We used Win3.1 for 5 years after the first 32 bit processors and no-one ever complained. Now we'll just use 32 bit operating systems for 5 years after 64 bit processors. It looks like the 64 bit Linux is going to remain weekend hobbyist terratory while 32 bit WinNT is going to be the workplace.
Since there are so many frameworks on UNIX and they change so rapidly you're better off abstracting the toolkit from your applications with yet another layer.
Then isolate the GUI code into its own classes as far from your main code as possible. When I started a project in 1997 there was no GTK, QT was much more restrictive than it is now, and everything looked like shit. A year into the project, GTK was finished and QT was relicensed but still very restrictive.
A second year into the project direct GTK and QT access was phased out in favor of yet another layer above the toolkit. Now instead of interfacing the toolkit you really should interface a desktop library: Gnome lib or Kde lib. Now if you don't want to be stuck with one desktop you need to code that extra abstraction layer between your GUI code and the desktop library. Who knows how long KDElib and Gnomelib is going to stick around.
So far I've overclocked 466s and 366s. There is a correlation between batch numbers and overclockability. Unfortunately when you overclock, you reduce the environmental tolerance of the chip. You can't run it outside in 90o weather anymore. You can't use it on the road when you're unsure of the room temperature.
Also when you get pretested chips, the tests they use aren't very comprehensive. The same chips which run Prime95 forever crash easily with Broadcast 2000. Also one reason they're selling CPUs matched to the dual motherboard is that the two sockets are electrically different. Some CPUs are only stable when inserted in one order. Instead of getting those CPUs back as defective they're matching them to the socket they work in, but if you accidentally change sockets without knowing this, you're out of luck.
Wasn't Linux supposed to be SGI's new lease on life? Wasn't the demise of SGI's NT workstation supposed to be the heralding of increased profits from Linux? Didn't SGI develop a whole bunch of development libraries and tools? Does the real world not want a box of development libraries?
I heard that the pin they would have to disable is actually required for operating the chip in addition to SMP. They would have to run another trace along the chip to substitute for the pin's required functionality which would require a completely seperate manufacturing process. It was cheaper just to advertize no SMP support. Maybe the Coppermine Celerons have an architecture that allows SMP to be disabled but they've already ended socket 370 for that purpose.
Well you can artificially boost female enrollment, artificially boost female hiring, hire actors for female programmers in movies. Despite years and years of this, the bankruptcy commercials still use women as the poster for bankruptcy, women are still passengers in the car commercials. We've had no luck in convincing women that they should be able to support themselves, which is the real limiting factor in enrollment. As for this year's entering class, they have it all figured out. They're going to get married and maybe work as receptionists, but the car payments and home loans are going to be covered by the patriarch. It's all in the can.
Well some Taiwan company will soon bless us with a flip-chip to PPGA adaptor. You didn't need to be a prophet to know Intel was going to dump the PPGA format when Abit introduced the BP6. That motherboard must have cost Intel a lot of money. As for improved heat dissipation. Yeah, right, whatever. The only performance increase for Intel is the performance decrease of dual Celeron motherboards. At least until the BP7 comes out we'll have 133Mhz overclocks.
Unless you want to upload files over the internet, the best sound quality is only going to be from MP2 above 256k. MP3 was developed for distributing music over low bandwidth connections not for archiving. If you must go with the pack, use Lame, which supports joint stereo. Bladeenc does not support joint stereo. Joint stereo greatly improves the quality.
MainConcept announced their flip book program would be ported to Linux by March 1999. By May they were still waiting for a non existant market for Linux video software before gambling their WinNT revenue on it. The appearance of Broadcast 2000 on May 10th finally got MainConcept to do a release the next day.
Well MainActor VE is a good program. It converts movies to Cinepak, which was the internet standard up to 1997. It doesn't compare to what you can get for Win NT but as a simple, small toy it's right up the Linux hacker's alley.
Unfortunately by July school had ended, the Linux community was home working full time, Broadcast 2000 ended up being just a timed demo, MainConcept had sacrificed a large part of their WinNT revenue because of a timed demo, and the last entry in LML's diary is from May. Probably when school starts in September we might get back on track, but video software is naturally large, bloated, and too expensive to write as a hobby. That alone turns off Linux hackers but the lack of interest Linux video editing of any kind is a final nail in the coffin until video software becomes cheaper to write.
Well at Linuxworld there were 2 apps: Word perfect 8 which is 3 years old and good old Netscape 4. The rest was still more system tools. The OEMs can't improve their bottom line on anything but basic system software and not many Linux hackers want to use it for anything but coding.
Mention the word "computer" to a biologist and you're likely to get shipped out with the level 5 biohazard waste. The problem isn't technology but getting biologists to accept even the remotest possibility of a computer entering their wet labs. Every biologist I've encountered who was actually surviving off of biology income hated computers like Dan Quayle.
