Which product do you mean? I think RHEL replaced AIX in many places.
Though RHEL isn't exactly cheap, but over the next decade, I suspect their revenue will go up considerably as it replaces Windows in the business space.
poor understanding of whatever scenario is the programmer
This. Shame with PHP though that between versions magic quotes crept in, so legacy programs that had to work around lack of parameters then had to be adapted to cope with systems where a new layer was introduced, otherwise things became double escaped.
You're right. I quit reading/. over a decade ago because I couldn't get past the narrow-minded (I was one of them at one point) comments about any company trying to do the right thing. Came back here today to see if things had changed. Nope. The guy at the top wants change and it's been happening. Despite what a very small vocal and idiotic minority (on/.) and other websites think.
The guy at the top is the collective shareholders.
A thought I've been wondering is if they see maintaining an OS is profitable any longer. People are sick of updates and I suspect to see Windows fade even further into insignificance and their product base to move to a more portable platform. If only this had happened a very long time ago.
In other news, a very early and irrelevant MS-DOS was open sourced.
Honestly, I don't know if the company has changed, I don't know if there's a chance in the future of MS withdrawing from Open Source efforts. I do suspect they've recognised the OS market has gone away and software as a service is their only hope.
So, Microsoft rewrote it's C-pound compiler in C-pound and made it
C-flat, I think.
But yeah, what's the point when openjdk is there, why bother, meh. Pretty much the same language, pretty much the same paradigm. Why bother? If you want to help the world, work on rust or nim. They look promising.
Is it a patent trap if it is under the Apache licence? I'm not sure where one stands legally if they patent something and then release it under the Apache licence, which AFAICS is very similar to the BSD licence.
If its worth having, someone will leak it. Until then, expect to see it on github in a couple of decades. Keeping it closed is stupid logic that encourage shareholders and those deluded by the bandwagon into thinking that there is something 'special' or a 'highly secret' technical advantage with NTFS.
I forgot how happy I was at a previous job where I didn't have to use Windows one little bit.
Is NTFS useful when there's btrfs and zfs? It does what FAT couldn't and it has a lot of features that FAT didn't, but I don't regard it as useful when compared with other already open file systems.
That's subjective. I've spent a lot of time with powershell, more than I want, it does not come close to bash, it is a weak slow and inconsistent language.
The problem with bash is that you can only pipe strings, which works great under Linux, but sucks for Windows as internally in Windows it's all objects. In Powershell everything you're working on is objects, that object could be a string, an int or a hash. It has inbuilt XML / CSV parsers, and can pull in data from SQL server, Exchange, Azure Blobs and all sorts of other places with modules.
$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4096 | gzip -9 >/dev/null
Doesn't look like there's any trouble using these fds without strings.
In regards to a console scripting language, it's a lot faster for me to write something in Powershell than bash, and I end up writing a lot smaller scripts because I can use a lot of internal functions than having to write that code myself.
PHP was for websites and generating HTML code, it was never intended as a replacement for bash as far as I was aware. I think if PHP was anything, it was an open source replacement for ColdFusion.
I don't know why you find powershell faster to use, maybe you're doing very windows related things which don't yet have CLI tools.
Yes, there is a powershell parser for CSV, a bit like Text::CSV in perl, but requires about 10 times the RAM, and is much slower. If your business is selling compute in Azure now, I guess you have less incentive to make efficient code.
The "extend" bit is not going to plan. I thought when I heard powershell for linux or sqlserver for linux that MS would do more to promote that use, but I doubt anyone is going to adopt either of those. It looks more to me that MS are adopting open source than proprietary taking hold on linux.
No, they wont and can't. What they're trying to do is pollute the apt-get sources with sqlserver/powershell.
It's not catching on. They're pivoting on python, I've noticed a great deal of their new software is not written in powershell. Poweshell is worse for windows than php was for linux.
Same. I don't see the point of linked in these days. I thought it was interesting in the old days, but these days I think it's more showboating than anything else. I only log in out of curiosity. I plan to delete it again. It's just a time vampire, real recruiters use Monster, and I can't imagine any real recruiter scrolling through linked in drivel looking for candidates.
Humans are not compatible with the planet. Self greed ranks higher than off spring preservation, which is crappy and I suppose we deserve to fail. Creating heat through bitcoin mining, stupid, but proves my point. Burning fossil fuels, not only exhausting supply but puts the burden on future generations to sort out just so that the current generation can make a quick profit.
Yes, I agree, the Linux community is horribly fractured and must be a big nightmare for some applications to be ported. But if it's available for anything Apple, or anything Android, porting it to Linux should be relatively easy.
