The site WeSupportPam.org is a good example of someone looking for help from others. I can see trying to get help when you you are powerless to do anything else on your own. This should be something than anyone can do.
You might want to try Party planner From the site: You can use PartyCAD to design parties, weddings, banquets, conferences, meetings, trade shows and mall shows. You can also design stores, residential interiors, offices and libraries. In fact, you will find that the package is flexible enough to design nearly any space.
I've used an earlier version of this to do office and house layouts. There is a 30 day demo version available.
Top on my list is the development team behind the open support of the Linksys NSLU2.
Jim Buzbee was one of the first with his articles on Tom's hardware on Hacking the NSLU2.
There are now a number of developers that have extended the abilities and have added over 50 applications packages. You can see their work at the NSLU2 Wiki. They rock! Thanks guys!!!
... but the new ones are much better than the first series. This stack of AMD news releases shows what they are doing. Don't count lower power / lower speed out yet.
Nice explanation. We do a similar thing as part of our SCADA monitor system.
Each message processor registers "interest" in a message type or messages from a particular instrument(s). The main message process gets the messages, flings them off to the interested parties and gets them into a queue to be persisted.
The message process looks at the message and does the analysis (fast, slow, trends, alarms, etc.) Each process keeps the data they need to do the longer term trending, multiple alarm relationships, etc.) They can also publish messages that others may be interested in, so if many processes want the same filter, one filter does it and then the result gets sent on.
It's fast and pretty simple to set up. Nice thing is that it will scale provided you clump processes that are interested in the same messages on the same set of boxes. We do dual network ports, messages flow "downstream" to the people that are interested.
Get Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules by Steve McConnell.
Read it cover to cover twice. (Most PM's will do step one but never read the book)
Find Top 10 Risk List in the Best Practices and do it.
Profit!
Start doing the other best practices in the book
More Profit!
The book is a great summary of information. Your primary job is a communications agent between everyone on the project, not as a coder, designer, etc.
While you may asked to plan, you'll need to get the estimates from people that have done this before. Use an estimation tool like SEAT to make estimates, not your gut feel.
A project tool like MS Project or LBM, etc. is really your friend. Learn it and use it. Next to e-mail and Powerpoint it is your most used tool.
Information from the National Hurricane Center
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index-at.xml - a must during the hurricane season.
Their feed of local weather is also good.
Calculator - 4 functions to start, then trig funcs
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I teach advanced programming at a local university. I often get students that want to get into the class without having the prior classes. I tell them to set aside 90 mins and to call/email me when they are ready to start.
For the first hour (or whatever) it takes I have them write a four function calculator (FFC). Once they get that done, I have them extend it to add trig functions like sin / cos in the last 30 mins. If they can't do that, they are not going to be happy with harder assignments.
I also use this as a mini-test of a new language. Try my new language COAL, better than Cobol, faster than VB, a true OO language with VM's that run on any Timex watch!! A short stint creating a FFC lets me know how well it works out.
The FFC is also good since you can use it for GUI checkout to see if that new tool rocks as much as Freshmeat would like you to think.
40 GB laptop disk $84 - Bascon Computers
USB 2 case (with keyboard power cable for those PC's with lame USB ports) $32 - Bascon Computers
Knoppix $0 - the web
Portability Priceless
Fits in your pocket, you can carry your system all the time. Most places are starting to care about USB drives so check before you plug in.
The nice thing is you always have your code, your custom toolchain, music, etc. Like you never left home.
(OK, so you have to set up Knoppix and that will take an hour or two, far less than it takes you to build that XP box from scratch) - ob Windows vs. Linux dig
I don't use my first name, I use my middle. So far everything except my birthcert and passport have just the two names, so I've been OK.
...until 9/11 and now I get flack about the plane ticket name not matching the passport name. So far it's been a few min conversation to clear it up, but I don't know how long that will last.
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I use Astro Jetson for all of the club / grocery cards. It's a hoot when they say "Thanks for shopping with us Mr. Jetson". I get lots of snail mail addressed to Astro. A few years ago CapOne "pre-approved" Astro for a credit card.
Fine, so these blokes have written a wrapper report for the SE toolkit, a BOFH "instrument" for years. Nice job guys, let me know how it works out for you.
Sigh, so now the PHB will be running this and telling us what to fix.
I've had one since the first printing also. I'v taught classes at the local university using it, and did a 12 week lunchtime session at work.
