It really helps because otherwise, the script-code and the HTML just looks the same, and its an unreadable mess.
I think what you're trying to say is that you're using the wrong tool for the job. If your editor can't handle highlighting of PHP, then perhaps you should consider alternatives...
How else do you think StarOffice can even attempt to read Microsoft Office documents?
Because until a couple of years ago, MS documented the file formats on MSDN. They're no longer publically available, but MS will still give them to you if you provide a detailed description of what you want to use them for.
Any "real techie" has a decent monitor with anti-glare coating...and positions it appropriately to reduce reflections.
Even the best monitors suffer from glare in brightly lit rooms, coating or not. Plus, depending on the location of your desk, it's often not possible to position your monitor to avoid reflections.
Our office was a refurbished factory, with lots of light
Nope, I just don't get it. Lots of light and a technical job are two terms that just don't mix. Lots of light means reflections on your screen, which leads to increased headaches. Any real techie lives in a darkened room/area. I'm having a constant running battle with others in our office to have the lights kept off at my end of the room.
The only compiler I know of for the Playstation 2 (and many game platforms) is Metrowerks CodeWarrior
Of course, there's always gcc. Sony supply gcc-2.95.2 with their PS2 Linux kit available in Japan. Assuming the necessary changes aren't already in gcc-3.0, you can request them from Sony. However, just having a working compiler won't get you very far. You need datasheets for programming the custom hardware, and preferably prewritten libraries that do most of the hard work for you. A genuine PS2 development kit comes with these, but it also comes with a hefty 5 figure price tag. The bottom line is, if you're looking to do anything on a PS2 that does something graphical, you're probably out of luck. Unless you can get your hands on a PS2 Linux kit, of course, which comes with a "PS2 Special Graphics Library", which as I understand things, is an OpenGL (or Mesa) implementation for the PS2 gfx hardware.
I have yet to see a "good" java game on standard wintel hardware.
You'll notice that the original question didn't mention games at all, yet everyone seems to be assuming the plan is to write a game, just because it's on the PS2. My guess is that the plan was to do something else interesting, and to have it available on a machine that's in the living room, not at work or in the study...
We still haven't seen the original trilogy that didn't suck on DVD
Yep. I've got the complete set three times on video. The original set, plus the special editions, in both normal and widescreen. Even so, if they were on DVD, I'd buy them tomorrow. I'm sure I can't be alone in that.
The first half of the list looks like someone's reading out my record collection:-) That said, it's not going to affect me anyway because:
I'm not in the USA
I don't listen to the radio
Even if I did, there aren't any radio stations that play my preferred music (apart from Totalrock, but back in January they switched to broadcasting in a format only usable by Windows Media Player, so that put a stop to that)
One of the things I've always wondered about NetBSD is why they have so many ports. Not that NetBSD supports so many machines, but why it's structured the way it is? For example, when the first 68k port was in place, why did the next one start a new port, rather than integrate into the existing one? As it stands, we have mvme68k, news68k, next68, amiga, atari etc., when I suspect the community would be better served by having a single NetBSD/68k port. The same goes for MIPS (cobalt, hpcmips, pmax) and other architectures. Having separate trees just opens the door to disparity between ports. If a change is made in the amiga tree, for example, my guess is that it's not automatically picked up by the other 68k ports.
That said, with the Linux port apparently stalled, NetBSD is currently the closest I have to getting a free Unix on my NeXT black hardware. It doens't work yet, because mine are the Turbo model, but it's the closest of the bunch...
one cable to an OpenBSD NAT router to the private network for all the internal things (fileserver, multimedia box, etc). A few other cables go to outside facing servers (web, FTP, etc).
And you haven't put your public facing machines behind the OpenBSD firewall why?
ADSL isn't designed for running web servers. You'd want a fixed IP, which they would then have to provide.
