Like a Linux Live CD to boot up dead systems and attempt repairs on it in Linux?
There is even a BartPE CD boot that can have shareware programs loaded on it like Adware, AVG, Spybot:SAD, Nero, etc.
Sometimes I just make do with a floppy boot disk, provided the hard drive is not NTFS formatted or something. Still I can piggy back the IDE hard drive onto one of my working systems and repair it from there.
Duke Nukem Forever Dikatana SimChurch Attack of the Clowns Virtual Bartender Pebble Counting Sane Taxi 2.0 Grand Rent Auto: Enterprise Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space II Hello Kitty: The Video Game Battle Checkers Elmo's Smelly Adventure Psycho Ward Pete: The Male Nurse Pong: The Revenge Yar's Revenge II Sonic The Hedghog's Coloscopy Pac-Man: The Nursing Home Years Afterlife: Atheist edition Extreme Jump Roping Cyber Lava Lamp Divorce: American Style Survivor: Chernobyl Ultimate Hopscotch Yo-yo Marathon
Just to think, that we'll never see these games thanks to that evil megacorporation known as Wal-Mart. People won't spend $50USD or more on them, just to be dissappointed 15 minutes into gameplay anymore. Just let John and Suzi Sixpack control what gets made by their prior gaming purchases at Wal-Mart.
You mean like when OS/2 had a Windows 3.X environment called WINOS2 and companies stopped making OS/2 versions of software because the Windows version runs on Windows and OS/2?
Then once Microsoft made Windows 95, OS/2 could not run the new 32 bit versions.
Apple indeed needs to get developers and companies writing programs for OSX native applications. Not just games, but business applications as well.
Recall that Next had the Nextstation, until it was no longer profitable or had any good marketshare and then they released NextOS for X86 PC systems. If Apple cannot get more marketshare and the Mac series is not profitable, they might just release to the X86 PC systems anyway.
Apple could bring back the Mac Clones, BTW. Maybe allow IBM, Dell, Gateway, Compaq/HP to make Mactel systems and have an OEM version of OSX that runs on only those hardware platforms. Then those PC makers can use Bootcamp with their systems and dual-boot OSX and XP for customers.
I own a copy of Linspire, I actually paid money for the 4.5 release. I wanted to try it out. They made programs that use Microsoft Windows format files like their own Media Player and iTunes type programs. They offer a lot of FOSS and Commercial Programs via the CNR (Click N' Run) program, and it also does the updates as well.
I switched distros. Linspire, while based on Debian, disables the apt-get and rpm tools. I found a way to activate them, and install a gcc compiler to compile programs etc. Only I found out the hard way that the CNR libraries are behind the apt-get and rpm libraries and it causes a problem with Linspire reporting that non-standard libraries are installed. It was a picture of a man being hung on his own underware or something. I was told that only CNR install methods are supported by tech support.
CNR is fine for the noobs, it makes getting Linspire programs as easy as clicking on them. It requires a monthly or yearly subscription though. For a noob willing to pay for access to software and doesn't require learning how to use chmod and command line tools like apt-get and rpm to install software, it is a good deal.
I switched to many distros, Debian, Unbuntu, Kanotix, Knoppix, and finally Red Hat Fedora. Red Hat Fedora is good enough for me, I learned how yum works and I am compiling programs and using rpm as well. I set up my own web server, but I have prior experience with Linux.
The whole goal of Linspire seems to be making it default on retail PCs, like at Walmart. Linspire has tried to get the cost of a PC down to $300, because Linspire does not cost any more than $50 to sell and it includes OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Windows and MS-Office can cost $300 or more of a system price.
There have been times when Linspire offered their OS free via BitTorrent via promotions.
Still I have set up friends with Red Hat Fedora because it does not require a subscription to update the OS files, and it is easy enough for them to use.
I've been a victim of bullying almost my entire life. From grade school to work to the Internet. If some bully cannot dig up dirt on me, they just make stuff up. Now that I am an adult I can handle it better and decide not to be a victim and let it get to me, yet the damage has already been done.
This boy didn't ask to be bullied, and he apparently did the screen test and didn't want anyone else to see it. The bullies stole the video and released it on the Internet, now they are paying for it.
