I have done lots of good coding on airline flights - no phone calls, no people dropping in, no Slashdot to read. Some keys to success:
1. Fly American Airlines. They have power ports in coach as well as 1st class. (They are also the only major airline that has not gone bankrupt - yet).
2. On a Super 80 (that's a big version of a DC9), get seat 21F. That is an exit row window seat that reclines. Some people like 21D (aisle), which is OK too. Ideally, the middle seat next to you is empty. (If you have a Gold card or above, you can reserve exit row in advance.) The exit rows on these planes have more legroom than 1st class. Go for an upgrade only if the middle seat is likely to be filled.
3. Bring food and drink.
4. Bring a power adapter for 12V. Different vendors sell these. On American, the plug is the same as for a cigarette lighter in a car.
5. (Optional) Select a flight that is likely to be delayed a few hours, say, for passing T'storms. This gives you more time for coding without having to worry about the seat belt sign. [Obviously not recommended if you have to make a connection.]
Although the email is dated 2002, the consultant's study that it refers to was delivered in 1999. You have to dig through the links on Groklaw to find this out. The consultant, Bob Swartz, examined Red Hat 5.2, which would be a 2.0 generation kernel.
I also waited 4 months, and yes, it was a Speakeasy issue [i.e., they created the problem. they told me that I needed to take steps to fix it, in the end they were the only ones who could fix it, which they did, but jeez, 4 months wasted.] Since then, however, the service has been impeccable. SBC, of course, was more than willing to step in and sell me service, but they couldn't figure out how far I was from the central office, even telling me that I couldn't qualify for more than their lowest level of service, in spite of the fact that a good golf shot from my front yard would hit the side of their building!
If you go into any one of the stores and offer to spend a big enough wad of cash, but only on the condition that they preinstall the OSS of your choice, you will get their attention. Money talks.
The problem is that Murphy probably obtained his information by reading SCO's legal briefs. Here's a quote from a declaration of John Harrop, submitted by SCO:
"... Mr. Torvalds had been studying an operating system that one of his professors [Andrew Tanenbaum]... based on and derived from UNIX,"
IBM, in a later brief, pointed out that Tanenbaum teaches in Amersterdam, while Torvalds was a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland.
I actually had an Accuweather account for years, dial-up (paid for long distance bill plus $10 per month). I stopped using it once weather via internet (both gopher and later http) became available because the internet product provided vastly more information (like satellite.gif images, radar maps) and in a much more usable format. The cost was only secondary. Remind me again, how will this bill better serve the public?
I've used both 026 and 029 keypunches (along
with all the standard tty keyboards, ASR33, vt100,
decwriters, IBM PC, Mac, SunOS, SGI, etc.) and the 029 was by far the most efficient device for
entering source code, notwithstanding the fact that if you made a mistake, you had to eject the card and start over from scratch. The 029 was also OS
agnostic (sort of). Can't say anything about OS X... never used it.
Slashdot Mirror
Shouldn't the logo that Slashdot uses for the article now be a "Lenovo" logo (whatever the heck that looks like) now that IBM has sold the business?
I have done lots of good coding on airline flights - no phone calls, no people dropping in, no Slashdot to read. Some keys to success:
1. Fly American Airlines. They have power ports in coach as well as 1st class. (They are also the only major airline that has not gone bankrupt - yet).
2. On a Super 80 (that's a big version of a DC9), get seat 21F. That is an exit row window seat that reclines. Some people like 21D (aisle), which is OK too. Ideally, the middle seat next to you is empty. (If you have a Gold card or above, you can reserve exit row in advance.) The exit rows on these planes have more legroom than 1st class. Go for an upgrade only if the middle seat is likely to be filled.
3. Bring food and drink.
4. Bring a power adapter for 12V. Different vendors sell these. On American, the plug is the same as for a cigarette lighter in a car.
5. (Optional) Select a flight that is likely to be delayed a few hours, say, for passing T'storms. This gives you more time for coding without having to worry about the seat belt sign. [Obviously not recommended if you have to make a connection.]
Or maybe because they are located in Sweden which has it's own constitution?
Although the email is dated 2002, the consultant's study that it refers to was delivered in 1999. You have to dig through the links on Groklaw to find this out. The consultant, Bob Swartz, examined Red Hat 5.2, which would be a 2.0 generation kernel.
I also waited 4 months, and yes, it was a Speakeasy issue [i.e., they created the problem. they told me that I needed to take steps to fix it, in the end they were the only ones who could fix it, which they did, but jeez, 4 months wasted.] Since then, however, the service has been impeccable. SBC, of course, was more than willing to step in and sell me service, but they couldn't figure out how far I was from the central office, even telling me that I couldn't qualify for more than their lowest level of service, in spite of the fact that a good golf shot from my front yard would hit the side of their building!
If you go into any one of the stores and offer to spend a big enough wad of cash, but only on the condition that they preinstall the OSS of your choice, you will get their attention. Money talks.
The problem is that Murphy probably obtained his information by reading SCO's legal briefs. Here's a quote from a declaration of John Harrop, submitted by SCO:
... based on and derived from UNIX,"
"... Mr. Torvalds had been studying an operating system that one of his professors [Andrew Tanenbaum]
IBM, in a later brief, pointed out that Tanenbaum teaches in Amersterdam, while Torvalds was a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland.
I actually had an Accuweather account for years, dial-up (paid for long distance bill plus $10 per month). I stopped using it once weather via internet (both gopher and later http) became available because the internet product provided vastly more information (like satellite .gif images, radar maps) and in a much more usable format. The cost was only secondary. Remind me again, how will this bill better serve the public?
I've used both 026 and 029 keypunches (along with all the standard tty keyboards, ASR33, vt100, decwriters, IBM PC, Mac, SunOS, SGI, etc.) and the 029 was by far the most efficient device for entering source code, notwithstanding the fact that if you made a mistake, you had to eject the card and start over from scratch. The 029 was also OS agnostic (sort of). Can't say anything about OS X ... never used it.
Slightly OT, lynx lets us compare the "weight" of
the big search sites. [In this comarison, smaller
numbers are better.]
First, let's "weigh" MSN:
lynx -source http://www.msn.com/ | wc
344 2027 41468
(the last line gives the number of lines, words,
and bytes in the source code for the web page.) We
find that the home page "weighs in" at 41 kbytes.
Next up, YAHOO:
lynx -source http://www.yahoo.com/ | wc
441 2078 32002
So Yahoo has more lines, the same number of words,
but overall has only 3/4 the total "weight" of
MSN.
Finally, Google:
lynx -source http://www.google.com/ | wc
12 102 2058
Google "weighs in" at a parsimonious 2 kbytes.
The verdict is in: it's not even close - comparing
MSN to Google is like comparing an amateur to a
professional.