I am 32 and I still don't get respect from my bosses. I also don't brown-nose and it seems like the brown-nosers get all the respect and pay raises and promotions despite what skills they have.
A programmer that works with me that I have one year of seniority over and a degree over (he doesn't have one) got the Project Leader promotion over me. He takes longer than me to get things done, often passing projects to other developers like me, and complains all the time that he is bored. But yet, he brown-noses with the boss and gets that promition and pay raise. I'd better look out or look for a job elsewhere before he takes over for my boss if my boss gets promoted.
I write tight code, very few bugs, and what few bugs are found are fixed before I pass it on to the QA Team. But doing a good job doesn't seem to matter anymore. Politics, gossip, brown-nosing, and schmoozing seem to be the way to get promoted these days. I guess maybe the younger guys don't do any of that when they start working?
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I beg to differ, there are more than three types of Mac Users:
#1 Died in the wool, faithfull, Apple Fans. Will buy Macs no matter what. Even if they are based on Intel Celeron chips, use popsickle sticks for the case design, and use a lightpen instead of a mouse.
#2 Ex-PC Users upset at what the PC offers and wants something different.
#3 Graphic Artists, Creative Content Providers, feel that only the Mac Platform can offer what they need to get work done.
#4 Newbies, people new to using a computer and are frightened by Windows and other complex stuff.
#5 Developers, want to develop for the Mac Platform, see it as a good risk.
#6 Unix experts who see OSX as the next big thing, so they are buying their Macs now to run OSX Beta and will get the retail version soon.
#7 Ex-Apple II owners, want to stick with Apple. Feel that Apple has done them right, so they are going to do Apple right and keep on buying.
#8 Teenager, used Macs in schools, want to keep using them. These are the new blood Mac Users.
#9 People fed up with Microsoft products, but don't want to use Linux/OpenBSD/BeOS or OS/2. The Mac is friendlier for them, and AppleWorks does all they want it to do.
#10 People forced to use them. Could use them in schools or at work. Don't really like them, but have no other choice. That is the only platform they are given to use, or the only one that will run the software they need.
#1 Network network network, talk to people, socialize, get your name out there. The more people that know about you, the more likely you can get that programming job you want.
#2 Write a few sample applications. Make them freeware and include your postal address, voice number, e-mail, etc. Don't make it very complex, just a few simple applications and then in the documentation say you are available for contract work and can turn these applications into more complex programs.
#3 Work with Contracting Companies (turn a lemon into lemonade) by giving them your resume, and talk to them (meet them for lunch, etc) about your abilities and what you can do. Show some examples of your work (reference #2) and lay it on the line what you want to do (telecommute, programming, etc).
#4 Create a web page (tons of Free web service hosts, or if you have the cash pay for one) that lists your services, and create meta tags and submit it to the major search engines. List that you want to Telecommute and do Contract Programming work. Let the clients come to you. Set up voicemail with JFAX or another company to have a voicemail that gets e-mailed to your address so you can pick it up from anywhere.
I've had companies change from pre-paid postage to postage that requires a postal stamp on it to return. I would return the pre-paid letters blank or with a letter asking to be taken off their list. I never thought of the glue, sheet metal, or brick solutions, but then I don't want these companies ticked off at me because they have my personal info they bought from some database, including maybe my SSN. Who is to say they won't try to get revenge by trying to screw up my credit rating if I send them glue or a sheet metal reply?
Why bother? Why not just have the Linux community work on the interface to Linux to look like Aqua or to have it user configurable to use "Skins" to look like anything it wants to?
Then consider using GNUStep on a Unix version for the PC like Linux. Maybe someone can do a Carbon API library port or something?
Anyone remember NeXTStep or NeXTOS and the reason why it failed? There were MacOS emulators for it in its later years and it even ran on WINTEL systems. Yet it failed worse than New Coke or the USFL. Now it is reborn as OSX and Darwin. What makes anyone think it can do better this time other than the fact it runs on Macs?
