When compiled with MS Visual Studio 2005 on the default options, the latest version of SQLite comes out to be a 68kB DLL, or 132kB when VCR is compiled in.
If this ~25% figure is true it suggests, due to Ubuntu's relatively recent surge in share and popularity, one or two of two things to me:
Linux user's switch distributions's at the drop of a hat. Which to me suggests that there are likely alot of Linux users out there who take their OS rather lightly in that they are willing to risk loss of a system they're comfortable with.
Ubuntu has simply attracted alot of new users to the Linux platform
You're just as locked out of Windows if it's bootloader fails
Not exactly, boot off the Windows installation CD into the recovery console (that's what it's for) and type "fixmbr", unlike Linux OS's you don't need to know much technical knowledge to do so: 'This thing called an MBR exists, it's broke, type this to try and fix it'.
One of the main points this article makes is that successfulopen source has strict organisation, strong leadership and company backing.
As a sister poster already pointed out, the BSD license is truly Free in that it gives anyone the right to piss in your face and make a $million off your code. Business's don't want that, they want to get a guaranteed return on anything they contribute. It's all about give a little and take a lot.
Open source is successful because of the large number of people who have an interst in its success. Centralizing leadership might be helpful in some way, but I don't see it as the most important thing.
Well personally I would say having a large number of people with invested interest in a project's success leads to good leadership and visa versa, the two aren't exclusive.
Somewhere there is always money, just look at the recent articles about Mozilla making a mint off Firefox, Redhat's contribution to Linux, or how the money put behind Ubuntu pushed it to the top of the distribution list.
Successful open source project's don't last long unless they are picked up by business interest or sponsorship.
For me, the most annoying thing about GNOME/X/KDE/Linux desktops at the moment is the quality of fonts. Especially font antialiasing in FreeType, which IMHO isn't yet upto the standard of MS's ClearType.
I've tried half a dozen fonts with the BCI both on and off, various settings for hinting, antialiasing and subpixel order, but ClearType just looks better than any of the results i've been able to get.
That said, I _have_ seen screenshots (example) where font rendering is rather nice, but I have idea how acheive such a result and have pretty much given up.
When I goto one of the Linux based labs the university I attend I can barely stand using their Fedora Core gnome desktop for sake of the horrid fonts. In constrast when I sit at almost any Windows station, provided the screen resolution is acceptable, the fonts never bother me.
Linux newbies (like me) do alot of harping about desktop consistancy, but one thing all GUI based OS's should have in this day and age is readable comfortable fonts. It is sad to see many desktop Linux distributions still suck in this area 'out of the box'.
My point is, Linux desktop's, although generally brilliant, don't get to polish and deal with the nitty gritty (and most difficult) bits out of the way before the bar get's moved up.
If you are using a dynamic/script based 404 handler to do 'funky caching' make sure you return a proper '200 OK' HTTP response header before you return any html. Most web browsers are configured to display the actual 404 response from the server rather than a browser defined 'friendly' 404, but search engines will ignore the page (and the W3C validator will return an error which is how I noticed my similar setup was returning 404).
The 404 method will also make a slight uncleanliness in your server logs.
An alternative is to do content negotiation with MultiViews and force your scripts to be 1) extensionless and 2) accept PATH_INFO making it appear they are directories.
For students like me in engineering, computing and mathematics fields, where your university or college has signed up, Windows XP *is free* (as in money) via Microsoft's Academic Alliance programme along with a load of other MS products (SQL Server, Vistual Studio.NET etc). And yes, you can keep using the software after you leave your course.
Also, you forget it is differcult for the Linux community to 'innovate' when hardware manufacturers only really cater to Window's users. Afterall, software is only as useful as the hardware it runs on allows.
All said and done i'm a XP x64 and Gentoo dual booter:)
...because if they don't develop new products then all the researchers and other non-construction workers at both AMD and Intel won't have jobs, because profit making business doesn't work like that?, because they _can_?
Specifically: movies playing in a shorter time may not be important, but how about movies at real time? MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 can easily push current processors to the limit at HD resolutions when encoded with maximum codec complexity.
