Compaq/Digital actually had developers working at Microsoft (and just down the road in Bellevue) to port NT. IBM did the same "developer lending" for the NT on PPC.
I've always wondered how difficult it would be to embed the Perl engine into the Linux kernel. Then people could use people to write their device drivers. Most device drivers just slice and dice data streams, which is exactly what Perl is great at doing!
While not quite a PerlOS, some Perl Mongers are rewriting the classic Unix commands in Perl. It's called the Perl Power Tools: The Unix Reconstruction Project. Many Unix commands, like more, ls, grep... use C to dangerously reimplement functionality that is already in Perl. Using Perl would put an end to buffer overruns and other accidents in Unix commands, improving security.
But will Compaq still support NT on Intel x86?
on
Ixnay WinNT on Alpha
·
· Score: 1
Will Compaq dare to stop supporting Windows and NT on x86? Probably not, too much of a cash cow. Why would they bother to stop supporting NT on Alpha? If Compaq/Digital stops supporting NT on Alpha, then they will piss off The Giant (Microsoft). Considering that Compaq sells (hmm.. lets see) x86 and Alpha computers, will Microsoft still help Compaq sell Windows on x86? Seems like Compaq is risking losing Windows $$$ on both its Alpha and x86 product lines!
I've ordered books from Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and Buy.com. Both Barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com had great customer service. I will never buy anything from Buy.com again. I won't go into my sob tale, but they "lost" my order, shipped me the wrong (and damaged) books, and then my books didn't arrive for 30 days. Their customer service people said they couldn't help, then told me order status info that conflicted with what their website's order status told me. Many times their customer service reps were so busy, I was transfered to a voice mail. Unfortunately, the voice mail box was full and refused to take my name+number. be-otches..
I now buy books and music exclusively from Barnesandnoble.com. I would use Amazon except I live in WA state, so I would have to pay sales tax. Also, Amazon just started selling short films online, competing with the startup company my girlfriend works for (AtomFilms.com).
The Gnome and KDE people have made some great strides in bring a more usable GUI to X. However, they seem to fall into the same problem: "improvements" via 3D, translucent, bitmapped windows. Does this stuff help anyone? Yes, some themes are easy on the eyes, but most are glaring. The Mosfet/KDE interview does mention some of the cool CORBA plumbing in KDE 2.0, but will that make my computer user to use?
This seems to be a common problem with open source projects. Everyone wants the "glory" and that comes from either whiz-bangy graphics or sexy low-level code. These things only indirectly help Regular Users. They don't improve usability. sigh..
In a perfect world, Linux wouldn't crash when it runs of memory/swap. Unfortunately, there are (some) bugs in the Linux 2.2.x kernel where developers forget to check for memory allocation failures. For example, many device drivers call kmalloc() or get_free_page() without checking whether the returned pointer is NULL. These functions can return NULL, but will only do so under extreme stress. If these unchecked NULL pointers are used in the code, then BOOM!! I've reported these bugs to their owners. Alan Cox fixed a bunch for Linux 2.2.11, but some other developers didn't care, claiming the kmalloc() would "never" return NULL. If Linux is going to be taken seriously as an "enterprise-ready" OS, can Linux developers really have such a not-my-problem attitude to bugs?
BTW, I've scanned the FreeBSD 3.1 source code with the same lint script and found ZERO unchecked malloc() calls. Linux 2.2.10 had a couple dozen...
If you get IPO shares and flip them in less than 30 days, your broker will probably not let you in on future IPOs (unless you have a super-phat account with them).
IBM and SGI are great R&D companies, but have lossy marketing and market positioning. IBM has been positioning AIX as a stable web server, but they are also jumping all over the Linux bandwagon. IBM is also helping SCO (and others) to create Monterey, the "new Unix". What is IBM trying to do here? IBM has great technology, but seems be have the big-company-syndrome where the right-hand doesn't know what the left-hand is doing/saying. IBM is just confusing its customers (and itself) by pushing so many different operating systems.
