Another weird thing about RSS is version numbering. Version 0.91 is completely different from 1.0 which is completely differnt from 2.0, but 0.91 and 2.0 look very much the same.
As far as I could understand from the articles I needed to read so I coud create my own RSS feed, one of the standards is just plain XML (0.91, 2.0), while the other is xml-serialized RDF and they are also specified by two different groups of people.
And the end result is a really nice mess. (But then, those articles could be wrong and I don't really know anything)
the MySQL team is making impressive inroads, and I expect to see them close the gap with PostgreSQL in the coming years
He should take a look at the list of new features in the upcoming version of PostgreSQL which includes savepoints, point in time recovery, tablespaces and a bunch of smaller stuff. Meanwhile, MySQL folks are still struggling with some features which were supported by Postgres almost a decade ago. I'd say the gap is getting bigger, not smaller. Much bigger!
Sure, MySQL is great for what it's used for most, but I don't think it is getting anywhere near being a heavyweight database engine. It does make a nice retrieve-by-id shortcut for displaying web page content, though.
To transfer MP3 song files from your PC to the Walkman, you first launch the software Sony supplies to manage the Walkman, called SonicStage 2
Oh, man... SonicStage sucks so hard, I can't even begin to describe it. Even if SonicStage 2 is only half as bad as the version I recieved with my minidisc player, it's still enugh to keep me from even thinking about buying any player which requires it.
When it comes to terrible UI design, sonicstage has to be the absolute winner!
The training goes sometning like this: If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back they get smaller. If you keep pulling the stick for too long, they get bigger really fast!
So is my ISDN line. If I wanted it to work during power outage, I'd need battery power for both the phone and the network terminator thingie. In such situatins GSM is the only useful thing.
Does it require you to take a 260-mile trip across state border on a Jon Deere lawn mower/small tractor to visit your brother you haven't seen for the last ten years?
Could someone explain how well does the gcj Java compiler work? I hear that AWT and Swing are not really usable, so how well does it work with SWT or maybe even wxWidgets?
I'm currently in the process of choosing the language/tools for a cross platform app (open source, of course) and I've narrowed the selection down to Java+gcj and c++. Native executables & widgets are a must, since my target audince most likely won't have a JVM installed.
MySQL Cluster combines the world's most popular open source database with a fault tolerant database
It's nice to start out a press release with a lie, isn't it? As far as I know, the title of the world's most popular open source database (meaning it has the most installs around the world) belongs to the Berkley DB.
How about moving to some country in Europe? Last time I checked most of them still had a shortage of skilled IT workers. The cultural difference between US and EU is much smaller than between US and India and living standards are quite comparable.
Also, there are no crocodiles, tigers, pythons or cobras here.:)
He should try "playing" Oracle. It's full of cryptic messages which rarely mean what they say, and every time you think you finally know what's going on, it throws another challenge at you - just like that.
For an added bonus, the documentation is also one big puzzle full of twisty passages, all alike.
The fun just never stops...
(Somebody, please kill me. I hear they use Postgres in heaven...)
Don't! Bob is too dangerous to be let loose and you might have to cut your arm off once you want to stop doing business with him. Didn't you watch "Twin Peaks"?:)
just checked his portfolio page on that forum and... it's empy. I was at least expecting to find a site with default postnuke theme, but he doesn't even have something like that to show. A real master of webdesign!
Designers and web don't always mix well. I once got called "a vandal" by a web designer who has just heard about possibility of using your own stylesheets in Mozilla. Apparently, doing so would be defacing his artistic work and he wanted such features banned.
Explaining how that feature worked didn't help a bit. For some reason he was sure random visitors would be setting their styles to green text on purple background with large blinking headlines & then post screenshots all over the net - just to mock his "masterpieces".
Well, at least I learned one thing from that event: don't argue with retards over the internet.:)
oh, wow... he wrote a VBS generator... how 1337... It's not even a real trojan; it just deletes files (at least it seem so from the article).
When I was 17, there wren't any trojans that would come with source code. At that time, NetBus was pretty popular, so I wrote my own client-server trojan using Delphi. Since I was the ony person who had access to it, it was completely immune to antivirus software and that meant lots & lots of fun with school computers.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Through the use of various screensavers
I hear that after the conference he was attacked by several members of ScreenPeace and PETS (People for Ethical Treatment of Screensavers).
Friendster attracts the biggest concentration of intellectual-stuck-ups, prisses, and vanity-obsessed people I've seen in my life
Invite me! Invite me! Oh God, please invite me...
Another weird thing about RSS is version numbering. Version 0.91 is completely different from 1.0 which is completely differnt from 2.0, but 0.91 and 2.0 look very much the same.
