My company (a financial institution using tomcat 3 on AIX servers) is still using older versions of tomcat to serve up our jsp's. The main reason we use an older version is simple: tomcat can be a bitch to configure We've had tomcat 3 working for about two years, give or take, and migrating from 3 to 4 could be a potential nightmare (there are some groups who have already tried it inside the company and spent many a weekend in the office scratching their heads). While I will agree that tomcat is slower than Apache, there are tweaks that you can do to prevent the webserver from crashing and to speed things up a little bit. One such tweak is increasing the default memory allocation from whatever it is set at (i think 64MB) to 256MB(or whatever you see fit). Granted there are problems in doing this, too, but it does speed speed things up in most instances. Just make sure you have your stressball handy next time a nullPointerException rears its ugly head...:)
there is NO SUCH THING as reverse discrimination
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i find that when you see the preface "i'm not trying to be a bigot", you can just stop paying attention to the rest of the sentence. and regarding the "lack" of skilled black people in IS departments, i don't know where some of you work, but there are plenty in my dept. some are good, some are less so... though i fear being a bit redundant, that has nothing to do with the skin color, and much more to do with the drive of the person. there are just as many white coworkers (or asian, mexican, etc...) that lazy or subpar. i wish that people wouldn't try to blame it on something that has no relevance in almost every issue. and as far as sports go... they suck. go pick up a book and learn something, you dummards.
i'm sorry, but the ONLY thing that dark city had going for it was the production values. and i'm quite shocked that people have been saying that dark city had this great production value and better story, when more than half the people who worked on dark city worked on the matrix. they looked VERY similar. and how on earth is a floating city of telekentic riff-raffs more plausible than AI going out of control? maybe you should watch the matrix and dark city back to back. then you will realize the error of your ways. and if not, maybe you should just give up hope of ever being a rational human being. haha.
oh... and any movie with martial arts choreography by yuen wo ping instantly gets points with me. and last time i checked, dark city didn't have that... so there is reason #247 that it sucked my nuts.
i was *going* to put in my two cents about the poorly phrased comments of the original message, but they have already been said. so i will simply take this time to give you some worthwhile charities that anyone (geek or non-geek) should give to, as they are well worth your time and provide some much needed services.
Even if you don't agree with my policies, please give SOMETHING to a good cause this holiday season, whether that would be PBS or NPR or one of your own pet causes. we're so saturated with "be a good capitalist" in the media, we often forget about what truly makes a good person. give it some thought... it can give you a good break from the equally abstract concept of programming.:)
i find it an interesting situation... a lot of people who work in the industry caught between the dislike of giant corporations controlling our lives and government, and the need for a paycheck. makes you feel like a hippocrite, honestly. but what i find disturbing is when people who are supposedly enlightened claim that idealism is backwards or that political vigillance is nothing but the behavior of crackpots. and that they support and defend these big corporations because they happen to be on the right side of the tracks. try stepping out of your tiny little microcosm for just a few minutes and realize that just because you have it easy and make a lot of money doesn't mean these corporations you work for are just. How can you justify a corporation that makes billions of dollars in profits, and then lays off thousands of workers? how can you justify a company with record profits that hires 11 year old children to work 18 hour days making 18 cents an hour? There is such a selfish "me me me" attitude among so many people in this world, it is no wonder that peace can't be reached in the middle east or that people are shot and killed for something as simple as a pair of shoes or their sexual orientation. i'm glad to see so many people walk through life with their blinders on. i just hope that those people are the ones laid off. then maybe they can see how the other half lives...
i have worked in both the university and private sector, and have had to use novell in both. to say that they have outlived their life span is a mildy safe assumption. unless novell puts out some REALLY good products in the next few quarters, i expect to see them listed under the corporate obituaries. netware is slow, obsolete, and a waste of time with new advances made on both the *nix and M$ fronts. that's just my $.02, i guess...
