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811.
by hapless 17y ago
The primary reason to run Solaris is to have access to the broad base of Solaris ISV and IHV products. OpenSolaris will is incompatible with Solaris in many notable ways. (e.g. uses GNU for libstdc++.) Losing free Solaris x86 means I can n
812.
by hapless 17y ago
Seems pretty clear that it was worth it. The actual bill was closer to $250,000 -- $618,000 was without any discounts. We work and save and pay premiums for decades specifically so that we CAN have someone pay $250,000 to extend our lives
813.
by hapless 17y ago
Not RISC, not SysV.
814.
by hapless 17y ago
Sun actually discontinued their UNIX workstations a couple of years ago. Ironically, I believe IBM was the very last vendor of real UNIX workstations. IBM has since discontinued its last workstations. You can still buy a tower server and
815.
by hapless 17y ago
"The proposed system is designed to make sure that the vast majority of consumers [...] can watch, record and move Freeview HD programmes between their own devices without ever knowing there is any content management present (like most peop
816.
by hapless 17y ago
I don't think anyone will ever write a better xenophobic, anti-intellectual screed than this one. This essay is the platonic ideal for maniac ranting; an unmatchable zenith. It has all the classics: cursing the "educated classes," citing "
817.
by hapless 17y ago
I find it interesting that Solaris x64 is lumped with Linux/OSX/FreeBSD, not listed under "Lispworks for UNIX." It has a richer featureset than the SPARC port, too.
818.
by hapless 17y ago
I've seen a ton of those. I hate them, not because they're insulting, but because they fill the page with garbage when I print e-mails. How could they be legally binding?
819.
by hapless 17y ago
Because cleaning ladies don't sell cleaning. They sell trustworthiness. You have to be able to trust this woman to spend a lot of time in your home, without supervision. Anyone can clean. Only some people can be trusted. This is the same
820.
by hapless 17y ago
Does anyone have a real link? i.e. not flash
821.
by hapless 17y ago
Your brain is pretty well set, like a thermostat. If he's in pain now, with his effete lifestyle and cushy job, poverty isn't going to improve his lot. If anything, our original poster should consider psychiatric care. This kind of seethi
822.
by hapless 17y ago
YES: Username and password. Users often re-use passwords. Treat their passwords for your throwaway application as if they were the key to your users' banking data. (Because they may very well be!)
823.
by hapless 17y ago
Their marketing material reminds me of CueCat. Yup. Barcodes are the future. Any day now. "Query into a sea of information." http://www.redlaser.com/Next.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuecat
824.
by hapless 17y ago
IT is a cost center. There's constant pressure to contain its headcount and budget. The costs of providing a high level of service are obvious, but the costs of lousy services are all hidden. As a result, yes, there's usually NO incentive
825.
by hapless 17y ago
You are absolutely correct. Covering the company's ass is half of IT's job. Providing services is only the other half. It's a tricky balancing act. Legal problem #1 with IM is logging. In public companies, particularly in regulated indu
826.
by hapless 17y ago
So it's a hybrid between a batch job processor and cron? Batch cron?
827.
by hapless 17y ago
A pickup artist who lives in an RV with two pairs of underwear to his name. Does it get any classier than that?
828.
by hapless 17y ago
Your reply seems to discuss elisp, not Common Lisp. elisp is not CL. Scheme and CL have more in common than elisp and CL or elisp and Scheme. (OO/MOP, namespacing, modern compilers, lexical scope) My assertion was that there are already v
829.
by hapless 17y ago
Climacs and Hemlock have existed for many years, but there's been no flood of users. Both are high-quality emacs-like editors written in common lisp; both have many extensions for development, mail, news etc. I can't imagine a donation-sup
830.
by hapless 17y ago
Wishful thinking. The correlation between price and perceived quality is very easily explained by the data source. He's only looking at the apps that actually sold! Free applications can be mediocre and still be widely-downloaded enough to
831.
by hapless 17y ago
" it's good to believe Reservella is not connected to TPB, but it must be run and owned by someone. " That's true in most European countries, but in the U.S. and certain other areas, it is in fact possible to have a company with not just an
832.
by hapless 17y ago
1. It's extremely difficult to determine which movies are "good" and which are "crap" until they're already in theatres. The best minds in the business routinely mis-judge the quality and popularity of films. 2. Individual theatres are most
833.
by hapless 17y ago
Asterisk. Most of the SMB-targeted VOIP systems are hellishly awful. Asterisk won't be any easier, or less stupid, but at least you can work around the brain damage.
834.
by hapless 17y ago
If you needed this article, you didn't belong in the interview in the first place.
835.
by hapless 17y ago
Microsoft's value has been falling because it is obvious that software commoditization threatens their revenues. Windows and Office isn't packed with growth potential. No amount of "vision" or "leadership" will defy fate. Many products la
836.
by hapless 17y ago
In the systems programming languages of old, fork is just easier than threading. Fork model: Step 1: Write a program to accept a single connection to a single TCP socket, then handle the request. Step 2: Judiciously place a fork() call at t
837.
by hapless 17y ago
To be clear: this is a two-part hack. Part 1: The null-prefix cert bug is still in the Windows SSL stack. Any browser that uses the Windows SSL libs will take this cert, issued to CN=www.paypal.com\0someoneelse.es, and use it for CN=www.pa
838.
by hapless 17y ago
The MySQL client/server protocol is extremely simple: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_ClientServer_Pro... I'd be surprised if there were any performance loss compared to the amount of time required to marshal Python data for c
839.
by hapless 17y ago
Falcon was only started in order to counter this threat. It would have been several more years for it to gain traction. Now that it's all under the same roof, it's moot.
840.
by hapless 17y ago
Oracle has very reasonable license terms for virtualization. It's a gold mine for them. When you license a host CPU, you can run as many oracle instances on as many VMs as you like. Oracle likes it that way: people spinning up "free" VMs

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