for ASCII data inside any files. I'm all set! Thanks. You've made it much easier for me to find all my pictures and audio files related to various topics.
Unfortunately it seems little people know how to boycott anymore.
Well, I think many people of all sizes know how to boycott. Please check your discriminatory attitude at the door.
Thanks - that was my point. People keep wondering why postgres isn't used more. For large hosting companies, if you had to create a shell account for each db user (which I guess you don't but it seemed to me that you did, based on the books/tutorials I've read) that would be a massive headache.
Also, when I started doing web work, the choice was mysql, msql and postgres. msql is *too* basic, postgres couldn't store more than 8k in a row. Trying to write a discussion forum with that limitation just didn't cut the mustard.
I've only ever seen the shell 'createuser' used, and seem(ed|s) to rely too much on the underlying OS having a good shell to do that sort of stuff with. Perception being reality and all, I wonder if that's turned off others too.
I'm a bit late to the game, but there's been more than a few postgres posts lately, so I'll ask,
It *seems* to me (after the few pg books and articles I've read) that I need to create shell/system accounts for users to grant those users access to the postgres database. Is that correct? If so, I can see why mysql has taken off more from an administration standpoint - it has its own set of internal users separate from the system its running on.
Am I missing something here?
I think the Beach Boys had a big 'brian is back' campaign in the late '70s. The only thing remotely resembling a hit happened years later in the form of Kokomo (without Brian's involvement).
:)
I predict this Java is Back hype will have about the same ending.
Insert obligatory references to 'surfing' somewhere here.
Not a perfect system, but is something which can help people come up with something more secure than 'password' while incorporating numbers and punctuation marks.
makemeapassword.com