i agree. if you are going to "borrow" someone's code, giving them credit is polite (though i don't think necessary as long as you change the code a bit). if it is not a commercial site borrowing the code, why make such a fuss? i've borrowed stuff from other sites to see how it worked. after editing it to my specifications, it didn't look anything like the page i borrowed it from. should i still give credit to the place i borrowed it from? i would, cuz i have no problem with giving another hard working web designer his fair dues... but if it no longer resembles it, why should i? and there are options you have to restrict people from stealing your code, like scripts that disable the view source or right click option (though i personally think those go against the freedom the internet embodies). i just think that someone made a good point earlier... when someone borrows your code and parodies your site, it is a form of flattery, as they wouldn't even be bothering with the parody unless there was something there in the first place. our whole job as web designers is to get people to view our sites, and if someone views it and likes it (or hates it) enough to parody it, i guess you must be doing something right...
if anyone wants more information (and more detailed descriptions) on molecular computing, try the june issue of wired and the june issue of scientific american. they both have great info on molecular computing. and they boast claims of storage capacities (for a 100 mL tube) of up to 125 Million TeraBytes. so try figuring out how many mp3's THAT would store.:)
well, since i'm not a programmer, i can't argue with the programming aspect of NeXT. but from what i have worked with (i am a web designer at WMU, and they still have a few NeXT boxes lying around) they're not that great. some ideas where innovative. some boggled the mind. but over all, i think they were good for the time, but as with most machines, it got outdated VERY quickly because of lack of ability to adapt. it's either Jobs' way or the highway. i'm just glad Jobs never ran for office. anyway, i think another downfall of NeXT was Jobs telling people they needed to upgrade to a very expensive machine, and after they bought it, he told them they didn't really need that one and that she should get the NEWER one because the one they just bought sucked. in business, that is pretty much handing the executioner his axe and putting your head in the basket. i personally don't like the CLI for NeXT either. but that is just my opinion.
as far as anime for beginners, i would suggest the following:
Akira (no anime collection is complet without it) Ninja Scroll (the first one is best, imho) Ghost in the Shell Vampire Hunter D (they are making a live action english version right now)
i'll tell you what they are going to use this for (aside for snooping on citizens, and admittedly, criminals): Industrial Espionage. Let's just say that the Federal Bureau of Intimidation happens upon a piece of corporate email that just so happens to lay out either a plan of action in their new business strategy, or some other highly classified corporate information. They can either ignore this highly tantalizing piece of info, of they can sell it off to the highest bidder. bullshit, right? they'd never do that. wrong. they've done it before, and they will do it again. the FBI has "helped out" companies that have been cooperative with them. this will just make it easier. i'm starting to be glad i always use ssl and ssh...:)
i've seen all the version of blade runner, i've read do androids dream of electric sheep, and i'm sorry, but he is NOT an android!! as i recall, one of the only reasons deckard suspected he was an android was because he felt sorry for them when he killed them. and the only ones who felt sorry for androids were androids. but wouldn't that have been the whole point of empathy, and how he became at one with mercer? the point of empathisizing with someone is seeing where they are coming from. and feeling bad for a bunch of machines hunted like dogs for being nothing more than misunderstood certainly warrants a little empathy. and besides, he tested himself on the Voigt-Kampff test, and passed. so nyah on all of you who think he is. if you think he was an android, you have a brain filled with kipple!!
i have to agree completely. most companies view anything to do with websites as a buzzword and nothing more. i think it is just poor design skills on their part. if the content isn't good enough to get me to stay, do you really have to resort to MAKING me stay? come on... either make the site more interesting or let me leave in peace.
what?! no akira or princess mononoke?!
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though i agree with quite a few of the other posts, i am shocked to see less Akira, Princess Mononoke, and Ghost in the Shell references. Maybe others just figured they were a given, but i woulda thunk they would have been brought up just in case...
