The main reason we looked at using Chilisoft is because some of our non programming literate HTML guys used some tool that generated ASP code. This prepackaged tool generated a testing application, that the higher ups demanded, and did so with little to no coding. Believe me, it was not my decision to have them use this tool, and if it was my decision, we would have developed this in house, because these guys no NOTHING about creating a multi user web application. THEY WERE GOING TO USE MS ACCESS FILES AS THEIR DATABASE FOR A MULTI USER HIGH PROFILE WEB APPLICATION ---AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH--- But I'll get to the point.
While Chilisoft ASP is rather expensive, it is still less expensive than a high end NT server. For a lot less money and pain, we can put Chilisoft on our Sun cluster which has plenty of power already, and continue using (IMHO) the much more stable Solaris platform. So far, on our development server, it has seemd to provide us with very nice speed, plus I was easily able to configure ODBC connections to Oracle, and force the HTML guys to stop using Acess. Plus, we've got this application running on Chilisoft on a loaded down development Solaris box (to test it out), and so far, we've seen amazing performance out of it. We're seeing performance that NT zealots around here are amazed by.
It could be argued that grabbing a tiny little knob on the side of a watch, PULLING IT OUT TO EXACTLY THE RIGHT SPOT, and setting the time by turning it most likely (but not necessarily) clockwise it not intiutitve. Add to this that to set the date, the knob need to be pushed HALFWAY in and not all the way in. Plus, my grandma who has arthritis in her hands has no hope of doing any of this, but can press oversized buttons on a digital clock. Plus there is the matter of being able to easily see a bright LED display.
My only argument here is that what you have described as a good interface, while good for some, is not so good for others. Given that, how does one design a "good" interface for a general purpose item. On the flipside of the coin (and to return to the orignal topic), how could one design an interface for something more targeted like software, but where the end user could range from beginner to expert, and has totally different needs from the software without having to make some sacrifices?
This is not meant as an attack, but just a counterpoint, and I would love it if you responded.
Actually there may be one good result of this. Maybe people will be a little more careful about opening attachments for fear of being arrested for forwarding VB viruses without "permission" from the virus writers.
Or maybe the nice virus writers will tell us in the e-mail that it is OK to forward it on.
I went to Park City a few weeks ago, and the night life there was pretty nice. Unfortunately it is about an hour outside of Salt Lake. I'd love to move to Park City just because of the slopes.
Two overlooked window manager that I used to use all the time because of their small memory footprint and size are wmx and its little brother wm2 (Usually I preferred wmx).
Now that I have overpowered machines, I use enlightenment, but I used to love that window manager. I'm getting choked up. <sniff> Maybe I'll try it again.
What's your take on the rock group Korn? Do you love them, hate them, or wish they would stop using your name?
Do you ever plan on doing a deal where Korn is the official band of ksh, or ksh is the official shell of Korn?
The best teacher I ever had was a high school business teacher. She was not a programming teacher or a systems administrator, but she made me realize that I had potential to pursue computers as a career. She as much as forced me to become a member of FBLA and enter a Computer Concepts contest. It was mainly a contest about the history of computing and using certain word processing and spreadsheet programs. I had been in her class learning exactly that stuff the previous semester, and I ended up winning the state contest and a trip to Anaheim, California to the national contest. This was a very big deal for me, having almost never left Arkansas before.
Through this experience, I realized that I could make a living doing things like this, and I later became the district treasurer. She took me to all the district meets and would use her free time to take me to various FBLA functions. She also bent the rules a little to allow my FBLA duties to be a "class" which basically was like being a lab operator. It was not until college that I started doing programming, which is what I do now, but she definitely helped open me up to the idea that I could pursue a career in computing.
Watch out for that, though. A lot of times there are clauses in your contract that prohibit you from recruiting from your old companies for a certain amount of time after you leave, specifically to prevent that. Of course, if the old company goes out of business, I would assume you are no longer bound by that.
I had problems with my NVidia Geforce II MX card as well, under Mandrake 7.1. I did a clean install of 7.2 on a new hard drive and made sure to choose XFree86 4, and then went to Nvidia's site and downloaded the rpm's for the kernel and GLX (I actually think I had to get the source rpm for the kernel, because I upgraded my kernel), and installed those, and now it works like a charm, and runs Quake 3 with no problems (which is of course the only reason to own a computer).
This a bullshit generalization. Just looking at the slashdot answers on the subject, it is obvious that many Linux "folks" are also Java "folks". I am surprised that the Java Developer Journal would print this crap.
I use Linux on my desktop to do Java programming all the time. At the companies I have been at, it seems like it's natural to run Java on Sun hardware and Solaris, and (IMHO) one of the best PC operating systems for interacting with Solaris is Linux.
