Not if you manage to combine the right balance of arrogance and incompetence it's not.
s/arrog/ignor/;
"The 'hostname' command doesn't do anything when given an argument, right?"
Said by me, right after having our head sysadmin tell me he trusts me enough to give me root, and right before I ran "hostname asdf" on the NIS master. Hilarity ensued shortly after.
That is a very good point. The license specifically says that you have to obtain a commercial license if you require them to use MySQL. Offering an alternative database could be a way around this.
Another, much more riduculous way, would be a clause like this in your software's license: An end-user supplied DMBS is not required, but MyCommercialApp's functionality will be severely limitied without a DMBS.
The parent to your original post was referring to Commercial software. This is presumably software that is sold to customers, and is therefore covered by the Commercial license.
I tried a couple of other mp3 players, and finally decided to get an iPod. It's not perfect, but it's pretty decent. While my case was coming from a seller on eBay, I carried it to and from work in my pants pocket. I'm talking about a pair of jeans, the pocket of which is smooth as silk. After a week, the back was covered with tiny scratches. There were a couple of scratches on the front, and even one on the screen. I got one of those rubber jackets, but constantly have to take it off to dock it.
For fuck's sake. It's cool that it looks like nice. It's not cool that it looks like utter shit after a week of very delicate handling. Apple either needs to create a surface that's a little more durable.
Offtopic, not meant as a flame: If you're going to donate your CPU cycles to something, please donate them to Folding at Home instead. Potentially saving lives is better than trying to find aliens.
The only time I ever had a problem with torrents is when downloading something very timely and popular, and the tracker would get soaked. This happened with both Fedora Core 1 and 2. Take away this one tiny problem, and you have a perfect technology.
Windows XP is no gem ... MS Word also had no problems locking Win 2000
What part of the words Windows Server OSs did you miss in the post you replied to?
Windows XP is NOT a server OS. Windows Server 2003 is.
Windows 2000 Professional (the one you're probably talking about) is NOT a server OS.
You've had problems with the desktop versions. You don't even know about the server versions, so you certainly have never seen or used them.
What day of the week is it?
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Just because you hear something from Schwarz today doesn't mean he'll say the same thing tomorrow. Today: we're going to give the hardware away and charge for support! Tomorrow: we're going to "open source" the OS, give it away, and charge for hardware.
The vultures are circling, and I, for one, can't wait until *something* happens to Sun. Get bought, go bankrupt, develop a *real* open source strategy, just something. I'm tired of the bullshit.
A new york cabbie may hear "take me to that famous toy store" and can probably figure out that the fare wants to go to FAO Schwarts on 5th Ave. An automated system would have problems with this.
Would you count google as an automated system? It doesn't seem to have a problem at all.
Did you read the article? This is meant for *small* businesses. How many small businesses do you know of that have departments at all, let alone an "MIS" department? What the hell is an MIS department anyway, unless you're at a university?
I do know: money. Is you paying money better than ads? Do you think programming grows on trees? Do you think it's there because it's fun to make it? Do you have any idea how much it would cost you if there weren't advertising? I don't think you do.
The boxes that cable companies have are already cheaper than TiVo. TiVo is still doing fine. Turns out that paying for something good is better than a cheap piece of shit.
Can't you read? What I meant by "normal" pressure is the same pressure I have used to install a crapload of memory chips, WITHOUT breaking a thing. I didn't demolish anything. There are two small cracks in the sides of the socket. The pins on the top side of the socket bent because of the orientation of them once the socket snapped.
Even if my "normal" pressure is what you might consider excessive, it's never been too much for even the cheapest piece of shit motherboards. That doesn't speak well for Apple's QA, in my book.
It isn't just the plastic clips -- it is the whole base. I tried rigging it every way I could, including physically holding it down with my finger while trying to boot the machine. It won't recognize the chip, and when I so much as budge, instant crash. Some of the pins on the socket were a little bent, and I straightened them out as much as possible, but to no avail.
Yeah, it does suck, and believe me, I'm anything but a fanboy. I was trying to not be a hater, but oh well. At least I can glance over at it and see the cute white "sleeping" light from here.:-)
Yeah, about that. I bought the RAM, and while trying to install it, I broke the fucking memory slot.:-( Now I don't know what to do. I've installed memory probably a hundred times (literally), and never broke anything. I didn't exert any more than normal pressure. I still don't know what happened.
Apple won't help -- it's explicitly excluded in their warranty. Paying for the repair would cost more than I paid for the laptop. So I'm stuck with pretty much a useless laptop, unless I go back to OS 9.
My only hope is that the logic board problem in this series will rear its head, and that they'll replace it in spite of this issue. Otherwise, I'll just have to eBay it and eat the difference.
I'm pretty bummed about the whole thing. I decided to buy my first Mac and see what the hype is sbout, and this is what happens.
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the investigation has netted a local college student hosting 13,000 titles
13,000 titles... awww, that's just adorable. I hope someone got a new hard drive from Santy Claus.
Not if you manage to combine the right balance of arrogance and incompetence it's not.
s/arrog/ignor/;
"The 'hostname' command doesn't do anything when given an argument, right?"
Said by me, right after having our head sysadmin tell me he trusts me enough to give me root, and right before I ran "hostname asdf" on the NIS master. Hilarity ensued shortly after.
Ahh, memories...
That is a very good point. The license specifically says that you have to obtain a commercial license if you require them to use MySQL. Offering an alternative database could be a way around this.
