Well, more importantly, how would the US regulate the online gaming sites to ensure that no fraud is occurring? That's the big difference between online gambling and the more traditional gambling that is already established here.
You don't have to throw all that work away unless you want to. It's fairly trivial to use COM/ActiveX from.NET using COM interop. Visual Studio will generate a wrapper around the COM object for use by a.NET application. The interface that is exposed is usually pretty crufty, at least from my experience with doing Word automation from ASP.NET (don't ask...).
I'm kinda in the same boat right now, except for me I'm intending to purchase in about a week. I'm still going with the MacBook Pro, but this obviously throws a kink into my plans. What I'll probably end up doing is using RDP to get a desktop on a Windows machine when I have access to a decent network connection and use VMWare or Virtual PC for when I'm not. It should be doable since I only really need access to Windows for development work.
And dont buy a laptop from Dell... their quality has really gone to shit. Take a look at something from Toshiba. I have seen the least problems with Toshiba and their warranty service is extremely fast. I had my laptop back to me within 3 days of shipping it off.
It's illegal to refuse medical care in a life-threatening situation in the US. For everything else, you can always go to a state hospital. Where I live, there is the LSUS Medical Center, which is run by Louisiana State University.
A lot of the reason for MySQL's popularity was also the fact that it was extremely simple to use and that it ran natively on Windows. That's what kept me using it for so long before I transitioned to a much better database like PostgreSQL.
Hopefully this causes some people to take database independence a little more seriously.
Why? I managed to port my company's intranet application from MySQL to PostgreSQL in one day. I started this morning and by the end of the day I had it completely ported to PostgreSQL. It's rather foolish to try to abstract away the database completely. The better approach is to abstract your sql away into a seperate layer. Then the core of your application truly doesn't care.
I have no use for yet another MVC framework or a GUI framework for PHP. What I really need is a PHP application server. I don't need anything anywhere near on the scale of what I've used in the J2EE world. But what I do need is the ability to easily install PHP applications and to persist data in server memory and share that data among all requests to the application. Looking at the roadmap, I can't expect that from the Klorofil project until at least version 0.4.
And they really need to get a native speaker of English to go through and edit the website. I'm not trying to be overly critical, but all the broken English on the website makes the entire project look rather unprofessional. They really cant afford that if they want the project to reach critical mass.
Here's a few general steps to follow in case you have to do this sort of thing again. Start Windows up in safe-mode so you don't have to deal with a lot of nasty stuff being loaded on startup. Then go into System Properties and disable System Restore. Next, run HijackThis! and AutoRuns to remove anything obvious. Then run a full virus scan so that you get rid of any trojan downloaders that will simply reinfect the PC with spyware. From here, you do the heavy lifting. If you dont want to shell out money, install AdAware and Microsoft AntiSpyware. You'll have to boot into normal mode to install Microsoft AntiSpyware, but it shouldn't be that much of a problem at this point.
I call bullshit. I've done more clean installs of Windows XP SP2 than I can remember when I was a repair monkey. I've never had the problem that you describe here.
You obviously don't administer any sizable network. On our network, there are exactly two email servers. One is an Exchange server running on Windows 2003 Standard. The other is a POP3 server running on Linux so we can keep our Exchange costs down. Any email traffic coming from any other machine on the network gets quashed. To do otherwise invites an unnecessary security risk. And if another server or workstation needs to send an email, it's not that big of a deal to connect to the Linux server.
And also get over your stupid zealotry. In the real world, you deal with a mixed environment. I manage a network with machines running Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Linux and Mac OS X. I really don't care what OS it is running.
It's not the users. Think about it and tell me why you have never heard of such problems in places that use Macs. Don't tell me that it's because graphic designers are better behaved or know more about computers than the rest of us. Well, they do know better than to use computers that need and Administrator like you.
As Apple's market share increases due to the switch to Intel, you can bet that they will start experiencing some of the same problems Windows users do. I've had Windows users infect their machines because they installed software that was bundled with spyware. I don't really see Mac OS X being that much safer than Windows in a case like that.
This information is important to me. I do a lot of development using ASP.NET and for that I need access to a machine running at least Windows XP Professional. If I'm away from an internet connection, it would be very important for me to be able to boot into Windows and have a full featured development environment. And at $2k for the Apple laptop that I want, buying a second laptop just to run Windows is unpractical.