Not everyone can handle bullying, and it puts a lot of emotional and psychological damage on a person. It takes a lot to learn to be a survivor rather than a victim as well. For me, it was well over 30 years before I finally came to terms with it and started to try to be a survivor. Only to suffer mental and physical illnesses so bad that I cannot work for a living. I only hope to heal up and get better and get back to work one day.
While there is evidence to support the theory of evolution, the theory has not yet been proven.
I think what the board wanted was proof that evolution is true, and proof that ID is false, which he stated in his papers as such. While there is antibiotic lifeforms, there are other explinations as to why they are antibiotic, and while evidence for evolution they are also evidence of other theories as well. Evolution is more of an estimate than a proven theory because it lacks vital evidence to support it. Mutation for example, could be caused by intelligent design, or maybe a mutation theory, or perhaps a theory of change, or in the case of microscopic life forms maybe it is a part of asexual reproduction in which the parent cell divides and grants its immune system to the child cells. In the case of humans and mammals, maybe the mother passes on her immune system to the baby via blood shared by them. There are many explinations to explain evidence collected besides using evolution, yet that evidence cannot exclusively be proven to be only possible via evolution.
Clearly this researcher falsified proof on his paper and got caught, and was later asked to prove it after a peer review failed to prove his claims. Which is, of course, part of the scientific method, the peer review.
Nah, maybe that is the office they use for PR shots? His gold encrusted desk an apartment-sized office is in another part of the building next to Steve Ballmers. That one has a PC that runs Vista Beta 2 on it and a background picture of Bill Gates sitting on top of the Earth holding a Microsoft Flag.
Steve Ballmer's office is right next door with extra chairs that we can throw at the wall when he gets upset. His desktop picture is a special Photoshop he made of Google that says he is going to f-ing kill them.
Unless that is Bill Gates' true office, and he is being fooled by executives that really run his company and feed him false information on it.:)
Visual BASIC.NET and ASP.NET are free at Wikibooks. No SQL Server Express version yet, but there is a Wikibook on SQL which novices can read. I am sure one can read it and adapt it to SQL Server.
If Microsoft changes the way ActiveX controls work, maybe it can help cut down on the malware problems? Can malware writers adapt quick enough to the new ActiveX method of controls? Wouldn't it be funny if Gator and other malware breaks down and cannot run?
Possibly you could have the square root of -1 as i and multiply it by itself. A negative times a negative is a positive, and a square root times itself becomes that number under the square root symbol. It all depends on the number system being used.
Rather prime numbers are integers that are not negative or fractional or imaginary. 1 is skipped because every Integer is divisible by 1, and instead we start at 2.
Knowing Sony's history of buying PSX emulators like "Bleem!" and "Virtual Gamestation", it will be an emulator that uses ISO files. One simply downloads the ISO files to the PSP or stores them on a memory chip.
I am amazed that other PSX emulators like ePSXe haven't been ported to the PSP already.
Gametap already does this for Windows based PCs with an Internet connection somewhat. There are also $10 to $35 video game controller units that play old Genesis, Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, NES, etc games on them, showing that this is a good idea. None of them have tried to do almost a whole library of several classic consoles at the same time, or at least the best of a certain game console library.
Classics like Sonic the Hedgehog my son likes to play on my Sega Genesis system, and Rogue Squardon and Diddy Kong Racing on the Nintendo 64.
I hope that one can buy teach classic console game and save it on a hard drive to play while the system is offline, and this is not just an online only feature. I would hope that it is affordable as well, like 99 cents a game or something, or a low monthly fee for unlimited downloads or something.
That is because Ajax, which the Word Processor is based on, has to be "tweaked" for each web browser in order to work. First it is Mozilla Firefox, maybe next they will support Safari, Opera, IE 6.0, etc., but only after writing a modified version for those browsers and have the web site detect the browser type and load the correct Ajax script. I already had this discussion on the Microsoft Atlas story on the limits and compatability of Ajax and Javascripts.
As someone else noted, this is basically a Wordpad type replacement. No spell check, no grammar check, no advanced features that MS-Word users have relied on.
