The backend is proprietory executables talking to an SQL database with 600+ tables.
The web backend is a proprietory COM+ app. The web interface itself is tons of XML that gets dynamically merged depending upon who is logged in. Different user, different menu choices.
Suffice it to say that replacing the products code isn't doable, providing a Mono-like substructure that can handle all the calls is more realistic.
If you want to see this in action go to wvdemo.elite.com, click on the Webview4 demo and login as ID: dstevens, PW: dstevens.
We just rolled out a new accounting system with a nifty web interface which the staff and lawyers love.
The problem?
It absolutely, positively requires IE to run. It makes direct calls to MSXML and does a shitload of.NET stuff on the client side that just don't work with Firefox. In addition we've set the IIS server it MUST run on to use integrated authentication so the users don't have to log in 50 times a day.
How do you migrate that kind of environment to OSS/FS?
Every time this topic comes up you see posts stating "most law firms still use Wordperfect 'cause it's the best for legal work"
Reality check time folks. Wordperfect may have some good legal-specific features but here's the results of last years' LawNet Technology Survey in answer to the question: "What is your firms' Primary Word Processor?"
Word:
2001: 70%
2002: 79%
2003: 86%
WordPerfect:
2001: 30%
2002: 20%
2003: 13%
As you can see, the use for Wordperfect is dying out at law firms as fast as anywhere else and has been for some time.
Gonzo on an old Muppet show banging on a brick with a hammer.
About sums it up.
Does this piece challenge our materialistic preconceptions of the world of science and commerce and force us to re-evaluate our relationship with that which forms the core of our self-determined being?
Around about when this old joke came out I had a more realistic version. I would carry my daughter piggy-back style with her standing on my hands with her hands on my shoulder. The manouvers we could do were much closer to what you see in the segway ads. (spinning around on the spot, turn around, go backwards, turn around and go forward again.) Unfortunately a video was never made as my wife found the whole thing ridiculous.
Naturally the name for this mode of transporation came from my name as well; the Gregway.
To give you an idea of how old the Megway is, we have moved twice since then and my daughter is now MUCH too big to do a standing-up piggy back ride.
Years ago I sold a package called Win/V that allowed you to run native Japanese applications on Windows for Workgroups. This was significant since there was never a Japanese WfW but the Japanese users wanted the networking features.
What made Win/V different is that it didn't just modify the interface to support a different language as the MultiLingual Packs do, but added the underlying code that localized versions of applications need. This way you could run the Japanese version of Excel for example and get all the local features like rubi and Japanese dates but still be running on an English version of the OS. Embassies loved this system as the underlying OS and network would be supported from the home country.
Macs have had this for years with their Language Kits and I don't think Windows has ever matched it. What happens if you try to install Japanese Office 2K on English XP?
Many of us have looked up at the night sky all our lives, some have bought or made telescopes to see even more. We've beheld some amazing and beautiful things as we gazed at the heavens. We've seen the bright stars in our sky that turned out to be separate worlds, but they still remained just little points of light as we rested comfortably on our unimaginably huge earth.
But now we see another little dot hovering above a brightening horizon.
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You say drives back with U.S. Beer?
No-one in their right freaking mind is going to prefer American beer over Canadian!
OK Here's a clearer picture:
The backend is proprietory executables talking to an SQL database with 600+ tables.
The web backend is a proprietory COM+ app.
The web interface itself is tons of XML that gets dynamically merged depending upon who is logged in. Different user, different menu choices.
Suffice it to say that replacing the products code isn't doable, providing a Mono-like substructure that can handle all the calls is more realistic.
If you want to see this in action go to wvdemo.elite.com, click on the Webview4 demo and login as ID: dstevens, PW: dstevens.
We just rolled out a new accounting system with a nifty web interface which the staff and lawyers love.
.NET stuff on the client side that just don't work with Firefox. In addition we've set the IIS server it MUST run on to use integrated authentication so the users don't have to log in 50 times a day.
The problem?
It absolutely, positively requires IE to run. It makes direct calls to MSXML and does a shitload of
How do you migrate that kind of environment to OSS/FS?
Yes. I keep hearing stories about Blockbuster censoring, blocking, whatever, but never see that happen in the Candian stores.
Personally I prefer Rogers as the selection is much better.
Follow the apple.com link and click on the display ad.
It hurts your job advancement possibilities when you suddenly laugh out loud whilst sitting at your workstation.
(So does browsing Slashdot for that matter...)
This is why Comdex Vancouver hasn't been held since 2002. When the biggest exhibitors are LAN Rack salesmen you know you're in trouble.
Of our elaborate plans, the end.
No safety or surprise, the end.
Was Jim singing about Microsoft or SCO?
(Visions of slow-mo helicopter fly-bys and napalm exploding.)
to wear sunscreen.
Not sure about the others, but trust me on the sunscreen.
Every time this topic comes up you see posts stating "most law firms still use Wordperfect 'cause it's the best for legal work"
Reality check time folks. Wordperfect may have some good legal-specific features but here's the results of last years' LawNet Technology Survey in answer to the question: "What is your firms' Primary Word Processor?"
Word:
2001: 70%
2002: 79%
2003: 86%
WordPerfect:
2001: 30%
2002: 20%
2003: 13%
As you can see, the use for Wordperfect is dying out at law firms as fast as anywhere else and has been for some time.
