Yeah...i'd written out something longer, but it all either involved a lot of overhead with searches going up and down the trees, or having something like a root server.
I suppose there could be a round-robin DNS setup (root.p2p.org?) and if you are on a LOT your IP would go in there. If the software couldn't connect to you, then it'd just go for another.
Bugger it - can't find anything out there, people kick you off while downloading, things are mislabled, etc...
1-not a problem. I have many rooms in the house and a nice futon couch when my wife goes to bed.
2-I dunno...that's never been a problem.
3-true...however I have such a backlog of books to read, that's not an issue. Makes library returns an interesting point though - you must bring your palm back in 2 weeks so we can delete the.pdb:)
4-Great point there - can't argue it. Do they have anything in place if something wipes out my e-copy? Yes, I can have a paper one burn, but electronic is much easier to lose.
5-oh yeah!
Since my last post, I've been trying to find a good document reader for the palm. There seem to be about 20 different possible formats, and a ton of readers. Is there a "one ring to rule them all" that means I either convert the files on a PC or don't need to keep switching readers? Flame me for this, but a Microsoft Reader for the Palm would help too!!!
I've tried that. I just can't stand reading material on the palm. The screen is much to small, and the resolution is very lacking.
The one nice thing that an e-book has over paper is search. Forgot when a character was introduced in a book, or who they were - search for the name and re-read the intro to them.
"Oh...Oh...we've had a good conference in Atlanta for 4 years - lets say screw you to all the locals that helped us out and supported us and run it to California to kiss up."
Just a we bit bitter that ALS is moving and it's no longer just a 1.5hr drive.
Okay...that's great...I now have a terabyte in used disks laying around, but what about the fact that floppy disks just ain't reliable?
Though for the purposes mentioned the other day (carting around powerpoint presentations) and mp3 players, it could be nice. Wonder if I could compress it enough to fit a whole album on a floppy - lose some quality, but my car stereo isn't that great:)
I think I built gcc with the default piece of junk c compiler. It's been so long I don't remember. I may have just downloaded a precompiled version to bootstrap it though.
+Aa for ANSI? HPUX has it's quirk's but at least it's not AIX. I've had pretty good luck getting Gnome, KDE, and a ton of other stuff running just fine on HPUX - though one of the first things to do was install gcc:)
It sounds like he says there should be an OS to control switching around the apps, but it shouldn't get in the way.
So, he wants you to be able to power-on right to an app, like a Palm does - ie faster bootup, and he wants the illusion you are using one app - so maximize the window and remove the title bar.
IBM tried to come up with a lower-priced PC with the PCjr by taking away some of the expandability and power.
There was nothing special about it - just a DOS based PC. You could I think plug a cartridge in and "boot" off that, like on a C64. But failing that, and failing a dos disk, I think it brought you to either BASIC or a diagnostic screen.
It's not useless for coders. Too many people seem to think the only thing that VR can do is let you dictate a memo into your computer, or replace any typing.
As for use for a coder - you just got done rewriting a majorly troublesome routine. You sit back to relax for a second and say "Okay...build" and let it go. You go get some soda and your computer says "Build successful" so without moving you yell "Run it" and it runs.
Either that, or you yell Run It and it hears "cat/dev/zero >/dev/hda1"
VR is wonderful for things like this. Dication sucks.
I'm of the opinion that no course should be teaching printf, writeln, or any of that. They should teach the concept and let you apply it to the language of your choosing.
Sure, they should mention what buffer overruns are. But they shouldn't be teaching you how to use a particular tool - but how that class of tools work in general.
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Can we not have one thread on here that doesn't come back to "free" and "it's just a windows thing"?
Odd thing is I can remote admin my win2k box from my linux box with VNC just fine, and vica-versa.
Not every solution must have a Linux or open/free component to it. Remember - News for Nerds, not Linux News.
Yeah...i'd written out something longer, but it all either involved a lot of overhead with searches going up and down the trees, or having something like a root server.
I suppose there could be a round-robin DNS setup (root.p2p.org?) and if you are on a LOT your IP would go in there. If the software couldn't connect to you, then it'd just go for another.
Bugger it - can't find anything out there, people kick you off while downloading, things are mislabled, etc...
1-not a problem. I have many rooms in the house and a nice futon couch when my wife goes to bed.
.pdb :)
2-I dunno...that's never been a problem.
3-true...however I have such a backlog of books to read, that's not an issue. Makes library returns an interesting point though - you must bring your palm back in 2 weeks so we can delete the
4-Great point there - can't argue it. Do they have anything in place if something wipes out my e-copy? Yes, I can have a paper one burn, but electronic is much easier to lose.
5-oh yeah!
