Both drives on an ATA channel share that bandwith. A lot of newer drives push out > 33 MB/s second. Which makes firewire an inferior solution for drives.
Hell, the new WD1200JB has a peak transfer rate of 48.8 MB/s, which would saturate firewire all by itself. Serial ATA will debut at 150 MB/s which is much more realistic.
Plus, while $0.25 sounds like a small amount of money, if you multiply it times the number of drives sold by companies like WD and Seagate, it adds up, why would they want to pay that money, when they can get a superior solution for free?
To keep the db password out of your ASP files, don't make your connections in ASP at all. Make your connections and queries in COM components and handle your dataflow and business logic there.
Most COM components are compiled and thus not plaintext, additionally, they can be stored outside the Inetpub structure, making them more difficult to access. If application scalability is a concern, the components can reside on their own server.
This is how you should be doing database work in ASP anyway. Making direct SQL calls in your ASP is a bad practice, and violates the basic principles of the N-Tier model.
I don't disagree that racism and fascism are serious problems in Europe, but those are serious problems everywhere, including the United States. We have the Klu Klux Klan, and Al Sharpton and every other kind of maniac you could imagine. But we also have a key philosophical premise that it is unacceptable to make thought or speech illegal, because that is the real root of facism: the desire to control another persons thoughts and actions.
I really don't think it is Windows' fault that you're a complete fucktard and can't set up a computer that runs reliably. If you queer up any operating system enough you can get it to run unreliably, Windows has a bad rep primarily because the average user is a moron.
This is honestly not an attempt to be flamebait. But I have heard this old argument so many times I feel it needs explaining.
The reason most Americans know nothing about Sweden, Switzerland or Egypt is because they are irrelevant countries. You can bet your ass most Americans could point out China, Russia, Japan or Germany because those countries matter. This is not an attack on the self-worth of the peoples of Sweden, Switzerland or Egypt, they are fine people, but the countries are not major political players.
To use a metaphor: I know about Linus Torvalds because he is a famous, important person. Linus knows nothing about me because I am not famous or particularly important. Does this make him ignorant?
VMWARE is a great solution for a lot of things but there are some issues:
1. VMWARE runs DOS very poorly. Because DOS is a 16 bit operating system, VMWARE runs it pretty poorly, when I looked it up, this was a known issue.
2. VMWARE doesn't get anything near native speeds, at least not with a Windows host. Maybe it is faster on Linux, (since they can see the source, I bet they can optimize much more), but on a 1GHz Athlon w/ Windows 2000 I don't get anywhere NEAR native speeds.
> Shatner is a skilled actor, and the storylines
> remain as fresh as ever.
WTF? Did we watch the same show? You're a Euro aren't you? I bet you think that David Hasslehoff is a "skilled singer" and "his ballads remain as fresh as ever".
If anything, Star Trek succeeded in spite of Shatner chewing the scenery.
I'm not normally a word nazi, but weary and wary mean two entirely different things. The sentence doesn't make sense because if the technology is brand new, how could they be weary of it so quickly.
Wow. Seriously, I think my 2 month old daughter has a more sophisticated view of morality than that. And sometimes, it's better *not* to put a link to your vanity... errr... homepage in your posts.
The text in italics isn't the Slashdot staff, but rather, the story submitter. Hopefully, if we _do_ go to war, you will be the first soldier out of the troop transport, naked, with a giant bullseye painted on your forehead.
Your connection to reality is very tenuous indeed my friend.
You thought you were going to be hauled of in an anarchist witch-hunt? Do you really think anyone in the government gives a shit about you and your views? Do you really think they care if you want to Marx and listen to Rage Against the Machine?
> Many rank and file clerical type employees do
> not want to learn some new software.
Just curious, how often do you use Office applications? How advanced of a user are you? Is it possible that those "rank and file" clerical workers are actually right? That switching to a new office suite will cost them many hours of productivity?
It is for programmers to talk about switching office suites, because most of us don't use them very often. I use office for maybe 2 or 3 hours per week. But if you spend eight hours a day in Word and Excel, those small differences matter a lot.
Think of it this way: Say I decided to take away your vi and replace it with emacs (or vice versa). Simple enough, right? They are both text editors and you will figure out the differences, quickly enough. Besides, you're probably already marginally familiar with the other one anyway.
The reality is, that if you're a veteran programmer, you are probably intimately familiar with your text editor, and replacing it with a new one would cost you many hours. If you are a veteran "rank and file" clerical worker, you are probably intimately familiar with Word or Excel and changing office suites would cost you a lot of lost hours.
Switching Office suites in a corporation is an extremely expensive proposition. Even if the software is free (hell, even if Sun paid you), for most companies it is a bad deal.
> Why in the HELL would you want another layer in there? For flexibility?
You don't know the first damn thing about database programming, do you? The stored procedure code isn't re-parsed every time it's run. The execution plan for the query is cached and *that* is run. The performance hit would only be seen the first time the SP was run, when the recompile occurs. Having multiple SP languages would be a very good thing.
