You can get a master/slave combo VMWare VM at http://www.cloudera.com./ They also have packages for Ubuntu, I made an at-home cluster of VMs with one master and a slave that I can replicate.
Somewhere shortly after Fedora 10 came out there was a kernel update, and my Sierra Wireless 3g card stopped working. It stopped working on Ubuntu about the same time, and there were bug reports in both places, but no fixes. Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04 didn't fix it, but with Fedora 12 it works again. I'm typing this from a VMWare running the Fedora 12 Live ISO and the 3g in a USB port.
I beg to differ. Ashley Qualls built a multi-million dollar company out of her site, http://whateverlife.com/, from ad revenue. Her site features different layouts for Myspace. When you stop laughing, go read this article http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html, which mentions, among other things, that her site gets more hits than oprah.com. What have YOU been doing in your parents' basement?
I just came from the CompUSA in Marietta, GA (Cobb Pkwy, near Windy Hill). The only indication that the location is a dead store walking was a small sign on the door saying that they are no longer taking checks. In the store there were no extra closeouts, slashed prices, nothing. C'mon, people! I wanted a carcass to pick over!
I upgraded my firmware to 2.8, and they've gotten sane about video naming and directories. With the web browser you can download iPod compatible video into a "Videos" directory, then watch it, then delete it, without ever touching a PC. Good for video blogs, Rocketboom, Macbreak, etc.
I tried the browser some this morning. It's got a nice display and it generally a much better browser than what you find on PDA's.
The (current) games may suck on the PSP, but if nothing else this makes a great portable browser, good for surfing etc. while out instead of carrying around a laptop.
Even if you don't play games on it, you can get a good "web tablet" for $250 that hits the sweet spot between price, size, convenience and features.
Under Windows, some dynamic languages like Python and Ruby has COM and Win32 APIs. Use one of them to access Office COM objects, iterate through and grab the content you want and have it spit out the HTML you need.
Assuming this comes with Xcode and gcc, I'm sure there's plenty of developers of small applications that would like to get a head start on porting their small business or open source apps without shelling out $1499 (signing up, then getting the box) for something they'll have to return.
Even if I may be against using these drugs personally, will I be competing against others that do use them? Will those that don't use them, either at a personal or corporate level, someday be at a disadvantage against those that do?
I looked into SVG as an alternative to DHTML, and while it's good for output it's lousy for input. You have mouseclick and mousemove and that's about it. No lists, menus, text boxes, etc.
SVG needs forms capability before it can be REALLY useful.
Could blogging be a substitute for some meetings?
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OK, we all hate the weekly status meeting where everyone in the department is called together to one location at an inconvenient time to listen to other people say what they've been working on. However, every once in a while someone else has an answer to something you've been working on, or vice versa. Not often enough to make the meetings seem worthwhile, but it does happen.
How about instead of the meeting each developer keeps a blog about what they're working on and problems they're having, update it at least once a week, and encourage/require other developers to read the blogs to get an idea of what other people are up to & see if they can answer a nagging question.
You can read them when it's convenient to you, as opposed to the meeting which is convenient to the manager.
I see this a good use for blogs, and this book could be good for the blog-naive developer/manager.
Your choices for getting files to & from a Zaurus aren't just FTP via networking or the cradle. The Zaurus comes with both CompactFlash and SD/MMC slots, and you can get USB adapters for both. I run Windows XP at home and when I plug the CompactFlash adapter into the USB port it just appears as another drive. This is how I copy files, backups, etc. back and forth. The CompactFlash is also nice since my digital camera works with it, I can take pictures then slap the card into the Zaurus to show others the pictures since the Zaurus screen is much more viewable than the digital camera.
The "low-level" API for GUI development is QT/embedded. Embedded means that they take the same C++ API you use for Windows or X11 development and ported it to talk directly to the framebuffer. Any QT program is (theoritically, anyway) capable of being ported to the Zaurus.
What I'm most psyched about is the Java support. It's PersonalJava, which is mostly 1.1 with some 1.2 enhancements here and there. This is in contrast to Palm Java development, which is J2ME based (Sun hasn't supported the KVM for a while), and you need to set up emulators, get ROMs, make sure you have the special J2ME UI libraries, etc. Did I also mention most of this stuff is for Windows only? Melantha would be SOL with a MAC. For the Zaurus I just compile and run what I want and just stick to 1.1. If I'm patient I can then package my class files, icons for the PDA desktop, etc. and "install" it, but most of the time I'm impatient and just copy my.class files to the Zaurus via my CompactFlash setup and run them from a linux terminal.
To make a long story short, with the Zaurus I have a PDA and a "hand-held desktop" I can quickly develop my own programs for. I'm never going back to Palm.
Er...it was a joke. I just threw together all the cheesy circa-1986 technologies I could think of that no one would care about anymore. Thought the 'revenge with XMS' remark would be a giveaway. Guess they all can't be funny.
Last time, I quit my job as a reporter for InfoWorld (in 1986) and went to law school,
Hey! You panned my product, Greeting Card Maker for DOS! You said my 16-color mode EGA was ugly, I didn't support color dot-matrix printers and my terminate-and-stay-resident mode locked up your system! Well, it's taken me years but I will have my revenge when I unveil...Greeting Card Maker for DOS with Extended Memory Support!
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Third option - legal counsel dies of old age before the case is finished.
You can get a master/slave combo VMWare VM at http://www.cloudera.com./ They also have packages for Ubuntu, I made an at-home cluster of VMs with one master and a slave that I can replicate.
Anvilania...
What about the "casual" games in Flash, or iPhone and Android games? Are the conditions or payoffs any different there?
