I call shill. I used Sql Server 2K and 2K5 at my last job, and I would LOVE to have SQL Server Studio for MySql - the admin tools SUCK. The ones that use the native dll crash, and the ones that use.Net bindinds (i.e. Toad from Quest) have bugs of their own, and crash every once in awhile too. Also, none of them hold a candle to the usability of SQL Server Studio - executing part of a script, and wanting to cut and paste the result to show what I got (standard practice here) is difficult in MySql's tools (even third party ones), but SQL Server makes it easy.
Real estate websites use them for potential buyers. Some counties even store them on their servers, and then make the URLs available to companies that compile property data for real estate companies, realtors, banks, insurance companies, etc. But, to the company I work for, the picture is most useful for potential buyers.
Because that's not the full figure - you're not figuring in the amount of your income tax that goes to pay for uninsured/underinsured that the government picks up the tab on.
Are you kidding? I hate that Microsoft decided to reorganize the keys, removing the insert key. I use that key! And the stupid stupid Function Lock. Ugh! No one I know uses the "Application menu" key - why not play with that? But don't mess with my function or insert keys.
And when that happened, you would find that no one would pay those "free-market" (not!) rates, and you wouldn't make any money. Oh, and then you wouldn't have electricity, as it has to be billed, managed, and distributed - that happens in the city. For that matter, organized government doesn't happen in the hick areas of any country - it happens in the city. Without cities, you have no hospitals, so the next time you try hammering a nail through your hand, deal with it instead of coming to our nice regional trauma centers. Cities also are responsible for fast, efficient money trade, people coming together to start new companies (just how many startups does your county hold? Try comparing that to Denver county!). Without the food distribution centers in the cities, moving food around becomes quickly disorganized and inefficient. And those roads you oh so lovingly would toll wouldn't be built, because roads lead to CITIES. Would you like to have an 18 wheeler driving down county road 10, a nice barely two way dirt road, just to deliver a basket of food here, another one in another mile? No? What, it makes sense for them to go to a common supermarket? Well, the same thing works on a macro scale - the cities are more efficient on a per-square-mile for just about anything other than growing food. There's a reason that the midwest is not the cultural, scientific, technological, or political capital of the US.
Sure, try using a variable named status or error. In IE7, MS silently makes those reserved words. How do I know? I used them in my AJAX library at my old job. Weirdly, IE7 would break, with IE6/FF wouldn't. After doing some testing, I eventually found out that you can't have a variable named either of those two in IE7's JS. And I found NOTHING on the web anywhere where they (or anyone) said that that wasn't allowed....
Oh, you can send zips. That's not the problem. Try emailing calc.exe in zip from a gmail account. Gmail blocks it. They block all *.exe files, either directly, in a.zip file or.rar file. I have to send ".zpi" and tell them to rename the extension (which doesn't always make sense to the end user).
Um, I bill out network admin and programmer at the same rate. In my area (Downtown Denver), both jobs are paid very similarly for the 5-8 year experience range. Network administration is MUCH more difficult these days due to needing to know everything possible about security, proper design, and how to fit everything onto one network without getting any malware/virii/worms/hackers. Programmers, on the other hand, have Microsoft practically GIVING out code on how to do things, and makes a very nice IDE. I wish the network side of things had a nice IDE...
Can't speak for the OP, but at my company half of us have laptops, and have to be local admins to do simple things like reconfigure their wireless card, or install local user-specific applications (if only installers understood that sometimes a user wants to install to a folder that the user does have access to without being a local admin...), or make small changes like adding a local printer. Even I, the local network admin, gave up and went back to being a local admin, and if I couldn't stand it, how would I expect the CEO? Who has called me 9AM on a Saturday? I hope that Vista does this kind of thing better, otherwise it's not worth the upgrade pain..
I was able to convince my boss to go back to having a linux mail gateway in front of our exchange server due to the good job (great job, really) that greylisting does! It was like night and day, and even I had a hard time believing it. Because we're a company, and the RBLs aren't always accurate, I can't use them, so some spam does get through, but very very little (on the order of 5 per day. 5!).
Two words: Executive Order. Requires no congressional approval. Enables dictators without requiring any pesky oversight!
Honestly, close to his last day in office, our King could arrange for a major disaster in, say, LA or Chicago. Declare martial law, write an EO stating that during national disasters the president continues to be president (sorry, king) until the disaster is declared over. And then "forgets" to end the disaster. There is NOTHING that could prevent this - it's all legal. Do I think it would work for long? Well... maybe. People these days are such sheep, it's scary how they'll just do what they're told.
