As a web developer I use MSIE on X11 regularly, via the joy of Crossover Office, which is great for testing sites I'm working on under IE without having to reboot.
Nope, freedesktop.org hosts both XOrg (the pre-license change fork of XFree, using the old X license), and xserver (the new, LGPLed X server being developed with new features, from scratch)
So... we have: Mono (ok, you can have that one) Evolution (not a primate last time I checked) Red Carpet (nope... most definately not a form of monkey) Ximian Desktop (maybe, loosely, related to primates)
Mono is also write once, run anywhere - the.NET platform is designed to be cross platform (even if Microsoft were hesitant to make use of that).
I have written programs in C# on my desktop, compiled them with mcs (the c# compiler with mono), and then e-mailed it to a friend running Microsoft's.NET runtime on Windows, and it ran without any problems (obviously you have to make sure you don't use the Mono APIs if you're doing this).
To push it to further extremes, that person could then upload the same compiled file to their PDA, and *still* be able to run it, so long as they have the runtime installed.
No, in the UK taxes etc. are *usually* include in the advertised price - most of the online computer part shops I know of advertise the prices as without tax. (Although they do make it fairly clear that's what they're doing.)
Similarly, at one point, my hosting company (not my ISP) was filtering my email for spam. I promptly told them that wasn't what I wanted:
Did you get anywhere? That happened to us at my old job, and the company just stubbonly said "we've had no complaints about it"... I tried pointing out that the person on the phone was complaining, since we'd lost e-mail from funders, but it didn't seem to work.
This is going to be completely useless (I can't claim to have much experience with LDAP, having given up setting it up every now and then), but I did see a program that does just that - provide a pretty frontend for OpenLDAP directories, and I know Red Hat/FC1 have the option of selecting LDAP as an authentication method during setup.
I did that through the late years of school, and it looks good on a resume as well - off the back of that I got a job working at a local primary school doing tech support while I was in college, and then moved on to full blown sysadmin.
Of course I'm now unemployed again, because I got laid off... but don't let that stop you.
Shit... I watched that film in science at school... everyone spent the week beforehand getting all excited, because another class had seen it, and told us about how crazy it was.
For the second half, we had no teacher, because she'd gone to do anything but watch it... I don't think anybody ate that lunch time.
It's some scary, scary shit, but if you can handle that, well worth watching.
There was also one recently by the BBC about smallpox, which was disturbing, but not in quite such an extreme way.
Halo has a story along the same lines as a good B movie - as an example, I just watched some of an Alien film... there wasn't actually much story ("The miltary are researching Aliens they know are dangerous for... no particular reason"), but it was scary as hell, because of the shell of a story there, setting things up so you know *something* is just around the corner.
Halo is the same (although I havn't finished it yet, I just got the PC version). It has some of the tensest gameplay I've seen since Half Life (which also had a B movie plot) - I just played the bit where you work into an alien base, and meet... nothing. Absolutely nothing but a few low level aliens at the begining, for 10-15 minutes.
It's terrifying, because you *know* something big is about to go off... you can just tell. And then you find some privates recording of what killed him, and the whole time your watching it, you're just sat there thinking "shit.", because you know you're about to have to fight it.
It's genious - a perfectly crafted piece of storyline, using the same plot device as some of the worst games ever, it's how it's pulled off that does the job.
I just wanted throw my 2 cents in for GTK# being the toolkit to use - I've used to develop a couple of apps now, and it's some very tasty stuff, especially when used in conjunction with Glade.
Fortunately I've vetoed any browser-detection code
Good call:P
I regularly threaten my designers (ok... the designers, but I think of them as mine, since they all rely on my code:P) for suggesting browser detection as the solution to *anything*.
i would suggest optical, but every damn optical mouse seems to glow like las vegas.
I have one of the Logitech wireless opticals, and it's surprisingly tasteful... there is a slight glow, but it's faint enough that you can barely see it even with all the lights off in the room.
I did see a particularly tacky mouse by one of the cut-price peripheral makers recently though... it had a red glowing scroll wheel.
And it's oh so fun as well... I did that on the last site I worked on, and got sick of tweaking designs instead of writing code.
This time round the coding standards include designing for Mozilla, and then adding any hacks needed to get things right in IE once we're done doing that.
My first MP3 came with a couple of gig of other ones, when I leeched someone's music collection at a LAN party... and I've never looked back - I believe I still have the original ones I leeched as well.
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In almost all cases PHP4 code will run fine under PHP5.
The only situations where you're likely to hit problems are in reassigning $this in OO code, for example if you had constructors which would go
$this = new My_Error_Class();
Which is no longer supported.
And a company which claims to own the internet is on a shared server?
As a web developer I use MSIE on X11 regularly, via the joy of Crossover Office, which is great for testing sites I'm working on under IE without having to reboot.
