The company I work for gives all salaried employees 16 hours of flex per month... that flex time covers holidays, sick days and vacation, but when they start you out at 40 hours and give you 16 hours per month, it turns out being a SWEET deal!
The real advantage of flex depends on how quickly you acrue and with what other benefits package it comes... if you don't acrue very quickly and you don't have any other time off, it sucks. -C
Thanks for the tip... unfortunately, after poking around the interbase home page for a few minutes, it doesn't look like their documentation is quite up to snuff!:-(
It did look like Interbase supports everything that I need (triggers, stored procedures, transactions, views, and SELECT INTO statements), but I can't seem to locate much information on what the language syntax is for their stored procedures, or other such key documentation.
Any help? Have you used their database to do ODBC programing in windows? Fortunately, I'm just the lowly shmuck who has to administer whatever database we finally go with; I just have to make sure it works for everything we need!
I work for a large manufacturing company, and recently we submitted our budget for next year (2001)... well, on there we had SQLServer, and a bunch of other commercial software. We got our budget back in its final form, and it did NOT include our SQLServers... we needed a database system, so I threw together a proposal for some smaller MySQL servers.
My manager liked the idea, but wanted info on other open source databases... I pointed him towards Tim's article (this was last week) and we've been on our merry way since. We now have both MySQL and PostgreSQL boxes in production for testing, and will make our determination later on!
Tim's article played a HUGE roll in our initial impression forming, and I would recommend it to all and any who are looking for info on open source databases!
-C
Maybe, someday, Americans will realize the same dream of wired states... I live in South Dakota, and we're actually pretty close right now; over half of our state has access to broadband!
Before you say, "easy when you only have to wire four houses." consider that those four houses are spread out more than almost any other state in the Union! -C
I agree with your point about code that would make money via sales not being OSS'd. Good call.
BTW: I ain't no OSS cheerleader! hehe... I've never heard RMS called a cheerleader before, but it fits -- I just hope most cheerleaders aren't so damn ignorant about it.
-C
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1) how the hell did this get mod'd up?
2) install either a tarball or packaged version of the kernel source code, and chances are your problems will all disappear!
...I guess this proves that just about anyone with make and gcc thinks they need to be compiling every source tarball they miander across while aimlessly wondering the 'Net.
What would you even do with ASF? If you couldn't figure out how to compile the code, chances are you were going to be hopelessly doomed at using it! -C
...yes, inexplicable. What baffles me is, why do we even care anymore? With AMD picking up SMP, and chip-makers actually making AMD SMP boards available, the only need for Intel and Cyrix is to keep AMD innovating at the rate they've been innovating.
uuencode the decss.mp3 song, cut-and-paste it to the headers of all the web-pages at/., and watch access speeds CRAWL!
>:-) I'm not just evil, I'm EEEEEVIL. That's right kids, don't try that at home! -C
I think even though the author takes a bit of liberty regarding the motivating philosophy of OSS, he's on the money when he writes, "The only way for this revolution to continue is by contributing to it rather than creating separate paths."
I've been alarmed by the shere number of projects posted to sites like freshmeat and sourceforge, etc... Something needs to change, but that change can't come from outside of the community, and it can't happen until the community sees the way things are as a problem. -C
...I too recently moved; setup utilities, etc. Setup telephone with only option available. At install time, they asked if I wanted long distance, not liking US Worst for LD, I said no. They signed me up for their long distance at a PREMIUM rate of $0.50/minute, anyway! I called to setup LD with another company, and they couldn't set me up, 'cause US Worst was blocking them. I was stuck for a month and a half with US Worst at $0.50/minute!
I think a court of law would see it differently 99.9% of the time....assuming you are correect about the whole copying part (which I don't think you are)then by downloading an MP3, you're moving it from a temporary buffer as you download it to a 'permanent' place on your hard disk... effectively you can't even download with out copying.
I think in most cases you'll find that possesion of stolen goods is a strict-liability matter -- that means, regardless of the circumstances, you're guilty. However, I think in legitimate cases where you were the unwitting perchaser/downloader of 'stolen' goods, most prosecutors will only strip you of the 'stolen' goods (in this case they'd just keep your hard disk.)
I concur. That has been my basic premise for choosing most technologies, I guess I just hadn't thought of extrapolating that to the development environment... I do all of my developing on the server-side of things.
