controller for your money. I've had bad luck with the cheap ones in Windows, always a blue screen of death that leads to data corruption and other problems.
You want a RAID controller that is properly reviewed, one that has been proven to be stable. One that has good driver support and a good warranty. You want the same with your hard drives that data will be stored on.
I am not sure why you want FAT32 drives, is it because you are running an old version of Windows that does not support NTFS? Most moden Linux systems have NTFS support built in if not an option to load, just read the FAQs for your version of Linux and look for how to add in NTFS support. Unless you have software that breaks on NTFS and needs FAT32 (like old video games and software applications with anti-piracy technology that only works with FAT32 and not NTFS), you should really use NTFS for your hard drive format.
You need more than just RAID drives, you need a backup solution. Either use DVD-RW disks, or buy a Tape drive, or have an older system you can set up a network share and copy data files over to it, or a USB hard drive or thumb drive.
OK Cloud computing takes the Server/Client model one further by hosting it over the Internet instead of just the local network. You are right that it is a buzzword, and it seems as if the definition is very vague and changes definitions depending on who is giving the definition.
Cloud computing is a service, but there is software involved, one of the definitions is software as a service. For example, Microsoft can have something like Live Office which is MS-Office as a service, and host it out for $99/year per user verses the cost of buying MS-Office 2007 for $399 or whatever it costs, and then host the user's Office file formats on their servers as well with an option to download. Prices may be different than what I gave as an example. But Google Documents offers the same service for free.
Could Computing is simply a service provided over the Internet that is scalable and virtualized.
In short the software is in the web browser, while the data is stored somewhere else like on the servers. The word "Cloud" is a metaphor for the Internet.
This is not just an ordinary web application, it usually involves a virtual machine of some sort so that the web applications acts like a desktop application within the web browser. One that can be scaled to handle an almost unlimited amount of users.
So for example the PHPBB2 Forum software is a web application, but not a Cloud Computing application. Google apps, on the other hand works via a virtual machine and software as a service so it qualifies for cloud computing applications. Google apps do GMail, Word Processing, Spreadsheet, etc in the web browser under a virtual machine but the data is stored on Google's servers.
The reason why open source developers don't support cloud computing is because they feel that it locks the users into third party technology and exposes their data across the Internet in violation of privacy that others could spy on it or capture it via packet sniffers. So OSS developers try to avoid making cloud computing applications as a matter of personal ethics, etc.
Yeah but DAT files don't work too well in a multiuser environment. For example as one person is changing the DAT file, another could be trying to change it from a different machine. Ever got that "Cannot write to file, it is in use" error before?
I suppose for small databases a DAT file would work, but in an environment of over 100 users you need something like a RDBMS to handle the requests and make sure that the database isn't overloaded and there are no conflicts and performance issues.
Can you imagine a terabyte DAT file? Then trying to cycle through records to find what you wanted? Now maybe a megabyte or under DAT file can handle it, but once the database grows to enterprise level, there might be some problems.
people will still run Windows XP Pro in Virtual Machines just to run "legacy software" that does not run on Windows Vista, Windows 7.0, etc.
VirtualBox by Sun just reached version 3.0.0 and supports Windows XP, Vista, and 7.0 as both host and guest operating systems. It can even run DOS virtual machines, but has no addons support for DOS.
For DOS support most people just use DOSBox but it has no printing support. For example Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS runs in it, but since it has no printer support, just select Postscript for a printer and then use Ghostscript or some other Postscript program to drop the Postscript data file on to print it out. After Microsoft went to the Windows NT and up and left the Windows 9X platform, it broke a lot of DOS applications. DOSBox is cool, as it even supports Tandy 1000 standards so that means those DOS video games that selected CGA or Tandy graphics can be played in Tandy mode. That was before EGA and then later VGA was invented.
Retrocomputing is more than just a fad, for some that have "legacy software" issues they have to use older hardware and older operating systems, or run older operating systems in virtual machines and/or emulators.
The cost of upgrading "legacy software" to Windows Vista or even Windows 7.0 standards is too high and too difficult for most software companies, plus Windows Vista broke a lot of software development tools including some old versions of Visual Studio as recent as 2002 or 2003. There is a lot of software that businesses need, that cannot be converted to run on Vista or 7.0, which is why Microsoft has that XP Virtual Machine, but they futzed up the XP Virtual machine and it is not 100% XP compatible. So I am guessing virtual machines like VirtualBox, VMWare, etc will be used to run XP in a virtual machine for better compatibility.
OK then which tool should I use for the job of helping me to get off disability and getting an open source software company or non-profit organization founded?
Clearly I cannot use Mono and get the support of the Free Software Foundation to have my open source software application bundled with a Linux distro.
When I was paid to work it was for Visual BASIC, and that was my employer's choice, I did not whine about it, I did my job to my best abilities. I earned almost 17 years in Visual BASIC programming.
