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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Ori Berger' | ||
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Number of Comments: 497 |
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| Number of Words: 79,114 | ||
| First Comment: 03 Mar 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 26 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 9 |
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| First Topic: 03 Mar 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 29 Jun 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 26 Aug 2004 | Cross Platform devel.... | There's also APR - Apache Portable Runtime. But.... >> |
| Which build software.... | A vote for SCons [ http://scons.sourceforge.net ] .... >> | |
| 25 Aug 2004 | Need a text editor t.... | On Unix/Linux, I think Fabrice Bellard's QEmacs fi.... >> |
| 24 Aug 2004 | Trusted computing | 1. Loss of privacy. First, only banks will want to.... >> |
| 29 Jul 2004 | Embedded DB Solution.... | Third vote for SQLite. >> |
| 25 Jul 2004 | Daylight Saving Time | Israel's DST time is a political decision, often i.... >> |
| 22 Jul 2004 | What source code are.... | Procedural is usually easiest to read; Nothing inh.... >> |
| Mr. Fancypants - I understand you grasp all useful.... >> | ||
| 21 Jul 2004 | Python FLTK The Linux Kernel QEMU QEmacs tcc .... >> | |
| 20 Jul 2004 | Open Source is good | Philo, I suppose that does not come often, because.... >> |
| Excel -- wrong tool .... | muppet, this is news because those smarter-than-th.... >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | why not downloadable.... | Mozilla/FireFox/Opera tabs make this problem mostl.... >> |
| 16 Jul 2004 | Unix neophyte seeks .... | I wrote my first X program 13 years ago. I've watc.... >> |
| s/and Microsoft's request/at Microsoft's request/ >> | ||
| If your graphics / input has a real-time / game-li.... >> | ||
| Python for a commerc.... | The python frameworks listed above are good altern.... >> | |
| Javascript Compatibi.... | Mozilla/FireFox has the TabBrowser extension that .... >> | |
| 15 Jul 2004 | .Net devs that went .... | Somewhat off topic -- but I've never talked to any.... >> |
| Atak: the new genera.... | That's just because the virus analyzers have becom.... >> | |
| 14 Jul 2004 | Bugs as a function o.... | Apache has significantly more users than IIS, and .... >> |
| Many 'bugs' are a result of underspecified behavio.... >> | ||
| 13 Jul 2004 | Tech support using V.... | Andrew: I was referring to the 'remote assistance'.... >> |
| Albert: You're missing a lot. Win 2K does NOT have.... >> | ||
| 11 Jul 2004 | When does a "bug" be.... | It's a security issues when it compromises your se.... >> |
| 09 Jul 2004 | APL programming appr.... | Antti: APL is very much the tool for the job, prov.... >> |
| 08 Jul 2004 | Those who do not understand Unix are doomed to rei.... >> | |
| 07 Jul 2004 | How are file formats.... | KC, you can do that just as well with binary .doc .... >> |
| Using Knoppix | coLinux |
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| 06 Jul 2004 | Windows & Time r.... | No, not yet. The scheduler angle (timeBeginPeri.... >> |
| 05 Jul 2004 | Running Linux on Int.... | Don't check out bochs at this stage. It's dead slo.... >> |
| 01 Jul 2004 | Windows & Time | Just Me: Unfortunately, I can't disclose the detai.... >> |
| 30 Jun 2004 | Thanks for the replies. The last link Myron gave s.... >> | |
| 29 Jun 2004 | Windows & Time >> | |
| 29 Jun 2004 | s/entire TCP packet/entire TCP stack/ >> | |
| Thanks for the answers everyone! KayJay: I did .... >> | ||
| C/C++ portability wi.... | Make a list of the platforms you wish to support, .... >> | |
| Advice on Source Con.... | Jalindi Igloo | |
| 28 Jun 2004 | good crossplatform i.... | Not perfectly cross platform, but .... Windows .... >> |
| 21 Jun 2004 | Multiple sandboxes i.... | Last used VSS 3 years ago or so, but if I recall c.... >> |
| 20 Jun 2004 | Ultimate Forum/Forum.... | http://gmane.org - all the public mailing lists yo.... >> |
| Non-halting regular .... | Most regex implementations today do not build a DF.... >> | |
| 15 Jun 2004 | Speed of development | In what fields do you think quality is easy to ach.... >> |
| Windows CVS Clients | Igloo is a a CVS->VS plugin that works ok (not .... >> | |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Another vote for TortoiseCVS. If you haven't ye.... >> | |
| Engineering | The word 'Engineering' has, in the last 10 years o.... >> | |
| I had a few machines co-located at Exodus back in .... >> | ||
| When will domain nam.... | Mostly because there is no .com.il - you'll have t.... >> | |
| 31 May 2004 | But, but... I though.... | Philo - There's a difference between Apache 1..... >> |
| 24 May 2004 | Cross-platform deskt.... | Depends a lot on what you need to get done - e.g.,.... >> |
