Compiere and it's fork Adempiere are 2 open source options. They are fairly extensive and there is an active consulting base that can help you to get things running. The primary DB for these applications is Oracle, but Postgres is beginning to become an option.
I purchased this originally to use on vacation for storing pictures from my digital camera. I got used to carrying it around and it will soon be replacing my laptop as the 'take home every night' device. It plays MP3s and has a CF slot built in. Very practical device.
Such asmall world.
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I found a copy of the first edition of this book in a used book store almost 10 years ago for a dollar. I read it, and despite agreeing with the (fair) criticisms in the review, learned a new perspective from which to view my job, and the systems I encounter in daily life.
I had given up on the idea that this book had been read by (almost) anyone else, as nobody I had ever spoken with seems to have read it, but anyone who borrowed it from me enjoyed it thoroughly. Most also tried to keep it (bastards), and only a few failed to see the genius behind the pessimism the review (rightly, imnsho) criticized.
So we know that MS does have a monopoly, and they did unlawfully act to preserve that monopoly, and based on those protective actions did reap a profit at the expense of their would be competitors. (These things are not up for debate they are 'Findings of Fact'.)
My question is, do they get to keep their unlawfully obtained profits? If yes, is it because they settled and did not have a judgement imposed upon them? If no, what penalties in the judgement serve to revoke valuable assets/profits from MS? (I must have missed that part.)
I've read completely everything but the almost 350 page Memorandum Opinion, which I have skimmed looking for The Court's (TM) ruling on the standing of/remedy for the non-settling states.
I have seen nothing....am I missing something? Does this thing continue on, or did the non-settling states get the proverbial finger? (From what I've read so far, they haven't gotten much sympathy from the judge.)
Codeweavers is/has already (and presumably will continue to) live up to this promise. Their enhancements to WINE have been submitted (and accepted) into the main WINE tree.
I have sat down and beaten the freely available WINE into running Office, and IE, and Quicktime. I had the benefit of an installed crossover plugin/office to compare config files, etc and it still took me a couple of hours. What you get for your money is a pretty installer and all of the time you would otherwise spend config'ing to do other things. Well worth it to me. IMNSHO, Codeweavers is a company well deserving of my money and support.
if you set res=1 you get was appears to be a 'full zoom' as close as the script will show to the captured resolution....it also chokes if you give it dimensions which are too large, 4096x3072 no worky. =[
I remember using HyperCard, what a joy. It was, at the time, the most rewarding time I had spend with a computer. It was as close to 'Do what I mean mode' as I believe to be possible with computers.
It was even able to correct much of the damage to my would be programming career that years of BASIC had inflicted.
I too have this mouse, and purchased it because of the retracting cable. I have noticed, however, that there is some issues with either the device or driver that interferes with dragging. I have a tendency to think it's the driver, but have not been able to confirm it.
The problem is that when I hold the mouse button down, it occaisionally 'forgets', and behaves as though I just clicked again. This happens both in aqua and when I am in rootless X, and does not happen when I use my logitech mouse. =\
I hate to even think about the potential C&D that would come from unauthorized distrobution of EULAs. Would the responsible (or should that be reprehensible) parties be so embarassed by these documents they would pursue people who share them with others? How about publishing them on a website?
x86 CPUs != IBM PC compatible (necessarily) Opteron* x86-64 != IBM PC compatible (necessarily)
(or whatever they are calling this chip)
Just because the CPU is an x86 and therefor cheap, does not mean that the system is an IBM PC. Apple could still be a 'hardware' company and move away from the PowerPC, which, while a fine processor with excellent performance can't meet intel or amd in a price/performance showdown.
Apple should make the smart market decision and pick up some of the 'low price' users.
Stop....you're both right. The way that the XP Auto-Update function presently works doesn't seem to be as horrible as the headline makes it out to be. True. Equally true is that the EULA doesn't say "...MS can do these things if you click the 'Please install software on my computer without asking button.'..." It says they can install software on your computer without asking, period.
The moral of the story is, MS in all of their magnanimity has decided not to install software on your computer without asking at this time, but can still change their minds and you have to let them if you want to use their software.
