I've been using Stripes for a while now and what I prefer about the approach there is that it does not mandate how to interact with the data access layer. In an MVC design pattern approach, Stripes focus strictly on the V and the C and leaves the M alone.
Velo- commuters are definitely the minority in MO, but at least in St. Louis City and County, there are a fair number. I used to be one (and will again) until I dislocated my elbow last month. I commuted by bike (not everyday) about 4000 miles in the last 20 months. Not a huge amount as my ride is only 9 miles one way, but enough that I considered myself a commuter.
I love the "Reserve Online" bit from Redbox, particularly for new releases. Just a little bit of foresight and I don't have to wonder what I'm going to be watching that night.
My favorite name is the Chicago Cubs player Kosuke Fukudome. MLB won't let you put "cubs suck" on official merchandize, but you can get "Fuk u do me" (minus the spaces) with no problem. Plus, his number is 1, which could be interpreted as extending the one figure salute.
This is what I do as well. If you throw in the easy number substitutions, you can generally meet any complexity requirements. For your example, I might use T0ym,r4fd.
Sure, lots of places offer free wifi. I used Panera as an example as there are some 1000+ of those cafes across the country. Not quite to Starbucks' scale, but probably more available than the other mom and pops or smaller chains. I think I read somewhere that they had the largest free wifi network in the states.
Panera Bread has had free wifi for years. You can use this page to find one near you. They typically don't hassle you even if you are camped out and not buying much.
What about the "first letter of each word in a sentence" technique? People are pretty good at remembering sentences, so something like MdSlte3ced. Which reads My dog Spike likes to eat 3 cookies every day. Or ?Wthwyt? Which is ?What the hell were you thinking? Or 99m31mioy1. Which is 99 minus 31 means I owe you one. Keep the punctuation and the capitalization and I think the passwords are pretty good and easy to remember / come up with new ones as required. Of course, if people go with famous quotes, the dictionaries could be adjusted. Iwtbot;Iwtwot.
I can't say that the Win equivalent is all that friendly. I don't use windows much, but it took me forever to configure a network printer. Maybe it is obvious to the Windows users, but having to choose the 'Local Printer' radio button to access a printer on the network (one without its own print server) seems a bit brain dead to me. And not at all friendly. As other posts have mentioned, SuSE and OS X are pretty good cups interfaces, but the having the webserver on port 631 is a nice bonus for Solaris boxes.
Solaris 10 does this with "Process Rights Management." Essentially, this allows a process to have a defined subset of root priviledges without full root access. Running a web server on port 80 is a perfect example. Using process rights management, the apache user can be allow to open port 80 and that's it. No buffer overflow to gain root priviledge.
meets all the requirements hands down. Plus some (like containers!)
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/10/top10.jsp
Too bad some of the most exciting features are still vapor (zfs and linux compatability) but what is shipping should still easily suffice for the posters requirements.
Steve Jobs keeps talking about how Spotlight is integrated into the core of the OS and it will have some sort of public API. This is the type of stuff that keeps getting Microsoft in trouble, i.e. moving what should properly be userland stuff into the kernel. Hopefully, Applet will have more success. And maybe there is nothing to worry about. But until the product ships, it will be hard to tell.
Not to sound to much like a commercial (and hasn't there been enough apple koolaid here recently) but Spotlight in the next release of OS X is right along these same lines. Of course, like all of its software offerings, Apple is using the applications to sell the hardware. That's how they monetize it. Hard to see how Google et al will be able to do the same.
From the source above:
Spotlight blazes through all of your files and applications and displays the results literally as fast as you can type in search words. Instead of waiting to see results after you've hit Enter, you'll see results as soon as you type the very first letter. The powerful Spotlight file indexing process occurs transparently and in the background, so you never experience lag times or slowdowns. And when you make a change, such as adding a new file, receiving an email or entering a new contact, Spotlight updates its index automatically, so search results are always up-to-the-moment accurate, too.
I think this opens up some serious security questions, but those will have to wait until the OS is released later this year.
Take your Knoppix (or whichever distro your prefer) LiveCD and boot the display laptop in the store. Should be a pretty good test of hardware compatability prior to acutally purchasing the machine.
How about some sort of wireless / diskless laptop, sort of like a wireless Sun Ray? Mount the volumes over the network and have a couple ports (firewire, usb, etc...). Throw in the Inkwell software and the famous Apple "it just works" and presto - instant cool!
In Soviet Russia, Lisp wraps your mind around you. Come to think of it, that's pretty much true everywhere else too.
Looks Like Open Office Is The Default Office Suite
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From the article: "The AOL Optimized PC also comes bundled with the AOL Office suite, a version supplied by Sun. This suite of productivity applications consists of: AOL Office Writer, AOL Office Calc and AOL Office Impress." This is a nice step for Open Office in terms of exposure to Windows users.
Check out the Pragmatic Programmers for their 'broken window' theory, which they use as an analogy for software development.
In inner cities, some buildings are beautiful and clean, while others are rotting hulks. Why? Researchers in the field of crime and urban decay discovered a fascinating trigger mechanism, one that very quickly turns a clean, intact, inhabited building into a smashed and abandoned derelict.
