Which is why I mentioned the "ghetto sharepoint" a few comments up -- try to get your users to use, share, and organize their "stuff" on an NT share before making a commitment to fancy new software.
If your policy and process is a shambles then it doesn't matter if you buy Lotus or SharePoint or whatever.
1. Take Office files.
2. Put in folders that make sense on shared drive.
3. Open Explorer, change View > Details. Right-click on column list, add Author, Date Modified, Owner, whatever.
4. Browse and send as attachment, open, edit, print.
5. Search > Advanced Search > "File Contents" for whatever.
Take a look at the "blogosphere" and the tagging/classification initiative that's happening there.
Sure, it seems crude and unrefined but it's working, like most grass-roots initiatives do when compared with grandiose "industry standards" and the big, bulky workgroups that try to define them.
in most soundblaster-compatible soundcards (including every built-in one). In Windows XP (and 98 too I think), you can go to Audio properties > Advanced... > find the input device and check off "stereo mix".
Now the advanced mixer, under "recording", will have an option for "stereo mix" as the recording input device.
Open up Sound Recorder, hit play on iTunes or Winamp or whatever, and hit record. Make sure its not clipping (too loud on the playback).
I usually use SoundForge (or something sufficiently advanced) so I can normalize the track and trim off the few seconds of dead air at the beginning and end of the track.
Now convert the.wav file to.mp3 or whatever using whatever tool you want (Again, SoundForge has built-in mp3 conversion; most of the good Audio Editors out there do as well).
Better than lining out to a friend's machine -- it keeps it in the digital domain; no loss.
...might be an alternative for those looking for an AJAX GUI toolkit/IDE as opposed to a Java-based AJAX code generator.
They have several "developer" and "public-display" licenses, although obviously a commercial solution:
http://www.tibco.com/software/ria/default.jsp
This is not really the same thing -- you're talking of backwards-compatibility, I'm talking of interoperability -- but I see where you're going with this.
Being interoperable with other platforms, files, etc. has nothing to do with the end-to-end model "winning".
99% of the tax software in the North American market supports Quickbooks file format; this has nothing to do with the superiority of Quickbooks software architecture, it has to do with the superiority of Quickbooks marketshare.
"First off, Mac users on average pay more for their computers, are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer..."
Are self-selected? "Self. Your technical savviness has not gone unnoticed. You've been selected. Congratulations."
How did we get into this rut, this "I work harder than you do" bullshit that permeates the programmer culture? When did it become "ok" to work 80 hours a week?
My company realised along time ago that all this unpaid overtime is a waste -- sloppy code and unhappy employees are worthless bi-products of this mentality.
You are not permitted to stay after hours unless it is absolutely necessary for maintenance work, in which case, you can either come in late that day or take off those hours the next day.
The double-click-now-tell-me-what-to-do wizard pattern for installing Windows applications, drivers, patches, etc. could be easily reproduced on any desktop linux/BSD variant using a simple shell script coupled with a good package management/repository to handle dependencies -- there's nothing magical about Install Shield or Windows for that matter; we had batch files that did the same thing in DOS.
Banking industry or not, don't expect some middle-aged Director or CIO to stick their neck out at the next board meeting and say, "lets share everybody! c'mon!".
Its going to start with some techs, at the bottom, grumbling about having to apply the same patch *again* because the fix didn't make it into the latest release. When the Marketing Director wonders why initiative X has to be postponed, and its because of this redundant patch cycle, they'll table it and give it due consideration. If the process continues, and it's having an impact on productivity, you'll see something start to happen.
I'm surprised none of the big financial representatives of some of the major open source players haven't considered jumping on the "we're open source too!" PR bandwagon in order to wrangle in more like-minded corporate accounts.
Personally, I want dedicated hardware doing my firewalling -- I'd wager that a low-end D-Link router/firewall is more immune to compromise than a userland software firewall.
Problem is, Grandma is not going to buy a router but if NVidia can embed firewalls in their motherboard products, why can't Motorola do the same for their modems?
Stodgy CEO: "Close that door, Johnson!"
Johnson from Spike: "I'm on it, Sir. Its closed."