No problem. My ADSL comes with a static IP address range. That makes an ideal testing playground for a web site. But once you've got it all working, why would you want to leave it on the end of your DSL line rather than sticking it on your ISP's web server, or if it's more complex, have them host machines for you?
Fine, but enforce this through policy, not by technological means (e.g., password aging). There have been a couple of studies that show password aging actually reduces security. If people are forced to think of a new password on the spot, they tend to either pick a ridulously easy to guess one, or to write their new password down so they don't forget it. If, on the other hand, you have a script that tells you who hasn't changed their password in the last 3 months, you can ask them to change their password manually. That gives them time to think of a suitable replacement. Does anyone have pointers to the studies I'm referring to? I saw them a few years ago now, but I've lost the details...
IKEA uses the lowest-budget (hardboard, cardboard, and particle board if you're lucky) materials for the most important structural elements.
Agreed. My solution was to build my own desks using decent wood, and some table legs from Ikea (£9 for four, yet sturdy enough to support all the weight I need). I was lucky with the wood, in that my girlfriend's company were throwing out their old desks, having just bought new ones (her company in turn having acquired them from SCO -- hey, my desk is a piece of Unix history:-) So we took the wood from the desks, screwed on some Ikea legs, and added the pedastals that they also threw out to give us some storage space. Perfect. Now all I need is a bigger house...
You're obviously a trolling Linux bigot but I'll bite anyway.
BSD is collapsing in complete disarray
I guess you wouldn't know, but while you've been away, there have been a whole slew of "BSD is collapsing" trolls in the same way that there were for Natalie Portman/Hot Grits etc. a while back. It's getting old now, but I guess trolls will be trolls. If they had a life, they'd be doing something worthwhile instead...
How much work is it to write a script (I'd use Python, but whatever) that parses the log files and extracts whatever's interesting to you, and displays that info in your preferred format?
More than you'd imagine, because it's not pure XML. It's XML intermixed with other data in different formats. But still not that hard. The point is, though, how much less work would it be if they'd just logged stuff in a sensible format to start with?
XML is more commonly used for databases, RPC calls, log files
I'll curse the brain dead moron that first suggested using XML for log files for the rest of my days. It is completely unsuited to the task. I have to wade through megabytes of pointless XML every day, searching for errors that are obfuscated by the sheer volume of crap that surrounds them.
what irks me is when bookstores mix together fantasy with science-fiction. Why do they do that? They certainly don't mix detective novels with romance stories!!!!
Actually, they do. There's a specialist bookseller on Charing Cross Road in London, that caters exclusively to the Crime, Romance and SF/Fantasy markets. They do, at least, have enough sense to put them in separate parts of the shop, though:-)
As for why SF and fantasy are lumped together, it's almost certainly because they attract the same core market. Yes, there are exceptions, but in general, SF fans like fantasy, and vice versa. I know that's certainly true for me. Fantasy currently dominates my bookshelf by a ratio of about 2:1, but that's mostly because I can't find enough decent SF books. And yes, I'd say I have a large enough bookshelf to be statistically significant (just over 1000 at last count).
IIRC, didn't SGI used to have IRIX running on 64 bit systems? Didn't SGI make a move to Linux? Didn't SGI assist with some 64 bit code?
If I do remember that right, then Linux had a leg up thanks to SGI
Ermmm... no. Linux has been 64 bit for ages thanks to it Alpha and Sparc64 ports. Waaaay before Linux was a blip on SGI's radar. Hell, Linux was even fully 64-bit on Sparc64 before Solaris was. Yes, SGI has helped with the IA64 port (along with many other companies and individuals), but the fact that the codebase was already 64-bit clean has made the task considerably easier than you're implying. SGI helped port Linux to a new architecture, not to get it to 64-bits.
I don't want a classic bourne shell, I'd like to run bash thank you.
