Surely there's a wealth or prior art for this kind of thing, ORM was popular before 2000. What about Next Computer's Enterprise Objects Framework? That's been around since at least 1994 according to WikiPedia - it still lives on as part of Apple's WebObjects system.
As another posted pointed out it was with the creators blessing, however even that wasn't needed.
The Crystal Icon Set is licensed under the LGPL, so basically, as long as the SkyOS team supply you with a copy of the LGPL license and a written offer of the "source" (e.g. original pngs) they can use them in a commercial application.
There is a common misconception with some people that (L)GPL=no commercial usage. If it's GPL you can still charge (however your clients can turn around and distribute your app for free, so you'll get further charging for support). If it's LGPL you can distribute the rest of your app as closed source, as long as you provide the LGPL license and provide the source of the LGPL'd component(s) in some way for at least three years (you're even allowed to charge a reasonable fee for providing it under the terms of the license).
To all the people smoking crack and spouting that Microsoft should pull out of Europe - as a whole we're the largest economy in the world (see European Union on WikiPedia).
Here's a choice tidbit for anyone too lazy to click:
If considered a single unit, the European Union has the largest economy in the world with a GDP of 12,427,413 million USD (2005)
GD didn't support GIF files (legally) for a long time (you could always compile it in, but that meant nothing to people on shared hosting). Also, ImageMagick produced, in my opinion, better quality files at smaller sizes than GD used to.
Of course, today, with no GIF problems and the quality on both about par, there's not a lot of difference.
Our system offers a plugin based solution, use GD or ImageMagick with a single config file change. As far as calling ImageMagick from PHP goes, we just use the command execution functions.
On one hand it can suck for the user, however, on the other, it's pretty darned nice having the latest release of everything, integrated (mostly) tested and working. True, it's not for everyone - for those people there's RHEL or even Debian. For those of us that like the bleeding edge (in a desktop distro I don't mind, never would I use it for a server though) it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Maybe your signup message/test messages look too much like spam? Try to avoid use of exclamation marks, mispellings, ALL CAPS, etc.
We have an e-commerce package that sends emails to HoTMaiL, AOL mail, yahoo, gmail and lots more fine using nothing more than the PHPMailer class.
One quick suggestion, do you use PHPMailer with the mail method or with the smtp method? We use smtp as using the PHP mail() function does sometimes end up getting you flagged as spam, no idea why though! PHPMailers SMTP client seems to do a much better job (albeit with slightly increased server load)
Would that not be on documentation that explained exactly how the chip worked and not just how to send and receive bits from it?
If this is the case with HIFN, why do some other hardare companies in the same field not have the same restrictions?
There was a good comment made later in the thread:
Perhaps you can talk to your legal counsel and actually break out the
documentation needed for these open source drivers into a separate and
truly open to the "general public" anonymous download site. I doubt
that the documentation that is being requested by developers is putting
you in violation of US Export Regulations ....snip....
I understand it's very easy these days for attorneys to just say put
everything behind your registration only access extranet to be safe.
This is not acceptable and, in my opinion, is not open to the general
public like you stated.
...genuine advantage failure doesn't mean unpatched windows. Security updates will still be downloaded if you select "automatic updates", you just can't download nice addons like windows defender, media player etc.
A lot of linux boxes out there are managed by small one-man-band hosting providers. A lot of these (not all however) do not know what they are doing (some only just know how to use some of the "web-hosting" control panels) - when these people have a problem they are normally up the creek without a paddle.
A lot of the linux boxes from some of the lower priced server rental places have flaky hardware and access to a flaky network - this can happen with cheap windows boxes as well, but you don't see many of those around.
UNIX and Windows tend to be run by bigger shops, these people will have decent admins who (usually) know their stuff.
I personally manage 10 servers, 3 of which are windows, the rest various incarnations of Red Hat (7.2, 9, EL4, FC1+2). Our windows servers over the last month have 99.99%, 100% and 100% uptime, the co-lo linux boxes in a datacentre in London have 100% over the last month. The RH 7.2 and 9 boxes with cheap server rental places (1&1 & EV1) have around 99.8% uptime - not that you can draw much from that as it's a statistically miniscule sampling.
