I'm using 1GB of RAM on my system, but my NT Virtual PC is configured for only 128MB of RAM. Visual Studio 5 runs quite well, especially after upgrading from Virtual PC 5 to 6. My system is a G4 400, which is a bit old, so it should run very well on pretty much any of the current PowerBook G4s. A cool thing that you can do with Virtual PC 6 is make WordPerfect a Dock icon, but it's only doable with Windows 2000, XP, 98, or ME. I'd also suggest 2000 or XP over 98/ME. The XP Home version of Virtual PC 6 costs the same as 98, so it's not more expensive:-).
For a PowerBook, I'd probably suggest 512MB of RAM or more of total system memory, but everything should work very well with 512:-). It should technically work with 256MB, but then it won't run as well if you have a bunch of OS X apps open at the same time versus 512MB.
Well, many are straight, including Jobs, though I did come across several friend-of-Dorothy cuties:-). My, do they hire them young at Apple;-) (I'm young too (23), but not as cute). On my way home, a trio of Apple twinks got off MUNI with me at Castro, though I they went a different direction than I did since I wanted to get home to try out Virtual PC 6;-). And I already have a loving, caring partner;-), though he still prefers OS 9. They're probably still in the Castro this moment if you're looking for cute dates:-) (unless if you read this post later).
Having just read Frank Abegnale's "Art of the Steal," I would be highly surprised if this was actually legitimate. They're hoping to get money from us geeks and pocket the balance via PayPal. I hope PayPal freezes their account, since this stinks highly of an old-fashioned scam.
Think about it. They are already in monsoon season, and why the rush? Scams intentionally try to get you to "act now," and as anyone can put up a web page and get a PayPal account, why trust this bozo with your money? If you already donated to this "cause," you've been scammed by a con artist.
I work for a non-profit AIDS Foundation and we get hacking attempts on our web servers ALL the time. But, then again, we are running Microsoft IIS on NT4 (d'oh! It certainly was not my decision, btw, though the IT Department is quite resistant to anything but Windows:-(, despite my knowledge and experience with Linux and my RHCE status.
I'm totally with you on that:-). The only thing my parents "sheltered" me from was violence, not naked bodies. I agree with my parents' assessments on that. People are not repulsive, but violence is.
Yet, although we are supposed to be training our children to become productive members of society, many fellow Americans feel the need to hide as much of the world as they can from their children, ultimately putting their children at a competitive disadvantage to others and forcing them to play catch-up in college and afterward. Children are smart little buggers, and by bringing them up to become responsible members of society, it's one less thing for them to worry about later down the road.
Teaching one-sided views and cramming it down childrens' throats raises really warped kids, and I'm not talking about OS/2;-). It's actually a strategy that power-hungry institutions use to gain power and/or profit. WWII Germany did it, the Taliban did it, Communist China did it, and, as one of the most glaring examples in modern society, religion did and still does it. Let kids make up their own minds, but be there when they need you and provide sound guidence balanced with clear reasoning. The more kids who actually understand the reasoning behind America's freedoms and the importance of maintaining civilization, the better:-), and hopefully less violence and crime. Telling them to do things "because I said so" is counterproductive and become things that they rebel against in their mid-to-late teens. I'd love to see kids rebelling against their parents on things like what Operating System they like best when they get to that phase in their lives rather than rebelling against what their parents said on drug, alcohol, credit, graffiti, and gambling abuse, wouldn't you;-)? Kids in LUGs/WUGs/MUGs, not gangs!;-). That would also lead to fewer a*hole managers in our workforce once they reach age, since they'll know how to reason rather than just using their powers to cram stuff down peoples' throats like their parents taught them. Perhaps this is wishful thinking on my part;-).
I forgot where I read this, but I remember something saying that the majority of fruit flies are gay:-)! Though, it might be more of nature's form of population control within the fruit fly community.
Two cats are all that my partner and I really want to deal with, though some of my coworkers are raising kids (two lesbian couples and a gay couple.. I work at a very gay-friendly non-profit). If we were breeders instead, then we'd have too many people on our planet (just a thought)..;-)
This one is pretty easy: Even considering Linux or Windows for an artist's workstation is akin to a manager asking if punch cards and a teletype are viable alternatives to Linux and Windows.
