My experiences with WINE have been, shall I say, bitter.
Same here. That is, until I installed Crossover Office. I use it at work to run Outlook to connect to our Exchange 5.5 server since Ximian does not support that version. The rest of the apps work even better (Word/Excel/Powerpoint) but I usually use OO.org for those documents anyway.
I use the following script to launch Mozilla. I like new windows in a tab, but you can comment that out and uncomment the new window line if you like.
#!/bin/sh
if/opt/mozilla/1.4/mozilla -remote "ping()" 2>/dev/null then # Uncomment one of the following lines according to the desired behavior: # - replace the current page #location="" # - open in new window #location=",new-window" # - open in new tab location=",new-tab" exec/opt/mozilla/1.4/mozilla -remote "openURL($1$location)" else exec/opt/mozilla/1.4/mozilla "$@" fi exit 1
Are there any plans to make the installation a little less painless? Unless you install it with Red Carpet, it is a total pain to download dozens of rpm's (and figure out the dependencies) to get it to work.
I've used it in the past with an Exchange Server as an IMAP client. If I buy the exchange integration, will that enable me to read appointments from my calendar? Will e-mails keep their rich text formatting? One of the slight inconveniences of using Evolution was that my e-mail would not look the same as if I had used Outlook. (I know the world would be better if we just stuck to plain text or some html e-mail, but that's the reality of trying to co-exist with exchange users)
I'm also very interested to know if anyone's used them. 25 bucks a year for PHP, MySQL, SSH, e-mail options up the wazoo does sound too good to be true!
That's the reason why I haven't used 4.0 yet....I wrote to the tomcat user list asking this same question a few weeks ago and I got one response from some guy saying "it dosen't exist yet..." I searched the web and the mail archives and came up with nothing. I plan on upgrading as soon as the IIS connector comes out (because I have to use IIS @ work...legacy applications written in asp can't go)
I've used both NVida and Matrox and I have to say that the Matrox card has much sharper graphics on X. (I'm speaking of 2D...I don't have any games at work)
He said the new version of Linux will run better on high-end computers, such as those containing more than one processor. Mr. Torvalds said tests show the new Linux compares "really well" with its rivals, including Windows and other versions of Unix. "It is painful for me to go back and use the 2.2 kernel," he said, referring to the current version.
Can anyone comment on the improvements that he speaks of? They must be significant, since it is "painful" for him to use 2.2. I'm especially interested because my workstation is a dual processor box.
I am just the luckiest guy in the world when it comes to broadband. I just got a house and I can't get a cable modem yet, even though everyone at work has one, and even the next neighborhood down the street has them but I don't. I call up the cable company and they always feed me the "any day now" bullshit. Then bellsouth is even worse...I've been trying to get an answer about dsl for the longest time but they don't even give me a time estimate. ISDN and DirectPC give you too little for too much $$, so I decide to get another modem and do multi link ppp. This is when I discover that I can't connect faster than 28.8 on a 56k modem, even though I connect at 48-49k with my laptop from my parents house. So to put it simple: it takes 2 modems for me to get the connection speed of one.
I'd pay up to 100 bucks a month for broadband if I could get it but I don't see it happening for a while.
Sorry for the rant...I had to get that out...again. (my g/f is tired of hearing me bitch about it day in and day out)
Microsoft executives said the new language, an easier-to-use version of the popular C++ language, is intended to drastically simplify and speed up software development as well as promote the company's Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS) initiative.
Any language that's a hybrid of C and C++ can't possibly "simplify" development of anything, especially for those VB point and drool types. How the hell do you make a hybrid of C and C++ anyway?
While sources say C# will include several features apparently modeled on some of the most popular features of the Java programming language, Microsoft executives say the language is not a Java competitor. "This is not a response to Java," Goodhew said.
One word: bullshit.
One source familiar with Microsoft's plans said C# is "intended as (a way to foster) new styles of development. Combine it with the Web services (Microsoft) is announcing and you get powerful stuff. It also so happens to effectively mirror what Java can provide. It provides operating system independence (which Java provides), but it also provides language independence, which Java can't provide."
Woah...hold on a second here. This is going to be os independent? What other OS's will it run on? How is it going to run? They say Java can't provide language independence? Obviously they've never heard of JPython or any of the other languages that have compilers that can translate high level source code to Java bytecode that will run on a JVM.
In spite of all the hoopla, we'll see how long it takes for this to move out of the vapor stage, if it ever does...
If you're using strictly MS tools and you're not dealing with a lot of files, then VSS should do OK for you. Visual C, VB and family make it very easy to check files in and out of VSS, and it also makes it easy to deploy content to IIS based web sites. (although I know nothing about how secure that is)
If you're dealing with a large project, I think that it greatly increases the chance of the VSS database corrupting, which to me is one of the biggest flaws and a major reason why I would not use VSS.
The advantages of CVS are:
Simple file format eliminates chances of corruption. I've moved our repository to 3 different machines without any problems...I just had to tarball the cvs root directory and move it.
Support for multiple OS's, including a VSS-like client for windows
Comes by default with many Linux distributions, so all you have to do is dig up that old 486, put a good size HD on it, and you have instant version control.
