I've just upgraded from 8.01 to 8.5 this past week. My PC at work is a Dell Precision 380 Workstation (circa early 2005) with a single 3.06GHz Prescott P4 and 1GB memory, running 32-bit Windows XP Pro SP3. The full Lotus 8.5 Client (Eclipse version, not the C++ "basic" version) starts up and gives me my inbox, ready to open emails in under 20 seconds. That's not too shabby for a vintage PC that's pushing half a decade old, and running all kinds of other crap in its startup settings.
I'm still running the 8.01 Domino server on a 32-bit Win 2003 Dell PE2950 server, and need to upgrade to 8.5 on the server, and also change the server OS to 64-bit Windows to make better use of memory.
The Lotus 8.01 Eclipse client was slow as next Christmas to open up and give access to the inbox, but 8.5 is much improved in startup speed.
I can see if you're trying to run the full Lotus client on too old and slow of a machine, say a 1.8-2.0GHz Celeron with 128MB memory or something like that, then yeah you will be performing an exercise in futility, but the 8.5 Lotus client runs just fine on real contemporary PC hardware.
Wow! I'm a bit out of touch with recent events in the DB2 world. If they could overcome that last 5% and also give us Pro*C and Pro*Cobol work-alike capability, then I know of several apps that could be ported over to it in very short order.
What IBM needs to do now is make a new version of DB2 that's fully software-compatible with the Oracle API so that you can take an application that's written to run against an Oracle database, and have it be able to talk to a DB2 database without being able to tell it's a different brand of database engine.
A long time ago I worked with an outfit that made a translation layer that let an app that was written to run against an HP3000 Turbo Image database, be able to open up and read/write to an Informix database running on any Informix-supported platform anywhere on the network. The app had no idea it was talking to a different database, it was 100% transparent.
If IBM could do something like that for DB2 to emulate Oracle, they could greatly undercut Oracle's expensive stranglehold on the mid-sized market where customers already have CRM software apps that are written for Oracle databases and they can't upgrade to the newest multi-core processor hardware because Oracle's licensing costs are so expensive.
Where I live and do my traveling, the GSM providers' networks are marginal at best. They are grossly oversold and there are outright large coverage holes, especially with T-mo. Verizon and Sprint's RF coverage is excellent and the EVDO data with Verizon blows away AT&T's 3G data so badly there's no comparison.
Even if Nokia would offer a CDMA/EDVO version of a smartphone, Verizon would never allow it on their network.
I was just going to post asking where the pilots sit.
They sit inside the starboard fuselage. Even the seating capacity of that side looks extremely limited. From what I could see from the ground while I was standing on the ground under the plane, there were only two seats visibly installed for pilot and co-pilot. I could not see if there were any more seats installed behind the two front seats in the starboard fuselage pod. The plane sits pretty high up off the ground and they had it roped off so you could not climb the ladder and look inside the cockpit when I saw it on Wednesday.
I just got back home from Oshkosh and saw the WK2 up close and personal there at Aeroshell Square. I didn't know beforehand that only the starboard side fuselage pod has any seats for crew. The left side fuselage has fake painted-on "windows" so that it looks like there are real windows from a distance, but apparently the left fuselage only contains equipment and possibly fuel tanks, there are no seats for any occupants on that side.
I took several photos of the center wing section where the spacecraft is supposed to attach. I saw no big heavy-duty attachment brackets there at all, but instead there were bundles of exposed wires only, and there were two cut-off loose wire ends just dangling out in the slipstream.
I did get one good photo of the WK2 in flight as it approached to land, but they did not do any repeated overflights for the crowd to see, I only saw one overflight, then it landed.
And secondly, there's still one of the original lunar landers existing today, and is still actually flying intact. Snoopy was the LEM used on the Apollo 10 mission, and one of two that flew to the moon, but didn't land. Snoopy was flown down to within about 7.4 miles of the lunar surface, but was not equipped for actual landing. It was then flown back up to rendezvous with the command module, and then Snoopy was released into a heliocentric orbit where it still is today. The other LEM that went to the moon but didn't land was Aquarius, the LEM from Apollo 13, which served as a space lifeboat to get the crew back home to earth.
I think I'll go have me a hamburger and a Coke for lunch now, thank you!
I'm in the middle of porting an accounting system that's currently Cobol-based, and running on an RS6000/AIX, to Linux using OpenCOBOL . OpenCOBOL is GPL'ed too. The machine hardware I'm porting to is an HP Proliant DL380 and the distro is Red Hat Enterprise 5 64-bits. So far everything is going great. I'm not even a Cobol programmer, and had to alter very little of the application source code to compile and run under OpenCOBOL on Linux, mostly just some raw unix file I/O code, and it took me less than a day to learn enough Cobol to fix the source code and recompile it to work under Linux.
