.. is why BG is so utterly, evidently 100% dim about what's actually going on. Figure this: A man who's managed to gather an amount of chash that's literaly impossible to spend in a lifetime say this and actually seems to believe it himself. This is going to be the M$ downfall. Two years ago it would have cost M$ next to nothing to join the service oriented business and everybody would have thought Linux "has been bought by Microsoft", as some people actually still think will happen (honestly). But for some reason these people just don't see the light.
Yeah, so MS is going to be an inhouse software company until the end of their days. Fair enough. So be it. That's perfectly OK with me. Bottom Line: It appears we're actually going to see the end of days for MS.
...semi-official organizations that have a quasi-monopolistic status enshured by german law and that best be plowed under by a swarm of bulldozers the next week. This hideous german burocracy is what's forcing geman economy to it's knees. Take for instance german tax law: 70% of all worldwide publications on tax law are written on german tax law. And for those non-germans here argumenting with "just make your PC not multimedia capable"...that's not how it works. You have a PC? You pay. This law and this organization are so silly it hurts. I actually wounder what they would say about a C64 though.
Finally someone writes a book on PHP and MySQL. And it's even a newbie book on PHP and MySQL! Now I can get to learn this high-end stuff. Crickey, that's so cool. BTW: I actually plan do do something really cool: I wanna write a Web-CMS in PHP and MySQL. How does that sound, hmm?
...are geniuses and deserve every Dollar or Yen they earn, imho. The DS has just enough features to pass as an inovation and offer enthusiasts a reason to by it, but unobstrusive enough so n00bs on mobile gaming can join the fray. Apple does things very much the simular way. The japanese call it "Kuy-Zen". Copy the things or rebuild them, and then start improving them bit by bit. Their philosophy shows in every thing they do nowadays. No wonder Nintendo is doubling its revenue on something like a half year basis.
Absolutely, I mean, PHP in a large enterprise system? WHY NOT! Scales great, right?
Honestly, saying "why don't people use J2EE?" would have been a bit more plausible... but good luck convincing a large financial institution to use PHP on their giant web apps.
Curiously enough, the plattform that the Java people nowadays consider the single largest competitor to Java is PHP. And they're damn right doing so.
...probably have enough patent ammo to sue Kodak to chunky kibbles and then straight on into next wednesday. Allthough actually a fight on this turf could become interesting. While Kodak has lost some of it's gloss (no pun intended) it is an anient tech company by IT standards. If Kodak opens up it's patent chest and MS, Sun and IBM join in on a hackfest, I'll get myself some popcorn and a front row seat.
..but for some reason I can't shake the notion that this is all but a publicity stunt from the Mambo people. Consider this: 1) Mambo isn't the end-all OSS CMS. It's just another drop in the Bucket of a bazillion other Open Source Content management Systems based on PHP and MySQL. And not the best one I might add. 2) The Mambo Site looks cool. These people aren't your usual OSS developers, they are professional designers with a company. The Sites professionality is the single largest reason Mambo has gained that much attention amongst Webbers (in comparsion to other free (beer+speech) CMSes). From the begining it clearly showed: The Mambo Maintainers are top of the line when it comes to advertising and generating interest for their OSS project. 3) The claims are hilariously silly and the code of this incident is so simple it hurts. It takes anyone with more than two braincells less than five minutes to figure out a work around if somebody starts getting pissy with the dev-community. No need what-so-ever to offer a weak spot to some idiot causing trouble.
Say what you want, but to me it all figures. It could be that the claims of this guy actually came in. Once and with a batch of E-Mails - maybe. But I see nothing indicating that he was dragging this to court. No, I actually just see the Mambo people making the best of this little ego-stroking: A publicity stunt.
It could actually really be the LCD lagging. In order to interpolate different resolutions than the "natural" one, they have to buffer the signal. Maybe somethings wrong with that?
Since you're posting a wmv (which is bad attitude) I can't watch it. But from your description I'd say that's very strange indeed. I guess you're using Windows XP. It could be that the Monitor specs/drivers are changed automatically when you switch back and forth and that the one for that LCD causes the lag. Monitors are Plug and Play too, so that's very likely. I'd say you do the Knoppix test some others have recommended already. It could also be an USB Hub in the Monitor (again, don't know if you have one because you've posted a wmv) that causes trouble (interference) via the USB port when the panel is on, thus distorting and lagging the mouse signal.
Those are my two guesses.
And once again, if you think it's a good idea to post stuff like this on/., do please have the common decency to use a video format that's open and free for all to watch. Thank you.
