I suspect that all of the dark matter is still there, it’s just much better adapted to the background than the Caucasian matter. Happens often with some Zambian flatmates & myself.
WRT the Certification Training Program, maybe MySQL simply doesn't have the tonnes of crap piled onto it that Oracle or MS-SQL server typically do? In other words, maybe you only program Oracle or MS-SQL at a technical enough level if you're "certifiable?" (-:
Disclaimer: I spend a lot more time on PostgreSQL than MySQL, but know a few of MySQL's developers. It would take a specific and feindishly complex access situation for me to prefer (e.g.) MS-SQL to MySQL.
For the vast majority of single-use situations I prefer PostgreSQL but basically would be very happy using MySQL instead. PostgreSQL has a few more useful detail features but in most cases they don't make a substantial difference, and MySQL does things like going faster and using fewer resources, general properties which make it attractive beyond the mainstream things which it does exceptionally well.
Either of them are streets ahead of MS-SQL in terms of clear simplicity, and if you don't need Oracle's labrynthine complexity (and such cases generally speak more to poor project design than to any genuine need for complexity), then don't suffer from it. Sticking to MySQL or PostgreSQL also means that you don't have to work anywhere near as hard to port your app to a different database when that time comes. Oh, yes, and installing either is just an apt-get or urpmi away, rather than an epochal session involving either leagues of cryptic commands or massive insecurities or both. And you don't need to bow and scrape before intricate and/or overkill licence terms.
Tell me: What would make it NOT just like VB.Net with curly braces?
Probably making a VB to Ruby translator would just about do that. (-:
It's a frivolous-sounding comment, but think about the real advantages. You'd still have the same initial uphillness that you'd get from a VB6 to VB.NET translation, but after that MS couldn't dictate standards to you any more, & your code would intrinsically run on Mac, Linux, Solaris, DOS, BeOS, OS/2, name it as well as 'Doze.
Oh, yes, and for the first time in years, you'd truly enjoy programming again (-: leap, click:-)
Oh, double-yes, that would get you free entry to Rails, as well. The improvements in your effectiveness will stun & amaze you.
The only problem like this I've ever had with KMail (a KDE-based mail client) was with a Flash plugin which totally borked the web browsers. Yes, plural. Everything that had a Flash plugin died when pointed at this particular Telstra website. Some of them thoroughly enugh to require a KILL.
PDFs, DOCs et al all open jess fahrn through the appropriate helper application (xpdf/ghostview, OpenOffice, whatever).
OTOH, many Windows-centered customers have had machines & even entire networks trashed after opening the wrong email attachment. "Wrong" here is defined as "looks like a usual one, reads like a usual one... but ain't" rather than anything completely off-the-wall (although those, too are typically virus/spyware farms).
HTML is the least of your worries here; the concept of MS-Word opening attachments & stuff like that is a bit of a nightmare.
...although probably not the most-exciting totals-your-LAN smokes-your-box editions.
What does come across thoroughly is IE7's inability to use IMG-based form controls. I wonder what security measure trigger that little piece of helpfulness?
Translating to red gems make your debugging easy — as in, you can now do some in Ruby instead of burying your COBOL in printouts & holding a scrying glass up against the results.
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DVDs can still be watched via computers, but our little ones get by just fine without any TV shows of any kind.
Small Miss did watch “Bird Television” one morning for breakfast, by sliding the curtains wide & looking out into the front yard. That’s the one regression we’ve seen — & it was cute.
As well as power, you save a lot of space; not just for the box itself, but for the watching area.
TwinHead 15D. Cracked the case on the top edge of the lid, eventually killed the power socket.
TwinHead warrantied it. The warranty service was slow (took nearly a month) but the repairs were effective.
I drop the thing about monthly, typically off a chair onto the floor & while running. It runs Mandriva Linux 2007.0 well enough, except that sometimes the wireless card forgets to have an encryption key & forgets how to reinstall it again, & the mousepad is too easily made active (extra scrolling & clicks). I've never had a hard-disk failure, or a cover fall off, or anything like that. The batteries last about 20% longer under Linux than under the copy of XP that it shipped with.
Compared with a brand-X notebook (for example, a Gateway Solo), the ruggedness has probably been worth about four times the cost of the notebook to me. It travels well on aircraft & in cars.
Say your business has 300 users, you're suddenly looking at 150GB flat size for their email. Without any room for copying stuff around, any backups, file-tail losses, indexes, anything.
Now bump that to 2GB, and look down the throat of 600GB basic flat file sizes. And how fast is that going to get fragmented to pieces? If it's stored in mailboxes or the like, what happens to your server when two dozen users delete (or archive) a small corporate bulletin off the front of each of their 2GB mailboxes at once?
You're going to want competent RAID controllers just to keep up with the traffic, methinks.
