Imagine if OO had the feel and usability of Picasa. *THAT* would be a killer app. I know that Google bought it, but Google's apps all have that kind of look and feel - from Google Talk to the toolbar and Hello. It's all very friendly and modern feeling.
I never get the.0 release of anything... And I've been wanting to try out Postgres anyway...
What's the purpose of posting something like this? I am not trolling, I'm just curious why everytime there's a MySQL thread, someone has to chime in about why they won't use it and why Postgres is better. What is the motivation to visit a thread solely to post something negative. Seriously, what is wrong with internet culture?
So I'm not completely off topic, I read the feature list, and this thing looks fantastic. Views, triggers, sp's, a new data type, BIT, for storing Booleans, which MSSQL has and is AWESOME. You may not want to try it, but some of us are excited to get our hands in it and have been waiting for the first "blessed" release!
don't you think they will change their username format to something else half an hour after you implement this regex?
Yes, but they'll have to contend with the captcha system, which is far more difficult. The name pattern is just to id the initial set to review, not a permanent thing.
And hand filtering thousands of blogs which are created automatically does not seem feasible...
Bah. Google has plenty of cash. They could hire temps to do it and knock it out in a few days.
Anyone else notice that every username in the video is [letters]-[numbers].blogspot.com.
Maybe start by disabling new blogs. Flag all usernames that meet that basic regex criteria. Hand filter that bunch. Add the same captcha you have on your comment system to the posting system. Re-enable registration.
Seems kind of elementary, doesn't it? Why not try it?
The present invention simplifies the data modeling process and enables its full dynamic versioning by employing a non-hierarchical non-integrated structure to the organization of information.
Uh... is it just me, or is XML ENTIRELY hierarchical?? In fact, it won't validate if you don't have elements nested properly. How can they even be serious?
To save everyone the time and trouble, let's cover it here:
* PHP sucks. * PHP is for n00bs. * PHP is usually poorly written. * PHP is a scripting language and you can't do anything but write web pages with it. * PHP sucks because the function names are inconsistent. * PHP is slow. * PHP isn't capable of working in a real enterprise. * Real coders use Perl. * PHP doesn't scale.
1. Hotmail does not throw out mail after 30 days. I've got mail from 1999 in my inbox still with no default change I recall making.
2. Do some research, all sent items are saved in the new Hotmail. Yahoo used to be the same way.
I hate when anti-Microsoft zealots let loose without any regard to what makes sense. Some 200 million Hotmail accounts. If one in 10 is active, that's still 20 million users. They don't have a compelling need to switch. The new hotmail looks AWESOME. It's been three years since I've used mine, but right now, I'd be kind of excited to try it. I've been using Gmail since April 04, and this - like Yahoo's new client - looks like it raises the bar. If you get over your hatred of Microsoft, maybe you'd see that.
Ubuntu, which is spelled with a "u," not an "a" is pronounced "oo-BOON-too." [source]
SUSE is not "confusing," but it is German. It's typically pronounced "Soo-sah," or "Soo-zah" depending on your dialect, but is often massacred by those who think that proper names are subject to the rules of their own language. Either way, it is most definitely NOT "Sooz" or "Susie." [source]
Bonus inflammatory opinion: Debian is about to become the dog wagged by the Ubuntu tail. They're looking more and more like the pre-Linux GNU Project.
3 to 1 odds that you get modded flamebait for that. However, it really deserves an insightful, if anything, because I truly believe, FWIW, that Ubuntu is really what Debian should be. Red Hat may be right that we will not see a massive fold in of distros, but we likely are going to see more and more distros building on Ubuntu instead of Debian, because Debian is just dog slow. Ubuntu is exciting.
What Red Hat ought to worry about isn't SUSE, but rather somebody who comes along, takes Ubuntu, tags on support, precompiles it with plugins, extensions, some valuie-added management tools, and takes it to the server. It WILL happen, it's just a matter of whether they have the means and polish to make it worthwhile.
Everyone has converged to the Red Hat family, the Debian/Ubuntu family, SuSe, Mandrake and Gentoo.
Although Debian and Ubuntu are kind of two separate codebases now. Oh yeah, and can't forget Slackware. And of course, the source based distros. And Crux and Arch, they each have some unique stuff. Plus, Xandros is kind of its own thing now, based on Corel. Yeah, some things are based on, say, Knoppix, which is an offshoot from Debian, but I don't see how that is the "same" once they are binary incompatible.
That makes almost 10 trees from which to branch. How is that converging?
All great empires eventually crumble. Look at England, once the center of the civilized world. It just takes time. It's going to happen with Microsoft, just as it will one day happen with the United States.
