I tested this forum in several computers: at work, my house, and at school. Looks good. All in 16bit. I tried 32 bit in a few computers and it looked the same.
Well, I like it, but then again you're here to serve the public. I think you should wait and see what more people think (more than just 2 or 3) before changing it.
This is a very handy little tool. It's a simple process killer. Works pretty well whenever you got a program/process going and the Task Manager won't close it no matter what. This closes it. :)
Yeap, their own runtime environment. Of course they'll change a lot of it I assume... you and I know that they're good at ripping off stuff. JScript? J++? Hehe... gimme a break. I think the battle still continues between them and Sun... so I don't know what's going to happen next.
Ahhh, the acronyms... I hear them everyday at work... they're oozing out of my ears. Some of them are nasty. Somehow I can remember all of them... except ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) which is what good databases are built upon... It's so short too. Weird.
Your view on Microsoft is something I will never understand... and I know many feel the same way you do. It's a mystery to me why they hate Microsoft so much, even more of a mystery than what girls do in the bathroom that take so long. Something I'll never understand, but I don't mind it. =)
I have no problem with Microsoft. I don't love them nor hate them. I think it's a very strong company put together by business geniuses and it all comes down to power and money. If other companies had the same power and money, do you think they wouldn't do the things Microsoft does? It's all about business, and they're doing a damn good job. I know that this can hurt other businesses, but it all boils down to survival of the fittest.
I don't care if everything I use has a Microsoft logo on it, as long as I'm making a profit, getting things done, and having fun doing it. It's kind of ironic that people that have a grudge against it, use Windows and several microsoft programs.
As far as the incompatibility issue goes, Microsoft usually has an alternative solution to whatever scheme they just pulled. They try to make their own version of any program they can so they can integrate it within their OS, which makes it even neater in my opinion. I have no problem with that.
Of course this is my opinion. You might not agree. =)
Microsoft does it again! After having a court trial with Sun, about WindowsXP's problem with Java, Microsoft has come up with a good idea. Make its own version of Java and screw Sun.
Yes, I think so, but that's because old systems were written in it, and you have no other choice. Newer systems don't use it anymore and many are migrating to newer versions.
Can't think of any language that's been that old that starts with a "D", except Delphi, but Delphi is not that old. Ironic enough, there's a language called "D".
Yeah, Builder is one of my favorite sites. They have really good resources there about web development. They have good resources and articles on http://www.webmonkey.com, but they don't update as often as in Builder.
Ok, sorry I misread one of the previous posts. Dani pointed that out. Sorry for being an idiot on that. =) Dani is holding a gun right now and making me write this as we speak...
Take notice that I named this post "Networking tips" and not "Layout of the site on Networking tips." I was referring to content. Most of the sites on the internet with really good juicy content are usually just crappy text documents and very simple layouts.
Outdated? If you call a page that was last updated this same month last week... I hate to imagine your concept of time! =)
Yeap! Exactly! That's what I said when I finished my class. I would've liked the class a lot better if we learned more practical things than stuff like "pointers-of-arrays-of-arrays-of-arrays-inside-hashes-through-objects." It would've been cool if we learned how to do some web programming through Perl.
Well, device drivers can be programmed in C++ now. But under the hood, at one time, it had to be created in assembly language. Assembly language is the closest to actual machine language (0's and 1's), so usually the programs that were written in it run fast because there's not much overhead as C++ or even worse, something like QBASIC. Programs are usuall small too. I wrote a small executable (.COM) program that rebooted the computer... 2 byte program. Yes, 2 bytes, not kilobytes, but bytes. That's the smallest you can get.
Here's a typical Assembly program written for the Turbo Assembler compiler. It prints out "Yo, I be da master of ebonics!"
; A program that displays line of text.
.MODEL SMALL
.STACK 100h
.DATA
DISPLAY DB 13,10,'Yo, I be da master of ebonics!$'
.CODE
START:
MOV AX,@DATA
MOV DS,AX
MOV AH,9
MOV DX,OFFSET DISPLAY
INT 21h
MOV AH,0
INT 16h MOV
AH,4Ch
INT 21h
END START
Assembly Language was popular in the Demo Scene - a community of programmers/hackers that made graphical special effects through assembly. It usually promoted their coding team or some other event. This was more popular in the late 80's and early nineties. Now I don't think it's as popular... around here anyways.
