I have Ant and the required version of the JDK, JAVA_HOME, JDK_HOME, ANT_HOME, HOME_ON_THE_RANGE, OLD_FOLKS_AT_HOME, whatever set, and it still doesn't work.
Java is about as much fun as a broken arm. Sure, C and C++ can make you want to tear out your eyes and gnaw off your limbs, but at least they have some idea of where to find their libraries. A C program has never told me that it couldn't find org.boyhowdy.www.hey.are.you.really.reading.this.h.stdio.
This is from MIT? I have seen better build scripts etched on toilet stalls. Sucks, too, because this program is probably actually a pretty good idea.
Rutger "Batty" Hauer, and Paul "PeeWee" Reubens stole the show. Kristy Swanson was beautiful and perfect, and the cast was filled out with both stars and people who would become stars. It was hilarious (the Paul Reubens death scene was classic), smart, silly, and fun.
Because of this, I held off on watching the TV series. How good could that be compared to the film? I finally caught a couple of episodes over the last couple of weeks, and it does look like a clever show, but they should have called it something else, and let the film stand by itself.
It's true that wading through 20 different ways of doing the same thing in one program can really be maddening, but within reason some of these shortcuts should exist, and should have from the beginning.
Every language has idioms, and a programmer should use those idioms in preference to other allowable ways to do things unless they have a good reason. It's all just part of good style.
I don't recall the wording, but doesn't most of this equipment carry a message from the FCC that says that the device must accept any interference from other devices?
Maybe it's a bit backward, but I think that can justify your having picked up the signal; you were just accepting interference...
Yeah, it isn't a good solution for a backup of that size. But for the rest of it, a modest SCSI or IDE RAID in house, mirrored over the Internet to an identically sized IDE system using Rsync or some other incremental solution could be viable.
An initial sync could be done in house, after the data had "filled up" and plateaued, and after the backup can go to another, perhaps hosted or colocated site.
Obviously if your information is at all sensitive, rsync would need to use ssh or something.
I detasseled corn successive summers to save up enough for a Coco 2, a Coco 3, and one of those horrible 35 track single sided (!) floppies. I used to hang out at Radio Shack all of the time, bugging the techs to let me watch them solder 64k upgrades onto the 16k coco 2.
I finally got a DiStefano 512k upgrade, OS-9 Level II, Multiview, and a mouse, and tried to write horrible programs in Basic09 in the default editor, which was basically edlin.
Had stacks of Rainbow Magazines, had the high score for Munchkin Blaster for a couple of months... was on the modem constantly calling long distance at 300 baud; no smartmodems, we had to listen for the tone and hit "connect" on the modem.
I just get the feeling that kids these days are really missing out, not growing up with that stuff. 8 bit machines you could comprehend fully, where you had to know a bit of everything to get them to do anything. I had my Coco 2 for a couple of months before I even had a tape deck for it, so I'd write a game, and tell my mom not to dare turn it off...
I used to just use linux for sequencing and mixing down to digital, but now I have been playing with Ardour, JACK, LADSPA, and it's a whole new ball game. I can't wait to try the latest RoseGarden; it looks like it has come a long way. With JACK I can use my Delta 1010 sound card, and it sounds like a million bucks, and has fair support, including a mixer control panel very like the one it has under windows. I haven't tried recording under Windows since 3.1, but the software is all very expensive. I love software like Vision, but it's just not worth it to me anymore.
I tried Be, which was supposed to be low-latency this and multimedia that, but nothing I recorded with it ever turned out very well. At the time, one couldn't even purchase a decent sequencing or multitrack recording app, even if you had the money.
Lots of work has been done in the Linux kernel to address latency. It still is jerky sometimes, but a multi-processor system might help address that.
Sure, we all know that IPV6 will soon be in every home. Until that happens, do we really want to be doling out real addresses to people? If my provider said I couldn't NAT anymore, I'd probably spring for the addresses one way or the other, but is that really the solution?
When I signed up, I signed up for a certain amount of bandwidth. Whether or not that bandwidth is really mine or shared is often unclear to the customer at the time of purchase. It shouldn't matter how many machines I use to eat that bandwidth. I'd prefer a bandwidth guarantee, even if it was less than I take advantage of now, over a loss of ability to NAT.
Yeah, because every news portal in the world has to repeat every small detail given by the same 5 sources. Not doing so is just callous and rude. I really need Slashdot to be my portal to CNN. CNN doesn't have Thinkgeek ads.
I guess it's just best to drop everything, and go back to bed. It's true that if Slashdot posted more information about the space tragedy and the war, both war and space tragedy would be averted in the future, and the world would be safe and happy again.
