Having no real knowledge of such things it seems odd to me that we'd change from having the traditional two chunks of matter slamming together; to a more complex system with lots of little pieces and precision patterns.
Is there a good reason to do so? I'm assuming there must be and I'm just not capable of thinking of it at the moment..
Huh? I don't know who you're arguing with, but it's not me. The US makes lots of mistakes, but do you really think the world would be a better place today if the US hadn't been around to oppose the Soviets?
I think the USA did the right think in that case. I wasn't really trying to argue with you specifically - your comment was just a good place to place my thoughts.
I see too many people who seem to believe that the US is literally incapable of making mistakes; which astounds me. No country is above errors. I think there's a certain arrogance amongst many US individuals who believe that the world literally revolves around them.
The British don't have much to thank the US for? How about their continued existence? If the US had followed the isolationist path that many seem to prefer then the outcome of WWII would certainly not have been favorable for Britain or the rest of Europe.
I guess that we'll never know. Although I'm sure the UK + allies would have won the war eventually; after the mistakes which the German's had made with Russia.
Aside from being staunch allies in virtually every aspect of world policy, of course.
Including those those events which arose precisly because of the US in the first place? Not to mention events which they've become involved with for entirely political reasons.
I'm not saying the US hasn't done a good job; but I do believe they have made some big mistakes in the not-so-recent past, (not that they're alone in this).
I guess I'd just like people to think a little more about their country, no matter which it is.
No, we haven't been "lucky", the US has been working damned hard to see that they haven't been used, despite the destrutive aspirations of petty dictators and superpowers alike.
Sorry I forgot the USA is the worlds saviour all bow down to the inherantly fair openminded country which never makes mistakes.
'we' don't have the USA to thank for much; certainly not when it has to go clean up situations it created.
Sigh. OK so I'm British, and have my own view of the world - but too many Americans have this misguided view of their country, and the ability to conviently forget history.
Thankfully whilst that is true it doesn't bite too many people. I think that the folk that are using esoteric functions are capable of using a design patterns to work around differences.
A case in point.. for my own amusement I started writing a network server in C. It worked, but was getting hard to extend.
Because I didn't have easy access to anything else, and for the learning experience I chose to re-write this in C++.
Using only minimal STL code I now have the code running on Cygwin, Linux, the BSD's, MacOS X and Solaris.
True they all assume GCC - but it will work on other compilers too; so while I accept that portability can be a problem in using templates, etc, in C++ I'm not sure how much of a problem it really is.. in practice.
The point I was trying to make is that thre is usually some good reviews around for all films which come out.. regardless of their quality.
(The line about the Queen of the Damned was a tounge-in-cheek reference to this; the reviews say it blows, but I liked the books and my sister who has seen it said 'yeah it wasn't great, but there were lots of cute goth girls in it'. Sounds ideal to me;)
Tabbed browsing - it's worth all the hype it receives.
I use Mozilla on Windows and Linux - and I love tabbed browsing, it is the killer feature for me as I don't tend to visit sites with popups.
However I find one thing lacking in Mozilla's tab browsing - it isn't possible to switch tabs via the keyboard. To switch to a new tab you have to use the mouse. I've downloaded the source to see how hard it would be to add this, but I've not got round to unpacking it yet.
It's all very well to open new tabs with the mouse, or Ctrl+T but until I can cycle through them with Ctrl+Tab, or similar, I'm gonna be a little grumpy;)
This company then fixes the problem and offers to fix, for free, any windows that exhibit this problem. But you never registered your windows with the company, so they don't know how to contact you and tell you about the problem.
Maybe things wouldn't be quite so bad if we did recieve updates from Microsoft, directly. I've installed Windows on lots of machines, registered them properly and everything. Never once has anybody from Microsoft phoned, or emailed to let us know about a security problem.
Like most other sysadmins the first notification I get about a problem with a particular program is when I read BugTrack, or NTBugTrack.
Just to keep this on-topic: I'm a sysadmin at a large company. We filter out attatchments as they arrive, via some magic with exim - In the two years that I've been here we've never been hit by a single virus.
Set aside a room where no one else will bother you. *GOOD STATIC CONTROL* is mandatory.
Is that really the case these days?
I ask because I'm a sysadmin in a small development shop - I do all the stuff from looking after networks to fixing PCs.
Very, very, very rarely I'll put together a box from pieces - but quite often I'll have to crack open a case, and swap a hard drive/memory/graphics card, and I've never had a problem with static.
