Talking about your comments about "attracting attention" - you're right, quite often you need to "readvertise" your project to the world and cutting out a new release is just the way to do it. "I've changed the CHANGELOG, better Freshmeat it". It's sort of like the advertising of the OpenSource world.
No doubt that'd raise the hairs on the backs of many people with possibly "other" competing GNOME setups for Slackware - a bit like the debacle encountered with the slapt-get, swaret, etc package handling tools. However, yes it would be a nice option.
I'd love to know if something like this - or other Government based funding system is in place in Australia.
As a long term OpenSource developer with several routinely used projects for email content management/filtering it'd be lovely to get a few dollars from the government to help me pay the bills around here - hell, even a tax break would be lovely.
Woah, obviously too much of a rush to the head there - all the excitement.
What I meant to say is that it'd be nice with all the P2P traffic gone - as for a change the other sites on the net will appear to come down at a decent speed.
Of course, irrespective of it being a tongue-in-cheek humor commonent and because I/implied/ something negative about P2P I got struck down as flame-bait, hilarious.
I know this news-thread is already stale however I did want to ensure that you got to read this.
I'm in the same boat, commercial/propriatory developer and OpenSource developer. The big difference is that I own my company so get to decide how things go.
All of the code produced is BSD licenced, very simply because as a commercial/propriatory developer I rely on other BSD/MIT licenced code in order to obtain productivity gains without worrying about licence issues.
While it's most likely paranoia, I also will not touch GPL or LGPL software, let alone even browse through it - the world has gone litigation nuts and I am not willing to take the risk.
Normally I don't pay much attention to these reviews, but damn this review smacked of Intel fanboyism and anti-AMD'ism. In summary, the comments fell into two catagories:
1. If Intel beat the AMD in a test
"Once again it's game over for AMD"
2. If AMD beats Intel in a test
"AMD struggles to keep ahead of Intel in this test"
I thought at first it was just a one off comment - but the almost all of the evaluations were like that.
Obviously we each tend to have a preference for one brand over another but please can we have consistent commenting.
Now all I need is a magical installer which will convert my existing 7.2.4 systems to 8.x without missing a single beat or disrupting the existing programs written against the old libs.... I'm serious!
Converting 200Gb of data is not something you want to try do without downtime.
All that said, it's good to see PostgreSQL always improving. Good one guys.
Oh yes - I feel like slapping down a few people who behave like that. While the first two demands are within reason (patches/fixes), the latter (doesn't work as they want) is unreasonable. In such cases, money can talk a lot louder.
China has more than enough tech to ensure their missiles make their mark. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the US is the only country in the world that has missiles that don't require monkeys to control them.
But linux is a toy... relative to the big Sun iron boxes.
Seriously, Linux is useful for things but it's still quite young and toyish, especially when compared to the likes of OpenVMS, Tru64 *sigh* and yes, even Solaris.
And as absolutely conclusive proof of this, I just got back from a squash match where I flogged the daylights out of my opponent for the first 2 games simply because he failed to note that I was a lefty. Of course, it didn't help that I used my/right/ hand during the warm up (a bit of a deception game;-)
Actually, it's just a matter of what ZDNet bothers to let you see.
There's quite a few others in Australia but not all of us care to advertise with them.
As a shameless plug, http://xamime.com is actually Australian made and sold globally, though it's more of a content-management system as apposed to/only/ being a spam solution.
That's actually a pretty good idea - probably because I was thinking of it this morning too *cough cough*. I wonder what it'd take to make this actually work?
could have been to use a better radio control platform like a Taymia (cheap) kit with a real 4 channel control unit or higher. This would have given them a better platform with repairable parts and far greater scope of control.
I know the guys aren't trying to make a speed-demon or such but the kit cars do make a much easier platform from which to modify things.
One of the things that I've noticed with politics when it comes to Asia is that they generally don't go for the whole 'scare' campaigns.
Most times I've seen the US make threatening dances and Asia (okay, typically China) go "*shrug* so what?".
The US and its companies are fast sliding past the position where they can afford to rely on feather puffing and noise making - they may end up being next year's Turkey on China's plate.
Just goes to show, they're all the same, it's a matter of picking out your piece of territory and seeing who can make the most noise. The more I see of capitalism, the more I'm glad that I'm content to work from home earning "enough to get by".
I just checked with some colour laser printer outputs I have here. The dots are arranged in a square grid formation with a resolution of 1 pixel, that is, 1/300" or less.
The are furthermore spread across the entire page, irrespective of if it's whitespace or colour.
It takes a while to pick up the dots but they are there, it's rather amazing.
The DVD and CDRW units use a 'red' laser, where's blueray uses a (get this) blue laser.
Because of this, the whole focus/pit-size differences ensure that the units will not be able to read DVD/CDR. Though I'm sure someone will make a unit which supports both.
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Talking about your comments about "attracting attention" - you're right, quite often you need to "readvertise" your project to the world and cutting out a new release is just the way to do it. "I've changed the CHANGELOG, better Freshmeat it". It's sort of like the advertising of the OpenSource world.
Paul.
No doubt that'd raise the hairs on the backs of many people with possibly "other" competing GNOME setups for Slackware - a bit like the debacle encountered with the slapt-get, swaret, etc package handling tools. However, yes it would be a nice option.
Paul
I can think of this piece of news being bought up at least 6 months ago and everyone moving over to using replacements like Dropline GNOME etc.