>Completely wrong. I've actually gotten a job without possessing photo ID when my license was suspended.
Um, not post-9/11. Now everyone collects IDs. Shoot, I had to bring my drivers license/ID and my SSN card to work when we switched to a new HR company (we outsource our HR) because otherwise they couldn't prove that I was allowed to work in the US, and they stated (and as far as I've been able to research it's true) that Homeland Security now requires that all new hires in the US are supposed to check it.
>> cash checks (and even if you are poor, welfare checks, other government assistance)
> Wrong, unless you're stupid and cash your checks at non-banks. The first time you'll need someone to confirm your identity.
Um, all banks require IDs, they have for as long as I can remember (I'm almost 30). Even just to cash a check, as banks want to know if you have an account there. It used to be that you could go to the issuing bank, but many banks now (like Wells Fargo and USBank) now say that you can't cash those without an account at most branches.
>> open a bank account
> Usually wrong. A few banks want it, but they will accept employment IDs or an employee reference.
Actually, the IRS requires it for all new account openings. And yes, they do want SSNs and government-issued IDs, employment IDs are useless.
The problem with this is that no one will know how the system works, except for the lobbyist. Oh wait, that's how it is now with most state legislatures - no one can stay there long enough to really learn how things work, but the lobbyists. And they're not elected, they're PAID to influence decisions. And your congressman/woman has WAY too much to do to really research many things themselves, they have to rely on what they hear, and they really only hear the lobbyists.
Can you tell how much I like artificial term limits? There was a line from West Wing that I thought was most applicable: "There are term limits - they're called voters." I'm sure they were quoting from someone, just not where where.
Consider the case that you are creating a tool and your goal is to ensure its always available as a service to the community.
Well, actually, my goal is to feed my family, which requires that either a make food, or make money to buy food. Being a programmer and not a farmer, I need money to buy food. Companies pay me to make software for them, and so I am happy. I do not necessarily want to make something as a free service to the community - that is not what I do.
> That's not what this tool is for. You still need to have change management processes in place. The tool is for recovering files you didn't know were important! (Otherwise, why would a user delete it? If it were important he or she would have checked it into the Subversion repository, right?:-D ) It's to cover corner cases and disastrous events outside the data management model. It's less invasive than a recovery from backup too.
Yeah, try convincing my boss to use TortoiseSVN. It's easy to use, but still too much for him. Or the entire office. The DBA's computer is the only other place that I'd deploy it. SVN is just too complex, and runs slooooow on binary files, like.doc and.xls (I know, I do write up SOME documentation on my stuff!). But just the other day, my computer-savvy COO came in and wanted a restore from backup, and I asked why, and from when, and I showed him how to use Previous Versions. Now he can save the day himself and I can get more work done.:) Personally, I LOVE PV, and I can't wait for it to be on the desktop.
The one hiding Hezbollah terrorists behind him so that Israel couldn't take them out, but they [the terrorists] could attack Israelis. Do note that Israel doesn't put civilians or non-Israelis **in front of them** to protect them from attach, but Hezbollah and Hamas BOTH do this.
Yes, a downloader. Even downloaders can have UIs. (Unless you use wget/curl all of the time.) All interface with the user needs to be friendly, usable and well designed. *All* of it. Even a downloader. That said, I do wish more programs on OSX were HIG compliant..
Umm.. yeah. Did that for about a year. Ran SCREAMING back to using Windows file servers. Why? Samba is a reverse engineering of the real thing, and it's less than ideal at it. The ONLY nice thing about having the files stored on a linux box was that I could use symlinks. Otherwise, it was slower, had more permissions and authentication problems than necessary (as in, none are necessary).
Ah, but the Torah was put together by several people, then it was "locked", and copied perfectly ever since. Having studied being a sofer (Jewish scribe) a __little__, I see that there's plenty of redundancy and error checking. I'm confident that the Torah we have today is the same one ~ 2000 years ago. Problem is, before that it's a little fuzzier, the error checks weren't there, and whole books (Ruth, for example) were removed from the official collection. And biblical analysis tells us that there do appear to be multiple writers/editors/redactors. Personally, I read it for tradition, on how I can apply it's stories to my life, but not as literal books which I should follow closely.
Um... problem: we DO still cater to older technologies. Buggies ARE allowed on the roads (no, not the freeways, but city roads). And so are bikes! (Oh no!)
And black and white TV? Um... find one. Check out Channel 2 (or whatever your area has). See that picture? Yeah, it's because the black and white TV sees the brightness part of the picture and ignores the junk (the parts that specify color information).
