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Novell to Help Port Applications to Linux
An anonymous reader writes "eWeek is reporting that: "Novell announced the program at its European BrainShare 2004 tradeshow in Barcelona, Spain." "Under the initiative, leading software and hardware vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and Scali Inc. will work with Novell help their software partners deploy their platforms and solutions on SUSE Linux, according to Novell Inc."
...and to help more people get a crack at running Suse, if you've got some spare bandwidth, fire up a BitTorrent client and head over to The Linux Mirror Project and help mirror the Suse torrent.
The tracker shows lots of leechers for that distro... if you can, hop in and help out!
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Maybe they could help MS port office.
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What, did you think that Novell threw all those millions of dollars at SuSE for fun? Oh no, SuSE is the core of the next NetWare.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
I wonder if they will help me port Space Invaders from my white Comodore Pet.
Now if only I could find that tape...
but arent linux apps supposed to work with all major distros? and if not, why?
I have not read the FA, but I do hope they port applications to the LSB rather than just to their distro.
All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be
"But this is also aimed at Windows software vendors, Unix software vendors, or vendors who'd developed for other flavors of Linux but who'd like run on SUSE Linux, too," He said.
I love the fact that Linux has the flexibility of having multiple flavors but I really think that making the flavors incompatible is a roadblock for wide acceptance.
People who develop for Windows are going to look at Linux and say, "but if we want to reach everyone we have to deal with RedHat, SUSE, Foo, and DoubleFoo."
Shouldn't companies that want to support Linux as a viable alternative be pushing for a standard to be followed?
Developers, developers, developers!
The monkey-boy dance is left up to the end user.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
... is my friend, as the old saying goes.
And so long as they keep the Unix trademark from SCO with the force of a thousand lawyers with lasers strapped to their heads, they're fine by me.
not all linux. Dont get this confused with open sourcing everything.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
There is no need for BSD-from-scratch disto.
1: All the BSDs are entirely different operating systems, which are lumped into one category becuase of their roots.
2: Since no extra bullshit is thrown in like linux, there is less need for reworking the base.
3: BSD is not obscure in the least, it is rather alive and florishing.
BTW you forgot to mention Solaris, which has it's roots in BSD too. ckj
Somehow, someway, Novell needs to make money out of the deal. By basically giving away their product, it is not likely to happen anytime soon. But if they add an arsenal of software which is certified to run on Linux platform, the landscape drastically changes and these changes will favor Novell.
A big round of applause for this novel (pun intended) idea of Novell...
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The more I know people, the more I love animals
I hope this doesn't include groupwise *shudder*
The client has to be the worst, ugliest and clunkiest I have ever had the misfortune to use...
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
This project is only economical if you have old laptops sitting around. If that's the case, you probably won't have enough CPU/RAM to install the latest version of debian.
I have built picture frames out of old pentium-class laptops ('bout $100 off ebay, or cheaper if you shop around your own town), and they have no problems running the latest Debian. Just don't run X!
I use zgv to cycle through the pictures. Works great, *and* is less filling. lh
Kernel threads almost universally stay on the cpu they were originally assigned to. High performance threaded subsystems, such as the network stack, are replicated. That is, the network stack creates multiple threads (one per cpu) and those threads do not migrate because, obviously, they do not need to.
Generally speaking, the purpose of making thread migration explicit instead of automatic is to partition a larger data set across available cpu caches rather then cause the same data to be shared amoungst all cpu caches. The processors operate a lot more efficiently and SMP scales a lot better. Most people do not realize the horrendous cost of moving threads between cpus because the cache mastership change is invisibly handled by hardware, but the cost is still there and still very real.
-Matt gbx
[ Tiny SuSE is considering your offer. ]
I can promise you a life of absolute leisure. All we do is sit in the shade drinking peach tea, while we sing songs about how much we love SuSE.
Sing: "We love SuSE, SuSE is the best, SuSE, SuSE, SuSE, Yeah SuSE!"
[ Tiny SuSE has agreed to join your team. ]
Alright! But before we get to the tea, we need you to attack that Red(mond) Dragon over there. Powerful in life, unstoppable in a court room. Now flap over there.
