I have to use quickbooks 2002 basic here at work and the part I actualy see is a web browser, probably a modified version of IE. It says so as it fires up Opening Quickbooks Web Browser. You do the same thing with gnuCash, open a web browser to use it. sure Quickbooks uses a lot more java and javascript or VB and hides it extremely. Linux has all of the right tools, Mozillia, apache, java, Postgress/MySql/Oracle not to mention eperl and php. Actualy I think most of the heavy lifting in the quickbooks gui is done with java.
I went rounds with my credit union about cleared transactions basicaly they said local transaction have to be available in 2 business days,per federal regualtions, but don't have to stay available! I'm not a banking lawyer so I got a new bank.
This is going to sound like flamebait but here goes, I don't trust any operating system that doesn't require a root password. Maybe you trust your users that much, I sure don't trust mine. It just flabbergasts me that while the WinME ask's for password you can just hit cancel and proceed to destroy the machine. Actualy I'm not sure I trust me that much either; the root password also lets you know things are getting serious.
try installing and removing Gator from your windows box, formating the hard-drive is the only way that I have found to remove Gator; no linux app is that hard to get rid of!
XP runs all Windows I doubt it. Most windows software has not been made with any attempt for security awareness. One of the big changes for XP is a modicum of security, little thing like seperate user profiles. From what I've heard most windows software won't even install on XP; you have to get a special XP version. The only thing I run in my personal windows partition is my scanner and its software is written for windows 3.1, I'm sure XP would choke on that.
I agree there is nothing upstart about Linux; it was on my desktop prior to Windows95. The windows users I know, when they see linux, they are envious; 4 desktops on one monitor, much easier copy-paste operations and habitualy running four or five applications that would hobble a windows OSed machine.
If we show them stuff like that, we'd get a lot more converts.
But I'll have your ass sacked in no time if you install an unstable version of the product and corrupt the database in this process. The question revolved more arround setting up a separate DB with data from the production DB primarily for reporting. It might be profitable for him to set up a sandbox server with MySQL 4.0 and throw the queries from the live system at it. Prove it works stable at 2 or 3 times the present load, then add in the features you want and retest. The end result is he might not know if its stable for my apps or not but he'll now if its stable for his. If something does blow up, the production data is safe and he'll has documented retesting to cover his ass with. Who knows by the time he's done testing; maybe MySQL 4.0 will be declair production stable and his apps will be done and tested.
It took me almost an hour to remove the 3.5" disk he had jammed upside down inside the mechanism My granddaughter did the same thing to mine about two years ago. the drive had a plastic latch that broke to discriminate between a floppy inserted right side up and up side down. because the latch was broken the drive would except a floppy upside down if the sliding cover was removed and would jam if the cover was still there. I found that if I re-formatted the floppies upside down they would read/write fine upside down but not right side up sort of security thru obscurity thing.
Exactly how much used vegetable oil do we have lying around to convert into biodiesel? probably not much, used grease is almost universaly collected, filtered and refined for reuse in other products. Recyclers of grease in my area drive there trucks on routes and I see them 60Mi from home base so it must be profitable.
When these guys get their grease for free its just because the resturants don't get paid for it, probably they have to pay to have it removed, and its pretty high in the novelty factor.
I agree with you, My formal training is a COBOL programmer, and I've written Perl programs that I consider readable even by COBOL standards. These are not one-timer scripts, but real world applications.
Sure Perl can be unreadable, and I'll admit if you want to write the most unreadable code humanly possible that actualy does something, Perl is probabaly the language for you. Try writing poetry in VB!
I doubt that a roll-up tv screen or monitor will ever be practical. Firstly, every pixel will have to be driven and that requires an electical connection. A 1024 X 768 will require atleast 786,433 electical contections, and wires made of metal. I expect serious problems with metal-fatigue induced conductor fractures, for roll-up displays. I'll admit that the ribbon cable inside a printer goes through a lot but it doesn't have a quarter of a million conductors either. This has a lot of cool potential applications, but roll-up displayed will not be marketable
My local guy's concern is mostly service. Sales is a customer service, not a profit center so by the time you add shipping and handling to the internet sales, he's within a couple of bucks and you get it right now.
There are also advantages to having a relationship with a flesh and blood guy if you need help. Who knows you might get laid off and need a job real quick.
