I recently went through a lot of tsouris (Yiddish for heartache) trying to get Linux installed on my Micron laptop. Neither Red Hat 5.1 nor SuSe 5.3 could install a properly functioning copy of X on my laptop.
Then I tried a CD of TurboLinux Workstation Lite 4.0 that came with a magazine I bought. TurboLinux installed X perfectly in color with the proper screen resolution and color scale.
TurboLinux is a major distributor of Linux in Asia that is just getting off the ground here in the United States. Their 'Complete Install' option dumped every package I need onto my waiting hard disk. Tcl/Tk ran from the command line without my even needing to create a link for it.
Before you do the install make sure you know your video card's product name and amount of memory. TurboLinux is finicky about this information and will not install X properly without it.
For some reason, TurboLinux was able to install X where Red Hat and SuSe could not, so I recommend trying it out when faced with X install problems.
I am not under the impression that Java is mostly useful for applets. In fact, most applets are not reliable across different machines and browsers and OSs even when one restricts oneself to JDK 1.1 or 1.0.
Mark Andriessen's comment that client-side Java doesn't work (reliably) is amply born out by my experience. Because client-side applets do not work reliably it is self-evident that most reliable applications, naturally, are either servlets or full applications.
I visited the ripoff page and got a "Page Not Found" error. Apparently they realized the error of their ripoff ways.
In general, a GPL license would be useless in a case such as this one. You retain copyright to your written works unless you give it away, and that is true whether you explicitly post a copyright notice with your work or not.
If these ripoff artists chose to ignore your own copyright then they could just as easily have ignored a GPL license. Either way you handled it correctly. I guess that your posting to this site resulted in people emailing the ripoff site with their complaint. I certainly was prepared to do so.
Tell me something. If Microsoft users are such idiots then why is Mozilla compiled using Microsoft Visual C++? There are other C++ compilers out there. Borland makes one. Powersoft makes one.
So why does Mozilla choose to compile with the Microsoft product? It could be that they have a superior product.
No, because Amazon says they will not release data from domains with less than 600 purchasers.
When you say that you have your own domain name, do you mean that you are your own ISP? As far as Amazon be concerned, wouldn't they think that your domain name was that of your ISP, not that of your home page?
What I don't understand is, I read that Digital had layed off 100 engineers who had been working on a 32-bit version of Windows 2000. But why would Digital have to do any work at all on Windows 2000? Isn't Windows 2000 a Microsoft product, not a Digital one?
I also read that Digital issued a press release saying that they were the development platform for 64-bit Windows development. That implies that 64-bit Windows 2000 does or will run on Alpha.
I'm proud to say my tax dollars will end up in the pockets of such amazing Canadian musicians as:
Brian Adams Celine Dion Sarah McLaughlan
You left out Alanis Morrisette. It is amazing that the Canadian government would not at least exempt from the tax blank CD's used for recording of new music and for later resale or export. The government is stepping on its own local music businesses!
Actually, Slashdot was a Top 100 site according to 100hot.com a few months ago, which measures web traffic.
I first heard about Slashdot in a magazine but promptly forgot about it. Then I saw Slashdot listed on 100hot.com and figured it must have something to offer if so many people visited it, and it did.
In my opinion bigger sites are, on average, better than smaller ones, even though there are many exceptions. Just as the Beatles and Stones in the 60's were, on average, better than the Hollies and the Small Faces. Popularity does correlate weakly with quality in many entertainment media.
The Jewish contingent has exerted a particularly pervasive cultural influence (see Food, above, and note that several common jargon terms are obviously mutated Yiddish).
Which words are those? I cannot think of even one. I would like it if there were some, but I do not think there are.
Hanging around on the internet helps one learn about internet programming, which helps one find and keep a job.
If someone spent four hours a day working on, tuning and inspecting engines he would probably be a good mechanic and have no trouble staying employed.
I would say to any programmer that if you are not on the internet for at least four hours a day then why not? You will suffer professionally for not spending enough time here in cyberspace.
Remember the names of the guy's that wrote the first spreadsheet?
Dan Bricklin, as I recall. He invented Visicalc. The company failed, but Lotus bought out the shell and he still received hundreds of thousands of dollars for his efforts.
How about the guy(s) that invented the transistor.
Shockley, as I recall. He went on to infamy as a proponent of theories that some races are smarter than others. Everyone said, hey, the guy invented the transistor, he must know what he is talking about when it comes to theories about races of people. (Not!)
Or the mouse,
Got me there.
or the joystick,
What? The joystick is important now? I have not used one in several years, and I use a computer every few hours I am awake.
or any one of thousands of VERY important inventions or innovations. You may know some of them, but these people are mostly unknown to the masses.
Shockley and Bricklin are not as famous as Bill Gates, but they are nearly famous.
The American Society of Pediatrics is right. Human beings evolved to pantomine stories in the firelight inside the cave, after a tough day hunting elk with big stones. Watching TV and playing video games is unnatural.
TV, computers and digital media are just a fad. For optimal pediatric health we must return to the cave.
