Oracle isn't going to kill Java. I mean, their who fscking database has it in it. It would be like them killing SQL... But what does worry me is the crappyness of Oracle's Java Code
It is funny that you should mention hardware compatibility between Windows and Linux. Just in the last few days, I installed iTunes for Windows on a new machine and connected my 4G nano. Nothing. It didn't recognize it at all. Rather than spend several hours troubleshooting it, I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu machine which recognized it immediately. Even better, gtkpod not only had no problems syncing it, but converted my OGG files just fine. I am listening to one now.
Years ago, the same thing happened with a Kodak camera and F-spot. Linux exclusively manages my photos, and now my iPods too.
And they were the ones who code for the military. No one codes in the line of duty; you may have to edit a configuration, change the settings, setup a terminal, etc... but as any coder will tell you, that's NOT coding. Changing a config file is not coding.
Coded for 10 years in the Army, MOS 74F Programmer/Analyst. Apple ][ 6502 assembly, maintaining someone else's IBM 370 assembler code, COBOL, C, etc. My 1SG wanted me to code a Commodore 64 BASIC application to manage the CQ roster. I wanted to code it because I could do something like:
if $name="El_Oscuro" then
next
else
print $name
Unfortanely, my suppervisor nixed that idea, so I still had to pull CQ dudy:/
Then the Army offered a golden parachute to all of their NCO programmers, so we took the bonus, and became the low-life contractor scum you see in the military these days.
I just completed a disto upgrade of Ubuntu, my 4th in the last 2 years on the same computer, and I haven't had to "wipe" my drive once. In fact, I have it on several computers, and I don't even know how to "wipe" my drive. If a small company like Ubuntu can handle this, why can't Microsoft?
Have you ever actually dealt with Symantec^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Veritas support? A week is good. I once had a problem that persisted for 6 months that ultimately proved to be caused by the workaround they provided for another problem. And you need their support a lot, as Netbackup is a total POS.
After several years of trying, I finally convinced my Manager to get Tivoli instead of the latest version of Netbackup, and we have never looked back. In the 3 years we have had Tivoli, we have had less problems than we would typically have with Netbackup in a month. Plus, it is a lot cheaper.
They already have one. It's called Oracle Express Edition., so I don't think MySQL is too important to them, other than removing a competitor.
What would be interesting is the hardware and OS angle. When you control the hardware and O/S, it becomes a lot easier to support (ask Apple), and offers customers a single vendor to call when something breaks.
The Star Trek fans did exactly the same at the end of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and that is one of the worst movies of the franchise.
I saw this movie about 10 years ago, and buried in all of the cheesy special effects was a pretty interesting plot. All you had to do was lose the pissing contest between Kirk and the other guy, the shuttle and transporter bullshit, and maybe some of the wannabe TRON stuff at the end, and you would have a pretty damn good movie. Perhaps I should get a copy, take all of this crap out, and put it back up on TPB as "The Unreleased Directors Cut of Star Trek the Motion Picture"
I'm serious. Why would I bother with this product if I get around on my bicycle, for example? I need to be able to haul stuff, and I would love to have something like this for that purpose.
You can. Just use your bicycle. It might not carry as much as your Silverado or Tundra, but it definitely gets better gas mileage.
Just be glad you have Linux. I get stuck having to configure raw devices in Windoze:
Click on the disk administration icon.
Click "no" on the "do you want to create dynamic volumes?" for the 17th time
Allocate the partitions
Reboot. Windows automagically assigns drive letters to all of your raw devices, even though there is no filesystem on them. While it is doing this, it takes a while to figure this out and your reboot will take awhile.
Now, go back into Disk administration to remove all of the drive letters that Windozes automagically assigned to your raw devices.
Reboot again.
Repeat the entire process every time a new raw device is added to your system.
What I wouldn't do to have Solaris (or even Linux)
I was once at a grocery store checkout machine, which I managed to get to the NT4.0 desktop. I didn't see any option for "start/programs/dispense money" though. I also couldn't figure out restart the application, so I just rebooted it instead.
Which makes it look ever more like a locked down mickey mouse system for the clueless./p>
Given the number of people out there operating without a clue, I can't see how this is a bad idea. Coming from an old-school AIX/Solaris environment, it took me about 2 minutes to figure out how to re enable root. All in all, I think it is a pretty good compromise between security and convenience, unlike UAC
I once wrote a shareware app. The shareware version just had a nag screen when you started the program and some minor functionality disabled. If you registered my program, you got a registration code which you entered along with your name. All the code was a simple hash of the name that resulted in about 5 or 6 digits (no 42 digit hex numbers here). When registering, the program would store the name and checksum in its.INI file.