Darwin is the MACH Kernel, some parts of BSD Unix, and ported to WINTEL hardware and Mac hardware. If anything, this is the OS that competes with Linux, but so far it is only half-baked. They are lucky that XFree86 was ported to it, so it would have a GUI. Nothing as fancy as Aqua, mind you, but hardly anything to compete with Linux yet.
If Apple converts OSX to run on WINTEL machines, would it take away from their Mac market, or create more marketshare?
If Apple discontinues MacOS 9.X and forces everyone to convert to OSX or lose software updates, what will happen?
Face it, OSX is limited to the Mac Only market right now; however, it can change if Apple decides to go after the WINTEL market. As it stands now, I doubt that they will. Even if they did, Linux already has a good user base in the WINTEL market and hundreds to thousands of companies willing to back Linux up. Apple would also have to convince IBM, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc to pre-load OSX on their PC systems. Apple has a reputation of screwing OEMs, remember the Mac Clones? I didn't think the big name PC Makers have that short a memory.
I wish Apple luck in the Unix market, they are going to need it. But their Mac Only market won't even account for 10% marketshare, and Linux can capture more than that in the next 5 to 10 years. With OSX, Apple has to either sell more Macs, or port to other platforms to compete with Linux there.
Interesting poll on the IWETHEY Forums. Let's see how OSX as a threat to Linux does, shall we? You can log on with a user id and vote yourself if you want to participate.
Sorry, let me wipe the tear from my eye as I was laughing so hard. Since when does OSX threaten Linux? It will only threaten Linux when OSX is ported to as many platforms as Linux, when all (100%) of OSX is open sourced, when OSX adopts a GPL instead of a pseduo-open license, and when the Devil has to ice skate to work.
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Is this just more FUD from the MacJihad? Trying to prove that OSX is superior to Linux? Like those guys at The Linux Sucks Club? They just can't come up with any realistic reasons why Linux sucks and OSX is better.
I mean really what makes OSX better than Linux? That Apple makes it, that it runs on Macs, that it has an Aqua interface? The ability to run old Mac programs in "Classic" mode? Screen Otters? Gee-Gaws that only 1% of the users really need? What?
Face it, a lot of our United States government is based on the Republic of Rome. Rome never worked the bugs out of their system, and so it appears neither did we as our system inherited those bugs. The Roman Republic fell, didn't it? We hope that ours won't but who is to say?
We have corruption, coverups, abuse, mispending, incompetent representatives, corporations that are too powerfull, and people that just don't care enough to vote anymore. Just like Rome used to have.
We we have a war, only the "Perfect" people are sent out to get killed, the 4-F people stay home and breed. So we get left with a lot of Joe Six-packs picking our politicians and not caring enough to learn what is going on in our government.
So what can you do? Help change our system or leave the country? Or perhaps join the majority and just sit back and do nothing and let the insanity continue?
Make a Java based Mud Client that uses a GUI and translates the text commands into graphic icons on the user's screen. The Mud can stay in text mode (Cirle Mud, etc), but the user sees buttons and stuff. They can drag and drop weapons to player and monster names in the room and attack them. It should get the fun back into older muds and make them easier to play.
Is this what it comes down to, it takes one to know one? Use a Script Kiddie to catch a Script Kiddie? Since when did Hacking become Cracking?
Just shadow your Unix password list, move the location of your logs, get a better firewall software and apply the latest security updates to your OS, and see what the logs turn up.
We never had a true democracy, just a Republic loosly based on the old Roman Republic. We elect representatives, they break promises to us and then they either get re-elected or voted out of office. Corps pay for their campaigns, and then want some control/power in exchange. So bills get passed and such and then the kickbacks come into play.
Is the USA really that bad? Could it be worse? Like Thailand or Mexico where the economy is real bad and the government is corrupt. Maybe if you had the money, or saved it up for 10 years and learned the local language you could live in Mexico or Thailand like royalty if you give money to the right people. That is, until your money ran out or someone backstabs you.
Maybe Canada is more to your liking, just a bit up north. Or maybe the UK, just slightly north and over the big pond called the Atlantic Ocean.
Or what about Greenland and Iceland, if you don't mind the cold a bit. Or head south to Australia for 90 degree weather.
