I went to one in Pasadena, and another at UCLA that was the pay-per-view version. Both had very similar content. I've read the old book and the new, and am a regular on the wtr section, yet I still came away with more than I expected. It's amazing once Greenspun gets into the backend of the site - stuff you'd never see. The code quality is even better than I ever considered. If it's the free one - go!!! If it's the ppv, it's still probably worth it. This guy really gets it.
You go nail 'em boy!!! It's about time these scumbags quit offering stuff that they ain't going to back up. I got ripped off buying a hoover in their free-flights scam. More fool me for believing a big corporations line.
It certainly won't be any of these . Despite IBM talking the talk very well, I'd like to see more consistent action. I'm thrilled with all the s/w stuff they've done, but a hardware strategy would be nice, too.... (and yes, I'm well aware of VA Research, Penguin and other fine companies etc.)
Here in corporate land, where NT desktop licenses cost several hundred $$$ I get to kick back and admin my SAMBA boxes, while using the $9k I saved on NT server licenses to buy RedHat toys, O'Reilly books, and other goodies. Even $89 is cheaper than a windows 98 license.... and if you know what you're doing go for the $1.99. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm also able to copy my purchased cd and give it away to my LUG friends, remember?
If a company offering proprietary s/w that used a 'sliver' of GPL code were to publicly dispute what a portion meant.....I would seriously doubt that their market credibility remained. Few people would buy s/w that had a publicly known potential to be rendered 'free' and available for mass copying (don't forget, GPL s/w can be copied en masse quite legitimately).
And we're doing our entire dynamic intranet off it, with an Apache/PHP combo. Only problems so far:-
Postmaster crashes when a psql client dies
Any leftover psql processes prevent Postmaster from restarting.
Other than that, looks solid so far...
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It took me a while to pick up speed with my NT -> Linux switchout. However, it's saved me megabucks in uptime, stability, and flexibility. The least cost in the equation is the NT licences I didn't need (@$8000 for my 5 WAN servers). Running NT just cost too damn much, and it's hard to look good with server crashes. Our NT guys still have one crash a week.....
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My intranet site is chock full o' CSS and it looks just fine, so it's not that.... (unless they are specifying 'doze only fonts)
Is it me, or are more sites these days using a font set that is just plain ugly in netscape on Linux?
That's what it's for. I have no users running as administrator, yet they all synch with the clock on the server (which is SAMBA on Linux of course!)
visit nt FAQ for a method of doing it via scripting (should make life a little easier).
I went to one in Pasadena, and another at UCLA that was the pay-per-view version. Both had very similar content. I've read the old book and the new, and am a regular on the wtr section, yet I still came away with more than I expected. It's amazing once Greenspun gets into the backend of the site - stuff you'd never see. The code quality is even better than I ever considered. If it's the free one - go!!! If it's the ppv, it's still probably worth it. This guy really gets it.
Hey - conspiracy freaks, this is what normally happens to trademarks when you become a publicly traded company.
You don't need to reboot Linux systems to keep them fresh. I have many systems with 6-8 month uptimes. There is no degredation of performance.
You go nail 'em boy!!! It's about time these scumbags quit offering stuff that they ain't going to back up. I got ripped off buying a hoover in their free-flights scam. More fool me for believing a big corporations line.
This is great news, but I'm amazed to hear that Slashdot will have to be ported to IIS to complete the deal. I guess the big time is here!
It certainly won't be any of these . Despite IBM talking the talk very well, I'd like to see more consistent action. I'm thrilled with all the s/w stuff they've done, but a hardware strategy would be nice, too....
(and yes, I'm well aware of VA Research, Penguin and other fine companies etc.)
Here in corporate land, where NT desktop licenses cost several hundred $$$ I get to kick back and admin my SAMBA boxes, while using the $9k I saved on NT server licenses to buy RedHat toys, O'Reilly books, and other goodies.
Even $89 is cheaper than a windows 98 license.... and if you know what you're doing go for the $1.99. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm also able to copy my purchased cd and give it away to my LUG friends, remember?
If a company offering proprietary s/w that used a 'sliver' of GPL code were to publicly dispute what a portion meant.....I would seriously doubt that their market credibility remained. Few people would buy s/w that had a publicly known potential to be rendered 'free' and available for mass copying (don't forget, GPL s/w can be copied en masse quite legitimately).
This still doesn't prevent the corrupted weaselish hidden bug system they use to prevent competitors s/w from running correctly.
But I'm well into my m$ phaseout anyway, so the bowel movements in Redmond have a lessening impact on me on a daily basis.
You too can phase out windoze with SAMBA
- Postmaster crashes when a psql client dies
- Any leftover psql processes prevent Postmaster from restarting.
Other than that, looks solid so far...It took me a while to pick up speed with my NT -> Linux switchout. However, it's saved me megabucks in uptime, stability, and flexibility. The least cost in the equation is the NT licences I didn't need (@$8000 for my 5 WAN servers). Running NT just cost too damn much, and it's hard to look good with server crashes. Our NT guys still have one crash a week.....