If you are interested in more stories like this try space.com. I read this story yesterday there and found some neat pictures about other things that nasa has been up to. They have some really neat pictures of some celestial objects.
Now about this stopy: I think that this is a good thing, but I sure hope that they can learn to control the robost better than they can control the mars lander. Granted they could not have a visual on the mars lander, and there were other issues there.
Does 2.2.16 still have these compiler warnings? I did not start getting them until I compiled 2.2.15. I have tried 2.2.9 to 2.2.14 and all have been okay. Since I have not users on my system (except http when I tell people where my system is) then I really don't think I have to worry about the security issue here.
Does anyone have the change log for this summed up yet. I know taht normally I check at http://www.linux.org.uk and Alan Cox has his summary of changes, but that is not up yet.
Well any hoo I just downloaded it, boy do I love fast connections.
On another note I am not sure why people want to do so many OS comparisons. Here is my take on all the OSes that I have used.
Solaris for servers is expensive. They are giving it away for workstations for developers. I have version 7 and it is okay. Nice install. It si UNIX. It does not have alot of hardware support though. I.E. it is not made for an end user who wants to just use a computer, and buy all that neato hardware. This is closed source and it is pretty good about security. They have good support if you pay for it, and they also will sell you the hardware to go with it.
FreeBSD and hte BSD's. They suffer the same fate as Solaris. Although they are a little more friendlier to end users. They are both good for Servers (yahoo uses them and also Solaris AFAIK) and also pretty good for developer workstations. I think that they are okay for end users as the seem to support more hardware and software than Solaris. They support most stuff that runs on Linux see their ports section. OpenBSD has a very good security model and is great for firewalls, as are some of the rest of the BSD's. All in all it is a good bas to start at. I am personally looking forward to MAC OS X on Intel next year, as I consider it a part of this family. It to uses a version of the Mach kernel as does the hurd and the BSD's.(AFAIK)
Windows anything. This is probably the best as far as ease of use and finding hardware for. It's security model is something to be desired, but I hear W2K is much improved in that department. I just wonder why more have not moved to it. Could it be the fact that Windows 95 burned so many of us with its BSOD, hangs and general buggy behavior that we all fear the OS like it was the plague? Me thinks so. I do Like NT 4.0. It is not that difficult to trouble shoot and works with most hardware and is actually fairly stable. That is if you do reboot your machine every day, like I do. In 6 mo I have had one crash at work. It has lots of apps as do the other windows versions and all in all it is not that bad. Contrary to the popular belief. However I do think that it is grosely overpriced. How about reducing the price to lets say less than $50? Does M$ really need to price it so high?
Linux is what I use at home. It is inexpensive, it is stable (for me atleast). Much hardware is supported, and it is not taht difficult to install and configure. I do wish for a few better apps. Like better web browser plugins. I want to have M$ required to port it's media player to Linux as well as its browser. And to make it work good. O4r for Netscape to finally stop adding features into version 6 and speed it up and clean it up.
I do not hate Microsoft only their business practices. I.E. I do not think that they play fair.
Did they really invent COM? Or did they get the idea from someone else?
They did not invent the IDE either I remember using pascal and C ide's way before Microsoft did anything with an IDE. I thought Borlan had it's ide's way before Microsoft.
Other than COM, I cannot think of anything that was not already in existance that all they did was extend and embrace.
Microsoft did not inovate anything. Nothing at all. They did come up with some nice features in Word and Excel. However their mail program is a copy of features from pine, Netscape mail and other programs. VB Script is a copy of the original basic interpreters. Macros.. can you say vi? If he thinks that Microsoft is the inovater from 1990 to the present then said to say that nothing is really new!
Frontpage, their web browser and most of their stuff has been assimilated not inovated.
I think I read something about this in the paper here the other day. I live in SF and the B.A.R. I think it was had something in it about this. If this is the same incident (which I think it is) then the kid actually threadtened to kill his parent first and then declaired how much he hates different people and all. It was pretty sick from what I understand and I think that the kid really needs help more than anything else. Charging him with all these legal things is not going to do any good. Just my.02 cents though.
There area many ways to publish to the web. The most popular I know of it HTML and then pdf.
HTML is okay if it is one or two pages or less than 10. Since this is a book, I'd recommend against this format.
