As article indicates, you will need to login to the remote Windows 2003 server to get access to a document.
What if the server is not available?
And the information about which server to contact is stored where - in the document itself? If this part of the doc is protected, then you will need yet another server to grant you the right to read the location of the first server. If it is not protected, you will be able to point your doc to a fake server that will grant you access anyway.
Does not sound like description of reliable well-thought-of system.
I had very limited exposure to.NET (one desktop application talking to a J2EE Web Service). Here are some things I like (or not).
XML/XML Schema integration. You can define your entire object model in XML schema files, run a generator tool and have all the XML thingies as C# classes. You can marshall instances of those classes to XML and back with one line of code.
The closest thing to that in Java world is Castor .
Visual Studio IDE is nice. BUT, what is so special about code completion and fast double-click-on-class-name code navigation? Vi does not have those things, but Netbeans (and or IntelliJ) do. Also VS code completion fails miserably for no apperant reason sometimes.
Visual Studio is too expensive and has licensing restrictions on what you can and cannot do with it. To me it is a major turn-off: why freaking TOOL vendor has to dictate what my product can and can't do???
C# does not require your method to declare exception being thrown if the code inside the method throws it. Sure it leads to faster development, but, IMHO, leads to overall sloppiness in the long run as well.
There are nice open-source tools available, including JUnit clone, sharpunit.
GUI building with Windows Forms is ok and simple but not even close to what experienced Swing programmer can do.
.NET did not catch up as fast as I expected (mostly due to terrible Microsoft marketing), but it will, I think Mono is our only hope.
Disclaimer: I know these people and I like them - I met them at the bar.
Arliweb - messaging system where messages are routed over mesh of peer servers. Anyone can run Arliweb server. If you operate server and it is chosen (randomly, based on network load and your past reliability) to transfer paid-for messages, you (the server operator) get paid too.
Internet IM service by the people for the people kind of thing.
how do Jabber servers know about each other?
How the Jabber server at my ISP would know that my message to you needs to be forwarded to Jabber server at your ISP?
what are the naming conventions for addressing and such?
I glanced over their website(s) and did not see immediate answers. Just curious.
As someone who has been messing with Oracle for more than 10 years, I must say that NOTHING (in commercial or OSS world) comes even close on the high-end hardware you are describing. Properly tuned, humming Oracle database is a work of art.
But it is also true that wast majority of Oracle installations are poorely implemented (due to enourmous and unjustyfiable complexity), Oracle's management software sucked (getting better recently),
support far from stellar (telephone support hardly usable), yearly costs are sky-high.
I started looking at PostgreSQL and the more I look the more I like what I see - it is conceptually simple, seems to have adequate performance with large tables, JDBC seems to work well too, stored procedures language is very close to Oracle's (I wish for better exceptions handling), and the whole thing is more than adequate replacement for 80% of Oracle installations I have personally seen.
And I have to add that I tried very hard to like MySQL but it did not work for me.
Everything above is IMHO and the usual disclaimers apply.
... putting a computerized spy in every police car and such!
So if you rights are violated, you will get a fat settlement check in the mail automatically as well.
Eventually we all will have "legal bots" fighting each other in the depths of the Legal Network.
..in the world, this is the matter of accumulating enough of the critical mass.
When enough regular computer users realize that they spend WAY too much time patching, waiting for helpdesk guys, cursing dlls, missing emails the things will change.
Just like fall of the Berlin wall and subsequent fall of the Soviet Union, you just wake up one day and boom - common understanding of what Microsoft is changes like magic and few month later they are gone to their proper 20% market share.
I welcome this article as the sign of times to come.
The whole reason behind having elected officials is to represent the will of the people, right? Mostly it comes down to how they spend the taxpayers money.
Imagine if the voting system is completely online and secured and verified with PKI.
Would it not make sense if we vote directly on issues? Basically, if an "election" is completely automated and costs couple hundred dollars to run, why can't we _directly_ distribute our tax dollars?
So if for example, I have $3000 income tax to pay this month, I can _personally_ distribute it: say, $300 to social security, $1000 to my state, $250 to defense, etc.
This will totally turn the tables: the special interest groups will have to lobby ME, THE TAXPAYER to get money for their projects.
I don't think the company of his size can afford Oracle Financials.
It is not just the license/hardware, it is awful awful cost of implementation. As the guy obviously has good business sense and does not throw money away on the software, it is very unlikely they run Oracle Apps.
I understand there is a small group of people (4-10) who are the highest level developers of Linux kernel.
They are maintainers of the particular version trees, large areas of the kernel, etc.
This group is very small. What will happen when significant percentage of them loses interest in further kernel development? What will happen if Linus himself moves on?
And how does Linux situation compare to other OSS projects - Apache, BSD?
dude is insane and pretty much detatched from reality YES he is, and YES that is what makes him so great (and the company). They are Linux best friend.
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no need to stop there:
Airplane, steam engine, radio and printing press were invented by Russians first as well.
And that is "Yablochkov".
As article indicates, you will need to login to the remote Windows 2003 server to get access to a document.
What if the server is not available?
And the information about which server to contact is stored where - in the document itself? If this part of the doc is protected, then you will need yet another server to grant you the right to read the location of the first server. If it is not protected, you will be able to point your doc to a fake server that will grant you access anyway.
