I got my first computer a c64 in 83, no problem finding software or shareware. The lack of an SDK and GUI widgets really kept me from entering programming, doing a BBS with ansi/petascii graphics was a chore. Wrote a BBS, compiled with blitz basic, never did much after that.
Now, I use perl/expect/bash for work, to make things easier for admining boxes. I guess its programming, but I never create much more than simple statistical.csv files from data.
BTW, Have been tempted to start programming after seeing Realbasic. Followed the demo, and made a program in 30 minutes, and it worked on my linux box without problems. Supports OSX too. Havnt seen anyone else mention this yet.
We dont know where noodles where invented, just like we dont know alot about our history in the early ages of man. Just because they found some evidience doesnt make it fact that china was first. Its a theory, nothing can be proven as fact yet.
Tired of all these new discoveries to be taken as fact, when they keep changing every few years...
Ive been recycling my stuff to a used computer store myself also, because every once and awhile I need something old, and I dont need to keep those 12 monitors in my basement anymore.
But first, I'd max out my linux box with pc133, just to help speed it up.
Flash ignition! In an instant there is a large, open flame. The volatiles liberated from the wood ignite at roughly 1100 F. Open, sustaining flame occurred less than 10 minutes after the sun was in a clear patch of sky! You can also clearly see that there are still 3 mirrors not aimed correctly.
Now that Mythbusters is wrong, are there other myths that could be true?
I've always streamed the video with the audio over the link to stop that problem. But on local video hdtv compressed mpeg4, and my PC seems to play it without a sync problem.
I dont think the latency in your home lan would be enough, though, what is the noticable latency, 5ms? 20ms?
Id rather have wireless, which they seem to have. But I understand if you have a house wired with cat5 or better, its tempting to use it. Would be interesting for home surround systems, you dont have to run cables for your rear speakers, and not have to buy a wireless setup.
I see Ubuntu is number 1, but I dont see many slashdot articles or much news on it. I guess its debian based, but does anyone have any info about this distro? What makes it so popular?
First thing I do is make sure it works.;) Then tinker the hell out of it, and *THEN* add everything but the kitchen sink, maybe a Duke Nukem Forever server.
Its already ported to the source engine, its suppose to be for sale on steam by end of november. (pre-download)
The funny thing, they showed old screenshots on the amazon.uk site, the newer ones with anti-aliasing on steam, looks awesome. Funny how nobody thinks the game is coming out, but some developers dropped hints over at http://www.planetduke.com about it being release this year for xmas.
Also, isnt this the first stream game from a 3rd party developer?
I started using robotron, way too many passwords to type in daily. I have password safe with over 300 passwords, from sites, servers or applications. Crazy.
Then IT thinks its good to change passwords every 30 days on some sites, password management alone takes 1-2 hours a week, not counting the times I have to change passwords for other people.
If anyone knows a opensource robotron replacement that works in both IE and Firefox, reply. As for password safe, been trying a new opensource one called Keepass that looks pretty nice, and ported to multiple platforms.
Of course, the C128 booted into c64 mode, with snappy 40 column.;)
My 128D became a fulltime terminal box running desterm, never liked paying for Qlink and only used it when they gave free minutes. I liked dialing local BBS's instead. Desterm for the 128 was a nice little terminal program.
Wish you could just type the install directory, instead of clicking each sub-directory. "c:\net\mozilla\firefox-beta" and be done with it. Same with profiles.
I used the C64 for the longest time, the only reason I had to upgrade was for 80 column displays. Upgrading to a 128D gave me a couple more years of service, I could BBS at full screen, and work on papers.
Even when I got the Amiga, 80 column display and ANSI color wasnt perfected in terminal applications. Finally switching to a 486.
I use to goto the Spokane commodore users group, and seen people still using a c64 for reading news, writing news letters with spell checkers. Was cool to see how these old classic computers where still going strong. The only problem I ever had with the C64 was Floppy disk allignment, suckers would always get out of allignment.
These GEM's are really niche market. Great for little towns where its 20mph or less, but if you hold up traffic then they are in the wrong place. Just as golf carts in the USA, they are a pain in the ass when given the right of way.
GEMcar.com even says "build the town/neighborhood around the car"..
One thing I didnt see was all the application support on mainframes. I did some helpdesk/admin support for Olivetti(Now Wang Global) on its mainframes, and the layout just doesnt make sense. Each application is written differently with no standards. I basically had a book on where I toggle each field for setting up accounts for each application (shipping/payroll/inventory/etc).
Screenshots where I put an X on what line, because there visual way to tell what goes where.
If the book was lost, and the admin quit, be a world of hurt.
Unfortunately, most employers don't want to do any on-the-job training at all. They want people who will both work cheaply and already have the skillsets that they are looking for.
