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As a follow-up to myself...
The 'hard' part as far as I'm concerned was trying to figure out what I needed to download and where I had to put it. I think you can do the 'net install with 5 floppies (but it wasn't clear from the instructions). I didn't know that so I got the drivers.tgz and the base2_2.tgz -- as this is a win9x box being upgraded all I had to do was make a new (temporary) partition that would hold the drivers and base (yuk)... I didn't *need* to, but I didn't know that until I was about 1/2 into the install. The install itself is cake (similiar to the redhat character based installs) only easier than RedHat 5.x/6.x IMHO.
Still a 1 floppy net install would be very nice...
I'm installing a potato dist onto a spare machine over the 'net right now! Too bad the instructions aren't a little closer the the FreeBSD one... or pezzy sure made that *look* easy:-).
The value of the computer time we have used
exceeds $40,000
But Bill, you stole that time, you thief! 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs.. IIRC One of the fundaments of Altair BASIC was that it was buggy and people felt that re-distributing *their* patched versions was fair.
Why should ppl pay for buggy software?
--Hype+FUD, apparently.
Ethanol *does* damage rubber hoses over a period of time. It dries them out and they crack. The reason 10% is (typically) the amount of ethanol is that most modern engines can run with around 10% unmodified. I'm not aware of an engine that can run on 30% ethanol (unmodified) much less 100%.
Since cost is closer to $1 to $1.50 (done) wholesale is a *lot* less than $11. Remember in order for a CD retail to say in business they *must* make $5 per on average, per disk. This puts wholesale closer to $4 (which I've seen).
Seems to be the right approach, do nothing. SEP (Somebody Else's Problem).
Since Softies are watchin' here's my view on MS currection actions and the eventual breakup.
I think Mr Bill is playing briar rabbit. Most people at the top of MS *know* that they have to be broken up to survive. In other words MS is poised to bleed people and loose money from about 4 months ago into the forseeable future. Why? Look at the corp revenue, do a quick and dirty P&L. All MS revenue comes from Office and OS platforms. Some quick math says the all the OS flavors and support (which only exists as a platform to run Office on, to be honest) make the whole OS arena little if any profit on it's own. This means from a pure profit standpoint that you want to divest yourself of everything but Office. How? If you do it yourself you'll be sued by your shareholders for putting yourself and a poor position. DOJ? Yep. They are a ready made scapegoat that's gonna pull your a** out of the fire. Blame the evil DOJ for the breakup and sharp loss in revenue, let the OS division limp along while the Office division ports to other desktop platforms and makes tons-o-cash. Services? Oh, don't forget to take the opportunity to dump all those other cash sinks like MSN into a MS Services IPO 'cause the whole MS Certification program has about run it's course anyway... Seems to me all those Softies ought to be jumping ship just about now... unless you happen to be working in the Office group, take all those extra options -- except for you Mr PaperClip guy, you should just throw in the towel, please.
It's that the nukes and the knowledge to build them (especially the knowledge) would be dangerous to an unfortunate degree in the wrong hands. It's called 10 kg weapons grade plutonium, produced from any 'breeder' reactor.
Most Americans don't realize that smallpox killed off upto 90% of the non-euorpean population from 1492 to the early 15 hundreds. Sure it wasn't intentional but it was more effective than anything else unleashed on a population before, since?
Oracle not SQL 92 compliant
on
Why Not MySQL?
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· Score: 1
Nobody's mentioned yet that Oracle is a VERY non-standard SQL Syntax?
Given two bad choices, I look for alternatives.
I personally would never recommend Oracle to any organization that didn't need a 1TB database. - Overpriced (purchse *and* TCO). - Non-Standard (hard to replace with newer tech) - Slow Connections, Odd restrictions: * Queries returning more than 1 row from a view/join that has more than 1 LONG [BLOB] will take at least 1000x longer than if just one row is returned. * It has to be a view/join because only 1 LONG is allowed per table definition. * For CHAR/VARCHAR types '' is equivalent to NULL * INNER and OUTER joins will have the syntax changed to (+) and (-) for no appent reason. * SUB-QUERIES are only allowed as a clause: - select a, b, (sub-query), q where a = 'apple' is not allowed. * DATE types/functions are not consistantly stored. (no fix yet).