We don't have all f-ing day.
[ totally ripped off from: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-05 -10 ]
...or maybe not.
I think the fact that the DVD is pure information and a car is a physical object, not subject to casual duplication, might be a difference, but who knows? iao
Rather surprisingly, they managed to turn the almost-as-complex His Dark Materials trilogy into what is, by all accounts, a fantastic stage show... I'll certainly be getting tickets to see this... nml
No mention of Sun Microsystems in that list, hehe...
A republic cannot succeed till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
Maybe they can develop nerves strong enough to let me survive my mother asking for computer help. rmf
Yeah, LSB is great and all in theory but when a major Linux player isn't really doing much to advocate it I don't see what good it is going to do.
That's the problem with cartels (OPEC, NCAA, etc.)
They work only when everyone feels like cooperating. They fail in dramatic fashion when one or more members smells money.
Laws are for people with no friends.
I'd like run Notes client on Linux. Notes and Photoshop are the only programs I run on Windows.
Typical dealer repair computer diag and control devices cost about $2500 per manufacturer. For any biusness, that is a cheap, no-brainer expense. Even individuals can buy the devices from most manufacturers (including forien makes) if they were really into it...
At worst, a small shop might have to specialize on a smaller number of car makes. Most of which seemed to have done that ayway, long before the compouters came into use.
So basically, "You are full of shit".
>>"Under the initiative, leading software and hardware vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and Scali Inc. will work with Novell help their software partners deploy their platforms and solutions on SUSE Linux, according to Novell Inc."
What partners?
It was in the application space that Novell lost it's market and mindshare to Microsoft.
The new Muramasa has been out in Japan since January. It has had some nice reviews and keeps up well with Pentium-M modells of similar clock speed (see this Japanese review). And it is much cheaper. ws
They are not porting to Linux, but to SUSE Linux.
SUSE Linux != all the other forks of userland apps and custom Linux kernel patches some people refer to as "Linux".
Once you get past the installer, and the vendor specific configuration guis, there is very little difference between systems.. The kernel is the same, the development tools are the same, the window managers are the same, the graphical managers are the same....
In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find many things which are different. Sure, the packaging is different. The versions of each package are different (Kernel versions and so forth). Each distro will probably have to roll it's own specific package. But if you have the tarball, you can get it to work on pretty much any configuration, as long as you have the minimum version of libraries.
Sorry, but this is really the ugliest and most irritating topic logo. Does it have to be that aggressive shade of red? It hurts my eyes!
I don't think it's bad either way, just curious as to how it's going to shake out. Any Linux usage is good in my book. More apps available is very good. More alternatives to the bloated wares of Castle Redmondore, priceless.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
...release specs and/or open-source device drivers, and become "Linux compliant"?
I guess if the big companies want to lend a hand, that'd be my suggestion.
Let's be serious, drivers are one of the biggest issues, crossing all of the common uses of Linux. Why are we, in 2004, still stuck in the 1994 mentality, still begging most hardware manufacturers for specs and open drivers, and still reverse-engineering? I mean, it's probably fair to say Linux is over the hump in terms of name recognition at this point.
Sure, it's a lot better than it was, but our mindshare in the PC hardware world is abyssmal compared to what it should be. Even hardware vendors that "support" us still often do so with binary drivers; often shitty, scary ones that never get rev'd.
Can the myth that closed-source drivers, or secret specs, are somehow good for a hardware business still be thriving in 2004? Is it really that much more important than the sales you miss out on when your competitors embrace Linux before you do?
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Some might not have noticed, but it seems to be the first topic with the "N" logo from Novell. I don't like the company in particular, but you to admit that Novell is betting high on Linux and open source - although they are not abandoning their closed source software like Zenworks, a strategye they call "shared source".
I won't charge as much as them either.
Time for welfare, or maybe robbing a gas station... should pay about the same as a programming job. If I get put in prison I get the bonus of being able to eat 3 meals a day!
Is it really necessary to have sufficient armaments to destroy the planet seven times over? Is it really necessary to have sufficient firepower to independantly forcibly take over any other country/contitent on the planet?
