I had to design, develop and support a lot of systems built on top of Windows and proprietary software when OSS would be perfectly viable and a lot less expensive, if not a better quality alternative.
I lost a lot of sleep hours due to Windoze specific problems, and the systems I'm talking about were ordered to be deployed in Windows "just because".
Micro$oft has their fist up managers's asses so high that most of the times they consider it to be the only alternative. Some customers specifically request Windows boxes, and suppliers specifically offer Windows solutions, like nothing else existed, even when Windows is obviously the wrong option! But in these guys's minds, no options exist.
It's not like I'm an idealist, or something. These guys make us twist and turn just to make things fit into Windoze. They are the idealists.
Well, screw it. I must live with that. Use Linux at home, and love it.
It would be really great, but the problem is that lots of apps take it as granted that they can use the system tree to store their settings, thus making it a pain to use a Windoze machine without full registry rw access.
It's funny, because the apps that have this kind of stupid behavior are usually M$ apps. Most others work fine.
The only good thing about the Imperial measurement system is the pint of beer. I love it. It beats the 25 centilitres of the standard beer glass in my country.
One funny thing I notice about people is that most people tend to pull down the shades and turn on the lights, because they say the sun disturbs them. Pretty stupid idea, in my opinion. But then, people just love setting air conditioning to North Pole temperature in beautiful sunny days when everybody goes to work in t-shirt. They really make you forget it's Spring.
My IT main customers, Dad, Sista, Mom and Dear don't have a clue what a service is. Firewall by default is god sent. I use Linux and it has that feature, ant it's Ok. So, what's wrong with windoze having it, anyway?
In my country is mandatory to have an ID card with data, picture and fingerprint.
Everybody has one of those and it's mandatory to carry it with you all the time, you'll be arrested without it.
We live with that. Actually, doesn't bother me at all. What bothers me is if my government spies on my phone conversations or my internet usage without a court order, which is illegal here.
I protest! The title of this post is sensationalist and biased against Europe. The contents of the news are about a conference with the participation of European, Middle East and American delegates, what in that article justifies such a stupid title?
Shame, shame on you. This is manipulation.
Curing aging! The world is full of crazy people. That is as stupid as trying to stop the Earth from rotating to prevent hurricanes.
Don't these people have nothing better to waste their time on?
Now excuse me, I'm just going to age a little bit.
Reusing glasses, dishes and silverware, as far as they are conveniently washed, beats eating on disposable plastic stuff, creating a huge amount of garbage.
If you want to get philosophical, you can say that living kills, or other totally redundant stuff.
Saying that all causes cancer is a good way of ending a discussion, but it adds nothing to it.
No way! The chemical properties of oil change when it's heated. Used oil causes cancer!
All oils may be recycled. But they're not gonna be used to the same purpose! Give me a break, recycle cooking oil to fry stuff? Just the thought of it makes me sick!
My granma uses NaOH and used cooking oil to make soap. And she makes a very nice soap. This is a fine way to convert a highly polluting product into a useful and environment-friendly one.
Finland is among the most developed countries in the world. Their standard of living surpasses the USA a lot.
It's the country of Nokia, the absolute world leader in mobilie phones.
Don't be so narrow-minded. I had the bad luck of being transfered to a web development team, and all we use here is M$. Not the.NET, but that old ASP shit. (Sigh!)
I tried PHP, but it doesn't feel like an alternative. Web development is particularly painful. I hate writing the same HTML shit everytime I want to create a new form, and having to deal with all that request/response shit, validating arguments with totally unreliable client-side Javascript or, as an alternative, enter in the request/response state-maintaining inferno, being restricted only to strings as arguments, etc. The Wysiwyg tools we have here are even worse than coding by hand, and they can't deal server-active content, anyway. Nobody uses them. Add it to short deadlines and a boss breathing down your neck.
Now, a framework that abstracts me from that web crap would be reeeealy nice. A web application shouldn't be harder to design than a GUI one with Delphi, or VBeuh.
My boss is considering upgrading our skills. I'm actively lobbying J2EE, which I love, but I don't think it has any chance against the "Evil Empire".NET Studio. My boss is gonna drool all over when he sees M$ WebForms in action, even if it only works with IE! How can I avoid M$ lock-in if any kiddy can build an entire site right away, while I'm trying to get some JSPs to work? Even if the kiddie does a horrendous job, management guys don't give shit about technical issues. All they care about is "it was fast to create and looks nice".