Use something like Netmotion, although it was designed for mobile wireless usage, primarily to maintain TCP session persistence while simultaneously providing an encrypted VPN, it works wonders at keeping a packet-loss-free connection over a lossy wireless network link too.
Interestingly, it uses a UDP stream thru which it tunnels it's encrypted protocol.
If they would've just simply bought the Sungard "Banner" system first, they would've had a complete turnkey system, in common use by dozens of other huge universities, and it would've already been implemented in about a 24-30 month cycle, including data conversion and end-user training, and probably would've come in less than $25M including all hardware, software, implementation fees, data conversion fees, and end-user training done on-site.
If they price it the way they price airport food, they won't be getting many customers. Airport WiFi pretty much only flourishes in places when its free. Airport food is usually stupidly overpriced since they think they've got a captive audience, then when they don't sell enough food to pay for running the business, they stupidly raise the prices even more in a vain attempt to stay fiscally afloat.
I lived and worked in far North Dallas / Collin County / Denton County for the biggest part of a decade. Thankfully I live and work in a much less densely populated area on the northwest of the metromess and only have a 12 minute commute to/from work these days. Everything on the entire north side of the metromess is still so spread out that commuting to work, shopping, visiting friends and family, etc, pretty much requires a personal vehicle. I don't think the "A-Train" will be anywhere near as successful as they wish it'll be.
I travel to Houston frequently, and after you've done it many times, the drive isn't so bad. Once you get there, you still need a car to get around, and by the time you've added a rental car into your plane/train/bus expenses, you're still much better off just using your own car, and accounting for the 7+ hour round trip drive time. And BTW, Houston rush hour traffic drivers are, in average, much better behaved, politeful and skillful in heavy congested traffic than Dallas drivers. Down there, they've learned to realize that when traffic is bad, everybody stuck in traffic is screwed anyway, so it does no good to get all upset and bent out of shape. Houston drivers have (mostly) learned to relax and be much more laid back. Unlike in North Dallas when you need to get over a lane for your exit, drivers see your turn signal as a command to step on their gas and cut you off and prevent you from changing lanes. In Houston, they instead let off the gas, open up a slot and smile and wave (with all fingers) to let you over a lane.
Any professional who truly values his data should back it up to the time-proven backup media -- magnetic tapes -- and have more than one copy, and each copy stored at a different offsite location.
Now having said that, since this is a lawyer you're talking about, he might deliberately wish to have his data stored on floppies so that when that data gets lost or unrecoverable, he can argue that since he is not a data storage professional expert, that he believed as a "reasonable person" would believe, that he thought he was indeed exercising due diligence in backing up his data to some removable magnetic media for safekeeping, when he actually has secret ulterior wishes for that data to "go away". And since he is a lawyer, he can probably easily convince a contemporary judge or jury of his plausible deniability regarding the loss of that data.
When the BSA audit comes, many management types will try to make a scapegoat of the IT guy, but in 100% of all cases I've known about, the BSA ignores the IT guy and goes straight for jugular veins of the upper management. Especially when it is an obvious case of a newly hired IT guy being dropped into hornet's nest of pirated software deployment. The BSA is bright enough to check the IT guy's hire date, and the datestamps that the software was installed on the computers.
If you can have one provider who will offer support for the entire stack, OS, virtualization, database or middleware engine, you have a huge win on your hands.
Microsoft certainly likes the way you think.
I recently built an Oracle-based system on AMD 64-bit HP Proliant server hardware, using Oracle's Enterprise Linux and the 11g database and it's been running strong and fast for three months without a single reboot yet, and is hosting an entire accounting/purchasing/finance/payroll system for a city govt in Texas.
The Oracle "stack" definitely works extremely well, and this particular installation replaces an old AIX-based platform where the hardware alone cost nearly $160K when it was purchased 8 years ago. The new commodity-grade hardware for running Linux cost less than $25K for quadruple the storage capacity and over triple the performance.
I certainly can't speak for every Christian, but as believer myself, I think it's because we value life so much.
Yes, heaven will be so much better. That doesn't mean a mortal existence is bad. As a Christian, eternal life doesn't start after you die. It starts immediately when accept you Christ.
Also, if you know you're on the brink of death, you might want to hang onto life a little harder because you might get the opportunity to tell just one more person about Christ before you leave this world.
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I've just upgraded from 8.01 to 8.5 this past week. My PC at work is a Dell Precision 380 Workstation (circa early 2005) with a single 3.06GHz Prescott P4 and 1GB memory, running 32-bit Windows XP Pro SP3. The full Lotus 8.5 Client (Eclipse version, not the C++ "basic" version) starts up and gives me my inbox, ready to open emails in under 20 seconds. That's not too shabby for a vintage PC that's pushing half a decade old, and running all kinds of other crap in its startup settings.
