Oracle is licensed by the processor or by "named user", not by simultaneous connections.
Heh, a sales representative for Oracle told the company I work for that each connection was a "named user". We replied that then we would re-code our applications to only use one connection, total, for all programs. She wasn't happy having us as customers.
As so many others have said, this is almost certainly a marketing thing. The real question, I think, is why they are doing it now? Could it be that it is time for the US Air Force to renew licenses or buy upgrades, and they are thinking of buying something not Microsoft?
Using the MS method of encoding, a lat/long coordinate is "compressed" from 18 characters (e.g. 359.59.59, two times) to 10, a "compression" rate of 45%. Not too shabby.
What most people seem to forget is that applications don't have to be SMP aware. For example, how many processes are running on your computer right now? Quite a lot I would think (right now ps aux is almost 90 lines). What would happen if half of those processes were running on another CPU? My guess is that the system would seem quite a lot faster, both for the programs and for the user as well.
So, applications don't have to be threaded or SMP aware to be able to benefit from multipple cores, as long as the OS is can handle it.
Yes, and thats why I have to spend 30 minutes, or more, hunting the registry for keys the "uninstaller" program forgot.
One of the worst worst offender I have seen is Oracle. Almost nothing is removed from the registry, including services. And it leaves plenty of files left behind as well.
I don't uppgrade the Mozilla applications that often, but everytime I do I wonder how much code is shared between Firefox and Thunderbird? I would rather have more common updates to several small packages than having to download two large package when common code is updated.
According to this article (Sorry, Swedish only) the Swedish music publicist Bonnier Music will stop using copy protection on their records.
"If copy protection does not give satisfactory availability to the music people pay for it is a total fiasco", says Ludvig Werner of Bonnier Music.
The big international record companies forces their Swedish subsidiaries to use copy protection on their records, even though they think that the current copy protection schemes are unsatisfactory.
To brag a little, we in Sweden have had something like this for years. We can also ask companies and goverment/state organisations what they have stored on us, and even tell them to have it removed.
Also, the program talks to the hardware of the toaster itself via the Zorro bus, which was a *predecessor* of ISA.
The Zorro bus may be older than the ISA bus, but it still had features that didn't come until PCI. Like working autoconfiguration, a.k.a. plug-and-play. And, if I remember correctly, it was a 32-bit bus.
As usual here on/. everything not pro-linux is a little skewed, so I would like to point out that while the report tells us to wait and see with SCO deployments and to plan migrating from SCO, it also points out that Linux deplyoments should be halted in case SCO comes out of this victorious. There is even a point in the report that tells us that Linux customers should plan a move away from Linux (preferably to some UNIX variant) in case SCO wins.
I checked the stats for my web-site just the other day, and noticed that I still get a lot of requests for things like/scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe and/default.ida?XXXX... Most of them comming from hosts on the Telia network. While I think its good they are finally doing something good for once (I left Telia when they blocked SMTP), will they do anything about all these Code Red and Nimda and all other old viri still on many of their customers systems?
**Manufacturers/programmers/whatever should never be responsible for what anyone does outside the intended uses.**
This is also the reason that gun manufacturers can't be held responsible for crimes commited with guns.
By the same logic, if some kids go on a killing rampage because they were inspired by a computer game, the victims or their relatives shouldn't be able to sue the game company... What? They can? Ok, wrong of me.
Mormons are christians, right? And isn't it basicly bad for christians to lie? Not that it really matters, since many so-called "devout christians" lie and cheat and do everything they can to break the commandments.
AmigaOS 4 is NOT based on Linux! It is, more or less, a complete rewrite of the old AmigaOS for a new platform.
The AmigaDE (Desktop Environment?) on the other hand, is hosted either on Linux or Windows, and it's rumoured (sp?) that AmigaDE will be hosted on AmigaOS 4.1.
2) shared disk between two computers: in this case, there are multiple machines and multiple disks. each disk is atleast connected to two computers. if one of the computer fails, other takes over. no mainstream database uses this mode
Well, what about Windows Cluster Service and Oracle Failsafe? The company I work for use it at a couple of airports and it works pretty good. The downside is that the failover is not transparent (all clients connected gets disconnected and have to reconnect).
An open-source solution that works like this should be quite simple to set up with the help of the Linux High-availability project.
"One could also quite convincingly argue that it is this girl's guardians' responsibility to find out what their charges are doing, and the illegality if any."
I want to see you argue that in front of a jury of parents.
Yes, why should the parents be responsible for their children? And hey, while at it, why not sue someone and make a lots of money too!
If Slamer has taught us anything, it is that a Microsoft operating system should not even be on the same network as any critical systems.
This I do not agree with. I wouldn't mind having a PC with Windows installed as a control-panel on, for example, the internal network of a nuclear plant. However... It should be on the INTERNAL network, which should have no access what so ever to any external networks. Thus no problem with viruses or h4x0rs.
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Oracle is licensed by the processor or by "named user", not by simultaneous connections.
Heh, a sales representative for Oracle told the company I work for that each connection was a "named user". We replied that then we would re-code our applications to only use one connection, total, for all programs.
She wasn't happy having us as customers.
Bloat is a geek codeword for Feature Oriented Programming.
