Unfortunately Linux can work with more hardware. Most of the pieces in a modern machine don't have windows 2K drivers and the list of actually tested and signed drivers is miniscule. If you are running a modern PC you are much more likely to get a working and stable driver for linux then windows 2K.
The good news is that after 20 years of inoovation microsft was finally able to include a telnet server in windows. It just shows what innovation can do.
A Dick and a Bush.. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
I once saw that somebody was trying to log into one NT machine. The event log showed teh name fo the workstation and the user name but it would not show me the IP address of the attempt nor the password. When you hit the options it let you change the font of this useless information. So typical pay more attention to eye candy then substance.
A Dick and a Bush.. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
"This morning, Vice-Presidential candidate Cheney was asked about Napster. He begged off, saying he didn't know much about it. This can't be permitted to happen."
Chaney and his dufus boss are ignorant old fucks. GO ask Ralph Nader and he will give you an earful. Hey here is an idea support candidates that share the same concerns as you. Chaney and dubya are only interested in making their oil baron friends richer.
Its not just the chords. It the whole package. the sound, the lyrics, the ideas, the clothes, the attitude. Mettalica ripped off just about every damned thing from Black Sabbath. Sure nobody ever stringed this exact same sequence of notes and words but that does not mean it's original. Where is the originality for dogs sake that warrants some absurd protection of intellectual property. I say they stole it in the first place.
I live in Montana. In Montana if Jesus ran as democrat he would lose. For the last eight years the Republicans have controlled the state legislature and the governorship. In the same eight years the economy of Montana has nosedived along with wages, employment, capital etc. while the the rest of the states boomed. In addition to that there have been several well published debacles regarding privatization and deregulation of state controlled function all of which cost the taxpayers of Montana a TON of money. In this election the clueless, idiot, voters of Montana will once again re-elect the same bunch of incompetent know nothing ranchers, farmers and real estate salesmen to the legislature. This represents for me a real chance to vote my conciense and go for Ralph Nader (the only candidate even aware of the implications of the IP stuggle).
Interesting. Now that it's out people are having problems trying to build the thing. Apparently it has some weird conf tool.
Although everything you say is true I am afraind it has fallen behind in many ways. Even a cursory glance at a feature list shows that postgres has many many more features then IB. OTOH IB probably has the most imortant feature of all stability and speed. It will be interesting to see how many developers jump on and what they do with it. On my list of do it yesterday features are. Limit clause, nullif/coalesce, editable joins, better autoincrement support, longer object names, case insensitive collation, replication, clustering, raw device support. is that too much to ask for?:).
The Budha had an interesting concept. He proposed that the brain was a sensory organ much like the eye and the ear. Your eyes perceive light, your ears perceive sound and your brain perceives thoughts. Maybe this explains how different people in different parts of the world come up with the same idea at about the same time (calculus for example). Maybe the idea of calculus was crossing the planet at that time and two brains just happened to be acute enough to detect it. Some thing the think about:).
Anyway I find it hard to believe that people can own songs. Every mettalica song uses the same damned chords as every AC/DC song and almost in the same progression. How can then say with any honesty that they "invented" this song. They listened to endless Led Zeppelin, black sabbath, ac/dc albums and basically just repackaged the sounds, chords, words, and ideas and called it metallica. Really now how original are they really. I don't mean to pick on them same goes for everybody who has ever ripped off James Brown or Chuck Berry and calls it "my song".
In order to claim intellectual property I say you should be forced to explain exactly why your idea is unique and not a simple derivation just like an invention.
On another note. It's easy to go too far in enforcing your perceived IP. Technically somebody can sue you for singing a song of theirs (after all you are depriving of them profits if you perform their songs). All those crappy bar bands who ruin cover after cover could be sued. Maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Yes but that would involve actually getting off of your butt and doing something. Of course you realize that getting off of your butt and actually doing something would take valuable trolling on slashdot time away. Same goes for picking up a pen and writing your congessmen, talking to a friend, joining a political party, going door to door, or writing a letter to the editor.
