When will native widgets find thier way to the Windows versions?. Currently, I moved to Phoenix 0.3 because the Mozilla interface seems to lag on my hardware ( P2-366, 160MB ).
The business or 'customer' should clearly specify their requirements. The techs should build it.
Yes I work in design, yes I know nobody does it this way, but they should.
If it worked this way, my job would be 50% easier;->
But seriously, the biggest issue IMHO is that users don't often know what they want. I've sat in and brainstormed to fix so many workflow issues that if I were to take thier requests verbatim, it would have been the most bizarre, kludged together POS that ever lived. Often times people don't see the bigger picture/problem and don't see how technology could improve it. Other people assume too much from technology (where Human intervention requirements are neccesary and AI won't suffice).
The best solution is to have a group of the techies who know the business be the bridge between both parties since they can just about always come up with excellent solutions. Anymore we have IT people sit in on most meeting like this to help move things along and not get stuck on mundane issues.
As always YMMV, but it seems to hold true most of the time
* Paranoid mobile-office/home access to the corporate network with virus scanners and what-have-you, while username/password for the mainframe travels in the clear on the corporate LAN.
Mod this guy up +1 Informative.
The biggest problem that gets overlooked in Corporate IT isn't so much remote users but instead the internal users. The biggest threat to any companies IP is that disgruntled employee who downloads a master client list or yanks some code from the file server and takes it with them.
The threat of a security breach has to considered BOTH internally and externally. The biggest danger isn't a script kiddie, it's that sales guy downstairs looking for an edge over the guy next to him so he can get more commission ( and believe me I've seen it happen ).
This [pipex.com] mod to add an external antenna to the Airport hubs is one that Apple should really look into. It would be easy to do, and would make the range much farther. And Apple could make some sort of sexy looking antenna for it.
On Win 2000 SP3, it has the same setup, but I was suprised to see that Mozilla Mail was explictly listed as Mail Client option ( as opposed to being in the catagory "My current mail program" ) while Mozilla wasn't listed in the browser section. Oddly enough Outlook XP wasn't listed as an mail program either.
Even though I turned off using Media Player, it still popped up any time I inserted a Music CD. Once I installed Winamp 3, that stopped happening.
And it's great to see that if I use IE, many of the bookmarks launch Mozilla
Okay, I'll give you that programming skills you learn in a CS program are weak (in the sense that rarely will you write code over 300 lines for any project; now that changes for larger projects, but those are few and far between), and IMHO normalized DB design is rather trivial, but that's not the point of the degree program
The whole idea of a Computer Science degree is to give you a theoretical background on both hardware and software design so that you could be handed x random language or y random architecture and easily apply your design and analytical skills to it. This allows one to be able to be productive using it faster than reading one of those "Dummies" books or an O'Reilly book. It's not supposed to just teach you only how to code in x random language(s); if that's what you want save your money and invest it at Borders or Barnes and Noble instead.
Personally, I'd rather have one good CS grad than 10 self-taught coders. CS coders produce elegant, well-thought out, and easily maintainable code. I've had to deal with code from both sides, and the difference is very clear.
Mine went something like this....
Round 1 - BS interview; get a feel for me and see if my personality fits there, as well as a quick check for skills ( see if I'm trying to pull a fast one )
Round 2 - More intensive interview with several people. Lots of techincal question. On the spot design of simple DB system ( give specs, design DB schema ). And some more BS...
Round 3 - Get job
The best move they have is the on the spot DB design; it is good to weed out the good relational DB talent from the Access/Filemaker DB folk. So far I've been the only one to get it entirely correct ( not that I find it that hard; just a few simple parent/child table relationships ).
Also running candidates by other people in the building (namely managers/VPs) just to see if they can communicate is VERY important. Just as important is letting some of your development/IT staff sit in on interviews, especially if you have a small department. You want someone you can get along with well, or else productivity will go down fast.
I remember ready a long time ago when 12x was the norm that CD drive couldn't get any faster without the CD exploding inside the drive. They figured 20x speeds would never happen because of this.
And someone also said something about 640k being enough also IIRC...
