i never wanted look at a "normal" word processor again!
dont know about the other stuff. never really had need for "office stuff". anyone who insists on a resume in word97 format, i already know i dont want to work for. (mostly because of what that says about them)
python is still probably a better choice, but any CS major should learn ansi c.
im not the only one i know who was programming at a young age (i was told 6 maybe 7).
c++ is complex, but c is simple, and most kids are alot smarter than many of you realize. they have this amazing ability to pick up stuff and learn really fast. we can probably tempt them into wanting to write thier own games and stuff...
The C Programming Language (kernighan & ritche) is less than 200 pages without the appendix.
for window managers, i would look at the smaller ones, like wm2, lwm, flwm etc. if you can deal, maybe 9wm. fvwm at the most. how much ram you need will also depend on the frame buffer (resolution)
SGI is backing the XF86-4.0/mesa thing. im pretty sure they want it to run with that. its well known that only a small portion of linux users use xig or matrox. why would AW want to alienate them?
also, since games are already using mesa with acceleration, the conformance precedent is set.
maya is about $7k for complete and (i think) $16k for unlimited.
the commercial implementation is significant. the source of mesa has saved me alot of time (and thus, my client alot of money) i would certainly not want to be forced into a non free (in speech sence) implementation.
i seem to come across more gtk apps than qt. i just use whatever toolkit seems appropriate in my silly opinion for the purpose. usually as light a toolkit as possible.
emacs (and xemacs) is the best in my opinion as well, but it is missing a couple things, and integrated source browser (and for OO people a class browser) so users can do things like take a struct and see where its defined and/or where its used, class heirarchys etc... it could save alot of time greping when you have to fix clients huge messy source trees.
of course there probably is already elisp out there that does this...
i know cygnus sells a source browser but i dont know if it integrates with emacs or if its under GPL (i was under the impression that everything they did was GPL but i could not find the source for download on thier web site)
actually i found better font support in macOS than windows, but i didnt really play much with with fonts in either (except in photoshop and illustrator). i kinda remember NExTsTeP (i dont remember the correct capitalization) having nice looking fonts too.
anyway nexus looks nice, though you have to fiddle with emacs (give it the entire font string, xfontsel can be a good help with this) and there are a few other nice looking fonts...
methinks part of the problem is in the rendering and there also the fact there is no good front end to installing fonts in X (that i know of). too bad mkfontdir does not work with postscript or true type fonts. fonts are still a mess in X. anyone know if this will be better in XF86 4.0?
the only times i think the fonts look bad are with style sheets enabled in netscape and a few other cases where the font rendering is clearly not anti aliased.
ie is a very real threat to the standards of the web/net and indirectly the desktop. for those who have not been following along, netscape proved that sight designers follow the market more than any standards and thus netscape became a more important standard than w3.org. it seems like ie is currently the most popular browser (i dont know if this is true but alot of people seem to believe its true) so content developers will go with that instead of standards, thus locking out others platforms. when they have the browser market, then they have the desktop and may be able to take the net itself. if i seem paranoid, im only rehashing what many of us already know. there has to be an open alternative to ie that people will actually want to use!
so many out here wanted one of those, and many did buy them, but many here were also stopped by the very expensive proprietary ram which you must use in them (and no, i have no reason to believe it any faster then PC-100 dimms, twice the bandwidth to the ram does not seem to make much difference) wether or not this is a case of it, sgi is known in the industry to find some way of getting more of you money. so some think this ram is just sgi back thier old tricks again.
it seems like a lot of nice toolkits (especially fltk) are in c++ and force you to use c++. if you write the tool kit (or framework) in c then its users can use c or c++ (or python etc).
this is a practical issue when dealing when doing things like writing a gimp plug in (which cannot be done in c, thus you cannot use fltk).
id like to see a good GUI framework in c, themeable, and cross platform. fltk is light and cross platform, but its c++. gtk is c, but its heavy and only runs on unix. ok, so dont *really* care for windows or the mac, i still like having that choice and a well written cross platform toolkit could be good for things like berlin or Be.
the alphas are not that expensive for what your getting, especially with the crossbar switch which comes with ev6. so on my desktop id rather have an alpha(1)
i would definatly want one of these in a notebook. they could also be good for low cost machines. between ppc and alpha i see no need for x86.
[1] kinda depends on compaq here, i cant stand how they are holding back speed on gcc in a lame attempt to sell more licences of thier unix variant. intel maybe slower, but they are backing gcc fully. hey compaq! take a clue here! how are the PPC people with gcc?
