LOL. After you said that I pictured Hunter S Thompson as his high school instructor.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
--Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
You mentioned that tivoli's storage manager requires IE but a quick look at their product info page indicats that they support HP/UX,linux,Solaris and other clients and if that is the case then their web software must work with other web clients.
I do all my banking, and the company's with Mozilla with no problems. A friend of mine also uses Moz for his banking. That's three separate banks that have no problem with Mozilla.
There are probably more good choices in web browsers right now than there ever was. It is a good time for change.
Sentance 1:The games that did run ran pretty flawlessly.
Sentance 2:The games that didn't work had varying degrees of success all just short of actually being able to play the game
Umm. The way I read that is that some games worked. Those were a success. Others looked like they installed but didn't work and were considered failures.
Incidentally this has been my experience installing games on Windows (not just on Wine). Many games are picky about which version of Direct X you have installed.
I used to have multiple versions of Windows installed just to play my games. Some only worked in Win 98, others only worked in Win2000, and I had one that would only work in win95. It was really annoying and put me off gaming.
remember that you do not need a long exposure time. Of course you will need a really long lens.
The first time I photographed the moon I tried long exposure times, in the range of 2-8 seconds when the film returned the moon was a bright white blob with no detail. The moon is basically a rock that is being hit by direct sunlight and to get a good exposure you need to expose your film as if you were shooting a snapshot on a bright sunny day.
One guideline I find helpful is the "Sunny 16 rule": For a subject in direct sunlight set your f-stop to 16, and your shutter speed to closely match the speed of your film. Eg ISO 200 and shutter speed of 1/250.
Plus with disposable cameras the film is *preloaded* so you will never miss a shot because the film was not loaded correctly.
On the pro side for digital . .. Do you use these images in printed documents? If so how much time do you spend waiting for development, and scanning prints?
Firebird is an excellent mature database that has continually improved since the project formed a few years ago,and is worth considering any time you want support for stored procedures, triggers, and transactions like PostgreSQL, or the ability to deploy on both Linux and Windows like mySQL.
Mozilla is a great project with much more visibility than Firebird. It would be nice if the Mozilla team could spend a little extra time to come up with a name that isn't already being used by an open source project. How hard could that be?
I remember having the exact same conversation back in 1993 with my buddy Phil. He said something like:
"486 100!! Who needs that kind of speed? My 386 does windows, and word processors, and spreadsheets. Nobody needs the speed of a 100MHz machine"
I totally agreed with him. Because back then my 8086, and WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS was serving my needs well.
There is always going to be new cool things to do with the computer.
Back then tools like pagemaker, and photoshop were driving the need for more horsepower. Today I think it is the desire for better and better 3d rendering.
While I disagree with what you say I will defend your right to say it (Voltaire paraphrased).
This comment does not deserve a -1 Troll. If you want to see some real trolls try setting your browsing threshold to (-1 uncut and raw) and you will see comments full of expletives, personal attacks against others' sexual preference, and comments that are wildly offtopic
This AC is not worth the mod points up, or down. Zero is about right.
Sorry for the rant but I've been stewing about unfair mods ever since I started browsing at minus and just hit a boiling point today.
I prefer using Access databases with a web frontend to any other system because you can treat the database as a file (unlike mySQL, MSSQL, oracle etc).
I agree. I have always liked how Access stores all its data in a single file.
Interbase works in a similar way. All the data is stored in a single.gdb file which I can build on a windows machine and upload to a linux server.
Of course Interbase, unlike Access, is just a database server and does not have any front end tools. However there are apis for C, C++, PHP, ODBC, and JDBC so there are plenty of options for writiing your own front end. Interbase, like Access, is super easy to install. On windows you just follow the install wizard, and on Linux just untar the package and run the install script.
I wouldn't put that kind of sneaky, technically legal kind of behavior past Microsoft. After all the attacked elementary schools in Oregon why not university students.
However I really doubt this is a trap. Dot Net is a hurting piece of technology that offers very little advantage to anyone except people who are already tied into a microsoft solution.
Most articles that I have read have suggested that companies take a "wait and see" approach before adopting dot net. Of course if every body listened to this advice then few would adopt the new frameworks and the whole thing can fizzle worse than the XBox. I think that Microsoft is going to follow their old strategy of giving to away for cheap, until people depend on it then crank up the price.
I guess the reason Open Office loads so quickly on this machine is that I had "Load OpenOffice.org during system start up" selected in my preferences.
I disabled the auto load option. Restarted windows, and then loaded open office. This time the writer program needed almost 12 seconds to start which is closer to cscx's results.
Time to load (from clicking the icon till the template doc is fully loaded and you can start typing):
Open Office.org Writer: 14.64 sec
MS Word: 4.83 sec
I have to wonder if something is wrong with your system that is slowing it down because I ran the same test on a similar system with the following results.
