We learnt Ada in my first year at Uni and I'd recommend that. Ada is very much like Pascal. Yeah, I know that it's really strict on type-checking and things but this is probably a good thing as it encourages 'good' programming (I suppose that that's a matter of opinion.
The other advantage is that Ada is used commercially in real-time safety-critical systems such as the Paris Metro, the London Underground and aircraft. If you wanted to get into the safety-critical, real-time industry then this would be a good starting point. If not, at least you get a sound primer in programming.
Plus it's not tied to the Windows architecture. Not that Pascal is by any means but GNAT is (supposedly) one of the best Ada compilers around.
User Friendly has been pretty dire the last two or three months. Pitr becoming a proper evil genius had great promise but was a huge let down. The topical jokes are not funny and the artwork is terrible.
Having said that I have the first three User Friendly books and they are great.
I built my PC a couple of years ago. I have had no problems with it. My then housemate also built his. A third housemate (who is knowledgeable with computers) aided him. He didn't put motherboard separators in and screwed the motherboard straight to the case. About a year ago it kept crashing. My friend bought a new motherboard. This also didn't work. We assumed that maybe the processor was fried. Then I discovered the separator issue. On a hunch we tried the old motherboard with separators. The PC worked. The only thing that was required to solve the original crashing problem was a re-install of Win 98. I thought of this right at the beginning of the issues but we never did it cos he didn't want to lose his MP3 collection and didn't have a second drive then.
Sorry if this anecdote is a little off-topic but I feel that it is important to know what you are doing if you want to build a PC. Personally I'm going to get a Shuttle bare-bone kit next.
The CG was on the whole good but that silver ship was just horrid. Does anyone else think that C3P0 is the new Jar-Jar? At least Jar-Jar was less bumbling and irritating in AoTC.
However, my biggest gripe with the film is the strange mix of incomprehenible interstellar politics and slapstick humour.
Just imagine flipping between George Bush talking about the war in Arghanistan and the Three Stooges. That's what it was like!
Having said that the fight scenes were great!
Oh, also, I found it amusing that all the clones were from New Zealand (as Jago Fett was) so I had this really stupid thought of them all doing that aboriginal war dance that the All Blacks rugby team do before going into battle.
Well, technically it was Pole Marian Rejewski who actually first cracked Enigma, and the only reason it was cracked was due to German silly rules for choosing day keys for Enigma. The Polish also had an imformant who was passing on books with the German keys in them. I think the British took over Enigma cracking after Poland was invaded.
I can't get to the page to see exactly what the functionality of this thing is so excuse me if this is a silly question.
Does an MP3 box really need a 1.2Ghz processor and 128 megs of RAM? It seems a tad excessive. I know these things are pretty cheap these days but even so, it seems a bit overkill.
Don't forget that when you buy Red Hat you get a couple of shiny (and pretty good) manuals and 30 days of installation support. It's not just a case of selling a pretty box.
Also, if you were presenting a Linux distro to your boss would you rather show him a burned CD or a proper box. Bosses like this sorta thing.
Personally, I love Slashdot. I don't want to see it go. That would be the biggest irony of the.com busts. Although technically Slashdot aint a.com, it's a.org.
Imagine this in the news:
"Today saw the first of the dot-org blow outs when Slashdot, one of the Internets most popular sites folded. Slashdot readers were quoted as saying 'Actually, I really didn't see that one coming'..."
Nah, wouldn't happen. Although, I do feel I need to ask if Slashdot still qualifies as a dot-org being as it has a business model of sorts. Does it matter? Probably not. Am I totally misinformed? Probably, but at least I'm the first to admit that;-)
I'm currently working on a J2EE project for my degree. It took me a week to basically get up to speed on EJB's, configure JBoss/Catalina with a PostgreSQL backend. I'm being hardcore (stupid perhaps) and using vi to write everything - including deployment descriptors.
It's a bit of work but I wouldn't say it's a logistical nightmare. I'm quite comfortable with it all now and it makes sense. A lot of it depends on the EJB container you are using. Having only used JBoss I couldn't comment on the others.
