get yourself a webserver (apache) and a machine, then set up ftp and put that machine on the net, then when you download stuff from the net, just put them on that PC, and since it's on the net, google will index it too. So when you search for your stuff, just search in google on the web.
I have installed machines for people and when they look at me funny when I tell them it's $50 for a hardware firewall/router from Fry's, I tell them that if there's no firewall, I'll never work on their machines, and that all begging for help will be answered with: "Do you have a hardware firewall yet?"
Now, I have done that, because, you know, the customer is alwasy right, but I have alwasys advised them against it, and I always tell them they are most likely going to have to reinstall before the year is out.
a square meter. a square meter is the base of a cube meter. The cube meter is the volume of one ton of fresh water at sea level at the equator at zero degrees Celcius. 1 ton is 1000 kilo gram. each kilo gram is thus 10cm*10cm*10cm, which happens to also be a liter. 1 gram is 1 millionth of a ton, of 1cm*1cm*1cm. so if a bottle of water is 1000 grams (1 kilo gram), it is also 1 liter. So now I know the volume, the weight, and the measurement of the container. Pretty nifty no? Density is expressed in a ratio from fresh water at zero degrees at sea level at the equator. Let's say the density of velveta cheese is 1.001. With this, I could tell you the size of a kilo of velveeta, and how large a container to use, and thus how much paper to use to wrap it in. Then I could express this in how many per A0, A1, or A2, since they are derived from the meter. Get it?
Yeah, but without the hackers/inventors/geeks/tinkerers, we would still be running around in skins hunting animals with medium-sized rocks. Who do you made companies possible to begin with? No fire, no wheels, no roads, no agriculture since no cooking since no fire: no commerce, no companies.
Besides, you would no be reading about it, since: no internet, because no phones and no electricity, and no printed paper (why do you need paper if no writing?) and therefore no printing press.
You would have never found out, since all knowledge would be passed from mouth to mouth, and mountain ranges and oceans get in the way of that.
Wait... No Slashdot? Could it be? Dang, fire the guy who invented fire...
Slashdot and the rest of civilization are here only because geeks tinkered.
The great paradox: If no geeks: no slashdot; geeks: therefore Slashdot. But geeks compalin about slashdot, so if no slashdot, no geeks.
Geeks therefore Slashdot. The next step in evolution.
Just so you know, the corporate necessity out there is greed... Oh, I have to be PC. It's maximizing shareholder return on investment. Anything else and they have a NPO, or a group of hobbyists.
Lest folks rag on hobbyists, they are the ones who brought you:
-Airplane -Car -Phone -Electricity It's a long list, you know.
How much do you want to bet that whoever came up with fire was a geek? How about the wheel? How about writing. Dang, I don't see a bunch of grunting jocks inventing writing, even today.
By the way, once people understand that about companies, it's not that hard to figure out why the world runs the way it does.
Well, that and religion.
On an aside: my solution for Iraq: flood the country with 100 billion in small bills. This will really get rid of the bad guys. They'll be too busy killing each other amassing their fortunes, and then whisking themselves off to a chalet in Lausanne. Then the rest of the people can have normal lives again. The only other thing thy need is a small and deadly military. Why are we trying to hire 200,000 of them for a pittance with AKs and old uniforms when what you really need is 20,000 of them with 1500/mo salaries, tanks, helicopters, and kick ass officers. Then you make them into a shock and rapid deployment force. Also, you need to make sure that they are NOT under US command, but have their own command. Like the Kurds. Kurds fight well in the Kurdish armies because they fight with Kurds, for Kurds. Ah, I feel better now... Back to work.
It's not Googzilla, it's Goozilla (pronounced, japanese style, gozira, just like, dare I say it? Naw...) Determining the ethymology of the name is left as an exercise for the reader.
The default start page will be gmail.com, since it would be foolhardy of them not to put the google search bar in the email engine.
Oh, and in an attempt to compete with Microsoft, they will come out with the Google Desktop Engine, with integrated search of your hard-drives. Also, they will, or course, have a Google Office, a Google Mail Server, a Google Business Server... Dang, why don't they just buy Microsoft and rename it GoogleSoft.
