Why wouldn't they want to clean up their act? I'd imagine that this will lead to their *loyal* customer base always jump for their latest and greatest releases. New Windows, new apps, new everything, all ready for Palladium!
but if you don't need SQL Server, then I expect you don't need stored procedures, sub selects, transaction support and all of the rest of the high end database features. In a *nix environment, the LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, Perl/PHP) combination of products work very well, are easy to use and maintain, and cost very little. mySQL and Perl/PHP all run on windows, but ASP can connect to mySQL via ODBC. mySQL really is a snap if it meets your needs, and it runs beautifully.
My, I've underestimated the Lindows folks! If it were true, I'd have one of these things in a instant, just for the coolness of it, no matter how well it worked! As it is, I'm pretty impressed with those new iBooks that Apple announced the other day.
The latest Crossover Office from Codeweavers supports IE 5.5. I've been running it for a while with fairly good results, and it doesn't seem to have broken anything in the "fake Windows" folder at all.
When you work in an environment where dog + uncle is either an Oracle DBA, MCSE or VP programmer, you wind up with projects like this: import random length string data from an embedded device into Oracle table, write some really convoluted stored procedures to parse the string data, write a nifty VB program to fetch the results for display to the users, who don't edit the data, just view it.
In short, you get some expensive licenses and a lot of work to manage what could be done with a short shell script.
I've used U.S. Bank for years, and ever since they begain offering "internet banking" I've used a variety of browsers running on Linux, and I don't ever recall a problem. I *like* giving them my business, even if this feature costs $4.95/month.
Me too! Mine's in this picture , which I posted in my cubicle a couple of years ago. It's a nice conversation starter for those who wonder why I live on an island.
If you want to get them away from Win98, there's another good Linux option: Lycoris I've installed it for a few users who've only known one version of Windows or another, and they're doing very nicely with it. The CEO of the company, Joseph Cheek, impressed me early on with his web page dedicated to Linux that was *very* technically astute. Lycoris, however, is based on Caldera instead of Debian, so that could be a problem for some/. folks.
IBM bought Informix in July 2001, and they're apparently going to move the best parts of Informix into DB2. Informix is still being well supported, though it doesn't seem to be marketed much. Informix is absolutely a rock in it's current release (IDS 9.3) - fast, stable and lean. It's a joy to work with. Our Informix DBA spends 99.9% of his time working on other projects.
I installed Redmond Linux for some neighbors who have never owned a computer before, and they're doing just fine with it. It does everything they need it to do. It's a very usable distribution for new users, though for experianced users, I've recommended (and installed) Mandrake. There are plenty of appropriate choices in the Linux world, and one size doesn't have to fit all.
Could it be that the open source community's quick responses to security issues, bug fixes and the realization that the community has produced a wide variety of generally stable, reliable products at a very reasonable TCO is forcing Microsoft to re-evaluate more than just their marketing tactics? It has to be harder these days to foist crap (like IIS) on IT managers without encountering at least a healthy amount of skepticism, especially when there's a quality, open source alternative like Apache waiting in the wings... Open source could very well be forcing Microsoft to become a better competitor by making them release better products! Real competition - better for all of us.
Netflix suits me...
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Netflix now has a local return address (Tacoma, WA) , so I experiance a very fast turnaround, and I've never run across a DVD out of stock. For the 1 1/2 years I've used them, only one disk has arrived damaged, and one has been lost in the mail. Very satisfactory, overall. I don't know what else I could ask of them.
I've had no trouble at all with Nvidia cards, though don't use them if you're only intrested in open source drivers.
I always download the source rpm's (I'm running a Redhat 7.2 box with a nonstandard Redhat kernel), run the command 'rpm --rebuild NVIDIA*.rpm' against them, and then install the new rpm's in the usual manner. They work great, but I don't a Windows box to compare them with.
Several folks where I work have been testing the Mandrake 8.2 beta releases, and they're uniformly reporting that things are much better than 8.1 release. Personally, I'd rather buy a Mandrake box than go the donation route, but either way, you should be getting great value for your money.
Actually, I've heard that GPS is in fact controlled by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, who could use it for their own purposes. It that's the case, then Europe might be taking a prudent strategy.
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Whoa, that is cynical! I don't even want to consider whether it's true!
Why wouldn't they want to clean up their act? I'd imagine that this will lead to their *loyal* customer base always jump for their latest and greatest releases. New Windows, new apps, new everything, all ready for Palladium!
but if you don't need SQL Server, then I expect you don't need stored procedures, sub selects, transaction support and all of the rest of the high end database features. In a *nix environment, the LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, Perl/PHP) combination of products work very well, are easy to use and maintain, and cost very little. mySQL and Perl/PHP all run on windows, but ASP can connect to mySQL via ODBC. mySQL really is a snap if it meets your needs, and it runs beautifully.
