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Business executives at many organizations may be unaware that the operating system is running their companies' critical business functions. That's the point. Actually, the money for keeping VAX alive is there - some managers just need to get aware of the problem. With nuclear power plants depending on it, the funds can be raised easily.
Also MUMPS still exists, after OpenM, it is now called Caché. Who did expect it to make it into this millenium?
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I was offered a job with MUMPS 3 years ago. I had never heard of it, they even offered on the job training
I got a better job instead.
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Poor guy! You'll never know what great experience you've missed here!
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Microsoft Corp appears to be the latest U.S. company targeted by China for antitrust investigation as government officials paid sudden visits to the software firm's Chinese offices on Monday. Are they worried about competition with that great Chinese operating system?
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They want Microsoft to hand over all their source code so they can 'inspect' it
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It's all for The Greater Good...
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Continuing on that promise, and to celebrate our presence at OSCON 2014, we are delighted to announce support for another popular OSS technology - CMake. Sorry, I've got nothing funny to say about make tools. Is it even possible?
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To Make or not to Make, that is the question. For the aspiring programming artist, the former is always the affirmative. Now with ever more options (and possibly a fork or two)...
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$300 "Sharks Cove" board with Intel Atom CPU targeted at Windows developers. Not _that_ much smaller than micro ITX, but here you go
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At $300 a pop I don't know many developers that will put out the dough for one of these compared to the Pi or BBB at < $50.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Yeah, I looked at that and saw little other than, "not very cheap SFF PC" (that you'd have to have a non-standard case for), but I figured I was missing something.
TTFN - Kent
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For a few centimeters and dollars more you'd have a full PC.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Bit overpriced...can we just get the board for $40 and put an AMD chip on it instead?
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As I originally commented there (slightly reworded and expanded):
Looking at the menagerie of headers on that thing: Whatever marketing claims, it's clear that the real intent was to create something that could be used for early phase prototyping by anyone who wanted to make an x86 embedded system before spending money on a custom board design that had the minimal set of sensors/controllers/etc that they needed for their production system or that could be used for production runs small enough that a custom x86 embedded board would be more expensive than a kitchen sink model.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The tour takes in patio views of the main campus, Andrews office, the Microsoft Build Lab’s and has the crew showing off some of the Windows NT 3.1, 4.0 and 2000 plaques and team photos. Loads of high-speed walking, but an interesting look inside one of the older buildings with history a'plenty
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Defrag tools is generally a pretty good show for those doing trouble shooting.
The last few episodes was dealing with creating a debugger extension in C or C++ ,they still have more to go to complete the extension.
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2015 might not be a big hiring year for IT as more companies focus resources on the cloud. But there is also some good news, including the latest on IT spending, according to a new report. Maybe dress up as a cloud for your next job interview?
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Bug in open source analytics app may have compromised other services, too. See? Clouds make everything better.
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Amazon has introduced a new portal on its site that is designed to bring together and highlight 3D-printed products for sale on the platform. "The illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator. At last... "
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Oracle have announced Project Valhalla for Java. This is an experimental OpenJDK project to develop major new features for Java that require both changes to the language syntax and VM-level support. Where dead warriors go to await the end of the world
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Percentage of former and current workers who approve of CEO drops by 24%, those who disapprove quadruples, after big layoffs hit. Especially the opinion of those laid off
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It seems to me that there is a greater caché in being a former Microsoft employee.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Pivotal's Matt Stine, who was raised on Java, has become an advocate for the Google-built Go language. Well that's it - one developer switched. Java's over.
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One of the new features introduced during the Build conference is a converged Windows Runtime on Windows Phone 8.1, opening the way to “universal Windows apps.” In this post I’d like to share my first experience with universal Windows apps, their structure and possible future. "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do"
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In this new world order where user experience is king, organizations not only have to check how their application performs, but how their application will perform in the hands of the end user. All hail the user!
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