I use my email like a filing cabinet, but I use a lot more discretion than most folks about which email I keep and which I trash. The email from Bob that says "Where should we all go for lunch today?" or the email from John that says "Check out the hilarious photo!" are definite trashers. There's just no reason to keep them around. But the email from management that says "Here are the specs for project XYZ" gets filed in the appropriate email folder.
I don't understand the need for these gargantuan email boxes. My personal (non-work) IMAP mailbox has mail dating back to July 2002 (all of my email before that is archived and I never look at it), and it's just under 60 megabytes. At that rate, I would reach Yahoo!'s limit by the end of 2008, at which point I would probably just archive my email again. My work email is an entirely separate, company-provided account, but I still only have 186 megabytes of email going back to May 2000. 46.5 megabytes per year.
I think if you're using 1-2 GB for your email, then you should consider some non-email ways of managing your data. There are already many sites on the internet that archive mailing lists, so there's no need to keep around a personal copy of list mail. Purging the Trash and deleting spam messages helps to save space. Instead of emailing large files, consider serving them up on the web, ftp, etc. Even if you do email large files, there's no need to keep them in your mailbox after they are downloaded. Save them to your computer, burn them to a CD if needed, and delete them.
Then again, maybe everyone else on the internet is just way more popular than I am.
I checked out the link to "Kill your TV" in your post. I was interested in Steve Jobs' quote: "You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."
If anyone is interested, the article from which that quote came is available online here.
I would like to remind everyone that any group is welcome to take any quote and use it for their own purposes. I personally don't see his quote, taken in context, as being a dig at Television Watching. But I would like to reflect on Steve's quote as follows.
I think Steve's statement is true for the most part. Most programming on TV is what we'd call mindless entertainment. You watch it, it makes you laugh, or "ooh and aah", or shout "ouch, bet that hurt!". You don't do a whole lot of thinking about it.
I also agree with the statement from Laura Bush: "Children cannot learn to read by watching television. Television is just background noise and a distraction." Absolutely true. Children are not going to learn to read by watching television. And television is certainly a distraction when children are studying at home.
But I say: What is the problem with this? What is wrong with turning your brain off? I have my brain "turned on" for a minimum of eight hours a day at work, often more when I'm working on creative projects at home. I like to turn my brain off at times, and TV is just one of many ways to do that. If you want to keep your brain "turned on" 24/7, feel free... it's not for me, though.
In the same way, I don't see anything wrong with letting kids watch a little TV now and then. Obviously it needs to be carefully monitored; because of television's power to 'suck you in,' so to speak, what starts out as an innocent "I'm just going to watch one program" can turn into a three hour marathon of television watching. But give kids a chance to shut their brains off now and then. Whether it's riding a bike outside or watching TV inside... I think there's some value to it.
And I do agree with TenaciousPimple that you just might be this guy.
Boston, Massachusetts and its environs are filled with incredibly geeky things. Boston is the home of the Free Software Foundation, Ximian, and OSDN. Just across the river, Cambridge is the home of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undeniably a geek Mecca. Next door to MIT is Harvard University (as the MIT t-shirts say, "Harvard: Because not everybody can get in to MIT"). Plus we've got the Big Dig, which despite its infamy for budget overruns, corruption, and defacement of the city landscape, is also home to some incredibly geeky marvels of engineering! And of course, many other geeks of note live and work in and around Boston.
No kidding!! I just measured it on the screen - that thing has a diameter of 6 inches! It would only fit me if I wore it around both wrists. But the screen sure is easy to read!
Naw, really? Apple already tried experimenting with licensing the Mac OS to clone manufacturers (I own the result of one such experiment, the UMAX SuperMac S900), and they experienced both a) and b). Hence Apple decided to axe their license agreements with the clone makers. I'm quite certain Apple won't enter into such an agreement again, and I don't think that's what this clone dude is planning to do.
I forgot to mention one huge thing I do with my PDA:
* Sync to my desktop systems at work and at home: At work, a Windows 98 machine where I sync with Microsoft Outlook. At home, a Mac OS X machine where I sync using iSync and OS X's built-in Address Book and iCal. Especially on OS X, the system-wide address integration is great! The buddies on my iChat buddy list are integrated with the system-wide Address Book, and they're linked with the same names, email addresses, phone numbers, etc, that are stored in my Palm and on Outlook at work!