I didn't care how many computers you installed on, or even how many people were using it concurrently. In fact, you could just copy the.INI file to another computer and it would work just fine. I think my help file even had instructions for doing just this.
All of this was trivially hackable, and there was nothing preventing someone from distributing the program with an already registered.INI file. The trick was, the name and checksum "branded" your copy. All of the window titles included your name in them, so if you redistributed it, the "registered" copies would also have your name in them.
This actually worked pretty well. I got plenty of registrations, even though the registration process was only check or money order and snail-mail (before the internet thingie was invented by Al Gore)
It still works. The best selling game of all time, Doom2, was released with no DRM. JP Software has been selling replacement Windows shells for 15 years using the same branding method. And you can download the latest enterprise edition of Oracle for any platform without any restrictions whatsoever. And Oracle isn't cheap.
Whenever I recommend software to clients, any crappy licensing DRM scheme that I might have to deal with later results in automatic disqualification.
They also make claims like being able to modify license terms, etc at any time, for any reason, without your notification.
This sounds a lot like the terms in most credit card agreements. Below that "1% introductory rate claim, there is fine print like:
We may modify the terms of this agreement, the interest rate, etc at any time, for any reason, without your notification.
MBNA tried this shit with me about 5 years ago and they are gone. American express tried it recently (raised my interest rate from 9.99% to 26% because they received a payment a few days late). They are gone too.
The only credit card I have now is issued by my credit union. Trust no other credit card. They make the terms of most EULA's seem almost reasonable.
I have a Model M at work and a Unicomp at home. When they started putting those stupid Windows keys on keyboards, it would always mess up my Doom games. I would accidentally hit it and Windows would switch to task manager while I got fragged. I always hated that.
Now, I have been annoying co-workers with my Model M for a while. And if I ever have to fight off Imps at our office, I will have a handy weapon. I also think they are rated at being able to stop a.38 special or a 9mm in cause a co-worker goes postal.
Tried Oracle Linux a few years ago. Now, I am a customer of Oracle, what might I perhaps want to use it for? Perhaps to run an Oracle database?
Apparently not to Oracle. Getting the installer to work involved wading through various technotes, installing obscure RPMs, dependency hell, etc. Installing it on Ubuntu was actually a lot easier, and it isn't even supported.
And don't get me started about support. Oracle Metalink now requires flash to work at all. I mean, it is sort of like using GIMP to edit text files.
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Or IBM or even.... Oracle
Oracle isn't going to kill Java. I mean, their who fscking database has it in it. It would be like them killing SQL... But what does worry me is the crappyness of Oracle's Java Code
Hey! Thats my root password....
It is funny that you should mention hardware compatibility between Windows and Linux. Just in the last few days, I installed iTunes for Windows on a new machine and connected my 4G nano. Nothing. It didn't recognize it at all. Rather than spend several hours troubleshooting it, I tried connecting it to my Ubuntu machine which recognized it immediately. Even better, gtkpod not only had no problems syncing it, but converted my OGG files just fine. I am listening to one now.
Years ago, the same thing happened with a Kodak camera and F-spot. Linux exclusively manages my photos, and now my iPods too.
No. Just see your doctor. He has a kickback from the drug company and will give it to you for free.
Coded for 10 years in the Army, MOS 74F Programmer/Analyst. Apple ][ 6502 assembly, maintaining someone else's IBM 370 assembler code, COBOL, C, etc. My 1SG wanted me to code a Commodore 64 BASIC application to manage the CQ roster. I wanted to code it because I could do something like:
if $name="El_Oscuro" then
next
else
print $name
Unfortanely, my suppervisor nixed that idea, so I still had to pull CQ dudy :/
Then the Army offered a golden parachute to all of their NCO programmers, so we took the bonus, and became the low-life contractor scum you see in the military these days.
I just completed a disto upgrade of Ubuntu, my 4th in the last 2 years on the same computer, and I haven't had to "wipe" my drive once. In fact, I have it on several computers, and I don't even know how to "wipe" my drive. If a small company like Ubuntu can handle this, why can't Microsoft?
Do you mean something like "wget http://wubi-installer.org/latest.php"?
We have one word for this:
JavaCrap
After several years of trying, I finally convinced my Manager to get Tivoli instead of the latest version of Netbackup, and we have never looked back. In the 3 years we have had Tivoli, we have had less problems than we would typically have with Netbackup in a month. Plus, it is a lot cheaper.
