Much appreciated. I was going through my meatspace Tigerdirect catalog last night, and noticed that item. I'm glad I've gotten at least some indepedent confirmation they work. My thanks!
And when is Slashdot going to get intrasite email?
I had to set up a relatively identical testing site to my production site, using two databases, postgres and mysql, and soon postgres/mysql AND Oracle.
Getting WAMP to work with postgres was nearly impossible without a properly configured cygwin environment (even with), and getting WAMP to work with postgres AND ODBC was impossible.
I had to resort to a FC2 install on a VMware Pro setup to get it working. This isn't a problem on my Linux hosts. But I'm thoroughly sick of all these idiots building PHP/Perl tools only for MySQL. ODBC was built for a reason, why can't we use it?
<sigh>
Granted ODBC isn't exactly the perfect standard, but dammit, it's close enough for 99% of the projects out there currently.
Could you give me the part number to said PS2/USB adapter? Most of the Dells and IBM pSeries machines I'm getting around here require USB keyboards now (of which I have precious few), and the 3 ps2 -> usb adapters I've tried have all failed.:(
Right. When was the last time your average Volvo driver made a physical inspection of his tires, his paint, his muffler, wipers, engine, headlights, radiator, bumpers and power windows before driving off to work in the morning?
Pilots go through amazing systems checks, because at speeds up to and exceeding Mach 2, you make a mistake, you die. Of course they look like Volvo drivers: serious, methodical, and highly intelligent. But watch out for your coffee when the F15 buzzes the tower at 250knots.:-P
If this change is adopted then the GPL sold its soul. </quote>
I do not concur. The GPL additions under consideration would make patent attacks against GPL v3 projects have bite: the attacker may no longer use GPL v3 projects. For those patent owners who do not care about a GPL project using their patent, ie. they gain more benefit from F/OSS than they could potentially gain from patent licensing, the F/OSS world gains a patent for free.
For a corporation, it simply means that F/OSS becomes your competitor. It doesn't mean that your patent is now public domain for the likes of Microsoft or IBM to use. It just behooves you to make your product that much better than the competition.
This addition is designed to prevent the next One-Click absurdity. If Amazon gains so much benefit from Linux and Apache, then arguably, an implementation of osCommerce that implements One-Click should be immune to patent attack.
I'm not sure how I feel about this at this time, but I can understand why some people feel that it is needed.
No, I meant the ODBC interface in PHP. In general I meant ODBC, but in reference to the topic of the parent (PHP), I tried to allude to the fact that there is indeed an ODBC interface present.
ODBC may be old, it may have bugs, but thousands of apps were built with it... Why can't we have a generic database-agnostic interface?
Microsoft has had named pipes i n WIn32 since day 1. Lookup CreateNamedPipe() on http://msdn.microsoft.com/library
fork() is a legitimate problem, or should I say, a CHEAP fork() is a problem. cygwin has reinvented fork(), but it's a dog compared to fork() on a native Unix platform.
Arguably, Windows' ownership and DAC/ACL semantics are MILES better than was comes by default in most Unixes.
The reason why so many people are still using releases like RHEL 2 is that there's no compelling need to upgrade. The machine was stable then, why take it down and upgrade it for no reason?
Willing to give Knoppix 3.9 a try? A simple 700MB.iso download. If Knoppix can't boot to your desktop and get you on the net (presuming you have a DHCP server like a Linksys cable/modem gateway), then truly, Sir, Linux is not for you and probably never will be.
The number of machines that I've had Knoppix fail to boot number exactly *1*. And that's because the machine had SATA drives and I was booting an OLD version of Knoppix.
YMMV, but what I'm saying is that the installation difficulties, for the most part, are gone, and if Knoppix can boot your machine, you can pick any recent distro (SuSE 9.3, FC4, etc) and get it to install with ease. If not, then I wish you the best of luck with Windows.:-)
When the world is ready for Free and Open Software, they will come. And as the chosen messengers of the holy RMS, we will be here to guide them toward the light and into salvation.
Everybody bought into Software Assurance knowing full well that when the duration was up, they were gonna get reamed, and they did. The whole "XP comes with a 2000 Server Terminal Services CAL" was yet another whack in the face, get everyone dependant on using terminal services, then gouge them again when 2003 comes out.