My work is outsourcing most new hires just for this reason, its cheaper to have a vendor do it, and then blame the vendor when things dont get done.
Our HR department cant hire sys-admins at the companies new lower pay scale, so they have been trying to get helpdesk people to move over. Problem they have, new hires make 30-40K lower than everyone else, and expected to do the same job. Soon as they learn enough, they move for higher pay. Turnover and continous training of new people makes it hard on the older more experienced sys-admins who finally end up leaving for a startup or another company without its heads up its ass.
We lost most experienced people, except the real old timers (like me) who been here 7+ years who are just waiting for the lay off notices when the company goes tits up due to piss poor management. I could use 6 months vacation on unemployment. (-;
IO on laptops is still one of the worst problems about using a laptop. What good is a 2+ ghz cpu when you have to wait for IO all the time. And with newer laptops having 2 HD's, might as well raid em.
Sure lots of "dont need it" posts today, only downside is battery life.
Screw games, work on some server logs and try to do some statstics, give me faster HD access now. (I upgraded my 5200 to a 7200 HD, night and day difference.)
OSX reminds me of the Amiga, some people never got under the desktop, they just loaded games, and used a word processor. They didnt know a thing about the filesystem, librarys, or anything other than "click the icon to load the application".
But if you open a terminal, you have scripting languages, and extremly functional OS to do anything you want. Add some opensource compilers and applications and you can do almost anything.
As for OSX for free, even if pirated, companies will run OSX servers and pay for support. Apple sells lots of software for the desktop, the revenue that Apple can make after switching to Intel is going to be amazing. If some guy puts a pirated copy of OSX on his intel box, and buys 1 apple software, thats a sale that would have never happened. Later that person will buy an OSX box, with a legit software and hardware. Its worked for Microsoft, it will work for Apple.
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I got my first computer a c64 in 83, no problem finding software or shareware. The lack of an SDK and GUI widgets really kept me from entering programming, doing a BBS with ansi/petascii graphics was a chore. Wrote a BBS, compiled with blitz basic, never did much after that.
.csv files from data.
Now, I use perl/expect/bash for work, to make things easier for admining boxes. I guess its programming, but I never create much more than simple statistical
BTW, Have been tempted to start programming after seeing Realbasic. Followed the demo, and made a program in 30 minutes, and it worked on my linux box without problems. Supports OSX too. Havnt seen anyone else mention this yet.
The bugs I had in 1.5b2 are fixed in the nightly builds, so people must reporting them. Glad the whole thing works.
The real question is who uses a pillow for 20 years. That fungus could be older than your kids.
What about pillows in guest rooms or sofa throw pillows. Those could be around for a very long time.
We dont know where noodles where invented, just like we dont know alot about our history in the early ages of man. Just because they found some evidience doesnt make it fact that china was first. Its a theory, nothing can be proven as fact yet.
Tired of all these new discoveries to be taken as fact, when they keep changing every few years...
Ive been recycling my stuff to a used computer store myself also, because every once and awhile I need something old, and I dont need to keep those 12 monitors in my basement anymore.
But first, I'd max out my linux box with pc133, just to help speed it up.
Flash ignition!
In an instant there is a large, open flame. The volatiles liberated from the wood ignite at roughly 1100 F.
Open, sustaining flame occurred less than 10 minutes after the sun was in a clear patch of sky!
You can also clearly see that there are still 3 mirrors not aimed correctly.
Now that Mythbusters is wrong, are there other myths that could be true?
I've always streamed the video with the audio over the link to stop that problem. But on local video hdtv compressed mpeg4, and my PC seems to play it without a sync problem.
I dont think the latency in your home lan would be enough, though, what is the noticable latency, 5ms? 20ms?
One that looked interesting was Barix @ http://www.barix.com
Id rather have wireless, which they seem to have. But I understand if you have a house wired with cat5 or better, its tempting to use it. Would be interesting for home surround systems, you dont have to run cables for your rear speakers, and not have to buy a wireless setup.
BTW, Barix popped up as a google sponsered link.
I'm only stupid because of genetic makeup! IBM, hire me or I'll sue you for genetic discrimination!
I'm sure they have a manager position on the OS/2 new markets division.
I see Ubuntu is number 1, but I dont see many slashdot articles or much news on it. I guess its debian based, but does anyone have any info about this distro? What makes it so popular?
First thing I do is make sure it works. ;) Then tinker the hell out of it, and *THEN* add everything but the kitchen sink, maybe a Duke Nukem Forever server.
Its already ported to the source engine, its suppose to be for sale on steam by end of november. (pre-download)
The funny thing, they showed old screenshots on the amazon.uk site, the newer ones with anti-aliasing on steam, looks awesome. Funny how nobody thinks the game is coming out, but some developers dropped hints over at http://www.planetduke.com about it being release this year for xmas.
