I had exactly the same experience just yesterday.
Except I also had to edit grub files.
Mandrake and Fedora are better, but still no sale.
I would give you a mod point if I had any.
My problem with Windows XP search is not the doggy thing - it is easy to turn off.
The problem is that search does not work - it is not intuitive, makes assumptions about file types, and most importantly it is DIFFERENT from Windows 2000 (MS best OS ever).
With Linux I am comfortable that all the tools work the way they are advertized.
..is how it can offer better hardware detection and often better features than other, "commercial" Linux distros?
Anyone has internal information on how Knoppix is developed and maintained?
It seems that Linux has reached the top of its current evolutionary model.
With the-year-of-Linux-desktop-that-never-comes and all these talks about kernel code showing age and becoming crafty there is a feeling that overall development under the current conditions cannot continue forever.
I mentioned this countless times before: I beleive that there will be new OS/environment emerging from someone's proverbial garage that will learn on Linux, use Linux device drivers and pick up the torch of the OSS community.
The attributes of such new OS would be: object oriented, built-in DRM and crypto/authentication, SCO-free;-), X-less GUI, less old-times Unix, etc.
I believe for Russian geeks "Windows XP" actually was meaningful - XP - hooi poimesh'.
It is like (loosely translated) "Windows: f.ck-you-if-you-understand-it".
I got a desk with two drawers. During the year I pile up the bills on the desk.
On the first of the month I pay all the bills and sort them into drawers: business in the left, personal in the right one.
Every year at the tax time I take two plastic garbage bags, empty drawers into them, mark them with a post-it indicating the year and throw them into the attic.
And the cycle starts anew.
Look up how much US aid goes to Egypt and other Arab friends.
Aid for Israel is mostly (like 60%) military aid.
That dollar turns right around and ends up back stateside in the pockets of Boeing, Grumman, etc.
If there is an Insightful Troll, look no further than the parent post.
>>How is this different from China?
India is a (troubled) democracy. The reason they shoot 1000 movies a year is because of primordial capitalist soup breeding there.
In China you would have just one, government-approved, red-flag-covered-boobies feature;-)
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Number one reason for plain password in Java deployment files is the database. These days, J2EE app _must_ use a connection pool so everything connects to the database using the same, faceless database account (app/app, prod/prod and so on).
To reduce complexity, the same db user is often the owner of the database schema so has unlimited power to mangle tables and data.
It is kind of ironic to have powerful db server the creators of which put together sofisticated securuty features and always see the database password naked, exposed in the.properties file in the war file or in the.xml definition of the connection descriptor.
JAAS would not help with the database access, right?
"Potter" is not really a childrens book the way other children's books are.
One of the reasons Potter books are so popular is that it is hard to find any other book for children that would deal with issues that exist in the real world but conviniently avoided by the mass literature,
such as social injustice, poverty, bullies, racial tension, etc.
The irony is that the book about wizards is actually more down to earth and more realistic than some other books.
When I was growing up, I had a teacher who looked like, dressed like and behaived like Dolores Umbridge. I was freaked out when I read the Order of Phoenix.
Re:With power comes complexity?
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sure, by transitivity -
with EJB comes power, with power comes complexity,...
Postgresql seems to be the ticket.
I have been doing Oracle work for 12 years and find Postgres easy to learn and quite powerful.
Certainly ref integrity, triggers and PL/SQL like stored procedures are all there.
I currently have 80GB PostgreSQL database as a backend for pretty busy websites and it holds well.
THIS is not a solution, just a proof of concept. I looked at the code and it is not even thread-safe.
The ability to write stored procedures in Java has been in Oracle for some time but I still cannot figure out why anyone would do that.
Java is a nice programming language. Go write web apps, middleware, network software, desktop apps with it but not stored procedures.
Is mySQL process going to start the whole new JVM on every hit? Or VM is going to run separately and it is bridged somehow (God, not over the network)?
Now if you ask me, even stored procedures in general become more and more evil.
And in our age of $50 2Ghz CPUs and Gigabit ehternet the performance is no longer an issue.
To me, a database is a collection of tables and indexes with referencial integrity, failover and redundancy. It should do just one thing and do it well. Attempts to add features like that seem to be just a marketing thing by their new commercial overlords.
Mod this up please (I have not seen mod points in months...)
Larry is a respected for putting together product and a company like no other. Microsoft does not count because many of their products (like SQL server) make it only because they piggyback on Windows monopoly.
Larry deserves a break and entitled to do any weird / ugly thing he did.
Always remember that.
The guy could be right, the guy could be wrong - that is completely irrelevant.