That being said, occasionally things change enough that radical, revolutionary change is needed. But usually, evolutionary change is better suited to the task. Kinda like how, if one doesn't like the way a country runs itself, one should work on making the change gradual and from within, instead of bombing it back to the stone ages. But anyways...
Excuse me, my religion is quite capable of adapting. In fact, I'm not aware of any that's not.. Judaism (mine) can be reworked (see non-orthodox movements in Wikipedia), Catholic Christianity just needs the Pope's Word to change things, Mormon Christianity just needs the Prophet's Word, and Islam and Protestant Christianity need the community to agree on things. Non-judaic religions, like Wicca and Buddism, also need general community support to change things.
I don't know from where this concept that religion is "monolithic and unchanging" comes, but it's kinda annoying...
>> Rather than living your life through your own self-interest trying to get in to a heavenly place that does not exist I just ask that you embrace those around you, talk to other people, help each other out and in that spirit we can all make the world a little nicer.
Let's pretend there's no god. Religion is false, and science is The One True Way. At that point, why would I care about those f*ckups (everyone else other than me)? After all, they're just animals. I can treat them like animals. I don't need morals or ethics - they're just for those lazy sheep who believe in religion. When you take G-d away from your culture, you take the only real reason to follow silly non-Darwinian rules like helping your neighbor if there donkey falls (if their car won't start), or burying your sewage out of town, or any of the other rules that help populations stay sane. Without those rules, I can do whatever I want, to whomever I want, for any or no reason at all.
There are those who believe it's possible to be ethical and moral without G-d. Of course, on an individual basis, certainly! But on a cultural, a large-number-of-people kind of level, it always fails. Just like communism. (Not that they're really related, although that makes me wonder..)
Well...actually iLife comes with new Macs, but not with OSX. I bought Tiger for my aged 450MHz G4 a few weeks ago, and I have yet to see GarageBand in my Applications folder...
Are you nuts?! Now those of us who run multi-machine networks can push this out to our computers without having to run to each one and manually reinstall it on each machine. We can push the RPMs out. And rpm is available for Debian-based and Slackware-based distributions. (Or use alien from Debian to convert it if you wish.) I hope that they never resurrect that monster. Horribly non-compliant with modern (or even archaic) packaging management. Even with a response script, it's simply not professional enough.
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I call shill. I used Sql Server 2K and 2K5 at my last job, and I would LOVE to have SQL Server Studio for MySql - the admin tools SUCK. The ones that use the native dll crash, and the ones that use .Net bindinds (i.e. Toad from Quest) have bugs of their own, and crash every once in awhile too. Also, none of them hold a candle to the usability of SQL Server Studio - executing part of a script, and wanting to cut and paste the result to show what I got (standard practice here) is difficult in MySql's tools (even third party ones), but SQL Server makes it easy.
Real estate websites use them for potential buyers. Some counties even store them on their servers, and then make the URLs available to companies that compile property data for real estate companies, realtors, banks, insurance companies, etc. But, to the company I work for, the picture is most useful for potential buyers.
Because that's not the full figure - you're not figuring in the amount of your income tax that goes to pay for uninsured/underinsured that the government picks up the tab on.
Are you kidding? I hate that Microsoft decided to reorganize the keys, removing the insert key. I use that key! And the stupid stupid Function Lock. Ugh! No one I know uses the "Application menu" key - why not play with that? But don't mess with my function or insert keys.
And when that happened, you would find that no one would pay those "free-market" (not!) rates, and you wouldn't make any money. Oh, and then you wouldn't have electricity, as it has to be billed, managed, and distributed - that happens in the city. For that matter, organized government doesn't happen in the hick areas of any country - it happens in the city. Without cities, you have no hospitals, so the next time you try hammering a nail through your hand, deal with it instead of coming to our nice regional trauma centers. Cities also are responsible for fast, efficient money trade, people coming together to start new companies (just how many startups does your county hold? Try comparing that to Denver county!). Without the food distribution centers in the cities, moving food around becomes quickly disorganized and inefficient. And those roads you oh so lovingly would toll wouldn't be built, because roads lead to CITIES. Would you like to have an 18 wheeler driving down county road 10, a nice barely two way dirt road, just to deliver a basket of food here, another one in another mile? No? What, it makes sense for them to go to a common supermarket? Well, the same thing works on a macro scale - the cities are more efficient on a per-square-mile for just about anything other than growing food. There's a reason that the midwest is not the cultural, scientific, technological, or political capital of the US.
