The palestines who bombed themselfs were on the papers quite a while ago, I remember at the time the investigators were scratching their heads as to how it happened. Later on this daylight-saving time fact came up... As for the firemen, it made the "funny-but-tru" news on tv a few months ago....
... Yes, I know I ramble and my spelling isn't quite up to scratch. If you wish to complain,
David McReynolds sounds like a nice guy, but he will never get off the ground in a country so focused in self-agrandisement as the good ol' U.S. of A.!
Come on, the "American Dream" is supposed to be "make the best of your own capabilities", nowhere does it say "and give a helping hand to your fellow man". (Which is a pitty, actually)
If you *are* going to vote in a third-party candidate, choose one that won't be laughed off the ballots...
... Yes, I know I ramble and my spelling isn't quite up to scratch. If you wish to complain,
Come on, this is getting ridiculous... People asking "Do we really need a K7 @ 700Mhz" I can understand (even if I think "Yes we do") but ISA?.... Do you know that if you've got a 100tx network with isa cards (if you can find them... did they even make them?) , the network's bandwidth would overload your dog-slow ISA? ISA is about as old a technology as can be found. Most PCI devices are cheap nowdays (sound, video and network cars.... you don't *have* to buy the latest TNT/SBLive/Gigabit ethernet card) so give me one good reason we shouldn't retire all our old machinery (which is starting to get *very* cranky) and buy new , not-top-of-the-line legacy-free machines. Less problems, more driver patches (don't forget: all this new found OEM driver support for Linux is for *new* hardware) cleaner kernels.
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
Actually the LCD industry had been running at a loss for years. Even the exorbitant costs they ask for them wouldn't cover the cost of production.
You have to remember that an LCD screen is actually a *huge* silicon chip! This things are expensive to make.
The industry is only recovering now because: 1 - A lot of the players quit and sold their LCD businesses... 2 - There's a *lot* more demand since everybody and their gran started building desktop screens.
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
Of course not. The NT market hasn't reduced one single percentage point, it simply has stoped growing so quickly. It is *still* the biggest market by far. And yes, wether we like or not, w2k is a sure thing: Anything with support for it will allwys sell a hell of a lot better than something wich doesn't. Don't let Linux's latest victories get to your head folks, the war hasn't even began seriously....
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
>Maybe instead of trying as hard as you can to >get a first post (unannounced or not), you could >learn something on the subject first
This is the kind of comment that gives/. a reputation for being full of hormone-ridden trigger happy teenage flamers. He asked a question (on-topic) about clarification of initials. You managed to not actually say what HDL stands for. Yes he could have looked it up, as well as he could have read the newes directly instead of comming here, but defeats the purpose of/., doesn't it? No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
I noticed that the Pizza box people are offering a simplified distro which works sort of like those click-on auto-setup file servers. They also offer it on a compact-flash ROM.
This is pretty cool, but they offer the distro for download, WITH AN ACTIVATION CODE! The distro won't work without the code which can only be got by registration!
Isn't this a violation of the GPL, since they impose a condition for availability of GPL code? Shouldn't someone (GENTLY) point this out to them before some asshole goes on a GPL-jihad and blows them out the water? No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
I noticed that everyone thinks "Bewolf" when someone mentions clusters. How aboout other forms of clustering? What about Mosix, for instance? Does it work as well as advertised? It sounds like a very cool thing, doesn't anyone experiment with it and share their conclusions? And what about clustering for 24/7? No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
The mamooth is not whole. One of the scientists has stated that this mamooth wasn't well preserved in the first place (it probably froze quite a while after death, giving time for decomposition to set in) and they probably only have hair, skin, bones and a couple of (recognisable) organs.
