that's the exact reason why Oracle and IBM have open sourced BerkeleyDB and cloudscape(derby) respectively.
Many developers use some sort of embeded / open source databases for prototyping and for small scale projects these DBs often end up being the production databases.
The reasoning is we have written some triggers/stored procedures etc in PostgreSQL/MySQL etc, and now it's too much of a hasel to convert every thing to Oracle or DB2.
This leads to a lot of loss in revenue for the big guys, especially from the small businesses. by open sourcing BerkeleyDB and cloudscape, Oracle and IBM wish to divert these developers to their DBs. Cloudscape supports all the datatypes of DB2 and I am sure BerkeleyDB supports Oracle Datatypes and some extensions as well.
So prototype in these open source DBs and migrate easily to Oracle or DB2 in production without too much changes.
On a serious note, what pressure ? The trade relations between US and China are symbiotic at this point of time. Neither can afford to put pressure on each other.
I am neither Chinese nor American, but one thing I realize is that, both China and America are super powers in their own rights, but then this is not 1980s, there are other super powers emerging, might I suggest EU ?
In the modern days of globalization, no 2 super powers can lock horns, it's not beneficial to either of them.
Every major telco company sucks . Almost all of them have antiquated billing systems.
They can charge you anyway they want, and when it's time to revert back the wrongfully charged money, it takes any where between 2-3 billing cycle (so they say, actually more like 6-8). And then too you would be lucky to see those charges dropped
Cases in Point
Bought Verizon DSL way back in 2001, when it was first introduced in our area. The consumer packages were limited to 768Kbps so I opted for the business package of 1.5Mbps down for 70$/month.
Two years down the line, the 1.5 MBps package was converted in the a consumer package and price was lowered down to 40$/month. the only caveat being, existing customers continued to be billed at 70$/month unless they specifically called in for the lower rates.
So I called Verizon, they reduce my monthly fees, but bill me 400$ for downgrading from business package to consumer package (WTF, same b/w as before).
After struggling with them for over an year, I finally settled down paying about 200$, just so that they don't damage my credit.
Case 2 . Bought AT&T mobile phone service, after about an year, called in to convert it to Cingular (after the Cingular buy out), and also told them to add another family line. They did not port my old number over (even after specifically requesting so). and when they finally did, charged me twice the activation fee. Had to wait almost 6 months,before the charges were dropped, by then the charges had gone to a collection agency, and once again had to pay something like 50$ just to get them off my back.
Case 3 Bought COX cable, moved to a new location 6 months down the line, had called COX to switch address 2 weeks prior to the move. Not only was the service unavailable for the first 2 weeks, when they finally did enable it, they charged me 400$ for equipments (what equipments ?). Took more than 3 months to get the charges dropped.
It's just a sad story one after another, as far as telcos go.
I don't think it is a question of trust. there are 2 things to consider here.
First you must consider the psychology behind interpreting favorable/unfavorable statistics/numbers. When ever we see statistics that are in accordance of our point of view,
we blindly accept them to be true without considering any other parameters. We don't
try to judge whether the competing entity received fair treatment the statistical analysis or not. or how big was the sample base used to collect those statistics or how correct is the
extrapolation of the results.
On the other hand, the moment we see statistics that don't favor our views/beliefs we start to question the authenticity of the statistics, even at times the integrity of the people collecting these statistics. In short we try to find ways to discredit the numbers, just because they don't conform to our view point, but we have no problems accepting the same statistics as facts if the out come favors our viewpoint.
My point is that there is a definite bias among/. crowd when interpreting statistics . No matter which side of the issue you are on, you should take all statistical analysis with a grain of salt.
As to the second issue of how trustworthy is microsoft well not very, but I wouldn't blindly trust IBM or RedHat either.
what I find strange, is any time linux/open source favoring figures are mentioned, they are stated as facts...firefox usage up by 2%, IE usage drops below 85%..
And any time microsoft favoring figures are mentioned, they are mentioned as claims...Double Standards anyone ?
I myself am a linux fanboy, and have no objection to the linux slant on/. , but that doesn't mean we should toy with statistics or facts to make our point.
To the editors, whenever siting unverifiable statistical data, be explicit about the source and the reliability of the source and by reliable I don't mean linux favoring is reliable and Microsoft favoring is unreliable.
Just don't forget to compile any third party drivers for your gfx card like NVIDIA or ATI as an example. Sometimes you get lucky and there won't be new bugs introduced in during this process...And don't forget to compile any wireless drivers you have if they aren't directly supported
Yes this is indeed an issue, but if I am not wrong, 2.6 kernel can be compiled with support to load modules compiled with pervious 2.6 kernel, though I haven't really tested this out.
