BTW, the "trouser filling" ibook screen spanning hack does, in fact, work. And it works very well. The only down sides are that I have a low VRAM model ibook (16Meg) and screen spanning appears to disable quartz extreme, even with the 8MB hack thing applied as well; that I can't drive 1600x1200 at anything more than 60Hz, although I do get 1280x1024x75Hz so that's fine; and that when I connect the monitor in the morning it sometimes seems to forget that I like to run at 1280x1024 with the menu bar on the CRT. I think this may be caused by hooking in the monitor while it's powered off, but I've yet to be sufficiently concerned to get all scientific about it.
All new ibooks have twice as much video memory and probably wouldn't suffer from the QE disabling, so... personally... I don't really see the point in the 12" Powerbook if you have the will to apply the hack to an ibook and save yourself a wheel barrow full of money.
BTW, I'm typing this screen spanned onto a Sony 19" that has a USB hub in the base. I have a cheap as chips USB keyboard (windows key maps to apple/command, alt to option and ctrl to ctrl) and a standard PC optical mouse hooked into that and when I arrive in the morning I just hook in the usb and monitor connectors and we're away. The ibook's touchpad and keyboard remain active - the only thing that isn't completely duplicated is that I still only have one mouse pointer. It's really *really* cool, and I'm very impressed.
Thank you, at least somebody got it fucking right.
Software doesn't have to crash, but for a given quantity of development resources there's a fairly simple tradeoff between feature-richness and stability.
You want reliable? Strip back features left right and centre, design an elegant architecture, then unit test properly.
Dave (in a ranty mood)
Re:So when do we get a working debugger for g++?
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Nightmare, isn't it. Last time I was developing actually on Linux (a couple of months back) I had a treasured RH7.3 install with KDE. The stock GCC was a pretty mature 2.x series and hence worked well with the debugger, which in turn worked well with KDevelop.
Final builds were done by changing the path to the compiler in the makefile over to the GCC du jour. Or even icc.
Since then I've been on a bit of a portability drive and have been working on an Apple - which is OK, but a notch short of perfect.
Anyway, I'd find yourself an RH7.3 disk if I were you.
SVG exposes it's object hierarchy to the web pages' scripting engine. Ahhh, the DOM or something, I'm not really cool enough for all that. So anything that can be scripted on a web page, can be scripted onto an SVG.
Last time I looked Adobe had some pretty clever SVG demos, but last time I looked was about mid 2000 and widescale support for SVG has conspicuously failed to appear.
Laa laa laa, Betamax vs VHS, NextStep vs Windows, Objective-C vs Java.... you know the score.
Australian ones (actually New Zealand in my case, but we use the same plugs) are overpoweringly stupid. Not as bad as the US ones, but stupid all the same.
The two live pins are at the top of the socket. This means that when a toddler stands on the cable, as she tends to extremely often, the two live pins are exposed with a gap just the right size for an inquisitive toddler finger. Stupid fuckers, having me running round duct taping all the power plugs to the wall.
The UK sockets are the tits. Best designed in the world. For a start the "garage doors" onto the live pins don't even open until the earth pin is in. Then by the time the live pins are touching inside the socket, the only exposed bits are plastic. Totally toddler proof AND they don't fall out.
Yeah, that was it. I never had it corrupt on me, but I did have to write a com component that used it for something once. It struck me as actually being far more sensible than the registry - supporting inheritance, for instance, and being a damn slight faster.
I managed to avoid the com+ thing entirely, and similarly fancy my chances of avoiding.net. If I have to code for windows these days I try to avoid going further than the API - down to the metal baby, yeah!
Last year all configuration was being held in Active Directory. The year before that all configuration was being held in the registry (I can't remember the name of the IIS specific registry thing to rant about it). The year before that we were all supposed to be using.ini files and on each occasion the Microsoft developer wankfest assured us that "THIS IS IT!!!".
What is wrong with the world? It's almost like there's a constant torrent of naive Microsoft fanboys dropping into the workforce under the impression they're software engineers.
Lest we forget, the last time an Earth-bound crew were returning from space their orbiter disintegrated and all seven astronauts were killed.