Mini-ITX would be to much fuss for me and price/performance wouldn't be that good either.
I'd actually use an iBook. There's open source software on the net that lets in run in clamshell mode (cover closed), it's unobstrusive and very small (flat), so you can put it behind a panel or something and comes with it's built in emergency screen and KB;-).
You even can leave OS X on it, since it's a good Unix, and a BSD derivate anyway. Fink (Debian OS X) and Gentoo OS X both are in good shape all you need for your OSS needs. You'll feel right at home. For ~1000$ you won't get a better bang for buck.
Do please believe me: the last thing I am is a Britney Spears fan. I couldn't even remember a tune from her.
But to get things straight: She's been professionally singing and performing in Musicals on Broadway since about the age of 10. _professionally_, _singing_, _performing_, _age of 10_. Get it? The age when us kind was gaming on atari or SNES and was at least 3 years away from even doing our first lines of basic. She's a performer and an entertainer, and, believe it or not, she's damn good at it. With the support of an uber-patient mother and father she's worked herself up from that girl next door to somebody who's got a licence to print money. 'Tell you what: Go eat your hearts out.
Bottom Line: I'd suggest the slashdot crowd quit babbling on stuff they can't summon the slightest shade of competence on (popular stage performance and entertainment) and go back to comparing sendmail and postfix. After all, that's what we're actually good at. Thank you.
I actually like his new haircut. Now if only he would finally notice that he can't beat OSS and therefore join the bandwagon, so that I need not talk my mouth fuzzy with convincing my customers to use Linux I'd be cool with the man.
and nothing beats sparing to learn fighting. Ergo: Ditch your home Windows and install Debian, Gentoo or LFS and get it on. Go cold trukey and ridd Mickeysoft instantly. That's how I learned. That of course won't suffice for your boss, so I'd suggest you ask him to pay you a LPI training or something. You can get tons of LPI training material of the web. I recommend IBMs websites. They alone have lots of LPI stuff. Don't focus on a commercial distro. OSS works differently from proprietary software, as do its training mechanisims. With a RH or SuSE training you'll end up paying more and learning less. My 2 cents.
...This release provides a very attractive alternative to Microsoft SQL Server, and gives developers and DBAs an extremely powerful argument to use against the adoption of Microsoft-based solutions....
I'd say VI outfitted with a few data retrieval regex scripts is already an extremely attractive alternative to anything with the words "Server" and "Microsoft" in it's name. No need for this Sybase thing to get all worked up about being an alternative to MS SQL Server. Sorry.
Besides that, I've long ago stopped being impressed about products that are said to be an alternative to anything from Microsoft.
I've just set up a mission critical backup/file server with Debian. The vendor of the box was actually a Microsoft Gold Partner (Yuck!) piecing the thing together off HP's Linux compliant 24hr around the clock hardware replacement line. Note that this is in Germany, where Linux is a tad further than in the US. I'm suprised at how pragmatic the professional IT here is handling this. Debian Sarge was preinstalled and is covered by the service agreement. Once again: This is a MS Shop. Suprising, eh? As far as I have seen it's like 'take SuSe for trying out and switch to Debian when you call the Linux guy to get yourself a server'. As far as sevicability and usage in commercial enviroments in Germany is concerned, Debian is on par with SuSE, RH and Mandrake. That's what I can tell. This also supports my theory that Linux critcal mass is due in Germany within the next year or so.
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... he does actually have a point with his Introduction to REL. I wrote a comment in the last article which puts SQL and DB design into perspective. It actually emphasises what he's trying to do with REL. There's no doubt: SQL does suck, whether it's sufficent to describe relations or not. And while you definitely shouldn't use a DB PL to design a DB (see other comment), we actually could use a successor to SQL.
Then Berlin and Munich will anounce that they have successfully migrated to Linux, saving themselves around about 10 Trillion Euro in licensing costs, ridding themselves of all virus problems in an instant and boosting the local economy with lots of small OSS service companies doing the jobs required. And they'll say that Linux also runs all the stuff you need including that Mozilla stuff which MS is currently playing catch up with.
Here in Germany I'm observing that OSS Apps have gained a serious foothold already. Even if the people don't know exactly what 'a different OS' and 'Linux' means, quite a few of my customers and partners have already heard of Thunderbird, Firebird and Open Office or even are using it already. This combined with Windows Viry will probably cause the upcoming Linux migration wave to be stronger than expected.
