It was trivial to obtain a cracked 3.1 reader that had disabled security. I had to do it once because I forgot the password I'd set myself! I assume It wouldn't be too hard for an updated reader. Of course, most PDF's you read are still 3.x comptatible, so it wouldn't matter.
Man is *ANYONE* doing client server anymore? There isn't any in my neck of the woods. ALL the jobs listed are for web development. All of my friends who have jobs are doing web development. I just checked last sundays classifieds and there was no developer job listed that wasn't web development.
they have some really great, light hockey sticks. They are expensive. One piece Easton Synergy's are awesome. I've tried one at the rink. but $150 for a one-piece stick. Ouch. Breaking that is painful. See the playoffs and all those broken sticks? I do use a $35 carbon blade on my stick. It improved my slap shot considerably and weighs about half as much as a wooden/abs blade.
Well, I wrote a VB app that did this, so I know it is possible. ADO is pretty database-agnostic (although there are some special SQL server techniques). I've personally written an app which just had an ODBC source setup with the common name using OLEDB provider for ODBC. It could use just about any relational db with an OLE db driver. I personally supported customers who used Pervasive SQL, SQL Server, an old Oracle version, and Access (ugh!).
I did have to use connection.supports to do a few tests at run time to see if certain options were supported that were faster, but it was only in a few cases and I could have left it off if I wanted to.
Also, couldn't you do this with a plain-jane JDBC implementation in Java? I'm pretty new to Java, so I could be wrong...
we've got about $2 million worth of Sun hardware about 15 feet from me at the gov agency I'm contracting at. This is for running databases and web apps for a user base of a few hundred users.
My cat sure thinks so, laying on top of the monitor is his favorite spot. He likes to use by wireless router/firewall as a pillow to rest his head on. It's hysterical.
a perfect example of how partisan, rancorous our political world in the U.S. has become. You basically have to lie and take extreme positions just to be heard and "sway the debate"
You are following the letter of the law, not the spirit. If XP home would have sufficed, but you needed XP pro's features for business use, write off the cost of the upgrade.
that was going to be my post. As a former newspaper guy, it seems to be the most surprising thing I tell people. Most often, not only did you have ZERO input on the headline, if you were a daytime reporter, it probably wasn't even written until several hours after you left work.
My first real programming job, one of my first assignments was figuring out how come the quarterly sales figures didn't jibe with the monthlies and the yearlies didn't jibe with the quarterlies (sum of monthly numbers > quarter, sum of quarters > year).
Finally realized (looking at the audit tables generated by a sql trigger) that the VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES was entering a bunch of sales at the end of the month, "booking" them for the monthly report run, the "unbooking" them after the run, and eventually cancelling them. The cancels were eventually picked up on the next month's report, but the system didn't back-adjust and rerun the old month report.
This made the VP look great, although he had to get nervous because every month he had to book enough fake orders to cancel last months back charge, plus the amount he wanted to pad this month (for some asinine reason, the cancels didn't carry forward from month to month, only the previous month). BUT, the quarterly reran ALL the numbers again (it didn't just total the months), so the numbers didn't fit. Anyway, he got nice monthly bonuses.
Anyway, I had to go to my boss and show him the stuff. I was real nervous, I'd been in this position about two months and was presenting evidence of the VP engaging in fraud. The funny part? Nothing happened to him. Nothing at all (although we fixed the system). My boss said he was told it couldn't be "proven" to be him and he claimed he didn't do it. He said 'several people have my login" (smart, real smart!). Anyway, the rich get richer. I always' wondered if his bonuses got docked?
Lately my obsession is "hacking" my house. Home improvement. Plumbing, electrical, masonry, etc. Right now I'm building a workshop so I'll have a place to put all my woodworking stuff.
I love it, and it's a hobby that saves me money. I recently bought a gas range to replace our old electrical for my wife. I humoured her on the installation (which consisted of running an entire 8 feet of gas pipe and one little electrical circut), because she didn't want me "messing with gas" -- right up until we got three quotes and none were less than $350. I did it myself for $30-$40 in supplies and three hours work.
In the same boat. I had no problems with TaxCut, and it was cheaper, and the conversion will be even easier to use next year, when I don't have to go thru the TurboTax data conversion. Intuit lost me (and my family members, who I warned in advance not to use it). Nice business decision there, guys:)
ASP isn't a language. You can use any number of scripting languages with it. Of course, most are done in VBScript, but many folks use JScript (javascript), because it is what they use for the client side script.
