Actually, this issue received significant coverage in online media outlets, such as The Register. Note also the coverage of Borland's recant, where pressure from the online community was clearly one of the factors.
...but isn't this supposed to be a PDA? Look at the screenshots again... look at the 10 apps.... where is "Calendar"? -- where is "Contacts"? -- where is "E-mail"? -- where is "To Do List"?
Take this quote, for example: Indeed, there is no commercial GUI builder for Qt or GTK+. WRONG!
How did Mr. Fountain miss the press release announcing Kylix from Borland? This is a commercial GUI builder and RAD development environment which relies on Qt.
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Awesome! That would require your enemy to defend every city, even ones in the interior of his territory. That's a tough one -- it would certainly slow his expansion. I would think taking out your space elavator would be a primary objective.
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Easily, it's the U.S. Army Rangers. They rock. It takes a real stud to pass Ranger School. Everyone in the unit is Airborne qualified. No one is "assigned" to the Rangers. It is 100% volunteer. Only the best are accepted.
Sure the Navy Seals are tough, and I have a lot of respect for them. However, they are a very small force in the grand scheme of things. Tiny. Just a handful of them. Not enough to make a difference in most cases. It's tough to find a handful of men who can pass Seal training -- now imagine the Rangers' challenge fielding a whole brigade of them!
The Green Berets are primary instructors and trainers. It's not like what you see in the John Wayne movies. The Green Berets mission is to jump in behind enemy lines and train insurgents. An important job, and a tough job -- no doubt. But they are not a direct action force. They work behind the scenes.
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Actually, no it wouldn't. Believe it or not, in the 21st century (I can say that now, right?) -- space launches are pretty common. Look at the number of shuttle launches, satellite launches, and space probe launchs.
Sure, everyone will know when the rocket goes up. It will simply be advertised as a commercial satellite launch. Besides, no one would expect for somebody to be JUMPING OUT of the damn thing!
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Just think of the military implications of this technology. A squad of highly trained commandos (pick your favorite flavor, U.S. Army Rangers, Navy Seals, Green Berets, etc.) space dives from orbit to infiltrate any country in the world undetected. This is ideal for covert ops. I wonder what the patch for space diving would like like on the uniform? I suggest a small icon of someone shitting their pants. Hahahahahaha!
Check out The Global File System, it's the heat! GFS is *the* open source filesystem that has the backing of the big storage manufacturers, like EMC Corporation. It blows away AFS, try it for yourself and you will see.
This article provides an example of a shortcoming in SlashCode. This article should be coded as both an AMD and a Transmeta related article, but instead we only see the AMD icon. (I much prefer the swirly Transmeta Crusoe icon.)
Okay, so this isn't a particulary relevant or earth-shattering post, but at least it's not a troll.
I find this hard to believe. I've been an Interbase fan for a long time, and it is FAST. PostgreSQL has always seemed huge, slow, and klunky to me. Again, I'm flabbergasted.
F I R S T P O S T ?
"The problem is, EMC is expensive. I don't think you can get anything from them for under six digits, and I'd be surprised if it was much under seven."
Actually Richard, that's no longer true. EMC purchased Data General back in October of 1999 and thus acquired their CLARiiO N line of storage products. These products are aimed at distributed environments and are actually quite affordable.
Not to mention the fact that EMC will let you lease their equipment if you absolutely have to avoid the upfront aquisition costs.
You really need to talk to EMC. They have a high performance disk storage array called Symmet rix, which is pretty cool in it's own right. However, what makes it REALLY REALLY cool is that they sell it with a software package called Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF). SRDF allows you to copy/mirror data to an offsite Symmetrix array that can be located anywhere in the world! This is the software that all the large companies use to provide their "disaster recovery" site at another geographical location.
Don't count out Kylix as being a good platform for creating Open Source code. Remember this quote from the article:
At the opening keynote, Dale said that a major goal for Kylix is to make it possible for developers to release their own projects under any license, including full-strength GPL.
