Actaully learning the proper way to program is far more difficult to get from a book. This is one of the major things I learned while getting my degree. This is also the major reason that I rarely hire someone without a degree.
Anyone can write code, but not everyone can program.
That applies to everybody, including the ones with a degree.
To say that knowledge of assembly language is a requirement of programmer excellence is a ludicrous generalization.
I know! I was shocked when I read that, too! I know some assembly programming myself, but I'm a firm believer that my programming skills are based on the way my logic works in order to attack problems, rather than the programming languages I use.
It's easy to find mediocre programmers no matter what language they use... even if it is assembly!
Hey, editor: an assembly programmer can misuse registers, stacks and loops, too.
Phew!! And that's a short list!! There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of open source, free-for-all applications.... so many it's almost absurd not to use them!! Go ahead and get them!
If I had some money to spare, I'd buy a 64-bit system, no matter what benchamrks say.
I missed the time when the switch from 16-bit to 32-bit was made. Did this kind of talk take place back then? I mean, the kind of "it's not a mature technology yet", "linux kernel runs better in 16 bits" , and so on...
However, I spent quite some time tweaking my KDE 3.1 settings, and right now it works flawlessly (at least, for my needs)... apparently, there's no need to upgrade.
So, I don't know if I should compile/install KDE 3.2 myself, or wait until my distribution includes it in its next release (I'm using Slackware).
What do you guys think?
Any bug reports so far? (I know it's just released, but that's the wonder of Open Source.... many eyes!!!).
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From the article: "Linus Torvalds: The man who started it all".
There goes another reading that takes 1 year of life from Richard Stallman!! X-D
Chicken and egg situation. The *only* reason many games are not released for Linux, is because that market is so much smaller.
Man, I wish I had indsutrial quantities of money!
I would take several million bucks to pay game developers so they make 40 or so console-quality games for Linux, and release them in the GPL!!
Of course.... that would work perfectly on fantasy world. In the real world, maybe the top gaming vendors would have me asassined as soon as they learn about my plan!
So, nah... I'd better forget it. Now, let's get back again to my tiny little life and fire Mozilla to check is SCO is still down.
I'm a big fan of KDE, and a few years ago I found Gnome a little bit cumbersome to use on a daily basis (this is not troll... those days I didn't find KDE too special either).
However... recently, I've tried it once or twice, and man, how it has improved!
I always liked Gnome because of its GTK+ (C coding is great!).
I'm even considering switching to it, thanks to Dropline Gnome, a version especially crafted for Slackware. I'd like some opinions from its users (Dropline Gnome).... anyone around?
I want to build a webpage that lists all sites that uses the URL spoofing thing (in funny way, in a wicked way, etc), just like the one Duckman5 posted here.
So if you know of any, please mail it to me to:
aristidesp hat intercable hdot net hdot ve
Replace hat with @, and hdot with ".". Leave your name and say if you want me to tell you on when it's online.
Back when I used Windos 95 and 98, I used "Ctrl" "Alt" and "Del" so often that my fingers rubbed them off.
Thanks, Bradley, for your contribution to ruining my keyboard!
Using a different OS nowadays, strangely enough the affected keys are now "W", "S", "L", "A", "H", "D", "O", "T", "R" and "G". The "." is already gone!!
Thanks, UPTSO, McBride, RFID tags, Eugenia, Mars, Goatse and RIAA!
We believe we're living in a modern open World where only sharing the cutting-edge technologies we develop may make our lives better. This is the reason why we chose the Open Source model, the GNU General Public License in peculiar.
Cacko Linux is our new ARM Linux distribution. Aimed at PDA, Cacko Linux uses X11 instead of Qtopia, hence greater versatility, improved portability and better performance which make your PDA a subnotebook in terms of functionalities.
This distribution integrates its own development kit so that it becomes virtually possible to recompile any graphical program to extend your PDAs possibilities to your own needs.
Cacko Linux has been tested on Sharp Zaurus SL-C700/750/760/860 but is currently being ported to other architectures.
I'm looking forward to when this kind of technology becomes more mainstream (and cheap).
You will be able to "phone" your nearby friends (usually most of them) by using regular p2p netphone software and a Wi-Fi connection... why limiting to audio? Videomeeting software! Free-of-charge digital communications possible?
Goodbye to those ZIP and CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, now you can upload your work from your home pc directly to your office desktop (maybe companies will have to implement stronger security measures).
On the downside, I can see a new generation of viruses, trojans and worms "in the air".
I remember being completely skeptical of that new "point and click with a mouse" thing, in the macintosh. It looked like a cool idea, but in my keyboard-oriented mind, I just couldn't imagine how, lord, HOW you could tell the computer what to do by entirely relying on clicks on graphics. Steve Jobs was a great envisioner (or xerox copycat, depending of your point of view).
Now the wide variety of commercial applications for Linux et al can play nice with KDE!.
That remains true. Commercial applications written in other developement platforms will work inside KDE (they will behave differently, though).
