The idea of eCommerce over the web started taking off in the '98-'99 time frame... Prior to that, CGI scripts and ColdFusion (only a short time prior) were the only options... To be asking for 7+ years experience in "web technologies" is like asking for Marc Andresson himself
Hmm... this time in 1996, I'd just started working for a company producing e-commerce sites for British Telecom. Looks like I'm Marc Andreesen:-)
FWIW, the back end was using an Oracle database running on Solaris. The web server interface was something called Oracle Web Agent, IIRC. This stuff was all available in late '96, two years before your time frame.
From what I read here at/. those of you living in the USA shouldn't hold your breath as long as you have the motion picture and music industries controlling your legislature:-(
Well, she gives silly names to her children, why should the dogs have it any easier?
E.g.Named Andrew Albert Christian Edward,he was known as Prince Andrew until his marriage, when he was created The Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh.
One of the good things about being monarch is that you can keep on giving your children silly names even when they've grown up.
Umm... maybe I should have excised that bit, just in case the US Government is tending towards some kind of prejudice against people on the basis of their names... but that wouldn't happen, would it?
The UK Special Branch (political police) did once go round to question somebody on the basis that that person's neighbours had called up and said that they "had an Irish accent"... but not in the greatest democracy in the world, surely?
I'm not sure whether to finish this post with a:-) or a:-(
So you don't know enough about these issues to have a valid opinion? Well, it's good of you to admit it, although a little late.
Oh, and as somebody round here says in their sig, "alot" is two words: "a lot".
Mind you, I'm not tremendously keen on the way RealPayer deals with my system. That's why I keep those downloads to the Mac, where I have control over it.
Probably not what you're looking for, but there was an episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads (probably the best sitcom the BBC has ever produced) where Terry, explaining to a copper why Bob is zonked out, says "It's not the drink, officer, it's the drugs!" Bob had fallen asleep in a launderette because of the cough medicine he'd taken, mixed with the alcohol consumed on his stag night. As to why they were in the launderette, well,
watch it and find out.
And no, I don't make any money from the Amazon link; it was just the easiest place to find it;-)
Because the Macintosh G5 processor does not support pseudo little-endian mode, Microsoft is rewriting and carefully testing portions of Virtual PC for Mac. Microsoft expects to deliver G5 compatibility in the next full version of Virtual PC for Mac.
You could also install apps that require Product Activation (TM), make a copy of that VPC drive image, and work on that. When the usage limit expires, just make a fresh copy of the drive image. Assuming you stored your data on a different VPC or on the Mac (you can network multiple VPCs and access the Mac file system), you lose no work and don't have to get/find an activation code.
Unfortunately this would be against the terms of the EULA, so you mustn't do it;-)
You view the ads? I don't even notice them any more. When they introduced the tower ones (at the side) rather than the letterbox ones at the top, it took me about two weeks to work out why, when I was reading, I had a vague feeling something had changed.
The only reason I might subscribe would be to see more of my 273 previous posts. I wonder what kind of rubbish I was spouting 5 years ago:-)
Lawyers and their ilk could afford to quickly and easily introduce "DNA test results" without regard to where the source material came from
It doesn't work that way. In order for such results to be admissible in court, a chain of custody of the evidence has to be established. What this basically comes down to is that a medical profesional has to swear an affidavit that they collected the samples, sealed them and ensured that they went to the lab without any possibility of any of the parties in the case being able to tamper with them.
I took a home paternity test last year, which came out negative. If it had been positive, the mother would still have had no legal grounds for getting child support from me. It would have been necessary (from a legal point of view) for a properly supervised test to have been performed.
(Mind you, if he had been my child, I wouldn't have been such an absolute bastard as to turn my back on my responsibilities. The mother herself suggested that we carry out the test. And she is a lawyer.)
You are a fool and a bigot. The vast majority of Moslems have no truck with terrorism. In all my years reading Slashdot, I have never seen the sobriquet "Anonymous Coward" more aptly applied.
It took me years to... get my father trained to 98... For the sake of my Sanity (already quite low), I don't want to retrain my father to use XP
I don't think your father would have any particular trouble with 2000. The UI is the same from an ordinary user's perspective; it doesn't sound like he's about to start replacing his TCP/IP stack or anything. As far as XP goes, if you do ever have to help him make the transition, you can get rid of the Teletubby UI by following the simple steps in this KB article.
+It just works !!! I don't upgrade what's not broken
Definitely a good enough reason to stick with 98. I only upgraded because a friend who works for The Beast gave me a free copy of 2000. I like having "Microsoft Internal Use Only" on my desktop:-)
FWIW, if you ever do decide to upgrade them to 2000 on the same machine, it should run fine if you stick 512Mb of RAM in it. I'm running 2000 on a K6-500; it was fairly useless with 128Mb, but since I upped the memory, it runs fine - even total hogs like Visual Studio.NET work smoothly.
Of course, the PowerMac is my day to day machine; the PC is only for testing web stuff under IE:-)
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Or you can read him here :-)
Hmm... this time in 1996, I'd just started working for a company producing e-commerce sites for British Telecom. Looks like I'm Marc Andreesen :-)
FWIW, the back end was using an Oracle database running on Solaris. The web server interface was something called Oracle Web Agent, IIRC. This stuff was all available in late '96, two years before your time frame.
