I'm glad he does, because even programmers (like myself) need to eat...
But seriously, a tax program is probably your money well spend. I won't neccessarly trust a well-meaning open-source inspired geek interpreting arcane tax laws.
Why use xargs? This is just equivalent to backquotes, which do the job without invoking another program:
grep -s string `find`
And this is where you err, dear sir! Try that on an early 90ties Unix system with 'a bunch' (800-1000 will typically do it) files, and your command argument buffer (argv) of your shell will fill up to the brim and your command will never execute. Happened on SCO AIX, HPUX, and Solaris
That's why God gave us xargs;-)
Must admit I've got no idea if this restriction still applies to modern Unices/Linux. That | xargs is so stuck in my fingers I never try the backquotes anymore....
Always good to see such educated people on/.;-) Where to start? OK:
Java software is run client-side, while.NET software is (will be) run server-side. That means that all the work for.NET is done off of your computer - you just do the input and get the output.
No. Not necessarily. Ever heard of servlets, EJB, J2EE, JSP, etc? Probably not.
Other differences include that Java, by its very nature, is open source (that means that you can always read the source - that doesn't mean that it is free though...). OTOH,.NET can be kept so that it is not open sourced.
No. Java source code (which I think you mean, since the compiler is definitely not open source, to the chagrin of large groups of people here), is not necessarlly open source. The source is compiled to bytecode, which can be decompiled fairly easily, because the bytecode spec is open.
Further more, Java is an interpreted language and can run on any platform.
No, and yes. Java is compiled to bytecode (see previous point). The bytecode is then interpreted by the JVM. JVMs do exist for many platforms though.
Please learn the difference between Java and JavaScript.
Where in the name of Heck did you get that Score 2 from?
We started our company about nine months ago and spend the first two in the basement of one of us. There were four guys, old crappy office furniture that we found somewhere, loud music, an @home link and tons of equipment.
Even though it nearly gave me carpal tunnel, due to both the crappy furniture and the insane amount of code we produced, we has a really great time, and it allowed us to produce a demo of our ideas really, really fast, which in turn allowed "the suits" (who occupied "real" offices in a different city), to gather enough VC to get us started.
Needless to say that, now that we have offices and moving to bigger ones next week, "Jeff's basement" has a mythical ring to it in our company, and even though production is still pretty good, it's really hard to recapture that atmosphere...
Since when did Mozilla become the typical X-based productivity app? For that matter, since when was it a productivity app at all?
Maybe you missed it, but let me inform you: The world is a web browser these days. A good browser is an integral part of my life these days, and therefore a productivity app (since it makes me productive, get it?) and for some reason noone @ netscape, sun, and mozilla seems to be able to give me the browser I need. A small example: Did you notice that all fonts you can select in Netscape under X are illegible or at least damaging to the eyes? It's a fact of life: browsing the web is a much more pleasant experience on Win32 then it is on Unix/X. I was out of the Unix world for about 3 yrs, and sort of hoped the situation had improved, but it has not.
Don't get me wrong: Unix is a great platform, but everything has its place. Its not neccessarilly the fault of the mozilla people that their app crashes, they work within the confinements of their chosen platform, and I think that X (and therefore anything built on top of it, including GNOME and KDE) is not the perfect vehicle to built web browsers that people who don't care about politics want to use. YMMV.
Getting fed up with Mozilla is no reason to believe that having good X-based productivity apps ain't gonna happen.
Mozilla is already a damn fine product in it's own right.
OK. I've got my Solaris box @ work and need the following:
Browser. We develop web-enabled software, you see.
Mail client. Must be able to do IMAP and POP at the same time.
So I struggled with Netscape 4.7x for a while, but man, the sluggishness. I mean, this is 2000. When I open a window (be it IE or netscape) on WIndows, it opens. Fast. When I click on a mail item, it shows up. Fast. So here is my kick-ass (must be, considering the price, and the fact that the rest of my toys run fine) Sun workstation and the fscking browser is like dead. So that's no good. So I try Mozilla M18 today. Guess what: lo and behold, it is even slower. I'm willing to take that for granted since I too believe in open source, but then the mail-experience starts. Having only a IMAP account works. It's not fast, but is works. I click on my mails and they (eventually) show up. Then I add a POP account, press 'Get Messages' and *poof* both browser and mail client gone. SEGV. Hrrm. Try again. *poof*.
So that's not working. Luckily I have a PCI PC board in my Ultra 10, which is now used for IE browsing and Outlook Express mail and news reading. I've had it, and with me a bunch of other people that 10 years ago believed in X and Unix on the desktop. Let me tell you: it ain't gonna happen. Not as long as the only reason to run a Unix/X productivity app is political.
Well, actually, these are of course only two possible values of the same bit. So it's basically just your 1 bit. Just like your one cent would have heads and tails.
If AC would have read the article, he would have known that the problem here is not security. The problem is that Germany sees Scientology not as a religion, but as a criminal organization and is hence outlawed.
I don't know enough about Scientology to have a firm opinion on this, but I do know that there are large numbers of people, not only in Germany but in other European countries as well, that figth them. These people are generally not your average traditional-christian zealots, nor militant agnostics.
Also, code posted with no license whatsoever should be pretty suspect.
