Hey, while you're at it, don't miss the chance to b*tch about the weeks beginning with the "wrong" day, i.e. Monday. Perhaps a calendar needs to be localized before being sold all over the world? Ah, the wonders of I18N.;^)
Hm, my Netscape dies with a bus error about every tenth time I close a window... Since I tend to use the middle-mouse button for link-clicking a lot (i.e., open link in new window), this really bugs me. I run a plain Navigator (not Communicator), version 4.6. I've only heard about this on Debian systems; the same version of Navigator runs just fine at home on my vintage Slackware system. I use the same window manager (fvwm2) config on both... It's simply weird, I guess.;^)
Um, I realize you were making a joke (and quite a good one too, IMO:), but the part about "user becomes the center of a small network universe" is just about how I imagine Bluetooth will turn out. Soon...
...it's a Windows killer. The usability is much better, and the optimised build much smoother. Um, exactly how often to you tend to (re)build Windows, then? Perhaps you meant "... smoother than on previous versions" on that last part, and I'm just being picky?;^)
Um, I didn't check inside the encoded data, but I did see that the sender was nobody@replay.com, which sounds kind of anonymous to me. If this is "leaked" code, would it be legal to use it in further work? It might not have a license, or it might be something unreleased, and proprietary.
Um, if the AmigaOS was a joy to program (which, I admit, it was), then the hardware was outright hilarious!;^) On no other computer could you do such amazing hacks so easily. To fill the screen with glorious colors in a totally non-destructive way, just do:
flash: move.w $dff006,$dff180
btst #6,$bfe001
bne.s flash
rts
And it stops on a mouse click! (If you listen closely now, you can hear old Amigacoders all over the world thinking something nasty, since the code above is not exactly considered cool). Anyway, I agree that the OS was a beaty, but never forget the hardware!
I'm a cheap bastard, so looking at the price at Amazon really freaked me out. It costs $96.95! I don't even dare think what that would be over here in Sweden (with our nice, modern, education-friendly 25% tax on books). Ouch.
Hm, I think your comment gains a lot in understandability if one replaces "window manager" with "virtual desktop". Works for me, at least.:)
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Absolutely, positively, false. I've installed those drivers on at least three occasions the last four months, and not once did I need to rebuild anything.
Hm, I couldn't find any real content on that site... Sure, there were lots of information about how LI18NUX (darn, that is a b*ch to type) is organized, who its members are, what the role of the steering committe is, and so on. But I really couldn't care less; I want technical information and practical advise about how to go about making my application(s) I18N-aware. I think I've seen some site about that previously, but this new organization seems like the obvious place to collect all that stuff. I would like tutorials, HOW-TOs, and FAQs describing the various APIs that are used for internationalization. Of course, a clearinghouse for translators would be useful as well (hm, I think I've seen that somewhere, too). Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what they come up with.
A few weeks back, Linus Torvalds was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Stockholm (the story was right here). Before the actual decoration took place, Linus held a one-hour Q&A at the University. While I didn't take notes or anything, I was there and listened hard. At the end of the session, the topic had drifted towards games and gaming, and Linus clearly stated the opinion that games help drive technology, since games tend to place very high demands on the machine they're running on. I tend to agree with this position myself, having written a game or two for other platforms (nothing commercial, though) and working full-time with real-time 3D graphics development under Linux. So, if Linus has realized this about games, I don't see him standing in the way of more games on Linux. After all, they will put higher technical demands on the kernel, at what else does a kernel hacker desire?;^)
I just can't help feeling that gender-specific sites are a little bit silly. I'm sure women are at least as welcome as men (plus transsexuals and gender-less aliens, for that matter) on any of the "regular" gaming sites. I don't see www.malegamers.com or www.gameguys.com anywhere...
No, aargh! That is the Macintosh mindset! I want to be able to expect that pressing Enter actually does what I just asked to do, not the least "harmful" action as decided by someone else. BTW, my idea as to why OK/Cancel are placed as they are (i.e., OK to the left, Cancel to the right) is because in Western languages, we read in that direction, and OK is the choice we're typically looking for.
You spit on the kernel? Icky. Your comment comes pretty close to being the optimal in flame-bait. Moderators, do your thing.;^). Meanwhile, us other geeks can just go on using kernel modules to load drivers. Have a nice life.
Um, so most twenty-something women know how to set up a mail filter? Wow. I think there are plenty of twenty-something men who don't even know that the software they use to read email is called a "mail reader". I'm stunned (and somewhat skeptical).
I went through it quickly, until I hit the part (on the second page, I think) where they prettify some Win32 code from a book. I was delighted by their choice of brace style, and joyed by their slamming of the (IMO) awful Hungarian style, but then it hit me: they use parenthesis on their return statements! I never did understand why some people think return should have function calling-like syntax. Er, not until I looked it up in the C FAQ, question 20.19, that is. Hint: historical reasons. But anyway, yuck!:)
OnOntopic: It did seem like a very good read, with lots of interesting ideas. It's nice to see ESR doesn't have a monopoly on this kind of material.