If that's the case, why is there no openbsd variant?
Windows is pretty fragmented too, look at the issues with various AV software. PowerShell is starting show signs of decay through the lack of consistency from 2008 versions onwards, (see cmdletbinding for example).
That exposes a basic misunderstanding of how software in Linux is built. The program which presents a remote filesystem should be separate from the program which synchronizes files. That's the unix way.
It also makes Dropbox's job simple: a fuse (filesystem in userspace) driver and then let folks stack whatever other Linux software they want to on top of it.
I came here to say this. You did a much better job of it than I would have.
From a political perspective, yes, 4 legs good, 2 legs better!
Not unless your political perspective is that we should turn the clock back two centuries and all live in what would now be considered abject poverty.
How would walking turn you to poverty?
Motorized vehicles are essential to our economy. There's no way to conduct the large-scale trade that underpins our wealth without using them. And there's absolutely no way to do it with purely human power (no four-legs -- domesticated beasts of burden dramatically increased human productivity).
Is money the only thing that you consider? Have you questioned if every single journey you make in a car is a car-only trip? Could you not use legs instead and try and save some fuel? The economy could perhaps be more focused around cycling, perhaps, I've dropped far more money on cycling than driving in the last four/five years.
I choose to not use the car, I have a healthier lifestyle as a result. Please explain.
Now you've changed your argument from one about politics to one of personal health. Getting exercise is clearly good for you, sure. This can be done by walking or in any of many other ways, many of which are more time-efficient. I prefer rowing and cycling, myself, especially rowing because it's a whole-body activity.
It was never a political argument, it was a reference to the book "Animal Farm".
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Covered by what? This is a matter of small-print in the contract. The writing was on the wall.
Which product do you mean? I think RHEL replaced AIX in many places.
Though RHEL isn't exactly cheap, but over the next decade, I suspect their revenue will go up considerably as it replaces Windows in the business space.
Linux already has solitaire and minesweeper.
poor understanding of whatever scenario is the programmer
This. Shame with PHP though that between versions magic quotes crept in, so legacy programs that had to work around lack of parameters then had to be adapted to cope with systems where a new layer was introduced, otherwise things became double escaped.
Yes, php, a language that built sql injection vulnerabilities into the API.
At least they know what query parameters are now. The programmer wasn't entirely at fault, up until PDO anyway.
It's open source, why not cherry pick the bits you want, and name it something else?
Is that a reference to magic quotes? :)
You're right. I quit reading /. over a decade ago because I couldn't get past the narrow-minded (I was one of them at one point) comments about any company trying to do the right thing. Came back here today to see if things had changed. Nope. The guy at the top wants change and it's been happening. Despite what a very small vocal and idiotic minority (on /.) and other websites think.
The guy at the top is the collective shareholders.
A thought I've been wondering is if they see maintaining an OS is profitable any longer. People are sick of updates and I suspect to see Windows fade even further into insignificance and their product base to move to a more portable platform. If only this had happened a very long time ago.
In other news, a very early and irrelevant MS-DOS was open sourced.
Honestly, I don't know if the company has changed, I don't know if there's a chance in the future of MS withdrawing from Open Source efforts. I do suspect they've recognised the OS market has gone away and software as a service is their only hope.
Does it run on windows?
So, Microsoft rewrote it's C-pound compiler in C-pound and made it
C-flat, I think.
But yeah, what's the point when openjdk is there, why bother, meh. Pretty much the same language, pretty much the same paradigm. Why bother? If you want to help the world, work on rust or nim. They look promising.
Is it a patent trap if it is under the Apache licence? I'm not sure where one stands legally if they patent something and then release it under the Apache licence, which AFAICS is very similar to the BSD licence.
If its worth having, someone will leak it. Until then, expect to see it on github in a couple of decades. Keeping it closed is stupid logic that encourage shareholders and those deluded by the bandwagon into thinking that there is something 'special' or a 'highly secret' technical advantage with NTFS.
I forgot how happy I was at a previous job where I didn't have to use Windows one little bit.
"Apparently you're not allowed to use any "electronic device" while on a bike. Wording it like that is said to "future-proof" the law."
I have an electronic shifter and a wireless control unit.
The law sucks.
Are you /using/ it, or is the bike /using/ it?
Is NTFS useful when there's btrfs and zfs? It does what FAT couldn't and it has a lot of features that FAT didn't, but I don't regard it as useful when compared with other already open file systems.
Powershell is bash equivalent.
