Well, XMMS has an attractive user interface, which it, well, "borrowed" from another shall-remain-namelessAMP. But, it's an incredible piece of software never-the-less, and is undoubtedly one of the kings of configurability, right up there with Eterm and Enlightenment.
It just makes sense to use the interface of a tried-and-true MP3 player that is widely liked and used, instead of making YAMP3 Player.
Although it would be difficult to say who exactly would be responsible for this driver, it's pretty clear that the release of the emu10k1 (Sound Blaster Live!) driver has caused more of a splash this year than any other driver.
Now, whether it has been the most useful, is up to debate. It certainly is nice having even stereo-mirrored 4-speaker sound in Linux - but I'd have to say that the driver that has saved me the most time and frustration is the framebuffer device driver - besides being able to have the high-res console, being able to support all the really crummy video cards they have at work here in X (when they don't have an X driver written for it) has been incredibly useful!
MinaInerz Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
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I use the PC Concepts Express Remote Pro wireless keyboard for my home computing experience, and I'd just like to say that I really like it. It's a much smaller keyboard (it doesn't have the keypad, and the insert-delete-home-end-pgup-pgdown-end row is "squished" to the right of the normal end of the "letter-pad". It's very laptopish, and has a very light sounding click whenever you hit a key. A big bonus is that you don't have to "push" down on they keys - all you need is a very light tap. That, in combination with a Dvorak layout makes my feel like my fingers are kind of "flying" over the keyboard - it's a great feeling. It also has a tiny mouse built into the keyboard, if you're into that sort of thing.
They have an ugly webpage, but their keyboards are great, I suggest checking them out! I really wish I had one at work, where I have to type on these new IBM keyboards, and I can feel the strain on my wrist everytime I have to push them down.
First of all, SuSE has always been a top-notch distro, they have lots of smart people working for them. Because of that, I'm sure that SuSE will probably do something like have 6.3DVD come with a bootable CD-ROM that does all the module loading, formatting, etc. After you select which modules you want to install, they'll probably have you enter the DVD disc for all the packages. A simple, effective solution.;) Go SuSE!
First of all, SuSE has always been a top-notch distro, they have lots of smart people working for them. Because of that, I'm sure that SuSE will probably do something like have 6.3DVD come with a bootable CD-ROM that does all the module loading, formatting, etc. After you select which modules you want to install, they'll probably have you enter the DVD disc for all the packages. A simple, effective solution.;) Go SuSE!
I used to have all of my machines named after obscure names from my favorite Japanese animation of mine (but most people don't know that)...
Things like: Mina, Amelia, Gourry, Zelgadis, Rezo, Lina, etc...
But I recently switched them over to these sorts of names: panic, fear, doubt, uncertainty, stupidity, idiocy, apathy, futility, failure, etc...
But I was thinking of naming the Windows machines with names like that - and than name the Linux machines the opposite - calm, courage, conviction, certainty, etc...
As a huge Anime fan (The Slayers, Fushigi Yuugi, and Battle Atheletes being my favs! - especially The Slayers (subbed) w/ Megumi Hayashibara) I'd just like to say that my wild-blind-stab-in-the-dark-guess is that Mononoke Hime will catapult Anime into more mainstream America. I'm not talking about Pokemon or DBZ (Japanese-Americanish) Anime, I'm talking about real subtitled (on even dubbed, if it's good).
I can't wait til this happens, as so many really good Animes get 'stuck' in Japan, and they're only available if you can speak Japanese, read Kanji, or know where to find a good Fan-subber.
Anyways, everybody should see Mononoke Hime - you'll love it. (It was the best selling movie in Japan ever, until Titanic crossed the Pacific) And check out some Anime - you can get it at local stores like Suncoast, or online at www.animenation.com, which has really great prices! I'd suggest getting 'The Slayers' if you're a fantasy fan, it's hilarous, I guarantee you'll love it, or Rob promises to give you a full refund!
Mina Inerz (a.k.a Lina Inverse) - visit my webpage for great Anime Wallpapers! Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
As I work for a rather large software company, I'd just like a make a few observations.
