I can get a white box Intel machine for about $300. The least expensive Mac is about $1200+. Do the math -- it's been this way since at least the P200 days.
Apple had a version of MacOS that ran on x86 way back in 1990. Then Apple CEO Scully, chose not to sell it due to fears of hurting Apple's hardware sales. Windoze 3.1 came out and the rest is history.
Rumors abound that there is an OS X port running on x86 hardware, mainly to keep Motorola/IBM honest.
Well, virgin boy, digital watches are an instant turn-off for women. When a woman asks a man for the time, she's really testing his sense of taste and classiness. A digital watch says to a woman, "Run, run far, far away from this dweeb."
The shoes that a man wears will also dictate how a woman feels about a man. Shiny black leather shoes, not patent leather, and a nice analog watch makes it clear to a woman that you have class.
A digital watch and basketball shoes or Doc Martens makes it clear to a woman that you are not dating material, unless you are a multi-mullionaire.
Almost all the modern technology we see in our homes, from televisions, microwave ovens, computers, etc., has its roots in military research. Even weather radar can trace its roots back to WWII radar.
Supposedly, M$ already has versions of M$ Office running on Linux. M$ does not sell it since this is merely insurance, much like Apple has had a version of the MacOS that runs on Intel CPUs since the late 80's/early 90's but they don't sell that either.
MySQL functions written in Java? Sure MySQL functions written in c/c++? Even better MySQL functions written in PHP? Cool. MySQL functions written in pl/sql or pg-pl/sql? Why not? Code compatibility with Oracle and Postgresql.
But Ruby? That would be for a target audience of what? Maybe 10 developers maximum?
If the Linux kernel people are smart they will patent this process. M$ will then have to license the Linux business methodology since the U.S. Patent Office does allow the patenting of business processes.
You can use VS5/6 to write Java code. The key point to remember is M$ stops at v1.1. What you do is use VS as the syntax checker/editor but you save your files on a Unix/Linux box and you use the Java compiler of your choice v1.3 or v1.4 on the Linux/Unix box to compile and create your class files, a Makefile will take care of this.
I use VS to edit c/c++ and Java code but all of the code is compiled on Unix/Linux boxes.
The GPL fanatics deeply amuse me. I've run into more than one GPL nut who just happened to be running unlicensed copies of Windoze and/or M$ Office and/or Visual Studio.
This seems to be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
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XML, when it comes to data and databases, is nothing more than a beefed-up alternative to CSV (comma separated values).
If BSD ain't dying yet, it will be under the weight of all this SCO litigation. The BSD-SCO lineage is alot easier to make than the SCO-Linux lineage. And a OS X-BSD-SCO lineage makes suing that much easier for SCO.
The biggest negative I have on Postgresql has to do with cursors and stored procedures (functions in Postgresql).
Sybase and Oracle do a wonderful job documenting and giving examples on creating stored procedures, cursors and calling them from embedded c or java. Postgresql is extremely weak in this regard. I can find tons of examples and samples of PHP to Oracle executing stored procedures and working of refcursors but the Postgresql equivalents are virtually non-existant.
I always hear the Postgresql fanatics tell about how full featured Postgresql is yet when I look at Sybase documentation, Sybase documentation is magnitudes superior. Almost all the Postgresql documentation seems to be assuming that you are running psql. For what I do, my access is via c/c++, php or visual basic, not psql. Plus, my end users wouldn't know what psql is even if it jumped up and bit them in the ass. All an end user knows is the user interface: either a web browser interface or a Windoze GUI.
What RedHat appears to be doing is creating multiple product lines. They've had that in the past but this move appears to be geared towards attracting conservative CIO types and IS managers. Free software has a way of scaring off managers, executives and management types. Charging a nominal fee is a way of saying to corporate types that the product is mature.
To alot of management types, free means there is something wrong with it. If you have to pay for it, it must be good otherwise it'd be free.
I have never seen digital photo quality that can match the color or vibrance of Kodachrome. For those truly special photos, Kodachrome 25 or 64 will always be #1.
