Why couldn't I use MySQL? Well, we'd already written the procs in T-SQL for ADO.NET. Using Sybase ASA allowed us to write a single set of procs that would work on both servers (after quite a bit of wrangling).
isn't that why you write standard SQL, and write your applications in a platform-independent language like Java?
- an accounting system - a groupware system with web interface, native client, sync, etc. - custom web-based applications development services - bonus: network transparency (move whole shebang onto servers at the client's location without a lot of grief, if they so desire)
If Microsoft invested $50 million in SCO, that would make sense. $50 million can buy tham a lot of anti-Linux FUD. But what does Baystar gain? When SCO loses their absurd lawsuits and disappears, so does Baystar's 50 million.
well, OBVIOUSLY they have a secret quid pro quo arrangement on some future deal.
Paranoia aside, it damages the Law as a whole to have unenforced/unenforceable laws on the books. I don't see it changing any time soon, though - in fact, in light of recent events (the EU "super-DMCA"), I can only see it getting worse.
it's actually a clever way to get near police-state powers. simply make something illegal that everyone does, and then selectively enforce it should you want to nail someone, for whatever reason.
2) get a no-strings-attached music player that supports OGG format - free, unpatented high-quality audio format (better than mp3).
3) buy the cd's you want to listen to - used. rip them to high-quality OGG files.
4) enjoy.
true, you have to buy the CD. but you're doing the right thing, used CD's will be cheaper, and you won't put more money into the pockets of the industry that refuses to sell music to you in a convenient way.
you also have the cd's on-hand if you want to rip at another quality level or in another format.
if you splurge for a huge, cheap IDE RAID array, you can have your entire music collection available digitally in your home so you never have to hunt down and load a CD again. this is what i do at home. i put an icon on my wife's debian desktop that does the following:
- rips the cd currently in the tray to lossless FLAC and to highest-quality OGG.
- transfers the FLAC copy to archive storage
- transfers the OGG copy to our massive music server.
the cd is then immediately available throughout the house via web browser using a remote X connection.
No way in heck can you increase the amount of storage a HDD has so drastically. I mean, the physical disks can only hold so much, and no matter what you do, they arent going to magically double or triple.
unless the disks were secretly, specifically designed this way.
for example, for the benefit of spooks who want the device to maintain a rolling log of disk data for some period of time after the unsuspecting user thinks it's been deleted/reformatted/security-wiped.
RMS will go down in history as the visionary that made free software and open systems the prevailing technological force for the rest of the century....
I'm inclined to predict... that RMS will go down as the most influential person of the next century, kind of in the same way as gutenberg is known now. He wasn't known at all really when he was alive, but the study of history set him in his proper place.
well said. that echoes the thoughts of my optimistic side, but my pessimistic side keeps whispering in my ear that the powers that be will somehow neutralize him to preserve present power relationships.
But what your dumb fuck self does not realize is that money does not grow on trees, nor does it magically appear in the ether that you "support".
and what you don't realize is that IT staff are professionals in their field just as the sales and marketing people are in theirs. an enterprise is a cooperative effort. most IT staff don't get off on "power trip" games - they're trying to do their job professionally, and sometimes this requires protecting IT assets from the very users they serve.
unfortunately this is often a one-way relationship: IT policies can directly affect other users in the company, while sales and marketing policy make no fucking difference at all to the IT staff. that's why you tend to see resentment from non-IT people towards IT people: they're marginally affected by security restrictions etc. but usually have no understanding whatsoever of what's gained through these minor inconveniences.
I empathize with those "fascist policy-drones", because they are as anal as they are for good reason
i instituted locked-down workstations at work. i also went with mozilla for browser and mail, and uninstalled outlook from all the desktops. no e-mail viruses, fewer problems with system-level spyware, fewer problems with unauthorized programs installed. keep in mind that all of our several hundred windows workstations have internet-routable IP addresses - no firewall (sorry, that's not up to me).
do i get recognition for doing the right thing and saving hundreds of IT support hours, and several hundreds more of our users' lost productivity? no. i get cranky users because they can't upgrade their own programs and change system settings, and management sulks because their mail program is "different from home".
point being: users don't notice the ABSENCE of problems; they just notice the small "sacrifices" that must be made in order to keep things running smoothly.
now i know how parents feel when kids give them the evil eye for making them eat their vegetables.
