Amen! Looks like I'll be switching back to KDE when I next upgrade my Linux. Too bad... Ximian has a great tool with Red Carpet but only if you use their software which doesn't keep up so well with SourceForge (how about a new Pan guys?). And it's not always flawless. I've had several Red Carpet sessions crap out and had to recover my RPM db by hand.
Besides, even if I could justify $9.95 to my boss for my work machine (and I can't), what of my home Linux box where, thanks to the local primative services of Verizon, I have only 56Kbps.
Sigh! Guess I'll be moving my email archive off Evolution and back onto KMail...
Since when are these things so quiet? When living in Korea in '86 (where air conditioning was rare, costly, and inefficient), I installed one in a MacPlus many years back and found it so annoying that I took it out as soon as I got back to the States. Of course, the MacPlus had no fan to begin with so any noise was a lot.
True, it wasn't always reliable but by and large it worked, it was free, and it was largely unencumbered by the great unwashed masses that polute the internet these days...
I think there should be a special place in hell for the sonsofbitches that came up with the registry. Why not UNIX text files or the Mac's Preferences folder. Instead, Gates et al invent a way of storing key info that can we wiped out by the installation or deinstallation of any piece of software. I have seen literally scores of registry corruptions, some of them bringing down enterprise systems of a critical nature. The whole registry is absolutely assine.
Okay, so Microsloth is too big to challenge, right? So, why don't UNIX/Linux sites sue the owners of Windows servers when IIE, IE, Outlook, etc. starts bombarding the UNIX boxes with crap. It's a DoS, right? And those Windows boobs are too stupid to manage their software correctly, right? Get those bastards to wise up or run a **real** OS! Maybe we can drive Microsoft out of the enterprise computing business by making the cost of running their software too high!
The PHBs running our school district's networks wiped Netscape off all school computers and is forcing Windows/Outlook/IE down everyone's throats. Last Friday, a similar worm hit the high school and took out **everything**. I've told my wife (a teacher) to bring nothing home or disk and to remove our home e-mail from her school PC.
IDEA: Why don't UNIX/Linux sys admins start suing networks running IIS and IE for DoS when they send crap from Windows to Linux? Kill the use of Windows by punishing those stupid enough to use if for enterprise computing!
My son has been waiting for this game for a year and a half and he is thrilled to finally have it up and running(see links on SUBSIM Review). A WWII submarine sim, you're a German U-boat commander in the North Atlantic. Graphics, realism, sound, etc. are orders of magnitude better than its DOS/Win3.1 forbearer, "Silent Hunter" (where you were an American sub commander in the Pacific). Real soon now should come "Destroyer Command" which can be played *against* SHII.
Now, will they ever update "Command Aces of the Deep" for Windows?
Realistic? A **one** plane mission? No. One plane photographs, one EW bird watches for enemy radar, two fighter-attack aircraft stand by to jump any radar that turns on, and one AWACS to control the whole mess. Add to that the possible presence of JSTARS to monitor ground activity.
Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but I did spend some time telling my 13 year old how it's really done.
I seem to recall that DoD experimented with a similar idea in the '60s. A Polaris-like missile was pulled from the back of a cargo aircraft (C-130 or C-141) and, once hanging suspended, fired. The idea was dropped for several reasons, one of which was that it was not possible the accurately position the missile (vagaries of wind, chutes, etc.) accurately enough for accurate targeting. Perhaps modern computers can compensate for this.
How about "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. Using drugs to make a criminal adverse to violence--we see that now with moves to chemically "castrate" rapists and child molesters.
Armor? What armor? In addition with corrupting Heinlien's vision of society and not making the drops as presented in the book, the director made no effort whatsoever to recreate the Mobile Infantry fighting suit described in the book. I guess guys leaping around at 5 mile intervals didn't have the camera quality of every cluster-f***ing down a narrow canyon. As the DI's used to say, "One hand grenade would kill you all."
The only thing I did like about the movies was the bugs killing the way bugs kill (pincers) and the home front propaganda reels.
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Lots of models to choose from but I've liked the Wilderness Systems ones that I've paddled. How about a Cape Horn 17 Pro in Kevlar, only $3095! But if my wife is reading this, I'll settle for on in rotomolded plastic...
