Canberra is *not underfunded*. It is in a sense an *artifical* city created as a political compromise to house the australian capital - after a fight broke betweem Victoria and Sydney around federation around 1901. The solution Canberra, a territory created in the NSW outback. Its sole purpose it to house government and its associated functions.
as for being less influential... in australia its the national capital and houses the federal government - q.e.d. As for the rest of the world... what does it matter?
i didn't know kermit was scriptable. I like scriptable(Kermit scripting language is a programming language similar to Perl, but with different syntax... predates perl) things.
this articles a good read so take the time to go through it as it summarises innovation from the early internet years to date.
innovation. The trick is finding that one crazy idea. The problem with crazy ideas, though, is that for every one good crazy idea, there's a thousand bad crazy ideas
the eternal quest for an idea. you better start with a good idea. if you don't, no matter how hard you try it wont pan out.
the Internet community back then, the key technical people, didn't want the Internet to become easy to use or graphical,... Only smart people could use the Internet...so we needed to keep it hard to use
what other examples can you think of right now?... only smart people can use [insert you own example]
Mosaic started with 12 users in February 1993. It had 1,000 users within three or four weeks. About 10,000 users by spring. It was up to 1 million by early 1994
Posters who question why Andreessen has such prominence should reflect on this. No Mosaic (mozilla), no Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE Based on NCSA Mosaic code base licensed from Spyglass), no World Wide Web in the early to mid 90's. No doubt someone else may have invented the browser but how much longer would it have taken?
At first that makes you like a little bunny rabbit... Everybody wants to play with you....within a year... fearsome competitors shooting at your head with high-powered ammunition
Oracle database was a huge success... Larry's spent the last 25 years trying to come up with the next product
it sure helps when the government (CIA) is your preferred backer. Why does oracle feel the need to keep trying to re-innovate or create the next best idea?
innovation comes from companies that are 2 years old, populated by 19-year-olds... preposterous that Marc should think that innovation is.. the province of little entrepreneurial companies.
People here are complaining that coding is classified as a "low-level" job. A lot of companies have been treating coding as a low-grade skill for quite some time.
in business-speak exchange low-level with commoditised. Now think about commodities and supply and demand.
so what if the article is *local rag* article and the user responds about a vintage, dare I say limey computer . I've seen/read many a US home computer user talk of Sinclairs, Amigas, bbc or acorns.
it has worked with the Mozilla browser before 1.0 so I wouldn't be too worried. I stopped using it when I switched to firebird.
however checking out the mozilla roadmap (see what does all this mean?) , you can see that the calander is not going away but is not ready to use either....
... The other integrated components of the Mozilla application suite, Calendar, Chatzilla, and Composer (the HTML editor application), are not going away, either. We're not sure yet how they'll evolve -- whether they'll become standalone toolkit applications (and if so, based on which XUL toolkit), or popular add-ons to Mozilla Firebird (if so, they will need to use its new XUL toolkit). But we're committed to supporting them to the fullest extent required by their owners, including providing daily and milestone builds of them for community testing and feedback...
Good to Great by Jim Collins is also worth a read. The concepts are simple and the ideas are based on emperical research. At no time should you think that any book has the *answer*.
Best of all don't buy the book, save some money and read it online.
when the enevitable book,discussion, etc on patterns and their use in software I remind myself of Christopher Alexander, Austrian born, Cambridge educated maths and architecture graduate.
One aspect of Alexanders work often overlooked, is that we should be making up your own patterns. Instead we look to references as cook books rather than as building blocks.
machine/person/network just really isn't important enough to worry about - from a national security perspective
offtopic wrt main topic but, what about SCADA attacks?
PBS did an excellent show on CyberWarfare highlighting that it's the points of weakness where attacks are most likely to occur. Milnet, siprnet, etc may be secured but could any *western* city be without power for a period of 6 months? Think asymmetric not conventional and you can appreciate how real such threats are taken.
could this (...MSN search returns only sponsored results first....) be the reason for the skewed litmus test.... as outlined by DeadSea, Why Microsoft wants to buy Google, 16NOV2003 ?
I see a lot of people posting "time to learn the debian install." Perhaps not (even thought its not hard folks)
the amount of knowledge required to install debian compared to RH is significant. You have to know a hell of a lot more about your hardware and the installation tools for debian are non optimal for the market RH *aimed at*.
Your basic RH install allowed you to
get os installed
rpm or make
play with system
compared to debian install which required
ohh what N bit of hardware do I have
fdisk, what OS Disk type do I have?
whats a sector?
etc...
Once installed I get-apt is fine but the install is a big hurdle for the RH.
I guess the real test betweem the 2 distros is longevity. While my RH 6.2 boxs are being upgraded to another os1 and/or os2, debian is still there and will be for the long haul. But it is not the alternative choice to RH for the market it attracts - corporates burned out on MS.
The Fedora Project is one of the sources for new technologies and enhancements that may be incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the future Is technology flowing back from the enterprise version to the fedora version? Looks like the community develops and RH is the reseller. sounds fair as you get support for the code if you pay.
