Yeah, I know this is/. so this suggestion may not go over well...
But Windows Home Server has a neat filesystem that spans multiple drives, internal and external, and is a lot easier to configure than RAID. It also supports instantly adding and removing drives from the cluster. It's slick as heck.
Get yourself some inexpensive USB enclosures for those drives, a copy of WHS, and link them all together into a mega-volume.
There's so much FUD in this discussion, I don't even know where to start.
First, let's tackle the most common misconception, that Silverlight isn't platform agnostic. The Silverlight runtime is supported on Windows and OSX in IE, Firefox, and Safari. For Linux, there's Moonlight, a Mono-based implementation. Additionally, it's worth noting that Microsoft has supported Novell's development efforts on this.
Okay, let's talk about versioning. The current version, 1.0, is somewhat limited in that it only includes XAML, JS, and media support at this time. The next version, 2.0 (formerly called 1.1) includes a mostly feature-complete scaled-down version of the.NET framework. There are NO system prerequisites that aren't already included in the ~4 MB Silverlight download.
As far as tools required, Notepad.exe is all you need if you're so inclined. The basic markup of Silverlight is XAML, an XML-based format.
Web server: Anything. Doesn't matter. Silverlight is a strictly client-side tech.
Regarding being a "Flash clone:" Not entirely. The XAML-based markup for Silverlight is a subset of that used in Windows Presentation Foundation, which is on track to become the.NET UI framework of choice (as opposed to Windows Forms). Does Silverlight do gee-whiz animations and graphics that resemble Flash? Sure, but so does WPF, and nobody has said that WPF is a Flash clone.
And regarding search engines not being able to index Silverlight sites, that's partially true. XAML is just XML, so it's still readable by search engines. Resolving URLs within the XAML might be an issue, and I too am interested in seeing how that's solved. FWIW, Google's Site Maps tool solves this problem somewhat.
So, overall, I'd say it's a standard worth giving a chance. The folks responsible for Silverlight (ScottGu, among others) are aware of Microsoft's previous mistakes and are working to not repeat history.
Disclaimer: I am not a Microsoft employee or astroturfer. I am a geek who happens to specialize in.NET and is somewhat excited about Silverlight.
That's not an apples-to-apples comparison, though.
In cmd.exe, "dir" is "dir." It gives you a text listing of the files and subdirectories of your current directory. In PowerShell, "dir" is an alias for "get-childitem," which returns an object array that can either be parsed for display in the console, or passed down the pipeline to another commandlet.
From TFA: "The Global Positioning System (GPS) epoch is January 6, 1980 and is synchronized to UTC. GPS is NOT adjusted for leap seconds."
Huh? Why? Wouldn't this eventually make GPS so far out of whack with UTC so as to be useless for time (admittedly not its primary purpose, but a useful one nonetheless)?
If there's even a single person with a Neilsen device who is a regulary visitor on/. I'd be surprised
My wife, son, and I are a Neilsen family. But they didn't give us a device. They gave us a journal. And told us to write down everything we watched on each TV in the house. If something was TiVo'd, we were to write down the original air date/time.
I'm not sure Neilsen works in "devices" anymore. With all the variance in ways to obtain content (cable boxes, satellite tuners, TiVo, and, dare I say, BitTorrent), I think a device to monitor all that would be a significant technical challenge.
It should be noted that "Lumpy" is short for "Lumpawarrump", "Malla" is a shortened form of "Mallatobuck" (Chewbacca's wife), and "Itchy" is short for "Attichitcuk" (Chewie's dad).
If you think back to the/. article where the O'Reilly poster was announced, some kind soul linked to this one then. I know because I printed it and displayed it in my cubicle.
At the company I work for we are forced to use IE because certian web applications we use for inter/intra department communication or data storage use asp or other activex controls.
Hate to pick nits, but technically ASP is a server-side technology and is completely browser independent. Where you run into problems is with client-side VBScript, and, as you mentioned, ActiveX controls.
Okay, so where are the states' attorney generals when it comes to the poor strippers???
I'm not kidding. Shortly after I met my wife in college, she became a peeler. It was the same deal. End of the night, she was required to give the DJ 10% of her take, and the house another 10%. She received no wages.
This was less of an issue in the club where she started, but the second club she danced at had several surgically enhanced dancers and the city it was in had laws specifically designed to keep the dancers from talking to the patrons, or coming within 3 feet of them.