| 18 May 2004 | Incredibuild | distcc [ http://distcc.samba.org/ ] is the Unix eq.... >> |
| Leaked personal data.... | No reason to feed the troll. Blank here is eith.... >> | |
| 17 May 2004 | How do You prefere t.... | Documentation today is more often than not linearl.... >> |
| FidoNet -- why nothi.... | Technically, Fido was inferior to usenet or mailin.... >> | |
| My theory is that usenet support is not included i.... >> | ||
| 16 May 2004 | By not including NNTP support within Outlook, Micr.... >> | |
| 14 May 2004 | Lower cost alternate.... | Have a look at QEMU, from http://bellard.org - It'.... >> |
| Mono makes me wanna .... | Chris: I was referring to a 64-CPU server, not a 6.... >> | |
| 13 May 2004 | Is 64-bit worth it? | Linux has been doing 64 bits perfectly for over te.... >> |
| Mono makes me wanna .... | People with giant databases should NOT be using on.... >> | |
| 12 May 2004 | I don't think anyone needs a 64-CPU server, but ap.... >> | |
| 11 May 2004 | With the risk of saying nothing new, what changed .... >> | |
| 02 May 2004 | disabling ctrl-alt-d.... | Make the shortcut run "iexplore -k <url>" in.... >> |
| 22 Apr 2004 | Device driver | Get a serious talk with someone who has experience.... >> |
| 21 Apr 2004 | Software Patents | Oh well, what can I say. You have convinced me bey.... >> |
| Since risk is not measurable a-priori, you estimat.... >> | ||
| Just me: NO. Please re-read my blue-led post. I.... >> | ||
| I don't know enough about what's happening in the .... >> | ||
| Neither an 'a-ha' moment, or years of studying, no.... >> | ||
| 20 Apr 2004 | For that, you will have to define 'large upfront i.... >> | |
| Oh, and if you think Software Patents are justifie.... >> | ||
| Drop the 'IP' uber-term. It puts too may unrelated.... >> | ||
| I don't think 'software inventions' should have an.... >> | ||
| You might patent your garbage collection algorithm.... >> | ||
| 19 Apr 2004 | Safest way og instal.... | I think coLinux is still not the appropriate way t.... >> |
| 18 Apr 2004 | Pointers on event-dr.... | Am not familiar with POE, (and it would help to ex.... >> |
| 16 Apr 2004 | Web application deve.... | Some general principles apply much more to web app.... >> |
| 14 Apr 2004 | databases | Yep, that was me in the previous post, using a fri.... >> |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Have you evaluated e.... | It's real and it does work. Give it a try. My expe.... >> |
| 12 Apr 2004 | P.S: Regarding what experienced people has done wi.... >> | |
| Egor: I agree with your statement, but must also a.... >> | ||
| Learn enough to write simple programs (a good choi.... >> | ||
| databases | Chris, I generally agree with you; but I've seen t.... >> | |
| One reason to avoid stored procedures etc. is to m.... >> | ||
| 10 Apr 2004 | Code Review Websites | Will post it here when I find the magazine (an old.... >> |
| 09 Apr 2004 | databases | A relational table is, by definition, unordered. .... >> |
| Code Review Websites | Sum Dum: I used to think that way too, until I stu.... >> | |
| DLLs in LISP ???? | Depends on the meaning of free (libre or gratis), .... >> | |
| 08 Apr 2004 | Code Review Websites | Unlike literary writing, code writing is a collabo.... >> |
| Best Dev tool for wr.... | I don't think anyone advocates Java for win32 clie.... >> | |
| Python is often neglected as a choice, but it is e.... >> | ||
| 31 Mar 2004 | Software & setup.... | I recommend Kerio Personal Firewall to ZoneAlarm (.... >> |
| 29 Mar 2004 | Any problems with To.... | Rob: This is a 'works as advertised' thing. Add.... >> |
| 27 Mar 2004 | RDC vs. TightVNC vs..... | RDC is better, but works well only against XP or W.... >> |
| I just discovered th.... | http://www.rdesktop.org Works on Linux and Free.... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2004 | Algorithm for evalua.... | Solid 7-Zip and/or tar+ Bzip2 will probably give y.... >> |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Integrating data acc.... | There is a language that integrates the database r.... >> |
| How to stop new wind.... | TabExtensions for FireFox/Mozilla solve this probl.... >> | |
| So why _did_ they go.... | Chris: Use some Linux, will you? Most distribut.... >> | |
| 17 Mar 2004 | MS Visual SourceSafe.... | If you have no legacy repository, you might also c.... >> |
| 08 Mar 2004 | The Future of Progra.... | I've said it before (specifically, in [ http://dis.... >> |
| Error handling for C.... | There is something called 'Thread Local Storage' i.... >> | |
| 02 Mar 2004 | Table Driven Program.... | 'Security through obscurity' doesn't work in pract.... >> |
| 29 Feb 2004 | Bubble sort reversed | My experiments with 'simple' heap sort, 'simple' m.... >> |
| 28 Feb 2004 | Just a quick note: Quicksort isn't too quick. The .... >> | |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Laughable Web Servic.... | Bloomberg's COM API is, if I recall correctly, a s.... >> |
