Microsoft has long stated its commitment to following industry standards, including CSS and HTML. But preliminary data collected by the WaSP showed that IE 5.5 performs poorly against compliance tests, failing 7 out of 13 in the case of CSS.
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The first computer that I programmed was a PDP-8e. paper tape bootstrap, 8 inch floppies that clicked and clacked REALLY LOUD. It ran the console CRT and three teletypes using only 4K of RAM.
The first computer that I purchased was a TRS-80 Color Computer in late 1981, I believe. It had 4K of memory that I later upgraded to 16K by replacing the chips, then finally 64K by piggybacking four chips together per socket. I went for the TRS-80 CoCo over the other home machines available at the time because of the 6809 processor. A buddy (thanks, Rocky) gave me an assembler/disassembler toolset and then things got really interesting! --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
When the tech (finally) showed up a couple of days after the initial appointment date, he had me run the wiring from the phone box, as that wasn't part of his job. Ok, no problem.
When it came time to install the dsl modem and software, he said that it only worked with Windows. I wanted to put the modem on a linux box that happened to have two ethernet cards. It took me 10 minutes to convince him that all I needed was the IP, netmask..., etc to get it up and running, and that YES, it WOULD WORK on linux.
He finally showed me his work order, I configured the ethernet interface on the linux box and we were up and running in five minutes.
So, I had to run the wire, and configure the box...good thing that I qualified for "free" installation. --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
actually, 11.0 was unsupported when Sybase did the linux 'free for commercial use' release. But it still works great.
I've used sybase 10, 11.0, 11.5 and 11.9 and IMHO, 11.0.3 and 11.9.2 are the best releases that Sybase has ever put out. 11.0.3 is still running at many sites. Ok, 4.x is still running at many sites, but the people who are running it call it MS-SQL.
I've used Sybase's OMNI (CIS) stuff since OMNI was at 10.5, and I was sceptical at first, because it seems like 'magic'. But OMNI really works. And so does CIS.
We are starting to check out Sybase 12, and while preliminary reports were pretty rough, 12.x is beginning to look pretty solid in the past two months.
I was an early adopter of 11.5, and I really regret it--we were applying EBFs at least once a week, and the optimizer (still) sucks.
I like sybase as well, and their products/service. But I agree with you about expecting them to advance their marketshare percentage. Oracle, IBM and M$ are much better at marketing.
I honestly feel that Informix has the best product out there today...but being a Sybase DBA pays the bills.... --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
for how long is Sybase 11.0.3 for x86 Linux free for commercial use?
AFAIK, forever.
If you want to use sybase's latest version for commercial use (currently 11.9.2, soon to be 12.x), you will have to purchase a license. However, it is still free for development use, but if you deploy it, you need to buy a license.
As others have pointed out, MySQL doesn't have triggers or stored procedures--so that is something to consider.
In my experience (I'm a sybase dba, and have worked with informix, oracle and db2 as well), I would pony up the $$ and use a commercial database for any large or complex project.
That's where I stand today--maybe in a year or so we will have an enterprise-ready open source database available. or maybe two or three!
I hope so. --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
Now that MySQL supports transactions, I would probably go with it over PostgresSQL.
Even though Sybase hasn't open-sourced their Sybase-SQL server and Adaptive Server Enterprise (and they probably never will), I prefer using Sybase over both PostgresSQL and MySQL. Sybase SQL server 11.0.3 on Linux is free for commercial use.
and no, I'm not affiliated, etc...I just like 'em --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
Since the UC Santa Cruz team considers this a "rough draft" of the human genome, it seems like they are in need of contributors. Just send in a single hair or a few drops of blood.
Here's the chance for everyone, even the script kiddies, to contribute to a future open source project. No coding experience or 'leet skilz' are required. (sorry, me english->leetspeek translator is down) --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
Unix has its roots with the Multics project of the 1960's.
Bell Labs bailed on the project in 1969 but one of the Bell programmers, Ken Thompson, continued to play with a time sharing environment that he called Unix as a pun on the word Multics.
