And then watch them try to sue you for not delivering the cool DHTML that they wanted, or conversly for doing the DHTML and having it not work on Notscape.
I use Linux on all of my Intra/Internet servers because it's the best at doing that.
I use NetWare in our offices because it's the best all around FILE server.
I use NT on my desk because it's the best PC desktop OS with gobs of quality software.
I use IE because my time is worth something and a browser crashing, or rendering pages incorrectly, or not having plug-in support, etc. is more than enough to overcome my philosophical inclination to use Netscape.
Are you using Moz because it is a superior product to achieve the designated task, or just because it isn't made by MicroSoft?
The mark of an experienced "professional" is that s/he uses the right tool for the job. The mark of the young zealot is to fall in love/hate with one platform/program and blindly base all of their decisions on that.
Open source is crowded with Closed minds...
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That breadmaker looks more like an old laser printer than anything else.
If your front page gets a huge amount of hits that is disproportional to the number of hits pages below it are getting, the perception is that the front page is not compelling enough to get people to delve deeper. This wouldn't be a good thing for the developer.
I run my home connection through a proxy server, and I strip all of that information on the way out, so a great many site won't let me at their content AT ALL, because it says I have an insufficient browser (I'm running Netscape 4.73).
Sometimes (not too often) it is necessary to create an image with just text if placement is crucial. The ability (a good one) for the user to change the base font size within their browser can make correct layout generation impossible in these cases.
Then you'd be sued because some yahoo has his base font size set to "Largest" and he can't read it all in his browser.
Now 100k may be excessive. Most text only images can be around 5-10k.
I did something similiar to this. I helped a library that had 1 PC running on an ISDN line setup a small network with 6 additional old Pentiums running Linux.
Went back in a week to see how they were enjoying it. They complained because they couldn't get the plug-in support that IE offered, and they said they were slow "because they aren't running Windows."
The last I saw, the linux boxes were stacked in a storeroom and they were back to 1 box.
You actually quit working to become a student? How's that working out?
Over the past few months I've been considering doing something like this myself. I have been working in the professional IT field since I left high school 10 years ago. I had always intended on going for the degree, but it just never happened. The money was just too good and there always seems to be one more really cool project.
Now I ask myself if I could deal without having a nice income for 4 years. I certainly couldn't sustain the kind of lifestyle I'm used to. Besides the personal growth angle, would a 4 year degree help me much at this point? I've been pretty successfull without it, and my resume looks pretty darn impressive.
Maybe work 10 more years, retire, and then do the personal growth thing?
Has anyone else noticed that on ER they have a full shrinkwrap set of all of Computer Associates software on the counter at the nurses station? I guess the nurses mess around with unicenter on break!
I can't believe this attitude. I've been following this for quite some time and personally can't wait for it to happen.
Yeah yeah, I've got tons of mp3's burned on cd to handle most of my music cravings, but this is so much more.
I spend a LOT of time in my car, often times driving in rural areas where reception is shotty at best. The idea of being able to pick up NPR at anytime, anywhere I am is great!
They're working with the Sci-Fi channel for doing original programming... and old-time radio shows... news... and great late night talk shows so that I won't have to change channels every 15 minutes driving down the interstate to keep listening to "Dreamland".
Will I listen to it at home? No, probably not. They understand this. That's why they are targeting users in their car!
Will I pay $9.95 a month for this? I can't wait to.
I may be wrong in my assumptions, but I think DHCP (or a close relative) will be even more needed.
Will the ability to give a fixed address to anyone on the planet who wants one be embraced
The way I see it, you could only have a fixed address with one ISP. If you change ISP's, your IP's would have to change to keep the routing tables consistant.
In the future, I believe that conventional computers will take up only a tiny bit of the used IP's. The other used IP's will be assigned to appliances of some sort or the other.
Which do you think would be more likely to be accepted by the mass consumer market, a refrigerator that you had to telnet into and setup networking parameters (that you don't even understand) after you purchased it, or moved it, or changed ISP's; or one that you just plugged in that got the necessary configuration info from your ISP automagically?
What I do see is a proliferation of the DYNAMIC DNS services that match up your "common name" with the current IP that you are assigned.
When I move and my refrigerator gets a new IP, I can be assured that the Dynamic DNS gets informed of this behind the scenes without me even thinking about it.
Most users won't even know that there is any sort of number behind the name that they use to access their refrigerator.
I have had to deal with several cracked Linux boxes, but have NEVER had a problem with my NT boxes running O'Reilly WebSite. And yes, the admins had made a decent atempt to stay up to date on patches and had turned off unused services.
I despise NT and don't do any development on it anymore. It's just around for some legacy apps. Anything new goes on Linux... but it makes you think.
Maybe nobody WANTS to root^h^h^h^hadministrator an NT box?
Future civilisations could learn from our mistakes. Then Archaeology will finally become recognised as the amazing science that it is. Pity the Ancient Romans only discovered lead poisoning, and not the Greenhouse Effect or Faster Than Light travel.