I wouldn't be suprised if all the libraries and a command line version of the Delphi compiler were made "free" as in beer. That way, anyone could compile Delphi projects. However, if you want the full blown IDE and all the bells and whistles, then you have to pay. That would be fair.
If you want a database that comes close to SQLServer or Oracle, and is free, use Postgres.
Actually, you should use Interbase. PostgreSQL is a SQL layered on Postgres. It doesn't implement nearly as full a subset of the ANSI SQL standard as Interbase does, for example: select-driven inserts. PostgreSQL is also fairly large and complicated to use, and has a lot of non-SQL features.
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Anyway, my question is, is there a fully-featured open source RDBMS out there? Your help is appreciated
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CNET has the story, titled "Intel delays Celerons because of manufacturing crunch".
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker has delayed the release of 633- and 667-MHz Celeron chips by approximately two months, according to industry sources close to the company.
The story goes on to state:
Computer makers, tiring of Intel chip shortages that have lingered since last October, may well begin to adopt more Athlons.
So, in fairness to "equal time", they're both short.
Did you even read the post? It answers all of your questions:
MINIX is much smaller than Linux and might well be suitable as the operating system for a watch, camera, or transistor radio. The manufacturer of, say, a watch might really not want to provide a CD-ROM with the source code with each watch or even a web site with the source code, as being too much trouble. The new MINIX license says you can distribute source if you want to, but you don't have to.
So, that's what it's good for, and that's why he didn't pick the GPL. 'Nuff said.
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Well, the operating system would be called 'Klingux' and would incorporate pre-emptive strike multi-tasking
Actually, that's GNU/Klingux.
Actually, this issue received significant coverage in online media outlets, such as The Register. Note also the coverage of Borland's recant, where pressure from the online community was clearly one of the factors.
Here's the error:
/web/admin.hardwareanalysis.com/include/db.php on line 7
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in
Unable to connect to database.
...but isn't this supposed to be a PDA? Look at the screenshots again... look at the 10 apps.... where is "Calendar"? -- where is "Contacts"? -- where is "E-mail"? -- where is "To Do List"?
Beautiful OS, but clearly not an organizer.
yes! I believe it maybe!
Here is part of an email I recieved:
Remember the rule: "i" before "e" except after "c" or when sounded as "a" as in neighbor and weigh. This site fairly cries out for an editor.
My opinion is that to many people want cheese with their whine.
That should be too not "to". Heaven forbid if CmdTaco ever moved to a true printed medium and had to deal with editors!
You seem to be the only one making that comparison....
Take this quote, for example:
Indeed, there is no commercial GUI builder for Qt or GTK+.
WRONG!
How did Mr. Fountain miss the press release announcing Kylix from Borland? This is a commercial GUI builder and RAD development environment which relies on Qt.
Awesome! That would require your enemy to defend every city, even ones in the interior of his territory. That's a tough one -- it would certainly slow his expansion. I would think taking out your space elavator would be a primary objective.
Easily, it's the U.S. Army Rangers. They rock. It takes a real stud to pass Ranger School. Everyone in the unit is Airborne qualified. No one is "assigned" to the Rangers. It is 100% volunteer. Only the best are accepted.
Sure the Navy Seals are tough, and I have a lot of respect for them. However, they are a very small force in the grand scheme of things. Tiny. Just a handful of them. Not enough to make a difference in most cases. It's tough to find a handful of men who can pass Seal training -- now imagine the Rangers' challenge fielding a whole brigade of them!
The Green Berets are primary instructors and trainers. It's not like what you see in the John Wayne movies. The Green Berets mission is to jump in behind enemy lines and train insurgents. An important job, and a tough job -- no doubt. But they are not a direct action force. They work behind the scenes.
Actually, no it wouldn't. Believe it or not, in the 21st century (I can say that now, right?) -- space launches are pretty common. Look at the number of shuttle launches, satellite launches, and space probe launchs.
