Setting up MySQL and Postgres is very simple on Linux distros and even Windows. On Linux it requires just one command to install (eg, apt-get install mysql-server, emerge mysql, etc), on windows, its download, run setup.exe, done. And there are tools out there that make managing them simple for those who don't know how to use a command line (eg, phpmyadmin, or for windows mysql's own manager app). I am not an expert db admin and yet I have three mySQL installs and one Postgres install that I maintain, easily. As for an experianced DBA, he or she should be capable of setting any of the options up easily and should know how to use the command line managment of the db they work with.
I use win2k servers, they do what I need and they are secure enought for this enviornment. If it serves the purpose and there is no improvement that you need badly enough to want to upgrade then why do it? Upgrading just to upgrade is not only a waste of money but a waste of time, there has to be some feature or security patch you need bad enough to justify the cost of the licenses, the cost of all new CALs, the down time to implement, and your time to do testing and planning. Basically it boils down to the age old addage of "If it isn't broken, don't fix it."
That being said I am planning a move to Novell OES, as it better supports cross authentication for my other Linux servers and workstations.
I find it curious that with all the programming languages listed that Perl was not among them. Has Perl actually fallen that low below the radar, or is it not considered a line programming language? I am not a programmer but have set out to learn some basics, I have been working with shell scripts and Perl for the most part to do this as they were suggested as a good place to start. Oh and I also learned Apple BASIC in grade school, and played with MS QBASIC in win 3.1 and 95. Why don't they teach programming in grade school anymore?
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I personally have never liked the parent window with child windows model, to me the child windows get in the way and I'd rather have my image over top of them or only have the tool box I'm using viewable. Now I know that some like the other way and ther is nothing wrong with that. I remember when (back in my windows days) I used Dreamweaver 4 and I loved its multi-window free floating interface, then with dreamweaver mx came the parent window. I hated it, with a passion. What ever I was working on always seemed to end up under some damn child window, lucky for my that they still gave you the option of switching to the multi-window mode of Dreamweaver 4. The same is true between GIMP and Photoshop, I can't stand Photoshops interface. I am used to working in windows, and my windows are very rarly ever full screen (I liked to keep an eye on other things at the same time), when I work on one of my photos I view it in a window no bigger then 25% of it size. I zoom in when I need to but I certainly don't need to see the whole image in order to work on the bottom corner or what not.
Anyway, like I said it something that the GIMP devs could look at adding as an option to be turned on or off but I wouldn't want them to out right switch. And sorry for the incoharency of this comment, I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee yet.
When I get sick of comercial television or just want to watch something with actual merit I switch over to WPT (Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin's PBS station) or to TPT (Twin Cities Public Television, in MN). They have short little recognitions for sponsors/donors but thats it. The pledge drives can be a little annoying but on the other hand if its for a show you like you get a good 6 hours worth of episodes to watch. And yes I do donate to WPT and to WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio), I'd rather pay for high quality shows then have to sit through commercial breaks that seem to be lasting longer and longer.
Just my two cents,
(I would expect lots of geek and nerd comments but I am posting to/.;D )
I quite like AVG as well, I like the fact that it has very low overhead for the residential scanner. However it does suck reasources when running the active scan. It is easy to manage and is very acurate, this is what I install if people are in need of an anti-virus software.
NPR and PBS do get some limited federal funding, but it is very limited, coming from grant sought by CPB, NSF, and the National Endowment for the Arts as stated on their "About NPR" page under the "Annual Reports, Audited Financial Statements, and Form 990s" link.
From the About NPR (http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html): "NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from over 780 independent radio stations, sponsorship from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage -- between one percent to two percent of NPR's annual budget -- comes from competitive grants sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts."
Other then Back to the Moon is meant to be science fiction, the author did explain that the Helium 3 fusion theory that was one of the main plot points in the book was not science fiction. Over all it was a good read and unlike many sci-fi novells most everything in it was feisable with current technology. After all, it was written by a NASA engineer.
If you are looking for a good book you might want to have a look at this.
I believe mPlayer can play the older version of those and for the newer version of wmv and wma I think you can use AVIplay (http://avifile.sourceforge.net/).
Quote:
"designed with emphasis on dependability instead of performance."
Well since there goal has always been to have both dependability and preformance and they never succeded I suppose it is rather wise for them to cut back on the complexity and just try to get one of them.
Haha, I just read that as "Shouldn't the title read "NASA Scraps Shutttle And Returns to Catapults"?"
lol I guess its time to go make coffee, thanks for the great laugh.;)
From the Gardian article: "It will be officially raised at a UN summit of world leaders next month and, faced with international consensus, there is little the US government can do but acquiesce."
