...we get it all the time, customer wanting xyz because it's the latest buzzword, or their friend uses it or they've been seduced by an evil marketing-droid.
If it fits in with what they need to do and will give them more bang for their buck then go for it. However, sometimes they don't realise that solution xyz has problems efg and that actually solution hij would not only alleviate those problems but cost them less to have supported.
Hopefully they will eventually come around to the fact that they didn't know what they heck they were doing when they specced xyz, that you are indeed the expert and ask for your assistance, net result? Everything will be right as rain.
Now if they won't budge on wanting xyz, and it will be a PITA to support, you have to ask yourself:-
how much will it cost me to offer that support?
and: how much business (on top of the current project) will I see as a direct result of taking them on?
If it will cost you more than it will bring in, it's time to either outsource it or let the customer know you can't do it for the price they want. They'll probably thank you for your honesty and come back to you when everyone else says the same.
...without downloading cygwin...native win32 support was meant to be in 7.4 but didn't make it. I deploy to FreeBSD but develop on windows (because some apps I rely on still don't run in Xover office and are too damn slow in vmware under linux). Don't get me wrong, it works fine in cygwin, but it doesn't sit well with me having to do that. Let's be honest here, PostgreSQL doesn't have an important feature of Oracle, the HAL (or whatever oracle call it), PostgreSQL has to be ported manually and it's taking a long time. True, it's a lovely system, but they need to sort this out before they start making even greater inroads. Also, visiting the PostgreSQL site doesn't sit well with PHB's. mysql.com looks very businesslike with licensing options and online stores, plus loads of documentation. Bring up postgresql's site and look at this message in the top right hand corner: "Tech Support requests to this address will be ignored! Please use the appropriate mailing list."
That wouldn't fill me with enough confidence to ok deployment of a mission critial app if I didn't know what you and me both know, PostgreSQL kicks ass.
...his site is at http://www.grc.com, he's got loads of security related info on his page and a shedload of Win32 progs coded entirely in assembler, every last line of em. He also created the very neat ShieldsUp tool to scare people into getting a personal firewall installed (like listing their netbios share names, doing a remote port scan and telling them the gory details of what people could do to their computer etc.).
Most of the progs are under 30k in size, including a very cool sub-pixel font-rendering demo, and ones to disable messenger, dcom and upnp. A really nice touch is that some of them have sound fx, produced by a simple virtual synth, also coded in assembler...just cause he could (a true geek!)
...as a scramjet takes in the oxygen it needs for combustion (whereas solid rocket boosters hold the oxygen as part of their solid fuel). Would they use the scramjet to get to such a high speed (at altitudes where there is still oxygen available) that you break free from the earths gravitational pull?
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...but I don't anymore. Ever since I started using eclipse I wonder how I ever lived without it.
First of all, the integration with ant and the streamlined build process, way cool. Secondly, the refactoring tool is beyond good, it's probably (for me) the single greatest reason for using eclipse...need to change a class or variable name in a project? Easy, right click, refactor, change the name and every single reference to that class will now use the new name. I cannot tell you how much time that has saved me when projects needed to be changed around, or bits of code needed to be merged in from outside projects. Sure, you could do a simple one-liner using sed, but does sed know about namespaces and that this ClassName is different from somepackage.ClassName? Eclipse does, and it's damn handy.
Now, for web stuff (html, php, python and perl) I still use a normal text editor (crimson editor, because it's got nice syntax highlighting and isn't too feature rich (read bloated...a la emacs;o), just the basics (which it does very well).
One thing I don't use within eclipse is version control, my company has settled on subversion (which rocks my world) and the plugin for eclipse is linked against an older version of the svnlibs, so commits and such like are still handled from the command line or using TortoiseSVN.
True, some of his changes irked me somewhat as well, but on the whole I think he's produced a modern classic that we will look back on in years to come and still enjoy watching, a modern day ben hur if you will.
One change I agreed with wholeheartedly however is the removal of all those bloody songs, it's the only part of the books I skip over (well, that and the apendices that make up over half the third book, I've read em once, and that was enough).
c) the proud leader of a project that has got a buttload of accademy awards, and has just been nominated for a buttload more
and c) able to hang out with people like liv tyler
whilst you are...
a) someone posting on slashdot
Face it, for better or worse, for bastardisation and plot change, messr jackson has not only got a whole new generation interested in the works of tolkien but has also done what was though impossible, made films of the lord of the rings trilogy.
Seriously, there have been enough of these viruses lately that they even make the NATIONAL news all the time. You have experts (on said news shows) saying that people should install and keep their antivirus software up-to-date, not to click on attachments...BUT DO PEOPLE LISTEN?
The internet is not a right.
