The original poster quoted $350,000. For that price couldn't you hire a few competent linux admins and have in house support? Having good people on site who know your needs is surely better than any company's telephone support.
Huh? I know you are joking/trolling but isn't free software on the opposite side of the spectrum from communism? Communism is all about a central body of government controlling the people where as free software has little or no control at all.
re: "Consider this: Microsoft has been ordered not to use the term MSCE in both the United States and Canada because Microsoft does not have the legal right to "certify" people as engineers."
Also, look in the mirror. You probably do not have huge "fangs," which are characteristics of meat eaters.
That's true. But it is also true that we do not have flat molars (they're ridged), and a jaw with rotary movements designed to crush and grind food.
We probably shouldn't need to study a fact that was obvious to our parents. We are omnivors and thrive when we receive food from all four food groups. wolf vs sheep vs shepherd
The more efficient cpu, and hardware divx allows laptops to be created with smaller batteries, and since batteries are one of the heaviest components this equates to much lighter laptop designs.
With the workload distributed across the whole platform, rather than being concentrated on the processor, the VIA Antaur processor has to do less work, saving battery life while delivering smooth 30 frames per second DVD playback.
That survey is of course meaningless unless we can link it to peoples pre-existant deployment plans.
Yup. And it's worse than that.
I suspect a "Reader Question" is similar to a "Slashdot Poll" which is, as we all know, wildly inaccurate due to ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls and an unscientific sample.
To write perfect bug free software you must have a complete and accurate understanding of the end users problem. The best explanation I have found as to why this isn't as easy as it sounds was in a book called Software requirements and specifications which in the first chapter tells a story of a mathematician, finance director, manager, sociologist, and a stock broker discussing a recent failed project.
In 1993 the computer system project for the London Stock Exchange failed disastrously. 400 million pounds spent and nothing to show for it. Who was to pay? What had gone wrong? Why do so many developments end in disaster?
'Pure Ignorance,' said the mathematician. 'Software development is essentially a branch of mathematics. That is why computer science departments in universities have so often been closely associated with mathematics departments. You must understand that a program is a mathematical object. Its development is therefore a mathematical activity, of a particularly challenging kind. Those who engage in it should, of course, be competent both in using the appropriate mathematical notations and in drawing on the appropriate body of mathematical knowledge -that is, on knowledge of the relevant theorems. While we continue to ignore these facts we will continue to perpetrate disasters.'
'That's all very well,' said the finance director, 'but in my company we build systems to improve our business performance. I imagine that the Stock Exchange does the same. Software isn't mathematics: it's business. I think of a software development project as a capital investment. The test of its success is simply the value of the return on that investment to the company. The return in this case seems to be negative. The essential tools in a software project are financial risk analysis and discounted cash flow calculation'
'Of course you are right,' said the manager. 'But the key to achieving profitability and return on investment is to improve the development process, and with it the cost and quality of the end product. Software developers like to think they're doing something very special, but in fact it's an industrial process just like any other. The essence of software development is a quantitative approach to measuring and improving the performance of the software development process. What you don't measure you can't control.'
'But surely software development is done by people. And for people isn't it?' said the sociologist. 'Software is situated. You talk as if the system and its development were something objective, but really it has to be continually renegotiated subjectively between the various stakeholders, who all have their own agendas and perspectives. The success of any system depends directly on facilitating the negotiation, and on the determinant individual and group relationships in the societal context. I suspect that the Stock Exchange members belong to an authoritarian culture in which the dominant behaviour in inimical to peer group negotiation; perhaps that explains their failure.'
'This all seems ridiculous to me,' said the stockbroker. 'The plain fact is that the system was meant to serve the needs of brokers and jobbers of the Stock Exchange, and it didn't. It usually takes a professional working member of the exchange at least five years to learn how the Stock Exchange works, and I don't see why the analysts and programmers who make computer systems should expect to pick it up more quickly. A system for a particular business can only be built by people who are experts in that business. Domain knowledge, I think it is called. That's what matters.
The problem with drugs, especially with drugs like ecstacy, is that they create *permanent* changes in brain chemistry. Sometimes very damaging changes. This is not even going into the addictive properties of most drugs.
I feel the biggest danger of drugs is unreliable quality on the streets.
Most exctacy you can get around here has a strong dose of speed in it and if you are lucky enough to find a pure source the stuff will cost double the cheap stuff. So lesson number one is only buy from known sources.
The second biggest danger with exctacy is that its effectiveness decreases the more often you use it so the first couple times you take one dose (swallow, smoke, or inhale) but after a while that one dose doesn't get you to the same happy place so you take two. Then three. . . now you have a problem.
authentication of the originating address should be required - would stop a lot.
Requiring an authenticated email address might stop a few ethical spammers but there are plenty of spammers out there who wouldn't hesitate to use some poor sap's valid email address as the return address for their junk.
For anybody too busy to follow the link here is an excerpt from an information rich web site that outlines the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide.
What are some of the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically
life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest
and elsewhere.
Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor
to the El Nino weather effect.