No matter how bad America gets, there will always be a place that is worse. There may even be a place that is better; however, no place is Uthopia on this planet. Every country has their own problems, and if you move there you have to deal with them.
Andy Kaufman talked about an island called Caspia, but said it sank into the sea. Not sure if it was real or not, but maybe that was the last place on Earth that was a paradise?;)
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What matters the most is experience and adapting to new environments. We have had people with CS degrees fresh out of college that barely know what they are doing. Someone like me with an AAS in Information Systems and 10+ years experience in the field can show that I can out-work them and write better programs. I also can adapt to new technology and new environments, a lot of the CS degreed people that our company hired can't adapt as well. Granted they may be able to do Calc in their heads and write up better report papers, but they just can't match my experience.
Oh yeah it was tough at first. I had to take warehouse jobs, then data entry, then computer specialist jobs before the Programmer / Analyst jobs, but after I had 10+ years under my belt, I became very valuable. I still have to help out CS degreed people learn how to program in VB or Active Server Pages or work with SQL statements. Maybe they can beat me in COBOL and RPG programming, but our company doesn't use that. Are our colleges teaching realavent information that graduates need to servive in the IS world?
BeOS would likely get more newbie users who are interested in multimedia; however, the small amount of BeOS apps will prevent most average users from switching over.
Linux works because it has the ability to run Unix applications and Linux support keeps on growing.
I doubt Be will open source BeOS, because since they dropped their hardware, what will they do for revenue besides software?
Maybe the BeOS core will be open sourced, the part they give away for free anyway? But not the professional version with all the features. If that happens, the license I see them using would be a BSD like license.
If he wants Java and Assembly, try to teach him that but first teach him the concepts of programming. The flowcharts, the pseduo-code, the basic design, the user interface, etc.
Use Microsoft as a bad example of writing code because of how complex and buggy it gets. Teach him how to trap for errors and how to provide user friendly error messages.
Teach him procedural programming before you teach him object oriented programming so he can learn the difference.
Please don't let him become a "Script-Kiddie".:)
Please do teach him to be responsible for his own code. Teach him how to document it so that others can work with it.
Yes I played it, but I either used the random feature, or I called back at 300 or 1200 baud to hit the enemy.
Those Hydrites never knew what hit them. The only way they could kill me is if a lightning storm shorting out my weapons, and a hurricane whipped off my armor and I found myself low on hitpoints and poisioned and unable to make it back to level 1.
My only complaint now is that there are not enough players to play Meat Darts! ***Drooling eyes***!:)
The thing with the BBS verses the Internet is that the BBS was more personal and local. You usually didn't call a LD BBS unless you needed a file from it that the local BBSes didn't have. Like the latest source code to a BBS or BBS Door.
Longships is the oldest BBS I still call. It is in the 314 area code and it is WWIVNet and WWIVLink connected with many DOS based BBS Doors like Tradewars, Telehang, Foodfite, Stock Market and many others. Perhaps the last BBS in that area as many of the others are going down for the count.
How can you compete against free Internet service via bluelight.com or Juno? The only thing the BBSes had going was the BBS Event. We all meet at Six Flags, or a Park, or a Bowling Alley. Then you could see the faces behind the handles. The BBS didn't have commercialized posts, and mostly had those rebels that made their own computers in their basement with mail-order parts.
Remember when USR gave SYSOP discounts on 9600 HST modems, the only thing was you had to have a BBS running for at least a year at the same number. Every BBS had them, this was before the V.32 standards. Then later USR had the same discount for its Dual Standard modems, just about every BBS had them.
Now, you might as well run a BBS Forum from the Internet and pay for a web site, instead of an extra phone line. Have the BBS Forum accessed from the web site. Or just use one for free at EzBoard like IWETHEY did. The old Infoworld members now reside there as Infoworld dropped their own forum after many problems with it.
I recall there was a Genesis BBS program that was free and included the source code.
