I have a few electronic claim submitters who still run their practice management under DOS emulation in XP. Due to some type of sandboxing, the DOS app can't write the actual windows drive but can write to a floppy. The few poor people who still have this system need to write their claims to a floppy, then copy the file from the floppy to the local hard disk to send to me via SFTP.
Recently, I had a support call from one of those offices and they were getting errors from my file transfer software saying the file failed CRC check. It turned out they had been using the same floppy since roughly 2006 and it finally crapped out. All they needed was to buy a new one and format it, but I was impressed because floppies did not seem to me to last that long with daily or weekly use. I guess they just got lucky the same floppy lasted four years.
Dude, I wouldn't normally respond to someone anonymous, But you might want to re-think your issue now. True, if you had an application or dll which targeted an earlier version of.NET, that app or dll would run on the existing version no matter what you had installed.
The issue was, you can have all versions of.NET installed side-by-side no problem, but a particular process can only use one version of the runtime. So if you had a.NET 1.1 app which suddenly called deprecated functions in say 2.0, you'd be screwed.
In.NET 4.0 they introduced what is call "In-Process Side-By-Sude", which allows say a.NET 4.0 app to call a.NET 2.0 dll (or assembly in.NET terms) and the dll still runs on Framework 2.0.
The concept is cool, but me owning most aspects of the software I maintain, I just typically forward-port everything to the newest framework anyways. It's not really a big deal or at least hasn't been for me. The biggest change I had was to stop allowing legacy code using unitialized variables or functions which dont't return in all cases. System.Net.Mail.Mailmessage changed a bit too. Not bad for what could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of LOC which only one person maintains.
Actually, that is exactly what most schools do. How do you know what level of class to enroll someone in without knowing what they are already well-versed in?
Myself, I'm mostly a self-taught computer geek. Many of you are also or are at least aware of acquaintances or friends who get by being self-taught, I've always been a firm believer in competency tests vs. degrees.
Work experience is another consideration, as I would test the competency of either a grad or a long-running self-taught previous employee somewhere else. The applicant's general knowledge may be good and well documented, but how are they able to specialize when the need arises?
I was able to ge promoted upwards to the career I have now based on the merits of my passion to learn -on the job or not- as well as well as my ability to apply new ideas quickly. Not everyone is as lucky whether they have the skills or not. which is why I believe a lot of budding IT professionals and/or programmers would get in the door a lot easier with a competency test. On the flipside, maybe less losers would get in the door too.You never know, it could happen.:)
Yes, the supermarket. Many of them still run it on their cash registers.
A lot of ATM machines run OS/2 as well, and I wish more still did. The day Bank of America replaced their ATM machines I heard the familiar Windows "Ding!" as my card popped back out. A part of me died that day, but it was replaced with a love for.NET, so oh well...:)
are way fun to play with. They are both (at least the basic dynamic variety) based on the simple primal shape of a coil. The human ear, as well as the basic shape of a speaker, are both spirals. The human inner ear is just a spiral with cilia of varying length which resonates of varying frequencies of sound (roughly your typical 20Hz to 20KHz). A speaker on its most basic level is really just a coil of wire inside a pice of coned paper with a magnet below it causing the wire to move back and forth based on the DC amplitude.
The cool thing is the whole technology is reversible. You can turn a speaker into a microphone and vice-versa. The vocoder sound of Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton are really based on a microphone which pumps the sound of the guitar out into the artist's mouth, while a second microphone picks the combined sound up.
I can totally understand why the CPU was last on his checklist. In times past (pre-2003ish), CPU type and frequency were set by jumpers or dip switches on the motherboard; similar the the ISA days where we had to do the same for add-on cards. Most (if not all, I don't build computers anymore) motherboards after then gave an "Auto" option and people stopped paying attention to the CPU except to make sure the motherboard supported it before installing.
Now that we are in the 2010+ era, I'd imagine most motherboards can figure out what CPU you put in. My guess is that in this fringe case, it could not.