Does not sound like description of reliable well-thought-of system.
I had very limited exposure to .NET (one desktop application talking to a J2EE Web Service). Here are some things I like (or not).
XML/XML Schema integration. You can define your entire object model in XML schema files, run a generator tool and have all the XML thingies as C# classes. You can marshall instances of those classes to XML and back with one line of code.
The closest thing to that in Java world is Castor .
Visual Studio IDE is nice. BUT, what is so special about code completion and fast double-click-on-class-name code navigation? Vi does not have those things, but Netbeans (and or IntelliJ) do. Also VS code completion fails miserably for no apperant reason sometimes.
Visual Studio is too expensive and has licensing restrictions on what you can and cannot do with it. To me it is a major turn-off: why freaking TOOL vendor has to dictate what my product can and can't do???
C# does not require your method to declare exception being thrown if the code inside the method throws it. Sure it leads to faster development, but, IMHO, leads to overall sloppiness in the long run as well.
There are nice open-source tools available, including JUnit clone, sharpunit.
GUI building with Windows Forms is ok and simple but not even close to what experienced Swing programmer can do.
.NET did not catch up as fast as I expected (mostly due to terrible Microsoft marketing), but it will, I think Mono is our only hope.
"The Centre issued the warning about the asteroid after the giant rock was first observed in New Mexico."
From CNN article on the subject.
Disclaimer: I know these people and I like them - I met them at the bar.
Arliweb - messaging system where messages are routed over mesh of peer servers. Anyone can run Arliweb server. If you operate server and it is chosen (randomly, based on network load and your past reliability) to transfer paid-for messages, you (the server operator) get paid too.
Internet IM service by the people for the people kind of thing.
how do Jabber servers know about each other?
How the Jabber server at my ISP would know that my message to you needs to be forwarded to Jabber server at your ISP?
what are the naming conventions for addressing and such?
I glanced over their website(s) and did not see immediate answers. Just curious.
Original Ingres product -> more features -> Postgres -> compliance with SQL standards -> PostgreSQL
As someone who has been messing with Oracle for more than 10 years, I must say that NOTHING (in commercial or OSS world) comes even close on the high-end hardware you are describing. Properly tuned, humming Oracle database is a work of art.
But it is also true that wast majority of Oracle installations are poorely implemented (due to enourmous and unjustyfiable complexity), Oracle's management software sucked (getting better recently), support far from stellar (telephone support hardly usable), yearly costs are sky-high.
I started looking at PostgreSQL and the more I look the more I like what I see - it is conceptually simple, seems to have adequate performance with large tables, JDBC seems to work well too, stored procedures language is very close to Oracle's (I wish for better exceptions handling), and the whole thing is more than adequate replacement for 80% of Oracle installations I have personally seen.
And I have to add that I tried very hard to like MySQL but it did not work for me.
Everything above is IMHO and the usual disclaimers apply.
..would advocate "crash-first engineering"?
INSIGHTFUL!!!!
./ moderation at its best
... putting a computerized spy in every police car and such!
So if you rights are violated, you will get a fat settlement check in the mail automatically as well.
Eventually we all will have "legal bots" fighting each other in the depths of the Legal Network.
..in the world, this is the matter of accumulating enough of the critical mass.
When enough regular computer users realize that they spend WAY too much time patching, waiting for helpdesk guys, cursing dlls, missing emails the things will change.
Just like fall of the Berlin wall and subsequent fall of the Soviet Union, you just wake up one day and boom - common understanding of what Microsoft is changes like magic and few month later they are gone to their proper 20% market share.
I welcome this article as the sign of times to come.
very true - I have been tarring moving and untarring the same $ORACLE_HOME for some three years now!
Imagine if the voting system is completely online and secured and verified with PKI.
Would it not make sense if we vote directly on issues? Basically, if an "election" is completely automated and costs couple hundred dollars to run, why can't we _directly_ distribute our tax dollars?
So if for example, I have $3000 income tax to pay this month, I can _personally_ distribute it: say, $300 to social security, $1000 to my state, $250 to defense, etc.
This will totally turn the tables: the special interest groups will have to lobby ME, THE TAXPAYER to get money for their projects.
Would not that be an ideal democracy?
So basically the first "real" moon colony will be founded by ex-cons, people on the do-not-fly list and music sharerers fleeing RIAA?
I think it is more like God reformatting the disk and installing fresh distribution after His server got rooted.
Arliweb
I don't think the company of his size can afford Oracle Financials.
It is not just the license/hardware, it is awful awful cost of implementation. As the guy obviously has good business sense and does not throw money away on the software, it is very unlikely they run Oracle Apps.
I understand there is a small group of people (4-10) who are the highest level developers of Linux kernel. They are maintainers of the particular version trees, large areas of the kernel, etc.
This group is very small. What will happen when significant percentage of them loses interest in further kernel development? What will happen if Linus himself moves on?
And how does Linux situation compare to other OSS projects - Apache, BSD?
... and we all set - instant urban mesh network!
Don't forget his secret to managerial success -
"Donuts and possibility of more donuts to come!"
targeting rapidly expanding PDA-wireless-porn market?
I am so disappointed.
dude is insane and pretty much detatched from reality
YES he is, and YES that is what makes him so great (and the company). They are Linux best friend.
...any moment now!"