Do you then turn the sound back up if you want to hear other sounds? And then turn it back to zero before shutdown? If so, this sounds like a bogus solution to me.
All you're asking for is a copy, so get an external harddrive, and copy.
The only trick is that it's not that easy in windows because of the messed up file permissions... if a file is locked so it's non-copiable it'll hose the copy at that point, so some basic backup software is useful, basically all the WD & Maxtor external drives ship with what you're looking for.
And, since your summary didn't really tell us jack all about your system other than you have alot of MP3s (consider backing these up once, then excluding them from any other backup) you may need to stop certain services (particularly database services) so that you get a good copy.
And last things last, if you really do want to go to optical media for some reason, I know both Nero & IBMs RecordNow! software have data projects where you just add as many files as you want and it'll break it up appropriately for each disk... in fact, I'm pretty sure Window's backup does this by default too. Actually, what solutions did you try exactly?
The purpose of most of the DLLs in SYSTEM32 is documented, just look at the summary tab in Explorer, the problem is that with any complex operating system it's trivial to make up fake names that sound plausible
I just looked at the summary tab on a dozen random DLLs in my system32 directory (most from microsoft, some from 3rd parties), and there was no information in any of them. Why can't 3rd parties use a different location than MS... at least that would help a little (would help me anyway, if not the actual problem being discussed)
Windows requires users to use Administrator to install software? No, buggy software requires that. Historically a few Mac programs have had the same requirements... iTunes springs to mind. Anyway, the Apple solution to buggy software requiring elevated privileges is "you can't run that software" - not very helpful if you need it.
"buggy" software? I think you mean to say legacy OR poorly coded... this is one of those side effects that windows carries from version to version (like the registry) because MS refuses to leave customers high and dry for old software. Back in the old days this was the right way to do things, store configs in programdirectory/conf... we didn't have an appdata directory like we do now. Same with registry hives, they weren't setup in the same way they are now where certain users could do certain things. Calling it buggy implies the software is behaving contrary to design, it's not, it's just that the target has moved and the software hasn't all moved with it.
The only problem is if you have a significant popln of your school doing it. Suspending and warning them isn't exactly the best idea if your going hit about (say) 1/4th of your school popln). In this case it'd be like trying to hit a union (providing that students are organized enough to stick to the plan).
Maybe, but I doubt it. You wait until the beginning of a school year, you get parental support behind it by talking about how much time & resources are being wasted, you put in some technical solutions so the first few people who try get an automated message saying "You are trying to access a blocked site, if you continue to do so your login information will be reported to administration" (please tell me these systems at least have user logins for the students, tho god knows how often those are borrowed) and you make a few public examples right off the bat (with detention, that's not going to kill anyone) and my guess is they'll come in line pretty quickly.... students don't have the equivalent of the union leadership which makes all the difference.
it would make more sense to just talk to people, and spend the time on something else.
That's exactly what I came here to say... get caught at the workplace once, a reprimand, twice you're fired... it's going to stop. Starting handing out detentions at school and suspensions for repeat offenders and it's going to be equivalent to smoking in the bathroom as far as numbers, certainly not a rampant problem.
Looks like one of those when all you have is a hammer issues to me.
Other words, this is not news. Ford is just playing catch up as always. Honda owns the auto industry and is always one step ahead of the others.
And BMW did it a few years (2004 to be precise) before that, but I don't think it was quite as full featured... and now they're releasing one just like this. Honda was years from first on this.
I completely agree with you... I support the right for the license to read however the authors want.
I just also agree with the story's summary that that's perhaps not a great route to take for such a widely used license. And I guess the other thing for me is the intent... I'm assuming here, but it sounds to me like the intent of the clause is that they don't want their software to be used to create hardware systems which limit the owner's ability to install whatever software they so choose... and in my opinion that should be left to the hardware developers to decide, and the market to choose a hardware maker which complies with it.
Basically this seems to me like "we have enough marketshare and people using Linux in embedded devices that we can now start to twist their arms to otherwise further our political goals"... sound familar anyone?
What you say is a fine theory, and for desktop computers great, it fights the good fight.
But if I'm putting out an embedded device which I know will brick if things are modified in the slightest, why should I loosen things up to allow the customer to hang themselves?
Really, the 60" comes with 2... but why bother, the XBox360 only does 720p anyway, unless you're going an incredibly distance I can't imagine you'll notice a difference between component and HDMI.... heck I can't imagine there's a difference to notice.
I have the slightly larger version of that TV, and I agree it's a great TV... but prepared to be dissapointed in its computer support, it's dismal.
