I run a mail server at home to service a few domains I have. I subscribe to multiple RBLs and they help an immensely to cut down on the spam.
Honestly I don't care it you are an "innocent victim" of an RBL. My use of RBLs is completely voluntary. If you send me mail and I don't get it I don't see how it harms you at all. I am presuming of course that your email was so great and useful that it caused me tons of money not to have read it.
BTW my mail server has a bounce message that says you were in a blackhole. If you know me then you also know my gmail account and email me there so I can put you on my while list. Hell you could just call me too.
If I sent an email to a business and it bounced I would probably call them and ask them if there were alternative methods.
So sorry, no tears from me. My RBL list blocks hundreds of emails every day for that I am grateful.
" Maybe it would be better if the Voyager program were funded by a private foundation. "
I categorically reject this argument. If our govt can hundreds of billions of dallar a year to kill people it ought to be able to spend a few bucks trying to further the advance of science.
Maybe we should let private enterprise wage war and spend tax payers money on things that advance mankind.
MS: We are going to pull out of the EU market, we will not allow any sales of MS products anywhere in the EU.
EU: We will no longer recognize any copyrights, patents or any other IP by MS. We will confiscate all the source code you have and immediately put it into the public domain.
What does MS say next? I suspect something like.
We will bribe george bush and the republican party till they declare war on europe and bomb the crap out of you.
DiDio is a well known shill. The fact that she is claiming that the TCOs are equal means MS has given up trying to convince people that linux is more expensive.
First of all I take exception to the "not bad food" part. McDOnalds food in addition tasting bad is awful for you.
Secondly he is refering to the idea that a corporation which makes crappy food is somehow seen as the embodiment of america. As if there was no such thing as good food in america which is of course wrong.
He is talking about the fact that your perception of africa is tainted by the crappy things you see on TV just like world's perception of America is tainted by mcdonalds and gee whiz bombing videos released by the pentagon.
The best thing about open source and linux is that anybody can help. If you can't do anything else you can write documentation, volunteer to run tests, design logos, work on web site themes, help on IRC, give lectures in local schools, donate time to big brothers and big sisters to teach kids linux, the list goes on and on.
So don't wait till you are rich! Roll up your sleeves and get busy!
I don't want to get into a pissing match here but...
Sure ROR has soap support but it's rudimentary, for example it does not support complex objects.
I also don't disagree that there are messaging and remoting technologies available for ruby but they are not integrated into the framework that is ROR. This is in marked contrast to J2EE in which the framework is comprehensive and unified.
As for the database design as I said right now it does not support field name mapping. That is kind of a minimum requirement for working with existing data. I am sure it's possible to make it work but it should work out of the box if ROR hopes to compete with other frameworks.
"The real point is that this shows that Ruby Isn't Slow and that Rails (or any other application environment) can be used in a production environment."
I agree. It's certainly suitable to a class of problems. It does need to mature a bit though before it can compete with the java based frameworks.
Yes you can specify the table name and the primary key but that's all. You can't map a field called "fname" to an attribute called "first_name" though. That's something you can do with hibernate.
I think the crux of the matter is that he was not taking advantage of some of what these java containers offer. Things like queues, soap, RMI, CORBA bindings, remote invocations etc.
The lesson here I think is that unless you plan on running on multiple containers and using asyncronous calls java is overkill.
If you do need those things then ROR won't work at all.
Another thing is that ROR wants you to design the database from scratch to fit it's naming rules. It's not really designed to work with existing databases. For example it can't map the ugly database field names into nice attribute names for your objects. To me that's a pretty big shortcoming.
Why isn't there a pure python equivalent. I happen to think that J2EE is overly complex and relies entirely too much on XML descriptors. In fact it's virtually impossible to develop J2EE applications without xdoclet.
The ruby people have come up with a pretty clever thing in rails. It's new and need to mature but it's an innovation at least. It's remarkable they took advantage of the dynamic nature of ruby to make a framework.
I am surprised that the vast and very smart python community never even bothered to do something like it.
1) Lack of a good container. Zope is OK but I would prefer something where I could have plain old files I could grep through and be able to package up applications and deploy them remotely a-la J2EE.
2) Rock solid scheduling service.
3) Some sort of a message service.
4) Good scaliblity in the container including the ability to remote calls.
5) All of the above bundled together as one install.
Python needs an answer to J2EE. In fact whoever comes out with a good solid stack will win because both ruby and python are so much more fun and productive then java.
Ruby has rails, it's missing a lot but it seems to have become the de-facto standard in the ruby world which will mean it will improve very rapidly. The python community doesn't seem to have decided on the one true application framework yet.
I don't know what kind of grass they are planning on using but grass in my lawn takes an awful lot of water to grow. Given the water shortages all across the west I don't know if this is such a good idea.
Granted people seem to love grass so I suppose if you could collect all that then at least you'd make some use of the clippings.
"While I don't doubt that Novell has taken a large risk with playing "the linux card", I don't see them in any immediate danger of financial difficulty."
