COM/DCOM is a platform dependent binary-level object broker architecture. This only works if you stay in the same environment. So stay with windows and you can do nice things with it.
I wholy agree with you that the underlying micros~1 technology should not be implemented on linux. IMHO, we should implement some CORBA type of ORBs, which allows all kinds of objects to communicate with each other, independent of the OS they run on. What we do not need on *nix is a binary level architecture, but we might need a CORBA style of thing.
OOP is hot, COP (component-oriented programming) is getting hot, and OOA/COA (the A is for Architecture) is starting to emit steam heat... so who's going to design an operating system for Intel systems on these principles?
IBM created such an OS in co-operation with Microsoft. It was called OS/2 to fit their PS/2. (Just like OS/400 fits the AS/400 and the OS/390 fits the S390). The gui was completely object oriented. You could even drop an FTP connection on the desktop (or where-ever) and have an integrated and seamless connection to the host. It was very stable, hard to install and hard to maintain. Microsoft took it, combined the UI with win3.1 (IIRC), improved the installation and maintainance and did something about the first point as well. I used it in our office for three years, but had to trade it for NT4. So the ideas are out there, go grab'm, make'm stable, easy to maintain and easy to install and your there. Or are you...
Wasn't it Data General who was working on a 16 bit CP/M? Someone created a quick and dirty operating system from it and sold that to Micro Soft. At least thats what I think I heard.
Remember the Star Wars (et. al.) spoof "Space Balls, The Movie!"? The villain was called Pizza the Hut. In the end of the movie he got hungry and ate himself.
But I sure do hope that they are not going to sponsor the food on manned space flieds.
Ah, you meant the thing about the Vikings? That is only a myth, it has never been proven. They could have gotten anywhere.
Fishermen from the western parts of Europe, like Ireland, were fishing overthere, because of the very rich fishing grounds. They did not discover Newfoundland, because they were not proper explorers with proper training. Merely comming there every year doesn't count since they didn't write things down.
Ummm, Having once seen an article about a windmill driven boat, I think you miss a point here. This boat was able to sail right into the wind. The windmill was mechanically attached to the screw. It worked because of the differences in density between water and air. (Unfortunatly I read it years ago, so no link available.)
First, the cars batteries are charged by wind power when the car is standing still and a car stands still approximately 95% of its life. The windmill is removed while driving. Second, and this will defy your point, when using this as a main source while driving, the car won't be pushed backwards by the wind because of the brakes. Only when the wind produced enough electrical energy the car can move forward against the wind, and against the drag. The drag on the ground is much bigger than the drag by the wind, especially when you help the weels to create more backward drag.
Electric power plants are extremely filthy beasts.
The polution of a power plant is concentrated in one spot, where it can be dealt with. the polution of cars is spread out over almost the entire planet. When you think of it, this is analogous to the client / server model with fat clients vs. thin clients. Polution in one place is easier to clean-up than polution all over the place. IANA Whatever It Takes To Engineer And Maintain A Power Plant but can't you just put a catalysor (?) on the exhaust fume pipes of a gas or oil based power plant?
Let me thank you of your excellent way you enhanced the reading experience of my.sig. As you can see, I followed your suggestions and adapted my.sig.
However, please note that I provided my e-mail address, albeit in a crippled form. The way to decipher it is stated in my user info. In future, please make use of this way to correct me.
Since you got Berlin in your e-mail, I assume you know that National Sozialisten (or Nazi's) were members of a political party. This party had a Sicherheidsdienst or SD (security force) and a Geheimer Staats Polizei or Gestapo (Secret state police). These were the really creepy guys trying to weed out incorrect / unarischer behaviour.
All these form a very dark page in the history of Germany and Europe. Please keep this in mind when you take a nickname like this. Since there are other nicks with nazi in them, I posted this comment on/.. I will e-mail it to you as well.
I am not sure on this but was'nt Delphi a flop..... i could be completely wrong but all i hear about is VB...
The article talks not only about Max OS/X, but also about Kylix, the delphi-IDE port for Linux. According to the article, this IDE supports C, C++, Delphi and VB. Whether that's a good thing or not I do not know, but it sure is interesting.
