Well, I have been writing software for more years than I want to admit, but here is my take.
Other than using some terms that are really bad (c#@!, f$#% and such), there is nothing wrong with the developer putting his thoughts in the code. Somethings it will help the next person understand what the developer was thinking. I will give you an example. Ugly hacks are bad but sometime necessary. Fact of life. If you have to support someone elses code, you might feel the need to say something bad about the person based upon what see in the code and how they got it to work. If you see comments like "... I realize that this really sucks and a major hack but I it does work..." you most likely will hold off your comments. Its called venting!!!!
Dude, you really need to relax. Please take a count of the number of FreeBSD devs vs. DragonFlyBSD devs before you go off the wagon. Please give them some time.
I hear you about PMC. I have had some problems with there ammo in that it is quite dirty. I pump out a few hundred rounds, and my gun looks like I dragged it home in the mud!
Funny, I thought 9/11 was indirectly caused by decades of US government support of brutal regimes throughout the Middle East.
Ah yes, here we go again. I am really tired of people using this argument. What are we to do? Just sit on our hands and hope for the best? Instead of being like the UN which just sits there and hopes for the best, we stepped in. Gee, lets see side with Iran or Iraq. The problem is that ALL governments over there are BRUTAL regimes!!! The best part of this whole Afghanistan/Iraq situation is that now you can't use the argument that we are supporting a "brutal regime" because we now just took the whole existing government out of the picture!!!
What did Clinton do? Gee, pushed one button and hoped that the problem would go away. Guess what, life ain't that easy! Now we have someone in office who realizes this and is doing something tangible about the problem. Is it going swimmingly? Guess what, war is hell and people die. Do I like seeing American soldiers dying trying to help free Iraq? Hell NO!!! Should we be doing it? Hell YES!!!
Bin Laden got away because we gave Pakistan the opportunity to take him out. Could it be that we were trying to give them a chance to fix a problem that they helped create. My guess is that you are one in the crowd who uses the words "occupying Iraq" when talking about the war in Iraq. Well guess what, we either treat them like second stringers and truly occupy their country or we allow them to help fix the problem and maybe, just maybe, allow them to redeem themselves.
The military is one of those few organizations that is actually designed to change quickly when ordered to do so...no politician had the guts to give the order./BLOCKQUOTE> My guess is that you don't have any experience with the military because if you did, you would have never made such a moronic comment. The military can many things, but change is not one of them.
My guess is that you have never really dealt with DCOM have you? What a security nightmare it is! DCOMCFG. What a joke. Nothing like having a DCOM call hang 20 minutes on you. Trust me, this can happen.
Stored procedures are great if you have a query that gets called over and over because the query is already compiled and ready to go.
Views are great if you have a dataset that just doesn't change much because it allows for the data to be sitting there ready. Example: we have some data that only changes at most once a day, but the dataset is needed continuously.
Triggers are great if during the insertion of data requires a bunch of work because again the triggers are already compiled and ready to go.
Granted, this is with SQL Server 2000, but this should apply to all.
Out of curiosity, have you used any Linux distro lately? KDE and Gnome both have output filters that generate PDF's easily. PDF is an open standard and the OSS people have already written the software to generate and read PDF's.
And to be honest, the OSS PDF viewers are miles ahead of Adobe Reader for Linxu.
Gee, what is it like to be perfect and born with all of the knowledge of the Universe? What? You weren't born with that knowledge? Then where did you get it?
You are missing the point. The reason people buy RH is because they don't want to spend time finding the person who did XYZ. They just go to RH because they have a support contract, and make RH fix the problem.
Companies don't really care who or what caused the problem. They just want a fix NOW. That is the value -add that RH brings to the table.
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You are quibbling about $2-$3 a day which translates to $600-$900 a year with my math.
Second, you are talking about a "speedup" of 1 second for dialups. Me thinks you are wasting time.
I suspect Subversion uses a database because it may be intended to run on operating systems with less powerful file systems.
A filesystem should not be used to hold multiple versions of a file as well as the meta-data associated with it. Less not forgeting the associations of multiple files that become a project. This is the work of a database, hence BerkleyDB. If you are concerned about "repairing" a file (aka db), there are command-line tools for just such an event, but you will probably find that you just won't ever need them.
Just my 5000 sheckles.
What really kills me about outsourcing is that companies don't realize just how they are damaging their future in so many ways. I will give just two. 1) You lay someone off here in the U.S. as an example. Guess what, that is money that is not going to be used to buy products that most likely the parent company makes to some degree. Does someone in India buy dishwashers, tablesaw, etc. Not to be mean but not in the volume as here. 2) Tribal knowledge that is desperately needed to stay within a company for future development. That is all gone, and personally the quality that comes from an outsourced job is short of atrocious. That comes from watching quite a few projects at two different companies go completey down in flames.
