That's not surprising in either case, in terms of Java's results. It's well known that Sun has spent more time optimizing the Windows version of Java than any other, including the Solaris version.
It doesn't have settings to use a proxy when connecting to FreeDB. Useless for me. Useless for anyone who rips music at work behind a proxy (mine requires authentication, as well).
IIT did this while I was there (maybe before I signed up). Of course, it's a smaller uni, but everyone had a computer login. There were two labs for all students. One was PC, open access, connected to a Novell server. It was used mostly for typing reports. The other lab (in the basement) was direct terminals (pre-vt100) to our intranet (keep in mind, this is 10 years ago). Originally, everyone has an account for email on an acient VAX (ugh, the nightmares). However, after a few years, the bought several vt-320s and moved everyone's account to an Irix server (what a waste). Most people had a standard account name that was used for email (mostly between friends; teachers had no clue how to use it). The formula they used was first 4 characters of last name plus first 3 characters of first name. When a conflict arose, they added 1, 2, etc. I don't think I saw amything beyond 8 characters ever, but many people had shorter ids. It seemed to work well in practice.
We also had pretty fast access to the internet - no port blocking; too many Mud players (me included) and a few Muds that ran on school property (eventually went away; cool admin left). Man, those were nthe days.
Whatever you call them, rebels have defined our history from Day One. The first to rebel against conventional wisdom? Eve. We're still recovering from the fallout from that ordeal.
Funny, I don't recall hearing that Slashdot is uniformly Christian/Creationist. In fact, I would hazard a guess that Slashdot has much more diversity in religion than the general US population. Why don't you keep your religious bias inside your religious community? It might be welcome there. There are few enough females in IT/CS/whatever for someone to start spewing about Adam and Eve on Slashdot.
As a sidenote, shouldn't there be a way for the ground control to override the controls of a hijacked plane?
This is a terrible idea. Are you willing to say any level of security would be sufficient to protect the plane from being taken over by terrorrists without boarding the plane?
I'm not nor would I want to be on a plane that has this liabilty, even with the best encryption on it.
Sorry, guess again. Chicago is a very traditional town. Many of the largest banks in the world have offices here. In many cases, it's a miracle that much of Chicago ever migrated to Windows from DOS. It would be surely even more unusual to see these companies migrate to the "upstart" Linux.
Mind you, this is not an absolute. There are Linux User Groups all over the area, and the two Chicago area offices I've worked at, had Solaris servers installed.
Funny. I've never had a problem with CVS (except mucking up upper case or lower case on NT).
I have no experience with Visual SourceSafe, but ClearCase is the best code repository tool I've ever used. It blows CVS out of the water for large distributed teams. Of course, it costs mucho $$$ and requires a dedicated administrator (or two).
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When I was in HS and did a science project, no one had to approve. I just showed up the day of the fair with my experiment. I chose to use something related to biology, which I was taking at the time, because we got extra credit. My biology teacher never even saw my project (but I did get the credit;).
I work for a large company and they have a "technical" track of advancement for people who get promoted that high. Generally, people on this track, once beyond the grunt engineer status, are allowed their pick of projects and any position (other than a grunt) within that project (writing standards, expensive R&D, techincal leadership, software architect) without having the tedious managerial position duties (budgets, personal problems, etc.).
If you really want to program, go CS. If you want to work with computers in many ways, go CS.
I did that and now I can move from application development, web devlopment, enterprise development and now embedded devlopment. I can become a consultant at $80 (if you don't mind the risk). I can even go to IT or technical support (shudder) if I want. I have at least 5 headhunters tracking me down every week even though my home page/resume says I'm not looking.
Also, it's easy to extend CS to another field if you have the interest (especially the fields of business, science, and medicine).
If computers is just an easy way to get a job: go to a trade school. The price of college isn't worth it. A friend of mine went into CIS. He qualified for a job as a headhunter for technical people (who make more than him).
Does the emulator work under WinNT? The doc mentions Win95 and Win98, but not NT.
The games starts up and runs fine, but locks up shortly after starting (about 1 minute). This happens even if I'm still in the configuartion screens.
Alternatively, is there any other emulator that might work?
Well, I don't know about the person you responded to, but finding documents in PDF form bugs me. I find, more often than not, that I want to edit the document. To accomplish this, I have to copy'n'paste from the PDF to a word processor and hope I don't lose too much of the formatting.