> You need performance, period.
No, not really, it is that kind of attitude that got MySQL into the position it's in today, everyone acknowledges it's fast, but nobody has any respect for it as a real database.
> If they actually wanted MySQL to be used by people who knew what they were doing, they would've integrated in PL/SQL.
No no no, damnit. We need to get past these shitty Procedural SQL hacks. T/SQL and PL/SQL are crap, Why do you think Oracle is integrating Java and Microsoft is integrating ActiveX into the database engine? Because trying to do high-level programming in SQL is complete shit. Why would MySQL want to integrate a legacy language like PL/SQL?
Good point. But on the other hand, that is the price of the fame/fortune he's received. Now maybe he feels like this isn't what he signed up for, but he really reminds me of a spoiled athelete/actor. If he doesn't want to put up with the bs, perhaps he should consider handing slashdot over to someone else, it is stagnating these days anyway. Kuro5hin is improving rapidly and I find myself reading it more and more and slashdot less and less.
Has anyone else gotten the impression that if they met Taco in person, they'd despise him. I'm not trying to be a troll here, I'm serious.
I really get the impression that he is a spoiled, whiney man-child. He reminds me of the stereo-typical movie director or prima-donna actor, whining and screaming at his assistants.
I mean, maybe I'm the only one, and I admit that I've never and probably will never meet him. But I've managed to stitch together an opinion of hime from his half-wit article comments and stories I've read about him.
If I'm wrong, and you've met him and he's a great guy, feel free to correct me.
Are you ever concerned that analysts such as yourself have an unhealty amount of influence on the computer industry?
It seems to me that many analysts predictions amount to self-fulfilling prophecies. ie., Analyst 'X' says that Server 'Y' has the largest market share, so IT managers everywhere follow a herd mentality and only use Server 'Y', creating a vicious cycle. Do you think that this effect is real, and if so, does it result in innovation being stifled in the industry?
Of course you can't parse that. Much like a Klansmen can't parse the idea of a "black scientist". You are a bigot, of the dilbert variety, a snobbish moron who thinks that OS choice has *any* significant bearing on the quality of a human being.
Please, eat shit and die.
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Both drives on an ATA channel share that bandwith. A lot of newer drives push out > 33 MB/s second. Which makes firewire an inferior solution for drives.
Hell, the new WD1200JB has a peak transfer rate of 48.8 MB/s, which would saturate firewire all by itself. Serial ATA will debut at 150 MB/s which is much more realistic.
Plus, while $0.25 sounds like a small amount of money, if you multiply it times the number of drives sold by companies like WD and Seagate, it adds up, why would they want to pay that money, when they can get a superior solution for free?
Does stupidity spread over wires too?
To keep the db password out of your ASP files, don't make your connections in ASP at all. Make your connections and queries in COM components and handle your dataflow and business logic there.
Most COM components are compiled and thus not plaintext, additionally, they can be stored outside the Inetpub structure, making them more difficult to access. If application scalability is a concern, the components can reside on their own server.
This is how you should be doing database work in ASP anyway. Making direct SQL calls in your ASP is a bad practice, and violates the basic principles of the N-Tier model.
I don't disagree that racism and fascism are serious problems in Europe, but those are serious problems everywhere, including the United States. We have the Klu Klux Klan, and Al Sharpton and every other kind of maniac you could imagine. But we also have a key philosophical premise that it is unacceptable to make thought or speech illegal, because that is the real root of facism: the desire to control another persons thoughts and actions.
I wish there was a moderation option called "-1 Asshole" because you would surely rack up a lot of those babies.
I really don't think it is Windows' fault that you're a complete fucktard and can't set up a computer that runs reliably. If you queer up any operating system enough you can get it to run unreliably, Windows has a bad rep primarily because the average user is a moron.
This is honestly not an attempt to be flamebait. But I have heard this old argument so many times I feel it needs explaining.
The reason most Americans know nothing about Sweden, Switzerland or Egypt is because they are irrelevant countries. You can bet your ass most Americans could point out China, Russia, Japan or Germany because those countries matter. This is not an attack on the self-worth of the peoples of Sweden, Switzerland or Egypt, they are fine people, but the countries are not major political players.
To use a metaphor: I know about Linus Torvalds because he is a famous, important person. Linus knows nothing about me because I am not famous or particularly important. Does this make him ignorant?
VMWARE is a great solution for a lot of things but there are some issues:
1. VMWARE runs DOS very poorly. Because DOS is a 16 bit operating system, VMWARE runs it pretty poorly, when I looked it up, this was a known issue.
2. VMWARE doesn't get anything near native speeds, at least not with a Windows host. Maybe it is faster on Linux, (since they can see the source, I bet they can optimize much more), but on a 1GHz Athlon w/ Windows 2000 I don't get anywhere NEAR native speeds.