Conflict resolution works just as well as VSS, if not better.
My group also used VSS in the past, and we also had some major issues with the VSS database corrupting on us. One of the major advantages of CVS is the simple file format it uses. I've moved our repository three times already and I've never had much of a problem doing so. Moving to CVS also allowed us to use any OS we wanted to for development (in Java), which was also a big plus.
I made the same mistake at Sams...I bought Mandrake 6.0 from them, not realizing that it was a Macmillam distribution. They said that they gave support for installs, so when I couldn't get my SCSI card/CD-RW drive to work I gave them a call. Well, they didn't consider that to be an "installation" issue so they gave no help.
I just started to use JDE a few days ago and so far I'm very happy with it. I was using JBuilder before, and it worked fine for projects with less than 20 java files. However, when I started to use it with a project that had 200+ java files, it got to be really slow and bloated. JBuilder would constantly swell to 100+ MB:(. If we could just get the bloat and performance issues of swing solved, we would have a really really good platform. I love the fact that the software that I write runs in windows and linux without recompiling (okay I'm kind of rambling here...) But anyway I agree that JDE is a really nice enviornment for Linux java development.
Let's hope that this IBM JDK is as good as (or better than) the previous!
Not that I agree with his lawsuit, but if a user has his album avaliable on his hd, it only takes two downloads to go over $20...in fact it can go much higher in a small amount of time.
Not that it matters anyway...I don't think that suit is going to go anywhere...
Trying it out right now...
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Netscape 6
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Is it just me, or does it feel like this thing is such a cpu hog? I'm running this under NT (under VMWare) and every time I type something or even move my mouse it spikes the cpu meter on the task manager.
Besides that it appears to render rather quickly and a lot cleaner than Netscape 4.x.
Most high schools start out teaching BASIC...mine did. Maybe Perl isn't the most structured language, but it's far more useful than BAISC ever will be. Perl can be quite difficult to read and understand, and like you mentioned, it's easy to hack a solution together. However it's flexible enough where it doesn't have to be a hack and it doesn't have to be unreadable (that is, if you stay away from regular expressions.;) )...it gives you plenty of oppurtunities to seperate code into functions and even objects.
I've used it a little bit, and although it's a nice interface and all, most of the tracks that I found I can pretty much get anywhere. I'd rather use that type of resource to get music that you won't hear every day on the radio.
I was looking up some documentation on Apache's site last night and I think I did see a Y2K statement out of the corner of my eye. I was wondering about Y2K myself, especially since I just set up Redhat 6.1 as my primary workstation at work (in a Windows enviornment) I suppose that with Open source and so many eyeballs looking at the code daily, I'm sure that all of the Y2K bugs have been taken care of. For the major vendors, a quick visit to their web site should clarify what versions are compliant (for instance, Redhat claims 5.2 and above are compliant). As for the other non-commercial smaller scale projects, I don't know...
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My experiences with WINE have been, shall I say, bitter.
Same here. That is, until I installed Crossover Office. I use it at work to run Outlook to connect to our Exchange 5.5 server since Ximian does not support that version. The rest of the apps work even better (Word/Excel/Powerpoint) but I usually use OO.org for those documents anyway.
Perhaps we should ask Google about French military victories!
I use the following script to launch Mozilla. I like new windows in a tab, but you can comment that out and uncomment the new window line if you like.
/opt/mozilla/1.4/mozilla -remote "ping()" 2>/dev/null /opt/mozilla/1.4/mozilla -remote "openURL($1$location)" /opt/mozilla/1.4/mozilla "$@"
#!/bin/sh
if
then
# Uncomment one of the following lines according to the desired behavior:
# - replace the current page
#location=""
# - open in new window
#location=",new-window"
# - open in new tab
location=",new-tab"
exec
else
exec
fi
exit 1
I'm also very interested to know if anyone's used them. 25 bucks a year for PHP, MySQL, SSH, e-mail options up the wazoo does sound too good to be true!
http://www.godaddy.com gives out domain names for around 8 bucks. What is SEVAA btw?
That's the reason why I haven't used 4.0 yet....I wrote to the tomcat user list asking this same question a few weeks ago and I got one response from some guy saying "it dosen't exist yet..." I searched the web and the mail archives and came up with nothing. I plan on upgrading as soon as the IIS connector comes out (because I have to use IIS @ work...legacy applications written in asp can't go)
I've used both NVida and Matrox and I have to say that the Matrox card has much sharper graphics on X. (I'm speaking of 2D...I don't have any games at work)
Wow...that sounds like a story line to a Dilbert episode!
Looks like Mir has the possibility of landing on a fishing fleet (man that would suck...)
Thanks for the link...it was very informative!
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He said the new version of Linux will run better on high-end computers, such as those containing more than one processor. Mr. Torvalds said tests show the new Linux compares "really well" with its rivals, including Windows and other versions of Unix. "It is painful for me to go back and use the 2.2 kernel," he said, referring to the current version.
