How did you get modded up? Mozy Home works perfectly well at a dirt-cheap rate. The statement "all of the online backup strategies are a joke" is a clear indication that you haven't researched this topic even a little bit.
I use hand trackballs instead of thumb trackballs and find them much easier to use. I have a Trackball Explorer at work and a Cordless TrackMan Optical at home. I used to have the Microsoft one at both home and work but went wireless at home. The Logitech one is superior; while the Microsoft one is actually really nice, it requires a lot of maintenance (it gets insanely dirty and starts to skip and drag).
The main issue for me is that the thumb trackballs have always required extremely precise movement and perfectly still hands, lots of dexterity, while largely ignoring the rest of the hand. The hand trackballs make much better, IMHO, use of the space.
And she cant use firefox on her web applications her work provides because firefox doesn't like cold fusion, so she sort of has to.
ColdFusion is a web programming language just like ASP, JSP, PHP, etc. It produces HTML just like any other language. There is no such a thing as a web browser that "doesn't like" an application programming language - the browser never sees the language, it sees the resultant HTML.
I am the Web Services Manager for Lightyear - http://www.lightyear.net/ - all code ColdFusion, all code written in Firefox first then bugfixed for IE.
I have found that the automatic code generation in VS 2005 allows me to spend more time on security and correct by design (not correct by testing).
I have found that automatic code generation allows people with no understanding of what they're actually doing to create pieces of code that don't work and they have no idea why, because they have no idea what it's supposed to do in the first place. The only thing this is good for is generating high consulting fees.
I have to ask why all this is news lately? There's nothing new about using JavaScript to asynchronously update a portion of a page. At my company (where I am the Web Services lead) we have been using this technique since 2001, and I don't begin to think we're on the leading edge of that. There have been people doing this since probably 1999.
I ask the question, but I really know the answer. Somebody stuck the word "XML" in it and it suddenly became the holy grail of Web programming. It's a good methodology for doing certain things, and I've honestly got to say if you didn't know how to do this before the last few months of hype, you're either not a Web programmer or you're on the bottom end of the Web programmer stack.
(Why complain? It's really, really annoying to have the things you've been doing day-to-day for 4 years be ignored while new people doing it are suddenly "powerful" and "cool" just because someone said it had XML in it.)
I run web for a medium size telecom, and recently hired two people. I questioned all the applicants extensively about web security and just about none of them had anything remotely resembling a clue. Most of them listed web sites they'd worked on on their resumes, and more than half of these sites were vulnerable to both Form and URL SQL injection attacks, which are largely (in our case, completely) defeated with stored procedures.
(Even more of a good thing when the PHBs insist on being an MS shop...)
Still can't work out how to make shift-click open into a new tab. One extension will allow this - but it doesn't work with the (practically essential) tabbrowser extensions.
Middle-click opens in a new tab straight out of the box. No extensions needed.
JavaScript is both the bane and the light of our existence. Pickier than Perl, very few quality debuggers available, cross-browser and -platform idiosyncratic, JavaScript is hell....But without JavaScript, web design would never become web _programming_; it would never be more than forms and submit buttons, some "pretty" images.
The web browser is highly limited in the functionality it exposes to a program (going to use "program" instead of "page/site/URL/whatever"). The _only_ thing granting us any flexibility at all is JS. Combine it with CSS and you've all of a sudden got the ability to make programs that can do nearly anything a standalone EXE can.
The program I'm proudest of, in fact, is one standalone HTML file that doesn't need to be connected to the Internet to work at all. Using JavaScript, CSS, and WDDX, the program takes orders from thousands of agents in the field for a wide variety of phone services, from long distance to frame relay (yes, frame relay, the monster of telecomm). Whenever the agent decides he wants to upload his orders to us, typically at the end of the day, he connects and clicks send. This is great for people sitting on a dial-up connection or in a small business, and great for an agent with a laptop taking an order in a customer's office.
Thanks to JavaScript, this little HTML file replaced an entire C++ program - 72K replacing a 4Mb EXE.