We have 2 umbrella cockatoos, and the one in the room with the computer is rather dusty. I opened up the case a while back, and the motherboard was mostly white ( as opposed the the green color is should be ) all from the dust the bird makes. Not to mention the bird likes to eat my mouse wheel as well (I've went thru 2 already) when unsuppervised. But he sits up on my shoulder while reading Slashdot and is rather content with that, so I can't complain.
The php4apache2.dll module with PHP 4.2.1 won't work at all with the 2.0.39 server. Comes up with an error that the module isn't for this version of Apache. Once that LoadModule is commented out, all works fine.
>> What if they feel like using one of the *BSD's?
>The are using one of the BSD's.:-)
>Look at all the FreeBSD commit emails with "Sponsored by: The Weather Channel".
Hey, I thought *BSD was dying;->
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Finally, someone looks at OOP in a real world light. So often in books/classroom they push these ideas into your head so much that you forget about the real world constraints of using them. This book appears to bring those to life. This looks like a must read for any CS student looking to get another viewpoint on OOP.
Very fast alternative. I started using Opera 6 in the beta stages and was very happy with the speed and extensive configuration options. I use Mozilla on my main machine, but on my P166MMX laptop running RH 6.2, this thing runs faster than the Netscape that RH came with; Mozilla ran *horribly* slow on it. Kudos to the development team.
Actually... both the G3 All-in-one and original G3 were both fully supported in OS X by Apple, while the 7500-9600 series where able to use X thanks to XPostFacto
Very true, I'm here doing Foxpro (ugh), PHP+MySQL+Web Programming with some System Admin on the side and am still under the area average (~40-50k). From what I remember a year ago while job searching, this area isn't very IT friendly at all; heading to Columbus seems like the better bet to me.
This area has high expectations for IT people, but then no one to fill those positions. My outlook is this; stay at your job for experience, do some work on the side, and send a resume out every so often. I know good paying IT jobs have to be somewhere around here!
Here's a perspective from my personal experiences.
I worked for a public school system that was loaded with computers ( about 4-5 per classroom plus labs of >20 machines ). Some teachers were dependant on it a teaching aid, other used them once in a while, while some ignored them entirely. Some teacher took a active part of using the computers ( as have the students do word processing or research ) while others used it as a reward ( which is where myself as a tech really hated to go ). In most cases, it seemed to me that the number of computers in a school were inversely perportional to the acedemic achivement of the students.
It all comes down to how the computers are used; it shouldn't be more technology, but rather better use of technology. It is beyond me what is needed by a school that could be resolved by some lower-end machines with web browsers, word processing, and that's it. Most schools out there with any computers made in the last 5 years will handle that. And they don't need 5 per classroom either; maybe a lab for an entire classroom to work and then (maybe) a few machines on carts with projectors for any teacher presentations. Kids in elementary schools need basic skills and not how to render images in Photoshop or make Powerpoint presentations. Computers in the classroom are to much of a distraction and an easy way for lazy teachers to deal with unruly kids.
Putting computers in classrooms is just advocating that our lives should revolve around the computer and the internet. That is definitly the wrong focus for schools.
Being an Eagle Scout, as I am, can have benifits besides the obvious qualities of an Eagle Scout. My boss is a Cubmaster for his son's pack and so he could relate to me better knowing my background, thus making me a better fit in the company I work for that the other person who interviewed for the job with the same credentials as I had.
This is the same effect of a formal CS degree as opposed to trade school or field experience. Compnanies rather have people that can communicate with others and have some worldly sense than have drones that sit in a closet and turn out code. College, among others things, trains you to be social and learn a thing or two about the real world so you can carry on a conversation with someone. It works for me, as I seem to be the most popular guy in the company and I've only been here 5 months!
At least where I went to school, MS products where unspoken about, everything was Linux, BSD or Unix. All classes used Unix and all classes used Unix. No VB for us. And it couldn't have been better.
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When will native widgets find thier way to the Windows versions?. Currently, I moved to Phoenix 0.3 because the Mozilla interface seems to lag on my hardware ( P2-366, 160MB ).
