It's just that most geekresses|geekettes|geekgrrls use a nick that doesn't scream out "I'm female!" I know several female geeks that use male names and nicks to cover themselves against online abuse.
PS. if geek is male, then shouldn't it be fegeek? (joke)
Apart from saying how terrible this will be, we need to put together some kind of action plan to combat this. We need polite, well worded and intelligent arguments as to why this won't work. We need a central repository of MEP's email/snailmail/telephone addresses (MEP == member of the european parliament).
Being rather paranoid, I think that this is a case (as others have mentioned) of Big Business(tm) creating a law to make money. But simply saying that to our MEP won't make a blind bit of difference.
I think we need an open letter that we can all sign and forward on to our parliamentary representatives (Local/National, etc)
It looks like the proponents of this law are well ahead of us. We need to catch up.
I've always found that a combination of visual and text based html editing works best. I use DreamWeaver and TextPad at home, and flick between when they are best for a specific task - DreamWeaver having that great "edit in external editor" function.
While I don't doubt or disrespect your html editing capabilities, I think that I could produce a graphically rich page (with image maps) faster with DreamWeaver + TextPad than you could with Vi(m)|(x)Emacs.
Of course, dw + textpad will never come out for Linux:-(
PS. Some people want graphically rich pages, especially in our Intranet, therefore I will produce those pages for them. Text only and Image rich pages each have their place.
InterDev promptly screws up the style sheet (drops a trailing squiggly bracket)
Would I get flamed if I said "Raise a bug with Microsoft"?
In all seriousness, post screenshots of the source in the IDE and another different text editor (I'd recommend TextPad) to a web site and mail me / post the url. I'm using InterDev at the moment, and this would be useful ammunition in my quest for DreamWeaver...
Overseas developers have been able to do this (reverse engineer) for some time, particularly in Europe and the United States of America where Australia's main competitors in this sector are located.
Is this right? Am I allowed to "reverse engineer", say, MS Excel's COM.idl (or.tlb) file to produce a product that works with it?
OK, bad example. Could I do this on a library that has an unpublished API?
But, how much are those SGI servers going to cost? The PHB's consider SGI to be a "name" that they would consider installing and they assume an SGI would cost the same as a Sun.
Also, Why put a groovy case on a machine that's going to sit in a darkened server room?
It's nice that nothing is really being taken away, just added.
This means that a new user (assuming that they've never used Linux distro's before) of the Corel distro will be able to start off at an easy level. This means email, web, mp3 and file manager. (IMHO)
But once they have been assimilated by us:-), they will have all the tools they need to start contributing.
It's been my experience that Windows users are crippled by the lack of any bundled programming tools, not even a compiler. I've recommended to younger relatives who want to start coding that they use the cygnus tools with windows, because I know that they want to play games and keep an easy(1) environment. Perhaps the Corel distro will be OK for them.
(1) an easy GUI environment is a very subjective thing, I know.
Would it be a good idea to put a site up that would help a newbie Corel distro user to "graduate" to a higher level? (state of consciousness:-)
Anyway, the more Linux users the better. Some of those users could be coding the next Killer App Real Soon Now(tm).
Is anyone thinking of a Ext2 to XFS filesystem converter? OK, I can see instant problems with this; how do I change the root filesystem without killing everything?
Could anyone tell us what benefits using XFS would bring to the typical Linux desktop user? Increased Speed?
OK, better reliability and faster fsck's, but apart from that?
I decided to bug out and get into testing/development. 7 hour days, 5 days a week. The disadvantage was that I took a drop in salary, and now don't have a real choice in what I do. The advantage is that I can now spend several hours a night with friends, gardening, reading, listening to music, getting some proper sleep etc. I also lost about 30 pounds (from UK 13.5 stones to UK 12 stones), and I've never felt better.
If you're in this situation, my advice would be take some time off and examine why you're really doing this. Is it for money, love, or apathy? If you've got ulcers, I'd think long and hard about this one.
