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Help with Changing Window (caption?) buttons
Ok, i've been trying to work out how its done all morning by looking through the files with restorator, but i've thrown the towel in, and am now pleading for help I have a style i really like, but the window (min/max/close) buttons are not very nice.
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And i found a style with great buttons, but i'm not keen on the rest of it.
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So, i've been trying to suss out how to extract the buttons from from the 2nd style, and use them replace the ones in the first...(is this even possible to do like that?) but not being too clued up on this, i've not been successful. I would be very grateful if someone with the brains for this could point me in the right direction, Or..(If its not too rude to ask) Can someone do it for me please? i'd be very grateful...
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If the extra themes have separate files from the original Aero theme (I can't check as the only theme I can use is Basic), then it should be possible...Just need to figure out where to look. I'll see what I can dig up on this...
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Ahh, ok, sorry, maybe i wasn't very clear in my explanation
I was after the Top theme (7aero shine black) as is, but with the min/max/close buttons from the bottom theme.
I should have done a mockup to make it clearer.
Here's a hastily prepaired one, if you notice, its the same as the top style, but it has the window buttons (top right) from the other style.
Thankyou for you efforts all the same though
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|16 Feb 2010
Something like this one?
To tell the truth, I won't use this one for those bugs in the start menu:
Anyway, test it at first, then find a good start menu and I will try my best to meet your requirement~~
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Awesome, just what i was after, many thanks
You must have eyes like a hawk, i never noticed them bugs, and i have been using it for a few months now, although, i wish you never mentioned it, as i am going to notice them all the time now...lol
If i may be cheeky and ask one more small favour?
you might have noticed, the style came with 2 different types of taskbar, one rounded/glossy (like in the style you did) and one flat...do you think you could a flat taskbar version too, if its not too much trouble?
As for the start menu, standard aero one would be fine, as it looks about the same as the one in the 7aeroBlack style.
I'm very grateful for all your help (even if you did tell me about the bugs )
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Awesome, just what i was after, many thanks
If i may be cheeky and ask one more small favour?
you might have noticed, the style came with 2 different types of taskbar, one rounded/glossy (like in the style you did) and one flat...do you think you could a flat taskbar version too, if its not too much trouble?
As for the start menu, standard aero one would be fine, as it looks about the same as the one in the 7aeroBlack style.
Please post those 2 themes with different types of taskbar with 2 folders for me to download. OK?
For example: xxxxx(rounded), and xxxx(flat).
With them I need not try each other before the modification.
I'm going to meet some friends this morning (it's 8:59 AM here in Taiwan). They should be in your hand in 10 hours, I hope.
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Ok, this is the rounded taskbar theme.
You have already fixed the caption buttons, so it just needs standard Aero start menu, to fix bugs.
This is the Flat taskbar style.
Needs caption buttons changed & Aero Start menu to fix bugs.
Again, thankyou very much for your time, have a great day with your friends.
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Texts of the address and search boxes glow a little more for easier to read of the "flat one":
Hope you like both of them. And, send me message if you find any bug, I'll be at your service. The Chinese lunar new year (holidays) will be over soon, it won't be possible for me to wonder here now and then.........
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Now thats what im talking about
That looks great
And thanks for turning the glow up too, it does make it easier to read titles
Again, thanks for you time and efforts, thats just what i wanted.
Very kind
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Decades after Brown, some schools still less equal than others, critics say
BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA Staff Reporter May 16, 2014 9:32PM
This 1964 photo shows Linda Brown Smith in front of the Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas. The public school refused to admit Brown in 1951, when she was 9 years old, because she is black. After the resulting lawsuit — Brown v. Board of Education — the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1954, overruled the "separate but equal" clause and mandated that schools nationwide must be desegregated. | Associated Press
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On May 17, 1954, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separate education systems were inherently unequal.
But 60 years later, a funding system based on property taxes ensures that Illinois schools remain so, say civil rights and education groups.
The Brown case was the result of a lawsuit brought by the NAACP. It was meant to end separate — and inferior — schools for black students.
But critics of Illinois' school funding point to Chicago Public Schools as proof that the state still has problems with inequality among and within school districts.
"Funding is the new manipulation to deny equal protection under the law. They rationalize resource discrimination as a right," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson of Rainbow PUSH.
"Look at Harper High in Englewood, then Neuqua Valley High in Naperville," he said. "Or Harper and Walter Payton College Prep. The suburban and North Side schools teach pre-college courses, high math, foreign languages; the other teaches at a standard far below that."
Remedy could be on the horizon in the School Funding Reform Act of 2014, introduced last month and expected to come up for a vote in the Illinois Senate next week, say the groups, who plan commemorative events on Saturday — at Operation PUSH, and at an anti-CPS rally.
Senate Bill 16, sponsored by Sen. Andrew Manar (D-Bunker Hill), would enact a weighting system to take into account factors such as low-income, English-as-second- language and special education populations in funding school districts.
Thus, challenged urban and rural districts would garner more funding than wealthier ones.
"At the end of the day, we're either serious about closing the education gap, or we're not," said Robin Steans, executive director of the education reform group Advance Illinois.
"At this 60th anniversary, we're reminded there is no more critical foundation for anybody's future than a good education. Senate Bill 16 is a serious and doable effort to drive state dollars to students most in need. It would be a tragedy if we do not pass it," Steans said.
Activists said the state has dragged its feet on a 2008 lawsuit brought by the groups; they believe Illinois' funding system violates the civil rights of black and Hispanic children.
