I have the Samsung SyncMater 240T, a 24" LCD screen. No problem with playing games on this (large) baby:) (But it is sad that so few games support 1920x1200, so I don't get to use the native resolution much for gaming) I mainly play Fighter Ace or Castle Wolfenstein, so I'm not talking about GNU Chess:)
I work as an independent/self-employed consultant, and I've done some work on mainframes recently, mainly integrating older message systems/applications with newer ones.
I find that this is an area where there's less underbidding, and the number of "low life 3 months VB/Java course 'programmers' who really should be washing cars" is much lower than in other areas, like custom application development etc.
And, the organisations which has these mainframes seems to have more mature support and maintainance departments. Of course, most of them are not quite up to speed on the latest acronym to hit the press, but they generally do know their stuff.
Also, the QA seems to be much, much more professionalized, with realistic deadlines and milestones. The mantra seems to be "reliable applications", not "stuff that seems to work, quick!".
I saw someone else in the discussion mention that there was no college training on mainframes. Well, doh. If that's the your issue with working with mainframes or other fields in compsci/it, then you should really consider an alternative career path.
I've been working as a programmer for ~7 years, and I'm updating my knowledge all the time. If you're the kind of person that whines about having to attend a course whenever something "new" (most of the time it is usually old concepts wrapped in new, shiny plastic anyway) or unfamiliar is introduced to you, you should really ask yourself "Shouldn't I really be doing something else?"
Anyone with a half brain and three weeks to spare should be able to get up to speed in a VS environment. Do really think you learn the ins and outs of VS in a half year college course programming MFC anyway? The college should be teaching principles, not tools. In '94 I took an introductory course in programming, where we used VB. When I look back, we didn't really learn anything valuable about programming that semester, only how to make an app look nice and change colors on the buttons.
The next semester, we had an OO course using C++, which was IDE/compiler neutral, and it was much more useful.
For example, your code isn't type safe. Check out Substitutes for Missing C Constructs (About 1/3 down the page). The other tips are also quite useful.
MultiSync is almost working with my t68i. A bit of a struggle to compile the bluez-modules/utilities, but I can now ping my phone via Bluetooth.:-)
MultiSync can sync your Evolution mail, contacts etc. (But not bbdb, but I guess there
must be some lisp/Gnus/bbdb hacker out there working on it now)
I agree that the t68i feels slow. The t9 menus are annoying, and using the joystick seems slower than using the numeric keys to access menus. I can write SMS messages at least twice as fast using T9 on my 7110.
"The Web of Trust is a unique, community-driven certification system based on face-to-face ID validation on a peer-to-peer basis. It's a "bottom-up" CA, compared to traditional "top-down" CA systems. You can be notarised, and then you in turn can act as a notary and certify the identity of your friends"
To turn off that annoying Caps Lock and use it as a control key instead, I have this in my ~/.xmodmap:
! Change Caps Lock to be a control key ! keycode 66 = Caps_Lock clear Lock add control = Caps_Lock
Try it out with xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
If you really, really want to customize your keyboard, take a look at this xmodmap extravaganza
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Do you people think DRM is inherently a bad thing - artists and companies can't manage how their property is used??
"Their property is used?" I thought there was a sale involved? If they don't want me to own what I buy, then they should just should stop trying to SELL it to me.
God, how hard can it be? The sad thing is how the entertainment business is trying to create special laws regarding their products. Why do their products need so many special regulations? Can't they cope like any other fscking business on earth? Why should the movie and TV industry (who brought you important entertainment like Baywatch, The Hansen Brothers and <insert-current-season's-stallone-movie>) dictate how we use our computers?
Why should one of mankinds greatest innovations be filled to the brim with DRM hardware and software which sole aim is to limit the users ability to use the hardware and software to their own liking?
Stealing is stealing, no matter how it is done, be it physically or electronically. Isn't the law that applies to anybody else good enough for the entertainment industry?
I got about 5000 mp3-files on my workstation. Of those, ~4950 are from albums I own. 49 tracks are bootlegs, and I got a pirated copy of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's Love Missile. JAIL ME NOW.
Well, the laws regarding names are there to protect the children, and thank God for that. I guess you haven't seen the outrageous names people are trying to give their children...
As for racist speech, the supreme court (I think it was) just decided that the some infamous neonazi was in his full rights when he stated that jews and immigrants where raping people on daily basis here. If that's not saying a "bad thing" about a racial group, I'm really curious to know what you think is "bad things about different racial groups in public."
As for the laws and prison sentences, "lifetime" in Norway is 21 years, with the probability for an undefinite time being "detained" after that. (if you're a raving lunatic with an appetite for elder women or similar, that probably applies to you.)
Also, the monarchy has absolutely no power what-so-ever.
