There is a good article here: samag.com [sysadmin magazine] about using a linux thin client, then connecting it to a Windows Terminal Services Server using rdesktop. It may not be exactly what you are looking for, but it's definitely interesting. We've been using rdesktop for about two months (heard about it from this article), and it's great! I'm able to keep my laptop out of Windows more and more!
This reminds me of the corny, and crappy kind of TV shows that have become (unfortunately) the norm on the Discovery Channel:
Budget: $50USD
1. 40" Plasma screen retails for approx. $10,995 - FREEBIE!!! (freebie! freebie! - the announcer yells)
2. Windows 2k Server to run on retails for $6995 - FREEBIE!!! (freebie! Scammed off of poor college student on eBay... just lucky he isn't a Mac user!)
3. Foosball table retails for $1200 - FREEBIE!!! (stolen from college cafeteria!)
jeez. When will it end.
Oh, yeah, and Director was swiped from some Warez site, right?
Here is a link to something along the same lines of your questioning, or rather, some of these tools will work in both ways (link check and load testing): slashdot.org
If I read it correctly, there was a requirement of bar code scanners and printers at the server location... I'm guessing eBay doesn't have/need those. Next it listed a single computer as the system for storing images, and 'textual data' to the database system. I think it's safe to say eBay uses multiple computers for doing this. IANAL, but I would think that they've taken the concept much further than this guy's silly excuse for a patent.
Oh, and you haven't already done so, please commence shunning people who hold silly patents, AND attempt to enforce them.
Not to sound too idiotic, but in my experience you always get what you pay for. If you don't pay enough, you get poor architecture, lack of extensibility, creeping deadlines (if you only have one developer, and he's sick...), and the knowledge is locked with a smaller group. Documentation is ALWAYS the thing that gets cut in an effort to save money, but when you have a group of 10 people working on the project, you cannot work without it, so you can't cut it.
On the other hand, open source projects like ezPublish[ez.no], Apache[apache.org], and MANY others have the benefit of long development times, good documentation, and many developers working on them. That is the way to get less expensive quality software, not to underbid!
I've used both JMeter and Siege and liked the results (fairly accurate, easy to use, scriptable). I've discussed some of the high cost solutions such as offerings from Mercury Interactive[mecuryinteractive.com] with developers I trust, and the concensus seems to be that if you use several of the testing tools avialable, grab some humans at the same time to check the URL, and take all of the results with a grain of salt, you'll be better off than spending beaucoup bucks on Mercury Interactive, or similar tools. (Note: I have never worked for Mercury Interactive, or used their tools) Also, I have tried the Micro$oft tool, I thought it sucked, but I'm an open source biased individual...:)
"People will be fooled into thinking this is honest buzz." - from the article
Hmm, well I never! Honest buzz... wow, and I never would have guessed that an advertiser paying for a advertisement in a magazine/website/newpaper/billboard/etc. would be trying to pull one over on me. I'd like to think that people can look out for themselves, and realize that somethings are too good to be true (i.e. the attractive female model talking to me!:).
On the other hand if an attractive model comes up to me, I don't think I'll turn away in revulsion!:)
You must be freaking kidding. A 12.1" screen at 300MHz??!!? Why would you ever give that up!!? You wouldn't want to be able to actually see what you are doing... oh wait, you can't really do anything since you only have a screaming 300Mhz. Jeez... think about it buddy.
I like to see what I'm doing and have
<exaggeration>300</exaggeration>
apps open at a time. I guess whatever works for you, but just because it's a huge screen doesn't mean it's not portable. It'll still fit in my backpack.:)
I think that the file size of an mp3/ogg is the factor which makes them so lucrative to download, conversely, I won't touch a movie file even though I have DSL @512Mbps.
Also, I have friends who have never touched a computer buying one just to download music, but they aren't movie buffs, and it's too much hassle to download a movie for three days, rather than just waiting for the VHS/DVD.
Finally, you can listen to mp3's almost anywhere now, but even 300MB movie files suck on my monitor... I haven't seen a high quality.avi movie that was smaller than about 1GB!
I am fairly new to UML, and I agree it is very tailored toward OOP. That's not a bad thing, but it seems like you would need a firm grasp on OOP before touching UML, thus reducing your desire to a moot point, or a vicious circle depending on your viewpoint.
