I hate getting stuck at those sites. Unfortunately, pop-ups and pop-unders are becoming all the rage. I hope they FTC can use their authority to close down some more of these sites.
I graduated from a Liberal Arts college. My degree is a Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science.
While I recieved a lot of education in areas outside of Computer Science, I spent more than half of my time studying CS and Math. I wouldn't say I know a little about everything and nothing about anything specific. Quite the opposite in fact. I know as much or more about CS than folks from more focused backgrounds.
I do believe there is a value in learning outside of your particular vocation. For instance, I know work for a large financial firm. I think that the fact that I took some accounting and economics in college helps me understand and be more effective in my current career. Not only can I develop software for them, but I can actually understand what they are talking about. CS is more than just coding, you have to be able to communicate, and you have to be able to understand the subject matter of your work. I think by experiencing a wider range of courses in college, it helps you gain undertanding of various subject matter quicker than if you hadn't had that exposure.
My 2 cents of course, and YMMV, but I am quite pleased with how well my education prepared me for a successful career.
I doubt Microsoft's EULA is enforcable. I do not see how they can legally restrict free speach in this manner. (At least in the US - hello 1st amendment!) And even if they did, how could they prove you used Frontpage to do it?
I can write a page in my favorite text editor that can do anything Frontpage does. So, how could they possibly prove you wrote it in Frontpage? What are they going to do, storm your house and confiscate your hard drive!?!? I don't think so...
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No, I don't think so. The article you are refering to was actually about building a server with 1 TB of storage for under $10,000. I don't think it had anything to do with clustering. See it here:
That was over 2 months ago, so the price is probably even less than $10K now...
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The more interesting part is perhaps where it will go in the future. Many people point out that it won't take too much extra computing power before your PDA can present HTML as well as a desktop browser. This is all well and good, but it doesn't take into account the extra funtions that are planned for WAP such as location based services, phone functionality etc. These are things that have no place in HTML, so a separate language of some sort is probably the best way to go.
Absolutely. In fact, a Palm or newer cell phone can do a decent job as an HTML browser. Remember that you don't need a 1ghz P3 to run Lynx or your favorite text browser. The real issue would then become getting the data to the wireless device. Existing and future wireless data transfer technology has enough bandwidth to support decent text based web browsing.
The more interesting part is perhaps where it will go in the future. Many people point out that it won't take too much extra computing power before your PDA can present HTML as well as a desktop browser. This is all well and good, but it doesn't take into account the extra funtions that are planned for WAP such as location based services, phone functionality etc. These are things that have no place in HTML, so a separate language of some sort is probably the best way to go.
I don't buy it at all. HTML is the data, not how it is interfaced to the device. The browser should adapt to the device, not the data itself.
This is like saying, lets build a new language for every variation we come across of the same problem. It doesn't make any sense.
Stick with developing HTML based content, WAP is not going anywhere. By the time it is ready for prime time, we will have devices that can surf the REAL web.
Amen. Jakarta is a walk in the park compared to installing Websphere. Even IBM's own consultants couldn't get Websphere 3.0.2 to install and run on Solaris...
I would never offer to take a cut in pay or perks to telecommute. Often times you have to work more and harder as a telecommuter to prove that you aren't slacking at home. The economy may be slowing, but it shouldn't be THAT hard to find a job closer to home (or where you want to move) if you can't stand the commute.
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It was interesting reading the story of how Slashdot remained up. I must have been one of the folks who tried to hit it at the time it died because for a while I couldn't get in on Tuesday. After that though, it was pretty smooth
sailing the rest of the day. CNN.com was probably the only other site which remained live for most of the day. I couldn't get to WashingtonPost.com, ABCNews.com or many others until later in the evening.
It is really a testament to open source software that a system built (almost?) entirely from free, open software was able to stand up to an amazing user and processing load as well as or better than many other news sites.
Congrats on a job well done!
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Not all code is built so poorly. In fact, most code is built quite well.
Just like things in the physical world, code almost always does what it was built to do quite well. For example: Microsoft Word is an excellent Word Processor, but a poor/pathetic drawing program.