I'd love to know if something like this - or other Government based funding system is in place in Australia.
As a long term OpenSource developer with several routinely used projects for email content management/filtering it'd be lovely to get a few dollars from the government to help me pay the bills around here - hell, even a tax break would be lovely.
Woah, obviously too much of a rush to the head there - all the excitement.
/implied/ something negative about P2P I got struck down as flame-bait, hilarious.
What I meant to say is that it'd be nice with all the P2P traffic gone - as for a change the other sites on the net will appear to come down at a decent speed.
Of course, irrespective of it being a tongue-in-cheek humor commonent and because I
Now that all those evil P2P people have gone away I finally I will what it's like to have real bandwidth.... release the pigeons!
I know this news-thread is already stale however I did want to ensure that you got to read this.
I'm in the same boat, commercial/propriatory developer and OpenSource developer. The big difference is that I own my company so get to decide how things go.
All of the code produced is BSD licenced, very simply because as a commercial/propriatory developer I rely on other BSD/MIT licenced code in order to obtain productivity gains without worrying about licence issues.
While it's most likely paranoia, I also will not touch GPL or LGPL software, let alone even browse through it - the world has gone litigation nuts and I am not willing to take the risk.
Paul.
Normally I don't pay much attention to these reviews, but damn this review smacked of Intel fanboyism and anti-AMD'ism. In summary, the comments fell into two catagories:
1. If Intel beat the AMD in a test
"Once again it's game over for AMD"
2. If AMD beats Intel in a test
"AMD struggles to keep ahead of Intel in this test"
I thought at first it was just a one off comment - but the almost all of the evaluations were like that.
Obviously we each tend to have a preference for one brand over another but please can we have consistent commenting.
Paul.
Now all I need is a magical installer which will convert my existing 7.2.4 systems to 8.x without missing a single beat or disrupting the existing programs written against the old libs.... I'm serious!
Converting 200Gb of data is not something you want to try do without downtime.
All that said, it's good to see PostgreSQL always improving. Good one guys.
Oh yes - I feel like slapping down a few people who behave like that. While the first two demands are within reason (patches/fixes), the latter (doesn't work as they want) is unreasonable. In such cases, money can talk a lot louder.
Yes, you can focus infrared light. On most SLR camera lenses, you'll see there's an iR compensation mark for when you're using iR film.
Paul.
Are you a troll in a bad disguise?
China has more than enough tech to ensure their missiles make their mark. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the US is the only country in the world that has missiles that don't require monkeys to control them.
This place is falling apart.
... maybe we can make Tasmania a new country!
People thought it was bad being part of the monarchy (The Queen of England etc) but I'd much rather that than be the next state of the US of A.
It's sick, disgusting and nothing but a sell out of what Australia used to stand for.
I'm thinking that I'll move to NewZealand or
But linux is a toy... relative to the big Sun iron boxes.
Seriously, Linux is useful for things but it's still quite young and toyish, especially when compared to the likes of OpenVMS, Tru64 *sigh* and yes, even Solaris.
And as absolutely conclusive proof of this, I just got back from a squash match where I flogged the daylights out of my opponent for the first 2 games simply because he failed to note that I was a lefty. Of course, it didn't help that I used my /right/ hand during the warm up (a bit of a deception game ;-)
Paul.
Actually, it's just a matter of what ZDNet bothers to let you see.
/only/ being a spam solution.
There's quite a few others in Australia but not all of us care to advertise with them.
As a shameless plug, http://xamime.com is actually Australian made and sold globally, though it's more of a content-management system as apposed to
Paul.
That's actually a pretty good idea - probably because I was thinking of it this morning too *cough cough*. I wonder what it'd take to make this actually work?
Paul.
could have been to use a better radio control platform like a Taymia (cheap) kit with a real 4 channel control unit or higher. This would have given them a better platform with repairable parts and far greater scope of control.
I know the guys aren't trying to make a speed-demon or such but the kit cars do make a much easier platform from which to modify things.
Otherwise, it's a good idea.
Paul.
Ugh, this -was- supposed to be attached to someone else's comment (about Microsoft having 228 patents or so).
One of the things that I've noticed with politics when it comes to Asia is that they generally don't go for the whole 'scare' campaigns.
Most times I've seen the US make threatening dances and Asia (okay, typically China) go "*shrug* so what?".
The US and its companies are fast sliding past the position where they can afford to rely on feather puffing and noise making - they may end up being next year's Turkey on China's plate.
Aye yes, I try not to tell myself "That could be you too" - I'd go insane otherwise :-(
:-P
Now, if someone would kindly pay me 10% of what Mr Black just got, I'll quietly go away
Just goes to show, they're all the same, it's a matter of picking out your piece of territory and seeing who can make the most noise. The more I see of capitalism, the more I'm glad that I'm content to work from home earning "enough to get by".
I just checked with some colour laser printer outputs I have here. The dots are arranged in a square grid formation with a resolution of 1 pixel, that is, 1/300" or less.
The are furthermore spread across the entire page, irrespective of if it's whitespace or colour.
It takes a while to pick up the dots but they are there, it's rather amazing.
In short, NO.
The DVD and CDRW units use a 'red' laser, where's blueray uses a (get this) blue laser.
Because of this, the whole focus/pit-size differences ensure that the units will not be able to read DVD/CDR. Though I'm sure someone will make a unit which supports both.
And yet people still buy them. *yoda voice* Fools they are, yes. */voice*