How about ACORN, on a voter registration drive, making up names and addresses from the phone book? Man its going to be a long election:/
The way you phrased it, it makes it sound like ACORN itself, not simply a few of the workers (who were disciplined and/or fired for doing so, as far as I have read). Is inflating voter roles (which is quite awful) as terrible as disenfranchising real voters? Though both effect the outcome, one removes a constituent's constitutional right to vote.
Yesterday I received a DVD in the mail from an obscure group known as the "Clarion Fund." It was a hatchet job meant to scare people about the evils of muslim extremism.... The shocking part was that they somehow had my full name on the address label....
The joys of living in the swing state of VA....
This was reported on a little while ago in at least one online publication. It was called "Obsession".
I think when we get around to admitting that we're horribly racist and xenophobic in America, we'll be better off than that "open to everyone" crap we try to peddle to the rest of the world.
The very idea (demonstrably false though it may be) that a major party candidate is a Muslim shouldn't be a detractor from them holding the presidency, but as it has been used as a smear...
Comparing Visual Studio to something like Eclipse isn't exactly a fair comparison, since Visual Studio doesn't do cross platform, at all. For anyone who doesn't live, eat and breathe Microsoft products, this is a bit of a problem. Monodevelop is currently the only almost equivalent for doing.NET work in a cross platform visual way....
That being said, if you're doing heavy duty development work and don't use Windows, Eclipse is a much better environment than Monodevelop, so it's pretty safe to say that Java development on non-Windows systems is easier than.NET development. If you don't use Windows.
Anyone writing for Gnome should use Vala, Gnome's own c#-alike language.
Or writing for Maemo. It's a pretty fantastic way of getting lean programs with advanced language features. Unfortunately, it's still a little lacking for bindings in the stable version (GNet wasn't functional in the last stable version, which was a deal breaker for the stuff I was doing.), but it's very promising for embedded apps.
However, batteries suck and until they are better Honda and your local mechanic are both stuck using the same crap. The idea that we need to spend a lot of time and money designing hybrids is wrong because all of them operate efficiently enough that there is little room for significant improvement. It's all about the batteries at this point.
At least we know that there are some developments in the pipeline which may alleviate the crap factor of our current battery options.
Yes, I know they're still in development, but I'd like to be optimistic about all of this. More efficient storage + distributed green production (solar, wind, geothermal, etc) would probably be optimum. Well, besides the US getting some decent public transportation...
I'm currently using one of IBM/Lenovo's "Vista" branded Thinkpad T61 laptops, which hasn't given me any trouble at all running Ubuntu 8.04.
It might have to do more with manufacturers trying to "cheap out" by using inexpensive components which may or may not have working drivers or may deviate from standards enough to break non-Windows drivers, since most of the manufacturers don't produce Linux drivers...
Every ethnic group, including white people, were given these awful loans. There's no actual evidence to support your argument that the sweet, innocent lily white banking community was *forced* to give a disproportionately high number of horrible loans to awful dark people, who unlike their snow white brethren, were unable to pay them back, as a function of them being not white.
So called "equal opportunity" legislation is usually passed because of inequality in banking lending practices, regardless of actual financial data regarding those people. Logically, if a wide spectrum of people defaulted on loans, you can't blame only a segment of them because you desperately want to.
If you want to push your "teh democrat is teh reverse racist" agenda, go hang out on/b/, I'm sure they'll be a bit more accepting of it.
Read the link before you post. It says some economists tried to link the CRA to the subprime collapse, but that other economists had pointed out that that particular argument is flawed for the reasons given in that section of the Wikipedia article.
[...] However, the chief executive of Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender, is said to have "bragged" that to approve minority applications "lenders have had to stretch the rules a bit", suggesting...
Countrywide might not be the best source of information on that. Try The Great Pool of Money from "This American Life." The mortgage companies and brokers were attempting to provide more mortgages, and dropping requirements. I hardly think that NINA loans were required by the CRA, more that the fuckers who actually made the poor loans would like to shift the blame there.
And the final "OK" was given by...
... Without forcing a veto vote, this bipartisan legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.