Modding is a standard thing in Multiplayer FPS games. As soon as there is a feasable OSS game engine (cristal.sf.net are working on a nice 3d engine for starts) and the first artists start rolling out models and textures modding will become the standard procedure and give the industry a hard time. And don't forget: Computer Games are a highly competetive thing to be dealing with. There's no monopoly that can get away with selling crap, like with Office Software or operating systems. We're just going to have to wait a few years more.
Two years ago you should have refrained from bashing license models and just published your own Linux. People would've cared about licenses just as much as ever (not at all) and all would've been fine. All the norms would've followed suit and still be buying software from MS 'because it's so quality'. Now it's to late. Only an all-out embrace of open source and a hard turn from software to service vendor can save MS their monopoly. But that's not going to happen. Balmer hasn't got the guts. He said it himself: "We're suffering from Big Company Syndrome". There you go. Bye, bye Mickeysoft. You have a hard time ahead of you.
Because MM ignored Linux, I ignored Flash for two years after having finished some large projects with it (and thus noticed it's shortcomings), but earlier this year a client aproached me with a large Flash / ActionScript job and after looking into it I took the challange. The MM Flash IDE is as crappy as ever, but ActionScript 2 is a full range PL, very similar to Java. With proper exception handling, OOP and all that stuff. as. files can be imported and compiled in meaning you don't have to use MMs shoddy AS editor anymore. Despite the utter crap that's said about AS and Flash on/., it is a powerfull technology with some very cool and unique features. And it's powerfull VM is *very* small by modern standards. Due to the fact that Flashers usually can't programm very well it isn't catching on that good, but I expect Flash/AS 2 to gain serious foothold in other territories than 'flashy websites' very soon. Ming and Xical, for instance, are good examples for serious OSS projects using Flash/ActionScript.
I have a powerbook. what loc should i buy if the Kensington one sucks?
Don't buy a lock. Maybe buy an extra battery to run your PB of the grid longer. Whenever you're in a cafee and have to go to the loo - that's what I do when I'm dining out my iBook:-) - fold it up and take it with you.
Then again if you really want a lock to stop the quick grab and run strategy of Powerbook theft you might aswell just use a piece of thin rope and a knot.
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.. is why BG is so utterly, evidently 100% dim about what's actually going on.
Figure this: A man who's managed to gather an amount of chash that's literaly impossible to spend in a lifetime say this and actually seems to believe it himself. This is going to be the M$ downfall.
Two years ago it would have cost M$ next to nothing to join the service oriented business and everybody would have thought Linux "has been bought by Microsoft", as some people actually still think will happen (honestly). But for some reason these people just don't see the light.
Yeah, so MS is going to be an inhouse software company until the end of their days.
Fair enough. So be it. That's perfectly OK with me.
Bottom Line:
It appears we're actually going to see the end of days for MS.
...semi-official organizations that have a quasi-monopolistic status enshured by german law and that best be plowed under by a swarm of bulldozers the next week.
This hideous german burocracy is what's forcing geman economy to it's knees. Take for instance german tax law: 70% of all worldwide publications on tax law are written on german tax law.
And for those non-germans here argumenting with "just make your PC not multimedia capable"...that's not how it works. You have a PC? You pay. This law and this organization are so silly it hurts.
I actually wounder what they would say about a C64 though.
Finally someone writes a book on PHP and MySQL. And it's even a newbie book on PHP and MySQL! Now I can get to learn this high-end stuff. Crickey, that's so cool.
BTW: I actually plan do do something really cool: I wanna write a Web-CMS in PHP and MySQL. How does that sound, hmm?
...are geniuses and deserve every Dollar or Yen they earn, imho.
The DS has just enough features to pass as an inovation and offer enthusiasts a reason to by it, but unobstrusive enough so n00bs on mobile gaming can join the fray.
Apple does things very much the simular way. The japanese call it "Kuy-Zen". Copy the things or rebuild them, and then start improving them bit by bit.
Their philosophy shows in every thing they do nowadays. No wonder Nintendo is doubling its revenue on something like a half year basis.
Absolutely, I mean, PHP in a large enterprise system? WHY NOT! Scales great, right?
Honestly, saying "why don't people use J2EE?" would have been a bit more plausible... but good luck convincing a large financial institution to use PHP on their giant web apps.
Curiously enough, the plattform that the Java people nowadays consider the single largest competitor to Java is PHP. And they're damn right doing so.
...probably have enough patent ammo to sue Kodak to chunky kibbles and then straight on into next wednesday.