The only way I've managed to get reasonable performance is from a DVI-HDMI cable and the fact that my NVidia card has Overscan correction (the TV itself only has underscan correction)
Yes, it goes better than it did with a single core, and in the real world examples I mentioned it's really not that big a deal, my browser & email both fit in memory easily, so only the compiler or virus scan really hit the harddrive regularly.
And in my personal experience it's greatly more responsive, so I can take off my geek hat and say I don't really care what they're doing, I notice significant improvement in the above examples and many others.
actually for the most part right now dual cores don't speed up any single application. (Yes there are plenty of rendering/scientific applications which it does speed up, but I said for the most part.) Where it really shines is in speeding up the user experience.
Run a compile, a virus scan, and still have your email app or browser pop up immediately when you click it.
The neat thing about the way multi-core programming works is that for alot of things once they make it support two, it'll automatically support 4.... so once we get app support for multi-threads as a common commodity you'll be able to scale performance alot easier (easier, not cheaper)
Personally tho, I'd trade all my single core systems for dual cores systems that ran two cores each at 50% the speed of the single cores, cause like you said, most of us have more computer than we need for most applications, but most of us also multi-task quite a bit, and it's the responsiveness and multi-tasking of my dual core machine that makes me so happy, not the raw speed (tho that's nice too:))
That's short sighted, not set in the real world, and doesn't address my commentary.
Yes, perhaps the one-off routine can be reused later with minor modifications, in which case whoever requested/designed it should have been aware of it and written it with that in mind. But perhaps it can't, and perhaps the proper business solution is to just write a throw-away perl script to get it done now, or perhaps the proper business solution is to hire a data entry person to do it asap.
Real people have a limited number of hours in which to accomplish work
Let's take my original post and use a real world example.... I had an access database which was 10 years old, it was out-moded, we had recoded a solution using PostgreSQL & PHP, was quite a nice solution everyone loved it, was time to move the old data.... my original post suggests it made sense to write a throwaway PHP script which took me 15 minutes to write. It wasn't the fastest thing in the world, it didn't have all the error checking I'd normally put in a program, it was never properly spec'ed out and we had no design document for it. I had 0 comments in the code and I used brute force repetitive for loops where smarter methods could've shaved as much as 10% off the loop execution times I'm sure. The script then ran for 10 seconds and crashed because I made a typo... typo was repaired, scrip then ran for 90 minutes and life was good, we were on the new system, the access database was burned to a DVD and removed from our systems.
My original point was that this was the proper solution, it didn't make sense to spec it out, to comment the code, to put in a UI that was pretty, to make sure all the variable names where completely understandable to a code maintainer in 5 years etc.
Actually it's quite different... it allows you to see them all at once instead of one at a time.
Also QuickTabs (as well as the Firefox equivalent I mention below) update the images if the page is updated for some reason... so you can open several dynamic pages in tabs, switch to the summary view, then keep a view on the state of all of them at once, pretty nifty.
And what the article states as a general case about extensions for Firefox is 100% true here... Viamatic foxPose puts exactly this functionallity into Firefox. And not to sound like a fanboy, but I'm looking at IE7 beta 3 and Firefox (1.5) on the same screen using these features and the foxPose images are MUCH clearer than the IE7 ones, the text in IE7 is so fuzzy I can't even attempt to read the regular headlines on CNN.com
At least that's why I assumed rapid developement frameworks caught on.
There's also the fact that in many jobs a huge percentage of programs are run once, or maybe run once a day for a month... and maintainability isn't an issue. My previous employment was just that, lots of tasks that needed to be scripted, and then they were done. Occasionally a program become popular and had to be scaled up to repeated use, and then we did just that. But the rapid development was great for the ones that didn't, sometimes the code for them was garbage, but worked, and sometimes it was really well organized and easy to transform... but more importantly the tasks where completed in less total hours (programming + running) than if a human had to process the issues by hand.
Now, as someone who's a boss and cares alot about the dollars per hour, one of my constant frustrations is watching someone write a script for a run once application that takes 3 hours to write and debug, 5 seconds to run... while I'm paying them $30/hr, whereas they (or a better yet a $7.50/hr employee) could've done it by hand in 30 minutes.
Sure for you... but what about your publically deployed kiosk... or your call center desktop or whatever. Definitely plenty of applications for such a deployment, I think it's just that this is already accomplishable using read only partitions/live cds/etc.
Normally I hate reading the "cool, but I would never use it" posts... but I'm really curious, what do you guys think is the target market for this device?
Too small for all day computing, too big to drop in most pockets... the thickness particularly seems to be a kicker.
Anyway geek factor, very high... practical factor, I'm wracking my brain and can't think of the application.
