sing the GPL license's text to the "We Will Rock You" melody.
How utterly bizarre... just as I finished reading
that sentence, "We Will Rock You" started blaring out
of a colleague's laptop (he was listening to an
internet radio station). Freaky...
Spend your time in college well. There'll be time enough to code.
Yes, but you should be learning the underlying concepts, not
just how to code. Without them, you'll be at a significant
disadvantage when the time comes to actually do the coding. For that reason, I'd always recommend a CS degree.
BTW, for us non-US types, what is CIS? What does it stand for?
Can someone find a price on the 2 Gig HD from Platypus?
No, but I'd bet on it being lots of money. We looked at solid state drives at a previous company. Since it was for mission critical stuff, we were looking at a RAID5 array of them, and it
was priced at over £200,000 for a modest sized array -- something that would cost probably a tenth of that with conventional drives.
they are missing the crucial difference between the two (i.e. we have a LOT
more control over the way we browse than what we see on TV).
Yes, we have more control, but the
general public doesn't. The average slashdot reader is well
aware of the various filtering proxy options, even if we
choose not to use them. All this is likely to do is tip
the balance between using a proxy and not using one.
For the general public, however, the issue isn't so clearcut.
The only option they have is to not go to sites with
annoying ad content. That may in itself be enough
to prevent it becoming widespread, but I suspect not. Never underestimate the stupidity of the masses.
After a while, the majority of the content will be
presented with annoy-ware ads, so they'll accept it
as the norm.
It can filter out
Javascript cued on opening/closing windows, remove pop-ups entirely, and reclaim space
which would have been used by banner ads.
Actually, squid can do some (all?) of these things.
My former company used to use a squid proxy, and they'd
configured it to automatically remove popups from
a number of well known annoying sites (Tripod, GeoCities, etc.)
The gnu visual debugger is based on gdb, and claims to have much-improved support for
multithreaded code.
Similarly, smartgdb
has long claimed to have improved thread support,
although I don't know if it's been kept up to date.
The web site doesn't appear to have been updated in
a while.
Marketing will win - the programmer will start at 0 thus the marketer will reach 10 first.
Not true -- a programmer would simply count from 0-9, rather than from 1-10. However, the programmer would conclude
that both taking 10 paces leads to a race condition -- you can't be certain who will get to
fire first, and will thus optimize out the unnecessary delay loop, and will turn and fire immediately:-)
These war rooms were only compared to "traditional offices", ie those dreaded cubicles.
It's interesting that everyone seems to assume that
cubicles are the norm. Here in the UK, they're virtually
unheard of. I've never worked in a cubicle based
company, and although my girlfriend once did,
that company has since got rid of the cubicles...
You can't just slap any
arbitrary user interface onto Unix, because Unix dictates its inner self onto all layers
that ride atop it.
But one of the beauties of Unix is that its inner
self is so good to start with, which in turn actively benefits any user interface you slap on top of it. The fact that Unix
has survived so long at all is testament to that.
Sure, it's not perfect, but Unix has very solid foundations,
and they really aren't holding back anything.
Not quite. We get to to elect someone who represents us for as
long as the Monarch wishes them to. The government answers to
the sovereign, not to the people. In reality, were the
Monarchy to start meddling in the affairs of government, there
would be a huge constitutional crisis, probably
resulting in the UK becoming a real republic.
However, for the time being, we are not a republic.
But that's *precisely* the problem with cable over here.
Each company is granted a complete monopoly for a given
area. I might decide that, say, Telewest has a good package on offer, but I can't
go for it because NTL has the monopoly in my area.
We *really* need a national cable infrastructure, owned by a single
company (and appropriately regulated, of course).
Then each cable provider can pay the infrastructure owner for
to supply services. That way, there's full competition, and the
consumer is better off. This is how gas supply currently
works. TransCo owns the pipes, but you buy gas from your choice of
supplier (British Gas, Eastern Energy, whoever).
