>face it, Apache was never designed to handle
>mission-critical, Enterprise-level applications.
>It's great for serving web-pages out of your
>dorm-room, but for a $$$ piece of software like
>Oracle 9i, I don't know.
>you are never going to be able to fully vet a
>piece of software like Apache that was developed
>by non-professionals
Why are you spreading fud like this ? what is your hidden agenda ?
Many professional programmers particularly from IBM and SUN participate to the Apache project, plus, IIS has been developed by so called professionals, well sorry, it's not particularly known for it's robustness.
Please check out your facts before posting uninformed posts, or stop spreading fud.
Will KDE appear on Redhat Network one day ? what is this Redhat Network thing for ? I have never found anything interesting there, just some minor bug fixes, no real upgrades !! I don't fire up2date anymore !
This guy is probably doing what he can, and I owe him a big thanks ! but KDE definitly needs another set if icons, another style. KDE icons are probably it's the weakest point, this is too bad, as this is not a really difficult area, why won't KDE supporting compagnies like Suse or Mandrake hire a real graphic artist to create good looking, profesional icons !
I am really sorry for this label , as I will be sorry for small labels who try to discover new talents and take a lot of risk. I agree that it might be morally wrong to trade illegally music. But technology make now that so easy and convenient that everybody who knows how to do it actually does it, and the number of those people is quickly growing. The current music production and distribution scheme is with no contest outdated, this a real revolution and the model will probably be replaced with another one. The music industry just hasn't realised this yet. You can't stop the sea with your hands as they say and revolutions make always victims, c'est la vie !
Yes everybody and his dog now wants his own pet licence ! this poses licence compatibility, and makes every project isolated in it's own galaxy, it withdraws a lot of the benefices of Open Source where many projects share their source too.
Soon we will have a kind an open source Babel tower where every project has it's own licence but communicate with others. Talk about an oxymoron
There has been a project a while ago, which aim was to implement a beowulf of separate StrongArm cards to be plugged in a box, they have even managed to build some prototypes.
http://www.dnaco.net/~kragen/sa-beowulf/
Alas I think the project seems to be dead for some time now.
>David Weinehall did a great job on 2.0.39 when
>he took over 2.0 from me.I'm very confident that
>Marcelo will do a great job on 2.4.
I am also very glad that someone from a "third world country" takes this reponsability, that shows that Linux is really an international effort and not only dominated by rich or developed countries. It's very nice to see also that a lot of hacking in Linux is occuring in Brasil, I hope other third world countries will follow. That's why free/open source software is so nice everybody has it's chance, this is another aspect of it.
>Uniform Licensing Terms- Microsoft will be
>required to license its operating system to key
>computer manufacturers on uniform terms for five
>years. This will further strengthen the ban on
>retaliation.
This is not always true, some languages like ADA have what is called a "Denotational Semantic" it uses "The fixed point theorem" which can define the semantic of programming language as a "limit of convergent suites" (sorry literal translation from French:)). The trick is to consider the language constructs as recursive functions. It's exactly as if you define the factorial function like this.
f(0) = 1;
f(n) = n*f(n-1);
This is a recursive definition of the factorial function.
The Denotational Semantic definition of ADA is called Rational, by JD ICHBIAH. There is such definition for Pascal, and many other languages too.
The specification of ADA which was defined by the DoD asked for this because the semantic of computer is ambiguous when it's defined in plain human language, and depends of the implementation, which is not the case for ADA.
For Delphi only CLX (which is VCL, the Delphi basic components for Linux) is GPL http://freeclx.sourceforge.net/, the IDE is closed source. Interbase is an MPL like license.
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>Actually the problem is with English. Many
>(perhaps most?) languages are actually spelled
>the way they sound. Even loan works are
>transformed so they match the local spelling
>rules.
Well this is probably completely off topic, but couldn't resist.
Obviously you didn't learn French at school:)
When I began learning English I was delighted to see how words are actually, mostly spelled as they are. In French (and I guess in many other languages) you have so much exceptions, due to mainly to historic reasons. One of the most famous is for instance "De Broglie" which is the name of a famous quanta theory scientist actually the father of the theory is pronounced "Debreuil", and this is the "only" name in French which follow this particular rule ! go figure:) there is even a joke for that. There are many words like that !! and many many exceptions, and most French people are delighted by this complexity.
In fact, I think that English is one of the most pragmatic language, a lot of thing have been simplified, and this really a good thing. French people have vehemently refused a spelling reform (proposed by a minister of the government !!! )
Error messages need to have numbers associated with them. For instance when I have ORA-1241 in oracle, a quick search in groups.google.com will give me a lot of informations about this error, and why it occured and what I can do about. Alas, there is no such thing in most of Open Source software, you just have plain text, so the search is less effective, which search keywords are you going to choose. The situation is even worse for people who used localised versions of the software, as you don't have the English transltation so you can search the English archive in groups.google.com and which count for 80% of the posts.