"On the one hand, Brown v. Board of Ed clearly opened doors of opportunity for many of us, myself included," said Andrea Zopp, an attorney and president of the Chicago Urban League.
"The sad part is we clearly have lost some ground," said Zopp, who's a member of the Chicago Board of Education. "Normally, with civil litigation like this, you would try to find a pathway to agreed resolution. The attorney general has been unable to do that. That's disappointing."
The class action suit, naming the state and the Illinois Board of Education, seeks to declare the funding system unconstitutional, claiming it violates the right to "high-quality educational institutions" guaranteed under the Illinois Constitution's education article.
"We feel strongly that we have enough evidence to convince both a court of law and a court of public opinion," said Lisa Scruggs, lead attorney on the suit handled pro bono by legal powerhouse Jenner & Block. "We filed this lawsuit in 2008, and it is now 2014. There have been a number of points where we've wanted to move more quickly and the other side hasn't."
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, however, denies any stalling.
"This issue has been litigated numerous times," said Madigan spokeswoman Maura Possley. "The Illinois Supreme Court has clearly ruled that changes in state education funding have to originate in the legislature."
PUSH will commemorate the anniversary at its Saturday morning forum, and a rally will be held at the shuttered Pope Elementary School, 1852 S. Albany.
"Education is still as separate and unequal as ever," said Jitu Brown, education organizer with the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, and national director with the Journey for Justice Alliance, made up of groups nationwide.
On Wednesday, the Alliance led a rally on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, then filed civil rights complaints with the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Department of Education over the closing of public schools and promulgation of charters in Chicago, Newark and New Orleans.
"School privatization is the new Jim Crow. Forcing failed education experiments down the throats of black and brown families is unacceptable," charged Brown.
CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett agreed equal education remains a civil rights issue, but disagreed with the bleak assessment of Chicago's public schools.
"In Chicago, our children are fortunate to have talented teachers, strong principals, and communities who are invested in their success," Byrd-Bennett said. "As a result, Chicago's students have achieved record rates of high school graduation, college enrollment and persistence and the trends and lead indicators for the future are promising."
But Jackson and others said CPS has far to go to remedy inequities.
"They're getting ready to build a $60 million school on the North Side named after the president, when there are 140 schools that don't have a library, 120 of which are south of North Avenue," said Jackson. "No library would be unimaginable for many North Side schools."
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by James Slater: The sky fell in on the heavyweight known as "Big Sky" last night. Boxing on the under-card of the Pacquiao-Diaz clash in Las Vegas, Monte "Two Gunz" Barrett pole axed the touted Tye Fields in less than a minute of action. Thought to be a relatively safe step up for the 6'8" Fields, Barrett instead proved to be way too much for the untested 33-year-old..
The battle was over almost as soon as it started, and southpaw Fields, now 41-2(37) was ruthlessly exposed as a big guy who simply cannot fight at anything approaching the top level. The 37-year-old Barrett, who put himself in line for at least one more decent payday as he improved to 34-6(20), scored his best win in years.
Coming out fast, the colossal Fields was looking to run right over his man. Immediately going on the back foot, Barrett, at 220 pounds out-weighed by some forty-five pounds, was hurt by a hard left hand to the body. For a few seconds it seemed the smaller man (6'3" to 6'8") would get wiped out pretty quick. But then, as he was under attack on the ropes, Barrett unleashed a terrific right hand counter. Hurt badly, Fields was to take three more big rights to the head - the final shot sending him down.
Fields tried to get up to continue, but he'd totally gone and though he just beat the count at about nine, referee Kenny Bayless had no choice but to wave the fight off. The official time was a mere 57 seconds. Barrett, who was justifiably proud of his knockout showing, further displayed his athleticism by treating the fans to an impressive back flip as soon as the fight was stopped.
In scoring such an eye-catching KO on such a big stage, the 37-year-old who has been in with the likes of Joe Mesi, Hasim Rahman and Nikolay Valuev in his time (losing to all three), will have got himself noticed, that's for sure. And even though beating Fields doesn't really mean all that much - in the opinion of most critics anyway - fans like to see knockouts. Who knows, Barrett may even get himself some type of title fight off the back of this spectacular win?
As for Fields, the 1st round stoppage he suffered back in his only second year as a pro - when he was KO'd by the little known Jeff Ford - may not have been the fluke his team tried to make out it was. It may seem cruel, but Tye Fields, as nice a guy as he is, was all but eliminated from ever having a future in the top echelon of the heavyweight division last night.
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday called for a two-way dialogue process to end the political unrest in the State and pointed out bilateral agreements had failed to achieve any solution.
Mr. Abdullah asserted that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) would go during his term, which ends in 2014.
Replying to a debate over grants for the departments under him, Mr. Abdullah said the dialogue process to end the crisis in the State should be two-way. "Talks should be held with Pakistan to normalise the situation between two countries, which is imperative for peace, and dialogue should be initiated with the State people as well. Bilateral talks on any side in the past have not yielded anything," he said.
Mr. Abdullah in a subtle way made scathing attacks on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and its president Mehbooba Mufti. The party said during the debate that a sense of insecurity was palpable during this government.
Mr. Omar said that during his eight-month rule, the situation was far better than the period during which Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Ghulam Nabi Azad ruled the State from 2002-08.
Mr. Abdullah said, "I assure the people of Jammu and Kashmir on the floor of the House that the AFSPA will go during the six year term of my coalition government. I would have applauded the PDP people had they raised this issue in Parliament. I tried to check all records and I found not a single word was spoken about the AFSPA revocation by any of the PDP members."
