Yes, for something that can support anything close to 50K users, $300 is way cheap. The OP said that he's using Exchange, if you're laying out for Exchange licenses, then again, $300 is way cheap.
The "real world" sometimes requires you to actually spend money. Sometimes paying for things is cheaper than trying to piece together a bunch of other non-releated packages.
ACM is a little different though, and even more so college is different than high school. Heck, I was president of our student ACM at the U of Minnesota in 1992. I won't go into the "you had gigabytes?" thing becuase our setup would probably make you cry:) We learned a lot and had a lot of fun working on that old equipment (and remember, this was before the web).
In college it's a bit different though, at least at ours. For one, virtually everybody hung out in our office for at least a while every day. You were generally taking CSci courses with these people, therefore you could study together which was good and people were interested in helping out and such. We had a good time and weren't looked at any worse than anybody else. We were very involved in the school wide (the UofMN is huge, so this is not a little matter) activities and especially in the Institute of Technology (the IT college). We had great faculty support and brought in national ACM speakers.
I'm not sure how this would work in a high school situation, but when you get to college, ACM is a good place to be if you want to study computer science and not just learn how to make a web page.
Back in Feb, I tried installing a new RH8 box and tried using its Apache2, and tried installing a newer version. Things seemed to work "OK", but it seemed slower and PHP integration was not quite working. We use Gallery and it only worked about half the time. We reverted to 1.3.x and everything has been fine.
Well, except it wasn't "just him with green skin". It was a totally different person. The Hulk was played by body builder Lou Ferrigno while Banner was played by Bill Bixby.
Right, most admins decided that TCP/IP was the way to go, even if that meant installing OpenTransport and/or other TCP/IP stacks. At least it still acted like a Mac and you didn't have to do really funky things like on the DOS side such as loading packet drivers and such.
The one upside to that whole project was seeing some of the old SE (or was it the SE30) that had the Mac developer's names enscribed on the inside of the case. Plus it made me a wanted man due to the fact that I possessed the department's (our department was hired out by other depts to do PC/Network maint.) only looooong torx screwdriver and SE case "cracker":)
Did you ever manage any large Mac networks back then? These were they days before 100Mbit networks, fast machines, etc. We're talking Mac SE and such.
I helped manage one college's Mac network at the University of Minnesota back in 1992. I was responsible for putting ethernet cards in old Macs (old at the time, SE, SE30, etc.), sometimes they were too old to even have that, you had to use a SCSI->Eternet adapter. Some of this was 10BaseT, some 10Base2. I can guarantee you the network was chatty. There were a few hundred Macs and probably 50 printers on the network and it was very, very chatty. It was a well deserved reputation IMHO.
(1) Automatically generate getters and setters for private variables. This saves a ton of typing.
M-x jde-gen-get-set
Bind that to a key if you want, but it's trivial to do and it will automatically put the type (it prompts you for it) and will add the stub Javadoc.
I use both Eclispe and XEmacs/JDE depending on where I'm at and what I want to do. When I'm on my (WinXP) laptop I exclusively use Eclispe. On my Solaris desktop, I use JDE 99% of the time. However, like your point #2, whenever I want to do any refactoring, no matter how small, I always use Eclipse as it is great at that and like you, I noitce I do it more when it's easy (which does make the code better).
If all these small local stores are so good, then people will continue to shop there. If not, then people will go somewhere else. Some stores should not be in business. Just because a small store has been around "forever" doesn't mean that it should stay in business. Many of these small stores barely make it, their owners barely get by, can't ever take time off, are uninsured themselves and don't offer it to their employees, etc. Maybe they, and the community, are better off after Wal-Mart comes in.
Wal-Mart considers anyone who works 28 hours per week a full time employee.
Why is this a bad thing? Many people would love to be considered full time. If I'm missing something here, let me know (Seriously, I'm not trolling here). Overtime? Aren't the people working there paid hourly? I highly doubt that people working at Wal-Mart are paid "a lot" less than working at the local hardware/grocery store that Wal-Mart supposedly put out of business.
I _hate_ #1. When I want a new window, I want a new window, not a copy of what's already in front of my face.
I also hate how IE's status bar disappears randomly on new windows. I always have "View Status Bar" on and it doesn't follow that.
I use Mozilla for everything except for a couple places that just don't work (I can't even remember them as I quit going to them if I can't use Mozilla).