I've been using xfstt for years. You don't need to hope for anything as regards true type fonts. I hear xfstt took some brilliant programming to pull off but the solution isn't always the most hyped.
Well for the 8th year since Linus invented it, we see more companies advertizing more development libraries and system services but no apps. Are OEM's not making any money by supporting the next level above the base system? Shouldn't this Linux workstation be able to do something besides compile libraries?
It must only run on Win NT and Win95 and must be a small utility with a single defined purpose. We don't want no stinkin Linux software. On my LAN we accept that we're sniffed as a fact of life. That's the price of 10MB/s ATM in a time when companies make and lose $billions on the internet. Years ago this wasn't the case, but today you must pay.
Looks like he got hired because he has a CS degree from the Swiss federal institute of technology. Getting hired because you have a degree in CS is no big news. Now if he got hired because of some open source project that would be something.
What is more important in finding a coding job: writing 100,000 lines of open source code or getting a technical, quantitative oriented degree like CS with good grades? So far a lot of students swear by open source projects but when we look at people who actually get paid to write software some have written open source projects but all have CS degrees and usually well above average grades.
The content of this article can be summarized as getting a day job and make coding a hobby. The best way to make money on it is to apply it in conjunction with a degree in CS with good grades and do something else for income like consulting. Either way you must have a technical, quantitative oriented degree and good grades. No-one is paid to code. Bare software is just that: bare.
First of all, no-one's losing sleep over whether Mozilla stays open or not. We can assume Netscpae 4.6 is the last browser we're going to get. Secondly, most of these companies pledging support for open source project don't yet know that they're really dealing with are students who want to learn about computers, not companies with lucrative business offers.
Why don't we create a section called slashdown or something, which posts nothing but downtime news. It would definitely fill in on the weekends when only 1 or 2 stories go on the main page. Then again the amount of downtime news would crash the server. Luckily there's msn.com, which never goes down.
So they crashed and instead of giving away the machine they ended the contest. That memory exhaustion crash bug has been around for over a year. Any Linux box can be crashed easily by exhausting its memory repeatedly.
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If my system gets stolen, they'll try booting up, see some wierd screen that doesn't say Win95, give up, and format the hard drive.
We used Win3.1 for 5 years after the first 32 bit processors and no-one ever complained. Now we'll just use 32 bit operating systems for 5 years after 64 bit processors. It looks like the 64 bit Linux is going to remain weekend hobbyist terratory while 32 bit WinNT is going to be the workplace.
Since there are so many frameworks on UNIX and they change so rapidly you're better off abstracting the toolkit from your applications with yet another layer.
Then isolate the GUI code into its own classes as far from your main code as possible. When I started a project in 1997 there was no GTK, QT was much more restrictive than it is now, and everything looked like shit. A year into the project, GTK was finished and QT was relicensed but still very restrictive.
A second year into the project direct GTK and QT access was phased out in favor of yet another layer above the toolkit. Now instead of interfacing the toolkit you really should interface a desktop library: Gnome lib or Kde lib. Now if you don't want to be stuck with one desktop you need to code that extra abstraction layer between your GUI code and the desktop library. Who knows how long KDElib and Gnomelib is going to stick around.
So far I've overclocked 466s and 366s. There is a correlation between batch numbers and overclockability. Unfortunately when you overclock, you reduce the environmental tolerance of the chip. You can't run it outside in 90o weather anymore. You can't use it on the road when you're unsure of the room temperature.
Also when you get pretested chips, the tests they use aren't very comprehensive. The same chips which run Prime95 forever crash easily with Broadcast 2000. Also one reason they're selling CPUs matched to the dual motherboard is that the two sockets are electrically different. Some CPUs are only stable when inserted in one order. Instead of getting those CPUs back as defective they're matching them to the socket they work in, but if you accidentally change sockets without knowing this, you're out of luck.
Wasn't Linux supposed to be SGI's new lease on life? Wasn't the demise of SGI's NT workstation supposed to be the heralding of increased profits from Linux? Didn't SGI develop a whole bunch of development libraries and tools? Does the real world not want a box of development libraries?
I heard that the pin they would have to disable is actually required for operating the chip in addition to SMP. They would have to run another trace along the chip to substitute for the pin's required functionality which would require a completely seperate manufacturing process. It was cheaper just to advertize no SMP support. Maybe the Coppermine Celerons have an architecture that allows SMP to be disabled but they've already ended socket 370 for that purpose.
S&P 500 utility eh. Well given Fl*rida's whopping economy I guess if you work in Fl*rida you work for TECO.
