If you are willing to upgrade to MacOS X for the clients, netatalk (as it stands now) won't be able to work with them. However, NFS is natively supported by Mac OS X clients. Netatalk for Mac OS 9 and earlier, Samba for Win clients, and NFS for everyone else...
When Mac OS X server comes out, it will natively host AFP, Samba, NFS, FTP and WebDAV out of the box. http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/
I agree that Java would be a good language to learn. It's a Turing complete language, and can be used to (somewhat) easily make GUIs. And with the Java2D API and simplified networking, making simple multiplayer games should be easy and fun. Start with a card game or any other turn based type of game and move on from there.
And, given the ridiculous number of books on Java programming, it should be trivial to find one that your kids will read and can use.
This was a great article. Probably the most information I've seen in one article on Slashdot. Thanks to Bjarne for answering the questions with such eloquence and humility. And thanks to the moderators for picking some really great questions. Though, I am surprised that there were no questions asking about the future of Java? Were there not any good ones? Or was there an intent to keep the questions focused on C++?
Unfortunately, we can't save everything. As much as my mortality frightens me, I also know that trying to "preserve my data" for the aeons is a wasted effort at assuaging my failing ego. "Someday, all this too shall pass"
That's why I don't want a tombstone, I won't care if someone visits it when I'm dead. I'm looking to make my mark while I'm alive and kicking... if I'm forgotten ten years after I die, then so be it.
It isn't very well known that Huffman created some very ingenious math to describe the folding phenomenon of the paper. Unfortunately, he fell ill before he was able to publish any of it. Colleagues at Santa Cruz are looking into publishing his results on his behalf.
These aren't simple, obvious equations or paper folding for a hobby, these are the elegant works of beautiful mathematics that only a genius like Huffman could come up with. Huffman will be missed at Santa Cruz, and by the rest of the pepole in the world that will now never get to know him.
Dang man, I thought IBM was going to stay out of feminine itching products, but now that they've bought Mycelex (the 3 day cure for yeast infections) what does this mean for the rest of us? I expect to see an ad with Kim Alexis selling us an RS/6000 along with other feminine products. Whats next? A joint Tampax/Adaptec venture with new USB enabled feminine hygiene products? What are the implications for plug and play with this stuff? It's all just so confusing!
This has got to be a great shot in the arm for Google. Though Google is the greatest search engine, I am surprised that Netscape is going with such an unknown (to the general public) search engine. Anyone have any guesses as to why Netscape went with Google? Other than the obvious fact that Google is so much better than everyone else? There has to be some sort of business reason for it...
I agree that guru isn't bad. I prefer code yogi, or just plain old yogi. But I doubt that will catch on as well. Geek has been bandied about, but it really isn't confinable to hackers, as many other groups claim geek. We could go with other, more interesting takes on "master" such as sensei, the aforementioned guru and yogi, maestro, enlightened one, love god, omnipotent one, prime mover, etc... In the end, I do think that guru is the logical choice, and it would be cool to ask others to refer to me as such.
The Columbine murders have forced those of us who were geeks in high school to relive our pain and our rage. As others are looking for a scapegoat on which to lay the burden of these atrocities, so too are we looking to pin a group or a lifestyle with the "atrocities" performed against us. However, we need to understand that adolesence is dominated by our struggle with self identity... a big part of which is in figuring out which "tribe" we best fit in with. What we were going through in those painful high school years is what every group was going through... trying to fit in while standing out. Trying to make sense of the "social structure" and how to move up in it. How to emotionally protect our own tribe... usually at the expense of others. Did you make fun of the jocks? Did you spurn the prom? Just as they made fun of you and spurned your Dungeons and Dragons? Rather than looking back with bitterness and anger, look back and see it as a learning experience first, then assess your emotions.
Having said that, we must also be vigilant against the persecution of any group by administrators and other "concerned adults." These warning signs we are seeing in the media mean nothing... how about the warning sign of having a huge arsenal of weapons? We all feel the need to keep this sort of thing from happening again... this is a normal psychological response to great tragedy. But we must also understand that this was a random event. Any high school student could have perpetrated this... if they were sick enough. We hear many tales of supposedly popular high schoolers taking their own life, succumbing to the pressure. These kids snapped, and because they felt abused and picked upon by the other tribes, decided to take them out as well as themselves.
The take home message is that we need to all take a moment and ask what are our emotions? How legitimate are the responses evoked by those emotions, and what is the appropriate, logical response to what happened in Littlton.
You make a good point, however, do we then choose moderators based on how well they align with someone's (Rob's) values? I think the %50 idea, though not perfect, is the most rational answer. Else how to choose the moderators? Only pick those who have consistently high scores? Or choose those who read Slashdot regularly and contribute?
Again, your point is noted, and I agree to a point. However, there has to be a way of choosing moderators from a diverse pool, which will hopefully give us a continuously fresh look at the comments.
