Probably they felt that GNUCash is so easy you don't need a book with it, whereas Excel is such a beast you absolutely need a manual.
Not that the two programs are at all related, but there can't be more than a few hundred active users of GnuCash, and even if every one of those people bought a book, it still wouldn't end up anywhere near Amazon's Top 10.
Interesting. Is there any theory on why mysql is popular to web hosts?
Simple. Plain old web server admins rarely know anything about databases. Anybody who knows how "real" databases work is gainfully employed at a lucrative job, not rebooting Linux boxes that host "About Me" web pages. Out of the whole dot-bomb debacle, the only people I know that are still employed (and still paid very well) are Oracle DBA's. They couldn't give two shits about dinky web servers when they're massaging terabytes of data on massive Sun boxes. I was a Oracle developer in a past life, and quite honestly, I couldn't bring myself to care about web stuff when I could be spending my time writing some kickass, recursive SQL that did fun things like migrate a US state's Medicare records (5 terabytes worth) from flat files from the green screens into Oracle. The web stuff was always given to "the new kid" to handle. And suffice to say, "the new kid" wouldn't know a database from a banana (and thought that MySQL was a database).
Big Deal. Another 1st person shooter. They've been around since Castle Wolfenstein 3D. Prettier graphics, better detail, better physics, but in the end, nothing truly innovative. Instead, I've been blown away by the story, acting, music, detail, depth, and freedom in GTA San Andreas. This is a TRULY unique series which I think blows away everything on the market. Sure, you need more than a rudimentary reptilian brain that reacts to flashes of light on the screen, but that's what makes it so awesome. I just don't understand the fascination with 1st person shooter #2156. On top of that, I'd have to buy a brand new $1000 computer to play it on. Uh, no.
TCO isn't a solid number across the board for anyone. It can't be nailed down. MS's statement is no less true than Bud Light makes anybody a stud. It's just marketing using unproveable information, like an Apple computer makes you cooler or smarter. Happens all the time.
Besides, TCO in our business for Linux is much, much higher than TCO of W2K.
Dude, you need to wake up. It's called marketing. The average person is exposed to marketing messages hundreds if not thousands of times a day. Get a grip.
Don't people know how to use SQL any more?? When I learned SQL (granted, it was from a DBA and developer who knew his shit), how to manipulate data like this is what made SQL so cool and useful.
Instead of not ratifying it, Bush and his people should absolutely ratify it, then instead of using $200 Billion to fight a pointless war, use, hell, maybe $1B to subsidize tax credits for industries that clean up their act. It's very simple. The US has got the money (this morning Bush was authorized to raise the national debt to levels unheard of in history). Why not use some of that money for cleaning up the air & water instead of dropping bombs? The companies themselves could use the tax credit to remain competitive with developing countries, AND we could all live healthier. I don't see any downsides.
Well, I think that Blade Runner is the most overhyped movie in history, but if somebody did that with Casablanca, I'd have to hunt them down, kill them, then move to Morocco to hide from the authorities.
Here in NC, even in the relatively progressive Chapel Hill area, I've never seen a single one. You're right. Sounds like a fashion trend for wealthy people, if you ask me.
Good idea. Have all of your personal and business mail forwarded to a mail server of a primary rival. Sure. That's a good idea.
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You write a custom app. Release it in 1 year. Market it. 6 months. Release v2. Market it more. Release v3. People start talking about it. yadda, yadda, yadda... How do you eat while spending the years it takes to get a good open source project to get even used? How many more years before it develops a cult following, and admins start installign it? Jesus, something like Apache took a fucking decade before it paid to be an Apache consultant. That's a long time being homeless, while hoping that yous stands out among the millions of other programs.
... he sure is an idiot. Posting his symptoms to an FTP server? What is he nuts? Is he trying out "Open Source Medicine"? Jeez, I know plenty of people who couldn't even spell "Slackware" that know that when you get sick, you go to a doctor. No amount of Googling will replace a doctor.
Of course, this is becoming common in our culture. In our store, we have people come in all the time with ridiculous things that "they read online". I had one woman yelling at me that cats could be made to be vegetarian (they are carnivores). After all, she saw it on a website! What people don't understand is quantity of information in NO WAY equals quality (which is why I don't think that "Wiki"s are a good source of information).
