Well there's still a choice as to what to use, but in this case I agree it's not yours. Fortunately, the harm that XP could cause would go to your employer, not you, should the chose to use it.
I've been running 2.4.6pre2+CVS XFS on a server for 19 days now. No problems. I probably will upgrade to the final 2.4.6 once the official XFS 1.0.1 comes out.
I upgraded to this "beta" version after I had minor FS corruption using the kernel supplied by SGI's Red hat installer. Happened after only about 2 days of uptime.
System has an Abit VP6 MB (some kind of VIA chipset) and a SCSI drive.
For all those that are currently doing custom programming or other computer consulting, how has your amount of business changed in the last year? Are independent consultants being hit as hard as dot-coms?
Am wondering because I'm trying to get into that field but haven't marketed myself much yet. I do have one customer but am waiting for him to get me some graphics before I can continue, and he's too busy to get them too me (which could probably be seen as a good thing!).
The application should not contain binary only software which it depends on running as root, as this makes security auditing harder or even impossible.
Personally I try hard not to run closed source software as root. I'm glad to see this in the standard.
I think I almost have to agree, even though I still own shares (the same @#$%# ones I got in the IPO and was too stupid to sell).
I think SourceForge On-Site could be profitable, but only as a small business. VA should immediately get out of the Sillicon Valley area and take other measures to keep costs down. The revenue from it should be able to pay for a few people.
The *best* thing they could do is get out of being a publicly traded company. I wonder if that's even possible (maybe only by declaring bankruptcy?). They few things it has left to sell do NOT justify having a stock on NASDAQ. If they could get out of that, and lay off the people that do everything the SEC requires, and return to being a SMALL business, I think they could make a decent living for themselves.
I used to work for a very legitimate consulting company that sold products for the AS/400.
Sometimes people would need to get a new key for their software. That action took the administrative assistant a minute or two to do. Price to the customer? $100
Businesses realize that people need things, even silly things, that they are in the best position to provide. If they can make a significant amount of revenue that way, why not? It can make their "main services" a bit less expensive.
I don't understand why people keep saying that the other browsers on Linux are still not "quite ready to take over for Netscape 4.77".
I dumped NS4.7 as my primary browser months ago, and mainly use a combination of Mozilla and Konqueror. I can get to anything on the Web I want. Moz and Konq are both great, and have a somewhat different set of bugs. If a site is unusable on one I go to the other and it generally works great. In general I find Moz to be a bit more stable than Konq, but I like Konq's speed better.
You're telling me. About 3 years ago I wrote C++ code and wanted to use the standard stringstream class. But all they had was strstream, a rather buggy knock-off of it.
Now, stringstream still isn't in the standard library in Red Hat 7.1! One can only say that it's taken too long.
uhh... since "default=gnucash" you need to have an image with "label=gnucash". You just need to change "old_linux" to "gnucash", rerun/sbin/lilo, and it will start.
ahh, so winelib apps require wineserver too. I thought that was just used when actually running wine on Windows apps. My mistake.
Like I said, I think Kylix is a great tool for a lot of things. Probably the best tool for a lot of things. I'll use it where it makes sense. But not all code generated by gcc is particularly bad, and the ability to have an open source compiler compile essential system components is pretty important. IMHO anyway.
Do you mind telling me why? You want to use something that's horrible at optimising code like gcc?
For one thing, gcc is improving quite dramatically. But yes, any *essential* system component at least needs to compile with a Free compiler, partly (mainly?) for philosophical reasons. It's OK if it also compiles with a closed source compiler that generates better object code. But the benefits of Open Source extend to the compiler, and not being able to fix a bug in the compiler that causes one of your Free programs to misbehave would be putting Free Software at the mercy of a proprietary corporation. Not good.
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First, Borland offers D6 for $399 if you own any other Borland product. I suppose the Kylix Desktop would qualify. So you don't need to shell out the $999.
Also, D5 is *not* as compatible with Kylix as D6 is. D6 brings the CLX to 'Doze.
Hmm. I had to use VB 4 & 5 for a previous job (don't worry, I got out before any permanent damage was done) and while it is a horrible language in many respects, it *did* make accessing database tables fairly easy. IIRC you could create a form to browse and update DB fields with no code whatsoever. I don't remember how easy inserts/deletes were.
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Well there's still a choice as to what to use, but in this case I agree it's not yours. Fortunately, the harm that XP could cause would go to your employer, not you, should the chose to use it.
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I've been running 2.4.6pre2+CVS XFS on a server for 19 days now. No problems. I probably will upgrade to the final 2.4.6 once the official XFS 1.0.1 comes out.
I upgraded to this "beta" version after I had minor FS corruption using the kernel supplied by SGI's Red hat installer. Happened after only about 2 days of uptime.
System has an Abit VP6 MB (some kind of VIA chipset) and a SCSI drive.
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For all those that are currently doing custom programming or other computer consulting, how has your amount of business changed in the last year? Are independent consultants being hit as hard as dot-coms?
