CSS is a wonderful concept and works as long as positional references are excluded. I've copied examples from several CSS books where the authors were trying to demonstrate multicolumn layouts (the kind that most sites use tables for) with fixed headers and/or footers and a left navigation pane only to discover that the only browser that this worked on was s specific version of Netscape Navigator (i.e. the one that the authors used).
"The last time I tried it, it was the worst IDE I'd ever used,"
Updating KDevelop to run on RH Linux 7.2 was a true nightmare. Eventually I wound up running a combination of MS Visual Studio 6, X server to Linux (X-Win32) and Gnu DDD. Not exactly an IDE but it's a productivity setup, unlike my experience with KDevelop.
We should always remember the tens of billions of dollars poured into the giants of Web 1.0 like Tripod.com, geocities.com, go.com, and Lycos.com. The venture capitalists always put their money where their brain is.
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"Do you prefer Oracle or DB2 for your guestbook or forum?;)"
That sounds like a job for an XML file that you append entries onto.
...Discarding a $170 million project as "useless" because there are bugs seems kind of silly.
The real gist of the Washington Post article is that instead of getting a shrink wrapped document management app that works (i.e. Mambo, DocuShare http://docushare.xerox.com/ , DB2 Document Manager http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cm/docmgr/ ), and customizing the working app, the FBI in all of its infinite wisdom decided to contract with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to write one from scratch.
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decnumber.htmlThe decNumber library implements the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification[1] in ANSI C. This specification defines a decimal arithmetic which meets the requirements of commercial, financial, and human-oriented applications.
The library fully implements the specification, and hence supports integer, fixed-point, and floating-point decimal numbers directly, including infinite, NaN (Not a Number), and subnormal values.
The code is optimized and tunable for common values (tens of digits) but can be used without alteration for up to a billion digits of precision and 9-digit exponents. It also provides functions for conversions between concrete representations of decimal numbers, including Packed Decimal (4-bit Binary Coded Decimal) and three compressed formats of decimal floating-point (4-, 8-, and 16-byte).
"But Ajax makes it so you only download the updated information instead of a whole page with all the layout and previous information"
In theory you may be right. In practice this is not what I have seen. http://www.wireimage.com/ is an AJAX site that loads the whole damn page every single time. On broadband (768k DSL), wireimage.com can be a true pain in the ass to use.
"My company is still on a modified RedHat 8.0. What are you planning to move to?"
That's a pretty good point. I suspect some of the Ubuntu users switch OS's more often than some people change their underwear.
We've got a couple of RH6.2 print servers (4 printers hooked up to each server) and several RH7.2 file servers and RH7.2 e-mail and database servers. If it ain't broke, there is no reason to fix it. Upgrading glibc, gcc, Samba, Apache and sendmail are the only things we've done.
A friend of mine has certifications as an MCSE and a CNE. When I tell him to run "ipconfig/all" and "route print" (on his WinXP machine), the look of consternation and confusion on his face is priceless.
Simple solution: Control Panel -> Automatic Updates -> Turn Off Automatic Updates ( or select "Notify Me but don't automatically download or install them")
By default, I have automatic updates turned off since I consider M$'s automatic updates to be a nuisance.
Nice point except most banking/financial institutions I've seen are running IIS/ASP/MSSQL Server. Not only that these same firms are hell bent on going Dot Net/ASP.NET
Microsoft used to work on a bunch of different software. About 15 years ago, we had a multiline voicemail application that ran on OS/2 v1.2 that was written by Microsoft.
Microsoft's multiline voicemail app would not run on later versions of OS/2. It was a non-GUI text app that (for a Microsoft product) was incredibly robust and almost bulletproof. Too bad there was no documentation, and the help files were a joke.
