If you are serious about learning Fortran then you should start with Fortran 77, most Fortran code out there will be written in the 77 standard. The newer standards may have better ways of doing things, but they are not used as much in the real world.
In my department both of our Fortran applications are written in Fortran 77. Our weather satellite application as well as our data feed application, are both \written in Fortran 77. These are just two applications, but I think you will find that a significant portion of the code out there that must be maintained, will be written in Fortran 77.
It may seem odd but the best books on Fortran will be the older ones. The book I learned Fortran from was originally published in 1989, the revision I used mentions the later standards but it only discuses how thees standards differ from the 77 standard.
I was wondering if anyone has gotten the OS X running on a regular PC? With the Mac OS running on x86 all you would need is the right drivers and a boot loader, and you could potentially run OS X on any PC that is fast enough.
Apple could be planing it this way, could it mean that they intend to grab market share from M$. Imagine if you could by a Dell that will boot the Mac OS or Windows. Everyone knows that Windows Vista is going to be big and bloated, and it won't be available until the end of the year. Mac OS X68 is available now and could run on the current crop of PCs. Think about it would be dumb for Apple to not make this move, otherwise they have just turned themselves into a PC maker and will have to compete with dell for customers.
Why bother with either? When I was a young one and confided to my 286, my uncle gave me a copy of M$ C for DOS. I was running M$ DOS 5.0, and I had very little programming experience, but I was able to get it working and I was able to teach myself the basics of C. When I started my CS education my professors did their best to pound C++ in to my head, in fact my algorithms an data structures professor had us do our work in plain old none object orientated C. Now that I'm getting further in to my education I can see the the real value in having a good understanding of the two languages.
When you get rite down to it most modern languages have C roots and components. To this day I'm so glad that I started with old fashioned C. So if you want a good language that will be helpful to know, I would stick with what works and what will give you good foundation. Plus what happens when C# and VB become obsolete, face it M$ doesn't have the bast track record when it comes to designing future standards. They will no dough come up with a new pet language in a few years.
Well this type of network might look like a UUCP network, or even a BBS. I have always been interested in how UUPC worked, but I am too young to have had any first hand knowledge. It sounds like a cool type of network, but from what I understand there was all kinds of limitations. Probably the biggest was bandwidth and connectivity followed by security. It might be interesting to try and create a secure UUCP type network that runs over the current Internet.
Slackware was my first distribution, I started using Linux in 1995 with Slackware 2.3. Slackware taught me how a Linux system works. After I got comfortable with Slackware, I tried FreeBSD and was surprised by how much I already knew about the BSD internals. If you know one you will be able to use the other. Slackware is the only distro that I know I can trust to work right. I have tried all the other major distributions and a few of the smaller ones, but none of them come close to doing thing the way that I think things should be done. My only gripe is the lack of binary packages for the current version. There are places to get binaries, but they aren't always up to date and not everything is available. However installing from source isn't that bad, and I get to customize whatever I want installed.
I really like the Debian package system, and the Red Hat/Fedora setup and admin tools. Red Hat, Debian and Novell/Suse have done great work making Linux better as a whole. I,m very grateful for all the things the other distros have done, but Slackware is what I know, and I know I can trust it.
As long as Slackware is actively developed and maintained I'll keep using it. Keep up the good work Pat.
Dose anyone know of any BBS that are still online? Is there an up to date list somewhere? Now that I have Vonage it would be fun to start BBSing again.
I was wondering if this could have anything to do with Iraq? We know Bush is anti-gay and Microsoft is or was pro-gay. So Bush gets Microsoft to drop the pro-gay thing in exchange for some special right to selling software in Iraq as the Iraqi market begins to open up. I would like to know what other People think.
I could be wrong, but I thought that Digital had a 4 core Alpha. It's too bad that digital isn't around anymore, Alpha was a great processor. I was wondering if anyone was talking about an 8 core processor?
I have a question, dose anyone know how Ogg Theora stacks up, I haven't been following the Ogg development to closely lately. Is Ogg Theora fully functional at this time, if so how dose it stack up against other formats as far as quality and file size? I'm a really big Ogg Vorbis fan, and I would love if the masses stated using this wonderfully technology.
I was wondering, if the maker of any device that could be used to infringe copyright is liable for any infringing action that the device is used, could PC and PC software makers be held liable. A keyboard can be used to infringe copyright, so any company that makes keyboards and any company that makes software to use keyboards would automatically become copy right infringers. Microsoft and Dell would become copyright infringers by default. Would the act of typing the names of these companies count as infringement? If the Induce Act is passed, could it be possible to use the act itself to outlaw technology, after all any piece of technology can be used to infringe copyright in some form or another. Would it be possible to go after Microsoft if the file sharing software is running on there operating system? If there is no exception then everyone everywhere could be held liable for copyright infringement.