First of all, Java is really popular - but not for PCs - but server programs (distributed stuffish). Java and Java Servlets are gaining ground really quickly as far as I can see. Additionally, I'm seeing more and more companies switch to Java - not because it's a great performer (although the new IBM JDK is really really fast!), but because you can deploy large scale apps rather quickly, and fairly painlessly.
However, I don't see C/C++ going away anytime soon, because although Java certainly has it's merits, for most quick and dirty programming jobs, it's overkill. Although C/C++/Perl have the ability to program OO in them, they don't *require* you to program that way to get anything done. I, myself, do about 90% of my programming in Perl - because it's incredibly easy and quick to program in (once you spend a bit of time learning it). I constantly end up amazing the VB/C/C++/Java developers because I can get programs done quickly and efficiently. Go Perl! Thanks, Larry!
As far as someone becoming a new programmer, I'd start them out on C, and then work them up to Java as quickly as possible - although this survey doesn't say so, I see the industry switching more and more to Java in the future.
Well, enough on my rambling! Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
If I remember correctly, the Dvorak layout has a much more distributed layout than QWERTY. I believe the longest word you can type in Dvorak with one hand is "papaya", which is excellent! Whereas QWERTY has an incredibly long list of incredibly long words that can be typed with one hand. Things like "devastate". It's pretty ridiculous, and that's why I like Dvorak so much more. Besides, my wrists hurt so much less! My wrists started at age 18 from typing so much, and pretty fast, too (100 wpm). Ever since I switched to Dvorak, the pain is gone! Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
As a part-time web developer, who spends a massive amount of time trimming down graphics to the absolute smallest size I can make them and still have them look decent, I find yankees.com appalling! This is almost as bad as the 3"x3" 400KB animated gif I chewed out a webmaster on amd.com about. Even though I have ADSL, this webpage reminded me of the ol' modem days. Mina Inerz Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
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If I remember correctly, Cringley (of "I, Cringely" fame) has in his possession an Altair - but not just any Altair - Altair serial# 2... anybody who has seen "Triumph of the Nerds" should remember that... it's a great show. Anyways, I'm jealous of that lawyer!
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Well, XMMS has an attractive user interface, which it, well, "borrowed" from another shall-remain-namelessAMP. But, it's an incredible piece of software never-the-less, and is undoubtedly one of the kings of configurability, right up there with Eterm and Enlightenment.
It just makes sense to use the interface of a tried-and-true MP3 player that is widely liked and used, instead of making YAMP3 Player.
MinaInerz
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
Although it would be difficult to say who exactly would be responsible for this driver, it's pretty clear that the release of the emu10k1 (Sound Blaster Live!) driver has caused more of a splash this year than any other driver.
Now, whether it has been the most useful, is up to debate. It certainly is nice having even stereo-mirrored 4-speaker sound in Linux - but I'd have to say that the driver that has saved me the most time and frustration is the framebuffer device driver - besides being able to have the high-res console, being able to support all the really crummy video cards they have at work here in X (when they don't have an X driver written for it) has been incredibly useful!
MinaInerz
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
I use the PC Concepts Express Remote Pro wireless keyboard for my home computing experience, and I'd just like to say that I really like it. It's a much smaller keyboard (it doesn't have the keypad, and the insert-delete-home-end-pgup-pgdown-end row is "squished" to the right of the normal end of the "letter-pad". It's very laptopish, and has a very light sounding click whenever you hit a key. A big bonus is that you don't have to "push" down on they keys - all you need is a very light tap. That, in combination with a Dvorak layout makes my feel like my fingers are kind of "flying" over the keyboard - it's a great feeling. It also has a tiny mouse built into the keyboard, if you're into that sort of thing.
They have an ugly webpage, but their keyboards are great, I suggest checking them out! I really wish I had one at work, where I have to type on these new IBM keyboards, and I can feel the strain on my wrist everytime I have to push them down.
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
::collapses on her work desk and starts sobbing loudly!::
It pains me to see Diablo II getting moved back to Q1 2000, it was shaping up to be such a nice Christmas gift, too!
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
First of all, SuSE has always been a top-notch distro, they have lots of smart people working for them. Because of that, I'm sure that SuSE will probably do something like have 6.3DVD come with a bootable CD-ROM that does all the module loading, formatting, etc. After you select which modules you want to install, they'll probably have you enter the DVD disc for all the packages. A simple, effective solution. ;) Go SuSE!
