I've had similar experiences replacing Java with perl. Heck I've had similar experiences replacing compiled C code with perl. Perl has it's limitations, but it's often about picking knowing how to pick the right tool and how to use it.
Verizon's network has been live for quite a while now and there's a decent number of customers actively using it. I would wager there wasn't many other AT&T customers sharing resources when these tests were conducted, but on Verizon's there was.
I'll be curious to see these tests repeated in six months, a year, etc.
(NOTE: not a Verizon fan... I'm with Sprint... just pointing out the obvious).
APUE is awesome. I actually learned a lot of perl by reading APUE. Which might not make sense on the surface, but perl support so much of the standard system calls and APUE is so well written that you can understand the concepts without having to depend on the exact examples.
I argued with all of my friends about it and they all thought I was an idiot.:) Since then we've had a major change to when DST (at least in the US) takes affect which makes the problem just worse.
That said, I doubt we could convince the world to change, but for those of us that routinely communicate with friends/colleagues around the world... timezones only complicate the matter.
Speaking as someone with a pretty low ID number....
I stumbled across your home page in the summer of '97 and was looking at your rendered animations and chips 'n dips. Been following pretty much ever since. Sad to see you go, but I wish you all the luck.
To be technically correct, engineer licensing is handled at the state level and each state does it differently. In Texas, the title "Software Engineer" does mean something and if you are not a licensed "Professional Engineer (PE)" and attempt to claim to be a Software Engineer you can get into a mess of trouble.
I have an ABET accredited Masters of Engineering degree in Computer Science (from a state school no less) but I never sat for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam nor completed the required apprenticeship period (or sit for the PE Exam) so I cannot claim to be a Software Engineer. (However, I've got nearly 12 years of industry experience as a software developer).
I don't understand why so many people put "Free Book" on the web, but put it in an HTML page with links to the various chapters. Is it too much to ask for the convenience of a single PDF, MOBI, or EPUB I can download to an eReader?
Since it's Creative Commons, Derivative works should be allowed. I took a stab at pulling down all the files with wget and then generating an EPUB using Calibre. Don't claim the format is perfect, this is the first time I've ever tried anything like this. However, it should be readable. If you interested, I've put it up on Google Docs.
In all seriousness, I remember seeing a "preview" in a computing magazine when Logitech first announced them and I thought it was the most bizarre device I ever saw... I initially didn't want anything to do with it.
Then one day I was I office depot and they had one you could "try out"... and I really liked the feel. The large finger operated ball, the "window" that allows you to use your thumb to fine tune it, 3 buttons (well 4, but you know what I mean). When I bought mine "laser" mice where really uncommon and the trackball didn't "slow down" or "rumble" like a tranditionly ball-based mouse would. It was great, accurate, ergonomic.
I still have one at home, but I mostly use a laptop these days.. and it's getting harder and harder to find PS2 connectors on computers. I've replaced mine at work with the newer "cordless" model, but frankly it's just not as good... the USB connection is nice and all, but I have <b>NEVER</b> understood why someone would need a "wireless" trackball.. it's not like it goes anywhere... and you have the added cost of feeding the thing batteries...
I really REALLY wish logitech would bring back the FX... update it with a scroll wheel and USB support... I would buy 10.
I've lost 70 pounds so far this year and it's taking a ton of effort and time.
I don't know that you have to see a professional, but it does take a good bit of reading. The first step is determining how many calories you should be eating and that varies based on sex, body type, goal, and present-day body fat percentage and not everybody can calculate that.
I did the math and my diet is only 1400 calories a day.
Now... think about food labels when they tell you 10% of your RDA. That's based on a 2000 calorie a day diet. You can't trust those percentages unless your diet is 2000 calories.
I count my fat grams. I count my protein grams... I count my calories.
I never wanted to be "one of those" people, but I'm sorry to say it works. If you are aware of what you are eating you will lose weight.
Oh yeah... and indulge yourself every once in a while. People need to realize that diets aren't a short-time thing. You need to think about making permanant changes to your eating habits.
Don't think... a few more pounds and I can eat that bacon cheeseburger. If you want the bacon cheesburger eat it... then write down what you just ate. It'll help you to eat better the next few days or maybe next time you won't want it.
Yup.... played with it last night. They moved all the.rpm and.src.rpm files that are only documentation (gimp-manual, howto, rhl-ig, etc.)off of the main CDs, and onto the docs CD. They also have unpacked versions of all the files so you can jujst broese it off the CD rather than install it.
