What I am saying is that if KDevelop gets halfway decent, I will most likely be forced to use it even if I do not wish to. With plaintext systems, I still have choices. I can edit a make file in vim, even if everyone else uses emacs. I do not even need to use makefiles if I do not feel like it (I usually do prefer them though, they are very flexible), I could just write a little shell script to do the stuff instead if I felt like it.
I am not sure as to how ``different'' KDevelop's project files (or whatever they wish to call them) are from makefiles. If it actually uses makefiles to handle all of that, then I might actually be interested in using it. However, if it ends up removing the option of using the command line, it is not a good thing. I have had to remotely log in to my UNIX machines from Windows and Macintosh machines too many times to want to have even a remote dependency on anything that cannot be handled over a crappy vt100 terminal emulator.
... What I'm saying is, the failure of Kdevelop (or other similar ides) is maybe due to the fact that the l33t hax0rs who write linux don't like those environments, and so don't bother to spend time producing them...
One might argue that is a good thing. If the people a product is designed to serve do not even want to use the product to begin with, then why should it be produced? I have been programming for years, and only used an IDE when I was forced to by the environment I was working in. I generally find that they hamper my work instead of help it. I also have seen several halfway-decent windows programmers be thrown into the shell-only world of UNIX, and this is what generally occurs: They whine and complain about the lack of an IDE for about a month, then they start playing around with the shell a bit as well as vim (or emacs, depending on the preferences of whomever they ask for UNIX help the most), and then they actually start to prefer not having an IDE.
While I most certianly do believe that the development of GUI tools for the office types is a very good idea, programmers should use whatever gives them the most power, and the standard GUI is most definitely not it. All of the effort being put into KDevelop would probably be better spent on KOffice, or even more enhancements to vim, emacs, and the standard code libraries of the various programming languages out there. I know that I would appreciate these as a programmer a whole lot more.
Re:Emacs Turned Me Into a Real Programmer
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Only admin users can see/stop processes being run by another user, although yes they could still reboot the machine.
That is actually one of the things I never liked about UNIX from a security standpoint. Why can I see other people's processes with ps and top? I should not have the permission to do so unless I am root, or if that user allows it, just like with files. Does anybody know an easy option to change for this, or is this something that needs to be worked on?
This cyber court you speak of, it already exists. We call it slashdot. All we need to do is tie it into the legal system somehow.
Yes, that is exactly what we need, a legally recognised Slashdot, where I get ``modded'' to 5 years in prison for using FreeBSD instead of the ever-so-worderfully communist Linux. Heaven help me if the court discovered that I don't want to kill Bill Gates on sight.
Are they going to start giving free e-mail from usps.gov, or mail.gov, or some equivalent, or just slowly die? After all, almost nobody mails any packages through the USPS, just letters and junk mail, and e-mail has pretty much taken over the junk mail too.
If I remember correctly, the official way to pronounce Tcl was ``tickle'', so then everybody in the USA would have a tickle ID, a license to tickle! I like it, a new reason to bring your ID to bars!
Go work for Sun then, they are hiring aren't they? If you can't get a job there, your pretty much stuck I guess eh? I will see you at the grocery store, I will just look for the nerdy guy with food stamps
You apparently are unaware that MS folks generally make about half the pay of Unix folks. Oh, and by Unix I don't mean Linux, although Linux people generally get better pay than MS folks too, if for no other reason than they usually can do a much better job of managing a Windows box than any MSCE ever could. Sun produces machines that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and companies will pay a lot more to keep them running smoothly than they will to keep up a bunch of old pentiums.
Personally, I just like how 300 baud (which is 300 bps) is 1/20 of 56,600 bps. I had no idea that 6,000 = 56,600. It's a good thing we have journalists to do such extensive research and fact-checking; just think of how long the mathematicians have been overlooking that amazing equality!Or am I missing something here?:P
The term baud can be very misleading. Technically it is just ``symbol per second'' which can mean bits per second, but usually meant (back then) bytes per second, Bps, so 300 baud would be 300Bps = 2400bps, which is roughly 1/20 of 56kbps. It can also mean characters per second, i.e., 300*7bps (proper ASCII is only 7bit), and it originated with the telegraphs and morse code
(dit-dit-dit-dah-dah-dah-dit-dit-dit!). Such confusion is why the term is rarely used these days.
I wonder if space debris could be deorbited by using laser light as a sort of retro-rocket? Light exerts pressure, and although this is a very small amount of pressure, it will accumulate if you keep pushing. So, put up a satellite with lasers, not powerful enough to melt debris but powerful enough to give it a little push. Push on the debris with the laser light from ahead of its orbit. The satellite gains some orbital energy, the debris loses some. Eventually, the debris deorbits.
