I receive CRN magazine which is an ad engine/fluff rag for Channel managers. Number One criteria for 'Top Product' is potential for 'profit maximization'. Need I say more.
Vista will make channels a barrel of money which history has proven does not a good OS make.
I have 7 kids (5-19, 5 boys 2 girls) 3 of which have been -- so far, identified as gifted by our local school board. Any parents out-there in \. world who have in the same boat she make Shockwave Ride by John Brunner required reading.
We (my wife and I ) do not trust our chldrens enrichment and life welfare to so called 'Gifted Guru's' especially those whose CV's include the creation of Reader Rabbit.
Perhaps suprisingly our local public school have been great at giving our kids a well rounded school experience.
As a Canadian I am curious as to the co-operation you receive (if any) from agencies outside the US? Specifically Canada but also internationally in general.
I am not sure what defines a spae power but in return for supplying Canadarm Canada receives about 2% of the total access time to the non-russian sections of ISS.
Chris Hadfield is a very cool guy. You may remember that he is the dude that took his guitar up to MIR, which I think was alot more interesting than that American women he took her smarties whoops I mean M and M's.
The ISS could not be built without the Canadarm. We as typical Canadians quitely create the infrastructure technology that make the big boys look good.
mitd -- Made in the Dark
Isn't Bob's PR great. I for one believe him. The curious thing is that he is speaking to a community for which RH 7.0 was never intended.
RH 7.0 was intended for the guy/gal standing in 'THE BIG ELECTRONICS EVERYTHING SUPERSTORE' looking for Linux Distro's that will restore their coolness factor. What do they see? Mandrake 7, SUSE 7, and Redhat 6.2. What are they gonna buy? Redhat has a high confidence level in their branding... don't they? Well maybe not, better bump that 6 to a 7 if only to hedge their bets.
Don't get me wrong the guy/gal mentioned above are not to be dismissed. They are the people laying down the cash that RH in part, feeds back to some the more important development folk in our community. And when the guy/gal show up on IRC buffuddled and bemused we will, if we are truly passionate about this religion called 'Linux/Open Source', point them to the updates and to Bob's letter.
mitd -- old fart coder, grey appears to be my favourite colour.
As a 20 year geek member of AA experience suggests that across the general population 1 in 10 people will have problems with addiction regardless of economics.
The only deference between well heeled technoids and the rest of us is Single Malt Scotch vs Thuderbird.
mitd -- Made in the Dark
grey, appears to be my favourite colour.
I have 6 kids (number 7 in Nov.) 2 - 14 years of age. The 14, 11, and 8 came and asked me to teach them how to program. I told them to meet me at the white board, and with the 'Camel' and 'Lama' books in hand we spent 3 awful hours trying teach/learn Perl.
At end of this totally unsatisfying experience my 14 year said, "Dad we want to learn how to program, not how to use a programming language."
I, of course went immediately off to sulk. What was I going to do I was a geek dad who was failing my resposiblities as a parent, not say how I was letting down Larry, Tom, CmdrTaco etc. But then I began to think back to how I learned the Black Art way back while the earth was still cooling. Then it came to me like a flash.
The next day I reassembled the troops in the garage where I announced we where gonna take a hammer, a saw, some wood and nails and build ourselves a little table. But we were gonna write down all the steps leading to our finished product. After completing our table (and the list) we discussed our the steps we wrote down, do this, for each leg nail here, if wood too long cut here. You get the drift:).
Two months latter I sit a totally self satisfied dad. I have 14 year old writing Java programs with JBuilder, an 8 year old who is using Javascript in his webpages and god bless her an 11 year old daughter who just asked to borrow the Perl Cookbook. Oh yeah I also have a slightly cock-eyed, rather tippy little table.
Footnote: The hammer, nails... idea was in a the first book of programming I was ever given. It was published by SRI but I lost it 20 years ago:(.
Linux, unlike the 'other OSes' exposes its wide landscape to the new user.
I liken it to Christopher Columbus looking out and seeing land and saying, What do I do now? .
