One thing I miss in CMD is the command completion. In bash, you can type the start of a command and get a completion. In cmd.exe, this only works if the program or batch file is in the current directory.
The registration form lets you choose a country, but the terms and conditions state that you must be a US citizen. I didn't click on the "I agree" button.
Flashback to the early days of Paypal: Someone pointed me to this new service, and when I get to the registration form, it had "Country: USA" hard coded in the HTML.
Actually, I even got a few trainings for that job. After that training, I knew Notes (actually the server component, Domino) was totally unsuitable for the project but we had to use it for political reasons. I had a hell of a time just trying to keep the system going and I was relieved when the client shut it down. It never got past the pilot phase.
After that, I never encountered any company that actually used Lotus Notes (except for one, and they just used it for email). It's hard to find anyone who really understands Lotus Notes enough to build an application with it. Most people try to impose concepts like "tables" and "indexes" on a Notes database but that doesn't work.
I've never seen a business decision that didn't have some reasoning behind it.
That's pretty much what I thought when I read the article.
Every business decision has a reason. Always. The reason might not be obvious for someone outside the company, but it exists.
Sometimes, the reason is not even clear to the people inside the company. That usually indicates there is some personal conflict at work. Or it means that someone tries to advance a personal goal, not necessary in the interest of the whole company.
I bought ApplixWare in 1996 or 1997 from Red Hat. They had a price reduction back then, making it affordable for me. (Red Hat accidentally charged the full amount to my credit card, maxing it out. But that was corrected quickly.)
After being frustrated by Word 6.0 for a few years, this was heaven. No more crashes.
I still have it on my hard disk, but it's been years since I last used it.
When I worked at the university, they had a cluster of HP/UX machines. Each machine would claim it had a "2 user license". This confused me for a while: each machine would typically have someone working at the console, and 2-3 people working at an X terminal nearby.
I asked the sysadmin about that, and he explained that HP/UX in fact counts "classes" of users. These classes would be console, network and serial port. You could have any number of logins in a certain class, but only 2 classes could be active.
In practice, this meant there was no limit: we only had network users (from the X terminals) and a console. Except on one machine: it had a dial-in connection. If someone was logged in over the phone, it would only allow a person on the console, or X terminal sessions, but not both.
I use itracker for issue tracking on a few personal projects. It's easy to set up (just drop the EAR in a JBoss installation and configure a database) and easy to use.
I think linux will read your >32GB disks just fine.
Linux (or even Windows NT/2000/XP for that matter) is not the problem. The problem is that some old BIOSes freak out on those disks and refuse to boot. The OS doesn't matter if you can't even read the boot sector.
That's about equivalent to them requiring a 32-bit processor for Windows 95 and thereby excluding everyone on a 286.
Actually, 80286 support was dropped in Windows 3.1 (AKA Windows For Workgroups). WFW could only run 16 bit code [1], but it needed the virtual memory features of a 80386.
[1] Except if you installed "win32s", a subset of the Win32 API.
When I read the article, I was constantly thinking: "hey, Eclipse does that as well." And then, when the author expains why it's bad in VS, I realized Eclipse does it different, avoiding the problem he has with it.
Many corporate sites start of as a set of static pages with a "Contact us" web form. ASP is typically used for that as it requires only minimal programming effort.
Later on, when more dynamic content is added, they will often stick with IIS since they already know it.
Actually, RUP is delivered as a set of HTML pages, with a search/navigation applet. You drop it onto your disk, point your browser to the index page and you're off.
The process describes how to organize a project from the start (business analysis) to the rollout of the application. For each phase in the project, it defines a set of "artifacts" and guidelines (who is responsible, what should be in there, is it mandatory...). Apart from that, there are a couple of examples and a set of templates.
I looked at Debian's people page, and I counted 1506 entries. These people are actively maintaining a part of Debian.
