User: Smooth Hound

Re:That is ridiculous

On: Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com

Of course he is still programming... in HTML of course.

Re:oh christ

On: The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy

There is always roadkill...

http://www.amazon.com/Original-Road-Kill-Cookbook/dp/0898152003/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219733232&sr=8-3

Re:needs a logo

On: Gates Issues Call For "Creative Capitalism"

What about the head of a ugly beast... for the Gates Creative Capitalism... GCC, that is.

Re:Incorrect....

On: Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday

I am not so sure about that. The sizes of time_t are: AIX 5.3 (Power5) - 64 bits HP-UX 11.23 (Itanium) - 32 bits Solaris 10 (SPARC)- 32 bits OpenBSD 4.2 (x86) - 32 bits Linux 2.6.9 (x86) - 32 bits It seems that most Unix-like systems are affected by this.

Re:Reliability

On: NYSE Moves to Linux

Whoever claim 5 nines uptime is an idiot.

Do the math, 99.999% means 1 hour downtime in 10 years.

And of course, if the same people get (much) better uptime from HP-UX and AIX than Linux, of course it is not Linux that is less reliable...

Linux has its places. A mission critical database server is not one of them.

Reliability

On: NYSE Moves to Linux

I work in Healthcare IT, and as much as I like Linux, it is my experience that Linux is not yet reliable for mission critical stuff. It can't compare with HP-UX or AIX. Heck, it is even worst than Windows. I understand the desire of lowering the costs, but how much is an hour of downtime? I guess they will find that out pretty soon.

Re:Lackluster vendor makes incremental, pitiful st

On: Switching Hospital Systems to Linux

I work for a McKesson competitor and I must say I welcome their pushing Linux, since it will mean more disgruntled customers and more sales for us.

The sad truth is that Linux has by far the worst uptime of all platforms we support. Yes, much worse than Windows. It is so bad that we actually discourage customers from running Linux for their database server.

Re:About all these monad/gonad jokes...

On: Windows to Have Better CLI

Monad is also used in category theory
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Robert.Byrne/CTDefns/Monad.h tml

Re:Do you old fortran programmers remember...

On: How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language

int x[5];
x[5]++;

Every compiler will let it go... yup, not just an ugly language, but dangerous as a buzzsaw with no guards or kill switches.

Re:Excellent points

On: How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language

Perhaps we should update the quote. Now it is: "You can program in Perl in any language"

Re:Yes, older languages can be ugly...

On: How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language

C has something like that, that is if you mistype a comma for a dot you get a valid program. e.g.

while (x<5.0) ...

becomes

while (x<5,0) ...

Re:hardly unfortunate

On: How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language

No, it does not.

int main(void){
char x[3][3];
printf("%d\n",sizeof(x)); /* Prints 9 */
foo(x);
return 0;
}

void foo(char **x){
printf("%d\n",sizeof(x)); /* ERROR! */
}

While in Fortran90 it works.

program bar
integer :: x(3,3)
print*,size(x) ! Prints 9
call foo(x)
end

subroutine foo(x)
integer, intent(in) :: x(:,:)
print*, size(x) ! prints 9 again
return
end

Re:Did it.

On: Attack Of The Dreamcasts

And now it is even easier with one of these

Try GVD

On: What Good Linux Debuggers Are There?

GVD is the GNU Visual Debugger, developed by ACT. It is entirily written in Ada using GTK+. It can debug programs generated with any of the GCC compilers in a variety of OSs. Check it out here

Re:This is so broad.........

On: Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee

No, it is not broad. If you read the patent you find

The patent describes a single-pass digital video compression system which implements a two-dimensional cosine transform with intraframe block-to-block comparisons of transform coefficients without need for preliminary statistical matching or preprocessing.

OTOH, the patent mentions the Huffmann encoding, that is a lossless compression, and there are older patents that already refer to this type of compression, look for example at patents 4,293,920 (october 1981) and 4,288,858 (september 1981)