The little woman...she's so cute gosh darn it
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Thanks for perpetuating the notion that men and only men do all the heavy lifting in the Internet and women just pretty up the place. Thanks for making it just that much more difficult for women technologists to get through life.
Re:Slashdot provides its own counterexample
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Transmeta was engaged in serious engineering. They had to prove their concept and get a working, saleable piece of hardware out the door. To to do this, they got serious engineers, focussed on their mission and stayed out of the public gaze.
This is very different from the environment in which many of us labor. Either we're in start-ups, where we have to throw together a web site before the next guy does, or we're in corporate IT, where a lot of time is spent in power struggles and infighting, and where we report to Dilbert's boss. These environments aren't doing serious engineering, so they don't need engineers. Or so they think.
You can find the same stability tradeoffs in the humble bicycle. Racing bicycles have a shorter wheelbase than touring bikes; this makes them more manouverable at the expense of stability.
The NY Times article mentions that you spent millions to produce and market an album, and you'd like fans to buy it. Fair enough. However, as Steve Albini has documented in The Baffler, major-label recording contracts place all the financial risk on the artists. No sensible person in any other business would sign a contract which puts them completely in debt and leaves them so little control of how their advances are spent, yet musicians do it all the time.
Wouldn't you be better off pursuing recording contract reform?
I went to a few talks on document management and version control at Web Chicago.
Zachary Smith of Rare Medium did a comprehensive review of document-management options for several clients and stressed that no one solution merits an A+. Of the available products, TeamSite generally got highest marks because it played well with other software.
In another presentation given by an engineer from TeamSite, I asked if there were any difference between managing source code and managing Web files. He said essentially no, but that sometimes designers and other non-programmer type balk at checking files in and out and learning the tools.
Yes, I agree, the book is great. Lots of discussion of the hardware in plain English. First decent discussion of the SCSI bus I ever read.
MkLinux and NuBus cards
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Although MkLinux installs and runs on NuBus, there is no NuBus peripheral card support.
NuBus was a short-lived bus which left comparatively little documentation. This is what makes supporting it, and its cards, so hard. Most PPC distros decided to exclude NuBus altogether, but MkLinux, which worked under Apple's wing, had access to enough information to support the NuBus.
Despite lack of peripheral support, MkLinux is a good way to breathe new life into old Macs. I get lots of work done on my old 66 MhZ 7200 NuBus mac, now that it has MkLinux.
More alarming than jamming GPS is the fact that the Naval Academy at Anapolis dropped the requirement to study celestial navigation. Very bad idea! You don't need to be a genius to figure out that when the enemy takes out your GPS satellites, you're on your own.
Graphic artists use Macs because the gamma on Mac monitors is not as pronounced. Midtones will be more distorted on a PC monitor. The color in the final printed product is more likely to be correct if prepared on a Mac. Lynda Weinman's book Preparing Web Graphics has a good, basic discussion of gamma issues.
There's a rather brutal bug with varargs on the PowerPC Linuxes. C variable-length argument lists are implemented differently on the PPC platform, so code written for x86 will either not compile or crash mysteriously. I found this out the hard way compiling a SSH 2.0 client.
MkLinux deserved its spot in this piece, and the MkLinux team deserves kudos for supporting the NuBus. I'm a very satisfied user of MkLinux DR3 on my old Mac 7100. I have a 350 MhZ Wintel box on my left, and a G3 on my right, but I still get most of my real work done on my old 66 Mhz NuBus box. The install was easy, and the MkLinux mailing lists are both technical and pleasant (largely due to the influence of David Gatwood, MkLinux God.) Note that NuBus support doesn't imply NuBus peripheral support. If I understand correctly, NuBus cards aren't supported under any Linux, and while you can install MkLinux on a PowerBook 1400, it'll be a lonely little machine, because PCMCIA cards aren't supported. Lack of support for decent networking nixed my plan to pick up a cheap old 1400 and slap Linux on it...sigh.
Katz seems to contradict himself. Have I, as a board-certified female, grown beyond a mere interest in chatting about boys, or is that all I'm using the Net for? I identify myself as a programmer first. I am very interested in the technology and I go online to find information, not to shoot the shit about boys, hair, makeup and my feelings. I do NOT go online to join up with an ultraprecious clique scene. In fact, I've scurried AWAY from some of the chickclick sites where the cliqueishness got out of hand. John Katz captured the situation of geeks accurately enough, but he falls wide of the mark with women.
If a neoprene bag appeals to you, Shoreline makes a nice shoulder bag for about $75 with a matching laptop insert for about $45. It's lightweight, a little smaller than many briefcases, and its styling is a nice balance between bleeding-edge trendy and business dorky. It does not have the armor needed to protect a laptop you sling around a lot, but it should hold your Sony Vaio very nicely. Their email address is shoreline@tdnov8.com.
