Its a good point there. I work with a Microsoft shop but somewhere along the line they decided to support Oracle databases running on Redhat. Since then, I'd say the majority of our customers running Oracle have plumped for Redhat (the others won't until they upgrade). I wonder if Oracle will be trying to scrap this in favour of Solaris (not OpenSolaris surely) and charge lots of money, but I doubt any of them will migrate - migrating from Windows to Redhat makes a lot of sense, even if the cost is roughly the same overall. Migrating to a more expensive Solaris OS probably won't.
Sun made itself as irrelevant as anyone else, they were the Apple of the server world, selling overpriced hardware that wasn't much good compared to the equivalent you could get from IBM (we did this, 2 pedestal servers, the IBM was 4x the computing power, cheaper, and a much better build quality). It wasn't Linux that killed them.
of course you assume that the OP, when compiling from source, does change the compiler flags to take advantage of the small performance gains. Chances are, he's just recompiling to the exact same binaries that he could have directly grabbed from the repository. Only without taking so long to download and compile.
Its really not worth the hassle, binary distributions are much easier to work with, and you can even rollback easier if you set yum/apt-get up correctly.
Thing is, boyfriend is jealous 'cos he doesn't have 5000 nubile teen girls as friends, whereas Girlfriend is just happy to get mindless attention from them, she's never going to meet any of those losers.
The trick is just to relax about it all, if your gf flirts she could be unhappy with you and looking for an alternative (but she can do this silently too, and you should be able to tell anyway). If she does that and you let her, not only is she happy, calm and confident, but also she'll think you're great and understanding (ha! just don't tell her otherwise). If you can park your jealous, possessive ego, you should be able to build a strong relationship instead of fighting over nothing.
Unfortunately, that makes sense to managers only. Those of us at the coal face know that you can hire cheaper, less skilled programmers and let them loose with easy-to-use languages (eg Visual Basic) and you will get a monstrous mess that is impossible to maintain.
If you make them use a reasonably difficult language, most of them will not bother becoming programmers. This a good thing.
One other point that is never noted in these ideas to simplify programming and make programmers generic 'coding resources' is that a good, experienced, coder can do more work ( that is better quality) than half a dozen cheap, less skilled coders. This is never factored into management ideas of how you can outsource your coding and get the same quality for a tenth the price. This could be why a lot of outsourced contracts don't tend to last unless they're lost in a sea of big-corporate bureaucracy.
Oh, and don;t forget that the more you chop and change programming languages, the less programmers you have who are experienced using them - you will get C programmers who have 40 years experience, you tend to get programmers who've "had a tinker" with languages like runrev.
The Brits have peculiar words for many things. Money is referred to as "goolies" in slang, so you should for instance say "I'd love to come to the pub but I haven't got any goolies." "Quid" is the modern word for what was once called a "shilling" - the equivalent of seventeen cents American.
If you are fond of someone, you should tell him he is a "great tosser" - he will be touched. The English are a notoriously tactile, demonstrative people, and if you want to fit in you should hold hands with your acquaintances and tossers when you walk down the street.
Habits Ever since their Tory government wholeheartedly embraced full union with Europe, the Brits have been attempting to adopt certain continental customs, such as the large midday meal followed by a two or three hour siesta, which they call a "wank." As this is still a fairly new practice in Britain, it is not uncommon for people to oversleep (alarm clocks, alas, do not work there due to the magnetic pull from Greenwich). If you are late for supper, simply apologise and explain that you were having a wank - everyone will understand and forgive you.
Universities University archives and manuscript collections are still governed by quaint mediaeval rules retained out of respect for tradition; hence patrons are expected to bring to the reading rooms their own ink-pots and a small knife for sharpening their quills. Observing these customs will signal to the librarians that you are "in the know"- one of the inner circles, as it were, for the rules are unwritten and not posted anywhere in the library. Likewise, it is customary to kiss the librarian on both cheeks when he/she brings a manuscript you've requested, a practice dating back to the reign of Henry VI.