It comes down more to competent admins and decency of hardware rather than the platform these days.
...it pops up a stonking big window telling you as such, then asking your permission (and telling you it will restart the browser). It then brings up another nice window that tells you it's downloading an update.
Then, when the browser restarts it opens up a page telling you your browser has been upgraded to the latest version.
...my wife purchased an iPod last year, just before the year warranty was up it gave up the ghost, they replaced it with a refurbed model which then failed after four months - 1 month out of the warranty extension. I should also add she spent a fair wodge of cash on an iBook as well, so Apple has done fairly well out of her.
Apple have simply said the same thing over and over - it's not their problem since it's out of warranty - even when confronted with the fact that they are essentially saying it is normal for an ipod to fail after four months.
Never mind the fact that recent cases brought in the UK have said that warranties of only 1 year are insufficient for "luxury" items (items costing several hundred pounds, such as an iPod).
I'm sorry, but you shouldn't have to purchase an extended warranty for an item like this (dish washers costing a little more now come with 5 year warranties) - it's apple trying to be cheap. An item costing this much which has gone through this many hardware revisions (we're not exactly early iPod adopters!) should not fail in as little time as both units we had failed.
Pity, I was about to plonk down the cash to buy a MacBook Pro - money that is now going to another company than Apple - I don't trust their workmanship anymore.
There's lots of airline specific information, such as seat number, meal type, etc, baggage info, etc.
I believe that Meal Type is specifically excluded as it could be used to infer race and/or religion (e.g. halal meal for Muslims or kosher for Jewish etc.). They don't want to be seen to be "racially profiling" so smartly left that one out.
I was merely using the word crime in the context of how incitement to commit a crime is a crime in and of itself (e.g. hiring a hitman). In this context, inciting the other student to break school policy could (and obviously was) viewed as being an infraction as well.
Yes, I would be outraged. However, if that was the law of the land and there was no way around it then I would decide that my country was going down the pan and emigrate.
...is still punishable. He wasn't just saying "here's this list of proxies", he was asking the other child to find out what sites he could get to by using his proxy, that's the difference and I can understand why as a younger person he found the distinction too subtle, but it is stil there nonetheless.
....was unfiltered access to the internet a constitutional right? Wake up...it's not, however important the internet has become in our daily lives, it's not a right.
It's because NT started off as being a microkernel and then had a boatload of stuff put into the kernel, all the GUI drawing, device drivers etc.
Why? Because on computers of that time, the hit in performance was very noticable. That barrier doesn't really exist today when computers are more powerful than a lot of the tasks they perform (and the biggest speed problems are to do with hard disk/memory speed).
The problem is that too much was allowed into the kernel. The other problem that persists today is that not enough hardware permits resetting - my sound card can crash and the system stays up, I can't get sound again until I reboot. This is probably something that will be looked at in the future (and already is with hot-swappable hardware becoming more common place in PC based servers).
The "sony" rootkit fiasco was completely Bertelsmann (the BMG in Sony BMG) - the head of sony has said that music downloads are still too expensive, he'd like to see 25c downloads.
Bertelsmann on the other hand are old-school media moguls, the kind that still think the customer is the enemy.
Sorry to burst your bubble here, the Windows NT kernel design is arguably one of the best out there - it was after all created by the old DEC staff that worked on VMS.
Most of the security problems on Windows are due to Internet Explorer (just like a lot of Linux security problems are with software outside the kernel).
99.9% of the blue-screens on Windows are probably due to buggy device drivers.
As far as free programming environments go, there has been an awful lot going on lately of note
All of the Visual Studio Express Editions are now permanently free - C# is a damn fine language and a lot of people could do a lot worse than start there. There's also a free "as in speech" implementation available for most other OS's in the form of the MONO project.
If Java is your cup of tea, the JDK from Sun and Eclipse from the Eclipse foundation is all you need to get started.
The barrier to entry hasn't been this low since the days of the Commodore 64 - hopefully we'll see a renaisance in the programming world.
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Putting those directly responsible (e.g. managers or heck even the CEO) in prison however is.