Actually, it's the reverse. WD sells relabled IBM drives. IBM invented the GMR technology that both brands of drives use.
> Shatner is a skilled actor, and the storylines
> remain as fresh as ever.
WTF? Did we watch the same show? You're a Euro aren't you? I bet you think that David Hasslehoff is a "skilled singer" and "his ballads remain as fresh as ever".
If anything, Star Trek succeeded in spite of Shatner chewing the scenery.
Good idea. Yhey could seek out new life and new civilizations in their customized RV.
I'm not normally a word nazi, but weary and wary mean two entirely different things. The sentence doesn't make sense because if the technology is brand new, how could they be weary of it so quickly.
Wow. Seriously, I think my 2 month old daughter has a more sophisticated view of morality than that. And sometimes, it's better *not* to put a link to your vanity... errr... homepage in your posts.
The text in italics isn't the Slashdot staff, but rather, the story submitter. Hopefully, if we _do_ go to war, you will be the first soldier out of the troop transport, naked, with a giant bullseye painted on your forehead.
I have three letters for your friend:
R - M - A
Wow.
Your connection to reality is very tenuous indeed my friend.
You thought you were going to be hauled of in an anarchist witch-hunt? Do you really think anyone in the government gives a shit about you and your views? Do you really think they care if you want to Marx and listen to Rage Against the Machine?
> Many rank and file clerical type employees do > not want to learn some new software.
Just curious, how often do you use Office applications? How advanced of a user are you? Is it possible that those "rank and file" clerical workers are actually right? That switching to a new office suite will cost them many hours of productivity?
It is for programmers to talk about switching office suites, because most of us don't use them very often. I use office for maybe 2 or 3 hours per week. But if you spend eight hours a day in Word and Excel, those small differences matter a lot.
Think of it this way: Say I decided to take away your vi and replace it with emacs (or vice versa). Simple enough, right? They are both text editors and you will figure out the differences, quickly enough. Besides, you're probably already marginally familiar with the other one anyway.
The reality is, that if you're a veteran programmer, you are probably intimately familiar with your text editor, and replacing it with a new one would cost you many hours. If you are a veteran "rank and file" clerical worker, you are probably intimately familiar with Word or Excel and changing office suites would cost you a lot of lost hours.
Switching Office suites in a corporation is an extremely expensive proposition. Even if the software is free (hell, even if Sun paid you), for most companies it is a bad deal.
You don't know the first damn thing about database programming, do you? The stored procedure code isn't re-parsed every time it's run. The execution plan for the query is cached and *that* is run. The performance hit would only be seen the first time the SP was run, when the recompile occurs. Having multiple SP languages would be a very good thing.
No, not really, it is that kind of attitude that got MySQL into the position it's in today, everyone acknowledges it's fast, but nobody has any respect for it as a real database.
No no no, damnit. We need to get past these shitty Procedural SQL hacks. T/SQL and PL/SQL are crap, Why do you think Oracle is integrating Java and Microsoft is integrating ActiveX into the database engine? Because trying to do high-level programming in SQL is complete shit. Why would MySQL want to integrate a legacy language like PL/SQL?
You got the wrong half of RotJ. It was the first half with those stupid Ewoks that sucked. The space battle and the lightsaber duel were awesome.
Good point. But on the other hand, that is the price of the fame/fortune he's received. Now maybe he feels like this isn't what he signed up for, but he really reminds me of a spoiled athelete/actor. If he doesn't want to put up with the bs, perhaps he should consider handing slashdot over to someone else, it is stagnating these days anyway. Kuro5hin is improving rapidly and I find myself reading it more and more and slashdot less and less.
Has anyone else gotten the impression that if they met Taco in person, they'd despise him. I'm not trying to be a troll here, I'm serious.
I really get the impression that he is a spoiled, whiney man-child. He reminds me of the stereo-typical movie director or prima-donna actor, whining and screaming at his assistants.
I mean, maybe I'm the only one, and I admit that I've never and probably will never meet him. But I've managed to stitch together an opinion of hime from his half-wit article comments and stories I've read about him.
If I'm wrong, and you've met him and he's a great guy, feel free to correct me.
Dan,
Are you ever concerned that analysts such as yourself have an unhealty amount of influence on the computer industry?
It seems to me that many analysts predictions amount to self-fulfilling prophecies. ie., Analyst 'X' says that Server 'Y' has the largest market share, so IT managers everywhere follow a herd mentality and only use Server 'Y', creating a vicious cycle. Do you think that this effect is real, and if so, does it result in innovation being stifled in the industry?
-Bruno
Bill Gates is now the richest man in the world by a wide margin. That article you posted is very old, and now obsolete.
Of course you can't parse that. Much like a Klansmen can't parse the idea of a "black scientist". You are a bigot, of the dilbert variety, a snobbish moron who thinks that OS choice has *any* significant bearing on the quality of a human being. Please, eat shit and die.