One of the most delightful ways to spend an afternoon in Oxford or Cambridge is gliding gently down the river in one of their flat-bottomed boats, which you propel using a long pole. This is known as "cottaging". Many of the boats (called "yer-i-nals") are privately owned by the colleges, but there are some places that rent them to the public by the hour. Just tell a professor or policeman that you are interested in doing some cottaging and would like to know where the public yerinals are. The poles must be treated with vegetable oil to protect them from the water, so it's a good idea to buy a can of Mazola and have it on you when you ask directions to the yerinals. That way people will know you are an experienced cottager.
Food British cuisine enjoys a well deserved reputation as the most sublime gastronomic pleasure available to man. Thanks to today's robust dollar, the American traveller can easily afford to dine out several times a week (rest assured that a British meal is worth interrupting your afternoon wank for).
Few foreigners are aware that there are several grades of meat in the UK. The best cuts of meat, like the best bottles of gin, bear Her Majesty's seal, called the British Stamp of Excellence (BSE). When you go to a fine restaurant, tell your waiter you want BSE beef and won't settle for anything less. If he balks at your request, custom dictates that you jerk your head imperiously back and forth while rolling your eyes to show him who is boss. Once the waiter realizes you are a person of discriminating taste, he may offer to let you peruse the restaurant's list of exquisite British wines. If he does not, you should order one anyway. The best wine grapes grow on the steep, chalky hillsides of Yorkshire and East Anglia-try an Ely '84 or Ripon '88 for a rare treat indeed. When the bill for your meal comes it will show a suggested amount. Pay whatever you think is fair, unless you plan to dine there again, in which case you should simply walk out; the restaurant host will understand that he should run a tab for you.
Transportation Public taxis are subsidized by the Her Majesty's Government. A taxi ride in London
Try the local bitters, see if they have any local breweries, try anything you've never heard of.
Amen to that. In fact try everything that sounds stupid or wierd. Our beers aren't called 'Bud Cool' or 'Rugged Macho' or anything like that, they have quirky names like 'Crop Circle', 'Granny wouldn't like it', or 'Piddle in the Hole'. Try them all, there are hundreds of different hop and malt combinations that make some of them similar to pils, but nicer, through to ones that look and taste like chocolate.
you've got to be right about that. I think its more like Google is too large an organisation, the left hand no longer knows what the right hand is doing, or the teams that have sprung up refuse to talk to each other, each thinking they're the one that has it right and won't accept ideas not invented here.
It would make sense to run a bigger Android on the netbooks, as ChromeOS appears to be little more than a cryptographically-checked chrome browser. I'd put my money on Ubuntu (plus its cloud) over Google with its increasingly confused product catalogue. The only thing Google has that will make this work is its market brand.
However, I tend to use other apps whilst I have the browser open. Some of them use lots of RAM too, leaving little left for the browser. I also don't like the way it has to swap loads of it back into memory when I return to the browser - RAM is cheap but IO bandwidth is still a limited resource. I also use a 32 bit OS so I'm limited by how much RAM I can fit.
So, I'd still much prefer a small, tight, efficient browser even if I had unlimited RAM to waste.
I believe you've missed out Winforms, Silverlight and WTL. I think there's more but just can't remember them. You're not the only one to have this issue, look at what MiniMicrosoft (who is a senior MS guy) says:
Dev Div: If I had to sit down tomorrow and write a casual application for the PC, my mind would fork itself in about five different directions. Native with ATL? WPF? Silverlight? An HTA? And what's up with XNA? If I want to write an app for the Zune (which Zune?) what do I do? And can it run on some future mobile device? And the PC? And Xbox?
And how do I share it? How do I sell it? And, ah, crap, you mean you just released a whole new version of C# / Silverlight / XNA that I have to go and relearn? Maybe those free Starbucks coffee dispensers wasn't a good idea...
If anything, I'd probably be pretty damn tempted to invest time learning Adobe AIR. And I'm thinking that while smack dab in the middle of the Microsoft bubble. There are a lot of Partners in Dev Div, and I'm not seeing any benefit from their concentration. The Windows client should be the premiere development platform. It's not. What am I missing?
