Ah yes, that was in Triumph of the nerds. I loved that show (and Glory of the Geeks/Nerds 2.0), but still haven't got around to reading Accidental Empires. Well, I did read a small section, in which we have a quote from Gates about Jobs - when NeXTSTEP was released, Gates was asked (I think by Cringely for InfoWorld, but that point isn't made clear) whether he would be developing for the new system. "Develop for it? I'll piss all over it!" Well, in terms of sales he did, but in terms of style? I don't think so.
I looked all around in its menus and meagre Help stuff, and couldn't find a thing that let me do any image editing at all.
Welcome to the UNIX philosophy - little tools that do one task well. You can use an image editor for editing image files - you use an icon composer for composing icons files (in this case,.icns). You combine the two and you can create an icons file from your arbitrarily edited image.
I could load images from iPhoto, but I couldn't find even a way to do a bit of cropping.
Yegad. Last time I checked, iPhoto was capable of said function.
If you can tell me what information either of the above give me that the code doesn't, then you're doing better than the people who wrote the above two comments.
What's required in that case is decent in-code documentation - it's easier, for instance, to know that you want to search for "virtual memory cleanup mach" than to know that you want to search for "vm_object_cache_clear site:freebsd.org". Lots of LISP and Python contains embedded docstrings, Perl can contain embedded POD but I personally don't come across it that often. There certainly doesn't seem to be a single widely-used convention for embedding documentation in C or ObjC. I expect that with a useful convention for embedded docstrings, your hypothetical "codesearch.google.com" could just extract said docstrings, then use normal methods for ranking plain text files.
Me too, also British, also "Lego bricks", "Lego set" but never "Legos". I sold all of my Lego gear to my sister about twelve years ago for a fiver, I really wish I hadn't now (because I had enough that I could have lived inside that bloody castle;-)).
You clearly also left your mission-critical bespoke software - written back in the days when NT4/PPC was available - at home, or you're one of the lucky people who hasn't yet lost their source tape (and tests regularly that t still works). There are people out there who use NT4/PPC, and wish they weren't. Frankly, if I was using it, I'd wish I wasn't too.
Amen to OpenFirmware. It rocks muchly; not only through being infinitely configurable (and allowing my FCode-containing devices to work on any OpenFirmware-containing computer), but through letting me boot from a plain text file on an E450 to play pong:-) IEEE1275 is where the future lies. Available for Sun & Mac, please do not chew your open firmware.
I've heard much about these fan issues. I've yet to observe any of them on my network. The only G5s that whirr the fans so you can hear them are the compute boxen; the workstations are quiet.
I actually found ten fans, but I think two of them are on the PSU and aren't under environmental control hence not appearing in the server monitor. There's a huge row of fans running along the width of the machine. They're quite small so get very whiney if you ever ramp them up - boot the machine in target disk mode if you want to know pain;-)
I have to disagree here - I've got a pair of dual G5 towers, a 20" G5 iMac, a 17" G5 iMac and a dual G5 XServe - only the XServe makes a noticable hum. Now, the Sun E450 - THAT is loud:-)
Actually, the Linux kernel has been forked. OpenVMS and MKLinux are both on forks of 2.0 (though tbf MKLinux has stagnated, and you'll only ever see the Linuxness of OpenVMS when you nmap it or work for HP). And I think that's one of the great freedoms of open source software that is all-too-often played down. Let's say I'm using Linux for some specific reason; driving a SPARC-based NAS appliance or something. And 2.4 works really well, but 2.6 broke compatibility for my hardware despite having some funky features. And then I think of some other specific thing that neither 2.4 nor 2.6 will do, but that Linus doesn't like. I'm perfectly at liberty to fork 2.4, merge the funky bits of 2.6, and implement things that Linus doesn't like.
There are also problems with the lack of development on Xfree which is only now being addressed by xorg, but that will take time to get to anything like Mac/NextStep/Cocca
GNUstep, and we already have (thanks to using X) a client-server mechanism; something lacking in Aqua and badly implemented in NeXTSTEP. What's needed is for GNUstep to become easier to deploy and get more apps available - unfortunately because KDE and GNOME are already out there people are using them as the 'good enough' alternative. Just as Linux is the already out there, 'good enough' alternative to the HURD/Trix.
