Actually, I just migrated a database-driven website from MySQL to Oracle without a hitch, all using php.
A database abstraction layer was used which made all the difference. I used dal, which is a nice object-oriented layer that only involves changing a single line of code to change different databases.
Personally, it sounds to me like your company's problem was bad design (not allowing for expansion) rather than php.
For those of you who can't do math, I'll do it for you.
Let's err on the side of safety and say that this generates $1.8 billion a year. That's $150,000 a month. Now, how many people in America are subscribed to an ISP? Somewhere on the order of 50%. Since when did America suddenly gain 30,000 citizens?
I haven't seen a single news report yet that includes accurate statistics or sales.
Works nicely, I've considered using that for my own book collection. But, how would you catalog the enormous amount of books that do not have ISBNs? I've got books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and I can't assign numbers to them quite so easily. So, while this database would be great, you would need a separate primary key from the ISBN.
Granted, almost any book today has an ISBN. But, there's a huge chunk of books that do not. And having another field in the database (for unique IDs of books) bloats up the necessary size. And, by not requiring an ISBN, you allow duplicate entries far too easily. Don't get me wrong, I would love something like this. But, it's more difficult to implement than a unified slashdot opinion.
The letter is very deceptive. Verisign seems to only be prominently mentioned once, and the address the letter gets mailed to doesn't mention Verisign at all. This is about as shady as switching your long-distance plan by cashing a check they give you (anyone else get those?).
But, I would hope that any sane person would refuse to put down their credit card number on a piece of mail as flimsy as a business reply card. Ignorance only extends so far, right?...right?
Besides being a kernel hacker, you're a bit of a cult figure or role model among open-source developers. Are you aware of that, does it affect you at all?
Not particularly. I try and avoid those situations. I don't tend to lurk where people can find me.
What?!? Does this mean he doesn't vote in/. polls?
So, instead of tackling what many people consider a monopoly, albeit a harmless (in the ecological sense) one, one should ally him- or herself with a company that the majority of liberals in this country believe is both an ecological destroyer and a monopoly on a much worse scale?
Microsoft is software, with a dash of hardware, but they are still a high-tech company. Wal-Mart is a retailer that drives many other small local retailers out of business. Considering how easy it is to get high-tech things on the market through the use of the internet, versus the difficulty of being a local merchant, I would call Microsoft the lesser of two monopolies. If Microsoft suddenly used its power to lower all its prices so that other non-free (beer) software companies couldn't compete and went out of business, would you be happier?
Trying to do this over networked file systems would be a pain. Imagine trying to copy a remote file that might be changing. Also, if the process was revived in a different environment, you'd have problems in general, be it a new processor, a new hard drive, anything.
That said, I think this is a Good Idea(TM). But, it would have to be implemented on a a per-process basis, not just a general system daemon. Imagine if power failed, and every single process was suddenly "remembered". You have to have enough hard drive space, memory.... And if you ran out, it would be hard for the OS to figure out which ones to save and which ones not to.
"We regret to inform you, Mr. Anderson, that you have three different people in your household using this computer to access the internet. Your bill will be adjusted accordingly."
Does anyody else find it odd that the news brief doesn't say why they disclosed this information? Could it be something they did? Or am I just paranoid? Or am I stoned?
This "hunting down windows-named software" might not help, I'm afraid. Microsoft's lawyers are going to say that since Lindows is an OS, it can be confusing. Which it is, considering how many variations people have made on Windoze, blows, etc.
He ran several Microsoft Office applications on his IBM ThinkPad, though some functions of those programs still aren't working properly under Lindows. They'll come in time, he says.
So, instead of paying $100 for a Windows upgrade that crashes occasionally, but runs everything, we can pay $100 for an OS that crashes occasionally and can't run everything.
You can buy one here that comes with a nice window mod. It's also the largest screenshot found so far. You'd think they'd want to show this off more....
You just validated Microsoft's arguments with your third point: no plethora of drivers. No matter how fancy Linux has gotten, it still hasn't been able to interface with the huge base of hardware that Microsoft products can. There are a lot of companies that cannot afford fancy new hardware; they must make do on something that was brought in years ago. And Microsoft products play nice with them.
Now, while we may be talking about embedded systems, realize that there are embedded system companies that have to make their systems work as seamlessly as possible with what their clients have lying about as well.
In addition, since at least 75% (incredibly conservative) of their end-users will be using some kind of Microsoft product on their home computer, having a Microsoft-run embedded system means happier end-users.
As for support, I would much rather have a big, rich company supporting my software than a bunch of chatrooms. If my system is compromised or causes damage, I want to be able to say, "This company here is responsible for it", instead of telling my pointy-haired boss that we either have to fix a problem ourselves with software that we shouldn't have to, or wait an indeterminate amount of time for "some people on the Internet" to fix it, or not. That's too big a liability for a company.
