<...RISC OS had some neat stuff, such as the whole Application directory thing, which Apple now pretty much use in the form of Bundles. Unfortunately, it fell way behind after RISC OS 3.1. The RISC PC was OK, but RISC OS 3.5 had too few enhancements, and when Phoebe was cancelled at the last minute, RISC OS 4 didn't see the light of day until it was too late....>
Mate, Apple's bundles come from NEXTSTEP, and I doubt NeXT were influenced by acorn at the time
Using sequence objects to generate serial IDs are more flexible than auto increment columns IMHO. This is how Oracle actually did it the last time I worked with Oracle
Version 7.1 of Postgresql , which came out last week supports unlimited row lengths for blobs without resorting to large objects
The documentation is fine. Check the online stuff at the website, or buy manuals from Great Bridge
or just
search Amazon.com on the term postgresql for commercial stuff
BTW, Postgresql follows ANSI SQL far more closely than MySQL attempts to , so almost any standard reference book should help you along with the query side. You don't have to use the source
But put a 700 MHz Linux box right next to a 50 MHz Amiga (which is exactly the situation that I have at home) and then copy a few megabytes from a CD to hard disk. See how slow the GUI gets?Now try it on the Amiga. Ah, smooooooth.
The answer to this, sir,is to abandon IDE and use decent SCSI hardware.
Well , talking of nobility how do you know that this wasn't just a case of misunderstanding ?
Open source licensing probably hasn't got that great a mindshare in the Windows development world and maybe they thought the licence was a spoof, or simply couldn't be bothered to read it or take the time to consider the issues completley I'm not condoning their actions, my point is, you just don't know. A little benefit of the doubt can be quite helpful
They should be supported for their stance in ultimately doing the right thing, hopefully acting as an example to others to follow in their footsteps on similar issues.
Here's hoping that their product and company does well out of this decision , and pray that they aren't snowed under with hate mail and pestered by outraged small minded slashdot-reading script kiddie zealots (you know who you are)
I mean , fetishizing hardware is one thing , but guys.. its a machine, shot into space and left adrift and monitored remotely. It doesn't do peace and slumber and human shit..
It had a finite lifespan , accept it and move on:-)
I don't know about the average reader of this site , but the suggested home entertainment useages for this item would be extremely impractical for me because
1 - it costs 4 thousand dollars
2 - I don't have a rackmount cabinet in my house
This suddenly makes the macintosh a far more enticing prospect as a hardware platform. Nicely built non-intel SMP linux box = good thing.
However I wonder how good the actually support is. I mean intel SMP under linux sucked for quite a while and this is only an initial patch. I would not be surprised if the MacOS X beta had the performance edga, at least for a while.
What I really pont in BeOS on multiprocessor G4s. That would rock.
The link to forbes was one from an earlier slashdot story. I think they meant to point out something else entirely in this story,but goofed. And then the moderators mod me up to three, and the link remains unchanged !
Funny old world
It never existed. They claimed that they had successfully rolled it out at the start of June , and were implementing a "staggered roll out" over the hundreds of thousands of pre-registered users who had signed up for it( the deal was pre registration only). Presumably the "staggerered" bit was to convince anyone that had not been contacted with details of how to access the service yet to think that they were part of a later stage of the process.
The entertainingly cynical UK tech website the register has been running an entertaining campaign over the last few days appealing for any real user of the service to come forwards. This has been building up in the media, until finally AV admit the service is totally phantom, as are the happy satisfied users that they have been referring to in previous press releases.
It was all an out and out lie. And now they are trying to pin the blame on BT ( the now privatised, previously state-owned telco that has a near monopoly ovet the UK tel infrastructure). This despite the fact that there are other (admittedly smaller) ISP's who are successfully offering a similar service right now.
I wonder what Alta Vista are going to do with all of the user data they collected for pre registration ? Donate it to charity perhaps ? [hollow sarcastic laugh]
The state of the UK ISP is a real mess. I have just moved house ( I live in Bristol ) and I can't decide what the best company / route is for connectivity - DSL and cable modems are both real soon now vapourware in this part of the country, BT changes tack every two minutes , and smoke and mirrors tactics like this AV stuff make it even more confusing.
Alta Vista got a hell of a lot of PR for this in the UK, government commendations, newspaper front pages etc. I feel that their behaviour over this is criminal, and I would like to see them punished
Hey man, its what Open Source is all about. If you and enough of your fellow thinkers don't like something, feel free to do it yourself. More power to all the elbows involved. Its the whole benefit of truly open licenses.
I should imagine , seeing as plenty of references have been made to Linus using a variety of Sony Vaio's as his preferred laptops, hardware support on these toys should not be too much of an issue. Maybe even if it does have a software modem.
Some of them do work with operating sytems other than Windows already. Its just a question of drivers.
I appreciate this. But I find it incredibly hard to believe that spam, or at least spam of the caliber that I generally see works at all. Have you ever followed any up ?
I couldn't really understand whether this was supposed to be a joke or not , when I first saw it linked of memepool a couple of days ago.
Things like this just make my mind boggle. Advertising / spam on the net really drives me nuts. Why do people seem to think that by pissing off thousands of customers simultaneously thay will somehow pick up revenues ? Where do these people keep their clue ??
I really fail to see the point of this sharezilla thing, unless its just designed to be a complete GNUtella spoiler that drives people away from the service.
Or maybe its a gag. Whatever.
Marketeers are worse than lawyers. And adverisers are the worst form of Marketeer , cos they con themselves that they are "creatives". And as for advertisers that work in "new media" they have to be the lowest of all
Looks like they've paid some attention to the look of things this time. An improvement to be sure, as KDE1.x,in my opinion is butt ugly.
