This would run into the problem that it's not portable between different os's (heck, even different filesystems, some people still use fat-32). Any version control system that wants to be successful has to work well in heterogeneous environments.
BBC 1 & BBC 2, they carry different versions, BBC 1 was meant to be the daily updated "newspaper", BBC 2 Ceefax was/is updated less frequently (weekly?) and has a lot more content (hence it's slower).
when I'm on dialup. My ADSL connection is down at the moment due to a cock up at BT's end and so I'm relegated to a 56k dialup account at the moment and all of a sudden the problem that I assumed went away is back with avengance. I've seen it so far 20+ times today whereas I've seen it 2 times in the last year on broadband...wierd.
...Thunderbird and Firefox are still preview software, things change & problems occur, that's why it's not a 1.0 release yet - we often forget that seeing as they are so useful and hardly ever crash/lose data etc. and are already at a much higher level than anything Microsoft can throw out.
Now, if there are still problems like this after the 1.0 release then by all means flame away.
If it's a production system running some ibm software then you want as little as possible on there, it doesn't matter that debian has 10000000 different packages, you're not going to be able to make use of 999990 of them anyway so the depth of the repository really becomes a moot point.
...when you shell over your hard earned money for a copy of Windows or Office, once they've taken your money and given you the box you don't actually "own" the software, you have just purchased a license to use it (which may be revoked). You have also paid for the installation media, which is yours, however, the software upon it isn't, it remains the property of (in this case) Microsoft.
...though I expect it has something to do with some people feeling vulgar about giving money...that's just how some people think. They probably think that by giving a card for a certain type of store they are at least putting some tought into the gift. It would probably make a good subject for a psych essay..."The Psychology of gift giving...money or vouchers?";o)
...but here if we don't know what to buy someone we buy them gift vouchers. Some stores have now started offering vouchers in a credit-card type form-factor. It gets charged with a certain amount of money and you can actually get something you won't return or exchange anyway, therfore removing that embarrasing moment when they come over to visit and don't find their vase/picture/abomination (delete as appropriate) in pride of place - everyone's a winner.
My significant other and I bought most of the essential things we needed for our new house (champagne flutes, wine glasses, whisky tumblers and 250 count egyptian cotton sheets...the usual necessities;o) with one her dad gave her for a very nice department store here in the U.K.
...I used to work for. ~90% of employees (myself included) started complaining of headaches when using the new computers. Apparently the IBM monitors had a new type of fire retardent sprayed onto them which, during prolonged use, led to a gas being released that caused these headaches. (the 10% not getting headaches were those managers suitably high-up enough to have laptops).
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Example: Look at Rap...... Should that be outlawed too?
...a large proportion of people using the internet don't even know what SSL means (or is), let alone what to check for. They just look for a padlock and think they're safe (many don't even do this).
Users normally glaze over when they hear about certificate signing and how to check site authenticity and it's not like it's particularly hard (or expensive) to get an SSL cert these days, the last one I purchased only performed the bare minimum of checks (that I had an invoice for the server I was using to "prove" my identity, hardly what I call a method of high integrity).
This kind of tech is just what the hordes of clueless AOL/internet users need, something to stop them hurting themselves on the internet, they are just like children that need looking after around the knife drawer.
...people already have their site hosted and then decide to add functionality to it, e-commerce, CMS, CRM etc., at this point, I'd rather be able to sell them something that runs on their system, than telling them that their provider sucks and they have to move. They'll just go with another solution.
Moving hosting isn't something most non-technical people will consider unless they can see a clear reason to (blocked by spews, continual downtime etc.).
The best solution is when we host for customers, because we know that they will not only be getting top-notch service, but a top-notch service that has been tailor made for our software.
As I said before, it's a moot point, our app works on both MySQL and PostgreSQL, but it's like releasing software for windows only (the MySQL of the OS world), lots of people do it because that's a large portion of the market taken care of. We go the extra mile and support postgre too, but many don't.
Thus, if someone tells me they're using mySQL, which is not nearly as powerful as PostgreSQL , I can immediately surmise many things about them, their organization, and their code.
I can summarise this: Since MySQL is offered on most hosting packages out there as an option, and PostgreSQL is offered on very few, the company in question is trying to maximise their potential sales, a shrewd move.
That is why techies do not make good CEO's, they usually (me included) want to implement what they see as the most elegant or techically superior solution, when that is often the one that will reduce profits.
All of my companies products run on both PostgreSQL and MySQL since we want our customers to have a choice. With the additional benefits of PostgreSQL our app performs faster, but if you're using MySQL on a cheap hosting account you can still use our software. Best of both worlds.
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...the free, online version of the O'Reilly subversion book.
The documentation is not lacking, people are just too damn lazy to google for it or follow the links on the subversion site at tigris.
...running on Linux, which if you download a community distro is not only free-as-in-beer but also as-in-speech.
When someone sends a M$ word document to someone who does __NOT__ have M$ word, can they read it?
NO THEY CAN'T [snip]
Yes they can read them, using the free downloads provided by Microsoft for that very purpose.
True, you are still using Microsoft software and buying into the perpetual Microsoft world dominance but I just felt I had to correct what you said.
...it's mainly the americans and british who insist on using an antiquated and overly complex system of measurment.
