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And you don't want your database being a Flipper. MySQL has finally announced the name of their logo dolphin, and the winner is... Sakila! The name, submitted by Ambrose Twebaze of Swaziland, was chosen from 6357 entries "because it represents the global reach of MySQL as well as the friendly, open nature of the company." Slashdot covered the contest back in January, and MySQL listed some of the more popular names submitted back in April.
Perverse incentives are the most fun. Mark Barnett writes in reference to the ongoing pets.com lawsuit story Update: 10/04 00:18 GMT by T : Sorry, that's "PetsWarehouse," not "pets.com.":
"I was one of the settling parties. I did not settle out of fear. I settled because he wanted me to run his banner on my website for 120 days. The settlement did not say anything about the number of times it had to run. I ran it once per day at about 4 AM EST for 120 days. It was my joke on him. I think I got the better deal. I ran the defense fund banner about 1.5 million times versus his 120 times."
Wings for a lizard. Espectr0 writes "Phoenix 0.2 has been released!. Improvements include the return of the sidebar, extensions management and web form autocomplete. It's also a little smaller and faster, and 0.3 will be released in about a week. Get the scoop here."
Unsolicited testimonial. boomerang_56 writes "Wanting to see what the fuss was about, I just installed Red Hat 8. For me, working IEEE1394 features are a must. It was nice to see that now I don't have to recompile the kernel just to have Firewire working. So I downloaded and compiled Kino, and was able to capture from my camcorder, and even control it, without the major tweaks I used to have to do. Then I found out that Cinelerra has been released at version 1.0!!! So I downloaded and installed it via RPM (Pentium II binaries). I had to install an old version of libstdc++-3, but that was easy. No "--force" or the other hassles we used to have to go through. So the first time I fired up Cinelerra, after changing the preferences for IEEE1394 capture, I was impressed to see it actually captured on the first try. I guess the bottom line for this submission is as a user I wanted to say "thanks" for all the developers working on this kind of thing. We all know that besides gaming, video editing is the big killer app. It's really nice to be able to have this kind of power in open source software and not have to boot to Windows just to edit video now. It's not easy enough for my mom yet, but the way things are going, it won't be long. Oh, links... get Cinelerra here (check out the screenshots too). Get Kino here."
Blinkenlampen ueber Paris. fluxdvd writes "In celebration of the Nuit Blanche art festival in Paris, Project Blinkenlights has transformed Tower T2 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France into what is claimed to be the world's largest computer screen. The system used to drive the display runs an embedded version of Linux.
Read the story at Linuxdevices.com. They have live streams of the building at night (Paris time) and replay the previous night's display druing the day. It's quite impressive :)"
We mentioned the plans for this display a few weeks ago.
Don't you hunger for a patent-free, royalty-free, better-at-identical-bitrate alternative? The release of Red Hat 8.0 included the notable, intentional ommission of MP3 software, a decision Red Hat made on the basis of possible patent and royalty problems.
Now SnowDeath writes "After two days of trying to get my ALSA install to work correctly in RedHat 8.0 (Psyche), I finally headed over to the xmms website to see if there were any known bugs with ALSA. Low and behold, the first thing my eyes read tells how RedHat Software decided to not include the mp3 plugin in their xmms install in Psyche in fear of pending patent problems. So, do not despair, there is an rpm "update" for this particular problem on the xmms site."
"In celebration of the Nuit Blanche art festival in Paris, Project Blinkenlights has transformed Tower T2 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France into what is claimed to be the world's largest computer screen. The system used to drive the display runs an embedded version of Linux.
Am I the only one thinking this was someone's plan to play counter-strike on the worlds biggest screen?
because it represents the global reach of MySQL as well as the friendly, open nature of the company.
Shit, that's what I thought when I first glanced at that name.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Uhh.. shouldn't that be petswarehouse.com?
you still caved, even if you found a way to be weasily about it.
Sure its funny, but now they can tell other people that previous suits have been successfull settled out of court and they had better pay up.
All actions have consequences.
