BrainInAJar - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Sounds good to me (Score 1) 757

by BrainInAJar on Sunday October 18 2009, @02:01PM (#29785465) Attached to: The US's Reverse Brain Drain

Or, less jobs if you consider that some number of these people would get fed up with working for someone else and start their own firm.

Previously they'd start them in Si Valley, now they'll start them in India or China; competing with, rather than contributing to, America

Comment: Re:Bash (Score 1) 641

by BrainInAJar on Saturday September 19 2009, @07:22PM (#29479609) Attached to: Most Useful UNIX Tool?

Using better shells, most likely

Comment: Re:Missing option: bash (Score 1) 641

by BrainInAJar on Saturday September 19 2009, @07:19PM (#29479591) Attached to: Most Useful UNIX Tool?

Some of us use other (older) shells. Bash is irrelevant.

Comment: Re:haha (Score 1) 319

by BrainInAJar on Monday August 31 2009, @05:10AM (#29258455) Attached to: Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting"

Compared to private industry, yes absolutely.

Comment: Re:Oracle needs to cater to business not the commu (Score 1) 334

by BrainInAJar on Friday May 22 2009, @04:28AM (#28050621) Attached to: Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair?

but the big DBs are Oracle+Linux

Generally the Big DB's are Oracle/Solaris/SPARC...

Comment: Re:What was the business plan? (Score 1) 500

by BrainInAJar on Wednesday May 13 2009, @02:38AM (#27934151) Attached to: McDonalds Free Wi-Fi Users Soak Up Seating

I wouldn't drink anything that's a forced steam decoction of ground roasted arabica pits and neither should you, as the optimal brewing temperature for coffee is 195 - 205 degrees F and higher temperatures extract more harsh bitters. Espresso machines have pumps ( or levers ) and very strict temperature control.

Comment: Re:I still prefer my coffee shop. (Score 1) 500

by BrainInAJar on Wednesday May 13 2009, @02:31AM (#27934109) Attached to: McDonalds Free Wi-Fi Users Soak Up Seating

I wouldn't trust consumer reports to tell me what wines are worthwhile, similarly with coffee.

The SCAA exists for a reason

Comment: Who cares? (Score 1) 409

by BrainInAJar on Tuesday May 05 2009, @11:38AM (#27831649) Attached to: The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share

Ultimately it exists and is there for you to use, and does everything you need it to do. What other people choose to use is completely irrelevant.

Comment: Full open-source stack (Score 1) 177

by BrainInAJar on Saturday May 02 2009, @05:37PM (#27801073) Attached to: Basic Linux Boot On Open Graphics Card

This, running on a T1 or T2 machine, running ${FREEOSOFCHOICE}. yum.

Comment: Re:Unlikely (Score 1) 234

by BrainInAJar on Tuesday April 28 2009, @12:02AM (#27741267) Attached to: Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects?

they could manage to drive users slowly to a more insteresting field (be it free offers from Oracle as a "first dose for free" or even to Postgres as an entry point for "real" RBDMs to produce higher numbers of "real Linux/Unix DBA wannabes" that would look after Oracle on due time).

Well... Whether or not that happens aside, would everyone moving to a real RDBMS be such a bad thing overall?