He did not write or design any code, but instead was the one who had the 'visions' for Netscapes future. For example, he was the first who understood that the Web could evolve into a platform of its own, and therefore be a thread to Microsoft. He also is responsible for the inclusion of Java, and before his Netscape days he lead the Mosaic project NCSA (code-wise). See the quite interresting book 'Speeding the net' by Joshua Quittner and Michelle Slatalla for more, or (shorter) 'Architects of the Web' by Robert Reid...
While playing over phone sounds very interresting, I wonder what the target group is. Even though mobile phones will be very common next year, at least in Japan and Europe, it will be still be too expensive for the usual gameboy target group, the kids. And even for the grown-ups it is too expensive IMHO. In Germany, the cheapest rates for mobile phones are usually 0.15$ per minute (when you call a number of the same network in the evening), thats $9 per hour. I pay $0.20 per minute in the evening, and when you call someone in a different network, it will be more like 0.5$ per minute in the evening and $1 at other times. That's a lot of money, especially for a kid, and think it is unlikely that it will be much cheaper next year when they launch the new Gameboy.
Well, probably the most important thing is the GUI based setup, that looks very window-ish, to the text-menu and CLI based Debian setup. If you are a new user, you will probably feel more confortable using Caldera. I also have made some good experience with Caldera's file layout, and their admin tools (in older versions). The main problem with these things is, as usual, that you have less choice. For example, Debian comes with at least 3 mail daemons, and can each configure quite nicely. With the usual GUI-based dist, you have only one. And, even worse, if you used to configure your system by hand, you are quite likely to screw up your admin tools. In other words, if you are used to configure your system by editing text files and dont want to change this, or you want freedom of choice which programs you use, keep your Debian.
The most important reason is speed. Reading and parsing a text file each time you need information about a user is very slow if you have a huge number of users. For example, FreeBSD and OpenBSD maintain Berkeley dbm databases of the users to make look-ups faster (but for compatibility reasons,/etc/passwd is still available).
When SGI adapts linux, they dont give up their real advantages: applications like those by alias|wavefront (owned by SGI), high-end graphics software/libs like OpenInventor, and of course SGI's experience with high-end graphics and supercomputers. Irix will go under. I think nobody will seriously doubt that, and it seems like even in their niche they are loosing market share. So they only have the choice between WindowsNT and Linux. And the Linux is not only less crowded market, but also much closer to Irix, so they can port their software easier.
/etc/passwd's are the same. Linux seems to use a few more fields in/etc/shadow (on Debian 2.1 compared to Solaris 7), but that should not be a problem.
It seems like the password files are not identical, but that does not not mean that you have to re-enter all users. For most fields a small Perl or AWK script should be fine, but the passwords will be a problem: they are encrypted, and as SunOS and Linux use different encryption schemes. Your only chance is to crack them, otherwise all users must get new passwords. Cracking them with a root account shouldnt be too difficult from a technical point of view, but I dont know where to find a program that cracks SunOS password files.
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Yes, SuSe sucks (at least for most experienced users), but there are a lot of reasons for SuSes success in Germany:
SuSe supports "typical german" devices like ISDN cards (in germany there are probably more Linux users with ISDN cards than with modems)
The documentation, website, everything is in german. This is very important in germany, as many people dont feel comfortable with english documentation.
SuSe has been around for ages. I can remember seeing SuSe in local bookstores years before I even heard about RedHat.
Maybe you should try to order at amazon.co.uk: you will probably pay less for shipping, and you wont have to pay for customs when ordering from EU countries.
Learning english would be easier, especially for readers of Slashdot (or are there any people reading this who dont speak english and use something like Babelfish?)
But to get a free worker thread you can use a condition variable and a mutex (when using pthreads). And when waiting for several threads to join a loop that joins each thread is an easy solution.
IMHO using Multithreading and a single thread for each call that might block is an elegant solution and results in very readable code - better code than using a single thread that has to react to a number of events. I have never missed the possiblility to wait for several events in a single thread. But maybe I use threads threads more easily because I mainly work in Java, and Java makes it very comfortable to work with threads...
There are still lots of companies who havent upgraded to Windows95 or Win98. And even if only 1% of the Windows computers are running 3.x then there are still million of them that need a decent TCP/IP stack.
But is it a good thing to have dozens of API calls for special cases when a Unix system can do the same things with a slim elegant API, with less than 100 API calls, and still be as fast as an NT system (or even faster)? I think that this is embarrassing for NT...
