Learning Database Systems
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Beginning SQL?
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I would recommend that you learn either Microsoft's SQL Server, or Oracle 9i. Both are freely downloadable (for a trial, or for non-commercial purposes) from their respective web sites. A great resource for learning more is InformIT. Their database section requires you to create an account though.
Some slashdotter's may tell you to learn MySQL or PostgreSQL because they are open source. This is true, and it's good because they come with almost any Linux distribution. Unfortunately, business aren't looking for those skills, so it won't help you.
Here are some Monster stats (for open US jobs):
Oracle: More than 5000 (could include Oracle Apps)
$5 or $6 for a ticket. Cheaper than the 14-screen megaplexes here in austin. They make their money from showing older movies, and because they sell beer and food!
How much do you think a Linksys 802.11b router costs? about $149.
Is every chair in the theater leather? that's pretty cool. The Alamo sells food, but it's your nachos/burgers/pizzas/salads type of stuff. They run specials on buckets of beer, and their sangria is really good. But the seats aren't cool...except the sofas in the back of the downtown theater.
We also round file resumes which indicate that the candidate worked at his own business while also working for someone else.
I found this comment interesting. All of the employers I've had have had me sign an NDA/non-compete agreement that basically gives them the right to anything I do outside of work.
For obvious reasons, this stifled any startup ideas I had:) Now I've been self-employed for a year, and anything I create is my own, except for things I develop under contract. What if your candidate was a freelance contractor?
Re:A long-term Austinite's view of SXSW...
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Shorty Long (Austin TX) 11:00 p.m.
I've heard of Shorty Long...I think they used to sit down in the basement of the Empanada Parlour playing before the other bands showed up:)
The film festival is definitely worth your time. I bought one of the $50 passes so I could skip the ticket lines, and I've seen 4 movies so far. Two of those are probably going to be coming to theatres across the country in a few months, but I don't think I would have heard of the other two. If you think sitting in the Alamo Drafthouse drinking beer, eating nachos and watching weird films sucks, then you probably wouldn't enjoy it! I also plan to catch:
Last Party 2000 with Philip Seymour Hoffman
Gigantic: They Might Be Giants documentary (with John and John at the movie Tuesday)
Journeys with George (W Bush)
Whatever else is around
I don't usually like a lot of the musical genres they pick up for SXSW, so I'm not particularly planning on going to any of the bands.
How long ago did you own that "first microsoft mouse"? My dad had this old clicky Microsoft Mouse for his IBM XT, probably circa 1986-87. I don't think I'd describe it as shaped the same way they are now - it wasn't ergonomic at all. And the two buttons on it hurt your wrist to use.
By the time Windows 3.1 came out, the MS mice were more like todays modern mouse. I think they were usually bundled with a copy of Win3.1.
This would be cool. The problem I see is that there is such a huge array of technical options, that it might be hard to generalize enough for a technical book. You'd have to be careful not to make it one of those "for managers" CTO-level books that are full of fluff and pretty pictures, but no technical detail. Nothing wrong with those books, but they probably aren't the "slashdot" audience.
I wrote an article on Jetspeed for JavaWorld last July. I'm not sure I'd describe Jetspeed as a content management system, though. Another poster said a book on Zope is coming out from No Starch books. Hopefully this helps you out somewhat.
Hi,
I bought a Titanium G4 400 for doing exactly that. I struggled with the choice between the iBook and the TiBook for a while, but the bigger screen and G4 processor won me over.
Apple supplies an IDE with the free Developer Tools for Mac OS X download. I haven't used it yet - only mucked around with it. I'm using BBEdit Lite and the Mac OS X 1.3 Java runtime and compiler. I forget if that comes with the OS or with the development tools.
Just for another point of reference though, I use the open-source Eclipse IDE on my Windows 2000 Athlon, and I love it. I'm used to developing server side Java on Windows, though. As far as I can tell, Eclipse isn't available for OS X yet. They'd have to port the SWT widget set to OS X. However, JBuilder 6 is coming out for Mac OS X, and should have the native Aqua UI.
And last, just to stoke the flames, I think a lot of the people who use Linux would benefit greatly from taking a look at Mac OS X. Go down to CompUSA or (insert-your-retailer-here) and play with the new G4 boxes. The Aqua UI will blow your mind (XP doesn't even come close).
