i never read this things, they wouldn't have any effect on me anyway, i use the computer stuff like i need to, not like some lawyers thought it would be sexy.
everybody who raises eula's (seriously), raise their hand...
i agree, even for simple applications transactions are heavily needed.
you could always do
insert into A(...., complete) values (....,0); insert into B.. insert into C.. #if smth went wrong, just delete the stuff #if it went right, make A valid... update A set complete=1;
and always query for A's where complete is 1... but this still scks:p and there's still invalid data in b's and c's:p locking is a `weird` approach in terms of performance, infact you're getting rid of the performance in most cases:D
transactions makes your life easier and if you know what you're doing, it certainly also shortens the development time.
after oracle got innodb, i'm not so fond of mysql anymore at all, that was indeed one of the very few useful things in mysql. i haven't checked the 5.1 branches of mysql yet, but 5.0 was still below my expectations.
i will stay postgresql fanboy for a while. it's cheaper to buy 1 extra machine into the cluster to handle the performance than to spend more and more time on weird code that achieves the same result in mysql.
well i usually buy a service that provides me at least 1024down/256up 24/7, i don't like size limiting bastards and neither do i like people that "adjust" my download line that i have paid for.
if i want to test a few distros of linux out, i download the images and burn them to discs or run the images in an emulator. this means around 2gb per distro average (along with the updates and stuff, probably even more). i'm not doing illegal p2p, i'm not trying to use anything that i didn't buy (i pay for the connection with the specified up and down speed limits).
but how can the isp tell if i'm doing movie sharing via bittorrent or downloading my.iso images over bittorrent ? they have no right whatsoever to limit the bandwidth that i have paid for.
for those who buy limited bandwidth packages: sissssssiees, get a few more bucks out of the pocket and live happily ever after
now let's assume that the p2p software that i use, uses 'hiding' into other protocols and just to cover it's real purpose, switches the cover now and then. so no connection will stay up longer than... let's say 30 minutes... how exactly are you going to track this down ? it is impossible for the isp to understand if i'm downloading tar.gz file of opensource projects over the net as the http headers apply, or is it actually smth else hidden in there:p.
they can't ever filter this out, even if they could, you can always use a 'massive xorring' encryption that makes it almost impossible for them to discover what you are receiving or sending.
and since they have no proof that you are doing anything illegal in the first place (well it may seem weird that a person reads 1.2 gbytes of news daily and receives 3.2gbytes of email, but it's not illegal) there's no legal reason to limit the bandwidth that the client has paid for.
but it really isn't that much of a phone anymore now is it ?
my phone has a mediocre under 1mp camera inside, the pictures i need to take, i still manage, for the quality ones i grab a real camera. phone's for calling, camera for photoshooting.
i could aswell say that hey, my laptop has a builtin 1.3mp camera... but that's not really a camera, it reminds you more of a photo sensor compared to what my kodak can do.
addings wings to your old ford doesn't make it an airplane.
i use nice a lot, and also renice afterwards when something goes kindof out of hands, too bad the powernowd needs to be disabled to let the machine run at full speed but process still at a nice priority...
is there a similar option for kernel modules ? some kind of scheduling trick ? the vmplayer from vmware is quite nice, but with it's kernel module it totally annihilates the rest of your linux, and renice'ing the vmware's process itself doesn't really have an effect, since the kernel module is what makes the load...
anyway, i agree, openoffice certainly is more ready for the primetime. but as for integration with the rest of the system, all the kde goodies (or should i spell it koodies?) are better.
kotta ko to sleep now...
(and tomorrow Koogle will take over the world, muhahahaaa)
oh ffs people, the world doesn't end where the english language ends. t9 could never ever be used for my homecountry language, because every word has 14 versions of it, all of the literally correct but used in different places, every verb has 6 versions of itself, again , all correct if used in correct places. now you can try to figure out how many overlappings this creates for the t9.
there's no way in hell that a t9 could understand which one i exactly need and occasionally the match under the same 'key combos', so sure i could twiddle around with the t9 for a while to get the output, but it can never contain all the words i need and i'd be much faster off with a qwerty keyboard. (i just chose a 4 letter sequence off the keyboard and figured out the words "saju, paju, salu, saku, palu, raju, pakt, paku, salv etc....). with so many overlappings you can ignite your t9 with a box of matches and watch it turning into a cloud of smoke.
