Change the fact that your GPA and the name of the school on your degree and maybe cheating will actually hurt you. Cheating does not hurt yourself unless you let it. Most of the classes, are useless. UC's teach theory. They teach what can be done, not what you should do. A good teacher will not have cheating because students will want to learn the material because they back theory with substance. I know my favorite CS teachers were there for us to learn and tought in this way.
Also, with CS I've "cheated" according to the definition, but I have learned more, working and discussing code and how to implement it, with friends than I have learned on my own.
NEWSFLASH: Software that uses the Internet is not secure!! Oh my god NO! This can't be happening!
A total BGO - "Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious" I mean come on! The day any file sharing software is secure is not happening any time soon. POST DECENT ARTICLES ON SLASHDOT PLEASE.
I have to use Linux for a server at work because the only decently documented Sybase drivers for PHP are written for Linux and it's only running SSHD and httpd so it's ok for now.
I'd have to say my favorite windowing program is CDE. Simple, it runs, and on Solaris/HP-UX it's stable.
I just hate the fact that the correct drivers for NVIDIA boards are not installed automatically and that setting up each desktop is just so labor intensive for IT guys ($$$).
The one spot that I think linux is great for is the diskless terminals. It's AWESOME there, in a very controlled environment.
I think if you take a good install of windows (2000), and keep it CLEAN..installing only the applications that's necessary, it is quite stable and very user friendly. As a desktop it works very well, in the hands of a skilled operator. In the wrong hands it is absolute hell.
I meant that Linux is trying to have the same features as Windows, but will never catch up with microsofts codebase and might. I wasn't necessarily talking about actual coding, but more for the features (USB, Firewire, SMP). I'm sure Linux and BSD have much superior coding in some parts.
BSD is ok for a server (albeit, SMP in FreeBSD isn't what I would call amazing). But for a uniprocessor server it's great. As a desktop forget about it. Windows is just way ahead of anything else (Except MacOS X). I feel your pain about AA and stuff like that.
After trying to use Linux (redhat 6x/7x, mandrake 7x/8x, debian, slackware) I found that none were upgradeable as easy as FreeBSD. Try upgrading from Redhat 7.1 -> 7.2. I've had it fail on 3 different machines (at work). Nightmares doing that. Plus everything is changing on a.x release. Debian sounds the best, but it didn't even install on the computer I tried. Mandrake just died one day (no clue)...the os wouldn't boot and i just gave up. Slackware is good, but it doesn't seem to have the documentation of FreeBSD. I used to love Linux, until I used it. The biggest problems I have had are with dependencies and non-kernel related problems. I think a centrally managed OS like the BSD's are much more efficient. With kernel releases every few months for Linux, how can you expect it to be stable? I'm a business person. I value time and money./stand/sysinstall is the greatest utility FreeBSD has. From that 1 utility I can change anything I need to. Simple as that. Redhat had utilities that don't even work right!
BSD is just rock solid. It's easy to install, upgrade and use. It has been proven. I can't wait to use 4.5 and try it out. Linux is trying to emulate Windows, and it never will. Linux should find it's niche over time. I know BSD has and it's thriving. Doing everything for everyone is bad, and I know BSD isn't.
The most wildly popular MMORPG has to be Ultima Online, or the most addicting. With all it's flaws it still was one of the best games in the world. The game lacked any advanced graphics possible, all 2D. The game had the best gameplay ever. It's not about the graphics with a game that has so much interaction with the world around it. These companies are trying to build 3D worlds that still don't compare to the UO world. I'd play UO again, but then I'd be out of a job and lock myself in a room all day.
