I agree, whine about the gaming industry all you want -- but "Starship Troopers" was an excellent satire of the modern western way of living. The "news flashes" they had reminded me of something I saw on Fox News...:)
Step 1: Take a debian install cd and install it into a small (700Mb) partition. Edit fstab, ifstat and a handful of other files. Burn cd image with mkisofs. Re-iterate until it works. Make the CD bootable or boot from floppy (my BIOS doesn't boot from CD, the firewall is always the crappiest hardware)
A Borland representative (doing a lousy marketing-oriented presentation of a number of uninteresting things) admitted that Kylix is "being faded out". Apparently the C++ Builder (or something, correct me if I'm wrong - but then again you'll do that even without my asking) has a Linux version that can, as an alternative, even use gcc as its compiler. That's what's supposed to be Borland's Linux alternative in the future.
He didn't admit it, but I got the impression that Kyix is being dumped because of bad sales. I think he used the words "Kylix is in an awkward position because of C++ Builder". On what it means, your guess is as good as mine.
Pascal is in no way obsolote, there's a milloin Delphi coders out there...
But the point is not what language syntax is taught. Once a student knows how to program, that knowledge can be applied to almost any programming language that happens to be trendy at the time. Pascal is a good clean nice langauage to teach procedural programming with. Many prefer Java when teaching object-oriented programming (even if Object Pascal is a nice language, too). Functional programming is the same, learn the concept of functional programming and you can apply it to almost any functional programming language.
Yes, there are differencies between languages, you have to learn the pitfalls och each language. But, learning how to really program is way more important than the syntax you used when doing so - the programming language will change during your time as a programmer several times anyway.
I hate to knitpick (well, actually I obviously don't, but I'm supposed to say that), but if I'm not mistaken an acronym is something that is pronounced as a word -- which makes AOEWLTAFE merely an abbreviation (at least my tongue doesn't bend to pronounce it).
Try Delphi/Kylix from Borland. You can use the same code to compile both win32 and linux apps. Works quite nicely. There's a free (as in beer) version for personal use that you can test - as a university the licenses should also be reasonable.
Re:Hartwall?
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Jump off at the Pasila railway station. There's a pedestrian bridge going to the arena, you can't miss it...
Ah, and the answer is Helsinki, Finland, Europe, in case you didn't ask for directions. Hartwall is a brewery that sponsored the ice hockey stadium, therefore the name.
At least it ran on my Debian-testing. As stated previously module-init-tools had to be installed, and some tweaking in/etc/modules and/etc/modutils was required, but that's about it. Some scripts in/etc/init.d generate non-critical messages when shutting down, and my automounted partitions don't get unmounted. Apart from this I haven't noticed any problems.
Abso-f**king-lutely! I get around 500 spam emails a week. I suppose it's not the world record, but it's enough to make my inbox unusable without filtering. Spamassassin has so far had a hit ratio of about 99%, with no real mail being classified spam. I don't know how "good" spamassassins Bayesian filtering really is, but it's certainly good enough for me.
I use ugidd which automatically translates between numbers and userid:s, thus solving the problem with users having different numbers on different machines. Again this is not the most secure option around, but in your own secured sandbox it's easy to understand, install and maintain.
I wrote a small app for that once. It has basicly two comboboxes containing all ODBC DSN:s found on the system. Then you choose from which DSN to which DSN and click copy - regardless of database vendors (as long as they have ODBC drivers, that is). Just to show off, it gives the user a list of all available tables, so that he/she may copy only a subset.
Coding it was a piece of cake - the Borland Database Enginge has it upsides every once in a while (but I never thought I'd admit that)!
Just complile yourself a Linux kernel and do software RAID. Tom's Hardware Guide had an article on software raid performance on here (this is about Windows 2000, but anyway).
This is basicly the business model that MySql uses. You can use MySql for free as long as you use it within the limitations of GPL, otherwise you'll have to acquire a commercial license. Kind of neat idea, even though I'm not sure what RMS thinks of it...:)
As a lucky owner of an WAP phone I have had the opportunity to enjoy(?) pr0n on the phone for a long time. Just WAP yourself http://www.phonerotica.com/wap/index.pl#mainmenu. GPRS definitely recommended, in case you want to see even a single picture within 24 hours... Oh yes, don't pay the phone bill yourself:)
Now I just wish someone started making usable WAP services...
Re:"...all for about $5 a month."
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...with the risk of being unbearably dull...
The GNP per capita 1995 for US seems to be $26 062, ranking at 12th postition. Bhutan, again, is 145th with a GNP per capita of $172. So, I suspect five bucks is a huge portion of a normal monthly salary.
I've used TerminalServer over a modem line quite a lot and it's actually rather bearable. TerminalServer isn't as fancy as X, but when it comes to bandwidth use it seems that Micro$oft has done something right (that is, known whose application to buy in this case).
Whether this solution resembles more X or TerminalServer is a good question.
Anybody using InterBase-derivatives for anything real? I've only used the version that shipped with Delphi 1, when InterBase could barely be catogerized as a database.
What's the status now, how does it compare to other free databases like MySQL and PostGreSQL?
I totally agree (except for the last one - the best place to live is at home). I'd like to see a poll on which FS is the most used, but discussing the matter tends to lead into religous wars - and I think one jihad is enough for today.
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I agree, whine about the gaming industry all you want -- but "Starship Troopers" was an excellent satire of the modern western way of living. The "news flashes" they had reminded me of something I saw on Fox News... :)
Sofware price = Max( what the customer is willing to pay ) :)
It's just that simple...
