Not liking it isn't a good reason, there's plenty about work I don't like,
I don't like it because it makes me less productive and I feel crippled when there is a fire to put out.
Don't take my awk and perl and even gedit and vi. I work as a Unix admin for a small ISP and the Linux on the desktop is invaluable. For auditing e-mail directories, writing scripts to parse the output of a mysql script, using scp to bounce files all over the place, working with tarballs, wget to see what a web page is really made of in an instant... making expect scripts for the few ancient internal Cisco things, snmptools to fetch all kinds of things and use them in scripts. I could go on and on.. Ohh... and I use dig and whois all the time!
All in all, I am much more productive when I can do all these things quickly on the command line in 6 terminals at once rather then use Putty, WinSCP, Teraterm even Cygwin. I've tried this and I like Windows right. Just not for being a sysadmin.
but then they are paying me so I'll do what I'm told.
Well, it's funny, the corporation prohibits you from installing and using FREE software in an area where you really won't be affecting any one else. It's not like they have to support it. I guess that would irk me. But still, you do have a point, you do what you are told and roll with the changes. I guess I'm just lucky.
Having done a little of both, I can say the grandparent is correct. Maybe not the way he raves but I would choose DirectX.
A major advantage of DirectX is programmable pixel and vertex shaders. The syntax has cleaned up considerably in the past two or three versions so it's now as easy or easier than OpenGL. Also, if you know DirectX it's nice because then you can use DirectInput and DirectSound which have a similar structure and use the COM model. As an API, it's pretty nice to develop in. Once you get it, I can see not wanting to migrate to OpenGL.
OpenGL is nice because it's portable and it's an open standard. It's also a little leaner then DirectX. With the newer extensions you have most of the functions that DirectX has, but are missing some key ones. It's also a little more obtuse and it's not updated very much anymore.
Both are stable if written right. Both are fast if written right.
This all being said, they are both very complex API's with lots of extensions (OpenGL) and updates (DirectX) so the differences are there and I've just touched on them. Overall the functionality is close but they just differ in the way they do things.
Games are moving to DirectX for a reason in my eyes. It is somewhat better.
Sure it's flawed in certain ways by todays standards, but that fact that it still has an application really speaks to it's design. It was the FIRST high level language for cripes sake.
Great, now I have to wear a wireless bluetooth headset AND an oxygen mask when I'm on a tech support in the Data Center. The guys in HR already call me "space man."
Where I work, we have dozens of servers that run Linux day in day out, for years at a time.
So in a sense it works brilliantly.
I've used it on the Desktop at home since probably 1996, (I now use XP mostly, Linux gets exhausting heh) and yes, it's gotten to the point where it almost does work, with almost all hardware.
But I think to get over that last hump, to have Windows level hardware compatibility, more people have to adopt it, and my friend, the key to that is cultural not technical.
This is of course, is just MHO, and god knows I have absolutely no desire to start any kind of discussion on slashdot regarding MHO.
I was hoping for a fun comment(s). Instead I get posturing to show what extreme Linux die hards some of you are. Yay for Linux, I love it and all, but come on men, have you no imagination?
Anyway, my dream machine is whatever I can tinker with and learn cool stuff from, and that's usually not a PC, and changes quite frequently. I'd like to play with some serious SGI workstations sometime, that's my current obsession.
A car manufacturer would have recalled and cancelled anything this bad long ago.
Oh.. an 86 Ford Econoline van I guess.
If airlines were as unsafe as the shuttle, every day there'd be 4 plane crashes at LAX before breakfast.
Good thing those 30 year old 747's and DC-10's don't have to carry large fragile payloads into low Earth orbit. Funny though, they are built by the same companies that build the shuttle. And the shuttle was probably constructed with a lot more care attention and diligence the the jumbo jet they built in march of 1993. Maybe the application is just slightly different.
