Oh...so the documentation at http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html is just plain wrong. So, I'm supposed to assume the docs are wrong and keep searching to find something that contradicts the documentation.
Yeah...sounds like something I wanna use instead of Office.
As a former @Home user, I hated having bandwidth drop to modem speeds in the evening
Yeah...and DSL may or may not be better depending on a provider. At night, when my cable goes to hell, I can still get to hsacorp's web pages at blinding speeds - even after dumping cache, etc...
The problem is not from the homes to the company, but from the company onto the general net. There is only so much a T1 or T3 can handle. Same problem with DSL - if there were the same amount of users coming in via DSL and out a T1 as on a cable modem, I doubt there would seem to be a difference between the two at that point.
Mostly depends on how customer service oriented your provider is.
Yeah...you're correct- it's the 2000's...your lucky that the.com is still in business by the time you get to the bottom of the hill:)
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The sickening read of this article basically states what a high kick this guy gets off the human misery that is a round of layoffs, just so he can make a few bucks.
Not really. What he was saying is that he feels bad when he has to repo a car from a mother of two that is doing the best she can, and that it's the.com's own damn faults for going haywire when a much more modest care would have not got them in this situation.
Not so much he gets a kick, as it's hard to feel sorry for them.
Shared source sounds to me like: "You bought my product - here is the source code. You can't give my product away and you can't give the source code away either. However, you can tailor it to your own uses and fix bugs."
I used to work on a system like this (Banner by SCT.) It is a student record system. You get the source code and have to compile everything yourself. If you want to modify it - have at it. If an upgrade breaks your mods, tough.
This model works great for the people who have the software - kinda like an exclusive club. And the company still makes $$$ cause what they are selling you is the software (and then ripping you a new one for upgrades/maintenance).
This would satisfy one of the main complaints against closed-source software - "if it breaks I can't fix it."
As for the redistribution, well that is more the free software instead of the open software angle. However, there is quite a community of users of Banner who are great about sharing mods they've made.
I don't know how MS would license their Shared Source - if you get the source, you can't distribute mods to it, you can't do anything in your life similar???
With Samba TNG, you can have a samba server in a PDC doing inter-domain trust, and have BDC's.
Also, you can use LDAP instead of smbpasswd, and if you also use LDAP for the posix accounts, you have one place to store the passwords. The passwords are still stored in different fields in the LDAP schema, but keeping them in sync should be mostly trivial.
It basically has a lot of the stuff that Samba 3.0 should have. The catch is that it is still very alpha and shaky, but is also making good progress. And there is a lot of discovery sharing between the two, meaning that both projects are moving forward at great speeds.
Well, anyone who plays Quake knows that part of your ability to play is how well you are used to your setup.
Which is great being at my level - it doesn't matter what setup you put in front of me...I can adapt to it instantly and continue playing at the same skill level I can on my home machine.
I suck at Quake, so it doesn't matter what you put in front of me - I'll still suck.
That's a little more overboard than what I was thinking. I was thinking if it had head tracking, you could take someone to a building site, set the alignment correctly, and then project an image of the to be built building onto their eye and leave the rest of the image transparent. That way, they could (with a notebook computer running it) walk around the whole site and see what the building would look like for "real" - much better than architecture renderings.
Or the other killer app is that no one can see that you're looking at porn all day:)
The New York Times has all of our demographic information already, and they are one of the only sites that could go to Ford and say, "Every single person who comes to our site will see your ad, and we will target the cars you want to promote by age, gender, or location."
Yeah...and if I could actually remember what BS I put in when setting up my nytimes account it would be amazing.
PHP works like out of the box with MySQL and PostgresSQL. With Oracle and Informix, there some work to do before you get it to run.
If one is paying the massive amounts of money for Oracle, then they are either
a) buying a system that relies on Oracle as being there for the backend
b) Planning on using some more development tools than PHP - possibly writing things as stored procedures in the database
c) know enough of what the hell they are doing that it doesn't matter.
Having something like PHP working with it is probably the least of their worries - that is until after they get it all installed and find the app they bought doesn't provide everything and need to develop some more stuff for it.
