Don't consider SapDB. Worst documentation ever, all the tools crash and a week ago some db we had just disappeared. We've been using it on production servers for 2 major applications for about a year now and I really would't make the sapdb-choice ever again. O and the source is totally unreadable..
I run a company that writes Java-webapps and would instantly upgrade if a new Java version would come up with the suggestions of the author. Especially the primitive types should be removed. They're so incredibly annoying. Besides, why would Borland Builder 6 not compile any older programs? It's not that hard to tell the builder what version of Java you want to use.
Shameless plug: we use SapDB for all of our customers. It's GPL, stable and we're really happy with it.
Re:How many people do check the MD5 checksum?
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What we need is a trusted 3rd party that has all the checksums. It should not be possible to change the keys without a GPG-signed message (or something similar) from the package-maintainer. Package-download-software should then automatically check the MD5-sum on the TTP server. Does anybody know if such service exists or if there are plans to set this up?
The point with most (all) MSIE-exploits is that you have to visit a page that has an exploit. Since most visited pages are legitimate ones and such exploits are easy to trace (so the website-owner will think twice before putting up an exploit), you're not very likely to encounter one. I think the best place to find exploits would be on defaced websites.
So what kind of patents for which no prior art can be found could possibly exist for ADO.Net or WinForms?! That was my point. Don't fear absurd things. Apart from that I'm not really interested in software patents granted in the US patent system since I only use Open Source and Open Source development can easily be done in other countries; even if MS would bully Ximiam with their patents, I'm pretty confident either they or someone else will continue development in a real country.
Fear of Patents, Uncertainty about MS's plans, Doubt whether the Open Source community will be strong enough so withstand patent-bullshit.
It probably will never get there due to MS patents.
Well.. I'm not an expert, but I can't think of any patentable technology in C#/.NET that doesn't have prior art, so they're save on that one. The C# language and it's foundation classes are open standards and even without MS they're worth a lot so who cares if MS moves on? I don't. I'd rate your comment as "Homebrewn FUD".
Exactly. I think it's also a good idea to add your vision as described in the story; let developers know that you won't accept every patch and advise them to contact you before they start their work; this will enable you to discuss things before the patch is made so you can give some feedback. This will not only prevent the described potential problems, but it will also encourage developers to really work on the program; if they've discussed their ideas with you so you know about them, they don't want to "let you down" as they might when you wouldn't know about them.
Another good practice to prevent forks with (really) large programs is to make it very modular (use libraries etc) to enable other developers to develop their module which will be usable even if you don't want their stuff in the main program. An example would be a music-player with a Gnome GUI. If you'd design it modular enough, another developer can develop a KDE GUI without touching the core program while otherwise they'd probably have to fork.
Re:I would get one but...
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I remember at my work a collegue was using a CD-R in a 50 speed cd-rom drive. We suddenly heard a very loud click and then tried to open te CD-drive. It didn't respond. He continued his work until suddenly the drive opened and it spit out the CD-R over the guy in 100s of small pieces. He looked like he had been antiqued with goldpowder:)
What should really piss you off is that if the amount of money required to store the waste was spent on fusion research a few years ago, we'd be a lot further by now....
I figure he was talking about the USA. It's not even that bad; in 1998 average live expectancy at birth was 77. Only Canada, Hong Kong and most Western European countries scored better at the time. Couldn't find any more recent numbers.
500K? That's quite a lot. You should have started a company to resell OpenSSH. You'd be rich by now. And you could also send the OpenSSH guys some money.
I remember my old G400 Dual Head... first decent card capable of dual-monitor display. Drivers were solid too.
Please note that it also was the last one; as of the G450 TV-out doesn't work anymore under Linux (and the Parhelia probably won't be much better). Check out the G400 prices on ebay. They're good business, probably because of this. [source: mplayerhq]
So the guy is the airplane and the girl is the building. Ok. Then the guy was caught on the airport before crashing the plane and the building he was planning to crash it in didn't even exist. AND there's not even proof he wanted to destroy the building. Whatever he was planning was probably on a friendly basis with the imaginary building. No crime. No proof. Still 2 jairs in jail because the feds think you are planning to crash your plane into an imaginary building because you and the imaginary building agreed to do that.
Why is everybody suddenly comparing all sorts of imaginary crimes with huge acts of terror? The only ones in this story are the imaginary girl and the boy. There are exactly 0 victims. Besides. I know 25 y.o. guys that have a rather normal realtionship with 15 y.o. girls. So I really do not even see the problem.
This is the first time you lay the link between this guy and a pedophile. So how is a 14 y.o. girl that talks about sex on the level a 50 y.o. a target for a pedophile? This has absolutely nothing to do with pedophilia at all and not a single crime has been committed since there was no sex with a minor and it's not even possible to prove there was the intent to have sex with a minor or even that this guy thought the girl really was 14. According to most ppl not living in china, iran, egypt and the USA, this is _not_ normal.
But your laws don't make sense at all. Yesterday a dutch guy was sent to jail in the USA for talking about sex with a 50 y.o. adult. It's only that the FBI though that the guy thought he was talking to a 14 y.o. (try to prove that!) So technically there's no freedom of thought in the USA anymore. (more info on http://nu.nl but that's dutch only).