Exactly. The weight of the Moon is keeping life on Earth intact. If we mess with that weight, all kinds of strange thing could happen. It's orbit could shift, tides could change, etc., etc. Granted, you'll have to take out an enormous amount of weight to make a dent in the moon's mass, but IMHO one should consider these tings.
On the other hand, the Moon is under constant attack of meteors, but so is Earth, so I think that's allright in the end. And perhaps we could dump some of our own waste there to keep the Moons weight in balance.
I love old Games,my favorite for the C64 was one that was a RPG in an Egyptian tomb (I forget the name)
Do you perhaps mean Pharao's Curse? With a annoying bird to take you away from the treasure and a cowboy and mummy to shoot you? Ahh, long live memory lane....
Mmmpf, seems like the old sayings: 1) Size matters, and 2) Bigger is better.
American cars, or cars made especially for the american market are big. European and Japanese cars tend to be much smaller. The source of this lies in the lay-out of the country and the cities. Most European and Japanese cities came into being long before the invention of the car, or even the horse / carriage combination[1]. American cities, except a few on the south / east coast are constructed arround the car. Mainstreets are wide, parking space is readily available[2] and cars are the preferred way of transport. Driving through downtown LA is quite a different experience then driving throught the centre of London, Paris, Rome or some other European city. I guess the same holds for Japanese cities. To illustrate this point: The smallest car to rent at Hertz at LAX is considered a moderatly big car in Europe (Mazda 626 IIRC). So, American cars are great for American circumstances, European cars are great for all other circumstances.
[1] I know this isn't exactly true, but you'll get the drift. [2] Not true for New York
Be-fan, you are right (IMHO) about the desktop-readiness of Linux for the everyday user.
However, About the distribution of an.EXE file for an upgrade being an entirely good ting, I feel I have to disagree. The most important thing for me about Linux applications is the fact that you can compile it for your own hardware, given that you have the right compiler. I am under the impression that this renders faster software than having a binary distribution compiled for the lowest common denominator, which would be a 80486-DX type of processor (for Win9X, that is). This would help chip-makers, such as Intel, to get rid of old code in their CPU. Granted, upgrading to a newer CPU would then require a re-compile, which could be difficult for some, but it would give you faster software.
Uninteresting fact: Pentium stands for Produces erroneous numbers through incorrect understanding of mathematics. This would explain a lot, if I only new what.;-)
Especially since that new video of Britney Spears reveils to us that she's from Mars and not from Kentucky (?) as they would like us to believe. BTW, this is an uninteresting fact.
You know, you could be right here. Since ERP implementations are so organisation dependent, the open-sourcing of ERP could well mean that the IT-shops of those organisations are doing a complete in-house development of there ERP needs, loosely based on the open-source ERP implementation. If this is true then (almost) nobody gains from their changes, enhancements and bug-fixes, thus invalidating the whole idea behind open-source software.
Uninteresting fact nr.4: Boeing is one of the bigger users of Baan IV software.
Do not forget the fact that Baan is a Dutch company. Whilst I do not know anything about their source-code, it may well be that its variable names, function names and the comments all are in our wonderfull dutch language. It could be a major task to rewrite the code to english names and comments in order to let the open-source community do their work.
Uninteresting fact nr.2: Jan Baan was born in the Walstraat, which translates directly to Wallstreet.
Slashdot Mirror
The link shown is actually a valid mpaa link. The href= thing must be some kind of typo. 8-)
However, the mpaa link talks about optical disk raids in thailand and has no information whatsoever about Linux.
IHBT IHL IWGMCAL
(I Will Get My Coat And Leave)
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COM/DCOM is a platform dependent binary-level object broker architecture. This only works if you stay in the same environment. So stay with windows and you can do nice things with it.
I wholy agree with you that the underlying micros~1 technology should not be implemented on linux. IMHO, we should implement some CORBA type of ORBs, which allows all kinds of objects to communicate with each other, independent of the OS they run on. What we do not need on *nix is a binary level architecture, but we might need a CORBA style of thing.
