Peachtree was awesome when it was just Peachtree. Then Best bought 'em to flesh out the low end of the MAS90/MAS200 system. I have NO idea what Sage is doing to screw the pooch now... But Sage Software in general sucks. Don't even get me started on SalesLogix... The MAS90 entry fee is $20K US. It's open, but there's a price to pay. There's no middle ground between that and closed PeachTree.
What matters to me the open-ness of my "platform". That means that my data in my accounting app isn't locked tighter than Fort Knox. Like my current Peachtree setup (Old PCA Classic Btrieve dbs). It means that I can have good software, and when my needs no longer match the functionality of my software, there's nothing stopping me from building tools to extend it. Right now, I cannot integrate Peachtree Complete 12 with my webstore in real time. Not possible. I'm stuck doing nightly inventory reports and order imports to keep things flowing, and I don't generate enough business to justify a $10,000 investment in MAS90 just so I can have 80 ship to addresses for my Wal*Mart distribution centers.
There is, but last I heard it's spotty and not ready for prime-time (Jan timeframe). I've yet to experiment with it, but I have a VMware guest at home all prepped to do so.
I use a pair of 250GB drives with RAID1 and LVM. I was once burnt when my Promise SuperTrak failed, and left me high and dry. Turns out I also had a bad disk too, so off to software RAID I went. I don't need the throughput, but when my disks fail, I absolutely need to get to it.
Which is why the market invented RAID6. Instead of having to rebuild your dead "parity drive" as in RAID5, you can use that hot-spare to hold another live copy of your "parity data", so that your RAID volume can suffer 2 disk failures and still be safe.
I've lost two volumes (600GB+) lately because a second disk in a RAID5 set failed before the replacement or the hotspare could regenerate the lost information.
Having disk arrays of more than 4 disks without RAID6 is needlessly risking your data today, IMHO, assuming your RAID controllers support it (which is rare).
Well, I just lost two this morning. Two disks of a 4 disk RAID5 set.
Complacency and "It'll Never Happen To Me" will result in some very stinky gooey egg on your face someday. I've lost more than I care to remember. Some gave some indication that they were failing. Others just died.
Philosophically and pragmatically, I am not opposed to GUI configuration utilities. What I am opposed to are GUIs that turn my beautiful text files into unreadable, undebuggable crap.
That's all. Once people have GUIs in place, I've found they tend to like moving to serializable data, or something that reduces the amount of text processing and validation they have to do and ruin the simplicity of the text config file.
I have a USB install of a rescue system that can repair my Apache/Postgres/Mysql server. I cannot necessarily say the same of my Oracle system.
From my stint playing with Progress, I'd have to agree with you. 4GL makes data manipulation easy enough my father could get away with it. The troublewith Progress is the dearth of 3rd-party tools that would make it a true contender in the RDBMS space. As it is, it's fairly well consigned to integrated/embedded db space (somewhat like my favorite dbms, ObjectStore), and it's SQL support, last I checked, was both horribly slow and not nearly SQL-92 compliant. On the upside, the Progress purchase of Merant/Data Direct just prior to my layoff was one of the best strategic moves I think Progress had made to date (certainly better than the eXcelon purchase which brought me to Progress in the first place). Smart objects (adm2) seemed like a poor attempt at checking off "object oriented" on a marketing checklist, something I think the PRGS management hopes Datadirect can fix with.Net.
Keep an eye on them long term. IIRC, PRGS was one of only a handful of Boston based tech firms that made money nearly every quarter since the dot-bomb.
There's a decent command line tool called SVK that front-ends to Subversion HTTP repositories. There's a great GUI front-end to SVN called TortoiseSVN that integrates nicely with Explorer. If TortoiseSVN could eventually talk SVK then that would solve all my remote document/fileserving needs.
Local offline cached version controlled repositories, with a centralized SVN or HTTP master for the entire workgroup to use. It's a minor change in workflow, but the benefits in reliability and accountability are tremendous.
At the moment I suffer with the commandline client.
Wrong. Microsoft will not change until the ISVs who make Windows successful flee elsewhere because Microsoft has come to dominate every software industry imaginable and put them out of business.
And then it will be too late.
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When will windows finally allow user impersonation? I'm tired of having to change user passwords to properly prep a laptop with domain accounts for my field sales people. I certainly can't figure out a better way to do it that's painless for THEM.
What you are seeing is a halo effect common to mirrored lenses. I'm not sure if the cause is extra reflections from the primary or secondary mirror or both, but you wouldn't get that effect from a refracting telescope (which most major observatories are not).
I'm pretty sure that *ANY* star is at infinity to an earth-made telescope. It's a simple matter of focal length to lense diameter, and we got REALLY SMALL lenses.
You're solving the problem with the wrong solution. An OS should be able to implement sandboxes natively, we shouldn't need to rely on a VM to do it for us. Unix started this with chroot(), and has evolved into the capabilities model of SeLinux and Solaris Zones.
As my truck-driving roommate would say, "Relying on your wheel brakes to stop your rig is a surefire way of killing the kids in the back of that SUV. Use your engine brake."
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Recall, it isn't Linksys but Cisco making these changes.
Peachtree was awesome when it was just Peachtree. Then Best bought 'em to flesh out the low end of the MAS90/MAS200 system. I have NO idea what Sage is doing to screw the pooch now... But Sage Software in general sucks. Don't even get me started on SalesLogix... The MAS90 entry fee is $20K US. It's open, but there's a price to pay. There's no middle ground between that and closed PeachTree.