Sure, try using a variable named status or error. In IE7, MS silently makes those reserved words. How do I know? I used them in my AJAX library at my old job. Weirdly, IE7 would break, with IE6/FF wouldn't. After doing some testing, I eventually found out that you can't have a variable named either of those two in IE7's JS. And I found NOTHING on the web anywhere where they (or anyone) said that that wasn't allowed....
Oh, you can send zips. That's not the problem. Try emailing calc.exe in zip from a gmail account. Gmail blocks it. They block all *.exe files, either directly, in a .zip file or .rar file. I have to send ".zpi" and tell them to rename the extension (which doesn't always make sense to the end user).
Um, I bill out network admin and programmer at the same rate. In my area (Downtown Denver), both jobs are paid very similarly for the 5-8 year experience range. Network administration is MUCH more difficult these days due to needing to know everything possible about security, proper design, and how to fit everything onto one network without getting any malware/virii/worms/hackers. Programmers, on the other hand, have Microsoft practically GIVING out code on how to do things, and makes a very nice IDE. I wish the network side of things had a nice IDE...
Can't speak for the OP, but at my company half of us have laptops, and have to be local admins to do simple things like reconfigure their wireless card, or install local user-specific applications (if only installers understood that sometimes a user wants to install to a folder that the user does have access to without being a local admin...), or make small changes like adding a local printer. Even I, the local network admin, gave up and went back to being a local admin, and if I couldn't stand it, how would I expect the CEO? Who has called me 9AM on a Saturday? I hope that Vista does this kind of thing better, otherwise it's not worth the upgrade pain..
I was able to convince my boss to go back to having a linux mail gateway in front of our exchange server due to the good job (great job, really) that greylisting does! It was like night and day, and even I had a hard time believing it. Because we're a company, and the RBLs aren't always accurate, I can't use them, so some spam does get through, but very very little (on the order of 5 per day. 5!).
Two words: Executive Order. Requires no congressional approval. Enables dictators without requiring any pesky oversight!
Honestly, close to his last day in office, our King could arrange for a major disaster in, say, LA or Chicago. Declare martial law, write an EO stating that during national disasters the president continues to be president (sorry, king) until the disaster is declared over. And then "forgets" to end the disaster. There is NOTHING that could prevent this - it's all legal. Do I think it would work for long? Well... maybe. People these days are such sheep, it's scary how they'll just do what they're told.
>> You need ID as a prerequisite to get a job
>Completely wrong. I've actually gotten a job without possessing photo ID when my license was suspended.
Um, not post-9/11. Now everyone collects IDs. Shoot, I had to bring my drivers license/ID and my SSN card to work when we switched to a new HR company (we outsource our HR) because otherwise they couldn't prove that I was allowed to work in the US, and they stated (and as far as I've been able to research it's true) that Homeland Security now requires that all new hires in the US are supposed to check it.
>> cash checks (and even if you are poor, welfare checks, other government assistance)
> Wrong, unless you're stupid and cash your checks at non-banks. The first time you'll need someone to confirm your identity.
Um, all banks require IDs, they have for as long as I can remember (I'm almost 30). Even just to cash a check, as banks want to know if you have an account there. It used to be that you could go to the issuing bank, but many banks now (like Wells Fargo and USBank) now say that you can't cash those without an account at most branches.
>> open a bank account
> Usually wrong. A few banks want it, but they will accept employment IDs or an employee reference.
Actually, the IRS requires it for all new account openings. And yes, they do want SSNs and government-issued IDs, employment IDs are useless.
The problem with this is that no one will know how the system works, except for the lobbyist. Oh wait, that's how it is now with most state legislatures - no one can stay there long enough to really learn how things work, but the lobbyists. And they're not elected, they're PAID to influence decisions. And your congressman/woman has WAY too much to do to really research many things themselves, they have to rely on what they hear, and they really only hear the lobbyists.
Can you tell how much I like artificial term limits? There was a line from West Wing that I thought was most applicable: "There are term limits - they're called voters." I'm sure they were quoting from someone, just not where where.
Well, actually, my goal is to feed my family, which requires that either a make food, or make money to buy food. Being a programmer and not a farmer, I need money to buy food. Companies pay me to make software for them, and so I am happy. I do not necessarily want to make something as a free service to the community - that is not what I do.
> That's not what this tool is for. You still need to have change management processes in place. The tool is for recovering files you didn't know were important! (Otherwise, why would a user delete it? If it were important he or she would have checked it into the Subversion repository, right? :-D ) It's to cover corner cases and disastrous events outside the data management model. It's less invasive than a recovery from backup too.