I think one of the best things for students to understand (from a students perspective) is that simple code is the best code. Also, Data layout is god... IMHO if you get the data layout right, you can't help but write simple logical code.
--"The reviewer claims that the Windows/Outlook combination is inherently inferior in terms of security, because users have too many privileges on the host system."--
I think the reveiwer is a little bit unobservant. If the typical windows wanted security, they wouldn't be using windows at all. I think in most cases the word 'insecure' goes hand in hand with one of two things: uninformed, or knowingly ignorant. I would fall into the knowingly ignorant category. I am forced to use a M$ windows workstation, and Outleak at work, but know its dangers so use *nix at home.
Sorry, just having a bad morning... no offense intended.
I'm going to toot my own horn, so beware!! I am 26 yrs old, have only a High School diploma, and have now worked in a reasonably large mailorder/ecommerce business for almost exactly a year. My position is not really defineable other than I basically take care of all of the technical aspects of our Internet presence, from hiring to purchasing, to architecting.
That being said, I would never consider myself a 'lone genius', but I do think that a good work ethic, being able to accuratly and diplomatically voice your opinions, and not getting involved in office politics/cliques helped me get to a comfortable position without more than good solid book learning.
Or maybe I'm just pulling your leg...:) (I'm not...(...or am I? ))
I've been looking and haven't been able to find info on any Operating Systems which are able to run on the palm architecture, which aren't palmOS. Can anyone point me to some? Preferrably Open Source... (I'd like to learn about embedded OS development this way)THANKS!!!
I do the same. I use Win2k as my desktop(just as my end users do)and then transfer tar.gz's to my Linux boxen... I'll look into the default passwd thing in IE... don't know if you _CAN_ set one.
Ben
I have been looking into using PGP for a corporate email security fix, and got a call from my salesman yesterday begging me to buy on the spot... I put him off until tuesday, but now I may have to look elsewhere! We finally have it working and just have a few more tests to make certain it would work. NAI has been very supportive, both from a sales perspective (i.e. letting us get it working before we buy), and from an engineering perspective (i.e. spending time on the phone with us, helping get things configured). Kindof disappointing that a good customer service company like this is going to drop a wonderful piece of software...
I met with [insert name of huge telecom company here] this week. My boss and I discussed uptime with the regional salesperson. He discussed "five 9" uptime on windows like it was nothing. Now, jump forward to yesterday afternoon when their engineers called me asking about our proposed configuration... I told him, and asked him what the approximate guaranteed uptime would be... he said about "89-92%". heh... gotta love engineers being honest.
I don't really know how to state what I'm thinking, more than saying... if an open source program is needed, but is not being built correctly(i.e. potentially dangerous code from lazy programmers), anyone can take the code, and improve upon it. It's not re-writing the whole thing, it's taking the good, throwing the bad, and Evolving the program.
Closed source programs/OS's tend to Grow the program. Building perhaps good code, on top of poor code. Noone has the time/opportunity to spend a few days cleaning, it's all about the bottom line here.
Web Developer and Web Designer are two completely different things.
If you want to work at a small company, and develop from scratch, learn Perl, PHP, and PostgreSQL. These seem to be the standards. They work well (I have built several sites with PHP/PgSQL), and are pretty easy to learn, plus they are pretty good under heavy loads.
If you want to work for a larger company with more divisions than Einstein, you will need to know Java. SQL of some sort. That's about it.
I wouldn't even bother 'learning' ASP, because truth is truth, it's ridiculously simple, and can be learned in a weekend(besides, it's microsoft!!)
Look at the large sites out there: IBM, Target, and Bluelight.com. They all use J2EE compliant Application servers.
Some of these guys even have demo downloads, so you can see what you might be working with. Basically, learn the basics(HTML, CSS, Javascript), learn a programming language(C, C++, Perl, Java) and then start playing with the combination. Good luck, and have fun!!
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Here is a mov file of Croquet for those of you uninterested in installing it: sumim.no-ip.com:8000
There is a good article here: samag.com [sysadmin magazine] about using a linux thin client, then connecting it to a Windows Terminal Services Server using rdesktop. It may not be exactly what you are looking for, but it's definitely interesting. We've been using rdesktop for about two months (heard about it from this article), and it's great! I'm able to keep my laptop out of Windows more and more!
