Not on my slug. ReiserFS avoids any nasty problems with damaging data, and I have only restarted my slug once (new kernel) since I installed Debian over 6 months ago.
That's not the Linksys firmware. Perhaps it's worth me trying to upgrade the damn thing, but I can tell you the shit Linksys makes available does not allow hot plugging the drives.
So I have an NSLU2 at home. Had it for about a year. The length of time the thing has been actually useful is maybe two days. Let me give you the counterpoint...
- Silent operation, no fans in the nslu2 and you can get fanless enclosures for the HDs
Make sure it's an aluminum case at least. And be prepared to try several different ones until you find one that works well.
- Takes very little space away from your home office
No, other than the six thousand cords you've got hanging off the back of it to plug in these external drives.
Oh, and don't accidentally disconnect a cord. The NSLU2 doesn't support anything approaching to Plug and Play. You'll likely damage data on the drive, but the most annoying thing is you gotta shutdown and restart the whole thing.
- Very small power draw
True.
- Easy to add/remove drives without any reboots
Not in my experience.
- Can power off drives that aren't used frequently, then turn them on when needed
Again, not in my experience. This is most likely going to lock up the whole thing so it stops responding.
The other problems with the NSLU2 besides the speed(might as well hook it up to a 10baseT hub, cause it can't fully utilize 100baseT), is that if you do try to transfer a large amount of data(say 15 gigs of MP3s) more likely than not the whole thing will lock up on you.
In short... The NSLU2 is unreliable, for a variety of reasons mostly having to do with software, but also having to do with the external drives and the lack of support for hot plugging USB devices. The NSLU2 is slow. The NSLU2 is a pain to manage on the table because of all the cords hanging out of the thing. The NSLU2 is not well supported by Linksys, they periodically release firmware updates but 9 times out of 10 they don't help. The NSLU2 is particular about what type of USB enclosure you use, as well as even what drive, so it's hit or miss whether it will work.
To be fair, I did look at buying a Netgear SC101, and everything I have read indicates that it's even worse.
I ended up just taking my drives and sticking them on my computer and leaving them there. I thought it would have been nice to have this running all by it's lonesome in another room with some batch scripts periodically replicating data over to it. But it's simply not reliable enough.
I've been meaning to try to sell my NSLU2 on ebay. Maybe someone who wants to install their own copy of the nslu2 Linux on it can have some fun. But it's not a good device for a SOHO server, that's for certain.
I had a similar problem at work... made worse by the fact that our lovely office has these "ergonomic" desktops with a center that lowers for the keyboard. Well to keep the mouse there, you have to place the keyboard to the left...
I may still look at a narrower keyboard, but in the meantime I have a logitech media keyboard that cost me about $30 and has excellent feel.
And I bought a Mouse Bridge. The link is jsut an example, do a search on google to find others. It's a small platform which sits over the numeric keypad on which you can place your mouse.
It's nice because it raise the mouse up to the same level as your hands. The main problem is that it's a small surface. I use a Microsoft wireless laptop mouse, which helps with the size issue. the other issue then is if you use a laser/optical mouse, the surface is smooth plastic and doesn't work well. I cut a 3M Precise Mousing Surface down to size and glued it on top.
I don't know JSF, but I'll comment on how this might compare with ASP.NET v1.1. (Haven't used 2.0 much, but it's much improved in many ways.
1. Non-existant error reporting: If an exception is throw by the code backing it up, the error message on the front end will be something like "Exception: '{mycomponent.dosomething}'". Which really means that dosomething threw some other exception that it is hiding from you.
I don't think this applies to asp.net. If the code backing it up throws an error, and you're displaying errors(rather than catching them) on your main page. You're going to see the full details.
Now if you are using Remoting to a different server(usually like say from a presentation to data tier), that can get hard to debug sometimes. You'll get an exception, but not necessarily the full details.
The worst is if your web.config file is malformed somehow, you'll just get a generic error telling you that there is an error and you pull your hair out. But once you get past that it's very easy to debug.
