Always check out the vendor's Reseller Ratings and take a look at the comments. If you find a good price, make sure you know other people's issues (or praises). Anytime I hit a new vendor, I always check them out first...
After a long fought battle, my current shop finally opened up something other then exchange "webmail" - they re-opened the POP server. I already default my work browser to Mozilla - now for the mail client...
Netscape has a spell checker bundled with their email client, but for lic reasons, etc, they can't/won't bundle it with Mozilla. I'm not interested in the Netscape, but every once in a while you can fold the NN spell checker into Moz builds.
Outlook Express does not include a spell checker unless you have Office installed. What did I expect (desire might be a better word) for $0? The same free spell checker that is bundled in Netscape.
What does IE 6 have that Mozilla lacks (other than market share, which can change once the next version of Concept Virus hits)
A spell checker in the mail client? (Assuming you installed office) I hope the new build of both will let me add the NS spell checker to my Mozilla client.
Ya, nothing like money getting in the way of things. You don't HAVE to lower the speed limits to 55 MPH, but we will cut your funding if you don't.... Funny, works as well in the states as on the outside.
Nothing taught me more about kernel modding than spending a few dollars less on the hardware I used on a linux box - and then try to get it to work.
You become very familiar with code that might be close, get to pour over specs that may or may not help, and find a small comunity of others who saved a buck or two.
The best part - when it breaks, you get to keep both peices. When if finally works, ahhhh....
This was a long time ago so I may play the "I do not recall card" here, but this was not for top secret, just secret.
No interviews for that one - not much more than a background check, listing travel, housing, and other such things. It was a small book, but I thought most of it was instructions.
Now top secret - that one is a bit of a bugger with them talking to everyone, endless forms, etc. I thought the orignal poster was just looking for secret clearance.
Dependable? Disciplined? Seasoned? All nice extras. Being able to work though the process - that is rare.
Some of the core competencies are the ability to put up with mindless political nonsense and being able to get stuff done while everything around you is frozen in a red tape. This is really harder than it may seem - I remember they wanted some COM components that touched the kernel layer, but IP would not permit Admin access on any lab or dev machine. A half a year latter, the technology changed to something that could be developed in user space to make the project plan. All while an MCSE claims you don't need the access.... Staying professional is really tough at times when you are use to getting stuff done rather than working the journey...
As for lax, I know many of the dot.commers worked insane hours - building the code base and everthing else from ground zero. You hear the stories of the fooz-ball tables and beer in the fridge, but what you miss is the 7 days a week, 12-16 days of hard code pounding. We lived at work. A little play was about the only social life a person had at times...
The contract house, if they do gov contracts that need that kind of thing, have the form - about 4 pages asking about your former addresses, references, + fingerprints, etc. I suspect you could find it on line if you poked around.
In most cases, you need a corp. sponsor... I don't think they just give you a clearance without a reason to need one - kind of a chicken and the egg mess, and even then it can take a while to process.
Of course if you forgo civilian life and be all you can be, its a bit easier to get one... (grin)
I saw the DoD comment, we will not change for the dot.comers, they will change to our culture. This is not only government; this is most companies out there. A couple years ago companies had to handle their employees with care because you could get another job by lunch. Now, well, I'd put a pained smile on my face and say sure - I can do that in VB for you. Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon - You mean Unix programmer. Oh, just say never mind when the nurse shows up. Today, you would not get the option...
Ah, I had thought the same thing till I visited an office in NYC. They just moved into a new building and discovered every time the subway went under their building, the magnetics messed with the standard CRTs. No (visual) effect on LCD's however, so everyone was upgraded way before the price point dropped. Power consumption is lower too - enough that it covers a fair chunk of the difference over a normal CRT. You are right in most cases, however....
I wish I could find the link the Feds use as guidelines for grabbing systems from suspects... Its a good read.
Anyhow, blasting the actual file is not enough. When you go to clean stuff off, make sure that chunk of hard drive (virtual ram) is flushed out as well - both *nix and windows. RAM drives go a long way here, if you were lucky enough to pick up a stack of 512M sticks when they were cheap.
Yes, everyone was thinking the same thing - none of those 32 posts were there when I read the comment and posted. I figure the same was true for the other 31 people too...
Ah, got you. That was not ment to be sarcastic, BTW... The little C++ coding I do these days are either ISAPI, NSAPI, or an Apache mods to tie into a sindle sign-on vendor. Under the covers, they are similar birds.
The jump from JSP to ASP is not too bad if you are not heavy into COM components. You can add a ISAPI filter to IIS to redirect your JSP/Servlet calls to Tomcat, port code over chunk by chunk. When you hit 100% JSP, flip the switch to Apache/Tomcat and you are free! (well from MS anyhow, you don't even want to know what Websphere, Weblogic, ATG, and the others cost as app servers)
Another factor is the motherboard.... you want to use the 1.2G Celeron? You need to have a board that supports it. A slocket adapter, even a fancy powerleap adapter, will not save my lovely SuperMicro SBU (slot 1, BX, SCSI) motherboard. I hate that!
