Some of use Applescript for Real World Situations - like running build scripts and installing stuff. Some of us would like more a fart's chance in a thunderstorm of being able to *program* AppleScript rather than the current *program-by-accident* that is all I seem to do because I can't get hold of a decent resource for this *8***000))"*$ language. Grr.
It appears that only Linux and Apple deserve this speicial treatment. IBM and SUN do not; their search results seem to come back fairly clean.
They also missed a trick with Java and Compilers, both of which I would have thought they'd've gamed to their benefit. Also, middleware and distributed computing.
However, "business software" is a beaut:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=business+so ft ware&FORM=SMCRT
the first page is nearly only Microsoft. Way to go! Monopolies are us!
Even better: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=secu rity&FORM =SMCRT
You could almost *profile* microsoft's obsessions, vanities and insecurities with this method. You just need to shape your business case to attack their weaknesses! Excellent!
I don't see that putting packages in RPMs in anyway obviates the browsing of RPMs by category. CPAN is just a whopping great database. You can tweak the views anyway you want.
I'd like the ability to deinstall packages - which rpm (or any other package manager) would give me.
Python suffers from the same problem. Maybe we'll start seeing Python RPM packages?
Hopefully,
h
this is a cunning.sig - as cunning as a sig who's just received a PhD in cunning
There's a perfectly good reason *why* these projects are getting more complex - particularly XML Schema, SOAP, the fight over RSS et al - and that's because people like IBM/SUN/MS don't want people like *you* building apps that put them to shame. That's right: they want the market sewn-up even before it gets to first base. It's their ball and you ain't playing with it.
So, the "useful stupid" that kicked off this rant 2 parsecs back is basically being a patsy for the big boys.
Just look for things getting yet more complex. In the name of something else, naturally.
Should at least give them a warning, something like:
"Dear X, Today, *you* have been chosen for the daily trample-fest that is slashdot. You webserver will melt at T minus 10 Thankyou"
h
To sig or not to sig, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the CPU to suffer the links and melted server of a bloody slashdotting or would rather those snot-nosed comments bear.
1. The Iranians, after the US had fled their embassy years ago and forgot to burn the shredded papers, pieced together those documents *by hand*. Maybe the US ambassador wasn't expecting this to happen...
2. Someone should sell this to the German authorities who are trying to piece together the records shredded by the Stasi, the East German secret police. The story I heard on the radio - adapted in the book "Stasiland" - had about 30 people doing the job of assembling the files. The figure I think I heard mentioned was 300 years to finish the job. The thing is, there are people living who wouldn't mind knowing the "facts" contained in those files.
The better the tech the higher the civilians death toll. The obsession with civilian causualties started, I think, when TV cameras started beaming back real-time pictures of those lovely mushroom clouds and the pieces of bodies lieing in the arms of their mothers.
The Nimitz class of vessels are named after figures of national importance - Roosevelt, Washington & *Reagan*. really. Is reagan a republican figure on an historic scale? Up there with Washington? And Roosevelt? WTF?
I dropped a struts implementation in favour of maverick purely on the basis that maverick gave me ease of use for configuration (faster time from idea-to-implementation) plus choice of templates. And the website is prettier.
is a great MVC - *without* the hideousity of Struts et al. Simple, clean, easy - and you can even use velocity templates. It's even been ported to PHP *and*.NET
h.
Siggy played guitar, jammin' good with Weird and Gilly
It seems to me like there's "version control" for file-versioning (VMS - which would be great for automatic rollover of log-files) and there's version control for the big projects - a couple hundred+ branches, checkpoints, merge-control (merge control in Clear Case seems less than optional - particularly for the people forced to do it), parallel lines of development etc etc. Then on top of that, you've got distributed working, product release etc etc. Pushing that stuff down to the filesystem is definitely a Big Target and, quite probably, only *half* the job. Managing the complexity is, imo, the other half of Version Control.
I'm thinking, it would be nice if the hooks were in there for the larger legacy Source Code Control Systems. For example, something which would allow Webdav to interact at an API level with this funky file system.
I was sorely tempted. But this is my Mother's machine we're talkng about here. Maybe when Suse goes thru another couple of generations, I'll feel happy about reccomending Linux to everyone.
'Two years ago, Ballmer and Co. told Wired that "Linux was going down" and cited "lack of key enterprise elements" and " lack of system management software". I guess that if reality doesn't fit your predictions, you have to change reality to fit your prophecy.'
So the prospect now remains that if you're a company which produces any kind of cross-platform package which even remotely tries to get into the datacenter, you're sunk. Completely. You have no chance of survival whilst the current crew are in opeation.
I'd say that this has a lot to do with with keeping Linux *out* of the *data center*. One less enterprise competitor for M$ to worry about. I don't think that this has much
Of course, if you're smart, you would have outsourced this function ages ago.