That "true machos only need vi" attitude is part responsible for the Evil Empire world domination. I mean, I already know how to make web pages! Now, what I need is a good tool that allows me to do that without re-inventing the wheel everyday! Any development tool that doesn't treat me like I'm braindead (VBeuh) and isn't awkward and kludgy (MSVC++) is welcome.
I'm downloading Sun Studio right away and start trying it. If I can make the M$ zealots here like it, it will be a great victory. If I don't, my future probably is become another Evil Empire zombie, or live from unemployment checks.
This clearly demonstrates the undemocratic nature of the European Union. We are voting for a Parliament that directly represents the people of the Union, but it's decisions do not stand. The Commission, which is a group of non-elected guys, has all the power. I really hate that the decisions which affect my life, and the life of 500 million people are taken by a bunch of fat bureucrats who are not accountable before the people.
Another bullshit they are trying to make us swallow is that European Constitution crap. Constitutions are to be written by the elected representatives of the people, not created in secrecy by a bunch of professional .
This is not the Europe of the Europeans, but the Europe of the Corporations. Why should we vote for a Parliament which has no powers?
They should cut their crap and:
1. Dissolve the European Parliament, which is a fake institution.
2. Fire the entire commission and create a new one with the CEOs of the biggest corporations, thus eliminating the intermediaries.
This would show reality as it is.
When your car is broken you pay a mechanic to fix it, you don't just ask an accountancy clerk to do it, do you? Why would this be different in IT world?
If I owned a company, I would forbid anyone creating MS Acess databases.
I didn't read the patent text all the way through, but looks to me this is a way of embedding executable scripts in XML. BFD!
This will make XML files executable. If you use Outlook, beware XML attachments. Don't double click them!
What will be next? "Way of invoking COM Objects from an XML file".
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I had to design, develop and support a lot of systems built on top of Windows and proprietary software when OSS would be perfectly viable and a lot less expensive, if not a better quality alternative.
I lost a lot of sleep hours due to Windoze specific problems, and the systems I'm talking about were ordered to be deployed in Windows "just because".
Micro$oft has their fist up managers's asses so high that most of the times they consider it to be the only alternative. Some customers specifically request Windows boxes, and suppliers specifically offer Windows solutions, like nothing else existed, even when Windows is obviously the wrong option! But in these guys's minds, no options exist.
It's not like I'm an idealist, or something. These guys make us twist and turn just to make things fit into Windoze. They are the idealists.
Well, screw it. I must live with that. Use Linux at home, and love it.
This "shared source" stuff sounds to me like drinking decaf or non-alcoholic beer.
One does it, but misses the whole point of it.
It would be really great, but the problem is that lots of apps take it as granted that they can use the system tree to store their settings, thus making it a pain to use a Windoze machine without full registry rw access.
It's funny, because the apps that have this kind of stupid behavior are usually M$ apps. Most others work fine.
Simple. Making the same speedometers for the whole world, instead of having to make special ones for the USA. It's cheaper.
The only good thing about the Imperial measurement system is the pint of beer. I love it. It beats the 25 centilitres of the standard beer glass in my country.
One funny thing I notice about people is that most people tend to pull down the shades and turn on the lights, because they say the sun disturbs them. Pretty stupid idea, in my opinion. But then, people just love setting air conditioning to North Pole temperature in beautiful sunny days when everybody goes to work in t-shirt. They really make you forget it's Spring.
My IT main customers, Dad, Sista, Mom and Dear don't have a clue what a service is. Firewall by default is god sent. I use Linux and it has that feature, ant it's Ok. So, what's wrong with windoze having it, anyway?
In my country is mandatory to have an ID card with data, picture and fingerprint.
Everybody has one of those and it's mandatory to carry it with you all the time, you'll be arrested without it.
We live with that. Actually, doesn't bother me at all. What bothers me is if my government spies on my phone conversations or my internet usage without a court order, which is illegal here.
That's a really prejudicious thing to write. What facts are you based on?
I protest! The title of this post is sensationalist and biased against Europe. The contents of the news are about a conference with the participation of European, Middle East and American delegates, what in that article justifies such a stupid title?
Shame, shame on you. This is manipulation.
Masochism?
Then you won't buy a BMW, because it's not suitable.
Comparing mySQL to Oracle is like saying skateboards are a threat to BMW sales.
