Single-threaded (Ruby) = hard to scale unless you are building one massive app.
Have seen single-threaded rails apps in the same environment not scale well. I guess if you have Microsoft's/Google's datacenter budgets to throw hardware at the problem this is slightly less of an issue, but I wouldn't recommend going there if you intend to deploy many ruby apps to the same environment.
It existed in Picasa 1 as keywords. Picasa 2 has "labels" and they work very similarly. Right click on a thumbnail or image to "label" it seems to be the easiest way.
Picasa 2 _is_ particularly good at categorizing and organizing (as was Picasa 1.0+, but now their keywording is easier to use). If you don't think so, you haven't used it yet. It allows you to use "labels" (i.e. keywording) for anything you want - plus their search works on just about everything except facial recognition. Search on any EXIF header. Search on "red". Search on any part of the filename or path. Search on some text you may have used to describe the album of photos when you imported them. It works -- and fast. Go Google.
Not that you asked, but if you knew what the Picasa team went through to find this name, you'd appreciate it. T-shirts were made to commemorate the name choice after literally months of debate on the issue. Picasa - the home for your pictures.
I didn't like the name the first day, but after that it grew on me. At least it's original. When this product was introduced it essentially created a new category (photo organizers) in software -- ACDSee was one of very few pre-existing products that supposedly does the same thing (on Winders).
If you want to throw some serious load at your equipment, get a few other systems saturating your network with Apache Benchmark (ab) requests. It gives lots of useful data, like response times, etc. . And you're best off toppling the application and trying to find the cause that it failed and working on that as someone already suggested. The rinse and repeat.
Looks like Apache has updated their tools since the last time I had to do this...
As soon as I read your post, this first response is exactly what I was thinking -- install it at home. If you have the hardware available to you, set up a lot of different configurations. Try not using your windows machines at all for a while and doing everything on Linux. If you don't have hardware available to you, get some. Linux runs great on machines 4 years old (yeah, yeah, we could run it on our 386's too -- but runs *well*) that cost $100 or are even free.
Try:
Linux as your firewall/router
Install Apache - every good admin should know how to compile this and some basic configuration information
Three words: "./configure", "make", "make install"
Setup a second machine - test using NFS and Samba
If you want to get a little adventurous, try NIS
If you don't know sh, practice -- you'll need it -- same goes for VI
RPMs (and I'm sure Debian's package manager also) make life easy -- if you want the easy way into linux, choose an RPM based distrobution like Fedora and check out YUM
Having a weird problem that you can't easily solve? Google Groups are a good starting point.
Yeah, it's cool, but where's the: * AM/FM Tuner (Red Sox games aren't broadcast on FM in Boston) * Ogg support * aac support
A CF or other Media expansion slot would be nice, too. And how long before someone makes these things wi-fi (802.11g perhaps) enabled so you don't have to use cables at all -- I know the transfers would be sluggish.
The first small, sub $300 device that comes out with a usable screen for video pictures/etc. is going to clean the floor with the Music-only devices -- and phones don't count.
Of all the resumes I've seen lately, the best were those with bulleted lists of tasks/jobs performed with the skills listed.
When you can look at a resume and immediately get a handle on a person's depth of knowledge of a subject - that's a good thing. Especially as the potential hire, you're promoting your ability to use the skills you claim to have. Examples might be:
- Setup CVS repository and configured secure access for windows and linux clients over ssh
- Configured and installed customized versions of RedHat AS 2.1 via kickstart over LAN
Too many resumes are vague about depth of knowledge. You need to prove you aren't BS'ing about the skills you claim to have, even before you get invited for an interview.
I have to agree. I have been using desktop Linux as my primary OS at home since middle of last summer, and my biggest frustration was the sound support. I do NOT have a special setup - and have jumped through hoops on mult. occasions to get things working. Even today it seems touchy.
This is my biggest gripe with Linux to date - and one of few things (maybe the only thing?) that would keep me from installing it on someone's machine who was not savvy.
I do think that support is coming as more and more of the industry adopts Linux and the IBM's and Sun's of the world start pushing it here in the US as a desktop solution. Vendors will have no choice but to start publishing their own drivers - some already do.
Anyone have any luck mounting a firewire drive on a Toshiba laptop with the Texas Instruments Firewire Chipset on the board? Stupid ghost can't handle it (doesn't see it from DOS), and I'm having trouble getting knoppix to play nice as well. The external case has the Oxford 911 in it. An lspci shows the TI stuff, but I can't get the darn drive mounted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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People are always dumbfounded (as they should be - great software) by Synergy2 along these lines.
http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/ and I couldn't agree more. The cell providers are a bad joke.
Single-threaded (Ruby) = hard to scale unless you are building one massive app.