FWIW, one of Sony's high-end camcorders had an ethernet plug, and an embedded webserver with applications for editing (like deleting scenes etc). I can't find it on the sony site, but they've got some new bluetooth cameras, too
How you run a MySQL query through Access is beyond me
He problably linked up the mysql database using ODBC. Access can link to tables from various datasources using ODBC. The tables can be accessed just like if it was a "normal" Access table.
Setting up JDEE to get all the features can be somewhat intimidating, but worth it. You'll get features like intelligent code completition, easy lookup in the jdk or your own documentation, integration with ant (jdee can parse build.xml and provide completition on build targets etc.) etc. For modelling, I'm trying out Poseidon UML, which is, AFAIK, based on ArgoUML. (And it is a java app, so it runs on Linux, which I use on my workstation)
I hope JSF is successful. I mainly work with J2EE, and I'm quite happy with most of the framework. However, I'm not that fond of JSP and equivalents.
This year, I had to do some.NET-projects, and the flexibility of ASP.NET (I've done a lot of ASP programming, but I generally hate it) impressed me. Using thirdparty controllers is a breeze. Need a flexible HTML editor on your web page? Download and plug it in. Need a component for displaying nice calendars etc? Download and plug it in. The code behind features are also nice, providing a rather easy way of implementing events, while still getting to compile it. (I hate having to check for type errors etc. in code by reloading a web page, like in ASP)
That to say, ASP.NET is (IMHO) quite similar to Struts, only with stronger commercial support.
As for the rest of.NET, I like "the J2EE way " better than.NET. The.NET development environment using vs.net is OK as long as it works. We've had a lot of strange problems with different hosting providers and/or VS. And Microsoft, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, get rid of frontpage server extensions and replace it with something more maintable. It is2003 (soon:-)!
(And building j2ee projects with ant rocks.)
Somtimes we've just had to reboot the server and rebuild the project, and it would work. (I guess there are some problems regarding assemblies, but we haven't figured it out). And if someone has uploaded a new build of the system on IIS, and another developer starts up VS.NET, and VS.NET contains an older build in the cache, we have to refresh the project and rebuild. Beats me. It could be the server, but there is no fscking way of finding out. And that is another thing I like with J2EE: The application server is not that closely integrated with the OS, and more easily debugged. Yes, sometimes I have to restart WL or JBoss, but I don't have to reboot the server "just to be sure"
Just one niggle, and it's more of a programming style issue, but in their example code they have references to their business objects. They explain that it is important to separate out business logic from action logic, which it is, but then proceed to use their business object within the action.
Hm. I'm not quite sure I follow you here. I haven't read the book, only your review, and I'm a bit puzzled by your statement regarding business objects in actions.
Is it so that the example code for the actions contain business logic directly, or do they use business objects without wrapping them in controllers (like a session bean)
If they're using session beans or controllers in the actions, I can perfectly understand that. You have to use the business logic somewhere.:-)
On my current project, we have a (yuck) flash-client (using macromedia's Flash Remoting MX, btw. nice thing, saves a lot of time usually spent on devicing your own xml-based protocol to communicate with the flash client) . The flash client accesses a standard java class/bean. This bean contains code to massage the output from a session bean to simple data structures more suitable for a flash client (and programmer. Ok, low blow.:-)
The session bean acts as an facade to all the functionality required by/provided to the client (authentication, fetching and updating data etc.) The system has about 10 session beans and quite a few entities.
We've used this approach before, and when we had to add some new types of clients, we only have to add a bean convert to/from client requests and the controller (session bean). (At first, we only developed a Flash client. Later, we added a SMS client and a web client.)
Your Norwegian is quite good. Impressive! I'm amazed that someone not living in Norway bothers to learn Norwegian:-)
(By the way, we don't use caps in words describing nationality, like "English", "French" etc. Instead, we spell it with small caps, ie. "engelsk", "fransk" and "norsk".)
Another point is to set the mouse acceleration speed and resolution to the max. I only use the thumb to move the mouse pointer from left to right side of the screen. People who use old mice with dirty balls should really consider buying an optical one, and adjust the speed of the mouse pointer. It worked for me.
Do you give crash courses in "Loaded Questions 101"?
Do you think it is reasonable that large companies and public offices spend hideous amounts of money on totally useless "webdesigners" and "webdevelopers" who wouldn't find their way out of a cardboard box, even if supplied with a torch and a map?
A couple of years ago, a laptop with software and hardware for connecting to and controlling a dam was stolen here in Norway. Even worse, there was no security features, so the system was wide open if someone knew how to start the program and connect by the phone line. Amazing.
We swapped from BEA hell to JBoss heaven, and we haven't regretted it a single day. Even the accounting dept loves JBoss. We used to run on nine Apache/Tomcat boxen, one "rather large" BEA box and a 8 CPU MS SQLServer box.
