Umm, he mentioned Launchpad in response to the parent poster.
On a side note, it looks like they are having some load issues...I doubt that sourceforge/launchpad/github/etc. could be slashdotted so easily.*
So he explained their server setup and compared it to the same sites the parent mentioned. I only had a glance at the site but the fact that the guy is here joining the discussion leads me to believe that they are down with the community aspect of Open Source anyway...
Sure but's been backronymed so many times I tend to think of it as an acronym now. The best part is depending on mood and how coding is going there are a plethora of acronyms to choose from!
Perl - A high level scripting language common on Unix-like systems, with the common backronym of "Practical Extraction and Report Language", but jokingly referred to as the "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister". Both expansions appear on the man page. More recently, "Parse Every Random Line", in honor of the extensions proposed for Perl 6. Another less colorful one is "Pathetic Excuse for a Real Language"
Hmm, I always heard vi was supposed to be pronounced "vee eye" so I always say the whole name when speaking about Vim, therefore "vee eye improved".
Not sure it's right though and I suddenly feel like just saying Vim (as in your vim and vigor example that is) would have saved me at least a small portion of my time over the years!:-)
The only problem with all that is that most users just shrug and say, um, sure -> OK. IMHO, for corporate use anyway, Foxit should add some way to leave the default "don't let it run" enabled and prevent users from turning it off. Just to give us poor, overworked sysadmins a way to prevent non-root/non-Administrator user "Just click OK" (TM) syndrome.
I believe MS does provide a way to handle the VBA situation you described but it's been a while so not 100% sure
Well you will notice that he didn't thank Apple for fixing this in their system did he? According to TFA the amount of Linux users affected is so small he didn't bother to graph them and, as others have mentioned, switching to a new version of Opera is a heck of a lot easier then switching to a new version of OS X, especially given Apple charges users for upgrades, even security/bug fixes. IMHO Apple users will end up with the bigger issues to face.
I wonder what the exact percentage of largest software company in the world hosting an open source project to young, naive programmer thinking he can help by throwing up a sourgeforge page is? Comparing MS doing an open source project to most open source projects hardly seems fair.
To put it another way, if you compare MS to say Apache, Red Hat, Novell or Gnome then MS looks pretty bad at open source. Which, on the surface at least, is surprising because they do a much better job of hosting their MSDN content which is similar in scope to hosting a large open source project. But it's actually not so surprising considering MS's schizophrenic attitude towards open source in general.
True, and I was being a bit facetious. But that said I am concerned that the problems they had in house are indicative of a particular attitude on security. I'm not writing them off just yet.:-) But I will watch them now for while as I have been doing to MS for, um, well it feels like forever with MS.
I'm worried that it will simply display the MOTD about being a good citizen, reminding us not to violate copyright and then pointing us to our assigned task for the day. Oh and it will have ads for entertainment content, mountain dew and viagra. Mandatory ads that is (as in no need to click here, we will simply deduct it from your account, thanks).
It's true that Unix command line and script environment doesn't handle spaces very well. I think that's sad.
The shell handles spaces just fine. Quoting and escaping offer several ways to handle spaces depending on context. It's people that don't understand the shell that don't handle spaces well (like the OP).
As long as R2 can provide more power to the forward couplings I think things will work out just fine.
This is a nice follow up to the earlier "Armstrong criticizes Obama" article. In case anyone missed ral's comment in that other article, Buzz Aldrin has a different take on Obama's new plan.
I'm not sure how I feel about this, will wait and see. However the Star Wars special that Robot Chicken did was hilarious. If you see it you will no longer need to ask "Could Darth Vader do anything funny?". And I'm not talking giant helmets here, I mean a good, satirical look at something that so many of us took so seriously as kids.
But then again that was a one shot, 30 minute special; I have a hard time imagining they can get a whole, multi-season series out of it. Again, wait and see!
Actually TurboHecules is suing IBM in France under Anti-Trust laws hoping to force IBM to make its software available to all, regardless of where they buy the hardware. If it works TurboHerc's reasoning is that people will flock to their emulator so they can run the IBM software without forking over the cash IBM wants for their hardware.
Does TurboHercules==Hercules? Are TurboHurcules offerings FOSS or is this a closed fork?
From what I can tell, no, TurboHercules simply sells support and services for Hercules. There doesn't seem to be a lot of need for that now though because running IBM's OS on the emulator violates IBM's license.
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Does it really count as an endorsement if the AHA is getting 1.5M for it?
Seems to me to be a fairly straight foreword business deal.
Umm, he mentioned Launchpad in response to the parent poster.
On a side note, it looks like they are having some load issues...I doubt that sourceforge/launchpad/github/etc. could be slashdotted so easily.*
So he explained their server setup and compared it to the same sites the parent mentioned. I only had a glance at the site but the fact that the guy is here
joining the discussion leads me to believe that they are down with the community aspect of Open Source anyway...
