Rogers has shut down BitTorrent traffic at most major cities in the last month. The only way around it is to encrypt the packets. Fortunately, BitComet can do this.
I signed up for 2 years extreme high speed and within 3 months, they (tried) to stop torrents and are dropping newsgroups. What good is a 8/800 cable modem now?
It's interesting to see how the development of Linux becomes more "professional" to use that word as Linus matures. The result of this is developers have to mature at his rate also.
The beauty of the holiday season isn't that you play all the games at once but you get other people to buy all these games for you. Holiday sales account for the vast majority of a stores business. This is because *everyone* is out buying things. Companies that want to sell product therefore want to have their product on the shelf for the people to select.
I've know lots of women who play Everquest. The guild I was in of over 100 people probably had 20% female. Most were wives/girlfriends but some were solo flyers. All these mmorpgs are just big chat programs which is why I think they're more of them compared to say Counterstrike.
This is a typical "imflame the technophiles" hit/ad creator for ZDNet. They do this time and again and./ always falls for it. This guys conclusion is based on a small (like 1) test case that he's extrapolating to be an all encompassing fact.
My experience in the last few years looking at various large scale IT projects is that the majority of the money is never put into the actual IT components and instead is burned up by "business" consultants. Project managers of various levels, documentation folks (the big books no one reads that have nothing to do with operation or implentation) and other people filling up space and taking your money.
We have a $100 million dollar IT project ongoing here and over half of that money will be spent on consultant fees alone - none of which will actually install or admin the systems. Another 40% on "data". I can't get them to buy me one $40k server to host their actual system on.
No. It's actually just a stripped down version of Workstation so it requires installation on the OS, creates some virtual devices such as NICs. Think of it as Workstation 5 without the ability to create a new machine.
Well, I took his comments to mean industry leaders in the GUI desktops. It may of been small compared to the DOS world but it was a growing market with quite usable machines at the time. Apple's computer marketshare is small compared to Windows but it's still viable.
So when speaking of graphical user interfaces, Windows only comparision was to the current "leaders" namely Apple and Xerox.
If you consider GUI industry leaders at the time, Apple and Xerox were certainly it in the business world. We had several Xerox servers and Macs. Expensive little buggers and only used for specific tasks (Desktop Publishing, Forms, etc) but they were far better than DOS equivilients.
Well, he's not that inaccurate. We used several Mac and Xerox computers in the 80s while 95% of the other computers still used DOS. In the Americas, Apple and Xerox were the gui leaders for business PC's. It wasn't until around 91-93 that Windows began invading our company, mostly from new PC purchases and when Windows 95 was released, it went full blown.
Same with WordPerfect. Many of the old school software firms were too slow, or didn't care until it was too late to port their products to Windows. By the time WordPerfect got a stable usable version working Word had taken its marketshare. Shame too, I loved still having reveal codes in the Windows version of WP.
We use RHES 3 and 4 quite a bit around here, it's our major Linux platform. But SuSE definately was the platform SAP developed on and then tried to shoehorn it into Redhat. Looking at the SAP support matrix, they've improved since then but we haven't made any move to migrate our SAP installs to Linux.
Well, Al's a bit more reasonable. I've been admining SAP R/3 systems since '97. It has always been primarly a Unix based product. They originally had their own database called SAPdb but later expanded to support Oracle and others. Their #1 db for medium and large sized customers is Oracle. SAP on Windows (and MSSQL) is an afterthought to grab up the small business market. Many Windows installs also use Oracle over MSSQL especially if they are of any reasonable size (1+ terabytes).
We use HPUX and Oracle to host 4 companies SAP landscapes. Everything is clustered and has been running 24x7 for many years. We are looking to migrate to Linux but nothing yet. The first step will be to run the application servers on Linux and keep Oracle on HPUX. Once that proves itself we will look to moving the databases to Linux.