You are still illegally accessing a private network. With your same logic, if the FBI had an unsecured WAP on their network in Quantico, you would be perfectally justified to snoop around. The only problem is that I doubt the FBI would see it that way.
I've had plenty of trouble with Norton's standalone products. I've had one customer who had Norton Antivirus 2003 installed. I tried to install Norton Antivirus 2005 on his machine only to have the installer keep dying for strange reasons. I forget what the eventual solution was, but my time cost my customer close to $150.
Another one of my customers purchased Norton Antivirus 2005. After having some work done on it in our repair shop, Norton would mysteriously stop working. I would take it back from the customer and fix the Norton install only for it to become broken again a couple of days later. I spent maybe 3 or 4 hours worth of time trying to fix the problem. I reinstalled it several times, checked to make sure the system was clean, etc. All this was time that I couldn't bill for. This ended up costing my employer around $300.
Norton is absolutely horrible. I'd recommend just about anything over it.
The company I work for uses AVG Network Edtion for one of our clients. I dont have any direct experience with it since I'm not assigned to that client, but I'm told it works quite well.
Often when Windows Update says you need to reboot, you really don't need to. We've kept one of our production Exchange servers up for a month with a "You need to restart your system" notices in the taskbar. It's still suboptimal and nowhere near approaching anything as elegant as Unix but I've always believed that if you are to criticize something then you should at least be fair about it.
I can confirm this. I had to do the same for one of our clients at work. Except I started with a fresh install with no service pack installed whatsoever. Took me maybe a little over two hours. The GP sounds like he/she is full of shit. And oh yeah, I only rebooted 8 times at the most.
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Well, more importantly, how would the US regulate the online gaming sites to ensure that no fraud is occurring? That's the big difference between online gambling and the more traditional gambling that is already established here.
You don't have to throw all that work away unless you want to. It's fairly trivial to use COM/ActiveX from .NET using COM interop. Visual Studio will generate a wrapper around the COM object for use by a .NET application. The interface that is exposed is usually pretty crufty, at least from my experience with doing Word automation from ASP.NET (don't ask...).
I'm kinda in the same boat right now, except for me I'm intending to purchase in about a week. I'm still going with the MacBook Pro, but this obviously throws a kink into my plans. What I'll probably end up doing is using RDP to get a desktop on a Windows machine when I have access to a decent network connection and use VMWare or Virtual PC for when I'm not. It should be doable since I only really need access to Windows for development work.
And dont buy a laptop from Dell... their quality has really gone to shit. Take a look at something from Toshiba. I have seen the least problems with Toshiba and their warranty service is extremely fast. I had my laptop back to me within 3 days of shipping it off.
Then why not just use something like Smarty and a MVC framework with PHP? Then you have all the seperation that you need.
And what's to keep the programmer from tampering with what gets printed on the receipt? This is not a magic bullet.
It's illegal to refuse medical care in a life-threatening situation in the US. For everything else, you can always go to a state hospital. Where I live, there is the LSUS Medical Center, which is run by Louisiana State University.
A lot of the reason for MySQL's popularity was also the fact that it was extremely simple to use and that it ran natively on Windows. That's what kept me using it for so long before I transitioned to a much better database like PostgreSQL.
Do you ever feel like you are standing at the end of a runway... because that joke just flew right over your head :)
There's already Microsoft SharePoint out there already that allows you to do just that... and it's been out there for quite some time now too.
Hopefully this causes some people to take database independence a little more seriously.
Why? I managed to port my company's intranet application from MySQL to PostgreSQL in one day. I started this morning and by the end of the day I had it completely ported to PostgreSQL. It's rather foolish to try to abstract away the database completely. The better approach is to abstract your sql away into a seperate layer. Then the core of your application truly doesn't care.
or a spoiled MSCE admin*
Funny that you cant even get the name right. It's MCSE.
I have no use for yet another MVC framework or a GUI framework for PHP. What I really need is a PHP application server. I don't need anything anywhere near on the scale of what I've used in the J2EE world. But what I do need is the ability to easily install PHP applications and to persist data in server memory and share that data among all requests to the application. Looking at the roadmap, I can't expect that from the Klorofil project until at least version 0.4.