They say there is little the U.S. can do about it but just how are they planning to wrestle control away? By force? By hacking? I don't see any good way for them to get control if the U.S. doesn't want to give it up.
From the ICANN site: "ICANN is governed by an internationally diverse Board of Directors overseeing the policy development process. ICANN's President directs an international staff, working from three continents, who ensure that ICANN meets its operational commitment to the Internet community."
and
"ICANN's Board has included citizens of Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ghana, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States."
If this information is correct then there already is international representation for setting policies and top level domains. What are they hoping to gain by doing this? Has the U.S. been censoring countries or something?
I'm sorry if any of this is redundent but anyone who could explain to me how they will force the U.S. to hand over control and what possible benifits they (UN, EU) could gain by doing so.
3.5 billion seems a little high if you ask me. I know there are many people out there pirating movies (I am not one of them, if I like it I buy it) but what are they counting here? Is this figure actually lost sales (of dvd, vhs, and movie tickets) plus legal costs of taking pirates to court plus their anti-pirating markenting campaign all rolled together?
I mean really, this is almost more expensive then Iraq. Yes I am exagerating but you get my point. If they are loosing 3.5bn a year and still making profits then perhaps they are charging too much.
I run AVG for Networks in a small school district where I am the IT Coordinator. Education gets a 50% discount and the product has always preformed well.
I hope that Intel doesn't turn it into a monster like Norton or McAffee, and hopefully they will keep the same price scheme. It would be a shame to loose my favorite windows anti-virus software.
Just out of curiosity can WinXP SP2 even scale to those specs? I know *nix machines can and have, but I would be curious what issues might arise with reguards to memmory management.
Also What might the price tag be for such a toy, and does it have any other nice hardware? What about the graphics system, not to mention the system bus?
Will these bits be the bottle neck that makes that ultra fast processor and large RAM and storage cappasity preform no faster then a curent desktop?
Also if the solid state storage is so large and I would assume close to speed in the memmory, why have any memmory? Just fill it up with storage modules and there you go.
Just for your information, hydrogen was not the cause of the Hindenburg acident. It was the (then unknown) solid rocket fuel that was used to lacker the wool panels that made up the outer skin of the blimp. You can see in the following link (look under "Conclusions" at the bottom for a quicker read):
But seriously, how much control should we really hand over to machines? The more the machine, whatever it may be, does for us the less we do. Following that line of thinking we would be further disabling people from being able to do tasks. Think about it for a momment, if you have a machine that welds then you don't need to learn to do it yourself. If you have a machine or software that does your taxes by just entering a few numbers then you don't need to know how to do it. Eventually you will end up with a civilization in which very few of the populous will be capable of any skilled labor (mental or physical). Of course we are fairly far from this bleak future at the momment but if you look around you can see it happening already.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not against technological inovation nor do I think that it wouldn't be cool to have a completly automated AI driven interactive replacement for my PDA (maybe in the form of that new female Japanese robot a couple of articles ago;) ) but you must always step back and think what am I giving up, what is the downside to this inovation?
I work in a school district as the IT Coordinator and I must say that it seems teachers, espeacially those in the elementary grades, have an over reliance on computer games and tv/video media. Every time I walk throught the halls at the elementary school I see kids sitting watching tv or playing an educational computer game. Now I'm not saying by any means that they should not have computers or even that they are not using them correctly. But I believe perhaps there is an over reliance on them and I feel that techers use them as a babysitting solution so they can do other things.
I also believe it is hurting the children's education. I do not say this without some level of premis, nor do I say it lightly. The state and national tests indicate a slow but steady drop in reading, reading comprehention, math, and other skills with the increase of computer and media use (in my district). I have not done a formal study on this, it is merely my observation. When I was in school there were not many computers and what they could be used for was pretty limited. Also videos were not a daily, weekly, or even monthly routine. They were the most dull, and boring educational viedos know to man. But it was always a treat not to have to listen to the techer for 45 minutes. The improvments in media and computer content for educational use has made great bounds forward since then, but the over use has started diminishing their usefullness.
Computers and media have their usefullness, but perhaps we should show them as a tool and not an overall solution to everything.
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Setting up MySQL and Postgres is very simple on Linux distros and even Windows. On Linux it requires just one command to install (eg, apt-get install mysql-server, emerge mysql, etc), on windows, its download, run setup.exe, done. And there are tools out there that make managing them simple for those who don't know how to use a command line (eg, phpmyadmin, or for windows mysql's own manager app). I am not an expert db admin and yet I have three mySQL installs and one Postgres install that I maintain, easily. As for an experianced DBA, he or she should be capable of setting any of the options up easily and should know how to use the command line managment of the db they work with.