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
First of all, SuSE has always been a top-notch distro, they have lots of smart people working for them. Because of that, I'm sure that SuSE will probably do something like have 6.3DVD come with a bootable CD-ROM that does all the module loading, formatting, etc. After you select which modules you want to install, they'll probably have you enter the DVD disc for all the packages. A simple, effective solution. ;) Go SuSE!
Mina Inerz
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
I used to have all of my machines named after obscure names from my favorite Japanese animation of mine (but most people don't know that)...
Things like: Mina, Amelia, Gourry, Zelgadis, Rezo, Lina, etc...
But I recently switched them over to these sorts of names: panic, fear, doubt, uncertainty, stupidity, idiocy, apathy, futility, failure, etc...
But I was thinking of naming the Windows machines with names like that - and than name the Linux machines the opposite - calm, courage, conviction, certainty, etc...
Mina
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
As a huge Anime fan (The Slayers, Fushigi Yuugi, and Battle Atheletes being my favs! - especially The Slayers (subbed) w/ Megumi Hayashibara) I'd just like to say that my wild-blind-stab-in-the-dark-guess is that Mononoke Hime will catapult Anime into more mainstream America. I'm not talking about Pokemon or DBZ (Japanese-Americanish) Anime, I'm talking about real subtitled (on even dubbed, if it's good).
I can't wait til this happens, as so many really good Animes get 'stuck' in Japan, and they're only available if you can speak Japanese, read Kanji, or know where to find a good Fan-subber.
Anyways, everybody should see Mononoke Hime - you'll love it. (It was the best selling movie in Japan ever, until Titanic crossed the Pacific) And check out some Anime - you can get it at local stores like Suncoast, or online at www.animenation.com, which has really great prices! I'd suggest getting 'The Slayers' if you're a fantasy fan, it's hilarous, I guarantee you'll love it, or Rob promises to give you a full refund!
Mina Inerz (a.k.a Lina Inverse) - visit my webpage for great Anime Wallpapers!
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
As I work for a rather large software company, I'd just like a make a few observations.
First of all, Java is really popular - but not for PCs - but server programs (distributed stuffish). Java and Java Servlets are gaining ground really quickly as far as I can see. Additionally, I'm seeing more and more companies switch to Java - not because it's a great performer (although the new IBM JDK is really really fast!), but because you can deploy large scale apps rather quickly, and fairly painlessly.
However, I don't see C/C++ going away anytime soon, because although Java certainly has it's merits, for most quick and dirty programming jobs, it's overkill. Although C/C++/Perl have the ability to program OO in them, they don't *require* you to program that way to get anything done. I, myself, do about 90% of my programming in Perl - because it's incredibly easy and quick to program in (once you spend a bit of time learning it). I constantly end up amazing the VB/C/C++/Java developers because I can get programs done quickly and efficiently. Go Perl! Thanks, Larry!
As far as someone becoming a new programmer, I'd start them out on C, and then work them up to Java as quickly as possible - although this survey doesn't say so, I see the industry switching more and more to Java in the future.
Well, enough on my rambling!
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
If I remember correctly, the Dvorak layout has a much more distributed layout than QWERTY. I believe the longest word you can type in Dvorak with one hand is "papaya", which is excellent! Whereas QWERTY has an incredibly long list of incredibly long words that can be typed with one hand. Things like "devastate". It's pretty ridiculous, and that's why I like Dvorak so much more. Besides, my wrists hurt so much less! My wrists started at age 18 from typing so much, and pretty fast, too (100 wpm). Ever since I switched to Dvorak, the pain is gone!
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
As a part-time web developer, who spends a massive amount of time trimming down graphics to the absolute smallest size I can make them and still have them look decent, I find yankees.com appalling! This is almost as bad as the 3"x3" 400KB animated gif I chewed out a webmaster on amd.com about. Even though I have ADSL, this webpage reminded me of the ol' modem days. Mina Inerz
Mina Inerz [N. Reinking]
If I remember correctly, Cringley (of "I, Cringely" fame) has in his possession an Altair - but not just any Altair - Altair serial# 2... anybody who has seen "Triumph of the Nerds" should remember that... it's a great show. Anyways, I'm jealous of that lawyer!