People keep saying this but I don't see where they took any risk at all. It wasn't like they had a thriving business and they decided to ditch it to pursue linux. They were desparate to have a product that people might be interested in and sad to say that wasn't netware.
Novell probably saved themselves from an almost certain death by buying suse but it wasn't risky.
I have owned hundreds of CD (maybe close to a thousand). I overpaid for each and every one due to price fixing by the labels. Furthermore I have many CDs which I bought just to get one friggin song because the labels refused to sell me the song I wanted without paying for the filler crap songs.
I resent all that and I am not alone. Now I don't listen to music all that much anymore nor do I buy as many CDs. I think I might have downloaded less then five songs in all my life but you know what I don't feel guilty about it in the least.
So listen carefully. I am not saying that the RIAA is stealing from the artists, I am saying they ripped me off for decades. Boycotting them now is fine and dandy but it does not undo the thousands of dollars they ripped off from me.
If I kicked a dog I would feel guilty. If I passed a homeless person and not given him a quarter I would feel guilty, if I stole something from my neighbor or somebody across town I would feel guilty. I don't feel guilty about downloading songs. To me they are criminals and are indistinguishable from organized crime.
"I guess that, when Microsoft talks about their future plans for "improving security", I assume that the first assumed step is to rectify that particular problem."
No the first step to rectify is the annoying fact that some humans beings are choosing not run windows.
I don't see why that's relevant. Furthermore I don't see why the law has to be constructed so that any one activity must be profitable enough to make a living. If your goal is to provide living wages for people why just concentrate on the creative class? Why not make it so that all activites are controlled by artificial monopolies so that everybody can make a living doing it.
Anyway inability to make a living at it hasn't stopped great art. Picasso died a poor man and so did thousands of other great artists and musicians. Sure britney spears is rich but charlie parker died destitute. Maybe something wrong with this picture.
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I run a mail server at home to service a few domains I have. I subscribe to multiple RBLs and they help an immensely to cut down on the spam.
Honestly I don't care it you are an "innocent victim" of an RBL. My use of RBLs is completely voluntary. If you send me mail and I don't get it I don't see how it harms you at all. I am presuming of course that your email was so great and useful that it caused me tons of money not to have read it.
BTW my mail server has a bounce message that says you were in a blackhole. If you know me then you also know my gmail account and email me there so I can put you on my while list. Hell you could just call me too.
If I sent an email to a business and it bounced I would probably call them and ask them if there were alternative methods.
So sorry, no tears from me. My RBL list blocks hundreds of emails every day for that I am grateful.
" Maybe it would be better if the Voyager program were funded by a private foundation. "
I categorically reject this argument. If our govt can hundreds of billions of dallar a year to kill people it ought to be able to spend a few bucks trying to further the advance of science.
Maybe we should let private enterprise wage war and spend tax payers money on things that advance mankind.
They should keep things the way they are there is so much more to know.
The war in Iraq costs us 5.8 BILLION every MONTH
The overall defense spending is 511 billion a year.
TO keep this project alive for another decade would cost only 40 million. That's like a half day of war.
Bill Gates could come up with that money by checking all his couches and jacket pockets for gods sake.
Man our nation sure has messed up priorities.
MS: We are going to pull out of the EU market, we will not allow any sales of MS products anywhere in the EU.
EU: We will no longer recognize any copyrights, patents or any other IP by MS. We will confiscate all the source code you have and immediately put it into the public domain.
What does MS say next? I suspect something like.
We will bribe george bush and the republican party till they declare war on europe and bomb the crap out of you.
SO you wanted him to post a link to every single article on the web about her?
Ever hear about google? You must have since you have a gmail account. I would suggest you use their search facility, I hear it's excellent.
Once you have trained your employees you will keep saving money year after year. All your updates are free you know. With MS you pay and pay and pay.
DiDio is a well known shill. The fact that she is claiming that the TCOs are equal means MS has given up trying to convince people that linux is more expensive.
First of all I take exception to the "not bad food" part. McDOnalds food in addition tasting bad is awful for you.
Secondly he is refering to the idea that a corporation which makes crappy food is somehow seen as the embodiment of america. As if there was no such thing as good food in america which is of course wrong.
He is talking about the fact that your perception of africa is tainted by the crappy things you see on TV just like world's perception of America is tainted by mcdonalds and gee whiz bombing videos released by the pentagon.
The best thing about open source and linux is that anybody can help. If you can't do anything else you can write documentation, volunteer to run tests, design logos, work on web site themes, help on IRC, give lectures in local schools, donate time to big brothers and big sisters to teach kids linux, the list goes on and on.
So don't wait till you are rich! Roll up your sleeves and get busy!
Why is Oracle, verison, qwest, IBM or even Micro-soft any better.
Tell me you want a micro-soft and I am tempted to break into giggles and find you an impotent midget (no offense intended towards little people).
I don't want to get into a pissing match here but...
Sure ROR has soap support but it's rudimentary, for example it does not support complex objects.