I do however, think that Java shines on the server side (jsp's, servlets, ejb's) while leaving something to be desired on the client side (applets, etc.)
Has anyone seen the second round of playstation 2 available anywhere yet? They were supposed to be shipping 10,000 more units every week, but I haven't seen any websites update their stocks since the first shipment.
He would have been seen as a hypocrite if he would have accepted and then given a speech about changing the school values. Plus, no one would have ever heard about or remembered a speech.
This was a much bolder move, and it seems to have gotten him the results he desired.
I wonder if he knows that he is on slashdot?
I don't really care if Microsoft backs it or not.
If it becomes a widely adopted standard, I will proabably use it.
Microsoft is involved in many of these types of organizations. It would be difficult to use many technologies that Microsoft and many other companies didn't have their hand in.
I used to use Redhat exclusively, now I use Mandrake exclusively. What advantages/disadvantagse do most people find when using Redhat versus Mandrake?
I started using Mandrake for the Pentium optimized compiles, but it appears that Redhat is doing that now. I also haven't paid much attention to what Redhat is doing in a while, but it seemed in the past that Mandrake released new versions of their rpms a little quicker, at least in the cooker distro.
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geez...That guy is an idiot. Of course Maxis made Sim City.
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Sierra didn't make Sim City, idiot...Electronic Arts did.
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Sierra has sort of done this. I remember in Sim City, if you didn't enter in the correct code from the red sheet, your city would get destroyed by tornados, earthquakes and monsters. Of course, you could always unleash them on yourself for a little excitement too.
I think this is kind of interesting. Limp Bizkit is about to start a tour sponsored by Napster where they will play all their shows for free. Dre has appeared in Limp Bizkit videos before (break stuff). While I am sure their connection is mostly business, since I believe they are both under Interscope's record label, and since Fred Durst is the president of Interscope, it is interesting to see them have such totally different viewpoints on this subject.
Motorola has started supporting Linux as well. Their website is at http://www.mcg.mot.com/linux A good website for PowerPC Linux kernel information is http://www.ppc.kernel.org/ Also, this is not quite the same, but related...For all of you with motorola 68k machines, there is also m68k Linux. A good site for this is http://www.linux-m68k.org/
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The main reason we looked at using Chilisoft is because some of our non programming literate HTML guys used some tool that generated ASP code. This prepackaged tool generated a testing application, that the higher ups demanded, and did so with little to no coding. Believe me, it was not my decision to have them use this tool, and if it was my decision, we would have developed this in house, because these guys no NOTHING about creating a multi user web application. THEY WERE GOING TO USE MS ACCESS FILES AS THEIR DATABASE FOR A MULTI USER HIGH PROFILE WEB APPLICATION ---AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH--- But I'll get to the point.
While Chilisoft ASP is rather expensive, it is still less expensive than a high end NT server. For a lot less money and pain, we can put Chilisoft on our Sun cluster which has plenty of power already, and continue using (IMHO) the much more stable Solaris platform. So far, on our development server, it has seemd to provide us with very nice speed, plus I was easily able to configure ODBC connections to Oracle, and force the HTML guys to stop using Acess. Plus, we've got this application running on Chilisoft on a loaded down development Solaris box (to test it out), and so far, we've seen amazing performance out of it. We're seeing performance that NT zealots around here are amazed by.
It could be argued that grabbing a tiny little knob on the side of a watch, PULLING IT OUT TO EXACTLY THE RIGHT SPOT, and setting the time by turning it most likely (but not necessarily) clockwise it not intiutitve. Add to this that to set the date, the knob need to be pushed HALFWAY in and not all the way in. Plus, my grandma who has arthritis in her hands has no hope of doing any of this, but can press oversized buttons on a digital clock. Plus there is the matter of being able to easily see a bright LED display.
My only argument here is that what you have described as a good interface, while good for some, is not so good for others. Given that, how does one design a "good" interface for a general purpose item. On the flipside of the coin (and to return to the orignal topic), how could one design an interface for something more targeted like software, but where the end user could range from beginner to expert, and has totally different needs from the software without having to make some sacrifices?
This is not meant as an attack, but just a counterpoint, and I would love it if you responded.
That's Jimmy Kimmel, formerly the sidekick on "Win Ben Stein's Money".
Actually there may be one good result of this. Maybe people will be a little more careful about opening attachments for fear of being arrested for forwarding VB viruses without "permission" from the virus writers.
Or maybe the nice virus writers will tell us in the e-mail that it is OK to forward it on.
I went to Park City a few weeks ago, and the night life there was pretty nice. Unfortunately it is about an hour outside of Salt Lake. I'd love to move to Park City just because of the slopes.
This Bash of Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assembilated.
(Sorry--Couldn't resist)
Two overlooked window manager that I used to use all the time because of their small memory footprint and size are wmx and its little brother wm2 (Usually I preferred wmx).
