Server Version: Apache/2.0.16 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_01-dev Perl/v5.6.0
I had to recompile Perl to use ithreads, but the stuff works trivially.
From reading the docs, it looks like the architecture changed a lot, but the new design should avoid some of the issues with a "fat" apache/mod_perl memory footprint.
Well, thanks, i didn't know the numbers. However, i'm willing to bet NeXT was worth more than Be.
Plus, coming down from $200M doesn't look so bad in hindsight, considering Be is now $91M in debt. Let's face it: Gasse made a calculated risk, and came out short.
I'm not really a Steve Jobs fan, but he does serve a useful role as promoter/dictator. I do think the management at Apple during the period was clutching at straws, and Jobs was a name-brand.
Yeah Apple "blew" it's chance, but so did Be lose it's chance to become the next Mac OS.
Jean-louis Gasse was probably demanding too much from apple. I guess they chose one big ego (Jobs) over another. Actually, when Gasse was in charge of Apple's tech, he was the most vocal in not licensing the Mac OS to other platforms, like PCs, mainly to keep the Mac uncorrupted and on top. This was smart short-term stupid long term. I think in doing Be, unfortunately, he replayed some of the same mistakes. Be is about to go kaput, and selling to Apple was their big shot.
I agree BeOS is rock-solid engineering, but as usual, that's not the whole story.
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 had a downloadable Microsoft TCP/IP driver. I used it before Win 95. However, no dialup support, only LAN.
You have to give them that credit.
I did hear a rumor at the time, if you used it, and were on the internet, and waited a REALLY long time, you could see a whole bunch of other workgroups. Never did it myself.
The fact of the matter is that getting near 100% reliablility requires an inane amount of boring programming work.
Few open source or closed source projects get anywhere near this, because it is cost prohibitive. And open source programmers are driven by personal interest a lot, so they don't usually want to do boring stuff, or go over the same code 1000 times.
Well, although architect don't necessarily have to know how to actually build the house, you can be a better architect by understanding the properties of your building materials practically. And you learn that by building a house.
I've been researching a lot of Java/EJB stuff lately, where people like to do really "good" designs. But when you actually start doing the programming, things can look different. And some of the best designs are influenced by practical techniques. That's what completes the feedback loop.
Computer Science IS a social science, since it involves modeling human processes and behavior.
OK, i think there is a major assuption many people here are making: you can only learn software design theory and/or discipline in an accredited CS program.
Yes, programming can like compared to a skill.
Yes, self-trained programmers can pick up really bad habits.
Yes, good design and problem-solving techniques are often taught in a CS curriculums.
However, there is no reason these skills cannot be learned by intelligent and motivated individuals outside of the ivory tower.
Moreover, going through a CS program is not a guarantee that you will be a good software programmer or designer.
I'm a successful programmer and software architect that has created well-designed and reliable systems for businesses. And i got a B.A. in Anthropology. Programming used to be a hobby to me. I became more interested in it at the end of my college education. After that, i learned "on my own" and took a few more classes, and got into professional programming. I found that even for "professionals", you have to be continually learning new techniques and studying new ways to design things. My liberal arts education served me well in this. I think learning on your own really means learning from others through books and the internet, and doing your own self-created experiments.
I think if i were a CS major, i would have got a programming job sooner, but i would have to learn on my own to be as good as i am now anyway.
There are many ways you can reach the goal you want to acheive.
But of course it will need drivers for non-MS OSs.
From the IBM web store link elsewhere on this page:
No Drivers Needed-- when used with Windows 2000 or Windows ME--Work with today's popular operating systems
We have to find out if there are any USB-flash memory drivers already that can be used or adapted.
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I just finished reading Michio Kaku's book "Hyperspace". There's a chapter about einstien, and it says one of the questions that led him to his theorys of relativity was "What would a light beam look like if you could catch up with one?"
At first, he figured it would be a series of stationary waves, frozen in time. But later he figured that according to maxwell's field equations, there is no such thing as a stationary wave. And then he found you couldn't catch up with the wave if you tried!
The principle of special relativity says the speed of light is the same in all constantly moving frames. I don't know if this breaks it, probably not. But it is already known that relativity breaks down when faced with extremely large forces, like the big bang.
It's true they _can_, but i heard MS employees are told not to look at any GPL source, since it could make for shady legal territory when the coders do MS software.
A standard that is tied to a particular implementation is not a standard. It is a product, not a standard. At least when Sun puts out a spec, like JDK or J2EE, or JSP, they put out a reference implementation for others to start from, to create their own products.
Microsoft is just documenting part of their product, calling it a statndard, and expecting people to use their products. Even if someone created a new implementation based on MS specs, MS would change their next version of the product to break compatibility.
Just think about the "open" Win32 api. It is constantly changing, and full of bugs. That's why WINE has to emulate bugs and shit, not just the spec. Does that sound like a standard?
well, to tell the truth, when i installed Mozilla last night, i went through the thing where you click to install PSM for Linux, it went through the install. But when i went to an https:// url, mozilla crashed. It was working last week, so i think it will get fixed real soon.