I run a large Oracle database and two smaller ones. The big one is used by a student records package (Banner). All the interaction is done via Oracle Forms or stored PL/SQL procedures. There are a few scripts here and there written in Perl for automating some things.
One of the small databases is used by Remedy helpdesk software, and the other is used for any web applications people want to develop (normally with ASP/ODBC).
Great point. So what if it takes 100 years to answer them. A lot of the research that hubble is doing is looking at light that left galaxies man more years ago than that. Look at a hubble deep field shot - most of that light left before the Earth was even here. Yet we still learn things.
What if someone 100 light years was to pick up a transmission that left earth 100 years ago? What would it be...not "First Post", but probably some very weak radio program - if even that (though I feel bad for them when Erkel gets there).
Besides if we do find a signal, it gives us a target to go visit when we do get to interstellar travel.
C'mon...like it was that difficult to manually edit the floppy boot sector when you wanted to use something other than the first primary hard drive partition.
These damn kids nowadays with their fancy LILO's:)
Somewhere deep within NSI's web pages, nigh impossible to find, is something that says you must be an accredited 4 year school to get an.edu. (Or you must grant bachelor degrees - usually 4 years)
Below is what it said when I last found it, as our music hall attached to our campus wanted to get.edu as well as.org.
14. What are the guidelines for registering an.EDU Web Address?
Registrations in the.EDU domain are reserved for colleges and
universities that grant degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral
level, or its foreign equivalent. Each college or university may register
only one.EDU Web Address. Graduate programs, remote campuses, etc.,
cannot obtain a.EDU Web Address of their own. Instead, they should obtain
a third-level domain beneath the second-level domain of their institution.
Inquiries should be directed to the registrant of the second-level domain.
If the college or university registering the Web Address meets this
criteria, it must provide a brief explanation of the kinds of degrees
awarded under "Purpose/Description" on the registration form.
Many foundations, institutions, consortia, centers, etc., that have
educational missions but don't meet the criteria for a Web Address
registration in the.EDU TLD register their Web Addresses under the.ORG
TLD. K-12 schools and community colleges are typically registered under
country domains such as.US.
fernbank.edu - a science center.
There are others I can't think of right now that are not colleges, but major education type places (like...you know - starting to sound like totatally a val girl)
Your app is PAM aware. You want someone who is ftping in to be authenticated by RADIUS, you set the pam.d/ftpd file up to allow that. You want SMB also, you add that...and so on. Once your app is PAM aware, it does not care what happens on the back end - it says I have this userid and this password - is it valid? YES or NO.
now, on the kernel end, applications don't really need to be modified. There are C calls which deal with files (fopen/open namely). Unless you deal directly with the FS (you sicko!) your app/shell will eventually use these.
(I get a little fuzzy here.) Basically, the libc will tell the kernel "I have this uid accessing this inode - is it okay" and the kernel then decides. Instead of having pam_modules, it may have ACL modules, or a module that only allows access if they are logged in from a certain IP#, or only if the parent process belongs to a certain program.
Behind the scenes, the kernel file system security can be configured however, and you either get a file pointer or EACCES returned to the open/fopen call.
I think this sounds great and allows a lot more flexability (and complexity) in the rather minimal unix security model.
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Oh...so the documentation at http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html is just plain wrong. So, I'm supposed to assume the docs are wrong and keep searching to find something that contradicts the documentation.
Yeah...sounds like something I wanna use instead of Office.
As a former @Home user, I hated having bandwidth drop to modem speeds in the evening
Yeah...and DSL may or may not be better depending on a provider. At night, when my cable goes to hell, I can still get to hsacorp's web pages at blinding speeds - even after dumping cache, etc...
The problem is not from the homes to the company, but from the company onto the general net. There is only so much a T1 or T3 can handle. Same problem with DSL - if there were the same amount of users coming in via DSL and out a T1 as on a cable modem, I doubt there would seem to be a difference between the two at that point.
Mostly depends on how customer service oriented your provider is.
