That we will start seeing more variety in Desktops again, due to the larger number of standards compliant systems being put out.
If something runs on a X server, you can run it remotely on any machine, so a large organizations base level software will be served off of a central machine, and each person will run it on their local system. If something is Java based, it will run on the desktop of any system. This goes for any toolkit that can be run cross platform, so Tcl/tk, Perl, Python etc..If something is based on a cross platform Librarys, like Qt, it will run on any machine that supports it, albeit it with a recompile. And with Cygwin, if I write my apps to be Unix-compatible, they can run on a windows box as well. Throw.Net into the mix, and Ximian's product may be quite useful. Again most of this that will run on one system will run on all.
So software can and will be built that runs on multiple platforms. As a developer, If I were to write a desktop application, I would choose something that could run on as many different end systems as possible, so the difference between Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Solaris, etc will be minimized.
As an IT person, I am going to look for systems I can deploy cheaply. Unless we have another explosion in growth like many companies expereinced during the.com explosion, They are going to be buying machines a few at a time, and will attempt to maximized short term utility. If OSX makes sense for their business, and they can get a good price, and they can get the support , they will choose it. If 3 months later something makes more sense, they will choses that. So long as they avoid vendor lock-in, they can vary things up. Yes I know the costs involved in going between multiple systems, so Companies are going to stay primarily with one set of systems. But even during my time with a medium size consulting Firm, we had all flavors of Windows, a huge chunk of Linuxes, and did development for and on Solaris. So Variety seems to be a real possibility. Damn that is cool.
1. Write a test for a specific block of code.
2. Appliy the refactoring
You are going to want a good testing framework.
To expand on the modules post: Do a dependency analysis. If you are writing DB based code, look at what tables can be logically grouped together.
We did something like this at my company not too long ago. The basical level package we had was the security package, which identifies users and roles. Most other packages depended on this. All contact management stuff went into a package called Directory. All stuff for the people our system was managing went into Participant etc.
For each of the packages, split the code out into a set of interfaces, and a set of implementing code for business logic, and the UI required to drive that business logic. This is the standard breakdown for code. You may want to further pull out code into helper packages. Avoid the urge to call these helper or util, and instead try to name them based on what they contain: we have one called format for stuff like phone numbers and social security numbers.
Don't forget the make scripts. What ever build you use, it should be used to specify which modules you want to compile/deploy
I recommend a little UML modeling session for the end package structure.
Go in little pieces. After each refacotring, makes sure stuff still runs.
Actually, please forget about Hannukah. It is a nothing holday, that is only mentioned 'cause it falls out near X-Mas. If you want to show how truely open minded and all embracing you are, tell someone Chag Sameach on Simchas Torah.
While the story of Hannukah itself is interesting, its long reaching affects are more so. After the revloution which pushed the Syrian-Greeks out of Israel, the Macabees assumed the leadership of the country, They were so bad at it, they invited, yes, invited, the Romans in. Once the Romans had a foothold, they assumed control of the country...which lead to the Diaspora (and Christmas...and Easter).
I find it interesting to hear him call for things like a neutral commons, and yet criticize the Slashdot audience for not working together for political ends. Slashdot is a forum, and as such, courts dissenting views. If the Slashdot audience was able to unite and force a politician to support a particular view, we would be nothing but a mob, swayed by whomever could give the best speech.
Slashdot's audience is very non-monolithic. While the postings are usually anit-microsoft, obviously some people who are very pro-microsoft read on a regular basis, and feel compelled to post. Granted that good chunk of people wil post an opposing view to anything just to still debate. But this is a place for people to voice differeing opinions.
Not everyone that reads Slashdot is tech savvy, and those that are understand best the portions of technology that they use: I am a programmer, and not a very good system administrator. I understand business software a hell of a lot better than I understand embedded programming.
I enjoy the debates on Slashdot. I enjoy learning an opposing point of view to somthing I've held as obvious, and find out that there is a hell of alot more on Heaven and Earth than is dreamt of in my philosophy [appologies to the Bard]
I appreciate the post, and the fact that he answered the questions. And I generally agreed with his point of view. But Slashdot is not a political party.
Re:Does someone here know what U p&p is?
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OK that is part one, Universal Plug and PLay is SMB for the new generation (refering to the automtic notification of computers on the network).Sounds like it is attempting to solve the same problem as Jini.
How does one turn it off, and what would it affect to do so?
Does someone here know what U p&p is?
