Hah, there's no chance of that happening as I don't program in non-web languages anymore and wouldn't have a clue how to make an OS (especially not one that's not based on Linux and Gnome).
I did try making my own programming language a while back t…
MING once it comes out because not needing Flash player + PNG level graphics + alpha transparency + animation = yes.
.mng is basically .png, but with animation support, meaning higher image quality than .jpg images as well as the animation you'd ex…
I wish I knew half of what my dad knows...
Do you know how many times I've come across little note books with wiring diagrams or had him quote shakespear down to the last little detail?
He near enough has Shakespear's work submitted to memory even t…
I've used coffeecup software in the past and it wasn't that great.
Since CoffeeCup offers hosting, I'm surprised that they are teaming up with a company like LunarPages...
Hahahahaa...
I've had Xubuntu 6.06 for ages.
Xubuntu was origionally released as an add on to Ubuntu in the same way that Kubuntu's software can be downloaded and installed.
Actually, I have Gnome, KDE, XFCE and Openbox, which basically means I have…
WEB languages...
When was the last time you visited a site built with cobol?
If she'd said programming languages in general, you could add Object Pascal to my list...
Also, XML.
I'm not a Ruby on Rails expert by any means, but I am getting to be decent enough with it for what I want to do.
I prefer Rails because I find PHP scripts messy sometimes.
Rails code can often be very easy to understand once you know the basic synt…
HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.1, CSS2, PHP, mySQL, Ruby on Rails and a tiny amount of JavaScript.
I started somewhere around 2000, so about 6 years.
Currently, I'm learning Ruby on Rails as I go along, but prior to that, I had been learning more PHP.
I'll …
Daboss, I didn't say it was better in terms of speed, but I often find that I can get useful results from forums while phone support is often very poor, or provided from a country out in the remotest parts of India where the staff speak hardly any E…
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Well, since I didn't do anything but provide a calcium laced target for her lame assed punch, you could say she broke it...
Never punch someone who enjoys milk and uses it to treat athsma (goats milk is supposedly good for it, but whatever..…
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Dating?
I don't understand... What is this dating?
Seriously, as a kid I was usually the one who didn't really hang around with others as being able to do high school homework in primary school, being pacifistic and watching Anime weren't r…
I think more people would go for open source software, but not everyone knows what open source is.
People are more likely to go for a product which offers phone support and is distrobuted by a big name company such as Adobe because they don't think …
I use Google because Yahoo! sucks (not just the search engine, but the entire company), Altavista has gone down hill a bit and the others were never really up there.
Dogpile has a neat little flash tool called search spy though... Good for seeing wh…
Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" full time.
It was either Ubuntu or Gentoo and although Gentoo runs faster, waiting days for large things to install really doesn't appeal to me.
Also, there's the whole view of Gentoo users as ricers and the fact…
W3C compliant = Should work in Gecko, Opera and KHTML browsers (basically, everything that isn't Explorer).
Hacks = Works in Explorer.
There's a few hacks which can be used to make Internet Explorer show sites correctly on Alistapart if I remember …
Cinema 4D isn't complicated.
It probably lacks some more verbose tools that you'd get by forking out for 3DS MAX (which costs more), but from what I've used, I wouldn't call it complex.
Blender on the other hand... Well, think NASA combined with St…
If a site is hard to use, users won't want to use it.
If a site isn't be best looking, people might use it, but might be put off.
If a site has no content of interest, it's not interesting.
Basically, it's important to me to make sure that the stuf…
I have 2 40GB Seagate drives (not much space in them, but I know they'll last a while due to having some computer trade experience).
For graphics I have:
Windows:
Fireworks MX, Cinema 4D, Wings 3D & Pixia, Inkscape, Colour Catcher (personal cre…
Actually, my avatar was made with a 3D modelling app (Cinema 4D, but only a freebie version from a coverdisc).
I've used it for other avatars that I've had in the past as well, but it always takes some fine tuning and cleaning up in a graphics edoti…
From my OS to my graphics editor to my site development tools and media apps, everything I use these days is free software and most, if not all of it is Open Sourced.
Ubuntu is based on Debian and is Open Sourced.
Xara Xtreme LX is Open Source (thou…
Linux is great if you're not scared of a little work sometimes and if you enjoy free software.
If you're into things like Photoshop or new PC games, it's not really suited to that as you'd have to try running them via WiNE (free) or Cedga (commercia…
Unfortunately, unless you happen to have an indexing system that outdoes googlebot and his little friends, you wouldn't get very far in the general search market.
I had a web directory which I coded from scratch in PHP at one point.
It was pretty go…
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I kind of know what you mean here.
Just before Python's last host imploded, it seemd that a majority of the posts made were in the posting games that were in the general forum.
Python's reason for selling up was that he didn't want to be do…
Well, even if you can't set up Linux on your own, there's now companies (in America at least) which will build you a desktop, tower or laptop computer running Ubuntu and donate some of the money to charities.
System76 seems to be one of the best out…
1. Are you self-taught, have formal training or a bit of both?
I haven't had any formal training in web development, desktop application development or design, it's all self taught.
In fact, a lot of my knowlage comes from learning via the internet,…
An RSS or other feed reader (RSS1, RSS2 or Atom) wouldn't be of much use as he's looking for a way to work with HTML.
If they were in XML format, he'd still e3ither have to rewrite the documents to fit RSS standards, or modify the reader so that it …