Is there a website where I can get 'historic' web sites? For example, I would like to see the old HotWired-Website, or the Silicon Graphic's SiliconSurf pages, the good old GNN and stuff like that. That's the problem with electronic information, unlike paper you cannot really collect it. And if you would and make your archive public, you would violate the publisher's copyright...
There is a huge codebase, and understanding the Mozilla code enough to make any significant changes is quite hard for someone who does not work on Mozilla fulltime, even with Gecko and without all the legacy code
They support 3 platforms (Unix, Windows and Mac) and many Unix hackers, for example, dont want to care for Windows stuff. That's why the majority of contributors work on Windows.
They have very strict guidelines for commiting into the CVS. Before you commit anything you have to check that it doesnt break on any platform. This is understandable for a commercial project, but makes it even harder to work on it. I, for example, cannot contribute to Mozilla because I dont have Windows installed, and I am not going to change that.
Maybe it would be good when AOL stops Mozilla. Because that would certainly mean that a lot of Linux/Unix-based volunteers would start developing their own Mozilla, based on the current sources, and give up all the Windows and Mac stuff. Then I would seriously consider to contribute. But I will never ever work with the Win32 API. I tried it once, and it so unbelievable ugly... under no circumstances.
Does anyone else think that everyone out there *expecting* eBay to be available every second of every day is a bit extreme? No... for example, some time ago I used to go Fatbrain when I wanted to buy a book. But I frequently experienced that Fatbrain was down. On the other hand, I cannot remember having problems with amazon.com, ever. So when I want to buy a book, and my cursor is in the URL field of my Netscape, which URL will I type? Fatbrain, even though I know that they might be down again, and I will have to wait 30 seconds patiently until I get the timeout? Or will I got to amazon.com and but the book immediately? Well, I use the shop that uses Unix, and not the NT shop...
Correct me if I am wrong, but in the current./ system someone who's comments reguarly get a high score gets automatically a better default score for his comments. So Bruce's default score seems to be 2.
Reminds me of my father almost 20 years ago, building a keyboard with a wodden case for the TI99/4A. It looked like the Flintstone's computer and was a long - running gag in my family...
As the paper said, there have already been a lot of other projects that use zooming. The best known example is probably Pad++ (Warning, site features frames and a resource-sucking applet). The ideas of Pad++ are interresting (for example filters that you can move in front of data to transform its display) and worth a look, but I am not sure whether I would really like to work with something like that. On the other hand, maybe today's input devices just arnt ready for this.. zooming with a mouse is no fun...
Well, I live in Northrhine Westfalia and I have never heard anything about FFII.. (I heard about the technology center though) Are there any online information available? Where can I sign the protest letter?
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He did not write or design any code, but instead was the one who had the 'visions' for Netscapes future. For example, he was the first who understood that the Web could evolve into a platform of its own, and therefore be a thread to Microsoft. He also is responsible for the inclusion of Java, and before his Netscape days he lead the Mosaic project NCSA (code-wise). See the quite interresting book 'Speeding the net' by Joshua Quittner and Michelle Slatalla for more, or (shorter) 'Architects of the Web' by Robert Reid...
While playing over phone sounds very interresting, I wonder what the target group is. Even though mobile phones will be very common next year, at least in Japan and Europe, it will be still be too expensive for the usual gameboy target group, the kids. And even for the grown-ups it is too expensive IMHO. In Germany, the cheapest rates for mobile phones are usually 0.15$ per minute (when you call a number of the same network in the evening), thats $9 per hour. I pay $0.20 per minute in the evening, and when you call someone in a different network, it will be more like 0.5$ per minute in the evening and $1 at other times.
That's a lot of money, especially for a kid, and think it is unlikely that it will be much cheaper next year when they launch the new Gameboy.
Well, probably the most important thing is the GUI based setup, that looks very window-ish, to the text-menu and CLI based Debian setup. If you are a new user, you will probably feel more confortable using Caldera. I also have made some good experience with Caldera's file layout, and their admin tools (in older versions). The main problem with these things is, as usual, that you have less choice. For example, Debian comes with at least 3 mail daemons, and can each configure quite nicely. With the usual GUI-based dist, you have only one. And, even worse, if you used to configure your system by hand, you are quite likely to screw up your admin tools. In other words, if you are used to configure your system by editing text files and dont want to change this, or you want freedom of choice which programs you use, keep your Debian.
The most important reason is speed. Reading and parsing a text file each time you need information about a user is very slow if you have a huge number of users. For example, FreeBSD and OpenBSD maintain Berkeley dbm databases of the users to make look-ups faster (but for compatibility reasons, /etc/passwd is still available).
