* Posts by buxtonmarauder

12 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2009

Standardizing limits to license hikes for minor software tweaks

buxtonmarauder

Re: The proof of the pudding

Agreed... no way the vendors who *should* sign up to this will do so..

The standard for software asset tagging has been published in one form or another through ISO19770 for a very long time.

If the vendors tagged their software correctly then it would be a simpler process to analyse usage.

Why would a vendor who relies on complexity and confusion to generate revenue actively move to make things simpler for a customer ?

Turkeys voting for Christmas ?

Oi! You got a loicence for that Java, mate? More devs turn to OpenJDK to swerve Oracle fee

buxtonmarauder
Headmaster

Re: licence

Depends on the context to which you refer..

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/licence-license/

buxtonmarauder
Facepalm

"Of those who do pay for JDK support, which is around 9 per cent of the survey participants, a whopping 55 per cent get it from Oracle"

so.. 9% of 2000 developers, of which 55% pay Oracle.. which equates to 99 developers.

not sure that 4.9% paying for subscriptions corresponds with "whopping"

I'd have said that was "paltry"

Microsoft Teams: The good, the bad, and the ugly

buxtonmarauder

Re: Finally made sharpoint useable

Sharepoint is the unmitigated spawn of the devil.. I've never once come across an implementation of that was usable.. It's the bane of my working life ! Microsoft should look to something like Atlasssian Confluence for how a knowledge store should be done. Simple and effective..

Michael Howard: Embrace of open source is destroying 'artificial definitions' of legacy vendors

buxtonmarauder

Re: Maybe I'm showing my age

Yes ! That's exactly what I thought.. along with "didn't know he'd invested in FOSS!"

Oracle to shutter License Services division – source

buxtonmarauder

...and breathe..

Office 2013 to eat own file-format dog food

buxtonmarauder
Devil

DOCX ? Who cares..

I just open any document I get sent into Google Docs.. reads any of those legacy MS formats..

Why anyone persists in using MS Office is beyond me when there are free or cheap alternatives..

..and don't get me started on Outlook. The Dev team responsible for that pile of steaming rubbish should be keel hauled.

Apple expels serial hacker for publishing iPhone exploit

buxtonmarauder
Black Helicopters

If Apple had any brains..

..they would hire this guy and make the usual PR noise about it..

Judge de-ASBOes yoof's low-slung kecks

buxtonmarauder

Obviously..

..the judge is not a member of this FB group..

http://bit.ly/9wUcf5

Whatever happened to the email app?

buxtonmarauder
Grenade

POP3=SPOTD

POP3 is the spawn of the devil and should always be avoided IMHO

O2 and Be Broadband speeds dip

buxtonmarauder
Thumb Down

ah but..

how do you know how close you live to the exchange and whether it's LLU ?

I have 24mbit Be Pro account and have never got better than 2mb downstream.

I have also experienced the huge drop in performance on sites like ebay, FB and Google in the evenings.

I'm pretty underwhelmed with Be TBH..

Whining serial commentard bemoans Reg bullying

buxtonmarauder
Boffin

Thanks El Reg..

..you just wasted 40 mins of my time !

I couldn't resist doing a little googling on the subject in question and WHAMMO.. 40 mins have passed..

I'm off now to spend more time writing pointless queries and procedures against what is obviously the most usless DB software available.. Would love to see AK and LJE in an MTV style Celebrity Wrestle..

Oh, and if you want to waste some more time, check out these threads on here.. he really doesn't do friendly !

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/DotNet/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb/2007-01/msg02090.html

(techy avatar because AK most obviously is not)