No antivirus software installed Mr Bloggs? Buh bye internet.
Double clicked on a zip file, and THEN OPENED THE ATTACHMENT??????????? Buh bye int....no wait, just put a bullet through his head, remove his (frankly retarted) sperm from the gene-pool.
Extreme? Maybe, but I've just blocked 8000 copies of this bastard since last night, and I only run a small mail server. My machine's load is WAY up from usual...arse.
...that way we can not only have a powerful lobbying influence but also have a bit of pull.
People have said that tech jobs shouldn't be paid silly money etc., but at the end of the day, without techies the world as we know it in 2004 is effectively paralysed. Without the sysadmins running the networks and keeping things ticking over, world business would grind to a halt.
Now, imagine the policy making power a strike by 90% of techies in a country would create. Absolute chaos.
What's needed is organisation, not moaning on slashdot about losing your job.
Of course I'm not instigating anything here or even suggesting it, this is just a thought, I've never really seen anybody suggest this before.
...and they're around $50.00 per year. They work in 96% of all browsers (the other 4% being netscape
What we offer as software is a kick ass e-commerce system and loads of extras that clients can bolt onto their websites (that we have often set them up with in the first place). It pays my bills, and those of my business partner (my brother) fine.
...the thieves probably figured (somewhat correctly) that since the other cars were nice, new and expensive they would be harder to break into. Your 1998 shitmobile would, however, be easy to break into and simple to hotwire (no immobilisers etc.).
Now, if you had blended in and had a nice car, there wouldn't have been so much to mark yours out.
If you got it back, they didn't steal it to sell, they stole it to commit a crime in (joyride or as a gettaway vehicle).
As the parent poster said, it's all about blending in!:o)
...I remember my dad got one for my mum when her 15 year old fiat finally gave out, he thought it would be a good deal, (i.e. it was cheap).
Well, they got it home and found out one of the tires had a slow puncture...so before we could go out in it for a test drive, that had to be fixed. And that was just the start of it.
Over the next 7 years that car had so much money spent on it just to keep it going through Control Technique (the belgian M.O.T.) that the decision was finally made to get my mum a new car. So my parents went to the V.W. garage and she decided to get a polo, at which point they found out that if they took the LADA to the scrapyard they would give them more money for the car than the V.W. dealership would give as a part-ex. Yes, it was worth more as scrap!:o)
Reminds me of all the old lada jokes we used to gall my dad with,
Q)Why do LADA's have heated rear-windscreens?
A)To keep your hands warm whilst you are pushing it.
I also remember the first aid kit that came with the thing had phials of Ether in it...good thing my mom never crashed!
OTOH, that polo has been going for well over 10 years and shows no sign of dieing yet.
Steinberg got it right with Wavelab 3+ for Windows. The main window is an MDI interface, this holds all of the wave files you are working on. All special toolbars, like the Master section (where you can do things like insert FX, master volume, mixdown, dithering, bitrate etc.), any plugins you have loaded and some other stuff floats above the app, allowing you to drag them onto a second monitor. I find that really neat, the canvasses on my main screen, the tools on the other. I do this with photoshop and dreamweaver too.
As soon as there is a full stable release of 3.2 I expekt you will be able to run up2date,yum, apt-get-upgrade etc. and get your OS vendors distro of it.
That "just works".
Now, if you want the (possibly) unstable release kandidate then IMHO you should need to jump through a few more hoops and know what you are doing, otherwise you may have your system konstantly krashing and not be able to fix it.
100% correct, however...if you have the moolah to buy this kind of machine (and not some cheap casio kboard) then chances are it will be used for professional studio or touring use, sure...there will be some hobbyists who buy it, but most of them would like to be pro's one day too.
...MS(tm) DRM(tm) Clippy(tm): It looks like you're trying to play happy birthday, a tune that is still (?!?!?) under copyright. Shall I:
a) Shut down the keyboard you filthy copyright stealing musician/terrorist (delete as appropriate, with extreme prejudice).
or b) send $350 from your online bank account to ASCAP.
Reminds me of that simpsons christmas special where the family are carol singing outside the lawyers house, who promptly comes out and tells to "cease and decist" as the songs they are singing are owned by his clients.;o)
...when he claimed that IPv6 addresses are 64-bits.
Also, he mentions Apache. Well, version 1.x forks when a new process is needed, version 2.x is multithreaded, therefore reducing the context switching load somewhat (switching threads as opposed to switching processes).
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...we get it all the time, customer wanting xyz because it's the latest buzzword, or their friend uses it or they've been seduced by an evil marketing-droid.
If it fits in with what they need to do and will give them more bang for their buck then go for it. However, sometimes they don't realise that solution xyz has problems efg and that actually solution hij would not only alleviate those problems but cost them less to have supported.
