How come IBM gets free Slashdot publicity? And where exactly is the news in this article? Surely the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell chip more newsworthy than the Power architecture?
Solaris seems to be faster than Linux these days, and runs on swanky new Sun Fire T2000 servers. Whether you run Linux or Solaris, file permissions are always an issue. Get used to it.
Finally I've found a spam filter that works - www.mail-filter.com - it uses disposable email addresses, RBL's and spam signatures to weed out the chaff. Seriously, this is the MessageLabs for the people...
The cookies are domain-based to the NSA site that gave them out, so this is a non story. They can only do what most businesses do - track return visitors and web site effectiveness.
I think you're missing the fundamental point that general Linux application name choices like GNOME, GIMP, XINE, etc, in no way convey their subject, whereas most Apple and Windows programs make some attempt, e.g. Word (processor), Outlook (calendar/comms), iTunes (music), iPhoto (photos).
Looking wider at computing culturally, we spent a long time in the 80s and 90s actually enjoying complexity in our geek lives. For example C++ was way more complicated than C. Only now is this tide turning, with simplicity becoming trendy (scripting with Ruby for example). Maybe Linux has strong roots to our common obfuscated past that it can't shake off?
If Transmeta proved anything, it was that you get more performance-per-watt and flexibilty by moving hardware into software. I guess that was the point behind the RISC processors that are now delivering up to 32 concurrent threads in hardware. Keeping the hardware simple gives you far greater potential. In light of this, I don't see how "system on a chip" can be a good thing?
After making Web2Mail.com, SiteStats.com and other sites, I knew my programming time was up and went to MEXICO to start my dood ranch in the sun. Isn't that what all programmers do?
Is that what the "Silo" storage concept was all about? A way to store souls in escrow? I don't think NTFS has a native soul-storage capability, although there's probably a driver somewhere...
I wonder what would happen if the M$ soul-server crashed? Truly a BSOD!
I agree. Auto-complete is the one thing that we could really do with here, but is sadly lacking. Sure I can press Ctrl+space and get a Ruby language list, but I really want to see methods available on the current object. This is not possible today.
Having said that, RDT is WAY WAY better than the alternatives. Having installed Mondrian, Scite and FreeRide, RDT on Eclipse blows them all away.
Regarding RadRails, yes it's nice but it's not a huge leap forwards from RDT - it just adds server start/stop in a new "Rails" perspective.
Here's a toast to Ruby as the Web 2.0 language of choice for rapid and happy web development!
Smalltalk is not Lisp my friend. At least Smalltalk has OO built in. Lisp and Scheme have it surgically added at a late stage with pseudo-OO a la Perl.
I was in an NHS hospital (UK) for 2 months. Given the choice of hijacking their open wireless network to read/. or paying 10p per minute for a "Patient Line" dial-up connection, I chose the former.
Unfortunately I wasn't so invisible and they found my laptop within a day or two. I say, if it's there and it's open then why not use it? We're talking about data here - not property.
Any tips on how I can better hide my ID on the net?
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I own a Sony K750 and my radio reception is free!? I don't see why ANYONE would want to pay for radio? Bizarre!
Personally I thought it was a particularly good year for Sun's Sparc processors - see this Forrester research article for example. Here are some recent Sun SPECjbb performance benchmarks against IBM's Power P5.
But since Sun isn't a leading Linux advocate, I don't expect them to get Slashdot front page coverage like IBM seems to...
Solaris seems to be faster than Linux these days, and runs on swanky new Sun Fire T2000 servers. Whether you run Linux or Solaris, file permissions are always an issue. Get used to it.
"Intel Insidious" would be more apt...
Finally I've found a spam filter that works - www.mail-filter.com - it uses disposable email addresses, RBL's and spam signatures to weed out the chaff. Seriously, this is the MessageLabs for the people...
The cookies are domain-based to the NSA site that gave them out, so this is a non story. They can only do what most businesses do - track return visitors and web site effectiveness.
I think you're missing the fundamental point that general Linux application name choices like GNOME, GIMP, XINE, etc, in no way convey their subject, whereas most Apple and Windows programs make some attempt, e.g. Word (processor), Outlook (calendar/comms), iTunes (music), iPhoto (photos). Looking wider at computing culturally, we spent a long time in the 80s and 90s actually enjoying complexity in our geek lives. For example C++ was way more complicated than C. Only now is this tide turning, with simplicity becoming trendy (scripting with Ruby for example). Maybe Linux has strong roots to our common obfuscated past that it can't shake off?
If Transmeta proved anything, it was that you get more performance-per-watt and flexibilty by moving hardware into software. I guess that was the point behind the RISC processors that are now delivering up to 32 concurrent threads in hardware. Keeping the hardware simple gives you far greater potential. In light of this, I don't see how "system on a chip" can be a good thing?
After making Web2Mail.com, SiteStats.com and other sites, I knew my programming time was up and went to MEXICO to start my dood ranch in the sun. Isn't that what all programmers do?
Is that what the "Silo" storage concept was all about? A way to store souls in escrow? I don't think NTFS has a native soul-storage capability, although there's probably a driver somewhere... I wonder what would happen if the M$ soul-server crashed? Truly a BSOD!
I agree. Auto-complete is the one thing that we could really do with here, but is sadly lacking. Sure I can press Ctrl+space and get a Ruby language list, but I really want to see methods available on the current object. This is not possible today. Having said that, RDT is WAY WAY better than the alternatives. Having installed Mondrian, Scite and FreeRide, RDT on Eclipse blows them all away. Regarding RadRails, yes it's nice but it's not a huge leap forwards from RDT - it just adds server start/stop in a new "Rails" perspective. Here's a toast to Ruby as the Web 2.0 language of choice for rapid and happy web development!
Was your posting in triplicate by any chance a side-effect of your macros? I was noting this at "read time" ;-)
Smalltalk is not Lisp my friend. At least Smalltalk has OO built in. Lisp and Scheme have it surgically added at a late stage with pseudo-OO a la Perl.
I was in an NHS hospital (UK) for 2 months. Given the choice of hijacking their open wireless network to read /. or paying 10p per minute for a "Patient Line" dial-up connection, I chose the former.
Unfortunately I wasn't so invisible and they found my laptop within a day or two. I say, if it's there and it's open then why not use it? We're talking about data here - not property.
Any tips on how I can better hide my ID on the net?
Remember that Solaris is UNIX and by definition Linux Is Not UniX - so it's impossible for Solaris code to get into Linux anyway.