Trying to not look too stupid, but what _is_ Longhorn? --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

I can't give you specific advice because I work in Sweden, but I think the basic foundation of the tax system is similar. I work as the equivalent of an independent contractor in Sweden, and for me that means that I invoice my "salary", pay my expenses, and then pay taxes on whats left over. When I was a regular employee I got my salary, paid taxes on that and then paid my expenses with what was left over. The work as such is not that different, and if the situation should arise that I need to find another job, the process is pretty much the same as if I'd been downsized. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

hmm. I blame my profession. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

Apparently I'm HP-UX You are HP-UX You're still strong despite the passage of time. Though few understand you, those who do love you deeply and appreciate you. :) --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

I've been using a Palm PDA for years, but recently I was faced with the options of either upgrading to a newer model or going for a paper planner. I chose a beautiful Durham personal Filofax paper planner. The reason is I've missed the overview you get with a paper planner and also space for receipts and other paper documents I need to carry with me. So what do you guys use? Paper, electronic or nothing? --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

Braulio Díez wrote: I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and... The IDE you have heard of is KDevelop. I have not used it myself, but I hear its quite good, but nowhere near VS. If you develop for KDE, then you are most likely creating windowed apps with QT, so you will need the QTlibs installed on any environment your programs needs to run in. In my experience there is never any guarantees that a compiled application will run outside the environment it's been compiled for, when you are dealing with linux. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

Probably. I know I'm in the dangerzone, so I use an "old fashioned" paper filofax to keep the skills up. :) --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

I don't play games very often, but when I do, it's Starcraft, Diablo2 and Quake3. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

LukeV wrote: Do this seem unrealistic? Of course not! Go do it. I've never worked for MS, but I get the impression from this guy http://www.joelonsoftware.com/[^] that it's pretty nice. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

Roger Allen wrote: Then I can get a decent frame rate at counter-strike Hehe. I actually prefer Q3 True Combat. http://www.truecombat.com/[^] --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

Andreas Saurwein wrote: Depends on what you mean with NT. Do you talk about NT3/4 or NT in general which includes also W2k and XP. I mean that all workstations here are NT4. Do they even sell NT4 anymore? I don't mind, cause it works well, but I find it surprising. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

The development workstations are all winnt. There is one linux webserver, running apache and resin. DHCP, fileserver, etc are all running NT. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

I've just recently started a new job, and to my surprise all programmer workstations are running Windows NT (SP6). I come from a *nix background, so I have no real experience working in a all windows environment. At home I run windows XP. Is this common? What is the OS at your workplace? I thought w2k was everywhere... --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

The explanation from whatis.techtarget.com: As used on the Internet: 1) As a verb, the practice of trying to lure other Internet users into sending responses to carefully-designed incorrect statements or similar "bait." In a real example, a Usenet newsgroup contributor mentioned the discovery of an ancient African carving containing a list of prime numbers. The contributor further listed some of the prime numbers found and included some numbers that, in fact, are not prime numbers. Other contributors then sent serious replies, correcting the list of prime numbers cited. 2) Also as a verb, as a synonym for "surf." 3) As a noun, in emulation of the small mischievous figures of Scandinavian legend, a figure (or one of a group of figures) that you can pretend to be in the chat groups and games called MUD and MOO and their variations. There is also a slightly longer explanation in the jargon file, which I will not quote here, but you can find it here: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/troll.html --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

My views are of course subjective since I've never used anything but CVS, but I can honestly say that I have never regretted using it. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

I can and do write Make files from scratch, and they are handy when you have them written, but I do think it's unecessarily difficult to learn Make file syntax. The good thing about make is that it's quite flexible and can be used for a lot of different things, not only building sources. I've been "forced" to learn it for work, but I don't think I would have bothered otherwise. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

If I don't find it's good enough to use myself, I don't release it. Freeware or not. But you have a point that I don't spend _as_ much time perfecting something I do "pro bono". --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."

I love designing superclass frameworks that can be used to simplify development. It's quite hard to get right, but when you do hit a homerun, it's really great! My language of choice for this i usually C++. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."