Hence the sophisticated delivery mechanisms that have been put in place.
Maybe it does, if you live in Norway...
From what I read here at /. those of you living in the USA shouldn't hold your breath as long as you have the motion picture and music industries controlling your legislature :-(
From the second sentence of the story:
Reading between the lines, it seems that a 3rd party vendor labelled him a major security risk. But I'm just guessing.
It was 5 million GBP in government funding.
Oh I don't know, all those little green people poking at it, with TV aerials sticking out of their heads, should make an interesting sight.
Great, now even the Martians will be driving SUVs.
Well, she gives silly names to her children, why should the dogs have it any easier?
E.g. Named Andrew Albert Christian Edward,he was known as Prince Andrew until his marriage, when he was created The Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh.
One of the good things about being monarch is that you can keep on giving your children silly names even when they've grown up.
Umm... maybe I should have excised that bit, just in case the US Government is tending towards some kind of prejudice against people on the basis of their names... but that wouldn't happen, would it?
The UK Special Branch (political police) did once go round to question somebody on the basis that that person's neighbours had called up and said that they "had an Irish accent"... but not in the greatest democracy in the world, surely?
I'm not sure whether to finish this post with a :-) or a :-(
this is the whois record for that domain from whois.networksolutions.com:
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It's up to you to decide whether you trust them or not.
So you don't know enough about these issues to have a valid opinion? Well, it's good of you to admit it, although a little late.
Oh, and as somebody round here says in their sig, "alot" is two words: "a lot".
Mind you, I'm not tremendously keen on the way RealPayer deals with my system. That's why I keep those downloads to the Mac, where I have control over it.
Probably not what you're looking for, but there was an episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads (probably the best sitcom the BBC has ever produced) where Terry, explaining to a copper why Bob is zonked out, says "It's not the drink, officer, it's the drugs!" Bob had fallen asleep in a launderette because of the cough medicine he'd taken, mixed with the alcohol consumed on his stag night. As to why they were in the launderette, well, watch it and find out.
And no, I don't make any money from the Amazon link; it was just the easiest place to find it ;-)
They can't, they're still using that code :-)
Well, call me old-fashioned, but why would I want a pile of mud in my house when I can use a computer instead?
Which is why MS say:
Yup, no trace of plans there...
You could also install apps that require Product Activation (TM), make a copy of that VPC drive image, and work on that. When the usage limit expires, just make a fresh copy of the drive image. Assuming you stored your data on a different VPC or on the Mac (you can network multiple VPCs and access the Mac file system), you lose no work and don't have to get/find an activation code.
Unfortunately this would be against the terms of the EULA, so you mustn't do it ;-)
Congratulations! Now for the typing course...
But seriously, congratulations :-)
You view the ads? I don't even notice them any more. When they introduced the tower ones (at the side) rather than the letterbox ones at the top, it took me about two weeks to work out why, when I was reading, I had a vague feeling something had changed.
The only reason I might subscribe would be to see more of my 273 previous posts. I wonder what kind of rubbish I was spouting 5 years ago :-)
Reply to the spam and you could have several inches of "self augmentation" right now!
It doesn't work that way. In order for such results to be admissible in court, a chain of custody of the evidence has to be established. What this basically comes down to is that a medical profesional has to swear an affidavit that they collected the samples, sealed them and ensured that they went to the lab without any possibility of any of the parties in the case being able to tamper with them.
I took a home paternity test last year, which came out negative. If it had been positive, the mother would still have had no legal grounds for getting child support from me. It would have been necessary (from a legal point of view) for a properly supervised test to have been performed.
(Mind you, if he had been my child, I wouldn't have been such an absolute bastard as to turn my back on my responsibilities. The mother herself suggested that we carry out the test. And she is a lawyer.)
Both spellings are acceptable.
You are a fool and a bigot. The vast majority of Moslems have no truck with terrorism. In all my years reading Slashdot, I have never seen the sobriquet "Anonymous Coward" more aptly applied.
FWIW, ITN here in the UK just came back from VT and the newsreader announced "America's top general there, clearly sober."
I don't think your father would have any particular trouble with 2000. The UI is the same from an ordinary user's perspective; it doesn't sound like he's about to start replacing his TCP/IP stack or anything. As far as XP goes, if you do ever have to help him make the transition, you can get rid of the Teletubby UI by following the simple steps in this KB article.
Definitely a good enough reason to stick with 98. I only upgraded because a friend who works for The Beast gave me a free copy of 2000. I like having "Microsoft Internal Use Only" on my desktop :-)
FWIW, if you ever do decide to upgrade them to 2000 on the same machine, it should run fine if you stick 512Mb of RAM in it. I'm running 2000 on a K6-500; it was fairly useless with 128Mb, but since I upped the memory, it runs fine - even total hogs like Visual Studio.NET work smoothly.
Of course, the PowerMac is my day to day machine; the PC is only for testing web stuff under IE :-)
Surely "The operating system formerly known as [CENSORED]".