I use MIMEDefang with Sophos antivirus for linux, and it works great. To keep the dat files up to date I subscribed to the new virus announce mailing list, and when procmail sees an email from Sophos, it downloads the new dat file.
It has stopped all of the Sircam mails that we have received here.
Products need release dates. It really doesn't matter (from a production point of view) if you hit them or not, but you MUST have a target. I am a software developer at a software company. We set release dates internally, and sometimes we let our customers know what they are going to be. It is good for us to have a date that all development is forced to stop and serious shakedown testing can start. If we didn't have release dates we might never release any software, or worse, we might just give our customers access to the "nightly build" the equiv of free software projects asking end users to use the cvs snapshot.
A given release might not be that interesting, or have a lot of features, but at least it shipped.
Source code doesn't use Borland C++, therefore the license does not apply to it. What the license is prohibiting is using the Borland compiler to create assembly code, and distributing that.
Finnaly the voice of reason!
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There are no "real" opensource RDBMS's. In fact, there are very few that are worth considering even in the commercial arena. I would not consider running any serious project on anything other than Oracle, Interbase, Sybase, Cache, SQLServer. (I think MS Jet might pass the acid test, but it is single user.)
It is not pig hearts that are so exciting right now, it is pig livers. Here at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, they have used pig livers as bridge transplants. Take out your liver, hook up a pig liver, not even installed in your body but just floating in a bucket of fluid, and then wait until your donor organ shows up. This has worked pretty good. The nice thing about pigs is that they can be bred (or genitically altered) to achieve better matches.
Octave is a good MATLAB clone, but MATLAB is not maple or Mathmatica.
Octave/Matlab are mostly for numerical analysis and matrix operations, not for symbolic math.
For example (AFAIK) both Mathmatica and maple can solve simple derivatives and integrals symbolicly, and MATLAB/Octave cannot. (Major AFAKI disclaimer here).
But what's the big deal, Maple isn't that expensive.
>And in response to a different message, Jupiter's surface gravity is about 2.5 G.
That is at the surface of the atmosphere, since we don't actually know if or how deep the solid ground might be. If you measured the gravity of earth at the top of the visible atmosphere, it would be less than 1 G.
first, I want to admit that I have not checked to see what it is that SP6 breaks in Lotus.
BUT: My company sells a piece of software that will not run (at all) if certain versions of Lotus notes are installed. We don't use or interface with Lotus in any way, we don't replace any system libraries.
So should we attack lotus for breaking our software? Lotus clearly does things that are just dumb dumb dumb, so I am not suprised that small changes in windows-nt could potentally break them. Someone needs to show that MS did this on purpose before we point too many fingers.
(The details of my problem (not the SP6 issue) are that Lotus installs a buggy "hook-dll" that gets linked into all running apps on the machine (can you say virus) and it makes our app crash while it is loading. If you are familar with Win32 programming I am sure you have encountered these stupid hook dlls.)
They work good for us, but you are limited to about 100 machines. (Some of them are just too hard to spell). I like telneting to xenon or argon from silver.
Use Oracle. PostgreSQL is just not ready for prime time.
I have used both, and I have lots of problems with PostgreSQL. Large Object handling in Psql is bad bad bad. I get errors from the database all the time. On the other hand I have dozens of Oracle 8 databases running night and day with no problem.
Oracle has a huge learning curve though. Consider Interbase, it runs on Linux and is very good. It is so simple to admin, no real maintence required.
Machines don't have MAC addresses, ethernet cards do. If you are using dialup then you don't have a MAC address. And if you are using NAT (less likely with IPv6 than IPv4) all the remote site will see is the address of the firewall/router anyway.
I agree, the first time I heard the word Hacker back in the early 80's it was to denote people who broke into others computers. It is only in the last year or two in little holes like/. that anyone ever uses the word "cracker". I am a computer programmer, and a professional. I have a college degree and don't refer to what I do all day as "hacking around in code". Hackers=People who break into computer systems. Crackers=thin crunchy bread.
The two examples they gave are totally wrong. 1) No linux standard has ever really worked / been complete or universally adopted. Why wouldn't RedHat be "lukewarm" on the idea. 2) What else would RedHat sell training for? FreeBSD? Good greif, or is it unfair for RedHat to offer training at all.
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Of course the PC is preferred, when you have a one button mouse, you can't use those nifty right mouse button context menus! ;-)
I use MIMEDefang with Sophos antivirus for linux, and it works great. To keep the dat files up to date I subscribed to the new virus announce mailing list, and when procmail sees an email from Sophos, it downloads the new dat file.
It has stopped all of the Sircam mails that we have received here.