"Weaseling out of things is makes us different from animals...except the waesel." H.Simpson.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
What version of Linux should I be programming to? Should I go with The Standard, Redhat? The Pure, Debian? The Cool, SuSE? or The Esoteric, Sorcerer? I would love to develop applications for Linux, but it is too difficult to nail down a baseline system what with each distro constantly adding and removing components all the time.
Each distro also demands tradeoffs. Redhat sacrifices everything to be "easy to install". Debian sacrifices currentness for stability (ha-ha). SuSE sacrifices compatibility with other distros for ease-of-use. And Sorcerer sacrifices that compatibility even more.
When Redhat removes another component like they did here, it's just business as usual in the Linux distro world. But for those developers out here who want to write applications, it's really hard with moving targets like these.
I'm selling toasters with firewire support, want one? They're $99 and explode if you don't set them up just right.
Since RedHat removed mp3 libraries from their distribution we should embrace a new format. This time, we should use a lossless format such as FLAC or Monkey's audio or even Meridian not only because of sound quality but because we need to show the Labels that we mean business. With lossless formats we will have equal standing with their business model technically and literally. We need to establish an age of freely distributed carbon copies of their material so that they become completely irrelevant. College dorms have enough bandwidth to exchange 30mb songs between each other. We should actively encourage people to adopt lossless file formats so we have more freedom in dissemination and use of OUR content. We need to defeat the Labels every way possible. By completely eliminating every reason for their existance we might come closer to their demise.
what happens when someone hacks it and it starts adding hardcore porn to the paris nightlife?
Bottles.
Don't know if you MYSQL users know about the MySQL Control Center application provided by MySQL, but it is pretty cool.
PROS:
1) Sleek User Interface (graphically shows PRI keys and I believe you can map relations (FK), but I haven't figured that out yet, also graphically shows indices).
2) Some queries download faster than web browser and telnet/ssh. Some SQL statements execute quite quickly like DELETE and INSERT.
3) Multi-window display helps to show historical SQL statements and current actions.
CONS:
1) System crashes with "large" queries. Kind of bad that I tried a simple SELECT of one of my "large" tables with 2,500 rows/records and my computer crashed. Yea, I quoted "large" because is is relative between my tables, not to the maximum number of rows that can be stored in MySQL tables. Your mileage may vary as I have really old computer at home - (64 MG/Ram, Pentium I, 32-bit Virtual Memory, Windows 95b).
2) Not very user-friendly in terms of SQL beginners. You have to know SQL in order to operate the application via the SQL pane.
3) Compared to other products like MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager, some of the screens are difficult to interpret (related to #2).
Hope this helps
"This must be a Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
I'm using Phoenix right now, and seriously, I'm blown away by it. Not only is it lightning fast in comparison to Mozilla, but it already has the things I've been trying to get in the Mozilla trunk for a long time now. (For those of you who browse Bugzilla, you know how frustrating getting something into the trunk can be sometimes!) Some of the notable features of Phoenix are:
.5
1) Customizable Toolbars
2) Home button where it SHOULD BE!
3) Inline form management (Mozilla's form manager is all but worthless unless you've already filled out 20+ pages of forms.)
4) Theme that respects my system colors! (Go ahead, change your system colors, Phoenix changes with them!)
5) No bundled on software--I just want a browser! And if you use Mozilla for the mail, don't worry, the Mail client will be getting the same overhaul as the browser. It's a project called Minotaur, and will be started on roughly when Phoenix hits
There are tons of other things to mention here like the extensions manager, default popup blocking, tabs, worthwhile sidebars, ability to remove the throbber, a clean statusbar that actually works, etc., but it's best if you just see it for yourself! Go grab a copy, and then while you're enjoying it, thank Asa Dotzler, Blake Ross, Dave Hyatt, and the other guys who are making this a reality!
Thanks guys!
Sybase ASE is already on OS X.
Thanks,
--
Matt
they even included the profane name suggestions...
bastardo 14
absolutely hilarious
forget it.
Phoenix is going to be the default browser in all Windows boxes that I admin - simply because it doesen't need to "install". Just plunk the directory over the network when a new version comes out and - wham! New broswer!
