Yeah, I was discounting EMACS, since I already tried using it back in my Amiga 1000 days.
I think I'll try and give Eclipse another go. Hopefully it has support for C++ and Python, and if I can strip it down a bit, maybe it'll run at a decent lick on nice hardware.
Ever since I discovered the Spy editor on SunOS, I am loathe to use any non-visual editor.
You're closer than you think:) The Visual Studio 2005 Express edition betas (each geared toward a language such as C++, C#, VB.NET) are freely available at the moment, and final pricing has been set to $50 for each express edition, which is virtually free compared to the prices of past editions of VS.
Yes, but will they run on Linux ?
I thought not.
Seriously, can anyone reccomend a decent IDE that runs at a decent speed on Linux. Maybe Eclipse has improved, but the last time I tried it, the one second delay bring characters up to the screen kinda put me off.
I have been in the situation of pretty much only having vi to edit largish cpp files on Linux, which is like only having a chisel to clean your contact lenses. I HATE VI !!!!!!
One of the hardest parts of running Linux for me is having to give up Excel and MSDEV. Boo hoo:-((
Sweet, lots of companies including the one I work for already run Citrix to allow scarce and expensive software packages to be accessed without having to commit a full installation to every single possible client.
For example, I typically run Citrix to access the the SQL Navigator software, and also certain corporate applications that would necessitate me having a whole lot of configuration to do if I couldn't go through Citrix.
Response times over a typical corporate pipe are pretty decent, and it certainly beats not having an app you need.
One worry for MS though, if this catches on, might the ease of administration, standardised licensing etc, start to hurt full Windows sales ?
To be honest, I just came across the hyperthreading thing completely by accident. I fitted a NVidia 5200 graphics card into my work Dell Optiplex GX270 and thought I'd check out the BIOS config after the reboot.
It turns out that my work machine with a P4 3GigHz, which I've been using for the last 6 months has HT, but didn't have it enabled.
So I enabled it, and sadly it doesn't really seem to have affected the performance to any noticeable degree.
I generally run at least 2 if not 3 copies of MSDEV for different codestreams, and doing batch-code debugging, and with 1 Gig of memory the desktop can get pretty unresponsive, but it does ok.
The only major change is that on a compile, the fan gets much louder, so it must be doing some more work.
Overall I'd rather spend the money on a faster disk or graphics card than more processor cores. And if you're a developer, running a couple of screens may be one of the smartest buys you can make.
More UNIX than POSIX ?
Isn't that like saying more Windows like than Win32 ?
My next computer is a 12in Powerbook.
Actually, Cygwin on Windows rocks. I keep it on a USB key and install it on any Windows machine I use for more than half an hour. I have an X term up now that's running over secure shell, displaying the progress of a video encoding on my home machine about 50 miles away.
In other windows, iTunes is running, and this is being typed into Firefox. Apart from Windows itself, there isn't a Windows app in use on this machine at the moment.
It's like Scott McNealy says, "The network is the computer..." or translated "Windows, OSX, GNU/Linux, none of that matters that much nowadays" or translated again... "It's the apps stupid."
If it would be so easy to sell these in the villages, then why aren't enterprising people selling Visors, Palms, and equivalently powerful, web and communication oriented small form factor PCs to India already ?
This really is a serious question. A Palm V will do dialup, and more modern and now cheaper devices do WiFi, BlueTooth, ethernet.
Why did they need the Simputer, when there are already similar devices that would work ?
My MythTV box has been running for a couple of months with only 512Megs. I was kinda surprised that displaying HD TV in real time, running a remote browser over X, and having a mencoder job running only took up about 400 Megs, but it's true.
In normal use, my other Linux box never seems to get over about 384 Megs used. Go figure.
Oh well, I guess that means my mention of the totally kick-ass MKS Omniworks source control system would get shot down as it is based on Oracle.
I am really pleased that Linus has some stuff he's working on though. I hope it all comes together for him, and us. I'd hate to see the Linux kernel end up getting forked over this kind of fighting.
I'm really not sure I could put up with reading on a cell phone sized screen, but I did fulfil a longstanding promise to a friend to read the Book of John, and I managed it on the bus, on the train etc., using my Palm Vx.
The essentials are a decent legible font and the ability to save plenty of bookmarks.
In this case, the Vx made it easier to find time to read in traveling or other situations when I wouldn't normally be carrying an actual book.
Yeah, I've been a Gnome user, but I've held short of recommending it to many people, mainly because of the whole spacial filemanager (nautilus) and the somewhat dated appearance. It does work pretty well though and for that I'm happy.
However, KDE is just a huge step forward in terms of visual zip and friendlyness. I already posted the gist of this, but it bears repeating, that every piece of hardware on my desktop was detected and sound, opengl etc., worked great from the get go.
I totally have no reservations about recommending Kubuntu to anyone who wants to see how good a GNU/Linux desktop can be. Even running from the LiveCD it feels fast, just with the odd annoying pause whilst the CD spins up.
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Yeah, I was discounting EMACS, since I already tried using it back in my Amiga 1000 days.
I think I'll try and give Eclipse another go. Hopefully it has support for C++ and Python, and if I can strip it down a bit, maybe it'll run at a decent lick on nice hardware.
Ever since I discovered the Spy editor on SunOS, I am loathe to use any non-visual editor.
New car, yep. Eat out every day, yep. Trendy apartment, yep.
Working upwards of 60 hours a week. Priceless.
Yes, but will they run on Linux ?
I thought not.
Seriously, can anyone reccomend a decent IDE that runs at a decent speed on Linux. Maybe Eclipse has improved, but the last time I tried it, the one second delay bring characters up to the screen kinda put me off.
I have been in the situation of pretty much only having vi to edit largish cpp files on Linux, which is like only having a chisel to clean your contact lenses. I HATE VI !!!!!!
