> Something about companies that have numerals in their names just makes them seem so reputable and trustworthy!
And! as! if! that! weren't! enough!, we! have! jerkoff! companies! that! use! exclamation! sign! in! their! name! As that Yahoo! customer from China found out, companies that use ASCII symbols in their name are even less trustworthy than those that use numerals.
I was surprised that they've done what they did. The terms & conditions probably forbid reverse engineering and/or disassembly of the appliance.
It would have been veeerrry easy to rip out the HDD and mount it on a Linux box to check out its internals.... They must have thought of that. As they've already ruined the warranty (by opening the box), it was probably the EULA or something like that that made them stop short of reviewing contents of the hard disks.
A part of the advantage held by local search engines is that they're less censored and more politically trusted than Google.
And we don't know nothing of performance hit that censorship overhead imposes on Google. Maybe it screwes their indexing (they have to exclude more pages than they'd like to, while the local guys already have developed technologies for automated and neat removal of censored information/sites) or searching procedures.
The Chinese-related features that some guys here mentioned aren't that hard to develop. Sure, it requires time, but in greater China there's a bunch of search engine/software companies that would sell their code cheaply ($100K~1m), I believe.
You're right. The article is sensationalistic crap.
The best of all is - the way he put it, it looks like while MS exports jobs, Google hires this PhD guy Lee to open a fucking kindergarten or something.
>Their popularity is about to skyrocket as countless OSS projects look for alternatives to MySQL.
What a nonsense! Why would I migrate my database to some other based on a piece of (completely unrelated) news?
People have much more important things to worry about (not to mention that other open source databases are not supported by nearly as many apps, so people couldn't migrate even if they wanted to). Duh!
> Since Alexa is removed by both Ad-Aware and Spybot I wonder how accurate there info really is?
Accuracy has nothing to do with number of users they have. They just report data they get, so the figures (from their sample) are absolutely correct. Whether they are representative of the whole Internet, that's another thing, although I can't see why would one consider PageRank info more representative of a site's popularity than Alexa's.
>The only people who have Alexa on their systems are the ones who take things exactly as M$ gives it to them.
Nonsense. I have Alexa on my A9.com toolbar (Firefox edition) and I know many Web-savy people who have it too. I uninstalled Google toolbar from MSIE (which I had used only because of Google toolbar) since it was useless except for the search box which Firefox has built-in. Alexa gives me detailed info on Website Internet ranking - more detailed and objective than Page Rank, which Google changes at their whim every few months, can give me.
> It's realism. Development of Mambo in Miro seems
How is it reality when you yourself use the word "seems"?
> Due to the recent departure of the old dev team, the programming team at Miro will continue with the development of Mambo in the interim period.
It doesn't matter. It's the Jumbo folks who forked, so Mambo is still Mambo, and these new bozos are Jambo or whatever. It's like when Samba developers forked off Samba TNG (which subsequently got marginalized, which is quite hitful as to what's going to happen to these Jumbo guys.)
It's not about developers, it's about the structure and system. The Mambo team can find a few coders, even outsource, and keep going (if you've ever used Mambo yourself, you'd realize it's full of fucking bugs and problems, nowhere near the level of quality provided by Plone or other CMS).
>The idea that competitors need to be crushed instead of, well, competed with is largely what is wrong with capitalism today.
In any case, crushing a competitor isn't illegal. After all, what was he supposed to say? "I'm going to f***** make them earn less per share than the industry average?" Of course he's feeling the right way about Google. And Google is probably feeling the same way about Microsoft.
If only it were so easy. Unless you're contemplating simple Classifieds (this market, of course, has already been killed by Craig's List), regular ads require a lot of interaction and I don't believe it can be done online the way they do it with AdWords.
It's good that stupidities like this make it to the news, so that we can be sure that no matter what software they use, they're always gonna remain stupid, lazy ass, money wasting bozos that they've always been.
1) MS Office can produce PDF docs Yes, they need either a commercial or free (doc2pdf.sourceforge.net) add on, but that's trivial to implement (and even buy) compared to the useless overhaul proposed.
2) MS Office docs can be viewed and printed using the free Microsoft Viewer software. And OpenOffice can read Microsoft Office docs, can't it?
3) Probably the simplest solution is to Save As... RTF.
All in all, yet another stupid government move that makes me sick. Even more puzzling is why did this make it to/.? While sensational, it is technically idiotic approach which as such only deserves trashing.
A: Well, we figured that we didn't want to get ripped off by some proprietary software vendor See, the box originally cost us US$70m, and after we switched to the free Linux OS, we only needed to spend US$69.99m!
>Redhat and suse recommend 2.6. I'll take their advice instead...
Of course they do. And perhaps it's good enough for most people.
But, look at the relevant newsgroups and you'll see the truth - crashes, problems with performance, filesystems, etc.
Kernel 2.4 = peace of mind. Does it handle extreme workloads better than kernel 2.6? No. How many people run extreme workloads? About 1% of all customers. Is kernel 2.4 more stable for almost all database programs out there? Yes.