I just used Netscape instead, no big deal. Even used netscape mail to do IMAP over SSL.
Linux on the desktop is getting dam close. I admit, i'm not a newbie. I use Linux on my servers, with an NT desktop. There is a lot of buggy stuff, including my Red Hat 7.0 install at home (dual-boot win98).
However yesterday i downgraded it to 6.2 + patches and installed:
-> KDE 2
-> Mozilla nightly build + Java + SSL
-> WINE
KDE 2 rocks, and using it is second nature for a windows user. Sound worked without me doing anything, beautiful high-color display, modern web browser. Plus i installed a WINE RPM file (first time using wine), and i got Quicken working, just like that! Plus, i found that KOffice could open and edit my MS Word files, pretty good. Plus using OpenSSH natively, w/ipchains firewall securing my DSL connection, i could pretty much do anything.
Naysayers about Linux on desktop are going to have to shut up soon.
Let this be a lesson to all the programmers and software designers that good interface design is really important. The interface is where the rubber meets the road. It doesn't matter how fast your Porsche or Pinto goes, if the roads are slick and your tires are bare, you crash and burn.
I think this situation is truly amazing. The media went on and on how the pre-election polls were within the margin of error. Well now we are seeing that the margin of error of mistakes in the voting booth can make the difference. No election process can perfectly reflect the will of the people, but everyone needs to do their part to make is as close as possible.
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Yeah baby!
Got it working, thanks for the hint.
Server Version: Apache/2.0.16 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_01-dev Perl/v5.6.0
I had to recompile Perl to use ithreads, but the stuff works trivially.
From reading the docs, it looks like the architecture changed a lot, but the new design should avoid some of the issues with a "fat" apache/mod_perl memory footprint.
Thanks, i will give it a whirl.
Anyone know about the status of mod_perl under Apache 2?
It's not in the main distribution, and i couldn't find any info on the mod_perl mailing list archives.
That's what i'd like to try out.
Well, thanks, i didn't know the numbers. However, i'm willing to bet NeXT was worth more than Be.
Plus, coming down from $200M doesn't look so bad in hindsight, considering Be is now $91M in debt. Let's face it: Gasse made a calculated risk, and came out short.
I'm not really a Steve Jobs fan, but he does serve a useful role as promoter/dictator. I do think the management at Apple during the period was clutching at straws, and Jobs was a name-brand.
Jean-louis Gasse was probably demanding too much from apple. I guess they chose one big ego (Jobs) over another. Actually, when Gasse was in charge of Apple's tech, he was the most vocal in not licensing the Mac OS to other platforms, like PCs, mainly to keep the Mac uncorrupted and on top. This was smart short-term stupid long term. I think in doing Be, unfortunately, he replayed some of the same mistakes. Be is about to go kaput, and selling to Apple was their big shot.
I agree BeOS is rock-solid engineering, but as usual, that's not the whole story.
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 had a downloadable Microsoft TCP/IP driver. I used it before Win 95. However, no dialup support, only LAN.
You have to give them that credit.
I did hear a rumor at the time, if you used it, and were on the internet, and waited a REALLY long time, you could see a whole bunch of other workgroups. Never did it myself.
As a Perl coder, i am looking forward to being forced to indent my Perl code to aviod compliation errors.
Besides, the semicolon key on my keyboard has been sticky since i made goatse.cx my homepage.
I hope they merge with C# next, i want to add it to my resume.
The fact of the matter is that getting near 100% reliablility requires an inane amount of boring programming work.
Few open source or closed source projects get anywhere near this, because it is cost prohibitive. And open source programmers are driven by personal interest a lot, so they don't usually want to do boring stuff, or go over the same code 1000 times.
Well, although architect don't necessarily have to know how to actually build the house, you can be a better architect by understanding the properties of your building materials practically. And you learn that by building a house.
I've been researching a lot of Java/EJB stuff lately, where people like to do really "good" designs. But when you actually start doing the programming, things can look different. And some of the best designs are influenced by practical techniques. That's what completes the feedback loop.
Computer Science IS a social science, since it involves modeling human processes and behavior.
OK, i think there is a major assuption many people here are making: you can only learn software design theory and/or discipline in an accredited CS program.
Yes, programming can like compared to a skill.
Yes, self-trained programmers can pick up really bad habits.
Yes, good design and problem-solving techniques are often taught in a CS curriculums.
However, there is no reason these skills cannot be learned by intelligent and motivated individuals outside of the ivory tower.
Moreover, going through a CS program is not a guarantee that you will be a good software programmer or designer.
I'm a successful programmer and software architect that has created well-designed and reliable systems for businesses. And i got a B.A. in Anthropology. Programming used to be a hobby to me. I became more interested in it at the end of my college education. After that, i learned "on my own" and took a few more classes, and got into professional programming. I found that even for "professionals", you have to be continually learning new techniques and studying new ways to design things. My liberal arts education served me well in this. I think learning on your own really means learning from others through books and the internet, and doing your own self-created experiments.
