yes is true that i like to have strong opinions and yes i could be wrong in most of them but when all the comunity screems at the namespace issue i think core developers should be more diplomatic and offer the good solution not close the eyes and wash the hands and go forward
an semisolution would be an php.ini variable like NAMSPACE_SEPARATOR="::" so if you have an issue with your classes can be reset to "\" or whatever with ini_set
They told me that is not such an great idea http://marc.info/?t=122174931400009&r=1&w=2 and i agree that it will break things but it would make php more friendly to java script programmers I don't know if they researched the solutions to this issue from other programming languges:python , perl , ruby , pascal....
The following was sent to Charles Babcock at Information week in reply to an article entitled:
Open Source Code Contains Security Holes
As a developer and administrator of the Firebird Project I completely reject the statement you made in the above article.
"The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it has verified zero and fixed zero. The active Firefox browser project, on the other hand, has fixed 370 bugs, verified 56 and faces another 246 to verify and fix."
The Firebird project is in fact incredibly active - perhaps a look at this chart on our bug tracker might give you a clue.
Firstly the Firebird project reviewed the Coverity results almost immediately they were published and found that the report isn't actually related to the Firebird engine. This URL shows our appropriate comments from the 7th March 2006: http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=180
Secondly in a more detailed reply to the actual "PR" issue raised by David Maxwell, open source strategist for Coverity. If you had asked about this before printing the article you could have put some facts straight.
Nearly all of the 195 identified defects are in fact actually within an external piece of code we use for character sets and collation sequences ICU
"The International Component for Unicode (ICU) is a mature, portable set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization (I18N) and globalization (G11N), giving applications the same results on all platforms."
A open source project maintained by IBM. I will admit that we are using an older version of ICU (3.0) than is currently available and we will be upgrading to a newer version in the near future. But this is not something that is a trivial exercise, as it means that any database using a different version of ICU would be incompatible with the version we ship. We plan to upgrade ICU in Firebird version 2.5
Other defects reported are one in usr/include/c++/4.0.2/i386-redhat-linux/bits/gthr-default.h Not our problem either....
And there are four defects in firebird2/src/gpre/pretty.cpp a piece of old code used with a pre-compiler (gpre) to make BLR look good. BLR (Binary Language Representation), Firebird's internal compiled language. This doesn't affect the Firebird server at all.
I would like you to print a correction or at least acknowledge the innacuracy of the article as regards Firebird.
i agree that konq 4 rc2 is little bit faster (and it feels a little bit speedier) i had to kill -9 konq 3.x on these tests also i have made some tests with webkit (gtk build) and it was faster than ffx2 and ffx3
i tried and works somehow, i installed firefox and firebird (firebird setup didn't finished) It crashed a lot (many BSODs) and was slow but is interesting that it works:) Think of it as wine++ , it's an open source alternative to windows with many things left to be done I guess is good for hackers who want to learn more about windows os iternals
Here is another review of the new socket/ddr2 amd part It's great to look at fx-62 results - it looks like only that processor (or if you overclock it) can use the available bandwidth
"Frankly speaking, it's the main competitor who must be bustling now. AMD is doing great anyway. At least in terms of CPU performance. Durability of the K8 core and its capacity to adapt to new market realia is admirable: having lived without major modifications through two process technologies, dual cores, and now a new memory controller, this core meticulously responds to each improvement with performance gains. We were very skeptic about future chances of the new AMD platform against the new processor core from Intel (Intel designed the new core nearly from scratch, while AMD K8 is rather old), but our tests warmed up our interest. The situation may turn out not that simple"
mysql could use firebird as storage/transactional/relational engine in future;) if oracle will cut InnoDB (who knows what will happen with it) don't know about licences fit (mpl vs gpl) and with it they could get oracle mode too (for free)
Slashdot Mirror
it does look like an kde4 rippoff
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13515
i think they should install wubi http://wubi-installer.org/ or
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
so they can later can recover from such an mess
yes is true that i like to have strong opinions and yes i could be
wrong in most of them
but when all the comunity screems at the namespace issue i think
core developers should be more diplomatic and offer the good solution not
close the eyes and wash the hands and go forward
an semisolution would be an php.ini variable
like
NAMSPACE_SEPARATOR="::"
so if you have an issue with your classes can be reset to "\" or
whatever with ini_set
i think it's easy to be done if i look at the patch that created the
backslash separator issue
http://pear.php.net/~greg/backslash.sep.patch.txt
maybe they should use /. as namespace separator
They told me that is not such an great idea ....
http://marc.info/?t=122174931400009&r=1&w=2
and i agree that it will break things but it would make php more friendly to java script programmers
I don't know if they researched the solutions to this issue from other programming languges:python , perl , ruby , pascal
was that amazon s3 is using gpgpu
perl6 is done
you can test it by compiling parrotvm with perl6 support
make perl6
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?rakudo
and the perl6 binary is there and you can start porting perl5 to perl6 scripts
or you can test as example an wiki engine written in pure per6
http://viklund.pp.se/november.pdf
There was an qemu+linux screensaver for windows
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scrnsave/
maybe the desktop background should be replaced too ...
with an compiz enabled on
"Petersen showed us the C-compiled versions of Lua, Ruby, Perl, and Python all running on the web in secure Flash sandboxes."
that is an lie with secure Flash sandboxes
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/05/potential_flash_player_issue.html
is like saying secure ActiveX...
isn't that one old l.root server was lost ?
http://blog.icann.org/?p=309
The following was sent to Charles Babcock at Information week in reply to an article entitled:
Open Source Code Contains Security Holes
As a developer and administrator of the Firebird Project I completely reject the statement you made in the above article.
