I am sure GDS will be a great tool someday. For now, Copernic offers better options. And now that GDS is here, Copernic is free! Competition is always good for the end user!
Each user connecting to a Windows terminal server needs a valid Client Access License (CAL). Windows 2000 and XP apparently come with their own CALs. If you are going to use a different OS or client, you may need to separately purchase a CAL for each client and the CAL costs about as much as a seat license for Win2K or XP; so you might as well buy and install the OS.
More info: http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/Ar ticleID/5863/5863.html
This is a great naming scheme! I hope whoever came up with this name in the Marketing dept. got a good raise...
NEWCARD 2 years later NEWERCARD soon NEWESTCARD and then NEWERTHANTHENEWESTCARD after that BRANDSPANKINNEWCARD a while later SHINYNEWCARD eventually NEWASCANBECARD
At least it is better than Fullspeed, Highspeed and Doublespeed.
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Mac fanatics (Score:-1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 19, @03:29PM (#5546279) I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable system
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SGI Problems (Score:-1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 14, @02:50PM (#6435975) I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you SGI fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a SGI (a 3000 w/64 GB of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this SGI, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various SGI, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a SGI that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the SGI' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 3000 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the SGI is a superior machine.
SGI addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a SGI over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Towards the end, Neo and gang are informed that the machines (sentinels?) kept digging after killing all the inhabitants of Zion. Where were they digging to?
Thief I & II are also fun games with some good gameplay. Unfortunately, I can't stand games that try to animate the act of walking by having the entire view wobble up and down everytime you take a step in the game. Unreal Tournament 2003 has this, but you can turn it off and I find the game much more playable with the "walking wobble" turned off. Does anybody know if this can be turned off in Thief?
If you want to get Thief I & II, Best Buy has a great deal here. You can buy both of them as part of the Thief: Platinum Collection for $14.99 with free shipping.
"Stacks" in Longhorn like "Piles" in Panther?
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The article refers to a UI feature called "stacks". From the article:
"But there's more new to My Contacts than just the Carousel view. In My Contacts, you can arrange contacts by Name, Email, Work Email, Personal Email, Home Phone, Work Phone, or Online Status, but you can also utilizing a new feature called Stacks. Because you can't actually work with stacks in 4015, it's unclear what the feature does, but you can stack contacts by the same list of criteria by which you can arrange them, and you can also unstack them. Stacking and unstacking might be related to the Carousel view but, again, that's unclear right now."
Recently, there was a Slashdot article here about a "piles" feature that Apple had patented in June 2001 that sounds very familiar. Screenshot of piles here looks different, but the concepts appear similar:
"In addition, sources said Panther will finally mark the debut of the much-discussed "piles" GUI design concept, which Apple patented in June 2001. According to the patent, piles comprise collections of documents represented graphically in stacks. Users can browse the "piled" documents dynamically by pointing at them with the cursor; the filing system can then divide a pile into subpiles based on each document's content. At the user's request, the filing system can automatically file away documents into existing piles with similar content."
The site has 3 different versions with special features.
From the website:
"The game is FREEWARE as we checked with the former distributors BRODERBUND and MINDSCAPE, who do not have any copies of the game left. Thus you may download three different versions of the game from our site."
More information, screenshots and a player how-to is here.
This may not stop spam, but could make email a much safer medium. Most people have no idea how insecure plaintext email is. Having encryption transparent from the user would be a significant step in the right direction. From the OE docs:
"Only one current product we know of implements a form of opportunistic encryption. Secure sendmail will automatically encrypt server-to-server mail transfers whenever possible."
Unfortunately the linked paper is from 1999 and there does not seem to be any updated information.
What you have pointed out is true. However, it does not sound like OE is ever meant to protect against main in the middle attacks. By its very definition, it simply encrypts traffic whenever possible. This has two good outcomes:
1. More encrypted traffic in general, so when you begin encrypting your traffic it does not look suspicious to anybody who is monitoring traffic
2. Opportunistic sniffers will not be able to read the stream of data since it is automatically encrypted without your having to configure anything
OE is not a replacement for a VPN, nor is it meant to ensure the identity of the parties involved. If you really wanted to be sure, you would find some other medium to exchange keys initially or ensure that keys you received are signed by a CA or another verifying authority. That way, even if a third party does intercept your data, the data cannot be decrypted without the corresponding private key since you are using the authentic public key and not a spoof.
