well, as expected there was the typical "if you can't view it in lynx, then it sucks".
i can agree with this on certain types of web sites, but what you failed to mention is the nature of your web site.
the nature of your statement should be reflected in your design. for instance, lets say you have site about something really geeky and you are expecting *nix-based users to access it. then, sure lynxify it.
if you've got the worlds most amazing product that you are advertising to a bunch of beer drinkers or whatever, then have stupid animations and porno backgrounds and annoying midis playing.
otherwise, if you are serving a general audience then clean, neat design with WELL ARCHITECTED INFORMATION. this means logical menu structures - don't let people try and find things, give them what they are expecting to find.
the other question, of course, is to flash or not to flash. personally i'm no big fan of flash intros. every time i see one i click on "skip intro". unless of course its nike.com or something that i expect wow, oooooh, aahh from.
ok. conclusion. profile your audience, put yourself in their shoes/browser and do what you think they would want.
good point. but i was assuming that the RIAA turned a blind eye to the school-boy taping scenario because of its insignificant volumes and that even in that scenario they had a legal leg to stand on.
there are two differences. the first one you noted as the greater disitribution breadth. i'm afraid that you can't overlook this factor. if i put an episode of sex and the city on my ftp server behind my "little" dsl line at home, i could probably be able to distribute 3-4 copies an hour. to strangers. anywhere in the world. take the fact that they then get it and can do the same thing, you have an exponential growth pattern. without degredation of quality.
that's a big factor.
next is the fact that if you tape something on VHS, you have to put it on a physical tape. so, to reflect on the above example, i'd not only be restricted to taking 30 mins to copy 1 episode - but i've got to have 1 physical VHS tape per copy.
now i don't know whether or not the movie industry get a cut on VHS tapes or not - but this is why i reckon that AOL/Time Warner are in such a strong position with regards to this.
i pay £40 for my DSL line and £ 50 for my ITV digital (50-something channels of sport and reruns). if AOL/TW could charge me say, £ 60 for a combined service whereby i could stream stuff down from their network (yes i know, it needs to be BIG PIPES) i would so go for it.
i can't wait for my mother to get a raw XML data and sign it with her key pair.
also...
i think the point of the internet voting would be an attempt to SAVE money by NOT having polling booths. so the few million (thumb suck) connected users in the states could alleviate load at the booths but voting from home. not only alleviate load, but they don't have to go on a whole mission to vote.
i believe that the only way to do this would be using class 2 SSL certs on smart cards. the only problem is that people don't have smart card readers. i think that somebody should drive an initiative for all box pushes should include a smart card reader. it couldn't be that expensive if you did it on an economy of scale. i'm actually really suprised that this hasn't started happening.
we've run into them so many times when they said, "oh you want iplanet for free, we'll give it to you - but we'll only give you the solaris version". "oh you want solaris, cool, we'll give you that for free too, but only if you buy a sun box". hook. line. sinker.
well as usual i got bored after 2 paragraphs of katz. but if you failed to mention porn or gambling as being two epicenters of the net, then i think you are in need of serious reality check.
gee, how TERRIBLE of miguel to re-architect Gnome by embracing modern open standards like SOAP, XML and Web Services in place of an antiquated remote object interface like Corba.
people forget that.NET is just microsofts' packaging and marketing of OPEN STANDARDS.
i've never setup a cluster at all, but i have installed redhat at least 20 times over the past few years.
more recently i've noticed an option to install a cluster from the nice new X-based GUI installer. i've never had more than one box lying around, but i was wondering if anyone has tried this route from the setup before. i would have thought that the nice little cluster icon in the GUI setup would have meant an easy (relative) installation and not a 230 page manual.
does anyone have any experience will installing like this, if so, i would love to hear about it.
um. i don't quite understand the rant and rave response from jamie. i think the original question boiled down to what is the different between the CLI (its CLI now, not CLR) and the JVM.
i'm no ubergeek, but my understanding is virtually nothing!
already there are iniatives to port.NET to unix (mono and the incredible ximian guys!) and pretty soon there will be a CLI for linux.
and possibly more competitive than the JVM, is that the CLI already has bindings for a host of other languages.
anyway. being as non-technical as i am, that's about the most i can answer you! hopefully some of the more hardcore of the community could add to what i'm saying.
although, being an geeky analyst - i feel this.NET/J2EE battle is going to be awesome!;)
we write document comparison software that is used in the legal sector. we are busy investigating a tool by a company called Stellent. their tool, HTML Export, runs on just about any platform and can convert a few hundred document types to html.
