Publisher is trash. Unlike those other products its market share among users is tiny, a rounding error. Of course there can be said to be lots of users since it's part of the "Office" package.
The year calculators were added to the Calculus AP, we saw a statistically significant drop in scores. However, when I complain about these problems, I get called a technophobe.
Sorry for asking sort of an obvious question, but did that drop in scores turn into a trend? Or was it a one-time thing?
I've started teaching one of my clients some linux skills as X can now talk... the Linux revolution is here for the blind community, as it is for the rest of us!
What software do you use for screen reading under X? Under what circumstances is a braile reader better?
They're systems are probably 80% auctioned desktops and such from busted dot coms.. and I suspect that many of them are not RAID at all. I have yet to hear of a redundant raid controller either. Your best bet is just replication of data on you backend servers and using something in the nature of a Cisco CSS or some other services balancer device to handle keeping alive servers available while redirecting away from dead servers.
There are whole classes of applications where that can't possibly work. If you're talking about web servers it's great.
It's that simple. I'm not getting paid overtime, so I'm not doing overtime. Granted, I'm "on call" once every other week, so I get woken up sometimes, but frankly, I just don't understand why people think they have to do that extra 20 hours. Do they give you more money? Do they come over and help clean your apartment? No. So why do it for them?
You're right, it's so simple. Unfortunately lots of people have this irrational fear of being fired.
One has to ask why IT workers don't form a union or if they don't like the idea of a union, at least a Professional Organisation like doctors and lawyers have to fight for their rights?
Because a professional organization like that has strict standards for how the craft is practiced. Good luck getting IT professionals to agree on standards like that.
I should point out that MySQL does have transaction support (with the proper table type, and so long as it's built in, and you're using a current enough version, and you made sure to tag your tables with the right syntax to make sure they are of the right table type, etc)
In which case the guy needs to be fired anyway, because there have always been much cheaper options than Oracle, if you really don't need what it offers.
From the article: But what about the case of the application service provider? This is a common problem in GPL-land that I don't believe has even been resolved. At a Birds of a Feather session at the MySQL conference one evening--a session well attended by about 25 very interested people--one programmer for a game company laid out a situation where they run their multi-user game on a server backed up by MySQL, and distribute only a client. Do they have to pay a license? After all, they're not distributing MySQL itself.
Zak Greant, a long-time MySQL public figure (listed in the conference brochure as their "community advocate") said the game company should pay. The game could not run without MySQL, and the client was the means of access by paying customers.
Several attendees then tried to extend Greant's reasoning. Why, then, shouldn't users of Web browsers pay license fees for accessing Web pages backed by MySQL? Well, besides the absurdity of trying to enforce such a payment regime, the Web server does not use a proprietary, specialized protocol as the game does.
This strikes me as the kind of stupid shit people are trying to get away from when they leave commercial databases behind. The "pay for GPL software because we say so" thing could get pretty interesting as MySQL becomes powerful enough to actually do wonderful things like sue their customers.
But I'm sure a software company would never do anything like that.
Very few vendors ship a TOTALLY plain kernel. I'm not sure why Suse makes such a big deal of theirs (if they even do ship a clean one, hard to beleive).
They don't, not at all. Somehow I suspect that Novell CTO either: 1. Said something that makes more sense in context 2. Was speaking too generally and regrets what he said
I always remember Fred Langa as Byte's Editor-in-chief for the last four years of the magazine's existence (1994-1998). That time that was essentially the magazine's death march into irrelevancy.
I'm not saying that he was solely responsible for what happened to Byte, but it was on his watch.
Though the above comment is moderated to 5, it's actually a lie. Somebody please moderate it down.
http://www.langa.com/about_fred.htm
There were several editors after Fred left the magazine, and yes, some of them were not very gifted. The magazine was still great on Fred's watch.
The answer to that is fairly obvious. If nobody (including Linus, mind you, in the case of gcc 2.96) wants to use the compiler or adjust to its peculiarities, they're hurting the community.
Do I invalidate my license by running a non shipped kernel?
That seems unlikely. However, if you're using RHAS because it's the one of the only distros Oracle (for example) supports, you're in for a shock. They probably won't talk to you if you're using a nonstandard kernel, since that's the main reason they want people to use those specific distros to begin with. Honestly, if you're making your own kernels, what's the point of RHAS?
Is it just me, or does Novell really have a problem with the images of these two companies?
Yeah. In all honesty, the Ximian people don't come across as grownups when they make public statements that are obviously at odds with Novell's direction, or that are far more authoritative than their position in the organization.
It's almost a cliché situation. I'm eagerly awaiting the post-inevitable-Ximian-meltdown passionate blog entries of how Novell just didn't see Ximian's brilliant vision, how the Ximian guys couldn't take the corporate culture, how the man was keeping them down, yadda yadda. I wish they'd get on with it because it's painful to watch.