Amen to "Blackhawk Down". I even recognized names from my days in the 82d Airborne!
I'd also recommend "We Were Soldiers Once and Young," on the battle's of the 7th Cav in the I Drang Valley, 1965, by Harold G. Moore (LTG, Ret but then an LTC commanding a battalion in the 7th) and Joseph Galloway, a reporter from the 7th's home town (Columbus, GA) who was with Moore.
I've tried JBuilder, Forte', and CodeWarrior. All were a waste. I get much better productivity out of NEdit (http://www.nedit.org/) for editing and ant (http://jakarta.apache.org) for building.
Amen! I've worked all sorts of DoD projects and I've worked at NASA. IMHO, while DoD might waste more dollars (they have more to waste), NASA wastes a far greater proportion of their budget than DoD can even imagine.
I did analysis and wrote software for various budget systems in the NASA headquarters group responsible for earth observation and global climate change. I saw millions of dollars thrown away on redundant studies whose apparent sole purpose was to fund obscure pet projects and university pals. In many cases, the NASA "scientist" has no bloody idea what the money was going towards. I recall trying to track down the recipient of a multi-year grant who hadn't been at his university in two years. The NASA "scientist" responsible had continued to sign checks on this account although even she didn't know how to reach the guy and had never tried do to so since awarding him the grant. We never did found him during my tenure.
From what I saw, NASA is largely a bunch of bloody imbeciles passing out welfare dollars to washed up scientists. I'm amazed that anything they touch works.
It also depends on who you customer is. Many customers, especially those for government classified programs (ex., DoD, CIA, etc.), have security requirements that force an employer's IS and/or Security office to place such restrictions on developers.
Just one of many reasons why I no longer work classified programs!
So Microsloth wants you to use IE because they support standards better. Like ignoring the MIME type sent by the server and reading the file extension instead? Standards, my ass! Their only interest in standards is coopting them so they work only on Windows.
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Amen! Looks like I'll be switching back to KDE when I next upgrade my Linux. Too bad... Ximian has a great tool with Red Carpet but only if you use their software which doesn't keep up so well with SourceForge (how about a new Pan guys?). And it's not always flawless. I've had several Red Carpet sessions crap out and had to recover my RPM db by hand.
Besides, even if I could justify $9.95 to my boss for my work machine (and I can't), what of my home Linux box where, thanks to the local primative services of Verizon, I have only 56Kbps.
Sigh! Guess I'll be moving my email archive off Evolution and back onto KMail...
Since when are these things so quiet? When living in Korea in '86 (where air conditioning was rare, costly, and inefficient), I installed one in a MacPlus many years back and found it so annoying that I took it out as soon as I got back to the States. Of course, the MacPlus had no fan to begin with so any noise was a lot.
The author of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, born this date in 1912. If you ain't read them, you don't know what you're missing.
True, it wasn't always reliable but by and large it worked, it was free, and it was largely unencumbered by the great unwashed masses that polute the internet these days...
Are you sure he didnt just pick a Windoz look-alike frame style? His site says Red Hat Linux 7.1
I think there should be a special place in hell for the sonsofbitches that came up with the registry. Why not UNIX text files or the Mac's Preferences folder. Instead, Gates et al invent a way of storing key info that can we wiped out by the installation or deinstallation of any piece of software. I have seen literally scores of registry corruptions, some of them bringing down enterprise systems of a critical nature. The whole registry is absolutely assine.
Okay, so Microsloth is too big to challenge, right? So, why don't UNIX/Linux sites sue the owners of Windows servers when IIE, IE, Outlook, etc. starts bombarding the UNIX boxes with crap. It's a DoS, right? And those Windows boobs are too stupid to manage their software correctly, right? Get those bastards to wise up or run a **real** OS! Maybe we can drive Microsoft out of the enterprise computing business by making the cost of running their software too high!
My sympathies on the PHB.
The PHBs running our school district's networks wiped Netscape off all school computers and is forcing Windows/Outlook/IE down everyone's throats. Last Friday, a similar worm hit the high school and took out **everything**. I've told my wife (a teacher) to bring nothing home or disk and to remove our home e-mail from her school PC.