Dennis Ritchie wrote a C compiler under Thompson's Unix. In 1973 Ritchie and Thompson re-wrote the Unix kernel in C.
So, unix goes back much farther than 10 years. The Mac goes back almost 20.
Linux isn't so new either, I was using it at work in 1994. --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
58. If you have plenty of money, the best consequence (so they say) is that you no longer need to think about money. In the future we will have plenty of technology -- and the best consequence will be that we will no longer have to think about technology.
We (especially slashdotters) spend so much time playing with and worrying about technology that we sometimes miss the point of it.
People want to use computers. They want them to be intuitive. They don't want to worry about the hows and whys of a system.
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Jeesh, if you don't know what a FLOP is, then I can't help ya....
What's a FLOP? what do you mean, what's a FLOP?
Here in Colorado, we are happy whenever we have the chance to get a Mega-FLOP!
So, Kansas should be happy with however many FLOPs that they can generate. I'm sure that a Kilo-FLOP would suite them just fine.
I'm sure that all you high fa-loot'in folks in California can afford for your trade shows to be a Giga-FLOP--you folks don't know how good you have it!
This doesn't seem any different to me than any other cookie collection scheme that Doubleclick markets.
While I don't like having banner add companies leaving cookies to track my surfing, EPIC and Junkbusters need to go after Doubleclick, not the ONDCP.
The ONCDP isn't collecting names, etc--
DoubleClick told the Wall Street Journal yesterday that "no personally identifiable data about visitors were given to the government," --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
Can ICANN or another registrar file a court injunction to prevent Network Solutions from auctioning off Domains that it no longer 'owns'?
This is egregious! Network Solutions is attempting to retain its monopoly and prevent the other registrars from being able to register the domains in question.
Network Solutions has been retaining expired domains for a while now.
I wonder how long they have been planning this? --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
They have been planning this for a while--they haven't been releasing domains back into the pool.
For almost a year, I've been watching a few domains that have 'expired' according to Network Solutions WHOIS database.
I recently sent an email to Network Solutions inquiring on what the time period is after a domain expires until it is put back into the pool.
Here is my their response (sent to me on June 9, 2000)
>Thank you for contacting Network Solutions.
There is no set amount of time from the date that a domain name is cancelled until it will be available for registration by another party. Once a domain name is available for registration it will no longer be in our WHOIS data base.
Best Regards, Steven B Network Solutions Registration Services
World Wide Web: http://www.networksolutions.com E-mail: hostmaster@networksolutions.com Tax ID #: 52-1146119
> NicTracking Number: > Service Request Number: > Question or Comment Category: Register a Web Address > Question or Comment: I frequently see domain names that have "expired" by more than a month or two, yet they are still not available to be registered. > > How long after a domain expires with Network Solutions does it become available for someone else to register? One particular domain that I am interested expired on January 30, 2000 and has displayed an "under construction" page for over two years. > > Thanks in advance > > Rob Fenstermacher --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
But not too long, if they are going to discuss this during the July 15-16th meeting.
I think that one important thing to consider is the phrase "consider adopting".
The ICANN Board of Directors is expected to consider adopting such a policy at its meeting on 15-16 July 2000 in Yokohama, Japan. --- Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
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Microsoft has long stated its commitment to following industry standards, including CSS and HTML. But preliminary data collected by the WaSP showed that IE 5.5 performs poorly against compliance tests, failing 7 out of 13 in the case of CSS.
When will IE be compliant?
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there is an interesting statistic on the odds of winning the lottery vs. being struck by lightning here
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Is this a bargain at twice the price?
or will you forgo the support and download the free version?
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The first computer that I programmed was a PDP-8e.
paper tape bootstrap, 8 inch floppies that clicked and clacked REALLY LOUD.
It ran the console CRT and three teletypes using only 4K of RAM.
The first computer that I purchased was a TRS-80 Color Computer in late 1981, I believe. It had 4K of memory that I later upgraded to 16K by replacing the chips, then finally 64K by piggybacking four chips together per socket.
