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With the adaptation to GTK2 , GNUcash may someday be available for Microsoft Windows according to the GNUcash wiki at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows/
With GTK1, a port of GNUcash for Windows was only a dream.
GnuCash is pretty popular in the Linux world. It would be great to see this OSS project available to Windows users as well.
In many cases, it's difficult to know the quality of the service until after you bought the product. This is especially true with expensive products which are only purchased infrequently.
What you're saying may be true, but "market will decide" is something that may take years-- is this effective?
I bought my car 5 years ago. Back then, I had no idea it was going to develop so many problems. Will I ever buy a Ford again? Probably not-- but it's not a decision I can make until I have enough money to buy a new car, and I have many other higher priorities right now. How does this affect the Market's evalation of Ford's service?
Apache & IIS are tools. Many of us use those tools as part of our job. It's normal for us to be interested in the popularity of those tools, because the popularity partialy reflects the quality and the future status of those tools. Sun's apache server has 2% of the market -- that
This situation exists in every industry -- there are gearheads who prefer Ford over Chevy, gardeners who prefers Craftsman tools over another brand, or darners who prefer one brand of yarn over another.
With OSS, we also have philosophies and political views which don't always exist in other industries. This adds to the interest;)
I've seen these in the catalogs for REI, LL Bean, Campmor and a few other vendors. They cost $10-20. I don't see them in the online stores--- just the paper catalogs. I wonder if supply of these is limited.
To eMusic, the answer was simple: you offer songs as high quality, variable bit rate MP3 files instead. DRM is removed, consumers are happy, and the vast white fields of the iPod are ready for harvest.
An iPod can play mp3's, and mp3 is DRM-free. This means there are hundreds (thousands?) of sites which can fit this same criteria. Is eMusic different then the rest of these sites? I've spent $100 to download music in the last couple years because I like to support the artists-- either through the record label (like htp:bleepcom, or directly from the artist themselves (for small time musicians). None of these tracks contain DRM.
All lossess or (compressed if you want that) no drm.
Actually, most of these sites offer music as Mp3, which is a lossy format. Correct me if I'm wrong, but most "Lossless compression methods are NOT compatable with the iPod.
I've heard two common complaints regarding AVG: It is only an anti-virus program (It doesn't deal with spyware), and it's performance is bad compared to some other AV programs.
What's your opinion? Are these valid complaints?
I use AVG free on my home systems, and recommend it to many friends-- performance does seem much worse when AVG is running (this is my non-objective opinion). I've never seriously evaluated it for the business (I'm not the Windows admin).
Well, we are looking for a Java engineer with 3 years Ubuntu experience and 10 years experience with Java 5.0 and 5 years with AJAX, and we need the stars and the moon, the sun & the sky.
It boils down to the fact that IT is a loss for the company. It is a net loser which produces nothing that makes money.
I disagree. IT produces the things that allow the company to say "99.9% uptime" "data retention for 1 year" "Serve webpages faster then our competitors", "protect the business from crackers, speed up the development process while maintaining uptime, data integrity, speed & security-- these things are core to the business, and make the difference between success and losing all of your clients. The benefits are hidden, but arguably some of these projects produce a greater benefit with less effort then other projects in the business.
Some people argue that we don't need these things, that all of these things are money losers. However, reality is different. Computers don't run themselves, and you can't operate an information business without operating a business infrastructure. Despite the promises of many vendors, systems are getting more complex and automation is lagging far behind-- the need for sysadmins is strong. If your business needs computers, then your business needs computer administrators.
Believe me-- nobody wants to automate the IT-administration tasks more then your sysadmin-- your sysadmin hates resetting passwords because we know it can be done in a better way-- but the vendors need to support it, and the process needs to remain secure.
Plan ahead. Respect the time of your coworkers. When you suddenly come to your sysadmins with set of tasks which "needs to get done today", remember that your sysadmins need to push out other projects to work on your project.
The stereotype of a "Grumpy Sysadmin" probably comes from the fact that one minute we're deeply involved with a technical project performing mental gymnastics and the next minute someone is standing at our desk, demanding attention. Now. It is very difficult to return back to that project or remember where we were.
System Administraton is different then other jobs in the business. We typically deal with a very high level of interruption & multitasking-- and probably more then anyone else in the company. It's not unusual for me to have 12 hour workdays where absolutely NONE of the tasks were on my todo list when I walked in that morning-- a day and a half FULL of interruptions.
Are the prices at Costco lower then Dell's weekly 30% off sales?
I just purchased an E1505 directly from dell.com . It was several hundred dollars cheaper then the comparable models at Costco.