A broken window.
One broken window, left unrepaired for any substantial length of time, instills in the inhabitants of the building a sense of abandonment---a sense that the powers that be don't care about the building. So another window gets broken. People start littering. Graffiti appears. Serious structural damage begins. In a relatively short space of time, the building becomes damaged beyond the owner's desire to fix it, and the sense of abandonment becomes reality.
You can follow the link above to see how they connect crime to poor coding.
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I've been using Stripes for a while now and what I prefer about the approach there is that it does not mandate how to interact with the data access layer. In an MVC design pattern approach, Stripes focus strictly on the V and the C and leaves the M alone.
Velo- commuters are definitely the minority in MO, but at least in St. Louis City and County, there are a fair number. I used to be one (and will again) until I dislocated my elbow last month. I commuted by bike (not everyday) about 4000 miles in the last 20 months. Not a huge amount as my ride is only 9 miles one way, but enough that I considered myself a commuter.
I love the "Reserve Online" bit from Redbox, particularly for new releases. Just a little bit of foresight and I don't have to wonder what I'm going to be watching that night.
A legacy system is anything that is in production RIGHT NOW.
Wait, so an application goes right from beta to legacy? (Or worse still, it's beta and legacy at the same time?)
Sound like gmail.
A legacy system is anything that is in production RIGHT NOW. My coding philosophy has always been "building tomorrow's legacy systems today."
I like the phrase "put a google-y on it" as in "if you don't know what a blah, blah, blah is, just put a google-y on it.
My favorite name is the Chicago Cubs player Kosuke Fukudome. MLB won't let you put "cubs suck" on official merchandize, but you can get "Fuk u do me" (minus the spaces) with no problem. Plus, his number is 1, which could be interpreted as extending the one figure salute.
This is what I do as well. If you throw in the easy number substitutions, you can generally meet any complexity requirements. For your example, I might use T0ym,r4fd.
Sure, lots of places offer free wifi. I used Panera as an example as there are some 1000+ of those cafes across the country. Not quite to Starbucks' scale, but probably more available than the other mom and pops or smaller chains. I think I read somewhere that they had the largest free wifi network in the states.
Panera Bread has had free wifi for years. You can use this page to find one near you. They typically don't hassle you even if you are camped out and not buying much.
What about the "first letter of each word in a sentence" technique? People are pretty good at remembering sentences, so something like MdSlte3ced. Which reads My dog Spike likes to eat 3 cookies every day. Or ?Wthwyt? Which is ?What the hell were you thinking? Or 99m31mioy1. Which is 99 minus 31 means I owe you one. Keep the punctuation and the capitalization and I think the passwords are pretty good and easy to remember / come up with new ones as required. Of course, if people go with famous quotes, the dictionaries could be adjusted. Iwtbot;Iwtwot.
I can't say that the Win equivalent is all that friendly. I don't use windows much, but it took me forever to configure a network printer. Maybe it is obvious to the Windows users, but having to choose the 'Local Printer' radio button to access a printer on the network (one without its own print server) seems a bit brain dead to me. And not at all friendly. As other posts have mentioned, SuSE and OS X are pretty good cups interfaces, but the having the webserver on port 631 is a nice bonus for Solaris boxes.
See Sun for more info.
meets all the requirements hands down. Plus some (like containers!)
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http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/10/top10.js
Too bad some of the most exciting features are still vapor (zfs and linux compatability) but what is shipping should still easily suffice for the posters requirements.
Steve Jobs keeps talking about how Spotlight is integrated into the core of the OS and it will have some sort of public API. This is the type of stuff that keeps getting Microsoft in trouble, i.e. moving what should properly be userland stuff into the kernel. Hopefully, Applet will have more success. And maybe there is nothing to worry about. But until the product ships, it will be hard to tell.
From the source above:
I think this opens up some serious security questions, but those will have to wait until the OS is released later this year.
Use the Instant Client if you just need the client software.
o ci /instantclient/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/
What he really needs to write is a "Dummies Guide" for the same topic. And who better qualified anyway?
Why is Google the number one result when searching for "more evil than satan" on the MSN Beta?
Try it yourself.
Sour grapes, anyone?
Take your Knoppix (or whichever distro your prefer) LiveCD and boot the display laptop in the store. Should be a pretty good test of hardware compatability prior to acutally purchasing the machine.
How about some sort of wireless / diskless laptop, sort of like a wireless Sun Ray? Mount the volumes over the network and have a couple ports (firewire, usb, etc...). Throw in the Inkwell software and the famous Apple "it just works" and presto - instant cool!
In Soviet Russia, Lisp wraps your mind around you. Come to think of it, that's pretty much true everywhere else too.
From the article: "The AOL Optimized PC also comes bundled with the AOL Office suite, a version supplied by Sun. This suite of productivity applications consists of: AOL Office Writer, AOL Office Calc and AOL Office Impress." This is a nice step for Open Office in terms of exposure to Windows users.
You can follow the link above to see how they connect crime to poor coding.
See Windows Compatibility for the Linux Desktop for an example.