This particular issue is C++ only, but that's simply because MS has screwed the way things used to work for unmanaged binaries.
You may still get this issue next time MS issues a patched version of any of the.NET libraries, imagine that your code will only run on.NET 3.5 SP1 patch 1234, then you'll see the exact same problem. I guess we're all used to installing all manner of.NET framework libs through WU so no-one sees this issue so far, but its only a matter of time.
Of course, if binaries used the previous version if the later one was not installed, things would be ok, but that's not the way they're doing things now.
There's no reason to suggest they were dragged, mostly they were floated down over the Bristol channel and then probably across the flooded plains of Somerset. Wiltshire's only a short drag from there.
Doesn't Obama come from Chicago? So it was raised as the ideal city to host the Olympics for the same reason Cherie Blair's Liverpool was nominated for European City of Culture.
Nominate a city based solely on its merits with today's politicians? hahahahahahaa.
But those companies won't buy them because they're "not microsoft", not because of any technical reasons to do it, in fact, many of these don't even get evaluated because Sharepoint just hangs on the coat-tails of existing Office purchases.
Its great news if *anything* can rescue us from the horror that is Sharepoint.
I've never used a worse CMS system (which is what everyone pretends it is) when really its an online document repository. Don't even start me of Infopath documents being put in there to pretend to give it a forms engine. Its hell.
Thing is, I'm not entirely sure why all the myriad sharepoint sites that have sprung up at our company are so useless, I think its because its so easy to drop another document into another list that you end up with a sprawl of almost-related data, that's then impossible to find. Our admin did try to say that he'd put the search functionality on so it should be easier to find things... but when I searched for one document I received several thousand hits back!
Alternatively it could be because every department has their own sharepoint site, that no-one knows which one to look in for data, so they don't bother using it.
In any case, all the sharepoints here are crap, even the one the admin spent a lot of time on to give it a good sense of organisation.
Eh windows is pretty uniform. I have 5-6 programs open right now and they pretty much all have the whole file menu going on
You *used* to do that. The Windows style guidelines were pretty damn good, they made every app have the uniformity that made usability significantly better.
Today, the only uniformity is having a large 'orb' in the top left, and possibly the same colour scheme other apps use (silver, blue or black I think, regardless of what your Windows theme colours are set to).
I'm, not so sure of the Thunderbird one, I've grabbed a copy of DavMail and set that up (its a OWA proxy) because myself (and others at our company) are so pissed at Outlook 2007 being just crap. Its surprisingly good, once you have the calendar addon, it does everything we used to use Outlook for anyway, but faster and nicer. No more crap html emails for example, and a *much* faster response on the laptop I use.
As a windows admin, once you upgrade to a new version of Windows most of your intellectual capital is obsolete. This is doubly true in today's world of.NET everything, so already they are finding that they need to continually reskill. This is perhaps partly why the industry is so full of change - people have come to expect to learn "new stuff" all the time (and partly because companies are very happy to continually sell "upgrades" to you)
Its true there are extremes in both camps, but that doesn't mean the average tech guy won't want to learn about this up-and-coming Linux thing he's hearing more and more about. And that's can only be a good thing for everyone.
Often the money will be spent on other things, just not IT.
Like the French police chief who moved everything to Linux, he saved $50m which would not have found its way to more IT but to more front-line staffing.
Your secretary will automagically know Thunderbird
no, but your Secretary will be amazed at how fast things happen compared to Outlook on her old PC.
Your sys admins experience and training on Windows servers will make him an instant Red Hat server guru
No, but if he perceives it as a cool technology, or fashionable, or otherwise good for his career, he'll be all over you for training courses desperate to give up Windows.
The good F/OSS really is good, your biggest problem is finding which projects are good and which are bad.
Too many software projects (written without a customer already hooked) have much less success than F/OSS ones, so if you're a developer working on your own, chances are no-one in any kind of office is making any kind of money off your software. Or using it, for that matter.
This is one reason why F/OSS is better.
