Gramatica is THE best grammar checker I have ever used. It was written by a couple of PhD's in English who happened to get into computer science fairly early on. The triviality and incorrectness of Word's current grammar checker is appalling since Gramatica did a MUCH better job 10 years ago.
Well, this was for their supplier facing warehouse app which was their most crucial system. The database itself ran on a SunFire 10K and the frontend was a cluster of UnixWare systems running an old custom app connected to dialup banks and more recently a TCP/IP term emulator. The complete system was replicated from their main location to the local distribution center where their new backup datacenter was located.
RAID 0+1 sucks, it can only sustain a single drive failure. RAID 10 (1+0) can sustain multiple drive failures without data loss under the right circumstances. The cool thing about RAID 10 is that you can use a pair of mirrored drive sets and use software to do the striping at near zero cost and you get controller redundancy! (most people who do RAID 10 will use the built in RAID1 controller and an addon two port RAID controller)
Blah, Ohio did the exact opposite, forcing you to have dial tone service (including all the mandatory regulatory fees) in order to get DSL. This REALLY sucks as it A)forces DSL providers to become become a CLEC or partner with one even if they don't want to and B)forces me to get dialtone even if all I want is DSL on a dry pair.
I interview earlier this year for a position with a large national autoparts chain, while talking about their systems they mentioned that a large amount of their legacy stuff was dialup to UnixWare servers. I asked them what their feelings were re: the longterm viability of SCO and what their contingency plans were if SCO were to fold. They basically said that they had been thinking of moving to Linux but had made no actual moves towards doing so and that they felt that even if SCO folded that someone else would buy the IP and continue the license. I responded that I doubted whoever bought the IP would continue to offer UnixWare but would rather buy it to be able to controll their own Unix product entirely and would drop UnixWare. They didn't seem too pleased with that assesment. Maybe that's why I didn't get the job but I would rather not have been hired on and then asked to clean up the mess in the future!
Well I can only prove it insofar as my clients setups do not allow users to install software and yet they still get this crap, even the ones who use alternative email clients like Novell Groupwise. The only vector on those machines is IE and they still get hijacked six ways from sunday.
Yeah, IE "works" for hundreds of thousands of people, that's why spyware sites occupy so many of the top 100 most hit sites on the web. The people using those computers generally have no desire to visit those sites, their hijacked computer does it automatically for them, that's really working now isn't it!
NOT. The Canon EOS D300/Digital Rebel which is compatible with almost all EF series lenses, and has its own line of EF-S lenses can be had for only ~$950 bundled with a great 18-55 EF-S autofocus lense. Of course once you've caught the bug you can easily spend thousands on new lenses but the barrier to entry in the DSLR world has come crashing down with several competitors offering similarly priced models (though AFAIK none of them have as good of a lense on their ~$1K DSLR's)
Yeah but when you convert you lose the ability to do all of the advanced image manipulation stuff based on sensor information. There are tons of different transforms that work MUCH better if they have the info directly from the sensors rather than a pixel value extrapolated from those values. Personally I think I would run Photoshop and my camera vendors RAW utilities under xover office before just dumping the data to TIFF, otherwise why not just use superfine JPEG?
It has to do with slashcode producing REALLY ugly non-conforming HTML. The reason that it's random has to do with character spacing AFAIK. The fact that IE doesn't puke on the horrible HTML has no reflection on the quality of IE or Mozilla.
No, it doesn't. Check out WordPerfect Java, Novell ConsoleOne, or any other large Java project for a real world counter example. Java applications are slow to load for any meaningfull piece of client side software. Java works wonderfully for middleware applications but is simply the wrong tool for client side software. When I can reboot the computer and load MCC faster than I can start ConsolOne there is something seriously amiss (and no jokes about having to reboot, I have windows PC's with 200 day uptimes limited only by patching sessions, which is true for any properly maintained OS).
Uh, I use the Citrix web client with Mozilla just fine thank you very much. The presentation server client is about as supported as any piece of software out there. For a list of supported client OS's see this page. As you can see there are a TON of supported platforms.
All of MY clients already have that. It's called Terminal Server/MetaFrame. You can access your application from anywhere in the world where you have a web browser and the ability to install a single plugin. All you need is a 28.8 modem or better and a password. Updates are handled centrally on the farm, but are still controlled by the clients, not MS. With central storage and replication disaster recovry is solved easily, all you need to do is update a DNS record and suddenly everyone is pointed to your backup data center. Btw there is NO way I could do my job without the net, probably 60% of my time is spent working remotely on client systems, it makes little sense to drive an hour each way to a client to apply a five minute fix.
That's funny Moore's Law says that the number of transistors per area will tend to double every (18 or 24 months depending on which part of Gordon Moore's career you listen to him). More cores per chip with better processes does nothing to stop this progression.
6x400GiB in RAID5 would in fact be 2TiB. The general formula is (capacity) * (number of drives -1). For enterprise use this isn't necessarily true as you generally use larger numbers of spindles and leave one or more drives per set as hot spares.
Amen, generally within 5-10% of the cheapest prices on pricewatch and you don't get jerked around or lead on a wild goose chase trying to correct the merchants inventory errors.
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Gramatica is THE best grammar checker I have ever used. It was written by a couple of PhD's in English who happened to get into computer science fairly early on. The triviality and incorrectness of Word's current grammar checker is appalling since Gramatica did a MUCH better job 10 years ago.
I'll chime in and say that National City and Fleet Boston both work fine with Mozilla.