Digital can replace ISO 100/200/400 color print (negative) film. However, I do not see digital replacing slower speed slide film (i.e. Kodachrome) or some of the slow speed B & W films, since those types of film give a certain recognizable quality that no Photoshop master could ever duplicate.
"...the author asks 'Are printer and network card drivers going to become, over time, a commodity with Win32 drivers one day the 'de-facto standard' run via wrappers?" "
There is nothing more irritating than printing from Linux. I don't mean a Windoze machine printing to a Linux server running Samba. I'm talking about a native Linux app printing directly to a color printer attached via USB, since that appears to be the new standard.
If a universal standard, i.e. Windoze printer drivers, can be used with Linux, the sooner the better. Native printing on Linux is a major weakness. Until this is addressed, most people will continue using M$ Windoze.
The voicemail computer is a 486DX100. Most of the workstations are Compaq P100 with 32 megs of RAM. My personal workstation is a P120 with a whopping 64 megs of RAM. The web server is a P120 running RH Linux 6.2.
for administering linux. As a quick solution for managing Sendmail, DNS, MySQL and Postgresql, it does the trick.
For more complex Postgresql and MySQL functions you still need to use other tools.
Sendmail and Bind are the big things I use Webmin for. Sendmail's configuration files are so convoluted that screwing it up is easy. Webmin eases configuring Sendmail.
Also, I like using Webmin to add multiple IP addresses (virtual) to a single server. It's alot quicker and cleaner than hand editing the network scripts and interfaces.
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What Novell's plans are with Linux? Since XFree86 v4+ does not work with my S3 968 chipset card, I say: "screw open source".
I can get a white box Intel machine for about $300. The least expensive Mac is about $1200+. Do the math -- it's been this way since at least the P200 days.
"Although Perl 5's expressions are the most sophisticated available..."no one pretends for a moment that they're anything but hideously ugly,""
Nothing new here...
Basically, writing a Linux driver for 2.6 is becoming more like writing a loadable module for Apache.
Apple had a version of MacOS that ran on x86 way back in 1990. Then Apple CEO Scully, chose not to sell it due to fears of hurting Apple's hardware sales. Windoze 3.1 came out and the rest is history.
Rumors abound that there is an OS X port running on x86 hardware, mainly to keep Motorola/IBM honest.
Well, virgin boy, digital watches are an instant turn-off for women. When a woman asks a man for the time, she's really testing his sense of taste and classiness. A digital watch says to a woman, "Run, run far, far away from this dweeb."
The shoes that a man wears will also dictate how a woman feels about a man. Shiny black leather shoes, not patent leather, and a nice analog watch makes it clear to a woman that you have class.
A digital watch and basketball shoes or Doc Martens makes it clear to a woman that you are not dating material, unless you are a multi-mullionaire.
response -- BSD is dying.
This is great news!!! ...for the six people who still use BSD.
Almost all the modern technology we see in our homes, from televisions, microwave ovens, computers, etc., has its roots in military research. Even weather radar can trace its roots back to WWII radar.
Nothing new here...move along.
I've heard about the M$ korn shell that lets you do all sorts of stuff without going into the GUI.
.NET runtime to work. It may even be something like running gwbasic from the DOS 3.31 days except much BIGGER.
My guess, it'll need the 14+ meg
Then again, Visual Basic's biggest flaw was requiring a GUI/forms for everying. At least Visual C++ let you create console apps.
I burn +R media (movies and data) in a new +/-R drive that reads perfectly fine in an older DVD player.
Now, if someone's got a really old player, I'd worry but the DVD player I bought is maybe 2 years old and it reads the +R format without a hitch.
Supposedly, M$ already has versions of M$ Office running on Linux. M$ does not sell it since this is merely insurance, much like Apple has had a version of the MacOS that runs on Intel CPUs since the late 80's/early 90's but they don't sell that either.
That's a joke, right?
MySQL functions written in Java? Sure
MySQL functions written in c/c++? Even better
MySQL functions written in PHP? Cool.
MySQL functions written in pl/sql or pg-pl/sql? Why not? Code compatibility with Oracle and Postgresql.
But Ruby? That would be for a target audience of what? Maybe 10 developers maximum?
