What do you recommend for Windows software to handle PostgreSql?
Myself, I use Eclipse to do all my coding, and I find the Quantum DB plugin to Eclipse to be awesome. Because we use Oracle, mysql, and Postgres, it's handy to have one piece of software handle all the DBs (so long as you have the right JDBC driver.
Don't bank at a bank! I've been through CIBC ($40/mo. in service charges), and RBC (truly abysmal financial service, but only $20/mo. in service charges). Try a Credit Union! They are member-owned, and profits are shared with members, not with shareholders (like at banks).
Personally, i use Citizens Bank of Canada, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of VanCity Credit Union. The best part of Citizens Bank is that it's completely online. Unlimited bank transactions, including debit for free when you have a balance over $1000, or only $8 otherwise.
Some people use President's Choice, but it is the unholy union of Superstore and CIBC: two companies that treat their customers and employees like garbage.
I saw my first computer in 1966 - a IBM 360/44 ( a mod 40 without MVCL instruction). FORTRAN was the language of choice. I knew where my career was headed. Here I am almost 40 years later.
Tired of computing and hoping for a less-stressful retirement.
Bad news: you are ancient. Good luck with retirement; at least you don't have 40 years of this ahead of you like I do. I'm envious;)
The Windows interface is very close to the MacOS interface. So far it does everything I expect it to, including plyaing MP3CDs made with the MacOS version (including pulling all the info out of the XML data file burned on the CD). It also uses Rendezvous so you can share music on your LAN (also like the Mac version).
Wow, I wasn't expecting such an outcry wrt this novel spelling. The reason I used 'czech' instead of 'check' is really because my cool big brother does it. I asked him why he does it and he says, "I do it cause it's my thing. Dunno. It's a cool homophone error that no one would make by accident." So there you have it. I guess I don't deserve all these accolades for the coolest misspelling even on/.
But this does nothing to limit permissions between each user's "dav home". The question raised is whether you can add restricions so that each user can read/write files as their user on the server, not as www, or root, or whoever is running httpd.
I think it's clear that there needs to be a organized, well-though-out migration away from Unix file meta-data users and groups towards more versatile ACLs. Hopefully in a way that will make it easy for software such as Apache to use these new ACLs for control access. I suppose filesystem ACLs is the one place where NTFS shines a little brighter that EXT?/UFS/FFS/HFS.
Someday, hopefully that won't be the case:)
BTW, does anyone have some links to projects trying to add ACL to Linux/*BSD filesystems?
It's too bad that HTTP/dav is so limiting, because it is a pretty useful tool. Well supported and fairly cross-platform. Not to mention Adobe's integration into Photoshop and Illustrator (or Macromedia's integration into Dreamweaver and Fireworks).
But this doesn't address the file permissions. If you're running apache as user www, then at the file system level you won't have the correct access to homedirs.
You need some way to make apache spawn a fork as the user in question so that you limit access to that available to that user.
Also, there are many other ADSL carriers, like MTS Online, Canada Reconnect, UUNet Canada, DigitalWeb.net, etc. They all have different pricing and services. I just picked Interbaun because I like them.
Out here, there really aren't any viable competing telcos, and Telus allows other companies to resell DSL under other brand names (for the same price, as far as I can tell) so who you get DSL from seems pretty irrelevant at this point.
actually, companies are free to charge whatever they like. some time ago, the crtc required local phone carriers to open their lines to other companies, and set a fixed price that the local carrier could charge other companies for the service. thus, there are many attractive options out there, such as Interbaun, who have better pricing than telus, as well as less restrictions on use.
QNX has been the only company so far to commercialize a microkernel OS.
I love QNX, but they definitely aren't the only company to commercialize a microkernel OS. Apple, while late in the game, are shipping some big numbers. Of course, don't forget NeXT before them, or for you penguin-heads, MkLinux.