2. Everything is a post: JSF tries to apply MVC to the web, which is fundamentally broken IMO. The web is transactional, not event driven. To make it appear that everything has callbacks, all the links in the web app are done by making javascript submit a POST form for the page. Much harder to debug than any other web app that I've ever worked with. You can't just see the params on a GET url and expect links to work like every other link on the web
Well, you won't like ASP.NET then.
But you know what? I seldom actually develop that way. IT's nice at times because it's easy to just throw a page together. But most of the time I seperate out my application in such a way that I use the querystring.
Maybe I'm just old-school. But the point is, you don't have to develop the easy way, you can go in and make it specific. At least with ASP.NET.
I've never used ASP though, so I can't really compare. Myself I prefer servlets that spit out XML and use XSLT to give HTML. The designers don't seem to like the XSLT much though.
ASP is not ASP.NET. The only thing they share in common is those three letters.
Most of my ASP.NET development is similar to your XML/XSLT to give HTML. Except I'm calling stored procs and getting back DataSets. I then feed the DataSet into some kind of rendering class, like the built-in DataGrid or DataRepeater.
I find XSLT useful in certain cases. I think it's hard to work with, and the few GUI type editing tools I have found are crap forcing you to use a text editor all the time. Also, at least in my experience it has a lot of server overhead compared to the Dataset rendering that ASP.NET provides. I don't know why, may just be the MS XML parser controls.
The story sounded pretty much the norm for any corporate development job at a company whose primary business is not software. The IT idiots setup the environment for Joe Friday computer user, and then think that developers ought to be able to conform within this same environment.
First - My guess is he's running on Windows. The port 80 limitation isn't the problem. The problem is writing files to c:\windows without admin access.
Second - Aspects are, like JBoss and such. Whatever
Third - That's pretty much standard operation procedure for big corporations
Fourth - Apache and Tomcat are not Eclipse. The corporate lawyers wanted to be assured that Eclipse had not been made by child slaves in Madagascar.
It sounds like this is either a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, or a case of complete incompetance. Neither of which is good for a company.
Welcome to Corporate America. You obviously have never read Dilbert.
But don't get me wrong. The salaries more than make up for having to deal with incompetence.:-)
"According to Windows Magazine and BoingBoing: 'A Microsoft spokesman (reliable word has it that it was Bill Gates himself) told Windows Magazine that Microsoft discards the personal information that the Windows Media Player Ministore transmits to Microsoft while you use Windows Media Player. [...] Microsoft tells us that the information is not actually being collected. The data sent is used to update the MiniStore and then discarded.' Microsoft also has a knowledge base article, which apparently was available the day Windows Media Player v10 was introduced, explaining the MiniStore behavior and how to disable it: 'Windows Media Player sends data about the song selected in your library to the Windows Media Player Music Store to provide relevant recommendations. When the MiniStore is hidden, this data is not sent to the Windows Media Player Music Store.'"
I think it would be fun to see the reactions to the story now.
Could it be that that your experience with Linear Algebra did not teach you how to do advanced Math, but rather how to pass that particular test.
It always seemed to me when you had a teacher that they would give questions on the test which didn't much look like the examples from the book we had done, similarly with their chalkboard lectures. It's easy to memorize, it's difficult to understand. Does that make sense?
I've used computer instruction of one form or another since around 1985. I have yet to be impressed with any of them.
Absolutely. That company makes several different models. I just got the standard one, which is about 22" long and only the width of the lightbulb(about an inch). It came with mounting brackets and screws, as well as some velcro tape so you have different options.
Even fully uncovered, the bulb isn't that bright, which is actually kind of nice. The problem I had with the GE light I had bought at Home Depot was that it was actually too bright and couldn't be dimmed. (also the white plastic turned yellow over the years) That's what led me to buy the Ideal-Lume. Yeah, it was $50, but the home depot light was $25 so it's not like terribly much more expensive considering it's better in so many ways.
The only downside is reaching behind to turn it on. You can either use an X10 control for this, or I bought a 15' switched outlet extension at home depot and just run it along the wall. I also heard Sears has an accessory designed for power tools, so that when you turn on your device the power draw causes a relay to flip which turns on another outlet. It's designed for hooking a vacuum up to a saw, for example. Turn on saw, vacuum comes on. It's like $15, but it appears to only be available through their catalog so I haven't tried it yet.