Perhaps, judging by the recent rumours of Apple G4s having a rather interesting odour, all that needs to be done is to get a bunch, place them in line along the border, power 'em up, and hope for good wind!;^)
Um, I would hesitate to call Mac OS X Server (one must never lose the space between "Mac" and "OS"/nitpicker) "pretty solid". A recent review in a local magazine compared six Un*x platforms as servers, and Mac OS X finished last. It turns out that as shipped, Mac OS X can't even do filesharing with non-Macintosh machines. Sheesh. Linux, on the other hand, finished third, while costing about one tenth of the silver and gold medalists (which, btw, were SCO's Unixware 7.1 and Compaq's Tru64, respectively). On the gripping hand, one of the basis for this comparison was how the different servers performed running the Seti@Home client. Sheesh again.:) Still, I find it pretty arrogant to sell servers today that only work against Macs...
Um, I don't want to be the one complaining about new cool (hot?) processors, but to start hyping something we'll see in two years sounds a little bit extreme. I mean, that's almost the way Wintel do business, right?
I'd rather say that the entire approach of assuming something (e.g., irrationality) about someone based on one known fact (e.g., him/her being religious) is at fault. Still, it's damn easy to do, and even feels kind of comfortable (at least to me). It's a bug in the brain, I guess.;^)
Your last name is Nasal? Wow! I don't mean any offense here, but you could probably make the folks over in comp.lang.c (Deja link) laugh themselves silly pretty easily. Just write a program doing something unspecified (letting main() return void is a classic), and see what happens. Oh, the joy of stupid word plays.
Of course, the news posting would have been a bit more informative if this link had been included. It's the specs for the Thinkpad 600E, on IBM US's pages. Prices seem to range from $2,709.95 (P-II 300 MHz, 32 MB SDRAM, 4 GB disk, 24X CD, 13.3" TFT, 4.9 lbs) all the way up to $4,011.61 (P-II 400 MHz, 64 MB SDRAM, 10 GB disk, DVD, 13.3" TFT, 5 lbs). I dig those 61 cents.
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Hey, while you're at it, don't miss the chance to b*tch about the weeks beginning with the "wrong" day, i.e. Monday. Perhaps a calendar needs to be localized before being sold all over the world? Ah, the wonders of I18N. ;^)
Hm, my Netscape dies with a bus error about every tenth time I close a window... Since I tend to use the middle-mouse button for link-clicking a lot (i.e., open link in new window), this really bugs me. I run a plain Navigator (not Communicator), version 4.6. I've only heard about this on Debian systems; the same version of Navigator runs just fine at home on my vintage Slackware system. I use the same window manager (fvwm2) config on both... It's simply weird, I guess. ;^)
Um, I realize you were making a joke (and quite a good one too, IMO :), but the part about "user becomes the center of a small network universe" is just about how I imagine Bluetooth will turn out. Soon...
Um, exactly how often to you tend to (re)build Windows, then? Perhaps you meant "... smoother than on previous versions" on that last part, and I'm just being picky?
Um, I didn't check inside the encoded data, but I did see that the sender was nobody@replay.com, which sounds kind of anonymous to me. If this is "leaked" code, would it be legal to use it in further work? It might not have a license, or it might be something unreleased, and proprietary.
Um, if the AmigaOS was a joy to program (which, I admit, it was), then the hardware was outright hilarious! ;^) On no other computer could you do such amazing hacks so easily. To fill the screen with glorious colors in a totally non-destructive way, just do:
flash: move.w $dff006,$dff180
btst #6,$bfe001
bne.s flash
rts
And it stops on a mouse click! (If you listen closely now, you can hear old Amigacoders all over the world thinking something nasty, since the code above is not exactly considered cool). Anyway, I agree that the OS was a beaty, but never forget the hardware!
I'm a cheap bastard, so looking at the price at Amazon really freaked me out. It costs $96.95! I don't even dare think what that would be over here in Sweden (with our nice, modern, education-friendly 25% tax on books). Ouch.
Hm, I think your comment gains a lot in understandability if one replaces "window manager" with "virtual desktop". Works for me, at least. :)
Absolutely, positively, false. I've installed those drivers on at least three occasions the last four months, and not once did I need to rebuild anything.
I think you should read Hemos' home page. That might clue you in. ;^)
In case you wondered what this beast looks like, here's the link (to Qualcomm's site). IMO, it looks pretty decent.