Also just like things in the physical world, code is used for things it was not intended to be used for. Have you ever driven your Geo Metro through a river? Have you ever driven a tractor trailer over an old wooden 1 lane bridge? No, probably not. You would be crazy to try something like that.
People try to do things with software all the time that it was never designed to do. That is a big reason why software fails so often.
Of course most of these "things software wasn't designed to do" aren't always documented. For instance, Outlook Express is a decent mail program, but did you know that it almost always fails when you have more than 10000 emails in your database? It is not documented anywhere by Microsoft, but they have admitted to myself and others on their tech support line that Outlook Express fails due to faults in the mail database. Their theory is that OE was never meant to be used "that much" - so you should use the "industrial strength" Outlook instead.
If only we all knew what the true design limitations of the software we use were we would be much better off. In the physical world, this is very easy to measure. That bridge you just drove over to get to work? It has a nice little sign that says "capacity 6 tons". You would be a little nuts to drive a 40 ton cement truck over it now wouldn't you? People do that sort of thing with their computers all the time and just never know that they are doing it...
I'd rather have a Cube than share an Office...
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Cube's really aren't that bad. Really.
In the DC area, real estate is expensive enough that you typically are given a choice when you join a company. Either you have a small cube to yourself, or you share a somewhat larger office with someone else.
I work much better in my own little world. Sharing an office causes countless distractions. Twice as many calls, twice as many visitors, half as much room, arguments that the heat or AC is two high or low, etc. I find it much less productive.
A cube to yourself is your own little world. You can spread your books, papers, disks, and work stuff all over the place without regard for someone else's space. You can come and go as you please, and you don't have to be interrupted by someone else's calls or visitors.
Talkback data shows that recent 0.9.2 branch builds are more stable than Netscape 4.78
It is pretty sad that they are comparing their reliability to Netscape's reliability. When Mozilla has less issues than Internet Explorer, then we can talk...
But seriously, I have to wonder how much you could see with the camera, being that it is not lighted inside your body. It better have some pretty decent lighting attached.
The concept is called the "dollar vote". Spend your money somewhere where the vendor will sell an OS free or Linux loaded PC. They do exist. "Vote" with your purchase in support of these vendors.
Dell is just one (albeit a big one) of thousands of manufacturers. If you don't like their offerings, go elsewhere, or build it yourself!
The minute Napster had to put those filters in place people left in droves. Its great that they are trying to do something to stay on their feet, but it is pointless now.
Anyone who was serious about music swapping has long since left Napster and found greener pastures.
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Clearly the author was not scientific in their study. But the anecdotal evidence that they presented - namely that marked advertising such as Google's adwords - doesn't work.
My own experience has been in using Google's adwords twice, with several different messages. I never achieved more than a 0.7% click through ratio. At the price they charge, that is about $1 per click through. It just isn't cost effective.
It would be nice to see a more scientific study comparing the different choices of advertising media, using the same target web site, the same advertising copy (the same message), and where applicable the same graphics. Now THAT would be extremely usefull.
Still, as limited as this study is, it concurs with my experience, so I believe it to be valid.
Like anything that competes with RIAA's Monopoly..
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They think it is illegal - and they probably are right. The RIAA has lobbied for years to have the laws of the US reflect their interests.
Their efforts have paid off and now they own their market. Any competiton can be quashed at any time.
It is an enviable position. One I bet many companies wish they had. I wish *my* company had that position.:-)
Graphics ATI Mobility-C graphics controller with 4MB SGRAM
Hard Drive 10 Gigabyte
Multimedia 6x max speed DVD-ROM
Modem Integrated V.90/56K modem
Retail: $1199.
Add a $25 10/100 Ethernet Card, and if for some reason you actually have a Firewire drive, add the appropriate card. For 99.9% of the computing population, that won't be necessary.
Total Cost: $1224, with a larger, better screen, and a DVD Player
If you can't deal with the track stick, add an optical mouse for $25 more. Still, its a better deal than an iBook anyday.
I was an Apple advocate/zealot for 15 years. Finally in the past year, I saw through the haze and realized I was paying a fortune for Apple hardware and software that was no better than what I could get on the PC side of things.
Now I see, Apple is taking their customers to the cleaners again. I cannot believe that they would expect their customers to want to pay hundreds more for a monitor. Granted I've seen their 22" (@ $4000!) in MicroCenter and it is Gorgeous - but still.