If you want to force yourself to use HTML only and every time you want to update something on the page you hit the server, go be a martyr, see where it gets you. You obviously don't have real users depending on you to make their jobs easier and keep you in yours. Acting like you're better than everyone cos you "force yourself" to use outdated technology is, well, lame.
I've seen it over and over and I'm tired of it...
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The Power of Palladium
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The initiative, called Palladium, after the mythological statue that defended ancient Athens against invaders, sits on a set of technologies that have long been in use
Not to nitpick, but I AM tired of it... the Palladium was a small statue of Athena in the city of Troy, not Athens - it was stolen by the Greeks very near to the end of the Trojan War. It was the basis for the whole Trojan Horse bit. The explanation the Trojans received when they found the horse was that the theft of the Palladium by Odysseus had so infuriated Athena that the Greeks had left the horse to appease her wrath. The idea was then implanted in the Trojans' heads that the Greeks very much did NOT want the horse dragged into Troy, for then Athena would favour the Trojans and might kill all the Greeks on the way home. (Which, ironically, she and Poseidon largely did anyway.) The Palladium is generally held to have been taken by Aeneas on his flight from Troy to Italy, or maybe by Diomedes to Sparta, but never Athens.
is helpful. A few years back I switched to the Logitech Cordless Ergo desktop setup, with an ergo keyboard and funky ergo mouse. While I enjoyed it, the pain in my mouse hand gradually grew worse and worse. I finally began searching for replacements, going first with Logitech cos of my good experience with them.
The first thing I found was that touchpads and thumb-trackballs are utterly worthless. The learning curve isn't so steep, it's just that you just cannot do most thing nearly as well with such obtuse setups. (I used a touchpad for 6 months thinking I'd get used to it before finally waking up from that delusion.)
Hand trackballs are where it's at. I checked out all the offerings from Logitech and Microsoft. The Logitech cordless hand trackball (looks kinda like the Delta Flyer) was their best model, and reduced the pain, but not entirely. I ended up sticking with the Microsoft Trackball Explorer. It's not cordless, but it is red-ball optical, and for the first month or so you have it, it moves like a dream. As you use it, it begins to require regular maintenance - nothing deep, just pop the ball out and scrape the gunk out of the three ball holders. I've also experienced with every one I've owned (two each for home and work) what I can only describe as shorts in the cord if it gets bent in certain ways - unfortunately, those are the ways it comes folded in in the box. Easily remedied, though.
A browser with an MDI interface is nothing new. Mozilla has had it for what seems like years, as has Opera.
I don't use Mozilla much (read:ever) but I'm a big fan of Opera. It has a raft of nice touches besides the MDI interface, such as Mouse Gestures, a saved window setup (loads the pages you want on startup), popup blocking, browser impersonation, privacy options, etc. Not to mention web sites actually look identical to IE in most cases as opposed to Netscape's we-screwed-it-up-in-version-4-and-are-too-lazy-to- fix-it-now CSS implementation.
This could be well-spun by Linux companies... this machine is rather obviously not using Linux because it's free-as-in-beer, which is still the common perception of the best reason to use it. Microsoft says "when you pay for software, the software is held accountable", well, $24.5 mil is some pretty deep accounting.
I'd love to donate to the cause, but I will NOT give PayPal my personal data.
Give me a donation option that DOESN'T involve PayPal, I will.
On a side note, it's REALLY disappointing that in the same week we had stories about how much we love Google for eschewing BS ads,/. does it. Hello?? Editors?? Do you READ your site? Your users have told you over and over again that they love the Google system and even go out of their way to use it just to keep it going. Seriously, how many/. readers are going to click a giant Flash ad? FAR, FAR fewer than will click a nice textbox ad on the sidebar.
Don't randomly spout off baseless claims just to sound good. Windows 2000 natively supports the 3c590; I'm running two of them on my cable modem box at home. I got both secondhand; no drivers whatsoever. Win2000 didn't blink at their inclusion; I never even had to see the "detecting new hardware" screen.