SUNWbash is shipped with Solaris 8 as standard (as is SUNWless, another godsend). As for vim, I agree with you 100%. If I have a wide window open for viewing Apache log files, I want to be able to edit files in the same window, rather than have to either resize it, or open another, smaller window because the standard Solaris vi can't handle windows wider than 128 characters. Fortunately, sunfreeware.com is your friend.
The others came off as suits, he came off as an engineer.
From following the posts on the Linux Kernel mailing list, I've come away with exactly the opposite opinion. Reiser is the suit, and the others are the engineers...
the console itself is just the theature the story is told at...
Yep, and I prefer the plush fully upholstered
surroundings of a real PC to the spartan backroom
home projector of a console. While consoles
stick with their style of controller, they'll never
be able to play games like Angband, or even
Serious Sam. For that reason alone, I'm sticking
with my PCs. Now if only Croteam would do a Linux
port...
I would think that unless you are a terribly slow typist that the NAGLE algorithm in TCP would defeat packet sniffing and analyzing the timing of the keystrokes.
Yes, but the SSH server may have been compiled
with the NAGLE algorithm explicitly disabled, or
(with SSH2 at least), it can be disabled at run
time in the
config file with the NoDelay keyword.
The original questioner talked about Kaffe as "the only free JVM". This is a common misconception. Bradley in his reply mentioned GCJ, but does not make clear that GCJ does come with a fully-functional JVM, and has for some time.
And that's not the only option. Although I've never used it, and so can't comment on its quality, there's also the Hungry Programmers' Japhar.
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I think what you're trying to say is that you're using the wrong tool for the job. If your editor can't handle highlighting of PHP, then perhaps you should consider alternatives...
How else do you think StarOffice can even attempt to read Microsoft Office documents?
Because until a couple of years ago, MS documented the file formats on MSDN. They're no longer publically available, but MS will still give them to you if you provide a detailed description of what you want to use them for.
Even the best monitors suffer from glare in brightly lit rooms, coating or not. Plus, depending on the location of your desk, it's often not possible to position your monitor to avoid reflections.
Nope, I just don't get it. Lots of light and a technical job are two terms that just don't mix. Lots of light means reflections on your screen, which leads to increased headaches. Any real techie lives in a darkened room/area. I'm having a constant running battle with others in our office to have the lights kept off at my end of the room.
Of course, there's always gcc. Sony supply gcc-2.95.2 with their PS2 Linux kit available in Japan. Assuming the necessary changes aren't already in gcc-3.0, you can request them from Sony. However, just having a working compiler won't get you very far. You need datasheets for programming the custom hardware, and preferably prewritten libraries that do most of the hard work for you. A genuine PS2 development kit comes with these, but it also comes with a hefty 5 figure price tag. The bottom line is, if you're looking to do anything on a PS2 that does something graphical, you're probably out of luck. Unless you can get your hands on a PS2 Linux kit, of course, which comes with a "PS2 Special Graphics Library", which as I understand things, is an OpenGL (or Mesa) implementation for the PS2 gfx hardware.
You'll notice that the original question didn't mention games at all, yet everyone seems to be assuming the plan is to write a game, just because it's on the PS2. My guess is that the plan was to do something else interesting, and to have it available on a machine that's in the living room, not at work or in the study...
Yep. I've got the complete set three times on video. The original set, plus the special editions, in both normal and widescreen. Even so, if they were on DVD, I'd buy them tomorrow. I'm sure I can't be alone in that.
That said, with the Linux port apparently stalled, NetBSD is currently the closest I have to getting a free Unix on my NeXT black hardware. It doens't work yet, because mine are the Turbo model, but it's the closest of the bunch...
And you haven't put your public facing machines behind the OpenBSD firewall why?
No problem. My ADSL comes with a static IP address range. That makes an ideal testing playground for a web site. But once you've got it all working, why would you want to leave it on the end of your DSL line rather than sticking it on your ISP's web server, or if it's more complex, have them host machines for you?