Outlook is fantastic for an organization that uses Exchange. Many MANY others use Outlook Express, which is already present in Windows. They also have Thunderbird, The Bat!, a million other email programs, webmail, and soon, Evolution. The only reason you believe an email program SHOULD BE bundled with productivity apps (which it rarely is, case in point, Apple and iWork/Mail.app) is because MSOffice has always bundled these mostly unrelated functions together. I use gmail. Why would I need an email app mashed into my office suite??
Those who use StarOffice on Windows have Outlook Express already. Those who use it on other platforms don't have Outlook to be replaced anyway.
I am going to tell you something: MS Office WILL fall. So will Windows. History tells us it will happen. The only questions are when and how.
It's a safe bet that "when" is not anytime in the near future, so "several" to "many" years soonest. So is StarOffice 8 an MSOffice killer? No. And Sun knows that. So on to the "how."
What they hope to do is get into just a few businesses. Openoffice.org for the home, StarOffice at work. They will get better at compatibility. They will get the name out there. Empires don't topple in a millisecond. It takes chinks in the armor. Google is a chink. Firefox is a chink. AIM is a chink. Linux is a chink. And StarOffice wants to be one too. None of them was a threat 5 years ago. Now they are all forces to be reckoned with. Anyone trivializing the role of StarOffice needs only think back a few years ago and remember what these other things were then.
- Mozilla mostly sucked; there was no Firefox. - Google was the best search engine, but was definitely not the main one: Yahoo, Hotbot, and Alta Vista ruled. - AIM - actually, all of IM - was barely used. Only ICQ was really established. - Linux was still 2.2 and was pretty much unusable by non-techies.
StarOffice 8 may not be the nail in the coffin, but it IS significant. It's the first useable drop in replacement with commercial backing. And in a few years, we'll see where it's at. If that's not news, I don't know what is.
Umm....aside from the fact that it's Excel, not Excell, it doesn't "help to run programs," it IS a program. See, this is article is PART of the problem, and at the same time, proof it's right!
Look, buddy, I hate to be cavalier about it, because I totally empathize. I let a domain expire about 2 years ago, and was lucky enough to be able to renew it. But honestly, it's your fault, just as it was mine then. It's really not much different than getting your car towed: had you remembered to put change in the meter, you'd be fine, but since you didn't you now have to pay a REALLY exhorbitant amount to get your car back.
Since my episode, I switched to godaddy.com (I am not affiliated, just a happy customer). Godaddy emails me at 90, 60, 30, 15, 10, and 5 days until expiration, and even has an auto-renew option so my domains renew themselves.
Also, remember that MANY sites change their default php file extension to.html.
I would also point out that Apache runs on FAR more servers than IIS. Also, many sites funnel through a single page (like say, um... Slashdot? How many pages are served through comments.pl or article.pl? They count as two pages, but serve up 750,000 pages a day) So what type of measure is that?
ASP is more likely to be used in a business, where they tend to use individual pages for everything for search engine optimization, whereas personal sites and blogging tools that use PHP tend to funnel through a central page for dynamic content.
I don't feel like having to run Hello and Google Talk.
Um... you don't have to run them both. You can just ignore Google Talk, and probably no one will notice. It may end up being another tool for the geeks that no one else notices.
Yeah, Gail logs my chats too. Unforutnately, it logs my home chats on my home PC, my work chats on my work PC, and when I use a laptop, on my laptop. Gmail works anywhere, anytime.
So a client that pulled ALL its settings and logs from the server would be awesome.
Okay, some time ago, Gmail changed form using your "Gmail account" to using your "Google account," so it's a safe bet us gmail'ers already have our Google IM id. However, how cool would it be if you could "save your chat history" or even a specific conversation to a "GIM Chats" label in your Gmail account, which you can then access and search like any other gmail "conversation?
The potential to integrate your IM conversations into a web based store has NOT been investigated, despite Yahoo and MSN both seemingly having the capability to do so.
It would seem logging and storing ALL IM chats would likely be a waste of disk space as most of it is generally disposable, but I've had several chats I would like to refer back to with important URLs and phone numbers, etc.
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Imagine if OO had the feel and usability of Picasa. *THAT* would be a killer app. I know that Google bought it, but Google's apps all have that kind of look and feel - from Google Talk to the toolbar and Hello. It's all very friendly and modern feeling.
But, like I said, I'm waiting until maybe 5.0.3 or so
RTFA. This release is 5.0.15. It's been 5.x for a bit, but they only deemed this one "production ready." Still feel the same?
I never get the .0 release of anything ... And I've been wanting to try out Postgres anyway...