Exactly. At least the Russian built re-entry vehicle was mechanically able to take it. It's like it just sat back and said "five G, nine G - same difference, let's just get white hot today rather than red" and took it like a man.
...all of which is correct. The other thing that happens is that windows which are "below" in the Z order or have been moved partially off screen retain a buffer with their contents. Moving them back up the Z order or back onto the screen does not require a repaint from the application.
Doesn't bother me, really. I click through three or four boxes that say "you're joining the queue with 350 other lamers" and two hours later the download starts. SFW? Play Ut2k3, netsurf, email some old friends, sometimes I even go outside.
Dave
Re:SSH is my preference
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You have no idea of the circumstances, preparation, precautions or anything else about the event
True, except that was was accompanied by at least one picture driving into Auckland - that, to be honest, I could have *sworn* claimed to have been taken at 180K.
More over, how does one picture of a single event have any bearing at all on my knowledge or anything else other than the event itself?
It was on the website referenced in your public information on slashdot. The site's tagline is "Korgan's news ramblings". You use the same nick both here and on de-generationx. The section of the site was called "Korgan's pics". It does seem to imply some form of ownership.
Who are you to judge me?... Is this honestly the best place to even have this discussion?
Quite. Look, it was late, I was interested in VPN's and unable to sleep. I remembered that there was an ask slashdot on the subject, that SSH appeared to be the best way to go, and that someone who knew what they were doing was (also) a Kiwi.
I was *really* disappointed to find that you're at least by implication one of the worst offending boy racers, a breed I have very little time for due to their propensity to kill random people. Of course, like being drunk, I regretted it later and realised I should have just let it lie - so I offer my unreserved apologies.
And no, this isn't the best place to have the discussion. I couldn't find an email address anywhere.
Dave
Re:SSH is my preference
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this is fucking disgraceful, man. How do you equate driving like a cunt with knowing about VPN's? I just don't get it.
I went to read the article but couldn't. A big, red flash animation sat across my screen and blocked it off. Oh well, another domain I won't be visiting again... fuckwits.
Dave
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We're talking five days ago, mind. So don't feel so bad:)
Two things of interest: 1, The driver is a result of via and Alan Cox working together. 2, Alan has been using an epia as his main box, and I quote: "I have two boxes with the relevant hardware. One of them is my desktop box and I've been running the driver as my main desktop for a couple of weeks now."
Similar: You have one minute to tell me as many ways as possible of killing someone with a doorknob.
No answer -> No hire. A couple of answers -> Maybe, depends. Someone who keeps going for the full minute -> Have security escourt them from the building.
It seems pretty clear to me that Apple is holding their iBook line back, limiting them to G3s, to encourage sales of their pro laptops.
And? What're they supposed to do? The iBook you have sitting on your desk is *so* close to being a 12" powerbook - if they dropped a G4 in it, or bumped it to 1GHz then they'd never sell the PB's.
In my opinion (owner of a recent 700Mhz iBook), I'd hang on to it until the 970 based powerbooks start showing up. I expect we'll see a flood of G4's coming down to the iBook then - but it'll be at least a year:(
Two reasons. 4gig limit, only 2 can actually be used, this is starting to become a real problem blah de blah de blah.
The more subtle one is that the x86 instruction set is as broken as a broken thing, as we all know, and x86-64 goes some way to fixing that. Particularly in terms of having more registers.
The big danger of ftpfs and similar jollies is that it has no way of file locking. Or writing to/reading from a random place in a file, but that's minor compared to the locking issue.
I solved it by (warning, I'm turning into a fanboy now) buying an ibook and rsync'ing across to the server whenever practical.
Slashdot Mirror
BTW, the "trouser filling" ibook screen spanning hack does, in fact, work. And it works very well. The only down sides are that I have a low VRAM model ibook (16Meg) and screen spanning appears to disable quartz extreme, even with the 8MB hack thing applied as well; that I can't drive 1600x1200 at anything more than 60Hz, although I do get 1280x1024x75Hz so that's fine; and that when I connect the monitor in the morning it sometimes seems to forget that I like to run at 1280x1024 with the menu bar on the CRT. I think this may be caused by hooking in the monitor while it's powered off, but I've yet to be sufficiently concerned to get all scientific about it.