* emphasis mine
Sure but's been backronymed so many times I tend to think of it as an acronym now. The best part is depending on mood and how coding is
going there are a plethora of acronyms to choose from!
Perl - A high level scripting language common on Unix-like systems, with the common backronym of "Practical Extraction and Report Language", but jokingly referred to as the "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister". Both expansions appear on the man page. More recently, "Parse Every Random Line", in honor of the extensions proposed for Perl 6. Another less colorful one is "Pathetic Excuse for a Real Language"
from: wordIQ.
Kind of like at Thanksgiving then?
Hmm, I always heard vi was supposed to be pronounced "vee eye" so I always
say the whole name when speaking about Vim, therefore "vee eye improved".
Not sure it's right though and I suddenly feel like just saying Vim (as :-)
in your vim and vigor example that is) would have saved me at least a
small portion of my time over the years!
Anyone who followed the SCO debacle will probably get it right away;
that was my main exposure to IBM's version of RC.
And I would guess a large proportion of ./'ers followed the whole SCO thing!
Was it really necessary to use the words pressure and mount in this headline? The subject matter is provocative enough on its own!
The only problem with all that is that most users just shrug and say, um, sure -> OK.
IMHO, for corporate use anyway, Foxit should add some way to leave the default "don't let
it run" enabled and prevent users from turning it off. Just to give us poor, overworked
sysadmins a way to prevent non-root/non-Administrator user "Just click OK" (TM) syndrome.
I believe MS does provide a way to handle the VBA situation you described but it's been
a while so not 100% sure
Well you will notice that he didn't thank Apple for fixing this in their system did he? According to TFA the amount of Linux users affected is so small he didn't bother to graph them and, as others have mentioned, switching to a new version of Opera is a heck of a lot easier then switching to a new version of OS X, especially given Apple charges users for upgrades, even security/bug fixes. IMHO Apple users will end up with the bigger issues to face.
I wonder what the exact percentage of largest software company in the world hosting an open source project to young, naive programmer thinking he can help by throwing up a sourgeforge page is? Comparing MS doing an open source project to most open source projects hardly seems fair.
To put it another way, if you compare MS to say Apache, Red Hat, Novell or Gnome then MS looks pretty bad at open source. Which, on the surface at least, is surprising because they do a much better job of hosting their MSDN content which is similar in scope to hosting a large open source project.
But it's actually not so surprising considering MS's schizophrenic attitude towards open source in general.
Oh I'm sure there's an App for ... um, never mind.
True, and I was being a bit facetious. But that said I am concerned that the problems they had in house are indicative of a particular attitude on security. I'm not writing them off just yet. :-) But I will watch them now for while as I have been doing to MS for, um, well it feels like forever with MS.
Chrome will be the fastest and secure out of the box.
Really?
I'm worried that it will simply display the MOTD about being a good citizen, reminding us not to violate copyright and then pointing us to our assigned task for the day. Oh and it will have ads for entertainment content, mountain dew and viagra. Mandatory ads that is (as in no need to click here, we will simply deduct it from your account, thanks).
It's true that Unix command line and script environment doesn't handle spaces very well. I think that's sad.
The shell handles spaces just fine. Quoting and escaping offer several ways to handle spaces depending on context. It's people
that don't understand the shell that don't handle spaces well (like the OP).
As long as R2 can provide more power to the forward couplings I think things will work out just fine.
This is a nice follow up to the earlier "Armstrong criticizes Obama" article. In case anyone missed
ral's comment in that other article, Buzz Aldrin has a different take on Obama's new plan.
Not necessarily but keep your gcc handy just in case!
I'm not sure how I feel about this, will wait and see. However the Star Wars special that Robot Chicken did was hilarious. If you see it you will no longer need to ask "Could Darth Vader do anything funny?". And I'm not talking giant helmets here, I mean a good, satirical look at something that so many of us took so seriously as kids.
But then again that was a one shot, 30 minute special; I have a hard time imagining they can get a whole, multi-season series out of it. Again, wait and see!
Oh and ditto on both Futurama and Family Guy.
Actually TurboHecules is suing IBM in France under Anti-Trust laws hoping to force IBM to make its software available to all, regardless of where they buy the hardware. If it works TurboHerc's reasoning is that people will flock to their emulator so they can run the IBM software without forking over the cash IBM wants for their hardware.
Does TurboHercules==Hercules? Are TurboHurcules offerings FOSS or is this a closed fork?
From what I can tell, no, TurboHercules simply sells support and services for Hercules. There doesn't seem to be a lot of need for that now though because running IBM's OS on the emulator violates IBM's license.
More info - here.
Bureaucrat Corporate_Troll you are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Regular pages that looked fine in IE and Firefox were completely mangled in Opera, so I gave up and said never again.
See here.
Hate to call
So it's even worse then Zima! Thanks. :-)
Uhhh...what great moral failure are we punishing them for?
Yes. But it's not "punishing" it's letting them know our opinion using our wallets.
vodak? Is that like Zima?