What's the purpose of posting something like this? I am not trolling, I'm just curious why everytime there's a MySQL thread, someone has to chime in about why they won't use it and why Postgres is better. What is the motivation to visit a thread solely to post something negative. Seriously, what is wrong with internet culture?
So I'm not completely off topic, I read the feature list, and this thing looks fantastic. Views, triggers, sp's, a new data type, BIT, for storing Booleans, which MSSQL has and is AWESOME. You may not want to try it, but some of us are excited to get our hands in it and have been waiting for the first "blessed" release!
don't you think they will change their username format to something else half an hour after you implement this regex?
Yes, but they'll have to contend with the captcha system, which is far more difficult. The name pattern is just to id the initial set to review, not a permanent thing.
And hand filtering thousands of blogs which are created automatically does not seem feasible...
Bah. Google has plenty of cash. They could hire temps to do it and knock it out in a few days.
selling something that people might find usefull.
Like maybe Hooked on Phonics?
Anyone else notice that every username in the video is [letters]-[numbers].blogspot.com.
Maybe start by disabling new blogs.
Flag all usernames that meet that basic regex criteria.
Hand filter that bunch.
Add the same captcha you have on your comment system to the posting system.
Re-enable registration.
Seems kind of elementary, doesn't it? Why not try it?
Let's review the patenet, line 1:
The present invention simplifies the data modeling process and enables its full dynamic versioning by employing a non-hierarchical non-integrated structure to the organization of information.
Uh... is it just me, or is XML ENTIRELY hierarchical?? In fact, it won't validate if you don't have elements nested properly. How can they even be serious?
It's supposed to be a "CLICHE" elitist reply. I maintain a CMS written in PHP. All of is is sarcastic.
To save everyone the time and trouble, let's cover it here:
* PHP sucks.
* PHP is for n00bs.
* PHP is usually poorly written.
* PHP is a scripting language and you can't do anything but write web pages with it.
* PHP sucks because the function names are inconsistent.
* PHP is slow.
* PHP isn't capable of working in a real enterprise.
* Real coders use Perl.
* PHP doesn't scale.
Does that about cover it?
that's what they are doing. too little too late? you decide.
1. Hotmail does not throw out mail after 30 days. I've got mail from 1999 in my inbox still with no default change I recall making.
2. Do some research, all sent items are saved in the new Hotmail. Yahoo used to be the same way.
I hate when anti-Microsoft zealots let loose without any regard to what makes sense. Some 200 million Hotmail accounts. If one in 10 is active, that's still 20 million users. They don't have a compelling need to switch. The new hotmail looks AWESOME. It's been three years since I've used mine, but right now, I'd be kind of excited to try it. I've been using Gmail since April 04, and this - like Yahoo's new client - looks like it raises the bar. If you get over your hatred of Microsoft, maybe you'd see that.
Let's see here:
Ubuntu, which is spelled with a "u," not an "a" is pronounced "oo-BOON-too." [source]
SUSE is not "confusing," but it is German. It's typically pronounced "Soo-sah," or "Soo-zah" depending on your dialect, but is often massacred by those who think that proper names are subject to the rules of their own language. Either way, it is most definitely NOT "Sooz" or "Susie." [source]
Bonus inflammatory opinion: Debian is about to become the dog wagged by the Ubuntu tail. They're looking more and more like the pre-Linux GNU Project.
3 to 1 odds that you get modded flamebait for that. However, it really deserves an insightful, if anything, because I truly believe, FWIW, that Ubuntu is really what Debian should be. Red Hat may be right that we will not see a massive fold in of distros, but we likely are going to see more and more distros building on Ubuntu instead of Debian, because Debian is just dog slow. Ubuntu is exciting.
What Red Hat ought to worry about isn't SUSE, but rather somebody who comes along, takes Ubuntu, tags on support, precompiles it with plugins, extensions, some valuie-added management tools, and takes it to the server. It WILL happen, it's just a matter of whether they have the means and polish to make it worthwhile.
Everyone has converged to the Red Hat family, the Debian/Ubuntu family, SuSe, Mandrake and Gentoo.
Although Debian and Ubuntu are kind of two separate codebases now. Oh yeah, and can't forget Slackware. And of course, the source based distros. And Crux and Arch, they each have some unique stuff. Plus, Xandros is kind of its own thing now, based on Corel. Yeah, some things are based on, say, Knoppix, which is an offshoot from Debian, but I don't see how that is the "same" once they are binary incompatible.
That makes almost 10 trees from which to branch. How is that converging?
The [sic] even have href="mailto:contact@flock.com" right on their index page.
...or maybe they just run SpamAssassin or Boxtrapper?
Totally clueless losers.
Notice that http://calendar.google.com/ resolves. It's directed to the main page, but it works.