You're right if I knew well enough what the heck I was doing... but my end of year meeting is actually an hour of him adjusting and fixing my bad record keeping.... maybe after another year of managing my finances I'll have picked up enough skills cause you make a rather good point.
I'm a non-accountant too and I found GnuCash the perfect tool... so much more up my alley than the pay to play alternatives I had mucked with in the past. Unfortunately once finances got to a point where I needed a real accountant, he used QuickBooks so now I do too... and since the new version of QuickBooks won't run on Wine it was the straw that broke the camel's back and brought me back to a Windows desktop.
I'd love to see GnuCash get to a point where real life accountants used it, or maybe if it could just output to a QuickBooks format or something... is there a standard in the accounting world? I have no idea. I'm just rambling the "killer" features that I'd love to see so I could use the program which I prefer anyway.
Yeah but it's a little different with players of any sort.
With a bike you more or less bought the bike for the purpose it will always satisfy... obviously if you're hard core you might modify things slightly, and the type of joint that holds the wheel in might be an issue (or whatever the reasonable analogy is)... but with the player you're laying out significant money for a device which allows you to lay out more money later for conflict.
But if the format dies after you've bought say two movies, you've now laid out say $1100 (in the case of blu-ray) to watch two movies. Or if you've bought 100 movies you've laid out $5,000 in media, and if your player dies and the format dies out you can no longer watch any of that media.
You snap the 36 spoke tire on the bike and need to replace it you can go ahead and put in a new 44 count if the 36 is no longer available because the socket's the same... basically the important standards remain the same.
Whatever, I'm just stating the obvious, but I think I saw your point and saw that you missed the real crux of why the format wars really matter.
So blame Half-life 4 for using a technology that you claim is unecessary, not microsoft for providing it and letting people upgrade or not.
By your logic they should backport the whole OS and upgrade XP users for free. Legacy happy goes in the other direction... and it sounds like they're going to be doing a whole lot of that this time too.
2 years is a very short lifespan for a file server/NAS... the thing shouldn't be doing any heavy lifting so what's the upgrade going to be? Maybe a better network card.
I'd make that purchase with those numbers personally.
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It's not an issue of how hard, it's an issue of how permanent.
Do you then turn the sound back up if you want to hear other sounds? And then turn it back to zero before shutdown? If so, this sounds like a bogus solution to me.
All you're asking for is a copy, so get an external harddrive, and copy.
The only trick is that it's not that easy in windows because of the messed up file permissions... if a file is locked so it's non-copiable it'll hose the copy at that point, so some basic backup software is useful, basically all the WD & Maxtor external drives ship with what you're looking for.
And, since your summary didn't really tell us jack all about your system other than you have alot of MP3s (consider backing these up once, then excluding them from any other backup) you may need to stop certain services (particularly database services) so that you get a good copy.
And last things last, if you really do want to go to optical media for some reason, I know both Nero & IBMs RecordNow! software have data projects where you just add as many files as you want and it'll break it up appropriately for each disk... in fact, I'm pretty sure Window's backup does this by default too. Actually, what solutions did you try exactly?
Ok, I agree with most of your post, but ...
... iTunes springs to mind. Anyway, the Apple solution to buggy software requiring elevated privileges is "you can't run that software" - not very helpful if you need it.
The purpose of most of the DLLs in SYSTEM32 is documented, just look at the summary tab in Explorer, the problem is that with any complex operating system it's trivial to make up fake names that sound plausible
I just looked at the summary tab on a dozen random DLLs in my system32 directory (most from microsoft, some from 3rd parties), and there was no information in any of them. Why can't 3rd parties use a different location than MS... at least that would help a little (would help me anyway, if not the actual problem being discussed)
Windows requires users to use Administrator to install software? No, buggy software requires that. Historically a few Mac programs have had the same requirements
"buggy" software? I think you mean to say legacy OR poorly coded... this is one of those side effects that windows carries from version to version (like the registry) because MS refuses to leave customers high and dry for old software. Back in the old days this was the right way to do things, store configs in programdirectory/conf... we didn't have an appdata directory like we do now. Same with registry hives, they weren't setup in the same way they are now where certain users could do certain things. Calling it buggy implies the software is behaving contrary to design, it's not, it's just that the target has moved and the software hasn't all moved with it.
The only problem is if you have a significant popln of your school doing it. Suspending and warning them isn't exactly the best idea if your going hit about (say) 1/4th of your school popln). In this case it'd be like trying to hit a union (providing that students are organized enough to stick to the plan).