Like Christopher, the newbie usually just drops anchor at the first convenient landfall and hopes some natives appear to show him around and maybe give him a map. Of course this assumes that the locals are friendly and can speak the newbie s language. and hasgood maps.
Do we have good maps?
Do we speak their language?
Can we change the answer to Where doyou want to go today?
I believe we do and we can because we get the biggest kick when other folks can use our stuff.
It is uplifting to see the 'local' community rise to the occassion to fight what are really global issues of freedom.
As we see more of these global battles being fought in American courts we outside the US should be vigilant in supporting our Yankee comrades who fight the battle on our behalf.
mitd -- riding the north end of the elephants back.
There is a superb documentary produced by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called 'The Archaeology of the Internet'. The show includes interviews with some of the Netscape crew as well as many others. The CBC has generously posted the show on thier site. (RealAudio). So hunker down with some popcorn for an hour and take a great trip down memory lane. It can be found at: http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/shows/internet/ internet.ram (running time 54 mins.) mitd
King Gillette (Gillette razor fame) planned a Utopian like city based around the 'new' technology of hydro generated power.
A quick visit to the 'Falls' and you can see the results.
One of the first modern corporate towns was also attracted to the seemily unlimited supply of new technology. That town is known as Love, of love Canal fame.
Will 'our' new technology fair any better? The one common historical thread seems to be that the grand ideas were all egocentric, based on one mans vision. Perhaps because 'our' new technology can enhance the knowledge and power of the masses, we may see a collective force emerge pushing us to new Utopia. Then again we could just see more banner ads.
Excellent advice Sheldon, a few additional thoughts.
1. mySQL is fast and stable we have been running it for 6 months on a system averaging 80 - 100k transactions a week. The one problem is transactions specifically the lack of COMMIT and ROLLBACK. (app has to keep 8-10 tables to keep in sync per transaction). We ended up simulating COMMIT and ROLLBACK with perl plus DBI with no significant hit to performance.
2. Attaching Access frontends to mySQL is trivial. ODBC and away you go. As pointed out data migration, once schemas are migrated, is pretty easy.
3. Schemas can be the problem. There is no easy way (that we have discovered at least) to export schemas. This to date has been a 'by hand job' (excuse the pun:) ).
A few final ramblings:
We love linux/apache(mod_perl)/mySql for infrastructure problems. Access is a great little quick dirty tool for building Entry and Reporting screens for our MS wedded customers. (NOTE: we did just recently convince one client to re-equip their 12 person data entry dept with little penquins). We have started to use PostgreSQL for some more complex data problem spaces. The short term results have been very positive.
A similar thing happened to my 13 year old (then 10). My son was a award winning webmaster and designer and was to be interviewed on the floor of the Toronto version of COMDEX by a local TV station, but was denied access by show management.
The day was saved when the owner of the TV station (Moses Zaimner, City-TV for u local TO folks) himself and successfully got the RULES changed.
mitd
BTW, my kid is now a grade 8 student and works part for a game design shop... ahhhh I fell so old:(
We often spend alot of time discussing the vendor side of this equation and what he or she has to win or lose in the high stakes game of corporate software.
But what of the corparate software buyer, what does he or she have to lose turning to open solutions ?? Isn't the software cheaper... better.
Well I guess I'd miss the wining, dining and junkets to that little conference in the Caribbean. Never under-estimate the power of a few rounds of golf at Pebble Beach.
The answer is we of the open world need to add something... like 'Open Perks'!
Made in the Dark
First there was need, then specification, then a pair of tickets to the the Cetics game...
I am old enough to remember and its ok folks we can relax... Metcalfe's a hardware dude and we all know hardware dudes have trouble with stuff that works.
If I was a hardware dude I would continue to support W2kay too. For without software my shortcomings we turn and bite.... well... ME!.
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I receive CRN magazine which is an ad engine/fluff rag for Channel managers.
Number One criteria for 'Top Product' is potential for 'profit maximization'.
Need I say more.
Vista will make channels a barrel of money which history has proven does not a good OS make.
We (my wife and I ) do not trust our chldrens enrichment and life welfare to so called 'Gifted Guru's' especially those whose CV's include the creation of Reader Rabbit.