Then your company takes over another floor of the building, and suddenly you're facing an 800GB starting size for your mailbox storage. You're going to find the resources to back this up, in a manageable fashion, from somewhere. I'd recommend RSyncing over a separate chunk of wire (so you don't snowball the LAN) & pushing the encrypted backups onto removable drives for the morning. Compressed, you might get away with 300GB drives.
It's also a pity that Vista is end-of-line for MS-Windows products.
Other than those two insignificant little points... yeah, that'd be right. (-:
Oh, yes, and ramping up MS-Exchange as application of the year? I guess that's because of all of MS-Word's zero-day vulnerabilities of late, because splitting up that incestuous mess of an alleged email manager into seprate products hardly qualifies it.
OpenOffice allows you to read & write MS-Word docs without having MS-Word. This has worked well for many of my customers, & they enjoy the PDF document production & the ability to recover many broken MS-Office documents simply by opening them in OpenOffice.
OpenOffice also runs on more platforms & is developing faster, & the docs are much easier to externally process (they’re basically ZIPped XHTML in a moderately sane format).
Oh, yes, and it’s much cheaper ($0 per seat) & you don’t have to watch out for time-bombs in the registration or anything like them.
And finally, I like it more. It’s not perfect, but things are generally arranged more sensibly, plus a lot more odd little corner cases are correctly (consistently) implemented.
I've had MS-Word vanish many times in mid-type on several customer machines.
To get OO-Writer to do the same, I have to be running a cruddy video driver for an odd card, & seg-fault Writer via that.
I alse regularly use & recommend Writer for recovering "broken" MS-Word documents.
On a number of occasions, I've had time-critical documents shipped from the US or UK arrive unreadable in MS-Office, but read & edit fine & dandy under OpemOffice. I also ship documents in several forms, & a few times have had the recipient recover text from a Writer PDF file and use it where the Word DOC file arrived broken.
I have not had an ODT document arrive broken, ever, and it's very rare for a Writer DOC to break.
This has scraped documents in closely under deadlines a number of times.
I don't see this safe method as being competed with by a pay-for system which has demonstrated its instability, and forces me to use another OS just to run it.
This srceen is asking me for a registration key. Dubya gee aye, it calls itself. Weapon's Geniunely As... oh, never mind. Does anyone know how to pray?
The US probably won't release it because the blue nackground colour & white bunches of hex numbers are so embarrassing.
They should send sr71.rb instead. They've got dozens of those Habus in museums. A tank of fuel, literally a couple of hours, and they're delivered. Just add a handful of light missiles to each (shells are too slow) and you're away!
Instead, use the opportunity to get more done with the same people.
Spreading the workload should imply that the people in MegaCorp can spend more time focussing on the solutions that MegaCorp wants, & less time with basic adaptation & repeated work like re-applying patches.
I often feel old, but that may be due to some maniac forcing me to headbutt a road at about 40km/h in February. The hospitals were both sure I was going to die, so I guess I’m in front there already. I get a new piece of Titanium strapped in on Wednesday, might be able to drive again a month later if all goes well.
I’m glad I follow the food hints, because I’ve eaten a few sugarly-heavy things since... & it felt lethal afterwards for a few hours.
That way you can be dealing more directly with the arthritis, which may allow you to game for much longer.
Eat everything as fresh as possible. Start with more calcium (dodge meat, the calcium & acid ratios suck). Sulfur-containing foods are helpful (asparagus, eggs, garlic, & onions) as they help calcium assimilation as well as repair in general, as is fresh pineapple for the bromelain in it. Stick to green, leafy vegetables, oatmeal, whole grains (especially for the Vitmain K). Add potatoes, lots of veggie juice, bananas, food with histidine (wheat, rye, rice), & some vitamins (B-12 & C, at least).
Avoid milk, fatty foods, salt, caffeine, anything really hot, tobacco, sugar & of course avoid meat as much as possible, since they all do nasty things to arthritic suffering. It helps to view arthritis as a class of diseases instead of just one way of suffering; what you’re trying to do here is axe the whole class.
If you can do that, a lot more than the games will benefit, but they’ll be amongst the first.
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That’d be more like “serious suck,” wouldn’t it?
Er... & isn’t MOND just like MONO only it O-D’ed?
I suspect that all of the dark matter is still there, it’s just much better adapted to the background than the Caucasian matter. Happens often with some Zambian flatmates & myself.
WRT the Certification Training Program, maybe MySQL simply doesn't have the tonnes of crap piled onto it that Oracle or MS-SQL server typically do? In other words, maybe you only program Oracle or MS-SQL at a technical enough level if you're "certifiable?" (-:
Disclaimer: I spend a lot more time on PostgreSQL than MySQL, but know a few of MySQL's developers. It would take a specific and feindishly complex access situation for me to prefer (e.g.) MS-SQL to MySQL.