Oh yes, I believe season six is due out [in the UK - I already own one-five] Real Soon Now^{TM}. That'll be the last one I buy though; between seasons seven and eight I only liked the Rimmer Experience episode.
I feel I should remind you as a member of the Space Corps that in an emergency situation involving two or more officers of equal rank, seniority will be granted to whichever officer can program a vcr.
An adroit suggestion with just two small flaws. Firstly, that's not the right trailer and secondly, that's not the right trailer. I realise that technically this is just one flaw but I thought it important enough to mention twice.
If you have a collection of several dozen DVDs, you put together a new media center PC, and encoding takes longer than a day, it could be more than a month before it's up and running.
Well, certainly more than a day. Anyway, the point is that they don't need encoding, you just need to bung a cheap SATA controller (assuming your OS of choice supports it) and cheap big SATA disk in there...the OPs "ancient" P3 is capable of sustaining 100Mbps or even 54Mbps network transfer - the latter will chuck a whole DVD across the network in around 21 minutes. That's shorter than the time required to play a DVD, therefore you can easily get by without recoding the DVD and using said ancient machine to blat it at your viewstation of choice. You could even get an Ultra 5 for a tenner off eBay to do it for you - good luck finding a SATA controller though:-/
Not every case will fit enough drives for storing some people's collections as VOB and FLAC.
Those people probably have more than 800GB of media then (where I've guessed that any sensible case people will choose for a server can take at least two disks). These are edge cases. In the main, people have [i]local optical drives for playing DVDs (and hence may be willing to only encode the core of their DVD library) , [ii]no problem with listening to 160k or even 128k compressed lossy sound.
You do it once, you really don't care how long it takes. Although I don't see the problem with storing raw VOBs; I didn't realise some people think of 8GB as being lots. And yes, in media storage capacity is given in GB not GiB - nice attempt at pedantry but being correct is often helpful.
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Ah yes, that was in Triumph of the nerds. I loved that show (and Glory of the Geeks/Nerds 2.0), but still haven't got around to reading Accidental Empires. Well, I did read a small section, in which we have a quote from Gates about Jobs - when NeXTSTEP was released, Gates was asked (I think by Cringely for InfoWorld, but that point isn't made clear) whether he would be developing for the new system. "Develop for it? I'll piss all over it!" Well, in terms of sales he did, but in terms of style? I don't think so.
Welcome to the UNIX philosophy - little tools that do one task well. You can use an image editor for editing image files - you use an icon composer for composing icons files (in this case, .icns). You combine the two and you can create an icons file from your arbitrarily edited image.
Yegad. Last time I checked, iPhoto was capable of said function.
I think that says it all.
There's less likelihood that 'a comment' says something relevant about the code than does a conventional doc string. For instance, I've seen:
i++;enough times to have broken a lesser man. Or even:
goto BREAKOUT;If you can tell me what information either of the above give me that the code doesn't, then you're doing better than the people who wrote the above two comments.
I'd be more scared of the disembodied butler's hand.
What's required in that case is decent in-code documentation - it's easier, for instance, to know that you want to search for "virtual memory cleanup mach" than to know that you want to search for "vm_object_cache_clear site:freebsd.org". Lots of LISP and Python contains embedded docstrings, Perl can contain embedded POD but I personally don't come across it that often. There certainly doesn't seem to be a single widely-used convention for embedding documentation in C or ObjC. I expect that with a useful convention for embedded docstrings, your hypothetical "codesearch.google.com" could just extract said docstrings, then use normal methods for ranking plain text files.
BTW, your nym is a reference to Children's BBC?
Me too, also British, also "Lego bricks", "Lego set" but never "Legos". I sold all of my Lego gear to my sister about twelve years ago for a fiver, I really wish I hadn't now (because I had enough that I could have lived inside that bloody castle ;-)).
You clearly also left your mission-critical bespoke software - written back in the days when NT4/PPC was available - at home, or you're one of the lucky people who hasn't yet lost their source tape (and tests regularly that t still works). There are people out there who use NT4/PPC, and wish they weren't. Frankly, if I was using it, I'd wish I wasn't too.