I think the accountability vs. blame thing is a good point. Most times, when people say "accountability" they really mean "blame", and you can ALWAYS blame Microsoft, but the only way to make Microsoft accountable is for the community of users to howl (I'm talk ing the mass, not the geeks), and that's pretty rare.
But in the business world, it's perfectly acceptable to blame microsoft for a problem and this is accepted at face value, even when it is a system administrator or programmer's fault. People LIKE having someone to blame and with Linux, they usually have no one but themselves. Just a quick anecdote, when Code Red came out, I was in charge of 1 server among about 15 we had (because I coded a piece of server software and we "ate our own dog food" with the beta releases by using it as our phone system.) My server, of course, had been patched because the patch had been out for MONTHS. Plus, I had used the IIS lockdown tool and followed the "best practices for IIS security" whitepaper from the Microsoft site which involved simple things like moving the wwwroot to a non-standard directory, etc. Anyway, the four other servers we had were all compromised. Our sysadmin promptly blamed Microsoft and I had to call him on it. It was incompetence, pure and simple. But the only reason he was called to task was because there was an uncompromised server the mere "programmer" was in charge of, otherwise management would have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
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Ok, you said this isn't a troll. I don't live in Tulsa (Norman), but what the hey.
1: People aren't self-pretentious aholes, like in California and Colorado (I've been to both of those places). For instance, I have trouble driving in those places because when I am mergining onto a highway of course I EXPECT people to get over a clear a lane if they can. That's what people do here. If my house is knocked down by a tornado (slim chance. You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning) I KNOW my neighbors will put me up, give me money to get back on my feet, of course it goes without saying that my job will give me paid leave until I am ready to go back.
2: Stuff is cheap. I liked San Diego ok, but I would pay $250,000 for a shack. I live in a steep real estate market (Norman campus), and paid less than 80k for a 1300 sf house on a cul-de-sac.
3: It's home. I've been all over, other countries. I like it here. Hell, if I lived in Florida and a hurricane is coming on your coast you KNOW your house is gonna get damaged. You never really addressed the parent poster's point that relatively speaking, danger is low from tornadoes. Even property damage is low. If you are posting from California, I'd wager you have a 100x chance of suffering economic damage due to an earthquake than I do from a tornado.
amen....BUT it's a great tool for getting really expensive consulting jobs.. I used to work at a place that pretty much, their entire business consisted of going into places that had some slapped together system of access, vb, etc, that ran their business and the dude who did it either left or couldn't add the features they wanted or couldn't make it fast enough/stop crashing 10 times a day or all of the above.
Man, that place made a boatload. not that the above tools are horrible (each has it's place, and we usually stuck to vb with a more robust db on the backend to salvage some code), but these places thought nothing of paying thousands of dollars to get an electrician to wire their new plant but let the "genius uncle" design the accounting and manufacturing control software!
I learned more in the six months I did that job. I learned how to comment code. How to make readable code. and what NOT to do. Everyone should have to be a legacy programmer for six months.
I know another guy who has been paid $55 an hour for going on a year doing NOTHING except documenting the network topology of a fortune 1000 company. They have 0 documentation and no logic to the design as it has "grown". He's found servers they never knew they had, hidden away in a closet somewhere. Their System administrator for the last 10 years? Ex-salesman who "tinkered with computers".
UMMM.. I'm too lazy to read thru the comments, so maybe someone else has already said this, but did you ever just use vbscripts (or some other scripting language installed that uses the wscript host, like jscript or even activePerl) and just use scripts to set it up? I had to do this for an installer for a server product that needed several web roots set up in highly specific ways (including permissions, virtual roots, etc.). Like using any other com objects, you had to spend a day or two with the objects to get used to the object model they were using, but it wasn't too bad.
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It was trivial to obtain a cracked 3.1 reader that had disabled security. I had to do it once because I forgot the password I'd set myself! I assume It wouldn't be too hard for an updated reader. Of course, most PDF's you read are still 3.x comptatible, so it wouldn't matter.
... web app ghetto?
