That's bullcrap. DeVry Univeristy IS accredited. DeVry is accredited byNorth Central Association. DeVry is definitely not as bad as say the American School of Technology where you can learn to be a Nurse, a Medical Technician or a DJ. To me Pheonix is worse. I get junk mail from them every day it seems.
I don't think it's really that insidious but it does raise a good point. What stops other companies or private individuals the same thing?
In this case though I just think some clueless guy with some skills (not a CCNE by any means) who gets paid 8 bucks an hour got told to install this and had a printed list with all of the settings. Once installed, he fires up a laptop or handheld, verifies connectivity and leaves. It's probably their standard install that the home office folks at T-Mobile came up with. The guy probably didn't know or care about others already operating there. Personally, if I was the guy doing the setup I would at least give the guy a copy of Net Stumbler so he can see if there was someone already there. That way the instructions can say pick another channel or SSID if someone is already there on that channel or SSID.
Everyone is saying no I was there first. You know T-Mobile is not going to do anything. Personal Telco should do the friendly thing and just move to a different channel. What channel your on makes no difference in how long it takes to get a link anyway. At leastr that's been my experience.
Pure unadultrated bullshit. Maybe next time you won't have to rely on lying to make a point. The ports of apache, php and mysql on windows are fantastic.
Fantastic to who? A Windows guy is not going to think Apache is fantastic. Are there Windows dialogs to configure things? Is it a Windows application? Does it follow Windows standards of interface? I didn't think so. Interface IS important. Maybe this is why MySQL isn't as popular for database(for things other then a website)? Also, PHP more popular then ASP? Possibly. But name anyone who makes money running a huge website (Slashdot excluded, they don't make money) with MySQL. There may be some, but anyone who is doing serious business isn't going to be using MySQL. Fantastic is such a subjective word. Let's just say they are good.
The apache, php, and mysql documentation is top notch. What do you find so objectionable about them? The php documentation is particularly awsome. As for well known let me present you with a few facts.
Again, top notch as to who?? If someone trying to learn Apache, MySQL and PHP are trying to learn it using just the documentation, well, good luck. I could understand it, but I have been doing it for a while. If it was so good, well, how come there are a ton of books on those subjects? I know, there are alot of books on Oracle too. Well, that's because ever Oracle docment I have ever read has sucked.
HOW MANY websites use PHP? HOW MANY WEBSITES use MySQL? Also websites are a small part of everything there is to do in a company. You aren't going to install a new database just to run a website when you already have one.
I suppose when things break in oracle or ms sql the programs automatically fix themselves.
No they don't. But there ARE alot of people who know Oracle. Probably more then know MySQL. I am sorry, but Oracle has been around a while....a lot longer then 1995! I like open source, but only cuz I am a cheap bastard. If I can afford the best tools, THATS WHAT I USE! The best tool for the best job. Sure....we may not need all of the features of Oracle. Someday we will.
The big thing that I feel is hurting Open Source more than anything is that people ASSUME that the reader of the documentation already has either used it or something similar. This isn't always true. Good documentation should make it not near as necessary to go buy a book first. Look I am not saying write documentation that idiots can understand, but at least make them understandable to mear mortals. Don't you remember what it was first like for you to learn these things? I guess you were just born self knowledgeable in everything dealing with computers. If Open Source wants to succed, they should concentrate on creating users from people who have never learned Windows. It's harder to change people then to teach them about it from the start.
Well, you'd be wrong there. Say your a big company and you want to web enable your stuff. It would just be easier to use Oracle or whatever is used since you have people that know it and it can easily interface with the DB's that your general ledger stuff is on. Remember, those web sales have to have entry's made into the companies ledger or you don't get credit for them as a company. Retraining for MySQL or some other solution is a bitch. Ask the programmers I work with who are switching to Oracle from Datacom (I know what the hell is that!:) ).
