Our project just bought into a tool called Speedev. Anyone heard of them? Anyone using this product?
The product demo was impressive. Seems to a complete SCM tool. The problem with most source code tools like SourceForge and CVS is that they don't really address the entire SCM process in one integrated tool. Why is that? What tools to you use for Requirements tracking? Defect tracking? Testing?
does anyone actually use Windows Me?
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does anyone actually use Windows Me?
Yes, a whole bunch of people, but they think they are running Windows 2000. I've had to break the bad news to four people so far when I helped them fix their computers. Great MS marketing. Millenium? 2000? whats the difference.
Expect more stuff like this to happen. Here's why:
Collusion of ISPs - Remember the story last month where the leading companies in the Cable internet Biz got together? Think the only thing they talked about was capping bandwidths lower? Call it the OPEC of the internet. A handfull of companies control the fastest growing, and only viable, highspeed internet access. They can either backbight each other or agree to sell under terms where everyone gets a profitable piece of the pie
Market consolidation. look to see even more consolidation in the industry. Bandwidth providers combining with connection providers and maybe even content providers. The market is unhealthy with all the instability on Wallstreet many companies are ripe for takover or ready to deal.
My friends, the days of the "good deals" are over. Cable internet providers know they own the future of internet access and are making sure that future is profitible to the max. Look at it this way, what choice do you have?
I've had a VAIO for awhile and I can tell you firsthand that the support sux. Before you buy, bop around the support site. Don't worry, it wont take long (not much there). Dell OTOH has been wonderfull.
supposedly you can switch resolutions by the following combo: CTRL+ALT+(PLUS or MINUS)
It doesn't work for my laptop though. For some reason I can only get the default resolution 1600X1200. Messed with every option and config I could find to no avail.
SciTe uses a lexer and has different config files with keywords for each language/language group. One of the features I like best is that virtually every option is configurable. Abnother is support for both Win32 languages such as VB/VBScript amd PHP. One thing I don't like is that under Windows it has a wonderful tabbed interface (ala Moz) but under linux it just has buffer forward-back buttons.
I'll give the new version of Kate a try tho. Thanks for the info.
This is wonderful information. I'm sure I'll be modded as redundant, but this is great for those of us with our heads buried in code and no time to grep the rest of the world.
Has irresponsible and ill-conceived advertising on the desktop left users unreceptive to this form of advertising?
After all, I can honestly say I enjoy many commercials on the TV. When it comes to banner ads and popups I'm more likely to have a negative opinion of the site/application and the sponsoring company.
If your heart is in it and it brings you joy, then go ahead. Chances are others will see the love you put into the project and give it a try. If not, you still learned a lot in the process and quite possibly added to the pool of knowledge and others will still benefit.
What I find amusing about this discussion is that the same people who slam Microsoft's proprietary cutthroat tactics and support a,for the most part, inferior product jump on the NVidia bandwagon every chance they get. Or, as the GNU gurus so often put it, you don't like the drivers? Write better ones!
I also happen to think that people get way too hung up over the 2% of the time they are playing games when the other 98% ofthe time they would be better off with a ATI or Matrox card.
Not to mention the times I was hosed by crappy NVidia drivers in Linux until NVidia got their crap working better.
I read a lot of people complaining about ATI. I think people need to put a little perspective on things. NVidia came out of the blue and used their superior 3D chipsets to grab the mainstream Video market. ATI's response was slow at first, but is really gaining steam. I've got a Mobility M4 in my laptop with great new OpenGL drivers. In my home PC I've got a Radeon 8500 LE that runs 99.9% of all the DirectX games. In the case of the former, my 2D performance was the biggest factor. In the latter, the price gap for comarative performance was a joke. $99 for the ATI Radeon 8500 LE (NewEgg.com) vs $180 for a Nvidia GF4 4400. NVidia is now using their market dominance to bleed the market (a familiar strategy that eventually backfires). Not to mention the beautiful All-In-Wonder I bought for my parent's computer that has the best MultiMedia and TV Tuner I've seen (DScaler ain't bad but can't seem to pick up as many stations).
