I'm sure a million other osx folks will flame about this, but it's really difficult to use X11 when you're used to the consistency of native OSX (Cocoa or Carbon to a certain extent) applications. i.e.: All OSX apps have similar places to go for preferences, to open/save files, edit, help, etc. Plus keybindings and mouse behavior are all similar. Compared to that, running an X11 application is like being thrown back to 1990. Menu's are attached to the window, keybindings are messed up, and you're lucky if copy/paste works.
I don't see what the problem is with integrating native GUI libs with an OSS project. Firefox does this with extreme success on multiple platforms. This should've been OpenOffice's strategy from day 1.
Actually, with the tech implosion back in 2001, this affects technology companies less than we would expect.
Dot-com era tech companies aren't the only ones that used stock options as incentives. Our fortune 500 company of over 200,000 employees has traditionally distributed stock options to its management employees as part of a bonus package. This year they won't, but it remains to be seen if we'll get cash, straight-out stock, or a screw-job.
But they're talking now about outlawing lasers to the general public?!?! Huh? Because they can be used for this?
Some days I think it would be a lot easier for the govenment to just tell us what we can do. "Ok, all you're allowed to do is go to work, watch TV and shop. Nothing else."
I'm a copyright holder. When should I expect my check (oops, I'm hypothetically in europe, so it's cheque)? Or do I have to be a part of the record industry crime syndicate?
Microsoft will lose before it manages to put out a new and more secure version of IE (assuming that is even possible;-)).
Or a lite version. They're fighting an uphill battle -- they need to keep their code compatible with the buttload of non standard features they've introduced over the years (mainly things like activex windows-specific plugins) that people have build applications on top of. If they were to release something that was stripped down (yet retained all the functionality of something on the level with Firefox) and gave the user a choice to install the backwards-compatible mess, they might get out of this situation.
Of course they won't because that gives people a migration path off IE (and eventually off Windows).
I wonder if this means we'll get C64 games on those little joystick-that-plugs-into-the-tv things that are so popular nowadays.
So here's what they're going to do -- sue as many of those small-time chinese c64 joystick manufacturers and sellers, online emulators, rom sites, etc.. then make their own just in time for the fad to be well over (I predict next xmas).
I know of a guy who works in a real estate office, who has to access everything through citrix. All employees have individual logins, and are able to maintain their own preferences, email, and other stuff.
I used a similar setup where I work. We set up a win2k server box with terminal services (essentially citrix), so we could keep one stable desktop while we were constantly messing with our own desktops (or like in my case, I was using unix with rdesktop client).
Managing virus and malware on one common server would be preferable I think. The only issue you might face could be licensing costs, especially if you went the multi-user route.
I have this theory that programmers who write software should have to do in person tech support for that demographic for at least a year or so.
Years ago when we developed a replacement CRM application for a large telco ISP, we did something unheard of - we integrated the customer service reps into the development process. At first we shadowed them for days to get a feel for how they use the existing application, and interviewed them to see what they liked and disliked. Then we invited at least one rep to every design meeting. During development they were constantly reviewing the work, making sure it was perfect. They almost cried they were so happy.
As an aside: their number one complaint was when they were doing data entry on the very long web form, they constantly had to take their hand off the keyboard, find the cursor, position it over the scroll bar, scroll the page down, then position the cursor over the text field, and resume typing. Tabbing took care of some text field focusing, but wasn't intuitive and predictable enough even when combined with javascript. We broke the data entry into multiple pages with simple navigation. I really miss the old days of character-based terminal applications (so do a lot of end users).
I wonder how accurate those estimates are. For example, if a video store buys $500 worth of videos from a distributor, then rents them out for $2500, is that $3000 towards the movie industry's efforts? Are they also counting profits from non-movie related video store sales, such as soda and candy?
And for the video game side, do they count arcades and PC game places in malls?
Removing spyware and spam from people in the neighborhood.
Do you need a medical degree for this?