True enough! Plus it's well known how to get stuff out of Oracle too. Oracle also has a nice forms editor for producing letters, reports and whatnot. MySQL you have to figure out a way to do it since there's not built in or addon that comes from them. Sure there are some apps there, but Oracle has the entire widget. Sure, you may not need all of the features of it, but how many offices need the all of the features of MsOffice? You see?:)
Yes..and their ports are bad. Wait wait before you flame me, hear me out. I have an app that can run on windows and UNIX (AIX in particular, but it can run on any UNIX). It started on UNIX. I run the main server now on UNIX and I access it via a GUI client. That GUI client is a bitch and a half if you don't have any experience with it. It does not act like any windows app I have ever used. Why? It started on UNIX. They pretty much chose their own way of having it act (since there's not much in standards with GUI on UNIX...unless you count CDE). The way they chose is so not Windows like it's hard to believe your running it on Windows. This is the main problem with saying that you can run some of this stuff like windows. Sure, some folks like Mozilla get it right (Windows install package, nothing too strange in interface). Some are weird. Some, like the cygwin tools you just decompress into a folder. If it's one like cygwin, you can just delete the folder. Others dump crap all over the place. My point, if your doing a port, there is nothing wrong making some things the same. But for gods sake make the thing act like a Windows app.
Personally, I realize Open Source is not a panacea. Someone has to support it after you take your money and run. If it's not well documented, and well known stuff(by more then open source folks), then it's not going to happen. That company is going to have to hire a consultant to fix things if they need to add things to it and there are more people who know Oracle, SQL and DB2 then MySQL. PLus it's not always about how the app acts either. Backing things up is important. If there's no database module for TSM, or whatever other backup stuff you use, well, it can be difficult. That's why this guys client did not choose that solution. Not that they possibly did not know about it, it maybe that they don't trust it yet. Trust is a good thing, even if it sound illogical to you, the geek.
You said:Your last paragraph seems to be a little strange... are you saying that parents should watch their children 24 hours a day? Seems a little unfeasible, I think, but maybe you've figured out a way not to sleep.
Well, not maybe watch the children 24 hours a day, but at least be aware of when you should watch them and where they are. When me and my brother went out to play, my mom said you stay in this area....meaning we stayed with in the block. We were not allowed to walk to the store by ourselves or anything until we were much older. We were raised to respect our parents, so we knew we had better listen or we'd get the proverbial beat down (spanking, priviledges taken away or something to that effect). Now alot of folks want to be buddies with their kids. I will be their buddy sometimes, but, I hate to break it to ya, sometimes I gotta lay down the law. No you must not watch your kids 24 hours a day, but you should at least know where they are at and hope they actually go where they are going. A prime example of being aware of your kids.....that lady in Texas thought the baby would be fine if she just ran the cart back to the corral. We all know what happened. Personally, when in that situation, I will take my son with me to the corral unless I am parked next to it. Only then would I actually leave my son alone in the car and I would possibly lock the door for the minute I would be away. I feel sorry for that lady that she had to go through that and I am not validating what the snatcher did in any way, but that lady could have been more careful when doing what she did. Personally, if I had to take 3 kids to the store, I would not go or if I had to, I would have tried to take another adult or possibly parked next to the corral even if I had to park in the boonies. No blame being placed on that lady and she doesn't deserve to have the wrath of children services come down on her, but she should be more careful (and probably will) in the future.
If open source costs more in man hours (don't be foolish....you know as well as I it can), retraining and possibly hardware, it could very well mean it could cost more than say sticking with Microsoft or IBM OS/390. Cost is more then just the cost of the software. That said, I do prefer Open Source, but not necessarily because of cost.
With Open Source, the answer is always out there, usually. It isn't always so when trying to navigate a vendors website. With Open Source,if Red Hat, SuSE or say Debian doesn't have an answer for your problem, someone else usually does!
I am against Open Source only laws because I want to choose what is best for the situation in question. MySQL is not yet an acceptable replacement for a well done installation of Oracle. Also, when storing massive amounts of info in a database, I want someone to guarantee some sort of stability or performance. I want something others of used (yeah I know, others have used MySQL, but I still would not trust it with a critical database) and has been proven. That's one case. In others, well, I hate to say it, others use microsoft. Granted I know that there are word processors on Linux, but there are certain things you do. You don't want to retrain everyone on a Word Processor....ever. My point, Open Source only laws, while good for Linux and in my opinion a great number of things in the public sector, would prevent you from going to something that may be new and revolutionary. Choice between Open Source and Closed Source products should be maintained. Saying your not being fiscally responsible by not choosing open source is like giving the coffee away for free and having to pay 10 bucks for the cream and sugar. If you can't get all three (ie someone who's already there and isn't going to cost more, who knows Linux and available hardware are the cream and sugar) for free, it ain't worth it.