When I look at the ROR real world sites http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RealWorldU sagePage1 I would love to see some medium level (or higher) financial institutions on here. Then again many public utility companies (gas, electric, water, phone, and credit card companies as well) allow customers to pay and review their account online. The lack of these transaction heavy companies running ROR leads me to believe that the ROR evangelists do a great job hyping ROR but the big boys don't seem to be buying into the ROR self-promotion.
I wouldn't spend alot of time worrying about benchmarks. Most people who buy computers have very simple needs: surf the web, check their e-mail, maintain a contact list, keep a calendar, run Micro$oft Office. For them, a P3 800mhz with 256 megs of RAM is easily overkill. The proliferation of Blackberrys, iPods, Treos and various other smartphones/handheld devices reinforces this belief.
The slowing sales at AMD and Intel is indicative of the fact that computing power far exceeds what most users need. Even Micro$oft's next generation of slow-me-down-and-hog-the-cpu operating system will probably be of little help to AMD or Intel since I think the only people who are going to be getting Longhorn are people buying new systems or basement dwelling geeknoids.
... And since Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are the two largest holders of Microsoft stock, I would say that those two will decide who is on the Board of Directors, and what positions will be held.
The problem with most coffee is the acid that cames out when brewing with hot/boiling water. Cold brewed coffee keeps the acid locked up in the coffee grinds and is very gentle on the stomach.
I pay no attention to surveys like this one from the Yankee group.
Our Redhat file server was running 24x7 for 18 straight months until I had to shut it down to replace the network card and add another hard drive. Downtime was no more than two hours. It's been online 24x7 for almost 9 months since then.
We've got a pair of Redhat print servers that also run 24x7. Downtime on those for the last two years is no more than a few hours due to power failures (these machines are not plugged into UPS's).
The Redhat linux mail server we've got has no more than eight hours a year of downtime, the culprit on this seems to be mime-defang getting out of hand when spammers flood our mail server.
I suspect that many customers have the impression their current computers are "too slow" because of all the spyware and viruses they are choked with. I wonder how long it will be until their new machines suffer the same fate.
I set up the networking for a couple of brand new Dell machines. The new machines were slower than dogshit and the networking was erratic. The problem was all of the software that came with the Dells. Once I deleted a whole crapload of startup entries from the system registry (in the Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run branch) suddenly the computers were lightning fast and networking worked like a charm.
Too many software vendors try and load their software when Windows starts up. And many of these same software packages also try to "phone home" and check if an update is available at startup as well. This is almost as bad as spyware and malware.
Thank God I use DivX. It's alot better than Microsoft's horifically crappy Windows Media Video format. The codecs for WMV 7, 8 and 9 truly masterful works of insideous garbage.
"There is no abstraction layer to the database; most work is done directly using SQL. The DB layout is a nightmare, and the queries are painful to look at and even worse to work with."
This is what gets to me about people doing stuff that runs on *nix systems. UnixODBC http://www.unixodbc.org/ gives you the database abstraction layer. Why Heck! Using UnixODBC in a PHP project like OsCommerce should allow it to run unfettered on Windows servers. The only problem I've run into with UnixODBC is some vendors odbc drivers are sparingly implemented (MySQL's driver comes to mind. The FreeTDS driver (for Sybase/MS SQL Server) is quite good).
From the UnixODBC website: "The two major advantages of choosing to code an application to the ODBC API are; Portable Data Access Code The ODBC API, as outlined by X/Open and ISO, is availible on all major platforms. Microsoft platforms include many enhancements to this specification; these enhancements are also supported by unixODBC "
You're being bypercritical of the OP. At best his site is pretty ordinary for an e-commerce site. At worst his site is pretty ordinary for an e-commerce site.
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CSS is a wonderful concept and works as long as positional references are excluded. I've copied examples from several CSS books where the authors were trying to demonstrate multicolumn layouts (the kind that most sites use tables for) with fixed headers and/or footers and a left navigation pane only to discover that the only browser that this worked on was s specific version of Netscape Navigator (i.e. the one that the authors used).