Yeah, but at least they discovered lead poisoning and we were able to learn from that enough to not produce lead based paints that could potentially be dangerous to little kids eating the flakes.
That would have been stupid of us to not learn from the past.
So how do they figure out where each language version begins and ends? I mean, except for changes from French to Japanese where the change would be obvious, it could be confusing.
Of course that's just for me, and I'm not too smart.
But if there is a "good enough" free package, I'll stick with that.
You may, but Joe Average User won't. There are plenty of "good enough" editors for Windows, yet they still pay for Word.
There are some great apps out there for linux for developers and other geek-like creatures. We create them because we know what we need to do our jobs. The Gimp is fine for the guy creating a logo for his website or for making cool wallpaper, but a graphics designer would have a hard time jumping into it.
Most on/. seem to think that the non-MDI interface that is prevelent in X apps is great. I have to agree, but every serious Photoshop user I've shown Gimp to complains about how cluttered things get. It's confusing to them. They don't want to do 20 things at once, and never will.
Linux (at least on the desktop) will not survive until we start developing quality apps for the non-geek majority.
Most Open Source programmers don't have the inclination or background to design apps destined for non-geek consumption. This will be our downfall unless we spread the word and recruit outside experts who can share our views to work alongside developers as an integral part of the team.
Coding is the easy part.
I REALLY think Linux would be MUCH better off if there were more grrls involved in software design. I honestly do.
Use a service like Service Metrics to investigate the colos response-time from various points around the country so that you know its weaknesses. (I think there's a freeware version of this these days too.) Also talk to other customers to find out what they think.
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Getting IE for Linux would be the best thing that could ever happen for it to be accepted.
That's why *I'm* hoping for a quick and swift breakup.
And then watch them try to sue you for not delivering the cool DHTML that they wanted, or conversly for doing the DHTML and having it not work on Notscape.
Why?
I use Linux on all of my Intra/Internet servers because it's the best at doing that.
I use NetWare in our offices because it's the best all around FILE server.
I use NT on my desk because it's the best PC desktop OS with gobs of quality software.
I use IE because my time is worth something and a browser crashing, or rendering pages incorrectly, or not having plug-in support, etc. is more than enough to overcome my philosophical inclination to use Netscape.
Are you using Moz because it is a superior product to achieve the designated task, or just because it isn't made by MicroSoft?
The mark of an experienced "professional" is that s/he uses the right tool for the job. The mark of the young zealot is to fall in love/hate with one platform/program and blindly base all of their decisions on that.
Open source is crowded with Closed minds...
That breadmaker looks more like an old laser printer than anything else.
If your front page gets a huge amount of hits that is disproportional to the number of hits pages below it are getting, the perception is that the front page is not compelling enough to get people to delve deeper. This wouldn't be a good thing for the developer.
I run my home connection through a proxy server, and I strip all of that information on the way out, so a great many site won't let me at their content AT ALL, because it says I have an insufficient browser (I'm running Netscape 4.73).
;)
So they guessed right, eh?
...of course only with adequate alt= tags to make it useable with lynx.
Sometimes (not too often) it is necessary to create an image with just text if placement is crucial. The ability (a good one) for the user to change the base font size within their browser can make correct layout generation impossible in these cases.
Then you'd be sued because some yahoo has his base font size set to "Largest" and he can't read it all in his browser.
Now 100k may be excessive. Most text only images can be around 5-10k.
I did something similiar to this. I helped a library that had 1 PC running on an ISDN line setup a small network with 6 additional old Pentiums running Linux.
Went back in a week to see how they were enjoying it. They complained because they couldn't get the plug-in support that IE offered, and they said they were slow "because they aren't running Windows."
The last I saw, the linux boxes were stacked in a storeroom and they were back to 1 box.
Kind of frustrating, but I'd do it again.
Isn't it strange that the sports and religion channels seem to always come in clearest.
You actually quit working to become a student? How's that working out?
Over the past few months I've been considering doing something like this myself. I have been working in the professional IT field since I left high school 10 years ago. I had always intended on going for the degree, but it just never happened. The money was just too good and there always seems to be one more really cool project.
Now I ask myself if I could deal without having a nice income for 4 years. I certainly couldn't sustain the kind of lifestyle I'm used to. Besides the personal growth angle, would a 4 year degree help me much at this point? I've been pretty successfull without it, and my resume looks pretty darn impressive.
Maybe work 10 more years, retire, and then do the personal growth thing?
Any ideas from anyone?
And me with no moderation points.
For pre-interview stories, everybody should get say 2 votes. This is very different than standard moderation.
Has anyone else noticed that on ER they have a full shrinkwrap set of all of Computer Associates software on the counter at the nurses station? I guess the nurses mess around with unicenter on break!
I can't believe this attitude. I've been following this for quite some time and personally can't wait for it to happen.