Where have you been? There's been 512 MB and 1 GB Compact Flash available for a while now. Granted, it's not your whole collection, but it's a nice sized chunk. More then sufficient for running around town. Also, the beauty of compact flash is it's small enough that you could even make a player with stacked slots and still have something the size of an ipod or smaller. I personally think the iPod is what I want for a MP3 player. The kicker here is not the capacity....it's the firewire. USB is slow compared to it. Takes a couple minutes for me to load the 64 MB card I have in my e740 with 10 tracks. I can't begin to believe how long it woiuld take for something larger. Firewire makes it very speedy. Can't wait to get one of my own (5 gig would be fine, 10 GB better....as I would have room to expand....right now everything fits in 5 GB on my machine). What I wish would happen is someone....anyone to make an iPod or a [layer for pocket pc that plays oggs. I have tried pocket ogg on my e740 but it just locks up.
Who says you have to hate your job? There's PLENTY of things in computers I would hate doing. Programming is ok and I can do it, but I would rather be setting up and tweaking servers. Running/configuring printers is not exactly my cup of tea either, but I do it. That part I don't exactly hate, but I would rather be doing something else. My point is you can do something related to your hobby and not hate it. It is possible. I do it everyday.
If your not in it for the money, then why did you take a job at a dot com? If I was programming for the sake of programming, I would probably find a job at a college (working there or teaching) or some stable environment to just stay employed (gotta keep the bills paid). Then, program Open Source! I know alot of folks who worked for dot coms did work on open source also, but would you not have more time if you were working on something say like reports or something like that where it doesn't really matter or isn't that complex. This way you have more time to work on things that do matter? I dunno. But i think there's no use in being better at the dot coms. Be bitter at yourself that you were so stupid to believe that:
1. Think of something cool to do like ordering groceries over the net and charging more then the local grocery store. 2. ??????? 3. PROFIT!
I mean honestly how dumb did ya have to be? I mean sure, risk is one thing, but STUPID risk is another. I remember during the boom my boss saying brick and mortar stores would not exist in the future because it was cheaper to do stuff on a web site. Boy was he wrong!
Just what I have ALWAYS said. If you HATE computers, what are you doing? I GENUINELY love working with computers and fixing problems for users, setting up new servers, fixing pcap files so things print correctly and just about everything I do at my job. I live and breath computers. I have a PDA, a Laptop as well as a desktop and I can't imagine parting with any of them. Now, don't get me wrong, I know when to put things down. I know when my family comes first (always). When I am working with computers though, it feels like play to me. That's why I love it. I can't imagine doing anything else. I can also point to all of those schedules coming from my printer and when I see a student carrying their schedule between classes, I can point to those 18,000 students and say, I made it possible for these folks to know where their classes are (with a little help from my developers!). I can point to those graduates and say I ran the machine that kept track of their records making it possible to tell if they could graduate or not by pressing a button. That's my product. I don't need to see a hot dog, a cake or crepe to know I have done well. All I have to see is a happy student when a registration clerk tells them they are all set to go for the next quarter or that the school had recieved their transcript. Granted, I have always know what I did, but sometimes IT folks live in their own world so much they don't think or know what they are programming or fixing things for. Next time you want to go for a walk, try walking around in other areas of your building and meeting the users you set that server up for. Sometimes, they are actually nice people! Sometimes you find out that valuable piece of information for that bug you are tracking down. Sometimes, you make a friend.
Alot of dot commers are bitter is because they were truly just in it for the money. They really hated the job, but they liked the money so they came in everyday and worked many hours. If someone offered me gobs of stock and told me I would do this and I asked them what did they do and they told me just publish a webpage or give away free coffee or sell groceries online, even then, I would have laughed in their face and walked back to my job confident that the College I work for would still be there at the end of this crazy mess. Who still has a job? Granted, I will never make gobs of money (not much risk at all in my job), but I will have a house, a car and a happy family to show for it. That's all I can ask for. I don't NEED a BMW. I don't necessarily need a new computer (although one would be nice, my current one works just fine). I don't need a IN Home Movie Theater(who has time for it?). My point, be happy with what you have. If you don't like your situation, change it. If you are unhappy, but making gobs of money, find some job you'd be happy in that pays enough money. In the long run, you will be much happier and a better person. Oh, and I don't think most people CARE if their Hot Dogs were made from hormone free beef (wait, don't cows already produce hormones??). All they want is a good hot dog. If you can produce that and stick to your morals and do it for a good price, you will do well. It appears the Hot Dog guy in the story is doing OK. And isn't that all we can ask is that we are doing OK?