I'd say go with eBay on this one. Apple basically made 4 different models of pro/prosumer G3/G4 machines:
* Beige G3 - in an ugly PC-like beige case, this was the first generation of G3 machine. You can decent ones on eBay for about $250-300.
* Blue & White G3 - next generation. Much cooler case.
* G4 Cube - limited expandability, so I wouldn't get one for an artist.
* G4 Tower - too expensive on your limited budget.
I would spec out a beige G3 from eBay, and buy 256 megs of ram for it. The iMac won't cut it because of the 15" screen. Run Mac OS 9!!!!! Don't make her run Mac OS X just because you like UNIX better. I use both on my G4, but OS 9 is a lot easier to work with for a newbie. Also a lot faster on those G3 machines.
Get a 19"-21" Trinitron monitor ($500). And a Zip Drive off of eBay ($100, with some disks), so she can share with others. A CD-R drive, if it's not already in the G3, accomplishes the same thing, but it's a little harder to use.
OT: Cliff, did you forget the ending italics tag?
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Hey, it looks like you forgot the tag in the comment there, and it's screwing up the page display everywhere.
I've been playing Super Monkey Ball like crazy, and it works fine. I make a point of turning it off when I'm not using it, though. My Orbitron DVD player overheats all the time and refuses to work properly. When I lower the temperature in the room, the DVD player goes back to working normally.
Well, if you look at the numbers, there are a lot more GameCubes on the market than XBox. 700,000 GCs on opening day, 300,000 XBox's. I also went down when the store opened today.
I went to BestBuy here in Austin right after it opened today. They had plenty (30-40) available. I thought about buying an extra to sell on eBay, but then I figured I'd just get stuck with it and have to sell at a loss, since Nintendo seems to be able to get these things out the door. I went up to GameSpot yesterday to check out the XBox, and the game I saw (don't know the name, but it was some sort of futuristic Mario Kart) looked like the Playstation 1 games I used to have. And the XBox controller sucked. So that sort of reconfirmed my decision to buy a GameCube (cheaper, Rogue Squadron, Pikimin).
I got three games, a 3rd-pary controller, and a memory card.
Luigi's Mansion - seems like fun, in the spirit of Super Mario 64, but just got it
Super Monkey Ball - haven't unwrapped, but I wanted a 4-person multiplayer game
Star Wars Rogue Squadron - This game has amazing graphic! The gameplay is similar to Rogue Squadron for the N64, but the grafx are much, much better, even in "Hi-res" N64 mode with the video memory pack.
I would say the GameCube is a no-brainer. Oh, and it's pretty easy to find XBox's in Austin, so I'm guessing XBox will flop. Only because I hate buying the "wrong" video game system. (Genesis vs SNES, N64 vs PS1, Dreamcast vs PS2)
Forget about tiny flash memory, a full-sized hard drive
is the only way to go! Here's my the new MP3 player
board that reads standard FAT32 formatted hard drives,
is designed to support a large DRAM buffer and to run
from batteries, and is flash firmware upgradable.
The MIDI Drum Machine, designed and constructed in the
Fall of 1991, was my first major 8051 based project. With some
help from a musician, it turned out to be a very
successful project, as you'll be able to see.
The 8051 microcontroller family offers a very
flexible and easy-to-use architecture which is still
very popular, despite newer, much more "powerful"
processors. Here are some of my tools, projects and
bits of 8051 code which you may find useful.
A circuit which interfaces a linear 128 pixel optical
CCD Array detector to the parallel port of a computer.
It features high-speed operation, automatic level
corrections and gain control, and generally it works
quite well.
I etch printed circuit boards, using low-cost
chemicals and equipment. Here's a guided tour of
the process.
Re:That depends (TextPad)
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I love my TextPad 4.5 - but the first thing I have to do is reset the search commands to the Microsoft Windows standard CTRL-F/F3 combo.
Just go to Configure->Preferences, click editor, and select "Microsoft Applications" under Keystroke Compatibility.
TextPad comes with the ability to run command line tools (such as java and javac) on the current file, and also does syntax highlighting for Java, HTML, and about 50 other languages.
If you do get one, get a TBird 1.4 to put in it and save your self some cash. The Palimino Chips (Athlon MP, Athlon XP) have improved pre-built in fetching logic - which negates the DASP on the nForce.