.And then if you run something GNU like, lets say Fedora Core for conversational purposes, don't forget to compile in NTFS support if you dual boot and like to share data, etc.
For any one who is insane enough to compile their own kernel, the least you can do is copy the config file from the previous kernel and do make oldconfig.
It never ceases to amaze me just how well "make oldconfig" works.
And then if all goes well that POS integrated audio card won't break and still works instead of breaking your hotplug USB support since sometimes it can work in 2.6.11, break in 2.6.14, work in 2.6.12, break in 2.6.16, work...well - you get the gist of it.
I personally have never had USB hotplug problems, for sometime now, but then again I am not a QA person, so my tests are rather limited.
And once again, if stuff doesn't work, nothing is broken, just boot back in the old kernel . And of course it would be silly to try this on anysort of production machine.
If I am just a user, why should I really care about standards ? No seriously why should I ?
If you say to me, web developers have a hard time implementing support for various browsers, then I will say that, it is the web developer's problem not mine.
I exclusively use Firefox, but not because it is standard compliant, but because, it is much more secure and customizable for my needs.
Ordinary users don't give a damn, about standards or about the web developers.
If future versions of IE, however so non standard compliant they be, can tackle the biggest
issue hounding IE, viz.. "Security", then there is no reason why IE won't regain all the lost
market share to firefox.
This is not the first time that BBC has been caught doing this. One incident that comes to mind, is when babri mosque was destroyed in india, BBC claimed to show live footage , which later turned out to be a destruction of some building in bosnia.
Maybe not related to your employer, but worth mentioning anyway
Be very careful while choosing the moving company. Choose some one who is reputable and reliable, rather than using some one who promises low upfront costs.
My friend moved from west cost to east, a couple of years ago, the moving company said the truck broke down midway, and didn't deliver his goods for 2 months, and when it finally arrived, the truck driver, wouldn't unload, unless he was paid 500$ extra. Moving companies are a big rip off, if you are not careful.
You have an attention span of more than 5 sec. You clearly are not the target
fanbase he is talking about . If on the other hand, were you to have a attention span of less than 5 sec, then you would have realized that this indeed is beneficial to the fans, because.. Oh look there's a shinny penny.
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future govenrments ?
Many developers use some sort of embeded / open source databases for prototyping and for small scale projects these DBs often end up being the production databases.
The reasoning is we have written some triggers/stored procedures etc in PostgreSQL/MySQL etc, and now it's too much of a hasel to convert every thing to Oracle or DB2.
This leads to a lot of loss in revenue for the big guys, especially from the small businesses. by open sourcing BerkeleyDB and cloudscape, Oracle and IBM wish to divert these developers to their DBs. Cloudscape supports all the datatypes of DB2 and I am sure BerkeleyDB supports Oracle Datatypes and some extensions as well.
So prototype in these open source DBs and migrate easily to Oracle or DB2 in production without too much changes.
On a serious note, what pressure ? The trade relations between US and China are symbiotic at this point of time. Neither can afford to put pressure on each other.
I am neither Chinese nor American, but one thing I realize is that, both China and America are super powers in their own rights, but then this is not 1980s, there are other super powers emerging, might I suggest EU ?
In the modern days of globalization, no 2 super powers can lock horns, it's not beneficial to either of them.
Are you Japanese ?
Umm, Which compiler does freebsd use again ? Will all GNU bashing BSD people please send me an output of 'gcc -v' on their systems.
when was it ever funny ?
They can charge you anyway they want, and when it's time to revert back the wrongfully charged money, it takes any where between 2-3 billing cycle (so they say, actually more like 6-8). And then too you would be lucky to see those charges dropped
Cases in Point
Bought Verizon DSL way back in 2001, when it was first introduced in our area. The consumer packages were limited to 768Kbps so I opted for the business package of 1.5Mbps down for 70$/month.
Two years down the line, the 1.5 MBps package was converted in the a consumer package and price was lowered down to 40$/month. the only caveat being, existing customers continued to be billed at 70$/month unless they specifically called in for the lower rates.
So I called Verizon, they reduce my monthly fees, but bill me 400$ for downgrading from business package to consumer package (WTF, same b/w as before).
After struggling with them for over an year, I finally settled down paying about 200$, just so that they don't damage my credit.
Case 2 . Bought AT&T mobile phone service, after about an year, called in to convert it to Cingular (after the Cingular buy out), and also told them to add another family line. They did not port my old number over (even after specifically requesting so). and when they finally did, charged me twice the activation fee. Had to wait almost 6 months ,before the charges were dropped, by then the charges had gone to a collection agency, and once again had to pay something like 50$ just to get them off my back.