For IT interested people there are two parts of the SAP product that are of interest. The first is called Basis which is the essentially the sysadmin functions and ability to install/upgrade and maintain the software. The other is in programming. SAP uses a sql like language called ABAP/4. Business logic is modified using this language. It's all internal to the SAP program.
Both of these pay quite well, once you have some experience. Where do you get the experience? You work for a consulting firm that sneaks in people with no knowledge and has them learn at some new SAP install. Since the install is new there is a high probability that the company doesn't know the difference. After several months of learning on the job and royally screwing things up, you've learned from your mistakes and are now a high priced ABAP programmer for the next install.
A rule of thumb when doing SAP related installs is to read the manual from back to front then front to back. They hide a lot of "do this first or you need to re-install" at the end of their install guides. That and require you to download about a dozen support notes to update their incorrect install guides.
Once you've read the install guide backwards and grabbed all the related notes, the install will go smooth.
I remember a year or so ago trying to install an SAP product on Linux. I forget which part, some gateway tool. The instructions where split into two depending on the two distro they supported.
If you used SuSE.
1) Install
If you used RHES 3
1) download patches 2) do various things to OS 3) get special files from secret RH site to replace some libraries 4) Search around on SAP OSS help forums for answers to errors
I spent far too much effort trying to get it to run using RHES and just bought a copy of SuSE Enterprise and moved on.
Novell didn't release a tcp/ip stack in time and they didn't get their client software working on Windows for far too long. The first is their fault, the second could be argued that MS blocked them.
Those along with nortiously difficult to program nlm's, compared to Win16/32 killed them. People brought in NT to be app servers and then kept them for file/print which is all Netware was going in most shops.
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I wanna tack a rider on to that bill. $30 million dollars of tax payer money for the perverted arts.
I saw my first black murder suspect on CSI the other night. Don't worry, he was framed by a white guy.
Rogers has shut down BitTorrent traffic at most major cities in the last month. The only way around it is to encrypt the packets. Fortunately, BitComet can do this.
I signed up for 2 years extreme high speed and within 3 months, they (tried) to stop torrents and are dropping newsgroups. What good is a 8/800 cable modem now?
Use MP3Tag for building id3 tags. Free, fast, and easy to use.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
Can do mass changes very easily, file renaming based on tags, reads almost any audio format, freedb support, and lots more.
It's interesting to see how the development of Linux becomes more "professional" to use that word as Linus matures. The result of this is developers have to mature at his rate also.
The beauty of the holiday season isn't that you play all the games at once but you get other people to buy all these games for you. Holiday sales account for the vast majority of a stores business. This is because *everyone* is out buying things. Companies that want to sell product therefore want to have their product on the shelf for the people to select.
I've know lots of women who play Everquest. The guild I was in of over 100 people probably had 20% female. Most were wives/girlfriends but some were solo flyers. All these mmorpgs are just big chat programs which is why I think they're more of them compared to say Counterstrike.
This is a typical "imflame the technophiles" hit/ad creator for ZDNet. They do this time and again and ./ always falls for it. This guys conclusion is based on a small (like 1) test case that he's extrapolating to be an all encompassing fact.
My experience in the last few years looking at various large scale IT projects is that the majority of the money is never put into the actual IT components and instead is burned up by "business" consultants. Project managers of various levels, documentation folks (the big books no one reads that have nothing to do with operation or implentation) and other people filling up space and taking your money.
We have a $100 million dollar IT project ongoing here and over half of that money will be spent on consultant fees alone - none of which will actually install or admin the systems. Another 40% on "data". I can't get them to buy me one $40k server to host their actual system on.
The Canada gun registry was to cost $119 million to build but generate $117 million so only cost tax payers $2 million.
It's currently cost tax payers over $2 BILLION and climbing.
No. It's actually just a stripped down version of Workstation so it requires installation on the OS, creates some virtual devices such as NICs. Think of it as Workstation 5 without the ability to create a new machine.
I've wondered why the disclaimer is at the bottom of these messages and not the top.