Second, of course, is the same argument the RIAA have: with commercial software you're always trying to monetize your product in the face of piracy, with F/OSS you've simply changed your business model to something different to selling licences - usually support, or selling 'additional features'. Both work, and get your software into more hands than it otherwise would, and additionally has the benefit of bringing many more developers in to update your software for you - bliss:)
My boss thinks that in 10 years time all software will be free, and everyone will be buying support, installation, training and paying for updates. For my company, we sell licences to a difficult to use suite, we could easily give it away for free and make just as much money off training, bugfixes (we charge for this already, its called maintenance contracts), support for when things go wrong, customisation, and installation.
For F/OSS software, you need to step back a little and see the bigger picture of where the marketplace is going.
could be, they don't let out much about it - except how wonderful ASP.NET is of course. I remember reading a bit on Jeff's blog about sql indexes, particularly making a SQL server not lock for read queries which made me think he was doing something coding-wise to it. He could have just been installing the DB come to think of it though.
They did a good site, apparently a lot of it is a.NET open source library they use, as they have bragged about paying for features. I don't think they've ever said which one.
a lot of those repp points are there because of his reputation.
Not to take anything away from Jon, as he's an intelligent and helpful fellow (but confused when confronted with something in.NET that is crap), but take a look at a few of his answers where someone else has given a better answer - Jon will still get a mass of points.
The community seems eager to self-promote (especially for fanboi answers) rather than moderate 'fairly'.
eg. I've answered a few questions now, all my top-scoring ones were bullshit answers to useless questions. eg. 'what was that scary code comment about dragons' (here be dragons) gets 12+ points. My in-depth technical answers to people's questions get 1 or 2 points if I'm lucky.
StackOverflow is a good site, but the reputation system is somewhat broken by the community it serves. Ignore it.
Well, they can still make fun of Joel, the software was written and implemented by Jeff Atwood (who is also dead wrong on his blog, but usually has the grace to accept when his readers put him right).
I believe Joel was involved more in the marketing and design stages, but its interesting how everyone has assumed stackoverflow is all down to him. Like how lots of people think Bill Gates wrote all that Microsoft software.
my advice is to get a case you can put foam or mesh filters around, work remarkably well - even if you have to clean the filters every so often. My antec has a filter that slides out and is always half-covered in dust.
Some current AV appliances have optical interconnects that comes with plastic plugs, and some have little flaps over the socket. Either way, I'd say that was more durable than relying on tight metal fittings.
If they don't, I quite like the idea of tech support telling people to blow into the back of their computer, "yes, really sir, get down the back of it, find the little optical hole and just blow into it. no I'm not playing a tech-support prank on you."
What grates with me is that the Australian Federal Government is spending money training kids to use MS s/ware - something that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. The MS marketing department must be overjoyed.
that depends on how big the media story is when several of these "unhackable" machines are hacked. If there's a big scandal ("politicians waste tax money on microsoft's latest, but easiest-to-hack OS") then not only will W7 be synonymous with 'hackable' regardless of its actual security but the politicians will remember that they trusted Microsoft's marketing and got slapped, they don't tend to make the same mistake twice - they'll usually go off the rails entirely and make different mistakes (like coming up with only using Macs).
its bad enough when you buy a different car, or a hire car, and the windscreen wiper and indicators is on the other stalk to the one you're used to. However, after a few times of setting the wipers going when going round corners, you get used to it and adapt. It still shows the short-term hump to get over, that's just as important to software users.
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This particular issue is C++ only, but that's simply because MS has screwed the way things used to work for unmanaged binaries.
You may still get this issue next time MS issues a patched version of any of the .NET libraries, imagine that your code will only run on .NET 3.5 SP1 patch 1234, then you'll see the exact same problem. I guess we're all used to installing all manner of .NET framework libs through WU so no-one sees this issue so far, but its only a matter of time.
Of course, if binaries used the previous version if the later one was not installed, things would be ok, but that's not the way they're doing things now.
trouble is, people said that about Vista when it first came out too.
