mozilla is not GPLed alone. its tri licensed. the company could have legally without stealing taken code from mozilla and developed it without giving anything back. that sthe terms mozilla was released under. the fact they gave it back is very generous.
send the RFP to the current maintainer for the various open source projects...or if there is a group dump it on the main developers list.
some developer may decide to answer or not.
i'll second this. ive had word die on me dozens of times loosing data. i've always seen most OSS software to save the file "before" and "after" versions in case it died. emacs and pico are two common examples of text editors where you simply dont loose your work which IMHO is the highest goal a piece of software can achieve.
realistically if youre worth anything as a developer, building a test application that excercises every single bit of your application logic does the trick. sure its painful but i'll take a comprehensive test harness that i can run on my own without a 25 man testing team over a bucnh of human testers any day. code is never meant to be tested by humans. its a mind numbing process which a machine should (and can) handle. same goes for GUI apps. dumping X events to test every menu is something a fairly good developer can write in an evening.
dunno. i had a 2 toshibas from my company and they both were smashed in the rough handling at trade shows.on the toher hand my panasonic toughbook has taken rain, snow, falls onto concrete and 3 years worth of trade shows and it keeps on ticking.
of course having a titanium case, cushion damped drive and mobo and being built to military grade specs helps.
just use MRTG. thats what its there for. youre not a sysadmin if you havent heard of it. go learn - http://home.gci.net/~leif/mrtg - good page for cisco as52xx and 53xx monitoring with mrtg.
if it was $199 everyone would jump on it. and if it had a flash disk instead of losing all the data when the power goes out like the palmpilots. i know i certainly would.
and running a NeXT/UNIX derived OS with an 802.11b port would be really cool.
youre trolling of course. and being sarcastic. i'll answer your points briefly :
1. parsing flat text files : yes, we do this exceptionally well. compare that to non open source programs like word which cant read files generated by different versions of the same program. flat text files keep things simple. witness XML which is touted as the next best thing. oops..its a flat text file. binary files break stuff..like the win32 registry./etc keeps it simple. thats good engineering.
2. whats wrong with backward compatibility ? and scaling from a wristwatch to a 500+ CPU machine ?
3. gcc has support for Java and C++. Modula2 and eiffel are also available. its not just c and sh.
4. arrogant dudes are responsible for great breakthroughs in the scientific world. most earthshattering ideas come from people willing to swim against the herd.
5. software may or may not be speech but its complex enough and has enough variables not to be considered as a simple piece of machinery. it never gets worn out like machinery and has no physical properties like a piece of steel. its something else altogether.
hey..ive seen project shere the customer signed off the document and then CHANGED it 3 TIMES (signing it each time of course). what are you going to do if the customer changes it ? cancel the project ? ask for your money ? heres a newsflash - not everything works in the real world liuke you would expect it to. and you have to generate revenue and finish the project.
yep. i made CTO by 24 so i dont see why that guy is whining about making architect by 28. maybe he isnt really ready for it.
architecture is something thats there when coding burns you out. its a way of doing interesting stuff while the rest of the grunts sweat it out doing routine coding... of course if youre not competant and you screw up the architecture part you usually get fired. but thats how life is.
ignore all the comments about high pressure and other crap. pressure systems need to be maintained continously and are prone to failure.
Try this :
put a bunch of fibre optic strands into a steel pipe (large). make sure the fibre is all loose strands of single mode fibre (glass) and not encased in a protective coating. then fill the pipe completely with concrete and let it dry. attach the fibre to the terminal and the server and run something to monitor the connection 24/7. if the bad guys blowtorch thru the steel pipe they need to use a hammer to get thru the concrete. cracking the concrete cracks the fibre along with it destroying your connection (even if it is temporary and they rig something up to restore the connection your software monitoring the connection can sound the alarm). since single mode fibre is essentially very thin glass strands you will loose a few strands while pouring the concrete but at least one will work. you can use the one that works.
its messy but reliable. epoxy and other nasty stuff in layers with the concrete is also useful.
the thing is though -- you CANT run a software business like an assembly line. there is no blueprint - every project is unique. systems change often, bugs crop up in everything from the OS, compiler to the development platform. it takes creativity to fix all that and an assembly line drone simply will not have that creativity.
i've gone days doing nothing simply because my mind was a blank -- i couldnt code. ive gone thru periods where i can code 24/7 and not even feel it. you can impose a 9-5 schedule but then the productivity of your best programmers will plummet like a rock. would you rather have the product up and running with a minimal of bugs in 8 months or 4 years ? i've been on a project where i threw out every single line of code developed over 4 YEARS by multiple consultants (4-5 mil $'s) with an aseembly line approach and rewrote the whole thing in 8 months to produce a working and sellable product. what would you rather have ?