While you may be right about future porting, how is it a money-losing proposition? Bioware has probably already made money on porting to Linux. Many Linux gamers have already bought the game, and Bioware obviously hasn't spent a lot of money on the port. And if they apply what they learned this time, the port won't cost any more the next time.
Bioware definitely has not and will not make money on the Linux port, and likely not the Mac port either. As you and everyone else freely admits, Linux users have already bought the game. The windows version. So any money that was going to be made likely already has. Some argue that Bioware promised a Linux client. Fair enough, but generally I have no sympathy for people who buy a box expecting to get something that is not in the box. That said, there are surely very few Linux users who will buy the Linux port that haven't already given up and bought the Windows version, since if they're a gamer, and enjoy this type of game, all other similar titles are windows-only.
Bioware hasn't spent a ton of money on the port, but how much can honestly be expected in sales? 10000 units? 50000? Don't forget the hassle of trying to find a publisher (I doubt infogrames would ship a Linux port) and you have a very low possibility of success. Especially compared to the millions of units they ship on Windows. At the end of the day, it makes more sense for them to improve the Windows client than to bother with a Linux port at all.
At least with the Mac client there are users who will only buy a Mac version and wont settle for the Windows version. I'm sure the mac sales will be substantially better than the boxed Linux version.
KOTOR might not be that easy, though. If the code base changed enough, they might have to redo everything they did with NWN.
Possibly. All the more reason why Bioware is done with their experiment with non-windows ports.
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Is this a play on "I'm your back door lover"?
Hilarious!
Myself, I use Eclipse to do all my coding, and I find the Quantum DB plugin to Eclipse to be awesome. Because we use Oracle, mysql, and Postgres, it's handy to have one piece of software handle all the DBs (so long as you have the right JDBC driver.
It was sonic the hedgehog in full color versus Tetris in spinach green. We know who won.
Yeah, Nintendo never got over that.
I'm just prayin' for a Ratchet and Clank 2D scroller!
Fine. YOU'RE WRONG!
What was the question?
Don't bank at a bank! I've been through CIBC ($40/mo. in service charges), and RBC (truly abysmal financial service, but only $20/mo. in service charges). Try a Credit Union! They are member-owned, and profits are shared with members, not with shareholders (like at banks).
Personally, i use Citizens Bank of Canada, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of VanCity Credit Union. The best part of Citizens Bank is that it's completely online. Unlimited bank transactions, including debit for free when you have a balance over $1000, or only $8 otherwise.
Some people use President's Choice, but it is the unholy union of Superstore and CIBC: two companies that treat their customers and employees like garbage.
Of Course! What Armageddon needs is parameters!
bash$ armageddon --no-ben-affleck --no-bruckheimer --no-rediculous-fucking-mech-warrior-drilling-mach ines-with-shitty-transmissions --with-scenes-longer-that-5-seconds
Duh! (karma to burn)
The Windows interface is very close to the MacOS interface. So far it does everything I expect it to, including plyaing MP3CDs made with the MacOS version (including pulling all the info out of the XML data file burned on the CD). It also uses Rendezvous so you can share music on your LAN (also like the Mac version).
So far, it's two ears up.
Wow, I wasn't expecting such an outcry wrt this novel spelling. The reason I used 'czech' instead of 'check' is really because my cool big brother does it. I asked him why he does it and he says, "I do it cause it's my thing. Dunno. It's a cool homophone error that no one would make by accident." So there you have it. I guess I don't deserve all these accolades for the coolest misspelling even on /.
The japanese version of Rez has a USB TRANCE VIBRATOR. If only there were drivers for MacOS, or Linux.
i've always liked maradns since it's not "braindamaged" like djbdns, but it does priviledge separation to run in a jail.
bring one with you!
get this bad boy, and tote it along.
since it's a playstation accessory, it's far easier to get internationally, but it's usb, so compatibility is guaranteed.
But this does nothing to limit permissions between each user's "dav home". The question raised is whether you can add restricions so that each user can read/write files as their user on the server, not as www, or root, or whoever is running httpd.
