VMware is not at all late to the game - they have been doing x86 virtualization really well for almost 10 years.
Absolutely correct. I was thinking late to the game on the Intel Mac platform. Sorry... I should've been more specific. They are quite late on Intel Macs, but as another poster noted, competition is a good thing.
Parallels runs great and the windowed mode is awesome... but if this version of VM Ware actually supports both of the cores on my MBP, it might make a huge performance improvement.
I've downloaded it and have a VMWare image downloading...
The Parallels tools have things like image import that VMWare is missing though.
Meh, I'd rather replace MySQL than my Debian distribution.
That's what I meant. Sorry for the ambiguity. I love Kubuntu and wouldn't ditch it.
If I was truly concerned about commercial support for my database then I'd buy a commercial database like Sybase or Oracle.
I'm not concerned about the support. I've never needed it... but I've found it makes C level execs (especially at startups) feel better about a tool if they know there's someone out there they can throw money at and "get help".
People use MySQL because it's free, not necessarily because it's better, or even comparable, to commercial offerings.
Not me... I like MySql.:) It's fast, got enough features, lightweight... and the most important feature for a tool... I already know it.
I've used MySql in a number of different companies. In many cases knowing that they could buy a support contract let me bring in MySql. I also really like Kubuntu these days.
I guess it time to dig in and learn another tool to replace it.
"Software developers have become adept at the difficult art of building reasonably reliable systems out of unreliable parts. The snag is that often we do not know exactly how we did it."
So he doesn't remember how he created C++ huh? That explains a ~lot~!
I bought my Mac ~because~ I had played with the "free as in bittorrent" version last fall. It ran great on my Opteron desktop and my Intel based laptop. After a long weekend, I decided to switch.
OS X is a great OS. If more people could try it out, there'd be a lot more converts.
people are free to review material at their own pace without interrupting the presentation.
Translation: People are free to ignore the presenter while the audience flips through the paper and reads at their own pace.
Then, after the presenter has wasted their time talking, you can tune back in and ask the questions that were just answered in the presentation.
Then the presenter can answer the same questions for the next person who also tuned out to read the hand outs.. then again for the next person....
Later the presenter can hear you gripe about much time was wasted with all the questions.
If the information can be conveyed with a handout, send email. If it can't, have a meeting, ~then~ provide hand outs. Don't duplicate. Violates the DRY principal.;)
If Ruby On Rails drives down development time, do it!
If Cruise Control (and continuous integration) drives down development and maintenance time, do it!
If it you've got some tool or process laying around to help drive ~any~ part of the software product lifecycle, it will be adopted and used, just like Ruby on Rails has.
Now, personally, I think the death tax is the most fair tax possible. You can't take it with you anyways, and your heirs didn't earn it.
What's that got to do with anything?
And the death tax is nothing but a money grab by politicians who want more money for their pet projects. If you work hard enough and earn enough to be concerned with the death tax, then it's YOUR money. You earned it. You should get to leave it where you want, not have your estate pillaged by politicians.
Politicians should learn to operate within a real budget like the rest of us.
I'm currently writing a Ruby wrapper for it and then I'll add a Rails adapter. When I'm done I plan on writing it up, but at the moment I don't have the time.
My blog is on my sig if you want to keep an eye on it.
I suspect that they were bleeding customers like crazy from all the bad publicity and the near shutdowns. I can't imagine how much stress their bean counters were under!;)
Also, do you really know that the patents were invalid? I haven't looked at it that closely.
Or we spend the of thousands of years it'll take before it becomes uninhabitable to learn how to live for generations in space.
Or, we build a great underground city with a Big Honking Nuclear Reactor and ride out the ice age as a race of underground overlords!
This one is a great one to pull out and make your favorite environmentalists turn different colors.
Nuclear waste? The planet is a wasteland... this is an ice age people! Build a big gun and launch the waste into the ocean. Or ship it to Alaska. No-one would be living there for a long time anyway.
