Fink is great for working at home (snow days, sick kid, etc...). Using SSH provided by Apple, I can export my X display from my sun boxes at work and then use Fink's X server for the local display. I have also used Dia from Fink as well.
Although, you kinda illustrate my point. If I accepted your offer (not likely!) I think I would need to go to a hospital for treatment and file a police report - neither of which I can do online!
In an ironic twist, using your +1 bonus makes my lame attempt at humor more visible.
My question is why should I have to look at ugly websites just so that the handi-scrappers that might happen by can waste their time as well? They already get all of the good parking spaces, must we give them a leg up on the web as well?
The same type of results happen with a search for perl on both engines. Google returns perl.com, CPAN, perl mongers, etc... while SearchKing has none of these (just some $$$$ stuff).
I agree with the part of PHP being proud of the wrong thing and embedding business logic within the presentation logic. Of course, you could use The Smarty Template Engine to do some of the work that the Template Toolkit does.
Regarding the VWM and Space: you might want to check out Virtual Desktop . Its not free in any sense (except for a trial/limited functionality version - 2 desktops only) but seems to be worth the price compared to what Space offers for free. Of course, when space gets a few versions older, Virtual Desktop might not be so far ahead.
Actually, it does have have vim (but not gvim) and emacs (but not xemacs) if that is not quibbing too much with your critique.
But generally I agree, the shell could be improved. One of the other things that I used to miss was virtual desktops, but now with Space even that complaint is fading.
Fink has also done a lot for eliminating any need to boot into a true "Linux" including adding xwindows in rootless mode so that a remote display can be exported to appear on the mac.
Mr. Perens might be trying a similar tactic to Professor Felton. As you recall, Felton essentially tricked the evil doers into sending him a threatening letter which he then tried (unsuccessfully) to use as a basis of prior restraint.
Looks like Mr. Perens might be able to make a better case for prior restraint now.
Or maybe he caved, as most of us do that have to live and work in the real world.
I think the heterogenus hardware enviroment that linux supports (and this is a big plus, don't ya know) makes your supposition very unlikely. Just as it is unlikely that a OS X or Darwin for x86 machines will really take off for "Joe Average". Apple's big advantage is complete control over their homogenus hardware enviroment, which makes designing/implementing the desktop much easier.
Your second question is very interesting, depending on who you mean by "we". Personally, I think its great to have a mass market unix selling millions of machines to "Joe Average". I just don't think linux needs to be that unix.
DISCLAIMER:
Machines at work - sparcs running solaris and x86 running linux
Machine at home - Mac G3 running OS X
favorite/most productive for development - the Mac
This is so true. I am java programmer, but wanted to learn a scripting language (and perl looks like line noise to me - my fault as I am weak on regular expressions) so I started in on Python. I have noticed that the same program implemented in Python is about 20% shorter than its java equivalent. Plus I seem to get a working program faster since I am not chasing ()'s and {}'s and semicolons. I am now using python to prototype apps (Jython if a gui is needed) and the implementing the same app in java once the design is stable. (I do the same thing with PHP/JSP, but that is a different story).
Java Example
for (int i =0; i < 10; i++) {
System.out.print(i); } System.out.print("Done");
Python Example
num = range(10) for i in num:
print i print ("Done")
Trivial example, but I think it illustrates the relative simplicity of the syntax ( and not the shorter amount of code). For those not familiar with python, the whitespace is significant and indicates the logical groupings just a pseudocode would do. Using python, the students could focus on concepts, but still have code that worked (and does some damn powerful stuff to boot!).
Aqua is not necessarily slower than KDE or Gnome. It all depends on the hardware (obviously). I have a Sunblade at work and alternate between KDE and Gnome (cause CDE sucks!) but given a choice, I would use a new G4 anyday. KDE and Gnome on Sun hardward are seriously slow, much more so than the imac os x machine I am using to post this comment.
Given all that, I agree with you. The answer to the question KDE or Gnome is AQUA!
Postgres has java drivers that ship with the current default distribution. They do require an extra step to configure, but it is not very difficult and you only need to do it once.
You could also use either the Gemini table handler or the InnoDB table handler to give MySQL the transaction abilities you need.
Re:It's Like Most Bandwagons...
on
Web Services
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Funny you mention that. Below is the text of an email I just received from oreilly. I guess you can't hop up on that wagon fast enough (too bad the stepstool is so bloody expensive).
Planning for Web Services is a new report from O'Reilly Research,
written by industry visionary Clay Shirky. This report guides
CTOs and CIOs through the inflated claims, competing standards,
and amalgam of acronyms to arrive at a realistic appraisal of
the business impact of Web Services. Topics include how Web
Services can replace EDI, who the major players are and what
they really offer, as well as the hurdles to implementing Web
Services today.
A must-read for anyone developing a Web Services business
strategy. $495
Save $100!
Just use code # wsrelj when ordering by phone
(800-998-9938 or 707-827-7000) or email
(order@oreilly.com) and you can get this
invaluable report for only $395.
