Oh for goodness sakes! How many more Americans are going to be so US-centric! The world revolves around a central axis not the USA!
"When I read it I thought it meant more jobs are going to be in Felixstowe!"
The East/Far East is a common term for Asia (and other neighbouring territories) that occupy the east section of a standard map (with the USA at the left).
This comes down to a point I find most irritating about Americans, England is not a town in South Dakota; there are other countries besides your own with many different cultures, languages and currencies. When you hear a relative term on an international forum try to open your mind and think outside your little country...
Easy, pure water boils at 100 degrees celsius and freezes at 0. However, anything added to pure water (e.g Coffee or salt) would affect both the boiling point and the freezing point.
THE major advantage of replacing Access for the casual users is that you then no longer need to deploy Access, which will save you both licence money and support time.
Although I disagree with most of your post (having developed applications in Access at the start of my career 10 years ago and, reluctantly, quite recently) the above is the point I'd like to take to task.
If you are deploying to a large number of people you'll likely deploy the royalty-free Access Runtime which allows you to run an access database but not edit it. It used to be part of the Access Developer's Toolkit (think Access 2.0 and 95 sort of time), then became part of the Microsoft Office Developer product (think Access XP) and now is part of Access 2003 Developer Extensions which comes with MSDN Universal. For a professional developer doing a large deployment, it's invaluable.
I'd also just like to say, don't underestimate the speed of an experience LAMP developer. I can developer web apps far faster in PHP than in Access (and they don't auto-submit amended data back to the database if you click on Previous Record by default).
AIUI forked processes on Linux have a very lightweight memory model using copy-on-write. So the memory for each process is mapped to a single block of memory until one of them tries to write to it, in which case that page is duplicated for the other process(es).
Damn, and I'd moderated in this thread too! Oh well....
The reason "Impossible Schedule" in software development means cutting corners instead of increasing manpower is down to a idea put forward by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month. Basically, in construction the foreman knows the details and tells workers "build a column x feet high by y feet square here" and the worker does it. If you need to bring a new worker in to meet an impossible schedule then you just tell them to build their columns and they get on with it at the same speed a worker that was already working on the project does.
In software it's different. Imagine coming in (late) to a project with a million lines of code and being told "we need to make the font size configurable throughout the application, so create an item in the preferences dialog, store the preference and ensure everywhere uses this preference". It would take a fair while to find your way around the code which wouldn't be a problem for a programmer already on the team.
That's why it's not a simple answer of "this software's running late, throw another 20 programmers on the job and get it done in schedule".
Whoah!!! Sneaky and something like Bar Stewards sprang to mind.
They certainly have changed it...
...and they use a noarchive meta tag to stop Google caching the old copy.
Oh well, I guess either the document was incorrect (copied from a template) OR the document was correct but they've changed the document to make it look like you can't do it (but in reality if you try it may woork) OR they've fixed the code and changed the document after it was pointed out (Sorry Piratz...)
That's a great idea, but unfortunately someone has to pay for the site to run. Recruiters are charged (varying) amounts of money depending on the site and package they've chosen to post their jobs.
Most companies (as an ex-employer) choose to send their jobs out to a decent agency for them to handle rather than post it themselves (and pay individually) to job sites as the recruiter only gets paid if they get a candidate to fill the job.
And there's only so much you can do to try filter out dubious recruiters posting jobs to try to capture names for their pool too (and as my company's just redeveloped a UK based Technical jobs site, www.technojobs.co.uk, I know - I've tried a lot of methods to filter out rubbish recruiters/jobs - we have automated searches and manually check a sample of data frequently too).
Anyway, somebody has to pay to run the site: are you going to pay as a candidate or will you accept having recruiters on there and having them pay?
If you give 30 days notice, then they could choose to only pay you for 14 days, depending on your pay cycle
Whoah! I hope you're talking specifically about the US there! If they tried that in the UK they'd be hauled up before an Industrial Tribunal, that's so illegal over here it's untrue. If you're contracted for one month's notice (normal for general employment, more senior IT positions generally go to 2 or 3 months) then you get paid for that notice, not 14 days!
