I read most of Katz's articles, and liked most of the ones I've read (not necessarily agreeing, ofcourse) but lately I have noticed the decline of the content. Although I must admit that I'm a big a fan of spiritual jouney's as the next guy, and dog's, what the hell does that have to do with geeks/nerds/technology?
His articles dealing with technological views from "regular" people's standpoint are usually a good way to go. I can gain a lot of insight as to why my users look at me funny all the time. I can gain a differing viewpoint on the same subject matter.
In a place with no real niche for articles on strictly viewpoints, Katz offers up insightful editorials that will hit a mark usually. Unfortunately, lately his editorials have dealt less with viewpoints, and a little more with self-promotion. A little is fine, but his last article had a bit more than a little.
Recently I've taken to quickly scanning his diatribes for his book title. If I see it a little too often, well then, close that window, and move on (unless I use lynx, then the back button is employed).
I just hope the Katz decides to tone down the self promotion, and maybe even a bit of the fluff you find in standard articles for standard periodicals. Couldn't hurt.
Oh come on....like you've never met an electrical engineer who doesn't approximate. I usually approixmate the 60Hz line noise to 0Hz in high frequncy applications.
Research a thing of the past???
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He didn't say it was the first. In fact, later in the article The author said "Indeed, while GNOME may not earn credit as the first GUI for the Linux system". HE said it's the first fully open source graphical user interface for the Linux operating system. Granted, I thought that title went to twm. Oh well.
They got sued by Sun, and are now required to fix Java, or stop shipping it.
Case on = more heat, period. Usually
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Actually, if you try and do that to certain SGIs (notably indigos and indies) they run a whole lot hotter because there is no airflow to certain parts of the machine that require forced air cooling. Can't remember exactly which parts at the moment. When the techs for SGI showed up, and we were running without the case for more than an hour, we would put the cover on, upside down to let the air move.
Doesn't matter in PC's, as the standard case design is mostly open, but in tight spaces, you can use the boards as baffles to direct the airflow.
Well, for UNIX, there is a program called mxx, that does public key signatures, and encryption of messages. It works between systems running the server.
No reason it couldn't be extended slightly to work on Windows machines, handle a directory lookup, etc...
Note that the author is avoiding touching the code anymore.
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I read most of Katz's articles, and liked most of the ones I've read (not necessarily agreeing, ofcourse) but lately I have noticed the decline of the content. Although I must admit that I'm a big a fan of spiritual jouney's as the next guy, and dog's, what the hell does that have to do with geeks/nerds/technology?
His articles dealing with technological views from "regular" people's standpoint are usually a good way to go. I can gain a lot of insight as to why my users look at me funny all the time. I can gain a differing viewpoint on the same subject matter.
In a place with no real niche for articles on strictly viewpoints, Katz offers up insightful editorials that will hit a mark usually. Unfortunately, lately his editorials have dealt less with viewpoints, and a little more with self-promotion. A little is fine, but his last article had a bit more than a little.
Recently I've taken to quickly scanning his diatribes for his book title. If I see it a little too often, well then, close that window, and move on (unless I use lynx, then the back button is employed).
I just hope the Katz decides to tone down the self promotion, and maybe even a bit of the fluff you find in standard articles for standard periodicals. Couldn't hurt.
Somebody correct me, please, but isn't this game alpha right now? How can you win anything if you don't exist? Not to take away from the graphics....
Oh come on....like you've never met an electrical engineer who doesn't approximate. I usually approixmate the 60Hz line noise to 0Hz in high frequncy applications.
He didn't say it was the first. In fact, later in the article The author said "Indeed, while GNOME may not earn credit as the first GUI for the Linux system". HE said it's the first fully open source graphical user interface for the Linux operating system. Granted, I thought that title went to twm. Oh well.
...It was better than Katz.
They got sued by Sun, and are now required to fix Java, or stop shipping it.
Actually, if you try and do that to certain SGIs (notably indigos and indies) they run a whole lot hotter because there is no airflow to certain parts of the machine that require forced air cooling. Can't remember exactly which parts at the moment. When the techs for SGI showed up, and we were running without the case for more than an hour, we would put the cover on, upside down to let the air move.
Doesn't matter in PC's, as the standard case design is mostly open, but in tight spaces, you can use the boards as baffles to direct the airflow.
Well, for UNIX, there is a program called mxx, that does public key signatures, and encryption of messages. It works between systems running the server.
No reason it couldn't be extended slightly to work on Windows machines, handle a directory lookup, etc...
Note that the author is avoiding touching the code anymore.