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WinXP Security Flaw
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I would not mind a decent explaination of what Universal Plug and PLay is, what it takes to shut it off, and what it would affect.
Actually, I think I knew that. But I do remember being above ground on the T, (Maybe the Blue line?) further north. I'll see If I can find out where they supposedly did this.
Am I the only one who hoped to get images of the paging algorithm, the process context switch, the...
OK, not really. But the images are of the UI, not the OS.
I happen to be a big fan of the Linux + Java combo. I wonder what the library is that they use for UI development? Anyone know. Is that a part of J2ME? I noticed the Trolltech reference. Is this QT? Java bindings for QT?
The things keeping me from going completely Open Source Java are the classlibraries and the JVM. Open source Java compilers are out there (most notably Jikes).
I noticed this on the site:
Amiga gets into Linux PDAs
When Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus PDA hits the U.S. and Europe, software developed by old-timer Amiga will provide that old black magic.
Who is this Amiga guy? Is he that old Commodore Aminga, now retired from active duty?....
This is not for rendering in 3d, but for allowing a machine to build a 3d model (internally) of the environment it uses. I assume it is based on the same sort of binocular mechanism as animal eyes, but the algorithms to build the internal structure are probably pretty advanced.
A cool application (I haven't seen if they've done this yet) is rendering in Open GL the internal view of what the robot eyes see. It would allow you to walk through a building, and then have a 3D model for various other uses. Reverse engineering blueprints.
THis would be great technology to have on any mars lander, or even just to analyze the data sent back.
THere seems to be wuite a bit of bragging in the article, but I guess that is to be expected. Something big like this sounds like it took a lot of effort, so these guys were psyched. Can't say as I blame them.
But it does kindof worry me that Canadians ccan now create there own elements at will. What is to prevent them from creating tons and tons of gold and flooding the gold market? Or How about creating their own Plutonium. Uh oh, I think Canada just got the bomb...Or Carbon. If canada can create it's own Carbon, what can keep them from creating diamonds and flooding the diamond market. And Carbopn is the basis for life. they can create their own stem cells. George Bush ain't going to be happy about that one...Wait, I just relized this means they can create their Hydrogen. My god, they cancreate their own sun. My god, Canada must be stopped.
Hey, who modded this guy offtopic? Any conversation about Ximian, Microsoft, and GNU is going to come down to a discussion about values, and terms used. He wasn't using the Terms Kike and Jew as derogatory, he was using them as a reference.
My immediate response was that this was US (and other) Law enforcement going too far. However, I realized that even if the law is wrong, it is still the law. If people break it in a public way (bragging about wares) some one is going to complain the they law enforcement authorities will have to take action.
I can't say I am against software liscencing. I theory, I'd love to do all open source software, and believe that I will be able to get to that place in the near future. In the interim, I work for a company that barely breaks even, and is only pable to pay programmers based on software licensing fees. We know people pirate our software (we get support calls from them and just turn them down) but don't go overboard chasing them down.Hell, we don't go after them at all.
Game makers, I would have to think, are the most at risk. As competitive as that industry is, the difference between people who would have bought the games but didn't 'cause they could get them for free, may actually be the difference between making money on the game or not.
Anybody have any numbers on this? Is this realy a victemless crime, or does it make a real difference
Red Mars Is the first of a trilogy that deals with the terraforming (should I say aeroforming?) of Mars. A great read. Kim Stanley Robinson has done his homework on the science behind the effort. Yes, it is Science fiction, but the emphasis is on the first word.
The government pays more because the scope they buy is built to military spec. Having been an infantryman and beaten the hell out of my night vision goggles, this makes sense.
I really should try it with one of the open source compiler and VM combinations, but I haven't yet.
I was going to say that believe the Sun JDK for Linux is based on blackdown's work, and the blackdown stuff is Open Source, although not GPL. However, I just checked the balckdown site and the code does not seem to be available.
At my office we use JBoss as part of an entirely Open Source and free platform stack:
OS: Linux
Web Server: Apache
Servlet engine: Tomcat
EJB Container: JBoss
DB: PostgresQL
And a great set of middle level libraries such as Struts for form processing, a slew of other jakarta classes, tinySQL fro xBase integration, JUnit, and HttpUnit.
I came from a company that did oracle/ATG integrations. I can honsetly say as a developer, I have everything I need that I used on thos platforms.Plust I like that fact that it is a little closer to the J2EE standard than ATG.
