I worked for a guy rolling out an 802.11b ISP service. He was billing it a 'Ultrafast T1'. I tried to convince him that it was misleading marketing, but he wouldn't have it. The customers may have had a 'white room' 11 Mbps connection to the shop, but the shop only had a 2Mbps connection to the world. I know big ISP's oversell their bandwidth just like airlines oversell plane seats, but only having the capacity to support 1 1/3 customers at 'T1' speed is a little ridiculous.
Anyway, that guy was a sheister, and I no longer work there!
Personally, I always found that each app having its own folder full of links was a) unnecessary for a power user (put links in your help menu), and b) confusing for non-power users.
A start menu divided by Program Type (graphics, sounds, internet, etc) and then containing just individual programs makes much more sense. The Windows start menu gets out of control too easily...which may have been part of the reasoning behind the rethink that is XP's default?
While this would work just fine, we really shouldn't have to resort to something like this. I've been around/. for quite a while now (my original ID was 68996; fairly low)...Dupes never used to be a real problem. It's only been in the last 6 - 12 months that they've become an epidemic. I can recall maybe 2 - 3 dupes in the first 3 years of my/. reading experience. What has changed recently that we see so many dupes? Any Editors care to comment?
Then again, maybe I wasn't paying as much attention in the first few years I was around these here parts...maybe dupes have been an epidemic the whole time?
I'm not complaining, this is a distributed system, and nothing's perfect. I'm just curious.
during 8 year USA lead the world. now the Bush want's to rule the world
That is the single most insightful statement that I've seen regarding current world views of the US. It's one thing to be the biggest/best, it's another thing to throw that power around.
That's very interesting! I hadn't realized that. I can understand people being used to the letter based scheme, but the tree structure (especially in conjunction with the dynamic disk mentioned in another reply) really would be a good system.
Has anyone else noticed what MS has done with the driver letter fiasco left over from the DOS days?
UNIX-based systems have (what I consider) an elegant way of dealing with partitions. Every partition is 'grafted' onto the root tree. This provides a single context in which all files can be accessed. New filesystems can easily be added to the tree at any point necessary, and then mounted seamlessly...
For whatever reason (back in the day), MS decided to give each partition its own drive letter (anyone know the reasoning behind this?)...and maybe back then it was OK. When '95 came out, with the fancy new Explorer file manager, everything was created under a tree structure, with the drive letters grafted on (not to mention control panel, 'my network places', etc). Definitely an attempt to move to a more UNIXized (??) structure...Although by adding special branches for control panels and network places and my documents, etc, I feel that they lose the 'single context' approach taken in the UNIX world...
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just wondering if anyone else has noticed a lot of UNIXisms creeping into the Windows OS...(not talking about the BSD network stack, either...yah, yah, it's re-written...)!
Typically GUI config apps don't give you all the options either. They give you the most common ones. The rest are buried (in the case of Windows) in the registry. A pretty GUI just gives the _illusion_ that you're in control.
A text file can hide options too, but not in the same way. Generally, applications have many defaults that don't need to be defined in the configuration explicitly. A good config file will list most of these anyway, even if commented out (example/etc/ssh/sshd_config). A bad config file will list only options that are different than the defaults or not included in the defaults.
That being said, there is no reason that someone putting a server on the internet should be afraid of editing a text file. Even in Windows! Notepad is just fine...
If you're playing on the public internet, you have to put up or shut up (know your shit, or accept the consequences)...
Obviously though, this issue has nothing to do with the WebDAV exploit. Even the best admin is at the mercy of the quality of his/her software (whether UNIX or Windows or $your_os).
My Dad just added radiant floor heating to his workshop this winter. It only gets the place up to about 15 degC, but because the heat rises from the floor, it feels a lot warmer. All in all, it's a great idea, and a fairly good way to double up some of your energy use.
Fair enough. I only picked Pascal because the parent refered to it, and partially because that was the first language my University taught us...they no longer use Pascal now, either.
Ruby or Smalltalk would be great...Lisp even better. I think Lisp would be harder to justify, as there is less functional programming used in the real world. With Ruby or Smalltalk, the concepts are more easily applied to things that are seen every day. That certainly isn't a reason not to teach Lisp, but Lisp should not be the only language taught in this case. A school that uses only one language probably isn't worth much anyway, though.
Although I partially agree with you point, I'm going to play devil's advocate here:
If you University teaches _only_ technologies that aren't used in the real world (now, or ever) you would be forced to apply concepts from say Pascal to your current coding in C++. This extra thought, although more work up front would serve only to _strengthen_ your understanding of what you're doing. This extra reinforcement can only be a good thing!
I always wondered why people always refer to University as College in the States. Up here in Canada, College == (generally) 2 year diploma programs...heavy focus on hands on. University == 3 or 4 year degree programs, plus masters/phd options.
I still believe that even Colleges should teach skills, not products. Mechanics are taught about the fundamentals of engines, and are able to work on more than just Ford products. The same should be true of people learning computer skills...
