We need simple easy to remember mathmatical and physical constants. Alabama failed to pass this modification to the universe. Washington could do much better.
Let me fondle my pay in cash each morning and pay me daily. I can sprinkle (lightly) the cash on my bed and sleep naked for maximum effect.
Would the shredded money from from the federal reserve have the same effect?
I am in my 50s and am making twice the average salary in my discipline as a DBA. My goal this year is to move to triple.
Going to school will give you a piece of paper. So will getting a certification. No big deal. Rote memorization of the answers without comprhension of why the answers are correct will get you a piece of paper.
You need to ask yourself two questions:
What do I want to be?
What did I do today to be what I want?
If you are not working on improving your skills, knowledge, expanding your experience every day; then you will be a low end guy no matter what paper you have. The paper may be a key to enter a new career, but what you can do when you enter the door sets your salary.
Education is a life long process, not milestone.
If you are in your thirties and have not discovered how to teach yourself anything you need to learn, then all the schooling you have taken to date is a waste of your time, as well as any future schooling. You will always be surrounded by people making more than you doing the interesting work.
The real problem is mechanical components and violatile ram. In the days of magnetic core a computer could recover from power failure and resume running in few seconds. Disks did take a will to spin up.
VIM, Make and SSH/terminal windows. All the GUI IDEs do is run the command line stuff in the background. Of course it might be desirable to run X if your writing gui end user applications. Mono will connect to Oracle and SQL Server out of the box (perl and java do not) and the MySql.Data.dll binary from windows works fine. I have run third party libraries by using the same.dll file in windows and *nix. I write back end server applications so there is no motivation for me to run X on *nix. Subversion for version control gives you an identcal command line interface on *nix and windows. What is the value of a GUI? Do you code with different size fonts? All drag and drop symbols?
Right on. I have a blu-ray player and I still buy DVD when I don't want to pay a premium for higher quality content. Not everything is worth $2x DVD. Also the funky download new codecs off the internet is downright chilling except for techies. I am sure the general public is not ready for appliances to boot on power on and require patching. A blu-ray player should just play like a record player, not like a fragile complicated computer. The codec downloads should be embedded in the content not separate internet downloads that require burning a CD. Mine at least uses USB keys instead of one time use media. While I have a hub and could have bought a player with an internet connection, the complexity of home networking is not mom and pop friendly. I am an early adopter and willing to pay extra for the the "HD" experience. I still have 400+ DVDs and it will be a long time before the DVDs fade away like the VHS tapes for me. The cost of my library is substantially larger than the cost of the player. Until Blu-ray discs are in the $5 bins at Wal*Mart, Blu-ray will remain a niche market.
Are there any considerations for c#/mono development. I need to connect to Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server from Linux. c#/mono has this connectivity out of the box.
Read carefully, NDB supports placing some types of data columns on disk. Blobs are not tables.
When you talk clustering there are two architectures:
A single active instance that can migrate between nodes: This is red hat, drbd, windows, veritas clustering. This is a high availability option where an instance will migrate to a new node by dismounting disk resources, moving ip addresses and starting the instance on a new node. This can be in response to a node failure detected by cluster heartbeat/monitor or for administrative purposes such as software/hardware maintenance. This architecture is also supported by SQL Server and Oracle. This architecture can be implemented for many types of services such as email.
Multiple active instances that cooperatively share a single set of physical database files: This is Oracle RAC and MySQL NDB (the database has to be able to persist to files for shutdown/startup) with memory files. The disk enhancement for NDB allows blobs to be disk based. The databases tables/indexes still need to be memory resident.
Note that in both clustering architectures damage to the database files is still a significant vulnerability. SANs represent the best host for cluster files. DRBD can recover from disk failure, although you should already be raid 10 or 20 for you database files.
Clustering is a high availability mechanism and not a disaster recovery methodology. Backups or other file recovery mechanisms are required.
A huge pile of opinions from people who have never used vista at all is not going to resolve this issue.1. Has anyone checked to see if Vista won't do a clean install from upgrade media when Vista is already on the partition? This will be the case when you hose your system installing every piece of crap you find on the internet or your buddy loans you the cd to install. 2. If your disk partition is hosed and you replaced the drive then there is a method to recover from backups. You do make backups as a responsible computer user.