Plus I hate it that a whole new window has to open up to display PDF's in Netscape.
Slashdot Mirror
That's not surprising in either case, in terms of Java's results. It's well known that Sun has spent more time optimizing the Windows version of Java than any other, including the Solaris version.
"However it did help me gain insight into software from a PHB and suit perspective."
NO!
That's the first step along the path to becoming one of them! Save your intelligence while you can!
I have no problem with the actions of MS here. The actions of the Dept. of Homeland Security on the other hand...
Reminds me a certain unnamed OS.
"If it's broken, reboot. If that doesn't fix it, reinstall!"
It doesn't have settings to use a proxy when connecting to FreeDB. Useless for me. Useless for anyone who rips music at work behind a proxy (mine requires authentication, as well).
How many copies of the Library of Congress is that?
We also had pretty fast access to the internet - no port blocking; too many Mud players (me included) and a few Muds that ran on school property (eventually went away; cool admin left). Man, those were nthe days.
Funny, I don't recall hearing that Slashdot is uniformly Christian/Creationist. In fact, I would hazard a guess that Slashdot has much more diversity in religion than the general US population. Why don't you keep your religious bias inside your religious community? It might be welcome there. There are few enough females in IT/CS/whatever for someone to start spewing about Adam and Eve on Slashdot.
Is it just me? Every time I go to the timeline, instant crash.
This is a terrible idea. Are you willing to say any level of security would be sufficient to protect the plane from being taken over by terrorrists without boarding the plane?
I'm not nor would I want to be on a plane that has this liabilty, even with the best encryption on it.
The Art of Computer Programming, of course!
You really think there's only gonna be one DVD edition? Think again.
Imagine playing Quake 3 on a Beowulf
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NO SIGNAL
Mind you, this is not an absolute. There are Linux User Groups all over the area, and the two Chicago area offices I've worked at, had Solaris servers installed.
Shadowhawk
I can see it now...people blocked from accessing a site because the referrer is slashdot.org after the site is mentioned here.
I have no experience with Visual SourceSafe, but ClearCase is the best code repository tool I've ever used. It blows CVS out of the water for large distributed teams. Of course, it costs mucho $$$ and requires a dedicated administrator (or two).
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Does this mean I can run WINE on Line and be 133t?
Your proposal is acceptable.
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When I was in HS and did a science project, no one had to approve. I just showed up the day of the fair with my experiment. I chose to use something related to biology, which I was taking at the time, because we got extra credit. My biology teacher never even saw my project (but I did get the credit ;).
What website are you posting to?
It may not occur to you, but some people have PCs of their own. The keep them at home; you know, not work?
Besides, who wants to run Windows?
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I agree.
I work for a large company and they have a "technical" track of advancement for people who get promoted that high. Generally, people on this track, once beyond the grunt engineer status, are allowed their pick of projects and any position (other than a grunt) within that project (writing standards, expensive R&D, techincal leadership, software architect) without having the tedious managerial position duties (budgets, personal problems, etc.).
If you really want to program, go CS. If you want to work with computers in many ways, go CS.
I did that and now I can move from application development, web devlopment, enterprise development and now embedded devlopment. I can become a consultant at $80 (if you don't mind the risk). I can even go to IT or technical support (shudder) if I want. I have at least 5 headhunters tracking me down every week even though my home page/resume says I'm not looking.
Also, it's easy to extend CS to another field if you have the interest (especially the fields of business, science, and medicine).
If computers is just an easy way to get a job: go to a trade school. The price of college isn't worth it. A friend of mine went into CIS. He qualified for a job as a headhunter for technical people (who make more than him).
Does the emulator work under WinNT? The doc mentions Win95 and Win98, but not NT. The games starts up and runs fine, but locks up shortly after starting (about 1 minute). This happens even if I'm still in the configuartion screens.
Alternatively, is there any other emulator that might work?
Well, I don't know about the person you responded to, but finding documents in PDF form bugs me. I find, more often than not, that I want to edit the document. To accomplish this, I have to copy'n'paste from the PDF to a word processor and hope I don't lose too much of the formatting.
Plus I hate it that a whole new window has to open up to display PDF's in Netscape.