I've never seen any MS code, but have generated a lot of proprietary source code in my times. All of it (for various companies) had something along the lines of
Copyright (c) 1932 Frobozz Widgets. All rights reserved
in it, regardless the fact that the code is not supposed to be seen by anybody without an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) in place. Having no license info at all in your source probably means you forfeit al your rights when someone as much as sees it.
and Felicity, where some guy uses some program called zztop.exe to reformat his hard drive
Ever used a Dell? It comes with a utility called zztop.exe to reinstall your machine to its moronic factory defaults. So we know what box they used there.
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I'm glad he does, because even programmers (like myself) need to eat...
But seriously, a tax program is probably your money well spend. I won't neccessarly trust a well-meaning open-source inspired geek interpreting arcane tax laws.
JdV!!
grep -s string `find`
And this is where you err, dear sir! Try that on an early 90ties Unix system with 'a bunch' (800-1000 will typically do it) files, and your command argument buffer (argv) of your shell will fill up to the brim and your command will never execute. Happened on SCO AIX, HPUX, and Solaris
That's why God gave us xargs ;-)
Must admit I've got no idea if this restriction still applies to modern Unices/Linux. That | xargs is so stuck in my fingers I never try the backquotes anymore....
JdV!!
No. Not necessarily. Ever heard of servlets, EJB, J2EE, JSP, etc? Probably not.
No. Java source code (which I think you mean, since the compiler is definitely not open source, to the chagrin of large groups of people here), is not necessarlly open source. The source is compiled to bytecode, which can be decompiled fairly easily, because the bytecode spec is open.
No, and yes. Java is compiled to bytecode (see previous point). The bytecode is then interpreted by the JVM. JVMs do exist for many platforms though.
Please learn the difference between Java and JavaScript.
Where in the name of Heck did you get that Score 2 from?
JdV!!
cp my_jsp.jsp $IAS_HOME/APPS/my_app
That's in iPlanet, a pretty brutal J2EE app server not known for developer-friendliness. It doesn't get much easier...
JdV!!
Even though it nearly gave me carpal tunnel, due to both the crappy furniture and the insane amount of code we produced, we has a really great time, and it allowed us to produce a demo of our ideas really, really fast, which in turn allowed "the suits" (who occupied "real" offices in a different city), to gather enough VC to get us started.
Needless to say that, now that we have offices and moving to bigger ones next week, "Jeff's basement" has a mythical ring to it in our company, and even though production is still pretty good, it's really hard to recapture that atmosphere...
Is this warroom enough for ya?
Jan.
Maybe you missed it, but let me inform you: The world is a web browser these days. A good browser is an integral part of my life these days, and therefore a productivity app (since it makes me productive, get it?) and for some reason noone @ netscape, sun, and mozilla seems to be able to give me the browser I need. A small example: Did you notice that all fonts you can select in Netscape under X are illegible or at least damaging to the eyes? It's a fact of life: browsing the web is a much more pleasant experience on Win32 then it is on Unix/X. I was out of the Unix world for about 3 yrs, and sort of hoped the situation had improved, but it has not.
Don't get me wrong: Unix is a great platform, but everything has its place. Its not neccessarilly the fault of the mozilla people that their app crashes, they work within the confinements of their chosen platform, and I think that X (and therefore anything built on top of it, including GNOME and KDE) is not the perfect vehicle to built web browsers that people who don't care about politics want to use. YMMV.
Getting fed up with Mozilla is no reason to believe that having good X-based productivity apps ain't gonna happen.
It is when you're waiting for ten years.
JdV!!
OK. I've got my Solaris box @ work and need the following:
- Browser. We develop web-enabled software, you see.
- Mail client. Must be able to do IMAP and POP at the same time.
So I struggled with Netscape 4.7x for a while, but man, the sluggishness. I mean, this is 2000. When I open a window (be it IE or netscape) on WIndows, it opens. Fast. When I click on a mail item, it shows up. Fast. So here is my kick-ass (must be, considering the price, and the fact that the rest of my toys run fine) Sun workstation and the fscking browser is like dead. So that's no good. So I try Mozilla M18 today. Guess what: lo and behold, it is even slower. I'm willing to take that for granted since I too believe in open source, but then the mail-experience starts. Having only a IMAP account works. It's not fast, but is works. I click on my mails and they (eventually) show up. Then I add a POP account, press 'Get Messages' and *poof* both browser and mail client gone. SEGV. Hrrm. Try again. *poof*.So that's not working. Luckily I have a PCI PC board in my Ultra 10, which is now used for IE browsing and Outlook Express mail and news reading. I've had it, and with me a bunch of other people that 10 years ago believed in X and Unix on the desktop. Let me tell you: it ain't gonna happen. Not as long as the only reason to run a Unix/X productivity app is political.
Flame away....
JdV!!
0 1 - just my two bits
Well, actually, these are of course only two possible values of the same bit. So it's basically just your 1 bit. Just like your one cent would have heads and tails.
Two bits would be
00 01 10 11
</anal> JdV!!
I don't know enough about Scientology to have a firm opinion on this, but I do know that there are large numbers of people, not only in Germany but in other European countries as well, that figth them. These people are generally not your average traditional-christian zealots, nor militant agnostics.
JdV!!
I've never seen any MS code, but have generated a lot of proprietary source code in my times. All of it (for various companies) had something along the lines of
in it, regardless the fact that the code is not supposed to be seen by anybody without an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) in place. Having no license info at all in your source probably means you forfeit al your rights when someone as much as sees it.But then again, IANAL
JdV!!
Ever used a Dell? It comes with a utility called zztop.exe to reinstall your machine to its moronic factory defaults. So we know what box they used there.
I have no clue where the name comes from tho...
So how does that airbag work for you?