Corel Java Office was once in Beta testing, but Corel removed it. OpenOffice.org is written mostly in Java, but its Word Processing ability is a lot more advanced than AjaxWord.
If you want more than a Wordpad, and you don't mind downloading FOSS try AbiWord it can edit and write Word documents as well. It has been ported to Windows, Linux, OSX, etc. Unlike OO.org, it has a small footprint.
I did not say that ASP.NET was useless, I just said that it does not always work as promised. Microsoft knows this and is constantly adding things like Atlas to try and fix it, so it can do what Microsoft promised it could do. If it did what it promised to do, there would be no need for Atlas, now would there?
PHP has a ton of libraries written for it, and actually might have more third party support for it than ASP.NET has. That is because PHP has been out before ASP was developed.
Still in the example I gave in 2001, the main problem was to make several different web browsers work with Intranet applications. We had been using ASP 3.0, ActiveX controls, VBScript, and other companies using OS/2, MacOS, Linux, etc could not work with our Intranet. I suggested Java technology as a solution, because all of those platforms had a Java runtime on them. Management wanted to go to ASP.NET 1.0 Beta. I knew that ASP.NET 1.0 had issues and I documented them. At the time, going to Java seemed like the better idea. That is what I was trying to say.
ASP.NET 2.0 has a lot of improvements over 1.0 and 1.1, but I still do not see it as being there yet. I have no doubt that the tools and framework Microsoft.NET 2.0 gives makes people more productive in creating ASP.NET applications.
Microsoft tells people that ASP.NET will solve all their problems and work with any browser. I feel that the people I worked with knew how to code HTML for different browsers. That was not the issue. The issue was having Javascript work the same way with several different browsers without having to write several different versions of it.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, yet others can freely say their opinions without recourse, but if I say mine I get attacked. Trust me, I've had more than my own share of knives I had to pull out of my back from 1998 to 2000 even when I did agree with using Microsoft technologies and I backed up everything management decided with. All because I had gotten pay raises for doing a better job than most of my coworkers. I even offered to help coworkers who struggled and I did actually help a few of them. I even lead a team to develop integrated Intranet programs. I've been stabbed in the back countless times, and it is one of my reasons for trying to form my own business. What they did to me makes my posts here look like nothing.
in order to buy. Will 2010 be good enough for you Mr. Gates? No? How about 2012? Would you believe 2020? In the mean-time, let us release some more XP service packs which cause more bugs than they fix, so we can cover up the fact that each Vista improvement causes more bugs than it fixes as well. That this is a trend that has been going on with Microsoft since 20 years ago.
Might as well build a Windows API library over Linux or OSX and just turn Windows into a library or environment that is bought and then run on a host OS that actually is more stable than Windows Vista or any other Windows will ever hope to be.
I'd like to see evidence of that 99% compatability rate, I think you pulled that number out of thin air. You will note at least 1% incompatability is enough to force developers to write different Javascript for different browsers and cause a failure in the beginning.
I think I got confused there I was talking about JSP and servlets on the server end, and Java applets on the client end, and somehow my words got jumbled.
Even PHP seems to be a better platform than ASP.NET is right now.
While ASP.NET 2.0 has improved over 1.0/1.1, it still does not do everything it promised and it still seems to render HTML with issues and still requires some client specific issues that cause some problems.
Not so good, since 1998 my employer had harassed, abused, and threatened me via employees. I got very sick, I made the suggestion in 2001 before I went on a short term disability leave. When I returned to work, I was learning ASP.NET and willing to do it the employer's way, but I was told that they would hire someone who doesn't get sick and that programmers are a dime a dozen anyway. They went through several people trying to replace me, and none of them could do the level of quality and productivity that I was able to do. The replacements wrote sloppy code and could not get ASP.NET working the way the employer wanted it to work.
I worked for another employer in 2002, before getting sicker and went on disability.
In 2003 I went back to college to earn a bachelors degree and I just graduated with a 3.91 GPA. I researched a lot of new technologies on my spare time and I have found ASP.NET to be lacking in many things, and does not live up to the promises that Microsoft made for it.
