I'm with you. The only problems I've had with video on Mandrake 9.1 are simply because I haven't bothered to install all of the Win32 codecs. My Mandrake box running all of my web apps development stuff (web, database, email servers and a bunch of vi sessions in X-Terms) and OpenOffice at the same time (frequently with my email open too) runs a DiVX recording in Xine smoothly and with almost no glitches. Admittedly, I don't have as much memory as I want so when things swap out I get some hangs due to the increased I/O. But my wife's Windows machine with the same hardware specs won't even play the files in Media Player. You can't even follow what's going on it skips so much. That's assuming it plays at all.
Actually the Spanish is pretty good, albeit a bit clunky (or maybe it's just not the way I would have said it.) I'm not sure how they decided to use "he" for it (they are the same word in Spanish, but the pronoun has the accent).
I've never heard the word aspira used for aspire. It's very common, in the regional dialects which I commonly encounter at least, to call a vacuum cleaner an aspiradora.
In other words, I have a bigger problem with the Spanish to English version than I do with the English to Spanish. Of course Spanish has some grammatical constructs that would be hard for a computer to accurately convert from Spanish to English.
When my brother was in Architecture school that actually MADE everyone unlearn cursive in favor of a very specific form of print lettering (you might say a hand written font). His handwriting which was always pretty sloppy actually now looks very near typed/computer printed and it hasn't really affected his speed as far as I can tell.
Me, I almost never write anything for anyone other than myself that I don't type.
As someone who works from home myself and grew up in a house where both parents had home based businesses, I'd like to caution you that this is a real "red flag" item for the IRS.
If you take the home office deductions, just be aware it could come back to bite you.
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I've looked a little bit at e-gold.com. Looks pretty decent if you're not trying to deal with credit cards. Bonus, your money is always backed by precious metal (depends on if you're using e-gold, platinum or whatever) of which you are the legal owner.
I've also heard that Yahoo has something that more closely resembles PayPal in service and just might do international. I don't know much about it though.
I don't know anything about Compiere, but I've looked extensively at AppGen. Feature wise their PowerWindows package compared favorably to the Lawson (think cheaper version of PeopleSoft) system I was administering when I discovered it.
Anyway, these guys started out on SCO and have about 20 years experience. Their client package runs on anything that'll run a Java VM and has native ports to Mac, and Windows. They currently develop and test primarily on Linux.
Something I really hated about Lawson was that I couldn't use my Linux box to administer it because they screwed with their client so much. It was essentially just a telnet client, but you had to use theirs because of the special display codes they'd send. That meant that I had to either reboot or have a second box on my desk as I wouldn't submit to running windows exclusively. AppGen was originally designed in an era where dumb terminals were still fairly prevalent so they haven't done any of that stupidity. The system still works from dumb terminals which means telnet/ssh is just fine.
Costs for PowerWindows (their ERP level package) run about $600 per module and you can get a full VAR license for about $2000 ($600 if you don't want the source code) that comes with the source for their 4GL (C based) and every module. This package (and possibly their other offerings) are ODBC compliant so you can write your own apps for them as well using whatever language you choose.
If the price still sounds a bit steep and you're looking for something more in the range of a QuickBooks there's MyBooks. This package can also be configured to be client server with clients for Windows and Linux (possibly mac, don't remember).
All in all, I'd say it's definitely worth looking at.
NOTE: I also do not work for/represent AppGen. Although, I am considering a VAR license when business picks up enough to get one.
I'll go you one better. I don't even HAVE a degree. I've made it over the last several years simply by having the experience an employer was seeking and a partial degree.
Granted, I've about reached the top of my earning potential and need to go back and finish. A degree, however, has never seemed to be top priority with anyone I've talked to. Of course, I DO have three years of a humanities degree and a year of CIS so I have spent that amount of time in school. I don't think someone straight out of high school could get as lucky as I (with some exceptions).
While I was in college working on my CIS I was employed at the university library. I also saw a need for something like this so I went to my boss, the systems librarian, and asked for help in developing the thing.
Granted, he was more librarian than programmer, but he refused on the gounds that it would require more time than a private person could sanely manage. This was a guy with 6 years of Librarian school and 20 years experience. He didn't believe it was doable with going to a "cathedral" (at least for a larger scale library) and spending lots of bucks. Could have been only his opinion, but he did have a clue how complicated it would be.
