I assumed when the OP said "Perl CGI" that it was legacy sort of CGI scripts like those form mailers and things from back in the early 90s. I don't do Perl, so I don't know what the state of affairs is as far as Perl web development goes, that was just the first thing that came to mind.
I was thinking as compared to say an MVC Java application where they're editing their business objects directly on the server.
I hope you're not doing anything important. Although chances are if you're using Perl CGI it's probably not.
Most web development environments I've been exposed to have a development, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and production environment. Alternatively your development environment can be local and you can stick a "system testing" environment in between dev and UAT. Your UAT environment should mirror production, and before you apply any changes should have whatever code is currently in production.
You do your development, and if it's being done locally you integrate your changes with everyone else's in system test and do your automated testing and so forth. Once the developers/testers are happy a release is packaged up and deployed to UAT. You should probably run your automated tests again here for a sanity check.
The end users (business or whoever) do their testing in UAT, and if they're happy (and this is important) you take the same package you applied to UAT and apply it in production.
In some environments the developers aren't the same people with access or rights to apply changes in produciton, so you've got different groups performing different roles, but you get the idea.
Disclaimer: this is just my experiences of corporate web development, your mileage may vary, but I believe this sort of setup is pretty common (with differences here and there).
Technically they picked Vista Enterprise, which AFAIK was released at the end of November to business customers. It's only the consumer versions of Vista that will be out at the end of January.
The Sydney Morning Herald here in Australia has a similar thing at the bottom of every news story:
When news happens: send photos, videos & tip-offs to 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767 764), or email us.
Photos from a mobile phone these days with their 2MP or more cameras are probably reasonable enough for the sort of photos online news sites use with stories.
[...]allows me to get my american TV shows add-free 2 weeks ahead of the Australian commercial-infected air-date rather than 1 week ahead
Not sure what shows you're watching, but as an example I'm 8 episodes in to season 3 of Grey's Anatomy (via BitTorrent) whereas Channel 7 probably won't start showing Season 3 until March next year, by which time Season 3 will almost be over as far as I'm concerned.
I saw a Blu-ray demo in 1080p at JB Hi-Fi on the weekend, and it was certainly purty. However the Samsung 42" LCD screen that was showing it cost AU$4,500, for the same price (depending on brand, less even) you could get a 50" 1080i plasma.
Isn't that pretty much the same strategy they used with the Xbox? I mean, the original Xbox was based on mostly off the shelf parts like a Celeron CPU and a Geforce graphics chipset. This is what made it so easy to run Linux on, etc.
They launched this and got a market going while they were working on the Xbox 360 which is the "real" console, with the fancy hardware.
Unless I've missed the joke, that's a terrible test. Shouldn't the test cover every combination of failed/working/navigating and make sure the right INS is selected in each case?
If not, then I'm never flying again, incase your code is in my airliner:)
Sure, but he'll have to drop $2,000 or whatever it will cost to buy two of these puppies first. His credit card is probably already strained from buying a $5,000 desktop to start with:)
In Australian dollars at least, it is over $1,000 extra to get the 3GHz vs the 2.66GHz CPUs in the Mac Pro - that's about US$750 at the current rate. So chances are these quad-core CPUs will be pricey.
Uhm, income tax is generally marginal tax. Sure you pay more tax when you make more, but it's never a case of being disadvantaged by going into a higher tax bracket, you get taxed more only on the dollars in that bracket. A lot of people don't seem to grasp this, and yet it's very simple.
For example (made up numbers) tax could be 20% for under $20K, and 40% for over $20K. If you make $19,999 your tax is 20% of $19,999 = $3,999.80, if you make $20,000 your tax is (and this is the important part) 20% of $19,999 + 40% of $1 = $4,000.20 NOT 40% of $20,000 ($8,000). So for $25,000 income you pay 20% of $19,999 + 40% of $5,001.
Get one of your Domino developers to build you a real service desk system on top of Domino. Domino can talk to LDAP for authentication / lookups, and already has all email, workflow and security built into the platform.