I taught a little, but found that the schedule was difficult. Unfortunately they needed someone to teach partially during the day, so I ended up taking some personal time off to do it.
(Actually, you can do an awful lot even without root access. I've built a fairly comfortable environment on a bare Solaris box, including gcc, emacs, vim, Tcl/Tk, CVS, blackbox (because otherwise I would have been stuck with Exceed's godawful window handling), and many other utilities, and root was not required for any of that. There's a reason such things as PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH exist.)
Same here. When I went from Linux to Solaris I cursed it up and down for not having any of the bells and whistles that Linux had. "What? No bash!?!" But over the years it made me appreciate a stripped-down unix, and compiling stuff from scratch. Now unfortunately I'm a little too obsessed, and once in a while try to install the bare-bare-bare-minimum Solaris install while still being able to run X and install GCC. It's really difficult (for me anyway).
There seems to be a lot of 'you don't need root access' replies. I'd go so far as to say 'avoid root access if you can,' especially in a politically volatile environment. You'll get less blame when something goes wrong, and you can relax while they take care of the system patching, managing its network connectivity, disk space, etc.
Working on a non-root server feels weird at first if you've run your own box for a long time, but other than the inability to listen on ports 1024 and a few minor resource restrictions, you should be better off. Coexisting on someone else's server can even make you very conscientious and more likely to keep a tidy server.
Also, if you have to ask the administrator to upload files every time you change them, and you find yourself making many changes, ask yourself if you are doing too many updates because you don't have a proper test/dev/stage environment (if not, shame on you!). If not, maybe a compromise could be made to script a bulk site transfer from stage to production that you could control.
I'm on the board of directors at a Buddhist center, and we have discussed distributing audio and video recordings of our teachings. The major barrier to doing something like this (especially for free to the community) is cost. I haven't brought up BT yet, but I probably will soon.
My biggest concern of course is the inevitable take-down notice we'll 'accidentally' get. We're a non-profit with no money for legal folks, and slightly techophobic directors, so the possibility of legal threats could prevent this.
I'm a Mac user, and this made me shrug. The next version of OSX due out (early next year I think) has this feature built-in. What's neat is it's integrated into the OS, and the APIs are exposed, so developers can easily take advantage of it.
As I tend to keep my wallet in my front pocket, I have been on a constant quest for the thinest wallet possible, and containing as little as necessary. Two credit cards, drivers license, and that's it. I carry my money in a money clip.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" not "Congress shall tear down religious symbols wherever it may annoy citizens."
Allowing a court house to have the 10 commandments in front of it is hardly passing a law respecting or prohibiting the free exercise of religion. This is called "Freedom of Religion" people. The right to actually have a religion.
Sure putting a 10 commandments in front of a court isn't passing a law, but it's dangerously close. Even if the 10 commandments aren't used in court, is implies an endorsement of one particular set of religious laws by our court and our laws of justice. It subtly tells Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus that while you're here, you're going to be judged by christians, and therefore you're at a disadvantage. It's intimidating.
Let's turn the situation around. Atzanteol, if you found yourself in a part of the country where a mayor somehow happened to be a liberal (not fundamentalist) Muslim, and you got a speeding ticket. On your way into the courthouse you passed a big decorative plaque that simply listed Muslim laws. What would you think? How would you feel?
Besides, nowhere in the bible can I find anything that says "any country needs to have the 10 commandments out in front of a courthouse." I never understood how putting the 10 commandments in a public courthouse could be equated to practicing freedom of religion.
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I'm sure a million other osx folks will flame about this, but it's really difficult to use X11 when you're used to the consistency of native OSX (Cocoa or Carbon to a certain extent) applications. i.e.: All OSX apps have similar places to go for preferences, to open/save files, edit, help, etc. Plus keybindings and mouse behavior are all similar. Compared to that, running an X11 application is like being thrown back to 1990. Menu's are attached to the window, keybindings are messed up, and you're lucky if copy/paste works.
