You may want to check out FreeBSD's style(9) manual page. FreeBSD uses this in the kernel, and reading most kernel sources usually isn't a problem for me.
We learn Oracle quite extensively at school. I have found that PostgreSQL resembles Oracle far better than MySQL did.
As for anything, to learn is to do... therefore, I recommend you get both PostgreSQL and Oracle from the websites. Oracle is freely available for educational purposes, and PostgreSQL is free anyway.
Besides, PostgreSQL has a very good SQL reference, which also lists what is and what is not ANSI SQL (boy, it came as a great surprise to me that LIMIT is *not* ANSI SQL!)
Anyway, I recommend you get both of these database systems, find some tutorials here and possibly using Google, and learn by experimenting... that usually is the best way.
Geez, I can't believe this. This "DoS" is just a stupid programming bug. Let Lotus be ashamed of themselves, and NOT let perfectly good anti-spam sites pay for their own stupidity...
If this continues, I fear we'd really have a problem. Suppose Microsoft DoS #1749 pops up, which happends to be triggered when someone appends a / to a file request... would then all search engines be sued because their spiders come up with faulty links in pages?
C'mon Lotus, you should kick your programmers and *NOT* ORBZ!
I visited a semi-large company a few days ago, and they named all of their servers after animals. Seeing that we have a zillion of species, I think they may be a nice idea:)
I wonder if this is really a bad thing... when we look at the big bad Microsoft, it's amazing how much copies they sold of Office, especially when you look at their price.
If some Linux distributions started shipping with the full version of StarOffice (official of course, including books etc), I think people won't really care about this move. I mean, even $50 for a fully-fledged Office suite isn't much, is it?
The true 'geek' users among us (you know who you are) can then in turn use OpenOffice, which is probably less foolproof than StarOffice will be.
So, the bottomline is, do we really lose anything? If you want the top of the notch, just pay those $50... but if you will settle for the same without very fancy booklets and such, OpenOffice will be good, and it's free...
Whoa, this is the first time I've ever heard of Bitkeeper... I do use a lot of open-source software, and this is the first time the name Bitkeeper came up...
Is it just me or does it look like they want to show once again that Linux is different from all other projects?
I mean Linus is still in charge of Linux... and now, he uses some exotic software program which now suddently everyone hears of. I wish my company made that program, that'd get me some licenses!:)
Humm... aren't they a bit late?
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Sounds neato to me, but since Dual XP's and such are also starting to get very acceptable pricing around now...
Sure, 64 bit is nice... but a good multiprocessor solution might do wonders too.
Then again, I may be missing the point.. but if a company can get a Dual XP or Dual P4 for less, they would probably go for that... Oracle and such is probably already optimized for such configurations... and since XP's and P4's have a good reputation (eg reliable), it might give them more confidence.
Somehow, I just don't think this would be such a big profit hit for them.
If you don't release the specs, people will reverse engineer it anyway... so why not do the world a favour and release them straight away.
Besides, this will most likely show the company developers itself some neat tricks they never thought of... and it will make their console sell much better:)
So, nothing to lose, but a lot to gain... If I see those consoles in the shop, reasonably-priced, I might even get one myself now:)
I'll probably get flamed for this, but myself, I just don't _have_ $30 to order a WinZip license. I'm just a college student, remember?
I know from my own experience it's good to receive money for your software. But I think it's a much better idea to give people a definate push to buy your products.
For example, good service can give me a definate push to get a product. For example, I hope to get a MySQL license in a few years. Why? For one, because I want to support their work, and two, because you appear to get an excellent support contract with it. That would make the $200 worth it.
Finally, I think some software is very overpriced... (do I hear Microsoft somewhere?:D). OK, Microsoft isn't exactly what you'd call Shareware, but I'm not going to pay $40 for a HTML editor with syntax highlighting!
I wonder, will this key-counting thing be open source? I wouldn't trust it if it weren't opensource... it might count more than just keystrokes. We all know how popular spyware is there days.
If the author is serious about this, he would make the program open-source... just my.02
Despite all those annoying trolls who claim *BSD is dead, I say it lives. I've used FreeBSD since 2.1.6 and it's so good to see all the progress, in my favourite OS.
Even if we have a release date that is in the not-so-distant future, I'd prefer to see quality instead of quantity.
I'd prefer a stable OS instead of something that has releases every few weeks to fix bugs... and I think a lot of users will agree with me on that. This is one of the reasons why FreeBSD is used much on servers: for it's stability.
On the sidenote, why not give FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT a try, if you're dying to see what it looks like? It won't hurt you (much), apart from some possible problems. But why not contact the developers when your box, say, gives some core dumps? It's with our support that this product is made! We don't pay for it, so don't whine!
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You may want to check out FreeBSD's style(9) manual page. FreeBSD uses this in the kernel, and reading most kernel sources usually isn't a problem for me.
Has Intel forgotten about the *BSD family, or do they just force us to use Linux 'emulation' ?
...pay the bill for the new beer!
Best of all, this isn't even an April Fools Joke! Finally something serious again :)
We learn Oracle quite extensively at school. I have found that PostgreSQL resembles Oracle far better than MySQL did.
