FW: FW: fatal error: unexpected SIGSEGV in emulator mode

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On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 09:57:59AM -0500, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 
> I'll be damn if it is not about $$$ - and if it is not about $$$, then the
> parties responsible for making sure stability, integrity and
> accessibility of application are not doing their job!

Your entire argument falls apart when you stop to consider that both
MySQL/MariaDB and Postgres are freely available at no cost.

> Whatever happened to 2% of your revenue should be invested in technology?

Where the hell did you get that number, and did you wipe it off between
pulling it out of somewhere, and putting it on the list?

> Mind you, this is not to say that the application needs to be replaced,
> re-written but at least its foundation must be up-to-date and
> par with available technologies to secure a minimum down time (if any) and
> reliable redundancy.

Oh, dear God.  You're just venturing into the realms of silliness at
this point.

Once something is written, if it's stable and just purrs like a kitten
24/7/365 (like...oh, I don't know...my OneGate, RawQuery, LightMail,
etc.), there's nothing left to do with it 99.9% of the time.  Once
you're done adding features (I am hard-pressed to think of anything
useful to add to OneGate), there's just no reason to tinker with the
stack for the hell of it.  

The most I've had to do with RawQuery has been to supply new binaries at
various points, and only because the binary distributions were compiled
against older libopenssl distributions, which means that when you need TLS
1.2, that decade-old compile isn't going to work anymore for the current
landscape.  Not a line of the application code changes; it's building a
new build environment and recompiling.  And honestly, I stopped supplying
binaries for anything but Windows.  Used to supply Linux binaries, but I'm
content to just forego DRM and supply it in script form.  Even my most
souped up SuperQuery program, with full-on threading, batch mode which
shrinks time taken by up to 91%, and segmented downloading is supplied in
script form.

Updating for the sake of spending money is a waste of money.  I'll
update programs in my VST collection, but that's when they do sensible
things like add features I want/need.  I don't chase the annual revenue
stream releases unless the feature sets for the specific release are
compelling.  Used to upgrade Camtasia no matter what, from 4 through 6.
The feaures for 7 and a few others were not compelling enough to justify
the expense.  iZotope got greedy, and I've started skipping multiple
years.  I only update Komplete Ultimate from NI once every 2-4 versions,
and only when they include new tools in the collection.

If no compatibility issues are introduced, and if there's no UI issue
'introduced' by technological progress (like, for instance, scalable UIs
because you can't fucking read static tiny font sizes from pre-4K on UHD
displays), there's simply no good reason to part with the money.  I'd
rather buy a new guitar, synth, gun, gaming console, etc.

> Personally, I stopped fighting cloud based servers a long time ago and I do
> not miss the days where I had to worry about servers,
> power surges and COMCAST keeping their service up and running.

False equivalence.  I've been using cloud based VPSes for over a decade.
My installations still follow the decade-long OS life-cycle of the best
vendor I can choose (which happens to be Red Hat derivatives like
CentOS, and now Rocky as of a month ago when I switched my C8 to R8,
once they finally materialised).  If you don't get stupid about it and
-chase- the latest bleeding edge releases, you can literally survive
securely for a decade at a time.  Longer, if you're willing to baby a
post-EOL OS with manual security updates you roll yourself, rather than
relying upon the vendor.  The latter -will- cost money, though.  No
dodging that.

Hell, I adopted Win7 and Win10 at the last possible month of the prior
release's EOL.  I entirely skipped Vista, and only my laptop ever had
8.1.  Skipped 8 entirely.  Won't be running 11 until I get new hardware
with that stupid TPM2 encryption chip.

There was a period, back from '93-98, when I updated to every new kernel
release for Linux, back when you actually configured and compiled them
longhand.  Eventually I figured out that -I have better things to do with
my time than chase kernels I don't need-, especially when there was zero
net gain for doing so.  I don't miss those days.

You're seriously starting to sound like you have more money than brains,
and then decided to be rude because others value their time and money more
than you do yours...or theirs.

Trust me when I say you can find worthier hills to die on than the one
you're currently defending.

m->
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