We now use three boxen for tomcat/apache, one for JBoss and another one for the database. (Postgresql.) Even the accounting dept loves our solution.:-)
For the next version of the product, we'll probably have the same number of apache/tomcat boxen, and use the cluster features in 3.0 to add more JBoss machines.
We've had one crash, and that was related to too few file descriptors on the Postgresql-box. A simple matter of tuning, and it has never let us down since.
We run Debian Potato as the OS on all machines. We will probably upgrade all the servers to woody around christmas.
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I have the Samsung SyncMater 240T, a 24" LCD screen. No problem with playing games on this (large) baby :) (But it is sad that so few games support 1920x1200, so I don't get to use the native resolution much for gaming) I mainly play Fighter Ace or Castle Wolfenstein, so I'm not talking about GNU Chess :)
I work as an independent/self-employed consultant, and I've done some work on mainframes recently, mainly integrating older message systems/applications with newer ones.
I find that this is an area where there's less underbidding, and the number of "low life 3 months VB/Java course 'programmers' who really should be washing cars" is much lower than in other areas, like custom application development etc.
And, the organisations which has these mainframes seems to have more mature support and maintainance departments. Of course, most of them are not quite up to speed on the latest acronym to hit the press, but they generally do know their stuff.
Also, the QA seems to be much, much more professionalized, with realistic deadlines and milestones. The mantra seems to be "reliable applications", not "stuff that seems to work, quick!".
I saw someone else in the discussion mention that there was no college training on mainframes. Well, doh. If that's the your issue with working with mainframes or other fields in compsci/it, then you should really consider an alternative career path.
I've been working as a programmer for ~7 years, and I'm updating my knowledge all the time. If you're the kind of person that whines about having to attend a course whenever something "new" (most of the time it is usually old concepts wrapped in new, shiny plastic anyway) or unfamiliar is introduced to you, you should really ask yourself "Shouldn't I really be doing something else?"
Anyone with a half brain and three weeks to spare should be able to get up to speed in a VS environment. Do really think you learn the ins and outs of VS in a half year college course programming MFC anyway? The college should be teaching principles, not tools. In '94 I took an introductory course in programming, where we used VB. When I look back, we didn't really learn anything valuable about programming that semester, only how to make an app look nice and change colors on the buttons.
The next semester, we had an OO course using C++, which was IDE/compiler neutral, and it was much more useful.
The mullet horror
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM CLUE)
BEGIN
SELECT POSTGRESQL FROM DATABASES
END
For example, your code isn't type safe. Check out
Substitutes for Missing C Constructs (About 1/3 down the page). The other tips are also quite useful.
MultiSync can sync your Evolution mail, contacts etc. (But not bbdb, but I guess there must be some lisp/Gnus/bbdb hacker out there working on it now)
I agree that the t68i feels slow. The t9 menus are annoying, and using the joystick seems slower than using the numeric keys to access menus. I can write SMS messages at least twice as fast using T9 on my 7110.
Heh, that was a cool gadget. I really don't know what to use it for, BUT I WANT IT.
Mmmmmmmm.... aluminium.
"The Web of Trust is a unique, community-driven certification system based on face-to-face ID validation on a peer-to-peer basis. It's a "bottom-up" CA, compared to traditional "top-down" CA systems. You can be notarised, and then you in turn can act as a notary and certify the identity of your friends"
! Change Caps Lock to be a control key
! keycode 66 = Caps_Lock
clear Lock
add control = Caps_Lock
Try it out with xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
If you really, really want to customize your keyboard, take a look at this
xmodmap extravaganza
"Their property is used?" I thought there was a sale involved? If they don't want me to own what I buy, then they should just should stop trying to SELL it to me.
God, how hard can it be? The sad thing is how the entertainment business is trying to create special laws regarding their products. Why do their products need so many special regulations? Can't they cope like any other fscking business on earth? Why should the movie and TV industry (who brought you important entertainment like Baywatch, The Hansen Brothers and <insert-current-season's-stallone-movie>) dictate how we use our computers?
Why should one of mankinds greatest innovations be filled to the brim with DRM hardware and software which sole aim is to limit the users ability to use the hardware and software to their own liking?
Stealing is stealing, no matter how it is done, be it physically or electronically. Isn't the law that applies to anybody else good enough for the entertainment industry?
I got about 5000 mp3-files on my workstation. Of those, ~4950 are from albums I own. 49 tracks are bootlegs, and I got a pirated copy of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's Love Missile. JAIL ME NOW.
Sorry, just had to get it off my chest.
As for racist speech, the supreme court (I think it was) just decided that the some infamous neonazi was in his full rights when he stated that jews and immigrants where raping people on daily basis here. If that's not saying a "bad thing" about a racial group, I'm really curious to know what you think is "bad things about different racial groups in public."
