So everyone's still arguing if it's faster. One thing's for certain, your fingers move a LOT less. Which in the end is all that really matters - more comfortable definitely.
Brain the size of a planet, and the best language Larry could come up with was Perl. What's wrong with this picture.
I used to think "at least perl is ok as a text processing engine". After doing web pages using it, now I'm not so sure. The wierd syntax with a zillion exceptions keeps trampling me down. And the documentation! Don't get me started on that.
We all know that hacking can be fun. But what keeps you going through the tough times when you're hacking for no money? Don't you wake up some times and think "I'm wasting my life in a dark room with a machine writing code that may be obsolete in 5 years".
You're doing a fantastic job, I just don't know how you keep it up, especially before you were able to get paid for doing it.
I believe there is something in emacs than can "take a struct and see where its defined". I think it's called xtags or something, but I've never bothered to investigate.
As for a true source browser, they don't impress me that much and those that I've seen have been pretty lame, especially the IDE integrated ones. But if you really want one they are probably extremely language specific (at least they are if they are going to be of any damned use). I don't want to have to learn a whole lot of new keystrokes and editing commands just because I'm using a different language.
Moral of the story: If you have a good source browser INTEGRATE IT WITH EXISTING EDITORS.
Perl, Haskell and Smalltalk is nothing. Emacs has special support for TeX, makefiles, java, lisp, scheme, Eiffel, Sather, C, C++, Shell script and probably a lot of other stuff too.
It's a bit of a cliche I know, but why would I give up emacs for this? Don't get me wrong, I like the fancy graphics but I'm not going to give up the whole host of emacs lisp code for pretty buttons - things like editing modes for every language under the sun, nice integration with gdb, customisable colour highlighting, integration with make and grep, and total customisability. They'd be better off spending their time adding fancy buttons to emacs than writing yet another lame IDE.
The article talks about.com domains..com domains are theoretically international. What if the defendants wanted to set up a software house in Upper Volta called "Melbourne IT". Why should the Australian courts have anything to say? Ok, the defendants live in Australia, but so what the domain isn't registered in Oz. Will the courts complain if I own a company in Upper Volta called Melbourne IT? By what right?
If your prints are electronically coded on your card there will be a million and one opportunities for the govt and private enterprise to store that info. Once it's stored it will be used.
Surely if someone is being monitored, all I have to do is go up to them and say, you are NOT being monitored. (wink wink). No, of course you're not being monitored. (wink wink).
Do anonymous mailers still exist BTW?
As for requiring companies to disclose crypto stuff, I would imagine a company could defeat this by getting all their employees to generate their own private keys and take personal responsibility for keeping their own key private.
Yeah sure, they could. They could take your fingerprint info and throw the info away. Yeah right. I've got this nice bridge I want to sell. Interested?
If they require finger print info on the card then that means the govt will have the whole nation's finger prints in their computers. Then they'll build even bigger super-computers and run them against their unsolved crime database. And whenever a crime occurs they'll run all prints found through the computer and identify everyone at the scene of the crime. They already do this of course, but without the benefit of everyone's fingerprint.
Next step I guess is random checks of people. If you look suspicious they'll ask for your card and stick it in their palm pilot to look at your records.
Umm. The Toshiba 3110 has a 366mhz processor, more than 100Meg ram available, 6 gig disk weighing up at only 1.3kg (3lb). Why do you need more powerful than that?
What do you want to carry a CDROM for? I sure don't. I rarely use the things. Only to install RedHat.
The specs look ok - if that's what you're looking for. But you get poor choice with apple. Yes 2.6 kg is ok for a laptop with a built-in CD and 14" screen. But what if I don't want that? What if I want no cdrom, a smaller screen in exchange for say 1.3 kg weight (in other words half the weight). With a PC I get the choice.
Would SGI want x86 users to have SGI quality graphics? I would say yes because...
There's more money in selling a million cheap x86 cards than a couple of thousand expensive worstation cards.