Aye. I've been doing the backlighting of my HDTV television now for about 4 years. Recently, while reading the AVSForums I came across this special light for the purpose called Ideal-Lume.
So I bought one, and I do highly recommend it. Now, ideally you could probably get something similar elsewhere, it's just a flourescent tube with a 6500k bulb. I guess what makes it nice versus the ones at Home depot, is the cover over the bulb is clear(rather than white), plus it came with a plastic sleeve with half of it blacked out, that allows you to dim the bulb by turning it.
I started doing something similar with my computer, just pointing a light at the wall behind my computer, which keeps the ambient light high enough that my eyes don't hurt. Honestly, this I think is a good part of the key is making sure there is enough light in the room to work, while at the same time not having any glare on the screen. That means lot's of ambient light.
It seems to me that if people want to call themselves something, we ought to respect their right to do that. What do I care if I'm not a member of the group?
If someone calls a black person "black" they get Jessie Jackson to start screaming RACIST and go on CNN to get the man/woman fired.
No worse than the Politically Correct rightwing and their imagined War on Christmas. aka Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson of Fox News.
Back in 2002 or so, I bought a very nice system for surround sound movies. 52" rear projection HDTV, a Dolby/DTS receiver, a new DVD player, etc. etc. I think that TV cost me about $2300 at the time.
It's still working. In fact it works great, and the picture is a lot better than most of the newer plasma sets out on the market today. Although not as good as the DLP or LCD rear projection... sniff
But the new HD DVD standards don't work with my system. Oh, sure it's more than capable of displaying high quality, but it only has component video input and you need HDMI inputs. And guess what? I'm not buying a new television. Sorry charlie, just ain't gonna happen. I might buy a new computer, but I'll be damned if I buy a new TV.
So good luck selling me something to replace my existing system.
Maybe in 5 years, perhaps 10. When this thing is old and outdated and doesn't work. But not today. Cause the way I figure it, any decent improvement is giong to involve a new TV, a new receiver, and a new DVD player. We're talking about $4k there, and that's not chump change.
My biggest problem was, as I recally, the aggrevating inconsistancy of the.NET framework (two thirds of.NET seems to work 1 way, but 1/3 of it seems to have been written by a completely different team who never looked at what the other team was doing
Can you give an example of where you found a problem with say orthoganality or symmetry?
Because 20-50 years ago we invented a lot of worthwhile technologies, the US should now rest upon it's laurels and not worry about the future. This is your position?
And you are claiming people advocating we continue to advance are economic idiots?
Hmm. This is an example of why a Wiki won't work for such things.
Since you've got some sort of partisan chip on your shoulder, you wish to distort what this guy is saying and call him names. That's the problem with Wiki's for political purposes. You're going to spend more time policing the trolls like this Idiotarian and not much time actually getting your message out.
They could put it in very nice looking white box, hook it up to a TV, and have a nice brand that millions of people know that will really help sell it.
Maybe they could call it WebTV, to signify how it works with the web.
I heard a report on this, and they aren't storing the content... just the fact that a connection was made.
So you send an SMS to me... it get's logged. So later when they want to look at the phone records and see who yo umade calls to, they can also see who you sent email to, SMS too, and used your VOIP too.
The thing is, with the internet it's nearly impossible. They would have to log every single connection your computer ever makes. Now imagine you've got some virus... it'd be terrabytes of data per day.
The CIO of Mass. is making a political decision rather than a technical one, in choosing this Open Document format.(or whatever it is called) If it was purely technical, it would be based on whether the format did the job and what the cost was. But instead the decision had a large component of emotion behind it's making.
Anyway, considering it's a political decision it only makes sense for elected officials to review it.
I see nothing wrong with this... checks and balances is part of our division of government.
The fact that in most companies you get a couple of technical "architects" who think they know what they are doing, who establish some policy or "framework" as we like to call them and tell the rest of us to go implement it.
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Well there you go...
Not on my slug. ReiserFS avoids any nasty problems with damaging data, and I have only restarted my slug once (new kernel) since I installed Debian over 6 months ago.