In college, I worked as a DJ at the college radio station. I wanted to do something other than just code all day. The guy/girl ratio was 50/50. After college, I work so much now that meeting anyone (men or women friends) is increasingly difficult. I've found that making time to take classes helps a lot. I've taken beginning art classes from the local community college for fun, to use that other side of my coder brain. You meet people from very different backgrounds and ~70% of them are women! If you want to meet people/women, you need to make the time and get out in the "Blue Room" once in a while!;-D
I have Outlook 2000 and IE5 on my NT4 dev machine. IE5 rudely installs Outlook Express (OE5) without asking. When I try to uninstall OE5, it warns that uninstalling OE5 will break Outlook! I uninstalled it any ways (stupid) and Outlook died. sigh.. Why would the new Outlook 2000 require old OE5? They problem share some mail DLLs, but why can't OE5 Uninstall ref-count those DLLs and leave them on the machine when necessary??!!!
"Windows DLLs: Threat or Menace?". If you write Win32 apps, I highly recommend you read this article. In a nutshell, it recommends that you statically link to libraries and do not use DLLs (because of their headaches and versioning problems).
The Windows 2000 server must be getting much more attention than the LinuxPPC server, so we aren't exactly comparing oranges and apples (macintoshes?). Of course, the LinuxPPC server has more service ports open and a well-known root password.:-) The web server at windows2000test.com is offline. The server responds to pings, but IIS doesn't serve any pages..
I used to work as a software tester for Win32 applications. I was wondering what OS/platform your company uses for your medical software? What kind of test tools do you use? Did you use off-the-shelf test tools or custom tools? My team had access to cool tools like Purify and BoundsChecker, but nobody (but me) cared about the results. Part of the whole "Let's just ship this sucker" attitude.
No, but a Y2K test in Los Angeles caused 3.5 million gallons of raw sewage to flood a city park. During the test, a pipe door did not properly close. What does the current date or year have to do with closing a door? As a computer programmer, I haven't the foggiest idea. but it still happened!
I live near Seattle and can attest that there were huge thunderstorms earlier today. At my work, we nearly lost power a couple times. I'm not sure how bad weather would affect just their router and not their server, though..
True, just because we do not need computers or the Internet does not make them bad. We just don't need them to physically survive. That is why we see advertisements for them. That was my main point. The difference between a TV and Web advertising is tricky. Yahoo does exist to show us banner ads or to help us search the web? Both, but whether Yahoo's services are better or more useful than TV's "services" is probably a personal value judgment. I find the Web is more educational and mentally engaging than TV, and and physically less hypnotic.
Here's the raw URL. Slashdot seems to be eating embedded HREFs.
eye-tracking studies find that users never even see the ads
click-through rates dropping from 2% to 0.5% in a few years
sales data from many sites showing that they usually don't sell a lot to those few users who do click through - paying customers usually arrive in other ways
My friend works for KPFK, a public news radio station in LA. I hung out at their station last week and I actually wrote a few of their on-air stories!:-) They asked me to just rewrite some Reuters stories that came off the wire. I was supposed to rewrite every sentence so it was simply: . We couldn't assume the audience could follow anything more complicated. (BTW, the Reuters writers must be really rushed because their writing SUX.)
Television is a one-way hypnosis machine turning out nation into yuppie zombies. Television shows are just a way get people to watch commercials. The medium is owned by advertisers, looking out for their best interests, not your kids'. Check out Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television for elaboration.
Commercials and Advertisements are only for unnecessary items. If you need the item, you would go out and find it. Advertisers must create an artificial desire or need for something that you have no need for. Do you see more TV commercials for Coke or for water? You need water to live, you don't need Coke to live. Do you see more TV commercials for Doublemint gum or for vegetables? You need vegetables to live, you don't need Doublemint gum to live.
I work as a developer for a company (not Microsoft) that writes Windows CE apps and dev tools. I haven't done any CE network programming, but I've seen what's there. CE supports practically all the network protocols that NT does, including IP, TCP, UDP, PPP, RAS, and more.
Slashdot Mirror
I would consider that cheating. Uptime is only uptime.
