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Just wanted to tell you, that your answers are great and I enjoyed the interview throughout. Though I'd still like to know how your 1st LUG meeting was...
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Sorry, I overlooked the/. stories on the issue of gravity shielding. They contain some good links.
Anti-Gravity Research Confirmed
http://slashdot.org/science/00/03/28/0815202.shtml
NASA seeks to verify Gravity shield
http://slashdot.org/articles/98/12/11/1236240.shtm l
Practical Gravity Shielding for Spacecraft?
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/03/28/2154213.shtm l
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AFAIK, teleportation has never successfully demonstrated, while antigravity worked in experiments (I'd prefer teleportation to my hotel at the moon, too). But then, it seems NASA is already working on this. I found the following links:
A nice collection of antigravity links:
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/antigrav.html
NASA funds gravity shield:
http://space.com/businesstechnology/technology/ant i_grav_000928.html
AFAIK the spinning superconductors are not necessary anymore. A guy in the USA demonstrated antigravity with stationary superconductors already.
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to shield the space vehicle from gravity? It was mentioned in a show that I once watched on tv. I think the guy who came up with this was Eugen Plotnikov(?). He wanted to use rotating superconductors to reduce gravity IIRC.
How many browsers support the latest Java APIs? I think Java applications are so much more useful than applets these days, since you don't have to deal with a instable browser. Some of best apps are written in Java these days. Think of Together or ArgoUML. Both rock and give you a good performance.
I think he also missed the point what software engineering is all about. Turning software development from a form of art into a engineering discipline. I think he mixes software engineers and programmers througout the article. Now that good and free tools like ArgoUML are available, there no good excuse anymore to avoid modelling (or planning in general). My answer to this article would be: don't give your employees toys, but give them tools! (and make them use them of course.)
Try to go to a different abstraction level. Work with diagrams rather than code until you are really confident about the architecture. If you are completely insecure about your app, even go back to analyze use-cases. Take a look at Martin Fowlers book "UML distilled" to get an impression of a development process. Maybe it's enough to reverse engineer your code with a tool like Together/C++ and to analyze the class diagrams.
You know I wrote some FTP sources and tried to find people interested in SFTP for months, but it seems that noone wants to use it. I spoke to so many companies, but all I heard was FTP over IPsec is what we use. Do you have a SFTP server? Maybe we could make a deal, if you are really interested in a SFTP client on linux. If so, drop me a mail at a_rueckert@gmx.net
Are you talking about secure FTP (RFC 2228) ? AFAIK there are some GUI FTP clients, so it should be feasable to bring one up to this...
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So you have stable native threads that actually scale on SMP machines? I've never managed to do any native XSL transformations on a JDK1.2/Linux box...
Seems like you did a great job! Keep up the good work! Do you teach HTML to these kids? It seems some of the pages are not really HTML. But then some of them are really good, like http://agape.qis.net/~mharri1/
Is there a way to provide some help from home? Maybe customize OSS for free? For startups that cannot afford payed programmers? Or provide online knowhow in certain fields?
I have another question: how much free teaching material is available these days? We have a lot of documentation available for skilled geeks (think of the LDP), but what's up with entry level material? I sought software engineering tutorials recently and it seems there's almost nothing available. Is a server like educateyourself.org enough to close this gap in reasonable time?
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Hi! Just wanted to tell you, that your answers are great and I enjoyed the interview throughout.
Though I'd still like to know how your 1st LUG meeting was...
Sorry, I overlooked the /. stories on the issue of gravity shielding. They contain some good links.l m lm l
Anti-Gravity Research Confirmed
http://slashdot.org/science/00/03/28/0815202.shtm
NASA seeks to verify Gravity shield
http://slashdot.org/articles/98/12/11/1236240.sht
Practical Gravity Shielding for Spacecraft?
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/03/28/2154213.sht
AFAIK, teleportation has never successfully demonstrated, while antigravity worked in experiments (I'd prefer teleportation to my hotel at the moon, too). But then, it seems NASA is already working on this. I found the following links: A nice collection of antigravity links: http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/antigrav.html
NASA funds gravity shield:
http://space.com/businesstechnology/technology/ant i_grav_000928.html
AFAIK the spinning superconductors are not necessary anymore. A guy in the USA demonstrated antigravity with stationary superconductors already.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to shield the space vehicle from gravity? It was mentioned in a show that I once watched on tv. I think the guy who came up with this was Eugen Plotnikov(?). He wanted to use rotating superconductors to reduce gravity IIRC.
Since I never had a chance to be there, I'd like to know how you experienced your 1st LUG meeting?
What are your other hobbies?
How many browsers support the latest Java APIs? I think Java applications are so much more useful than applets these days, since you don't have to deal with a instable browser. Some of best apps are written in Java these days. Think of Together or ArgoUML. Both rock and give you a good performance.
I think he also missed the point what software engineering is all about. Turning software development from a form of art into a engineering discipline. I think he mixes software engineers and programmers througout the article. Now that good and free tools like ArgoUML are available, there no good excuse anymore to avoid modelling (or planning in general). My answer to this article would be: don't give your employees toys, but give them tools! (and make them use them of course.)
What about Japhar and Classpath? Or SableVM, ORP,...
Try to go to a different abstraction level. Work with diagrams rather than code until you are really confident about the architecture. If you are completely insecure about your app, even go back to analyze use-cases. Take a look at Martin Fowlers book "UML distilled" to get an impression of a development process. Maybe it's enough to reverse engineer your code with a tool like Together/C++ and to analyze the class diagrams.
Don't think that's correct. You can find more info on this here:
http://www.nineplanets.org/pluto.html and here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/planets/features.s html
You know I wrote some FTP sources and tried to find people interested in SFTP for months, but it seems that noone wants to use it. I spoke to so many companies, but all I heard was FTP over IPsec is what we use. Do you have a SFTP server? Maybe we could make a deal, if you are really interested in a SFTP client on linux. If so, drop me a mail at a_rueckert@gmx.net
Are you talking about secure FTP (RFC 2228) ? AFAIK there are some GUI FTP clients, so it should be feasable to bring one up to this...
So you have stable native threads that actually scale on SMP machines? I've never managed to do any native XSL transformations on a JDK1.2/Linux box...
Forgot one important distro.
Tiny Linux:
http://tiny.seul.org/en/
Seems like you did a great job! Keep up the good work! Do you teach HTML to these kids? It seems some of the pages are not really HTML. But then some of them are really good, like http://agape.qis.net/~mharri1/
Is there a way to provide some help from home? Maybe customize OSS for free? For startups that cannot afford payed programmers? Or provide online knowhow in certain fields?
I have another question: how much free teaching material is available these days? We have a lot of documentation available for skilled geeks (think of the LDP), but what's up with entry level material? I sought software engineering tutorials recently and it seems there's almost nothing available. Is a server like educateyourself.org enough to close this gap in reasonable time?
Take a look at
Small Linux: http://smalllinux.netpedia.net
Vector Linux: http://metalab.unc.edu/vectorlinux/
Green Frog Linux: http://members.linuxstart.com/~aus tin/GreenFrog/
muLinux: http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/
ThinLinux: http://www.ThinLinux.org/
But there's at least one additional project to provide a Linux distro to the 3rd world. If I could only recall the name right now... (oldering sucks)
Do you have any performance data yet? How does it compare to LotusXSL/XML4J or XT/XP?