>The only way this highway works is if every single car participates
Makes sense, but in reality: 1) Fast lane(s) - manual override 2) Slow(er) lane(s) - auto pilot, could be two pre-set speeds (e.g. 45 and 55 miles)
Or vice versa. In any case, you must be able to pull out of the controlled lane(s) and drive manually. How would you actually exit the highway?
Also, cars on auto-pilot must be able to overtake (and hence change the speed). If all cars are set to drive as slow (or as fast) as the car before them, then one slow truck would slow down all cars behind it.
Most of servers we maintain are kernel 2.4 and we're not in a hurry to upgrade at all. To database customers, we still recommend kernel 2.4.
>Wrong. Ubuntu, redhat, fedora, mandriva, suse, gentoo, knoopix, all of them use 2.6.
Sorry, but that doesn't prove shit. It only indicates that: a) marketing (and novelty) takes precedence over stability b) "bleeding edge" distros aren't suitable for enterprise use (even when they're stable; if for no other reason, then because they change too fast)
> I guess you've been posting bug reports on bugzilla.kernel.org?
I used to do that up to two years ago, but then I realized it's easier to change to another kernel or another distro rather than spend my time on that. Return on bug report is just too low.
As you don't say which one it is, your argument is meaningless because it does not prove whether it is illegal or not to discriminate. Mostl likely you're full of bullshit, though.
> I can safely say: Each certification decreases strongly your chances of getting hired in my organization.
OK, let's say it - you're underqualified for your job and afraid of losing it to someone better than you. In addition, it's likely that you abroad because you can't compete in the U.S.
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> I consider 1 week (5 workdays) a reasonable response time.
Response as in "confirming a bug report"?
What do you base your "reasonable" upon?
Are you aware that QA alone sometimes takes weeks?
I would prefer to keep the system exposed (in a controlled environment) to installing an non-QA-ed hack on my production servers.
> Something about companies that have numerals in their names just makes them seem so reputable and trustworthy!
And! as! if! that! weren't! enough!, we! have! jerkoff! companies! that! use! exclamation! sign! in! their! name!
As that Yahoo! customer from China found out, companies that use ASCII symbols in their name are even less trustworthy than those that use numerals.
I was surprised that they've done what they did.
The terms & conditions probably forbid reverse engineering and/or disassembly of the appliance.
It would have been veeerrry easy to rip out the HDD and mount it on a Linux box to check out its internals....
They must have thought of that. As they've already ruined the warranty (by opening the box), it was probably the EULA or something like that that made them stop short of reviewing contents of the hard disks.
Call me when it's stable.
>What frustrates me is that these incompatibilities create a form of lock-in - once you've based your app on MySQL, you are stuck with it.
Nicely said. And the same could be said of many Linux distros. Sure, code and settings ARE portable, but at sometimes prohibitive cost.
>It's more an argument towards sticking to standards
At the same time, from what I've read, standard SQL code = non-optimized code.
Choose the lesser of two evils...
> Right after we bought suso.com, I noticed that a bunch of people from China were already going to the suso.com address
Maybe they misspelled SuSE?
A part of the advantage held by local search engines is that they're less censored and more politically trusted than Google.
And we don't know nothing of performance hit that censorship overhead imposes on Google. Maybe it screwes their indexing (they have to exclude more pages than they'd like to, while the local guys already have developed technologies for automated and neat removal of censored information/sites) or searching procedures.
The Chinese-related features that some guys here mentioned aren't that hard to develop. Sure, it requires time, but in greater China there's a bunch of search engine/software companies that would sell their code cheaply ($100K~1m), I believe.
You're right. The article is sensationalistic crap.
The best of all is - the way he put it, it looks like while MS exports jobs, Google hires this PhD guy Lee to open a fucking kindergarten or something.
>Their popularity is about to skyrocket as countless OSS projects look for alternatives to MySQL.
What a nonsense! Why would I migrate my database to some other based on a piece of (completely unrelated) news?
People have much more important things to worry about (not to mention that other open source databases are not supported by nearly as many apps, so people couldn't migrate even if they wanted to). Duh!
> Since Alexa is removed by both Ad-Aware and Spybot I wonder how accurate there info really is?
Accuracy has nothing to do with number of users they have. They just report data they get, so the figures (from their sample) are absolutely correct.
Whether they are representative of the whole Internet, that's another thing, although I can't see why would one consider PageRank info more representative of a site's popularity than Alexa's.
>The only people who have Alexa on their systems are the ones who take things exactly as M$ gives it to them.
Nonsense.
I have Alexa on my A9.com toolbar (Firefox edition) and I know many Web-savy people who have it too.
I uninstalled Google toolbar from MSIE (which I had used only because of Google toolbar) since it was useless except for the search box which Firefox has built-in.
Alexa gives me detailed info on Website Internet ranking - more detailed and objective than Page Rank, which Google changes at their whim every few months, can give me.
> It's realism. Development of Mambo in Miro seems
How is it reality when you yourself use the word "seems"?
> Due to the recent departure of the old dev team, the programming team at Miro will continue with the development of Mambo in the interim period.
It doesn't matter. It's the Jumbo folks who forked, so Mambo is still Mambo, and these new bozos are Jambo or whatever.
