It will actually crash 5 hours AFTER Slashdot reports it. Maybe a day or two after. That would be more in tune with their record on reporting software releases.
They almost certainly *HAD* to stick with GCC 2.96 in this release. They keep binary compatibility between all releases with the same main version number (6.x, 7.x, etc). Reverting to an older (and buggier) GCC would screw that up.
Hasn't it been proven enough yet that GCC 2.9.6 + the latest patches is by far the most standardized and bug free version of GCC yet?
Bero from Red Hat, among a few others, have beaten this to a pulp. The only people with problems are those who have written code that takes advantage of old GCC bugs!
And we won't have real binary compatibility until GCC 3 comes out. So why not have the best we can have now?
I've been waiting for this for a long time, and I'm confident that it will help Borland. So much so, that I bought a bunch of their stock. My only regret is that I wish I had bought it a month ago at $5 1/4 instead of 8 months ago at $6 3/4. But at least I did, and now it's paying off! I expect it to hit $15 to $20 before this summer.
I am a bit disappointed that they're charging $999 for the "regular" version. I was hoping to pick it up for $500 or less. I don't know if I can even justify that price for what I'm doing now, but I guess I can sell my BORL stock and use the profits to buy it... that would be a bit ironic...
Perhaps they have some kind of upgrade program? Except that the last Borland product I bought was Borland Pascal w/Objects 7. Since using OS/2 and Linux for 8 years I haven't had the need for any of their products until now.
oh good grief. Just because selling free software doesn't work doesn't mean that Windows is better than Linux. Linux will survive just fine without any companies selling it!
Have fun using an inferior OS for about the silliest reason I've ever heard.
before I take a tech job that requires union membership.
(the following might sound like flamebait but it's not intended to be, so at least count to ten before moderating it as such.:-) )
I'll start by saying that I fully support the right of people to organize for reasonable pay and better conditions. That was especially necessary about a century ago and still holds plenty of merit.
But today, most unions in America serve one purpose: to siphon money from workers to Democratic campaign coffers.
Sure, you can generally opt out of having your money used for political purposes, but most don't bother. Including conservative Republicans.
I'm sorry, but that is just WRONG and I get steaming mad every time i think of unions. If it isn't blatently illegal, it should be.
Here in Oregon we've had a several year fight between the Oregon Taxpayers United, led by Bill Sizemore, versus the big unions, mainly education and government workers unions.
Sizemore has been trying to get ballot initiatives passed that would make it illegal to withhold money from paychecks to use for political purposes, among other things. The unions counter that that is "silencing the voices of our teachers and public workers."
That is a LOAD OF TRIPE!!!! If anyone wants to give to any campaign, they should be able to do it -- but they should write the check themselves, not have it automatically deducted.
The irony is that the unions take money from workers, and they have a LOT of it, and uses it to advertise big government, high tax liberal candidates and to oppose Sizemore's initiatives. But if it weren't for them, the workers they claim to support would have a lot more money in their pockets, partly because they wouldn't automatically have political funds withheld, and partly because more politicians who support tax cuts would be elected.
They have the gall to say that anyone who supports stoping this practise is unfair. What's unfair is that they have the political advantage because the illegally (or should be illegally) stealing money from unsuspecting workers to support their causes.
I've NEVER been madder at a computer than when I had to use FrontPage at a former job. It LIES to you about what kind of HTML it's generating, and it REVERTS YOUR CHANGES when you go in and edit them mannually, and it SCREWS YOU UP when you're trying to move table elements around!
Writing HTML by hand is MUCH quicker and the result is MUCH higher quality.
OK, that was FP 97. Maybe they've fixed one or more of these problems, but knowing MS, I doubt it.
That's also the case when you have two tables, say customers and widgets, and customers can have any number of widgets, including zero. Say you want to display a list of all customers and the number of widgets they have. Implementing it with a simple join, customers with no widgets simply won't show up in the result set. With MySQL there's a way to do it right with left joins. With PostgreSQL so far I've had to use two queries. If there's a way around that someone please tell me.:-)
That's the biggest disadvantage of PG I've found, and it's not *that* big a deal.
So why don't you use PostgreSQL? It's had foreign keys since last May. The release 7.1 that's coming out soon will fix limitations like the 8K row length limit and will add outer joins and some other stuff. I'm running the beta3 now on a test box and it seems pretty sweet.
yeah! is there an efficient way of doing that with PostgreSQL? I'm currently selecting count(*) from the table, then picking a random number from that group and selecting the row. Probably not the best method. Thanks!
