I think the small ISPs are great if you *do* want to talk directly to the people involved running the show, but having worked at one I know that even if you can talk to them, doesn't mean they're always going to solve your problem. When you are small people expect to be able to talk to the head Sysadmin. But when you're the size of Mindspring you know you don't have a chance.
Personally, I think the small ISPs are great if you want a BBS feel to your experience. But when you want great service and connectivity, I'd rather go with a company who's trying to run the show like the phone company. When you call, you may not get answers, but you only end up calling with a problem every 8 months. This isn't the case with the small ISPs.
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Actually, it doesn't run better on Windows. I develop on Linux using the Blackdown JDK1.3, and to be honest, I compile faster and run faster than the Windows developers in the office. You can get a better implementation.
Most companies I go into where friends work, or for interviews, or for a contract are running a lot of Windows machines simply on the spoken merit that "we don't have time to look into switching". Windows is used widely right now because it has been in the past. But Windows won't destroy Linux for the very reason that it *is* free. MS has to pay people to continue developing their OS, but Linux just goes on the love of the users. In twenty years when everyone is running a Linux kernel with a better-than-we-have-now GUI attached to it, we'll be saying, "It's amazing that people used to try and sell an operating system." If that vision of a better computing future doesn't comply with other people's than *shrug* oh well.
You can buy Windows 2010 and I'll be running KDE 12.0 (or whatever). I think this MS guy is trying to give Linux a media-death. Ten bucks says he can't kill a penguin.:)
Server side scripting languages should be used in order to develop websites that tailor themselves to the browser that requested the page. Thing is I honestly believe that people are getting tired of fact that Netscape is not fully HTML4.0 compliant (or painfully not enough so rather). I'll give you an example that aggravates me:
I had to setup a web based interface recently as a frontend to administer some functions of a service the ASP I work for provides. It would have been nice to conditionally disable parts of the form so that there could be no input in certain fields depending on the state of others. IE will allow you to do this as it follows the HTML4.0 spec, but Netscape will not. I think most web developers were waiting for Netscape to make Netscape 6 HTML4.0 compliant so they could use things like 'disable' in a form field and have the field refuse to gain focus.
We can keep setting up all sorts of JavaScript rules that the browser has to go ahead and render just so we can simulate this in Netscape, or we can all use the spec provided by w3 which is the proper thing to do. I don't think Netscape will die because the industry is leaning towards Microsoft's browser, I think Netscape will die because it's beating itself slowly to death with an elephant.
I, like most web developers I think are getting tired of having to worry about how Netscape is going to render HTML that IE renders perfectly. I really like Netscape, honestly, but I'm not going to hold out anymore. After Netscape 6 came out and all that changed were the buttons, I gave up. I now use Konqueror (for KDE) most of the time, but if I happen to boot into windows to play a game, I'll use IE to browse.
This is not to say that MSIE is totally compliant with the HTML4.0 spec, but if you pick up a book from O'Reilly Press called Dynamic HTML and go through the HTML Reference you'll notice that Netscape doesn't implement most of what the spec outlines, and in more cases than not MSIE does.
Anyway, it pisses me off but I think I've used up enough space on this drive.:)
Have you seen the price on the new Titanium G4? People run Linux because it's free and most of the hardware supported by it is really cheap compared to the competitors. i386 as compared to PPC? MacOS X will be fun for those who already love using their Mac and want to have some of the benefits of UNIX too. But when it all comes down to it, I'm not going to run out and buy a $3000.00 machine just to run an OS that probably won't compile most of the stuff I use. Besides, have you seen KDE lately?:)
I think D-VHS, if they ever tried to market it, would die rather immediately due to the media it's being moved around on. I bought a DVD player not for the high definition, not for the incredible sound (although these two things are definately a plus), but I bought it because I don't have to A) rewind movies and B) I can start anywhere in the movie I wish. Now tell me honestly, is the higher definition of D-VHS going to outweigh the convenience of DVDs and the fun I have with the special features included on them? Not at all. D-VHS is dead to me already. Old technology trying to be new.
I might as well try to install Linux on my Commodore 64.
I bought Graphic Java from the same press for work and it's been a really useful tool. When I had to get into JSP and Servlets, I bought this book and was pretty disappointed at the lack of information contained therein.