| YAIQ | T.J: How would you select one of 50 candidates? Yo.... >> | |
| 25 Feb 2004 | Laughable Web Servic.... | Consider Comsfock, Reuters or Bloomberg; They all .... >> |
| C/C++ Pointer Questi.... | Alex.ro: S.Tanna's post is a classic. Let me inser.... >> | |
| Question about .NET .... | Borland indicated that the next Delphi version wil.... >> | |
| YAIQ | s/feel the/fill the/g (Another vote for editab.... >> | |
| I wasn't aware it was _that_ widely known; Last I .... >> | ||
| On compilers that actually compute side effects by.... >> | ||
| Alex.ro: I don't recall exactly. I think I saw Ker.... >> | ||
| Dots are a habbit from the days that the JOS forum.... >> | ||
| 24 Feb 2004 | s/if he doesn't/if they don't/ Of course. >> | |
| I'm with Eric here, but I _also_ want people to de.... >> | ||
| 04 Feb 2004 | O.K. What's so bad a.... | [ http://mindprod.com/unmainnaming.html ], especia.... >> |
| 01 Feb 2004 | How common are sniff.... | Many switches can designate one (or more) of their.... >> |
| 29 Jan 2004 | .NET linking ... why.... | New isn't necessarily better; Many (most?) 'new' t.... >> |
| things more complica.... | Unicode is not more complicated than it needs to b.... >> | |
| 26 Jan 2004 | your freeware collec.... | I use many listed above, and additionally .. 7-.... >> |
| 25 Jan 2004 | Redhat Professional .... | Fedora 1 _is_, for all practical purposes, RedHat .... >> |
| "Measly little 100k .... | Dear Nameless, (and others), No, I probably don.... >> | |
| 23 Jan 2004 | 'Lines of code' is a measure of liability, not of .... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Who's your favorite .... | GANDI.net Read the terms of service. I hope the.... >> |
| UNIX strangeness | SCons solves all that, and much much more. [ http.... >> | |
| 17 Jan 2004 | what is the best lan.... | You don't have to buy any predesigned engines - th.... >> |
| Lazy way to secure I.... | A note to Andrew, and any other Cygwin user: Cy.... >> | |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Source Control - Is .... | CVS isn't state of the art, and is inferior to per.... >> |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Why Lotus rocks in u.... | SC: Stories I heard say it was business sense that.... >> |
| 07 Jan 2004 | Keeping synchronised.... | If you're using Win2K (and I suppose XP too, but I.... >> |
| 06 Jan 2004 | Requirements versus .... | Proof has to be correct. Software doesn't. At l.... >> |
| 04 Jan 2004 | Code generation vers.... | Roundtrip code generation (code->something->.... >> |
| Money saved by using.... | s/wend/went/ s/now free/no free/ >> | |
| tree, I specifically mentioned that I consider thi.... >> | ||
| 02 Jan 2004 | Cross Platform GUI R.... | My personal favourite is FLTK [ http://fltk.org/ ].... >> |
| Money saved by using.... | I embrace and support free software and open sourc.... >> | |
| Actual Cross-Platfor.... | Just a comment re- UPXing executables: That's f.... >> | |
| Windows XP max profi.... | Are you perhaps logging into a domain, or some oth.... >> | |
| Blame Open Source fo.... | American Video Games companies grossed more than H.... >> | |
| 30 Dec 2003 | Israel Stops Buying .... | old_timer mentioned that it's just the ministry of.... >> |
| Create files from DO.... | copy nul filename.ext No need to type anything .... >> | |
| 26 Dec 2003 | Statistics - reading.... | The *time* spent reading while writing is, I think.... >> |
| 23 Dec 2003 | Latest on SCO/Linux .... | s/your peek/your pick/g >> |
| Using GPL code in a product does NOT make that pro.... >> | ||
| Installing software .... | David is right, but some people like all installat.... >> | |
| Joel on installing D.... | Dan - Knoppix comes very close to your ideal. Firs.... >> | |
| Longhorn as a "blank.... | Oh, OK. I never fell for the AD propaganda in t.... >> | |
| 22 Dec 2003 | In what sense was Active Directory mitigated? >> | |
| They've already said (don't remember where I read .... >> | ||
| 17 Dec 2003 | NewDotNet and vNC | s/should trust/should NOT trust/g >> |
| I useful troubleshooting tool is a personal firewa.... >> | ||
| Defining moment in c.... | Philo - see [ http://jove.eng.yale.edu/pipermail/e.... >> | |
| 15 Dec 2003 | HTML-stripping mail .... | Mozilla has "View|Message Body As" with options "o.... >> |
| 14 Dec 2003 | State Machines | What exactly are you looking for? State machine.... >> |
| Environment Variable.... | The environment registers are stored in the regist.... >> | |
| More thoughts on sin.... | It could happen -- almost anything could happen --.... >> | |
| 13 Dec 2003 | Hello Christopher. Yes, page faults could be a.... >> | |
| 11 Dec 2003 | LISP - why? | In order to grok lisp, you have to be a good progr.... >> |
| 10 Dec 2003 | Writing device drive.... | Myron: I don't know what kind of driver developmen.... >> |