Yea, the shuttle is far from perfect. It is expensive and more complex then it should be. It's also constrained to a small very un-glamorous space application. But it's the first vehicle of it's type humans built. And it's the only vehicle we have that can do what it does. The fact that it's still in service after 25 years doing amazing things is a testament to it's design. And I have confidence that NASA could do a whole lot better given more funding and a vision they are allowed to follow through with.
Enough with the bandwagon, whiney, pessimistic idiotic shuttle bashing. Do some research, and post objectively. Yes, it's time to move on and yes I'd like to see a new space vehicle. Really though, these let's slam the POS shuttle trolls are wearing me the hell out.
Seriously, though, how likely is it that the gravitational and orbital calculations were just not quite as precise when they did them 35 years ago?
Despite a highly rigorous formula for determining this stuff, I can imagine that there could have been a few unknowns that affected such an enormously complex calculation.
I dare say that Computer Shopper (well, the whole idea behind it) killed Atari and Commodore. Now I hope that the whole commodity, Joe Six-Pack PC thing dies a slow death. Let the marketplace move to a more diverse and intelligence touching medium, like the Internet.
You're correct of course. A perfect example is the study of the Venusian atmosphere and the insight it has provided into the greenhouse effect.
I just wish the ISS could have been constructed with Saturn V's. We'd be done by now.
Let me clue you in. Rockets manned or otherwise are unsafe, and not as reliable as your laser mouse.
They've taken unprecedented steps in recent shuttle missions to ensure the integrity of the ceramic tiles, the O-Ring debacle, rest assured, will not be repeated and Apollo was completely re-engineered with a herculean effort after the fire aboard Apollo 1.
After all the emotional and engineering investments that are made into the one vital manned program that NASA has left, I'm sure the last thing they want is to have to hear pessimistic snide remarks from the likes of you if disaster happens.
It's 12 years old, it's a little slow and they don't make them anymore, but the HP 48 series is a magnificent calculator.
RPN is very nice for long equations. Once you get used to it, you'll be more accurate and efficient. You'll never want to go back to algebraic entry. It has a lot of features, and still stands up pretty well to modern offerings. Unless they've made calculus problems a lot harder, you won't need anything more functionality wise.
The built in equation library is very nice. There is a plethora of available programs to download. The IR sensor is just cool and the keys have the best tactile feel of any calculators ever, and the batteries last about 20 months. Oh, and you could probably dip it in motor oil, and it would still work. The screen while having good contrast, is very fragile however. That's one bad thing.
Expect to pay $250 on ebay for a 48GX unless you get lucky. (The 128K expandable model. Original MSRP was $159 I think) You can probably get a 48G (32KB non expandable model) in your price range though.
The new bread of zombies have wised up to port 25 blocking / throttling and like to funnel everything through the MTA for the domain to which they are connected.
A combination of policyd, postfix, spamassain and ids/bandwidth accounting software has turned it into something manageable, at least where I work. Customers are allowed say, 100 e-mails in a 30 minute time span. If they complain and have a real reason, we can adjust. This also makes finding users with pwned machines a lot easier.
Some of them now (the spam zombies) seem to be moderating their outgoing connections so that it's not so obvious but their volume is still substantial. It just never ends...
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Your post is right in a sense but let me correct a few things.
The Amiga died for one reason. Closed Source on a Closed Platform.
The Amiga died for many many reasons. This likely isn't one of them. The Amiga was pretty open compared to it's competitors at the time. Commodore killed it with mis-guided management and bone-headed marketing. Microsoft and Columbia Business Machines killed it and many others when they said, let us have MS-DOS on whatever hardware we want, IBM. I don't think an open standard would have helped at that stage. It was already dead before Linux had it's heyday and OSS became the savior of everything.
Most of the software still in use is old 68000 stuff from companies which themselves are so long in the grave
You can get all the source code for 76,900 packages by looking here. That is where I get most of the software I still use. A few old legacy apps still linger but again, your point is not really valid. The developers are moving forward, and could care less about old 68K assembly. If they had it, so what? It's so old it's meaningless.