I would completely agree that no place is hiring programmers straight out of school. I'm graduating in a year, and every single place that was hiring c/c++ programmers has said, "Sorry, we want someone with previous experience." Hm.
I'm one of the top five coders at my university here, and my skills don't mean squat because I can't get hired and get some experience because I don't have any experience!
bool experience=0 ;
void look_for_job(void) {
if (experience)
experience+=1 ;
}
Well, it'd be nice to see an intellectual sport at the Olympics, were it not for the simple fact that chess is broken. We've got computers beating world champions because chess has a finite number of moves. It can only branch so many times before the game ends. What if we finally figured out exactly how to win a game of chess? Then the whole tournament would boil down to who went first.
Maybe a real intellectual sport should be considered, instead of a brainteaser.
Notice that this is in Japan. The company mentality is so different from the one here that you are misunderstanding the statement of "Other companies will steal our employees". The working conditions for technical workers are far better than what you will find in America.
Things like company picnics, baseball teams, and retreats and seminars are looked forward to by all employees. That's right. Their concept of yamato means that they put the company before themselves, and then the company takes care of them. Maybe we could learn a thing or two.
If anything was an indication of the Xbox's impending triumph over the PS2, this is it. I mean, Netscape? There's a tiny little organization known as the W3C which tells us to use things like HTML and CSS. Oh no, wait. Who needs stylesheets and real HTML when you have the blink and spacer tags! Yay!
I'm glad that an industry leader like Microsoft had the foresight to adhere closer to the specifications set forth by the W3C than Netscape did.
in return for cheap gas & handguns
As the Arrogant Worms sang, "Wouldn't it Be Great if Everybody Had a Gun?"
There'd be no crime, since everybody'd have a gun!
Nobody would ever get shot, cause everbody'd have a gun!
Slashdot Mirror
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of....
Actually, I just migrated a database-driven website from MySQL to Oracle without a hitch, all using php.
A database abstraction layer was used which made all the difference. I used dal, which is a nice object-oriented layer that only involves changing a single line of code to change different databases.
Personally, it sounds to me like your company's problem was bad design (not allowing for expansion) rather than php.
Wait... you mean it isn't?
$1-a-month.
$2 billion yearly.
For those of you who can't do math, I'll do it for you.
Let's err on the side of safety and say that this generates $1.8 billion a year. That's $150,000 a month. Now, how many people in America are subscribed to an ISP? Somewhere on the order of 50%. Since when did America suddenly gain 30,000 citizens?
I haven't seen a single news report yet that includes accurate statistics or sales.
Who pays the parking tickets on these?
GPS: "Help! I'm being towed!"
Works nicely, I've considered using that for my own book collection. But, how would you catalog the enormous amount of books that do not have ISBNs? I've got books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and I can't assign numbers to them quite so easily. So, while this database would be great, you would need a separate primary key from the ISBN.
Granted, almost any book today has an ISBN. But, there's a huge chunk of books that do not. And having another field in the database (for unique IDs of books) bloats up the necessary size. And, by not requiring an ISBN, you allow duplicate entries far too easily. Don't get me wrong, I would love something like this. But, it's more difficult to implement than a unified slashdot opinion.
The letter is very deceptive. Verisign seems to only be prominently mentioned once, and the address the letter gets mailed to doesn't mention Verisign at all. This is about as shady as switching your long-distance plan by cashing a check they give you (anyone else get those?).
But, I would hope that any sane person would refuse to put down their credit card number on a piece of mail as flimsy as a business reply card. Ignorance only extends so far, right? ...right?
Since the article is more or less slashdotted, here is how to modify the chip to work on a multiprocessor board:
Complete the topmost L5 bridge if it is cut. They use conductive paint. Now the XP is detected as an MP for the multiprocessor boards.
Of course, the stability of this is questionable, and no one except yourself should take responsibility for it.
Also on Via's site, the white paper describing this small wonder:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/Mini-iTX.PDF
Besides being a kernel hacker, you're a bit of a cult figure or role model among open-source developers. Are you aware of that, does it affect you at all?
Not particularly. I try and avoid those situations. I don't tend to lurk where people can find me.
What?!? Does this mean he doesn't vote in /. polls?
So, instead of tackling what many people consider a monopoly, albeit a harmless (in the ecological sense) one, one should ally him- or herself with a company that the majority of liberals in this country believe is both an ecological destroyer and a monopoly on a much worse scale?
