Mr. Coates is not the first one to resign from Inprise's Big Board. You'll remember that not so long ago, Chairman and CEO Dell Yocam left the company, probably in protest against to the Microsoft-Inprise deal.
At that time, Microsoft invested more than $100 millions in Inprise, and that really scared the hell out of me. Like many Java-CORBA developers, I was not too happy to hear that Microsoft - the DCOM protagonist - had just gained access to one of the top CORBA product: VisiBroker.
Now I'm a bit more at ease because we've got two opposite and strong politics:
Corel-Inprise with Corel LINUX, VisiBroker and IAS, WordPerfect, J/CBuilder;
Microsoft-Inprise with Windows, DCOM/DNA/MTS, MSOffice and Visual Studio.
Now, I really can not understand why Microsoft invested in Inprise. It is the most aggressive competitor they had for long. And I wish them all the best...
Helix Code is an open source software company devoted to improving GNOME, the leading desktop environment for Linux.
Their product, as fas as I can tell, is called Helix GNOME installer. It's GPL-ed, and you can download the source from their ftp site (which is not yet/.-ed, as of this writing).
You can get the player for $700 if you buy two of them. It's still rather expensive, but for the one who was going to buy one anyway, it is a nice extra. ' Just needs to find someone else as rich as him, or as frantic about getting this new toy...
The M13 bug where the HTTP proxy could not remember the password had been fixed in one nightly build last week. It is not anymore in this release. I am certainly not going to use that M14 build if I must reenter my username and password each time I need a Web document (either an html page or an embedded image). Damned! M14 is not even there and I must already wait for M15...
Here is the dead www.usb.org/developers/devclass.html link as cached by Google. Unfortunately, Google didn't cache the PDF files that are referenced on this fantom page.
This is not about hosting, but about free domain names. Cx's registrants can still make their DNS point to sourceforge.net if they want. Free DNS services are available from different sites (like Granite Canyon for example,) so opensource webmasters don't even have to pay for that either.
Indentation for statement-grouping has quite some defenders, and does sometimes make sense. For example, you usually use both curly brackets and indentation in your C/C++/Java/etc code to group statements. Brackets are intended for the compiler, while indentation are for the humans. Python simply uses indentation for both, and spares you those extra key strokes (no more Alt-9 and Alt-0 finger stretching on those non-qwerty keyboards!). Secondly, this technique sets once and for all the layout coding practice. No more fight about where you should open the righ curly bracket. In the end all this makes Python code easier to read, something you will appreciate the first time you must hack someone else's code.
We've just received a RS6000 F50 and nobody at the office seems to be interested in it for the next couple of weeks. I was wondering if I could install Linux on it and play with it for a few days before the machine gets its final OS. For one, does PowerPPC 2000 support RS6000? Then what about YDL? It seems they support it, but the note from their site says something like this:
What hardware is officially supported by Yellow Dog Linux? [...] - IBM RS/6000 B50, 7025-F50, and 43P model 150 (in "unimode")
Mozilla does work pretty well with Proxy, but I advise you to skip this release if your proxy requires authentification, like mine does.
Indeed it seems this alpha build can not remember your proxy password, which means that you have to enter your id and password dozens of times (frames + images) for each url you visit. I finally gave up after visiting my third bookmark. Sigh.
But the threat of a ban failed to ignite an outcry from [@Home's] customers, a symptom of the dwindling use of Usenet. Once a venerable platform for online discussions, the influence of Usenet newsgroups has progressively declined, according to analysts and those in the industry.
I certainly disagree with this. Maybe the percentage of the overall internet population who uses Newsgroups has dropped, but it might just be because so many Web surfers don't even know Usenet exists.
I for one visit a couple of new Newsgroups every month or so. I'm usually not debating any serious matter or software release, but am rather looking for help on an hw/sw problem. And I'm happy to notice that helpful people with useful comments are as numerous as a few years ago.
I must however admit that mailing lists' quality have recently increased for both spam filtering and archiving. I give a big Thank You to www.mail-archive.com, for their contribution to this. But nevertheless, most technical newsgroups are certainly far from dwindling.