... personally ... I don't really see the point in the 12" Powerbook if you have the will to apply the hack to an ibook and save yourself a wheel barrow full of money.
All new ibooks have twice as much video memory and probably wouldn't suffer from the QE disabling, so
BTW, I'm typing this screen spanned onto a Sony 19" that has a USB hub in the base. I have a cheap as chips USB keyboard (windows key maps to apple/command, alt to option and ctrl to ctrl) and a standard PC optical mouse hooked into that and when I arrive in the morning I just hook in the usb and monitor connectors and we're away. The ibook's touchpad and keyboard remain active - the only thing that isn't completely duplicated is that I still only have one mouse pointer. It's really *really* cool, and I'm very impressed.
Dave
Sure, but it is relevant for enforcing them. Presumably that's the point?
Dave
OS X is very stable. I reboot my iBook whever there's an OS upgrade, otherwise it just isn't necessary - just shut the lid when you're done with it.
Dave
Thank you, at least somebody got it fucking right.
Software doesn't have to crash, but for a given quantity of development resources there's a fairly simple tradeoff between feature-richness and stability.
You want reliable? Strip back features left right and centre, design an elegant architecture, then unit test properly.
Dave (in a ranty mood)
Nightmare, isn't it. Last time I was developing actually on Linux (a couple of months back) I had a treasured RH7.3 install with KDE. The stock GCC was a pretty mature 2.x series and hence worked well with the debugger, which in turn worked well with KDevelop.
Final builds were done by changing the path to the compiler in the makefile over to the GCC du jour. Or even icc.
Since then I've been on a bit of a portability drive and have been working on an Apple - which is OK, but a notch short of perfect.
Anyway, I'd find yourself an RH7.3 disk if I were you.
Dave
Short, correct, to the point. Where are my mod points when I need them.
Dave
SVG exposes it's object hierarchy to the web pages' scripting engine. Ahhh, the DOM or something, I'm not really cool enough for all that. So anything that can be scripted on a web page, can be scripted onto an SVG.
.... you know the score.
Last time I looked Adobe had some pretty clever SVG demos, but last time I looked was about mid 2000 and widescale support for SVG has conspicuously failed to appear.
Laa laa laa, Betamax vs VHS, NextStep vs Windows, Objective-C vs Java
Dave
Australian ones (actually New Zealand in my case, but we use the same plugs) are overpoweringly stupid. Not as bad as the US ones, but stupid all the same.
The two live pins are at the top of the socket. This means that when a toddler stands on the cable, as she tends to extremely often, the two live pins are exposed with a gap just the right size for an inquisitive toddler finger. Stupid fuckers, having me running round duct taping all the power plugs to the wall.
The UK sockets are the tits. Best designed in the world. For a start the "garage doors" onto the live pins don't even open until the earth pin is in. Then by the time the live pins are touching inside the socket, the only exposed bits are plastic. Totally toddler proof AND they don't fall out.
Dave
Yeah, that was it. I never had it corrupt on me, but I did have to write a com component that used it for something once. It struck me as actually being far more sensible than the registry - supporting inheritance, for instance, and being a damn slight faster.
.net. If I have to code for windows these days I try to avoid going further than the API - down to the metal baby, yeah!
I managed to avoid the com+ thing entirely, and similarly fancy my chances of avoiding
Dave
Fabulous.
.Net."
.ini files and on each occasion the Microsoft developer wankfest assured us that "THIS IS IT!!!".
"In contrast, XML permeates every corner of
Last year all configuration was being held in Active Directory. The year before that all configuration was being held in the registry (I can't remember the name of the IIS specific registry thing to rant about it). The year before that we were all supposed to be using
What is wrong with the world? It's almost like there's a constant torrent of naive Microsoft fanboys dropping into the workforce under the impression they're software engineers.
Dave
Lest we forget, the last time an Earth-bound crew were returning from space their orbiter disintegrated and all seven astronauts were killed.
