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You deliver "value" using legacy equipment. You are also "of value" by delivering on legacy equipment.
Don't short yourself in today's business world. Laying bricks can only modernize in the prep process, one must still lay the brick one at a time.
Don't short yourself in today's business world. Laying bricks can only modernize in the prep process, one must still lay the brick one at a time.
No sir you are not the only one, I spend most of my time converting Fortran, Cobal and AS400 programs. As well as fixing and converting NT3 and 4 servers. There are a few of us left that still have to deal with Novell networks as well.
RBOC's - now THAT would seriously date you - that would be like referring to IPX/SPX or Netware. PDA - that's a good one.
But beyond that - I dunno. Noboby ever said 'Weblog' in the first place. I don't think I've ever heard the term Internet Telephony before. CDW, one of the largest networking vendors out there, often touts its 'extranet'. Everyone in my office refers to the intranet to differentiate from external sources, erp and other systems. And I'm pretty sure ours isn't the only company managing the thousands per month on LD.
But beyond that - I dunno. Noboby ever said 'Weblog' in the first place. I don't think I've ever heard the term Internet Telephony before. CDW, one of the largest networking vendors out there, often touts its 'extranet'. Everyone in my office refers to the intranet to differentiate from external sources, erp and other systems. And I'm pretty sure ours isn't the only company managing the thousands per month on LD.
My first foray into chat forums.
A/S/L/Pic??
AOL had the quantity, but Prodigy had the quality, if you know what I'm saying!
A/S/L/Pic??
AOL had the quantity, but Prodigy had the quality, if you know what I'm saying!
Who was AOL before they were called AOL?
Anyone remember Q-Link? Do you remember when AOL said that they would not be providing access to the internet? They had most of the online users and felt that the internet was just a distraction.
Philip
Anyone remember Q-Link? Do you remember when AOL said that they would not be providing access to the internet? They had most of the online users and felt that the internet was just a distraction.
Philip
Loved my Vic20 and moonlander!
What a game, I say WHAT A GAME!
What a game, I say WHAT A GAME!
I played a lot of SpaceWars using the command line over CompuServ in 1979 using the exact same Vic20 with a 2400baud modem and a 16kb expansion card for more memory. Not to mention the stringy floppy I had to use for storage (couldn't get the 1541 five and a quarter inch floppy drive) and the old color tv I had to use with it. The gaming was AMAZING!
(AM I OLD NOW?)
(AM I OLD NOW?)
from magazines for hours on a spectrum, and then spending more hours trying to de-bug it to play some Scramble-like game!
Whoever the Author of the original article is, they shouldn't be allowed to write on topics they don't understand. Taken from the article:
"Popular in the mid-90s, the term "intranet" referred to a private network running the Internet Protocol and other Internet standards such as the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It was also used to describe an internal Web site that was hosted behind a firewall and was accessible only to employees. Today, every private network runs IP. So you can just use the term virtual private network or VPN to describe a private IP-based network. "
So, if I'm accessing an INTRANET website on my company LAN, i'm actually on our VPN!?!? You learn something new every day...or not.
"Popular in the mid-90s, the term "intranet" referred to a private network running the Internet Protocol and other Internet standards such as the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It was also used to describe an internal Web site that was hosted behind a firewall and was accessible only to employees. Today, every private network runs IP. So you can just use the term virtual private network or VPN to describe a private IP-based network. "
So, if I'm accessing an INTRANET website on my company LAN, i'm actually on our VPN!?!? You learn something new every day...or not.
Seems to be a rash of BS articles like this on TR.
Then don't READ it. Geez. First you flame a 21 year old kid simply for being young and guilty of a little bad grammar, and now you're criticizing the author. Gee, did you notice there are some 50+ talkbacks? Maybe not everyone thinks it's BS.
Boy, you're a cantankerous old bitty, eh?
Then don't READ it. Geez. First you flame a 21 year old kid simply for being young and guilty of a little bad grammar, and now you're criticizing the author. Gee, did you notice there are some 50+ talkbacks? Maybe not everyone thinks it's BS.