If MS is worried about a Google desktop OS, then the resources that could otherwise be dedicated to search (or other Google strongholds) will be otherwise occupied.
If Google releases a desktop OS, it would be a huge distraction to MS. Google doesn't need to have a long term profit strategy for the desktop OS. It could simply be cover fire to keep MS occupied while Google moves on another front.
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Absolutely correct. I was thinking late to the game on the Intel Mac platform. Sorry... I should've been more specific. They are quite late on Intel Macs, but as another poster noted, competition is a good thing.
It's a tool for importing a VMWare image, or an image from a real Windows box.
VMWare is coming late to the game, but this is a feature they'll have to match.
I've downloaded it and have a VMWare image downloading...
The Parallels tools have things like image import that VMWare is missing though.
But if an Oracle/MS type company bought it, it was just disapear or fork, then disapear. Too many alternatives.
I ended up using Pound as the load balancer in front of Mongrel. Directions for OS X are http://www.jaredrichardson.net/blog/2006/11/21/#in stalling-pound/ but it's fairly close to doing the same on Linux.
That's what I meant. Sorry for the ambiguity. I love Kubuntu and wouldn't ditch it.
I'm not concerned about the support. I've never needed it... but I've found it makes C level execs (especially at startups) feel better about a tool if they know there's someone out there they can throw money at and "get help".
Not me... I like MySql. :) It's fast, got enough features, lightweight... and the most important feature for a tool... I already know it.
I guess it time to dig in and learn another tool to replace it.
Ah ha! I thought so!
(It's humor! Come on... laugh with me!)
So he doesn't remember how he created C++ huh? That explains a ~lot~!
OS X is a great OS. If more people could try it out, there'd be a lot more converts.
You mean " Helping people steal music
Translation: People are free to ignore the presenter while the audience flips through the paper and reads at their own pace.
Then, after the presenter has wasted their time talking, you can tune back in and ask the questions that were just answered in the presentation.
Then the presenter can answer the same questions for the next person who also tuned out to read the hand outs.. then again for the next person....
Later the presenter can hear you gripe about much time was wasted with all the questions.
If the information can be conveyed with a handout, send email. If it can't, have a meeting, ~then~ provide hand outs. Don't duplicate. Violates the DRY principal. ;)
Sounds like it's just a PR bid then... maybe the involved scientists need to land some grants in the next six months?
You should upgrade your motherboards and replace your Opterons with dual core Opterons. :)
If Cruise Control (and continuous integration) drives down development and maintenance time, do it!
If it you've got some tool or process laying around to help drive ~any~ part of the software product lifecycle, it will be adopted and used, just like Ruby on Rails has.
What's that got to do with anything?
And the death tax is nothing but a money grab by politicians who want more money for their pet projects. If you work hard enough and earn enough to be concerned with the death tax, then it's YOUR money. You earned it. You should get to leave it where you want, not have your estate pillaged by politicians.
Politicians should learn to operate within a real budget like the rest of us.
You might also want to ask about the replication in the newsgroup comp.databases.ingres You can find it Google Groups.
There are a lot of very experienced Ingres users who hang out there.
My blog is on my sig if you want to keep an eye on it.
Check out Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres
and to the other poster, I don't like the PDF docs either! :(
http://ingres.com/
You should've sent it to your congressional representative instead. And his.
Also, do you really know that the patents were invalid? I haven't looked at it that closely.
Or, we build a great underground city with a Big Honking Nuclear Reactor and ride out the ice age as a race of underground overlords!
This one is a great one to pull out and make your favorite environmentalists turn different colors.
Nuclear waste? The planet is a wasteland... this is an ice age people! Build a big gun and launch the waste into the ocean. Or ship it to Alaska. No-one would be living there for a long time anyway.
If Google releases a desktop OS, it would be a huge distraction to MS. Google doesn't need to have a long term profit strategy for the desktop OS. It could simply be cover fire to keep MS occupied while Google moves on another front.
It's all about "Cover Fire". Read about it on Joel's site. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000003 39.html