For reciving, a tuned antenna is nice, but not really necessary. You can recieve of fof almost anything. Transmitting is where it's essential to have a tuned antenna as it effects the amount of power coming out. That said, I am a ham, and there are VHF (2m band is VHF) antennas as small as my thumb. Sure, they are not the greatest, but they work.
I stayed at a Omni in Dallas for a business trip. a 10 oz (yeah you heard right....a 10 oz!) Coke cost $2.75 + 17 %. Over 3 bucks for 10 oz's of pop! I found a grocery store and got a 12 pack. For a 50 cent bag of cookies it was also 3 bucks. Needless to say, I left the mini bar key at the front desk.
Well, horseplay fun yes. I like many others just get a charge out of playing with BIG iron UNIX servers and other types of servers. So, work is fun for me, but it is work. Leave the toys at home boys! Oh unless it's a PDA, Digicam or laptop!:)
Hey this isn't a bad idea! Wish I would have thought about that! Although I have a PDA for Avantgo and I ride a bus so I have time to read, but I can see how this would be a cool idea! Only problem....does the lynx dump dump html too? You'd probably have to parse the tags and javascript out as most all news sites use this stuff.
Good stuff! Glad to here service is good with BOTH companies! Something you hardly ever hear!
Yeah that is exactly what I was saying in another post. Besides, anything that compiles on Darwin would compile on a AIX machine too unless it's OS X and they are Cocoaizing a app. I would never see the point in porting it. Also, a port would be difficult as I am sure that ROS Microcode is different then a Mac's BIOS. Processor wise, it would be easy but there's too much pSeries specific stuff that would need ported to run on the Darwin kernel. Plus the AIX Kernel is way more advanced then Darwin. Darwin would need an equal advance to even make it worth doing. So, why even hope for it? Just run AIX and be happy your running a nice robust system that can also run KDE or GNOME instead of CDE (if you need those GUI things).
This would be a COMPLETE waste of computing power. Granted, a 630 is a deskside system (or can be rack mounted), but I would rather have it in a center as a print server or in some other small server capacity. Noone in my workplace would ever get a 12,000 dollar desktop! This guy could also be used in a HACMP configuration as well so I don't think it would be worth the waste of money it would be running a ported OS/X and a ported MSOffice. It would also be a TOTAL waste to run that on a Regatta (one frame replacing 3 frames). I have 10 servers I could replace very nicely with a Regatta. Only way I would like to see something like this is so that I could serve OS X desktops from a big honkin server for my entire organization. Even then, a Regatta would more then handle it
I really can't trust these benchmarks. They are produced by someone that will be SELLING Itanium 2 servers. Also, notice it says at the top hardware available Sept. 2002. That's next month! A site like Anandtech or some other independent reviewer needs to run benchmarks on these before I could trust the results. This is like Microsoft saying NT 7 or whatever is faster then Linux and showing some pretty graph before anyone could go BUY it.
Exactly. Most places aren't going to run a Regatta in a single server situation. They are going to divide it out into LPARS. Most common place would probably buy a Sun if they wanted it to be alll CPU's on one server, although the Sun's have the same or similar thing also. I think they are real close, though I would take the IBM because there service has been very good at our site. I had a drive go bad and they were out the next day and the box never had to be downed either. Plug the new drive in, run cfgmgr and the drive is there and ready to be reallocated. Most times we do down the box though just in case...plus they also run cfgmgr on boot so when you reboot the drive will be there also.
From and Admin standpoint, I like AIX. The Sun has nothing compared to smitty. Admintool doesn't even come close. One upside to sun is there's no ODM so you can admin everything by editing the text files. You can do the same on a AIX box if you don't want to have the settings there on a reboot (if it ain't in a rc script or the ODM, it's gone.). Smitty also makes things easier for a first time admin. You can learn the commandline way by using smitty. Don't get me wrong...sometimes the raw way is good, but if your not sure what your doing, you can always pic your way through smitty.
Also if you want a complete IBM solution, you can get the Shark storage server which scales up to 27TB (TERABYTES!) of fiber channel connected storage! Granted, you could also use pretty much any UNIX®, Windows NT®, Windows® 2000, Novell NetWare®, Linux, IBM iSeries(TM) and AS/400®, IBM zSeries (TM) servers and S/390® too. It's just nice to have everything supported by IBM.
I have never had to call IBM twice to get a tech there. IBM's support has been exemplary which is more then I can say for Xerox, Novell and our ISP. I have no idea what Sun's suport is like because i have never had the opportunity to run a bigger Sun machine. Just ran workstation class machines here.