Lets just be thankful you didn't want to talk about database access technologies!
Perhaps this is the problem with FF memory usage, some people say "its using way too much RAM" whilst other people are saying "600 MB is nothing".
I see it start to slow down at 250Mb, I'm pretty certain its cached items - images etc, so if I knew how to turn off caching altogether maybe that's have a good effect for us all.
really. I don't give a fig whether she'd be good or bad as president. All I know is she couldn't be stupider than say, Reagan, or Bush; given today's politics is much more about style over substance, she'd probably make an excellent president.
That's the thing you should be worrying about, not Palin herself.
However, all they have to do is claim they're addicted to the internet, and that withholding it is against their human rights, and they'll be provided with 24/7 unlimited download with large capacity bandwidth for free.
So its a good job we're imprisoning these people to punish them.
So you should be perfectly able to install any.NET update from WU safe in the knowledge that it is not affecting your non-.NET applications, like Firefox.
I wish these folks would just sit on the sidelines and let people come up with real solutions
Perhaps you should ignore the media hype about the Fat duck and its so-called 'molecular cooking' (which is just a term used to describe thinking what happens when you cook - like protein chains tightening under heat, etc).
For real solutions, take a look at what he did with the restaurant chain Little Chef. This was an iconic British brand from years back that was in decline, so he came in to make menus for it that would fit its price range and quick cook requirements. He did very well at it too. There were 2 programmes on Channel 4 about it, take a look.
The other programmes he did were to reinvent ancient recipes, and to show the 'ultimate' way of cooking favourite dishes. His steak one was impressive if impractical for your average home cook.
# The.NET Compact Framework is a cut-down version of the full-fat framework, stripping out many things that aren't used in small environments. Windows Mobile devices commonly ship with Compact.NET, as does the Xbox 360. # The.NET Micro Framework has the smallest footprint of all, and is designed for devices with very limited resources.
So its not even good enough for mobile phones, maybe if you want to run your dishwasher on.NET, then it might be useful - except its got a very limited set of framework classes and a cut-down GC. This is the cannabis edition, designed to get you hooked enough to need to more powerful.NET CE, and then the full.NET framework.
I suppose you're catching stuff in a net travelling in the same direction as the junk so it'll be a gentle catch rather than a hard collision. That shouldn't create any more micro bits of shrapnel.
I can;t answer for the BSA, but MS did just this at our company - its an America-based multinational, so maybe MS has more say with us than they do with a, say, UK company.
Yep, do it. Take the money as a little reward for dong the right thing..
What will happen to the company is: Microsoft will send a letter to the CEO informing him that they will be performing an audit, that they are entitled to do as he is running some form of Microsoft software (I doubt they need to check that's true). Then they will tell him that he needs to run audit software in the company and send the results to MS, and that they know of a few companies who will perform this audit for a reasonable fee, and no, running it all yourself of not acceptable.
Once he's done that, they will check how many licences they think the company needs to become 'compliant' and demand proof they have that many purchased. At this point, they also offer to bill for unlicenced software that accidentally or mistakenly was installed.
End result: the company pays to audit itself, and pays MS for a load of licences. Usually they end up paying extra for things people have installed but never use any more.
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Its a good point there. I work with a Microsoft shop but somewhere along the line they decided to support Oracle databases running on Redhat. Since then, I'd say the majority of our customers running Oracle have plumped for Redhat (the others won't until they upgrade). I wonder if Oracle will be trying to scrap this in favour of Solaris (not OpenSolaris surely) and charge lots of money, but I doubt any of them will migrate - migrating from Windows to Redhat makes a lot of sense, even if the cost is roughly the same overall. Migrating to a more expensive Solaris OS probably won't.