I used ClearLink (The java version of it anyway, JLink..the C++ one sucks). JLink rocks - a 20 line piece of code using standard java jdk 1.2.2 for processing any order and rejecting order with a decent explanation (CC fraud, not supported etc) for the user.
JLink puts a hold on the card money in the card before your nightly close runs rather than directly deducting it..its real time (within 1/2 second) for doing the hold and 2-3 hrs for the close (which the merchant can run overnight anyway and start via a browser interface).
CSI's JLink system rocks - dont use any other.
boot into freedos on any new monitor and run your art. it will display at the full screen size since DOS defaults to 640 x 480 VGA mode and your monitor expands the picture to cover the whole screen anyway...
*shrug* the trick is to fix a price in your mind and bid at the last minute. yes, it takes time. ive had items lost from me at the last minute too. typical time to shop on ebay is 6 weeks for a item you want
i bought a laptop (toughbook) for $1400 on ebay which cost $3000 in retail stored. i bought a RPC-1 DVD drive for $40 which cost $350 in retail. the list goes on. ebay is GREAT for finding stuff dirt cheap and if you do your homework you will NOT be ripped off. i have never been ripped off even though i never use escrow. i always pay via money order and use only reputable sellers ( i check each and every feedback and auction ). i checked for 6 weeks for the laptop and 8 weeks for the DVD drive for example. everything i ever bid for works perfectly and ive had no problems.
sorry..nope. its business -> merchant vendor -> clearing house -> bank
as for your cybercash, it goes :
e-commerce software (yours on your business servers) -> cybercash -> CSI -> bank/CC vendor.
i've written software to interface to CSI's system directly, bypassing cybercash completely so i do know what im talking about. of course CSI's servers are DAMN SLOW since they process large bulk orders (cybercash bulk dumps all the orders thru CSI along with other vendors) so CSI tries to stop individual businesses and e-commerce software vendors from interfacing with them directly.
typical response from CSI is close to 3-4 hrs for a bulk transaction on their servers. bulk transactions may be 10 or 10,000 credit cards..it all takes roughly the same amount of time.
i'll second this. i've bought lots of stuff on ebay including laptops etc without using escrow. i've NEVER been ripped off and ive ALWAYS got the item concerned. DO YOUR HOMEWORK guys. its blatantly obvious who the crooks are and doing 6 weeks of research looking at stuff on ebay before buying is the only way to protect yourself. dont whine after you have been ripped off - RESEARCH the seller BEFORE you get ripped off.
its deisnged for monitoring the status of machine disk/cpu/network connectivity but could be adapted for regular reporting of dmesg generated data or/proc generated data. search on freshmeat for big brother.
uuh...and your concept has a running prototype that demonstrates its fuel economy and power to weight ratio superior to that of a conventional engine ? i didnt think so. they wont listen to you unless you can PROVE to them that it works. build a prototype.
hmm? the article addressed that. he evidently invented solar cless that could be put on your garage roof to do the splitting and you simply have to plug your car in to the storage tanks in your garage at night to replenish the hydrogen used up.
i'd have to question that. reporters are usually clueless (20/20 excepted) unless they are either [a] well versed in the subject matter which is highly doubtful or [b] willing to throw politically incorrect subject matter at their viewers which usually gets them canned. when the WTC attack broke the first place i went was slashdot, because i can filter the rumours etc out (i.e. i can use common sense) and it gives access to raw data from thousands of sources in one go. i'll vote a discussion site like slashdot over any news media as more reliable. and you cant beat it for breadth of coverage..even if a lot of the comments are garbage several good ones exist. i also browse at -1.
kernel.org has a bandwidth meter and is on a 100Mbps line. download from kernel.org and if you get around 1000kb/s you should be fine. note that you might be getting less because [1] theres some overhead in most protocols to transfer files and [2] most service providers dont deliver the full bandwidth anyway. its a fact of life and theres nothing you can do about it.
if you have a stringent contract with your provider you might be able to convince them to put a box in their office, one on your location and then pump data between the two to see if you can get to 2Megs between the two...or even 1 Meg sustained...and then fine them for the difference or ask them to charge less.. i doubt you will be able to do it unless you have a really good contract.
