The other has been reported as a printing problem, but is far worse. The printing problem occurs because Safari deletes/tmp, which is a link to/private/tmp.
So that explains it. Apple's X11 application was crashing on me shortly after launch and immediately when requesting the creation of an xterm. The logfile said a lock file in/tmp could not be created.
I recently graduated with a BSCS and BSMath from a small, private, well-reputated university. Having the extra degree on my resume has done little. It has broadened my view of programming and helped me in many other areas though. Perhaps one day it will matter as far as a job is concerned, but it hasn't yet.
Lockhead Martin reposts their software jobs at least once every week on monster.com. There are about 20-30 of them. Also, on a local job board, Washington Mutual reposts their software jobs at least twice a week. There are about 30-40 of them. The saddest part is I see the same job postings week after week, month after month, and yes I am still unemployed. I've even gone out and learn the things some job postings ask for, resubmit my resume, and still nothing. HR is a joke.
Then you're automatically cutting out about 10 hours of your day, the majority of your waking hours, 5 days a week (at least). You may start living in the margins, "working for the weekend", ie not taking advantage of weeknights because you have to work the next day, saving your fun for the weekend, dreading the start of the next week, etc. etc.
I didn't mean that you shouldn't have fun at work or not enjoy what you do. My point was that you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. Crossover is fine, but not too much.
no, there is no ogg player for the ipod as of yet.
Do you really need one? In iTunes you can play Ogg files. You can also convert them to MP3's by selecting the song, and using the "Convert selection to MP3" item in the Advanced menu. Then just drag the song to your iPod in the source panel.
The trick is a user interface which grows in power as you learn how to use it, that is the real challenge.
The CLI has been just that for me. bash, sed, etc. have enormous power when combined, and the more I know how to use them, the more powerful I can be with just a terminal. The reason is the CLI as a whole is the composition of applications with very fine granularity. GUI's tend to be very specialized and combining operations is tedious. On the other hand, GUI's are extremely useful for simple tasks or tasks that are inherently visual, such as drawing.
My current OS is Mac OS X. This OS gets it right in terms of having a useful GUI and a powerful CLI interface (Desktop managers for other OS's do the same, but having not used them as much I won't comment on them). Being able to use both in a blended manner makes for a great experience. A combination approach is really the way to go.
The funny thing is that Mac users who despised the CLI are now trying it out in Mac OS X. I have many friends that are incorporating the CLI into their repertroire and enjoying it. The GUI is easy to pick up for simple tasks, while the CLI is harder to learn, but more useful for difficult tasks. Right tool for the job I suppose.
Let's see, how many vulnerabilities have been found for OS X in the last two years (hint: I can count them on a hand)? How many of them were due to piss poor planning by Microsoft (hint: It's over 60%)?
Well, Mac OS X did ship with a version of IE that automatically executed binhex files upon download. This would allow someone to make an application look like a binhex and have IE execute it without the user knowing. But hey, this one is Microsoft's fault.;)
The article goes on to say a California computer science professor has statistics to show that a programmer's career is not much longer than a pro-football player.
Some people didn't even get drafted. Of the 55 people in my graduating class in the Computer Science department, approximiately five have real full-time jobs. One of them was recently laid off. Quite a few of my classmates are in the US on student visas. If they don't get jobs soon, then they'll be deported. I even have two Bachelor's (CS & Mathematics), but no one seems to care. This industry is screwed. Oh, and I graduated in 2002.
It almost looks like the techno-trousers from The Wrong Trousers. Now all I need is a red rubber glove for a disguise and I'm all set to steal some diamonds.
If software is art, what's the software equivalent of modern art? My guess it's something like Befunge or Brainf*ck. Also, I say the software world's Bob Ross would be Donald Knuth.
Inside the case of my old 8500 are a bunch of signatures by, whom I assume, the designers and engineers. Inside the case of my Quicksilver tower are... no signatures.
There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, 1977, President, Digital Equipment Corp.
Yes, well, in 1977 they didn't have MP3's or massive amounts of on-line porn. Then again, this might've been true, but the scientists were just hoarding it.
But what... is it good for? - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
See above. Maybe throw ESPN.com into that list as well.
These people are beyond stupid. There is a website associated with the petition located here. I saw this awhile back and did a whois through internic on their domain. It was registered to a guy named Kevin something, whom I did a Google search on along with "two towers". It came up with a CNN article about someone with the same name who used to own a comic book shop right near where WTC happened. The guy was apparently selling comics covered in WTC dust as collectors items. I can't be certain this was the same person, but the company contact listed on the whois was a comic book company in Canada. The whois information has since changed.