Sun made itself as irrelevant as anyone else, they were the Apple of the server world, selling overpriced hardware that wasn't much good compared to the equivalent you could get from IBM (we did this, 2 pedestal servers, the IBM was 4x the computing power, cheaper, and a much better build quality). It wasn't Linux that killed them.
of course you assume that the OP, when compiling from source, does change the compiler flags to take advantage of the small performance gains. Chances are, he's just recompiling to the exact same binaries that he could have directly grabbed from the repository. Only without taking so long to download and compile.
Its really not worth the hassle, binary distributions are much easier to work with, and you can even rollback easier if you set yum/apt-get up correctly.
Thing is, boyfriend is jealous 'cos he doesn't have 5000 nubile teen girls as friends, whereas Girlfriend is just happy to get mindless attention from them, she's never going to meet any of those losers.
The trick is just to relax about it all, if your gf flirts she could be unhappy with you and looking for an alternative (but she can do this silently too, and you should be able to tell anyway). If she does that and you let her, not only is she happy, calm and confident, but also she'll think you're great and understanding (ha! just don't tell her otherwise). If you can park your jealous, possessive ego, you should be able to build a strong relationship instead of fighting over nothing.
...the correct word is 'fewer', not 'less'. Sorry. It's just a fetish and pet peeve with me.
man, unless there's a busty girl whipping you ever time you spell something wrong, you need a better fetish :)
Unfortunately, that makes sense to managers only. Those of us at the coal face know that you can hire cheaper, less skilled programmers and let them loose with easy-to-use languages (eg Visual Basic) and you will get a monstrous mess that is impossible to maintain.
If you make them use a reasonably difficult language, most of them will not bother becoming programmers. This a good thing.
One other point that is never noted in these ideas to simplify programming and make programmers generic 'coding resources' is that a good, experienced, coder can do more work ( that is better quality) than half a dozen cheap, less skilled coders. This is never factored into management ideas of how you can outsource your coding and get the same quality for a tenth the price. This could be why a lot of outsourced contracts don't tend to last unless they're lost in a sea of big-corporate bureaucracy.
Oh, and don;t forget that the more you chop and change programming languages, the less programmers you have who are experienced using them - you will get C programmers who have 40 years experience, you tend to get programmers who've "had a tinker" with languages like runrev.
no, I think they'd also be amused by the joke.
It has a good pedigree, following from Monty Python's Hungarian phrasebook joke.
oh oh oh! I know this one... (but a little dated)
Advice for tourists
The Brits have peculiar words for many things. Money is referred to as "goolies" in slang, so you should for instance say "I'd love to come to the pub but I haven't got any goolies." "Quid" is the modern word for what was once called a "shilling" - the equivalent of seventeen cents American.
If you are fond of someone, you should tell him he is a "great tosser" - he will be touched. The English are a notoriously tactile, demonstrative people, and if you want to fit in you should hold hands with your acquaintances and tossers when you walk down the street.
Habits
Ever since their Tory government wholeheartedly embraced full union with Europe, the Brits have been attempting to adopt certain continental customs, such as the large midday meal followed by a two or three hour siesta, which they call a "wank." As this is still a fairly new practice in Britain, it is not uncommon for people to oversleep (alarm clocks, alas, do not work there due to the magnetic pull from Greenwich). If you are late for supper, simply apologise and explain that you were having a wank - everyone will understand and forgive you.
Universities
University archives and manuscript collections are still governed by quaint mediaeval rules retained out of respect for tradition; hence patrons are expected to bring to the reading rooms their own ink-pots and a small knife for sharpening their quills. Observing these customs will signal to the librarians that you are "in the know"- one of the inner circles, as it were, for the rules are unwritten and not posted anywhere in the library. Likewise, it is customary to kiss the librarian on both cheeks when he/she brings a manuscript you've requested, a practice dating back to the reign of Henry VI.
One of the most delightful ways to spend an afternoon in Oxford or Cambridge is gliding gently down the river in one of their flat-bottomed boats, which you propel using a long pole. This is known as "cottaging". Many of the boats (called "yer-i-nals") are privately owned by the colleges, but there are some places that rent them to the public by the hour. Just tell a professor or policeman that you are interested in doing some cottaging and would like to know where the public yerinals are. The poles must be treated with vegetable oil to protect them from the water, so it's a good idea to buy a can of Mazola and have it on you when you ask directions to the yerinals. That way people will know you are an experienced cottager.