From the Vista Online documentation
Restore your computer from a system image backup
A Windows Complete PC Backup image contains copies of your programs, system settings, and files. It is a complete backup that you can use to restore the contents of your computer if your hard disk or entire computer ever stops working.
Warning
When you restore your computer from a Windows Complete PC Backup image, it is a complete restoration. You can't choose individual items to restore, and all of your current programs, system settings, and files are replaced.
Before starting, make sure that the removable media on which your backup is stored is available, if applicable.
To restore using a Windows installation disc
Use this method if your computer came with a Windows installation disc.
Insert the installation disc, and then restart your computer by clicking the Start button , clicking the arrow next to the Lock button , and then clicking Restart.
If your computer is not configured to start from a CD or DVD, see Start Windows from a CD or DVD for instructions about how to do this.
Press any key when prompted to do so.
Choose your language settings, and then click Next.
Click Repair your computer.
Select the operating system you want to repair, and then click Next.
Note
If you are restoring a 64-bit system using a 32-bit Complete PC backup or a 32-bit system using a 64-bit Complete PC backup and have more than one operating system installed, you should not select an operating system. If an operating system is selected by default, clear the selection by clicking a blank area of the window, and then click Next.
On the System Recovery Options menu, click Windows Complete PC Restore, and then follow the instructions.
Note
Insert the last CD or DVD of the backup set when prompted to do so.
To restore using pre-installed recovery options
If your computer did not come with a Windows installation disc, use this method.
Restart your computer.
Click the Start button , click the arrow next to the Lock button , and then click Restart.
Do one of the following:
If your computer has only one operating system installed, repeatedly press the F8 key as your computer restarts. You need to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, you will need to try again.
If your computer has more than one operating system installed, use the arrow keys to highlight the operating system you want to start, and then press F8.
On the Advanced Boot Options menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Repair your computer, and then press ENTER.
Select a keyboard layout, and then click Next.
Select a user name and type the password, and then click OK.
On the System Recovery Options menu, click Windows Complete PC Restore, and then follow the instructions.
Note
Insert the last CD or DVD of the backup set when prompted to do so.
See also
Back up your programs, system settings, and files
You have a BSD kernel in Vista. Go to "Programs and Features" (use search box and you'll recognize the dialog box you get) and enable "Services for Unix Applications". New menu item will show on Start menu. Choose download option and afterwards you have ksh, inetd, init, cron, ls, etc.
Personally, I think that the M$/Novell deal is smoke screen for port of Linux application compatibility layer to Windows. Novell has long history of successfully hooking a foreign OS into windows. The FreeBSD Linux compatibility layer would provide the framework to shim Linux on Windows (plus is BSD licensed). There is already has the POSIX environment in Windows.
Note: Vista/Longhorn now natively supports "ln -s", do "mklink/?" in cmd.exe window.
Few few bucks a month you can have your own domain with email. You are spending more effort whining about a FREE service and trying to recast it to your liking than the effort is worth unless you are 13 years old. Domains are portable between providers if your provider starts to suck and you can change registrars if your registrar sucks. Your domain can be with you for life. What are you going to do if Yahoo, google, etc. eventually decides that the FREE service is not worth the cost and terminates the FREE email account and storage. Maybe yahoo, etc. is purchased by someone else who is not interested in continuing the FREE service.
I bought an HP core 2 duo media center pc back in September. Came with all the software in a special partition on the first hard drive. HP has online option to purchase restore dvds for $17 (shipping). Bought the disks just because I could. I have been running Vista RC2 o this computer and do not intend to go back. Vista is much more responsive than XP. One minor annoyance is that serial ports are no longer part of computer systems these days. I need to hook up a device that only supports serial not usb. Not all vendors are in this decade.
