Well, eclipse started with code donated by IBM, and is a pretty decent effort. There are also developers at IBM working on it I believe (like Netscape/Mozilla). There are also a bunch of improvements they have made to the linux kernel. They have a whole area dedicated to Open Source. --
Heh. That made me laugh. My brother is studying law, and they have a soccer team composed entirely of law students. Their name: "The Kangaroos". Why the name, you say? well, the kangaroo is the biggest rat of them all! Nice to know lawyers have a sense of humor =) --
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For those who want more info, here's the link. Geek Cruises organize these caribbean cruises with seminars about geeky themes and recognized speakers. Interestingly enough, Linus doesn't appear in the speaker list (which includes Guido Van Rossum and Eric Raymond, among others), so I guess he is there as an attendee.
The seminars themselves look very attractive, and the fact that they're held on board a caribbean cruise doesn't hurt. If I had about 3000 dollars and a very understanding spouse, I'd like to give these a try. --
The article says that the agreement is to drop charges against Skylarov if he testifies in the trial against ElcomSoft. Thus, if he can't be there, he may be prosecuted. --
using linux with root account is more dangerous than using windows. don't believe me . just do "rm -rf/"
Is that your.sig? not sure if it is, but anyways... deltree * is just as dangerous as rm -rf, isn't it? not much protection against user stupidity either way... __
Microsoft, IIRC, is a non voting member of the Apple board, which means they don't have a say in Apple's policy (would probably break up their best defense against the monopoly argument). They just invested money in the company, but can't control it. Besides, there IS a certain level of compatibility between OSX and other unixes, as attested by projects like fink
That is a valid line, as long as you know what you're doing and handle the values returned accordingly. Not the best practice maybe, but a valid one nonetheless.
I've always wonder how many places used it for teaching...or if we were just CMU guinea pigs in my school and it never took off
Funny you should ask that, since I used it in Mexico (I'm Mexican). It was the first programming tool in a course taught to children at the Galileo Institute. That was a programming school that got pretty big at around that time (something of a computer craze back then) and then disappeared AFAIK.
Also, when perusing through computer programming books about a year ago, I saw one that was about a new version of Karel, intended to teach object oriented programming. Just ran a search in google, and came up with this Karel homepage.
It was called Karel. I started learning to program using both that one and logo, later on going to basic, graphic basic and pascal (on a c64). Karel was a robot that searched for spinners (the revolving, dancing toys) and was able to pick them up. It could go through a maze and pick up the spinners. You designed the maze, set the spinners and then programmed the robot's course through it. If Karel hit a wall he would explode. This was a more limited learning tool than logo, but a good introduction nonetheless. Rumor had it that there was a real version of Karel (like the mechanical turtle for logo) somewhere, but I never knew if there was any substance to it.
The most important difference between that article and this one is that this approach uses the artificial retina artifact instead of the big setup in that other technique. I think this would allow higher miniaturization and eventually lead to the integration of the camera and processing equipment in a single implant (much easier to "install" than the neural implant).
I think that's a U.S.-centric view of the situation
That's right. I live in Mexico and it is quite common to see *every* major store advertising and selling multi-region dvd players. They just charge you more for them usually. Completely legal and you don't have to hack anything.
There are some interesting cases where a player will have a specific region printed on its box but is advertised as multi-region by the store. Turns out, they are cheap, acceptable quality taiwanese/korean players that apparently are easier to mass produce without region restictions and package tailored to destination (a friend of mine bought one of these. They DO read all regions, regardless of the bold "REGION 4" notice on the package)
slice up the brain and map out the synapse connection patterns and strengths to load into a computer-emulated brain
That's an interesting idea, and it leads to many ethical and philosophical questions. Essentially, if you make an exact copy of the patterns in your brain and dump them into a hard drive, that is a copy of your thoughts, personality and memory, but it is not you per se (given the fact that you could conceivably execute this process while still alive and would end up with an alternate version of yourself in a computer, not a conciousness transfer). Thought provoking...