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OOP is hot, COP (component-oriented programming) is getting hot, and OOA/COA (the A is for Architecture) is starting to emit steam heat... so who's going to design an operating system for Intel systems on these principles?
IBM created such an OS in co-operation with Microsoft. It was called OS/2 to fit their PS/2. (Just like OS/400 fits the AS/400 and the OS/390 fits the S390). The gui was completely object oriented. You could even drop an FTP connection on the desktop (or where-ever) and have an integrated and seamless connection to the host. It was very stable, hard to install and hard to maintain. Microsoft took it, combined the UI with win3.1 (IIRC), improved the installation and maintainance and did something about the first point as well. I used it in our office for three years, but had to trade it for NT4. So the ideas are out there, go grab'm, make'm stable, easy to maintain and easy to install and your there. Or are you...
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Wasn't it Data General who was working on a 16 bit CP/M? Someone created a quick and dirty operating system from it and sold that to Micro Soft. At least thats what I think I heard.
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Remember the Star Wars (et. al.) spoof "Space Balls, The Movie!"? The villain was called Pizza the Hut. In the end of the movie he got hungry and ate himself.
But I sure do hope that they are not going to sponsor the food on manned space flieds.
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Ah, you meant the thing about the Vikings? That is only a myth, it has never been proven. They could have gotten anywhere.
Fishermen from the western parts of Europe, like Ireland, were fishing overthere, because of the very rich fishing grounds. They did not discover Newfoundland, because they were not proper explorers with proper training. Merely comming there every year doesn't count since they didn't write things down.
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Ummm,
Having once seen an article about a windmill driven boat, I think you miss a point here. This boat was able to sail right into the wind. The windmill was mechanically attached to the screw. It worked because of the differences in density between water and air. (Unfortunatly I read it years ago, so no link available.)
First, the cars batteries are charged by wind power when the car is standing still and a car stands still approximately 95% of its life. The windmill is removed while driving.
Second, and this will defy your point, when using this as a main source while driving, the car won't be pushed backwards by the wind because of the brakes. Only when the wind produced enough electrical energy the car can move forward against the wind, and against the drag. The drag on the ground is much bigger than the drag by the wind, especially when you help the weels to create more backward drag.
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Electric power plants are extremely filthy beasts.
The polution of a power plant is concentrated in one spot, where it can be dealt with. the polution of cars is spread out over almost the entire planet. When you think of it, this is analogous to the client / server model with fat clients vs. thin clients. Polution in one place is easier to clean-up than polution all over the place. IANA Whatever It Takes To Engineer And Maintain A Power Plant but can't you just put a catalysor (?) on the exhaust fume pipes of a gas or oil based power plant?
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Mr. or Ms. or Mss. sig_nazi,
.sig. As you can see, I followed your suggestions and adapted my .sig.
/.. I will e-mail it to you as well.
Let me thank you of your excellent way you enhanced the reading experience of my
However, please note that I provided my e-mail address, albeit in a crippled form. The way to decipher it is stated in my user info. In future, please make use of this way to correct me.
Since you got Berlin in your e-mail, I assume you know that National Sozialisten (or Nazi's) were members of a political party. This party had a Sicherheidsdienst or SD (security force) and a Geheimer Staats Polizei or Gestapo (Secret state police). These were the really creepy guys trying to weed out incorrect / unarischer behaviour.
All these form a very dark page in the history of Germany and Europe. Please keep this in mind when you take a nickname like this.
Since there are other nicks with nazi in them, I posted this comment on
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I am not sure on this but was'nt Delphi a flop..... i could be completely wrong but all i hear about is VB ...
The article talks not only about Max OS/X, but also about Kylix, the delphi-IDE port for Linux. According to the article, this IDE supports C, C++, Delphi and VB. Whether that's a good thing or not I do not know, but it sure is interesting.
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One word:
Oblivium
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Mmmemmmory lane! (closed eyes)
Uninteresting fact #15:
The basic interpreter of the C=64 is copyrighted by Micro Soft and written by Bill himself.
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I seem to remember that the computers on the Jurassic Parc island were Unix boxes. They even had a pre-geek girl hacking her way in to save the day.