Surely there's a wealth or prior art for this kind of thing, ORM was popular before 2000. What about Next Computer's Enterprise Objects Framework? That's been around since at least 1994 according to WikiPedia - it still lives on as part of Apple's WebObjects system.
As another posted pointed out it was with the creators blessing, however even that wasn't needed.
The Crystal Icon Set is licensed under the LGPL, so basically, as long as the SkyOS team supply you with a copy of the LGPL license and a written offer of the "source" (e.g. original pngs) they can use them in a commercial application.
There is a common misconception with some people that (L)GPL=no commercial usage. If it's GPL you can still charge (however your clients can turn around and distribute your app for free, so you'll get further charging for support). If it's LGPL you can distribute the rest of your app as closed source, as long as you provide the LGPL license and provide the source of the LGPL'd component(s) in some way for at least three years (you're even allowed to charge a reasonable fee for providing it under the terms of the license).
To all the people smoking crack and spouting that Microsoft should pull out of Europe - as a whole we're the largest economy in the world (see European Union on WikiPedia).
Here's a choice tidbit for anyone too lazy to click:
If considered a single unit, the European Union has the largest economy in the world with a GDP of 12,427,413 million USD (2005)
GD didn't support GIF files (legally) for a long time (you could always compile it in, but that meant nothing to people on shared hosting). Also, ImageMagick produced, in my opinion, better quality files at smaller sizes than GD used to.
Of course, today, with no GIF problems and the quality on both about par, there's not a lot of difference.
Our system offers a plugin based solution, use GD or ImageMagick with a single config file change. As far as calling ImageMagick from PHP goes, we just use the command execution functions.
On one hand it can suck for the user, however, on the other, it's pretty darned nice having the latest release of everything, integrated (mostly) tested and working. True, it's not for everyone - for those people there's RHEL or even Debian. For those of us that like the bleeding edge (in a desktop distro I don't mind, never would I use it for a server though) it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Maybe your signup message/test messages look too much like spam? Try to avoid use of exclamation marks, mispellings, ALL CAPS, etc.
We have an e-commerce package that sends emails to HoTMaiL, AOL mail, yahoo, gmail and lots more fine using nothing more than the PHPMailer class.
One quick suggestion, do you use PHPMailer with the mail method or with the smtp method? We use smtp as using the PHP mail() function does sometimes end up getting you flagged as spam, no idea why though! PHPMailers SMTP client seems to do a much better job (albeit with slightly increased server load)
Second link under the "Watch" title is an XVid MPEG4 file, XVid being an open source video codec.
Would that not be on documentation that explained exactly how the chip worked and not just how to send and receive bits from it?
If this is the case with HIFN, why do some other hardare companies in the same field not have the same restrictions?
There was a good comment made later in the thread:
Perhaps you can talk to your legal counsel and actually break out the documentation needed for these open source drivers into a separate and truly open to the "general public" anonymous download site. I doubt that the documentation that is being requested by developers is putting you in violation of US Export Regulations
....snip....
I understand it's very easy these days for attorneys to just say put everything behind your registration only access extranet to be safe. This is not acceptable and, in my opinion, is not open to the general public like you stated.
That sums up my thoughts much more succinctly.
...genuine advantage failure doesn't mean unpatched windows. Security updates will still be downloaded if you select "automatic updates", you just can't download nice addons like windows defender, media player etc.
...that I can see off the bat.
I personally manage 10 servers, 3 of which are windows, the rest various incarnations of Red Hat (7.2, 9, EL4, FC1+2). Our windows servers over the last month have 99.99%, 100% and 100% uptime, the co-lo linux boxes in a datacentre in London have 100% over the last month. The RH 7.2 and 9 boxes with cheap server rental places (1&1 & EV1) have around 99.8% uptime - not that you can draw much from that as it's a statistically miniscule sampling.
It comes down more to competent admins and decency of hardware rather than the platform these days.
...it pops up a stonking big window telling you as such, then asking your permission (and telling you it will restart the browser). It then brings up another nice window that tells you it's downloading an update.