What are some uses of Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Despite the known dangers of DHMO, it continues to be used daily by industry,
government, and even in private homes across the U.S. and worldwide. Some
of the well-known uses of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
as an industrial solvent and coolant, in nuclear power plants,
by the U.S. Navy in the propulsion systems of some older
vessels,
by elite athletes to improve performance,
in the production of Styrofoam,
in biological and chemical weapons manufacture,
as a spray-on fire suppressant and retardant,
in abortion clinics,
as a major ingredient in many home-brewed bombs,
as a byproduct of hydrocarbon combustion in furnaces
and air conditioning compressor operation,
in cult rituals,
by the Church of Scientology on their members and their members' families,
by both the KKK and the NAACP during rallies and marches,
by pedophiles and pornographers (for uses we'd rather not say here),
by the clientele at a number of homosexual bath houses in
New York City and San Francisco,
historically, in Hitler's death camps in Nazi Germany,
and in prisons in Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Libya, Iraq and Iran,
in World War II prison camps in Japan, and in prisons in
China, for various forms of torture,
by the Serbian military as authorized by Slobodan Milosevic
in their recent ethnic cleansing campaign,
in animal research laboratories, and
in pesticide production and distribution.
(Hopefully you realize that Dihydrogen Monoxide is water)
No. The parent, and grandparent posters were talking about the web logs:
parent: How many users visit using IE or Windows? Good luck on getting that. Seems no one is willing to admit how many geeks are actually not using linux/bsd/beos/os/2.
grandparent: Hey, what I have always wondered about Slashdot is some of the stats and demographics of the Slashdot crowd.
What would seeing those logs prove? Lot's of people still use Windows on the desktop?
I have a Linux file server in the office, two commercial web servers on linux, one database server, and have a linux test box for a total of 5 linux boxes that I use on a regular basis, and 1 windows machine from which I am posting this message. Our one and only IIS web server is going to be phased out in the next couple months.
So, is XML really more than just a bandwagon, even today?
Does it matter? The point is that many companies have jumped on the bandwagon. With wide spread support for XML it has become a quick way to transfer information from one program to another.
You might be tied into outlook at work but give your children mozilla mail.
The spam filter will delete *most* porns as soon as they come in
To neutralize any html spam that slips past their filter you can choose to not: "load remote images in mail and newsgroup messages" (It has the added side benefit of protecting your kids from cgi scripts that track when they read their email messages)
Any time we need new software the senior partner asks if we can build it.
I love writing code but my first question is usually "has somebody else already built software to solve this problem?" If the wheel has already been built it will often be cheaper than building a new wheel.
Dreamweaver most definitely handles jsp syntax highlighting, and has some basic tools for creating database enabled web pages. I usually use it to create html page templates, then JBuilder as my development environment to build data access components and beans.
"speak correct English" vs "speak English correctly"
Either is fine. In the first instance of 'correct' is an adjective describing English, and the second is an adverb that modifies the verb speak.
I find it funny that most of this discussion is happening anonymously - I was going to do the same because I don't want to be labelled a gramar nazi. ..Oh well. What's the point of having karma except to enjoy watching it burn away once in a while.
Then you turn your computer off, put the operating system CD into the drive and turn the computer back on. Following the on-screen instructions, you wipe the hard drive clean and let the operating system reinstall itself from scratch
I find it hard to believe that people are still advising full reinstalls of an operating system as part of regular maintenance. This just isn't necessary (sp?) any more. You can probably get the same performance increase by reorganizing your files, and defragging the harddrive.
A full reinstall risks loss of data. One example is your email. Outlook express buries its data somewhere in c:\windows\application data\ . Most people don't back up the windows directory and risk losing their email when performing a complete reinstall. Windows 2000, and XP are stable enough that rebuilding the system every 6 months is no longer a best practice. The only good time to reinstall the OS is if there is something wrong with it. For example if you have downloaded some strange porn-viewer.exe that has fsked everything up a reinstall should be your last resort option.
What's up with the offtopic mod? The post couldn't be more on topic. Redundant maybe because it's yet another "In Soviet Russia" joke but this time it was actually funny.
And, gosh, am I tired of watching tail -f/var/log/all and tail -f/var/log/smail/logfile on one screen while reading/. and claiming it's "research for the project" on the other.
LOL. I didn't know anyone else does that.
I have two monitors on my desk, and when reading slashdot I keep the second monitor looking busy tailing logs, or running top if anybody asks I tell them I am monitoring a new script, application, or some strange activity on one of the servers.
Slashdot Mirror
The original poster quoted $350,000. For that price couldn't you hire a few competent linux admins and have in house support? Having good people on site who know your needs is surely better than any company's telephone support.
FSF==COMMUNISM!
Huh? I know you are joking/trolling but isn't free software on the opposite side of the spectrum from communism? Communism is all about a central body of government controlling the people where as free software has little or no control at all.
re: "Consider this: Microsoft has been ordered not to use the term MSCE in both the United States and Canada because Microsoft does not have the legal right to "certify" people as engineers."
cite?
Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) opposes the use of the word "Engineer" in the MSCE designation
Microsoft Debating World-Wide MCSE Name Change
Also, look in the mirror. You probably do not have huge "fangs," which are characteristics of meat eaters.