I went for the TRS-80 CoCo over the other home machines available at the time because of the 6809 processor. A buddy (thanks, Rocky) gave me an assembler/disassembler toolset and then things got really interesting!
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I had a very similar experience--see comment #39.
Where do they get these guys?
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you would have fast, courteous installation, too!
I waited months for my dsl to be installed.
When the tech (finally) showed up a couple of days after the initial appointment date, he had me run the wiring from the phone box, as that wasn't part of his job. Ok, no problem.
When it came time to install the dsl modem and software, he said that it only worked with Windows. I wanted to put the modem on a linux box that happened to have two ethernet cards. It took me 10 minutes to convince him that all I needed was the IP, netmask..., etc to get it up and running, and that YES, it WOULD WORK on linux.
He finally showed me his work order, I configured the ethernet interface on the linux box and we were up and running in five minutes.
So, I had to run the wire, and configure the box...good thing that I qualified for "free" installation.
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If you installed it yourself, at least you would know that the installation tech was knowledgeable!
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actually, 11.0 was unsupported when Sybase did the linux 'free for commercial use' release. But it still works great.
I've used sybase 10, 11.0, 11.5 and 11.9 and IMHO, 11.0.3 and 11.9.2 are the best releases that Sybase has ever put out. 11.0.3 is still running at many sites. Ok, 4.x is still running at many sites, but the people who are running it call it MS-SQL.
I've used Sybase's OMNI (CIS) stuff since OMNI was at 10.5, and I was sceptical at first, because it seems like 'magic'. But OMNI really works. And so does CIS.
We are starting to check out Sybase 12, and while preliminary reports were pretty rough, 12.x is beginning to look pretty solid in the past two months.
I was an early adopter of 11.5, and I really regret it--we were applying EBFs at least once a week, and the optimizer (still) sucks.
I like sybase as well, and their products/service. But I agree with you about expecting them to advance their marketshare percentage. Oracle, IBM and M$ are much better at marketing.
I honestly feel that Informix has the best product out there today...but being a Sybase DBA pays the bills....
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for how long is Sybase 11.0.3 for x86 Linux free for commercial use?
AFAIK, forever.
If you want to use sybase's latest version for commercial use (currently 11.9.2, soon to be 12.x), you will have to purchase a license. However, it is still free for development use, but if you deploy it, you need to buy a license.
As others have pointed out, MySQL doesn't have triggers or stored procedures--so that is something to consider.
In my experience (I'm a sybase dba, and have worked with informix, oracle and db2 as well), I would pony up the $$ and use a commercial database for any large or complex project.
That's where I stand today--maybe in a year or so we will have an enterprise-ready open source database available. or maybe two or three!
I hope so.
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Now that MySQL supports transactions, I would probably go with it over PostgresSQL.
Even though Sybase hasn't open-sourced their Sybase-SQL server and Adaptive Server Enterprise (and they probably never will), I prefer using Sybase over both PostgresSQL and MySQL. Sybase SQL server 11.0.3 on Linux is free for commercial use.
and no, I'm not affiliated, etc...I just like 'em
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Since the UC Santa Cruz team considers this a "rough draft" of the human genome, it seems like they are in need of contributors. Just send in a single hair or a few drops of blood.
Here's the chance for everyone, even the script kiddies, to contribute to a future open source project. No coding experience or 'leet skilz' are required. (sorry, me english->leetspeek translator is down)
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Unix has its roots with the Multics project of the 1960's.
Bell Labs bailed on the project in 1969 but one of the Bell programmers, Ken Thompson, continued to play with a time sharing environment that he called Unix as a pun on the word Multics.
Dennis Ritchie wrote a C compiler under Thompson's Unix. In 1973 Ritchie and Thompson re-wrote the Unix kernel in C.
So, unix goes back much farther than 10 years. The Mac goes back almost 20.
Linux isn't so new either, I was using it at work in 1994.
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IMHO, the best point was the last one.
58. If you have plenty of money, the best consequence (so they say) is that you no longer need to think about money. In the future we will have plenty of technology -- and the best consequence will be that we will no longer have to think about technology.