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thee file manager, be nice to thumbnail images. imlib may be good for this, actually id like something where it checks for a flag on the mime type to run a little prodeure defining how to make the icon, the obvious use is to thumbnail images, but someone creative may come up with other uses too. (render a tiny imges of a 3d file with a little logo of that program for example, or have different color spreadsheet icons based on the rest of the name)
to anyone who worries about slowing down the file managers, switch statements are practically free and the time to thumbnail an image is only used once (again the ubiquitus.xvpics comes to mind) the first time and when the image changes.
seems like i may get my wish about being able to load an image into an existing gimp process...
i like games, and the graphics in some of them, but i can never play a game for more than a few minutes without mentally disecting how they must have done it. think making games be more fun.
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dont let it happen.
lest the thought police come after you or our govt. becomes like the chineese govt.
yes this is a brash statement. the FIRST AMMENDMENT may well be our most precious right.
wonder if this means ill have to do political shit. i hate politics and all that shit... maybe ill just tell the hyper liberal hippies i went to collage with... they seem to like all that....
theres the FBI! what are we paying them for? they should not need our help to spy on us or whoever they feel like...
seriously, that thing about speaking in code, codes can be figured out. my guess is encryption (email, disk, whatever) is how the carefull do it. cant be too paranoid...
there is a config for gimp 1.0.4 to bee more like photoshop, but i dont know where to find it, ive only used it on a friends box.
to the one who does not like the right mouse button (something i like much better than going all the way to the top of screeen like in photoshop) the devel version has a menu button for all of that in the corner. panning with the middle mouse button is another advantage.
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i never wanted look at a "normal" word processor again!
dont know about the other stuff. never really had need for "office stuff". anyone who insists on a resume in word97 format, i already know i dont want to work for. (mostly because of what that says about them)
python is still probably a better choice,
but any CS major should learn ansi c.
im not the only one i know who was programming
at a young age (i was told 6 maybe 7).
c++ is complex, but c is simple, and most kids are
alot smarter than many of you realize. they
have this amazing ability to pick up stuff and
learn really fast. we can probably tempt them
into wanting to write thier own games and stuff...
The C Programming Language (kernighan & ritche) is
less than 200 pages without the appendix.
havent you ever heard of people using BSD to run
sco binaries cause it was more stable? heard
it many times, but never actually got to see it.
linux binaries of blender and netscape run fine
on bsd...
for window managers, i would look at the smaller
ones, like wm2, lwm, flwm etc. if you can deal,
maybe 9wm. fvwm at the most. how much ram you need
will also depend on the frame buffer (resolution)
ceretainly NOT enlighenment on that one.
SGI is backing the XF86-4.0/mesa thing. im pretty
sure they want it to run with that. its well known
that only a small portion of linux users use
xig or matrox. why would AW want to alienate them?
also, since games are already using mesa with acceleration, the conformance precedent is set.
maya is about $7k for complete and (i think)
$16k for unlimited.
the commercial implementation is significant.
the source of mesa has saved me alot
of time (and thus, my client alot of money)
i would certainly not want to be forced into
a non free (in speech sence) implementation.
what gives?
i seem to come across more gtk apps than qt.
i just use whatever toolkit seems appropriate in my silly opinion for the purpose.
usually as light a toolkit as possible.
mesas biggest drawback is the lack of trim nurbs.
thats what will keep maya etc. off XF86-4
body parts are trademarked? these IP and related
laws are just getting sIcK!
emacs (and xemacs) is the best in my opinion as well, but it is missing a couple things, and
integrated source browser (and for OO people
a class browser) so users can do things like take a struct and see where its defined and/or
where its used, class heirarchys etc...
it could save alot of time greping when
you have to fix clients huge messy source trees.
of course there probably is already elisp out
there that does this...
i know cygnus sells a source browser but i dont know if it integrates with emacs or if its under
GPL (i was under the impression that everything
they did was GPL but i could not find the source
for download on thier web site)
i just downloaded it, the page and the FTP site
state clearly that the code is under the GPL!
im willing to look, but it better be pretty good
for me to switch from xemacs...
actually i found better font support in macOS
than windows, but i didnt really play much with
with fonts in either (except in photoshop and
illustrator). i kinda remember NExTsTeP (i dont
remember the correct capitalization) having nice
looking fonts too.