I had recevied a lot of job offers from 2002 to 2006, but I had to turn them down because I was not medically cleared to work yet. I had heart and knee surgeries last year, and I am recovering from them.
I did research into a lot of niche markets and did analysis and design and research into a lot of potential software solutions. I have plans of starting up a small business with a possible OSS business model. I got tired of making others rich, and I thought maybe I'd work for myself for a change. Like use a BSD license and charge for modifications for custom versions of the software, tech support, documentation, training. I could also release the code I write to a commercial license and have a commercial version.
For example I used to work in a law firm and medical companies, and I have experience writing applications for those areas. I have law firms and hospitals that have already expressed interest in custom made applications for their companies. Not just in the USA, but Internationaly as well.
If all goes correctly, I should earn more money that my former employers paid me, which was a lot anyway, possibly more than an anonymous coward earns.:)
But Java works, ASP.NET still has a lot of issues and compatability problems with different browsers. My former employer still cannot get ASP.NET working the way they want it to.
Downloading Java is not that hard, http://www.java.com/ click on the automatic install button, wait. The JRE even asks the user to update itself after being installed. When I made the Java suggestion it was 2001, back when Microsoft had a JVM on every Windows PC, so it made sense back then.
No, this post said that the author of the article wrote for help on the Unbuntu forums, not me. All I said was that someone who disagreed with the article accused the writer of the article of posting with a fake account on Unbuntu. The account is named Unbuntu Dupe on the Unbuntu forum, it looks like an account someone created as a fake, and then tried to blame the article writer for it. I've seen this happen many times before, it is like making a strawman argument because the fake ID is the strawman. Therefore it is like a strawman fallacy, and we should not give it any weight logically.
I think that breaking software is part of Vista's design so Microsoft can sell more versions of their own software. If it breaks all older versions of MS-Office, Microsoft can sell MS-Office 2007 to all of the corporations that are running Vista machines that really need MS-Office.
Vista Server also might break older versions of Exchange, SNA Server, SQL Server, and Internet Security forcing corporations to buy new versions of those as well.
Think of the MSDN subscriptions Microsoft can sell to developers who have to learn a ton of new things to be able to develop for Vista without having their programs break. All the new certification that people will have to get tested on and take classes for, it is a win-win situation for Microsoft when things break.
Software companies stand to make good profits, provided they didn't spend too much on R&D to convert their software to Vista.
It will upset a lot of end users who upgraded to Vista, but Microsoft and software companies don't care about the end users anyway, not unless they are paying them money for new software or tech support anyway.
I code Javascript, no two web browsers seem to be able to use the same Javascript and you have to rewrite them for each browser. Then there are those who use web browsers without Javascript like Lynx, or people who disabled their Javascript for fear of Spyware/Adware infecting their system via their browser. Ajax uses Javascript. ASP.NET is supposed to have been designed to be able to run scripts at the web server without running scipts on the client, yet it fails to do this. My old employer tried to switch to ASP.NET when 1.0 was beta back in late 2001. They are still having problems getting ASP.NET working with different browsers that various clients of theirs use, that are not under their control.
My solution was to use Java, instead of client-side scripting in Javascript and VBScript. Then any browser that supports Java can run a Java servlet and it can be programmed to be easy to use. Just make sure that their JRE version matches the one we use to develop the web applications for and everything should work out. I even worked out XML transfers to be used between the corporate web server and the client web server. We only need write one version of the Java application, instead of several versions of the Javascript support for each web page. The time we would have saved on production would have allowed us to do other things. But, nooooooooooooooooo, they went with ASP.NET because Microsoft promised them the moon, and now they are making posts to Microsoft's Newsgroups asking why ASP.NET is not working as Microsoft said it would. I am just sitting back and enjoying the fireworks and relaxing and being glad I am no longer one of those programmers being lead by Managers who have no idea how technology really works.
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Like a Linux Live CD to boot up dead systems and attempt repairs on it in Linux?
There is even a BartPE CD boot that can have shareware programs loaded on it like Adware, AVG, Spybot:SAD, Nero, etc.
Sometimes I just make do with a floppy boot disk, provided the hard drive is not NTFS formatted or something. Still I can piggy back the IDE hard drive onto one of my working systems and repair it from there.