I use win2k servers, they do what I need and they are secure enought for this enviornment. If it serves the purpose and there is no improvement that you need badly enough to want to upgrade then why do it? Upgrading just to upgrade is not only a waste of money but a waste of time, there has to be some feature or security patch you need bad enough to justify the cost of the licenses, the cost of all new CALs, the down time to implement, and your time to do testing and planning. Basically it boils down to the age old addage of "If it isn't broken, don't fix it."
That being said I am planning a move to Novell OES, as it better supports cross authentication for my other Linux servers and workstations.
I find it curious that with all the programming languages listed that Perl was not among them. Has Perl actually fallen that low below the radar, or is it not considered a line programming language? I am not a programmer but have set out to learn some basics, I have been working with shell scripts and Perl for the most part to do this as they were suggested as a good place to start. Oh and I also learned Apple BASIC in grade school, and played with MS QBASIC in win 3.1 and 95. Why don't they teach programming in grade school anymore?
Is that a subset of Murphy's Law? :P
Just wait until Star Trek XXX: The Anal Probe! ;p
I personally have never liked the parent window with child windows model, to me the child windows get in the way and I'd rather have my image over top of them or only have the tool box I'm using viewable. Now I know that some like the other way and ther is nothing wrong with that. I remember when (back in my windows days) I used Dreamweaver 4 and I loved its multi-window free floating interface, then with dreamweaver mx came the parent window. I hated it, with a passion. What ever I was working on always seemed to end up under some damn child window, lucky for my that they still gave you the option of switching to the multi-window mode of Dreamweaver 4. The same is true between GIMP and Photoshop, I can't stand Photoshops interface. I am used to working in windows, and my windows are very rarly ever full screen (I liked to keep an eye on other things at the same time), when I work on one of my photos I view it in a window no bigger then 25% of it size. I zoom in when I need to but I certainly don't need to see the whole image in order to work on the bottom corner or what not.
Anyway, like I said it something that the GIMP devs could look at adding as an option to be turned on or off but I wouldn't want them to out right switch. And sorry for the incoharency of this comment, I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee yet.
the holes would be small and repairable.
;)
Reparable by means of the usual NASA repair technique, duct tape!
How could I resist?
When I get sick of comercial television or just want to watch something with actual merit I switch over to WPT (Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin's PBS station) or to TPT (Twin Cities Public Television, in MN). They have short little recognitions for sponsors/donors but thats it. The pledge drives can be a little annoying but on the other hand if its for a show you like you get a good 6 hours worth of episodes to watch. And yes I do donate to WPT and to WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio), I'd rather pay for high quality shows then have to sit through commercial breaks that seem to be lasting longer and longer.
/. ;D )
Just my two cents,
(I would expect lots of geek and nerd comments but I am posting to
I quite like AVG as well, I like the fact that it has very low overhead for the residential scanner. However it does suck reasources when running the active scan. It is easy to manage and is very acurate, this is what I install if people are in need of an anti-virus software.
NPR and PBS do get some limited federal funding, but it is very limited, coming from grant sought by CPB, NSF, and the National Endowment for the Arts as stated on their "About NPR" page under the "Annual Reports, Audited Financial Statements, and Form 990s" link.
From the About NPR (http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html):
"NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from over 780 independent radio stations, sponsorship from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage -- between one percent to two percent of NPR's annual budget -- comes from competitive grants sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts."
"half of which is advertising" So its the same as normal tv then. :p
Anyone else curious why a documentary on film ratings recived a "NC-17 rating for graphic sexual content" rating?
This seems to have a lot of similarities to the book "Back to the Moon" by Homeer H. Hickam.
http://www.homerhickam.com/books/moon.shtml
Other then Back to the Moon is meant to be science fiction, the author did explain that the Helium 3 fusion theory that was one of the main plot points in the book was not science fiction. Over all it was a good read and unlike many sci-fi novells most everything in it was feisable with current technology. After all, it was written by a NASA engineer.
If you are looking for a good book you might want to have a look at this.
I believe mPlayer can play the older version of those
:)
and for the newer version of wmv and wma I think you
can use AVIplay (http://avifile.sourceforge.net/).
I have run into this problem before.
Quote:
"designed with emphasis on dependability instead of performance."
Well since there goal has always been to have both dependability and preformance and they never succeded I suppose it is rather wise for them to cut back on the complexity and just try to get one of them.
Haha, I just read that as "Shouldn't the title read "NASA Scraps Shutttle And Returns to Catapults"?" lol I guess its time to go make coffee, thanks for the great laugh. ;)
From the Gardian article:
"It will be officially raised at a UN summit of world leaders next month and, faced with international consensus, there is little the US government can do but acquiesce."