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
They're not making them yet.... but a cerbera 4.5 would still be pretty cool (1200 Kg/420 hp) No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
I'm quite happy that this site has made it to/.'s attention. It has been around for quite a while (I first saw it 3 years ago!) and it points out some of the basic rules in interface design (ID). Might be just me but if Linux Apps are missing something nowdays it's ID. For those that complain about "the good old days" of strictly command-line apps and how we don't need "no steenkin interface" I'd like to point out a simple fact: Most apps are there to get *work* done, not to make you spend all your productive time *learning* how to use them. It's no use making an app no matter how well coded/fast/brilliant it might be, if no-one bothers to use it.... No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
Linux supporters *are* spending too much time shooting m$ down. This in itself is dangerous: we could end up spending too much time criticizing and too litle time building. Or, in other words, we better "Walk the walk" better than we "Talk the talk"! Besides, Microsoft is, at the end of it, Irrelevant to us, we will win no matter what: There is no company to go banlrupt fighting them, and if we give-up there are thousands of ready, eager students for whom the ideia of a OSS OS is a sacred.
And we *do* need to "get on with it", people seem to be loosing too much time pointing fingers and too litle time doing useful things "Shut up and code!" ought to be our moto...
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
NTFS is *not* a JFS. It's one of the things they (M$) pounded into my head when I did a MSCE a couple of years ago. Not NT doesn't offer a JFS by default, though I think there are a couple of third-party (very expensive) JFS's which were also ported to NT. No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
Youre right!:) But, but, everything else's suposed to be in C++! (this is me desperatly trying save my side of the argument and loosing...badly) No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
It's quite simple: *you* try and do a project as massive and complex in standard C (in usable time) and then compare it with a C++ implementation done with the *same* care you lavished on your version. It's highly unlikely that your program will be noticeably faster. It's highly likely it will be noticeably less stable. If you don't believe that fast and stable work can be done on pure C++ go check out BeOS...
The right tools for the right job, people....
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
This was the same argument M$ used about linux a couple of years ago.... Besides if it was free, all the linux Driver hackers would be doing Solaris drivers... No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
Of course not! Don't forget, the reason Linus ever created this was due to not having a x86 free unix to fool around in at the time. Even solaris's student license was bloody expensive at the time and *bsd wasn't completly free yet... Besides it's a very good Unix so if it was free in the GPL/BSD way (either would do) I sure as hell would use it. No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
HardWare: Abit bh6, Celeron 366 @ 550, 128 RAM, ISA sb16, Realtek 8139 nic
BeOS 4.0 (haven't upgraded yet) Ok, I'll get it out of the way: BeOS is great! My machine instaled & rebooted in about 6 minutes. It didn't detect Sound, but I could set it up easily (I lost most of the time working out that I didn't need to worry about configuring i/o or irqs). There was, at the time, no NIC driver for my card.... Other points: Very few options to choose from: You either instaled it clean or full of demos and other extras. I *love* the very simple app they use to create partitions. And the BeOS GUI is very good, very *easy*.
win 98 SE: It took me 50 minutes to install and reboot! It keeps on insisting that my 3.5 floppy drive is an old 5.125 floppy drive. I have to remove & reinstall it on the device manager various times before it finally got the ideia... Otherwise everything worked first time, even TNT card (remember this was the SE version of 98).
NT 4: Ok, less time to reboot than 98 (about 20 minutes), but didn't video, sound or network cards. I installed the drivers from floppys and they worked first time (first time this was this easy for me).
2000: It asks me the usual (windows) questions and then proceeds to do everything quietly. Takes about an hour on my system. Now, Win 200 has a cute way of solving install problems: It logs every action it makes, before it makes it, so it knows it must bypass it if it crashes and restarts the install. Well... It don't work too well. I watched open-mouthed as my pc instaled almost to the end, crashed, self rebooted, restarted the install, didn't ask any questions and re-installed everything... only to crash and repeat at the very same spot. It did this 5 times before I took pity on it and stopped it.
Suse 6.1 Love the isntall. It's (IMHO!) the best isntall around for us middle-of-the-road folks, who know quite a bit about pc's, but can't (or can't be bothered to) begin to unravell the library dependencies in Linux. It's a text-mode app, so no fancy tetris game while-u-wait, but it does the job well. It boots into graphic mode into Suse's own X config app for Videocard & monitor defenition, which works very well. It didn't detect my sb16 or my nic, had to do it by hand.