I love Linux as much as anyone here, but as a guy whose partner is a graphic designer by trade, it became clear that Gimp, while it suits my needs very well, doesn't have many of the advanced features of Photoshop that my partner needs. For video, a Mac with Final Cut Pro and iDVD simply does not have any viable competitor at this time, though that could always change. It's certainly possible to capture video and apply some effects with Linux and Windows, but the level of automation achieved on the Mac platform in these areas makes it a better choice as artists can get more done in less time. It's a platform mostly targeted towards graphic and video artists, and it suits their needs very well. Think of it as the 'Linux' of graphic artists:-), if I may coin a term;-).
One of the features of 64-bit processing that I've been eyeing for the last 5-6 years is memory-mapped IO. Instead of manually reading files into memory, it's possible to tell the OS to map a huge mutli-gigabyte file into an address space and then access that address space as if the file was already in memory. The OS can then cache and do really cool optimizations in the background, and the program doesn't have to worry about reading and writing blocks of data one chunk at a time (though, Linux as I understand optimized this too with copy-on-write). When a value changes in that address space, the OS takes care of writing it back to the file.
Of course, 32-bit processors can do memory-mapped IO, but not anywhere close to the scale that 64-bit processors can. Practical limits may constrict a 32-bit memory mapping IO implementation to less than 2GB of address space, though PAE might be able to increase that slightly (not totally sure, but it makes sense if it does:).
Expect possibly more efficient databases that allow the OS to optimize the disk access even more:).
Our floor at where I work does this every year, and reminded me that I need to go get a gag gift soon since it's next Thursday:-).
The popular items from last year were Wizard of Oz Ruby Slippers and other queeny things.. Makes for a very fun event:-) (almost everyone on my floor is gay/lesbian. probably less than 5 straights out of about 40 people:-). I played the first time last year and got a cheap night light from Radio Shack. Bad move! If you're playing this game, get something outlandish and fun, but still appropriate for an office setting.
Our cap is $15, though I'm still considering one of my I-Openers since I picked them up from CompUSA earlier this year for $40/unit. Still needs a flashed BIOS and Linux loaded.. Probably too much hassle, I think.
Or, CDs will do nicely. For me and my floor, that would probably entail Madonna, Dianna Ross, Stage2, Erasure, Cher, etc.. And Virgin Records is just down the street from work:). Though, everyone probably already has them;-). One guy is totally into Ricky Martin, so he probably has all of his CDs.. It can be difficult to buy gifts, ya know..
I didn't know that the Celebrity CD was copy protected. It plays normally on NT4SP5 at work, and ripped fine at home into OGGs using KDE's audiocd:/ filesystem thing. Compared to their previous CDs, Celebrity isn't really that good, but I listen to it sometimes at work if I get bored of listening to the Pet Shop Boys, Cher, or Priscilla - Queen of the Desert for hours on end while programming;-).
I like their No Strings Attached CD far better than Celebrity, and I like the Backstreet Boys better than any of the N'Sync songs;-). Though, my younger brother commented that, after seeing a blip on the news of them at a local performance over in Oakland, they look like the people who hang out around the north side of the Powell Street Station, and I couldn't help but agree completely;-). Definitely lost their cuteness.. Or, perhaps more accurately, their target market has undoubtedly inane tastes (believe me, I'm not their main target market despite what XY Magazine #9 (Summer 97) says hehe;-).
I knew a Debian user a couple years ago. Quite an elitist, and didn't like my idea of integrating version control into the filesystem (now it's going to be possible to do it with reisierfs:-). Though, every person is unique, and there are plenty of open-minded Debian and RedHat/Mandrake/Slackware/etc users alike.
Comments like "a-p-t" don't make me want to rush out and install Debian on my computers. Nor does it make me infuriated because I prefer rpm. Instead, it makes me curious because I've heard many good things about Debian and some bad things. Mandrake Cooker solves my present computing needs extremely well, and I currently don't have the time or will at the moment to learn a new distribution, but if I had the luxury of time, I would definitely try Debian:). I personally happen to like the naming convention of RPM much better, where the version number and platform are in the name, but either package manager does the same job so it doesn't really matter. Let's get on with life:-).
Well, the Eurpoean Union has Airbus, and many airlines in Eurpoe fly those in addition to Boeings. Even American Airlines has some Airbus airplanes laying around somewhere (mostly Florida, if memory serves me correctly).