FreeBSD is the one true unix in my opinion. I have been using FreeBSD for ten years. Despite all the Linux FUD regarding forking in *BSD the plethora of pointlessly different Linux distributions makes it difficult for a competitive O/S and applictions package to get traction in the consumer marketplace. I like two things about FreeBSD, 1. It is simple to have the entire system and all applications compiled from source. If your getting your updates/pathes in binary, then your just another binary whore whose master is sun, red hat, suse, hp, ibm instead of microsoft and 2. The ports collection makes it possible to acquire applications that work without all the RPM version incompatibilities in linux where packages break each other when downloaded. The best thing that could come from the microsoft and novell relationship would be for a linux compatibility layer instead of the outdated interix posix enviroment. The only thing that limits FreeBSD's growth is lack of oracle support.
Way too much email formatting is pointless and does not enhance communication. Links work fine in plain text and images/complexly formatted data can be attached.
This is a giant leap forward.
Does anyone have MUTT client for windows?
Making more people computer literate is not the solution.
This is like solving societies problems as follows:
Healthcare with more medically literate people How many medical journals do you read? How much biochemistry and anatomy do you know? or want to know?
Automotive transportation with more mechanically literate people Most likely a skilled automatic transmission mechanic outearns you. The work is more physically demandng than computer work.
Energy distribution with more electrically literate people Can you wire to national and local code requirements, open a live distribution panel without killing yourself
Housing with more architecturally literate people Building codes aside, do you know enough engineering to build something that will not fall down?
People just want to use the results of technology for the most part with perhaps a hobby interest in some aspect such as photography, astronomy. The details of making the technology usable by the masses is rightly the province of the technicians.
*nix will be successfull when there is a single *nix with a set of well designed applications with consistent user interfaces and RTFM is a forgotten phrase. Otherwise, *nix in the consumer marketplace is a bunch of kit cars, ugly as sin and driven by very few (except at race tracks). You can't get any more mass market than Wal*Mart which is not successfully selling Linux clones of windows machines.
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We need simple easy to remember mathmatical and physical constants. Alabama failed to pass this modification to the universe. Washington could do much better.
Let me fondle my pay in cash each morning and pay me daily. I can sprinkle (lightly) the cash on my bed and sleep naked for maximum effect. Would the shredded money from from the federal reserve have the same effect?
Have beautiful young women administer on-site naked so you know they aren't stealing anything.
Leave a vehicle unattended anywhere in the solar system and it is stolen. We should be able to see the rovers if we can see the footprints.
I am in my 50s and am making twice the average salary in my discipline as a DBA. My goal this year is to move to triple.
Going to school will give you a piece of paper. So will getting a certification. No big deal. Rote memorization of the answers without comprhension of why the answers are correct will get you a piece of paper.
You need to ask yourself two questions:
If you are not working on improving your skills, knowledge, expanding your experience every day; then you will be a low end guy no matter what paper you have. The paper may be a key to enter a new career, but what you can do when you enter the door sets your salary.
Education is a life long process, not milestone.
If you are in your thirties and have not discovered how to teach yourself anything you need to learn, then all the schooling you have taken to date is a waste of your time, as well as any future schooling. You will always be surrounded by people making more than you doing the interesting work.
The real problem is mechanical components and violatile ram. In the days of magnetic core a computer could recover from power failure and resume running in few seconds. Disks did take a will to spin up.
Perl is an antique language. You should look at a modern scripting language. Powershell is much more powerful as it pipes .net objects instead of text.
VIM, Make and SSH/terminal windows. All the GUI IDEs do is run the command line stuff in the background. Of course it might be desirable to run X if your writing gui end user applications. Mono will connect to Oracle and SQL Server out of the box (perl and java do not) and the MySql.Data.dll binary from windows works fine. I have run third party libraries by using the same .dll file in windows and *nix. I write back end server applications so there is no motivation for me to run X on *nix. Subversion for version control gives you an identcal command line interface on *nix and windows. What is the value of a GUI? Do you code with different size fonts? All drag and drop symbols?