Given the size of gimp-manual I think this is a good idea.
I grabbed the ISO off of kernel.org yesterday and installed it on my workstation last night.
IMHO, the most interesting thing in this release is all of the kerberos suupport, and the "Docs" CD. Strangely enough neither is mentioned in the announcement.
Oh yeah, and there is a good amount of crypto included: mutt-international version (finally), gnupg, and netscape-128bit would be the biggies.
No this release isn't revolutionary. It's not supplosed to be. It's a minor release. Good to see another one though.
Anyone who thinks they can go without swap space is kidding themselves or not running Netscape:)
In all seriousness my rule of them is:
Twice the amount of RAM or 256M whichever is smaller.
My primary workstation has 256M of RAM and 256M of swap and I have actually allocated all of my RAM and half of my swap before. They occasions this happens are rare, but imagine if I didn't have the swap there!
I used to run Linux on a P90 with 16M of RAM and 32M of swap and I can rember programs crashing because of running out of memory. I don't ever want to deal with that again.
If possible use a high speed drive, but the most signifgant factor is haveing plenty of RAM. I will never build a box again with less than 64M and anything for development use will have a good 128M if not 256M.
I've ran systems based on RedHat 2.0, 3.03, 5.0, 5.2, and 6.0.
I would have to say that 5.2 was the most stable of the versions but I have had almost no problems with my redhat box. Yes I'm running gnome. Yes I use linuxconf all the time. My *ONLY* gripe is that linuxconf doesn't like you messing with sendmail.cf behind its back. Since I'm not running a server that isn't too big a deal, however I would like to set options like:
O PrivacyOptions=noexpn O PrivacyOptions=novrfy
But linuxconf doesn't seem to let you set that up. Also linuxconf doesn't like my DHCP setup, but thats not too bid a deal either. I have used linuxconf to set up my local DNS without any problems at all. With the exceptions of the above problem with sendmail I think the linuxconf sendmail tool is *GREAT*. This is the closest I've come to getting my mail routing the way I want it.
On the whole I'm impressed. I don't know if I would have paid for the full distro since I already had a 2.2 kernel and gnome on my 5.2 box, but the price of "RedHat core" isn't too bad and it gets a new pressed CD to use as a reference.
NOTE: I had ZERO problems installing the comerrcial Quake I / Quake II CDs on top of this 6.0 setup.
You may want to try the latest RH build (assuming your running RedHat).
I liked the 1.0.0 release well enough to start using it full time. I was willing to live with all the problems you mentioned. I followed each supplemental release and the problems never really went away.
Until now.
Session mangement alone makes this a worthwile improvement (it won't open tons of windows). I've also noticed a big speed improvement while switchng desktops ( and each desktop has it's own background image).
I'm sure 2.0 will be a much better product, but this latest build seems to be a *HUGE* improvement over 1.0.0. It's really pretty amazing.
I feel like a traitor saying, but I know MS Word inside and out. I've had to layout several publications in it (should've used a real layout package, but it wasn't an option).
I would probably switch to something else eventually, but there are so many occasions when I just want to quickly generate a document. I know how to do it in word.
Applix doesn't do it for me. Staroffice crashes on my hardware. The free WordPerfect is somewhat incomplete.
MSOffice would probably exhibit many of these problems too, but *IF* it was stable. WOW. I could probably move my whole family to Linux.
Communisim isn't all that bad (same for socialism). I think that many of the communist governments have failed because they (communism and socialism) are ideals. Ideals are hard to achieve in the "real" world.
Fortunately, our community doesn't exist in the real world.
And we should always be striving towards the ideal.
Although the vast majority of CDDB players are for Windows, CDDB got it's start about 3 years ago with Ti Kan's xmcd player. He invented the format. xmcd is the X11 Motif Cd Player. Definatey a UNIX program.
It's sad that the corporate World has Win-ified such a good system. Your probably right though. This could mean the death of CDDB.:(
If I'm not mistaken, PNG is not lossy. PNG is largely GIF's cousin in that it's based on LZ77 where GIF is based on LZW. This is not unlike te differences between compress (.Z)/zip(.zip) and gzip(.gz). If I remember my File Structructes class correctly, LZ77 is completely public domain and then Welsch(sp) came along, made some modifications that improve the performance(arguably worsened file size) and patented it. Hence LZW.
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I've had similar experiences replacing Java with perl. Heck I've had similar experiences replacing compiled C code with perl. Perl has it's limitations, but it's often about picking knowing how to pick the right tool and how to use it.
