Thats pathetic, LOTR was in my elementary school library around the same time frame. Granted, it probably didnt belong there, I tried reading it after I read the hobbit and got bogged down somewhere in The Two Towers but at least it was there.
... and that might more accurately describe the problem, the Repetitive Stress. Simply the change from the keyboard you've been using for years to something with a different size and different key travel might be enough to reduce the symptoms you're seeing. You might try seeking a balance between normal keyboard use and small keyboard use, even if that means getting one of those little tiny keyboards to plug into your desktop occasionally.
My RSI comes from the mouse, and simply using a trackball at home and a mouse at work has made most symptoms go away. But thats my only experience with this kind of thing so YMMV.
Add Flash to your Javascript/HTML equation. Sure, it sucks, but then again, so did Basic.
While lots of people designing stuff in Flash are wannabe graphics artists, some of them are digging into the ActionScript and are learning some programming skills. There are a few sites out there with countless little flash apps that are nothing more than simple programming exercises and simple little games. Check out Orisinal, although the art is as good as the programming in this case.
I skimmed your page and found most of your reccomendations fit very well with my own experiences. However, a couple caught my eye as being quite the opposite of my experience so I thought I'd ask for clarification.
First, the Win98 over XP reccomendation. In my experience, the stability advantage of 2000 or XP far outweigh the lightweight but fragile 98. The DRM of XP is a factor, but 2000 doesn't have that and only is only slightly less compatible with older software. The XP vulnerabilities on installation are easily avoided with a little preparation, especially by someone that builds the occasional system.
Second, your reasoning behind the Intel over AMD reccomendation. Wasn't Intel's 400 MHz (now 533 and 800) bus designed for the narrow but fast Rambus memory? While Intel definately has a memory bandwidth advantage, they suffer higher latency (compared to AMD) throughout the design, resulting in comparable performance at AMD's marketing performance ratings (AMD more effecient per clock but can't hit the GHz that Intel does). In my opinion the AMD is worth the $100 (or more) savings.
Overall though, your reccomendations closely match my own personal experience. Buy the cheap end of the CPU performance curve and spend the savings elsewhere on quality components.
OOo does have a relational database with forms and reporting capability, unfotunately it is buried in the Writer and Spreadsheet components and doesn't yet have its own icon in the menu.
OOo 2.0 will have a full fledged database application to better compete with Access.
The bottleneck in CGI is human time, not computer time. It takes much longer to create realistic effects and CGI than it does to render them.
Simplification (and therefore a reduction in CGI costs) is going to come through software improvments, some of which will take additional CPU and most of which will involve long hours of tedious programming and tons of IP locked up by the producers of high end 3D software.
3M Dynapro demos their NFI touchscreens with spraypaint, stickers and stuff glued to the panel and it still works. NFI is a variant of capacitive technology and looks like it works well.
Our product uses resistive from 3M and works well enough, although occasionally someone gouges the screen hard enough to start ripping the resistive layers of plastic out.
I just discovered OpenOffice has a viable alternative to Access, they just don't promote it well. Instead of a separate program, the database reporting and forms functions are availble to all of the rest of OpenOffice. The database relies on.dbf files (sql lite might be a big improvement here) internally or on an external database (Mysql, Postgres, Oracle, ODBC, etc).
Unfortunately these features are poorly documented and even more poorly promoted.
take a look at what Gregory and others have claimed in the Archimedes Registry.
The entire star system known as Betelgeuse, and all planets and other bodies that may orbit said star, as well as a 15,000 mile area of control arouns said star system
a square on Mars bounded by the following coordinates:2.5 degrees North, by 31.5 degrees West, by 5.5 degrees South by 39.5 degrees West. All minerals, soil and rocks beneath the site down to a depth of 50 miles and up to a height of 25 miles as an air space over the top. - This by the 1998-1999 Fourth Grade Class at Westridge Elementary School - at least they're a lot cooler than I was in 4th grade.
GAlaxy NGC 4013
Methinks some aliens might have issues with that last claim.
I think the the phrase in dispute is "all States". Does that mean the treaty applies only to governments, excluding the citizens (in which case this guy does have a case) or does that phrase mean all governments and their citizens?
Of course, this treaty does say they are free for exploration and free access to all areas, making a parking fee difficult to collect. On that basis a judge could deny his request and still not set any kind of binding precedent.
AFAIK New releases of 1.3 are bugfixes and security patches. 2.0 has been labeled production ready for over a year.
The problem isn't Apache itself but the open source modules that help make Apache the most useful webserver out there. Widely used projects like mod_perl and mod_php have only recentlyy released versions of these that work properly with Apache 2 and even these are still labeled betas.
Additionally, most competent sysadmins won't mess with what isn't broken, so their server farms running 1.3 are going to continue running 1.3 for a while yet.
Some maintainers of GPL software ask that copyright on patches be assigned to the maintainers so that situations like these can proceed in a sane manner. Credit for contribution is still given but the original author(s) maintain control of the codebase.
Whatever the bonus, go to the bank and get a bunch of $1 bills. If the volume is big enough, go down to Office Max and get a bunch of attache cases and fill it with the dollar bills.
