I'm a huge sports fan. I absolutely hate ESPN. All they do is try to blow small things into world events so their viewer/readership will go up. Sure, it's business, but it's also nothing more than hyperbole. So, good for them. Eat that enormous cost. You earned it with your tactics.
Anyone who uses PHP or MySQL outside of their junior high school special education class ought to be shot in the face for impersonating a software development professional and criminal incompetence.
I don't think he really SLAMMED PostgreSQL. This guy is just like the media. He is looking for controversy. A lot of what he said is true to a point and he didn't say "Don't use PostgreSQL". He said that general purpose MySQL is in fact faster than PostgreSQL and I be damned. For the most part IT IS!
Look at this response: Turn fsync off and try again. Don't expect your data to stay consistant tho. Yep, then their is a big BUT. MySQL is fast. If you don't need PostgreSQL, but need the fastest possible speed. MySQL is a good choice. If you can emulate a feature with PHP and it be much faster than using PostgreSQL over MySQL. BINGO! You don't HAVE to use PostgreSQL, but you DO NEED to use the best tool for the job.
If a blackhole is created and doesn't dissipate don't worry about it. There won't be time to stress out. It will gobble up everything so quickly you won't know what happen. Then life (beyond the earth anyhow) moves on.:)
That makes no sense. Just leaving your ram alone and disabling swap would be less overhead and the memory (both physical and virtual would STILL be going to the same place. Using a RAM disk for swap is like using your arms out the window as turn signals when your car actually HAS turn signals. It's just more work and provides nothing that you didn't already have.
The best thing to do would be to leave the 2GB of memory alone and create some actual swap space on the disk. Chances are you will never use the swap space and if you do. Thats what it's there for!
Sounds somewhat similar to Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in Jan. 31, 2000. A maintenance guy reports all kinds of problems to the government because Alaska Airlines wanted to save money instead of properly maintaining their planes by keeping them in the air, but in the end nothing gets done and 88 people die because of it.
What isn't listed in this Wikipedia was the guy that reported all the problems. His story is told in the National Geographic Channel's Air Crash Investigation about the crash. (it was on last night)
"The acceptance of evolution is lower in the United States than in Japan or Europe, largely because of widespread fundamentalism and the politicization of science in the United States."
I find the reason is the fact that most churches teach creationism rather than evolution. It has nothing to do with politics. Politicians just like them mask themselves in religion since all these church going do gooders (see The Bible Belt) like to see people that believe in the same thing they beleive in.
Personally IMHO (ok, in my flamebait opinion) Religion is nothing more than a means of War. Most wars are religion based. More people die in religious wars than drunk drivers, cancer combine.
If a term becomes generalized in a specific use (i.e. as a verb like Xerox, Coke where as pointed out before) by the public and is excepted in to the english language. I think any person regardless of who they are or work for should be able to use it in *that* sense without retribution from the company. I beleive the term "Google" has become greater than the company itself.
Understandable, they should *NOT* be able to use it to compare in likeness or otherwise to the actual company itself or use it in a defamatory sense.
I drink very little "coke". Coke refering to Coca Cola, Root Beer (always with Pizza), or Dr Pepper.
Now, those with an interest in Oracle support are threatening to divide the community, as they want the community to continue to support Oracle, even though they themselves aren't actively contributing financial or development support for their favoured database.
Well, if they fork someone from their camp will be contributing both financial support and development. I really don't know much about OpenACS. Looking at the "Sites that run OpenACS" I really didn't see any sites that (in my professional opinion) require what Oracle offers over other databases, though that doesn't mean someone would want to use it.
Put it in the hands of those who want to keep Oracle support to in-fact keep that support. If they don't, then pull it out and let them fork. Or Ask Oracle to support it!
Actually, by the sound of the email it sounds more like a getting fed up with an internal power struggle and nothing to do with getting tired of coding on a project.
I see all these people bash PHP claiming this that and the other.
Security: PHP isn't the problem, poor implementation is the problem (the coder) PHP's only hand in that is easily giving you the ability to do it. All languages are dangerous to the security ignorant.
Slow: PHP can be slow. So can straight C. If you know what your doing, PHP can be blazing fast. There is a reason that so many large companies are picking it up. IBM, Oracle, Yahoo, etc...
MySQL gets the same treatment sometimes.
Both of these technologies are tremendous in what they provide. It's said "Knowledge is Power". If you think they're not powerful tools, maybe it's you that lack the knowledge and therefore the power.
