Read the following threads and petition about their stance on upgrading early SSD customers to TRIM:
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19310219.aspx
(one of the most active threads on their forums - and totally ignored by DELL)
It's hard to fathom that a supposed IT company can blindly ignore the importance of a major feature like SSD Trim to people who ordered early. By definition, SSD buyers are the top end of their customers, so it's not smart to ignore their needs.
I know of several companies (ours included) who took DELL off the supplier list because of this. If you check the petition you'll see Boeing on there too. I doubt any company can afford to lose them as a customer. I'll personally never buy or recommend DELL again after this either.
-- Rob
History shows us that many new forms of "clean power" have later turned out to have side effects as bad or worse than their predecessors - take Nuclear for example.
I have a nagging doubt wind, solar, and wave power may have a nasty sting in the tale too - not on the small scale they are used now. But scale them up to producing large amounts of power, and how much change will you accidentally cause to tides and weather?
Physics 101 - Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Take too much energy out of a system and you will change it.
Google clearly sees potential for African web access then... but how do you get it to the consumer if many countries don't have infrastructure or PCs.
Unless of course you had a handset you could re-package / re-price in a "stripped out" form that could access it direct?
In which case you could get voice - data - and web all from one device, all direct from Google?
Of course technically it may not be that easy to create an Android device that could do this - but if it were possible, it'd immediately make Google a pan-African MNO
Try:
http://www.sleepycat.com/products/bdbxml.html
As I recall, it is open source as long as your application is also open source (or used purely internally). Bit like GPL, but under their own license
I can tell you, I've used both Ingres and many other database (including MS-SQL, MySQL, DB2, etc. etc.).
Despite it being considered "old" it, Ingres is a fast and stable database - certain comparable and up to the performance levels and features of many current databases, MS-SQL and MySQL included.
And several cite how much better MySQL is an open source database - to which I'd say:
- read the Ingres and MySQL licenses and tell me which is more open source, and less restrictive? To my eye (and IANAL) the Ingres one poses fewer constraints on use of Ingres as an open source product within commercial products
- ask one of the many big Sun sites who still run very large, very stable applications on Ingres whether they'd like to swap for MySQL?
I have no axe to grind here, but Ingres is a decent database and a proper open source contribution. Just because it has CA's name associated with it, doesn't make it bad
I hope that Ballmer wasn't referring to him being dead in 5 years... he's only a cute little Pup.
And sorry Steve, I can't see anyone calling their dog MSN
There's nothing more annoying than old, out-of-date, or just plain confusing commments used as an excuse to explain poorly written code.
Ban all comments and work on making your code compact and easy to read and understand.
I'd much rather read 20 lines of well written code than 50 lines of garbage with another 20 lines of comments as an excuse for not writing it better in first place.
No doubt Lord Hutton will be appointed, and will come down entirely in favour of Bill Gates, MicroSoft, proprietary software, and the Labour Government.
All blame for Linux and all other open source initiatives will be laid on the BBC, causing the chairman and director general to resign.
Alastair Campbell will make a speech about how he was right all along, and demanding a full apology.
If this is democracy... someone give me a gun
Surely hand in hand with a cheap web station would be something small and reasonably inoffensive to look at, to go with the reduced functionality?
Top marks for making such a low cost, linux based "appliance".
Zero marks for styling and design - you'd need to put it in a corner with a cloth over it.
What the article shows is that:
- there's no easy or tried and tested formula for comparing support "cost" and support "quality/effectiveness" of commercial vs. open source offerings
- businesses currently have a model for software purchasing and support which it is not easy to make OSS fit. And it takes time and effort to change business practices and models
The responses present some good arguments:
- OSS can provide a much safer, much more cost effective option
- not all OSS projects are safe though, it depends on how committed and active their community is
- proving this has to be done on a case by case basis
- OSS is like all other software. It needs good hackers to support it. So whatever support you think you're buying or getting - look at the quality of the people who are delivering it.
-- RobW
Slashdot Mirror
RIP. You had an early and profound influence on my career.