I think it's clear that there needs to be a organized, well-though-out migration away from Unix file meta-data users and groups towards more versatile ACLs. Hopefully in a way that will make it easy for software such as Apache to use these new ACLs for control access. I suppose filesystem ACLs is the one place where NTFS shines a little brighter that EXT?/UFS/FFS/HFS.
Someday, hopefully that won't be the case :)
BTW, does anyone have some links to projects trying to add ACL to Linux/*BSD filesystems?
Yeah, it likely is a nightmare.
It's too bad that HTTP/dav is so limiting, because it is a pretty useful tool. Well supported and fairly cross-platform. Not to mention Adobe's integration into Photoshop and Illustrator (or Macromedia's integration into Dreamweaver and Fireworks).
It's a good thing that the US passes laws that make felonious criminals out of millions of citizens.
Glad I don't live there, where the deepest pockets write the rules.
But this doesn't address the file permissions. If you're running apache as user www, then at the file system level you won't have the correct access to homedirs.
:)
You need some way to make apache spawn a fork as the user in question so that you limit access to that available to that user.
Phew, that was terse
Sure, but the services are different.
Also, there are many other ADSL carriers, like MTS Online, Canada Reconnect, UUNet Canada, DigitalWeb.net, etc. They all have different pricing and services. I just picked Interbaun because I like them.
actually, companies are free to charge whatever they like. some time ago, the crtc required local phone carriers to open their lines to other companies, and set a fixed price that the local carrier could charge other companies for the service. thus, there are many attractive options out there, such as Interbaun, who have better pricing than telus, as well as less restrictions on use.
did the industry send them some pork money to call off the attack?
or, maybe, they have bigger fish to fry now.
Geez, exactly what is the $2000 buying? Only 9 fans? For that many clams, I figure it should have at least 20!
I've heard from a programmer who works there that the mac client will ship with the Shadows of Undertide box.
QNX has been the only company so far to commercialize a microkernel OS.
I love QNX, but they definitely aren't the only company to commercialize a microkernel OS. Apple, while late in the game, are shipping some big numbers. Of course, don't forget NeXT before them, or for you penguin-heads, MkLinux.
what's with the purple bar on the main page.
whackzored!
While you may be right about future porting, how is it a money-losing proposition? Bioware has probably already made money on porting to Linux. Many Linux gamers have already bought the game, and Bioware obviously hasn't spent a lot of money on the port. And if they apply what they learned this time, the port won't cost any more the next time.
Bioware definitely has not and will not make money on the Linux port, and likely not the Mac port either. As you and everyone else freely admits, Linux users have already bought the game. The windows version. So any money that was going to be made likely already has. Some argue that Bioware promised a Linux client. Fair enough, but generally I have no sympathy for people who buy a box expecting to get something that is not in the box. That said, there are surely very few Linux users who will buy the Linux port that haven't already given up and bought the Windows version, since if they're a gamer, and enjoy this type of game, all other similar titles are windows-only.
Bioware hasn't spent a ton of money on the port, but how much can honestly be expected in sales? 10000 units? 50000? Don't forget the hassle of trying to find a publisher (I doubt infogrames would ship a Linux port) and you have a very low possibility of success. Especially compared to the millions of units they ship on Windows. At the end of the day, it makes more sense for them to improve the Windows client than to bother with a Linux port at all.
At least with the Mac client there are users who will only buy a Mac version and wont settle for the Windows version. I'm sure the mac sales will be substantially better than the boxed Linux version.
KOTOR might not be that easy, though. If the code base changed enough, they might have to redo everything they did with NWN.
Possibly. All the more reason why Bioware is done with their experiment with non-windows ports.
I agree.
My point was that Bioware is not porting KOTOR to Linux, even though a lot of the work has already been done for NWN.
Bioware wont make the same mistake twice by trying to port games to Linux. It's a money-losing proposition.