...there is and always will be a fundamental tension between RMS's notion of ideal freedom and the Linux community's goal of "Linux everywhere".
You seem to suggest that Linus wants Linux everywhere also? From the article his opinion seems to be rather well rounded with no real interest other than making a great kernel.
I was rather disappointed with the following quote:
I just care a lot more about some things than I do about others (I would refuse to buy a computer that I can't replace the OS on, but a dishwasher or a DVR? Not a huge deal to me)
It's not so much I generally care about being able to change my PVR's firmware to unofficial/open source releases it's just that doing so can sometimes be beneficial and add value (example: routers -> OpenWRT etc) and, well, being able to do this is just cool. I guess this disappointement is because I like hardware hacking as much as I do software.
I'm pretty sure during, or shortly after the peak of, the Blaster worm period someone engineered a worm to reach systems vulnerable to the Blaster worm, rid them of it, and then seal the hole. It ended up causing more problems than the actual Blaster worm in some cases.
Bravo, I hate the relentless use of this word as well. I've seen 'AJAX' said to be a 'AJAX technology'. No it isn't. Javascript, HTML, CSS and..ergh..XML are. collectively applications of computing technology and 'Asynchronous Javascript and XML' is an application of those. For something to be a 'technology' in it's own right it has to be based on a new fundamental principle, for example the leap from CRT to LCD.
There is no excuse for a crappy faux scroll bar in the search results when the browser window has a perfectly good one of it's own either. Horrible design decision.
Uses 'AJAX' to prefetch the next page of search results for you as you scroll. Why would I want that? What i'm searching for should be on page 1 if MS are ever gonna kill Google as top SE xD
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When compiled with MS Visual Studio 2005 on the default options, the latest version of SQLite comes out to be a 68kB DLL, or 132kB when VCR is compiled in.
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A well presented point. :/
'It should work first time' is irrelevent, original poster was talking about _when things go wrong_.
You're just as locked out of Windows if it's bootloader fails
Not exactly, boot off the Windows installation CD into the recovery console (that's what it's for) and type "fixmbr", unlike Linux OS's you don't need to know much technical knowledge to do so: 'This thing called an MBR exists, it's broke, type this to try and fix it'.
Excellent, they could call it Product Activation..this'll screw up them pirates real good!
Actually I believe there is another Windows browser that passes Acid 2. SomethingOrOtherCab. I can't be bothered to look it up right now.
One of the main points this article makes is that successfulopen source has strict organisation, strong leadership and company backing.
As a sister poster already pointed out, the BSD license is truly Free in that it gives anyone the right to piss in your face and make a $million off your code. Business's don't want that, they want to get a guaranteed return on anything they contribute. It's all about give a little and take a lot.
Open source is successful because of the large number of people who have an interst in its success. Centralizing leadership might be helpful in some way, but I don't see it as the most important thing.
Well personally I would say having a large number of people with invested interest in a project's success leads to good leadership and visa versa, the two aren't exclusive.
Somewhere there is always money, just look at the recent articles about Mozilla making a mint off Firefox, Redhat's contribution to Linux, or how the money put behind Ubuntu pushed it to the top of the distribution list.
Successful open source project's don't last long unless they are picked up by business interest or sponsorship.
Personally I think you are correct.
For me, the most annoying thing about GNOME/X/KDE/Linux desktops at the moment is the quality of fonts. Especially font antialiasing in FreeType, which IMHO isn't yet upto the standard of MS's ClearType.
I've tried half a dozen fonts with the BCI both on and off, various settings for hinting, antialiasing and subpixel order, but ClearType just looks better than any of the results i've been able to get.
That said, I _have_ seen screenshots (example) where font rendering is rather nice, but I have idea how acheive such a result and have pretty much given up.
When I goto one of the Linux based labs the university I attend I can barely stand using their Fedora Core gnome desktop for sake of the horrid fonts. In constrast when I sit at almost any Windows station, provided the screen resolution is acceptable, the fonts never bother me.