| Eric Raymond and Ric.... | Please learn to differentiate between an OSS progr.... >> | |
| 09 Dec 2003 | Writing device drive.... | Writing device drivers is hard. a) There are li.... >> |
| Eric Raymond and Ric.... | Dennis: I may have used the terms accuracy and .... >> | |
| Tony, how does your OS/X timing answer my question.... >> | ||
| open source | Tony, please read the responses. A recurring.... >> | |
| 08 Dec 2003 | Eric Raymond and Ric.... | In a recent commercial project I'm working on, I h.... >> |
| '''Then it was legal and good business practice fo.... >> | ||
| open source | Pressed 'Post' too soon - If I develop a progr.... >> | |
| Open source software has saved me and mine a 5-6 f.... >> | ||
| s/the marginal cost .... is marginal/the marginal .... >> | ||
| You know why you can get both software and pens fo.... >> | ||
| New Career? | RP - it may look catastrophic, and it sure ain't e.... >> | |
| 07 Dec 2003 | Do you have a passion for something? Go do that.... >> | |
| 06 Dec 2003 | Wise Installer - New.... | Registry keys are also a problem. Make sure you.... >> |
| 30 Nov 2003 | Dealing with Interru.... | Close the door when you need to concentrate. Ex.... >> |
| 28 Nov 2003 | Advice on how to fix.... | ''' My previously unshakable faith in the quality .... >> |
| 25 Nov 2003 | Reinventing The Whee.... | First of all, a correction: The ATMs were hit by a.... >> |
| The bookshelf | SPSG (Software Project Survival Guide) is good. Yo.... >> | |
| Call me a tinkerer | static const is a tautology? In what way? st.... >> | |
| 23 Nov 2003 | Web Hosting | I'm a satisfied http://34sp.com customer. I have .... >> |
| Linux Refactoring | X isn't slow. Used right, with the right drivers, .... >> | |
| 21 Nov 2003 | An end to blog spam | It's a good suggestion, I think. It's a way to tel.... >> |
| World Class Programm.... | My 2c: You have to read code fluently first. Af.... >> | |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Stopping Spyware | Spyware, by nature, attempts to cross permission b.... >> |
| Optimizing massive d.... | FLTK does this kind of stuff very well, the way Jo.... >> | |
| Still haven't found .... | Try APL (, K, J, ...) or Lisp (,Scheme, Dylan, Pli.... >> | |
| Need a reasonable da.... | Sounds reasonable to me; I hope it sounds that way.... >> | |
| Since you use the MySQL client libraries, and they.... >> | ||
| Linux hack attempt | In what way is the registry not a filesystem? In .... >> | |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Need a reasonable da.... | I would consult a lawyer before accepting the 2-CD.... >> |
| 17 Nov 2003 | Offices and Feynmann | Really, read _anything_ Feynmann. His "Lectures on.... >> |
| How do I develop a p.... | Why do you want to write a firewall? Do you rea.... >> | |
| Creating Secure Appl.... | Financial institutions are required by law to keep.... >> | |
| 16 Nov 2003 | RedHat:with morons l.... | And, ladies and gentleman, RedHat hasn't really pu.... >> |
| Software Licensing | If, without help from said friend, you have no cha.... >> | |
| Ok, seriously, why W.... | Dimitri: Put Knoppix into the CD rom. Wait 45 s.... >> | |
| Linux hack attempt | Stephen, we're all used to reconfiguring every Win.... >> | |
| Stephen, perhaps it doesn't persuade anyone to upg.... >> | ||
| 15 Nov 2003 | Need a reasonable da.... | MySQL is GPL. If your software relies on it and ca.... >> |
| Linux hack attempt | FullNameRequired: The impolite explanation is i.... >> | |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Ok, seriously, why W.... | Phoenix - all I can say is that you should try Ecl.... >> |
| Open Source Software.... | Now both company A and company B need to reduce th.... >> | |
| How to make opensour.... | Ok, let me round up: Only two names were raised.... >> | |
| Linux hack attempt | Clay, I repectfully disagree. The registry is _.... >> | |
| Dear dot, T.Norman's assertion is optimistic in.... >> | ||
| 13 Nov 2003 | How to make opensour.... | Care to name projects, people? I've contributed.... >> |
| Linux hack attempt | dot, you sound like you're not familiar with the s.... >> | |
| Ah, the art of deliberate phrasing. Let me play ad.... >> | ||
| If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft's internal network .... >> | ||
| C++ meta programming.... | I don't think STL does any metaprogramming in the .... >> | |
| Oh, and just to be clear, I don't claim Object Ori.... >> | ||
| Nick, The world has moved on, but not necessari.... >> | ||
| Windows Timer precis.... | /stands well back - well, yes, I avoid close sourc.... >> | |
| Thanks! - I'll be investigating these options. (Th.... >> | ||
| 12 Nov 2003 | C++ meta programming.... | C++ Metaprogramming is an interesting hack, but a .... >> |
| Windows Timer precis.... | Thanks for the replies everyone. All my machine.... >> | |
| 11 Nov 2003 | Windows Timer precision? >> | |