Muse Software published Castle Wolfenstein for the Apple ][ line originally. It was later ported to other platforms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein/
Well, I took his comments to mean industry leaders in the GUI desktops. It may of been small compared to the DOS world but it was a growing market with quite usable machines at the time. Apple's computer marketshare is small compared to Windows but it's still viable.
So when speaking of graphical user interfaces, Windows only comparision was to the current "leaders" namely Apple and Xerox.
If you consider GUI industry leaders at the time, Apple and Xerox were certainly it in the business world. We had several Xerox servers and Macs. Expensive little buggers and only used for specific tasks (Desktop Publishing, Forms, etc) but they were far better than DOS equivilients.
Well, he's not that inaccurate. We used several Mac and Xerox computers in the 80s while 95% of the other computers still used DOS. In the Americas, Apple and Xerox were the gui leaders for business PC's. It wasn't until around 91-93 that Windows began invading our company, mostly from new PC purchases and when Windows 95 was released, it went full blown.
Same with WordPerfect. Many of the old school software firms were too slow, or didn't care until it was too late to port their products to Windows. By the time WordPerfect got a stable usable version working Word had taken its marketshare. Shame too, I loved still having reveal codes in the Windows version of WP.
What are the other 99953 going to do?
We use RHES 3 and 4 quite a bit around here, it's our major Linux platform. But SuSE definately was the platform SAP developed on and then tried to shoehorn it into Redhat. Looking at the SAP support matrix, they've improved since then but we haven't made any move to migrate our SAP installs to Linux.
Well, Al's a bit more reasonable. I've been admining SAP R/3 systems since '97. It has always been primarly a Unix based product. They originally had their own database called SAPdb but later expanded to support Oracle and others. Their #1 db for medium and large sized customers is Oracle. SAP on Windows (and MSSQL) is an afterthought to grab up the small business market. Many Windows installs also use Oracle over MSSQL especially if they are of any reasonable size (1+ terabytes).
We use HPUX and Oracle to host 4 companies SAP landscapes. Everything is clustered and has been running 24x7 for many years. We are looking to migrate to Linux but nothing yet. The first step will be to run the application servers on Linux and keep Oracle on HPUX. Once that proves itself we will look to moving the databases to Linux.
For IT interested people there are two parts of the SAP product that are of interest. The first is called Basis which is the essentially the sysadmin functions and ability to install/upgrade and maintain the software. The other is in programming. SAP uses a sql like language called ABAP/4. Business logic is modified using this language. It's all internal to the SAP program.
Both of these pay quite well, once you have some experience. Where do you get the experience? You work for a consulting firm that sneaks in people with no knowledge and has them learn at some new SAP install. Since the install is new there is a high probability that the company doesn't know the difference. After several months of learning on the job and royally screwing things up, you've learned from your mistakes and are now a high priced ABAP programmer for the next install.
A rule of thumb when doing SAP related installs is to read the manual from back to front then front to back. They hide a lot of "do this first or you need to re-install" at the end of their install guides. That and require you to download about a dozen support notes to update their incorrect install guides.
Once you've read the install guide backwards and grabbed all the related notes, the install will go smooth.
I remember a year or so ago trying to install an SAP product on Linux. I forget which part, some gateway tool. The instructions where split into two depending on the two distro they supported.
If you used SuSE.
1) Install
If you used RHES 3
1) download patches
2) do various things to OS
3) get special files from secret RH site to replace some libraries
4) Search around on SAP OSS help forums for answers to errors
I spent far too much effort trying to get it to run using RHES and just bought a copy of SuSE Enterprise and moved on.
Emo gives 254,761. Hopefully one of the links explains what the hell that actually means.
Novell didn't release a tcp/ip stack in time and they didn't get their client software working on Windows for far too long. The first is their fault, the second could be argued that MS blocked them.
Those along with nortiously difficult to program nlm's, compared to Win16/32 killed them. People brought in NT to be app servers and then kept them for file/print which is all Netware was going in most shops.