They already have one. It's called Oracle Express Edition., so I don't think MySQL is too important to them, other than removing a competitor.
What would be interesting is the hardware and OS angle. When you control the hardware and O/S, it becomes a lot easier to support (ask Apple), and offers customers a single vendor to call when something breaks.
I saw this movie about 10 years ago, and buried in all of the cheesy special effects was a pretty interesting plot. All you had to do was lose the pissing contest between Kirk and the other guy, the shuttle and transporter bullshit, and maybe some of the wannabe TRON stuff at the end, and you would have a pretty damn good movie. Perhaps I should get a copy, take all of this crap out, and put it back up on TPB as "The Unreleased Directors Cut of Star Trek the Motion Picture"
How about something like This?
I'm serious. Why would I bother with this product if I get around on my bicycle, for example? I need to be able to haul stuff, and I would love to have something like this for that purpose.
You can. Just use your bicycle. It might not carry as much as your Silverado or Tundra, but it definitely gets better gas mileage.
Holy Belgium, Man!!!
Slashdot should be banned from the sub-ethanet just for mentioning it in a screenplay^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ post!
Just be glad you have Linux. I get stuck having to configure raw devices in Windoze:
What I wouldn't do to have Solaris (or even Linux)
Actually, lynx still has 2 very important functions:
I was once at a grocery store checkout machine, which I managed to get to the NT4.0 desktop. I didn't see any option for "start/programs/dispense money" though. I also couldn't figure out restart the application, so I just rebooted it instead.
Which makes it look ever more like a locked down mickey mouse system for the clueless./p>
Given the number of people out there operating without a clue, I can't see how this is a bad idea. Coming from an old-school AIX/Solaris environment, it took me about 2 minutes to figure out how to re enable root. All in all, I think it is a pretty good compromise between security and convenience, unlike UAC
I once wrote a shareware app. The shareware version just had a nag screen when you started the program and some minor functionality disabled. If you registered my program, you got a registration code which you entered along with your name. All the code was a simple hash of the name that resulted in about 5 or 6 digits (no 42 digit hex numbers here). When registering, the program would store the name and checksum in its .INI file.
I didn't care how many computers you installed on, or even how many people were using it concurrently. In fact, you could just copy the .INI file to another computer and it would work just fine. I think my help file even had instructions for doing just this.
All of this was trivially hackable, and there was nothing preventing someone from distributing the program with an already registered .INI file. The trick was, the name and checksum "branded" your copy. All of the window titles included your name in them, so if you redistributed it, the "registered" copies would also have your name in them.
This actually worked pretty well. I got plenty of registrations, even though the registration process was only check or money order and snail-mail (before the internet thingie was invented by Al Gore)
It still works. The best selling game of all time, Doom2, was released with no DRM. JP Software has been selling replacement Windows shells for 15 years using the same branding method. And you can download the latest enterprise edition of Oracle for any platform without any restrictions whatsoever. And Oracle isn't cheap.
Whenever I recommend software to clients, any crappy licensing DRM scheme that I might have to deal with later results in automatic disqualification.
This sounds a lot like the terms in most credit card agreements. Below that "1% introductory rate claim, there is fine print like:
We may modify the terms of this agreement, the interest rate, etc at any time, for any reason, without your notification.
MBNA tried this shit with me about 5 years ago and they are gone. American express tried it recently (raised my interest rate from 9.99% to 26% because they received a payment a few days late). They are gone too.
The only credit card I have now is issued by my credit union. Trust no other credit card. They make the terms of most EULA's seem almost reasonable.
There is something cool about that. Just like being able to clean out my trucks interior with a hose....
I have a Model M at work and a Unicomp at home. When they started putting those stupid Windows keys on keyboards, it would always mess up my Doom games. I would accidentally hit it and Windows would switch to task manager while I got fragged. I always hated that.
Now, I have been annoying co-workers with my Model M for a while. And if I ever have to fight off Imps at our office, I will have a handy weapon. I also think they are rated at being able to stop a .38 special or a 9mm in cause a co-worker goes postal.
There were a few other FPS that didn't get the credit they deserve:
Tried Oracle Linux a few years ago. Now, I am a customer of Oracle, what might I perhaps want to use it for? Perhaps to run an Oracle database?
Apparently not to Oracle. Getting the installer to work involved wading through various technotes, installing obscure RPMs, dependency hell, etc. Installing it on Ubuntu was actually a lot easier, and it isn't even supported.
And don't get me started about support. Oracle Metalink now requires flash to work at all. I mean, it is sort of like using GIMP to edit text files.