The interface is inconsistent, and it doesn't make it obvious what is going on at any one time. There's nothing like the big 'Send/Recv' button in OE, and when you collect mail, you have no idea what's going on
There is a fairly big button that says "Get Msgs" with an envelope and a green arrow. It even has a drop down menu that lets you specify wich of your accounts you want to get the new messages from. The status bar displays what the browser is doing ("host contacted, sending login information" -- "there are n new messages in server"). What else do you expect? a popup with a progress bar like OE? That is one way to do it, not neccessarily the best (invasive interface elements)
As for the folders, I find the management quite intuitive. You can create a subfolder by right clicking on where you want to create it, move emails to that with right click. What problems do you find there?
Their main concern is whether a third world country can actually make the open souce IT industry model work, thus setting the example for the other countries. Mexico has been trying for some time, with some encouraging results. Not many (you all remember the botched plan to install linux in schools). But if Peru manages to get it to work well, a lot of other central and south american countries are sure to follow, thus creating a major potential problem for M$'s profitability.
IE keeps on supporting things they did that weren't int the spec (since ie 4) like document.all for referencing elements. Mozilla doesn't (actually, that is a good way to sniff browsers, by detecting the referencing and functions they support). Both ie5+ and mozilla support most of the DOM well (document.getElementById() being the most standardized of the functions defined in the DOM).
I find Mozilla's javascript implementation to be better than explorer's actually. The behavior is more consistent and well defined. The event bubbling (which most developers won't use consciously) is fully up to spec, whereas ie support is still a bit flaky in some of those things.
Personally I prefer Mozilla, but it is more a matter of good png support, tabbed browsing and other features ie is still behind on. Also, I HATE the new (as of ie 6 I think) image management "features" in Internet Explorer (the annoying toolbar that shows up when you mouse over images, and automatically resizes jpegs to fit the screen) yes, it can be turned off, but it annoys the hell out of me when the browser modifies in any non standard way the look of a page without asking.
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I do the same, but haven't had luck so far. I have emailed 3 webmasters already even providing the fix for their sites' display problems and haven't gotten so much as an answer, don't even mention the fix.
One was Pitchfork Magazine, whose front page looks garbled in Mozilla due to css path specification (ie is less strict in enforcing correct file paths). Interestingly, their inner pages have the correct path to the file, so they look ok in mozilla AND explorer. I pointed out that all they had to do was add a slash in the css file specification and it would look ok, and haven't heard back from them, or seen it get fixed. I think many sites don't have active webmasters. They were probably commisioned and get maintenance just when they need them.
To do that you can initialize the options to a javascript array, assign a call to a javascript function that takes the value of the text form, goes through the array and using substr(0,document.fieldName.size()) checks for matches. Then, when it has gathered the ones that match (using an optimized algorithm, preferrably) it could display a floating div that contains the possible elements.
In later, DOM compliant browsers (ie5+,ns6+,mozilla) the div can even be positioned to the end of the text inside the field, to simulate code completion style behaviour. You also need code to allow the selection of the correct option from that div and then write it to the form field. This is entirely doable from javascript using only it and HTML 4.0.
As a side note: You can use java at the backend to provide the generation of the javascript code. Truly advanced web applications usually make use of a combination of technologies to provide better functionality (java servlets and xml for backend business logic, jsp's for presentation)
I'm using mandrake 8.2, and I'm a compulsive font freak (I do web design work). We used to have Windows at work but then switched to linux, and I installed the truetype fonts I had in Windows (hundreds). 95% of them installed correctly and I use them everyday with the gimp. OpenOffice does support antialiased fonts, but for some reason it didn't grab the fonts installed in my system automatically (haven't fixed that yet, since I don't use it that much) and you're right, the fonts it has off-the-shelf are really ugly.
Also, have you checked out nautilus? if you don't mind the occasional crash (it's improving) those fonts look nifty!
OpenOffice reads all m$ file formats, and does quite a nice job too. It also saves in microsoft office formats, generally well, but I've gotten glitches reading some word documents saved with OpenOffice in word 2000. As for the excel equivalent, OpenOffice consists of a complete office suite, including text editor, presentations editor, spread sheet, useless but cute drawing program and lots of other stuff. This is quite a mature product, and real easy to switch to.
I had a basic physics book in college that had some jokes in the text. We always enjoyed them. For instance, a physics problem stated something like "A mild mannered reporter happens to jump over a building with direction x and an impulse speed of y. Calculate point of impact and determine if he lands on the roof"
Well, I'm a web developer myself, and in my experience, there is not much involved in supporting mozilla/ns6* along with IE.