Somewhere shortly after Fedora 10 came out there was a kernel update, and my Sierra Wireless 3g card stopped working. It stopped working on Ubuntu about the same time, and there were bug reports in both places, but no fixes. Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04 didn't fix it, but with Fedora 12 it works again. I'm typing this from a VMWare running the Fedora 12 Live ISO and the 3g in a USB port.
My wife drives a Hummer, and if it ever collides with a Smartcar I know who's going to be leaving the bigger "carbon footprint" all over the highway.
My wife drives a Hummer, and if it ever collides with a Smartcar I know who's going to be leaving the bigger "carbon footpring" all over the highway.
I beg to differ. Ashley Qualls built a multi-million dollar company out of her site, http://whateverlife.com/, from ad revenue. Her site features different layouts for Myspace. When you stop laughing, go read this article http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html, which mentions, among other things, that her site gets more hits than oprah.com. What have YOU been doing in your parents' basement?
I can understand not speaking English, but if they do but can't spell apple, do you really want them on your forum in the first place?
Wife (reading article on MSNBC): Yeah, but is Captain America really dead?
Me: Yes. Wolverine sniffed him.
Wife: Well, it's official then.
for the authors of BrainF***
I just came from the CompUSA in Marietta, GA (Cobb Pkwy, near Windy Hill). The only indication that the location is a dead store walking was a small sign on the door saying that they are no longer taking checks. In the store there were no extra closeouts, slashed prices, nothing. C'mon, people! I wanted a carcass to pick over!
Must...resist...magic...wand...jokes...
I upgraded my firmware to 2.8, and they've gotten sane about video naming and directories. With the web browser you can download iPod compatible video into a "Videos" directory, then watch it, then delete it, without ever touching a PC. Good for video blogs, Rocketboom, Macbreak, etc.
I tried the browser some this morning. It's got a nice display and it generally a much better browser than what you find on PDA's.
The (current) games may suck on the PSP, but if nothing else this makes a great portable browser, good for surfing etc. while out instead of carrying around a laptop.
Even if you don't play games on it, you can get a good "web tablet" for $250 that hits the sweet spot between price, size, convenience and features.
Under Windows, some dynamic languages like Python and Ruby has COM and Win32 APIs. Use one of them to access Office COM objects, iterate through and grab the content you want and have it spit out the HTML you need.
They go do something like this.
Microsoft hires Wal-Mart exec
Assuming this comes with Xcode and gcc, I'm sure there's plenty of developers of small applications that would like to get a head start on porting their small business or open source apps without shelling out $1499 (signing up, then getting the box) for something they'll have to return.
Even if I may be against using these drugs personally, will I be competing against others that do use them? Will those that don't use them, either at a personal or corporate level, someday be at a disadvantage against those that do?
I looked into SVG as an alternative to DHTML, and while it's good for output it's lousy for input. You have mouseclick and mousemove and that's about it. No lists, menus, text boxes, etc.
SVG needs forms capability before it can be REALLY useful.
OK, we all hate the weekly status meeting where everyone in the department is called together to one location at an inconvenient time to listen to other people say what they've been working on. However, every once in a while someone else has an answer to something you've been working on, or vice versa. Not often enough to make the meetings seem worthwhile, but it does happen.
How about instead of the meeting each developer keeps a blog about what they're working on and problems they're having, update it at least once a week, and encourage/require other developers to read the blogs to get an idea of what other people are up to & see if they can answer a nagging question.
You can read them when it's convenient to you, as opposed to the meeting which is convenient to the manager.
I see this a good use for blogs, and this book could be good for the blog-naive developer/manager.
In Wired, years ago...
Q: How many Newton users does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Foux! There to eat lemons, ore axle soup.
I'll second everything Melantha said and add:
.class files to the Zaurus via my CompactFlash setup and run them from a linux terminal.
Your choices for getting files to & from a Zaurus aren't just FTP via networking or the cradle. The Zaurus comes with both CompactFlash and SD/MMC slots, and you can get USB adapters for both. I run Windows XP at home and when I plug the CompactFlash adapter into the USB port it just appears as another drive. This is how I copy files, backups, etc. back and forth. The CompactFlash is also nice since my digital camera works with it, I can take pictures then slap the card into the Zaurus to show others the pictures since the Zaurus screen is much more viewable than the digital camera.
The "low-level" API for GUI development is QT/embedded. Embedded means that they take the same C++ API you use for Windows or X11 development and ported it to talk directly to the framebuffer. Any QT program is (theoritically, anyway) capable of being ported to the Zaurus.
What I'm most psyched about is the Java support. It's PersonalJava, which is mostly 1.1 with some 1.2 enhancements here and there. This is in contrast to Palm Java development, which is J2ME based (Sun hasn't supported the KVM for a while), and you need to set up emulators, get ROMs, make sure you have the special J2ME UI libraries, etc. Did I also mention most of this stuff is for Windows only? Melantha would be SOL with a MAC. For the Zaurus I just compile and run what I want and just stick to 1.1. If I'm patient I can then package my class files, icons for the PDA desktop, etc. and "install" it, but most of the time I'm impatient and just copy my
To make a long story short, with the Zaurus I have a PDA and a "hand-held desktop" I can quickly develop my own programs for. I'm never going back to Palm.
Er...it was a joke. I just threw together all the cheesy circa-1986 technologies I could think of that no one would care about anymore. Thought the 'revenge with XMS' remark would be a giveaway. Guess they all can't be funny.
Last time, I quit my job as a reporter for InfoWorld (in 1986) and went to law school,
Hey! You panned my product, Greeting Card Maker for DOS! You said my 16-color mode EGA was ugly, I didn't support color dot-matrix printers and my terminate-and-stay-resident mode locked up your system!
Well, it's taken me years but I will have my revenge when I unveil...Greeting Card Maker for DOS with Extended Memory Support!