In the end, it's still the best tool for the job. If you rule out PHP and MySQL without looking at them, it's your loss.
Problem is, computer sales themselve are way down. I beleive this is a fad shift. Don't get me wrong. Apple makes a beautiful desktop, but the hype around iPod and the hype the music/movie industry is giving Apple is really giving them a boost. Software wise it's still lacking desktop wise to Windows and server wise is lacks to both Windows and Unix/Linux. It is beautiful and what it does it does well. I just find that it doesn't do enough. Then again, thats just me and why I dual boot Linux and Windows. (actually virualize these days)
btw, I want to punch that "Mac Guy" in those new Apple commericals more than I ever wanted to punch the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy. Something about his attitude just grates me. The exact attitude you would expect from Steve Jobs hah.
Personally, I hate returning to the first page (usually an index/home page) when I close each-and-every page that I opened from that page. It's annoying as hell in Opera.
For Firefox style tabbed broswing. (Right to Left tab ordering)
Tools->Preferences->Advanced Tab->Cycle in Tab Bar Order.
On that note, why open the link in a new page (tab) if you hate closing that link and returning to the original page? Just Click Through! (TM)
You can do that in Firefox by either clicking "Use Current Pages" for your homepage (built-in feature) or installing Session Saver or Tab Mix Plus (extensions).
Nice. Someone should mod this little tip up about the multiple home pages. I didn't realize Firefox supported this feature too!
I hate firefox tabs management. If I'm viewing the second of 5 tabs and I open a new tab to view a link. Once I close that tab I want to be back at the originating tab, not the 5 tab which could me my email or something. Give me the xy stacking of tabs in used order. Screw the right to left order that I wasn't using them in.
It's nice to have all of your "always open pages" open on startup also. (Yahoo Mail & Google Mail, calendar, slashdot, google news, etc) I've always hated opening each tab everytime I start the browser.
You noted how you changed (3) Intel servers with (4) GBs of ram for a single AMD server yet you left out a TON of information about the AMD. What and how are the disk connected compared to the Intel boxen. Secondly, how much ram does this 64-bit AMD have? (16GB?)
We had (2) IBM servers (Dual AMD 64-bit Opteron) with 12GB ram each running 32-bit RHEL3 and Oracle 10g. Because it was 32-bit RH it was only using 4GB in each server. We upgraded the RHEL3-64 and Oracle 10g 64-bit (using all 12GB of memory in each box) and we got about 140% improvement on the same hardware.
What was the difference? 8 more GB of ram each. The fact that a single server has 12GB of ram and all queries happen on a single server makes a HUGE difference than have (3) servers with only 4GB of ram as the database can cache more data in memory.
While I don't know your *true* setup, I can say that a single server with a TON of ram will kill many servers with only a little bit of ram on simple select statements. CPU doesn't do a whole lot on select statements compared to what it will do on say stored procs or all kinds of subselects/joins/aggregate functions in your select statements.
This was supposed to be a test of stacks not what the application does. You can never get a perfect setup for testing the differences between two applications since every application is built differently. Although, what they present should sound an alarm about something that should be very important to the OSS community.
What I find they didn't present is how after a while, the Windows server takes three weeks to login too. IIS still serves the pages fine, but hah logging in to the console can be excruciatingly slow...
Disclaimer: While I am a RHEL customer I have never actually contacted RedHat support so I can't speak directly to the quality level of their support.
I bet this has more to do with adding revenue stream than RedHat support being questionable. Since they plan on supporting RedHat why not take a pot shot (See FUD) at the vendor to help rally customers.
Never completely happen. The only fix is the following. An a la carte pay TV via Internet or Satelite. (can't use Cable because they have to much of their own content and will always try to force garbage TV they created on you) The problem today isn't commercials, it's the fact that TV sucks. If a channel was great people would pay for it without the need to be inundated with commercials. It's the reason I know so many people who pay for NFL Sunday Ticket. I hate garbage shows as much as I hate garbage commericals. I watch pretty much only four families of stations. History Channel(s), Science Channel, National Geographic, and the ESPN Channel(s). Any other stations my viewing habits are spotty at best. I used to watch the Discovery Channel, but it's filled with a ton of garbage now too. (those biker shows were cool the first 10,000 times...)
Thats like saying... Why doesn't Apple, FreeBSD, and Linux quit making operating systems. I mean we already have Windows.