Even more cool is that Gaim will actually correct this type of spelling. If you type "u r" it will replace it with "you are" when you send the message. Way cool.
You do realize that many UPN stations carry local sports, right? Ditto with "big three" stations. For example, on Sunday, Sep. 29, the day of the season premier of Alias, our local ABC station will instead show the Vikings/Seahawks game. They'll rebroadcast Alias at 11:30pm. Of course, I'd probably watch the Vikes anyway, but it's not just "smaller" UPN stations that do this.
I'm not saying to blindly accept it, but rather at least get another point of view. Greenpeace, the WWF, et al, all have their own agendas and are not infallible or always correct. The point I guess I'm trying to make is don't blindly believe that the environment is in terrible shape. Remember, 20 years ago there was a huge fear of global cooling and the coming of the next ice age. It is amazing how resilient the earth really is.
It doesn't have to be. Only the environmentalist wackos are going to make this a big deal. Go read The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World and read what really is going on. Don't fall for what Greenpeace and the WWF say, they can't back it up with facts.
It constantly amazes me that so many "technical" and "scientific" people on slashdot will just blindly accept environmental reports without looking for the supporting facts. Amazing.
I've used InstallAnywhere for the couple Window projects I've done. These were Java apps and the program didn't care. The beauty of it is that it is cross platform. It can generate installers for Windows, Unix and Mac. They have a limited free version and the sales guys give up after a couple non-responses. The full version isn't too expensive either. Fully scriptable. Very slick.
Now that you mention it, I've had varying degrees of success on long shows. I have all of the Formula 1 races this year recorded (approx 3 hours each) and I've been able to pull off all but 2. Wish there was some solution for that too...
I haven't had too many problems pulling videos off my Tivo with my TivoNet card (hooked up to a wireless AP used in client mode to connect to the rest of my network). I used the boot CD and installed the Tivo Web stuff, then I use a program called TivoApp (yes, it's Windows, so shoot me). Works pretty well, well, at least it did until the 3.0 upgrade came out, now TivoWeb doesn't work at all:(
At least Tivo allowed the TivoNet (and TurboNet) to keep working in the 3.0 upgrade via different dial prefixes.
I think what the parent post was saying is that a teacher's pay is x, even though it's for 10 months a year. You may not actually get a check during the summer, but a teacher's pay is "more" than it appears as it's "only" for ten months work.
Thanks for making my point. The fact that these nations don't even bother to sign them shows that they don't care about the rest of the world. People say that the US is so self centered and arrogant, yet a country of a billion+ people (India) doesn't even bother to sign something to help the rest of the world. In my mind, that's the epitome of arrogance and self centeredness.
Remember where the majority of nuclear testing and action is taking place: India, Pakistan, China, and North Korea. The fact that the US is at least keeping up with research should be considered a good thing.
The test ban treaty, much like the flawed environmental treaties, just don't work. Why? Because they are punitive against many countries, in particular the US. The US always has to pay more, do more, etc. than any other country. They also don't work because the countries that cause many of the problems (see above list) don't abide by them, even if they signed the treaties. They don't follow them, yet if the US decides to change its mind in order to keep a lead, they are criticised.
Sorry, the US isn't the "bad guy" here, even though it's popular among many people to think so.
TivoApp relies on ExtractStream being installed on the Tivo, but it works like a champ. This is a 2.5.1 Tivo w/ the TivoNet setup connected to a WAP11.
Check out FreeIPdb. It's a postgres backed db that's meant for this type of thing. Future versions are going to incorporate RWHOIS, SWIP and other.
You can also check out NorthStar. Same type of thing, but already has functionality to assign blocks to users (ie. delegate blocks to a manager or a customer).
My thoughts exactly. In fact, one of the most powerful features is adaptive scoring. This mechanism keeps track of what articles you actually read and then will score those threads higher the next time you go to the group. Very nice.
Add to the fact that it's totally programmable and it's hard to beat. You really leverage it when you use it to read your email too.
Just for reference, you can get it at: gnus.org. It's also a standard part of (X)Emacs, so you should already have it. Just M-x gnus.
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Yes, for something that can support anything close to 50K users, $300 is way cheap. The OP said that he's using Exchange, if you're laying out for Exchange licenses, then again, $300 is way cheap.
The "real world" sometimes requires you to actually spend money. Sometimes paying for things is cheaper than trying to piece together a bunch of other non-releated packages.