anyway nexus looks nice, though you have to fiddle
with emacs (give it the entire font string,
xfontsel can be a good help with this) and there
are a few other nice looking fonts...
methinks part of the problem is in the rendering
and there also the fact there is no good front
end to installing fonts in X (that i know of).
too bad mkfontdir does not work with postscript
or true type fonts. fonts are still a mess in X.
anyone know if this will be better in XF86 4.0?
the only times i think the fonts look bad are with
style sheets enabled in netscape and a few other
cases where the font rendering is clearly not anti
aliased.
ie is a very real threat to the standards of the
web/net and indirectly the desktop. for those
who have not been following along, netscape
proved that sight designers follow the market
more than any standards and thus netscape became
a more important standard than w3.org. it seems
like ie is currently the most popular browser
(i dont know if this is true but alot of people
seem to believe its true) so content developers
will go with that instead of standards, thus
locking out others platforms. when they have
the browser market, then they have the desktop and
may be able to take the net itself. if i seem
paranoid, im only rehashing what many of us already know. there has to be an open alternative
to ie that people will actually want to use!
so many out here wanted one of those, and
many did buy them, but many here were also stopped
by the very expensive proprietary ram which you
must use in them (and no, i have no reason to
believe it any faster then PC-100 dimms, twice
the bandwidth to the ram does not seem to make
much difference) wether or not this is a case of
it, sgi is known in the industry to find some way
of getting more of you money. so some think this
ram is just sgi back thier old tricks again.
why does the LGPL not cut it?
it seems like a lot of nice toolkits (especially
fltk) are in c++ and force you to use c++. if
you write the tool kit (or framework) in c then
its users can use c or c++ (or python etc).
this is a practical issue when dealing when doing
things like writing a gimp plug in (which cannot
be done in c, thus you cannot use fltk).
id like to see a good GUI framework in c, themeable, and cross platform. fltk is light and
cross platform, but its c++. gtk is c, but its
heavy and only runs on unix. ok, so dont *really*
care for windows or the mac, i still like having that choice and a well written cross platform
toolkit could be good for things like berlin or Be.
the alphas are not that expensive for what your
getting, especially with the crossbar switch
which comes with ev6. so on my desktop id rather
have an alpha(1)
i would definatly want one of these in a notebook.
they could also be good for low cost machines.
between ppc and alpha i see no need for x86.
[1] kinda depends on compaq here, i cant
stand how they are holding back speed on gcc in
a lame attempt to sell more licences of thier unix variant. intel maybe slower, but they are backing
gcc fully. hey compaq! take a clue here!
how are the PPC people with gcc?
thee file manager, be nice to thumbnail images.
.xvpics comes to mind)
imlib may be good for this, actually id like
something where it checks for a flag on the mime
type to run a little prodeure defining how to make
the icon, the obvious use is to thumbnail
images, but someone creative may come up with
other uses too. (render a tiny imges of a 3d file
with a little logo of that program for example,
or have different color spreadsheet icons based on
the rest of the name)
to anyone who worries about slowing down the file
managers, switch statements are practically free
and the time to thumbnail an image is only used
once (again the ubiquitus
the first time and when the image changes.
seems like i may get my wish about being able to load an image into an existing gimp process...
certain developers have CDs of rhapsody for x86.
looks alot like next step...
hopefully maya and sgi or hp will be ready by january.
find this hard to believe. didnt they learn anything from nvidia and 3dfx? what could
they possibly gain from this?
still waiting for maya/linux...
i like games, and the graphics in some of them,
but i can never play a game for more than a few minutes without mentally disecting how they must
have done it. think making games be more fun.
dont let it happen.
lest the thought police come after you
or our govt. becomes like the chineese govt.
yes this is a brash statement. the FIRST AMMENDMENT may well be our most precious right.
wonder if this means ill have to do political shit. i hate politics and all that shit...
maybe ill just tell the hyper liberal hippies
i went to collage with... they seem to like all
that....
theres the FBI! what are we paying them for?
they should not need our help to spy on us or
whoever they feel like...
seriously, that thing about speaking in code,
codes can be figured out. my guess is encryption
(email, disk, whatever) is how the carefull do it.
cant be too paranoid...
there is a config for gimp 1.0.4 to bee more like
photoshop, but i dont know where to find it, ive only used it on a friends box.
to the one who does not like the right mouse button (something i like much better than going all the way to the top of screeen like in photoshop) the devel version has a menu button for all of that in the corner. panning with the middle mouse button is another advantage.