Renegade was a Turbo Pascal WWIV 3.X rip-off as was Trek BBS and many other boards that got based on the Turbo Pascal based WWIV 3.X source. My hats are off to those who converted the source to Turbo Pascal 4.0 and higher, because they practically had to re-write the code to work with the new compilers. Wayne Bell did a port to Turbo C and used the ideas from these other boards that modified his original code.
If I can find a GPL BBS software that runs on Linux and does Fax and Voicemail messages, I would run it in a minute and take down Talkworks Pro and Windows ME and replace it with the GPL Linux based BBS.
The mgetty and vgetty programs appear to be very weak and buggy plus they don't work with every modem.
I need the Voicemail and Fax abilities, the BBS would be a bonus. Any ideas? E-mail them to cable4096@hotmail.com
I must admit I was thinking about doing this a few years back. I wanted to do a Tradewars game in Java with a GUI so it can be run from any platform. Lack of interest from people who would have worked on it with me caused the project to sink.
A BBS I still call Longships has the old Tradewars 2002 V1.03D, Stock Market, Food Fight, Telehang, etc games on it. It also supports WWIV Net and WWIV Link. But the BBS hardly get any players in those games. Making the games Internet ready would solve that problem, but your average DOS based BBS isn't internet friendly.
My goal was to write a new version of Tradewars, Food Fite, Stock Market, Global Wars, Solar Realms, etc in C++ and then port them to different systems like Unix, BeOS, AmigaDOS, MacOS, Windows etc and write them so they can support multiple players verses the one player at a time DOS BBS mode.
So where do I learn about the different BBS Door drop-file formats and writing the code in C++ to not just access serial ports but also be run via Telnet for Internet BBSes? Maybe a port to Java later on could make it more portable?
Very true, piracy is always an issue. Over in some countries in Asia they have Playstation and Dreamcast disks for less than $1USD each, most likely not the originals, but good enough to play. Even if a pirate copies a cart, they still have to put it on hardware to be played as a cart.
But then does it cost more to burn a CD/DVD or plug a ROM into a cart? I've seen both carts and CD/DVD games selling for almost the same price. So would making a Playstation CD cost me less than making a N64 cart? Granted making a CD is cheaper, it also is easier to pirate. Stick a special chip in a Cart, and even if someone ROMcopies that cart, they won't have the special chip it needs to play. The old Atari 2600 games used to do that.
Anyone remember those Genesis and Super Nintendo console copiers? Before the Internet they cost like $550USD each, and could back-up/copy the carts to floppy disks. Now they cost $350-$300USD each and a used Super Nintendo or Genesis about $30USD each. Tons of ROM sites that allow you to download those games (No I am not giving out the URLs, don't even ask me) for emulators. The Internet helped on the game console piracy market; however, newer systems are harder to emulate and require faster and better hardware. For example a Dreamcast, N64, or Playstation emulator will require at least a 350Mhz CPU and a 3D video display with at least 8M of RAM on it to get decent results. I wonder what will be needed for a GameCube or PS2 emulator?
Right now I can use Bleem to play Playstation 1 games on my PC. Until Sony sues the pants off of Digital River, I hope I can get updates from them. It won't run 100% of the games out there, and a lot of games are buggy, but if the Playstation was cart based I wouldn't be able to run an emulator like Bleem without using a console copier.
I guess what I am trying to say is to don't count out Nintendo yet, even if it doesn't play DVD movies it should still be a great system. I hope they make a N64 adapter so all my old N64 games will work with it by just plugging in the old carts.
I'll be waiting for the PS2 to come down in price to at least $129USD when it competes with the Gamecube next year and the Dreamcast gets into a price war with it. BTW They have a Bleem for the Dreamcast to run Playstation 1 games on the Dreamcast. Funny how that works, eh?;)
The ones that break/crack into systems are crackers. The ones that send denial of service attacks are just script kiddies with an attitude.
A different breed of hackers are writing the Linux kernel modifications and doing what they can to make Linux a better OS.
Others, like me, are White Hat Hackers, just learning how hacks/cracks work and not using them for descructive purposes. We are trying to learn to use C++, Perl, Javascript and other languages better and patch up security holes when we find them.