| 10 Nov 2003 | Installer that doesn.... | Sam: You _can_ remove the default strings that say.... >> |
| 08 Nov 2003 | Music Selection Whil.... | Peopleware had a very interesting tale about this:.... >> |
| 04 Nov 2003 | End of Redhat Consum.... | What used to be called 'Red Hat Linux' is now beco.... >> |
| 02 Nov 2003 | Joel on Sun's strate.... | Dennis: It's not free-as-in-BSD-beer, It's as clos.... >> |
| The Ridiculous Influ.... | About a database filing systems: There were severa.... >> | |
| 01 Nov 2003 | Strategies for manag.... | This structure is usually used in SourceSafe repos.... >> |
| XAML... what's it go.... | If I understand it correctly, XAML is Microsoft's .... >> | |
| how tough is it to d.... | From a software engineering perspective, you've go.... >> | |
| 31 Oct 2003 | Longhorn, you, and y.... | You *can* alt-tab between windows in Mozilla. Just.... >> |
| Wouldn't you like yo.... | If the world weren't such a wonderful place, we'd .... >> | |
| 23 Oct 2003 | Why RDBMS? | Dustin: That sounds plausible, but is probably not.... >> |
| For most application, a properly configured RDBMS .... >> | ||
| The burden of proof is always on a new technology..... >> | ||
| 21 Oct 2003 | Where's the damn doc.... | Yes, including the ones that check those return co.... >> |
| 1. Reference manuals that you can print, and brows.... >> | ||
| 18 Oct 2003 | BIDI and Internation.... | The viability of internationalization depends very.... >> |
| Excel as an applicat.... | VBA appeared in 1994, but the object model changed.... >> | |
| When was the last ti.... | Allocating all memory upfront is not _really_ an o.... >> | |
| XML Languages as pol.... | You can do it several ways in SCons. You can us.... >> | |
| 17 Oct 2003 | When was the last ti.... | No one runs out of memory these days, but for the .... >> |
| XML Languages as pol.... | Chris Nahr, the Java() call does _exactly_ that. I.... >> | |
| XML is a syntax. A language includes semantics. .... >> | ||
| How does one program.... | Reading the two pervious posts, I obviously misund.... >> | |
| Exceptions, Threads .... | Let's agree to disagree here, as I think we've bee.... >> | |
| All the reason not to use .NET then, or at the ver.... >> | ||
| 16 Oct 2003 | hidden planning | Organize a 1-hour code review session every day or.... >> |
| How does one program.... | The old way. Either the routine returns somethi.... >> | |
| enforcing licences | Do you want to limit access, or just make copies t.... >> | |
| Exceptions, Threads .... | Mark, First of all, I haven't yet started looki.... >> | |
| I used the term 'proof in the mathematical sense' .... >> | ||
| Mark, I'm not new to programming. Goedel's theo.... >> | ||
| Christopher, I know _many_ systems that use it, bu.... >> | ||
| 15 Oct 2003 | What should programm.... | Jeffery D Ullman's "Principles of Database and Kno.... >> |
| "in terms of all things" -> "in terms of old th.... >> | ||
| Old basic, Logo, or Python without the OO construc.... >> | ||
| Exceptions, Threads .... | Since we've gone down that path before, I'll just .... >> | |
| And ... to tie a few loose ends. Joel: Thanks! .... >> | ||
| Chris and JustMe: About needing to use threads to .... >> | ||
| 'ec = dosomething(a,b,c); if (ec == 1) /.... >> | ||
| 14 Oct 2003 | Exceptions, Threads and robust software. >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | I mean that threads and exceptions, as they are us.... >> | |
| Reserve exceptions f.... | Len, and DBC: Do note that your approach, DoesFile.... >> | |
| Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. What's.... >> | ||
| 13 Oct 2003 | yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss .... | Excel always understands it regardless of locale t.... >> |
| Email client used at.... | Stephen: Valve are the guys who make Half-Life 2, .... >> | |
| 12 Oct 2003 | Lightweight MS Offic.... | There are many toolkits that generate Excel files,.... >> |
| 11 Oct 2003 | character encoding q.... | Code points are unique, but characters are not; So.... >> |
| 09 Oct 2003 | Design Oversight | The label on the CD, should read 'Copy Restricted'.... >> |
| 08 Oct 2003 | More on the Half Lif.... | P.S - In the U.S (and most of the world, I think i.... >> |
| Simon, I'm not sure about the UK, but in the US an.... >> | ||
| Hacker Rex, who exactly are you going out against?.... >> | ||
| Simon, as hideous as this thing is, it is NOT thef.... >> | ||
| 07 Oct 2003 | What source control .... | CVS has always been atomic at the file level - eve.... >> |
| As opposed to SourceSafe which relies on having th.... >> | ||
| "to be greated" = "only to be greeted" >> | ||
| CVSNT and Norton Antivirus do not coexist happily..... >> | ||
| It was said previously in this thread and others b.... >> | ||
| Counterculture junki.... | Have no fear though. The MTV generation will fo.... >> | |