Oh, wait... doesn't KDE require a license for commercial applications... oh, never mind...they can't play nice together.
Well, now that integration is possible, instead of coding in QT you can write Gnome/GTK commercial applications and run them inside KDE, with the looks and behavior of KDE. As far as I can tell, you are not violating any license by doing this.
I really like that idea. I'm a C coder rather than a C++ coder, so coding in GTK feels more natural to me. But... I prefer KDE over Gnome for my desktop (*), and I'd like the programs I create to have the behavior of KDE. So I was in a point of desperation trying to decide whether to use C-based GTK or C++ KDE/Qt.
Now, I can happily code in C/GTK, knowing that my apps will look great in both Gnome and KDE!
(*) No trolling or flamebait intended. If you prefer Gnome and say KDE sucks, that's fine by me, it's a free world.
From Infoworld: But the company did allow that "processes that rely on the semantics of the.com/.net serial number" could be affected.
For example, companies that have created scripts to monitor domain change on.com and.net will almost certainly need to make changes to account for the serial number change..."The damage won't be catastrophic, but some DNS servers could stop receiving updates,"
And they are planning to do this next Feb 9? Isn't that like too little time for organizations to update their systems?
I don't trust Verisign... the fact that they control such an important database accesed by millions of people around the world really frightens me. They screwed it once, they can do it again.
They should have that power removed from them. It should be on another organization (i.e. a non-profit one) that better serves internet community.
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Actaully learning the proper way to program is far more difficult to get from a book. This is one of the major things I learned while getting my degree. This is also the major reason that I rarely hire someone without a degree.
Anyone can write code, but not everyone can program.
That applies to everybody, including the ones with a degree.
See the talent, not the degree.
Suing over spam has happened before. See here and here.
I hope this becomes a trend, so spammers become discouraged, and find other means of living, like drycleaning or cemetery watchmen.
Well, lady, just typing "the perfect present for a geek" in google gave me some interesting links...
This one might help you.
Buy him/her some SCO stocks... not for the profit, but for the historical value.
Alternatives to PalmOS, anyone?
Has anyone tried LinuxDA? It sounds like an interesting alternative, even being a commercial product.
To say that knowledge of assembly language is a requirement of programmer excellence is a ludicrous generalization.
I know! I was shocked when I read that, too! I know some assembly programming myself, but I'm a firm believer that my programming skills are based on the way my logic works in order to attack problems, rather than the programming languages I use.
It's easy to find mediocre programmers no matter what language they use... even if it is assembly!
Hey, editor: an assembly programmer can misuse registers, stacks and loops, too.
The Lizard.
MySQL.
GNU Project.
Slackware Linux.
Mepis Linux.
K Desktop Environment.
Gnome.
Perl.
Apache WebServer.
Roxen WebServer (very intuitive, and GPL!).
Phew!! And that's a short list!! There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of open source, free-for-all applications.... so many it's almost absurd not to use them!! Go ahead and get them!
If I had some money to spare, I'd buy a 64-bit system, no matter what benchamrks say.
I missed the time when the switch from 16-bit to 32-bit was made. Did this kind of talk take place back then? I mean, the kind of "it's not a mature technology yet", "linux kernel runs better in 16 bits" , and so on...
I want KDE 3.2 in my system!
However, I spent quite some time tweaking my KDE 3.1 settings, and right now it works flawlessly (at least, for my needs)... apparently, there's no need to upgrade.
So, I don't know if I should compile/install KDE 3.2 myself, or wait until my distribution includes it in its next release (I'm using Slackware).
What do you guys think?
Any bug reports so far? (I know it's just released, but that's the wonder of Open Source.... many eyes!!!).
From the article: "Linus Torvalds: The man who started it all".
There goes another reading that takes 1 year of life from Richard Stallman!! X-D
Chicken and egg situation. The *only* reason many games are not released for Linux, is because that market is so much smaller.
Man, I wish I had indsutrial quantities of money!
I would take several million bucks to pay game developers so they make 40 or so console-quality games for Linux, and release them in the GPL!!
Of course.... that would work perfectly on fantasy world. In the real world, maybe the top gaming vendors would have me asassined as soon as they learn about my plan!
So, nah... I'd better forget it. Now, let's get back again to my tiny little life and fire Mozilla to check is SCO is still down.
I'm a big fan of KDE, and a few years ago I found Gnome a little bit cumbersome to use on a daily basis (this is not troll... those days I didn't find KDE too special either).
However... recently, I've tried it once or twice, and man, how it has improved!
I always liked Gnome because of its GTK+ (C coding is great!).
I'm even considering switching to it, thanks to Dropline Gnome, a version especially crafted for Slackware. I'd like some opinions from its users (Dropline Gnome).... anyone around?
Sorry to reply to my own post, but of course you could post the websites here instead.
Hey guys!!