All planes were American Airlines and were 757/767s. My dad, who flies A'A 757/767s, called to say that one of them was Flight 11 from Boston to LA (fortunately, he wasn't flying those highly unfortunate 757/767s). One thing that I'm wondering about is how in the world they got their weapons, assuming they had them, through security?
A month or so ago, I saw a story about how WEP is crackable. As a result, I recently picked up a relatively inexpensive D-Link Access Point with 40-bit encryption instead of 128-bit, since I'm not going to use WEP anyway. Instead, I'm going to use IPsec and very restrictive firewall rules to get into my network, though I'm betting that the free IPsec add-on for MacOS will work properly on my partner's G4 laptop;-).
I wonder why the wireless manufacturers didn't use IPsec in the first place rather than creating their own WAP that's now worthless?
MS's IPv6 stack is actually under quite an open license, relatively speaking considering MS's typical licenses. MS's Research Department actually seems quite warm with open-source technologies. Their business side, however, is a totally different story:-(. Try out their IPv6 stack at http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/ if you're unfortunate enough to be running Windows, and read the license agreement. Prepare to be quite pleasantly surprised:).
When you are a superset of a competitor, this gives customers a relatively painless way to switch to you. As an example, PHP on Windows is a superset of ASP in that literally everything that you can do in ASP can be done in PHP, including COM, making ASP a rather silly choice. The only possible missing features, which can be implemented other ways easily (thus still making it a superset) are Application() and the on-load/on-unload events (persistent DB connections that can time out after inactivity do this with less effort from the programmer anyway;-).
Apache implements substantially more features than IIS can ever dream of, but, last I checked (and I hope I'm wrong), changes require a daemon restart while IIS can make changes dynamically. For most users, Apache is a superset of IIS, but for those who require dynamic updates but don't have server clusters, such as cheap ISPs, Apache becomes less attractive. If Apache could be updated dynamically, this could make Apache an even stronger superset of IIS:-). (this was not intended as a troll, btw).
For a few years, I've thought of becoming a developer for the Wine project, but other projects commitments ate away at my time. We as a community should ensure that Wine reaches 1.0 and can actually run the popular applications just as they run on Windows, perhaps even better (no blue screens helps a lot;-). If a non-Windows based solution can run Windows apps, this would make the transition for MS's user base many orders of magnitude easier.
IBM claims that their AIX can now run Linux apps, but I think, IMHO, that they're missing the boat on this one completely. In Linux and just about any UNIX-like system, the value is usually in the foundation -- the OS level and the underlying libraries and utilities. In modern times, desktops like KDE and GNOME are building upon this strong, mature foundation to provide even more value. AIX is its own UNIX system, and most Linux apps should already run within AIX with a recompilation, so I (personally) don't see much of a point in Linux binary compatibility in AIX. In Windows, however, the value lies within the applications instead of the foundation OS-level. If IBM made Windows apps work in AIX, for instance, this becomes substantially more compelling than having Linux apps work in AIX, as most Windows apps can't be recompiled very easily in another OS. By being able to use the value of Windows apps in Linux, we have suddenly offered users a superset of what they have now while giving them the opportunity to continue to use their existing apps while taking advantage of Linux's superior features.
Just my $0.02.. Take it with a mL of soy sauce;-).
It was something along the lines of "Jerry Fallwell recalls his first time," to the format of an old Campari advertisement (this is one of the wackier things that I remember from Legal Studies in college). To make the story short, the parody ad, which is typically protected speach, had Jerry Fallwell talking about his first time drinking Campari as having a drunken sexual encounter with his mother in an outhouse (hehehe;-).
I saw these on Fillmore, north of Geary, a couple of days ago:). Coencidentally, I also saw a rather punkish-like guy on the street wearing a black I-love-Linux shirt right before seeing the Linux sidewalk advertisements on almost every corner walking north on the west side of Fillmore. I just thought it was a pro-Linux area or something;-).