| Examples of well-wri.... | Actually, I think it's a good style to learn from..... >> | |
| 06 Oct 2003 | The Python interpreter [ http://www.python.org ] .... >> | |
| Better Mousetraps | First, there are two meanings of verbose confused .... >> | |
| 04 Oct 2003 | P.S: The example above works on 'tables', but K ac.... >> | |
| An example of how amazing K is: Problem: Comput.... >> | ||
| K (at [ http://kx.com ]) is an APL-derived languag.... >> | ||
| Yaml: Yanl Aint Mark.... | Philo, do you find writing an XSL script simpler t.... >> | |
| CVS hosting. | ''How does a central repository prevent you from u.... >> | |
| 02 Oct 2003 | Personal firewall | Christopher, _what_ application firewall? I can.... >> |
| 30 Sep 2003 | which language to le.... | Consider APL (or one of its offsprings, A+, J, K, .... >> |
| Personal firewall | part-time-admin: No, I need a way to limit what an.... >> | |
| 'A hardware firewall can provide reasonable protec.... >> | ||
| I recommend Kerio's Personal Firewall (was called .... >> | ||
| CVS hosting. | Rather than try to explain how distributed version.... >> | |
| Multi-threading reso.... | Pepe, you appear to be uninformed. Bored Bystander.... >> | |
| Every O/S worth its salt (and some that don't) hav.... >> | ||
| Efficiently storing .... | http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/aqu.... >> | |
| I have no 'insider' knowledge of kdb; I just read .... >> | ||
| 29 Sep 2003 | Troy, consider the following scheme (used by e.g.,.... >> | |
| 24 Sep 2003 | Keeping track of cod.... | Just to be clear, when I was saying ' issuing 'cvs.... >> |
| p.s, useless: If 'issuing cryptic command lines' h.... >> | ||
| Visual Source Safe is a bad product than encourage.... >> | ||
| 22 Sep 2003 | Dual Boot or Virtual.... | Buy another computer (even a $200 one from Walmart.... >> |
| 20 Sep 2003 | Portability: rougue .... | AnMFCAndJavaProgrammer: Take a look at Wine and.... >> |
| 18 Sep 2003 | Cross Platform UI to.... | Christopher, regarding OS code - if you rely on OS.... >> |
| Have a look at FLTK. It's LGPL, with exceptions.... >> | ||
| 15 Sep 2003 | Software Configurati.... | Source Depot is _probably_ a customized version of.... >> |
| 14 Sep 2003 | Shlomi's post describes the consensus among just a.... >> | |
| 13 Sep 2003 | hosting service that.... | 34sp has shell access, but you have to specificall.... >> |
| 12 Sep 2003 | http://34sp.com is great, and they take 15GBP/year.... >> | |
| 11 Sep 2003 | Socket communication.... | Be aware, though, that UDP packets get dropped muc.... >> |
| 10 Sep 2003 | Friendster.com's alg.... | Be aware that 20^4 = 160,000 is a very small numbe.... >> |
| 09 Sep 2003 | huge spam messages a.... | If bandwidth is a problem, you'll have to get an I.... >> |
| Detecting Memory Lea.... | Purify is available on most systems, but costs lot.... >> | |
| 05 Sep 2003 | Localization questio.... | In the Hebrew version of Windows, The "File" = "Ko.... >> |
| OODB: Are they viabl.... | ZODB is indexed and ACID transactional, which is w.... >> | |
| anon: There's no a-priori reason they should be le.... >> | ||
| 04 Sep 2003 | It's about results. | Dijkstra put it very well: Lines of code are no.... >> |
| technical books | (forgot to add: Even though I read them cover to c.... >> | |
| A random sampling of my favourites. Jon Bentley.... >> | ||
| 03 Sep 2003 | PDF Generator for .N.... | Or you can generate an HTML page in whatever form .... >> |
| 02 Sep 2003 | RSS - How useful, an.... | I find RSS less useful than most other people do: .... >> |
| How do "Diff" softwa.... | I stand corrected. Thanks! >> | |
| 01 Sep 2003 | 'optimal' diff is computed using a dynamic program.... >> | |
| 30 Aug 2003 | Syntax highlighter? | [ http://freshmeat.net ] is a good place to look f.... >> |
| anybody still uses V.... | MinGW [ http://www.mingw.org ] is a port of GCC to.... >> | |
| Wrapping an existing.... | Adam: You might be able to save yourself a lot of .... >> | |
| Help authoring mista.... | A vote (again) for Doxygen. It's meant for docu.... >> | |
| 27 Aug 2003 | Automated build syst.... | Give scons a try [ http://scons.sourceforge.net ]..... >> |
| Heterogenous environ.... | With the risk of mr. nameless person and others mo.... >> | |
| 26 Aug 2003 | Waking up thread blo.... | as: How many threads have you tried to run conc.... >> |
| a) Ok, then our experiences disagree. Store your d.... >> | ||
| 25 Aug 2003 | Application Architec.... | About (2): There are message queues. You poll f.... >> |
| Recent article in th.... | Do'h! Meant to say "brand recognition plays a part.... >> | |
| I never claimed Apache is secure. You listed 20.... >> | ||
| Just Me (Sir), is it, perhaps, because no Linux / .... >> | ||
| Waking up thread blo.... | A nameless person responded: 'Wow, I wish I liv.... >> | |
| Jeff, I'm not bashing your system. I have no doubt.... >> | ||
| RocketJeff - Let's do a small back of the envelop.... >> | ||