I think that a lot of people are being too harsh on this season, and also too harsh on futurama (which IMHO is awesome!). this season hasn't been *that* bad... but there is no doubt that it is paling in comparison to the days when Conan, John Schwartzwelder, and Sam Simon were all writing together. if they could get all three together and write a movie in the same vein as Homer Goes to College and Rosebud (the episode with Bobo, Mr. Burn's bear), i would be first in line. hell, if they could get it HALF as funny, i'd be first in line! even if the simpsons goes off the air soon, it will never REALLY go off the air (what with syndication and occasional references on futurama). i just hope that if the movie is made it isn't live action or hastily thrown together. there's my.02...
at first, i thought that recommending some of these books to a thirteen year old was a bit irresponsible... but then i thought about some of the stuff that i read when i was thirteen, and i realized that having her read these books is infinitely better than having her watch junk-tv all day long. so here is my list...
Gibson- Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, the Difference Engine.
Dick- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Philip K. Dick Reader (a compilation of some of his best work, like We Can Remember It For You Wholesale)
Sterling- Holy Fire
Stephenson- Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash
Heinlein- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers.
Matheson- I Am Legend (i know this fits more into horror, but it's just such a cool story... until chuck heston got his grubby paws into it, anyway)
Orwell- 1984, Animal Farm (i know it's more of a parable than anything, but it's still a dystopia, so i put it here)
Clarke- 2001-3001
Bradbury- Fahrenheit 451
Rucker- Software/Wetware/Hardware
hope that helps a little bit. if i had more time, i'd probably be able to come up with more.
exactly! i've been using linux for a little over a year and a half, and i am by no means an expert user. but i can make my way around the system pretty easy, and i understand how stuff works. but i can remember the first time i used linux, and i was using it with two of my friends who *are* linux experts. everytime i asked a question it was "yer dumb" or RTFM. when coming from a striclty MacOS and winblowz background, it is very distressing when you can't make your way around, and the MAN pages are confusing to you. compound that with the elitist attitude of pre-existing users, and it can be kind of a pain in the arse. so how is linux supposed to destroy microsloth when a lot of users won't help newbies? doesn't seem to make sense to me. i know it's a pain in the ass to constantly hold a newbies hand and guide him/her through the steps, but just remember... more likely than not, someone at some point in your life has done the same bloody thing for you. exercise your altruistic tendencies and positive karma will follow you. be an elitist and you'll come back in the next life as a slack-jawed Windows user.:)
a geek is just a condensed form of a nerd. kinda like a bullion cube, only not as salty. if anyone is really interested in the differences between geeks, nerds, spazzes, and dorks, feel free to consult my FAQ set up for just this purpose.
funny you should mention dark city. they were both shot in the same locations (sydney, australia), and a LARGE portion of the art direction crew (and other non-related crew members) worked on the matrix.
and yes, the ending to dark city reeked of cheese. but it had some pretty nice eye candy. if only it had kung fu choreography by yuen wo ping. that woulda been somethin...
i have to disagree with the anti-asian sentiment. i thought that quite a few characters in gibson's stories that were of asian decent were shown quite positively. if anything, i'd think that white people where shown negatively (hence the whole tessier-ashpool disasters). but that is just my opinion.
and a complete guide of gibson's work (to the best of my knowledge, anyway) would go like this:
Burning Chrome Neuromancer Count Zero Mona Lisa Overdrive Virtual Light Idoru All Tomorrow's Parties The Difference Engine (w/ Bruce Sterling)
if i forgot any... oops.:)
"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." -- Mahatma Ghandi
i have to agree with almost everyone in that the USPS might be a bit slow in the delivery, but the reliability is the key. they're like the el camino of postage. they might not be pretty or fast, but they could drive through a bloody wall and still get it there.