That's not the Linksys firmware. Perhaps it's worth me trying to upgrade the damn thing, but I can tell you the shit Linksys makes available does not allow hot plugging the drives.
So I have an NSLU2 at home. Had it for about a year. The length of time the thing has been actually useful is maybe two days. Let me give you the counterpoint...
- Silent operation, no fans in the nslu2 and you can get fanless enclosures for the HDs
Make sure it's an aluminum case at least. And be prepared to try several different ones until you find one that works well.
- Takes very little space away from your home office
No, other than the six thousand cords you've got hanging off the back of it to plug in these external drives.
Oh, and don't accidentally disconnect a cord. The NSLU2 doesn't support anything approaching to Plug and Play. You'll likely damage data on the drive, but the most annoying thing is you gotta shutdown and restart the whole thing.
- Very small power draw
True.
- Easy to add/remove drives without any reboots
Not in my experience.
- Can power off drives that aren't used frequently, then turn them on when needed
Again, not in my experience. This is most likely going to lock up the whole thing so it stops responding.
The other problems with the NSLU2 besides the speed(might as well hook it up to a 10baseT hub, cause it can't fully utilize 100baseT), is that if you do try to transfer a large amount of data(say 15 gigs of MP3s) more likely than not the whole thing will lock up on you.
In short... The NSLU2 is unreliable, for a variety of reasons mostly having to do with software, but also having to do with the external drives and the lack of support for hot plugging USB devices. The NSLU2 is slow. The NSLU2 is a pain to manage on the table because of all the cords hanging out of the thing. The NSLU2 is not well supported by Linksys, they periodically release firmware updates but 9 times out of 10 they don't help. The NSLU2 is particular about what type of USB enclosure you use, as well as even what drive, so it's hit or miss whether it will work.
To be fair, I did look at buying a Netgear SC101, and everything I have read indicates that it's even worse.
I ended up just taking my drives and sticking them on my computer and leaving them there. I thought it would have been nice to have this running all by it's lonesome in another room with some batch scripts periodically replicating data over to it. But it's simply not reliable enough.
I've been meaning to try to sell my NSLU2 on ebay. Maybe someone who wants to install their own copy of the nslu2 Linux on it can have some fun. But it's not a good device for a SOHO server, that's for certain.
I had a similar problem at work... made worse by the fact that our lovely office has these "ergonomic" desktops with a center that lowers for the keyboard. Well to keep the mouse there, you have to place the keyboard to the left...
I may still look at a narrower keyboard, but in the meantime I have a logitech media keyboard that cost me about $30 and has excellent feel.
And I bought a Mouse Bridge. The link is jsut an example, do a search on google to find others. It's a small platform which sits over the numeric keypad on which you can place your mouse.
It's nice because it raise the mouse up to the same level as your hands. The main problem is that it's a small surface. I use a Microsoft wireless laptop mouse, which helps with the size issue. the other issue then is if you use a laser/optical mouse, the surface is smooth plastic and doesn't work well. I cut a 3M Precise Mousing Surface down to size and glued it on top.
The result works pretty well.
Anyway, it's a thought.
Lawyers don't trust licenses which claim to have no limits.
I don't know JSF, but I'll comment on how this might compare with ASP.NET v1.1. (Haven't used 2.0 much, but it's much improved in many ways.
1. Non-existant error reporting: If an exception is throw by the code backing it up, the error message on the front end will be something like "Exception: '{mycomponent.dosomething}'". Which really means that dosomething threw some other exception that it is hiding from you.
I don't think this applies to asp.net. If the code backing it up throws an error, and you're displaying errors(rather than catching them) on your main page. You're going to see the full details.
Now if you are using Remoting to a different server(usually like say from a presentation to data tier), that can get hard to debug sometimes. You'll get an exception, but not necessarily the full details.
The worst is if your web.config file is malformed somehow, you'll just get a generic error telling you that there is an error and you pull your hair out. But once you get past that it's very easy to debug.
2. Everything is a post: JSF tries to apply MVC to the web, which is fundamentally broken IMO. The web is transactional, not event driven. To make it appear that everything has callbacks, all the links in the web app are done by making javascript submit a POST form for the page. Much harder to debug than any other web app that I've ever worked with. You can't just see the params on a GET url and expect links to work like every other link on the web
Well, you won't like ASP.NET then.