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This guy should give it to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Their simulator they have there....well....sucks.
That's bullcrap. DeVry Univeristy IS accredited. DeVry is accredited byNorth Central Association. DeVry is definitely not as bad as say the American School of Technology where you can learn to be a Nurse, a Medical Technician or a DJ. To me Pheonix is worse. I get junk mail from them every day it seems.
I don't think it's really that insidious but it does raise a good point. What stops other companies or private individuals the same thing?
In this case though I just think some clueless guy with some skills (not a CCNE by any means) who gets paid 8 bucks an hour got told to install this and had a printed list with all of the settings. Once installed, he fires up a laptop or handheld, verifies connectivity and leaves. It's probably their standard install that the home office folks at T-Mobile came up with. The guy probably didn't know or care about others already operating there. Personally, if I was the guy doing the setup I would at least give the guy a copy of Net Stumbler so he can see if there was someone already there. That way the instructions can say pick another channel or SSID if someone is already there on that channel or SSID.
Everyone is saying no I was there first. You know T-Mobile is not going to do anything. Personal Telco should do the friendly thing and just move to a different channel. What channel your on makes no difference in how long it takes to get a link anyway. At leastr that's been my experience.
Pure unadultrated bullshit. Maybe next time you won't have to rely on lying to make a point. The ports of apache, php and mysql on windows are fantastic.
Fantastic to who? A Windows guy is not going to think Apache is fantastic. Are there Windows dialogs to configure things? Is it a Windows application? Does it follow Windows standards of interface? I didn't think so. Interface IS important. Maybe this is why MySQL isn't as popular for database(for things other then a website)? Also, PHP more popular then ASP? Possibly. But name anyone who makes money running a huge website (Slashdot excluded, they don't make money) with MySQL. There may be some, but anyone who is doing serious business isn't going to be using MySQL. Fantastic is such a subjective word. Let's just say they are good.
The apache, php, and mysql documentation is top notch. What do you find so objectionable about them? The php documentation is particularly awsome. As for well known let me present you with a few facts.
Again, top notch as to who?? If someone trying to learn Apache, MySQL and PHP are trying to learn it using just the documentation, well, good luck. I could understand it, but I have been doing it for a while. If it was so good, well, how come there are a ton of books on those subjects? I know, there are alot of books on Oracle too. Well, that's because ever Oracle docment I have ever read has sucked.
HOW MANY websites use PHP? HOW MANY WEBSITES use MySQL? Also websites are a small part of everything there is to do in a company. You aren't going to install a new database just to run a website when you already have one.
I suppose when things break in oracle or ms sql the programs automatically fix themselves.
No they don't. But there ARE alot of people who know Oracle. Probably more then know MySQL. I am sorry, but Oracle has been around a while....a lot longer then 1995! I like open source, but only cuz I am a cheap bastard. If I can afford the best tools, THATS WHAT I USE! The best tool for the best job. Sure....we may not need all of the features of Oracle. Someday we will.
The big thing that I feel is hurting Open Source more than anything is that people ASSUME that the reader of the documentation already has either used it or something similar. This isn't always true. Good documentation should make it not near as necessary to go buy a book first. Look I am not saying write documentation that idiots can understand, but at least make them understandable to mear mortals. Don't you remember what it was first like for you to learn these things? I guess you were just born self knowledgeable in everything dealing with computers. If Open Source wants to succed, they should concentrate on creating users from people who have never learned Windows. It's harder to change people then to teach them about it from the start.
Well, you'd be wrong there. Say your a big company and you want to web enable your stuff. It would just be easier to use Oracle or whatever is used since you have people that know it and it can easily interface with the DB's that your general ledger stuff is on. Remember, those web sales have to have entry's made into the companies ledger or you don't get credit for them as a company. Retraining for MySQL or some other solution is a bitch. Ask the programmers I work with who are switching to Oracle from Datacom (I know what the hell is that! :) ).
