Where I used to work, we held a "contest" to determine what our naming convention would be. The winners were appliance manufacturers for servers (sunbeam, hotpoint, maytag, etc.), candy bars for workstations (reeses, heath, skor, crunch, etc.).
Of course after using all the common ones and digging into the past (bighunk, marathon, etc.) we eventually ran low on candy bar names, and had to "cheat" a little, using wrigley, twizzler, etc.
It worked well - we had fairly low turnover so the names became identified with the user over time. It seemed to give the servers and workstations a "personality" as well.
Qwest (DSL) is doing this too. I knew there was something about it that annoyed me, but I hadn't given it much thought until now, when I can totally see why this is a BAD THING.
IIRC, WebDAV *is* configured by default on IIS 5. Here's a link to instructions on disabling it (the procedure involves adding a registry value and restarting IIS):
Wow, you talk about monthly driver releases like they're a good thing! Are the drivers that buggy that monthly releases are required? You'd think at some point they'd get it mostly right, and such frequent releases wouldn't be necessary! (I'm not talking about ATI in particular here, I'd say the same about any company with monthly driver releases).
Does the Alpha-680 have the capability to place and receive calls (and I'm not talking about Skype)? No? Then it's not a phone. Besides, I can't carry it in my pocket, and I don't want to hold that thing up to my head.
There definitely is a distinction, and it's not that difficult to draw.
My HP laptop with exact specs to the MBP (when I bought it) cost $1000 less and came with more features (dual hard drive bays, an actual upgradable graphics card, etc.)
I bet it weighs at least 2 lbs. more and is at least 1/2" thicker too.
Your Apple laptop can't natively boot any other modern OS without either the OS being modified to boot in an EFI system or by using a VM or other software. For $40 I can buy an EFI bootloader stick and install OSX on my laptop.
For $0 I can install BootCamp and rEFIt and install practically any OS I want on my Macbook. It's not rocket science to "modify" the OS to boot in EFI.
"Hardware that can't run anything else"? Not since January 2006.
"So little software development for Apple platforms"? Bullshit.
"[Linux is] easier to develop for,... since it's all open-source"? Apple's SDK is available for FREE, and almost all open-source projects are readily ported to OSX.
It's actually not bad - I enjoy the Sherlock Holmes aspect of it, and I've learned a lot (I had only done Perl and a little bit of C before this job). Problem is, I work for state government in one of the poorest states in the union, so it doesn't pay well.
Yes, mod GP up. I was once in a situation where I was sent to Norway to do a software installation. We knew the software didn't work, still a lot of problems to work out.
Thing is, I wasn't even a coder then -- I was the sysadmin. I was sent because the coder who should have gone didn't have his passport yet (this was back during the Clinton presidency when the U.S. government shut down because they had no operating budget, so he couldn't get an "emergency" passport). I had a passport, so I was asked (on Wednesday) to leave Friday. Basically I was there to stall for time and represent our company while the coders frantically worked on the software back home.
CGI written in C by a COBOL programmer that access Microsoft SQL Server databases and ISAM data through a Sybase gateway (if you can imagine such a beast!)
Uncommented Perl
"Classic" ASP
JSP
None of the above is documented, so I have to figure out what it does before I can fix it.
In addition to this, I share the title of Webmaster for the state in which I work, and I write web applications in C#.Net.
You could take this a step further - use random/meaningless field names AND use ReCAPTCHA (heck, throw in a "Select the animal from the following pictures" authentication as well).
We (Americans) live in a society where graphic violence is pretty much OK, but show breasts, a penis, or even (OMG!) sex between consenting adults and everyone gets their panties in a wad. Our values are so screwed up.
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Same here. I jailbroke my phone, installed some apps; then never used them.
less-often-lethal.
Easton Press. Their books are hella expensive, but very good quality. They're sold on a subscription basis.
Barnes & Noble (and probably other publishers) have a few here and there, but they're of inferior quality, in general.