I dropped support for NS 4.* altogether because of too many implementation issues, but with the new DOM and other standards made by the W3C, the real differences between explorer and Mozilla are few and far between (window.open does not work well when using _self in mozilla, but it does in IE, and a few other points).
Mozilla is less forgiving of coding mistakes (in ns tradition), so I think a good way to ensure properly coded apps is to develop them using mostly Moz to check the results, and then IE. This does not take as much time as you think. Actually, I develop entirely using mozilla over linux and then I test on IE. Aside from a few layout rearrangements there's usually not much to do to have identic behavior in both browsers.
Also, bear in mind that as soon as you don't rely on a far-out IE-exclusive technique for your website navigation or other vital component, your site should be usable in most browsers. It bugs me when a page won't display AT ALL in Mozilla, being that they almost have to be coded SPECIFICALLY so that they won't.
I thought they would be honored more to stay on text
I think those should never be made into movies. I don't know about the rest of the slashdotters, but personally, apart from "speaker", the rest of the series seemed to lose its appeal. The characters were really, REALLY annoying. You meet them, you hate them, keep hoping they'll get better when they grow up, and they just keep on getting more and more obnoxious. Also, the sci-fi on the latter books gets just too metaphysical for my taste. The explanation for the instant space travel is just... flaky. The first book was really good, though, and shadow was so so.
when you have too many instances of one program window open, it collapses them into on the task bar
Yeah, kind of what kde has been doing since a while ago. Wonder how lonk it'll take them to implement virtual desktops.
About mozilla/netscape: what has bugged me for some time about them is the unexpected changes in behavior from different revisions. Mozilla 9.4 (which is included in the Mandrake 8.2 distro by default) is by far the best I've found. Both netscape 6 and later releases of mozilla (including the 1.0 release candidates) have displayed erratic behavior in my box, specially when rendering style sheets and visiting pages with flash animations (netscape 6 often hangs when trying to display them). Sadly, 9.4 does not include tabbed browsing, which happens to be one of my favorite features. BTW, the email client is really good, and both browsers (ns6/mozilla) share configuration transparently, including bookmarks and email client config.
We're a small development company in Mexico (7 employees, 4 of them developers) and we just did this. Pointers:
- Keep a reference manual around at all times. Everyone will keep asking questions about how to do everything from mounting a cd to changing the wallpaper. I've found that "Linux in a Nutshell" by O'Reilly is quite good for the shell inclined people.
- Have at least one or two experts you can go to available at all times (hire them if you don't have them).
- Migrate someone first. Test apps and everything your company uses with him. THEN consider migrating everyone else.
- Search for the alternatives. We found kde to be more adequate to our needs, installed OpenOffice (works great), a messenger app (Msn4Lin, based on ccmsn -- borsanza.com. For development (we mostly do java and web related development) we tried eclipse, but found netbeans more mature. For graphics (I'm the graphics guy) I'm taking a crash course on gimp (to replace jasc's Paint Shop Pro) and am just becoming productive after two days. - Standardize your installation. We're all using mandrake 8.2 standard install with choice apps thrown over it. We all run an ssh server so when a machine hangs (this is development, after all) to the point that the keyboard no longer works, someone else logs into that machine and kills x. Cool thing =).
- Post all the latest tips, tricks or installs in a visible place. We (the developers) are all in one room, so we just scrawl on the blackboard for everyone to see, but for a bigger company you'll need better organization.
This has been useful to us. They're mostly common sense tips. Hope they help you.
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Well, eclipse started with code donated by IBM, and is a pretty decent effort. There are also developers at IBM working on it I believe (like Netscape/Mozilla). There are also a bunch of improvements they have made to the linux kernel. They have a whole area dedicated to Open Source.
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Heh. That made me laugh. My brother is studying law, and they have a soccer team composed entirely of law students. Their name: "The Kangaroos". Why the name, you say? well, the kangaroo is the biggest rat of them all! Nice to know lawyers have a sense of humor =)
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For those who want more info, here's the link. Geek Cruises organize these caribbean cruises with seminars about geeky themes and recognized speakers. Interestingly enough, Linus doesn't appear in the speaker list (which includes Guido Van Rossum and Eric Raymond, among others), so I guess he is there as an attendee.
The seminars themselves look very attractive, and the fact that they're held on board a caribbean cruise doesn't hurt. If I had about 3000 dollars and a very understanding spouse, I'd like to give these a try.