I also don't disagree that there are messaging and remoting technologies available for ruby but they are not integrated into the framework that is ROR. This is in marked contrast to J2EE in which the framework is comprehensive and unified.
As for the database design as I said right now it does not support field name mapping. That is kind of a minimum requirement for working with existing data. I am sure it's possible to make it work but it should work out of the box if ROR hopes to compete with other frameworks.
"The real point is that this shows that Ruby Isn't Slow and that Rails (or any other application environment) can be used in a production environment."
I agree. It's certainly suitable to a class of problems. It does need to mature a bit though before it can compete with the java based frameworks.
In java you can specify that a method takes place in it's own transaction, or that it can only be called by member of one group or another.
In ROR you can't do that.
Again not everybody needs those features but if you need them you have to use java.
Yes you can specify the table name and the primary key but that's all. You can't map a field called "fname" to an attribute called "first_name" though. That's something you can do with hibernate.
I think the crux of the matter is that he was not taking advantage of some of what these java containers offer. Things like queues, soap, RMI, CORBA bindings, remote invocations etc.
The lesson here I think is that unless you plan on running on multiple containers and using asyncronous calls java is overkill.
If you do need those things then ROR won't work at all.
Another thing is that ROR wants you to design the database from scratch to fit it's naming rules. It's not really designed to work with existing databases. For example it can't map the ugly database field names into nice attribute names for your objects. To me that's a pretty big shortcoming.
Why isn't there a pure python equivalent. I happen to think that J2EE is overly complex and relies entirely too much on XML descriptors. In fact it's virtually impossible to develop J2EE applications without xdoclet.
The ruby people have come up with a pretty clever thing in rails. It's new and need to mature but it's an innovation at least. It's remarkable they took advantage of the dynamic nature of ruby to make a framework.
I am surprised that the vast and very smart python community never even bothered to do something like it.
I would add a couple of things to that list.
1) Lack of a good container. Zope is OK but I would prefer something where I could have plain old files I could grep through and be able to package up applications and deploy them remotely a-la J2EE.
2) Rock solid scheduling service.
3) Some sort of a message service.
4) Good scaliblity in the container including the ability to remote calls.
5) All of the above bundled together as one install.
Python needs an answer to J2EE. In fact whoever comes out with a good solid stack will win because both ruby and python are so much more fun and productive then java.
Ruby has rails, it's missing a lot but it seems to have become the de-facto standard in the ruby world which will mean it will improve very rapidly. The python community doesn't seem to have decided on the one true application framework yet.
I don't know what kind of grass they are planning on using but grass in my lawn takes an awful lot of water to grow. Given the water shortages all across the west I don't know if this is such a good idea.
Granted people seem to love grass so I suppose if you could collect all that then at least you'd make some use of the clippings.
The FAQ item is great. When do I get to make mailboxes though?
What will push gnome ahead is mono. That's the hope anyway.
"While I don't doubt that Novell has taken a large risk with playing "the linux card", I don't see them in any immediate danger of financial difficulty."
People keep saying this but I don't see where they took any risk at all. It wasn't like they had a thriving business and they decided to ditch it to pursue linux. They were desparate to have a product that people might be interested in and sad to say that wasn't netware.
Novell probably saved themselves from an almost certain death by buying suse but it wasn't risky.
Did that show ever hit the air? I don't remember it.
You miss the point completely.
I have owned hundreds of CD (maybe close to a thousand). I overpaid for each and every one due to price fixing by the labels. Furthermore I have many CDs which I bought just to get one friggin song because the labels refused to sell me the song I wanted without paying for the filler crap songs.
I resent all that and I am not alone. Now I don't listen to music all that much anymore nor do I buy as many CDs. I think I might have downloaded less then five songs in all my life but you know what I don't feel guilty about it in the least.
So listen carefully. I am not saying that the RIAA is stealing from the artists, I am saying they ripped me off for decades. Boycotting them now is fine and dandy but it does not undo the thousands of dollars they ripped off from me.
If I kicked a dog I would feel guilty. If I passed a homeless person and not given him a quarter I would feel guilty, if I stole something from my neighbor or somebody across town I would feel guilty. I don't feel guilty about downloading songs. To me they are criminals and are indistinguishable from organized crime.
You are looking for jedit. It has plug ins but it also allows you t open up files.
"I guess that, when Microsoft talks about their future plans for "improving security", I assume that the first assumed step is to rectify that particular problem."
No the first step to rectify is the annoying fact that some humans beings are choosing not run windows.
That's the only reason MS does anything.
I don't see why that's relevant. Furthermore I don't see why the law has to be constructed so that any one activity must be profitable enough to make a living. If your goal is to provide living wages for people why just concentrate on the creative class? Why not make it so that all activites are controlled by artificial monopolies so that everybody can make a living doing it.
Anyway inability to make a living at it hasn't stopped great art. Picasso died a poor man and so did thousands of other great artists and musicians. Sure britney spears is rich but charlie parker died destitute. Maybe something wrong with this picture.