I had a database class. The teatcher required us to use MS SQL server and VB. I Used PostgreSQL and C with gtk+/gnome. I had a 17/20 grade.
This was made possible since the computers at my university have multiple boot OS's (actually, linux and 2 strains of windows).
If you have no such possibility, see if you can find a friend who can lend you a laptop.
Mos of the time, requirements like those you mentioned are because a) the teatcher does not knoe anything else b) he thinks it's the best relation between ease of use and quality for his begginer students.
My DataBases teatcher told us that the project could be done much easier in VB (and he was right, I had to learn to program in gtk+/gnome, and if it wasn't for glade I'd never finish) but I think that doing it my way was much more rewarding, after all, I am programmer, why should I program in VB when there are real programming languages?
If it did, then almost all the books in the world would be made of white pages, and excelent covers, so we could talk about how good they were (or sutdy with them for what it matters) without ever reading one single letter.
Yes, excelent. Can I go back to my gpl'd program and OS, please? Thank you.
How would you feel if Microsoft went and ran a closed, proprietary, message system based on slashcode, and when asked, found some side issue to the question of ownership and licensing and hammered on that instead?
Please care to read GNU GPL. You will find that you can do so, if you so wish, as long as if you distribute the drived work, it must be with the sources. If they run a service, and don't distribute it, they can do so. Now.. if they do sell it.. it must have the source.. and be GPL'ed.
Although all their products continue to be free (GPL), I don't see why RedHat wouldn't, at some point in the future, declare Sendmail and GCC to be some RHPL (RedHat Public License), which is almost, but not quite, compatible with the GPL and the Open Source spirit... then what will happen to Open Source as we know it today?
Not to worry, my friend... Open Source will live happily ever after just by grabbing the last gpl distro and starting it's own Eyes Wide Open Linux, carrying all the previous benefits from the famous distro. Fewer people would buy Red Hat CD's, and ultimately they either will have been taught a lesson and become good boys again [but with a very low image], or go bankrupt.
I am not afraid of any would-be-Microsfot-linux-distro... that is FUD thrown from the inside into opensource movement. It's not a monopoly which is bad, it's abusive monopolies (personal opinion, I simply agree with what's on the pulpit) we should care about.
If buying Corel would mean its tools GPL'ed. well, as far as I see it, they can damned well be bought, for all I care:)
Hey, this only seems like one more reason to suport the development of software like the gimp, gnumeric, abiword and the like. Who needs staroffice? There's a complete GPL office coming around in a short-medium time. They even have component integration (bonobo) which leads to spreadsheets being integrated into abiword and vice versa, as well as gimp images, and stuff like that. Let'em block linux, as if it would be good for them.
Now... Sun ain't stupid... they know that... so they won't be doing that a moronic move. So I don't worry.
If you have a ciences degree, for instance, Computer Sciences, you don't need an Engineer certification, since you're not an engineer from the start, right?
The more people give any credit to those idiosincratic certifications, the more employers will be willing to give it more credit. Just look at MS Certification...
It would be nice to be able to have an YRO slashbox, so we could select it to have all the news there, and not just those one finds of relevance, should we wanto to.
Although what on of the things I most love about you is your kernel hacking (no, this is not a marriage proposal;)), I am also interested about GNOMOvision...
I know there's a link in your v4l page, but it links to GNOME instead. Not willing to disturb you with one more out of thousands of email you must receive, I use this/. feature to ask you about GNOMOvision. Are there any sources at all or roadmap or some information for potential 'coders' to help, and if so where?
Well, in face of the emerging IPv6, I can't stop wondering what the hell can DDNS or even DHCP useful for in the coming times.
Let's see, a common saying is that with IPv6 every one could have a network the size of the current internet withouth exausting the address range, so one can say that it is possible for even ppp conections (usually associated with a user/client) to have a fixed ip address, or even every student in an university.
From a superficial point of view, DDNS and DHCP seem like DOA to me, with the exception of free connections without a fixed login, but even that can be arranged by usage of the CID.
well, as I read this story, and clicked the link to the MS site (as I suppose a lot of readers also did) I was unable to visit the site. Netscape warning dialog said that the site could be down or too busy.
