And to re-state the above as the converse: The consumer-packaged RedHat Linux (7,8,9... anything other than AS 2.x) will NOT support Oracle.
Advanced Server also includes value-added features, like the Oracle clustering filesystem, and other clustering features, which won't be released into the wild immediately.
A study last year by Meta Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn., found that 55% of IT workers with mainframe experience are over 50 years old.
They say that like it's a bad thing. My mom is an unemployed 53-year-old DBA of DB2 on OS390. It seems a waste to train a younger crowd on this stuff when there are still people like my mom who need to eat!
Okay, whoever moderated this as flamebait is an imbecile.
It's rather common that someone will make a post to Slashdot about something, without giving any background, links to more info, or contextual clues about what it is. I think this is a valid problem, and not flamebait.
Didn't you people ever have english professors write on your papers "be more descriptive" in red ink?
It would be nice if the post gave some indication of what Safari was, or included some relevant links for background. Instead, the guy who wrote this post just assumes I know what he's talking about when he says "Safari".
The only Safari I know of is O'Reilly's online books service, but I somehow doubt that's related.
Open source drivers are nice, but they aren't much of a concession. These days, drivers don't do much more than act as an abstraction layer for the operating system to communicate with the firmware on the hardware. There aren't any nuts-and-bolts of substance to look at in device driver code, just translation. And the card manufacturers know that.
Also, as one reader also pointed out: since the firmware is closed, there's no way for the user to know how it's gathering the entropy to generate the keys with. So there's no way to know how secure your key really is. You just have to take the vendor's word for it. But you can trust the vendor, right? Um, right...?
No, you don't always have to trust the firmware. Take a look at the LinuxBIOS project. You can also pressure makers of video cards, network adapters, and other hardware, to open up their firmware.
Open source drivers are nice, but they aren't much of a concession. These days, drivers don't do much more than act as an abstraction layer for the operating system to communicate with the firmware on the hardware. There aren't any nuts-and-bolts of substance to look at in device driver code, just translation. And the card manufacturers know that.
I may have missed an Iris book... did she regenerate? You say "the old Iris or the new one"?
Yes, she regenerated in "The Scarlet Empress". I enjoyed that book, and the atmosphere it created, but it left me unsatisfied in the end. It seemed like a bit of a pointless romp.
Question: are you sure he's playing the Fourth Doctor?
I take that back. I went back and read the article a little more carefully. And yes, he is indeed playing the 8th Doctor. And they're even fudging the script a bit so that he goes back to Gallifrey just to grab Romana. A little lame.
As for the rest of the discontinuity, I think that can be reconciled if we just assume that the episode takes place before the events in "Ancestor Cell". I'm guessing it will be continuous in the same way the Charley Pollard arc is (which is iffy).
her appearance and sound now fit the Wildthyme character rather well
Do you mean the old Iris or the new one?
I've written published Doctor Who fiction...
What have you written?
Yeah, but Hitchhiker's has a distinctive "English" quality and humour to it, which turns-off a lot of the American audience.
Because of that, I think that any Hitchhiker's movie will be caught in a catch-22: if it's done well, most Americans will not "get it" and only a small niche audience will go see it; if it's defiled in typical Hollywood fashion, then the loyal fans will be disgusted, and the mainstream will be unimpressed, thinking it's just an MIB knockoff.
The original poster seemed to imply that this was a big deal because it was written by Douglas Adams. However, Shada is not unique in that sense. Adams also wrote "City of Death" and another Doctor Who script which never made the cut, "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen" (to be later recycled as the thrid Hitchhiker's book, "Life, the Universe, and Everything").
He was also script-editor for the series for quite a few years.
For a while now I've been thinking that Doctor Who would translate really well into an animated series. Big Finish would seem to be the natural choice to produce such an animal, since they've already shown that they can pull off the audio dramas.
Wouldn't that solve a lot of budget problems? No money needs to be spent on sets. Though, I suppose they could go nuts with CGI if they really wanted to spend money.
Regarding the fact that Paul McGann is playing the Doctor, I believe the expression is "suspend disbelief". He's playing the fourth Doctor, not the eighth.
I think you may be getting just a little too dogmatic about continuity. Don't let continuity keep you from enjoying a good story.
Oh no, how dare we think or talk about something other than the misfortunes in the world. How do we dance when our Earth keeps turning... Boo fucking hoo!
