This message by the top people at Debian and Bruce is entirely correct and consistant. It makes the points clearly.
The point at which companies try to move into free software/open source with their own license is a very critical one. If the community does not do exactly what has been done here we will be destroyed.
Bruce, is definately a flitter and not a sticker. However, Wichert and Ian are (with lots of others) doing a great job on Debian. It was sensible of Bruce to get their backing.
The sad thing is some of the AC comments here.I respect the need for AC's to allow people to take part in a way that does not threaten their careers, but how come so many of them have nothing between their ears?
The down button does not work for the top box, nor does the up button for the second box.
This way of moving boxes is a bit slow as the whoile page needs re-loading for every move. An interface which allows me to type a position number for each box would be faster.
Love the new preferences, but of course being given all these nice new things just makes me want more. Some suggestions
1. Can news.com be a box with their headlines?
2. The buttons for moving the boxes are a bit small, I have hit X several times by mistake. As the hint does not distinguish between the different parts of the image it is not easy to tell if you have your mouse in the right place.
3. I would like a special page to be able to go and see all the boxes so I can quickly see which ones I might like to add.
4. It might be nice to have a means of seeing the standard page in a simple way (also an all options page). I would look at my minimalistic custom page most of the time but would like to see the rest occasionally without logging out.
5. I would like to be able to have the Alta-Vista box with the default language preset to English.
Many thanks for this great site and all your work.
I agree, but we have gone one further and hidden all the PC's. We have two of us in a smallish room with 5 pc's. These are boxed in with sound proofing on some Ikea shelving.
The only problem is getting keyboard, mouse and monitor cables long enough. We have 7 meters so far and it is not quite enough.
The cat 5 solutions are very expensive. Maybe USB will help later?
Interbase gets very little attention. But in fact it can be a good choice for Linux. Version 4.2 is free. Version 5 has a very good JDBC driver (we have found it rock solid).
For us there were the following reasons for choosing interbase
1. Good JDBC support
2. Support for unicode in all char/varchar/blob fields.
3. Good pricing for VARS
4. Support for NT/Linux and Netware (v4 only at present newer versions on the way).
5. The speed is good when you have a mixture of OLTP and OLAP due to the versioning engine (does not require locks but uses multiple versions of rows). This means writers do not block readers and also you get a reliable read eg if you start a long stock report by warehouse and someone does a transaction in the middle to move gold bars from warehouse A to Z then in Interbase you only count them once, in many dbms you count them twice.
BUT the bad things are
1 Marketing is terrible
2. There are very few functions (you can extend them using C but then you need to support on all platforms and not possible at all on netware).
3. I think there are special license prices for internet applications.
Regards
Dave
PS the free dbms tend to have poor support for large numeric column types, no domains, poor triggers, no unicode (or no unicode on indexed fields).
PPS we were using Postgresql on Linux but have found Interbase a lot better (for our needs which possibly are not very typical).
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IMHO Bruce has a better balance here. But if you are not going to be balanced then I prefer RMS to ESR - it's safer.
Dave
This message by the top people at Debian and Bruce is entirely correct and consistant. It makes the points clearly.
The point at which companies try to move into free software/open source with their own license is a very critical one. If the community does not do exactly what has been done here we will be destroyed.
Bruce, is definately a flitter and not a sticker. However, Wichert and Ian are (with lots of others) doing a great job on Debian. It was sensible of Bruce to get their backing.
The sad thing is some of the AC comments here.I respect the need for AC's to allow people to take part in a way that does not threaten their careers, but how come so many of them have nothing between their ears?
Dave
Rob,
..." link at the bottom.
..." link at the bottom.
Some boxes like Freshmeat have the box title as a link and also a "more
Others like Linux Today, Ars Technica, 32bits online just have the "more
1. can we always have the box title as a link for these types of boxes?
2. I would prefer to save space and not have the more at the bottom of the box
3. In our personal slashbox can the heading automatically be a link to our home page?
These changes are great.
Dave
The down button does not work for the top box, nor does the up button for the second box.
This way of moving boxes is a bit slow as the whoile page needs re-loading for every move. An interface which allows me to type a position number for each box would be faster.
Thanks
Dave
Any chance of boxes for these two.
But I think if many more boxes are added I'll have reached the limit that I can save with my preferences.
Thanks
Dave
I second this, although I would like the option to have them at the bottom of the page.
So 3 options
As Now
At Bottom
Not at all
Thanks
Dave
Rob,
Love the new preferences, but of course being given all these nice new things just makes me want more. Some suggestions
1. Can news.com be a box with their headlines?
2. The buttons for moving the boxes are a bit small, I have hit X several times by mistake. As the hint does not distinguish between the different parts of the image it is not easy to tell if you have your mouse in the right place.
3. I would like a special page to be able to go and see all the boxes so I can quickly see which ones I might like to add.
4. It might be nice to have a means of seeing the standard page in a simple way (also an all options page). I would look at my minimalistic custom page most of the time but would like to see the rest occasionally without logging out.
5. I would like to be able to have the Alta-Vista box with the default language preset to English.
Many thanks for this great site and all your work.
Dave
I agree, but we have gone one further and hidden all the PC's. We have two of us in a smallish room with 5 pc's. These are boxed in with sound proofing on some Ikea shelving.
The only problem is getting keyboard, mouse and monitor cables long enough. We have 7 meters so far and it is not quite enough.
The cat 5 solutions are very expensive. Maybe USB will help later?
Dave
Interbase gets very little attention. But in fact it can be a good choice for Linux. Version 4.2 is free. Version 5 has a very good JDBC driver (we have found it rock solid).
For us there were the following reasons for choosing interbase
1. Good JDBC support
2. Support for unicode in all char/varchar/blob fields.
3. Good pricing for VARS
4. Support for NT/Linux and Netware (v4 only at present newer versions on the way).
5. The speed is good when you have a mixture of OLTP and OLAP due to the versioning engine (does not require locks but uses multiple versions of rows). This means writers do not block readers and also you get a reliable read eg if you start a long stock report by warehouse and someone does a transaction in the middle to move gold bars from warehouse A to Z then in Interbase you only count them once, in many dbms you count them twice.
BUT the bad things are
1 Marketing is terrible
2. There are very few functions (you can extend them using C but then you need to support on all platforms and not possible at all on netware).
3. I think there are special license prices for internet applications.
Regards
Dave
PS the free dbms tend to have poor support for large numeric column types, no domains, poor triggers, no unicode (or no unicode on indexed fields).
PPS we were using Postgresql on Linux but have found Interbase a lot better (for our needs which possibly are not very typical).