Every other RDBMS (PostgreSql, Sybase SQL Anywhere, etc) is quite suitable for the small/medium sized data sets in use and if one flakes you can move to a different one fairly easily).
Thanks for the link, I remember reading this long time ago.
The idea here is that gravity (like all matter/energy) can be though of as waves, disrupt the wave and you have a gravity shield. To pop-culture this is 'anti-gravity'.
I hate knee jerk reactionary types who already 'know' without regard to the scientific method.
I have no doubt that most bands end up losing $$ burning semi-pro/pro quality CDs but let's atleast break down the cost so you're $10 doesn't look absurd:
Min purchase stamped CD's 1000 @ $2 per Est. Min printing of cover art [w/Band Member doing artwork gratis] $2 per Est. Studio time $2000 Est. Production $1000
I est about $7 per disk, ($7000 investment). Now you have to sell 700 disks to break even. Do you even have 700 hard-core fans? You're whole distribution channel is the venues you play.
What do you save with MP3's ? Well first you don't have to do a whole album just a few of your best songs so: Min: 0 Art: Gratis Est. Studio time $400 per song Est. Production $200 per song Now you've got $600 invested and you have a distribution channel that relies on word of mouth and people with 'net access.
Now why would RIAA fear losing control of the Artists? Why would DVD-CCA fear losing DVD Player 'market'? Why is DMCA a very bad thing?
..., if such means are necessary to achieve such interoperability, to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title. ... (4) For purposes of this subsection, the term `interoperability' means the ability of computer programs to exchange information, and of such programs mutually to use the information which has been exchanged. ...
The explict clause allowing reverse engineering 'for compatability' holds no teeth.
DeCSS is reverse engineering 'for compatibility'. At least according to one Judge if the enforcement mechanism is there to prevent you from creating your own competing product then you can't reverse engineer the product.
Fair Use *is* clear. A law is vague until interpreted by the courts. The purpose of DMCA is to nullify Fair Use.
IMHO I think you got it backwords. Your situation will work: At EOD (end of day) when you make your backups you will only have new names (over night the copies will be merged into one). At SOD (start of day) when you start making changes your changes will be written to new physical copies (your previous EOD backups will not be modified).
The Scenario which does not work is when I have to change a config file for *everbody* because the locations of some programs data has changed. I can't just change one file, I have to change *ALL* the files... once *ALL* file files are changed the will all (again) be merged into a single file to which everything else points.
If you don't know that you only had to change the file once [on say UNIX] you might not realize whats really going on and that you could have done things more effienctly. As it is for Winder weenies it's just transparent -- but given the cost of disk space it's a real waste of CPU isn't it?
So if I wan't to change *ALL* the files do I change 1 file or 50? If it's automagickal how does it know who's (which file) the authority? Seems broken by design. That's the innovation I expect from microsoft.
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X has a multiple clipboards. (Almost everything supports the middle mouse button pasting highlighted text).
A software maintainence contract is not the same as a subscription with provides Microsoft Standard Support (which is to say none).
Actually, ABIT is listed:
http://home.phoenixnet.com/boards/index2.html
ABIT
ACORP
AOpen
ASUSTEK
A-Trend
BIOSTAR
ELITEGROUP
EPoX
Gigabyte
Iwill
JETWAY
Lucky Star
MicroStar International
Shuttle
Soltek
SOYO
Tekram
Taiwan Commate
My favorite is:
M&M COMMERCIAL (Commercial, 1998) - green m&m
I like the market cap per employee.