Maybe schools should teach students how to use a spreadsheet program, or a presentation program instead of Excel or PowerPoint. Really! If you come out of school knowing only Excel/PowerPoint/Word (or Quattro/Presentations/WordPerfect, etc) you're screwed anyway. Just because people us MS products today doesn't mean they will tomorrow.
And really, if you're not bright enough to switch from Quattro to Excel, or Word to WordPerfect, or PowerPoint to Presentations (you get the idea), then you have no business in the 'real world' anyway.
One of the best things you could do to students would be to teach the courses using one set of products, and then ask for assignments to be done in another (teach with MS, assignments in Corel, etc)...this would do two things. 1) Educate students on alternative software. 2) MAKE THEM THINK!
(of course this assumes availability of two packages of software)
All I know is that you haven't hit rock bottom until you have a big green start button, and big blue title bars, and big red X's...seriously (not talking about the quality of XP here) does anyone _really_ like the default theme in XP? I find the whole look to be painful...I'm in the camp that believes that the default gray, and the rest of the look of a default 2k theme finally looked good. I also _really_ like the BlueCurve theme in RH8...easy on the eyes, and very professional looking (imo, both 2k and rh8)...and yes, I realize that xp can be made to look like 2k, I'm just commenting on the defaults here.
-Ben
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I hadn't ever seen/heard of those definitions before, but that would do quite nicely. Instead of sub-tabs, I was just thinking that they could be created as little nav buttons _on_ the tab. From a screen real-estate POV, I like it, but from a human interface POV it might not be to hot...to similar to the back/forward buttons already existing, but with different function.
That really wouldn't be a bad idea. It could be a useful thing to have with the 'paginated' pages discussed above. Combine sub-tabs with an auto-load mechanism of some sort for the 'pages' of an article or something.
Of course smart loading of only the 'next page' links, as opposed to a 'wget -r' approach would be a little trickier...possibly a very useful and worthwhile feature though.
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I worked for a guy rolling out an 802.11b ISP service. He was billing it a 'Ultrafast T1'. I tried to convince him that it was misleading marketing, but he wouldn't have it. The customers may have had a 'white room' 11 Mbps connection to the shop, but the shop only had a 2Mbps connection to the world. I know big ISP's oversell their bandwidth just like airlines oversell plane seats, but only having the capacity to support 1 1/3 customers at 'T1' speed is a little ridiculous.
Anyway, that guy was a sheister, and I no longer work there!
-Ben
Because you're got an MCSE and don't know any better?
-Ben
(Not to offend any MCSE's who actually know what they're doing)
Personally, I always found that each app having its own folder full of links was a) unnecessary for a power user (put links in your help menu), and b) confusing for non-power users.
A start menu divided by Program Type (graphics, sounds, internet, etc) and then containing just individual programs makes much more sense. The Windows start menu gets out of control too easily...which may have been part of the reasoning behind the rethink that is XP's default?
To each their own!
-Ben
Ok, relatively low...I've been around for quite a while. You've obivously been around a little longer!
-Ben
While this would work just fine, we really shouldn't have to resort to something like this. I've been around /. for quite a while now (my original ID was 68996; fairly low)...Dupes never used to be a real problem. It's only been in the last 6 - 12 months that they've become an epidemic. I can recall maybe 2 - 3 dupes in the first 3 years of my /. reading experience. What has changed recently that we see so many dupes? Any Editors care to comment?
Then again, maybe I wasn't paying as much attention in the first few years I was around these here parts...maybe dupes have been an epidemic the whole time?
I'm not complaining, this is a distributed system, and nothing's perfect. I'm just curious.
-Ben
That is the single most insightful statement that I've seen regarding current world views of the US. It's one thing to be the biggest/best, it's another thing to throw that power around.
In this case though, the balif was self-appointed. The authority was still in pre-trial hearings, not the sentencing stage.
-Ben
Stability is in the eye of the Administrator, no?
-Ben
That's very interesting! I hadn't realized that. I can understand people being used to the letter based scheme, but the tree structure (especially in conjunction with the dynamic disk mentioned in another reply) really would be a good system.
-Ben
Has anyone else noticed what MS has done with the driver letter fiasco left over from the DOS days?
UNIX-based systems have (what I consider) an elegant way of dealing with partitions. Every partition is 'grafted' onto the root tree. This provides a single context in which all files can be accessed. New filesystems can easily be added to the tree at any point necessary, and then mounted seamlessly...
For whatever reason (back in the day), MS decided to give each partition its own drive letter (anyone know the reasoning behind this?)...and maybe back then it was OK. When '95 came out, with the fancy new Explorer file manager, everything was created under a tree structure, with the drive letters grafted on (not to mention control panel, 'my network places', etc). Definitely an attempt to move to a more UNIXized (??) structure...Although by adding special branches for control panels and network places and my documents, etc, I feel that they lose the 'single context' approach taken in the UNIX world...
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just wondering if anyone else has noticed a lot of UNIXisms creeping into the Windows OS...(not talking about the BSD network stack, either...yah, yah, it's re-written...)!