Well you can artificially boost female enrollment, artificially boost female hiring, hire actors for female programmers in movies. Despite years and years of this, the bankruptcy commercials still use women as the poster for bankruptcy, women are still passengers in the car commercials. We've had no luck in convincing women that they should be able to support themselves, which is the real limiting factor in enrollment. As for this year's entering class, they have it all figured out. They're going to get married and maybe work as receptionists, but the car payments and home loans are going to be covered by the patriarch. It's all in the can.
Well some Taiwan company will soon bless us with a flip-chip to PPGA adaptor. You didn't need to be a prophet to know Intel was going to dump the PPGA format when Abit introduced the BP6. That motherboard must have cost Intel a lot of money. As for improved heat dissipation. Yeah, right, whatever. The only performance increase for Intel is the performance decrease of dual Celeron motherboards. At least until the BP7 comes out we'll have 133Mhz overclocks.
Unless you want to upload files over the internet, the best sound quality is only going to be from MP2 above 256k. MP3 was developed for distributing music over low bandwidth connections not for archiving. If you must go with the pack, use Lame, which supports joint stereo. Bladeenc does not support joint stereo. Joint stereo greatly improves the quality.
MainConcept announced their flip book program would be ported to Linux by March 1999. By May they were still waiting for a non existant market for Linux video software before gambling their WinNT revenue on it. The appearance of Broadcast 2000 on May 10th finally got MainConcept to do a release the next day.
Well MainActor VE is a good program. It converts movies to Cinepak, which was the internet standard up to 1997. It doesn't compare to what you can get for Win NT but as a simple, small toy it's right up the Linux hacker's alley.
Unfortunately by July school had ended, the Linux community was home working full time, Broadcast 2000 ended up being just a timed demo, MainConcept had sacrificed a large part of their WinNT revenue because of a timed demo, and the last entry in LML's diary is from May. Probably when school starts in September we might get back on track, but video software is naturally large, bloated, and too expensive to write as a hobby. That alone turns off Linux hackers but the lack of interest Linux video editing of any kind is a final nail in the coffin until video software becomes cheaper to write.
Now that egcs is the official compiler and KDE only compiles with gcc-2.8, this presents a slight problem.
Well at Linuxworld there were 2 apps: Word perfect 8 which is 3 years old and good old Netscape 4. The rest was still more system tools. The OEMs can't improve their bottom line on anything but basic system software and not many Linux hackers want to use it for anything but coding.
Mention the word "computer" to a biologist and you're likely to get shipped out with the level 5 biohazard waste. The problem isn't technology but getting biologists to accept even the remotest possibility of a computer entering their wet labs. Every biologist I've encountered who was actually surviving off of biology income hated computers like Dan Quayle.
I've been using xfstt for years. You don't need to hope for anything as regards true type fonts. I hear xfstt took some brilliant programming to pull off but the solution isn't always the most hyped.
Well for the 8th year since Linus invented it, we see more companies advertizing more development libraries and system services but no apps. Are OEM's not making any money by supporting the next level above the base system? Shouldn't this Linux workstation be able to do something besides compile libraries?
It must only run on Win NT and Win95 and must be a small utility with a single defined purpose. We don't want no stinkin Linux software. On my LAN we accept that we're sniffed as a fact of life. That's the price of 10MB/s ATM in a time when companies make and lose $billions on the internet. Years ago this wasn't the case, but today you must pay.
Looks like he got hired because he has a CS degree from the Swiss federal institute of technology. Getting hired because you have a degree in CS is no big news. Now if he got hired because of some open source project that would be something.
What is more important in finding a coding job: writing 100,000 lines of open source code or getting a technical, quantitative oriented degree like CS with good grades? So far a lot of students swear by open source projects but when we look at people who actually get paid to write software some have written open source projects but all have CS degrees and usually well above average grades.
The content of this article can be summarized as getting a day job and make coding a hobby. The best way to make money on it is to apply it in conjunction with a degree in CS with good grades and do something else for income like consulting. Either way you must have a technical, quantitative oriented degree and good grades. No-one is paid to code. Bare software is just that: bare.
Time for some college students to get that trailer mirrored on internet 2. Remind me never to move to Austria.
James was the biggest reason why I wrote a film editor for Linux. Too bad he's not doing film anymore.
First of all, no-one's losing sleep over whether Mozilla stays open or not. We can assume Netscpae 4.6 is the last browser we're going to get. Secondly, most of these companies pledging support for open source project don't yet know that they're really dealing with are students who want to learn about computers, not companies with lucrative business offers.
Why don't we create a section called slashdown or something, which posts nothing but downtime news. It would definitely fill in on the weekends when only 1 or 2 stories go on the main page. Then again the amount of downtime news would crash the server. Luckily there's msn.com, which never goes down.
So they crashed and instead of giving away the machine they ended the contest. That memory exhaustion crash bug has been around for over a year. Any Linux box can be crashed easily by exhausting its memory repeatedly.