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A Physicist with the Air Force

Posted by michael on from the meet-new-and-interesting-people,-and-kill-them dept.

An anonymous submitter - anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today, sigh - sent in this tale about the duties of a physicist during World War II.

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  1. That explains it! by Robber+Baron · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today...


    Oh so THAT'S why my karma is now 105,000!

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    1. Re:That explains it! by seann · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      oh yah, coincidence that they just completly changed backends of SlashCode has *nothing* to do with mySQL crashing. Infact, if they would of used another database, NOTHING would of went wrong!

      Slashdot! when will you learn! Man I thought you guys were smart, apparently your susposed to be using something different!

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  2. MySQL by WasterDave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There was a post over to a MySQL vs Postgres flame fest once (on phpbuilder, iirc) that stated that while MySQL was prone to falling over every now and then, it had never lost any data. It guess that's the end of that one then.

    Does it look like RedHat have made the right choice with postgres then?

    Dave

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    1. Re:MySQL by brunes69 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Postgres is much better than MySQL for MANY reasons, so many in fact I fail to see why people still champion MySQL...

      1)Postgres is SQL-92 compliant, and supports normal DB syntax like nested selects, transactions, etc. MySQL doesn't.

      2)Postgres has a much more robust API for devolpers

      Postgres is ENTIRELY Free software, and is only licensed under the GPL, unlike MySQL, which has a commercial version, and the GPL version, and the closed source version, of which the GPL version is always behind.

      Sure, MySQL may have a bit of an edge on speed, but not by much. And when you take into account all the functionality it lacks, I don't know why anyone would shoose to limit themselves so much by using it.

    2. Re:MySQL by GypC · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Because it has a better name :P

  3. CT: What happened today? by jeffy124 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today

    Are we going to see a post detailing today's slashdot database adventures? eg- what the probable cause was, what data was lost (besides an article about something being "always on"), what's being done to prevent such errorsi nthe future?

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    1. Re:CT: What happened today? by krogoth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, according to the local conspiracy theorists that will only happen when there is no problem (like the router non-problem)

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  4. Thats the power of Open Source! by cybrthng · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Raise your carma today, upgrade to the untested and unproved slashcode 2.2 and be buggier then any other program out there.

    i hope there are no security risks with 2.2... but oh well. you gotta upgrade someday.

    so when will slashdot be themeable so i can choose different ugly colors? :)

  5. A Rant... by xtermz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please, in the interest of free speech, just don't read this if you feel the need to mod it down, otherwise read on...

    i am quite tired of some of the people on this site who are quick to criticize slashdot for having downtime. I am willing to bet these same people probably have not had to face a pissed off boss and manager breathing down your kneck while trying to revive a mission critical server that is "not supposed to fail".

    And these same people probably don't realize that halph your down time is for describing to your boss why some , very expensive mind you, servers that are "not supposed to fail" are in pieces on the floor.

    these same people, would probably hide in the corner mindless chanting 'all your base are belong to us' while hoping the men with the white coats dont come....

    thank you for your time

    mr xtermz

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  6. credit please by hugecrow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today"

    yeah i posted that artical, give me credit

    please update....hehe

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  7. Database Meltdown - Gory Details, Please! by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today...

    Hey, Cowboy Kneel, Commander Taco, etc.. at least some of your users want to know all about the gory details of how and why the database melted down.

    We need you to tell us. We live vicariously through you.

    Hope the downtime was the worst of the damage.

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  8. Re:Next time, Microsoft. by s2r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe its time to change that "sa" default password

    :)

  9. Great, just great.... by (H)elix1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    and here I thought I just got burned on a daily CVS build of Mozilla.... now nothing builds, my browsers horked from me trying to "fix" it when slash had the problem, and I'll have to re-set every cookie I blasted away.

    Thank god I did not think it was a kernel problem....

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  10. Re:BTHS by Araneas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shooting you point blank with a sniper rifle is extremely inefficient. A high velocity slug is likely to pass right through you without losing much of its kinetic energy. What you want is something like a .45 hollow point. Not as much muzzle energy but superior energy transfer due to slug expansion. Oh and remember to stick it in your mouth so you don't flinch and miss.