Exactly. At least the Russian built re-entry vehicle was mechanically able to take it. It's like it just sat back and said "five G, nine G - same difference, let's just get white hot today rather than red" and took it like a man.
Dave
MPEG-2, hands down.
Dave
...all of which is correct. The other thing that happens is that windows which are "below" in the Z order or have been moved partially off screen retain a buffer with their contents. Moving them back up the Z order or back onto the screen does not require a repaint from the application.
Dave
Doesn't bother me, really. I click through three or four boxes that say "you're joining the queue with 350 other lamers" and two hours later the download starts. SFW? Play Ut2k3, netsurf, email some old friends, sometimes I even go outside.
Dave
You have no idea of the circumstances, preparation, precautions or anything else about the event
... Is this honestly the best place to even have this discussion?
True, except that was was accompanied by at least one picture driving into Auckland - that, to be honest, I could have *sworn* claimed to have been taken at 180K.
More over, how does one picture of a single event have any bearing at all on my knowledge or anything else other than the event itself?
It was on the website referenced in your public information on slashdot. The site's tagline is "Korgan's news ramblings". You use the same nick both here and on de-generationx. The section of the site was called "Korgan's pics". It does seem to imply some form of ownership.
Who are you to judge me?
Quite. Look, it was late, I was interested in VPN's and unable to sleep. I remembered that there was an ask slashdot on the subject, that SSH appeared to be the best way to go, and that someone who knew what they were doing was (also) a Kiwi.
I was *really* disappointed to find that you're at least by implication one of the worst offending boy racers, a breed I have very little time for due to their propensity to kill random people. Of course, like being drunk, I regretted it later and realised I should have just let it lie - so I offer my unreserved apologies.
And no, this isn't the best place to have the discussion. I couldn't find an email address anywhere.
Dave
this is fucking disgraceful, man. How do you equate driving like a cunt with knowing about VPN's? I just don't get it.
:(
Dave
I went to read the article but couldn't. A big, red flash animation sat across my screen and blocked it off. Oh well, another domain I won't be visiting again ... fuckwits.
Dave
There's a castlerock driver in xfree 86. Now. Finally.
:)
We're talking five days ago, mind. So don't feel so bad
Two things of interest:
1, The driver is a result of via and Alan Cox working together.
2, Alan has been using an epia as his main box, and I quote:
"I have two boxes with the relevant hardware. One of them is my desktop box and I've been running the driver as my main desktop for a couple of weeks now."
Seal of approval, if ever I saw one.
Dave
I'm not sure about being a Cyrix leftover. The new (shiny) nehemiah core is a Centaur/IDT Win-Chip left over, and performs about 20% better.
Dave
Similar: You have one minute to tell me as many ways as possible of killing someone with a doorknob.
No answer -> No hire.
A couple of answers -> Maybe, depends.
Someone who keeps going for the full minute -> Have security escourt them from the building.
Dave
"Son, you have 30 seconds to piss me off."
"No"
Dave
It seems pretty clear to me that Apple is holding their iBook line back, limiting them to G3s, to encourage sales of their pro laptops.
:(
And? What're they supposed to do? The iBook you have sitting on your desk is *so* close to being a 12" powerbook - if they dropped a G4 in it, or bumped it to 1GHz then they'd never sell the PB's.
In my opinion (owner of a recent 700Mhz iBook), I'd hang on to it until the 970 based powerbooks start showing up. I expect we'll see a flood of G4's coming down to the iBook then - but it'll be at least a year
Dave
Fucking breathtaking, innit. Made all the worse by being prefixed with "codewizard asks".
Two reasons. 4gig limit, only 2 can actually be used, this is starting to become a real problem blah de blah de blah.
The more subtle one is that the x86 instruction set is as broken as a broken thing, as we all know, and x86-64 goes some way to fixing that. Particularly in terms of having more registers.
Dave
The big danger of ftpfs and similar jollies is that it has no way of file locking. Or writing to/reading from a random place in a file, but that's minor compared to the locking issue.
I solved it by (warning, I'm turning into a fanboy now) buying an ibook and rsync'ing across to the server whenever practical.
Dave