Hopefully they will eventually come around to the fact that they didn't know what they heck they were doing when they specced xyz, that you are indeed the expert and ask for your assistance, net result? Everything will be right as rain.
Now if they won't budge on wanting xyz, and it will be a PITA to support, you have to ask yourself:-
how much will it cost me to offer that support?
and: how much business (on top of the current project) will I see as a direct result of taking them on?
If it will cost you more than it will bring in, it's time to either outsource it or let the customer know you can't do it for the price they want. They'll probably thank you for your honesty and come back to you when everyone else says the same.
...without downloading cygwin...native win32 support was meant to be in 7.4 but didn't make it. I deploy to FreeBSD but develop on windows (because some apps I rely on still don't run in Xover office and are too damn slow in vmware under linux). Don't get me wrong, it works fine in cygwin, but it doesn't sit well with me having to do that. Let's be honest here, PostgreSQL doesn't have an important feature of Oracle, the HAL (or whatever oracle call it), PostgreSQL has to be ported manually and it's taking a long time. True, it's a lovely system, but they need to sort this out before they start making even greater inroads. Also, visiting the PostgreSQL site doesn't sit well with PHB's. mysql.com looks very businesslike with licensing options and online stores, plus loads of documentation. Bring up postgresql's site and look at this message in the top right hand corner: "Tech Support requests to this address will be ignored! Please use the appropriate mailing list."
That wouldn't fill me with enough confidence to ok deployment of a mission critial app if I didn't know what you and me both know, PostgreSQL kicks ass.
...his site is at http://www.grc.com, he's got loads of security related info on his page and a shedload of Win32 progs coded entirely in assembler, every last line of em. He also created the very neat ShieldsUp tool to scare people into getting a personal firewall installed (like listing their netbios share names, doing a remote port scan and telling them the gory details of what people could do to their computer etc.).
Most of the progs are under 30k in size, including a very cool sub-pixel font-rendering demo, and ones to disable messenger, dcom and upnp. A really nice touch is that some of them have sound fx, produced by a simple virtual synth, also coded in assembler...just cause he could (a true geek!)
...http://www.thescogroup.com/.
...as a scramjet takes in the oxygen it needs for combustion (whereas solid rocket boosters hold the oxygen as part of their solid fuel). Would they use the scramjet to get to such a high speed (at altitudes where there is still oxygen available) that you break free from the earths gravitational pull?
...according to NetCraft, they're running BSD...
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Thanks, I'll be here all week.
...but I don't anymore. Ever since I started using eclipse I wonder how I ever lived without it.
;o), just the basics (which it does very well).
First of all, the integration with ant and the streamlined build process, way cool. Secondly, the refactoring tool is beyond good, it's probably (for me) the single greatest reason for using eclipse...need to change a class or variable name in a project? Easy, right click, refactor, change the name and every single reference to that class will now use the new name. I cannot tell you how much time that has saved me when projects needed to be changed around, or bits of code needed to be merged in from outside projects. Sure, you could do a simple one-liner using sed, but does sed know about namespaces and that this ClassName is different from somepackage.ClassName? Eclipse does, and it's damn handy.
Now, for web stuff (html, php, python and perl) I still use a normal text editor (crimson editor, because it's got nice syntax highlighting and isn't too feature rich (read bloated...a la emacs
One thing I don't use within eclipse is version control, my company has settled on subversion (which rocks my world) and the plugin for eclipse is linked against an older version of the svnlibs, so commits and such like are still handled from the command line or using TortoiseSVN.
...works fine on 0.7 for me.
...just been up a long time working ;o)
True, some of his changes irked me somewhat as well, but on the whole I think he's produced a modern classic that we will look back on in years to come and still enjoy watching, a modern day ben hur if you will.
One change I agreed with wholeheartedly however is the removal of all those bloody songs, it's the only part of the books I skip over (well, that and the apendices that make up over half the third book, I've read em once, and that was enough).
...a little too much time on their hands.
a) a movie director
b) very, very rich (now)
c) the proud leader of a project that has got a buttload of accademy awards, and has just been nominated for a buttload more
and c) able to hang out with people like liv tyler
whilst you are... a) someone posting on slashdot
Face it, for better or worse, for bastardisation and plot change, messr jackson has not only got a whole new generation interested in the works of tolkien but has also done what was though impossible, made films of the lord of the rings trilogy.
...take lamers off the internet.
Seriously, there have been enough of these viruses lately that they even make the NATIONAL news all the time. You have experts (on said news shows) saying that people should install and keep their antivirus software up-to-date, not to click on attachments...BUT DO PEOPLE LISTEN?
The internet is not a right.
No antivirus software installed Mr Bloggs? Buh bye internet.