I was under the impression that modern memory etc, was protected against static - I've certainly never had a problem.
I'm amused that people seem to think it's natural for good programmers to stop programming, and become management.
I can't think of any comparable professions where this is so typical; An accountant, for example, is an accountant for life - or however long - she doesn't suddenly start managing other accountants. (OK it does happen, but its not considered normal).
Thats an interesting thing to do for its own sake - but the project I was thinking about was writing a server which would understand the API which Outlook already uses.
If you could write a server which could understand Outlooks calender API's then you'd have effictively replaced Exchange - which would fill large amounts of the world with joy!
frankly that only leaves the calender to be replaced, could a relativly simple daemon do that?
This what I was trying to explain how to do.
Basically exchange calenders are shared so that anybody within your company can see when you're free. They can also make requests that you attend something - when this happens you get an email which you reply by say "Yes", or "No". If you reply yes all the calenders beloning to the invitees are updated to show that you will attend.
As for having it standalone - that would be perfect. However there seems to be no provision within Outlook to configure this; Outlook assumes that its imap/addressbook/calender server are the same machine. If we could make this tweakable it'd be trivial to get something working.
I don't know.. there are always people that are prepared to pay for things which they find useful.
A case in point; I've written a few mods to popular applications, and even a few programs of my own. Recently I started linking to an Amazon wishlist on a few of the project pages.
To my complete amazement within a week some I'd received one hardbacked book, and one DVD!
(Now if only I could find a decent company who did 'wishlists' and had a nice range of stock to choose from - then I wouldn't have to use amazon).
I guess after making the first post with a link to one of my projects it would be bad to link to my wishlist here, wouldn't it..?;)
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Thanks for that .. It makes a lot more sense now; it looks like a classic trade-off.
Having no real knowledge of such things it seems odd to me that we'd change from having the traditional two chunks of matter slamming together; to a more complex system with lots of little pieces and precision patterns.
Is there a good reason to do so? I'm assuming there must be and I'm just not capable of thinking of it at the moment ..
Huzzah - Go Light!
I think the USA did the right think in that case. I wasn't really trying to argue with you specifically - your comment was just a good place to place my thoughts.
I see too many people who seem to believe that the US is literally incapable of making mistakes; which astounds me. No country is above errors. I think there's a certain arrogance amongst many US individuals who believe that the world literally revolves around them.
The British don't have much to thank the US for? How about their continued existence? If the US had followed the isolationist path that many seem to prefer then the outcome of WWII would certainly not have been favorable for Britain or the rest of Europe.I guess that we'll never know. Although I'm sure the UK + allies would have won the war eventually; after the mistakes which the German's had made with Russia.
Aside from being staunch allies in virtually every aspect of world policy, of course.Including those those events which arose precisly because of the US in the first place? Not to mention events which they've become involved with for entirely political reasons.
I'm not saying the US hasn't done a good job; but I do believe they have made some big mistakes in the not-so-recent past, (not that they're alone in this).
I guess I'd just like people to think a little more about their country, no matter which it is.
No, we haven't been "lucky", the US has been working damned hard to see that they haven't been used, despite the destrutive aspirations of petty dictators and superpowers alike.
Sorry I forgot the USA is the worlds saviour all bow down to the inherantly fair openminded country which never makes mistakes.
'we' don't have the USA to thank for much; certainly not when it has to go clean up situations it created.
Sigh. OK so I'm British, and have my own view of the world - but too many Americans have this misguided view of their country, and the ability to conviently forget history.
Google's posting service does this also.
Thankfully whilst that is true it doesn't bite too many people. I think that the folk that are using esoteric functions are capable of using a design patterns to work around differences.
A case in point .. for my own amusement I started writing a network server in C. It worked, but was getting hard to extend.
Because I didn't have easy access to anything else, and for the learning experience I chose to re-write this in C++.
Using only minimal STL code I now have the code running on Cygwin, Linux, the BSD's, MacOS X and Solaris.
True they all assume GCC - but it will work on other compilers too; so while I accept that portability can be a problem in using templates, etc, in C++ I'm not sure how much of a problem it really is .. in practice.
haha
The point I was trying to make is that thre is usually some good reviews around for all films which come out .. regardless of their quality.