For all you GNU/Linux junkies, ATI has been much more forthcoming in information for developing XF86 drivers than NVidia(proprietary binary only).
I've tried switching from Windows to Linux for production purposes but when push came to shove I always reverted to Windows when a project is time sensitive (looming deadline). Even on a fast computer I have noticed a lot of lag in peripheral response. I've also encountered a few bugs that would hang the application and force me to kill it and restart. Have you experienced similar problems? If so, how have you managed not falling back on the Windows crutch?
Last month my work PC was infected with Klez. Although Norton apparently can detect the virus it doesn't seem to be able to destroy it. I went to the Nortin site and tried the Klez cleaner and insturctions, but it didn't do any good. Then I noticed that Klez runs under the Guest account. I changed the password on the Guest account tand the problem seemed to go away.
This was also my experience also. When I took advanced calculus in college the professor repeatedly asked me to change majors (I was getting straight As). When she asked the reason why, I put it as best I could. I said I had no problems remembering formulas but there was some part of calculus I wasn't quite understanding. Kind of like seeing seeing a part of a picture and almost being to the point of guessing what the rest of the picture was but not getting anywhere. Very flustrating. She couldn't help me either because she had simply memorized the formulas and gone on.
Your teacher's name wan't Masey was it? I may have the name spelled wrong, but this is identical to a guy I knew in the Navy who decided he wanted to teach math. We were Nuclear Machinist's Mates on the USS Enterprise at the time.
Af if in response to my questioning of the government monopoly on education, the Supreme Court let the shool voucher system stand. Maybe sometime in the future, parents who don't care for the values taught in Public school can afford to send their kids to private school.
It's a market thing, you wouldn't understand.
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Intel put a GUID in every processor to make each computer uniquely identifiable. The market screamed about loss of privacy. They really shouldn't expect the market to react favorably to having GUIDs in everything. It will come down to one company offering a piece of hardware or software with no privacy and a competitor offering privacy. The market will decide who is favors.
Hardware manufacturers aren't stupid. Especially if rights managment is costing them money. Look at what is happening in the DVD Player industry as we speak. Manufacturers are making an end-run around the digital rights tax.
Is with the people who clearly don't understand where the compunction to force religion out of government came from and confuse the issue with enforcing a 100% exclusion from even mentioning anything remotly religious in a publicly owned establishmment. Just as community rules dictate where the local stip club can operate, its not necessarily a "free-speech" or "freedom from religion" issue, but more a matter of "what norms and values do I cherish and protect".
Of course, I'm also against forcing any person to swear to an oath they don't believe in, but taking a quick trip down the slippery slope to "because Joey doesn't want to recite the oath, no-one is allowed to recite the oath" is well...sad. But then again, it seems more and more we are reinforcing a set of values in our society that says that taking civic responsibility or responsibility of any sort is not necessary.
But then again, I don't see the big deal in pulling two words out of the oath. They always seemed to be patched into the phrase in the first place. My objection is only with the government forcing people to take out the words...or not allow the words to be spoken under any circumstance in a publicly owned establishment. I would also point out that this is yet another reason to question the government's near total forced molopoly on education.
Ever wonder if SlashDot should apologize when slander like this is posted? We're talking about a real person here who wrote (in my pro-Linux slanted opinion) a resonably accurate assesment of Linux in the marketplace. Now he's being unfairly(IMHO) trashed on another popular website.
It's just like somone spapping your picture, pasting it on a White Supremacy poster and spreading it around town. A lot of people are just gonna read the headline without considering the source.
Hacking the CueCat would only be (potentially)hurting the CueCat company.
Hacking the Phones, listening in on private conversations, using blackmale, stealing credit cards, etc. harms us all.
Your moral equivalancy doesn't hold up.
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Version Fatigue
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I know much of the time any changes in GUI design is driven by either complaints or changes in tools available. New GUI widgets are being developed at a phenominal rate. To the developer it's almost irresistable to not use somthing that seems to simplify a task.
On the other hand, between my wife and my mom I've had plenty of experience with the frustation users feel at radical changes. For instance the new option in MS Office Apps that default hides infrequently used Menu options and toolbar icons. It took me almost an hour to tell my mom over the phone how to get her right-justify button back.