Stodgy CEO: "Now pass me those sandals. Do they have that Grateful Dead tie-dye in XXL?"
Telecommuting just raises another possible barrier and could compound dynamics and differences among team members.
Yeah, it's called hiding from Marketing so you can finish the last changes she requested before being asked to do something else.
Telecommuting, on an adhoc basis (once or twice a week) so you can get some uninterrupted development work done is perfectly acceptable, especially if you don't have your own office and work in a fabulous "open concept" office or cube farm.
I don't understand why the coining of an umbrella term that describes a set of technologies and technique receives so much backlash from the/. crowd.
Think Google "keyword" -- have you ever tried to search for ambiguous technical terms on Google? If I search for "web 2.0 *insert any relevant term here*" I have an excellent chance of finding what I'm looking for. Same goes for "jboss" or "ubuntu" etc.
I, for one, welcome our umbrella term-coining overlords.
...don't fix it.
I think there is something to see here. Why doesn't MS port their non-OS apps to.Net? MS wants their customers to always port software to the latest and greatest MS language/environment of the year, so why doesn't MS do the same?
With Vista as late as it is, I doubt they have the time to port all their working user-land apps over to.Niet, and quite frankly, I'm glad they didn't -- why introduce new bugs in a well-tested, stable (yes, stable, I can't recall ever hearing of notepad crashing) application for the sake of the.Niet Marketing initiative? They really don't need to either; go to monster.com and search for ".NET developer" and you'll see what I'm talking about.
...and he probably would've had a better product in the end.
I think alot of the best open source software out there became great, simply because the developers *weren't* getting paid. It was a labor of love -- they saw something great, grabbed a CSV account and started contributing.
You can't just throw money at people and expect them to follow your vision, especially if you're not there to lead and manage.
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If your policy and process is a shambles then it doesn't matter if you buy Lotus or SharePoint or whatever.
1. Take Office files.
2. Put in folders that make sense on shared drive.
3. Open Explorer, change View > Details. Right-click on column list, add Author, Date Modified, Owner, whatever.
4. Browse and send as attachment, open, edit, print.
5. Search > Advanced Search > "File Contents" for whatever.
...and growing and evolving.
Take a look at the "blogosphere" and the tagging/classification initiative that's happening there.
Sure, it seems crude and unrefined but it's working, like most grass-roots initiatives do when compared with grandiose "industry standards" and the big, bulky workgroups that try to define them.
Doit.
in most soundblaster-compatible soundcards (including every built-in one). In Windows XP (and 98 too I think), you can go to Audio properties > Advanced... > find the input device and check off "stereo mix".
Now the advanced mixer, under "recording", will have an option for "stereo mix" as the recording input device.
Open up Sound Recorder, hit play on iTunes or Winamp or whatever, and hit record. Make sure its not clipping (too loud on the playback).
I usually use SoundForge (or something sufficiently advanced) so I can normalize the track and trim off the few seconds of dead air at the beginning and end of the track.
Now convert the .wav file to .mp3 or whatever using whatever tool you want (Again, SoundForge has built-in mp3 conversion; most of the good Audio Editors out there do as well).
Better than lining out to a friend's machine -- it keeps it in the digital domain; no loss.
...might be an alternative for those looking for an AJAX GUI toolkit/IDE as opposed to a Java-based AJAX code generator.
They have several "developer" and "public-display" licenses, although obviously a commercial solution: http://www.tibco.com/software/ria/default.jsp
wireless encryption protocol: 5,860,000 results
Wired Equivalent Privacy: 2,200,000 results
Wikipedia says Wired Equivalent Privacy
Screw the uneducated masses -- this fool probably Googled "WEP", along with the rest of his low-rent "Wireless for Dummies" security tips.
This is not really the same thing -- you're talking of backwards-compatibility, I'm talking of interoperability -- but I see where you're going with this.
Being interoperable with other platforms, files, etc. has nothing to do with the end-to-end model "winning".
99% of the tax software in the North American market supports Quickbooks file format; this has nothing to do with the superiority of Quickbooks software architecture, it has to do with the superiority of Quickbooks marketshare.
you *have* to be interoperable with the market leader's file formats and software. Chalk this up as a "duh" and move on. Nothing to see here.
