Lots of installers for enterprise-level software and hardware drivers will check to ensure it's being installed on RHEL and will fail to install otherwise. Checking that this file exists is an easy way for them to do that. Whether or not they *should* check it that way (or even at all), is debatable.
To be fair, '/etc/redhat-release' is there for compatibility with software that uses that to ensure it's being installed on a RHEL-based system. CentOS has it as well for the same reason.
...and because vaccination and resultant herd immunity effectively wiped many of the most dangerous diseases out of our everyday lives.
One of the most retarded "reasons" I've ever heard from a mother for not having her children immunized is was something along the lines of "I don't want to teach my children that they have to do things because the 'herd' does"::facepalm::
Maybe. But the thing is which I find mildly disturbing is that while X11 has many, many defincies, the Wayland folks seem to enjoy making up straw men and picking on things which are easily refutable.
Bittorrent does this at the application layer, meaning it's only applicable to that specific application. Multipath TCP accomplishes this at the transport layer, meaning existing applications don't specifically have to be coded to support this, they would just need minor changes (if any) to make use of it. See the OSI model for more info.
The purpose of the Fedora Core project is to be a massive, real-world test-bed for software packages based on current versions of software that will eventually find its way into a future version of RHEL (and by extension CentOS and Oracle Enterprise Linux) once hardened. If you view it this way, it makes perfect sense why Red Hat treats Fedore Core the way they do.
I think Starbucks uses slow consumer-grade DSL connections, because that's what it feels like. Upstream capacity is severely limited, and downstream is only slightly less so. I remember attempting a Facetime call and getting less than one frame per second in both directions and constant reconnecting...turned off Wi-Fi and it was smooth as silk.
You, sir, are correct (source: I used to work for Wayport/AT&T).
God forbid the someone was to pull a Bobby tables [xkcd.com] because we didn't have someone qualified creating and maintaining the databases at all times.
Wouldn't preventing a "Bobby tables" incident be more on the application developers plate than the DBA's?
but "not worth my time" attitude is kinda strange since it takes no time at all to use it?
What I'd imagine he's saying is it's "not worth my time" to develop and test an application against a database that's ultimately not going to be used when pushed into the production environment (ie, cheap hosting providers that only offer MySQL). I can't say I really blame him.
- Another new back-end is providing RDP support, Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol. While this isn't the proper remote Wayland implementation previously talked about with experimental code, RDP clients can now connect to this Weston back-end that is compliant with FreeRDP.
Not to mention that most SSD's are being sold by companies that don't have much (if any) presence in the HDD market at all (Intel, Samsung, Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, etc), making them direct competitors to the likes of Western Digital & Seagate.
My mistake. I meant to say that it was required on any nvidia-based htpc with limited amount of CPU power (like the popular Intel Atom-based HTPC's that so many people (myself included) use).
nouveau
1. since its free software it can co-exist with other drivers, and lets x auto detect. your only option on live cds
2. feature complete 2d and 3d rendering
3. rock solid stable. Its actually more stable than the proprietary driver
nvidia
1. fast, perfomance comparable with other OSs
2. closed source, doesn't play well with other drivers. But lets face it, if your playing video games, them too are closed source, and if your on a proper normal installed system, you don't need other video drivers.
3. 100% feature complete, uses every last feature of the hardware as intented.
4. supports OpenCL and vector programming.
5. supports VDPAU (required on any nvidia-based htpc)
That sounds like a great way to run off all your talent and instead be stuck with a bunch of H1B's, where the majority probably don't know wtf they're donig.
got used to the new start screen - it's not _that_ bad, no worse than hunting through menus to find what you're looking for, and actually better in that you can just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search. Or you can type the name of a control panel applet or setting, and that works too.
Who hunts through menus anymore? I've been able to "just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search" since, *gasp!*, Windows Vista.
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Lots of installers for enterprise-level software and hardware drivers will check to ensure it's being installed on RHEL and will fail to install otherwise. Checking that this file exists is an easy way for them to do that. Whether or not they *should* check it that way (or even at all), is debatable.
To be fair, '/etc/redhat-release' is there for compatibility with software that uses that to ensure it's being installed on a RHEL-based system. CentOS has it as well for the same reason.
...and because vaccination and resultant herd immunity effectively wiped many of the most dangerous diseases out of our everyday lives.