IDEA: Why don't UNIX/Linux sys admins start suing networks running IIS and IE for DoS when they send crap from Windows to Linux? Kill the use of Windows by punishing those stupid enough to use if for enterprise computing!
My son has been waiting for this game for a year and a half and he is thrilled to finally have it up and running(see links on SUBSIM Review). A WWII submarine sim, you're a German U-boat commander in the North Atlantic. Graphics, realism, sound, etc. are orders of magnitude better than its DOS/Win3.1 forbearer, "Silent Hunter" (where you were an American sub commander in the Pacific). Real soon now should come "Destroyer Command" which can be played *against* SHII.
Now, will they ever update "Command Aces of the Deep" for Windows?
Realistic? A **one** plane mission? No. One plane photographs, one EW bird watches for enemy radar, two fighter-attack aircraft stand by to jump any radar that turns on, and one AWACS to control the whole mess. Add to that the possible presence of JSTARS to monitor ground activity.
Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but I did spend some time telling my 13 year old how it's really done.
Ah, the good old days when you could set up a crontab to mail some bozo a core dump every 10 minutes...
I seem to recall that DoD experimented with a similar idea in the '60s. A Polaris-like missile was pulled from the back of a cargo aircraft (C-130 or C-141) and, once hanging suspended, fired. The idea was dropped for several reasons, one of which was that it was not possible the accurately position the missile (vagaries of wind, chutes, etc.) accurately enough for accurate targeting. Perhaps modern computers can compensate for this.
How about "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. Using drugs to make a criminal adverse to violence--we see that now with moves to chemically "castrate" rapists and child molesters.
Armor? What armor? In addition with corrupting Heinlien's vision of society and not making the drops as presented in the book, the director made no effort whatsoever to recreate the Mobile Infantry fighting suit described in the book. I guess guys leaping around at 5 mile intervals didn't have the camera quality of every cluster-f***ing down a narrow canyon. As the DI's used to say, "One hand grenade would kill you all."
The only thing I did like about the movies was the bugs killing the way bugs kill (pincers) and the home front propaganda reels.
Lots of models to choose from but I've liked the Wilderness Systems ones that I've paddled. How about a Cape Horn 17 Pro in Kevlar, only $3095! But if my wife is reading this, I'll settle for on in rotomolded plastic...
Amen to "Blackhawk Down". I even recognized names from my days in the 82d Airborne!
I'd also recommend "We Were Soldiers Once and Young," on the battle's of the 7th Cav in the I Drang Valley, 1965, by Harold G. Moore (LTG, Ret but then an LTC commanding a battalion in the 7th) and Joseph Galloway, a reporter from the 7th's home town (Columbus, GA) who was with Moore.
I've tried JBuilder, Forte', and CodeWarrior. All were a waste. I get much better productivity out of NEdit (http://www.nedit.org/) for editing and ant (http://jakarta.apache.org) for building.
Amen! I've worked all sorts of DoD projects and I've worked at NASA. IMHO, while DoD might waste more dollars (they have more to waste), NASA wastes a far greater proportion of their budget than DoD can even imagine.
I did analysis and wrote software for various budget systems in the NASA headquarters group responsible for earth observation and global climate change. I saw millions of dollars thrown away on redundant studies whose apparent sole purpose was to fund obscure pet projects and university pals. In many cases, the NASA "scientist" has no bloody idea what the money was going towards. I recall trying to track down the recipient of a multi-year grant who hadn't been at his university in two years. The NASA "scientist" responsible had continued to sign checks on this account although even she didn't know how to reach the guy and had never tried do to so since awarding him the grant. We never did found him during my tenure.
From what I saw, NASA is largely a bunch of bloody imbeciles passing out welfare dollars to washed up scientists. I'm amazed that anything they touch works.
It also depends on who you customer is. Many customers, especially those for government classified programs (ex., DoD, CIA, etc.), have security requirements that force an employer's IS and/or Security office to place such restrictions on developers. Just one of many reasons why I no longer work classified programs!
So Microsloth wants you to use IE because they support standards better. Like ignoring the MIME type sent by the server and reading the file extension instead? Standards, my ass! Their only interest in standards is coopting them so they work only on Windows.