And they really need to get a native speaker of English to go through and edit the website. I'm not trying to be overly critical, but all the broken English on the website makes the entire project look rather unprofessional. They really cant afford that if they want the project to reach critical mass.
Here's a few general steps to follow in case you have to do this sort of thing again. Start Windows up in safe-mode so you don't have to deal with a lot of nasty stuff being loaded on startup. Then go into System Properties and disable System Restore. Next, run HijackThis! and AutoRuns to remove anything obvious. Then run a full virus scan so that you get rid of any trojan downloaders that will simply reinfect the PC with spyware. From here, you do the heavy lifting. If you dont want to shell out money, install AdAware and Microsoft AntiSpyware. You'll have to boot into normal mode to install Microsoft AntiSpyware, but it shouldn't be that much of a problem at this point.
I call bullshit. I've done more clean installs of Windows XP SP2 than I can remember when I was a repair monkey. I've never had the problem that you describe here.
You obviously don't administer any sizable network. On our network, there are exactly two email servers. One is an Exchange server running on Windows 2003 Standard. The other is a POP3 server running on Linux so we can keep our Exchange costs down. Any email traffic coming from any other machine on the network gets quashed. To do otherwise invites an unnecessary security risk. And if another server or workstation needs to send an email, it's not that big of a deal to connect to the Linux server.
And also get over your stupid zealotry. In the real world, you deal with a mixed environment. I manage a network with machines running Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Linux and Mac OS X. I really don't care what OS it is running.
It's not the users. Think about it and tell me why you have never heard of such problems in places that use Macs. Don't tell me that it's because graphic designers are better behaved or know more about computers than the rest of us. Well, they do know better than to use computers that need and Administrator like you.
As Apple's market share increases due to the switch to Intel, you can bet that they will start experiencing some of the same problems Windows users do. I've had Windows users infect their machines because they installed software that was bundled with spyware. I don't really see Mac OS X being that much safer than Windows in a case like that.
This information is important to me. I do a lot of development using ASP.NET and for that I need access to a machine running at least Windows XP Professional. If I'm away from an internet connection, it would be very important for me to be able to boot into Windows and have a full featured development environment. And at $2k for the Apple laptop that I want, buying a second laptop just to run Windows is unpractical.
Actually, "spelt" isn't misspelled. It's just another spelling for "spelled," used mostly in Europe.
Well, considering we donate more in humanitarian aid than any other country in the world, I think your comment is a bit off the mark.
You are still illegally accessing a private network. With your same logic, if the FBI had an unsecured WAP on their network in Quantico, you would be perfectally justified to snoop around. The only problem is that I doubt the FBI would see it that way.
In a field that is based on truth and objectivity...
I think you've been hoodwinked.
I've had plenty of trouble with Norton's standalone products. I've had one customer who had Norton Antivirus 2003 installed. I tried to install Norton Antivirus 2005 on his machine only to have the installer keep dying for strange reasons. I forget what the eventual solution was, but my time cost my customer close to $150.
Another one of my customers purchased Norton Antivirus 2005. After having some work done on it in our repair shop, Norton would mysteriously stop working. I would take it back from the customer and fix the Norton install only for it to become broken again a couple of days later. I spent maybe 3 or 4 hours worth of time trying to fix the problem. I reinstalled it several times, checked to make sure the system was clean, etc. All this was time that I couldn't bill for. This ended up costing my employer around $300.
Norton is absolutely horrible. I'd recommend just about anything over it.
The company I work for uses AVG Network Edtion for one of our clients. I dont have any direct experience with it since I'm not assigned to that client, but I'm told it works quite well.
Often when Windows Update says you need to reboot, you really don't need to. We've kept one of our production Exchange servers up for a month with a "You need to restart your system" notices in the taskbar. It's still suboptimal and nowhere near approaching anything as elegant as Unix but I've always believed that if you are to criticize something then you should at least be fair about it.
For a toy, I sure do get a lot of work done with 2003 Server. It's been pretty solid for me, and sadly I manage a lot of Windows servers.
I can confirm this. I had to do the same for one of our clients at work. Except I started with a fresh install with no service pack installed whatsoever. Took me maybe a little over two hours. The GP sounds like he/she is full of shit. And oh yeah, I only rebooted 8 times at the most.