Man is *ANYONE* doing client server anymore? There isn't any in my neck of the woods. ALL the jobs listed are for web development. All of my friends who have jobs are doing web development. I just checked last sundays classifieds and there was no developer job listed that wasn't web development.
they have some really great, light hockey sticks. They are expensive. One piece Easton Synergy's are awesome. I've tried one at the rink. but $150 for a one-piece stick. Ouch. Breaking that is painful. See the playoffs and all those broken sticks? I do use a $35 carbon blade on my stick. It improved my slap shot considerably and weighs about half as much as a wooden/abs blade.
Well, I wrote a VB app that did this, so I know it is possible. ADO is pretty database-agnostic (although there are some special SQL server techniques). I've personally written an app which just had an ODBC source setup with the common name using OLEDB provider for ODBC. It could use just about any relational db with an OLE db driver. I personally supported customers who used Pervasive SQL, SQL Server, an old Oracle version, and Access (ugh!).
I did have to use connection.supports to do a few tests at run time to see if certain options were supported that were faster, but it was only in a few cases and I could have left it off if I wanted to.
Also, couldn't you do this with a plain-jane JDBC implementation in Java? I'm pretty new to Java, so I could be wrong...
we've got about $2 million worth of Sun hardware about 15 feet from me at the gov agency I'm contracting at. This is for running databases and web apps for a user base of a few hundred users.
so... have you ever ran a scanner test to wake him up? My cat slept on the scanner one day and I did that. freaked him out.
Wouldn't a monitor provide a lot of heat too?
My cat sure thinks so, laying on top of the monitor is his favorite spot. He likes to use by wireless router/firewall as a pillow to rest his head on. It's hysterical.
a perfect example of how partisan, rancorous our political world in the U.S. has become. You basically have to lie and take extreme positions just to be heard and "sway the debate"
You are following the letter of the law, not the spirit. If XP home would have sufficed, but you needed XP pro's features for business use, write off the cost of the upgrade.
that was going to be my post. As a former newspaper guy, it seems to be the most surprising thing I tell people. Most often, not only did you have ZERO input on the headline, if you were a daytime reporter, it probably wasn't even written until several hours after you left work.
My first real programming job, one of my first assignments was figuring out how come the quarterly sales figures didn't jibe with the monthlies and the yearlies didn't jibe with the quarterlies (sum of monthly numbers > quarter, sum of quarters > year).
Finally realized (looking at the audit tables generated by a sql trigger) that the VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES was entering a bunch of sales at the end of the month, "booking" them for the monthly report run, the "unbooking" them after the run, and eventually cancelling them. The cancels were eventually picked up on the next month's report, but the system didn't back-adjust and rerun the old month report.
This made the VP look great, although he had to get nervous because every month he had to book enough fake orders to cancel last months back charge, plus the amount he wanted to pad this month (for some asinine reason, the cancels didn't carry forward from month to month, only the previous month). BUT, the quarterly reran ALL the numbers again (it didn't just total the months), so the numbers didn't fit. Anyway, he got nice monthly bonuses.
Anyway, I had to go to my boss and show him the stuff. I was real nervous, I'd been in this position about two months and was presenting evidence of the VP engaging in fraud. The funny part? Nothing happened to him. Nothing at all (although we fixed the system). My boss said he was told it couldn't be "proven" to be him and he claimed he didn't do it. He said 'several people have my login" (smart, real smart!). Anyway, the rich get richer. I always' wondered if his bonuses got docked?
... you mean all that stuff no one does, but everyone says you should? I've been a programmer 9 years and never had a code review.
I brew beer too (although not as much lately).
Lately my obsession is "hacking" my house. Home improvement. Plumbing, electrical, masonry, etc. Right now I'm building a workshop so I'll have a place to put all my woodworking stuff.
I love it, and it's a hobby that saves me money. I recently bought a gas range to replace our old electrical for my wife. I humoured her on the installation (which consisted of running an entire 8 feet of gas pipe and one little electrical circut), because she didn't want me "messing with gas" -- right up until we got three quotes and none were less than $350. I did it myself for $30-$40 in supplies and three hours work.
where? link?
zero setback? When I have no control over what idiot moves next door? No thank you, I was my 12 feet, thanks.