The Dell deals really require some understanding of the Dell rebate process, and close monitoring of the different deals. It's a little sleezy. I missed a $585 off coupon the other day when it expired at 10:00:00PM Pacific Time. I missed the coupon by 30 seconds (I entered my credit card number, hit submit, and the price on the _very_last_ confirmation screen jumped by $585. Dell support also closes at 10:00PM, so I couldn't call anyone.
All they really need to do is start randomizing the locks on cars, and not just use the same pattern...
Imagine replacing the existing locking system on the hundred of thousands of cars that use keyless entry. The auto manufacturers will resist.
How many of us predicted this years ago? When I saw my first keyless system, I think the first thought on my head was "They better change the code every time the person enters the car". I'm sure the auto designers were told about this security flaw dozens of times--
Did you notice Throttling for popular movies or extremely rare movies-- where popularity exceeds the supply? From my experience, these delays are very rare.
Often we'll return 3 movies at the same time, and will receive 3 new movies in the mail 2 days later, all at the same time. We live in Berkeley, CA and are only a few hours from the primary distribution centers or the NetFlix headquarters.
Thank you for reminding me about Oracle's arrogance.
Few of these errors happened to me-- ironically, some of them happened on our systems while the *Oracle* consultants were installing the software on a freshly installed supported distro.
using an incorrect version of JRE
1. The installer should not rely on my rely on my JRE. The Oracle installer should (and does) use it's own JRE. When we encountered these (early 9i I believe), this installer using Java 1.1 , which may explain the installer's poor error handling. The current 10g installer ships with Java 1.4, so hopefully many of the bugs are fixed.
2. The installer should not *crash* when it can't find the parameter in the configuration file. It should complain and tell me what is wrong. When the installer crashes, it leaves the DB in a half-baked state with no clear way to clean up the mess.
Oracle RDBMS is currently the most complex piece of software sold publically and it requires knowledge about the product to manage it.
A complex product isn't necessarily a good product. I agree that Oracle can do a ton of things, and do them well, but complexity is often the result of poor design and a lack of cleanup. For an expensive product like Oracle, I expect more.
Oracle and Ubuntu are two completely different universes. Oracle products are designed for high-availability enterprise applications. The Database and the Database price tag is overkill for most smaller applications.
Ubuntu is a cutting edge Linux distro with a cute, fun desktop with great installer/maintenance applications. Ubuntu can install MySQL in a few minutes. Not sure I would trust it for any sort of high- availability application. Debian Stable, RedHat Enterprise, Suse Enterprise & Solaris would be a wiser choice.
Oracle:
Installation require a DBA
Installs in 8 hours, after 4 tries.
Oracle Installer crashes several times because you forgot to change kernel.foo_bar_strings from '0' to '100000' in/etc/sysctl.conf . You now need to uninstall all of the files by hand and start from scratch.
It crashes a second time because you forgot to install GCC_2.9.6_legacy_library , and didn't do 'cat "RedHat Enterprise AS" >/etc/sysconfig/kernel/version'. You now need to uninstall all of the files by hand and start from scratch
Once installed, Oracle can handle 10,000 customers a second on a 40-million row table
Ubuntu:
Even your grandparents can install it
Installs in 10 minutes.
Recognized my video card & sound card out of the box.
MySQL & PostgreSQL are installed and running, out of the box.
The host freezes up after the first 5000 queries;)
I found that some calendars would show up immediately, and some other calendars would take hours to show up. I created a few public calenders called "Berkeley Events" last night. One worked immediately. I logged in this morning to find several duplicate calendars, all with the name "Berkeley Events".
I think this is an Early Beta realease... some bugs have not been worked out.
I'd happily pay $150 if this was all integrated into a cell phone. But the Smartphones all seem to lack one of these basic features, or they add a ton of useless features which add tot he price
I forgot to mention-- many of these devices are available cheap from the Mobile providers, but they require a 2-year contract. In many cases, this isn't worth the trade-off.
The todo list has due dates, and the deadlines show up in the Calendar. Suprisingly, Even Outlook 2003 doesn't do this.
The ability to sync with some desktop PIM software, hopefully something besides MS Outlook.
I'd happily pay $150 if this was all integrated into a cell phone. But the Smartphones all seem to lack one of these basic features, or they add a ton of useless features which add tot he price.
If you permit all parties to conduct research, then there will be pro-green, pro-oil and indeed neutral parties, all conducting research.
We permit all parties from conducting research today, don't we? There's nothing preventing pro-green, pro-oil and neutral parties from performing these studies.
Nobody is stopping these non-governmental organizations from doing this research, and federal funding doesn't prevent private money from funding this research. At least not directly [1].
And I would argue, the oil business has *much* more money then the pro-green and neutral researchers, and and the results of the research will reflect this. Government funding can be used to level the playing field.
I'm not arguing with your basic idea-- most research will reflect the opinions of the funders. Government funded projects don't rock the boat.