As far as I could understand from the articles I needed to read so I coud create my own RSS feed, one of the standards is just plain XML (0.91, 2.0), while the other is xml-serialized RDF and they are also specified by two different groups of people.
And the end result is a really nice mess.
(But then, those articles could be wrong and I don't really know anything)
the MySQL team is making impressive inroads, and I expect to see them close the gap with PostgreSQL in the coming years
He should take a look at the list of new features in the upcoming version of PostgreSQL which includes savepoints, point in time recovery, tablespaces and a bunch of smaller stuff. Meanwhile, MySQL folks are still struggling with some features which were supported by Postgres almost a decade ago. I'd say the gap is getting bigger, not smaller. Much bigger!
Sure, MySQL is great for what it's used for most, but I don't think it is getting anywhere near being a heavyweight database engine. It does make a nice retrieve-by-id shortcut for displaying web page content, though.
To transfer MP3 song files from your PC to the Walkman, you first launch the software Sony supplies to manage the Walkman, called SonicStage 2
Oh, man... SonicStage sucks so hard, I can't even begin to describe it. Even if SonicStage 2 is only half as bad as the version I recieved with my minidisc player, it's still enugh to keep me from even thinking about buying any player which requires it.
When it comes to terrible UI design, sonicstage has to be the absolute winner!
The training goes sometning like this:
If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back they get smaller. If you keep pulling the stick for too long, they get bigger really fast!
unavailable during service and power outages
So is my ISDN line. If I wanted it to work during power outage, I'd need battery power for both the phone and the network terminator thingie. In such situatins GSM is the only useful thing.
If you want to read some fiction, try "Windows security".
Does it require you to take a 260-mile trip across state border on a Jon Deere lawn mower/small tractor to visit your brother you haven't seen for the last ten years?
Winamp, BSPlayer, Nimo codec pack, eDonkey and Kazaa Lite.
:)
What?!?!??
Could someone explain how well does the gcj Java compiler work? I hear that AWT and Swing are not really usable, so how well does it work with SWT or maybe even wxWidgets?
I'm currently in the process of choosing the language/tools for a cross platform app (open source, of course) and I've narrowed the selection down to Java+gcj and c++. Native executables & widgets are a must, since my target audince most likely won't have a JVM installed.
MySQL Cluster combines the world's most popular open source database with a fault tolerant database
It's nice to start out a press release with a lie, isn't it? As far as I know, the title of the world's most popular open source database (meaning it has the most installs around the world) belongs to the Berkley DB.
How about moving to some country in Europe? Last time I checked most of them still had a shortage of skilled IT workers. The cultural difference between US and EU is much smaller than between US and India and living standards are quite comparable.
:)
Also, there are no crocodiles, tigers, pythons or cobras here.
the young, illiterate, or mentally challenged
Someone actually created handwriting lessons for script kiddies?!? GR347!
Nah, I'm pretty sure that title belongs to MySQL. ;)
He should try "playing" Oracle. It's full of cryptic messages which rarely mean what they say, and every time you think you finally know what's going on, it throws another challenge at you - just like that.
For an added bonus, the documentation is also one big puzzle full of twisty passages, all alike.
The fun just never stops...
(Somebody, please kill me. I hear they use Postgres in heaven...)
... Comet cursors instead?
Don't! Bob is too dangerous to be let loose and you might have to cut your arm off once you want to stop doing business with him. Didn't you watch "Twin Peaks"? :)
So, I can download THAT? It might take some time on dial-up, but what the heck...
just checked his portfolio page on that forum and... it's empy. I was at least expecting to find a site with default postnuke theme, but he doesn't even have something like that to show. A real master of webdesign!
Designers and web don't always mix well. I once got called "a vandal" by a web designer who has just heard about possibility of using your own stylesheets in Mozilla. Apparently, doing so would be defacing his artistic work and he wanted such features banned.
:)
Explaining how that feature worked didn't help a bit. For some reason he was sure random visitors would be setting their styles to green text on purple background with large blinking headlines & then post screenshots all over the net - just to mock his "masterpieces".
Well, at least I learned one thing from that event: don't argue with retards over the internet.
get one more photo of this thing
They wanted to, but it ran away...
But, unfortunately, in soviet russia spam blocks you!
(oww, oww... quit throwing rocks...)
oh, wow... he wrote a VBS generator... how 1337... It's not even a real trojan; it just deletes files (at least it seem so from the article).
:)
When I was 17, there wren't any trojans that would come with source code. At that time, NetBus was pretty popular, so I wrote my own client-server trojan using Delphi. Since I was the ony person who had access to it, it was completely immune to antivirus software and that meant lots & lots of fun with school computers.
Ah, good old times...
Mikerowesoft Lindows?