You have some great facets to your laws (I love the strong constitution) and some really weird shit (DMCA, PATRIOT, and now this employment thing).
Isn't the LAME encoder an MP3 encoder that still needs to be licensed from Thompson?
In short, No!
Longer version: According to Dave Arland, a U.S. spokesman for Thomson Multimedia - 'its policy has always been to allow free use of the company's MP3 patents in "freely distributable software"'
Were that genuinely the case, I'm guessing the following could have been passed through:
"Detention will remain at 14 days. If an encrypted hard drive is found, the suspect will be given the opportunity to provide keys to decrypt the data. Should they fail to do so, their detention may remain indefinite until fourteen days after all files on that drive are cracked. If they do give the keys, their detention may not extend beyond 14 days from that date."
That addresses any genuine concern with encrypted hard drives. It gives the police 14 days to investigate and charge or release once they have the drive cracked. Not only that but it gives you an incentive to hand over your keys if you know you're innocent as it gets you out faster - saving everyone time and money. It doesn't invade privacy anymore as, charged or released, they're not handing back the drive until they've cracked it and found the information anyway. The only people it could possibly effect are criminals or those so paranoid they'd rather rot until the same result is achieved anyway.
And you're kidding, right?! This was demonstrated with the Home Secretary when RIP Act was brought in - he was sent an encrypted disk and the senders had video evidence they'd destroyed the password, technically the Home Secretary was able to be imprisoned for 2 years for not revealing the keys when asked.
What about the case where you own the drive (or indeed have it in your posession) and either don't know or honestly can't remember the password. I have old encrypted containers lying around on CD - there's nothing of interest on them (some source code I wrote 10 years ago) - but I couldn't tell you the password under torture/hypnosis/lifetime in prison, yet I could be locked up until dead.
Your plan would have people locked up indefinitely with no judicial overview. To say the only people it affects are criminals or paranoid is just plain incorrect!
OK smart-ass, how do I play it on my 32bit Linux platform?
Not everyone runs Windows all the time, I have it for dual boot gaming but I work during the day under Linux. A DivX/Xvid/whatever AVI would have been better
Sorry to break it to you, but it's true
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3428673.stm
Note though, he isn't a Sir as he isn't British...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3429589.stm
Not to mention that he had KDE running?!
http://gallery.osdn.org.ua/20041009-malx/IMG_0395
Was he running Powerpoint through WINE or rebooted in to Linux?
I know you were trying to be funny, however let's start to clear up some myths about Gentoo. On Friday I installed Gentoo for a customer. To install (on a blank hard drive) took me under 4 hours, including installing Exim, UW-IMAP, Squid, ClamAV, SpamAssassin from a Stage3 install and updating world afterwards.
Now, you can say four hours is too long if you want to compare against a sub 1 hour install for Fedora, however 4 hours on a reasonable spec machine (2.4GHz P4, 256Mb RAM, normal IDE HDD) is nothing. That was for a fully up-to-date server, running latest versions of everything stable.
If you need to install a lot of these (i.e. you have a lot of servers), then you can make it quicker by setting up a small distcc farm on spare machines (even on people's Gentoo workstations or on quiet previously installed Gentoo servers or by using distccKNOPPIX and temporarily rebooting peoples' Windows machines).
I understand that it's slower than other distros, but let's not get carried away with talking about compile times in "days". It just makes you sound naive or narrow-minded (I've heard it's slow to compile, so I won't try it for myself)
for best effect use 'PERL' instead of 'Perl' or 'perl', makes you sound even more like you are talking out of your ass
Yeah!!!
I mean with Perl.com typing it as Perl all over the site, not to mention Larry Wall's Very Own Perl Page typing it as Perl, you'll look l33t spelling it as PERL!
For the record, I didn't read it as a troll, but as humour...
Ever since Red Hat died (sob) i've been kind of up in the air on distro's
I know that feeling. I installed Fedora Core 1 on a couple of machines at work after it was released (as I felt I should be loyal to Red Hat and try it's latest offering - even though there was community involvement, it's still mainly Red Hat AFAIK).
To be honest, my opinion of it was not good - I seemed to have all sorts of problems with applications not working (VMWare seems to ring a bell).