[1] I guess you could argue that higher taxes == less private funds, but it's not directly preventing the funding. And federal funding might encourage private parties to spend their grant money elsewhere.
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With the adaptation to GTK2 , GNUcash may someday be available for Microsoft Windows according to the GNUcash wiki at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows/
With GTK1, a port of GNUcash for Windows was only a dream.
GnuCash is pretty popular in the Linux world. It would be great to see this OSS project available to Windows users as well.
In many cases, it's difficult to know the quality of the service until after you bought the product. This is especially true with expensive products which are only purchased infrequently.
What you're saying may be true, but "market will decide" is something that may take years-- is this effective?
I bought my car 5 years ago. Back then, I had no idea it was going to develop so many problems. Will I ever buy a Ford again? Probably not-- but it's not a decision I can make until I have enough money to buy a new car, and I have many other higher priorities right now. How does this affect the Market's evalation of Ford's service?
Apache & IIS are tools. Many of us use those tools as part of our job. It's normal for us to be interested in the popularity of those tools, because the popularity partialy reflects the quality and the future status of those tools. Sun's apache server has 2% of the market -- that
;)
This situation exists in every industry -- there are gearheads who prefer Ford over Chevy, gardeners who prefers Craftsman tools over another brand, or darners who prefer one brand of yarn over another.
With OSS, we also have philosophies and political views which don't always exist in other industries. This adds to the interest
You are right. I didn't have the catalog in front of me, and misstated the price.
Thanks for pointing that out. The Berkeleypoint store looks pretty cool, and they're less then a mile from my house! Never heard of them before.
From the article:
No word yet on pricing and availability.
I've seen these in the catalogs for REI, LL Bean, Campmor and a few other vendors. They cost $10-20. I don't see them in the online stores--- just the paper catalogs. I wonder if supply of these is limited.
The future will slashdot itself!
From the article:
To eMusic, the answer was simple: you offer songs as high quality, variable bit rate MP3 files instead. DRM is removed, consumers are happy, and the vast white fields of the iPod are ready for harvest.
An iPod can play mp3's, and mp3 is DRM-free. This means there are hundreds (thousands?) of sites which can fit this same criteria. Is eMusic different then the rest of these sites? I've spent $100 to download music in the last couple years because I like to support the artists-- either through the record label (like htp:bleepcom, or directly from the artist themselves (for small time musicians). None of these tracks contain DRM.
All lossess or (compressed if you want that) no drm.
Actually, most of these sites offer music as Mp3, which is a lossy format. Correct me if I'm wrong, but most "Lossless compression methods are NOT compatable with the iPod.
I've heard two common complaints regarding AVG: It is only an anti-virus program (It doesn't deal with spyware), and it's performance is bad compared to some other AV programs.
What's your opinion? Are these valid complaints?
I use AVG free on my home systems, and recommend it to many friends-- performance does seem much worse when AVG is running (this is my non-objective opinion). I've never seriously evaluated it for the business (I'm not the Windows admin).
Well, we are looking for a Java engineer with 3 years Ubuntu experience and 10 years experience with Java 5.0 and 5 years with AJAX, and we need the stars and the moon, the sun & the sky.
;)
If you know anybody, send me their resume.
Suprisingly, the Baby's first words mimick the sounds made by the recording equipment:
"beep"
"zzzzZZZZZZzzz"
"click click click click"
It boils down to the fact that IT is a loss for the company. It is a net loser which produces nothing that makes money.
I disagree. IT produces the things that allow the company to say "99.9% uptime" "data retention for 1 year" "Serve webpages faster then our competitors", "protect the business from crackers, speed up the development process while maintaining uptime, data integrity, speed & security-- these things are core to the business, and make the difference between success and losing all of your clients. The benefits are hidden, but arguably some of these projects produce a greater benefit with less effort then other projects in the business.
Some people argue that we don't need these things, that all of these things are money losers. However, reality is different. Computers don't run themselves, and you can't operate an information business without operating a business infrastructure. Despite the promises of many vendors, systems are getting more complex and automation is lagging far behind-- the need for sysadmins is strong. If your business needs computers, then your business needs computer administrators.
Believe me-- nobody wants to automate the IT-administration tasks more then your sysadmin-- your sysadmin hates resetting passwords because we know it can be done in a better way-- but the vendors need to support it, and the process needs to remain secure.
Plan ahead. Respect the time of your coworkers. When you suddenly come to your sysadmins with set of tasks which "needs to get done today", remember that your sysadmins need to push out other projects to work on your project.
The stereotype of a "Grumpy Sysadmin" probably comes from the fact that one minute we're deeply involved with a technical project performing mental gymnastics and the next minute someone is standing at our desk, demanding attention. Now. It is very difficult to return back to that project or remember where we were.