Anyway, in the M$ world I *still* prefer NT4 (sp5). BeOS is (don't flame please, this *my* personal opinion only) the better OS of the lot. It was the fastest, easiest to setup, and rock-stable. It has litle or no software, but so did Linux 4 years ago (In fact that's what M$serfs criticised about Linux at the time, right....). Suse is a very good instalation, prefered it to RH 5.2 which was the latest I have tried so far. Maybe 6.0...
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
of everybody were right? Has everyone forgotten the treatment that every 'different' person got after those killings? Has everyone forgotten the schoolkids which were beaten, arrested, interrogated and barred from school because they were 'just thos trenchcoat-mafia murderers'? Now it seems there was even less reason for this treatment. This wasn't a revenge of the geeks , but the geeks were still acused and *very* victimised about this whole thing. If anything there is more reason to scream out loud 'Innocent until proven guilty' as well as pointing out to people how much of their prejudices they were following.
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
The whole point of the Katz articles was never wether they were a sad bunch of outcasts or not! It was allways about hte reaction that people had to it. The fact that everyone assumed that they were Goths, satanists, gay, etc. and then proceeded to step all over the rights of anyone even remotly 'diferent'. IMHO Katz's article now has even *more* relevancy since all those reactions have been shown to based on untruths. No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
Before everybody shoots me on sight, I better warn that I'm very much an OSS freak. I've pounding away like mad at my company for the last 3 years trying to get them to go Linux. Having said this: TS is actualy quite cool. If you know what a kludge WinNT is behind the scenes, you have to respect how well they managed to separate the GUI from the rest. It uses very litle bandwith : +- 4 clients run reasonably well on a 64 kbit line. With metaframe It gets better: I ocasionally have to fix a (extremely) bloated in-house access app running on a remote TS server through a 19.200 line and theres little diference from running it on localy (yeah, I *know* that's not saying much) Yes it crashes, at least as much as NT, but it actually works as advertised. For M$-products, that *has* to be a first. If one has to admin NT machines, then I'd rather they're TS: At least I don't have get up as much to fix the damn things...... No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
AFAIK Marky boy hasn't done a line of code since Netscape went public... No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
It's unfortunate but I'm afraid that Sun is giving signs of not liking Open-Source much. This is understandable: I don't know what the numbers are but I'm sure that sun has a much bigger profit margin from Solaris than from the Sparc servers that it runs on. Software is allways more profitable than Hardware.
Which is why Sun allways refused to help any attempts to run other OS's on Sparc hardware. I'm sure that Linux does not sit well on Sun's conscience since it is probably a bigger, more threatning competitor to their profits that NT ever was.
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
>. Java execution speeds are now approaching and >in some cases exceeding those of compiled C and >C++. If you don't believe it's possible, you >don't understand optimization
One small point about optimizations is that it generaly can be done to anything. It's like the Micro-kernel versus Monolithic kernel argument: once Micro-kernels got well enough optimized to equal Monolithic kernels, someone adopted the same optimization algorithms to Monolithic kernels and Micro-kernels were back to square one. Anything you can do with a bytecode language can be done with a compiled language, with the advantage of less one layer of software. *However* java is a brilliant language, maybe yhe best IMHO, and it's a pity that Sun doesn't see it as such, because it would be a 'Cool Thing(tm)' to have binary code compilers for java for the multiple plataforms. I don't *mind* compiling the same code once for each plataform.
This is a personal opinion, not a statement of fact! take it as such. (I hope this doesn't start a flame war) No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
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The palestines who bombed themselfs were on the papers quite a while ago, I remember at the time the investigators were scratching their heads as to how it happened. Later on this daylight-saving time fact came up...
As for the firemen, it made the "funny-but-tru" news on tv a few months ago....
...
Yes, I know I ramble and my spelling isn't quite up to scratch. If you wish to complain,
David McReynolds sounds like a nice guy, but he will never get off the ground in a country so focused in self-agrandisement as the good ol' U.S. of A.!