Yeah I understand about protecting Linux from the IP Police and Microsoft, SCO, et al trying to sue Linux companies.
Just that I hate to see all of the years I spent developing a skill to go to waste for Linux development. I cannot use Visual BASIC via Mono to write a Linux open source software application now. So it forces me to learn a new and different language and a new and different IDE in order to develop open source software for Linux.
Well if I program for Mono and open source code, there will be a rallying cry that I am violating open source licenses and the Free Software Foundation, etc would lead to a boycott of my products as they are trying to do with Novell Mono.
It is a matter of Public Relations that I program in a language that is acceptable to the Open Source Community and the Free Software Foundation.
Thank you for the Netbeans suggestion, I'll look it up and see how it works. I just found out that Fedora Core 11 supports my Laptop wireless adapter, so I can run Fedora on it and write Linux programs with it.
College students, book writers, newspaper journalists, and even bloggers and Wikipedia, etc all cite copyrighted sources and paraphrase what they say to avoid plagiarism. That was covered in the Copyright Act as 'Fair Use', which does not seem to exist these days, based on this judge's opinions and views.
When you link or cite a source, you are not stealing copyrighted materials, when you paraphrase you are putting in your own words a summation of what that source was trying to say. In fact, you are promoting that copyrighted materials and may have caused some people to buy that copyrighted material based on what you wrote.
This is not the same as copying and pasting the entire copyrighted material, or even stealing the copyrighted material without paying.
In the USA we used to have something called Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press that would allow a person to put in their own words even what copyrighted material might say, as long as they cite their source or link to it. But now, Copyright Law is UnConstitutional if it restricts Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press if it is changed to the way this judge wants it changed.
Mono was great for porting Visual Studio projects to Linux, etc. Mono supports the C# and Visual BASIC languages.
When you are a Windows developer that writes software for Windows, you usually use Visual Studio and C# or Visual BASIC as your primary language and like to take the code you write and port it to other platforms. Novell Mono made that possible, with a few rewrites of Form code as Windows Forms are not part of Mono. Windows developers use Visual Studio because Microsoft gives them a discount on it and even bundles it as part of the MSDN Microsoft Development Network subscription program to get Microsoft operating systems and development software and applications at a discounted rate for developers.
Visual Studio is easy to program in because the IDE is as easy to use as a paint program and you just drag and drop objects to create the Forms needed for the application, Delphi and other languages had about the same type of IDE. So an open source alternative would need an IDE that is just as easy to use as the Visual Studio and Mono IDEs.
I had planned to develop software for Windows under Visual BASIC 2005/2008 and then port it to Linux and Mac OSX using Novell Mono. But now I cannot if Richard Stallman says not to use Mono and I had planned on an open source version using Mono. So now what Visual BASIC code I wrote is useless and I'll have to rewrite it in a different programming language. Thanks Richard Stallman, I can see why you are the Saint of Open Source Software now.:)
Good thing I got some Python, C/C++, and Java skills, even if they are older skills I haven't used in a while. I have to give up my Visual Studio and Mono IDE easy to use crutch, and I hope I find an IDE for an approved Open Source Programming Language that I can use easily, without a huge learning curve and adapt to a different language.
Basically my Visual BASIC skills are now obsolete for Open Source Programming. This will either force me into close sourced code, or a different programming language I am not as good in for open source code. I've spent almost 17 years on Visual BASIC programming from Visual BASIC 1.0 for DOS all the way up to Visual BASIC 2008, including the conversion from Classic Visual BASIC to Visual BASIC.Net which was hard, but I made it.
I am currently out of work and on disability, and had hoped to create some software applications in open source code for various businesses to use, and offer a professional customized version that is released from open source code and available for private use for a certain fee. I had also considered forming a non-profit like the Mozilla foundation and make open source programs available for free and ask for donations. But now, this changes everything and I have to reinvent myself and my business ideas and my plan to get off disability, and this will cause major delays.
and reducing pollution and carbon emissions, but not to the point that it bankrupts people and puts a heavy tax on everything.
There is supposed to be a VAT or value added tax to thinks that need carbon fossil fuel to produce of at least 50%, how will the average American be able to afford food and the basics of living like clothes, TV sets, computers, fuel for their car to get to work, etc?
We might all end up living like the Amish to avoid the extra taxes. Low tech, horse power, muscle power, etc.
from children's stories and then they make their own copyrighted version of it.
Snow White Alice in Wonderland Peter Pan Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast The Little Mermaid The Lion King The Jungle Book
Etc.
The copyright from such fair tales and children's stories have expired and they got released to the public domain. Then Disney takes them and rewrites them slightly to have a Disney twist. Then Disney copyrights them.
you'll get around the programmer's block eventually. You'll have to figure out why you got stuck and unstuck yourself.
Meditation helps, you might want to read a book or take a class on meditation. Even if you aren't religious, meditation and even biofeedback can help you get back control of your mind and body. Visualize that you are in a safe place like on vacation to a place you'd like to go, or just think of a blank sheet of paper if you cannot think of anything creative, this will help to free your mind.