True enough! Plus it's well known how to get stuff out of Oracle too. Oracle also has a nice forms editor for producing letters, reports and whatnot. MySQL you have to figure out a way to do it since there's not built in or addon that comes from them. Sure there are some apps there, but Oracle has the entire widget. Sure, you may not need all of the features of it, but how many offices need the all of the features of MsOffice? You see? :)
Yes..and their ports are bad. Wait wait before you flame me, hear me out. I have an app that can run on windows and UNIX (AIX in particular, but it can run on any UNIX). It started on UNIX. I run the main server now on UNIX and I access it via a GUI client. That GUI client is a bitch and a half if you don't have any experience with it. It does not act like any windows app I have ever used. Why? It started on UNIX. They pretty much chose their own way of having it act (since there's not much in standards with GUI on UNIX...unless you count CDE). The way they chose is so not Windows like it's hard to believe your running it on Windows. This is the main problem with saying that you can run some of this stuff like windows. Sure, some folks like Mozilla get it right (Windows install package, nothing too strange in interface). Some are weird. Some, like the cygwin tools you just decompress into a folder. If it's one like cygwin, you can just delete the folder. Others dump crap all over the place. My point, if your doing a port, there is nothing wrong making some things the same. But for gods sake make the thing act like a Windows app.
Personally, I realize Open Source is not a panacea. Someone has to support it after you take your money and run. If it's not well documented, and well known stuff(by more then open source folks), then it's not going to happen. That company is going to have to hire a consultant to fix things if they need to add things to it and there are more people who know Oracle, SQL and DB2 then MySQL. PLus it's not always about how the app acts either. Backing things up is important. If there's no database module for TSM, or whatever other backup stuff you use, well, it can be difficult. That's why this guys client did not choose that solution. Not that they possibly did not know about it, it maybe that they don't trust it yet. Trust is a good thing, even if it sound illogical to you, the geek.
Use CDex to rip your MP3. It's free too.
You said:Your last paragraph seems to be a little strange ... are you saying that parents should watch their children 24 hours a day? Seems a little unfeasible, I think, but maybe you've figured out a way not to sleep.
Well, not maybe watch the children 24 hours a day, but at least be aware of when you should watch them and where they are. When me and my brother went out to play, my mom said you stay in this area....meaning we stayed with in the block. We were not allowed to walk to the store by ourselves or anything until we were much older. We were raised to respect our parents, so we knew we had better listen or we'd get the proverbial beat down (spanking, priviledges taken away or something to that effect). Now alot of folks want to be buddies with their kids. I will be their buddy sometimes, but, I hate to break it to ya, sometimes I gotta lay down the law. No you must not watch your kids 24 hours a day, but you should at least know where they are at and hope they actually go where they are going. A prime example of being aware of your kids.....that lady in Texas thought the baby would be fine if she just ran the cart back to the corral. We all know what happened. Personally, when in that situation, I will take my son with me to the corral unless I am parked next to it. Only then would I actually leave my son alone in the car and I would possibly lock the door for the minute I would be away. I feel sorry for that lady that she had to go through that and I am not validating what the snatcher did in any way, but that lady could have been more careful when doing what she did. Personally, if I had to take 3 kids to the store, I would not go or if I had to, I would have tried to take another adult or possibly parked next to the corral even if I had to park in the boonies. No blame being placed on that lady and she doesn't deserve to have the wrath of children services come down on her, but she should be more careful (and probably will) in the future.
If open source costs more in man hours (don't be foolish....you know as well as I it can), retraining and possibly hardware, it could very well mean it could cost more than say sticking with Microsoft or IBM OS/390. Cost is more then just the cost of the software. That said, I do prefer Open Source, but not necessarily because of cost.
With Open Source, the answer is always out there, usually. It isn't always so when trying to navigate a vendors website. With Open Source,if Red Hat, SuSE or say Debian doesn't have an answer for your problem, someone else usually does!
I am against Open Source only laws because I want to choose what is best for the situation in question. MySQL is not yet an acceptable replacement for a well done installation of Oracle. Also, when storing massive amounts of info in a database, I want someone to guarantee some sort of stability or performance. I want something others of used (yeah I know, others have used MySQL, but I still would not trust it with a critical database) and has been proven. That's one case. In others, well, I hate to say it, others use microsoft. Granted I know that there are word processors on Linux, but there are certain things you do. You don't want to retrain everyone on a Word Processor....ever. My point, Open Source only laws, while good for Linux and in my opinion a great number of things in the public sector, would prevent you from going to something that may be new and revolutionary. Choice between Open Source and Closed Source products should be maintained. Saying your not being fiscally responsible by not choosing open source is like giving the coffee away for free and having to pay 10 bucks for the cream and sugar. If you can't get all three (ie someone who's already there and isn't going to cost more, who knows Linux and available hardware are the cream and sugar) for free, it ain't worth it.