I was thinking that SCO is trying to clam that the GPL is invalid because the have already violated the GPL by incorporating GPL code in to there proprietary products. If you think about it if the GPL is invalid why would they have to comply with its terms. It sounds to me like they are trying to justify there own code copying. It may turn out that part of the code they claim was copied is actually GPL code that they copied and are now trying to claim ownership of it.
The Linux community needs to start fighting back against this kind of extortion. We can not tolerate this kind of fraud on the part of SCO. I proposethat we start suing Daryl McBride personally. If every Linux user where to pick a SCO executive and sue them personally we could put an end to this hoax right away.
Linux.. hardware compatibility? Are you serious? Linux supports more hardware than any other operating system. I will grant you than most of that is not x86 hardware, but for me none x86 hardware support is very useful.
Microsoft innovation what a joke. Microsoft has never created anything, all they do is copy Apple. Every single M$ product is a cheap ripoff of an Apple product. The XP ui is just a really bad attempt to copy OSX. Just watch Ballmer is going to try and claim that M$ e-Movie is an original invention and not just an attempt to copy i-Movie.
Microsoft doesn't limit themselves to stealing ideas from Apple, no they are an equal opportunity thief. C# is just their attempt to copy Java. DOS was just their version of CP/M. Windows NT was just OS/2, NTFS was their copy of HPFS. Watch they will come up with the idea of a kernel based web server and try to claim it as an original M$ idea or that they invented Ogg Vorbis.
I dare anyone out there to find anything that is an original M$ idea. You can't, because M$ has never invented anything
When you buy Sun hardware you get what you pay for. If you believe Sparc processors are slow then you have fallen for the Mhz myth. Raw Mhz doesn't equal a faster cpu. Any processor that still has the heart of the 8088 and the 286 in it will never be faster that a risc processor. Until Intel and Amd drop x86 backwards compatibility, x86 will never be faster that Sparc, or nay other risc platform.
In a not so distant time no live actors will be needed to make movies. The technology will allow movie makers to go with all cg. The time will come when cg animation will be so good that you won't be able to tell the difference between cg and live actors. Text to speech will become so good that voice acting won't be needed. The writers will be the only people needed. I don?t know if this kind of movie would be any good, but it will happen. You may not even be able to tell the difference.
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If you are serious about learning Fortran then you should start with Fortran 77, most Fortran code out there will be written in the 77 standard. The newer standards may have better ways of doing things, but they are not used as much in the real world. In my department both of our Fortran applications are written in Fortran 77. Our weather satellite application as well as our data feed application, are both \written in Fortran 77. These are just two applications, but I think you will find that a significant portion of the code out there that must be maintained, will be written in Fortran 77. It may seem odd but the best books on Fortran will be the older ones. The book I learned Fortran from was originally published in 1989, the revision I used mentions the later standards but it only discuses how thees standards differ from the 77 standard.
I was wondering if anyone has gotten the OS X running on a regular PC? With the Mac OS running on x86 all you would need is the right drivers and a boot loader, and you could potentially run OS X on any PC that is fast enough.
Apple could be planing it this way, could it mean that they intend to grab market share from M$. Imagine if you could by a Dell that will boot the Mac OS or Windows. Everyone knows that Windows Vista is going to be big and bloated, and it won't be available until the end of the year. Mac OS X68 is available now and could run on the current crop of PCs. Think about it would be dumb for Apple to not make this move, otherwise they have just turned themselves into a PC maker and will have to compete with dell for customers.
I was wondering what do you get when you subtract a p from SCAMP? SCAMP - P = SCAM oh its SCO's business model.
Why bother with either? When I was a young one and confided to my 286, my uncle gave me a copy of M$ C for DOS. I was running M$ DOS 5.0, and I had very little programming experience, but I was able to get it working and I was able to teach myself the basics of C. When I started my CS education my professors did their best to pound C++ in to my head, in fact my algorithms an data structures professor had us do our work in plain old none object orientated C. Now that I'm getting further in to my education I can see the the real value in having a good understanding of the two languages.
When you get rite down to it most modern languages have C roots and components. To this day I'm so glad that I started with old fashioned C. So if you want a good language that will be helpful to know, I would stick with what works and what will give you good foundation. Plus what happens when C# and VB become obsolete, face it M$ doesn't have the bast track record when it comes to designing future standards. They will no dough come up with a new pet language in a few years.
Well this type of network might look like a UUCP network, or even a BBS. I have always been interested in how UUPC worked, but I am too young to have had any first hand knowledge. It sounds like a cool type of network, but from what I understand there was all kinds of limitations. Probably the biggest was bandwidth and connectivity followed by security. It might be interesting to try and create a secure UUCP type network that runs over the current Internet.