Good luck, hope this helps,
Ben
why don't they just give it an open source license?
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but it tastes like crap on a bun, it's probably a bad licensing scheme.
Why the change to Martha Stewart for the movie? - Ben
is in my driveway. It's a 1985 Mustang, and it is naturally decomposing.
This reminds me of the corny, and crappy kind of TV shows that have become (unfortunately) the norm on the Discovery Channel:
Budget: $50USD
1. 40" Plasma screen retails for approx. $10,995 - FREEBIE!!! (freebie! freebie! - the announcer yells)
2. Windows 2k Server to run on retails for $6995 - FREEBIE!!! (freebie! Scammed off of poor college student on eBay... just lucky he isn't a Mac user!)
3. Foosball table retails for $1200 - FREEBIE!!! (stolen from college cafeteria!)
jeez. When will it end.
Oh, yeah, and Director was swiped from some Warez site, right?
heh... too funny. Oh, and I have a requirement for posting on Slashdot: put a FREAKING apostrophe in 'I'm'!!
...silly person.
Here is a link to something along the same lines of your questioning, or rather, some of these tools will work in both ways (link check and load testing): slashdot.org
If I read it correctly, there was a requirement of bar code scanners and printers at the server location... I'm guessing eBay doesn't have/need those. Next it listed a single computer as the system for storing images, and 'textual data' to the database system. I think it's safe to say eBay uses multiple computers for doing this. IANAL, but I would think that they've taken the concept much further than this guy's silly excuse for a patent.
Oh, and you haven't already done so, please commence shunning people who hold silly patents, AND attempt to enforce them.
you weren't talking about girls?
Not to sound too idiotic, but in my experience you always get what you pay for. If you don't pay enough, you get poor architecture, lack of extensibility, creeping deadlines (if you only have one developer, and he's sick...), and the knowledge is locked with a smaller group. Documentation is ALWAYS the thing that gets cut in an effort to save money, but when you have a group of 10 people working on the project, you cannot work without it, so you can't cut it.
On the other hand, open source projects like ezPublish[ez.no], Apache[apache.org], and MANY others have the benefit of long development times, good documentation, and many developers working on them. That is the way to get less expensive quality software, not to underbid!
Anyways, just my $.02
I've used both JMeter and Siege and liked the results (fairly accurate, easy to use, scriptable). I've discussed some of the high cost solutions such as offerings from Mercury Interactive[mecuryinteractive.com] with developers I trust, and the concensus seems to be that if you use several of the testing tools avialable, grab some humans at the same time to check the URL, and take all of the results with a grain of salt, you'll be better off than spending beaucoup bucks on Mercury Interactive, or similar tools. (Note: I have never worked for Mercury Interactive, or used their tools) Also, I have tried the Micro$oft tool, I thought it sucked, but I'm an open source biased individual... :)
Good luck!
"People will be fooled into thinking this is honest buzz." - from the article
:).
:)
Hmm, well I never! Honest buzz... wow, and I never would have guessed that an advertiser paying for a advertisement in a magazine/website/newpaper/billboard/etc. would be trying to pull one over on me. I'd like to think that people can look out for themselves, and realize that somethings are too good to be true (i.e. the attractive female model talking to me!
On the other hand if an attractive model comes up to me, I don't think I'll turn away in revulsion!
I like to see what I'm doing and have apps open at a time. I guess whatever works for you, but just because it's a huge screen doesn't mean it's not portable. It'll still fit in my backpack.
I think that the file size of an mp3/ogg is the factor which makes them so lucrative to download, conversely, I won't touch a movie file even though I have DSL @512Mbps.
.avi movie that was smaller than about 1GB!
:)
Also, I have friends who have never touched a computer buying one just to download music, but they aren't movie buffs, and it's too much hassle to download a movie for three days, rather than just waiting for the VHS/DVD.
Finally, you can listen to mp3's almost anywhere now, but even 300MB movie files suck on my monitor... I haven't seen a high quality
That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it
Here is a Java API for USB: javax-usb @ ibm devworks. Good luck, and have fun!