It's great material, its things about programming that have never (and most likely will never) change.
... why are you hanging around here? Surely someone of your intelligence knows of much better ways to spend your time than Slashdot. You know: People to feed, Cancer to cure, Wars to stop, Internet companies to IPO...
Let us know how it works out for you.
Learning programming is fine, but what does she want to do with it? (I want to learn French for my trip to Paris, I want to learn Finnish to talk to that woman at my club. I want to learn (some computer language) so I can (make cool web pages, manage my recipes, solve world hunger, etc.). Then go from that point, that should help the language choice.
If you are just trying to do basic programming constructs, pick something that has a good IDE, good error messages and can take a cheese sandwich, compile it and run it. Some of the errors from Java and Java script are pretty sad ( "is not an Object" is always helpful to me).
Logo, Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Squeek, etc. are all easy to learn the concepts with. I say start with one of them. You can always move her to something else later on.
The other options are to build her a Wiki and let her generate content (family news, ancestors, stories, garden info, hobbies, etc. Wiki presentation can be considered some level of programming (and slightly easier to understand than HTML).
Good luck, and remember your Mom raised you, so when she does not get the quirky points of Perl you are trying to teach her, don't yell at her.
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If you are looking for a High Level Assmebler that generates Java Byte Code look at Jamaica. It allows Java control structures around the byte code.
It is simple to use and has some very good documentation.
Jamaica (on the Judoscript site)
I support a dentist and an orthodontist with their computer systems. (Billing, records, scheduling, etc.)
I've gotten free dental, and a huge reduction in the ortho charges (3 kids worth).
The work is not hard, but when they call I show up ASAP to take care of them.
One of the early stack machines was the Burroughs computers from the 60's (B5000/B6000/B7000/A Series). The machines were pretty fast and had some interesting things they did in hardware. In the 80's Unisys had developed an A Series emulator that ran on a PC.
From what I know today, the A Series emulator runs on big Intel clusters with very good performance.
You might want to extend your Google search to include the Burroughs/Unisys stack machines. A trip over to
comp.sys.unisys with your question may get a response from people inside that have done stack based emulators for years and years.
I also use micro-ATX and I'm very happy with the stack that I have. I use the Ivar Ikea shelves, they come in different widths and depths and are open all around for good air flow. The upright supports are very sturdy (but use the cross braces anyway) and the holes allow for exact spacing of the shelves. I use that split plastic tube to hide the cables up and down the rack. I use screws inside the tube to fasten it to the back two rails, the tube runs from top to bottom of the rack. Nice and neat installation.
Same here, the page has lots of links that I use daily (news, recently changed pages, Slashdot, a few cartoons, etc.) along with a Google search box.
It's not the home page of my Wiki, but it's there. Just looked, it's been loaded 274 times since 1 March.
In a class action, the legal team will collect 60-70% of the money. You and your fellow class action members will split the remaining 30%. You would be very lucky in this case to get more than the cost of the game back.
Try small claims court if you want your money back.
Try a bottle of Jack Daniels if you want to 'get even'. You won't but the Jack will take your mind off of it for a few hours.
Better yet, chalk it up to one of those very good life lessons we all learn, Buyer Beware.
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The site WeSupportPam.org is a good example of someone looking for help from others. I can see trying to get help when you you are powerless to do anything else on your own. This should be something than anyone can do.
I've used an earlier version of this to do office and house layouts. There is a 30 day demo version available.
Jim Buzbee was one of the first with his articles on Tom's hardware on Hacking the NSLU2.
There are now a number of developers that have extended the abilities and have added over 50 applications packages. You can see their work at the NSLU2 Wiki. They rock! Thanks guys!!!
... but the new ones are much better than the first series. This stack of AMD news releases shows what they are doing. Don't count lower power / lower speed out yet.
Each message processor registers "interest" in a message type or messages from a particular instrument(s). The main message process gets the messages, flings them off to the interested parties and gets them into a queue to be persisted.
The message process looks at the message and does the analysis (fast, slow, trends, alarms, etc.) Each process keeps the data they need to do the longer term trending, multiple alarm relationships, etc.) They can also publish messages that others may be interested in, so if many processes want the same filter, one filter does it and then the result gets sent on.
It's fast and pretty simple to set up. Nice thing is that it will scale provided you clump processes that are interested in the same messages on the same set of boxes. We do dual network ports, messages flow "downstream" to the people that are interested.
