Buddy, in school in the 70's, in a small rural town, I got my ass kicked because I was smaller and skinnier than other students. People get their asses kicked all the time for no good reason at all.
Picture the following situation: a black neighborhood watch volunteer kills an unarmed white kid. Two white preachers jump into the fray and make loud declarations about the racial nature of the killing.
They would be roasted by the media and the mainstream public as racist nutbags, true?
So, why don't the reverends Sharpton and Jackson get the same treatment?
Agreed. My last job required a Windows-based VPN that killed all other TCP connections. What a perfect place to use Linux as my base OS! My Windows Virtual machine was happily walled off, my Linux machine was still free to do anything else I wanted.
Horse crap. Buttons have moved? The real issue is douchebag asp.net programmers who code for IE. Anyone who codes web apps who ignores www standards should be drawn and quartered.
"You ignorance its amazing."
Yep, me ignorance is amazing.
ALL costs have gone up, charlie. Costs of food, gasoline, golf tees, rubber balls, whale oil, bulldozers, Chryslers.
Taxes inexplicably go up in addition to cost. That makes my standard of living go down.
Arkansas had this obscene tax rate when Amazon's sales were maybe 10,000 dollars a day.
Now, I buy online as a protest. Maybe raising sales tax to 12% is the answer?
Not a very good one, though. Gasoline and asphalt aren't the only things that have gone up. I had a choice Monday of buying a 50 dollar power supply from Best Buy, adding 10%, and getting my main PC going that night, or buying the same one from Tigerdirect for 25 bucks and paying an additional five bucks to ship it here by Thursday. I'll have my computer back tomorrow night.
Oh, and thanks for reminding me, President Clinton alone id responsible for ten cents of additional gas tax while he was screwing women the state troopers were bringing to the governor's mansion for him.
Remove that obscene 10% surcharge, I'll buy more in state.
Good for the court. Good for Amazon. I pay 10% on anything I buy in Arkansas (including food) and they scream that it's not enough. Funny, I paid 3% sales tax here in the 70's and the roads weren't any worse than they are today. Screw any state that attempts to cash in on internet sales.
Albeit a modest one. I went to a week of Redhat server administration training back in 2005 and promptly went out and bought some stock which is now worth over twice what it was then.
"Prior to v 6, IIS was junk. At 6 it was OK. IIS v7 is actually very good."
Ever have to chase down an issue running PHP with IIS? It used to be a snap with 5. 6 made it more difficult. 7 made it impossible, if you were able to get the non-MS platform to work with it at all. I finally got smart and moved my stuff over to WAMP at first, then LAMP. I had to build the first AD-integrated Linux server in a company employing about 6,000 individuals in order to pull that off.
It was still simpler than trying to get PHP to play nice with IIS.
Agree with you about Java and JBoss. But I would place VS right in the middle of that pack, not ahead of it. As another commenter mentioned, I'd rather use Notepad ++ to troubleshoot C# code over VS. It takes too long to dig through its crap to find the file I need to tweak. Eclipse is configurable enough to let me get straight to work. However, VS's hand-holding interface is very appealing to folks going from PC cleanup duty to the programming team.;-)
I've seen too many "developers" created with VS wizards, who didn't even know what language they were programming in (VB or C#? I don't know!). The apps they build technically work, but are slow, ungainly, and if something breaks, who knows how to fix it? That was SOP at the family-owned Fortune 500 I previously worked at. The open source programmers were forced out, now their whole development staff are dragging and dropping their way to app mediocrity. However, i can see real developers benefiting from this, especially if they can get their asp.net apps to run without IIS, the Windows GUI, and the rest of the usual MS overhead. On Linux and Apache, C# just might scream.
If you can't make documents that don't "look like crap" without Office, I'd say you have wizard addiction. There's the rtf format, for example, and Libre Office will also create documents in native Office formats. Modest documents (read: no blinking lights, no fancy fonts, no scrolling text) look quite comparable when created outside of the Office environment.
A valid point was made about complicated spreadsheets in the comment queue, but otherwise, weaning yourself from Office is step one in regaining control of your hardware and your budget.
I haven't seen that, myself. No substitute for Access, unfortunately, but the rest of the Libre Office suite runs neck-and-neck with Office, in my experience.
Business has somehow gotten the whacked idea that it can't survive without paying hundreds of dollars per seat for an app that creates and edits office documents. Thanks, Intel, for helping to educate them that that's balderdash.
Sadly no, this was at a previous employer. I had a script that looked at the arp tables of a core router and compare them to a database of known mac addresses (in MySQL). Typically, there would be around 1,000 macs in the arp table, compared to roughly 4,000 known macs. The web page would load in about 1-2 seconds. OTOH, getting SQL Server's attention would run a couple of seconds or more, followed by the initial query (running a query joining two or three tables, returning perhaps twenty records) adding from 2-5 more seconds. Granted, it would run much quicker after that. Part of the problem was that the community had a much faster SQL Server module for PHP, then Microsoft took it over. The Windows dll was twice as big as it used to be, and performance took a hit. FYI, WAMP on the server end.
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Buddy, in school in the 70's, in a small rural town, I got my ass kicked because I was smaller and skinnier than other students. People get their asses kicked all the time for no good reason at all.
Sounds like you're making some pretty broad assumptions based on race there, charlie. :-/ There's a name for that...
Please mod this up!!!
I did room addition jobs in Compton (and other SC areas, from Beverly Hills to Anaheim) back about 1981. I never had any bad incidents there either.
