Where does it say that this is faster than Java? -- yes, I have read the site.
One of the best things about Java is its libraries -- any open source alternative (and that would be a Good Thing) will have to replicate them before it can be compared to Java -- no matter how fast it is.
I think that you need to decide how to support a product on both Win32 and Linux before you start to worry about the IDE you'll use.
Which languages are portable between the two (Java, Object Pascal, C++, perl,...) and do they suit your application (you need to tell us that too -- is it a desktop app, web based...)
If you need a UI, how will you do that? (Swing, QT, Tk...)
Then you can look for the best IDE's for Win32 and Linux for the environment you have chosen.
If it turns out to be vi and make for GNU/Linux, that's OK, as long as the combination of language and UI toolkit you've chosen is otherwise portable.
Now I know what you're thinking. No way will you fit a TCP/IP stack into the limited memory on a VIC 20. Correct. To start with we only had 19967 bytes to play with, and some of that would get taken up by the page in memory, so we decided to do away with TCP/IP and cheat.
That's a shame. It would have been quite easy to do TCP/IP in that amount of memory.
Maybe I should fire up my old BBC micro and do it on that...
The city I live in uses gas widely, and you rarely hear of gas explosions -- I can only think of one, caused when a chap tried to steal some piping in a disused building which was still connected to the mains...
Plenty of people do get killed hitting power poles with their cars though.
And the unit isn't a 'tank of natural gas' -- it processes the gas, it doesn't need to store it.
Why have your own FTP server to serve files? There are other places with better bandwidth where you can put them. Even if cable/DSL allowed servers the upstream bandwidth is quite low -- especially compared with the bandwidth between the ISP's servers and the rest of the Internet.
Yes, you'd lose the dynamic content of your web site. I don't think the loss of your 'f*** off' cgi would detract from it.
Telstra's AUP (http://www.telstra.com.au/adsl/docs/policy.pdf) is pretty vague on this point -- it implies that you can attach a LAN if you are paying for extra users (you can have up to 3 total on the flat-rate plans), but it doesn't say in technical terms what rights buying another user gives you...
I have optus@home. It isn't capped in bandwidth, and I run a network.
When you say 'capped' are you thinking of the acceptable use policy which seems in practice to limit you to 3.5GB of traffic per week?
It comes with 50MB of web space where you can put files for people to download. This is limited to 300MB/month data transfer to clients. (actually it's 5 x 10MB web sites with 300MB transfer each, so perhaps you could get away with 1500MB/month)
Telstra and Optus don't ban networks on their cable services. They don't offer technical support, and they only give you one IP (not static), but running a network connected to O@H is fine, and I believe Telstra at worst charges an extra AUD10/month for extra machines -- I don't know if that gets you another IP or not.
Why do you say ADSL won't be good for Unix users? I agree that it probably won't be a 'business grade' service for businesses which have a 'real' internet component.
You can't do that -- CDs only contain audible frequencies 20Hz to 20kHz (well -- audible to young people, your high frequency hearing degrades as you age). If you tried to put an inaudible frequency on a CD, it would be, well, audible.
I don't know the encoding process MP3 uses in detail, but I believe that it throws away inaudible frequencies.
I don't believe that there's any way in principle to copy protect media that's distributed in digital form unless it's decoded and rendered into analog form by tamper-proof proprietary hardware.
Bove is a hypocrite. European Union farmers, particularly the French, are dependent on the Common Agricultural Policy, which guarantees that the state will buy their produce at above world market prices. This is funded by forcing consumers to pay over world prices for their food.
Apart from the forced transfer of wealth from consumers to a small but politically powerful producer lobby, the CAP results in poor quality and overproduction. Worse still, much of the surplus food is dumped on world markets, hurting more efficient but less protected farmers in other countries (e.g. Australia and New Zealand, and probably the US too)
Bove wants more power for the state and less freedom for individuals. He isn't a victim of capitalism, he's a client of statism!
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Where does it say that this is faster than Java? -- yes, I have read the site.
One of the best things about Java is its libraries -- any open source alternative (and that would be a Good Thing) will have to replicate them before it can be compared to Java -- no matter how fast it is.
Tom
I think that you need to decide how to support a product on both Win32 and Linux before you start to worry about the IDE you'll use.
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Which languages are portable between the two (Java, Object Pascal, C++, perl,...) and do they suit your application (you need to tell us that too -- is it a desktop app, web based
If you need a UI, how will you do that? (Swing, QT, Tk...)
Then you can look for the best IDE's for Win32 and Linux for the environment you have chosen.
If it turns out to be vi and make for GNU/Linux, that's OK, as long as the combination of language and UI toolkit you've chosen is otherwise portable.
Tom
Where have you read that the CLR will be available on the Mac, or any other non-windows platform?
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/faq11
Says "The Beta 1 version will run on Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows 95/98/ME, and Windows NT® 4.0."
Tom
All good stuff (except that you are no longer a fan of Java -- why?)
Note that you can already do SOAP/XML-RPC using Java right now, but as you say, it isn't that exciting.
Also, if Java had been completely open from day one I expect Microsoft would have fragmented it by now.