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1) Keep writing good books
2) Get word out about good books from the past. I am still into the works of Alexandre Dumas, Robert Lousi Stevenson, Jack London, and Mark Twain, not to mention Issaac Azimov, Robert Heinlein, uh,oh, better stop now.
Good movies of Good books in some way help. My introduction to a life long relationship with the works of JRR Tolkien begain with the animated version of the Hobbit.
Books that got me into reading:
1) Andrew Henry's Meadow. God I loved that book. way back in kindergarten, too. Has anyone else read it?
2) The Hardy Boy's series. The first "Big Books" I read. (All words, a few scattereted illustrations, and standard novel height as opposed to 10-12" height of little kids books.
3)Alexandre Dumas. All the books ofr the 3 Musketeer Series (20 Years After, the Viscompte de Bragallone[sp?], the Man in the Iron Mask) and The Conte of Monte Cristo (Is that Banderas in the movie posters?) These books, that my grandfather gave to me in Leather Bound Hardbacks from the turn of the Century. They were Huge, something like 500 pages each, and Filled with words I had never read before and couldn't understand in 3rd and fourth grade (Didactic and Dogmatic?) but they dragged me in.
(I am an addicted reader. I've ruined more mornings by reading until the wee hours the night before.)
Make books available to kids, read to them and let them follow along with the words. Encourage their "Reading Habits " by feeding them anything they will consume. Doesn't metter if it starts with Harry Potter and the Fellow ship of the Ring. Yes, they will be Nerds, Sci Fi Geeks, book worms. Yes, they will support the Pulk Paperback industry by buying...Hey, I just realized I am probably describing the target audience of Slashdot.
It came from Userfriendly. I could make a link directly to the comic, but I think I will just destroy you day's productivity by pointing to the site and suggesting you find it...
Slashdot Mirror
And as we all know, 42 is the answer
That we will start seeing more variety in Desktops again, due to the larger number of standards compliant systems being put out.
.Net into the mix, and Ximian's product may be quite useful. Again most of this that will run on one system will run on all.
.com explosion, They are going to be buying machines a few at a time, and will attempt to maximized short term utility. If OSX makes sense for their business, and they can get a good price, and they can get the support , they will choose it. If 3 months later something makes more sense, they will choses that. So long as they avoid vendor lock-in, they can vary things up. Yes I know the costs involved in going between multiple systems, so Companies are going to stay primarily with one set of systems. But even during my time with a medium size consulting Firm, we had all flavors of Windows, a huge chunk of Linuxes, and did development for and on Solaris. So Variety seems to be a real possibility. Damn that is cool.
If something runs on a X server, you can run it remotely on any machine, so a large organizations base level software will be served off of a central machine, and each person will run it on their local system. If something is Java based, it will run on the desktop of any system. This goes for any toolkit that can be run cross platform, so Tcl/tk, Perl, Python etc..If something is based on a cross platform Librarys, like Qt, it will run on any machine that supports it, albeit it with a recompile. And with Cygwin, if I write my apps to be Unix-compatible, they can run on a windows box as well. Throw
So software can and will be built that runs on multiple platforms. As a developer, If I were to write a desktop application, I would choose something that could run on as many different end systems as possible, so the difference between Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Solaris, etc will be minimized.
As an IT person, I am going to look for systems I can deploy cheaply. Unless we have another explosion in growth like many companies expereinced during the
Happy Holiday on Simchas Torah, a more important Holiday than Channukah, which is in early Summer
To expand on the concept of Refactoring:
1. Write a test for a specific block of code.
2. Appliy the refactoring
You are going to want a good testing framework.
To expand on the modules post: Do a dependency analysis. If you are writing DB based code, look at what tables can be logically grouped together.
We did something like this at my company not too long ago. The basical level package we had was the security package, which identifies users and roles. Most other packages depended on this. All contact management stuff went into a package called Directory. All stuff for the people our system was managing went into Participant etc.
For each of the packages, split the code out into a set of interfaces, and a set of implementing code for business logic, and the UI required to drive that business logic. This is the standard breakdown for code. You may want to further pull out code into helper packages. Avoid the urge to call these helper or util, and instead try to name them based on what they contain: we have one called format for stuff like phone numbers and social security numbers.
Don't forget the make scripts. What ever build you use, it should be used to specify which modules you want to compile/deploy
I recommend a little UML modeling session for the end package structure.