I went through hell in middle school and high school but stopped caring in my senior year about what others thought or said. The only thing really that kept me from commiting suicide was the fact that I was doing extraordinarily well as a student and as an employee in the district's Information Systems department. By focusing all my energy on working with computers and learning all that I could about systems back in 1994-1996 (including working with the betas of NT4 when they were being developed), I felt so successful that bullies' piddly bullying meant shit to me. I am also gay, but because I grew up in Grapevine, Texas, which is reasonably close to McKinney, I tried to refuse to believe that I am gay even though I would occasionally borrow a laptop from work to download gay porn at night after my parents were asleep;). Kids somehow knew that I was gay back in middle school and outed me, even though I did not want to believe it.
I have sometimes thought that if I was in high school today, I might be labelled as a potential threat to the school's safety because I meet some peoples' "profiles" for a Columbine-like person. I was quiet, kept to myself, was doing very well at school (graduated #14 in a class of about 550 or so), and had very bad social skills (some say I still do;). If it were not for indulging myself into computers, who knows what might have happened. For those still in this situation, it _does_ get better, though some colleges are not as gay-friendly as others. I went to Bryant College (a _bad_ gay school.. I was the president of Bryant PRIDE for a couple years but only because I was the only memeber in it besides the faculty advisor!), but now work in fabulous San Francisco at an extraordinarily gay-friendly organization:), though I'm having a hard time to convince them to use PHP instead of ASP:(. Ask colleges about how gay-friendly they are and if they have gay fraternities like Delta Lamba Phi. Seriously:). Being oneself can be very liberating and can make one very happy:-). High school sucks, but at least it can get significantly better in college:-)! Hang in there, try to play by the school's rules (works as a short-term solution and doesn't solve anything with the system, I'll admit), and you'll be outta there and in college before you know it:-).
The Wells Fargo browser issues really suck:(. My Bank United account worked great with Galeon+Mozilla+SSL, but Wells Fargo blindly claims that it's an insecure browser because it doesn't know about it. Oh well.. I hope someone from Wells Fargo's IT department does something about this..
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I'm using 1GB of RAM on my system, but my NT Virtual PC is configured for only 128MB of RAM. Visual Studio 5 runs quite well, especially after upgrading from Virtual PC 5 to 6. My system is a G4 400, which is a bit old, so it should run very well on pretty much any of the current PowerBook G4s. A cool thing that you can do with Virtual PC 6 is make WordPerfect a Dock icon, but it's only doable with Windows 2000, XP, 98, or ME. I'd also suggest 2000 or XP over 98/ME. The XP Home version of Virtual PC 6 costs the same as 98, so it's not more expensive :-).
:-). It should technically work with 256MB, but then it won't run as well if you have a bunch of OS X apps open at the same time versus 512MB.
:-)
For a PowerBook, I'd probably suggest 512MB of RAM or more of total system memory, but everything should work very well with 512
Hope this helps
Well, many are straight, including Jobs, though I did come across several friend-of-Dorothy cuties :-). My, do they hire them young at Apple ;-) (I'm young too (23), but not as cute). On my way home, a trio of Apple twinks got off MUNI with me at Castro, though I they went a different direction than I did since I wanted to get home to try out Virtual PC 6 ;-). And I already have a loving, caring partner ;-), though he still prefers OS 9. They're probably still in the Castro this moment if you're looking for cute dates :-) (unless if you read this post later).
Having just read Frank Abegnale's "Art of the Steal," I would be highly surprised if this was actually legitimate. They're hoping to get money from us geeks and pocket the balance via PayPal. I hope PayPal freezes their account, since this stinks highly of an old-fashioned scam.
Think about it. They are already in monsoon season, and why the rush? Scams intentionally try to get you to "act now," and as anyone can put up a web page and get a PayPal account, why trust this bozo with your money? If you already donated to this "cause," you've been scammed by a con artist.
I work for a non-profit AIDS Foundation and we get hacking attempts on our web servers ALL the time. But, then again, we are running Microsoft IIS on NT4 (d'oh! It certainly was not my decision, btw, though the IT Department is quite resistant to anything but Windows :-(, despite my knowledge and experience with Linux and my RHCE status.
I'm totally with you on that :-). The only thing my parents "sheltered" me from was violence, not naked bodies. I agree with my parents' assessments on that. People are not repulsive, but violence is.