Whatever gave you that idea? Redhat has created kernels in the past with threading features that nobody else had. Software using those features would not run on a kernel without those nonstandard patches. That's binary incompatibility.
Redhat has a history of doing stuff like this, as with their GCC 2.96 fiasco.
ermmm.. a few open source projects for windows, does not make a community. The percentage of closed source to open source on windows is overwhelming. In linux, the majority of everything is opensource. This is what he is saying.
Then he is still completely wrong. It's not the proportion of open to closed source products on a platform that should be used to measure the strength fo the open source community on that platform, it's the quality of those products. There are plenty of good, well maintained open source products on Windows.
Which is as it should be, since those products are one of the best ways to expose the market as a whole to free software.
Personally, in the last couple of years I've wasted much more time trying to make Logitech's mouse software work on Windows than trying to make mice work in Linux.
In neither case did I up and change operating systems at the first sign of trouble. I don't exactly enjoy spending time figuring this sort of thing out, but it's clearly a solvable problem, not something to freak out about.
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Publisher is trash. Unlike those other products its market share among users is tiny, a rounding error. Of course there can be said to be lots of users since it's part of the "Office" package.
Sorry for asking sort of an obvious question, but did that drop in scores turn into a trend? Or was it a one-time thing?
What software do you use for screen reading under X? Under what circumstances is a braile reader better?
There are whole classes of applications where that can't possibly work. If you're talking about web servers it's great.
Yes you can. Easily. Shop around even a little, you'd have to work pretty hard to find an ATA-based solution as expensive as theirs.
I have no idea what "sheel negceba" is.
It's someone talking out of their ass.
You're right, it's so simple. Unfortunately lots of people have this irrational fear of being fired.
Because a professional organization like that has strict standards for how the craft is practiced. Good luck getting IT professionals to agree on standards like that.
Which is laughable in and of itself.
In which case the guy needs to be fired anyway, because there have always been much cheaper options than Oracle, if you really don't need what it offers.
This strikes me as the kind of stupid shit people are trying to get away from when they leave commercial databases behind. The "pay for GPL software because we say so" thing could get pretty interesting as MySQL becomes powerful enough to actually do wonderful things like sue their customers.
But I'm sure a software company would never do anything like that.
They don't, not at all. Somehow I suspect that Novell CTO either:
1. Said something that makes more sense in context
2. Was speaking too generally and regrets what he said
Actually he probably regrets it either way.
Though the above comment is moderated to 5, it's actually a lie. Somebody please moderate it down.
http://www.langa.com/about_fred.htm
There were several editors after Fred left the magazine, and yes, some of them were not very gifted. The magazine was still great on Fred's watch.
The answer to that is fairly obvious. If nobody (including Linus, mind you, in the case of gcc 2.96) wants to use the compiler or adjust to its peculiarities, they're hurting the community.
If they weren't part of a community, that would be true.
No. GCC 2.96, and the stuff built with it, is quite unique. They have reentered the mainstream post-2.96, though, AFAIK.
I guess so long as nobody tries to compete with them, er, screw them, they are in good shape. :/
That seems unlikely. However, if you're using RHAS because it's the one of the only distros Oracle (for example) supports, you're in for a shock. They probably won't talk to you if you're using a nonstandard kernel, since that's the main reason they want people to use those specific distros to begin with. Honestly, if you're making your own kernels, what's the point of RHAS?
Yeah. In all honesty, the Ximian people don't come across as grownups when they make public statements that are obviously at odds with Novell's direction, or that are far more authoritative than their position in the organization.
It's almost a cliché situation. I'm eagerly awaiting the post-inevitable-Ximian-meltdown passionate blog entries of how Novell just didn't see Ximian's brilliant vision, how the Ximian guys couldn't take the corporate culture, how the man was keeping them down, yadda yadda. I wish they'd get on with it because it's painful to watch.
Whatever gave you that idea? Redhat has created kernels in the past with threading features that nobody else had. Software using those features would not run on a kernel without those nonstandard patches. That's binary incompatibility.
Redhat has a history of doing stuff like this, as with their GCC 2.96 fiasco.
Hey man, it was a school night!
Right. That's why they went from totally owning networking to being a niche player in just a few short years.
Then he is still completely wrong. It's not the proportion of open to closed source products on a platform that should be used to measure the strength fo the open source community on that platform, it's the quality of those products. There are plenty of good, well maintained open source products on Windows.
Which is as it should be, since those products are one of the best ways to expose the market as a whole to free software.
Personally, in the last couple of years I've wasted much more time trying to make Logitech's mouse software work on Windows than trying to make mice work in Linux.
In neither case did I up and change operating systems at the first sign of trouble. I don't exactly enjoy spending time figuring this sort of thing out, but it's clearly a solvable problem, not something to freak out about.