There is hope though, if Adobe keeps patenting obvious GUI interface concepts we'll all be back to command line programs and the point will be moot.
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The product demo was impressive. Seems to a complete SCM tool. The problem with most source code tools like SourceForge and CVS is that they don't really address the entire SCM process in one integrated tool. Why is that? What tools to you use for Requirements tracking? Defect tracking? Testing?
Want 50MPG?
A 0-60 time better than the average car?
It's called a motorcycle.
does anyone actually use Windows Me?
Yes, a whole bunch of people, but they think they are running Windows 2000. I've had to break the bad news to four people so far when I helped them fix their computers. Great MS marketing. Millenium? 2000? whats the difference.
Collusion of ISPs - Remember the story last month where the leading companies in the Cable internet Biz got together? Think the only thing they talked about was capping bandwidths lower? Call it the OPEC of the internet. A handfull of companies control the fastest growing, and only viable, highspeed internet access. They can either backbight each other or agree to sell under terms where everyone gets a profitable piece of the pie
Market consolidation. look to see even more consolidation in the industry. Bandwidth providers combining with connection providers and maybe even content providers. The market is unhealthy with all the instability on Wallstreet many companies are ripe for takover or ready to deal.
My friends, the days of the "good deals" are over. Cable internet providers know they own the future of internet access and are making sure that future is profitible to the max. Look at it this way, what choice do you have?
I've had a VAIO for awhile and I can tell you firsthand that the support sux. Before you buy, bop around the support site. Don't worry, it wont take long (not much there). Dell OTOH has been wonderfull.
supposedly you can switch resolutions by the following combo:
CTRL+ALT+(PLUS or MINUS)
It doesn't work for my laptop though. For some reason I can only get the default resolution 1600X1200. Messed with every option and config I could find to no avail.
SciTe uses a lexer and has different config files with keywords for each language/language group. One of the features I like best is that virtually every option is configurable. Abnother is support for both Win32 languages such as VB/VBScript amd PHP. One thing I don't like is that under Windows it has a wonderful tabbed interface (ala Moz) but under linux it just has buffer forward-back buttons.
I'll give the new version of Kate a try tho. Thanks for the info.
Append "?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42" to the end of any php page running PHP$ gives a goofy picture of one of the PHP developers.
I've been using SciTe editor for about two months now and I the new Kate sure looks a lot like Scite.
This is wonderful information. I'm sure I'll be modded as redundant, but this is great for those of us with our heads buried in code and no time to grep the rest of the world.
After all, I can honestly say I enjoy many commercials on the TV. When it comes to banner ads and popups I'm more likely to have a negative opinion of the site/application and the sponsoring company.
If your heart is in it and it brings you joy, then go ahead. Chances are others will see the love you put into the project and give it a try.
If not, you still learned a lot in the process and quite possibly added to the pool of knowledge and others will still benefit.
What I find amusing about this discussion is that the same people who slam Microsoft's proprietary cutthroat tactics and support a ,for the most part, inferior product jump on the NVidia bandwagon every chance they get. Or, as the GNU gurus so often put it, you don't like the drivers? Write better ones!
I also happen to think that people get way too hung up over the 2% of the time they are playing games when the other 98% ofthe time they would be better off with a ATI or Matrox card.
Not to mention the times I was hosed by crappy NVidia drivers in Linux until NVidia got their crap working better.
I read a lot of people complaining about ATI. I think people need to put a little perspective on things. NVidia came out of the blue and used their superior 3D chipsets to grab the mainstream Video market. ATI's response was slow at first, but is really gaining steam. I've got a Mobility M4 in my laptop with great new OpenGL drivers. In my home PC I've got a Radeon 8500 LE that runs 99.9% of all the DirectX games. In the case of the former, my 2D performance was the biggest factor. In the latter, the price gap for comarative performance was a joke. $99 for the ATI Radeon 8500 LE (NewEgg.com) vs $180 for a Nvidia GF4 4400. NVidia is now using their market dominance to bleed the market (a familiar strategy that eventually backfires). Not to mention the beautiful All-In-Wonder I bought for my parent's computer that has the best MultiMedia and TV Tuner I've seen (DScaler ain't bad but can't seem to pick up as many stations).