| Dude, multiple processes are often much more usefu.... >> | ||
| 24 Aug 2003 | K, that depends on how long the 'analysis' phase t.... >> | |
| In Search of Stupidi.... | And I'm quite sure that Linus' technical decision,.... >> | |
| 23 Aug 2003 | Waking up thread blo.... | Medusa does single-thread multi-connection very we.... >> |
| I forgot the pointer to the Medusa source: [ ht.... >> | ||
| K, yes, it is usually my advice that people use th.... >> | ||
| Look for WSACancelBlockingCall() or something with.... >> | ||
| In Search of Stupidi.... | They may have been technically right in refusing t.... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2003 | Nuclear Power Plant .... | Just a note re: whether punishing software vendors.... >> |
| freeware UML softwar.... | If you only need it for documentation, I can't rec.... >> | |
| 20 Aug 2003 | Dynamic Languages an.... | Philo, take a look at Python + Psyco: Psyco is .... >> |
| 17 Aug 2003 | Oh, no! Monocu.... | Philo: You will do yourself a lot of good learning.... >> |
| 16 Aug 2003 | Blaster conclusions | You know, some worms / viruses / whatever exploit .... >> |
| 15 Aug 2003 | Just Me: No, you don't double everything. .... >> | |
| 50 is exaggarated (my "hedging" argument was takin.... >> | ||
| Much of todays software is Java and/or Web based; .... >> | ||
| 14 Aug 2003 | Database Programming | Not entirely on topic, but there are many joins th.... >> |
| Is anyone else compl.... | negotiate prices, of course. Not precises. >> | |
| Regarding slammer, even though the bug was correct.... >> | ||
| 29 Jul 2003 | What % of developers.... | P.S: The "computers are state machines. Threads ar.... >> |
| Contrary to common belief, it is much simpler to d.... >> | ||
| How relevant is opti.... | ' I hope you mean 10% not a factor of ten (x10) or.... >> | |
| 28 Jul 2003 | How relevant is optimization? You judge >> | |
| 28 Jul 2003 | Philo - Totally agree. You've done the analysis.... >> | |
| 'The problem with your suggestion that everything .... >> | ||
| how relevant is opti.... | Brent - I'm surprised you've never received such a.... >> | |
| It's common to find programs that employ O(n^2) or.... >> | ||
| 20 Jul 2003 | Beginning Programmer.... | Maximizing your professional desirability requires.... >> |
| 11 Jul 2003 | Picking a DIFFERENT .... | Another vote for K. It's simpler than J. It's n.... >> |
| 06 Jul 2003 | Unix signals and C++ | Same was you handle Windows messages in Win32. .... >> |
| 03 Jul 2003 | What language for a .... | Second vote for Python here. It's extremely por.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2003 | Newsreader recommend.... | Mozilla. Really. And it also does email great. .... >> |
| 22 Jun 2003 | wondering if you kno.... | Moz, Firebird or Opera. Keep ignoring the IE co.... >> |
| 08 Jun 2003 | Missing C++ feature? | Andy: But note that b.static_function(x) doe.... >> |
| I've wanted this many times in the past. 'virtu.... >> | ||
| 06 Jun 2003 | OO benefits - a counterexample. >> | |
| 06 Jun 2003 | OO benefits - a coun.... | Forgot the link: [ http://epaperpress.com/oper.... >> |
| MS MapPoint Dynamic .... | It's a session identifier. For some reason, the.... >> | |
| 19 May 2003 | where did all the so.... | << IT booms seem to be driven by innovations, foll.... >> |
| 20 Apr 2003 | Editor for Windows t.... | Also note that SciTE is open source and cross plat.... >> |
| 14 Apr 2003 | Leaving open communi.... | Make sure you understand your throughput and laten.... >> |
| 12 Apr 2003 | iespell | Being a long time Mozilla user, I find that very h.... >> |
| 11 Apr 2003 | Lexer/Parser Tools f.... | What's wrong with good old Lex/Yacc (or Flex/Bison.... >> |
| 08 Apr 2003 | SCM, Teams & Thi.... | Brad, you _DO_ want to recompile any possible sour.... >> |
| 31 Mar 2003 | Sources/ Training fo.... | KLink - there's a lot to be learned from crap code.... >> |
| 30 Mar 2003 | Stop learning from books, course materials and pre.... >> | |
| 25 Mar 2003 | Good software for HT.... | Depending on what kind of manual you want to produ.... >> |
| 24 Mar 2003 | Tips, Advices for wr.... | Mike: I'm not sure, but I think Quake was availabl.... >> |
| future of software e.... | APL is a functional vector language; It's been in .... >> | |
| 23 Mar 2003 | Tips, Advices for wr.... | If you have games in mind, check out SDL, the Simp.... >> |
| future of software e.... | The more things change, the more they stay the sam.... >> | |
| 20 Mar 2003 | Converting a .HTML t.... | MHT files can include their references inline. Eit.... >> |
| 12 Mar 2003 | Webhosts | I can recommend an excellent FreeBSD hosting servi.... >> |
| 19 Feb 2003 | Remote Access and Double Buffering >> | |
| 19 Feb 2003 | Remote Access and Do.... | Giorgio - That's the rate I get with VNC or DameWa.... >> |
| Thanks, rob; That's what I thought I should do in .... >> | ||