Fine, but enforce this through policy, not by technological means (e.g., password aging). There have been a couple of studies that show password aging actually reduces security. If people are forced to think of a new password on the spot, they tend to either pick a ridulously easy to guess one, or to write their new password down so they don't forget it. If, on the other hand, you have a script that tells you who hasn't changed their password in the last 3 months, you can ask them to change their password manually. That gives them time to think of a suitable replacement. Does anyone have pointers to the studies I'm referring to? I saw them a few years ago now, but I've lost the details...
The title says it all. Sokoban is great for encouraging people to think about the consequences of actions, and to plan ahead.
Agreed. My solution was to build my own desks using decent wood, and some table legs from Ikea (£9 for four, yet sturdy enough to support all the weight I need). I was lucky with the wood, in that my girlfriend's company were throwing out their old desks, having just bought new ones (her company in turn having acquired them from SCO -- hey, my desk is a piece of Unix history
BSD is collapsing in complete disarray
I guess you wouldn't know, but while you've been away, there have been a whole slew of "BSD is collapsing" trolls in the same way that there were for Natalie Portman/Hot Grits etc. a while back. It's getting old now, but I guess trolls will be trolls. If they had a life, they'd be doing something worthwhile instead...
More than you'd imagine, because it's not pure XML. It's XML intermixed with other data in different formats. But still not that hard. The point is, though, how much less work would it be if they'd just logged stuff in a sensible format to start with?
I'll curse the brain dead moron that first suggested using XML for log files for the rest of my days. It is completely unsuited to the task. I have to wade through megabytes of pointless XML every day, searching for errors that are obfuscated by the sheer volume of crap that surrounds them.
Actually, they do. There's a specialist bookseller on Charing Cross Road in London, that caters exclusively to the Crime, Romance and SF/Fantasy markets. They do, at least, have enough sense to put them in separate parts of the shop, though
As for why SF and fantasy are lumped together, it's almost certainly because they attract the same core market. Yes, there are exceptions, but in general, SF fans like fantasy, and vice versa. I know that's certainly true for me. Fantasy currently dominates my bookshelf by a ratio of about 2:1, but that's mostly because I can't find enough decent SF books. And yes, I'd say I have a large enough bookshelf to be statistically significant (just over 1000 at last count).
If I do remember that right, then Linux had a leg up thanks to SGI
Ermmm... no. Linux has been 64 bit for ages thanks to it Alpha and Sparc64 ports. Waaaay before Linux was a blip on SGI's radar. Hell, Linux was even fully 64-bit on Sparc64 before Solaris was. Yes, SGI has helped with the IA64 port (along with many other companies and individuals), but the fact that the codebase was already 64-bit clean has made the task considerably easier than you're implying. SGI helped port Linux to a new architecture, not to get it to 64-bits.
SUNWbash is shipped with Solaris 8 as standard (as is SUNWless, another godsend). As for vim, I agree with you 100%. If I have a wide window open for viewing Apache log files, I want to be able to edit files in the same window, rather than have to either resize it, or open another, smaller window because the standard Solaris vi can't handle windows wider than 128 characters. Fortunately, sunfreeware.com is your friend.
From following the posts on the Linux Kernel mailing list, I've come away with exactly the opposite opinion. Reiser is the suit, and the others are the engineers...
Or with SSH by just not sending the password across the network at all. Using RSA euthentication completely nullifies this potential vulnerability.
Yep, and I prefer the plush fully upholstered
surroundings of a real PC to the spartan backroom
home projector of a console. While consoles
stick with their style of controller, they'll never
be able to play games like Angband, or even
Serious Sam. For that reason alone, I'm sticking
with my PCs. Now if only Croteam would do a Linux
port...
Yes, but the SSH server may have been compiled
with the NAGLE algorithm explicitly disabled, or
(with SSH2 at least), it can be disabled at run
time in the
config file with the NoDelay keyword.
And that's not the only option. Although I've never used it, and so can't comment on its quality, there's also the Hungry Programmers' Japhar.