No wonder these guys went out of business. Look at the prices for refurbished 6-7+ year old machines. If these are actually market prices, anyone want an 9500/180MP 128/4GB/4x CD-ROM/ATI Nexus 128 for $1200? Funny you can find nearly the same thing on eBay for $45.
I was always wondering about directly applying CSS to XML documents. I recently made an XHTML version of my resume with the data in XML, the structure in XSL, and the style in CSS. I then use xsltproc to generate the XHTML file before uploading it. The thing was a lot of the code just looked like:
This is obviously redundant and a waste. XML+CSS+Mozilla would cut out the middle-man, which is great, but the downside to this is few people will be able to vew these documents as IE is still dominant. Even my XHTML resume won't show up properly in IE6. It validaes under XHTML 1.0 Strict and the CSS validates as well. I give up.
Damn, people, can the collective musicians of the world *please* pick some sort of "standard" genre (or at least a very small set of musical styles, like perhaps rap, rock, and r&b)?
I personally like rock. I consider myself fairly good at it. But honestly, I don't care if we decide "Everyone must listen in rock". Just *some* sort of standard. I'll listen to it, and feel happy to "waste" a year listening to it, just to never have to listen another "fad" genre.
I see people asking why polka doesn't have more popularity - Why? I can answer that *really* simply. Because we already have too-damn-many musical styles to choose from!
Yes, a *FEW* choices make sense, because not every style has the same strengths and weaknesses. But really, how many people research all 250+ "major" existing genres to determine the best for each and every song they write? No one. People pick a style that has a lot of general-purpose power and flexibility, and *ONLY* deviate when their first choice literally cannot accomplish the task at hand.
Put out efforts toward making a few bands truly great, not having a huge number of mediocre bands.
Sometimes you people scare me, seriously. You have nothing without diversity.
In some article involving a ranking member of IDG, a conference call/phone conversation with Steve Jobs is quoted or paraphrased saying that he didn't know if he could make enough new product announcements twice a year to warrant two major US expos. Sounds reasonable enough.
Another reason why the expos are a hassle for Apple is people read all the rumor sites and expect ridiculous products (I've been waiting for a 2Ghz G5 for some time now.) to be released. When they aren't released, customers get pissed and blame Apple. It's a joke. One rumor site (I don't want to give them advertising.) once posted an article about a possible join effort between Apple and Lucent to produce a wireless product. The source? A Lucent commercial that shows people using Mac's. It's no wonder Apple lets their lawyers loose on these guys.
Now if only Mr. Google would help me find that darn article...
Internet Explorer 5.2.1 [...] Most reliable renderer; good performance; great standards support.
Um, what? If this were true, then why would Apple make an article documenting the IE's shortcomings? Also, on the subject of verions, why do they test version 0.5 of Chimera? 0.6 is much better and has been out since November 4th. It's a month later! The tested version of IE is 5.2.1, but on my machine I have 5.2.2. The modification date is October 3rd. This article is dated.
Also why didn't the article address security? I seem to recall a problem with IE in that when it would download.hqx files it would automatically execute them. Granted it doesn't do this anymore, but it shows IE has a bad track record.
I started with a Windows 1.0beta. Till the advent of Windows95, I was critical of many M$ moves, but still I believed that they were doing something in the right way. [...] However, when Windows95 came out, I sincerly felt that someone sold me snakeoil in 100% purity. Many of my old programs went broke. Several third party programs I used couldn't simply work. While I tried hard to adapt to the new SDKs and environment, I couldn't because it was all a mess and a pure waste of money. That mess ended only with the advent of Windows95 OSR2, but the loss was irrecoverable. [...] The last drop came in 1998 with the "fresh, new Windows98"
I started with a Mac OS X Beta. Till the advent of Mac OS X, I was critical of many Apple moves, but still I believed that they were doing something in the right way. [...] However, when Mac OS X 10.0 came out, I sincerely felt that someone sold me snakeoil in 100% purity. Many of my old programs went broke. Several third party programs I used couldn't simply work. While I tried hard to adapt to the new SDKs and environment, I couldn't because it was all a mess and a pure waste of money. That mess ended only with the advent of Mac OS X 10.1, but the loss was irrecoverable. [...] The last drop came in 2002 with the "fresh, new Mac OS X 10.2". Oh wait, the story tends to diverge here. Jaguar is great.