For the vast majority of single-use situations I prefer PostgreSQL but basically would be very happy using MySQL instead. PostgreSQL has a few more useful detail features but in most cases they don't make a substantial difference, and MySQL does things like going faster and using fewer resources, general properties which make it attractive beyond the mainstream things which it does exceptionally well.
Either of them are streets ahead of MS-SQL in terms of clear simplicity, and if you don't need Oracle's labrynthine complexity (and such cases generally speak more to poor project design than to any genuine need for complexity), then don't suffer from it. Sticking to MySQL or PostgreSQL also means that you don't have to work anywhere near as hard to port your app to a different database when that time comes. Oh, yes, and installing either is just an apt-get or urpmi away, rather than an epochal session involving either leagues of cryptic commands or massive insecurities or both. And you don't need to bow and scrape before intricate and/or overkill licence terms.
Probably making a VB to Ruby translator would just about do that. (-:
It's a frivolous-sounding comment, but think about the real advantages. You'd still have the same initial uphillness that you'd get from a VB6 to VB.NET translation, but after that MS couldn't dictate standards to you any more, & your code would intrinsically run on Mac, Linux, Solaris, DOS, BeOS, OS/2, name it as well as 'Doze.
Oh, yes, and for the first time in years, you'd truly enjoy programming again (-: leap, click
Oh, double-yes, that would get you free entry to Rails, as well. The improvements in your effectiveness will stun & amaze you.
“There is sufficient light for those who desire to see, & there is sufficient darkness for those of a contrary disposition.”
That’s normally attributed to Pensees 149, but in all the lists of his Pensees, I see something differnet written. <shrug> it’s the one I like.
...because I find OpenOffice to be better at recovering broken MSO documents than MSO typically is.
"Broken," by the way, wasn't referring to envirussed documents, but that holds true as well. (-:
Oh, yeah, & you get to make PDFs without having to add more software.
The only problem like this I've ever had with KMail (a KDE-based mail client) was with a Flash plugin which totally borked the web browsers. Yes, plural. Everything that had a Flash plugin died when pointed at this particular Telstra website. Some of them thoroughly enugh to require a KILL.
PDFs, DOCs et al all open jess fahrn through the appropriate helper application (xpdf/ghostview, OpenOffice, whatever).
OTOH, many Windows-centered customers have had machines & even entire networks trashed after opening the wrong email attachment. "Wrong" here is defined as "looks like a usual one, reads like a usual one... but ain't" rather than anything completely off-the-wall (although those, too are typically virus/spyware farms).
HTML is the least of your worries here; the concept of MS-Word opening attachments & stuff like that is a bit of a nightmare.
...although probably not the most-exciting totals-your-LAN smokes-your-box editions.
What does come across thoroughly is IE7's inability to use IMG-based form controls. I wonder what security measure trigger that little piece of helpfulness?
...the "write once" has already been done.
Translating to red gems make your debugging easy — as in, you can now do some in Ruby instead of burying your COBOL in printouts & holding a scrying glass up against the results.
DVDs can still be watched via computers, but our little ones get by just fine without any TV shows of any kind.
Small Miss did watch “Bird Television” one morning for breakfast, by sliding the curtains wide & looking out into the front yard. That’s the one regression we’ve seen — & it was cute.
As well as power, you save a lot of space; not just for the box itself, but for the watching area.
TwinHead 15D. Cracked the case on the top edge of the lid, eventually killed the power socket.
TwinHead warrantied it. The warranty service was slow (took nearly a month) but the repairs were effective.
I drop the thing about monthly, typically off a chair onto the floor & while running. It runs Mandriva Linux 2007.0 well enough, except that sometimes the wireless card forgets to have an encryption key & forgets how to reinstall it again, & the mousepad is too easily made active (extra scrolling & clicks). I've never had a hard-disk failure, or a cover fall off, or anything like that. The batteries last about 20% longer under Linux than under the copy of XP that it shipped with.
Compared with a brand-X notebook (for example, a Gateway Solo), the ruggedness has probably been worth about four times the cost of the notebook to me. It travels well on aircraft & in cars.
...which translates like "fast droppers" because they sink so very fast when they dive into the water.
...who's shipping the bears between hemispheres?
Hey, hang on... maybe this is what Microsoft meant by "Containing^H^H^Hs our property"?
Say your business has 300 users, you're suddenly looking at 150GB flat size for their email. Without any room for copying stuff around, any backups, file-tail losses, indexes, anything.
Now bump that to 2GB, and look down the throat of 600GB basic flat file sizes. And how fast is that going to get fragmented to pieces? If it's stored in mailboxes or the like, what happens to your server when two dozen users delete (or archive) a small corporate bulletin off the front of each of their 2GB mailboxes at once?
You're going to want competent RAID controllers just to keep up with the traffic, methinks.