Tom
Doesn't the image used for a HUD have to be effectively at infinity, and so needs to be reflected from the glass you are looking through?
Tom
I'm sure anyone who wants to deliver a NBC payload to the US is much more likely to use a 747 and a suitcase than a missile!
Enjoy spedning the money...
Tom
Except that Diablo doesn't have the Keystone Kops!
Tom
Optus@Home in Australia doesn't restrict the number of NATted machines.
They don't allow servers, although AFAIK they don't block ports, just scan you and kick you off.
Tom
>Did anybody else notice that PostgreSQL actually
>improved performance with more concurrent users ?
>The only explanation here is the caching
>behavior of the data base.
No, the other explanation here is that the test was run on a quad processor machine!
Perhaps PostgreSQL can perform simultaneous queries in different threads?
Tom
Tom
They say:
Now I know what you're thinking. No way will you fit a TCP/IP stack into the limited memory on a VIC 20. Correct. To start with we only had 19967 bytes to play with, and some of that would get taken up by the page in memory, so we decided to do away with TCP/IP and cheat.
That's a shame. It would have been quite easy to do TCP/IP in that amount of memory.
Maybe I should fire up my old BBC micro and do it on that...
Tom
Where does it say .NET will be cross platform.
I'd be very surprised if it is.
Tom
At least, there is nothing in that article to imply that any of the fungus is living in vacuum.
Tom
Why was it illegal to dress as Indians?
The city I live in uses gas widely, and you rarely hear of gas explosions -- I can only think of one, caused when a chap tried to steal some piping in a disused building which was still connected to the mains...
Plenty of people do get killed hitting power poles with their cars though.
And the unit isn't a 'tank of natural gas' -- it processes the gas, it doesn't need to store it.
Tom
The specs on GE's web site say:
7 kW continuous
10 kW for 30 seconds
15 kW for 0.5 seconds
(at 77F and 500 feet)
Tom
I think you were reading a different article.
Tom
Looks like this was on the agenda once: http://www.eetimes.com/news/97/985news/sgi.html
Note that this article appears to be from 1997, even though the stupid web designer puts today's date at the top of the page...
I really hate undated web pages.
Tom
Why have your own FTP server to serve files? There are other places with better bandwidth where you can put them. Even if cable/DSL allowed servers the upstream bandwidth is quite low -- especially compared with the bandwidth between the ISP's servers and the rest of the Internet.
Yes, you'd lose the dynamic content of your web site. I don't think the loss of your 'f*** off' cgi would detract from it.
Tom
Telstra's AUP (http://www.telstra.com.au/adsl/docs/policy.pdf) is pretty vague on this point -- it implies that you can attach a LAN if you are paying for extra users (you can have up to 3 total on the flat-rate plans), but it doesn't say in technical terms what rights buying another user gives you...
Tom
On O@H I use a P100 which boots the floppyfw Linux distribution (www.zelow.no) from a floppy.
That works out cheaper than the cheapest router, especially if you have some old hardware lying around.
You can also load masquerading modules for IRC, games etc -- I don't know if commercial routers cater for them.
Tom
I have optus@home. It isn't capped in bandwidth, and I run a network.
When you say 'capped' are you thinking of the acceptable use policy which seems in practice to limit you to 3.5GB of traffic per week?
It comes with 50MB of web space where you can put files for people to download. This is limited to 300MB/month data transfer to clients. (actually it's 5 x 10MB web sites with 300MB transfer each, so perhaps you could get away with 1500MB/month)
Why do you want to run your own FTP server?
Tom
Telstra and Optus don't ban networks on their cable services. They don't offer technical support, and they only give you one IP (not static), but running a network connected to O@H is fine, and I believe Telstra at worst charges an extra AUD10/month for extra machines -- I don't know if that gets you another IP or not.
Why do you say ADSL won't be good for Unix users? I agree that it probably won't be a 'business grade' service for businesses which have a 'real' internet component.
Tom
Big Pond Cable and various satellite services are an option.
See http://www.whirlpool.net.au
Optus@Home is uncapped, by the way, and delivers up to 300KB/sec when a file is in the local cache.
Tom
You can't do that -- CDs only contain audible frequencies 20Hz to 20kHz (well -- audible to young people, your high frequency hearing degrades as you age). If you tried to put an inaudible frequency on a CD, it would be, well, audible.
I don't know the encoding process MP3 uses in detail, but I believe that it throws away inaudible frequencies.
I don't believe that there's any way in principle to copy protect media that's distributed in digital form unless it's decoded and rendered into analog form by tamper-proof proprietary hardware.
Tom
Bove is a hypocrite. European Union farmers, particularly the French, are dependent on the Common Agricultural Policy, which guarantees that the state will buy their produce at above world market prices. This is funded by forcing consumers to pay over world prices for their food.
Apart from the forced transfer of wealth from consumers to a small but politically powerful producer lobby, the CAP results in poor quality and overproduction. Worse still, much of the surplus food is dumped on world markets, hurting more efficient but less protected farmers in other countries (e.g. Australia and New Zealand, and probably the US too)
Bove wants more power for the state and less freedom for individuals. He isn't a victim of capitalism, he's a client of statism!
Tom