-Ben
Typically GUI config apps don't give you all the options either. They give you the most common ones. The rest are buried (in the case of Windows) in the registry. A pretty GUI just gives the _illusion_ that you're in control.
/etc/ssh/sshd_config). A bad config file will list only options that are different than the defaults or not included in the defaults.
A text file can hide options too, but not in the same way. Generally, applications have many defaults that don't need to be defined in the configuration explicitly. A good config file will list most of these anyway, even if commented out (example
That being said, there is no reason that someone putting a server on the internet should be afraid of editing a text file. Even in Windows! Notepad is just fine...
If you're playing on the public internet, you have to put up or shut up (know your shit, or accept the consequences)...
Obviously though, this issue has nothing to do with the WebDAV exploit. Even the best admin is at the mercy of the quality of his/her software (whether UNIX or Windows or $your_os).
-Ben
They were funny when they were new. Of course (wo)man wasn't walking upright then, either. I agree that it's time for them be retired!
-Ben
My Dad just added radiant floor heating to his workshop this winter. It only gets the place up to about 15 degC, but because the heat rises from the floor, it feels a lot warmer. All in all, it's a great idea, and a fairly good way to double up some of your energy use.
-Ben
Fair enough. I only picked Pascal because the parent refered to it, and partially because that was the first language my University taught us...they no longer use Pascal now, either.
Ruby or Smalltalk would be great...Lisp even better. I think Lisp would be harder to justify, as there is less functional programming used in the real world. With Ruby or Smalltalk, the concepts are more easily applied to things that are seen every day. That certainly isn't a reason not to teach Lisp, but Lisp should not be the only language taught in this case. A school that uses only one language probably isn't worth much anyway, though.
-Ben
Although I partially agree with you point, I'm going to play devil's advocate here:
If you University teaches _only_ technologies that aren't used in the real world (now, or ever) you would be forced to apply concepts from say Pascal to your current coding in C++. This extra thought, although more work up front would serve only to _strengthen_ your understanding of what you're doing. This extra reinforcement can only be a good thing!
Food for thought, anyway...
-Ben
I always wondered why people always refer to University as College in the States. Up here in Canada, College == (generally) 2 year diploma programs...heavy focus on hands on. University == 3 or 4 year degree programs, plus masters/phd options.
I still believe that even Colleges should teach skills, not products. Mechanics are taught about the fundamentals of engines, and are able to work on more than just Ford products. The same should be true of people learning computer skills...
-Ben
Maybe schools should teach students how to use a spreadsheet program, or a presentation program instead of Excel or PowerPoint. Really! If you come out of school knowing only Excel/PowerPoint/Word (or Quattro/Presentations/WordPerfect, etc) you're screwed anyway. Just because people us MS products today doesn't mean they will tomorrow.
And really, if you're not bright enough to switch from Quattro to Excel, or Word to WordPerfect, or PowerPoint to Presentations (you get the idea), then you have no business in the 'real world' anyway.
One of the best things you could do to students would be to teach the courses using one set of products, and then ask for assignments to be done in another (teach with MS, assignments in Corel, etc)...this would do two things. 1) Educate students on alternative software. 2) MAKE THEM THINK!
(of course this assumes availability of two packages of software)
-Ben
Your response to them: "If you want to learn what you'll be using in the real world, go to College. University is to teach concepts, not products!"
-Ben
Plus, just think how easily lost/confused users get with 2D desktop...throw in a third dimension, and it's game over for the IT support crew!
-Ben
Great sig. Too bad that people requiring directions on how to open and eat a muffin couldn't possibly read them anyway!
-Ben
That's an interesting thought...I'd mod it as such if I had points right now!
-Ben
All I know is that you haven't hit rock bottom until you have a big green start button, and big blue title bars, and big red X's...seriously (not talking about the quality of XP here) does anyone _really_ like the default theme in XP? I find the whole look to be painful...I'm in the camp that believes that the default gray, and the rest of the look of a default 2k theme finally looked good. I also _really_ like the BlueCurve theme in RH8...easy on the eyes, and very professional looking (imo, both 2k and rh8)...and yes, I realize that xp can be made to look like 2k, I'm just commenting on the defaults here.
-Ben
I hadn't ever seen/heard of those definitions before, but that would do quite nicely. Instead of sub-tabs, I was just thinking that they could be created as little nav buttons _on_ the tab. From a screen real-estate POV, I like it, but from a human interface POV it might not be to hot...to similar to the back/forward buttons already existing, but with different function.
Interesting though!
-Ben
That really wouldn't be a bad idea. It could be a useful thing to have with the 'paginated' pages discussed above. Combine sub-tabs with an auto-load mechanism of some sort for the 'pages' of an article or something.
Of course smart loading of only the 'next page' links, as opposed to a 'wget -r' approach would be a little trickier...possibly a very useful and worthwhile feature though.
-Ben
I'm from Canada (went to school in Thunder Bay), so I hardly think Maine would be 'cold' to me...You southerners are so 'touchy' about climate <grin>!
Or maybe you're refering to the torture aspect of sitting in a freezer?
-Ben