I have SBC Yahoo DSL. I can connect fine with the built-in PPPoE support in Mac OS X. My real network setup is a Linksys router w/ built-in wireless hub. The router maintains a full-time PPPoE connection, and all of the computers on the LAN can access each other and the internet no problem.
In fact, the initial registration is all web based, and I didn't even make it through the yahoo portion of the registration b/c the pages wouldn't load in Camino or Safari. Once you finish the SBC part to get your PPPoE username and password, you should be able to connect and get online alright.
I completely agree with you. Any software developer who doesn't have their head up their ass knows that a clean compile only means that you've made it past the simplest bugs. The good ones have unit and regression tests, the others just run a few testcases by hand. Who ships as soon as it cleanly compiles???
The main thing that scares me about languages with run-time time checking is that the types can change at run time. If you have unit tests where a variable is a integral/scalar value, and then somehow at runtime it has a string value (cause someone called your function incorrectly), you're screwed because you didn't test that. And if your response is that you should have had a unit test for that, then you'd have to have a unit test for every type (incl user defined) types in the language. This isn't really a problem if it is a small program or you are scripting something, because you can have more control over the inputs, but in a large system, especially with a large development team, compile time type checking has an incredible value!!!
What about cook? I've been using it at work for about a year now, and have been very happy with it. It is a new syntax to learn, but the concepts are the same as make. I'd say its as good or better than ant (and I disagree with the comment "ant is terrible". its been great on all of the java-based projects i've worked on in the past couple of years).
I'd guess that cook had at least some influence on aap as well. In the interview, Bram specifically used the word "recipe", which is the same terminoligy used by cook. I'd highly reccomend it to anyone looking for a better make.
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/cook/cook.htm l
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1) I much prefer to watch HD programming. Especially sports. I will not watch SD football
2) All of the HDTV I watch is over the air.
3) I'm still in a bad mood since my local PBS station decided to only broadcast about 4 hours of HD programming each day.
That said, I'm not saying that HD commands higher ad rates - but it should. Too bad HD programming usually has SD commercials.
I have SBC Yahoo DSL. I can connect fine with the built-in PPPoE support in Mac OS X. My real network setup is a Linksys router w/ built-in wireless hub. The router maintains a full-time PPPoE connection, and all of the computers on the LAN can access each other and the internet no problem.
In fact, the initial registration is all web based, and I didn't even make it through the yahoo portion of the registration b/c the pages wouldn't load in Camino or Safari. Once you finish the SBC part to get your PPPoE username and password, you should be able to connect and get online alright.
dan
I completely agree with you. Any software developer who doesn't have their head up their ass knows that a clean compile only means that you've made it past the simplest bugs. The good ones have unit and regression tests, the others just run a few testcases by hand. Who ships as soon as it cleanly compiles???
The main thing that scares me about languages with run-time time checking is that the types can change at run time. If you have unit tests where a variable is a integral/scalar value, and then somehow at runtime it has a string value (cause someone called your function incorrectly), you're screwed because you didn't test that. And if your response is that you should have had a unit test for that, then you'd have to have a unit test for every type (incl user defined) types in the language. This isn't really a problem if it is a small program or you are scripting something, because you can have more control over the inputs, but in a large system, especially with a large development team, compile time type checking has an incredible value!!!
dan
What about cook? I've been using it at work for about a year now, and have been very happy with it. It is a new syntax to learn, but the concepts are the same as make. I'd say its as good or better than ant (and I disagree with the comment "ant is terrible". its been great on all of the java-based projects i've worked on in the past couple of years). I'd guess that cook had at least some influence on aap as well. In the interview, Bram specifically used the word "recipe", which is the same terminoligy used by cook. I'd highly reccomend it to anyone looking for a better make. http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/cook/cook.htm l