No "Updating Windows Installer"
No rebooting.
No IE vunerabilities!
No Unnesesary features from Mozilla.
No EULA to click through.
Oh. No rebooting!
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Of course Red Hat respects the mp3 patents. Red Hat (through employee Ingo Molnar) is applying for its own software patents, after all. If Red Hat does anything to interfere with the mp3 patents, then they would threaten their own ability to use the courts to quash competitors, should they win their own patents.
What patents are Molnar and Red Hat applying for? Why, patents on parts of Linux itself. See applications 20020059330 and 20020091868 at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
Linux has Tux the penguin. (Linus Torvalds likes penguins and there's the joke that penguins look like they're wearing tuxedoes which can be seen in many cartoons)
BSD has the BSD Daemon (sometimes known as Beastie, the daemon story is pretty long and I'm not going to type it here)
GNU has a Gnu (Well they share the same name so it was a fitting animal)
So umm why does MySQL have a dolphin? Named Sakila?
From the release notes:
6. Why would I want to use 0.2?
It has a cool build ID. 20021001 (October 1, 2002).
...nifty
I love Phoenix and have been using it as my primary browser since 0.1 was released.
I have posted severl screenshots on my site:
0.1 screenshots are here:
http://www.phatvibez.net/reviews.php?ID=phoenix
0.2 screenshots are here:
http://www.phatvibez.net/reviews.php?ID=phoenix2
--- Brad (http://www.LinuxReview.net)
"an african flavor to MySQL??"
seriously. WHAT THE FUCK.
the dolphins name is SQUEAL. EVERYONE thinks it should be SQUEAL. i am starting my own form of mysql starting today, and the ONLY thing different is that the dolphin is named SQUEAL!
on that note:
ARE YOU A PHP DEVELOPER? WORK WITH ME AND MAKE MILLIONS!
Web Developer II
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
FLAC is champagne, and mp3 is beer.
Ogg is quality beer, and MP3 is Bud beer. How is Bud beer like repairing your filesystem on a boat? They're both fscking close to water.
Will I retire or break 10K?
I asked them a few times over the past few months what was going on with the dolphin naming contest. Never once got a reply. Never once an update on their web site, which HAD said it would be done "in a month or two"... that was back in January.
;)
Finally, I ended up forgetting about it. All the better. The name that they chose was equally forgettable. A "global" name probably means one that isn't trademarked that you're likely to forget in 5 minutes unless you're bombarded with heavy advertising and brand building.
So what did the dolphin namer win, anyhow?
Is it possible to use them both, do they use the same configuration data?
Because you think you are in Amsterdam.
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Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
I would like to see that just so I can see the little devil guy ride the dolphin. :-)
It's really quite simple, it IS about royalties, either they pay them to cover their ass so Thomson can't sue them a year down the road from now, or they simply don't include an MP3 decoder.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
When I congratulated her, she said:
All that work for nothing....Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
I didn't go back to the xmms site, I just used the Red Hat xmms RPMs which were included in the final beta called (null). These are xmms-1.2.7-14.mp3 and xmms-skins-1.2.7-14.mp3. I figure I don't need a lot of updates to a basic file player, and I prefer Red Hat authored RPMs for a Red Hat system.
Yanking MP3 support is unfortunate but not worth crying about. If you like MP3s, you probably can handle the hunt for the appropriate files to get your fix. I only use MP3s because so few hardware solutions support OGG or other formats yet. I'd love it if my SliMP3 supported OGG too, but for now it does a great job of making a household jukebox. If I adopt a similar OGG solution, I'll just re-rip the CDs.
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so of course, the first thing i see on this screen is steve ballmer's "developers developers developers" dance
too bad this wasn't around when the ally our base craze got started
I installed Mozilla 1.1 on my Win98 machine and it would crash all the time (not so often on Win2k). It got so bad that I had to remove it and install IE. I felt dirty for using IE but I had to get my daily internet fix free of crashes. I grabbed Phoenix just to check it out. It needed no install, just run it from the directory you decompress it in....