I'll be the last person to deify Bill Clinton, but it does look by the voting on that bill that a veto would have simply dropped it back on his desk, since a *very* large majority of the House and more than a majority of the Senate approved it. Blaming this all on Clinton seems to be in style for the modern conservative, though.
The version that is in force now, is one with massive democrat additions.
Don't use the pejorative ("democrat" additions) if you're trying to get a point across.
The only sure thing is that the democrat-altered bill was a disaster, and was a disaster in that the democrat additions massively created something called "subprime" loans... hmmm...
To quote wikipedia on the origin of subprime lending: "Subprime lending evolved with the realization of a demand in the marketplace and businesses providing a supply to meet it coupled with the relaxation of usury laws." Doesn't seem to mention this bill, at all. This situation is a bit more complicated that "teh government made us loan money to poor people! give us money!"
We could also just assume common sense is correct... lending to people without income (or far, far above their income) is... well... bad business (now there's a great insight ! It's bad for both the loaners, who lose their house, and for banks, who lose their money). And if this causes some population groups to get less loans...
The issue is that lenders decided that they needed more and more loans to sell to other banks, and decided (against what you correctly refer to as "common sense") to start lowering the bar on criteria for loans all the way to the NINA loans which virtually *guaranteed* foreclosures would result.
Maybe I should repeat that... we should MEDDLE LESS. That was equally clear before all the recessions we've ever known so this probably justifies another few repeats...
I'm guessing right now I'll be branded racist. Oh well. I didn't cause the subprime crisis. What really caused the subprime crisis is simple:
"positive discrimiation" (specifically rubber-stamping "minority" loan applications, followed by rubber-stamping of (nearly) ALL loan applications)
Yeah, minority loans, that's the ticket. Poor *white* people didn't take out NINA loans the same way poor black and hispanic people did. We s
or you could use Fire Fox's download helper to rip any song directly from the band's myspace page.
Or getmsmp3, which has apparently been abandoned.... Notice reads:
Sorry everyone, but MySpace has its own special music interests now, and this
program can't play nice with their new business model. It's going to be hard
enough for them to be profitable without some script out there that can grab
content without watching ads. So getmsmp3 is officially abandoned. Sorry!
Ironic that you are forgetting the condition of the economy in 2000/2001. Nose-diving stock market and massive accounting failures, terrorist attacks, hardly attributable to Bush, but blamed on him because he was president. His first economic package wasn't even in place until 2002.
We (Americans) are often short-sighted in that we have tended to blame the president - whomever he may have been - for whatever our current situation was, giving no heed to the fact that things don't often work that fast or are not so transparent.
Right. Removingdepression era safeguards which would have helped stave off horrendous financial collapse couldn't be blamed on the government... Also, "major accounting failures", such as Enron, could be construed as being the fault of... you guessed it... deregulation (well, and corruption), which allowed these enormous companies to fail in spectacular ways that wouldn't have happened before.
The dud we've got right now (and his party) have been heavily pushing deregulation as a solution to supposedly government induced problems. So I think it's at least somewhat fair to lay the blame at his feet for that. Plus, I haven't heard hide nor hair of a responsible energy policy out of this administration... And you can't forget shoving us into military conflicts which are a great excuse to defund social programs. That whirring noise you hear is FDR slowly rotating in his grave.
First: The two devices are the starting point, not the end game. And secondly, the single carrier is absurd. Oh you meant to say the business model is designed for an exclusive carrier, per country? Correct. So far, T-Mobile is the only carrier targeted for Android in the United States. Ironically, there are how many National US Carriers left? AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and what else? We know that Alltel is being absorbed by Verizon. Please give me those other National Carriers. So the most Android can currently be on is 4 carriers. From a developer standpoint, those 2 current devices, working consistently with the iPhone SDK won't have to deal with the Phone Makers and their idiosyncratic crap that they work out, separately, with each Carrier who has one agreement for this phone make and model and a different agreement for that phone make and model, ad naseum.
Android isn't just being targeted at the United States and its limited stock of major phone carriers, although the iPhone *is*, since its only intended use is on the AT&T/Cingular network.
From a Development standpoint, which platform is the most consistent dealing in business?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. The mobile phone developers I work with have been very excited about Android, since apparently the API is very "sane" compared to most other mobile phone platforms... it's not perfect, but then again, this is release 1.0.