Of course, the CA or signing third party may be compromised. In that case, there are only two solutions: 1. Use telepathic brainwaves 2. Use carrier pigeons, because nobody will be expecting them
There seem to be new features in the iPods that weren't announced or well publicized. From my earlier post here:
While reading Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal I came upon this paragraph:
"The standard cable still hooks into a FireWire, or 1394, a port many Macs have but few Windows PCs include. So, Apple offers an alternate cable for $19 that plugs into the USB 2.0 port that's standard equipment on new Windows PCs. It will also work, albeit much more slowly, with the older USB ports found on nearly every Windows PC in the past four years. This opens up many more Windows computers for working with the iPod."
From Apple Website: "USB 2.0 For PC users, the iPod will be able to sync files via USB 2.0*, which transfers data at up to 480 Mbps and comes standard on the latest Windows computers. USB 2.0 is also compatible with USB 1.1, although data transfer speeds are much slower."
http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/steliteforce2/s te f2_sp_demo.exe.html
At least these links don't require registration and logins.
You should be able to put one of these links in wget or your favourite ftp client with a timed retry.
Fromt he wget documentation here. `--tries=number'
Set number of retries to number. Specify 0 or `inf' for infinite retrying.
`--wait=seconds'
Wait the specified number of seconds between the retrievals. Use of this option is recommended, as it lightens the server load by making the requests less frequent. Instead of in seconds, the time can be specified in minutes using the m suffix, in hours using h suffix, or in days using d suffix. Specifying a large value for this option is useful if the network or the destination host is down, so that Wget can wait long enough to reasonably expect the network error to be fixed before the retry.
Setup a dedicated MCU server using the OpenMCU conference server (also on above site). Without an MCU server, you can only have one-on-one video conferences. The MCU server will handle multiple participant video conferences as well as multiple rooms for simultaneous but separate conferences.
Use OpenPhone (also at above site) as the conferencing software. Since this is all standards based, the OpenMCU server should also support Netmeeting, Gnomemeeting etc.
This is Slashdot.. so all the advice is gratis but unreliable! Let us know how it works out!
Adi Gadwale.
PS. I have not been able to get this to work for even a 2 person call - Only one of the parties can hear the audio stream.
While reading Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal I came upon this paragraph:
"The standard cable still hooks into a FireWire, or 1394, a port many Macs have but few Windows PCs include. So, Apple offers an alternate cable for $19 that plugs into the USB 2.0 port that's standard equipment on new Windows PCs. It will also work, albeit much more slowly, with the older USB ports found on nearly every Windows PC in the past four years. This opens up many more Windows computers for working with the iPod."
From Apple Website: "USB 2.0 For PC users, the iPod will be able to sync files via USB 2.0*, which transfers data at up to 480 Mbps and comes standard on the latest Windows computers. USB 2.0 is also compatible with USB 1.1, although data transfer speeds are much slower."
You may want to try Data Architect from The Kompany for database modelling.
I do not have much experience using it, but the screenshots look very slick (a good judge for open source apps since the UI is generally the weakest link!)
The listed features include: * Workspace/Project oriented environment * ERD centric data modelling * model panner ("birds eye view") * quick find and naviagtion from output window * model validation * full documentation capabilities * integrated Advanced SQL Editor with syntax highlighting * SQL Project - a multi-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux), multi-database, integrated development environment * save/load SQL sessions * integrated ODBC * multi-platform (Linux, MS Windows and soon Mac OS X) * multi-database (ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 and InterBase/FireBird coming soon) * open file format (XML) * DBMS specific features such as data types and SQL syntax * reverse engineer existing databases * generate create-scripts * print model * print data dictionary * liberal use of tool-tips to help Users * integrated Team Diagram> (general purpose diagramming) * supports table inheritance * supports; table, view, domain, sequence, procedure
Supported databases are: * generic using ODBC * MySQL * PostgreSQL * DB2 * InterBase/FireBird (in testing)
It is not free as in beer, but the license agreement seems to indicate that you will get the source. It is reasonably priced at $39.95 for the download version and you will be supporting a great company.
And don't be surprised if you get an email back from the president of the company, Shawn Gordon. I sent an email yesterday to the support address and received a reply from him within a few minutes.
You may also want to look at their BlackAdder IDE. Screenshots here.