And no, I don't think there's a hope in hell of this
happening in the near future:-(
To make matters worse, BT cannot easily install DSL to anyone who has a IDSN link
Is this still true? BT have been trialling ADSL over ISDN for
a few months now. I take it they haven't rolled it out to
the general public yet. I'm hoping that by the time
they've opened up the exchanges, and my ISP has access
to my local one, that they'll be able to convert an
ISDN line. I don't really want to go through the hassle of having it cut off and
replaced with a standard line which then has to be
upgraded to ADSL.
... and mere moments after posting, Linux 2.2.18 was released:)
Actually, I downloaded it (or really, the patch from 2.2.17)
a couple of hours before your original comment was
posted...
Re:Why no release builds outside of Mac/Linux/Win?
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However, Netscape has yet to release a Solaris build, or an HP-UX build, or anything aside from a Linux 2.2 build.
That's only half true. While Netscape themselves are
only offering Windows, Mac and Linux, they're still
supporting Solaris and HP/UX, but you have to contact Sun and HP
to get it. See here.
Not unless all your apps are 64-bit, and even then....
Even then, they're unlikely to come with an AGP slot.
They'll probably be PCI only, so you're not going
to be putting a GeForce card in it any time soon.
I think Matrox are doing a PCI version of the G450,
but that's probably the best you'll manage for a desktop
Itanium machine in the near future.
I've never used a program so slow in my entire
life (except maybe older versions of Mozilla).
Actually, Mozilla isn't slow. You just have to have
enough memory that it can run without swapping. On my
machine, that point was reached at about 192MB.
The fact that it's too slow to be usable on a 64MB machine
is not a good sign for its long term viability, though.
You could make long long 256-bit, long 128-bit, int 64-bit, and short 32-bit if you
really, really needed to. The standard certainly permits that.
Yes, but the standard didn't need extending at all. long could just have
been made 64-bit (or 128 or 256 or whatever). There was no
need to add a new "long long" type. That said, you could
argue the case for needing a new type to hold integers larger than
the machine's word length, and retain a traditional unsigned long
as the word length (so that you can cast to and from pointers).
The principal characteristic of a Bernoulli drive is that the
flexible disk floats between the read/write heads, so there is no actual contact
between the disk and the heads.
The London Times is just as clear, more succinct, and much more intuitive.
Your version may be more clear and intuitive for you, but it's certainly not for those of us in the UK.
It's also wrong. While The Times was traditionally
based in London, there are now 3 editorial centres, in London,
Liverpool and Glasgow, and the paper itself is printed at
various sites throughout the UK (and abroad, too).
On a similar note, though, even News International (publishers
of The Times, and my former employer) resorted to calling
The Sun "The London Sun" when posting notices around
Hollywood trying to find Divine Brown.
It's not Flash, it's an.exe file that goes through all your Jpeg and Zip files
Well yes, but it's masqerading as one of the numerous Flash executables that are floating around (basically a flash player and an accompanying movie bundled into a single executable).
Are they seriously suggesting that lusers should be responsible enough not to launch.exe files they are emailed?
I can't speak for others, but I personally launch all of the executables that are mailed to me. Of course, I do it under Wine from Linux, and
no, I don't have my home directory mounted as a network drive. Even if it does contain a virus, it won't do me any harm...
Were I buying a DVD today, I'd almost certainly
go for a Samsung Extiva N2000, primarily because
it comes with Jeff Minter's Virtual Light Machine,
and can play his Tempest 3000. Plus, of course, Samsung
have a long history of making DVD players that are easily converted
to being region free (via a remote -- no need to take the machine apart).
FreeBSD has been using 0xa5 for about 9 or 10 years now.
Yes, but does it *have* to? I know Linux can use any partition
type, so long as it contains a supported filesystem
(although is this true of the root filesytem too?).
How hard is it to install FreeBSD on a different partition type?
I couldn't say that MS is a competitor anyway... RH is tiny in comparisson to MS.
MS is a major competitor to Red Hat in the server market,
which I'd guess is where RH get most of their income anyway.