If you have Windows or Mac you can get a tool called Framemaker or Pagemaker/PageMill? and have the book entered in it. You can then easily convert or save it as a pdf file or postscript file. YOu can also edit it and have pictures in it too. By using pdf format you can save much if not all of the layout of the book so that in the future if you want a printed copy you can have that too. Also pdf can give you the cross platform compatiblity that you want. Adobe pdf viewer is available on Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux and many other platforms as well. I believe in fact that this may be a "standard" format and that there are other pdf viewers that are open source that run on just about any platform.
On a personal note, I like the idea of releasing books on the web, because it makes putting them in handheld devices so much easier.
I just tried a newer version of wine and was supprised at how much it has progressed since I first tried it. I was able to get Netscape and IE both to work under Linux. I did have one problem with Flash and Shockwave not being detected correctly, but the fact that they both ran, means that probably in another year or two I'll have no reason to run windows.
It seems that anyone can get one. I think that probably what happened was the person who issued the patent was probably unfamiliar with the internet technology. I thought that the POST and GET methods have been around for a while. To many sites use them for one person to get a patent. I think that it was a slipup on their part and that this is just another sign that the USPTO needs to be rethought as well do patents.
FYI: slashdot and every portol and just about every major ISP uses GET or POST.
If you were to get a palm V you could get wireless access through omnisky.com. I want it and it is only 39.95 per month. The big cost is the modem. Next year I am sure that wireless palms and such devices will be more prevelant and also with color and total sweetness.
This is not the opinion of US citizens it is the US gov. I think that the gov is afraid that if other countries do better and stronger enryption than we have here then it could threaten national security and global security. The US gov may be a bunch of control freaks, but after WWI and WWII (both started by Europe and Japan, there is reason to fear. Think of it this way. Country X in Europe comes with a new encryption. US and no one else can break it. They then decide to start taking over other countries. They have a unbreakable encryption method that no one can tell what they are doing. Morse code and other codes were used in previous wars to send messages, with an unbreakable encryption method it could be a new way to send secrete messages. So maybe the US shoudl not be able to stop this, but someone should have control over this. I think it should go to the UN maybe.
Sure this month sensor the spec. It was not/. that put it there, but some user. Next month sensor the language. No s=cussing. The month after that sensor the opinions. Oh that is what/. is about. next only post news that is 'happy news'. Please if you start to senser the net where do you end?
The only censonship on the internet should be parents watching their childern.
Yes and No. The Linux kernel was ported to the MF. Linux does I/O pretty well, so without actaully trying it I could not say. Hmm which is faster COBOL or C? Most of what you typically do on a mainframe is in COBOL. Yuch! I too have worked on MF and find them to be real MF. No they are not that fast. That is because of the way the OS works. UNIX for years has been able to run on MF, and yes very few people run UNIX on MF I guess. This is more of just a show that Linux can run anywhere. Also I think that when they ported it to the MF that they would take into consideration that MF are more I/O than CPU and that is why they have a s390 branch in the kernel. Think about it this way. If you can run Linux on a MF then you can start to port all its applications over to the MF. Also with MF you can partition regions. SO that one region you have Linux and another you have MVS. This would good for someone who wanted to run lets say oracle, but had a MF. They could keep the hardware and have a less expensive software replacement.
I'd be curious ot know what slashdot.org is running. In hte ways of hardware and software? I heard they have mysql, and now a freebsd box but what else? This information would probably be interesting to anyone else out there that has an internet site. IE how does/. perform and what do they use to get their performace?
Well the code that they wrote for the agency is not the agencies. It is theirs, but that can depend on the contract. If you rewrote the code in perl and java then you are not really using their code. It would be like if I rewrote a book, but kept the plot the same.
If they did half a job and you had to finish the rest it sounds like they have problems with the ad agency and not you. I personllay would let the lawyers fight it out.
HTML itself may be copywritghtable, but did they actually copywright the code or are they just claiming copywright iolation? If they actually have a copywright then they have a case. If they did not they have a flimsy case.
Apparently Microsoft also invented sym links too. They have 3 engineers that 3 years ago were working on a solution to replicating files on a file system but saving space too. IE sym links. I think I read this here a while ago. It is so funny how Microsoft "invents" stuff that already exists.
For those of you who are not familiar UNIX flavors sym links have been around for about as long as unix, and Microsoft just now discoverd there usefullness.