My take, if you're a glutton for punishment, I'd say the project has alot of merit, but don't expect it to be a simple database with a couple of scripts. There's apparently alot more to it.
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Of course, no one's mentioning that you HAVE to have TW cable service to get their cable online service. That potentially doubles the price (or more) since you also have to pay $40+ for the cable. What if I want satellite, or don't even want a TV (OK, kinda a stretch in todays US society, but it happens)? I'm running numbers hoping to form my own ISP. I'll be able to resell my telco's DSL service at $40/mo. and still show a profit. Doesn't sound too bad to me.
I have no experience in Cold Fusion so I'll decline comment on that.
I'd caution anyone trying to Netscape's web servers on HP though. In my experience it likes to run away alot. I've been away from the environment with that configuration for a while and maybe they've upgraded OS or servers, but we were getting it hogging 90% of our CPU several times a day.
I've seen it mentioned several times in this thread to not use.htaccess. While I can see the validity of this argument for allowing/denying access vial IP/host or something else.
Is this truly less efficient than a database query for username/password type access?
I looked at their website a year ago and they were claiming this thing was going to come out with-in the next year.
The website claimed that they got this technology from the Roswell crash (is it still saying that?) and that a lot of AT&T-Bell Labs innovations of the late 60's early 70's (i.e. transistors) were given to AT&T by the government researchers that "recovered the UFO."
Of course Lucent Technologies (formerly Bell Labs) denies all of it.
One thing's for sure, if they said last year that they would release the thing within a year (they said they couldn't figure out how to link the thing to the CPU and bus), they must be following the MS pattern for bringing a product to market.
One other possibility. Can you call hardware vaporware too?
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I'm with you. The only problems I've had with video on Mandrake 9.1 are simply because I haven't bothered to install all of the Win32 codecs. My Mandrake box running all of my web apps development stuff (web, database, email servers and a bunch of vi sessions in X-Terms) and OpenOffice at the same time (frequently with my email open too) runs a DiVX recording in Xine smoothly and with almost no glitches. Admittedly, I don't have as much memory as I want so when things swap out I get some hangs due to the increased I/O. But my wife's Windows machine with the same hardware specs won't even play the files in Media Player. You can't even follow what's going on it skips so much. That's assuming it plays at all.
Why are we suggesting proprietary IM servers/clients on /. That's what Jabber's for jabber.org
Actually the Spanish is pretty good, albeit a bit clunky (or maybe it's just not the way I would have said it.) I'm not sure how they decided to use "he" for it (they are the same word in Spanish, but the pronoun has the accent).
I've never heard the word aspira used for aspire. It's very common, in the regional dialects which I commonly encounter at least, to call a vacuum cleaner an aspiradora.
In other words, I have a bigger problem with the Spanish to English version than I do with the English to Spanish. Of course Spanish has some grammatical constructs that would be hard for a computer to accurately convert from Spanish to English.
I agree at some level. The least he should expect is some comp time off in the future.
When my brother was in Architecture school that actually MADE everyone unlearn cursive in favor of a very specific form of print lettering (you might say a hand written font). His handwriting which was always pretty sloppy actually now looks very near typed/computer printed and it hasn't really affected his speed as far as I can tell.
Me, I almost never write anything for anyone other than myself that I don't type.
As someone who works from home myself and grew up in a house where both parents had home based businesses, I'd like to caution you that this is a real "red flag" item for the IRS.
If you take the home office deductions, just be aware it could come back to bite you.
I've looked a little bit at e-gold.com. Looks pretty decent if you're not trying to deal with credit cards. Bonus, your money is always backed by precious metal (depends on if you're using e-gold, platinum or whatever) of which you are the legal owner.
I've also heard that Yahoo has something that more closely resembles PayPal in service and just might do international. I don't know much about it though.
I don't know anything about Compiere, but I've looked extensively at AppGen. Feature wise their PowerWindows package compared favorably to the Lawson (think cheaper version of PeopleSoft) system I was administering when I discovered it.
Anyway, these guys started out on SCO and have about 20 years experience. Their client package runs on anything that'll run a Java VM and has native ports to Mac, and Windows. They currently develop and test primarily on Linux.