Since my last post, I've been trying to find a good document reader for the palm. There seem to be about 20 different possible formats, and a ton of readers. Is there a "one ring to rule them all" that means I either convert the files on a PC or don't need to keep switching readers? Flame me for this, but a Microsoft Reader for the Palm would help too!!!
You'll hit one of two problems:
1) The peer above you in the hierarchy will turn their computer off, and you can't go anywhere. That is why it needs to be a dynamic sorta hierarchy.
2) You have set peers that'll always be there so #1 doesn't happen - but then you have dedicated machines, which takes away the dynamic nature of it.
I've tried that. I just can't stand reading material on the palm. The screen is much to small, and the resolution is very lacking.
The one nice thing that an e-book has over paper is search. Forgot when a character was introduced in a book, or who they were - search for the name and re-read the intro to them.
They're durable. Books can be burned or soaked, but short of that they're remarkably hard to destroy
:)
Let me introduce you to my two year old daughter. She will give you a new perspective on "hard to destroy"
Though I agree about the longevity of properly preserved paper.
It really adds that extra realism effect to all those maps and servers that have low gravity set on them!
I use napster for finding bootleg tracks, live recordings, and stuff like that, that have no real copyright to them.
Does this mean now that every search I type in won't return 50 misplaced files and 20 hits for SAMPLE_ACCURATE?
Info on the move
Here is some info on why ALS moved, directly from Marc Torres himself.
"Oh...Oh...we've had a good conference in Atlanta for 4 years - lets say screw you to all the locals that helped us out and supported us and run it to California to kiss up."
Just a we bit bitter that ALS is moving and it's no longer just a 1.5hr drive.
id be happy to yell any fixes anyone would like to see implemented
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Okay...that's great...I now have a terabyte in used disks laying around, but what about the fact that floppy disks just ain't reliable?
:)
Though for the purposes mentioned the other day (carting around powerpoint presentations) and mp3 players, it could be nice. Wonder if I could compress it enough to fit a whole album on a floppy - lose some quality, but my car stereo isn't that great
Well...oh crap - I forgot why.
Out of curiosity - in your part of the world, how big are wall plates and do they always have AC running to them?
I think I built gcc with the default piece of junk c compiler. It's been so long I don't remember. I may have just downloaded a precompiled version to bootstrap it though.
+Aa for ANSI? HPUX has it's quirk's but at least it's not AIX. I've had pretty good luck getting Gnome, KDE, and a ton of other stuff running just fine on HPUX - though one of the first things to do was install gcc :)
It sounds like he says there should be an OS to control switching around the apps, but it shouldn't get in the way.
So, he wants you to be able to power-on right to an app, like a Palm does - ie faster bootup, and he wants the illusion you are using one app - so maximize the window and remove the title bar.
Problem solved.
IBM tried to come up with a lower-priced PC with the PCjr by taking away some of the expandability and power.
There was nothing special about it - just a DOS based PC. You could I think plug a cartridge in and "boot" off that, like on a C64. But failing that, and failing a dos disk, I think it brought you to either BASIC or a diagnostic screen.
Possibly, but would it make him bigger than the Beatles?
It's not useless for coders. Too many people seem to think the only thing that VR can do is let you dictate a memo into your computer, or replace any typing.
/dev/zero >/dev/hda1"
As for use for a coder - you just got done rewriting a majorly troublesome routine. You sit back to relax for a second and say "Okay...build" and let it go. You go get some soda and your computer says "Build successful" so without moving you yell "Run it" and it runs.
Either that, or you yell Run It and it hears "cat
VR is wonderful for things like this. Dication sucks.
Well, when you install WebTV, it gets its schedule from somewhere.
.NET, we could write a SOAP module to pull the data from the web :) So they say
Or there is TVGUIDE.com - I wonder how scriptable it is?
Of course, if we were using
I just went and tried to swap the ram in my win2k/nt box since that is something they said Linux doesn't do - I assume they must do it.
Well, once I popped that CPU out (and burnt my hands) the machine kinda died. Hmmm....guess NT couldn't deal with it either.
I had a similar problem with trying to hot-swap the ram.
:)
For both of your Gongs, I ask one question:
Prove it. Please provide a link or reference where both of these can be confirmed. Hearsay - ie Genesis 2:7 - is not acceptable.
Piece of cake to switch - a $TTL in one file, and a line in another file to quite a warning, and up on 9.1.
Much MUCH easier than 4->8
I'm of the opinion that no course should be teaching printf, writeln, or any of that. They should teach the concept and let you apply it to the language of your choosing.
:)
Sure, they should mention what buffer overruns are. But they shouldn't be teaching you how to use a particular tool - but how that class of tools work in general.
Unless of course it is a C/C++ course