When you can't even provide charming conversation to the patrons, your breast size becomes the determining factor on how much you make. She quickly got burnt out on that job, must to my disappointment.
Now she's a teacher.:)
Nope, October. It's the Girls of the ACC issue.
God, I love the yearly college girls issue! Also has a pictorial of girls from that weird cloner cult, the Raelians (spelling???).
Seriously, that's a real question. There's a really good round-table discussion in this month's Playboy about the music industry and how they're running themselves into the ground with this crap.
Most everybody - except for the RIAA dick - seems certain that the record industry's days (as we know it) are numbered.
I work in the IT dept. of a financial institution. Our info security team is damn good at what they do, and they'll likely recommend that USB keys be blocked when (if) we ever make it to Longhorn - we're still on Win2K for desktops.
Still, for all the measures they put in place, I've got ways around them. Port 80 and 8080 will always be open outgoing. So I use 8080 to SSH home, and port-forward all kinds of nifty services on my home network, like SlimServer, PopFile, VNC, and Remote Desktop for my Windows box. If they close 8080, I'll just find a different port.
Amen, brother.
And I LIKED Matrix 2 and 3, I watch Enterprise, and I saw Troy and I think it's the coolest adaptation of the Iliad I've ever seen.
Enough with the groupthink. Yes, it's cool to hate on Star Wars. Yes, it's cool to hate on the Matrix sequels. I enjoyed them. I didn't make the movies. The filmmakers did. And I enjoyed my jaunt through their universe.
Plus I respect the fact that they've managed to produce a decent console that sells for about half the price of the competitors' consoles while keeping the workmanship of the console itself up to fairly high standard of quality (a GameCube is a lot studier and less likely to break down on you than a PlayStation 2.)
????
Last time I checked, $150 (Xbox) != $100 (Gamecube).
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Yeah, I know this is /. so this suggestion may not go over well...
But Windows Home Server has a neat filesystem that spans multiple drives, internal and external, and is a lot easier to configure than RAID. It also supports instantly adding and removing drives from the cluster. It's slick as heck.
Get yourself some inexpensive USB enclosures for those drives, a copy of WHS, and link them all together into a mega-volume.
There's so much FUD in this discussion, I don't even know where to start.
.NET framework. There are NO system prerequisites that aren't already included in the ~4 MB Silverlight download.
.NET UI framework of choice (as opposed to Windows Forms). Does Silverlight do gee-whiz animations and graphics that resemble Flash? Sure, but so does WPF, and nobody has said that WPF is a Flash clone.
.NET and is somewhat excited about Silverlight.
First, let's tackle the most common misconception, that Silverlight isn't platform agnostic. The Silverlight runtime is supported on Windows and OSX in IE, Firefox, and Safari. For Linux, there's Moonlight, a Mono-based implementation. Additionally, it's worth noting that Microsoft has supported Novell's development efforts on this.
Okay, let's talk about versioning. The current version, 1.0, is somewhat limited in that it only includes XAML, JS, and media support at this time. The next version, 2.0 (formerly called 1.1) includes a mostly feature-complete scaled-down version of the
As far as tools required, Notepad.exe is all you need if you're so inclined. The basic markup of Silverlight is XAML, an XML-based format.
Web server: Anything. Doesn't matter. Silverlight is a strictly client-side tech.
Regarding being a "Flash clone:" Not entirely. The XAML-based markup for Silverlight is a subset of that used in Windows Presentation Foundation, which is on track to become the
And regarding search engines not being able to index Silverlight sites, that's partially true. XAML is just XML, so it's still readable by search engines. Resolving URLs within the XAML might be an issue, and I too am interested in seeing how that's solved. FWIW, Google's Site Maps tool solves this problem somewhat.
So, overall, I'd say it's a standard worth giving a chance. The folks responsible for Silverlight (ScottGu, among others) are aware of Microsoft's previous mistakes and are working to not repeat history.
Disclaimer: I am not a Microsoft employee or astroturfer. I am a geek who happens to specialize in
Nope. Miguel de Icaza mentioned explicitly in his blog that his team received guidance from Scott Guthrie and others in Microsoft.
That's not an apples-to-apples comparison, though.
In cmd.exe, "dir" is "dir." It gives you a text listing of the files and subdirectories of your current directory. In PowerShell, "dir" is an alias for "get-childitem," which returns an object array that can either be parsed for display in the console, or passed down the pipeline to another commandlet.