Perhaps suprisingly our local public school have been great at giving our kids a well rounded school experience.
As a Canadian I am curious as to the co-operation you receive (if any) from agencies outside the US? Specifically Canada but also internationally in general.
I am not sure what defines a spae power but in return for supplying Canadarm Canada receives about 2% of the total access time to the non-russian sections of ISS. Chris Hadfield is a very cool guy. You may remember that he is the dude that took his guitar up to MIR, which I think was alot more interesting than that American women he took her smarties whoops I mean M and M's. The ISS could not be built without the Canadarm. We as typical Canadians quitely create the infrastructure technology that make the big boys look good.
mitd -- Made in the Dark
Isn't Bob's PR great. I for one believe him. The curious thing is that he is speaking to a community for which RH 7.0 was never intended.
RH 7.0 was intended for the guy/gal standing in 'THE BIG ELECTRONICS EVERYTHING SUPERSTORE' looking for Linux Distro's that will restore their coolness factor. What do they see? Mandrake 7, SUSE 7, and Redhat 6.2. What are they gonna buy? Redhat has a high confidence level in their branding... don't they? Well maybe not, better bump that 6 to a 7 if only to hedge their bets.
Don't get me wrong the guy/gal mentioned above are not to be dismissed. They are the people laying down the cash that RH in part, feeds back to some the more important development folk in our community. And when the guy/gal show up on IRC buffuddled and bemused we will, if we are truly passionate about this religion called 'Linux/Open Source', point them to the updates and to Bob's letter.
mitd -- old fart coder, grey appears to be my favourite colour.
As a 20 year geek member of AA experience suggests that across the general population 1 in 10 people will have problems with addiction regardless of economics. The only deference between well heeled technoids and the rest of us is Single Malt Scotch vs Thuderbird. mitd -- Made in the Dark grey, appears to be my favourite colour.
Thats why its on my shelf and deserves a genre to itself.
ReBoot is not anime, at least not in my collection.
I have 6 kids (number 7 in Nov.) 2 - 14 years of age. The 14, 11, and 8 came and asked me to teach them how to program. I told them to meet me at the white board, and with the 'Camel' and 'Lama' books in hand we spent 3 awful hours trying teach/learn Perl.
:).
... idea was in a the first book of programming I was ever given. It was published by SRI but I lost it 20 years ago :(.
At end of this totally unsatisfying experience my 14 year said, "Dad we want to learn how to program, not how to use a programming language."
I, of course went immediately off to sulk. What was I going to do I was a geek dad who was failing my resposiblities as a parent, not say how I was letting down Larry, Tom, CmdrTaco etc. But then I began to think back to how I learned the Black Art way back while the earth was still cooling. Then it came to me like a flash.
The next day I reassembled the troops in the garage where I announced we where gonna take a hammer, a saw, some wood and nails and build ourselves a little table. But we were gonna write down all the steps leading to our finished product. After completing our table (and the list) we discussed our the steps we wrote down, do this, for each leg nail here, if wood too long cut here. You get the drift
Two months latter I sit a totally self satisfied dad. I have 14 year old writing Java programs with JBuilder, an 8 year old who is using Javascript in his webpages and god bless her an 11 year old daughter who just asked to borrow the Perl Cookbook. Oh yeah I also have a slightly cock-eyed, rather tippy little table.
Footnote:
The hammer, nails
Linux, unlike the 'other OSes' exposes
its wide landscape to the new user.
I liken it to Christopher Columbus
looking out and seeing land and saying, What do I do now? .
Like Christopher, the newbie usually
just drops anchor at the first
convenient landfall and hopes some
natives appear to show him around and
maybe give him a map. Of course this
assumes that the locals are friendly and
can speak the newbie s language. and hasgood maps.
Do we have good maps?
Do we speak their language?
Can we change the answer to Where doyou want to go today?
I believe we do and we can because we
get the biggest kick when other folks
can use our stuff.
Mitd
It is uplifting to see the 'local' community rise to the occassion to fight what are really global issues of freedom.