"Decline in killings"
He said the PDP was saying a fear psychosis was created by his government. "In the first seven months of our government, only 53 civilian killings had taken place." Killing of Special Police Officers (SPOs), Village Defence Committee (VDC) members, cross firing, and random firings also had shown a gradual decline.
"There is an 83 per cent decrease in cross firing incidents and 88 per cent decrease in random firing incidents," he said. Incidents of civilian killings were down by 25 per cent, of paramilitary personnel by 21 per cent, and of police personnel by 33 per cent. "How can you [PDP] say a fear psychosis has been created?"
"People feel free"
"Normality is prevailing in the State. For the first time, people felt free on January 26. There were no restrictions. On August 15, a record number of people flooded the tourist destinations — 2.5 lakh people visited Pahalgam, 1.5 lakh visited Gulmarg, and thousands visited other tourist destinations. Had there been insecurity among the people, they would not have left for these tourist destinations on August 15."
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Mass Effect: Ten lightweight laptops that won't bust your back
I'm resorting to stopgap measures
I've been waiting for a successful Windows 2-in1 solution for about 2 years now... they are still too expensive and/or have major problems. Dell XPS 11 (which doesn't really exist yet), Sony flip 13 or Yoga 2 are the closest, but I'm not really interested in £1100+.
To my delight I recently discovered that the new Bay Trail Atom processors are much improved over the previous generation (3-5x faster), and are now able to run full Windows 8.1 without any noticeable slowness, play basic games, battery lasts 10+ hours, and machines with them generally come with Office 2013 for free. I'll probably be getting an Asus Transformer Book T100 this Christmas for £349 (if I can find one).
It will do me at least until vendors sort out the problems with the big expensive machines.
Flash stash on toppa platta: WD's tasty Black² 1TB combo for LAPTOPS
You missed the point
For everyone who is saying it's worse and more expensive than getting two separate drives, you missed the part where the article says it is aimed as an "upgrade option for notebooks, [and] small form-factor PCs with a single drive slot".
Google Translate for Android adds offline translation option
This is good, but overdue.
Just wanted to pop in to support my chosen platform (since we are a bit thin on the ground here, and everyone seems to think that Windows Phone is so lacking) and mention that Bing Translator has provided free offline translation for about a year. It works well (but I'd love to compare the results of the two knowing Google's high quality in the area). TBH I can't believe it wasn't available on Android before now.
Redmond slashing Win8, Office OEM rates for small devices
Re: Windows Cash Cow on death row
MS competed with its partners because its partners had not made any innovative AND good hardware for years (apart from Asus, coming up with new and successful form factors like eeePC and Transformer).
It must have been so sad for MS to see the bloated, slow moving and unmotivated PC makers do such a shite job while Apple was able to control things themselves and produce attractive hardware that people could fall in love with. I'm not surprised they wanted to motivate (embarrass) their industry by showing them how it's possible to innovate on their first attempt at a hybrid (whether you like it or not, the Surface is novel). It's not a betrayal, it's a kick up the backside, a "could do better".
With partners like that, who needs enemies? I hope most of the old players fail, leaving a handful of innovators producing compelling products (Samsung, Asus, MS themselves, and someone else).
Incoming comet will probably miss Mars, says NASA
Good motivation
I actually kind of hope that it does hit, it would be great to study. But more importantly, it would be a spectacular reminder to everyone that this could happen to Earth, and we'd better get cracking re: interstellar life boat development.
Review: Living with Microsoft's new Surface Pro
Re: cooling vent?
That very short battery life figure was the result of the very intense PowerMark 1.2 battery benchmark, which is way less than what you would get with normal use. It would be nice if the review said something more exact about what a normal user can actually expect... but they do say "getting more than a day's business use without the charger is perfectly possible if you're not silly about what you do and use power saving modes"
Nokia chief Elop: 'Android? Hey, anything's possible!'
Re: Elop - Chief Executive Orafice
Nokia stock is up 119% from 6 months ago. Yes, its 19% down from 1 year ago, but it is starting to look like it might be turning around. I'd like to see what happens on Jan 24...
Long-suffering Virgin Media victims see no end to vid PURGATORY
I experience this on VM "National Broadband" (ADSL)
I have the problem on a daily basis. Although my ADSL connection is fast for normal downloads, and gaming pings are acceptable, youtube buffers big time (haven't really tried other video streaming services). So it's apparently not restricted to fibre optic customers.
It's such a PITA to change providers though that I am battling on.
Hobbits enlisted to make punters look at the air-safety vid
This is the first one of these that I haven't found cringeworthy. Very good.
Microsoft Surface: Join the Windows 8 teardown
Re: This is soooo MSFT
I have a Lumia 800. I never expected to be able to upgrade it to Win8/WP8, an OS that is coming out over a year since I bought the phone. I don't care about this. If it does happen, I will be pleasantly surprised.
There's a good chance that it would run slower and thus do a worse job than WP7 does (which the device specs were designed for) anyway, and I'd lose.
The Register is rocking on Windows Phone 7
Very pretty, very usable, appreciated
Would be nice if there was an indicator as to which you had and hadn't read.
Woz says Windows Phone 'sets the mark' for mobile UI
Re: Usability is king.
This echoes my thoughts almost exactly. I used to have an Android (2.2), but strongly disliked how slow it quickly became and how badly it managed internal vs. SD card storage. Also, I found the look of the OS highly unattractive compared to the competition. I never wanted an iPhone because I'm difficult.