Another, much more riduculous way, would be a clause like this in your software's license: An end-user supplied DMBS is not required, but MyCommercialApp's functionality will be severely limitied without a DMBS.
The parent to your original post was referring to Commercial software. This is presumably software that is sold to customers, and is therefore covered by the Commercial license.
Had you read the link that the OP so kindly included, you would realize that you are wrong. At least you were prepared for it, though.
I tried a couple of other mp3 players, and finally decided to get an iPod. It's not perfect, but it's pretty decent. While my case was coming from a seller on eBay, I carried it to and from work in my pants pocket. I'm talking about a pair of jeans, the pocket of which is smooth as silk. After a week, the back was covered with tiny scratches. There were a couple of scratches on the front, and even one on the screen. I got one of those rubber jackets, but constantly have to take it off to dock it.
For fuck's sake. It's cool that it looks like nice. It's not cool that it looks like utter shit after a week of very delicate handling. Apple either needs to create a surface that's a little more durable.
Offtopic, not meant as a flame: If you're going to donate your CPU cycles to something, please donate them to Folding at Home instead. Potentially saving lives is better than trying to find aliens.
You really have a legitimate point. With that hefty subscription fee you're paying them, you deserve better service. Oh wait...
Quit bitching, or come up with something better yourself.
The only time I ever had a problem with torrents is when downloading something very timely and popular, and the tracker would get soaked. This happened with both Fedora Core 1 and 2. Take away this one tiny problem, and you have a perfect technology.
Windows XP is no gem
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MS Word also had no problems locking Win 2000
What part of the words Windows Server OSs did you miss in the post you replied to?
Windows XP is NOT a server OS. Windows Server 2003 is.
Windows 2000 Professional (the one you're probably talking about) is NOT a server OS.
You've had problems with the desktop versions. You don't even know about the server versions, so you certainly have never seen or used them.
Just because you hear something from Schwarz today doesn't mean he'll say the same thing tomorrow. Today: we're going to give the hardware away and charge for support! Tomorrow: we're going to "open source" the OS, give it away, and charge for hardware.
The vultures are circling, and I, for one, can't wait until *something* happens to Sun. Get bought, go bankrupt, develop a *real* open source strategy, just something. I'm tired of the bullshit.
A new york cabbie may hear "take me to that famous toy store" and can probably figure out that the fare wants to go to FAO Schwarts on 5th Ave. An automated system would have problems with this.
Would you count google as an automated system? It doesn't seem to have a problem at all.
Doesn't sound at all like, oh, say, Windows XP does it?
Interesting. I'd like to see if other Windows users have noticed performance difficulties.
I have. 1.5 GHz Centrino with 512M ram. iTunes is an absolute PIG on this otherwise speedy system.
Did you read the article? This is meant for *small* businesses. How many small businesses do you know of that have departments at all, let alone an "MIS" department? What the hell is an MIS department anyway, unless you're at a university?
There's a wonderful, current, open-source product called gnuTaxes that should completely replace TurboTax. Look at their lofty goal for release!
* 1.0.0 - release gnuTax application with complete tax system definitions by end of 2000.
i don't know. But anything is better than ads.
I do know: money. Is you paying money better than ads? Do you think programming grows on trees? Do you think it's there because it's fun to make it? Do you have any idea how much it would cost you if there weren't advertising? I don't think you do.
The boxes that cable companies have are already cheaper than TiVo. TiVo is still doing fine. Turns out that paying for something good is better than a cheap piece of shit.
Firefox and Konqueror seem unaffected."
That's good to know! In other news, Oracle is unaffeced, as is the price of tea in China!
Liar. There was NOTHING funny said, EVER in Seinfeld. I don't get peoples' thing with that show, it was dumb as hell and I'm glad it's gone.
Family Guy any day, for me.
I thought about it, then I saw how many solder points there were, how small they are, and how close together they are. Then I forgot about it.
Can't you read? What I meant by "normal" pressure is the same pressure I have used to install a crapload of memory chips, WITHOUT breaking a thing. I didn't demolish anything. There are two small cracks in the sides of the socket. The pins on the top side of the socket bent because of the orientation of them once the socket snapped.
Even if my "normal" pressure is what you might consider excessive, it's never been too much for even the cheapest piece of shit motherboards. That doesn't speak well for Apple's QA, in my book.
It isn't just the plastic clips -- it is the whole base. I tried rigging it every way I could, including physically holding it down with my finger while trying to boot the machine. It won't recognize the chip, and when I so much as budge, instant crash. Some of the pins on the socket were a little bent, and I straightened them out as much as possible, but to no avail.
Yeah, it does suck, and believe me, I'm anything but a fanboy. I was trying to not be a hater, but oh well. At least I can glance over at it and see the cute white "sleeping" light from here. :-)
In the end, it's only money...
Yeah, about that. I bought the RAM, and while trying to install it, I broke the fucking memory slot. :-( Now I don't know what to do. I've installed memory probably a hundred times (literally), and never broke anything. I didn't exert any more than normal pressure. I still don't know what happened.
Apple won't help -- it's explicitly excluded in their warranty. Paying for the repair would cost more than I paid for the laptop. So I'm stuck with pretty much a useless laptop, unless I go back to OS 9.
My only hope is that the logic board problem in this series will rear its head, and that they'll replace it in spite of this issue. Otherwise, I'll just have to eBay it and eat the difference.
I'm pretty bummed about the whole thing. I decided to buy my first Mac and see what the hype is sbout, and this is what happens.