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mozilla is not GPLed alone. its tri licensed. the company could have legally without stealing taken code from mozilla and developed it without giving anything back. that sthe terms mozilla was released under. the fact they gave it back is very generous.
send the RFP to the current maintainer for the various open source projects...or if there is a group dump it on the main developers list.
some developer may decide to answer or not.
i'll second this. ive had word die on me dozens of times loosing data. i've always seen most OSS software to save the file "before" and "after" versions in case it died. emacs and pico are two common examples of text editors where you simply dont loose your work which IMHO is the highest goal a piece of software can achieve.
realistically if youre worth anything as a developer, building a test application that excercises every single bit of your application logic does the trick. sure its painful but i'll take a comprehensive test harness that i can run on my own without a 25 man testing team over a bucnh of human testers any day. code is never meant to be tested by humans. its a mind numbing process which a machine should (and can) handle. same goes for GUI apps. dumping X events to test every menu is something a fairly good developer can write in an evening.
dunno. i had a 2 toshibas from my company and they both were smashed in the rough handling at trade shows.on the toher hand my panasonic toughbook has taken rain, snow, falls onto concrete and 3 years worth of trade shows and it keeps on ticking.
of course having a titanium case, cushion damped drive and mobo and being built to military grade specs helps.
just use MRTG. thats what its there for. youre not a sysadmin if you havent heard of it. go learn - http://home.gci.net/~leif/mrtg - good page for cisco as52xx and 53xx monitoring with mrtg.
if it was $199 everyone would jump on it. and if it had a flash disk instead of losing all the data when the power goes out like the palmpilots. i know i certainly would.
and running a NeXT/UNIX derived OS with an 802.11b port would be really cool.
youre trolling of course. and being sarcastic. i'll answer your points briefly : /etc keeps it simple. thats good engineering.
1. parsing flat text files : yes, we do this exceptionally well. compare that to non open source programs like word which cant read files generated by different versions of the same program. flat text files keep things simple. witness XML which is touted as the next best thing. oops..its a flat text file. binary files break stuff..like the win32 registry.
2. whats wrong with backward compatibility ? and scaling from a wristwatch to a 500+ CPU machine ?
3. gcc has support for Java and C++. Modula2 and eiffel are also available. its not just c and sh.
4. arrogant dudes are responsible for great breakthroughs in the scientific world. most earthshattering ideas come from people willing to swim against the herd.
5. software may or may not be speech but its complex enough and has enough variables not to be considered as a simple piece of machinery. it never gets worn out like machinery and has no physical properties like a piece of steel. its something else altogether.
umm..load OSF/1 or Tru64 on to your alpha box and oracle for tru64 gets tier 1 support.,
hey..ive seen project shere the customer signed off the document and then CHANGED it 3 TIMES (signing it each time of course). what are you going to do if the customer changes it ? cancel the project ? ask for your money ? heres a newsflash - not everything works in the real world liuke you would expect it to. and you have to generate revenue and finish the project.
yep. i made CTO by 24 so i dont see why that guy is whining about making architect by 28. maybe he isnt really ready for it.
architecture is something thats there when coding burns you out. its a way of doing interesting stuff while the rest of the grunts sweat it out doing routine coding... of course if youre not competant and you screw up the architecture part you usually get fired. but thats how life is.
ignore all the comments about high pressure and other crap. pressure systems need to be maintained continously and are prone to failure.
Try this :
put a bunch of fibre optic strands into a steel pipe (large). make sure the fibre is all loose strands of single mode fibre (glass) and not encased in a protective coating. then fill the pipe completely with concrete and let it dry. attach the fibre to the terminal and the server and run something to monitor the connection 24/7. if the bad guys blowtorch thru the steel pipe they need to use a hammer to get thru the concrete. cracking the concrete cracks the fibre along with it destroying your connection (even if it is temporary and they rig something up to restore the connection your software monitoring the connection can sound the alarm). since single mode fibre is essentially very thin glass strands you will loose a few strands while pouring the concrete but at least one will work. you can use the one that works.
its messy but reliable. epoxy and other nasty stuff in layers with the concrete is also useful.
640x480 DOS mode is 80 x 25
the thing is though -- you CANT run a software business like an assembly line. there is no blueprint - every project is unique. systems change often, bugs crop up in everything from the OS, compiler to the development platform. it takes creativity to fix all that and an assembly line drone simply will not have that creativity.
i've gone days doing nothing simply because my mind was a blank -- i couldnt code. ive gone thru periods where i can code 24/7 and not even feel it. you can impose a 9-5 schedule but then the productivity of your best programmers will plummet like a rock. would you rather have the product up and running with a minimal of bugs in 8 months or 4 years ? i've been on a project where i threw out every single line of code developed over 4 YEARS by multiple consultants (4-5 mil $'s) with an aseembly line approach and rewrote the whole thing in 8 months to produce a working and sellable product. what would you rather have ?