The icons they show in the filebrowser are really nice looking, crisp with good colours and still identifiable.Colorful but not garish. The same for the toolbar icons. The overall color schemes cried "Aqua" to this observer.
But having mentioned toolbars, the spreadsheet screenshot was ludicrous ! Half the real estate seemed to be taken up by icons and toolbar widgets ! I assume these can be turned off.(GNOME suffers far too much from chunky button syndrome as well). Toolbar buttons are fine for quick shortcuts guys, but they take away space from the application itself.
The most sensible thing in the article by far is the minimum font size in the web browser ! All web browsers should have this. Tiny fonts suck!
Kudos to all these guys for putting all the work in to continually improve their offerings. I don't really go much for the Linux desktop environment thing, but I know plenty of people who wouldn't think of using a computer without one. The KDE and GNOME teams are doing a really important job
My compliments to the graphic design team as well. I think it looks really clean and attractive as I said.
Now please can you sort out the licensing furore ? Thank you.
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Mate, Apple's bundles come from NEXTSTEP, and I doubt NeXT were influenced by acorn at the time
BTW, Postgresql follows ANSI SQL far more closely than MySQL attempts to , so almost any standard reference book should help you along with the query side. You don't have to use the source
In the UK, the religious question on the census form is quite clearly marked as "optional"
The answer to this, sir ,is to abandon IDE and use decent SCSI hardware.
What are you downloading ? There are no files on source forge. This is vapourware
Open source licensing probably hasn't got that great a mindshare in the Windows development world and maybe they thought the licence was a spoof, or simply couldn't be bothered to read it or take the time to consider the issues completley I'm not condoning their actions, my point is, you just don't know. A little benefit of the doubt can be quite helpful
They should be supported for their stance in ultimately doing the right thing, hopefully acting as an example to others to follow in their footsteps on similar issues.
Here's hoping that their product and company does well out of this decision , and pray that they aren't snowed under with hate mail and pestered by outraged small minded slashdot-reading script kiddie zealots (you know who you are)
I'll get my coat
It had a finite lifespan , accept it and move on
Imagine the Office paperclip a few years down the line if its capble of changing, learning and growing in strength
You are currently using:
Netscape Communicator 5.0
English language, 5.0 (X11; en-US, Weak or Unknown Encryption
1 - it costs 4 thousand dollars
2 - I don't have a rackmount cabinet in my house
That should obviously read
I'm just breaking in a new keyboard, but I have no idea how my fingers managed that transposition.
However I wonder how good the actually support is. I mean intel SMP under linux sucked for quite a while and this is only an initial patch. I would not be surprised if the MacOS X beta had the performance edga, at least for a while.
What I really pont in BeOS on multiprocessor G4s. That would rock.
Funny old world
But the service is legendarily unreliable round these parts. And the cable modem rollout has been pushed back before ;o)
The entertainingly cynical UK tech website the register has been running an entertaining campaign over the last few days appealing for any real user of the service to come forwards. This has been building up in the media, until finally AV admit the service is totally phantom, as are the happy satisfied users that they have been referring to in previous press releases.
It was all an out and out lie. And now they are trying to pin the blame on BT ( the now privatised, previously state-owned telco that has a near monopoly ovet the UK tel infrastructure). This despite the fact that there are other (admittedly smaller) ISP's who are successfully offering a similar service right now.
I wonder what Alta Vista are going to do with all of the user data they collected for pre registration ? Donate it to charity perhaps ? [hollow sarcastic laugh]
The state of the UK ISP is a real mess. I have just moved house ( I live in Bristol ) and I can't decide what the best company / route is for connectivity - DSL and cable modems are both real soon now vapourware in this part of the country, BT changes tack every two minutes , and smoke and mirrors tactics like this AV stuff make it even more confusing.
Alta Vista got a hell of a lot of PR for this in the UK, government commendations, newspaper front pages etc. I feel that their behaviour over this is criminal, and I would like to see them punished
Some of them do work with operating sytems other than Windows already. Its just a question of drivers.
Things like this just make my mind boggle. Advertising / spam on the net really drives me nuts. Why do people seem to think that by pissing off thousands of customers simultaneously thay will somehow pick up revenues ? Where do these people keep their clue ??
I really fail to see the point of this sharezilla thing, unless its just designed to be a complete GNUtella spoiler that drives people away from the service.
Or maybe its a gag. Whatever.
Marketeers are worse than lawyers. And adverisers are the worst form of Marketeer , cos they con themselves that they are "creatives". And as for advertisers that work in "new media" they have to be the lowest of all
The icons they show in the filebrowser are really nice looking, crisp with good colours and still identifiable.Colorful but not garish. The same for the toolbar icons. The overall color schemes cried "Aqua" to this observer.
But having mentioned toolbars, the spreadsheet screenshot was ludicrous ! Half the real estate seemed to be taken up by icons and toolbar widgets ! I assume these can be turned off.(GNOME suffers far too much from chunky button syndrome as well). Toolbar buttons are fine for quick shortcuts guys, but they take away space from the application itself.
The most sensible thing in the article by far is the minimum font size in the web browser ! All web browsers should have this. Tiny fonts suck!
Kudos to all these guys for putting all the work in to continually improve their offerings. I don't really go much for the Linux desktop environment thing, but I know plenty of people who wouldn't think of using a computer without one. The KDE and GNOME teams are doing a really important job
My compliments to the graphic design team as well. I think it looks really clean and attractive as I said.
Now please can you sort out the licensing furore ? Thank you.