and now try to imagine the chinese people using t9... or the arabs or even the russians. if you run out from latin character base, the t9 runs out on you.
but i have to admit i'd never get a BB for the email & stuff, i'd rather get something that has some cpu power underneath too , probably an ipaq or alike that can also do voip calls an the (sk|h)ype. with international calls voip is the way to go and wifi hotspots combined with wifi/gms hybrid handhelds are a very sweet solution. and some of them have builtin qwerty's too. (and yes, they even support human email clients and normal html web intefraces, i think even running a vncviewer should be possible).
from my point of view, black/red/-berry is extremely useless overpriced toy. for a few bucks more, you can get a machine that works like a real computer and that has 400 times the speed of the first machine that i read my emails on...
bury the berries. everything stated above is just my personal opinion, and i'm not expecting anyone to agree with me
if you've got p4's installed in the machine, there's no need to fake anything, it's already in the package.
aside from joking, badly written software that puts way too much pressure on the cpu, can overheat a badly ventilated machine. in some countries you just have to syncrhonize your attack with the weather conditions (over here it pops over 40C in the summer, a bit load on the machine and it will overheat by itself, no torch needed).
and eventually there's no ultimately secure machine, there're just machines that are harded to hack.
free/opensource software developers shouldn't be affected by patents at all, companys that make profit should pay eachother for them. simple and clean without any hooks.
sure having no patents at all would be a nice bliss, but if you invent something that nobody in the universe would have figured out in the next 25 years, would you like to be uncredited for inventing it ? if gnu people would use the idea to make some free stuff, i wouldn't mind. if microsoft would use it in IE , i'd definitely like to receive some coverage for my efforts in inventing it.
but this is just my vision, and not the attempt to find the ultimate truth.
you don't really have to buy jboss to get the results that you pointed out.
an overbloated linux distro company buys an overbloated java application server. sounds logical, especially if redhat is going to get all the $$$ from the jboss support.
jboss was a clever business idea, but this is probably the last line that we see of it as it is right now, the next releases will start to scare people off, hopefully towards the more open and free implementation of the same thing, the geronimo.
i have to admit i never liked jbosses model, give the users a nice piece of [censored] without proper documentation and then charge for the books and support. the software itself was great when i had the look at it, but the fact that you had to hack around german forums to find out some nice tricks for free, wasn't so tempting.
i'd prefer to say that they are evil in their current form as they are implemented in the u.s. patent system.
if software patents would apply only to commercial software (e.g. gnu staff could always use patented stuff as long as they give away the product for free, and microsoft would have to pay nice $$$ for the same thing), the patents would be better.
but i think there's a higher chance of bush turning into a human being than this happening.
FYFA: 1Q06 $13m "Linux platform products and other open source products"
Sure you can live with quarterly income of $13m, but what kind of a life would that be...
I'd better say we need something new. Something that can run linux executables for backward compatibility but that is much cleaner and much more network-i/o minded than linux is right now. And it's own applications ofcourse should kick the %^*&$&# out of ms and linux counterparts.
Perhaps something that is designed for our shiny x86-64 boxes and not just something that was ported to it from an old flaky i386 ?
Sure a kernel rewrite from zero could do it, but would that even be what we want&need ?
If one thing is good for everything, it's really good for nothing. Right now linux reminds me of the hiunday getz, not a car, not a bicycle, driving conditions like the second, price like the first, ultimately good for neither.
But since right now there's nothing better available for a developer, linux is what i use.
protocols aren't really there to be followed by the united states or russia or any other big'n'mean country.
from the 3rd person view it's fun to watch as the US is turning into the very same monster that they have been fighting with for so long. just like starwars:D (jedi bush.. doesn't sound that good...)
anyway, 10K for a bioweapon ? are you nuts ? get an african infected with malaria to feed a bunch of mosquitos, he will be willing to do this for 100$ most, next, release the mosquitos in the summer in a big park in a nice big city and make sure they find a wet spot to breed (new your, london, will do excellently by the moisture levels and summer temperatures). the illness itself can be treated quite easily, but the effect of terror in people's mind itself will be even more destructive.
sure for 10K you can also send a bunch people to taco bells or mcdonalds, autodestruct is what we call this.