.doc and .xls (I know, I do write up SOME documentation on my stuff!). But just the other day, my computer-savvy COO came in and wanted a restore from backup, and I asked why, and from when, and I showed him how to use Previous Versions. Now he can save the day himself and I can get more work done. :) Personally, I LOVE PV, and I can't wait for it to be on the desktop.
Yeah, try convincing my boss to use TortoiseSVN. It's easy to use, but still too much for him. Or the entire office. The DBA's computer is the only other place that I'd deploy it. SVN is just too complex, and runs slooooow on binary files, like
The one hiding Hezbollah terrorists behind him so that Israel couldn't take them out, but they [the terrorists] could attack Israelis. Do note that Israel doesn't put civilians or non-Israelis **in front of them** to protect them from attach, but Hezbollah and Hamas BOTH do this.
Yes, a downloader. Even downloaders can have UIs. (Unless you use wget/curl all of the time.) All interface with the user needs to be friendly, usable and well designed. *All* of it. Even a downloader. That said, I do wish more programs on OSX were HIG compliant..
Umm.. yeah. Did that for about a year. Ran SCREAMING back to using Windows file servers. Why? Samba is a reverse engineering of the real thing, and it's less than ideal at it. The ONLY nice thing about having the files stored on a linux box was that I could use symlinks. Otherwise, it was slower, had more permissions and authentication problems than necessary (as in, none are necessary).
Ah, but the Torah was put together by several people, then it was "locked", and copied perfectly ever since. Having studied being a sofer (Jewish scribe) a __little__, I see that there's plenty of redundancy and error checking. I'm confident that the Torah we have today is the same one ~ 2000 years ago. Problem is, before that it's a little fuzzier, the error checks weren't there, and whole books (Ruth, for example) were removed from the official collection. And biblical analysis tells us that there do appear to be multiple writers/editors/redactors. Personally, I read it for tradition, on how I can apply it's stories to my life, but not as literal books which I should follow closely.
Um... problem: we DO still cater to older technologies. Buggies ARE allowed on the roads (no, not the freeways, but city roads). And so are bikes! (Oh no!)
And black and white TV? Um... find one. Check out Channel 2 (or whatever your area has). See that picture? Yeah, it's because the black and white TV sees the brightness part of the picture and ignores the junk (the parts that specify color information).
That being said, occasionally things change enough that radical, revolutionary change is needed. But usually, evolutionary change is better suited to the task. Kinda like how, if one doesn't like the way a country runs itself, one should work on making the change gradual and from within, instead of bombing it back to the stone ages. But anyways...
Excuse me, my religion is quite capable of adapting. In fact, I'm not aware of any that's not.. Judaism (mine) can be reworked (see non-orthodox movements in Wikipedia), Catholic Christianity just needs the Pope's Word to change things, Mormon Christianity just needs the Prophet's Word, and Islam and Protestant Christianity need the community to agree on things. Non-judaic religions, like Wicca and Buddism, also need general community support to change things.
I don't know from where this concept that religion is "monolithic and unchanging" comes, but it's kinda annoying...
>> Rather than living your life through your own self-interest trying to get in to a heavenly place that does not exist I just ask that you embrace those around you, talk to other people, help each other out and in that spirit we can all make the world a little nicer.
Let's pretend there's no god. Religion is false, and science is The One True Way. At that point, why would I care about those f*ckups (everyone else other than me)? After all, they're just animals. I can treat them like animals. I don't need morals or ethics - they're just for those lazy sheep who believe in religion. When you take G-d away from your culture, you take the only real reason to follow silly non-Darwinian rules like helping your neighbor if there donkey falls (if their car won't start), or burying your sewage out of town, or any of the other rules that help populations stay sane. Without those rules, I can do whatever I want, to whomever I want, for any or no reason at all.
There are those who believe it's possible to be ethical and moral without G-d. Of course, on an individual basis, certainly! But on a cultural, a large-number-of-people kind of level, it always fails. Just like communism. (Not that they're really related, although that makes me wonder..)
Um... Tommy probably wanted to use ^W and not ^H..
Well...actually iLife comes with new Macs, but not with OSX. I bought Tiger for my aged 450MHz G4 a few weeks ago, and I have yet to see GarageBand in my Applications folder...
Are you nuts?! Now those of us who run multi-machine networks can push this out to our computers without having to run to each one and manually reinstall it on each machine. We can push the RPMs out. And rpm is available for Debian-based and Slackware-based distributions. (Or use alien from Debian to convert it if you wish.) I hope that they never resurrect that monster. Horribly non-compliant with modern (or even archaic) packaging management. Even with a response script, it's simply not professional enough.