I play sports games occasionally (FIFA, NHL, etc) as a replacement for real exercise. The difficulty levels in these games can be a bit dodgy at times - say in FIFA, on the easiest difficulty level I can win 7-0 or 10-0 which isn't very realistic (assuming the two sides are fairly evenly matched), however on the next difficulty level I end up losing 2-1 or 3-1 or something.
The score is more realistic, but I have to work too hard to even eke out a draw - it stops being fun. I don't play games to lose - I want to be a winner! There should be some really subtle AI adjustment that lets you "just" win 1-0 or something, without kicking your arse in the last minute of the game.
I think you might have misread that, it's actually AU$1,200,000. Unless it was wrong before and they've fixed it:)
I was just in Denham/Monkey Mia in December and it was excellent. If I could get a decent job there, I'd be more than happy to live there. It's also "only" 850KM from Perth! A leisurely 10 hour drive, on straight, flat, roads.
That's fine for the "developer preview" copies of OSX, but chances are the "release" copies don't support booting from BIOS (which the developer preview Macs had). Given that Apple is now swapping developer PCs for new iMacs for developers, there probably won't be any more releases of OSX that boot on BIOS, only EFI.
I would assume that because this is a Release Candidate (that's what RC means). Essentially if there are no major issues they drop the "RC" bit from the package names etc and it is v1.5. Obviously there's a bit more to it than that (tagging a version in source control etc) but the rough idea is that the last RC without issues is the first release version without making any other changes that could introduce a regression bug.
Q: When are you going to expand into Canada/UK/Australia/other countries?
A: 2005!
.. and yet I only see Canada/UK on the list of hospitals. If I donate it's going to be to an Australian hospital, so I guess I won't be doing it through Childs Play. Shame, it would have been good to contribute to the total figure.
Yes, I know, I can just donate directly (which I may still do).
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I assumed when the OP said "Perl CGI" that it was legacy sort of CGI scripts like those form mailers and things from back in the early 90s. I don't do Perl, so I don't know what the state of affairs is as far as Perl web development goes, that was just the first thing that came to mind.
I was thinking as compared to say an MVC Java application where they're editing their business objects directly on the server.
I hope you're not doing anything important. Although chances are if you're using Perl CGI it's probably not.
Most web development environments I've been exposed to have a development, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and production environment. Alternatively your development environment can be local and you can stick a "system testing" environment in between dev and UAT. Your UAT environment should mirror production, and before you apply any changes should have whatever code is currently in production.
You do your development, and if it's being done locally you integrate your changes with everyone else's in system test and do your automated testing and so forth. Once the developers/testers are happy a release is packaged up and deployed to UAT. You should probably run your automated tests again here for a sanity check.
The end users (business or whoever) do their testing in UAT, and if they're happy (and this is important) you take the same package you applied to UAT and apply it in production.
In some environments the developers aren't the same people with access or rights to apply changes in produciton, so you've got different groups performing different roles, but you get the idea.
Disclaimer: this is just my experiences of corporate web development, your mileage may vary, but I believe this sort of setup is pretty common (with differences here and there).
Technically they picked Vista Enterprise, which AFAIK was released at the end of November to business customers. It's only the consumer versions of Vista that will be out at the end of January.
I hope you're not breaking your NDA by telling everyone that. If you are, enjoy your cement shoes.
Swordfish!
Photos from a mobile phone these days with their 2MP or more cameras are probably reasonable enough for the sort of photos online news sites use with stories.
What about according to Netcraft? :)
Not sure what shows you're watching, but as an example I'm 8 episodes in to season 3 of Grey's Anatomy (via BitTorrent) whereas Channel 7 probably won't start showing Season 3 until March next year, by which time Season 3 will almost be over as far as I'm concerned.
I saw a Blu-ray demo in 1080p at JB Hi-Fi on the weekend, and it was certainly purty. However the Samsung 42" LCD screen that was showing it cost AU$4,500, for the same price (depending on brand, less even) you could get a 50" 1080i plasma.
Isn't that pretty much the same strategy they used with the Xbox? I mean, the original Xbox was based on mostly off the shelf parts like a Celeron CPU and a Geforce graphics chipset. This is what made it so easy to run Linux on, etc.
