If the emails are "internet email", you should be able to go to (i think): Tools -> Options and there will be a box with "internet headers" or some such.
For some reason, I think this only works if you open the email in its own window (ie, double click on it) . It doesn't work when just viewing a message in the preview pane.
These are file on a regular partition (ie, ext2 or somesuch)??
It still sounds totaly in-effecient to me. I have nothing against large files, but I would hope a db would be using something more effecient or atleast using its own filesystem (making the 2bg limit irrelevant).
my data warehouse at work is 600GB and grows at a rate of 4GB per day.
the production database that drives the sites is like 100GB
welcome to last week. 2GB is tiny.
And you store this "production database" as one file? didn't think so (or atleast I hope you don't).
I am not agreeing (or disagreeing) with the original post, but having a database > 2 GB has nothing to do with having a single file over 2 GB. A db != a file system (except for MySQL perhaps).
Visual Basic in 3rd?
Am I the only one that's scared because of this?
Actually, in terms of the number of "applications" or "programs", I wouldn't be surprised at all if VB is number 1. Espcially if you include crap written in VBA.
This is about on a level with firing someone for what they wear while they're coding
Uhm, so programmers should be able to wear t-shirts and jeans while every one else is business casual (or worse, business formal)? Sorry, thankfuly, those days are over.
I'm sorry, but whoever told you that engineers make good money lied.
I have a 2002 degree in electrical engineering, and saw this happening during my last years of school. I was in it because of a genuine interest and desire to do engineering as a career, not because of the
I also have a degree in engineering (2001) and went to school becuase of a "geniune interest" in engineering. But I knew from the start that as soon as I graduated I was not going to work as an engineer becuse they don't get squat (for the amount of work they do). Sure, they make more than an english major, but for the amount of work, (and, more importantly for me, the lack of future upside) it ain't worth it.
Take a quick look at any "salar surveys" from monster.com or the like. A quick search online gave me this site for engineering salaries from carnegie mellon.
Nothing to write home about, and this from a pretty decent engineering school.
A CEO gets replaced, the company's "personality" changes.
Thats sort of the whole point of supporting a good company. Companies will (idealy) NOT replace a CEO who is doing a good job (generating good profits). It's just not in the best interest of the share holders to get rid of someone doing a good job.
On the other hand, if the company is tanking, the board is much more likely to put someone else in charge.
Unfortunately, a "good" company can become "evil" much faster than the Pope can turn into a serial killer.
I don't get it. Shouldn't it take a really long time (ie forever) for a pope to become a serial killer? Saying something is < infinity isn't saying much at all (remember the squeze theorem?).
1) This has to do with sending real (snail) mail to a spammer, not email. It is a lot easier to filter out email then it is to go through 300+ letters a day to figure out if any of them are important.
2) By replying to spam emails, you are probably doing yourself nothing but harm. I agree with your basic point, if everyone replied to every spam and swamped the spammer's network, it would work. Since that isn't the case, the only thing you are doing by replying is letting the spammer know that he has a valid email address.
and they're much harder to generate by brute force
I agree with everything else but this.
Most companies I know of use a very simply firstname.lastname@company.com pattern for email addresses. Combine this with relatively easy to get listing of employees, and you have a spammers delight.
Correction: OpenOffice.org does not use coding from Sun Microsystems
Oh really? From the openoffice web page:
The OpenOffice.org source code initially includes the technology which Sun Microsystems has been developing for the future versions of StarOffice(TM) software.
So, when it comes down to a choice of streaming something that sounds pretty bad at one bitrate vs. something that sounds a little better, an "audiophile" is going to pick niether because both don't sound as good as a $20+K CD transport + player?
Sounds more like a dumbass than a audiophile to me.
However, if you're involved in any sort of scientific work or other serious applications such as oil exploration then chances are good that you're using a Sun workstation.
While this is definitely true, most places that I have used solaris at are still on version 2.x. I wonder what percentage of the installed user base actually upgrades to new versions of solaris as they come out?
Most people who I know that run these machines think: if it ain't broker, don't fix it, right?
I agree, or at least I hope, that the situation will fix itself. IT people can add value just as well, if not better, than most other professions.
The problem is that there are just too many "IT" people other there now that have no clue WTF they are doing. It will probably take a few years until these people either:
1) realize that the job is not easy as just sitting around and BSing about nothing while collecting a big pay check or 2) get fired for being incompetent
Likewise, like you said, with jobs looking less cushy, there will be fewer college students going into CS, further reducing the excess supply of IT workers.
Then, hopefully, the better quality IT people that are left will be able to get good jobs.
You have to remember, these are the same people who, a few years ago, got a 100+K/yr "programming" jobs at www.dumbass.com becuase they knew how to make macros in VBA.
When I was in school during the boom, at every coop or internship I had, the IT people were complete morons. Companies hired anybody who had 3 or 4 letter acronyms on their resume and thought they were real programmers.
No reality has set it and these people just don't want to accept that. They want to go back to their cushy jobs surfing the web and eating free in the snack room all day.
software programmers are often cited as living out the dream of modern flexible working,... able to work on their own initiative and offered stock options in their firms.
IT people think they have some right to work 4 hours a day and get paid 200k a year. The.com boom is dead, get over it.
The dot.com downturn has added job insecurity to the list of stresses for the workers in the technology industry.
Welcome to the real world; job insecurity and other "stresses" are what all other workers have always faced. IT people are no better. In fact, programming has become more of a commodity than most other fields. If you aren't adding any real value, than you shouldn't have a job. Simple as that.
Is it playable for anybody? The graphics are totaly flaky on when I try. I can't tell where the enemy is becuase the fight window never zooms out either.