;-). It's actually a strategy that power-hungry institutions use to gain power and/or profit. WWII Germany did it, the Taliban did it, Communist China did it, and, as one of the most glaring examples in modern society, religion did and still does it. Let kids make up their own minds, but be there when they need you and provide sound guidence balanced with clear reasoning. The more kids who actually understand the reasoning behind America's freedoms and the importance of maintaining civilization, the better :-), and hopefully less violence and crime. Telling them to do things "because I said so" is counterproductive and become things that they rebel against in their mid-to-late teens. I'd love to see kids rebelling against their parents on things like what Operating System they like best when they get to that phase in their lives rather than rebelling against what their parents said on drug, alcohol, credit, graffiti, and gambling abuse, wouldn't you ;-)? Kids in LUGs/WUGs/MUGs, not gangs! ;-). That would also lead to fewer a*hole managers in our workforce once they reach age, since they'll know how to reason rather than just using their powers to cram stuff down peoples' throats like their parents taught them. Perhaps this is wishful thinking on my part ;-).
Yet, although we are supposed to be training our children to become productive members of society, many fellow Americans feel the need to hide as much of the world as they can from their children, ultimately putting their children at a competitive disadvantage to others and forcing them to play catch-up in college and afterward. Children are smart little buggers, and by bringing them up to become responsible members of society, it's one less thing for them to worry about later down the road.
Teaching one-sided views and cramming it down childrens' throats raises really warped kids, and I'm not talking about OS/2
I forgot where I read this, but I remember something saying that the majority of fruit flies are gay :-)! Though, it might be more of nature's form of population control within the fruit fly community.
;-)
Two cats are all that my partner and I really want to deal with, though some of my coworkers are raising kids (two lesbian couples and a gay couple.. I work at a very gay-friendly non-profit). If we were breeders instead, then we'd have too many people on our planet (just a thought)..
Airlines.
We can now fly just about anywhere, whereas before airline deregulation, the federal government heavily restricted where airlines could fly and when.
Can you click on a TV ad?
It's probably best for brand awareness than selling on click-throughs..
This one is pretty easy: Even considering Linux or Windows for an artist's workstation is akin to a manager asking if punch cards and a teletype are viable alternatives to Linux and Windows.
:-), if I may coin a term ;-).
I love Linux as much as anyone here, but as a guy whose partner is a graphic designer by trade, it became clear that Gimp, while it suits my needs very well, doesn't have many of the advanced features of Photoshop that my partner needs. For video, a Mac with Final Cut Pro and iDVD simply does not have any viable competitor at this time, though that could always change. It's certainly possible to capture video and apply some effects with Linux and Windows, but the level of automation achieved on the Mac platform in these areas makes it a better choice as artists can get more done in less time. It's a platform mostly targeted towards graphic and video artists, and it suits their needs very well. Think of it as the 'Linux' of graphic artists
One of the features of 64-bit processing that I've been eyeing for the last 5-6 years is memory-mapped IO. Instead of manually reading files into memory, it's possible to tell the OS to map a huge mutli-gigabyte file into an address space and then access that address space as if the file was already in memory. The OS can then cache and do really cool optimizations in the background, and the program doesn't have to worry about reading and writing blocks of data one chunk at a time (though, Linux as I understand optimized this too with copy-on-write). When a value changes in that address space, the OS takes care of writing it back to the file.
:).
:).
Of course, 32-bit processors can do memory-mapped IO, but not anywhere close to the scale that 64-bit processors can. Practical limits may constrict a 32-bit memory mapping IO implementation to less than 2GB of address space, though PAE might be able to increase that slightly (not totally sure, but it makes sense if it does
Expect possibly more efficient databases that allow the OS to optimize the disk access even more
Our floor at where I work does this every year, and reminded me that I need to go get a gag gift soon since it's next Thursday :-).
:-) (almost everyone on my floor is gay/lesbian. probably less than 5 straights out of about 40 people :-). I played the first time last year and got a cheap night light from Radio Shack. Bad move! If you're playing this game, get something outlandish and fun, but still appropriate for an office setting.
:). Though, everyone probably already has them ;-). One guy is totally into Ricky Martin, so he probably has all of his CDs.. It can be difficult to buy gifts, ya know..
The popular items from last year were Wizard of Oz Ruby Slippers and other queeny things.. Makes for a very fun event
Our cap is $15, though I'm still considering one of my I-Openers since I picked them up from CompUSA earlier this year for $40/unit. Still needs a flashed BIOS and Linux loaded.. Probably too much hassle, I think.