Photoshop on Linux alone would be monstrous, but why don't they do it? Who knows.
because a lot of commercial software developers are terrified of gnu/linux and free software. i mean, like, TERRIFIED. they want to keep their consumer public in the gilded cage of proprietary software so that they can continue to milk their teats through the bars.
if photoshop and dreamweaver and <insert killer app without gnu/linux counterpart here> become available on Free platforms, a lot of users who can't live without those tools might actually use gnu/linux, and they might find there's a lot of free software out there that's really great. it might make their customer base realize that there are - or can be - OPTIONS. at the moment, doing without these tools seems unthinkable, and that's like a license to print money to them.
i remember the trepidation i felt when switching to gnu/linux from windows. it was just an experiment, and i was convinced i couldn't actually live without windows. a few years later, i *never* lay hands on windows of my own free will. occasionally i will have to perform some windows-related chore at work, but when i do it it's through vnc, and i'm sure i have the expression of someone with latex gloves on, trying to dispose of a used condom.
One thing I like about Macromedia apps is that they fully support WebDAV. And I dont know of any good Linux based Web Development app that supports WebDAV natively.
nvu, an offshoot of Mozilla Composer, supports WebDAV. It's not done yet, but it's making some serious progress. it's GPL and it's actually got funding (from Lindows).
- a prominent competitor or strategic threat to microsoft, or
- a willing patsy ready to lose the case.
they're trying to establish precedent.
i wouldn't be too surprised if powers greater than those immediately obvious are trying to cripple the F/OSS movement. there are all kinds of power arrangements and financial interests at stake, and not just in business.
See http://www.ocallahan.org/mozilla/why-no-native-wid gets.html
i just had a great idea for a firefox plugin. highlight on one of these motherfucking mangled URL's, right-click, and select "visit motherfucking mangled URL", and it goes there without cut/paste/edit/hitEnter.
But really, a product that kills my machine every hour or so it not really a starter.
you've got it reversed. an operating system that crashes because of an issue in an application is not really a starter.
get familiar with gnu/linux. i know, from your perspective at this moment, that it seems like an outlandish waste of time, but really - things are changing.
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no. i think they're taking the time to make them as inter-reliant with each other, and as inoperable with alternatives, as possible.
isn't that why you write standard SQL, and write your applications in a platform-independent language like Java?
simple: if you want to mitigate real or imagined risk from using Free software, take out an insurance policy.
- an accounting system
- a groupware system with web interface, native client, sync, etc.
- custom web-based applications development services
- bonus: network transparency (move whole shebang onto servers at the client's location without a lot of grief, if they so desire)
well, OBVIOUSLY they have a secret quid pro quo arrangement on some future deal.
jesus h christ people, this isn't brain surgery.
it's actually a clever way to get near police-state powers. simply make something illegal that everyone does, and then selectively enforce it should you want to nail someone, for whatever reason.
1) return the iPod and explain why.
2) get a no-strings-attached music player that supports OGG format - free, unpatented high-quality audio format (better than mp3).
3) buy the cd's you want to listen to - used. rip them to high-quality OGG files.
4) enjoy.
true, you have to buy the CD. but you're doing the right thing, used CD's will be cheaper, and you won't put more money into the pockets of the industry that refuses to sell music to you in a convenient way.
you also have the cd's on-hand if you want to rip at another quality level or in another format.
if you splurge for a huge, cheap IDE RAID array, you can have your entire music collection available digitally in your home so you never have to hunt down and load a CD again. this is what i do at home. i put an icon on my wife's debian desktop that does the following:
- rips the cd currently in the tray to lossless FLAC and to highest-quality OGG.