Use Free Software, or let MS install software on your computer without asking you. Take your pick.
Or did other people note that Linus Torvald's trademark on Linux was overlooked, while Microsoft's (R) and Solaris'(R) got their due.
Perhaps someone should sent them a friendly tip on Linus' IP rights..... I tried but their comments page doesn't have a comments section to type in. =[
Actually this is an exploit that would be executed 'locally'. Still a potentially damaging exploit, but you had to let the user's on first, then they could '0wN j00'.
Re:Examples of crazy things Audiophiles do
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Decently manufactured Cat5 and Cat7 cable has a certain number of twists per foot, the twists prevent (or lessen) the impact of the EM field around each strand on the whole cable, increasing length, decreasing interference. Check the cable spec, it specifies the proper number of twists per foot(maybe per meter).
To your second point, I agree, messy cables suck...and if they are hanging on the wall....they could 'mess up' her beautiful sound. =P
Responding to a troll, how shameful is that. Anyway, if you have spent any time out of the country, especially going to only a handfull of places many times, as I seem to, you will notice region x disks that are different/not available/whatever in your home region. Why should a purchaser be restricted from enjoying those disks because of these rediculous restrictions?
I'll even tell you why: Because they can, and 99% of all people then that don't care and studios need to market to far less than that to make a profit....BUT (very big but coming) this is not as you assert a copyright privlege. The MPAA/DVD-CCA/The Man/Big Brother is welcome to put whatever restrictions on their product as they wish....and they have the privlege of protecting their copyright....but this is NOT the same thing. This has the following consequences:
1. I may defeat any restrictive controls placed on media which I have rightfully purchased to make fair use of my property. (DCMA be DAMNED!) Requests to the government to prevent me from doing so will be met with the responce of 'Piss Off!' in any sensible court.
2. If I choose to take actions which are not fair use the copyright owner may ask a judge to have me drawn and quartered or whatever they do with criminals such as myself.
Neither the Constitution nor any (compatible)( which excludes large portions of the DCMA)) copyright law ever passed grants 'region restriction' as a privlege of copyright, your trolling notwithstanding.
You will excuse me now, as I feel I must bathe, I feel dirty for responding to a troll.
I for one will mourn the passing of suck.com. It was an excellent site, with an original approach. Its biting sarcasm and ironic editorial viewpoint was something I enjoyed, and enjoyed for a good long time.
I have seen some posts that say they 'just didn't get' the articles and the truth is I felt the same about some of them, others it seemed were just not to be 'gotten'. Nonetheless taking a break and reading some Suck was a good way to unwind.
Besides, there is just something wholesome about drug addicted woodland animals.
Thanks Suck.
Re:This is cool, but I have to wonder
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LED Flashlights
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I think it is interesting also....I even said so. Everyone has something that turns their crank, for example, I build networks (big, medium, small), backpack, and bicycle among other things. My comment was that I found it a unique way to spend ones time. Perhaps I was flippant....alas, another pastime of mine.
Yours truly,
Mrs Premis -or- Mrs Conclusion (to your liking)
This is cool, but I have to wonder
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LED Flashlights
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It is not my intention to dismiss anyones hobbies with this post. To the contrary, I think the review is kind of cool in a geeky sort of way. =] However, am I the only person who thinks it is a little bizarre to test flashlights as a hobby? Somehow this behavior does not strike me as beneficial to the evolution of the species as a whole.
Some people have mentioned the similarity to things that NBCi, and others have done...and failed because/in spite of.
I however think that the advertising contents make this more like the ISP's who offered discounted/free service by wrapping a frame of their ads arround a whole website. If I remember correctly they were sued out of existance. Only in stead of having a small company trying to carve out a spot for itself on the internet (none of the companies doing this were very large), we have a decided Monopoly (Thanks Judge Jackson) who have at least once used their Monopoly to force competition out of the market (Thanks again Judge, even if you are about to get overruled by W's crack econo-cide squad of litigators (if it isn't to much bother)) using it to advertise its other services to their captive audience.