As for how I came to actually use my PDA for things. The key is to be DELIBERATE. You can't just go and buy a shiny new thing, install some apps, play with it, and keep doing business as usual. I debated with myself for many, many months before making the purchase of my Visor. I went over the same question as everyone else - "Yes, it looks really cool, but what am I going to use it for?" So I talked to people who had PDAs, read up on them online, and researched various uses. Then when I bought mine, I made a conscious effort to maximize the amount of things I could use it for. Hence you get my previously-mentioned list of uses. Figure out what non-digital things in your life that it can replace, and jump right in. Printed MapQuest directions? Gone. Replaced with AvantoGo MapQuest directions, or written directions copied from emails and inserted into NotePad. Phone numbers, appointments, email addresses jotted down on paper? Gone. Do NOT say, "oh, i'll just jot this down on paper, and I'll get it on there later." You *won't*!! Put it on the PDA right away, the first time! No intermediate steps! I don't use a checkbook register anymore - I have the PDA with me at the store, at the ATM, at the gas station. If I absolutely don't have time to enter a transaction, I save the receipts til the end of the day, enter them into the PDA in batch, and then trash the receipts (unless they are for something I'll be reimbursed for, or other big ticket items).
I use my PDA quite frequently. It's a Handspring Visor Edge, running PalmOS 3.5, and I have the SprintPCS Digital Link module connected to the Springboard slot.
Here's what I do with it (and these are things that I do on a regular basis, not just things that I did once or twice and can "say" that I've done).
* Use the address book to store contacts with names, telephone numbers, email addresses, websites, notes, and even IM screen names
* Use the appointment book to keep track of reminders for work, appointments with friends, anniversaries and birthdays, recurring bills to pay, release dates for movies... (December 18...)
* Use the integrated cell phone to make and receive SprintPCS phone calls - uses the built-in address book: I can dial anyone in my Palm phonebook directly, and I can see the name of anyone who is calling. No need to keep separate lists on my Palm and my cell phone: they are one and the same!
* Use the Digital Link's modem to dial in to my employer's Windows RAS server. When I'm on the pager rotation, I get paged for problems that can usually be fixed by restarting some service or another, or by checking various stats. This can all be done quickly and quite easily by connecting through RAS and then using a Palm SSH app to connect to which ever server needs attention.
* Use the Digital Link's modem to connect to the 'net and check my email, verify that my employer's website is working, and send/receive instant messages.
* Use AvantGo to read my favorite news and entertainment publications (CNN, New York Times, Reuters, Sci-Fi Wire News, The Onion, VisorCentral)
* Use the notepad to keep track of ideas, IP addresses, directions to various places...
* Use checkbook balancing app to keep track of all my atm and debit transactions, and the occasional checks
* Play Tetris or Solitaire if I'm waiting at the doctor's office, DMV, whatever
Things I do with it less frequently but that deserve mention:
* Swap out the SprintPCS module for my GPS module to do some Geocaching.:-)
* On our honeymoon, I used the Visor as an alarm clock since our apartment in Spain didn't have one.
* Also on our honeymoon, used the Visor's built-in World Clock to keep track of what time it was back home.
* Use Vindigo to find interesting places to eat or shop (I used it extensively when I was in San Diego last summer at the Open Source Conference, to find places to eat and things to do).
There you have it... this puppy really gets a workout, and has held up admirably. The SprintPCS Digital Link is probably the best add-on I've ever seen, and what's more, Handspring was (and still is) giving them away for free! It doesn't work with Sprint's new PCS Vision, but that's ok with me - the speeds is provides are more than enough for what I need to do with it.
Out of their list, I like New Hampshire the best. Their state motto is "Live Free Or Die" - how's that for the basis of a Free State Movement? I live in Massachusetts, and drive up to New Hampshire quite often. It's a remarkably nice state. Great, well-maintained highways, lots of natural resources and natural beauty, a (small) seacoast, and no sales tax. It's amazing, driving on the road from MA to NH, as soon as you cross over the NH line, the road switches from crap to just about perfect (except around Route 3 where they're doing some massive renovations).