As so many others have said, this is almost certainly a marketing thing. The real question, I think, is why they are doing it now? Could it be that it is time for the US Air Force to renew licenses or buy upgrades, and they are thinking of buying something not Microsoft?
This rather obvious error was the first thing I saw when just glancing quickly at the code. I hope that the rest of IBMs code isn't as shabby.
Using the MS method of encoding, a lat/long coordinate is "compressed" from 18 characters (e.g. 359.59.59, two times) to 10, a "compression" rate of 45%. Not too shabby.
What most people seem to forget is that applications don't have to be SMP aware. For example, how many processes are running on your computer right now? Quite a lot I would think (right now ps aux is almost 90 lines). What would happen if half of those processes were running on another CPU? My guess is that the system would seem quite a lot faster, both for the programs and for the user as well.
So, applications don't have to be threaded or SMP aware to be able to benefit from multipple cores, as long as the OS is can handle it.
That's why windows has uninstallers.
Yes, and thats why I have to spend 30 minutes, or more, hunting the registry for keys the "uninstaller" program forgot.
One of the worst worst offender I have seen is Oracle. Almost nothing is removed from the registry, including services. And it leaves plenty of files left behind as well.
I don't uppgrade the Mozilla applications that often, but everytime I do I wonder how much code is shared between Firefox and Thunderbird? I would rather have more common updates to several small packages than having to download two large package when common code is updated.
In soviet russia code generates you!
When combining these two articles, it seems like Green Hills is just afraid of the competition, and their gut reaction is to spread some FUD.
According to this article (Sorry, Swedish only) the Swedish music publicist Bonnier Music will stop using copy protection on their records.
"If copy protection does not give satisfactory availability to the music people pay for it is a total fiasco", says Ludvig Werner of Bonnier Music.
The big international record companies forces their Swedish subsidiaries to use copy protection on their records, even though they think that the current copy protection schemes are unsatisfactory.
To brag a little, we in Sweden have had something like this for years. We can also ask companies and goverment/state organisations what they have stored on us, and even tell them to have it removed.
Also, the program talks to the hardware of the toaster itself via the Zorro bus, which was a *predecessor* of ISA.
The Zorro bus may be older than the ISA bus, but it still had features that didn't come until PCI. Like working autoconfiguration, a.k.a. plug-and-play. And, if I remember correctly, it was a 32-bit bus.
And this month we will (finally) see how well AmigaOS has been able to do the same thing.
Allthough swedish is an official language in Finland, I find it quite amusing that so many people think about the swedish chef.
As usual here on /. everything not pro-linux is a little skewed, so I would like to point out that while the report tells us to wait and see with SCO deployments and to plan migrating from SCO, it also points out that Linux deplyoments should be halted in case SCO comes out of this victorious. There is even a point in the report that tells us that Linux customers should plan a move away from Linux (preferably to some UNIX variant) in case SCO wins.
I checked the stats for my web-site just the other day, and noticed that I still get a lot of requests for things like /scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe and /default.ida?XXXX...
Most of them comming from hosts on the Telia network. While I think its good they are finally doing something good for once (I left Telia when they blocked SMTP), will they do anything about all these Code Red and Nimda and all other old viri still on many of their customers systems?
**Manufacturers/programmers/whatever should never be responsible for what anyone does outside the intended uses.**
This is also the reason that gun manufacturers can't be held responsible for crimes commited with guns.
By the same logic, if some kids go on a killing rampage because they were inspired by a computer game, the victims or their relatives shouldn't be able to sue the game company... What? They can? Ok, wrong of me.
Mormons are christians, right? And isn't it basicly bad for christians to lie? Not that it really matters, since many so-called "devout christians" lie and cheat and do everything they can to break the commandments.
One of the best MUD (or, as some prefer, MU*) resource sites available is the Mud Connector.
Try looking in their resource section.
And since Amiga OS 4 is Linux based
AmigaOS 4 is NOT based on Linux! It is, more or less, a complete rewrite of the old AmigaOS for a new platform.
The AmigaDE (Desktop Environment?) on the other hand, is hosted either on Linux or Windows, and it's rumoured (sp?) that AmigaDE will be hosted on AmigaOS 4.1.
2) shared disk between two computers: in this case, there are multiple machines and multiple disks. each disk is atleast connected to two computers. if one of the computer fails, other takes over. no mainstream database uses this mode
Well, what about Windows Cluster Service and Oracle Failsafe? The company I work for use it at a couple of airports and it works pretty good. The downside is that the failover is not transparent (all clients connected gets disconnected and have to reconnect).
An open-source solution that works like this should be quite simple to set up with the help of the Linux High-availability project.
Yes, why should the parents be responsible for their children? And hey, while at it, why not sue someone and make a lots of money too!
If Slamer has taught us anything, it is that a Microsoft operating system should not even be on the same network as any critical systems.
This I do not agree with. I wouldn't mind having a PC with Windows installed as a control-panel on, for example, the internal network of a nuclear plant. However... It should be on the INTERNAL network, which should have no access what so ever to any external networks. Thus no problem with viruses or h4x0rs.
The reason just windows is because that as much as we hate it, we are in the minority of computer uses
Well, isn't it like saying that we shouldn't cater to disable people, becasue there are so few of them?