Here's some news for you pal: there's strife no matter what time or place you live in. Nothing makes this particular time or place special. So your claims that our talk is frivolous are unfounded.
If talk of the misfortunes in the world always overrided discussion about other interesting things in life, then we would never get any joy out of living.
Tomorrow, instead of emotionally flogging myself like every other good patriotic American, I'm going to be doing my best to ENJOY my day. I'd best enjoy it while I get the chance. And I'll talk about anything BUT the bombing of a major landmark and the major loss of life that occured a year ago not more than thirty miles from where I sit.
The reason that 3D markup languages like VRML never took off was because when they were introduced and promoted, cheap and powerful 3D hardware wasn't widely available. When VRML was at the height of its popularity (which was never very high at all), there were very few computers it would run on at a reasonable speed. And it was a hassle to even get it working.
Yeah, it would be really cool if we could navigate the net with an immersive interface from out of Shadowrun or Johnny Mnemonic. But if nobody has powerful enough hardware to run the stuff, then it doesn't matter how robust the software is, it'll still crawl.
Now most new computers come standard with some sort of 3D hardware (finally), so VRML *might* have a chance in hell. Maybe.
I haven't read too deeply into it, but I got the impression that it was supposed to be more of a markup language than a procedural language, much like VRML was a markup language.
You're supposed to be able to specify a scene in a procedure neutral way. Then the hardware will decide how best to optimize it in-terms of its capabilities.
If the BBC had a clue, then they would realize that there's money to be made in this. The fact that a rumour like this has gotten this far and this out-of-hand should tell them something: "Hey, maybe they're onto something. Maybe there's, like, and actual following for that sci-fi show we cancelled for no good reason in 1989." But no, they're content to leave their heads firmly lodged up their asses.
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Okay then, I stand corrected. Anything after Redhat 7.x will not support Oracle. I forgot about that.
And to re-state the above as the converse: The consumer-packaged RedHat Linux (7,8,9... anything other than AS 2.x) will NOT support Oracle.
Advanced Server also includes value-added features, like the Oracle clustering filesystem, and other clustering features, which won't be released into the wild immediately.
A study last year by Meta Group Inc. in Stamford, Conn., found that 55% of IT workers with mainframe experience are over 50 years old.
They say that like it's a bad thing. My mom is an unemployed 53-year-old DBA of DB2 on OS390. It seems a waste to train a younger crowd on this stuff when there are still people like my mom who need to eat!
Okay, whoever moderated this as flamebait is an imbecile.
It's rather common that someone will make a post to Slashdot about something, without giving any background, links to more info, or contextual clues about what it is. I think this is a valid problem, and not flamebait.
Didn't you people ever have english professors write on your papers "be more descriptive" in red ink?
Cool, thanks.
I don't know why, but some guy moderated my gripe as flamebait...
I immediately thought of Real Genius when I read this. But none of you young'uns would remember that movie anyway...
It would be nice if the post gave some indication of what Safari was, or included some relevant links for background. Instead, the guy who wrote this post just assumes I know what he's talking about when he says "Safari".
The only Safari I know of is O'Reilly's online books service, but I somehow doubt that's related.
Open source drivers are nice, but they aren't much of a concession. These days, drivers don't do much more than act as an abstraction layer for the operating system to communicate with the firmware on the hardware. There aren't any nuts-and-bolts of substance to look at in device driver code, just translation. And the card manufacturers know that.
Also, as one reader also pointed out: since the firmware is closed, there's no way for the user to know how it's gathering the entropy to generate the keys with. So there's no way to know how secure your key really is. You just have to take the vendor's word for it. But you can trust the vendor, right? Um, right...?
No, you don't always have to trust the firmware. Take a look at the LinuxBIOS project. You can also pressure makers of video cards, network adapters, and other hardware, to open up their firmware.
Open source drivers are nice, but they aren't much of a concession. These days, drivers don't do much more than act as an abstraction layer for the operating system to communicate with the firmware on the hardware. There aren't any nuts-and-bolts of substance to look at in device driver code, just translation. And the card manufacturers know that.
I may have missed an Iris book... did she regenerate? You say "the old Iris or the new one"?
Yes, she regenerated in "The Scarlet Empress". I enjoyed that book, and the atmosphere it created, but it left me unsatisfied in the end. It seemed like a bit of a pointless romp.
Oh yeah, thanks. I knew I was forgetting one.
