The Amtrak Acela runs from Washington, DC to Boston, but its lacking speed is due to the condition of the rail. The non-"Acela" trains in the same corridor are nearly as fast, merely by running express.
Acela trains, of course, have been suspended, because Amtrak is too stupid to correctly maintain them. Go figure.
My kingdom for some mod points! Templates aren't the solution to most problems in this case; XSLT is!
It's powerful, extensible, and - best of all - language-agnostic. I've built several sites using the PHP+MySQL->XML->HTML route and I can't say I've found anything that works better.
This was alluded to elsewhere, but try this: apply to every college you're interested in now/this year, and then see if any of them allow you to take a year off _after_ getting offered admission.
That could very well save many of the hassles that other people mention.
I'm an admitted Mac OS X freak, but I'd say the response should depend on what you need to do. If you need a few commercial-gui apps that're available for OS X and the rest is Unix-stuff, then an iBook with OS X will be just fine.
Then again, if all you're doing is Unixy stuff, Linux still is appreciably faster than Darwin on the same machine.
Either way, the iBook is a serious machine; it will do the job pretty well.
I know that this is Slashdot, owned by the same company as Sourceforge, but here is the question: should somebody trying to start an OSS or Free Software project use the resources provided by SourceForge?
The reason I ask is because the services offered are second to none, but its high quality has attracted so many users that now any project hosted there seems to be second-rate. I have, for example, some friends who will, upon seeing any *.sourceforge.net URL, say "Oh, just another SourceForge project. Just another OSS wannabe."
I realize that the story is different for projects that thrive elsewhere and just use SourceForge for its rather, um, unique services. But still, for one that is just starting out... is it a good idea?
Actually, I'm a fan of the Linux on Mac emulator as produced by those wizards of reverse engineering at Connectix
It appears that you don't know what you're talking about - Mac-on-Linux allows one to run Mac OS from within an X session... not run Linux in a Mac window. Besides, it's so much slower that it almost isn't worth running. I heard one person (running a G4 I IIRC) quote BogoMIPS values: RedHat on Virtual PC was around 10, while Linux running native was around 1000. The iMac DV on which I write this is 797.9... significantly faster than anything with an x86 emulator. Sure, you can run more binary software, but the time lost in recompiling a package is easily regained in greater speed.
This is because Mac IE 5 is even stupider... It also recognizes that stuff as part of the domain, but actually tries to go to a domain by that name to fetch that page. As in, when going to the malicious page (like http://www.peacefire.org%2fsecurity%2fiecookies% 2fshowcookie.html%3F.something.com/) it will try to connect to www.peacefire.org%2fsecurity%2fiecookies%2fshowc ookie.html%3F.something.com:80 to fetch the page.
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Sounds like a job for Trac. http://www.edgewall.com/trac . Subversion + wiki + bug tracking.
A couple clarifications.
The Amtrak Acela runs from Washington, DC to Boston, but its lacking speed is due to the condition of the rail. The non-"Acela" trains in the same corridor are nearly as fast, merely by running express.
Acela trains, of course, have been suspended, because Amtrak is too stupid to correctly maintain them. Go figure.
High-speed rail is being planned in California.
What it really comes down to is a lack of efficacy at Amtrak, most of which is fueled by a government that doesn't care.
My kingdom for some mod points! Templates aren't the solution to most problems in this case; XSLT is!
It's powerful, extensible, and - best of all - language-agnostic. I've built several sites using the PHP+MySQL->XML->HTML route and I can't say I've found anything that works better.
- The browser market share is something like 99.9999% Internet Explorer
- Mozilla/Netscape 7 supports everything
- Only weenies do anything except designing for the standards - using CSS, separating content from style, etc.
That said, a Google Search will generally do pretty well for you.This was alluded to elsewhere, but try this: apply to every college you're interested in now/this year, and then see if any of them allow you to take a year off _after_ getting offered admission.
That could very well save many of the hassles that other people mention.
I'm an admitted Mac OS X freak, but I'd say the response should depend on what you need to do. If you need a few commercial-gui apps that're available for OS X and the rest is Unix-stuff, then an iBook with OS X will be just fine.
Then again, if all you're doing is Unixy stuff, Linux still is appreciably faster than Darwin on the same machine.
Either way, the iBook is a serious machine; it will do the job pretty well.
I mean, there's a part eight right here!
then again, there were two part sevens...
improve the slashdot moderating system: this clearly insightful post has 4 "insightful" ratings and 1 "funny" rating and it gets score (4, Funny).
a bug we need to fix?
... comes from my flaming iMac, spontaneously combusting after trying to run Quake III Arena.
"Case fans? We don't need no steenking case fans!"
I know that this is Slashdot, owned by the same company as Sourceforge, but here is the question: should somebody trying to start an OSS or Free Software project use the resources provided by SourceForge?
The reason I ask is because the services offered are second to none, but its high quality has attracted so many users that now any project hosted there seems to be second-rate. I have, for example, some friends who will, upon seeing any *.sourceforge.net URL, say "Oh, just another SourceForge project. Just another OSS wannabe."
I realize that the story is different for projects that thrive elsewhere and just use SourceForge for its rather, um, unique services. But still, for one that is just starting out... is it a good idea?
Actually, I'm a fan of the Linux on Mac emulator as produced by those wizards of reverse engineering at Connectix
It appears that you don't know what you're talking about - Mac-on-Linux allows one to run Mac OS from within an X session... not run Linux in a Mac window. Besides, it's so much slower that it almost isn't worth running. I heard one person (running a G4 I IIRC) quote BogoMIPS values: RedHat on Virtual PC was around 10, while Linux running native was around 1000.
The iMac DV on which I write this is 797.9... significantly faster than anything with an x86 emulator. Sure, you can run more binary software, but the time lost in recompiling a package is easily regained in greater speed.
When OS X ships, new iMacs will have it preinstalled...
As for CPUs, 8.0 was the first to leave out non-PowerPC machines, and 8.5 left out non-G3 machines.
This is because Mac IE 5 is even stupider... It also recognizes that stuff as part of the domain, but actually tries to go to a domain by that name to fetch that page.% 2fshowcookie.html%3F.something.com/) c ookie.html%3F.something.com:80
As in, when going to the malicious page (like
http://www.peacefire.org%2fsecurity%2fiecookies
it will try to connect to
www.peacefire.org%2fsecurity%2fiecookies%2fshow
to fetch the page.
Geesh. This stuff is stupid!