How is the kernel supposed to catch up to an OS like Solaris? IBM has 3 OS's to work on, i.e. AIX etc. On the other hand, Sun has 1 OS to support all their machines from back in the SPARCstation 1 days. It's completely specialized to run on ultrasparcs (albeit, intel is supported, SLOWLY). For Linux to support everything that Solaris does, it would take forever. Sun has the money to throw into the development because it relies on Solaris and nothing else. Linux runs really well on Intel hardware, and I think with the coming of 64bit processors, dirt cheap prices, and new motherboards, that it will become much more efficient to run intel/amd hardware. Plus once more cache is placed on these processors they will be more suitable for servers.
I don't think it's a matter of when Linux catches up, I think it's a matter of when I can put in 64 intel/amd processors in a system of 8 system boards and do it while the system is on. Right now, AMD & intel are having a big enough problem finding decent chipsets to work on 1 damn processor. I think it's a matter of hardware for intel (just because they have the most marketshare). We know they make huge mistakes (RDRAM? Were they drunk when they thought that disaster up?) and companies like AMD are much better. I want IBM to step in this realm and throw some punches.
I did the beta test of EQ, and quit in a matter of hours...it was the most boring game I have ever played. I played UO for like 8 months and that was the best game, with fairly simple graphics. I think companies now are more concerned with graphics than gameplay. UO was more concerned with gameplay than graphics, and it was a huge it and still is.
linux and open source will always be alive among college campuses all around. It may not ever get into business (most business computer users ARE COMPLETELY STUPID AND STUBBORN). MS makes some good products, granted they crash (I must say Win2k works pretty well), but business people trust the name through years of development. Microsoft has been working at Windows for YEARS, in less than half of that GNOME and KDE have been created. Give linux and BSD*s time, they'll get better with help from everybody. We need anti-aliased fonts, central graphical configuration, a set location for everything (ORGANIZATION), and some more work on those REALLY useful apps like StarOffice, Gaim, kmail, and Netscape....oh yea WE NEED BETTER VIDEO SUPPORT! there is NO good streaming video support.
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Change the fact that your GPA and the name of the school on your degree and maybe cheating will actually hurt you. Cheating does not hurt yourself unless you let it. Most of the classes, are useless. UC's teach theory. They teach what can be done, not what you should do. A good teacher will not have cheating because students will want to learn the material because they back theory with substance. I know my favorite CS teachers were there for us to learn and tought in this way.
Also, with CS I've "cheated" according to the definition, but I have learned more, working and discussing code and how to implement it, with friends than I have learned on my own.
There is a way to stop it. Make it interesting.
NEWSFLASH: Software that uses the Internet is not secure!! Oh my god NO! This can't be happening!
A total BGO - "Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious" I mean come on! The day any file sharing software is secure is not happening any time soon. POST DECENT ARTICLES ON SLASHDOT PLEASE.
I have to use Linux for a server at work because the only decently documented Sybase drivers for PHP are written for Linux and it's only running SSHD and httpd so it's ok for now.
I'd have to say my favorite windowing program is CDE. Simple, it runs, and on Solaris/HP-UX it's stable.
I just hate the fact that the correct drivers for NVIDIA boards are not installed automatically and that setting up each desktop is just so labor intensive for IT guys ($$$).
The one spot that I think linux is great for is the diskless terminals. It's AWESOME there, in a very controlled environment.
I have to agree with you, mostly.
I think if you take a good install of windows (2000), and keep it CLEAN..installing only the applications that's necessary, it is quite stable and very user friendly. As a desktop it works very well, in the hands of a skilled operator. In the wrong hands it is absolute hell.
I meant that Linux is trying to have the same features as Windows, but will never catch up with microsofts codebase and might. I wasn't necessarily talking about actual coding, but more for the features (USB, Firewire, SMP). I'm sure Linux and BSD have much superior coding in some parts.
BSD is ok for a server (albeit, SMP in FreeBSD isn't what I would call amazing). But for a uniprocessor server it's great. As a desktop forget about it. Windows is just way ahead of anything else (Except MacOS X). I feel your pain about AA and stuff like that.
This is just my opinion. Nothing more.