Also note that Trillian does not require logging into a gateway server like everybuddy and jabber and indiatimesmessenger. I don't like submitting passwords to gateway servers.
I found jabber to be buggy and gateway servers are sometimes down.
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I guess this will open up a lot more opportunities for advertising on gtunes.. Relevant-genre/artist music-snippet ads maybe?
Advantages of Copernic:
1. Google desktop search is strictly not for commercial use (For commercial use, you need to buy a Google appliance) (I wrote to them to find out if this prohibits any use in a commercial setting such as on an employer's computer and they did not reply)
2. Google desktop search does not index PDF files
3. Google desktop search does not do partial word matches (huge disadvantage when you have filenames which are just concatenated words with no spaces)
4. n GDS, you get to exclude folder that you do not want to index, in Copernic, you get to include folders that you want to index. I prefer the "index only when asked to do so explicitly" option.
5. GDS will not index mapped network drives except for files that you actually open and use after installing GDS
6. Unlike GDS, Copernic will index outlook email attachments also
7. Copernic gives a real time preview of the matched area as you highlight each search result line
I am sure GDS will be a great tool someday. For now, Copernic offers better options. And now that GDS is here, Copernic is free! Competition is always good for the end user!
-Adi.
Each user connecting to a Windows terminal server needs a valid Client Access License (CAL). Windows 2000 and XP apparently come with their own CALs. If you are going to use a different OS or client, you may need to separately purchase a CAL for each client and the CAL costs about as much as a seat license for Win2K or XP; so you might as well buy and install the OS.
r ticleID /5863/5863.html
More info:
http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/A
-Adi Gadwale.
Apparently this has already been denied by Dell:
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http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2003/november/
Very entertaining books for kids... Definitely better than most of the others. Any idea how many were in the entire series?
Regards,
Adi Gadwale.
This is a great naming scheme! I hope whoever came up with this name in the Marketing dept. got a good raise...
NEWCARD 2 years later
NEWERCARD soon
NEWESTCARD and then
NEWERTHANTHENEWESTCARD after that
BRANDSPANKINNEWCARD a while later
SHINYNEWCARD eventually
NEWASCANBECARD
At least it is better than Fullspeed, Highspeed and Doublespeed.
-Adi Gadwale.
Any mention of Hasselhoff should include these links to Amazon reviews of his CD..
Review 1
Review 2
689 amazing reviews
Absolutely hilarious!
- Adi Gadwale.
AHA.. the TROLL STRIKES AGAIN!
Here are your other posts:
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Mac fanatics (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 19, @03:29PM (#5546279)
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable system
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SGI Problems (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 14, @02:50PM (#6435975)
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you SGI fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a SGI (a 3000 w/64 GB of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this SGI, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various SGI, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a SGI that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the SGI' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 3000 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the SGI is a superior machine.
SGI addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a SGI over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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Also of interest:
Towards the end, Neo and gang are informed that the machines (sentinels?) kept digging after killing all the inhabitants of Zion. Where were they digging to?
Of course, this could just be a blooper...
Adi Gadwale.
Thief I & II are also fun games with some good gameplay. Unfortunately, I can't stand games that try to animate the act of walking by having the entire view wobble up and down everytime you take a step in the game. Unreal Tournament 2003 has this, but you can turn it off and I find the game much more playable with the "walking wobble" turned off. Does anybody know if this can be turned off in Thief?
If you want to get Thief I & II, Best Buy has a great deal here. You can buy both of them as part of the Thief: Platinum Collection for $14.99 with free shipping.
Adi Gadwale.
FYI, if you are a student you can get better prices at their online educational store:
(For my school - University of Maryland at College Park)
$749.00
800MHz PowerPC G4
128MB SDRAM
40GB Ultra ATA drive
CD-ROM drive
Discounted from $799 retail price
$949.00
1GHz PowerPC G4
128MB SDRAM
60GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo drive
Discounted from $999 retail price
$1,149.00
1GHz PowerPC G4
256MB SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA drive
SuperDrive
Discounted from $1,299 retail price
$1,528.00
Image
1GHz PowerPC G4
1GB SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA drive
SuperDrive
AirPort Extreme built-in
Discounted from $1,698 retail price
Even better deals can be had at Apple B&M stores in universities.
You have to be a valid student to get these prices.
There are also refurbished products that you can buy with Applecare over here.