Now that I have overpowered machines, I use enlightenment, but I used to love that window manager.
I'm getting choked up. <sniff> Maybe I'll try it again.
Cool. Now maybe I won't have to get another computer to play games on.
What's your take on the rock group Korn? Do you love them, hate them, or wish they would stop using your name?
Do you ever plan on doing a deal where Korn is the official band of ksh, or ksh is the official shell of Korn?
The best teacher I ever had was a high school business teacher. She was not a programming teacher or a systems administrator, but she made me realize that I had potential to pursue computers as a career. She as much as forced me to become a member of FBLA and enter a Computer Concepts contest. It was mainly a contest about the history of computing and using certain word processing and spreadsheet programs. I had been in her class learning exactly that stuff the previous semester, and I ended up winning the state contest and a trip to Anaheim, California to the national contest. This was a very big deal for me, having almost never left Arkansas before.
Through this experience, I realized that I could make a living doing things like this, and I later became the district treasurer. She took me to all the district meets and would use her free time to take me to various FBLA functions. She also bent the rules a little to allow my FBLA duties to be a "class" which basically was like being a lab operator. It was not until college that I started doing programming, which is what I do now, but she definitely helped open me up to the idea that I could pursue a career in computing.
Watch out for that, though. A lot of times there are clauses in your contract that prohibit you from recruiting from your old companies for a certain amount of time after you leave, specifically to prevent that. Of course, if the old company goes out of business, I would assume you are no longer bound by that.
Or better yet: "Apple sues Slashdot"
I had problems with my NVidia Geforce II MX card as well, under Mandrake 7.1. I did a clean install of 7.2 on a new hard drive and made sure to choose XFree86 4, and then went to Nvidia's site and downloaded the rpm's for the kernel and GLX (I actually think I had to get the source rpm for the kernel, because I upgraded my kernel), and installed those, and now it works like a charm, and runs Quake 3 with no problems (which is of course the only reason to own a computer).
This a bullshit generalization. Just looking at the slashdot answers on the subject, it is obvious that many Linux "folks" are also Java "folks". I am surprised that the Java Developer Journal would print this crap.
I use Linux on my desktop to do Java programming all the time. At the companies I have been at, it seems like it's natural to run Java on Sun hardware and Solaris, and (IMHO) one of the best PC operating systems for interacting with Solaris is Linux.
I do however, think that Java shines on the server side (jsp's, servlets, ejb's) while leaving something to be desired on the client side (applets, etc.)
Has anyone seen the second round of playstation 2 available anywhere yet? They were supposed to be shipping 10,000 more units every week, but I haven't seen any websites update their stocks since the first shipment.
He would have been seen as a hypocrite if he would have accepted and then given a speech about changing the school values. Plus, no one would have ever heard about or remembered a speech.
This was a much bolder move, and it seems to have gotten him the results he desired.
I wonder if he knows that he is on slashdot?
I don't really care if Microsoft backs it or not.
If it becomes a widely adopted standard, I will proabably use it.
Microsoft is involved in many of these types of organizations. It would be difficult to use many technologies that Microsoft and many other companies didn't have their hand in.
Or for those of us who are linux-heads, the answer can be found in gnomine (gnome) or kmines (kde).
I used to use Redhat exclusively, now I use Mandrake exclusively. What advantages/disadvantagse do most people find when using Redhat versus Mandrake?
I started using Mandrake for the Pentium optimized compiles, but it appears that Redhat is doing that now. I also haven't paid much attention to what Redhat is doing in a while, but it seemed in the past that Mandrake released new versions of their rpms a little quicker, at least in the cooker distro.
geez...That guy is an idiot. Of course Maxis made Sim City.
Wired Magazine actually has a story this month on next generation translation devices.
Interesting read.
Sierra didn't make Sim City, idiot...Electronic Arts did.
Sierra has sort of done this. I remember in Sim City, if you didn't enter in the correct code from the red sheet, your city would get destroyed by tornados, earthquakes and monsters.
Of course, you could always unleash them on yourself for a little excitement too.
I think this is kind of interesting. Limp Bizkit is about to start a tour sponsored by Napster where they will play all their shows for free. Dre has appeared in Limp Bizkit videos before (break stuff). While I am sure their connection is mostly business, since I believe they are both under Interscope's record label, and since Fred Durst is the president of Interscope, it is interesting to see them have such totally different viewpoints on this subject.
Motorola has started supporting Linux as well. Their website is at http://www.mcg.mot.com/linux A good website for PowerPC Linux kernel information is http://www.ppc.kernel.org/ Also, this is not quite the same, but related...For all of you with motorola 68k machines, there is also m68k Linux. A good site for this is http://www.linux-m68k.org/