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The article says that the agreement is to drop charges against Skylarov if he testifies in the trial against ElcomSoft. Thus, if he can't be there, he may be prosecuted.
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using linux with root account is more dangerous than using windows. don't believe me . just do "rm -rf /"
.sig? not sure if it is, but anyways... deltree * is just as dangerous as rm -rf, isn't it? not much protection against user stupidity either way...
Is that your
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You are right. I meant to point out that a lot of linux/unix apps do not need to be tweaked much to be able to run on OSX, but that came out wrong.
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That is a valid line, as long as you know what you're doing and handle the values returned accordingly. Not the best practice maybe, but a valid one nonetheless.
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Funny you should ask that, since I used it in Mexico (I'm Mexican). It was the first programming tool in a course taught to children at the Galileo Institute. That was a programming school that got pretty big at around that time (something of a computer craze back then) and then disappeared AFAIK.
Also, when perusing through computer programming books about a year ago, I saw one that was about a new version of Karel, intended to teach object oriented programming. Just ran a search in google, and came up with this Karel homepage.
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Ahhh... the memories.
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That's right. I live in Mexico and it is quite common to see *every* major store advertising and selling multi-region dvd players. They just charge you more for them usually. Completely legal and you don't have to hack anything.
There are some interesting cases where a player will have a specific region printed on its box but is advertised as multi-region by the store. Turns out, they are cheap, acceptable quality taiwanese/korean players that apparently are easier to mass produce without region restictions and package tailored to destination (a friend of mine bought one of these. They DO read all regions, regardless of the bold "REGION 4" notice on the package)
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That's an interesting idea, and it leads to many ethical and philosophical questions. Essentially, if you make an exact copy of the patterns in your brain and dump them into a hard drive, that is a copy of your thoughts, personality and memory, but it is not you per se (given the fact that you could conceivably execute this process while still alive and would end up with an alternate version of yourself in a computer, not a conciousness transfer). Thought provoking...
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There is a fairly big button that says "Get Msgs" with an envelope and a green arrow. It even has a drop down menu that lets you specify wich of your accounts you want to get the new messages from. The status bar displays what the browser is doing ("host contacted, sending login information" -- "there are n new messages in server"). What else do you expect? a popup with a progress bar like OE? That is one way to do it, not neccessarily the best (invasive interface elements)
As for the folders, I find the management quite intuitive. You can create a subfolder by right clicking on where you want to create it, move emails to that with right click. What problems do you find there?
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Their main concern is whether a third world country can actually make the open souce IT industry model work, thus setting the example for the other countries. Mexico has been trying for some time, with some encouraging results. Not many (you all remember the botched plan to install linux in schools). But if Peru manages to get it to work well, a lot of other central and south american countries are sure to follow, thus creating a major potential problem for M$'s profitability.
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I find Mozilla's javascript implementation to be better than explorer's actually. The behavior is more consistent and well defined. The event bubbling (which most developers won't use consciously) is fully up to spec, whereas ie support is still a bit flaky in some of those things.
Personally I prefer Mozilla, but it is more a matter of good png support, tabbed browsing and other features ie is still behind on. Also, I HATE the new (as of ie 6 I think) image management "features" in Internet Explorer (the annoying toolbar that shows up when you mouse over images, and automatically resizes jpegs to fit the screen) yes, it can be turned off, but it annoys the hell out of me when the browser modifies in any non standard way the look of a page without asking.
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One was Pitchfork Magazine, whose front page looks garbled in Mozilla due to css path specification (ie is less strict in enforcing correct file paths). Interestingly, their inner pages have the correct path to the file, so they look ok in mozilla AND explorer. I pointed out that all they had to do was add a slash in the css file specification and it would look ok, and haven't heard back from them, or seen it get fixed. I think many sites don't have active webmasters. They were probably commisioned and get maintenance just when they need them.
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In later, DOM compliant browsers (ie5+,ns6+,mozilla) the div can even be positioned to the end of the text inside the field, to simulate code completion style behaviour. You also need code to allow the selection of the correct option from that div and then write it to the form field. This is entirely doable from javascript using only it and HTML 4.0.