Trust me. From someone who now works on putting banner ads on web sites that is not an ad. An ad would be if it said buy suse. The interesting thing about this will be when Redhat and other vendors get a hold of this code. Will they take these comments out in there custom kernels so that Redhat users don't see the suse credit?
I think that it is abnoxious, but then again that is SuSE. SuSE did not open source there YaST tool. Yes you have the source for it but it is not GPL, and you cannot use ot to create your own distribution. That is SuSE. RedHat open sources all its tools (AFAIK) which is why I went with Redhat. They also push for GPL stuff, remeber Redhat and debian would not distribute kde till troll tech opened up its qt tool kit. But enought of that that is just why I like Redhat.
The truth here is that the reiser fs is not really open source it is one of those open sourceish licenses that if you keep up with kernel traffic then you'd know that it caused a lot of stir up there too. Oh well I'll wait for 2.4 and see what is in it. I'd be more incliened to use ext2 or sgi journaling fs anyway.
The monitor is external, so you'd still have to have that bulky thing on your desk, although you could get a flat panel display. It seems like it it would be a space saver if you had multiple computers on your desk, you could easily have 3 or 4 without them taking up to much space. I'd much rather have a pocket pc and install Linux on it or have a yopy instead. If I am going to have a computer that is that small I might as well just have the computer that I can take with me and use on the road. I currently have a palmV and find that it is very usefull, but lacks certain functionality. I guess I ned to find out how to get my favorite web sites in my palm without using AvantGo. I am not sure if this is just trying to be a tiny computer or if it is trying to be a mobile computer. It is interesting though. Personally I'd like to have a wireless color palm with *meg of memory. With an integrated web browser.
I don't think he knows what he is talking about. He says that it is clear that Linux has a future, in one sentance and then the very next sentance he mentions that open source is strugling. Isn't Linux one of the biggest open source project of them all? I know that Redhat distributes only open source stuff on there ftp site and that consists of kde and gnome, windowmaker, enlightenment, sawmill, and afterstep. What about XFree86? That is also open source. Last time I checked I had the source to it. That is probably bigger than the Linux kernel. What is this guyt trying to say? There are a number of open source project that are doing fine and more people will gravitate to them because they realize that it is a model that works. If you are buying a program, you shoudl be allowed to get the source code to it too, and not have to pay extra. If you find a bug you can debug it if you know what you are doing. That is why open source works.
I am an open source developer and I realize that it does not always work, on some projects, but the important ones do work. Having used Linux for several years now, I have noticed that it has only gotten better and easier to do things with.
I think that before Americans give up english, and other countries decide that instead of learning Englis to learn another language, voice recognition will progres to a point where language will not matter. In about 5 years voice recognition will probably be in a state where everyone who uses a computer will e able to use this too. It will allow us to create transulators from one language to another at a cost that most people will be able to afford too. It may even be standard. If you notice the trends even Microsoft is getting into voice recognition as well as Linux and Redhat. In the enxt versio of Palm Pilots and handheld devices like that they are all going wireless. Why? So that you can have the internet to the palm of your hand. They are integrating this in with phones, and voice recognition tech already exists. We WILL start using this, it is only a matter of time. Therefore I think that if new language emerges on the internet it will be more likely to be xml based not a new language.
My first feeling is that most apps are moving towards the web. I have not seen any really good 4GL programming languages for the web. My last job they had started using a program that produced java code and HTML, but I do not remeber what it was called. It was also expensive as most are. It allowed you to set up your business rules and your GUI and then generated the code for you. This allowed for very little programming. THe drawback is that you basically needed 128 Meg of RAM and a 500Mhz processor to run it and even then it ran slow. This was the same problem that we encountered with Visual Cafe. It too is slow. Most 4GL's IDE's are this way they tend to be slow.
People are using 4GL's though. My current job we use Tcl. This is a 4GL scripting langauge. Many companies use this internally as it can provide a quick GUI.
Java is another 4GL that is getting much language.
Personally with the move to the web, I prefer to use Perl or php or if you know vb and want to use IIS there is asp. Personally I think asp stands for actually slow pages, but that is just my opinion.