Okay fellow/.-ers, I think we need to step back and gain a bit of perspective here... entering rant mode. (moderate down as flame-bate or inciteful, as you see fit.)
First of all, Jon is a journalist by trade -- he sees things through the tinted glasses of a journalist. As a journalist and free-lance author, he has to have a habit of being a bit winded. To blame Jon for being winded would be comprable to blaming one of us when we go off about how this latest technology is so cool because of ___...
I like Jon's work, even though it's a bit long quite a bit of the time. My thoughts are, if you don't like Jon's style, then you probably ought save yourself the time and effort of reading the articles. The second part of not reading Jon's work is, don't post unless you've got something incitful to say. Generally speaking Jon's articles are written to pormote constructive communication between people with like minds that wouldn't otherwise have occasion to communicate. That being said, I think the bitching and moaning over Jon's articles are a complete waste of space. (I'm eager to see who will follow this with a, "You're a complete waste of space you trashy ass-fucker!")
I too like MS Visual Studio... but the editor is really quite a small portion of development. I think the debate here is more over the environment as a whole. KDevelop (and projects like it) are quickly gaining ground on MSVS, and eventually will offer close to the same set of features. When there is no longer a gap in IDE's, the question then becomes, which platform is more friendly to development? There are two possible answers to that question: 1) the platform that is easiest to use, and 2) the platform that is most powerful. If you've been around Linux for very long at all, you learn quickly that it is obviously the most powerful. After being around it a bit longer you'll realize that yes, everything here makes sense and its actually quite easy to use....it's all about the learning curve my friend. hit the top of that curve, and all the sudden everything makes so much sense that you'll question why you spent the best years of your life running Windows. (Much the way many divorced people marvel at why they spent the best years of their life with their ex-spouse.) I'm a blissfully (software) divorced geek, and I'm proud! -C
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The company I work for gives all salaried employees 16 hours of flex per month... that flex time covers holidays, sick days and vacation, but when they start you out at 40 hours and give you 16 hours per month, it turns out being a SWEET deal!
The real advantage of flex depends on how quickly you acrue and with what other benefits package it comes... if you don't acrue very quickly and you don't have any other time off, it sucks.
-C
Thanks for the tip... unfortunately, after poking around the interbase home page for a few minutes, it doesn't look like their documentation is quite up to snuff! :-(
It did look like Interbase supports everything that I need (triggers, stored procedures, transactions, views, and SELECT INTO statements), but I can't seem to locate much information on what the language syntax is for their stored procedures, or other such key documentation.
Any help? Have you used their database to do ODBC programing in windows? Fortunately, I'm just the lowly shmuck who has to administer whatever database we finally go with; I just have to make sure it works for everything we need!
cheers!
-C
I work for a large manufacturing company, and recently we submitted our budget for next year (2001)... well, on there we had SQLServer, and a bunch of other commercial software. We got our budget back in its final form, and it did NOT include our SQLServers... we needed a database system, so I threw together a proposal for some smaller MySQL servers.
My manager liked the idea, but wanted info on other open source databases... I pointed him towards Tim's article (this was last week) and we've been on our merry way since. We now have both MySQL and PostgreSQL boxes in production for testing, and will make our determination later on!
Tim's article played a HUGE roll in our initial impression forming, and I would recommend it to all and any who are looking for info on open source databases!
-C
Maybe, someday, Americans will realize the same dream of wired states... I live in South Dakota, and we're actually pretty close right now; over half of our state has access to broadband!
Before you say, "easy when you only have to wire four houses." consider that those four houses are spread out more than almost any other state in the Union!
-C
We've had RedHat and Mandrake on the shelves of our local Wal-mart for a LONG time (in upwards of six months to a year.)
Is that really that odd?
-C
...wow, and I was going to settle for the car!?!
-C
I agree with your point about code that would make money via sales not being OSS'd. Good call.
BTW: I ain't no OSS cheerleader! hehe... I've never heard RMS called a cheerleader before, but it fits -- I just hope most cheerleaders aren't so damn ignorant about it.
-C
1) how the hell did this get mod'd up?
...I guess this proves that just about anyone with make and gcc thinks they need to be compiling every source tarball they miander across while aimlessly wondering the 'Net.
2) install either a tarball or packaged version of the kernel source code, and chances are your problems will all disappear!
What would you even do with ASF? If you couldn't figure out how to compile the code, chances are you were going to be hopelessly doomed at using it!