The built-in graphics is the GeForce 2 MX - nothing spectacular.
Where the nForce does have an edge, though is the built-in sound - it should rival the Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy. I'd love to see a good review or comparison of which one sounds better with 5.1 sound.
I saw a demo of Microsoft.NET services at a Microsoft site - all defaults are set to no. You get three choices for each "service" a web site or application wants to access "Yes, always", "Yes, this time only", "No, thanks".
That actually surprised me, I figured Microsoft would default to Yes, and just count on people clicking through. Definitely different than Scott McNealy's approach ("You have no privacy. Get over it."
The nVidia Personal Cinema looks like a great way to use your computer's hardware as a PVR system. This might not be suitable for the original poster, but I haven't seen anything on slashdot about this system yet.
It comes with an nVidia remote, which is such a cool feature. Unfortunately, according to this TV Tuner Video Card Roundup from AnandTech, the PVR software included with the ATI All In Wonder board is a lot better than nVidia's.
One big reason PHP is popular is that servlet/JSP web hosting is expensive compared to PHP for small sites that use shared web servers. If anyone knows of any cheap (less than $15/mo) places that let you run your own servlets against a database, let me know.
For $10/mo, I get PHP/MySQL, unlimited bandwith, unlimited hard drive space, unlimited POPs, etc.
Plus there's cool stuff like PHPNuke, just getting a simple contact me mail-to form to work in PHP is a piece of cake.
Oh and a small correction - JavaScript has nothing to do with JSP or Java programming at all.
JRun is commercial, from Allaire/Macromedia. You can download it for free, though, at Allaire. They have several different versions to download. Professional and Enterprise are the full version of the product, but with a 30-day time limit. You'll need a license key. The difference between them is that Enterprise supports EJB, JTA, and JMS, which are Java API's for building complex applications on the server. Tomcat is like Professional in that it supports JSP and servlets, which are similar to PHP and CGI Perl for all you non-java slashdotters.
I actually don't have performance numbers for Tomcat 4.0 and JRun 3.1, since Catalina just got GA'd. If you can live without the support for JRun from Macromedia, and you want to save about a thousand bucks a server, give Tomcat a chance. You're probably not using EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) anyway, since they were only supported in JRun 3.x.
The Audrey has an x86 processor that's capable of playing MP3's. Audrey has the ability to update her software from a central server - hackers have put together new packages for audrey that can give you a shell into the QNX system. From there, you can do almost anything you want. Best suggestion is to set up an NFS mount or SMB share on a server, and give Audrey as much disk space as you need.
Get started by installing the QNX RTP 6.0 or 6.1 on an x86 machine. With some library updates on the Audrey, it can run any of those binaries.
Mine doesn't do anything cool yet. I want to set it up to use the channel selector to select different shoutcast MP3 streams.
Slashdot Mirror
Some slashdotter's may tell you to learn MySQL or PostgreSQL because they are open source. This is true, and it's good because they come with almost any Linux distribution. Unfortunately, business aren't looking for those skills, so it won't help you.
Here are some Monster stats (for open US jobs):
$5 or $6 for a ticket. Cheaper than the 14-screen megaplexes here in austin. They make their money from showing older movies, and because they sell beer and food!
How much do you think a Linksys 802.11b router costs? about $149.
Is every chair in the theater leather? that's pretty cool. The Alamo sells food, but it's your nachos/burgers/pizzas/salads type of stuff. They run specials on buckets of beer, and their sangria is really good. But the seats aren't cool...except the sofas in the back of the downtown theater.
I found this comment interesting. All of the employers I've had have had me sign an NDA/non-compete agreement that basically gives them the right to anything I do outside of work.
For obvious reasons, this stifled any startup ideas I had :) Now I've been self-employed for a year, and anything I create is my own, except for things I develop under contract. What if your candidate was a freelance contractor?