Errr .. because email was around way before 1994. Maybe not in it's current form, and maybe not as prevalent - but it certainly existed way before then
Read the following threads and petition about their stance on upgrading early SSD customers to TRIM:
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19310219.aspx
(one of the most active threads on their forums - and totally ignored by DELL)
http://www.petitiononline.com/dellssd/
(170 signers to date - that's a lot of unhappy users)
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19332633.aspx
(a truly jaw dropping example of DELL's arrogance and ignorance where they try and justify not providing TRIM support to SSD users)
It's hard to fathom that a supposed IT company can blindly ignore the importance of a major feature like SSD Trim to people who ordered early. By definition, SSD buyers are the top end of their customers, so it's not smart to ignore their needs.
I know of several companies (ours included) who took DELL off the supplier list because of this. If you check the petition you'll see Boeing on there too. I doubt any company can afford to lose them as a customer. I'll personally never buy or recommend DELL again after this either. -- Rob
The star being cooked up in Livermore this summer is expected to die 200 trillionths of a second after it's ignited, Van Wonterghem said.
And if it doesn't?
And don't stars when the collapse create black holes?
History shows us that many new forms of "clean power" have later turned out to have side effects as bad or worse than their predecessors - take Nuclear for example. I have a nagging doubt wind, solar, and wave power may have a nasty sting in the tale too - not on the small scale they are used now. But scale them up to producing large amounts of power, and how much change will you accidentally cause to tides and weather? Physics 101 - Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Take too much energy out of a system and you will change it.
But then I was dumb enough to buy DELL: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/254961-14-warning-careful-ordering-dell-machines-ssds
Google clearly sees potential for African web access then ... but how do you get it to the consumer if many countries don't have infrastructure or PCs.
Unless of course you had a handset you could re-package / re-price in a "stripped out" form that could access it direct?
In which case you could get voice - data - and web all from one device, all direct from Google?
Of course technically it may not be that easy to create an Android device that could do this - but if it were possible, it'd immediately make Google a pan-African MNO
Try: http://www.sleepycat.com/products/bdbxml.html As I recall, it is open source as long as your application is also open source (or used purely internally). Bit like GPL, but under their own license
I can tell you, I've used both Ingres and many other database (including MS-SQL, MySQL, DB2, etc. etc.).
Despite it being considered "old" it, Ingres is a fast and stable database - certain comparable and up to the performance levels and features of many current databases, MS-SQL and MySQL included.
And several cite how much better MySQL is an open source database - to which I'd say:
- read the Ingres and MySQL licenses and tell me which is more open source, and less restrictive? To my eye (and IANAL) the Ingres one poses fewer constraints on use of Ingres as an open source product within commercial products
- ask one of the many big Sun sites who still run very large, very stable applications on Ingres whether they'd like to swap for MySQL?
I have no axe to grind here, but Ingres is a decent database and a proper open source contribution. Just because it has CA's name associated with it, doesn't make it bad
I hope that Ballmer wasn't referring to him being dead in 5 years ... he's only a cute little Pup.
And sorry Steve, I can't see anyone calling their dog MSN
There's nothing more annoying than old, out-of-date, or just plain confusing commments used as an excuse to explain poorly written code. Ban all comments and work on making your code compact and easy to read and understand. I'd much rather read 20 lines of well written code than 50 lines of garbage with another 20 lines of comments as an excuse for not writing it better in first place.
I'm sure others have said this as well, but patent and copyright are not the same thing, and different processes and laws apply to them
No doubt Lord Hutton will be appointed, and will come down entirely in favour of Bill Gates, MicroSoft, proprietary software, and the Labour Government. All blame for Linux and all other open source initiatives will be laid on the BBC, causing the chairman and director general to resign. Alastair Campbell will make a speech about how he was right all along, and demanding a full apology. If this is democracy ... someone give me a gun
Surely hand in hand with a cheap web station would be something small and reasonably inoffensive to look at, to go with the reduced functionality? Top marks for making such a low cost, linux based "appliance". Zero marks for styling and design - you'd need to put it in a corner with a cloth over it.
What the article shows is that: - there's no easy or tried and tested formula for comparing support "cost" and support "quality/effectiveness" of commercial vs. open source offerings - businesses currently have a model for software purchasing and support which it is not easy to make OSS fit. And it takes time and effort to change business practices and models The responses present some good arguments: - OSS can provide a much safer, much more cost effective option - not all OSS projects are safe though, it depends on how committed and active their community is - proving this has to be done on a case by case basis - OSS is like all other software. It needs good hackers to support it. So whatever support you think you're buying or getting - look at the quality of the people who are delivering it. -- RobW