I got a Nokia Lumia 800 mostly because it was really smooth even compared to dual core Androids, and it looked damn sexy. My colleagues thought their new Androids were smooth until they played with the Lumia for a second.
I stayed because after 4 months it's still LOVELY to use (particularly love the curved screen) and every week I'm surprised by the app availability. My expectations were low, but the free Nokia suite of apps is great, there are new major 2K games such as Civilization, and all the time I'm seeing companies start to advertise their apps as available on iPhone, Android AND WP7. As a music player, it lasts all day and seems to have good sounds quality.
Yes there are some odd things still missing such as tethering :(, the ability to change MMS settings, some bluetooth strangeness being three.
I see it as a competitor to non-power Android users rather than Apple fans (as they are more locked into the ecosystem and/or want a status symbol). There are an awful lot of android users who just want a smartphone that works and isn't too expensive. WP7 is a much better (normal) user experience than Android.
Shuttle Enterprise comes home to New York
Looks a bit like an orca in immoral congress with a baleen whale, don't it?
Yes, yes it does. Thanks for that!
Wondershare PowerCam
Not really
Real photographers don't want to do this kind of garbage to their photos.
UK retailers start taking Nokia Lumia 900 orders
Re: I don't understand...
It is a user experience hint that you should swipe that way to see other app pages/panels. Apps are actually a long string of panels next to each other that you swipe through, and long titles can span across more than one.
41-megapixel MONSTER mobe shutters Nokia knockers
Real information
If you'd like to read an explanation about how this will actually work, rather than making bogus comments about huge file sizes (which will not be the case) etc. read this: http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/02/27/Nokia-808-PureView-with-41MP-sensor
The sample images are way better than standard compact camera shots, in detail, colour reproduction and noise, because the sensor is 5x bigger. It really looks amazing for a phone camera. Now we just need to see how it performs when the photos come from someone other than the Nokia marketing department. I hope it performs well.
I can't imagine going for Symbian, being end-of-life... but how bad can it be when I just want an awesome compact camera that can take phone calls, send text messages and browse the internet?
Five ways Microsoft can rescue Windows Phone
First, congrats everyone! I'm so surprised that these comments have been so reasonable.
I upgraded from HTC Desire (I really didn't like that phone) to Lumia 800 about 1.5 months ago.
- The user experience is really good, I love the hardware and software design. The screen is just great - not just the quality, but the curve looks special and it's nice to interact with. Regarding the text flowing off the screen, this is 99% of the time only the headings, and is a user experience design choice to hint to the user that they should scroll across to see more screens. WP7s design is full of these hints, and you really have to use the phone to realise why things are laid out in certain ways.
- It definitely feels like a 1.1 device... no tethering... no VPN connectivity that I can work out, limited multitasking... this is hopefully work in progress...
- Many people - not just in these comments think that the name "Windows" should be dropped. I do see their point. Hopefully the fact that MS is doing a serious marketing department reorg will result in their image improving (can we get some less cringe-worthy ads please).
- Relaxing hardware specs a bit will allow manufacturer innovation. Nokia needs this, although IMO they currently make the only WP phones that aren't totally dull and effectively invisible to potential customers.
If WP gains ground, I think it will be against Android. iPhone people just can't think of anything else, or have Macs at home now. Android users just want a phone that works, and sometimes it doesn't with all the fragmentation. Nokia needs to stick at it for at least 1 more year before things will start to improve I think.
I agree with George 8 that windows everywhere should be MS' target, and I think they are definitely trying to achieve it.
Facebook sheds light on Nokia's Lumia sales
It's not actually bad...
The embedded app is not so bad. It doesn't let you do everything, but provides the ability for things you normally need to do, and is a much nicer interface than the FB app or websites. As it is embedded, you benefit from a unified user experience for your basic/important functionality.
Unfortunately, early adopters are usually techie people, for whom user experience is often not a priority.
The Nokia Lumia 800 is by far better and more enjoyable to use than my previous phone, an Android HTC Desire. Obviously that is much older and slower...
I hope Nokia and WP don't die... what's wrong with a third way?
@j10fighter the writer is talking about the the WP7 embedded functionality, not the downloadable FB app for WP.
Starship Voyager dumped into skip
Awesome house!
Terrible business idea!
Networks nag Nokia to lower Lumia levy
How much lower?
It's a pretty well specced phone for the price, and I know it will run smooth as silk as it is has almost the same internals as the Lumia 800. WP7 doesn't need a dual core CPU, compared to Android (pre ICS) it is much less laggy naturally.
That said, they need a low price to entice people to Windows Phone. Clove's price is typically high, once it actually arrives I'd expect £220-£250 unlocked.
Honda NSX reborn as a hybrid
It's Gawdgus
However, I get the feeling somehow that it might be outside of my price range....
The greatest tech show on Earth
I like
That coke fridge mod is a great idea... looks great, has cooling build in, and means a few bevvies are never more than a metre away!
Asus Eee Pad Slider
Two things I wonder...
Looks interesting to me.
- What is the battery life like?
- Is it possible to run Windows XP or 7 on a Tegra chipset? Or indeed some kind of linux?
Synology DiskStation DS411+ Nas box
@Parax minor correction
Software installation isn't required, and the DSM3.0 (as well as previous recent versions) is fully available via a web browser (preferably, it is also available using an installable manager if you feeling like it). That's how I use it with my DS410j.
Shuttle Discovery set for final liftoff tomorrow at 7:52pm
This makes me sad.