Actually, I imagine that this is not really necessary, since most of it would be in decaying orbits anyway. By the time we had enough interest to undertake such a project, much of what is up there will have already fallen out of orbit. The real answer is to stop leaving the junk up there to begin with, and to develop some sort of better armor for the spacecraft. After all, space will not be truly colonized until the next BIG war (i.e., WW-III, not ``Die, Bin Laden, Die!''), and that will require armor to protect against the weapons of the other side. As it is right now, a modified pressure cannon (think big air rifle) could take out the shuttle.
not bad. 40gb = near one month of mp3 music = no cd changers anymore!:]
Actually, I have about 6.5GB of mp3's, and that is a lot more than I listen to on a regular basis. About half of it is stuff I downloaded because somebody else wanted to hear it. I haven't even listened to a CD in about 3 months (since my car died, the last place I was using them). It will be nice when I can do the same with video, and have all of Star Trek on my hard drive.
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Does anybody remember The Cuckoo's Egg, a book from about 10 years ago, based on actual events, where a hacker (don't give me any of that hacker/cracker nonsense) used a security hole in GNU-Emacs to break into military servers holding nuclear weapons information to give to the Russians? Notice that he wasn't using vi.
it's hardly beneficial in our primary struggle to wrench market share away from MS
I know it may be hard for you to believe, but I don't care to wrench market share away from anybody. I don't hate Microsoft, I don't hate Windows (although it does get annoying at times, and I avoid using it whenever possible) and no, I don't even hate Bill Gates. I didn't even feel the need to spell Microsoft as mickey$oft. Linux is for people who hate Windows, BSD is for people who love UNIX.
why does OpenBSD have command recall and tab completion in ftp and not in sh?
The shell sh does not have command recall and tab completion, even in Linux. However, the shells bash, ksh, zsh, and many others do. The standard POSIX shell is very simplistic, but there is no reason you must keep using it. Change your shell to something else, which, if you are mainly used to Linux instead of BSD, would probably be bash. I personally prefer zsh.
... unfair to single out GNU/FSF/RMS when KDE, Gnome, XFree, MySQL, sendmail.org/Eric Allman, the ReiserFS, Emacs and LVM people and loads of others...
KDE is GNU GPL, Gnome is GNU GPL, Emacs is the main way GNU got started (I believe Stallman wrote much of it himself) as back in the day GNU-Emacs was the first GNU thing to show up on your average commercial UNIX systems. A good portion of the stuff that isn't GNU is GNU GPL licenced, and I would not be suprised if greater than 85% of the code in your average Linux distribution is GNU GPL licenced. However, The GNU GPL nowhere states that the words ``GNU'', ``GPL'', or even ``g'' (i.e., gcc for cc) must appear in the title of the program or system.
With a statement a bit more on topic, I use FreeBSD mostly, and the ports system is one of the best advantages of FreeBSD over Linux. I will be very happy when I can just type cd/usr/ports/databases/postgresql7; make install on a Linux machine and have PostgreSQL installed when I come back. I hope Red Hat picks up the idea, since that seems to be the main Linux distribution I have to deal with.
interesting idea, and while we're at it, we should rebuild the pentagon too!
Actually, that isn't necessary. The pentagon was built to be a major military installation (translation: fortress), and fared much better. There are people in it right now, still at work.
Yup, MySQL sucks for heavy loads.
That's why when I had to set up a website two jobs back that was for all intents and purposes just a big database, I used PostgreSQL.
It can handle massive databases with ease, the only problem with it is there is a lot more of a ``do-it-yourself'' situation than with MySQL, so I ended up having to write functions for stuff that should have just been there, and I am sure have been written by a thousand other programmers before me.
Perl is bound to be the source of a lot of the problems too.
I stopped programming in Perl about 2 years ago, and now do everything I used to do in Perl with Python.
The main advantage of Python over Perl is that I can actually read my own code two days later, a feature I often found lacking with Perl.
However, Slashdot was very stable for a long time, and if I remember correctly they just did a major rewrite of their code.
There are bound to be a lot of bugs to work out.
I am relatively sure it will all be OK in a while.
And who really thinks this is a slight to the good name of open source?
I am not going to move all of my stuff over to Microsoft just because Slashdot has some issues right now.
Anyway, if you think it is written poorly, and it is so adversely affecting your life, why don't you fix it instead of just being a whiny little bitch?
It is open source after all, so you can if you want to.
Why can't the crew habitat section rotate around the common axis of the vessel (two modules actually, in order to neutralize the torque generated, spinning opposite of each other). You know, like all of those wheel-shaped space stations you read about in science fiction, just on on a ship instead. Then they could have Earth-normal gravity the whole trip.