Slashdot Mirror
If you are willing to upgrade to MacOS X for the clients, netatalk (as it stands now) won't be able to work with them. However, NFS is natively supported by Mac OS X clients. Netatalk for Mac OS 9 and earlier, Samba for Win clients, and NFS for everyone else...
When Mac OS X server comes out, it will natively host AFP, Samba, NFS, FTP and WebDAV out of the box. http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/
I agree that Java would be a good language to learn. It's a Turing complete language, and can be used to (somewhat) easily make GUIs. And with the Java2D API and simplified networking, making simple multiplayer games should be easy and fun. Start with a card game or any other turn based type of game and move on from there.
And, given the ridiculous number of books on Java programming, it should be trivial to find one that your kids will read and can use.
This was a great article. Probably the most information I've seen in one article on Slashdot. Thanks to Bjarne for answering the questions with such eloquence and humility. And thanks to the moderators for picking some really great questions. Though, I am surprised that there were no questions asking about the future of Java? Were there not any good ones? Or was there an intent to keep the questions focused on C++?
Unfortunately, we can't save everything. As much as my mortality frightens me, I also know that trying to "preserve my data" for the aeons is a wasted effort at assuaging my failing ego. "Someday, all this too shall pass"
That's why I don't want a tombstone, I won't care if someone visits it when I'm dead. I'm looking to make my mark while I'm alive and kicking... if I'm forgotten ten years after I die, then so be it.
It isn't very well known that Huffman created some very ingenious math to describe the folding phenomenon of the paper. Unfortunately, he fell ill before he was able to publish any of it. Colleagues at Santa Cruz are looking into publishing his results on his behalf.
These aren't simple, obvious equations or paper folding for a hobby, these are the elegant works of beautiful mathematics that only a genius like Huffman could come up with. Huffman will be missed at Santa Cruz, and by the rest of the pepole in the world that will now never get to know him.
Dang man, I thought IBM was going to stay out of feminine itching products, but now that they've bought Mycelex (the 3 day cure for yeast infections) what does this mean for the rest of us? I expect to see an ad with Kim Alexis selling us an RS/6000 along with other feminine products. Whats next? A joint Tampax/Adaptec venture with new USB enabled feminine hygiene products? What are the implications for plug and play with this stuff? It's all just so confusing!
This has got to be a great shot in the arm for Google. Though Google is the greatest search engine, I am surprised that Netscape is going with such an unknown (to the general public) search engine.
Anyone have any guesses as to why Netscape went with Google? Other than the obvious fact that Google is so much better than everyone else? There has to be some sort of business reason for it...
I agree that guru isn't bad. I prefer code yogi, or just plain old yogi. But I doubt that will catch on as well.
Geek has been bandied about, but it really isn't confinable to hackers, as many other groups claim geek.
We could go with other, more interesting takes on "master" such as sensei, the aforementioned guru and yogi, maestro, enlightened one, love god, omnipotent one, prime mover, etc...
In the end, I do think that guru is the logical choice, and it would be cool to ask others to refer to me as such.
The Columbine murders have forced those of us who were geeks in high school to relive our pain and our rage. As others are looking for a scapegoat on which to lay the burden of these atrocities, so too are we looking to pin a group or a lifestyle with the "atrocities" performed against us. However, we need to understand that adolesence is dominated by our struggle with self identity... a big part of which is in figuring out which "tribe" we best fit in with.
What we were going through in those painful high school years is what every group was going through... trying to fit in while standing out. Trying to make sense of the "social structure" and how to move up in it. How to emotionally protect our own tribe... usually at the expense of others. Did you make fun of the jocks? Did you spurn the prom? Just as they made fun of you and spurned your Dungeons and Dragons?
Rather than looking back with bitterness and anger, look back and see it as a learning experience first, then assess your emotions.
Having said that, we must also be vigilant against the persecution of any group by administrators and other "concerned adults." These warning signs we are seeing in the media mean nothing... how about the warning sign of having a huge arsenal of weapons? We all feel the need to keep this sort of thing from happening again... this is a normal psychological response to great tragedy. But we must also understand that this was a random event. Any high school student could have perpetrated this... if they were sick enough. We hear many tales of supposedly popular high schoolers taking their own life, succumbing to the pressure. These kids snapped, and because they felt abused and picked upon by the other tribes, decided to take them out as well as themselves.
The take home message is that we need to all take a moment and ask what are our emotions? How legitimate are the responses evoked by those emotions, and what is the appropriate, logical response to what happened in Littlton.
You make a good point, however, do we then choose moderators based on how well they align with someone's (Rob's) values? I think the %50 idea, though not perfect, is the most rational answer. Else how to choose the moderators? Only pick those who have consistently high scores? Or choose those who read Slashdot regularly and contribute?
Again, your point is noted, and I agree to a point. However, there has to be a way of choosing moderators from a diverse pool, which will hopefully give us a continuously fresh look at the comments.