If you would like to see some examples of what these "Demos" are like, check out the link from my site:
The toughest one listed in this forum? Or overall toughest. I think the toughest language to pick up listed in this forum is probably Perl, compared to C++/C and Java. Java has a steeper learning curve in which it forces you to really understand OOP in the beginning, which C++ does not. As you programs get more complicated, because C++ gives you more control over low level operations than Java does, C++ programs can get messier than Java.
The only thing I don't like about Perl is its syntax, especially when you do shortcuts. That's probably because I come from a C++/Java/Windows world, and not used to all the little cryptic syntax from Perl/Unix/Linux.
Overall though, I think the hardest language to program in is Assembly Language. That is a language that you have to use a reference book to program with. You can't program without it.
I wouldn't put Linux on something portable like that (maybe if you're going to have a dual bootup). Wherever you go, most likely you'll see Windows being used and you'll want a Windows machine in which you can easily interact with.
Windows98 is such a piece of crap with so many memory leaks. A fun way to crash a win98 machine 100% of the time is by setting an infinite loop through debug.exe
a 100 cli jmp 101
g
The second line makes the CPU stop listening to any commands from any other process, such as windows, and "jmp 101" loops it... so it hangs.
On some Win98 machines if you put this under START-->RUN "c:\con\con" and hit enter, it would crash.
Hey, that's nothing. You should take advantage of those prices. Around here, it's expensive. I wanted to go for a weekend training, 2 days, 3 hours each... it cost about $1400. They have Boccess here, and it's still pretty pricey compared to the prices you just mentioned.
Hey, maybe you can bring a tiny camera and record the lessons and make bootleg. We can start a business! Yeah, you do the work and I'll keep all the money. ;)
ARGH! You might as well live in Pluto because that college is far away from where I live. :) Those are REALLY good prices though. I wish they had classes at that price around Long Island, NY.
Well, I was referring to the programming on the backend side. :) Everytime I browse that site I get random errors. Oh, and yes, the design is not very tasty either. ;)
I think the wrox site is built pretty poorly and it's very disappointing because they write books about fixing these types of things. Everytime I visit the site, I always get some sort of error... strange. It's still one of my favorite publishers, besides Sams.
A while ago I caught a small error in the book "Beginning Perl" by Simon Cozens, a Wrox book. Since the editor didn't know my name, he wrote down my Yahoo! username which I e-mailed him with. It's kind of funny seeing "inscissorx" on the page...
What do you mean FTP Files? You mean your files that are being served by your FTP Server? If that's your question then just look for an option that says "share files" under one of the Grokster Options... or something to that effect.
Be aware of the W32.Benjamin.Worm worm. I hear it's been going around lately in the Grokster/Kazaa network. Here's more info on it.
Yeah, but I don't even look at their software, or any store for that matter. Everything is expensive and it's better to get them at a place that's academic affiliated. Hardware, their prices are ok.
Sounds good. Another good place to go, where I usually go to buy books is to Microcenter. Every book is 15% off automatically, new or old. There's also a special section, 3 shelves front and back, of books up to 95% percent off. I've bought several good books from that section that have been $60 retail price for $5. From time to time they put up good books that are definitely worth buying.
Whoa, excellent use of language. That paragraph you just wrote reminds me of something I see in law books. ;)
I meant it as a joke. There were no hidden meanings, methaphors, etc. Enough said. If you don't want me to do it again, then it's cool... I won't do it.
Whoa, you're making it seem like I used the word "Mafia" in good terms. Where did you get THAT idea? Romantic? Glamorous? Honorable? No idea where you got that from (from eight words that didn't even make a sentence in that post). It was a joke, because the name "Pauly" sounds Italian, and Italians have that Mafia stereotype. :) (Pauly was the name of the head guy in Goodfellas.)
Believe me, I'm very aware not to trust the media/entertainment industry when it comes to real life issues... know why? It's for entertainment! It's easy to follow and believe some of the stuff we see in movies though... for example, martial arts. Especially the moves that Jackie Chan does. No martial artist fights like that in real life... and I know, me being one. No boxing match is like Rocky, and no space launch is like the Apollo-13 movie. The entertainment industry spices it up so it becames "entertainment" and we watch it, otherwise it wouldn't be interesting.
I have not read much literature on mafias, but I have watched several especials on the history of mafias, gangs, and many of the criminal activities they were involved in. Nothing of what I saw was "romantic" or "glamorous" or "dear lord, honorable."