One of the hardest parts of running Linux for me is having to give up Excel and MSDEV. Boo hoo
Sadly, the GNU Wedding license will only let you marry Richard Stallman.
This is a showstopper of a drawback for most people.
Yep, kinda like the windows that pops up in Windows XP when you insert a CD, that says 'What do you what me to do ?'.
There is no answer that says 'Pop this window up and ask what you want to do!'
This is ironic, since no matter what I select, this is the only action that my machine ever takes !!
Sweet, lots of companies including the one I work for already run Citrix to allow scarce and expensive software packages to be accessed without having to commit a full installation to every single possible client.
For example, I typically run Citrix to access the the SQL Navigator software, and also certain corporate applications that would necessitate me having a whole lot of configuration to do if I couldn't go through Citrix.
Response times over a typical corporate pipe are pretty decent, and it certainly beats not having an app you need.
One worry for MS though, if this catches on, might the ease of administration, standardised licensing etc, start to hurt full Windows sales ?
Well, you can hardly blame NASA for leaving the thing a bit short...
Gas is $2.35 a gallon in Houston !
More to the point, are there any applications that make sensible use of this ?
I dunno about pinball, but we could have some rocking porn.
To be honest, I just came across the hyperthreading thing completely by accident. I fitted a NVidia 5200 graphics card into my work Dell Optiplex GX270 and thought I'd check out the BIOS config after the reboot.
It turns out that my work machine with a P4 3GigHz, which I've been using for the last 6 months has HT, but didn't have it enabled.
So I enabled it, and sadly it doesn't really seem to have affected the performance to any noticeable degree.
I generally run at least 2 if not 3 copies of MSDEV for different codestreams, and doing batch-code debugging, and with 1 Gig of memory the desktop can get pretty unresponsive, but it does ok.
The only major change is that on a compile, the fan gets much louder, so it must be doing some more work.
Overall I'd rather spend the money on a faster disk or graphics card than more processor cores. And if you're a developer, running a couple of screens may be one of the smartest buys you can make.
Time to call Richard Stallman ... He's the man for printer drivers.
I guess I should try and preemt the lameass filter.
More UNIX than POSIX ? Isn't that like saying more Windows like than Win32 ? My next computer is a 12in Powerbook. Actually, Cygwin on Windows rocks. I keep it on a USB key and install it on any Windows machine I use for more than half an hour. I have an X term up now that's running over secure shell, displaying the progress of a video encoding on my home machine about 50 miles away. In other windows, iTunes is running, and this is being typed into Firefox. Apart from Windows itself, there isn't a Windows app in use on this machine at the moment. It's like Scott McNealy says, "The network is the computer ..." or translated "Windows, OSX, GNU/Linux, none of that matters that much nowadays" or translated again... "It's the apps stupid."
If it would be so easy to sell these in the villages, then why aren't enterprising people selling Visors, Palms, and equivalently powerful, web and communication oriented small form factor PCs to India already ?
This really is a serious question. A Palm V will do dialup, and more modern and now cheaper devices do WiFi, BlueTooth, ethernet.
Why did they need the Simputer, when there are already similar devices that would work ?
My MythTV box has been running for a couple of months with only 512Megs. I was kinda surprised that displaying HD TV in real time, running a remote browser over X, and having a mencoder job running only took up about 400 Megs, but it's true.
In normal use, my other Linux box never seems to get over about 384 Megs used. Go figure.
1. Design software
2. License software per cpu
3. Wait for multicore cpu's
4. ???
5. Profit !!!!
No shit, do those so-called 'Deathstars' have a problem ?
I have a 9 Gig SCSI one that's never missed a beat. Kick-ass piece of hardware.
Oh well, I guess that means my mention of the totally kick-ass MKS Omniworks source control system would get shot down as it is based on Oracle.
I am really pleased that Linus has some stuff he's working on though. I hope it all comes together for him, and us. I'd hate to see the Linux kernel end up getting forked over this kind of fighting.
All of this talk about shrinkage is making me nervous ...
I'm really not sure I could put up with reading on a cell phone sized screen, but I did fulfil a longstanding promise to a friend to read the Book of John, and I managed it on the bus, on the train etc., using my Palm Vx.
The essentials are a decent legible font and the ability to save plenty of bookmarks.
In this case, the Vx made it easier to find time to read in traveling or other situations when I wouldn't normally be carrying an actual book.
So now I have to wrap my ** car ** in tinfoil ?!?!?!
It's obviously someone from the UK. The country known for such golden phrases as : "I like crab-cakes, but they don't like me."
I watched the recent episode where Archer and the crew fought the Nazis over New York and it kicked ass. Really good episode.
It's a shame the show is ending. I'll look forward to the watching the last couple of episodes in high def.
AI is something you can get lots of money from the government and other grant-awarding bodies for.
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... and all I got was this lousy algorithm."
This leads to the following T-shirt
"I solved a difficult AI problem
Once it's solved, it isn't AI any more.
Yeah, I've been a Gnome user, but I've held short of recommending it to many people, mainly because of the whole spacial filemanager (nautilus) and the somewhat dated appearance. It does work pretty well though and for that I'm happy.
However, KDE is just a huge step forward in terms of visual zip and friendlyness. I already posted the gist of this, but it bears repeating, that every piece of hardware on my desktop was detected and sound, opengl etc., worked great from the get go.
I totally have no reservations about recommending Kubuntu to anyone who wants to see how good a GNU/Linux desktop can be. Even running from the LiveCD it feels fast, just with the odd annoying pause whilst the CD spins up.
That's a really funny skit. It kinda reminds me of the early days of the mac when we all hung on the every word of Steve Jobs ...
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errr, but wait