Open Office.org Writer: 2.78 sec
MS Word: 2.14 sec
The test system is a Celeron 1.1 with 256 ram, 7200 rpm hard drive, and Win2000 pro. Are you using Win XP by chance?
OpenOffice also connects to firbird (Interbase) easily via JDBC.
All you need is the jdbc driver, and the permission to access the database (ie filename, username, password)
I assume the same is true for any JDBC or ODBC compliant database.
That mini-itx looks nifty. Here's another option - what about modding an XBox to run linux?
The xbox is relatively cheap ( $200US ), is almost silent when it is turned on, and has plenty of power and space to run Linux. (Pentium 733-MHz, 8gig hard drive) . Has anybody tried this and had successfull uptimes? I googled for information yesterday and found lots of sites describing how to modify the box but no reports as to how reliable hardware is when left running 24/7.
We build web applications using flash as the front end, php in the middle, and mySQL in the back. Our decision to use flash on the front instead of tried and true html was based on two promises by Macromedia:
More than 90% of all web users have at least a Flash 4 plug-in installed . So if you make a flash based application the user will not need to download a new plug-in.
Flash applications, look and run the same on all browswers and platforms.
When you start programming with Flash MX you soon find that your end user will require the Flash 6 plugin. Not just any Flash 6, the very latest version has some bug fixes that seem to be essential for some features. So promise #1 was broken because the users still need to download the newest viewer.
Promise number 2 was also broken because the applications do not work the same on all machines, and we now end up jumping throught the same hoops that we do with html. Design once, and test on every platform and browser.
The AC used an analogy of an imaginary world to prove that it is ok to steal bandwidth in the real world. TPol might say that it was a specious argument. It sounds correct but isn't.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice
The current proposal would ban the creation or possession of "a digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image" that is "indistinguishable" from a real minor.
I support the protection of children, and banning real child porn BUT this proposal which bans pictures of anyone who looks like a minor is ridiculous. Some 16 year old girls look 36, and some 25 year old girls look like they are 15.
The bill is too subjective to be fair, or useful. If someone takes pictures of a minor you can prove based on the date the photo was taken, and the model's birth date that a crime was committed. How does one decide if a model looks too young or not?
Bush will go down as the worst president in history when all is said and done.
I doubt that. President Bush's approval rating has risen to 67%. He didn't even have a clear majority when elected.
But I agree with your sentiment that it is a dangerous precedent being set by current events. The whole thing reminds me about a scene in gladiator between Gaius and Gracchus: "I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. .."
The promised junk mail control for Mozilla is finally here and I'm loving it. The wait was almost unbearable because all the other guys in the office have had spam filters with their OSX email client for months. I was tempted to switch. But now mail comes in and gets whisked away to the junk folder almost immediatly. It's a beautiful thing.
The link has a table that lists speeds from 1/4 impulse through to warp 10. It tells you how fast that is in km/hr , relative to light speed, and how long it would take you to travel across the federation (20 light years) at that rate.
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LOL. After you said that I pictured Hunter S Thompson as his high school instructor.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
--Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
You mentioned that tivoli's storage manager requires IE but a quick look at their product info page indicats that they support HP/UX,linux,Solaris and other clients and if that is the case then their web software must work with other web clients.
I do all my banking, and the company's with Mozilla with no problems. A friend of mine also uses Moz for his banking. That's three separate banks that have no problem with Mozilla.
There are probably more good choices in web browsers right now than there ever was. It is a good time for change.
Incidentally this has been my experience installing games on Windows (not just on Wine). Many games are picky about which version of Direct X you have installed. I used to have multiple versions of Windows installed just to play my games. Some only worked in Win 98, others only worked in Win2000, and I had one that would only work in win95. It was really annoying and put me off gaming.
remember that you do not need a long exposure time. Of course you will need a really long lens.
The first time I photographed the moon I tried long exposure times, in the range of 2-8 seconds when the film returned the moon was a bright white blob with no detail. The moon is basically a rock that is being hit by direct sunlight and to get a good exposure you need to expose your film as if you were shooting a snapshot on a bright sunny day.
One guideline I find helpful is the "Sunny 16 rule": For a subject in direct sunlight set your f-stop to 16, and your shutter speed to closely match the speed of your film. Eg ISO 200 and shutter speed of 1/250.
Plus with disposable cameras the film is *preloaded* so you will never miss a shot because the film was not loaded correctly.
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On the pro side for digital . .
Do you use these images in printed documents? If so how much time do you spend waiting for development, and scanning prints?
I'm going to jump on this bandwagon.
Firebird is an excellent mature database that has continually improved since the project formed a few years ago,and is worth considering any time you want support for stored procedures, triggers, and transactions like PostgreSQL, or the ability to deploy on both Linux and Windows like mySQL.
Mozilla is a great project with much more visibility than Firebird. It would be nice if the Mozilla team could spend a little extra time to come up with a name that isn't already being used by an open source project. How hard could that be?