Slashdot Mirror
That's news to me.
..Henry Hyde, Bob Livingston, Helen Chenoweth, etc.... Republican Wife-Cheating Hall of Fame
Thanks for perpetuating the notion that men and only men do all the heavy lifting in the Internet and women just pretty up the place. Thanks for making it just that much more difficult for women technologists to get through life.
This is very different from the environment in which many of us labor. Either we're in start-ups, where we have to throw together a web site before the next guy does, or we're in corporate IT, where a lot of time is spent in power struggles and infighting, and where we report to Dilbert's boss. These environments aren't doing serious engineering, so they don't need engineers. Or so they think.
You can find the same stability tradeoffs in the humble bicycle. Racing bicycles have a shorter wheelbase than touring bikes; this makes them more manouverable at the expense of stability.
The NY Times article mentions that you spent millions to produce and market an album, and you'd like fans to buy it. Fair enough. However, as Steve Albini has documented in The Baffler, major-label recording contracts place all the financial risk on the artists. No sensible person in any other business would sign a contract which puts them completely in debt and leaves them so little control of how their advances are spent, yet musicians do it all the time.
Wouldn't you be better off pursuing recording contract reform?
I went to a few talks on document management and version control at Web Chicago.
Zachary Smith of Rare Medium did a comprehensive review of document-management options for several clients and stressed that no one solution merits an A+. Of the available products, TeamSite generally got highest marks because it played well with other software.
In another presentation given by an engineer from TeamSite, I asked if there were any difference between managing source code and managing Web files. He said essentially no, but that sometimes designers and other non-programmer type balk at checking files in and out and learning the tools.
I say go with with CVS.
Yes, I agree, the book is great. Lots of discussion of the hardware in plain English. First decent discussion of the SCSI bus I ever read.
NuBus was a short-lived bus which left comparatively little documentation. This is what makes supporting it, and its cards, so hard. Most PPC distros decided to exclude NuBus altogether, but MkLinux, which worked under Apple's wing, had access to enough information to support the NuBus.
Despite lack of peripheral support, MkLinux is a good way to breathe new life into old Macs. I get lots of work done on my old 66 MhZ 7200 NuBus mac, now that it has MkLinux.
See www.mklinux.org for more information.
More alarming than jamming GPS is the fact that the Naval Academy at Anapolis dropped the requirement to study celestial navigation. Very bad idea! You don't need to be a genius to figure out that when the enemy takes out your GPS satellites, you're on your own.
Graphic artists use Macs because the gamma on Mac monitors is not as pronounced. Midtones will be more distorted on a PC monitor. The color in the final printed product is more likely to be correct if prepared on a Mac. Lynda Weinman's book Preparing Web Graphics has a good, basic discussion of gamma issues.
http://www.suse.com/PressReleases/PPCp r.html
There's a rather brutal bug with varargs on the PowerPC Linuxes. C variable-length argument lists are implemented differently on the PPC platform, so code written for x86 will either not compile or crash mysteriously. I found this out the hard way compiling a SSH 2.0 client.
MkLinux deserved its spot in this piece, and the MkLinux team deserves kudos for supporting the NuBus. I'm a very satisfied user of MkLinux DR3 on my old Mac 7100. I have a 350 MhZ Wintel box on my left, and a G3 on my right, but I still get most of my real work done on my old 66 Mhz NuBus box. The install was easy, and the MkLinux mailing lists are both technical and pleasant (largely due to the influence of David Gatwood, MkLinux God.) Note that NuBus support doesn't imply NuBus peripheral support. If I understand correctly, NuBus cards aren't supported under any Linux, and while you can install MkLinux on a PowerBook 1400, it'll be a lonely little machine, because PCMCIA cards aren't supported. Lack of support for decent networking nixed my plan to pick up a cheap old 1400 and slap Linux on it...sigh.
Katz seems to contradict himself. Have I, as a board-certified female, grown beyond a mere interest in chatting about boys, or is that all I'm using the Net for? I identify myself as a programmer first. I am very interested in the technology and I go online to find information, not to shoot the shit about boys, hair, makeup and my feelings. I do NOT go online to join up with an ultraprecious clique scene. In fact, I've scurried AWAY from some of the chickclick sites where the cliqueishness got out of hand. John Katz captured the situation of geeks accurately enough, but he falls wide of the mark with women.
If a neoprene bag appeals to you, Shoreline makes a nice shoulder bag for about $75 with a matching laptop insert for about $45. It's lightweight, a little smaller than many briefcases, and its styling is a nice balance between bleeding-edge trendy and business dorky. It does not have the armor needed to protect a laptop you sling around a lot, but it should hold your Sony Vaio very nicely. Their email address is shoreline@tdnov8.com.