Linux newbies (like me) do alot of harping about desktop consistancy, but one thing all GUI based OS's should have in this day and age is readable comfortable fonts. It is sad to see many desktop Linux distributions still suck in this area 'out of the box'.
My point is, Linux desktop's, although generally brilliant, don't get to polish and deal with the nitty gritty (and most difficult) bits out of the way before the bar get's moved up.
Disabling all the eye candy brings the requirements back down to those of Windows 2000. Eye candy = resources.
Use the internal XP firewall, don't run resident AV/anti-spyware daemons. Problem solved.
I can hear you all saying... but Java and Flash are cross platform.
Yeah except there isn't 64-bit build of Flash to be found and Java on FreeBSD Java is a mess.
Wouldn't it still be necessary to have Windows driver's for your Mac graphics chipset before any heavy games would run acceptably?
XSLT is for converting somebody else's XML into the XML your application wants to consume.
Like _your_ XML into XHTML (a XML format) that your visitor's browser (and application) wants to consume?
Client side XLST would make this alot nicer.
If you are using a dynamic/script based 404 handler to do 'funky caching' make sure you return a proper '200 OK' HTTP response header before you return any html. Most web browsers are configured to display the actual 404 response from the server rather than a browser defined 'friendly' 404, but search engines will ignore the page (and the W3C validator will return an error which is how I noticed my similar setup was returning 404).
The 404 method will also make a slight uncleanliness in your server logs.
An alternative is to do content negotiation with MultiViews and force your scripts to be 1) extensionless and 2) accept PATH_INFO making it appear they are directories.
For students like me in engineering, computing and mathematics fields, where your university or college has signed up, Windows XP *is free* (as in money) via Microsoft's Academic Alliance programme along with a load of other MS products (SQL Server, Vistual Studio .NET etc). And yes, you can keep using the software after you leave your course.
:)
Also, you forget it is differcult for the Linux community to 'innovate' when hardware manufacturers only really cater to Window's users. Afterall, software is only as useful as the hardware it runs on allows.
All said and done i'm a XP x64 and Gentoo dual booter
...because if they don't develop new products then all the researchers and other non-construction workers at both AMD and Intel won't have jobs, because profit making business doesn't work like that?, because they _can_?
Specifically: movies playing in a shorter time may not be important, but how about movies at real time? MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 can easily push current processors to the limit at HD resolutions when encoded with maximum codec complexity.
I was rather disappointed with the following quote:
It's not so much I generally care about being able to change my PVR's firmware to unofficial/open source releases it's just that doing so can sometimes be beneficial and add value (example: routers -> OpenWRT etc) and, well, being able to do this is just cool. I guess this disappointement is because I like hardware hacking as much as I do software.
I'm pretty sure during, or shortly after the peak of, the Blaster worm period someone engineered a worm to reach systems vulnerable to the Blaster worm, rid them of it, and then seal the hole. It ended up causing more problems than the actual Blaster worm in some cases.
Bravo, I hate the relentless use of this word as well. I've seen 'AJAX' said to be a 'AJAX technology'. No it isn't. Javascript, HTML, CSS and ..ergh..XML are. collectively applications of computing technology and 'Asynchronous Javascript and XML' is an application of those. For something to be a 'technology' in it's own right it has to be based on a new fundamental principle, for example the leap from CRT to LCD.
This has bothered me for a while.
5. A person with the very latest in hardware (AMD64) with invested time in the latest patches says "it works!"
Flash was with regards to Google Video, not Microsoft. Read the thread.
Makes me wonder how many useful pages they actually index.
That's probably the result of 50,000 blog links per useful informative resource....*pinches self and dives away from the flames*
There is no excuse for a crappy faux scroll bar in the search results when the browser window has a perfectly good one of it's own either. Horrible design decision.
Uses 'AJAX' to prefetch the next page of search results for you as you scroll. Why would I want that? What i'm searching for should be on page 1 if MS are ever gonna kill Google as top SE xD
The site looks good in Firefox, Opera, and IE.
Doesn't work at all for me in Opera 9.00 build 117 (Latest unix build). No search results, but the interface loads.