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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.