Seriously, does anyone still USE IE on a Mac?! It always was a piece of crap (anyone who had to make sites work with 4.5 has my sympathy). Apart from the poor souls stuck on OS9, I can't see any reason whatso-ever for people to keep using it...
Actually make that "DRM". Having your music crippled and locked to X computers unless you burn to CD then rip back to MP3 is annoying. I didn't realise that tracks bought via iTunes can't be shared via iTunes (we use sharing a lot in our offices). I'm not burning CDs for people, and if I were, this restriction wouldn't prevent that, it just annoys me!
A lot of people don't realise the the big "price deal search engines" such as Kelkoo and Dealtime also return results based on the amount the retailers they link to have paid for a higher position. You'll often find you can dig up better deals just using Google. However, I know that at least one of the biggest UK online electronics retailers derives the highest percentage of paying click-throughs from Dealtime (that is, people referred by Dealtime, who then go on to actually buy a product). The Dealtime referrals actually result in more sales than people browsing their site to find stuff. So the idea/scam works well...
Actually, being able to look up the lyrics to a song has often resulted in me buying an album. I'll often hear a snatch of something and try to remember part of a chorus or something so I can look it up. Amazingly this works a fair percentage of the time!
If I can't look up lyrics, I'll buy less music. Pretty simple really.
Until Apple give something back to the community which gave it its core operating system; namely an iTunes player that'll run on Linux, *BSD any other OS other than OSX and Windows, I'm not going to cheer their "success".
Javascript in Opera has always been pretty ropey. It currently displays various artifacts when using DHTML heavily (like leaving pixels on the browser canvas for instance), and I always tend to just sniff for Opera and disable anything more complicated than simple drop-menus, rollovers and form pre-validation if I detect it.
If you really are starting from ground zero, I'd suggest setting up a repository such as SVN as a good first step. Couple this with a good template to set up standard locations for documentation directories alongside the code trunk and branches (and any other resources your projects requires (images, sound other media). Make sure everyone uses the repo - even if you have to spend a day leading people through it - you'll save time later. This also ensures your projects are backed up (so long as everyone checks in at the end of the day at least), and screwups - such as deleting the wrong directories and forgetting about it for weeks can be reversed.
Obviously there are other issues such as naming conventions, useful comments etc, which are often neglected in small projects, but become more important as more people work together without wars breaking out!
Find out your teams individual strengths and preferences - there's no point trying to hammer everyone into the same mould - some people will naturally gravitate toward, and excel at certain tasks. It's important for efficiency and general happiness that this is taken into account when allocating resources to a project.
his reminds me of that Star Trek Voyager episode a friend of mine watched and told me about because I'd never watch that. The Voyager was chasing down some other Starfleet ship that had modded there ship by using direct port alien injection. They were squishing Martians or something to make warp 1000 to get back to Earth. So this story is exactly like that; the DNN team are essesntially doing a good thing (like the alien mashers getting their people home), but in a bad way (helping the evil company by providing it with free apps that promote their product).
Personally, I don't trust them. In this case, I'd encourage them to go closed source. Nobody should be promoting the use of VBScript or whatever that crappy Basic derivitive is that people use to write ASP (I've converted a lot of this garbage to PHP/Perl, and everything I've seen written using ASP has been absolutely horrific - the worst, least optimised crap I've ever seen - hell I could do better way back when I used to sit in my high-chair bashing away on my toy learning computer - last week it was. Now I think of it, maybe this is why IIS seems slow and wobbly; it's burdened with coping with the worst "Programmers" on Earth.
It's not as if there's some magic OS out there that makes underperforming hardware perform better ("Shit, I knew I should have compiled the kernel with '--turn_it_up_to_11'")
Well, actually, I found something pretty similar to this in the RHES3 kernel. Using it on a dual Xeon box with Adaptec SCSI RAID controller (RAID 5) and 3x36GB 15,0000RPM drives, was giving pathetic transfer rates of around 12MBps - my oldest laptop is quicker! After ensuring I had all the latest kernel updates and patches I decided to bite the bullet and just build a vanilla kernel on the thing (2.4.31 - I think the latest available for ES3 was 2.4.22 at the time).