Duke Nukem Forever
Dikatana
SimChurch
Attack of the Clowns
Virtual Bartender
Pebble Counting
Sane Taxi 2.0
Grand Rent Auto: Enterprise
Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space II
Hello Kitty: The Video Game
Battle Checkers
Elmo's Smelly Adventure
Psycho Ward Pete: The Male Nurse
Pong: The Revenge
Yar's Revenge II
Sonic The Hedghog's Coloscopy
Pac-Man: The Nursing Home Years
Afterlife: Atheist edition
Extreme Jump Roping
Cyber Lava Lamp
Divorce: American Style
Survivor: Chernobyl
Ultimate Hopscotch
Yo-yo Marathon
Just to think, that we'll never see these games thanks to that evil megacorporation known as Wal-Mart. People won't spend $50USD or more on them, just to be dissappointed 15 minutes into gameplay anymore. Just let John and Suzi Sixpack control what gets made by their prior gaming purchases at Wal-Mart.
You mean like when OS/2 had a Windows 3.X environment called WINOS2 and companies stopped making OS/2 versions of software because the Windows version runs on Windows and OS/2?
Then once Microsoft made Windows 95, OS/2 could not run the new 32 bit versions.
Apple indeed needs to get developers and companies writing programs for OSX native applications. Not just games, but business applications as well.
Recall that Next had the Nextstation, until it was no longer profitable or had any good marketshare and then they released NextOS for X86 PC systems. If Apple cannot get more marketshare and the Mac series is not profitable, they might just release to the X86 PC systems anyway.
Apple could bring back the Mac Clones, BTW. Maybe allow IBM, Dell, Gateway, Compaq/HP to make Mactel systems and have an OEM version of OSX that runs on only those hardware platforms. Then those PC makers can use Bootcamp with their systems and dual-boot OSX and XP for customers.
I own a copy of Linspire, I actually paid money for the 4.5 release. I wanted to try it out. They made programs that use Microsoft Windows format files like their own Media Player and iTunes type programs. They offer a lot of FOSS and Commercial Programs via the CNR (Click N' Run) program, and it also does the updates as well.
I switched distros. Linspire, while based on Debian, disables the apt-get and rpm tools. I found a way to activate them, and install a gcc compiler to compile programs etc. Only I found out the hard way that the CNR libraries are behind the apt-get and rpm libraries and it causes a problem with Linspire reporting that non-standard libraries are installed. It was a picture of a man being hung on his own underware or something. I was told that only CNR install methods are supported by tech support.
CNR is fine for the noobs, it makes getting Linspire programs as easy as clicking on them. It requires a monthly or yearly subscription though. For a noob willing to pay for access to software and doesn't require learning how to use chmod and command line tools like apt-get and rpm to install software, it is a good deal.
I switched to many distros, Debian, Unbuntu, Kanotix, Knoppix, and finally Red Hat Fedora. Red Hat Fedora is good enough for me, I learned how yum works and I am compiling programs and using rpm as well. I set up my own web server, but I have prior experience with Linux.
The whole goal of Linspire seems to be making it default on retail PCs, like at Walmart. Linspire has tried to get the cost of a PC down to $300, because Linspire does not cost any more than $50 to sell and it includes OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Windows and MS-Office can cost $300 or more of a system price.
There have been times when Linspire offered their OS free via BitTorrent via promotions.
Still I have set up friends with Red Hat Fedora because it does not require a subscription to update the OS files, and it is easy enough for them to use.
I've been a victim of bullying almost my entire life. From grade school to work to the Internet. If some bully cannot dig up dirt on me, they just make stuff up. Now that I am an adult I can handle it better and decide not to be a victim and let it get to me, yet the damage has already been done.
This boy didn't ask to be bullied, and he apparently did the screen test and didn't want anyone else to see it. The bullies stole the video and released it on the Internet, now they are paying for it.
Not everyone can handle bullying, and it puts a lot of emotional and psychological damage on a person. It takes a lot to learn to be a survivor rather than a victim as well. For me, it was well over 30 years before I finally came to terms with it and started to try to be a survivor. Only to suffer mental and physical illnesses so bad that I cannot work for a living. I only hope to heal up and get better and get back to work one day.