Christmas gift guides with overpriced techo-junk? Call me nuts, but most people I know are like me: saving up to be able to take a day off from work, or saving up to get some dental work done. This isn't the dot-com boom late 90's, any more, so I predict that most of this crap will just sit on store shelves and collect dust, which is where it belongs. I agree completely. Christmas for me will be just another day that I can use to catch up on work, and if I'm lucky (very lucky), spend some time with friends. I don't know who these people are who are still obsessed with buying pointless, overpriced crap, but I'm glad that I don't know any of them.
Well, with all of the dubious horror stories being posted, I wanted to say that I put SP2 on 6 machines, and it worked seamlessly on all of them. Thrilled with the firewall, and the security thing even knows when my fairly obscure virus program (freeav.com) is a day out of date. I'm very impressed with XP SP2.
Oh yeah, and a lot of these places even have biometric scanners to get into the 24/7 monitoring room and the server rooms. They have standard hardware setups that they generally use pre-ghosted installs of FreeBSD or Windows 2000. Of course, everything is RAID-5 and backed up religiously. The best in the business.
Absolutely. Most companies hand the whole thing off to a hosting companies that specialize in porn hosting. These places are rooms upon rooms of racks, on raised floors, 6 times redundant connections, dual power backup systems (generators), and all the fiber you could ever want. They're the best. Take a look Candid Hosting. They had a few hurricanes go over them, and they didn't bat en eye. Incredible uptime.
Throughout the last 100-someodd years, the rest of the US has looked to the South as "cheap labor" -- most of the factories that've closed here paid just at or barely above minimum wage, with no option for any real pay raises, and offer conditions that no state in the North would accept.
I have to disagree. All of the textile plants that I've worked in that shut down, had people doing unskilled labor for $12-$15/hour, which is an outrageous amount of money in small, Southern towns.
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Probably they felt that GNUCash is so easy you don't need a book with it, whereas Excel is such a beast you absolutely need a manual.
Not that the two programs are at all related, but there can't be more than a few hundred active users of GnuCash, and even if every one of those people bought a book, it still wouldn't end up anywhere near Amazon's Top 10.
it's the only place that has millions of dollars at it's disposal and highly paid programmers.
But Linux is supposed to better because it has armies and armies of passionate volunteers.
Interesting. Is there any theory on why mysql is popular to web hosts?
Simple. Plain old web server admins rarely know anything about databases. Anybody who knows how "real" databases work is gainfully employed at a lucrative job, not rebooting Linux boxes that host "About Me" web pages. Out of the whole dot-bomb debacle, the only people I know that are still employed (and still paid very well) are Oracle DBA's. They couldn't give two shits about dinky web servers when they're massaging terabytes of data on massive Sun boxes. I was a Oracle developer in a past life, and quite honestly, I couldn't bring myself to care about web stuff when I could be spending my time writing some kickass, recursive SQL that did fun things like migrate a US state's Medicare records (5 terabytes worth) from flat files from the green screens into Oracle. The web stuff was always given to "the new kid" to handle. And suffice to say, "the new kid" wouldn't know a database from a banana (and thought that MySQL was a database).
Big Deal. Another 1st person shooter. They've been around since Castle Wolfenstein 3D. Prettier graphics, better detail, better physics, but in the end, nothing truly innovative. Instead, I've been blown away by the story, acting, music, detail, depth, and freedom in GTA San Andreas. This is a TRULY unique series which I think blows away everything on the market. Sure, you need more than a rudimentary reptilian brain that reacts to flashes of light on the screen, but that's what makes it so awesome. I just don't understand the fascination with 1st person shooter #2156. On top of that, I'd have to buy a brand new $1000 computer to play it on. Uh, no.
Like the article says, don't worry... you won't be employed for long.
TCO isn't a solid number across the board for anyone. It can't be nailed down. MS's statement is no less true than Bud Light makes anybody a stud. It's just marketing using unproveable information, like an Apple computer makes you cooler or smarter. Happens all the time.
Besides, TCO in our business for Linux is much, much higher than TCO of W2K.
Dude, you need to wake up. It's called marketing. The average person is exposed to marketing messages hundreds if not thousands of times a day. Get a grip.
Jesus Christ. It's called "GROUP BY".
Don't people know how to use SQL any more?? When I learned SQL (granted, it was from a DBA and developer who knew his shit), how to manipulate data like this is what made SQL so cool and useful.