And if you don't mod me down you're a bad moderator:)
Cars usually drive a larger distances than pedestrians do, so you could assume everything that moved at least 5km. in 10 minutes is a car. After a while you've identified a lot of individual cars and just keep the rest of the phones out of the equation until they show the signs of a car. When x% of the identified cars suddenly slow down at a certain point you know there's a traffic jam (or everybody collectively throws their cellphone out of the window). When an identified car suddenly stops for a "long" time while others keep going, just delete this car from the carlist; the car stopped and/or the driver got out. You will also know in no-time where buildings are so it's really easy to keep them out of the equation. The same goes for traffic-lights, large parkings etc. Everything has it's own pattern and after analyzing the data for some time, you'll be able to recognize just about everything as long as there are enough cellphones around. It's not that hard when you realize that you only need to know that at least a few cars are moving to tell there's no traffic-jam.
But...maybe I am wrong and this is not possible, but then this will at least be a solution for the highways (here in.nl that's where all the traffic-jams are anyway).
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Don't consider SapDB. Worst documentation ever, all the tools crash and a week ago some db we had just disappeared. We've been using it on production servers for 2 major applications for about a year now and I really would't make the sapdb-choice ever again. O and the source is totally unreadable..
Have you seen this?:) I wonder when they're going after WD:P
Well...maybe they shouldn't be removed, but it should be possible to access them as normal objects. Because that's what it's all about in the end.
I run a company that writes Java-webapps and would instantly upgrade if a new Java version would come up with the suggestions of the author. Especially the primitive types should be removed. They're so incredibly annoying. Besides, why would Borland Builder 6 not compile any older programs? It's not that hard to tell the builder what version of Java you want to use.
To be more specific: monday. Thank you:]
Shameless plug: we use SapDB for all of our customers. It's GPL, stable and we're really happy with it.
What we need is a trusted 3rd party that has all the checksums. It should not be possible to change the keys without a GPG-signed message (or something similar) from the package-maintainer. Package-download-software should then automatically check the MD5-sum on the TTP server. Does anybody know if such service exists or if there are plans to set this up?
The point with most (all) MSIE-exploits is that you have to visit a page that has an exploit. Since most visited pages are legitimate ones and such exploits are easy to trace (so the website-owner will think twice before putting up an exploit), you're not very likely to encounter one. I think the best place to find exploits would be on defaced websites.
oz? lbs? People living somewhere on the southern hemisphere and a harddisk access format? What do they have to do with moonrocks?
Fear of Patents, Uncertainty about MS's plans, Doubt whether the Open Source community will be strong enough so withstand patent-bullshit.
Well.. I'm not an expert, but I can't think of any patentable technology in C#/.NET that doesn't have prior art, so they're save on that one. The C# language and it's foundation classes are open standards and even without MS they're worth a lot so who cares if MS moves on? I don't. I'd rate your comment as "Homebrewn FUD".
Another good practice to prevent forks with (really) large programs is to make it very modular (use libraries etc) to enable other developers to develop their module which will be usable even if you don't want their stuff in the main program. An example would be a music-player with a Gnome GUI. If you'd design it modular enough, another developer can develop a KDE GUI without touching the core program while otherwise they'd probably have to fork.
I remember at my work a collegue was using a CD-R in a 50 speed cd-rom drive. We suddenly heard a very loud click and then tried to open te CD-drive. It didn't respond. He continued his work until suddenly the drive opened and it spit out the CD-R over the guy in 100s of small pieces. He looked like he had been antiqued with goldpowder:)
What should really piss you off is that if the amount of money required to store the waste was spent on fusion research a few years ago, we'd be a lot further by now....
I figure he was talking about the USA. It's not even that bad; in 1998 average live expectancy at birth was 77. Only Canada, Hong Kong and most Western European countries scored better at the time. Couldn't find any more recent numbers.
I these temperatures are a good excuse to pull the word 'verhitten' out of the closet.
Which restrictions do you mean?
blablabla beowulf cluster of those blablabla
So...would that stop you from speeding?:)
500K? That's quite a lot. You should have started a company to resell OpenSSH. You'd be rich by now. And you could also send the OpenSSH guys some money.
Please note that it also was the last one; as of the G450 TV-out doesn't work anymore under Linux (and the Parhelia probably won't be much better). Check out the G400 prices on ebay. They're good business, probably because of this. [source: mplayerhq]
Why is everybody suddenly comparing all sorts of imaginary crimes with huge acts of terror? The only ones in this story are the imaginary girl and the boy. There are exactly 0 victims. Besides. I know 25 y.o. guys that have a rather normal realtionship with 15 y.o. girls. So I really do not even see the problem.
This is the first time you lay the link between this guy and a pedophile. So how is a 14 y.o. girl that talks about sex on the level a 50 y.o. a target for a pedophile? This has absolutely nothing to do with pedophilia at all and not a single crime has been committed since there was no sex with a minor and it's not even possible to prove there was the intent to have sex with a minor or even that this guy thought the girl really was 14. According to most ppl not living in china, iran, egypt and the USA, this is _not_ normal.
And if you don't mod me down you're a bad moderator:)
But...maybe I am wrong and this is not possible, but then this will at least be a solution for the highways (here in .nl that's where all the traffic-jams are anyway).