I've just gave an example of pre-installed Linux packages. Personally I've abandoned botyh RH and YDL almost a year ago to install Gentoo instead of both, and it's with me since then.
Not so long. Windows is loosing the market of corporate IT-supported desktops. Not to OSX, of course - fanatics and zealots are not working in big corporations.
Open Source is another serious advantage of Linux. In corporate IT departments they feel more compfortable in terms of IT security to use the system with applications, which sources are (1) available for debugging by themselves, (2) being debugged much faster by OSS community.
Our small company (15 developers) is fixing some bugs in various OSS packages every month as it's faster then waiting when someone else will fix it. But even waiting is faster for OSS then you would wait for such fixes from commercial vendors.
You don't have to convert Mac fanatics. They are just 5% (or about) of the desktop userbase. In order to passOSx Linux should just convert more 5% (or about) of corporate IT-supported users and *THAT* is not a big problem as corporate IT-supported users don't decide anything - if IT department will decide (after calculating cost savings) to go from Windows to Linux then it will be so! And believe me, the amount of corporate IT-supported users is much more than 5% (I believe it's more than 50%).
Java standardization occurs through the JCP. Regardless of this process, people are free to implement anything they want.
AFAIK all JCP decision are approved in Sun cubicles. Neither OSS developers nor IBM ones have any really meaning vote.
Sun retains rights to the Java trademark and associated frameworks such as J2SE and J2EE. You can't do a Microsoft and pass an incompatible version of these off as Java, but you can call it anything else you want.
As for today, Java is called Java exactly as Sun call it Java. What all other people want (outside of Sun) is open standard (ECMA, ISO) expicitly defining what should be called Java.
As for Linux C API, it would be adapted to run Sun's JVM long time ago if Sun's JVM would be opened. And that's the reason Sun doesn't want jave being open-sourced - b/c Linux will adapt quickly and show much more superiority to Solaris. And that would hurt Sun's sales really seriously.
I wonder, how the "community" is defined and if there is any place for "volume" in that definition.
IMHO, the most of people must require the most of features. That's how open-source "democracy" works. Microsoft might have most of sales, but in most (if any) existing OSS projects Microsoft does not have most of developer votes and thus does not control any project critical decisions.
I think that the real reason Sun keeps Java from open-sourcing is that Sun protect Java from OSS democracy, not from Microsoft as they want us to believe.
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How about Apple's decision to release iTunes fo OSX 10.2 or later leaving 10.0 and 10.1 user out of hope?
Most of books (especially low-level programming, like Java, C, C++ and Perl) teach you how to code within one or another programming paradigm. Few books (especially high-level programming, like Lisp, Haskell, Erlang or Prolog) teach you what to code within functional or logical or constraint paradigm. But this book does teach you why to use one or another programming paradigm.
Perhaps you are not a programmer, but you can become a real good one if you have noticed that now! Keep learning!
At the time you write your code you don't know the actual value of some symbols. It is varying depends on other run-time values. Thus it's called "variable".
Well, most of peopl dont use such programs. Moreover, most of web-designers and web-developers don't use such programs. Well, it's really a matter of personal choice. And here we come again: a personal choice would not be possible without competition.
You don't want a competition. You want one monopolist making software for one or several segments. Too bad that you don't understand that it's bad.
Clearly housing the homeless or feeding the hungry are more important goals than having a Web server talking about housing the homeless or feeding the hungry. Make sense?
That would make sense with any other adminstration. But Bush cuts taxes telling that the money going back to people and that must create (somehow magically) more work places. I think that b/c the US economy
was hurt first of all in dot-com and internet industries than it would make more sense to create work places specially in those industries. Thus it still makes sense to me to give goverment contract to dot-com and internet companies rather than to cut taxes.
Well, sometimes I think that Bush cuts taxes "to give money back to people" b/c he thinks that people know what to do with those money much better than US administration, don't you think?
You did not understand. I don't suggest to change the format of whois. But you easily can make your MTA answer if the format is not appropriate to resend the message in a proper format. Humans won't be annoyed too much and you will receive their request well formatted. Spammer won't bother themselves and won't send you anything else after that.
The requirement can be simple: a category keyword in the subject, some text with mor subject details in first three lines, some text about the sender in last three lines. The format of those can be similar to RFC 822 with one exception - it goes to the message body.
