corporate world it may be cheaper to buy everyone one of these rather than buying everyone a full blown desktop workstation, laptop computer, and PDA device.
Especially if your running non-Free software; the savings in licensing costs would be worth considering.
I love PostgeSQL - it's worked wonderfully for us, but....
In all seriousness, if you use SAP DB, you could probably raise your rates just due to the SAP name alone. The name 'SAP' is also good for covering your ass when things get difficult.
SAP and Oracle have expensive reputations and you can charge accordingly. We do it all the time, for some of our nastier customers, when anything with the word 'Cisco' on it need care.
It depends on the relationship you have with your custome, wether you go that route, but it's worth considering.
We have a cabin with a small deck - without any railings. The fall woulden't kill anybody, but insturance company woulden't insure the cabin without the railing. We decided we diden't need insurance, and if anybody tries to sue us, we'll probably just run them over with a rental SUV. A dead litigant is a good litigant.
If someone were to try and use the court system to steal all of my money without a good reason, I starting to think that it should be treated in the same manor as a bank robber with a gun - It's ok to defend yourself any way possible.
For one of our clients, OCR Forms made some sense, but the problem was that a computer form was vastly easier to use for our purpouses: If someone typed in a vendor name, the computer form made an educated guess after the first few chars, if it was incorrect, you just kept on typing, if if correct you just tabbed over. An OCR Form system would have to be able to corelate "Sqishy Soft","Squish-Soft","SS LLC","SquishySofware" and every permutaion and bad spelling with vendor #1212 - the computer form would just let you pick vendor "Squishy Software INC" form the list.
For offsite form entry, Psion Revo's worked wonderfully, but we've moved everything to Sharp Zarus due to the un-certain future of Psion. We've kept the Psions, but just replace them when they break.
...than the CmdrTaco speling and gramer filterer that keeps Slashdot free of all 'dose cross syte scripting bugs that plauge windozw lusers. It werks espeshilayy well of page wisening posts the effect Internet Exploder useres as well.
All the crap flooders will fill the poor satelite with *BSD is dying posts - the funny thing is that the life forms that will read the disk will probably be *BSD based sentient AI systems.
Poor things won't know what to make of the ASCII goastse.cx posts though.
Perhaps your looking in the wrong place for the author - the intenet. The author can be easily found on that Mormon-net, the global IPX network that Novell made. Mormon-net uses imprisoned Scientology members that have reached OT-3 and their resulting thought-rays for the transport layer. Good luck in finding a network card that works for it.
Windows stores settings in a nice fast indexed database....that frequently gets corrupted.
I understand the reasoning behind the 'windows registry' but all it does is mimics Unix text files in a filesystem hierarchy with 'keys' in a psuo-database hierarchy./HT_SOME_UPERCASE_THING/sofware/windows/sytem/run /
is not any easier than/etc/inetd.conf...plus Unix has the added benifit of comments in the text files, so you can document your changes and reasoning. As far as I know, you can't add comments to a Microsoft Windows registry.
As far as I know, it's not common to use tools to iterate over the windows registry. But it's standard practice to use common command line tols to change a particular configuration file over a network of Unix computers.
So for one computer and one operator, perhaps Windows REGEDIT so somehow easier, but propigating non-trivial changes over an entire network is easier in Unix.
Give Unix a try - there's a reason that it's the worlds most popluar network operating system.
A friend of mine had a phone number that was a two digit tranposition of a local Pizza Hut. When one of their stupider customers would call, he'd politly take their order, but would tell them that they coulden't deliver to their area as IT WAS FULL OF MAN EATING PIZZA MONSTERS. He'd then hang up.
A friend had a nack for finding Windows network printers on his local cable loop and printing out (using a generic PCL3 driver) a "How to Make Your Windows Computer Invisible To The Internet, and Why This Is a Good Thing" information packet.
Several friends of mine work at Microsoft, and apparently, according to one of them - important government types have been at the Microsoft campus. This gist is that has somthing to do with the whole DRM/encryption thingy.
It makes sense in a odd sort of way - if the govenment could get a back door into the worlds most popular operating system, they would have a goldmine. I'd be disapointed in the NSA if they diden't try.
How much performance and time do we waste just to keep running the same generic, "modern" systems: Linux, Windows, MacOS. They're all the same,
Funtionally they are quite close to each other, but as far as freedom goes - Linux and the *BSD win hands down.
I use to think RMS was a wacky nutcake - but with all the new legilation and DRM crap coming down the pipe, I'm going to spash some aftershave on RMS and join his cause in full. Not just to get a inexpensive operatin system and good software, but to protect my freedom.