Or, CDs will do nicely. For me and my floor, that would probably entail Madonna, Dianna Ross, Stage2, Erasure, Cher, etc.. And Virgin Records is just down the street from work
I didn't know that the Celebrity CD was copy protected. It plays normally on NT4SP5 at work, and ripped fine at home into OGGs using KDE's audiocd:/ filesystem thing. Compared to their previous CDs, Celebrity isn't really that good, but I listen to it sometimes at work if I get bored of listening to the Pet Shop Boys, Cher, or Priscilla - Queen of the Desert for hours on end while programming ;-).
;-). Though, my younger brother commented that, after seeing a blip on the news of them at a local performance over in Oakland, they look like the people who hang out around the north side of the Powell Street Station, and I couldn't help but agree completely ;-). Definitely lost their cuteness.. Or, perhaps more accurately, their target market has undoubtedly inane tastes (believe me, I'm not their main target market despite what XY Magazine #9 (Summer 97) says hehe ;-).
I like their No Strings Attached CD far better than Celebrity, and I like the Backstreet Boys better than any of the N'Sync songs
I knew a Debian user a couple years ago. Quite an elitist, and didn't like my idea of integrating version control into the filesystem (now it's going to be possible to do it with reisierfs :-). Though, every person is unique, and there are plenty of open-minded Debian and RedHat/Mandrake/Slackware/etc users alike.
:). I personally happen to like the naming convention of RPM much better, where the version number and platform are in the name, but either package manager does the same job so it doesn't really matter. Let's get on with life :-).
Comments like "a-p-t" don't make me want to rush out and install Debian on my computers. Nor does it make me infuriated because I prefer rpm. Instead, it makes me curious because I've heard many good things about Debian and some bad things. Mandrake Cooker solves my present computing needs extremely well, and I currently don't have the time or will at the moment to learn a new distribution, but if I had the luxury of time, I would definitely try Debian
Well, the Eurpoean Union has Airbus, and many airlines in Eurpoe fly those in addition to Boeings. Even American Airlines has some Airbus airplanes laying around somewhere (mostly Florida, if memory serves me correctly).
All planes were American Airlines and were 757/767s. My dad, who flies A'A 757/767s, called to say that one of them was Flight 11 from Boston to LA (fortunately, he wasn't flying those highly unfortunate 757/767s). One thing that I'm wondering about is how in the world they got their weapons, assuming they had them, through security?
Look in these two places:
http://www.tml.hut.fi/Tutkimus/IPSEC/
http://www.cs.hut.fi/~mweissen/secot/alpha.html
A month or so ago, I saw a story about how WEP is crackable. As a result, I recently picked up a relatively inexpensive D-Link Access Point with 40-bit encryption instead of 128-bit, since I'm not going to use WEP anyway. Instead, I'm going to use IPsec and very restrictive firewall rules to get into my network, though I'm betting that the free IPsec add-on for MacOS will work properly on my partner's G4 laptop ;-).
I wonder why the wireless manufacturers didn't use IPsec in the first place rather than creating their own WAP that's now worthless?
MS's IPv6 stack is actually under quite an open license, relatively speaking considering MS's typical licenses. MS's Research Department actually seems quite warm with open-source technologies. Their business side, however, is a totally different story :-(. Try out their IPv6 stack at http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/ if you're unfortunate enough to be running Windows, and read the license agreement. Prepare to be quite pleasantly surprised :).
You assume I'm a guy? No wonder why geek-boys like you never get dates ;-)
When you are a superset of a competitor, this gives customers a relatively painless way to switch to you. As an example, PHP on Windows is a superset of ASP in that literally everything that you can do in ASP can be done in PHP, including COM, making ASP a rather silly choice. The only possible missing features, which can be implemented other ways easily (thus still making it a superset) are Application() and the on-load/on-unload events (persistent DB connections that can time out after inactivity do this with less effort from the programmer anyway ;-).
:-). (this was not intended as a troll, btw).
;-). If a non-Windows based solution can run Windows apps, this would make the transition for MS's user base many orders of magnitude easier.
;-).