Boy, you're a cantankerous old bitty, eh?
The original article appeared on networkworld.com.
Or do you only pay attention to grammar and punctuation?
Or do you only pay attention to grammar and punctuation?
When, as pandu says, at LEAST 90% of the comments on the original article were negative -- WHY would TechRepublic repeat this nonsense??? It makes me think they obivously don't know what they are talking about either.
Also for the folks who think that punctuation does not matter -- think again. Read any law book and see how the placement of a comma can change the entire meaning of a sentence. It is the key to effective communication. If you fail to punctuate properly, you have no one to blame but yourself when you are misunderstood.
Also for the folks who think that punctuation does not matter -- think again. Read any law book and see how the placement of a comma can change the entire meaning of a sentence. It is the key to effective communication. If you fail to punctuate properly, you have no one to blame but yourself when you are misunderstood.
And it is sad; the writer is a SENIOR editor.
Who knows zilch.
Read the comments to the original article. About 90% of them are scathingly condescending.
Who knows zilch.
Read the comments to the original article. About 90% of them are scathingly condescending.
A senior editor at NetworkWorld that doesn't know that Intranet is NOT equal to VPN.
"So, if I'm accessing an INTRANET website on my company LAN, i'm actually on our VPN!?!? You learn something new every day...or not."
...or not
Whoever thinks that these are even remotely the same doesn't understand the concept. Just because you use a company website to obtain access to your network resources does NOT mean that the company website itself is providing that access. I think that as a result of the tight integration in today's modern computer environments people do not know where one application leaves off and another begins.
...or not
Whoever thinks that these are even remotely the same doesn't understand the concept. Just because you use a company website to obtain access to your network resources does NOT mean that the company website itself is providing that access. I think that as a result of the tight integration in today's modern computer environments people do not know where one application leaves off and another begins.
...more self-proclaimed experts than any other profession. These folks pick up some buzz words, use them...often incorrectly...formulate bogus opinions and convince people who know less than they do that that know what they're talking about.
It's one of the biggest challenges I face.
"So and so, who really knows a lot about computers and such, say this should work this way...or should be easy to do..etc."
From time to time I've damaged the relationship if the person was too insistent by telling them they should use so-and-so then.
Of course, many so-and-so's write technical articles.
It's one of the biggest challenges I face.
"So and so, who really knows a lot about computers and such, say this should work this way...or should be easy to do..etc."
From time to time I've damaged the relationship if the person was too insistent by telling them they should use so-and-so then.
Of course, many so-and-so's write technical articles.
It most certainly an intranet. I have never heard anyone refer to a intranet as a VPN. They'd be wrong anyway.
An extranet, on the other hand, has some similarities with a vpn. They both connect outside users to a private internal space, but then similarities end.
By the way, just because the average person can't the difference between web and Internet does not reduce its meaning. (Hint for original author: all World Wide Web is on the Internet. Not all Internet is WWW. You have email, im, and newsgroups, to name a few, not to mention online games.)
An extranet, on the other hand, has some similarities with a vpn. They both connect outside users to a private internal space, but then similarities end.
By the way, just because the average person can't the difference between web and Internet does not reduce its meaning. (Hint for original author: all World Wide Web is on the Internet. Not all Internet is WWW. You have email, im, and newsgroups, to name a few, not to mention online games.)
How about LIM (Lotus, Intel, Microsoft).
Also Extended Memory.
Also Extended Memory.
EMS = Extended Memory = Memory on the motherboard between 640KB and 1MB
XMS = Expanded Memory = Memory above 1MB
Expanded Memory(the term) also covered memory installed on an expansion card in what was most likely a ISA or maybe a MCA slot if memory serves...
XMS = Expanded Memory = Memory above 1MB
Expanded Memory(the term) also covered memory installed on an expansion card in what was most likely a ISA or maybe a MCA slot if memory serves...
EMS = Expanded Memory Specification
Which is a way for programs supporting EMS to "cheat" on the 1 MiB address-space limitation. It works by swapping pages of memory into a certain unused range within Upper Memory . Programs requiring more memory will ask for pages to be swapped in and out of that range.