So far Phoenix has yet to crash, is "popup" free, fast and everything I wanted Mozilla to be.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
Go grab a copy, and then while you're enjoying it, thank Asa Dotzler, Blake Ross, Dave Hyatt, and the other guys who are making this a reality!
Not sure about the others, but Dave Hyatt is/was one of the principles on the Chimera project and you can really see the similarity between these two browsers -- even to the point of the OS X style slide-out preference sheets. Very nice.
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
Hmm... I've been watching the Blinkenlights stream for about 10 minutes now, and in that time I have seen 3 ads for the new Mini Cooper. Not that I mind, but it seems it is no longer possible to do anything without staring at ads. What next, half-page ads on slashdot?
er, wait... We already have those.
--- At my sig, unleash hell.
I've tried for three or four years to do 1394
style video editing under Windows. I've fiddled
with every hardware configuration and used every
capture program under the sun and I still can't
capture more than a few minutes of video without
loosing frames. I read the various forums
occasionally and it seems to me that a weegie
board has more relevant things to say
about video editing.
It's not your motherboard. It's not software X.
It's all Microsoft. I dual booted RedHat (so my
other box is debian, I was lazy) and low and
behold I can capture for HOURS and nary a dropped
frame. When it did drop a frame, dvgrab politely
told me why. This stuff works. Too bad I can't edit
under linux yet. When Cinelerra has the stability
and feature set of something like Sonic Foundry's
Video Vegas desktop video will finally stop being
an aggravating trip through the worst that personal
computing has to offer.
By the way, if you are a Windows user frustrated
with your editing app crashing get Video Vegas.
Despite the crazy name it has plenty of
professional features and it's rock solid. Unlike
Premiere, which I can crash just by blowing on the
case gently, Vegas let's me get through hours of
footage with no back talk.
Spoken like someone who's installed very little "off the net" packages on RedHat.
While it's good to have a reminder every now and then of why I switched to Debian, every time I use it is a reminder of why I stay.
-no broken link
I know replying to AC is probably a waste of time, but...
.wav it, .mp3 it, etc. Much easier to give him $10 for a CD & rip it.
.mp3s of his solo stuff...
Yeah, sure. A real lively music scene. How do you listen to it once you get home?
Perfect example: There's a guy here in Memphis who plays solo quite a bit, Ron Franklin (website). I really love his solo stuff, a good bluesy/folk/rock/gospel mix. But he only releases albums w/ the Entertainers. Don't get me wrong, I love RFE, too. But sometimes I'd rather listen to his solo stuff. I could probably get permission to record a show (I'm friendly w/ him), but then I'd have to mike it, try & get decent levels, pipe it into line in,
But hey! If you want to do all the work for me, I'd be glad to give you $10 for some
jred
I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...
Eric Cartman: "Yeah, smart on rye bread with some mayonaise."
I tried using mencoder to convert to another format, but mencoder complains about 'illegal instruction' for some reason.
Anybody have any useful suggestions ? How can I convert the files ?
There are exceptions to every blanket statement, I guess. The Opera 6.x RPMs need --force on my system because I'm missing a Tk library which the RPM requires (for what I don't know). I don't want to install said libraries, so I use --force when installing Opera via RPM. Everything's fine.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
Just out of curiousity. Does anyone know how to pronounce this? Is it Sa ki la, or Sa Kee la, or something else entirely? I doubt I'll ever actually be verbalizing the name of the dolphin, but sometimes it helps to know these things should an arguement arise.
Sakila. Avaya. Verizon. Aquent (used to be MacTemps). Akamai.
Oh sure, they always say it comes from someplace. Akamai, for example, is supposed to mean something in Hawaiian. I forget what. It doesn't really matter because all these names sound the same. I think there is a secret Perl script somewhere that they aren't telling us about.
I think it has two basic algorithms. One of them takes a regular word and changes the spelling according to an algorithm I've yet to decipher. The other, simpler algorithm uses the folling syllables:
av, ev, iv, al, el, il, ul, ti, te, vi, va, vey, ty, tra, tri (perhaps others) and strings them together randomly.