Verizon's network has been live for quite a while now and there's a decent number of customers actively using it. I would wager there wasn't many other AT&T customers sharing resources when these tests were conducted, but on Verizon's there was.
I'll be curious to see these tests repeated in six months, a year, etc.
(NOTE: not a Verizon fan... I'm with Sprint... just pointing out the obvious).
APUE is awesome. I actually learned a lot of perl by reading APUE. Which might not make sense on the surface, but perl support so much of the standard system calls and APUE is so well written that you can understand the concepts without having to depend on the exact examples.
I argued with all of my friends about it and they all thought I was an idiot. :) Since then we've had a major change to when DST (at least in the US) takes affect which makes the problem just worse.
That said, I doubt we could convince the world to change, but for those of us that routinely communicate with friends/colleagues around the world... timezones only complicate the matter.
Speaking as someone with a pretty low ID number....
I stumbled across your home page in the summer of '97 and was looking at your rendered animations and chips 'n dips. Been following pretty much ever since. Sad to see you go, but I wish you all the luck.
I guess it's about time I circled you on Google+.
To be technically correct, engineer licensing is handled at the state level and each state does it differently. In Texas, the title "Software Engineer" does mean something and if you are not a licensed "Professional Engineer (PE)" and attempt to claim to be a Software Engineer you can get into a mess of trouble.
I have an ABET accredited Masters of Engineering degree in Computer Science (from a state school no less) but I never sat for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam nor completed the required apprenticeship period (or sit for the PE Exam) so I cannot claim to be a Software Engineer. (However, I've got nearly 12 years of industry experience as a software developer).
Me too. :)
I don't understand why so many people put "Free Book" on the web, but put it in an HTML page with links to the various chapters. Is it too much to ask for the convenience of a single PDF, MOBI, or EPUB I can download to an eReader?
Since it's Creative Commons, Derivative works should be allowed. I took a stab at pulling down all the files with wget and then generating an EPUB using Calibre. Don't claim the format is perfect, this is the first time I've ever tried anything like this. However, it should be readable. If you interested, I've put it up on Google Docs.
Now spammers are indirectly using their massive botnets for the cause of OCR conversion of books. :)
Best...Pointing...Device....Ever!
In all seriousness, I remember seeing a "preview" in a computing magazine when Logitech first announced them and I thought it was the most bizarre device I ever saw... I initially didn't want anything to do with it.
Then one day I was I office depot and they had one you could "try out"... and I really liked the feel. The large finger operated ball, the "window" that allows you to use your thumb to fine tune it, 3 buttons (well 4, but you know what I mean). When I bought mine "laser" mice where really uncommon and the trackball didn't "slow down" or "rumble" like a tranditionly ball-based mouse would. It was great, accurate, ergonomic.
I still have one at home, but I mostly use a laptop these days.. and it's getting harder and harder to find PS2 connectors on computers. I've replaced mine at work with the newer "cordless" model, but frankly it's just not as good... the USB connection is nice and all, but I have <b>NEVER</b> understood why someone would need a "wireless" trackball.. it's not like it goes anywhere... and you have the added cost of feeding the thing batteries...
I really REALLY wish logitech would bring back the FX... update it with a scroll wheel and USB support... I would buy 10.
Wow.... pretty much right on the money.
... a few more pounds and I can eat that bacon cheeseburger. If you want the bacon cheesburger eat it... then write down what you just ate. It'll help you to eat better the next few days or maybe next time you won't want it.
I've lost 70 pounds so far this year and it's taking a ton of effort and time.
I don't know that you have to see a professional, but it does take a good bit of reading. The first step is determining how many calories you should be eating and that varies based on sex, body type, goal, and present-day body fat percentage and not everybody can calculate that.
I did the math and my diet is only 1400 calories a day.
Now... think about food labels when they tell you 10% of your RDA. That's based on a 2000 calorie a day diet. You can't trust those percentages unless your diet is 2000 calories.
I count my fat grams. I count my protein grams... I count my calories.
I never wanted to be "one of those" people, but I'm sorry to say it works. If you are aware of what you are eating you will lose weight.
Oh yeah... and indulge yourself every once in a while. People need to realize that diets aren't a short-time thing. You need to think about making permanant changes to your eating habits.
Don't think
-Alan
Ugh!
The Deitel and Deitel Java book completely turned me off to their writing. IMHO the only C books you need are K&R II and Harbison and Steele.
Frankly I also don't think C++ is needed either.