MSFT 300B / 20,000 (est) -> ~15,000,000 per employee
RHAT 949M / 200 (est) -> ~4,700,000 per employee
I don't know what it means though.
I looked about in the article, but mostly I just found unsubstantiated, unscientific assertions. So much for the mighty Caltech of yore.
The Stainless Steel Rat is written by Harry Harrison
Not even similar writers.
OS/2 1.x EE is equivalent to W2K + BackOffice 2K (The EE is Extended to included databases, lans services, etc).
Sometimes you have to go to the up stream provider to have satisfaction.
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As a follow-up to myself ...
... I didn't *need* to, but I didn't know that until I was about 1/2 into the install. The install itself is cake (similiar to the redhat character based installs) only easier than RedHat 5.x/6.x IMHO.
The 'hard' part as far as I'm concerned was trying to figure out what I needed to download and where I had to put it. I think you can do the 'net install with 5 floppies (but it wasn't clear from the instructions). I didn't know that so I got the drivers.tgz and the base2_2.tgz -- as this is a win9x box being upgraded all I had to do was make a new (temporary) partition that would hold the drivers and base (yuk)
Still a 1 floppy net install would be very nice...
I'm installing a potato dist onto a spare machine over the 'net right now! Too bad the instructions aren't a little closer the the FreeBSD one ... or pezzy sure made that *look* easy :-).
But Bill, you stole that time, you thief!
3-man years into programming, finding all bugs
IIRC One of the fundaments of Altair BASIC was that it was buggy and people felt that re-distributing *their* patched versions was fair.
Why should ppl pay for buggy software?
--Hype+FUD, apparently.
It was stated a *LONG* time ago that the production drivers will be open source. It was also stated that the alpha/beta releases would be closed.
HAND
Ethanol *does* damage rubber hoses over a period of time. It dries them out and they crack. The reason 10% is (typically) the amount of ethanol is that most modern engines can run with around 10% unmodified. I'm not aware of an engine that can run on 30% ethanol (unmodified) much less 100%.
One word: BONSAI
A subset of the functionality provided by bonsai is 'what's changed since', etc.
HTH
Since cost is closer to $1 to $1.50 (done) wholesale is a *lot* less than $11. Remember in order for a CD retail to say in business they *must* make $5 per on average, per disk. This puts wholesale closer to $4 (which I've seen).
Seems to be the right approach, do nothing. SEP (Somebody Else's Problem).
... unless you happen to be working in the Office group, take all those extra options -- except for you Mr PaperClip guy, you should just throw in the towel, please.
Since Softies are watchin' here's my view on MS currection actions and the eventual breakup.
I think Mr Bill is playing briar rabbit. Most people at the top of MS *know* that they have to be broken up to survive. In other words MS is poised to bleed people and loose money from about 4 months ago into the forseeable future.
Why? Look at the corp revenue, do a quick and dirty P&L. All MS revenue comes from Office and OS platforms. Some quick math says the all the OS flavors and support (which only exists as a platform to run Office on, to be honest) make the whole OS arena little if any profit on it's own. This means from a pure profit standpoint that you want to divest yourself of everything but Office.
How? If you do it yourself you'll be sued by your shareholders for putting yourself and a poor position.
DOJ? Yep. They are a ready made scapegoat that's gonna pull your a** out of the fire. Blame the evil DOJ for the breakup and sharp loss in revenue, let the OS division limp along while the Office division ports to other desktop platforms and makes tons-o-cash.
Services? Oh, don't forget to take the opportunity to dump all those other cash sinks like MSN into a MS Services IPO 'cause the whole MS Certification program has about run it's course anyway...
Seems to me all those Softies ought to be jumping ship just about now
It's called 10 kg weapons grade plutonium, produced from any 'breeder' reactor.
Most Americans don't realize that smallpox killed off upto 90% of the non-euorpean population from 1492 to the early 15 hundreds. Sure it wasn't intentional but it was more effective than anything else unleashed on a population before, since?