"The last time I tried it, it was the worst IDE I'd ever used,"
Updating KDevelop to run on RH Linux 7.2 was a true nightmare. Eventually I wound up running a combination of MS Visual Studio 6, X server to Linux (X-Win32) and Gnu DDD. Not exactly an IDE but it's a productivity setup, unlike my experience with KDevelop.
"This guy seeded alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen, and clearly did it with the intention of catching paedophiles. I'd say it's justified."
:p
Not only that, it also explains why sites don't get Slashdotted like they used to.
We should always remember the tens of billions of dollars poured into the giants of Web 1.0 like Tripod.com, geocities.com, go.com, and Lycos.com. The venture capitalists always put their money where their brain is.
"Do you prefer Oracle or DB2 for your guestbook or forum? ;)"
That sounds like a job for an XML file that you append entries onto.
...Discarding a $170 million project as "useless" because there are bugs seems kind of silly.
The real gist of the Washington Post article is that instead of getting a shrink wrapped document management app that works (i.e. Mambo, DocuShare http://docushare.xerox.com/ , DB2 Document Manager http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cm/docmgr/ ), and customizing the working app, the FBI in all of its infinite wisdom decided to contract with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to write one from scratch.
This is why I use the decNumber library from IBM.
l The decNumber library implements the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification[1] in ANSI C. This specification defines a decimal arithmetic which meets the requirements of commercial, financial, and human-oriented applications.
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decnumber.htm
The library fully implements the specification, and hence supports integer, fixed-point, and floating-point decimal numbers directly, including infinite, NaN (Not a Number), and subnormal values.
The code is optimized and tunable for common values (tens of digits) but can be used without alteration for up to a billion digits of precision and 9-digit exponents. It also provides functions for conversions between concrete representations of decimal numbers, including Packed Decimal (4-bit Binary Coded Decimal) and three compressed formats of decimal floating-point (4-, 8-, and 16-byte).
"But Ajax makes it so you only download the updated information instead of a whole page with all the layout and previous information"
In theory you may be right. In practice this is not what I have seen. http://www.wireimage.com/ is an AJAX site that loads the whole damn page every single time. On broadband (768k DSL), wireimage.com can be a true pain in the ass to use.
"ATLAS is a cross-browser AJAX framework, and Visual Studio 2005 produces valid, meaningful XHTML."
More important, will the final product run on a non-Microsoft web server?
"My company is still on a modified RedHat 8.0. What are you planning to move to?"
That's a pretty good point. I suspect some of the Ubuntu users switch OS's more often than some people change their underwear.
We've got a couple of RH6.2 print servers (4 printers hooked up to each server) and several RH7.2 file servers and RH7.2 e-mail and database servers. If it ain't broke, there is no reason to fix it. Upgrading glibc, gcc, Samba, Apache and sendmail are the only things we've done.
Good point.
/all" and "route print" (on his WinXP machine), the look of consternation and confusion on his face is priceless.
A friend of mine has certifications as an MCSE and a CNE. When I tell him to run "ipconfig
Simple solution:
Control Panel -> Automatic Updates -> Turn Off Automatic Updates ( or select "Notify Me but don't automatically download or install them")
By default, I have automatic updates turned off since I consider M$'s automatic updates to be a nuisance.
Nice point except most banking/financial institutions I've seen are running IIS/ASP/MSSQL Server. Not only that these same firms are hell bent on going Dot Net/ASP.NET
Microsoft used to work on a bunch of different software. About 15 years ago, we had a multiline voicemail application that ran on OS/2 v1.2 that was written by Microsoft.
Microsoft's multiline voicemail app would not run on later versions of OS/2. It was a non-GUI text app that (for a Microsoft product) was incredibly robust and almost bulletproof. Too bad there was no documentation, and the help files were a joke.
LOL. You're right.