Am wondering because I'm trying to get into that field but haven't marketed myself much yet. I do have one customer but am waiting for him to get me some graphics before I can continue, and he's too busy to get them too me (which could probably be seen as a good thing!).
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I dunno, but when I buy hardware I make sure it has open source drivers. We have a choice, so make sure manufacturers are listening.
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Yeah, that's a concern. Of course it would be a bit tricky for a program to figure out which files were worth transmitting, but the point is valid.
... for things like Corel Office.
And even I have violated my said principle by running installers as root
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The application should not contain binary only software which it depends on running as root, as this makes security auditing harder or even impossible.
Personally I try hard not to run closed source software as root. I'm glad to see this in the standard.
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there already is.
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I think I almost have to agree, even though I still own shares (the same @#$%# ones I got in the IPO and was too stupid to sell).
I think SourceForge On-Site could be profitable, but only as a small business. VA should immediately get out of the Sillicon Valley area and take other measures to keep costs down. The revenue from it should be able to pay for a few people.
The *best* thing they could do is get out of being a publicly traded company. I wonder if that's even possible (maybe only by declaring bankruptcy?). They few things it has left to sell do NOT justify having a stock on NASDAQ. If they could get out of that, and lay off the people that do everything the SEC requires, and return to being a SMALL business, I think they could make a decent living for themselves.
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I used to work for a very legitimate consulting company that sold products for the AS/400.
Sometimes people would need to get a new key for their software. That action took the administrative assistant a minute or two to do. Price to the customer? $100
Businesses realize that people need things, even silly things, that they are in the best position to provide. If they can make a significant amount of revenue that way, why not? It can make their "main services" a bit less expensive.
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Just because they're capable doesn't mean they don't have better things to do.
Seems to me like this is a solid service that VA could make some money on. How much remains to be seen.
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To which section? I tried adding it to the [HTML] section just now but that doesn't seem to change things. Thanks, that sounds good though.
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I don't understand why people keep saying that the other browsers on Linux are still not "quite ready to take over for Netscape 4.77".
I dumped NS4.7 as my primary browser months ago, and mainly use a combination of Mozilla and Konqueror. I can get to anything on the Web I want. Moz and Konq are both great, and have a somewhat different set of bugs. If a site is unusable on one I go to the other and it generally works great. In general I find Moz to be a bit more stable than Konq, but I like Konq's speed better.
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The tables have actually somewhat turned in the MySQL/Postgres performance battle.
Check this out...
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> Frankly, from a security perspective, having a public-facing daemon running in kernel space is utterly frightening.
Maybe, but that's exactly what NFS does...
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Yes, that would be rather insane.
Tux passes on requests to Apache so PHP content will still work, but it won't be as fast as serving static files.
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Check your map.
Belize is in Central America, just southeast of Mexico. Not even close to South America.
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You're telling me. About 3 years ago I wrote C++ code and wanted to use the standard stringstream class. But all they had was strstream, a rather buggy knock-off of it.
Now, stringstream still isn't in the standard library in Red Hat 7.1! One can only say that it's taken too long.
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LWN had a feature on tax software on Linux a little while ago. There are a few projects out there.
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uhh... since "default=gnucash" you need to have an image with "label=gnucash". You just need to change "old_linux" to "gnucash", rerun /sbin/lilo, and it will start.
:-)
How far it will get is another story.
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...did that post get moderated up???
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ahh, so winelib apps require wineserver too. I thought that was just used when actually running wine on Windows apps. My mistake.
Like I said, I think Kylix is a great tool for a lot of things. Probably the best tool for a lot of things. I'll use it where it makes sense. But not all code generated by gcc is particularly bad, and the ability to have an open source compiler compile essential system components is pretty important. IMHO anyway.
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Then how do you explain THIS?
Do you mind telling me why? You want to use something that's horrible at optimising code like gcc?
For one thing, gcc is improving quite dramatically. But yes, any *essential* system component at least needs to compile with a Free compiler, partly (mainly?) for philosophical reasons. It's OK if it also compiles with a closed source compiler that generates better object code. But the benefits of Open Source extend to the compiler, and not being able to fix a bug in the compiler that causes one of your Free programs to misbehave would be putting Free Software at the mercy of a proprietary corporation. Not good.
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First, Borland offers D6 for $399 if you own any other Borland product. I suppose the Kylix Desktop would qualify. So you don't need to shell out the $999.
Also, D5 is *not* as compatible with Kylix as D6 is. D6 brings the CLX to 'Doze.
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Hmm. I had to use VB 4 & 5 for a previous job (don't worry, I got out before any permanent damage was done) and while it is a horrible language in many respects, it *did* make accessing database tables fairly easy. IIRC you could create a form to browse and update DB fields with no code whatsoever. I don't remember how easy inserts/deletes were.
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Borland can't LGPL the CLX because it depends on Qt, which is GPL'd.
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