Maybe, but I doubt it. You wait until the beginning of a school year, you get parental support behind it by talking about how much time & resources are being wasted, you put in some technical solutions so the first few people who try get an automated message saying "You are trying to access a blocked site, if you continue to do so your login information will be reported to administration" (please tell me these systems at least have user logins for the students, tho god knows how often those are borrowed) and you make a few public examples right off the bat (with detention, that's not going to kill anyone) and my guess is they'll come in line pretty quickly.... students don't have the equivalent of the union leadership which makes all the difference.
it would make more sense to just talk to people, and spend the time on something else.
That's exactly what I came here to say... get caught at the workplace once, a reprimand, twice you're fired... it's going to stop. Starting handing out detentions at school and suspensions for repeat offenders and it's going to be equivalent to smoking in the bathroom as far as numbers, certainly not a rampant problem.
Looks like one of those when all you have is a hammer issues to me.
Other words, this is not news. Ford is just playing catch up as always. Honda owns the auto industry and is always one step ahead of the others.
And BMW did it a few years (2004 to be precise) before that, but I don't think it was quite as full featured... and now they're releasing one just like this. Honda was years from first on this.
Most ISPs who block 25 by default will open it up if you make a tech support call.
I completely agree with you... I support the right for the license to read however the authors want.
I just also agree with the story's summary that that's perhaps not a great route to take for such a widely used license. And I guess the other thing for me is the intent... I'm assuming here, but it sounds to me like the intent of the clause is that they don't want their software to be used to create hardware systems which limit the owner's ability to install whatever software they so choose... and in my opinion that should be left to the hardware developers to decide, and the market to choose a hardware maker which complies with it.
Basically this seems to me like "we have enough marketshare and people using Linux in embedded devices that we can now start to twist their arms to otherwise further our political goals"... sound familar anyone?
And now welcome to the real world... no.
What you say is a fine theory, and for desktop computers great, it fights the good fight.
But if I'm putting out an embedded device which I know will brick if things are modified in the slightest, why should I loosen things up to allow the customer to hang themselves?
Really, the 60" comes with 2... but why bother, the XBox360 only does 720p anyway, unless you're going an incredibly distance I can't imagine you'll notice a difference between component and HDMI.... heck I can't imagine there's a difference to notice.
I have the slightly larger version of that TV, and I agree it's a great TV... but prepared to be dissapointed in its computer support, it's dismal.
The only way I've managed to get reasonable performance is from a DVI-HDMI cable and the fact that my NVidia card has Overscan correction (the TV itself only has underscan correction)
Hope your experience with the 50" is better.
Yes, it goes better than it did with a single core, and in the real world examples I mentioned it's really not that big a deal, my browser & email both fit in memory easily, so only the compiler or virus scan really hit the harddrive regularly.
And in my personal experience it's greatly more responsive, so I can take off my geek hat and say I don't really care what they're doing, I notice significant improvement in the above examples and many others.
actually for the most part right now dual cores don't speed up any single application. (Yes there are plenty of rendering/scientific applications which it does speed up, but I said for the most part.) Where it really shines is in speeding up the user experience.
:))
Run a compile, a virus scan, and still have your email app or browser pop up immediately when you click it.
The neat thing about the way multi-core programming works is that for alot of things once they make it support two, it'll automatically support 4.... so once we get app support for multi-threads as a common commodity you'll be able to scale performance alot easier (easier, not cheaper)
Personally tho, I'd trade all my single core systems for dual cores systems that ran two cores each at 50% the speed of the single cores, cause like you said, most of us have more computer than we need for most applications, but most of us also multi-task quite a bit, and it's the responsiveness and multi-tasking of my dual core machine that makes me so happy, not the raw speed (tho that's nice too
That's short sighted, not set in the real world, and doesn't address my commentary.
Yes, perhaps the one-off routine can be reused later with minor modifications, in which case whoever requested/designed it should have been aware of it and written it with that in mind. But perhaps it can't, and perhaps the proper business solution is to just write a throw-away perl script to get it done now, or perhaps the proper business solution is to hire a data entry person to do it asap.
Real people have a limited number of hours in which to accomplish work
Let's take my original post and use a real world example.... I had an access database which was 10 years old, it was out-moded, we had recoded a solution using PostgreSQL & PHP, was quite a nice solution everyone loved it, was time to move the old data.... my original post suggests it made sense to write a throwaway PHP script which took me 15 minutes to write. It wasn't the fastest thing in the world, it didn't have all the error checking I'd normally put in a program, it was never properly spec'ed out and we had no design document for it. I had 0 comments in the code and I used brute force repetitive for loops where smarter methods could've shaved as much as 10% off the loop execution times I'm sure. The script then ran for 10 seconds and crashed because I made a typo... typo was repaired, scrip then ran for 90 minutes and life was good, we were on the new system, the access database was burned to a DVD and removed from our systems.
