"and I could never see myself paying for something like Ximian Desktop to replace BlueCurve..."
well you have two options here then. the first is to, well, download it for free. the second would be to close your eyes when you did pay for it.
i started using Ximian desktop about 4 years ago when evolution was around 0.6. i continue to use it for the sole reason of INTERACTION CONSISTANCY. gnome 2 is great and *sigh* hats off to RH for a well packaged disitribution - but it is still very geeky focused with a great deal of options. ximian provides a much simpler experience.
6. No fix for the numlock bug which makes BeOS to not remember if the NumLock was set to ON in the previous booting. Sounds trivial and stupid but really annoys a lot of people.
now i don't know about you, but i generally don't know the state of Num/Caps/Scroll lock every time i reboot my computer. the behaviour i DO care about is that they are consistant every time. numlock status is a CMOS-level (its been there for YEARS!) consistant feature.
so i read the whole review with a pinch of salt if somebody wants their numlock status to persist after reboot, really...
i truely believe that the convergance is the way forward. for example, i bought an xbox and slapped a mod chip in it. my entire music collection and a good chunk of my dvd collection (plus a little bit of edonkey...) sits on my linux server shared with samba. using the xboxmediaplayer i now use my xbox as an uber-media-jukebox.
now i know you can do this with your PC, but *cliche* my mother is not about to do all of this stuff and put her pc in the lounge; hell no. actually i don't want a pc in my lounge either.
an elegant device that provides media and other entertainment services that is programmable, can store data, is networkable - surely you can see the point...
i totally disagree with you. firstly, yes, I use Livelink and Documentum on a daily basis. yes, there are pitfalls to them, as there is in any sofware product that caters for large user bases, so could you please justify your "They are all CRAP" statement a little better?
a "home-grown" solution can be built on top of any of the repositories by leveraging their SDKs. in fact we work with many vendors who have streamlined these repositories with Workflow and additional UI to provide more focused application behaviour.
how exactly would your home-grown solution be better. will its total cost of ownership be lower in that you are having to support your own application and not leveraging "enterprise:P" support structures? i can find you a few hundred DCTM developers at the drop of a hat who would be able to walk into an existing implementation and pick it up. if you had a 100 home-grown solutions you would have to articulate the application architecture (lets not even get into the nitty gritty side of the application) 100 times to 100 different people.
After just having returned from two content management conferences in Paris and Leon, I would just like to make a few statements to put a few things in context.
1. Content management is NOT making web sites. Sure web sites can be built off the back of a content repository (Vignette + Documentum for example). Enterprise Content Management is a blanket term for the storage, management, collaboration, publishing of many forms of content. This content could be, for example in Life Sciences, highly regulated documents outlining manufacturing principles of drugs. Or it could be "How to use the water cooler". One of the many challenges that enterprises face today is how to extract business content from employees brains and make it accessible as such that you don't lose intellectual property when you lose staff.
2. The XML thing. This is the tricky one. The majority of content today is authored in MS Office. Users of all walks of life author content. Many attempts at WYSIWYG XML editors have failed pretty dismally. The reason being is that users do no like to change the way they work. Two years ago, at the same set of conferences, everyone was talking about authoring in XML. It hasn't happened and it won't. Just plain old Microsoft Word styles are a pain in the butt to use - and thats just marking up style, not context or meta. Try asking a user to describe every paragraph within some form of taxonomy tree. You get blank faces or grimaces.
Anyway, just some food for thought from, dare I say, the real world!
have you ever heard of documentum, livelink, imanage, hummingbird? these are all big players in the ENTERPRISE content management game. i would really like to see you walk into a 3000 user enterprise and say "oh ok, sure, just store all of your documents in CVS. its really great and its free."
i think that this book looks like a fantastic piece of work. we run our entire knowledge management system on livelink and since it moved from a user base of 30 to 150 people, things have gotten a little out of control. our taxonomies are badly defined, we are duplicating content all over the place rather than re-use. so after reading the overview and the free chapter, i think this book would be HIGHLY beneficial for large organisations that do use really solid, profressional content mangement systems.
so, the bottom line is, i think your comment is bollocks!:P
i pretty much agree with your sentiment. VS.NET doesn't encourage one to do this; the fact that somebody had to write a 50 page ebook on how to do it shows that it is clearly not encouraged.
similarly, i think that if you are going through these steps you are well aware of what you are doing and would understand the pitfalls of utilising other private member functions.