PARIS HAS LANDED!!! Epic supra-atmos flight ends
Are you guys lost?
I guess we can't see locked gates from our satellite view. Cos it definitely looks like you turned around when you were going the right way!
BOFH: Pepper-packing bot plot
Has someone found a new muse?
Weekly updates and the best theme I've seen - Robot Wars!
Florida cops tase naked jogger
You want a title? I'll give you a title!
America, **** yeah!
BOFH: Robot wars
The best so far!
Windows Phone 7 up for grabs from 'excited' 3
Smell the prejudice
Can't the hate wait until it actually comes out and we KNOW it's bad?
Might as well give it a chance.
3D TV: Avatar or Ishtar?
I'd use it...
And already do - I have a NVidia 3D Vision capable PC and use it for 3D gaming. It works very well in fact, although the (shutter) glasses could be a bit more comfortable and aren't great if wearing for more than a few hours. Even works in conjuction with prescription glasses. The technology isn't perfect yet, but is bound to get better in time.
Because of the comfort issue, I'd probably use it more for watching movies and playing games than for general TV viewing.
I'm not even the early adopter type - not sure why I was in this case actually, but I'm mostly happy with it.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini
Beebplayer discontinued
Regarding your comment about BeebPlayer not showing in the market place, you can't blame SE for that - it has been discontinued and removed by the developer - http://androidforums.com/android-applications/84573-beeb-player-alternative.html
Clegg promises liberties restoration
Please let them have the resolve to actually push these through. This, and electoral reform so that next election, they have even more power to act.
Mobile Broadband Best Buys
Thanks Alun, there aren't many of these roundups for mobile BB around, very useful. A shame it came 2 days too late for me... I finally decided on a telco and took the plunge on the weekend. Thankfully, my choice (Vodafone) at least comes in as recommended!
Vodafone to introduce out-of-bundle data charges
Lost my business
I was about to sign up for Vodafone on a Desire contract, since Virgin Mobile have screwed up my order so royally (phone delivered to wrong address, order cancelled without telling me, order reprocessing system down for apparently 6 days now, having to go to the store to complete!!!!)
When both of the 2 best options are crap, where does this leave me?
Vote Lib Dem, doom humanity to extinction
Damn you
I finally thought I had a decision, and now you go and force me to rethink. They are some pretty bad points (bad points for the LibDems, good points from you).
What are the options if you don't want to vote for stifled technology, but still like their policies about political reform, and reversing the wave of civil liberty erosion the UK has suffered? Surely these are more central to their party values than their technology policies (being liberal and all). I would hope that they would be more flexible on the technology side of things.
Unfortunately for me, technological development and civil liberties are my top two issues. Why oh why do the Lib Dems have to do so well on one and so poorly on the other?
Hackers crack Ubisoft always-online DRM controls
Ubisoft: Stop killing PC gaming
I specifically didn't buy this the other day because of the DRM horror stories.
PC gaming (the best kind) is having enough trouble surviving without them making it worse. It makes me want to cry slash kick whoever is responsible for this in the nadgers (or female equiv).
MoD pays quadruple in money + blood for Afghan helicopters
Sounds crap...
...what can we do about it?
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Friday, December 31. 2010
NoSQL vs. Relational
Well, first of all, I suppose I need to have at least one blog entry per year, so this one just makes it.
For the last few months, I've been putting more and more data structures into MongoDB instead of MySQL, and I just put a task into the backlog to move everything from MySQL to Mongo.
I've worked with relational databases since 1989. Moving to an RDBMS from the indexed filesystems on the mainframe was a huge leap forward. It represented the start of the shift from overnight batch processing toward realtime data. For those twenty years I've been reverential toward the database component of the apps I've architected. I've spent significant upfront time putting together highly-normalized layouts with the goal of limiting schema changes as the product concept matures. Having had to do database conversions of various types, I've always preferred code conversions, so the idea is to overdesign the database as much as possible, and let the code catch up.
So, last year the talk around NoSQL really starts to heat up. It just doesn't hit home for me, though. Why should I change my strategy of a highly organized data structure and switch to a primitive key-store with no JOINs, no referential integrity, and no strong entity-attribute model? Sure, I can see some nice two-dimensional structures which would benefit from a high-speed data store, but that's what I use memcached for, so what's the big deal?
I decided to attend MongoNYC last May. It was convenient, it was cheap, so, why not?
I can't remember which session I was sitting in. But during that session, it hit me on the head like a licensing renewal bill from Oracle. This is an Agile development tool. If one of the important ideas behind Agile is to get a meaningful demoable feature in front of a customer or feature owner as soon as possible, then what am I doing spending all this upfront time designing a database with a dozen tables just to represent the customer contact who receives our invoice? Why can't the Customer record (document!) just have a list of contacts? I don't need a Structured Query language to assemble all the pieces of the document because I never tore the document into pieces in the first place. I can start writing the code, dump the data into a document, and get my prototype up and running.
So fast forward 6 months, and NoSQL gets more and more ink every day. Some well-respected MySQL people are still asking the wrong question. I know that performance has been a potent motivator behind the growth of MongoDB and the other NoSQL implementations, but the big deal here, folks, is development. For the last decade the true costs of running software have been tipping drastically towards product development costs and away from hardware and systems software costs. Unless of course, you're Twitter, and you want to handle 50 billion text messages per minute. But for those of us just trying to build useful apps, it's pretty cheap to throw money at performance issues. Don't get me wrong, I love the speed that Mongo gives me. But what's going to hit my bottom line is that I can get features out the door without an environmental impact statement for the database.