I've heard of Shorty Long...I think they used to sit down in the basement of the Empanada Parlour playing before the other bands showed up :)
The film festival is definitely worth your time. I bought one of the $50 passes so I could skip the ticket lines, and I've seen 4 movies so far. Two of those are probably going to be coming to theatres across the country in a few months, but I don't think I would have heard of the other two. If you think sitting in the Alamo Drafthouse drinking beer, eating nachos and watching weird films sucks, then you probably wouldn't enjoy it! I also plan to catch:
- Last Party 2000 with Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Gigantic: They Might Be Giants documentary (with John and John at the movie Tuesday)
- Journeys with George (W Bush)
- Whatever else is around
I don't usually like a lot of the musical genres they pick up for SXSW, so I'm not particularly planning on going to any of the bands.How long ago did you own that "first microsoft mouse"? My dad had this old clicky Microsoft Mouse for his IBM XT, probably circa 1986-87. I don't think I'd describe it as shaped the same way they are now - it wasn't ergonomic at all. And the two buttons on it hurt your wrist to use.
By the time Windows 3.1 came out, the MS mice were more like todays modern mouse. I think they were usually bundled with a copy of Win3.1.
I wrote an article on Jetspeed for JavaWorld last July. I'm not sure I'd describe Jetspeed as a content management system, though. Another poster said a book on Zope is coming out from No Starch books. Hopefully this helps you out somewhat.
A good website (and you probably already have been there) is http://developer.apple.com/java.
Here's a good overview from Apple of Developing Java Applications on OS X
Just for another point of reference though, I use the open-source Eclipse IDE on my Windows 2000 Athlon, and I love it. I'm used to developing server side Java on Windows, though. As far as I can tell, Eclipse isn't available for OS X yet. They'd have to port the SWT widget set to OS X. However, JBuilder 6 is coming out for Mac OS X, and should have the native Aqua UI.
And last, just to stoke the flames, I think a lot of the people who use Linux would benefit greatly from taking a look at Mac OS X. Go down to CompUSA or (insert-your-retailer-here) and play with the new G4 boxes. The Aqua UI will blow your mind (XP doesn't even come close).
I'd say go with eBay on this one. Apple basically made 4 different models of pro/prosumer G3/G4 machines:
* Beige G3 - in an ugly PC-like beige case, this was the first generation of G3 machine. You can decent ones on eBay for about $250-300.
* Blue & White G3 - next generation. Much cooler case.
* G4 Cube - limited expandability, so I wouldn't get one for an artist.
* G4 Tower - too expensive on your limited budget.
I would spec out a beige G3 from eBay, and buy 256 megs of ram for it. The iMac won't cut it because of the 15" screen. Run Mac OS 9!!!!! Don't make her run Mac OS X just because you like UNIX better. I use both on my G4, but OS 9 is a lot easier to work with for a newbie. Also a lot faster on those G3 machines.
Get a 19"-21" Trinitron monitor ($500). And a Zip Drive off of eBay ($100, with some disks), so she can share with others. A CD-R drive, if it's not already in the G3, accomplishes the same thing, but it's a little harder to use.
Hey, it looks like you forgot the tag in the comment there, and it's screwing up the page display everywhere.
thanks
I've been playing Super Monkey Ball like crazy, and it works fine. I make a point of turning it off when I'm not using it, though. My Orbitron DVD player overheats all the time and refuses to work properly. When I lower the temperature in the room, the DVD player goes back to working normally.
:)
Sorry not to be helpful
Well, if you look at the numbers, there are a lot more GameCubes on the market than XBox. 700,000 GCs on opening day, 300,000 XBox's. I also went down when the store opened today.
I should have clarified that point though
I got three games, a 3rd-pary controller, and a memory card.
- Luigi's Mansion - seems like fun, in the spirit of Super Mario 64, but just got it
- Super Monkey Ball - haven't unwrapped, but I wanted a 4-person multiplayer game
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron - This game has amazing graphic! The gameplay is similar to Rogue Squadron for the N64, but the grafx are much, much better, even in "Hi-res" N64 mode with the video memory pack.
I would say the GameCube is a no-brainer. Oh, and it's pretty easy to find XBox's in Austin, so I'm guessing XBox will flop. Only because I hate buying the "wrong" video game system. (Genesis vs SNES, N64 vs PS1, Dreamcast vs PS2)I love my TextPad 4.5 - but the first thing I have to do is reset the search commands to the Microsoft Windows standard CTRL-F/F3 combo.
Just go to Configure->Preferences, click editor, and select "Microsoft Applications" under Keystroke Compatibility.