Her name is Romana, not Ramona.
Apologies for nitpicking on your mis-spelling of her name, but you were doing it consistently.
Not that it matters much, since her full name is Romanadvoratrelundar anyway.
Ah, crap. I forgot to preview that. I forgot to put in the line-break tags. Oh well...
Question: are you sure he's playing the Fourth Doctor? I take that back. I went back and read the article a little more carefully. And yes, he is indeed playing the 8th Doctor. And they're even fudging the script a bit so that he goes back to Gallifrey just to grab Romana. A little lame. As for the rest of the discontinuity, I think that can be reconciled if we just assume that the episode takes place before the events in "Ancestor Cell". I'm guessing it will be continuous in the same way the Charley Pollard arc is (which is iffy). her appearance and sound now fit the Wildthyme character rather well Do you mean the old Iris or the new one? I've written published Doctor Who fiction... What have you written?
Yeah, but Hitchhiker's has a distinctive "English" quality and humour to it, which turns-off a lot of the American audience.
Because of that, I think that any Hitchhiker's movie will be caught in a catch-22: if it's done well, most Americans will not "get it" and only a small niche audience will go see it; if it's defiled in typical Hollywood fashion, then the loyal fans will be disgusted, and the mainstream will be unimpressed, thinking it's just an MIB knockoff.
Depressing, innit?
The original poster seemed to imply that this was a big deal because it was written by Douglas Adams. However, Shada is not unique in that sense. Adams also wrote "City of Death" and another Doctor Who script which never made the cut, "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen" (to be later recycled as the thrid Hitchhiker's book, "Life, the Universe, and Everything").
He was also script-editor for the series for quite a few years.
For a while now I've been thinking that Doctor Who would translate really well into an animated series. Big Finish would seem to be the natural choice to produce such an animal, since they've already shown that they can pull off the audio dramas.
Wouldn't that solve a lot of budget problems? No money needs to be spent on sets. Though, I suppose they could go nuts with CGI if they really wanted to spend money.
Great. Can they re-do "The Leisure Hive" next?
Regarding the fact that Paul McGann is playing the Doctor, I believe the expression is "suspend disbelief". He's playing the fourth Doctor, not the eighth.
I think you may be getting just a little too dogmatic about continuity. Don't let continuity keep you from enjoying a good story.
Insert Joisey-joke here.
Hey! We don't really tawk like that.
Oh no, how dare we think or talk about something other than the misfortunes in the world. How do we dance when our Earth keeps turning... Boo fucking hoo!
Here's some news for you pal: there's strife no matter what time or place you live in. Nothing makes this particular time or place special. So your claims that our talk is frivolous are unfounded.
If talk of the misfortunes in the world always overrided discussion about other interesting things in life, then we would never get any joy out of living.
Tomorrow, instead of emotionally flogging myself like every other good patriotic American, I'm going to be doing my best to ENJOY my day. I'd best enjoy it while I get the chance. And I'll talk about anything BUT the bombing of a major landmark and the major loss of life that occured a year ago not more than thirty miles from where I sit.
Well, iSCSI is a protocol, not a cabling specification.
At least that's my uninformed assessment.
The reason that 3D markup languages like VRML never took off was because when they were introduced and promoted, cheap and powerful 3D hardware wasn't widely available. When VRML was at the height of its popularity (which was never very high at all), there were very few computers it would run on at a reasonable speed. And it was a hassle to even get it working.
Yeah, it would be really cool if we could navigate the net with an immersive interface from out of Shadowrun or Johnny Mnemonic. But if nobody has powerful enough hardware to run the stuff, then it doesn't matter how robust the software is, it'll still crawl.
Now most new computers come standard with some sort of 3D hardware (finally), so VRML *might* have a chance in hell. Maybe.
I haven't read too deeply into it, but I got the impression that it was supposed to be more of a markup language than a procedural language, much like VRML was a markup language.
You're supposed to be able to specify a scene in a procedure neutral way. Then the hardware will decide how best to optimize it in-terms of its capabilities.
If the BBC had a clue, then they would realize that there's money to be made in this. The fact that a rumour like this has gotten this far and this out-of-hand should tell them something: "Hey, maybe they're onto something. Maybe there's, like, and actual following for that sci-fi show we cancelled for no good reason in 1989." But no, they're content to leave their heads firmly lodged up their asses.
Bitter? Who, me?