Ah! They should buy the world!!! And Mars too, and all people would be Googlites!!!!/me goes stand in the corner muttering to self: "I will not let my imagination run wild. I will be assimilated... Yes Bill, yes Bill.../me sobs.
>I'm currently working in a big project that involves creating tons of reports
Ahh, there's your problem right there. Now, the reports are static, meaning they are standards, run at specific intervals.
Later, though, and much sooner that you expect, the requirements will change to doing a lot of data manipulation on the fly.
If you want to make a truly workable system, design an interface for user-wuery creation, and allow them to save their queries, in custom/personal folders. Also allow them to share their queries with others.
I know, it's a pain, but it gives you extreme flexibility in the long run.
A plus is to allow the reports to be converted to png graphics on the fly, so that they are very hard to modify.
Another plus is that you can standardize the SQL and thus ensure compatibility across multiple data sources.
Watch out: make sure the presentation language is portable itself and has a long run-life. PHP and PERL are best. Python is good, but it's harder to find programmers. Java is poor for that, but serviceable. Also, SUN isn't in the best shape these days, so Java's future is shaky 5+ years from now. You can also use jsp, but same applies.
Go for Apache on the web server. Can't go wrong there. If Java then Tomcat.
Stay clear of asp and.net, since you are platform dependent.
As far as stored procedures, ok, but be really careful: they are hard as hell to debug after a while.
If you must use stored procedures, document the hell out of them , make nice diagrams, and do separate text documentation explaining the reasoning behind each one. (this in fact applie to all code written by your shop. But you knew that.)
Finally, take a look at openoffice and its db access. It might be that what you are trying to do might be feasible with it.
Except that Bob in accounting is also Mr Robert Bigchotte CFO and golf buddy to CEO. Then all of a sudden his IM and custom excel add-ons are perfectly fine. Oh, and let's not forget his online poker...
if you had read the artiicle on motoman, you would have noticed that it's for email. The biker slows down in town and picks up/delivers email. Then, back at the main city, the stuff is sent out to the real internet.
This reminds me of the carrier pigeon transport protocol thingy, except without pigeons...
No, but let's say you spend $700 per year (that's roughly $2 per day. (companies feel this, their spam-deleting employees are on payroll when deleting spam) Now, multiply that by 100 million people. That's 70 billion dollars wasted annually.
Now, put 10,000 spammers in jail a year at 70K each. That's 700 million a year on jail costs.
So, for 1 percent of the cost of spam you can effectively deal with it.
For the sake of argument, let's say the cost of prosecution, jail, and all the other fees is really 2 billion per year. You'd still be saving the US 68 billion dollars a year. That would be enough to pay for the war in Iraq, or the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, or a kick ass space program.
I say put the spammers in the slammer and send the keys to Mars for the rovers to play with.
PS: For environmental reasons, the keys could be melted and reused for raw material:)
Ah, fax machine. Web site. If you are a deaf nigerian, the odds are you don't have 30 grand. But if you did, you'd be able to scribble something for your brother/dad/uncle/cousin/business partner to the effect of: can you call this guy and buy the machines?
Again, it's like saying that a deaf american with 8 million dollars has to make a tty call to order 12 laptops from Dell. Yeah, I think he has an assistant.
Anyway, I think that using a TTY without being disabled should carry a hefty sentence.
Slashdot Mirror
Duude,
get yourself a webserver (apache) and a machine, then set up ftp and put that machine on the net, then when you download stuff from the net, just put them on that PC, and since it's on the net, google will index it too. So when you search for your stuff, just search in google on the web.
Your private stuff goes on your USB key.
Your harddrive is expendable.
In the wizard of id, likewise:
... release the dogs.
Guard: Your Majesty, animal activists are at the gate making demands again...
King: Sighs... Oh, all right...
King:
My ad-blocker shielded my eyes from such blatant bulk marketing.
Whew, thanks mozilla.
I agree.
I have installed machines for people and when they look at me funny when I tell them it's $50 for a hardware firewall/router from Fry's, I tell them that if there's no firewall, I'll never work on their machines, and that all begging for help will be answered with: "Do you have a hardware firewall yet?"
