Re: [uug] Oracle and MySQL

Andrew McNabb wrote: > The only aspect in which I still "hate" them is the Microsoft Tax. This > has started to go away for the lowest end netbooks, but it's still not > gone yet. And I guess I'm still bothered by the Tom Tom lawsuit. Well, there are still reasons to strongly dislike them and th

Re: [uug] Oracle and MySQL

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 11:55 -0600, Richard Esplin wrote: > Though I see that Microsoft is adapting to stay relevant, I'm not sure it can > make the kind of transformation that IBM did as long as Balmer and some of > the other old-time execs are still around. The culture is changing at the > deve

Re: [uug] Oracle and MySQL

Though I see that Microsoft is adapting to stay relevant, I'm not sure it can make the kind of transformation that IBM did as long as Balmer and some of the other old-time execs are still around. The culture is changing at the developer level and program level, but the corporation still plays ga

Re: [uug] Oracle and MySQL

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:09:32AM -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > In the world of the fan boy, saying anything nice about Microsoft is a > cardinal sin. Some Linux fan boys are so ideologically pure they would > denounce even Richard Stallman if he ever hinted at a positive opinion > of anything

Re: [uug] Oracle and MySQL

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 09:01 -0600, Wilson Tarbuckles wrote: > If by "every bit as proprietary as Microsoft" you mean "also > learning to > embrace F/OSS", then I agree. > embrace is too benign a word to adequately explain what they are > doing: > > http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: [uug] Oracle and MySQL

> > If by "every bit as proprietary as Microsoft" you mean "also learning to > embrace F/OSS", then I agree. > embrace is too benign a word to adequately explain what they are doing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish microsoft doesn't think of open source software the s

Re: [uug] Dual boot 2 distributions of linux with same boot partition

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:50:10PM -0600, Brandon Pedersen wrote: >Is it possible to dual boot 2 different linux distributions with a shared >boot partition? You probably don't want to actually share the boot partition. The problem is that tools from different distros (or even different i

Re: [uug] A mutt user with Gmail envy

> The next three have slashes in them, so Gmail treats them like > subfolders in IMAP: > Wow, I didn't know about that...I will have to try that out BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They

Re: [uug] A mutt user with Gmail envy

Scott K wrote: > Any one else have good tag ideas? I use the following... in Gmail. I like the conversation view :) *bacn - Most of these are automatically tagged and skip the inbox. When any new bacn makes it to my inbox, I set up a new filter