This article, also hosted in the Webmaster area of AOL's site, talks about Netscape/Mozilla/Gecko. Though it does not specifically mention that they are using Netscape in their products, why else would they include this in their webmaster section? The webmaster section is written for people who are designing websites for compatability with AOL's software, and this information is designed to help such people. So, if AOL feels that webmasters need to know about the technology behind Netscape 6 to make their sites compatible with AOL, it stands to reason that some part of Netscape 6 is integrated with AOL's software.
Look in the fourth row of the table, marked "CompuServe Versions Possible" - and in the last column. You can see that in CompuServe 7.0, they are using Netscape 6.x, which is Mozilla, which is Gecko.
Still can't find my agent url, but that table is proof from AOL's mouth that at least one of their products incorporates Gecko.
I can't dig it out of my logfiles right now, but I am pretty sure I have seen some web surfers come to my site using Compuserve's 7.0 browser, and the agent reported includes "Gecko". Compuserve of course is just another flavor of AOL, so one might infer that AOL 7.0 is also using something similar.
If I can find that agent in my logs, I'll let you know.
I was on call at work one week, and I got paged around 11 p.m., and ended up having to come into the office. Needless to say, I was a little bit miffed, as I can usually fix the problem remotely. Anyway, after working on the problem for an hour or so, I walked out of our dark offices to go home. As I walked through another department, I looked down at an HP LaserJet. What did it say on its LCD readout? "PC Load Letter"
I have used fans to help me sleep for quite some time. If I am having trouble sleeping, I hook up just a regular Holmes mini-turbo fan (a free-standing fan, not a computer fan) and turn it on. The noise and regular sound pulse it generates helps me to sleep, especially if there is something noisy in the next apartment or outside.
We name most of our servers after cartoon dogs. There is not usually an association between the dog's personality and the purpose of the server, they are just names...
My guess is that if you think jeans and a tshirt are comfortable you have never had a pair of nice slacks on. I used to wear jeans and such. Then i discovered the art of Nordstroms and nice slacks. Yeah, they may cost $60 a pair. A good pair of slacks is like coding in pajamas.
I've got plenty of pairs of nice slacks. In fact, I really don't mind dressing up that much. I have even tried wearing nice slacks and a nice shirt to work some times. It is simply not comfortable for me to sit around in for 8+ hours a day. The most comfortable outfit I have found is a t-shirt, untucked, jeans, and sneakers.
Luckily, my position doesn't require me to be seen in front of parties outside of the company. If I was, I would certainly dress up a bit more.
Whether jeans or slacks is comfortable to a given person is entirely subjective. I can certainly conceive that for you, slacks might be more comfortable.
I have a Pismo PowerBook with MacOS X 10.1, and I downloaded iTunes 2 immediately after it was released. My hard drive has two partitions, one for MacOS 9.2.1, and one for MacOS X 10.1. I also already had a previously installed copy of iTunes on both drives. I ran the iTunes installer, and everything worked fine. It didn't wipe out any data, and I am quite enjoying the new iTunes 2. I
[quote]so only non-CS folk will persue perl as a primary language.[/quote]
I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, which I received in May after completing four years of computer science coursework in a CS department that was focused on the OO development model. We did most of our advanced development in C++, so I got plenty of exposure to that. I learned it well enough to get satisfactory marks (mind you, I didn't get perfect marks, but I at least showed that I could use what I was learning).
Now? I am working at a large e-commerce company, developing website/database functionality in Perl. Perl is my primary language. In fact, including me, five out of the six developers in my department earned their BSCS at the same college. We all program in Perl. We also write a lot of modules to encapsulate functionality for our site, and write/use them in an OO manner. Some of us are not as crazy about OO as others, but we all use it. We have certainly never 'looked down upon' Perl.
Well, as Linus pointed out in his NPR interview, the GPL is a use of copyright, so Linux is copyrighted, though not in a way that fits with the traditional use of the word. But it uses, as Linus put it, a "judo trick," to turn copyright law against itself.:-)
First, a disclaimer: I don't represent any Linux for PowerPC company or organization, but come as someone who's been using the kernel on PowerPC hardware for several years, and who has been in contact with many people in the PowerPC community.