Specialised hardware is a bad bet in the long term. Eventually you'll be put out of business by someone selling a consumer version that does everything you want at 1/10 the price. To win long term you've got to go mainstream and get maximum market share.
I don't want to sound like a troll, but I think Raster should be spending his time making E stable instead of trying to re-invent the wheel. E crashes for me quite a few times every day (and I'm using a supposedly stable and recent version). I don't need no steenking file manager built into the window manager (why on earth?...)
All I want is a window manager that doesn't crash, easy to configure, has all the basic features (pager, auto-raise etc). I've yet to find it. They all have their wierdness and instabilities. Tried E, fvwm2, scwm. I'm hoping scwm will start to stabilise soon and go with that.
I don't know if Solaris TCP came from BSD, but you can be very sure that it has been hacked unrecognisably if it is. All the BSD-derived stacks have, none more so than Solaris.
for the great unwashed that is. While I am able to get, let's say an ATAPI cdwriter working, it took me several hours of fiddling with kernel options and reading doco to do it. When I look at non-computer people using their PCs, I know they would have no hope.
This isn't totally Linux's fault. Hardware manufacturers work hard to make their devices easy to install. But some work could definitely be done in the kernel config/hardware config department. There are some things that I know should work that not even I can get working (for example, some devices I can't get working as a module but I can when built into the kernel). The whole module config area is too hard right now.
Replay TV may disable the 30 sec skip and add banner-adds to save the networks, but what happens when some open-source software comes out to replace replay-TV? The networks will be in trouble. Maybe Replay-TV will too since their technology is no more than a computer and most people have a computer now anyway.
Hmm. An integrated MP-3 stereo, replay tv mpeg recorder.
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So everyone's still arguing if it's faster. One thing's for certain, your fingers move a LOT less. Which in the end is all that really matters - more comfortable definitely.
Nice theory. Pity we just lost a space probe because of it!
Who on earth is still using NT 3.5
It's only certified as a stand-alone machine. How useful is a server with no clients???
Who on earth is still using NT 3.5?
It's only certified as a stand-alone machine. How useful is a server with no clients???
Brain the size of a planet, and the best language Larry could come up with was Perl. What's wrong with this picture.
I used to think "at least perl is ok as a text processing engine". After doing web pages using it, now I'm not so sure. The wierd syntax with a zillion exceptions keeps trampling me down. And the documentation! Don't get me started on that.
We all know that hacking can be fun. But what keeps you going through the tough times when you're hacking for no money? Don't you wake up some times and think "I'm wasting my life in a dark room with a machine writing code that may be obsolete in 5 years".
You're doing a fantastic job, I just don't know how you keep it up, especially before you were able to get paid for doing it.
Emacs is a gui. It has menus and mouse support. Why do you want another front end to it??
I believe there is something in emacs than can "take a struct and see where its defined". I think it's called xtags or something, but I've never bothered to investigate.
As for a true source browser, they don't impress me that much and those that I've seen have been pretty lame, especially the IDE integrated ones. But if you really want one they are probably extremely language specific (at least they are if they are going to be of any damned use). I don't want to have to learn a whole lot of new keystrokes and editing commands just because I'm using a different language.
Moral of the story: If you have a good source browser INTEGRATE IT WITH EXISTING EDITORS.
Perl, Haskell and Smalltalk is nothing. Emacs has
special support for TeX, makefiles, java,
lisp, scheme, Eiffel, Sather, C, C++, Shell script and probably a lot of other stuff too.
It's a bit of a cliche I know, but why would I give up emacs for this? Don't get me wrong, I like the fancy graphics but I'm not going to give up the whole host of emacs lisp code for pretty buttons - things like editing modes for every language under the sun, nice integration with gdb, customisable colour highlighting, integration with make and grep, and total customisability. They'd be better off spending their time adding fancy buttons to emacs than writing yet another lame IDE.
Same writing style as the Hitchhiker's guide dude. i.e. hilarious.
