Another lie: Qt is a multiplatform library

When developing for Qt under Windows, Qt might sound like a good idea. Heck, it is multiplatform! You can later build your software for those enthusiasts who stay under Linux, so it sounds. Slow down there!

In reality, Qt hates Linux. Is it because Microsoft bought Nokia at some point, I do not know. I have no idea why, but Qt deploys its whole own slew of shared objects AKA librarites. All of them are versioned as is the case under UNIX-like OSs. And doing so, Qt team creates the Linux version of Windows DLL hell.

For whatever inexplicable reason, Qt libraries target very specific, obsolete, and no longer available versions of other 3d party libraries. Thus, the developer is put into an artificially created situation where they cannot develop because the Linux distro had moved on and obsoleted a certain library (which immediately entails erasing it from all resources) while Qt project holds on to the obsolete library reference. And so Qt developers under Linux are royally screwed. Congratulations! more...

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There is always a money trail

Now it is perfectly clear why the things go the way they go. Microsoft gives big $$$ to Linus. They choose to do it openly and this is the right way to do it. Underhanded dealings with paying directly into Linus's private bank account may have attracted unnecessary attention from some hackers, probably Anonymous, whereas the openly-advertised membership in Linux foundation is lauded by a whole ecstatic crowd. Google for "microsoft pays Linus" and you will find a bunch of touchy-feely articles online about them joining.

Now, to read between the lines. Microsoft gives big $$$ to Linus. Oh, I've already said it! But it is still worth repeating. This dough will serve to further Microsoft's interests by enticing the "open-source community" to do exactly that which they have been doing as of lately, namely discredit and destroy every piece of valuable software that still competes with their flagship products.

Microsoft also pays Apache. No wonder their web server is stagnating, their office is rotting into a pile of crap, and now-their Netbeans is a stinking zombie. "If you cannot defeat them, then lead them!"

This proves my long-standing axiom: no one in the Linux, open-source, or free software business is honest. All of them are sly and clever manipulators who look only to enhance their resumes or sell big. The only conclusion that I have is that there must not be free software because it leads to such corruption, stagnation, and theft. Yes, theft. Microsoft has been stealing code base from open source since time immemorial. Windows eventually became Linux in a different candy wrap. They stole a whole array of technologies from it. Now they can do it under the official seal of approval from the org. Shame!

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Another lie: Raspberry Pi works. It does not.

The idea was grand! A $25 board that has a quad-core CPU, 1-2 GB of RAM, 4x USB ports, LAN, WiFi, and GPIO. Sounds very cool on the surface, does it not? Not, if you want to actually use the Pi.

It is actually good for running only one (as in 1) task at a time. Everything boils down to the bandwidth of the uSD card interface. It is absurd, at 20 MB/s peak. Even a USB attached memory stick is faster, even though some testers show that it is slower. I do not believe them because I have USB keys that transfer data at about 2x the rate. As soon as I free one up, I am going to burn Raspbian on it and try.

If you are going to experiment with USB boot on a Pi, remember that you have to set an OTP bit. Google for how.

I tried to switch from my trusted PC to a Pi for the trivial task of typing LaTeX documents in TexStudio. Wishful thinking it was! The problem is that I simultaneously need to use XMPP chat, browser, and Thunderbird for emails, plus sporadically some other softwares. Here, Pi bites the dust. It can only allow one of the programs to run. It is slow, to a point where keyboard input does not work in an already loaded application while another d/l from the Internet in the background. The CPU is only 20% used and RAM is about the same, but still the Pi becomes non-responsive.

I estimate that its performance may be improved about 2-3x by investing about $50 in an M.2 SSD and a USB adapter for it, but is it worth it? 2-3x the crawl speed of a snail is still a snail speed. Stay tuned!

Let us review, what Pi should have actually been instead of its absurd configuration. more...

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Another one bites the dust: Apache foundaton kills Netbeans

I cannot fathom what they are thinking. What line of thinking may lead an otherwise reasonable group of developers (judging by Apache web server) to maul and mangle a product that they picked up from Oracle?

Enter Netbeans. Yes, its main target is Java, true. But it still had pretty decent support for C++. Now it is gone, carved out and butchered. Previously, all you had to have for developing in C++ in Netbeans was an installation of GCC infrastructure. Netbeans would then automatically discover the command lines as soon as the C++ plugin activated itself on 1st use. Now you need 2 servers installed, to support C++ development.

Where is the guarantee that those servers that run as daemons come with no security problems like much of Linux software does? Any IT admin worth their pay should question the need to install server software just to run an IDE. I would!

Well, here is a wake-up call for you, genius fascists: thanks, but no thanks. I am not going to submit to your dictatorial ideology and slap god knows what more software onto my perfectly working system, just to satisfy your laziness and dictatorial tendencies. Netbeans 8.2 from Oracle works perfectly well still, and none of the purported benefits of Apache Netbeans 9+ are needed. Slide into oblivion, assholes!

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