Ff only the manufacturers would stop changing the orders of those 4 buttons or even dropping search and having 3 buttons. The Nexus S phone differs from many, for example.
"As of the January 2009 Macworld Expo, Apple has announced that all music in iTunes will be available without DRM, and encoded at the higher-quality rate of 256 kbit/s."
US power is 240V (+120V and -120V) to the building, it's just usually split in half (+120V with ground and -120V with ground) for the outlets. Our appliances (electric ovens, dryers, etc.) run on 240V. There is a car company selling charging units for 240V here, just have to wire it up properly.
There's no guarantee they're in the city of Cincinnati. Colerain Township, Whitewater Township, Crosby Township, Harrison Township, and the city of Harrison (just to name a few) are all between Cincinnati and the Ohio border with Indiana.
Since you said Indiana, I'm guessing you're living in College Corner up near Oxford, OH which adds a lot of Butler County to the mix.
Back when I worked at an ISP, the dial-up PRI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_rate_interface) could see caller ID even if it was blocked. The PRI was through Sprint IIRC and the local telco was Cincinnati Bell, so it wasn't the same system.
For software of any appreciable size, Perl has unfortunately died in industry. People just aren't using it for anything more than 10-line throwaway scripts.
I'm in industry at my day job and rumors of its demise are greatly exaggerated.
Perl 6 was something those of us in industry had been anticipating with glee. We expected it to modernize the Perl platform, and make it a contender against Java,.NET and C++ for large-scale software development. But we also expected we'd have that around 2005. It's nearly 2010, and we still don't see much real progress on that front. Rakudo just isn't a production-grade product yet.
I'm sad to admit it, but instead of waiting for incremental Perl 5 releases for the next decade until Perl 6 is finally mature enough, the company I'm with has started to migrate from Perl to Python. Unlike the Perl community, the Python community has shown with Python 3 that they're capable of working together to create a major release with many new features in a relatively short amount of time (especially compared to the Perl 6 effort).
Rewriting our approximately 3 million lines of Perl code into Python has actually gone reasonably well. Although I was a staunch defender of Perl, I do have to give Python its kudos. Every day it looks more and more like we've made the right choice moving away from Perl, and towards Python.
Often times the effort of rewriting something is where you get your gains, regardless of which language you're doing it in (even the original). Learning from past mistakes, being more efficient, and adapting to new needs are all useful. You may have had the same gains from using PHP, depending on what you're liking.
I'm tired of Microsoft so Windows XP 64-bit is the last Windows I'll use. Been running Ubuntu on my home desktop and Fedora on my work laptop (at large corporation) for months now.
I only speak for myself at work, but as soon as the next release of the distribution is out I upgrade my laptop. It's so painless there's no reason not to, and I don't even have to reboot immediately if I don't want to.
Nope, completely different. Not Mac-like at all. I mean they're nothing like a bar at the bottom of the screen that lets you switch and/or run applications for your documents... oh wait.
I'm currently running Windows XP 64-bit because I didn't want Vista but my Windows 2000 didn't get video driver support from ATI anymore. Due to Vista and Windows 7, my next desktop OS is Linux. I already run Linux as my primary OS at work, so no big stretch there and OpenOffice 3 means all my co-workers don't notice.
Why does the OS itself practically need a FPS meter?
Last week I switched my work laptop from running Windows XP to Fedora. I left the original Windows partition there but had the Fedora installer resize it, so now I can run VirtualBox or boot it natively.
RDP? Works great (rdesktop). VPN? Better than the Cisco client ever was. ActiveX-based ticket system? Wine and IE6 is as fast or faster than it ever was in Windows. Documents? OpenOffice works well.
The only thing I haven't figured out how to run in Wine is the SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager (.msc). Since those SQL servers are being decommissioned anyway, I can run the client in VirtualBox or just RDP to the servers and run it there.
The motivation for switching the laptop was because I was running Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, PuTTY, and sometimes GIMP already, so might as well do it all natively.
(And I used Fedora instead of Ubuntu because a lot of the servers at work are CentOS.)
When the company I work for "upgraded" Exchange and disabled IMAP/POP3/SMTP (and refused to enable them even though many people use Macs), another guy that works there wrote a Perl script to download our messages from the OWA WebDAV interface and then ran IMAP/SMTP servers on that Linux box for Thunderbird.
For even more fun, if you have two differently-corrupted copies of a file and a torrent to go with it, then you can have BitTorrent stitch them together into a valid file without involving any third parties.
I used Azureus's internal tracker ability and two computers on a local network with the torrent modified to track on one of the machines, and one corrupted copy of the file on each.
Obviously only works if they don't have corruption in common, but it also doesn't require the original torrent file tracker to work anymore.
I like what Iglou.com (my DSL ISP for Cincinnati Bell's Zoomtown) does. For my payment, I get a certain amount of "guaranteed" bandwidth per month. If I go over that then I'm at the mercy of however congested their network is at the time. So no extra bills but the router will drop my traffic over the people who paid more if I go over my limit.
Miami University does sort of the same thing. They carved out a chunk of bandwidth from their T-3 with router rules for their library. There it was because of a grant to give it Internet access so they wanted to make sure the dorms weren't slamming so much traffic it stalled the library.
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Ff only the manufacturers would stop changing the orders of those 4 buttons or even dropping search and having 3 buttons. The Nexus S phone differs from many, for example.
"Bigger" is relative. Many of the 10.1" widescreen tables have smaller surface area of screen than the 9.7" iPad at 4:3.
"As of the January 2009 Macworld Expo, Apple has announced that all music in iTunes will be available without DRM, and encoded at the higher-quality rate of 256 kbit/s."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Music_Store
Er, I should say neutral rather than ground there.
