That's a good one. There are so many options out there in open source including the one you already use being FORKed if you don't like management.
That's a huge improvement over the same situation with no customer-available source code. Life is equally spontaneous for everyone, so it's in how it's handled:
- Closed-source: hope they used their money to make the product key-person-independent
- Open-Source: Know you can always fork, with a little extra work
It's all about sandboxing. No user exploit can affect Unix system files unless running as root, which done on a per-program basis.
For Ubuntu, the October 2009 version will include Firefox sandboxing to reduce damage to user files in the case of an exploit.
They have no personal media player monopoly! My Sandisk plays Amazon MP3s just fine. (Just like linux runs)
The difference is almost anything I can get on an IPod, I can get on my Sandisk. Not true with Linux vs Windows
Try something other then Gentoo. Redhat or Ubuntu 9.10 alpha comes to mind.
They focus on boot time & have Upstart replace tricky shell-script-based startup with dependency graphs. (Think MS Project for Startup)
Other things that help boot time on Desktop Linux (in Ubuntu 9.10 alpha):
- Grub2
- starting X "early" (to parallel the video card work with the system boot)
- Not starting the screensaver until the it's time to show it
- Not starting Gnome accessibility if it's not enabled (Gentoo may have this one, as it's package-specific)
- The latest Kernel does threaded device probing
- "Likely" kernel modules compiled in (pci, pcspkr, ide, usb, etc) to avoid kernel locks before the root filesystem mounts.
I understand it more like Virtual Machine's "Dynamically allocated hard drive" problem.
There, you can create many files, then delete them, but the virtual machine just knows where you've written and must keep that allocated.
Some have improved by looking in to that drive's format (NTFS only) and seeing what is no longer used, then cleaning it off the "real" drive. They call that "defrag" as well.
On a side note, would this help VMs keep hard drive space down? If so, 100% drives for all of them. Set it & forget it.
Birds & bats:
According to most Pilots I know, there are more birds that they need to deal with over Texas than anywhere else.
Here in San Antonio, Texas we have the world's largest bat cave (and many others) whose occupants eat 100 tons of flying bugs a night (experts estimate).
If it's a flying insect that's not poisonous to birds or bats, Texas has it covered.
Any open source project of higher quality or utility than its closed-source rivals is instantly preferred when all else is equal (DRM isn't part of the picture, Existing software base in Win/Lin).
Yet as Open Source becomes a more common paradigm there are engineers hired to support it. An engineer with experience in some Open Source app can work for any company that may benefit from that program.
Individual users will always find something broken, or just have general questions despite what programming paradigm is under the software.
Debating umbilical cord banking means you're sold on the American system of child delivery, which is designed not for health but for profit.
You've most-likely signed up to have drugs which "reduce the pain" (adding expensive complications), and are paying a OBGYN who most-likely hasn't even tried to answer your questions let-alone give you strengthening exercises to prepare you.
At birth, the umbilical cord is pulsating (alive, working). It's sending the blood to the baby. It only takes 20 minutes and prevents anemia (because there is not much iron in breastmilk or formula), as well as not sapping your child's strength (typical of when blood is drawn).
While you're at it, consider a midwife+doula birth. It's cheaper, *safer*, and if you want to rush to the hospital for a breach birth, that's always available.
Have you considered chRoot environments under Linux?
Most of your requests are covered there:
- Risk avoidance
- Custom library versions
- Lightweight, No VM library duplication overhead
- Runs any app the "host" can
Those laws were created by other copyright holder's lobbying atop a system made "to promote science and the useful arts".
In Shakespere's England copyrights were unheard of. Most of his work would be "infringement" on simpler tales. His work persists because of its quality, not because of legal backing.
Before him, everyone knew the stories and passed them on because it's tradition for all cultures to do. No one went to the theater for the plot, they went for the quality of the performance.
Simple entertainment without exceptional quality has never before had a market.
Lotus Notes / Domino can use IBM DB2 (a well recognized relational database).
It uses DB2 views and DB2 features as much as possible, but the non-uniform dataset causes problems relational databases to the point that for general email use it's often faster to use flat NSF storage with full text indexes and update-on-insert views.
We all know that college students have no money to buy music, so **AA doesn't get paid either way.
Additionally, I like the idea of the leaders of tomorrow living in fear/hate of **AA.
It may take longer than we want, but if you back college students with copyrights, then copyrights will be history in 100 years.
A: Many Linux users reach Google via Firefox or Opera or Konqueror. Around the time of the inversion it was common to have browser-integrated searches. Built-in Google Searches mean half as many hits to Google.com --
No need to download: _________ (Search) (Lucky) Work smarter, not harder!