I have a co-worker (actually our senior network engineer) who refuses to run anti-virus at home. He instructs his family to not click on links they do not recognise the source of and not to open e-mail attachments.
Personally, I do run antivirus for my own home PCs for two reasons: Although I can instruct a teenager not to get click-happy, it is inevitable. Also, sometimes I want to visit the grey-areas of the internet, so I run Security Essentials even on my own PC.
I actually haven't had a virus in years, but my family has, so running it for them is "Essential" because the last thing I want to do is spend a weekend re-installing windows and all the previously installed software again on my kid's PC.
People have been upset lately at publishers like Ubisoft requiring an internet connection to play a game. This totally trumps even that model, as you need an internet connection to stream the game content. Not only that, but how can you make a pirated copy of a game you aren't even running the code to?
ipfw ought to do the job. If he can figure out what you did after configuring it and undoes your work, he deserves the resources, unless of course he reads slashdot and finds this article.:)
When in Recording College, I learned that fair use for things like sampling was limited to a certain number of notes. Things have likely changed since 1993-1994, but I'm pretty sure things are still pretty much on that level.
You can rip-off a complete song as a parody "sang to the tune of", but to sample someone else's work to put into your own is not as trivial. Many rap and hip-hop artists still need to license the works of others -even a few seconds worth- in order to incorporate them into a new original work.
I don't think the article really speaks to the human psyche nor does it recommend firings. I may be daft and new to programming, but found many of the suggestions informative and helpful.
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I have a few electronic claim submitters who still run their practice management under DOS emulation in XP. Due to some type of sandboxing, the DOS app can't write the actual windows drive but can write to a floppy. The few poor people who still have this system need to write their claims to a floppy, then copy the file from the floppy to the local hard disk to send to me via SFTP.
Recently, I had a support call from one of those offices and they were getting errors from my file transfer software saying the file failed CRC check. It turned out they had been using the same floppy since roughly 2006 and it finally crapped out. All they needed was to buy a new one and format it, but I was impressed because floppies did not seem to me to last that long with daily or weekly use. I guess they just got lucky the same floppy lasted four years.
Dude, I wouldn't normally respond to someone anonymous, But you might want to re-think your issue now. True, if you had an application or dll which targeted an earlier version of .NET, that app or dll would run on the existing version no matter what you had installed.
The issue was, you can have all versions of .NET installed side-by-side no problem, but a particular process can only use one version of the runtime. So if you had a .NET 1.1 app which suddenly called deprecated functions in say 2.0, you'd be screwed.
In .NET 4.0 they introduced what is call "In-Process Side-By-Sude", which allows say a .NET 4.0 app to call a .NET 2.0 dll (or assembly in .NET terms) and the dll still runs on Framework 2.0.
The concept is cool, but me owning most aspects of the software I maintain, I just typically forward-port everything to the newest framework anyways. It's not really a big deal or at least hasn't been for me. The biggest change I had was to stop allowing legacy code using unitialized variables or functions which dont't return in all cases. System.Net.Mail.Mailmessage changed a bit too. Not bad for what could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of LOC which only one person maintains.
Actually, that is exactly what most schools do. How do you know what level of class to enroll someone in without knowing what they are already well-versed in?
Myself, I'm mostly a self-taught computer geek. Many of you are also or are at least aware of acquaintances or friends who get by being self-taught, I've always been a firm believer in competency tests vs. degrees.
Work experience is another consideration, as I would test the competency of either a grad or a long-running self-taught previous employee somewhere else. The applicant's general knowledge may be good and well documented, but how are they able to specialize when the need arises?
I was able to ge promoted upwards to the career I have now based on the merits of my passion to learn -on the job or not- as well as well as my ability to apply new ideas quickly. Not everyone is as lucky whether they have the skills or not. which is why I believe a lot of budding IT professionals and/or programmers would get in the door a lot easier with a competency test. On the flipside, maybe less losers would get in the door too.You never know, it could happen. :)
Why not? I still fire up Amiga Forever sometimes.