Products need release dates. It really doesn't matter (from a production point of view) if you hit them or not, but you MUST have a target. I am a software developer at a software company. We set release dates internally, and sometimes we let our customers know what they are going to be. It is good for us to have a date that all development is forced to stop and serious shakedown testing can start. If we didn't have release dates we might never release any software, or worse, we might just give our customers access to the "nightly build" the equiv of free software projects asking end users to use the cvs snapshot.
A given release might not be that interesting, or have a lot of features, but at least it shipped.
Source code doesn't use Borland C++, therefore the license does not apply to it. What the license is prohibiting is using the Borland compiler to create assembly code, and distributing that.
There are no "real" opensource RDBMS's. In fact, there are very few that are worth considering even in the commercial arena. I would not consider running any serious project on anything other than Oracle, Interbase, Sybase, Cache, SQLServer. (I think MS Jet might pass the acid test, but it is single user.)
It is not pig hearts that are so exciting right now, it is pig livers. Here at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, they have used pig livers as bridge transplants. Take out your liver, hook up a pig liver, not even installed in your body but just floating in a bucket of fluid, and then wait until your donor organ shows up. This has worked pretty good. The nice thing about pigs is that they can be bred (or genitically altered) to achieve better matches.
Octave is a good MATLAB clone, but MATLAB is not maple or Mathmatica.
Octave/Matlab are mostly for numerical analysis and matrix operations, not for symbolic math.
For example (AFAIK) both Mathmatica and maple can solve simple derivatives and integrals symbolicly, and MATLAB/Octave cannot. (Major AFAKI disclaimer here).
But what's the big deal, Maple isn't that expensive.
At my company we had a masive Half-life deathmatch and we didn't even notice that 12:00 had come for about 10 minutes.
>And in response to a different message, Jupiter's surface gravity is about 2.5 G.
That is at the surface of the atmosphere, since we don't actually know if or how deep the solid ground might be. If you measured the gravity of earth at the top of the visible atmosphere, it would be less than 1 G.
I can already get DSL from one of three ISP's in town, and it is the same price for the line regardless.
~$20 to the ISP. ($22 for the telco's isp)
~$40 to the telco for the line.
~$30 for router rental (unless you pop up the $500 for the thing up front.)
Getting the service directly from the telco is not cheaper, actually it is $2 more.
So this won't save me a dime will it?
first, I want to admit that I have not checked to see what it is that SP6 breaks in Lotus.
BUT: My company sells a piece of software that will not run (at all) if certain versions of Lotus notes are installed. We don't use or interface with Lotus in any way, we don't replace any system libraries.
So should we attack lotus for breaking our software?
Lotus clearly does things that are just dumb dumb dumb, so I am not suprised that small changes in windows-nt could potentally break them. Someone needs to show that MS did this on purpose before we point too many fingers.
(The details of my problem (not the SP6 issue) are that Lotus installs a buggy "hook-dll" that gets linked into all running apps on the machine (can you say virus) and it makes our app crash while it is loading. If you are familar with Win32 programming I am sure you have encountered these stupid hook dlls.)
They work good for us, but you are limited to about 100 machines. (Some of them are just too hard to spell). I like telneting to xenon or argon from silver.
Use Oracle. PostgreSQL is just not ready for prime time.
I have used both, and I have lots of problems with PostgreSQL. Large Object handling in Psql is bad bad bad. I get errors from the database all the time. On the other hand I have dozens of Oracle 8 databases running night and day with no problem.
Oracle has a huge learning curve though. Consider Interbase, it runs on Linux and is very good. It is so simple to admin, no real maintence required.
Machines don't have MAC addresses, ethernet cards do. If you are using dialup then you don't have a MAC address. And if you are using NAT (less likely with IPv6 than IPv4) all the remote site will see is the address of the firewall/router anyway.
Are you nuts? You disagree with your own opinion. I quote: Perhaps a class in critical thinking can help.
I agree, the first time I heard the word Hacker back in the early 80's it was to denote people who broke into others computers. It is only in the last year or two in little holes like /. that anyone ever uses the word "cracker". I am a computer programmer, and a professional. I have a college degree and don't refer to what I do all day as "hacking around in code". Hackers=People who break into computer systems. Crackers=thin crunchy bread.
The two examples they gave are totally wrong. 1) No linux standard has ever really worked / been complete or universally adopted. Why wouldn't RedHat be "lukewarm" on the idea. 2) What else would RedHat sell training for? FreeBSD? Good greif, or is it unfair for RedHat to offer training at all.
Could http://www.stepwise.com be added to a grey box? It is a site for Next/OpenStep/MacOsX news.