well then it seems it was so long ago that i can't even remember which version of redhat it was.
sry my bad, what can i say (in 7 years you can forget a lot)
i have lived on debian and ubuntu lately, but even these are getting a real mess. gentoo seems rather nice at start but i'm not really sure it's so nice when you've got kde and all other goodies compiled and 1 new update needs to make the world..
i started hacking on linux around 7 years ago. rh 7.2 was the word. kernel compilation was quite easy, a few items to say N and some to say M to, to get your oracle and apache and modperl running.
install something now, you'll see 10203 dependancy packages hanging around, and 20406 items in the kernel choices that you have to say N to. and when some packages in your linux distro are broken, well tough luck mofo.
sure expanding stuff is fun, but it is becoming a burden, one that consumes too much of my time and too much of my network. perhaps it's time to just cut things off into an "internal and external" layer in the kernel ? meaning move optional modules and stuff into other distribution methods ? there's no reason for 99% of users to download and disable the code for amateur radios etc.
i played around with freebsd for half a year, and it's default install cleanness and the ease of kernel configuration just amazed me.
i vot for a cleaner linux core and cleaner gnu/linux core packages. do you ?
try to take a glance outside the 1mm*1mm*1mm cubicle that you're trapped in. microsoft couldn't literally give a lama's ass about if or not samba works with it or not.
they are microsoft, they don't care, they don't have to.
it's probably just a fix for windows to fix up some minor glitch in the protocol, it has nothing to do with a opensource implementation that doesn't even have 5% of the market share. do you really think that bill is interested in breaking down the filelink between it's own system and unix machines ? bill knows that not everyone can afford a windows server, but they still want the workstation next to unix servers to run windows xp and wants them to run ms office. cause this is profit.
i think it was an accident. you can think whatever you want, but try to put things on a global scale at first.
microsoft's people don't run meetings in the morning how to beat the crap out of linux, they are holding meetings to satisfy the requests made by their bigtime customers. and as long as samba isn't on the list, they really don't care.
i don't like microsoft's closed policy neither and i don't like that samba doesn't work well with xp machines, but i'm definitely not posessed by the thought that microsoft is out here to kill linux & other unixes once and for all.
microsoft needs linux like ford needs suzuki, if you have a competition in the market with someone you know that you beat in general manners (saleswork and hyping in this case), it's good for your business not bad.
I can't imagine that Lucent wants an honest (and drawn out) court case.
Maybe they do. They couldn't have enjoyed the turn your head & cough circus which was going on in parallel with IBM, but now that the money might be flowing into their pockets it may not be such a bad thing. The money certainly isn't going to rip a bigger hole in Microsoft's pockets, is it?
I agree, sometimes a banana is not just a banana. We have no idea here if it's even the interest of lucent itself that is making this show or is it maybe a "enlengthened hand" of sony, who want's to freeze down xbox-360's to push their own ps3-s instead. maybe it's somebody else who want's to play around with microsoft's stock price.
Life rarely is as simple as it looks at the first glance.
i think runs windows from a restorable image in vmware from his gentoo box.... (on the pic behind him there's windows on the screen, so he can't really be running mac, or at least not a safe operating system on the mac:D)
FTA (yeah man, i did read it !) I always have nice color pens, and it's great for brainstorming when I'm with other people, and even sometimes by myself.
I knew there was something about me that's really geeky about me that matches the habbits of bill, so there it is, color pens, ignoring email notifications and ignoring papers. I guess i'd better start on writing the Doors 3.1 (for workgroups) ?
ps. for those of you who didn't read the article, please do it, it's definitely a waste of time but at least you know what you're writing about.
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i guess the blue screen of death would be very literal.
i'd feel safer with a woman behind the wheel.
cat EULA.txt > /dev/null && rm -rf EULA.txt
...
i never read this things, they wouldn't have any effect on me anyway, i use the computer stuff like i need to, not like some lawyers thought it would be sexy.
everybody who raises eula's (seriously), raise their hand
Orall Linux ...
:p
...
Suse suse for 5 dollars ?
here goes my excellent karma, but i just had to say it
why don't you like soccer moms ? :p
... luke will f you up.
and man, you're really bad off if you don't like jedis
for the article: if you're dumb enough to blog your crimes, you're place is in the prison.
i agree, even for simple applications transactions are heavily needed.