Slackware was my first distribution, I started using Linux in 1995 with Slackware 2.3. Slackware taught me how a Linux system works. After I got comfortable with Slackware, I tried FreeBSD and was surprised by how much I already knew about the BSD internals. If you know one you will be able to use the other. Slackware is the only distro that I know I can trust to work right. I have tried all the other major distributions and a few of the smaller ones, but none of them come close to doing thing the way that I think things should be done. My only gripe is the lack of binary packages for the current version. There are places to get binaries, but they aren't always up to date and not everything is available. However installing from source isn't that bad, and I get to customize whatever I want installed.
I really like the Debian package system, and the Red Hat/Fedora setup and admin tools. Red Hat, Debian and Novell/Suse have done great work making Linux better as a whole. I,m very grateful for all the things the other distros have done, but Slackware is what I know, and I know I can trust it.
As long as Slackware is actively developed and maintained I'll keep using it. Keep up the good work Pat.
Dose anyone know of any BBS that are still online? Is there an up to date list somewhere? Now that I have Vonage it would be fun to start BBSing again.
I was wondering if this could have anything to do with Iraq? We know Bush is anti-gay and Microsoft is or was pro-gay. So Bush gets Microsoft to drop the pro-gay thing in exchange for some special right to selling software in Iraq as the Iraqi market begins to open up. I would like to know what other People think.
I could be wrong, but I thought that Digital had a 4 core Alpha. It's too bad that digital isn't around anymore, Alpha was a great processor. I was wondering if anyone was talking about an 8 core processor?
I have a question, dose anyone know how Ogg Theora stacks up, I haven't been following the Ogg development to closely lately. Is Ogg Theora fully functional at this time, if so how dose it stack up against other formats as far as quality and file size? I'm a really big Ogg Vorbis fan, and I would love if the masses stated using this wonderfully technology.
I was wondering, if the maker of any device that could be used to infringe copyright is liable for any infringing action that the device is used, could PC and PC software makers be held liable. A keyboard can be used to infringe copyright, so any company that makes keyboards and any company that makes software to use keyboards would automatically become copy right infringers. Microsoft and Dell would become copyright infringers by default. Would the act of typing the names of these companies count as infringement? If the Induce Act is passed, could it be possible to use the act itself to outlaw technology, after all any piece of technology can be used to infringe copyright in some form or another. Would it be possible to go after Microsoft if the file sharing software is running on there operating system? If there is no exception then everyone everywhere could be held liable for copyright infringement.
Can anyone say George Orwell. You might as well call it "The Big Brother Protocol". Before anyone asks, I do know what day it is.
I was thinking that SCO is trying to clam that the GPL is invalid because the have already violated the GPL by incorporating GPL code in to there proprietary products. If you think about it if the GPL is invalid why would they have to comply with its terms. It sounds to me like they are trying to justify there own code copying. It may turn out that part of the code they claim was copied is actually GPL code that they copied and are now trying to claim ownership of it.
The Linux community needs to start fighting back against this kind of extortion. We can not tolerate this kind of fraud on the part of SCO. I proposethat we start suing Daryl McBride personally. If every Linux user where to pick a SCO executive and sue them personally we could put an end to this hoax right away.
Linux.. hardware compatibility? Are you serious? Linux supports more hardware than any other operating system. I will grant you than most of that is not x86 hardware, but for me none x86 hardware support is very useful.
Microsoft innovation what a joke. Microsoft has never created anything, all
they do is copy Apple. Every single M$ product is a cheap ripoff of an Apple
product. The XP ui is just a really bad attempt to copy OSX. Just watch Ballmer
is going to try and claim that M$ e-Movie is an original invention and not
just an attempt to copy i-Movie.
Microsoft doesn't limit themselves to stealing ideas from Apple, no they are
an equal opportunity thief. C# is just their attempt to copy Java. DOS was just
their version of CP/M. Windows NT was just OS/2, NTFS was their copy of HPFS.
Watch they will come up with the idea of a kernel based web server and try to
claim it as an original M$ idea or that they invented Ogg Vorbis.
I dare anyone out there to find anything that is an original M$ idea. You
can't, because M$ has never invented anything
When you buy Sun hardware you get what you pay for. If you believe Sparc processors are slow then you have fallen for the Mhz myth. Raw Mhz doesn't equal a faster cpu. Any processor that still has the heart of the 8088 and the 286 in it will never be faster that a risc processor. Until Intel and Amd drop x86 backwards compatibility, x86 will never be faster that Sparc, or nay other risc platform.
In a not so distant time no live actors will be needed to make movies. The technology will allow movie makers to go with all cg. The time will come when cg animation will be so good that you won't be able to tell the difference between cg and live actors. Text to speech will become so good that voice acting won't be needed. The writers will be the only people needed. I don?t know if this kind of movie would be any good, but it will happen. You may not even be able to tell the difference.