of course the fact does remain that its possible to do at all which, at first glance, i thought was scary. but other, more hardcore coders in the/. community have pointed out that this is achievable in many other open source languages as well.
anyway, just another excuse to do some m$ bashing i guess...
i suppose... although if the device did have some sort of tamper-proof alarm mechanism - it could help investigation by pinpointing where exactly the event took place. most of the time it was a case of "the child was last seen"...
scientist: "i have found a way to make men attract more women...all they need to do is apply newton's second law by differentiating against the chaos theory multiple and apply some basic intertia formula. problem solved, so now i'm investigating a better mechanism to take a piss deriving from fermat's last problem"
3. Ensure I don't have a network share connected which has more capacity than the drives on my own machine.
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on a side note...
a few years back i had an out the box redhat linux installation exposed on the network running an exploitable FTPD. i got hacked. great. i haven't had a look at anything past RH 8 - but as far as I know, out the box, linux doesn't have the same feature. i know it has red carpet, which i use frequently, but it doesn't encourage the update as MSN does with the systray-based notification out-of-the-box. does any unix do this? i don't remember freebsd doing this (yes it has the ports tree, blah blah, but same point about it not being as in your face).
anyway, my point is...
this dude makes this post that basically just gives himself props (1) and makes childish comments (2) about the whole scenario:
(1) - A year ago I complained about Windows Update - well done mate, what a hero.
(2) - oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooo EXECUTIVE SEMINAR: "Information Security and the Disappearing Perimeter"
so, my point is
so often the *nix (sorry SCO!!) community has this holier-than-though attitude towards microsoft's efforts and they don't actually consider that their own back yard is littered with a large amount of problems as well. so this post makes front page/. news and all it is, is the usual soap-box ms bashing. perhaps if the author stated his problems with windows update in a less "i am the demi-god of all security, and you all suck" fashion, then maybe it would be taken a little more seriously by the industry (and analysts but hey its fine, lets continue to shoot ourselves in the foot.
The time travel forum could use a bit of filling out
it already has been, you just can't see it yet...
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you're appaulING. just quickly port somebody else's game to linux quickly. sure, i'll do it tonight.
the point of modding is writing add-ons and extending the game play - not porting the whole damn thing across to another platform.
i would be quite suprised if a large majority of the/. community who were INTERESTED IN GAMING would have access to both windows and linux platforms at home and DO host game server on their linux boxes (like i do with Q3A).
i can see this kind of thing outside of consulting too when senior architects "tell" developers that this is what they are doing and this is how it should be done and maybe its wrong... what do you say.
i feel that one should always be courageous in situations where one feels there is a better solution, however, the one thing i've learned over here in the UK (was in SA) is tact. its about how you approach the questioning of the decision and ensure that you are working TOGETHER for a solution not against each orther for pride.
Aaron J. Seigo:... A desktop is useless unless it enables you to get your work done, therefore it should be our aim to provide people with as complete a solution set as defined by the general needs of the userbase (as oppose to, say, our personal opinion).
and don't say that his next sentence regarding people being REQUIRED to install it - as people could quite easily install Netscape on top of Windows...
"The new start menu is also an abomination. In fact, those two days with Windows XP reminded me why most people hate computers. I'd hate them too if that was all that was out there."
as a linux/freebsd user you would think i wouldn't, but i actually quite like the new start menu. i really like the fact that it adds shortcuts on the fly to your most recently used programs. i think it looks very elegant and it also simplifies a lot of tasks for people such as my mother (the usual metaphor!) in terms of its "My Recent Documents", "Connect To" etc...
my problem here with these guys statements is that they all, and in particular Aaron just makes these swooping opinionated statements without any meat to back them up.
i was also concerned that none of them have much experience with Windows XP. i would assume that apple looks at it all the time to not only imitate things it has done well, but to avoid things it does badly. surely these guys should be analysing osx and XP and doing the same thing?
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"and I could never see myself paying for something like Ximian Desktop to replace BlueCurve..."
well you have two options here then. the first is to, well, download it for free. the second would be to close your eyes when you did pay for it.
i started using Ximian desktop about 4 years ago when evolution was around 0.6. i continue to use it for the sole reason of INTERACTION CONSISTANCY. gnome 2 is great and *sigh* hats off to RH for a well packaged disitribution - but it is still very geeky focused with a great deal of options. ximian provides a much simpler experience.
haha - i didn't know that!
i also didn't realise, at first, that she was a she which got me to thinking "who let a chick onto BeOS?!" *duck*
i found this a bit of an odd request...