,0); ...
... but this still scks :p and there's still invalid data in b's and c's :p locking is a `weird` approach in terms of performance, infact you're getting rid of the performance in most cases :D
you could always do
insert into A(...., complete) values (....
insert into B..
insert into C..
#if smth went wrong, just delete the stuff
#if it went right, make A valid
update A set complete=1;
and always query for A's where complete is 1
transactions makes your life easier and if you know what you're doing, it certainly also shortens the development time.
after oracle got innodb, i'm not so fond of mysql anymore at all, that was indeed one of the very few useful things in mysql. i haven't checked the 5.1 branches of mysql yet, but 5.0 was still below my expectations.
i will stay postgresql fanboy for a while. it's cheaper to buy 1 extra machine into the cluster to handle the performance than to spend more and more time on weird code that achieves the same result in mysql.
well i usually buy a service that provides me at least 1024down/256up 24/7, i don't like size limiting bastards and neither do i like people that "adjust" my download line that i have paid for.
.iso images over bittorrent ? they have no right whatsoever to limit the bandwidth that i have paid for.
if i want to test a few distros of linux out, i download the images and burn them to discs or run the images in an emulator. this means around 2gb per distro average (along with the updates and stuff, probably even more). i'm not doing illegal p2p, i'm not trying to use anything that i didn't buy (i pay for the connection with the specified up and down speed limits).
but how can the isp tell if i'm doing movie sharing via bittorrent or downloading my
for those who buy limited bandwidth packages: sissssssiees, get a few more bucks out of the pocket and live happily ever after
now let's assume that the p2p software that i use, uses 'hiding' into other protocols and just to cover it's real purpose, switches the cover now and then. so no connection will stay up longer than ... let's say 30 minutes ... how exactly are you going to track this down ? it is impossible for the isp to understand if i'm downloading tar.gz file of opensource projects over the net as the http headers apply, or is it actually smth else hidden in there :p.
they can't ever filter this out, even if they could, you can always use a 'massive xorring' encryption that makes it almost impossible for them to discover what you are receiving or sending.
and since they have no proof that you are doing anything illegal in the first place (well it may seem weird that a person reads 1.2 gbytes of news daily and receives 3.2gbytes of email, but it's not illegal) there's no legal reason to limit the bandwidth that the client has paid for.
over & out.
but it really isn't that much of a phone anymore now is it ?
... but that's not really a camera, it reminds you more of a photo
my phone has a mediocre under 1mp camera inside, the pictures
i need to take, i still manage, for the quality ones i grab a
real camera. phone's for calling, camera for photoshooting.
i could aswell say that hey, my laptop has a builtin 1.3mp camera
sensor compared to what my kodak can do.
addings wings to your old ford doesn't make it an airplane.
i use nice a lot, and also renice afterwards when something goes kindof out of hands, too bad the powernowd needs to be disabled to let the machine run at full speed but process still at a nice priority ...
is there a similar option for kernel modules ? some kind of scheduling trick ? the vmplayer from vmware is quite nice, but with it's kernel module it totally annihilates the rest of your linux, and renice'ing the vmware's process itself doesn't really have an effect, since the kernel module is what makes the load...
now when i boot to windows ...
;)
:D
install 3 different versions of anti spyware things , a virus scanner,
disable everything that makes windows comfortable.
i guess my first app would be old-timer total commander, then cygwin
but just for the start, the updates of the windows will make you restart the machine at least 5-7 times before the machine gets all it done
and they're telling me that installing linux is time consuming and difficult, pffffft
4 people in a row can't spell Kongratz ....
anyway, i agree, openoffice certainly is more ready for the primetime. but as for integration with the rest of the system, all the kde goodies (or should i spell it koodies?) are better.
kotta ko to sleep now...
(and tomorrow Koogle will take over the world, muhahahaaa)
oh ffs people, the world doesn't end where the english language ends. t9 could never ever be used for my homecountry language, because every word has 14 versions of it, all of the literally correct but used in different places, every verb has 6 versions of itself, again , all correct if used in correct places. now you can try to figure out how many overlappings this creates for the t9.
... or the arabs or even the russians. if you run out from latin character base, the t9 runs out on you.