Pedants. I couldn't resist, sorry. :-)
You appear to have left your NT4/PPC install media at home ;-). Darwine can run Win32/PPC binaries.
Mind if I call bullshit?
There already exist GPL CPUs. Have a look at the SPARC web page. http://www.sparc.org/productspg/gaislerLeon.htm
Amen to OpenFirmware. It rocks muchly; not only through being infinitely configurable (and allowing my FCode-containing devices to work on any OpenFirmware-containing computer), but through letting me boot from a plain text file on an E450 to play pong :-) IEEE1275 is where the future lies. Available for Sun & Mac, please do not chew your open firmware.
I've heard much about these fan issues. I've yet to observe any of them on my network. The only G5s that whirr the fans so you can hear them are the compute boxen; the workstations are quiet.
I actually found ten fans, but I think two of them are on the PSU and aren't under environmental control hence not appearing in the server monitor. There's a huge row of fans running along the width of the machine. They're quite small so get very whiney if you ever ramp them up - boot the machine in target disk mode if you want to know pain ;-)
I have to disagree here - I've got a pair of dual G5 towers, a 20" G5 iMac, a 17" G5 iMac and a dual G5 XServe - only the XServe makes a noticable hum. Now, the Sun E450 - THAT is loud :-)
Actually, the Linux kernel has been forked. OpenVMS and MKLinux are both on forks of 2.0 (though tbf MKLinux has stagnated, and you'll only ever see the Linuxness of OpenVMS when you nmap it or work for HP). And I think that's one of the great freedoms of open source software that is all-too-often played down. Let's say I'm using Linux for some specific reason; driving a SPARC-based NAS appliance or something. And 2.4 works really well, but 2.6 broke compatibility for my hardware despite having some funky features. And then I think of some other specific thing that neither 2.4 nor 2.6 will do, but that Linus doesn't like. I'm perfectly at liberty to fork 2.4, merge the funky bits of 2.6, and implement things that Linus doesn't like.
GNUstep, and we already have (thanks to using X) a client-server mechanism; something lacking in Aqua and badly implemented in NeXTSTEP. What's needed is for GNUstep to become easier to deploy and get more apps available - unfortunately because KDE and GNOME are already out there people are using them as the 'good enough' alternative. Just as Linux is the already out there, 'good enough' alternative to the HURD/Trix.
Oh yes, I believe season six is due out [in the UK - I already own one-five] Real Soon Now^{TM}. That'll be the last one I buy though; between seasons seven and eight I only liked the Rimmer Experience episode.
I'd be interested to know whether the updates mechanism explicitly breaks things like ReactOS, too.
I feel I should remind you as a member of the Space Corps that in an emergency situation involving two or more officers of equal rank, seniority will be granted to whichever officer can program a vcr.
An adroit suggestion with just two small flaws. Firstly, that's not the right trailer and secondly, that's not the right trailer. I realise that technically this is just one flaw but I thought it important enough to mention twice.
Well, certainly more than a day. Anyway, the point is that they don't need encoding, you just need to bung a cheap SATA controller (assuming your OS of choice supports it) and cheap big SATA disk in there...the OPs "ancient" P3 is capable of sustaining 100Mbps or even 54Mbps network transfer - the latter will chuck a whole DVD across the network in around 21 minutes. That's shorter than the time required to play a DVD, therefore you can easily get by without recoding the DVD and using said ancient machine to blat it at your viewstation of choice. You could even get an Ultra 5 for a tenner off eBay to do it for you - good luck finding a SATA controller though :-/
Those people probably have more than 800GB of media then (where I've guessed that any sensible case people will choose for a server can take at least two disks). These are edge cases. In the main, people have [i]local optical drives for playing DVDs (and hence may be willing to only encode the core of their DVD library) , [ii]no problem with listening to 160k or even 128k compressed lossy sound.
You do it once, you really don't care how long it takes. Although I don't see the problem with storing raw VOBs; I didn't realise some people think of 8GB as being lots. And yes, in media storage capacity is given in GB not GiB - nice attempt at pedantry but being correct is often helpful.
Talk about serving video. Do you really decode your video before you shunt it over the network?