If you are stuck on one part of the program, move on to another part, sometimes even working on a different software project or even documentation of code can help get your mind back on the stuck project. For example work on the database part or user documentation and when you feel better you can get back to writing code. Look over your code for errors and do error trapping if you are stuck, not only will it unstuck you but it will help improve the quality of your code.
Don't be afraid to ask coworkers and managers for help, if they are good people they will be helping you out, if they are not helping maybe you aren't in the right place as a programmer needs support and tools to get the job done. I've been able to help others out when they got stuck, but not everyone shared the favor with me when I got stuck, so I had to develop ways to get unstuck myself.
Having a mental illness can cause panic attacks and depression and negative thoughts that lead to problems coding and programmer's block. Try thinking positive things and every time you have a negative thought, counter it with a positive one. Sometimes you have to take a mental health break and go for a walk, or get something to eat or drink, but be careful not to eat and drink too much.
Like Mozart, I too developed a method that helps me think and code. I don't want to share it as I am going to make it part of a book I am writing. But you need to find your own way to develop a method to help you think and code, as my way or anyone else's way may not work for you.
Sometimes work is filled with distractions, coworkers singing or making noise, printers sounding like World War III and constantly printing out reports, etc, invest in a set of ear plugs to drown out background noise so you can concentrate if the noise gets to you. I used to use earphones but then people think I am listening to music, but I think ear plugs are a better choice.
Good luck, and I hope something in my post helps you.
This is the same problem with Cable and Satellite TV filters. Most of the movies and TV shows are unrated and setting the V-Chip or whatever filters for PG-13 and under will also filter out unrated shows and movies.
When you block something to keep the children away from it in this way, it also blocks adults from getting the games as well. Just like blocking TV shows and Movies will prevent an adult from seeing them. But you have to enter the four digit code on TV devices to bypass the filter, and kids are smart enough to watch the adults enter the four digits and then use it to bypass the filters.
Sure you could bypass the filters on the Internet by using a DNS server or servers from another country like the UK or USA so that they cannot block it by DNS access. You could also use Tor or some other proxy to bypass the filters. I am sure that the Australian Teenage kids are smart enough to do stuff like that to bypass the filters. It is just like the Youtube system to see adult rated videos, enter your birthdate and for the year instead of entering your own year use the birth year that Mommy or Daddy has and you'll get adult access. That sort of filter system is stupid and can easily be gotten around even by teenagers and young kids.
I am trying to write my own book or books, I forgot how to use the APA format for web citations, but I will do research to learn it all over again, I hope. But my book is a work of fiction and parody, so maybe citations are not needed? What say you Slashdot?
for example if I use online syncing utilities for my home drives, how do I know someone else won't have access to them? If I am writing a book or software project, how can I know someone won't steal it from me and claim it as their own?
I'd like to set up my own file server and have the synch software store the files there or to a USB drive or something. My old method is to burn CD-R and DVD-R disks, but they can get lost or scratched and then the data is gone. I have, for example, a DVD-R full of my old documents before I reformatted one of my systems. It is lost somewhere in my house, or maybe someone visiting stole it. I need a better solution than that. but I cannot afford to set up my own file server. So I set up an XP box with peer-peer networking for my Network drive and Printer server. I'd much rather use Linux but my Linux box is an old 700Mhz Celeron system and when I ran Fedora or Ubuntu Linux on it, it gets data corruption after a while as it only uses IDE hard drives and I cannot afford a UPS system. Our power goes out a few times a month in our area due to storms and trees hitting power lines. Which contributed to my data being unrecoverable on the Linux system and it forced me to reformat it again and again, until finally I gave up on it. Plus trying to stay up to the latest and greatest upgrades I think trying to install Fedora Core 9 over Core 8 caused the system to have problems with libraries and even running the X-Window GUI with GNOME which forced it into shell prompt mode.
My XP system is a 1.4Ghz AMD Athlon system, not even dual core, but it should be able to make a good Linux server if I can replace it with a new system for running my Windows programs on. Since I am on disability since 2002 I cannot afford new systems and make due with what I have.
Uh to be fair that was a ROM boot. Try loading software on a C64 verses loading software on an iPhone and see how the times differ. Gotta remember those 1541 floppy drives.
I used to work helpdesk and I worked many IT positions but mostly as a programmer.
If a college education is too expensive for you, consider a Community College part-time and earn certificates in areas you want to learn knowledge in you might be able to make a one or two year degree and then be able to work a better job than helpdesk and maybe be a web designer, entry level programmer, network administrator, or PC technician.
If you cannot afford the community college route then just get some books on the subject and study on your own time and use the software at home on your own time to learn with it. If you cannot afford books try going to your local libraries and finding books to check out for free (but mind the due-date, and remember you always can renew a book checkout by visiting the library and saying you want to renew the book).