...
there's no way in hell that a t9 could understand which one i exactly need and occasionally the match under the same 'key combos', so sure i could twiddle around with the t9 for a while to get the output, but it can never contain all the words i need and i'd be much faster off with a qwerty keyboard. (i just chose a 4 letter sequence off the keyboard and figured out the words "saju, paju, salu, saku, palu, raju, pakt, paku, salv etc....). with so many overlappings you can ignite your t9 with a box of matches and watch it turning into a cloud of smoke.
and now try to imagine the chinese people using t9
but i have to admit i'd never get a BB for the email & stuff, i'd rather get something that has some cpu power underneath too , probably an ipaq or alike that can also do voip calls an the (sk|h)ype. with international calls voip is the way to go and wifi hotspots combined with wifi/gms hybrid handhelds are a very sweet solution. and some of them have builtin qwerty's too. (and yes, they even support human email clients and normal html web intefraces, i think even running a vncviewer should be possible).
from my point of view, black/red/-berry is extremely useless overpriced toy. for a few bucks more, you can get a machine that works like a real computer and that has 400 times the speed of the first machine that i read my emails on
bury the berries.
everything stated above is just my personal opinion, and i'm not expecting anyone to agree with me
why would you have to fake the overheat ?
if you've got p4's installed in the machine, there's no need to fake anything, it's already in the package.
aside from joking, badly written software that puts way too much pressure on the cpu, can overheat a badly ventilated machine. in some countries you just have to syncrhonize your attack with the weather conditions (over here it pops over 40C in the summer, a bit load on the machine and it will overheat by itself, no torch needed).
and eventually there's no ultimately secure machine, there're just machines that are harded to hack.
i was referring to the using of the idea.
free/opensource software developers shouldn't be affected by patents at all, companys that make profit should pay eachother for them. simple and clean without any hooks.
sure having no patents at all would be a nice bliss, but if you invent something that nobody in the universe would have figured out in the next 25 years, would you like to be uncredited for inventing it ? if gnu people would use the idea to make some free stuff, i wouldn't mind. if microsoft would use it in IE , i'd definitely like to receive some coverage for my efforts in inventing it.
but this is just my vision, and not the attempt to find the ultimate truth.
you don't really have to buy jboss to get the results that you pointed out.
an overbloated linux distro company buys an overbloated java application server. sounds logical, especially if redhat is going to get all the $$$ from the jboss support.
jboss was a clever business idea, but this is probably the last line that we see of it as it is right now, the next releases will start to scare people off, hopefully towards the more open and free implementation of the same thing, the geronimo.
i have to admit i never liked jbosses model, give the users a nice piece of [censored] without proper documentation and then charge for the books and support. the software itself was great when i had the look at it, but the fact that you had to hack around german forums to find out some nice tricks for free, wasn't so tempting.
Choose http://geronimo.apache.org/ or any other implementation unless you're all for the red hats.
i'd prefer to say that they are evil in their current form as they are implemented in the u.s. patent system.
if software patents would apply only to commercial software (e.g. gnu staff could always use patented stuff as long as they give away the product for free, and microsoft would have to pay nice $$$ for the same thing), the patents would be better.
but i think there's a higher chance of bush turning into a human being than this happening.
FYFA:
...
1Q06
$13m
"Linux platform products and other open source products"
Sure you can live with quarterly income of $13m, but what kind of a life would that be
I'd better say we need something new. Something that can run linux executables for backward compatibility but that is much cleaner and much more network-i/o minded than linux is right now. And it's own applications ofcourse should kick the %^*&$&# out of ms and linux counterparts.
Perhaps something that is designed for our shiny x86-64 boxes and not just something that was ported to it from an old flaky i386 ?
Sure a kernel rewrite from zero could do it, but would that even be what we want&need ?
If one thing is good for everything, it's really good for nothing. Right now linux reminds me of the hiunday getz, not a car, not a bicycle, driving conditions like the second, price like the first, ultimately good for neither.
But since right now there's nothing better available for a developer, linux is what i use.
protocols aren't really there to be followed by the united states or russia or any other big'n'mean country.