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The other has been reported as a printing problem, but is far worse. The printing problem occurs because Safari deletes /tmp, which is a link to /private/tmp.
/tmp could not be created.
So that explains it. Apple's X11 application was crashing on me shortly after launch and immediately when requesting the creation of an xterm. The logfile said a lock file in
I recently graduated with a BSCS and BSMath from a small, private, well-reputated university. Having the extra degree on my resume has done little. It has broadened my view of programming and helped me in many other areas though. Perhaps one day it will matter as far as a job is concerned, but it hasn't yet.
Lockhead Martin reposts their software jobs at least once every week on monster.com. There are about 20-30 of them. Also, on a local job board, Washington Mutual reposts their software jobs at least twice a week. There are about 30-40 of them. The saddest part is I see the same job postings week after week, month after month, and yes I am still unemployed. I've even gone out and learn the things some job postings ask for, resubmit my resume, and still nothing. HR is a joke.
Among others.
Then you're automatically cutting out about 10 hours of your day, the majority of your waking hours, 5 days a week (at least). You may start living in the margins, "working for the weekend", ie not taking advantage of weeknights because you have to work the next day, saving your fun for the weekend, dreading the start of the next week, etc. etc.
I didn't mean that you shouldn't have fun at work or not enjoy what you do. My point was that you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. Crossover is fine, but not too much.
But, when you make your work and your play the same thing, then everyday is a joy.
When one falters, the other suffers. Don't make your career your life, or your life your career.
The title of that page is "Wireless-G Access Point". So it's for when you want to reach out and touch som... I couldn't help myself. Sorry.
no, there is no ogg player for the ipod as of yet.
Do you really need one? In iTunes you can play Ogg files. You can also convert them to MP3's by selecting the song, and using the "Convert selection to MP3" item in the Advanced menu. Then just drag the song to your iPod in the source panel.
iTunes visuals on your computer skin or even your iPod case would be awesome. It would make every case-modder out there green with envy.
The trick is a user interface which grows in power as you learn how to use it, that is the real challenge.
The CLI has been just that for me. bash, sed, etc. have enormous power when combined, and the more I know how to use them, the more powerful I can be with just a terminal. The reason is the CLI as a whole is the composition of applications with very fine granularity. GUI's tend to be very specialized and combining operations is tedious. On the other hand, GUI's are extremely useful for simple tasks or tasks that are inherently visual, such as drawing.
My current OS is Mac OS X. This OS gets it right in terms of having a useful GUI and a powerful CLI interface (Desktop managers for other OS's do the same, but having not used them as much I won't comment on them). Being able to use both in a blended manner makes for a great experience. A combination approach is really the way to go.
The funny thing is that Mac users who despised the CLI are now trying it out in Mac OS X. I have many friends that are incorporating the CLI into their repertroire and enjoying it. The GUI is easy to pick up for simple tasks, while the CLI is harder to learn, but more useful for difficult tasks. Right tool for the job I suppose.
Let's see, how many vulnerabilities have been found for OS X in the last two years (hint: I can count them on a hand)? How many of them were due to piss poor planning by Microsoft (hint: It's over 60%)?
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Well, Mac OS X did ship with a version of IE that automatically executed binhex files upon download. This would allow someone to make an application look like a binhex and have IE execute it without the user knowing. But hey, this one is Microsoft's fault.
The article goes on to say a California computer science professor has statistics to show that a programmer's career is not much longer than a pro-football player.
Some people didn't even get drafted. Of the 55 people in my graduating class in the Computer Science department, approximiately five have real full-time jobs. One of them was recently laid off. Quite a few of my classmates are in the US on student visas. If they don't get jobs soon, then they'll be deported. I even have two Bachelor's (CS & Mathematics), but no one seems to care. This industry is screwed. Oh, and I graduated in 2002.
My new favorite website is this.
It almost looks like the techno-trousers from The Wrong Trousers. Now all I need is a red rubber glove for a disguise and I'm all set to steal some diamonds.
Numbers don't lie, people do. Did you know that 99% of people under the age of 16 are unemployed?!
If software is art, what's the software equivalent of modern art? My guess it's something like Befunge or Brainf*ck. Also, I say the software world's Bob Ross would be Donald Knuth.
Yes, it's Monday.
Wait 'til Apple hears about this. Lawyers attack!
Inside the case of my old 8500 are a bunch of signatures by, whom I assume, the designers and engineers. Inside the case of my Quicksilver tower are... no signatures.
There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home.
... is it good for?
- Ken Olson, 1977, President, Digital Equipment Corp.
