I know I digress a bit, but sometimes an open-source solution is not the choice for everyone. A lot of clients I talk to have no technical knowledge, and want a CMS to be able to update the website easily. They have no idea how to install it or to maintain it. Some of them prefer "buying" a product, than buying lots of services.
Then again, it really depends on the demographic. If it's a student putting up a website and he has all the time in the world, I guess an open source CMS is the preferred solution.
Of course, I'm biased, I work for this CMS vendor:) But it has a license you can pay in cash or code
Well I guess it would be interesting to feature Q in Enterprise... Because that could happen, given that Q is this wildcard characters that they can use anytime... but maybe it's just me being nostalgic of "All Good Things...":)
Really why is it the US, as the biggest polluter in the world can't they make a significant effort to ratify the treaty like the rest of the world. Why should the US be treated to a special treatment when they set the worst example ?
All the people seriously concerned with performance. In recent slashdot articles and various KDE mailing list posts, it was analyzed that the memory and loading times of C++ programs needed serious improvement, especially on the linker and compiler side.
I sincerely hope GCC and LD will be fixed soon because its really a shame to have such a great system as Linux being bogged down by multiple copies of libraries in RAM...
The best thing to protect a company against investors that are just being too pushy is to make it very clear to them that you only need them in order for them to make money, but that you could clearly do this slower, but without the added benefit that they would get.
This way you make sure your planning stands on two grounds : with or without VC money, and you make it much harder for VCs to pressure you into doing things which are totally stupid.
But this suggestion is definitely not easy to realize, but if you can have it you will probably stand your ground with a stable company for a long time ! It will also help your valuation a lot.
Did you ever try IE on a Mac ? I was running IE on Mac OS X and gave it up because it kept crashing all the time. Sure IE is a decent browser, but ONLY on Windows.
Actually my paranoid side thinks they did this on purpose:)
What I didn't really like in VMware was the fact to be dependent on a commercial company to get support in virtual machine for all kinds of devices such as 3D cards and the like. I really thought only an open source project could allow the pass-through intercepts to be flexible enough to meet a lot of differing needs. Are you considering such an approach in plex86 ?
I think that given the fact that nobody REALLY cares for either candidate, that the people should express their disapproval by voting blank.
Go vote, but vote blank !
Of course this only makes sense if a majority votes blank, and the problems remains of promoting such power. You do not necessarely have to choose who you judge the lesser evil. Choose that you do not agree with the whole votation !
Finally we have more choice ! I was kinda stuck in the Netscape-only world until now, and now we have a full featured browser that does supports a lot of recent technologies and offers a lot of integration.
I'm not saying it's better/worse than Mozilla, I just like the fact that it is DIFFERENT !
This post used to contain a lot of information about bribery to get higher moderation points on slashdot comments, but since the american gouvernement definitly has nothing better to do, it has just removed all the bribery information that was contained in this message. Here below is what is left after the original message was stripped :
Gosh... I'm... proud... to be... an... americans !
At first I couldn't believe it, but after a few unsuccessful tries, I can confirm this "hack" really works !!!
So far it's not a complete success though, a lot of titles will not work (such as Armageddon, Tomorrow Never Dies and others), while some don't work correctly (only menu navigation works) and some others don't work at all (including zone 2 PAL DVDs).
Anyway I have hope that if the feature is there it means it is possible, it just needs to be perfected. My guess is that there is an ultimate manipulation to be done which should unlock all DVDs.
Oh, and yes I did try with Dual Layer DVDs (Saving Private Ryan) and that didn't seem to cause any problems.
While I am at it, I live in Europe and here we can plug in RGB signals through Peritel cables. Well, the news is that the Peritel cables that worked for the Playstation 1 also work for the Playstation 2 !! The great thing about this is that the quality is MUCH improved using the RGB signals !
With major hardware makers, software companies wanting to release their own distributions, I think we should really call again for a linux "standard" distribution, in order to make things such as Oracle distributions possible.
Otherwise we risk to go the way of the UNIX's splits, where basically each UNIX is it's own platform, and this is going to scare people off real quick.