I don't see what the problem is with integrating native GUI libs with an OSS project. Firefox does this with extreme success on multiple platforms. This should've been OpenOffice's strategy from day 1.
Property is about to go from 9/10ths of the law to 10/10ths of the law.
Actually, with the tech implosion back in 2001, this affects technology companies less than we would expect.
Dot-com era tech companies aren't the only ones that used stock options as incentives. Our fortune 500 company of over 200,000 employees has traditionally distributed stock options to its management employees as part of a bonus package. This year they won't, but it remains to be seen if we'll get cash, straight-out stock, or a screw-job.
"Can I go to the bathroom?"
For free, until they figure out how to charge you for it.
Why have the government do it when the corporate sector has been doing a great job telling us what's proper for a decade or two now?
Oh, I though these days when you say "government" it was assumed to include (almost exclusive) corporate control.
But they're talking now about outlawing lasers to the general public?!?! Huh? Because they can be used for this?
Some days I think it would be a lot easier for the govenment to just tell us what we can do. "Ok, all you're allowed to do is go to work, watch TV and shop. Nothing else."
I'm a copyright holder. When should I expect my check (oops, I'm hypothetically in europe, so it's cheque)? Or do I have to be a part of the record industry crime syndicate?
Microsoft will lose before it manages to put out a new and more secure version of IE (assuming that is even possible ;-)).
Or a lite version. They're fighting an uphill battle -- they need to keep their code compatible with the buttload of non standard features they've introduced over the years (mainly things like activex windows-specific plugins) that people have build applications on top of. If they were to release something that was stripped down (yet retained all the functionality of something on the level with Firefox) and gave the user a choice to install the backwards-compatible mess, they might get out of this situation.
Of course they won't because that gives people a migration path off IE (and eventually off Windows).
I don't know about y'all, but I tend to get blank messages more often than anything. Blank messsage headers, blank message body.
I wonder if this means we'll get C64 games on those little joystick-that-plugs-into-the-tv things that are so popular nowadays.
So here's what they're going to do -- sue as many of those small-time chinese c64 joystick manufacturers and sellers, online emulators, rom sites, etc.. then make their own just in time for the fad to be well over (I predict next xmas).
I know of a guy who works in a real estate office, who has to access everything through citrix. All employees have individual logins, and are able to maintain their own preferences, email, and other stuff.
I used a similar setup where I work. We set up a win2k server box with terminal services (essentially citrix), so we could keep one stable desktop while we were constantly messing with our own desktops (or like in my case, I was using unix with rdesktop client).
Managing virus and malware on one common server would be preferable I think. The only issue you might face could be licensing costs, especially if you went the multi-user route.
I have this theory that programmers who write software should have to do in person tech support for that demographic for at least a year or so.
Years ago when we developed a replacement CRM application for a large telco ISP, we did something unheard of - we integrated the customer service reps into the development process. At first we shadowed them for days to get a feel for how they use the existing application, and interviewed them to see what they liked and disliked. Then we invited at least one rep to every design meeting. During development they were constantly reviewing the work, making sure it was perfect. They almost cried they were so happy.
As an aside: their number one complaint was when they were doing data entry on the very long web form, they constantly had to take their hand off the keyboard, find the cursor, position it over the scroll bar, scroll the page down, then position the cursor over the text field, and resume typing. Tabbing took care of some text field focusing, but wasn't intuitive and predictable enough even when combined with javascript. We broke the data entry into multiple pages with simple navigation. I really miss the old days of character-based terminal applications (so do a lot of end users).
I wonder how accurate those estimates are. For example, if a video store buys $500 worth of videos from a distributor, then rents them out for $2500, is that $3000 towards the movie industry's efforts? Are they also counting profits from non-movie related video store sales, such as soda and candy?
And for the video game side, do they count arcades and PC game places in malls?
Mozilla's LDAP SDK when doing LDAP work
The pre-1.5 concurrent threading classes
Command-line argument handler library
Log4J logging.
