Just had to comment on this. Please tell me if I'm wrong here...;-)
Quote from the article: "Linux is basically a better version of their Unix products, for free"
We all know linux is free, but better? What consitutes better? I mean surely it runs on far more plattform and is highly customizable but Linux still has some catching up to do when it comes to being as stable and scalable on highend plattforms. Linux still suffers from several drawbacks in these areas. How good is linux when it comes to NFS implementation? What about large memory support?
As for the user interface. Anyone can run KDE or Gnome on Solaris so that part of usability can't be an issue.
Instead of expanding roads one might instead consider encouraging more people to use public transportation. More and more cities in Europe are creating tollrings around them. This helps reduce commute time. A flexible toll charge depending on the time of the day might work even better.
Something I always find suprising is the lack of public transportation in the States. So if the capacity or accesspoints are not sufficient then expand it. This includes subways, trains and busses. Less people using their cars means shorter commute time. Not to forget that less people using cars means less pollutions which is and added bonus. This is a process that must happen over time and requires serious commitment from the authorities.
Must be a slow package managing system;-) Honestly - I read Slow first time. Then again English is not my native tounge - so I might just be a bit slow.
Quote from review: "For their proposed target audience this is way too much information, and as it is safe to assume that everyone who buys this book has a decent 'net connection, why put a printout of SQL available online in a PHP book"
Sometimes its very handy to have things written out in detail. Sometimes you appretiate the extra information given. If you're already browsing through the book you don't want to be interrupted and browse the web to find information. I presume that without the extra information the book would just be smaller.
I know I'm trolling but it seems the language skills of the slashdot crew are going even further downhill. Take your time guys and proofread before posting.
Just couldn't help myself commenting. Byebye karma.
Quote from the article: > Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. Unless they happen to be very good looking, or great natural athletes, or have older siblings who are popular, they'll tend to become nerds.
It doesn't say that you can't be both - however it seems to be the fact that the majority of ners doesn't fall into both.
As for getting picked on. Once it starts it is very hard to stop for as long as you are in that place ( school ). One tends to be branded forever.
Thank you Matthew! Finally someone who actually managed to explain in a few words the concept of dot NET. First time I actually grasped some of the meaning behind the buzzwords.
Excuse me for being a bit of a troll but what is this got to do with slashdot. There seems to be a gradually detoration of some of the stories posted. Try to keep the news relevant. Funny stories are great but this is just too lame!
A friend of mine works as a Service Engineer(mostly software) in Kongsberg Offshore. He travels more than 100 days a year to places all over the world. Malaysia, Germany, Britain, etc, etc. You name it.
Of course you might not have that much time to do any sightseeing. However may places doesn't allow too much overtime abroad and that could be handy.
It's all in the eye of the beholder. Especially if you have a borg eye. hehehe.
They can't be serious!
Lies, lies, and damn statistics! You can always manipulate numbers. I suspect they have a different idea of vulnerability and seriousness than the rest of us.
But we know by ourselves that linux is better and we strive every day to make that happen. Keep that in focus and don't let this bother you at all.
Diskless UNIX workstations are more common than you think. Especially within classified networks. It saves the problems with someone stealing your diskdrive and you don't have to lock the door.
At our company diskless UNIX workstations (Ultra 5/10/60 - Solaris 2.6!!! (not solaris 8 - oh no - too modern:-( ) have been the policy for quite sometime. Its quite neat and saves sysadmins and backup people a lot of hazzle. The important thing then is a fast network.
> I haven't tried Qt on OS X, but the performance is good on X11 and Win32, where it uses the same techniques. There's nothing inherently slow about drawing widgets yourself instead of using the operating system's native libraries.
Sorry for not agreeing with you there. Are you telling me that Qt renders transparency as fast as the native API on Max OS X? I say your wrong. Plus the fact that it's only faking it.
The problem with plattform independence is obvious. You can't take advantage of the plattform dependent optimizations cause that usually breaks your design! This is an inherent problem. You sacrifice performance for interoperability.
Disclaimer: I'm not an Max OS X expert.... but as for Object C - I like it.
Now - how would Object C++ be.....
Qt for Mac OS X is nice. Problem is the way it's implemented.
As we all know Mac OS X has a powerful API for displaying widgets with the whole PDF rendering technique and it has true transparency.
What does Qt do? It uses fake transparency and doesn't use much of the native support for displaying widgets. Only a fragment on the powerful Mac Display API is used AFAIK.
This means that Qt is far slower on Mac than it could have been.
Of course I realize that a cross plattform GUI can't always take advantage of all different native methods. But in many cases it can.
It's a shame that Qt doesn't use more native interfaces. Hopefully this will change.
Government regulation in Norway states that a maximum of 40 hours extra per month is allowed. And for that you have to apply. Without applying it's like 20 hours or something.
If you do work more - the company might get fined if there is a review.