My guess is you are looking for a 4GL IDE not a 4GL. There are nmany 4GL's that are in use now, but when people want speed as they often do, they program in C and drop the GUI. Many programmers I know prefer a simple editor like vi or emacs or vim or even notepad (some use visual studio for it syntax highlightening) but they all code pretty much by hadstill. This gives you better control over the code.
This is old news. jazz 4 has been out for about 2 weeks now and I sent in this same post then. Well enough griping.
I showed it to a friend of mine who uses windows (I use Linux) and he is into music composition and playing the violin, and he liked it. I told him I could help him install the windows version of the software, he said he was fine using my Linux box;-).
I originally had a few problems setting it up. It looks for/dev/sequencer2 and for some reason my Redhat 6.1 did not have it. I looked at MAKEDEV and uncommented it out and it fired right up. Course it took me a little time to figure this out.
I like the drum machine. It is nice to be able to give custom drum tracks to music. The only issue that I do have is that the GUI is not the most intuitive interface. I could figure it out and get it to work, but I wonder what kind of study they did on usability and if any. I often wonder how many studies are done on this. I know MS and MAC does studies on this and many software companies do. But I also know that many don't. hmmm
jazz 4.0 was released and it is open source. So I got it and fired it up. It was a little difficult to get started up. It comes configured for Also I think so I had to change it to OSS and then I had problems with it starting up and not finding my synth device. I then looked at my MAKDEV script and discovered sequencer2 was comment out. Not sure why RH6.1 does this though, but I uncommented this out and ran the script and I was off and making music. Then my roommate came in and wanted me to put this score in and so I did and he was impressed. It has a piano that allows you to pick your notes, and also allows you to set up drum tracks. The help has to be downloaded seperately but I just played with it and learned how it works. I did not think it was that difficult to do. However I do recommend that they should not hard code the sequencer. They should probably make it an option in their option file. I mean if you have an option file why not really make use of it. I'd love to see them move away from the motif interface, and to qt or gtk. I love to see Rosegarden do the same thing too.This is just my 2 cents, but I think that this time next year linux will be a real good and viable option to Windows, in all aspects. But by then Mac OS X will be out and I may need a new Mac instead of a PC. OS X sounds hot. The power of UNIX OS with a windows/Mac like GUI.
I think that this may be a violation of CA law. I remeber not to long ago Microsoft and Best buy tried to do the same things and it did not fly. Can they tie an ISP to a device even though you do not buy the two at the same time?
Windows unfortunately has a reputaition of an os that crashes. If they make a gameing console will it crash too?
I would not touch this thing till they have the bugs out. If it is like there windows software, well let see, there was 3.1, 95, 98, and 2000 may have gotton it right but it is just to dam bloated.
I have been running M14 under windows and it does plugins as well as better HTML 4.0 support. The onmouseover's in my div's actually work like they should. I think it will be a really good browser. I am looking forward to the beta. I have noticed one problem though. I visit this web site and even though I have the plugins and can use them elsewhere the plugin detection that they use makes it impossilbe to view any of the movies on there site. They do a plugin detection using ActiveX and see what plugins you have and if yo have the real audio and windows media then it picks the better of the two. I wish they would not do stuff like that. Let me worry about weather I have the plugin or not. There is really no need to go through that level of detection on the internet. Some OS'es have the plugins but not the active x controls and thus cannot view the material. see http://nbci.com
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Now about this stopy: I think that this is a good thing, but I sure hope that they can learn to control the robost better than they can control the mars lander. Granted they could not have a visual on the mars lander, and there were other issues there.
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Does anyone have the change log for this summed up yet. I know taht normally I check at http://www.linux.org.uk and Alan Cox has his summary of changes, but that is not up yet.
Well any hoo I just downloaded it, boy do I love fast connections.
On another note I am not sure why people want to do so many OS comparisons. Here is my take on all the OSes that I have used.
This is just my opinion take it or leave it.
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Did they really invent COM? Or did they get the idea from someone else?
They did not invent the IDE either I remember using pascal and C ide's way before Microsoft did anything with an IDE. I thought Borlan had it's ide's way before Microsoft.
Other than COM, I cannot think of anything that was not already in existance that all they did was extend and embrace.
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Frontpage, their web browser and most of their stuff has been assimilated not inovated.
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HTML is okay if it is one or two pages or less than 10. Since this is a book, I'd recommend against this format.