The fact that MS have 95% of the desktop market, and that they have 100 times the market capitalisation doesn't matter.
Linux and Windows have approximately equal sized shares
of the server market, and RH wants to increase the size
of their share. Of course MS is a competitor.
If they couldnt do it themselves, they should atleast make the beta source public
The thing is, they could do it themselves.
The beta worked quite nicely. All they have decided is that they
aren't going to release it commercially for Linux at this time.
They haven't ruled out releasing it when the market
for Linux desktop apps is more conduicive to making money for Adobe.
It's just not economically feasible now. Were they to open source it, they'd
run the risk of decimating their Unix sales, and potentially eating
into their Windows and Mac sales too.
I would think that a viable WP
running on any non-Windows platform would have to be able to handle MS Word conversions
in/out.
Yes, but FrameMaker isn't a word processor. It can do so much more
than Word can even dream of. Yes, there's probably a Word export
option, but exporting to Word format would mean potentially losing
layout and other information. Sure, you lose formatting info when you save
to text (as they recommend) anyway, but if you're going to lose info, why not save in
a format that's usable *everywhere*.
Slashdot Mirror
How utterly bizarre... just as I finished reading that sentence, "We Will Rock You" started blaring out of a colleague's laptop (he was listening to an internet radio station). Freaky...
Yes, but you should be learning the underlying concepts, not just how to code. Without them, you'll be at a significant disadvantage when the time comes to actually do the coding. For that reason, I'd always recommend a CS degree. BTW, for us non-US types, what is CIS? What does it stand for?
No, but I'd bet on it being lots of money. We looked at solid state drives at a previous company. Since it was for mission critical stuff, we were looking at a RAID5 array of them, and it was priced at over £200,000 for a modest sized array -- something that would cost probably a tenth of that with conventional drives.
Yes, we have more control, but the general public doesn't. The average slashdot reader is well aware of the various filtering proxy options, even if we choose not to use them. All this is likely to do is tip the balance between using a proxy and not using one. For the general public, however, the issue isn't so clearcut. The only option they have is to not go to sites with annoying ad content. That may in itself be enough to prevent it becoming widespread, but I suspect not. Never underestimate the stupidity of the masses. After a while, the majority of the content will be presented with annoy-ware ads, so they'll accept it as the norm.
Actually, squid can do some (all?) of these things. My former company used to use a squid proxy, and they'd configured it to automatically remove popups from a number of well known annoying sites (Tripod, GeoCities, etc.)
Similarly, smartgdb has long claimed to have improved thread support, although I don't know if it's been kept up to date. The web site doesn't appear to have been updated in a while.
Not true -- a programmer would simply count from 0-9, rather than from 1-10. However, the programmer would conclude that both taking 10 paces leads to a race condition -- you can't be certain who will get to fire first, and will thus optimize out the unnecessary delay loop, and will turn and fire immediately :-)
It's interesting that everyone seems to assume that cubicles are the norm. Here in the UK, they're virtually unheard of. I've never worked in a cubicle based company, and although my girlfriend once did, that company has since got rid of the cubicles...
Indeed. In fact, he complains:
But one of the beauties of Unix is that its inner self is so good to start with, which in turn actively benefits any user interface you slap on top of it. The fact that Unix has survived so long at all is testament to that. Sure, it's not perfect, but Unix has very solid foundations, and they really aren't holding back anything.
Not quite. We get to to elect someone who represents us for as long as the Monarch wishes them to. The government answers to the sovereign, not to the people. In reality, were the Monarchy to start meddling in the affairs of government, there would be a huge constitutional crisis, probably resulting in the UK becoming a real republic. However, for the time being, we are not a republic.