You know what gets my goat with the OSS world, though? Nobody uses ODBC. No one. Adapters exist for every database out there, but EVERYTHING is written to mysql. It's frickin' annoying. While I like MySql, (I do), I absolutely have to use Postgres for SQL-Ledger, and every other app in the world that you'd want to interface with it (osCommerce, for example), is written to mysql. Can people just start targeting ODBC compliant databases? Eeep.
It's not as if unixODBC hasn't been around forever...
As a general rule, IMHO, the best programmers are good sysadmins, and the best sysadmins are also programmers, and both of them have EE degrees, and not CS degrees.
I get the same crap from my father asking me why his particular version of office management software is behaving like a spoilt two-year-old. I explain that while I can surmise on a hundred different reasons why the programmer was an idiot and created said bug, I do not have the source code or build environment, and so cannot fix the problem. Call the vendor.
Ugh. Thankfully, I'm moving a lot of his office off those horrid apps to OSS versions, so now I get to be the vendor.:-/ Damned if I do, damned if I don't...
OMFG. I just got two new pSeries 520s that came with about 20 pounds of books on how to properly rackmount the 38kg server, and how not to hurt yourself picking the damn thing up, but not ONE book on how to give a relative AIX newbie a clue on how to load the OS, or even where to look online.
Thankfully, I ran across rootvg.net and solved all my problems. That, and the p520s come with a firmware bug that prevents them from booting 75% of the time. And the firmware that fixes the bug has it's own bug that happened to impact one of my boxes and prevented *IT* from booting. Joyous.
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Much appreciated. I was going through my meatspace Tigerdirect catalog last night, and noticed that item. I'm glad I've gotten at least some indepedent confirmation they work. My thanks!
And when is Slashdot going to get intrasite email?
Good day!
It's the HEADLESS part Microsoft needs to put some serious work into. I'm hoping that's part of the drive behind Monad.
WMI+Monad == decent environment to tweak the system.
WAPO/LAPO.
Windows|Linux Apache PHP/PERL ***ODBC***
Please.
I had to set up a relatively identical testing site to my production site, using two databases, postgres and mysql, and soon postgres/mysql AND Oracle.
Getting WAMP to work with postgres was nearly impossible without a properly configured cygwin environment (even with), and getting WAMP to work with postgres AND ODBC was impossible.
I had to resort to a FC2 install on a VMware Pro setup to get it working. This isn't a problem on my Linux hosts. But I'm thoroughly sick of all these idiots building PHP/Perl tools only for MySQL. ODBC was built for a reason, why can't we use it?
<sigh>
Granted ODBC isn't exactly the perfect standard, but dammit, it's close enough for 99% of the projects out there currently.
From PS2 keyboard/mouse to USB keyboard, yes? Because I have a lot of KVMs using PS2 cables that aren't working with these USB-only machines now.
I've tried the single PS2->USB adapters from Newegg but they don't work for keyboards. Mouse seems to be okay, though.
Thanks again. If we're talking about different things, well, I thank you anyway!
Good day.
Could you give me the part number to said PS2/USB adapter? Most of the Dells and IBM pSeries machines I'm getting around here require USB keyboards now (of which I have precious few), and the 3 ps2 -> usb adapters I've tried have all failed. :(
Right. When was the last time your average Volvo driver made a physical inspection of his tires, his paint, his muffler, wipers, engine, headlights, radiator, bumpers and power windows before driving off to work in the morning?
:-P
Pilots go through amazing systems checks, because at speeds up to and exceeding Mach 2, you make a mistake, you die. Of course they look like Volvo drivers: serious, methodical, and highly intelligent. But watch out for your coffee when the F15 buzzes the tower at 250knots.
Please note that Thiokol engineers had proof, actual proof, of burn-through on O-Rings in similar launch conditions to STS-51L.
If this change is adopted then the GPL sold its soul.
</quote>
I do not concur. The GPL additions under consideration would make patent attacks against GPL v3 projects have bite: the attacker may no longer use GPL v3 projects. For those patent owners who do not care about a GPL project using their patent, ie. they gain more benefit from F/OSS than they could potentially gain from patent licensing, the F/OSS world gains a patent for free.
For a corporation, it simply means that F/OSS becomes your competitor. It doesn't mean that your patent is now public domain for the likes of Microsoft or IBM to use. It just behooves you to make your product that much better than the competition.
This addition is designed to prevent the next One-Click absurdity. If Amazon gains so much benefit from Linux and Apache, then arguably, an implementation of osCommerce that implements One-Click should be immune to patent attack.