There are other good Tcl books, but most of them were too old, dating from 1996 or before.
The book Tcl/Tk In a Nutshell is cryptic for beginners like me. For instance, the group listing of commands starting on page 11 contains three columns. The first seems to be a package type of some kind (file, info,array...) The second is the command, and the third explains what the command does.
But the book never explains what the first column is, and at that point in the book (page 11!) it is by no means obvious to a beginner.
Even so I am glad I got it. I wanted something reliable and up to date, and I have usually had good luck with O'Reilly books in the past. Plus, my wife enjoys it when I read her the descriptions of the animals on the cover. This one features an ibis.
Santa Clara programmer, if you are already in the United States as an H-1B why would you want additional H-1B's to be issued? It seems to me that you would be even more impacted by the competition then citizens would be.
I am sorry that one of your countrymen is so obnoxious to you simply because he got here a little bit before you did but that is the way of the world I guess. People are the same all over.
Time and People online polls are fixed. For instance, last year People had an online poll for man of the year. A recurring guest named "Hank the Angry, Sullen Dwarf" from the Howard Stern Show was number one and I believe that Ric "Nature Boy" Flair of World Championship Rassling was number 2.
People then disqualified all of the legitimate votes for Nature Boy and the Dwarf in order to arrive at the predetermined result that they wanted. As a result of Time-Life's duplicity Tom Hanks "won" the poll.
I say boycott these polls. If Time-Life is not willing to count each and every vote then these polls are just a scam to attract web traffic.
Back in 1992-93 I endeavored to break into the computer field at age 38. Prior to that time I was a Ph.D engineer.
Transitioning was a problem because I did not want to take too much of a pay cut. Finally by 1994 I had successfully transitioned and was earning more as a Certified PowerBuilder (remember it?) Developer than I ever had before.
But I wonder whether I would have been able to make the transition if America had been totally flooded with H1-B computer workers. I am not convinced that every American programmer benefits from additional H1-B workers, especially additional workers from countries with low wage scales.
My first reaction is that the computer industry is doing great as it is. Don't mess with it, and don't increase the number of H1-B's without guaranteeing that those of us who are already in the business are not harmed.
And since it is impossible to give such a guarantee, I say keep the H1-B totals as they are.
Javascript and other web languages enable you to see the referring URL from whence a visiter came. Universal's server can already tell whether a visitor is downloading a resource from a link on a Universal page of from a non-Universal page. It should be of only medium difficulty using any server-side scripting language to block access to linkers from non-Universal pages.
I don't see this matter as being one for the courts. Anyone should be able to link to anyone else, and anyone should be able to refuse to serve resources to visitors from any link.
I believe that Zen and the Art of the Internet had a tremendous impact on the development of the web. Not only was it one of the first books available, but its author Brendan Kehoe gave it away on the web. So it was open source of sorts before there was an open source.
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Aside from that, I have yet to see a useful application of java or javascript on a webpage.
I went to lycos.com and played their games. They use a java application which takes a long time to download. However, once it is downloaded it works great. I played chess with an 11-year-old. Isn't that useful?
As for fast lean web browsers, chimera, arena, and amaya all come to mind, except they've all been in beta-state with no development since 1996.
Forget about Amaya as a browser. When I used it a few months ago it seemed unable to display any pages at all correctly. It makes a decent editor, however.
These are the same people who use MS Excel (or Word) to store record-and-field (read database) type info because they don't know what a database is or does.
What, you mean that you are not supposed to use a spreadsheet to store record and field information? Why not? I mean, what else is it for?
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I recently went through a lot of tsouris (Yiddish for heartache) trying to get Linux installed on my Micron laptop. Neither Red Hat 5.1 nor SuSe 5.3 could install a properly functioning copy of X on my laptop.
Then I tried a CD of TurboLinux Workstation Lite 4.0 that came with a magazine I bought. TurboLinux installed X perfectly in color with the proper screen resolution and color scale.
TurboLinux is a major distributor of Linux in Asia that is just getting off the ground here in the United States. Their 'Complete Install' option dumped every package I need onto my waiting hard disk. Tcl/Tk ran from the command line without my even needing to create a link for it.
Before you do the install make sure you know your video card's product name and amount of memory. TurboLinux is finicky about this information and will not install X properly without it.
For some reason, TurboLinux was able to install X where Red Hat and SuSe could not, so I recommend trying it out when faced with X install problems.
I am not under the impression that Java is mostly useful for applets. In fact, most applets are not reliable across different machines and browsers and OSs even when one restricts oneself to JDK 1.1 or 1.0.
Mark Andriessen's comment that client-side Java doesn't work (reliably) is amply born out by my experience. Because client-side applets do not work reliably it is self-evident that most reliable applications, naturally, are either servlets or full applications.
Mark Andriessen of Netscape supposedly said "client-side Java doesn't work" and I agree.
In general, a GPL license would be useless in a case such as this one. You retain copyright to your written works unless you give it away, and that is true whether you explicitly post a copyright notice with your work or not.