They launched this and got a market going while they were working on the Xbox 360 which is the "real" console, with the fancy hardware.
Two OSs enter, only one may leave! FIGHT!
If he becomes a lawyer he'll be screwing people daily! And getting paid for it!
Unless I've missed the joke, that's a terrible test. Shouldn't the test cover every combination of failed/working/navigating and make sure the right INS is selected in each case?
:)
If not, then I'm never flying again, incase your code is in my airliner
Sure, but he'll have to drop $2,000 or whatever it will cost to buy two of these puppies first. His credit card is probably already strained from buying a $5,000 desktop to start with :)
In Australian dollars at least, it is over $1,000 extra to get the 3GHz vs the 2.66GHz CPUs in the Mac Pro - that's about US$750 at the current rate. So chances are these quad-core CPUs will be pricey.
Uhm, income tax is generally marginal tax. Sure you pay more tax when you make more, but it's never a case of being disadvantaged by going into a higher tax bracket, you get taxed more only on the dollars in that bracket. A lot of people don't seem to grasp this, and yet it's very simple.
For example (made up numbers) tax could be 20% for under $20K, and 40% for over $20K. If you make $19,999 your tax is 20% of $19,999 = $3,999.80, if you make $20,000 your tax is (and this is the important part) 20% of $19,999 + 40% of $1 = $4,000.20 NOT 40% of $20,000 ($8,000). So for $25,000 income you pay 20% of $19,999 + 40% of $5,001.
Get one of your Domino developers to build you a real service desk system on top of Domino. Domino can talk to LDAP for authentication / lookups, and already has all email, workflow and security built into the platform.
I play sports games occasionally (FIFA, NHL, etc) as a replacement for real exercise. The difficulty levels in these games can be a bit dodgy at times - say in FIFA, on the easiest difficulty level I can win 7-0 or 10-0 which isn't very realistic (assuming the two sides are fairly evenly matched), however on the next difficulty level I end up losing 2-1 or 3-1 or something.
The score is more realistic, but I have to work too hard to even eke out a draw - it stops being fun. I don't play games to lose - I want to be a winner! There should be some really subtle AI adjustment that lets you "just" win 1-0 or something, without kicking your arse in the last minute of the game.
Meh, just ranting.
The OP is talking about an electronic device, all that water will ruin it!
Because the German language is the best language I've ever studied (but the only Slavic language studied)
AFAIK German is a Germanic language, just like English.
They usually keep their first initial to make it easier, so it was probably Randeep.
I think you might have misread that, it's actually AU$1,200,000. Unless it was wrong before and they've fixed it :)
I was just in Denham/Monkey Mia in December and it was excellent. If I could get a decent job there, I'd be more than happy to live there. It's also "only" 850KM from Perth! A leisurely 10 hour drive, on straight, flat, roads.
That's fine for the "developer preview" copies of OSX, but chances are the "release" copies don't support booting from BIOS (which the developer preview Macs had). Given that Apple is now swapping developer PCs for new iMacs for developers, there probably won't be any more releases of OSX that boot on BIOS, only EFI.
The camps may not have been in what is now Germany, but they were certainly in "Nazi Germany".
Take an Xbox, turn it through 360 degrees and you end up where you started, except maybe a bit dizzy.
My Help->About still says plain old 1.5, however
I would assume that because this is a Release Candidate (that's what RC means). Essentially if there are no major issues they drop the "RC" bit from the package names etc and it is v1.5. Obviously there's a bit more to it than that (tagging a version in source control etc) but the rough idea is that the last RC without issues is the first release version without making any other changes that could introduce a regression bug.
The FAQ says:
Q: When are you going to expand into Canada/UK/Australia/other countries?
A: 2005!
.. and yet I only see Canada/UK on the list of hospitals. If I donate it's going to be to an Australian hospital, so I guess I won't be doing it through Childs Play. Shame, it would have been good to contribute to the total figure.
Yes, I know, I can just donate directly (which I may still do).