Anyone notice exactly how much the new Finder resembles IE/Explorer 5 ? Look at the new finder in the mirror, so the picture, file size, and date show up on the other side, as do the 3 buttons at the top left, and one button at the top right. In the mirror suddenly you have your picture and file stats on the right, one button on the top left, 3 buttons on the top right, and a row of big buttons/icons across the top. That's very original of Apple to switch them all bass ackwards before copying the IE format. Kinda like when you'd copy someone else's code but change the names of the functions and varibles in programming class.:)
I would like to disagree with a point made by the author. I do not believe C++ is too difficult of a language for beginnners. When I took the only computer programming class my high school offered, which was C++, I had no trouble grasping the concepts. My little brother, who is 14 and a sophmore in the same high school, is taking the same class, and he hasn't asked me for help once, even though I let him know that I was here for him. C++ is an excellent language for beginners, as long as you aren't going into the more serious topics of object oriented programming, Inheritance, Encapsulation, and Polymorphism. Even these topics aren't *too* difficult. But the way our teacher handled it, is he tought C++ as a procedural language, skipping most oop topics. When I got into college, I understood the syntax of C/C++ so it wasn't difficult to add the other topics onto the language I was already familiar with. The problem with teaching someone a non-C/C++ language is they carry over programming habits and thoughts from the other language. Like when you see someone new to C try to type writeln() in C. You're just creating another forced transition period by forcing them to learn two languages instead of one.
Don't worry about it. Simply scan it once or twice, send private warning letters to the users who have questionable material. Make the letters sound official and defend company policy so if one of the letters gets back to the hunters, you can simply say you thought they should have a warning first. Most likely all the porno fewls will ease up. You can say you scanned em every month or whatever, but really just let it ride. Management only needs to know what you decide they should know. Often in my job (SysAdmin) the CEO refuses to spend very small amounts of money (like $200 at a business that makes millions) for upgrades and/or hardware that we *really* NEED. I figured out that sometimes you have to make up a different reason that sounds even more important. Our network was getting bogged down because of high bandwidth applications we use. We were running 100BaseTx on a hub. I decided that we needed a switch to isolate the bandwidth between the two coworkers using the video application. The CEO said "No, we don't really need that. Everything works fine the way it is." Actually we were having all kinds of problems when the Database Client timed out from the server because two or four people were running video and lagging the hub to death. So in the end, I had to screw somethings up on purpose (like change the server's IP), and claim that the hub burned up from too much load. Then I told him rather than getting a new hub for us to burn up, we could get a switch and fix two problems at once. I know many other sysadmins who have to do the same thing in order for things to run smoothly at their job. What you have to learn, no matter what the subject (hardware,software,privacy,etc) is to simply tell the management what they need to know, what they want to hear, or what YOU want them to hear. If the management wants to hear that there's no pornography in the email, then by god, there's no pornography in the email. You are the admin. Use your power for good not evil ! (Except a little bit of nessicary evil)
>It's got up to a 500 mhz G4, one meg of L2 cache >@ 1/2 processing speed, 100mhz system bus. Is this supposed to be impressive ? How weak. Benchmark this against the Athlon. I'll take the Athlon.
Did you guys see this on the Burn All GIFs Website ? Seriously LOL. What about the Master Control Program? As we all know, Tron has already defeated the MCP. Unisys, however, will continue to invest in MCP at least through the end of 2000, proving that they are complete idiots who haven't invented anything since long before the web.
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Anyone notice exactly how much the new Finder resembles IE/Explorer 5 ? Look at the new finder in the mirror, so the picture, file size, and date show up on the other side, as do the 3 buttons at the top left, and one button at the top right. In the mirror suddenly you have your picture and file stats on the right, one button on the top left, 3 buttons on the top right, and a row of big buttons/icons across the top. That's very original of Apple to switch them all bass ackwards before copying the IE format. Kinda like when you'd copy someone else's code but change the names of the functions and varibles in programming class. :)
I would like to disagree with a point made by the author. I do not believe C++ is too difficult of a language for beginnners. When I took the only computer programming class my high school offered, which was C++, I had no trouble grasping the concepts. My little brother, who is 14 and a sophmore in the same high school, is taking the same class, and he hasn't asked me for help once, even though I let him know that I was here for him. C++ is an excellent language for beginners, as long as you aren't going into the more serious topics of object oriented programming, Inheritance, Encapsulation, and Polymorphism. Even these topics aren't *too* difficult. But the way our teacher handled it, is he tought C++ as a procedural language, skipping most oop topics. When I got into college, I understood the syntax of C/C++ so it wasn't difficult to add the other topics onto the language I was already familiar with. The problem with teaching someone a non-C/C++ language is they carry over programming habits and thoughts from the other language. Like when you see someone new to C try to type writeln() in C. You're just creating another forced transition period by forcing them to learn two languages instead of one.
Don't worry about it. Simply scan it once or twice, send private warning letters to the users who have questionable material. Make the letters sound official and defend company policy so if one of the letters gets back to the hunters, you can simply say you thought they should have a warning first. Most likely all the porno fewls will ease up. You can say you scanned em every month or whatever, but really just let it ride. Management only needs to know what you decide they should know. Often in my job (SysAdmin) the CEO refuses to spend very small amounts of money (like $200 at a business that makes millions) for upgrades and/or hardware that we *really* NEED. I figured out that sometimes you have to make up a different reason that sounds even more important. Our network was getting bogged down because of high bandwidth applications we use. We were running 100BaseTx on a hub. I decided that we needed a switch to isolate the bandwidth between the two coworkers using the video application. The CEO said "No, we don't really need that. Everything works fine the way it is." Actually we were having all kinds of problems when the Database Client timed out from the server because two or four people were running video and lagging the hub to death. So in the end, I had to screw somethings up on purpose (like change the server's IP), and claim that the hub burned up from too much load. Then I told him rather than getting a new hub for us to burn up, we could get a switch and fix two problems at once. I know many other sysadmins who have to do the same thing in order for things to run smoothly at their job. What you have to learn, no matter what the subject (hardware,software,privacy,etc) is to simply tell the management what they need to know, what they want to hear, or what YOU want them to hear. If the management wants to hear that there's no pornography in the email, then by god, there's no pornography in the email. You are the admin. Use your power for good not evil ! (Except a little bit of nessicary evil)
>It's got up to a 500 mhz G4, one meg of L2 cache >@ 1/2 processing speed, 100mhz system bus. Is this supposed to be impressive ? How weak. Benchmark this against the Athlon. I'll take the Athlon.
Did you guys see this on the Burn All GIFs Website ? Seriously LOL. What about the Master Control Program? As we all know, Tron has already defeated the MCP. Unisys, however, will continue to invest in MCP at least through the end of 2000, proving that they are complete idiots who haven't invented anything since long before the web.
You guys are frickin crazy ! UCSD is the greatest.