Speaking strictly from a technical standpoint it's clear that Android is no where near the Apple platform in maturity and tools, but give it time. Just as it matures so will the iPhone SDK and it's tools.
True; that seems to be Google's game plan... Quite a few people didn't think they'd take down Altavista, or Hotmail, or any of the other services or software they've outdone, but it remains to be seen whether they're able to keep this one together. I hope so. RIM's interface is awful, and Windows Mobile is even worse. And I'm not about to switch carriers to get something with a nice interface.
This is a bullshit comparison that doesn't go deeper than "NDA bad, Linux good." What about the actual API? The tools available for profiling code and debugging? GUI designer? Simulator? I like Eclipse and Java, but Xcode and the tools in the iPhone SDK are pretty damn awesome, I doubt that Android is anywhere near that.
The iPhone "platform" is designed one or two devices, running on one or two series of hardware, for one carrier. Android is meant to be a platform for many carriers, many phones, many architectures. The OS I would assume that Android is actually competing with would be Windows Mobile, since it's far more analogous to that.
Except that Windows Mobile is kinda awful in the interface department. Styluses are awful ideas for phones and other small touchscreen devices...
As for the API, the Android crew has created an abstraction layer for different phone architectures and technologies (GSM, CDMA, etc), allowing a standard backwards-compatible platform for phones running Android, whereas iPhone's API targets... Apple iPhones. It's a bit of an apples/oranges comparison there.
Per the official announcement webcast, there's no A2DP profile support at launch, which makes this unfeasible.
Whereas you're right about there being no A2DP support, it doesn't affect bluetooth headsets which most consumers use for phone use, just those you'd use exclusively for music (stereo ones). You have to read down a bit in the developer post, but it does say that bluetooth headsets work fine.
I've spent considerable time trying to get this work and it is still nowhere near being mature enough to be usable.
Don't get me wrong, it's better than it was a few months ago. It will allow Evolution to make a connection and even download most of the folder information. For us, it has trouble deciphering email addresses in the headers, doesn't display some messages at all and, most annoyingly, continues to consume all available memory until it crashes.
Yeah, that sounds like early stage Evolution. It was ridiculously unstable for a long time, and still gives me occasional problems and, at the least, UI issues when connecting to a large mailbox.
It's more one of those instances where either some company has to put a few dollars in to help out with development, or just wait it out and hope someone else does it first.
Sarah Palin is proof that there is no glass ceiling for women, as long as you're not ugly, have fufilled your reproductive obligations, don't have any actual power, will be subordinate to a man, seem clueless, and hiring you will keep a black man out of the white house.
You know, I can't see how that was modded as a troll. It seems more like a pretty apt commentary on the current state of politics and sexism. Just sayin'.
It wouldn't exactly take a lot of effort to implement bash under *BSD (if it hasn't already been done, cue the reply with the package link), but it's still hardly appropriate to accuse the majority of Linux users of some sort of ignorance because their OS tasks generally don't involve using the CLI.
i've never claimed linux users are ignorant i'm just stating that most linux (CLI) users are happy with bash
and don't need it changed and when they do need it changed they either edit the passwd directly (i did that but it was very inconvient - combination of vi and not vim and qwerty keyboard layout)
You could also just use usermod -s mynewshell username to change that, without having to directly edit/etc/passwd
tend to default to csh or tcsh (i like tcsh but i really loathe csh -- no tab completion ? )
offcorse a chsh can fix that, but most linux users have never had the need for that command and most don't even know it exists
In the same way that most Windows users don't know that the "Command Prompt" exists. It's still not possible in either to do *everything* without delving into using a CLI. In Windows, working with anything but the most trivial Exchange Server features has traditionally required their CLI tools.
It wouldn't exactly take a lot of effort to implement bash under *BSD (if it hasn't already been done, cue the reply with the package link), but it's still hardly appropriate to accuse the majority of Linux users of some sort of ignorance because their OS tasks generally don't involve using the CLI.
Wake me when you can run VMware or VirtualBox under BSD. Until then, it's useless to me.
The source is available for VirtualBox's "OSE" version. If someone felt so inclined, they could port the *BSD-specific bits to work. I'm assuming the major work would be in the kernel module, but if you want it done badly enough, you could do it.