I got a Yahoo Club for those interested in talking more about it and other topics. All are welcomed to join, just no flaming of other users.
I agree, MAME cabinets rock. But where can you legally buy the arcade ROMs you need to build one of those things?
I mean I know that there are defunct arcade systems all over the world, and that ROM chips can be pulled out of systems at junk yards. But we do want to be legal, don't we? Own the Ms. Pacman ROMs to run the emulator and all that, right?
Ok so it runs Linux. Does it also run XFree86 and GNOME? Do you use the Controller as a pointing device? Can you hook up a hard drive to it, or is it limited to a CDR?
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I am 32 and I still don't get respect from my bosses. I also don't brown-nose and it seems like the brown-nosers get all the respect and pay raises and promotions despite what skills they have.
A programmer that works with me that I have one year of seniority over and a degree over (he doesn't have one) got the Project Leader promotion over me. He takes longer than me to get things done, often passing projects to other developers like me, and complains all the time that he is bored. But yet, he brown-noses with the boss and gets that promition and pay raise. I'd better look out or look for a job elsewhere before he takes over for my boss if my boss gets promoted.
I write tight code, very few bugs, and what few bugs are found are fixed before I pass it on to the QA Team. But doing a good job doesn't seem to matter anymore. Politics, gossip, brown-nosing, and schmoozing seem to be the way to get promoted these days. I guess maybe the younger guys don't do any of that when they start working?
#1 Died in the wool, faithfull, Apple Fans. Will buy Macs no matter what. Even if they are based on Intel Celeron chips, use popsickle sticks for the case design, and use a lightpen instead of a mouse.
#2 Ex-PC Users upset at what the PC offers and wants something different.
#3 Graphic Artists, Creative Content Providers, feel that only the Mac Platform can offer what they need to get work done.
#4 Newbies, people new to using a computer and are frightened by Windows and other complex stuff.
#5 Developers, want to develop for the Mac Platform, see it as a good risk.
#6 Unix experts who see OSX as the next big thing, so they are buying their Macs now to run OSX Beta and will get the retail version soon.
#7 Ex-Apple II owners, want to stick with Apple. Feel that Apple has done them right, so they are going to do Apple right and keep on buying.
#8 Teenager, used Macs in schools, want to keep using them. These are the new blood Mac Users.
#9 People fed up with Microsoft products, but don't want to use Linux/OpenBSD/BeOS or OS/2. The Mac is friendlier for them, and AppleWorks does all they want it to do.
#10 People forced to use them. Could use them in schools or at work. Don't really like them, but have no other choice. That is the only platform they are given to use, or the only one that will run the software they need.
#1 Network network network, talk to people, socialize, get your name out there. The more people that know about you, the more likely you can get that programming job you want.
#2 Write a few sample applications. Make them freeware and include your postal address, voice number, e-mail, etc. Don't make it very complex, just a few simple applications and then in the documentation say you are available for contract work and can turn these applications into more complex programs.
#3 Work with Contracting Companies (turn a lemon into lemonade) by giving them your resume, and talk to them (meet them for lunch, etc) about your abilities and what you can do. Show some examples of your work (reference #2) and lay it on the line what you want to do (telecommute, programming, etc).
#4 Create a web page (tons of Free web service hosts, or if you have the cash pay for one) that lists your services, and create meta tags and submit it to the major search engines. List that you want to Telecommute and do Contract Programming work. Let the clients come to you. Set up voicemail with JFAX or another company to have a voicemail that gets e-mailed to your address so you can pick it up from anywhere.
I've had companies change from pre-paid postage to postage that requires a postal stamp on it to return. I would return the pre-paid letters blank or with a letter asking to be taken off their list. I never thought of the glue, sheet metal, or brick solutions, but then I don't want these companies ticked off at me because they have my personal info they bought from some database, including maybe my SSN. Who is to say they won't try to get revenge by trying to screw up my credit rating if I send them glue or a sheet metal reply?
Then consider using GNUStep on a Unix version for the PC like Linux. Maybe someone can do a Carbon API library port or something?
