Not to mention the fact that Mozilla comes with a full mail client, an HTML composer, address book, etc. Which I realize is not necessarily needed on a mac with the various iApps, etc. but the fact that it is loading at least 4 applications accounts for most of the speed differences. Launch IE, Mail, Addressbook, etc. all at the same time and see which one is faster, I don't really know, but it should be part of the test....
Same problem on windoze, launch IE, outlook, etc. all at once and see which is faster, probably still the M$ stuff, but it is going to slash the difference in speed way down.
You know having 1.43 would be great and all but for those users (and I bet there are a good many on/.) that have one of the version 1 wireless routers linksys has decided at least for the mean time to not even bother releasing a 1.43. Sure the version 2 router has one, but why would they want to support their early adopters?
Maybe this report gives me more ammunition but so far linksys has just said they don't know when one will be available. On top of that they have to know that the 1.42.7 firmware is buggy as hell because even the support person only sent me 1.40.3 in the e-mail!
How nice it would be to have wireless and port forwarding at the same time......
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"The sample chapter on the O'Reilly site contains a lot of what I dislike about about O'Reilly books: too much cuteness, not enough organization, too many useless examples. The last are particularly dumb: you don't want to do your own XML parsing, the authors say repeatedly that you don't want to do your own parsing -- yet most of the examples are parsing code! "
O'Reilly chose a poor example chapter. The examples of how to do parsing are important in the context of understanding what the modules are doing and being able to determine when one should use which module, which is much of what the book is about.
"It's also dumb to have any introductory XML material if you're not going to be serious about it"
Thats the beauty of this particular book, they are "serious about it" they are serious about it being an introduction. For myself who has read about XML standards existing and been doing web development I didn't need an all encompassing book about what the hell a markup language is and how they are generally formatted, etc. and all of the minute details in the XML spec, what I needed was a very concise overview about what DOM, SAX, XSL, etc. are and where they are applied. Which was accomplished beautifully in this particular book.
Having said all of that I very much appreciated the book as a perfect fit for someone with a fair amount of Perl experience, lots of web experience, but no XML experience. Only fault I found was the price, but that is O'Reilly NOT the author or the text itself.
It qualifies because there are plenty of us in the/. crowd (I would think) who are sitting here unemployed despite having applied to hundreds of IT related positions across the country in the last 6 months and not found something despite 3-5 years of experience, a college degree, and more than half a brain.
Seems like a relatively small task to setup a user for the web server, then a group for each web site, or user account, then place the web server user in each of those groups as that would allow the web server to read the files. Then set the ownership on those files to the user/group of the web site owner.
We use the opposite, 1 group for all of our users since we know that each user is "trusted" on the box.
Should apache or any web server software be run as nobody??
"The sad part is, I'm probably going to have to abandon my argument in the question of Win vs. Mac, that Windows is more configurable."
Nothing personal but the "sad part" is that your argument is only between Mac and Windows, who cares about both, run linux and be done with it.
And if they are a "code throwing god" they may not be one in the particular arena that the software is written. For instance I think of my self as a pretty good Perl coder and a strong web developer, and I could dabble in C, C++ but I wouldn't even want to look at Java source (I have seen enough of it already) or let alone tackle my own driver for the kernel (even though I recompile that anyways). For me it has less to do with compiling or building than the fact that I wouldn't help on an Open Source project unless I was interested in it and that I could contribute something more than inefficient buggy code.
Who do you think wrote the letter? My guess (since I don't really know) is that it wasn't there development dept., it sure wasn't accounting, and something tells me if their sales people are anything like ours they wouldn't be able to write a letter...who does that leave? Upper management and legal, we know upper management doesn't do anything but tell everyone else what to do so it had to be legal....just because it didn't take going to a court room doesn't mean "THEY" weren't involved.....
...as a believer in MySQL at heart, but there is always Oracle. Might be worth it, though I have never used it, and there is supposedly a steep learning curve.