And, finally, I'm just having fun using MongoDB. Yup, I'm still in this for the kicks.
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Friday, December 12. 2008
Apropos of Nothing, my $0.02 on Detroit
The "big 3" automakers are no longer the real US auto production base. Honda, Nissan, Toyota (and their "hidden" brands) make cars for the US market here, and their sales are a significant part of domestic auto production.
The big 3 probably make more US-sold cars in Mexico and Canada then the Japanese make in the US.
And yes, I know that "make" doesn't mean anything when parts and intermediate assemblies criss-cross the world several times before final assembly.
The UAW is terrified of the manufacturers seeking bankruptcy protection because it's the closest the mfrs will ever get to rewriting work rules, pay scales and no-show job requirements. And all of those factors have one underlying concept: dues collection (and that cash doesn't go to retiree health benefits, either).
If Ford, Chrysler, GM "go away", then their brands, intellectual property (think of the hundreds of thousands of patents they hold), usable production capacity, and employable, productive people (minus their union contracts) will be snapped up at auction by the hedge funds that still have cash (yup there are a few, and I bet you could raise 4 billion in about 20 minutes to go shopping at a Detroit fire sale) or other capital-flush enterprises. Christ, if someone can invest $37million in a blog (Huffington Post), there must be capital for an automaker.
Isn't a hedge fund or Japanese manufacturer-led bailout at $0.25 on the dollar better than a runaway train government bailout at $5 on the dollar (how much actually has to be collected from us for each dollar paid out in a bailout)? Which will result in more "real" production of US autos and a better workforce and supply chain?
Yes, hedge funds are corrupt and leaky, just like a Federal agency, but they are much more efficient at it, and they didn't point a gun at anyone's head to get the money.
Finally, cars made by Detroit suck. Bottom line, they fall apart, they burn gas like there's a royalty arrangement involved, they lack features, and they're just not as much fun to drive. If a non-Detroit car sucks, it's likely that the suck factors will be addressed in the near future, OR, it's OK, because you still got value for money.
Which products should the market encourage?
Bzzt. Sorry. Too late. The market spoke long ago.
Thanks for listening. When I try to talk to my cats about this, they just get up and walk away.
Come on! Let's hear how utterly, completely, and thoroughly wrong I am! Speak up!
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Friday, September 26. 2008
A chance to make the commuter tax productive
Mayor Bloomberg has used the financial crisis as an opportunity to once again bring up the issue of a commuter tax.
The State Assembly (read Sheldon Silver, who represents a district in NYC) is willing to consider the idea.
The State Senate (read Dean Skelos, who represents a Long Island district) appears unwilling to even discuss it.
I guess that leaves David Patterson as the tie-breaker.
While drastic spending cuts would be preferable to any tax increase, maybe we can come up with a commuter tax that isn't a tax per se.
Let's collect the commuter tax at the bridges, tunnels, and to a much lesser extent, on the suburban rail and bus lines.
I've mentioned this before, but let's trot it out again.
Close the free Manhattan crossings inbound to private automobile traffic from 5AM to 3PM on weekdays. Force drivers in their own cars to pay to get into the city during working hours.
Increase the inbound toll on the remaining crossings to $40 during those times. This should be the main source of the commuter tax, and at the same time, create an incentive towards mass transit instead of the disincentive that exists now.
Eliminate on-street parking in Manhattan (below 135th Street) for private automobiles from 7AM to 8PM. Get the drivers who are willing to pay the higher toll into parking garages. Then hit them with an additional 10% sales tax on top of the existing sales tax. Manhattan residents who park monthly get a 100% exemption.
Add a 10% surcharge onto MTA and New Jersey Transit suburban line tickets coming into New York during those times. This should make up for the loss in tolls due to the increased prices, but not enough to offset the incentive.
Eliminate the outbound tolls. Get the vehicles out of Manhattan as quickly as possible.
The benefits to all this: Reduced traffic, which means lower costs for the movement of people and goods, cleaner air (reducing the cost of failing to meet federal pollution standards), reduced road maintenance costs, and best of all, fewer single-passenger SUVs blowing their horns at red lights.
I just loooove talking to myself.
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Tuesday, September 16. 2008
New Hardware Requirements For the Next Version of Windows?
Microsoft and Cray have announced a new supercomputer that runs Windows.
I think this is a pretty good indicator of the minimum hardware requirements for the next version> of Windows.
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Wednesday, April 9. 2008
Read the RFCs! That's why they're there!
Once again, I've been told that an IP address can only have one PTR resource record.
We got a new Internet connection in the office, and I requested 2 PTR records for an IP address on that connection to provide reverse address lookup. Can't have email rejected for lack of a reverse IP entry. After being ignored by Support for 2 days, I sent the request to the Account Manager, who said the request was rejected because I had 2 hostnames for one IP address, and that's not allowed.
I've heard this almost every time I've set up a new Internet connection since 1996. I can't believe there are techs who still think this is true.
From RFC2181 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2181.txt):
10.2. PTR records
Let's go folks. Just because Jon is dead, it doesn't mean that RFCs don't matter anymore.
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Wednesday, January 16. 2008
Kit Kat Needs You!
Calling all men! We want YOU - this kitty seems to respond more openly to gentlemen than to women. KitKat has been waiting for a new home for far too long ? since March 2007!
Kit Kat often gets overlooked ? while she is a bit sad and lonely here at Bideawee, her previous foster parent described her as a ?mushy lap cat.? She loves having her head and chin scratched, and watching the world go by from a window perch in one of our cat ?resorts.?
