I would actually enjoy seeing that. Picture Scott McNealy having to pay Microsoft for a license fee:-)
IBM is wholly behind Linux, so they could theoretically do without a Unix license now. SGI is wholly behind Linux, so they could also do without a Unix license. xBSD is not affected by any Unix license and Linux falls under the GPL. I believe that sooner or later the UNIX IP will be about as useful as any other obsolete OS code.
I'm willing to bet that on those shiney new boxes you end up installing all sorts of non-Solaris, Non-MS stuff just to effectively do your job. I also work with Sun and Windows boxes (as well as Linux), and as soon as the OS load is done I end up installing a boatload of GNU stuff on the Solaris machines and Services for Unix on the Windows machines.
And you probably don't even repartition your Solaris and Dell boxes, do you? Factory defaults are horrible for any kind of production use.
A while back there was a story of a Pakistani (or Indian, I can't remember) woman holding information for ransom for a salary increase. Doubltful that anything could be done personally to her, other than fire her. If she were in the US, in addition to being fired, she would most likely be facing some jail time.
Joe User expects that if he's in an application and he hits F1, it brings up Help, not a new browser window or a machine shutdown.
As far as I know F1 pulls up help in all standard apps, whether in KDE, Gnome or Bluecurve, because that's at the app level. Context sensitive help can also be called by F1 in KDE, Gnome and Bluecurve at the Window manager level. ALT+F calls the file menu in all standard apps and CNTL+Q exits the app. CNTL+C copies and CNTL+V pastes. That looks pretty standardized to me. Perhaps the (grand)parent post was complaining because everything wasn't standardized to Windows.
It's a different OS. Sit a Windows user down in fromt of OS X and you'll see similar initial differences - all easily adapted and learned once it's used for a bit.
When was the last you bought a PC with XP loaded? You most likely didn't get the actual XP media, but a ghost image to restore from to restore "factory defaults". The same thing can easily be done with any new Linux machine. If you are looking for polished installers, look at any distribution: SUSE, RedHat, Mandrake... they ALL have very polished installers.
As far as hotkeys, why would you want to standardize them? I can define any key to do what I want currently with my distro (SUSE). Different people work in different ways. Why restrict them to what you think should be standard.
Your "frequent tasks" comment doesn'r provide any examples, but you could look back to hotkeys to provide solutions.
I can mount a PDA with a GPS receiver on it to my dash.
One of the things I plan to do with my Zaurus this year is outfit it with GPS and get a dash-mount system. Do you think that's going to be allowed? I don't have any first-hand experience with GPS software yet, but from what I understand, it's not exactly simple to task switch with it (and maintain any sort of realtime reception). Anybody know first-hand?
Maybe power users want a lot of space, but I'm not so sure about the average user. With the exception of long trips, most people (admittedly only the ones I know) will only use their MP3 players for short amounts of time - the gym, etc.
I have an old nomad II that I still use often. It takes smart media which is very cheap these days. If I need more space I just purchase another card. Add to that the fact that I separate my music by categories (I'm sure I'm not the only one) so each card is easily labeled by the category.
Do I come off as cheap? Probably, but why retire something that still functions perfectly and has long battery life?
I don't understand why everytime India advances technologically, people immediately think "oh they have nuclear weapons".
Probably because, unlike the US or Russia, they have no agreement with other countries on what they can/cannot do with those nuclear devices (regardless of the fact that we don't always respect the agreements).
I would agree with your statements... if youuu were talking just about SBUS. But you can't get an Enterprise-class Sun box without PCI these days. And they fail. Often. The last E450 I worked on (yes, it's old by today's standard) had to have the backplane replaced twice and 3 of the 4 CPUs replaced. I haven't had much better luck with tier ExxxR series either.
Target the morons buying into spam by advertisements showing how stupid it is and create an effective, international anti-spam effort.
I truly believe that there are no longer so many morons out there actually buying stuff. If you look at any of the major ISPs - even AOL, they all do a decent job of educating their users about spam.
Can you honestly say that you think someone is going to respond to
"INC`R_EASE YOUR DI;C_K WEIGHT u:" in the subject line?
I think the spam business now consists of mostly addresses being sold to other spammers.
remember this conversation when you're brought into custody for some relatively minor infraction while passing through mississippi on vacation, and find yourself on the receiving end of a few dozen cocks after having your asshole properly stretched out by getting a plastic 16-ounce soda bottle filled with sand stuffed up your ass.
