Thank you! Your response was very helpful. I've been eye-balling PostGIS and was wondering: 1.) is it something somebody would bring up if it wasn't specifically mentioned in a question regarding spatial, and b.) how it performs. Based on your response, it sounds like it's pretty usable.
So...how does PostgreSQL compete with Oracle nowadays as far as features go (specifically, spatial, and data-guard-like replication)? Anybody here tried making the switch?
I agree. I used to backup my media collection to an external USB HD...until the USB-ATA bridge did something weird once and completely trashed not only the backup copies, but also the primary store. Luckily the filesystem I was using at the time (reiserfs) was able to rebuild the filesystem tree and I got away with only minimal data loss. I learned two good lessons from this: 1.) Don't ever trust USB external HD's for backing up data you care about, and 2.) Don't ever use reiserfs for any data you care about.
I prefer Eclipse. It's free and platform-agnostic (it's written in Java). It supports a lot of languages once you get the correct plugins installed. I've personally used it for Java and PHP (it's great for both...you can even do server-side PHP debugging if you install Xdebug on your apache web server and configure it properly. There's plugins for C/C++ development as well.
Step through the code with a debugger too, of course. I find that "ok, I'm gonna try to make the code do this", i.e. starting with a specific goal, setting breakpoints, and stepping through the code is the best way to get comfortable with an unfamiliar codebase, no matter its size.
Very true. With very large projects, this really is your only option.
Not to defend the TSA, but the defendant of this suit seems to be a bit of a drama queen (I read some entries from her blog). I could easily see her bending a few facts to make her story sound more interesting.
TSA employee Theldala Magee has filed a lawsuit against a blogger demanding $500k in damages for alleging a particularly invasive search involving multiple incursions of a finger into the passenger's vagina.
If we can get the Adult Industry to sell their.COMs and go to.XXX it would make an easier to manage Internet. Especially if you are searching for name of an old XWindows software you were looking for.
I wouldn't count on it. The biggest issue being that people that run porn sites don't want to be able to be easily identified by firewalls and proxy servers.
It's a stubborn and extremely out-dated service, not to mention run by complete morons that barely know how to do their jobs. Whenever I order something online and have the choice of courier, I avoid the USPS like the plague. They've just made too many mistakes in the past for me to trust them with expensive goods anymore (not to mention their tracking system is a complete joke).
First off, most people who use the term have never even heard that routine.
I first heard a person use the term boxen 15 years ago. Is this routine older then that?
Sorry to shit on your parade, but this routine is 20 years old..
Normally I'd agree with you, but he's going to pain-staking efforts to secure whatever it is he's lugging around on there. At first I thought he was just this for the fun of it, until I read this comment from him:
If it leaves my side, I will consider it tainted, and do a reinstall. I really am willing to be that anal;)
Sure does seem like a lot of hassle to go through for not hiding something.
Let me get this straight. A robot is programmed to wake up, then submit a pre-programmed tweet to twitter, and does exactly that. Why is this news & who the fuck cares?
Freshmeat....man that's a site I haven't gone to regularly since I used to run Slackware 8 years ago. They were always my first place to look for Linux software. Now thanks to repos, I really never have to go outside looking for software...that is till I'm back on my Windows box.
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ESPN, for example, is watched by 10%-15% of subscribers in any market. Yet every last customer pays for it.
You're joking, right? You do realize that this is the US, and football season has started, right?
PETA's more about getting attention than they are about the ethical treatment of animals. This move just further proves that.
Thank you! Your response was very helpful. I've been eye-balling PostGIS and was wondering: 1.) is it something somebody would bring up if it wasn't specifically mentioned in a question regarding spatial, and b.) how it performs. Based on your response, it sounds like it's pretty usable.
So...how does PostgreSQL compete with Oracle nowadays as far as features go (specifically, spatial, and data-guard-like replication)? Anybody here tried making the switch?
I agree. I used to backup my media collection to an external USB HD...until the USB-ATA bridge did something weird once and completely trashed not only the backup copies, but also the primary store. Luckily the filesystem I was using at the time (reiserfs) was able to rebuild the filesystem tree and I got away with only minimal data loss. I learned two good lessons from this: 1.) Don't ever trust USB external HD's for backing up data you care about, and 2.) Don't ever use reiserfs for any data you care about.
GREAT SCOTT!
I prefer Eclipse. It's free and platform-agnostic (it's written in Java). It supports a lot of languages once you get the correct plugins installed. I've personally used it for Java and PHP (it's great for both...you can even do server-side PHP debugging if you install Xdebug on your apache web server and configure it properly. There's plugins for C/C++ development as well.
Step through the code with a debugger too, of course. I find that "ok, I'm gonna try to make the code do this", i.e. starting with a specific goal, setting breakpoints, and stepping through the code is the best way to get comfortable with an unfamiliar codebase, no matter its size.
Very true. With very large projects, this really is your only option.
Second, THAT'S ART?!
No...being a snobby, pretentious prick with access to lots of skinny pants is art. Didn't you get the memo?
Not to defend the TSA, but the defendant of this suit seems to be a bit of a drama queen (I read some entries from her blog). I could easily see her bending a few facts to make her story sound more interesting.
True...that's actually the biggest issue for them I would think.
TSA employee Theldala Magee has filed a lawsuit against a blogger demanding $500k in damages for alleging a particularly invasive search involving multiple incursions of a finger into the passenger's vagina.
Video (if she's hot), or it didn't happen.
If we can get the Adult Industry to sell their .COMs and go to .XXX it would make an easier to manage Internet. Especially if you are searching for name of an old XWindows software you were looking for.
I wouldn't count on it. The biggest issue being that people that run porn sites don't want to be able to be easily identified by firewalls and proxy servers.
Surely there's a more efficient way to have 2 separate phone environments running on the same handset.
It's a stubborn and extremely out-dated service, not to mention run by complete morons that barely know how to do their jobs. Whenever I order something online and have the choice of courier, I avoid the USPS like the plague. They've just made too many mistakes in the past for me to trust them with expensive goods anymore (not to mention their tracking system is a complete joke).
This sounds familiar. Let's just hope he doesn't fall asleep and paint the world ending.
First off, most people who use the term have never even heard that routine.
I first heard a person use the term boxen 15 years ago. Is this routine older then that?
Sorry to shit on your parade, but this routine is 20 years old..
First, the plural of box is boxes, boxen is not a word.
If you had a sense of humor, you'd understand where "boxen" came from.
Because moon phases and tides are notoriously hard to predict.
Yeah, but I hear it's hard for hurricanes to get online and look up tide tables...what with all the damaging wind and rain and stuff.
Normally I'd agree with you, but he's going to pain-staking efforts to secure whatever it is he's lugging around on there. At first I thought he was just this for the fun of it, until I read this comment from him:
;)
If it leaves my side, I will consider it tainted, and do a reinstall. I really am willing to be that anal
Sure does seem like a lot of hassle to go through for not hiding something.
What does he have on his laptop that's so gd important that he has to go through this much hassle to secure it....kiddie porn?
I'm going with B.
Let me get this straight. A robot is programmed to wake up, then submit a pre-programmed tweet to twitter, and does exactly that. Why is this news & who the fuck cares?
love and marriage, love and marriage...go together like a horse and carriage...
Freshmeat....man that's a site I haven't gone to regularly since I used to run Slackware 8 years ago. They were always my first place to look for Linux software. Now thanks to repos, I really never have to go outside looking for software...that is till I'm back on my Windows box.