the reason why i only use the USPS (aside from the fact that relatives work there) is that some of the competition utilizes unethical business practices and treat their workers VERY poorly. anyone who watches the Awful Truth can attest to that...:)
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My company (a financial institution using tomcat 3 on AIX servers) is still using older versions of tomcat to serve up our jsp's. The main reason we use an older version is simple: tomcat can be a bitch to configure We've had tomcat 3 working for about two years, give or take, and migrating from 3 to 4 could be a potential nightmare (there are some groups who have already tried it inside the company and spent many a weekend in the office scratching their heads). While I will agree that tomcat is slower than Apache, there are tweaks that you can do to prevent the webserver from crashing and to speed things up a little bit. One such tweak is increasing the default memory allocation from whatever it is set at (i think 64MB) to 256MB(or whatever you see fit). Granted there are problems in doing this, too, but it does speed speed things up in most instances. Just make sure you have your stressball handy next time a nullPointerException rears its ugly head... :)
i find that when you see the preface "i'm not trying to be a bigot", you can just stop paying attention to the rest of the sentence. and regarding the "lack" of skilled black people in IS departments, i don't know where some of you work, but there are plenty in my dept. some are good, some are less so... though i fear being a bit redundant, that has nothing to do with the skin color, and much more to do with the drive of the person. there are just as many white coworkers (or asian, mexican, etc...) that lazy or subpar. i wish that people wouldn't try to blame it on something that has no relevance in almost every issue. and as far as sports go... they suck. go pick up a book and learn something, you dummards.
i'm sorry, but the ONLY thing that dark city had going for it was the production values. and i'm quite shocked that people have been saying that dark city had this great production value and better story, when more than half the people who worked on dark city worked on the matrix. they looked VERY similar. and how on earth is a floating city of telekentic riff-raffs more plausible than AI going out of control? maybe you should watch the matrix and dark city back to back. then you will realize the error of your ways. and if not, maybe you should just give up hope of ever being a rational human being. haha.
oh... and any movie with martial arts choreography by yuen wo ping instantly gets points with me. and last time i checked, dark city didn't have that... so there is reason #247 that it sucked my nuts.
i was *going* to put in my two cents about the poorly phrased comments of the original message, but they have already been said. so i will simply take this time to give you some worthwhile charities that anyone (geek or non-geek) should give to, as they are well worth your time and provide some much needed services.
:)
Southern Poverty Law Center
Hatewatch.org
Anti-Defamation League
Even if you don't agree with my policies, please give SOMETHING to a good cause this holiday season, whether that would be PBS or NPR or one of your own pet causes. we're so saturated with "be a good capitalist" in the media, we often forget about what truly makes a good person. give it some thought... it can give you a good break from the equally abstract concept of programming.
i find it an interesting situation... a lot of people who work in the industry caught between the dislike of giant corporations controlling our lives and government, and the need for a paycheck. makes you feel like a hippocrite, honestly. but what i find disturbing is when people who are supposedly enlightened claim that idealism is backwards or that political vigillance is nothing but the behavior of crackpots. and that they support and defend these big corporations because they happen to be on the right side of the tracks. try stepping out of your tiny little microcosm for just a few minutes and realize that just because you have it easy and make a lot of money doesn't mean these corporations you work for are just. How can you justify a corporation that makes billions of dollars in profits, and then lays off thousands of workers? how can you justify a company with record profits that hires 11 year old children to work 18 hour days making 18 cents an hour? There is such a selfish "me me me" attitude among so many people in this world, it is no wonder that peace can't be reached in the middle east or that people are shot and killed for something as simple as a pair of shoes or their sexual orientation. i'm glad to see so many people walk through life with their blinders on. i just hope that those people are the ones laid off. then maybe they can see how the other half lives...
i have worked in both the university and private sector, and have had to use novell in both. to say that they have outlived their life span is a mildy safe assumption. unless novell puts out some REALLY good products in the next few quarters, i expect to see them listed under the corporate obituaries. netware is slow, obsolete, and a waste of time with new advances made on both the *nix and M$ fronts. that's just my $.02, i guess...