The only PPC platform in production these days is the PS3 but it doesn't allow "other OS" to access the 3D hardware which would be a bummer since Amaga OS 4 just gained 3D support.:(
Really? Try all kinds of set-top boxes, TiVo's, the Wii, the X-Box 360, cell phones PDA's, embedded platforms, a few custom motherboards and who knows what else I missed. IBM makes millions of PPC processors. They've hashed out the alternate PPC hardware option about a gazillion times at Amiga.org. In a word, PPC is not going anywhere.
If I enjoy my hobby, why exactly does it bug them so? We are unique in that I guess we get new wares, and a slight bit of development in Amiga land. I guess that makes us different then the hordes of people selling/buying SGI Indys / Atari's / C64's / Acrons and SNES's on ebay. People hack and make new software for these things occasionally to. Nobody makes fun of them. Usually it's just "cool, a GUI web-browser for the C64! l337!" Amiga has a stigma I suppose.
Really, I enjoy the Amiga scene. I have no illusions about it's relevance, I have no grand notions of an Amiga Desktop revival, I just enjoy retro-gaming, simple computing and the novelty of a unique platform.
Aren't any of you tired of upgrading your PC with a new video card? Or switching backgrounds in Gnome? Yawn. Don't you want to broaden your horizons a little?
I know that there have been some half-hearted attempts from fans to make another sequel, but they're obviously more caught up in dreaming about the ultimate sequel than actually doing any work.
That stings a little. I work when I can spare time away from 50 hours a week of system administration. I've probably spent more time working on Outerspace then I spent ohh... I don't know, studying in college. I've personally written about 100 pages of source code, composed a few dozen species profiles, collaborated on the plot with the other developer, had music contributed by a semi-professional composer, created about 1/2 dozen 3d meshes and various other forms of art and maintained the website. (those meshes are enormously time consuming.) I've never written a game before, this is my first.
He'll break warp 10 around the sun with a gravity slingshot effect soon enough, which, if Checov and Spock have done their calculations right, will provide him will the time he needs.
Gore said "I took the initiative in creating the internet." during that interview with CNN. I'm guessing he meant to add "bill" to the end of that sentence, as he was kind of rambling. Bill being a reference to this one.
If you retain this kernel of knowledge, I'll promise to not make so much fun of George W Bush.
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Dungeon Master originally appeared on the Atari ST. :-p
Not to diminish it's brilliance though. The stereo sound on the Amiga really made it creepy.
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I don't like it because it makes me less productive and I feel crippled when there is a fire to put out.
Don't take my awk and perl and even gedit and vi. I work as a Unix admin for a small ISP and the Linux on the desktop is invaluable.
For auditing e-mail directories, writing scripts to parse the output of a mysql script, using scp to bounce files all over the place, working with tarballs, wget to see what
a web page is really made of in an instant... making expect scripts for the few ancient internal Cisco things, snmptools to fetch all kinds of things
and use them in scripts. I could go on and on.. Ohh... and I use dig and whois all the time!
All in all, I am much more productive when I can do all these things quickly on the command line in 6 terminals at once rather then use Putty, WinSCP, Teraterm even Cygwin. I've tried this and I like Windows right. Just not for being a sysadmin.
Well, it's funny, the corporation prohibits you from installing and using FREE software in an area where you really won't be affecting any one else.
It's not like they have to support it. I guess that would irk me. But still, you do have a point, you do what you are told and roll with the changes. I guess I'm just lucky.
Having done a little of both, I can say the grandparent is correct. Maybe not the way he raves but I would choose DirectX.
A major advantage of DirectX is programmable pixel and vertex shaders. The syntax has cleaned up considerably in the past two or three versions so it's now as easy or easier than OpenGL. Also, if you know DirectX it's nice because then you can use DirectInput and DirectSound which have a similar structure and use the COM model. As an API, it's pretty nice to develop in. Once you get it, I can see not wanting to migrate to OpenGL.