"Home users and small mom-n-pop businesses are left high and dry."
Mom and Pop and all the consumers in general always take it in shorts. Your typical Mom and Pop will be left high and dry by commercial vendors too but at least with Open source they did not pay for the privledge.
Apparently there is nothing wrong with bad mouthing people who disagree with you either. Hey aren't you doing exactly what you are complaining about? So RMS speaks his mind and critisizes people who disagree with him so what? So his followers also speak out what of it? At least he does not pay people to pretend they agree with him, hire advertising agencies, or PR firms like every single corporation does. At least he does not spend a billion dollars a year telling you that GPL is better then MPL like coke and pepsi do.
He believes something passionately and speaks his mind. He is convincing and other people choose to help him carry his message. Hos is this different then Rush Limbaugh or Dubya bush? I guess it's OK for corporate lackeys to rail against Unions but not OK for RMS to speak out against insane IP laws.
Interbase (and Borland/Inprise) have a pretty loyal following of developers using Delphi and C++ builder. My guess is that this product along with Klyx will actually increase the developer pool of open source projects by luring them from the windows world.
There was a discussion in this vein in the mers.interbase.list NG located at news.mers.com you might want to peruse their archives. go here to search or sign up.
In a nutshell IB compares very well with potgres and mysql. It all depends on the features you need.
Well it's no Oracle but then what is? No clustering, no incremental backups, no raw device support, almost no tuning options (no really needed though), no JVM in the database etc. If you are not using the very high end features of Oracle switch otherwise you might need to stick with oracle.
Dalton Calford has written Robots or agents that listen and react to IB events in different languages. This aspec tof Interbase is a potential goldmine for developers.
Dalton in a fit of immense generosity and goodwill has posted some other tips, tricks, musings here.
BTW a very poweful one two three punch is Delphi IBObjects, interbase or soon to be klyx, ibobjects, interbase.
One more thing. Have you downloaded the documentation yet? it ROCKS!. This is best documentation for a open source project I have ever seen (well maybe php is pretty awsome too).
Make no mistake this a serious contender for the database sweepstakes.
Do you remember the originating post. Experiments have shown over and over that given permission to do human beings will torture and kill other human beings.
I am not at all religious but all teh religions of the world as well as most secular philosophers agree that killing, torturing, stealing, stuffing your face, fucking anybody you want to are wrong/evil. These are our natural biological programming yet we chose to lable them evil.It wasn't too long ago that black people were swinging from trees. Many lynchings were made into postcards with smiling white people gathered around a grossly mutilated and dead black man. People bought and sold postcards so they can send it to their grandma. "Happy birthday granny here is me with the nigger I done killed." Have you seen one of these? How long ago was that? 50 years?
You can take all the issue you want but history shows again and again that people enjoy killing and torturing and would do it in an instant if somebody told them it was OK to do so.
Neither Oracle nor SAP make any pretense at being easy. In fact they seem to gloat over how difficult they are to set up. Having struggled a bit with Oracle I'd say they are right!
OF course a cat does not have the concepts of good and evil. Those concepts are human in nature. My point is that for whatever reason we as human beings have taken our natural instinct to kill and have branded it as evil. Thou shall not kill and all that. If you look at the ten commandments they are rife with orders to curb your natural urges to kill have sex, eat whatever you want and do whatever you like. Take a look at the seven deadly sins and see how many are just natural biological programming.
We as human beings seek to elevate ourself beyond our "animalness" and animal urges and "rise" to the level of godness. We don't think of ourselves as animals but of being made in Gods image. So we have labled all of our natural instincts as evil.
When I say you are born evil what I am really saying is that you are born a human animal. That the rest of society sees you as evil is a constuct of that society.