Kit Kat is a mellow 4 year old that was rescued from the street. Won't you please give this lonely girl a loving, forever home?
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Thursday, March 22. 2007
Hiring and Applicants from Mars (or they might as well be)
Well, it's time for me to start hiring again. And slowly, despite years of experience, I convince myself that it's OK to post jobs on craigslist and dice and to allow the job posting pages on our website to be indexed and scraped. And I hold my breath. Because I don't have a database backend for the application process yet (number 43 on the list of projects that were due yesterday). Because my Inbox is about to be flooded with applications. Some of them might actually be from people with a glancing, occasional relationship to the requirements in the posting. Some of them might even be within commuting distance of our offices, although most will be from a minimum of 4000 miles away.
Please, please don't start thinking that this is some anti-immigration rant. The only person I ever met whose family has been in this country for more than 150 years was Sue S., and I think they were the advance scouting party for the Mayflower. Her family had houses (there were a bunch of them after 350 years in the same town) with 5 foot high ceilings. Immigrants are the core, the backbone, the vitality of this country. If we want to end up like Europe, as a bunch of mouldering, inbred, half-wits waiting for Doomsday, then the current trend against immigrants is a brilliant move.
Sorry, I go off like that sometimes.
Anyway, it's not about where they're from, it's about where they are, and whether that location makes it even slightly possible that they could show up in the office for more than 2 hours a day a couple times per week. Oh, yes, I'm a dinosaur, a relic of ages past. I have heard that with this modern Internet thing, nobody needs to go to work anymore. We can all sit at home, jacked into a computer and it's like the whole world is one giant virtual office.
What a load of crap. Aside from the fact that I don't want to create a race of eyeball-radiated, anti-social, speechless robots who never have direct human contact, people work better when they are in somewhat close proximity. They talk, they enjoy each other's company, they gain a real sense of community, and are motivated to consider themselves part of the group.
Gee, there I go again.
The job posting says we want people with multiple years of commercial, hands-on PHP and MySQL experience to work full-time, on-site in our Manhattan office. So naturally, I get resumes from Romania, Dallas (not sure which is farther away), India, and Canada from people with no experience in programming, or extensive experience in VB and Access. Some of these are readable, thoughtful applications. I try to turn them down politely. Most however, are illiterate (aside from the language differences in, say, Texas), and don't come close to responding to the instructions in the posting, or have 'email@example.com' as the From: address. They're just awful as attempts to get me interested in the human behind the email.
It's very frustrating. It shows how incredibly broken the whole hiring process is. This should be a time when you meet people who will be an asset to your organization, where you make the process of selling your company as a place to work a joy and an exciting experience for the applicant. Wait. You don't think that the hiring process is a selling process? You sit back in your web and wait for your victims to beg appropriately for the privilege of working for you? Wow. First day on the job must be a blast with all those beaten, humiliated new employees shuffling in to their drab workplace, dreading first contact with the Dark Lord of hiring.
The person/company/extra-terrestrial invading army who can fix this horrible, demeaning, counter-productive morass will change the world. Too bad I won't live to see it.
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Friday, March 9. 2007
The Ambassador of Lindy Hop
A new book is due out this May chronicling the life and career of Frankie Manning, the "inventor" of the air-step in the Lindy Hop.
Manning was a dancer at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the early 30's. He toured with a dance troupe and appeared in films. When the popularity of swing faded, the troupe disbanded and Manning went to work at the Postal Service.
A revival of swing in the 80's brought Manning back into the dance scene as a teacher and choreographer, where he won a Tony for Black and Blue.
The book is written by Manning with his collaborator, Cynthia Millman. Cynthia has a passion for researching Jazz dance and music. From archival records and interviews with the originators, she has amassed a wealth of knowledge, as well as a superb collection of photographs, film clips and memorabilia. Cynthia has written extensively about dance, including articles for Oxford University Press's International Encyclopedia of Dance, and has served as consultant for numerous documentaries including the PBS Swinging with Duke. Through her presentations and demonstrations, she has also shared her passion directly with audiences in both the U.S. and Europe. Cynthia also happens to be the extraordinary librarian at the Town School in Manhattan.
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Friday, March 2. 2007
The PATH and the Second Avenue Subway
When the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad was laying out where its tracks and stations would go, the plans included a connection to the East Side via Astor Place and then on to Grand Central Station. This segment of the lines was never built, although a short stub of maybe 50 feet was built just east of the 9th Street Station.
Now comes the Second Avenue Subway with construction contracts about to be awarded. How about completing Mr. McAdoo's plans and building the extension out to Astor Place with transfers to the number 6 line and then Second Avenue?
That's a pretty short line from 6th Avenue to 4th Avenue and 2nd Avenue. Even the Port Authority should be able to manage a project like that.
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Monday, September 25. 2006
I came across Aboutus.org recently. I like it. They spider sites and pick just the About Us page.
Since it's a Wiki, you can also edit your page. So if the spider picks up the wrong About Us page, or there's more that you want to say, sign in and make it happen.
Here are my favorite AboutUs.org pages:
(of course)
LinkExperts Link building ad network.
TextLink.com The LinkExperts blog.
Cowgirl CreameryMmmmmmm.
Geody.com Look around at your planet.
BollywoodSARGAM The intersection of East and West.
Got a site? Go see if you're listed.