How? I grepped for "<a name=", which seems to match the correct lines. There are several "group" entries, so this number is only a rough estimate. (A group implies at least one member, but some people belong to more than one group.)
Way back in 1997, I was responsible for 2 NT machines. One was running NT3.51, the other NT4. Both had TCP/IP installed. (I didn't install the NT3 machine. It might have been a third-party driver.) They even ran an FTP server to exchange data with the VAX.
At the first opportunity, I replaced the NT3 with NT4 - to save me the trouble of managing 2 different systems.
NT4 sets up NetBEUI by default. I assume MS wanted networking to work without additional configuration. For TCP/IP, you'd need to specify an address for each machine, or a DHCP server (that needs to be configured itself).
Win2k uses TCP/IP by default, but it also supports zeroconf, so you don't need to set up a DHCP server.
On Websphere, commons-logging plugs into Websphere's own logging facility. I do all my logging that way. If I ever need to deploy the application to another application server, I'll just need to configure log4j or JDK 1.4's logging.
Apart from that, it's a light-weight library, easy to use (very similar to log4j).
m0 is defined as the mass at rest (v = 0). If you substitute m = m0 / sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2), you can rework that to E = mc^2. And, if v = 0, you get E0 = m0c^2, the "energy at rest" of an object.
I agree with the original poster, the full version is much more useful than the E = mc^2 form. The short form hides one of the most important conclusions of relativity theory: that mass is a function of speed.
They were taking a programming class, and they had a lab exercise. After the first person had finished, they called in the teacher for their quotation.
The teacher sits down, and starts whacking on the keyboard. Pretty soon, the program crashed and the teacher left the pupil to recover from the shock and fix it.
After a few assignments, the pupils started to "gorilla test" their programs themselves.
I'm not sure, but MS Bob probably predates their love of the internet.
When MS first became aware of the importance of the internet (somewhere in 1995), they started up MSN. MSN was supposed to become a "Microsoft Internet", with all content provided by MS. Something like AOL or Compuserve before they connected to the internet.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, people prefered the "real" internet over a proprietary online service [1], and MSN had to be revamped into a regular ISP. Since they couldn't provide a real advantage, MSN wasn't very successful as an ISP.
[1] AOL, Compuserve and other services like them had to do the same.
Last year, I got a new (company) laptop, and it doesn't have a floppy or serial port. During the roll-out, they asked everyone whether they needed a floppy and/or serial port. I asked for (and got) a USB floppy drive, but I didn't bother with the serial port.
Until now, I haven't used the floppy drive. When I have access to a network, I use that for data transfer. For those times where there is no network (not even wireless), I have a 128 MB USB flash disk.
At home, I rarely use floppies as well. (Just the occasional boot disk, and bootable CD-ROMs are gradually replacing those.)
The only thing I ever connected to a serial port, was my modem. And that went away when I got a cable modem.
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Version 3.5 exists only as a DVD version. Check this page if you want to download it.
My girlfriend's account also has 2MB, and I have been wondering about when they would upgrade that. Last week, I looked around in the online help, and there they claim they're busy upgrading all accounts.
If they need so much time to get everyone to 10MB (or was that 25MB?), how long will it go to 2GB?
VMS does something similar: it remembers when you enter a bad password, and after a few times it will lock from that terminal for a while. During that period, it would refuse access no matter what password you type.
The lock-out period is randomized, so an attacker would have to guess when it was over.
Limiting the number of login attempts is not such a bad idea: if you don't remember your password, you give up after a few tries and call the admin. If someone tries to log in dozens of times, it's bound to be an attack.
If the account unlocks automatically after a while, the chances of a large-scale DOS are limited as well.
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One thing I miss in CMD is the command completion. In bash, you can type the start of a command and get a completion. In cmd.exe, this only works if the program or batch file is in the current directory.
cmd.exe's completion is a bit strange if you're used to bash, but once you get to know it, you can get around quite well.
Example:
Before Windows XP, you had to activate the tab character by changing a registry key. XP has this set by default.