Well, this was for their supplier facing warehouse app which was their most crucial system. The database itself ran on a SunFire 10K and the frontend was a cluster of UnixWare systems running an old custom app connected to dialup banks and more recently a TCP/IP term emulator. The complete system was replicated from their main location to the local distribution center where their new backup datacenter was located.
RAID 0+1 sucks, it can only sustain a single drive failure. RAID 10 (1+0) can sustain multiple drive failures without data loss under the right circumstances. The cool thing about RAID 10 is that you can use a pair of mirrored drive sets and use software to do the striping at near zero cost and you get controller redundancy! (most people who do RAID 10 will use the built in RAID1 controller and an addon two port RAID controller)
*sigh* nope, CarQuest automotive.
Blah, Ohio did the exact opposite, forcing you to have dial tone service (including all the mandatory regulatory fees) in order to get DSL. This REALLY sucks as it A)forces DSL providers to become become a CLEC or partner with one even if they don't want to and B)forces me to get dialtone even if all I want is DSL on a dry pair.
bzzt. Man you guys have basically guessed everyone BUT the company I interview with =)
Nope. I'll give you a hint, they are about as big as the last two guesses combined.
nope.
Nope, a competitor.
I interview earlier this year for a position with a large national autoparts chain, while talking about their systems they mentioned that a large amount of their legacy stuff was dialup to UnixWare servers. I asked them what their feelings were re: the longterm viability of SCO and what their contingency plans were if SCO were to fold. They basically said that they had been thinking of moving to Linux but had made no actual moves towards doing so and that they felt that even if SCO folded that someone else would buy the IP and continue the license. I responded that I doubted whoever bought the IP would continue to offer UnixWare but would rather buy it to be able to controll their own Unix product entirely and would drop UnixWare. They didn't seem too pleased with that assesment. Maybe that's why I didn't get the job but I would rather not have been hired on and then asked to clean up the mess in the future!
Well I can only prove it insofar as my clients setups do not allow users to install software and yet they still get this crap, even the ones who use alternative email clients like Novell Groupwise. The only vector on those machines is IE and they still get hijacked six ways from sunday.
Yeah, IE "works" for hundreds of thousands of people, that's why spyware sites occupy so many of the top 100 most hit sites on the web. The people using those computers generally have no desire to visit those sites, their hijacked computer does it automatically for them, that's really working now isn't it!
NOT. The Canon EOS D300/Digital Rebel which is compatible with almost all EF series lenses, and has its own line of EF-S lenses can be had for only ~$950 bundled with a great 18-55 EF-S autofocus lense. Of course once you've caught the bug you can easily spend thousands on new lenses but the barrier to entry in the DSLR world has come crashing down with several competitors offering similarly priced models (though AFAIK none of them have as good of a lense on their ~$1K DSLR's)
Yeah but when you convert you lose the ability to do all of the advanced image manipulation stuff based on sensor information. There are tons of different transforms that work MUCH better if they have the info directly from the sensors rather than a pixel value extrapolated from those values. Personally I think I would run Photoshop and my camera vendors RAW utilities under xover office before just dumping the data to TIFF, otherwise why not just use superfine JPEG?
It has to do with slashcode producing REALLY ugly non-conforming HTML. The reason that it's random has to do with character spacing AFAIK. The fact that IE doesn't puke on the horrible HTML has no reflection on the quality of IE or Mozilla.
~11 seconds Mozilla 1.8a1, XP, 3000/512 cable.
No, it doesn't. Check out WordPerfect Java, Novell ConsoleOne, or any other large Java project for a real world counter example. Java applications are slow to load for any meaningfull piece of client side software. Java works wonderfully for middleware applications but is simply the wrong tool for client side software. When I can reboot the computer and load MCC faster than I can start ConsolOne there is something seriously amiss (and no jokes about having to reboot, I have windows PC's with 200 day uptimes limited only by patching sessions, which is true for any properly maintained OS).
Uh, I use the Citrix web client with Mozilla just fine thank you very much. The presentation server client is about as supported as any piece of software out there. For a list of supported client OS's see this page. As you can see there are a TON of supported platforms.
All of MY clients already have that. It's called Terminal Server/MetaFrame. You can access your application from anywhere in the world where you have a web browser and the ability to install a single plugin. All you need is a 28.8 modem or better and a password. Updates are handled centrally on the farm, but are still controlled by the clients, not MS. With central storage and replication disaster recovry is solved easily, all you need to do is update a DNS record and suddenly everyone is pointed to your backup data center. Btw there is NO way I could do my job without the net, probably 60% of my time is spent working remotely on client systems, it makes little sense to drive an hour each way to a client to apply a five minute fix.
What's the fibre uplink, Gb Ethernet?
That's funny Moore's Law says that the number of transistors per area will tend to double every (18 or 24 months depending on which part of Gordon Moore's career you listen to him). More cores per chip with better processes does nothing to stop this progression.
Array Capacity: (Size of Smallest Drive) * (Number of Drives - 1). linky
and
Capacity N-1 Where N is the number of disks, the capacity is N minus 1.
linky.
6x400GiB in RAID5 would in fact be 2TiB. The general formula is (capacity) * (number of drives -1). For enterprise use this isn't necessarily true as you generally use larger numbers of spindles and leave one or more drives per set as hot spares.
Amen, generally within 5-10% of the cheapest prices on pricewatch and you don't get jerked around or lead on a wild goose chase trying to correct the merchants inventory errors.