You always build a safety net into anything you do. It's called reserve. You want to have more than you need so that you can lose part and still win. That is one of the great American traits, to overbuild is to win.
What you're saying is akin to saying that you don't really need a seatbelt in your car either. Just don't crash and there is no problem. We don't need those seatbelts, think of how much money is wasted on them.
I'd like to see more heavy-hitter funding and support for tools for writing cross-platform applications like the mono project (http://www.mono-project.com/) and wxWidgets (http://www.wxwindows.org/.
Soon the back of all cd's will say Windows 2006 or higher is required to play this cd,, Linux and Mac people are not allowed to play cds on their computer.
"I love the fact that Linux has the flexibility of having multiple flavors but I really think that making the flavors incompatible is a roadblock for wide acceptance."
Check out the GPL.
While there are MINOR differences in the DEFAULT installations of the various distributions, there is NOTHING that makes them "incompatible" with each other.
Sure, one might (by default) install ext2, another ext3, another ReiserFS, but that doesn't mean that you can't run all of the above on any distribution.
It might take a kernel recompile in the worst cases.
For all the hype and claims about Linux "incompatibilities", I have yet to see any package that was not installable on any other distribution. Nor do I believe that there ever will be one.
A lot. For the most part Windows has been more consistent through various versions. Most of 95 would run on 98, and in fact a LOT will even run on all versions. There are huge exceptions, but these are with apps being produced by componies that want you to buy the latest version, and so the fault lies as much with them as it does with Microsoft.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Here is a replied I received from the UltraEdit peoples :
Hello Frederic,
Thanks for your message and suggestion. Ian has looked into this and
other tools. The biggest barrier here is that much of UltraEdit's
code is based on MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes). Because of this
porting UltraEdit to Linux is not a minor undertaking as functions
using MFC would have to be completely rewritten from scratch.
Thanks, Troy
Thursday, September 16, 2004, 5:28:25 AM, you wrote:
fcsb> Hello,
fcsb> is there any plan to port UltraEdit to Linux ?
fcsb> If so, you could for example use the Qt C++ framework
fcsb> from Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com/) to speed up the
fcsb> process
fcsb> so that UltraEdit would available under KDE
fcsb> (www.kde.org), the Linux's most used desktop system.
fcsb> There is plenty of Linux text editor but none of them has
fcsb> ever reached the level of quality of UltraEdit,
fcsb> so I really think you could gaim some market shares up there too !
fcsb> sheers,
fcsb> Frederic
This is nice of Novell but I don't understand how they profit from this.
Suse users benefit because they have a larger menu of applications from which to choose. Suse benefits because they will be able to attract users who depend on some of these applications which will be ported. Application vendors will benefit because it makes their product available to Suse Linux users. But Novell? What's in it form them?
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Before the fascist Spanish nationalits start flaming, let me tell you that it's pointless as the British U.N. ambassador accepted these points when the Spanish asked for Gibraltar's return.
The ambassador said "Gibraltar is the price for treason". English honour is cheap.
This is particularly important for companies like Novell who are targeting corporate customers, most of whom run tailored software for their business purposes (as well as the office stuff for their admin, and other general purpose software).
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Dead English professors are spinning in their graves over this post. Where'd grammar the go?
Through some combination of Lotus mis-steps and Microsoft strategy, Microsoft was able to wean the market off their dependence on 1-2-3. OpenOffice is a good start (not quite there yet) in providing part of the alternative.
Some people have suggested that the Linux platform needs to do more than just mimic Windows applications to offer a compelling reason for people to switch. I agree. But OpenOffice is a necessary, if not sufficient, element in making it a viable alternative.
Microsoft? They aren't listed.
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Mike:
As privacy advocates, what can we do to impress the importance of privacy without coming off as tinfoil-hatted whack jobs?
An example was a presentation I prepared for co-workers a while back regarding grocery store "loyalty" cards. In it, even after detailing the California case of a store that in a slip and fall case in their store, tried to introduce the customer's purchases, tracked via a card, saying he may have been drunk at the time because of frequent alcohol purchases. Afterwards, I was hit with several questions about being paranoid. I used the standard "this is why we have envelopes and blinds instead of postcards and open windows" argument, and while most seemed to understand, some were obviously unimpressed. What can we do to convince people of the need for privacy without being over the top? wdo
What applications are they to port? I haven't heard a single application mentioned. Why the mystery?