Compaq/Digital actually had developers working at Microsoft (and just down the road in Bellevue) to port NT. IBM did the same "developer lending" for the NT on PPC.
metaspy.com to find out what searches other people are running on metacrawler.com. There are both censored and uncensored version of metaspy. ;-)
I've always wondered how difficult it would be to embed the Perl engine into the Linux kernel. Then people could use people to write their device drivers. Most device drivers just slice and dice data streams, which is exactly what Perl is great at doing!
While not quite a PerlOS, some Perl Mongers are rewriting the classic Unix commands in Perl. It's called the Perl Power Tools:
The Unix Reconstruction Project. Many Unix commands, like more, ls, grep... use C to dangerously reimplement functionality that is already in Perl. Using Perl would put an end to buffer overruns and other accidents in Unix commands, improving security.
Will Compaq dare to stop supporting Windows and NT on x86? Probably not, too much of a cash cow. Why would they bother to stop supporting NT on Alpha? If Compaq/Digital stops supporting NT on Alpha, then they will piss off The Giant (Microsoft). Considering that Compaq sells (hmm.. lets see) x86 and Alpha computers, will Microsoft still help Compaq sell Windows on x86? Seems like Compaq is risking losing Windows $$$ on both its Alpha and x86 product lines!
I've ordered books from Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and Buy.com. Both Barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com had great customer service. I will never buy anything from Buy.com again. I won't go into my sob tale, but they "lost" my order, shipped me the wrong (and damaged) books, and then my books didn't arrive for 30 days. Their customer service people said they couldn't help, then told me order status info that conflicted with what their website's order status told me. Many times their customer service reps were so busy, I was transfered to a voice mail. Unfortunately, the voice mail box was full and refused to take my name+number. be-otches..
I now buy books and music exclusively from Barnesandnoble.com. I would use Amazon except I live in WA state, so I would have to pay sales tax. Also, Amazon just started selling short films online, competing with the startup company my girlfriend works for (AtomFilms.com).
The Gnome and KDE people have made some great strides in bring a more usable GUI to X. However, they seem to fall into the same problem: "improvements" via 3D, translucent, bitmapped windows. Does this stuff help anyone? Yes, some themes are easy on the eyes, but most are glaring. The Mosfet/KDE interview does mention some of the cool CORBA plumbing in KDE 2.0, but will that make my computer user to use?
This seems to be a common problem with open source projects. Everyone wants the "glory" and that comes from either whiz-bangy graphics or sexy low-level code. These things only indirectly help Regular Users. They don't improve usability. sigh..
In a perfect world, Linux wouldn't crash when it runs of memory/swap. Unfortunately, there are (some) bugs in the Linux 2.2.x kernel where developers forget to check for memory allocation failures. For example, many device drivers call kmalloc() or get_free_page() without checking whether the returned pointer is NULL. These functions can return NULL, but will only do so under extreme stress. If these unchecked NULL pointers are used in the code, then BOOM!! I've reported these bugs to their owners. Alan Cox fixed a bunch for Linux 2.2.11, but some other developers didn't care, claiming the kmalloc() would "never" return NULL. If Linux is going to be taken seriously as an "enterprise-ready" OS, can Linux developers really have such a not-my-problem attitude to bugs?
BTW, I've scanned the FreeBSD 3.1 source code with the same lint script and found ZERO unchecked malloc() calls. Linux 2.2.10 had a couple dozen...
If you get IPO shares and flip them in less than 30 days, your broker will probably not let you in on future IPOs (unless you have a super-phat account with them).
IBM and SGI are great R&D companies, but have lossy marketing and market positioning. IBM has been positioning AIX as a stable web server, but they are also jumping all over the Linux bandwagon. IBM is also helping SCO (and others) to create Monterey, the "new Unix". What is IBM trying to do here? IBM has great technology, but seems be have the big-company-syndrome where the right-hand doesn't know what the left-hand is doing/saying. IBM is just confusing its customers (and itself) by pushing so many different operating systems.