Can anyone comment on the improvements that he speaks of? They must be significant, since it is "painful" for him to use 2.2. I'm especially interested because my workstation is a dual processor box.I am just the luckiest guy in the world when it comes to broadband. I just got a house and I can't get a cable modem yet, even though everyone at work has one, and even the next neighborhood down the street has them but I don't. I call up the cable company and they always feed me the "any day now" bullshit. Then bellsouth is even worse...I've been trying to get an answer about dsl for the longest time but they don't even give me a time estimate. ISDN and DirectPC give you too little for too much $$, so I decide to get another modem and do multi link ppp. This is when I discover that I can't connect faster than 28.8 on a 56k modem, even though I connect at 48-49k with my laptop from my parents house. So to put it simple: it takes 2 modems for me to get the connection speed of one.
I'd pay up to 100 bucks a month for broadband if I could get it but I don't see it happening for a while.
Sorry for the rant...I had to get that out...again. (my g/f is tired of hearing me bitch about it day in and day out)
Microsoft executives said the new language, an easier-to-use version of the popular C++ language, is intended to drastically simplify and speed up software development as well as promote the company's Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS) initiative.
Any language that's a hybrid of C and C++ can't possibly "simplify" development of anything, especially for those VB point and drool types. How the hell do you make a hybrid of C and C++ anyway?
While sources say C# will include several features apparently modeled on some of the most popular features of the Java programming language, Microsoft executives say the language is not a Java competitor. "This is not a response to Java," Goodhew said.
One word: bullshit.
One source familiar with Microsoft's plans said C# is "intended as (a way to foster) new styles of development. Combine it with the Web services (Microsoft) is announcing and you get powerful stuff. It also so happens to effectively mirror what Java can provide. It provides operating system independence (which Java provides), but it also provides language independence, which Java can't provide."
Woah...hold on a second here. This is going to be os independent? What other OS's will it run on? How is it going to run? They say Java can't provide language independence? Obviously they've never heard of JPython or any of the other languages that have compilers that can translate high level source code to Java bytecode that will run on a JVM.
In spite of all the hoopla, we'll see how long it takes for this to move out of the vapor stage, if it ever does...
If you're using strictly MS tools and you're not dealing with a lot of files, then VSS should do OK for you. Visual C, VB and family make it very easy to check files in and out of VSS, and it also makes it easy to deploy content to IIS based web sites. (although I know nothing about how secure that is)
If you're dealing with a large project, I think that it greatly increases the chance of the VSS database corrupting, which to me is one of the biggest flaws and a major reason why I would not use VSS.
The advantages of CVS are:
Simple file format eliminates chances of corruption. I've moved our repository to 3 different machines without any problems...I just had to tarball the cvs root directory and move it.
Support for multiple OS's, including a VSS-like client for windows
Comes by default with many Linux distributions, so all you have to do is dig up that old 486, put a good size HD on it, and you have instant version control.
Conflict resolution works just as well as VSS, if not better.
No license fees. :)
My group also used VSS in the past, and we also had some major issues with the VSS database corrupting on us. One of the major advantages of CVS is the simple file format it uses. I've moved our repository three times already and I've never had much of a problem doing so. Moving to CVS also allowed us to use any OS we wanted to for development (in Java), which was also a big plus.
I made the same mistake at Sams...I bought Mandrake 6.0 from them, not realizing that it was a Macmillam distribution. They said that they gave support for installs, so when I couldn't get my SCSI card/CD-RW drive to work I gave them a call. Well, they didn't consider that to be an "installation" issue so they gave no help.
Idiots.
Let's hope that this IBM JDK is as good as (or better than) the previous!
Not that I agree with his lawsuit, but if a user has his album avaliable on his hd, it only takes two downloads to go over $20...in fact it can go much higher in a small amount of time.
Not that it matters anyway...I don't think that suit is going to go anywhere...
Besides that it appears to render rather quickly and a lot cleaner than Netscape 4.x.
Most high schools start out teaching BASIC...mine did. Maybe Perl isn't the most structured language, but it's far more useful than BAISC ever will be. Perl can be quite difficult to read and understand, and like you mentioned, it's easy to hack a solution together. However it's flexible enough where it doesn't have to be a hack and it doesn't have to be unreadable (that is, if you stay away from regular expressions. ;) )...it gives you plenty of oppurtunities to seperate code into functions and even objects.
I've used it a little bit, and although it's a nice interface and all, most of the tracks that I found I can pretty much get anywhere. I'd rather use that type of resource to get music that you won't hear every day on the radio.
Didn't he have another song about this?
dem a call us pirates
dem a call us illegal broadcasters
just because we play
what the people want...
I was looking up some documentation on Apache's site last night and I think I did see a Y2K statement out of the corner of my eye. I was wondering about Y2K myself, especially since I just set up Redhat 6.1 as my primary workstation at work (in a Windows enviornment) I suppose that with Open source and so many eyeballs looking at the code daily, I'm sure that all of the Y2K bugs have been taken care of. For the major vendors, a quick visit to their web site should clarify what versions are compliant (for instance, Redhat claims 5.2 and above are compliant). As for the other non-commercial smaller scale projects, I don't know...