Adi Gadwale.
What's Your Timeline for IPv6 Migration?
Tomorrow around noon. Is that good for you?
No, seriously - tomorrow around noon.
Adi Gadwale
(Rating guide for the humor impaired: +1 Funny)
The article refers to a UI feature called "stacks". From the article:
"But there's more new to My Contacts than just the Carousel view. In My Contacts, you can arrange contacts by Name, Email, Work Email, Personal Email, Home Phone, Work Phone, or Online Status, but you can also utilizing a new feature called Stacks. Because you can't actually work with stacks in 4015, it's unclear what the feature does, but you can stack contacts by the same list of criteria by which you can arrange them, and you can also unstack them. Stacking and unstacking might be related to the Carousel view but, again, that's unclear right now."
Here is a screenshot of the view.
Recently, there was a Slashdot article here about a "piles" feature that Apple had patented in June 2001 that sounds very familiar. Screenshot of piles here looks different, but the concepts appear similar:
"In addition, sources said Panther will finally mark the debut of the much-discussed "piles" GUI design concept, which Apple patented in June 2001. According to the patent, piles comprise collections of documents represented graphically in stacks. Users can browse the "piled" documents dynamically by pointing at them with the cursor; the filing system can then divide a pile into subpiles based on each document's content. At the user's request, the filing system can automatically file away documents into existing piles with similar content."
Adi Gadwale.
You can download the game here.
The site has 3 different versions with special features.
From the website:
"The game is FREEWARE as we checked with the former distributors BRODERBUND and MINDSCAPE, who do not have any copies of the game left. Thus you may download three different versions of the game from our site."
More information, screenshots and a player how-to is here.
Adi Gadwale.
Soon, there will be a Quidditch game released by EA.
Later somebody will novelize the game just like another game we know.
This is bound to happen since there is a ton of money in Harry Potter. After all, the Harry Potter author is richer than the Queen!
Still, I will be buying "Order of The Phoenix" as soon as it comes out (June 21st). Anybody else with me?
Adi Gadwale.
This may not stop spam, but could make email a much safer medium. Most people have no idea how insecure plaintext email is. Having encryption transparent from the user would be a significant step in the right direction. From the OE docs:
"Only one current product we know of implements a form of opportunistic encryption. Secure sendmail will automatically encrypt server-to-server mail transfers whenever possible."
Unfortunately the linked paper is from 1999 and there does not seem to be any updated information.
Adi Gadwale.
D U H!
Now they will be expecting carrier pigeons!
Adi Gadwale.
What you have pointed out is true. However, it does not sound like OE is ever meant to protect against main in the middle attacks. By its very definition, it simply encrypts traffic whenever possible. This has two good outcomes:
1. More encrypted traffic in general, so when you begin encrypting your traffic it does not look suspicious to anybody who is monitoring traffic
2. Opportunistic sniffers will not be able to read the stream of data since it is automatically encrypted without your having to configure anything
OE is not a replacement for a VPN, nor is it meant to ensure the identity of the parties involved. If you really wanted to be sure, you would find some other medium to exchange keys initially or ensure that keys you received are signed by a CA or another verifying authority. That way, even if a third party does intercept your data, the data cannot be decrypted without the corresponding private key since you are using the authentic public key and not a spoof.
Of course, the CA or signing third party may be compromised. In that case, there are only two solutions:
1. Use telepathic brainwaves
2. Use carrier pigeons, because nobody will be expecting them
Adi Gadwale.
There seem to be new features in the iPods that weren't announced or well publicized. From my earlier post here:
While reading Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal I came upon this paragraph:
"The standard cable still hooks into a FireWire, or 1394, a port many Macs have but few Windows PCs include. So, Apple offers an alternate cable for $19 that plugs into the USB 2.0 port that's standard equipment on new Windows PCs. It will also work, albeit much more slowly, with the older USB ports found on nearly every Windows PC in the past four years. This opens up many more Windows computers for working with the iPod."
Went to the Apple website and sure enough - The new iPod dock can now connect to a USB 2.0 port on Windows machines . What is more - you can also use a USB 1.1 port for _really_ slow transfers!
From Apple Website:
"USB 2.0
For PC users, the iPod will be able to sync files via USB 2.0*, which transfers data at up to 480 Mbps and comes standard on the latest Windows computers. USB 2.0 is also compatible with USB 1.1, although data transfer speeds are much slower."
