I wish telecommuting was more common. I lived in Salem, OR and would have liked to stay there. But people just don't seem to like to let you do that, at least until they know you well.
As it is I got suckered up to Salkum, WA - absolutely out in the middle of nowhere! But at least I get to use Linux all day...
I'll probably buy a new computer in Sep/Oct. I'm strongly considering the K7, but am a bit worried by the fact that it is (will be) so new. What if I buy a K7 system, then it turns out to have some weird bug that affects me?
I guess I'll keep a close eye on the initial couple months of reports before buying. If it looks like there are problems, I'll go with the PIII. I *really* do want to support AMD. INTC needs the competition.
Currently I use a Cyrix 6x86 P166+. Works fine for most things, but it almost always segfaults when running PovRay or other 3D modeling programs. So I've been a bit hesitent to get anything non-Intel again.
FWIW, it's also the name of a cool Christian music group...
Since when did overvalued mean anything???
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Amazon.com anyone? The ONLY reason I didn't buy Amazon right after the IPO is because I was worried about competitors like Barnes&Noble kicking their butts.
For what it's worth, the crusades are solidly in the distant past of the church. NO evangelical Christians today would suggest that the crusades were ever a good thing. Christianity (mainly Catholicism) has been a state religion for a long time, and most of their beliefs are just symbolism and ritual. I highly doubt anyone involved in the crusades really cared about being like Jesus.
Following Jesus is not a set of rituals - it's a real relationship! What most people see as the Church (at least in history) has NOTHING to do with that!
Even if you output *is* considered to be covered by the GPL (which I doubt, see all the other posts) the solution is easy. The GPL does not FORCE you to distribute GPL'd code. So if you had something that would be GPL'd but wanted to keep it proprietary, simply don't distribute it to anyone outside your company. If you did distribute it, then of course you would have to pass on the freedoms of the GPL.
Since (assumedly) your company owns the output, not you as a person, you could distribute it company wide without giving any employee the freedom to distribute it outside the company.
Oh come on... you shouldn't be using multiple inheritance anyway.
Oh yeah, and WordStar is the best word processor ever written! I'm still more productive in it than I am in most GUI WPs. Sure, it's nothing fancy, but for text editing it's great. Really efficient once you learn the Ctrl codes for cursor movement and other functions.
I very much want to see Delphi for Linux, and will buy it, UNLESS it uses Motif. That would turn me off to it like a light.
With Motif, all executables will need to be statically linked, and nothing would be under 2 megs. That is REALLY BAD..... especially since most software will probably be distributed over the Internet.
Qt would be a good choice *IF* you can work out a licensing deal with Troll Tech to allow commercial development with Delphi out of the box. This would be in everyone's interest - they should be willing to license it, since they'd get a royalty from every Delphi sale and gain a LOT of users.
If you can't work out a deal with the Trolls, I recommend GTK, or maybe developing your own widget set (but please do open source it if you do that).
Bah... I agree that any single company or distribution maker shouldn't dominate the market, but Linux as a whole most definitely should. The market wins when there is only one operating system to port software to and support, but when that one OS is controled by one company, everyone loses. Linux is free and open, and can NEVER be dominated by one company!
Is anyone else suspicious as to why ZD, of all companies, is sponsoring this? This is, of course, our friend Berst's company.
This hardly looks like something a Linux geek should be excited about going to. Looks like they're targeting PHBs. Who knows what will happen - will they try to point them TOWARD open source, spew FUD about open source, or (heaven forbid) try to be objective?
Anyone know of a good Jr. level Linux programming and/or sys admin job in Austin?
I've been trying to get a job with a certain company's upcoming Linux Support Center, but they've been telling me "any day now" since December! They're just not ready to hire yet. AAARGH.
Sure they *can* write binary only drivers, but I think the trend toward releasing open source drivers will continue. And when we have the choice, we (the Linux community) will simply go for the open source drivers. There's no reason to tolerate binary drivers given all the problems they present.