There may be more to this than just the usual recording-industry-heavy-handedness. After all, KaZaA (or however it's capitalized) isn't nearly as big as Napster was - Napster was the one choice, most mp3-swapping was centralized around it. Now with WinMX, AudioGalaxy etc., not to mention the OpenNap servers, the fragmentation means no one service will dominate. That makes the pursuit of KaZaA suspicious to me. It seems the technology behind KaZaA, which also runs MusicCity, Morpheus etc. is what's under attack.
Bear in mind that Napster has targeted March as their return date, complete with pay-as-you-go music and under the boot of RIAA et al. Why would you go pay on Napster if you could jump on other networks and get it for free?
You all did a killer job, and I made sure I told people about it, coworkers, friends, LiveJournalers, etc.
Slashdot and Ananova were the only real sources of news on the net available all day Tuesday. Great job, and props on a good decision to cover the story.
I agree with Jon Katz's worldview... but the man's self-important bullshit has always turned me off. Makes me sad, cos the world needs to be reminded of the Corporate Republic frequently.
Today, comments like "It's impossible to stare at the TV and not think of the horrific convergence between technology, politics, and information" make me want to kick him. Please, CmdrTaco, Hemos, etc., GET RID OF THIS ASSHOLE!
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How did you get modded up? Mozy Home works perfectly well at a dirt-cheap rate. The statement "all of the online backup strategies are a joke" is a clear indication that you haven't researched this topic even a little bit.
I use hand trackballs instead of thumb trackballs and find them much easier to use. I have a Trackball Explorer at work and a Cordless TrackMan Optical at home. I used to have the Microsoft one at both home and work but went wireless at home. The Logitech one is superior; while the Microsoft one is actually really nice, it requires a lot of maintenance (it gets insanely dirty and starts to skip and drag). The main issue for me is that the thumb trackballs have always required extremely precise movement and perfectly still hands, lots of dexterity, while largely ignoring the rest of the hand. The hand trackballs make much better, IMHO, use of the space.
And she cant use firefox on her web applications her work provides because firefox doesn't like cold fusion, so she sort of has to.
ColdFusion is a web programming language just like ASP, JSP, PHP, etc. It produces HTML just like any other language. There is no such a thing as a web browser that "doesn't like" an application programming language - the browser never sees the language, it sees the resultant HTML.
I am the Web Services Manager for Lightyear - http://www.lightyear.net/ - all code ColdFusion, all code written in Firefox first then bugfixed for IE.
I have found that the automatic code generation in VS 2005 allows me to spend more time on security and correct by design (not correct by testing).
I have found that automatic code generation allows people with no understanding of what they're actually doing to create pieces of code that don't work and they have no idea why, because they have no idea what it's supposed to do in the first place. The only thing this is good for is generating high consulting fees.
I have to ask why all this is news lately? There's nothing new about using JavaScript to asynchronously update a portion of a page. At my company (where I am the Web Services lead) we have been using this technique since 2001, and I don't begin to think we're on the leading edge of that. There have been people doing this since probably 1999.
I ask the question, but I really know the answer. Somebody stuck the word "XML" in it and it suddenly became the holy grail of Web programming. It's a good methodology for doing certain things, and I've honestly got to say if you didn't know how to do this before the last few months of hype, you're either not a Web programmer or you're on the bottom end of the Web programmer stack.
(Why complain? It's really, really annoying to have the things you've been doing day-to-day for 4 years be ignored while new people doing it are suddenly "powerful" and "cool" just because someone said it had XML in it.)
Especially for a web shop.
I run web for a medium size telecom, and recently hired two people. I questioned all the applicants extensively about web security and just about none of them had anything remotely resembling a clue. Most of them listed web sites they'd worked on on their resumes, and more than half of these sites were vulnerable to both Form and URL SQL injection attacks, which are largely (in our case, completely) defeated with stored procedures.