The percieved reality is:
the guy was in charge of network security
the third-party audit was performed (why? did they look for an excuse to dump him?)
Vulnerability was found
The guy was sacked.
That is all that matters. Waste your time - blame outsourcing, Republicans, little green men.
Get over it, fix the resume and get back into the game. American corp environment is completely free of common sense and logic.
since when "software guys working contract positions" is the sign of bad economy?
Contract jobs are more demanding, more challenging, higher paid and harder to find. Large number of people "graduating" to contract employment is the sign of good economy just like it was in 98-99.
As far as state of the economy, just look around. I remember finding easy mall parking last Xmas and one before. I remember 4 out of 5 my neighbours unemployed a year ago.
Has nothing to do with Bush (god bless his simple soul). Dogs ate all the dog food, wearable parts still keep breaking and warehouses are empty - it is back to work time, normal capitalist cycle.
IT industry took much bigger hit because of the built-in correction to jettison Waiter-Actor-Webmasters, junior people and community-colledge-MCSEs, that is all.
Yes, CVS is what I would use.
Especially with that Windows client, Tortoise(?), that is embedded into Windows Explorer so there is no ugly client to learn. Nice color coded folders and files: green - current, red - updated, ? - new.
Same here.
Hobbit at least is readable and enjoyable.
LOTR the book reminds me of some software apps I know: great plot and the idea but a lot of blot and pieces done by the contractors who did not care;-)
I liked the movies and looking forward to seeing ROTK this weekend.
So you got a bunch of MS core people who are _encouraged_ to look at the Linux kernel.
They got some really bright people there you know.
And what that bunch of bright hackers would want to do pretty soon? Contribute. Just like that Microsoft fellow from the original Haloween documents described - he had the urge to make changes, to improve the open-source code he looked at.
Even it they are prohibited from doing so (which I doubt - engineers and lawyers don't mix), the certain cross-contamination of the ideas is bound to happen.
This will lead to the whole bunch of interesting things - from super-SCO-sized legal battle to Longhorn Linux.
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Actually when he was in Texas, he was pretty active email user. But his lawyers suggested he stopped using email after moving to WH.
I had exactly the same experience just yesterday. Except I also had to edit grub files.
Mandrake and Fedora are better, but still no sale.
I would give you a mod point if I had any.
My problem with Windows XP search is not the doggy thing - it is easy to turn off.
The problem is that search does not work - it is not intuitive, makes assumptions about file types, and most importantly it is DIFFERENT from Windows 2000 (MS best OS ever).
With Linux I am comfortable that all the tools work the way they are advertized.
..is how it can offer better hardware detection and often better features than other, "commercial" Linux distros?
Anyone has internal information on how Knoppix is developed and maintained?
It seems that Linux has reached the top of its current evolutionary model. ;-), X-less GUI, less old-times Unix, etc.
With the-year-of-Linux-desktop-that-never-comes and all these talks about kernel code showing age and becoming crafty
there is a feeling that overall development under the current conditions cannot continue forever.
I mentioned this countless times before: I beleive that there will be new OS/environment emerging from someone's proverbial garage that will learn on Linux, use Linux device drivers and pick up the torch of the OSS community.
The attributes of such new OS would be: object oriented, built-in DRM and crypto/authentication, SCO-free
I believe for Russian geeks "Windows XP" actually was meaningful - XP - hooi poimesh'.
It is like (loosely translated) "Windows: f.ck-you-if-you-understand-it".
I got a desk with two drawers. During the year I pile up the bills on the desk.
On the first of the month I pay all the bills and sort them into drawers: business in the left, personal in the right one.
Every year at the tax time I take two plastic garbage bags, empty drawers into them, mark them with a post-it indicating the year and throw them into the attic.
And the cycle starts anew.
http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/fobo s_mystery_000630.html
The second one disappeared after recording mile-wide oval objects in space ;-)
Look up how much US aid goes to Egypt and other Arab friends.
Aid for Israel is mostly (like 60%) military aid. That dollar turns right around and ends up back stateside in the pockets of Boeing, Grumman, etc.
If there is an Insightful Troll, look no further than the parent post.
>>How is this different from China? ;-)
India is a (troubled) democracy. The reason they shoot 1000 movies a year is because of primordial capitalist soup breeding there.
In China you would have just one, government-approved, red-flag-covered-boobies feature
Number one reason for plain password in Java deployment files is the database. These days, J2EE app _must_ use a connection pool so everything connects to the database using the same, faceless database account (app/app, prod/prod and so on). .properties file in the war file or in the .xml definition of the connection descriptor.
