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So I am listening to the radio this morning when a commercial comes on for GCI, the primary Telephone, Wireless, TV and Internet provider in Alaska touting how they offer blazing fast speeds, the fastest in Alaska etc.
Immediately afterwards the Alaskan news comes on with the top story "Alaska has the 49th slowest internet speeds in the country!, only Arkansas is slower..."
Oops, bad timing that eh?
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So I am listening to the radio this morning when a commercial comes on for GCI, the primary Telephone, Wireless, TV and Internet provider in Alaska touting how they offer blazing fast speeds, the fastest in Alaska etc.
Immediately afterwards the Alaskan news comes on with the top story "Alaska has the 49th slowest internet speeds in the country!, only Arkansas is slower..."
Oops, bad timing that eh?
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Yea, but a patch within 24 hours seems a bit much.
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Seems Google is already releasing a patch for it... they are starting to look like Micro$oft.
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For newbies who may be unsure, only more recent operating systems are released in home versions as 64 bit. My guess would be Vista and up. Some older versions could be bought as 64 bit, but those were usually the enterprise versions.
My Father-in-law, daughter & wife all bought laptops with Windows 8 or 8.1 and all are 64 bit, mine was Win 7 and 64 bit but that was intentional. So if you have Win 7 o 8 it may be 64 bit. However the University here where my wife works are Win 7 32 bit.
If you are wondering, go into your "start -> control panel -> system and it will tell you"
Also if you see this:
- x86 = 32 bit
- x64 = 64 bit
Final note: Chrome does not play well with itself. You can and may have IE 32 bit & IE 64 bit on a 64 bit machine, but Chrome 32 bit must be completely uninstalled before installing the 64 bit version or it might screw up updates later.
Cheers!
PS. HTG Explains: What’s the Difference Between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows?
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It is a Java based scripting language to be used by programmers with Beatles haircuts or Goatees and listening to Bob Dylan or the Ventures...
Actually it is a script language from Java that runs on the Java VM and can use Java Libraries etc. If you know Java there is an interesting article that takes a Java code and rewrites it step per step into a pure Groovy code and cuts it down in size by a good 3rd. It also makes some Java things easier to do. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/groovy-1695411.html
I just heard of it a week or so ago, it is used allot with Oracles Fusion Middleware ADF structure which we are starting to develop at work. I just can't use it yet as it is used for the newer 12c products and we are still on 11g, but I am looking into it for when we upgrade.
It is certainly easier than traditional Java and can do as much if not more. It is about like learning JavaScript, however can't be turned off and runs anywhere Java runs. However it is a script for applications, web applications etc, not really just to run web pages like JS. It would seem to be great for Java programmers, as well as flavors like Gthon (Groovy Python) etc.
I have just started reading about it the last two days, but it seems worth knowing about.
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Just wondering if anyone here has used Groovy Script at all?
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That was a boring answer...
... too serious. 
Things are slow at work and I actually considered doing a base project management project for it for fun.
However with more info now, this siren is supposed to sound more American (Why?) and will be used to pull over cars for instance. The traditional German?European Ta-Too-Ta-Ta sirens will still be used for going to emergencies.
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My wife just passed this along to me. The German Police have a new siren (an irritating one at that). You can find it on YouTube.
But I am an Analyst/Programmer. So I asked myself "How do you even go about doing that?" I mean if any of you have project management experience, just consider it. How does it even start? A regular meeting and no new issues so some suites are having coffee and chatting and one suggests new sirens for the police?
Then how would you budget it? Hire a project lead and a team for him? Who do you get to make the noises? "The Ministry of Irritating Noises" Monty Python Style? Meeting to discuss base sounds over treble sounds? Volume minimums and maximums? Quick, slow, or repeating sounds? Think of writing the paperwork asking for funding from the politicians you have to convince. How do you decide what the cost will be? Do you put it up for bids commercially? What do you decide the "Lifespan" of this new siren would be before it needs to replaced?
What kind of timeline would you need? How long? What benchmarks would you set? How about project management diagrams with stick figure users etc.
When you have it who approves it for testing, who tests it? Is it even a career description? "Certified Siren Tester"? Then who is responsible for approving it for use with the police?
Maybe it is just me, but I find the idea of project management for this hilarious, where did the idea even come from?
...maybe it would be a challenge for Stefan to do a video tutorial on project management using this scenario... *evil snicker* -
You should really re-consider scrolling text. The W3C rejected Mozilla's scrolling text back in the 80's for the simple reason it is not user friendly. We all read at different speeds, include those with cognitive disorders who cannot understand faster text, Dyslexics who will have a devil of a time reading it. People who do not have English as a first language, they will all have issues if you have it at to fast a scroll and "Fast" can be different speeds for different people. Then there are the fast readers or those who skip words to read faster will find other text speeds to slow...
Remember, you are creating a web site for others to use, so what you consider slow may still be to fast for sum. It really is not worth alienating users due to scrolling they can not read as it is to fast or to slow to read and boring for fast readers.
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I know some of you old-timers out there must have computer stories that experienced folks can laugh at & new folks can learn something... maybe.