They finally figured out that their platform couldn't support something like this, so want to run it on something more reliable ( remember Hotmail? ).
After all, they need the utmost uptime and reliablity to steal, I mean store our personal information.
The business or 'customer' should clearly specify their requirements. The techs should build it.
Yes I work in design, yes I know nobody does it this way, but they should.
If it worked this way, my job would be 50% easier ;->
But seriously, the biggest issue IMHO is that users don't often know what they want. I've sat in and brainstormed to fix so many workflow issues that if I were to take thier requests verbatim, it would have been the most bizarre, kludged together POS that ever lived. Often times people don't see the bigger picture/problem and don't see how technology could improve it. Other people assume too much from technology (where Human intervention requirements are neccesary and AI won't suffice).
The best solution is to have a group of the techies who know the business be the bridge between both parties since they can just about always come up with excellent solutions. Anymore we have IT people sit in on most meeting like this to help move things along and not get stuck on mundane issues.
As always YMMV, but it seems to hold true most of the time
* Paranoid mobile-office/home access to the corporate network with virus scanners and what-have-you, while username/password for the mainframe travels in the clear on the corporate LAN.
Mod this guy up +1 Informative.
The biggest problem that gets overlooked in Corporate IT isn't so much remote users but instead the internal users. The biggest threat to any companies IP is that disgruntled employee who downloads a master client list or yanks some code from the file server and takes it with them.
The threat of a security breach has to considered BOTH internally and externally. The biggest danger isn't a script kiddie, it's that sales guy downstairs looking for an edge over the guy next to him so he can get more commission ( and believe me I've seen it happen ).
This [pipex.com] mod to add an external antenna to the Airport hubs is one that Apple should really look into. It would be easy to do, and would make the range much farther. And Apple could make some sort of sexy looking antenna for it.
On Win 2000 SP3, it has the same setup, but I was suprised to see that Mozilla Mail was explictly listed as Mail Client option ( as opposed to being in the catagory "My current mail program" ) while Mozilla wasn't listed in the browser section. Oddly enough Outlook XP wasn't listed as an mail program either.
Even though I turned off using Media Player, it still popped up any time I inserted a Music CD. Once I installed Winamp 3, that stopped happening.
And it's great to see that if I use IE, many of the bookmarks launch Mozilla
Okay, I'll give you that programming skills you learn in a CS program are weak (in the sense that rarely will you write code over 300 lines for any project; now that changes for larger projects, but those are few and far between), and IMHO normalized DB design is rather trivial, but that's not the point of the degree program
The whole idea of a Computer Science degree is to give you a theoretical background on both hardware and software design so that you could be handed x random language or y random architecture and easily apply your design and analytical skills to it. This allows one to be able to be productive using it faster than reading one of those "Dummies" books or an O'Reilly book. It's not supposed to just teach you only how to code in x random language(s); if that's what you want save your money and invest it at Borders or Barnes and Noble instead.
Personally, I'd rather have one good CS grad than 10 self-taught coders. CS coders produce elegant, well-thought out, and easily maintainable code. I've had to deal with code from both sides, and the difference is very clear.
Mine went something like this.... Round 1 - BS interview; get a feel for me and see if my personality fits there, as well as a quick check for skills ( see if I'm trying to pull a fast one ) Round 2 - More intensive interview with several people. Lots of techincal question. On the spot design of simple DB system ( give specs, design DB schema ). And some more BS... Round 3 - Get job The best move they have is the on the spot DB design; it is good to weed out the good relational DB talent from the Access/Filemaker DB folk. So far I've been the only one to get it entirely correct ( not that I find it that hard; just a few simple parent/child table relationships ). Also running candidates by other people in the building (namely managers/VPs) just to see if they can communicate is VERY important. Just as important is letting some of your development/IT staff sit in on interviews, especially if you have a small department. You want someone you can get along with well, or else productivity will go down fast.
I remember ready a long time ago when 12x was the norm that CD drive couldn't get any faster without the CD exploding inside the drive. They figured 20x speeds would never happen because of this.