US power is 240V (+120V and -120V) to the building, it's just usually split in half (+120V with ground and -120V with ground) for the outlets. Our appliances (electric ovens, dryers, etc.) run on 240V. There is a car company selling charging units for 240V here, just have to wire it up properly.
There's no guarantee they're in the city of Cincinnati. Colerain Township, Whitewater Township, Crosby Township, Harrison Township, and the city of Harrison (just to name a few) are all between Cincinnati and the Ohio border with Indiana.
Since you said Indiana, I'm guessing you're living in College Corner up near Oxford, OH which adds a lot of Butler County to the mix.
Er... Good luck.
Back when I worked at an ISP, the dial-up PRI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_rate_interface) could see caller ID even if it was blocked. The PRI was through Sprint IIRC and the local telco was Cincinnati Bell, so it wasn't the same system.
and yes I messed up my quoting.
For software of any appreciable size, Perl has unfortunately died in industry. People just aren't using it for anything more than 10-line throwaway scripts.
I'm in industry at my day job and rumors of its demise are greatly exaggerated.
Perl 6 was something those of us in industry had been anticipating with glee. We expected it to modernize the Perl platform, and make it a contender against Java, .NET and C++ for large-scale software development. But we also expected we'd have that around 2005. It's nearly 2010, and we still don't see much real progress on that front. Rakudo just isn't a production-grade product yet.
I'm sad to admit it, but instead of waiting for incremental Perl 5 releases for the next decade until Perl 6 is finally mature enough, the company I'm with has started to migrate from Perl to Python. Unlike the Perl community, the Python community has shown with Python 3 that they're capable of working together to create a major release with many new features in a relatively short amount of time (especially compared to the Perl 6 effort).
Rewriting our approximately 3 million lines of Perl code into Python has actually gone reasonably well. Although I was a staunch defender of Perl, I do have to give Python its kudos. Every day it looks more and more like we've made the right choice moving away from Perl, and towards Python.
Often times the effort of rewriting something is where you get your gains, regardless of which language you're doing it in (even the original). Learning from past mistakes, being more efficient, and adapting to new needs are all useful. You may have had the same gains from using PHP, depending on what you're liking.
I'm tired of Microsoft so Windows XP 64-bit is the last Windows I'll use. Been running Ubuntu on my home desktop and Fedora on my work laptop (at large corporation) for months now.
The descriptions are bad enough. I'll pass on seeing the real thing, thanks.
I only speak for myself at work, but as soon as the next release of the distribution is out I upgrade my laptop. It's so painless there's no reason not to, and I don't even have to reboot immediately if I don't want to.
I guess I need to tell my computer it can't run Windows XP 64-bit anymore...
A shame too, because it has worked just fine.
Every game I buy is followed by a visit to that site. No DRM or cd-in-tray garbage then.
Nope, completely different. Not Mac-like at all. I mean they're nothing like a bar at the bottom of the screen that lets you switch and/or run applications for your documents ... oh wait.
Where I work, the servers are getting their October security patches this month. They're inside a firewalled corporate network, but still...
Vista SP2, plus the OS X dock.
I'm currently running Windows XP 64-bit because I didn't want Vista but my Windows 2000 didn't get video driver support from ATI anymore. Due to Vista and Windows 7, my next desktop OS is Linux. I already run Linux as my primary OS at work, so no big stretch there and OpenOffice 3 means all my co-workers don't notice.
Why does the OS itself practically need a FPS meter?
Just you wait for "protected content" to hit your screen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#EGCS
Last week I switched my work laptop from running Windows XP to Fedora. I left the original Windows partition there but had the Fedora installer resize it, so now I can run VirtualBox or boot it natively.
RDP? Works great (rdesktop).
VPN? Better than the Cisco client ever was.
ActiveX-based ticket system? Wine and IE6 is as fast or faster than it ever was in Windows.
Documents? OpenOffice works well.
The only thing I haven't figured out how to run in Wine is the SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager (.msc). Since those SQL servers are being decommissioned anyway, I can run the client in VirtualBox or just RDP to the servers and run it there.
The motivation for switching the laptop was because I was running Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, PuTTY, and sometimes GIMP already, so might as well do it all natively.
(And I used Fedora instead of Ubuntu because a lot of the servers at work are CentOS.)
When the company I work for "upgraded" Exchange and disabled IMAP/POP3/SMTP (and refused to enable them even though many people use Macs), another guy that works there wrote a Perl script to download our messages from the OWA WebDAV interface and then ran IMAP/SMTP servers on that Linux box for Thunderbird.
For even more fun, if you have two differently-corrupted copies of a file and a torrent to go with it, then you can have BitTorrent stitch them together into a valid file without involving any third parties.
I used Azureus's internal tracker ability and two computers on a local network with the torrent modified to track on one of the machines, and one corrupted copy of the file on each.
Obviously only works if they don't have corruption in common, but it also doesn't require the original torrent file tracker to work anymore.
Prcess Explorer Options..Different Highlight Duration
I like what Iglou.com (my DSL ISP for Cincinnati Bell's Zoomtown) does. For my payment, I get a certain amount of "guaranteed" bandwidth per month. If I go over that then I'm at the mercy of however congested their network is at the time. So no extra bills but the router will drop my traffic over the people who paid more if I go over my limit.
Miami University does sort of the same thing. They carved out a chunk of bandwidth from their T-3 with router rules for their library. There it was because of a grant to give it Internet access so they wanted to make sure the dorms weren't slamming so much traffic it stalled the library.
Less administration, less hassle. And I'm happy.