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Pekr 8-Jun-2006 [1033x2] | Henrik - did you do your homework this time, really? Win98 needs drivers, so what? 1) throw away PC using W98 :-) 2) Install your driver once, and it works like WXP next time, that is all. Had no problem with my old Fedora Core 1 and my 2 USBs, never hear of that "works half the time under Linux" |
well, anyway, there is not easier way how to carry your files around then USB flash drives, so :-) | |
Henrik 8-Jun-2006 [1035x4] | pekr, I can't just ask a customer to throw away 10 win98 machines and go spend thousand of dollars on XP licenses because my little pen drive does not work on them. the fact is that I work in too many different OS'es that USB drives can work reliably across. had I been working in XP alone, there may not have been a problem, but this is not the case. |
some machines don't even have USB ports... | |
but they have TCP/IP stacks :-) | |
and I've also seen XP machines that flat out refuse to mount USB drives. this is a stupid problem. | |
Pekr 8-Jun-2006 [1039x3] | well, this week, having PC shop, one customer buys two new PCs. I don't understand one thing - czech republic is far from being rich, yet ppl listen to suggestions. W98 is security thread and unnecessary complication in your network. Then carry floppy with your usb pen driver - always worked for me, the driver is tiny ... |
well, or just small cd-rw should work for you as well :-) | |
thread=threat | |
Henrik 8-Jun-2006 [1042] | sorry, I just can't be bothered. fetching what I need off a website is way more reliable for me. |
Pekr 8-Jun-2006 [1043] | so, here you go with your solution for usb driver :-) That sounds like real luxury, as for W98 archaic machines I would expect dial-up connection, not fast Internet line :-) |
Henrik 8-Jun-2006 [1044x2] | the "strange" fact is that the machines are always accessible on a LAN, which is why I prefer using the internet to transfer data between machines at home and customers. |
anyhow, back to work :-) | |
Ingo 8-Jun-2006 [1046] | Hi Henrik, I've had some really nice experiences with Qtask. Just upload a zip of all the files you might need, and download only those ones you actually need in a given situation. Real sweet. |
Edgar 8-Jun-2006 [1047] | Qtask has Filesharing. My kids use them instead of USB drives. |
Pekr 8-Jun-2006 [1048] | Another Windows Vista feature bites the dust - http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1973620,00.asp |
Graham 10-Jun-2006 [1049x2] | The http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2006/06/unenterprisey-languages-meeting.html meeting was mildly interesting. Robert Strandh showed how he reimplemented metafont in common lisp with the main aim that he could provide print services for his G# music score editor. This was implemented as a DSL, and printing done by converting the DSL to postscript. Familiar?? |
The Erlang talk was also interesting .. to learn about a language designed for failure .. pity the demo was not well done. Io - bit boring for me. And Chris Double talked about javascript with continuations, and threads. | |
Pekr 10-Jun-2006 [1051] | have you held your Rebol presentation? :-) |
Graham 10-Jun-2006 [1052] | their Mnesia product is pretty impressive http://www.erlang.se/doc/doc-5.0.1/lib/mnesia-3.9.2/doc/ |
Pekr 10-Jun-2006 [1053] | Interesting - something like that we wanted for IOS, right? |
Graham 10-Jun-2006 [1054] | not just IOS |
Terry 11-Jun-2006 [1055x2] | As of May 2006 The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages by Murdoch University, Australia lists 8512 computer languages. |
somehow Rebol made it on this shootout.. http://dada.perl.it/shootout/craps.html | |
Pekr 12-Jun-2006 [1057] | FreeBasic - completly free variant of BASIC with surprising level of features - http://www.freebasic.net/index.php/about |
Oldes 13-Jun-2006 [1058] | http://www.potix.com/zkdemo/userguide/ |
Pekr 13-Jun-2006 [1059x2] | nice, but really lagging, they should improve blitting a bit ... |
looking at source- it is like VID, just an xml | |
Oldes 13-Jun-2006 [1061x2] | maybe nice for the first look, but I don't like it The page or component you request is no longer available. This is normally caused by timeout, or opening too many Web pages. Continue cruising ZK Demo . Failed to invoke zkBox.init zkBox is not defined |
Cannot imagine making some bigger project in it | |
Pekr 13-Jun-2006 [1063x2] | it is really slow on my 1.8Athlon, Mozilla 1.8b |
so slow, that using it as a rich client environment would denerve me after some short period of time :-) Give me plug-in :-) | |
Oldes 13-Jun-2006 [1065] | They need 10 not cached javascripts to display just the two lines of error message from above:-) |
Pekr 13-Jun-2006 [1066] | potix.com states, that they don't use java-script at all? :-) |
Rebolek 13-Jun-2006 [1067] | Hm, from http://zk1.sourceforge.net/release/rn-2.0.0.html- All events are processed at the server. No JavaScript required. so it must be slow |
Pekr 13-Jun-2006 [1068] | hmm, that is really "clever" |
Oldes 13-Jun-2006 [1069x4] | and what is this: <script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/prototype/prototype.js" charset="UTF-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/aculo/effects.js" charset="UTF-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/aculo/dragdrop.js" charset="UTF-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/boot.js" charset="UTF-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/lang/mesg.js" charset="UTF-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/common.js" charset="UTF-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/au.js" charset="UTF-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/datelabel.js.dsp" charset="UTF-8"> |
and why they have dynamic images? src="/zkdemo/zkau/web/zul/img/tree/root-open.gif;jsessionid=51580CB61B89633DED498444EB959AED" | |
>> s: 0 t: now/time/precise foreach js [ [ "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/prototype/prototype.js" [ "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/aculo/effects.js" [ "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/ext/aculo/dragdrop.js" [ "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/boot.js" [ "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/lang/mesg.js" [ "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/common.js" [ "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/html/au.js" [ "/zkdemo/zkau/web/js/zk/datelabel.js.dsp" [ ][s: s + length? read join http://www.potix.comjs] == 144313 >> print ["total js size:" s "downloaded in:" now/time/precise - t] total js size: 144313 downloaded in: 0:00:07.406 | |
it's almost the size of rebol/core:-) | |
PeterWood 13-Jun-2006 [1073] | and it's only advatntage is access to the DOM. |
Maxim 13-Jun-2006 [1074x3] | check this one out... its much better in all regards. IMHO http://www.openlaszlo.org/ |
its the first use of xml I find interesting. I dare say its at least as simple as rebol within its context of creating web pages. | |
a good demo of how to code in openlaszlo ... http://www.laszlosystems.com/lps/laszlo-in-ten-minutes/ | |
Oldes 13-Jun-2006 [1077x2] | not working - server error 500 http://labs.openlaszlo.org/lzpix-dhtml/ |
but other examples are working - looks like nice flash apps:-) | |
Pekr 13-Jun-2006 [1079] | we need someone with so nice ui skills :-) |
Oldes 13-Jun-2006 [1080x2] | Maxim: I will rather stay with my Rebol/Flash dialect and Rebol or PHP on the server side:-) but the true is, that some of the apps has nice design. |
and hope with Rebol/plugin soon:-)) | |
Maxim 13-Jun-2006 [1082] | the flash version of lzpix definitely works.. follow the link from the home site... :-) its very fluid. |
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