That it is turned off by default only means it isn't finished yet, and won't be by general release, that's alright there are always service packs (lots of them), who knows maybe this will get 'fixed' in a 'critical security hot fix' if M$ happens to have a particularily hard time with revenue next year.....now that sounds like an emergency.
And then think for your self. I scarcely remember ever having read such a pile of boohoo, woe is me, look how rough we have it, cry baby bullshit.
What ever deal they have struck with 'artists' it was of their own making. Sorry, but record labels crying over how hard they have it smacks of so much irony I'm still looking for the cast iron pan they must have used. It is an interesting read, I will grant you that, but an objective analysis of the record industries 'situation' it is not.
Like most things, I expect the truth lies somewhere between the stories of the two different sides. Pardon me, but I have got to get back to downloading MP3's.
Is it just me or do Alex Chiu's "discoveries" sound like they were cut from a Monty Python sketch? Read his description of how to build a teleporter and tell me it doesn't sound just like:
"Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvellous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again." -Monty Pythons Flying Circus
I guess my question for Alex is: Are you trying to start a new comedy troupe?
Well if that doesn't guarantee some down-moderation...I don't know what does. =P
Anyway, lets all remember that the internet was built to service places that look more like datacenters and colocation gateways, than your living room or mine. That said, we as individual network subscribers an afterthought, not the primary design model. Redundancy is expensive, and $20-$40 a month doesn't quite cut it for that kind of expense.
The other thing to bear in mind with redundancy is that it was meant not to ensure your connection to the network no matter what, remember you don't exist any more because you were vaporized for being at the wrong end of an ICBM's parabola. =P That sort of thing is guaranteed to lower your modem connect speeds if you catch my meaning... The rest of the network, however will do just fine without your participation, and that is the redundancy that IP was designed for. I must say, with all of the posts complaining about service interruptions, my network connection was responsive, and useful through all of them. I expect it will be too....at least until some backhoe/ICBM moves in to complicate things.
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Compiere and it's fork Adempiere are 2 open source options. They are fairly extensive and there is an active consulting base that can help you to get things running. The primary DB for these applications is Oracle, but Postgres is beginning to become an option.
I purchased this originally to use on vacation for storing pictures from my digital camera. I got used to carrying it around and it will soon be replacing my laptop as the 'take home every night' device. It plays MP3s and has a CF slot built in. Very practical device.
I found a copy of the first edition of this book in a used book store almost 10 years ago for a dollar. I read it, and despite agreeing with the (fair) criticisms in the review, learned a new perspective from which to view my job, and the systems I encounter in daily life.
I had given up on the idea that this book had been read by (almost) anyone else, as nobody I had ever spoken with seems to have read it, but anyone who borrowed it from me enjoyed it thoroughly. Most also tried to keep it (bastards), and only a few failed to see the genius behind the pessimism the review (rightly, imnsho) criticized.
So we know that MS does have a monopoly, and they did unlawfully act to preserve that monopoly, and based on those protective actions did reap a profit at the expense of their would be competitors. (These things are not up for debate they are 'Findings of Fact'.)
My question is, do they get to keep their unlawfully obtained profits? If yes, is it because they settled and did not have a judgement imposed upon them? If no, what penalties in the judgement serve to revoke valuable assets/profits from MS? (I must have missed that part.)
I've read completely everything but the almost 350 page Memorandum Opinion, which I have skimmed looking for The Court's (TM) ruling on the standing of/remedy for the non-settling states.
I have seen nothing....am I missing something? Does this thing continue on, or did the non-settling states get the proverbial finger? (From what I've read so far, they haven't gotten much sympathy from the judge.)
Codeweavers is/has already (and presumably will continue to) live up to this promise. Their enhancements to WINE have been submitted (and accepted) into the main WINE tree.