What might be cool is a codified error numbering a la Oracle for instance. I would love to have KDE-2345 error, or GNOME-1234 error, or Koffice-567 etc. That would made searchs far more effectives
The only way Microsoft can stop Open Source or at least slow it's progression, is through litigation, patents, and by lobbying for even more severe laws. DMCA, and the coming SSSCA are clearly a real threat for OSS. They have the deep pockets for that, OSS advocates don't.This problem really worries me more and more every day. Although it's mainly located in the US but will eventually creep to Europe, one day or another.
Plus you are incredibly more productive when you use open source software for you development ! if something doesn't work as expected, or if it's not the documentation, you just need to go to the source code to see how it works or why it doesn't work. I am currently working on a very big project involving the installation of a closed source ERP, and I can tell you that I whish everyday I had access to the source code. The damn thing is very buggy, the documentation is lousy, and the hot line is very very bad if not nonexistent. We are always obliged to code workarounds, and it takes us twice or three times longer; anyway the project will probably fail anyway !
I have worked in the past with products I had access to the source code, and I can assure you that things where really very different, and the experience was very pleasant.
>The Web and Internet have always been unique in
>having their standards freely available for
>review and implementation. Is is a good thing
>for W3C to seek to emulate the "closed source"
>standards bodies?
I would even add, that this the very essence of the Internet, this is what has made it different from all the other networks before "Open standards", this what has given it it's critical mass.
The simplest definitin I know of the Internet is :
Are you aware of these, basic and simple facts and contradictions ?
1) The Free/Open Source community is the best, and most sincere standard supporter and W3C allied
2) Patents are NOT compatible with Free/Open Source software ? plain and simple ! there is no known way to avoid that.
3) Hence if RAND is adopted, the Free/Open Source community, will have no choice but fork the standard which contain patented materiel, or even worse, will create a rival organisation ? which will be very bad for the Web, or will be those which probably prevail in the end, as the history of the Net has proved that many times.
What you describe here is in fact rather the Unix way of doing things, small programs or modules targeted to specific tasks, combined together to do bigger tasks; versus the windows's way, big bloated programs (à la MS) which try to be everything to everybody. Of course this is not an absolute rule, you may find many Unix bloated programs too.
Re:The views of a Muslim in NY
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>Also, I have no knowledge of "Arab Jews".
Many jews (from north Africa, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia are in fact berber tribes (original people of North Africa) who converted to judaism, long before the coming of Islam. These jews were later arabised (ie. adopted arabic language and culture) as did many berbers who adopted the islamic faith. Very few people from the arabic penisula emigrated conquered countries, of North Africa, or even Egypt. I suspect that many yemeni jews are in fact arab too. Although many will never admit it.
What many people don't undrerstand, is that being arab is "a culture" not a race (very bad word, as there is only one race, the human race !!) it's not even an an ethic group, as there is black, white and metis arab.
What people believe they are, is often contradicted by real historic studies.
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This is not completely true !
Yes in some areas Islam spread by military conquest, but there are many other places where it spreaded (sp?) because of commerce and merchants, along the silk road, in central asia till China, in Africa too.
Christianity, has had it's holy war too what do you call "crusades" ?
On an other mood !
All religions have their share of violence and stupidity ! they have been invented as a substitute of men ignorance and what he doesn't understand, to calm his anguish. The proper of every religion is that they all claim the exclusivity of THE TRUTH, they are all the same in this regard !
Man Question : I can't stand death !
Religion answer : don't worry there is a live after death.
Man question : I can't stand this shitty life
Religion answer : don't worry, just be a good on earth {christian|jew|muslim|hindu|whatever} and you will have a wonderful life after death.
Man question : I can't understand this or that ?
Religion answer:God has made it this, way, god has an explanation for it.
So, if religion didn't exist, man would have already invented it.
Why do we have to kill, and hate each other for this shit when men has accomplished so much to the understand the world ?
When will people understand that we don't need god anymore !? to fill our ignorance and extinguish our anguish , we are all the same, we feel the same pain, the same fear, and the same joy ! we need to grow up.
Yes I confirm this ! at work we use twiki (twiki.org) one of the best wikis I kow of, really a very nice collaboration tool. It can be used as knowledge management repository too, very easy to use and to start getting people using it.
More exactly one of the best incarnation I know of : twiki (twiki.org). Absolutly terrific ! it can be used as a collaboration medium, a knowledge base repository and much, much more, you will find new ways of using it everyday. I have installed it where I work ! and people have been ecstatic !
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>face it, Apache was never designed to handle
>mission-critical, Enterprise-level applications.
>It's great for serving web-pages out of your
>dorm-room, but for a $$$ piece of software like
>Oracle 9i, I don't know.