OpenGL is nice because it's portable and it's an open standard. It's also a little leaner then DirectX. With the newer extensions you have most of the functions that DirectX has, but are missing some key ones. It's also a little more obtuse and it's not updated very much anymore.
Both are stable if written right. Both are fast if written right.
This all being said, they are both very complex API's with lots of extensions (OpenGL) and updates (DirectX) so the differences are there and I've just touched on them. Overall the functionality is close but they just differ in the way they do things.
Games are moving to DirectX for a reason in my eyes. It is somewhat better.
Sure it's flawed in certain ways by todays standards, but that fact that it still has an application really speaks to it's design. It was the FIRST high level language for cripes sake.
Great, now I have to wear a wireless bluetooth headset AND an oxygen mask when I'm on a tech support in the Data Center.
The guys in HR already call me "space man."
Where I work, we have dozens of servers that run Linux day in day out, for years at a time. So in a sense it works brilliantly. I've used it on the Desktop at home since probably 1996, (I now use XP mostly, Linux gets exhausting heh) and yes, it's gotten to the point where it almost does work, with almost all hardware. But I think to get over that last hump, to have Windows level hardware compatibility, more people have to adopt it, and my friend, the key to that is cultural not technical. This is of course, is just MHO, and god knows I have absolutely no desire to start any kind of discussion on slashdot regarding MHO.
I was hoping for a fun comment(s). Instead I get posturing to show what extreme Linux die hards some of you are. Yay for Linux, I love it and all, but come on men, have you no imagination?
Anyway, my dream machine is whatever I can tinker with and learn cool stuff from, and that's usually not a PC, and changes quite frequently. I'd like to play with some serious SGI workstations sometime, that's my current obsession.
compared to what?
Oh.. an 86 Ford Econoline van I guess.
Good thing those 30 year old 747's and DC-10's don't have to carry large fragile payloads into low Earth orbit. Funny though, they are built by the same companies that build the shuttle. And the shuttle was probably constructed with a lot more care attention and diligence the the jumbo jet they built in march of 1993. Maybe the application is just slightly different.
Yea, the shuttle is far from perfect. It is expensive and more complex then it should be. It's also constrained to a small very un-glamorous space application. But it's the first vehicle of it's type humans built. And it's the only vehicle we have that can do what it does. The fact that it's still in service after 25 years doing amazing things is a testament to it's design. And I have confidence that NASA could do a whole lot better given more funding and a vision they are allowed to follow through with.
Enough with the bandwagon, whiney, pessimistic idiotic shuttle bashing. Do some research, and post objectively. Yes, it's time to move on and yes I'd like to see a new space vehicle. Really though, these let's slam the POS shuttle trolls are wearing me the hell out.
Are you sure your not talking about our lawyer politicians?
Right, NASA is easy to insult. But they pretty much try to do what they are told with they budget they are allowed to have.
Vote a scientist into congress already.
Dark Matter!
Seriously, though, how likely is it that the gravitational and orbital calculations were just not quite as precise when they did them 35 years ago?
Despite a highly rigorous formula for determining this stuff, I can imagine that there could have been a few unknowns that affected such an enormously complex calculation.
I dare say that Computer Shopper (well, the whole idea behind it) killed Atari and Commodore.
Now I hope that the whole commodity, Joe Six-Pack PC thing dies a slow death. Let the marketplace move to a more diverse and intelligence touching medium, like the Internet.
You're correct of course. A perfect example is the study of the Venusian atmosphere and the insight it has provided into the greenhouse effect. I just wish the ISS could have been constructed with Saturn V's. We'd be done by now.
NASA could teach us everything there is to know about space but what exactally is the point if we never figure out how to live and work there?