Sometimes I have to wonder about people whining about low salaries and to much time at work who are living in San Francisco, or any one of 100 places. I think this is a major element not included in so many complaints. No one is requiring you to live in New York, or Chicago, or San Francisco, or LA. Part of the sacrifice that you undertake when living in one of these places is being paid next to nothing, with an incredibly high cost of living, and working over time like hours. Don't like what I describe??? Move to the midwest, or the south, or to a smaller city.
I am paid what I consider to be pretty reasonable for my education level and experience, and the type of person I am. And I recently found out that I am making easily 2x as much as my friends out west, I live in a city with half the cost of living, and I am making over the average income of a family of 4 in my same city. I am 23 with 4 years of Internet related programming experience and a 4 year college degree in economics, and yet I only work an average of 42 hours a week.
The technological revolution doesn't mean you can have your cake and eat it to, it just means it won't be so hard to cut.
I also found this bit interesting, if you look at the machine that is configured at the top of the ad it has 256 MB and is quoted at 20K-100K hits, and directly below that is the exact same machine with only 64 MB and surprisingly it is quoted at 20K-100K hits. So apprently quadrupling the amount of available hard memory does nothing for the performance of a machine....uh....er something.
About time to embrace EveryBuddy?? It has had problems in the past, and I don't currently use it since everyone I know uses AIM, but it seems to be a great solution at least for Linux users...why not use the same app to connect to all of the IM systems, when a new one pops up, just add that to the list. Granted this doesn't solve the problem if AOL or any of the others decided to shut down their service completely or deny access from unknown clients......
Boy you can tell/. has a predominant west coast or maybe southern crowd, given all of the posts about spanish becoming the main language of the US. Come to the midwest, you would be lucky to find more people speaking spanish than german, chinese, japanese, etc.
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Exactly......and for the lehman, didn't anyone see Jurassic Park?
We have a 386sx running linux 8mb (not booting to x) that boots faster than my AMD Athlon 500 128 MB scsi machine. It all depends on what you intend to run on it and the number of things to boot up.
Check out an old version of slackware or maybe debian. RedHat is great and all but if you are looking for boot time rather than ease of configurability, etc. then it is terrible.
Also thought I would mention that it is an install of less than 100 MB, try doing that easily in RedHat.
Believe it: http://i386.sapien.net (if it is down it is usually because of the NE2000 network card ((newest piece of hardware in the machine)))
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Not to mention the fact that Mozilla comes with a full mail client, an HTML composer, address book, etc. Which I realize is not necessarily needed on a mac with the various iApps, etc. but the fact that it is loading at least 4 applications accounts for most of the speed differences. Launch IE, Mail, Addressbook, etc. all at the same time and see which one is faster, I don't really know, but it should be part of the test....
Same problem on windoze, launch IE, outlook, etc. all at once and see which is faster, probably still the M$ stuff, but it is going to slash the difference in speed way down.
Maybe this report gives me more ammunition but so far linksys has just said they don't know when one will be available. On top of that they have to know that the 1.42.7 firmware is buggy as hell because even the support person only sent me 1.40.3 in the e-mail!
How nice it would be to have wireless and port forwarding at the same time......
O'Reilly chose a poor example chapter. The examples of how to do parsing are important in the context of understanding what the modules are doing and being able to determine when one should use which module, which is much of what the book is about.
"It's also dumb to have any introductory XML material if you're not going to be serious about it"
Thats the beauty of this particular book, they are "serious about it" they are serious about it being an introduction. For myself who has read about XML standards existing and been doing web development I didn't need an all encompassing book about what the hell a markup language is and how they are generally formatted, etc. and all of the minute details in the XML spec, what I needed was a very concise overview about what DOM, SAX, XSL, etc. are and where they are applied. Which was accomplished beautifully in this particular book.
Having said all of that I very much appreciated the book as a perfect fit for someone with a fair amount of Perl experience, lots of web experience, but no XML experience. Only fault I found was the price, but that is O'Reilly NOT the author or the text itself.
Why not use Java instead of C?
Interesting conversation brewing, but the original argument is whether it was newsworthy or not. Does this conversation prove that it is??
It qualifies because there are plenty of us in the /. crowd (I would think) who are sitting here unemployed despite having applied to hundreds of IT related positions across the country in the last 6 months and not found something despite 3-5 years of experience, a college degree, and more than half a brain.
sorry about that... store.sun.com in the comment not sun.store.com......