So, now a quick check of the Apple Store shows that the cheapest 466 mhz Power Mac G4 w/Apple Monitor is $2299. I can get one amazing Athlon or P4 system with monitor for that cost. We're talking 1.3ghz or faster, oodles of HD and RAM, and a sweet 21" CRT.
Its insanity, pure insanity. I cannot believe that they haven't scared away all of their customers with "advancements" like this. Please, before you buy, look at Dell, IBM or HP and see what you'd get for that same $2299. You'll be very surprised.
I agree absolutely. I supose I didn't get this across before, but we operate similarly. Everyone gets access to their CPanel3 Control Panel, and those clients who request it get access to the shell.
Being a long time consumer and now provider of web hosting services I've found that you just need to have shell access available.
I've never even considered hosting on a service that didn't offer shell accounts - in fact, when I started hosting my own websites there really weren't any HTML Control Panels. You had to do everything yourself. Now with Control Panels there is an option to do it through a GUI, but for a lot of things you still want/need to do through a shell. There is only so much a control panel can do, and where it falls short, there is always the command line.
Having said that though, control panels like CPanel3, Cobalt Raq's CP, Webmin, etc are great for doing a wide variety of common tasks. Adding users, subdomains, viewing logs, file management, statistics, etc. Doing it through a GUI is nice, fast and far easier for the vast majority of users. So now we use and offer CPanel3 since it generally makes life easier.
I definitely believe that having both is preferable for power users. For less experienced users, they will probably only ever use the Control Panel, but should they want to use the shell, it should be there.
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Good!
I hate getting stuck at those sites. Unfortunately, pop-ups and pop-unders are becoming all the rage. I hope they FTC can use their authority to close down some more of these sites.
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I graduated from a Liberal Arts college. My degree is a Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science.
While I recieved a lot of education in areas outside of Computer Science, I spent more than half of my time studying CS and Math. I wouldn't say I know a little about everything and nothing about anything specific. Quite the opposite in fact. I know as much or more about CS than folks from more focused backgrounds.
I do believe there is a value in learning outside of your particular vocation. For instance, I know work for a large financial firm. I think that the fact that I took some accounting and economics in college helps me understand and be more effective in my current career. Not only can I develop software for them, but I can actually understand what they are talking about. CS is more than just coding, you have to be able to communicate, and you have to be able to understand the subject matter of your work. I think by experiencing a wider range of courses in college, it helps you gain undertanding of various subject matter quicker than if you hadn't had that exposure.
My 2 cents of course, and YMMV, but I am quite pleased with how well my education prepared me for a successful career.
Take care,
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Nice. :-)
But seriously...
I doubt Microsoft's EULA is enforcable. I do not see how they can legally restrict free speach in this manner. (At least in the US - hello 1st amendment!) And even if they did, how could they prove you used Frontpage to do it?
I can write a page in my favorite text editor that can do anything Frontpage does. So, how could they possibly prove you wrote it in Frontpage? What are they going to do, storm your house and confiscate your hard drive!?!? I don't think so...
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Errr.
No, I don't think so. The article you are refering to was actually about building a server with 1 TB of storage for under $10,000. I don't think it had anything to do with clustering. See it here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/19/155421 6&mode=thread
That was over 2 months ago, so the price is probably even less than $10K now...
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The more interesting part is perhaps where it will go in the future. Many people point out that it won't take too much extra computing power before your PDA can present HTML as well as a desktop browser. This is all well and good, but it doesn't take into account the extra funtions that are planned for WAP such as location based services, phone functionality etc. These are things that have no place in HTML, so a separate language of some sort is probably the best way to go.
Absolutely. In fact, a Palm or newer cell phone can do a decent job as an HTML browser. Remember that you don't need a 1ghz P3 to run Lynx or your favorite text browser. The real issue would then become getting the data to the wireless device. Existing and future wireless data transfer technology has enough bandwidth to support decent text based web browsing.
The more interesting part is perhaps where it will go in the future. Many people point out that it won't take too much extra computing power before your PDA can present HTML as well as a desktop browser. This is all well and good, but it doesn't take into account the extra funtions that are planned for WAP such as location based services, phone functionality etc. These are things that have no place in HTML, so a separate language of some sort is probably the best way to go.