Built the kernel, booted and the RAID was giving 60MBps transfers - a 5x performance increase for an hour's work. So in this case the "--turn_it_up_to_11" switch did seem to be enabled, or the Redhat kernel had something like "--turn_it_down_to_2" compiled in...
To anyone else using RHES with Adaptec, it's worth checking for performance problems with this hardware with the stock kernel...
Typical corporate reaction to a Death March Project: "This is taking too long! I know, we'll throw more managers at the problem - that'll fix it!" MS is following in the footsteps of most big tech companies. When it started, it grew rapidly and pushed out a lot of code (really! MS used to write code!) because most of the staff, including the management were working on projects. As companies "mature", and more layers of mostly useless management come in, the actual percentage of staff producing paying work diminishes and growth slows.
If he went on the road for the six months leading up to the launch doing his showpiece "monkey dance" at each event, followed by the "developers developers developers" song as the encore, and maybe a demonstration of his chair hurling technique, I might throw him a few bucks few bucks... Along with rotten tomatos, cabbages and anything else I could lay my hands on...
so if IIS is just copying Apache... then remind me why should I choose IIS over Apache?
Because it costs les... I mean, because the OS it runs on is more secu... Oops, I really meant, because people should support all the good things that MS do for the...
Sod it... Hey, O'Gara, you get paid good money to come up with this horse-shit - take it away, would you?
I guess these guys have never browsed Slashdot at -1 then... And how do they explain George Bush, Beanie Babies and the Crazy Frog? And where did they get a 60,000 year old brain from to find these genes - Joan Rivers' skull? No no no, none of this is adding up...
You know, I wonder why the BBC do some of the things they do in the US. For instance, the UK version of "The Office" was real cult viewing, any office working in the UK could relate the some of the scenes. The US version recently aired over here. Although the plots were vaguely the same, it was horrendously bad. I can't imagine anyone finding it funny, to be honest! I saw an interview where Ricky Gervais basically stated he didn't have much control over it, and didn't want anything to do with the predictable result...
Sure I'm listening to their radio station, and watching their website - but so are thousands of other people in foreign countries (with things like the BBC World Service) who don't have to pay this tax.
So you're doing your own small part to make something valuable available to people all over the Earth - including third World countries who couldn't hope to run a news service of that standard. What's wrong with that?
You know, I never used to be a big fan of the BBC and its licence for UK viewers. However, the great content it's made available via its website, complete lack of advertisements and new shows (recently) have really changed my view. The news service is largely unbiased, far less biased than any US channel/website I've visited. Also, since it's non-commercial it allows them to experiment more, and include news articles and pieces that aren't totally focussed on bringing in page hits.
I did subscribe to Sky a while back, but dropped it after finding the 5 minute ad breaks every 15 minutes extremely annoying (the channels all seem to display adverts at the same time too, to stop channel hopping I guess), and constant repeats. Sky make a huge deal out of any show they're airing for the first time, instead of the 5001st - and pepper them with even more adverts.
So basically, the short version of this comment is: "Fuck Sky, Go Beeb".
Erm, don't suppose you've noticed the other GPL'ed software included with whatever their latest half-assed offering is called? I'm pretty sure SCO haven't "partnered" with the other GPL projects they're relying on to make their software somewhat useful.
This link will take you to the contact page. Luckily for me, it's not too difficult to migrate my projects over to PostgreSQL - although I will have to brush up on administration after having not used it for a couple of years...
I actually thought this was just another ludicrous press release from our favourite proprietory software vendor to give them something positive to say on the 7th, but after finding the same release on MySQL's site, it seems confirmed. I'm damned if I'm using anything from a company that deals with SCO (except MS, where I have little choice!)
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Seriously, does anyone still USE IE on a Mac?! It always was a piece of crap (anyone who had to make sites work with 4.5 has my sympathy). Apart from the poor souls stuck on OS9, I can't see any reason whatso-ever for people to keep using it...
