When I was much younger I to loved keeping up with what parts are good, or fast or whatever...
But you spent a lot of time keeping up and matching parts together. Just get you x86 hardware from an A-brand and get their servergrade stuff. (Good examples: NEC (good service!), HP/Compaq, even Dell. )
Nowadays in many applications they can even outperform brands like SUN. (with quality RAID controllers!)
From my own personal experience they (plainblack) are actually a lot more open than many other open source projects. They are much more willing to help and friendly, even to newbies. Whilst other projects can be really bitchy if you ask a question you could have read on page 456 of some unreadable manual.
They do however charge for support. And they do not want to see the answers you get from a closed support page xeroxed to some other page. That pays their bills and allowed for them to code on and make WebGUI full featured.
Apache 2.0 maybe around for some time, but you need mod_perl as well. The combination isn't really stable that long so it is not as if they keep the most common configuration out of the basic documentation. In fact, many sites still operate, for good reasons on apache 1.3.x
a view points: if you want any more than the securityblades you have to pay... and I find it rather expensive.
E-smith (SME) offers My-SQL out of the box. SME is based on Red Hat 7.1 (with a lot of patches and updates) If you need a more recent Perl than included you might run in to problems. The configuration relies havily on Perl.
It has some powerfull features often forgotten. Such as a decent backup system build in. If you don't want to buy a tape streamer, you can also 'backup to workstation'. Which works really easy.
But I do know your problem. The problems with skipping testing and implementation is useally not caused by lack of technical knowledge.
The problems is IMO more a project management problem. In the projects I was working, useally the problem was laying the deadline on delivery date. In stead of on the date when the tests are supposed to start.
Time for testing etc. all to often becomes slack. This is because nobody 'represents' the testing period. The delivery date useally is hard. Either because the product has to start making money or you have a customer that demands delivery.
In addition, this nonsense about being afraid of wireless access to the Internet due to security is *silly*. You're connecting to the Internet. What sort of security do you expect on a normal *wire*? Want real security? Use IPsec, TLS, or ssh.
True, but right now internet access is useally not secure, but it is controlled. Your connection to your ISP is fairly save as people useally don't dig in your neighbourhood to tap in to your line. With wireless you don't have to tap into the lines but just use your own 802.11 card and you can tap into all the traffic around you.
What is at stake is stuff like email passwords etc. This can be solved by using secure logon but most ISP don't offer this.
I'm not sure when they will release it in Europe. But last time it was more than half a year later then in the USA. However the advertising didn't wait at all.
If they build up the hype but let you wait half a year, they should not be suprised if this angers fans in Europe so much that they download the bootlegs.
It's 2002 and there IS such a thing as the internet. A release in Europe and other parts of the world should be at least within a month.
It's there own fault for being cheap. Watching it full screen in a cinema is worth it. But not if you have to wait half a year.
I totally agree. I useally work on my laptop (PII400 192 mb) And I never see any lack of performance. Only startup takes time as laptop harddisk tend to be a bit slower.
I also own a 800 mhz Duron desktop but do not find it noticably faster on the apps I run. Except for sometimes encoding a movie.
I use the desktop for scanning, printing and burning.
Don't do it unless you really have the need for a faster PC. That means, have to run the apps that need them (such as rendering, or encoding etc.)
Even if you have to compile software (which is processor intesive) there is a good reason not to upgrade. It's better to prevent programmers to 'testcompile' every time they added a bit of code. They better learn to use some good programming standards and programm right.
Memory is all you need to work happily. If jobsatisfaction is what your after, use the money to have a party or something. Much more effective;-)
On Slashdot the parts about GPL are useaslly picked up in these articles. This is logical as most Slashdotters (like me) are in favour of open source and GPL. (I am part owner of a company which is building it's business around OSS software. And yes we do make a profit!)
But what I find more interesting in this article is the focus of moving away from using PC's as a glorified wordprocessor to a machine that can be used to work together. IMO most programs used today by regular users are nothing more than tools to produce dumb objects (like files in stead of data). And the networks are for storing those objects and/or moving them around.
I agree with Bill on this part that moving away from this kind of use and starting to use the networks to work together might be the thing to do in the near past.