The registration form lets you choose a country, but the terms and conditions state that you must be a US citizen. I didn't click on the "I agree" button.
Flashback to the early days of Paypal: Someone pointed me to this new service, and when I get to the registration form, it had "Country: USA" hard coded in the HTML.
Actually, I even got a few trainings for that job. After that training, I knew Notes (actually the server component, Domino) was totally unsuitable for the project but we had to use it for political reasons. I had a hell of a time just trying to keep the system going and I was relieved when the client shut it down. It never got past the pilot phase.
After that, I never encountered any company that actually used Lotus Notes (except for one, and they just used it for email). It's hard to find anyone who really understands Lotus Notes enough to build an application with it. Most people try to impose concepts like "tables" and "indexes" on a Notes database but that doesn't work.
That's pretty much what I thought when I read the article.
Every business decision has a reason. Always. The reason might not be obvious for someone outside the company, but it exists.
Sometimes, the reason is not even clear to the people inside the company. That usually indicates there is some personal conflict at work. Or it means that someone tries to advance a personal goal, not necessary in the interest of the whole company.
Windows, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.
And if you rename all your pages to ".aspx", you may call it a ".NET deployment".
I bought ApplixWare in 1996 or 1997 from Red Hat. They had a price reduction back then, making it affordable for me. (Red Hat accidentally charged the full amount to my credit card, maxing it out. But that was corrected quickly.)
After being frustrated by Word 6.0 for a few years, this was heaven. No more crashes.
I still have it on my hard disk, but it's been years since I last used it.
When I worked at the university, they had a cluster of HP/UX machines. Each machine would claim it had a "2 user license". This confused me for a while: each machine would typically have someone working at the console, and 2-3 people working at an X terminal nearby.
I asked the sysadmin about that, and he explained that HP/UX in fact counts "classes" of users. These classes would be console, network and serial port. You could have any number of logins in a certain class, but only 2 classes could be active.
In practice, this meant there was no limit: we only had network users (from the X terminals) and a console. Except on one machine: it had a dial-in connection. If someone was logged in over the phone, it would only allow a person on the console, or X terminal sessions, but not both.
I use itracker for issue tracking on a few personal projects. It's easy to set up (just drop the EAR in a JBoss installation and configure a database) and easy to use.
Not too fancy, but it should do the trick.
I was looking for that a while ago and I found ConsultComm.
You can define a number of projects and groups and you switch between them by clicking on the one you want.
I think linux will read your >32GB disks just fine.
Linux (or even Windows NT/2000/XP for that matter) is not the problem. The problem is that some old BIOSes freak out on those disks and refuse to boot. The OS doesn't matter if you can't even read the boot sector.
That's about equivalent to them requiring a 32-bit processor for Windows 95 and thereby excluding everyone on a 286.
Actually, 80286 support was dropped in Windows 3.1 (AKA Windows For Workgroups). WFW could only run 16 bit code [1], but it needed the virtual memory features of a 80386.
[1] Except if you installed "win32s", a subset of the Win32 API.
When I read the article, I was constantly thinking: "hey, Eclipse does that as well." And then, when the author expains why it's bad in VS, I realized Eclipse does it different, avoiding the problem he has with it.
One word: ASP.
Many corporate sites start of as a set of static pages with a "Contact us" web form. ASP is typically used for that as it requires only minimal programming effort.
Later on, when more dynamic content is added, they will often stick with IIS since they already know it.
Yawn. Books and stuff.
Actually, RUP is delivered as a set of HTML pages, with a search/navigation applet. You drop it onto your disk, point your browser to the index page and you're off.
The process describes how to organize a project from the start (business analysis) to the rollout of the application. For each phase in the project, it defines a set of "artifacts" and guidelines (who is responsible, what should be in there, is it mandatory...). Apart from that, there are a couple of examples and a set of templates.
But I suppose you'll find this boring as well. ;-)
I looked at Debian's people page, and I counted 1506 entries. These people are actively maintaining a part of Debian.