Of course, the Sun is owned by Murdoch who owns - wait for it - Fox. Now that the FCC regs have been relaxed, watch out for the US version of the Sun.
I've seen the Fox website and it's pretty much in line with what the sun is doing (modulo the semi-naked women). So I guess Murdochs MO is to drive up sales by harping on nationalist feelings. In the UK, this can get pretty extreme so I'd say he's playing with fire here.
Clearchannel were running pro-war rallies during Gulf II. I expect more of these in the future.
What has this to do with Mars missions? These things tend to have a large slice of dick-waving involved just to pump up the budgets - in some cases, just to get the budget in the first place.
Notice that the Beagle II - part of the Mars Express mission - is totally privately funded. Blur [1] and Damien Hirst [2] were involved and they helped to raise funds. Is there an equivalent on the US missions?
h.
[1] A popular modern upbeat combo, apparently [2] A purveyor of dead sharks and multi-coloured spots in a post-modernist manner.
I've just upgraded a 98 machine to XP and a 2000 box to co-exist with Suse. Guess which has caused me the most difficulty? The XP upgrade.
Even though I followed the mantras and the CDs, the XP upgrade still managed to screw me over. I was left with a 98 installation and a XP installation trying to co-exist in some wierd way. Needless to say, things did not work as adverised. Now the XP box will have to it's hard-disk wiped and re-installed from scratch.
I'm still seething.
I expect better from the richest, bestest, greatest company on earth. Don't you?
Slashdot Mirror
...TRIPs block-orient executes YOU!
h
I talk to the sigs, but they don't listen to me
Some of use Applescript for Real World Situations - like running build scripts and installing stuff. Some of us would like more a fart's chance in a thunderstorm of being able to *program* AppleScript rather than the current *program-by-accident* that is all I seem to do because I can't get hold of a decent resource for this *8***000))"*$ language. Grr.
h.
It appears that only Linux and Apple deserve this speicial treatment. IBM and SUN do not; their search results seem to come back fairly clean.
o ft ware&FORM=SMCRT
u rity&FORM =SMCRT
They also missed a trick with Java and Compilers, both of which I would have thought they'd've gamed to their benefit. Also, middleware and distributed computing.
However, "business software" is a beaut:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=business+s
the first page is nearly only Microsoft. Way to go! Monopolies are us!
Even better:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=sec
You could almost *profile* microsoft's obsessions, vanities and insecurities with this method. You just need to shape your business case to attack their weaknesses! Excellent!
h
I don't see that putting packages in RPMs in anyway obviates the browsing of RPMs by category. CPAN is just a whopping great database. You can tweak the views anyway you want.
.sig - as cunning as a sig who's just received a PhD in cunning
I'd like the ability to deinstall packages - which rpm (or any other package manager) would give me.
Python suffers from the same problem. Maybe we'll start seeing Python RPM packages?
Hopefully,
h
this is a cunning
Actually, having gone through an exercise to try and incorporate open source libs into a closed source product, "they" seem pretty bloody careful.
.sig is broken? well it works for me!
GPL code is a non-starter - no look, no touch.
This here closed-source developer pays quite a lot of respect to open-source code.
My manager thinks so as well.
h.
this
!** laptop dancing **! woo-hoo. I'll have some of that...
"patriotism is the virtue of the vicious"
Oscar Wilde
h.
There's a perfectly good reason *why* these projects are getting more complex - particularly XML Schema, SOAP, the fight over RSS et al - and that's because people like IBM/SUN/MS don't want people like *you* building apps that put them to shame. That's right: they want the market sewn-up even before it gets to first base. It's their ball and you ain't playing with it.
So, the "useful stupid" that kicked off this rant 2 parsecs back is basically being a patsy for the big boys.
Just look for things getting yet more complex. In the name of something else, naturally.
h
Should at least give them a warning, something like:
"Dear X,
Today, *you* have been chosen for the daily trample-fest that is slashdot.
You webserver will melt at T minus 10
Thankyou"
h
To sig or not to sig, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the CPU to suffer the links and melted server of a bloody slashdotting or would rather those snot-nosed comments bear.
Lost mine a while ago. I've always hated their intrusiveness.
I suggest that others lose theirs too before, like the article says, they become the ultimate "personality profiler".
Just lose the sodding things. Be apathetic *enough* to screw tescos.
h.
1. The Iranians, after the US had fled their embassy years ago and forgot to burn the shredded papers, pieced together those documents *by hand*. Maybe the US ambassador wasn't expecting this to happen...
2. Someone should sell this to the German authorities who are trying to piece together the records shredded by the Stasi, the East German secret police. The story I heard on the radio - adapted in the book "Stasiland" - had about 30 people doing the job of assembling the files. The figure I think I heard mentioned was 300 years to finish the job. The thing is, there are people living who wouldn't mind knowing the "facts" contained in those files.
h.