Yes my original banners are there and yes, if someone clicked them we would make money (if the banner's company wasn't bankrupt that is) so technicaly we are potentialy get paid for content that is no longer available on our site.
a bit off topic but here goes, while don't the tv ad sponsers negotiate revenues for time shifted programing?
My site not only has the copywright notice on the bottom of the page, but add banners for companies long since bankrupt durring the DOT-bomb phase of the internet; but they are archived for posterity by the wayback machine. so the little (c) is ignored
IANAL but I don't think you can sue someone because they truthfully reported that you were stupid, or did something embaressing a few years ago; but then again I didn't they you could be sued for serving your hot coffee hot either.
But on the other hand, someone just asked me if I might work on some web pages they had about a year ago, and sure enough there they were, with just a few broken images, This could be usefull.
We'll just have to remember that anything posted is forever now, or at least until they run out of storage space
I bet they thought no one that has more than a dozen brain cells would even consider benchmarking an 800. Wasn't realy a benchmark more of quick peek at speed. a Real benchmarking is concerned with what tunes-it up also. There is probably more that could have been wrung out of the chip, motherboard and bios issues ect. All we realy know right now is that it runs with the big dogs out of the box. A little later we'll find its sweet-spot.
You forgot having an actual product or service that is not only sellable, but not given away for free. Seems to me that a lot of the dotGones had business plans that was only Blue Smoke and mirrors and we know how far BS will get you.
Holy Cow Batman!, if you could check on your bandwidth consumption on a regular basis, you would have a pretty fair idea if your billed bandwith was even in touch with reality
They can only get away with flat-rate pricing if they can amortize it across every cable modem that shares the high-speed line they bought.
Actualy according to our teleco guy, he said ISP's usualy plan for one b channel (honest 56K)for every 30 normal users or 10 bussiness users. Surfing the web when this stuff started had a low duty cycle, typicaly you would read for 3 or 4 times the time you downloaded. Local cacheing and proxy servers helped immensly.
Now there is so much more bandwidth being used, everything from animated gif's to flash on otherwise plain site hurt as much as MP3's and ISO's because everybody get them. Actualy there is a lot of software now that just assumes an internet connection to be there available for it. Now there are alot of machine that'll never really let an internet connection just set idle.
I still think these guys have a lot of un-lit fiber and unused lambda's on lit fiber's to go around, they just need more paying users or capital to justify the equipment to light it up. kind of a chicken or the egg thing.
SuSE is used predominately in european contries, although I'm a yank I first used SUSE many years ago because of the breadth of software in the distro. As far as YAST2 it works good when it works, but is painfully slow to start up. And it is proprietary software, not open source. Now its the biggest differentiation between SuSE and the other distro's, and why they charge what they do.
Personaly I welcome the diferent distro's standardizing, it lets the different distro's work on what differenciates them rather than re-inventing the wheel all of the time.
If we want to ban just voyeuristic films of private citizens in various states of undress, then a law should be written that narrowly targets that.
IANAL and its been a while since I was concerned about photography laws but I thought that anytime you photographed and published or distributed anything taken of a private type citizen (i.e. non public personality type) in a private area such as a private home or photography studio you need a Model's release period or your subject to legal action. In public spaces people are pretty much fair game except in Ohio where they have an up-skirts law preventing those types of photography (there are probably others that I'm not aware of).
Also I though it was federal law that requires proof that subjects photographed nude or with genitalia exposted be 18 years old or more.
I bet this one could give department store security cameras a problem.
The.prn thing is clearly laughable I have a site http://shortkick2.nav.to hosted in the us I think, it's a freebie site but registered in Tobago, whos jurisdition would it fall under? There is plenty of registers that'll sell you a.sex,.xxx or.porn, but the stupid ISP's only point DNS at traditional root level domains.If ICANN had a clue, porn sites would jump in a heartbeat.
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Actualy we even knew where the elemants that we had'nt discovered would be in the periodic table and enough about there properties that we could predict what they would be like so we could recognise them when we did.
silicon is the only element that even come close to carbon versatility in make polymer chains any life form that uses silcon would only have a smaller percentage in it's polymerchains; they'd still be mostly carbon based.
