We use Documentum. www.documentum.com
Though this may be overkill for you as it is complete content management not just version control. Also it is expensive.
Looks like he did it to me, and the proof of his victory is all over the net. I don't see any way the sponsor of the challenge could weasel out of this one. I guess he's lucky Patrick was such a gracious winner.
-Mark
Why do we still have commercials anyway?
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Ok, I pay around 30 bucks a month for DirecTV (which I'm starting to see as a rip off),and then I pay again by having to watch mindless commercials that are suppossed to pay for the programming.
The way I see it I've already paid for the programming. I know there will be those that will make a distinction between paying for service and paying for programming but this only serves my point. We shouldn't have to pay twice for the same thing.
I think it's time that we did something away with commercials and demand at least the same level of service as we recieve now only without commercials.
In the early days of TV commercials had their place, TV was free so there had to be some way to finance it. Today TV is no longer free but we still have commercials???
-Mark
How about Slashdot (or some nice volunteers) doing a review of some of the main hosting companies out there, at least the ones that offer Apache/PHP/Mysql, doing some reviews and such, helping us all determine which is the best/worst for our paticular purpose. I am currently looking at several but I haven't found that one that is exactly what I need yet.
I'll soon be starting on a few volunteer sites. Community based projects all non-profit, so I neeed some space that is the closest thing to having my own box (SSH/phpmyadmn,etc) but is reasonably priced (read cheap).
I am currently using phpwebhosting.com for my personal home page but I'm thinking it may not be as great as I once thought it would be.
The problem is all our non-geek friends don't know how to use IRC and don't care to learn, most of mine say even ICQ is too hard to learn and cling to their familiar AOL IM. The only way to beat this is for someone to make a client that is as easy to use as AOL IM but uses an open protocol and then convince everyone to use it instead. Like I said unfortunatly I guess we do have to use Aim.
This is what I do, I have to keep windows around for IE, Dreamweaver, whatever else I need for creating, testing and maintaining my sites. But I ssh into my linux box (the one with the actual server on it) and do any real programming, tinkering and adjusting using vi. You can set up a mount point on the windows machine that points to your document root on your linux machine.
I do believe I will look into the VMware alternative though, if anyone could be nice enough to let me know if it is stable and what the pro's and con's are I would appreciate it.
I could free up another box then, maybe put that new mandrake on it.
I agree with the poster of the story, too bad but George Bush has already made it clear that he doesn't care about the Space Administration. It just goes to show how dumb people can be. I work for a NASA subcontractor and most of those guys actually voted for him. Can you imagine voting for a president who will strip your funding, go figure?
Now on the other hand if you work for Defense then you're not gonna have any problems with budgets.
Maybe we will make it through these 4 years and get someone in there who is a friend to science.
In order to install package XXX, Packages YYYY and ZZZ are needed.
Scanning for required packages.....
Packages not found, would you like to download and install these pacakges? Y
Downloading packages YYYY and ZZZ
Installing packages YYYY and ZZZ
Installing Package XXX
Done.
With a similar ease of use for uninstalls this would be perfect. I shouldn't have to know or even care what packages I need to install it should just all happen automatically.
I've used RPM a lot and deb a little. So far in my experience neither of them pulled this off consistantly.
I agree Netscape needs to just go away, but I still think there is room for competition (opera for example). Yesterday I spent the whole day trying to make a php application I had developed and tested using IE work on Netscape, I still can't get it to do the CSS right. I've given up on Netscape soon others will also. I'm tired of having to code around it. I'm no big fan of $MS but at least their browser works.
The real problem with Linux these days is its past, it's past being base on POSIX UNIX holds it down like a body in the lake wearing cement shoes. While I'm not totally sure this is the way to do it, (should nix X11 entirely), we have to give them some credit for trying to get rid of a big chunk of bottlenecks and weakensses apparent in the current versions of linux.
The GUI in linux sucks and always will until someone gets rid of X11 and XFree86. What they call it isn't important. What is important is the modernization of what I still think (even with all it's weaknesses) is the greatest OS. Get rid of all the old code and start working on the future.
Personally I use Linux for my server and do most of my web page development on Windows 2000. Why?
It's easy, I prefer Linux as an overall more stable operating system, especially for server use.
I do not like the current desktop solutions for Linux (though the new KDE is cool).
It is much easier to use Windows as all my best Web Developoment and Scripting IDEs are only available for Windows and I can just directly ftp my files to my Linux box or open an ssh window from my Windows PC.
I guess I'm saying they work well together, develop on Windows, serve and administer from Linux, at least until Linux gets a better desktop and more applications availability.
I think he is right, I know it will take time and I know it won't be easy but it is necessary, it is not a strenth but a weekness, imagine if all the effort put into so many different distros were focused on but one.
-Mark
They are only trying to trick the people who are talented enough to beat them into doing their R&D for them. Let them release the SDMI hardware, I won't buy it, no one will, and then it will all go away for a while.
