At least the site is still functional in IE. I remember when you couldn't use IE's website from the version of IE that came with Windows NT. You had to download another browser that was capable of displaying IE's website and then download the latest IE.
I think you're right, they must have been joking. My installed eclipse takes up 99.9 megs and requires a 80 meg JDK and all that bloat, still doesn't make me want to stop using vim.
I believe the problem arises when standards are written before being tested in the wild and without using time-tested techniques.
This was the problem with EJB. All these companies implemented the standard, but the standard that had never been tried before. Only now, are people realizing what a mistake it was.
With the various XML standards, time wasn't allowed to work out the flaws, and to allow various standards to merge. So, we have a bunch of standards and none of them are quit right.
This just tells us that soclialism requires audits, just like capitalism requires competition. More auditors and penalties for fraud would improve just about every department of government. More real competition would improve most of our private services.
Does anyone here remember when a guy at Wired (I think) registered the mcdondonals.com domain for himself. He called up McDonalds and offered it to them. They said they had never heard of the internet and had no idea why they would ever want to be on it. This was back in 1994, I think.
transactions - use JDBC. sessions - use a database or create server that acts as shared memory. stickyness - don't do it, or have a dedicated server when you need it.
Anyway, the point is, it will make you smarter if you learn how to do this stuff your self. Once you get good at it, it won't seem like magic.
I once shocked my colleges by running our application which usually runs in Weblogic in a simple RMI server which I wrote in a few hours.
It would take a long time to rewrite the entire J2EE spec or to rewrite Struts, but it doesn't take long to write something that does what my own application needs.
It usually takes less time to develop you own framework than to learn Struts, J2EE, etc...
Here a quick tip for a simple cluster. Use JMS or another queued message pool. Start as many servers as you need, and let each message be handled by whichever server is available. I was doing this in java in '97 and I still haven't seen a framework that beats it in performance, ease of use, or versatility.
I was going to tell you to file for mediation with the Better Business Bureau, but they already have a poor record with the BBB so it might not do any good.
We rate this company as having an unsatisfactory business performance record, based on a pattern of complaints that cause us concern.
Complainants allege they experience delays in receiving ordered products, or that items are delivered damaged or defective. Some customers complain they experience delays or fail to receive rebates offered as buyer incentives.
The company responds in some delivery complaints by providing refunds, issuing credits or shipping orders. Some rebate complaints are addressed by advising rebate checks would be issued, or that the customer failed to comply with conditions of the offer. A few complaints are closed as disputed, meaning the customer was not satisfied with the company's response. Many other complaints are unanswered.
The Better Business Bureau does not endorse, recommend or disapprove of any product, service or company.
You can report them to the FTC but that won't help your specific case.
Ebay should use the soundex algorithm to find similar items. It's already in Oracle if that's what they use.
select soundex('compaq'), soundex('compact') from dual
If they had an index of soundex values of keywords and the number of matches, they could return a list of popular keywords that sound the same as the one you typed.
Actually it was an overabundance of Englishmen. There would have been enough food the feed the Irish if England had been willing to reduce exports.
More info from a quick google search.
" Although there is no documentation of the transmission of prions to humans through droplets of blood or cerebrospinal fluid, or by exposure to intact skin, or gastric and mucous membranes, the risk of such occurrences is a possibility. Sterilization of the instruments and decontamination of the operating room should be performed in accordance with recommendations described below."
The prions are mostly in the brain and spinal cord, but they are also found in the blood and milk. This is how they suspect a milk drinking vegetarian caught Mad Cow in England. This is why we don't take blood donations from people who spent time in England.
I also heard on NPR yesterday that Mad Cow is often mistaken for Alzheimer's so Mad Cow deaths may be higher then we suspected.
update your crontab every night at one AM for the next date (see below). You just need a script called getmidnight.sh that returns the local hour for GMT midnight. I bet DateTime.pm could do this.
A couple years ago I was sitting around watching TV on my computer (w/ TV card) and my power supply made a louding cracking sound (like lightening) and burst into flames. The flames put themselves out within a few seconds. I stopped leaving my computer on after that. The computer was sitting on a carpet under my desk. It don't recall if it was hot or not. The computer was a year or two old. I bought it at one of those Computer Show and Sales. Since then I've had two power supplies die on me, Some maybe it was something with my setup. I don't know?
This could be done easily without the proprietary algorithms. Just send update packets with a header in each on stating that it is packet number N and there are X total packets. Then, request missing packets when you get towards the end, and put them all together in order when you get them all.
Somewhat unrelated --- Does anyone else miss Z-Modem. We need a zmodem like program for that works over telnet so we don't have to open a separate FTP session. In the BBS days, you just typed rz filename and it came to you.
It is news. It's an insult. They are just fostering the myth that open source is cute and fun for hippie-types, but not viable for a serious company. The model is free the software, but sell the support and the customizations. You're good name, if you retain it, will bring in the revenue.