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I have to use quickbooks 2002 basic here at work and the part I actualy see is a web browser, probably a modified version of IE. It says so as it fires up Opening Quickbooks Web Browser. You do the same thing with gnuCash, open a web browser to use it. sure Quickbooks uses a lot more java and javascript or VB and hides it extremely. Linux has all of the right tools, Mozillia, apache, java, Postgress/MySql/Oracle not to mention eperl and php. Actualy I think most of the heavy lifting in the quickbooks gui is done with java.
I went rounds with my credit union about cleared transactions basicaly they said local transaction have to be available in 2 business days,per federal regualtions, but don't have to stay available! I'm not a banking lawyer so I got a new bank.
This is going to sound like flamebait but here goes, I don't trust any operating system that doesn't require a root password. Maybe you trust your users that much, I sure don't trust mine. It just flabbergasts me that while the WinME ask's for password you can just hit cancel and proceed to destroy the machine. Actualy I'm not sure I trust me that much either; the root password also lets you know things are getting serious.
try installing and removing Gator from your windows box, formating the hard-drive is the only way that I have found to remove Gator; no linux app is that hard to get rid of!
XP runs all Windows I doubt it. Most windows software has not been made with any attempt for security awareness. One of the big changes for XP is a modicum of security, little thing like seperate user profiles. From what I've heard most windows software won't even install on XP; you have to get a special XP version. The only thing I run in my personal windows partition is my scanner and its software is written for windows 3.1, I'm sure XP would choke on that.
I agree there is nothing upstart about Linux; it was on my desktop prior to Windows95. The windows users I know, when they see linux, they are envious; 4 desktops on one monitor, much easier copy-paste operations and habitualy running four or five applications that would hobble a windows OSed machine.
If we show them stuff like that, we'd get a lot more converts.
But I'll have your ass sacked in no time if you install an unstable version of the product and corrupt the database in this process. The question revolved more arround setting up a separate DB with data from the production DB primarily for reporting. It might be profitable for him to set up a sandbox server with MySQL 4.0 and throw the queries from the live system at it. Prove it works stable at 2 or 3 times the present load, then add in the features you want and retest. The end result is he might not know if its stable for my apps or not but he'll now if its stable for his. If something does blow up, the production data is safe and he'll has documented retesting to cover his ass with. Who knows by the time he's done testing; maybe MySQL 4.0 will be declair production stable and his apps will be done and tested.
It took me almost an hour to remove the 3.5" disk he had jammed upside down inside the mechanism My granddaughter did the same thing to mine about two years ago. the drive had a plastic latch that broke to discriminate between a floppy inserted right side up and up side down. because the latch was broken the drive would except a floppy upside down if the sliding cover was removed and would jam if the cover was still there. I found that if I re-formatted the floppies upside down they would read/write fine upside down but not right side up sort of security thru obscurity thing.
Exactly how much used vegetable oil do we have lying around to convert into biodiesel? probably not much, used grease is almost universaly collected, filtered and refined for reuse in other products. Recyclers of grease in my area drive there trucks on routes and I see them 60Mi from home base so it must be profitable.
When these guys get their grease for free its just because the resturants don't get paid for it, probably they have to pay to have it removed, and its pretty high in the novelty factor.
I agree with you, My formal training is a COBOL programmer, and I've written Perl programs that I consider readable even by COBOL standards. These are not one-timer scripts, but real world applications.
Sure Perl can be unreadable, and I'll admit if you want to write the most unreadable code humanly possible that actualy does something, Perl is probabaly the language for you. Try writing poetry in VB!
I doubt that a roll-up tv screen or monitor will ever be practical. Firstly, every pixel will have to be driven and that requires an electical connection. A 1024 X 768 will require atleast 786,433 electical contections, and wires made of metal. I expect serious problems with metal-fatigue induced conductor fractures, for roll-up displays. I'll admit that the ribbon cable inside a printer goes through a lot but it doesn't have a quarter of a million conductors either.
This has a lot of cool potential applications, but roll-up displayed will not be marketable
My local guy's concern is mostly service. Sales is a customer service, not a profit center so by the time you add shipping and handling to the internet sales, he's within a couple of bucks and you get it right now.
There are also advantages to having a relationship with a flesh and blood guy if you need help. Who knows you might get laid off and need a job real quick.