As we see more of these global battles being fought in American courts we outside the US should be vigilant in supporting our Yankee comrades who fight the battle on our behalf.
mitd -- riding the north end of the elephants back.
There is a superb documentary produced by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called 'The Archaeology of the Internet'. The show includes interviews with some of the Netscape crew as well as many others. The CBC has generously posted the show on thier site. (RealAudio). So hunker down with some popcorn for an hour and take a great trip down memory lane. It can be found at: http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/shows/internet/ internet.ram (running time 54 mins.) mitd
Recently I helped a group of senior citizens get wired. Looking at the wonder and excitement in their eyes I was reminded, "Its the USER stupid".
King Gillette (Gillette razor fame) planned a Utopian like city based around the 'new' technology of hydro generated power.
A quick visit to the 'Falls' and you can see the results.
One of the first modern corporate towns was also attracted to the seemily unlimited supply of new technology. That town is known as Love, of love Canal fame.
Will 'our' new technology fair any better? The one common historical thread seems to be that the grand ideas were all egocentric, based on one mans vision. Perhaps because 'our' new technology can enhance the knowledge and power of the masses, we may see a collective force emerge pushing us to new Utopia. Then again we could just see more banner ads.
Made in the Dark -- mitd@mitd.com
Excellent advice Sheldon, a few additional thoughts.
:) ).
1. mySQL is fast and stable we have been running it for 6 months on a system averaging 80 - 100k transactions a week. The one problem is transactions specifically the lack of COMMIT and ROLLBACK. (app has to keep 8-10 tables to keep in sync per transaction). We ended up simulating COMMIT and ROLLBACK with perl plus DBI with no significant hit to performance.
2. Attaching Access frontends to mySQL is trivial. ODBC and away you go. As pointed out data migration, once schemas are migrated, is pretty easy.
3. Schemas can be the problem. There is no easy way (that we have discovered at least) to export schemas. This to date has been a 'by hand job' (excuse the pun
A few final ramblings:
We love linux/apache(mod_perl)/mySql for infrastructure problems. Access is a great little quick dirty tool for building Entry and Reporting screens for our MS wedded customers. (NOTE: we did just recently convince one client to re-equip their 12 person data entry dept with little penquins). We have started to use PostgreSQL for some more complex data problem spaces. The short term results have been very positive.
mitd
A similar thing happened to my 13 year old (then 10). My son was a award winning webmaster and designer and was to be interviewed on the floor of the Toronto version of COMDEX by a local TV station, but was denied access by show management.
The day was saved when the owner of the TV station (Moses Zaimner, City-TV for u local TO folks) himself and successfully got the RULES changed.
mitd
BTW, my kid is now a grade 8 student and works part for a game design shop... ahhhh I fell so old:(
Strolled over to my bookshelf and randomly chose a half dozen algorithm oriented texts. Davids work appear's as major chapters in all of them.
It is sad that those that built the swings and see-saws in our playground are leaving us.
David you will be missed, but never forgotten.
mitd
"Just an old-fart coder"
We often spend alot of time discussing the vendor side of this equation and what he or she has to win or lose in the high stakes game of corporate software.
But what of the corparate software buyer, what does he or she have to lose turning to open solutions ?? Isn't the software cheaper... better.
Well I guess I'd miss the wining, dining and junkets to that little conference in the Caribbean. Never under-estimate the power of a few rounds of golf at Pebble Beach.
The answer is we of the open world need to add something... like 'Open Perks'!
Made in the Dark
First there was need, then specification, then a pair of tickets to the the Cetics game...
I am old enough to remember and its ok folks we can relax... Metcalfe's a hardware dude and we all know hardware dudes have trouble with stuff that works.
.... well ... ME!.
If I was a hardware dude I would continue to support W2kay too. For without software my shortcomings we turn and bite
Just another Old fart coder
Thats pronouned 'Dew-Cawww-tee'.
Interesting trivia David Cronenberg (Canada's finest Film Director) has been collecting Ducati bikes for over 20 years.
I still own a 1972 350 Desmo and lovingly reshim the cam rods every summer.