Anyone remember NeXTStep or NeXTOS and the reason why it failed? There were MacOS emulators for it in its later years and it even ran on WINTEL systems. Yet it failed worse than New Coke or the USFL. Now it is reborn as OSX and Darwin. What makes anyone think it can do better this time other than the fact it runs on Macs?
Darwin is the MACH Kernel, some parts of BSD Unix, and ported to WINTEL hardware and Mac hardware. If anything, this is the OS that competes with Linux, but so far it is only half-baked. They are lucky that XFree86 was ported to it, so it would have a GUI. Nothing as fancy as Aqua, mind you, but hardly anything to compete with Linux yet.
If Apple converts OSX to run on WINTEL machines, would it take away from their Mac market, or create more marketshare?
If Apple discontinues MacOS 9.X and forces everyone to convert to OSX or lose software updates, what will happen?
Face it, OSX is limited to the Mac Only market right now; however, it can change if Apple decides to go after the WINTEL market. As it stands now, I doubt that they will. Even if they did, Linux already has a good user base in the WINTEL market and hundreds to thousands of companies willing to back Linux up. Apple would also have to convince IBM, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc to pre-load OSX on their PC systems. Apple has a reputation of screwing OEMs, remember the Mac Clones? I didn't think the big name PC Makers have that short a memory.
I wish Apple luck in the Unix market, they are going to need it. But their Mac Only market won't even account for 10% marketshare, and Linux can capture more than that in the next 5 to 10 years. With OSX, Apple has to either sell more Macs, or port to other platforms to compete with Linux there.
Interesting poll on the IWETHEY Forums. Let's see how OSX as a threat to Linux does, shall we? You can log on with a user id and vote yourself if you want to participate.
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Is this just more FUD from the MacJihad? Trying to prove that OSX is superior to Linux? Like those guys at The Linux Sucks Club? They just can't come up with any realistic reasons why Linux sucks and OSX is better.
I mean really what makes OSX better than Linux? That Apple makes it, that it runs on Macs, that it has an Aqua interface? The ability to run old Mac programs in "Classic" mode? Screen Otters? Gee-Gaws that only 1% of the users really need? What?
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We have corruption, coverups, abuse, mispending, incompetent representatives, corporations that are too powerfull, and people that just don't care enough to vote anymore. Just like Rome used to have.
We we have a war, only the "Perfect" people are sent out to get killed, the 4-F people stay home and breed. So we get left with a lot of Joe Six-packs picking our politicians and not caring enough to learn what is going on in our government.
So what can you do? Help change our system or leave the country? Or perhaps join the majority and just sit back and do nothing and let the insanity continue?
*WARNING* Slippery when sarcastic!
Make a Java based Mud Client that uses a GUI and translates the text commands into graphic icons on the user's screen. The Mud can stay in text mode (Cirle Mud, etc), but the user sees buttons and stuff. They can drag and drop weapons to player and monster names in the room and attack them. It should get the fun back into older muds and make them easier to play.
Just shadow your Unix password list, move the location of your logs, get a better firewall software and apply the latest security updates to your OS, and see what the logs turn up.
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We never had a true democracy, just a Republic loosly based on the old Roman Republic. We elect representatives, they break promises to us and then they either get re-elected or voted out of office. Corps pay for their campaigns, and then want some control/power in exchange. So bills get passed and such and then the kickbacks come into play.
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Is the USA really that bad? Could it be worse? Like Thailand or Mexico where the economy is real bad and the government is corrupt. Maybe if you had the money, or saved it up for 10 years and learned the local language you could live in Mexico or Thailand like royalty if you give money to the right people. That is, until your money ran out or someone backstabs you.
Maybe Canada is more to your liking, just a bit up north. Or maybe the UK, just slightly north and over the big pond called the Atlantic Ocean.
Or what about Greenland and Iceland, if you don't mind the cold a bit. Or head south to Australia for 90 degree weather.
No matter how bad America gets, there will always be a place that is worse. There may even be a place that is better; however, no place is Uthopia on this planet. Every country has their own problems, and if you move there you have to deal with them.