B: Windows lost about as much % as Linux. Sounds like an upsurge in crawlers to Google as well as Mac popularity.
SQLite does have a command-line version (if that's how you currently call your DBMS).
It also has ODBC drivers (hopefully your app was written with ODBC in mind).
Your Money: Free download from OpenOffice.org with no registration. Your Time: no learning curve -- It has the same menu items for starting points, see below
-Open (Folder Icon) --> test.csv -Check "Comma" and Ok. The preview is available to adjust for odd formatting. -Insert --> Chart -->
(it guessed the rows)
XY Chart (with previews like Excel)
B Spline (Because I want a trendline)
Title: Trend of test.csv -File --> Export as PDF (or XHTML) (Near 'Print' for familiarity) The graph looks essentially the same. ------------- Next Questions:
To try out Cubic Spline: Rt-click --> Chart Type
For Floats & Dates: Floats work on import. Rt-Click Column --> Format Cells --> Date
You can do all you want with colors and details.
This is just as 'pre-installed' with Windows as Excel is.
Freedom is about choices where there is more than one 'solution'. Weigh the 'pros' and 'cons', especially the expensive upgrade you soon face as your current solution becomes unsupported. You also won't lose your current work because OpenOffice reads Excel 97 formats (sometimes better than the latest MS Office).
What would really need to be added? Please describe. This shouldn't be that hard to achieve.
Dynamic Tables: insert into newTable values (1,2,3,4); would create a table with 4 columns? Numbered columns?
Why not just prefix this with something like- create table newTable (c1, c2, c3, c4);
Dynamic columns? What's the goal here? Do you want to add columns dynamically as needed?
What else is necessary to have a 'dynamic' database? I really think the sqlite.org guys will work with you on this. We can always offer code to them or even fork.
sqLite.org has a typeless database. Tables must be static, but you could create one with a high number of columns.
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If it's going to drop onto a young earth covered in volcanoes whose ashes will soon become an atmosphere, then surviving the fall is closer to reasonable. Especially if it has plenty of water to land in.
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"Polluted by public conflict"
That's a good one. There are so many options out there in open source including the one you already use being FORKed if you don't like management.
That's a huge improvement over the same situation with no customer-available source code. Life is equally spontaneous for everyone, so it's in how it's handled:
- Closed-source: hope they used their money to make the product key-person-independent
- Open-Source: Know you can always fork, with a little extra work
"the same thing would happen in Linux or OS X."
It's all about sandboxing. No user exploit can affect Unix system files unless running as root, which done on a per-program basis.
For Ubuntu, the October 2009 version will include Firefox sandboxing to reduce damage to user files in the case of an exploit.
They have no personal media player monopoly! My Sandisk plays Amazon MP3s just fine. (Just like linux runs) The difference is almost anything I can get on an IPod, I can get on my Sandisk. Not true with Linux vs Windows
Try something other then Gentoo. Redhat or Ubuntu 9.10 alpha comes to mind.
They focus on boot time & have Upstart replace tricky shell-script-based startup with dependency graphs. (Think MS Project for Startup)
Other things that help boot time on Desktop Linux (in Ubuntu 9.10 alpha):
- Grub2
- starting X "early" (to parallel the video card work with the system boot)
- Not starting the screensaver until the it's time to show it
- Not starting Gnome accessibility if it's not enabled (Gentoo may have this one, as it's package-specific)
- The latest Kernel does threaded device probing
- "Likely" kernel modules compiled in (pci, pcspkr, ide, usb, etc) to avoid kernel locks before the root filesystem mounts.
I understand it more like Virtual Machine's "Dynamically allocated hard drive" problem.
There, you can create many files, then delete them, but the virtual machine just knows where you've written and must keep that allocated.
Some have improved by looking in to that drive's format (NTFS only) and seeing what is no longer used, then cleaning it off the "real" drive. They call that "defrag" as well.
On a side note, would this help VMs keep hard drive space down? If so, 100% drives for all of them. Set it & forget it.
Birds & bats: According to most Pilots I know, there are more birds that they need to deal with over Texas than anywhere else. Here in San Antonio, Texas we have the world's largest bat cave (and many others) whose occupants eat 100 tons of flying bugs a night (experts estimate). If it's a flying insect that's not poisonous to birds or bats, Texas has it covered.
Any open source project of higher quality or utility than its closed-source rivals is instantly preferred when all else is equal (DRM isn't part of the picture, Existing software base in Win/Lin). Yet as Open Source becomes a more common paradigm there are engineers hired to support it. An engineer with experience in some Open Source app can work for any company that may benefit from that program. Individual users will always find something broken, or just have general questions despite what programming paradigm is under the software.
Debating umbilical cord banking means you're sold on the American system of child delivery, which is designed not for health but for profit.