Minor nit:
If you're thrown into custody long enough for something like that to happen "while passing through", it wasn't a minor infraction. Since I don't know Mississippi law, I would tend to act as straight-laced as possible while passing through. Maybe that's just me though.
Does it matter that you are willing to take entry level and 60/hrs a week? Not really, because then they'll wonder why you're willing to work cheap.
I've been in the position of having to interview people with such qualifications. They ALWAYS act as if they are only there to get a salary once again (even if they say the low salary is OK -- it's only temporary to them). The second the market opens up, they're gone. This isn't sour grapes. It's a fact. Someone who's had a lot of training expects to be paid accordingly (and rightfully so, in my opinion).
The "significant rewrite" I was referring to is regading (as I said in my original post) transactions and subqueries. I'll say it again, for the upmteenth time: MySQL does NOT conform to SQL standards. As a result, pretty much anything you've written on any other database will not work on MySQL without a rewrite. I'm talking about standard SQL that goes a bit beyond simple SELECT and UPDATE statements. I'm talking about date munging, varchar/char screw-ups, truncated unions, silly concatenation, etc. All of these things are standardized and taken for granted (as they should be) in any other database.
I'm happy that you can do everything you need to do with MySQL, but please... don't pretend that it's drop-in compatible or trivial port your code from one DB to another.
I keep hearing about all the great god-like features of Postgres....but what exactly can Postgres do that mysql can't? i'm going towards setting up a central database (MySQL) linux server at work which will be accessible via Ms. Access using an ODBC driver from the clients. (ie. client running Msft Access changes data on a mysql database on a linux server, easy enough to use gui and a strong enough backend)
Not to put you down, but if you don't understand the differences between the two (or any other database for that matter) you shouldn't be setting up any kind of client/server database system. Really.
It's because of this "I'll just throw up a database system" that makes systems unusable. It's not trivial stuff.
Transaction support has been available with MySQL since 3.2x - that's over two years ago - you need to check what table type you are using.
The reason people continue to say there's no tranaction support is probably because ANY other database out there does not require you to explicitly specify what type of table is needed to actually get transaction support.
I'll get modded as a troll on this one, but honestly, MySQL seems to do things opposite any other DB. The things you mention which are doable (transactions, subqueries) require significant rewrites to port an app to or from MySQL.
This is're really a valid reason in large corps. Case in point: The company I work for was recently acquired by a much larger company. They required us to establish a trust with their domain, as well as with other subsidiary domains. There's NO way to filter out this crap in such an environment. Add to that the fact that sales people usually carry laptops with out-of-date virus definition files. Sure, you can script your logon for your domain, but then you have the same situation from other domains. Virtually impossible to coordinate virus def files across so many domains/subsidiaries (we're talking well over 100,100 desktops and laptops).
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My Zaurus 5600 does all that and more and is only slightly bigger.
IBM is wholly behind Linux, so they could theoretically do without a Unix license now. SGI is wholly behind Linux, so they could also do without a Unix license. xBSD is not affected by any Unix license and Linux falls under the GPL. I believe that sooner or later the UNIX IP will be about as useful as any other obsolete OS code.
Isn't today the deadline ordered by the court to produce some evidence?
And you probably don't even repartition your Solaris and Dell boxes, do you? Factory defaults are horrible for any kind of production use.
A while back there was a story of a Pakistani (or Indian, I can't remember) woman holding information for ransom for a salary increase. Doubltful that anything could be done personally to her, other than fire her. If she were in the US, in addition to being fired, she would most likely be facing some jail time.
Linux users don't have the luxury (yet) of knowing if drivers exist for specific harware (other than looking at a HCL that may or may not be current.
As far as I know F1 pulls up help in all standard apps, whether in KDE, Gnome or Bluecurve, because that's at the app level. Context sensitive help can also be called by F1 in KDE, Gnome and Bluecurve at the Window manager level. ALT+F calls the file menu in all standard apps and CNTL+Q exits the app. CNTL+C copies and CNTL+V pastes. That looks pretty standardized to me. Perhaps the (grand)parent post was complaining because everything wasn't standardized to Windows.
It's a different OS. Sit a Windows user down in fromt of OS X and you'll see similar initial differences - all easily adapted and learned once it's used for a bit.