Upper Memory = The address-space between 640 KiB and 1 MiB. Usually used for ROM space, and a certain segment used for display mapping (Monochrome at segment B000, CGA at segment B800). There are lots of unused address-space here that can be used by mapping actual RAM into them, hence UMB (Upper Memory Blocks) -- this capability exist only in 386 (or later) processors.
XMS = eXtended Memory Specification
Which is a way for 32-bit programs to directly uses memory above the 1 MiB barrier.
There are EMS emulators to "emulate" how EMS work by using XMS. One of the most popular in the 80's is QEMM386 by QuarterDeck. It allocates blocks of XMS to act as EMS. Microsoft's EMM386.exe also comes to mind, although it's not as powerful as QEMM386. IIRC it first came out in MS-DOS 5. Or 4?
And why are those software called EMS "emulator"? Originally, EMS must be implemented by hardware on a memory expansion card, because swapping RAM around on pre-386 systems require some magic sleight-of-hand tricks. But 2 things happened: the amount of RAM on the motherboard keeps growing -- which goes into eXtended Memory, BTW -- and the 80386 is released. The 80386 has the capability of mapping *any* physical memory into the "linear address space", practically doing all the functions of the EMS hardware. Thus, a software-based way is devised to use the additional RAM not just as XMS but as EMS also (to support older programs that can use EMS but can't use XMS).
Nowadays, EMS and XMS are no longer used as under Windows/Linux/OS_2/etcetcetc programs exist as pure 32-bit entities with direct access to the linear space of 4 GiB.
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Geee... I do show my age, don't I?
Which is a way for programs supporting EMS to "cheat" on the 1 MiB address-space limitation. It works by swapping pages of memory into a certain unused range within Upper Memory . Programs requiring more memory will ask for pages to be swapped in and out of that range.
Upper Memory = The address-space between 640 KiB and 1 MiB. Usually used for ROM space, and a certain segment used for display mapping (Monochrome at segment B000, CGA at segment B800). There are lots of unused address-space here that can be used by mapping actual RAM into them, hence UMB (Upper Memory Blocks) -- this capability exist only in 386 (or later) processors.
XMS = eXtended Memory Specification
Which is a way for 32-bit programs to directly uses memory above the 1 MiB barrier.
There are EMS emulators to "emulate" how EMS work by using XMS. One of the most popular in the 80's is QEMM386 by QuarterDeck. It allocates blocks of XMS to act as EMS. Microsoft's EMM386.exe also comes to mind, although it's not as powerful as QEMM386. IIRC it first came out in MS-DOS 5. Or 4?
And why are those software called EMS "emulator"? Originally, EMS must be implemented by hardware on a memory expansion card, because swapping RAM around on pre-386 systems require some magic sleight-of-hand tricks. But 2 things happened: the amount of RAM on the motherboard keeps growing -- which goes into eXtended Memory, BTW -- and the 80386 is released. The 80386 has the capability of mapping *any* physical memory into the "linear address space", practically doing all the functions of the EMS hardware. Thus, a software-based way is devised to use the additional RAM not just as XMS but as EMS also (to support older programs that can use EMS but can't use XMS).
Nowadays, EMS and XMS are no longer used as under Windows/Linux/OS_2/etcetcetc programs exist as pure 32-bit entities with direct access to the linear space of 4 GiB.
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Geee... I do show my age, don't I?
I still tend to call the music offerings put forth on CD an "album".
I still have 2 turntables, and a collection of 33 1/3 albums. I gotta get to burning them to CD.
I still have 2 turntables, and a collection of 33 1/3 albums. I gotta get to burning them to CD.
I call em that sometimes too. But I always say "You hear the new album by..." lol
or..."vinyl" lol
or..."vinyl" lol
I hope this article was a joke. if not I might need to find a new IT site. Intranet = VPN, you can't be serious. I read that and wasn't wasting anymore of my time on that article.
...if you learn to pay attention.