Have any of you ever administered the pgpkeyserver that works on some servers on the internet? Ok, me neither, but the server I work at has a pgpkeyserver, run by our admins. We HAD to change to qmail, because sendmail wasn't able to cooperate with the thousands of emails we have to handle in about half an hour (about 7200, which is about 4 incoming mails per second, this being a low number) when the pgpservers synchronized.
Little side note: we run a 2.0.36 linux kernel, on a single 233mhz intel pentium 2 with 128Mb of ram, and sometime we reach loads of 24 or more when the pgpservers synchronize.
Oooohhh the poor guy who doesn't have a wall full of CD's, but instead could afford an 18Gb portable SCSI drive (not to mention his potencial backups in CD's, or tapes, or other drives) and who can carry his pitifully small collection to work (hey, can't he be a DJ carrying a selection of songs ripped from the pub's CDs, instead of changing a CD for every song? What the heck, even to his office!) or maybe he'd rather carry a wall of CDs all the way through his 'round US car trip.
Come on, that is pure FUD... just look at it.. it even can fit into a tamplate.
He starts by stating he doesn't like them, then immediatly says that they have CD quality (when it's in fact near CD Q.), and then he throws up a bunch of reasons not to like MP3 who seem to lie solely on the human desire to cause envy on others by showing how phisically huge his collection is.
Another example of FUD is when he states that a lightning strike on your house could damage the 18Gb drive. PHU-LEASE! If a lightening stroke on my house (suppose I don't have an antenna to protect me) I would be worried about having it burnt from attic to cellar, carrying me with it into hell and oblivion.
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I had a database class. The teatcher required us to use MS SQL server and VB. I Used PostgreSQL and C with gtk+/gnome. I had a 17/20 grade.
This was made possible since the computers at my university have multiple boot OS's (actually, linux and 2 strains of windows).
If you have no such possibility, see if you can find a friend who can lend you a laptop.
Mos of the time, requirements like those you mentioned are because a) the teatcher does not knoe anything else b) he thinks it's the best relation between ease of use and quality for his begginer students.
My DataBases teatcher told us that the project could be done much easier in VB (and he was right, I had to learn to program in gtk+/gnome, and if it wasn't for glade I'd never finish) but I think that doing it my way was much more rewarding, after all, I am programmer, why should I program in VB when there are real programming languages?
Hugs, rms
... to the SUNny storm coming...
If it did, then almost all the books in the world would be made of white pages, and excelent covers, so we could talk about how good they were (or sutdy with them for what it matters) without ever reading one single letter.
Yes, excelent. Can I go back to my gpl'd program and OS, please? Thank you.
How would you feel if Microsoft went and ran a closed, proprietary, message system based on slashcode, and when asked, found some side issue to the question of ownership and licensing and hammered on that instead?
Please care to read GNU GPL. You will find that you can do so, if you so wish, as long as if you distribute the drived work, it must be with the sources. If they run a service, and don't distribute it, they can do so. Now.. if they do sell it.. it must have the source.. and be GPL'ed.
Hugs.
> Their content is the owner's responsibility
/. (comparing with the media giants).
So how does one sue AC?
Who do you sue when you wake up and find your car, which you forgot to park in the garage, had pretty obnoxious grafiti all over it?
The same way they should, instead of bullying a "minor" site as
Although all their products continue to be free (GPL), I don't see why RedHat wouldn't, at some point in the future, declare Sendmail and GCC to be some RHPL (RedHat Public License), which is almost, but not quite, compatible with the GPL and the Open Source spirit... then what will happen to Open Source as we know it today?
:)
Not to worry, my friend... Open Source will live happily ever after just by grabbing the last gpl distro and starting it's own Eyes Wide Open Linux, carrying all the previous benefits from the famous distro. Fewer people would buy Red Hat CD's, and ultimately they either will have been taught a lesson and become good boys again [but with a very low image], or go bankrupt.