Does this mean stored procedures returning record sets is finaly supported?
This was the main thing stopping me from using postrgres. Every other (commercial) database I have used allows this, and I couldn't believe postgres didn't when I installed it.
Stealing a non-physical item is just as bad (if not perhaps worse) than stealing anything physical.
What about stealing a concept? I am sure all the MS bashers here claim that MS stole windows from Apple/Unix/xerox/whoever (not that I am disagreeing). But clam that someone can steal bandwith (no less "physical" than the code/idea for windows) and they will cry heresey.
There is only one sure of way to stop this (or anyother annoying advertising like spam): don't buy anything from the company doing the advertising.
The only reason companies will pay for these ads is if they see some sort of return from the costs. If nobody every bought anything from a pop-up or from spam, they would cease to exist.
Slashdot Mirror
If the emails are "internet email", you should be able to go to (i think): Tools -> Options and there will be a box with "internet headers" or some such.
For some reason, I think this only works if you open the email in its own window (ie, double click on it) . It doesn't work when just viewing a message in the preview pane.
who the hell modded this up? As the parent poster (as well as the article) clearly stated, all 4 points were specific to solaris.
These are file on a regular partition (ie, ext2 or somesuch)?? It still sounds totaly in-effecient to me. I have nothing against large files, but I would hope a db would be using something more effecient or atleast using its own filesystem (making the 2bg limit irrelevant).
I am not agreeing (or disagreeing) with the original post, but having a database > 2 GB has nothing to do with having a single file over 2 GB. A db != a file system (except for MySQL perhaps).
Is anybody else still pissed of that this was "IT" or "Ginger" or whatever hell all that hype a few years ago was about?
Change the way cities are built my ass! I still haven't seen many cities designed for pedestrians (atleast not in the US)!
Take a quick look at any "salar surveys" from monster.com or the like. A quick search online gave me this site for engineering salaries from carnegie mellon.
Nothing to write home about, and this from a pretty decent engineering school.
2, points:
1) This has to do with sending real (snail) mail to a spammer, not email. It is a lot easier to filter out email then it is to go through 300+ letters a day to figure out if any of them are important.
2) By replying to spam emails, you are probably doing yourself nothing but harm. I agree with your basic point, if everyone replied to every spam and swamped the spammer's network, it would work. Since that isn't the case, the only thing you are doing by replying is letting the spammer know that he has a valid email address.
I agree with everything else but this.
Most companies I know of use a very simply firstname.lastname@company.com pattern for email addresses. Combine this with relatively easy to get listing of employees, and you have a spammers delight.
The OpenOffice.org source code initially includes the technology which Sun Microsystems has been developing for the future versions of StarOffice(TM) software.
So, when it comes down to a choice of streaming something that sounds pretty bad at one bitrate vs. something that sounds a little better, an "audiophile" is going to pick niether because both don't sound as good as a $20+K CD transport + player?
Sounds more like a dumbass than a audiophile to me.
Most people who I know that run these machines think: if it ain't broker, don't fix it, right?
I agree, or at least I hope, that the situation will fix itself. IT people can add value just as well, if not better, than most other professions.
The problem is that there are just too many "IT" people other there now that have no clue WTF they are doing. It will probably take a few years until these people either:
1) realize that the job is not easy as just sitting around and BSing about nothing while collecting a big pay check
or 2) get fired for being incompetent
Likewise, like you said, with jobs looking less cushy, there will be fewer college students going into CS, further reducing the excess supply of IT workers.
Then, hopefully, the better quality IT people that are left will be able to get good jobs.
You have to remember, these are the same people who, a few years ago, got a 100+K/yr "programming" jobs at www.dumbass.com becuase they knew how to make macros in VBA.
When I was in school during the boom, at every coop or internship I had, the IT people were complete morons. Companies hired anybody who had 3 or 4 letter acronyms on their resume and thought they were real programmers.
No reality has set it and these people just don't want to accept that. They want to go back to their cushy jobs surfing the web and eating free in the snack room all day.
IT people think they have some right to work 4 hours a day and get paid 200k a year. The .com boom is dead, get over it.
Welcome to the real world; job insecurity and other "stresses" are what all other workers have always faced. IT people are no better. In fact, programming has become more of a commodity than most other fields. If you aren't adding any real value, than you shouldn't have a job. Simple as that.
Timewarp looked interesting, until I tried it.
Is it playable for anybody? The graphics are totaly flaky on when I try. I can't tell where the enemy is becuase the fight window never zooms out either.
Huh? I am pretty sure I was able to return a record set from a sproc back in version 6.5 (earlier too perhaps).
I know for sure that sybase sql server 11.9 supports it, so I would assume MS SQL server 7 would.
I dont meen running:
SELECT * FROM EXEC sp_some_sproc
I am simply talking about a stored procedure that returns a recordset to the client.
Does this mean stored procedures returning record sets is finaly supported?
This was the main thing stopping me from using postrgres. Every other (commercial) database I have used allows this, and I couldn't believe postgres didn't when I installed it.
Stealing a non-physical item is just as bad (if not perhaps worse) than stealing anything physical.
What about stealing a concept? I am sure all the MS bashers here claim that MS stole windows from Apple/Unix/xerox/whoever (not that I am disagreeing). But clam that someone can steal bandwith (no less "physical" than the code/idea for windows) and they will cry heresey.
There is only one sure of way to stop this (or anyother annoying advertising like spam): don't buy anything from the company doing the advertising.
The only reason companies will pay for these ads is if they see some sort of return from the costs. If nobody every bought anything from a pop-up or from spam, they would cease to exist.
So, by your logic, if sites pre-paid for their bandwith, then blocking pop-ups would not be stealing?