Okay, I expect all those people complaining about the "open source must be considered" laws to start complaining about this "nothing but Windows is allowed to be considered" administrative policy.
Ah, you're right. However, I think an editor that knows the language and can assist with variable typing is a better solution than hand-crafted name mangling.
So port it. It'll be written using QT, which works on Windows. The software is GPL, so you'll have the source. The protocols will be open, so you can even write a new Windows client from scratch. Maybe some enterprising developer will just write a COM object to talk to the server, and people can write their own GUIs that use that.
I think some of the ST:TNG shows with the holodeck and time-travel plots were fun (e.g., when Mark Twain was a character on the show). I like them for the same reason I like the "Q" episodes. YMMV, I suppose.
Andre M. Boisvert to Join VA Software's Board of Directors
FREMONT, Calif. -- March 20, 2002 -- VA Software Corporation (Nasdaq:LNUX), provider of the Source Forge(TM) collaborative software development platform, today announced that Andre M. Boisvert, former President of SAS Institute Inc. and software industry veteran, has joined the VA Software Board of Directors. [after being fired from everywhere else]
Novell had no control over network hardware vendors, but, lo, they were shipping IPX-capable hardware. AT&T even tried to set up an IPX "internet".
Microsoft will pitch "trusted network computing" to CEOs and ot her executive types, who will tell their IT departments to implement it. Microsoft will simultaneously run marketing campaigns in the press. Vendors, always ready to toady to Microsoft for the quick buck, will start producing MS-TCP capable hardware. Executives are, largely, suckers. Version 1 will piggyback on regular IP. At this point, it's already incompatible with non-palladium, non-windows systems. Step two is to piggyback it on the "more secure, trusted Microsoft network protocol," whatever their replacement for Internet Protocol will be called. Version two may not make it into, or survive in, the market, but they will try. They did it to Kerberos.
Exactly. Palladium is not a "virus prevention and personal security" system. It is a consumer control system, and Microsoft's future tool for replacing open, commodity protocols and data formats with Microsoft-centric, and probably closed, data format sand protocols. Microsoft hates the internet in its current form, and has been trying to close it off for the past decade. Predictions: Microsoft will be releasing MS-TCP to compete with ipv6 and ipsec; MS-TCP will be palladium-based.
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Okay, I expect all those people complaining about the "open source must be considered" laws to start complaining about this "nothing but Windows is allowed to be considered" administrative policy.
Go ahead. I'm waiting.
That sounds cool. It would be nice to have the ability to do an "exec spname," just for compatibility.
So, the definition of the returnes rows has to match an existing table, or can it be arbitary?
I'm still running 7.2.x. Can you give me an example of returning a rowset?
As for stored procedures, it has support for this also.
Really? As in, functions that return recordsets, rather than a single value? Point me to some documentation...
It would be nice if PostGres would support altering live tables (add/remove/modify columns), and stored procedures.
Ah, you're right. However, I think an editor that knows the language and can assist with variable typing is a better solution than hand-crafted name mangling.
Variant... VB. I suppose a ugly variable names are only fitting for an ugly language.
How do I use these named streams for a directory? To re-use your example, can I:
$ cat $HOME/owner
and get my username? Or will it be looking for a file named "owner" in $HOME?
There is absolutely no reason to trust either Microsoft or the Government, or the pair of them working together.
So port it. It'll be written using QT, which works on Windows. The software is GPL, so you'll have the source. The protocols will be open, so you can even write a new Windows client from scratch. Maybe some enterprising developer will just write a COM object to talk to the server, and people can write their own GUIs that use that.
I think some of the ST:TNG shows with the holodeck and time-travel plots were fun (e.g., when Mark Twain was a character on the show). I like them for the same reason I like the "Q" episodes. YMMV, I suppose.
Press Release
Andre M. Boisvert to Join VA Software's Board of Directors
FREMONT, Calif. -- March 20, 2002 -- VA Software Corporation (Nasdaq:LNUX), provider of the Source Forge(TM) collaborative software development platform, today announced that Andre M. Boisvert, former President of SAS Institute Inc. and software industry veteran, has joined the VA Software Board of Directors. [after being fired from everywhere else]
Will it compile with the Intel compiler on Linux? For better performance...?
Won't they get sued over that?
Or not, as it turns out.
I'm not sure why the LGPL presents a problem for the Mozilla project, other than it not conforming to their tri-license policy.
IE! Ooo... it's sooo cross-platform...
For some stupid reason, that chat client requires SVG support. What if I don't want the steenking whiteboard?
Novell had no control over network hardware vendors, but, lo, they were shipping IPX-capable hardware. AT&T even tried to set up an IPX "internet".
Microsoft will pitch "trusted network computing" to CEOs and ot her executive types, who will tell their IT departments to implement it. Microsoft will simultaneously run marketing campaigns in the press. Vendors, always ready to toady to Microsoft for the quick buck, will start producing MS-TCP capable hardware. Executives are, largely, suckers. Version 1 will piggyback on regular IP. At this point, it's already incompatible with non-palladium, non-windows systems. Step two is to piggyback it on the "more secure, trusted Microsoft network protocol," whatever their replacement for Internet Protocol will be called. Version two may not make it into, or survive in, the market, but they will try. They did it to Kerberos.
Exactly. Palladium is not a "virus prevention and personal security" system. It is a consumer control system, and Microsoft's future tool for replacing open, commodity protocols and data formats with Microsoft-centric, and probably closed, data format sand protocols. Microsoft hates the internet in its current form, and has been trying to close it off for the past decade. Predictions: Microsoft will be releasing MS-TCP to compete with ipv6 and ipsec; MS-TCP will be palladium-based.
Are you willing to violate laws to run Linux?
Yes.
it [is] subsidized, not free.
This is always true.
That all sounds very reasonable. I went through a similar thing at a previous company.
This guy sounds like he's working for nutjobs, though. His boss sounds like the Ross Perot in the SNL skits -- "I'm a powerful man!"
You've not been reading the business section recently, I take it.