Allthough actually a fight on this turf could become interesting. While Kodak has lost some of it's gloss (no pun intended) it is an anient tech company by IT standards. If Kodak opens up it's patent chest and MS, Sun and IBM join in on a hackfest, I'll get myself some popcorn and a front row seat.
... and join BoS so we can finish a cool OSS 2D RTS Game. I just joined the other week.
..but for some reason I can't shake the notion that this is all but a publicity stunt from the Mambo people. Consider this:
1) Mambo isn't the end-all OSS CMS. It's just another drop in the Bucket of a bazillion other Open Source Content management Systems based on PHP and MySQL. And not the best one I might add.
2) The Mambo Site looks cool. These people aren't your usual OSS developers, they are professional designers with a company. The Sites professionality is the single largest reason Mambo has gained that much attention amongst Webbers (in comparsion to other free (beer+speech) CMSes). From the begining it clearly showed: The Mambo Maintainers are top of the line when it comes to advertising and generating interest for their OSS project.
3) The claims are hilariously silly and the code of this incident is so simple it hurts. It takes anyone with more than two braincells less than five minutes to figure out a work around if somebody starts getting pissy with the dev-community. No need what-so-ever to offer a weak spot to some idiot causing trouble.
Say what you want, but to me it all figures.
It could be that the claims of this guy actually came in. Once and with a batch of E-Mails - maybe. But I see nothing indicating that he was dragging this to court. No, I actually just see the Mambo people making the best of this little ego-stroking: A publicity stunt.
It could actually really be the LCD lagging. In order to interpolate different resolutions than the "natural" one, they have to buffer the signal. Maybe somethings wrong with that?
Since you're posting a wmv (which is bad attitude) I can't watch it. But from your description I'd say that's very strange indeed.
/., do please have the common decency to use a video format that's open and free for all to watch. Thank you.
I guess you're using Windows XP. It could be that the Monitor specs/drivers are changed automatically when you switch back and forth and that the one for that LCD causes the lag. Monitors are Plug and Play too, so that's very likely. I'd say you do the Knoppix test some others have recommended already. It could also be an USB Hub in the Monitor (again, don't know if you have one because you've posted a wmv) that causes trouble (interference) via the USB port when the panel is on, thus distorting and lagging the mouse signal.
Those are my two guesses.
And once again, if you think it's a good idea to post stuff like this on
Mini-ITX would be to much fuss for me and price/performance wouldn't be that good either.
;-).
I'd actually use an iBook. There's open source software on the net that lets in run in clamshell mode (cover closed), it's unobstrusive and very small (flat), so you can put it behind a panel or something and comes with it's built in emergency screen and KB
You even can leave OS X on it, since it's a good Unix, and a BSD derivate anyway. Fink (Debian OS X) and Gentoo OS X both are in good shape all you need for your OSS needs. You'll feel right at home. For ~1000$ you won't get a better bang for buck.
Do please believe me: the last thing I am is a Britney Spears fan. I couldn't even remember a tune from her.
But to get things straight: She's been professionally singing and performing in Musicals on Broadway since about the age of 10. _professionally_, _singing_, _performing_, _age of 10_. Get it?
The age when us kind was gaming on atari or SNES and was at least 3 years away from even doing our first lines of basic. She's a performer and an entertainer, and, believe it or not, she's damn good at it. With the support of an uber-patient mother and father she's worked herself up from that girl next door to somebody who's got a licence to print money. 'Tell you what: Go eat your hearts out.
Bottom Line: I'd suggest the slashdot crowd quit babbling on stuff they can't summon the slightest shade of competence on (popular stage performance and entertainment) and go back to comparing sendmail and postfix. After all, that's what we're actually good at.
Thank you.
Sendmail is crap.
(One of the lone examples for crappy OSS, btw)
I actually like his new haircut. Now if only he would finally notice that he can't beat OSS and therefore join the bandwagon, so that I need not talk my mouth fuzzy with convincing my customers to use Linux I'd be cool with the man.
A real Nazgul would actually scare the living daylight outa me.
SCO just makes me laugh.
and nothing beats sparing to learn fighting. Ergo: Ditch your home Windows and install Debian, Gentoo or LFS and get it on. Go cold trukey and ridd Mickeysoft instantly. That's how I learned. That of course won't suffice for your boss, so I'd suggest you ask him to pay you a LPI training or something. You can get tons of LPI training material of the web. I recommend IBMs websites. They alone have lots of LPI stuff.
Don't focus on a commercial distro. OSS works differently from proprietary software, as do its training mechanisims. With a RH or SuSE training you'll end up paying more and learning less.
My 2 cents.