I have sat down and beaten the freely available WINE into running Office, and IE, and Quicktime. I had the benefit of an installed crossover plugin/office to compare config files, etc and it still took me a couple of hours. What you get for your money is a pretty installer and all of the time you would otherwise spend config'ing to do other things. Well worth it to me. IMNSHO, Codeweavers is a company well deserving of my money and support.
if you set res=1 you get was appears to be a 'full zoom' as close as the script will show to the captured resolution....it also chokes if you give it dimensions which are too large, 4096x3072 no worky. =[
I hate Verisign. I was really afraid that ICANN wouldn't grant this proposal. (In their own special brand of wisdom.) I am a happy .org owner.
-jasons
I remember using HyperCard, what a joy. It was, at the time, the most rewarding time I had spend with a computer. It was as close to 'Do what I mean mode' as I believe to be possible with computers.
It was even able to correct much of the damage to my would be programming career that years of BASIC had inflicted.
I too have this mouse, and purchased it because of the retracting cable. I have noticed, however, that there is some issues with either the device or driver that interferes with dragging. I have a tendency to think it's the driver, but have not been able to confirm it.
The problem is that when I hold the mouse button down, it occaisionally 'forgets', and behaves as though I just clicked again. This happens both in aqua and when I am in rootless X, and does not happen when I use my logitech mouse. =\
I wish I could get it fixed.
I hate to even think about the potential C&D that would come from unauthorized distrobution of EULAs. Would the responsible (or should that be reprehensible) parties be so embarassed by these documents they would pursue people who share them with others? How about publishing them on a website?
Lets be clear about this too:
x86 CPUs != IBM PC compatible (necessarily)
Opteron* x86-64 != IBM PC compatible (necessarily)
(or whatever they are calling this chip)
Just because the CPU is an x86 and therefor cheap, does not mean that the system is an IBM PC. Apple could still be a 'hardware' company and move away from the PowerPC, which, while a fine processor with excellent performance can't meet intel or amd in a price/performance showdown.
Apple should make the smart market decision and pick up some of the 'low price' users.
Stop....you're both right. The way that the XP Auto-Update function presently works doesn't seem to be as horrible as the headline makes it out to be. True. Equally true is that the EULA doesn't say "...MS can do these things if you click the 'Please install software on my computer without asking button.'..." It says they can install software on your computer without asking, period.
The moral of the story is, MS in all of their magnanimity has decided not to install software on your computer without asking at this time, but can still change their minds and you have to let them if you want to use their software.
Use Free Software, or let MS install software on your computer without asking you. Take your pick.
Or did other people note that Linus Torvald's trademark on Linux was overlooked, while Microsoft's (R) and Solaris'(R) got their due.
Perhaps someone should sent them a friendly tip on Linus' IP rights..... I tried but their comments page doesn't have a comments section to type in. =[
Actually this is an exploit that would be executed 'locally'. Still a potentially damaging exploit, but you had to let the user's on first, then they could '0wN j00'.
Decently manufactured Cat5 and Cat7 cable has a certain number of twists per foot, the twists prevent (or lessen) the impact of the EM field around each strand on the whole cable, increasing length, decreasing interference. Check the cable spec, it specifies the proper number of twists per foot(maybe per meter).
To your second point, I agree, messy cables suck...and if they are hanging on the wall....they could 'mess up' her beautiful sound. =P
Responding to a troll, how shameful is that. Anyway, if you have spent any time out of the country, especially going to only a handfull of places many times, as I seem to, you will notice region x disks that are different/not available/whatever in your home region. Why should a purchaser be restricted from enjoying those disks because of these rediculous restrictions?
I'll even tell you why: Because they can, and 99% of all people then that don't care and studios need to market to far less than that to make a profit....BUT (very big but coming) this is not as you assert a copyright privlege. The MPAA/DVD-CCA/The Man/Big Brother is welcome to put whatever restrictions on their product as they wish....and they have the privlege of protecting their copyright....but this is NOT the same thing. This has the following consequences:
1. I may defeat any restrictive controls placed on media which I have rightfully purchased to make fair use of my property. (DCMA be DAMNED!) Requests to the government to prevent me from doing so will be met with the responce of 'Piss Off!' in any sensible court.