ACM is a little different though, and even more so college is different than high school. Heck, I was president of our student ACM at the U of Minnesota in 1992. I won't go into the "you had gigabytes?" thing becuase our setup would probably make you cry :) We learned a lot and had a lot of fun working on that old equipment (and remember, this was before the web).
In college it's a bit different though, at least at ours. For one, virtually everybody hung out in our office for at least a while every day. You were generally taking CSci courses with these people, therefore you could study together which was good and people were interested in helping out and such. We had a good time and weren't looked at any worse than anybody else. We were very involved in the school wide (the UofMN is huge, so this is not a little matter) activities and especially in the Institute of Technology (the IT college). We had great faculty support and brought in national ACM speakers.
I'm not sure how this would work in a high school situation, but when you get to college, ACM is a good place to be if you want to study computer science and not just learn how to make a web page.
Back in Feb, I tried installing a new RH8 box and tried using its Apache2, and tried installing a newer version. Things seemed to work "OK", but it seemed slower and PHP integration was not quite working. We use Gallery and it only worked about half the time. We reverted to 1.3.x and everything has been fine.
Well, except it wasn't "just him with green skin". It was a totally different person. The Hulk was played by body builder Lou Ferrigno while Banner was played by Bill Bixby.
See Hulk TV Series for more info.
I use Bookmarker and have for about 3 years. PHP based, runs on the server, authentication, public viewing, etc. Works great!
Right, most admins decided that TCP/IP was the way to go, even if that meant installing OpenTransport and/or other TCP/IP stacks. At least it still acted like a Mac and you didn't have to do really funky things like on the DOS side such as loading packet drivers and such.
:)
;-)
The one upside to that whole project was seeing some of the old SE (or was it the SE30) that had the Mac developer's names enscribed on the inside of the case. Plus it made me a wanted man due to the fact that I possessed the department's (our department was hired out by other depts to do PC/Network maint.) only looooong torx screwdriver and SE case "cracker"
Ahh...the good old days...
Did you ever manage any large Mac networks back then? These were they days before 100Mbit networks, fast machines, etc. We're talking Mac SE and such.
I helped manage one college's Mac network at the University of Minnesota back in 1992. I was responsible for putting ethernet cards in old Macs (old at the time, SE, SE30, etc.), sometimes they were too old to even have that, you had to use a SCSI->Eternet adapter. Some of this was 10BaseT, some 10Base2. I can guarantee you the network was chatty. There were a few hundred Macs and probably 50 printers on the network and it was very, very chatty. It was a well deserved reputation IMHO.
(1) Automatically generate getters and setters for private variables. This saves a ton of typing.
M-x jde-gen-get-set
Bind that to a key if you want, but it's trivial to do and it will automatically put the type (it prompts you for it) and will add the stub Javadoc.
I use both Eclispe and XEmacs/JDE depending on where I'm at and what I want to do. When I'm on my (WinXP) laptop I exclusively use Eclispe. On my Solaris desktop, I use JDE 99% of the time. However, like your point #2, whenever I want to do any refactoring, no matter how small, I always use Eclipse as it is great at that and like you, I noitce I do it more when it's easy (which does make the code better).
If all these small local stores are so good, then people will continue to shop there. If not, then people will go somewhere else. Some stores should not be in business. Just because a small store has been around "forever" doesn't mean that it should stay in business. Many of these small stores barely make it, their owners barely get by, can't ever take time off, are uninsured themselves and don't offer it to their employees, etc. Maybe they, and the community, are better off after Wal-Mart comes in.
Wal-Mart considers anyone who works 28 hours per week a full time employee.
Why is this a bad thing? Many people would love to be considered full time. If I'm missing something here, let me know (Seriously, I'm not trolling here). Overtime? Aren't the people working there paid hourly? I highly doubt that people working at Wal-Mart are paid "a lot" less than working at the local hardware/grocery store that Wal-Mart supposedly put out of business.
I _hate_ #1. When I want a new window, I want a new window, not a copy of what's already in front of my face.
I also hate how IE's status bar disappears randomly on new windows. I always have "View Status Bar" on and it doesn't follow that.
I use Mozilla for everything except for a couple places that just don't work (I can't even remember them as I quit going to them if I can't use Mozilla).
Even more cool is that Gaim will actually correct this type of spelling. If you type "u r" it will replace it with "you are" when you send the message. Way cool.