And someone also said something about 640k being enough also IIRC...
We have 2 umbrella cockatoos, and the one in the room with the computer is rather dusty. I opened up the case a while back, and the motherboard was mostly white ( as opposed the the green color is should be ) all from the dust the bird makes. Not to mention the bird likes to eat my mouse wheel as well (I've went thru 2 already) when unsuppervised. But he sits up on my shoulder while reading Slashdot and is rather content with that, so I can't complain.
PHP 4.2.1 doesn't seem to work with Apache 2.0.39. You need to upgrade to the CVS version of PHP; see the bug report
The php4apache2.dll module with PHP 4.2.1 won't work at all with the 2.0.39 server. Comes up with an error that the module isn't for this version of Apache. Once that LoadModule is commented out, all works fine.
>> What if they feel like using one of the *BSD's?
>The are using one of the BSD's. :-)
Hey, I thought *BSD was dying>Look at all the FreeBSD commit emails with "Sponsored by: The Weather Channel".
Finally, someone looks at OOP in a real world light. So often in books/classroom they push these ideas into your head so much that you forget about the real world constraints of using them. This book appears to bring those to life. This looks like a must read for any CS student looking to get another viewpoint on OOP.
Very fast alternative. I started using Opera 6 in the beta stages and was very happy with the speed and extensive configuration options. I use Mozilla on my main machine, but on my P166MMX laptop running RH 6.2, this thing runs faster than the Netscape that RH came with; Mozilla ran *horribly* slow on it. Kudos to the development team.
Actually... both the G3 All-in-one and original G3 were both fully supported in OS X by Apple, while the 7500-9600 series where able to use X thanks to XPostFacto
Very true, I'm here doing Foxpro (ugh), PHP+MySQL+Web Programming with some System Admin on the side and am still under the area average (~40-50k). From what I remember a year ago while job searching, this area isn't very IT friendly at all; heading to Columbus seems like the better bet to me. This area has high expectations for IT people, but then no one to fill those positions. My outlook is this; stay at your job for experience, do some work on the side, and send a resume out every so often. I know good paying IT jobs have to be somewhere around here!
Here's a perspective from my personal experiences.
I worked for a public school system that was loaded with computers ( about 4-5 per classroom plus labs of >20 machines ). Some teachers were dependant on it a teaching aid, other used them once in a while, while some ignored them entirely. Some teacher took a active part of using the computers ( as have the students do word processing or research ) while others used it as a reward ( which is where myself as a tech really hated to go ). In most cases, it seemed to me that the number of computers in a school were inversely perportional to the acedemic achivement of the students.
It all comes down to how the computers are used; it shouldn't be more technology, but rather better use of technology. It is beyond me what is needed by a school that could be resolved by some lower-end machines with web browsers, word processing, and that's it. Most schools out there with any computers made in the last 5 years will handle that. And they don't need 5 per classroom either; maybe a lab for an entire classroom to work and then (maybe) a few machines on carts with projectors for any teacher presentations. Kids in elementary schools need basic skills and not how to render images in Photoshop or make Powerpoint presentations. Computers in the classroom are to much of a distraction and an easy way for lazy teachers to deal with unruly kids.
Putting computers in classrooms is just advocating that our lives should revolve around the computer and the internet. That is definitly the wrong focus for schools.
Being an Eagle Scout, as I am, can have benifits besides the obvious qualities of an Eagle Scout. My boss is a Cubmaster for his son's pack and so he could relate to me better knowing my background, thus making me a better fit in the company I work for that the other person who interviewed for the job with the same credentials as I had.
This is the same effect of a formal CS degree as opposed to trade school or field experience. Compnanies rather have people that can communicate with others and have some worldly sense than have drones that sit in a closet and turn out code. College, among others things, trains you to be social and learn a thing or two about the real world so you can carry on a conversation with someone. It works for me, as I seem to be the most popular guy in the company and I've only been here 5 months!
At least where I went to school, MS products where unspoken about, everything was Linux, BSD or Unix. All classes used Unix and all classes used Unix. No VB for us. And it couldn't have been better.