But I think that the OSS community has a lot more experience in this. Working together via a network (the internet) is something that is well developed in the OSS world. The same techniques and experience can be used to create models for employees to work together on I.E. important documents.
So I think in that respect, OSS might have the better cards in this development! To me that was more imortant. The fact that Bill has trouble sleeping at night because there is such as thing as GPL is not really news to me;-)
I used an octopuscard when I was in HK. It worked great. You can pay almost any type of public transportaion on it. And you don't even have to get the card out of your wallet.
You can actually use it at some MacDonalds!!
But I suppose they will not use proximitycards. That would enable the government to track anyones whereabouts.
As soon as someone invents a 'smartcardwriter' let me know. That kind of technology should also be advanced enough to be used to make a replicator;-)
Anytime there is an article about Smartcards it suprises me again how little the avarage slashdotter knows about smartcards. Smartcards are not simple memory chips. They are extremely hard to crack. For cracking you need stuff like milliondollar ion-lasers and super strong microscopes. It can be done, but 'smartcardwriters' don't exist.
The software on the chip though needs to be well-developed and the encryption used needs to be strong. But there is a lot of exerience as these chips are used for electronic purses known in for instance in Europe.
What about starting an education portal. Internet access is one thing, educating yourself is another. Seems to me finding online free courses is a hard thing to do. Also for teachers that can make courses it is not that easy to get a course online.
It may not be all that spectacular staying at home, but it may be something valuable?
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When I was much younger I to loved keeping up with what parts are good, or fast or whatever...
But you spent a lot of time keeping up and matching parts together. Just get you x86 hardware from an A-brand and get their servergrade stuff. (Good examples: NEC (good service!), HP/Compaq, even Dell. )
Nowadays in many applications they can even outperform brands like SUN. (with quality RAID controllers!)
Good, nothing more annoying than loosing in single player mode.
Buying the documentation (Ruling WebGUI) entitles you to download every update. And it is very often updated as WebGUI is developing very fast.
That makes it a lot more value for your 50 $!
I haven't ever read it as the tech guys at my company handle the installation etc. I just use WebGUI, for which no docs are necessary.
From my own personal experience they (plainblack) are actually a lot more open than many other open source projects. They are much more willing to help and friendly, even to newbies. Whilst other projects can be really bitchy if you ask a question you could have read on page 456 of some unreadable manual.
They do however charge for support. And they do not want to see the answers you get from a closed support page xeroxed to some other page. That pays their bills and allowed for them to code on and make WebGUI full featured.
Apache 2.0 maybe around for some time, but you need mod_perl as well. The combination isn't really stable that long so it is not as if they keep the most common configuration out of the basic documentation. In fact, many sites still operate, for good reasons on apache 1.3.x
You can use the serial for hartbeat.. (see http://www.procolix.com/ha_cluster for Mini ITX used in a High Availability cluster)
http://www.garageband.com/
Ok, they charge you money if you want cd's to be delivered. Somewhat of a description.
I'm still waiting for a cd though, which should have arrived in Oktober
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/10/09/fuelcell/ index.html
They just produce water. Hydrogen can be created just using electricity which in turn CAN be created clean.
hmm, and so many are complaining about Linux becoming a bit bloated as well ;-)
Cowboy Neal should be the leader!
a view points:
if you want any more than the securityblades you have to pay... and I find it rather expensive.
E-smith (SME) offers My-SQL out of the box. SME is based on Red Hat 7.1 (with a lot of patches and updates)
If you need a more recent Perl than included you might run in to problems. The configuration relies havily on Perl.
It has some powerfull features often forgotten. Such as a decent backup system build in. If you don't want to buy a tape streamer, you can also 'backup to workstation'. Which works really easy.
he cant't, because of GPL. He doesn't want to be infected ;-)
http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/22475
The site is in Dutch, but the picture isn't
Hello, I work for {fill in competitors name} We illegaly share and use software and music all the time.
Please make us bankrupt now
{Evil grin}
I did!
But I do know your problem. The problems with skipping testing and implementation is useally not caused by lack of technical knowledge.