I think hardware vendors will, in time, become cluefull in this area.
I've used VAJ 1.1 under OS/2 and it is pretty sweet. But one thing annoyed me - when there was an error it typed the freeking error message right into your source code! Have they fixed that with version 2? (they never did send me the free upgrade to 2 I asked for...)
Now if Stardock would only port Entrepreneur to Linux, I could probably reformat my HPFS partition as ext2...
When calculating the cost to go somewhere, you should look at the cost per mile, not the cost per hour. Remember, this thing goes a lot faster than cars. If it gets 19 miles per gallon, then it will take only slightly more fuel than your average car to get from A to B.
Actually, it could be argued that this thing gives you MORE for your gas money, especially in the city. Think about it - with cars you're stoping and starting all the time. With this thing, you'll fly constantly. No rush hour jams that eat up gas. And no WAITING! If you calculate your TIME at $20 per hour, that will add up QUICK!
I won't believe this until I see it, but if it takes off (no pun intended), it is a real breakthrough.
But I don't quite understand who actually *owns* the code that is written. It seems that the sponsor, the company that pays for the service, would own the code, and thus be able to set the license. Then they would be able to change it to any license they want.
I guess that's where CoSource and sourceXchange have to guarantee that it will always be under an open source license.
That very problem has been annoying me for a while, and here's what I do:
When clicking on a/. reply, I use the middle button (or the left and right simultaneously for 2-button mice), which opens a new Netscape window. When you're done reading that page, you close that new window, and you're instantly back where you were!
Other bonuses: When you go back (close the window) you are EXACTLY where you were - it isn't effected by Netscape's stupid bug that takes you back to the top of a page if it has tables. Also, you can Alt-Tab back to the original page and continue reading it while the reply page is loading.
Remember, NS 3 was the one that had a "bus error" every 10 seconds. You could do some library hacking which sometimes fixed it, but it was definitely buggy.
I don't know why everyone says NS 4.x is so bad. Yes, it crashes occasionally on my system, but it's no more than once a day, usually about once or twice a week, and in one case I think I went a month or two without a crash.
I've been using 4.50 (with RH5.1) and now 4.51 (with RH6). Both are stable enough. Netscape is usually the first app I launch in the morning and the last one I close at night. It runs all day.
Of course, if someone would improve the AI in XFrisk it wouldn't be necessary. I have a good idea for AI but don't have time to even think about implementing it.
Railroad Tycoon was one of my favorite games ever. I haven't played RT2. How does it compare to the original?
I'm also busy hacking on an airline simulator that I'm hoping will be sort of in the spirit of RT. It won't be a polished game for a LONG time (unless lots of people want to help me.:-) ) but hopefully it will be playable and fun. http://cvs.seul.org/~yoderm/ will get my preliminary hackings.
I've always believed that there should be strict rules for buying domain names:
1. You must be some kind of an official organization 2. There should be a certain number of individual computers uniquely connected to it (no virtual hosting crap) 3. ONLY ONE domain per organization 4. That name must say who you are
Domain names were never intended to be used by everly little clown that wants a web site. They were intended to identify networks and to give organizations their own namespace.
I like Bush, but this is kinda stupid. Maybe I'll vote for Alan Keyes like I did last time.
I could be wrong, but doesn't 'strip' just take out debugging information? I don't think it takes out unused functions/variables. That's called 'smart linking'. Borland's DOS compilers have had them for AGES. Why doesn't the GNU linker???
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I wish telecommuting was more common. I lived in Salem, OR and would have liked to stay there. But people just don't seem to like to let you do that, at least until they know you well.
As it is I got suckered up to Salkum, WA - absolutely out in the middle of nowhere! But at least I get to use Linux all day...
I'll probably buy a new computer in Sep/Oct. I'm strongly considering the K7, but am a bit worried by the fact that it is (will be) so new. What if I buy a K7 system, then it turns out to have some weird bug that affects me?