My original point was that this was the proper solution, it didn't make sense to spec it out, to comment the code, to put in a UI that was pretty, to make sure all the variable names where completely understandable to a code maintainer in 5 years etc.
Troll fed.
Actually it's quite different... it allows you to see them all at once instead of one at a time.
Also QuickTabs (as well as the Firefox equivalent I mention below) update the images if the page is updated for some reason... so you can open several dynamic pages in tabs, switch to the summary view, then keep a view on the state of all of them at once, pretty nifty. And what the article states as a general case about extensions for Firefox is 100% true here... Viamatic foxPose puts exactly this functionallity into Firefox. And not to sound like a fanboy, but I'm looking at IE7 beta 3 and Firefox (1.5) on the same screen using these features and the foxPose images are MUCH clearer than the IE7 ones, the text in IE7 is so fuzzy I can't even attempt to read the regular headlines on CNN.com
At least that's why I assumed rapid developement frameworks caught on.
There's also the fact that in many jobs a huge percentage of programs are run once, or maybe run once a day for a month... and maintainability isn't an issue. My previous employment was just that, lots of tasks that needed to be scripted, and then they were done. Occasionally a program become popular and had to be scaled up to repeated use, and then we did just that. But the rapid development was great for the ones that didn't, sometimes the code for them was garbage, but worked, and sometimes it was really well organized and easy to transform... but more importantly the tasks where completed in less total hours (programming + running) than if a human had to process the issues by hand.
Now, as someone who's a boss and cares alot about the dollars per hour, one of my constant frustrations is watching someone write a script for a run once application that takes 3 hours to write and debug, 5 seconds to run... while I'm paying them $30/hr, whereas they (or a better yet a $7.50/hr employee) could've done it by hand in 30 minutes.
Sure for you... but what about your publically deployed kiosk... or your call center desktop or whatever. Definitely plenty of applications for such a deployment, I think it's just that this is already accomplishable using read only partitions/live cds/etc.
Normally I hate reading the "cool, but I would never use it" posts... but I'm really curious, what do you guys think is the target market for this device?
Too small for all day computing, too big to drop in most pockets... the thickness particularly seems to be a kicker.
Anyway geek factor, very high... practical factor, I'm wracking my brain and can't think of the application.
You're right if I knew well enough what the heck I was doing... but my end of year meeting is actually an hour of him adjusting and fixing my bad record keeping.... maybe after another year of managing my finances I'll have picked up enough skills cause you make a rather good point.
I'm a non-accountant too and I found GnuCash the perfect tool... so much more up my alley than the pay to play alternatives I had mucked with in the past. Unfortunately once finances got to a point where I needed a real accountant, he used QuickBooks so now I do too... and since the new version of QuickBooks won't run on Wine it was the straw that broke the camel's back and brought me back to a Windows desktop.
I'd love to see GnuCash get to a point where real life accountants used it, or maybe if it could just output to a QuickBooks format or something... is there a standard in the accounting world? I have no idea. I'm just rambling the "killer" features that I'd love to see so I could use the program which I prefer anyway.
Yeah but it's a little different with players of any sort.
With a bike you more or less bought the bike for the purpose it will always satisfy... obviously if you're hard core you might modify things slightly, and the type of joint that holds the wheel in might be an issue (or whatever the reasonable analogy is)... but with the player you're laying out significant money for a device which allows you to lay out more money later for conflict.
But if the format dies after you've bought say two movies, you've now laid out say $1100 (in the case of blu-ray) to watch two movies. Or if you've bought 100 movies you've laid out $5,000 in media, and if your player dies and the format dies out you can no longer watch any of that media.
You snap the 36 spoke tire on the bike and need to replace it you can go ahead and put in a new 44 count if the 36 is no longer available because the socket's the same... basically the important standards remain the same.
Whatever, I'm just stating the obvious, but I think I saw your point and saw that you missed the real crux of why the format wars really matter.
So blame Half-life 4 for using a technology that you claim is unecessary, not microsoft for providing it and letting people upgrade or not.
By your logic they should backport the whole OS and upgrade XP users for free. Legacy happy goes in the other direction... and it sounds like they're going to be doing a whole lot of that this time too.
2 years is a very short lifespan for a file server/NAS... the thing shouldn't be doing any heavy lifting so what's the upgrade going to be? Maybe a better network card.
I'd make that purchase with those numbers personally.
Who rolls up paper besides artists? Do you know if it can be folded?