Yeah yeah, I've got tons of mp3's burned on cd to handle most of my music cravings, but this is so much more.
I spend a LOT of time in my car, often times driving in rural areas where reception is shotty at best. The idea of being able to pick up NPR at anytime, anywhere I am is great!
They're working with the Sci-Fi channel for doing original programming... and old-time radio shows... news... and great late night talk shows so that I won't have to change channels every 15 minutes driving down the interstate to keep listening to "Dreamland".
Will I listen to it at home? No, probably not. They understand this. That's why they are targeting users in their car!
Will I pay $9.95 a month for this? I can't wait to.
Yeah, but this is cool enough that they can require an espresso machine be supplied to them just to show it off:
3.5.15 Espresso machine
One medium capacity espresso machine, and an unlimited supply of espresso beans
I may be wrong in my assumptions, but I think DHCP (or a close relative) will be even more needed.
Will the ability to give a fixed address to anyone on the planet who wants one be embraced
The way I see it, you could only have a fixed address with one ISP. If you change ISP's, your IP's would have to change to keep the routing tables consistant.
In the future, I believe that conventional computers will take up only a tiny bit of the used IP's. The other used IP's will be assigned to appliances of some sort or the other.
Which do you think would be more likely to be accepted by the mass consumer market, a refrigerator that you had to telnet into and setup networking parameters (that you don't even understand) after you purchased it, or moved it, or changed ISP's; or one that you just plugged in that got the necessary configuration info from your ISP automagically?
What I do see is a proliferation of the DYNAMIC DNS services that match up your "common name" with the current IP that you are assigned.
icebox1.myidentifier.pers.us => 248:183:53:3:221.128.105.18
When I move and my refrigerator gets a new IP, I can be assured that the Dynamic DNS gets informed of this behind the scenes without me even thinking about it.
Most users won't even know that there is any sort of number behind the name that they use to access their refrigerator.
I downloaded and tried out their half-qwerty demo (you can actually use the demo to learn to do it) and was very surprised how usable it is.
I figured out that it's a lot easier if you just do it and don't think about it. Amazing how the mind works!
It's too bad that I access most of my Linux boxen via SecureCRT and the Windows version of the driver is like $400. Geez, they're proud of that!
But then I really need a half-QWERTY keyboard to clean up my desk space.
Can you copywrite a keyboard layout?
I have had to deal with several cracked Linux boxes, but have NEVER had a problem with my NT boxes running O'Reilly WebSite. And yes, the admins had made a decent atempt to stay up to date on patches and had turned off unused services.
I despise NT and don't do any development on it anymore. It's just around for some legacy apps. Anything new goes on Linux... but it makes you think.
Maybe nobody WANTS to root^h^h^h^hadministrator an NT box?
You know you have a good old stack of keyboards when they all still have the Wordperfect function key label strip on them!
Mine has one right now.
Well if it doesn't last the stated 10,000 years, we'll sue!
Future civilisations could learn from our mistakes. Then Archaeology will finally become recognised as the amazing science that it is. Pity the Ancient Romans only discovered lead poisoning, and not the Greenhouse Effect or Faster Than Light travel.
Yeah, but at least they discovered lead poisoning and we were able to learn from that enough to not produce lead based paints that could potentially be dangerous to little kids eating the flakes.
That would have been stupid of us to not learn from the past.
So how do they figure out where each language version begins and ends? I mean, except for changes from French to Japanese where the change would be obvious, it could be confusing.
Of course that's just for me, and I'm not too smart.
But if there is a "good enough" free package, I'll stick with that.
/. seem to think that the non-MDI interface that is prevelent in X apps is great. I have to agree, but every serious Photoshop user I've shown Gimp to complains about how cluttered things get. It's confusing to them. They don't want to do 20 things at once, and never will.
You may, but Joe Average User won't. There are plenty of "good enough" editors for Windows, yet they still pay for Word.
There are some great apps out there for linux for developers and other geek-like creatures. We create them because we know what we need to do our jobs. The Gimp is fine for the guy creating a logo for his website or for making cool wallpaper, but a graphics designer would have a hard time jumping into it.
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Linux (at least on the desktop) will not survive until we start developing quality apps for the non-geek majority.
Most Open Source programmers don't have the inclination or background to design apps destined for non-geek consumption. This will be our downfall unless we spread the word and recruit outside experts who can share our views to work alongside developers as an integral part of the team.
Coding is the easy part.
I REALLY think Linux would be MUCH better off if there were more grrls involved in software design. I honestly do.
Use a service like Service Metrics to investigate the colos response-time from various points around the country so that you know its weaknesses. (I think there's a freeware version of this these days too.) Also talk to other customers to find out what they think.
"Exodus Acquires Service Metrics For $280M"
Geez.
If you need java, you need netscape. If you need complicated animated gifs, use netscape. For security, use netscape. Everything else, LYNX!