.x release. Debian sounds the best, but it didn't even install on the computer I tried. Mandrake just died one day (no clue)...the os wouldn't boot and i just gave up. Slackware is good, but it doesn't seem to have the documentation of FreeBSD. I used to love Linux, until I used it. The biggest problems I have had are with dependencies and non-kernel related problems. I think a centrally managed OS like the BSD's are much more efficient. With kernel releases every few months for Linux, how can you expect it to be stable? I'm a business person. I value time and money. /stand/sysinstall is the greatest utility FreeBSD has. From that 1 utility I can change anything I need to. Simple as that. Redhat had utilities that don't even work right!
After trying to use Linux (redhat 6x/7x, mandrake 7x/8x, debian, slackware) I found that none were upgradeable as easy as FreeBSD. Try upgrading from Redhat 7.1 -> 7.2. I've had it fail on 3 different machines (at work). Nightmares doing that. Plus everything is changing on a
BSD is just rock solid. It's easy to install, upgrade and use. It has been proven. I can't wait to use 4.5 and try it out. Linux is trying to emulate Windows, and it never will. Linux should find it's niche over time. I know BSD has and it's thriving. Doing everything for everyone is bad, and I know BSD isn't.
You're right. It's the best way..and if you want the program /stand/sysinstall is AWESOME too to configure a lot of stuff!!!
FreeBSD blows away any version on Linux, plus it's so damn tiny.
The most wildly popular MMORPG has to be Ultima Online, or the most addicting. With all it's flaws it still was one of the best games in the world. The game lacked any advanced graphics possible, all 2D. The game had the best gameplay ever. It's not about the graphics with a game that has so much interaction with the world around it. These companies are trying to build 3D worlds that still don't compare to the UO world. I'd play UO again, but then I'd be out of a job and lock myself in a room all day.
Is Berlin supposed to be the answer to an X redo?
How is the kernel supposed to catch up to an OS like Solaris? IBM has 3 OS's to work on, i.e. AIX etc. On the other hand, Sun has 1 OS to support all their machines from back in the SPARCstation 1 days. It's completely specialized to run on ultrasparcs (albeit, intel is supported, SLOWLY). For Linux to support everything that Solaris does, it would take forever. Sun has the money to throw into the development because it relies on Solaris and nothing else. Linux runs really well on Intel hardware, and I think with the coming of 64bit processors, dirt cheap prices, and new motherboards, that it will become much more efficient to run intel/amd hardware. Plus once more cache is placed on these processors they will be more suitable for servers.
I don't think it's a matter of when Linux catches up, I think it's a matter of when I can put in 64 intel/amd processors in a system of 8 system boards and do it while the system is on. Right now, AMD & intel are having a big enough problem finding decent chipsets to work on 1 damn processor. I think it's a matter of hardware for intel (just because they have the most marketshare). We know they make huge mistakes (RDRAM? Were they drunk when they thought that disaster up?) and companies like AMD are much better. I want IBM to step in this realm and throw some punches.
I did the beta test of EQ, and quit in a matter of hours...it was the most boring game I have ever played. I played UO for like 8 months and that was the best game, with fairly simple graphics. I think companies now are more concerned with graphics than gameplay. UO was more concerned with gameplay than graphics, and it was a huge it and still is.
linux and open source will always be alive among college campuses all around. It may not ever get into business (most business computer users ARE COMPLETELY STUPID AND STUBBORN). MS makes some good products, granted they crash (I must say Win2k works pretty well), but business people trust the name through years of development. Microsoft has been working at Windows for YEARS, in less than half of that GNOME and KDE have been created. Give linux and BSD*s time, they'll get better with help from everybody. We need anti-aliased fonts, central graphical configuration, a set location for everything (ORGANIZATION), and some more work on those REALLY useful apps like StarOffice, Gaim, kmail, and Netscape....oh yea WE NEED BETTER VIDEO SUPPORT! there is NO good streaming video support.
Don't forget you have to pay for upgrades every year...which aren't cheap.