But you know what? I seldom actually develop that way. IT's nice at times because it's easy to just throw a page together. But most of the time I seperate out my application in such a way that I use the querystring.
Maybe I'm just old-school. But the point is, you don't have to develop the easy way, you can go in and make it specific. At least with ASP.NET.
I've never used ASP though, so I can't really compare. Myself I prefer servlets that spit out XML and use XSLT to give HTML. The designers don't seem to like the XSLT much though.
ASP is not ASP.NET. The only thing they share in common is those three letters.
Most of my ASP.NET development is similar to your XML/XSLT to give HTML. Except I'm calling stored procs and getting back DataSets. I then feed the DataSet into some kind of rendering class, like the built-in DataGrid or DataRepeater.
I find XSLT useful in certain cases. I think it's hard to work with, and the few GUI type editing tools I have found are crap forcing you to use a text editor all the time. Also, at least in my experience it has a lot of server overhead compared to the Dataset rendering that ASP.NET provides. I don't know why, may just be the MS XML parser controls.
Honestly.
:-)
The story sounded pretty much the norm for any corporate development job at a company whose primary business is not software. The IT idiots setup the environment for Joe Friday computer user, and then think that developers ought to be able to conform within this same environment.
First - My guess is he's running on Windows. The port 80 limitation isn't the problem. The problem is writing files to c:\windows without admin access.
Second - Aspects are, like JBoss and such. Whatever
Third - That's pretty much standard operation procedure for big corporations
Fourth - Apache and Tomcat are not Eclipse. The corporate lawyers wanted to be assured that Eclipse had not been made by child slaves in Madagascar.
It sounds like this is either a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, or a case of complete incompetance. Neither of which is good for a company.
Welcome to Corporate America. You obviously have never read Dilbert.
But don't get me wrong. The salaries more than make up for having to deal with incompetence.
I think it would be fun to see the reactions to the story now.
Could it be that that your experience with Linear Algebra did not teach you how to do advanced Math, but rather how to pass that particular test.
It always seemed to me when you had a teacher that they would give questions on the test which didn't much look like the examples from the book we had done, similarly with their chalkboard lectures. It's easy to memorize, it's difficult to understand. Does that make sense?
I've used computer instruction of one form or another since around 1985. I have yet to be impressed with any of them.
Absolutely. That company makes several different models. I just got the standard one, which is about 22" long and only the width of the lightbulb(about an inch). It came with mounting brackets and screws, as well as some velcro tape so you have different options.
Even fully uncovered, the bulb isn't that bright, which is actually kind of nice. The problem I had with the GE light I had bought at Home Depot was that it was actually too bright and couldn't be dimmed. (also the white plastic turned yellow over the years) That's what led me to buy the Ideal-Lume. Yeah, it was $50, but the home depot light was $25 so it's not like terribly much more expensive considering it's better in so many ways.
The only downside is reaching behind to turn it on. You can either use an X10 control for this, or I bought a 15' switched outlet extension at home depot and just run it along the wall. I also heard Sears has an accessory designed for power tools, so that when you turn on your device the power draw causes a relay to flip which turns on another outlet. It's designed for hooking a vacuum up to a saw, for example. Turn on saw, vacuum comes on. It's like $15, but it appears to only be available through their catalog so I haven't tried it yet.
Aye. I've been doing the backlighting of my HDTV television now for about 4 years. Recently, while reading the AVSForums I came across this special light for the purpose called Ideal-Lume.
http://www.cinemaquestinc.com/ideal_lume.htm
So I bought one, and I do highly recommend it. Now, ideally you could probably get something similar elsewhere, it's just a flourescent tube with a 6500k bulb. I guess what makes it nice versus the ones at Home depot, is the cover over the bulb is clear(rather than white), plus it came with a plastic sleeve with half of it blacked out, that allows you to dim the bulb by turning it.
I started doing something similar with my computer, just pointing a light at the wall behind my computer, which keeps the ambient light high enough that my eyes don't hurt. Honestly, this I think is a good part of the key is making sure there is enough light in the room to work, while at the same time not having any glare on the screen. That means lot's of ambient light.