The article talks about .com domains. .com domains are theoretically international. What if the defendants wanted to set up a software house in Upper Volta called "Melbourne IT". Why should the Australian courts have anything to say? Ok, the defendants live in Australia, but so what the domain isn't registered in Oz. Will the courts complain if I own a company in Upper Volta called Melbourne IT? By what right?
If your prints are electronically coded on your card there will be a million and one opportunities for the govt and private enterprise to store that info. Once it's stored it will be used.
When do you want delivery on that bridge?
Legislation gets madder and madder.
Surely if someone is being monitored, all I have to do is go up to them and say, you are NOT being monitored. (wink wink). No, of course you're not being monitored. (wink wink).
Do anonymous mailers still exist BTW?
As for requiring companies to disclose crypto stuff, I would imagine a company could defeat this by getting all their employees to generate their own private keys and take personal responsibility for keeping their own key private.
Yeah sure, they could. They could take your fingerprint info and throw the info away. Yeah right. I've got this nice bridge I want to sell. Interested?
If they require finger print info on the card then that means the govt will have the whole nation's finger prints in their computers. Then they'll build even bigger super-computers and run them against their unsolved crime database. And whenever a crime occurs they'll run all prints found through the computer and identify everyone at the scene of the crime. They already do this of course, but without the benefit of everyone's fingerprint.
Next step I guess is random checks of people. If you look suspicious they'll ask for your card and stick it in their palm pilot to look at your records.
Umm. The Toshiba 3110 has a 366mhz processor, more than 100Meg ram available, 6 gig disk weighing up at only 1.3kg (3lb). Why do you need more powerful than that?
What do you want to carry a CDROM for? I sure don't. I rarely use the things. Only to install RedHat.
The specs look ok - if that's what you're looking for. But you get poor choice with apple. Yes 2.6 kg is ok for a laptop with a built-in CD and 14" screen. But what if I don't want that? What if I want no cdrom, a smaller screen in exchange for say 1.3 kg weight (in other words half the weight). With a PC I get the choice.
There's more money in selling a million cheap x86 cards than a couple of thousand expensive worstation cards.
Specialised hardware is a bad bet in the long term. Eventually you'll be put out of business by someone selling a consumer version that does everything you want at 1/10 the price. To win long term you've got to go mainstream and get maximum market share.
As someone who has been offered a job to move to Silicon Valley next year I'm naturally interested in this issue.
Question: How much would rent be on a 3 bedroom house within about 45 minutes drive from somewhere a high-tech person might want to work?
2: How much roughly would a programmer, 8 years experience, contract rates earn?
I don't want to sound like a troll, but I think Raster should be spending his time making E stable instead of trying to re-invent the wheel. E crashes for me quite a few times every day (and I'm using a supposedly stable and recent version). I don't need no steenking file manager built into the window manager (why on earth?...)
All I want is a window manager that doesn't crash, easy to configure, has all the basic features (pager, auto-raise etc). I've yet to find it. They all have their wierdness and instabilities. Tried E, fvwm2, scwm. I'm hoping scwm will start to stabilise soon and go with that.
I'm Australian. I wouldn't be offended except that Vegemite is owned by an American Cigarette company. (true story).
I don't know if Solaris TCP came from BSD, but you can be very sure that it has been hacked unrecognisably if it is. All the BSD-derived stacks have, none more so than Solaris.
for the great unwashed that is. While I am able to get, let's say an ATAPI cdwriter working, it took me several hours of fiddling with kernel options and reading doco to do it. When I look at non-computer people using their PCs, I know they would have no hope.
This isn't totally Linux's fault. Hardware manufacturers work hard to make their devices easy to install. But some work could definitely be done in the kernel config/hardware config department. There are some things that I know should work that not even I can get working (for example, some devices I can't get working as a module but I can when built into the kernel). The whole module config area is too hard right now.
Replay TV may disable the 30 sec skip and add banner-adds to save the networks, but what happens when some open-source software comes out to replace replay-TV? The networks will be in trouble. Maybe Replay-TV will too since their technology is no more than a computer and most people have a computer now anyway.
Hmm. An integrated MP-3 stereo, replay tv mpeg recorder.