From the bits and pieces of news and info that I know of wxWindows, porting a MFC app to wxWindows (cross platform) is 98% of the time just a matter of search and replace.
So technically there is no excuse, however they were responding to a QT framework question.
-- I don't buy it, I grow it.
Novel is in a great place now not to break microsofts monopoly or to become number one but to give the industry a reliable set of software products that run on more than one operating system. The days of Windows only or Mac only are numbered if all goes well. And that gives consumers a much great er choice in the end and even if they choose to always go with one vendor or not it doesnt matter the choices are there. If the choices are there peple will choose.. and the world will keep spinning and thats what makes the world a great place.. options.. and flexibility is also a bonus.
Of course, the KDE project could always write a replacement for Microsoft's MFC. They could call it... wait for it... KFC. [Cue lame joke music, cut to commercial.]
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I meen thats like a bug in the Monkeys software. a Pathing problem of sorts.
Got my Titan Missile Complex but the tall backed leather chair did not swivel and the white cat was already dead when i got there! Avoid!!!!!! bil
Often, I find my network and servers I use for my small business come under attack by script kiddies. Sometimes it's a DDoS attack, but more often than not, it's just getting hammered by one machine. When I contact the ISP involved, generally one of the large US ISPs, I am told that they will look into it. Nothing ever happens, however, and ISPs are generally unwilling to provide assistance in tracking down attacks. This means my complaint ends up in the circular file. The ISPs are protecting criminals because they don't want to lose business, and I have no way of making sure my complaint doesn't end up lost in this black hole. As an individual representing a small business, what recourse do I have in dealing with ISPs to make sure my complaints are heard and taken seriously? ax
... if there was some way to plug tools like this into Mozilla directly so that you could expand on its built in junk mail detection with something more powerful. ji
Of course both fans spinning will impact your battery performance but it's better than third degree burns on your... lap. iqg
>I'm surprised people still use BSD after that
;)
>security fiasco last year.
so what do u suggest windows? LOL
sorry
wk
Case in point. My best friend is a very bright guy at things historical, political and...litoral? No that's lakes...whatever the word is that means "things dealing with literature." Essentially, a geek who's not good at math. College educated with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Journalism.
He owns a landscaping company and a power equipment (professional mowers, edgers, etc) dealership. A low-brow kind of field, right? Absolutely...which is why he cleans up. His competition in the landscaping industry is mostly rednecks with limited intelligence and poor personal hygiene. Whom do you think the college educated property manager for an apartment complex is going to hire to maintain their property? My friend the clean-cut collegian or the dirty hillbilly with the stained t-shirt and bloodshot doper eyes? Hmmm... Essentially, he's a big fish in a small pond, runs three landscaping crews and pulls in upwards of $200,000 per year.
Myself, I've got a Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and I'm a wedding and portrait photographer. Since photography has gone digital, my skills with all things electronic are extremely valuable. The guys who have been shooting film for 20 years barely know how to work their digital cameras, maintain their computers, set up a website, and figure out enough photoshop to retouch a photo or use a sepia-toned plug-in. I make more as a photographer than I ever would as an engineer, I'm my own boss, and work from home.
Don't think that just because you're a techie, you have to work in the computer industry. It's one thing to build tools...it's something else to use them. xtq
I've always wanted a spam filter with 1000% accuracy!
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Because SQL Server 2000 is pretty much the best database around for the price.
Who needs all that integrated.NET stuff anyway? fz
What does this say to the citizens of a country when your government will deliver you into the hands of a foreign power when you've not broken the laws of your own nation?
The civil war in Columbia started as a question of National Sovereignty over the extradition (to the United States) of a cocaine producer, which was not against the law in Columbia at the time. This extradition led to the increasing popularity of the FARC, and their accompyaning (Stalinist) socialist platform, increased cocain production and exportation (to the United States) in order to finance both right wing and left wing paramilitaries, and increased hardships for the poorest of Columbias people, who were already suffering due to ecconomic hardships and a lack of basic civil rights for the majority of Columbias people.