The problems is IMO more a project management problem. In the projects I was working, useally the problem was laying the deadline on delivery date. In stead of on the date when the tests are supposed to start.
Time for testing etc. all to often becomes slack. This is because nobody 'represents' the testing period.
The delivery date useally is hard. Either because the product has to start making money or you have a customer that demands delivery.
True, but right now internet access is useally not secure, but it is controlled. Your connection to your ISP is fairly save as people useally don't dig in your neighbourhood to tap in to your line.
With wireless you don't have to tap into the lines but just use your own 802.11 card and you can tap into all the traffic around you.
What is at stake is stuff like email passwords etc. This can be solved by using secure logon but most ISP don't offer this.
Well then I rather see it in the cinema!!!
Maybe they learned from last time.....
I'm not sure when they will release it in Europe. But last time it was more than half a year later then in the USA.
However the advertising didn't wait at all.
If they build up the hype but let you wait half a year, they should not be suprised if this angers fans in Europe so much that they download the bootlegs.
It's 2002 and there IS such a thing as the internet. A release in Europe and other parts of the world should be at least within a month.
It's there own fault for being cheap. Watching it full screen in a cinema is worth it. But not if you have to wait half a year.
I totally agree. I useally work on my laptop (PII400 192 mb) And I never see any lack of performance. Only startup takes time as laptop harddisk tend to be a bit slower.
;-)
I also own a 800 mhz Duron desktop but do not find it noticably faster on the apps I run. Except for sometimes encoding a movie.
I use the desktop for scanning, printing and burning.
Don't do it unless you really have the need for a faster PC. That means, have to run the apps that need them (such as rendering, or encoding etc.)
Even if you have to compile software (which is processor intesive) there is a good reason not to upgrade. It's better to prevent programmers to 'testcompile' every time they added a bit of code. They better learn to use some good programming standards and programm right.
Memory is all you need to work happily.
If jobsatisfaction is what your after, use the money to have a party or something. Much more effective
On Slashdot the parts about GPL are useaslly picked up in these articles. This is logical as most Slashdotters (like me) are in favour of open source and GPL. (I am part owner of a company which is building it's business around OSS software. And yes we do make a profit!)
But what I find more interesting in this article is the focus of moving away from using PC's as a glorified wordprocessor to a machine that can be used to work together. IMO most programs used today by regular users are nothing more than tools to produce dumb objects (like files in stead of data). And the networks are for storing those objects and/or moving them around.
I agree with Bill on this part that moving away from this kind of use and starting to use the networks to work together might be the thing to do in the near past.
But I think that the OSS community has a lot more experience in this. Working together via a network (the internet) is something that is well developed in the OSS world.
The same techniques and experience can be used to create models for employees to work together on I.E. important documents.
So I think in that respect, OSS might have the better cards in this development!
To me that was more imortant. The fact that Bill has trouble sleeping at night because there is such as thing as GPL is not really news to me
vlak bij AH noord, maar dat is niet het huis dat te koop staat. Huis te koop is aan de Buitenwatersloot
I just happen to have a house for sale in The Netherlands ;-)
I used an octopuscard when I was in HK. It worked great. You can pay almost any type of public transportaion on it. And you don't even have to get the card out of your wallet.
You can actually use it at some MacDonalds!!
But I suppose they will not use proximitycards. That would enable the government to track anyones whereabouts.
As soon as someone invents a 'smartcardwriter' let me know. That kind of technology should also be advanced enough to be used to make a replicator ;-)
Anytime there is an article about Smartcards it suprises me again how little the avarage slashdotter knows about smartcards. Smartcards are not simple memory chips. They are extremely hard to crack.
For cracking you need stuff like milliondollar ion-lasers and super strong microscopes.
It can be done, but 'smartcardwriters' don't exist.
The software on the chip though needs to be well-developed and the encryption used needs to be strong. But there is a lot of exerience as these chips are used for electronic purses known in for instance in Europe.
What about starting an education portal. Internet access is one thing, educating yourself is another. Seems to me finding online free courses is a hard thing to do. Also for teachers that can make courses it is not that easy to get a course online.
It may not be all that spectacular staying at home, but it may be something valuable?