Andy Kaufman talked about an island called Caspia, but said it sank into the sea. Not sure if it was real or not, but maybe that was the last place on Earth that was a paradise?
What matters the most is experience and adapting to new environments. We have had people with CS degrees fresh out of college that barely know what they are doing. Someone like me with an AAS in Information Systems and 10+ years experience in the field can show that I can out-work them and write better programs. I also can adapt to new technology and new environments, a lot of the CS degreed people that our company hired can't adapt as well. Granted they may be able to do Calc in their heads and write up better report papers, but they just can't match my experience.
Oh yeah it was tough at first. I had to take warehouse jobs, then data entry, then computer specialist jobs before the Programmer / Analyst jobs, but after I had 10+ years under my belt, I became very valuable. I still have to help out CS degreed people learn how to program in VB or Active Server Pages or work with SQL statements. Maybe they can beat me in COBOL and RPG programming, but our company doesn't use that. Are our colleges teaching realavent information that graduates need to servive in the IS world?
BeOS would likely get more newbie users who are interested in multimedia; however, the small amount of BeOS apps will prevent most average users from switching over.
Linux works because it has the ability to run Unix applications and Linux support keeps on growing.
I doubt Be will open source BeOS, because since they dropped their hardware, what will they do for revenue besides software?
Maybe the BeOS core will be open sourced, the part they give away for free anyway? But not the professional version with all the features. If that happens, the license I see them using would be a BSD like license.
It comes down to this, do we need a choice and a bigger distro of Linux, or do we need simplicity and one of every software instead of dozens?
VI I wouldn't like to be stuck with, Pico works much better for me. But then some can't do without eMacs.
So what should we use on a "Thin" Linux distro? Force everyone to use VI as the editor, GNOME as the GUI, and StarOffice as the office suite?
If he wants Java and Assembly, try to teach him that but first teach him the concepts of programming. The flowcharts, the pseduo-code, the basic design, the user interface, etc.
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Use Microsoft as a bad example of writing code because of how complex and buggy it gets. Teach him how to trap for errors and how to provide user friendly error messages.
Teach him procedural programming before you teach him object oriented programming so he can learn the difference.
Please don't let him become a "Script-Kiddie".
Please do teach him to be responsible for his own code. Teach him how to document it so that others can work with it.
Those Hydrites never knew what hit them. The only way they could kill me is if a lightning storm shorting out my weapons, and a hurricane whipped off my armor and I found myself low on hitpoints and poisioned and unable to make it back to level 1.
My only complaint now is that there are not enough players to play Meat Darts! ***Drooling eyes***! :)
Longships is the oldest BBS I still call. It is in the 314 area code and it is WWIVNet and WWIVLink connected with many DOS based BBS Doors like Tradewars, Telehang, Foodfite, Stock Market and many others. Perhaps the last BBS in that area as many of the others are going down for the count.
How can you compete against free Internet service via bluelight.com or Juno? The only thing the BBSes had going was the BBS Event. We all meet at Six Flags, or a Park, or a Bowling Alley. Then you could see the faces behind the handles. The BBS didn't have commercialized posts, and mostly had those rebels that made their own computers in their basement with mail-order parts.
Remember when USR gave SYSOP discounts on 9600 HST modems, the only thing was you had to have a BBS running for at least a year at the same number. Every BBS had them, this was before the V.32 standards. Then later USR had the same discount for its Dual Standard modems, just about every BBS had them.
Now, you might as well run a BBS Forum from the Internet and pay for a web site, instead of an extra phone line. Have the BBS Forum accessed from the web site. Or just use one for free at EzBoard like IWETHEY did. The old Infoworld members now reside there as Infoworld dropped their own forum after many problems with it.
Renegade was a Turbo Pascal WWIV 3.X rip-off as was Trek BBS and many other boards that got based on the Turbo Pascal based WWIV 3.X source. My hats are off to those who converted the source to Turbo Pascal 4.0 and higher, because they practically had to re-write the code to work with the new compilers. Wayne Bell did a port to Turbo C and used the ideas from these other boards that modified his original code.