Yes, the supermarket. Many of them still run it on their cash registers.
A lot of ATM machines run OS/2 as well, and I wish more still did. The day Bank of America replaced their ATM machines I heard the familiar Windows "Ding!" as my card popped back out. A part of me died that day, but it was replaced with a love for .NET, so oh well... :)
Is that Klingon, or Pig Latin?
Yes, but not because of ventilation issues. To extend the battery life, a small portion of Steve Jobs' ego has been injected into each battery.
Are you slapping yourself to prevent the annual impulse purchase of a new laptop?
are way fun to play with. They are both (at least the basic dynamic variety) based on the simple primal shape of a coil. The human ear, as well as the basic shape of a speaker, are both spirals. The human inner ear is just a spiral with cilia of varying length which resonates of varying frequencies of sound (roughly your typical 20Hz to 20KHz). A speaker on its most basic level is really just a coil of wire inside a pice of coned paper with a magnet below it causing the wire to move back and forth based on the DC amplitude.
The cool thing is the whole technology is reversible. You can turn a speaker into a microphone and vice-versa. The vocoder sound of Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton are really based on a microphone which pumps the sound of the guitar out into the artist's mouth, while a second microphone picks the combined sound up.
because -blind or not- they can actually feel a titty without that pesky interaction with a woman!
WTF do the power supply and cables have to do with 32 vs. 64-bit? I call shenanigans!
You forgot: Profit!
I can totally understand why the CPU was last on his checklist. In times past (pre-2003ish), CPU type and frequency were set by jumpers or dip switches on the motherboard; similar the the ISA days where we had to do the same for add-on cards. Most (if not all, I don't build computers anymore) motherboards after then gave an "Auto" option and people stopped paying attention to the CPU except to make sure the motherboard supported it before installing.
Now that we are in the 2010+ era, I'd imagine most motherboards can figure out what CPU you put in. My guess is that in this fringe case, it could not.
Most of this stuff is available on-demand anyways through, you guessed it, Comcast!
I have a co-worker (actually our senior network engineer) who refuses to run anti-virus at home. He instructs his family to not click on links they do not recognise the source of and not to open e-mail attachments.
Personally, I do run antivirus for my own home PCs for two reasons: Although I can instruct a teenager not to get click-happy, it is inevitable. Also, sometimes I want to visit the grey-areas of the internet, so I run Security Essentials even on my own PC.
I actually haven't had a virus in years, but my family has, so running it for them is "Essential" because the last thing I want to do is spend a weekend re-installing windows and all the previously installed software again on my kid's PC.
This reminds me of Heinlein's The Man Who Sold The Moon. Maybe if he moves into the probe, he can also claim ownership of the Moon.
People have been upset lately at publishers like Ubisoft requiring an internet connection to play a game. This totally trumps even that model, as you need an internet connection to stream the game content. Not only that, but how can you make a pirated copy of a game you aren't even running the code to?
1. Profit!
ipfw ought to do the job. If he can figure out what you did after configuring it and undoes your work, he deserves the resources, unless of course he reads slashdot and finds this article. :)
Good point. Do we need to know NeXTSTEP and BSD in order to use OSX? :)
When in Recording College, I learned that fair use for things like sampling was limited to a certain number of notes. Things have likely changed since 1993-1994, but I'm pretty sure things are still pretty much on that level.
You can rip-off a complete song as a parody "sang to the tune of", but to sample someone else's work to put into your own is not as trivial. Many rap and hip-hop artists still need to license the works of others -even a few seconds worth- in order to incorporate them into a new original work.
THINGS might bet a bit harsh. I prefer to use the word "asset". Still able to be filed away forever or transferred at a moment's notice though. :)
Yeah, but Einstein fucks one goat... and all credibility goes out the door!
And for that price, they should be dipped in acid blotter!
This seems like the logical choice to me too. The hard part is drilling the holes, which has already been done.
I don't think the article really speaks to the human psyche nor does it recommend firings. I may be daft and new to programming, but found many of the suggestions informative and helpful.