If you have Windows or Mac you can get a tool called Framemaker or Pagemaker/PageMill? and have the book entered in it. You can then easily convert or save it as a pdf file or postscript file. YOu can also edit it and have pictures in it too. By using pdf format you can save much if not all of the layout of the book so that in the future if you want a printed copy you can have that too. Also pdf can give you the cross platform compatiblity that you want. Adobe pdf viewer is available on Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux and many other platforms as well. I believe in fact that this may be a "standard" format and that there are other pdf viewers that are open source that run on just about any platform.
On a personal note, I like the idea of releasing books on the web, because it makes putting them in handheld devices so much easier.
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FYI: slashdot and every portol and just about every major ISP uses GET or POST.
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The only censonship on the internet should be parents watching their childern.
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Just my .02cents though
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If they did half a job and you had to finish the rest it sounds like they have problems with the ad agency and not you. I personllay would let the lawyers fight it out.
HTML itself may be copywritghtable, but did they actually copywright the code or are they just claiming copywright iolation? If they actually have a copywright then they have a case. If they did not they have a flimsy case.
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For those of you who are not familiar UNIX flavors sym links have been around for about as long as unix, and Microsoft just now discoverd there usefullness.
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I think that it is abnoxious, but then again that is SuSE. SuSE did not open source there YaST tool. Yes you have the source for it but it is not GPL, and you cannot use ot to create your own distribution. That is SuSE. RedHat open sources all its tools (AFAIK) which is why I went with Redhat. They also push for GPL stuff, remeber Redhat and debian would not distribute kde till troll tech opened up its qt tool kit. But enought of that that is just why I like Redhat.
The truth here is that the reiser fs is not really open source it is one of those open sourceish licenses that if you keep up with kernel traffic then you'd know that it caused a lot of stir up there too. Oh well I'll wait for 2.4 and see what is in it. I'd be more incliened to use ext2 or sgi journaling fs anyway.
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I am an open source developer and I realize that it does not always work, on some projects, but the important ones do work. Having used Linux for several years now, I have noticed that it has only gotten better and easier to do things with.
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My first feeling is that most apps are moving towards the web. I have not seen any really good 4GL programming languages for the web. My last job they had started using a program that produced java code and HTML, but I do not remeber what it was called. It was also expensive as most are. It allowed you to set up your business rules and your GUI and then generated the code for you. This allowed for very little programming. THe drawback is that you basically needed 128 Meg of RAM and a 500Mhz processor to run it and even then it ran slow. This was the same problem that we encountered with Visual Cafe. It too is slow. Most 4GL's IDE's are this way they tend to be slow.
People are using 4GL's though. My current job we use Tcl. This is a 4GL scripting langauge. Many companies use this internally as it can provide a quick GUI.
Java is another 4GL that is getting much language.
Personally with the move to the web, I prefer to use Perl or php or if you know vb and want to use IIS there is asp. Personally I think asp stands for actually slow pages, but that is just my opinion.
My guess is you are looking for a 4GL IDE not a 4GL. There are nmany 4GL's that are in use now, but when people want speed as they often do, they program in C and drop the GUI. Many programmers I know prefer a simple editor like vi or emacs or vim or even notepad (some use visual studio for it syntax highlightening) but they all code pretty much by hadstill. This gives you better control over the code.
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I showed it to a friend of mine who uses windows (I use Linux) and he is into music composition and playing the violin, and he liked it. I told him I could help him install the windows version of the software, he said he was fine using my Linux box ;-).
I originally had a few problems setting it up. It looks for /dev/sequencer2 and for some reason my Redhat 6.1 did not have it. I looked at MAKEDEV and uncommented it out and it fired right up. Course it took me a little time to figure this out.
I like the drum machine. It is nice to be able to give custom drum tracks to music. The only issue that I do have is that the GUI is not the most intuitive interface. I could figure it out and get it to work, but I wonder what kind of study they did on usability and if any. I often wonder how many studies are done on this. I know MS and MAC does studies on this and many software companies do. But I also know that many don't. hmmm
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Windows unfortunately has a reputaition of an os that crashes. If they make a gameing console will it crash too?
I would not touch this thing till they have the bugs out. If it is like there windows software, well let see, there was 3.1, 95, 98, and 2000 may have gotton it right but it is just to dam bloated.
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