there are a number of others out there as well that can do the same job.
maybe richard stallman should get off his high-horse of accusing users like my mother, who know no better, of being an inconvenient nusance. and integrate some conversion tool with procmail or something.
so an email comes through, you check the attachment mime type, you see its a.doc. you take the file, run it through the conversion utility and rewrite the mail body using an.HTML attachment.
there problem solved. i'm sorry but there is no way that a minority of linux users can convert the majority of windows users to change the way they work.
as bizarre as this might sound, we are about to try a new estimation method here involving dice!
we practise extreme programming (XP). To give you some context - we break software development down into 1 or 2 week iterations and break the work down into stories. These stories are written by people like myself, customers, and are estimated and by developers/engineers. Estimates range from half a day to about 8 days for the work. The benefit to the customer is in XP is visibility. Doing these small chunks of work we are always able to have a snapshot of the project and can massage it into place if things are looking bad.
so now to the point...
we are still finding that estimates, even though in bite/byte-size chunks, can be inaccurate. what we are looking at making the programmers do is give us a high and a low estimate for the work. We then roll a dice. If you roll a 1, you take the lower limit, a 6 the upper and so on.
this may sound totally crazy, but - i dunno - i've seen people spend months analysing a workschedule and still be MILES off the mark in terms of an estimate.
As we all know, Web Services are touted to be a server/os/etc-agnostic method for calling methods on remote objects.
To achieve what.NET can do with J2EE, one needs third party Web Services connectors such as Cape Connect to do this. Are SOAP, WSDL and UDDI going to be included in the J2EE specification at any point?
I've been following Microsoft's.NET strategy for quite some time and have been quite interested in the Passport vs Liberty Alliance scenario.
Firstly, what exactly is happening with Liberty Alliance at the moment? I got the impression that the iniative was started as a marketing oppositing against Passport as there doesn't appear to be any visibility of the implementation on the web site.
Secondly, there is also an open source source initially from.GNU for this central authentication service. Essentially both Liberty Alliance and.GNU are trying to provide an opposition framework to Passport - and yet the nature of the concept and the existance of the two projects seem to be self depricating. If everyone and their dog develop a centralised authentication service that spans services across networks - people would probably use Passport purely because of its market share.
Would it not be a good idea to somehow merge the work done to offer a unified opposition to Passport?
i just had a one-to-one chat with a HIGHLY annoyed dickmorrell on their irc server.
i was offering some assistance with the UI and got this reaction:
I've not been to bed for 47 hrs
not needed thanks
I'm not doing any more GPL stuff
fuck the community
they blew it
I've gone proprietary
no more GPL
i understand that there are two sides to todays' little argument. but these guys are doing some pretty great stuff here and are TOTALLY justified in trying to make some sort of money out of their efforts (odd how you have to hand over cash to get food these days!).
and now a poorly put together review and the comments of all the autocratic purists here at/. has turned away not only a whole project - but a team of developers from the GPL.
how can you justify the fact that if linux picks up as a desktop environment that people will be running as root 24/7/365? because that's the way it installs? and that users don't know better?
by that logic, the majority of NT and 2000 desktop boxes are logged in as administrator 24/7/365?
thats rubbish and you know it. redhat install asks you for a root password, them immediately asks you to create local user which it defaults to when you first login.
personally i thought the article was badly put together. like other people have mentioned, skimming over some very important landmarks (hello, where was the zx spectrum and manic miner).
"it is the mental projection of your digital self".
books such as snowcrash back this kind of principle up with a physical and a digital existance. so we may end up with people striving for their avatars to achieve fame.
i'm running ftp/www/mail all off a dynamic ip and a real.net hostname.
what i did was make a dyndns account and i use dynsite to update my ip there. then i made a cname for www.mydomain.net as myaccount.dyndns.org with a 5 minute ttl.
works like a charm.
i did the same with the mx record. although you must note that you can't use a cname record as an mx record. so i created a myaccountMX.dyndns.org and pointed that as my MX. i also added another box that i have sitting on a perm line somewhere a backup MX. i changed the exim configuration to allow etrn for my domain and configured my mail server to send an etrn request to the backup every (x) minutes.
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i can't seem to find any refences to this device supporting bluetooth which is just really, really suprising!
anyone know anything about this?
Imagine that the reply button on /. was at the very bottom of the page and you had to enter the number of the comment you were replying to.
