User: VasiliTerkin

The mystery of large object explained...

On: Battle of the Bush Bulge

If Bush was wired, the receiver would be the size of a deck of cards or smaller, not some giant thing strapped to his back.

True, but the rest of the object is taken by a 10,000 wolt zapper that smacks the dummy in the back every time he missbehaves.

I wonder who has the zapper button.....

Hmmm, ejabberd you say....

On: Jive Software To Open Source Its Jabber Server

One thing that stops me from immediately jumping onto Jive jabber server is the seemingly absent internalisation support.

I glanced at ejabberd recently and was initially spooked by the choice of the language - Erlang. Thought it was some obscure toaster programming language. Turns out its from Erricsson, opensourced, and designed for fault tolerance and things like routers and servers.

Can someone point to a good review of the most common, free Jabber servers? (Possibly for Windows: Jabberd 1.4.x; Erlang; some Java ones, now including the Jive)

The Jabber.org's server features page is a good start, but says nothing of reliability and general feel.

Re:PDF forms would seem to be a perfect fit.

On: Formats for Electronic Forms?

I thought you can't save the changes in the "READER" (free, aka "the one used by everyone (on windows)") version of the Acrobat. + Very much readable + easy to use + Can be saved off-line and emailed - Requires expensive full version of Acrobat to be truly a 2 way communitacation tool. - Can be parsed for data, but not an easy/cheap task. - The fields are not flexible (dont expand in relation to data volume) i.e. I always have to tweak them in full Acrobat for my last name to fit.. grrrr... InfoPath though XML-based, seems to require Office 2003 - the hole you seem to be trying to avoid. + XML-based, easy data parsing. + Fields are flexible. + Can be filled out off-line - Need extensive MS infrastructure for support of these. - Talking about a niche market! Geesh. To view forms, you NEED InfoPath. HTML forms. well... you know the story... + Can look and work in any way you want. + Parse\store in any way admin wants. - Server\Live connection required. Simple Text files: i.e.: (field code1) answer (field code2) answer (field code3) answer + Universally readable, save-able, flexible "field size". - Doesn't look good, users can mess up the filed codes.

Bizarro world

On: Salmon Gives Birth To Trout.

Now I think I understand why George Dubya behaves so much like a monkey.

Apple - always a hardware company.

On: Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly

According to this article on CNET, Apple looses money on iTunes store, and makes money on iPods.

"... the music store is close to profitability but is still losing money. Apple doesn't see the business as having much long-term profit potential either."

I tunes was just a facilitator for iPod sales.

I foresee Apple allowing others onto iPod eventually. I always took the "hardware" route under Jobs.