"Microsoft is watching all of us. Windows.NET will be the ONLY development platform. Longhorn will be the next killer app. 4 servers for every small application."
Just as I'm about to give up hope and run scared, I notice someone down the hall yelling for tech support to help with their Outlook mail. And then, as I've just re-installed Office, I remember to turn off Clippy.
From http://www.sco.com/products/openserver507/features/
Integration of Open Source Tools
* Java JDK 1.3.1 and Java runtime
* Graphics, Web, and X-11 libraries
* Samba, Squid, OpenSSL, and OpenSSH
* BIND, FTP, IP Filter, PHP, XML, ASP
* DocView (online documentation system)
* libc from SCO UnixWare 7.1.3
* GNU Compiler Collection, GNU debugger, GNU diff, wget, and CVS
* Mozilla and Netscape Communicator
* UnixWare and OpenServer Development Kit 7.1.3
While it's nice to get behind Big Blue on this, I think it would speak volumes if a company such as SuSE or Red Hat, or even a small consulting company that lost business because of SCO's loud rattle against Linux, was to win a case against, or defending against, SCO.
I'm glad IBM is supporting Linux, but everyone knows that if their earlier "efforts" hadn't gone down the tubes, they would not be the friend they are today to the Linux community.
Re:SCO is tanking hard again!
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Gosh, I can't imagine people that had invested millions in Linux becoming angry that SCO is threatening to sue Linus and thinking twice about buying their stock and their services.
Most people dumped their software years ago, so hopefully everyone will now finish them off and dump their stock.
Mozilla should just use 'Firebird Trans Am' instead. Then we would all think of Burt Reynolds when searching our favorite web pages. And, it would go well next to my Camino.
Another thing you might want to think about is joining a local user group. I think the idea of starting a club is great, but the best way to learn how to run (and not to run) such a club might be to trek out to a user group that is already in practice.
If there is no such group, perhaps you might want to think about starting a user group rather than a computer club that might require support from your school. Not to put down interaction with school, but it might help out if you are having trouble garnering support from teachers.
I visited the page with the article, and the first thing I saw was an ad for that perisite of a program gator, which has caused our sys admins here to enjoy a few less hours of this wonderful spring weather.
I couldn't bring myself to take seriously a page advertising that crap, so I would imagine that I will take pages with the full screen ads even less seriously.
Sorry if this seems like a rant; an out of line statement compared to what I'm sure will be positive remarks (yeah right!).
A lot of people on the board seemed to miss the "Buy the album" option that is mentioned in the article, and is illustrated quite clearly on Apple's music store. Album prices range from around $9 - $11.
has replaced that idiotic "real time stock quotes" example that was used over, and over, and over to illustrate the capibilites of.Net as the most out of place example of advanced technology.
I have to agree that a community college can truly kick ass if you are looking for direct learning. Some might be terrible, but here are some simple pointers: --Make sure the class outlines are detailed. If they are not, then that is a major red flag, indicating that people in the know are not involved in the creation of the course. --Search for the name of an instructor on the web. You never know, and since Google will pick up a lot of newsgroup archives, you might just find out that a particular instructor is very active in the developer community. --Does the community college have decent labs? If "good" money has been spent on buying equipment, then good money might have been spent on instructors. --Email the instructor. Why not? They don't make money off of you directly, so just ask them some well thought out questions and weigh their responses.
On an aside, training/certification can help but don't forget that user's groups, mailings lists, and other forums are filled with people such as yourself looking to get hired and those looking to hire. Don't turn your back on the very technology you are looking to work in! (-:
Then a true virus would update a Windows '95/'98 machine with updated drivers.
Re:Why do you guys hate Xbox so much?
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I mean... is it because it's Microsoft? Take a minute with me and let's imagine something.
Yes, it is because it is Microsoft. I don't see what's so complex about putting money into companies that one admires, and I have no admiration for Microsoft.
I buy boxed Linux distros when I can, I purchase Linux journal, I promote operating systems other than Windows to my family and friends, I never ever use Office anymore, and thank god Mozilla is getting as good as it is otherwise I might have to still use Explorer.
I don't just "not" buy some of their things, I go out of my way to stay away from all of their products, and I think that has landed me more enjoyable jobs and kept technology fun for me.
While 'tis true I'm sure that secure coding practices grow more likely to contain security flaws as more and more of us code, I think the best way for coding to become more secure is to have more managers in the bizz that know about code.