- transfers the FLAC copy to archive storage
- transfers the OGG copy to our massive music server.
the cd is then immediately available throughout the house via web browser using a remote X connection.
unless the disks were secretly, specifically designed this way.
for example, for the benefit of spooks who want the device to maintain a rolling log of disk data for some period of time after the unsuspecting user thinks it's been deleted/reformatted/security-wiped.
well said. that echoes the thoughts of my optimistic side, but my pessimistic side keeps whispering in my ear that the powers that be will somehow neutralize him to preserve present power relationships.
i feel compelled to point out that, in my experience, RMS may be unkempt, but he is clean and odor-free... :-)
none of the graphics on the page show up, and clicking their links takes me to www.linksponsor.com - anyone else?
- hardware acceleration
- decent performance
- support for multiple simultaneous X displays
- open source drivers
??poor design: the push side of the door shouldn't have a pull handle on it.
and what you don't realize is that IT staff are professionals in their field just as the sales and marketing people are in theirs. an enterprise is a cooperative effort. most IT staff don't get off on "power trip" games - they're trying to do their job professionally, and sometimes this requires protecting IT assets from the very users they serve.
unfortunately this is often a one-way relationship: IT policies can directly affect other users in the company, while sales and marketing policy make no fucking difference at all to the IT staff. that's why you tend to see resentment from non-IT people towards IT people: they're marginally affected by security restrictions etc. but usually have no understanding whatsoever of what's gained through these minor inconveniences.
i instituted locked-down workstations at work. i also went with mozilla for browser and mail, and uninstalled outlook from all the desktops. no e-mail viruses, fewer problems with system-level spyware, fewer problems with unauthorized programs installed. keep in mind that all of our several hundred windows workstations have internet-routable IP addresses - no firewall (sorry, that's not up to me).
do i get recognition for doing the right thing and saving hundreds of IT support hours, and several hundreds more of our users' lost productivity? no. i get cranky users because they can't upgrade their own programs and change system settings, and management sulks because their mail program is "different from home".
point being: users don't notice the ABSENCE of problems; they just notice the small "sacrifices" that must be made in order to keep things running smoothly.
now i know how parents feel when kids give them the evil eye for making them eat their vegetables.
i need a new job.
but with the right proctologist the rectal exam could be simply marvelous!
because a lot of commercial software developers are terrified of gnu/linux and free software. i mean, like, TERRIFIED. they want to keep their consumer public in the gilded cage of proprietary software so that they can continue to milk their teats through the bars.
if photoshop and dreamweaver and <insert killer app without gnu/linux counterpart here> become available on Free platforms, a lot of users who can't live without those tools might actually use gnu/linux, and they might find there's a lot of free software out there that's really great. it might make their customer base realize that there are - or can be - OPTIONS. at the moment, doing without these tools seems unthinkable, and that's like a license to print money to them.
i remember the trepidation i felt when switching to gnu/linux from windows. it was just an experiment, and i was convinced i couldn't actually live without windows. a few years later, i *never* lay hands on windows of my own free will. occasionally i will have to perform some windows-related chore at work, but when i do it it's through vnc, and i'm sure i have the expression of someone with latex gloves on, trying to dispose of a used condom.
nvu, an offshoot of Mozilla Composer, supports WebDAV. It's not done yet, but it's making some serious progress. it's GPL and it's actually got funding (from Lindows).
what's that? how can you PROVE i'm not I_M_God2U ?
- a prominent competitor or strategic threat to microsoft, or
- a willing patsy ready to lose the case.
they're trying to establish precedent.
i wouldn't be too surprised if powers greater than those immediately obvious are trying to cripple the F/OSS movement. there are all kinds of power arrangements and financial interests at stake, and not just in business.
i just had a great idea for a firefox plugin. highlight on one of these motherfucking mangled URL's, right-click, and select "visit motherfucking mangled URL", and it goes there without cut/paste/edit/hitEnter.
you've got it reversed. an operating system that crashes because of an issue in an application is not really a starter.
get familiar with gnu/linux. i know, from your perspective at this moment, that it seems like an outlandish waste of time, but really - things are changing.
so THAT'S why bush wants to send a man to mars! to bitch-slap the shit out of osama!
as an atheist, i find your particular brand of crazy just as perplexing as any other :-)