The story of Ed, was one of the first Unix editors is told by esr in his new book , The Art of Unix Programming which contains a great section on editors, A Tale of Five Editors - comparing Ed, vi, Sam, Emacs and Wily.
[adobe acrobat 6.0] *slow load time *poor searching capability -CTRL-F -enter value to search -press *search* -get results -to find again press *new search* -last search results disappear?? *very slow scrolling -1 page per screen -up/down scrolling is painful -forcing you to use bookmarks which are not fine grained enough. *poor use of screen real estate -sidebar -statusbar -searchbar -but difficult to turn off *overwhelming options -View has 16 sub options for instance *pdf metaphor broken -PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption "... Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read...J.Neilsen"
pretty simple really... the article makes an assumption of P == $ (power/influence is directly proportional to money). The writers are only looking at people who are financially influential. And totally miss RMS who engineered a paradigm shift in software
yeah, language skills. I must admit that after reading a couple of bios he has not done a lot of television and may have been doing the Parky show to *shock*.
As for doing a show in french, I havent seen the show. Just because he appeared to me be a *bit rough* around the edges doesn't prelude intelligence.
Alan Davies Damn good choice that one. I cannot agree more. JC's very similiar in some ways as you suggest to the Dr Who character. Just one question, what happened to the Dr Who they used for the last Movie? Why isn't he continuing?
hip or flippant? I remember watching Izzard on a parky interview with Nigella Lawson. Izzard came across as an ill educated tosser. He strikes me as being the *least intelligent* of the *doctors*. I don't know but I just can't get my head around a *dress wearing* doctor... he's not even scottish.
I guess the best thing to do is wait for his performance. If he is any good I'll eat my words. Interesting that Tom Baker has a positive spin on Izzard as a choice.
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ACT is *the capital* city of Australia, seat of federal government, part time home of australian pollies (politicians), home of australian federal public service, houses adf hq (moved from vic barracks in melbourne - my home), home of various australian intelligence agencies (asis, asio) , location for diplomatic embassies, etc. Also home of Australian National University, Andrew Tridgell of Samba and rsync fame.
Canberra is *not underfunded*. It is in a sense an *artifical* city created as a political compromise to house the australian capital - after a fight broke betweem Victoria and Sydney around federation around 1901. The solution Canberra, a territory created in the NSW outback. Its sole purpose it to house government and its associated functions.
as for being less influential ... in australia its the national capital and houses the federal government - q.e.d. As for the rest of the world ... what does it matter?
i didn't know kermit was scriptable. I like scriptable (Kermit scripting language is a programming language similar to Perl, but with different syntax ... predates perl) things.
here's the lead developer. it will have to be a lot more standards compliant than the current html 4 version for me waste time downloading and installing and using.
#8. slash has been converted to TT2 so this should be easier. Is /. using it though?
I'd add:
Is there any way for instance to search for posts by userID, date? ie: get your first post or 100?
dont forget this slashdot article (Old Sierra Games Breathe Anew) from a while back about Kings Quest being re-released -
Kings Quest 1, 2
this articles a good read so take the time to go through it as it summarises innovation from the early internet years to date.
innovation. The trick is finding that one crazy idea. The problem with crazy ideas, though, is that for every one good crazy idea, there's a thousand bad crazy ideas
the eternal quest for an idea. you better start with a good idea. if you don't, no matter how hard you try it wont pan out.
the Internet community back then, the key technical people, didn't want the Internet to become easy to use or graphical, ... Only smart people could use the Internet ...so we needed to keep it hard to use
what other examples can you think of right now?... only smart people can use [insert you own example]
Mosaic started with 12 users in February 1993. It had 1,000 users within three or four weeks. About 10,000 users by spring. It was up to 1 million by early 1994
Posters who question why Andreessen has such prominence should reflect on this. No Mosaic (mozilla), no Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE Based on NCSA Mosaic code base licensed from Spyglass), no World Wide Web in the early to mid 90's. No doubt someone else may have invented the browser but how much longer would it have taken?
At first that makes you like a little bunny rabbit ... Everybody wants to play with you ....within a year ... fearsome competitors shooting at your head with high-powered ammunition
Larry, Sergi do you feel the hot breath of the MS juggernaut as you approach your IPO. Will google will be a repeat of Netscape/MS tussle?
Oracle database was a huge success ... Larry's spent the last 25 years trying to come up with the next product
it sure helps when the government (CIA) is your preferred backer. Why does oracle feel the need to keep trying to re-innovate or create the next best idea?
innovation comes from companies that are 2 years old, populated by 19-year-olds ... preposterous that Marc should think that innovation is .. the province of little entrepreneurial companies.
In fact it's both. The technical revolution was spurred on the back of the transistor. This was the combined effort of Bardeen, Brattain and shockley at Bell Labs - no small comany there ... but look at Intel, though a big company now, it was started with the (not so young) Noyce, Moore and Grove. What about the Linux kernel, third person shooters and that other search engine, Yahoo?