Then your company takes over another floor of the building, and suddenly you're facing an 800GB starting size for your mailbox storage. You're going to find the resources to back this up, in a manageable fashion, from somewhere. I'd recommend RSyncing over a separate chunk of wire (so you don't snowball the LAN) & pushing the encrypted backups onto removable drives for the morning. Compressed, you might get away with 300GB drives.
...an SR-71 ("Blackbird") can do that quite easily. In fact I think their trans-atlantic flight record was well under half the time you'd need.
Unfortunately, running your building on Jet8 fuel and streamlining it enough could be a bit frustrating.
It's also a pity that Vista is end-of-line for MS-Windows products.
Other than those two insignificant little points... yeah, that'd be right. (-:
Oh, yes, and ramping up MS-Exchange as application of the year? I guess that's because of all of MS-Word's zero-day vulnerabilities of late, because splitting up that incestuous mess of an alleged email manager into seprate products hardly qualifies it.
OpenOffice allows you to read & write MS-Word docs without having MS-Word. This has worked well for many of my customers, & they enjoy the PDF document production & the ability to recover many broken MS-Office documents simply by opening them in OpenOffice.
OpenOffice also runs on more platforms & is developing faster, & the docs are much easier to externally process (they’re basically ZIPped XHTML in a moderately sane format).
Oh, yes, and it’s much cheaper ($0 per seat) & you don’t have to watch out for time-bombs in the registration or anything like them.
And finally, I like it more. It’s not perfect, but things are generally arranged more sensibly, plus a lot more odd little corner cases are correctly (consistently) implemented.
Example.
I've had MS-Word vanish many times in mid-type on several customer machines.
To get OO-Writer to do the same, I have to be running a cruddy video driver for an odd card, & seg-fault Writer via that.
I alse regularly use & recommend Writer for recovering "broken" MS-Word documents.
On a number of occasions, I've had time-critical documents shipped from the US or UK arrive unreadable in MS-Office, but read & edit fine & dandy under OpemOffice. I also ship documents in several forms, & a few times have had the recipient recover text from a Writer PDF file and use it where the Word DOC file arrived broken.
I have not had an ODT document arrive broken, ever, and it's very rare for a Writer DOC to break.
This has scraped documents in closely under deadlines a number of times.
I don't see this safe method as being competed with by a pay-for system which has demonstrated its instability, and forces me to use another OS just to run it.
This srceen is asking me for a registration key. Dubya gee aye, it calls itself. Weapon's Geniunely As... oh, never mind. Does anyone know how to pray?
The US probably won't release it because the blue nackground colour & white bunches of hex numbers are so embarrassing.
They should send sr71.rb instead. They've got dozens of those Habus in museums. A tank of fuel, literally a couple of hours, and they're delivered. Just add a handful of light missiles to each (shells are too slow) and you're away!
Instead, use the opportunity to get more done with the same people.
Spreading the workload should imply that the people in MegaCorp can spend more time focussing on the solutions that MegaCorp wants, & less time with basic adaptation & repeated work like re-applying patches.
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
Err... no. It was actually an Atheist leader who reckoned that Euthanasia “might not be bad”.
Maybe next month? You might get one of the people from a Persian or Babylonian religion, who advocate human sacrifices for Christmas.
I never understand people getting all upset about other people capturing light which happens to have bounced of their body in a public space.
Evidently, you've not strolled around outside naked very much?
Your choice.
OBTW, I’m 44. I guess that makes me old.
I often feel old, but that may be due to some maniac forcing me to headbutt a road at about 40km/h in February. The hospitals were both sure I was going to die, so I guess I’m in front there already. I get a new piece of Titanium strapped in on Wednesday, might be able to drive again a month later if all goes well.
I’m glad I follow the food hints, because I’ve eaten a few sugarly-heavy things since... & it felt lethal afterwards for a few hours.
Yes, really.
That way you can be dealing more directly with the arthritis, which may allow you to game for much longer.
Eat everything as fresh as possible. Start with more calcium (dodge meat, the calcium & acid ratios suck). Sulfur-containing foods are helpful (asparagus, eggs, garlic, & onions) as they help calcium assimilation as well as repair in general, as is fresh pineapple for the bromelain in it. Stick to green, leafy vegetables, oatmeal, whole grains (especially for the Vitmain K). Add potatoes, lots of veggie juice, bananas, food with histidine (wheat, rye, rice), & some vitamins (B-12 & C, at least).
Avoid milk, fatty foods, salt, caffeine, anything really hot, tobacco, sugar & of course avoid meat as much as possible, since they all do nasty things to arthritic suffering. It helps to view arthritis as a class of diseases instead of just one way of suffering; what you’re trying to do here is axe the whole class.
If you can do that, a lot more than the games will benefit, but they’ll be amongst the first.