Picture the following situation: a black neighborhood watch volunteer kills an unarmed white kid. Two white preachers jump into the fray and make loud declarations about the racial nature of the killing.
They would be roasted by the media and the mainstream public as racist nutbags, true?
So, why don't the reverends Sharpton and Jackson get the same treatment?
Agreed. My last job required a Windows-based VPN that killed all other TCP connections. What a perfect place to use Linux as my base OS! My Windows Virtual machine was happily walled off, my Linux machine was still free to do anything else I wanted.
Playon TV. Google it. :-)
Horse crap. Buttons have moved? The real issue is douchebag asp.net programmers who code for IE. Anyone who codes web apps who ignores www standards should be drawn and quartered.
"You ignorance its amazing."
Yep, me ignorance is amazing.
ALL costs have gone up, charlie. Costs of food, gasoline, golf tees, rubber balls, whale oil, bulldozers, Chryslers.
Taxes inexplicably go up in addition to cost. That makes my standard of living go down.
Arkansas had this obscene tax rate when Amazon's sales were maybe 10,000 dollars a day.
Now, I buy online as a protest. Maybe raising sales tax to 12% is the answer?
Not a very good one, though. Gasoline and asphalt aren't the only things that have gone up. I had a choice Monday of buying a 50 dollar power supply from Best Buy, adding 10%, and getting my main PC going that night, or buying the same one from Tigerdirect for 25 bucks and paying an additional five bucks to ship it here by Thursday. I'll have my computer back tomorrow night. Oh, and thanks for reminding me, President Clinton alone id responsible for ten cents of additional gas tax while he was screwing women the state troopers were bringing to the governor's mansion for him. Remove that obscene 10% surcharge, I'll buy more in state.
Good for the court. Good for Amazon. I pay 10% on anything I buy in Arkansas (including food) and they scream that it's not enough. Funny, I paid 3% sales tax here in the 70's and the roads weren't any worse than they are today. Screw any state that attempts to cash in on internet sales.
POSV is one of my all-time favorite geek films, I rate it up there with Sneakers and War games. Noah Wyle absolutely captured the hard edge of Jobs.
Albeit a modest one. I went to a week of Redhat server administration training back in 2005 and promptly went out and bought some stock which is now worth over twice what it was then.
"Prior to v 6, IIS was junk. At 6 it was OK. IIS v7 is actually very good." Ever have to chase down an issue running PHP with IIS? It used to be a snap with 5. 6 made it more difficult. 7 made it impossible, if you were able to get the non-MS platform to work with it at all. I finally got smart and moved my stuff over to WAMP at first, then LAMP. I had to build the first AD-integrated Linux server in a company employing about 6,000 individuals in order to pull that off. It was still simpler than trying to get PHP to play nice with IIS. Agree with you about Java and JBoss. But I would place VS right in the middle of that pack, not ahead of it. As another commenter mentioned, I'd rather use Notepad ++ to troubleshoot C# code over VS. It takes too long to dig through its crap to find the file I need to tweak. Eclipse is configurable enough to let me get straight to work. However, VS's hand-holding interface is very appealing to folks going from PC cleanup duty to the programming team. ;-)
I've seen too many "developers" created with VS wizards, who didn't even know what language they were programming in (VB or C#? I don't know!). The apps they build technically work, but are slow, ungainly, and if something breaks, who knows how to fix it? That was SOP at the family-owned Fortune 500 I previously worked at. The open source programmers were forced out, now their whole development staff are dragging and dropping their way to app mediocrity. However, i can see real developers benefiting from this, especially if they can get their asp.net apps to run without IIS, the Windows GUI, and the rest of the usual MS overhead. On Linux and Apache, C# just might scream.
./ is a Google-rated monster in terms of search result power, now, your comment will only add to Mosley's miseries. Beautiful!
I can't believe the last time we were there was 1960. May God go with you, Mr. Cameron. Apologies to you atheists for that last one ;^)
Well, can you do ANYTHING with base? If so, could you share your knowledge?
Interesting how un-Access-like the base app is. Is Access 2003's functionality that hard to duplicate?
If you can't make documents that don't "look like crap" without Office, I'd say you have wizard addiction. There's the rtf format, for example, and Libre Office will also create documents in native Office formats. Modest documents (read: no blinking lights, no fancy fonts, no scrolling text) look quite comparable when created outside of the Office environment. A valid point was made about complicated spreadsheets in the comment queue, but otherwise, weaning yourself from Office is step one in regaining control of your hardware and your budget.
I haven't seen that, myself. No substitute for Access, unfortunately, but the rest of the Libre Office suite runs neck-and-neck with Office, in my experience.
Are you saying Libre Office is slower than the Microsoft version?
Business has somehow gotten the whacked idea that it can't survive without paying hundreds of dollars per seat for an app that creates and edits office documents. Thanks, Intel, for helping to educate them that that's balderdash.
Sadly no, this was at a previous employer. I had a script that looked at the arp tables of a core router and compare them to a database of known mac addresses (in MySQL). Typically, there would be around 1,000 macs in the arp table, compared to roughly 4,000 known macs. The web page would load in about 1-2 seconds. OTOH, getting SQL Server's attention would run a couple of seconds or more, followed by the initial query (running a query joining two or three tables, returning perhaps twenty records) adding from 2-5 more seconds. Granted, it would run much quicker after that. Part of the problem was that the community had a much faster SQL Server module for PHP, then Microsoft took it over. The Windows dll was twice as big as it used to be, and performance took a hit. FYI, WAMP on the server end.
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