I thought that was "Cole's Law", also known as thinly sliced cabbage covered with mayonnaise.
So... which wastes more energy -- a software engineer driving to work and back every day, or a software engineer telecommuting over an 8 MBit/second broadband line using a "workstation" containing two Pentium Extreme Edition Dual-Core Hypethreaded (let's see... isn't that eight logical?) processors and 2 gig of RAM?
And before that, Forth... and before that, Smalltalk... and before that, Ada... and before that, APL...
I remember the awesome freedom of moving from 5-hole to 8-hole punched paper tape.
Don't know about Gears, but there was a whole conference a week or so in Chicago featuring the creators of Rails and Django!! The URL would be
http://snakesandrubies.com/event/
I'm not sure if audio/video is posted anywhere yet, but it's coming.
Every year here in the USA we have something called "Take Your Child To Work Day". Of course, since I work at a computer company, I volunteered to run a session and used FreeDuc. And I gave each participant a copy of the CD and the manual. We had some left over, but the kids loved it! I was quite amazed with what was on the CD for "professional" users. It's almost as complete as the "grown-up" version, Quantian (http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian).
BTW, there is a FreeDuc 1.5 aimed at younger (primary school) students. I have not checked it out, though.
Yeah Yeah Yeah... I'm a Gentoo MeToo:) Portage rulez:)
Seriously, though, when Red Hat changed Red Hat 10 to Fedora Core 1, I switched to Debian. I'd probably still be running Debian if the free as is freedom crowd at Debian central hadn't spent so much time cursing Java.
A lot of the software I run uses Java and only really works with the free as in beer Sun JDK. So... I tried Gentoo for other reasons, and was so overwhelmed by its excellent collection of Java tools, on top of its easy system administration, that I bit the bullet and converted. I'll never go back to Debian or Red Hat, and I don't see any reason to even try Mandriva or Suse or Slackware.
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I thought that was "Cole's Law", also known as thinly sliced cabbage covered with mayonnaise. So ... which wastes more energy -- a software engineer driving to work and back every day, or a software engineer telecommuting over an 8 MBit/second broadband line using a "workstation" containing two Pentium Extreme Edition Dual-Core Hypethreaded (let's see ... isn't that eight logical?) processors and 2 gig of RAM?
And before that, Forth ... and before that, Smalltalk ... and before that, Ada ... and before that, APL ...
I remember the awesome freedom of moving from 5-hole to 8-hole punched paper tape.
Or on Gentoo, type "emerge rails" :)
Don't know about Gears, but there was a whole conference a week or so in Chicago featuring the creators of Rails and Django!! The URL would be http://snakesandrubies.com/event/ I'm not sure if audio/video is posted anywhere yet, but it's coming.
Every year here in the USA we have something called "Take Your Child To Work Day". Of course, since I work at a computer company, I volunteered to run a session and used FreeDuc. And I gave each participant a copy of the CD and the manual. We had some left over, but the kids loved it! I was quite amazed with what was on the CD for "professional" users. It's almost as complete as the "grown-up" version, Quantian (http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian). BTW, there is a FreeDuc 1.5 aimed at younger (primary school) students. I have not checked it out, though.
Yeah ... I posted up above about FreeDuc. FreeDuc uses the XFCE desktop -- much lighter than Gnome.
Yeah but ... FreeDuc got there first! FreeDuc is a Knoppix-based educational LiveCD. http://www.ofset.org/articles/29
Well gee ... if you're gonna do an Atari 800, why not a Commodore 64?
Actually, Pierre Boulle already thought of this. Read his short story, "Love and Gravity".
Yeah Yeah Yeah ... I'm a Gentoo MeToo :) Portage rulez :)
... I tried Gentoo for other reasons, and was so overwhelmed by its excellent collection of Java tools, on top of its easy system administration, that I bit the bullet and converted. I'll never go back to Debian or Red Hat, and I don't see any reason to even try Mandriva or Suse or Slackware.
Seriously, though, when Red Hat changed Red Hat 10 to Fedora Core 1, I switched to Debian. I'd probably still be running Debian if the free as is freedom crowd at Debian central hadn't spent so much time cursing Java.
A lot of the software I run uses Java and only really works with the free as in beer Sun JDK. So
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