Something I really hated about Lawson was that I couldn't use my Linux box to administer it because they screwed with their client so much. It was essentially just a telnet client, but you had to use theirs because of the special display codes they'd send. That meant that I had to either reboot or have a second box on my desk as I wouldn't submit to running windows exclusively. AppGen was originally designed in an era where dumb terminals were still fairly prevalent so they haven't done any of that stupidity. The system still works from dumb terminals which means telnet/ssh is just fine.
Costs for PowerWindows (their ERP level package) run about $600 per module and you can get a full VAR license for about $2000 ($600 if you don't want the source code) that comes with the source for their 4GL (C based) and every module. This package (and possibly their other offerings) are ODBC compliant so you can write your own apps for them as well using whatever language you choose.
If the price still sounds a bit steep and you're looking for something more in the range of a QuickBooks there's MyBooks. This package can also be configured to be client server with clients for Windows and Linux (possibly mac, don't remember).
All in all, I'd say it's definitely worth looking at.
NOTE: I also do not work for/represent AppGen. Although, I am considering a VAR license when business picks up enough to get one.
I'll go you one better. I don't even HAVE a degree. I've made it over the last several years simply by having the experience an employer was seeking and a partial degree. Granted, I've about reached the top of my earning potential and need to go back and finish. A degree, however, has never seemed to be top priority with anyone I've talked to. Of course, I DO have three years of a humanities degree and a year of CIS so I have spent that amount of time in school. I don't think someone straight out of high school could get as lucky as I (with some exceptions).
While I was in college working on my CIS I was employed at the university library. I also saw a need for something like this so I went to my boss, the systems librarian, and asked for help in developing the thing. Granted, he was more librarian than programmer, but he refused on the gounds that it would require more time than a private person could sanely manage. This was a guy with 6 years of Librarian school and 20 years experience. He didn't believe it was doable with going to a "cathedral" (at least for a larger scale library) and spending lots of bucks. Could have been only his opinion, but he did have a clue how complicated it would be. My take, if you're a glutton for punishment, I'd say the project has alot of merit, but don't expect it to be a simple database with a couple of scripts. There's apparently alot more to it.
Of course, no one's mentioning that you HAVE to have TW cable service to get their cable online service. That potentially doubles the price (or more) since you also have to pay $40+ for the cable. What if I want satellite, or don't even want a TV (OK, kinda a stretch in todays US society, but it happens)? I'm running numbers hoping to form my own ISP. I'll be able to resell my telco's DSL service at $40/mo. and still show a profit. Doesn't sound too bad to me.
Actually, last I heard. They couldn't even handle the load of hotmail with NT. The scrapped it right after buying it and went back to FreeBSD.
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I guess, if that's still true, it just shows what kind of Unix admins/programmers work for MS
I can't agree more on the Database.
I have no experience in Cold Fusion so I'll decline comment on that.
I'd caution anyone trying to Netscape's web servers on HP though. In my experience it likes to run away alot. I've been away from the environment with that configuration for a while and maybe they've upgraded OS or servers, but we were getting it hogging 90% of our CPU several times a day.
I've seen it mentioned several times in this thread to not use .htaccess. While I can see the validity of this argument for allowing/denying access vial IP/host or something else.
Is this truly less efficient than a database query for username/password type access?
Actually, I think I saw this in either the Wall Street Journal or ZDNet AnchorDesk about a year ago.
Not saying it's true, I'd actually have to see the thing work.
Just Because it's in Print doesn't mean it's true either, no matter what the source (granted, some are much more reliable than others).
I looked at their website a year ago and they were claiming this thing was going to come out with-in the next year.
The website claimed that they got this technology from the Roswell crash (is it still saying that?) and that a lot of AT&T-Bell Labs innovations of the late 60's early 70's (i.e. transistors) were given to AT&T by the government researchers that "recovered the UFO."
Of course Lucent Technologies (formerly Bell Labs) denies all of it.
One thing's for sure, if they said last year that they would release the thing within a year (they said they couldn't figure out how to link the thing to the CPU and bus), they must be following the MS pattern for bringing a product to market.
One other possibility. Can you call hardware vaporware too?