It was just after dark when the truck started down The hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania. Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas. Carrying thirty thousand pounds (hit it Big John) of bananas.
Don't forget SSH! I use the SSH client all the time under CYGWIN.
A few features of SSH are really great:
1) "-C" option (for compression). 2) "-X" option for encrypted X communication.
The combination is pretty powerful.
And of course, being SSH, the entire connection is encrypted as well!
The command line (typically entered in a shell window once you have the X server running on your PC):
ssh -C -X user@hostname
If you have LINUX/UNIX on the other end, you must (as an administrator) set the X11 forwarding feature.
But once you do, here's what happens:
ssh -C -X user@hostname
prompt-from-host >
If you do an "echo $DISPLAY"
you should see something like
remotehost:10
Try firing up X clients and see what happens.
"-C" seems to speed up things quite a bit, even on a high-speed connection.
Another tip for speed/compression: LBXPROXY. This has been part of X11 for a long time, and is specifically designed for modem users (LBX = Low-Bandwidth X).
It is not too hard to set up and is built in to all (I think) X11 servers & clients (including this CYGWIN version).
There *are* professional groups who *are*
concerned with technological implications: IEEE
(Institute for Electrical and Eletronic Engineers)
and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
Both are international, and both have strong
areas of their respective organizations who
are politically and socially active.
See their websites (and particularly public policy
areas) at
I guess I'm the *professed* oldest member of this discussion so far: I'm 44.
I have been offered 6 figures recently for my > 20 years of experience, so saying that you can't get great bux > 30 years old isn't true in my case (one exception means it "isn't *always* so").
I atttribute my coding longevity to two things:
Insatiable curiosity, which keeps me learning new languages & technologies;
Truly *listening* to people of *all* ages and learning whatever/whenever I can.
I'm a part-time college prof, and I am a complete believer that the best teachers/professors are those who can learn from their students. I can't count the number of times I've heard or seen some cool new technology (recent example : Python) from a student who's "really into it". I've had some wonderful hack sessions with this student as well as others I've met through her.
On the other end of the spectrum (agewise), some of the best techniques I ever learned came from a mainframe (IBM) systems programmer who was in his 50s at the time I learned from him.
I'm not trying to brag overmuch here.. just want to pass on some hope to those who think > 30 is the kiss of death both financially and technically : it ain't necessarily so *if* you can maintain your enthusiasm & curiousity.
I'll only stop coding when I want to stop coding; I won't use age as an excuse for stopping.
My two cents : remove the copyrighted material from the posts. But make *them* say which posts are infringing (they apparently have done this in their EMAIL to you). This minimizes the work that SLASHDOT maintainers need to do.
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All:
When I saw the headline of this article I immediately thought of Harry Chapin's song
30,000 pounds of bananas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFM4Ilt4Rs
Lyrics here:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/30000-pounds-of-bananas-lyrics-harry-chapin.html
Opening stanza:
It was just after dark when the truck started down
The hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds (hit it Big John) of bananas.
For those with limited vision (or blindness), screen readers can (and usually do) use metatags to aid in navigation and content descriptions.
For anyone who's interested, check out the W3C site on Web Accessibility Guidelines at:
W3C Web Accessbility Guidelines
Don't forget SSH! I use the SSH
client all the time under CYGWIN.
A few features of SSH are really great:
1) "-C" option (for compression).
2) "-X" option for encrypted X communication.
The combination is pretty powerful.
And of course, being SSH, the entire
connection is encrypted as well!
The command line (typically entered
in a shell window once you have the
X server running on your PC):
ssh -C -X user@hostname
If you have LINUX/UNIX on the other end,
you must (as an administrator) set the
X11 forwarding feature.
But once you do, here's what happens:
ssh -C -X user@hostname
prompt-from-host >
If you do an "echo $DISPLAY"
you should see something like
remotehost:10
Try firing up X clients and see what happens.
"-C" seems to speed up things quite a bit,
even on a high-speed connection.
Another tip for speed/compression: LBXPROXY. This has been part of X11
for a long time, and is specifically designed
for modem users (LBX = Low-Bandwidth X).
It is not too hard to set up and is built
in to all (I think) X11 servers & clients (including this CYGWIN version).
Along the lines of the other posts, figure out
... in other words, find the *application* first, *then* utilize your computer skills.
what you like to do/study (what subject areas or
activities).
Like biking? Look at the Palm-based bike computers.
Like graphics? Check out SIGGRAPH (www.siggraph.org), find a local chapter, and attend.
Like ? Find an area, then find out who's using
computers with it
Computing is much more fun (IMHO) when you have a real application that you're interested in.
Both are international, and both have strong areas of their respective organizations who are politically and socially active.
See their websites (and particularly public policy areas) at
IEEE Main
IEEE Policy Pages
ACM Main site
ACM Public Policy Pages
Would it be possible to have SLASHDOT readers "buy" a license for XMMS/CDDB?
Let's see. Assume 50,000 Slashdot readers willing to contribute $1 for unlimited XMMS/CDDB access ...
Is this possible to do? Has anything like it been done before?
I have been offered 6 figures recently for my > 20 years of experience, so saying that you can't get great bux > 30 years old isn't true in my case (one exception means it "isn't *always* so").
I atttribute my coding longevity to two things:
- Insatiable curiosity, which keeps me learning new languages & technologies;
- Truly *listening* to people of *all* ages and learning whatever/whenever I can.
I'm a part-time college prof, and I am a complete believer that the best teachers/professors are those who can learn from their students. I can't count the number of times I've heard or seen some cool new technology (recent example : Python) from a student who's "really into it". I've had some wonderful hack sessions with this student as well as others I've met through her.On the other end of the spectrum (agewise), some of the best techniques I ever learned came from a mainframe (IBM) systems programmer who was in his 50s at the time I learned from him.
I'm not trying to brag overmuch here .. just want to pass on some hope to those who think > 30 is the kiss of death both financially and technically : it ain't necessarily so *if* you can maintain your enthusiasm & curiousity.
I'll only stop coding when I want to stop coding; I won't use age as an excuse for stopping.
My two cents : remove the copyrighted material from the posts. But make *them* say which posts are infringing (they apparently have done this in their EMAIL to you). This minimizes the work that SLASHDOT maintainers need to do.