Google doesn't do wildcard DNS. Note that this returns NXDOMAIN: http://ewyurfg238r7b34r.google.com/
So they have added calendar.google.com to their nameservers. Anyone have any theories?
Okay, Mr. Pierce. Here you go:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Roman_Em
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedon#Decline
All great empires eventually crumble. Look at England, once the center of the civilized world. It just takes time. It's going to happen with Microsoft, just as it will one day happen with the United States.
Mod parent overrated. This is naive, at best.
Outlook is fantastic for an organization that uses Exchange. Many MANY others use Outlook Express, which is already present in Windows. They also have Thunderbird, The Bat!, a million other email programs, webmail, and soon, Evolution. The only reason you believe an email program SHOULD BE bundled with productivity apps (which it rarely is, case in point, Apple and iWork/Mail.app) is because MSOffice has always bundled these mostly unrelated functions together. I use gmail. Why would I need an email app mashed into my office suite??
Those who use StarOffice on Windows have Outlook Express already. Those who use it on other platforms don't have Outlook to be replaced anyway.
I am going to tell you something: MS Office WILL fall. So will Windows. History tells us it will happen. The only questions are when and how.
It's a safe bet that "when" is not anytime in the near future, so "several" to "many" years soonest. So is StarOffice 8 an MSOffice killer? No. And Sun knows that. So on to the "how."
What they hope to do is get into just a few businesses. Openoffice.org for the home, StarOffice at work. They will get better at compatibility. They will get the name out there. Empires don't topple in a millisecond. It takes chinks in the armor. Google is a chink. Firefox is a chink. AIM is a chink. Linux is a chink. And StarOffice wants to be one too. None of them was a threat 5 years ago. Now they are all forces to be reckoned with. Anyone trivializing the role of StarOffice needs only think back a few years ago and remember what these other things were then.
- Mozilla mostly sucked; there was no Firefox.
- Google was the best search engine, but was definitely not the main one: Yahoo, Hotbot, and Alta Vista ruled.
- AIM - actually, all of IM - was barely used. Only ICQ was really established.
- Linux was still 2.2 and was pretty much unusable by non-techies.
StarOffice 8 may not be the nail in the coffin, but it IS significant. It's the first useable drop in replacement with commercial backing. And in a few years, we'll see where it's at. If that's not news, I don't know what is.
Excell - this helps to run programs on your PC.
Umm....aside from the fact that it's Excel, not Excell, it doesn't "help to run programs," it IS a program. See, this is article is PART of the problem, and at the same time, proof it's right!
Look, buddy, I hate to be cavalier about it, because I totally empathize. I let a domain expire about 2 years ago, and was lucky enough to be able to renew it. But honestly, it's your fault, just as it was mine then. It's really not much different than getting your car towed: had you remembered to put change in the meter, you'd be fine, but since you didn't you now have to pay a REALLY exhorbitant amount to get your car back.
Since my episode, I switched to godaddy.com (I am not affiliated, just a happy customer). Godaddy emails me at 90, 60, 30, 15, 10, and 5 days until expiration, and even has an auto-renew option so my domains renew themselves.
Definitely check them out.
um...how about a source for that?
.html.
Also, remember that MANY sites change their default php file extension to
I would also point out that Apache runs on FAR more servers than IIS. Also, many sites funnel through a single page (like say, um... Slashdot? How many pages are served through comments.pl or article.pl? They count as two pages, but serve up 750,000 pages a day) So what type of measure is that?
ASP is more likely to be used in a business, where they tend to use individual pages for everything for search engine optimization, whereas personal sites and blogging tools that use PHP tend to funnel through a central page for dynamic content.
I don't feel like having to run Hello and Google Talk.
Um... you don't have to run them both. You can just ignore Google Talk, and probably no one will notice. It may end up being another tool for the geeks that no one else notices.
Yeah, Gail logs my chats too. Unforutnately, it logs my home chats on my home PC, my work chats on my work PC, and when I use a laptop, on my laptop. Gmail works anywhere, anytime.
So a client that pulled ALL its settings and logs from the server would be awesome.
Okay, some time ago, Gmail changed form using your "Gmail account" to using your "Google account," so it's a safe bet us gmail'ers already have our Google IM id. However, how cool would it be if you could "save your chat history" or even a specific conversation to a "GIM Chats" label in your Gmail account, which you can then access and search like any other gmail "conversation?
The potential to integrate your IM conversations into a web based store has NOT been investigated, despite Yahoo and MSN both seemingly having the capability to do so.
It would seem logging and storing ALL IM chats would likely be a waste of disk space as most of it is generally disposable, but I've had several chats I would like to refer back to with important URLs and phone numbers, etc.