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The good news is that after 20 years of inoovation microsft was finally able to include a telnet server in windows. It just shows what innovation can do.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
A Dick and a Bush .. You know somebody's gonna get screwed.
Yes Jesus would work end Welfare and throw the sick off of healthcare. He would fight against clean air and water.
"This morning, Vice-Presidential candidate Cheney was asked about Napster. He begged off, saying he didn't know much about it. This can't be permitted to happen."
Chaney and his dufus boss are ignorant old fucks. GO ask Ralph Nader and he will give you an earful. Hey here is an idea support candidates that share the same concerns as you. Chaney and dubya are only interested in making their oil baron friends richer.
You sell poetry? You da man! Nobody buys poetry anymore except from dead people.
Its not just the chords. It the whole package. the sound, the lyrics, the ideas, the clothes, the attitude. Mettalica ripped off just about every damned thing from Black Sabbath. Sure nobody ever stringed this exact same sequence of notes and words but that does not mean it's original. Where is the originality for dogs sake that warrants some absurd protection of intellectual property. I say they stole it in the first place.
I live in Montana. In Montana if Jesus ran as democrat he would lose. For the last eight years the Republicans have controlled the state legislature and the governorship. In the same eight years the economy of Montana has nosedived along with wages, employment, capital etc. while the the rest of the states boomed. In addition to that there have been several well published debacles regarding privatization and deregulation of state controlled function all of which cost the taxpayers of Montana a TON of money.
In this election the clueless, idiot, voters of Montana will once again re-elect the same bunch of incompetent know nothing ranchers, farmers and real estate salesmen to the legislature.
This represents for me a real chance to vote my conciense and go for Ralph Nader (the only candidate even aware of the implications of the IP stuggle).
Interesting. Now that it's out people are having problems trying to build the thing. Apparently it has some weird conf tool.
:).
Although everything you say is true I am afraind it has fallen behind in many ways. Even a cursory glance at a feature list shows that postgres has many many more features then IB. OTOH IB probably has the most imortant feature of all stability and speed. It will be interesting to see how many developers jump on and what they do with it. On my list of do it yesterday features are.
Limit clause, nullif/coalesce, editable joins, better autoincrement support, longer object names, case insensitive collation, replication, clustering, raw device support. is that too much to ask for?
Oh yea make Delhi the SP language.
The Budha had an interesting concept. He proposed that the brain was a sensory organ much like the eye and the ear. Your eyes perceive light, your ears perceive sound and your brain perceives thoughts. Maybe this explains how different people in different parts of the world come up with the same idea at about the same time (calculus for example). Maybe the idea of calculus was crossing the planet at that time and two brains just happened to be acute enough to detect it. Some thing the think about :).
Anyway I find it hard to believe that people can own songs. Every mettalica song uses the same damned chords as every AC/DC song and almost in the same progression. How can then say with any honesty that they "invented" this song. They listened to endless Led Zeppelin, black sabbath, ac/dc albums and basically just repackaged the sounds, chords, words, and ideas and called it metallica. Really now how original are they really. I don't mean to pick on them same goes for everybody who has ever ripped off James Brown or Chuck Berry and calls it "my song".
In order to claim intellectual property I say you should be forced to explain exactly why your idea is unique and not a simple derivation just like an invention.
On another note. It's easy to go too far in enforcing your perceived IP. Technically somebody can sue you for singing a song of theirs (after all you are depriving of them profits if you perform their songs). All those crappy bar bands who ruin cover after cover could be sued. Maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Yes but that would involve actually getting off of your butt and doing something. Of course you realize that getting off of your butt and actually doing something would take valuable trolling on slashdot time away. Same goes for picking up a pen and writing your congessmen, talking to a friend, joining a political party, going door to door, or writing a letter to the editor.
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Screw getting involved man I'd rather read
Well DUH! this is a NY Times you think they would print anything that wasn't slanted towards the corporate interests.
"Home users and small mom-n-pop businesses are left high and dry."