There are plenty of web interfaces for CVS. We switched from PVCS to CVS where I work a year and a half ago, and people still thank me for getting rid of PVCS. The big problem with documentation is binary files don't version control very well with any software. A good solution would be an easy to use word processor that save's in xml and can be converted to HTML, Word, etc... I don't know anything like that that's easy to use. Lyx is the closest thing I've found, but it's a long way away. I once started to look into Adobe Framemaker for this purpose, but didn't bother because it's way too expensive.
No, Your analogy doesn't fit. I can revoke my pgp key, and I can change the locks on my door. They should have implemented this necessary feature before they needed it.
Dramatic contrast was provided by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, who lashed at Napster as ''defeating the purpose of copyright protection.'' The company's ''saving grace,'' she observed dryly, was its utter lack of business model -- a lack that Barry cheerfully confirmed. ''Why are you not liable'' for massive copyright infringement? she demanded. ''Why do you preserve the anonymity of your users?'' If Napster-like services sprung up across the content industry, she argued, copyright would become ''null and void.'' Why not start a rogue Project Gutenberg that exercised realistic copyright time limits. The original US limit of 14 years would work well. Currently they expire 50 years after the author is dead. These books could be distributed through the various anonymous file sharing programs until the laws were changed.
JBuilder - competes with Visual J++ C++ Builder - competes with Visual C++ Delphi - competes with Visual Basic (Bill's first and favorite) Visibroker - competes with DCOM Turbo Assembler - competes with MASM DBase - competes with Access/ SQL Server
Inprise just got bought out!
Thank god (RMS?) for GNU. M$ can't buy them out. From what I've seen, the gnu compiler under windows should be up to speed (or nearly so) with other platforms by next release. See http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ and http://egcs.cygnus.com/
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At least the site is still functional in IE. I remember when you couldn't use IE's website from the version of IE that came with Windows NT. You had to download another browser that was capable of displaying IE's website and then download the latest IE.
I think you're right, they must have been joking.
My installed eclipse takes up 99.9 megs and requires a 80 meg JDK and all that bloat, still doesn't make me want to stop using vim.
I believe the problem arises when standards are written before being tested in the wild and without using time-tested techniques.
This was the problem with EJB. All these companies implemented the standard, but the standard that had never been tried before. Only now, are people realizing what a mistake it was.
With the various XML standards, time wasn't allowed to work out the flaws, and to allow various standards to merge. So, we have a bunch of standards and none of them are quit right.
I'm pretty sure that using your hearing sharpens your sense off sound -- not blindness.
The disctinction is important if you're interesting in improving hearing.
Don't poke your eye's out -- Practice.
I'll bet that children who learn to play music at an early age also have a better sense of sound.
This just tells us that soclialism requires audits, just like capitalism requires competition. More auditors and penalties for fraud would improve just about every department of government. More real competition would improve most of our private services.
Does anyone here remember when a guy at Wired (I think) registered the mcdondonals.com domain for himself. He called up McDonalds and offered it to them. They said they had never heard of the internet and had no idea why they would ever want to be on it. This was back in 1994, I think.
transactions - use JDBC.
sessions - use a database or create server that acts as shared memory.
stickyness - don't do it, or have a dedicated server when you need it.
Anyway, the point is, it will make you smarter if you learn how to do this stuff your self. Once you get good at it, it won't seem like magic.
I've written my own jsp-like server , my own database . My own bean-managed persistence framework (before j2ee).
I once shocked my colleges by running our application which usually runs in Weblogic in a simple RMI server which I wrote in a few hours.
It would take a long time to rewrite the entire J2EE spec or to rewrite Struts, but it doesn't take long to write something that does what my own application needs.
And no, I don't write simple apps.
It usually takes less time to develop you own framework than to learn Struts, J2EE, etc...
Here a quick tip for a simple cluster. Use JMS or another queued message pool. Start as many servers as you need, and let each message be handled by whichever server is available. I was doing this in java in '97 and I still haven't seen a framework that beats it in performance, ease of use, or versatility.
I was going to tell you to file for mediation with the Better Business Bureau, but they already have a poor record with the BBB so it might not do any good.
We rate this company as having an unsatisfactory business performance record, based on a pattern of complaints that cause us concern.
Complainants allege they experience delays in receiving ordered products, or that items are delivered damaged or defective. Some customers complain they experience delays or fail to receive rebates offered as buyer incentives.
The company responds in some delivery complaints by providing refunds, issuing credits or shipping orders. Some rebate complaints are addressed by advising rebate checks would be issued, or that the customer failed to comply with conditions of the offer. A few complaints are closed as disputed, meaning the customer was not satisfied with the company's response. Many other complaints are unanswered.
The Better Business Bureau does not endorse, recommend or disapprove of any product, service or company.
You can report them to the FTC but that won't help your specific case.