My, I've underestimated the Lindows folks! If it were true, I'd have one of these things in a instant, just for the coolness of it, no matter how well it worked! As it is, I'm pretty impressed with those new iBooks that Apple announced the other day.
The latest Crossover Office from Codeweavers supports IE 5.5. I've been running it for a while with fairly good results, and it doesn't seem to have broken anything in the "fake Windows" folder at all.
Not so, from my experiance. Red Hat 7.3 and 8.0 and dual head G550's have never locked up for me.
YMMV, I suppose.
When you work in an environment where dog + uncle is either an Oracle DBA, MCSE or VP programmer, you wind up with projects like this: import random length string data from an embedded device into Oracle table, write some really convoluted stored procedures to parse the string data, write a nifty VB program to fetch the results for display to the users, who don't edit the data, just view it.
In short, you get some expensive licenses and a lot of work to manage what could be done with a short shell script.
Anybody ever hear about: grep, cut, sed, awk, sort, uniq... God forbid Perl?
When your only tool is a hammer...
I've used U.S. Bank for years, and ever since they begain offering "internet banking" I've used a variety of browsers running on Linux, and I don't ever recall a problem. I *like* giving them my business, even if this feature costs $4.95/month.
Me too! Mine's in this picture , which I posted in my cubicle a couple of years ago. It's a nice conversation starter for those who wonder why I live on an island.
If you want to get them away from Win98, there's another good Linux option: Lycoris I've installed it for a few users who've only known one version of Windows or another, and they're doing very nicely with it. The CEO of the company, Joseph Cheek, impressed me early on with his web page dedicated to Linux that was *very* technically astute. Lycoris, however, is based on Caldera instead of Debian, so that could be a problem for some /. folks.
When was the last time that Red Hat prevented you from building your own Advanced Server from packages freely available on their servers?
The installer for Red Hat's 'Limbo/Null' beta has been ported to GTK, and it looks and works even better.
IBM bought Informix in July 2001, and they're apparently going to move the best parts of Informix into DB2. Informix is still being well supported, though it doesn't seem to be marketed much. Informix is absolutely a rock in it's current release (IDS 9.3) - fast, stable and lean. It's a joy to work with. Our Informix DBA spends 99.9% of his time working on other projects.
I installed Redmond Linux for some neighbors who have never owned a computer before, and they're doing just fine with it. It does everything they need it to do. It's a very usable distribution for new users, though for experianced users, I've recommended (and installed) Mandrake. There are plenty of appropriate choices in the Linux world, and one size doesn't have to fit all.
Could it be that the open source community's quick responses to security issues, bug fixes and the realization that the community has produced a wide variety of generally stable, reliable products at a very reasonable TCO is forcing Microsoft to re-evaluate more than just their marketing tactics? It has to be harder these days to foist crap (like IIS) on IT managers without encountering at least a healthy amount of skepticism, especially when there's a quality, open source alternative like Apache waiting in the wings... Open source could very well be forcing Microsoft to become a better competitor by making them release better products! Real competition - better for all of us.
Netflix now has a local return address (Tacoma, WA) , so I experiance a very fast turnaround, and I've never run across a DVD out of stock. For the 1 1/2 years I've used them, only one disk has arrived damaged, and one has been lost in the mail. Very satisfactory, overall. I don't know what else I could ask of them.
I always download the source rpm's (I'm running a Redhat 7.2 box with a nonstandard Redhat kernel), run the command 'rpm --rebuild NVIDIA*.rpm' against them, and then install the new rpm's in the usual manner. They work great, but I don't a Windows box to compare them with.
Several folks where I work have been testing the Mandrake 8.2 beta releases, and they're uniformly reporting that things are much better than 8.1 release. Personally, I'd rather buy a Mandrake box than go the donation route, but either way, you should be getting great value for your money.
Well, it seems that it's only "aqua" this Apple topic. How fitting.
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Actually, I've heard that GPS is in fact controlled by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, who could use it for their own purposes. It that's the case, then Europe might be taking a prudent strategy.
Hey, my wife said the same thing, and being an obedient husband... She thinks those wobbly, drunken Mandrake penguins are cute, too.
Nested queries and stored procedures are due in a 4.1 release scheduled for this December, according to this article.
We're been quietly replacing several NT file and print servers with a Redhat 7.1/Samba solution.
Managers are beginning to discuss replacing all the publicly available web servers with Apache (currently IIS).
We are deploying two new web servers in November, and both will run Redhat/Apache.
Myself and others are testing the StarOffice beta, on Linux as well as NT.
There's beginning to be a discussion about how to move our Visual Basic applications over to something that M$ can't orphan.
The big push for 'Active Directory' seems to have died,
The Novell guys are talking about Novell/Linux on the same box, but I'm ignorant of the details...
Galeon has become my primary browser. It's really fast, and never bombs. Galeon 0.12.3 gets it done.