I learned a lot more from O'Reilley's book Servlet Programming with the tea kettle on the cover than I did from this book. Once you realize how the special tags work for JSP it's all Java from there, no real special tricks.
I would have like to have seen this book expound more on using Taglib and stuff like that. It just wasn't all it's cracked up to be. There's a Professional JSP book, anyone care to review that?
This card works just fine for me with one exception (and I'm also wondering which card can do this). I would like a card that could do a color depth of 32 on Linux. I have to stick with 16 right now because GIMP and some other applications create a white bar across the screen everytime I undo (with GIMP) or resize the window with other apps (not all of them GTK). I used to have a Matrox G200 at work and that was a great card. I was able to have a 1280x1024 console (nice IRC session size without the need for X, being able to use w3m for a good majority of web browsing, midnight commander was great too in this aspect) which is just a treat to have.
I wouldn't recommend the Voodoo3 2000 (as I have it because I duel boot and Voodoo3 2000 allows me to play Diablo II 3dfx), but definately go for a Matrox450 if you can afford one.
BeOS is a great little OS, don't get me wrong, but it wouldn't compete with Linux. BeOS is great for multimedia and Internet Appliances, but it's not a robust, useful OS such as Linux. Net Positive is way to annoying a web browser anyway.;)
OSX has a slick interface, Windows has had the same interface for years. Just because their widgets look nice, and their window decorations are consistent and clean doesn't mean the interface is slick. I have a hard time using the OS to be honest with you. There's only one desktop in Windows. Who can handle that? I'll stick to my E 0.16.5 with my ShinyBlue2.etheme thank you very much. KDE2 btw is pretty damn slick if you ask me.
Konquerer kicks a$#. I think the whole desktop environment went from immature but kinda useful (KDE 1.1.2) to highly mature, useful, configurable, fun to use and all around more productive KDE2. If their development keeps up like this (given the KDE League etc.) I'd be surprised if Windows lasts two more years as leader in the user desktop market. Anyone care to place a theory?
I'm a Java Developer with cs-live.com and I develop solely on Linux. I would have to say (in the defense of Java) that Java isn't a half bad language. I use Borland JBuilder 3.5 Professional for Linux for writing server software and other applications, and nedit or vi for JSPs and Servlets.
Neat thing about Linux is the Blackdown JDK is a much faster compiler than the Win32 port of the Sun JDK for Solaris. I can compile in about half the time as the Windows developers (and haven't noticed any weird things yet) and it all runs faster on my box too.
The only problem with Java on Linux is the Blackdown JDK isn't as well maintained as all that. Their JDK1.1 compiler segfaults with RH7, meaning I can't compile applets on this machine (because most browsers only inherently have 1.1 support). I am an avid Linux user (been my desktop for two and a half years now) and would have to say that Java is pretty great.
In fact, Java is the only language that has a really great (IMHO) fully featured IDE for Linux. I keep waiting for KDevelop to become mature enough to use for C++ development but it may take them a while.:)
Anyhow, I think Sun should develop a JDK for Linux. After all it's one of the world's top operating systems.
Something you should note is that the express purpose of Napster is for people to trade MP3 encoded music across the net. The people who wrote Napster wrote it for this purpose, therefore "aiding and abetting" the users of the software to share illegal files with each other (depending on your interpretation of copyright law). eBay on the other hand has hundreds auctions going into the mix each day, and they don't "support" the trading of bootleg recordings. They can't be responsible for everything that goes through their website, just as they can't rummage through every auction created daily and determine whether or not someone is trying to sell something they shouldn't.
You're logic wasn't flawed, just a little translucent.
Startups and small to medium size companies want young, single, idiot IT folks to fill the positions because they'll waste their income stupidly and require the job to feed their crazy lifestyles. It's pretty much a fact. I worked for an ISP in Ottawa, Canada. Within the first three questions in the interview I was asked, "Do you like doing what you do, or do you love it?" That's saying, "Would you be willing to live to code, or would you be the kind of guy to take off early on a Friday because you want to see your girl".