So those machines got wiped and RH9 re-installed on them.
I then started my search for a new distro....
I tried Debian (had some wierd problems with the installer) - no. I tried Mandrake - yuk!:-)
I finally decided (about a month ago) to have a go with Gentoo. I'd read good things about it, OK, it has a hurdle - long compile times, but hey, I was in no rush to get a box up and running.
So install it I did. To cut a long story short - WOW! It's nice to be able to run a 2.6.5 Kernel with GNOME 2.6 on X.org.
I'm now migrating all our work machines to it.
So, if you're a technically-able Red Hat user, give Gentoo a go... It's great and the community is amazingly helpful. It's Linux how it used to be - a community effort without most of the politics
Linux and Apache may well perform 10% faster, but an existing company typically has to hire a Linux admin to do that. Instead they can just throw money at buying a Windows Server License, IIS, and make a couple support calls to Microsoft to get it all up and running properly. If it ever breaks and the admin can't figure out the ridiculously simple administration tools, he can call Microsoft and have them fix it.
Have you seen Red Hat 8. That version is meant for dummy IIS users! OK, how to get Linux and Apache 2 working in three easy steps
Install Red Hat 8 using the server option
Click on the Red Hat button, Server Settings, Services and ensure Apache (httpd) is running
Click on the Red Hat button, Servier Settings, HTTP Server - and admin away!!!
It's just as easy. The manuals (if your chosen 'admin' buys a distro) explain it, if not a quick few minutes look around should explain it to anyone half intelligent!
Coding PHP directly into your HTML files is common, but a really poor way of doing things. In fact, there is a better coding style.
In almost everything I do, I separate the code from the output, meaning that the HTML takes the form of a template, and contains no PHP. The PHP scripts perform all data processing, and then pass the data through an abstracted interface to a templating system.
When I started programming in PHP, the previous programmer at my company coded this way.
The advantage of this was is that the code is in one place (so I as a programmer can alter it) and the design is in another (so the designers can alter it).
After a while it seemed to be a nightmare to maintain due to having to hunt around to see which files used which templates, so we went to coding in the HTML. This seemed easier to maintain, but the ideal of the former way seemed nicer. It was great being able to go straight to the script specified in the URL and see the code.
Finally we have settled on using separate class files (mything.class.php) and just put the method calls and property displays in the HTML page. This means that the code can be changed in one place for the actual working of all pages, but it's easy to add in another property display in a specific page.
Of course, when I started programming PHP it was on version 3 and the OOP code was, well, slow to say the least. Now in version 4, it's great. Shame you still can't have grandchildren classes (more than one level of inheritance), but that should come with Zend Engine 2 (and the version of PHP that will be based on it!).
>They developed techniques and tricks to make every Hz count.
While admirable to expert programmers, this actually increases software development costs due to high maintenance costs.
Either the company will have to keep experts around doing maintenance work (instead of developing new products) or have average programmers take three times as long as the code is usually far less readable.
For example, if shift-left's are used instead of/2's, this is obvious to good programmers, but would average programmers get it.
What if an important algorithm is re-written in assembly?
If PCs are getting faster it means programmers can write easily readable, super-maintainable but slower apps instead of convoluted crap that inevitably fall out of existance because "oh, the guys who knew how that work left"
Cheers,
SD4L
Re:Good conclusion, poor article
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Qt vs MFC
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> A much fairer comparison would be that of Qt to > Borland's VCL
I would actually be interested in seeing a good comparison of Qt vs GTK vs VCL. I used to be a VCL programmer (C++Builder and Delphi) so would be interested in seeing how they compare.
Should have done it and saved you a couple of days (you may have to add a --nodeps on the end, haven't actually needed to try it (wanted a fresh install for RH7.3 as I needed to install new HD anyway)).
rpm -qa : queries all RPMs installed and gets a list
grep ximian : only show RPMs containing ximian in the name
Slashdot Mirror
Oh for goodness sakes! How many more Americans are going to be so US-centric! The world revolves around a central axis not the USA!
"When I read it I thought it meant more jobs are going to be in Felixstowe!"