I'm all for innovation and stuff, but not at the cost of loosing my favorite current platform. This is why I think SGI did the right thing by creating a Linux Powerpack that comes on top of a Redhat distribution. It's less work for them (they don't have to take care of the whole distribution) and it's more reassuring for the users and the software makers that don't have to worry too much about yet another distribution.
Actually what I meant by that is that I'm not sure the use of image should be allowed. I think you can do some quite nice looking pages without them...
The rules don't make sense.. How can a page be fully contained and use images ? An image is included by the client and therefore is "external" to the HTML file.
Maybe they'd like to clarify the rules on this point...
I must admit in MANY cases it is much easier to compromise a linux machine than a Windows one, if the Linux one is badly configured.
The main linux distribution sellers are only now realizing that they must watch out what kind of security they want to offer, and that a wrong choice in that could make people flee to the "other side".
I'm all for Linux being better technically, but we still need better default security installations to avoid getting the image that our systems are less secure...
Actually if you look at the comments on linux.com to be any indication, you'll see that the readership is indeed different. A lot of first time linux users there... but somehow I can't be sure if this is a good thing or a bad one for slashdot.
I think people have been overlooking the potential importance of the story poster's comment about giving an advantage to Europe. Europe's GSM networks are highly developped and high-quality, and I wouldn't be surprised that part of the battle for the control will happen there rather than in the good ol' US of A.
I was at the Telecom 1999 gathering in Geneva and I heard from both Bill Gates and Larry Ellison that they are betting Europe could be leading the way to mobile applications.
Oh and weather it's WAP or not I don't really care, as long as it's XML based:)
Slashdot Mirror
I know I digress a bit, but sometimes an open-source solution is not the choice for everyone. A lot of clients I talk to have no technical knowledge, and want a CMS to be able to update the website easily. They have no idea how to install it or to maintain it. Some of them prefer "buying" a product, than buying lots of services.
:) But it has a license you can pay in cash or code
Then again, it really depends on the demographic. If it's a student putting up a website and he has all the time in the world, I guess an open source CMS is the preferred solution.
Of course, I'm biased, I work for this CMS vendor
Now that everybody is buying a nice portable video player : the PSP, will this work with it ?
Or are we in for another format war : Sony vs Microsoft ?
Another nice record to listen to while watching these pictures is this one :
Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield
A little off-topic but
Am I the only one who can't reach SCO's website today ?
Well I guess it would be interesting to feature Q in Enterprise... Because that could happen, given that Q is this wildcard characters that they can use anytime ... but maybe it's just me being nostalgic of "All Good Things..." :)
I've been having trouble connecting to http://www.apache.org this morning. Maybe that's why ?
Where is the ChangeLog between RC1 and RC2 ? All the release notes say is that "some bugs were fixed", which isn't really interesting.
Really why is it the US, as the biggest polluter in the world can't they make a significant effort to ratify the treaty like the rest of the world. Why should the US be treated to a special treatment when they set the worst example ?
:)
Sometimes life just isn't fair
>Who writes a GUI in C, for crying out loud!?
All the people seriously concerned with performance. In recent slashdot articles and various KDE mailing list posts, it was analyzed that the memory and loading times of C++ programs needed serious improvement, especially on the linker and compiler side.
I sincerely hope GCC and LD will be fixed soon because its really a shame to have such a great system as Linux being bogged down by multiple copies of libraries in RAM...
The best thing to protect a company against investors that are just being too pushy is to make it very clear to them that you only need them in order for them to make money, but that you could clearly do this slower, but without the added benefit that they would get.
This way you make sure your planning stands on two grounds : with or without VC money, and you make it much harder for VCs to pressure you into doing things which are totally stupid.
But this suggestion is definitely not easy to realize, but if you can have it you will probably stand your ground with a stable company for a long time ! It will also help your valuation a lot.
Did you ever try IE on a Mac ? I was running IE on Mac OS X and gave it up because it kept crashing all the time. Sure IE is a decent browser, but ONLY on Windows.