Where have you been? There's been 512 MB and 1 GB Compact Flash available for a while now. Granted, it's not your whole collection, but it's a nice sized chunk. More then sufficient for running around town. Also, the beauty of compact flash is it's small enough that you could even make a player with stacked slots and still have something the size of an ipod or smaller. I personally think the iPod is what I want for a MP3 player. The kicker here is not the capacity....it's the firewire. USB is slow compared to it. Takes a couple minutes for me to load the 64 MB card I have in my e740 with 10 tracks. I can't begin to believe how long it woiuld take for something larger. Firewire makes it very speedy. Can't wait to get one of my own (5 gig would be fine, 10 GB better....as I would have room to expand....right now everything fits in 5 GB on my machine). What I wish would happen is someone....anyone to make an iPod or a [layer for pocket pc that plays oggs. I have tried pocket ogg on my e740 but it just locks up.
Who says you have to hate your job? There's PLENTY of things in computers I would hate doing. Programming is ok and I can do it, but I would rather be setting up and tweaking servers. Running/configuring printers is not exactly my cup of tea either, but I do it. That part I don't exactly hate, but I would rather be doing something else. My point is you can do something related to your hobby and not hate it. It is possible. I do it everyday.
1. Think of something cool to do like ordering groceries over the net and charging more then the local grocery store.
2. ???????
3. PROFIT!
I mean honestly how dumb did ya have to be? I mean sure, risk is one thing, but STUPID risk is another. I remember during the boom my boss saying brick and mortar stores would not exist in the future because it was cheaper to do stuff on a web site. Boy was he wrong!
Just what I have ALWAYS said. If you HATE computers, what are you doing? I GENUINELY love working with computers and fixing problems for users, setting up new servers, fixing pcap files so things print correctly and just about everything I do at my job. I live and breath computers. I have a PDA, a Laptop as well as a desktop and I can't imagine parting with any of them. Now, don't get me wrong, I know when to put things down. I know when my family comes first (always). When I am working with computers though, it feels like play to me. That's why I love it. I can't imagine doing anything else. I can also point to all of those schedules coming from my printer and when I see a student carrying their schedule between classes, I can point to those 18,000 students and say, I made it possible for these folks to know where their classes are (with a little help from my developers!). I can point to those graduates and say I ran the machine that kept track of their records making it possible to tell if they could graduate or not by pressing a button. That's my product. I don't need to see a hot dog, a cake or crepe to know I have done well. All I have to see is a happy student when a registration clerk tells them they are all set to go for the next quarter or that the school had recieved their transcript. Granted, I have always know what I did, but sometimes IT folks live in their own world so much they don't think or know what they are programming or fixing things for. Next time you want to go for a walk, try walking around in other areas of your building and meeting the users you set that server up for. Sometimes, they are actually nice people! Sometimes you find out that valuable piece of information for that bug you are tracking down. Sometimes, you make a friend.
Alot of dot commers are bitter is because they were truly just in it for the money. They really hated the job, but they liked the money so they came in everyday and worked many hours. If someone offered me gobs of stock and told me I would do this and I asked them what did they do and they told me just publish a webpage or give away free coffee or sell groceries online, even then, I would have laughed in their face and walked back to my job confident that the College I work for would still be there at the end of this crazy mess. Who still has a job? Granted, I will never make gobs of money (not much risk at all in my job), but I will have a house, a car and a happy family to show for it. That's all I can ask for. I don't NEED a BMW. I don't necessarily need a new computer (although one would be nice, my current one works just fine). I don't need a IN Home Movie Theater(who has time for it?). My point, be happy with what you have. If you don't like your situation, change it. If you are unhappy, but making gobs of money, find some job you'd be happy in that pays enough money. In the long run, you will be much happier and a better person. Oh, and I don't think most people CARE if their Hot Dogs were made from hormone free beef (wait, don't cows already produce hormones??). All they want is a good hot dog. If you can produce that and stick to your morals and do it for a good price, you will do well. It appears the Hot Dog guy in the story is doing OK. And isn't that all we can ask is that we are doing OK?
Jam some electrodes in my cats head and give him a shock when he doesn't pee/poop in the box!
For reciving, a tuned antenna is nice, but not really necessary. You can recieve of fof almost anything. Transmitting is where it's essential to have a tuned antenna as it effects the amount of power coming out. That said, I am a ham, and there are VHF (2m band is VHF) antennas as small as my thumb. Sure, they are not the greatest, but they work.