Personally I'd really like it if SomaFM stuck around. In my old place we had DSL and I spent a lot of time listening to Groove Salad - Soma's chill out station, despite being a rocker. I miss it having only dial-up and home now.
If I'm buying music (which I do a lot of) I'll buy the sodding CD. Anyone who seemed to think that paying for music in MP3 (or equivilant, before you correct me - I couldn't think of a better term) form would take off is a fool because you're not really getting anything for your money. For an accurate description of "Nu-meeja" types I suggest everyone visit TVGoHome and check out the archives and read about the program called 'C*nt'. Yes, Nathen Barley is British but I think the character can be applied to a great many people all over the world
Claric
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This is what I'm saying ! All it is that makes a server a server is it running services. Think of a NIS domain. You have the NIS master. You have a home server and a mail server. These are both clients to the NIS master. You log in on this NIS master. The nis master is a client to the home and mail servers. ANYTHING can be a client or a server. I did read the article. It was a waste of time.
My understanding is that a 'server' is a machine that offers 'services'. So if you connect to a machine that is offering a service it is - by definition - a server.
If I'm right then we'll all have to agree that P2P is an empty internet buzzword that has no meaning.
Even with Napster it wasn't really P2P. You were getting MP3's from a machine 'serving' them. That makes it a server.
Maybe P2P should be renamed to NEN, or 'normal everyday networking'.
The end of innovation ? This is just the beginning my friend ! So Napster got shut down. Big deal ! The protocal was so bad I suprised it wasn't exploited. It's times like these that inspire people into creating more innovative stuff. So come on old boy, keep a stiff upper lip. Good things are afoot.
A lot of people think that free unixes should be installed at uni, then worked backwards through the school system. I say this is wrong. I think that to REALLY make an impact you need to be using free unixes when you start school. You should start at the beginning and work forward.
Slashdot Mirror
Seeing as Diffie works for Sun I think that this probably isn't an issue.
C
We learnt Ada in my first year at Uni and I'd recommend that. Ada is very much like Pascal. Yeah, I know that it's really strict on type-checking and things but this is probably a good thing as it encourages 'good' programming (I suppose that that's a matter of opinion.
The other advantage is that Ada is used commercially in real-time safety-critical systems such as the Paris Metro, the London Underground and aircraft. If you wanted to get into the safety-critical, real-time industry then this would be a good starting point. If not, at least you get a sound primer in programming.
Plus it's not tied to the Windows architecture. Not that Pascal is by any means but GNAT is (supposedly) one of the best Ada compilers around.
C
I was in the same situation, so I DL'd it and compiled it myself. You could downloaded it and install it from Sun Freeware:
m _6 .0_8_SPARC.html
http://soldc.sun.com/freeware/details/detail_vi
C
I recently spent 3.5 weeks in Perth visiting a friend and having a good time. Seeing the pictures just reminded me how much I wanted to stay.
I know this is off-topic and all, I just wanted to vent. Allow me that.
C
User Friendly has been pretty dire the last two or three months. Pitr becoming a proper evil genius had great promise but was a huge let down. The topical jokes are not funny and the artwork is terrible.
Having said that I have the first three User Friendly books and they are great.
C
I built my PC a couple of years ago. I have had no problems with it. My then housemate also built his. A third housemate (who is knowledgeable with computers) aided him. He didn't put motherboard separators in and screwed the motherboard straight to the case. About a year ago it kept crashing. My friend bought a new motherboard. This also didn't work. We assumed that maybe the processor was fried. Then I discovered the separator issue. On a hunch we tried the old motherboard with separators. The PC worked. The only thing that was required to solve the original crashing problem was a re-install of Win 98. I thought of this right at the beginning of the issues but we never did it cos he didn't want to lose his MP3 collection and didn't have a second drive then.
Sorry if this anecdote is a little off-topic but I feel that it is important to know what you are doing if you want to build a PC. Personally I'm going to get a Shuttle bare-bone kit next.