(Even more of a good thing when the PHBs insist on being an MS shop...)
Well... at least you spelled "Dilbert" right :)
Still can't work out how to make shift-click open into a new tab. One extension will allow this - but it doesn't work with the (practically essential) tabbrowser extensions.
Middle-click opens in a new tab straight out of the box. No extensions needed.
You are obviously not a paid web programmer.
...But without JavaScript, web design would never become web _programming_; it would never be more than forms and submit buttons, some "pretty" images.
JavaScript is both the bane and the light of our existence. Pickier than Perl, very few quality debuggers available, cross-browser and -platform idiosyncratic, JavaScript is hell.
The web browser is highly limited in the functionality it exposes to a program (going to use "program" instead of "page/site/URL/whatever"). The _only_ thing granting us any flexibility at all is JS. Combine it with CSS and you've all of a sudden got the ability to make programs that can do nearly anything a standalone EXE can.
The program I'm proudest of, in fact, is one standalone HTML file that doesn't need to be connected to the Internet to work at all. Using JavaScript, CSS, and WDDX, the program takes orders from thousands of agents in the field for a wide variety of phone services, from long distance to frame relay (yes, frame relay, the monster of telecomm). Whenever the agent decides he wants to upload his orders to us, typically at the end of the day, he connects and clicks send. This is great for people sitting on a dial-up connection or in a small business, and great for an agent with a laptop taking an order in a customer's office.
Thanks to JavaScript, this little HTML file replaced an entire C++ program - 72K replacing a 4Mb EXE.
If you want to force yourself to use HTML only and every time you want to update something on the page you hit the server, go be a martyr, see where it gets you. You obviously don't have real users depending on you to make their jobs easier and keep you in yours. Acting like you're better than everyone cos you "force yourself" to use outdated technology is, well, lame.
The initiative, called Palladium, after the mythological statue that defended ancient Athens against invaders, sits on a set of technologies that have long been in use
Not to nitpick, but I AM tired of it... the Palladium was a small statue of Athena in the city of Troy, not Athens - it was stolen by the Greeks very near to the end of the Trojan War. It was the basis for the whole Trojan Horse bit. The explanation the Trojans received when they found the horse was that the theft of the Palladium by Odysseus had so infuriated Athena that the Greeks had left the horse to appease her wrath. The idea was then implanted in the Trojans' heads that the Greeks very much did NOT want the horse dragged into Troy, for then Athena would favour the Trojans and might kill all the Greeks on the way home. (Which, ironically, she and Poseidon largely did anyway.) The Palladium is generally held to have been taken by Aeneas on his flight from Troy to Italy, or maybe by Diomedes to Sparta, but never Athens.
is helpful. A few years back I switched to the Logitech Cordless Ergo desktop setup, with an ergo keyboard and funky ergo mouse. While I enjoyed it, the pain in my mouse hand gradually grew worse and worse. I finally began searching for replacements, going first with Logitech cos of my good experience with them.
The first thing I found was that touchpads and thumb-trackballs are utterly worthless. The learning curve isn't so steep, it's just that you just cannot do most thing nearly as well with such obtuse setups. (I used a touchpad for 6 months thinking I'd get used to it before finally waking up from that delusion.)
Hand trackballs are where it's at. I checked out all the offerings from Logitech and Microsoft. The Logitech cordless hand trackball (looks kinda like the Delta Flyer) was their best model, and reduced the pain, but not entirely. I ended up sticking with the Microsoft Trackball Explorer. It's not cordless, but it is red-ball optical, and for the first month or so you have it, it moves like a dream. As you use it, it begins to require regular maintenance - nothing deep, just pop the ball out and scrape the gunk out of the three ball holders. I've also experienced with every one I've owned (two each for home and work) what I can only describe as shorts in the cord if it gets bent in certain ways - unfortunately, those are the ways it comes folded in in the box. Easily remedied, though.