Go in little pieces. After each refacotring, makes sure stuff still runs.
Good Luck
Actually, please forget about Hannukah. It is a nothing holday, that is only mentioned 'cause it falls out near X-Mas. If you want to show how truely open minded and all embracing you are, tell someone Chag Sameach on Simchas Torah.
While the story of Hannukah itself is interesting, its long reaching affects are more so. After the revloution which pushed the Syrian-Greeks out of Israel, the Macabees assumed the leadership of the country, They were so bad at it, they invited, yes, invited, the Romans in. Once the Romans had a foothold, they assumed control of the country...which lead to the Diaspora (and Christmas...and Easter).
I find it interesting to hear him call for things like a neutral commons, and yet criticize the Slashdot audience for not working together for political ends. Slashdot is a forum, and as such, courts dissenting views. If the Slashdot audience was able to unite and force a politician to support a particular view, we would be nothing but a mob, swayed by whomever could give the best speech.
Slashdot's audience is very non-monolithic. While the postings are usually anit-microsoft, obviously some people who are very pro-microsoft read on a regular basis, and feel compelled to post. Granted that good chunk of people wil post an opposing view to anything just to still debate. But this is a place for people to voice differeing opinions.
Not everyone that reads Slashdot is tech savvy, and those that are understand best the portions of technology that they use: I am a programmer, and not a very good system administrator. I understand business software a hell of a lot better than I understand embedded programming.
I enjoy the debates on Slashdot. I enjoy learning an opposing point of view to somthing I've held as obvious, and find out that there is a hell of alot more on Heaven and Earth than is dreamt of in my philosophy [appologies to the Bard]
I appreciate the post, and the fact that he answered the questions. And I generally agreed with his point of view. But Slashdot is not a political party.
Not if the script is run on the infected machine
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OK that is part one, Universal Plug and PLay is SMB for the new generation (refering to the automtic notification of computers on the network).Sounds like it is attempting to solve the same problem as Jini.
How does one turn it off, and what would it affect to do so?
I would not mind a decent explaination of what Universal Plug and PLay is, what it takes to shut it off, and what it would affect.
Naw, they macroed it
#define SECURE_GET_STRING gets
Looks like they got apple.com, too
Actually, I think I knew that. But I do remember being above ground on the T, (Maybe the Blue line?) further north. I'll see If I can find out where they supposedly did this.
The MBTA (The T) is a subway in Boston, but runs as trolley cars in Cambridge. One night, a swarm of MIT students surrounded a stopped trolley car.
And welded it to the tracks.
y Friends Dad was student there at the time. His report is the only evidence I have that this happened. Any one else know about it?
Am I the only one who hoped to get images of the paging algorithm, the process context switch, the...
OK, not really. But the images are of the UI, not the OS.
I happen to be a big fan of the Linux + Java combo. I wonder what the library is that they use for UI development? Anyone know. Is that a part of J2ME? I noticed the Trolltech reference. Is this QT? Java bindings for QT?
The things keeping me from going completely Open Source Java are the classlibraries and the JVM. Open source Java compilers are out there (most notably Jikes).
I noticed this on the site:
Amiga gets into Linux PDAs
When Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus PDA hits the U.S. and Europe, software developed by old-timer Amiga will provide that old black magic.
Who is this Amiga guy? Is he that old Commodore Aminga, now retired from active duty?....
This is not for rendering in 3d, but for allowing a machine to build a 3d model (internally) of the environment it uses. I assume it is based on the same sort of binocular mechanism as animal eyes, but the algorithms to build the internal structure are probably pretty advanced.
A cool application (I haven't seen if they've done this yet) is rendering in Open GL the internal view of what the robot eyes see. It would allow you to walk through a building, and then have a 3D model for various other uses. Reverse engineering blueprints.
THis would be great technology to have on any mars lander, or even just to analyze the data sent back.
THere seems to be wuite a bit of bragging in the article, but I guess that is to be expected. Something big like this sounds like it took a lot of effort, so these guys were psyched. Can't say as I blame them.
But it does kindof worry me that Canadians ccan now create there own elements at will. What is to prevent them from creating tons and tons of gold and flooding the gold market? Or How about creating their own Plutonium. Uh oh, I think Canada just got the bomb...Or Carbon. If canada can create it's own Carbon, what can keep them from creating diamonds and flooding the diamond market. And Carbopn is the basis for life. they can create their own stem cells. George Bush ain't going to be happy about that one...Wait, I just relized this means they can create their Hydrogen. My god, they cancreate their own sun. My god, Canada must be stopped.
