As someone who write code and manipulates the registry everday, I for one love it. Those who want to take the registry and produce a flat file out of it don't know what they are talking about. The registry is 100x more secure and robust than a flat file.
If the rest of you would prefer to have a million ini files instead of a branching registry, then more power to you. Because, remember, each key of the registy allows for NTFS permissions. So you would need a seperate file for each key in the registry if you want to allow for the same level of security.
Geez, what's next. Are you going to call up MS and say "The who idea of SQL databases sucks.. you should change that to a flatfile to so that I can use my text editor!".
Now yes, the registy has become very bloated. However, the reason is because everyone uses it. It's amazing how that works, isn't it? Big deal. I'd be willing to bet that most of you only use the HKLM\Software key or HKCU\Software key most the time anyway.
In my book, the registry is glorious. Being able to go to a single database'ish file pull nearly any system setting, many program setting (IE: program versions, install paths, etc), etc makes my life easy. And yes, I'm one of those people that store both plain text and encrypted data in the registry and also uses the NTFS type security to lock down keys in the registy.
I use the registry to share information between programs and I also use windows PIPE$ calls to relay information between programs. I suppose PIPE calls could be replaced with flat text files too. I suppose it's not long before someone says, 'PIPEs suck... use INI files'.
If you want to complain about some.. complain about all those annoying balloon pop ups from the system tray. I will agree with you there. Those little balloon tips are annoying. I hate ballons tips... and hippies.
It all comes down to Availability (Clustering) vs. Reliability (Fault Tolerant). They are NOT the same thing.
Fault tolerant servers are nice, even the simplest true server should offer some fault tolerance to a degree (IE: RAID drives). This is handy but may not help your availability in the event that you have a SLA promising xx% of uptime and then find yourself needing to take the server down to apply service packs or other patches.
Clustered servers allow you to increase the availability of your machines, because when you need to take one down for some updates, you can simply fail over all your traffic to the other server in the cluster accordingly. Clustering may increase the availability of the services those machines are offering, but it doesn't not help the reliability of the machines themselves.
Therefore, I personally choose to start with fault tolerant machines initially (RAID and dual power supplies at a minimum). It makes for a good base. If the services on that machine are 'mission critical', then cluster that machine with other fault tolerant machines.
....and for those people that may be working on a laptop and not have access to the web? Is AJAX still the solution?
Web based applications are nice... as long as you have a link to the web. Would you ever truely run a business where your entire business was dependant upon a link to the internet? I sure hope your link never goes down.
That's one of the issue we run into occasionally with Citrix. We have most our Citrix apps at HQ. Everything is fine until an outlying office has their link go down for whatever reason. Citrix, as with all web based apps, is useful for our mobile users. When they go to a client's office, they can't be gauranteed that every client will be able to give them access to the internet.
StarOffice 8 will be a 'MS Office Killer', about as much as firefox will be an 'IE Killer'.
There's a lot more to being a 'MS Office Killer' than just being able to view/edit Word documents and play with Macros. I know for my company, we have several apps that tie directly into Excel and actually require Excel (I work for a CPA firm). They could give StarOffice away for free, pay us to stop using MS Office, and even offer to install it to all of our PCs for us and it still wouldn't be enough. I suspect many other firms are in the same boat. I hasn't heard of any of our venders ever mentioning support for anything other than MS Office.
Perhaps StarOffice 8 will be the 'MS Office Killer' for home users that use it to write letters to Aunt Sally.... or perhaps for Jonnie IT that just likes to 'different' so he can think he's cool.
That's how science works. In order to find designs that work, you also have to test and find designs that don't work. There's no way for someone to think up an idea and know it's going to work right off that bat. That's why why you test. You take what you've learned, both good and bad, and use it to implement and even better idea. The best scientist are the ones that learn from their mistakes. If you try out a new design, even if it's expensive, and that design doesn't meet your expectation.... it's doesn't mean you have failed unless either you learn nothing from the experience, or you are a small minded individual who tries to jump on a bandwagon.