And there I was working 135 hours extra without knowing this...no wonder my boss got into trouble.
As long as you don't push your luck you're fine. Keeping it to a reasonable level is best for PHB and for yourself. Always remember - "you work to live!" and not "live to work"
When it comes to fast graphics an dual 440Mhz Ultra60 with an Elite3D M6 card or a Expert3D card just plain sucks. The only thing it's good at is bitmap text, lines and polygon filling. Throw some heavy texturing and everything goes painfully slow.
A simple GeForce beats the shit out of Sun so called fast graphics cards.
Why am I upset. Well when you're trying to develop a crossplattform 2D/3D Graphics Library based on OpenGL things like this is very annoying indeed.
Why can they just use the 64bit PCI bus, take a GeForce 3 chip, make a card and write a driver and you'll have a fantastic Graphics Worstation. I'm sure it would make me and my boss a lot happier.
As a long term user of Sun workstations there are certain things that I feel is lacking. Correction there is one thing! Fast 3D graphics card for my sunbox.
I hear you guys say - but why? I'll tell you why. On the good old days we all used Sgi with Onyx and Indigo and everyone was happy. Then times changed something moved to PC's and all unix software migrated to one single plattform - Sun. Now here is the problem. As part of our strategy for the future the map component embedded in our Unix apps is going to be extended to 3D. And it runs like SHIT on Sun whereas like a dream on a PC. I haven't tested the newest card from Sun but I should assume they're still far far behind. Allmost all our new apps will from next year incoorporate this component - needless to say we need fast graphics.
What do we do? We can't wait. So we're stuck with bad performance.
I'm quit certain Sun workstations could have fast graphicsfast graphics if Sun just got it of someone else and just wrote a driver or something. (feel free to oppose me on that last one)
Conclusion - We just have to live with it but it stinks!
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Just had to comment on this. Please tell me if I'm wrong here... ;-)
Quote from the article:
"Linux is basically a better version of their Unix products, for free"
We all know linux is free, but better? What consitutes better? I mean surely it runs on far more plattform and is highly customizable but Linux still has some catching up to do when it comes to being as stable and scalable on highend plattforms. Linux still suffers from several drawbacks in these areas. How good is linux when it comes to NFS implementation? What about large memory support?
As for the user interface. Anyone can run KDE or Gnome on Solaris so that part of usability can't be an issue.
Instead of expanding roads one might instead consider encouraging more people to use public transportation. More and more cities in Europe are creating tollrings around them. This helps reduce commute time. A flexible toll charge depending on the time of the day might work even better.
Something I always find suprising is the lack of public transportation in the States. So if the capacity or accesspoints are not sufficient then expand it. This includes subways, trains and busses. Less people using their cars means shorter commute time. Not to forget that less people using cars means less pollutions which is and added bonus. This is a process that must happen over time and requires serious commitment from the authorities.
I might be wrong here and ruin my carma but come on guys! This is not worth a slashdot story. Get it together!
Personally though I can't wait for ROTK to come out.... drool. And those servers are sweet.
Must be a slow package managing system ;-) Honestly - I read Slow first time. Then again English is not my native tounge - so I might just be a bit slow.
Quote from review:
"For their proposed target audience this is way too much information, and as it is safe to assume that everyone who buys this book has a decent 'net connection, why put a printout of SQL available online in a PHP book"
Sometimes its very handy to have things written out in detail. Sometimes you appretiate the extra information given. If you're already browsing through the book you don't want to be interrupted and browse the web to find information. I presume that without the extra information the book would just be smaller.
Might be wrong here, but I thought high levels of ozone near the ground was toxic to humans?
I know I'm trolling but it seems the language skills of the slashdot crew are going even further downhill. Take your time guys and proofread before posting.
;-)
Just couldn't help myself commenting.
Byebye karma.
( Now did I spell everything right
Poor sweedes.
Quote from the article:
> Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. Unless they happen to be very good looking, or great natural athletes, or have older siblings who are popular, they'll tend to become nerds.
It doesn't say that you can't be both - however it seems to be the fact that the majority of ners doesn't fall into both.
As for getting picked on. Once it starts it is very hard to stop for as long as you are in that place ( school ). One tends to be branded forever.
Thank you Matthew! Finally someone who actually managed to explain in a few words the concept of dot NET. First time I actually grasped some of the meaning behind the buzzwords.
nuff said. Makes a nice webserver one should think ;-)
Seriously - sounds like SGI is trying to stop people moving away from their system. Maybe they'll succeed in the higher end of the market with this.
Excuse me for being a bit of a troll but what is this got to do with slashdot. There seems to be a gradually detoration of some of the stories posted. Try to keep the news relevant. Funny stories are great but this is just too lame!
What kind of windowmanager can you use? Imaging how cool the "transparent" xterms will look.