Some points of clarification:
Originally, the kernel was simply called Linux for the PowerPC, or the Port of Linux for PowerPC. Gary Thomas and Cort Dougan were the two main players in developing the Linux for PowerPC kernel in the early days. Jason Haas had little to do with the actual kernel. The kernel wasn't actually developed in conjunction with any type of distribution.
Later on, Jason Haas and Jeff Carr started up a company called LinuxPPC, Inc. LinuxPPC, Inc. created the LinuxPPC distribution. This distribution used the Linux for PowerPC kernel. The other main distribution custom-designed for PowerPC is YellowDog/Black Lab Linux, by Terrasoft. In other words, there is no LinuxPPC or YellowDog distribution for non-PowerPC architectures. In addition to these, other Linux distributions have ported their packages over to Linux for PowerPC - SuSE and Debian to name a few. So you can get Debian or SuSE for PowerPC, and it will install and work nearly identically to Debian or SuSE for x86 or whatever architecture you care to install it on.
Current distributions supporting the Linux for PowerPC kernel include:
LinuxPPC, Inc.'s LinuxPPC 2000 Q4
Terrasoft Inc.'s Yellowdog Linux 1.2 (2.0 will be available RSN)
Debian's 2.2r3 (PowerPC port)
SuSE Linux 7.1 (PowerPC port)
These all generally use the same Linux for PowerPC kernel base, but some of the distributors make their own patches to the kernel (which are of course made available to anyone).
Much of this information can be obtained from this site.
Slashdot Mirror
I use my email like a filing cabinet, but I use a lot more discretion than most folks about which email I keep and which I trash. The email from Bob that says "Where should we all go for lunch today?" or the email from John that says "Check out the hilarious photo!" are definite trashers. There's just no reason to keep them around. But the email from management that says "Here are the specs for project XYZ" gets filed in the appropriate email folder.
I don't understand the need for these gargantuan email boxes. My personal (non-work) IMAP mailbox has mail dating back to July 2002 (all of my email before that is archived and I never look at it), and it's just under 60 megabytes. At that rate, I would reach Yahoo!'s limit by the end of 2008, at which point I would probably just archive my email again. My work email is an entirely separate, company-provided account, but I still only have 186 megabytes of email going back to May 2000. 46.5 megabytes per year.
I think if you're using 1-2 GB for your email, then you should consider some non-email ways of managing your data. There are already many sites on the internet that archive mailing lists, so there's no need to keep around a personal copy of list mail. Purging the Trash and deleting spam messages helps to save space. Instead of emailing large files, consider serving them up on the web, ftp, etc. Even if you do email large files, there's no need to keep them in your mailbox after they are downloaded. Save them to your computer, burn them to a CD if needed, and delete them.
Then again, maybe everyone else on the internet is just way more popular than I am.
Absolutely correct. I can't believe so many people have been taken in by this!
I checked out the link to "Kill your TV" in your post. I was interested in Steve Jobs' quote: "You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."
If anyone is interested, the article from which that quote came is available online here.
I would like to remind everyone that any group is welcome to take any quote and use it for their own purposes. I personally don't see his quote, taken in context, as being a dig at Television Watching. But I would like to reflect on Steve's quote as follows.
I think Steve's statement is true for the most part. Most programming on TV is what we'd call mindless entertainment. You watch it, it makes you laugh, or "ooh and aah", or shout "ouch, bet that hurt!". You don't do a whole lot of thinking about it.
I also agree with the statement from Laura Bush: "Children cannot learn to read by watching television. Television is just background noise and a distraction." Absolutely true. Children are not going to learn to read by watching television. And television is certainly a distraction when children are studying at home.
But I say: What is the problem with this? What is wrong with turning your brain off? I have my brain "turned on" for a minimum of eight hours a day at work, often more when I'm working on creative projects at home. I like to turn my brain off at times, and TV is just one of many ways to do that. If you want to keep your brain "turned on" 24/7, feel free... it's not for me, though.
In the same way, I don't see anything wrong with letting kids watch a little TV now and then. Obviously it needs to be carefully monitored; because of television's power to 'suck you in,' so to speak, what starts out as an innocent "I'm just going to watch one program" can turn into a three hour marathon of television watching. But give kids a chance to shut their brains off now and then. Whether it's riding a bike outside or watching TV inside... I think there's some value to it.