Actually make that "DRM". Having your music crippled and locked to X computers unless you burn to CD then rip back to MP3 is annoying. I didn't realise that tracks bought via iTunes can't be shared via iTunes (we use sharing a lot in our offices). I'm not burning CDs for people, and if I were, this restriction wouldn't prevent that, it just annoys me!
A lot of people don't realise the the big "price deal search engines" such as Kelkoo and Dealtime also return results based on the amount the retailers they link to have paid for a higher position. You'll often find you can dig up better deals just using Google. However, I know that at least one of the biggest UK online electronics retailers derives the highest percentage of paying click-throughs from Dealtime (that is, people referred by Dealtime, who then go on to actually buy a product). The Dealtime referrals actually result in more sales than people browsing their site to find stuff. So the idea/scam works well...
Actually, being able to look up the lyrics to a song has often resulted in me buying an album. I'll often hear a snatch of something and try to remember part of a chorus or something so I can look it up. Amazingly this works a fair percentage of the time!
If I can't look up lyrics, I'll buy less music. Pretty simple really.
Wow, downmodded again, there's a surprise...
Until Apple give something back to the community which gave it its core operating system; namely an iTunes player that'll run on Linux, *BSD any other OS other than OSX and Windows, I'm not going to cheer their "success".
Javascript in Opera has always been pretty ropey. It currently displays various artifacts when using DHTML heavily (like leaving pixels on the browser canvas for instance), and I always tend to just sniff for Opera and disable anything more complicated than simple drop-menus, rollovers and form pre-validation if I detect it.
If you really are starting from ground zero, I'd suggest setting up a repository such as SVN as a good first step. Couple this with a good template to set up standard locations for documentation directories alongside the code trunk and branches (and any other resources your projects requires (images, sound other media). Make sure everyone uses the repo - even if you have to spend a day leading people through it - you'll save time later. This also ensures your projects are backed up (so long as everyone checks in at the end of the day at least), and screwups - such as deleting the wrong directories and forgetting about it for weeks can be reversed.
Obviously there are other issues such as naming conventions, useful comments etc, which are often neglected in small projects, but become more important as more people work together without wars breaking out!
Find out your teams individual strengths and preferences - there's no point trying to hammer everyone into the same mould - some people will naturally gravitate toward, and excel at certain tasks. It's important for efficiency and general happiness that this is taken into account when allocating resources to a project.
his reminds me of that Star Trek Voyager episode a friend of mine watched and told me about because I'd never watch that. The Voyager was chasing down some other Starfleet ship that had modded there ship by using direct port alien injection. They were squishing Martians or something to make warp 1000 to get back to Earth. So this story is exactly like that; the DNN team are essesntially doing a good thing (like the alien mashers getting their people home), but in a bad way (helping the evil company by providing it with free apps that promote their product).
Personally, I don't trust them. In this case, I'd encourage them to go closed source. Nobody should be promoting the use of VBScript or whatever that crappy Basic derivitive is that people use to write ASP (I've converted a lot of this garbage to PHP/Perl, and everything I've seen written using ASP has been absolutely horrific - the worst, least optimised crap I've ever seen - hell I could do better way back when I used to sit in my high-chair bashing away on my toy learning computer - last week it was. Now I think of it, maybe this is why IIS seems slow and wobbly; it's burdened with coping with the worst "Programmers" on Earth.
egrep is more useful than grep
netcat (nc) is more better than telnet
I don't wish to be picky, but it's
"netcat (nc) is more betterer than telnet"
Please prof reed yor articals!
Dammit! My design was the simplest, and best. A headstone with "RIP" on it... I smell a fix...
Too bad, I was looking for something other than DVD::RIP and distributed.net which would hammer both cores of my Athlon64 X2.
Try the Gnome desktop...
It's not as if there's some magic OS out there that makes underperforming hardware perform better ("Shit, I knew I should have compiled the kernel with '--turn_it_up_to_11'")
Well, actually, I found something pretty similar to this in the RHES3 kernel. Using it on a dual Xeon box with Adaptec SCSI RAID controller (RAID 5) and 3x36GB 15,0000RPM drives, was giving pathetic transfer rates of around 12MBps - my oldest laptop is quicker! After ensuring I had all the latest kernel updates and patches I decided to bite the bullet and just build a vanilla kernel on the thing (2.4.31 - I think the latest available for ES3 was 2.4.22 at the time).