My client called at -- get this -- 10 PM on *NEW YEAR'S EVE*! As if I'm not out enjoying life at that time. I was watching a movie with family. I tried to hint that this wasn't a really good time to work stuff out, but he kept going on and "...just a minute... let me get tech support on the line..." even when I didn't need tech support. So I had to ask tech support a question I didn't need to ask them at about the most horrible time to ask it...:-)
> Then if you decide you want to go it alone you will know lots of people in lots of places who know the level of work you are capable of.
Actually, doesn't that kind of company give you a contract that says you can't take your customers or others you meet through them and negociate contracts separate from them?
That was the case with the consulting company I worked for.
Becasue when you submit your resume to Dice, you get contacted by dozens of brain dead recruiters. Even worse, they all ask you to send your resume in #@%$#@ Word format, even when they can get it in ASCII format from DICE.
There were a couple that were genuinely helpful, but frankly, most are idiots.
Think of a cool new technology you can work on and point to it as your own, and work on that when you don't have paying work. That's what I'm doing. I have a couple potentially lucrative ideas. Of course, marketing them might be a challenge and you need to eat before you finish them. So do it carefully. But with any luck and a good idea it could work well.
I agree about the necesity of the contract. Leave no detail untouched! Each and every part -- and what it should input, output, etc.
I do have a question -- is an e-mail contract good enough? When my client wants something new, I e-mail him and tell him to reply to it with "accept" or so. Is that good enough or do you really need it signed and mailed?
Joining an open source project is a great way to do it. You can get name recognition for one thing, and you'll gain experience in the product you're working on that could be very valuable to potential employers.
I've pondered the idea of having Open Travel Guides. People that are familar with a given location can add all the details they can on cities, hotels, transportation, things to do, etc. It would all be stored in an open XML and all kinds of clients could be written to display and search and print relevant items.
Sort of like Lonely Planet only better.:-)
I'm not sure I have time to start this, but I wish I did. There are too many other things to work on.:-(
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It will actually crash 5 hours AFTER Slashdot reports it. Maybe a day or two after. That would be more in tune with their record on reporting software releases.
They almost certainly *HAD* to stick with GCC 2.96 in this release. They keep binary compatibility between all releases with the same main version number (6.x, 7.x, etc). Reverting to an older (and buggier) GCC would screw that up.
*sigh*
Hasn't it been proven enough yet that GCC 2.9.6 + the latest patches is by far the most standardized and bug free version of GCC yet?
Bero from Red Hat, among a few others, have beaten this to a pulp. The only people with problems are those who have written code that takes advantage of old GCC bugs!
And we won't have real binary compatibility until GCC 3 comes out. So why not have the best we can have now?
I've been waiting for this for a long time, and I'm confident that it will help Borland. So much so, that I bought a bunch of their stock. My only regret is that I wish I had bought it a month ago at $5 1/4 instead of 8 months ago at $6 3/4. But at least I did, and now it's paying off! I expect it to hit $15 to $20 before this summer.
I am a bit disappointed that they're charging $999 for the "regular" version. I was hoping to pick it up for $500 or less. I don't know if I can even justify that price for what I'm doing now, but I guess I can sell my BORL stock and use the profits to buy it... that would be a bit ironic...
Perhaps they have some kind of upgrade program? Except that the last Borland product I bought was Borland Pascal w/Objects 7. Since using OS/2 and Linux for 8 years I haven't had the need for any of their products until now.
Easy. Real any day, since it's the only one that works on Linux.
Hopefully Ogg Vorbis will come to the rescue soon with a video codec.
That's exactly what I thought. I only "watched" it because my church young adult group had a party over it. The ads beat the tar out of the game.
probably because doing it smoothly would require an infinite number of cameras...
I agree -- that one was great!
oh good grief. Just because selling free software doesn't work doesn't mean that Windows is better than Linux. Linux will survive just fine without any companies selling it!
Have fun using an inferior OS for about the silliest reason I've ever heard.
before I take a tech job that requires union membership.
:-) )
(the following might sound like flamebait but it's not intended to be, so at least count to ten before moderating it as such.
I'll start by saying that I fully support the right of people to organize for reasonable pay and better conditions. That was especially necessary about a century ago and still holds plenty of merit.
But today, most unions in America serve one purpose: to siphon money from workers to Democratic campaign coffers.
Sure, you can generally opt out of having your money used for political purposes, but most don't bother. Including conservative Republicans.
I'm sorry, but that is just WRONG and I get steaming mad every time i think of unions. If it isn't blatently illegal, it should be.
Here in Oregon we've had a several year fight between the Oregon Taxpayers United, led by Bill Sizemore, versus the big unions, mainly education and government workers unions.
Sizemore has been trying to get ballot initiatives passed that would make it illegal to withhold money from paychecks to use for political purposes, among other things. The unions counter that that is "silencing the voices of our teachers and public workers."
That is a LOAD OF TRIPE!!!! If anyone wants to give to any campaign, they should be able to do it -- but they should write the check themselves, not have it automatically deducted.