I am fairly new to UML, and I agree it is very tailored toward OOP. That's not a bad thing, but it seems like you would need a firm grasp on OOP before touching UML, thus reducing your desire to a moot point, or a vicious circle depending on your viewpoint.
I think one of the best things for students to understand (from a students perspective) is that simple code is the best code. Also, Data layout is god... IMHO if you get the data layout right, you can't help but write simple logical code.
Windows is for kids!
--"The reviewer claims that the Windows/Outlook combination is inherently inferior in terms of security, because users have too many privileges on the host system."--
I think the reveiwer is a little bit unobservant. If the typical windows wanted security, they wouldn't be using windows at all. I think in most cases the word 'insecure' goes hand in hand with one of two things: uninformed, or knowingly ignorant. I would fall into the knowingly ignorant category. I am forced to use a M$ windows workstation, and Outleak at work, but know its dangers so use *nix at home.
Sorry, just having a bad morning... no offense intended.
I'm going to toot my own horn, so beware!! I am 26 yrs old, have only a High School diploma, and have now worked in a reasonably large mailorder/ecommerce business for almost exactly a year. My position is not really defineable other than I basically take care of all of the technical aspects of our Internet presence, from hiring to purchasing, to architecting.
:) (I'm not...(...or am I? ))
That being said, I would never consider myself a 'lone genius', but I do think that a good work ethic, being able to accuratly and diplomatically voice your opinions, and not getting involved in office politics/cliques helped me get to a comfortable position without more than good solid book learning.
Or maybe I'm just pulling your leg...
I've been looking and haven't been able to find info on any Operating Systems which are able to run on the palm architecture, which aren't palmOS. Can anyone point me to some? Preferrably Open Source... (I'd like to learn about embedded OS development this way)THANKS!!!
I do the same. I use Win2k as my desktop(just as my end users do)and then transfer tar.gz's to my Linux boxen... I'll look into the default passwd thing in IE... don't know if you _CAN_ set one. Ben
I have been looking into using PGP for a corporate email security fix, and got a call from my salesman yesterday begging me to buy on the spot... I put him off until tuesday, but now I may have to look elsewhere! We finally have it working and just have a few more tests to make certain it would work. NAI has been very supportive, both from a sales perspective (i.e. letting us get it working before we buy), and from an engineering perspective (i.e. spending time on the phone with us, helping get things configured). Kindof disappointing that a good customer service company like this is going to drop a wonderful piece of software...
I met with [insert name of huge telecom company here] this week. My boss and I discussed uptime with the regional salesperson. He discussed "five 9" uptime on windows like it was nothing. Now, jump forward to yesterday afternoon when their engineers called me asking about our proposed configuration... I told him, and asked him what the approximate guaranteed uptime would be... he said about "89-92%". heh... gotta love engineers being honest.
sorry... just thought it was funny...
I don't really know how to state what I'm thinking, more than saying... if an open source program is needed, but is not being built correctly(i.e. potentially dangerous code from lazy programmers), anyone can take the code, and improve upon it. It's not re-writing the whole thing, it's taking the good, throwing the bad, and Evolving the program.
Closed source programs/OS's tend to Grow the program. Building perhaps good code, on top of poor code. Noone has the time/opportunity to spend a few days cleaning, it's all about the bottom line here.
...of course, I've been wrong before.
It all depends.
Web Developer and Web Designer are two completely different things.
If you want to work at a small company, and develop from scratch, learn Perl, PHP, and PostgreSQL. These seem to be the standards. They work well (I have built several sites with PHP/PgSQL), and are pretty easy to learn, plus they are pretty good under heavy loads.
If you want to work for a larger company with more divisions than Einstein, you will need to know Java. SQL of some sort. That's about it.
I wouldn't even bother 'learning' ASP, because truth is truth, it's ridiculously simple, and can be learned in a weekend(besides, it's microsoft!!)
Look at the large sites out there: IBM, Target, and Bluelight.com. They all use J2EE compliant Application servers.
Look at some of these: Art Technology Group's Dynamo, Blue Martini, BEA's WebLogic, and IBM's WebSphere.
Some of these guys even have demo downloads, so you can see what you might be working with. Basically, learn the basics(HTML, CSS, Javascript), learn a programming language(C, C++, Perl, Java) and then start playing with the combination. Good luck, and have fun!!