/. interface, it took me minutes to find it once upon a time.
you mean like the SEARCH feature, which is also oddly places in "older stuff"?
i find that the dumbest thing with the
well, as expected there was the typical "if you can't view it in lynx, then it sucks".
i can agree with this on certain types of web sites, but what you failed to mention is the nature of your web site.
the nature of your statement should be reflected in your design. for instance, lets say you have site about something really geeky and you are expecting *nix-based users to access it. then, sure lynxify it.
if you've got the worlds most amazing product that you are advertising to a bunch of beer drinkers or whatever, then have stupid animations and porno backgrounds and annoying midis playing.
otherwise, if you are serving a general audience then clean, neat design with WELL ARCHITECTED INFORMATION. this means logical menu structures - don't let people try and find things, give them what they are expecting to find.
the other question, of course, is to flash or not to flash. personally i'm no big fan of flash intros. every time i see one i click on "skip intro". unless of course its nike.com or something that i expect wow, oooooh, aahh from.
ok. conclusion. profile your audience, put yourself in their shoes/browser and do what you think they would want.
good point. but i was assuming that the RIAA turned a blind eye to the school-boy taping scenario because of its insignificant volumes and that even in that scenario they had a legal leg to stand on.
;)
i don't know, i'm no lawyer
there are two differences. the first one you noted as the greater disitribution breadth. i'm afraid that you can't overlook this factor. if i put an episode of sex and the city on my ftp server behind my "little" dsl line at home, i could probably be able to distribute 3-4 copies an hour. to strangers. anywhere in the world. take the fact that they then get it and can do the same thing, you have an exponential growth pattern. without degredation of quality.
that's a big factor.
next is the fact that if you tape something on VHS, you have to put it on a physical tape. so, to reflect on the above example, i'd not only be restricted to taking 30 mins to copy 1 episode - but i've got to have 1 physical VHS tape per copy.
now i don't know whether or not the movie industry get a cut on VHS tapes or not - but this is why i reckon that AOL/Time Warner are in such a strong position with regards to this.
i pay £40 for my DSL line and £ 50 for my ITV digital (50-something channels of sport and reruns). if AOL/TW could charge me say, £ 60 for a combined service whereby i could stream stuff down from their network (yes i know, it needs to be BIG PIPES) i would so go for it.
...it pried open a Pandora's jewel box: Last year CD sales declined for the first time in a decade.
it would be interesting to see the % fall in this versus the general economic downturn. otherwise its a meaningless statement.
like maybe you can sell lemonade outside on sundays...
i can't wait for my mother to get a raw XML data and sign it with her key pair.
also...
i think the point of the internet voting would be an attempt to SAVE money by NOT having polling booths. so the few million (thumb suck) connected users in the states could alleviate load at the booths but voting from home. not only alleviate load, but they don't have to go on a whole mission to vote.
i believe that the only way to do this would be using class 2 SSL certs on smart cards. the only problem is that people don't have smart card readers. i think that somebody should drive an initiative for all box pushes should include a smart card reader. it couldn't be that expensive if you did it on an economy of scale. i'm actually really suprised that this hasn't started happening.
sun sell kit. period.
;)
we've run into them so many times when they said, "oh you want iplanet for free, we'll give it to you - but we'll only give you the solaris version". "oh you want solaris, cool, we'll give you that for free too, but only if you buy a sun box". hook. line. sinker.
naturally we went the BEA route
well as usual i got bored after 2 paragraphs of katz. but if you failed to mention porn or gambling as being two epicenters of the net, then i think you are in need of serious reality check.
that's funny, i use samba every day. didn't realise it was killed off.
gee, how TERRIBLE of miguel to re-architect Gnome by embracing modern open standards like SOAP, XML and Web Services in place of an antiquated remote object interface like Corba.
.NET is just microsofts' packaging and marketing of OPEN STANDARDS.
people forget that
i've never setup a cluster at all, but i have installed redhat at least 20 times over the past few years.
more recently i've noticed an option to install a cluster from the nice new X-based GUI installer. i've never had more than one box lying around, but i was wondering if anyone has tried this route from the setup before. i would have thought that the nice little cluster icon in the GUI setup would have meant an easy (relative) installation and not a 230 page manual.
does anyone have any experience will installing like this, if so, i would love to hear about it.
um. i don't quite understand the rant and rave response from jamie. i think the original question boiled down to what is the different between the CLI (its CLI now, not CLR) and the JVM.
.NET to unix (mono and the incredible ximian guys!) and pretty soon there will be a CLI for linux.