Now, I have done that, because, you know, the customer is alwasy right, but I have alwasys advised them against it, and I always tell them they are most likely going to have to reinstall before the year is out.
Yeah, well, that was a stretch already for US people. I'm glad you striaghtenes us out, at least :)
Ever try folding then unfolding. You get a nice line. Did I say to cut the paper while folded?
ever tried folding?
a square meter. a square meter is the base of a cube meter. The cube meter is the volume of one ton of fresh water at sea level at the equator at zero degrees Celcius. 1 ton is 1000 kilo gram. each kilo gram is thus 10cm*10cm*10cm, which happens to also be a liter. 1 gram is 1 millionth of a ton, of 1cm*1cm*1cm. so if a bottle of water is 1000 grams (1 kilo gram), it is also 1 liter. So now I know the volume, the weight, and the measurement of the container. Pretty nifty no?
Density is expressed in a ratio from fresh water at zero degrees at sea level at the equator. Let's say the density of velveta cheese is 1.001. With this, I could tell you the size of a kilo of velveeta, and how large a container to use, and thus how much paper to use to wrap it in. Then I could express this in how many per A0, A1, or A2, since they are derived from the meter. Get it?
Class dismissed.
Yeah, but without the hackers/inventors/geeks/tinkerers, we would still be running around in skins hunting animals with medium-sized rocks. Who do you made companies possible to begin with?
No fire, no wheels, no roads, no agriculture since no cooking since no fire: no commerce, no companies.
Besides, you would no be reading about it, since: no internet, because no phones and no electricity, and no printed paper (why do you need paper if no writing?) and therefore no printing press.
You would have never found out, since all knowledge would be passed from mouth to mouth, and mountain ranges and oceans get in the way of that.
Wait... No Slashdot? Could it be? Dang, fire the guy who invented fire...
Slashdot and the rest of civilization are here only because geeks tinkered.
The great paradox: If no geeks: no slashdot; geeks: therefore Slashdot. But geeks compalin about slashdot, so if no slashdot, no geeks.
Geeks therefore Slashdot. The next step in evolution.
Just so you know, the corporate necessity out there is greed... Oh, I have to be PC. It's maximizing shareholder return on investment.
Anything else and they have a NPO, or a group of hobbyists.
Lest folks rag on hobbyists, they are the ones who brought you:
-Airplane
-Car
-Phone
-Electricity
It's a long list, you know.
How much do you want to bet that whoever came up with fire was a geek? How about the wheel? How about writing. Dang, I don't see a bunch of grunting jocks inventing writing, even today.
By the way, once people understand that about companies, it's not that hard to figure out why the world runs the way it does.
Well, that and religion.
On an aside: my solution for Iraq: flood the country with 100 billion in small bills. This will really get rid of the bad guys. They'll be too busy killing each other amassing their fortunes, and then whisking themselves off to a chalet in Lausanne. Then the rest of the people can have normal lives again. The only other thing thy need is a small and deadly military. Why are we trying to hire 200,000 of them for a pittance with AKs and old uniforms when what you really need is 20,000 of them with 1500/mo salaries, tanks, helicopters, and kick ass officers. Then you make them into a shock and rapid deployment force. Also, you need to make sure that they are NOT under US command, but have their own command. Like the Kurds. Kurds fight well in the Kurdish armies because they fight with Kurds, for Kurds.
Ah, I feel better now... Back to work.
It's not Googlux, it's Googolux.
/me goes stand in the corner muttering to self: "I will not let my imagination run wild. I will be assimilated... Yes Bill, yes Bill... /me sobs.
It's not Googzilla, it's Goozilla (pronounced, japanese style, gozira, just like, dare I say it? Naw...) Determining the ethymology of the name is left as an exercise for the reader.
The default start page will be gmail.com, since it would be foolhardy of them not to put the google search bar in the email engine.
Oh, and in an attempt to compete with Microsoft, they will come out with the Google Desktop Engine, with integrated search of your hard-drives. Also, they will, or course, have a Google Office, a Google Mail Server, a Google Business Server...
Dang, why don't they just buy Microsoft and rename it GoogleSoft.