Also, isnt this the first stream game from a 3rd party developer?
contracts are only as good as your lawyer can argue against them.
I started using robotron, way too many passwords to type in daily. I have password safe with over 300 passwords, from sites, servers or applications. Crazy.
Then IT thinks its good to change passwords every 30 days on some sites, password management alone takes 1-2 hours a week, not counting the times I have to change passwords for other people.
If anyone knows a opensource robotron replacement that works in both IE and Firefox, reply. As for password safe, been trying a new opensource one called Keepass that looks pretty nice, and ported to multiple platforms.
I like to run vnc server and kde under that, so I can display VNC on another computer or monitor if busy with the main display (gaming/etc).
Also, i perfer darwinports to fink, not sure what the difference is, other than i like ports system. (go gentoo)
Last, isn't Apple's X11 optimized? Wonder if you miss any extensions running xfree's version. (Whats the diff?)
Wonder if you can get the plague and go visit the other guys towns. :) That would be worth it.
Of course, the C128 booted into c64 mode, with snappy 40 column. ;)
My 128D became a fulltime terminal box running desterm, never liked paying for Qlink and only used it when they gave free minutes. I liked dialing local BBS's instead. Desterm for the 128 was a nice little terminal program.
Only 1 complaint so far.
Wish you could just type the install directory, instead of clicking each sub-directory. "c:\net\mozilla\firefox-beta" and be done with it. Same with profiles.
Does EA own the rights to every sports franchise? Seems they have a good lock on all major sports.
I used the C64 for the longest time, the only reason I had to upgrade was for 80 column displays. Upgrading to a 128D gave me a couple more years of service, I could BBS at full screen, and work on papers.
Even when I got the Amiga, 80 column display and ANSI color wasnt perfected in terminal applications. Finally switching to a 486.
I use to goto the Spokane commodore users group, and seen people still using a c64 for reading news, writing news letters with spell checkers. Was cool to see how these old classic computers where still going strong. The only problem I ever had with the C64 was Floppy disk allignment, suckers would always get out of allignment.
Great little computer for its day.
These GEM's are really niche market. Great for little towns where its 20mph or less, but if you hold up traffic then they are in the wrong place. Just as golf carts in the USA, they are a pain in the ass when given the right of way.
GEMcar.com even says "build the town/neighborhood around the car"..
One thing I didnt see was all the application support on mainframes. I did some helpdesk/admin support for Olivetti(Now Wang Global) on its mainframes, and the layout just doesnt make sense. Each application is written differently with no standards. I basically had a book on where I toggle each field for setting up accounts for each application (shipping/payroll/inventory/etc).
Screenshots where I put an X on what line, because there visual way to tell what goes where.
If the book was lost, and the admin quit, be a world of hurt.
Unfortunately, most employers don't want to do any on-the-job training at all. They want people who will both work cheaply and already have the skillsets that they are looking for.
My work is outsourcing most new hires just for this reason, its cheaper to have a vendor do it, and then blame the vendor when things dont get done.
Our HR department cant hire sys-admins at the companies new lower pay scale, so they have been trying to get helpdesk people to move over. Problem they have, new hires make 30-40K lower than everyone else, and expected to do the same job. Soon as they learn enough, they move for higher pay. Turnover and continous training of new people makes it hard on the older more experienced sys-admins who finally end up leaving for a startup or another company without its heads up its ass.
We lost most experienced people, except the real old timers (like me) who been here 7+ years who are just waiting for the lay off notices when the company goes tits up due to piss poor management. I could use 6 months vacation on unemployment. (-;
IO on laptops is still one of the worst problems about using a laptop. What good is a 2+ ghz cpu when you have to wait for IO all the time. And with newer laptops having 2 HD's, might as well raid em.
Sure lots of "dont need it" posts today, only downside is battery life.
Screw games, work on some server logs and try to do some statstics, give me faster HD access now. (I upgraded my 5200 to a 7200 HD, night and day difference.)
OSX reminds me of the Amiga, some people never got under the desktop, they just loaded games, and used a word processor. They didnt know a thing about the filesystem, librarys, or anything other than "click the icon to load the application".
But if you open a terminal, you have scripting languages, and extremly functional OS to do anything you want. Add some opensource compilers and applications and you can do almost anything.
As for OSX for free, even if pirated, companies will run OSX servers and pay for support. Apple sells lots of software for the desktop, the revenue that Apple can make after switching to Intel is going to be amazing. If some guy puts a pirated copy of OSX on his intel box, and buys 1 apple software, thats a sale that would have never happened. Later that person will buy an OSX box, with a legit software and hardware. Its worked for Microsoft, it will work for Apple.