Case 3 Bought COX cable, moved to a new location 6 months down the line, had called COX to switch address 2 weeks prior to the move. Not only was the service unavailable for the first 2 weeks, when they finally did enable it, they charged me 400$ for equipments (what equipments ?). Took more than 3 months to get the charges dropped.
It's just a sad story one after another, as far as telcos go.
The last time I went through rpm hell was in the days of Redhat 7 or 8. apt-4-rpm and yum have completely eliminated rpm hell for years now.
I write only static HTML you insensitive clod.
First you must consider the psychology behind interpreting favorable/unfavorable statistics/numbers. When ever we see statistics that are in accordance of our point of view, we blindly accept them to be true without considering any other parameters. We don't try to judge whether the competing entity received fair treatment the statistical analysis or not. or how big was the sample base used to collect those statistics or how correct is the extrapolation of the results.
On the other hand, the moment we see statistics that don't favor our views/beliefs we start to question the authenticity of the statistics, even at times the integrity of the people collecting these statistics. In short we try to find ways to discredit the numbers, just because they don't conform to our view point, but we have no problems accepting the same statistics as facts if the out come favors our viewpoint.
My point is that there is a definite bias among /. crowd when interpreting statistics . No matter which side of the issue you are on, you should take all statistical analysis with a grain of salt.
As to the second issue of how trustworthy is microsoft well not very, but I wouldn't blindly trust IBM or RedHat either.
And any time microsoft favoring figures are mentioned, they are mentioned as claims...Double Standards anyone ?
I myself am a linux fanboy, and have no objection to the linux slant on /. , but that doesn't mean we should toy with statistics or facts to make our point.
To the editors, whenever siting unverifiable statistical data, be explicit about the source and the reliability of the source and by reliable I don't mean linux favoring is reliable and Microsoft favoring is unreliable.
Yes this is indeed an issue, but if I am not wrong, 2.6 kernel can be compiled with support to load modules compiled with pervious 2.6 kernel, though I haven't really tested this out.
For any one who is insane enough to compile their own kernel, the least you can do is copy the config file from the previous kernel and do make oldconfig.
It never ceases to amaze me just how well "make oldconfig" works.
And then if all goes well that POS integrated audio card won't break and still works instead of breaking your hotplug USB support since sometimes it can work in 2.6.11, break in 2.6.14, work in 2.6.12, break in 2.6.16, work...well - you get the gist of it.
I personally have never had USB hotplug problems, for sometime now, but then again I am not a QA person, so my tests are rather limited.
And once again, if stuff doesn't work, nothing is broken, just boot back in the old kernel . And of course it would be silly to try this on anysort of production machine.
All this provided, the new one doesn't fuck up your system, which I highly doubt will be the case.
Now If we can hit this bullseye, all the dominos will fall like a house of cards...checkmate!
If you say to me, web developers have a hard time implementing support for various browsers, then I will say that, it is the web developer's problem not mine.
I exclusively use Firefox, but not because it is standard compliant, but because, it is much more secure and customizable for my needs.
Ordinary users don't give a damn, about standards or about the web developers.
If future versions of IE, however so non standard compliant they be, can tackle the biggest issue hounding IE, viz.. "Security", then there is no reason why IE won't regain all the lost market share to firefox.
Boo Australia
Or am I missing something here?
Cluelessness of a fanboy.
It only does, if you do "sudo rm -rf /", but if you do "sudo -i". you have a root shell.
what ever you do next is your own responsibility.
besides, if sudo is setup with NOPASSWD, "sudo rm -rf /" is not going to help you,
once you press enter.
Saying Ubuntu is secure because it uses sudo is as naive as saying gentoo is fast because you compile everything from scratch.
or one could just drop one's pants, and say "eat my shorts"
Be very careful while choosing the moving company. Choose some one who is reputable and reliable, rather than using some one who promises low upfront costs.
My friend moved from west cost to east, a couple of years ago, the moving company said the truck broke down midway, and didn't deliver his goods for 2 months, and when it finally arrived, the truck driver, wouldn't unload, unless he was paid 500$ extra. Moving companies are a big rip off, if you are not careful.
Are you kidding me, the speed of virtualization , combined with the speed of java. What can be more fast , than that ?
You have an attention span of more than 5 sec. You clearly are not the target fanbase he is talking about . If on the other hand, were you to have a attention span of less than 5 sec, then you would have realized that this indeed is beneficial to the fans, because.. Oh look there's a shinny penny.
good one, took me a while to figure it out.
you haven't heard of kismet have you ?