U sagePage1 I would love to see some medium level (or higher) financial institutions on here. Then again many public utility companies (gas, electric, water, phone, and credit card companies as well) allow customers to pay and review their account online. The lack of these transaction heavy companies running ROR leads me to believe that the ROR evangelists do a great job hyping ROR but the big boys don't seem to be buying into the ROR self-promotion.
When I look at the ROR real world sites http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RealWorld
I wouldn't spend alot of time worrying about benchmarks. Most people who buy computers have very simple needs: surf the web, check their e-mail, maintain a contact list, keep a calendar, run Micro$oft Office. For them, a P3 800mhz with 256 megs of RAM is easily overkill. The proliferation of Blackberrys, iPods, Treos and various other smartphones/handheld devices reinforces this belief.
The slowing sales at AMD and Intel is indicative of the fact that computing power far exceeds what most users need. Even Micro$oft's next generation of slow-me-down-and-hog-the-cpu operating system will probably be of little help to AMD or Intel since I think the only people who are going to be getting Longhorn are people buying new systems or basement dwelling geeknoids.
A huge chunk of Perl is nothing more than a thin wrapper around C library calls. Other than that, great point!
... And since Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are the two largest holders of Microsoft stock, I would say that those two will decide who is on the Board of Directors, and what positions will be held.
The problem with most coffee is the acid that cames out when brewing with hot/boiling water. Cold brewed coffee keeps the acid locked up in the coffee grinds and is very gentle on the stomach.
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http://www.toddycafe.com/about/news_cooking_light
I pay no attention to surveys like this one from the Yankee group.
Our Redhat file server was running 24x7 for 18 straight months until I had to shut it down to replace the network card and add another hard drive. Downtime was no more than two hours. It's been online 24x7 for almost 9 months since then.
We've got a pair of Redhat print servers that also run 24x7. Downtime on those for the last two years is no more than a few hours due to power failures (these machines are not plugged into UPS's).
The Redhat linux mail server we've got has no more than eight hours a year of downtime, the culprit on this seems to be mime-defang getting out of hand when spammers flood our mail server.
But hairy smelly guys with Cheeto encrusted fingers. Those are the people who do Open Source.
I suspect that many customers have the impression their current computers are "too slow" because of all the spyware and viruses they are choked with. I wonder how long it will be until their new machines suffer the same fate.
I set up the networking for a couple of brand new Dell machines. The new machines were slower than dogshit and the networking was erratic. The problem was all of the software that came with the Dells. Once I deleted a whole crapload of startup entries from the system registry (in the Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run branch) suddenly the computers were lightning fast and networking worked like a charm.
Too many software vendors try and load their software when Windows starts up. And many of these same software packages also try to "phone home" and check if an update is available at startup as well. This is almost as bad as spyware and malware.
I'm glad Lucent is suing Microsoft.
Thank God I use DivX. It's alot better than Microsoft's horifically crappy Windows Media Video format. The codecs for WMV 7, 8 and 9 truly masterful works of insideous garbage.
"There is no abstraction layer to the database; most work is done directly using SQL. The DB layout is a nightmare, and the queries are painful to look at and even worse to work with."
This is what gets to me about people doing stuff that runs on *nix systems. UnixODBC http://www.unixodbc.org/ gives you the database abstraction layer. Why Heck! Using UnixODBC in a PHP project like OsCommerce should allow it to run unfettered on Windows servers. The only problem I've run into with UnixODBC is some vendors odbc drivers are sparingly implemented (MySQL's driver comes to mind. The FreeTDS driver (for Sybase/MS SQL Server) is quite good).
From the UnixODBC website: "The two major advantages of choosing to code an application to the ODBC API are;
Portable Data Access Code
The ODBC API, as outlined by X/Open and ISO, is availible on all major platforms. Microsoft platforms include many enhancements to this specification; these enhancements are also supported by unixODBC "
You're being bypercritical of the OP.
At best his site is pretty ordinary for an e-commerce site.
At worst his site is pretty ordinary for an e-commerce site.