6. No fix for the numlock bug which makes BeOS to not remember if the NumLock was set to ON in the previous booting. Sounds trivial and stupid but really annoys a lot of people.
now i don't know about you, but i generally don't know the state of Num/Caps/Scroll lock every time i reboot my computer. the behaviour i DO care about is that they are consistant every time. numlock status is a CMOS-level (its been there for YEARS!) consistant feature.
so i read the whole review with a pinch of salt if somebody wants their numlock status to persist after reboot, really...
you must have some ninja talents to be able to sleep and finish your last minute report standing up sniffing the arm-pits of everyone around you.
no mate, the proposed PSX is elegant. the xbox is an ugly black monster...
you mean "all shades of trendy chrome"...
:)
i truely believe that the convergance is the way forward. for example, i bought an xbox and slapped a mod chip in it. my entire music collection and a good chunk of my dvd collection (plus a little bit of edonkey...) sits on my linux server shared with samba. using the xboxmediaplayer i now use my xbox as an uber-media-jukebox.
now i know you can do this with your PC, but *cliche* my mother is not about to do all of this stuff and put her pc in the lounge; hell no. actually i don't want a pc in my lounge either.
an elegant device that provides media and other entertainment services that is programmable, can store data, is networkable - surely you can see the point...
should the subject not be "Kazaa sTays..." rather than "says".
i totally disagree with you.
:P" support structures? i can find you a few hundred DCTM developers at the drop of a hat who would be able to walk into an existing implementation and pick it up. if you had a 100 home-grown solutions you would have to articulate the application architecture (lets not even get into the nitty gritty side of the application) 100 times to 100 different people.
firstly, yes, I use Livelink and Documentum on a daily basis. yes, there are pitfalls to them, as there is in any sofware product that caters for large user bases, so could you please justify your "They are all CRAP" statement a little better?
a "home-grown" solution can be built on top of any of the repositories by leveraging their SDKs. in fact we work with many vendors who have streamlined these repositories with Workflow and additional UI to provide more focused application behaviour.
how exactly would your home-grown solution be better. will its total cost of ownership be lower in that you are having to support your own application and not leveraging "enterprise
that's quite funny - that's my surname... and the author's first name is my middle name...
After just having returned from two content management conferences in Paris and Leon, I would just like to make a few statements to put a few things in context.
1. Content management is NOT making web sites. Sure web sites can be built off the back of a content repository (Vignette + Documentum for example). Enterprise Content Management is a blanket term for the storage, management, collaboration, publishing of many forms of content. This content could be, for example in Life Sciences, highly regulated documents outlining manufacturing principles of drugs. Or it could be "How to use the water cooler". One of the many challenges that enterprises face today is how to extract business content from employees brains and make it accessible as such that you don't lose intellectual property when you lose staff.
2. The XML thing. This is the tricky one. The majority of content today is authored in MS Office. Users of all walks of life author content. Many attempts at WYSIWYG XML editors have failed pretty dismally. The reason being is that users do no like to change the way they work. Two years ago, at the same set of conferences, everyone was talking about authoring in XML. It hasn't happened and it won't. Just plain old Microsoft Word styles are a pain in the butt to use - and thats just marking up style, not context or meta. Try asking a user to describe every paragraph within some form of taxonomy tree. You get blank faces or grimaces.
Anyway, just some food for thought from, dare I say, the real world!
have you ever heard of documentum, livelink, imanage, hummingbird? these are all big players in the ENTERPRISE content management game. i would really like to see you walk into a 3000 user enterprise and say "oh ok, sure, just store all of your documents in CVS. its really great and its free."
:P
i think that this book looks like a fantastic piece of work. we run our entire knowledge management system on livelink and since it moved from a user base of 30 to 150 people, things have gotten a little out of control. our taxonomies are badly defined, we are duplicating content all over the place rather than re-use. so after reading the overview and the free chapter, i think this book would be HIGHLY beneficial for large organisations that do use really solid, profressional content mangement systems.
so, the bottom line is, i think your comment is bollocks!
i pretty much agree with your sentiment. VS.NET doesn't encourage one to do this; the fact that somebody had to write a 50 page ebook on how to do it shows that it is clearly not encouraged.