Nope, freedesktop.org hosts both XOrg (the pre-license change fork of XFree, using the old X license), and xserver (the new, LGPLed X server being developed with new features, from scratch)
It wouldn't matter anyway :P
I could never get ATI's binary drivers to work with the FC2 test, and switched back to FC1
Ummm... something to support that statement?
So... we have:
Mono (ok, you can have that one)
Evolution (not a primate last time I checked)
Red Carpet (nope... most definately not a form of monkey)
Ximian Desktop (maybe, loosely, related to primates)
So, it appears that you lose, thanks for playing.
Of course he's not suggesting that an OS should be written with the Mono platform - all thats being said that *for applications* C is dead.
Mono is also write once, run anywhere - the .NET platform is designed to be cross platform (even if Microsoft were hesitant to make use of that).
.NET runtime on Windows, and it ran without any problems (obviously you have to make sure you don't use the Mono APIs if you're doing this).
I have written programs in C# on my desktop, compiled them with mcs (the c# compiler with mono), and then e-mailed it to a friend running Microsoft's
To push it to further extremes, that person could then upload the same compiled file to their PDA, and *still* be able to run it, so long as they have the runtime installed.
How much more cross platform do you want?
Thankyou!
:P
I now have something to do with my afternoon, as I attempt to persuade the language to do something useful
No, in the UK taxes etc. are *usually* include in the advertised price - most of the online computer part shops I know of advertise the prices as without tax. (Although they do make it fairly clear that's what they're doing.)
Did you get anywhere? That happened to us at my old job, and the company just stubbonly said "we've had no complaints about it"... I tried pointing out that the person on the phone was complaining, since we'd lost e-mail from funders, but it didn't seem to work.
This is going to be completely useless (I can't claim to have much experience with LDAP, having given up setting it up every now and then), but I did see a program that does just that - provide a pretty frontend for OpenLDAP directories, and I know Red Hat/FC1 have the option of selecting LDAP as an authentication method during setup.
I did that through the late years of school, and it looks good on a resume as well - off the back of that I got a job working at a local primary school doing tech support while I was in college, and then moved on to full blown sysadmin.
Of course I'm now unemployed again, because I got laid off... but don't let that stop you.
[Shudders]
Shit... I watched that film in science at school... everyone spent the week beforehand getting all excited, because another class had seen it, and told us about how crazy it was.
For the second half, we had no teacher, because she'd gone to do anything but watch it... I don't think anybody ate that lunch time.
It's some scary, scary shit, but if you can handle that, well worth watching.
There was also one recently by the BBC about smallpox, which was disturbing, but not in quite such an extreme way.
Halo has a story along the same lines as a good B movie - as an example, I just watched some of an Alien film... there wasn't actually much story ("The miltary are researching Aliens they know are dangerous for... no particular reason"), but it was scary as hell, because of the shell of a story there, setting things up so you know *something* is just around the corner.
Halo is the same (although I havn't finished it yet, I just got the PC version). It has some of the tensest gameplay I've seen since Half Life (which also had a B movie plot) - I just played the bit where you work into an alien base, and meet... nothing. Absolutely nothing but a few low level aliens at the begining, for 10-15 minutes.
It's terrifying, because you *know* something big is about to go off... you can just tell. And then you find some privates recording of what killed him, and the whole time your watching it, you're just sat there thinking "shit.", because you know you're about to have to fight it.
It's genious - a perfectly crafted piece of storyline, using the same plot device as some of the worst games ever, it's how it's pulled off that does the job.
I just wanted throw my 2 cents in for GTK# being the toolkit to use - I've used to develop a couple of apps now, and it's some very tasty stuff, especially when used in conjunction with Glade.
Good call
I regularly threaten my designers (ok... the designers, but I think of them as mine, since they all rely on my code
I have one of the Logitech wireless opticals, and it's surprisingly tasteful... there is a slight glow, but it's faint enough that you can barely see it even with all the lights off in the room.
I did see a particularly tacky mouse by one of the cut-price peripheral makers recently though... it had a red glowing scroll wheel.
And it's oh so fun as well... I did that on the last site I worked on, and got sick of tweaking designs instead of writing code.
This time round the coding standards include designing for Mozilla, and then adding any hacks needed to get things right in IE once we're done doing that.
.NET is no longer Windows only - I'm currently in two IRC channels talking with Mono developers, most of whom are on Linux.
I have done, and play several games under Linux, but when it comes to supporting games, I need a Windows install around.
A Radeon 9200 doesn't do what I want though... my 9600pro on the other hand *does* support dual-head, and run recent games nicely under Windows.
He can touch type.
/. to be able to tell how many times he has to hit tab before it gets to the reply button.
And spends enough time on
No Linux screenshots.
Apart of course from the GTK based frontend.
My first MP3 came with a couple of gig of other ones, when I leeched someone's music collection at a LAN party... and I've never looked back - I believe I still have the original ones I leeched as well.