Try it. It's easy:
Aviva. Eltiva. Altria. Ultera. Tyvela.
Thank-you.
By reading this post, and using the information contained herein, you consent to pay an outrageous consulting fee to me for naming your company. Make checks payable to Steven Marthouse, 5308 Oldcastle Ln., Springfield VA 22151.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Simply include a program that pops up the first time you are connected to the internet after installation and offer to automatically download and install the RPM from the XMMS web site (after asking permission for xmms.org first, of course)? I'm sure xmms.org would cooperate here.
This way, they don't violate the patents (instead redirecting the download to xmms.org, which doesn't seem to mind distributing it), while still making it relatively simple and automatic for new users and others who then wouldn't have to figure out what's going on.
You'll be sued now, for sure.
Money for nothing, pix for free
On a related sidenote:
I just put a package for RadialContext for
Phoenix on the usual downloads page.
> Has an interface for adding and removing browser extensions (this Mozilla lacks)
I wish this was true. Phoenix has an interface for disabling extensions. But the uninstallation button is disabled because Mozilla still doesn't implement the functionality. (And Phoenix is a rewrite of the GUI portions. It doesn't implement anything new in the base.)
The uninstall functions in existing packages have been a pain to implement for the developers of the extensions. It's still several hundred lines of code to provide an uninstall button.
Uhh, we do? Could somebody explain why please? I've heard it's more popular in the States than elsewhere, but I can count with one hand how many times I've seen (or even heard of) people editing their home movies on their computer: none.
Apple seem to make a big deal of this as well. Is this some kind of craze that never reached Europe, much like text messaging/sms never made the crossover to the US? Or is it just the latest round of tech industry hype, not actually backed up by substance?
About a third of the population of Swaziland is muslim. I'm pretty sure the name Sakila comes to SiSwati from the Arabic word Shakila which means beautiful or handsome (Shaquille is the masculine form of the same name).
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
Configs in /etc, services in /etc/init.d, documentation in /usr/share/doc, user bins in /usr/bin unless your apps is necessary to rescue to the system, sbin for yoru admin bins, /usr/lib for your libraries, /usr/share for everything else, RPM for your packages, stable releases of glibc and gcc for C library and compiler, etc.
Do you want to know more?
:-)
If you develop in C++, make the effort to upgrade to GCC 3.2 and the new style standard C++ library style of programming. Believe me it's worth the effort. The only execption to this is if your interacting/recompiling with older KDE or Mozilla. The latter needs GCC-2.96 to load plugins.
Do not set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Compile with -R or LD_RUN_PATH instead.
That essay about LD_LIBRARY_PATH is one of the most interesting things I've ever read. Reading it helped me understand not only the issues involved, but affected a lot of my thinking about programming in general. It's good for you! :) I never can remember where it is, but I see that it's the first hit you get when you search for LD_LIBRARY_PATH on google now.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
What happened to LoseNotLooseGuy?
Interestingly, the i686 build works on my K6-III+ which is technically an i586. Can anyone elaborate on the difference between i586 and i686 in this sense?
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
OK, FLAC is "lossless" but it doesn't compress all that well.
Start with a 50 MB WAV file. Compress with Flac, and you *might* get 60% cut out. I honestly don't see much advantage over gzip or zip! Why bother with a new format name? ("Oh, our FLAC is better than zip/gzip, because... eh... we have a different name! We offer 2.2% better compression ratios!")
So now you have a 20 MB file. Lesee, over a 28.8 modem connection, you have...
A royal nightmare.
Ogg, on the other hand, compresses comparably to MP3. Your 50 MB WAV file might compress down to 4 MB with reasonable audio quality.
Lesee, over a 28.8 modem connection, you have...
Something reasonable.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
To my supportive, but angry "friend", I would say to chill out. It was off-topic, in a way. I have enough "venting karma" to last a while, but I would have liked to get some kind of response to my questions. Too bad you can't get modded UP even when you are off-topic.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.