I am amused by all the comments from people extolling the virtues of 'brand-x' because they only have to reboot the router 'every few weeks/months'. I use Draytek on all my sites - that's 32 veterinary clinics - and we just don't have to reboot the routers - period. Our uptimes are in the hundreds of days and outages are generally power related, down to phone line faults, or because someone has pulled the wrong power plug.
The main problem seems to be the various development frameworks and compilers so I'd recommend an interpreted language with a simple syntax - something such as BASIC.
I agree with your comment about maturity so perhaps something of the BASICA or GW-BASIC vintage? Pick versions of similar age from across all your hardware platforms and only use the syntax/operators that work across all BASIC variants.
Have to agree - not sure if its add-on related but since I updated several PCs to FF3 I have had about 2-3 browser crashes a week and one UK grocery shopping site makes FF3 just 'disappear'.
My co-worker types so heavily that she has broken two laptop keyboards and she actually wore a dip in the touchpad of one. We can't seem to get her out of 'manual typewriter' mentality.
"Windows downloaded and installed an important update that required an automatic system restart. Oh, your clustered database management system is transactional, isn't it?"
Anything but that bloody duck hitting the computer with a mallet.
Actually, let's face it - everyone's 'done' chip dies, fractals, ray tracing etc. (no offense other guys), so why not go for some non-IT-oriented aspirations: landscapes, beach scenes etc. because you'll be stuck in front of IT all day anyway - hey, maybe get someone with 'shopping talent to put the odd bit of technology 'on the beach', 'under the waterfall', 'on the moon' etc.? - and if you want some 'homage', how about some pictures of Babbage's Difference Engines, ancient navigation aids, Stonehenge, Ancient Abacus, Mayan Calendars, old chronometers, a Megalithic Passage Tomb (Newgrange, Ireland)?
Originally around 80GBP, the keyboards are now being sold for around 30GBP as 'old stock' because the manufacturer (Eleksen) had financial problems and was bought out by another company (Peratech)
Here's my setup for when I need to do remote support while on the move:
HTC Kaiser (also sold as HTC P4550, TyTN II & AT&T Tilt 8925)
The phone has a slide-out keyboard which is quite useable and a 240 x 320-pixel, 2.8-inch display. Bluetooth and wifi (802.11g). The TyTN II is a quad-band handset with 3G and HSDPA and it also has GPS + Tomtom satnav!
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I am amused by all the comments from people extolling the virtues of 'brand-x' because they only have to reboot the router 'every few weeks/months'. I use Draytek on all my sites - that's 32 veterinary clinics - and we just don't have to reboot the routers - period. Our uptimes are in the hundreds of days and outages are generally power related, down to phone line faults, or because someone has pulled the wrong power plug.
Print out your code samples in Wingdings - it's a tried and tested technique.
Title: The "Indian Car Company Makes 'All Terrain Armored Transport' Vehicles for Star Wars Fans" genome?
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The main problem seems to be the various development frameworks and compilers so I'd recommend an interpreted language with a simple syntax - something such as BASIC.
I agree with your comment about maturity so perhaps something of the BASICA or GW-BASIC vintage? Pick versions of similar age from across all your hardware platforms and only use the syntax/operators that work across all BASIC variants.
Safe as houses.
Now where the fck is Google gonna get 4 x 10^12 one byte drives!?
Yes, the electron has been interdeterminaterized
Have to agree - not sure if its add-on related but since I updated several PCs to FF3 I have had about 2-3 browser crashes a week and one UK grocery shopping site makes FF3 just 'disappear'.
My co-worker types so heavily that she has broken two laptop keyboards and she actually wore a dip in the touchpad of one. We can't seem to get her out of 'manual typewriter' mentality.
As most accidents occur in the home, I advise you to move house.
You win. Thread is over.
Well done.
"Windows downloaded and installed an important update that required an automatic system restart. Oh, your clustered database management system is transactional, isn't it?"
Anything but that bloody duck hitting the computer with a mallet.
Actually, let's face it - everyone's 'done' chip dies, fractals, ray tracing etc. (no offense other guys), so why not go for some non-IT-oriented aspirations: landscapes, beach scenes etc. because you'll be stuck in front of IT all day anyway - hey, maybe get someone with 'shopping talent to put the odd bit of technology 'on the beach', 'under the waterfall', 'on the moon' etc.? - and if you want some 'homage', how about some pictures of Babbage's Difference Engines, ancient navigation aids, Stonehenge, Ancient Abacus, Mayan Calendars, old chronometers, a Megalithic Passage Tomb (Newgrange, Ireland)?
Imagine a ...er, no..
I blame Mic..hang on..
The RIA...Uh..
In Soviet Ru...Damn..
SCO probably...fu..
Does solder run Lin...um...
Bah!
I sense a Farkism here:
...Shakes Magic 8 ball...
"Oil prices reach $138/barrel on news that.."
"...Stock Exchange installs Windows XP SP3"
I'm now confused; so did someone spit on the launch pad, drop their marbles on it, did a lightbulb shatter - or was it hit by a frozen rat?
I hereby appoint you official summary explainer!
Thanks
1988? Atomic?
Is this something to do with a Blondie tour?
Woah, yeah - sounds great from the summary.
Now WTF does that all mean!?
I have to RTFA!?
Damn!
You wait half an hour for a sensor then three come along at the same time!
It came with its own PSU although one channel would supply power for an ISDN phone during power fail conditions ISTR.
The highway products are finally finally being retired on 30th June 2008.
"the 'can of whoop-ass' nVidia has promised to open on Intel."
Yep, I'm sure the Intel Devs have all taken a sabbatical.
This bluetooth fabric keyboard works fine on my HTC TYTNII and rolls up into a pocket-sized carry bag:
http://marketplaceadvisor.channeladvisor.com/storefrontprofiles/DeluxeSFItemDetail.aspx?sid=1&sfid=92714&c=534159&i=234996544
Originally around 80GBP, the keyboards are now being sold for around 30GBP as 'old stock' because the manufacturer (Eleksen) had financial problems and was bought out by another company (Peratech)
Grab em while you can (if in the UK!?)
Here's my setup for when I need to do remote support while on the move:
HTC Kaiser (also sold as HTC P4550, TyTN II & AT&T Tilt 8925)
The phone has a slide-out keyboard which is quite useable and a 240 x 320-pixel, 2.8-inch display. Bluetooth and wifi (802.11g). The TyTN II is a quad-band handset with 3G and HSDPA and it also has GPS + Tomtom satnav!
PockeTTY
VNC
WM6 Remote Desktop (RDP)- can be downloaded from here if not pre-installed.
Roll-up fabric bluetooth keyboard
More phone info in the user forums and wiki:
http://www.htcforums.com/kaiser-tilt-tytn-p4550-f13/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=377
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Kaiser
Microsoft "...and then Ballmer exploded and threw a chair"
You forgot ludicrous speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7tc9pVvYg