Another cheap way is to search the Internet and find free eBooks and Wiki sites and forums on the technology you are trying to learn. But beware as some people are not always nice to noobs/newbies just trying to learn the technology and will try to scare you off. Look for how to better use search engines like Google to help you find new things.
If you cannot find an employer to hire you, try searching for some of the "freelance" web sites and offer your services on what you developed skills on to organizations and people in need of help. It might end up with job offers or getting your name out there. Put it on your resume that you are "Doing business as Yourname" where Yourname is your real name. You might need to save some of the contact info from freelance tasks for references when you look for a real job.
What if they phase out MySQL in order to promote the Oracle database?
I guess Oracle considered it didn't make sense to have three different virtual machine technologies and wanted to combine them all into one product and got rid of Virtual Iron but kept their IP and source code and technology. But then the VI customers and employees get shafted. Nice public relations there Oracle, you are channeling Microsoft through you on that one.
I guess they didn't learn their lesson from the Dotcom bubble bursting, and I figure it will come back and haunt them later.
at best the web ads would help pay the ISP bill, but doubtful they will make someone a millionaire. Remember that most ISPs that host web sites charge per bandwidth. That means the more people that visit your web site blog, the more bandwidth they will eat up. You have to figure out a formula or use accounting software to figure out if your web ads are bringing in a profit.
Basically if you are going to blog professionally you have to have a blog about something interesting enough to get a majority of people to visit it, and deliver content on a daily basis that is original and entertaining or interesting enough to keep people coming back to it. Not only that but you have to try and avoid offending people so that you don't lose your audience. Plus it has to be something legal or else your blog can be shut down and you face criminal or civil charges.
The blogs that have been successful have used affiliate adds that advertise to sell a product from say Amazon.com or Barnes and Nobel or some other company that you link to a book or product that has something to do with what you are blogging on and they pay you back a fraction of the purchase. That means your loyal readers will have to keep purchasing the products you advertise on your blogs in order for you to earn money. Some readers will be annoyed that you have web advertisement and some will use adblock plus on Firefox or adblock pro on Internet Explorer to block out your web ads and you don't earn anything from them.
Some people claim that the free web is over, and that professional blogs only show most recent blogs and then charge a fee for membership access to look at the archive of blogs. Many newspapers are starting to do this, while others are going with eBook readers like Kindle to sell electronic versions of their newspapers. Basically a professional blog is like a newspaper, because you expect the writer to be more of a journalist that checks facts and cites sources and is more professional than the armature bloggers out there who don't always check facts and cite sources.
Some professional blogs blog by serving up audio and video files of themselves talking instead of writing text and then insert advertising into the file in order to pay for it. Others only serve up those audio and video files by membership fees.
Since the problem of people not wanting to pay for a membership or only want access to a few blogs or files, some professional blogs take micropayments in that it costs $1 to $5 per article or file to download it to your computer.
But the problem comes in that when blogs and other web sites go to membership only, how do you cite a link to their material when only members can access it and you cannot share your account? Sure you cite and link to the web site, but then people who cannot afford membership will refuse to believe you or ask you to cite a "free" web site that says the same thing.
One that can take advantage of newer technology to deliver a better gaming experience?
Yeah I know the Indrema failed, but if the people making Linux distros for mobile devices and smart phones decided to port their code to the newer game console technology to creating a game console distro it would be a good idea if many gaming companies joined in and started to work out a standard for game consoles that will help reduce the cost of developing new game consoles for everyone. Not only that but if it is a Linux distro games can be put on LiveCDs that boot and then run the game on PCs and Macs.
I suppose one can just develop video games in Java or Python to be used across any computer platform and port Java and Python for various game consoles to run such games as well.
Before the used game stores there were used record and CD stores and used Video tape and DVD stores. Pawn Shops buy and sell all of them and did this sort of thing before the "Used X" Stores.
Even Comic Book stores do that, buy used comics for pennies on the dollar and sell them for "retail" or "collector's price" based on how rare the comic is and in what condition it is in.
What next, Game Publishers want a piece of eBay and other auction sites that sell used games? Give me a break!
Game Publishers already got a sale from whomever bought the game new, but the person got tired or bored of the game or it didn't meet the expectations and they sold it to the Used Game store to get some of their money back. Game Publishers should love the Used Game Stores because it stops people from pirating the game because it costs so much to buy new and the used price is more reasonable.
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controller for your money. I've had bad luck with the cheap ones in Windows, always a blue screen of death that leads to data corruption and other problems.
You want a RAID controller that is properly reviewed, one that has been proven to be stable. One that has good driver support and a good warranty. You want the same with your hard drives that data will be stored on.
I am not sure why you want FAT32 drives, is it because you are running an old version of Windows that does not support NTFS? Most moden Linux systems have NTFS support built in if not an option to load, just read the FAQs for your version of Linux and look for how to add in NTFS support. Unless you have software that breaks on NTFS and needs FAT32 (like old video games and software applications with anti-piracy technology that only works with FAT32 and not NTFS), you should really use NTFS for your hard drive format.