>you are never going to be able to fully vet a
>piece of software like Apache that was developed
>by non-professionals
Why are you spreading fud like this ? what is your hidden agenda ?
Many professional programmers particularly from IBM and SUN participate to the Apache project, plus, IIS has been developed by so called professionals, well sorry, it's not particularly known for it's robustness.
Please check out your facts before posting uninformed posts, or stop spreading fud.
Whenever I see screenshots of KDE and Gnome, the letters W,S and V look just really ugly, is this a problem which is going to be fixed as AA mature ?
Agree, this is what the dot bomb has shown us. The internet has not been made to make money, but to comunicate. Back to the roots !!
Will KDE appear on Redhat Network one day ? what is this Redhat Network thing for ? I have never found anything interesting there, just some minor bug fixes, no real upgrades !! I don't fire up2date anymore !
A friend of mine told me he has seen an IBM Linux ad in a french TV too !!
This guy is probably doing what he can, and I owe him a big thanks ! but KDE definitly needs another set if icons, another style. KDE icons are probably it's the weakest point, this is too bad, as this is not a really difficult area, why won't KDE supporting compagnies like Suse or Mandrake hire a real graphic artist to create good looking, profesional icons !
I am really sorry for this label , as I will be sorry for small labels who try to discover new talents and take a lot of risk. I agree that it might be morally wrong to trade illegally music. But technology make now that so easy and convenient that everybody who knows how to do it actually does it, and the number of those people is quickly growing. The current music production and distribution scheme is with no contest outdated, this a real revolution and the model will probably be replaced with another one. The music industry just hasn't realised this yet. You can't stop the sea with your hands as they say and revolutions make always victims, c'est la vie !
Yes everybody and his dog now wants his own pet licence ! this poses licence compatibility, and makes every project isolated in it's own galaxy, it withdraws a lot of the benefices of Open Source where many projects share their source too.
Soon we will have a kind an open source Babel tower where every project has it's own licence but communicate with others. Talk about an oxymoron
There has been a project a while ago, which aim was to implement a beowulf of separate StrongArm cards to be plugged in a box, they have even managed to build some prototypes.
http://www.dnaco.net/~kragen/sa-beowulf/
Alas I think the project seems to be dead for some time now.
>David Weinehall did a great job on 2.0.39 when
>he took over 2.0 from me.I'm very confident that
>Marcelo will do a great job on 2.4.
I am also very glad that someone from a "third world country" takes this reponsability, that shows that Linux is really an international effort and not only dominated by rich or developed countries. It's very nice to see also that a lot of hacking in Linux is occuring in Brasil, I hope other third world countries will follow. That's why free/open source software is so nice everybody has it's chance, this is another aspect of it.
Then just put Linux on IBM s/390 and you are done ! much more processing power !
>Uniform Licensing Terms- Microsoft will be
>required to license its operating system to key
>computer manufacturers on uniform terms for five
>years. This will further strengthen the ban on
>retaliation.
>
:)). The trick is to consider the language constructs as recursive functions. It's exactly as if you define the factorial function like this.
This is not always true, some languages like ADA have what is called a "Denotational Semantic" it uses "The fixed point theorem" which can define the semantic of programming language as a "limit of convergent suites" (sorry literal translation from French
f(0) = 1;
f(n) = n*f(n-1);
This is a recursive definition of the factorial function.
The Denotational Semantic definition of ADA is called Rational, by JD ICHBIAH. There is such definition for Pascal, and many other languages too.
The specification of ADA which was defined by the DoD asked for this because the semantic of computer is ambiguous when it's defined in plain human language, and depends of the implementation, which is not the case for ADA.
For Delphi only CLX (which is VCL, the Delphi basic components for Linux) is GPL http://freeclx.sourceforge.net/, the IDE is closed source. Interbase is an MPL like license.
>Actually the problem is with English. Many
:)
:) there is even a joke for that. There are many words like that !! and many many exceptions, and most French people are delighted by this complexity.
>(perhaps most?) languages are actually spelled
>the way they sound. Even loan works are
>transformed so they match the local spelling
>rules.
Well this is probably completely off topic, but couldn't resist.
Obviously you didn't learn French at school
When I began learning English I was delighted to see how words are actually, mostly spelled as they are. In French (and I guess in many other languages) you have so much exceptions, due to mainly to historic reasons. One of the most famous is for instance "De Broglie" which is the name of a famous quanta theory scientist actually the father of the theory is pronounced "Debreuil", and this is the "only" name in French which follow this particular rule ! go figure
In fact, I think that English is one of the most pragmatic language, a lot of thing have been simplified, and this really a good thing. French people have vehemently refused a spelling reform (proposed by a minister of the government !!! )
Error messages need to have numbers associated with them. For instance when I have ORA-1241 in oracle, a quick search in groups.google.com will give me a lot of informations about this error, and why it occured and what I can do about. Alas, there is no such thing in most of Open Source software, you just have plain text, so the search is less effective, which search keywords are you going to choose. The situation is even worse for people who used localised versions of the software, as you don't have the English transltation so you can search the English archive in groups.google.com and which count for 80% of the posts.