It's like when Samba developers forked off Samba TNG (which subsequently got marginalized, which is quite hitful as to what's going to happen to these Jumbo guys.)
It's not about developers, it's about the structure and system. The Mambo team can find a few coders, even outsource, and keep going (if you've ever used Mambo yourself, you'd realize it's full of fucking bugs and problems, nowhere near the level of quality provided by Plone or other CMS).
>The idea that competitors need to be crushed instead of, well, competed with is largely what is wrong with capitalism today.
In any case, crushing a competitor isn't illegal.
After all, what was he supposed to say? "I'm going to f***** make them earn less per share than the industry average?"
Of course he's feeling the right way about Google.
And Google is probably feeling the same way about Microsoft.
>(real men don't click)
Windows can be operated with keyboard alone (one needs to know a few basic keyboard shortcuts, though).
If only it were so easy.
Unless you're contemplating simple Classifieds (this market, of course, has already been killed by Craig's List), regular ads require a lot of interaction and I don't believe it can be done online the way they do it with AdWords.
It's good that stupidities like this make it to the news, so that we can be sure that no matter what software they use, they're always gonna remain stupid, lazy ass, money wasting bozos that they've always been.
/.? While sensational, it is technically idiotic approach which as such only deserves trashing.
1) MS Office can produce PDF docs
Yes, they need either a commercial or free (doc2pdf.sourceforge.net) add on, but that's trivial to implement (and even buy) compared to the useless overhaul proposed.
2) MS Office docs can be viewed and printed using the free Microsoft Viewer software.
And OpenOffice can read Microsoft Office docs, can't it?
3) Probably the simplest solution is to Save As... RTF.
All in all, yet another stupid government move that makes me sick.
Even more puzzling is why did this make it to
> What you call fraud, some call help. It's not a big job to cure a Windows machine from its deadly diseases.
They used to say similar of lobotomy in last century.
> Providing them with information and making them able to choose is (should be) an important task.
Are you fucking illiterate? He said he did NOT provide them with info and choice.
What you do is absolutely fucking outrageous.
Fraud, deceit, unauthorized modifications/repairs, you name it...
You, Sir, will burn in hell!
Which goes back to the previous stories about Red Hat Enterprise Linux vs. the clones.
Now that both Linux and Red Hat are resticting (or controlling, to say the least) the use of these trademarks, the term freedom needs some redefining.
Luckily CentOS doesn't use either Linux or Red Hat in its distribution. Some other clones (like Tao Linux and White Box Enterprise Linux) do.
Q: Mr. President, why does this box run Linux?
A: Well, we figured that we didn't want to get ripped off by some proprietary software vendor
See, the box originally cost us US$70m, and after we switched to the free Linux OS, we only needed to spend US$69.99m!
>Redhat and suse recommend 2.6. I'll take their advice instead...
Of course they do. And perhaps it's good enough for most people.
But, look at the relevant newsgroups and you'll see the truth - crashes, problems with performance, filesystems, etc.
Kernel 2.4 = peace of mind.
Does it handle extreme workloads better than kernel 2.6? No. How many people run extreme workloads? About 1% of all customers.
Is kernel 2.4 more stable for almost all database programs out there? Yes.
>The only way this highway works is if every single car participates
Makes sense, but in reality:
1) Fast lane(s) - manual override
2) Slow(er) lane(s) - auto pilot, could be two pre-set speeds (e.g. 45 and 55 miles)
Or vice versa. In any case, you must be able to pull out of the controlled lane(s) and drive manually.
How would you actually exit the highway?
Also, cars on auto-pilot must be able to overtake (and hence change the speed). If all cars are set to drive as slow (or as fast) as the car before them, then one slow truck would slow down all cars behind it.
Well, not everyone is a student.
Most of servers we maintain are kernel 2.4 and we're not in a hurry to upgrade at all.
To database customers, we still recommend kernel 2.4.
>Wrong. Ubuntu, redhat, fedora, mandriva, suse, gentoo, knoopix, all of them use 2.6.
Sorry, but that doesn't prove shit. It only indicates that:
a) marketing (and novelty) takes precedence over stability
b) "bleeding edge" distros aren't suitable for enterprise use (even when they're stable; if for no other reason, then because they change too fast)
> there is no barrier to upgrading.
/home partition as-is, reformat the rest and re-install the OS, is that it?
Like, you leave the
That's quite funny.
Upgrading is the WORST barrier to OS adoption there is.
> I guess you've been posting bug reports on bugzilla.kernel.org?
I used to do that up to two years ago, but then I realized it's easier to change to another kernel or another distro rather than spend my time on that. Return on bug report is just too low.
>Or how about just the one I hire in.
As you don't say which one it is, your argument is meaningless because it does not prove whether it is illegal or not to discriminate. Mostl likely you're full of bullshit, though.
> I can safely say: Each certification decreases strongly your chances of getting hired in my organization.
OK, let's say it - you're underqualified for your job and afraid of losing it to someone better than you.
In addition, it's likely that you abroad because you can't compete in the U.S.