If you've ever seen the movie, Pirates Of The Silicon Valley (and this is how I know anything about the Altair) Bill Gates and a friend of his wrote the programming language for this pretty odd computer. Apparently however, before his friend brought it to the owner of the Altair, Gates remembered he didn't write a boot loader. Not important information, just funny. In either case, it's a good movie to watch, this subject just made me think about it. Steve Jobs was an asshole.:)
Has anyone noticed that some RPGs are trying to blend the adventure aspect into their games? Valkyrie Profile (new PSX game) is very interactive, and Legend of Dragoon actually has y ou taking part in the battle by way of trying to sync your button hits with the action on the screen. Other games like Star Ocean have gotten into this too.
What ever happened to good old Legend of Zelda games?
I would agree with it being the latter. Most companies, agencies, and even a good portion of home users don't secure anything at all. Most systems have a common root password to eliminate several users who have to have superuser access on several machines from having to get an admin to login to it, or having to remember several passwords. There's not much in the way of security in most large companies in my experience, so why would the government?
I think it's just plain average. Now, anyone know the IP addresses for DOD gateways or border routers?:)
All dem students are gonna be buying neon orange and yellow shoes they are. POLKADOTS AND WONDERLAND JOY FOR ALL! *ahem* Anyone who signs up with a company who says "We'll give you a kickass intranet if you let us brainwash your young" should be taken out back, pistol whipped, shot, pistol whipped, fed tea, shot and killed brutally afterwards with much passion, rage and joy alot.:)
I know for a fact that hotmail uses only FreeBSD. I worked for a company who provided solutions to the Hotmail team for security, and all solutions were dished out in FBSD. I don't know about the rest, but I know MS had a RedHat Linux box on their network about a year back. They're either trying to disprove their competition or trying to mimick the inner workings to suck people into MSOS. Or perhaps their products just suck and they can't match a true UNIX. Whatever, it's funny at the very least.
Next IBM should be a PHP and Perl debugger in this thing and make it really super fantastic. The only editor that makes any sense for PHP development lately is nedit (syntax highlighting) or vi (but "Terminal too wide!" drives me crazy on Solaris). Will IBM be nice and add debugging for the two most widely used server side scripting languages?:)
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I think the small ISPs are great if you *do* want to talk directly to the people involved running the show, but having worked at one I know that even if you can talk to them, doesn't mean they're always going to solve your problem. When you are small people expect to be able to talk to the head Sysadmin. But when you're the size of Mindspring you know you don't have a chance.
Personally, I think the small ISPs are great if you want a BBS feel to your experience. But when you want great service and connectivity, I'd rather go with a company who's trying to run the show like the phone company. When you call, you may not get answers, but you only end up calling with a problem every 8 months. This isn't the case with the small ISPs.
Actually, it doesn't run better on Windows. I develop on Linux using the Blackdown JDK1.3, and to be honest, I compile faster and run faster than the Windows developers in the office. You can get a better implementation.
:)
Most companies I go into where friends work, or for interviews, or for a contract are running a lot of Windows machines simply on the spoken merit that "we don't have time to look into switching". Windows is used widely right now because it has been in the past. But Windows won't destroy Linux for the very reason that it *is* free. MS has to pay people to continue developing their OS, but Linux just goes on the love of the users. In twenty years when everyone is running a Linux kernel with a better-than-we-have-now GUI attached to it, we'll be saying, "It's amazing that people used to try and sell an operating system." If that vision of a better computing future doesn't comply with other people's than *shrug* oh well.
You can buy Windows 2010 and I'll be running KDE 12.0 (or whatever). I think this MS guy is trying to give Linux a media-death. Ten bucks says he can't kill a penguin.
I'd love to play with it without having to pay $$$ for the Apple hardware. Apple should stop being dumb and give in to cheap hardware.
Touche. :)
I had to setup a web based interface recently as a frontend to administer some functions of a service the ASP I work for provides. It would have been nice to conditionally disable parts of the form so that there could be no input in certain fields depending on the state of others. IE will allow you to do this as it follows the HTML4.0 spec, but Netscape will not. I think most web developers were waiting for Netscape to make Netscape 6 HTML4.0 compliant so they could use things like 'disable' in a form field and have the field refuse to gain focus.
