I used to work for Ingres suppport, and I've read that as a consequence of CA embedding it in everything from Unicenter on down, it is now the most widely installed commercial RDBMS.
No crash for me, it just brings up the page -- Help->About FireFox = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
This on XP Home SP1 (Installing SP2 causes this machine to crash while trying to boot.)
The English, Irish and French (mostly) get along fine. The Franco-British entente cordiale recently had its 100th anniversary, and the Irish and British governments are working together to try to resolve the situation in Northern Ireland. So I don't think your analogy really cuts it. Substitute India, Pakistan and Israel, however, and then you're talking.
It was a hardware bug; the chips that Sun was using were susceptible to a "couldn't happen" hardware bug, where a bit in the cache would flip for no reason (cosmic rays?). The Sun hardware folks hadn't allowed for this in their design. When they finally figured it out, the fix was _hardware_ error detection/correction in the cache (McNealy: "we engineered it out"). The chip vendor knew about the problem, but didn't bother to tell Sun. Chip vendor's name? I.B.M.
Sun, after years of vacillation, finally decided to commit to Solaris on x86. In order to bolster their woeful driver support, they had a choice: implement a bunch of x86 drivers (hardly a core competency) from scratch; or: buy hundreds of current, SVR4 compatible drivers from an x86 UNIX vendor, with said vendor waiving _all_ IP rights on the drivers. As business decisions go, it's as close to a no-brainer as you'll get. That it also indemnifies them from SCO's antics is just the gilt on the gingerbread.
Yeah, but pretty much the entire population lives on the north end of the island around al-Manamah, the centre of the island is all desert (apart from the truly amazing "Tree of Life"), and the southern part of the island is restricted to the military. If I was going to stash it and had connections, that's where it would be.
Um, Monty Python didn't "get it wrong"; the "every sperm is sacred" skit accurately skewers the Catholic Church's official stance on contraception, which is that any sex that cannot lead to conception is analogous to the "sin of Onan", who "spilled his seed on the ground" rather than impregnate his brother's widow. This is the rationale for prohibition of sodomy in catholic doctrine, where sodomy is defined as anything other than unprotected vaginal sex. Other scripture ("if a man should lie down with another man, or one of the beasts of the field" etc.) merely enumerates the opportunities. The doctrinal sin is the spilling of the seed.
"I'm sure 20 years ago no one thought IPV4 would become confining."
You'd be wrong. I went to University College London from '83-'86, a few years after the CS department there wrote one of the three original implementations of TCP/IP commissioned by DARPA. The networking people there were still pissed off at Vint Cerf for insisting that four address bytes were enough.
No shit! I installed SP2 on this Athlon 64 box running XP Home, and it trashed my machine -- every time it got to the Windows logo with the horizontal scrolling thingy, it would simply reboot. I had to bring it up in safe mode and roll back to the last savepoint. I figure I'll just keep running SP1 until it gets 0wn3d, then install FreeBSD 5 (the only Free O/S I've tried so far that seems to recognise the disk drive setup [Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID SCSI Disk Device])
The U.S. fluid ounce is defined at room temperature, the Imperial one at freezing point. Since it's a measure of volume, and water expands as it warms, the U.S. fluid ounce is larger. The metric rule that 1ml of water == 1g is similarly defined at 0C, which is why 16oz == 454g and 16fl.oz (Imp) == 454ml, but 16fl.oz (U.S.) == 473ml. Finally, for those who eyes haven't totally glazed over yet, an Imperial pint is 568ml.
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According to this interview with someone from Symbian marketing, the signing fee is targeted to be in the tens of dollars, not hundreds.
Sun did not "fund SCO". Having take the decision to continue selling Solaris x86, Sun needed to improve their lamentable driver support. In a straightforward "buy v/s build" decision, they chose to buy. SCO was simply the only vendor with SVR4 device drivers to sell (hundreds of them). This sale went down in Feb '03, before SCO started tossing lawsuits out like confetti.
There may be many reasons to dislike Sun, but in my personal opinion they are not sponsors of SCO, and PJ seems to letting emotion cloud reason when it comes to commentary concerning Sun. They're certainly no better or worse than (say) HP or Oracle. Tony.
I can quantify it for you, but you'll have to look elsewhere for proof: a car takes approximately as much energy to build as it consumes in fuel in its design lifetime. One guy I used to work with knew enough real-world engineering to do a back of the envelope calculation involving the cost of steel manufacture*, the weight of a car, and the price of fuel over a 120,000 mile lifetime mileage to show that this statement is broadly true with these simplifying assumptions. (* he may have simply used the weight & cost of coal as the energy cost, and made the simplifying assumption that the energy cost of all other components could be take to be approximately the same as steel),
MKS is (or used to be) Mortice Kern Systems, who sell a product called MKS toolkit which supplies a complete set of UNIX command line utilities (sed, awk, sh, diff etc.) for Windows. Your sh.exe has been "liberated" from a copy of that.
The U.K. Guardian's piece on this gave the comparable figure for a car: "at most, twice its weight in fossil fuels", compared with 10 times for the P.C. Tony.
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I used to work for Ingres suppport, and I've read that as a consequence of CA embedding it in everything from Unicenter on down, it is now the most widely installed commercial RDBMS.
That'll be Achille Lauro.
One major underwriter was Lloyd's of London, who rather famously agreed to pay all claims in full.
No crash for me, it just brings up the page -- Help->About FireFox = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
This on XP Home SP1 (Installing SP2 causes this machine to crash while trying to boot.)