The problem is the music industry needs a different business model, give up guys, go with advertising or corporate sponsorship or something that allows the music to be distributed freely without depriving the artist of what they deserve.
The free distribution of digital media is here to stay, nothing is gonna change that.
Just looks like the CDE I have on this Solaris box in the corner, maybe a few skins/themes but otherwise it looks the same.
Personally and it's just my opinion but I've never been a fan of the GTK widgets. Just don't look very nice to me. (not that QT is that much better). I'd like to see something that is fast, powerfull, easy to configure but also pretty and it doesn't necessarily have to be a Windows emulation.
Lots of people might hate me for this but how about a window manager that is also an X replacement.
I think that would be the way to go, X seems to be the biggest drain on my system resources and as we all know it is far from perfect.
How many of you support users at work? I mean ordinary users, non-tech types? It's hard enough to teach them how to change the desktop wallpaper or check their mail using Outlook. Do you really think they would get linux? I am 100% certain they would not. I love linux though I think it is in need of some major rewrites (X,standard window manager,etc) but Windows works better for the masses of non-tech employees who have to use a computer everyday at work. To some degree, I believe the direction Apple is going is the correct one. Combine the desktop ease of use of the Mac, with the proven reliabilitiy,stability and pure power of of Unix (Linux in our case) and you would have the uber os.
-Mark
I work for the Marshall Space Flight Documentation Repository - turning documents into pdfs is what we do.
There is a licence available for Acrobat Capture that does not have a per page cost, but it is expensive. Also there is a product called Alchemy that we use to convert practically any file into a pdf or any other type of file for that matter.
I know of the open source types too but I can't seem to sell those very well at work..
I agree 100% KDE is stable, I've yet to see a stable version of Gnome, and yes I've tried 1.2, it is more stable but GTK will never be as good as QT, end of story, and as for aesthetically more pleasing, please, Gnome never looks finished, and gives me a general feeling of being thrown together. (Different sized icons and such)This is just my opinion of course.
I work for a government contractor, I haven't been a professional programmer for very long now but I've always been a programmer. Where I work I mostly do simple shell scripts, perl, JavaScript and I'm trying to push some php in there. The problem I've found is that I am always working on so many different and varied things that I never get the chance to focus on one language.
I am a jack of all trades but a master of none.
I guess my goal is to be a master of at least one language, to have a specialty and though I don't care about what others think I would like to eventually be confident in my own programming ability and to be able to write a program to do a specific task off the top of my head, just like writing an email to a friend.
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We use Documentum. www.documentum.com
Though this may be overkill for you as it is complete content management not just version control. Also it is expensive.
-Mark
Looks like he did it to me, and the proof of his victory is all over the net. I don't see any way the sponsor of the challenge could weasel out of this one. I guess he's lucky Patrick was such a gracious winner. -Mark
Ok, I pay around 30 bucks a month for DirecTV (which I'm starting to see as a rip off),and then I pay again by having to watch mindless commercials that are suppossed to pay for the programming.
The way I see it I've already paid for the programming. I know there will be those that will make a distinction between paying for service and paying for programming but this only serves my point. We shouldn't have to pay twice for the same thing.
I think it's time that we did something away with commercials and demand at least the same level of service as we recieve now only without commercials.
In the early days of TV commercials had their place, TV was free so there had to be some way to finance it. Today TV is no longer free but we still have commercials??? -Mark
I have to agree, it was kind of cool at first but now it's getting extremely old.
How about Slashdot (or some nice volunteers) doing a review of some of the main hosting companies out there, at least the ones that offer Apache/PHP/Mysql, doing some reviews and such, helping us all determine which is the best/worst for our paticular purpose. I am currently looking at several but I haven't found that one that is exactly what I need yet.
I'll soon be starting on a few volunteer sites. Community based projects all non-profit, so I neeed some space that is the closest thing to having my own box (SSH/phpmyadmn,etc) but is reasonably priced (read cheap).
I am currently using phpwebhosting.com for my personal home page but I'm thinking it may not be as great as I once thought it would be.
Suggestions are welcome.
-Mark
The problem is all our non-geek friends don't know how to use IRC and don't care to learn, most of mine say even ICQ is too hard to learn and cling to their familiar AOL IM. The only way to beat this is for someone to make a client that is as easy to use as AOL IM but uses an open protocol and then convince everyone to use it instead. Like I said unfortunatly I guess we do have to use Aim.
This is what I do, I have to keep windows around for IE, Dreamweaver, whatever else I need for creating, testing and maintaining my sites. But I ssh into my linux box (the one with the actual server on it) and do any real programming, tinkering and adjusting using vi. You can set up a mount point on the windows machine that points to your document root on your linux machine.
I do believe I will look into the VMware alternative though, if anyone could be nice enough to let me know if it is stable and what the pro's and con's are I would appreciate it.
I could free up another box then, maybe put that new mandrake on it.