Actions such as these cause increased mistrust of a nations government, lend credence to dangerous or misguided political movements, (rightfully) increases anti-American sentiment, leads to internal social conflict, and increase crime in the nation that would extradite for an offense that is not illegal in that country.
Given that Australia is not a third-world country, is not a narcotics exporting country, and has a stable and (I assume) fair form of government, it is unlikely that the repecussions will be as unsettling or as harmful as has occurred in Columbia.
Still, demanding extradition for an offense that is not illegal in the offenders country, and was not committed in the requesters country, does not serve a nations national interest, as it will weaken it's ability to (ethically and effectively) influence the other nations policies, creates mistrust among the citizens and governments of other nations, and makes traveling abroad more dangerous for the nations citizens due to misguided attacts against it's citizens.
I a company is doing business in a foreign land, then they must be willing to deal with the law (or lack of law) and culture as it exists there. If the company wishes to have that law changed, they should follow the tradition and procedure of that countrynot lobby their own government to have its law enforced on foreign soil.
If this man has broken Australian law, he should be prosecuted under Australian law, or if it is a civil offense there, the harmed American parties should sue in Australian courts.
The US pressing for extradition in this case may seem like a "win" to the companies who produced the software, but for everyone else, and for US relations with Australia, this could be a big loss in the long run.
tkh
People have been doing research for thousands of years, and most of the research have led to woudnerful discoveries, but.. to be honest, I cant see that this discovery can leed to any major breakthoughs. Not even minor ones. yws
All these suggestions make the naive assumption that people in general learn from past mistakes. pg
This one [slashdot.org]. The researchers here appear to be putting an academic imprimateur on the model discussed in 2000. mh
It's understandable that you don't know about it, but the case is that lots of people in Barcelona (the main city in Catalonia) just don't agree being part of Spain. Here's a site that explains this in English.
As technically inferior MySQL is to Postgres, MySQL has a few major things going for it that ensure it's niche.
1. Easy to install on Windows. The average coder at a Windows-only farm can easily run the executable and have the latest version running on their developer box. Not all companies allow you to have multiple boxes, and many force you (via draconion security measures) to only run windows with certain software installed. Postgres NEEDS a user-friendly Win32 installer, perhaps with a similar info-item like MySQL has. This is a MUST for companies to start to take notice. Then, a PHB can even play with it and like it.
2. Marketing. While open-source, MySQL has a nice marketing engine behind it. A beautiful webpage, online and PRINT adds, and magazine and newspaper articles CONSTANTLY writing about the "little database that could" every few week / months. Postgres needs to start getting the word out, and hype it a little. Just because a product is superior, doesn't mean it will thrive. There are tons of examples out there: Beta vs VHS, Windows vs OS X, etc. For a database to be used, it must be allowed and "signed off" by a manager of some sort. Most will take reputation + support + "ooh, nice webpage" over a product that might be better, but they know nothing about it.
3. More management tools. MySQL has a couple out there that look and run great; very professional looking. This earns respect from PHB's, as they are easily misled by such niceties.
Don't get me wrong. MySQL is nice, but doesn't have what I need most (Views, triggers, etc). Postgres may not be perfect, but I think it is superior. We just need to get the word out to those "not in the know". fjn
Answer: Never.
Here's a clue about how to avoid lawsuits: don't break the law.
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FYI, modern MRI scanners use bayesian noise reduction during image processing. I used to work in a MRI research laboratory, and our director had pioneered the application of Bayesian noise-filtering algorithms in post-processing of image data.
Oddly enough, our director of research was notoriously difficult person to schedule a meeting with. Makes me wonder about 'unsupervised learning'... nc
The computer is nothing special -- just another thing. You have plumbers and electicians, etc. Computer service is really just another semi-skilled trade that anyone could do if they wanted to invest a little time to learn, but they prefer to use their time in other pursuits.
I often pick up painting jobs for a few extra bucks (and because I like doing some manual labor from time to time). I don't think it's any different than doing basic computer service.