One more step to making all war completely virtual!
...he eventually wants to make his technology as ubiquitous and as essential as TiVo is to some."
"Dude, check out my new TV2Me."
"We got our TV2Me bill."
"I was watching TV2Me while waiting in the traffic jam."
The name doesn't really work too well.
Removing spyware and spam from people in the neighborhood.
Do you need a medical degree for this?
I taught a little, but found that the schedule was difficult. Unfortunately they needed someone to teach partially during the day, so I ended up taking some personal time off to do it.
(Actually, you can do an awful lot even without root access. I've built a fairly comfortable environment on a bare Solaris box, including gcc, emacs, vim, Tcl/Tk, CVS, blackbox (because otherwise I would have been stuck with Exceed's godawful window handling), and many other utilities, and root was not required for any of that. There's a reason such things as PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH exist.)
Same here. When I went from Linux to Solaris I cursed it up and down for not having any of the bells and whistles that Linux had. "What? No bash!?!" But over the years it made me appreciate a stripped-down unix, and compiling stuff from scratch. Now unfortunately I'm a little too obsessed, and once in a while try to install the bare-bare-bare-minimum Solaris install while still being able to run X and install GCC. It's really difficult (for me anyway).
There seems to be a lot of 'you don't need root access' replies. I'd go so far as to say 'avoid root access if you can,' especially in a politically volatile environment. You'll get less blame when something goes wrong, and you can relax while they take care of the system patching, managing its network connectivity, disk space, etc.
Working on a non-root server feels weird at first if you've run your own box for a long time, but other than the inability to listen on ports 1024 and a few minor resource restrictions, you should be better off. Coexisting on someone else's server can even make you very conscientious and more likely to keep a tidy server.
Also, if you have to ask the administrator to upload files every time you change them, and you find yourself making many changes, ask yourself if you are doing too many updates because you don't have a proper test/dev/stage environment (if not, shame on you!). If not, maybe a compromise could be made to script a bulk site transfer from stage to production that you could control.
I'm on the board of directors at a Buddhist center, and we have discussed distributing audio and video recordings of our teachings. The major barrier to doing something like this (especially for free to the community) is cost. I haven't brought up BT yet, but I probably will soon.
My biggest concern of course is the inevitable take-down notice we'll 'accidentally' get. We're a non-profit with no money for legal folks, and slightly techophobic directors, so the possibility of legal threats could prevent this.
Oh snap!
...a story about effects of el niño on earthquakes within the next 6 months.
I'm a Mac user, and this made me shrug. The next version of OSX due out (early next year I think) has this feature built-in. What's neat is it's integrated into the OS, and the APIs are exposed, so developers can easily take advantage of it.
As I tend to keep my wallet in my front pocket, I have been on a constant quest for the thinest wallet possible, and containing as little as necessary. Two credit cards, drivers license, and that's it. I carry my money in a money clip.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" not "Congress shall tear down religious symbols wherever it may annoy citizens."
Allowing a court house to have the 10 commandments in front of it is hardly passing a law respecting or prohibiting the free exercise of religion. This is called "Freedom of Religion" people. The right to actually have a religion.
Sure putting a 10 commandments in front of a court isn't passing a law, but it's dangerously close. Even if the 10 commandments aren't used in court, is implies an endorsement of one particular set of religious laws by our court and our laws of justice. It subtly tells Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus that while you're here, you're going to be judged by christians, and therefore you're at a disadvantage. It's intimidating.
Let's turn the situation around. Atzanteol, if you found yourself in a part of the country where a mayor somehow happened to be a liberal (not fundamentalist) Muslim, and you got a speeding ticket. On your way into the courthouse you passed a big decorative plaque that simply listed Muslim laws. What would you think? How would you feel?
Besides, nowhere in the bible can I find anything that says "any country needs to have the 10 commandments out in front of a courthouse." I never understood how putting the 10 commandments in a public courthouse could be equated to practicing freedom of religion.