You do realize that many UPN stations carry local sports, right? Ditto with "big three" stations. For example, on Sunday, Sep. 29, the day of the season premier of Alias, our local ABC station will instead show the Vikings/Seahawks game. They'll rebroadcast Alias at 11:30pm. Of course, I'd probably watch the Vikes anyway, but it's not just "smaller" UPN stations that do this.
I'm not saying to blindly accept it, but rather at least get another point of view. Greenpeace, the WWF, et al, all have their own agendas and are not infallible or always correct. The point I guess I'm trying to make is don't blindly believe that the environment is in terrible shape. Remember, 20 years ago there was a huge fear of global cooling and the coming of the next ice age. It is amazing how resilient the earth really is.
It doesn't have to be. Only the environmentalist wackos are going to make this a big deal. Go read
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World and read what really is going on. Don't fall for what Greenpeace and the WWF say, they can't back it up with facts.
It constantly amazes me that so many "technical" and "scientific" people on slashdot will just blindly accept environmental reports without looking for the supporting facts. Amazing.
I've used InstallAnywhere for the couple Window projects I've done. These were Java apps and the program didn't care. The beauty of it is that it is cross platform. It can generate installers for Windows, Unix and Mac. They have a limited free version and the sales guys give up after a couple non-responses. The full version isn't too expensive either. Fully scriptable. Very slick.
Ahh...I haven't seen an update yet. Thanks.
Now that you mention it, I've had varying degrees of success on long shows. I have all of the Formula 1 races this year recorded (approx 3 hours each) and I've been able to pull off all but 2. Wish there was some solution for that too...
I haven't had too many problems pulling videos off my Tivo with my TivoNet card (hooked up to a wireless AP used in client mode to connect to the rest of my network). I used the boot CD and installed the Tivo Web stuff, then I use a program called TivoApp (yes, it's Windows, so shoot me). Works pretty well, well, at least it did until the 3.0 upgrade came out, now TivoWeb doesn't work at all :(
At least Tivo allowed the TivoNet (and TurboNet) to keep working in the 3.0 upgrade via different dial prefixes.
cdh
I think what the parent post was saying is that a teacher's pay is x, even though it's for 10 months a year. You may not actually get a check during the summer, but a teacher's pay is "more" than it appears as it's "only" for ten months work.
Thanks for making my point. The fact that these nations don't even bother to sign them shows that they don't care about the rest of the world. People say that the US is so self centered and arrogant, yet a country of a billion+ people (India) doesn't even bother to sign something to help the rest of the world. In my mind, that's the epitome of arrogance and self centeredness.
Remember where the majority of nuclear testing and action is taking place: India, Pakistan, China, and North Korea. The fact that the US is at least keeping up with research should be considered a good thing.
The test ban treaty, much like the flawed environmental treaties, just don't work. Why? Because they are punitive against many countries, in particular the US. The US always has to pay more, do more, etc. than any other country. They also don't work because the countries that cause many of the problems (see above list) don't abide by them, even if they signed the treaties. They don't follow them, yet if the US decides to change its mind in order to keep a lead, they are criticised.
Sorry, the US isn't the "bad guy" here, even though it's popular among many people to think so.
ExtractStream for Unix
TivoApp for Windows
TivoApp relies on ExtractStream being installed on the Tivo, but it works like a champ. This is a 2.5.1 Tivo w/ the TivoNet setup connected to a WAP11.
Very cool.
Check out FreeIPdb. It's a postgres backed db that's meant for this type of thing. Future versions are going to incorporate RWHOIS, SWIP and other.
You can also check out NorthStar. Same type of thing, but already has functionality to assign blocks to users (ie. delegate blocks to a manager or a customer).
In fact, you can get them pretty easily for around US$435.00 now. Search for it at newegg, they have it for $435.
:)
Yes, in six months it will be half that, but I want one NOW
Yes, the newer Cadillacs have this exact thing. It has a night vision system via a HUD. See it at Cadillac's web site.
My thoughts exactly. In fact, one of the most powerful features is adaptive scoring. This mechanism keeps track of what articles you actually read and then will score those threads higher the next time you go to the group. Very nice.
Add to the fact that it's totally programmable and it's hard to beat. You really leverage it when you use it to read your email too.
Just for reference, you can get it at: gnus.org. It's also a standard part of (X)Emacs, so you should already have it. Just M-x gnus.