The mgetty and vgetty programs appear to be very weak and buggy plus they don't work with every modem.
I need the Voicemail and Fax abilities, the BBS would be a bonus. Any ideas? E-mail them to cable4096@hotmail.com
A BBS I still call Longships has the old Tradewars 2002 V1.03D, Stock Market, Food Fight, Telehang, etc games on it. It also supports WWIV Net and WWIV Link. But the BBS hardly get any players in those games. Making the games Internet ready would solve that problem, but your average DOS based BBS isn't internet friendly.
My goal was to write a new version of Tradewars, Food Fite, Stock Market, Global Wars, Solar Realms, etc in C++ and then port them to different systems like Unix, BeOS, AmigaDOS, MacOS, Windows etc and write them so they can support multiple players verses the one player at a time DOS BBS mode.
So where do I learn about the different BBS Door drop-file formats and writing the code in C++ to not just access serial ports but also be run via Telnet for Internet BBSes? Maybe a port to Java later on could make it more portable?
Very true, piracy is always an issue. Over in some countries in Asia they have Playstation and Dreamcast disks for less than $1USD each, most likely not the originals, but good enough to play. Even if a pirate copies a cart, they still have to put it on hardware to be played as a cart.
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But then does it cost more to burn a CD/DVD or plug a ROM into a cart? I've seen both carts and CD/DVD games selling for almost the same price. So would making a Playstation CD cost me less than making a N64 cart? Granted making a CD is cheaper, it also is easier to pirate. Stick a special chip in a Cart, and even if someone ROMcopies that cart, they won't have the special chip it needs to play. The old Atari 2600 games used to do that.
Anyone remember those Genesis and Super Nintendo console copiers? Before the Internet they cost like $550USD each, and could back-up/copy the carts to floppy disks. Now they cost $350-$300USD each and a used Super Nintendo or Genesis about $30USD each. Tons of ROM sites that allow you to download those games (No I am not giving out the URLs, don't even ask me) for emulators. The Internet helped on the game console piracy market; however, newer systems are harder to emulate and require faster and better hardware. For example a Dreamcast, N64, or Playstation emulator will require at least a 350Mhz CPU and a 3D video display with at least 8M of RAM on it to get decent results. I wonder what will be needed for a GameCube or PS2 emulator?
Right now I can use Bleem to play Playstation 1 games on my PC. Until Sony sues the pants off of Digital River, I hope I can get updates from them. It won't run 100% of the games out there, and a lot of games are buggy, but if the Playstation was cart based I wouldn't be able to run an emulator like Bleem without using a console copier.
I guess what I am trying to say is to don't count out Nintendo yet, even if it doesn't play DVD movies it should still be a great system. I hope they make a N64 adapter so all my old N64 games will work with it by just plugging in the old carts.
I'll be waiting for the PS2 to come down in price to at least $129USD when it competes with the Gamecube next year and the Dreamcast gets into a price war with it. BTW They have a Bleem for the Dreamcast to run Playstation 1 games on the Dreamcast. Funny how that works, eh?
A different breed of hackers are writing the Linux kernel modifications and doing what they can to make Linux a better OS.
Others, like me, are White Hat Hackers, just learning how hacks/cracks work and not using them for descructive purposes. We are trying to learn to use C++, Perl, Javascript and other languages better and patch up security holes when we find them.
I got a Yahoo Club for those interested in talking more about it and other topics. All are welcomed to join, just no flaming of other users.
I agree, MAME cabinets rock. But where can you legally buy the arcade ROMs you need to build one of those things?
I mean I know that there are defunct arcade systems all over the world, and that ROM chips can be pulled out of systems at junk yards. But we do want to be legal, don't we? Own the Ms. Pacman ROMs to run the emulator and all that, right?
Ok so it runs Linux. Does it also run XFree86 and GNOME? Do you use the Controller as a pointing device? Can you hook up a hard drive to it, or is it limited to a CDR?
Maybe the invisible Boy turns into that fourth color that most of us can't see? :)
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But she would get her *** kicked by "The Spleen".