Right on. I have a blu-ray player and I still buy DVD when I don't want to pay a premium for higher quality content. Not everything is worth $2x DVD. Also the funky download new codecs off the internet is downright chilling except for techies. I am sure the general public is not ready for appliances to boot on power on and require patching. A blu-ray player should just play like a record player, not like a fragile complicated computer. The codec downloads should be embedded in the content not separate internet downloads that require burning a CD. Mine at least uses USB keys instead of one time use media. While I have a hub and could have bought a player with an internet connection, the complexity of home networking is not mom and pop friendly. I am an early adopter and willing to pay extra for the the "HD" experience. I still have 400+ DVDs and it will be a long time before the DVDs fade away like the VHS tapes for me. The cost of my library is substantially larger than the cost of the player. Until Blu-ray discs are in the $5 bins at Wal*Mart, Blu-ray will remain a niche market.
Use a BSD License. This license goes back to the 1970s.
Do these languages have any net sites?
Are there any considerations for c#/mono development. I need to connect to Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server from Linux. c#/mono has this connectivity out of the box.
MX Logic filters before your mail server downloads the spam. Don't clog your pipes with garbage. There is excellent user access to blocked mail.
Raid 10 is striped mirrors. Raid 20 is striped triplets.
Read carefully, NDB supports placing some types of data columns on disk. Blobs are not tables.
When you talk clustering there are two architectures:
A single active instance that can migrate between nodes: This is red hat, drbd, windows, veritas clustering. This is a high availability option where an instance will migrate to a new node by dismounting disk resources, moving ip addresses and starting the instance on a new node. This can be in response to a node failure detected by cluster heartbeat/monitor or for administrative purposes such as software/hardware maintenance. This architecture is also supported by SQL Server and Oracle. This architecture can be implemented for many types of services such as email.
Multiple active instances that cooperatively share a single set of physical database files: This is Oracle RAC and MySQL NDB (the database has to be able to persist to files for shutdown/startup) with memory files. The disk enhancement for NDB allows blobs to be disk based. The databases tables/indexes still need to be memory resident.
Note that in both clustering architectures damage to the database files is still a significant vulnerability. SANs represent the best host for cluster files. DRBD can recover from disk failure, although you should already be raid 10 or 20 for you database files.
Clustering is a high availability mechanism and not a disaster recovery methodology. Backups or other file recovery mechanisms are required.
A huge pile of opinions from people who have never used vista at all is not going to resolve this issue.1. Has anyone checked to see if Vista won't do a clean install from upgrade media when Vista is already on the partition? This will be the case when you hose your system installing every piece of crap you find on the internet or your buddy loans you the cd to install. 2. If your disk partition is hosed and you replaced the drive then there is a method to recover from backups. You do make backups as a responsible computer user. From the Vista Online documentation Restore your computer from a system image backup A Windows Complete PC Backup image contains copies of your programs, system settings, and files. It is a complete backup that you can use to restore the contents of your computer if your hard disk or entire computer ever stops working. Warning When you restore your computer from a Windows Complete PC Backup image, it is a complete restoration. You can't choose individual items to restore, and all of your current programs, system settings, and files are replaced. Before starting, make sure that the removable media on which your backup is stored is available, if applicable. To restore using a Windows installation disc Use this method if your computer came with a Windows installation disc. Insert the installation disc, and then restart your computer by clicking the Start button , clicking the arrow next to the Lock button , and then clicking Restart. If your computer is not configured to start from a CD or DVD, see Start Windows from a CD or DVD for instructions about how to do this. Press any key when prompted to do so. Choose your language settings, and then click Next. Click Repair your computer. Select the operating system you want to repair, and then click Next. Note If you are restoring a 64-bit system using a 32-bit Complete PC backup or a 32-bit system using a 64-bit Complete PC backup and have more than one operating system installed, you should not select an operating system. If an operating system is selected by default, clear the selection by clicking a blank area of the window, and then click Next. On the System Recovery Options menu, click Windows Complete PC Restore, and then follow the instructions. Note Insert the last CD or DVD of the backup set when prompted to do so. To restore using pre-installed recovery options If your computer did not come with a Windows installation disc, use this method. Restart your computer. Click the Start button , click the arrow next to the Lock button , and then click Restart. Do one of the following: If your computer has only one operating system installed, repeatedly press the F8 key as your computer restarts. You need to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, you will need to try again. If your computer has more than one operating system installed, use the arrow keys to highlight the operating system you want to start, and then press F8. On the Advanced Boot Options menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Repair your computer, and then press ENTER. Select a keyboard layout, and then click Next. Select a user name and type the password, and then click OK. On the System Recovery Options menu, click Windows Complete PC Restore, and then follow the instructions. Note Insert the last CD or DVD of the backup set when prompted to do so. See also Back up your programs, system settings, and files
Fresh install??? You should be loading a preconfigured image with all applications already present.