Have seen single-threaded rails apps in the same environment not scale well. I guess if you have Microsoft's/Google's datacenter budgets to throw hardware at the problem this is slightly less of an issue, but I wouldn't recommend going there if you intend to deploy many ruby apps to the same environment.
It existed in Picasa 1 as keywords. Picasa 2 has "labels" and they work very similarly. Right click on a thumbnail or image to "label" it seems to be the easiest way.
I'm fairly certain that _is_ the whole installer. It's just over 3 MB.
Picasa 2 _is_ particularly good at categorizing and organizing (as was Picasa 1.0+, but now their keywording is easier to use). If you don't think so, you haven't used it yet. It allows you to use "labels" (i.e. keywording) for anything you want - plus their search works on just about everything except facial recognition. Search on any EXIF header. Search on "red". Search on any part of the filename or path. Search on some text you may have used to describe the album of photos when you imported them. It works -- and fast. Go Google.
I didn't like the name the first day, but after that it grew on me. At least it's original. When this product was introduced it essentially created a new category (photo organizers) in software -- ACDSee was one of very few pre-existing products that supposedly does the same thing (on Winders).
If you want to throw some serious load at your equipment, get a few other systems saturating your network with Apache Benchmark (ab) requests. It gives lots of useful data, like response times, etc. . And you're best off toppling the application and trying to find the cause that it failed and working on that as someone already suggested. The rinse and repeat.
Looks like Apache has updated their tools since the last time I had to do this...
http://httpd.apache.org/test/
As soon as I read your post, this first response is exactly what I was thinking -- install it at home. If you have the hardware available to you, set up a lot of different configurations. Try not using your windows machines at all for a while and doing everything on Linux. If you don't have hardware available to you, get some. Linux runs great on machines 4 years old (yeah, yeah, we could run it on our 386's too -- but runs *well*) that cost $100 or are even free.
- Try:
- Linux as your firewall/router
- Install Apache - every good admin should know how to compile this and some basic configuration information
- Three words: "./configure", "make", "make install"
- Setup a second machine - test using NFS and Samba
- If you want to get a little adventurous, try NIS
- If you don't know sh, practice -- you'll need it -- same goes for VI
- RPMs (and I'm sure Debian's package manager also) make life easy -- if you want the easy way into linux, choose an RPM based distrobution like Fedora and check out YUM
- Having a weird problem that you can't easily solve? Google Groups are a good starting point.
Good luck.Yeah, it's cool, but where's the:
* AM/FM Tuner (Red Sox games aren't broadcast on FM in Boston)
* Ogg support
* aac support
A CF or other Media expansion slot would be nice, too. And how long before someone makes these things wi-fi (802.11g perhaps) enabled so you don't have to use cables at all -- I know the transfers would be sluggish.
The first small, sub $300 device that comes out with a usable screen for video pictures/etc. is going to clean the floor with the Music-only devices -- and phones don't count.
It's only checking for a new rev.. You can turn it off in the preferences.
Get imgseek.
Windows Box Running "Hello" (www.hello.com) ->
Mounted Samba Share on Linux ->
Apache/PHP Directory ripper which auto-gens the thumbnails.
Goofy but it works (when it's all up and running).
Of all the resumes I've seen lately, the best were those with bulleted lists of tasks/jobs performed with the skills listed.
When you can look at a resume and immediately get a handle on a person's depth of knowledge of a subject - that's a good thing. Especially as the potential hire, you're promoting your ability to use the skills you claim to have. Examples might be:
- Setup CVS repository and configured secure access for windows and linux clients over ssh
- Configured and installed customized versions of RedHat AS 2.1 via kickstart over LAN
Too many resumes are vague about depth of knowledge. You need to prove you aren't BS'ing about the skills you claim to have, even before you get invited for an interview.
I have to agree. I have been using desktop Linux as my primary OS at home since middle of last summer, and my biggest frustration was the sound support. I do NOT have a special setup - and have jumped through hoops on mult. occasions to get things working. Even today it seems touchy. This is my biggest gripe with Linux to date - and one of few things (maybe the only thing?) that would keep me from installing it on someone's machine who was not savvy. I do think that support is coming as more and more of the industry adopts Linux and the IBM's and Sun's of the world start pushing it here in the US as a desktop solution. Vendors will have no choice but to start publishing their own drivers - some already do.
Anyone have any luck mounting a firewire drive on a Toshiba laptop with the Texas Instruments Firewire Chipset on the board? Stupid ghost can't handle it (doesn't see it from DOS), and I'm having trouble getting knoppix to play nice as well. The external case has the Oxford 911 in it. An lspci shows the TI stuff, but I can't get the darn drive mounted. Any help would be greatly appreciated.