I guarantee you that most of spammers will never receive your MTA's autoanswer as there is no one behind the spammer return address. But those who will receive will never answer. But if you doubt - add the line in you MTA's autoanswer: "don't forget that any email that doesnt fail to one of above categories can work against you in the court if you are a spammer'.
I did not tell that dot-com crashed b/c of Bush. I just told that after dot-com has crashed it did not have its chances to reburn yet b/c of Bush.
In other words, if Bush would not have his wars, dot-com would restructure and come up again.
I don't believe that Bush failed dot-com. But I do believe that Bush has made (and still is making) everything possible to keep dot-com down as long as it's possible.
Since 2001 US administration has very many chances to help dot-com industries. US goverment has very badly designed, very useless, very outdate web-servers and web-services. Would Bush give goverment contracts to web development companies it would certainly help. I guess he didn't do it as (1) he doesn't own any web development company, (2) he doesn't undestand what is Internet about, (3) his companies mine oil or other way oil-related and it was in his interests to keep oil prices as higher as possible - no time for any other job left.
I know, LDAP is designed to host and distribute personal user acount info, while you want LDAP for everyone, not only computer users. But the problem is that outside of computer industry itself computer information services are either expensive or useless.
Twenty years is not really a long time interval to change our social life revolutionary. Although, it was in last 20 years that Internet have become a part of our life. Or have it?
Most of information services in Internet are about other Internet informational services or about Internet technologies. No wonder: when it is growing on shoulders of Internet enthusiasts they publish what they know. And the best they know is Internet itself.
The picture was going to change with B2C, but the boom has collapsed saddenly, and then all investors have frozen their money waiting when Mr. President will finally all his wars he's planned. I guess once he's doneand investors are back then B2C will take it's second chance and then we'll finally see more and more infomration services about resources directly not related to internet nor to computer industry.
Another factor is that ma-bells in their core services are far from being "internetized". They might still afraid Internet after ATT was hacked famously in eary 1980s. I worked in ATT. I remember that Internet is prohibitted for all workstations (exception: http proxy for some of them). It's just an illustration of paranoid anti-internet environment there.
Another factor is the modern anti-spam trend - people afraid spam and telemarketing and they don't want to publish their personal info like phone numbers and email addresses. I guess until there will be a law (international, as domestic laws do not protect such international thing as Internet) protecting from spam and from telemarketing, until then people will not let their info being published.
Conclusion: let Mr. Bush finish his wars and investors to re-animate B2C, let ma-bells leave their paranoid fears of Internet, let the law protect people from the spam - and you'll be able to use LDAP to find you friends even if they are not connected to Internet.
On my PC with Cygwin Xfree86 takes CPU only when I start using it. Otherwise it sleeps somewhere in the swap without being noticed.
And yes, I saw many meesages from Cygwin users about "rootless" X11. However, I prefer it with root: IceWM and nice background, thus I feel when I swtch my attention from one env to another:)
My experience lets me to doubt in your numbers. In last few companies I worked last 3 years there were usually 1-3 Macs per whole company, but 5-10 people using Cygwin.
And if you specifically need just seven programs (let me guess: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, IE, Photoshop and Illustrator, right?), it doesn't mean the other people are like you. Most of people prefer the Windows platform and Windows applications is one of those reasons (PC prices is another big reason). Don't forget, most of good CAD, accounting, banking, financial, trading, human resources and other real-business applications exist only for Windows (too bad - I want them for Linux, you want them for OSX).
I admit, most of CAD and HR users don't need neither Cygwin or OSX. But most of system administrators and system developers certainly would certainly prefer Windows+Cygwin, which they can use from any x86 computer in their enterprise.
How can you judge about OS design and OS changes using just screenshots? IMHO screenshots can illustrate only themes and usability, both are related to UI, not to OS.
I would expect to see something like what are changes in the kernel, drivers, system daemons and libraries - that what makes OS as OS.
But Mac users are so insane about look-n-feel they have in OSX that they think that that look-n-feel is their OS.
What are naive people. Perhaps they never saw OSX look-n-feel in GNOME/sawfish.
I may try to explain it by the fact that historically most of Mac users were graphic designers, who don't understand anything besides look-n-feel anyway. But then I don't understant how comes that designers love the system with UI, which design is delivered for them by Apple and it's delivered in a way they cannot really re-design it (theme changing is not re-designing), while they ignore OS (let's say Linux) with UI (let's say GNOME), which design they can re-design completely?!