I don't think your nuts, I just think you are looking at it from the wrong side. Derivative works improve said work. (Linux kernel 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6) Creating from scratch allows for core innovation. (FPS engines, Doom, Quake, Quake 3, etc)
First... this is an nForce2 machine with built-in video, and the default config refused to let me select a screen-res larger than 1024x768. I know, the nerds out there are saying "just edit your x config file", right? OK, but here's the thing:
(1) that's an INEXCUSABLY STUPID AND LAZY way to design operating system software (2) it's too easy to screw up your x config file and break x (and by "too easy" I mean "remotely possible")
(1) Backup your config before editing it. (2) Install OSX on that same hardware and lets see it Just Work. OSX just works because your limited to Apple hardware limiting how many drivers must be built.
One reason everything just works is because with Apple you are stuck with a vanilla OS. (thats why it works because there are no variations between installs and hardware) While this is a major plus when dealing with those who don't like under the hood it's also limiting to those who do like under the hood. That isn't a great arguement for the majority because the majority like things to just work. That is a bonus of open source. You can change what you don't like.
The great thing about Ubuntu (and I currently don't have a single box running it) is that they are attempting to re-create that which open source. That is a far more powerful tool than OSX. It's not their yet, but then all OSs have their short comings. (including OSX)
As noted before. Most OSX apps have the same feel. True, as most OSX apps are produced in part by Apple and must follow Apples guidelines. Follow the development of KDE and you will see similar guidelines in how applications included in KDE are created and will have the same feel.
You want something not to just work in OSX. Install it on a plain white box build from random parts from some web supplier. Oh thats right; you can't. (or at least not supposed too!)
Apple has a myraid of great offerings, but with those great offerings it also comes with limitations.
As a mod 5 post earlier put it. OS X is bridging the gap between Windows and Unixville for the non-techie user. The open source technology is growing at an incrediable rate. (XGL/AIGXL, wireless, productivity apps) Ubuntu forcing the issue on the desktop and RedHat forces the issue on the server. Microsoft has already noticed the server. Apple and Microsoft will be forced to take notice on the desktop. Maybe not this year, but within four year I suspect that all vendors will begin offering Linux Desktops.
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I'm a huge sports fan. I absolutely hate ESPN. All they do is try to blow small things into world events so their viewer/readership will go up. Sure, it's business, but it's also nothing more than hyperbole. So, good for them. Eat that enormous cost. You earned it with your tactics.
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Anyone who uses PHP or MySQL outside of their junior high school special education class ought to be shot in the face for impersonating a software development professional and criminal incompetence.
That or you should.
I don't think he really SLAMMED PostgreSQL. This guy is just like the media. He is looking for controversy. A lot of what he said is true to a point and he didn't say "Don't use PostgreSQL". He said that general purpose MySQL is in fact faster than PostgreSQL and I be damned. For the most part IT IS!
Look at this response: Turn fsync off and try again. Don't expect your data to stay consistant
tho. Yep, then their is a big BUT. MySQL is fast. If you don't need PostgreSQL, but need the fastest possible speed. MySQL is a good choice. If you can emulate a feature with PHP and it be much faster than using PostgreSQL over MySQL. BINGO! You don't HAVE to use PostgreSQL, but you DO NEED to use the best tool for the job.
Legal action is a revenue stream. This is what the Canopy Group err Universal Music Group does....
If a blackhole is created and doesn't dissipate don't worry about it. There won't be time to stress out. It will gobble up everything so quickly you won't know what happen. Then life (beyond the earth anyhow) moves on. :)
That makes no sense. Just leaving your ram alone and disabling swap would be less overhead and the memory (both physical and virtual would STILL be going to the same place. Using a RAM disk for swap is like using your arms out the window as turn signals when your car actually HAS turn signals. It's just more work and provides nothing that you didn't already have.
The best thing to do would be to leave the 2GB of memory alone and create some actual swap space on the disk. Chances are you will never use the swap space and if you do. Thats what it's there for!
Sounds somewhat similar to Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in Jan. 31, 2000. A maintenance guy reports all kinds of problems to the government because Alaska Airlines wanted to save money instead of properly maintaining their planes by keeping them in the air, but in the end nothing gets done and 88 people die because of it.
h t_261
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flig
What isn't listed in this Wikipedia was the guy that reported all the problems. His story is told in the National Geographic Channel's Air Crash Investigation about the crash. (it was on last night)
"The acceptance of evolution is lower in the United States than in Japan or Europe, largely because of widespread fundamentalism and the politicization of science in the United States."