i agree. if you are going to "borrow" someone's code, giving them credit is polite (though i don't think necessary as long as you change the code a bit). if it is not a commercial site borrowing the code, why make such a fuss? i've borrowed stuff from other sites to see how it worked. after editing it to my specifications, it didn't look anything like the page i borrowed it from. should i still give credit to the place i borrowed it from? i would, cuz i have no problem with giving another hard working web designer his fair dues... but if it no longer resembles it, why should i? and there are options you have to restrict people from stealing your code, like scripts that disable the view source or right click option (though i personally think those go against the freedom the internet embodies). i just think that someone made a good point earlier... when someone borrows your code and parodies your site, it is a form of flattery, as they wouldn't even be bothering with the parody unless there was something there in the first place. our whole job as web designers is to get people to view our sites, and if someone views it and likes it (or hates it) enough to parody it, i guess you must be doing something right...
if anyone wants more information (and more detailed descriptions) on molecular computing, try the june issue of wired and the june issue of scientific american. they both have great info on molecular computing. and they boast claims of storage capacities (for a 100 mL tube) of up to 125 Million TeraBytes. so try figuring out how many mp3's THAT would store. :)
well, since i'm not a programmer, i can't argue with the programming aspect of NeXT. but from what i have worked with (i am a web designer at WMU, and they still have a few NeXT boxes lying around) they're not that great. some ideas where innovative. some boggled the mind. but over all, i think they were good for the time, but as with most machines, it got outdated VERY quickly because of lack of ability to adapt. it's either Jobs' way or the highway. i'm just glad Jobs never ran for office. anyway, i think another downfall of NeXT was Jobs telling people they needed to upgrade to a very expensive machine, and after they bought it, he told them they didn't really need that one and that she should get the NEWER one because the one they just bought sucked. in business, that is pretty much handing the executioner his axe and putting your head in the basket. i personally don't like the CLI for NeXT either. but that is just my opinion.
as far as anime for beginners, i would suggest the following:
Akira (no anime collection is complet without it)
Ninja Scroll (the first one is best, imho)
Ghost in the Shell
Vampire Hunter D (they are making a live action english version right now)
i'll tell you what they are going to use this for (aside for snooping on citizens, and admittedly, criminals): Industrial Espionage. Let's just say that the Federal Bureau of Intimidation happens upon a piece of corporate email that just so happens to lay out either a plan of action in their new business strategy, or some other highly classified corporate information. They can either ignore this highly tantalizing piece of info, of they can sell it off to the highest bidder. bullshit, right? they'd never do that. wrong. they've done it before, and they will do it again. the FBI has "helped out" companies that have been cooperative with them. this will just make it easier. i'm starting to be glad i always use ssl and ssh... :)
i've seen all the version of blade runner, i've read do androids dream of electric sheep, and i'm sorry, but he is NOT an android!! as i recall, one of the only reasons deckard suspected he was an android was because he felt sorry for them when he killed them. and the only ones who felt sorry for androids were androids. but wouldn't that have been the whole point of empathy, and how he became at one with mercer? the point of empathisizing with someone is seeing where they are coming from. and feeling bad for a bunch of machines hunted like dogs for being nothing more than misunderstood certainly warrants a little empathy. and besides, he tested himself on the Voigt-Kampff test, and passed. so nyah on all of you who think he is. if you think he was an android, you have a brain filled with kipple!!
i have to agree completely. most companies view anything to do with websites as a buzzword and nothing more. i think it is just poor design skills on their part. if the content isn't good enough to get me to stay, do you really have to resort to MAKING me stay? come on... either make the site more interesting or let me leave in peace.
though i agree with quite a few of the other posts, i am shocked to see less Akira, Princess Mononoke, and Ghost in the Shell references. Maybe others just figured they were a given, but i woulda thunk they would have been brought up just in case...