Stopping development of operating systems would help too; most space tragedies and wars are indeed caused by announcements of early point releases of free OS code.
Soon my hard drive will be chock full of source code from half done games! As soon as I am up to speed on the state of the art of gaming 5 years ago, I plan to finish these suckers!
And maybe it doesn't need to be funny. There genuinely should be more real world articles that question whether Windows is ready for the desktop, whether Grandma can use it, whether or not you should bet the company on it.
The problem is that a lot of the people who write articles about whether Linux is ready for the desktop don't want it to be desktop-ready for any nice, warm, fuzzy, cuddly reason. They want it there so they can invest in it, so they can draw big graphs of climbing profits, so they can sink their bloodsucking greedy teeth in it.
Honestly, if I like Linux on my desktop, why should I care if anyone else does? I've got my fluxbox, my nethack, my vim, and those things aren't going to get any better because a bunch of Windows refugees decide to use them too.
The article pretty much said two things: -- Caching objects saves a database hit and makes things fast. -- Resin scales better than Apache.
That's great and everything, but it really doesn't help anyone else. Ok, so now I want to apply this object caching to my own application. Where does this cache live? If I'm not running Resin, then I guess every apache process has one. How do I handle dirty objects which need to be written back to the DB? What if they have been dirtied in two different processes? If I am using some sort of service external to the web application to do the caching, how fast is that? Faster than the database? Perhaps, but now it has to scale too, and it STILL has to consult the database, only for writes, which are worse than reads.
This happened to work for their application, but in order to be applied more generally, it needs lots more explanation.
Any object persistence mechanism which is smart enough to handle caching in a read-write system with any level of configurability is going to be a large, complicated piece of software itself, and will have its own issues to bring to the table.
I am still not clear as to package format, glibc version, kernel version, and c compiler version requirements for this, but I signed up for the beta anyway, since there isn't a gentoo ebuild for it yet.
I have long wanted to make an operating system shell that looked like this, like the Gibson supercomputers in the film "Hackers", just to show once an for all what a pain in the ass it would be to actually have to walk, run, and fly to wherever it was you needed to go.
It would LOOK cool, maybe, but it would be pretty useless.
Those are real game designers, and they did their own coding, too. None of this cowardly "art direction" and "marketing" and whatnot. Just jumped in and started writing the game.
Had their game "Rogue" never been written, we would never have Windows, space travel, or penicillin.
To this day, it is still one of the most copied games ever written. The fact that there is no port of Rogue to the Playstation 2, Nintendo or any other children's computing device shows how complex it is to emulate.
I think it is this asdf-jkl; business they teach in school that is responsible for much of this strain.
I taught myself to type at a young age, and over time have achieved very good speed. I experience pain from time to time, but the best thing I have done for it is use a happy hacking keyboard and trackball; it brings the mousing device closer to my right hand.
Using so-called ergonomic keyboards hurts my hands more, as do attempts to type in the traditional "home-row" manner. Typing in my usual free form way doesn't require my hands to be in any particular position and I think this is what keeps me from having worse problems than I do.
There was a Coco 4, sort of. I don't remember much about it, I think it was the Tomcat, and I seem to remember Frank Hogg Labs having something to do with it. IIRC it had sort of a backplane, like a super multi-connector.
There was a class of 68000-based machines that ran OS/K, which was the 68k version of OS/9, or OS/9 was the 6809 based version of OS/K. Maybe it still runs on newer 68k architectures... that would be your Super Coco.
I have often thought of just running CP/M natively on my P4, just for kicks, but then I begin to realize how much that idea sucks. It gives you that feeling for a moment that you can start over from the point in time just before Microsoft subverted CP/M (ok, actually MS-DOS was somewhat of an improvement,) and let CP/M re-evolve into something you could really use.
I am really pleased to see you hosting the Full Moon stuff on Sci Fi. I remember Melanie appearing in two of the Subspecies films and I seem to recall your involvement in ventures tangentially related to Full Moon. My question: since Subspecies V seems like it is never going to be made at this rate, and since you obviously love this stuff, why not team up with Ted Nicolau and get the movie made? You'll get the undying appreciation of tens of people, and a vacation in Romania to boot...
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Soon, my friends, soon... all is going according to plan. The stage is set. Now I can enslave the world with CUNEIFORM!
I have Ant and the required version of the JDK, JAVA_HOME, JDK_HOME, ANT_HOME, HOME_ON_THE_RANGE, OLD_FOLKS_AT_HOME, whatever set, and it still doesn't work.
h .stdio.
