JAVA
JAVA
Sent: 5/29/96; 1:37:05 PM
From: dglynn@mathware.com (David Glynn)
Hola, Senor Winer!
You had mentioned Java in some of your columns recently, and I thought you might be interested in the URL for the Hostile Applets HomePage...
http://www.math.gatech.edu/~mladue/HostileApplets.html
Since you proudly align yourself among the propeller-heads, I thought that the more technical aspects of this site might have some appeal to someone that actually understood the lingo, as it were.
Did you ever get anywhere with Windows NT? I seem to recall you mentioned having access to a NT box at one point.
I might have a new spin for you on NT. I am not what any self respecting geek would call "technically oriented". Don't get me wrong, I can mangle and fix alot of things with the best of them, but when I see a broken part of an OS, my first instinct is not to decompile to the source, and then reprogram the OS correctly. I guess what I mean is, while geekier than most, I have seen real geeks, and I ain't one of them. No major problem, one of the good things about maturing (eventually) is that your own limitations don't drive you crazy like they do when you're younger; You know enough to realize that no one is everything.
However, currently I have a Windows NT server, running an HTTP server, an FTP server(including private directories), a distributed database, Remote Access Server with three 28.8 dial-in lines, an SMTP mail server(with mailing lists), and a local area network that includes my parents business and my 13 year old daughters laptop.
All of this mess is connected to the Internet with an ISDN router 24/7/365. And it's secure.
Now, any Unix geek would tell me that all those services have been available for years (and for free through BSD and Linux). But the problem was configuration of the Unix system I wanted. I wasn't qualified.
With NT I was able to cobble all of this together for a price that I think was very reasonable, and I am able to administer this mess without a CS degree.
For me, NT has done for ease-of-use for servers what Macs did for ease-of-use for desktop machines 12(!?!) years ago.
As an aside, I don't think NT is "better" than other systems, it just happens to be the one that works for me. Personally, I think religious differences about OS's are counter-productive to all of us having what works for us. And having fun!
I enjoy your columns, and you seem to enjoy the views from the edges, so I just thought I'd kick in a spin from my edge.
Keep diggin'!
PS. The ability to have other people dial in and get access to the 'net is one of my new favorite things. I'm a mini ISP!(Only I'm not charging! For certain people I know can't afford it, the 'net IS free! I think of it as my little piece of giving back to the 'net that has given me so much.)
David Glynn MathWare |Rotate filled 3-D graphs, in real-time, on a 486-SX 25? dglynn@mathware.com |Yes you can! Check out http://www.mathware.com
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." ----------- Groucho Marx.
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