> Xen is a paravirtualization technology, whereas VMWare is a straight-up virtualization technology.
That may have been true at some point. But, Xen has long ago supported full hardware virtualization (allowing it to run an unmodified OS, such as Windows). And, VMware now supports paravirtualization via "VMI" which they got included in the standard Linux kernel.
In any case, the more important issue is their management capabilities. Xen has struggled in the past because its management was weak compared to VMware. If Sun can put their resources into improving the management side of things, they could make an impact.
Xen's primary strength, however, is paravirtualization. Anything else on top of that is what you make of it.
Also, there's a nice Virtual Machine management console available in the newer Linux distributions (libvirtd-based). Not perfect, but a step in the right direction for those of us which require paravirtualization.
I don't think it will be as successful as they hoped. Sun is far too late to this x86 virtualization game. LDOM's and Containers, and Xen are great technologies, but they just haven't been nearly as flexible as VMWare's offering. Management of the environments (LDOM/Containers/Xen guests) has been very kludgy. This is where VMWare has really gained dominance, and I suspect will retain it. They are years ahead in virtualization management.
Not to nitpick too much, but there's some apples/oranges comparisons here. Xen is a paravirtualization technology, whereas VMWare is a straight-up virtualization technology. Paravirtualization is usually more efficient with like operating systems, so it does play to a different segment.
It's like saying VMWare is better than Qemu, though Qemu lets me emulate arm and sh4 architecture machines and VMWare doesn't. Different tools for different jobs.
A lot of us watch YouTube and other flash video. Heck, some of us even play the odd flash game until a download is finished. If Adobe open sourced Flash, you could make decent cross-platform web applications in a matter of minutes all the while blocking Flash ads.
As with most other browser-based problems, Firefox has a plugin for that, so you can leave out the bits you like, but not be assed out by required Flash functionality in certain sites.
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Yeah, that "I have a black friend, so I can't be racist thing" is a bit played out.
I guess it's whatever helps people sleep at night. No one really wants to believe that they're anything other than a good and just person.
How about ACORN, on a voter registration drive, making up names and addresses from the phone book? Man its going to be a long election :/
The way you phrased it, it makes it sound like ACORN itself, not simply a few of the workers (who were disciplined and/or fired for doing so, as far as I have read). Is inflating voter roles (which is quite awful) as terrible as disenfranchising real voters? Though both effect the outcome, one removes a constituent's constitutional right to vote.
Yesterday I received a DVD in the mail from an obscure group known as the "Clarion Fund." It was a hatchet job meant to scare people about the evils of muslim extremism.... The shocking part was that they somehow had my full name on the address label.... The joys of living in the swing state of VA....
This was reported on a little while ago in at least one online publication. It was called "Obsession".
I think when we get around to admitting that we're horribly racist and xenophobic in America, we'll be better off than that "open to everyone" crap we try to peddle to the rest of the world.
The very idea (demonstrably false though it may be) that a major party candidate is a Muslim shouldn't be a detractor from them holding the presidency, but as it has been used as a smear...
Comparing Visual Studio to something like Eclipse isn't exactly a fair comparison, since Visual Studio doesn't do cross platform, at all. For anyone who doesn't live, eat and breathe Microsoft products, this is a bit of a problem. Monodevelop is currently the only almost equivalent for doing .NET work in a cross platform visual way....
That being said, if you're doing heavy duty development work and don't use Windows, Eclipse is a much better environment than Monodevelop, so it's pretty safe to say that Java development on non-Windows systems is easier than .NET development. If you don't use Windows.
Anyone writing for Gnome should use Vala, Gnome's own c#-alike language.
Or writing for Maemo. It's a pretty fantastic way of getting lean programs with advanced language features. Unfortunately, it's still a little lacking for bindings in the stable version (GNet wasn't functional in the last stable version, which was a deal breaker for the stuff I was doing.), but it's very promising for embedded apps.
However, batteries suck and until they are better Honda and your local mechanic are both stuck using the same crap. The idea that we need to spend a lot of time and money designing hybrids is wrong because all of them operate efficiently enough that there is little room for significant improvement. It's all about the batteries at this point.