You need more than just RAID drives, you need a backup solution. Either use DVD-RW disks, or buy a Tape drive, or have an older system you can set up a network share and copy data files over to it, or a USB hard drive or thumb drive.
What does CLOUD mean?
Client Licensed Outsourced User Data?
Computer Linked Overpriced Usable Datastorage?
Crap Listed Outrageous Unusable Dung!
Central Loaded Off Universal Diagrams?
OK Cloud computing takes the Server/Client model one further by hosting it over the Internet instead of just the local network. You are right that it is a buzzword, and it seems as if the definition is very vague and changes definitions depending on who is giving the definition.
Cloud computing is a service, but there is software involved, one of the definitions is software as a service. For example, Microsoft can have something like Live Office which is MS-Office as a service, and host it out for $99/year per user verses the cost of buying MS-Office 2007 for $399 or whatever it costs, and then host the user's Office file formats on their servers as well with an option to download. Prices may be different than what I gave as an example. But Google Documents offers the same service for free.
Did you know that Open Source Cheeseburgers really do exist? :)
Could Computing is simply a service provided over the Internet that is scalable and virtualized.
In short the software is in the web browser, while the data is stored somewhere else like on the servers. The word "Cloud" is a metaphor for the Internet.
This is not just an ordinary web application, it usually involves a virtual machine of some sort so that the web applications acts like a desktop application within the web browser. One that can be scaled to handle an almost unlimited amount of users.
So for example the PHPBB2 Forum software is a web application, but not a Cloud Computing application. Google apps, on the other hand works via a virtual machine and software as a service so it qualifies for cloud computing applications. Google apps do GMail, Word Processing, Spreadsheet, etc in the web browser under a virtual machine but the data is stored on Google's servers.
The reason why open source developers don't support cloud computing is because they feel that it locks the users into third party technology and exposes their data across the Internet in violation of privacy that others could spy on it or capture it via packet sniffers. So OSS developers try to avoid making cloud computing applications as a matter of personal ethics, etc.
Yeah but DAT files don't work too well in a multiuser environment. For example as one person is changing the DAT file, another could be trying to change it from a different machine. Ever got that "Cannot write to file, it is in use" error before?
I suppose for small databases a DAT file would work, but in an environment of over 100 users you need something like a RDBMS to handle the requests and make sure that the database isn't overloaded and there are no conflicts and performance issues.
Can you imagine a terabyte DAT file? Then trying to cycle through records to find what you wanted? Now maybe a megabyte or under DAT file can handle it, but once the database grows to enterprise level, there might be some problems.
go back to flat files aka DAT files.
Use the old DBase III standard DBF files?
Use the old Lotus 123 WK1 files?
Use MS-Office MS-Access MS-Excel etc files?
Use comma separated values files?
SQL set a standard for relational databases, a structured query language that almost any database can use and then build extensions to it.
Will the Post-SQL age begin, and will it be object oriented and a fifth generation language?
people will still run Windows XP Pro in Virtual Machines just to run "legacy software" that does not run on Windows Vista, Windows 7.0, etc.
VirtualBox by Sun just reached version 3.0.0 and supports Windows XP, Vista, and 7.0 as both host and guest operating systems. It can even run DOS virtual machines, but has no addons support for DOS.
For DOS support most people just use DOSBox but it has no printing support. For example Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS runs in it, but since it has no printer support, just select Postscript for a printer and then use Ghostscript or some other Postscript program to drop the Postscript data file on to print it out. After Microsoft went to the Windows NT and up and left the Windows 9X platform, it broke a lot of DOS applications. DOSBox is cool, as it even supports Tandy 1000 standards so that means those DOS video games that selected CGA or Tandy graphics can be played in Tandy mode. That was before EGA and then later VGA was invented.
Retrocomputing is more than just a fad, for some that have "legacy software" issues they have to use older hardware and older operating systems, or run older operating systems in virtual machines and/or emulators.
The cost of upgrading "legacy software" to Windows Vista or even Windows 7.0 standards is too high and too difficult for most software companies, plus Windows Vista broke a lot of software development tools including some old versions of Visual Studio as recent as 2002 or 2003. There is a lot of software that businesses need, that cannot be converted to run on Vista or 7.0, which is why Microsoft has that XP Virtual Machine, but they futzed up the XP Virtual machine and it is not 100% XP compatible. So I am guessing virtual machines like VirtualBox, VMWare, etc will be used to run XP in a virtual machine for better compatibility.
OK then which tool should I use for the job of helping me to get off disability and getting an open source software company or non-profit organization founded?
Clearly I cannot use Mono and get the support of the Free Software Foundation to have my open source software application bundled with a Linux distro.
When I was paid to work it was for Visual BASIC, and that was my employer's choice, I did not whine about it, I did my job to my best abilities. I earned almost 17 years in Visual BASIC programming.