I guess I'll keep a close eye on the initial couple months of reports before buying. If it looks like there are problems, I'll go with the PIII. I *really* do want to support AMD. INTC needs the competition.
Currently I use a Cyrix 6x86 P166+. Works fine for most things, but it almost always segfaults when running PovRay or other 3D modeling programs. So I've been a bit hesitent to get anything non-Intel again.
FWIW, it's also the name of a cool Christian music group...
Amazon.com anyone? The ONLY reason I didn't buy Amazon right after the IPO is because I was worried about competitors like Barnes&Noble kicking their butts.
Slaping self over the head,
Micah
Snap up about $4,000 worth as soon as I can on IPO day. I'll be ready at my Datek account at 6:30AM PDT.
Put in a limit order to sell it at double what I pay for it. Goes through in a couple days. Maybe a week.
Rush off to buy a NICE new computer with my $4K profit.
Wait until stock goes back down to about 50% above IPO price. Buy. Hold long term.
For what it's worth, the crusades are solidly in the distant past of the church. NO evangelical Christians today would suggest that the crusades were ever a good thing. Christianity (mainly Catholicism) has been a state religion for a long time, and most of their beliefs are just symbolism and ritual. I highly doubt anyone involved in the crusades really cared about being like Jesus.
Following Jesus is not a set of rituals - it's a real relationship! What most people see as the Church (at least in history) has NOTHING to do with that!
Even if you output *is* considered to be covered by the GPL (which I doubt, see all the other posts) the solution is easy. The GPL does not FORCE you to distribute GPL'd code. So if you had something that would be GPL'd but wanted to keep it proprietary, simply don't distribute it to anyone outside your company. If you did distribute it, then of course you would have to pass on the freedoms of the GPL.
Since (assumedly) your company owns the output, not you as a person, you could distribute it company wide without giving any employee the freedom to distribute it outside the company.
Oh come on... you shouldn't be using multiple inheritance anyway.
Oh yeah, and WordStar is the best word processor ever written! I'm still more productive in it than I am in most GUI WPs. Sure, it's nothing fancy, but for text editing it's great. Really efficient once you learn the Ctrl codes for cursor movement and other functions.
I very much want to see Delphi for Linux, and will buy it, UNLESS it uses Motif. That would turn me off to it like a light.
With Motif, all executables will need to be statically linked, and nothing would be under 2 megs. That is REALLY BAD..... especially since most software will probably be distributed over the Internet.
Qt would be a good choice *IF* you can work out a licensing deal with Troll Tech to allow commercial development with Delphi out of the box. This would be in everyone's interest - they should be willing to license it, since they'd get a royalty from every Delphi sale and gain a LOT of users.
If you can't work out a deal with the Trolls, I recommend GTK, or maybe developing your own widget set (but please do open source it if you do that).
Thanks
I just got over 1,100 points in KDE's Snake Race. Is that worth anything???
Bah... I agree that any single company or distribution maker shouldn't dominate the market, but Linux as a whole most definitely should. The market wins when there is only one operating system to port software to and support, but when that one OS is controled by one company, everyone loses. Linux is free and open, and can NEVER be dominated by one company!
Is anyone else suspicious as to why ZD, of all companies, is sponsoring this? This is, of course, our friend Berst's company.
This hardly looks like something a Linux geek should be excited about going to. Looks like they're targeting PHBs. Who knows what will happen - will they try to point them TOWARD open source, spew FUD about open source, or (heaven forbid) try to be objective?
Thanks, that would be great... (at least it would be great if I had ever used AIX before)
Since all the Austin folks are here....
Anyone know of a good Jr. level Linux programming and/or sys admin job in Austin?
I've been trying to get a job with a certain company's upcoming Linux Support Center, but they've been telling me "any day now" since December! They're just not ready to hire yet. AAARGH.