The book is a great summary of information. Your primary job is a communications agent between everyone on the project, not as a coder, designer, etc.
While you may asked to plan, you'll need to get the estimates from people that have done this before. Use an estimation tool like SEAT to make estimates, not your gut feel.
A project tool like MS Project or LBM, etc. is really your friend. Learn it and use it. Next to e-mail and Powerpoint it is your most used tool.
Good luck!
Their feed of local weather is also good.
For the first hour (or whatever) it takes I have them write a four function calculator (FFC). Once they get that done, I have them extend it to add trig functions like sin / cos in the last 30 mins. If they can't do that, they are not going to be happy with harder assignments.
I also use this as a mini-test of a new language. Try my new language COAL, better than Cobol, faster than VB, a true OO language with VM's that run on any Timex watch!! A short stint creating a FFC lets me know how well it works out.
The FFC is also good since you can use it for GUI checkout to see if that new tool rocks as much as Freshmeat would like you to think.
USB 2 case (with keyboard power cable for those PC's with lame USB ports) $32 - Bascon Computers
Knoppix $0 - the web
Portability Priceless
Fits in your pocket, you can carry your system all the time. Most places are starting to care about USB drives so check before you plug in.
The nice thing is you always have your code, your custom toolchain, music, etc. Like you never left home.
(OK, so you have to set up Knoppix and that will take an hour or two, far less than it takes you to build that XP box from scratch) - ob Windows vs. Linux dig
Highly recommended!!
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I use Astro Jetson for all of the club / grocery cards. It's a hoot when they say "Thanks for shopping with us Mr. Jetson". I get lots of snail mail addressed to Astro. A few years ago CapOne "pre-approved" Astro for a credit card.
Sigh, so now the PHB will be running this and telling us what to fix.
I've had one since the first printing also. I'v taught classes at the local university using it, and did a 12 week lunchtime session at work. It's great material, its things about programming that have never (and most likely will never) change.
... why are you hanging around here? Surely someone of your intelligence knows of much better ways to spend your time than Slashdot. You know: People to feed, Cancer to cure, Wars to stop, Internet companies to IPO...
Let us know how it works out for you.
If you are just trying to do basic programming constructs, pick something that has a good IDE, good error messages and can take a cheese sandwich, compile it and run it. Some of the errors from Java and Java script are pretty sad ( "is not an Object" is always helpful to me).
Logo, Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Squeek, etc. are all easy to learn the concepts with. I say start with one of them. You can always move her to something else later on.
The other options are to build her a Wiki and let her generate content (family news, ancestors, stories, garden info, hobbies, etc. Wiki presentation can be considered some level of programming (and slightly easier to understand than HTML).
Good luck, and remember your Mom raised you, so when she does not get the quirky points of Perl you are trying to teach her, don't yell at her.
If you are looking for a High Level Assmebler that generates Java Byte Code look at Jamaica. It allows Java control structures around the byte code. It is simple to use and has some very good documentation. Jamaica (on the Judoscript site)
I support a dentist and an orthodontist with their computer systems. (Billing, records, scheduling, etc.) I've gotten free dental, and a huge reduction in the ortho charges (3 kids worth). The work is not hard, but when they call I show up ASAP to take care of them.
From what I know today, the A Series emulator runs on big Intel clusters with very good performance.
You might want to extend your Google search to include the Burroughs/Unisys stack machines. A trip over to comp.sys.unisys with your question may get a response from people inside that have done stack based emulators for years and years.
I also use micro-ATX and I'm very happy with the stack that I have. I use the Ivar Ikea shelves, they come in different widths and depths and are open all around for good air flow. The upright supports are very sturdy (but use the cross braces anyway) and the holes allow for exact spacing of the shelves. I use that split plastic tube to hide the cables up and down the rack. I use screws inside the tube to fasten it to the back two rails, the tube runs from top to bottom of the rack. Nice and neat installation.
Same here, the page has lots of links that I use daily (news, recently changed pages, Slashdot, a few cartoons, etc.) along with a Google search box. It's not the home page of my Wiki, but it's there. Just looked, it's been loaded 274 times since 1 March.
Try small claims court if you want your money back.
Try a bottle of Jack Daniels if you want to 'get even'. You won't but the Jack will take your mind off of it for a few hours.
Better yet, chalk it up to one of those very good life lessons we all learn, Buyer Beware.