Nobody's mentioned yet that Oracle is a VERY non-standard SQL Syntax?
Given two bad choices, I look for alternatives.
I personally would never recommend Oracle to any organization that didn't need a 1TB database.
- Overpriced (purchse *and* TCO).
- Non-Standard (hard to replace with newer tech)
- Slow Connections, Odd restrictions:
* Queries returning more than 1 row from a view/join that has more than 1 LONG [BLOB] will take at least 1000x longer than if just one row is returned.
* It has to be a view/join because only 1 LONG is allowed per table definition.
* For CHAR/VARCHAR types '' is equivalent to NULL
* INNER and OUTER joins will have the syntax changed to (+) and (-) for no appent reason.
* SUB-QUERIES are only allowed as a clause:
- select a, b, (sub-query), q where a = 'apple' is not allowed.
* DATE types/functions are not consistantly stored. (no fix yet).
Every other RDBMS (PostgreSql, Sybase SQL Anywhere, etc) is quite suitable for the small/medium sized data sets in use and if one flakes you can move to a different one fairly easily).
Thanks for the link, I remember reading this long time ago.
The idea here is that gravity (like all matter/energy) can be though of as waves, disrupt the wave and you have a gravity shield. To pop-culture this is 'anti-gravity'.
I hate knee jerk reactionary types who already 'know' without regard to the scientific method.
That's the definition of 'Junk Bonds'.
I have no doubt that most bands end up losing $$ burning semi-pro/pro quality CDs but let's atleast break down the cost so you're $10 doesn't look absurd:
Min purchase stamped CD's 1000 @ $2 per
Est. Min printing of cover art [w/Band Member doing artwork gratis] $2 per
Est. Studio time $2000
Est. Production $1000
I est about $7 per disk, ($7000 investment).
Now you have to sell 700 disks to break even.
Do you even have 700 hard-core fans? You're whole distribution channel is the venues you play.
What do you save with MP3's ?
Well first you don't have to do a whole album just a few of your best songs so:
Min: 0
Art: Gratis
Est. Studio time $400 per song
Est. Production $200 per song
Now you've got $600 invested and you have a distribution channel that relies on word of mouth and people with 'net access.
Now why would RIAA fear losing control of the Artists?
Why would DVD-CCA fear losing DVD Player 'market'?
Why is DMCA a very bad thing?
Horse pucky.
..., if such means are necessary to achieve such interoperability, to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title.
...
(4) For purposes of this subsection, the term `interoperability' means the ability of computer programs to exchange information, and of such programs mutually to use the information which has been exchanged.
...
The explict clause allowing reverse engineering 'for compatability' holds no teeth.
DeCSS is reverse engineering 'for compatibility'. At least according to one Judge if the enforcement mechanism is there to prevent you from creating your own competing product then you can't reverse engineer the product.
Fair Use *is* clear. A law is vague until interpreted by the courts. The purpose of DMCA is to nullify Fair Use.
Thanks for playing. Now go FUD someplace else.
IMHO I think you got it backwords. Your situation will work:
... once *ALL* file files are changed the will all (again) be merged into a single file to which everything else points.
At EOD (end of day) when you make your backups you will only have new names (over night the copies will be merged into one).
At SOD (start of day) when you start making changes your changes will be written to new physical copies (your previous EOD backups will not be modified).
The Scenario which does not work is when I have to change a config file for *everbody* because the locations of some programs data has changed. I can't just change one file, I have to change *ALL* the files
If you don't know that you only had to change the file once [on say UNIX] you might not realize whats really going on and that you could have done things more effienctly. As it is for Winder weenies it's just transparent -- but given the cost of disk space it's a real waste of CPU isn't it?
So if I wan't to change *ALL* the files do I change 1 file or 50? If it's automagickal how does it know who's (which file) the authority?
Seems broken by design. That's the innovation I expect from microsoft.