I think his point is made with lot better level of detail in the book “The Inmates are running the Asylum”.

http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum-Products/dp/0672316498

I think Marc incorrectly blames open source developers. This problem really exists in both the commercial and open source worlds. The only differences is that in the open source world the developer is almost always making something for themself, not for someone else.

AllowRootLogin=false

Change it to “true” and save it. Of course, you must be able to access it as root while you’re a regular user, probably using su or sudo in a command line.

Sorry, I don’t know about Gnome or other window managers.

I also hate it when they refuse to give that information. Freedom of information my foot.

I’m afraid that you’ll have to explain his point to me because I am unable to determine precisely what that point is from either or both of his disjointed diatribes.

The best that I was able to determine was that he was disgruntled at the fact that a MySQL program change had pulled the rug from under him, so to speak, and caused an administrative problem for him. His frustration with this problem was further exacerbated by his inability to get anyone to respond to his issue.

But, contrary to his assertions, this is in no way unique to open source software. Most administrators have had this type of fun with countless commercial vendors. Indeed, MySQL is a commercial application that is fully supported by a supposedly caring and responsive developer corporation. Of course you would have to pay that corporation to field your complaint calls and it is unlikely that they would bend to the wishes of your complaints.

The truth is that commercial vendors that are larger than a single developer/tech support person don’t typically respond to individual complaints. Some will respond to a ground swell of complaints but, even then many will not respond at all. They’ve already gotten the money for the broken application and there isn’t any/enough money on fixing the broken application.

Now on the other unrelated subject of CLI based editors, you are delusional. To compare vi with edit.com and claim that edit.com is superior to vi is a bold faced lie. Whining that vi lacks GUI components and ease is a red herring. You don;t use edit.com on your XP or Vista workstation. You use, at the very least, notepad.exe which can only be compared with similar tools like Kwrite or Gedit. All three are graphical text editors, repleat with menus and graphical configuration options. None are even remotely like vi or edit.com.

You had a problem on a bad day and decided to rant. That’s fine, but posting your diatribe and then having John promote a second round of fallacious whining is only a method for fomenting the crowd and generating traffic for the website.

Mission accomplished! I’ll expect part three to lash out at the Emacs community and perhaps part four could posit that BSD and the BSD license are superior to Linux. That ought really generate some traffic.

P.S. I recommend that you shift your sight to MS Windows 2003 server and Oracle for the database. Your world will be just ducky then! To paraphrase JCD; ‘You’re wrong. Shut up!’

You missed the entire point of my comment. It doesn’t matter if it’s Open Source or Commercial Software.

Both will cause performance problems if not properly configured.

All of that is exactly true, with one addendum: Gaming. I don’t have any serious problems with Mac OS beyond their overpriced hardware and badly designed keyboards/mice, but when my choice is between an open hardware OS that I can upgrade every single part for a reasonable cost and runs every game that comes out (save for the occasional buggy title that doesn’t like your config) and one that plays the occasional new game scraps and older game ports and is, save for the most expensive desktop model, nearly impossible to upgrade, I’ll stick with WinXP.

As for Linux, I just can’t get into the logic employed in how you’re expected to work in a *nix environment. But then again, for my entire mandatory school time I used Macs.

Both SQL Server and Firebird use entirely different notations when you access the database files directly. Its been a while since I messed with database configurations, but IIRC, in Firbird, when you want to use file access, you type the file name of the database right there in the connector. When you want to use tcp you type in an ip address or something that resolves to an IP address. In SQL Server you use an entirely different ADO connector. Anyone know about PostgreSQL or Oracle?

On the home page is a thingy saying “All the editors” of Dvorak Blog recommend FireFox.

So what’s the problem?

I have also seen the same configuration issues with the Open Source Database Server, Open Source Application, and Open Source Operating System.

It’s not fair to blame the problem between the keyboard and chair on Open Source *OR* Commercial Software. When configured correctly, both can be very effective and inter-operate!

Microsoft Windows has spoiled people with some bad habits. Should those bad habits be passed on to another platform?

#45 I would also like more information on what solved the problem. I did a Google search on MYSQL TCP Sockets that came back with several hits. Most explaining why someone should use sockets instead of TCP. If using TCP is bad practice then may be Marc should read more about it.

I would also like to know just how many Linux developers are getting paid to work on Linux compared to developers just coding for fun.

On another topic, I work a lot with geospatial software. In this niche, the open source software absolutely rocks. Sure, there’s an 800 pound COTS gorilla called ESRI, but the open source software is for most users just as powerful, and in many ways far more advanced. On the web mapping side there is just no comparision – OSS has the best performance and ease of use, and consequently most of the market. One thing that has helped the OSS community in the last year is an open source organization that facilitates software incubation and testing. And yet, the ego of OSS developers is still irksome. Not as irksome as the prices for COTS though….

I need the computer to do the work, not to play with cmdline options. Just make it more like windows with config menus and drivers and there is a chance to dethrone the evil monolith.

I do like th way Unbuntu installs and runs. I run an Astaro gateway as my active firewall.

So, make it easy, give the people what they want and more will use it.

An explanation of how the original problem was fixed.

Talk all you want, but if the resolution turns out to be a configuration issue, you can bla bla bla all day long and it won’t change the fact that the problem ended up being (as most of us suspect) user error.

Placing general blame on a piece or type of software, when the software may not be to blame, really does nothing to substantiate the whole premise of this thread.

So how was the problem fixed.? Let me guess… fixed the overall system design to support multiple linked systems.