Still living in rainy Oregon,
Micah
Sure they *can* write binary only drivers, but I think the trend toward releasing open source drivers will continue. And when we have the choice, we (the Linux community) will simply go for the open source drivers. There's no reason to tolerate binary drivers given all the problems they present.
I think hardware vendors will, in time, become cluefull in this area.
I've used VAJ 1.1 under OS/2 and it is pretty sweet. But one thing annoyed me - when there was an error it typed the freeking error message right into your source code! Have they fixed that with version 2? (they never did send me the free upgrade to 2 I asked for...)
Now if Stardock would only port Entrepreneur to Linux, I could probably reformat my HPFS partition as ext2...
When calculating the cost to go somewhere, you should look at the cost per mile, not the cost per hour. Remember, this thing goes a lot faster than cars. If it gets 19 miles per gallon, then it will take only slightly more fuel than your average car to get from A to B.
Actually, it could be argued that this thing gives you MORE for your gas money, especially in the city. Think about it - with cars you're stoping and starting all the time. With this thing, you'll fly constantly. No rush hour jams that eat up gas. And no WAITING! If you calculate your TIME at $20 per hour, that will add up QUICK!
I won't believe this until I see it, but if it takes off (no pun intended), it is a real breakthrough.
RMS *should* be ecstatic over this.
But I don't quite understand who actually *owns* the code that is written. It seems that the sponsor, the company that pays for the service, would own the code, and thus be able to set the license. Then they would be able to change it to any license they want.
I guess that's where CoSource and sourceXchange have to guarantee that it will always be under an open source license.
That very problem has been annoying me for a while, and here's what I do:
/. reply, I use the middle button (or the left and right simultaneously for 2-button mice), which opens a new Netscape window. When you're done reading that page, you close that new window, and you're instantly back where you were!
When clicking on a
Other bonuses: When you go back (close the window) you are EXACTLY where you were - it isn't effected by Netscape's stupid bug that takes you back to the top of a page if it has tables. Also, you can Alt-Tab back to the original page and continue reading it while the reply page is loading.
Remember, NS 3 was the one that had a "bus error" every 10 seconds. You could do some library hacking which sometimes fixed it, but it was definitely buggy.
I don't know why everyone says NS 4.x is so bad. Yes, it crashes occasionally on my system, but it's no more than once a day, usually about once or twice a week, and in one case I think I went a month or two without a crash.
I've been using 4.50 (with RH5.1) and now 4.51 (with RH6). Both are stable enough. Netscape is usually the first app I launch in the morning and the last one I close at night. It runs all day.
I'd *love* to see that one.
Of course, if someone would improve the AI in XFrisk it wouldn't be necessary. I have a good idea for AI but don't have time to even think about implementing it.
Railroad Tycoon was one of my favorite games ever. I haven't played RT2. How does it compare to the original?
:-) ) but hopefully it will be playable and fun. http://cvs.seul.org/~yoderm/ will get my preliminary hackings.
I'm also busy hacking on an airline simulator that I'm hoping will be sort of in the spirit of RT. It won't be a polished game for a LONG time (unless lots of people want to help me.
I've always believed that there should be strict rules for buying domain names:
1. You must be some kind of an official organization
2. There should be a certain number of individual computers uniquely connected to it (no virtual hosting crap)
3. ONLY ONE domain per organization
4. That name must say who you are
Domain names were never intended to be used by everly little clown that wants a web site. They were intended to identify networks and to give organizations their own namespace.
I like Bush, but this is kinda stupid. Maybe I'll vote for Alan Keyes like I did last time.
When is libstdc++ going to implement ostringstream??? I'm getting tired of using ostrstream...
I could be wrong, but doesn't 'strip' just take out debugging information? I don't think it takes out unused functions/variables. That's called 'smart linking'. Borland's DOS compilers have had them for AGES. Why doesn't the GNU linker???