The East/Far East is a common term for Asia (and other neighbouring territories) that occupy the east section of a standard map (with the USA at the left).
This comes down to a point I find most irritating about Americans, England is not a town in South Dakota; there are other countries besides your own with many different cultures, languages and currencies. When you hear a relative term on an international forum try to open your mind and think outside your little country...
Easy, pure water boils at 100 degrees celsius and freezes at 0. However, anything added to pure water (e.g Coffee or salt) would affect both the boiling point and the freezing point.
As it happens, people have done studies on the effect of boiling with various coffee concentrations, but my chemistry knowledge has been replaced with programming knowledge, so I couldn't decipher the results if I wanted to :-)
Although I disagree with most of your post (having developed applications in Access at the start of my career 10 years ago and, reluctantly, quite recently) the above is the point I'd like to take to task.
If you are deploying to a large number of people you'll likely deploy the royalty-free Access Runtime which allows you to run an access database but not edit it. It used to be part of the Access Developer's Toolkit (think Access 2.0 and 95 sort of time), then became part of the Microsoft Office Developer product (think Access XP) and now is part of Access 2003 Developer Extensions which comes with MSDN Universal. For a professional developer doing a large deployment, it's invaluable.
I'd also just like to say, don't underestimate the speed of an experience LAMP developer. I can developer web apps far faster in PHP than in Access (and they don't auto-submit amended data back to the database if you click on Previous Record by default).
AIUI forked processes on Linux have a very lightweight memory model using copy-on-write. So the memory for each process is mapped to a single block of memory until one of them tries to write to it, in which case that page is duplicated for the other process(es).
Damn, and I'd moderated in this thread too! Oh well....
The reason "Impossible Schedule" in software development means cutting corners instead of increasing manpower is down to a idea put forward by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month. Basically, in construction the foreman knows the details and tells workers "build a column x feet high by y feet square here" and the worker does it. If you need to bring a new worker in to meet an impossible schedule then you just tell them to build their columns and they get on with it at the same speed a worker that was already working on the project does.
In software it's different. Imagine coming in (late) to a project with a million lines of code and being told "we need to make the font size configurable throughout the application, so create an item in the preferences dialog, store the preference and ensure everywhere uses this preference". It would take a fair while to find your way around the code which wouldn't be a problem for a programmer already on the team.
That's why it's not a simple answer of "this software's running late, throw another 20 programmers on the job and get it done in schedule".
Whoah!!! Sneaky and something like Bar Stewards sprang to mind.
They certainly have changed it...
...and they use a noarchive meta tag to stop Google caching the old copy.
Oh well, I guess either the document was incorrect (copied from a template) OR the document was correct but they've changed the document to make it look like you can't do it (but in reality if you try it may woork) OR they've fixed the code and changed the document after it was pointed out (Sorry Piratz...)
These nag screens will keep appearing until you license your version of Windows or, presumably, convince Microsoft they've made a mistake
Or until you remove the notifications program. From Microsoft's Genuine Advantage KB article (i.e. TFA):
You can uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Jobs not recruiters
That's a great idea, but unfortunately someone has to pay for the site to run. Recruiters are charged (varying) amounts of money depending on the site and package they've chosen to post their jobs.
Most companies (as an ex-employer) choose to send their jobs out to a decent agency for them to handle rather than post it themselves (and pay individually) to job sites as the recruiter only gets paid if they get a candidate to fill the job.
And there's only so much you can do to try filter out dubious recruiters posting jobs to try to capture names for their pool too (and as my company's just redeveloped a UK based Technical jobs site, www.technojobs.co.uk, I know - I've tried a lot of methods to filter out rubbish recruiters/jobs - we have automated searches and manually check a sample of data frequently too).
Anyway, somebody has to pay to run the site: are you going to pay as a candidate or will you accept having recruiters on there and having them pay?
If you give 30 days notice, then they could choose to only pay you for 14 days, depending on your pay cycle
Whoah! I hope you're talking specifically about the US there! If they tried that in the UK they'd be hauled up before an Industrial Tribunal, that's so illegal over here it's untrue. If you're contracted for one month's notice (normal for general employment, more senior IT positions generally go to 2 or 3 months) then you get paid for that notice, not 14 days!