;-)
I'm sure they didn't choose Unix boxes to match the movie theme
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No, no, nooo, /etc/shelf.conf?
The shop was setup for windows. The way they served linux was clearly misconfigured! Perhaps a few tweaks in
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...helium is probably on the Moon for a reason.
Exactly. The weight of the Moon is keeping life on Earth intact. If we mess with that weight, all kinds of strange thing could happen. It's orbit could shift, tides could change, etc., etc. Granted, you'll have to take out an enormous amount of weight to make a dent in the moon's mass, but IMHO one should consider these tings.
On the other hand, the Moon is under constant attack of meteors, but so is Earth, so I think that's allright in the end. And perhaps we could dump some of our own waste there to keep the Moons weight in balance.
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I love old Games,my favorite for the C64 was one that was a RPG in an Egyptian tomb (I forget the name)
Do you perhaps mean Pharao's Curse? With a annoying bird to take you away from the treasure and a cowboy and mummy to shoot you? Ahh, long live memory lane....
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Mmmpf, seems like the old sayings:
1) Size matters, and
2) Bigger is better.
American cars, or cars made especially for the american market are big. European and Japanese cars tend to be much smaller. The source of this lies in the lay-out of the country and the cities. Most European and Japanese cities came into being long before the invention of the car, or even the horse / carriage combination[1]. American cities, except a few on the south / east coast are constructed arround the car. Mainstreets are wide, parking space is readily available[2] and cars are the preferred way of transport.
Driving through downtown LA is quite a different experience then driving throught the centre of London, Paris, Rome or some other European city. I guess the same holds for Japanese cities.
To illustrate this point:
The smallest car to rent at Hertz at LAX is considered a moderatly big car in Europe (Mazda 626 IIRC).
So, American cars are great for American circumstances, European cars are great for all other circumstances.
[1] I know this isn't exactly true, but you'll get the drift.
[2] Not true for New York
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.sig translation:
.sig, I can't stand the suspense of translating it.
success always occurs in private, and failu
Please post the rest of your
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Be-fan,
.EXE file for an upgrade being an entirely good ting, I feel I have to disagree. The most important thing for me about Linux applications is the fact that you can compile it for your own hardware, given that you have the right compiler. I am under the impression that this renders faster software than having a binary distribution compiled for the lowest common denominator, which would be a 80486-DX type of processor (for Win9X, that is).
you are right (IMHO) about the desktop-readiness of Linux for the everyday user.
However,
About the distribution of an
This would help chip-makers, such as Intel, to get rid of old code in their CPU. Granted, upgrading to a newer CPU would then require a re-compile, which could be difficult for some, but it would give you faster software.
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HEX: The only computer where you have to add extra bugs to get extra features.
First appearance IIRC in Interesting Times (or IT). Just read it, you'll like it.
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Uninteresting fact: ;-)
Pentium stands for Produces erroneous numbers through incorrect understanding of mathematics.
This would explain a lot, if I only new what.
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That's Chinese, not Indians ;-(
Apparently the Chinese are even worse of than the Indians.
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... Mars missions are more *sexy* ...
Especially since that new video of Britney Spears reveils to us that she's from Mars and not from Kentucky (?) as they would like us to believe.
BTW, this is an uninteresting fact.
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You know, you could be right here. Since ERP implementations are so organisation dependent, the open-sourcing of ERP could well mean that the IT-shops of those organisations are doing a complete in-house development of there ERP needs, loosely based on the open-source ERP implementation. If this is true then (almost) nobody gains from their changes, enhancements and bug-fixes, thus invalidating the whole idea behind open-source software.
Uninteresting fact nr.4: Boeing is one of the bigger users of Baan IV software.
Arjan Bos
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Do not forget the fact that Baan is a Dutch company. Whilst I do not know anything about their source-code, it may well be that its variable names, function names and the comments all are in our wonderfull dutch language. It could be a major task to rewrite the code to english names and comments in order to let the open-source community do their work.
Uninteresting fact nr.2: Jan Baan was born in the Walstraat, which translates directly to Wallstreet.
Arjan Bos
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