FWIW, the original article was posted on Networkworld.com
FWIW, the original article was posted on Networkworld.com
Where did the sense of humor in this group go? Or is it some of us taking the-in-cheek stuff WAAY to seriously?
Carolyn Marsan is wrong like a wrongling from wrongville in this article. Businessweek should be beside themselves for the poor editing of their content.
Actual article...
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2009/tc20090824_902851.htm
Actual article...
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2009/tc20090824_902851.htm
So okay, to deal with this from a positive perspective, what are the "replacement YOUTH terms?"
Bah humbug !
What a load of hooey.
Half of those words are still current and still
need to be used in a lot of cases.
Theres no other way of explaining some of them
as others here have pointed out.
If employers are going to be that shallow and stupid
they are not the kind of people you want to be working for.
Never judge a book by it's cover !
Well today i suppose it should be
never judge a person by the terminology they use
reason being they could just be playing you :P
Honestly if thats all they have to go by
thats pretty tragic.
I must be opalised according to that benchmark.
What i think is worse is when fossils try
acting like pre pubescent teenagers using
all the modern lingo.
Trying to hard is not a crime it just makes
others wonder if the effort is/was worthwhile
What a load of hooey.
Half of those words are still current and still
need to be used in a lot of cases.
Theres no other way of explaining some of them
as others here have pointed out.
If employers are going to be that shallow and stupid
they are not the kind of people you want to be working for.
Never judge a book by it's cover !
Well today i suppose it should be
never judge a person by the terminology they use
reason being they could just be playing you :P
Honestly if thats all they have to go by
thats pretty tragic.
I must be opalised according to that benchmark.
What i think is worse is when fossils try
acting like pre pubescent teenagers using
all the modern lingo.
Trying to hard is not a crime it just makes
others wonder if the effort is/was worthwhile
If you are a technician who is going to graduate and stop learning, then dating yourself is a problem.
If you are a professional dedicated to lifelong learning and improvement, your past is an advantage.
The easiest way to learn new technology is to evaluate how it compares to old technology and note the differences.
I'm 54 and most of the OO stuff in Java was covered when I went to U of Toronto 30 years ago. OO did not yet exist. Java did not yet exist. But what went into Java (complex classes, encapsulation, inhieritance, etc.) had largely been conceived and was talked about. A lot was in Pascal. However, at that time those techniques was not used in commercial practise. It was only used academically.
The people who went to community college at that time, they took BAL assembler, or COBOL, and that was that. No theory.
If your history is just learning practical, then you have to worry a lot about becoming dated, and work on it.
But really, virtually every thing new in IT and engineering is a variation or improvement on something old.
In fact, sometimes it is not even a variation, sometimes it is just a new name for the old thing. An salesman's buzz word.
Uttering salesman's buzz words as though they mean anything is not cool.
If you are a professional dedicated to lifelong learning and improvement, your past is an advantage.
The easiest way to learn new technology is to evaluate how it compares to old technology and note the differences.
I'm 54 and most of the OO stuff in Java was covered when I went to U of Toronto 30 years ago. OO did not yet exist. Java did not yet exist. But what went into Java (complex classes, encapsulation, inhieritance, etc.) had largely been conceived and was talked about. A lot was in Pascal. However, at that time those techniques was not used in commercial practise. It was only used academically.
The people who went to community college at that time, they took BAL assembler, or COBOL, and that was that. No theory.
If your history is just learning practical, then you have to worry a lot about becoming dated, and work on it.
But really, virtually every thing new in IT and engineering is a variation or improvement on something old.
In fact, sometimes it is not even a variation, sometimes it is just a new name for the old thing. An salesman's buzz word.
Uttering salesman's buzz words as though they mean anything is not cool.
I'm not seeing how these are obsolete. All of these are still being batted about in my everyday life. Some have been truncated. Weblog is now Blog. We've apparently givenup on the Bohemian lifestyle as we no longer surf the Web (looking for entertainment) but browse the Web (looking for information). And true people don't say PDA any more because they've been replaced by Smart Phones. Application Service Provider and Regional Bell Operating Company I've never even heard of.
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