I don't buy it at all. HTML is the data, not how it is interfaced to the device. The browser should adapt to the device, not the data itself.
This is like saying, lets build a new language for every variation we come across of the same problem. It doesn't make any sense.
Stick with developing HTML based content, WAP is not going anywhere. By the time it is ready for prime time, we will have devices that can surf the REAL web.
Take care,
Brian
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Amen. Jakarta is a walk in the park compared to installing Websphere. Even IBM's own consultants couldn't get Websphere 3.0.2 to install and run on Solaris...
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I would never offer to take a cut in pay or perks to telecommute. Often times you have to work more and harder as a telecommuter to prove that you aren't slacking at home. The economy may be slowing, but it shouldn't be THAT hard to find a job closer to home (or where you want to move) if you can't stand the commute.
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It was interesting reading the story of how Slashdot remained up. I must have been one of the folks who tried to hit it at the time it died because for a while I couldn't get in on Tuesday. After that though, it was pretty smooth sailing the rest of the day. CNN.com was probably the only other site which remained live for most of the day. I couldn't get to WashingtonPost.com, ABCNews.com or many others until later in the evening.
It is really a testament to open source software that a system built (almost?) entirely from free, open software was able to stand up to an amazing user and processing load as well as or better than many other news sites.
Congrats on a job well done!
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Not all code is built so poorly. In fact, most code is built quite well.
Just like things in the physical world, code almost always does what it was built to do quite well. For example: Microsoft Word is an excellent Word Processor, but a poor/pathetic drawing program.
Also just like things in the physical world, code is used for things it was not intended to be used for. Have you ever driven your Geo Metro through a river? Have you ever driven a tractor trailer over an old wooden 1 lane bridge? No, probably not. You would be crazy to try something like that.
People try to do things with software all the time that it was never designed to do. That is a big reason why software fails so often.
Of course most of these "things software wasn't designed to do" aren't always documented. For instance, Outlook Express is a decent mail program, but did you know that it almost always fails when you have more than 10000 emails in your database? It is not documented anywhere by Microsoft, but they have admitted to myself and others on their tech support line that Outlook Express fails due to faults in the mail database. Their theory is that OE was never meant to be used "that much" - so you should use the "industrial strength" Outlook instead.
If only we all knew what the true design limitations of the software we use were we would be much better off. In the physical world, this is very easy to measure. That bridge you just drove over to get to work? It has a nice little sign that says "capacity 6 tons". You would be a little nuts to drive a 40 ton cement truck over it now wouldn't you? People do that sort of thing with their computers all the time and just never know that they are doing it...
Take care,
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Cube's really aren't that bad. Really.
In the DC area, real estate is expensive enough that you typically are given a choice when you join a company. Either you have a small cube to yourself, or you share a somewhat larger office with someone else.
I work much better in my own little world. Sharing an office causes countless distractions. Twice as many calls, twice as many visitors, half as much room, arguments that the heat or AC is two high or low, etc. I find it much less productive.
A cube to yourself is your own little world. You can spread your books, papers, disks, and work stuff all over the place without regard for someone else's space. You can come and go as you please, and you don't have to be interrupted by someone else's calls or visitors.
Take care,
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Talkback data shows that recent 0.9.2 branch builds are more stable than Netscape 4.78
It is pretty sad that they are comparing their reliability to Netscape's reliability. When Mozilla has less issues than Internet Explorer, then we can talk...
Take care,
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I wonder if the name is already taken...
But seriously, I have to wonder how much you could see with the camera, being that it is not lighted inside your body. It better have some pretty decent lighting attached.
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The concept is called the "dollar vote". Spend your money somewhere where the vendor will sell an OS free or Linux loaded PC. They do exist. "Vote" with your purchase in support of these vendors.
Dell is just one (albeit a big one) of thousands of manufacturers. If you don't like their offerings, go elsewhere, or build it yourself!
Take care,
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So long as Linux and *BSD run on cheap Intel PC's I don't see that we will ever have a bad time for UNIX and free software.
What more could you ask for?