People here are complaining that coding is classified as a "low-level" job. A lot of companies have been treating coding as a low-grade skill for quite some time.
in business-speak exchange low-level with commoditised. Now think about commodities and supply and demand.
this is such a lame response.
so what if the article is *local rag* article and the user responds about a vintage, dare I say limey computer . I've seen/read many a US home computer user talk of Sinclairs, Amigas, bbc or acorns.
How about, 'never saw one of those machines', 'yeah i remember those amiga machines playing kings quest 2' .... no we resort to argumentum ad hominem .
nb: moderators: dont feed the trolls - this article is neither informative nor worthy of points.
however checking out the mozilla roadmap (see what does all this mean?) , you can see that the calander is not going away but is not ready to use either....
a good read for any startups is Joel Spolsky's journey in building his company from scratch. Put aside your predjudices about his software origins or the market he is aiming at, but make sure you read and digest some of the ideas.
It's a cheap way to read how he's organised his company from 1999 to the present.
Good to Great by Jim Collins is also worth a read. The concepts are simple and the ideas are based on emperical research. At no time should you think that any book has the *answer*.
Best of all don't buy the book, save some money and read it online.
good article explaining (George K.) Zipf's/Benfords law here.
when the enevitable book,discussion, etc on patterns and their use in software I remind myself of Christopher Alexander , Austrian born, Cambridge educated maths and architecture graduate.
One aspect of Alexanders work often overlooked, is that we should be making up your own patterns. Instead we look to references as cook books rather than as building blocks.
offtopic wrt main topic but, what about SCADA attacks?
PBS did an excellent show on CyberWarfare highlighting that it's the points of weakness where attacks are most likely to occur. Milnet, siprnet, etc may be secured but could any *western* city be without power for a period of 6 months? Think asymmetric not conventional and you can appreciate how real such threats are taken.
could this (...MSN search returns only sponsored results first. ...) be the reason for the skewed litmus test.... as outlined by DeadSea, Why Microsoft wants to buy Google, 16NOV2003 ?
the amount of knowledge required to install debian compared to RH is significant. You have to know a hell of a lot more about your hardware and the installation tools for debian are non optimal for the market RH *aimed at*.
Your basic RH install allowed you to
compared to debian install which required
Once installed I get-apt is fine but the install is a big hurdle for the RH.
I guess the real test betweem the 2 distros is longevity. While my RH 6.2 boxs are being upgraded to another os1 and/or os2, debian is still there and will be for the long haul. But it is not the alternative choice to RH for the market it attracts - corporates burned out on MS.
The Fedora Project is one of the sources for new technologies and enhancements that may be incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the future
Is technology flowing back from the enterprise version to the fedora version? Looks like the community develops and RH is the reseller. sounds fair as you get support for the code if you pay.
Bruce Lee in his film, the *game of death* shows that there was no *way* (al lah - way of the intercepting fist ) but I digress.
The story of Ed, was one of the first Unix editors is told by esr in his new book , The Art of Unix Programming which contains a great section on editors, A Tale of Five Editors - comparing Ed, vi, Sam, Emacs and Wily.
Here's the entire online version of the book.
[adobe acrobat 6.0] ...J.Neilsen"
*slow load time
*poor searching capability
-CTRL-F
-enter value to search
-press *search*
-get results
-to find again press *new search*
-last search results disappear??
*very slow scrolling
-1 page per screen
-up/down scrolling is painful
-forcing you to use bookmarks which are not fine grained enough.
*poor use of screen real estate
-sidebar
-statusbar
-searchbar
-but difficult to turn off
*overwhelming options
-View has 16 sub options for instance
*pdf metaphor broken
-PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption
"... Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read
TWiki - here's an example, Parrot. There are plenty of references around explaining the what a wiki is. It is up to you to use it.
pretty simple really ... the article makes an assumption of P == $ (power/influence is directly proportional to money). The writers are only looking at people who are financially influential. And totally miss RMS who engineered a paradigm shift in software
(btw read *Free as in Freedom* it's freely availiable online by oreilly).
OpenBsd could probably summed up more accurately as emphasising stability and security. Not so sure about ease of use.
yeah, language skills. I must admit that after reading a couple of bios he has not done a lot of television and may have been doing the Parky show to *shock*.
As for doing a show in french, I havent seen the show. Just because he appeared to me be a *bit rough* around the edges doesn't prelude intelligence.
Alan Davies
Damn good choice that one. I cannot agree more. JC's
very similiar in some ways as you suggest to the Dr Who character. Just one question, what happened to the Dr Who they used for the last Movie? Why isn't he continuing?
hip or flippant? I remember watching Izzard on a parky interview with Nigella Lawson. Izzard came across as an ill educated tosser. He strikes me as being the *least intelligent* of the *doctors*. I don't know but I just can't get my head around a *dress wearing* doctor ... he's not even scottish.
I guess the best thing to do is wait for his performance. If he is any good I'll eat my words. Interesting that Tom Baker has a positive spin on Izzard as a choice.