In the same boat. I had no problems with TaxCut, and it was cheaper, and the conversion will be even easier to use next year, when I don't have to go thru the TurboTax data conversion. Intuit lost me (and my family members, who I warned in advance not to use it). Nice business decision there, guys :)
yeah. 90% of the time, when people say ASP, they mean VBscript, because most ASP is written in VBScript.
ASP isn't a language. You can use any number of scripting languages with it. Of course, most are done in VBScript, but many folks use JScript (javascript), because it is what they use for the client side script.
I think the accountability vs. blame thing is a good point. Most times, when people say "accountability" they really mean "blame", and you can ALWAYS blame Microsoft, but the only way to make Microsoft accountable is for the community of users to howl (I'm talk
ing the mass, not the geeks), and that's pretty rare.
But in the business world, it's perfectly acceptable to blame microsoft for a problem and this is accepted at face value, even when it is a system administrator or programmer's fault. People LIKE having someone to blame and with Linux, they usually have no one but themselves. Just a quick anecdote, when Code Red came out, I was in charge of 1 server among about 15 we had (because I coded a piece of server software and we "ate our own dog food" with the beta releases by using it as our phone system.) My server, of course, had been patched because the patch had been out for MONTHS. Plus, I had used the IIS lockdown tool and followed the "best practices for IIS security" whitepaper from the Microsoft site which involved simple things like moving the wwwroot to a non-standard directory, etc. Anyway, the four other servers we had were all compromised. Our sysadmin promptly blamed Microsoft and I had to call him on it. It was incompetence, pure and simple. But the only reason he was called to task was because there was an uncompromised server the mere "programmer" was in charge of, otherwise management would have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
Ok, you said this isn't a troll. I don't live in Tulsa (Norman), but what the hey.
1: People aren't self-pretentious aholes, like in California and Colorado (I've been to both of those places). For instance, I have trouble driving in those places because when I am mergining onto a highway of course I EXPECT people to get over a clear a lane if they can. That's what people do here. If my house is knocked down by a tornado (slim chance. You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning) I KNOW my neighbors will put me up, give me money to get back on my feet, of course it goes without saying that my job will give me paid leave until I am ready to go back.
2: Stuff is cheap. I liked San Diego ok, but I would pay $250,000 for a shack. I live in a steep real estate market (Norman campus), and paid less than 80k for a 1300 sf house on a cul-de-sac.
3: It's home. I've been all over, other countries. I like it here. Hell, if I lived in Florida and a hurricane is coming on your coast you KNOW your house is gonna get damaged. You never really addressed the parent poster's point that relatively speaking, danger is low from tornadoes. Even property damage is low. If you are posting from California, I'd wager you have a 100x chance of suffering economic damage due to an earthquake than I do from a tornado.
I thought it was "Crack whore trainee"?
yeah, that's what we need, 'cause we all trust the military to do good science, right?
amen. ...BUT it's a great tool for getting really expensive consulting jobs.. I used to work at a place that pretty much, their entire business consisted of going into places that had some slapped together system of access, vb, etc, that ran their business and the dude who did it either left or couldn't add the features they wanted or couldn't make it fast enough/stop crashing 10 times a day or all of the above.
Man, that place made a boatload. not that the above tools are horrible (each has it's place, and we usually stuck to vb with a more robust db on the backend to salvage some code), but these places thought nothing of paying thousands of dollars to get an electrician to wire their new plant but let the "genius uncle" design the accounting and manufacturing control software!
I learned more in the six months I did that job. I learned how to comment code. How to make readable code. and what NOT to do. Everyone should have to be a legacy programmer for six months.
I know another guy who has been paid $55 an hour for going on a year doing NOTHING except documenting the network topology of a fortune 1000 company. They have 0 documentation and no logic to the design as it has "grown". He's found servers they never knew they had, hidden away in a closet somewhere. Their System administrator for the last 10 years? Ex-salesman who "tinkered with computers".
seems a natural. They are ALL about java these days. Plus, they could see pre-configured servers.
UMMM.. I'm too lazy to read thru the comments, so maybe someone else has already said this, but did you ever just use vbscripts (or some other scripting language installed that uses the wscript host, like jscript or even activePerl) and just use scripts to set it up? I had to do this for an installer for a server product that needed several web roots set up in highly specific ways (including permissions, virtual roots, etc.). Like using any other com objects, you had to spend a day or two with the objects to get used to the object model they were using, but it wasn't too bad.