As for anything, to learn is to do... therefore, I recommend you get both PostgreSQL and Oracle from the websites. Oracle is freely available for educational purposes, and PostgreSQL is free anyway.
Besides, PostgreSQL has a very good SQL reference, which also lists what is and what is not ANSI SQL (boy, it came as a great surprise to me that LIMIT is *not* ANSI SQL!)
Anyway, I recommend you get both of these database systems, find some tutorials here and possibly using Google, and learn by experimenting... that usually is the best way.
Good luck!
Geez, I can't believe this. This "DoS" is just a stupid programming bug. Let Lotus be ashamed of themselves, and NOT let perfectly good anti-spam sites pay for their own stupidity...
If this continues, I fear we'd really have a problem. Suppose Microsoft DoS #1749 pops up, which happends to be triggered when someone appends a / to a file request... would then all search engines be sued because their spiders come up with faulty links in pages?
C'mon Lotus, you should kick your programmers and *NOT* ORBZ!
Actually, FreeBSD (which uses UFS) has ACL's in 5.0-CURRENT... so they *are* supported, in a way...
I visited a semi-large company a few days ago, and they named all of their servers after animals. Seeing that we have a zillion of species, I think they may be a nice idea :)
I'll send a copy to Microsoft... let's hope they abide it :D
If you want to get Sierra Music, visit Quest Studios. They have music of about all Sierra games, some in MP3 and some in MIDI format.
I was thinking more about LaTeX :-)
I wonder if this is really a bad thing... when we look at the big bad Microsoft, it's amazing how much copies they sold of Office, especially when you look at their price.
If some Linux distributions started shipping with the full version of StarOffice (official of course, including books etc), I think people won't really care about this move. I mean, even $50 for a fully-fledged Office suite isn't much, is it?
The true 'geek' users among us (you know who you are) can then in turn use OpenOffice, which is probably less foolproof than StarOffice will be.
So, the bottomline is, do we really lose anything? If you want the top of the notch, just pay those $50... but if you will settle for the same without very fancy booklets and such, OpenOffice will be good, and it's free...
Uhrm... isn't OS X derived from FreeBSD? Or isn't this adressing OS X?
It has been slashdotted... there goes our chance for winning something (I bet world's best programmers read SlashDot)
Whoa, this is the first time I've ever heard of Bitkeeper... I do use a lot of open-source software, and this is the first time the name Bitkeeper came up...
:)
Is it just me or does it look like they want to show once again that Linux is different from all other projects?
I mean Linus is still in charge of Linux... and now, he uses some exotic software program which now suddently everyone hears of. I wish my company made that program, that'd get me some licenses!
Sounds neato to me, but since Dual XP's and such are also starting to get very acceptable pricing around now...
Sure, 64 bit is nice... but a good multiprocessor solution might do wonders too.
Then again, I may be missing the point.. but if a company can get a Dual XP or Dual P4 for less, they would probably go for that... Oracle and such is probably already optimized for such configurations... and since XP's and P4's have a good reputation (eg reliable), it might give them more confidence.
Somehow, I just don't think this would be such a big profit hit for them.
If you don't release the specs, people will reverse engineer it anyway... so why not do the world a favour and release them straight away. Besides, this will most likely show the company developers itself some neat tricks they never thought of... and it will make their console sell much better :)
So, nothing to lose, but a lot to gain... If I see those consoles in the shop, reasonably-priced, I might even get one myself now :)
I'll probably get flamed for this, but myself, I just don't _have_ $30 to order a WinZip license. I'm just a college student, remember? I know from my own experience it's good to receive money for your software. But I think it's a much better idea to give people a definate push to buy your products. For example, good service can give me a definate push to get a product. For example, I hope to get a MySQL license in a few years. Why? For one, because I want to support their work, and two, because you appear to get an excellent support contract with it. That would make the $200 worth it. Finally, I think some software is very overpriced... (do I hear Microsoft somewhere? :D). OK, Microsoft isn't exactly what you'd call Shareware, but I'm not going to pay $40 for a HTML editor with syntax highlighting!
Uhrm, you can just install Bash by going to /usr/ports/shells/bash and make install. Same goes for most other utilities.
But since I try to reboot about once in a month (due to upgrades), I won't see much of it :)
I wonder, will this key-counting thing be open source? I wouldn't trust it if it weren't opensource... it might count more than just keystrokes. We all know how popular spyware is there days. If the author is serious about this, he would make the program open-source... just my .02
Looks like Microsoft can't blame Java now for being insecure :)
Hi everyone,
Despite all those annoying trolls who claim *BSD is dead, I say it lives. I've used FreeBSD since 2.1.6 and it's so good to see all the progress, in my favourite OS.
Even if we have a release date that is in the not-so-distant future, I'd prefer to see quality instead of quantity.
I'd prefer a stable OS instead of something that has releases every few weeks to fix bugs... and I think a lot of users will agree with me on that. This is one of the reasons why FreeBSD is used much on servers: for it's stability.
On the sidenote, why not give FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT a try, if you're dying to see what it looks like? It won't hurt you (much), apart from some possible problems. But why not contact the developers when your box, say, gives some core dumps? It's with our support that this product is made! We don't pay for it, so don't whine!