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How much do you know about *nix?

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  • C Christian Graus

    I have used Solaris and will use it on a home system that will only be a server and doc store, to save on buying Windows ( I own Solaris as well ). Beyond that, I could care less about *nix. I know more than enough std C++ to be able to program in that environment if I ever need to, but I don't see that as likely. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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    Paul Selormey
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    Hello Christian, Are you using the Solaris on Intel box? If yes, how much does it cost to buy one? I am moving to multi-platform stuff soon, with my GIS stuff. Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

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      Hello Christian, Are you using the Solaris on Intel box? If yes, how much does it cost to buy one? I am moving to multi-platform stuff soon, with my GIS stuff. Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

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      Martin Marvinski
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      Paul Selormey wrote: If yes, how much does it cost to buy one? About 75 USD, from the sun store. They are not going to support it any longer. Solaris 9 is sparc only.

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      • P Paul Selormey

        Hello Christian, Are you using the Solaris on Intel box? If yes, how much does it cost to buy one? I am moving to multi-platform stuff soon, with my GIS stuff. Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

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        Christian Graus
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        I got my copy from a friend, as an employee he was given several. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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        • M Martin Marvinski

          Paul Selormey wrote: If yes, how much does it cost to buy one? About 75 USD, from the sun store. They are not going to support it any longer. Solaris 9 is sparc only.

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          Paul Selormey
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          Sun is now selling Linux, so I guess that will be enough for their Intel support. Which Unix distribution are you using? and on what CPU? Mac OS X is Unix based, making the cross-platform programming a reality these days. Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

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          • C Christian Graus

            I got my copy from a friend, as an employee he was given several. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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            Paul Selormey
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            Christian Graus wrote: I got my copy from a friend, as an employee he was given several. Thanks, can a copy gets to me too? ;P Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

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            • P Paul Selormey

              Sun is now selling Linux, so I guess that will be enough for their Intel support. Which Unix distribution are you using? and on what CPU? Mac OS X is Unix based, making the cross-platform programming a reality these days. Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

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              Martin Marvinski
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              Paul Selormey wrote: Which Unix distribution are you using? and on what CPU? I have a couple of Linux boxes and a Sun workstation.

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              • R Ryan Johnston 0

                I am currently in college, and we have primarily focused on programming in C/C++. Most classes use Linux because it is free. MFC/Win32 has never been covered.

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                Chris Losinger
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                i am SO glad to hear that. i hear about a lot of schools in the US who are teaching Win/MFC only these days. back when i was in school (cool, i'm old!), we used various *nixes plus VMS, and we learned a lot about a lot of things: many languages, many styles of apps, consoles, X-Windows/Motif/Sunview, Curses, PHIGS, a few other front end systems, many SQL environments, etc.. i learned a lot about a lot of different things. i didn't learn Win/MFC till i was out of school. i think if i was forced to learn Doc/View in college, i would've missed out on a lot. -c


                To explain Donald Knuth's relevance to computing is like explaining Paul's relevance to the Catholic Church. He isn't God, he isn't the Son of God, but he was sent by God to explain God to the masses.
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                • M Martin Marvinski

                  I am as familiar with Unix as I am with Windows because Unix was what I used back in college( I originally learned to program on it). How are the students of today being trained? Is it just Windows(MFC, Win32) or do they do Java and Linux now? I've always tried to make sure that I stay current on both Windows and Unix. Are any of you like me, or are just now starting to hedge and are learning both?

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                  I've tinkered with Linux a bit, and set it up for my firewall. I also have a Linux machine that was supposed to be for learning Linux programming, but I have never quite got round to it. Instead I have ordered an SGI Octane box with Irix to play around with. I'm not going to use it, just take photographs to prove me as the geek I am. I started my Career on MFC, and for the first few months thought that MFC WAS C++. I soon saw the light though. Steve. if(E_NOINTERFACE == pThat->QueryInterface(IID_IUnknown,(void**)&pUnk)) { // I aint no pUnk bitch! }

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                  • M Martin Marvinski

                    I am as familiar with Unix as I am with Windows because Unix was what I used back in college( I originally learned to program on it). How are the students of today being trained? Is it just Windows(MFC, Win32) or do they do Java and Linux now? I've always tried to make sure that I stay current on both Windows and Unix. Are any of you like me, or are just now starting to hedge and are learning both?

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                    When I was at uni (2 years ago now) the main campus computer labs were all PCs running Win2k, but the comp.sci labs had machines that dualbooted between linux and 2k. There were also a few Sun and Irix machines that you could telnet into to do various stuff. Most of our programming stuff (shell scripting, c++, haskell, prolog, among others) was done on Linux. The only non-linux stuff we did was a programming starter course in the 1st year, which was done in Turbo Pascal -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                    • C Chris Losinger

                      i am SO glad to hear that. i hear about a lot of schools in the US who are teaching Win/MFC only these days. back when i was in school (cool, i'm old!), we used various *nixes plus VMS, and we learned a lot about a lot of things: many languages, many styles of apps, consoles, X-Windows/Motif/Sunview, Curses, PHIGS, a few other front end systems, many SQL environments, etc.. i learned a lot about a lot of different things. i didn't learn Win/MFC till i was out of school. i think if i was forced to learn Doc/View in college, i would've missed out on a lot. -c


                      To explain Donald Knuth's relevance to computing is like explaining Paul's relevance to the Catholic Church. He isn't God, he isn't the Son of God, but he was sent by God to explain God to the masses.
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                      Fractals!

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                      Paul Barrass
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                      I'm quite suprised - here in the UK almost all universities are anti-MS. I've got a lot of friends studying computer science and engineering here and none of them are allowed to build their projects for Windows. Seems silly to me - universities don't seem to realise that studying Windows programming will make them much more 'employable' candidates for jobs. I'm not saying Universities should be MS-only, but the total hatred of MS in the UK academic system is really getting irritating. Anyone else experienced this in the UK? Cheers, Paul

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                      • M Martin Marvinski

                        I am as familiar with Unix as I am with Windows because Unix was what I used back in college( I originally learned to program on it). How are the students of today being trained? Is it just Windows(MFC, Win32) or do they do Java and Linux now? I've always tried to make sure that I stay current on both Windows and Unix. Are any of you like me, or are just now starting to hedge and are learning both?

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                        Richard Deeming
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                        Martin Marvinski wrote: How much do you know about *nix? Aren't they the guys who have their balls cut off? Pretty handy if you need someone to look after your hareem, but otherwise... ;p :-D

                        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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