While there is evidence to support the theory of evolution, the theory has not yet been proven.
I think what the board wanted was proof that evolution is true, and proof that ID is false, which he stated in his papers as such. While there is antibiotic lifeforms, there are other explinations as to why they are antibiotic, and while evidence for evolution they are also evidence of other theories as well. Evolution is more of an estimate than a proven theory because it lacks vital evidence to support it. Mutation for example, could be caused by intelligent design, or maybe a mutation theory, or perhaps a theory of change, or in the case of microscopic life forms maybe it is a part of asexual reproduction in which the parent cell divides and grants its immune system to the child cells. In the case of humans and mammals, maybe the mother passes on her immune system to the baby via blood shared by them. There are many explinations to explain evidence collected besides using evolution, yet that evidence cannot exclusively be proven to be only possible via evolution.
Clearly this researcher falsified proof on his paper and got caught, and was later asked to prove it after a peer review failed to prove his claims. Which is, of course, part of the scientific method, the peer review.
Nah, maybe that is the office they use for PR shots? His gold encrusted desk an apartment-sized office is in another part of the building next to Steve Ballmers. That one has a PC that runs Vista Beta 2 on it and a background picture of Bill Gates sitting on top of the Earth holding a Microsoft Flag.
:)
Steve Ballmer's office is right next door with extra chairs that we can throw at the wall when he gets upset. His desktop picture is a special Photoshop he made of Google that says he is going to f-ing kill them.
Unless that is Bill Gates' true office, and he is being fooled by executives that really run his company and feed him false information on it.
Visual BASIC.NET and ASP.NET are free at Wikibooks. No SQL Server Express version yet, but there is a Wikibook on SQL which novices can read. I am sure one can read it and adapt it to SQL Server.
Yeah if the Klingons don't use it for target practice before it reaches the machine planet to get transformed into V'Ger.
Terran space junk, fire!
Yeah Microsoft is really the Times New Roman Empire. I think they want to use the US as a Courier to knock out the Wingdings in the EU.
If Microsoft changes the way ActiveX controls work, maybe it can help cut down on the malware problems? Can malware writers adapt quick enough to the new ActiveX method of controls? Wouldn't it be funny if Gator and other malware breaks down and cannot run?
Possibly you could have the square root of -1 as i and multiply it by itself. A negative times a negative is a positive, and a square root times itself becomes that number under the square root symbol. It all depends on the number system being used.
Rather prime numbers are integers that are not negative or fractional or imaginary. 1 is skipped because every Integer is divisible by 1, and instead we start at 2.
Knowing Sony's history of buying PSX emulators like "Bleem!" and "Virtual Gamestation", it will be an emulator that uses ISO files. One simply downloads the ISO files to the PSP or stores them on a memory chip.
I am amazed that other PSX emulators like ePSXe haven't been ported to the PSP already.
Gametap already does this for Windows based PCs with an Internet connection somewhat. There are also $10 to $35 video game controller units that play old Genesis, Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, NES, etc games on them, showing that this is a good idea. None of them have tried to do almost a whole library of several classic consoles at the same time, or at least the best of a certain game console library.
Classics like Sonic the Hedgehog my son likes to play on my Sega Genesis system, and Rogue Squardon and Diddy Kong Racing on the Nintendo 64.
I hope that one can buy teach classic console game and save it on a hard drive to play while the system is offline, and this is not just an online only feature. I would hope that it is affordable as well, like 99 cents a game or something, or a low monthly fee for unlimited downloads or something.
That is because Ajax, which the Word Processor is based on, has to be "tweaked" for each web browser in order to work. First it is Mozilla Firefox, maybe next they will support Safari, Opera, IE 6.0, etc., but only after writing a modified version for those browsers and have the web site detect the browser type and load the correct Ajax script. I already had this discussion on the Microsoft Atlas story on the limits and compatability of Ajax and Javascripts.
As someone else noted, this is basically a Wordpad type replacement. No spell check, no grammar check, no advanced features that MS-Word users have relied on.