I guess alt.os.ms-windows.advocacy lives afterall. Wonder why they keep hanging out in Linux/BSD/OSX areas though.
The laughing should begin Jan. 6th. :-)
As far as hotkeys, why would you want to standardize them? I can define any key to do what I want currently with my distro (SUSE). Different people work in different ways. Why restrict them to what you think should be standard.
Your "frequent tasks" comment doesn'r provide any examples, but you could look back to hotkeys to provide solutions.
I can mount a PDA with a GPS receiver on it to my dash.
One of the things I plan to do with my Zaurus this year is outfit it with GPS and get a dash-mount system. Do you think that's going to be allowed? I don't have any first-hand experience with GPS software yet, but from what I understand, it's not exactly simple to task switch with it (and maintain any sort of realtime reception). Anybody know first-hand?
Do I come off as cheap? Probably, but why retire something that still functions perfectly and has long battery life?
Probably because, unlike the US or Russia, they have no agreement with other countries on what they can/cannot do with those nuclear devices (regardless of the fact that we don't always respect the agreements).
I would agree with your statements... if youuu were talking just about SBUS. But you can't get an Enterprise-class Sun box without PCI these days. And they fail. Often. The last E450 I worked on (yes, it's old by today's standard) had to have the backplane replaced twice and 3 of the 4 CPUs replaced. I haven't had much better luck with tier ExxxR series either.
Or how about Atari computers? Remember the mid-late 80s? They were sweet for early midi apps.
I truly believe that there are no longer so many morons out there actually buying stuff. If you look at any of the major ISPs - even AOL, they all do a decent job of educating their users about spam. Can you honestly say that you think someone is going to respond to "INC`R_EASE YOUR DI;C_K WEIGHT u:" in the subject line?
I think the spam business now consists of mostly addresses being sold to other spammers.
Minor nit:
If you're thrown into custody long enough for something like that to happen "while passing through", it wasn't a minor infraction. Since I don't know Mississippi law, I would tend to act as straight-laced as possible while passing through. Maybe that's just me though.
What exactly are you comparing between Israel and China? I see no similarities at all.
I don't know about exit effects, but hyperlinks to other presentations are in OpenOffice 1.1.
I've been in the position of having to interview people with such qualifications. They ALWAYS act as if they are only there to get a salary once again (even if they say the low salary is OK -- it's only temporary to them). The second the market opens up, they're gone. This isn't sour grapes. It's a fact. Someone who's had a lot of training expects to be paid accordingly (and rightfully so, in my opinion).
The "significant rewrite" I was referring to is regading (as I said in my original post) transactions and subqueries. I'll say it again, for the upmteenth time: MySQL does NOT conform to SQL standards. As a result, pretty much anything you've written on any other database will not work on MySQL without a rewrite. I'm talking about standard SQL that goes a bit beyond simple SELECT and UPDATE statements. I'm talking about date munging, varchar/char screw-ups, truncated unions, silly concatenation, etc. All of these things are standardized and taken for granted (as they should be) in any other database. I'm happy that you can do everything you need to do with MySQL, but please... don't pretend that it's drop-in compatible or trivial port your code from one DB to another.
Not to put you down, but if you don't understand the differences between the two (or any other database for that matter) you shouldn't be setting up any kind of client/server database system. Really.
It's because of this "I'll just throw up a database system" that makes systems unusable. It's not trivial stuff.
Sorry for the Scrooge Bah-humbug.
The reason people continue to say there's no tranaction support is probably because ANY other database out there does not require you to explicitly specify what type of table is needed to actually get transaction support.
I'll get modded as a troll on this one, but honestly, MySQL seems to do things opposite any other DB. The things you mention which are doable (transactions, subqueries) require significant rewrites to port an app to or from MySQL.
My bet's on Linus completing the job.
This is're really a valid reason in large corps. Case in point: The company I work for was recently acquired by a much larger company. They required us to establish a trust with their domain, as well as with other subsidiary domains. There's NO way to filter out this crap in such an environment. Add to that the fact that sales people usually carry laptops with out-of-date virus definition files. Sure, you can script your logon for your domain, but then you have the same situation from other domains. Virtually impossible to coordinate virus def files across so many domains/subsidiaries (we're talking well over 100,100 desktops and laptops).