I am not afraid of any would-be-Microsfot-linux-distro... that is FUD thrown from the inside into opensource movement. It's not a monopoly which is bad, it's abusive monopolies (personal opinion, I simply agree with what's on the pulpit) we should care about.
If buying Corel would mean its tools GPL'ed. well, as far as I see it, they can damned well be bought, for all I care
hugs
Hey, this only seems like one more reason to suport the development of software like the gimp, gnumeric, abiword and the like. Who needs staroffice? There's a complete GPL office coming around in a short-medium time. They even have component integration (bonobo) which leads to spreadsheets being integrated into abiword and vice versa, as well as gimp images, and stuff like that. Let'em block linux, as if it would be good for them.
Now... Sun ain't stupid... they know that... so they won't be doing that a moronic move. So I don't worry.
And so this is my 2c of insightfullness.
If you have a ciences degree, for instance, Computer Sciences, you don't need an Engineer certification, since you're not an engineer from the start, right?
The more people give any credit to those idiosincratic certifications, the more employers will be willing to give it more credit. Just look at MS Certification...
It would be nice to be able to have an YRO slashbox, so we could select it to have all the news there, and not just those one finds of relevance, should we wanto to.
Just my 2/100 of Euro
Hi Alan,
;)), I am also interested about GNOMOvision...
/. feature to ask you about GNOMOvision. Are there any sources at all or roadmap or some information for potential 'coders' to help, and if so where?
:)
Although what on of the things I most love about you is your kernel hacking (no, this is not a marriage proposal
I know there's a link in your v4l page, but it links to GNOME instead. Not willing to disturb you with one more out of thousands of email you must receive, I use this
Many thanks, and nice work!
Well, in face of the emerging IPv6, I can't stop wondering what the hell can DDNS or even DHCP useful for in the coming times.
Let's see, a common saying is that with IPv6 every one could have a network the size of the current internet withouth exausting the address range, so one can say that it is possible for even ppp conections (usually associated with a user/client) to have a fixed ip address, or even every student in an university.
From a superficial point of view, DDNS and DHCP seem like DOA to me, with the exception of free connections without a fixed login, but even that can be arranged by usage of the CID.
Does anyone agree with me?
well, as I read this story, and clicked the link to the MS site (as I suppose a lot of readers also did) I was unable to visit the site. Netscape warning dialog said that the site could be down or too busy.
/.ed, to use the less amount of characters?
Have any of you ever administered the pgpkeyserver that works on some servers on the internet?
Ok, me neither, but the server I work at has a pgpkeyserver, run by our admins.
We HAD to change to qmail, because sendmail wasn't able to cooperate with the thousands of emails we have to handle in about half an hour (about 7200, which is about 4 incoming mails per second, this being a low number) when the pgpservers synchronized.
Little side note: we run a 2.0.36 linux kernel, on a single 233mhz intel pentium 2 with 128Mb of ram, and sometime we reach loads of 24 or more when the pgpservers synchronize.
It is one public key per mail.
Bulk email, open source, qmail rulez.
Regards
Oooohhh the poor guy who doesn't have a wall full of CD's, but instead could afford an 18Gb portable SCSI drive (not to mention his potencial backups in CD's, or tapes, or other drives) and who can carry his pitifully small collection to work (hey, can't he be a DJ carrying a selection of songs ripped from the pub's CDs, instead of changing a CD for every song? What the heck, even to his office!) or maybe he'd rather carry a wall of CDs all the way through his 'round US car trip.
Come on, that is pure FUD... just look at it.. it even can fit into a tamplate.
He starts by stating he doesn't like them, then immediatly says that they have CD quality (when it's in fact near CD Q.), and then he throws up a bunch of reasons not to like MP3 who seem to lie solely on the human desire to cause envy on others by showing how phisically huge his collection is.
Another example of FUD is when he states that a lightning strike on your house could damage the 18Gb drive. PHU-LEASE! If a lightening stroke on my house (suppose I don't have an antenna to protect me) I would be worried about having it burnt from attic to cellar, carrying me with it into hell and oblivion.
Get real...