I think that Croquet will be a huge shot in the arm for Squeak. I have played with it about 6 months ago, but Croquet has inspired me to order The White Book and the OpenGL programming guide, to really dig into Squeak in April. Can't wait.
I loved Gmail for the four months, until I filled my 1 Gig quota! I was getting a few thousand spam emails a day, and managed to max out my account. Here is the kicker, there is no "Delete all spam" button. You have to physically go into your Spam folder, and click "Select All" for the 100 visible emails, and then click "Delete Forever". Repeat 1,000,000 times and your done.
I submited two suggestions over the past year, but haven't gotten a good response. The one change they did make was to auto-delete Spam after 1 month, not I am running at about 400MB of spam all the time, so atleast my email doesn't bounce:)
Great work GMail crew, but add a "Delete All Spam Forever" button before adding cute bullet lists and fonts.
The X11 fork is showing great promise. This is the first time in 6 months I have wanted to install and experiment with new software on a linux box. I will have to do it at work, as I have 'switched' to Mac OS X at home. No need for an eye candy war on that machine, as I rarely fire up X11 on it.
This guy actually uses Newsforge comments as a primary source! He is commenting on Cisco code theft and that open source zealots are happy it happened, his footnote 3 points to a Comments page.
I will be running/. OS on most of my computing environment. While turning up the thermostat on my solar powered furnace, I will get a ticker tape from/. telling me about a potato gun. I will click it, and my TV will launch the story.
We have had the OS, and then the browser wars, and personally I believe we are coming to the age of virtual machine wars. Assuming that there is a shift from the OS platform to the VM platform, these VMs like parrot or mono may allow java, C#, Ruby, Python, etc to run "freely" on many more platforms; this may lower deployment barriers and offer cross language libarary reuse for Open Source projects. Any thoughts on how these virtual machines will help or hurt Open Source development?
Regardless of the authentisity of this document, I have been thinking alot about the startup time of java.exe. I use ant, javac, tomcat, etc all day and it kills me that ant takes 20 secods for a 600 millisecond task. The heavy lifting involved with creating the jvm and tearing it down kills me. java (the executable) should be written in platform dependent ASM or C code. It should run as a service at startup and fork jvms as necissary. A persistant reusable jvm would make ant (and other small utility apps than start and stop frequently) fly. Why has work on a shared jvm like JOS and Echidna not flurished? Always on JVM discussion
I think this is a very important addition to Internet Programming. IMHO forms and client side programming are currently HTML's weakest point and standardizing this areas growth is very wise.
I think we are heading towards a richer standards friendly front end for our web browsers.
One year from now I will probably be building web apps in JavaServer Faces + SVG, that are just as responsive and fast as using all the evil proprietary IE goodies.
AOL bets farm on a bad idea. What makes the internet different from cable in the 80's is the cost of developing "content" isn't a barrier like it was then. You couldn't clone MTV back then but you can clone slashdot or any other "killer" content that people don't want to pay for.
I just read your press release at http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ti cker=FORG&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=314 044
Couple of comments 1) Nice URL. Easy to share. 2) Forgent has made a huge mistake in announcing that it will now start charging licensing fees. Your company name and it's subsidiaries are going to be the laughing stock of the internet for 2002. 3) Please send 200 gig fire wire external hard drive and a self-addressed stamped envelope so that I can return all of my jpeg images file to you. I don't have the bandwidth to return them online.
Good luck with collecting on the pantents. We (the rest of the world) will be moving on and developing a better lossy technology.
Wow this sounds more like Tron 2.0 The Fritz in the chip is MCP monitoring all your bits.
my thoughts
Trust cannot be automated and certified by a third party. End users must set up and use a trust based system otherwise, it is just a huge tool for *them*
The article is about creating great (RPM)Linux based software for use and distribution. It isn't about installing someone elses code from source. As a newer developer, I think this was a great read for new to UN*X developers, to give them the insight into application organization -- binaries, config files, content, and logs keep them seperate, and in a standard directory.
Regardless of the specific package manager. This 4 part organization is a nice reference.
Slashdot Mirror
Smalltalk + Mac OS X = Ambrai Smalltalk.
News for herds
A reboot, and it just works.
I think that Croquet will be a huge shot in the arm for Squeak. I have played with it about 6 months ago, but Croquet has inspired me to order The White Book and the OpenGL programming guide, to really dig into Squeak in April. Can't wait.
I loved Gmail for the four months, until I filled my 1 Gig quota! I was getting a few thousand spam emails a day, and managed to max out my account. Here is the kicker, there is no "Delete all spam" button. You have to physically go into your Spam folder, and click "Select All" for the 100 visible emails, and then click "Delete Forever". Repeat 1,000,000 times and your done.
:)
I submited two suggestions over the past year, but haven't gotten a good response. The one change they did make was to auto-delete Spam after 1 month, not I am running at about 400MB of spam all the time, so atleast my email doesn't bounce
Great work GMail crew, but add a "Delete All Spam Forever" button before adding cute bullet lists and fonts.