...This release provides a very attractive alternative to Microsoft SQL Server, and gives developers and DBAs an extremely powerful argument to use against the adoption of Microsoft-based solutions. ...
I'd say VI outfitted with a few data retrieval regex scripts is already an extremely attractive alternative to anything with the words "Server" and "Microsoft" in it's name. No need for this Sybase thing to get all worked up about being an alternative to MS SQL Server. Sorry.
Besides that, I've long ago stopped being impressed about products that are said to be an alternative to anything from Microsoft.
I've just set up a mission critical backup/file server with Debian. The vendor of the box was actually a Microsoft Gold Partner (Yuck!) piecing the thing together off HP's Linux compliant 24hr around the clock hardware replacement line.
Note that this is in Germany, where Linux is a tad further than in the US. I'm suprised at how pragmatic the professional IT here is handling this. Debian Sarge was preinstalled and is covered by the service agreement. Once again: This is a MS Shop. Suprising, eh?
As far as I have seen it's like 'take SuSe for trying out and switch to Debian when you call the Linux guy to get yourself a server'.
As far as sevicability and usage in commercial enviroments in Germany is concerned, Debian is on par with SuSE, RH and Mandrake. That's what I can tell. This also supports my theory that Linux critcal mass is due in Germany within the next year or so.
... he does actually have a point with his Introduction to REL. I wrote a comment in the last article which puts SQL and DB design into perspective. It actually emphasises what he's trying to do with REL. There's no doubt: SQL does suck, whether it's sufficent to describe relations or not. And while you definitely shouldn't use a DB PL to design a DB (see other comment), we actually could use a successor to SQL.
Then Berlin and Munich will anounce that they have successfully migrated to Linux, saving themselves around about 10 Trillion Euro in licensing costs, ridding themselves of all virus problems in an instant and boosting the local economy with lots of small OSS service companies doing the jobs required.
And they'll say that Linux also runs all the stuff you need including that Mozilla stuff which MS is currently playing catch up with.
Here in Germany I'm observing that OSS Apps have gained a serious foothold already. Even if the people don't know exactly what 'a different OS' and 'Linux' means, quite a few of my customers and partners have already heard of Thunderbird, Firebird and Open Office or even are using it already. This combined with Windows Viry will probably cause the upcoming Linux migration wave to be stronger than expected.
Modding is a standard thing in Multiplayer FPS games. As soon as there is a feasable OSS game engine (cristal.sf.net are working on a nice 3d engine for starts) and the first artists start rolling out models and textures modding will become the standard procedure and give the industry a hard time.
And don't forget: Computer Games are a highly competetive thing to be dealing with. There's no monopoly that can get away with selling crap, like with Office Software or operating systems.
We're just going to have to wait a few years more.
Two years ago you should have refrained from bashing license models and just published your own Linux. People would've cared about licenses just as much as ever (not at all) and all would've been fine. All the norms would've followed suit and still be buying software from MS 'because it's so quality'.
Now it's to late.
Only an all-out embrace of open source and a hard turn from software to service vendor can save MS their monopoly. But that's not going to happen. Balmer hasn't got the guts. He said it himself: "We're suffering from Big Company Syndrome".
There you go.
Bye, bye Mickeysoft. You have a hard time ahead of you.
Because MM ignored Linux, I ignored Flash for two years after having finished some large projects with it (and thus noticed it's shortcomings), but earlier this year a client aproached me with a large Flash / ActionScript job and after looking into it I took the challange. /., it is a powerfull technology with some very cool and unique features. And it's powerfull VM is *very* small by modern standards. Due to the fact that Flashers usually can't programm very well it isn't catching on that good, but I expect Flash/AS 2 to gain serious foothold in other territories than 'flashy websites' very soon. Ming and Xical, for instance, are good examples for serious OSS projects using Flash/ActionScript.
The MM Flash IDE is as crappy as ever, but ActionScript 2 is a full range PL, very similar to Java. With proper exception handling, OOP and all that stuff.
as. files can be imported and compiled in meaning you don't have to use MMs shoddy AS editor anymore. Despite the utter crap that's said about AS and Flash on
I have a powerbook. what loc should i buy if the Kensington one sucks?
:-) - fold it up and take it with you.
Don't buy a lock. Maybe buy an extra battery to run your PB of the grid longer.
Whenever you're in a cafee and have to go to the loo - that's what I do when I'm dining out my iBook
Then again if you really want a lock to stop the quick grab and run strategy of Powerbook theft you might aswell just use a piece of thin rope and a knot.