All that OSX marketing looks like a brain-washing to me:(
Nothing wrong to have more than one way to do the same thing. B/c each way is uniq anyway. Thus you choose how to do the job in the best manner possible.
If you don't have a choice than you don't make a dicision. But if you don't make a decision than it's most likely I can write the program that will do that job instead of you.:)
Russian public libraries do not pay any royalties. I guess same with othe x-soviet republics. And it's most likely the same with most of other ex-socialist republics.
I did not understand your feeling. For me - X11 on cygwin works fine with up-to 3 months uptime and I stop it only when I upgrade cygwin itself or when IT dept insists to shutdown all workstations.
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More than previous version of the same Linux. It's more and more, every day. And there is no any end to it...
Java seems the simplest way to be able to work cross platform and have access to sufficient resources without having to shell out big bucks.
Comparing to Python Java is certainly *NOT* the simplest way. Neither it's cheap.
I've finally opted to go with Java.
I very wander, if Python was considered, then why Java was prefered to Python?
I've just gave an example of pre-installed Linux packages. Personally I've abandoned botyh RH and YDL almost a year ago to install Gentoo instead of both, and it's with me since then.
Not so long. Windows is loosing the market of corporate IT-supported desktops. Not to OSX, of course - fanatics and zealots are not working in big corporations.
Our small company (15 developers) is fixing some bugs in various OSS packages every month as it's faster then waiting when someone else will fix it. But even waiting is faster for OSS then you would wait for such fixes from commercial vendors.
You don't have to convert Mac fanatics. They are just 5% (or about) of the desktop userbase. In order to passOSx Linux should just convert more 5% (or about) of corporate IT-supported users and *THAT* is not a big problem as corporate IT-supported users don't decide anything - if IT department will decide (after calculating cost savings) to go from Windows to Linux then it will be so! And believe me, the amount of corporate IT-supported users is much more than 5% (I believe it's more than 50%).
Each time someone tells: "Unix is better than MacOS" then immidiately OSX zealots answer: "OSX is BSD with a cool GUI on a top of it!".
But if yout tell them the same they asnwer: "it isn't just a GUI, it's a system and much better than BSD".
Very logical!
Ithink their pre-installed Macs is a good job to help converting OSX fanatics back to reality :)
AFAIK all JCP decision are approved in Sun cubicles. Neither OSS developers nor IBM ones have any really meaning vote.
Sun retains rights to the Java trademark and associated frameworks such as J2SE and J2EE. You can't do a Microsoft and pass an incompatible version of these off as Java, but you can call it anything else you want.
As for today, Java is called Java exactly as Sun call it Java. What all other people want (outside of Sun) is open standard (ECMA, ISO) expicitly defining what should be called Java.
As for Linux C API, it would be adapted to run Sun's JVM long time ago if Sun's JVM would be opened. And that's the reason Sun doesn't want jave being open-sourced - b/c Linux will adapt quickly and show much more superiority to Solaris. And that would hurt Sun's sales really seriously.
IMHO, the most of people must require the most of features. That's how open-source "democracy" works. Microsoft might have most of sales, but in most (if any) existing OSS projects Microsoft does not have most of developer votes and thus does not control any project critical decisions.
I think that the real reason Sun keeps Java from open-sourcing is that Sun protect Java from OSS democracy, not from Microsoft as they want us to believe.
How about Apple's decision to release iTunes fo OSX 10.2 or later leaving 10.0 and 10.1 user out of hope?
Most of books (especially low-level programming, like Java, C, C++ and Perl) teach you how to code within one or another programming paradigm. Few books (especially high-level programming, like Lisp, Haskell, Erlang or Prolog) teach you what to code within functional or logical or constraint paradigm. But this book does teach you why to use one or another programming paradigm.
Perhaps you are not a programmer, but you can become a real good one if you have noticed that now! Keep learning!
Your question shows that you don't know what is functional programming. To understand that I advise you to read "Why Functional Programming Matters" (HTML short version).
You don't want a competition. You want one monopolist making software for one or several segments. Too bad that you don't understand that it's bad.
That would make sense with any other adminstration. But Bush cuts taxes telling that the money going back to people and that must create (somehow magically) more work places. I think that b/c the US economy was hurt first of all in dot-com and internet industries than it would make more sense to create work places specially in those industries. Thus it still makes sense to me to give goverment contract to dot-com and internet companies rather than to cut taxes.
Well, sometimes I think that Bush cuts taxes "to give money back to people" b/c he thinks that people know what to do with those money much better than US administration, don't you think?