I wonder how sysadmin's attitude compares to those of doctors? I'm not trying to compare the jobs here, but junior doctors (here in the UK) work very long hours. But you couldn't tell them to stop. I wonder if it's for the same reasons? When I moved over to development, I tried to do everything myself, in much the same way as I did in sysadmin. I was taken aside, told to chill, and then realised that I could now ask the sysadmin to fix stuff, and could also depend more on the team.
Ramble mode off.:-)
Anthony
PS. I'd recommend gardening to anyone. Wrist deep in dirt is a great balance to figuring out.idl files...
shipping a piece of software that crashes users' systems or corrupts their data or allows someone on the Internet to steal their data, when you knew it would do those things but shipped it anyway due to schedule pressure etc. is an act of malpractice
I Agree. Could you sue a software engineer/company for malpractice? How many geeks out there would submit to a professional association, like accountants and solicitors|lawyers? Not many I think...
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You do.
It's just that most geekresses|geekettes|geekgrrls use a nick that doesn't scream out "I'm female!" I know several female geeks that use male names and nicks to cover themselves against online abuse.
PS. if geek is male, then shouldn't it be fegeek? (joke)
OK,
However much you may hate XXXX corp DO NOT try and masquerade as them!
It's not big, clever or AFAIK legal.
What may seem as a good idea right now may land you/us/everyone in the world in a whole heap of trouble.
OK,
Apart from saying how terrible this will be, we need to put together some kind of action plan to combat this. We need polite, well worded and intelligent arguments as to why this won't work. We need a central repository of MEP's email/snailmail/telephone addresses (MEP == member of the european parliament).
Being rather paranoid, I think that this is a case (as others have mentioned) of Big Business(tm) creating a law to make money. But simply saying that to our MEP won't make a blind bit of difference.
I think we need an open letter that we can all sign and forward on to our parliamentary representatives (Local/National, etc)
It looks like the proponents of this law are well ahead of us. We need to catch up.
OK, Are you sure it's not Star Trek EXCEL?
It could be sponsored by Microsoft and require you to turn your TV off then on again during each ad break...
I've always found that a combination of visual and text based html editing works best. I use DreamWeaver and TextPad at home, and flick between when they are best for a specific task - DreamWeaver having that great "edit in external editor" function.
:-(
While I don't doubt or disrespect your html editing capabilities, I think that I could produce a graphically rich page (with image maps) faster with DreamWeaver + TextPad than you could with Vi(m)|(x)Emacs.
Of course, dw + textpad will never come out for Linux
PS. Some people want graphically rich pages, especially in our Intranet, therefore I will produce those pages for them. Text only and Image rich pages each have their place.
InterDev promptly screws up the style sheet (drops a trailing squiggly bracket)
Would I get flamed if I said "Raise a bug with Microsoft"?
In all seriousness, post screenshots of the source in the IDE and another different text editor (I'd recommend TextPad) to a web site and mail me / post the url. I'm using InterDev at the moment, and this would be useful ammunition in my quest for DreamWeaver...
Cheers
Hook onto the server and wouldn't you have a collaborative version control system?
If I understood the description on Byte linked to by the first post, you could do the following:
Of course, I wouldn't like to write the compiler for this system...
OK,
If MS doesn't support web standards, then we know that their stance on the instant messaging thing is bogus.
I think it would be more scary if they did support the standards.
Microsoft supporting standards. Does. Not. Compute.
(You do trust MS, don't you?)
:-)
Overseas developers have been able to do this (reverse engineer) for some time, particularly in Europe and the United States of America where Australia's main competitors in this sector are located.
.idl (or .tlb) file to produce a product that works with it?
Is this right? Am I allowed to "reverse engineer", say, MS Excel's COM
OK, bad example. Could I do this on a library that has an unpublished API?
Confused I am...
V. Cool.
But, how much are those SGI servers going to cost? The PHB's consider SGI to be a "name" that they would consider installing and they assume an SGI would cost the same as a Sun.
Also, Why put a groovy case on a machine that's going to sit in a darkened server room?
someone writing a daemon that records keypress statistics?
You could use this data to design a keyboard for hacking.
IMHO, having the braces and brackets more easily accessible would be cool.
It's nice that nothing is really being taken away, just added.