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Wednesday, August 23. 2006
How not to improve a grocery store
I went to the Gristede's supermarket (well, supermarket as it's defined in Manhattan) the other morning because we were out of milk. It was too early for the D'Agostinos to be open. I haven't been going to Gristede's recently because I found the store dirty, and the employees rude, but especially after one visit where I asked the manager to turn off the music on the PA. It was the worst kind of gangsta rap, including lyrics about killing policemen.
As the manager finally rang up my items (all three of them), I saw a circular on the wall announcing a company contest. Apparently, the corporate headquarters finally got tired of all the complaints about the stores. There were at least 8 different categories, including cleanliness, employee attitude, and produce quality. The contest was to reward the store manager whose unit improved the most in all the categories.
Wow. This just seemed wrong on so many levels. It may sound good to reward a store for improving in all these areas, but think about it. The manager (and, by extension, the district manager) who allowed this store to become the undesirable place which prompted so many complaints, would be rewarded and praised for bringing it back to the minimum acceptable level it should have been all along.
Also, this is basically a sales contest. The behavior driven by sales contests evaporates the instant that contest ends, or it participants realize that they can't win.
So, once this effort is finished, the stores will stop being cleaned, the employees will go back to insulting the customers (after they're finished ignoring them or discussing last night's drunken screw-ups), and the produce will stay on the shelves longer.
If Gristede's really wants to change this behavior, then the managers who were directly or ultimately responsible for the operations of these units should be demoted or fired. This is not about underperforming, this is about not doing their job, plain and simple. This goes all the way to the top. Maybe Mr. Catsimidis should spend more time in the stores and less time running for mayor.
If you want someone to excel at their job, make them understand that's what their job is about, day in and day out. Contests are for one-time jolts. Store cleanliness and employee attitude are not subjects for one-off and forget it contests.
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Sunday, July 30. 2006
Traveler's Insurance Gets Security Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Thanks to Joel Spolsky for the scan of the Traveler's Insurance ad in Inc. magazine:
Forget the geek stereotype stuff. Like the rest of humanity, you can find techies who fit stereotypes and techies who don't.
What matters here is that Traveler's is promulgating the idea that external threats are where organizations should direct the bulk of their security efforts (and, of course, increased insurance spending).
The threats come from the inside, people! Not the outside. Laptops gone missing (for some reason loaded with sensitive or confidential data), disgruntled employees, gossips, the complete and utter inability to secure media transformations (paper to disk to screen and back to paper again...), MS Outlook, security policies which focus on making legitimate tasks hard by forcing employees to jump through hoop after hoop of red tape, MS SQL Server, being unable to flexibly apply policies instead of using broad brushes to make everyone's like more difficult, and on, and on...
Whew! I feel better now. You can put away the needle with the tranquilizer. OK, yes, there are external threats, but they are much more readily identifiable, and easier to secure against.
There's also a slight matter of exactly what and how the insurer is actually underwriting. Read the contract really carefully, and you will find that unless you've been documenting every last sub-atomic particle of how you secure your premises, your systems, your operations, and your data, and that those efforts conform to some bizarre idea of security developed by an insurance industry task force, you ain't gonna see dollar one from that policy.
I am gonna get me a pair of red socks, though.
Posted by Writer in Computers and Technology, Ethics, Media at 08:58 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Top Exits (0)
Wednesday, July 26. 2006
What is wrong with you people??
Back in February I told you about World Community Grid. I explained how the computing power that sits almost 90% unused on the PCs you have at home, at work, and in school could be used to save lives. And you haven't done a thing about it!
Since May, the total amount of computing time per day at World Community Grid has plummeted from 130 years to less than 90 years. It should be increasing, not decreasing. I'll say it again. There are lives at stake here. This is something that costs you nothing, nothing! It is the greatest tool to assist scientific research in history. That's no exaggeration. This is as if every researcher in the world was all of a sudden given their own university with 10,000 research assistants.
The knowledge needed to understand disease and develop effective treatments and PREVENTION lies in the ridiculously overpowered machine that you bought to read email or make your mind-numbing Powerpoint presentations. You're not sharing it. Remember, sharing is good!
Seriously, join this project. If you don't like what World Community Grid is doing, go to the BOINC project at Berkeley. Their software is being used on a lot of different efforts. Find something that suits you and join in.
Posted by Writer in Computers and Technology, Ethics at 08:50 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Top Exits (0)
Monday, July 24. 2006
Who is Linkie-Winkie and why should I care?
Have you heard of linkie winkie?
No?, well neither have I.
Everybody's talking about it. See if your site has been linkie-winkie'd.
Nope, I'm not telling. You have to figure this linkie winkie thing out for yourself.
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Friday, July 21. 2006
Kids say the darndest things
Came across this as I was going over some old email. My son was reading "The Pushcart War" by Jean Merrill (1964). My wife was talking to him one evening as they discussed the project he was going to do on this book. She had sent this out in an email to some friends and family.
Last night Phillip and I were talking about "The Pushcart War", the book he's doing his project on. It's a satire about war and human weakness.
He's 10. Maybe he should be writing this blog.
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Golf is frustrating. We get it. It's not easy to go 18 holes without getting somewhat agitated, especially when you're not crazy about the players in your group. But this guy took it a little too far.
A Florida golfer was reportedly arrested for attacking his playing partners with his putter, sending one of them to the hospital, while also landing himself in jail.
Not exactly how you want to act on a golf course...
With this guy's insane attack on his group members, it got us thinking about some of the best golf meltdowns on social media. Because we all lose our cool every now-and-then, just not that badly.
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