They're taking forever to ship my Solaris DVD to me as well. I'm in the UK, and within easy driving distance of a Sun office, although I guess they ship these things from abroad somewhere and the chance of it being delivered depends on the quality of the delivery company and Sun's commitment to doing what they said they'd do.
Yes, it's real. I've been developing it slowly in my spare time for the last few months. It runs on Mono/MS.NET/Portable.NET and has perhaps 1/3 of COBOL-85 implemented, along with some of the.NET extensions allowing it to use classes from the Framework and external assemblies. I plan on opening the source one I get time to implement a bit more and tidy up the bits I'm not happy with.
Both C# and CIL are ECMA standards, and are also approved by ISO/IEC here and here respectively.
There are also a few companies working on projects that use these standards in their products. So even if you don't want to use Microsoft products, you can still use C# or any other language that compiles for.NET with something like Mono on most of the popular desktop/server operating systems today.
If you want Linux to be mainstream-friendly, one of the absolute must-haves is that the user must NEVER EVER EVER, any any circumstances, have to either (1) edit a text config file by hand, or (2) use the command line.
If you want Windows to be user-friendly, one of the absolute must-haves is that the user must NEVER NEVER NEVER, under any circumstances:
Have to edit the registry (at least config files can have comments explaining what they're about), or
Have to worry about installing drivers for hardware that's been around for years (that's what auto-updates are for).
I think the upgrade from Office 2000 was change for the sake of change, but then there may be some new features that are not the ones I use. They should concentrate on making numbered lists work. From what I've seen there's no great improvement in this area in Office 2007. I'd also love if they got rid of easy ways to randomly change fonts. That's what styles are for.
On OS X, I just right clicked on a file and chose "Move to Trash", and it doesn't ask if I'm sure I want to delete the file. If I didn't want to delete it, I wouldn't have right clicked and chosen that option. I'm happy it doesn't ask me pointless questions like that.
It doesn't do.Net applications. Even Linux with MonoDevelop can do this. Yeah, sure, you can get MonoDevelop running on OS X, but: a) It doesn't fit in with the other applications (look and feel) b) Why do I have to install a second IDE to use one of the most popular development frameworks?
Ever tried installing MonoDevelop on OS X? It's not as simple as "apt-get install monodevelop".
As a CS graduate, you're either in employment or soon will be, so you can afford to buy games rather than pirating them, thus reducing the risk of being infected by a virus/worm/bot from an application or game that you downloaded from the 'net.
Apart from that, here are 4 things to do: - Run a software firewall that blocks individual processes from connecting to the Internet, and don't let any connect unless you *NEED* them to - Don't use a browser that happily runs things (eg ActiveX) that web pages request - Firefox or Opera (as you suggested) - Don't use an e-mail client that happily runs scripts or ActiveX - Don't trust your software firewall, buy a cheap Linksys box to go between your PC and the rest of the network, acting as a firewall in *ADDITION* to your software one.
Don't you think it's probably a very cut-down/re-written version of OS X that has very little in common with the desktop version, kinda like Windows mobile phones?
Both of those are rather expensive, and I've not seen any open-source ones yet. I thought it would be fun to write a COBOL compiler for.Net as a pet project. I've started it, but haven't had much time to spend on it recently. My plan was to get it to a point where it can do some useful things then put it on sourceforge.
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Are you a Unix sysadmin?
They're taking forever to ship my Solaris DVD to me as well. I'm in the UK, and within easy driving distance of a Sun office, although I guess they ship these things from abroad somewhere and the chance of it being delivered depends on the quality of the delivery company and Sun's commitment to doing what they said they'd do.
I also use a non-US keyboard (a UK one) and haven't had any keyboard problems. Are you using a non-qwerty keyboard?
Yes, it's real. I've been developing it slowly in my spare time for the last few months. It runs on Mono/MS .NET/Portable.NET and has perhaps 1/3 of COBOL-85 implemented, along with some of the .NET extensions allowing it to use classes from the Framework and external assemblies. I plan on opening the source one I get time to implement a bit more and tidy up the bits I'm not happy with.
Better get that plane ticket to Soviet Russia then. I've heard the time travel costs extra.
Both C# and CIL are ECMA standards, and are also approved by ISO/IEC here and here respectively.
.NET with something like Mono on most of the popular desktop/server operating systems today.
There are also a few companies working on projects that use these standards in their products. So even if you don't want to use Microsoft products, you can still use C# or any other language that compiles for
Some people who support open source are helping with free beer.
If you want Windows to be user-friendly, one of the absolute must-haves is that the user must NEVER NEVER NEVER, under any circumstances:
I think the upgrade from Office 2000 was change for the sake of change, but then there may be some new features that are not the ones I use. They should concentrate on making numbered lists work. From what I've seen there's no great improvement in this area in Office 2007. I'd also love if they got rid of easy ways to randomly change fonts. That's what styles are for.
I read that as "parsing".
When I read the subject line, I thought your post was going to be another one about flashy graphics in OS X compared to Vista.
Yes, but you need Active X enabled on your client for it to work.
On OS X, I just right clicked on a file and chose "Move to Trash", and it doesn't ask if I'm sure I want to delete the file. If I didn't want to delete it, I wouldn't have right clicked and chosen that option. I'm happy it doesn't ask me pointless questions like that.
Do they? Everyone I know stays away from things they don't like or approve of unless there's no alternative.
Gotta love the Slashdot moderation system sometimes. Hopefully the above Anonymous Coward post was informative to its parent's author :-)
It doesn't do .Net applications. Even Linux with MonoDevelop can do this. Yeah, sure, you can get MonoDevelop running on OS X, but:
a) It doesn't fit in with the other applications (look and feel)
b) Why do I have to install a second IDE to use one of the most popular development frameworks?
Ever tried installing MonoDevelop on OS X? It's not as simple as "apt-get install monodevelop".
I guess multiple cores are more than your "average core"
As a CS graduate, you're either in employment or soon will be, so you can afford to buy games rather than pirating them, thus reducing the risk of being infected by a virus/worm/bot from an application or game that you downloaded from the 'net.
Apart from that, here are 4 things to do:
- Run a software firewall that blocks individual processes from connecting to the Internet, and don't let any connect unless you *NEED* them to
- Don't use a browser that happily runs things (eg ActiveX) that web pages request - Firefox or Opera (as you suggested)
- Don't use an e-mail client that happily runs scripts or ActiveX
- Don't trust your software firewall, buy a cheap Linksys box to go between your PC and the rest of the network, acting as a firewall in *ADDITION* to your software one.
Is that the Arabic version of /. ?
"Surprised that a girl with an IQ over seventy can give you a large hadron collider?"
Exactly, that's why we use the word "label" as well.
Don't you think it's probably a very cut-down/re-written version of OS X that has very little in common with the desktop version, kinda like Windows mobile phones?
There are a few implementations of object oriented COBOL for .Net out there...
.NET
.Net as a pet project. I've started it, but haven't had much time to spend on it recently. My plan was to get it to a point where it can do some useful things then put it on sourceforge.
Fujitsu COBOL and NetCOBOL for
Micro Focus Net Express
Both of those are rather expensive, and I've not seen any open-source ones yet. I thought it would be fun to write a COBOL compiler for
Microsoft, with their IntelliMouse.
Data at the Speed of Light modem... you must be using optical fiber ;-)