-Alan
Yup.... played with it last night. They moved all the .rpm and .src.rpm files that are only documentation (gimp-manual, howto, rhl-ig, etc.)off of the main CDs, and onto the docs CD. They also have unpacked versions of all the files so you can jujst broese it off the CD rather than install it.
Given the size of gimp-manual I think this is a good idea.
I grabbed the ISO off of kernel.org yesterday and installed it on my workstation last night.
IMHO, the most interesting thing in this release is all of the kerberos suupport, and the "Docs" CD. Strangely enough neither is mentioned in the announcement.
Oh yeah, and there is a good amount of crypto included: mutt-international version (finally), gnupg, and netscape-128bit would be the biggies.
No this release isn't revolutionary. It's not supplosed to be. It's a minor release. Good to see another one though.
Anyone who thinks they can go without swap space is kidding themselves or not running Netscape :)
In all seriousness my rule of them is:
Twice the amount of RAM or 256M whichever
is smaller.
My primary workstation has 256M of RAM and 256M of swap and I have actually allocated all of my RAM and half of my swap before. They occasions this happens are rare, but imagine if I didn't have the swap there!
I used to run Linux on a P90 with 16M of RAM and 32M of swap and I can rember programs crashing because of running out of memory. I don't ever want to deal with that again.
If possible use a high speed drive, but the most signifgant factor is haveing plenty of RAM. I will never build a box again with less than 64M and anything for development use will have a good 128M if not 256M.
-Alan
I've ran systems based on RedHat 2.0, 3.03, 5.0, 5.2, and 6.0.
I would have to say that 5.2 was the most stable of the versions but I have had almost no problems with my redhat box. Yes I'm running gnome. Yes I use linuxconf all the time. My *ONLY* gripe is that linuxconf doesn't like you messing with sendmail.cf behind its back. Since I'm not running a server that isn't too big a deal, however I would like to set options like:
O PrivacyOptions=noexpn
O PrivacyOptions=novrfy
But linuxconf doesn't seem to let you set that up. Also linuxconf doesn't like my DHCP setup, but thats not too bid a deal either. I have used linuxconf to set up my local DNS without any problems at all. With the exceptions of the above problem with sendmail I think the linuxconf sendmail tool is *GREAT*. This is the closest I've come to getting my mail routing the way I want it.
On the whole I'm impressed. I don't know if I would have paid for the full distro since I already had a 2.2 kernel and gnome on my 5.2 box, but the price of "RedHat core" isn't too bad and it gets a new pressed CD to use as a reference.
NOTE: I had ZERO problems installing the comerrcial Quake I / Quake II CDs on top of this 6.0 setup.
-Alan
You may want to try the latest RH build (assuming your running RedHat).
I liked the 1.0.0 release well enough to start using it full time. I was willing to live with all the problems you mentioned. I followed each supplemental release and the problems never really went away.
Until now.
Session mangement alone makes this a worthwile improvement (it won't open tons of windows). I've also noticed a big speed improvement while switchng desktops ( and each desktop has it's own background image).
I'm sure 2.0 will be a much better product, but this latest build seems to be a *HUGE* improvement over 1.0.0. It's really pretty amazing.
-Alan
Don't forget about endianess!
Any good graphics program will happily accept either byte ordering, but I have encountered some that don't like one or the other.
-Alan
Ditto.
I feel like a traitor saying, but I know MS Word inside and out. I've had to layout several publications in it (should've used a real layout package, but it wasn't an option).
I would probably switch to something else eventually, but there are so many occasions when I just want to quickly generate a document. I know how to do it in word.
Applix doesn't do it for me. Staroffice crashes on my hardware. The free WordPerfect is somewhat incomplete.
MSOffice would probably exhibit many of these problems too, but *IF* it was stable. WOW. I could probably move my whole family to Linux.
Well. . . If Intuit would ever port Quicken!!!!
-Alan
So?
Communisim isn't all that bad (same for socialism). I think that many of the communist governments have failed because they (communism and socialism) are ideals. Ideals are hard to achieve in the "real" world.
Fortunately, our community doesn't exist in the real world.
And we should always be striving towards the ideal.
-Alan
Although the vast majority of CDDB players are for Windows, CDDB got it's start about 3 years ago with Ti Kan's xmcd player. He invented the format. xmcd is the X11 Motif Cd Player. Definatey a UNIX program.
:(
It's sad that the corporate World has Win-ified such a good system. Your probably right though. This could mean the death of CDDB.
-Alan
For real info goto:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/
-Alan