As for the laws and prison sentences, "lifetime" in Norway is 21 years, with the probability for an undefinite time being "detained" after that. (if you're a raving lunatic with an appetite for elder women or similar, that probably applies to you.)
Also, the monarchy has absolutely no power what-so-ever.
Norway isn't perfect, but it's good.
FWIW, one of Sony's high-end camcorders had an ethernet plug, and an embedded webserver with applications for editing (like deleting scenes etc). I can't find it on the sony site, but they've got some new bluetooth cameras, too
He problably linked up the mysql database using ODBC. Access can link to tables from various datasources using ODBC. The tables can be accessed just like if it was a "normal" Access table.
Why on earth he would do that is beyond me.
I forgot to mention Emacs and JDEE.
Setting up JDEE to get all the features can be somewhat intimidating, but worth it. You'll get features like intelligent code completition, easy lookup in the jdk or your own documentation, integration with ant (jdee can parse build.xml and provide completition on build targets etc.) etc. For modelling, I'm trying out Poseidon UML, which is, AFAIK, based on ArgoUML. (And it is a java app, so it runs on Linux, which I use on my workstation)
This year, I had to do some
That to say, ASP.NET is (IMHO) quite similar to Struts, only with stronger commercial support.
As for the rest of
(And building j2ee projects with ant rocks.)
Somtimes we've just had to reboot the server and rebuild the project, and it would work. (I guess there are some problems regarding assemblies, but we haven't figured it out). And if someone has uploaded a new build of the system on IIS, and another developer starts up VS.NET, and VS.NET contains an older build in the cache, we have to refresh the project and rebuild. Beats me. It could be the server, but there is no fscking way of finding out. And that is another thing I like with J2EE: The application server is not that closely integrated with the OS, and more easily debugged. Yes, sometimes I have to restart WL or JBoss, but I don't have to reboot the server "just to be sure"
Hm. I'm not quite sure I follow you here. I haven't read the book, only your review, and I'm a bit puzzled by your statement regarding business objects in actions.
Is it so that the example code for the actions contain business logic directly, or do they use business objects without wrapping them in controllers (like a session bean)
If they're using session beans or controllers in the actions, I can perfectly understand that. You have to use the business logic somewhere.
On my current project, we have a (yuck) flash-client (using macromedia's Flash Remoting MX, btw. nice thing, saves a lot of time usually spent on devicing your own xml-based protocol to communicate with the flash client) . The flash client accesses a standard java class/bean. This bean contains code to massage the output from a session bean to simple data structures more suitable for a flash client (and programmer. Ok, low blow.
The session bean acts as an facade to all the functionality required by/provided to the client (authentication, fetching and updating data etc.) The system has about 10 session beans and quite a few entities.
We've used this approach before, and when we had to add some new types of clients, we only have to add a bean convert to/from client requests and the controller (session bean).
(At first, we only developed a Flash client. Later, we added a SMS client and a web client.)
Your Norwegian is quite good. Impressive! I'm amazed that someone not living in Norway bothers to learn Norwegian :-)
(By the way, we don't use caps in words describing nationality, like "English", "French" etc. Instead, we spell it with small caps, ie. "engelsk", "fransk" and "norsk".)
Another point is to set the mouse acceleration speed and resolution to the max. I only use the thumb to move the mouse pointer from left to right side of the screen. People who use old mice with dirty balls should really consider buying an optical one, and adjust the speed of the mouse pointer. It worked for me.
Do you give crash courses in "Loaded Questions 101"?
Do you think it is reasonable that large companies and public offices spend hideous amounts of money on totally useless "webdesigners" and "webdevelopers" who wouldn't find their way out of a cardboard box, even if supplied with a torch and a map?
Yes, I can. I even do it on Linux. http://www.gnokii.org
A couple of years ago, a laptop with software and hardware for connecting to and controlling a dam was stolen here in Norway. Even worse, there was no security features, so the system was wide open if someone knew how to start the program and connect by the phone line. Amazing.
We swapped from BEA hell to JBoss heaven, and we haven't regretted it a single day. Even the accounting dept loves JBoss. We used to run on nine Apache/Tomcat boxen, one "rather large" BEA box and a 8 CPU MS SQLServer box.
:-)
We now use three boxen for tomcat/apache, one for JBoss and another one for the database. (Postgresql.) Even the accounting dept loves our solution.
For the next version of the product, we'll probably have the same number of apache/tomcat boxen, and use the cluster features in 3.0 to add more JBoss machines.
We've had one crash, and that was related to too few file descriptors on the Postgresql-box. A simple matter of tuning, and it has never let us down since.
We run Debian Potato as the OS on all machines. We will probably upgrade all the servers to woody around christmas.
What does that mean? "Off of" seems redundant to me, but I don't have English as a first language.
Couldn't "from" be used instead?
Why would one use a java tool (ant) to build something written in C++ and Pascal?