(The line about the Queen of the Damned was a tounge-in-cheek reference to this; the reviews say it blows, but I liked the books and my sister who has seen it said 'yeah it wasn't great, but there were lots of cute goth girls in it'. Sounds ideal to me ;)
Strangely I seem to remember lots of positive 'reviews' floating around at the time of The Phantom Menace's release.
I hated the film; so I'm not going to rush to see this one. (I am going to be seeing The Queen of The Damned soon though ;)
Yeah it does seem like a strange shortcut to have chosen.
It doesn't appear to be configurable, unless it's one of those things which can only be set in the preferences file; for which there is no UI.
Thanks for the link
I already knew about the Ctrl+W shortcut, which works nicely in both Mozilla + IE if I have to use that.
(Shift + Left click opens a new window with a link in IE; if that's useful to anybody...)
Wow! I am indeed very happy - and much in your debt.
How did you discover this; it's not listed as a shortcut in the release notes .. nor is it in the preferences anywhere. (Or in the menu).
I use Mozilla on Windows and Linux - and I love tabbed browsing, it is the killer feature for me as I don't tend to visit sites with popups.
However I find one thing lacking in Mozilla's tab browsing - it isn't possible to switch tabs via the keyboard. To switch to a new tab you have to use the mouse. I've downloaded the source to see how hard it would be to add this, but I've not got round to unpacking it yet.
It's all very well to open new tabs with the mouse, or Ctrl+T but until I can cycle through them with Ctrl+Tab, or similar, I'm gonna be a little grumpy ;)
Wow
Robert Llewelyn is not of Scrapheap challenge fame .. although that's a great program .. he's of Red Dwarf fame.
Maybe I'm being picky but I'm sure he's better known for his role as Kryton than any other.
That alone is worth a thousand dollars
Yeah I like them too, which is why I use Mouse Gestures in Mozilla - both at home under Linux, and at work with Windows 2000.
Just time to write 326 words about it.
Maybe things wouldn't be quite so bad if we did recieve updates from Microsoft, directly. I've installed Windows on lots of machines, registered them properly and everything. Never once has anybody from Microsoft phoned, or emailed to let us know about a security problem.
Like most other sysadmins the first notification I get about a problem with a particular program is when I read BugTrack, or NTBugTrack.
Just to keep this on-topic: I'm a sysadmin at a large company. We filter out attatchments as they arrive, via some magic with exim - In the two years that I've been here we've never been hit by a single virus.
These issues ware known at the time when the release date was given, see this post for mentions of some of the suspect packages.
Is that really the case these days?
I ask because I'm a sysadmin in a small development shop - I do all the stuff from looking after networks to fixing PCs.
Very, very, very rarely I'll put together a box from pieces - but quite often I'll have to crack open a case, and swap a hard drive/memory/graphics card, and I've never had a problem with static.
I was under the impression that modern memory etc, was protected against static - I've certainly never had a problem.
I can see it now :
"I've got a betamac""I thought the betamax went out of fashion in the eighties when the other video format took over?"
I'm amused that people seem to think it's natural for good programmers to stop programming, and become management.
I can't think of any comparable professions where this is so typical; An accountant, for example, is an accountant for life - or however long - she doesn't suddenly start managing other accountants. (OK it does happen, but its not considered normal).
Why is this?
Thats an interesting thing to do for its own sake - but the project I was thinking about was writing a server which would understand the API which Outlook already uses.
If you could write a server which could understand Outlooks calender API's then you'd have effictively replaced Exchange - which would fill large amounts of the world with joy!
This what I was trying to explain how to do.
Basically exchange calenders are shared so that anybody within your company can see when you're free. They can also make requests that you attend something - when this happens you get an email which you reply by say "Yes", or "No". If you reply yes all the calenders beloning to the invitees are updated to show that you will attend.
As for having it standalone - that would be perfect. However there seems to be no provision within Outlook to configure this; Outlook assumes that its imap/addressbook/calender server are the same machine. If we could make this tweakable it'd be trivial to get something working.
I don't know .. there are always people that are prepared to pay for things which they find useful.
A case in point; I've written a few mods to popular applications, and even a few programs of my own. Recently I started linking to an Amazon wishlist on a few of the project pages.
To my complete amazement within a week some I'd received one hardbacked book, and one DVD!
(Now if only I could find a decent company who did 'wishlists' and had a nice range of stock to choose from - then I wouldn't have to use amazon).
I guess after making the first post with a link to one of my projects it would be bad to link to my wishlist here, wouldn't it ..? ;)