According to the Build fact, it does not run on 95/98, just NT, which would in no way make it a competitor to MS Office.
Yeah...you're correct- it's the 2000's...your lucky that the .com is still in business by the time you get to the bottom of the hill :)
The sickening read of this article basically states what a high kick this guy gets off the human misery that is a round of layoffs, just so he can make a few bucks.
.com's own damn faults for going haywire when a much more modest care would have not got them in this situation.
Not really. What he was saying is that he feels bad when he has to repo a car from a mother of two that is doing the best she can, and that it's the
Not so much he gets a kick, as it's hard to feel sorry for them.
Buy a house on top of the hill, find a job on the bottom. If it's an .com job you'll never get to go back home anyway. :)
Shared source sounds to me like: "You bought my product - here is the source code. You can't give my product away and you can't give the source code away either. However, you can tailor it to your own uses and fix bugs."
I used to work on a system like this (Banner by SCT.) It is a student record system. You get the source code and have to compile everything yourself. If you want to modify it - have at it. If an upgrade breaks your mods, tough.
This model works great for the people who have the software - kinda like an exclusive club. And the company still makes $$$ cause what they are selling you is the software (and then ripping you a new one for upgrades/maintenance).
This would satisfy one of the main complaints against closed-source software - "if it breaks I can't fix it."
As for the redistribution, well that is more the free software instead of the open software angle. However, there is quite a community of users of Banner who are great about sharing mods they've made.
I don't know how MS would license their Shared Source - if you get the source, you can't distribute mods to it, you can't do anything in your life similar???
With Samba TNG, you can have a samba server in a PDC doing inter-domain trust, and have BDC's.
Also, you can use LDAP instead of smbpasswd, and if you also use LDAP for the posix accounts, you have one place to store the passwords. The passwords are still stored in different fields in the LDAP schema, but keeping them in sync should be mostly trivial.
It basically has a lot of the stuff that Samba 3.0 should have. The catch is that it is still very alpha and shaky, but is also making good progress. And there is a lot of discovery sharing between the two, meaning that both projects are moving forward at great speeds.
Why? Is it a parody, scholarly work, or other protected derivative work?
:)
I think that any music trying to come out of a cel-phone would be a parody of the original
No...if they can hear the music down the street in their houses, you may or may not be evil, but you are definatly an asshole.
My old neighboorhood must have been full of commies, cause everyone played their stereo so loud so everyone could share.
Hey...given the speed of this thing, the goverenment should use it for SDI testing...they might actually have a target they can hit!
Well, anyone who plays Quake knows that part of your ability to play is how well you are used to your setup.
Which is great being at my level - it doesn't matter what setup you put in front of me...I can adapt to it instantly and continue playing at the same skill level I can on my home machine.
I suck at Quake, so it doesn't matter what you put in front of me - I'll still suck.
Well, instead of hiring a couple programmers, hire someone hourly at min. wage, buy the 100,000 contract, and give them a phone.
That's a little more overboard than what I was thinking. I was thinking if it had head tracking, you could take someone to a building site, set the alignment correctly, and then project an image of the to be built building onto their eye and leave the rest of the image transparent. That way, they could (with a notebook computer running it) walk around the whole site and see what the building would look like for "real" - much better than architecture renderings.
:)
Or the other killer app is that no one can see that you're looking at porn all day
The New York Times has all of our demographic information already, and they are one of the only sites that could go to Ford and say, "Every single person who comes to our site will see your ad, and we will target the cars you want to promote by age, gender, or location."
Yeah...and if I could actually remember what BS I put in when setting up my nytimes account it would be amazing.
Not at all.
Yes, one of the reasons was so you could watch DVD's on Linux. Now, if IBM puts this out you can.
But what if I have a DVD drive on a non-intel version of Linux?
What if I sit around tomorrow and hack out my own OS just cause I want to use component PC parts and build my own DVD player?
PHP works like out of the box with MySQL and PostgresSQL. With Oracle and Informix, there some work to do before you get it to run.