The more experienced a manager is in actual coding,the more likely he or she will: >Listen to and support action upon security >Allow time to make apps secure in project deadlines >Be less likely buy crappy software from the start (see the section in the article on middleware) >Hire good sys admins
I don't think coders should always get such a bad rap when those "above" tend to sell products without often thinking of how to make it secure, and sometimes don't allow programmers the time to design solid security into a system.
Don't retire, just replace someone that thinks powerpoint is a good web development app.
Democratic businessman Rollie Heath, Owens' challenger in November's gubernatorial election, is pushing for Colorado to join the tax project.
He said that not taxing online sales puts local businesses at a competitive disadvantage.
"I just have a strong bias against having our own business having to compete unfairly with somebody who can send the same product in here from out of state," Heath said.
Sure, some businesses have suffered quite a loss due to the internet, but many businesses rely upon the internet to order items for themselves. Restaurants for wine, bike shops for parts, used book stores that buy, sell, and trade on the internet. All of these types of stores and shops would be hit by this tax as well as Joe consumer. And on top of this point, would this not increase the amount of items ordered directly from countries such as Canada and Mexico?
Amen. I make money using Open Source oriented tools, I never recommend using any MS stuff if possible, and it ends up saving me money, heartache, and spoils me. Once you work within a *nix / BSD environment for a while, using great languages made to be the best at their target task group, it's pretty hard to adjust to the limitations and complexity of these tons of MS GUI applications. I mean, they should have a school for "how to program using drop down menus" for everyone that just soooo loves their Interdev. The world does not need a million friggin' stock tickers and inventory management systems!
Two technologies, Visual Basic and FrontPage, made my choice for me many years ago.
Here here. I just downloaded Mozilla for my boss so he could troubleshoot some JavaScript with the console window - for an app designed for IE. Works great. I run moz on OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
but they are, like it or not, the de facto standard out there.
Unless you count databases, web, mail, and print servers.
Sorry if I missed some.
"Microsoft is watching all of us. .NET will be the ONLY development platform.
Windows
Longhorn will be the next killer app.
4 servers for every small application."
Just as I'm about to give up hope and run scared, I notice someone down the hall yelling for tech support to help with their Outlook mail. And then, as I've just re-installed Office, I remember to turn off Clippy.
My mind settles and I get back to work.
From http://www.sco.com/products/openserver507/features /
Integration of Open Source Tools
* Java JDK 1.3.1 and Java runtime
* Graphics, Web, and X-11 libraries
* Samba, Squid, OpenSSL, and OpenSSH
* BIND, FTP, IP Filter, PHP, XML, ASP
* DocView (online documentation system)
* libc from SCO UnixWare 7.1.3
* GNU Compiler Collection, GNU debugger, GNU diff, wget, and CVS
* Mozilla and Netscape Communicator
* UnixWare and OpenServer Development Kit 7.1.3
Beagle Brothers...
I almost made it through to the end of your post before nostalgia hit me so hard I just had to make a post.
Damn, I remember using that tool on the II+.
I hate to point it out, but you are reading Slashdot, which has been known to carry a sarcastic or funny comment or two.
While it's nice to get behind Big Blue on this, I think it would speak volumes if a company such as SuSE or Red Hat, or even a small consulting company that lost business because of SCO's loud rattle against Linux, was to win a case against, or defending against, SCO.
I'm glad IBM is supporting Linux, but everyone knows that if their earlier "efforts" hadn't gone down the tubes, they would not be the friend they are today to the Linux community.
Gosh, I can't imagine people that had invested millions in Linux becoming angry that SCO is threatening to sue Linus and thinking twice about buying their stock and their services.
Most people dumped their software years ago, so hopefully everyone will now finish them off and dump their stock.
Obviously they didn't RTFM!
Mozilla should just use 'Firebird Trans Am' instead.
Then we would all think of Burt Reynolds when searching our favorite web pages. And, it would go well next to my Camino.
Another thing you might want to think about is joining a local user group. I think the idea of starting a club is great, but the best way to learn how to run (and not to run) such a club might be to trek out to a user group that is already in practice.
If there is no such group, perhaps you might want to think about starting a user group rather than a computer club that might require support from your school. Not to put down interaction with school, but it might help out if you are having trouble garnering support from teachers.
I visited the page with the article, and the first thing I saw was an ad for that perisite of a program gator, which has caused our sys admins here to enjoy a few less hours of this wonderful spring weather.
I couldn't bring myself to take seriously a page advertising that crap, so I would imagine that I will take pages with the full screen ads even less seriously.
Sorry if this seems like a rant; an out of line statement compared to what I'm sure will be positive remarks (yeah right!).