:-), they will have all the tools they need to start contributing.
:-)
This means that a new user (assuming that they've never used Linux distro's before) of the Corel distro will be able to start off at an easy level. This means email, web, mp3 and file manager. (IMHO)
But once they have been assimilated by us
It's been my experience that Windows users are crippled by the lack of any bundled programming tools, not even a compiler. I've recommended to younger relatives who want to start coding that they use the cygnus tools with windows, because I know that they want to play games and keep an easy(1) environment. Perhaps the Corel distro will be OK for them.
(1) an easy GUI environment is a very subjective thing, I know.
Would it be a good idea to put a site up that would help a newbie Corel distro user to "graduate" to a higher level? (state of consciousness
Anyway, the more Linux users the better. Some of those users could be coding the next Killer App Real Soon Now(tm).
more space for mp3's and p0rn! or maybe even p0rn mp3's!! and don't forget about **BEOWOLF**!!
No offense intended, but does anyone else think that comment sounded like a semi bad Anime translation ala Final fantasy 7?
Is anyone thinking of a Ext2 to XFS filesystem converter? OK, I can see instant problems with this; how do I change the root filesystem without killing everything?
Could anyone tell us what benefits using XFS would bring to the typical Linux desktop user? Increased Speed?
OK, better reliability and faster fsck's, but apart from that?
Can anyone give a ETA for the XFS being added to the kernel tarball?
As of 5:10pm here in England, the Register seems to have pulled the story.
Complete hoax then?
Nope,
They have real news too - Their Microsoft Vs DoJ trial coverage is (IMHO) unsurpassed.
Can anyone recommend a digital-out only soundcard?
Living in a small house allows me to connect the PC to the stereo, but the sound quality is rather poor.
I was going to buy a seperate DAC, but I can only justify the expense if I can find a sound card that outputs digitally (either coax or optical)
Excuse the PC/soundcard ignorance, but living on Planet Linux for the past couple of years means that I don't really know what's available nowadays.
Do these guys know the meaning of diplomacy?
Sounds familiar...
:-)
.idl files...
14+ hour days, 7 days a week for 18 months.
I decided to bug out and get into testing/development. 7 hour days, 5 days a week. The disadvantage was that I took a drop in salary, and now don't have a real choice in what I do. The advantage is that I can now spend several hours a night with friends, gardening, reading, listening to music, getting some proper sleep etc. I also lost about 30 pounds (from UK 13.5 stones to UK 12 stones), and I've never felt better.
If you're in this situation, my advice would be take some time off and examine why you're really doing this. Is it for money, love, or apathy? If you've got ulcers, I'd think long and hard about this one.
I wonder how sysadmin's attitude compares to those of doctors? I'm not trying to compare the jobs here, but junior doctors (here in the UK) work very long hours. But you couldn't tell them to stop. I wonder if it's for the same reasons? When I moved over to development, I tried to do everything myself, in much the same way as I did in sysadmin. I was taken aside, told to chill, and then realised that I could now ask the sysadmin to fix stuff, and could also depend more on the team.
Ramble mode off.
Anthony
PS. I'd recommend gardening to anyone. Wrist deep in dirt is a great balance to figuring out
I Agree. Could you sue a software engineer/company for malpractice?
How many geeks out there would submit to a professional association, like accountants and solicitors|lawyers? Not many I think...
Does this ruling give credence to an entirely free (gpl) version of Java?
As I read it, it does.
If so, I think that's great! I really like Java as a language, but feel that it has been held back by Sun's treatment of it as a product...
Being able to code in a language I enjoy, with a clear conscience is close to nirvana.
DISCLAIMER: Just because I like Java a lot, doesn't mean I hate other languages.
I meant that BeOS can set User Defined attributes like "author", "project" or "department"
You can then search on those attributes and Those are v fast.
Hope this clears things up.
I noticed that BeOS can add attributes to files that are part of the filesystem. i.e. You don't need to open the file to get at those attributes.
Wouldn't something like this be useful for ext3?
AFAIK, it would speed up searches for files...
Does XFS do this?
get it from http://countingdown.com/