| Ok, a clarification: The program is actually so.... >> | ||
| 07 Feb 2003 | Max # of Columns in .... | And, study excel's Pivot Tables (that's 'Analysis .... >> |
| 04 Feb 2003 | Help authoring tool | Doxygen. Built for source files, but will work wel.... >> |
| how difficult is ker.... | The Linux VM system is a Virtual *Memory* system, .... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2003 | Syntax, Idioms, and .... | Hey, people! No comments about K? >> |
| 27 Jan 2003 | MPEG-4, my rant | Xiph.org (the guys that bring us Vorbis) are worki.... >> |
| 26 Jan 2003 | Syntax, Idioms, and Japanease >> | |
| 26 Jan 2003 | Hard Disk Failure an.... | Brian, you can use one UPS for both computers. The.... >> |
| Java multithreading .... | Sounds like the process is hitting an 1024 descrip.... >> | |
| Best Way to Move Ins.... | I've moved Win95 and WinNT systems in the past by .... >> | |
| 22 Jan 2003 | Plan to throw one aw.... | A rewrite is the worst thing you can do, if the re.... >> |
| 17 Jan 2003 | Lord Palmerston: Cro.... | Ilog views doesn't come up often because it's horr.... >> |
| 11 Jan 2003 | Good Serial Codes | <<< It's normally quicker to send a word to anothe.... >> |
| 08 Jan 2003 | Anyone familiar w/ w.... | You might also consider 34sp [ http://34sp.com ]. .... >> |
| Good Serial Codes | Serial codes are hard for user to type. If your.... >> | |
| 06 Jan 2003 | Teaching Programming | If they have strong orientation towards math, I'd .... >> |
| 17 Dec 2002 | Non .Net Language to.... | Florian: Contrary to common belief, MFC does not m.... >> |
| 15 Dec 2002 | Leaky Abstraction an.... | I second b. 'Don't do that, then'. The only thi.... >> |
| "LongHorn" - Nest ge.... | << Can you quantify that statement? >> No, I d.... >> | |
| 11 Dec 2002 | Designing a numberin.... | ..... and of course, I forgot to add, this is over.... >> |
| Guys, don't overarchitect. A view for a fixed w.... >> | ||
| "LongHorn" - Nest ge.... | Albert, different Pick software vendors used the s.... >> | |
| 27 Nov 2002 | Windows C++ Developm.... | Or a high-performance, lightweight, cross platform.... >> |
| 22 Nov 2002 | The best of two good.... | Ged, take a look at the Python Installer from Gord.... >> |
| 17 Nov 2002 | OT? Source control f.... | CVS is not simple to set-up, but once set-up, I th.... >> |
| 09 Nov 2002 | Free (Or Nearly So) .... | If you use C/C++ and can afford it, get Purify or .... >> |
| 17 Oct 2002 | Limitations of UML | The graphical language might be unambiguous (sp?),.... >> |
| 04 Oct 2002 | the new fogbugz setu.... | For the sake of argument, talk about a fictional p.... >> |
| Inno Setup - a free .... | Another alternative is Nullsoft's NSIS [ http://ww.... >> | |
| 30 Sep 2002 | Intel's Itanium: blo.... | It looks like Intel is going to follow AMD's lead .... >> |
| 28 Sep 2002 | Data-structures draw.... | Second vote for GraphViz here, with some more deta.... >> |
| CVS vs Perforce vs ?.... | Andrew Reid wrote 'One of the nice things about VS.... >> | |
| 26 Sep 2002 | Questions about code.... | < |
| 06 Sep 2002 | THE Platform | Scott, can you elaborate on why you switched back?.... >> |
| Star-Calc VS Excel (.... | Depending on how much load the spreadsheet is goin.... >> | |
| 04 Sep 2002 | THE Platform | With the exception that microsoft is a little more.... >> |
| new/unique software .... | That would be magazine articles in general, NOT jo.... >> | |
| Basically, from reading past articles I have the i.... >> | ||
| 29 Aug 2002 | J2EE, .NET - what wa.... | There was transaction managers like Tuxedo, there .... >> |
| 23 Aug 2002 | What am I missing..? | Have a look at [ http://xmlsucks.org/but_you_have_.... >> |
| HTTP, as earlier noted, is 8-bit clean. Which mean.... >> | ||
| 05 Aug 2002 | Estimating Softare D.... | First of all, calibrate your estimates! You have h.... >> |
| 30 Jul 2002 | Beyond coding? | Ged, I hope you don't really believe yourself. .... >> |
| 28 Jul 2002 | Really, how good is .... | Another free alternative is PostgreSQL. It has all.... >> |
| 20 Jul 2002 | Learing Lisp | Another good option for a second book is Graham's .... >> |
| 19 Jul 2002 | .NET Language Choice.... | If you want something clean, go with Python. If y.... >> |
| 18 Jul 2002 | Is .NET the way to g.... | Get some non-MS experience (Unix, Python, Perl, Li.... >> |
| 15 Jul 2002 | why PDF is soo compl.... | Not exactly what you're looking for, but might com.... >> |
| 11 Jul 2002 | What's the best text.... | ed, without hesitation. See: http://www.gnu.org.... >> |
| 29 Jun 2002 | Mozilla might be com.... | Three remarks: Being fully compatible with IE i.... >> |
| 28 Jun 2002 | New Virtual Machine .... | register machine, four address code notation (mean.... >> |
| 21 Jun 2002 | Writing technical do.... | Have a look at automated tools: I swear by Doxygen.... >> |
| 13 Jun 2002 | New Machine anyone ? | Stack based is |