Curing aging! The world is full of crazy people. That is as stupid as trying to stop the Earth from rotating to prevent hurricanes.
Don't these people have nothing better to waste their time on?
Now excuse me, I'm just going to age a little bit.
Reusing glasses, dishes and silverware, as far as they are conveniently washed, beats eating on disposable plastic stuff, creating a huge amount of garbage.
If you want to get philosophical, you can say that living kills, or other totally redundant stuff.
Saying that all causes cancer is a good way of ending a discussion, but it adds nothing to it.
No way! The chemical properties of oil change when it's heated. Used oil causes cancer!
All oils may be recycled. But they're not gonna be used to the same purpose! Give me a break, recycle cooking oil to fry stuff? Just the thought of it makes me sick!
My granma uses NaOH and used cooking oil to make soap. And she makes a very nice soap. This is a fine way to convert a highly polluting product into a useful and environment-friendly one.
Because of those bastards, now I'm being forced to program in VB (sigh)!
Why should we go down to the level of 3rd World just to make more profit for some guys who are rich already?
Finland is among the most developed countries in the world. Their standard of living surpasses the USA a lot. It's the country of Nokia, the absolute world leader in mobilie phones.
Don't be so narrow-minded. I had the bad luck of being transfered to a web development team, and all we use here is M$. Not the .NET, but that old ASP shit. (Sigh!)
I tried PHP, but it doesn't feel like an alternative. Web development is particularly painful. I hate writing the same HTML shit everytime I want to create a new form, and having to deal with all that request/response shit, validating arguments with totally unreliable client-side Javascript or, as an alternative, enter in the request/response state-maintaining inferno, being restricted only to strings as arguments, etc. The Wysiwyg tools we have here are even worse than coding by hand, and they can't deal server-active content, anyway. Nobody uses them. Add it to short deadlines and a boss breathing down your neck.
Now, a framework that abstracts me from that web crap would be reeeealy nice. A web application shouldn't be harder to design than a GUI one with Delphi, or VBeuh.
My boss is considering upgrading our skills. I'm actively lobbying J2EE, which I love, but I don't think it has any chance against the "Evil Empire" .NET Studio. My boss is gonna drool all over when he sees M$ WebForms in action, even if it only works with IE! How can I avoid M$ lock-in if any kiddy can build an entire site right away, while I'm trying to get some JSPs to work? Even if the kiddie does a horrendous job, management guys don't give shit about technical issues. All they care about is "it was fast to create and looks nice".
That "true machos only need vi" attitude is part responsible for the Evil Empire world domination. I mean, I already know how to make web pages! Now, what I need is a good tool that allows me to do that without re-inventing the wheel everyday! Any development tool that doesn't treat me like I'm braindead (VBeuh) and isn't awkward and kludgy (MSVC++) is welcome.
I'm downloading Sun Studio right away and start trying it. If I can make the M$ zealots here like it, it will be a great victory. If I don't, my future probably is become another Evil Empire zombie, or live from unemployment checks.
This clearly demonstrates the undemocratic nature of the European Union. We are voting for a Parliament that directly represents the people of the Union, but it's decisions do not stand. The Commission, which is a group of non-elected guys, has all the power. I really hate that the decisions which affect my life, and the life of 500 million people are taken by a bunch of fat bureucrats who are not accountable before the people. Another bullshit they are trying to make us swallow is that European Constitution crap. Constitutions are to be written by the elected representatives of the people, not created in secrecy by a bunch of professional . This is not the Europe of the Europeans, but the Europe of the Corporations. Why should we vote for a Parliament which has no powers? They should cut their crap and: 1. Dissolve the European Parliament, which is a fake institution. 2. Fire the entire commission and create a new one with the CEOs of the biggest corporations, thus eliminating the intermediaries. This would show reality as it is.
When your car is broken you pay a mechanic to fix it, you don't just ask an accountancy clerk to do it, do you? Why would this be different in IT world?
If I owned a company, I would forbid anyone creating MS Acess databases.
More insight in: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96248&cid=8239 397
is a minimal Windows (XP/2K3) based bootable live CD with a command prompt and the ability to run some basic Windows GUI.
So, what's it good for?
I didn't read the patent text all the way through, but looks to me this is a way of embedding executable scripts in XML. BFD!
This will make XML files executable. If you use Outlook, beware XML attachments. Don't double click them! What will be next? "Way of invoking COM Objects from an XML file".