I think that a lot of people are being too harsh on this season, and also too harsh on futurama (which IMHO is awesome!). this season hasn't been *that* bad... but there is no doubt that it is paling in comparison to the days when Conan, John Schwartzwelder, and Sam Simon were all writing together. if they could get all three together and write a movie in the same vein as Homer Goes to College and Rosebud (the episode with Bobo, Mr. Burn's bear), i would be first in line. hell, if they could get it HALF as funny, i'd be first in line! even if the simpsons goes off the air soon, it will never REALLY go off the air (what with syndication and occasional references on futurama). i just hope that if the movie is made it isn't live action or hastily thrown together. there's my .02...
at first, i thought that recommending some of these books to a thirteen year old was a bit irresponsible... but then i thought about some of the stuff that i read when i was thirteen, and i realized that having her read these books is infinitely better than having her watch junk-tv all day long. so here is my list...
Gibson- Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, the Difference Engine.
Dick- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Philip K. Dick Reader (a compilation of some of his best work, like We Can Remember It For You Wholesale)
Sterling- Holy Fire
Stephenson- Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash
Heinlein- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers.
Matheson- I Am Legend (i know this fits more into horror, but it's just such a cool story... until chuck heston got his grubby paws into it, anyway)
Orwell- 1984, Animal Farm (i know it's more of a parable than anything, but it's still a dystopia, so i put it here)
Clarke- 2001-3001
Bradbury- Fahrenheit 451
Rucker- Software/Wetware/Hardware
hope that helps a little bit. if i had more time, i'd probably be able to come up with more.
exactly! i've been using linux for a little over a year and a half, and i am by no means an expert user. but i can make my way around the system pretty easy, and i understand how stuff works. but i can remember the first time i used linux, and i was using it with two of my friends who *are* linux experts. everytime i asked a question it was "yer dumb" or RTFM. when coming from a striclty MacOS and winblowz background, it is very distressing when you can't make your way around, and the MAN pages are confusing to you. compound that with the elitist attitude of pre-existing users, and it can be kind of a pain in the arse. so how is linux supposed to destroy microsloth when a lot of users won't help newbies? doesn't seem to make sense to me. i know it's a pain in the ass to constantly hold a newbies hand and guide him/her through the steps, but just remember... more likely than not, someone at some point in your life has done the same bloody thing for you. exercise your altruistic tendencies and positive karma will follow you. be an elitist and you'll come back in the next life as a slack-jawed Windows user. :)
a geek is just a condensed form of a nerd. kinda like a bullion cube, only not as salty. if anyone is really interested in the differences between geeks, nerds, spazzes, and dorks, feel free to consult my FAQ set up for just this purpose.
http://drlovemd.xmtp.net
funny you should mention dark city. they were both shot in the same locations (sydney, australia), and a LARGE portion of the art direction crew (and other non-related crew members) worked on the matrix.
and yes, the ending to dark city reeked of cheese. but it had some pretty nice eye candy. if only it had kung fu choreography by yuen wo ping. that woulda been somethin...
i have to disagree with the anti-asian sentiment. i thought that quite a few characters in gibson's stories that were of asian decent were shown quite positively. if anything, i'd think that white people where shown negatively (hence the whole tessier-ashpool disasters). but that is just my opinion.
:)
and a complete guide of gibson's work (to the best of my knowledge, anyway) would go like this:
Burning Chrome
Neuromancer
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Virtual Light
Idoru
All Tomorrow's Parties
The Difference Engine (w/ Bruce Sterling)
if i forgot any... oops.
"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
-- Mahatma Ghandi
i have to agree with almost everyone in that the USPS might be a bit slow in the delivery, but the reliability is the key. they're like the el camino of postage. they might not be pretty or fast, but they could drive through a bloody wall and still get it there.
:)
the reason why i only use the USPS (aside from the fact that relatives work there) is that some of the competition utilizes unethical business practices and treat their workers VERY poorly. anyone who watches the Awful Truth can attest to that...