That's subjective. I've spent a lot of time with powershell, more than I want, it does not come close to bash, it is a weak slow and inconsistent language.
The problem with bash is that you can only pipe strings, which works great under Linux, but sucks for Windows as internally in Windows it's all objects. In Powershell everything you're working on is objects, that object could be a string, an int or a hash. It has inbuilt XML / CSV parsers, and can pull in data from SQL server, Exchange, Azure Blobs and all sorts of other places with modules.
$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4096 | gzip -9 >/dev/null
Doesn't look like there's any trouble using these fds without strings.
In regards to a console scripting language, it's a lot faster for me to write something in Powershell than bash, and I end up writing a lot smaller scripts because I can use a lot of internal functions than having to write that code myself.
PHP was for websites and generating HTML code, it was never intended as a replacement for bash as far as I was aware. I think if PHP was anything, it was an open source replacement for ColdFusion.
I don't know why you find powershell faster to use, maybe you're doing very windows related things which don't yet have CLI tools.
Yes, there is a powershell parser for CSV, a bit like Text::CSV in perl, but requires about 10 times the RAM, and is much slower. If your business is selling compute in Azure now, I guess you have less incentive to make efficient code.
The "extend" bit is not going to plan. I thought when I heard powershell for linux or sqlserver for linux that MS would do more to promote that use, but I doubt anyone is going to adopt either of those. It looks more to me that MS are adopting open source than proprietary taking hold on linux.
MS will not match this.
No, they wont and can't. What they're trying to do is pollute the apt-get sources with sqlserver/powershell.
It's not catching on. They're pivoting on python, I've noticed a great deal of their new software is not written in powershell. Poweshell is worse for windows than php was for linux.
I've had good luck with Monster
Same. I don't see the point of linked in these days. I thought it was interesting in the old days, but these days I think it's more showboating than anything else. I only log in out of curiosity. I plan to delete it again. It's just a time vampire, real recruiters use Monster, and I can't imagine any real recruiter scrolling through linked in drivel looking for candidates.
To which I almost always reply with "what makes it stand out", completely ignoring their specific questions.
Humans are not compatible with the planet. Self greed ranks higher than off spring preservation, which is crappy and I suppose we deserve to fail. Creating heat through bitcoin mining, stupid, but proves my point. Burning fossil fuels, not only exhausting supply but puts the burden on future generations to sort out just so that the current generation can make a quick profit.
Vote with your feet, if you don't like the club rules, join or start another club.
Yes, I agree, the Linux community is horribly fractured and must be a big nightmare for some applications to be ported. But if it's available for anything Apple, or anything Android, porting it to Linux should be relatively easy.
If that's the case, why is there no openbsd variant?
Windows is pretty fragmented too, look at the issues with various AV software. PowerShell is starting show signs of decay through the lack of consistency from 2008 versions onwards, (see cmdletbinding for example).
That exposes a basic misunderstanding of how software in Linux is built. The program which presents a remote filesystem should be separate from the program which synchronizes files. That's the unix way.
It also makes Dropbox's job simple: a fuse (filesystem in userspace) driver and then let folks stack whatever other Linux software they want to on top of it.
I came here to say this. You did a much better job of it than I would have.
From a political perspective, yes, 4 legs good, 2 legs better!
Not unless your political perspective is that we should turn the clock back two centuries and all live in what would now be considered abject poverty.
How would walking turn you to poverty?
Motorized vehicles are essential to our economy. There's no way to conduct the large-scale trade that underpins our wealth without using them. And there's absolutely no way to do it with purely human power (no four-legs -- domesticated beasts of burden dramatically increased human productivity).
Is money the only thing that you consider? Have you questioned if every single journey you make in a car is a car-only trip? Could you not use legs instead and try and save some fuel? The economy could perhaps be more focused around cycling, perhaps, I've dropped far more money on cycling than driving in the last four/five years.
I choose to not use the car, I have a healthier lifestyle as a result. Please explain.
Now you've changed your argument from one about politics to one of personal health. Getting exercise is clearly good for you, sure. This can be done by walking or in any of many other ways, many of which are more time-efficient. I prefer rowing and cycling, myself, especially rowing because it's a whole-body activity.
It was never a political argument, it was a reference to the book "Animal Farm".
From a political perspective, yes, 4 legs good, 2 legs better!
Not unless your political perspective is that we should turn the clock back two centuries and all live in what would now be considered abject poverty.
How would walking turn you to poverty? I choose to not use the car, I have a healthier lifestyle as a result. Please explain.