;)
I find the reason is the fact that most churches teach creationism rather than evolution. It has nothing to do with politics. Politicians just like them mask themselves in religion since all these church going do gooders (see The Bible Belt) like to see people that believe in the same thing they beleive in.
Personally IMHO (ok, in my flamebait opinion) Religion is nothing more than a means of War. Most wars are religion based. More people die in religious wars than drunk drivers, cancer combine.
Thats my Jihad and I'm sticking to it!
Any military that thought it would help accomplish something would use it in spite of the license.
New version of another $129 leaked...
If a term becomes generalized in a specific use (i.e. as a verb like Xerox, Coke where as pointed out before) by the public and is excepted in to the english language. I think any person regardless of who they are or work for should be able to use it in *that* sense without retribution from the company. I beleive the term "Google" has become greater than the company itself.
Understandable, they should *NOT* be able to use it to compare in likeness or otherwise to the actual company itself or use it in a defamatory sense.
I drink very little "coke". Coke refering to Coca Cola, Root Beer (always with Pizza), or Dr Pepper.
Now, those with an interest in Oracle support are threatening to divide the community, as they want the community to continue to support Oracle, even though they themselves aren't actively contributing financial or development support for their favoured database.
Well, if they fork someone from their camp will be contributing both financial support and development. I really don't know much about OpenACS. Looking at the "Sites that run OpenACS" I really didn't see any sites that (in my professional opinion) require what Oracle offers over other databases, though that doesn't mean someone would want to use it.
Put it in the hands of those who want to keep Oracle support to in-fact keep that support. If they don't, then pull it out and let them fork. Or Ask Oracle to support it!
Actually, by the sound of the email it sounds more like a getting fed up with an internal power struggle and nothing to do with getting tired of coding on a project.
I see all these people bash PHP claiming this that and the other.
Security: PHP isn't the problem, poor implementation is the problem (the coder) PHP's only hand in that is easily giving you the ability to do it. All languages are dangerous to the security ignorant.
Slow: PHP can be slow. So can straight C. If you know what your doing, PHP can be blazing fast. There is a reason that so many large companies are picking it up. IBM, Oracle, Yahoo, etc...
MySQL gets the same treatment sometimes.
Both of these technologies are tremendous in what they provide. It's said "Knowledge is Power". If you think they're not powerful tools, maybe it's you that lack the knowledge and therefore the power.
In the end, it's still the best tool for the job. If you rule out PHP and MySQL without looking at them, it's your loss.
Problem is, computer sales themselve are way down. I beleive this is a fad shift. Don't get me wrong. Apple makes a beautiful desktop, but the hype around iPod and the hype the music/movie industry is giving Apple is really giving them a boost. Software wise it's still lacking desktop wise to Windows and server wise is lacks to both Windows and Unix/Linux. It is beautiful and what it does it does well. I just find that it doesn't do enough. Then again, thats just me and why I dual boot Linux and Windows. (actually virualize these days)
btw, I want to punch that "Mac Guy" in those new Apple commericals more than I ever wanted to punch the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy. Something about his attitude just grates me. The exact attitude you would expect from Steve Jobs hah.
Personally, I hate returning to the first page (usually an index/home page) when I close each-and-every page that I opened from that page. It's annoying as hell in Opera.
For Firefox style tabbed broswing. (Right to Left tab ordering)
Tools->Preferences->Advanced Tab->Cycle in Tab Bar Order.
On that note, why open the link in a new page (tab) if you hate closing that link and returning to the original page? Just Click Through! (TM)
You can do that in Firefox by either clicking "Use Current Pages" for your homepage (built-in feature) or installing Session Saver or Tab Mix Plus (extensions).
Nice. Someone should mod this little tip up about the multiple home pages. I didn't realize Firefox supported this feature too!
I hate firefox tabs management. If I'm viewing the second of 5 tabs and I open a new tab to view a link. Once I close that tab I want to be back at the originating tab, not the 5 tab which could me my email or something. Give me the xy stacking of tabs in used order. Screw the right to left order that I wasn't using them in.
It's nice to have all of your "always open pages" open on startup also. (Yahoo Mail & Google Mail, calendar, slashdot, google news, etc) I've always hated opening each tab everytime I start the browser.
You noted how you changed (3) Intel servers with (4) GBs of ram for a single AMD server yet you left out a TON of information about the AMD. What and how are the disk connected compared to the Intel boxen. Secondly, how much ram does this 64-bit AMD have? (16GB?)