At least we know that there are some developments in the pipeline which may alleviate the crap factor of our current battery options.
Yes, I know they're still in development, but I'd like to be optimistic about all of this. More efficient storage + distributed green production (solar, wind, geothermal, etc) would probably be optimum. Well, besides the US getting some decent public transportation...
I'm currently using one of IBM/Lenovo's "Vista" branded Thinkpad T61 laptops, which hasn't given me any trouble at all running Ubuntu 8.04.
It might have to do more with manufacturers trying to "cheap out" by using inexpensive components which may or may not have working drivers or may deviate from standards enough to break non-Windows drivers, since most of the manufacturers don't produce Linux drivers...
Every ethnic group, including white people, were given these awful loans. There's no actual evidence to support your argument that the sweet, innocent lily white banking community was *forced* to give a disproportionately high number of horrible loans to awful dark people, who unlike their snow white brethren, were unable to pay them back, as a function of them being not white.
So called "equal opportunity" legislation is usually passed because of inequality in banking lending practices, regardless of actual financial data regarding those people. Logically, if a wide spectrum of people defaulted on loans, you can't blame only a segment of them because you desperately want to.
If you want to push your "teh democrat is teh reverse racist" agenda, go hang out on /b/, I'm sure they'll be a bit more accepting of it.
No more feeding the troll.
Community reinvestment act ? Oh, right.
Read the link before you post. It says some economists tried to link the CRA to the subprime collapse, but that other economists had pointed out that that particular argument is flawed for the reasons given in that section of the Wikipedia article.
[...] However, the chief executive of Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender, is said to have "bragged" that to approve minority applications "lenders have had to stretch the rules a bit", suggesting ...
Countrywide might not be the best source of information on that. Try The Great Pool of Money from "This American Life." The mortgage companies and brokers were attempting to provide more mortgages, and dropping requirements. I hardly think that NINA loans were required by the CRA, more that the fuckers who actually made the poor loans would like to shift the blame there.
And the final "OK" was given by ...
... Without forcing a veto vote, this bipartisan legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.
I'll be the last person to deify Bill Clinton, but it does look by the voting on that bill that a veto would have simply dropped it back on his desk, since a *very* large majority of the House and more than a majority of the Senate approved it. Blaming this all on Clinton seems to be in style for the modern conservative, though.
The version that is in force now, is one with massive democrat additions.
Don't use the pejorative ("democrat" additions) if you're trying to get a point across.
The only sure thing is that the democrat-altered bill was a disaster, and was a disaster in that the democrat additions massively created something called "subprime" loans ... hmmm ...
To quote wikipedia on the origin of subprime lending: "Subprime lending evolved with the realization of a demand in the marketplace and businesses providing a supply to meet it coupled with the relaxation of usury laws." Doesn't seem to mention this bill, at all. This situation is a bit more complicated that "teh government made us loan money to poor people! give us money!"
We could also just assume common sense is correct ... lending to people without income (or far, far above their income) is ... well ... bad business (now there's a great insight ! It's bad for both the loaners, who lose their house, and for banks, who lose their money). And if this causes some population groups to get less loans ...
The issue is that lenders decided that they needed more and more loans to sell to other banks, and decided (against what you correctly refer to as "common sense") to start lowering the bar on criteria for loans all the way to the NINA loans which virtually *guaranteed* foreclosures would result.
Maybe I should repeat that ... we should MEDDLE LESS. That was equally clear before all the recessions we've ever known so this probably justifies another few repeats ...
I'm guessing right now I'll be branded racist. Oh well. I didn't cause the subprime crisis. What really caused the subprime crisis is simple :
"positive discrimiation" (specifically rubber-stamping "minority" loan applications, followed by rubber-stamping of (nearly) ALL loan applications)
Yeah, minority loans, that's the ticket. Poor *white* people didn't take out NINA loans the same way poor black and hispanic people did. We s
or you could use Fire Fox's download helper to rip any song directly from the band's myspace page.
Or getmsmp3, which has apparently been abandoned.... Notice reads:
Sorry everyone, but MySpace has its own special music interests now, and this
program can't play nice with their new business model. It's going to be hard
enough for them to be profitable without some script out there that can grab
content without watching ads. So getmsmp3 is officially abandoned. Sorry!