-Mark
I agree with the poster of the story, too bad but George Bush has already made it clear that he doesn't care about the Space Administration. It just goes to show how dumb people can be. I work for a NASA subcontractor and most of those guys actually voted for him. Can you imagine voting for a president who will strip your funding, go figure? Now on the other hand if you work for Defense then you're not gonna have any problems with budgets. Maybe we will make it through these 4 years and get someone in there who is a friend to science.
When I try to install a package, It should go something like this.
Installing Package XXX.......
Checking Dependancies......
In order to install package XXX, Packages YYYY and ZZZ are needed.
Scanning for required packages.....
Packages not found, would you like to download and install these pacakges? Y
Downloading packages YYYY and ZZZ
Installing packages YYYY and ZZZ
Installing Package XXX
Done.
With a similar ease of use for uninstalls this would be perfect. I shouldn't have to know or even care what packages I need to install it should just all happen automatically.
I've used RPM a lot and deb a little. So far in my experience neither of them pulled this off consistantly.
how did my post get moderated down to flamebait, I assure you it is not. I meant every word and was not in any way trying to provoke a fight. -Mark
I agree Netscape needs to just go away, but I still think there is room for competition (opera for example). Yesterday I spent the whole day trying to make a php application I had developed and tested using IE work on Netscape, I still can't get it to do the CSS right. I've given up on Netscape soon others will also. I'm tired of having to code around it. I'm no big fan of $MS but at least their browser works.
The real problem with Linux these days is its past, it's past being base on POSIX UNIX holds it down like a body in the lake wearing cement shoes. While I'm not totally sure this is the way to do it, (should nix X11 entirely), we have to give them some credit for trying to get rid of a big chunk of bottlenecks and weakensses apparent in the current versions of linux.
The GUI in linux sucks and always will until someone gets rid of X11 and XFree86. What they call it isn't important. What is important is the modernization of what I still think (even with all it's weaknesses) is the greatest OS. Get rid of all the old code and start working on the future.
-Mark
Maybe the mozilla guys could keep us geeks happy with a ad-free version of mozilla. Probably would be a better browser too. -Mark
It's easy, I prefer Linux as an overall more stable operating system, especially for server use.
I do not like the current desktop solutions for Linux (though the new KDE is cool).
It is much easier to use Windows as all my best Web Developoment and Scripting IDEs are only available for Windows and I can just directly ftp my files to my Linux box or open an ssh window from my Windows PC.
I guess I'm saying they work well together, develop on Windows, serve and administer from Linux, at least until Linux gets a better desktop and more applications availability.
Dreamweaver for Linux !!! Love to see that.
-Mark
I think he is right, I know it will take time and I know it won't be easy but it is necessary, it is not a strenth but a weekness, imagine if all the effort put into so many different distros were focused on but one. -Mark
The problem is the music industry needs a different business model, give up guys, go with advertising or corporate sponsorship or something that allows the music to be distributed freely without depriving the artist of what they deserve.
The free distribution of digital media is here to stay, nothing is gonna change that.
Personally and it's just my opinion but I've never been a fan of the GTK widgets. Just don't look very nice to me. (not that QT is that much better). I'd like to see something that is fast, powerfull, easy to configure but also pretty and it doesn't necessarily have to be a Windows emulation.
Lots of people might hate me for this but how about a window manager that is also an X replacement.
I think that would be the way to go, X seems to be the biggest drain on my system resources and as we all know it is far from perfect.
How many of you support users at work? I mean ordinary users, non-tech types? It's hard enough to teach them how to change the desktop wallpaper or check their mail using Outlook. Do you really think they would get linux? I am 100% certain they would not. I love linux though I think it is in need of some major rewrites (X,standard window manager,etc) but Windows works better for the masses of non-tech employees who have to use a computer everyday at work. To some degree, I believe the direction Apple is going is the correct one. Combine the desktop ease of use of the Mac, with the proven reliabilitiy,stability and pure power of of Unix (Linux in our case) and you would have the uber os. -Mark
I work for the Marshall Space Flight Documentation Repository - turning documents into pdfs is what we do.
There is a licence available for Acrobat Capture that does not have a per page cost, but it is expensive. Also there is a product called Alchemy that we use to convert practically any file into a pdf or any other type of file for that matter.
I know of the open source types too but I can't seem to sell those very well at work..
-Mark
I agree 100% KDE is stable, I've yet to see a stable version of Gnome, and yes I've tried 1.2, it is more stable but GTK will never be as good as QT, end of story, and as for aesthetically more pleasing, please, Gnome never looks finished, and gives me a general feeling of being thrown together. (Different sized icons and such)This is just my opinion of course.
It sounds like a great idea already but if you throw in PHP support too, it would be revolutionary. Either way I'm all for it.
Where I work I mostly do simple shell scripts, perl, JavaScript and I'm trying to push some php in there.
The problem I've found is that I am always working on so many different and varied things that I never get the chance to focus on one language.
I guess my goal is to be a master of at least one language, to have a specialty and though I don't care about what others think I would like to eventually be confident in my own programming ability and to be able to write a program to do a specific task off the top of my head, just like writing an email to a friend.