Does creating a Google Account give me a Gmail account?
Unfortunately not. Gmail is currently in a limited release, so you need to get invited by another Gmail user in order to sign up. If you are interested in Gmail, you may want to check the About Gmail page periodically for updates. If, on the other hand, you already have a Gmail account, you can use your Gmail username and password to sign in to your Google Account.
Access is able to act as a front end for MS SQL. Does this work for ODBC data sources in general? If so, then that would cover MySQL, PostgreSQL, and various other things.
Yeah, Access is ten kinds of retarded, but "bad" and "nonexistent" are not the same thing.
Thanks for the link, but that's firmly in "huge chunk of screen real estate" territory, at least for me. I'm looking for something that fits within the taskbar.
Whenever a function becomes longer than something really short, you should consider refactoring it into a set of smaller functions. Unfortunately, interpreting "really short" sanely is non-trivial.
Let's say I need to import a text document into a database, and the layout is Byzantine enough to merit writing a dedicated program for it, rather than just using a standard map-this-field-to-that-field type tool. (This happens with alarming regularity.) I'll write a first draft something like this:
main() { loop through input file if header ID is different from last-record-if-any then { // 50 lines of header mapping write header record } // 50 lines of detail mapping write detail record end loop }
and then a quick bit of copy+pasting produces a second draft:
main() { loop through input file if header ID is different from last-record-if-any then { build_and_write_header_record() } build_and_write_detail_record() end loop }
build_and_write_header_record() { // 50 lines of header mapping write header record }
build_and_write_detail_record() { // 50 lines of detail mapping write detail record }
You could also choose to do the refactoring up front, but I find it's easier to do it in a separate pass.
gkrellm is way too "noisy" for me. Learning curve, I suppose. Panel buttons are absolutely a good thing; give them keyboard shortcuts if you're into that sort of thing.
Virtual desktops are great because you can click-drag windows within the thumbnail - does anyone know a way to do this in Windows (for my corporate laptop) without eating up a huge chunk of screen real estate? VirtuaWin is my favorite, but it's still not quite as good as Gnome/KDE (moving a window takes two clicks and picking from a non-visually-sorted list).
I disagree with the "keep everything open on virtual desktops" crowd; if I did that, I would invariably leave something on the back burner and forget about it, as it gets lost in the shuffle. Besides, it would consume extra resources. Instead, I stick to a 2x2 arrangement, open only the programs and documents that I'm actually doing something with Right Now, use Alt-Tab for a couple of things, use the virtual desktops for a lot of things.
If those "aliens" can travel faster than light, why would you assume they can't just displace the entire nuke straight into hyperspace; blast, radiation, the lot? They might just have no idea of fair play...
(Bonus points for whoever recognizes the reference I made!)
...which turns up the following on the first page of hits (#8 to be exact; emphasis mine):
Transformers Cosplay
Dev notes: I'm running the remotely linked photos and TFCosplay itself though Coral CDN ("CoralCache"), so with any luck neither they nor I will be hammered...
tfcosplay.buildtolearn.net/ - 19k - Cached - Similar pages
Furthermore, Googling (nyud 8090) turns up the following on the first page of hits (#4):
The Coral Content Distribution Network
Just append.nyud.net:8090. to the hostname of any URL, and your request for that
URL is handled by Coral! Try this page, or any other site:...
www.coralcdn.org/ - 8k - Nov 14, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
I'm not saying that Coral Cache or CoralCache is an official name, because of course it isn't. I am saying that any geek worth his salt should be able to figure out (1) what it means in about five minutes by using searches such as the above, and (2) why people would so readily adopt it as an unofficial name.
Incidentally, I don't think TubeSteak was insulting you; his comment seemed to imply that he felt he should have read the FAQ.
You forgot to apply Murphy's Law. What actually happens in practice is that the bread lands butter side down, the cat lands feet first, and the string-or-whatever that you used to bind them together comes undone and flies wherever it can do the most damage.
Wait, you didn't even bind them together? Sheesh. Never mind, then.
...which would be why TFA explicitly says so. From the Reuters article referenced in TFA:
The shares have recovered after analysts noted that Microsoft would benefit from avoiding a big sales spike after the November 22 launch. Disgruntled customers were a problem for Sony when it launched its best-selling PlayStation 2 console in 2000.