In college, I worked as a DJ at the college radio station. I wanted to do something other than just code all day. The guy/girl ratio was 50/50. After college, I work so much now that meeting anyone (men or women friends) is increasingly difficult. I've found that making time to take classes helps a lot. I've taken beginning art classes from the local community college for fun, to use that other side of my coder brain. You meet people from very different backgrounds and ~70% of them are women! If you want to meet people/women, you need to make the time and get out in the "Blue Room" once in a while! ;-D
I have Outlook 2000 and IE5 on my NT4 dev machine. IE5 rudely installs Outlook Express (OE5) without asking. When I try to uninstall OE5, it warns that uninstalling OE5 will break Outlook! I uninstalled it any ways (stupid) and Outlook died. sigh.. Why would the new Outlook 2000 require old OE5? They problem share some mail DLLs, but why can't OE5 Uninstall ref-count those DLLs and leave them on the machine when necessary??!!!
"Windows DLLs: Threat or Menace?". If you write Win32 apps, I highly recommend you read this article. In a nutshell, it recommends that you statically link to libraries and do not use DLLs (because of their headaches and versioning problems).
So VB5 would (apparently) support VB4 files, but not VB3.
The Windows 2000 server must be getting much more attention than the LinuxPPC server, so we aren't exactly comparing oranges and apples (macintoshes?). Of course, the LinuxPPC server has more service ports open and a well-known root password. :-) The web server at windows2000test.com is offline. The server responds to pings, but IIS doesn't serve any pages..
I used to work as a software tester for Win32 applications. I was wondering what OS/platform your company uses for your medical software? What kind of test tools do you use? Did you use off-the-shelf test tools or custom tools? My team had access to cool tools like Purify and BoundsChecker, but nobody (but me) cared about the results. Part of the whole "Let's just ship this sucker" attitude.
No, but a Y2K test in Los Angeles caused 3.5 million gallons of raw sewage to flood a city park. During the test, a pipe door did not properly close. What does the current date or year have to do with closing a door? As a computer programmer, I haven't the foggiest idea. but it still happened!
I live near Seattle and can attest that there were huge thunderstorms earlier today. At my work, we nearly lost power a couple times. I'm not sure how bad weather would affect just their router and not their server, though..
Is this what Microsoft means when they say Windows NT is "Enterprise Ready"?
(just kidding ;-)
4 2/o/qid=932502842/sr=8-1/002-4863845-62408 34
;-)
True, just because we do not need computers or the Internet does not make them bad. We just don't need them to physically survive. That is why we see advertisements for them. That was my main point. The difference between a TV and Web advertising is tricky. Yahoo does exist to show us banner ads or to help us search the web? Both, but whether Yahoo's services are better or more useful than TV's "services" is probably a personal value judgment. I find the Web is more educational and mentally engaging than TV, and and physically less hypnotic.
Here's the raw URL. Slashdot seems to be eating embedded HREFs.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/06880827
BTW, I never said drugs were bad.
My friend works for KPFK, a public news radio station in LA. I hung out at their station last week and I actually wrote a few of their on-air stories! :-) They asked me to just rewrite some Reuters stories that came off the wire. I was supposed to rewrite every sentence so it was simply: . We couldn't assume the audience could follow anything more complicated. (BTW, the Reuters writers must be really rushed because their writing SUX.)
Television is a one-way hypnosis machine turning out nation into yuppie zombies. Television shows are just a way get people to watch commercials. The medium is owned by advertisers, looking out for their best interests, not your kids'. Check out Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television for elaboration.
Commercials and Advertisements are only for unnecessary items. If you need the item, you would go out and find it. Advertisers must create an artificial desire or need for something that you have no need for. Do you see more TV commercials for Coke or for water? You need water to live, you don't need Coke to live. Do you see more TV commercials for Doublemint gum or for vegetables? You need vegetables to live, you don't need Doublemint gum to live.
If the decrease in viewing time of 13% is 1 hour, then 1 hour / 0.13 = ~7.69 hours total. That is, 13% of 8 hours is 1.04 hours.
I work as a developer for a company (not Microsoft) that writes Windows CE apps and dev tools. I haven't done any CE network programming, but I've seen what's there. CE supports practically all the network protocols that NT does, including IP, TCP, UDP, PPP, RAS, and more.