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  1. Re:"What Is Message Queuing?" on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doubtful on the licensing. 90% of an MQ is in the backing store you use and the transactional logic, and much of that has been in the practice and the public domain since the mid-80s. The communications channel and routing logic is also mostly well known and understood. There's no magic voodoo here. You could build a reliable MQ tool on top of PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server with little effort, certainly not $1billion.

  2. Re:Hasn't REST etc trumped these? on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 1

    Long duration connections are not a prerequisite for MQ. In fact, HTTP is a perfect delivery mechanism, since a query can be resolved in a single transaction. Connect, send data, receive response, close connection.

  3. Re:"What Is Message Queuing?" on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes. It offers either Guaranteed delivery, or guaranteed failure, something email does not do.

  4. Re:"What Is Message Queuing?" on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 1

    A messaging client reads the message. At some point, the client signals the messaging middleware that the message has been received. At this point, the transaction is concluded and the middleware marks the message read. At some point in the future, it will be deleted, but is saved short term in case it needs to be replayed in the event what you describe above occurs.

    It's similar to databases keeping transaction logfiles, and filesystems keeping change journals.

  5. Re:Strength of Proprietary Systems on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 1

    Or they could just use Jabber

  6. Re:Business or Personal? on What Do You Charge for Tech Support? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    $150/hour if you've worked on it already.

  7. Re:Easy solutions... no extra kit required on Use A Regular Phone For Cellphone Calls · · Score: 1

    Most of that warmth is the battery discharging.

  8. Re:psh, Star Trek beats that anyday on Use A Regular Phone For Cellphone Calls · · Score: 1

    Oh, a com-badge. I got a tricorder, tho: o ne/>

  9. Re:Bull on Linux: Fighting the FUD of Forking · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? You're kernel has nothing to do with what RPMs you can and cannot run. I'm happily running RPMs built by friends on recent 2.6 kernels on my ancient and dusty 2.4.18 SuSE 8.2 build.

    Balderdash!

  10. Re:Linux FUD on Linux: Fighting the FUD of Forking · · Score: 1

    There's no reason to indicate that in 5 years, the cost for supporting those modifications will be any more than it cost originally, allowing for price inflation. In fact, if you did your job properly, and hired a reputable, skilled Linux practioner, odds are that they've either kept those changes up to date, or are in a good position to do so.

    Most organizations have no need to customize a kernel. Those people buy their apps off the shelf, or hire consultants to build them for them. And the lesson I have learned writing Windows Apps particularly the DOA/RDO/ADO fiasco, is that odds are, in 5 years, you'll be forced to migrate your apps anyway, because Microsoft has stopped supporting them.

    It's conveniently ommitted, because it's not an issue, and is therefore, not FUD. People with a vested need to see kernel changes of any magnitude will either have developers available, or will pay for it.

  11. Re:Microsoft and Interoperability ? on Linux: Fighting the FUD of Forking · · Score: 1

    Negative. And certainly not without a recompile. I've never heard that reason, myself. Then again, I learned my lesson in client-side so-called "smart controls" when I burned myself pretty bad writing Java applets. It's a poor substitute for JavaScript and DHTML.

  12. Re:Can you say worthless? on 6 Firms Form Holographic Versatile Disc Alliance · · Score: 1

    You've got 800GB in RAID0?

    Repeat after me: RAID0 is *NOT* RAID. (shamelessly stolen).

  13. Re:Three rules safe. on Household Emergent Behavior? · · Score: 1

    I prefer Lazlo's laws:

    Do No Harm (Appropriate to ACID compliance)
    Protect the weak from the strong.

    Simple, right?

  14. Is it just me.... on DC Could Ban 'Mature' Video Game Sales to Minors · · Score: 1

    Or is there a marked correlation between crime and the emergence of the two-income family??

    It can't all be just the drug war...

  15. Re:I Use Stone Tablets on NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity · · Score: 1

    Mel brooks, right?

  16. Re:Why has a GNU kernel been so elusive? on First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD · · Score: 1

    OS/2 never caught on because Microsoft kept promising Windows 4.0 in 93. Um, 94. Um 95. Wait! We really mean it this time.

