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You're right on the money. dBase III was a great product, and they released dBase IV as a follow-on. They expected great things for it. Everyone did.
But dBase IV was the buggiest piece of shit of the times, and by the time they got it straight it was 1990. Since dBase III was from 1985, that meant that for FIVE YEARS Ashton Tate was standing still. If dBase IV had been usable from the start, they might have had a chance. But in the meantime, a little company called Fox Software came out with FoxPro which was compatible and had many more features than dBase III. Ashton Tate couldn't survive and they were gobbled up by Borland.
The interesting and ironic part of all of this:
1988 (September) Ashton-Tate sues Fox Software. In december 1990 the suit filed by Ashton-Tate against Fox Software and Santa Cruz Operations for alleged copyright infringement of the dBASE language is dismissed in court.
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If you go to the zoo, you can go see some monkeys there that have no apparent ammo. Until one of them takes a shit, that is.
I don't think that anybody click on my link. And if they did, they didn't ever see the Buffy movie, and they didn't laugh at Pee Wee taking about 23 minutes of screen time to die.
But you know, it makes sense. When that movie came out the average slashdotter was about 2 years old. I guess I'm just an old man.
2) The same mechanism that prevents you from selling your own VHS tapes of The Wizard of Oz will prevent you from renewing the copyright does not reassign the copyright. The copyright office will simply register that 1$ has been paid for the Wizard of Oz. If you want to send them a dollar, they'll record that fact. It won't assign the copyright to you.
Don't forget the works of silliness too. There's quite a few pulp novels from 50 years ago that are crumbling or lost, because they were literally printed on cheap paper. These "works of non-brilliance" are still important in their own way.
Forget about CUPS. For 99% of printing at home it's still way overkill. What you are really looking for is something that will send a file to a printer over TCP port 9100. That will let you print on just about any network printer that you can buy (sorry, ink jet printers are toys).
So if you're at home with a network printer, then get yourself a copy of pdq and use it. It's as simple as going through the GUI to configure the IP address of your printer, then you can type 'pdq ' to print something. Or if you want a nice little printer GUI like Windows, you can type xpdq. That command can be configured into Mozilla or any other application.
Mod that up. I hope that TiVo sells its data, because then some people who lack cluesticks might suddenly get one. I want TV execs to know that I watch shows like Babylon 5, Star Trek, stuff on TechTV, and so on. But so far, most of what they give us is "The Golden Girls" in a thousand different variants. Anything that lets someone know what I personally watch is a good thing.
There's nothing wrong with Postfix. My experience with it was that it seemed to be well written, solid, and capable. But I never could figure out the configuration files. I looked at the docs and read everything. But I never *grokked* them. On the other hand, Exim was a snap. I understood what I was looking at right away.
There are those who say exactly the opposite: they understand Postfix, but have no clue about Exim's configuration files. So now what I recommend to people is to stay away from Sendmail, then look at both Postfix and Exim. Pick the one that seems most natural to you, and stick with it.
I agree. Exim is sweet, and it just works. I run it as the MTA on my domain, and never have had a relay, or a security problem. And configuration was simple compared to anything else.
That's a classic misunderstanding of the word skeptic. Most people misunderstand the term "open mind" as well. In truth, skeptic is almost synonymous with an open mind.
OK, this is the challenge. You're a police officer, verifying the identities of people you pull over.
Offender #1 gives you an ID that says "John Smith". You believe him and give him his ticket.
Offender #2 gives you an ID that says "Yahweh, creater of the universe". You don't believe that could be correct.
Other than that, the ID's look the same. The difference there is that when you make a claim of a larger magnitude, you need more evidence to back it up.
Who knows how much truth has been cast aside because the evidence just wasn't extraordinary enough?
And who knows how much crap has been swallowed whole by people who don't have open minds? Remember, the definition of an open mind is a skeptic that can be persuaded by sufficient evidence. See also, burden of proof.
I read all the comments on the Yahoo SCO forum for the past few days. It's striking to see a lot of loudmouth idiots claiming that SCO was going to skyrocket and take out Linux with it. Then today, they are strangely absent. I wonder if they are upset about something?
So you're saying that it is incorrect of me to number my home network that uses NAT? I use 10.1.1.1, 10.1.1.2, and so on for my network. I picked it just because 192.168.1.1 was a little harder to type. Also, from the RFC: "If a suitable subnetting scheme can be designed and is supported by the equipment concerned, it is advisable to use the 24-bit block."
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You're right on the money. dBase III was a great product, and they released dBase IV as a follow-on. They expected great things for it. Everyone did.
But dBase IV was the buggiest piece of shit of the times, and by the time they got it straight it was 1990. Since dBase III was from 1985, that meant that for FIVE YEARS Ashton Tate was standing still. If dBase IV had been usable from the start, they might have had a chance. But in the meantime, a little company called Fox Software came out with FoxPro which was compatible and had many more features than dBase III. Ashton Tate couldn't survive and they were gobbled up by Borland.