We can keep setting up all sorts of JavaScript rules that the browser has to go ahead and render just so we can simulate this in Netscape, or we can all use the spec provided by w3 which is the proper thing to do. I don't think Netscape will die because the industry is leaning towards Microsoft's browser, I think Netscape will die because it's beating itself slowly to death with an elephant.
I, like most web developers I think are getting tired of having to worry about how Netscape is going to render HTML that IE renders perfectly. I really like Netscape, honestly, but I'm not going to hold out anymore. After Netscape 6 came out and all that changed were the buttons, I gave up. I now use Konqueror (for KDE) most of the time, but if I happen to boot into windows to play a game, I'll use IE to browse.
This is not to say that MSIE is totally compliant with the HTML4.0 spec, but if you pick up a book from O'Reilly Press called Dynamic HTML and go through the HTML Reference you'll notice that Netscape doesn't implement most of what the spec outlines, and in more cases than not MSIE does.
Anyway, it pisses me off but I think I've used up enough space on this drive. :)
Have you seen the price on the new Titanium G4? People run Linux because it's free and most of the hardware supported by it is really cheap compared to the competitors. i386 as compared to PPC? MacOS X will be fun for those who already love using their Mac and want to have some of the benefits of UNIX too. But when it all comes down to it, I'm not going to run out and buy a $3000.00 machine just to run an OS that probably won't compile most of the stuff I use. Besides, have you seen KDE lately? :)
I think D-VHS, if they ever tried to market it, would die rather immediately due to the media it's being moved around on. I bought a DVD player not for the high definition, not for the incredible sound (although these two things are definately a plus), but I bought it because I don't have to A) rewind movies and B) I can start anywhere in the movie I wish. Now tell me honestly, is the higher definition of D-VHS going to outweigh the convenience of DVDs and the fun I have with the special features included on them? Not at all. D-VHS is dead to me already. Old technology trying to be new.
I might as well try to install Linux on my Commodore 64.
I bought Graphic Java from the same press for work and it's been a really useful tool. When I had to get into JSP and Servlets, I bought this book and was pretty disappointed at the lack of information contained therein.
I learned a lot more from O'Reilley's book Servlet Programming with the tea kettle on the cover than I did from this book. Once you realize how the special tags work for JSP it's all Java from there, no real special tricks.
I would have like to have seen this book expound more on using Taglib and stuff like that. It just wasn't all it's cracked up to be. There's a Professional JSP book, anyone care to review that?
He's 15 stupid, he's a boy.
What is Egghead.com legally supposed to do about this? Can anyone file a lawsuit? This is important to find out for future reference.
This card works just fine for me with one exception (and I'm also wondering which card can do this). I would like a card that could do a color depth of 32 on Linux. I have to stick with 16 right now because GIMP and some other applications create a white bar across the screen everytime I undo (with GIMP) or resize the window with other apps (not all of them GTK). I used to have a Matrox G200 at work and that was a great card. I was able to have a 1280x1024 console (nice IRC session size without the need for X, being able to use w3m for a good majority of web browsing, midnight commander was great too in this aspect) which is just a treat to have.
I wouldn't recommend the Voodoo3 2000 (as I have it because I duel boot and Voodoo3 2000 allows me to play Diablo II 3dfx), but definately go for a Matrox450 if you can afford one.
BeOS is a great little OS, don't get me wrong, but it wouldn't compete with Linux. BeOS is great for multimedia and Internet Appliances, but it's not a robust, useful OS such as Linux. Net Positive is way to annoying a web browser anyway. ;)
OSX has a slick interface, Windows has had the same interface for years. Just because their widgets look nice, and their window decorations are consistent and clean doesn't mean the interface is slick. I have a hard time using the OS to be honest with you. There's only one desktop in Windows. Who can handle that? I'll stick to my E 0.16.5 with my ShinyBlue2.etheme thank you very much. KDE2 btw is pretty damn slick if you ask me.
Konquerer kicks a$#. I think the whole desktop environment went from immature but kinda useful (KDE 1.1.2) to highly mature, useful, configurable, fun to use and all around more productive KDE2. If their development keeps up like this (given the KDE League etc.) I'd be surprised if Windows lasts two more years as leader in the user desktop market. Anyone care to place a theory?