And I do agree with TenaciousPimple that you just might be this guy.
Boston, Massachusetts and its environs are filled with incredibly geeky things. Boston is the home of the Free Software Foundation, Ximian, and OSDN. Just across the river, Cambridge is the home of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undeniably a geek Mecca. Next door to MIT is Harvard University (as the MIT t-shirts say, "Harvard: Because not everybody can get in to MIT"). Plus we've got the Big Dig, which despite its infamy for budget overruns, corruption, and defacement of the city landscape, is also home to some incredibly geeky marvels of engineering! And of course, many other geeks of note live and work in and around Boston.
No kidding!! I just measured it on the screen - that thing has a diameter of 6 inches! It would only fit me if I wore it around both wrists. But the screen sure is easy to read!
Naw, really? Apple already tried experimenting with licensing the Mac OS to clone manufacturers (I own the result of one such experiment, the UMAX SuperMac S900), and they experienced both a) and b). Hence Apple decided to axe their license agreements with the clone makers. I'm quite certain Apple won't enter into such an agreement again, and I don't think that's what this clone dude is planning to do.
I forgot to mention one huge thing I do with my PDA:
* Sync to my desktop systems at work and at home: At work, a Windows 98 machine where I sync with Microsoft Outlook. At home, a Mac OS X machine where I sync using iSync and OS X's built-in Address Book and iCal. Especially on OS X, the system-wide address integration is great! The buddies on my iChat buddy list are integrated with the system-wide Address Book, and they're linked with the same names, email addresses, phone numbers, etc, that are stored in my Palm and on Outlook at work!
As for how I came to actually use my PDA for things. The key is to be DELIBERATE. You can't just go and buy a shiny new thing, install some apps, play with it, and keep doing business as usual. I debated with myself for many, many months before making the purchase of my Visor. I went over the same question as everyone else - "Yes, it looks really cool, but what am I going to use it for?" So I talked to people who had PDAs, read up on them online, and researched various uses. Then when I bought mine, I made a conscious effort to maximize the amount of things I could use it for. Hence you get my previously-mentioned list of uses. Figure out what non-digital things in your life that it can replace, and jump right in. Printed MapQuest directions? Gone. Replaced with AvantoGo MapQuest directions, or written directions copied from emails and inserted into NotePad. Phone numbers, appointments, email addresses jotted down on paper? Gone. Do NOT say, "oh, i'll just jot this down on paper, and I'll get it on there later." You *won't*!! Put it on the PDA right away, the first time! No intermediate steps! I don't use a checkbook register anymore - I have the PDA with me at the store, at the ATM, at the gas station. If I absolutely don't have time to enter a transaction, I save the receipts til the end of the day, enter them into the PDA in batch, and then trash the receipts (unless they are for something I'll be reimbursed for, or other big ticket items).
I use my PDA quite frequently. It's a Handspring Visor Edge, running PalmOS 3.5, and I have the SprintPCS Digital Link module connected to the Springboard slot.
:-)
Here's what I do with it (and these are things that I do on a regular basis, not just things that I did once or twice and can "say" that I've done).
* Use the address book to store contacts with names, telephone numbers, email addresses, websites, notes, and even IM screen names
* Use the appointment book to keep track of reminders for work, appointments with friends, anniversaries and birthdays, recurring bills to pay, release dates for movies... (December 18...)
* Use the integrated cell phone to make and receive SprintPCS phone calls - uses the built-in address book: I can dial anyone in my Palm phonebook directly, and I can see the name of anyone who is calling. No need to keep separate lists on my Palm and my cell phone: they are one and the same!
* Use the Digital Link's modem to dial in to my employer's Windows RAS server. When I'm on the pager rotation, I get paged for problems that can usually be fixed by restarting some service or another, or by checking various stats. This can all be done quickly and quite easily by connecting through RAS and then using a Palm SSH app to connect to which ever server needs attention.
* Use the Digital Link's modem to connect to the 'net and check my email, verify that my employer's website is working, and send/receive instant messages.