"The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it has verified zero and fixed zero. The active Firefox browser project, on the other hand,
has fixed 370 bugs, verified 56 and faces another 246 to verify and fix."
The Firebird project is in fact incredibly active - perhaps a look at this chart on our bug tracker might give you a clue.
http://tinyurl.com/yt5pgl
Firstly the Firebird project reviewed the Coverity results almost immediately they were published and found that the report isn't actually related to the Firebird engine. This URL shows our appropriate comments from the 7th March 2006:
http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=180
Also more comments from Claudio on the 26th March 2006:
http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=243
Secondly in a more detailed reply to the actual "PR" issue raised by David Maxwell, open source strategist for Coverity. If you had asked about this before printing the article you could have put some facts straight.
Nearly all of the 195 identified defects are in fact actually within an external piece of code we use for character sets and collation sequences ICU
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/index.jsp
"The International Component for Unicode (ICU) is a mature, portable set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization (I18N) and globalization (G11N),
giving applications the same results on all platforms."
A open source project maintained by IBM. I will admit that we are using an older version of ICU (3.0) than is currently available and we will be upgrading to a newer version in the near future.
But this is not something that is a trivial exercise, as it means that any database using a different version of ICU would be incompatible with the version we ship. We plan to upgrade ICU
in Firebird version 2.5
Other defects reported are one in
usr/include/c++/4.0.2/i386-redhat-linux/bits/gthr-default.h
Not our problem either....
And there are four defects in firebird2/src/gpre/pretty.cpp a piece of old code used with a pre-compiler (gpre) to make BLR look good. BLR (Binary Language Representation),
Firebird's internal compiled language. This doesn't affect the Firebird server at all.
I would like you to print a correction or at least acknowledge the innacuracy of the article as regards Firebird.
Regards
Paul Beach
i agree that konq 4 rc2 is little bit faster (and it feels a little bit speedier)
i had to kill -9 konq 3.x on these tests
also i have made some tests with webkit (gtk build) and it was faster than ffx2 and ffx3
There are other alternatives and you can vote with your pocket
and use them
you can migrate mdb to firebird or sqlite or postgres and then send them the feedback
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=openoffice%20firebird&
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/migration-mssql.html
http://kexi-project.org/about.html
opensource projects accept the security patches that are created
I think now redhat 7.x to 9 versions and fedora core 1..4 users are left without a choice
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First they have to fix that before the rpm rewrite
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/
and the future seems to be smart http://labix.org/smart
you can use OpenOffice and Firebird as an MSAccess replacement
+ firebird
,*bsd , solaris x86, cell cpu (recent linux powerpc port completed)
;)
/ 9519833
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=openoffice
Firebird also can replace mssql server, sql express , sql everywhere
good news it works on macos, linux, windows
what we are missing is an vms port for openoffice
any volunteers ?
http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=06/10/19
another official mirror for firebirdsql.org site
;)
you can download and read the news about this release from an official alternate site (ibphoenix)
http://www.ibphoenix.com/
i hope slashdot doesn't kill this one too
we already have flamerobin.org :)
;)
sorry to disappoint you
i think one of our future projects may have an bird name but will not be thunderfox
maybe bird weasel or something
here is the mirrordot version of the page2 44f2f6aff54e05e/index.html
p _id=9028
http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/638353b3594393aa
and here is the download area on sourceforge (if you want to install it)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou
i tried and works somehow, i installed firefox and firebird (firebird setup didn't finished) :)
It crashed a lot (many BSODs) and was slow but is interesting that it works
Think of it as wine++ , it's an open source alternative to windows with many things left to be done
I guess is good for hackers who want to learn more about windows os iternals
Here is another review of the new socket/ddr2 amd part
n -64-fx-62.html/
It's great to look at fx-62 results - it looks like only that processor (or if you overclock it) can
use the available bandwidth
"Frankly speaking, it's the main competitor who must be bustling now. AMD is doing great anyway. At least in terms of CPU performance. Durability of the K8 core and its capacity to adapt to new market realia is admirable: having lived without major modifications through two process technologies, dual cores, and now a new memory controller, this core meticulously responds to each improvement with performance gains. We were very skeptic about future chances of the new AMD platform against the new processor core from Intel (Intel designed the new core nearly from scratch, while AMD K8 is rather old), but our tests warmed up our interest. The situation may turn out not that simple"
AMD Catches Up in Technology and Shoots Out in Performance
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/cpu/amd-athlo
I agree , mysql can be used with many storage back-end (black hole anyone? :))
h tml
I thought they will use firebird/interbase like engine
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/54927/index.
Usual response is to disable it from bios
g _id=12403341
p _id=9028&words=hyperthreading&type_of_search=mlist s
One possible solution (code patch)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?ms
Other threads with hyperthreading problems (slowdowns)
http://sourceforge.net/search/?forum_id=6330&grou
mysql could use firebird as storage/transactional/relational ;) if oracle will cut InnoDB (who knows what will happen with it)
engine in future
don't know about licences fit (mpl vs gpl)
and with it they could get oracle mode too (for free)
http://www.janus-software.com/fb_fyracle.html
is the same as you said
'intl.charset.default' ='ISO-8859-1'
'intl_accept_charsets' ='iso-8859-1,*,utf-8'
for me is set to true and still doesn't crash
ubuntu amd64 ffx 1.0.6