-C
Actually, the best model for open sourcing your code is exactly what IBM is doing here -- release the code, sell the support.
Why shouldn't the do what they've done?
-C
...yes, inexplicable. What baffles me is, why do we even care anymore? With AMD picking up SMP, and chip-makers actually making AMD SMP boards available, the only need for Intel and Cyrix is to keep AMD innovating at the rate they've been innovating.
Just my two cents.
-C
uuencode the decss.mp3 song, cut-and-paste it to the headers of all the web-pages at /., and watch access speeds CRAWL!
>:-) I'm not just evil, I'm EEEEEVIL. That's right kids, don't try that at home!
-C
I think even though the author takes a bit of liberty regarding the motivating philosophy of OSS, he's on the money when he writes, "The only way for this revolution to continue is by contributing to it rather than creating separate paths."
I've been alarmed by the shere number of projects posted to sites like freshmeat and sourceforge, etc... Something needs to change, but that change can't come from outside of the community, and it can't happen until the community sees the way things are as a problem.
-C
...I too recently moved; setup utilities, etc. Setup telephone with only option available. At install time, they asked if I wanted long distance, not liking US Worst for LD, I said no. They signed me up for their long distance at a PREMIUM rate of $0.50/minute, anyway! I called to setup LD with another company, and they couldn't set me up, 'cause US Worst was blocking them. I was stuck for a month and a half with US Worst at $0.50/minute!
I hate profiteering gluttons!
-C
That's a VERY interesting point! I like the analogy of napster being a whore... that's nice. :-)
...seriously though, you're right.
-C
-C
I think a court of law would see it differently 99.9% of the time. ...assuming you are correect about the whole copying part (which I don't think you are)then by downloading an MP3, you're moving it from a temporary buffer as you download it to a 'permanent' place on your hard disk... effectively you can't even download with out copying.
-C
-C
I think in most cases you'll find that possesion of stolen goods is a strict-liability matter -- that means, regardless of the circumstances, you're guilty. However, I think in legitimate cases where you were the unwitting perchaser/downloader of 'stolen' goods, most prosecutors will only strip you of the 'stolen' goods (in this case they'd just keep your hard disk.)
-C
-C
I concur. That has been my basic premise for choosing most technologies, I guess I just hadn't thought of extrapolating that to the development environment... I do all of my developing on the server-side of things.
Thanks for the thoughtful followup.
-C
-C
Okay fellow /.-ers, I think we need to step back and gain a bit of perspective here... entering rant mode. (moderate down as flame-bate or inciteful, as you see fit.)
...and I'm spent.
First of all, Jon is a journalist by trade -- he sees things through the tinted glasses of a journalist. As a journalist and free-lance author, he has to have a habit of being a bit winded. To blame Jon for being winded would be comprable to blaming one of us when we go off about how this latest technology is so cool because of ___...
I like Jon's work, even though it's a bit long quite a bit of the time. My thoughts are, if you don't like Jon's style, then you probably ought save yourself the time and effort of reading the articles. The second part of not reading Jon's work is, don't post unless you've got something incitful to say. Generally speaking Jon's articles are written to pormote constructive communication between people with like minds that wouldn't otherwise have occasion to communicate. That being said, I think the bitching and moaning over Jon's articles are a complete waste of space. (I'm eager to see who will follow this with a, "You're a complete waste of space you trashy ass-fucker!")
-C
-C
I too like MS Visual Studio... but the editor is really quite a small portion of development. I think the debate here is more over the environment as a whole. KDevelop (and projects like it) are quickly gaining ground on MSVS, and eventually will offer close to the same set of features. When there is no longer a gap in IDE's, the question then becomes, which platform is more friendly to development? There are two possible answers to that question: 1) the platform that is easiest to use, and 2) the platform that is most powerful. If you've been around Linux for very long at all, you learn quickly that it is obviously the most powerful. After being around it a bit longer you'll realize that yes, everything here makes sense and its actually quite easy to use. ...it's all about the learning curve my friend. hit the top of that curve, and all the sudden everything makes so much sense that you'll question why you spent the best years of your life running Windows. (Much the way many divorced people marvel at why they spent the best years of their life with their ex-spouse.) I'm a blissfully (software) divorced geek, and I'm proud!
-C
Did you check http://www.obsoletecompu termuseum.org/helpline/helpline.html?
-C
I tried this particular little 'trick' with a random domain, and there was no 'account'. SO, they must be being selective ass holes. -C