Looks like a smart move...
Adi Gadwale.
Try your downloads here:
s te f2_sp_demo.exe.html
http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/steliteforce2/
At least these links don't require registration and logins.
You should be able to put one of these links in wget or your favourite ftp client with a timed retry.
Fromt he wget documentation here.
`--tries=number'
Set number of retries to number. Specify 0 or `inf' for infinite retrying.
`--wait=seconds'
Wait the specified number of seconds between the retrievals. Use of this option is recommended, as it lightens the server load by making the requests less frequent. Instead of in seconds, the time can be specified in minutes using the m suffix, in hours using h suffix, or in days using d suffix. Specifying a large value for this option is useful if the network or the destination host is down, so that Wget can wait long enough to reasonably expect the network error to be fixed before the retry.
Adi Gadwale.
All these comments and not one FOSS reference?
Here is a duct tape and scripting solution:
Get the software at Open H323.
Setup a dedicated MCU server using the OpenMCU conference server (also on above site). Without an MCU server, you can only have one-on-one video conferences. The MCU server will handle multiple participant video conferences as well as multiple rooms for simultaneous but separate conferences.
Use OpenPhone (also at above site) as the conferencing software. Since this is all standards based, the OpenMCU server should also support Netmeeting, Gnomemeeting etc.
This is Slashdot.. so all the advice is gratis but unreliable! Let us know how it works out!
Adi Gadwale.
PS. I have not been able to get this to work for even a 2 person call - Only one of the parties can hear the audio stream.
While reading Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal I came upon this paragraph:
"The standard cable still hooks into a FireWire, or 1394, a port many Macs have but few Windows PCs include. So, Apple offers an alternate cable for $19 that plugs into the USB 2.0 port that's standard equipment on new Windows PCs. It will also work, albeit much more slowly, with the older USB ports found on nearly every Windows PC in the past four years. This opens up many more Windows computers for working with the iPod."
Went to the Apple website and sure enough - The new iPod dock can now connect to a USB 2.0 port on Windows machines. What is more - you can also use a USB 1.1 port for _really_ slow transfers!
From Apple Website:
"USB 2.0
For PC users, the iPod will be able to sync files via USB 2.0*, which transfers data at up to 480 Mbps and comes standard on the latest Windows computers. USB 2.0 is also compatible with USB 1.1, although data transfer speeds are much slower."
Looks like a smart move...
Adi Gadwale.
You may want to try Data Architect from The Kompany for database modelling.
I do not have much experience using it, but the screenshots look very slick (a good judge for open source apps since the UI is generally the weakest link!)
The listed features include:
* Workspace/Project oriented environment
* ERD centric data modelling
* model panner ("birds eye view")
* quick find and naviagtion from output window
* model validation
* full documentation capabilities
* integrated Advanced SQL Editor with syntax highlighting
* SQL Project - a multi-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux), multi-database, integrated development environment
* save/load SQL sessions
* integrated ODBC
* multi-platform (Linux, MS Windows and soon Mac OS X)
* multi-database (ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 and InterBase/FireBird coming soon)
* open file format (XML)
* DBMS specific features such as data types and SQL syntax
* reverse engineer existing databases
* generate create-scripts
* print model
* print data dictionary
* liberal use of tool-tips to help Users
* integrated Team Diagram> (general purpose diagramming)
* supports table inheritance
* supports; table, view, domain, sequence, procedure
Supported databases are:
* generic using ODBC
* MySQL
* PostgreSQL
* DB2
* InterBase/FireBird (in testing)
It is not free as in beer, but the license agreement seems to indicate that you will get the source. It is reasonably priced at $39.95 for the download version and you will be supporting a great company.
And don't be surprised if you get an email back from the president of the company, Shawn Gordon. I sent an email yesterday to the support address and received a reply from him within a few minutes.
You may also want to look at their BlackAdder IDE. Screenshots here.
Regards,
Adi Gadwale.
What a great name for a rock band..
Dave Barry probably wishes he had come up with this one!
On the other hand... most people would probably mistake them for the Angry Pixies.
-Adi.
Also note that Trillian does not require logging into a gateway server like everybuddy and jabber and indiatimesmessenger. I don't like submitting passwords to gateway servers.
I found jabber to be buggy and gateway servers are sometimes down.