1) My wife called earlier that they seemed to have power outage, not uncommon in Juneau even in the summer. But the lights works where as the PCs did not. She just texted me that someone hat the brilliant idea of turning off the power to the fire alarms to see if they run on batteries. Another brilliant person years ago put all the PCs for her building on the same circuit, so they all lost their ability to work for an hour and no one could figure out why.
- Really? No documentation for the Alarms?
- Is turning off the fire alarms a good call during the work day?
- Alarms should really be on a dedicated circuit don't you think?
2) Also today a fellow employee has made his 30 years with the State of Alaska (most of it in this office). Back in 1983, joined this office as a programmer. He did something and a process failed so he reported it to the head programmer. That person said not to worry, it fails more often than not and is on a Paradox server that they will be getting rid of soon enough as it is an old database standard and out of date. About 7 years ago our Division Director slid a note to the new Deputy Director asking him to ask a question during a sales pitch by a computer company vendor, so he asked if the program in question was compatible with Paradox and the description in his own words: "The fellows eyes popped open and his jaw dropped and he asked astonished if we really were still using Paradox, he did not know and said he would have to check on that." Well Paradox was supposed to go away in 1983 and it was considered old then... we just sun-downed it two weeks ago, 31 years later.
Did my Paradox story send shivers up any spines? Over two extra decades of giving generations of programmers grief! Glad I only worked with it a short time when I started 5 years ago, I was re-writing to Paradox apps into Crystal Reports... so they could sun-down it... back then!
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Check out Balsamiq Mockups.
That is what my office uses. I believe you can use it just fine free, but have to pay for the bells & whistles. I have come to really like it.
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Only Hours? Well done, I have spent days on more than a few, even weeks occasionally.
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I didn't like my 30's enough to want to stay there.
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Since women never age over a certain point... I will be catching up to you in another 36 months.
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My daughter makes mine old... teenagers...
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I am younger than I actually feel... 49... & 3/4. I think. Part of my autism is a lousy memory, I mix up my age constantly adding or subtracting a year. But I like the 6 Billion answer.
Not to turn this into a religious discussion... but even when I was younger I wondered how they figure 7 days. A "day" is based on the earth rotating around the sun. However the Sun was not created until the 4th "day", so what is the definition of a day prior to the sun? How do you even define a "day" in the life of a god, is he limited to man's definitions? So days 1-4 could be billions of years and days 5-7 24 hr. days.
So either of the proposed answers could be correct. So I think we should compromise: I am 6 Billion, 6 Thousand and 49 Years old (1,000,006,049... and 3/4) or for those who like to tell us their baby is 14 months old rather than just say a year - 83,333,837.42 months old. Anyone know what that is in dog years?
NOTE: Stef is still avoiding answering. Your a guy, we are allowed to ask you you know.
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Imagine, I keep forgetting how long we have been friends. Bad me! Ich bin bekloppt!
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Let me see, I remember Mead,
- Les is AWOL though he did make a quick appearance a year or so ago.
- DesignBySLS, I wrote her a bit back, but no answer yet.
- Their were also a few who came over from my old "MSN Communities" Days
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I also remember the first "Hubba-Bubba" bubblegum commercial.,, The caveman... long before GEICO.
I remember when Bubblegum was hard as a rock... Because it was a Rock! - Hubba-Bubba caveman
Also note that Stef still has not answered the proposed question.
Hmmmmmmm? But I assume he was around when we invaded Canada, maybe even partied with the Vikings when they discovered North-America, after, I assume, the Native-Americans misplaced it and needed help finding it again.and Andrea - you still look as good as you did the first time I saw you you when I almost hit you while riding my Mammoth to work to program schematics for the wheel with that 011010011001 language.
NOTE: Now I am beginning to wonder if it wasn't Bubbleiscious gum.
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Let's test him: Our Radio announcer today said he fills old because he remembers when Mr. Potato Head was just a pack of ears, noses, eyes etc. that you stuck into real Potatoes. The younger newly hired announcer just knows plastic Potatoes with eyes etc..
I remember THAT you originally used real potatoes, but I think I always had plastic potatoes.
So Stef, do you remember real potatoes or plastic potatoes? Of course I also remember G. I. Joe before Kung-Fu grip and "Life Like Hair".
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*Chuckle*
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XP is History. It reached "end of life" April 18th, so it is no longer being updated, no more security patches etc.. Anyone still running XP will be open to a lot of security holes and open for attack. Supposedly 1/3 of all operating systems out there are still XP including allot of bank money machines etc.
We had to re-write and modify allot of the OLD Access 97 apps that we still had users using because they were running them on an XP virtual box which the state demanded closed down to due to security. So we had to improvise a way to get them to run on Win7. For some reason we had a handful of 97 Access apps that broke when we tried to convert them to Access 2010 years ago so they were on the virtual boxes.
And for you Win7 users... our time is coming, Win7 hits "end of life" in 2020. On the bright side, Win9 is supposed to make an appearance this fall and maybe will be more NOT Touchscreen Unfriendly as Win 8 is.
Bad Timing...
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LOL... or get decent providers.