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The minute Napster had to put those filters in place people left in droves. Its great that they are trying to do something to stay on their feet, but it is pointless now.
Anyone who was serious about music swapping has long since left Napster and found greener pastures.
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Actually, its more like 25000 copies of StarOffice running on Windows. You did know that StarOffice runs on Windows right?
I think CmdrTaco forgot that there is another OS besides Linux out there...
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Clearly the author was not scientific in their study. But the anecdotal evidence that they presented - namely that marked advertising such as Google's adwords - doesn't work.
My own experience has been in using Google's adwords twice, with several different messages. I never achieved more than a 0.7% click through ratio. At the price they charge, that is about $1 per click through. It just isn't cost effective.
It would be nice to see a more scientific study comparing the different choices of advertising media, using the same target web site, the same advertising copy (the same message), and where applicable the same graphics. Now THAT would be extremely usefull.
Still, as limited as this study is, it concurs with my experience, so I believe it to be valid.
Take care,
Brian
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They think it is illegal - and they probably are right. The RIAA has lobbied for years to have the laws of the US reflect their interests.
Their efforts have paid off and now they own their market. Any competiton can be quashed at any time.
It is an enviable position. One I bet many companies wish they had. I wish *my* company had that position. :-)
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Actually, it has 2 USB ports.
And if 6.9 lbs is too heavy, you need to eat your wheaties.
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Here ya go:
Toshiba Satellite 1755:
Processor Mobile Intel® Celeron(TM)
Speed 700MHz
Display XGA 13.3" Active Matrix
Memory 64MB SDRAM
Graphics ATI Mobility-C graphics controller with 4MB SGRAM
Hard Drive 10 Gigabyte
Multimedia 6x max speed DVD-ROM
Modem Integrated V.90/56K modem
Retail: $1199.
Add a $25 10/100 Ethernet Card, and if for some reason you actually have a Firewire drive, add the appropriate card. For 99.9% of the computing population, that won't be necessary.
Total Cost: $1224, with a larger, better screen, and a DVD Player
If you can't deal with the track stick, add an optical mouse for $25 more. Still, its a better deal than an iBook anyday.
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I was an Apple advocate/zealot for 15 years. Finally in the past year, I saw through the haze and realized I was paying a fortune for Apple hardware and software that was no better than what I could get on the PC side of things.
Now I see, Apple is taking their customers to the cleaners again. I cannot believe that they would expect their customers to want to pay hundreds more for a monitor. Granted I've seen their 22" (@ $4000!) in MicroCenter and it is Gorgeous - but still.
So, now a quick check of the Apple Store shows that the cheapest 466 mhz Power Mac G4 w/Apple Monitor is $2299. I can get one amazing Athlon or P4 system with monitor for that cost. We're talking 1.3ghz or faster, oodles of HD and RAM, and a sweet 21" CRT.
Its insanity, pure insanity. I cannot believe that they haven't scared away all of their customers with "advancements" like this. Please, before you buy, look at Dell, IBM or HP and see what you'd get for that same $2299. You'll be very surprised.
Brian
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I agree absolutely. I supose I didn't get this across before, but we operate similarly. Everyone gets access to their CPanel3 Control Panel, and those clients who request it get access to the shell.
Take care,
Brian
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Being a long time consumer and now provider of web hosting services I've found that you just need to have shell access available.
I've never even considered hosting on a service that didn't offer shell accounts - in fact, when I started hosting my own websites there really weren't any HTML Control Panels. You had to do everything yourself. Now with Control Panels there is an option to do it through a GUI, but for a lot of things you still want/need to do through a shell. There is only so much a control panel can do, and where it falls short, there is always the command line.
Having said that though, control panels like CPanel3, Cobalt Raq's CP, Webmin, etc are great for doing a wide variety of common tasks. Adding users, subdomains, viewing logs, file management, statistics, etc. Doing it through a GUI is nice, fast and far easier for the vast majority of users. So now we use and offer CPanel3 since it generally makes life easier.
I definitely believe that having both is preferable for power users. For less experienced users, they will probably only ever use the Control Panel, but should they want to use the shell, it should be there.
Brian
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that they were switching to Windows 2000 instead of FreeBSD.
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