Fox News? CNN? I only rely on them for video footage -- I'll leave my fact-gathering and news research to the Web aggregate, thanks.
"Self. Your technical savviness has not gone unnoticed. You've been selected. Congratulations."
salary = slavery
How did we get into this rut, this "I work harder than you do" bullshit that permeates the programmer culture? When did it become "ok" to work 80 hours a week?
My company realised along time ago that all this unpaid overtime is a waste -- sloppy code and unhappy employees are worthless bi-products of this mentality.
You are not permitted to stay after hours unless it is absolutely necessary for maintenance work, in which case, you can either come in late that day or take off those hours the next day.
Nobody works more than 40 hours a week.
The double-click-now-tell-me-what-to-do wizard pattern for installing Windows applications, drivers, patches, etc. could be easily reproduced on any desktop linux/BSD variant using a simple shell script coupled with a good package management/repository to handle dependencies -- there's nothing magical about Install Shield or Windows for that matter; we had batch files that did the same thing in DOS.
If a piece of software does one thing, and one thing well, then by virtue of design it is less complicated and thus more usable.
Banking industry or not, don't expect some middle-aged Director or CIO to stick their neck out at the next board meeting and say, "lets share everybody! c'mon!".
Its going to start with some techs, at the bottom, grumbling about having to apply the same patch *again* because the fix didn't make it into the latest release. When the Marketing Director wonders why initiative X has to be postponed, and its because of this redundant patch cycle, they'll table it and give it due consideration. If the process continues, and it's having an impact on productivity, you'll see something start to happen.
I'm surprised none of the big financial representatives of some of the major open source players haven't considered jumping on the "we're open source too!" PR bandwagon in order to wrangle in more like-minded corporate accounts.
Personally, I want dedicated hardware doing my firewalling -- I'd wager that a low-end D-Link router/firewall is more immune to compromise than a userland software firewall. Problem is, Grandma is not going to buy a router but if NVidia can embed firewalls in their motherboard products, why can't Motorola do the same for their modems?
Meanwhile, at the OpenBRR secret lair...
Stodgy CEO: "Close that door, Johnson!"
Johnson from Spike: "I'm on it, Sir. Its closed."
Stodgy CEO: "Now pass me those sandals. Do they have that Grateful Dead tie-dye in XXL?"
errr. umm.
Telecommuting just raises another possible barrier and could compound dynamics and differences among team members. Yeah, it's called hiding from Marketing so you can finish the last changes she requested before being asked to do something else. Telecommuting, on an adhoc basis (once or twice a week) so you can get some uninterrupted development work done is perfectly acceptable, especially if you don't have your own office and work in a fabulous "open concept" office or cube farm.
They also have a wretched Web interface for their routers that requires javascript to be enabled. Try making changes using lynx from a terminal.
I don't understand why the coining of an umbrella term that describes a set of technologies and technique receives so much backlash from the /. crowd.
Think Google "keyword" -- have you ever tried to search for ambiguous technical terms on Google? If I search for "web 2.0 *insert any relevant term here*" I have an excellent chance of finding what I'm looking for. Same goes for "jboss" or "ubuntu" etc.
I, for one, welcome our umbrella term-coining overlords.
...don't fix it. I think there is something to see here. Why doesn't MS port their non-OS apps to .Net? MS wants their customers to always port software to the latest and greatest MS language/environment of the year, so why doesn't MS do the same?
With Vista as late as it is, I doubt they have the time to port all their working user-land apps over to .Niet, and quite frankly, I'm glad they didn't -- why introduce new bugs in a well-tested, stable (yes, stable, I can't recall ever hearing of notepad crashing) application for the sake of the .Niet Marketing initiative? They really don't need to either; go to monster.com and search for ".NET developer" and you'll see what I'm talking about.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.memory.cap acity
I have 1.5 GB of RAM; I have my cache set to 64 MB (4096).
...and he probably would've had a better product in the end. I think alot of the best open source software out there became great, simply because the developers *weren't* getting paid. It was a labor of love -- they saw something great, grabbed a CSV account and started contributing. You can't just throw money at people and expect them to follow your vision, especially if you're not there to lead and manage.