You've most-likely signed up to have drugs which "reduce the pain" (adding expensive complications), and are paying a OBGYN who most-likely hasn't even tried to answer your questions let-alone give you strengthening exercises to prepare you.
At birth, the umbilical cord is pulsating (alive, working). It's sending the blood to the baby. It only takes 20 minutes and prevents anemia (because there is not much iron in breastmilk or formula), as well as not sapping your child's strength (typical of when blood is drawn).
While you're at it, consider a midwife+doula birth. It's cheaper, *safer*, and if you want to rush to the hospital for a breach birth, that's always available.
These links work great for me in Ubuntu 8.10/FF ! The frequent pauses look a little .. Slashdotted
Have you considered chRoot environments under Linux?
Most of your requests are covered there:
- Risk avoidance
- Custom library versions
- Lightweight, No VM library duplication overhead
- Runs any app the "host" can
Easy enough: http://www.google.com/trends?q=windows%2C+linux%2C+apple&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Thanks for remembering that programmers visit here. Stuff that matters, seriously.
Or use XFS, a slightly-faster file system with boot-time no fsck check ever.
Those laws were created by other copyright holder's lobbying atop a system made "to promote science and the useful arts". In Shakespere's England copyrights were unheard of. Most of his work would be "infringement" on simpler tales. His work persists because of its quality, not because of legal backing. Before him, everyone knew the stories and passed them on because it's tradition for all cultures to do. No one went to the theater for the plot, they went for the quality of the performance. Simple entertainment without exceptional quality has never before had a market.
well said!
Lotus Notes / Domino can use IBM DB2 (a well recognized relational database). It uses DB2 views and DB2 features as much as possible, but the non-uniform dataset causes problems relational databases to the point that for general email use it's often faster to use flat NSF storage with full text indexes and update-on-insert views.
Google search shows: http://www.migniot.com/matrix/projects/thepenguinm achine
Apperently it's using python as well.
Any programmers interested?
We all know that college students have no money to buy music, so **AA doesn't get paid either way. Additionally, I like the idea of the leaders of tomorrow living in fear/hate of **AA. It may take longer than we want, but if you back college students with copyrights, then copyrights will be history in 100 years.
The internet is the first "from everyone to everyone" communication medium.
How's this:
A:
Many Linux users reach Google via Firefox or Opera or Konqueror.
Around the time of the inversion it was common to have browser-integrated searches.
Built-in Google Searches mean half as many hits to Google.com --
No need to download: _________ (Search) (Lucky)
Work smarter, not harder!
B:
Windows lost about as much % as Linux. Sounds like an upsurge in crawlers to Google as well as Mac popularity.
SQLite does have a command-line version (if that's how you currently call your DBMS). It also has ODBC drivers (hopefully your app was written with ODBC in mind).
OpenOffice Calc can help you out here...
Your Money: Free download from OpenOffice.org with no registration.
Your Time: no learning curve -- It has the same menu items for starting points, see below
-Open (Folder Icon) --> test.csv
-Check "Comma" and Ok. The preview is available to adjust for odd formatting.
-Insert --> Chart -->
(it guessed the rows)
XY Chart (with previews like Excel)
B Spline (Because I want a trendline)
Title: Trend of test.csv
-File --> Export as PDF (or XHTML) (Near 'Print' for familiarity)
The graph looks essentially the same.
-------------
Next Questions:
To try out Cubic Spline:
Rt-click --> Chart Type
For Floats & Dates:
Floats work on import.
Rt-Click Column --> Format Cells --> Date
You can do all you want with colors and details.
This is just as 'pre-installed' with Windows as Excel is.
Freedom is about choices where there is more than one 'solution'.
Weigh the 'pros' and 'cons', especially the expensive upgrade you soon face as your current solution becomes unsupported.
You also won't lose your current work because OpenOffice reads Excel 97 formats (sometimes better than the latest MS Office).
This is a sincere effort to educate.
What would really need to be added? Please describe. This shouldn't be that hard to achieve.
Dynamic Tables:
insert into newTable values (1,2,3,4);
would create a table with 4 columns? Numbered columns?
Why not just prefix this with something like-
create table newTable (c1, c2, c3, c4);
Dynamic columns?
What's the goal here? Do you want to add columns dynamically as needed?
What else is necessary to have a 'dynamic' database? I really think the sqlite.org guys will work with you on this. We can always offer code to them or even fork.
sqLite.org has a typeless database. Tables must be static, but you could create one with a high number of columns.
If it's going to drop onto a young earth covered in volcanoes whose ashes will soon become an atmosphere, then surviving the fall is closer to reasonable. Especially if it has plenty of water to land in.