.NET/J2EE battle is going to be awesome! ;)
i'm no ubergeek, but my understanding is virtually nothing!
already there are iniatives to port
and possibly more competitive than the JVM, is that the CLI already has bindings for a host of other languages.
anyway. being as non-technical as i am, that's about the most i can answer you! hopefully some of the more hardcore of the community could add to what i'm saying.
although, being an geeky analyst - i feel this
there are a number of others out there as well that can do the same job.
maybe richard stallman should get off his high-horse of accusing users like my mother, who know no better, of being an inconvenient nusance. and integrate some conversion tool with procmail or something.
so an email comes through, you check the attachment mime type, you see its a .doc. you take the file, run it through the conversion utility and rewrite the mail body using an .HTML attachment.
there problem solved.
i'm sorry but there is no way that a minority of linux users can convert the majority of windows users to change the way they work.
we practise extreme programming (XP). To give you some context - we break software development down into 1 or 2 week iterations and break the work down into stories. These stories are written by people like myself, customers, and are estimated and by developers/engineers. Estimates range from half a day to about 8 days for the work. The benefit to the customer is in XP is visibility. Doing these small chunks of work we are always able to have a snapshot of the project and can massage it into place if things are looking bad.
so now to the point...
we are still finding that estimates, even though in bite/byte-size chunks, can be inaccurate. what we are looking at making the programmers do is give us a high and a low estimate for the work. We then roll a dice. If you roll a 1, you take the lower limit, a 6 the upper and so on.
this may sound totally crazy, but - i dunno - i've seen people spend months analysing a workschedule and still be MILES off the mark in terms of an estimate.
To achieve what .NET can do with J2EE, one needs third party Web Services connectors such as Cape Connect to do this. Are SOAP, WSDL and UDDI going to be included in the J2EE specification at any point?
I've been following Microsoft's .NET strategy for quite some time and have been quite interested in the Passport vs Liberty Alliance scenario.
Firstly, what exactly is happening with Liberty Alliance at the moment? I got the impression that the iniative was started as a marketing oppositing against Passport as there doesn't appear to be any visibility of the implementation on the web site.
Secondly, there is also an open source source initially from .GNU for this central authentication service. Essentially both Liberty Alliance and .GNU are trying to provide an opposition framework to Passport - and yet the nature of the concept and the existance of the two projects seem to be self depricating. If everyone and their dog develop a centralised authentication service that spans services across networks - people would probably use Passport purely because of its market share.
Would it not be a good idea to somehow merge the work done to offer a unified opposition to Passport?
i just had a one-to-one chat with a HIGHLY annoyed dickmorrell on their irc server.
/. has turned away not only a whole project - but a team of developers from the GPL.
i was offering some assistance with the UI and got this reaction:
I've not been to bed for 47 hrs
not needed thanks
I'm not doing any more GPL stuff
fuck the community
they blew it
I've gone proprietary
no more GPL
i understand that there are two sides to todays' little argument. but these guys are doing some pretty great stuff here and are TOTALLY justified in trying to make some sort of money out of their efforts (odd how you have to hand over cash to get food these days!).
and now a poorly put together review and the comments of all the autocratic purists here at
well done.
interesting the way this article appears just above the one about wired magazine's vaporware list!
how can you justify the fact that if linux picks up as a desktop environment that people will be running as root 24/7/365? because that's the way it installs? and that users don't know better?
by that logic, the majority of NT and 2000 desktop boxes are logged in as administrator 24/7/365?
thats rubbish and you know it. redhat install asks you for a root password, them immediately asks you to create local user which it defaults to when you first login.
- R3000A 32bit RISC chip @ 33.8mhz - Manufactured by LSI Logic Corp.
- Clearing capacity: 30 MIPS
- Bus bandwidth: 132 Mb/sec
personally i thought the article was badly put together. like other people have mentioned, skimming over some very important landmarks (hello, where was the zx spectrum and manic miner).well as a kid i bought "the simpsons" album and would have loved to have been like bart...
possibly not.
"it is the mental projection of your digital self".
books such as snowcrash back this kind of principle up with a physical and a digital existance. so we may end up with people striving for their avatars to achieve fame.
i'm running ftp/www/mail all off a dynamic ip and a real .net hostname.
what i did was make a dyndns account and i use dynsite to update my ip there. then i made a cname for www.mydomain.net as myaccount.dyndns.org with a 5 minute ttl.
works like a charm.
i did the same with the mx record. although you must note that you can't use a cname record as an mx record. so i created a myaccountMX.dyndns.org and pointed that as my MX. i also added another box that i have sitting on a perm line somewhere a backup MX. i changed the exim configuration to allow etrn for my domain and configured my mail server to send an etrn request to the backup every (x) minutes.
so there!
:P