Apple seriously uses Outlook Exchange for their mail servers, though.
[Archer]You can just say "Exchange"[/Archer]
And the iCloud is stored on Azure. The whole "Onion or Reality" test can be difficult in tech these days.
Well, given Apple's not exactly a well known entity in the MTA market, or in the cloud computing market, I don't see the big deal that they're using Exchange and Azure.
They're both good products run by people who know what they're doing. At least, know more than Apple on those topics. And neit
There's also a lot to be said for sticking to what you can be great at, and leaving the rest to someone else. But it's anathema to "Apple fans" who are really "Microsoft anti-fans", who show up a lot on Slashdot.
Your grammar and spelling belie your ethnic claim.
Would you bigots please go get a room? (0) infidel/home/keeling_ uname -a Linux infidel 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10 05:01:58 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux (0) infidel/home/keeling_ apropos bsd bsd-from (1) - print names of those who have sent mail bsd-mailx (1) - send and receive mail bsd-write (1) - send a message to another user bsd_signal (3) - signal handling with BSD semantics File::Glob (3perl) - Perl extension for BSD glob routine finite (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions finitef (3) - BSD flo
I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary. Ya it sounds totally crazy and stupid, yet that's the sort of idiocy that happens every day in computing.
I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary.
And...? The summary and headline are in agreement. (There was a Soylent article too that looked like a blatant April Fool's Day joke but actually wasn't.)
Granted, in the months leading up to the Slashcott, I actively assumed that every summary was blatantly lying to me or at least attempting to mischaracterize the situation...so read the comments until you find the one guy who knows what's actually going on...but the quality seems to have spiked recently. (Gee, isn't that a remarkable coincidence?)
Tony Stevenson made changes - Today 16:51 Comment [ Pfft! Happy April's fool! For immediate release: Apache Subversion votes to rename itself Apache Irony, creates a black hole and disappears. ]
Hmm. Buried in a separate tab from the huge page of comments of everybody taking it seriously.
git: stores and compares decentralized repositories extremly well. It's good if you have loose collaborations without a central insitution providing the repo service. Advantages are that people can quickly store their own versions during development
subversion: manages a single repository in cases where preventing multiple (uncontrolled) branches is mandated to the organization responsible (Yes, it is an advantage not to have too many different possible original sources of builds).
When Mickey$oft first bought Hotmail [wikipedia.org] in 1997, and for many years after, it was running Qmail [wikipedia.org], on FreeBSD, and Solaris computers! (See also, Qmail.org [qmail.org])
IMHO, it hasn't worked as well since they moved it to their own software!;^)
April Fool's! (Score:5, Funny)
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Apple seriously uses Outlook Exchange for their mail servers, though.
Re:April Fool's! (Score:4, Informative)
Apple seriously uses Outlook Exchange for their mail servers, though.
[Archer]You can just say "Exchange"[/Archer]
And the iCloud is stored on Azure. The whole "Onion or Reality" test can be difficult in tech these days.
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Well, given Apple's not exactly a well known entity in the MTA market, or in the cloud computing market, I don't see the big deal that they're using Exchange and Azure.
They're both good products run by people who know what they're doing. At least, know more than Apple on those topics. And neit
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There's also a lot to be said for sticking to what you can be great at, and leaving the rest to someone else. But it's anathema to "Apple fans" who are really "Microsoft anti-fans", who show up a lot on Slashdot.
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Troll time:
So Apple fans are the 'Microsoft anti-fans' who don't understand linux...
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Apple seriously uses Outlook Exchange for their mail servers, though.
Last I heard, they used Oracle (formerly Sun, way before that Netscape) mail.
Apple is BSD (Score:0)
Apple is BSD
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Not really. it kind of has some BSD relations.
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Not really. it kind of has some BSD relations.
My niggercock kind of had some relations with yo mama's vagina!
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...
Not really. it kind of has some BSD relations.
Your grammar and spelling belie your ethnic claim.
Would you bigots please go get a room?
/home/keeling_ uname -a /home/keeling_ apropos bsd
(0) infidel
Linux infidel 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10 05:01:58 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(0) infidel
bsd-from (1) - print names of those who have sent mail
bsd-mailx (1) - send and receive mail
bsd-write (1) - send a message to another user
bsd_signal (3) - signal handling with BSD semantics
File::Glob (3perl) - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
finite (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
finitef (3) - BSD flo
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Actually, I've read pieces written by ex SVN developers that make this joke believable... many of the devs wouldn't even grumble about it.
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I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary. Ya it sounds totally crazy and stupid, yet that's the sort of idiocy that happens every day in computing.
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I actually believed the headline until I read more of the summary.
And...? The summary and headline are in agreement. (There was a Soylent article too that looked like a blatant April Fool's Day joke but actually wasn't.)
Granted, in the months leading up to the Slashcott, I actively assumed that every summary was blatantly lying to me or at least attempting to mischaracterize the situation...so read the comments until you find the one guy who knows what's actually going on...but the quality seems to have spiked recently. (Gee, isn't that a remarkable coincidence?)
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Tony Stevenson made changes - Today 16:51
Comment [ Pfft! Happy April's fool!
For immediate release: Apache Subversion votes to rename itself Apache Irony, creates a black hole and disappears. ]
Hmm. Buried in a separate tab from the huge page of comments of everybody taking it seriously.
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I am a happy user of both. Subversion and Git have different fields of application, and that is good.
No (Score:0)
They have the same fields of application, just one is vastly superior to the other.
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git: stores and compares decentralized repositories extremly well. It's good if you have loose collaborations without a central insitution providing the repo service. Advantages are that people can quickly store their own versions during development
subversion: manages a single repository in cases where preventing multiple (uncontrolled) branches is mandated to the organization responsible (Yes, it is an advantage not to have too many different possible original sources of builds).
Hotmail (True!) (Score:1)
When Mickey$oft first bought Hotmail [wikipedia.org] in 1997, and for many years after, it was running Qmail [wikipedia.org], on FreeBSD, and Solaris computers! (See also, Qmail.org [qmail.org])
IMHO, it hasn't worked as well since they moved it to their own software! ;^)
The "joke" is on Mickey$oft! ;^)
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Pixar (Score:1)
Apple already makes use of vast numbers of Linux workstations. That office, of course, goes by the name Pixar.
Disney (Score:2)
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Slashdot's day of media incompetence. Once again proven they are not a trustworthy news sources, just run by a bunch of kids.