Come on, the "American Dream" is supposed to be "make the best of your own capabilities", nowhere does it say "and give a helping hand to your fellow man". (Which is a pitty, actually)
If you *are* going to vote in a third-party candidate, choose one that won't be laughed off the ballots...
...
Yes, I know I ramble and my spelling isn't quite up to scratch. If you wish to complain,
Come on, this is getting ridiculous... .... Do you know that if you've got a 100tx network with isa cards (if you can find them... did they even make them?) , the network's bandwidth would overload your dog-slow ISA?
.... *CRUNCH*)
People asking "Do we really need a K7 @ 700Mhz" I can understand (even if I think "Yes we do") but ISA?
ISA is about as old a technology as can be found. Most PCI devices are cheap nowdays (sound, video and network cars.... you don't *have* to buy the latest TNT/SBLive/Gigabit ethernet card) so give me one good reason we shouldn't retire all our old machinery (which is starting to get *very* cranky) and buy new , not-top-of-the-line legacy-free machines.
Less problems, more driver patches (don't forget: all this new found OEM driver support for Linux is for *new* hardware) cleaner kernels.
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
Actually the LCD industry had been running at a loss for years. Even the exorbitant costs they ask for them wouldn't cover the cost of production.
.... *CRUNCH*)
You have to remember that an LCD screen is actually a *huge* silicon chip! This things are expensive to make.
The industry is only recovering now because:
1 - A lot of the players quit and sold their LCD businesses...
2 - There's a *lot* more demand since everybody and their gran started building desktop screens.
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
Of course not. The NT market hasn't reduced one single percentage point, it simply has stoped growing so quickly. It is *still* the biggest market by far.
.... *CRUNCH*)
And yes, wether we like or not, w2k is a sure thing: Anything with support for it will allwys sell a hell of a lot better than something wich doesn't.
Don't let Linux's latest victories get to your head folks, the war hasn't even began seriously....
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
>Maybe instead of trying as hard as you can to
/. a reputation for being full of hormone-ridden trigger happy teenage flamers. /., doesn't it? .... *CRUNCH*)
>get a first post (unannounced or not), you could
>learn something on the subject first
This is the kind of comment that gives
He asked a question (on-topic) about clarification of initials. You managed to not actually say what HDL stands for.
Yes he could have looked it up, as well as he could have read the newes directly instead of comming here, but defeats the purpose of
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
I noticed that the Pizza box people are offering a simplified distro which works sort of like those click-on auto-setup file servers. They also offer it on a compact-flash ROM.
.... *CRUNCH*)
This is pretty cool, but they offer the distro for download, WITH AN ACTIVATION CODE! The distro won't work without the code which can only be got by registration!
Isn't this a violation of the GPL, since they impose a condition for availability of GPL code?
Shouldn't someone (GENTLY) point this out to them before some asshole goes on a GPL-jihad and blows them out the water?
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
I noticed that everyone thinks "Bewolf" when someone mentions clusters. How aboout other forms of clustering? .... *CRUNCH*)
What about Mosix, for instance? Does it work as well as advertised? It sounds like a very cool thing, doesn't anyone experiment with it and share their conclusions?
And what about clustering for 24/7?
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
The mamooth is not whole. One of the scientists has stated that this mamooth wasn't well preserved in the first place (it probably froze quite a while after death, giving time for decomposition to set in) and they probably only have hair, skin, bones and a couple of (recognisable) organs.
.... *CRUNCH*)
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
They're not making them yet.... but a cerbera 4.5 would still be pretty cool (1200 Kg/420 hp) .... *CRUNCH*)
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
I'm quite happy that this site has made it to /.'s attention. It has been around for quite a while (I first saw it 3 years ago!) and it points out some of the basic rules in interface design (ID). .... *CRUNCH*)
Might be just me but if Linux Apps are missing something nowdays it's ID.
For those that complain about "the good old days" of strictly command-line apps and how we don't need "no steenkin interface" I'd like to point out a simple fact: Most apps are there to get *work* done, not to make you spend all your productive time *learning* how to use them.