There's no reason to suggest they were dragged, mostly they were floated down over the Bristol channel and then probably across the flooded plains of Somerset. Wiltshire's only a short drag from there.
... but gift shops were contemporary to ancient britons?
I've had bacon in America.
The correct answer is 'delicious pork products brought to us by the Krusty corporation".
Doesn't Obama come from Chicago? So it was raised as the ideal city to host the Olympics for the same reason Cherie Blair's Liverpool was nominated for European City of Culture.
Nominate a city based solely on its merits with today's politicians? hahahahahahaa.
Obviously, you have a hundred ideas of how to make a better CMS than Sharepoint, so let's see you plop that money down where your mouth is and do it
Na, its already been done.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1385851&cid=29580409
But those companies won't buy them because they're "not microsoft", not because of any technical reasons to do it, in fact, many of these don't even get evaluated because Sharepoint just hangs on the coat-tails of existing Office purchases.
it's my job to interface the pile of mess with other COTS products by building convoluted ETL processes
Oh man, I feel for you, I really do.
Its great news if *anything* can rescue us from the horror that is Sharepoint.
I've never used a worse CMS system (which is what everyone pretends it is) when really its an online document repository. Don't even start me of Infopath documents being put in there to pretend to give it a forms engine. Its hell.
Thing is, I'm not entirely sure why all the myriad sharepoint sites that have sprung up at our company are so useless, I think its because its so easy to drop another document into another list that you end up with a sprawl of almost-related data, that's then impossible to find. Our admin did try to say that he'd put the search functionality on so it should be easier to find things... but when I searched for one document I received several thousand hits back!
Alternatively it could be because every department has their own sharepoint site, that no-one knows which one to look in for data, so they don't bother using it.
In any case, all the sharepoints here are crap, even the one the admin spent a lot of time on to give it a good sense of organisation.
Eh windows is pretty uniform. I have 5-6 programs open right now and they pretty much all have the whole file menu going on
You *used* to do that. The Windows style guidelines were pretty damn good, they made every app have the uniformity that made usability significantly better.
Today, the only uniformity is having a large 'orb' in the top left, and possibly the same colour scheme other apps use (silver, blue or black I think, regardless of what your Windows theme colours are set to).
that'll be a C# app running in Powershell.
Of course you could probably move them all, one by one, using Explorer, in the time your Powershell script starts up.
I'm, not so sure of the Thunderbird one, I've grabbed a copy of DavMail and set that up (its a OWA proxy) because myself (and others at our company) are so pissed at Outlook 2007 being just crap. Its surprisingly good, once you have the calendar addon, it does everything we used to use Outlook for anyway, but faster and nicer. No more crap html emails for example, and a *much* faster response on the laptop I use.
As a windows admin, once you upgrade to a new version of Windows most of your intellectual capital is obsolete. This is doubly true in today's world of .NET everything, so already they are finding that they need to continually reskill. This is perhaps partly why the industry is so full of change - people have come to expect to learn "new stuff" all the time (and partly because companies are very happy to continually sell "upgrades" to you)
Its true there are extremes in both camps, but that doesn't mean the average tech guy won't want to learn about this up-and-coming Linux thing he's hearing more and more about. And that's can only be a good thing for everyone.
Often the money will be spent on other things, just not IT.
Like the French police chief who moved everything to Linux, he saved $50m which would not have found its way to more IT but to more front-line staffing.
Your secretary will automagically know Thunderbird
no, but your Secretary will be amazed at how fast things happen compared to Outlook on her old PC.
Your sys admins experience and training on Windows servers will make him an instant Red Hat server guru
No, but if he perceives it as a cool technology, or fashionable, or otherwise good for his career, he'll be all over you for training courses desperate to give up Windows.
The good F/OSS really is good, your biggest problem is finding which projects are good and which are bad.
Too many software projects (written without a customer already hooked) have much less success than F/OSS ones, so if you're a developer working on your own, chances are no-one in any kind of office is making any kind of money off your software. Or using it, for that matter.
This is one reason why F/OSS is better.