Take a look at SageTV. I build up a SageTV box about 6 months ago (dual tuners with remote) and haven't had one lick of trouble. 'Set it and forget it'. SageTV isn't free, the software itself does cost a little bit, but it's not a big deal.
$10 says there's a headline next week that M$ just purchased a video card manufacturer that just happens to produce cards with large amount of memory at a low low price!
I'm still waiting for MS to produce spyware that only their SW is able to kill for some "mysterious" reason, heh.
" it draws attention to the fact that Google has drained the market of talent, caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries and made it difficult for startups to get funding.""
I miss the recession when there were plenty of people out of work and salaries were dropping.
Those the good 'ol says. Damn you Google.. and Microsoft! We should start a petition urging MS and Google to close up shop forever. Then.. there will be lots of people available for hire and willing to work for peanuts. I like peanuts.
Do you mean 3.2 billon for just space shuttle missions for for NASA? Does this 3.2 billon include launching satilites into space as well?
Building/Launching/Monitor the Sat's can't be cheap.
Also, they are spending a considerable amount of money planning for the future shuttle designs and 'return to the moon' jazz.
I'd hope they 'saved' some money not sending any shuttles up for the past couple of year, but then ago.. who knows how much all that testing cost and how much they had to pay the Russians to should our burden. NASA does a lot more than what you may see broadcasted on CNN or nasa.gov.
Here we use AES encyption with WPA-PSK authentication. I figured that would have started to become the standard now.
Our firm feels so confident with AES that we leave our wireless routers powered up 24/7. Has anyone heard of any problems with this, or are they just re-invented the wheel in order to have something to do.
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As someone who write code and manipulates the registry everday, I for one love it. Those who want to take the registry and produce a flat file out of it don't know what they are talking about. The registry is 100x more secure and robust than a flat file.
If the rest of you would prefer to have a million ini files instead of a branching registry, then more power to you. Because, remember, each key of the registy allows for NTFS permissions. So you would need a seperate file for each key in the registry if you want to allow for the same level of security.
Geez, what's next. Are you going to call up MS and say "The who idea of SQL databases sucks.. you should change that to a flatfile to so that I can use my text editor!".
Now yes, the registy has become very bloated. However, the reason is because everyone uses it. It's amazing how that works, isn't it? Big deal. I'd be willing to bet that most of you only use the HKLM\Software key or HKCU\Software key most the time anyway.
In my book, the registry is glorious. Being able to go to a single database'ish file pull nearly any system setting, many program setting (IE: program versions, install paths, etc), etc makes my life easy. And yes, I'm one of those people that store both plain text and encrypted data in the registry and also uses the NTFS type security to lock down keys in the registy.
I use the registry to share information between programs and I also use windows PIPE$ calls to relay information between programs. I suppose PIPE calls could be replaced with flat text files too. I suppose it's not long before someone says, 'PIPEs suck... use INI files'.
If you want to complain about some.. complain about all those annoying balloon pop ups from the system tray. I will agree with you there. Those little balloon tips are annoying. I hate ballons tips... and hippies.
First, we have the sonic toothbrush, and now we have the optical frequency comb!
I can't wait to see what the future holds for us next!
" When the system reboots, the journal notes that the write did not complete, and any partial data writes are lost. "
Isn't this similar to NTFS's journaling file system?
It all comes down to Availability (Clustering) vs. Reliability (Fault Tolerant). They are NOT the same thing.
Fault tolerant servers are nice, even the simplest true server should offer some fault tolerance to a degree (IE: RAID drives). This is handy but may not help your availability in the event that you have a SLA promising xx% of uptime and then find yourself needing to take the server down to apply service packs or other patches.
Clustered servers allow you to increase the availability of your machines, because when you need to take one down for some updates, you can simply fail over all your traffic to the other server in the cluster accordingly. Clustering may increase the availability of the services those machines are offering, but it doesn't not help the reliability of the machines themselves.