If the Linux kernel people are smart they will patent this process. M$ will then have to license the Linux business methodology since the U.S. Patent Office does allow the patenting of business processes.
"...MIT can have a hard time finding work in IT these days, because they expect (and often deserver) high salaries..."
If you are from MIT, why would you "deserver" a higher salary?
You can use VS5/6 to write Java code. The key point to remember is M$ stops at v1.1. What you do is use VS as the syntax checker/editor but you save your files on a Unix/Linux box and you use the Java compiler of your choice v1.3 or v1.4 on the Linux/Unix box to compile and create your class files, a Makefile will take care of this.
I use VS to edit c/c++ and Java code but all of the code is compiled on Unix/Linux boxes.
The GPL fanatics deeply amuse me. I've run into more than one GPL nut who just happened to be running unlicensed copies of Windoze and/or M$ Office and/or Visual Studio.
This seems to be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
XML, when it comes to data and databases, is nothing more than a beefed-up alternative to CSV (comma separated values).
One more entity for SCO to sue.
If BSD ain't dying yet, it will be under the weight of all this SCO litigation. The BSD-SCO lineage is alot easier to make than the SCO-Linux lineage. And a OS X-BSD-SCO lineage makes suing that much easier for SCO.
R.I.P. BSD, your days are numbered...
The biggest negative I have on Postgresql has to do with cursors and stored procedures (functions in Postgresql).
Sybase and Oracle do a wonderful job documenting and giving examples on creating stored procedures, cursors and calling them from embedded c or java. Postgresql is extremely weak in this regard. I can find tons of examples and samples of PHP to Oracle executing stored procedures and working of refcursors but the Postgresql equivalents are virtually non-existant.
I always hear the Postgresql fanatics tell about how full featured Postgresql is yet when I look at Sybase documentation, Sybase documentation is magnitudes superior. Almost all the Postgresql documentation seems to be assuming that you are running psql. For what I do, my access is via c/c++, php or visual basic, not psql. Plus, my end users wouldn't know what psql is even if it jumped up and bit them in the ass. All an end user knows is the user interface: either a web browser interface or a Windoze GUI.
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sponsored by RedHat.
What RedHat appears to be doing is creating multiple product lines. They've had that in the past but this move appears to be geared towards attracting conservative CIO types and IS managers. Free software has a way of scaring off managers, executives and management types. Charging a nominal fee is a way of saying to corporate types that the product is mature.
To alot of management types, free means there is something wrong with it. If you have to pay for it, it must be good otherwise it'd be free.
I shoot digital.
I have never seen digital photo quality that can match the color or vibrance of Kodachrome. For those truly special photos, Kodachrome 25 or 64 will always be #1.
Digital can replace ISO 100/200/400 color print (negative) film. However, I do not see digital replacing slower speed slide film (i.e. Kodachrome) or some of the slow speed B & W films, since those types of film give a certain recognizable quality that no Photoshop master could ever duplicate.
"...the author asks 'Are printer and network card drivers going to become, over time, a commodity with Win32 drivers one day the 'de-facto standard' run via wrappers?" "
There is nothing more irritating than printing from Linux. I don't mean a Windoze machine printing to a Linux server running Samba. I'm talking about a native Linux app printing directly to a color printer attached via USB, since that appears to be the new standard.
If a universal standard, i.e. Windoze printer drivers, can be used with Linux, the sooner the better. Native printing on Linux is a major weakness. Until this is addressed, most people will continue using M$ Windoze.
The voicemail computer is a 486DX100.
Most of the workstations are Compaq P100 with 32 megs of RAM.
My personal workstation is a P120 with a whopping 64 megs of RAM.
The web server is a P120 running RH Linux 6.2.
for administering linux. As a quick solution for managing Sendmail, DNS, MySQL and Postgresql, it does the trick.
For more complex Postgresql and MySQL functions you still need to use other tools.
Sendmail and Bind are the big things I use Webmin for. Sendmail's configuration files are so convoluted that screwing it up is easy. Webmin eases configuring Sendmail.
Also, I like using Webmin to add multiple IP addresses (virtual) to a single server. It's alot quicker and cleaner than hand editing the network scripts and interfaces.