I want to build a webpage that lists all sites that uses the URL spoofing thing (in funny way, in a wicked way, etc), just like the one Duckman5 posted here.
So if you know of any, please mail it to me to: aristidesp hat intercable hdot net hdot ve
Replace hat with @, and hdot with ".". Leave your name and say if you want me to tell you on when it's online.
Think of it as a survey.
See you then!!!
Back when I used Windos 95 and 98, I used "Ctrl" "Alt" and "Del" so often that my fingers rubbed them off.
Thanks, Bradley, for your contribution to ruining my keyboard!
Using a different OS nowadays, strangely enough the affected keys are now "W", "S", "L", "A", "H", "D", "O", "T", "R" and "G". The "." is already gone!!
Thanks, UPTSO, McBride, RFID tags, Eugenia, Mars, Goatse and RIAA!
I think my eyes started to show my brain whatever they want to at this time (1am).
The Virtual Dummy site looks a lot like Groklaw. Hmmmm... Maybe Pamela Jones is secretly behind all this..
Insert funny conspiracy theory abound Pam taking over the world here. X-D
When will you guys at ZaurusUserGroup learn that you can't post a link to Slashdot of a page hosted in one of your wireless PDAs?? XD
Oh, well........
Below is an excerpt of the site... and this is google cache of the screenshots. ---
Welcome
We believe we're living in a modern open World where only sharing the cutting-edge technologies we develop may make our lives better. This is the reason why we chose the Open Source model, the GNU General Public License in peculiar.
Cacko Linux is our new ARM Linux distribution. Aimed at PDA, Cacko Linux uses X11 instead of Qtopia, hence greater versatility, improved portability and better performance which make your PDA a subnotebook in terms of functionalities.
This distribution integrates its own development kit so that it becomes virtually possible to recompile any graphical program to extend your PDAs possibilities to your own needs.
Cacko Linux has been tested on Sharp Zaurus SL-C700/750/760/860 but is currently being ported to other architectures.
I'm looking forward to when this kind of technology becomes more mainstream (and cheap).
You will be able to "phone" your nearby friends (usually most of them) by using regular p2p netphone software and a Wi-Fi connection... why limiting to audio? Videomeeting software! Free-of-charge digital communications possible?
Goodbye to those ZIP and CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, now you can upload your work from your home pc directly to your office desktop (maybe companies will have to implement stronger security measures).
On the downside, I can see a new generation of viruses, trojans and worms "in the air".
A Spirit technician:
"Oops.... they downloaded my 73-MBit secret mars blog! Thank God I encrypted it!!"
Actually that's a great idea. But don't just say it here, dude. You should ask for it to OOo developers.
That will make OOo more mainstream.
(This is where someone calls me a Bozo and tells me it already exists...)
Hi, Bozo!
Microsoft's HTML help files already do this. And StarOffice/OpenOffice document formats have a similar implementation, but with XML.
I remember being completely skeptical of that new "point and click with a mouse" thing, in the macintosh. It looked like a cool idea, but in my keyboard-oriented mind, I just couldn't imagine how, lord, HOW you could tell the computer what to do by entirely relying on clicks on graphics. Steve Jobs was a great envisioner (or xerox copycat, depending of your point of view).
I'm no expert, but if sciencists think the universe is infinite, whatever map they draw will just be an infinitesimal portion of it!
So, these maps should be called "Maps Of Our Neighborhood" instead, don't you think?
Now the wide variety of commercial applications for Linux et al can play nice with KDE!.
That remains true. Commercial applications written in other developement platforms will work inside KDE (they will behave differently, though). Oh, wait... doesn't KDE require a license for commercial applications... oh, never mind...they can't play nice together.
Well, now that integration is possible, instead of coding in QT you can write Gnome/GTK commercial applications and run them inside KDE, with the looks and behavior of KDE. As far as I can tell, you are not violating any license by doing this.
I really like that idea. I'm a C coder rather than a C++ coder, so coding in GTK feels more natural to me. But... I prefer KDE over Gnome for my desktop (*), and I'd like the programs I create to have the behavior of KDE. So I was in a point of desperation trying to decide whether to use C-based GTK or C++ KDE/Qt.
Now, I can happily code in C/GTK, knowing that my apps will look great in both Gnome and KDE!
(*) No trolling or flamebait intended. If you prefer Gnome and say KDE sucks, that's fine by me, it's a free world.
From Infoworld: But the company did allow that "processes that rely on the semantics of the .com/.net serial number" could be affected.
For example, companies that have created scripts to monitor domain change on .com and .net will almost certainly need to make changes to account for the serial number change..."The damage won't be catastrophic, but some DNS servers could stop receiving updates,"
And they are planning to do this next Feb 9? Isn't that like too little time for organizations to update their systems?
I don't trust Verisign... the fact that they control such an important database accesed by millions of people around the world really frightens me. They screwed it once, they can do it again.
They should have that power removed from them. It should be on another organization (i.e. a non-profit one) that better serves internet community.