They say there is little the U.S. can do about it but just how are they planning to wrestle control away? By force? By hacking? I don't see any good way for them to get control if the U.S. doesn't want to give it up.
From the ICANN site:
"ICANN is governed by an internationally diverse Board of Directors overseeing the policy development process. ICANN's President directs an international staff, working from three continents, who ensure that ICANN meets its operational commitment to the Internet community."
and
"ICANN's Board has included citizens of Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ghana, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States."
If this information is correct then there already is international representation for setting policies and top level domains. What are they hoping to gain by doing this? Has the U.S. been censoring countries or something?
I'm sorry if any of this is redundent but anyone who could explain to me how they will force the U.S. to hand over control and what possible benifits they (UN, EU) could gain by doing so.
3.5 billion seems a little high if you ask me. I know there are many people out there pirating movies (I am not one of them, if I like it I buy it) but what are they counting here? Is this figure actually lost sales (of dvd, vhs, and movie tickets) plus legal costs of taking pirates to court plus their anti-pirating markenting campaign all rolled together?
I mean really, this is almost more expensive then Iraq. Yes I am exagerating but you get my point. If they are loosing 3.5bn a year and still making profits then perhaps they are charging too much.
Just my thoughts,
Sorry,
I should have read through the rest of the comments first as this option was already listed.
What about Novell eDirectory? It still is a valid option and it runs on Netware, Windows, and Linux.
I currently use ActiveDir but it just doesn't make cross authentication with Linux easy. I will most likely be switching to eDirectory next year.
I run AVG for Networks in a small school district where I am the IT Coordinator. Education gets a 50% discount and the product has always preformed well.
I hope that Intel doesn't turn it into a monster like Norton or McAffee, and hopefully they will keep the same price scheme. It would be a shame to loose my favorite windows anti-virus software.
Just out of curiosity can WinXP SP2 even scale to those specs? I know *nix machines can and have, but I would be curious what issues might arise with reguards to memmory management.
Also What might the price tag be for such a toy, and does it have any other nice hardware? What about the graphics system, not to mention the system bus?
Will these bits be the bottle neck that makes that ultra fast processor and large RAM and storage cappasity preform no faster then a curent desktop?
Also if the solid state storage is so large and I would assume close to speed in the memmory, why have any memmory? Just fill it up with storage modules and there you go.
Just some thoughts,
Just for your information, hydrogen was not the cause of the Hindenburg acident. It was the (then unknown) solid rocket fuel that was used to lacker the wool panels that made up the outer skin of the blimp. You can see in the following link (look under "Conclusions" at the bottom for a quicker read):
http://www.clean-air.org/hindenberg.htm
Sorry for the sort of off topic note.
Terminator 3 anyone? ;p
;) ) but you must always step back and think what am I giving up, what is the downside to this inovation?
But seriously, how much control should we really hand over to machines? The more the machine, whatever it may be, does for us the less we do. Following that line of thinking we would be further disabling people from being able to do tasks. Think about it for a momment, if you have a machine that welds then you don't need to learn to do it yourself. If you have a machine or software that does your taxes by just entering a few numbers then you don't need to know how to do it. Eventually you will end up with a civilization in which very few of the populous will be capable of any skilled labor (mental or physical). Of course we are fairly far from this bleak future at the momment but if you look around you can see it happening already.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not against technological inovation nor do I think that it wouldn't be cool to have a completly automated AI driven interactive replacement for my PDA (maybe in the form of that new female Japanese robot a couple of articles ago
Just my two cents,
I work in a school district as the IT Coordinator and I must say that it seems teachers, espeacially those in the elementary grades, have an over reliance on computer games and tv/video media. Every time I walk throught the halls at the elementary school I see kids sitting watching tv or playing an educational computer game. Now I'm not saying by any means that they should not have computers or even that they are not using them correctly. But I believe perhaps there is an over reliance on them and I feel that techers use them as a babysitting solution so they can do other things.
:)
I also believe it is hurting the children's education. I do not say this without some level of premis, nor do I say it lightly. The state and national tests indicate a slow but steady drop in reading, reading comprehention, math, and other skills with the increase of computer and media use (in my district). I have not done a formal study on this, it is merely my observation. When I was in school there were not many computers and what they could be used for was pretty limited. Also videos were not a daily, weekly, or even monthly routine. They were the most dull, and boring educational viedos know to man. But it was always a treat not to have to listen to the techer for 45 minutes. The improvments in media and computer content for educational use has made great bounds forward since then, but the over use has started diminishing their usefullness.
Computers and media have their usefullness, but perhaps we should show them as a tool and not an overall solution to everything.
But its just a suggestion.