You have some great facets to your laws (I love the strong constitution) and some really weird shit (DMCA, PATRIOT, and now this employment thing).
Isn't the LAME encoder an MP3 encoder that still needs to be licensed from Thompson?
In short, No!
Longer version: According to Dave Arland, a U.S. spokesman for Thomson Multimedia - 'its policy has always been to allow free use of the company's MP3 patents in "freely distributable software"'
Newsforge Article
Were that genuinely the case, I'm guessing the following could have been passed through: "Detention will remain at 14 days. If an encrypted hard drive is found, the suspect will be given the opportunity to provide keys to decrypt the data. Should they fail to do so, their detention may remain indefinite until fourteen days after all files on that drive are cracked. If they do give the keys, their detention may not extend beyond 14 days from that date."
That addresses any genuine concern with encrypted hard drives. It gives the police 14 days to investigate and charge or release once they have the drive cracked. Not only that but it gives you an incentive to hand over your keys if you know you're innocent as it gets you out faster - saving everyone time and money. It doesn't invade privacy anymore as, charged or released, they're not handing back the drive until they've cracked it and found the information anyway. The only people it could possibly effect are criminals or those so paranoid they'd rather rot until the same result is achieved anyway.
And you're kidding, right?! This was demonstrated with the Home Secretary when RIP Act was brought in - he was sent an encrypted disk and the senders had video evidence they'd destroyed the password, technically the Home Secretary was able to be imprisoned for 2 years for not revealing the keys when asked.
What about the case where you own the drive (or indeed have it in your posession) and either don't know or honestly can't remember the password. I have old encrypted containers lying around on CD - there's nothing of interest on them (some source code I wrote 10 years ago) - but I couldn't tell you the password under torture/hypnosis/lifetime in prison, yet I could be locked up until dead.
Your plan would have people locked up indefinitely with no judicial overview. To say the only people it affects are criminals or paranoid is just plain incorrect!
Because it plays on 64bit and 32bit platforms?
OK smart-ass, how do I play it on my 32bit Linux platform?
Not everyone runs Windows all the time, I have it for dual boot gaming but I work during the day under Linux. A DivX/Xvid/whatever AVI would have been better
Yes, but the same sort of thing can be done without Flash (and not requiring a plugin). A comparable AJAX version of your Simple Example:
Another Example [openrico.org]
Sorry to break it to you, but it's true http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3428673.stm Note though, he isn't a Sir as he isn't British... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3429589.stm
Not to mention that he had KDE running?! http://gallery.osdn.org.ua/20041009-malx/IMG_0395 Was he running Powerpoint through WINE or rebooted in to Linux?
Gentoo? Give me my three days back, please.
I know you were trying to be funny, however let's start to clear up some myths about Gentoo. On Friday I installed Gentoo for a customer. To install (on a blank hard drive) took me under 4 hours, including installing Exim, UW-IMAP, Squid, ClamAV, SpamAssassin from a Stage3 install and updating world afterwards.
Now, you can say four hours is too long if you want to compare against a sub 1 hour install for Fedora, however 4 hours on a reasonable spec machine (2.4GHz P4, 256Mb RAM, normal IDE HDD) is nothing. That was for a fully up-to-date server, running latest versions of everything stable.
If you need to install a lot of these (i.e. you have a lot of servers), then you can make it quicker by setting up a small distcc farm on spare machines (even on people's Gentoo workstations or on quiet previously installed Gentoo servers or by using distccKNOPPIX and temporarily rebooting peoples' Windows machines).
I understand that it's slower than other distros, but let's not get carried away with talking about compile times in "days". It just makes you sound naive or narrow-minded (I've heard it's slow to compile, so I won't try it for myself)
Yeah!!!
I mean with Perl.com typing it as Perl all over the site, not to mention Larry Wall's Very Own Perl Page typing it as Perl, you'll look l33t spelling it as PERL!
For the record, I didn't read it as a troll, but as humour...