I'm sitting in Vancouver, BC and I can see the Olympic mountain range.
Pffft. "...looking at the diagrams of the moon base..."
C'mon admit it, you were ogling the african girls in their native state of undress.
Gonzo on an old Muppet show banging on a brick with a hammer.
About sums it up.
Does this piece challenge our materialistic preconceptions of the world of science and commerce and force us to re-evaluate our relationship with that which forms the core of our self-determined being?
Around about when this old joke came out I had a more realistic version. I would carry my daughter piggy-back style with her standing on my hands with her hands on my shoulder. The manouvers we could do were much closer to what you see in the segway ads. (spinning around on the spot, turn around, go backwards, turn around and go forward again.) Unfortunately a video was never made as my wife found the whole thing ridiculous.
Naturally the name for this mode of transporation came from my name as well; the Gregway.
To give you an idea of how old the Megway is, we have moved twice since then and my daughter is now MUCH too big to do a standing-up piggy back ride.
Some suggestions have already been posted but what science museum is worth taking a trip to a city just to see?
I grew up in Toronto and the Ontario Science Center was a favourite haunt.
Sadly I now live in Vancouver with only the pathetic Science World and the ungodfully overpriced Space Museuem.
Is the number of SQL-Slammer-infected systems still out there:
Date: 04/23 01:24:30 Name: ICMP PING CyberKit 2.2 Windows
Priority: 3 Type: Misc activity
IP info: 216.18.121.12:n/a -> x.x.x.x:n/a
References: none found SID: 483
Date: 04/23 02:10:26 Name: MS-SQL Worm propagation attempt
Priority: 2 Type: Misc Attack
IP info: 152.66.211.244:3280 -> x.x.x.x:1434
References: none found SID: 2003
Date: 04/23 02:10:59 Name: MS-SQL Worm propagation attempt
Priority: 2 Type: Misc Attack
IP info: 210.13.22.79:1171 -> x.x.x.x:1434
References: none found SID: 2003
Date: 04/23 02:32:46 Name: SCAN Squid Proxy attempt
Priority: 2 Type: Attempted Information Leak
IP info: 69.158.81.79:4380 -> x.x.x.x:3128
References: none found SID: 618
Date: 04/23 02:32:49 Name: SCAN Squid Proxy attempt
Priority: 2 Type: Attempted Information Leak
IP info: 69.158.81.79:4380 -> x.x.x.x:3128
References: none found SID: 618
Date: 04/23 02:32:54 Name: SCAN SOCKS Proxy attempt
Priority: 2 Type: Attempted Information Leak
IP info: 69.158.81.79:4514 -> x.x.x.x:1080
References: none found SID: 615
Date: 04/23 02:32:57 Name: SCAN SOCKS Proxy attempt
Priority: 2 Type: Attempted Information Leak
IP info: 69.158.81.79:4514 -> x.x.x.x:1080
References: none found SID: 615
Date: 04/23 02:59:50 Name: ICMP PING CyberKit 2.2 Windows
Priority: 3 Type: Misc activity
IP info: 216.18.121.12:n/a -> x.x.x.x:n/a
References: none found SID: 483
Date: 04/23 03:22:04 Name: MS-SQL Worm propagation attempt
Priority: 2 Type: Misc Attack
IP info: 67.163.239.113:1209 -> x.x.x.x:1434
References: none found SID: 2003
The list of fantastic open source GUI software is short. This is not a function of chance.
What Open Source projects would you say should belong on this list?
...an abandoned brewery in Toronto
The old Molson brewery is in Barrie, a freaking hour's drive north of Toronto.
Used to pass it all the time on the way to cottage country.
Under Regions:
Africa
Asia
Caribbean
Central America
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
Polar Regions
South America
United States - (Points to individual States)
OK. So how do I choose Canada?
Index contains ~25 million pages (soon to be much bigger)
No kidding.
Six years later: Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages
Ohhh, you mean like these switches.
Ah, the good old days.
Endeavor was built from spares for Atlantis and Discovery.
We visited Jodrell Bank last summer as I had fond memories from my youth.
The scope itself is impressive especially when moving around as they were continually doing when we were there.
However the exhibits in the visitor center are lame to the extreme.
Five quid just to park wasn't pleasant either. It's in the middle of nowhere for Christ sakes.
Years ago I sold a package called Win/V that allowed you to run native Japanese applications on Windows for Workgroups. This was significant since there was never a Japanese WfW but the Japanese users wanted the networking features.
What made Win/V different is that it didn't just modify the interface to support a different language as the MultiLingual Packs do, but added the underlying code that localized versions of applications need. This way you could run the Japanese version of Excel for example and get all the local features like rubi and Japanese dates but still be running on an English version of the OS. Embassies loved this system as the underlying OS and network would be supported from the home country.
Macs have had this for years with their Language Kits and I don't think Windows has ever matched it. What happens if you try to install Japanese Office 2K on English XP?
Many of us have looked up at the night sky all our lives, some have bought or made telescopes to see even more. We've beheld some amazing and beautiful things as we gazed at the heavens. We've seen the bright stars in our sky that turned out to be separate worlds, but they still remained just little points of light as we rested comfortably on our unimaginably huge earth.
But now we see another little dot hovering above a brightening horizon.
That's our planet.
Our home.
Seen from the surface of another world.
We are now just the little dot in the sky.