Yeah I understand about protecting Linux from the IP Police and Microsoft, SCO, et al trying to sue Linux companies.
Just that I hate to see all of the years I spent developing a skill to go to waste for Linux development. I cannot use Visual BASIC via Mono to write a Linux open source software application now. So it forces me to learn a new and different language and a new and different IDE in order to develop open source software for Linux.
Well if I program for Mono and open source code, there will be a rallying cry that I am violating open source licenses and the Free Software Foundation, etc would lead to a boycott of my products as they are trying to do with Novell Mono.
It is a matter of Public Relations that I program in a language that is acceptable to the Open Source Community and the Free Software Foundation.
Thank you for the Netbeans suggestion, I'll look it up and see how it works. I just found out that Fedora Core 11 supports my Laptop wireless adapter, so I can run Fedora on it and write Linux programs with it.
College students, book writers, newspaper journalists, and even bloggers and Wikipedia, etc all cite copyrighted sources and paraphrase what they say to avoid plagiarism. That was covered in the Copyright Act as 'Fair Use', which does not seem to exist these days, based on this judge's opinions and views.
When you link or cite a source, you are not stealing copyrighted materials, when you paraphrase you are putting in your own words a summation of what that source was trying to say. In fact, you are promoting that copyrighted materials and may have caused some people to buy that copyrighted material based on what you wrote.
This is not the same as copying and pasting the entire copyrighted material, or even stealing the copyrighted material without paying.
In the USA we used to have something called Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press that would allow a person to put in their own words even what copyrighted material might say, as long as they cite their source or link to it. But now, Copyright Law is UnConstitutional if it restricts Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press if it is changed to the way this judge wants it changed.
Mono was great for porting Visual Studio projects to Linux, etc. Mono supports the C# and Visual BASIC languages.
When you are a Windows developer that writes software for Windows, you usually use Visual Studio and C# or Visual BASIC as your primary language and like to take the code you write and port it to other platforms. Novell Mono made that possible, with a few rewrites of Form code as Windows Forms are not part of Mono. Windows developers use Visual Studio because Microsoft gives them a discount on it and even bundles it as part of the MSDN Microsoft Development Network subscription program to get Microsoft operating systems and development software and applications at a discounted rate for developers.
Visual Studio is easy to program in because the IDE is as easy to use as a paint program and you just drag and drop objects to create the Forms needed for the application, Delphi and other languages had about the same type of IDE. So an open source alternative would need an IDE that is just as easy to use as the Visual Studio and Mono IDEs.
I had planned to develop software for Windows under Visual BASIC 2005/2008 and then port it to Linux and Mac OSX using Novell Mono. But now I cannot if Richard Stallman says not to use Mono and I had planned on an open source version using Mono. So now what Visual BASIC code I wrote is useless and I'll have to rewrite it in a different programming language. Thanks Richard Stallman, I can see why you are the Saint of Open Source Software now. :)
Good thing I got some Python, C/C++, and Java skills, even if they are older skills I haven't used in a while. I have to give up my Visual Studio and Mono IDE easy to use crutch, and I hope I find an IDE for an approved Open Source Programming Language that I can use easily, without a huge learning curve and adapt to a different language.
Basically my Visual BASIC skills are now obsolete for Open Source Programming. This will either force me into close sourced code, or a different programming language I am not as good in for open source code. I've spent almost 17 years on Visual BASIC programming from Visual BASIC 1.0 for DOS all the way up to Visual BASIC 2008, including the conversion from Classic Visual BASIC to Visual BASIC.Net which was hard, but I made it.
I am currently out of work and on disability, and had hoped to create some software applications in open source code for various businesses to use, and offer a professional customized version that is released from open source code and available for private use for a certain fee. I had also considered forming a non-profit like the Mozilla foundation and make open source programs available for free and ask for donations. But now, this changes everything and I have to reinvent myself and my business ideas and my plan to get off disability, and this will cause major delays.
and reducing pollution and carbon emissions, but not to the point that it bankrupts people and puts a heavy tax on everything.
There is supposed to be a VAT or value added tax to thinks that need carbon fossil fuel to produce of at least 50%, how will the average American be able to afford food and the basics of living like clothes, TV sets, computers, fuel for their car to get to work, etc?
We might all end up living like the Amish to avoid the extra taxes. Low tech, horse power, muscle power, etc.
from children's stories and then they make their own copyrighted version of it.
Snow White
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
Sleeping Beauty
Beauty and the Beast
The Little Mermaid
The Lion King
The Jungle Book
Etc.
The copyright from such fair tales and children's stories have expired and they got released to the public domain. Then Disney takes them and rewrites them slightly to have a Disney twist. Then Disney copyrights them.
you'll get around the programmer's block eventually. You'll have to figure out why you got stuck and unstuck yourself.