"They want to have more of a constant supply," said Matt Rosoff, analyst at Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm.
"They don't want a huge spike in December and then a slump in January and February," Rosoff said, "They're trying to avoid that."
Boy, is this meme persistent! Your taxes don't suddenly jump up or down when you move into a different tax bracket - the new rate only applies to the portion of your income above the cutoff point.
But one method probably gets rolled into the official Samba project. Besides, I still haven't seen a cite of the actual so-called bug (I'm not saying it didn't exist, just that no one in this branch has gotten up off their ass to go find a cite).
ISTR a story about Google patenting a number of things that may or may not be part of PageRank, one of which was the speed at which new links appear - a site that gradually receives 10,000 links over the course of a month is more likely to be legit than a site that suddenly receives 10,000 links in one hour. If they are using something like that, then it ought to force splogs (or any other form of black-hat SEO) to slow down or be crippled.
I work for a small consulting company, which for me provides a nice combination of stability and cheap benefits (I have a wife and three kids) and variety of work (a few clients with semi-steady work, manymany clients with support issues once in a blue moon). I am not a salesguy, and never want to be; once the foot's in the door, though, I am decent about showing my integrity and getting work done.
The salary's a bit tight, especially as the kids get older, but hopefully that'll improve. We recently hired a new guy, and are hoping to expand somewhat over the next few years. Even if we don't, the existing client base needs upgrades every so often.
I know jack-all about the quality differences between these models, but assuming that the comments along the line are more or less accurate, it looks like there's a positive correlation between price and quality, just as you might expect:
Nikon: $5,000 (plus $500 for wireless)
Canon: $1,900 for EOS-1, $1,400 for EOS-20 (according to a couple of Froogle searches)
Kodak: $600 (plus $5/month)
Obviously the original "first wireless computerless camera" claim is overblown, but Kodak may well have the first camera in that class that's anywhere near this cheap. Not that I would know - if you have a counterexample, by all means post it.
(Froogle turned up a couple of used EOS-1 models in the $400-$600 range, but that's comparing apples to oranges. Presumably, a used Kodak would sell for considerably less than $600.)
If it works, then sure. If it doesn't... well, how much is an hour of your time worth?
I'm a consultant at a company that charges around $150/hour, so we run into that question right quick. If I know of a reasonably priced off-the-shelf solution, I will recommend it; the client knows we're not screwing them, and will keep coming back to us for things that do require custom work.
It's not just the dollar amount that matters, but also the time itself (which we could be spending on something else), plus reliability and flexibility. Fixing a wonky printer, or buying a new one? (Unlike computers, printers don't have a ton of software to reinstall.) Custom programming, or an existing software package that's already got umpteen successful installs, and probably anticipates some features that the customer will later realize they need/want?
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Does creating a Google Account give me a Gmail account?
Unfortunately not. Gmail is currently in a limited release, so you need to get invited by another Gmail user in order to sign up. If you are interested in Gmail, you may want to check the About Gmail page periodically for updates. If, on the other hand, you already have a Gmail account, you can use your Gmail username and password to sign in to your Google Account.
Access is able to act as a front end for MS SQL. Does this work for ODBC data sources in general? If so, then that would cover MySQL, PostgreSQL, and various other things.
Yeah, Access is ten kinds of retarded, but "bad" and "nonexistent" are not the same thing.
It works, albeit with a somewhat more primitive interface.
Thanks for the link, but that's firmly in "huge chunk of screen real estate" territory, at least for me. I'm looking for something that fits within the taskbar.
Whenever a function becomes longer than something really short, you should consider refactoring it into a set of smaller functions. Unfortunately, interpreting "really short" sanely is non-trivial.
Let's say I need to import a text document into a database, and the layout is Byzantine enough to merit writing a dedicated program for it, rather than just using a standard map-this-field-to-that-field type tool. (This happens with alarming regularity.) I'll write a first draft something like this:
and then a quick bit of copy+pasting produces a second draft:
You could also choose to do the refactoring up front, but I find it's easier to do it in a separate pass.gkrellm is way too "noisy" for me. Learning curve, I suppose. Panel buttons are absolutely a good thing; give them keyboard shortcuts if you're into that sort of thing.