I'm still running the 8.01 Domino server on a 32-bit Win 2003 Dell PE2950 server, and need to upgrade to 8.5 on the server, and also change the server OS to 64-bit Windows to make better use of memory.
The Lotus 8.01 Eclipse client was slow as next Christmas to open up and give access to the inbox, but 8.5 is much improved in startup speed.
I can see if you're trying to run the full Lotus client on too old and slow of a machine, say a 1.8-2.0GHz Celeron with 128MB memory or something like that, then yeah you will be performing an exercise in futility, but the 8.5 Lotus client runs just fine on real contemporary PC hardware.
...win stupid prizes.
Wow! I'm a bit out of touch with recent events in the DB2 world. If they could overcome that last 5% and also give us Pro*C and Pro*Cobol work-alike capability, then I know of several apps that could be ported over to it in very short order.
The sludge would still be mostly hydrocarbons, just heavier stuff. It might be useful for putting into road paving asphalt.
What IBM needs to do now is make a new version of DB2 that's fully software-compatible with the Oracle API so that you can take an application that's written to run against an Oracle database, and have it be able to talk to a DB2 database without being able to tell it's a different brand of database engine.
A long time ago I worked with an outfit that made a translation layer that let an app that was written to run against an HP3000 Turbo Image database, be able to open up and read/write to an Informix database running on any Informix-supported platform anywhere on the network. The app had no idea it was talking to a different database, it was 100% transparent.
If IBM could do something like that for DB2 to emulate Oracle, they could greatly undercut Oracle's expensive stranglehold on the mid-sized market where customers already have CRM software apps that are written for Oracle databases and they can't upgrade to the newest multi-core processor hardware because Oracle's licensing costs are so expensive.
Right here's the proof.
Where I live and do my traveling, the GSM providers' networks are marginal at best. They are grossly oversold and there are outright large coverage holes, especially with T-mo. Verizon and Sprint's RF coverage is excellent and the EVDO data with Verizon blows away AT&T's 3G data so badly there's no comparison.
Even if Nokia would offer a CDMA/EDVO version of a smartphone, Verizon would never allow it on their network.
...is another shining example of the quality work produced by the American education system.
There's a market for meaningless licenses
Hmmm..... now where have I heard that before?
I was just going to post asking where the pilots sit.
They sit inside the starboard fuselage. Even the seating capacity of that side looks extremely limited. From what I could see from the ground while I was standing on the ground under the plane, there were only two seats visibly installed for pilot and co-pilot. I could not see if there were any more seats installed behind the two front seats in the starboard fuselage pod. The plane sits pretty high up off the ground and they had it roped off so you could not climb the ladder and look inside the cockpit when I saw it on Wednesday.
I just got back home from Oshkosh and saw the WK2 up close and personal there at Aeroshell Square. I didn't know beforehand that only the starboard side fuselage pod has any seats for crew. The left side fuselage has fake painted-on "windows" so that it looks like there are real windows from a distance, but apparently the left fuselage only contains equipment and possibly fuel tanks, there are no seats for any occupants on that side.
I took several photos of the center wing section where the spacecraft is supposed to attach. I saw no big heavy-duty attachment brackets there at all, but instead there were bundles of exposed wires only, and there were two cut-off loose wire ends just dangling out in the slipstream.
I did get one good photo of the WK2 in flight as it approached to land, but they did not do any repeated overflights for the crowd to see, I only saw one overflight, then it landed.
America... FUCK YEAH!!!!
First of all, you forgot to include a link to one of these all important pictures
And secondly, there's still one of the original lunar landers existing today, and is still actually flying intact. Snoopy was the LEM used on the Apollo 10 mission, and one of two that flew to the moon, but didn't land. Snoopy was flown down to within about 7.4 miles of the lunar surface, but was not equipped for actual landing. It was then flown back up to rendezvous with the command module, and then Snoopy was released into a heliocentric orbit where it still is today. The other LEM that went to the moon but didn't land was Aquarius, the LEM from Apollo 13, which served as a space lifeboat to get the crew back home to earth.
I think I'll go have me a hamburger and a Coke for lunch now, thank you!
I'm in the middle of porting an accounting system that's currently Cobol-based, and running on an RS6000/AIX, to Linux using OpenCOBOL . OpenCOBOL is GPL'ed too. The machine hardware I'm porting to is an HP Proliant DL380 and the distro is Red Hat Enterprise 5 64-bits. So far everything is going great. I'm not even a Cobol programmer, and had to alter very little of the application source code to compile and run under OpenCOBOL on Linux, mostly just some raw unix file I/O code, and it took me less than a day to learn enough Cobol to fix the source code and recompile it to work under Linux.