A couple years ago I would have agreed with you but all languages evolve.
guesstimate
n : an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing [syn: guestimate]
v : estimate based on a calculation
I totally agreed with him. Because back then my 8086, and WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS was serving my needs well. There is always going to be new cool things to do with the computer.
Back then tools like pagemaker, and photoshop were driving the need for more horsepower. Today I think it is the desire for better and better 3d rendering.
While I disagree with what you say I will defend your right to say it (Voltaire paraphrased).
This comment does not deserve a -1 Troll. If you want to see some real trolls try setting your browsing threshold to (-1 uncut and raw) and you will see comments full of expletives, personal attacks against others' sexual preference, and comments that are wildly offtopic
This AC is not worth the mod points up, or down. Zero is about right.
Sorry for the rant but I've been stewing about unfair mods ever since I started browsing at minus and just hit a boiling point today.
I wouldn't put that kind of sneaky, technically legal kind of behavior past Microsoft. After all the attacked elementary schools in Oregon why not university students.
However I really doubt this is a trap. Dot Net is a hurting piece of technology that offers very little advantage to anyone except people who are already tied into a microsoft solution.
Most articles that I have read have suggested that companies take a "wait and see" approach before adopting dot net. Of course if every body listened to this advice then few would adopt the new frameworks and the whole thing can fizzle worse than the XBox. I think that Microsoft is going to follow their old strategy of giving to away for cheap, until people depend on it then crank up the price.
I guess the reason Open Office loads so quickly on this machine is that I had "Load OpenOffice.org during system start up" selected in my preferences. I disabled the auto load option. Restarted windows, and then loaded open office. This time the writer program needed almost 12 seconds to start which is closer to cscx's results.
I have to wonder if something is wrong with your system that is slowing it down because I ran the same test on a similar system with the following results.
- Open Office.org Writer: 2.78 sec
- MS Word: 2.14 sec
The test system is a Celeron 1.1 with 256 ram, 7200 rpm hard drive, and Win2000 pro. Are you using Win XP by chance?OpenOffice also connects to firbird (Interbase) easily via JDBC. All you need is the jdbc driver, and the permission to access the database (ie filename, username, password) I assume the same is true for any JDBC or ODBC compliant database.
The xbox is relatively cheap ( $200US ), is almost silent when it is turned on, and has plenty of power and space to run Linux. (Pentium 733-MHz, 8gig hard drive) . Has anybody tried this and had successfull uptimes? I googled for information yesterday and found lots of sites describing how to modify the box but no reports as to how reliable hardware is when left running 24/7.
Lol.
You're trying to start a flame war on databases right? You almost got me.
Stats on Flash penetration from macromedia
Flash 4 - 97.1%Flash 5 - 93.5%
Flash 6 - 71.7%
Some funny cartoons are produced with flash but producing web applications with it can be more pain than they are worth.
We build web applications using flash as the front end, php in the middle, and mySQL in the back. Our decision to use flash on the front instead of tried and true html was based on two promises by Macromedia:
When you start programming with Flash MX you soon find that your end user will require the Flash 6 plugin. Not just any Flash 6, the very latest version has some bug fixes that seem to be essential for some features. So promise #1 was broken because the users still need to download the newest viewer.
Promise number 2 was also broken because the applications do not work the same on all machines, and we now end up jumping throught the same hoops that we do with html. Design once, and test on every platform and browser.
The AC used an analogy of an imaginary world to prove that it is ok to steal bandwidth in the real world. TPol might say that it was a specious argument. It sounds correct but isn't.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice
In reality there is.
From the article:
I support the protection of children, and banning real child porn BUT this proposal which bans pictures of anyone who looks like a minor is ridiculous. Some 16 year old girls look 36, and some 25 year old girls look like they are 15.The bill is too subjective to be fair, or useful. If someone takes pictures of a minor you can prove based on the date the photo was taken, and the model's birth date that a crime was committed. How does one decide if a model looks too young or not?
I doubt that. President Bush's approval rating has risen to 67%. He didn't even have a clear majority when elected.
But I agree with your sentiment that it is a dangerous precedent being set by current events. The whole thing reminds me about a scene in gladiator between Gaius and Gracchus: "I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. . ."
The promised junk mail control for Mozilla is finally here and I'm loving it. The wait was almost unbearable because all the other guys in the office have had spam filters with their OSX email client for months. I was tempted to switch. But now mail comes in and gets whisked away to the junk folder almost immediatly. It's a beautiful thing.
The link has a table that lists speeds from 1/4 impulse through to warp 10. It tells you how fast that is in km/hr , relative to light speed, and how long it would take you to travel across the federation (20 light years) at that rate.
It's a good rant. Roll with it. How did you get to your current competence of Unix admin? Mentor, Formal training, self taught?