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We read in wikipedia:

"Mac OS X is the successor to the original Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984 [...] The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop-oriented version, Mac OS X v10.0 followed in March 2001"
The funny thing about MacOSX launch was the huge hype on the retail box: it was named "The world's most advanced operating system" and really it was very huge leap ahead.

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I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.

In the article pointed out, the quite dead Chandler project is compared to the multi-billion Eclipse project. And then a too easy analysis is done against dynamic languages, where Java is the absolute winner.

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Oracle buys BEA and Sun buys MySql.

In reply,Migrosoft is hungry and is watching Yahoo :-)

<joking> 

Any bets on the next money-based-news?

I'm going for

• Oracle buys Sun: "We need more hardware to run Oracle and WebLogic together! "
  
• Google buys Oracle: "We have *even* more hardware...come on!"
  
• Apple buys Google: "So nice LOGO", retrodating a bunch of stock options, I suppose.
  
• Microsoft buys Apple ("So annoied their are more cool then us!") and shut down all them all so you will end up using their search engine, I hope.

</joking> 

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This is the sad true: parsing is boring. And writing parser is even worst.

If you can choose a scripting language for parsing you can think to do it in perl.

For this way, take a big breath and go in the black sea  of perl's funny regexp. They are funny only if you have that special love for the regular expressions.

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Let the Zend Framework introduce itself as a Borg would do: 

"Hi dear RubyOnRails. Hi all. I am the Zend Framework, a small work (about  5 tons of code) done by IBM and Zend to destroy you. You think php is not able to build big project?... do you?
So you have dared to develop RubyOnRails or Perl or Python, thinking you can own the web in your way... Dear nerds you are so funny and young!!" in a lamp of light the borg duplicate itselfs in 100 indians programmers, saying together

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Hi all, dear readers (and spammers too... you delight me with your poor tatics)!
Because my job is getting very very boring, and my private life is full of fantastic nights, I have decided to write a bunch of new articles, and stack them on objectsroot.com.

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In Slashdot today I have seen a Microsoft advertise.

It said: “Windows is more reliable then Linux”. Clicking on it a very huge set of pages show you how to “Compare Windows to Red Hat”. And this is the start of the end of the Empire.

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iPhone is a very nice project, well designed and manufactered, but the market addressed is
an hard bet for Apple.
Big players are already on the ground: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony for instance.

So it is difficult to play in such market, and some analysts said  "the touch screen was not successful for GSM/phone products".

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If you need to work on cluster, is nice to have syncronized terminals to send the same commands in parallel.

Is it also doungerous, so do some test before sending a bunch of vi commands!

On Unix, a cheap and fast solution is Kde “konsole” which has such option.

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In onore della laurea di una mia cara amica, ripubblico e segnalo una serie di "storie universitarie", che sono sicuro strapperanno più di un sorriso. Buona lettura!

Sometimes I need to build a small script to delete a huge set of tables of a schema.

In Oracle is easy to do it, using the meta tables "all_tables", "all_views", and "all_sequences":

select  'drop table ' || table_name || ' cascade constraints;' 
   from all_tables where owner='protoss' and  table_name not like 'BIN%';

select  'drop view ' || view_name || ' ;' 
   from all_views where owner='zerg' ;
  
  select  'drop sequence ' || sequence_name || ' ;' 
   from all_sequences where sequence_owner='spacemarine' ; 

The "BIN%" table are special temp tables of oracle.

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Use the sed -i command

sed -i.BAK 's|foo|bar|g' files # -i does in-place replacement
perl -pi.bak -e 's|foo|bar|g' files                # or
perl -pi.bak -e 's|foo|bar|g' `find /pathname -name "filespec"`

Perl is the preferred way, but on some production system you must use the old good sed. For some tips on sed take a look to its faq. Another very powerful command is xargs. Xargs is a rapid  way to process files containing spaces, using  a  combo with find:

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Hi dear spammers, I am an announce.

I love you so much I have decided to auto delete spam comments not already published.

As you know, dear spammers, the anti spam on this site (called Blue Dragon) is able to shutup your nasty posts.

Now blue dragon can also delete them from our big database, because it is so easy to isolate spam from true comments.
I will not keep a record of this spam, sorry

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I am very happy to publish a first look of my trip to Ravenna and Ferrara.

I went there with two friends (Andrea and Paola)  in April.

We enjoy a lot the trip (we also took a bike at Ferrara).
Ferrara is bigger then  Ravenna and need about two days to see all the things.

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