We (especially slashdotters) spend so much time playing with and worrying about technology that we sometimes miss the point of it.
People want to use computers. They want them to be intuitive. They don't want to worry about the hows and whys of a system.
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When will we get a ruling on the Microsoft tax on new hardware?
Remember refund day? what ever happened to that effort?
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Here's the ./ article where it was decided that Microsoft Bob(tm) was the only real innovation that came from in-house Microsoft engineers.
pretty strong statement about Microsoft's in-house innovation!
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You ran this story in March, Emmitt. NASA may deliberately crash Galileo
While it was interesting then, is it still news now?
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It sounds like this guy might be able to pull it off! He knows his limits--he isn't saying that he is going to the moon, or whatever.
In fact, he isn't even trying for orbit, he's going sub-orbital, about 30 miles up.
As long as the FAA (and whatever other US government agencies decide to butt in) doesn't object, he is in for a pretty wild ride!
More power to ya--good luck Mr. Walker!
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This is old news-
the page is over a year old.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 25, 1999 8:16:14 PM Local time
Last Modified: Friday, March 26, 1999 3:16:14 AM GMT
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is that what that was? I thought that I felt something, but I couldn't place it.
Jeesh, if I hadn't saw your post I would have guessed that a gnat had landed on my chest...
Thanks for the update.
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So, because KPH stands for Kilometers Per Hour, there is no such thing as a Kilometer?
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Jeesh, if you don't know what a FLOP is, then I can't help ya....
What's a FLOP? what do you mean, what's a FLOP?
Here in Colorado, we are happy whenever we have the chance to get a Mega-FLOP!
So, Kansas should be happy with however many FLOPs that they can generate. I'm sure that a Kilo-FLOP would suite them just fine.
I'm sure that all you high fa-loot'in folks in California can afford for your trade shows to be a Giga-FLOP--you folks don't know how good you have it!
so, if your tradeshow is a FLOP, don't worry....
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This doesn't seem any different to me than any other cookie collection scheme that Doubleclick markets.
While I don't like having banner add companies leaving cookies to track my surfing, EPIC and Junkbusters need to go after Doubleclick, not the ONDCP.
The ONCDP isn't collecting names, etc--
DoubleClick told the Wall Street Journal yesterday that "no personally identifiable data about visitors were given to the government,"
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Can ICANN or another registrar file a court injunction to prevent Network Solutions from auctioning off Domains that it no longer 'owns'?
This is egregious! Network Solutions is attempting to retain its monopoly and prevent the other registrars from being able to register the domains in question.
Network Solutions has been retaining expired domains for a while now.
I wonder how long they have been planning this?
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They have been planning this for a while--they haven't been releasing domains back into the pool.
= ==========================
For almost a year, I've been watching a few domains that have 'expired' according to Network Solutions WHOIS database.
I recently sent an email to Network Solutions inquiring on what the time period is after a domain expires until it is put back into the pool.
Here is my their response (sent to me on June 9, 2000)
>Thank you for contacting Network Solutions.
There is no set amount of time from the date that a domain name is cancelled
until it will be available for registration by another
party. Once a domain name is available for registration it will no longer
be in our WHOIS data base.
Best Regards,
Steven B
Network Solutions Registration Services
World Wide Web: http://www.networksolutions.com
E-mail: hostmaster@networksolutions.com
Tax ID #: 52-1146119
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> NicTracking Number:
> Service Request Number:
> Question or Comment Category: Register a Web Address
> Question or Comment: I frequently see domain names that have "expired" by more than a month or two, yet they are still not available to be registered.
>
> How long after a domain expires with Network Solutions does it become available for someone else to register? One particular domain that I am interested expired on January 30, 2000 and has displayed an "under construction" page for over two years.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Rob Fenstermacher
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But not too long, if they are going to discuss this during the July 15-16th meeting.
I think that one important thing to consider is the phrase "consider adopting".
The ICANN Board of Directors is expected to consider adopting such a policy at its meeting on 15-16 July 2000 in Yokohama, Japan.
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