How? I grepped for "<a name=", which seems to match the correct lines. There are several "group" entries, so this number is only a rough estimate. (A group implies at least one member, but some people belong to more than one group.)
Way back in 1997, I was responsible for 2 NT machines. One was running NT3.51, the other NT4. Both had TCP/IP installed. (I didn't install the NT3 machine. It might have been a third-party driver.) They even ran an FTP server to exchange data with the VAX.
At the first opportunity, I replaced the NT3 with NT4 - to save me the trouble of managing 2 different systems.
NT4 sets up NetBEUI by default. I assume MS wanted networking to work without additional configuration. For TCP/IP, you'd need to specify an address for each machine, or a DHCP server (that needs to be configured itself).
Win2k uses TCP/IP by default, but it also supports zeroconf, so you don't need to set up a DHCP server.
On Websphere, commons-logging plugs into Websphere's own logging facility. I do all my logging that way. If I ever need to deploy the application to another application server, I'll just need to configure log4j or JDK 1.4's logging.
Apart from that, it's a light-weight library, easy to use (very similar to log4j).
It's actually E^2 = (m^2 * c^4) + (p^2 * c^2)
More like: E^2 = (m0^2 * c^4) + (p^2 * c^2)
m0 is defined as the mass at rest (v = 0). If you substitute m = m0 / sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2), you can rework that to E = mc^2. And, if v = 0, you get E0 = m0c^2, the "energy at rest" of an object.
I agree with the original poster, the full version is much more useful than the E = mc^2 form. The short form hides one of the most important conclusions of relativity theory: that mass is a function of speed.
This story was told by a couple of friends:
They were taking a programming class, and they had a lab exercise. After the first person had finished, they called in the teacher for their quotation.
The teacher sits down, and starts whacking on the keyboard. Pretty soon, the program crashed and the teacher left the pupil to recover from the shock and fix it.
After a few assignments, the pupils started to "gorilla test" their programs themselves.
I'm not sure, but MS Bob probably predates their love of the internet.
When MS first became aware of the importance of the internet (somewhere in 1995), they started up MSN. MSN was supposed to become a "Microsoft Internet", with all content provided by MS. Something like AOL or Compuserve before they connected to the internet.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, people prefered the "real" internet over a proprietary online service [1], and MSN had to be revamped into a regular ISP. Since they couldn't provide a real advantage, MSN wasn't very successful as an ISP.
[1] AOL, Compuserve and other services like them had to do the same.
Last year, I got a new (company) laptop, and it doesn't have a floppy or serial port. During the roll-out, they asked everyone whether they needed a floppy and/or serial port. I asked for (and got) a USB floppy drive, but I didn't bother with the serial port.
Until now, I haven't used the floppy drive. When I have access to a network, I use that for data transfer. For those times where there is no network (not even wireless), I have a 128 MB USB flash disk.
At home, I rarely use floppies as well. (Just the occasional boot disk, and bootable CD-ROMs are gradually replacing those.)
The only thing I ever connected to a serial port, was my modem. And that went away when I got a cable modem.
Version 3.5 exists only as a DVD version. Check this page if you want to download it.
My girlfriend's account also has 2MB, and I have been wondering about when they would upgrade that. Last week, I looked around in the online help, and there they claim they're busy upgrading all accounts.
If they need so much time to get everyone to 10MB (or was that 25MB?), how long will it go to 2GB?
VMS does something similar: it remembers when you enter a bad password, and after a few times it will lock from that terminal for a while. During that period, it would refuse access no matter what password you type. The lock-out period is randomized, so an attacker would have to guess when it was over.
Limiting the number of login attempts is not such a bad idea: if you don't remember your password, you give up after a few tries and call the admin. If someone tries to log in dozens of times, it's bound to be an attack.
If the account unlocks automatically after a while, the chances of a large-scale DOS are limited as well.