People who get conned into using Exchange or IIS or MS SQL are forever tied into using Microsoft products.
Not really, there are numorous tools that help you migrate both two and from microsoft solutions. Halcyon Software who advertise on slashdot have a pretty COOL asp solution for almost all non NT servers.
ROFL that's the feeling i get when i see scott or oracle say anything. You're so correct it's untrollably funny when you say everything coming out of mcnealy's mouth is "MS this and MS that".
Aparently gates does that all the time. He may be over 40, but he's still childish in a pretty cool kind of way for the world's richest man. He also ordered spray cheese and coke in the DOJ interview.
you can still hate something and not bother supporting promised efforts like mozilla. i can't wait t ill i get my new project underway and start developing mozilla & ie plugins, but i still think netscape 4.x is the worst browser - wait - worst software i can think of (atm) that i've ever used.
I'm not sure if NT4 has runas.exe, but W2K does - for running applications as another user from the command prompt.
But a better tip - this one should work with IE5 on NT and certainly works with W2K.
Right click on any EXE, Shortcut etc while holding down the Shift key and the context menu will have an extra entry "Run As" - After which you're prompted with the standard user/password/domain dialog. No need to go to the command prompt:).
How'd you like MSJVM's handling of COMJava? I think it's damned useful. I can see where people who run around yelling MS is trying to pollute java is coming from - but from a developer's point of view, I think it's great. more choice.
MS didn't 'ruin' java in anyway IMHO. One of the major reasons why I'm now such an advocate of Java is because of MS and their extensions that let me when I only want a windows application to choose an alternative RAD language (other choices like VB aren't attractive anymore). I'm not a stupid programmer - if i want cross platform, I'll restrain from using WFC, JNI or J/Direct. Basically, I treat Java as a damn fine language, and also as a cool way to write crossplatform apps as long as I'm willing to give up features.
Saying that..the thing that Java has failed to deliver is features - because it's cross platform, features obviously aren't left up to programmers but to the VM vendors (and then really - only to sun cause unauthorised additions are 'evil').
For what this person is asking - I'd say java is the way to go if they value their time.
I guess you could write everything in Java and use the CORBA support Sun's added. You could also look into free (and GPLed) ORBS like ORL's (now AT&T Labs) omniOrb.
On NT I always use D/COM+ simply cause it's reliable (laugh all you want - it's true) and ubiquitous. That all being said. I still primarily use sockets for cross machine communication and only use COM for IPC and inprocess componentisation.
Most installers rely on the vendor to remove the right things it installs.
However, Cleansweep was very very good. It actually could monitor an application as it installed (registry settings and all) and COMPLETELY remove everything - not only that - it continues to monitor the application whenever it's run and monitor everything it does (new files/registry entries etc). It was extremely cool, and even uninstalled shareware applications that left behind "time out messages" *somewhere* perfectly (meaning I could reinstall them again;)). Pity the company that made it died or got bought up by symantec i thik (Quarterdeck i think the company was)
China however was the largest and most advanced civilization for a thousand years tho. I thought columbus was looking for a route to China...cause he heard they had huge cities laced with gold.
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excellent:) ...i think i'm starting to like the direction linux is going..finally.
You hear of them if you subscribe to the security bulletins microsoft offer.
Is it just me or are many Linux developers today
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windows users or ex windows developers? I'm talking about the guys who know what they're talking about and do the core development for Gnome and KDE. Hell, even netscape developers are following MS with xpCOM and their little registry. I mean, KDE looks very much like Windows, even the dialogs, menus etc all look more like windows than anything else. I'm actually kind of glad everyone's gotten some sense and are going with COM/CORBA/KOM/WHATEVER. It's about time Unix ppl stopped thinking of ASCII or executing scripts. Componentisation (as microsoft has found out) is a very successful technology.
What a web we weave:)
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I've done extensive work on COM and ActiveX controls but I don't agree with you. Any self respecting COM programmer knows not to change the interface once their COM objectis released to the public. That being said - there's no problems. And in a world where thousands of ActiveX Controls are on the market - there's not as much trouble as you would expect.
However, that being said - I do like the elegance and ease of Java Classes. Even java needs IDL etc when it comes to RMI, CORBA etc.
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Actually, it is the windows registry - just not a binary one - but a readable text one. Still the a registry. And rightly so. More OSs need to implement some sort of registry for settings...not stupid little *rc files and XF86Config files that can get just as big as the registry. All you need to do it make it transactional, and also mirror two registries....and you'll have a safe and fast 'database' type way to store and access persistable information.
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Um, have you ever read one?
Much of it is HTML, with XML embedded to describe word characteristics (paragraph styles etc).
It's not very hard to understand.
People who get conned into using Exchange or IIS or MS SQL are forever tied into using Microsoft products.
Not really, there are numorous tools that help you migrate both two and from microsoft solutions.
Halcyon Software who advertise on slashdot have a pretty COOL asp solution for almost all non NT servers.
Office 2000 already saves as XML (except ACCESS)
Uh huh. You're comparing Microsoft to being drug dealers?
There are degrees of wrong doings you know.
Did you write that? ;D That's halarious, especially if you've ever read any other MS press release.