When SGI adapts linux, they dont give up their real advantages: applications like those by alias|wavefront (owned by SGI), high-end graphics software/libs like OpenInventor, and of course SGI's experience with high-end graphics and supercomputers.
Irix will go under. I think nobody will seriously doubt that, and it seems like even in their niche they are loosing market share. So they only have the choice between WindowsNT and Linux. And the Linux is not only less crowded market, but also much closer to Irix, so they can port their software easier.
No, never seen Linea here (and I live near the dutch border)..
/etc/passwd's are the same. Linux seems to use a few more fields in /etc/shadow (on Debian 2.1 compared to Solaris 7), but that should not be a problem.
It seems like the password files are not identical, but that does not not mean that you have to re-enter all users. For most fields a small Perl or AWK script should be fine, but the passwords will be a problem: they are encrypted, and as SunOS and Linux use different encryption schemes. Your only chance is to crack them, otherwise all users must get new passwords.
Cracking them with a root account shouldnt be too difficult from a technical point of view, but I dont know where to find a program that cracks SunOS password files.
Maybe you should try to order at amazon.co.uk: you will probably pay less for shipping, and you wont have to pay for customs when ordering from EU countries.
Learning english would be easier, especially for readers of Slashdot (or are there any people reading this who dont speak english and use something like Babelfish?)
But to get a free worker thread you can use a condition variable and a mutex (when using pthreads). And when waiting for several threads to join a loop that joins each thread is an easy solution.
IMHO using Multithreading and a single thread for each call that might block is an elegant solution and results in very readable code - better code than using a single thread that has to react to a number of events. I have never missed the possiblility to wait for several events in a single thread.
But maybe I use threads threads more easily because I mainly work in Java, and Java makes it very comfortable to work with threads...
Note that I said Unix, not Linux. (And BTW, there are plenty of tests that show the opposite)
There are still lots of companies who havent upgraded to Windows95 or Win98. And even if only 1% of the Windows computers are running 3.x then there are still million of them that need a decent TCP/IP stack.
But is it a good thing to have dozens of API calls for special cases when a Unix system can do the same things with a slim elegant API, with less than 100 API calls, and still be as fast as an NT system (or even faster)?
I think that this is embarrassing for NT...
Yes, I know that they are collecting information, but I can only read some selected pages..
Is there a website where I can get 'historic' web sites? For example, I would like to see the old HotWired-Website, or the Silicon Graphic's SiliconSurf pages, the good old GNN and stuff like that. That's the problem with electronic information, unlike paper you cannot really collect it. And if you would and make your archive public, you would violate the publisher's copyright...
Maybe it would be good when AOL stops Mozilla. Because that would certainly mean that a lot of Linux/Unix-based volunteers would start developing their own Mozilla, based on the current sources, and give up all the Windows and Mac stuff. Then I would seriously consider to contribute. But I will never ever work with the Win32 API. I tried it once, and it so unbelievable ugly... under no circumstances.
Does anyone else think that everyone out there *expecting* eBay to be available every second of every day is a bit extreme?
No... for example, some time ago I used to go Fatbrain when I wanted to buy a book. But I frequently experienced that Fatbrain was down. On the other hand, I cannot remember having problems with amazon.com, ever.
So when I want to buy a book, and my cursor is in the URL field of my Netscape, which URL will I type? Fatbrain, even though I know that they might be down again, and I will have to wait 30 seconds patiently until I get the timeout? Or will I got to amazon.com and but the book immediately?
Well, I use the shop that uses Unix, and not the NT shop...
Correct me if I am wrong, but in the current ./ system someone who's comments reguarly get a high score gets automatically a better default score for his comments. So Bruce's default score seems to be 2.
No, he's talking about the x86 emulation on NT-alpha.
Reminds me of my father almost 20 years ago, building a keyboard with a wodden case for the TI99/4A. It looked like the Flintstone's computer and was a long - running gag in my family...
As the paper said, there have already been a lot of other projects that use zooming. The best known example is probably Pad++ (Warning, site features frames and a resource-sucking applet).
The ideas of Pad++ are interresting (for example filters that you can move in front of data to transform its display) and worth a look, but I am not sure whether I would really like to work with something like that. On the other hand, maybe today's input devices just arnt ready for this.. zooming with a mouse is no fun...
Well, I live in Northrhine Westfalia and I have never heard anything about FFII.. (I heard about the technology center though)
Are there any online information available? Where can I sign the protest letter?