Corel Java Office was once in Beta testing, but Corel removed it. OpenOffice.org is written mostly in Java, but its Word Processing ability is a lot more advanced than AjaxWord.
If you want more than a Wordpad, and you don't mind downloading FOSS try AbiWord it can edit and write Word documents as well. It has been ported to Windows, Linux, OSX, etc. Unlike OO.org, it has a small footprint.
I did not say that ASP.NET was useless, I just said that it does not always work as promised. Microsoft knows this and is constantly adding things like Atlas to try and fix it, so it can do what Microsoft promised it could do. If it did what it promised to do, there would be no need for Atlas, now would there?
.NET 2.0 gives makes people more productive in creating ASP.NET applications.
PHP has a ton of libraries written for it, and actually might have more third party support for it than ASP.NET has. That is because PHP has been out before ASP was developed.
Still in the example I gave in 2001, the main problem was to make several different web browsers work with Intranet applications. We had been using ASP 3.0, ActiveX controls, VBScript, and other companies using OS/2, MacOS, Linux, etc could not work with our Intranet. I suggested Java technology as a solution, because all of those platforms had a Java runtime on them. Management wanted to go to ASP.NET 1.0 Beta. I knew that ASP.NET 1.0 had issues and I documented them. At the time, going to Java seemed like the better idea. That is what I was trying to say.
ASP.NET 2.0 has a lot of improvements over 1.0 and 1.1, but I still do not see it as being there yet. I have no doubt that the tools and framework Microsoft
Pleased to meet you, my name is Orion Blastar, I often write things that are sarcastic or humorous in my online posts, blogs, comments, etc.
Microsoft tells people that ASP.NET will solve all their problems and work with any browser. I feel that the people I worked with knew how to code HTML for different browsers. That was not the issue. The issue was having Javascript work the same way with several different browsers without having to write several different versions of it.
Java has improved much since 1998 when you quit using it. Around 2001 it had improved and became a lot better. In fact Java 2.0 was released to address those issues you talked about way before 2001. In fact, J2EE was released in 2001 with a lot of improvements.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, yet others can freely say their opinions without recourse, but if I say mine I get attacked. Trust me, I've had more than my own share of knives I had to pull out of my back from 1998 to 2000 even when I did agree with using Microsoft technologies and I backed up everything management decided with. All because I had gotten pay raises for doing a better job than most of my coworkers. I even offered to help coworkers who struggled and I did actually help a few of them. I even lead a team to develop integrated Intranet programs. I've been stabbed in the back countless times, and it is one of my reasons for trying to form my own business. What they did to me makes my posts here look like nothing.
in order to buy. Will 2010 be good enough for you Mr. Gates? No? How about 2012? Would you believe 2020? In the mean-time, let us release some more XP service packs which cause more bugs than they fix, so we can cover up the fact that each Vista improvement causes more bugs than it fixes as well. That this is a trend that has been going on with Microsoft since 20 years ago.
Might as well build a Windows API library over Linux or OSX and just turn Windows into a library or environment that is bought and then run on a host OS that actually is more stable than Windows Vista or any other Windows will ever hope to be.
I'd like to see evidence of that 99% compatability rate, I think you pulled that number out of thin air. You will note at least 1% incompatability is enough to force developers to write different Javascript for different browsers and cause a failure in the beginning.
I think I got confused there I was talking about JSP and servlets on the server end, and Java applets on the client end, and somehow my words got jumbled.
Even PHP seems to be a better platform than ASP.NET is right now.
Disability should be built into Java now as far as I have heard. Go ahead and try it for yourself.
While ASP.NET 2.0 has improved over 1.0/1.1, it still does not do everything it promised and it still seems to render HTML with issues and still requires some client specific issues that cause some problems.
Not so good, since 1998 my employer had harassed, abused, and threatened me via employees. I got very sick, I made the suggestion in 2001 before I went on a short term disability leave. When I returned to work, I was learning ASP.NET and willing to do it the employer's way, but I was told that they would hire someone who doesn't get sick and that programmers are a dime a dozen anyway. They went through several people trying to replace me, and none of them could do the level of quality and productivity that I was able to do. The replacements wrote sloppy code and could not get ASP.NET working the way the employer wanted it to work.