I'm not sure how I feel about this at this time, but I can understand why some people feel that it is needed.
Remember, that the GPL doesn't primarily protect the developer's Freedom, it protects the USERS!
No, I meant the ODBC interface in PHP. In general I meant ODBC, but in reference to the topic of the parent (PHP), I tried to allude to the fact that there is indeed an ODBC interface present.
ODBC may be old, it may have bugs, but thousands of apps were built with it... Why can't we have a generic database-agnostic interface?
Honestly, what's wrong with using phpODBC?
Microsoft has had named pipes i n WIn32 since day 1.
Lookup CreateNamedPipe() on http://msdn.microsoft.com/library
fork() is a legitimate problem, or should I say, a CHEAP fork() is a problem. cygwin has reinvented fork(), but it's a dog compared to fork() on a native Unix platform.
Arguably, Windows' ownership and DAC/ACL semantics are MILES better than was comes by default in most Unixes.
280 fps, myself...
GP post comes up every other week or so, almost exact, word for word. Surprised it hasn't been modded to oblivion as Trollbait by now.
The reason why so many people are still using releases like RHEL 2 is that there's no compelling need to upgrade. The machine was stable then, why take it down and upgrade it for no reason?
Could be... So how's that gonna work in php5 then? Or Perl, or C++ on Unix? Most windows OSS ODBC drivers seem broken in some manner or another..
Willing to give Knoppix 3.9 a try? A simple 700MB .iso download. If Knoppix can't boot to your desktop and get you on the net (presuming you have a DHCP server like a Linksys cable/modem gateway), then truly, Sir, Linux is not for you and probably never will be.
:-)
The number of machines that I've had Knoppix fail to boot number exactly *1*. And that's because the machine had SATA drives and I was booting an OLD version of Knoppix.
YMMV, but what I'm saying is that the installation difficulties, for the most part, are gone, and if Knoppix can boot your machine, you can pick any recent distro (SuSE 9.3, FC4, etc) and get it to install with ease. If not, then I wish you the best of luck with Windows.
When the world is ready for Free and Open Software, they will come. And as the chosen messengers of the holy RMS, we will be here to guide them toward the light and into salvation.
Everybody bought into Software Assurance knowing full well that when the duration was up, they were gonna get reamed, and they did. The whole "XP comes with a 2000 Server Terminal Services CAL" was yet another whack in the face, get everyone dependant on using terminal services, then gouge them again when 2003 comes out.
You know what gets my goat with the OSS world, though? Nobody uses ODBC. No one. Adapters exist for every database out there, but EVERYTHING is written to mysql. It's frickin' annoying. While I like MySql, (I do), I absolutely have to use Postgres for SQL-Ledger, and every other app in the world that you'd want to interface with it (osCommerce, for example), is written to mysql. Can people just start targeting ODBC compliant databases? Eeep.
It's not as if unixODBC hasn't been around forever...
Ah, my bad... I was pretty sure IBM was gobbling up Mainframe cos back in the late 90's. Sequent maybe?
:-)
Well Sequent.com definitely points to IBM... so I wasn't far off.
Don't both Tandem AND stratus now belong to IBM?
I'm pretty sure Tandem does.
As a general rule, IMHO, the best programmers are good sysadmins, and the best sysadmins are also programmers, and both of them have EE degrees, and not CS degrees.
I get the same crap from my father asking me why his particular version of office management software is behaving like a spoilt two-year-old. I explain that while I can surmise on a hundred different reasons why the programmer was an idiot and created said bug, I do not have the source code or build environment, and so cannot fix the problem. Call the vendor.
:-/ Damned if I do, damned if I don't...
Ugh. Thankfully, I'm moving a lot of his office off those horrid apps to OSS versions, so now I get to be the vendor.
OMFG. I just got two new pSeries 520s that came with about 20 pounds of books on how to properly rackmount the 38kg server, and how not to hurt yourself picking the damn thing up, but not ONE book on how to give a relative AIX newbie a clue on how to load the OS, or even where to look online.
Thankfully, I ran across rootvg.net and solved all my problems. That, and the p520s come with a firmware bug that prevents them from booting 75% of the time. And the firmware that fixes the bug has it's own bug that happened to impact one of my boxes and prevented *IT* from booting. Joyous.
Um, that's not possible?