Price vs Performance, its really hard to beat the Durons. My mom is getting a new box - found a 1G duron from newegg.com for $54USD, and have it tracking here as we chat from a vendor who has been good to me in the past. Looking at an intel solution, it was an extra $20 to get something that performed like a $30 AMD chip. No brainer - though my mom is fine now with my old 486dx2/50.... Still, my cash, a guy has to have standards...
The price jump to the latest greatest is way too steep right now to look at the 1.2 duron, but when the 1.3 comes out this month I suspect this might drop into that great deal catagory too.
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I've got a sunblade 100 - unless you need the fancy video card - which I don't since I just use mine for coding, running weblogic (dev), and oracle (dev) - the $1000 model will work just fine.
It uses PC133 ECC SDRAM, which does not cost a lot of money (I paid $63/512M stick in November). 3x512M + 1x128M, ah, sweet necture of the gods....
Also, think about adding a SCSI controller and HDD if it is for something other than development. The IDE drives won't cut it in a multi-user environment. Should set you back about $300 for an Adaptec 160 controller, and about the same for a SCSI-160 drive. The IDE drive I got was only 15G, not sure what RPM....
The thing you are missing is QUIET. I have one of those 1.4G AMD space heaters, and I looked at review sites and picked up a high performace copper heat sink with a 8K fan. It does keep things cool, but at the cost of 47dB. Way too loud for me. I'm playing with some ducted 2x92mm aircooling right now, but may hit the machine shop again if I can't keep it cool & quiet enough.
My older 566/800 is watercooled - modded the CPU, PS, HDD, and Video card - and you could not tell if it was running (without looking at the NIC card). Not something you take to a LAN party - but really nice to work in the same room with for hours at a shot. As a side bonus, the temps stay cool enough that it makes the box super stable.
If you buy a kit, expect to spend 200+. It can be less if you can roll your own. In practice it ever seems to work out that way, however...
Loved the first, was crushed by the next, never bothered with the third.
Boy bands getting pasted... well its a good start. Maybee they could toss that Crusher kid from that other space show and let the bots (slowly) work him over too...
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Always check out the vendor's Reseller Ratings and take a look at the comments. If you find a good price, make sure you know other people's issues (or praises). Anytime I hit a new vendor, I always check them out first...
We'd need to watch it to be sure, but I don't see it as being that clear cut, not at all.
All the screen shots look like they are circumcised. Oh wait, you said clear cut....
After a long fought battle, my current shop finally opened up something other then exchange "webmail" - they re-opened the POP server. I already default my work browser to Mozilla - now for the mail client...
Netscape has a spell checker bundled with their email client, but for lic reasons, etc, they can't/won't bundle it with Mozilla. I'm not interested in the Netscape, but every once in a while you can fold the NN spell checker into Moz builds.
Outlook Express does not include a spell checker unless you have Office installed. What did I expect (desire might be a better word) for $0? The same free spell checker that is bundled in Netscape.
What does IE 6 have that Mozilla lacks (other than market share, which can change once the next version of Concept Virus hits)
A spell checker in the mail client? (Assuming you installed office) I hope the new build of both will let me add the NS spell checker to my Mozilla client.
Noone's forcing anyone to do anything.
Ya, nothing like money getting in the way of things. You don't HAVE to lower the speed limits to 55 MPH, but we will cut your funding if you don't.... Funny, works as well in the states as on the outside.
So if Kasparov operates an IRC client, would that be cheating?
They go away... going through it all over again with a new shop. Argh. Its not like renewing a passport.
Nothing taught me more about kernel modding than spending a few dollars less on the hardware I used on a linux box - and then try to get it to work.
You become very familiar with code that might be close, get to pour over specs that may or may not help, and find a small comunity of others who saved a buck or two.
The best part - when it breaks, you get to keep both peices. When if finally works, ahhhh....
This was a long time ago so I may play the "I do not recall card" here, but this was not for top secret, just secret.
No interviews for that one - not much more than a background check, listing travel, housing, and other such things. It was a small book, but I thought most of it was instructions.
Now top secret - that one is a bit of a bugger with them talking to everyone, endless forms, etc. I thought the orignal poster was just looking for secret clearance.
Dependable? Disciplined? Seasoned? All nice extras. Being able to work though the process - that is rare.
Some of the core competencies are the ability to put up with mindless political nonsense and being able to get stuff done while everything around you is frozen in a red tape. This is really harder than it may seem - I remember they wanted some COM components that touched the kernel layer, but IP would not permit Admin access on any lab or dev machine. A half a year latter, the technology changed to something that could be developed in user space to make the project plan. All while an MCSE claims you don't need the access.... Staying professional is really tough at times when you are use to getting stuff done rather than working the journey...
As for lax, I know many of the dot.commers worked insane hours - building the code base and everthing else from ground zero. You hear the stories of the fooz-ball tables and beer in the fridge, but what you miss is the 7 days a week, 12-16 days of hard code pounding. We lived at work. A little play was about the only social life a person had at times...