I stayed at a Omni in Dallas for a business trip. a 10 oz (yeah you heard right....a 10 oz!) Coke cost $2.75 + 17 %. Over 3 bucks for 10 oz's of pop! I found a grocery store and got a 12 pack. For a 50 cent bag of cookies it was also 3 bucks. Needless to say, I left the mini bar key at the front desk.
Well, horseplay fun yes. I like many others just get a charge out of playing with BIG iron UNIX servers and other types of servers. So, work is fun for me, but it is work. Leave the toys at home boys! Oh unless it's a PDA, Digicam or laptop! :)
Hey this isn't a bad idea! Wish I would have thought about that! Although I have a PDA for Avantgo and I ride a bus so I have time to read, but I can see how this would be a cool idea! Only problem....does the lynx dump dump html too? You'd probably have to parse the tags and javascript out as most all news sites use this stuff.
AND THEY ARE GUNNA USE THE FLASHY THING ON YA! Better watch out for Will Smith and Tommy Lee! Heh heh!
Good stuff! Glad to here service is good with BOTH companies! Something you hardly ever hear!
Yeah that is exactly what I was saying in another post. Besides, anything that compiles on Darwin would compile on a AIX machine too unless it's OS X and they are Cocoaizing a app. I would never see the point in porting it. Also, a port would be difficult as I am sure that ROS Microcode is different then a Mac's BIOS. Processor wise, it would be easy but there's too much pSeries specific stuff that would need ported to run on the Darwin kernel. Plus the AIX Kernel is way more advanced then Darwin. Darwin would need an equal advance to even make it worth doing. So, why even hope for it? Just run AIX and be happy your running a nice robust system that can also run KDE or GNOME instead of CDE (if you need those GUI things).
This would be a COMPLETE waste of computing power. Granted, a 630 is a deskside system (or can be rack mounted), but I would rather have it in a center as a print server or in some other small server capacity. Noone in my workplace would ever get a 12,000 dollar desktop! This guy could also be used in a HACMP configuration as well so I don't think it would be worth the waste of money it would be running a ported OS/X and a ported MSOffice. It would also be a TOTAL waste to run that on a Regatta (one frame replacing 3 frames). I have 10 servers I could replace very nicely with a Regatta. Only way I would like to see something like this is so that I could serve OS X desktops from a big honkin server for my entire organization. Even then, a Regatta would more then handle it
I really can't trust these benchmarks. They are produced by someone that will be SELLING Itanium 2 servers. Also, notice it says at the top hardware available Sept. 2002. That's next month! A site like Anandtech or some other independent reviewer needs to run benchmarks on these before I could trust the results. This is like Microsoft saying NT 7 or whatever is faster then Linux and showing some pretty graph before anyone could go BUY it.
Exactly. Most places aren't going to run a Regatta in a single server situation. They are going to divide it out into LPARS. Most common place would probably buy a Sun if they wanted it to be alll CPU's on one server, although the Sun's have the same or similar thing also. I think they are real close, though I would take the IBM because there service has been very good at our site. I had a drive go bad and they were out the next day and the box never had to be downed either. Plug the new drive in, run cfgmgr and the drive is there and ready to be reallocated. Most times we do down the box though just in case...plus they also run cfgmgr on boot so when you reboot the drive will be there also.
From and Admin standpoint, I like AIX. The Sun has nothing compared to smitty. Admintool doesn't even come close. One upside to sun is there's no ODM so you can admin everything by editing the text files. You can do the same on a AIX box if you don't want to have the settings there on a reboot (if it ain't in a rc script or the ODM, it's gone.). Smitty also makes things easier for a first time admin. You can learn the commandline way by using smitty. Don't get me wrong...sometimes the raw way is good, but if your not sure what your doing, you can always pic your way through smitty.
Also if you want a complete IBM solution, you can get the Shark storage server which scales up to 27TB (TERABYTES!) of fiber channel connected storage! Granted, you could also use pretty much any UNIX®, Windows NT®, Windows® 2000, Novell NetWare®, Linux, IBM iSeries(TM) and AS/400®, IBM zSeries (TM) servers and S/390® too. It's just nice to have everything supported by IBM.
I have never had to call IBM twice to get a tech there. IBM's support has been exemplary which is more then I can say for Xerox, Novell and our ISP. I have no idea what Sun's suport is like because i have never had the opportunity to run a bigger Sun machine. Just ran workstation class machines here.