That's true. But it is also true that we do not have flat molars (they're ridged), and a jaw with rotary movements designed to crush and grind food.
We probably shouldn't need to study a fact that was obvious to our parents. We are omnivors and thrive when we receive food from all four food groups.
wolf vs sheep vs shepherd
blockquote from their site:
That survey is of course meaningless unless we can link it to peoples pre-existant deployment plans.
Yup. And it's worse than that.
I suspect a "Reader Question" is similar to a "Slashdot Poll" which is, as we all know, wildly inaccurate due to ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls and an unscientific sample.
Sorry, but the real geeks use Mutt ... graphical email clients are for geek posers ;)
I agree but with one small modification. "Email clients are for geek posers"
telnet myserver.com 110
USER me@myserver.com
PASS secret
LIST
RETR 1
DELE 1
QUIT
Telnet is the one true way of retrieving your email. If everybody used telnet we wouldn't have these problems with viri.
If someone wants to pay a large amount of money to use a public road then I would call that a voluntary tax.
The problem with drugs, especially with drugs like ecstacy, is that they create *permanent* changes in brain chemistry. Sometimes very damaging changes. This is not even going into the addictive properties of most drugs.
I feel the biggest danger of drugs is unreliable quality on the streets.
Most exctacy you can get around here has a strong dose of speed in it and if you are lucky enough to find a pure source the stuff will cost double the cheap stuff. So lesson number one is only buy from known sources.
The second biggest danger with exctacy is that its effectiveness decreases the more often you use it so the first couple times you take one dose (swallow, smoke, or inhale) but after a while that one dose doesn't get you to the same happy place so you take two. Then three. . . now you have a problem.
authentication of the originating address should be required - would stop a lot.
Requiring an authenticated email address might stop a few ethical spammers but there are plenty of spammers out there who wouldn't hesitate to use some poor sap's valid email address as the return address for their junk.
Jon.
Nice work. Your photos are stunning.
Aoteoroa.
For anybody too busy to follow the link here is an excerpt from an information rich web site that outlines the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide.
What are some of the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide?
-
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
-
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
-
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically
life-threatening side-effects.
-
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
-
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
-
Contributes to soil erosion.
-
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
-
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
-
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
-
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
-
Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest
and elsewhere.
-
Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor
to the El Nino weather effect.
What are some uses of Dihydrogen Monoxide?Despite the known dangers of DHMO, it continues to be used daily by industry, government, and even in private homes across the U.S. and worldwide. Some of the well-known uses of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
(Hopefully you realize that Dihydrogen Monoxide is water)
I think he means the irc logs......
No. The parent, and grandparent posters were talking about the web logs:
parent:
How many users visit using IE or Windows? Good luck on getting that. Seems no one is willing to admit how many geeks are actually not using linux/bsd/beos/os/2.
grandparent:
Hey, what I have always wondered about Slashdot is some of the stats and demographics of the Slashdot crowd.
What would seeing those logs prove? Lot's of people still use Windows on the desktop?
I have a Linux file server in the office, two commercial web servers on linux, one database server, and have a linux test box for a total of 5 linux boxes that I use on a regular basis, and 1 windows machine from which I am posting this message. Our one and only IIS web server is going to be phased out in the next couple months.
Does it matter? The point is that many companies have jumped on the bandwagon. With wide spread support for XML it has become a quick way to transfer information from one program to another.
Try looking at gateway's all in one .
Sometimes I wish for the poster's problem.
Any time we need new software the senior partner asks if we can build it.
I love writing code but my first question is usually "has somebody else already built software to solve this problem?" If the wheel has already been built it will often be cheaper than building a new wheel.
Dreamweaver most definitely handles jsp syntax highlighting, and has some basic tools for creating database enabled web pages. I usually use it to create html page templates, then JBuilder as my development environment to build data access components and beans.
Heh . . . $20 says that the person who moderated this "overrated" has a tatoo of a small sunflower.
Either is fine. In the first instance of 'correct' is an adjective describing English, and the second is an adverb that modifies the verb speak.
I find it funny that most of this discussion is happening anonymously - I was going to do the same because I don't want to be labelled a gramar nazi. .A full reinstall risks loss of data. One example is your email. Outlook express buries its data somewhere in c:\windows\application data\ . Most people don't back up the windows directory and risk losing their email when performing a complete reinstall. Windows 2000, and XP are stable enough that rebuilding the system every 6 months is no longer a best practice. The only good time to reinstall the OS is if there is something wrong with it. For example if you have downloaded some strange porn-viewer.exe that has fsked everything up a reinstall should be your last resort option.
What's up with the offtopic mod? The post couldn't be more on topic. Redundant maybe because it's yet another "In Soviet Russia" joke but this time it was actually funny.
And, gosh, am I tired of watching tail -f /var/log/all and tail -f /var/log/smail/logfile on one screen while reading /. and claiming it's "research for the project" on the other.
LOL. I didn't know anyone else does that.
I have two monitors on my desk, and when reading slashdot I keep the second monitor looking busy tailing logs, or running top if anybody asks I tell them I am monitoring a new script, application, or some strange activity on one of the servers.