Neat thing about Linux is the Blackdown JDK is a much faster compiler than the Win32 port of the Sun JDK for Solaris. I can compile in about half the time as the Windows developers (and haven't noticed any weird things yet) and it all runs faster on my box too.
The only problem with Java on Linux is the Blackdown JDK isn't as well maintained as all that. Their JDK1.1 compiler segfaults with RH7, meaning I can't compile applets on this machine (because most browsers only inherently have 1.1 support). I am an avid Linux user (been my desktop for two and a half years now) and would have to say that Java is pretty great.
In fact, Java is the only language that has a really great (IMHO) fully featured IDE for Linux. I keep waiting for KDevelop to become mature enough to use for C++ development but it may take them a while. :)
Anyhow, I think Sun should develop a JDK for Linux. After all it's one of the world's top operating systems.
Something you should note is that the express purpose of Napster is for people to trade MP3 encoded music across the net. The people who wrote Napster wrote it for this purpose, therefore "aiding and abetting" the users of the software to share illegal files with each other (depending on your interpretation of copyright law). eBay on the other hand has hundreds auctions going into the mix each day, and they don't "support" the trading of bootleg recordings. They can't be responsible for everything that goes through their website, just as they can't rummage through every auction created daily and determine whether or not someone is trying to sell something they shouldn't.
You're logic wasn't flawed, just a little translucent.
Startups and small to medium size companies want young, single, idiot IT folks to fill the positions because they'll waste their income stupidly and require the job to feed their crazy lifestyles. It's pretty much a fact. I worked for an ISP in Ottawa, Canada. Within the first three questions in the interview I was asked, "Do you like doing what you do, or do you love it?" That's saying, "Would you be willing to live to code, or would you be the kind of guy to take off early on a Friday because you want to see your girl".
:)
Many IT managers suck.
If you've ever seen the movie, Pirates Of The Silicon Valley (and this is how I know anything about the Altair) Bill Gates and a friend of his wrote the programming language for this pretty odd computer. Apparently however, before his friend brought it to the owner of the Altair, Gates remembered he didn't write a boot loader. Not important information, just funny. In either case, it's a good movie to watch, this subject just made me think about it. Steve Jobs was an asshole. :)
The Barenaked Ladies can do no wrong. I'm seriously wondering whose side I should take. :)
Jackson is a judge. Judge's are not stupid. Get real. Tech courts will lead to more law inhibiting freedom. That will suck.
Has anyone noticed that some RPGs are trying to blend the adventure aspect into their games? Valkyrie Profile (new PSX game) is very interactive, and Legend of Dragoon actually has y ou taking part in the battle by way of trying to sync your button hits with the action on the screen. Other games like Star Ocean have gotten into this too.
What ever happened to good old Legend of Zelda games?
I would agree with it being the latter. Most companies, agencies, and even a good portion of home users don't secure anything at all. Most systems have a common root password to eliminate several users who have to have superuser access on several machines from having to get an admin to login to it, or having to remember several passwords. There's not much in the way of security in most large companies in my experience, so why would the government?
:)
I think it's just plain average. Now, anyone know the IP addresses for DOD gateways or border routers?
All dem students are gonna be buying neon orange and yellow shoes they are. POLKADOTS AND WONDERLAND JOY FOR ALL! *ahem* Anyone who signs up with a company who says "We'll give you a kickass intranet if you let us brainwash your young" should be taken out back, pistol whipped, shot, pistol whipped, fed tea, shot and killed brutally afterwards with much passion, rage and joy alot. :)
I know for a fact that hotmail uses only FreeBSD. I worked for a company who provided solutions to the Hotmail team for security, and all solutions were dished out in FBSD. I don't know about the rest, but I know MS had a RedHat Linux box on their network about a year back. They're either trying to disprove their competition or trying to mimick the inner workings to suck people into MSOS. Or perhaps their products just suck and they can't match a true UNIX. Whatever, it's funny at the very least.
Next IBM should be a PHP and Perl debugger in this thing and make it really super fantastic. The only editor that makes any sense for PHP development lately is nedit (syntax highlighting) or vi (but "Terminal too wide!" drives me crazy on Solaris). Will IBM be nice and add debugging for the two most widely used server side scripting languages? :)