There was a study of rats that were raised in anaseptically clean environments, and lo and behold, their immune systems bairly developed. Perhaps it would be wise to let your children overcome an infection or two on their own, rather than attempt to fix it via antibiotics every time.
The whole debate has analogies to other aspects of life - I love French food, but the world would be a sorry place if French food completly displaced Jamacian food or Thai food. Grizzly bears are beautifull animals, but I would want them to dsplace the common house cat.
When people ask me if they should learn C++ or Java, I tell them both. And maby a bit of Lisp for good measure.
I'm very happy to have MySQL in my toolbox, it fist nicly between Perl driven text files and PostgreSQL.
If MySQL goes the way of PostgreSQL, there won't be any point to MySQL.
I hope MySQL continues to play to it's strengths - simple, fast and easy to use.
If someone bereates MySQL because of it's lack of ACID features, they are obviously a one tick pony that can only grasp one idea at a time. A good programmer,db-admin or carpenter is able to choose the best tool for the job - and doesen't force a tool to do somthing it wasen't designed for.
If you need to use it in a proprietary application, you can purchase a non-GPL'd version from MySQL AB.
If I have a propriatary app that uses MySQL or PostgreSQL - is the database server part of my app as far as the GPL is concerned?
My gut reaction is no, due to the fact that you're communicating via SQL over a port and not via function calls. Also, the database is not statically linked - this seems to have been the litmus test for other GPL questions. In addition, the database server can, of course, be on a saparate computer.
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corporate world it may be cheaper to buy everyone one of these rather than buying everyone a full blown desktop workstation, laptop computer, and PDA device.
Especially if your running non-Free software; the savings in licensing costs would be worth considering.
I love PostgeSQL - it's worked wonderfully for us, but....
In all seriousness, if you use SAP DB, you could probably raise your rates just due to the SAP name alone. The name 'SAP' is also good for covering your ass when things get difficult.
SAP and Oracle have expensive reputations and you can charge accordingly. We do it all the time, for some of our nastier customers, when anything with the word 'Cisco' on it need care.
It depends on the relationship you have with your custome, wether you go that route, but it's worth considering.
"It appears that your driving to work..."
withoutaclocksignal,howcanyoutellwhenoneinstructio nstopsandanotherbegins?
(kidding)
Given you're in the thick of things...
Should I buy SGI stock?
We have a cabin with a small deck - without any railings. The fall woulden't kill anybody, but insturance company woulden't insure the cabin without the railing. We decided we diden't need insurance, and if anybody tries to sue us, we'll probably just run them over with a rental SUV. A dead litigant is a good litigant.
If someone were to try and use the court system to steal all of my money without a good reason, I starting to think that it should be treated in the same manor as a bank robber with a gun - It's ok to defend yourself any way possible.
For one of our clients, OCR Forms made some sense, but the problem was that a computer form was vastly easier to use for our purpouses: If someone typed in a vendor name, the computer form made an educated guess after the first few chars, if it was incorrect, you just kept on typing, if if correct you just tabbed over. An OCR Form system would have to be able to corelate "Sqishy Soft","Squish-Soft","SS LLC","SquishySofware" and every permutaion and bad spelling with vendor #1212 - the computer form would just let you pick vendor "Squishy Software INC" form the list.
For offsite form entry, Psion Revo's worked wonderfully, but we've moved everything to Sharp Zarus due to the un-certain future of Psion. We've kept the Psions, but just replace them when they break.
Sorry for the ramble, It's lunch time.
All the crap flooders will fill the poor satelite with *BSD is dying posts - the funny thing is that the life forms that will read the disk will probably be *BSD based sentient AI systems.
Poor things won't know what to make of the ASCII goastse.cx posts though.
O-Ring for the base of the toilet ?!??
Someone mentioned 'O-Ring' and 'Toilet' in the same sentence - and did it without a goatse.cx link?
Such restraint! I'm impressed!
I copied the screen shots:
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1st Screenshot:
Blue Sky
Reflective-Ball
Ground Made of Grid Lines
2nd Screenshot:
Star Feild
Ball
Ball
Reflective-Ball
Ball
Ground made of Grid-Lines
3rd Screenshot:
Fog
Top side of Cube
Fog
Left Side of Cube
Right Side of Cube
Fog
Water with waves in it
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Perhaps your looking in the wrong place for the author - the intenet. The author can be easily found on that Mormon-net, the global IPX network that Novell made. Mormon-net uses imprisoned Scientology members that have reached OT-3 and their resulting thought-rays for the transport layer. Good luck in finding a network card that works for it.
