Funny, where I work we still use XP which is still the same rotting mess it was 10 years ago, the only difference is that it is wrapped in so much duct tape and so much time, effort and expense has been invested in it that the infosec people treat Linux and OSX as the same steaming pile of shit and it is really hard to break them free of it.
i.e. 7 characters one must be a non-character or capital. The result is that people like me chose passwords that a keyboard patterns that anyone could guess if they watched me type it.
Every time I've driven in the UK and Australia I've been amazed by what a great idea they are. Traffic flows through them so much better than at a light and they must save a ton of gas.
I haven't read the book yet but if you want to get started with OSGi and Felix just pop over to the Felix web site and read their getting stared documentation. It is clear and well written and I was able to get an OSGi app up and running is a couple or hours.
Yes isn't it, but I heard the NPR interview and there were many long pauses before this guy said the things he said. I suspect that he got a long talking to when he got back to the evil empire and that Microsoft's new open stance on this is really just them watching the ass of the horse run away while they stand in the open barn door.
The part that really got me was when Ira asked him if M$ was going to sue anyone for doing this. There was probably 30 seconds of dead air while the guy squirmed in his seat and then he said no.
It is really unfortunate the IDE's let people change the tab setting and even more unfortunate that IDE's like Eclipse and IntellJ come with it incorrectly set to 4 spaces. This has the effect of totally buggering the code when viewed in any context other than one with the same settings. Printers and most code viewers use an 8 character tab stop. Yes things work fine if you forbid mixing tabs and spaces in indent but, in my experience this does not work in practice.
we like our OSes because they're simple and functional, with no headaches involved.
does not describe any Windows installation that I have ever used. I'm chained to a windows desktop at work and it is slow, buggy and in general dis-functional. All of the Office tools completely suck, what were they thinking when they created Office 2007? Last week I had to copy an excel spread sheet to my Mac laptop and edit it under Numbers because Excel would not let me move or delete columns for some reason.
Linux on the other hand, does just work. It is fast, robust and consistent. The old, it is a pain to install and configure bullshit has not been true for many years. The fact is that to install Fedora or Ubuntu requires one disk and is up and running with all hardware supported in less than an hour. No scouring the Internet for drivers, no reboot install, reboot install, reboot install loop.
I don't know what your problems were in your two years for trying, but I can tell you for a fact that they were not Linux.
Having worked as a programmer for many years, all I can say is poorly commented and undocumented code is unprofessional and I would rather rewrite it than try to decipher it. I've heard all of these excuses before and all I can say to the people that make them is: Your code is not as good as you think it is.
I don't personally see any down side of having all of Murdoch's content removed from my searches. If I want news, I want the real deal, not the Faux News spin on it. Also I can't imagine two entities that deserve each other more, it's a marriage made in hell.
i work at a major university that is moving TO SharePoint, despite many of the dev and manager types here being mac fanbois and linux fans.
I guessing that the dev and manager types were left out of the decision making process to move to sharepoint. Just as they will be left out when trying to use it from a Mac or Linux box.
Most of your post is saying "but if you're left handed and wear a blind fold cars suck because the stick shift is at your right hand and you need to see the road and other cars". Take off the blind fold and get an automatic.
I'll second that. Give me a mediawiki for collaboration and content, and a subversion repository for document storage and i'm happy. Shitepoint is just another crappy M$ product that is a pain to use and tries to lock you to their other crappy products.
I would give up my children to be free of that combo. Not one of those tools works well either by itself or together. Sharepoint in particular has no value what so ever and Outlook and Office are steaming piles of shit.
Can't wait for Google Wave to be available hopefully it will crush Outhouse/Exchange.
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Funny, where I work we still use XP which is still the same rotting mess it was 10 years ago, the only difference is that it is wrapped in so much duct tape and so much time, effort and expense has been invested in it that the infosec people treat Linux and OSX as the same steaming pile of shit and it is really hard to break them free of it.
i.e. 7 characters one must be a non-character or capital.
The result is that people like me chose passwords that a keyboard patterns that anyone could guess if they watched me type it.