This clearly means all Oracle users must switch to Apple Macintosh.
It seems to me that if people want to call themselves something, we ought to respect their right to do that. What do I care if I'm not a member of the group?
If someone calls a black person "black" they get Jessie Jackson to start screaming RACIST and go on CNN to get the man/woman fired.
No worse than the Politically Correct rightwing and their imagined War on Christmas. aka Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson of Fox News.
Back in 2002 or so, I bought a very nice system for surround sound movies. 52" rear projection HDTV, a Dolby/DTS receiver, a new DVD player, etc. etc. I think that TV cost me about $2300 at the time.
It's still working. In fact it works great, and the picture is a lot better than most of the newer plasma sets out on the market today. Although not as good as the DLP or LCD rear projection... sniff
But the new HD DVD standards don't work with my system. Oh, sure it's more than capable of displaying high quality, but it only has component video input and you need HDMI inputs. And guess what? I'm not buying a new television. Sorry charlie, just ain't gonna happen. I might buy a new computer, but I'll be damned if I buy a new TV.
So good luck selling me something to replace my existing system.
Maybe in 5 years, perhaps 10. When this thing is old and outdated and doesn't work. But not today. Cause the way I figure it, any decent improvement is giong to involve a new TV, a new receiver, and a new DVD player. We're talking about $4k there, and that's not chump change.
My biggest problem was, as I recally, the aggrevating inconsistancy of the .NET framework (two thirds of .NET seems to work 1 way, but 1/3 of it seems to have been written by a completely different team who never looked at what the other team was doing
Can you give an example of where you found a problem with say orthoganality or symmetry?
Windows had more vulnerabilities listed than Linux.
Then it would have been heralded as proof that Windows sux!
So let me get this straight.
Because 20-50 years ago we invented a lot of worthwhile technologies, the US should now rest upon it's laurels and not worry about the future. This is your position?
And you are claiming people advocating we continue to advance are economic idiots?
Right.
Reading those quotes, it's apparent that he really is an economic idiot.
I found no compelling argument offered by the poster to support that opinion. Rather the statements appeared to be somewhat open to interpretation.
Hmm. This is an example of why a Wiki won't work for such things.
Since you've got some sort of partisan chip on your shoulder, you wish to distort what this guy is saying and call him names. That's the problem with Wiki's for political purposes. You're going to spend more time policing the trolls like this Idiotarian and not much time actually getting your message out.
Agreed...
They could put it in very nice looking white box, hook it up to a TV, and have a nice brand that millions of people know that will really help sell it.
Maybe they could call it WebTV, to signify how it works with the web.
DOH!
http://www.webtv.com/pc/
Windows OEM license is actually in the $50-$90 range.
More likely $20 or so range, when you're talking mass buyers like Dell.
The Google.com OS will probably be nothing but a web browser, which let's you go to Google.
"While there are lots of places that use ASP, I found that ASP is awkward and really isn't built well."
Which is entirely different from ASP.NET... which makes PHP look awkward and not built well.
I heard a report on this, and they aren't storing the content... just the fact that a connection was made.
So you send an SMS to me... it get's logged. So later when they want to look at the phone records and see who yo umade calls to, they can also see who you sent email to, SMS too, and used your VOIP too.
The thing is, with the internet it's nearly impossible. They would have to log every single connection your computer ever makes. Now imagine you've got some virus... it'd be terrabytes of data per day.
The CIO of Mass. is making a political decision rather than a technical one, in choosing this Open Document format.(or whatever it is called) If it was purely technical, it would be based on whether the format did the job and what the cost was. But instead the decision had a large component of emotion behind it's making.
Anyway, considering it's a political decision it only makes sense for elected officials to review it.
I see nothing wrong with this... checks and balances is part of our division of government.
First the disclaimer: I don't live in Massachusetts (thank Ghod)
Could be worse.
You could be from Texas.
DOH!
The fact that in most companies you get a couple of technical "architects" who think they know what they are doing, who establish some policy or "framework" as we like to call them and tell the rest of us to go implement it.