To reduce complexity, the same db user is often the owner of the database schema so has unlimited power to mangle tables and data.
It is kind of ironic to have powerful db server the creators of which put together sofisticated securuty features and always see the database password naked, exposed in the
JAAS would not help with the database access, right?
"Potter" is not really a childrens book the way other children's books are.
One of the reasons Potter books are so popular is that it is hard to find any other book for children that would deal with issues that exist in the real world but conviniently avoided by the mass literature, such as social injustice, poverty, bullies, racial tension, etc.
The irony is that the book about wizards is actually more down to earth and more realistic than some other books.
When I was growing up, I had a teacher who looked like, dressed like and behaived like Dolores Umbridge. I was freaked out when I read the Order of Phoenix.
sure, by transitivity - ...
with EJB comes power, with power comes complexity,
So called "editors"...
Postgresql seems to be the ticket.
I have been doing Oracle work for 12 years and find Postgres easy to learn and quite powerful.
Certainly ref integrity, triggers and PL/SQL like stored procedures are all there.
I currently have 80GB PostgreSQL database as a backend for pretty busy websites and it holds well.
THIS is not a solution, just a proof of concept. I looked at the code and it is not even thread-safe.
The ability to write stored procedures in Java has been in Oracle for some time but I still cannot figure out why anyone would do that.
Java is a nice programming language. Go write web apps, middleware, network software, desktop apps with it but not stored procedures.
Is mySQL process going to start the whole new JVM on every hit? Or VM is going to run separately and it is bridged somehow (God, not over the network)?
Now if you ask me, even stored procedures in general become more and more evil.
And in our age of $50 2Ghz CPUs and Gigabit ehternet the performance is no longer an issue.
To me, a database is a collection of tables and indexes with referencial integrity, failover and redundancy. It should do just one thing and do it well. Attempts to add features like that seem to be just a marketing thing by their new commercial overlords.
Mod this up please (I have not seen mod points in months...)
Larry is a respected for putting together product and a company like no other. Microsoft does not count because many of their products (like SQL server) make it only because they piggyback on Windows monopoly.
Larry deserves a break and entitled to do any weird / ugly thing he did.
Paul Allen bought Larry a yacht??
Now that _is_ an Interesting piece of gossip!
The guy could be right, the guy could be wrong - that is completely irrelevant. The percieved reality is:
the guy was in charge of network security
the third-party audit was performed (why? did they look for an excuse to dump him?)
Vulnerability was found
The guy was sacked.
That is all that matters. Waste your time - blame outsourcing, Republicans, little green men.
Get over it, fix the resume and get back into the game. American corp environment is completely free of common sense and logic.
since when "software guys working contract positions" is the sign of bad economy?
Contract jobs are more demanding, more challenging, higher paid and harder to find. Large number of people "graduating" to contract employment is the sign of good economy just like it was in 98-99.
As far as state of the economy, just look around. I remember finding easy mall parking last Xmas and one before. I remember 4 out of 5 my neighbours unemployed a year ago.
Has nothing to do with Bush (god bless his simple soul). Dogs ate all the dog food, wearable parts still keep breaking and warehouses are empty - it is back to work time, normal capitalist cycle.
IT industry took much bigger hit because of the built-in correction to jettison Waiter-Actor-Webmasters, junior people and community-colledge-MCSEs, that is all.
Yes, CVS is what I would use.
Especially with that Windows client, Tortoise(?), that is embedded into Windows Explorer so there is no ugly client to learn. Nice color coded folders and files: green - current, red - updated, ? - new.
Same here. ;-)
Hobbit at least is readable and enjoyable.
LOTR the book reminds me of some software apps I know: great plot and the idea but a lot of blot and pieces done by the contractors who did not care
I liked the movies and looking forward to seeing ROTK this weekend.
there is also a 55 inch LCoS Phillips which I saw around $3000 at Fry's. Hardly super-expensive comparing to Plasma and even DLP.
So you got a bunch of MS core people who are _encouraged_ to look at the Linux kernel.
They got some really bright people there you know.
And what that bunch of bright hackers would want to do pretty soon? Contribute. Just like that Microsoft fellow from the original Haloween documents described - he had the urge to make changes, to improve the open-source code he looked at.
Even it they are prohibited from doing so (which I doubt - engineers and lawyers don't mix), the certain cross-contamination of the ideas is bound to happen.
This will lead to the whole bunch of interesting things - from super-SCO-sized legal battle to Longhorn Linux.
This is "informative"? /. cliche joke?
"uncle's brother's neice's sister"?
Are we witnessing the birth of another