My college, Eastern Illinois University, uses ID cards that are also smart cards. You can put money on them, and then you get 10% off the purchase. The meal plan runs through the card, as well as ``dining dollars'', the stupid money that you can only spend on campus. You can set up a checking account, and it will act as the debit card. Supposedly they plan to set up the door locks to use the cards as the key in a few years.
I remember seeing in an old issue of Phrack the plans for a reader/writer for payphone cards used in Europe that looked identical. I have been meaning to try to find that article again, and see if I can't get me free candy for the rest of my days. Some girl's card broke last year, and the machines let her have everything for free! However, it has an ID on it too, so she eventually had to pay $400 to the university. I guess that means I would need to rewrite the magnetic strip too.
Just wait until Nanotechnology comes into the picture...there won't be ANY intellectual property to whine about.
You apparently do not realise that every piece of nanotechnology will be patented. Therefore, it wil not get rid of any patents. Why is this? Because all of the research into nanotech is being performed by large companies being run by ``braindead Neanderthals'' who know a lot more than you do, but are willing to help you and the rest of humanity out with their knowledge, just in exchange for a big enough salary so that they can buy a new Lexus every year or two. Think about it, it is a pretty fair deal: You get to not die of AIDS, and they get a new Lexus. They don't need to spend their time doing research, and even if they do, they don't need to even tell you that it exists. They are just being nice.
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I am not sure as to how ``different'' KDevelop's project files (or whatever they wish to call them) are from makefiles. If it actually uses makefiles to handle all of that, then I might actually be interested in using it. However, if it ends up removing the option of using the command line, it is not a good thing. I have had to remotely log in to my UNIX machines from Windows and Macintosh machines too many times to want to have even a remote dependency on anything that cannot be handled over a crappy vt100 terminal emulator.
Post: If DirectFB catches on, I'm sure someone will make an X server for it, so you can still use run remote X clients in it.
I know most people do not read the articles linked to here at Slashdot, but you could at least read the one-paragraph snippet at the top.
One might argue that is a good thing. If the people a product is designed to serve do not even want to use the product to begin with, then why should it be produced? I have been programming for years, and only used an IDE when I was forced to by the environment I was working in. I generally find that they hamper my work instead of help it. I also have seen several halfway-decent windows programmers be thrown into the shell-only world of UNIX, and this is what generally occurs: They whine and complain about the lack of an IDE for about a month, then they start playing around with the shell a bit as well as vim (or emacs, depending on the preferences of whomever they ask for UNIX help the most), and then they actually start to prefer not having an IDE.
While I most certianly do believe that the development of GUI tools for the office types is a very good idea, programmers should use whatever gives them the most power, and the standard GUI is most definitely not it. All of the effort being put into KDevelop would probably be better spent on KOffice, or even more enhancements to vim, emacs, and the standard code libraries of the various programming languages out there. I know that I would appreciate these as a programmer a whole lot more.
You mean like vim?
Another advantage to FreeBSD: the BSDiva.
That is actually one of the things I never liked about UNIX from a security standpoint. Why can I see other people's processes with ps and top? I should not have the permission to do so unless I am root, or if that user allows it, just like with files. Does anybody know an easy option to change for this, or is this something that needs to be worked on?
Yes, that is exactly what we need, a legally recognised Slashdot, where I get ``modded'' to 5 years in prison for using FreeBSD instead of the ever-so-worderfully communist Linux. Heaven help me if the court discovered that I don't want to kill Bill Gates on sight.
Are they going to start giving free e-mail from usps.gov, or mail.gov, or some equivalent, or just slowly die? After all, almost nobody mails any packages through the USPS, just letters and junk mail, and e-mail has pretty much taken over the junk mail too.
If I remember correctly, the official way to pronounce Tcl was ``tickle'', so then everybody in the USA would have a tickle ID, a license to tickle! I like it, a new reason to bring your ID to bars!
You apparently are unaware that MS folks generally make about half the pay of Unix folks. Oh, and by Unix I don't mean Linux, although Linux people generally get better pay than MS folks too, if for no other reason than they usually can do a much better job of managing a Windows box than any MSCE ever could. Sun produces machines that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and companies will pay a lot more to keep them running smoothly than they will to keep up a bunch of old pentiums.
The term baud can be very misleading. Technically it is just ``symbol per second'' which can mean bits per second, but usually meant (back then) bytes per second, Bps, so 300 baud would be 300Bps = 2400bps, which is roughly 1/20 of 56kbps. It can also mean characters per second, i.e., 300*7bps (proper ASCII is only 7bit), and it originated with the telegraphs and morse code (dit-dit-dit-dah-dah-dah-dit-dit-dit!). Such confusion is why the term is rarely used these days.