Offer expires May 10, 2002
James Gosling (of sun and java fame) recently said he was switching to macs. To quote from the article, "And from a personal point of view, I personally actually read the [Windows] XP license and decided I couldn't sign it. So I've been shifting over to Mac. "
I understand that his reasons to switch involve licensing rather than hardward/cost/available software/etc, but I imagine that JG could pretty much run whatever he wanted without too much difficulty.
Yes, Virginia, I just bought a mac. It is fabulous (my other frequently used machines include a win 98 box, solaris 8 on both sparc and intel, and RedHat 7.2) and as advertised, it is unix with a gui that does not suck and hardware/software integration that just bloody works!
I was configuring a new sunblade the other day and the question arose, which was best KDE or Gnome? My vote -- AQUA;-} (Actually, I choose to install both but run KDE.)
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Fink is great for working at home (snow days, sick kid, etc...). Using SSH provided by Apple, I can export my X display from my sun boxes at work and then use Fink's X server for the local display. I have also used Dia from Fink as well.
There is something immensely satisfying about pulling up a terminal window on my OSX box and seeing ms office running as a process.
Although, you kinda illustrate my point. If I accepted your offer (not likely!) I think I would need to go to a hospital for treatment and file a police report - neither of which I can do online!
In an ironic twist, using your +1 bonus makes my lame attempt at humor more visible.
My question is why should I have to look at ugly websites just so that the handi-scrappers that might happen by can waste their time as well? They already get all of the good parking spaces, must we give them a leg up on the web as well?
Sorry to reply to my own post, but both are actually in Kentucky.
Indiana has both a "Beaver Lick Baptist Church" and a "Big Bone Lick State Park" along I64.
The same type of results happen with a search for perl on both engines. Google returns perl.com, CPAN, perl mongers, etc... while SearchKing has none of these (just some $$$$ stuff).
wait for it...
Your browser is wrong.
I agree with the part of PHP being proud of the wrong thing and embedding business logic within the presentation logic.
Of course, you could use The Smarty Template Engine to do some of the work that the Template Toolkit does.
Regarding the VWM and Space: you might want to check out Virtual Desktop . Its not free in any sense (except for a trial/limited functionality version - 2 desktops only) but seems to be worth the price compared to what Space offers for free. Of course, when space gets a few versions older, Virtual Desktop might not be so far ahead.
And my favorite...
loo vs. toilet
As a java developer, I prefer to call it D flat.
It does; it's called Viper.
Y
p (or P)
You can do the same thing with buffers if you wish to write several discrete sections to another file.
But generally I agree, the shell could be improved. One of the other things that I used to miss was virtual desktops, but now with Space even that complaint is fading.
Fink has also done a lot for eliminating any need to boot into a true "Linux" including adding xwindows in rootless mode so that a remote display can be exported to appear on the mac.
Looks like Mr. Perens might be able to make a better case for prior restraint now.
Or maybe he caved, as most of us do that have to live and work in the real world.
Your second question is very interesting, depending on who you mean by "we". Personally, I think its great to have a mass market unix selling millions of machines to "Joe Average". I just don't think linux needs to be that unix.
DISCLAIMER:
Machines at work - sparcs running solaris and x86 running linux
Machine at home - Mac G3 running OS X
favorite/most productive for development - the Mac
That should be .GNULIN
Java Example
for (int i =0; i < 10; i++) {
System.out.print(i);
}
System.out.print("Done")
Python Example
num = range(10)
for i in num:
print i
print ("Done")
Trivial example, but I think it illustrates the relative simplicity of the syntax ( and not the shorter amount of code). For those not familiar with python, the whitespace is significant and indicates the logical groupings just a pseudocode would do. Using python, the students could focus on concepts, but still have code that worked (and does some damn powerful stuff to boot!).
Given all that, I agree with you. The answer to the question KDE or Gnome is AQUA!
You could also use either the Gemini table handler or the InnoDB table handler to give MySQL the transaction abilities you need.
Planning for Web Services is a new report from O'Reilly Research, written by industry visionary Clay Shirky. This report guides CTOs and CIOs through the inflated claims, competing standards, and amalgam of acronyms to arrive at a realistic appraisal of the business impact of Web Services. Topics include how Web Services can replace EDI, who the major players are and what they really offer, as well as the hurdles to implementing Web Services today. A must-read for anyone developing a Web Services business strategy. $495 Save $100! Just use code # wsrelj when ordering by phone (800-998-9938 or 707-827-7000) or email (order@oreilly.com) and you can get this invaluable report for only $395. Offer expires May 10, 2002
Mac vs Win XP
I understand that his reasons to switch involve licensing rather than hardward/cost/available software/etc, but I imagine that JG could pretty much run whatever he wanted without too much difficulty.
Yes, Virginia, I just bought a mac. It is fabulous (my other frequently used machines include a win 98 box, solaris 8 on both sparc and intel, and RedHat 7.2) and as advertised, it is unix with a gui that does not suck and hardware/software integration that just bloody works!
I was configuring a new sunblade the other day and the question arose, which was best KDE or Gnome? My vote -- AQUA
Emacs has a decent editor: M-x viper-mode
Daniel Robbins (the CEO of Gentoo Linux) has some pretty cool articles on IBM's Developer Works. The first in the series can be found here