As a side note: You can use java at the backend to provide the generation of the javascript code. Truly advanced web applications usually make use of a combination of technologies to provide better functionality (java servlets and xml for backend business logic, jsp's for presentation)
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Also, have you checked out nautilus? if you don't mind the occasional crash (it's improving) those fonts look nifty!
OpenOffice reads all m$ file formats, and does quite a nice job too. It also saves in microsoft office formats, generally well, but I've gotten glitches reading some word documents saved with OpenOffice in word 2000. As for the excel equivalent, OpenOffice consists of a complete office suite, including text editor, presentations editor, spread sheet, useless but cute drawing program and lots of other stuff. This is quite a mature product, and real easy to switch to.
I had a basic physics book in college that had some jokes in the text. We always enjoyed them. For instance, a physics problem stated something like "A mild mannered reporter happens to jump over a building with direction x and an impulse speed of y. Calculate point of impact and determine if he lands on the roof"
I dropped support for NS 4.* altogether because of too many implementation issues, but with the new DOM and other standards made by the W3C, the real differences between explorer and Mozilla are few and far between (window.open does not work well when using _self in mozilla, but it does in IE, and a few other points).
Mozilla is less forgiving of coding mistakes (in ns tradition), so I think a good way to ensure properly coded apps is to develop them using mostly Moz to check the results, and then IE. This does not take as much time as you think. Actually, I develop entirely using mozilla over linux and then I test on IE. Aside from a few layout rearrangements there's usually not much to do to have identic behavior in both browsers.
Also, bear in mind that as soon as you don't rely on a far-out IE-exclusive technique for your website navigation or other vital component, your site should be usable in most browsers. It bugs me when a page won't display AT ALL in Mozilla, being that they almost have to be coded SPECIFICALLY so that they won't.
I thought they would be honored more to stay on text
I think those should never be made into movies. I don't know about the rest of the slashdotters, but personally, apart from "speaker", the rest of the series seemed to lose its appeal. The characters were really, REALLY annoying. You meet them, you hate them, keep hoping they'll get better when they grow up, and they just keep on getting more and more obnoxious. Also, the sci-fi on the latter books gets just too metaphysical for my taste. The explanation for the instant space travel is just... flaky. The first book was really good, though, and shadow was so so.
when you have too many instances of one program window open, it collapses them into on the task bar
Yeah, kind of what kde has been doing since a while ago. Wonder how lonk it'll take them to implement virtual desktops.
About mozilla/netscape: what has bugged me for some time about them is the unexpected changes in behavior from different revisions. Mozilla 9.4 (which is included in the Mandrake 8.2 distro by default) is by far the best I've found. Both netscape 6 and later releases of mozilla (including the 1.0 release candidates) have displayed erratic behavior in my box, specially when rendering style sheets and visiting pages with flash animations (netscape 6 often hangs when trying to display them). Sadly, 9.4 does not include tabbed browsing, which happens to be one of my favorite features. BTW, the email client is really good, and both browsers (ns6/mozilla) share configuration transparently, including bookmarks and email client config.
We're a small development company in Mexico (7 employees, 4 of them developers) and we just did this. Pointers:
- Keep a reference manual around at all times. Everyone will keep asking questions about how to do everything from mounting a cd to changing the wallpaper. I've found that "Linux in a Nutshell" by O'Reilly is quite good for the shell inclined people.
- Have at least one or two experts you can go to available at all times (hire them if you don't have them).
- Migrate someone first. Test apps and everything your company uses with him. THEN consider migrating everyone else.
- Search for the alternatives. We found kde to be more adequate to our needs, installed OpenOffice (works great), a messenger app (Msn4Lin, based on ccmsn -- borsanza.com. For development (we mostly do java and web related development) we tried eclipse, but found netbeans more mature. For graphics (I'm the graphics guy) I'm taking a crash course on gimp (to replace jasc's Paint Shop Pro) and am just becoming productive after two days. - Standardize your installation. We're all using mandrake 8.2 standard install with choice apps thrown over it. We all run an ssh server so when a machine hangs (this is development, after all) to the point that the keyboard no longer works, someone else logs into that machine and kills x. Cool thing =).
- Post all the latest tips, tricks or installs in a visible place. We (the developers) are all in one room, so we just scrawl on the blackboard for everyone to see, but for a bigger company you'll need better organization.
This has been useful to us. They're mostly common sense tips. Hope they help you.