One of the most retarded "reasons" I've ever heard from a mother for not having her children immunized is was something along the lines of "I don't want to teach my children that they have to do things because the 'herd' does" ::facepalm::
Horse shit...Java is nothing but pointers (aka "references"). It just hides dereferencing and memory management for you.
... in the forums where the cool kids hang out is against Java...
Yeah..and how many of these "developers" are still going to be writing code in 5 years?
Maybe. But the thing is which I find mildly disturbing is that while X11 has many, many defincies, the Wayland folks seem to enjoy making up straw men and picking on things which are easily refutable.
You do realize that "the Wayland folks" and the X11 folks are the same folks, right? Perhaps you should give this a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
Bittorrent does this at the application layer, meaning it's only applicable to that specific application. Multipath TCP accomplishes this at the transport layer, meaning existing applications don't specifically have to be coded to support this, they would just need minor changes (if any) to make use of it. See the OSI model for more info.
The purpose of the Fedora Core project is to be a massive, real-world test-bed for software packages based on current versions of software that will eventually find its way into a future version of RHEL (and by extension CentOS and Oracle Enterprise Linux) once hardened. If you view it this way, it makes perfect sense why Red Hat treats Fedore Core the way they do.
I think Starbucks uses slow consumer-grade DSL connections, because that's what it feels like. Upstream capacity is severely limited, and downstream is only slightly less so. I remember attempting a Facetime call and getting less than one frame per second in both directions and constant reconnecting...turned off Wi-Fi and it was smooth as silk.
You, sir, are correct (source: I used to work for Wayport/AT&T).
I concur. KVM will run VM's created in vbox, as well as vmware with pretty much no nasty side-effects.
God forbid the someone was to pull a Bobby tables [xkcd.com] because we didn't have someone qualified creating and maintaining the databases at all times.
Wouldn't preventing a "Bobby tables" incident be more on the application developers plate than the DBA's?
the most surprising thing about OS X Mavericks is that it's not named after a cat
Yea, it's named after a Meerkat...how original.
but "not worth my time" attitude is kinda strange since it takes no time at all to use it?
What I'd imagine he's saying is it's "not worth my time" to develop and test an application against a database that's ultimately not going to be used when pushed into the production environment (ie, cheap hosting providers that only offer MySQL). I can't say I really blame him.
There is no web based tool comparable to phpMyAdmin...
What's wrong with phppgadmin?
...what can be done to turn things around?
Get rid of Ballmer and either bring in or promote somebody internally to CEO who knows wtf they're doing.
- Another new back-end is providing RDP support, Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol. While this isn't the proper remote Wayland implementation previously talked about with experimental code, RDP clients can now connect to this Weston back-end that is compliant with FreeRDP.
This is great news and solves the long-standing question about how Wayland was going to handle remote clients in an acceptable manner.
Not to mention that most SSD's are being sold by companies that don't have much (if any) presence in the HDD market at all (Intel, Samsung, Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, etc), making them direct competitors to the likes of Western Digital & Seagate.
Steve Jobs is never an "entertaining" kind of guy. In fact, Mr. Jobs can be the worst kind of SOB when he was in his mood.
I dunno...I'd kinda find seeing some of his tantrums entertaining. I thought they were in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Perhaps everyone is reading the article before commenting? I know...+5 Funny.
My mistake. I meant to say that it was required on any nvidia-based htpc with limited amount of CPU power (like the popular Intel Atom-based HTPC's that so many people (myself included) use).
nouveau
1. since its free software it can co-exist with other drivers, and lets x auto detect. your only option on live cds
2. feature complete 2d and 3d rendering
3. rock solid stable. Its actually more stable than the proprietary driver
nvidia
1. fast, perfomance comparable with other OSs
2. closed source, doesn't play well with other drivers. But lets face it, if your playing video games, them too are closed source, and if your on a proper normal installed system, you don't need other video drivers. 3. 100% feature complete, uses every last feature of the hardware as intented.
4. supports OpenCL and vector programming.
5. supports VDPAU (required on any nvidia-based htpc)
That sounds like a great way to run off all your talent and instead be stuck with a bunch of H1B's, where the majority probably don't know wtf they're donig.
got used to the new start screen - it's not _that_ bad, no worse than hunting through menus to find what you're looking for, and actually better in that you can just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search. Or you can type the name of a control panel applet or setting, and that works too.
Who hunts through menus anymore? I've been able to "just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search" since, *gasp!*, Windows Vista.
How is this going to impact KDE? Will this be the start of KDE5?