Single Sign On refers to a system that allows a user to log in once and then have access to a number of subsystems. For instance, I'm an intern at UAB's Academic Computing department. Currently, we have our Bug management system (bugzilla), a CMS (phpWebSite) and a Task management system that all can be used by only logging in once. All applications except the simplest will need modifications to use Pubcookie.
The software we are using is called PubCookie and is developed by the University of Washington. Pubcookie is one of the tools being reviewed by the NSF's Middleware Initiative.
Single Sign On is a very popular and difficult problem right now, especially inter-realm SSO.
On the otherhand, if all you need is a unified username/password for your systems, you are in better luck. Many systems do support LDAP for authentication. Bugzilla has some beta LDAP support, PAM provides LDAP authentication for logging in, some CMS systems are starting to support it. Aside from that I am not sure what your options are.
After looking a little more... they are quite expensive. IBM is the manufacturer of the thing. Look at it Here.
The list price is $2,195. But if you can afford a 10 piece copper-core set of All-Clad pots and pans, maybe you are fine paying for a nice looking kitchen computer.
I'm not familiar with this at all, but my department just got a rack from dell for our cluster. It has a really nice pull out LCD and keyboard. The monitor can lay flat and the whole thing slide in when not in use. If you could install something like this at the right height, with a computer hidden in a cabinent underneath, it may work well.
No, "grid" comes from "Power Grid" which indicates how a computational grid is intended to be used.
Plug the organizations computers and other resources into the grid (these are analog to power plants). When you, at your workstation, need to do something computationally expensive or otherwise use the grid's resources, your computer uses the grid to do the work.
You plug in your radio to the power grid, press the button and you've got music, instantly. You plug in your accounting program to the computational grid, press the button and you've got complex stockmarket forcasts, instantly.
I would be willing to pay a good deal more if publishers would include a PDF of the book on the CD. While I know this is not going to happen, its the only reason a CD would have any real use.
Put the code on the website, most everyone has internet access. If you are concerned about those who do not, have a mail in offer for the CD and charge for the price of shipping & handling.
American Companies outsource large portions of their production to companies in India and the rest of Asia. These foriegn companies do their job better and at a fraction of the salary than their American equivalent.
Who am I talking about? Nike? Kathie Lee? Disney?
or Microsoft?
In many ways, Software companies are already much like manufacturing companies.
Is your company primarily a hardware company or a software company?
If it is a hardware company, why should you be concerned that more software or a different OS would be ported to your hardware? More software or another OS could only mean more users.
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How MUCH crack have you been smoking?
LISP is over-rated but XML is just fine?
Go Read
You didn't think that they actually used the computer for something productive (writing papers), did you?
60% correct! That's better than any psychic out there!
It would not hurt to ask. If that does not work, maybe you could find a friend and give them the copyright to the program.
Just a quick note:
Single Sign On refers to a system that allows a user to log in once and then have access to a number of subsystems. For instance, I'm an intern at UAB's Academic Computing department. Currently, we have our Bug management system (bugzilla), a CMS (phpWebSite) and a Task management system that all can be used by only logging in once. All applications except the simplest will need modifications to use Pubcookie.
The software we are using is called PubCookie and is developed by the University of Washington. Pubcookie is one of the tools being reviewed by the NSF's Middleware Initiative.
Single Sign On is a very popular and difficult problem right now, especially inter-realm SSO.
On the otherhand, if all you need is a unified username/password for your systems, you are in better luck. Many systems do support LDAP for authentication. Bugzilla has some beta LDAP support, PAM provides LDAP authentication for logging in, some CMS systems are starting to support it. Aside from that I am not sure what your options are.
Ok. That was hillarious
Someone needs to immediately add it to a fortune file
... I almost stepped in a big pile of blog a few days ago
I've used both clara and gOCR. Both are not yet working well enough to actually use to scan books..
Is there any worth-while open source OCR software? How about reasonably priced closed source OCR software for *BSD or Linux?
After looking a little more... they are quite expensive. IBM is the manufacturer of the thing. Look at it Here.
The list price is $2,195. But if you can afford a 10 piece copper-core set of All-Clad pots and pans, maybe you are fine paying for a nice looking kitchen computer.
I'm not familiar with this at all, but my department just got a rack from dell for our cluster. It has a really nice pull out LCD and keyboard. The monitor can lay flat and the whole thing slide in when not in use. If you could install something like this at the right height, with a computer hidden in a cabinent underneath, it may work well.
Monitor image
Perhaps you did not realize that the order from Purely free to Closed goes:
BSD -> LGPL -> GPL -> Commercial
BSD places little restriction on how you use it.
No, "grid" comes from "Power Grid" which indicates how a computational grid is intended to be used.
Plug the organizations computers and other resources into the grid (these are analog to power plants). When you, at your workstation, need to do something computationally expensive or otherwise use the grid's resources, your computer uses the grid to do the work.
You plug in your radio to the power grid, press the button and you've got music, instantly. You plug in your accounting program to the computational grid, press the button and you've got complex stockmarket forcasts, instantly.
I would be willing to pay a good deal more if publishers would include a PDF of the book on the CD. While I know this is not going to happen, its the only reason a CD would have any real use.
Put the code on the website, most everyone has internet access. If you are concerned about those who do not, have a mail in offer for the CD and charge for the price of shipping & handling.
I'm sure I've shaved off 7 minutes of online time by just having a faster connection...
American Companies outsource large portions of their production to companies in India and the rest of Asia. These foriegn companies do their job better and at a fraction of the salary than their American equivalent.
Who am I talking about? Nike? Kathie Lee? Disney?
or Microsoft?
In many ways, Software companies are already much like manufacturing companies.
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Is your company primarily a hardware company or a software company?
If it is a hardware company, why should you be concerned that more software or a different OS would be ported to your hardware? More software or another OS could only mean more users.
> Say I had two programs...
But you don't! Instead, you either have a Java one or a C++ one. You don't get to chose. It's the people developing the games that make the choice.
Two more conclusions from the article:
1. The slowdown is less [than 20%] in 3D applications.
2. There is a 65% increase in productivity.
In addition, this paper makes a note that Java is useful for games that are not tied to performance and for low profile games.
For these games, the decrease in speed is not important, but the amount of money spent on the project is.
We've long since passed the point where programmer time is cheaper than hardware time.
Give 'em the Hemlock!!
uce@ftc.gov is for this purpose.
UCE = Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail FTC = Federal Trade Commission
If you send it to someone like your congressman, YOU are spamming. If you do it often enough, I'm sure they will have a word or two with your ISP.
If someone sends you a letter filled with anthrax, forwarding it to the president will not make things better...
Where can I get it in 2,048 by 1,536 resolution??
Aparently you never owned a Model T, Or for that matter a Corvair.
inefficient use of memory
inefficient use of time
inefficient use of programmer time
efficient use can be questioned for any resource
(this post is not about, nor do I care about, python)
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