It depends on your background. If you spend a lot of time writing C/C++/Java then PHP is a whole lot more attractive than Perl. Because of the similar systax and structire of the language there is no need to spend time getting into a completely different mindset.
Personally I have nothing against Perl, it's just that I spend about half my time writing server apps in C and the other half writing web apps to interface with them. It makes me more productive to be able to switch languages instantly.
And Oracle's preferred platform is now Linux. So that cuts Microsoft out of the deal for a high number of Oracle servers. After all, who really cares which operating system a database server is running? Easier just to go with what Oracle says.
As for MySQL, it can't compete with Oracle for very high reliability systems now. How about in five years? In ten? Twenty? More?
Some countries definitely will get to vote. I will as I live in the UK, for example. I'm fairly confident of the outcome too - we said no to the euro, we'll say no to the constitution.
Huh... I'm running SuSE 9.2 with KDE 3.4 RC1 and it's only using 209MB of memory out of 512MB at the moment. It can't just be "that's the way Linux is".
There hasn't been a really good science fiction series since Babylon 5. The only good things I have seen since are Sci-Fis adaptations of Dune and Children of Dune.
The Apple fanboys that happen to be mods are out in force today. In their world, any comments in an Apple story negative towards Apple must be modded down. Of course, if this was a Microsoft story, they would take the opposite stance.
And of course, this will be modded down too for daring to criticize the elitist bastards.
95% of posts from Windows/Linux/OS X users bashing each other. The other 5% claiming to look at a text terminal all day without actually attempting to jump through a window at the top of the building. (or maybe they bounce when they try?)
Personally, I'd love to get by without most of my distractions - that would be email (mostly from the sales team, the rest normal business overhead) and the phone ringing constantly. Not to mention that as a programmer in a small business I also have a server admin hat, a DBA hat, and a technician hat. Whole days can go by where I don't get a single line of code written and yet barely have time to eat my lunch. My OS doesn't have a chance to make me unproductive!:)
I always find that very weird. Gentoo is one of the best distros and yet it has a torturous install process. I'm all for letting people tweak what they want but maybe they could provide a simpler install for those of us that don't actually care about all the optimization.
MySQL powers a fairly large chunk of the internet so of course you're going to see some MySQL errors.
I was unable to access part of a site due to MS SQL deadlock errors a few weeks. Why is this relevent? It was part of microsoft.com*! Surely they know how to use their own database server.
* The order system that lets you download the beta of Windows XP 64-bit.
People want to use the same operating system at work that they use at home. A company uses Windows because that's what the owner/ceo got with his home computer.
Well, the vast majority of them anyway. But that's not the point. The point is that someone can write whatever they want and potentially have it read by a world-wide audience. That's what the web is all about.
I'm still buying an iRiver player over an iPod. I find Steve Jobs extremely distasteful in general recently - he seems to have some sort of God complex way out of proportion to Apple's market share.
And the signal would be different than any other signal how? As I see it, there are two possibilities for the call-home: a), it talks to a satellite. Satellite phones are hardly rare, to give just one example. b) it uses GSM or GPRS to transmit data (or whatever you Americans use instead) which every modern cellphone in the country will have. Even if they somehow track the GPS communications, lots of people have GPS devices to.
"I'm skeptical of their claims, since historically Macrovision's anti-copying measures have been little more than easily circumvented snake oil, but maybe this time they've got their plan down."
It's just time for them to dip into the pockets of the RIAA/MPAA again.:D
I'd suggest one of the easier distros such as SuSE or Red Hat. They'll be much happier with a distro focused on KDE too, as it makes more sense to an ex-windows user.
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Actually, it's mainly left up to the distros who usually put in a default choice with an option to change filesystem if you really care.
Personally I have nothing against Perl, it's just that I spend about half my time writing server apps in C and the other half writing web apps to interface with them. It makes me more productive to be able to switch languages instantly.
As for MySQL, it can't compete with Oracle for very high reliability systems now. How about in five years? In ten? Twenty? More?
Some countries definitely will get to vote. I will as I live in the UK, for example. I'm fairly confident of the outcome too - we said no to the euro, we'll say no to the constitution.
It is fast. WinXP takes around 10 seconds to boot into the desktop on my machine, while Linux takes around 30-40 seconds to enter runlevel 5.
Huh... I'm running SuSE 9.2 with KDE 3.4 RC1 and it's only using 209MB of memory out of 512MB at the moment. It can't just be "that's the way Linux is".
There hasn't been a really good science fiction series since Babylon 5. The only good things I have seen since are Sci-Fis adaptations of Dune and Children of Dune.
And of course, this will be modded down too for daring to criticize the elitist bastards.
If people are actually watching BBC stuff on their computer. Otherwise, not.
Personally, I'd love to get by without most of my distractions - that would be email (mostly from the sales team, the rest normal business overhead) and the phone ringing constantly. Not to mention that as a programmer in a small business I also have a server admin hat, a DBA hat, and a technician hat. Whole days can go by where I don't get a single line of code written and yet barely have time to eat my lunch. My OS doesn't have a chance to make me unproductive! :)
I always find that very weird. Gentoo is one of the best distros and yet it has a torturous install process. I'm all for letting people tweak what they want but maybe they could provide a simpler install for those of us that don't actually care about all the optimization.
I was unable to access part of a site due to MS SQL deadlock errors a few weeks. Why is this relevent? It was part of microsoft.com*! Surely they know how to use their own database server.
* The order system that lets you download the beta of Windows XP 64-bit.Stallman doesn't have ANY room to talk about software that is taking a long time to develop.
Heh, you said it about availability - I work with GPRS tracking units and one vanished for over five hours last week.
You think Linux users are going to find it difficult to learn Windows? I don't think so.
People want to use the same operating system at work that they use at home. A company uses Windows because that's what the owner/ceo got with his home computer.
Well, the vast majority of them anyway. But that's not the point. The point is that someone can write whatever they want and potentially have it read by a world-wide audience. That's what the web is all about.
Firefox probably loads the whole redering engine into memory. Do you really want to wait for lots of disk I/O every time you load a web page?
BT have been forced to open the ADSL network, so I'm about to switch to freedom2surf because BT have been disconnecting me constantly lately.
I'm still buying an iRiver player over an iPod. I find Steve Jobs extremely distasteful in general recently - he seems to have some sort of God complex way out of proportion to Apple's market share.
And the signal would be different than any other signal how? As I see it, there are two possibilities for the call-home: a), it talks to a satellite. Satellite phones are hardly rare, to give just one example. b) it uses GSM or GPRS to transmit data (or whatever you Americans use instead) which every modern cellphone in the country will have. Even if they somehow track the GPS communications, lots of people have GPS devices to.
It's just time for them to dip into the pockets of the RIAA/MPAA again. :D
I've been wishing for ages that SuSE would quit using RPM, as it's quite limiting. YaST based on APT or the Gentoo package manager would be awesome.
I thought they stepped awya because they were pushing .NET and it was so much more convenient if Java didn't work.
I'd suggest one of the easier distros such as SuSE or Red Hat. They'll be much happier with a distro focused on KDE too, as it makes more sense to an ex-windows user.