Java is about as much fun as a broken arm. Sure, C and C++ can make you want to tear out your eyes and gnaw off your limbs, but at least they have some idea of where to find their libraries. A C program has never told me that it couldn't find org.boyhowdy.www.hey.are.you.really.reading.this.
This is from MIT? I have seen better build scripts etched on toilet stalls. Sucks, too, because this program is probably actually a pretty good idea.
Rutger "Batty" Hauer, and Paul "PeeWee" Reubens stole the show. Kristy Swanson was beautiful and perfect, and the cast was filled out with both stars and people who would become stars. It was hilarious (the Paul Reubens death scene was classic), smart, silly, and fun.
Because of this, I held off on watching the TV series. How good could that be compared to the film? I finally caught a couple of episodes over the last couple of weeks, and it does look like a clever show, but they should have called it something else, and let the film stand by itself.
It's true that wading through 20 different ways of doing the same thing in one program can really be maddening, but within reason some of these shortcuts should exist, and should have from the beginning.
Every language has idioms, and a programmer should use those idioms in preference to other allowable ways to do things unless they have a good reason. It's all just part of good style.
In what way exactly is wireless communication not I/O?
I read "no i/o" and thought, well, bricks don't have i/o either... so what?
I don't recall the wording, but doesn't most of this equipment carry a message from the FCC that says that the device must accept any interference from other devices?
Maybe it's a bit backward, but I think that can justify your having picked up the signal; you were just accepting interference...
Yeah, it isn't a good solution for a backup of that size. But for the rest of it, a modest SCSI or IDE RAID in house, mirrored over the Internet to an identically sized IDE system using Rsync or some other incremental solution could be viable.
An initial sync could be done in house, after the data had "filled up" and plateaued, and after the backup can go to another, perhaps hosted or colocated site.
Obviously if your information is at all sensitive, rsync would need to use ssh or something.
I detasseled corn successive summers to save up enough for a Coco 2, a Coco 3, and one of those horrible 35 track single sided (!) floppies. I used to hang out at Radio Shack all of the time, bugging the techs to let me watch them solder 64k upgrades onto the 16k coco 2.
I finally got a DiStefano 512k upgrade, OS-9 Level II, Multiview, and a mouse, and tried to write horrible programs in Basic09 in the default editor, which was basically edlin.
Had stacks of Rainbow Magazines, had the high score for Munchkin Blaster for a couple of months... was on the modem constantly calling long distance at 300 baud; no smartmodems, we had to listen for the tone and hit "connect" on the modem.
I just get the feeling that kids these days are really missing out, not growing up with that stuff. 8 bit machines you could comprehend fully, where you had to know a bit of everything to get them to do anything. I had my Coco 2 for a couple of months before I even had a tape deck for it, so I'd write a game, and tell my mom not to dare turn it off...
Good times.
When was the last time Microsoft told you, or even allowed you, to back up software you bought from them?
I used to just use linux for sequencing and mixing down to digital, but now I have been playing with Ardour, JACK, LADSPA, and it's a whole new ball game. I can't wait to try the latest RoseGarden; it looks like it has come a long way. With JACK I can use my Delta 1010 sound card, and it sounds like a million bucks, and has fair support, including a mixer control panel very like the one it has under windows. I haven't tried recording under Windows since 3.1, but the software is all very expensive. I love software like Vision, but it's just not worth it to me anymore.
I tried Be, which was supposed to be low-latency this and multimedia that, but nothing I recorded with it ever turned out very well. At the time, one couldn't even purchase a decent sequencing or multitrack recording app, even if you had the money.
Lots of work has been done in the Linux kernel to address latency. It still is jerky sometimes, but a multi-processor system might help address that.
I never thought the day would come. Watch out, Gnome and KDE, Athena is coming back! Er. Maybe not.
I thought maybe this was a joke... crazy.
Sure, we all know that IPV6 will soon be in every home. Until that happens, do we really want to be doling out real addresses to people? If my provider said I couldn't NAT anymore, I'd probably spring for the addresses one way or the other, but is that really the solution?
When I signed up, I signed up for a certain amount of bandwidth. Whether or not that bandwidth is really mine or shared is often unclear to the customer at the time of purchase. It shouldn't matter how many machines I use to eat that bandwidth. I'd prefer a bandwidth guarantee, even if it was less than I take advantage of now, over a loss of ability to NAT.
Yeah, because every news portal in the world has to repeat every small detail given by the same 5 sources. Not doing so is just callous and rude. I really need Slashdot to be my portal to CNN. CNN doesn't have Thinkgeek ads.
I guess it's just best to drop everything, and go back to bed. It's true that if Slashdot posted more information about the space tragedy and the war, both war and space tragedy would be averted in the future, and the world would be safe and happy again.