IIRC
This would run into the problem that it's not portable between different os's (heck, even different filesystems, some people still use fat-32). Any version control system that wants to be successful has to work well in heterogeneous environments.
BBC 1 & BBC 2, they carry different versions, BBC 1 was meant to be the daily updated "newspaper", BBC 2 Ceefax was/is updated less frequently (weekly?) and has a lot more content (hence it's slower).
when I'm on dialup. My ADSL connection is down at the moment due to a cock up at BT's end and so I'm relegated to a 56k dialup account at the moment and all of a sudden the problem that I assumed went away is back with avengance. I've seen it so far 20+ times today whereas I've seen it 2 times in the last year on broadband...wierd.
...Thunderbird and Firefox are still preview software, things change & problems occur, that's why it's not a 1.0 release yet - we often forget that seeing as they are so useful and hardly ever crash/lose data etc. and are already at a much higher level than anything Microsoft can throw out.
Now, if there are still problems like this after the 1.0 release then by all means flame away.
...there has been some cases where it's been possible, but that was using the horribly out-of-date MS JVM and even that's now been patched.
...we used to called Lexmark "Lex merde" cause of the crap they used to churn out.
If it's a production system running some ibm software then you want as little as possible on there, it doesn't matter that debian has 10000000 different packages, you're not going to be able to make use of 999990 of them anyway so the depth of the repository really becomes a moot point.
...when you shell over your hard earned money for a copy of Windows or Office, once they've taken your money and given you the box you don't actually "own" the software, you have just purchased a license to use it (which may be revoked). You have also paid for the installation media, which is yours, however, the software upon it isn't, it remains the property of (in this case) Microsoft.
...though I expect it has something to do with some people feeling vulgar about giving money...that's just how some people think. They probably think that by giving a card for a certain type of store they are at least putting some tought into the gift. It would probably make a good subject for a psych essay..."The Psychology of gift giving...money or vouchers?" ;o)
...but here if we don't know what to buy someone we buy them gift vouchers. Some stores have now started offering vouchers in a credit-card type form-factor. It gets charged with a certain amount of money and you can actually get something you won't return or exchange anyway, therfore removing that embarrasing moment when they come over to visit and don't find their vase/picture/abomination (delete as appropriate) in pride of place - everyone's a winner.
;o) with one her dad gave her for a very nice department store here in the U.K.
My significant other and I bought most of the essential things we needed for our new house (champagne flutes, wine glasses, whisky tumblers and 250 count egyptian cotton sheets...the usual necessities
simply because MS were to lazy to make things standards-compliant
I suspect it has more to do with MS trying to force lock-in to Internet Explorer (and thus windows) than lazyness.
...I used to work for. ~90% of employees (myself included) started complaining of headaches when using the new computers. Apparently the IBM monitors had a new type of fire retardent sprayed onto them which, during prolonged use, led to a gas being released that caused these headaches. (the 10% not getting headaches were those managers suitably high-up enough to have laptops).
Example: Look at Rap... ... Should that be outlawed too?
Yes, yes it should.
...a large proportion of people using the internet don't even know what SSL means (or is), let alone what to check for. They just look for a padlock and think they're safe (many don't even do this).
Users normally glaze over when they hear about certificate signing and how to check site authenticity and it's not like it's particularly hard (or expensive) to get an SSL cert these days, the last one I purchased only performed the bare minimum of checks (that I had an invoice for the server I was using to "prove" my identity, hardly what I call a method of high integrity).
This kind of tech is just what the hordes of clueless AOL/internet users need, something to stop them hurting themselves on the internet, they are just like children that need looking after around the knife drawer.
...you enable your firewall before connecting to the network.
To do it the other way around is akin to trying to put a condom on once you've already started penetrative intercourse (if you pardon my metaphor).
That's all there is to it, I've installed my fair share of XP machines and never ever had any problems with getting patched before getting pwned.
...people already have their site hosted and then decide to add functionality to it, e-commerce, CMS, CRM etc., at this point, I'd rather be able to sell them something that runs on their system, than telling them that their provider sucks and they have to move. They'll just go with another solution.
Moving hosting isn't something most non-technical people will consider unless they can see a clear reason to (blocked by spews, continual downtime etc.).
The best solution is when we host for customers, because we know that they will not only be getting top-notch service, but a top-notch service that has been tailor made for our software.
As I said before, it's a moot point, our app works on both MySQL and PostgreSQL, but it's like releasing software for windows only (the MySQL of the OS world), lots of people do it because that's a large portion of the market taken care of. We go the extra mile and support postgre too, but many don't.
good starting point, it's also on Safari so you could read it online.
Here it is on amazon
Try out phpPgAdmin which does exactly what you were probably trying to set out to do in PHP.
Thus, if someone tells me they're using mySQL, which is not nearly as powerful as PostgreSQL , I can immediately surmise many things about them, their organization, and their code.
I can summarise this: Since MySQL is offered on most hosting packages out there as an option, and PostgreSQL is offered on very few, the company in question is trying to maximise their potential sales, a shrewd move.
That is why techies do not make good CEO's, they usually (me included) want to implement what they see as the most elegant or techically superior solution, when that is often the one that will reduce profits.
All of my companies products run on both PostgreSQL and MySQL since we want our customers to have a choice. With the additional benefits of PostgreSQL our app performs faster, but if you're using MySQL on a cheap hosting account you can still use our software. Best of both worlds.