Today is Freedom Day (10 years of democracy) in South Africa, we inaugurated our third democratically elected president (Thabo Mbeki, this will be his second term - 2 terms is the maximum allowed by our constitution). The election was totally peaceful, and has been declared free and fair both by the Independant Electoral Commission and several international monitoring organisation. Note: No hanging chads! No offense: your a couple of years out of date. It is true that we achieved "regime change" by peaceful means, and thus Afrikaaners (also know as Boers about 100 years ago) are still in relatively good positions. Our economy is in much better position then ever before.
As a South African, let me assure you we are annoyed by West African/Nigerian just as much as anywhere in the world. Arguably Xenophobia (against Nigerians) is today a larger problem todya then racism was for us in the past.
Google already has spell check, and so does Gmail have a look at the screenshots on my blog. I believe they're looking at releasing it to the public in six months time, have a look at this article.
I'm not kidding, but a few minutes after posting this, I discovered how to get a gmail test account. Needless to say a will be posting a review on my blog soon.
Well the're definitely planning it (I agree IMAP is definitely better in this application).
From the article: Steve Gillmor: It also compares favorably to my corporate e-mail.
Sergey Brin: Well, thank you. There are some things that it is currently missing as compared to corporate e-mail--for example, disconnected operation--though we do plan to provide things like POP3 and IMAP support, which should help that.
If they implement IM I hope they go the Jabber route.
I have seen several reviews of Google's user interface (here, here, and here), as well as google's screenshots of the inbox and conversation view. and it seems that a lot of them are really unique, especially in a web application. Apparently it "autocompletes" from your address book. It looks like Google will be raising the bar of the standard for web applications. I sure hope they open up an API for accesing it. (as well as POP / IMAP access).
GPL gives the right to fork/backport the code, nobody is forcing you to use a forked/backported kernel. If your current installation is stable and you only need that feature - what is stopping you?
from article: "Organizing messages from your inbox is also different with Gmail. Gmail's approach is to use labels, instead of folders, which allows messages to have overlapping types."
This sounds very similar to the VFolder feature present in Evolution.
If I went and bought 10,000 Mac G5's: they didn't have to buy the pc's
Also it would be useful to know to build a supercomputer with commodity hardware, and to work out all the problems that having lots of different types of pc's, problems which would not exist if everybody had the same Mac G5's.
I don't see anything new in the article. It seems a rehash of the downloadable spyware which plagues windows users. (especially aunt tillie's who will click "OK" on the install software dialogs which popup just to get rid of the window). I think website designers should follow google's example with non-intrusive ads.
I found some more information on the USFFlashmob Computing site. To join you get a CD-ROM which boots your computer: The CD-ROM contains everything you need including an operating system, networking and configuration software and the benchmarking software.
They will be publishing the ISO so we can all go out and create or own flashmobs.
"By the end of the day, FlashMob was a partial success. The crew managed to get 256 computers working together at almost half the speed required for the top 500 status."
If this was the first attempt of breaking this record, I reckon it will be a matter of weeks or even days that this is achieved.
We just migrated an application from Oracle to MS SQL Server mid-development, because of the clean seperation of the low level business logic in Data Access Objects, we were able to do this without even touching the business logic objects (javabeans) or the web application (MVC using struts)
We need to use the most expensive JSP interpreter we can find. not interpreted?
We need to use the most expensive JSP IDE we can find. The best ide's for this are free: Netbeans and Eclipse
We need a separate computer for each person (including those who will work primarily from their computer located off-site), plus a test server and a backup for the test server and an extra computer just in case. Have they never heard of VMWare!
We need to make the database as related as possible - if you can make a lookup table for a Yes/No field, then by all means you should do it! This is not necessarily a bad thing
Make sure each and every table has an auto-increment integer index, expecially those tables that will contain over 100 million records. Never use a trigger to "autonumber" rows from a sequence. This destroys all the power behind sequences in Oracle, and screws up the ability to do transactions.
Development time must take at least 18 months to provide a proof-of-concept, but cannot produce anything that may be actually used. I don't even understand that
Seriously JSPs (Model 1) are crap if you use them by themselves. They consider using a MVC (Model 2) framework such as struts, which is far more maintainable for large projects.
For may application Oracle is overkill, and developers should consider Postgresql which very similar in style (plpgsql is quite similar to PL/SQL)
This article is an advertorial, I am in the development industry in south africa and itweb.co.za is often used to dispense stuff like this. In fact some software products I have written myself were paid for and featured on itweb.