I call them Republicans
Recover all the photos that my Mom took with a camera that had no film.
It seems that Google Wave has be transferred to the Apache Foundation in some form.
http://incubator.apache.org/wave/
Thanks, except i'm Canadian :)
Every time I've driven in the UK and Australia I've been amazed by what a great idea they are. Traffic flows through them so much better than at a light and they must save a ton of gas.
I really hope that this catches on.
I haven't read the book yet but if you want to get started with OSGi and Felix just pop over to the Felix web site and read their getting stared documentation. It is clear and well written and I was able to get an OSGi app up and running is a couple or hours.
http://felix.apache.org/site/getting-started.html
Some one had to say it.
Yes isn't it, but I heard the NPR interview and there were many long pauses before this guy said the things he said. I suspect that he got a long talking to when he got back to the evil empire and that Microsoft's new open stance on this is really just them watching the ass of the horse run away while they stand in the open barn door.
The part that really got me was when Ira asked him if M$ was going to sue anyone for doing this. There was probably 30 seconds of dead air while the guy squirmed in his seat and then he said no.
I do this as well and it works great. Unfortunately they never released a version of the Safari plugin that worked with you own server.
They could use a decent operating system to sell
Yes, it is the same piece of crap as xp, nt, w95, ...
Yes awefully kind of them to let you use the software that you bought and paid for.
It is really unfortunate the IDE's let people change the tab setting and even more unfortunate that IDE's like Eclipse and IntellJ come with it incorrectly set to 4 spaces. This has the effect of totally buggering the code when viewed in any context other than one with the same settings. Printers and most code viewers use an 8 character tab stop.
Yes things work fine if you forbid mixing tabs and spaces in indent but, in my experience this does not work in practice.
Sorry, I can't let this pass but
we like our OSes because they're simple and functional, with no headaches involved.
does not describe any Windows installation that I have ever used. I'm chained to a windows desktop at work and it is slow, buggy and in general dis-functional. All of the Office tools completely suck, what were they thinking when they created Office 2007? Last week I had to copy an excel spread sheet to my Mac laptop and edit it under Numbers because Excel would not let me move or delete columns for some reason.
Linux on the other hand, does just work. It is fast, robust and consistent. The old, it is a pain to install and configure bullshit has not been true for many years. The fact is that to install Fedora or Ubuntu requires one disk and is up and running with all hardware supported in less than an hour. No scouring the Internet for drivers, no reboot install, reboot install, reboot install loop.
I don't know what your problems were in your two years for trying, but I can tell you for a fact that they were not Linux.
Having worked as a programmer for many years, all I can say is poorly commented and undocumented code is unprofessional and I would rather
rewrite it than try to decipher it. I've heard all of these excuses before and all I can say to the people that make them is: Your code is not as
good as you think it is.
I don't personally see any down side of having all of Murdoch's content removed from my searches. If I want news, I want the real deal, not the Faux News spin on it.
Also I can't imagine two entities that deserve each other more, it's a marriage made in hell.
Yes and you can breath ok as long as no one unplugs the machine.
Same pig, new dress.
i work at a major university that is moving TO SharePoint, despite many of the dev and manager types here being mac fanbois and linux fans.
I guessing that the dev and manager types were left out of the decision making process to move to sharepoint. Just as they will be left out when trying to use it from a Mac or Linux box.
Most of your post is saying "but if you're left handed and wear a blind fold cars suck because the stick shift is at your right hand and you need to see the road and other cars". Take off the blind fold and get an automatic.
Wtf?
I'll second that. Give me a mediawiki for collaboration and content, and a subversion repository for document storage and i'm happy. Shitepoint is just another crappy M$ product that is a pain to use and tries to lock you to their other crappy products.
A company will sell 3 times as many games at $20 than at $50. It also helps to make the game actually worth the $20 in the first place.
I would give up my children to be free of that combo. Not one of those tools works well either by itself or together. Sharepoint in particular has no value what so ever and Outlook and Office are steaming piles of shit.
Can't wait for Google Wave to be available hopefully it will crush Outhouse/Exchange.
Someone had to say it