A browser with an MDI interface is nothing new. Mozilla has had it for what seems like years, as has Opera. I don't use Mozilla much (read:ever) but I'm a big fan of Opera. It has a raft of nice touches besides the MDI interface, such as Mouse Gestures, a saved window setup (loads the pages you want on startup), popup blocking, browser impersonation, privacy options, etc. Not to mention web sites actually look identical to IE in most cases as opposed to Netscape's we-screwed-it-up-in-version-4-and-are-too-lazy-to- fix-it-now CSS implementation.
Heck, how many lawyers have you EVER seen on Slashdot???
:)
We need a new saying, instead of IANAL, we need just IAAL.
This could be well-spun by Linux companies... this machine is rather obviously not using Linux because it's free-as-in-beer, which is still the common perception of the best reason to use it. Microsoft says "when you pay for software, the software is held accountable", well, $24.5 mil is some pretty deep accounting.
What, no advertisements onscreen??
A completely untapped mindspace...
...yeah right.
By the time any of us get ours, the thing will be programmed to display an advertisement overlaid on anything you look at.
Yet one more truly good scientific advance just waiting to be deflowered by marketing.
I'd love to donate to the cause, but I will NOT give PayPal my personal data.
/. does it. Hello?? Editors?? Do you READ your site? Your users have told you over and over again that they love the Google system and even go out of their way to use it just to keep it going. Seriously, how many /. readers are going to click a giant Flash ad? FAR, FAR fewer than will click a nice textbox ad on the sidebar.
Give me a donation option that DOESN'T involve PayPal, I will.
On a side note, it's REALLY disappointing that in the same week we had stories about how much we love Google for eschewing BS ads,
The Register has a story on this as well, mostly a rehash of ISPReview. Link here.
From that article:
Speaking to The Register a dejected Mr Miszti said: "This is terrorism - pure and simple. I never want to relive the last seven days again.
You're thinking "terrorism? yeah right".
It's too bad (for them) they're in the UK... in the U.S., under the so-called "Patriot Act" this IS in fact terrorism. Read for yourself here.
Don't randomly spout off baseless claims just to sound good. Windows 2000 natively supports the 3c590; I'm running two of them on my cable modem box at home. I got both secondhand; no drivers whatsoever. Win2000 didn't blink at their inclusion; I never even had to see the "detecting new hardware" screen.
There may be more to this than just the usual recording-industry-heavy-handedness. After all, KaZaA (or however it's capitalized) isn't nearly as big as Napster was - Napster was the one choice, most mp3-swapping was centralized around it. Now with WinMX, AudioGalaxy etc., not to mention the OpenNap servers, the fragmentation means no one service will dominate. That makes the pursuit of KaZaA suspicious to me. It seems the technology behind KaZaA, which also runs MusicCity, Morpheus etc. is what's under attack.
Bear in mind that Napster has targeted March as their return date, complete with pay-as-you-go music and under the boot of RIAA et al. Why would you go pay on Napster if you could jump on other networks and get it for free?
There's a Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc... anyone know of a DOS or Windows equivalent utility?
Can we have a poll to remove the "Troll" option from a post modded to 4 or higher? That's ridiculous.
Troll?????????
Gimme a break, modders. "Troll" shouldn't even be an option with a score of 4 or higher.
"NASA Is Considers Privatizing the Space Shuttle".
How about "Slashdot Is Considers an EDITOR".
Or "All Your Grammar Are Not Belong to Slashdot".
You all did a killer job, and I made sure I told people about it, coworkers, friends, LiveJournalers, etc.
Slashdot and Ananova were the only real sources of news on the net available all day Tuesday. Great job, and props on a good decision to cover the story.
I agree with Jon Katz's worldview... but the man's self-important bullshit has always turned me off. Makes me sad, cos the world needs to be reminded of the Corporate Republic frequently.
Today, comments like "It's impossible to stare at the TV and not think of the horrific convergence between technology, politics, and information" make me want to kick him. Please, CmdrTaco, Hemos, etc., GET RID OF THIS ASSHOLE!