Actually the question is coming from a group of guys at about the GS-12 to GS-13 level, hardware addicts all. They don't make the purchases themselves but make recommendations to the suits upstairs. They're being pressured to move away from the SGI machines to Intel and are looking for a way to do so without losing dozens of years of Motif / OpenGL development and UNIX experience.
Two words : Clueless Management. They seem to be of the impression that they can cut their software develpment staff by 75% and easily have some poor intern instantly move all their Motif and OpenGL code from IRIX to NT, thus saving them tons of money. We've tried and tried to communicate, but no one at the top is listening anymore. If the software can be moved straight to intel machines running linux, they'll probably never notice that it's not really NT.
I remember using a commercial software package (microMPX, I believe) that spawned a process called "pukeserver" and installed a directory appropriately named "sh*t", among other unsavory things. These were later modified to less colorful names, a process they even thought to document in the change notes.
I found a page on redhat.com that claimed they were giving away red hats to the first 1000 people who ordered. The order links weren't working, though, and now I can't get at any of the interesting stuff as it seems to have gone away:(
I would love to see a site arranged like those old "choose your own adventure" books. It asks "What seems to be the problem" you click on "Modem". It asks "Is it a winmodem?" you click on "Beats me". It tells you how to determine whether or not you have a winmodem, etc... This kind of thing would have been a great help to me six months ago. Even better would be if the public at large was allowed to both ask new questions and add new answers. Every once in a while someone could go thru and consolidate all the good answers so it wouldn't get too muddy. What do you think?
The Java language itself is very nice, and I prefer to use it over many other languages even without the lure of write once, run anywhere. On the other hand, I feel one of the strongest features of Java is that I no longer have to learn Motif to write the GUI for my Unix systems, Visual Basic for my Windows machines, who knows what for my Macs (if I had any) etc... Unfortunately, Java is STILL awful slow for this kind of thing, and the only stuff I see being optimized is the stuff I could do with straight C on any of these platforms anyway. Also, with native compilation I no longer need to have the VM installed on all of the target platforms, which would save a lot of headaches. Is anyone working on native compilation for AWT, Swing, etc?
It's actually just a neat hack that checks to see if you are trying to run a.class file, and if you are it chops of the.class extension and passes it to the Java interpreter, which of course must be installed in a standard location. If someone out there is looking for something to do, how about adding support for executable jar files? I made a stab at it a few months ago but didn't get very far (not really knowing what I was doing). Here's a URL to look at : http://www.tools.de/java/ . Send me some EMail when you've got it working:)
'Portal' does seem to be the buzz word these days, doesn't it? Can't wait to see what happens to the stock.
The tables were terribly slow and the headlines from SlashDot and FreshMeat seemed kind of pointless and, well, tacky. They would have been better served buying a banner on SlashDot and leaving their page the way it was. A real honest to goodness find everything here Linux Portal would be nice, but this certainly ain't it.
I bought a Transmonde Vibrant about six months ago and am very happy with it. I installed Red Hat 5.2 and it's been running great. Only problem was with the internal modem, but a cheap 56k card fixed that up.
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Shouldn't that be Nine of Seven : a Very Special Borg?
Actually the question is coming from a group of guys at about the GS-12 to GS-13 level, hardware addicts all. They don't make the purchases themselves but make recommendations to the suits upstairs. They're being pressured to move away from the SGI machines to Intel and are looking for a way to do so without losing dozens of years of Motif / OpenGL development and UNIX experience.
Two words : Clueless Management. They seem to be of the impression that they can cut their software develpment staff by 75% and easily have some poor intern instantly move all their Motif and OpenGL code from IRIX to NT, thus saving them tons of money. We've tried and tried to communicate, but no one at the top is listening anymore. If the software can be moved straight to intel machines running linux, they'll probably never notice that it's not really NT.
And no, I'm not bitter!
At one point an official waiver was required to program in anything other then ADA.
I remember using a commercial software package (microMPX, I believe) that spawned a process called "pukeserver" and installed a directory appropriately named "sh*t", among other unsavory things. These were later modified to less colorful names, a process they even thought to document in the change notes.
I found a page on redhat.com that claimed they were giving away red hats to the first 1000 people who ordered. The order links weren't working, though, and now I can't get at any of the interesting stuff as it seems to have gone away :(
I would love to see a site arranged like those old "choose your own adventure" books. It asks "What seems to be the problem" you click on "Modem". It asks "Is it a winmodem?" you click on "Beats me". It tells you how to determine whether or not you have a winmodem, etc... This kind of thing would have been a great help to me six months ago. Even better would be if the public at large was allowed to both ask new questions and add new answers. Every once in a while someone could go thru and consolidate all the good answers so it wouldn't get too muddy. What do you think?
The Java language itself is very nice, and I prefer to use it over many other languages even without the lure of write once, run anywhere. On the other hand, I feel one of the strongest features of Java is that I no longer have to learn Motif to write the GUI for my Unix systems, Visual Basic for my Windows machines, who knows what for my Macs (if I had any) etc... Unfortunately, Java is STILL awful slow for this kind of thing, and the only stuff I see being optimized is the stuff I could do with straight C on any of these platforms anyway. Also, with native compilation I no longer need to have the VM installed on all of the target platforms, which would save a lot of headaches. Is anyone working on native compilation for AWT, Swing, etc?
It's actually just a neat hack that checks to see if you are trying to run a .class file, and if you are it chops of the .class extension and passes it to the Java interpreter, which of course must be installed in a standard location. If someone out there is looking for something to do, how about adding support for executable jar files? I made a stab at it a few months ago but didn't get very far (not really knowing what I was doing). Here's a URL to look at : http://www.tools.de/java/ . Send me some EMail when you've got it working :)
'Portal' does seem to be the buzz word these days, doesn't it? Can't wait to see what happens to the stock.
The tables were terribly slow and the headlines from SlashDot and FreshMeat seemed kind of pointless and, well, tacky. They would have been better served buying a banner on SlashDot and leaving their page the way it was. A real honest to goodness find everything here Linux Portal would be nice, but this certainly ain't it.
I bought a Transmonde Vibrant about six months ago and am very happy with it. I installed Red Hat 5.2 and it's been running great. Only problem was with the internal modem, but a cheap 56k card fixed that up.