Thanks, for the link... made my posting that much more timely.
In regards to Stephen Evans piece, "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty" - two words: yellow journalism.
Not only does Stephen falsely characterize a community as anarchists and vandals he also strongly implies "they" collectively authored it and equates the community with terrorists.
Whatever *horribly* misguided self-interest Stephen thinks he is serving aside, I cannot believe the BBC would publish such tripe. The innuendo is deep enough to imply fact and the headline draws an ill-reasoned conclusion.
What he's saying is that your political battles get in the way of your productivity (and they do), and that their visiblity hurts you (and it does).
Admittedly I digress from your whistle-blowing about point 5, however, who is to say that these feuds don't *help* the community? If the developers didn't care enough to put their ego/self worth/zealotry on the line then we could very well end up with poorly written or mediocre solutions that nobody cared enough to fight about. You cannot (with a straight face) tell me that the bitter rivalries over vi and emacs, kde and gnome, linux and *bsd have not filled the pipes of many an oss hacker.
Speaking as a developer, I know I perform my best, cross all i's and dot all t's when it is my opinion, reputation, and/or self worth that is at stake. What he touts as a failure should be lauded as the competetive incentive that it is. If this is in the counterpoint, you will have to forgive me - the counterpoint was slashdotted by the time I got to it.
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You can be sure there won't be a Linux version. It is really a shame that an innovative concept like this is pigeon-holed by the worst common denominator.
Why is it that right brained thinkers, designers and artistic types don't seem to care about whether everyone will be able to experience their creation? Is it just the path of least resistance?
I read recently that RH9 was going to include wlan-ng instead of the older 2Mbs hobbled wlan that they have had in prior versions. Can someone confirm/deny this?
Recompiling and installing Xine and mp3 codecs are a thorn but the most annoying thing about RedHat and laptops is having to compile and install wlan-ng after every install.
There are actually only 5 major laptop manufacturers in the world. Everybody else is a Value Added Reseller.
If you don't want to pay the windows tax (Or the HP/Dell/etc. markup). Go to a source that is closer to the manufatcurer. For example, Compal is one of the larger actual laptop manufacturers - they supply HP, and toshiba, among others. If you want their hardware, find a smaller VAR for their Compal. E.g. Sceptre, Chembook, etc. All the majors do is just change the looks slightly and bundle the hardware with software and support.
The smaller the VAR, the smaler the markup (generally). You can configure the machine as you like, and you can buy them without an OS.
That being said, my most recent laptop purchase was from www.discountlaptops.com - and I didn't pay the windows tax. There are many of places you can find *just* the hardware - you just have to look.
The article's comments about NetInfo are a little off as well. OSX has been moving to using NetInfo less and less. 10.2 tends to utilize many more traditional ways of doing things.
You will not convince me of that. They are simply trying to ease the porting of applications. Flat files *are* inherently less organized and archaic and the fact that they are supporting it is just so they can woo unix users and developers more easily.
Try to create a user using/etc/passwd, better yet try to create a *group* without using netinfo. I don't really care one way or the other, flat files are more familiar and netinfo is more elegant, but using both in conjunction is a hack.
They need to let the general public know what it is - slightly better than flatfiles. MySQL offers a better quick and dirty solution, but is by no means an enterprise-class database. In fact, I really don't know how MySQL AB can stay in business (?). Anybody who has really used MySQL in a heavy duty capacity will know it's deficiencies.
Several developers (web developers specifically) do nothing but sing the praises of MySQL, and with nothing but glowing reviews from those who only need the small subset of database capabilities MySQL provides, PHB's and project managers might be lead down the golden path. IBM and MS are just letting the average PHB know that it is not an enterprise class DB.
Otherwise, nobody would ever know it isn't the best thing since sliced bread. Yeah, sub-queries, foreign keys, stored procedure language, replication,
It is in their best interest to put mysql in it's place. Of course, they aren't slamming PostgreSQL, if they were then they would be out of line.
There are alot of indie music sites out there of varying quality, but by *far* CDstreet is the best.
CDstreet.com is all about indie music, self-promotion, and not gouging the artist. They are the best 'bang for your buck' as far as internet indie promotion/fulfillment.
There are alot of indie websites out there but they are more interested in making the artist a customer instead of making customers for the artist. I won't mention any names (Derick) but those baby-logo-sporting websites know who they are.
That being said there is *NO_BETTER_PROMOTER* than your own gigs - setup a online presence, sell discs, *AND*PROMOTE*YOUR*WEBSITE*AT*THE*GIG. They wouldn't be there unless they liked your music.
I used to think MySQL was fast and efficient. Then I started actually using the data for something other than photo albums and shopping carts. If you want to do some real data reporting in MySQL good friggin luck.
Recently, I was writing some automation to export data from MySQL to Oracle and found that the SIMPLEST outer join on two small tables 10K rows, returning less than 7K results takes a full minute to execute on a 1Ghz PIII. What a pathetic joke! Even if it wasn't tuned optimally and had to do full table scans, it shouldn't take that long - Oracle wouldn't even breathe hard with that kind of data set. MySQL has no stored procedure language, no view capability, no foreign keys, nothing but bare metal. I thought these trade-offs were for speed, but apparently not. It is a slow-no featured DOG with shitty JDBC drivers.