I think if i were a CS major, i would have got a programming job sooner, but i would have to learn on my own to be as good as i am now anyway.
There are many ways you can reach the goal you want to acheive.
If everyone remembers, Kevin Mitnik's encrypted hard drive was in the possession of the FBI for years, and they couldn't get the data off it.
Sorry, but try adding a field/column to a csv file. All the programs using it would break.
Now try adding a field/tag to an xml file. Older programs will ignore it, and new ones can use it.
XML is more flexible and forgiving.
Now that's a funny one. Move napster to cuba. Well, let's see:
Cuba is communist, thus any private business can get taken by the state
USA has a trade embargo w/Cuba. Thus it would be very hard to do a move, and be hard for napster to get any advertising money from US corps.
More importantly, does the Thinkpad X20 have bios support for a USB floppy drive?
If so, forget all this key crap, just use that.
If not, do any known BIOS makers have that kind of support?
Sounds cool.
But of course it will need drivers for non-MS OSs.
From the IBM web store link elsewhere on this page:
No Drivers Needed-- when used with Windows 2000 or Windows ME--Work with today's popular operating systems
We have to find out if there are any USB-flash memory drivers already that can be used or adapted.
I just finished reading Michio Kaku's book "Hyperspace". There's a chapter about einstien, and it says one of the questions that led him to his theorys of relativity was "What would a light beam look like if you could catch up with one?"
At first, he figured it would be a series of stationary waves, frozen in time. But later he figured that according to maxwell's field equations, there is no such thing as a stationary wave. And then he found you couldn't catch up with the wave if you tried!
The principle of special relativity says the speed of light is the same in all constantly moving frames. I don't know if this breaks it, probably not. But it is already known that relativity breaks down when faced with extremely large forces, like the big bang.
I thought Darwin was from NetBSD.
$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
via-rhine 9936 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11760 2 (autoclean)
fat 32128 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
emu10k1 46000 0
Not just loaded, but working.
The kernel notes want modutils v. 2.4, claiming 2.3.x increase the likelihood of bugs. So my setup may work fine, but maybe others won't.
OK, i'm running RH 6.2 + std. updates, and i am running 2.4.0 kernel now. Why does everything work fine?
modutils-2.3.20-0.6.2.1
util-linux-2.10f-7
Whoops! my modutils is not up to the recommended version. Possible bugs! I think i will wet myself now.
Cool, i just installed the pre-release yesterday (it works good).
It's true they _can_, but i heard MS employees are told not to look at any GPL source, since it could make for shady legal territory when the coders do MS software.
Y'know, they have a lot of good lawyers.
A standard that is tied to a particular implementation is not a standard. It is a product, not a standard. At least when Sun puts out a spec, like JDK or J2EE, or JSP, they put out a reference implementation for others to start from, to create their own products.
Microsoft is just documenting part of their product, calling it a statndard, and expecting people to use their products. Even if someone created a new implementation based on MS specs, MS would change their next version of the product to break compatibility.
Just think about the "open" Win32 api. It is constantly changing, and full of bugs. That's why WINE has to emulate bugs and shit, not just the spec. Does that sound like a standard?
well, to tell the truth, when i installed Mozilla last night, i went through the thing where you click to install PSM for Linux, it went through the install. But when i went to an https:// url, mozilla crashed. It was working last week, so i think it will get fixed real soon.
I just used Netscape instead, no big deal. Even used netscape mail to do IMAP over SSL.
Linux on the desktop is getting dam close. I admit, i'm not a newbie. I use Linux on my servers, with an NT desktop. There is a lot of buggy stuff, including my Red Hat 7.0 install at home (dual-boot win98).
However yesterday i downgraded it to 6.2 + patches and installed:
-> KDE 2
-> Mozilla nightly build + Java + SSL
-> WINE
KDE 2 rocks, and using it is second nature for a windows user. Sound worked without me doing anything, beautiful high-color display, modern web browser. Plus i installed a WINE RPM file (first time using wine), and i got Quicken working, just like that! Plus, i found that KOffice could open and edit my MS Word files, pretty good. Plus using OpenSSH natively, w/ipchains firewall securing my DSL connection, i could pretty much do anything.
Naysayers about Linux on desktop are going to have to shut up soon.
Let this be a lesson to all the programmers and software designers that good interface design is really important. The interface is where the rubber meets the road. It doesn't matter how fast your Porsche or Pinto goes, if the roads are slick and your tires are bare, you crash and burn.
I think this situation is truly amazing. The media went on and on how the pre-election polls were within the margin of error. Well now we are seeing that the margin of error of mistakes in the voting booth can make the difference. No election process can perfectly reflect the will of the people, but everyone needs to do their part to make is as close as possible.