Slashdot Mirror
Point yum (/etc/yum.conf) at my isp's yum repository, also add references to Dag Wieer's repository and rpm.livna.org.
sudo yum check-update
then
sudo yum update
Then install java and flash player.
Eric S. Raymond has authored a nice guide entitled: Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO
Today is Freedom Day (10 years of democracy) in South Africa, we inaugurated our third democratically elected president (Thabo Mbeki, this will be his second term - 2 terms is the maximum allowed by our constitution). The election was totally peaceful, and has been declared free and fair both by the Independant Electoral Commission and several international monitoring organisation. Note: No hanging chads! No offense: your a couple of years out of date. It is true that we achieved "regime change" by peaceful means, and thus Afrikaaners (also know as Boers about 100 years ago) are still in relatively good positions. Our economy is in much better position then ever before.
As a South African, let me assure you we are annoyed by West African/Nigerian just as much as anywhere in the world. Arguably Xenophobia (against Nigerians) is today a larger problem todya then racism was for us in the past.
Google already has spell check, and so does Gmail have a look at the screenshots on my blog. I believe they're looking at releasing it to the public in six months time, have a look at this article.
They were offering them on blogger.com (owned by google) to existing users.
I can vouch for this, I just got an account on gmail.com cos' I have blogger.com account
I'm not kidding, but a few minutes after posting this, I discovered how to get a gmail test account. Needless to say a will be posting a review on my blog soon.
Thanks for the blogger.com tip - I too have a gmail account now.
I'd really appreciate one of those passes.
Well the're definitely planning it (I agree IMAP is definitely better in this application).
From the article:
Steve Gillmor: It also compares favorably to my corporate e-mail.
Sergey Brin: Well, thank you. There are some things that it is currently missing as compared to corporate e-mail--for example, disconnected operation--though we do plan to provide things like POP3 and IMAP support, which should help that.
If they implement IM I hope they go the Jabber route.
I have seen several reviews of Google's user interface (here, here, and here), as well as google's screenshots of the inbox and conversation view. and it seems that a lot of them are really unique, especially in a web application. Apparently it "autocompletes" from your address book. It looks like Google will be raising the bar of the standard for web applications. I sure hope they open up an API for accesing it. (as well as POP / IMAP access).
GPL gives the right to fork/backport the code, nobody is forcing you to use a forked/backported kernel. If your current installation is stable and you only need that feature - what is stopping you?
from article:
"Organizing messages from your inbox is also different with Gmail. Gmail's approach is to use labels, instead of folders, which allows messages to have overlapping types."
This sounds very similar to the VFolder feature present in Evolution.
"Gittuk" sounds Klingnon.
If I went and bought 10,000 Mac G5's:
they didn't have to buy the pc's
Also it would be useful to know to build a supercomputer with commodity hardware, and to work out all the problems that having lots of different types of pc's, problems which would not exist if everybody had the same Mac G5's.
I don't see anything new in the article. It seems a rehash of the downloadable spyware which plagues windows users. (especially aunt tillie's who will click "OK" on the install software dialogs which popup just to get rid of the window). I think website designers should follow google's example with non-intrusive ads.
More coverage (copied from USF site):
NY Times,
C|Net,
San Jose Business Journal,
NPR,
UK PC Pro
USF News
I found some more information on the USF Flashmob Computing site. To join you get a CD-ROM which boots your computer: The CD-ROM contains everything you need including an operating system, networking and configuration software and the benchmarking software.
They will be publishing the ISO so we can all go out and create or own flashmobs.
This story has also been covered on The Mercury News:
"By the end of the day, FlashMob was a partial success. The crew managed to get 256 computers working together at almost half the speed required for the top 500 status."
If this was the first attempt of breaking this record, I reckon it will be a matter of weeks or even days that this is achieved.
it was not necessary to install wfw to network doom II. You could do it using DOS IPX/SPX drivers
We just migrated an application from Oracle to MS SQL Server mid-development, because of the clean seperation of the low level business logic in Data Access Objects, we were able to do this without even touching the business logic objects (javabeans) or the web application (MVC using struts)
Seriously JSPs (Model 1) are crap if you use them by themselves. They consider using a MVC (Model 2) framework such as struts,
which is far more maintainable for large projects.
For may application Oracle is overkill, and developers should consider Postgresql which very similar in style (plpgsql is quite similar to PL/SQL)
It looks like you missed the Macworld article
It supports NFS and CIFS (which is basically the latest iteration of SMB) so it should so you can network with NFS or Samba, Windows/Linux.
This article is an advertorial, I am in the development industry in south africa and itweb.co.za is often used to dispense stuff like this. In fact some software products I have written myself were paid for and featured on itweb.