Sure, everyone will know when the rocket goes up. It will simply be advertised as a commercial satellite launch. Besides, no one would expect for somebody to be JUMPING OUT of the damn thing!
Just think of the military implications of this technology. A squad of highly trained commandos (pick your favorite flavor, U.S. Army Rangers, Navy Seals, Green Berets, etc.) space dives from orbit to infiltrate any country in the world undetected. This is ideal for covert ops. I wonder what the patch for space diving would like like on the uniform? I suggest a small icon of someone shitting their pants. Hahahahahaha!
Check out The Global File System, it's the heat! GFS is *the* open source filesystem that has the backing of the big storage manufacturers, like EMC Corporation. It blows away AFS, try it for yourself and you will see.
I had no trouble finding the Linux DVD player software press release, here's the url:
http://www.intervideo.c om/news/28/InterVideoLinDVDFinal.htm
This article provides an example of a shortcoming in SlashCode. This article should be coded as both an AMD and a Transmeta related article, but instead we only see the AMD icon. (I much prefer the swirly Transmeta Crusoe icon.)
Okay, so this isn't a particulary relevant or earth-shattering post, but at least it's not a troll.
I find this hard to believe. I've been an Interbase fan for a long time, and it is FAST. PostgreSQL has always seemed huge, slow, and klunky to me. Again, I'm flabbergasted.
F I R S T P O S T ?
"The problem is, EMC is expensive. I don't think you can get anything from them for under six digits, and I'd be surprised if it was much under seven."
Actually Richard, that's no longer true. EMC purchased Data General back in October of 1999 and thus acquired their CLARiiO N line of storage products. These products are aimed at distributed environments and are actually quite affordable.
Not to mention the fact that EMC will let you lease their equipment if you absolutely have to avoid the upfront aquisition costs.
You really need to talk to EMC.
They have a high performance disk storage array called Symmet rix, which is pretty cool in it's own right. However, what makes it REALLY REALLY cool is that they sell it with a software package called Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF). SRDF allows you to copy/mirror data to an offsite Symmetrix array that can be located anywhere in the world! This is the software that all the large companies use to provide their "disaster recovery" site at another geographical location.
Don't count out Kylix as being a good platform for creating Open Source code. Remember this quote from the article:
At the opening keynote, Dale said that a major goal for Kylix is to make it possible for developers to release their own projects under any license, including full-strength GPL.
I wouldn't be suprised if all the libraries and a command line version of the Delphi compiler were made "free" as in beer. That way, anyone could compile Delphi projects. However, if you want the full blown IDE and all the bells and whistles, then you have to pay. That would be fair.
If you want a database that comes close to SQLServer or Oracle, and is free, use Postgres.
Actually, you should use Interbase. PostgreSQL is a SQL layered on Postgres. It doesn't implement nearly as full a subset of the ANSI SQL standard as Interbase does, for example: select-driven inserts. PostgreSQL is also fairly large and complicated to use, and has a lot of non-SQL features.
Anyway, my question is, is there a fully-featured open source RDBMS out there? Your help is appreciated
What you are looking for is Interbase.
CNET has the story, titled "Intel delays Celerons because of manufacturing crunch".
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker has delayed the release of 633- and 667-MHz Celeron chips by approximately two months, according to industry sources close to the company.
The story goes on to state:
Computer makers, tiring of Intel chip shortages that have lingered since last October, may well begin to adopt more Athlons.
So, in fairness to "equal time", they're both short.
Did you even read the post? It answers all of your questions:
MINIX is much smaller than Linux and might well be suitable as the operating system for a watch, camera, or transistor radio. The manufacturer of, say, a watch might really not want to provide a CD-ROM with the source code with each watch or even a web site with the source code, as being too much trouble. The new MINIX license says you can distribute source if you want to, but you don't have to.
So, that's what it's good for, and that's why he didn't pick the GPL. 'Nuff said.
No need to get personal, friend.
Most professional developer's consider a debugger to be essential.
If you can get by with using printf's for whatever little high school programming homework assignment you have, then great. More power to you.