The requirement can be simple: a category keyword in the subject, some text with mor subject details in first three lines, some text about the sender in last three lines. The format of those can be similar to RFC 822 with one exception - it goes to the message body.
I guarantee you that most of spammers will never receive your MTA's autoanswer as there is no one behind the spammer return address. But those who will receive will never answer. But if you doubt - add the line in you MTA's autoanswer: "don't forget that any email that doesnt fail to one of above categories can work against you in the court if you are a spammer'.
In other words, if Bush would not have his wars, dot-com would restructure and come up again.
I don't believe that Bush failed dot-com. But I do believe that Bush has made (and still is making) everything possible to keep dot-com down as long as it's possible.
Since 2001 US administration has very many chances to help dot-com industries. US goverment has very badly designed, very useless, very outdate web-servers and web-services. Would Bush give goverment contracts to web development companies it would certainly help. I guess he didn't do it as (1) he doesn't own any web development company, (2) he doesn't undestand what is Internet about, (3) his companies mine oil or other way oil-related and it was in his interests to keep oil prices as higher as possible - no time for any other job left.
Twenty years is not really a long time interval to change our social life revolutionary. Although, it was in last 20 years that Internet have become a part of our life. Or have it?
Most of information services in Internet are about other Internet informational services or about Internet technologies. No wonder: when it is growing on shoulders of Internet enthusiasts they publish what they know. And the best they know is Internet itself.
The picture was going to change with B2C, but the boom has collapsed saddenly, and then all investors have frozen their money waiting when Mr. President will finally all his wars he's planned. I guess once he's doneand investors are back then B2C will take it's second chance and then we'll finally see more and more infomration services about resources directly not related to internet nor to computer industry.
Another factor is that ma-bells in their core services are far from being "internetized". They might still afraid Internet after ATT was hacked famously in eary 1980s. I worked in ATT. I remember that Internet is prohibitted for all workstations (exception: http proxy for some of them). It's just an illustration of paranoid anti-internet environment there.
Another factor is the modern anti-spam trend - people afraid spam and telemarketing and they don't want to publish their personal info like phone numbers and email addresses. I guess until there will be a law (international, as domestic laws do not protect such international thing as Internet) protecting from spam and from telemarketing, until then people will not let their info being published.
Conclusion: let Mr. Bush finish his wars and investors to re-animate B2C, let ma-bells leave their paranoid fears of Internet, let the law protect people from the spam - and you'll be able to use LDAP to find you friends even if they are not connected to Internet.
And yes, I saw many meesages from Cygwin users about "rootless" X11. However, I prefer it with root: IceWM and nice background, thus I feel when I swtch my attention from one env to another :)
And if you specifically need just seven programs (let me guess: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, IE, Photoshop and Illustrator, right?), it doesn't mean the other people are like you. Most of people prefer the Windows platform and Windows applications is one of those reasons (PC prices is another big reason). Don't forget, most of good CAD, accounting, banking, financial, trading, human resources and other real-business applications exist only for Windows (too bad - I want them for Linux, you want them for OSX).
I admit, most of CAD and HR users don't need neither Cygwin or OSX. But most of system administrators and system developers certainly would certainly prefer Windows+Cygwin, which they can use from any x86 computer in their enterprise.
I would expect to see something like what are changes in the kernel, drivers, system daemons and libraries - that what makes OS as OS.
But Mac users are so insane about look-n-feel they have in OSX that they think that that look-n-feel is their OS.
What are naive people. Perhaps they never saw OSX look-n-feel in GNOME/sawfish.
I may try to explain it by the fact that historically most of Mac users were graphic designers, who don't understand anything besides look-n-feel anyway. But then I don't understant how comes that designers love the system with UI, which design is delivered for them by Apple and it's delivered in a way they cannot really re-design it (theme changing is not re-designing), while they ignore OS (let's say Linux) with UI (let's say GNOME), which design they can re-design completely?!
All that OSX marketing looks like a brain-washing to me :(
If you don't have a choice than you don't make a dicision. But if you don't make a decision than it's most likely I can write the program that will do that job instead of you. :)
Russian public libraries do not pay any royalties. I guess same with othe x-soviet republics. And it's most likely the same with most of other ex-socialist republics.
I did not understand your feeling. For me - X11 on cygwin works fine with up-to 3 months uptime and I stop it only when I upgrade cygwin itself or when IT dept insists to shutdown all workstations.