Yes my original banners are there and yes, if someone clicked them we would make money (if the banner's company wasn't bankrupt that is) so technicaly we are potentialy get paid for content that is no longer available on our site.
a bit off topic but here goes, while don't the tv ad sponsers negotiate revenues for time shifted programing?
My site not only has the copywright notice on the bottom of the page, but add banners for companies long since bankrupt durring the DOT-bomb phase of the internet; but they are archived for posterity by the wayback machine. so the little (c) is ignored
IANAL but I don't think you can sue someone because they truthfully reported that you were stupid, or did something embaressing a few years ago; but then again I didn't they you could be sued for serving your hot coffee hot either.
But on the other hand, someone just asked me if I might work on some web pages they had about a year ago, and sure enough there they were, with just a few broken images, This could be usefull.
We'll just have to remember that anything posted is forever now, or at least until they run out of storage space
I bet they thought no one that has more than a dozen brain cells would even consider benchmarking an 800. Wasn't realy a benchmark more of quick peek at speed. a Real benchmarking is concerned with what tunes-it up also. There is probably more that could have been wrung out of the chip, motherboard and bios issues ect. All we realy know right now is that it runs with the big dogs out of the box. A little later we'll find its sweet-spot.
I agree, I remember back in the old days when a self-taught Basic programer could actualy almost understand 6809-680X0 assembler language.
You forgot having an actual product or service that is not only sellable, but not given away for free. Seems to me that a lot of the dotGones had business plans that was only Blue Smoke and mirrors and we know how far BS will get you.
Holy Cow Batman!, if you could check on your bandwidth consumption on a regular basis, you would have a pretty fair idea if your billed bandwith was even in touch with reality
They can only get away with flat-rate pricing if they can amortize it across every cable modem that shares the high-speed line they bought.
Actualy according to our teleco guy, he said ISP's usualy plan for one b channel (honest 56K)for every 30 normal users or 10 bussiness users. Surfing the web when this stuff started had a low duty cycle, typicaly you would read for 3 or 4 times the time you downloaded. Local cacheing and proxy servers helped immensly.
Now there is so much more bandwidth being used, everything from animated gif's to flash on otherwise plain site hurt as much as MP3's and ISO's because everybody get them. Actualy there is a lot of software now that just assumes an internet connection to be there available for it. Now there are alot of machine that'll never really let an internet connection just set idle.
I still think these guys have a lot of un-lit fiber and unused lambda's on lit fiber's to go around, they just need more paying users or capital to justify the equipment to light it up. kind of a chicken or the egg thing.
SuSE is used predominately in european contries, although I'm a yank I first used SUSE many years ago because of the breadth of software in the distro. As far as YAST2 it works good when it works, but is painfully slow to start up. And it is proprietary software, not open source. Now its the biggest differentiation between SuSE and the other distro's, and why they charge what they do.
Personaly I welcome the diferent distro's standardizing, it lets the different distro's work on what differenciates them rather than re-inventing the wheel all of the time.
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If we want to ban just voyeuristic films of private citizens in various states of undress, then a law should be written that narrowly targets that.
.prn thing is clearly laughable I have a site http://shortkick2.nav.to hosted in the us I think, it's a freebie site but registered in Tobago, whos jurisdition would it fall under? There is plenty of registers that'll sell you a .sex, .xxx or .porn, but the stupid ISP's only point DNS at traditional root level domains.If ICANN had a clue, porn sites would jump in a heartbeat.
IANAL and its been a while since I was concerned about photography laws but I thought that anytime you photographed and published or distributed anything taken of a private type citizen (i.e. non public personality type) in a private area such as a private home or photography studio you need a Model's release period or your subject to legal action. In public spaces people are pretty much fair game except in Ohio where they have an up-skirts law preventing those types of photography (there are probably others that I'm not aware of).
Also I though it was federal law that requires proof that subjects photographed nude or with genitalia exposted be 18 years old or more.
I bet this one could give department store security cameras a problem.
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Actualy we even knew where the elemants that we had'nt discovered would be in the periodic table and enough about there properties that we could predict what they would be like so we could recognise them when we did.
silicon is the only element that even come close to carbon versatility in make polymer chains any life form that uses silcon would only have a smaller percentage in it's polymerchains; they'd still be mostly carbon based.