Then, when the browser restarts it opens up a page telling you your browser has been upgraded to the latest version.
Anyone with an IQ over 50 should get the gist.
...my wife purchased an iPod last year, just before the year warranty was up it gave up the ghost, they replaced it with a refurbed model which then failed after four months - 1 month out of the warranty extension. I should also add she spent a fair wodge of cash on an iBook as well, so Apple has done fairly well out of her.
Apple have simply said the same thing over and over - it's not their problem since it's out of warranty - even when confronted with the fact that they are essentially saying it is normal for an ipod to fail after four months.
Never mind the fact that recent cases brought in the UK have said that warranties of only 1 year are insufficient for "luxury" items (items costing several hundred pounds, such as an iPod).
I'm sorry, but you shouldn't have to purchase an extended warranty for an item like this (dish washers costing a little more now come with 5 year warranties) - it's apple trying to be cheap. An item costing this much which has gone through this many hardware revisions (we're not exactly early iPod adopters!) should not fail in as little time as both units we had failed.
Pity, I was about to plonk down the cash to buy a MacBook Pro - money that is now going to another company than Apple - I don't trust their workmanship anymore.
There's lots of airline specific information, such as seat number, meal type, etc, baggage info, etc.
I believe that Meal Type is specifically excluded as it could be used to infer race and/or religion (e.g. halal meal for Muslims or kosher for Jewish etc.). They don't want to be seen to be "racially profiling" so smartly left that one out.
I was merely using the word crime in the context of how incitement to commit a crime is a crime in and of itself (e.g. hiring a hitman). In this context, inciting the other student to break school policy could (and obviously was) viewed as being an infraction as well.
Yes, I would be outraged. However, if that was the law of the land and there was no way around it then I would decide that my country was going down the pan and emigrate.
...is still punishable. He wasn't just saying "here's this list of proxies", he was asking the other child to find out what sites he could get to by using his proxy, that's the difference and I can understand why as a younger person he found the distinction too subtle, but it is stil there nonetheless.
....was unfiltered access to the internet a constitutional right? Wake up...it's not, however important the internet has become in our daily lives, it's not a right.
...remember with Databases, unless it's all in memory, your big bottleneck is disk performance.
Get a router that can do QOS, or, get a program for windows called NetLimiter, it allows you to set maximum bandwidth usage per program.
It's because NT started off as being a microkernel and then had a boatload of stuff put into the kernel, all the GUI drawing, device drivers etc.
Why? Because on computers of that time, the hit in performance was very noticable. That barrier doesn't really exist today when computers are more powerful than a lot of the tasks they perform (and the biggest speed problems are to do with hard disk/memory speed).
The problem is that too much was allowed into the kernel. The other problem that persists today is that not enough hardware permits resetting - my sound card can crash and the system stays up, I can't get sound again until I reboot. This is probably something that will be looked at in the future (and already is with hot-swappable hardware becoming more common place in PC based servers).
The "sony" rootkit fiasco was completely Bertelsmann (the BMG in Sony BMG) - the head of sony has said that music downloads are still too expensive, he'd like to see 25c downloads.
Bertelsmann on the other hand are old-school media moguls, the kind that still think the customer is the enemy.
[ Windows anyone ??? ]
Sorry to burst your bubble here, the Windows NT kernel design is arguably one of the best out there - it was after all created by the old DEC staff that worked on VMS.
Most of the security problems on Windows are due to Internet Explorer (just like a lot of Linux security problems are with software outside the kernel).
99.9% of the blue-screens on Windows are probably due to buggy device drivers.
As far as free programming environments go, there has been an awful lot going on lately of note
All of the Visual Studio Express Editions are now permanently free - C# is a damn fine language and a lot of people could do a lot worse than start there. There's also a free "as in speech" implementation available for most other OS's in the form of the MONO project.
If Java is your cup of tea, the JDK from Sun and Eclipse from the Eclipse foundation is all you need to get started.
The barrier to entry hasn't been this low since the days of the Commodore 64 - hopefully we'll see a renaisance in the programming world.
I suspect that has more to do with PR and/or reducing the company tax liability than anything else.
However, GP was partly off the mark.