Isn't a goal of the computer field to have pooters so easy to use that anyone can do it? If I was feeling grumpy I would happily argue that most trades which the typical geek might describe as "lowly" or "pathetic" are actually more challenging than 90% of computer related tasks performed by conceited pricks in the IT field. And the most conceited of the bunch never touch the 10% of work which required any degree of intelligence, but they are simply insecure fems who think that somehow working on a computer makes them better than others.
puuMuch as I love a good MS Bashing, I'll tell you what I find really lacking (personally) for PostgreSQL and other OSS RDBMSs - a good GUI management tool.
Something that helps you craft medium-complicated joins quickly with a few clicks and drags.
For example, see this screenshot [phrogz.net] from Visual Interdev working on MSSQL2k, creating a SQL Query for a stored proc. Sure, it's almost trivial to hand-write the SQL code. But it was even easier to just select a few tables, click on the fields I want, right-click on the joins (created automatically from the database structure) to change their type, and be done.
I use PGSQL for all my personal projects now, but I sorely miss the speed that a GUI editor like this allowed me.
lbmGod, how fucking petty is slashdot getting???
Sure, hotmail was down, boo-hoo. It's a free email service. Deal with it.
Why is slashdot determined to report every single trivial detail when it comes to Microsoft? Try to stick with the big stories, please, not "Bill Gates forgets to lift toilet seat!" or "Steve Ballmer takes up two parking spaces in Microsoft parking lot!"
hpc
"The European Commission draft requires Microsoft to share proprietary information with rival server makers"
That's always my sticking point. I'm not as much bothered that they support video playback in their default system (they also support image playback and text playback, after all) as to their generally incompatible and excessively proprietary methods. uxe
I agree with parent that in this case size really doesn't matter: it's all in how you use what you got.
Historically, Neptune was discovered because it was perturbing Uranus' orbit: its existence was theorized long before it was directly observed. Similarly, Pluto was discovered because it was found that Neptune alone was not sufficient to account for all of Uranus' irregularity. While Pluto isn't very big, its size and orbit are such that it definitely affects the other planets.
In practice then, what we have actually used to distinguish a planet like Pluto from a large body that is not a planet, like Chiron (roughly as big, discovered 1977), is whether the object interacts in a measurable way with known planets. If it does, then accord it planet status because it is clearly part of the planetary system.
In view of this, the new discovery is probably not a planet, unless it has a weird orbit like Pluto and would account for some of the remaining difference between planetary observations and expectations.
But what do I know? IANAA. zb
What would work well is SSL certified SMTP relays. If every valid SMTP relay needed an SSL certificate then, If spam was sent their SSL certificate could easily be rejected. And hosts that didn't have one at all could just be dropped.
SSL certificates are costly, and that limits everyone from having one. However, there is no reason the Open Source community could not make up our own root certficate, and have an SMTP SSL certificate signing organization. Where we verify the authenticity of someone before we give them a cert. For a small fee to cover costs. It wouldn't be like we'd have to convince Netscape, Microsoft, Apple and whoever else makes a browser to include the cert. It'd just need to be available for people hosting servers to download.
Yes, this would mean rejecting massive amounts of email to begin with. Maybe some intern solution could be thought of as people move over to it?
Ideas? Comments?
ga"How many companies these days are willing to drop money into some technology that may not turn a profit for many years?"
The kind that is already doing very well financially and wants to solidify a reputation of innovation. Similar to Microsoft's $1 billion donation to Africa. vda
This is a good example of how far behind MySQL really is. I don't want to degrade the db; I have used it on several PHP/MySQL driven sites. However, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and others have had transactions for many years. I have only been developing professionally for about 7 years (circa 97), but I started out on SQL Server 6.5 which had full support for transactions. SQL Server 7.0 had support (via MTS) for distrubuted transactions (across multiple databases). If MS had this back in 1997, you know Oracle had it before then. afy
I personally don't like Microsoft... but you have to ask yourself if Media Player is removed who is affected by this in a negative way?