Virtual desktops are great because you can click-drag windows within the thumbnail - does anyone know a way to do this in Windows (for my corporate laptop) without eating up a huge chunk of screen real estate? VirtuaWin is my favorite, but it's still not quite as good as Gnome/KDE (moving a window takes two clicks and picking from a non-visually-sorted list).
I disagree with the "keep everything open on virtual desktops" crowd; if I did that, I would invariably leave something on the back burner and forget about it, as it gets lost in the shuffle. Besides, it would consume extra resources. Instead, I stick to a 2x2 arrangement, open only the programs and documents that I'm actually doing something with Right Now, use Alt-Tab for a couple of things, use the virtual desktops for a lot of things.
Yes, but those are, well, particles. How much damage would various macroscopic masses do if they struck the earth at, say, 0.9*c?
Furthermore, Googling (nyud 8090) turns up the following on the first page of hits (#4):
I'm not saying that Coral Cache or CoralCache is an official name, because of course it isn't. I am saying that any geek worth his salt should be able to figure out (1) what it means in about five minutes by using searches such as the above, and (2) why people would so readily adopt it as an unofficial name.
Incidentally, I don't think TubeSteak was insulting you; his comment seemed to imply that he felt he should have read the FAQ.
Are you sure that e-mail was really from Amazon, and not a phishing attempt?
You forgot to apply Murphy's Law. What actually happens in practice is that the bread lands butter side down, the cat lands feet first, and the string-or-whatever that you used to bind them together comes undone and flies wherever it can do the most damage.
Wait, you didn't even bind them together? Sheesh. Never mind, then.
Yes, it is different, because you have the option of using an unofficial patch (yours or someone else's) in the interim.
I was Employee B, you insensitive clod! :)
Boy, is this meme persistent! Your taxes don't suddenly jump up or down when you move into a different tax bracket - the new rate only applies to the portion of your income above the cutoff point.
But one method probably gets rolled into the official Samba project. Besides, I still haven't seen a cite of the actual so-called bug (I'm not saying it didn't exist, just that no one in this branch has gotten up off their ass to go find a cite).
ISTR a story about Google patenting a number of things that may or may not be part of PageRank, one of which was the speed at which new links appear - a site that gradually receives 10,000 links over the course of a month is more likely to be legit than a site that suddenly receives 10,000 links in one hour. If they are using something like that, then it ought to force splogs (or any other form of black-hat SEO) to slow down or be crippled.
How much work would a network net if a network could net work?
Seconded.
I work for a small consulting company, which for me provides a nice combination of stability and cheap benefits (I have a wife and three kids) and variety of work (a few clients with semi-steady work, manymany clients with support issues once in a blue moon). I am not a salesguy, and never want to be; once the foot's in the door, though, I am decent about showing my integrity and getting work done.
The salary's a bit tight, especially as the kids get older, but hopefully that'll improve. We recently hired a new guy, and are hoping to expand somewhat over the next few years. Even if we don't, the existing client base needs upgrades every so often.
- Nikon: $5,000 (plus $500 for wireless)
- Canon: $1,900 for EOS-1, $1,400 for EOS-20 (according to a couple of Froogle searches)
- Kodak: $600 (plus $5/month)
Obviously the original "first wireless computerless camera" claim is overblown, but Kodak may well have the first camera in that class that's anywhere near this cheap. Not that I would know - if you have a counterexample, by all means post it.(Froogle turned up a couple of used EOS-1 models in the $400-$600 range, but that's comparing apples to oranges. Presumably, a used Kodak would sell for considerably less than $600.)
Hey, you forgot Disneyplanet!
If it works, then sure. If it doesn't... well, how much is an hour of your time worth?
I'm a consultant at a company that charges around $150/hour, so we run into that question right quick. If I know of a reasonably priced off-the-shelf solution, I will recommend it; the client knows we're not screwing them, and will keep coming back to us for things that do require custom work.
It's not just the dollar amount that matters, but also the time itself (which we could be spending on something else), plus reliability and flexibility. Fixing a wonky printer, or buying a new one? (Unlike computers, printers don't have a ton of software to reinstall.) Custom programming, or an existing software package that's already got umpteen successful installs, and probably anticipates some features that the customer will later realize they need/want?