Instead of not ratifying it, Bush and his people should absolutely ratify it, then instead of using $200 Billion to fight a pointless war, use, hell, maybe $1B to subsidize tax credits for industries that clean up their act. It's very simple. The US has got the money (this morning Bush was authorized to raise the national debt to levels unheard of in history). Why not use some of that money for cleaning up the air & water instead of dropping bombs? The companies themselves could use the tax credit to remain competitive with developing countries, AND we could all live healthier. I don't see any downsides.
$400 on a monitor is a lot when you can get a plain old CRT for $75.
Well, I think that Blade Runner is the most overhyped movie in history, but if somebody did that with Casablanca, I'd have to hunt them down, kill them, then move to Morocco to hide from the authorities.
You are so right. Nobody actually uses it to listen to music or thinks that it's any different from any other music player.
That's kind of what I thought. I can't imagine somebody spending a few hundred bucks on what is essentially a fancy Walkman.
Here in NC, even in the relatively progressive Chapel Hill area, I've never seen a single one. You're right. Sounds like a fashion trend for wealthy people, if you ask me.
Good idea. Have all of your personal and business mail forwarded to a mail server of a primary rival. Sure. That's a good idea.
You write a custom app. Release it in 1 year. Market it. 6 months. Release v2. Market it more. Release v3. People start talking about it. yadda, yadda, yadda... How do you eat while spending the years it takes to get a good open source project to get even used? How many more years before it develops a cult following, and admins start installign it? Jesus, something like Apache took a fucking decade before it paid to be an Apache consultant. That's a long time being homeless, while hoping that yous stands out among the millions of other programs.
... he sure is an idiot. Posting his symptoms to an FTP server? What is he nuts? Is he trying out "Open Source Medicine"? Jeez, I know plenty of people who couldn't even spell "Slackware" that know that when you get sick, you go to a doctor. No amount of Googling will replace a doctor.
Of course, this is becoming common in our culture. In our store, we have people come in all the time with ridiculous things that "they read online". I had one woman yelling at me that cats could be made to be vegetarian (they are carnivores). After all, she saw it on a website! What people don't understand is quantity of information in NO WAY equals quality (which is why I don't think that "Wiki"s are a good source of information).
Mr. "I Love My Mac", you're one of the people he's talking to.
Christmas gift guides with overpriced techo-junk? Call me nuts, but most people I know are like me: saving up to be able to take a day off from work, or saving up to get some dental work done. This isn't the dot-com boom late 90's, any more, so I predict that most of this crap will just sit on store shelves and collect dust, which is where it belongs. I agree completely. Christmas for me will be just another day that I can use to catch up on work, and if I'm lucky (very lucky), spend some time with friends. I don't know who these people are who are still obsessed with buying pointless, overpriced crap, but I'm glad that I don't know any of them.
Well, with all of the dubious horror stories being posted, I wanted to say that I put SP2 on 6 machines, and it worked seamlessly on all of them. Thrilled with the firewall, and the security thing even knows when my fairly obscure virus program (freeav.com) is a day out of date. I'm very impressed with XP SP2.
What you walk up and stick your dick in a hole and if it's you, then the door will open with a pleasant moan?
There's no fucking around with this much money. It's just business.
Oh yeah, and a lot of these places even have biometric scanners to get into the 24/7 monitoring room and the server rooms. They have standard hardware setups that they generally use pre-ghosted installs of FreeBSD or Windows 2000. Of course, everything is RAID-5 and backed up religiously. The best in the business.
Absolutely. Most companies hand the whole thing off to a hosting companies that specialize in porn hosting. These places are rooms upon rooms of racks, on raised floors, 6 times redundant connections, dual power backup systems (generators), and all the fiber you could ever want. They're the best. Take a look Candid Hosting. They had a few hurricanes go over them, and they didn't bat en eye. Incredible uptime.
Too bad he didn't just wait a few years. I still have an old Pentium running a free version of Solaris!
Throughout the last 100-someodd years, the rest of the US has looked to the South as "cheap labor" -- most of the factories that've closed here paid just at or barely above minimum wage, with no option for any real pay raises, and offer conditions that no state in the North would accept.
I have to disagree. All of the textile plants that I've worked in that shut down, had people doing unskilled labor for $12-$15/hour, which is an outrageous amount of money in small, Southern towns.
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