Microsoft. Oh, you meant in the short term? Possibly users. In the long term however this stops Microsoft being able to leverage their desktop monopoly into a format monopoly (where was.wma 3 years ago?) into a media player monopoly (where were.wma players 3 years ago? you can now buy windows only wma only players) into a net-broadcast monopoly (that you can only view with media player on an approved platform).
In the long run it might be necessary to hurt consumers a little bit today to protect them tomorrow. Ideally the solution will involve forcing them to support a patent unencumbered license unencumbered format alongside (or instead of) wma to ensure they can't use their existing monopoly to destroy interoperability. itj
There once was a fellow named Dillon [imdb.com]
Whom everyone thought was a villain [aboutmary.com],
He cried, "That's not me!"
"I use BSD!"
"Because I find it fulfillin'."
W xci
Let's say you're sitting at a Starbucks, drinking some coffee. You hear a song over the speakers you happen to like. All you have to do is call out: "Could I get this on a CD, please?" They burn you the CD. On your way out (or right then) you pick it up... It works perfectly together... kr
An open letter to antitrust, competition, consumer and trade practice monitoring agency officials worldwide.
The role of trade practice and antitrust legislation is to provide the consumer with protection from abusive business practices and monopolies. In one of the most serous cases of monopolization in the information technology industry, the agencies charged with protecting the competitive process and the consumer have utterly failed to stem the offending corporation's anti-competitive practices.
The Microsoft corporation has been under continuous investigation by antitrust policing agencies since 1989. Despite this scrutiny, the Microsoft corporation, using covert and overt anti-competitive business tactics, has maintained an unabated campaign against alternatives to Microsoft Windows operating system platforms and Microsoft applications.
For years the Microsoft corporation has earned around 70% to 80% net profit from sales of its operating systems and application software. Only in areas like Thailand where GNAA/Linux on the desktop has just begun to gain a foothold has Microsoft stated that it will release versions of its operating system platform and application software at a lower price to Original Equipment Manufactures (OEMs) and retail consumers than is available in the rest of the modern world. Consumers benefit where real competition exists.
The world desktop operating system market remains predominantly monopolized by Microsoft. Over the last decade, Microsoft continued to lever its desktop platform monopoly to the point where it now holds a dominant position worldwide in the application office suite and web browser software markets. On its own, the current USA Department Of Justice (DOJ) settlement with the Microsoft corporation has failed to bring about any restoration of serous competition to the desktop operating system market. Microsoft continues to use similar anti-competitive business tactics in an attempt to monopolize the digital media player and the desktop services server markets. Competing vendors increasingly find that they can no longer compete with Microsoft if they limit themselves to only the traditional closed source model of software development.
In the last six years information technology vendors have adopted techniques and resources from two existing movements geared toward the construction of software. The newer open source movement, represented by the non-profit Open Source Initiative (OSI) corporation, emphasizes the licensing of software in a manner which encourages its collaborative development in an open environment. The older free software movement, represented by the non-profit Free Software Foundation (FSF), focuses on the ethical issues surrounding the licensing of software. The free software movement emphasizes freedoms which are often taken for granted outside of the field of software: the freedom to use, study how something works, improve or adapt it and redistribute.
The Free Software Foundation offers two software license schemes which are compatible with their own goals and those of the Open Source Initiative: The GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). Essentially, the GPL and LGPL licenses grant the recipient extra rights than that granted by copyright law. Both licenses insure that a contributer or distributer of a GPL or LGPL licensed work may not further impede downstream recipients the rights granted by the same license. Many developing software in an open source manner have realized that this benefit offered by the GPL and LGPL licenses outweigh any potential losses. The licensing also insures that no contributing or distributing vendor or group of vendors could potentially monopolize the market, insuring that real market competition dictates price. Just as the automotive industry can commonize on standards
Except it would be a Mastercard commercial. xg
I think the fact that the DVD is pure information and a car is a physical object, not subject to casual duplication, might be a difference, but who knows? co
Sedition is defined as speach which advocates the immedate and violent overthrow of the government in a fashion as to provide a clear and present danger, if my memory serves me correctly.