It's no use making an app no matter how well coded/fast/brilliant it might be, if no-one bothers to use it....
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
Linux supporters *are* spending too much time shooting m$ down. This in itself is dangerous: we could end up spending too much time criticizing and too litle time building.
.... *CRUNCH*)
Or, in other words, we better "Walk the walk" better than we "Talk the talk"!
Besides, Microsoft is, at the end of it, Irrelevant to us, we will win no matter what: There is no company to go banlrupt fighting them, and if we give-up there are thousands of ready, eager students for whom the ideia of a OSS OS is a sacred.
And we *do* need to "get on with it", people seem to be loosing too much time pointing fingers and too litle time doing useful things
"Shut up and code!" ought to be our moto...
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
NTFS is *not* a JFS. It's one of the things they (M$) pounded into my head when I did a MSCE a couple of years ago. .... *CRUNCH*)
Not NT doesn't offer a JFS by default, though I think there are a couple of third-party (very expensive) JFS's which were also ported to NT.
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
Youre right! :) .... *CRUNCH*)
But, but, everything else's suposed to be in C++!
(this is me desperatly trying save my side of the argument and loosing...badly)
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
It's quite simple: *you* try and do a project as massive and complex in standard C (in usable time) and then compare it with a C++ implementation done with the *same* care you lavished on your version.
.... *CRUNCH*)
It's highly unlikely that your program will be noticeably faster.
It's highly likely it will be noticeably less stable.
If you don't believe that fast and stable work can be done on pure C++ go check out BeOS...
The right tools for the right job, people....
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
This was the same argument M$ used about linux a couple of years ago.... .... *CRUNCH*)
Besides if it was free, all the linux Driver hackers would be doing Solaris drivers...
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
Of course not! Don't forget, the reason Linus ever created this was due to not having a x86 free unix to fool around in at the time. Even solaris's student license was bloody expensive at the time and *bsd wasn't completly free yet... .... *CRUNCH*)
Besides it's a very good Unix so if it was free in the GPL/BSD way (either would do) I sure as hell would use it.
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
HardWare: Abit bh6, Celeron 366 @ 550, 128 RAM, ISA sb16, Realtek 8139 nic
.... *CRUNCH*)
BeOS 4.0 (haven't upgraded yet)
Ok, I'll get it out of the way: BeOS is great! My machine instaled & rebooted in about 6 minutes. It didn't detect Sound, but I could set it up easily (I lost most of the time working out that I didn't need to worry about configuring i/o or irqs). There was, at the time, no NIC driver for my card....
Other points: Very few options to choose from: You either instaled it clean or full of demos and other extras. I *love* the very simple app they use to create partitions. And the BeOS GUI is very good, very *easy*.
win 98 SE:
It took me 50 minutes to install and reboot! It keeps on insisting that my 3.5 floppy drive is an old 5.125 floppy drive. I have to remove & reinstall it on the device manager various times before it finally got the ideia... Otherwise everything worked first time, even TNT card (remember this was the SE version of 98).
NT 4:
Ok, less time to reboot than 98 (about 20 minutes), but didn't video, sound or network cards. I installed the drivers from floppys and they worked first time (first time this was this easy for me).
2000:
It asks me the usual (windows) questions and then proceeds to do everything quietly. Takes about an hour on my system.
Now, Win 200 has a cute way of solving install problems: It logs every action it makes, before it makes it, so it knows it must bypass it if it crashes and restarts the install.
Well... It don't work too well. I watched open-mouthed as my pc instaled almost to the end, crashed, self rebooted, restarted the install, didn't ask any questions and re-installed everything... only to crash and repeat at the very same spot.
It did this 5 times before I took pity on it and stopped it.
Suse 6.1
Love the isntall. It's (IMHO!) the best isntall around for us middle-of-the-road folks, who know quite a bit about pc's, but can't (or can't be bothered to) begin to unravell the library dependencies in Linux. It's a text-mode app, so no fancy tetris game while-u-wait, but it does the job well. It boots into graphic mode into Suse's own X config app for Videocard & monitor defenition, which works very well. It didn't detect my sb16 or my nic, had to do it by hand.