Hm, I couldn't find any real content on that site... Sure, there were lots of information about how LI18NUX (darn, that is a b*ch to type) is organized, who its members are, what the role of the steering committe is, and so on. But I really couldn't care less; I want technical information and practical advise about how to go about making my application(s) I18N-aware. I think I've seen some site about that previously, but this new organization seems like the obvious place to collect all that stuff. I would like tutorials, HOW-TOs, and FAQs describing the various APIs that are used for internationalization. Of course, a clearinghouse for translators would be useful as well (hm, I think I've seen that somewhere, too). Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what they come up with.
A few weeks back, Linus Torvalds was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Stockholm (the story was right here). Before the actual decoration took place, Linus held a one-hour Q&A at the University. While I didn't take notes or anything, I was there and listened hard. At the end of the session, the topic had drifted towards games and gaming, and Linus clearly stated the opinion that games help drive technology, since games tend to place very high demands on the machine they're running on. I tend to agree with this position myself, having written a game or two for other platforms (nothing commercial, though) and working full-time with real-time 3D graphics development under Linux. So, if Linus has realized this about games, I don't see him standing in the way of more games on Linux. After all, they will put higher technical demands on the kernel, at what else does a kernel hacker desire? ;^)
I just can't help feeling that gender-specific sites are a little bit silly. I'm sure women are at least as welcome as men (plus transsexuals and gender-less aliens, for that matter) on any of the "regular" gaming sites. I don't see www.malegamers.com or www.gameguys.com anywhere...
No, aargh! That is the Macintosh mindset! I want to be able to expect that pressing Enter actually does what I just asked to do, not the least "harmful" action as decided by someone else. BTW, my idea as to why OK/Cancel are placed as they are (i.e., OK to the left, Cancel to the right) is because in Western languages, we read in that direction, and OK is the choice we're typically looking for.
You spit on the kernel? Icky. Your comment comes pretty close to being the optimal in flame-bait. Moderators, do your thing. ;^). Meanwhile, us other geeks can just go on using kernel modules to load drivers. Have a nice life.
Um, don't click that link. It leads to an evil page featuring infinite pop-up windows. Extremely annoying.
Um, so most twenty-something women know how to set up a mail filter? Wow. I think there are plenty of twenty-something men who don't even know that the software they use to read email is called a "mail reader". I'm stunned (and somewhat skeptical).
I went through it quickly, until I hit the part (on the second page, I think) where they prettify some Win32 code from a book. I was delighted by their choice of brace style, and joyed by their slamming of the (IMO) awful Hungarian style, but then it hit me: they use parenthesis on their return statements! I never did understand why some people think return should have function calling-like syntax. Er, not until I looked it up in the C FAQ, question 20.19, that is. Hint: historical reasons. But anyway, yuck! :)
OnOntopic: It did seem like a very good read, with lots of interesting ideas. It's nice to see ESR doesn't have a monopoly on this kind of material.
Perhaps, judging by the recent rumours of Apple G4s having a rather interesting odour, all that needs to be done is to get a bunch, place them in line along the border, power 'em up, and hope for good wind! ;^)
Um, I would hesitate to call Mac OS X Server (one must never lose the space between "Mac" and "OS" /nitpicker) "pretty solid". A recent review in a local magazine compared six Un*x platforms as servers, and Mac OS X finished last. It turns out that as shipped, Mac OS X can't even do filesharing with non-Macintosh machines. Sheesh. Linux, on the other hand, finished third, while costing about one tenth of the silver and gold medalists (which, btw, were SCO's Unixware 7.1 and Compaq's Tru64, respectively). On the gripping hand, one of the basis for this comparison was how the different servers performed running the Seti@Home client. Sheesh again. :) Still, I find it pretty arrogant to sell servers today that only work against Macs...
Um, I don't want to be the one complaining about new cool (hot?) processors, but to start hyping something we'll see in two years sounds a little bit extreme. I mean, that's almost the way Wintel do business, right?
I'd rather say that the entire approach of assuming something (e.g., irrationality) about someone based on one known fact (e.g., him/her being religious) is at fault. Still, it's damn easy to do, and even feels kind of comfortable (at least to me). It's a bug in the brain, I guess. ;^)
Your last name is Nasal? Wow! I don't mean any offense here, but you could probably make the folks over in comp.lang.c (Deja link) laugh themselves silly pretty easily. Just write a program doing something unspecified (letting main() return void is a classic), and see what happens. Oh, the joy of stupid word plays.
Of course, the news posting would have been a bit more informative if this link had been included. It's the specs for the Thinkpad 600E, on IBM US's pages. Prices seem to range from $2,709.95 (P-II 300 MHz, 32 MB SDRAM, 4 GB disk, 24X CD, 13.3" TFT, 4.9 lbs) all the way up to $4,011.61 (P-II 400 MHz, 64 MB SDRAM, 10 GB disk, DVD, 13.3" TFT, 5 lbs). I dig those 61 cents.