Sorry, outsourcing is going to tear this economy in the U.S. to pieces. Quick short-term gain for a long-term failure!!!!
After spending way to much time reading through all of the posts, I guess I want to throw in my comments and get beat-up like the fool I am!!
First, I do disagree with Bruces' comment about the installer being only run once. I might be reading to much into the comment, but the installer is one of the most important pieces of software you ship. First impressions are very important, and if the user cannot get Linux onto the computer then the game is lost. Plain and simple. You can try to argue, but if the user can't boot into Linux then what is the use. (Remember, that most users are not all that bright!!! Just ask any tech support person.)
Second, why not use UnitedLinux as a base? Yes, it might cost some money initially but look at the rewards. Now you would most likely have a desktop that matches the servers in the important areas (compiler version, kernel version, WM versions etc). I think what UnitedLinux (minus Caldera/SCO) aims for is exactly what the desktop needs.
Third, RPM vs apt-deb argument. Dammit, it is too late for me to try to argue for/against each. Sorry. Need sleep.
(P.S. If anybody wants to contine offline, feel free to email me.)
My guess is that you should not be doing a 'WHERE data=NOW()' in that type of enviroment. The data should be calculated first, the query sent out to be run.
If all you need is Notes, then just use WINE. I have been using Notes under WINE without a problem. I say this because I thought I read that WINE does not have any issues with the newer kernel features.
You are telling only half of the story here. All of your 'solutions' are correct depending on the type of data. If you are passing the data via the stack, yes, you are correct. Now, if you are passing large data sets, then, you are most likely passing by reference. Now, your solutions break down. Interop does not handle refernce passing at all. You then have to do all of the dirty work. I had to do just that because I was using a web service to provide a COM server to the world.
Here is a bit of information that you need to keep in mind when it comes to the courts. What is rignt and wrong is not important, but what can be proven. With that, SCO could pull of the impossible under the right circumstances.
Now if I can remember correctly, there were at least two counties that went through a recount, and at the end, the count was even more in favor of Bush.
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Well, I have been writing software for more years than I want to admit, but here is my take.
Other than using some terms that are really bad (c#@!, f$#% and such), there is nothing wrong with the developer putting his thoughts in the code. Somethings it will help the next person understand what the developer was thinking.
I will give you an example. Ugly hacks are bad but sometime necessary. Fact of life. If you have to support someone elses code, you might feel the need to say something bad about the person based upon what see in the code and how they got it to work. If you see comments like "... I realize that this really sucks and a major hack but I it does work..." you most likely will hold off your comments. Its called venting!!!!
I hear you on this one. Last time I heard, it was estimated to take 800 hours for an individual to fully repair all damage from an identity theft.
Excellent suggestions. The continuation of binary releases until the community is ready is a good idea. Nice touch.
Dude, you really need to relax. Please take a count of the number of FreeBSD devs vs. DragonFlyBSD devs before you go off the wagon.
Please give them some time.
Let's see, we just now are recovering from a recession and the federal income went down compared to five years ago.
Nothing like looking at one number and not seeing or even understanding what it all means.
I hear you about PMC. I have had some problems with there ammo in that it is quite dirty. I pump out a few hundred rounds, and my gun looks like I dragged it home in the mud!
Ah yes, here we go again. I am really tired of people using this argument. What are we to do? Just sit on our hands and hope for the best? Instead of being like the UN which just sits there and hopes for the best, we stepped in. Gee, lets see side with Iran or Iraq. The problem is that ALL governments over there are BRUTAL regimes!!!
The best part of this whole Afghanistan/Iraq situation is that now you can't use the argument that we are supporting a "brutal regime" because we now just took the whole existing government out of the picture!!!
What did Clinton do? Gee, pushed one button and hoped that the problem would go away. Guess what, life ain't that easy! Now we have someone in office who realizes this and is doing something tangible about the problem. Is it going swimmingly? Guess what, war is hell and people die. Do I like seeing American soldiers dying trying to help free Iraq? Hell NO!!! Should we be doing it? Hell YES!!!
Bin Laden got away because we gave Pakistan the opportunity to take him out. Could it be that we were trying to give them a chance to fix a problem that they helped create. My guess is that you are one in the crowd who uses the words "occupying Iraq" when talking about the war in Iraq. Well guess what, we either treat them like second stringers and truly occupy their country or we allow them to help fix the problem and maybe, just maybe, allow them to redeem themselves.
My guess is that you have never really dealt with DCOM have you? What a security nightmare it is!