Ebay should use the soundex algorithm to find similar items. It's already in Oracle if that's what they use.
select soundex('compaq'), soundex('compact') from dual
If they had an index of soundex values of keywords and the number of matches, they could return a list of popular keywords that sound the same as the one you typed.
Actually it was an overabundance of Englishmen. There would have been enough food the feed the Irish if England had been willing to reduce exports. More info from a quick google search.
Try this google search site:cdc.gov prions. The first article that comes up
d .h tm
9 49 16
http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/bmbl4/bmbl4s7
" Although there is no documentation of the transmission of prions to humans through droplets of blood or cerebrospinal fluid, or by exposure to intact skin, or gastric and mucous membranes, the risk of such occurrences is a possibility. Sterilization of the instruments and decontamination of the operating room should be performed in accordance with recommendations described below."
The prions are mostly in the brain and spinal cord, but they are also found in the blood and milk. This is how they suspect a milk drinking vegetarian caught Mad Cow in England. This is why we don't take blood donations from people who spent time in England.
I also heard on NPR yesterday that Mad Cow is often mistaken for Alzheimer's so Mad Cow deaths may be higher then we suspected.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=15
Mileage is good but air pollution is terrible. Wait (hope?) for the clean-air deisels to come to the US.
update your crontab every night at one AM for the next date (see below). You just need a script called getmidnight.sh that returns the local hour for GMT midnight. I bet DateTime.pm could do this.
/etc/crontab.template /usr/bin/update_cron.sh /usr/bin/midnight_script.sh
/usr/bin/update_cron.sh /tmp/crontab /tmp/crontab
##
1 0 0 0 0
MIDNIGHT 0 0 0 0 0
##
sed s/MIDNIGHT/`getmidnight.sh`/
crontab -l
assert(index < size);
A couple years ago I was sitting around watching TV on my computer (w/ TV card) and my power supply made a louding cracking sound (like lightening) and burst into flames. The flames put themselves out within a few seconds. I stopped leaving my computer on after that. The computer was sitting on a carpet under my desk. It don't recall if it was hot or not. The computer was a year or two old. I bought it at one of those Computer Show and Sales. Since then I've had two power supplies die on me, Some maybe it was something with my setup. I don't know?
This could be done easily without the proprietary algorithms. Just send update packets with a header in each on stating that it is packet number N and there are X total packets. Then, request missing packets when you get towards the end, and put them all together in order when you get them all.
Somewhat unrelated --- Does anyone else miss Z-Modem. We need a zmodem like program for that works over telnet so we don't have to open a separate FTP session. In the BBS days, you just typed rz filename and it came to you.
It is news. It's an insult. They are just fostering the myth that open source is cute and fun for hippie-types, but not viable for a serious company. The model is free the software, but sell the support and the customizations. You're good name, if you retain it, will bring in the revenue.
Start by signing your emai. That way the people who know what it is will ask for your public key, and the people who don?t will ask.
There are plenty of web interfaces for CVS. We switched from PVCS to CVS where I work a year and a half ago, and people still thank me for getting rid of PVCS. The big problem with documentation is binary files don't version control very well with any software. A good solution would be an easy to use word processor that save's in xml and can be converted to HTML, Word, etc... I don't know anything like that that's easy to use. Lyx is the closest thing I've found, but it's a long way away. I once started to look into Adobe Framemaker for this purpose, but didn't bother because it's way too expensive.
No, Your analogy doesn't fit. I can revoke my pgp key, and I can change the locks on my door. They should have implemented this necessary feature before they needed it.
Dramatic contrast was provided by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, who lashed at Napster as ''defeating the purpose of copyright protection.'' The company's ''saving grace,'' she observed dryly, was its utter lack of business model -- a lack that Barry cheerfully confirmed. ''Why are you not liable'' for massive copyright infringement? she demanded. ''Why do you preserve the anonymity of your users?'' If Napster-like services sprung up across the content industry, she argued, copyright would become ''null and void.''
Why not start a rogue Project Gutenberg that exercised realistic copyright time limits. The original US limit of 14 years would work well. Currently they expire 50 years after the author is dead. These books could be distributed through the various anonymous file sharing programs until the laws were changed.
Come on. Let's look at the products.
JBuilder - competes with Visual J++
C++ Builder - competes with Visual C++
Delphi - competes with Visual Basic (Bill's first and favorite)
Visibroker - competes with DCOM
Turbo Assembler - competes with MASM
DBase - competes with Access/ SQL Server
Inprise just got bought out!
Thank god (RMS?) for GNU. M$ can't buy them out. From what I've seen, the gnu compiler under windows should be up to speed (or nearly so) with other platforms by next release. See http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ and http://egcs.cygnus.com/
Should that be Gnome-Linux or just Gnome with a 'Linux included' sticker, or maybe Gnome-Linux-X-Lots-of-other-really-neat-stuff ...