(kidding)
Windows stores settings in a nice fast indexed database. ...that frequently gets corrupted.
/HT_SOME_UPERCASE_THING/sofware/windows/sytem/run /
/etc/inetd.conf ...plus Unix has the added benifit of comments in the text files, so you can document your changes and reasoning. As far as I know, you can't add comments to a Microsoft Windows registry.
I understand the reasoning behind the 'windows registry' but all it does is mimics Unix text files in a filesystem hierarchy with 'keys' in a psuo-database hierarchy.
is not any easier than
As far as I know, it's not common to use tools to iterate over the windows registry. But it's standard practice to use common command line tols to change a particular configuration file over a network of Unix computers.
So for one computer and one operator, perhaps Windows REGEDIT so somehow easier, but propigating non-trivial changes over an entire network is easier in Unix.
Give Unix a try - there's a reason that it's the worlds most popluar network operating system.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\DateTime\Server
Why do they say Unix is hard?
A friend of mine had a phone number that was a two digit tranposition of a local Pizza Hut. When one of their stupider customers would call, he'd politly take their order, but would tell them that they coulden't deliver to their area as IT WAS FULL OF MAN EATING PIZZA MONSTERS. He'd then hang up.
A friend had a nack for finding Windows network printers on his local cable loop and printing out (using a generic PCL3 driver) a "How to Make Your Windows Computer Invisible To The Internet, and Why This Is a Good Thing" information packet.
To stroke the black helicopter theories...
Several friends of mine work at Microsoft, and apparently, according to one of them - important government types have been at the Microsoft campus. This gist is that has somthing to do with the whole DRM/encryption thingy.
It makes sense in a odd sort of way - if the govenment could get a back door into the worlds most popular operating system, they would have a goldmine. I'd be disapointed in the NSA if they diden't try.
How much performance and time do we waste just to keep running the same generic, "modern" systems: Linux, Windows, MacOS. They're all the same,
Funtionally they are quite close to each other, but as far as freedom goes - Linux and the *BSD win hands down.
I use to think RMS was a wacky nutcake - but with all the new legilation and DRM crap coming down the pipe, I'm going to spash some aftershave on RMS and join his cause in full. Not just to get a inexpensive operatin system and good software, but to protect my freedom.
There was a study of rats that were raised in anaseptically clean environments, and lo and behold, their immune systems bairly developed. Perhaps it would be wise to let your children overcome an infection or two on their own, rather than attempt to fix it via antibiotics every time.
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The comparison you found is great!
I know I'm preaching to the choir but..
The whole debate has analogies to other aspects of life - I love French food, but the world would be a sorry place if French food completly displaced Jamacian food or Thai food. Grizzly bears are beautifull animals, but I would want them to dsplace the common house cat.
When people ask me if they should learn C++ or Java, I tell them both. And maby a bit of Lisp for good measure.
I'm very happy to have MySQL in my toolbox, it fist nicly between Perl driven text files and PostgreSQL.
Isen't this akin to online journels whose editors pander to the Post 9-11, or Post Columbine mems ad nausium?
Hear hear!
If MySQL goes the way of PostgreSQL, there won't be any point to MySQL.
I hope MySQL continues to play to it's strengths - simple, fast and easy to use.
If someone bereates MySQL because of it's lack of ACID features, they are obviously a one tick pony that can only grasp one idea at a time. A good programmer,db-admin or carpenter is able to choose the best tool for the job - and doesen't force a tool to do somthing it wasen't designed for.
If you need to use it in a proprietary application, you can purchase a non-GPL'd version from MySQL AB.
If I have a propriatary app that uses MySQL or PostgreSQL - is the database server part of my app as far as the GPL is concerned?
My gut reaction is no, due to the fact that you're communicating via SQL over a port and not via function calls. Also, the database is not statically linked - this seems to have been the litmus test for other GPL questions. In addition, the database server can, of course, be on a saparate computer.
If I'm wrong, please enlighten me!
The fine folks at Indrema pooled all the VC money they hid in the closet. A set-top Linux-based game console will come at last!
Or somthing. Maby I'm still bitter 'cause I bought an Atari Jaguar.
... if he/she purchased 1000 XBoxes and used them for something that would normally require a $400 Intel based computer.
Xboxes are are priced at $200, but really contain the guts of a typical $450 PC.
A cluster of 1000 Xboxes would be mighty cheap computing power.