Ever since Red Hat died (sob) i've been kind of up in the air on distro's
I know that feeling. I installed Fedora Core 1 on a couple of machines at work after it was released (as I felt I should be loyal to Red Hat and try it's latest offering - even though there was community involvement, it's still mainly Red Hat AFAIK).
To be honest, my opinion of it was not good - I seemed to have all sorts of problems with applications not working (VMWare seems to ring a bell).
So those machines got wiped and RH9 re-installed on them.
I then started my search for a new distro....
I tried Debian (had some wierd problems with the installer) - no. I tried Mandrake - yuk! :-)
I finally decided (about a month ago) to have a go with Gentoo. I'd read good things about it, OK, it has a hurdle - long compile times, but hey, I was in no rush to get a box up and running.
So install it I did. To cut a long story short - WOW! It's nice to be able to run a 2.6.5 Kernel with GNOME 2.6 on X.org.
I'm now migrating all our work machines to it.
So, if you're a technically-able Red Hat user, give Gentoo a go... It's great and the community is amazingly helpful. It's Linux how it used to be - a community effort without most of the politics
It's only a small project and I'm a bit late shutting it down, but just shutdown www.gphpedit.org for this protest.
I hope more authors of free software do this.
Linux and Apache may well perform 10% faster, but an existing company typically has to hire a Linux admin to do that. Instead they can just throw money at buying a Windows Server License, IIS, and make a couple support calls to Microsoft to get it all up and running properly. If it ever breaks and the admin can't figure out the ridiculously simple administration tools, he can call Microsoft and have them fix it.
Have you seen Red Hat 8. That version is meant for dummy IIS users! OK, how to get Linux and Apache 2 working in three easy steps
- Install Red Hat 8 using the server option
- Click on the Red Hat button, Server Settings, Services and ensure Apache (httpd) is running
- Click on the Red Hat button, Servier Settings, HTTP Server - and admin away!!!
It's just as easy. The manuals (if your chosen 'admin' buys a distro) explain it, if not a quick few minutes look around should explain it to anyone half intelligent!When I started programming in PHP, the previous programmer at my company coded this way.
The advantage of this was is that the code is in one place (so I as a programmer can alter it) and the design is in another (so the designers can alter it).
After a while it seemed to be a nightmare to maintain due to having to hunt around to see which files used which templates, so we went to coding in the HTML. This seemed easier to maintain, but the ideal of the former way seemed nicer. It was great being able to go straight to the script specified in the URL and see the code.
Finally we have settled on using separate class files (mything.class.php) and just put the method calls and property displays in the HTML page. This means that the code can be changed in one place for the actual working of all pages, but it's easy to add in another property display in a specific page.
Of course, when I started programming PHP it was on version 3 and the OOP code was, well, slow to say the least. Now in version 4, it's great. Shame you still can't have grandchildren classes (more than one level of inheritance), but that should come with Zend Engine 2 (and the version of PHP that will be based on it!).
>They developed techniques and tricks to make every Hz count.
/2's, this is obvious to good programmers, but would average programmers get it.
While admirable to expert programmers, this actually increases software development costs due to high maintenance costs.
Either the company will have to keep experts around doing maintenance work (instead of developing new products) or have average programmers take three times as long as the code is usually far less readable.
For example, if shift-left's are used instead of
What if an important algorithm is re-written in assembly?
If PCs are getting faster it means programmers can write easily readable, super-maintainable but slower apps instead of convoluted crap that inevitably fall out of existance because "oh, the guys who knew how that work left"
Cheers,
SD4L
> A much fairer comparison would be that of Qt to
> Borland's VCL
I would actually be interested in seeing a good comparison of Qt vs GTK vs VCL. I used to be a VCL programmer (C++Builder and Delphi) so would be interested in seeing how they compare.
Cheers,
sd4l
Something like:
rpm -qa|grep ximian|xargs rpm -e
Should have done it and saved you a couple of days (you may have to add a --nodeps on the end, haven't actually needed to try it (wanted a fresh install for RH7.3 as I needed to install new HD anyway)).
rpm -qa : queries all RPMs installed and gets a list
grep ximian : only show RPMs containing ximian in the name
xargs rpm -e : for each RPM found, erase it.