The contract house, if they do gov contracts that need that kind of thing, have the form - about 4 pages asking about your former addresses, references, + fingerprints, etc. I suspect you could find it on line if you poked around.
In most cases, you need a corp. sponsor... I don't think they just give you a clearance without a reason to need one - kind of a chicken and the egg mess, and even then it can take a while to process.
Of course if you forgo civilian life and be all you can be, its a bit easier to get one... (grin)
The market favors the employer right now.
I saw the DoD comment, we will not change for the dot.comers, they will change to our culture. This is not only government; this is most companies out there. A couple years ago companies had to handle their employees with care because you could get another job by lunch. Now, well, I'd put a pained smile on my face and say sure - I can do that in VB for you. Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon - You mean Unix programmer. Oh, just say never mind when the nurse shows up. Today, you would not get the option...
Ah, I had thought the same thing till I visited an office in NYC. They just moved into a new building and discovered every time the subway went under their building, the magnetics messed with the standard CRTs. No (visual) effect on LCD's however, so everyone was upgraded way before the price point dropped. Power consumption is lower too - enough that it covers a fair chunk of the difference over a normal CRT. You are right in most cases, however....
I wish I could find the link the Feds use as guidelines for grabbing systems from suspects... Its a good read.
Anyhow, blasting the actual file is not enough. When you go to clean stuff off, make sure that chunk of hard drive (virtual ram) is flushed out as well - both *nix and windows. RAM drives go a long way here, if you were lucky enough to pick up a stack of 512M sticks when they were cheap.
Its also about the 32nd time it was posted
Yes, everyone was thinking the same thing - none of those 32 posts were there when I read the comment and posted. I figure the same was true for the other 31 people too...
Ah, got you. That was not ment to be sarcastic, BTW... The little C++ coding I do these days are either ISAPI, NSAPI, or an Apache mods to tie into a sindle sign-on vendor. Under the covers, they are similar birds.
The jump from JSP to ASP is not too bad if you are not heavy into COM components. You can add a ISAPI filter to IIS to redirect your JSP/Servlet calls to Tomcat, port code over chunk by chunk. When you hit 100% JSP, flip the switch to Apache/Tomcat and you are free! (well from MS anyhow, you don't even want to know what Websphere, Weblogic, ATG, and the others cost as app servers)
If Apache 2 could use filters
Its called an apache mod.... More or less the same thing as an ISAPI filter in IIS, or NSAPI filter in IPlanet.
$230 a month does not sound too bad. They are talking Canadian, right?
Its a joke... as in funny, ha, ha... not funny, hmmn...
Ease up already.
Now I will not even get to take a laptop on an airline anymore...
Another factor is the motherboard.... you want to use the 1.2G Celeron? You need to have a board that supports it. A slocket adapter, even a fancy powerleap adapter, will not save my lovely SuperMicro SBU (slot 1, BX, SCSI) motherboard. I hate that!
Price vs Performance, its really hard to beat the Durons. My mom is getting a new box - found a 1G duron from newegg.com for $54USD, and have it tracking here as we chat from a vendor who has been good to me in the past. Looking at an intel solution, it was an extra $20 to get something that performed like a $30 AMD chip. No brainer - though my mom is fine now with my old 486dx2/50.... Still, my cash, a guy has to have standards...
The price jump to the latest greatest is way too steep right now to look at the 1.2 duron, but when the 1.3 comes out this month I suspect this might drop into that great deal catagory too.
I've got a sunblade 100 - unless you need the fancy video card - which I don't since I just use mine for coding, running weblogic (dev), and oracle (dev) - the $1000 model will work just fine.
It uses PC133 ECC SDRAM, which does not cost a lot of money (I paid $63/512M stick in November). 3x512M + 1x128M, ah, sweet necture of the gods....
Also, think about adding a SCSI controller and HDD if it is for something other than development. The IDE drives won't cut it in a multi-user environment. Should set you back about $300 for an Adaptec 160 controller, and about the same for a SCSI-160 drive. The IDE drive I got was only 15G, not sure what RPM....
Its really spendy stuff. Like $500usd/gal...
The thing you are missing is QUIET. I have one of those 1.4G AMD space heaters, and I looked at review sites and picked up a high performace copper heat sink with a 8K fan. It does keep things cool, but at the cost of 47dB. Way too loud for me. I'm playing with some ducted 2x92mm aircooling right now, but may hit the machine shop again if I can't keep it cool & quiet enough.
My older 566/800 is watercooled - modded the CPU, PS, HDD, and Video card - and you could not tell if it was running (without looking at the NIC card). Not something you take to a LAN party - but really nice to work in the same room with for hours at a shot. As a side bonus, the temps stay cool enough that it makes the box super stable.
If you buy a kit, expect to spend 200+. It can be less if you can roll your own. In practice it ever seems to work out that way, however...
Loved the first, was crushed by the next, never bothered with the third.
Boy bands getting pasted... well its a good start. Maybee they could toss that Crusher kid from that other space show and let the bots (slowly) work him over too...