If one is paying the massive amounts of money for Oracle, then they are either
a) buying a system that relies on Oracle as being there for the backend
b) Planning on using some more development tools than PHP - possibly writing things as stored procedures in the database
c) know enough of what the hell they are doing that it doesn't matter.
Having something like PHP working with it is probably the least of their worries - that is until after they get it all installed and find the app they bought doesn't provide everything and need to develop some more stuff for it.
I run a large Oracle database and two smaller ones. The big one is used by a student records package (Banner). All the interaction is done via Oracle Forms or stored PL/SQL procedures. There are a few scripts here and there written in Perl for automating some things.
One of the small databases is used by Remedy helpdesk software, and the other is used for any web applications people want to develop (normally with ASP/ODBC).
Have you ever seen an M$ PDC replicate?
:)
All I know is when my former boss decided that NT was the way to go, one day we had just one NT machine and next week there were about 8 of them.
Something was replicating!!!
Great point. So what if it takes 100 years to answer them. A lot of the research that hubble is doing is looking at light that left galaxies man more years ago than that. Look at a hubble deep field shot - most of that light left before the Earth was even here. Yet we still learn things.
What if someone 100 light years was to pick up a transmission that left earth 100 years ago? What would it be...not "First Post", but probably some very weak radio program - if even that (though I feel bad for them when Erkel gets there).
Besides if we do find a signal, it gives us a target to go visit when we do get to interstellar travel.
C'mon...like it was that difficult to manually edit the floppy boot sector when you wanted to use something other than the first primary hard drive partition.
:)
These damn kids nowadays with their fancy LILO's
Somewhere deep within NSI's web pages, nigh impossible to find, is something that says you must be an accredited 4 year school to get an .edu. (Or you must grant bachelor degrees - usually 4 years)
.edu as well as .org.
.EDU Web Address?
.EDU domain are reserved for colleges and
.EDU Web Address. Graduate programs, remote campuses, etc.,
.EDU Web Address of their own. Instead, they should obtain
.EDU TLD register their Web Addresses under the .ORG
.US.
Below is what it said when I last found it, as our music hall attached to our campus wanted to get
14. What are the guidelines for registering an
Registrations in the
universities that grant degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral
level, or its foreign equivalent. Each college or university may register
only one
cannot obtain a
a third-level domain beneath the second-level domain of their institution.
Inquiries should be directed to the registrant of the second-level domain.
If the college or university registering the Web Address meets this
criteria, it must provide a brief explanation of the kinds of degrees
awarded under "Purpose/Description" on the registration form.
Many foundations, institutions, consortia, centers, etc., that have
educational missions but don't meet the criteria for a Web Address
registration in the
TLD. K-12 schools and community colleges are typically registered under
country domains such as
fernbank.edu - a science center.
There are others I can't think of right now that are not colleges, but major education type places (like...you know - starting to sound like totatally a val girl)
Uh.... do a whois on oxford.edu, glasgow.edu, kingston.edu, mcgill.edu
Sorry - that's about my limit on non-us college knowledge - not even enough for a full Jeapordy category.
Look at how PAM works.
Your app is PAM aware. You want someone who is ftping in to be authenticated by RADIUS, you set the pam.d/ftpd file up to allow that. You want SMB also, you add that...and so on. Once your app is PAM aware, it does not care what happens on the back end - it says I have this userid and this password - is it valid? YES or NO.
now, on the kernel end, applications don't really need to be modified. There are C calls which deal with files (fopen/open namely). Unless you deal directly with the FS (you sicko!) your app/shell will eventually use these.
(I get a little fuzzy here.) Basically, the libc will tell the kernel "I have this uid accessing this inode - is it okay" and the kernel then decides. Instead of having pam_modules, it may have ACL modules, or a module that only allows access if they are logged in from a certain IP#, or only if the parent process belongs to a certain program.
Behind the scenes, the kernel file system security can be configured however, and you either get a file pointer or EACCES returned to the open/fopen call.
I think this sounds great and allows a lot more flexability (and complexity) in the rather minimal unix security model.
and music prefrences that follow you around.
My old neighboors used to have something like this. They cranked the volume and anywhere withing three houses away they could always hear their music.