The English, Irish and French (mostly) get along fine. The Franco-British entente cordiale recently had its 100th anniversary, and the Irish and British governments are working together to try to resolve the situation in Northern Ireland. So I don't think your analogy really cuts it. Substitute India, Pakistan and Israel, however, and then you're talking.
Not only that, in Star Trek, no one ever needs to take a leak (or a dump). Think how much time that would save!
Martin Rowson beat you to it
It was a hardware bug; the chips that Sun was using were susceptible to a "couldn't happen" hardware bug, where a bit in the cache would flip for no reason (cosmic rays?). The Sun hardware folks hadn't allowed for this in their design. When they finally figured it out, the fix was _hardware_ error detection/correction in the cache (McNealy: "we engineered it out"). The chip vendor knew about the problem, but didn't bother to tell Sun. Chip vendor's name? I.B.M.
Sun, after years of vacillation, finally decided to commit to Solaris on x86. In order to bolster their woeful driver support, they had a choice: implement a bunch of x86 drivers (hardly a core competency) from scratch; or: buy hundreds of current, SVR4 compatible drivers from an x86 UNIX vendor, with said vendor waiving _all_ IP rights on the drivers. As business decisions go, it's as close to a no-brainer as you'll get. That it also indemnifies them from SCO's antics is just the gilt on the gingerbread.
Tony.
Yeah, but pretty much the entire population lives on the north end of the island around al-Manamah, the centre of the island is all desert (apart from the truly amazing "Tree of Life"), and the southern part of the island is restricted to the military. If I was going to stash it and had connections, that's where it would be.
Tony.
Um, Monty Python didn't "get it wrong"; the "every sperm is sacred" skit accurately skewers the Catholic Church's official stance on contraception, which is that any sex that cannot lead to conception is analogous to the "sin of Onan", who "spilled his seed on the ground" rather than impregnate his brother's widow. This is the rationale for prohibition of sodomy in catholic doctrine, where sodomy is defined as anything other than unprotected vaginal sex. Other scripture ("if a man should lie down with another man, or one of the beasts of the field" etc.) merely enumerates the opportunities. The doctrinal sin is the spilling of the seed.
Props to the Mozilla geeks for the naming scheme (this would have been mod points if I had any).
Tony.
"I'm sure 20 years ago no one thought IPV4 would become confining."
You'd be wrong. I went to University College London from '83-'86, a few years after the CS department there wrote one of the three original implementations of TCP/IP commissioned by DARPA. The networking people there were still pissed off at Vint Cerf for insisting that four address bytes were enough.
Tony.
I'm getting audio on XP home.
Desiree, roma and stroma are three U.K. varieties that are (visually) like the red potatoes in the U.S. Don't know whether they cook the same though.
No shit! I installed SP2 on this Athlon 64 box running XP Home, and it trashed my machine -- every time it got to the Windows logo with the horizontal scrolling thingy, it would simply reboot. I had to bring it up in safe mode and roll back to the last savepoint. I figure I'll just keep running SP1 until it gets 0wn3d, then install FreeBSD 5 (the only Free O/S I've tried so far that seems to recognise the disk drive setup [Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID SCSI Disk Device])
This is ths sort of attitude that explains why many Americans travelling in Europe feel compelled to stitch the Maple Leaf to their backpacks.
The U.S. fluid ounce is defined at room temperature, the Imperial one at freezing point. Since it's a measure of volume, and water expands as it warms, the U.S. fluid ounce is larger. The metric rule that 1ml of water == 1g is similarly defined at 0C, which is why 16oz == 454g and 16fl.oz (Imp) == 454ml, but 16fl.oz (U.S.) == 473ml. Finally, for those who eyes haven't totally glazed over yet, an Imperial pint is 568ml.
According to this interview with someone from Symbian marketing, the signing fee is targeted to be in the tens of dollars, not hundreds.
"What is up with Sun funding SCO?"
Sun did not "fund SCO". Having take the decision to continue selling Solaris x86, Sun needed to improve their lamentable driver support. In a straightforward "buy v/s build" decision, they chose to buy. SCO was simply the only vendor with SVR4 device drivers to sell (hundreds of them). This sale went down in Feb '03, before SCO started tossing lawsuits out like confetti.
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Sun Driver purchase news item
There may be many reasons to dislike Sun, but in my personal opinion they are not sponsors of SCO, and PJ seems to letting emotion cloud reason when it comes to commentary concerning Sun. They're certainly no better or worse than (say) HP or Oracle.
Tony.
I can quantify it for you, but you'll have to look elsewhere for proof: a car takes approximately as much energy to build as it consumes in fuel in its design lifetime. One guy I used to work with knew enough real-world engineering to do a back of the envelope calculation involving the cost of steel manufacture*, the weight of a car, and the price of fuel over a 120,000 mile lifetime mileage to show that this statement is broadly true with these simplifying assumptions. (* he may have simply used the weight & cost of coal as the energy cost, and made the simplifying assumption that the energy cost of all other components could be take to be approximately the same as steel),
Tony.
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MKS is (or used to be) Mortice Kern Systems, who sell a product called MKS toolkit which supplies a complete set of UNIX command line utilities (sed, awk, sh, diff etc.) for Windows. Your sh.exe has been "liberated" from a copy of that.
Tony.
The U.K. Guardian's piece on this gave the comparable figure for a car: "at most, twice its weight in fossil fuels", compared with 10 times for the P.C.
Tony.