    That an an insane marketing campaign around OS/2 Warp that didn't make any sense. Warp as in the hippy twisted sense as opposed to Warp as in makes your computer go fast sense...

  17. Re:Peanuts on Repair Costs for Hubble Are Vexing to Scientists · · Score: 1

    We couldn't make it happen in GW1. Saudia Arabia would have balked IMMEDIATELY once they found out we were barnstorming for Baghdad. The Coalition aim was freeing Kuwait, not conquering and liberating Iraq.

  18. Re:Nice, you failed to answer the question on Repair Costs for Hubble Are Vexing to Scientists · · Score: 1

    Make no mistake. The war in Iraq is for one purpose and one purpose only. To gain a military foothold in the Middle East. We were about to get booted out of Saudi Arabia, and no one else wants us. Saddam just became a good scapegoat to achieve Administration ends.

  19. Re:Agreed on Repair Costs for Hubble Are Vexing to Scientists · · Score: 1

    Diplomacy was tried. It failed. For 11 years.
    Panama worked because it was swift, decise, and Noriega had no foreknowledge we were coming until it was very late in the game. Even there, there were botched operations all over the place.

    Bush moved entire divisions to Saudi Arabia and bragged about it. Is it no wonder we're having the issue we are?

    A significant difference between a quick and dirty airborne decapitation in Panama and Iraq is:

    A) the distance
    B) the surface to air missile threat
    C) Nap of the Earth flying is tougher in a desert than a jungle.
    D) No decent helicopter staging area (Aircraft carriers?)

  20. Re:Agreed on Repair Costs for Hubble Are Vexing to Scientists · · Score: 1

    Um... how did a Chinese embassy in Europe have anything to do with Iraq?

    <URL:http://www.fair.org/activism/embassy-bombin g. html>

  21. Re:Some of which can be explained on Repair Costs for Hubble Are Vexing to Scientists · · Score: 1

    And since you can start drinking at a younger age, Canucks are more pickled...

  22. Re:He means the X33 on Competition to Build the Space Shuttle's Successor · · Score: 1

    The issue with the X33, other than pretty hefty cost overruns, was primarily the immaturity of working with composite materials the size required of the fuel tanks. When tank separation occurred onloading fuel, they had to move to an Al tank to make the launch deadline.

    Some bureaucraft felt this meant the project was a failure, and bam. X33 killed. It makes little sense. The X38 technology demonstrator was well along in development, was a perfect CEV, and would have been the ISS lifeboat. That too, was killed.

    If the politicians of FY2000 could have forseen the catastrophe of Feb 2, 2003, we'd probably just be talking about putting the CRV on top of a Delta IV, and using 3 man shuttle crews to deliver station components. The hubble mission would have been a no-op, you could have sent an unmanned rescue CRV atop a Delta 4 to rescue any stranded Shuttle astronauts...

    What a waste.

  23. Re: A Replacement for the Shuttle on Competition to Build the Space Shuttle's Successor · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's called Delta IV-Heavy. This rocket can put 13000kg payload to GTO. 23,000kg to LEO. Same as the Shuttle, roughly. This same vehicle could be used to launch a capsule plus cargo to the ISS.

    Presuming a 7 person capsule could come in at under 20,000kg, you could still carry 3000kg of food and water to the ISS. That's a couple bathtubs full of water.

    <URL:http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/d el ta/d4_deltaPayload.htm>
    A look at the Delta IV-Heavy Payload fairing. Something similar could be the fundation for our new orbital transport.

  24. Re:Am I the only one who thinks this is getting ol on RMS Blasts Sun's Open Source Patent Licensing · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit man. A leader should be able to ADMIT the failings of his team or a movement, and be able to rationally discuss ways they are either being fixed, or ways to go about fixing them.

    Leading is more than taking glory and accolades, it's about leading, putting one's neck out and making waves, not cowering in a corner proving oneself superior to everyone else through ignorance of facts and reality.

  25. Re:They set themselves up in a Catch-22 on Firefox Developer on Recruitment Policy · · Score: 1

    Offtopic yeah... redundant maybe. But Overrated?