A friend of mine works as a Service Engineer(mostly software) in Kongsberg Offshore. He travels more than 100 days a year to places all over the world. Malaysia, Germany, Britain, etc, etc. You name it.
Of course you might not have that much time to do any sightseeing. However may places doesn't allow too much overtime abroad and that could be handy.
I thought Apple preferred ObjectC? I mean thats their language of choice it seems.
It's all in the eye of the beholder. Especially if you have a borg eye. hehehe.
They can't be serious!
Lies, lies, and damn statistics! You can always manipulate numbers. I suspect they have a different idea of vulnerability and seriousness than the rest of us.
But we know by ourselves that linux is better and we strive every day to make that happen. Keep that in focus and don't let this bother you at all.
Anyone care to tell me what is so special about this distribution apart from its name (Libranet GNU/Linux)?
Choice of distro's is great but I can't honestly see what good this will do. No offence to the Libranet employees.
Why can't people start creating new (even commercial) applications on top of Linux istead of just releasing distro's?
Diskless UNIX workstations are more common than you think. Especially within classified networks. It saves the problems with someone stealing your diskdrive and you don't have to lock the door.
:-( ) have been the policy for quite sometime. Its quite neat and saves sysadmins and backup people a lot of hazzle. The important thing then is a fast network.
At our company diskless UNIX workstations (Ultra 5/10/60 - Solaris 2.6!!! (not solaris 8 - oh no - too modern
> I haven't tried Qt on OS X, but the performance is good on X11 and Win32, where it uses the same techniques. There's nothing inherently slow about drawing widgets yourself instead of using the operating system's native libraries.
Sorry for not agreeing with you there. Are you telling me that Qt renders transparency as fast as the native API on Max OS X? I say your wrong. Plus the fact that it's only faking it.
The problem with plattform independence is obvious. You can't take advantage of the plattform dependent optimizations cause that usually breaks your design! This is an inherent problem. You sacrifice performance for interoperability.
Disclaimer: I'm not an Max OS X expert.... but as for Object C - I like it.
Now - how would Object C++ be.....
Qt for Mac OS X is nice. Problem is the way it's implemented.
As we all know Mac OS X has a powerful API for displaying widgets with the whole PDF rendering technique and it has true transparency.
What does Qt do? It uses fake transparency and doesn't use much of the native support for displaying widgets. Only a fragment on the powerful Mac Display API is used AFAIK.
This means that Qt is far slower on Mac than it could have been.
Of course I realize that a cross plattform GUI can't always take advantage of all different native methods. But in many cases it can.
It's a shame that Qt doesn't use more native interfaces. Hopefully this will change.
Government regulation in Norway states that a maximum of 40 hours extra per month is allowed. And for that you have to apply. Without applying it's like 20 hours or something.
If you do work more - the company might get fined if there is a review.
And there I was working 135 hours extra without knowing this...no wonder my boss got into trouble.
As long as you don't push your luck you're fine. Keeping it to a reasonable level is best for PHB and for yourself. Always remember - "you work to live!" and not "live to work"
Shit - I really wanted to read that before going home.
> Warning: Too many connections in functions.php on line 58
ok people - there goes my carma.
Lesson to learn: Never let frustrations be know under full name
When it comes to fast graphics an dual 440Mhz Ultra60 with an Elite3D M6 card or a Expert3D card just plain sucks. The only thing it's good at is bitmap text, lines and polygon filling. Throw some heavy texturing and everything goes painfully slow.
A simple GeForce beats the shit out of Sun so called fast graphics cards.
Why am I upset. Well when you're trying to develop a crossplattform 2D/3D Graphics Library based on OpenGL things like this is very annoying indeed.
Why can they just use the 64bit PCI bus, take a GeForce 3 chip, make a card and write a driver and you'll have a fantastic Graphics Worstation. I'm sure it would make me and my boss a lot happier.
Kindof a silly question speculating about that but hey what do yous think? Any chance of getting it below 1000$ when it's released?
Oh well - where's that payrise...
As a long term user of Sun workstations there are certain things that I feel is lacking. Correction there is one thing! Fast 3D graphics card for my sunbox.
I hear you guys say - but why? I'll tell you why. On the good old days we all used Sgi with Onyx and Indigo and everyone was happy. Then times changed something moved to PC's and all unix software migrated to one single plattform - Sun. Now here is the problem. As part of our strategy for the future the map component embedded in our Unix apps is going to be extended to 3D. And it runs like SHIT on Sun whereas like a dream on a PC. I haven't tested the newest card from Sun but I should assume they're still far far behind. Allmost all our new apps will from next year incoorporate this component - needless to say we need fast graphics.
What do we do? We can't wait. So we're stuck with bad performance.
I'm quit certain Sun workstations could have fast graphicsfast graphics if Sun just got it of someone else and just wrote a driver or something. (feel free to oppose me on that last one)
Conclusion - We just have to live with it but it stinks!