Ah! They should buy the world!!! And Mars too, and all people would be Googlites!!!!
>I'm currently working in a big project that involves creating tons of reports
.net, since you are platform dependent.
Ahh, there's your problem right there.
Now, the reports are static, meaning they are standards, run at specific intervals.
Later, though, and much sooner that you expect, the requirements will change to doing a lot of data manipulation on the fly.
If you want to make a truly workable system, design an interface for user-wuery creation, and allow them to save their queries, in custom/personal folders. Also allow them to share their queries with others.
I know, it's a pain, but it gives you extreme flexibility in the long run.
A plus is to allow the reports to be converted to png graphics on the fly, so that they are very hard to modify.
Another plus is that you can standardize the SQL and thus ensure compatibility across multiple data sources.
Watch out: make sure the presentation language is portable itself and has a long run-life. PHP and PERL are best. Python is good, but it's harder to find programmers. Java is poor for that, but serviceable. Also, SUN isn't in the best shape these days, so Java's future is shaky 5+ years from now. You can also use jsp, but same applies.
Go for Apache on the web server. Can't go wrong there. If Java then Tomcat.
Stay clear of asp and
As far as stored procedures, ok, but be really careful: they are hard as hell to debug after a while.
If you must use stored procedures, document the hell out of them , make nice diagrams, and do separate text documentation explaining the reasoning behind each one. (this in fact applie to all code written by your shop. But you knew that.)
Finally, take a look at openoffice and its db access. It might be that what you are trying to do might be feasible with it.
Except that Bob in accounting is also Mr Robert Bigchotte CFO and golf buddy to CEO. Then all of a sudden his IM and custom excel add-ons are perfectly fine. Oh, and let's not forget his online poker...
how about the first person to write it on /.?
if you had read the artiicle on motoman, you would have noticed that it's for email. The biker slows down in town and picks up/delivers email. Then, back at the main city, the stuff is sent out to the real internet.
This reminds me of the carrier pigeon transport protocol thingy, except without pigeons...
Note that the funniest things in life are the ones that repeat over and over, no matter what you do to try to fix them.
I think it's superior humor in view of the focus on security at MS in the past 2 years (has it been that long already?).
Also, it is obvious in the posting that this is not new. Yet Another means there has been umpteeth before...
Cool typo. should be "detain indefinitely"...
They can already arrest whoever they want. Heck, they don't actually need to arrest, they just "detain undefinitely".
Well, at least you don't have ADHD. You would have been bored of clicking after about 15 seconds. I don't knwo how you managed a few weeks.
88 errors in the html when validating with validator.w3.org/ in HTML 4.01 Transitional.
You'd think they would have done a better job, no?
Oh, and as someone mentioned before, css does not validate either.
as long as they can identify xml-rpc payloads. Otherwise, it's not going to be pretty.
No, but let's say you spend $700 per year (that's roughly $2 per day. (companies feel this, their spam-deleting employees are on payroll when deleting spam)
:)
Now, multiply that by 100 million people. That's 70 billion dollars wasted annually.
Now, put 10,000 spammers in jail a year at 70K each. That's 700 million a year on jail costs.
So, for 1 percent of the cost of spam you can effectively deal with it.
For the sake of argument, let's say the cost of prosecution, jail, and all the other fees is really 2 billion per year. You'd still be saving the US 68 billion dollars a year. That would be enough to pay for the war in Iraq, or the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, or a kick ass space program.
I say put the spammers in the slammer and send the keys to Mars for the rovers to play with.
PS: For environmental reasons, the keys could be melted and reused for raw material
Oh, they can dial allright. But how do they get the random password?
Ah, fax machine.
Web site.
If you are a deaf nigerian, the odds are you don't have 30 grand. But if you did, you'd be able to scribble something for your brother/dad/uncle/cousin/business partner to the effect of: can you call this guy and buy the machines?
Again, it's like saying that a deaf american with 8 million dollars has to make a tty call to order 12 laptops from Dell. Yeah, I think he has an assistant.
Anyway, I think that using a TTY without being disabled should carry a hefty sentence.
And how do the deaf dial the 800 number without using tty? mmm?