If you're serious about this, just setup VNC or NX Server on your linux box and remote into it from your laptop. You then have all the benefits of remote development (more memory, faster processors, more hard drive) with all the other tools you might need as well, not just an IDE.
One issue with this solution (or browser for that matter) is, how do you code while on an airplane or some other location without internet access?
Who in their right mind would want their IDE Running in a browser?
What this means is that in an infinite universe that has totally random initial conditions, every possible state will be realized somewhere. Excellent! All we need to do is find the planets where gasoline flows in oceans and Ferraris grow on trees and I'll be set!
I think I worked on the same project as the previous poster. If I'm right, it has about 900+ independent screens (maybe more now, it's been a few years), custom controls and a fairly complex architecture with much of the heavy lifting already done in C++. If that's the case, it most certainly would not be as simple as 2 or 3 clicks. In fact, migrating from 16 bit VB3 to a 32 bit VB5 took far longer than Microsoft said it would. they basically said recompile but it ended up taking a lot more work than that.
I HOPE you were joking with the "refactor as C++" comment.
You get stuff like this on both sides. Here's mine. I built 2 64bit AMD boxes, and purchased WinXP X64 for both. I figured one would be a Win box for my wife, the other would be dual boot, Win for games, Fedora Core 4 for development. I spent about 2 weeks finding and downloading drivers for the Windows installs. Everything on the motherboard (including 1Gb network card), the DVD RW, video card... I was ALMOST afraid of putting Fedora Core 4 64bit on it, but figured I could get it working with some work. So installing Fedora was a much, different experience. Put in the DVD and follow the install screens. No drivers to find and everything worked out of the box. So in MY case, Windows took days, Linux was less than an hour.
God help these 'professionals' if a suspect's computer happens to run Linux..
I can see it now...
"Ok, I go to C:\Documents and Settings....
OMG!!!! THERE'S NO C: DRIVE!!!!"
I'm sure there are people out there who, would prefer their "private" pictures remain private. Who knows where those pictures of that drunken party end up from the photo shop.
Actually, if you do a lot of printing, you can get a continuous flow system for some ink jet printers. I used one when I was doing alot of printing. Took price per page (11X17 page, not 8.5X11) from 30 cents per page to 1.9 cents per page, AND you can still print high quality photos as well
http://www.inksupply.com/cobra.cfm
Not to go too far down the path, but evolution IS provable?
The Cambrian period sure doesn't point to evolutionary traits. Darwin himself even said the fossil record would prove his theory, but that hasn't happened.
If I say Stonehenge was formed by some "unknown natural process" because I see that some rocks in Utah are stacked on eachother with big rocks balanced on skinnier rocks, would anyone believe me?
Probably not. They'd say "Someone, we don't know who, but someone built Stonehenge" and be justified in their answer. Why is it any different with the universe?
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Isn't hyperspace from video games?
I thought hyperspace was from StarWars
If you're serious about this, just setup VNC or NX Server on your linux box and remote into it from your laptop. You then have all the benefits of remote development (more memory, faster processors, more hard drive) with all the other tools you might need as well, not just an IDE. One issue with this solution (or browser for that matter) is, how do you code while on an airplane or some other location without internet access? Who in their right mind would want their IDE Running in a browser?
I think I worked on the same project as the previous poster. If I'm right, it has about 900+ independent screens (maybe more now, it's been a few years), custom controls and a fairly complex architecture with much of the heavy lifting already done in C++. If that's the case, it most certainly would not be as simple as 2 or 3 clicks. In fact, migrating from 16 bit VB3 to a 32 bit VB5 took far longer than Microsoft said it would. they basically said recompile but it ended up taking a lot more work than that. I HOPE you were joking with the "refactor as C++" comment.
You know why they call it "Golf" - because all the other four letter words were already used! -Tim Connway as "Dorf" in "Dorf on Golf"
You get stuff like this on both sides. Here's mine.
I built 2 64bit AMD boxes, and purchased WinXP X64 for both. I figured one would be a Win box for my wife, the other would be dual boot, Win for games, Fedora Core 4 for development.
I spent about 2 weeks finding and downloading drivers for the Windows installs. Everything on the motherboard (including 1Gb network card), the DVD RW, video card...
I was ALMOST afraid of putting Fedora Core 4 64bit on it, but figured I could get it working with some work. So installing Fedora was a much, different experience. Put in the DVD and follow the install screens. No drivers to find and everything worked out of the box.
So in MY case, Windows took days, Linux was less than an hour.
God help these 'professionals' if a suspect's computer happens to run Linux.. I can see it now... "Ok, I go to C:\Documents and Settings.... OMG!!!! THERE'S NO C: DRIVE!!!!"
I'm sure there are people out there who, would prefer their "private" pictures remain private. Who knows where those pictures of that drunken party end up from the photo shop.
Actually, if you do a lot of printing, you can get a continuous flow system for some ink jet printers. I used one when I was doing alot of printing. Took price per page (11X17 page, not 8.5X11) from 30 cents per page to 1.9 cents per page, AND you can still print high quality photos as well http://www.inksupply.com/cobra.cfm
Not to go too far down the path, but evolution IS provable? The Cambrian period sure doesn't point to evolutionary traits. Darwin himself even said the fossil record would prove his theory, but that hasn't happened. If I say Stonehenge was formed by some "unknown natural process" because I see that some rocks in Utah are stacked on eachother with big rocks balanced on skinnier rocks, would anyone believe me? Probably not. They'd say "Someone, we don't know who, but someone built Stonehenge" and be justified in their answer. Why is it any different with the universe?