I have a high opinion of PostgreSQL because of it's object relational model and the fact that it *does* have a stored procedure language, foreign keys, and views, etc. But I haven't yet had the opportunity to test it's speed in a real production environment. It is on my list of things to do to test it with similar production data to see if it deserves the kudos I regularly heap upon it.
Bottom line is however, anybody trying to use MySQL in an enterprise is kidding themselves.
Lutris has been leaning commercially for a while. I think the licensing 'issue' is a red herring they've thrown out as an excuse to transition into a closed-source only product. A few months back when I was trying to get the open source version of enhydra, I couldn't find it. They buried it in their enhydra.com website and redirected enhydra.org to it. Everywhere I looked was a 'purchase' button.
Anyhow, how can JBoss have an open source J2EE implementation ?(which is lightyears better, in my opinion) Maybe becasue they don't have so many suits trying to put a spin on the product in order to get it to sell.
It really seems like Lutris is just trying to transition back to the closed source model because they can't sell an inferior, late J2EE application server when you can see what is 'really under the hood' - an almost J2EE 1.1 compliant application server. They are chasing JBoss' and others' tails on a prior standard even.
I used enhydra 3.01 for a major project and it was/is quite good: scalable, robust and fault tolerant, but it seems to have been poisoned by commercial interest and delays in implementing J2EE.
I am working full time in the 'smokin hot' economy and finishing my undergrad at the same time. There is alot to be said for *directly* tying your career to your formal training. Certain things that wouldn't sink in without job experience are much more profound and applicable. At least that is my experience as a software developer and a CS student in my last year.
Also, there is a depth of understanding about the fundamentals and behind the scenes concepts that you can't get by just getting a certification/degree or just being in the industry. Where in your MCSE class do you learn about interrupt service vectors or compiler design? Or, conversely, would any of the formally defined steps in Software development 101 actually sink in at all if you hadn't had the experience to realize they really aren't a load of arbitrary crap?
It seems reasonably obvious to me that people who forsake one for the other, e.g. pure academics or experience only techies, are shortchanging themselves in the long run. Pure academics will always have a disconnected idealized view of the world and experience based techies will spend the rest of their lives scrambling to pick up the specifics of the 'Latest New Thing' without understanding it's basis or history at all.
This also assumes you are aspiring to be a good computer scientist. If you are simply gambling for a quick buck or an IPO, by all means just dive in. Unfortunately, there are too many people like this today and the direct result is the sorry state of the industry today.
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Admittedly I digress from your whistle-blowing about point 5, however, who is to say that these feuds don't *help* the community? If the developers didn't care enough to put their ego/self worth/zealotry on the line then we could very well end up with poorly written or mediocre solutions that nobody cared enough to fight about. You cannot (with a straight face) tell me that the bitter rivalries over vi and emacs, kde and gnome, linux and *bsd have not filled the pipes of many an oss hacker.
Speaking as a developer, I know I perform my best, cross all i's and dot all t's when it is my opinion, reputation, and/or self worth that is at stake. What he touts as a failure should be lauded as the competetive incentive that it is. If this is in the counterpoint, you will have to forgive me - the counterpoint was slashdotted by the time I got to it.
You can be sure there won't be a Linux version. It is really a shame that an innovative concept like this is pigeon-holed by the worst common denominator.
Why is it that right brained thinkers, designers and artistic types don't seem to care about whether everyone will be able to experience their creation? Is it just the path of least resistance?
I read recently that RH9 was going to include wlan-ng instead of the older 2Mbs hobbled wlan that they have had in prior versions. Can someone confirm/deny this?
Recompiling and installing Xine and mp3 codecs are a thorn but the most annoying thing about RedHat and laptops is having to compile and install wlan-ng after every install.
No actually, Harlan Ullman coined it in his book in 1996: Shock and Awe: Acheiving Rapid Dominance.
http://www.dodccrp.org/shockIndex.html
If you don't want to pay the windows tax (Or the HP/Dell/etc. markup). Go to a source that is closer to the manufatcurer. For example, Compal is one of the larger actual laptop manufacturers - they supply HP, and toshiba, among others. If you want their hardware, find a smaller VAR for their Compal. E.g. Sceptre, Chembook, etc. All the majors do is just change the looks slightly and bundle the hardware with software and support.
The smaller the VAR, the smaler the markup (generally). You can configure the machine as you like, and you can buy them without an OS.
That being said, my most recent laptop purchase was from www.discountlaptops.com - and I didn't pay the windows tax. There are many of places you can find *just* the hardware - you just have to look.
You mean Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, right?
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if rm is rm and mv is mv why do they not behave as they should. a slash should escape a character, quotes should imply a literal string, etc.