Food
British cuisine enjoys a well deserved reputation as the most sublime gastronomic pleasure available to man. Thanks to today's robust dollar, the American traveller can easily afford to dine out several times a week (rest assured that a British meal is worth interrupting your afternoon wank for).
Few foreigners are aware that there are several grades of meat in the UK. The best cuts of meat, like the best bottles of gin, bear Her Majesty's seal, called the British Stamp of Excellence (BSE). When you go to a fine restaurant, tell your waiter you want BSE beef and won't settle for anything less. If he balks at your request, custom dictates that you jerk your head imperiously back and forth while rolling your eyes to show him who is boss. Once the waiter realizes you are a person of discriminating taste, he may offer to let you peruse the restaurant's list of exquisite British wines. If he does not, you should order one anyway. The best wine grapes grow on the steep, chalky hillsides of Yorkshire and East Anglia-try an Ely '84 or Ripon '88 for a rare treat indeed. When the bill for your meal comes it will show a suggested amount. Pay whatever you think is fair, unless you plan to dine there again, in which case you should simply walk out; the restaurant host will understand that he should run a tab for you.
Transportation
Public taxis are subsidized by the Her Majesty's Government. A taxi ride in London
London is good for all the fancy museums, but get out of town - go to the Midlands and see some old stonework, like Kenilworth or Warwick castle. Have a wander round the tourist trail in Stratford or the Tolkein Trail, or just anywhere in the midlands
Try the local bitters, see if they have any local breweries, try anything you've never heard of.
Amen to that. In fact try everything that sounds stupid or wierd. Our beers aren't called 'Bud Cool' or 'Rugged Macho' or anything like that, they have quirky names like 'Crop Circle', 'Granny wouldn't like it', or 'Piddle in the Hole'. Try them all, there are hundreds of different hop and malt combinations that make some of them similar to pils, but nicer, through to ones that look and taste like chocolate.
Google is making an appliance OS, where as SplashTop is designed as a light fast-booting OS.
Forgive me here, but what's the difference?
A light fast-booting OS *is* an appliance OS, it boots up in no time, and lets you run apps, typically ones geared to a specific task.
you've got to be right about that. I think its more like Google is too large an organisation, the left hand no longer knows what the right hand is doing, or the teams that have sprung up refuse to talk to each other, each thinking they're the one that has it right and won't accept ideas not invented here.
It would make sense to run a bigger Android on the netbooks, as ChromeOS appears to be little more than a cryptographically-checked chrome browser. I'd put my money on Ubuntu (plus its cloud) over Google with its increasingly confused product catalogue. The only thing Google has that will make this work is its market brand.
An OS that runs on 90% of computers in the world
Na, the Chinese are still pirating XP.
sure, and I agree RAM is cheap.
However, I tend to use other apps whilst I have the browser open. Some of them use lots of RAM too, leaving little left for the browser. I also don't like the way it has to swap loads of it back into memory when I return to the browser - RAM is cheap but IO bandwidth is still a limited resource. I also use a 32 bit OS so I'm limited by how much RAM I can fit.
So, I'd still much prefer a small, tight, efficient browser even if I had unlimited RAM to waste.
I believe you've missed out Winforms, Silverlight and WTL. I think there's more but just can't remember them. You're not the only one to have this issue, look at what MiniMicrosoft (who is a senior MS guy) says:
Dev Div: If I had to sit down tomorrow and write a casual application for the PC, my mind would fork itself in about five different directions. Native with ATL? WPF? Silverlight? An HTA? And what's up with XNA? If I want to write an app for the Zune (which Zune?) what do I do? And can it run on some future mobile device? And the PC? And Xbox?
And how do I share it? How do I sell it? And, ah, crap, you mean you just released a whole new version of C# / Silverlight / XNA that I have to go and relearn? Maybe those free Starbucks coffee dispensers wasn't a good idea...