The interesting and ironic part of all of this:
1988 (September) Ashton-Tate sues Fox Software. In december 1990 the suit filed by Ashton-Tate against Fox Software and Santa Cruz Operations for alleged copyright infringement of the dBASE language is dismissed in court.
If you go to the zoo, you can go see some monkeys there that have no apparent ammo. Until one of them takes a shit, that is.
I don't think that anybody click on my link. And if they did, they didn't ever see the Buffy movie, and they didn't laugh at Pee Wee taking about 23 minutes of screen time to die.
But you know, it makes sense. When that movie came out the average slashdotter was about 2 years old. I guess I'm just an old man.
If you've got a tachometer, you don't need a speedometer.
1) Moderators on crack - this is not offtopic.
2) The same mechanism that prevents you from selling your own VHS tapes of The Wizard of Oz will prevent you from renewing the copyright does not reassign the copyright. The copyright office will simply register that 1$ has been paid for the Wizard of Oz. If you want to send them a dollar, they'll record that fact. It won't assign the copyright to you.
Don't forget the works of silliness too. There's quite a few pulp novels from 50 years ago that are crumbling or lost, because they were literally printed on cheap paper. These "works of non-brilliance" are still important in their own way.
Is anyone getting the idea that BSD could take a very long time to die?
Damn. Where's my acid? Why didn't you warn me that I'd need my acid?
Forget about CUPS. For 99% of printing at home it's still way overkill. What you are really looking for is something that will send a file to a printer over TCP port 9100. That will let you print on just about any network printer that you can buy (sorry, ink jet printers are toys).
So if you're at home with a network printer, then get yourself a copy of pdq and use it. It's as simple as going through the GUI to configure the IP address of your printer, then you can type 'pdq ' to print something. Or if you want a nice little printer GUI like Windows, you can type xpdq. That command can be configured into Mozilla or any other application.
That's exactly right. And a new VHS tape will also look far far better than a DVD.
Not to shabby. Usually a blown seal costs a lot more.
Large, hairless, from Rigel. Fricking transtellarexuals.
I agree, and I've ranted on that before. Flamebait is something only a newbie who likes to write "LOL" would come up with.
It's a flame, not flamebait. Just plain old flame.
Evil will always win because good is dumb. Yay
I need a TiVo for Slashdot so I can skip comments that contain unpleasant and painful truth. Back to plan B.
1) Take over the world
2) Force the networks to hire JMS and finish Crusade
3) Profit!!!
I don't care what they give us, as long as I never have to watch another goddamn BowFlex ad on TV.
Mod that up. I hope that TiVo sells its data, because then some people who lack cluesticks might suddenly get one. I want TV execs to know that I watch shows like Babylon 5, Star Trek, stuff on TechTV, and so on. But so far, most of what they give us is "The Golden Girls" in a thousand different variants. Anything that lets someone know what I personally watch is a good thing.
There's nothing wrong with Postfix. My experience with it was that it seemed to be well written, solid, and capable. But I never could figure out the configuration files. I looked at the docs and read everything. But I never *grokked* them. On the other hand, Exim was a snap. I understood what I was looking at right away.
There are those who say exactly the opposite: they understand Postfix, but have no clue about Exim's configuration files. So now what I recommend to people is to stay away from Sendmail, then look at both Postfix and Exim. Pick the one that seems most natural to you, and stick with it.
I agree. Exim is sweet, and it just works. I run it as the MTA on my domain, and never have had a relay, or a security problem. And configuration was simple compared to anything else.
Don Knuth mates with a guppy! Eats all the babies he can catch! Film at 11.
And if you'd quit pestering him about how ugly his fonts are he'd actually get that thesis done.
That's a classic misunderstanding of the word skeptic. Most people misunderstand the term "open mind" as well. In truth, skeptic is almost synonymous with an open mind.
OK, this is the challenge. You're a police officer, verifying the identities of people you pull over.
Offender #1 gives you an ID that says "John Smith". You believe him and give him his ticket.
Offender #2 gives you an ID that says "Yahweh, creater of the universe". You don't believe that could be correct.
Other than that, the ID's look the same. The difference there is that when you make a claim of a larger magnitude, you need more evidence to back it up.
Who knows how much truth has been cast aside because the evidence just wasn't extraordinary enough?
And who knows how much crap has been swallowed whole by people who don't have open minds? Remember, the definition of an open mind is a skeptic that can be persuaded by sufficient evidence. See also, burden of proof.
I read all the comments on the Yahoo SCO forum for the past few days. It's striking to see a lot of loudmouth idiots claiming that SCO was going to skyrocket and take out Linux with it. Then today, they are strangely absent. I wonder if they are upset about something?
So you're saying that it is incorrect of me to number my home network that uses NAT? I use 10.1.1.1, 10.1.1.2, and so on for my network. I picked it just because 192.168.1.1 was a little harder to type. Also, from the RFC: "If a suitable subnetting scheme can be designed and is supported by the equipment concerned, it is advisable to use the 24-bit block."