If these ripoff artists chose to ignore your own copyright then they could just as easily have ignored a GPL license. Either way you handled it correctly. I guess that your posting to this site resulted in people emailing the ripoff site with their complaint. I certainly was prepared to do so.
So why does Mozilla choose to compile with the Microsoft product? It could be that they have a superior product.
Alan, now that your software company is a big success are you going to continue to cross-dress?
When you say that you have your own domain name, do you mean that you are your own ISP? As far as Amazon be concerned, wouldn't they think that your domain name was that of your ISP, not that of your home page?
What I don't understand is, I read that Digital had layed off 100 engineers who had been working on a 32-bit version of Windows 2000. But why would Digital have to do any work at all on Windows 2000? Isn't Windows 2000 a Microsoft product, not a Digital one?
I also read that Digital issued a press release saying that they were the development platform for 64-bit Windows development. That implies that 64-bit Windows 2000 does or will run on Alpha.
You left out Alanis Morrisette. It is amazing that the Canadian government would not at least exempt from the tax blank CD's used for recording of new music and for later resale or export. The government is stepping on its own local music businesses!
Actually, Slashdot was a Top 100 site according to 100hot.com a few months ago, which measures web traffic.
I first heard about Slashdot in a magazine but promptly forgot about it. Then I saw Slashdot listed on 100hot.com and figured it must have something to offer if so many people visited it, and it did.
In my opinion bigger sites are, on average, better than smaller ones, even though there are many exceptions. Just as the Beatles and Stones in the 60's were, on average, better than the Hollies and the Small Faces. Popularity does correlate weakly with quality in many entertainment media.
Which words are those? I cannot think of even one. I would like it if there were some, but I do not think there are.
If someone spent four hours a day working on, tuning and inspecting engines he would probably be a good mechanic and have no trouble staying employed.
I would say to any programmer that if you are not on the internet for at least four hours a day then why not? You will suffer professionally for not spending enough time here in cyberspace.
Dan Bricklin, as I recall. He invented Visicalc. The company failed, but Lotus bought out the shell and he still received hundreds of thousands of dollars for his efforts.
Shockley, as I recall. He went on to infamy as a proponent of theories that some races are smarter than others. Everyone said, hey, the guy invented the transistor, he must know what he is talking about when it comes to theories about races of people. (Not!)
Got me there.
What? The joystick is important now? I have not used one in several years, and I use a computer every few hours I am awake.
Shockley and Bricklin are not as famous as Bill Gates, but they are nearly famous.
TV, computers and digital media are just a fad. For optimal pediatric health we must return to the cave.
Do your comments apply to C++ programs as well?
The book Tcl/Tk In a Nutshell is cryptic for beginners like me. For instance, the group listing of commands starting on page 11 contains three columns. The first seems to be a package type of some kind (file, info,array...) The second is the command, and the third explains what the command does.
But the book never explains what the first column is, and at that point in the book (page 11!) it is by no means obvious to a beginner.
Even so I am glad I got it. I wanted something reliable and up to date, and I have usually had good luck with O'Reilly books in the past. Plus, my wife enjoys it when I read her the descriptions of the animals on the cover. This one features an ibis.
I am sorry that one of your countrymen is so obnoxious to you simply because he got here a little bit before you did but that is the way of the world I guess. People are the same all over.
People then disqualified all of the legitimate votes for Nature Boy and the Dwarf in order to arrive at the predetermined result that they wanted. As a result of Time-Life's duplicity Tom Hanks "won" the poll.
I say boycott these polls. If Time-Life is not willing to count each and every vote then these polls are just a scam to attract web traffic.
Transitioning was a problem because I did not want to take too much of a pay cut. Finally by 1994 I had successfully transitioned and was earning more as a Certified PowerBuilder (remember it?) Developer than I ever had before.
But I wonder whether I would have been able to make the transition if America had been totally flooded with H1-B computer workers. I am not convinced that every American programmer benefits from additional H1-B workers, especially additional workers from countries with low wage scales.
My first reaction is that the computer industry is doing great as it is. Don't mess with it, and don't increase the number of H1-B's without guaranteeing that those of us who are already in the business are not harmed.
And since it is impossible to give such a guarantee, I say keep the H1-B totals as they are.
I don't see this matter as being one for the courts. Anyone should be able to link to anyone else, and anyone should be able to refuse to serve resources to visitors from any link.
I believe that Zen and the Art of the Internet had a tremendous impact on the development of the web. Not only was it one of the first books available, but its author Brendan Kehoe gave it away on the web. So it was open source of sorts before there was an open source.
I went to lycos.com and played their games. They use a java application which takes a long time to download. However, once it is downloaded it works great. I played chess with an 11-year-old. Isn't that useful?
Forget about Amaya as a browser. When I used it a few months ago it seemed unable to display any pages at all correctly. It makes a decent editor, however.
What, you mean that you are not supposed to use a spreadsheet to store record and field information? Why not? I mean, what else is it for?