Ironic that you are forgetting the condition of the economy in 2000/2001. Nose-diving stock market and massive accounting failures, terrorist attacks, hardly attributable to Bush, but blamed on him because he was president. His first economic package wasn't even in place until 2002.
We (Americans) are often short-sighted in that we have tended to blame the president - whomever he may have been - for whatever our current situation was, giving no heed to the fact that things don't often work that fast or are not so transparent.
Right. Removing depression era safeguards which would have helped stave off horrendous financial collapse couldn't be blamed on the government... Also, "major accounting failures", such as Enron, could be construed as being the fault of ... you guessed it ... deregulation (well, and corruption), which allowed these enormous companies to fail in spectacular ways that wouldn't have happened before.
The dud we've got right now (and his party) have been heavily pushing deregulation as a solution to supposedly government induced problems. So I think it's at least somewhat fair to lay the blame at his feet for that. Plus, I haven't heard hide nor hair of a responsible energy policy out of this administration... And you can't forget shoving us into military conflicts which are a great excuse to defund social programs. That whirring noise you hear is FDR slowly rotating in his grave.
First: The two devices are the starting point, not the end game. And secondly, the single carrier is absurd. Oh you meant to say the business model is designed for an exclusive carrier, per country? Correct. So far, T-Mobile is the only carrier targeted for Android in the United States. Ironically, there are how many National US Carriers left? AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and what else? We know that Alltel is being absorbed by Verizon. Please give me those other National Carriers. So the most Android can currently be on is 4 carriers. From a developer standpoint, those 2 current devices, working consistently with the iPhone SDK won't have to deal with the Phone Makers and their idiosyncratic crap that they work out, separately, with each Carrier who has one agreement for this phone make and model and a different agreement for that phone make and model, ad naseum.
Android isn't just being targeted at the United States and its limited stock of major phone carriers, although the iPhone *is*, since its only intended use is on the AT&T/Cingular network.
From a Development standpoint, which platform is the most consistent dealing in business?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. The mobile phone developers I work with have been very excited about Android, since apparently the API is very "sane" compared to most other mobile phone platforms... it's not perfect, but then again, this is release 1.0.
Speaking strictly from a technical standpoint it's clear that Android is no where near the Apple platform in maturity and tools, but give it time. Just as it matures so will the iPhone SDK and it's tools.
True; that seems to be Google's game plan... Quite a few people didn't think they'd take down Altavista, or Hotmail, or any of the other services or software they've outdone, but it remains to be seen whether they're able to keep this one together. I hope so. RIM's interface is awful, and Windows Mobile is even worse. And I'm not about to switch carriers to get something with a nice interface.
This is a bullshit comparison that doesn't go deeper than "NDA bad, Linux good." What about the actual API? The tools available for profiling code and debugging? GUI designer? Simulator? I like Eclipse and Java, but Xcode and the tools in the iPhone SDK are pretty damn awesome, I doubt that Android is anywhere near that.
The iPhone "platform" is designed one or two devices, running on one or two series of hardware, for one carrier. Android is meant to be a platform for many carriers, many phones, many architectures. The OS I would assume that Android is actually competing with would be Windows Mobile, since it's far more analogous to that.
Except that Windows Mobile is kinda awful in the interface department. Styluses are awful ideas for phones and other small touchscreen devices...
As for the API, the Android crew has created an abstraction layer for different phone architectures and technologies (GSM, CDMA, etc), allowing a standard backwards-compatible platform for phones running Android, whereas iPhone's API targets ... Apple iPhones. It's a bit of an apples/oranges comparison there.
Per the official announcement webcast, there's no A2DP profile support at launch, which makes this unfeasible.
Whereas you're right about there being no A2DP support, it doesn't affect bluetooth headsets which most consumers use for phone use, just those you'd use exclusively for music (stereo ones). You have to read down a bit in the developer post, but it does say that bluetooth headsets work fine.
I've spent considerable time trying to get this work and it is still nowhere near being mature enough to be usable.
Don't get me wrong, it's better than it was a few months ago. It will allow Evolution to make a connection and even download most of the folder information. For us, it has trouble deciphering email addresses in the headers, doesn't display some messages at all and, most annoyingly, continues to consume all available memory until it crashes.