C
I'm thinking more along the lines of Street Fighter 2
Star Wars
Star Wars Special Edition
Star Wars Turbo
Star Wars Turbo Champions Edition
Super Star Wars Turbo
Let's not forget the hacked Japanese imports where Luke Skywalker does two fireballs that move in a sine-wave pattern.
Repeat the above with Star Wars Alpha.
Claric
Personally I didn't like it.
The CG was on the whole good but that silver ship was just horrid. Does anyone else think that C3P0 is the new Jar-Jar? At least Jar-Jar was less bumbling and irritating in AoTC.
However, my biggest gripe with the film is the strange mix of incomprehenible interstellar politics and slapstick humour.
Just imagine flipping between George Bush talking about the war in Arghanistan and the Three Stooges. That's what it was like!
Having said that the fight scenes were great!
Oh, also, I found it amusing that all the clones were from New Zealand (as Jago Fett was) so I had this really stupid thought of them all doing that aboriginal war dance that the All Blacks rugby team do before going into battle.
C
Well, technically it was Pole Marian Rejewski who actually first cracked Enigma, and the only reason it was cracked was due to German silly rules for choosing day keys for Enigma. The Polish also had an imformant who was passing on books with the German keys in them. I think the British took over Enigma cracking after Poland was invaded.
Claric
I can't get to the page to see exactly what the functionality of this thing is so excuse me if this is a silly question.
Does an MP3 box really need a 1.2Ghz processor and 128 megs of RAM? It seems a tad excessive. I know these things are pretty cheap these days but even so, it seems a bit overkill.
Claric
We get these in the UK.
"Earn £300 a day working from home! Part time or full time!"
I always think it's either telesales or some pyramid scheme. The latter seems more obvious.
Claric
Don't forget that when you buy Red Hat you get a couple of shiny (and pretty good) manuals and 30 days of installation support. It's not just a case of selling a pretty box.
Also, if you were presenting a Linux distro to your boss would you rather show him a burned CD or a proper box. Bosses like this sorta thing.
Claric
...then fantastic.
.com busts. Although technically Slashdot aint a .com, it's a .org.
;-)
Personally, I love Slashdot. I don't want to see it go. That would be the biggest irony of the
Imagine this in the news:
"Today saw the first of the dot-org blow outs when Slashdot, one of the Internets most popular sites folded. Slashdot readers were quoted as saying 'Actually, I really didn't see that one coming'..."
Nah, wouldn't happen. Although, I do feel I need to ask if Slashdot still qualifies as a dot-org being as it has a business model of sorts. Does it matter? Probably not. Am I totally misinformed? Probably, but at least I'm the first to admit that
Claric
I'm currently working on a J2EE project for my degree. It took me a week to basically get up to speed on EJB's, configure JBoss/Catalina with a PostgreSQL backend. I'm being hardcore (stupid perhaps) and using vi to write everything - including deployment descriptors.
It's a bit of work but I wouldn't say it's a logistical nightmare. I'm quite comfortable with it all now and it makes sense. A lot of it depends on the EJB container you are using. Having only used JBoss I couldn't comment on the others.
Claric
Personally I'd really like it if SomaFM stuck around. In my old place we had DSL and I spent a lot of time listening to Groove Salad - Soma's chill out station, despite being a rocker. I miss it having only dial-up and home now.
Claric
C
We could see Microsoft above the law if this goes on.
C
Claric
This is what I'm saying ! All it is that makes a server a server is it running services. Think of a NIS domain. You have the NIS master. You have a home server and a mail server. These are both clients to the NIS master. You log in on this NIS master. The nis master is a client to the home and mail servers. ANYTHING can be a client or a server. I did read the article. It was a waste of time.
My understanding is that a 'server' is a machine that offers 'services'. So if you connect to a machine that is offering a service it is - by definition - a server.
If I'm right then we'll all have to agree that P2P is an empty internet buzzword that has no meaning.
Even with Napster it wasn't really P2P. You were getting MP3's from a machine 'serving' them. That makes it a server.
Maybe P2P should be renamed to NEN, or 'normal everyday networking'.
Claric
On the other hand they don't cost much really.
Claric
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...he was murdered. Maybe it was in battle. Claric.
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