Apache implements substantially more features than IIS can ever dream of, but, last I checked (and I hope I'm wrong), changes require a daemon restart while IIS can make changes dynamically. For most users, Apache is a superset of IIS, but for those who require dynamic updates but don't have server clusters, such as cheap ISPs, Apache becomes less attractive. If Apache could be updated dynamically, this could make Apache an even stronger superset of IIS
For a few years, I've thought of becoming a developer for the Wine project, but other projects commitments ate away at my time. We as a community should ensure that Wine reaches 1.0 and can actually run the popular applications just as they run on Windows, perhaps even better (no blue screens helps a lot
IBM claims that their AIX can now run Linux apps, but I think, IMHO, that they're missing the boat on this one completely. In Linux and just about any UNIX-like system, the value is usually in the foundation -- the OS level and the underlying libraries and utilities. In modern times, desktops like KDE and GNOME are building upon this strong, mature foundation to provide even more value. AIX is its own UNIX system, and most Linux apps should already run within AIX with a recompilation, so I (personally) don't see much of a point in Linux binary compatibility in AIX. In Windows, however, the value lies within the applications instead of the foundation OS-level. If IBM made Windows apps work in AIX, for instance, this becomes substantially more compelling than having Linux apps work in AIX, as most Windows apps can't be recompiled very easily in another OS. By being able to use the value of Windows apps in Linux, we have suddenly offered users a superset of what they have now while giving them the opportunity to continue to use their existing apps while taking advantage of Linux's superior features.
Just my $0.02.. Take it with a mL of soy sauce
It was something along the lines of "Jerry Fallwell recalls his first time," to the format of an old Campari advertisement (this is one of the wackier things that I remember from Legal Studies in college). To make the story short, the parody ad, which is typically protected speach, had Jerry Fallwell talking about his first time drinking Campari as having a drunken sexual encounter with his mother in an outhouse (hehehe ;-).
Real Windows developers use raw Win32 without STL nor the standard C libraries ;-). GlobalAlloc() and wsprintf(), anyone ;-)? hehe
I saw these on Fillmore, north of Geary, a couple of days ago :). Coencidentally, I also saw a rather punkish-like guy on the street wearing a black I-love-Linux shirt right before seeing the Linux sidewalk advertisements on almost every corner walking north on the west side of Fillmore. I just thought it was a pro-Linux area or something ;-).
I went through hell in middle school and high school but stopped caring in my senior year about what others thought or said. The only thing really that kept me from commiting suicide was the fact that I was doing extraordinarily well as a student and as an employee in the district's Information Systems department. By focusing all my energy on working with computers and learning all that I could about systems back in 1994-1996 (including working with the betas of NT4 when they were being developed), I felt so successful that bullies' piddly bullying meant shit to me. I am also gay, but because I grew up in Grapevine, Texas, which is reasonably close to McKinney, I tried to refuse to believe that I am gay even though I would occasionally borrow a laptop from work to download gay porn at night after my parents were asleep ;). Kids somehow knew that I was gay back in middle school and outed me, even though I did not want to believe it.
I have sometimes thought that if I was in high school today, I might be labelled as a potential threat to the school's safety because I meet some peoples' "profiles" for a Columbine-like person. I was quiet, kept to myself, was doing very well at school (graduated #14 in a class of about 550 or so), and had very bad social skills (some say I still do ;). If it were not for indulging myself into computers, who knows what might have happened. For those still in this situation, it _does_ get better, though some colleges are not as gay-friendly as others. I went to Bryant College (a _bad_ gay school.. I was the president of Bryant PRIDE for a couple years but only because I was the only memeber in it besides the faculty advisor!), but now work in fabulous San Francisco at an extraordinarily gay-friendly organization :), though I'm having a hard time to convince them to use PHP instead of ASP :(. Ask colleges about how gay-friendly they are and if they have gay fraternities like Delta Lamba Phi. Seriously :). Being oneself can be very liberating and can make one very happy :-). High school sucks, but at least it can get significantly better in college :-)! Hang in there, try to play by the school's rules (works as a short-term solution and doesn't solve anything with the system, I'll admit), and you'll be outta there and in college before you know it :-).
The Wells Fargo browser issues really suck :(. My Bank United account worked great with Galeon+Mozilla+SSL, but Wells Fargo blindly claims that it's an insecure browser because it doesn't know about it. Oh well.. I hope someone from Wells Fargo's IT department does something about this..