My question is, would an internet website fall into that catigory, as it does not have the same force as say, Hitler in the Haufbrauhause with like, 2,000 SA going to storm the Bavarian capital building. It does have a wider audience, but due to the decentralized nature I doubt that a website can provide a clear and present danger or immediate action at all. Am I wrong? Does the PATRIOT Act redefine it in such a way as to make it "terrorism?" sb
As I recall, the US Army was suffering from a shortage of bugle players to play taps for the passing generation of soldiers. They developed a digital bugle [geek.com] that can play taps even if the bugler is incompetent, drunk, or both.
Since Toyota has now developed a vastly more complicated technology that can be used to solve the same problem as the slightly complicated one above, I look forward to future Pentagon procurement hearings.
Note to self: Sarcasm in this post often results in massive retribution.
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Yes It seems it's easier to port from MFC to wxWindows :b rar y/l-mfc/
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/li
Why am I not surprised Microsoft claims its an internal problem?
Actually, it would make more sense when Microsoft would claim it was an attack. Internal problems can be blaimed on the company (bad software design, bad system administration, etc.), external attacks can't, only for a lack of security or something like that. But in most cases, a company gets away quite well with an external attack. as
What's the legality of An Anti-DoS Tool That Returns Fire [slashdot.org]? It sounds pretty vigilante to me, but what sort of laws would be applicable to it? yj
That's the Crusoe chip. These machines have a new chip, the Efficeon. Quoting from the article:
"The new Efficeon TM8600 is designed to improve performance while maintaining the low power consumption required by ultraportable notebooks--such as the 2-pound MM20. Sharp's tests showed that Efficeon delivers about 1.4 times the performance of Crusoe, Hanly says."
I don't know if 1.4 times the Crusoe should be considered fast, but at least it's faster... doa
hey, remember linus signed some pretty odd things during LCA:)
Yeah, my wife still refuses to wash her left breast.... nu
Extracted from the US to:
Ireland [archives.tcm.ie]
Hong Kong [info.gov.hk]
Yugoslavia [geocities.com]
I am by no means an expert on this, these are just some google results. iaq
STORY AT 11
Michael is perhaps the most hated editor on Slashdot, with the absence of JonKatz. Before signing on as an editor on Slashdot, Michael Sims was busy making a name for himself as a colossal jerk in the Censorware scandal. He then moved on to Slashdot, his feeling of self-importance and small-mindedness in tow, where his ability to abuse his power is exercised constantly.
Modus Operandi
Michael is known for his derisive attitude towards Slashdot readers, unrealistic and hypocritic stance on nearly every issue, and generally obnoxious behavior.
Injustices
Facts
michael is constantly posting stories from Roland Piquepaille's blog.
Compare Google search 'site:slashdot.org "Posted by michael" "Roland Piquepaille writes"' to any of the other mods. michael nearly doubles the number of the next highest Roland spammer, simoniker.
Commentary
Why the obvious favoritism to Roland Piquepaille? Either Piquepaille is in cahoots with michael, or he just knows how to press his buttons. In either case, an questionable degree of preferential treatment is being shown.
Facts
Michael links to a 40MB file on the front page of Slashdot, leading to a massive Slashdotting of a NASA server.
Commentary
You have to wonder what michael's intentions were in placing such a link? This kind of crap has been going on for a long time- front page links are made without regard to the server, file type, or file size. This time, it is impacting a taxpayer-funded government agency.
Well, not really. It's still a huge leap. Then you have the problem that wxWindows apps don't really feel native on any platform, which makes it a suboptimal solution. If you're going to port an app IMHO you should do it properly and get native UI in there (GTK or Qt) and maybe leave the backend to Winelib until you've got it all ported over to platform abstractions that work, unlike widget toolkit abstractions.
I'd love to know how this "porting and migration center" is going to deal with all the desktop software that isn't as easy to port as UNIX server software is. It's not even like OpenOffice can deal with all MS Office documents, in particular the ones where people abuse Excel as a database, have MS Access databases lying around, write VBScript apps in Word etc.
To be completely flippant (and yes, I do realize there is a risk, I just think it is relatively low)... boring! I just hope this doesn't turn into another cause where misguided celebrities drive us into spending money on it disproportionally like certain trendy diseases. fnk