TextPad comes with the ability to run command line tools (such as java and javac) on the current file, and also does syntax highlighting for Java, HTML, and about 50 other languages.
Check it out at www.textpad.com
I use BBEdit Lite and Project Builder on my Mac OS X machine for Java work.
spelling - it's Palomino, not Palimino.
If you do get one, get a TBird 1.4 to put in it and save your self some cash. The Palimino Chips (Athlon MP, Athlon XP) have improved pre-built in fetching logic - which negates the DASP on the nForce.
The built-in graphics is the GeForce 2 MX - nothing spectacular.
Where the nForce does have an edge, though is the built-in sound - it should rival the Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy. I'd love to see a good review or comparison of which one sounds better with 5.1 sound.
Also, I'm posting an open invitation to karma whores to discuss the merits of this operating system with their choice of (BEOS, AmigaOS, OS/2, AtheOS)
Ciao!
I saw a demo of Microsoft .NET services at a Microsoft site - all defaults are set to no. You get three choices for each "service" a web site or application wants to access "Yes, always", "Yes, this time only", "No, thanks".
That actually surprised me, I figured Microsoft would default to Yes, and just count on people clicking through. Definitely different than Scott McNealy's approach ("You have no privacy. Get over it."
Ha,
:)
Weren't you a regular on comp.os.*.advocacy about 5 or 6 years ago? Only i think your tag was Warp 3
Maybe you can bring us up to date on the latest behind the OS/2 story (what's eComStation? Their site is having "index.phtml" failures)
It comes with an nVidia remote, which is such a cool feature. Unfortunately, according to this TV Tuner Video Card Roundup from AnandTech, the PVR software included with the ATI All In Wonder board is a lot better than nVidia's.
From their web site...
125 Megs of Diskspace + more for free as needed
Un-metered Transfer - note: no hosting of porn, file archives, warez, etc. allowed
SSH Access 24 hours a day (ssh is a secure replacement for telnet)
FTP Access 24 hours a day
It's finally here! Un-metered pop3 mailboxes!
unlimited name@yourdomain.com email aliases
unlimited email forwards
unlimited mailing lists
1 MySQL Database
Additional MySQL databases as needed(no extra charge)
Use of php4 (as an apache module and as a cgi)
Your own CGI-BIN directory and ability to run your own scripts
Use of Perl programming language, python, c, c++
Use of all standard Unix utilities
Reasonable use of crontab allowed - no jobs that run every minute, etc.
Background processes (which run continually), servers, bots, etc. are not allowed
Access to web-based control panel
Use of SSL(with our certificate or yours)
I don't have any affiliation with them except as a happy customer.
For $10/mo, I get PHP/MySQL, unlimited bandwith, unlimited hard drive space, unlimited POPs, etc.
Plus there's cool stuff like PHPNuke, just getting a simple contact me mail-to form to work in PHP is a piece of cake.
Oh and a small correction - JavaScript has nothing to do with JSP or Java programming at all.
JRun is commercial, from Allaire/Macromedia. You can download it for free, though, at Allaire. They have several different versions to download. Professional and Enterprise are the full version of the product, but with a 30-day time limit. You'll need a license key. The difference between them is that Enterprise supports EJB, JTA, and JMS, which are Java API's for building complex applications on the server. Tomcat is like Professional in that it supports JSP and servlets, which are similar to PHP and CGI Perl for all you non-java slashdotters.
I actually don't have performance numbers for Tomcat 4.0 and JRun 3.1, since Catalina just got GA'd. If you can live without the support for JRun from Macromedia, and you want to save about a thousand bucks a server, give Tomcat a chance. You're probably not using EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) anyway, since they were only supported in JRun 3.x.
check Audrey Hacking for more info.
The Audrey has an x86 processor that's capable of playing MP3's. Audrey has the ability to update her software from a central server - hackers have put together new packages for audrey that can give you a shell into the QNX system. From there, you can do almost anything you want. Best suggestion is to set up an NFS mount or SMB share on a server, and give Audrey as much disk space as you need.
Get started by installing the QNX RTP 6.0 or 6.1 on an x86 machine. With some library updates on the Audrey, it can run any of those binaries.
Mine doesn't do anything cool yet. I want to set it up to use the channel selector to select different shoutcast MP3 streams.