You have a BSD kernel in Vista. Go to "Programs and Features" (use search box and you'll recognize the dialog box you get) and enable "Services for Unix Applications". New menu item will show on Start menu. Choose download option and afterwards you have ksh, inetd, init, cron, ls, etc.
Personally, I think that the M$/Novell deal is smoke screen for port of Linux application compatibility layer to Windows. Novell has long history of successfully hooking a foreign OS into windows. The FreeBSD Linux compatibility layer would provide the framework to shim Linux on Windows (plus is BSD licensed). There is already has the POSIX environment in Windows.
Note: Vista/Longhorn now natively supports "ln -s", do "mklink /?" in cmd.exe window.
Few few bucks a month you can have your own domain with email. You are spending more effort whining about a FREE service and trying to recast it to your liking than the effort is worth unless you are 13 years old. Domains are portable between providers if your provider starts to suck and you can change registrars if your registrar sucks. Your domain can be with you for life. What are you going to do if Yahoo, google, etc. eventually decides that the FREE service is not worth the cost and terminates the FREE email account and storage. Maybe yahoo, etc. is purchased by someone else who is not interested in continuing the FREE service.
I bought an HP core 2 duo media center pc back in September. Came with all the software in a special partition on the first hard drive. HP has online option to purchase restore dvds for $17 (shipping). Bought the disks just because I could. I have been running Vista RC2 o this computer and do not intend to go back. Vista is much more responsive than XP. One minor annoyance is that serial ports are no longer part of computer systems these days. I need to hook up a device that only supports serial not usb. Not all vendors are in this decade.
Isn't there a $50,000 bounty on vista capable exploits? slashdot announces .....
Profit $$$$
Putty only works if the email server is *nix. I want a MUTT client for Exchange. Besides putty sucks compared to the real ssh client.
FreeBSD is the one true unix in my opinion. I have been using FreeBSD for ten years. Despite all the Linux FUD regarding forking in *BSD the plethora of pointlessly different Linux distributions makes it difficult for a competitive O/S and applictions package to get traction in the consumer marketplace. I like two things about FreeBSD, 1. It is simple to have the entire system and all applications compiled from source. If your getting your updates/pathes in binary, then your just another binary whore whose master is sun, red hat, suse, hp, ibm instead of microsoft and 2. The ports collection makes it possible to acquire applications that work without all the RPM version incompatibilities in linux where packages break each other when downloaded. The best thing that could come from the microsoft and novell relationship would be for a linux compatibility layer instead of the outdated interix posix enviroment. The only thing that limits FreeBSD's growth is lack of oracle support.
Way too much email formatting is pointless and does not enhance communication. Links work fine in plain text and images/complexly formatted data can be attached. This is a giant leap forward. Does anyone have MUTT client for windows?
Making more people computer literate is not the solution.
This is like solving societies problems as follows:
How many medical journals do you read? How much biochemistry and anatomy do you know? or want to know?
Most likely a skilled automatic transmission mechanic outearns you. The work is more physically demandng than computer work.
Can you wire to national and local code requirements, open a live distribution panel without killing yourself
Building codes aside, do you know enough engineering to build something that will not fall down?
People just want to use the results of technology for the most part with perhaps a hobby interest in some aspect such as photography, astronomy. The details of making the technology usable by the masses is rightly the province of the technicians.
*nix will be successfull when there is a single *nix with a set of well designed applications with consistent user interfaces and RTFM is a forgotten phrase. Otherwise, *nix in the consumer marketplace is a bunch of kit cars, ugly as sin and driven by very few (except at race tracks). You can't get any more mass market than Wal*Mart which is not successfully selling Linux clones of windows machines.