Microsoft is software, with a dash of hardware, but they are still a high-tech company. Wal-Mart is a retailer that drives many other small local retailers out of business. Considering how easy it is to get high-tech things on the market through the use of the internet, versus the difficulty of being a local merchant, I would call Microsoft the lesser of two monopolies. If Microsoft suddenly used its power to lower all its prices so that other non-free (beer) software companies couldn't compete and went out of business, would you be happier?
Yeah, I chose Microsoft over Wal-Mart. So mod me.
Trying to do this over networked file systems would be a pain. Imagine trying to copy a remote file that might be changing. Also, if the process was revived in a different environment, you'd have problems in general, be it a new processor, a new hard drive, anything.
That said, I think this is a Good Idea(TM). But, it would have to be implemented on a a per-process basis, not just a general system daemon. Imagine if power failed, and every single process was suddenly "remembered". You have to have enough hard drive space, memory.... And if you ran out, it would be hard for the OS to figure out which ones to save and which ones not to.
"We regret to inform you, Mr. Anderson, that you have three different people in your household using this computer to access the internet. Your bill will be adjusted accordingly."
Does anyody else find it odd that the news brief doesn't say why they disclosed this information? Could it be something they did? Or am I just paranoid? Or am I stoned?
This "hunting down windows-named software" might not help, I'm afraid. Microsoft's lawyers are going to say that since Lindows is an OS, it can be confusing. Which it is, considering how many variations people have made on Windoze, blows, etc.
Use your passport instead. It's what I do, and I haven't had any problems yet.
He ran several Microsoft Office applications on his IBM ThinkPad, though some functions of those programs still aren't working properly under Lindows. They'll come in time, he says.
So, instead of paying $100 for a Windows upgrade that crashes occasionally, but runs everything, we can pay $100 for an OS that crashes occasionally and can't run everything.
Actually, those scenes were shot, but not included. They should be released in the DVD version.
You can buy one here that comes with a nice window mod. It's also the largest screenshot found so far. You'd think they'd want to show this off more....
You just validated Microsoft's arguments with your third point: no plethora of drivers. No matter how fancy Linux has gotten, it still hasn't been able to interface with the huge base of hardware that Microsoft products can. There are a lot of companies that cannot afford fancy new hardware; they must make do on something that was brought in years ago. And Microsoft products play nice with them.
Now, while we may be talking about embedded systems, realize that there are embedded system companies that have to make their systems work as seamlessly as possible with what their clients have lying about as well.
In addition, since at least 75% (incredibly conservative) of their end-users will be using some kind of Microsoft product on their home computer, having a Microsoft-run embedded system means happier end-users.
As for support, I would much rather have a big, rich company supporting my software than a bunch of chatrooms. If my system is compromised or causes damage, I want to be able to say, "This company here is responsible for it", instead of telling my pointy-haired boss that we either have to fix a problem ourselves with software that we shouldn't have to, or wait an indeterminate amount of time for "some people on the Internet" to fix it, or not. That's too big a liability for a company.
This is another site with a screenshot and box cover (and is not /.ed yet).
I would completely agree that no place is hiring programmers straight out of school. I'm graduating in a year, and every single place that was hiring c/c++ programmers has said, "Sorry, we want someone with previous experience." Hm.
I'm one of the top five coders at my university here, and my skills don't mean squat because I can't get hired and get some experience because I don't have any experience!
bool experience=0 ;
void look_for_job(void) {
if (experience)
experience+=1 ;
}
.
.
.
while (!experience)
look_for_job() ;
Well, it'd be nice to see an intellectual sport at the Olympics, were it not for the simple fact that chess is broken. We've got computers beating world champions because chess has a finite number of moves. It can only branch so many times before the game ends. What if we finally figured out exactly how to win a game of chess? Then the whole tournament would boil down to who went first.
Maybe a real intellectual sport should be considered, instead of a brainteaser.
Notice that this is in Japan. The company mentality is so different from the one here that you are misunderstanding the statement of "Other companies will steal our employees". The working conditions for technical workers are far better than what you will find in America.
Things like company picnics, baseball teams, and retreats and seminars are looked forward to by all employees. That's right. Their concept of yamato means that they put the company before themselves, and then the company takes care of them. Maybe we could learn a thing or two.
If anything was an indication of the Xbox's impending triumph over the PS2, this is it. I mean, Netscape? There's a tiny little organization known as the W3C which tells us to use things like HTML and CSS. Oh no, wait. Who needs stylesheets and real HTML when you have the blink and spacer tags! Yay!
I'm glad that an industry leader like Microsoft had the foresight to adhere closer to the specifications set forth by the W3C than Netscape did.
in return for cheap gas & handguns As the Arrogant Worms sang, "Wouldn't it Be Great if Everybody Had a Gun?" There'd be no crime, since everybody'd have a gun! Nobody would ever get shot, cause everbody'd have a gun!