/. community have pointed out that this is achievable in many other open source languages as well.
similarly, i think that if you are going through these steps you are well aware of what you are doing and would understand the pitfalls of utilising other private member functions.
of course the fact does remain that its possible to do at all which, at first glance, i thought was scary. but other, more hardcore coders in the
anyway, just another excuse to do some m$ bashing i guess...
i also used omniremote on my old palm. the problem with it was that i had to get closer to the television to use it. that meant *gasp* getting up...
i suppose...
although if the device did have some sort of tamper-proof alarm mechanism - it could help investigation by pinpointing where exactly the event took place. most of the time it was a case of "the child was last seen"...
if you consider the number of child abductions in the UK over the last few years, i would say it would be pretty easy to sell to parents.
scientist: "i have found a way to make men attract more women...all they need to do is apply newton's second law by differentiating against the chaos theory multiple and apply some basic intertia formula. problem solved, so now i'm investigating a better mechanism to take a piss deriving from fermat's last problem"
i was pretty much expection something along those lines when i posted. my point being is that i'm not the EDITOR of NTBugtraq.
3. Ensure I don't have a network share connected which has more capacity than the drives on my own machine.
o oooooooooooooooooooooooooo EXECUTIVE SEMINAR: "Information Security and the Disappearing Perimeter"
/. news and all it is, is the usual soap-box ms bashing. perhaps if the author stated his problems with windows update in a less "i am the demi-god of all security, and you all suck" fashion, then maybe it would be taken a little more seriously by the industry (and analysts
--
on a side note...
a few years back i had an out the box redhat linux installation exposed on the network running an exploitable FTPD. i got hacked. great. i haven't had a look at anything past RH 8 - but as far as I know, out the box, linux doesn't have the same feature. i know it has red carpet, which i use frequently, but it doesn't encourage the update as MSN does with the systray-based notification out-of-the-box. does any unix do this? i don't remember freebsd doing this (yes it has the ports tree, blah blah, but same point about it not being as in your face).
anyway, my point is...
this dude makes this post that basically just gives himself props (1) and makes childish comments (2) about the whole scenario:
(1) - A year ago I complained about Windows Update - well done mate, what a hero.
(2) - ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
so, my point is so often the *nix (sorry SCO!!) community has this holier-than-though attitude towards microsoft's efforts and they don't actually consider that their own back yard is littered with a large amount of problems as well. so this post makes front page
but hey its fine, lets continue to shoot ourselves in the foot.
The time travel forum could use a bit of filling out
it already has been, you just can't see it yet...
ed: i would be quite suprised if they DID NOT have access to...
sorry, my brain is thinking at an appauling rate today.
you're appaulING.
/. community who were INTERESTED IN GAMING would have access to both windows and linux platforms at home and DO host game server on their linux boxes (like i do with Q3A).
just quickly port somebody else's game to linux quickly. sure, i'll do it tonight.
the point of modding is writing add-ons and extending the game play - not porting the whole damn thing across to another platform.
i would be quite suprised if a large majority of the
appauling, isn't it?
i can see this kind of thing outside of consulting too when senior architects "tell" developers that this is what they are doing and this is how it should be done and maybe its wrong... what do you say.
i feel that one should always be courageous in situations where one feels there is a better solution, however, the one thing i've learned over here in the UK (was in SA) is tact. its about how you approach the questioning of the decision and ensure that you are working TOGETHER for a solution not against each orther for pride.
Aaron J. Seigo: ...
A desktop is useless unless it enables you to get your work done, therefore it should be our aim to provide people with as complete a solution set as defined by the general needs of the userbase (as oppose to, say, our personal opinion).
and don't say that his next sentence regarding people being REQUIRED to install it - as people could quite easily install Netscape on top of Windows...
"The new start menu is also an abomination. In fact, those two days with Windows XP reminded me why most people hate computers. I'd hate them too if that was all that was out there."
as a linux/freebsd user you would think i wouldn't, but i actually quite like the new start menu. i really like the fact that it adds shortcuts on the fly to your most recently used programs. i think it looks very elegant and it also simplifies a lot of tasks for people such as my mother (the usual metaphor!) in terms of its "My Recent Documents", "Connect To" etc...
my problem here with these guys statements is that they all, and in particular Aaron just makes these swooping opinionated statements without any meat to back them up.
i was also concerned that none of them have much experience with Windows XP. i would assume that apple looks at it all the time to not only imitate things it has done well, but to avoid things it does badly. surely these guys should be analysing osx and XP and doing the same thing?