Which, in fact, isn't completely untrue. As the saying goes "Rome wasn't burned in one day, you know..."
Similarly completely out of topic:
Me neither, so I compiled it
(11:48) nagu ~/temp > sig
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This starts to sound like the Elvis sightings... Linus has published a book already, but when will we see the first album?
Kylix / C++ BuilderX
Make one!
Step 1: Take a debian install cd and install it into a small (700Mb) partition. Edit fstab, ifstat and a handful of other files. Burn cd image with mkisofs. Re-iterate until it works. Make the CD bootable or boot from floppy (my BIOS doesn't boot from CD, the firewall is always the crappiest hardware)
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit.
A Borland representative (doing a lousy marketing-oriented presentation of a number of uninteresting things) admitted that Kylix is "being faded out". Apparently the C++ Builder (or something, correct me if I'm wrong - but then again you'll do that even without my asking) has a Linux version that can, as an alternative, even use gcc as its compiler. That's what's supposed to be Borland's Linux alternative in the future.
He didn't admit it, but I got the impression that Kyix is being dumped because of bad sales. I think he used the words "Kylix is in an awkward position because of C++ Builder". On what it means, your guess is as good as mine.
Pascal is in no way obsolote, there's a milloin Delphi coders out there...
But the point is not what language syntax is taught. Once a student knows how to program, that knowledge can be applied to almost any programming language that happens to be trendy at the time. Pascal is a good clean nice langauage to teach procedural programming with. Many prefer Java when teaching object-oriented programming (even if Object Pascal is a nice language, too). Functional programming is the same, learn the concept of functional programming and you can apply it to almost any functional programming language.
Yes, there are differencies between languages, you have to learn the pitfalls och each language. But, learning how to really program is way more important than the syntax you used when doing so - the programming language will change during your time as a programmer several times anyway.
The other two being English and awk?
I hate to knitpick (well, actually I obviously don't, but I'm supposed to say that), but if I'm not mistaken an acronym is something that is pronounced as a word -- which makes AOEWLTAFE merely an abbreviation (at least my tongue doesn't bend to pronounce it).
Try Delphi/Kylix from Borland. You can use the same code to compile both win32 and linux apps. Works quite nicely. There's a free (as in beer) version for personal use that you can test - as a university the licenses should also be reasonable.
Jump off at the Pasila railway station. There's a pedestrian bridge going to the arena, you can't miss it...
Ah, and the answer is Helsinki, Finland, Europe, in case you didn't ask for directions. Hartwall is a brewery that sponsored the ice hockey stadium, therefore the name.
At least it ran on my Debian-testing. As stated previously module-init-tools had to be installed, and some tweaking in /etc/modules and /etc/modutils was required, but that's about it. Some scripts in /etc/init.d generate non-critical messages when shutting down, and my automounted partitions don't get unmounted. Apart from this I haven't noticed any problems.
Abso-f**king-lutely! I get around 500 spam emails a week. I suppose it's not the world record, but it's enough to make my inbox unusable without filtering. Spamassassin has so far had a hit ratio of about 99%, with no real mail being classified spam. I don't know how "good" spamassassins Bayesian filtering really is, but it's certainly good enough for me.
I use ugidd which automatically translates between numbers and userid:s, thus solving the problem with users having different numbers on different machines. Again this is not the most secure option around, but in your own secured sandbox it's easy to understand, install and maintain.
I wrote a small app for that once. It has basicly two comboboxes containing all ODBC DSN:s found on the system. Then you choose from which DSN to which DSN and click copy - regardless of database vendors (as long as they have ODBC drivers, that is). Just to show off, it gives the user a list of all available tables, so that he/she may copy only a subset.
Coding it was a piece of cake - the Borland Database Enginge has it upsides every once in a while (but I never thought I'd admit that)!
Just complile yourself a Linux kernel and do software RAID. Tom's
Hardware Guide had an article on software raid performance on here (this is about Windows 2000, but anyway).
This is basicly the business model that MySql uses. You can use MySql for free as long as you use it within the limitations of GPL, otherwise you'll have to acquire a commercial license. Kind of neat idea, even though I'm not sure what RMS thinks of it... :)
As a lucky owner of an WAP phone I have had the opportunity to enjoy(?) pr0n on the phone for a long time. Just WAP yourself http://www.phonerotica.com/wap/index.pl#mainmenu. GPRS definitely recommended, in case you want to see even a single picture within 24 hours... Oh yes, don't pay the phone bill yourself :)
Now I just wish someone started making usable WAP services...
...with the risk of being unbearably dull...
The GNP per capita 1995 for US seems to be $26 062, ranking at 12th postition. Bhutan, again, is 145th with a GNP per capita of $172. So, I suspect five bucks is a huge portion of a normal monthly salary.
(Somewhat besides the point, my apologies...)
I've used TerminalServer over a modem line quite a lot and it's actually rather bearable. TerminalServer isn't as fancy as X, but when it comes to bandwidth use it seems that Micro$oft has done something right (that is, known whose application to buy in this case).
Whether this solution resembles more X or TerminalServer is a good question.
Anybody using InterBase-derivatives for anything real? I've only used the version that shipped with Delphi 1, when InterBase could barely be catogerized as a database.
What's the status now, how does it compare to other free databases like MySQL and PostGreSQL?
I totally agree (except for the last one - the best place to live is at home). I'd like to see a poll on which FS is the most used, but discussing the matter tends to lead into religous wars - and I think one jihad is enough for today.