But that's *precisely* the problem with cable over here. Each company is granted a complete monopoly for a given area. I might decide that, say, Telewest has a good package on offer, but I can't go for it because NTL has the monopoly in my area. We *really* need a national cable infrastructure, owned by a single company (and appropriately regulated, of course). Then each cable provider can pay the infrastructure owner for to supply services. That way, there's full competition, and the consumer is better off. This is how gas supply currently works. TransCo owns the pipes, but you buy gas from your choice of supplier (British Gas, Eastern Energy, whoever). And no, I don't think there's a hope in hell of this happening in the near future :-(
Is this still true? BT have been trialling ADSL over ISDN for a few months now. I take it they haven't rolled it out to the general public yet. I'm hoping that by the time they've opened up the exchanges, and my ISP has access to my local one, that they'll be able to convert an ISDN line. I don't really want to go through the hassle of having it cut off and replaced with a standard line which then has to be upgraded to ADSL.
Actually, I downloaded it (or really, the patch from 2.2.17) a couple of hours before your original comment was posted...
That's only half true. While Netscape themselves are only offering Windows, Mac and Linux, they're still supporting Solaris and HP/UX, but you have to contact Sun and HP to get it. See here.
Even then, they're unlikely to come with an AGP slot. They'll probably be PCI only, so you're not going to be putting a GeForce card in it any time soon. I think Matrox are doing a PCI version of the G450, but that's probably the best you'll manage for a desktop Itanium machine in the near future.
Actually, Mozilla isn't slow. You just have to have enough memory that it can run without swapping. On my machine, that point was reached at about 192MB. The fact that it's too slow to be usable on a 64MB machine is not a good sign for its long term viability, though.
Yes, but the standard didn't need extending at all. long could just have been made 64-bit (or 128 or 256 or whatever). There was no need to add a new "long long" type. That said, you could argue the case for needing a new type to hold integers larger than the machine's word length, and retain a traditional unsigned long as the word length (so that you can cast to and from pointers).
So, just like a conventional hard drive, then...
Your version may be more clear and intuitive for you, but it's certainly not for those of us in the UK. It's also wrong. While The Times was traditionally based in London, there are now 3 editorial centres, in London, Liverpool and Glasgow, and the paper itself is printed at various sites throughout the UK (and abroad, too).
On a similar note, though, even News International (publishers of The Times, and my former employer) resorted to calling The Sun "The London Sun" when posting notices around Hollywood trying to find Divine Brown.
Well yes, but it's masqerading as one of the numerous Flash executables that are floating around (basically a flash player and an accompanying movie bundled into a single executable).
Are they seriously suggesting that lusers should be responsible enough not to launch .exe files they are emailed?
I can't speak for others, but I personally launch all of the executables that are mailed to me. Of course, I do it under Wine from Linux, and no, I don't have my home directory mounted as a network drive. Even if it does contain a virus, it won't do me any harm...
Were I buying a DVD today, I'd almost certainly go for a Samsung Extiva N2000, primarily because it comes with Jeff Minter's Virtual Light Machine, and can play his Tempest 3000. Plus, of course, Samsung have a long history of making DVD players that are easily converted to being region free (via a remote -- no need to take the machine apart).
Yes, but does it *have* to? I know Linux can use any partition type, so long as it contains a supported filesystem (although is this true of the root filesytem too?). How hard is it to install FreeBSD on a different partition type?
MS is a major competitor to Red Hat in the server market, which I'd guess is where RH get most of their income anyway. The fact that MS have 95% of the desktop market, and that they have 100 times the market capitalisation doesn't matter. Linux and Windows have approximately equal sized shares of the server market, and RH wants to increase the size of their share. Of course MS is a competitor.
The thing is, they could do it themselves. The beta worked quite nicely. All they have decided is that they aren't going to release it commercially for Linux at this time. They haven't ruled out releasing it when the market for Linux desktop apps is more conduicive to making money for Adobe. It's just not economically feasible now. Were they to open source it, they'd run the risk of decimating their Unix sales, and potentially eating into their Windows and Mac sales too.
Yes, but FrameMaker isn't a word processor. It can do so much more than Word can even dream of. Yes, there's probably a Word export option, but exporting to Word format would mean potentially losing layout and other information. Sure, you lose formatting info when you save to text (as they recommend) anyway, but if you're going to lose info, why not save in a format that's usable *everywhere*.