Re: Major bugs in ODP.NET Driver 10.2.0.2 Beta
I'm sorry - we're not allowed to discuss Oracle bugs in the I-Hate-Oracle-Club?
(I hate to say it but) WTF?
I'm sorry - we're not allowed to discuss Oracle bugs in the I-Hate-Oracle-Club?
(I hate to say it but) WTF?
I know I'm a bit late on the thrashing the codebase front, but hopefully I can make up for it:
I seem to remember somebody suggesting that all the gotos in the SSDS codebase should be graphed. Ten minutes of coding later, and a quick download of the abomination that is source.txt, and I have created the following graph:
Line numbers are plotted from top to bottom, with goto statements on the left linked to labels on the right by colored lines. Blue lines indicate a goto to a later line (not quite as bad), and red lines indicate a goto links to an earlier line (spagettier). The black bars on the left and right of the graph indicate the relative density of the gotos and labels, respectively. The line numbers are also labeled on the far right hand side, in multiples of 200. I had initially hoped to graph everything with a 1:1 line-to-pixel ratio, and then I realized that there are over 10,000 lines of code in this monstrosity :P
@tster said:
thank god I put my foot in my mouth. I almost said, "I'd wager that this website is hosted my open source software. (Apache)." but I booted into linux and ran a little web client I just made and this website is infact hosted on a Windows box with server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Yeah, I'm don't think Linux will run ASP.Net applications.
This entire advertising thing has turned into a war between consumers and advertisers. Advertisers play ads during TV shows, so people mute them, so the advertisers make them more visually "loud", so people fast forward them, so then they switch to popup ads. People don't like advertising - it's distracting and annoying, and it detracts from the experiance.
Any kind of content-protection system can be thwarted, and if they become too insane (someone suggested TVs that only play digitally signed and secured content) then the public will drop the medium and someone will come up with something better. When channels started DVR-thwarting (randomly changing show broadcast times, running them 4 minutes past the end time so DVRs miss the ending), many people started getting shows off services like Bittorrent - it's fast, eay, has all of the commercials stripped out, and you can be sure that you got the entire show.
The main gripe that I have about advertising on websites is that when I'm browsing over a cellular connection ($1-5/MB anyone?) and the site loads (without asking) a 10mb Flash-based TV-quality video advertisment, eating up my bandwidth allowance for the next six months and forcing me to spend hours on the phone trying to purchase more bandwidth.
With regards to rights of data, the internet is a great divider. You can do whatever you want on your end of the connection - you can send me useful content, advertising, or whatever you want, and I can do whatever I want with it on my end. If I ignore some of the data you sent me, that's my choice. If you want to ignore my request for a page of you website, that's your choice. I did not sign a legal contract saying that I was required to view your advertising, and you did not sign a legal contract saying that you were required to give me copies of your webpages.
If you want me to sign a contract saying that I had to watch all of the advertising before I could watch this week's episode of House, well I have a choice to sign it or not.
@CPound said:
The best web technology available right now is .NET, hands down.
I agree 100%.
I do everything in ASP.Net and SQL Server, and I haven't had any trouble with it.