... what about that Dutch scientist who stared at the sun for 14 minutes before going permanently blind
Did he die staring at the sun (or subsequently)? That's the number one rule to be elligible for a Darwin award. Quoted from their site:
"we commemorate those who unintentionally douse the gene pool with chlorine by innovating moronic ways of killing themselves, thereby helping eliminateu ndesirable weaknesses from the genome."
If we follow your logic and agree to begin a millenium with the year 0, and not the year 1 as it is in use in the Christian Era calendar, then we must also apply this to months and days. And tomorrow, we will be the 0 Jan of the next millenium!
And that's a spot in the espace-time continuum where we certainly don't want to be! But do we really care? We'll be drunk anyway.
Using RMI/IIOP, RMI/JRMP, pure CORBA or any fancy protocol will not bring any new value in this case.
First of all, with those protocols, you will have to write a Java applets that use complex tricks to pass though firewalls, something pure HTTP does very easily.
Then, you will still be stuck with the same problem on the client machine: how do you store the state information between two different browser sessions? Your applet will have to ask for access to your hard-drive, and this implies pop-up windows, certificates and a lot of faith and trust from the user.
Optionnaly, the applet could upload everything to the server before exiting, so that the info is stored on the server-side, but then the user will have to relog again next time he visits the site if he wants the applet to retrieve the previous information. Something, again, that cookies and pure HTTP do very easily.
I'm rather happy with the Cookies/HTTP/JSP/Servlet mix for the moment. It's light, fast and predictable.
Just make sure your $Netscape/user directory (or equiva~1) is only readable by you, and check that https in turned on each time you're really sending confidential info, and you're as safe as you can be.
Maybe it's time to advertise the use of the GPLtrans engine instead of Babelfish...
Unfortunately, their German translation unit is under maintainance for a few days. Too many words [...] and MySQL isn't responding correctly, the web site says.
I for one hope that GPLtrans will be mentioned next time a non-English article is referenced on Slashdot.
I also have a lot more trust in command-line tools than GUIs. There are few automated tools that don't make me shiver when I click on a button. But recently, I had to integrate an existing database schema with Container Managed EJBeans in WebSphere, and my opinion of VisualAge for Java changed totally. Without VAJava, the mapping would have been nearly impossible or would have taken hours for every single bean. Their persistency tool for EJBs, at least, does a wonderful job and I would not consider deploying complex Entity beans without VisualAge.
I however hate the way they split your object view into various method windows. In summary, I only use VAJava for deployment, not development.
Because if you are in a hurry when you install a software, or are simply not interested in all the bells and whistles, you usually skip the READMEs and trust the (Net)Etiquette of the software you use.
You certainly don't want to have to go down a few dialog windows to uncheck things like "BCC: my.privacy@outlook.com" in your mail reader.
If this project really takes off, the bandwidth will indeed suffer from the download of those big movies and commercials. However, in the mid-term, I'm sure we will all benefit from it as the network adapts itself (read Cisco sales increase) to compensate this new constraint.
Alan posted a summary of the 2.2.13pre5 patches on the Linux Kernel mailing List last thursday. MandrakeSoft might have considered this prerelease stable enough to include it in their 6.1 tree. They might also be holding their press annoucement until the final 2.2.13 is out and they can rpm-ize it and load it on their ftp site.
I've never installed a pre-xxx kernel before, and I wonder if any of you who did it had experience problems with software that test the minor version number of the hosting kernel. I guess a program based on atoi("13pre5") will not be too happy about the whole idea.
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Thanks a lot for the details.
One more thing, just to satisfy my curiosity : did Microsoft at any time have access to VisiBroker or IAS source code?
At that time, Microsoft invested more than $100 millions in Inprise, and that really scared the hell out of me. Like many Java-CORBA developers, I was not too happy to hear that Microsoft - the DCOM protagonist - had just gained access to one of the top CORBA product: VisiBroker.