DCOMCFG. What a joke.
Nothing like having a DCOM call hang 20 minutes on you. Trust me, this can happen.
Stored procedures are great if you have a query that gets called over and over because the query is already compiled and ready to go.
Views are great if you have a dataset that just doesn't change much because it allows for the data to be sitting there ready. Example: we have some data that only changes at most once a day, but the dataset is needed continuously.
Triggers are great if during the insertion of data requires a bunch of work because again the triggers are already compiled and ready to go.
Granted, this is with SQL Server 2000, but this should apply to all.
Push out the little Linux PDF players?
Out of curiosity, have you used any Linux distro lately? KDE and Gnome both have output filters that generate PDF's easily. PDF is an open standard and the OSS people have already written the software to generate and read PDF's.
And to be honest, the OSS PDF viewers are miles ahead of Adobe Reader for Linxu.
Guess I am kinda lucky because it runs just fine with Crossover 3.0 for me, and I didn't have to do anything goofy.
Gee, what is it like to be perfect and born with all of the knowledge of the Universe? What? You weren't born with that knowledge? Then where did you get it?
You are missing the point. The reason people buy RH is because they don't want to spend time finding the person who did XYZ. They just go to RH because they have a support contract, and make RH fix the problem.
Companies don't really care who or what caused the problem. They just want a fix NOW. That is the value -add that RH brings to the table.
You are quibbling about $2-$3 a day which translates to $600-$900 a year with my math.
Second, you are talking about a "speedup" of 1 second for dialups. Me thinks you are wasting time.
A filesystem should not be used to hold multiple versions of a file as well as the meta-data associated with it. Less not forgeting the associations of multiple files that become a project. This is the work of a database, hence BerkleyDB. If you are concerned about "repairing" a file (aka db), there are command-line tools for just such an event, but you will probably find that you just won't ever need them. Just my 5000 sheckles.
They use Linux in the in-store inventory-payment terminals.
What really kills me about outsourcing is that companies don't realize just how they are damaging their future in so many ways. I will give just two.
1) You lay someone off here in the U.S. as an example. Guess what, that is money that is not going to be used to buy products that most likely the parent company makes to some degree. Does someone in India buy dishwashers, tablesaw, etc. Not to be mean but not in the volume as here.
2) Tribal knowledge that is desperately needed to stay within a company for future development. That is all gone, and personally the quality that comes from an outsourced job is short of atrocious. That comes from watching quite a few projects at two different companies go completey down in flames.
Sorry, outsourcing is going to tear this economy in the U.S. to pieces. Quick short-term gain for a long-term failure!!!!
After spending way to much time reading through all of the posts, I guess I want to throw in my comments and get beat-up like the fool I am!!
First, I do disagree with Bruces' comment about the installer being only run once. I might be reading to much into the comment, but the installer is one of the most important pieces of software you ship. First impressions are very important, and if the user cannot get Linux onto the computer then the game is lost. Plain and simple. You can try to argue, but if the user can't boot into Linux then what is the use.
(Remember, that most users are not all that bright!!! Just ask any tech support person.)
Second, why not use UnitedLinux as a base? Yes, it might cost some money initially but look at the rewards. Now you would most likely have a desktop that matches the servers in the important areas (compiler version, kernel version, WM versions etc). I think what UnitedLinux (minus Caldera/SCO) aims for is exactly what the desktop needs.
Third, RPM vs apt-deb argument. Dammit, it is too late for me to try to argue for/against each. Sorry. Need sleep.
(P.S. If anybody wants to contine offline, feel free to email me.)
My guess is that you should not be doing a 'WHERE data=NOW()' in that type of enviroment. The data should be calculated first, the query sent out to be run.
If all you need is Notes, then just use WINE. I have been using Notes under WINE without a problem. I say this because I thought I read that WINE does not have any issues with the newer kernel features.
Sounds like you are a candidate for VMWare dude. Your main OS can be Linux with a virtual machine for Win95.
Hold on please....I need to get the pee out of my pants....
Thanks for the laugh!
You are telling only half of the story here. All of your 'solutions' are correct depending on the type of data. If you are passing the data via the stack, yes, you are correct.
Now, if you are passing large data sets, then, you are most likely passing by reference. Now, your solutions break down. Interop does not handle refernce passing at all. You then have to do all of the dirty work. I had to do just that because I was using a web service to provide a COM server to the world.
Here is a bit of information that you need to keep in mind when it comes to the courts. What is rignt and wrong is not important, but what can be proven.
With that, SCO could pull of the impossible under the right circumstances.
Now if I can remember correctly, there were at least two counties that went through a recount, and at the end, the count was even more in favor of Bush.
Just my $0.02