What matters to me the open-ness of my "platform". That means that my data in my accounting app isn't locked tighter than Fort Knox. Like my current Peachtree setup (Old PCA Classic Btrieve dbs). It means that I can have good software, and when my needs no longer match the functionality of my software, there's nothing stopping me from building tools to extend it. Right now, I cannot integrate Peachtree Complete 12 with my webstore in real time. Not possible. I'm stuck doing nightly inventory reports and order imports to keep things flowing, and I don't generate enough business to justify a $10,000 investment in MAS90 just so I can have 80 ship to addresses for my Wal*Mart distribution centers.
And 128bit vector mathematics have been parts of numerous general purpose and embedded processors for years. This is a non-issue.
There is, but last I heard it's spotty and not ready for prime-time (Jan timeframe). I've yet to experiment with it, but I have a VMware guest at home all prepped to do so.
I use a pair of 250GB drives with RAID1 and LVM. I was once burnt when my Promise SuperTrak failed, and left me high and dry. Turns out I also had a bad disk too, so off to software RAID I went. I don't need the throughput, but when my disks fail, I absolutely need to get to it.
Which is why the market invented RAID6. Instead of having to rebuild your dead "parity drive" as in RAID5, you can use that hot-spare to hold another live copy of your "parity data", so that your RAID volume can suffer 2 disk failures and still be safe.
I've lost two volumes (600GB+) lately because a second disk in a RAID5 set failed before the replacement or the hotspare could regenerate the lost information.
Having disk arrays of more than 4 disks without RAID6 is needlessly risking your data today, IMHO, assuming your RAID controllers support it (which is rare).
Well, I just lost two this morning. Two disks of a 4 disk RAID5 set.
Complacency and "It'll Never Happen To Me" will result in some very stinky gooey egg on your face someday. I've lost more than I care to remember. Some gave some indication that they were failing. Others just died.
As an aside, what quad port card are you using that would be cheaper than a 24 port gig-e switch with vlan capabilities?
What the hell do you expect from the home of the Bastard Operator From Hell? Cookies and a coupla pints?
I'm sorry, I was asleep by then... care to explain?
As if giving birth traumatically to Force-gifted twins wouldn't be enough to imprint on an impressionable young mind...
Hmm... some not-so-definitive information:p ?p=30167&rl=1
http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.as
Philosophically and pragmatically, I am not opposed to GUI configuration utilities. What I am opposed to are GUIs that turn my beautiful text files into unreadable, undebuggable crap.
That's all. Once people have GUIs in place, I've found they tend to like moving to serializable data, or something that reduces the amount of text processing and validation they have to do and ruin the simplicity of the text config file.
I have a USB install of a rescue system that can repair my Apache/Postgres/Mysql server. I cannot necessarily say the same of my Oracle system.
From my stint playing with Progress, I'd have to agree with you. 4GL makes data manipulation easy enough my father could get away with it. The troublewith Progress is the dearth of 3rd-party tools that would make it a true contender in the RDBMS space. As it is, it's fairly well consigned to integrated/embedded db space (somewhat like my favorite dbms, ObjectStore), and it's SQL support, last I checked, was both horribly slow and not nearly SQL-92 compliant. On the upside, the Progress purchase of Merant/Data Direct just prior to my layoff was one of the best strategic moves I think Progress had made to date (certainly better than the eXcelon purchase which brought me to Progress in the first place). Smart objects (adm2) seemed like a poor attempt at checking off "object oriented" on a marketing checklist, something I think the PRGS management hopes Datadirect can fix with .Net.
Keep an eye on them long term. IIRC, PRGS was one of only a handful of Boston based tech firms that made money nearly every quarter since the dot-bomb.
Actually, I do. I run my own mailserver, and set the rules for managing spam. I delete 15-20 a day, and I haven't even tuned the system yet.
If getting a few extra spam a day is the price I pay to get important information from everyone when necessary, then that's the price I'll pay.
-Chris
There's a decent command line tool called SVK that front-ends to Subversion HTTP repositories. There's a great GUI front-end to SVN called TortoiseSVN that integrates nicely with Explorer. If TortoiseSVN could eventually talk SVK then that would solve all my remote document/fileserving needs.
Local offline cached version controlled repositories, with a centralized SVN or HTTP master for the entire workgroup to use. It's a minor change in workflow, but the benefits in reliability and accountability are tremendous.
At the moment I suffer with the commandline client.
Wrong. Microsoft will not change until the ISVs who make Windows successful flee elsewhere because Microsoft has come to dominate every software industry imaginable and put them out of business.
And then it will be too late.
When will windows finally allow user impersonation? I'm tired of having to change user passwords to properly prep a laptop with domain accounts for my field sales people. I certainly can't figure out a better way to do it that's painless for THEM.
What you are seeing is a halo effect common to mirrored lenses. I'm not sure if the cause is extra reflections from the primary or secondary mirror or both, but you wouldn't get that effect from a refracting telescope (which most major observatories are not).
I'm pretty sure that *ANY* star is at infinity to an earth-made telescope. It's a simple matter of focal length to lense diameter, and we got REALLY SMALL lenses.
Or the simplest explanation of them all, he never "left" the Matrix.
You're solving the problem with the wrong solution. An OS should be able to implement sandboxes natively, we shouldn't need to rely on a VM to do it for us. Unix started this with chroot(), and has evolved into the capabilities model of SeLinux and Solaris Zones.
Repeat after me, there is NO SUCH THING as BAD ADVERTISING.
Example:
The Dell Kid
The "Can you Hear me Know?" Guy
Make 7*Up Yours
As my truck-driving roommate would say, "Relying on your wheel brakes to stop your rig is a surefire way of killing the kids in the back of that SUV. Use your engine brake."
Burning calories == burning calories, no matter how you do it.
Building obscene muscle-mass is an entirely different beast, and only a few people truly want to do this.