Now I'm a bit more at ease because we've got two opposite and strong politics:
Now, I really can not understand why Microsoft invested in Inprise. It is the most aggressive competitor they had for long. And I wish them all the best...
From www.helixcode.com (when it is not /.-ed):
/.-ed, as of this writing).
Helix Code is an open source software company devoted to improving GNOME, the leading desktop environment for Linux.
Their product, as fas as I can tell, is called Helix GNOME installer. It's GPL-ed, and you can download the source from their ftp site (which is not yet
You can get the player for $700 if you buy two of them. It's still rather expensive, but for the one who was going to buy one anyway, it is a nice extra. ' Just needs to find someone else as rich as him, or as frantic about getting this new toy...
So who is interested?
The M13 bug where the HTTP proxy could not remember the password had been fixed in one nightly build last week. It is not anymore in this release. I am certainly not going to use that M14 build if I must reenter my username and password each time I need a Web document (either an html page or an embedded image). ...
Damned! M14 is not even there and I must already wait for M15
Here is the dead www.usb.org /developers/devclass.html link as cached by Google.
Unfortunately, Google didn't cache the PDF files that are referenced on this fantom page.
This is not about hosting, but about free domain names.
Cx's registrants can still make their DNS point to sourceforge.net if they want. Free DNS services are available from different sites (like Granite Canyon for example,) so opensource webmasters don't even have to pay for that either.
If you setup you editor so that it automatically replaces tabs with spaces, you're safe.
.emacs,
For example, Emacs' users could do one of the following:
(setq indent-tabs-mode nil) in
or
M-x untabify in the mini-buffer.
Indentation for statement-grouping has quite some defenders, and does sometimes make sense.
For example, you usually use both curly brackets and indentation in your C/C++/Java/etc code to group statements. Brackets are intended for the compiler, while indentation are for the humans. Python simply uses indentation for both, and spares you those extra key strokes (no more Alt-9 and Alt-0 finger stretching on those non-qwerty keyboards!).
Secondly, this technique sets once and for all the layout coding practice. No more fight about where you should open the righ curly bracket.
In the end all this makes Python code easier to read, something you will appreciate the first time you must hack someone else's code.
We've just received a RS6000 F50 and nobody at the office seems to be interested in it for the next couple of weeks. I was wondering if I could install Linux on it and play with it for a few days before the machine gets its final OS.
For one, does PowerPPC 2000 support RS6000?
Then what about YDL? It seems they support it, but the note from their site says something like this:
What hardware is officially supported by Yellow Dog Linux?
[...]
- IBM RS/6000 B50, 7025-F50, and 43P model 150 (in "unimode")
What's unimode?
Mozilla does work pretty well with Proxy, but I advise you to skip this release if your proxy requires authentification, like mine does.
Indeed it seems this alpha build can not remember your proxy password, which means that you have to enter your id and password dozens of times (frames + images) for each url you visit. I finally gave up after visiting my third bookmark. Sigh.
I certainly disagree with this. Maybe the percentage of the overall internet population who uses Newsgroups has dropped, but it might just be because so many Web surfers don't even know Usenet exists.
I for one visit a couple of new Newsgroups every month or so. I'm usually not debating any serious matter or software release, but am rather looking for help on an hw/sw problem. And I'm happy to notice that helpful people with useful comments are as numerous as a few years ago.
I must however admit that mailing lists' quality have recently increased for both spam filtering and archiving. I give a big Thank You to www.mail-archive.com, for their contribution to this. But nevertheless, most technical newsgroups are certainly far from dwindling.
Check the vendors' list at linux.org, and Alt-F for laptops. There are a couple of them, and not only in US: Hong, Malaysia, US (1, 2, 3).
Also, most Corporates don't require developers to wear ultra-short hair, camouflage suit and blinking black shoes.
...
Or do they? I wonder how many slashdotters are GCS d++
The real reason for controlling car speed is that it's the only way Richard Burns or Colin McRae could beat Tommi Makinen!
