There is a web _server_ named Hydra.
IMHO it would be a source of massive confusion if a web browser and a
server had the same name, and were not related.
The text of a novel is not directly comparable to the source code of a program. As an amateur writer I know there can be a lot of detailed planning ("blueprints") behind a story or an article. Those plans are not usually meant to be public. It is often desirable to leave some things undisclosed and let the readers draw their own conclusions.
On the contrary, software should have no secrets, trapdoors or hidden features (excluding games). An operating system should not be like a conspiracy novel. Even if the source were not 100% open, the system should be fully documented. Of course the source is the best possible documentation you can have, in terms of not lying or hiding.
> I forsee a new book by John Gray: Mozilla is from Mars, IE is from Venus.
"Men are from Macs, women are from VMS."
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Slashdotters seem to like things related to Linux and Open Source. Opera 7 beta is neither, because it's only released for Windows (for now) and it's proprietary.
I'm not saying proprietary is baad, mmkay, in fact I'm posting this via Opera 6.1. However, from the usual/. point of view, Opera 7 beta is just another Wintel program and not worth the exposure.
This Human-Mouse hybrid sounds like a great advance in the
computer interface design. At least it would remove one bottleneck.
Soon we'll outquake even Dustpuppy (he uses a separate mouse).
Well, first of all, thanks for the great server! I'm currently running
it to serve my homepages on a
486, though I first used it about three years ago.
I thought the explanation for the name was here,
where boa is roughly a synonym for fat pipe -- something you need a
fast server to saturate.
Hmm.. just because it's on/. doesn't mean it's suddenly trendy. Use
the tool that's the best for the job, not the one that is trendy. In
fact, by going the Linux way you've already gone against the
mainstream OS which is Windows, might try and keep up the attitude.
Besides, I used Boa over three years ago so I'm more trendy than you!;-)
I agree that people often use dynamic pages because of the buzzword
factor, not because it's the best. For instance, my web diary is only
updated when I write something, not whenever somebody reads it. So a
dynamic database solution would be just silly. I have a Python script
to generate the HTML when I write the entries, and the server is Boa
on a POS 486 running NetBSD. Slashdot that!
I do like the features of Apache, for example when the site needs
PHP+MySQL. But it's the right tool for the right job. And I keep that
486 from polluting the Earth on an 'acid trip' to China.
MPlayer is not multiplatform; it's only for Unix systems. Besides, it doesn't play Sorenson v.3 and some other closed formats. Nevertheless it's still my favourite movie player:-)
Well, not 100% completely but it's looking pretty good, just like my other GTK applications. This is not in the 0.3 milestone, you need the latest nightly.
It's interesting though that even plain XUL-look Phoenix and Mozilla depend on some GTK functionality (e.g. libgtkembedmoz.so). But anyways, now it even has the correct GTK look. w00t!
> I want to form a company that makes a cpu that translates x86 instructions on the fly to RISC instructions that operate in parallel.
> I'll call my company transmeta!
Modern x86 processors, since about PPro and K6, are already RISC in their internals. One key difference to Transmeta's products is that the Crusoe does the translation in software. Therefore the hardware is simpler, and the translation engine can be easily upgraded.
I love browsing in text mode, and I agree that www is more about information and less about pr0n.
The problem is that most sites are designed for graphical browsers. Even simple, proper w3c html can be a pain to navigate through in text mode. For instance, a table of links (such as Everything2 softlinks) takes time to reach the link you want, because you have to pass through every visible link in their html order. It's much faster with a mouse.
Our visual/spatial perception is a powerful feature which should be used for our advantage. GUIs are not just for newbies. But I'm not letting go of my terminals quite yet.. right tool for the right job and so forth.
As a physicist, I've written most of my scientific code in F90. It's far from a dead language. I agree with many people that F77 is a horrible mess, but F90 and later versions are excellent for scientific stuff, for example if you consider array handling features.
The long history of FORTRAN (sic) means a large base of scientific libraries. This is also something that prevents switching to C[++] overnight. In fact I'd much prefer using F90+ for all low level code.
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There is a web _server_ named Hydra. IMHO it would be a source of massive confusion if a web browser and a server had the same name, and were not related.
Except when I'm reading newsgroups with tin.
On the contrary, software should have no secrets, trapdoors or hidden features (excluding games). An operating system should not be like a conspiracy novel. Even if the source were not 100% open, the system should be fully documented. Of course the source is the best possible documentation you can have, in terms of not lying or hiding.
New Scientist article
"Men are from Macs, women are from VMS."
I'm not saying proprietary is baad, mmkay, in fact I'm posting this via Opera 6.1. However, from the usual /. point of view, Opera 7 beta is just another Wintel program and not worth the exposure.
This Human-Mouse hybrid sounds like a great advance in the computer interface design. At least it would remove one bottleneck. Soon we'll outquake even Dustpuppy (he uses a separate mouse).
Don't you mean 4:33?
I thought the explanation for the name was here, where boa is roughly a synonym for fat pipe -- something you need a fast server to saturate.
Hmm.. just because it's on /. doesn't mean it's suddenly trendy. Use
the tool that's the best for the job, not the one that is trendy. In
fact, by going the Linux way you've already gone against the
mainstream OS which is Windows, might try and keep up the attitude.
Besides, I used Boa over three years ago so I'm more trendy than you! ;-)
Zeus is not free. If you compare opensource httpds, Boa is one of the faster ones (though not the only of its kind).
I do like the features of Apache, for example when the site needs PHP+MySQL. But it's the right tool for the right job. And I keep that 486 from polluting the Earth on an 'acid trip' to China.
Especially when you've paid money to see the movie.
Idle CPUs? Contact distributed.net for help.
You gan still get DR-DOS for free (beer) here, besides there are Free (speech) and Open DOSes around too.
If games are the only reason for fast PCs, why is it that the consoles don't have gigahertz processors?
You know, developers sometimes need to compile stuff. It's a pain to code if half of your time is spent building the binaries for testing.
MPlayer is not multiplatform; it's only for Unix systems. Besides, it doesn't play Sorenson v.3 and some other closed formats. Nevertheless it's still my favourite movie player :-)
here on Cray's website.
It's interesting though that even plain XUL-look Phoenix and Mozilla depend on some GTK functionality (e.g. libgtkembedmoz.so). But anyways, now it even has the correct GTK look. w00t!
> I'll call my company transmeta!
Modern x86 processors, since about PPro and K6, are already RISC in their internals. One key difference to Transmeta's products is that the Crusoe does the translation in software. Therefore the hardware is simpler, and the translation engine can be easily upgraded.
Yeah, like the guy who drew Tux, whatshisname..
The problem is that most sites are designed for graphical browsers. Even simple, proper w3c html can be a pain to navigate through in text mode. For instance, a table of links (such as Everything2 softlinks) takes time to reach the link you want, because you have to pass through every visible link in their html order. It's much faster with a mouse.
Our visual/spatial perception is a powerful feature which should be used for our advantage. GUIs are not just for newbies. But I'm not letting go of my terminals quite yet.. right tool for the right job and so forth.
Unfortunately, the brilliant British logic of water taps does not extend to showers. It would be great to have separate hot and cold showers :-).
The long history of FORTRAN (sic) means a large base of scientific libraries. This is also something that prevents switching to C[++] overnight. In fact I'd much prefer using F90+ for all low level code.