Built the kernel, booted and the RAID was giving 60MBps transfers - a 5x performance increase for an hour's work. So in this case the "--turn_it_up_to_11" switch did seem to be enabled, or the Redhat kernel had something like "--turn_it_down_to_2" compiled in...
To anyone else using RHES with Adaptec, it's worth checking for performance problems with this hardware with the stock kernel...
Typical corporate reaction to a Death March Project: "This is taking too long! I know, we'll throw more managers at the problem - that'll fix it!" MS is following in the footsteps of most big tech companies. When it started, it grew rapidly and pushed out a lot of code (really! MS used to write code!) because most of the staff, including the management were working on projects. As companies "mature", and more layers of mostly useless management come in, the actual percentage of staff producing paying work diminishes and growth slows.
If he went on the road for the six months leading up to the launch doing his showpiece "monkey dance" at each event, followed by the "developers developers developers" song as the encore, and maybe a demonstration of his chair hurling technique, I might throw him a few bucks few bucks... Along with rotten tomatos, cabbages and anything else I could lay my hands on...
I'd really like to be able to explore places I can't easily get to otherwise.
I think GoogleDatesForNerds is currently under development...
so if IIS is just copying Apache... then remind me why should I choose IIS over Apache?
Because it costs les... I mean, because the OS it runs on is more secu... Oops, I really meant, because people should support all the good things that MS do for the...
Sod it... Hey, O'Gara, you get paid good money to come up with this horse-shit - take it away, would you?
Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving
I guess these guys have never browsed Slashdot at -1 then... And how do they explain George Bush, Beanie Babies and the Crazy Frog? And where did they get a 60,000 year old brain from to find these genes - Joan Rivers' skull? No no no, none of this is adding up...
You know, I wonder why the BBC do some of the things they do in the US. For instance, the UK version of "The Office" was real cult viewing, any office working in the UK could relate the some of the scenes. The US version recently aired over here. Although the plots were vaguely the same, it was horrendously bad. I can't imagine anyone finding it funny, to be honest! I saw an interview where Ricky Gervais basically stated he didn't have much control over it, and didn't want anything to do with the predictable result...
Sure I'm listening to their radio station, and watching their website - but so are thousands of other people in foreign countries (with things like the BBC World Service) who don't have to pay this tax.
So you're doing your own small part to make something valuable available to people all over the Earth - including third World countries who couldn't hope to run a news service of that standard. What's wrong with that?
You know, I never used to be a big fan of the BBC and its licence for UK viewers. However, the great content it's made available via its website, complete lack of advertisements and new shows (recently) have really changed my view. The news service is largely unbiased, far less biased than any US channel/website I've visited. Also, since it's non-commercial it allows them to experiment more, and include news articles and pieces that aren't totally focussed on bringing in page hits.
I did subscribe to Sky a while back, but dropped it after finding the 5 minute ad breaks every 15 minutes extremely annoying (the channels all seem to display adverts at the same time too, to stop channel hopping I guess), and constant repeats. Sky make a huge deal out of any show they're airing for the first time, instead of the 5001st - and pepper them with even more adverts.
So basically, the short version of this comment is: "Fuck Sky, Go Beeb".
Erm, don't suppose you've noticed the other GPL'ed software included with whatever their latest half-assed offering is called? I'm pretty sure SCO haven't "partnered" with the other GPL projects they're relying on to make their software somewhat useful.
This link will take you to the contact page. Luckily for me, it's not too difficult to migrate my projects over to PostgreSQL - although I will have to brush up on administration after having not used it for a couple of years...
I actually thought this was just another ludicrous press release from our favourite proprietory software vendor to give them something positive to say on the 7th, but after finding the same release on MySQL's site, it seems confirmed. I'm damned if I'm using anything from a company that deals with SCO (except MS, where I have little choice!)
We call these things "politicians".