Use something like Netmotion, although it was designed for mobile wireless usage, primarily to maintain TCP session persistence while simultaneously providing an encrypted VPN, it works wonders at keeping a packet-loss-free connection over a lossy wireless network link too.
Interestingly, it uses a UDP stream thru which it tunnels it's encrypted protocol.
What we really need to do is switch our numbering system to base 12.
A big percentage of us have already changed it to base 2, base 8 and base 16, and look at the mess that's gotten us into.
If they would've just simply bought the Sungard "Banner" system first, they would've had a complete turnkey system, in common use by dozens of other huge universities, and it would've already been implemented in about a 24-30 month cycle, including data conversion and end-user training, and probably would've come in less than $25M including all hardware, software, implementation fees, data conversion fees, and end-user training done on-site.
If they price it the way they price airport food, they won't be getting many customers. Airport WiFi pretty much only flourishes in places when its free. Airport food is usually stupidly overpriced since they think they've got a captive audience, then when they don't sell enough food to pay for running the business, they stupidly raise the prices even more in a vain attempt to stay fiscally afloat.
Everyone has already seen this a bazillion times, but still it's neat how the human brain recognizes words. Also more on this here.
That's what they want "open" to actually mean.
...and it'll store it Forever too!
I lived and worked in far North Dallas / Collin County / Denton County for the biggest part of a decade. Thankfully I live and work in a much less densely populated area on the northwest of the metromess and only have a 12 minute commute to/from work these days. Everything on the entire north side of the metromess is still so spread out that commuting to work, shopping, visiting friends and family, etc, pretty much requires a personal vehicle. I don't think the "A-Train" will be anywhere near as successful as they wish it'll be.
I travel to Houston frequently, and after you've done it many times, the drive isn't so bad. Once you get there, you still need a car to get around, and by the time you've added a rental car into your plane/train/bus expenses, you're still much better off just using your own car, and accounting for the 7+ hour round trip drive time. And BTW, Houston rush hour traffic drivers are, in average, much better behaved, politeful and skillful in heavy congested traffic than Dallas drivers. Down there, they've learned to realize that when traffic is bad, everybody stuck in traffic is screwed anyway, so it does no good to get all upset and bent out of shape. Houston drivers have (mostly) learned to relax and be much more laid back. Unlike in North Dallas when you need to get over a lane for your exit, drivers see your turn signal as a command to step on their gas and cut you off and prevent you from changing lanes. In Houston, they instead let off the gas, open up a slot and smile and wave (with all fingers) to let you over a lane.
Any professional who truly values his data should back it up to the time-proven backup media -- magnetic tapes -- and have more than one copy, and each copy stored at a different offsite location.
Now having said that, since this is a lawyer you're talking about, he might deliberately wish to have his data stored on floppies so that when that data gets lost or unrecoverable, he can argue that since he is not a data storage professional expert, that he believed as a "reasonable person" would believe, that he thought he was indeed exercising due diligence in backing up his data to some removable magnetic media for safekeeping, when he actually has secret ulterior wishes for that data to "go away". And since he is a lawyer, he can probably easily convince a contemporary judge or jury of his plausible deniability regarding the loss of that data.
When the BSA audit comes, many management types will try to make a scapegoat of the IT guy, but in 100% of all cases I've known about, the BSA ignores the IT guy and goes straight for jugular veins of the upper management. Especially when it is an obvious case of a newly hired IT guy being dropped into hornet's nest of pirated software deployment. The BSA is bright enough to check the IT guy's hire date, and the datestamps that the software was installed on the computers.
If you can have one provider who will offer support for the entire stack, OS, virtualization, database or middleware engine, you have a huge win on your hands.
Microsoft certainly likes the way you think.
I recently built an Oracle-based system on AMD 64-bit HP Proliant server hardware, using Oracle's Enterprise Linux and the 11g database and it's been running strong and fast for three months without a single reboot yet, and is hosting an entire accounting/purchasing/finance/payroll system for a city govt in Texas.
The Oracle "stack" definitely works extremely well, and this particular installation replaces an old AIX-based platform where the hardware alone cost nearly $160K when it was purchased 8 years ago. The new commodity-grade hardware for running Linux cost less than $25K for quadruple the storage capacity and over triple the performance.
I certainly can't speak for every Christian, but as believer myself, I think it's because we value life so much.
Yes, heaven will be so much better. That doesn't mean a mortal existence is bad. As a Christian, eternal life doesn't start after you die. It starts immediately when accept you Christ.
Also, if you know you're on the brink of death, you might want to hang onto life a little harder because you might get the opportunity to tell just one more person about Christ before you leave this world.