Stopping development of operating systems would help too; most space tragedies and wars are indeed caused by announcements of early point releases of free OS code.
Mod this parent up. It's some really deep stuff.
Come on, that has to be a joke.
Soon my hard drive will be chock full of source code from half done games! As soon as I am up to speed on the state of the art of gaming 5 years ago, I plan to finish these suckers!
Or play nethack. I still have never ascended.
And maybe it doesn't need to be funny. There genuinely should be more real world articles that question whether Windows is ready for the desktop, whether Grandma can use it, whether or not you should bet the company on it.
The problem is that a lot of the people who write articles about whether Linux is ready for the desktop don't want it to be desktop-ready for any nice, warm, fuzzy, cuddly reason. They want it there so they can invest in it, so they can draw big graphs of climbing profits, so they can sink their bloodsucking greedy teeth in it.
Honestly, if I like Linux on my desktop, why should I care if anyone else does? I've got my fluxbox, my nethack, my vim, and those things aren't going to get any better because a bunch of Windows refugees decide to use them too.
I don't get it.
The article pretty much said two things:
-- Caching objects saves a database hit and makes things fast.
-- Resin scales better than Apache.
That's great and everything, but it really doesn't help anyone else. Ok, so now I want to apply this object caching to my own application. Where does this cache live? If I'm not running Resin, then I guess every apache process has one. How do I handle dirty objects which need to be written back to the DB? What if they have been dirtied in two different processes? If I am using some sort of service external to the web application to do the caching, how fast is that? Faster than the database? Perhaps, but now it has to scale too, and it STILL has to consult the database, only for writes, which are worse than reads.
This happened to work for their application, but in order to be applied more generally, it needs lots more explanation.
Any object persistence mechanism which is smart enough to handle caching in a read-write system with any level of configurability is going to be a large, complicated piece of software itself, and will have its own issues to bring to the table.
I am still not clear as to package format, glibc version, kernel version, and c compiler version requirements for this, but I signed up for the beta anyway, since there isn't a gentoo ebuild for it yet.
Oh well, should be a matter of weeks, I am sure.
I have long wanted to make an operating system shell that looked like this, like the Gibson supercomputers in the film "Hackers", just to show once an for all what a pain in the ass it would be to actually have to walk, run, and fly to wherever it was you needed to go.
It would LOOK cool, maybe, but it would be pretty useless.
Those are real game designers, and they did their own coding, too. None of this cowardly "art direction" and "marketing" and whatnot. Just jumped in and started writing the game.
Had their game "Rogue" never been written, we would never have Windows, space travel, or penicillin.
To this day, it is still one of the most copied games ever written. The fact that there is no port of Rogue to the Playstation 2, Nintendo or any other children's computing device shows how complex it is to emulate.
Miyamoto who? Let's see HIS port of Rogue.
When are we going to get some new first person shooters? When do we get Tribes III?
I think it is this asdf-jkl; business they teach in school that is responsible for much of this strain.
I taught myself to type at a young age, and over time have achieved very good speed. I experience pain from time to time, but the best thing I have done for it is use a happy hacking keyboard and trackball; it brings the mousing device closer to my right hand.
Using so-called ergonomic keyboards hurts my hands more, as do attempts to type in the traditional "home-row" manner. Typing in my usual free form way doesn't require my hands to be in any particular position and I think this is what keeps me from having worse problems than I do.
Yeah, did they really need my name and address when all I wanted to buy was a phone dialer and a television colorburst crystal?
There was a Coco 4, sort of. I don't remember much about it, I think it was the Tomcat, and I seem to remember Frank Hogg Labs having something to do with it. IIRC it had sort of a backplane, like a super multi-connector.
There was a class of 68000-based machines that ran OS/K, which was the 68k version of OS/9, or OS/9 was the 6809 based version of OS/K. Maybe it still runs on newer 68k architectures... that would be your Super Coco.
I have often thought of just running CP/M natively on my P4, just for kicks, but then I begin to realize how much that idea sucks. It gives you that feeling for a moment that you can start over from the point in time just before Microsoft subverted CP/M (ok, actually MS-DOS was somewhat of an improvement,) and let CP/M re-evolve into something you could really use.
I am really pleased to see you hosting the Full Moon stuff on Sci Fi. I remember Melanie appearing in two of the Subspecies films and I seem to recall your involvement in ventures tangentially related to Full Moon. My question: since Subspecies V seems like it is never going to be made at this rate, and since you obviously love this stuff, why not team up with Ted Nicolau and get the movie made? You'll get the undying appreciation of tens of people, and a vacation in Romania to boot...