Actually my paranoid side thinks they did this on purpose
What I didn't really like in VMware was the fact to be dependent on a commercial company to get support in virtual machine for all kinds of devices such as 3D cards and the like. I really thought only an open source project could allow the pass-through intercepts to be flexible enough to meet a lot of differing needs. Are you considering such an approach in plex86 ?
The REAL reason Switzerland did not vote for/against it is that Switzerland is NOT part of the European Community !
I think that given the fact that nobody REALLY cares for either candidate, that the people should express their disapproval by voting blank.
Go vote, but vote blank !
Of course this only makes sense if a majority votes blank, and the problems remains of promoting such power. You do not necessarely have to choose who you judge the lesser evil. Choose that you do not agree with the whole votation !
Finally we have more choice ! I was kinda stuck in the Netscape-only world until now, and now we have a full featured browser that does supports a lot of recent technologies and offers a lot of integration.
:)
I'm not saying it's better/worse than Mozilla, I just like the fact that it is DIFFERENT !
Go Free Software !
This post used to contain a lot of information about bribery to get higher moderation points on slashdot comments, but since the american gouvernement definitly has nothing better to do, it has just removed all the bribery information that was contained in this message. Here below is what is left after the original message was stripped :
... I'm ... proud ... to be ... an ... americans !
Gosh
At first I couldn't believe it, but after a few unsuccessful tries, I can confirm this "hack" really works !!!
So far it's not a complete success though, a lot of titles will not work (such as Armageddon, Tomorrow Never Dies and others), while some don't work correctly (only menu navigation works) and some others don't work at all (including zone 2 PAL DVDs).
Anyway I have hope that if the feature is there it means it is possible, it just needs to be perfected. My guess is that there is an ultimate manipulation to be done which should unlock all DVDs.
Oh, and yes I did try with Dual Layer DVDs (Saving Private Ryan) and that didn't seem to cause any problems.
While I am at it, I live in Europe and here we can plug in RGB signals through Peritel cables. Well, the news is that the Peritel cables that worked for the Playstation 1 also work for the Playstation 2 !! The great thing about this is that the quality is MUCH improved using the RGB signals !
With major hardware makers, software companies wanting to release their own distributions, I think we should really call again for a linux "standard" distribution, in order to make things such as Oracle distributions possible.
Otherwise we risk to go the way of the UNIX's splits, where basically each UNIX is it's own platform, and this is going to scare people off real quick.
I'm all for innovation and stuff, but not at the cost of loosing my favorite current platform. This is why I think SGI did the right thing by creating a Linux Powerpack that comes on top of a Redhat distribution. It's less work for them (they don't have to take care of the whole distribution) and it's more reassuring for the users and the software makers that don't have to worry too much about yet another distribution.
Actually what I meant by that is that I'm not sure the use of image should be allowed. I think you can do some quite nice looking pages without them...
The rules don't make sense.. How can a page be fully contained and use images ? An image is included by the client and therefore is "external" to the HTML file.
Maybe they'd like to clarify the rules on this point...
User Friendly...
Actually the PlayStation 2 (due out in March 4th, 2000) will emulate the Playstation 1.
I must admit in MANY cases it is much easier to compromise a linux machine than a Windows one, if the Linux one is badly configured.
The main linux distribution sellers are only now realizing that they must watch out what kind of security they want to offer, and that a wrong choice in that could make people flee to the "other side".
I'm all for Linux being better technically, but we still need better default security installations to avoid getting the image that our systems are less secure...
Actually if you look at the comments on linux.com to be any indication, you'll see that the readership is indeed different. A lot of first time linux users there... but somehow I can't be sure if this is a good thing or a bad one for slashdot.
I think people have been overlooking the potential importance of the story poster's comment about giving an advantage to Europe. Europe's GSM networks are highly developped and high-quality, and I wouldn't be surprised that part of the battle for the control will happen there rather than in the good ol' US of A.
:)
I was at the Telecom 1999 gathering in Geneva and I heard from both Bill Gates and Larry Ellison that they are betting Europe could be leading the way to mobile applications.
Oh and weather it's WAP or not I don't really care, as long as it's XML based