Actually, I imagine that this is not really necessary, since most of it would be in decaying orbits anyway. By the time we had enough interest to undertake such a project, much of what is up there will have already fallen out of orbit. The real answer is to stop leaving the junk up there to begin with, and to develop some sort of better armor for the spacecraft. After all, space will not be truly colonized until the next BIG war (i.e., WW-III, not ``Die, Bin Laden, Die!''), and that will require armor to protect against the weapons of the other side. As it is right now, a modified pressure cannon (think big air rifle) could take out the shuttle.
Actually, I have about 6.5GB of mp3's, and that is a lot more than I listen to on a regular basis. About half of it is stuff I downloaded because somebody else wanted to hear it. I haven't even listened to a CD in about 3 months (since my car died, the last place I was using them). It will be nice when I can do the same with video, and have all of Star Trek on my hard drive.
I know it may be hard for you to believe, but I don't care to wrench market share away from anybody. I don't hate Microsoft, I don't hate Windows (although it does get annoying at times, and I avoid using it whenever possible) and no, I don't even hate Bill Gates. I didn't even feel the need to spell Microsoft as mickey$oft. Linux is for people who hate Windows, BSD is for people who love UNIX.
The shell sh does not have command recall and tab completion, even in Linux. However, the shells bash, ksh, zsh, and many others do. The standard POSIX shell is very simplistic, but there is no reason you must keep using it. Change your shell to something else, which, if you are mainly used to Linux instead of BSD, would probably be bash. I personally prefer zsh.
KDE is GNU GPL, Gnome is GNU GPL, Emacs is the main way GNU got started (I believe Stallman wrote much of it himself) as back in the day GNU-Emacs was the first GNU thing to show up on your average commercial UNIX systems. A good portion of the stuff that isn't GNU is GNU GPL licenced, and I would not be suprised if greater than 85% of the code in your average Linux distribution is GNU GPL licenced. However, The GNU GPL nowhere states that the words ``GNU'', ``GPL'', or even ``g'' (i.e., gcc for cc) must appear in the title of the program or system.
With a statement a bit more on topic, I use FreeBSD mostly, and the ports system is one of the best advantages of FreeBSD over Linux. I will be very happy when I can just type cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7; make install on a Linux machine and have PostgreSQL installed when I come back. I hope Red Hat picks up the idea, since that seems to be the main Linux distribution I have to deal with.
Credit card numbers are not as random as you might think. A good overview can be found at this site.
What about sendmail (or many others) instead of Exchange server, and KMail instead of the MS email client?
Actually, that isn't necessary. The pentagon was built to be a major military installation (translation: fortress), and fared much better. There are people in it right now, still at work.
I always preferred:
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#1b #10b #11b #100b
#1o #2o #3o #4o #5o #6o #7o #10o #11o
#1d #2d #3d #4d #5d #6d #7d #8d #9d #10d #11d
#1h #2h #3h #4h #5h #6h #7h #8h #9h #ah #bh
Go HP calculators!!!
Although I would probably make it #h123 style instead of #123h if it had be me who set it up, that would make parsing the numbers easier.
Perl is bound to be the source of a lot of the problems too. I stopped programming in Perl about 2 years ago, and now do everything I used to do in Perl with Python. The main advantage of Python over Perl is that I can actually read my own code two days later, a feature I often found lacking with Perl.
However, Slashdot was very stable for a long time, and if I remember correctly they just did a major rewrite of their code. There are bound to be a lot of bugs to work out. I am relatively sure it will all be OK in a while. And who really thinks this is a slight to the good name of open source? I am not going to move all of my stuff over to Microsoft just because Slashdot has some issues right now. Anyway, if you think it is written poorly, and it is so adversely affecting your life, why don't you fix it instead of just being a whiny little bitch? It is open source after all, so you can if you want to.
Why can't the crew habitat section rotate around the common axis of the vessel (two modules actually, in order to neutralize the torque generated, spinning opposite of each other). You know, like all of those wheel-shaped space stations you read about in science fiction, just on on a ship instead. Then they could have Earth-normal gravity the whole trip.
I remember seeing in an old issue of Phrack the plans for a reader/writer for payphone cards used in Europe that looked identical. I have been meaning to try to find that article again, and see if I can't get me free candy for the rest of my days. Some girl's card broke last year, and the machines let her have everything for free! However, it has an ID on it too, so she eventually had to pay $400 to the university. I guess that means I would need to rewrite the magnetic strip too.
You apparently do not realise that every piece of nanotechnology will be patented. Therefore, it wil not get rid of any patents. Why is this? Because all of the research into nanotech is being performed by large companies being run by ``braindead Neanderthals'' who know a lot more than you do, but are willing to help you and the rest of humanity out with their knowledge, just in exchange for a big enough salary so that they can buy a new Lexus every year or two. Think about it, it is a pretty fair deal: You get to not die of AIDS, and they get a new Lexus. They don't need to spend their time doing research, and even if they do, they don't need to even tell you that it exists. They are just being nice.