You will not convince me of that. They are simply trying to ease the porting of applications. Flat files *are* inherently less organized and archaic and the fact that they are supporting it is just so they can woo unix users and developers more easily.
Try to create a user using /etc/passwd, better yet try to create a *group* without using netinfo. I don't really care one way or the other, flat files are more familiar and netinfo is more elegant, but using both in conjunction is a hack.
wanna irritate a 'switching' unix geek?
create root owned directory called "-p" or some suitable switch-like string
you can't delete it, or move it, or rename it.
rm -rf "-p" nope
rm -rf \-p nope
rm -rf '-p' nope
rm -rf * nope
try mv, ls, chown, chmod, anything! it won't let ya do it. And even when authenticated as an admin the finder won't delete it.
Finally I was able to chown -R from a higher level directory and then whack it via finder. But what a PIA!
They need to let the general public know what it is - slightly better than flatfiles. MySQL offers a better quick and dirty solution, but is by no means an enterprise-class database. In fact, I really don't know how MySQL AB can stay in business (?). Anybody who has really used MySQL in a heavy duty capacity will know it's deficiencies.
Several developers (web developers specifically) do nothing but sing the praises of MySQL, and with nothing but glowing reviews from those who only need the small subset of database capabilities MySQL provides, PHB's and project managers might be lead down the golden path. IBM and MS are just letting the average PHB know that it is not an enterprise class DB.
Otherwise, nobody would ever know it isn't the best thing since sliced bread. Yeah, sub-queries, foreign keys, stored procedure language, replication,
It is in their best interest to put mysql in it's place. Of course, they aren't slamming PostgreSQL, if they were then they would be out of line.
There are alot of indie music sites out there of varying quality, but by *far* CDstreet is the best.
CDstreet.com is all about indie music, self-promotion, and not gouging the artist. They are the best 'bang for your buck' as far as internet indie promotion/fulfillment.
There are alot of indie websites out there but they are more interested in making the artist a customer instead of making customers for the artist. I won't mention any names (Derick) but those baby-logo-sporting websites know who they are.
That being said there is *NO_BETTER_PROMOTER* than your own gigs - setup a online presence, sell discs, *AND*PROMOTE*YOUR*WEBSITE*AT*THE*GIG. They wouldn't be there unless they liked your music.
I used to think MySQL was fast and efficient. Then I started actually using the data for something other than photo albums and shopping carts. If you want to do some real data reporting in MySQL good friggin luck.
Recently, I was writing some automation to export data from MySQL to Oracle and found that the SIMPLEST outer join on two small tables 10K rows, returning less than 7K results takes a full minute to execute on a 1Ghz PIII. What a pathetic joke! Even if it wasn't tuned optimally and had to do full table scans, it shouldn't take that long - Oracle wouldn't even breathe hard with that kind of data set. MySQL has no stored procedure language, no view capability, no foreign keys, nothing but bare metal. I thought these trade-offs were for speed, but apparently not. It is a slow-no featured DOG with shitty JDBC drivers.
I have a high opinion of PostgreSQL because of it's object relational model and the fact that it *does* have a stored procedure language, foreign keys, and views, etc. But I haven't yet had the opportunity to test it's speed in a real production environment. It is on my list of things to do to test it with similar production data to see if it deserves the kudos I regularly heap upon it.
Bottom line is however, anybody trying to use MySQL in an enterprise is kidding themselves.
Anyhow, how can JBoss have an open source J2EE implementation ?(which is lightyears better, in my opinion) Maybe becasue they don't have so many suits trying to put a spin on the product in order to get it to sell.
It really seems like Lutris is just trying to transition back to the closed source model because they can't sell an inferior, late J2EE application server when you can see what is 'really under the hood' - an almost J2EE 1.1 compliant application server. They are chasing JBoss' and others' tails on a prior standard even.
I used enhydra 3.01 for a major project and it was/is quite good: scalable, robust and fault tolerant, but it seems to have been poisoned by commercial interest and delays in implementing J2EE.
I am working full time in the 'smokin hot' economy and finishing my undergrad at the same time. There is alot to be said for *directly* tying your career to your formal training. Certain things that wouldn't sink in without job experience are much more profound and applicable. At least that is my experience as a software developer and a CS student in my last year. Also, there is a depth of understanding about the fundamentals and behind the scenes concepts that you can't get by just getting a certification/degree or just being in the industry. Where in your MCSE class do you learn about interrupt service vectors or compiler design? Or, conversely, would any of the formally defined steps in Software development 101 actually sink in at all if you hadn't had the experience to realize they really aren't a load of arbitrary crap? It seems reasonably obvious to me that people who forsake one for the other, e.g. pure academics or experience only techies, are shortchanging themselves in the long run. Pure academics will always have a disconnected idealized view of the world and experience based techies will spend the rest of their lives scrambling to pick up the specifics of the 'Latest New Thing' without understanding it's basis or history at all. This also assumes you are aspiring to be a good computer scientist. If you are simply gambling for a quick buck or an IPO, by all means just dive in. Unfortunately, there are too many people like this today and the direct result is the sorry state of the industry today.