System Administraton is different then other jobs in the business. We typically deal with a very high level of interruption & multitasking-- and probably more then anyone else in the company. It's not unusual for me to have 12 hour workdays where absolutely NONE of the tasks were on my todo list when I walked in that morning-- a day and a half FULL of interruptions.
Are the prices at Costco lower then Dell's weekly 30% off sales?
I just purchased an E1505 directly from dell.com . It was several hundred dollars cheaper then the comparable models at Costco.
The Dell deals really require some understanding of the Dell rebate process, and close monitoring of the different deals. It's a little sleezy. I missed a $585 off coupon the other day when it expired at 10:00:00PM Pacific Time. I missed the coupon by 30 seconds (I entered my credit card number, hit submit, and the price on the _very_last_ confirmation screen jumped by $585. Dell support also closes at 10:00PM, so I couldn't call anyone.
Costco doesn't have this headache.
On 'purpose!"
It's great for typos.
"Oh look, I forgot to use a close quote. Or I used a single quote instead of a doublequote.
All they really need to do is start randomizing the locks on cars, and not just use the same pattern...
Imagine replacing the existing locking system on the hundred of thousands of cars that use keyless entry. The auto manufacturers will resist.
How many of us predicted this years ago? When I saw my first keyless system, I think the first thought on my head was "They better change the code every time the person enters the car". I'm sure the auto designers were told about this security flaw dozens of times--
Did you notice Throttling for popular movies or extremely rare movies-- where popularity exceeds the supply? From my experience, these delays are very rare.
Often we'll return 3 movies at the same time, and will receive 3 new movies in the mail 2 days later, all at the same time. We live in Berkeley, CA and are only a few hours from the primary distribution centers or the NetFlix headquarters.
Thank you for reminding me about Oracle's arrogance.
Few of these errors happened to me-- ironically, some of them happened on our systems while the *Oracle* consultants were installing the software on a freshly installed supported distro.
using an incorrect version of JRE
1. The installer should not rely on my rely on my JRE. The Oracle installer should (and does) use it's own JRE. When we encountered these (early 9i I believe), this installer using Java 1.1 , which may explain the installer's poor error handling. The current 10g installer ships with Java 1.4, so hopefully many of the bugs are fixed.
2. The installer should not *crash* when it can't find the parameter in the configuration file. It should complain and tell me what is wrong. When the installer crashes, it leaves the DB in a half-baked state with no clear way to clean up the mess.
Oracle RDBMS is currently the most complex piece of software sold publically and it requires knowledge about the product to manage it.
A complex product isn't necessarily a good product. I agree that Oracle can do a ton of things, and do them well, but complexity is often the result of poor design and a lack of cleanup. For an expensive product like Oracle, I expect more.
The other thing to realize is that now that SUSE was bought by Novell it "corporate".
Suse was 'corporate' from the beginning. Novell's purchase of Suse was an indication of this.
Ubuntu is a cutting edge Linux distro with a cute, fun desktop with great installer/maintenance applications. Ubuntu can install MySQL in a few minutes. Not sure I would trust it for any sort of high- availability application. Debian Stable, RedHat Enterprise, Suse Enterprise & Solaris would be a wiser choice.
Oracle:
Ubuntu:
Yeah, but how much is the 9300 or a similar Symbian phone?
When I last checked, they were way out of my price range.
I found that some calendars would show up immediately, and some other calendars would take hours to show up. I created a few public calenders called "Berkeley Events" last night. One worked immediately. I logged in this morning to find several duplicate calendars, all with the name "Berkeley Events".
I think this is an Early Beta realease... some bugs have not been worked out.
I'd happily pay $150 if this was all integrated into a cell phone. But the Smartphones all seem to lack one of these basic features, or they add a ton of useless features which add tot he price
I forgot to mention-- many of these devices are available cheap from the Mobile providers, but they require a 2-year contract. In many cases, this isn't worth the trade-off.
I'd happily pay $150 if this was all integrated into a cell phone. But the Smartphones all seem to lack one of these basic features, or they add a ton of useless features which add tot he price.
If you permit all parties to conduct research, then there will be pro-green, pro-oil and indeed neutral parties, all conducting research.
We permit all parties from conducting research today, don't we? There's nothing preventing pro-green, pro-oil and neutral parties from performing these studies.
Nobody is stopping these non-governmental organizations from doing this research, and federal funding doesn't prevent private money from funding this research. At least not directly [1].
And I would argue, the oil business has *much* more money then the pro-green and neutral researchers, and and the results of the research will reflect this. Government funding can be used to level the playing field.
I'm not arguing with your basic idea-- most research will reflect the opinions of the funders. Government funded projects don't rock the boat.
[1] I guess you could argue that higher taxes == less private funds, but it's not directly preventing the funding. And federal funding might encourage private parties to spend their grant money elsewhere.