I hear one is in development. It will come with complementary composite body armor, and a high strenghth television sheild.
Let me clue you in. Rockets manned or otherwise are unsafe, and not as reliable as your laser mouse. They've taken unprecedented steps in recent shuttle missions to ensure the integrity of the ceramic tiles, the O-Ring debacle, rest assured, will not be repeated and Apollo was completely re-engineered with a herculean effort after the fire aboard Apollo 1.
After all the emotional and engineering investments that are made into the one vital manned program that NASA has left, I'm sure the last thing they want is to have to hear pessimistic snide remarks from the likes of you if disaster happens.
It's 12 years old, it's a little slow and they don't make them anymore, but the HP 48 series is a magnificent calculator.
RPN is very nice for long equations. Once you get used to it, you'll be more accurate and efficient. You'll never want to go back to algebraic entry. It has a lot of features, and still stands up pretty well to modern offerings. Unless they've made calculus problems a lot harder, you won't need anything more functionality wise.
The built in equation library is very nice. There is a plethora of available programs to download. The IR sensor is just cool and the keys have the best tactile feel of any calculators ever, and the batteries last about 20 months. Oh, and you could probably dip it in motor oil, and it would still work. The screen while having good contrast, is very fragile however. That's one bad thing.
Expect to pay $250 on ebay for a 48GX unless you get lucky. (The 128K expandable model. Original MSRP was $159 I think) You can probably get a 48G (32KB non expandable model) in your price range though.
It's blue! It's moldy! It's the The night of the living Bread.
The new bread of zombies have wised up to port 25 blocking / throttling and like to funnel everything through the MTA for the domain to which they are connected.
A combination of policyd, postfix, spamassain and ids/bandwidth accounting software has turned it into something manageable, at least where I work. Customers are allowed say, 100 e-mails in a 30 minute time span. If they complain and have a real reason, we can adjust. This also makes finding users with pwned machines a lot easier.
Some of them now (the spam zombies) seem to be moderating their outgoing connections so that it's not so obvious but their volume is still substantial. It just never ends...
Amen,
If I enjoy my hobby, why exactly does it bug them so? We are unique in that I guess we get new wares, and a slight bit of development in Amiga land. I guess that makes us different then the hordes of people selling/buying SGI Indys / Atari's / C64's / Acrons and SNES's on ebay. People hack and make new software for these things occasionally to. Nobody makes fun of them. Usually it's just "cool, a GUI web-browser for the C64! l337!" Amiga has a stigma I suppose.
Really, I enjoy the Amiga scene. I have no illusions about it's relevance, I have no grand notions of an Amiga Desktop revival,
I just enjoy retro-gaming, simple computing and the novelty of a unique platform.
Aren't any of you tired of upgrading your PC with a new video card? Or switching backgrounds in Gnome? Yawn. Don't you want to broaden your horizons a little?
SCORE!!!! Ahh.. Mr. Godwin, he was a wise man.
That stings a little. I work when I can spare time away from 50 hours a week of system administration. I've probably spent more time working on Outerspace then I spent ohh... I don't know, studying in college. I've personally written about 100 pages of source code, composed a few dozen species profiles, collaborated on the plot with the other developer, had music contributed by a semi-professional composer, created about 1/2 dozen 3d meshes and various other forms of art and maintained the website. (those meshes are enormously time consuming.) I've never written a game before, this is my first.
Anyway, check out http://www.outerspacecrew.net/
If you'd like to contribute, visit the forums and let me know. We could use the help.
He'll break warp 10 around the sun with a gravity slingshot effect soon enough, which, if Checov and Spock have done their calculations right, will provide him will the time he needs.
Gore said "I took the initiative in creating the internet." during that interview with CNN. I'm guessing he meant to add "bill" to the end of that sentence, as he was kind of rambling. Bill being a reference to this one.
If you retain this kernel of knowledge, I'll promise to not make so much fun of George W Bush.