* Use AvantGo to read my favorite news and entertainment publications (CNN, New York Times, Reuters, Sci-Fi Wire News, The Onion, VisorCentral)
* Use the notepad to keep track of ideas, IP addresses, directions to various places...
* Use checkbook balancing app to keep track of all my atm and debit transactions, and the occasional checks
* Play Tetris or Solitaire if I'm waiting at the doctor's office, DMV, whatever
Things I do with it less frequently but that deserve mention:
* Swap out the SprintPCS module for my GPS module to do some Geocaching.
* On our honeymoon, I used the Visor as an alarm clock since our apartment in Spain didn't have one.
* Also on our honeymoon, used the Visor's built-in World Clock to keep track of what time it was back home.
* Use Vindigo to find interesting places to eat or shop (I used it extensively when I was in San Diego last summer at the Open Source Conference, to find places to eat and things to do).
There you have it... this puppy really gets a workout, and has held up admirably. The SprintPCS Digital Link is probably the best add-on I've ever seen, and what's more, Handspring was (and still is) giving them away for free! It doesn't work with Sprint's new PCS Vision, but that's ok with me - the speeds is provides are more than enough for what I need to do with it.
Out of their list, I like New Hampshire the best. Their state motto is "Live Free Or Die" - how's that for the basis of a Free State Movement? I live in Massachusetts, and drive up to New Hampshire quite often. It's a remarkably nice state. Great, well-maintained highways, lots of natural resources and natural beauty, a (small) seacoast, and no sales tax. It's amazing, driving on the road from MA to NH, as soon as you cross over the NH line, the road switches from crap to just about perfect (except around Route 3 where they're doing some massive renovations).
http://webmaster.info.aol.com/index.cfm?article=50 0000000000043&expand=0&sitenum=2&menuid=56
This article, also hosted in the Webmaster area of AOL's site, talks about Netscape/Mozilla/Gecko. Though it does not specifically mention that they are using Netscape in their products, why else would they include this in their webmaster section? The webmaster section is written for people who are designing websites for compatability with AOL's software, and this information is designed to help such people. So, if AOL feels that webmasters need to know about the technology behind Netscape 6 to make their sites compatible with AOL, it stands to reason that some part of Netscape 6 is integrated with AOL's software.
http://webmaster.info.aol.com/index.cfm?article=6& expand=0&sitenum=2
This is in AOL's webmaster info area.
Look in the fourth row of the table, marked "CompuServe Versions Possible" - and in the last column. You can see that in CompuServe 7.0, they are using Netscape 6.x, which is Mozilla, which is Gecko.
Still can't find my agent url, but that table is proof from AOL's mouth that at least one of their products incorporates Gecko.
I can't dig it out of my logfiles right now, but I am pretty sure I have seen some web surfers come to my site using Compuserve's 7.0 browser, and the agent reported includes "Gecko". Compuserve of course is just another flavor of AOL, so one might infer that AOL 7.0 is also using something similar.
If I can find that agent in my logs, I'll let you know.
I was on call at work one week, and I got paged around 11 p.m., and ended up having to come into the office. Needless to say, I was a little bit miffed, as I can usually fix the problem remotely. Anyway, after working on the problem for an hour or so, I walked out of our dark offices to go home. As I walked through another department, I looked down at an HP LaserJet. What did it say on its LCD readout? "PC Load Letter"
:-)
I had a good laugh that night.
I have used fans to help me sleep for quite some time. If I am having trouble sleeping, I hook up just a regular Holmes mini-turbo fan (a free-standing fan, not a computer fan) and turn it on. The noise and regular sound pulse it generates helps me to sleep, especially if there is something noisy in the next apartment or outside.
People, people.... The Mighty Stephen Hawking is way ahead of the pack on this one.
We name most of our servers after cartoon dogs. There is not usually an association between the dog's personality and the purpose of the server, they are just names...
For example:
brain (Inspector Gadget)
slink (Toy Story)
astro (Jetsons)
spike (Peanuts)
scooby (Scooby Doo)
perdita (101 Dalmatians)
odie (Garfield)
We have over 20 servers named after dogs. Most are frontend web servers.