ROFL that's the feeling i get when i see scott or oracle say anything. You're so correct it's untrollably funny when you say everything coming out of mcnealy's mouth is "MS this and MS that".
Aparently gates does that all the time.
:)
He may be over 40, but he's still childish in a pretty cool kind of way for the world's richest man.
He also ordered spray cheese and coke in the DOJ interview.
I think he's cool
Maybe it includes the domain suffix?
Ever wondered why you can only see half the actor's face, or why actors look taller on tv? :)
That's cause they have to cut or stretch the picture
you can still hate something and not bother supporting promised efforts like mozilla.
i can't wait t ill i get my new project underway and start developing mozilla & ie plugins, but i still think netscape 4.x is the worst browser - wait - worst software i can think of (atm) that i've ever used.
I'm not sure if NT4 has runas.exe, but W2K does - for running applications as another user from the command prompt.
:).
But a better tip - this one should work with IE5 on NT and certainly works with W2K.
Right click on any EXE, Shortcut etc while holding down the Shift key and the context menu will have an extra entry "Run As" - After which you're prompted with the standard user/password/domain dialog.
No need to go to the command prompt
There is so an "su" utitlity that comes with NT.
/user:administrator cmd.exe
RUNAS.EXE
RUNAS
I really don't know what they were thinking when they designed this OS, there are just so many really stupid things about it that it amazes me.
Uh, it really has very little to do with the design of the OS. Any idiot could write an exe such as runas after the OS has been designed.
How'd you like MSJVM's handling of COMJava? I think it's damned useful. I can see where people who run around yelling MS is trying to pollute java is coming from - but from a developer's point of view, I think it's great. more choice.
Java is cross platform...and works all the time.
MS didn't 'ruin' java in anyway IMHO. One of the major reasons why I'm now such an advocate of Java is because of MS and their extensions that let me when I only want a windows application to choose an alternative RAD language (other choices like VB aren't attractive anymore).
I'm not a stupid programmer - if i want cross platform, I'll restrain from using WFC, JNI or J/Direct. Basically, I treat Java as a damn fine language, and also as a cool way to write crossplatform apps as long as I'm willing to give up features.
Saying that..the thing that Java has failed to deliver is features - because it's cross platform, features obviously aren't left up to programmers but to the VM vendors (and then really - only to sun cause unauthorised additions are 'evil').
For what this person is asking - I'd say java is the way to go if they value their time.
I guess you could write everything in Java and use the CORBA support Sun's added.
You could also look into free (and GPLed) ORBS like ORL's (now AT&T Labs) omniOrb.
On NT I always use D/COM+ simply cause it's reliable (laugh all you want - it's true) and ubiquitous.
That all being said. I still primarily use sockets for cross machine communication and only use COM for IPC and inprocess componentisation.
huge database? I mean, perhaps OSs with proven larger disk support, memory, and jfs would end up being a better investment?
I'm sure linux is perfectly fine on smaller databases, but if you're talking about tens of GB, umm....?
Most installers rely on the vendor to remove the right things it installs.
;)).
However, Cleansweep was very very good. It actually could monitor an application as it installed (registry settings and all) and COMPLETELY remove everything - not only that - it continues to monitor the application whenever it's run and monitor everything it does (new files/registry entries etc).
It was extremely cool, and even uninstalled shareware applications that left behind "time out messages" *somewhere* perfectly (meaning I could reinstall them again
Pity the company that made it died or got bought up by symantec i thik (Quarterdeck i think the company was)
Like someone else said...anti matter...but fission reactors and nuclear bombs certainly destroy some mass and convert it to energy.
China however was the largest and most advanced civilization for a thousand years tho.
I thought columbus was looking for a route to China...cause he heard they had huge cities laced with gold.
excellent :) ..finally.
...i think i'm starting to like the direction linux is going
You hear of them if you subscribe to the security bulletins microsoft offer.
windows users or ex windows developers?
:)
I'm talking about the guys who know what they're talking about and do the core development for Gnome and KDE. Hell, even netscape developers are following MS with xpCOM and their little registry.
I mean, KDE looks very much like Windows, even the dialogs, menus etc all look more like windows than anything else.
I'm actually kind of glad everyone's gotten some sense and are going with COM/CORBA/KOM/WHATEVER. It's about time Unix ppl stopped thinking of ASCII or executing scripts. Componentisation (as microsoft has found out) is a very successful technology.
What a web we weave
I've done extensive work on COM and ActiveX controls but I don't agree with you. Any self respecting COM programmer knows not to change the interface once their COM objectis released to the public. That being said - there's no problems. And in a world where thousands of ActiveX Controls are on the market - there's not as much trouble as you would expect.
However, that being said - I do like the elegance and ease of Java Classes. Even java needs IDL etc when it comes to RMI, CORBA etc.
Actually, it is the windows registry - just not a binary one - but a readable text one. Still the a registry. And rightly so. More OSs need to implement some sort of registry for settings...not stupid little *rc files and XF86Config files that can get just as big as the registry.
All you need to do it make it transactional, and also mirror two registries....and you'll have a safe and fast 'database' type way to store and access persistable information.
Excellent ;) I prefer KDE myself.