"I bet Microsoft's happy to see another competitor dying, though."
Substitute Bill Gates for Microsoft and you have it bang on the nail. He wins. He has to. Read cringely sometime.
That's why MS are a monopoly and a borderline criminal organisation whose only protection is a US gubmint who wants a monopoly.
h.
The better the tech the higher the civilians death toll. The obsession with civilian causualties started, I think, when TV cameras started beaming back real-time pictures of those lovely mushroom clouds and the pieces of bodies lieing in the arms of their mothers.
h.
is detailed here:
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq63-1.htm
The Nimitz class of vessels are named after figures of national importance - Roosevelt, Washington & *Reagan*. really. Is reagan a republican figure on an historic scale? Up there with Washington? And Roosevelt? WTF?
h.
Siggy played guitar...
I dropped a struts implementation in favour of maverick purely on the basis that maverick gave me ease of use for configuration (faster time from idea-to-implementation) plus choice of templates. And the website is prettier.
h.
http://mav.sourceforge.net/
.NET
is a great MVC - *without* the hideousity of Struts et al. Simple, clean, easy - and you can even use velocity templates. It's even been ported to PHP *and*
h.
Siggy played guitar, jammin' good with Weird and Gilly
or more important their language.
Do you know that you're saying? They'll *never* post on slashdot. Or, worse, become grammar-facists.
h.
this sig for sale or rent
It seems to me like there's "version control" for file-versioning (VMS - which would be great for automatic rollover of log-files) and there's version control for the big projects - a couple hundred+ branches, checkpoints, merge-control (merge control in Clear Case seems less than optional - particularly for the people forced to do it), parallel lines of development etc etc. Then on top of that, you've got distributed working, product release etc etc. Pushing that stuff down to the filesystem is definitely a Big Target and, quite probably, only *half* the job. Managing the complexity is, imo, the other half of Version Control.
I'm thinking, it would be nice if the hooks were in there for the larger legacy Source Code Control Systems. For example, something which would allow Webdav to interact at an API level with this funky file system.
h.
The wellcome trust:
"The Wellcome Trust is an independent research-funding charity that aims to improve human and animal health."
I guess that counts as private. But the "totally" is overstated...doh!
h.
I was sorely tempted. But this is my Mother's machine we're talkng about here. Maybe when Suse goes thru another couple of generations, I'll feel happy about reccomending Linux to everyone.
h.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9944
'Two years ago, Ballmer and Co. told Wired that "Linux was going down" and cited "lack of key enterprise elements" and " lack of system management software". I guess that if reality doesn't fit your predictions, you have to change reality to fit your prophecy.'
So the prospect now remains that if you're a company which produces any kind of cross-platform package which even remotely tries to get into the datacenter, you're sunk. Completely. You have no chance of survival whilst the current crew are in opeation.
h.
I'd say that this has a lot to do with with keeping Linux *out* of the *data center*. One less enterprise competitor for M$ to worry about. I don't think that this has much
Of course, if you're smart, you would have outsourced this function ages ago.
h.
At odds with the "innovation" line that gates kept peddling in the Anti-trust trials wouldn't you say?
What made them billionaires is the fact that they're a monopoly, in spite of being found *in fact* at odds with the law.
As to the "faster, fewer bugs". Yeah, right. My cynicism meter just blew off the wall.
h.
Of course, the Sun is owned by Murdoch who owns - wait for it - Fox. Now that the FCC regs have been relaxed, watch out for the US version of the Sun.
I've seen the Fox website and it's pretty much in line with what the sun is doing (modulo the semi-naked women). So I guess Murdochs MO is to drive up sales by harping on nationalist feelings. In the UK, this can get pretty extreme so I'd say he's playing with fire here.
Clearchannel were running pro-war rallies during Gulf II. I expect more of these in the future.
What has this to do with Mars missions? These things tend to have a large slice of dick-waving involved just to pump up the budgets - in some cases, just to get the budget in the first place.
Notice that the Beagle II - part of the Mars Express mission - is totally privately funded. Blur [1] and Damien Hirst [2] were involved and they helped to raise funds. Is there an equivalent on the US missions?
h.
[1] A popular modern upbeat combo, apparently
[2] A purveyor of dead sharks and multi-coloured spots in a post-modernist manner.
"easier to use and install"
I've just upgraded a 98 machine to XP and a 2000 box to co-exist with Suse. Guess which has caused me the most difficulty? The XP upgrade.
Even though I followed the mantras and the CDs, the XP upgrade still managed to screw me over. I was left with a 98 installation and a XP installation trying to co-exist in some wierd way. Needless to say, things did not work as adverised. Now the XP box will have to it's hard-disk wiped and re-installed from scratch.
I'm still seething.
I expect better from the richest, bestest, greatest company on earth. Don't you?
h.