Second, of course, is the same argument the RIAA have: with commercial software you're always trying to monetize your product in the face of piracy, with F/OSS you've simply changed your business model to something different to selling licences - usually support, or selling 'additional features'. Both work, and get your software into more hands than it otherwise would, and additionally has the benefit of bringing many more developers in to update your software for you - bliss :)
My boss thinks that in 10 years time all software will be free, and everyone will be buying support, installation, training and paying for updates. For my company, we sell licences to a difficult to use suite, we could easily give it away for free and make just as much money off training, bugfixes (we charge for this already, its called maintenance contracts), support for when things go wrong, customisation, and installation.
For F/OSS software, you need to step back a little and see the bigger picture of where the marketplace is going.
could be, they don't let out much about it - except how wonderful ASP.NET is of course. I remember reading a bit on Jeff's blog about sql indexes, particularly making a SQL server not lock for read queries which made me think he was doing something coding-wise to it. He could have just been installing the DB come to think of it though.
They did a good site, apparently a lot of it is a .NET open source library they use, as they have bragged about paying for features. I don't think they've ever said which one.
This is the most obvious Slashvertisement I've ever seen.
So much so that my company's 'Smartfilter' spam filter has it listed as spam already!
"You cannot access the following Web address:
http://www.stackexchange.com/
The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: Spam URLs"
a lot of those repp points are there because of his reputation.
Not to take anything away from Jon, as he's an intelligent and helpful fellow (but confused when confronted with something in .NET that is crap), but take a look at a few of his answers where someone else has given a better answer - Jon will still get a mass of points.
The community seems eager to self-promote (especially for fanboi answers) rather than moderate 'fairly'.
eg. I've answered a few questions now, all my top-scoring ones were bullshit answers to useless questions. eg. 'what was that scary code comment about dragons' (here be dragons) gets 12+ points. My in-depth technical answers to people's questions get 1 or 2 points if I'm lucky.
StackOverflow is a good site, but the reputation system is somewhat broken by the community it serves. Ignore it.
Well, they can still make fun of Joel, the software was written and implemented by Jeff Atwood (who is also dead wrong on his blog, but usually has the grace to accept when his readers put him right).
Jeff Atwood's blog is http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
I believe Joel was involved more in the marketing and design stages, but its interesting how everyone has assumed stackoverflow is all down to him. Like how lots of people think Bill Gates wrote all that Microsoft software.
my advice is to get a case you can put foam or mesh filters around, work remarkably well - even if you have to clean the filters every so often. My antec has a filter that slides out and is always half-covered in dust.
Some current AV appliances have optical interconnects that comes with plastic plugs, and some have little flaps over the socket. Either way, I'd say that was more durable than relying on tight metal fittings.
If they don't, I quite like the idea of tech support telling people to blow into the back of their computer, "yes, really sir, get down the back of it, find the little optical hole and just blow into it. no I'm not playing a tech-support prank on you."
What grates with me is that the Australian Federal Government is spending money training kids to use MS s/ware - something that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. The MS marketing department must be overjoyed.
that depends on how big the media story is when several of these "unhackable" machines are hacked. If there's a big scandal ("politicians waste tax money on microsoft's latest, but easiest-to-hack OS") then not only will W7 be synonymous with 'hackable' regardless of its actual security but the politicians will remember that they trusted Microsoft's marketing and got slapped, they don't tend to make the same mistake twice - they'll usually go off the rails entirely and make different mistakes (like coming up with only using Macs).
Marketing:
Windows now boots (the bios) in under a second giving you a faster user experience (but a usable desktop in roughly 10 minutes)
Linux boots (to a usable desktop) in 25 seconds.
Reading without the bits in brackets, which do you think is best? That's what marketing is all about.
its bad enough when you buy a different car, or a hire car, and the windscreen wiper and indicators is on the other stalk to the one you're used to. However, after a few times of setting the wipers going when going round corners, you get used to it and adapt. It still shows the short-term hump to get over, that's just as important to software users.
did you hear the whooshing sound?
there is no print icon on the ribbon, its a item off the orb menu only.