2. If I choose to take actions which are not fair use the copyright owner may ask a judge to have me drawn and quartered or whatever they do with criminals such as myself.
Neither the Constitution nor any (compatible)( which excludes large portions of the DCMA)) copyright law ever passed grants 'region restriction' as a privlege of copyright, your trolling notwithstanding.
You will excuse me now, as I feel I must bathe, I feel dirty for responding to a troll.
I for one will mourn the passing of suck.com. It was an excellent site, with an original approach. Its biting sarcasm and ironic editorial viewpoint was something I enjoyed, and enjoyed for a good long time.
I have seen some posts that say they 'just didn't get' the articles and the truth is I felt the same about some of them, others it seemed were just not to be 'gotten'. Nonetheless taking a break and reading some Suck was a good way to unwind.
Besides, there is just something wholesome about drug addicted woodland animals.
Thanks Suck.
I think it is interesting also....I even said so. Everyone has something that turns their crank, for example, I build networks (big, medium, small), backpack, and bicycle among other things. My comment was that I found it a unique way to spend ones time. Perhaps I was flippant....alas, another pastime of mine.
Yours truly,
Mrs Premis -or- Mrs Conclusion (to your liking)
It is not my intention to dismiss anyones hobbies with this post. To the contrary, I think the review is kind of cool in a geeky sort of way. =] However, am I the only person who thinks it is a little bizarre to test flashlights as a hobby? Somehow this behavior does not strike me as beneficial to the evolution of the species as a whole.
Anyway, shine on you crazy diode...
Some people have mentioned the similarity to things that NBCi, and others have done...and failed because/in spite of.
I however think that the advertising contents make this more like the ISP's who offered discounted/free service by wrapping a frame of their ads arround a whole website. If I remember correctly they were sued out of existance. Only in stead of having a small company trying to carve out a spot for itself on the internet (none of the companies doing this were very large), we have a decided Monopoly (Thanks Judge Jackson) who have at least once used their Monopoly to force competition out of the market (Thanks again Judge, even if you are about to get overruled by W's crack econo-cide squad of litigators (if it isn't to much bother)) using it to advertise its other services to their captive audience.
That it is turned off by default only means it isn't finished yet, and won't be by general release, that's alright there are always service packs (lots of them), who knows maybe this will get 'fixed' in a 'critical security hot fix' if M$ happens to have a particularily hard time with revenue next year.....now that sounds like an emergency.
And then think for your self. I scarcely remember ever having read such a pile of boohoo, woe is me, look how rough we have it, cry baby bullshit.
What ever deal they have struck with 'artists' it was of their own making. Sorry, but record labels crying over how hard they have it smacks of so much irony I'm still looking for the cast iron pan they must have used. It is an interesting read, I will grant you that, but an objective analysis of the record industries 'situation' it is not.
Like most things, I expect the truth lies somewhere between the stories of the two different sides. Pardon me, but I have got to get back to downloading MP3's.
Is it just me or do Alex Chiu's "discoveries" sound like they were cut from a Monty Python sketch? Read his description of how to build a teleporter and tell me it doesn't sound just like:
"Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvellous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again." -Monty Pythons Flying Circus
I guess my question for Alex is: Are you trying to start a new comedy troupe?
That gives me a chubby.
Well if that doesn't guarantee some down-moderation...I don't know what does. =P
Anyway, lets all remember that the internet was built to service places that look more like datacenters and colocation gateways, than your living room or mine. That said, we as individual network subscribers an afterthought, not the primary design model. Redundancy is expensive, and $20-$40 a month doesn't quite cut it for that kind of expense.
The other thing to bear in mind with redundancy is that it was meant not to ensure your connection to the network no matter what, remember you don't exist any more because you were vaporized for being at the wrong end of an ICBM's parabola. =P That sort of thing is guaranteed to lower your modem connect speeds if you catch my meaning... The rest of the network, however will do just fine without your participation, and that is the redundancy that IP was designed for. I must say, with all of the posts complaining about service interruptions, my network connection was responsive, and useful through all of them. I expect it will be too....at least until some backhoe/ICBM moves in to complicate things.