Yeah, that sounds like early stage Evolution. It was ridiculously unstable for a long time, and still gives me occasional problems and, at the least, UI issues when connecting to a large mailbox.
It's more one of those instances where either some company has to put a few dollars in to help out with development, or just wait it out and hope someone else does it first.
Did you try the work they were doing here? They did mention that it's supposed to work with Exchange 2007.
Just sing Beatles songs in your head. Worked for Dr. Zarkov.
Quick! Check the angular vector of the moon!
Poor Topol.
Sarah Palin is proof that there is no glass ceiling for women, as long as you're not ugly, have fufilled your reproductive obligations, don't have any actual power, will be subordinate to a man, seem clueless, and hiring you will keep a black man out of the white house.
You know, I can't see how that was modded as a troll. It seems more like a pretty apt commentary on the current state of politics and sexism. Just sayin'.
Plus, it made me laugh a little.
i've never claimed linux users are ignorant i'm just stating that most linux (CLI) users are happy with bash and don't need it changed and when they do need it changed they either edit the passwd directly (i did that but it was very inconvient - combination of vi and not vim and qwerty keyboard layout)
You could also just use usermod -s mynewshell username to change that, without having to directly edit /etc/passwd
So where's the torrent?
You could always use the CDN version.
and the BSD's & solaris
tend to default to csh or tcsh (i like tcsh but i really loathe csh -- no tab completion ? )
offcorse a chsh can fix that, but most linux users have never had the need for that command and most don't even know it exists
In the same way that most Windows users don't know that the "Command Prompt" exists. It's still not possible in either to do *everything* without delving into using a CLI. In Windows, working with anything but the most trivial Exchange Server features has traditionally required their CLI tools.
It wouldn't exactly take a lot of effort to implement bash under *BSD (if it hasn't already been done, cue the reply with the package link), but it's still hardly appropriate to accuse the majority of Linux users of some sort of ignorance because their OS tasks generally don't involve using the CLI.
Wake me when you can run VMware or VirtualBox under BSD. Until then, it's useless to me.
The source is available for VirtualBox's "OSE" version. If someone felt so inclined, they could port the *BSD-specific bits to work. I'm assuming the major work would be in the kernel module, but if you want it done badly enough, you could do it.
> Xen is a paravirtualization technology, whereas VMWare is a straight-up virtualization technology.
That may have been true at some point. But, Xen has long ago supported full hardware virtualization (allowing it to run an unmodified OS, such as Windows). And, VMware now supports paravirtualization via "VMI" which they got included in the standard Linux kernel.
In any case, the more important issue is their management capabilities. Xen has struggled in the past because its management was weak compared to VMware. If Sun can put their resources into improving the management side of things, they could make an impact.
Xen's primary strength, however, is paravirtualization. Anything else on top of that is what you make of it.
Also, there's a nice Virtual Machine management console available in the newer Linux distributions (libvirtd-based). Not perfect, but a step in the right direction for those of us which require paravirtualization.
I don't think it will be as successful as they hoped. Sun is far too late to this x86 virtualization game. LDOM's and Containers, and Xen are great technologies, but they just haven't been nearly as flexible as VMWare's offering. Management of the environments (LDOM/Containers/Xen guests) has been very kludgy. This is where VMWare has really gained dominance, and I suspect will retain it. They are years ahead in virtualization management.
Not to nitpick too much, but there's some apples/oranges comparisons here. Xen is a paravirtualization technology, whereas VMWare is a straight-up virtualization technology. Paravirtualization is usually more efficient with like operating systems, so it does play to a different segment.
It's like saying VMWare is better than Qemu, though Qemu lets me emulate arm and sh4 architecture machines and VMWare doesn't. Different tools for different jobs.
A lot of us watch YouTube and other flash video. Heck, some of us even play the odd flash game until a download is finished. If Adobe open sourced Flash, you could make decent cross-platform web applications in a matter of minutes all the while blocking Flash ads.
As with most other browser-based problems, Firefox has a plugin for that, so you can leave out the bits you like, but not be assed out by required Flash functionality in certain sites.