The irony is that the unions take money from workers, and they have a LOT of it, and uses it to advertise big government, high tax liberal candidates and to oppose Sizemore's initiatives. But if it weren't for them, the workers they claim to support would have a lot more money in their pockets, partly because they wouldn't automatically have political funds withheld, and partly because more politicians who support tax cuts would be elected.
They have the gall to say that anyone who supports stoping this practise is unfair. What's unfair is that they have the political advantage because the illegally (or should be illegally) stealing money from unsuspecting workers to support their causes.
Hey, thanks, it works!
Any ideas on how efficient it is for large tables? Does it have to internally randomly order the whole table before returning just one row?
That limit will be lifted VERY soon. 7.1, which removes it, is in beta 3 and may be finalized any day. Almost certainly by early Feb.
I've NEVER been madder at a computer than when I had to use FrontPage at a former job. It LIES to you about what kind of HTML it's generating, and it REVERTS YOUR CHANGES when you go in and edit them mannually, and it SCREWS YOU UP when you're trying to move table elements around!
Writing HTML by hand is MUCH quicker and the result is MUCH higher quality.
OK, that was FP 97. Maybe they've fixed one or more of these problems, but knowing MS, I doubt it.
This won't help now, but check out www.gnue.org. They're planning exactly that, eventually, among other things. Looks like a cool project.
That's also the case when you have two tables, say customers and widgets, and customers can have any number of widgets, including zero. Say you want to display a list of all customers and the number of widgets they have. Implementing it with a simple join, customers with no widgets simply won't show up in the result set. With MySQL there's a way to do it right with left joins. With PostgreSQL so far I've had to use two queries. If there's a way around that someone please tell me. :-)
That's the biggest disadvantage of PG I've found, and it's not *that* big a deal.
So why don't you use PostgreSQL? It's had foreign keys since last May. The release 7.1 that's coming out soon will fix limitations like the 8K row length limit and will add outer joins and some other stuff. I'm running the beta3 now on a test box and it seems pretty sweet.
yeah! is there an efficient way of doing that with PostgreSQL? I'm currently selecting count(*) from the table, then picking a random number from that group and selecting the row. Probably not the best method. Thanks!
Haha. Good advice actually.
:-)
My client called at -- get this -- 10 PM on *NEW YEAR'S EVE*! As if I'm not out enjoying life at that time. I was watching a movie with family. I tried to hint that this wasn't a really good time to work stuff out, but he kept going on and "...just a minute... let me get tech support on the line..." even when I didn't need tech support. So I had to ask tech support a question I didn't need to ask them at about the most horrible time to ask it...
> Then if you decide you want to go it alone you will know lots of people in lots of places who know the level of work you are capable of.
Actually, doesn't that kind of company give you a contract that says you can't take your customers or others you meet through them and negociate contracts separate from them?
That was the case with the consulting company I worked for.
Becasue when you submit your resume to Dice, you get contacted by dozens of brain dead recruiters. Even worse, they all ask you to send your resume in #@%$#@ Word format, even when they can get it in ASCII format from DICE.
There were a couple that were genuinely helpful, but frankly, most are idiots.
Not flamebait. Truth.
Think of a cool new technology you can work on and point to it as your own, and work on that when you don't have paying work. That's what I'm doing. I have a couple potentially lucrative ideas. Of course, marketing them might be a challenge and you need to eat before you finish them. So do it carefully. But with any luck and a good idea it could work well.
I agree about the necesity of the contract. Leave no detail untouched! Each and every part -- and what it should input, output, etc.
I do have a question -- is an e-mail contract good enough? When my client wants something new, I e-mail him and tell him to reply to it with "accept" or so. Is that good enough or do you really need it signed and mailed?
Joining an open source project is a great way to do it. You can get name recognition for one thing, and you'll gain experience in the product you're working on that could be very valuable to potential employers.
I'm glad to see this. It has potential.
:-)
:-(
I've pondered the idea of having Open Travel Guides. People that are familar with a given location can add all the details they can on cities, hotels, transportation, things to do, etc. It would all be stored in an open XML and all kinds of clients could be written to display and search and print relevant items.
Sort of like Lonely Planet only better.
I'm not sure I have time to start this, but I wish I did. There are too many other things to work on.
In *some* (apparently isolated) projects, mSQL is apparently a bit faster than MySQL.
I've seen a project where that's the case. It involved a lot of simple SELECT statements.
But still, why? MySQL and PostgreSQL are MUCH more full featured. And they're 100% open source.
Hopefully they'll improve the msql mini-sql-monitor. It's by far the worst command line SQL monitor I've used!
Of course since it's not GPL'd, they can't link it to GNU readline for command-history recall. Big problem there...