:D (jedi bush .. doesn't sound that good ...)
from the 3rd person view it's fun to watch as the US is turning into the very same monster that they have been fighting with for so long. just like starwars
anyway, 10K for a bioweapon ? are you nuts ? get an african infected with malaria to feed a bunch of mosquitos, he will be willing to do this for 100$ most, next, release the mosquitos in the summer in a big park in a nice big city and make sure they find a wet spot to breed (new your, london, will do excellently by the moisture levels and summer temperatures). the illness itself can be treated quite easily, but the effect of terror in people's mind itself will be even more destructive.
sure for 10K you can also send a bunch people to taco bells or mcdonalds, autodestruct is what we call this.
well then it seems it was so long ago that i can't even remember which version of redhat it was.
..
sry my bad, what can i say (in 7 years you can forget a lot)
i have lived on debian and ubuntu lately, but even these are getting a real mess. gentoo seems rather nice at start but i'm not really sure it's so nice when you've got kde and all other goodies compiled and 1 new update needs to make the world
i started hacking on linux around 7 years ago. rh 7.2 was the word. kernel compilation was quite easy, a few items to say N and some to say M to, to get your oracle and apache and modperl running.
install something now, you'll see 10203 dependancy packages hanging around, and 20406 items in the kernel choices that you have to say N to. and when some packages in your linux distro are broken, well tough luck mofo.
sure expanding stuff is fun, but it is becoming a burden, one that consumes too much of my time and too much of my network. perhaps it's time to just cut things off into an "internal and external" layer in the kernel ? meaning move optional modules and stuff into other distribution methods ? there's no reason for 99% of users to download and disable the code for amateur radios etc.
i played around with freebsd for half a year, and it's default install cleanness and the ease of kernel configuration just amazed me.
i vot for a cleaner linux core and cleaner gnu/linux core packages. do you ?
try to take a glance outside the 1mm*1mm*1mm cubicle that you're trapped in. microsoft couldn't literally give a lama's ass about if or not samba works with it or not.
they are microsoft, they don't care, they don't have to.
it's probably just a fix for windows to fix up some minor glitch in the protocol, it has nothing to do with a opensource implementation that doesn't even have 5% of the market share. do you really think that bill is interested in breaking down the filelink between it's own system and unix machines ? bill knows that not everyone can afford a windows server, but they still want the workstation next to unix servers to run windows xp and wants them to run ms office. cause this is profit.
i think it was an accident. you can think whatever you want, but try to put things on a global scale at first.
microsoft's people don't run meetings in the morning how to beat the crap out of linux, they are holding meetings to satisfy the requests made by their bigtime customers. and as long as samba isn't on the list, they really don't care.
i don't like microsoft's closed policy neither and i don't like that samba doesn't work well with xp machines, but i'm definitely not posessed by the thought that microsoft is out here to kill linux & other unixes once and for all.
microsoft needs linux like ford needs suzuki, if you have a competition in the market with someone you know that you beat in general manners (saleswork and hyping in this case), it's good for your business not bad.
I can't imagine that Lucent wants an honest (and drawn out) court case.
Maybe they do. They couldn't have enjoyed the turn your head & cough circus which was going on in parallel with IBM, but now that the money might be flowing into their pockets it may not be such a bad thing. The money certainly isn't going to rip a bigger hole in Microsoft's pockets, is it?
I agree, sometimes a banana is not just a banana. We have no idea here if it's even the interest of lucent itself that is making this show or is it maybe a "enlengthened hand" of sony, who want's to freeze down xbox-360's to push their own ps3-s instead. maybe it's somebody else who want's to play around with microsoft's stock price.
Life rarely is as simple as it looks at the first glance.
i think runs windows from a restorable image in vmware from his gentoo box .... (on the pic behind him there's windows on the screen, so he can't really be running mac, or at least not a safe operating system on the mac :D)
FTA (yeah man, i did read it !)
I always have nice color pens, and it's great for brainstorming when I'm with other people, and even sometimes by myself.
I knew there was something about me that's really geeky about me that matches the habbits of bill, so there it is, color pens, ignoring email notifications and ignoring papers. I guess i'd better start on writing the Doors 3.1 (for workgroups) ?
ps. for those of you who didn't read the article, please do it, it's definitely a waste of time but at least you know what you're writing about.
i don't really care how fast this robot runs, it's more important if it can run linux
...
and now imagine a beowulf cluster of running robots, uyeeee
i'd be more worried when the female population discovers
this service and starts to use it on men.