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I worked for another employer in 2002, before getting sicker and went on disability.
In 2003 I went back to college to earn a bachelors degree and I just graduated with a 3.91 GPA. I researched a lot of new technologies on my spare time and I have found ASP.NET to be lacking in many things, and does not live up to the promises that Microsoft made for it.
I had recevied a lot of job offers from 2002 to 2006, but I had to turn them down because I was not medically cleared to work yet. I had heart and knee surgeries last year, and I am recovering from them.
I did research into a lot of niche markets and did analysis and design and research into a lot of potential software solutions. I have plans of starting up a small business with a possible OSS business model. I got tired of making others rich, and I thought maybe I'd work for myself for a change. Like use a BSD license and charge for modifications for custom versions of the software, tech support, documentation, training. I could also release the code I write to a commercial license and have a commercial version.
For example I used to work in a law firm and medical companies, and I have experience writing applications for those areas. I have law firms and hospitals that have already expressed interest in custom made applications for their companies. Not just in the USA, but Internationaly as well.
If all goes correctly, I should earn more money that my former employers paid me, which was a lot anyway, possibly more than an anonymous coward earns.
But Java works, ASP.NET still has a lot of issues and compatability problems with different browsers. My former employer still cannot get ASP.NET working the way they want it to.
Downloading Java is not that hard, http://www.java.com/ click on the automatic install button, wait. The JRE even asks the user to update itself after being installed. When I made the Java suggestion it was 2001, back when Microsoft had a JVM on every Windows PC, so it made sense back then.
No, this post said that the author of the article wrote for help on the Unbuntu forums, not me. All I said was that someone who disagreed with the article accused the writer of the article of posting with a fake account on Unbuntu. The account is named Unbuntu Dupe on the Unbuntu forum, it looks like an account someone created as a fake, and then tried to blame the article writer for it. I've seen this happen many times before, it is like making a strawman argument because the fake ID is the strawman. Therefore it is like a strawman fallacy, and we should not give it any weight logically.
I think that breaking software is part of Vista's design so Microsoft can sell more versions of their own software. If it breaks all older versions of MS-Office, Microsoft can sell MS-Office 2007 to all of the corporations that are running Vista machines that really need MS-Office.
Vista Server also might break older versions of Exchange, SNA Server, SQL Server, and Internet Security forcing corporations to buy new versions of those as well.
Think of the MSDN subscriptions Microsoft can sell to developers who have to learn a ton of new things to be able to develop for Vista without having their programs break. All the new certification that people will have to get tested on and take classes for, it is a win-win situation for Microsoft when things break.
Software companies stand to make good profits, provided they didn't spend too much on R&D to convert their software to Vista.
It will upset a lot of end users who upgraded to Vista, but Microsoft and software companies don't care about the end users anyway, not unless they are paying them money for new software or tech support anyway.
I code Javascript, no two web browsers seem to be able to use the same Javascript and you have to rewrite them for each browser. Then there are those who use web browsers without Javascript like Lynx, or people who disabled their Javascript for fear of Spyware/Adware infecting their system via their browser. Ajax uses Javascript. ASP.NET is supposed to have been designed to be able to run scripts at the web server without running scipts on the client, yet it fails to do this. My old employer tried to switch to ASP.NET when 1.0 was beta back in late 2001. They are still having problems getting ASP.NET working with different browsers that various clients of theirs use, that are not under their control.
My solution was to use Java, instead of client-side scripting in Javascript and VBScript. Then any browser that supports Java can run a Java servlet and it can be programmed to be easy to use. Just make sure that their JRE version matches the one we use to develop the web applications for and everything should work out. I even worked out XML transfers to be used between the corporate web server and the client web server. We only need write one version of the Java application, instead of several versions of the Javascript support for each web page. The time we would have saved on production would have allowed us to do other things. But, nooooooooooooooooo, they went with ASP.NET because Microsoft promised them the moon, and now they are making posts to Microsoft's Newsgroups asking why ASP.NET is not working as Microsoft said it would. I am just sitting back and enjoying the fireworks and relaxing and being glad I am no longer one of those programmers being lead by Managers who have no idea how technology really works.