For all you GNU/Linux junkies, ATI has been much more forthcoming in information for developing XF86 drivers than NVidia(proprietary binary only).
For other Windoes folks, ToastScript is a handy little Java app to read and print PostScript.
I'm a fan blah, blah... Favorite series' were "Bio Of A space Tyrant" and Incarnations of Immortality blah, blah...
I've tried switching from Windows to Linux for production purposes but when push came to shove I always reverted to Windows when a project is time sensitive (looming deadline). Even on a fast computer I have noticed a lot of lag in peripheral response. I've also encountered a few bugs that would hang the application and force me to kill it and restart. Have you experienced similar problems? If so, how have you managed not falling back on the Windows crutch?
Last month my work PC was infected with Klez. Although Norton apparently can detect the virus it doesn't seem to be able to destroy it. I went to the Nortin site and tried the Klez cleaner and insturctions, but it didn't do any good. Then I noticed that Klez runs under the Guest account. I changed the password on the Guest account tand the problem seemed to go away.
This was also my experience also. When I took advanced calculus in college the professor repeatedly asked me to change majors (I was getting straight As). When she asked the reason why, I put it as best I could. I said I had no problems remembering formulas but there was some part of calculus I wasn't quite understanding. Kind of like seeing seeing a part of a picture and almost being to the point of guessing what the rest of the picture was but not getting anywhere. Very flustrating. She couldn't help me either because she had simply memorized the formulas and gone on.
Your teacher's name wan't Masey was it? I may have the name spelled wrong, but this is identical to a guy I knew in the Navy who decided he wanted to teach math. We were Nuclear Machinist's Mates on the USS Enterprise at the time.
Af if in response to my questioning of the government monopoly on education, the Supreme Court let the shool voucher system stand. Maybe sometime in the future, parents who don't care for the values taught in Public school can afford to send their kids to private school.
Intel put a GUID in every processor to make each computer uniquely identifiable. The market screamed about loss of privacy. They really shouldn't expect the market to react favorably to having GUIDs in everything. It will come down to one company offering a piece of hardware or software with no privacy and a competitor offering privacy. The market will decide who is favors.
Hardware manufacturers aren't stupid. Especially if rights managment is costing them money. Look at what is happening in the DVD Player industry as we speak. Manufacturers are making an end-run around the digital rights tax.
Of course, I'm also against forcing any person to swear to an oath they don't believe in, but taking a quick trip down the slippery slope to "because Joey doesn't want to recite the oath, no-one is allowed to recite the oath" is well...sad. But then again, it seems more and more we are reinforcing a set of values in our society that says that taking civic responsibility or responsibility of any sort is not necessary.
But then again, I don't see the big deal in pulling two words out of the oath. They always seemed to be patched into the phrase in the first place. My objection is only with the government forcing people to take out the words...or not allow the words to be spoken under any circumstance in a publicly owned establishment. I would also point out that this is yet another reason to question the government's near total forced molopoly on education.
It's just like somone spapping your picture, pasting it on a White Supremacy poster and spreading it around town. A lot of people are just gonna read the headline without considering the source.
Hacking the CueCat would only be (potentially)hurting the CueCat company.
Hacking the Phones, listening in on private conversations, using blackmale, stealing credit cards, etc. harms us all.
Your moral equivalancy doesn't hold up.
I know much of the time any changes in GUI design is driven by either complaints or changes in tools available. New GUI widgets are being developed at a phenominal rate. To the developer it's almost irresistable to not use somthing that seems to simplify a task.
On the other hand, between my wife and my mom I've had plenty of experience with the frustation users feel at radical changes. For instance the new option in MS Office Apps that default hides infrequently used Menu options and toolbar icons. It took me almost an hour to tell my mom over the phone how to get her right-justify button back.
There is hope though, if Adobe keeps patenting obvious GUI interface concepts we'll all be back to command line programs and the point will be moot.