Congrats goes out to these guys.
So of course I clicked the link
Turns out it is a javascrip page that opens window after window, I assume it would stop when it crashed some resourece or other.
So yes, don't click the link
Hey, who modded this guy offtopic? Any conversation about Ximian, Microsoft, and GNU is going to come down to a discussion about values, and terms used. He wasn't using the Terms Kike and Jew as derogatory, he was using them as a reference.
Someone with mod points please mod him back up.
BTW, I prefer the more polite Red-Sea-Pedestrian
My immediate response was that this was US (and other) Law enforcement going too far. However, I realized that even if the law is wrong, it is still the law. If people break it in a public way (bragging about wares) some one is going to complain the they law enforcement authorities will have to take action.
I can't say I am against software liscencing. I theory, I'd love to do all open source software, and believe that I will be able to get to that place in the near future. In the interim, I work for a company that barely breaks even, and is only pable to pay programmers based on software licensing fees. We know people pirate our software (we get support calls from them and just turn them down) but don't go overboard chasing them down.Hell, we don't go after them at all.
Game makers, I would have to think, are the most at risk. As competitive as that industry is, the difference between people who would have bought the games but didn't 'cause they could get them for free, may actually be the difference between making money on the game or not.
Anybody have any numbers on this? Is this realy a victemless crime, or does it make a real difference
Red Mars Is the first of a trilogy that deals with the terraforming (should I say aeroforming?) of Mars. A great read. Kim Stanley Robinson has done his homework on the science behind the effort. Yes, it is Science fiction, but the emphasis is on the first word.
The government pays more because the scope they buy is built to military spec. Having been an infantryman and beaten the hell out of my night vision goggles, this makes sense.
But damn does it make things heavy.
Touche'
I really should try it with one of the open source compiler and VM combinations, but I haven't yet.
I was going to say that believe the Sun JDK for Linux is based on blackdown's work, and the blackdown stuff is Open Source, although not GPL. However, I just checked the balckdown site and the code does not seem to be available.
At my office we use JBoss as part of an entirely Open Source and free platform stack:
OS: Linux
Web Server: Apache
Servlet engine: Tomcat
EJB Container: JBoss
DB: PostgresQL
And a great set of middle level libraries such as Struts for form processing, a slew of other jakarta classes, tinySQL fro xBase integration, JUnit, and HttpUnit.
I came from a company that did oracle/ATG integrations. I can honsetly say as a developer, I have everything I need that I used on thos platforms.Plust I like that fact that it is a little closer to the J2EE standard than ATG.
1) Keep writing good books
2) Get word out about good books from the past. I am still into the works of Alexandre Dumas, Robert Lousi Stevenson, Jack London, and Mark Twain, not to mention Issaac Azimov, Robert Heinlein, uh,oh, better stop now.
Good movies of Good books in some way help. My introduction to a life long relationship with the works of JRR Tolkien begain with the animated version of the Hobbit.
Books that got me into reading:
1) Andrew Henry's Meadow. God I loved that book. way back in kindergarten, too. Has anyone else read it?
2) The Hardy Boy's series. The first "Big Books" I read. (All words, a few scattereted illustrations, and standard novel height as opposed to 10-12" height of little kids books.
3)Alexandre Dumas. All the books ofr the 3 Musketeer Series (20 Years After, the Viscompte de Bragallone[sp?], the Man in the Iron Mask) and The Conte of Monte Cristo (Is that Banderas in the movie posters?) These books, that my grandfather gave to me in Leather Bound Hardbacks from the turn of the Century. They were Huge, something like 500 pages each, and Filled with words I had never read before and couldn't understand in 3rd and fourth grade (Didactic and Dogmatic?) but they dragged me in.
(I am an addicted reader. I've ruined more mornings by reading until the wee hours the night before.)
Make books available to kids, read to them and let them follow along with the words. Encourage their "Reading Habits " by feeding them anything they will consume. Doesn't metter if it starts with Harry Potter and the Fellow ship of the Ring. Yes, they will be Nerds, Sci Fi Geeks, book worms. Yes, they will support the Pulk Paperback industry by buying...Hey, I just realized I am probably describing the target audience of Slashdot.
It came from Userfriendly. I could make a link directly to the comic, but I think I will just destroy you day's productivity by pointing to the site and suggesting you find it...