We had (2) IBM servers (Dual AMD 64-bit Opteron) with 12GB ram each running 32-bit RHEL3 and Oracle 10g. Because it was 32-bit RH it was only using 4GB in each server. We upgraded the RHEL3-64 and Oracle 10g 64-bit (using all 12GB of memory in each box) and we got about 140% improvement on the same hardware.
What was the difference? 8 more GB of ram each. The fact that a single server has 12GB of ram and all queries happen on a single server makes a HUGE difference than have (3) servers with only 4GB of ram as the database can cache more data in memory.
While I don't know your *true* setup, I can say that a single server with a TON of ram will kill many servers with only a little bit of ram on simple select statements. CPU doesn't do a whole lot on select statements compared to what it will do on say stored procs or all kinds of subselects/joins/aggregate functions in your select statements.
This was supposed to be a test of stacks not what the application does. You can never get a perfect setup for testing the differences between two applications since every application is built differently. Although, what they present should sound an alarm about something that should be very important to the OSS community.
What I find they didn't present is how after a while, the Windows server takes three weeks to login too. IIS still serves the pages fine, but hah logging in to the console can be excruciatingly slow...
Disclaimer: While I am a RHEL customer I have never actually contacted RedHat support so I can't speak directly to the quality level of their support.
I bet this has more to do with adding revenue stream than RedHat support being questionable. Since they plan on supporting RedHat why not take a pot shot (See FUD) at the vendor to help rally customers.
Never completely happen. The only fix is the following. An a la carte pay TV via Internet or Satelite. (can't use Cable because they have to much of their own content and will always try to force garbage TV they created on you) The problem today isn't commercials, it's the fact that TV sucks. If a channel was great people would pay for it without the need to be inundated with commercials. It's the reason I know so many people who pay for NFL Sunday Ticket. I hate garbage shows as much as I hate garbage commericals. I watch pretty much only four families of stations. History Channel(s), Science Channel, National Geographic, and the ESPN Channel(s). Any other stations my viewing habits are spotty at best. I used to watch the Discovery Channel, but it's filled with a ton of garbage now too. (those biker shows were cool the first 10,000 times...)
Thats like saying... Why doesn't Apple, FreeBSD, and Linux quit making operating systems. I mean we already have Windows.
I don't think your nuts, I just think you are looking at it from the wrong side. Derivative works improve said work. (Linux kernel 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6) Creating from scratch allows for core innovation. (FPS engines, Doom, Quake, Quake 3, etc)
First... this is an nForce2 machine with built-in video, and the default config refused to let me select a screen-res larger than 1024x768. I know, the nerds out there are saying "just edit your x config file", right? OK, but here's the thing:
(1) that's an INEXCUSABLY STUPID AND LAZY way to design operating system software
(2) it's too easy to screw up your x config file and break x (and by "too easy" I mean "remotely possible")
(1) Backup your config before editing it.
(2) Install OSX on that same hardware and lets see it Just Work . OSX just works because your limited to Apple hardware limiting how many drivers must be built.
One reason everything just works is because with Apple you are stuck with a vanilla OS. (thats why it works because there are no variations between installs and hardware) While this is a major plus when dealing with those who don't like under the hood it's also limiting to those who do like under the hood. That isn't a great arguement for the majority because the majority like things to just work . That is a bonus of open source. You can change what you don't like.
The great thing about Ubuntu (and I currently don't have a single box running it) is that they are attempting to re-create that which open source. That is a far more powerful tool than OSX. It's not their yet, but then all OSs have their short comings. (including OSX)
As noted before. Most OSX apps have the same feel. True, as most OSX apps are produced in part by Apple and must follow Apples guidelines. Follow the development of KDE and you will see similar guidelines in how applications included in KDE are created and will have the same feel.
You want something not to just work in OSX. Install it on a plain white box build from random parts from some web supplier. Oh thats right; you can't. (or at least not supposed too!)
Apple has a myraid of great offerings, but with those great offerings it also comes with limitations.
As a mod 5 post earlier put it. OS X is bridging the gap between Windows and Unixville for the non-techie user. The open source technology is growing at an incrediable rate. (XGL/AIGXL, wireless, productivity apps) Ubuntu forcing the issue on the desktop and RedHat forces the issue on the server. Microsoft has already noticed the server. Apple and Microsoft will be forced to take notice on the desktop. Maybe not this year, but within four year I suspect that all vendors will begin offering Linux Desktops.