Where I used to work, we held a "contest" to determine what our naming convention would be. The winners were appliance manufacturers for servers (sunbeam, hotpoint, maytag, etc.), candy bars for workstations (reeses, heath, skor, crunch, etc.).
Of course after using all the common ones and digging into the past (bighunk, marathon, etc.) we eventually ran low on candy bar names, and had to "cheat" a little, using wrigley, twizzler, etc.
It worked well - we had fairly low turnover so the names became identified with the user over time. It seemed to give the servers and workstations a "personality" as well.
I suppose you're right--never trust software to do the right thing. ;)
And the BIOS isn't software?
Qwest (DSL) is doing this too. I knew there was something about it that annoyed me, but I hadn't given it much thought until now, when I can totally see why this is a BAD THING.
So what happens if it takes liking to the feces still in your colon?
Bzzzzt!
I was waiting for this. Bravo!
IIRC, WebDAV *is* configured by default on IIS 5. Here's a link to instructions on disabling it (the procedure involves adding a registry value and restarting IIS):
Microsoft KB Article #241520
I guess I have solar on the brain - I read this as "This has thin film written all over it."
To be fair, English is a horribly inconsistent language.
My favorite example of this is the diphthong "ough". It can be pronounced at least five different ways.
Wow, you talk about monthly driver releases like they're a good thing! Are the drivers that buggy that monthly releases are required? You'd think at some point they'd get it mostly right, and such frequent releases wouldn't be necessary! (I'm not talking about ATI in particular here, I'd say the same about any company with monthly driver releases).
Yes, but paper speakers (until now) haven't been able to be made shallow/thin so as to fit in an LCD TV.
Does the Alpha-680 have the capability to place and receive calls (and I'm not talking about Skype)? No? Then it's not a phone. Besides, I can't carry it in my pocket, and I don't want to hold that thing up to my head.
There definitely is a distinction, and it's not that difficult to draw.
I bet it weighs at least 2 lbs. more and is at least 1/2" thicker too.
For $0 I can install BootCamp and rEFIt and install practically any OS I want on my Macbook. It's not rocket science to "modify" the OS to boot in EFI.
I call FUD.
"Extremely overpriced"? No. Slightly overpriced? Yes.
"Hardware that can't run anything else"? Not since January 2006.
"So little software development for Apple platforms"? Bullshit.
"[Linux is] easier to develop for, ... since it's all open-source"? Apple's SDK is available for FREE, and almost all open-source projects are readily ported to OSX.
It's actually not bad - I enjoy the Sherlock Holmes aspect of it, and I've learned a lot (I had only done Perl and a little bit of C before this job). Problem is, I work for state government in one of the poorest states in the union, so it doesn't pay well.
Yes, mod GP up. I was once in a situation where I was sent to Norway to do a software installation. We knew the software didn't work, still a lot of problems to work out.
Thing is, I wasn't even a coder then -- I was the sysadmin. I was sent because the coder who should have gone didn't have his passport yet (this was back during the Clinton presidency when the U.S. government shut down because they had no operating budget, so he couldn't get an "emergency" passport). I had a passport, so I was asked (on Wednesday) to leave Friday. Basically I was there to stall for time and represent our company while the coders frantically worked on the software back home.
If you were isolated from the Internet, how were you downloading updates?
I currently maintain:
None of the above is documented, so I have to figure out what it does before I can fix it.
In addition to this, I share the title of Webmaster for the state in which I work, and I write web applications in C#.Net.
You could take this a step further - use random/meaningless field names AND use ReCAPTCHA (heck, throw in a "Select the animal from the following pictures" authentication as well).
No, Tylenol does not contain caffeine. You're probably thinking of Excedrin, which is aspirin/acetaminophen/caffeine.
They're all XML files, just some with binary properties.
How many pieces of solar flair do you have?
We (Americans) live in a society where graphic violence is pretty much OK, but show breasts, a penis, or even (OMG!) sex between consenting adults and everyone gets their panties in a wad. Our values are so screwed up.