Yes, well, in 1977 they didn't have MP3's or massive amounts of on-line porn. Then again, this might've been true, but the scientists were just hoarding it.
But what
- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
See above. Maybe throw ESPN.com into that list as well.
Some people are stupid. ;)
These people are beyond stupid. There is a website associated with the petition located here. I saw this awhile back and did a whois through internic on their domain. It was registered to a guy named Kevin something, whom I did a Google search on along with "two towers". It came up with a CNN article about someone with the same name who used to own a comic book shop right near where WTC happened. The guy was apparently selling comics covered in WTC dust as collectors items. I can't be certain this was the same person, but the company contact listed on the whois was a comic book company in Canada. The whois information has since changed.
No wonder these guys went out of business. Look at the prices for refurbished 6-7+ year old machines. If these are actually market prices, anyone want an 9500/180MP 128/4GB/4x CD-ROM/ATI Nexus 128 for $1200? Funny you can find nearly the same thing on eBay for $45.
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Damn, people, can the collective musicians of the world *please* pick some sort of "standard" genre (or at least a very small set of musical styles, like perhaps rap, rock, and r&b)?
I personally like rock. I consider myself fairly good at it. But honestly, I don't care if we decide "Everyone must listen in rock". Just *some* sort of standard. I'll listen to it, and feel happy to "waste" a year listening to it, just to never have to listen another "fad" genre.
I see people asking why polka doesn't have more popularity - Why? I can answer that *really* simply. Because we already have too-damn-many musical styles to choose from!
Yes, a *FEW* choices make sense, because not every style has the same strengths and weaknesses. But really, how many people research all 250+ "major" existing genres to determine the best for each and every song they write? No one. People pick a style that has a lot of general-purpose power and flexibility, and *ONLY* deviate when their first choice literally cannot accomplish the task at hand.
Put out efforts toward making a few bands truly great, not having a huge number of mediocre bands.
Sometimes you people scare me, seriously. You have nothing without diversity.
In some article involving a ranking member of IDG, a conference call/phone conversation with Steve Jobs is quoted or paraphrased saying that he didn't know if he could make enough new product announcements twice a year to warrant two major US expos. Sounds reasonable enough.
Another reason why the expos are a hassle for Apple is people read all the rumor sites and expect ridiculous products (I've been waiting for a 2Ghz G5 for some time now.) to be released. When they aren't released, customers get pissed and blame Apple. It's a joke. One rumor site (I don't want to give them advertising.) once posted an article about a possible join effort between Apple and Lucent to produce a wireless product. The source? A Lucent commercial that shows people using Mac's. It's no wonder Apple lets their lawyers loose on these guys.
Now if only Mr. Google would help me find that darn article...
Internet Explorer 5.2.1 [...] Most reliable renderer; good performance; great standards support.
.hqx files it would automatically execute them. Granted it doesn't do this anymore, but it shows IE has a bad track record.
Um, what? If this were true, then why would Apple make an article documenting the IE's shortcomings? Also, on the subject of verions, why do they test version 0.5 of Chimera? 0.6 is much better and has been out since November 4th. It's a month later! The tested version of IE is 5.2.1, but on my machine I have 5.2.2. The modification date is October 3rd. This article is dated.
Also why didn't the article address security? I seem to recall a problem with IE in that when it would download
I started with a Windows 1.0beta. Till the advent of Windows95, I was critical of many M$ moves, but still I believed that they were doing something in the right way. [...] However, when Windows95 came out, I sincerly felt that someone sold me snakeoil in 100% purity. Many of my old programs went broke. Several third party programs I used couldn't simply work. While I tried hard to adapt to the new SDKs and environment, I couldn't because it was all a mess and a pure waste of money. That mess ended only with the advent of Windows95 OSR2, but the loss was irrecoverable. [...] The last drop came in 1998 with the "fresh, new Windows98"
I started with a Mac OS X Beta. Till the advent of Mac OS X, I was critical of many Apple moves, but still I believed that they were doing something in the right way. [...] However, when Mac OS X 10.0 came out, I sincerely felt that someone sold me snakeoil in 100% purity. Many of my old programs went broke. Several third party programs I used couldn't simply work. While I tried hard to adapt to the new SDKs and environment, I couldn't because it was all a mess and a pure waste of money. That mess ended only with the advent of Mac OS X 10.1, but the loss was irrecoverable. [...] The last drop came in 2002 with the "fresh, new Mac OS X 10.2". Oh wait, the story tends to diverge here. Jaguar is great.