Meditation helps, you might want to read a book or take a class on meditation. Even if you aren't religious, meditation and even biofeedback can help you get back control of your mind and body. Visualize that you are in a safe place like on vacation to a place you'd like to go, or just think of a blank sheet of paper if you cannot think of anything creative, this will help to free your mind.
If you are stuck on one part of the program, move on to another part, sometimes even working on a different software project or even documentation of code can help get your mind back on the stuck project. For example work on the database part or user documentation and when you feel better you can get back to writing code. Look over your code for errors and do error trapping if you are stuck, not only will it unstuck you but it will help improve the quality of your code.
Don't be afraid to ask coworkers and managers for help, if they are good people they will be helping you out, if they are not helping maybe you aren't in the right place as a programmer needs support and tools to get the job done. I've been able to help others out when they got stuck, but not everyone shared the favor with me when I got stuck, so I had to develop ways to get unstuck myself.
Having a mental illness can cause panic attacks and depression and negative thoughts that lead to problems coding and programmer's block. Try thinking positive things and every time you have a negative thought, counter it with a positive one. Sometimes you have to take a mental health break and go for a walk, or get something to eat or drink, but be careful not to eat and drink too much.
Like Mozart, I too developed a method that helps me think and code. I don't want to share it as I am going to make it part of a book I am writing. But you need to find your own way to develop a method to help you think and code, as my way or anyone else's way may not work for you.
Sometimes work is filled with distractions, coworkers singing or making noise, printers sounding like World War III and constantly printing out reports, etc, invest in a set of ear plugs to drown out background noise so you can concentrate if the noise gets to you. I used to use earphones but then people think I am listening to music, but I think ear plugs are a better choice.
Good luck, and I hope something in my post helps you.
This is the same problem with Cable and Satellite TV filters. Most of the movies and TV shows are unrated and setting the V-Chip or whatever filters for PG-13 and under will also filter out unrated shows and movies.
When you block something to keep the children away from it in this way, it also blocks adults from getting the games as well. Just like blocking TV shows and Movies will prevent an adult from seeing them. But you have to enter the four digit code on TV devices to bypass the filter, and kids are smart enough to watch the adults enter the four digits and then use it to bypass the filters.
Sure you could bypass the filters on the Internet by using a DNS server or servers from another country like the UK or USA so that they cannot block it by DNS access. You could also use Tor or some other proxy to bypass the filters. I am sure that the Australian Teenage kids are smart enough to do stuff like that to bypass the filters. It is just like the Youtube system to see adult rated videos, enter your birthdate and for the year instead of entering your own year use the birth year that Mommy or Daddy has and you'll get adult access. That sort of filter system is stupid and can easily be gotten around even by teenagers and young kids.
I am cited as a minor author in this C# book just because I edited a Wikibook entry on C# Programming, and then it got published later.
I received no money but at least I got credit.
I am trying to write my own book or books, I forgot how to use the APA format for web citations, but I will do research to learn it all over again, I hope. But my book is a work of fiction and parody, so maybe citations are not needed? What say you Slashdot?
for example if I use online syncing utilities for my home drives, how do I know someone else won't have access to them? If I am writing a book or software project, how can I know someone won't steal it from me and claim it as their own?
I'd like to set up my own file server and have the synch software store the files there or to a USB drive or something. My old method is to burn CD-R and DVD-R disks, but they can get lost or scratched and then the data is gone. I have, for example, a DVD-R full of my old documents before I reformatted one of my systems. It is lost somewhere in my house, or maybe someone visiting stole it. I need a better solution than that. but I cannot afford to set up my own file server. So I set up an XP box with peer-peer networking for my Network drive and Printer server. I'd much rather use Linux but my Linux box is an old 700Mhz Celeron system and when I ran Fedora or Ubuntu Linux on it, it gets data corruption after a while as it only uses IDE hard drives and I cannot afford a UPS system. Our power goes out a few times a month in our area due to storms and trees hitting power lines. Which contributed to my data being unrecoverable on the Linux system and it forced me to reformat it again and again, until finally I gave up on it. Plus trying to stay up to the latest and greatest upgrades I think trying to install Fedora Core 9 over Core 8 caused the system to have problems with libraries and even running the X-Window GUI with GNOME which forced it into shell prompt mode.
My XP system is a 1.4Ghz AMD Athlon system, not even dual core, but it should be able to make a good Linux server if I can replace it with a new system for running my Windows programs on. Since I am on disability since 2002 I cannot afford new systems and make due with what I have.
RIAA violation, "Weird" Al Yankovic wants his royalty check for you ripping off his song lyrics. :)
Uh to be fair that was a ROM boot. Try loading software on a C64 verses loading software on an iPhone and see how the times differ. Gotta remember those 1541 floppy drives.
on the iPhone?
So no Apple //, Mac OS 9-, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Atari 400/800, or even TRS-80 and MS-DOS emulators on the iPhone?
I used to work helpdesk and I worked many IT positions but mostly as a programmer.