From TFA: "The Global Positioning System (GPS) epoch is January 6, 1980 and is synchronized to UTC. GPS is NOT adjusted for leap seconds."
Huh? Why? Wouldn't this eventually make GPS so far out of whack with UTC so as to be useless for time (admittedly not its primary purpose, but a useful one nonetheless)?
Don't Panic!
It appears that Joss was taken way out of context.
http://whedonesque.com/comments/9027
If there's even a single person with a Neilsen device who is a regulary visitor on /. I'd be surprised
My wife, son, and I are a Neilsen family. But they didn't give us a device. They gave us a journal. And told us to write down everything we watched on each TV in the house. If something was TiVo'd, we were to write down the original air date/time.
I'm not sure Neilsen works in "devices" anymore. With all the variance in ways to obtain content (cable boxes, satellite tuners, TiVo, and, dare I say, BitTorrent), I think a device to monitor all that would be a significant technical challenge.
Funny, my 53-year-old mom doesn't have a problem with it...
You're kidding, right?
If you like the Google interface (my main reason for using it), and you don't want Googlebot "reading your email", you don't have to let it.
The company I work for uses a product called Novadigm Radia, which has apparently been bought up by HP, judging by the web site.
And I suppose "Chewie" is a marked improvement?
It should be noted that "Lumpy" is short for "Lumpawarrump", "Malla" is a shortened form of "Mallatobuck" (Chewbacca's wife), and "Itchy" is short for "Attichitcuk" (Chewie's dad).
I may be misremebering a few things, but I'm sure that someone will correct me if I am.
<Yoda speak>
Correct you I will. Teach him Yoda did not. Built it when he went back to Tattooine using notes in Obi-Wan's hut he did.
</Yoda speak>
Read Shadows of the Empire for more info.
(My apologies for the Yoda speak... I'm kinda psyched for Episode III. If YOU think it's annoying, then you should really feel bad for my coworkers!
Mos is not a bad actor at all. I came to that realization watching Something the Lord Made on HBO.
If you think back to the /. article where the O'Reilly poster was announced, some kind soul linked to this one then. I know because I printed it and displayed it in my cubicle.
At the company I work for we are forced to use IE because certian web applications we use for inter/intra department communication or data storage use asp or other activex controls.
Hate to pick nits, but technically ASP is a server-side technology and is completely browser independent. Where you run into problems is with client-side VBScript, and, as you mentioned, ActiveX controls.
Okay, so where are the states' attorney generals when it comes to the poor strippers??? I'm not kidding. Shortly after I met my wife in college, she became a peeler. It was the same deal. End of the night, she was required to give the DJ 10% of her take, and the house another 10%. She received no wages. This was less of an issue in the club where she started, but the second club she danced at had several surgically enhanced dancers and the city it was in had laws specifically designed to keep the dancers from talking to the patrons, or coming within 3 feet of them. When you can't even provide charming conversation to the patrons, your breast size becomes the determining factor on how much you make. She quickly got burnt out on that job, must to my disappointment. Now she's a teacher. :)
Nope, October. It's the Girls of the ACC issue. God, I love the yearly college girls issue! Also has a pictorial of girls from that weird cloner cult, the Raelians (spelling???).
If she still fills out a bustier like she does now... Ewww... what am I saying?!
Seriously, that's a real question. There's a really good round-table discussion in this month's Playboy about the music industry and how they're running themselves into the ground with this crap. Most everybody - except for the RIAA dick - seems certain that the record industry's days (as we know it) are numbered.
I work in the IT dept. of a financial institution. Our info security team is damn good at what they do, and they'll likely recommend that USB keys be blocked when (if) we ever make it to Longhorn - we're still on Win2K for desktops. Still, for all the measures they put in place, I've got ways around them. Port 80 and 8080 will always be open outgoing. So I use 8080 to SSH home, and port-forward all kinds of nifty services on my home network, like SlimServer, PopFile, VNC, and Remote Desktop for my Windows box. If they close 8080, I'll just find a different port.
Amen, brother. And I LIKED Matrix 2 and 3, I watch Enterprise, and I saw Troy and I think it's the coolest adaptation of the Iliad I've ever seen. Enough with the groupthink. Yes, it's cool to hate on Star Wars. Yes, it's cool to hate on the Matrix sequels. I enjoyed them. I didn't make the movies. The filmmakers did. And I enjoyed my jaunt through their universe.
It's also worth mentioning that legitimate businesses provide legitimate "opt-out" policies.