I can't agree... I've dealt with their support online through the chat system and it was absolutely phenomenal. I actually had a rather cheap Dell laptop with some major overheating issues (design issue, many of the same model had) and they absolutely made the situation right, even out of warranty!
And what is wrong with an individual INI file per app and/or per user? I mean, *nix has been using that for a long time, and it sure makes down-and-dirty administration ten times easier.
Unless, of course, you are a Gnome use, in which case you get GConf. What is GConf? Well, it's a nice implmentation of a registry.:)
actually I have looked at the bugzillas and changelogs of hundreds of projects, and memory leaks are the single least common bug ever. far more common (by orders of magnitude) are off-by-one errors. java won't save you there. other far more common bugs than memory leaks are logical bugs and high level design flaws, which would have occured regardless if the project was written in c, c++, java, or any other language.
Yes, but have you ever seen how much time those bugs take to fix? I suspect that time consumption is roughly in this order:
Design Flaws & Logic Bugs - Toughest to fix
Memory Bugs - Almost as bad
Off-by-ones - Super-easy
Add to that the fact that 99.9% of users probably don't even know what a "memory leak" would be (much less the how to get enough details to report one), and you can see why looking at a few bugzillas is misleading.
I'm pretty sure Gentoo does not actually do that (though it has been talked about).
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I recently heard a statistic that the majority of programming jobs are for code that will only ever be used internally to the company. General Mills, Hormel, etc. - All sorts of big companies have internal programming teams. For these people, OSS isn't so much detrimental as irrelevant.
Irrelevant? Er, those are often the kinds of places where it makes the most sense.
I think the presumption is that one of the following is taking place:
There were no external contributers - Nothing needs to be done... just release the new version under the new license.
There were external contributers, who signed over copyrights - If all external contributers signed their copyrights over to Nessus (as is the policy for contributors to some products), then they would already own all copyrights.
There were significant contributions by external contributors, who did not sign over copyrights - They would have substantial rewriting to do.
From their indication that they haven't seen any significant help in six years, we can presume that the third possibility is unlikely.
And, of course, old versions will still remain under the GPL (happily).
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! From my experience, large system-like java applets work HORRIBLE through the web browser due to huge lag times and usually sloppy programming. Ajax would just be a better option all around IMHO. Besides, you would want it to "just work", not have it dependent on a JRE installed.
What are you saying now to? The parent poster said nothing about Java, he said JavaScript. You do realize that's what AJAX is based on, right? Javascript!:)
Please wait for the conclusion of the investigation before quoting details like that, and even then read the actual reports instead of the pathetic reporting.
There are strong indications that people aboard that plane did not drop anwyhere near -60 within seconds, and that at least a few had consciousness well into the flight.
My experiences are somewhat similar. I'm curious if you've tried distros such as SuSe or RedHat if you are saying that Linux has virtually nothing in admin tools, though. RedHat's tools show some pretty serious age, but Yast is actually pretty good.
Oh, and our Linux servers sit there for years at a time with no stability issues.:)
The most common problem for me is: when changing desktops, the entries in the taskbar (which also sucks a lot) sometimes get "stuck" such that I can see things in the taskbar that aren't present on the current desktop
Interestingly, I get almost exactly the same problem on WinXP without a virtual desktop installed. Sometimes and app just disappears to where it is in the Alt-Tab, but not on the task bar. Doing an alt-tab to it makes them instantly appear in both again, though.:)
My Linux servers are pretty reliable too. Honestly, I think they all suck compared to the SCO OpenServer box I run on the reliability front, but I suspect that's because OpenServer does things the safe way even when it's the dumb and very, very slow way.
Very funny... my experiences with OpenServer are that stability might be ok, but the tools are extraordinarily buggy.
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I can't agree... I've dealt with their support online through the chat system and it was absolutely phenomenal. I actually had a rather cheap Dell laptop with some major overheating issues (design issue, many of the same model had) and they absolutely made the situation right, even out of warranty!
:) I totally agree. I was amazed that they would release this pile of junk at all, especially with this much fanfare.
Not doubting, just really curious as I know it has not done this for at least the past 4 years.
Are you kidding me? That UID isn't exactly ancient.
At the consumer level? Virtually all of them.
Unless, of course, you are a Gnome use, in which case you get GConf. What is GConf? Well, it's a nice implmentation of a registry.
Yes, but have you ever seen how much time those bugs take to fix? I suspect that time consumption is roughly in this order:
Add to that the fact that 99.9% of users probably don't even know what a "memory leak" would be (much less the how to get enough details to report one), and you can see why looking at a few bugzillas is misleading.
GC is a big deal.
Cool... thanks for the insight.
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I may try that some time.
Although, according to The Gentoo Wiki this is being removed whenever baselayout 1.12.20 goes stable.
Actually, as far as I know, it doesn't have anything to do with the ABI. Gentoo is primarily source-based anyway.
In the forums, they've claimed that it is due to too many bugs in 3.4 and 4.0.
I'm pretty sure Gentoo does not actually do that (though it has been talked about).
Irrelevant? Er, those are often the kinds of places where it makes the most sense.
From their indication that they haven't seen any significant help in six years, we can presume that the third possibility is unlikely.
And, of course, old versions will still remain under the GPL (happily).
Yes, basically. The exception is GCC, as Gentoo is insanely slow about that. They are currently on 3.3 (not 4... not 3.4... 3.3!).
What are you saying now to? The parent poster said nothing about Java, he said JavaScript. You do realize that's what AJAX is based on, right? Javascript!
Not true at all... some airplanes can land automatically with a full ILS.
And, of course, the UAVs (as used in Iraq and elsewhere) can as well.
Please wait for the conclusion of the investigation before quoting details like that, and even then read the actual reports instead of the pathetic reporting.
There are strong indications that people aboard that plane did not drop anwyhere near -60 within seconds, and that at least a few had consciousness well into the flight.
The final report will be a fascinating read.
My experiences are somewhat similar. I'm curious if you've tried distros such as SuSe or RedHat if you are saying that Linux has virtually nothing in admin tools, though. RedHat's tools show some pretty serious age, but Yast is actually pretty good.
:)
Oh, and our Linux servers sit there for years at a time with no stability issues.
You're knowledge is wrong. IE View does exactly that (I use it for Windows update in a tab right along with Firefox).
You're problems are solved... IE View!
:)
IE can even just be another tab in your Firefox window.
Interestingly, I get almost exactly the same problem on WinXP without a virtual desktop installed. Sometimes and app just disappears to where it is in the Alt-Tab, but not on the task bar. Doing an alt-tab to it makes them instantly appear in both again, though.
Interestingly, the project that you mention is kind of dead at the moment. Novell is paying some guys to convert if for them, though.
Very funny... my experiences with OpenServer are that stability might be ok, but the tools are extraordinarily buggy.
Gaving King is a JBoss employee, so yes, they control Hibernate. Own is a bit strong, though...
Mean? I'm not sure what you mean.