If a college education is too expensive for you, consider a Community College part-time and earn certificates in areas you want to learn knowledge in you might be able to make a one or two year degree and then be able to work a better job than helpdesk and maybe be a web designer, entry level programmer, network administrator, or PC technician.
If you cannot afford the community college route then just get some books on the subject and study on your own time and use the software at home on your own time to learn with it. If you cannot afford books try going to your local libraries and finding books to check out for free (but mind the due-date, and remember you always can renew a book checkout by visiting the library and saying you want to renew the book).
Another cheap way is to search the Internet and find free eBooks and Wiki sites and forums on the technology you are trying to learn. But beware as some people are not always nice to noobs/newbies just trying to learn the technology and will try to scare you off. Look for how to better use search engines like Google to help you find new things.
If you cannot find an employer to hire you, try searching for some of the "freelance" web sites and offer your services on what you developed skills on to organizations and people in need of help. It might end up with job offers or getting your name out there. Put it on your resume that you are "Doing business as Yourname" where Yourname is your real name. You might need to save some of the contact info from freelance tasks for references when you look for a real job.
Good luck!
What if they phase out MySQL in order to promote the Oracle database?
I guess Oracle considered it didn't make sense to have three different virtual machine technologies and wanted to combine them all into one product and got rid of Virtual Iron but kept their IP and source code and technology. But then the VI customers and employees get shafted. Nice public relations there Oracle, you are channeling Microsoft through you on that one.
I guess they didn't learn their lesson from the Dotcom bubble bursting, and I figure it will come back and haunt them later.
at best the web ads would help pay the ISP bill, but doubtful they will make someone a millionaire. Remember that most ISPs that host web sites charge per bandwidth. That means the more people that visit your web site blog, the more bandwidth they will eat up. You have to figure out a formula or use accounting software to figure out if your web ads are bringing in a profit.
Basically if you are going to blog professionally you have to have a blog about something interesting enough to get a majority of people to visit it, and deliver content on a daily basis that is original and entertaining or interesting enough to keep people coming back to it. Not only that but you have to try and avoid offending people so that you don't lose your audience. Plus it has to be something legal or else your blog can be shut down and you face criminal or civil charges.
The blogs that have been successful have used affiliate adds that advertise to sell a product from say Amazon.com or Barnes and Nobel or some other company that you link to a book or product that has something to do with what you are blogging on and they pay you back a fraction of the purchase. That means your loyal readers will have to keep purchasing the products you advertise on your blogs in order for you to earn money. Some readers will be annoyed that you have web advertisement and some will use adblock plus on Firefox or adblock pro on Internet Explorer to block out your web ads and you don't earn anything from them.
Some people claim that the free web is over, and that professional blogs only show most recent blogs and then charge a fee for membership access to look at the archive of blogs. Many newspapers are starting to do this, while others are going with eBook readers like Kindle to sell electronic versions of their newspapers. Basically a professional blog is like a newspaper, because you expect the writer to be more of a journalist that checks facts and cites sources and is more professional than the armature bloggers out there who don't always check facts and cite sources.
Some professional blogs blog by serving up audio and video files of themselves talking instead of writing text and then insert advertising into the file in order to pay for it. Others only serve up those audio and video files by membership fees.
Since the problem of people not wanting to pay for a membership or only want access to a few blogs or files, some professional blogs take micropayments in that it costs $1 to $5 per article or file to download it to your computer.
But the problem comes in that when blogs and other web sites go to membership only, how do you cite a link to their material when only members can access it and you cannot share your account? Sure you cite and link to the web site, but then people who cannot afford membership will refuse to believe you or ask you to cite a "free" web site that says the same thing.
One that can take advantage of newer technology to deliver a better gaming experience?
Yeah I know the Indrema failed, but if the people making Linux distros for mobile devices and smart phones decided to port their code to the newer game console technology to creating a game console distro it would be a good idea if many gaming companies joined in and started to work out a standard for game consoles that will help reduce the cost of developing new game consoles for everyone. Not only that but if it is a Linux distro games can be put on LiveCDs that boot and then run the game on PCs and Macs.
I suppose one can just develop video games in Java or Python to be used across any computer platform and port Java and Python for various game consoles to run such games as well.
of selling used stuff.
Before the used game stores there were used record and CD stores and used Video tape and DVD stores. Pawn Shops buy and sell all of them and did this sort of thing before the "Used X" Stores.
Even Comic Book stores do that, buy used comics for pennies on the dollar and sell them for "retail" or "collector's price" based on how rare the comic is and in what condition it is in.
What next, Game Publishers want a piece of eBay and other auction sites that sell used games? Give me a break!
Game Publishers already got a sale from whomever bought the game new, but the person got tired or bored of the game or it didn't meet the expectations and they sold it to the Used Game store to get some of their money back. Game Publishers should love the Used Game Stores because it stops people from pirating the game because it costs so much to buy new and the used price is more reasonable.