If you really want to screw with people layer $20s on the top...
Or have some fun and find $2 bills...
Running various flavors of IE under Wine would probably drive as many web developers to Linux as having Flash and Dreamweaver running. Very common question on web development mailing lists is "how can I test my page in old versions of IE?". Right now the best solution is to have VMware or VirtualPC booting up various flavors of IE. A Free solution that also offers the opportunity to duplicate the server environment (Apache+PHP+MySQL or some such thing) would be a great web development platform.
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but if the riser is conductive...
I've never used Mandrake but didn't it start out as a version of RedHat compiled for the Pentium instead of the 486?
Hard to convince me of that when they already have their own deb repository and installation instructions.
Thats pathetic, LOTR was in my elementary school library around the same time frame. Granted, it probably didnt belong there, I tried reading it after I read the hobbit and got bogged down somewhere in The Two Towers but at least it was there.
My RSI comes from the mouse, and simply using a trackball at home and a mouse at work has made most symptoms go away. But thats my only experience with this kind of thing so YMMV.
I know much of it is copyrighted by various parties but an event like this deserves to be properly documented online.
While lots of people designing stuff in Flash are wannabe graphics artists, some of them are digging into the ActionScript and are learning some programming skills. There are a few sites out there with countless little flash apps that are nothing more than simple programming exercises and simple little games. Check out Orisinal, although the art is as good as the programming in this case.
Ah, you're a fortunate man, I've got a couple hundred Windows ME machines to deal with...
First, the Win98 over XP reccomendation. In my experience, the stability advantage of 2000 or XP far outweigh the lightweight but fragile 98. The DRM of XP is a factor, but 2000 doesn't have that and only is only slightly less compatible with older software. The XP vulnerabilities on installation are easily avoided with a little preparation, especially by someone that builds the occasional system.
Second, your reasoning behind the Intel over AMD reccomendation. Wasn't Intel's 400 MHz (now 533 and 800) bus designed for the narrow but fast Rambus memory? While Intel definately has a memory bandwidth advantage, they suffer higher latency (compared to AMD) throughout the design, resulting in comparable performance at AMD's marketing performance ratings (AMD more effecient per clock but can't hit the GHz that Intel does). In my opinion the AMD is worth the $100 (or more) savings.
Overall though, your reccomendations closely match my own personal experience. Buy the cheap end of the CPU performance curve and spend the savings elsewhere on quality components.
OOo 2.0 will have a full fledged database application to better compete with Access.
Considering I got my 4200 from my buddy for $50 when he 'upgraded' to a 5600, I'm sitting fat and happy counting my 'fbucks'.
The bottleneck in CGI is human time, not computer time. It takes much longer to create realistic effects and CGI than it does to render them. Simplification (and therefore a reduction in CGI costs) is going to come through software improvments, some of which will take additional CPU and most of which will involve long hours of tedious programming and tons of IP locked up by the producers of high end 3D software.
Funny enough, I'm evaluating your product right now. And getting the touchscreen working was one of the items on the todo list.
Can I use that for my sig?
Our product uses resistive from 3M and works well enough, although occasionally someone gouges the screen hard enough to start ripping the resistive layers of plastic out.
Furthermore, take a look at the list of .dlls that mysql is using under windows, looks like a native app to me:
Any chance that cygwin19.dll is there for some of the utilities instead of the database engine itself?I just discovered OpenOffice has a viable alternative to Access, they just don't promote it well. Instead of a separate program, the database reporting and forms functions are availble to all of the rest of OpenOffice. The database relies on .dbf files (sql lite might be a big improvement here) internally or on an external database (Mysql, Postgres, Oracle, ODBC, etc).
Unfortunately these features are poorly documented and even more poorly promoted.
Of course, this treaty does say they are free for exploration and free access to all areas, making a parking fee difficult to collect. On that basis a judge could deny his request and still not set any kind of binding precedent.
The problem isn't Apache itself but the open source modules that help make Apache the most useful webserver out there. Widely used projects like mod_perl and mod_php have only recentlyy released versions of these that work properly with Apache 2 and even these are still labeled betas.
Additionally, most competent sysadmins won't mess with what isn't broken, so their server farms running 1.3 are going to continue running 1.3 for a while yet.
Some maintainers of GPL software ask that copyright on patches be assigned to the maintainers so that situations like these can proceed in a sane manner. Credit for contribution is still given but the original author(s) maintain control of the codebase.
Whatever the bonus, go to the bank and get a bunch of $1 bills. If the volume is big enough, go down to Office Max and get a bunch of attache cases and fill it with the dollar bills. If you really want to screw with people layer $20s on the top... Or have some fun and find $2 bills...
Running various flavors of IE under Wine would probably drive as many web developers to Linux as having Flash and Dreamweaver running. Very common question on web development mailing lists is "how can I test my page in old versions of IE?". Right now the best solution is to have VMware or VirtualPC booting up various flavors of IE. A Free solution that also offers the opportunity to duplicate the server environment (Apache+PHP+MySQL or some such thing) would be a great web development platform.
Counterstrike for jocks.