A lot of people on the board seemed to miss the "Buy the album" option that is mentioned in the article, and is illustrated quite clearly on Apple's music store. Album prices range from around $9 - $11.
has replaced that idiotic "real time stock quotes" example that was used over, and over, and over to illustrate the capibilites of .Net as the most out of place example of advanced technology.
I have to agree that a community college can truly kick ass if you are looking for direct learning. Some might be terrible, but here are some simple pointers:
--Make sure the class outlines are detailed. If they are not, then that is a major red flag, indicating that people in the know are not involved in the creation of the course.
--Search for the name of an instructor on the web. You never know, and since Google will pick up a lot of newsgroup archives, you might just find out that a particular instructor is very active in the developer community.
--Does the community college have decent labs? If "good" money has been spent on buying equipment, then good money might have been spent on instructors.
--Email the instructor. Why not? They don't make money off of you directly, so just ask them some well thought out questions and weigh their responses.
On an aside, training/certification can help but don't forget that user's groups, mailings lists, and other forums are filled with people such as yourself looking to get hired and those looking to hire. Don't turn your back on the very technology you are looking to work in! (-:
I learned to read and type in the wonderful world of Zork!
>kill troll with sword
>take axe
>verbose
I'm glad I saw this blurb, otherwise I would have never known there were sales after Thanksgiving.
Then a true virus would update a Windows '95/'98 machine with updated drivers.
I mean... is it because it's Microsoft? Take a minute with me and let's imagine something.
Yes, it is because it is Microsoft. I don't see what's so complex about putting money into companies that one admires, and I have no admiration for Microsoft.
I buy boxed Linux distros when I can, I purchase Linux journal, I promote operating systems other than Windows to my family and friends, I never ever use Office anymore, and thank god Mozilla is getting as good as it is otherwise I might have to still use Explorer.
I don't just "not" buy some of their things, I go out of my way to stay away from all of their products, and I think that has landed me more enjoyable jobs and kept technology fun for me.
While 'tis true I'm sure that secure coding practices grow more likely to contain security flaws as more and more of us code, I think the best way for coding to become more secure is to have more managers in the bizz that know about code.
The more experienced a manager is in actual coding,the more likely he or she will:
>Listen to and support action upon security
>Allow time to make apps secure in project deadlines
>Be less likely buy crappy software from the start (see the section in the article on middleware)
>Hire good sys admins
I don't think coders should always get such a bad rap when those "above" tend to sell products without often thinking of how to make it secure, and sometimes don't allow programmers the time to design solid security into a system.
Don't retire, just replace someone that thinks powerpoint is a good web development app.
Democratic businessman Rollie Heath, Owens' challenger in November's gubernatorial election, is pushing for Colorado to join the tax project.
He said that not taxing online sales puts local businesses at a competitive disadvantage.
"I just have a strong bias against having our own business having to compete unfairly with somebody who can send the same product in here from out of state," Heath said.
Sure, some businesses have suffered quite a loss due to the internet, but many businesses rely upon the internet to order items for themselves. Restaurants for wine, bike shops for parts, used book stores that buy, sell, and trade on the internet. All of these types of stores and shops would be hit by this tax as well as Joe consumer. And on top of this point, would this not increase the amount of items ordered directly from countries such as Canada and Mexico?
http://www.ccs.ornl.gov/PR/craytest.html
I noticed the same reference to Stephen Hawking the other day...don't really see the point.
Amen. I make money using Open Source oriented tools, I never recommend using any MS stuff if possible, and it ends up saving me money, heartache, and spoils me. Once you work within a *nix / BSD environment for a while, using great languages made to be the best at their target task group, it's pretty hard to adjust to the limitations and complexity of these tons of MS GUI applications. I mean, they should have a school for "how to program using drop down menus" for everyone that just soooo loves their Interdev. The world does not need a million friggin' stock tickers and inventory management systems!
Two technologies, Visual Basic and FrontPage, made my choice for me many years ago.
Here here. I just downloaded Mozilla for my boss so he could troubleshoot some JavaScript with the console window - for an app designed for IE. Works great. I run moz on OS X, Linux, and Windows.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnIn quiry.asp?userid=0ECFT32QIF&isbn=0672317842
But after you get into using PHP/Apache etc more, just use the web:
www.php.net is a prime example of a very, very well executed site that usually gives you all the answers you need.
That and www.devshed.com (no, I'm not affiliated with either so I'm not a pill pusher!) That site should keep you cranking for a month or so.