I used ClearLink (The java version of it anyway, JLink..the C++ one sucks). JLink rocks - a 20 line piece of code using standard java jdk 1.2.2 for processing any order and rejecting order with a decent explanation (CC fraud, not supported etc) for the user.
JLink puts a hold on the card money in the card before your nightly close runs rather than directly deducting it..its real time (within 1/2 second) for doing the hold and 2-3 hrs for the close (which the merchant can run overnight anyway and start via a browser interface).
CSI's JLink system rocks - dont use any other.
boot into freedos on any new monitor and run your art. it will display at the full screen size since DOS defaults to 640 x 480 VGA mode and your monitor expands the picture to cover the whole screen anyway...
*shrug* the trick is to fix a price in your mind and bid at the last minute. yes, it takes time. ive had items lost from me at the last minute too. typical time to shop on ebay is 6 weeks for a item you want
i bought a laptop (toughbook) for $1400 on ebay which cost $3000 in retail stored. i bought a RPC-1 DVD drive for $40 which cost $350 in retail. the list goes on. ebay is GREAT for finding stuff dirt cheap and if you do your homework you will NOT be ripped off. i have never been ripped off even though i never use escrow. i always pay via money order and use only reputable sellers ( i check each and every feedback and auction ). i checked for 6 weeks for the laptop and 8 weeks for the DVD drive for example. everything i ever bid for works perfectly and ive had no problems.
sorry..nope. its business -> merchant vendor -> clearing house -> bank ..it all takes roughly the same amount of time.
as for your cybercash, it goes :
e-commerce software (yours on your business servers) -> cybercash -> CSI -> bank/CC vendor.
i've written software to interface to CSI's system directly, bypassing cybercash completely so i do know what im talking about. of course CSI's servers are DAMN SLOW since they process large bulk orders (cybercash bulk dumps all the orders thru CSI along with other vendors) so CSI tries to stop individual businesses and e-commerce software vendors from interfacing with them directly.
typical response from CSI is close to 3-4 hrs for a bulk transaction on their servers. bulk transactions may be 10 or 10,000 credit cards
i'll second this. i've bought lots of stuff on ebay including laptops etc without using escrow. i've NEVER been ripped off and ive ALWAYS got the item concerned. DO YOUR HOMEWORK guys. its blatantly obvious who the crooks are and doing 6 weeks of research looking at stuff on ebay before buying is the only way to protect yourself. dont whine after you have been ripped off - RESEARCH the seller BEFORE you get ripped off.
its deisnged for monitoring the status of machine disk/cpu/network connectivity but could be adapted for regular reporting of dmesg generated data or /proc generated data. search on freshmeat for big brother.
uuh...and your concept has a running prototype that demonstrates its fuel economy and power to weight ratio superior to that of a conventional engine ? i didnt think so. they wont listen to you unless you can PROVE to them that it works. build a prototype.
hmm? the article addressed that. he evidently invented solar cless that could be put on your garage roof to do the splitting and you simply have to plug your car in to the storage tanks in your garage at night to replenish the hydrogen used up.
i'd have to question that. reporters are usually clueless (20/20 excepted) unless they are either [a] well versed in the subject matter which is highly doubtful or [b] willing to throw politically incorrect subject matter at their viewers which usually gets them canned. when the WTC attack broke the first place i went was slashdot, because i can filter the rumours etc out (i.e. i can use common sense) and it gives access to raw data from thousands of sources in one go. i'll vote a discussion site like slashdot over any news media as more reliable. and you cant beat it for breadth of coverage..even if a lot of the comments are garbage several good ones exist. i also browse at -1.
kernel.org has a bandwidth meter and is on a 100Mbps line. download from kernel.org and if you get around 1000kb/s you should be fine. note that you might be getting less because [1] theres some overhead in most protocols to transfer files and [2] most service providers dont deliver the full bandwidth anyway. its a fact of life and theres nothing you can do about it.
if you have a stringent contract with your provider you might be able to convince them to put a box in their office, one on your location and then pump data between the two to see if you can get to 2Megs between the two...or even 1 Meg sustained...and then fine them for the difference or ask them to charge less.. i doubt you will be able to do it unless you have a really good contract.