Therefore, I personally choose to start with fault tolerant machines initially (RAID and dual power supplies at a minimum). It makes for a good base. If the services on that machine are 'mission critical', then cluster that machine with other fault tolerant machines.
....and for those people that may be working on a laptop and not have access to the web? Is AJAX still the solution?
Web based applications are nice... as long as you have a link to the web. Would you ever truely run a business where your entire business was dependant upon a link to the internet? I sure hope your link never goes down.
That's one of the issue we run into occasionally with Citrix. We have most our Citrix apps at HQ. Everything is fine until an outlying office has their link go down for whatever reason. Citrix, as with all web based apps, is useful for our mobile users. When they go to a client's office, they can't be gauranteed that every client will be able to give them access to the internet.
StarOffice 8 will be a 'MS Office Killer', about as much as firefox will be an 'IE Killer'. There's a lot more to being a 'MS Office Killer' than just being able to view/edit Word documents and play with Macros. I know for my company, we have several apps that tie directly into Excel and actually require Excel (I work for a CPA firm). They could give StarOffice away for free, pay us to stop using MS Office, and even offer to install it to all of our PCs for us and it still wouldn't be enough. I suspect many other firms are in the same boat. I hasn't heard of any of our venders ever mentioning support for anything other than MS Office.
Perhaps StarOffice 8 will be the 'MS Office Killer' for home users that use it to write letters to Aunt Sally.... or perhaps for Jonnie IT that just likes to 'different' so he can think he's cool.
Oh well.. nice hype tho.
That's how science works. In order to find designs that work, you also have to test and find designs that don't work. There's no way for someone to think up an idea and know it's going to work right off that bat. That's why why you test. You take what you've learned, both good and bad, and use it to implement and even better idea. The best scientist are the ones that learn from their mistakes. If you try out a new design, even if it's expensive, and that design doesn't meet your expectation.... it's doesn't mean you have failed unless either you learn nothing from the experience, or you are a small minded individual who tries to jump on a bandwagon.
Take a look at SageTV. I build up a SageTV box about 6 months ago (dual tuners with remote) and haven't had one lick of trouble. 'Set it and forget it'. SageTV isn't free, the software itself does cost a little bit, but it's not a big deal.
I miss the days when we were going thru our ice age. I blame Bush and his policies for causing global warming and bringing us out of the ice age!
What do you mean that the earth has been warming for millions of years? Malarky
I love my SageTV. If you have the savey'ness, then build your own 'tivo'. I love my SageTV (Dual Tuners, Remote, etc.. 'love'en it).
MythTv is awesome too, from what I hear.
$10 says there's a headline next week that M$ just purchased a video card manufacturer that just happens to produce cards with large amount of memory at a low low price!
I'm still waiting for MS to produce spyware that only their SW is able to kill for some "mysterious" reason, heh.
" it draws attention to the fact that Google has drained the market of talent, caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries and made it difficult for startups to get funding."" I miss the recession when there were plenty of people out of work and salaries were dropping. Those the good 'ol says. Damn you Google.. and Microsoft! We should start a petition urging MS and Google to close up shop forever. Then.. there will be lots of people available for hire and willing to work for peanuts. I like peanuts.
Do you mean 3.2 billon for just space shuttle missions for for NASA? Does this 3.2 billon include launching satilites into space as well? Building/Launching/Monitor the Sat's can't be cheap. Also, they are spending a considerable amount of money planning for the future shuttle designs and 'return to the moon' jazz. I'd hope they 'saved' some money not sending any shuttles up for the past couple of year, but then ago.. who knows how much all that testing cost and how much they had to pay the Russians to should our burden. NASA does a lot more than what you may see broadcasted on CNN or nasa.gov.
Here we use AES encyption with WPA-PSK authentication. I figured that would have started to become the standard now. Our firm feels so confident with AES that we leave our wireless routers powered up 24/7. Has anyone heard of any problems with this, or are they just re-invented the wheel in order to have something to do.