What might be cool is a codified error numbering a la Oracle for instance. I would love to have KDE-2345 error, or GNOME-1234 error, or Koffice-567 etc. That would made searchs far more effectives
The only way Microsoft can stop Open Source or at least slow it's progression, is through litigation, patents, and by lobbying for even more severe laws. DMCA, and the coming SSSCA are clearly a real threat for OSS. They have the deep pockets for that, OSS advocates don't.This problem really worries me more and more every day. Although it's mainly located in the US but will eventually creep to Europe, one day or another.
Plus you are incredibly more productive when you use open source software for you development ! if something doesn't work as expected, or if it's not the documentation, you just need to go to the source code to see how it works or why it doesn't work. I am currently working on a very big project involving the installation of a closed source ERP, and I can tell you that I whish everyday I had access to the source code. The damn thing is very buggy, the documentation is lousy, and the hot line is very very bad if not nonexistent. We are always obliged to code workarounds, and it takes us twice or three times longer; anyway the project will probably fail anyway !
I have worked in the past with products I had access to the source code, and I can assure you that things where really very different, and the experience was very pleasant.
>The Web and Internet have always been unique in
>having their standards freely available for
>review and implementation. Is is a good thing
>for W3C to seek to emulate the "closed source"
>standards bodies?
I would even add, that this the very essence of the Internet, this is what has made it different from all the other networks before "Open standards", this what has given it it's critical mass.
The simplest definitin I know of the Internet is :
Internet = Open Standards.
Are you aware of these, basic and simple facts and contradictions ?
1) The Free/Open Source community is the best, and most sincere standard supporter and W3C allied
2) Patents are NOT compatible with Free/Open Source software ? plain and simple ! there is no known way to avoid that.
3) Hence if RAND is adopted, the Free/Open Source community, will have no choice but fork the standard which contain patented materiel, or even worse, will create a rival organisation ? which will be very bad for the Web, or will be those which probably prevail in the end, as the history of the Net has proved that many times.
What you describe here is in fact rather the Unix way of doing things, small programs or modules targeted to specific tasks, combined together to do bigger tasks; versus the windows's way, big bloated programs (à la MS) which try to be everything to everybody. Of course this is not an absolute rule, you may find many Unix bloated programs too.
>Also, I have no knowledge of "Arab Jews".
Many jews (from north Africa, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia are in fact berber tribes (original people of North Africa) who converted to judaism, long before the coming of Islam. These jews were later arabised (ie. adopted arabic language and culture) as did many berbers who adopted the islamic faith. Very few people from the arabic penisula emigrated conquered countries, of North Africa, or even Egypt. I suspect that many yemeni jews are in fact arab too. Although many will never admit it.
What many people don't undrerstand, is that being arab is "a culture" not a race (very bad word, as there is only one race, the human race !!) it's not even an an ethic group, as there is black, white and metis arab.
What people believe they are, is often contradicted by real historic studies.
This is not completely true !
:God has made it this, way, god has an explanation for it.
Yes in some areas Islam spread by military conquest, but there are many other places where it spreaded (sp?) because of commerce and merchants, along the silk road, in central asia till China, in Africa too.
Christianity, has had it's holy war too what do you call "crusades" ?
On an other mood !
All religions have their share of violence and stupidity ! they have been invented as a substitute of men ignorance and what he doesn't understand, to calm his anguish. The proper of every religion is that they all claim the exclusivity of THE TRUTH, they are all the same in this regard !
Man Question : I can't stand death !
Religion answer : don't worry there is a live after death.
Man question : I can't stand this shitty life
Religion answer : don't worry, just be a good on earth {christian|jew|muslim|hindu|whatever} and you will have a wonderful life after death.
Man question : I can't understand this or that ?
Religion answer
So, if religion didn't exist, man would have already invented it.
Why do we have to kill, and hate each other for this shit when men has accomplished so much to the understand the world ?
When will people understand that we don't need god anymore !? to fill our ignorance and extinguish our anguish , we are all the same, we feel the same pain, the same fear, and the same joy ! we need to grow up.
Peace to all
Yes I confirm this ! at work we use twiki (twiki.org) one of the best wikis I kow of, really a very nice collaboration tool. It can be used as knowledge management repository too, very easy to use and to start getting people using it.
More exactly one of the best incarnation I know of : twiki (twiki.org). Absolutly terrific ! it can be used as a collaboration medium, a knowledge base repository and much, much more, you will find new ways of using it everyday. I have installed it where I work ! and people have been ecstatic !