Double clicked on a zip file, and THEN OPENED THE ATTACHMENT??????????? Buh bye int....no wait, just put a bullet through his head, remove his (frankly retarted) sperm from the gene-pool.
Extreme? Maybe, but I've just blocked 8000 copies of this bastard since last night, and I only run a small mail server. My machine's load is WAY up from usual...arse.
...that way we can not only have a powerful lobbying influence but also have a bit of pull.
People have said that tech jobs shouldn't be paid silly money etc., but at the end of the day, without techies the world as we know it in 2004 is effectively paralysed. Without the sysadmins running the networks and keeping things ticking over, world business would grind to a halt.
Now, imagine the policy making power a strike by 90% of techies in a country would create. Absolute chaos.
What's needed is organisation, not moaning on slashdot about losing your job.
Of course I'm not instigating anything here or even suggesting it, this is just a thought, I've never really seen anybody suggest this before.
...and they're around $50.00 per year. They work in 96% of all browsers (the other 4% being netscape
What we offer as software is a kick ass e-commerce system and loads of extras that clients can bolt onto their websites (that we have often set them up with in the first place). It pays my bills, and those of my business partner (my brother) fine.
...the thieves probably figured (somewhat correctly) that since the other cars were nice, new and expensive they would be harder to break into. Your 1998 shitmobile would, however, be easy to break into and simple to hotwire (no immobilisers etc.).
:o)
Now, if you had blended in and had a nice car, there wouldn't have been so much to mark yours out.
If you got it back, they didn't steal it to sell, they stole it to commit a crime in (joyride or as a gettaway vehicle).
As the parent poster said, it's all about blending in!
...I remember my dad got one for my mum when her 15 year old fiat finally gave out, he thought it would be a good deal, (i.e. it was cheap).
:o)
:o)
Well, they got it home and found out one of the tires had a slow puncture...so before we could go out in it for a test drive, that had to be fixed. And that was just the start of it.
Over the next 7 years that car had so much money spent on it just to keep it going through Control Technique (the belgian M.O.T.) that the decision was finally made to get my mum a new car. So my parents went to the V.W. garage and she decided to get a polo, at which point they found out that if they took the LADA to the scrapyard they would give them more money for the car than the V.W. dealership would give as a part-ex. Yes, it was worth more as scrap!
Reminds me of all the old lada jokes we used to gall my dad with,
Q)Why do LADA's have heated rear-windscreens?
A)To keep your hands warm whilst you are pushing it.
I also remember the first aid kit that came with the thing had phials of Ether in it...good thing my mom never crashed!
OTOH, that polo has been going for well over 10 years and shows no sign of dieing yet.
Ah, happy days!
Steinberg got it right with Wavelab 3+ for Windows. The main window is an MDI interface, this holds all of the wave files you are working on. All special toolbars, like the Master section (where you can do things like insert FX, master volume, mixdown, dithering, bitrate etc.), any plugins you have loaded and some other stuff floats above the app, allowing you to drag them onto a second monitor. I find that really neat, the canvasses on my main screen, the tools on the other. I do this with photoshop and dreamweaver too.
As soon as there is a full stable release of 3.2 I expekt you will be able to run up2date,yum, apt-get-upgrade etc. and get your OS vendors distro of it.
That "just works".
Now, if you want the (possibly) unstable release kandidate then IMHO you should need to jump through a few more hoops and know what you are doing, otherwise you may have your system konstantly krashing and not be able to fix it.
100% correct, however...if you have the moolah to buy this kind of machine (and not some cheap casio kboard) then chances are it will be used for professional studio or touring use, sure...there will be some hobbyists who buy it, but most of them would like to be pro's one day too.
...MS(tm) DRM(tm) Clippy(tm): It looks like you're trying to play happy birthday, a tune that is still (?!?!?) under copyright. Shall I:
;o)
a) Shut down the keyboard you filthy copyright stealing musician/terrorist (delete as appropriate, with extreme prejudice).
or b) send $350 from your online bank account to ASCAP.
Reminds me of that simpsons christmas special where the family are carol singing outside the lawyers house, who promptly comes out and tells to "cease and decist" as the songs they are singing are owned by his clients.
...here you go...
:o)
What version of Outlook are you using? Mine fires up Moz Firebird no problems, here's a link on how to do it.
...when he claimed that IPv6 addresses are 64-bits.
Also, he mentions Apache. Well, version 1.x forks when a new process is needed, version 2.x is multithreaded, therefore reducing the context switching load somewhat (switching threads as opposed to switching processes).
...telling me about another cool gadget my girlfriend won't let me buy. :o(
...all my mission critical servers that run MySQL, let the testing commence baybee! ;o)