The X11 fork is showing great promise. This is the first time in 6 months I have wanted to install and experiment with new software on a linux box. I will have to do it at work, as I have 'switched' to Mac OS X at home. No need for an eye candy war on that machine, as I rarely fire up X11 on it.
Have you ever typed 5 quick messages in AIM...
You're throttled so that you don't kill the system.
Ok, so now put an API ontop where you are sending thousands of messages per second.
Now get really clever and have the API sign up for 1,000,000 AIM handles, pool them and round robin between them.
This guy actually uses Newsforge comments as a primary source! He is commenting on Cisco code theft and that open source zealots are happy it happened, his footnote 3 points to a Comments page.
Sooooo gooood.
This is crazy. Next thing you know they will be forcing all visitors to our free land to be finger printed and mug shots taken.
Foreigners pre-guilty until checked into Guantanamo Bay.
With the state of the US, I can't even make up a funny slippery slope, cause we are already at the bottom of the hill.
So this IS the end then.
I will be running /. OS on most of my computing environment. While turning up the thermostat on my solar powered furnace, I will get a ticker tape from /. telling me about a potato gun. I will click it, and my TV will launch the story.
Mhhh future so different, Arghhhh
We have had the OS, and then the browser wars, and personally I believe we are coming to the age of virtual machine wars. Assuming that there is a shift from the OS platform to the VM platform, these VMs like parrot or mono may allow java, C#, Ruby, Python, etc to run "freely" on many more platforms; this may lower deployment barriers and offer cross language libarary reuse for Open Source projects. Any thoughts on how these virtual machines will help or hurt Open Source development?
My entry will actually just be a bunch of people doing the calculations with a slide rule and typing the answers into a terminal. So going to win.
that is invisible!
on IMDB and the whole trilogy at the site. KOYAANISQATSI is a life changing movie. It isn't preachy, you can get what you want from it.
Regardless of the authentisity of this document, I have been thinking alot about the startup time of java.exe. I use ant, javac, tomcat, etc all day and it kills me that ant takes 20 secods for a 600 millisecond task. The heavy lifting involved with creating the jvm and tearing it down kills me. java (the executable) should be written in platform dependent ASM or C code. It should run as a service at startup and fork jvms as necissary. A persistant reusable jvm would make ant (and other small utility apps than start and stop frequently) fly. Why has work on a shared jvm like JOS and Echidna not flurished? Always on JVM discussion
I think this is a very important addition to Internet Programming. IMHO forms and client side programming are currently HTML's weakest point and standardizing this areas growth is very wise.
I think we are heading towards a richer standards friendly front end for our web browsers.
One year from now I will probably be building web apps in JavaServer Faces + SVG, that are just as responsive and fast as using all the evil proprietary IE goodies.
Do you consider yourself a "Hacktivist"? If so will you continue hacking in more legalish domains such as enabling free speech?
Good luck and keep your chin up.
How does he qualify obsolete? How did he obtain his data? Where is his study?
On some platforms, much of the browser specific HTML fix-up goes on server side, so it isn't a bandwidth issue.
I agree with the basic ides, but this book is fluff.
Leo is great! It works with whatever toolchain you are already using, and doesn't get in the way.
You could write the software, help manual, and project manage it all from file exported through Leo.
Bravo, I am definetly going to try this one out.
AOL bets farm on a bad idea. What makes the internet different from cable in the 80's is the cost of developing "content" isn't a barrier like it was then. You couldn't clone MTV back then but you can clone slashdot or any other "killer" content that people don't want to pay for.
TO: pr@forgent.com
i cker=FORG&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=314 044
SUBJECT: Forgent Networks Clarifies Licensing Arrangement
I just read your press release at http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?t
Couple of comments
1) Nice URL. Easy to share.
2) Forgent has made a huge mistake in announcing that it will now start charging licensing fees. Your company name and it's subsidiaries are going to be the laughing stock of the internet for 2002.
3) Please send 200 gig fire wire external hard drive and a self-addressed stamped envelope so that I can return all of my jpeg images file to you. I don't have the bandwidth to return them online.
Good luck with collecting on the pantents. We (the rest of the world) will be moving on and developing a better lossy technology.
Wow this sounds more like Tron 2.0 The Fritz in the chip is MCP monitoring all your bits. my thoughts Trust cannot be automated and certified by a third party. End users must set up and use a trust based system otherwise, it is just a huge tool for *them*
The article is about creating great (RPM)Linux based software for use and distribution. It isn't about installing someone elses code from source. As a newer developer, I think this was a great read for new to UN*X developers, to give them the insight into application organization -- binaries, config files, content, and logs keep them seperate, and in a standard directory.
Regardless of the specific package manager. This 4 part organization is a nice reference.
Razorfish has their credits in the homepage source. They should be proud of this client...