At the college I attended, servers were named after virtues/fruits of the spirit/biblical terms:
faith, peace, hope, charity, grace, wisdom, judah
At one of my former employers, servers were named after stones/minerals:
jasper, amethyst, quartz, ruby
Dude! Stop it with the 3 mouse button bitching already!
My guess is that if you think jeans and a tshirt are comfortable you have never had a pair of nice slacks on. I used to wear jeans and such. Then i discovered the art of Nordstroms and nice slacks. Yeah, they may cost $60 a pair. A good pair of slacks is like coding in pajamas.
I've got plenty of pairs of nice slacks. In fact, I really don't mind dressing up that much. I have even tried wearing nice slacks and a nice shirt to work some times. It is simply not comfortable for me to sit around in for 8+ hours a day. The most comfortable outfit I have found is a t-shirt, untucked, jeans, and sneakers.
Luckily, my position doesn't require me to be seen in front of parties outside of the company. If I was, I would certainly dress up a bit more.
Whether jeans or slacks is comfortable to a given person is entirely subjective. I can certainly conceive that for you, slacks might be more comfortable.
I have a Pismo PowerBook with MacOS X 10.1, and I downloaded iTunes 2 immediately after it was released. My hard drive has two partitions, one for MacOS 9.2.1, and one for MacOS X 10.1. I also already had a previously installed copy of iTunes on both drives. I ran the iTunes installer, and everything worked fine. It didn't wipe out any data, and I am quite enjoying the new iTunes 2. I
Gee, I guess I was just lucky?
[quote]so only non-CS folk will persue perl as a primary language.[/quote]
I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, which I received in May after completing four years of computer science coursework in a CS department that was focused on the OO development model. We did most of our advanced development in C++, so I got plenty of exposure to that. I learned it well enough to get satisfactory marks (mind you, I didn't get perfect marks, but I at least showed that I could use what I was learning).
Now? I am working at a large e-commerce company, developing website/database functionality in Perl. Perl is my primary language. In fact, including me, five out of the six developers in my department earned their BSCS at the same college. We all program in Perl. We also write a lot of modules to encapsulate functionality for our site, and write/use them in an OO manner. Some of us are not as crazy about OO as others, but we all use it. We have certainly never 'looked down upon' Perl.
Well, as Linus pointed out in his NPR interview, the GPL is a use of copyright, so Linux is copyrighted, though not in a way that fits with the traditional use of the word. But it uses, as Linus put it, a "judo trick," to turn copyright law against itself. :-)
First, a disclaimer: I don't represent any Linux for PowerPC company or organization, but come as someone who's been using the kernel on PowerPC hardware for several years, and who has been in contact with many people in the PowerPC community.
Some points of clarification:
Originally, the kernel was simply called Linux for the PowerPC, or the Port of Linux for PowerPC. Gary Thomas and Cort Dougan were the two main players in developing the Linux for PowerPC kernel in the early days. Jason Haas had little to do with the actual kernel. The kernel wasn't actually developed in conjunction with any type of distribution.
Later on, Jason Haas and Jeff Carr started up a company called LinuxPPC, Inc. LinuxPPC, Inc. created the LinuxPPC distribution. This distribution used the Linux for PowerPC kernel. The other main distribution custom-designed for PowerPC is YellowDog/Black Lab Linux, by Terrasoft. In other words, there is no LinuxPPC or YellowDog distribution for non-PowerPC architectures. In addition to these, other Linux distributions have ported their packages over to Linux for PowerPC - SuSE and Debian to name a few. So you can get Debian or SuSE for PowerPC, and it will install and work nearly identically to Debian or SuSE for x86 or whatever architecture you care to install it on.
Current distributions supporting the Linux for PowerPC kernel include:
LinuxPPC, Inc.'s LinuxPPC 2000 Q4
Terrasoft Inc.'s Yellowdog Linux 1.2 (2.0 will be available RSN)
Debian's 2.2r3 (PowerPC port)
SuSE Linux 7.1 (PowerPC port)
These all generally use the same Linux for PowerPC kernel base, but some of the distributors make their own patches to the kernel (which are of course made available to anyone).
Much of this information can be obtained from this site.
Hope this helps...
...can be found here.
Or better yet, he should have just used the Perl Fortune module, available at your local CPAN mirror, or at the author's website:
http://starship.python.net/~gward/perl/