Anyway, in the M$ world I *still* prefer NT4 (sp5). BeOS is (don't flame please, this *my* personal opinion only) the better OS of the lot. It was the fastest, easiest to setup, and rock-stable. It has litle or no software, but so did Linux 4 years ago (In fact that's what M$serfs criticised about Linux at the time, right....).
Suse is a very good instalation, prefered it to RH 5.2 which was the latest I have tried so far.
Maybe 6.0...
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
of everybody were right?
.... *CRUNCH*)
Has everyone forgotten the treatment that every 'different' person got after those killings?
Has everyone forgotten the schoolkids which were beaten, arrested, interrogated and barred from school because they were 'just thos trenchcoat-mafia murderers'?
Now it seems there was even less reason for this treatment. This wasn't a revenge of the geeks , but the geeks were still acused and *very* victimised about this whole thing. If anything there is more reason to scream out loud 'Innocent until proven guilty' as well as pointing out to people how much of their prejudices they were following.
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
The whole point of the Katz articles was never wether they were a sad bunch of outcasts or not! It was allways about hte reaction that people had to it. The fact that everyone assumed that they were Goths, satanists, gay, etc. and then proceeded to step all over the rights of anyone even remotly 'diferent'. .... *CRUNCH*)
IMHO Katz's article now has even *more* relevancy since all those reactions have been shown to based on untruths.
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
We assumed this might be so, but why so few IRC servers in the big nets?
.... *CRUNCH*)
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
Before everybody shoots me on sight, I better warn that I'm very much an OSS freak. I've pounding away like mad at my company for the last 3 years trying to get them to go Linux. ...... .... *CRUNCH*)
Having said this:
TS is actualy quite cool. If you know what a kludge WinNT is behind the scenes, you have to respect how well they managed to separate the GUI from the rest. It uses very litle bandwith : +- 4 clients run reasonably well on a 64 kbit line.
With metaframe It gets better: I ocasionally have to fix a (extremely) bloated in-house access app running on a remote TS server through a 19.200 line and theres little diference from running it on localy (yeah, I *know* that's not saying much)
Yes it crashes, at least as much as NT, but it actually works as advertised.
For M$-products, that *has* to be a first.
If one has to admin NT machines, then I'd rather they're TS: At least I don't have get up as much to fix the damn things
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
AFAIK Marky boy hasn't done a line of code since Netscape went public... .... *CRUNCH*)
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
It's unfortunate but I'm afraid that Sun is giving signs of not liking Open-Source much. This is understandable: I don't know what the numbers are but I'm sure that sun has a much bigger profit margin from Solaris than from the Sparc servers that it runs on. Software is allways more profitable than Hardware.
.... *CRUNCH*)
Which is why Sun allways refused to help any attempts to run other OS's on Sparc hardware.
I'm sure that Linux does not sit well on Sun's conscience since it is probably a bigger, more threatning competitor to their profits that NT ever was.
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
>. Java execution speeds are now approaching and
.... *CRUNCH*)
>in some cases exceeding those of compiled C and
>C++. If you don't believe it's possible, you
>don't understand optimization
One small point about optimizations is that it generaly can be done to anything.
It's like the Micro-kernel versus Monolithic kernel argument: once Micro-kernels got well enough optimized to equal Monolithic kernels, someone adopted the same optimization algorithms to Monolithic kernels and Micro-kernels were back to square one.
Anything you can do with a bytecode language can be done with a compiled language, with the advantage of less one layer of software.
*However* java is a brilliant language, maybe yhe best IMHO, and it's a pity that Sun doesn't see it as such, because it would be a 'Cool Thing(tm)' to have binary code compilers for java for the multiple plataforms.
I don't *mind* compiling the same code once for each plataform.
This is a personal opinion, not a statement of fact! take it as such.
(I hope this doesn't start a flame war)
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."