If anything, I'd probably be pretty damn tempted to invest time learning Adobe AIR. And I'm thinking that while smack dab in the middle of the Microsoft bubble. There are a lot of Partners in Dev Div, and I'm not seeing any benefit from their concentration. The Windows client should be the premiere development platform. It's not. What am I missing?
Lets just be thankful you didn't want to talk about database access technologies!
and it is still only using about 600 megabytes
Only!?!!
Perhaps this is the problem with FF memory usage, some people say "its using way too much RAM" whilst other people are saying "600 MB is nothing".
I see it start to slow down at 250Mb, I'm pretty certain its cached items - images etc, so if I knew how to turn off caching altogether maybe that's have a good effect for us all.
Think Palpatine, only with fruitier ties.
with love and respect John, "think Palpatine, only fruitier" is more appropriate.
really. I don't give a fig whether she'd be good or bad as president. All I know is she couldn't be stupider than say, Reagan, or Bush; given today's politics is much more about style over substance, she'd probably make an excellent president.
That's the thing you should be worrying about, not Palin herself.
indoors, but without an internet connection.
However, all they have to do is claim they're addicted to the internet, and that withholding it is against their human rights, and they'll be provided with 24/7 unlimited download with large capacity bandwidth for free.
So its a good job we're imprisoning these people to punish them.
Oh, wait....
but it isn't a .NET addon. Its a Firefox addon.
So you should be perfectly able to install any .NET update from WU safe in the knowledge that it is not affecting your non-.NET applications, like Firefox.
Yeah but just imagine how many of those machines also have the Yahoo toolbar installed too!
I wish these folks would just sit on the sidelines and let people come up with real solutions
Perhaps you should ignore the media hype about the Fat duck and its so-called 'molecular cooking' (which is just a term used to describe thinking what happens when you cook - like protein chains tightening under heat, etc).
For real solutions, take a look at what he did with the restaurant chain Little Chef. This was an iconic British brand from years back that was in decline, so he came in to make menus for it that would fit its price range and quick cook requirements. He did very well at it too. There were 2 programmes on Channel 4 about it, take a look.
The other programmes he did were to reinvent ancient recipes, and to show the 'ultimate' way of cooking favourite dishes. His steak one was impressive if impractical for your average home cook.
From TFA:
# The .NET Compact Framework is a cut-down version of the full-fat framework, stripping out many things that aren't used in small environments. Windows Mobile devices commonly ship with Compact .NET, as does the Xbox 360. .NET Micro Framework has the smallest footprint of all, and is designed for devices with very limited resources.
# The
So its not even good enough for mobile phones, maybe if you want to run your dishwasher on .NET, then it might be useful - except its got a very limited set of framework classes and a cut-down GC. This is the cannabis edition, designed to get you hooked enough to need to more powerful .NET CE, and then the full .NET framework.
I suppose you're catching stuff in a net travelling in the same direction as the junk so it'll be a gentle catch rather than a hard collision. That shouldn't create any more micro bits of shrapnel.
I can;t answer for the BSA, but MS did just this at our company - its an America-based multinational, so maybe MS has more say with us than they do with a, say, UK company.
Yep, do it. Take the money as a little reward for dong the right thing..
What will happen to the company is: Microsoft will send a letter to the CEO informing him that they will be performing an audit, that they are entitled to do as he is running some form of Microsoft software (I doubt they need to check that's true). Then they will tell him that he needs to run audit software in the company and send the results to MS, and that they know of a few companies who will perform this audit for a reasonable fee, and no, running it all yourself of not acceptable.
Once he's done that, they will check how many licences they think the company needs to become 'compliant' and demand proof they have that many purchased. At this point, they also offer to bill for unlicenced software that accidentally or mistakenly was installed.
End result: the company pays to audit itself, and pays MS for a load of licences. Usually they end up paying extra for things people have installed but never use any more.
They're quite nice about it, if that help any.