Configuration Error
1) Error calling config servlet: sunir.webdesk.common.checker.ConfigInternalExcepti on: Couldn't get sql connection
Then I tried to reload the page and didn't even get a response....
We use the opposite, 1 group for all of our users since we know that each user is "trusted" on the box.
Should apache or any web server software be run as nobody??
When did front page come with MySQL or PHP support. God I hope this was a joke.
"The sad part is, I'm probably going to have to abandon my argument in the question of Win vs. Mac, that Windows is more configurable." Nothing personal but the "sad part" is that your argument is only between Mac and Windows, who cares about both, run linux and be done with it.
I agree, the best thing about my job is that my boss is the original poster of this comment!!
And if they are a "code throwing god" they may not be one in the particular arena that the software is written. For instance I think of my self as a pretty good Perl coder and a strong web developer, and I could dabble in C, C++ but I wouldn't even want to look at Java source (I have seen enough of it already) or let alone tackle my own driver for the kernel (even though I recompile that anyways). For me it has less to do with compiling or building than the fact that I wouldn't help on an Open Source project unless I was interested in it and that I could contribute something more than inefficient buggy code.
Who do you think wrote the letter? My guess (since I don't really know) is that it wasn't there development dept., it sure wasn't accounting, and something tells me if their sales people are anything like ours they wouldn't be able to write a letter...who does that leave? Upper management and legal, we know upper management doesn't do anything but tell everyone else what to do so it had to be legal....just because it didn't take going to a court room doesn't mean "THEY" weren't involved.....
...as a believer in MySQL at heart, but there is always Oracle. Might be worth it, though I have never used it, and there is supposedly a steep learning curve.
Well then its the highway....really it is ok to use them.
Sometimes I have to wonder about people whining about low salaries and to much time at work who are living in San Francisco, or any one of 100 places. I think this is a major element not included in so many complaints. No one is requiring you to live in New York, or Chicago, or San Francisco, or LA. Part of the sacrifice that you undertake when living in one of these places is being paid next to nothing, with an incredibly high cost of living, and working over time like hours. Don't like what I describe??? Move to the midwest, or the south, or to a smaller city. I am paid what I consider to be pretty reasonable for my education level and experience, and the type of person I am. And I recently found out that I am making easily 2x as much as my friends out west, I live in a city with half the cost of living, and I am making over the average income of a family of 4 in my same city. I am 23 with 4 years of Internet related programming experience and a 4 year college degree in economics, and yet I only work an average of 42 hours a week. The technological revolution doesn't mean you can have your cake and eat it to, it just means it won't be so hard to cut.
I also found this bit interesting, if you look at the machine that is configured at the top of the ad it has 256 MB and is quoted at 20K-100K hits, and directly below that is the exact same machine with only 64 MB and surprisingly it is quoted at 20K-100K hits. So apprently quadrupling the amount of available hard memory does nothing for the performance of a machine....uh....er something.
About time to embrace EveryBuddy?? It has had problems in the past, and I don't currently use it since everyone I know uses AIM, but it seems to be a great solution at least for Linux users...why not use the same app to connect to all of the IM systems, when a new one pops up, just add that to the list. Granted this doesn't solve the problem if AOL or any of the others decided to shut down their service completely or deny access from unknown clients......
How different are the two anyways?
Boy you can tell /. has a predominant west coast or maybe southern crowd, given all of the posts about spanish becoming the main language of the US. Come to the midwest, you would be lucky to find more people speaking spanish than german, chinese, japanese, etc.
Exactly......and for the lehman, didn't anyone see Jurassic Park?
Check out an old version of slackware or maybe debian. RedHat is great and all but if you are looking for boot time rather than ease of configurability, etc. then it is terrible.
Also thought I would mention that it is an install of less than 100 MB, try doing that easily in RedHat.
Believe it: http://i386.sapien.net (if it is down it is usually because of the NE2000 network card ((newest piece of hardware in the machine)))
As much as I can't stand M$ soft products they do make a decent keyboard and mouse occasionally....