Mom and Pop and all the consumers in general always take it in shorts. Your typical Mom and Pop will be left high and dry by commercial vendors too but at least with Open source they did not pay for the privledge.
even VMS and netware!
Apparently there is nothing wrong with bad mouthing people who disagree with you either. Hey aren't you doing exactly what you are complaining about? So RMS speaks his mind and critisizes people who disagree with him so what? So his followers also speak out what of it?
At least he does not pay people to pretend they agree with him, hire advertising agencies, or PR firms like every single corporation does. At least he does not spend a billion dollars a year telling you that GPL is better then MPL like coke and pepsi do.
He believes something passionately and speaks his mind. He is convincing and other people choose to help him carry his message. Hos is this different then Rush Limbaugh or Dubya bush?
I guess it's OK for corporate lackeys to rail against Unions but not OK for RMS to speak out against insane IP laws.
Interbase (and Borland/Inprise) have a pretty loyal following of developers using Delphi and C++ builder. My guess is that this product along with Klyx will actually increase the developer pool of open source projects by luring them from the windows world.
They already have a JDBC client look for "interclient". I am not sure about the version though.
There was a discussion in this vein in the mers.interbase.list NG located at news.mers.com you might want to peruse their archives. go here to search or sign up.
In a nutshell IB compares very well with potgres and mysql. It all depends on the features you need.
If you need both go with Interbase
IB documentation is awsome over 10 megs of PDF files. When you installed it they giave you a URL to the docs do yoursef a favor and download them.
Well it's no Oracle but then what is? No clustering, no incremental backups, no raw device support, almost no tuning options (no really needed though), no JVM in the database etc. If you are not using the very high end features of Oracle switch otherwise you might need to stick with oracle.
Dalton Calford has written Robots or agents that listen and react to IB events in different languages. This aspec tof Interbase is a potential goldmine for developers.
Dalton in a fit of immense generosity and goodwill has posted some other tips, tricks, musings here.
BTW a very poweful one two three punch is Delphi IBObjects, interbase or soon to be klyx, ibobjects, interbase.
One more thing. Have you downloaded the documentation yet? it ROCKS!. This is best documentation for a open source project I have ever seen (well maybe php is pretty awsome too).
Make no mistake this a serious contender for the database sweepstakes.
Do you remember the originating post. Experiments have shown over and over that given permission to do human beings will torture and kill other human beings.
I am not at all religious but all teh religions of the world as well as most secular philosophers agree that killing, torturing, stealing, stuffing your face, fucking anybody you want to are wrong/evil. These are our natural biological programming yet we chose to lable them evil.It wasn't too long ago that black people were swinging from trees. Many lynchings were made into postcards with smiling white people gathered around a grossly mutilated and dead black man. People bought and sold postcards so they can send it to their grandma. "Happy birthday granny here is me with the nigger I done killed." Have you seen one of these? How long ago was that? 50 years?
You can take all the issue you want but history shows again and again that people enjoy killing and torturing and would do it in an instant if somebody told them it was OK to do so.
Neither Oracle nor SAP make any pretense at being easy. In fact they seem to gloat over how difficult they are to set up. Having struggled a bit with Oracle I'd say they are right!
OF course a cat does not have the concepts of good and evil. Those concepts are human in nature. My point is that for whatever reason we as human beings have taken our natural instinct to kill and have branded it as evil. Thou shall not kill and all that. If you look at the ten commandments they are rife with orders to curb your natural urges to kill have sex, eat whatever you want and do whatever you like. Take a look at the seven deadly sins and see how many are just natural biological programming.
We as human beings seek to elevate ourself beyond our "animalness" and animal urges and "rise" to the level of godness. We don't think of ourselves as animals but of being made in Gods image. So we have labled all of our natural instincts as evil.
When I say you are born evil what I am really saying is that you are born a human animal. That the rest of society sees you as evil is a constuct of that society.
doesn't childish imply over-simplified?