... ;-)
It is the only way a British pilot could win the WRC Drivers Championship
... what about that Dutch scientist who stared at the sun for 14 minutes before going permanently blind
Did he die staring at the sun (or subsequently)? That's the number one rule to be elligible for a Darwin award. Quoted from their site:
"we commemorate those who unintentionally douse the gene pool with chlorine by innovating moronic ways of killing themselves, thereby helping eliminateu ndesirable weaknesses from the genome."
If we follow your logic and agree to begin a millenium with the year 0, and not the year 1 as it is in use in the Christian Era calendar, then we must also apply this to months and days. And tomorrow, we will be the 0 Jan of the next millenium!
And that's a spot in the espace-time continuum where we certainly don't want to be! But do we really care? We'll be drunk anyway.
Happy new year!
So you'll be the only one to wake up tomorrow finding yourself back in Jan 1 1000.
If it's not a millenium bug, not need to worry about the millenium's digit...
Using RMI/IIOP, RMI/JRMP, pure CORBA or any fancy protocol will not bring any new value in this case.
First of all, with those protocols, you will have to write a Java applets that use complex tricks to pass though firewalls, something pure HTTP does very easily.
Then, you will still be stuck with the same problem on the client machine: how do you store the state information between two different browser sessions? Your applet will have to ask for access to your hard-drive, and this implies pop-up windows, certificates and a lot of faith and trust from the user.
Optionnaly, the applet could upload everything to the server before exiting, so that the info is stored on the server-side, but then the user will have to relog again next time he visits the site if he wants the applet to retrieve the previous information. Something, again, that cookies and pure HTTP do very easily.
I'm rather happy with the Cookies/HTTP/JSP/Servlet mix for the moment. It's light, fast and predictable.
Just make sure your $Netscape/user directory (or equiva~1) is only readable by you, and check that https in turned on each time you're really sending confidential info, and you're as safe as you can be.
Kk.
Maybe it's time to advertise the use of the GPLtrans engine instead of Babelfish
Unfortunately, their German translation unit is under maintainance for a few days. Too many words [...] and MySQL isn't responding
correctly, the web site says.
I for one hope that GPLtrans will be mentioned next time a non-English article is referenced on Slashdot.
Kk.
I also have a lot more trust in command-line tools than GUIs. There are few automated tools that don't make me shiver when I click on a button. But recently, I had to integrate an existing database schema with Container Managed EJBeans in WebSphere, and my opinion of VisualAge for Java changed totally. Without VAJava, the mapping would have been nearly impossible or would have taken hours for every single bean. Their persistency tool for EJBs, at least, does a wonderful job and I would not consider deploying complex Entity beans without VisualAge.
I however hate the way they split your object view into various method windows. In summary, I only use VAJava for deployment, not development.
Kk.
Why does the default setting matter?
Because if you are in a hurry when you install a software, or are simply not interested in all the bells and whistles, you usually skip the READMEs and trust the (Net)Etiquette of the software you use.
You certainly don't want to have to go down a few dialog windows to uncheck things like "BCC: my.privacy@outlook.com" in your mail reader.
K.
If this project really takes off, the bandwidth will indeed suffer from the download of those big movies and commercials. However, in the mid-term, I'm sure we will all benefit from it as the network adapts itself (read Cisco sales increase) to compensate this new constraint.
K.
Alan posted a summary of the 2.2.13pre5 patches on the Linux Kernel mailing List last thursday. MandrakeSoft might have considered this prerelease stable enough to include it in their 6.1 tree. They might also be holding their press annoucement until the final 2.2.13 is out and they can rpm-ize it and load it on their ftp site.
I've never installed a pre-xxx kernel before, and I wonder if any of you who did it had experience problems with software that test the minor version number of the hosting kernel. I guess a program based on atoi("13pre5") will not be too happy about the whole idea.
How many Donald Knuth are there really? This must be a conspiracy, because a single guy can not do all he did in one life time!
You could maybe do it if you're using two spare lifes and you don't sleep much, but in my opinion there must be several of them out there:
Kroll.