Thousands of small file retrieval without the seek time overhead.
Large DNS zone files, millions of e-commerce product images (we have about 1.2 million images that consume less than 4GB of space), and heavily queried LDAP data. May be even a MySQL database that many very small tables.
I see it kind of the mini ResierFS of hardware...
I would love to have some R&D time to workout the possibilities with some of my operations.
I'm happy to hear you got all of these working, but this is exactly why I do not replace my Windows Domain/File servers with Samba. I've got enough to deal with now. I do not have the times to dedicate. I've been keeping a eye on the status of Samba and I have used Samba (Samba 2) before, but until I can get easy integration; It's just not a choice.
I have a request though, Publish your work. Let others know how you did it. That information can lead to strides forward for Samba and those that wish to implement it.
I use slashboxes for viewing other sites RSS feeds and Slashdot sectional content. This new feature you've added disrupts my flow of reading. I do not wish to miss any content that could be of interest to me, but then again I don't want 50 stories with abbreviated text littering the home page or being purged off the page due to excessive stories being listed. Is it possible to make "Sectional Content" appear as a Slashbox option? (I didn't see the option in my "Home Page Preferences") I would rather much prefer the ability to scan a slashbox for a subject that interests me rather than the other options currently presented.
The algorithm is based on a library of neutral face images of young women and determined that Mona Lisa was 83% happy and 9% disgusted.
Some say it's DiVinci in drag. So, the neutral face young women doesn't help. It should have been a neutral face images of guys in drag. (i.e all the male OSX users!)
I've got a t7100. I hate the smart keyboard. It's not smart enough. I should have gotten something else. The regular black berry is to large. The t7100 is perfect size, it's just that the keyboard sucks. Also, I would like to kill T-Mobile for *disabling* features of it. I should be able ot choose how I wish to use the bluetooth. It should work with my BMW's bluetooth if I want it too, but T-Mobile decided for me that it won't. I should be able to transfer data with bluetooth to my computer.... Nope, T-Mobile said no. I'm just looking for a reason to take it back to T-Mobile and make them switch it for a different product. The Email issue looks like it would be the key, but NTP is catching a lot of flack from PTO.
Who modded this Insightful? If anything it should have been Troll or Flamebait. I love how everyone hates the United States, yet almost everything they enjoy in life is in response to how the United States has changed the world. (Not the the US did it all, but the US inspired the rest of the world) Capitalism gave you the Internet, remote control, and incredible amounts of other technologies today due to the space research. (I like how some people give CERN credit for inventing the Internet, they didn't. They invented the HTTP protocol that traverses the Internet. I give the credit for that though.) The United States did something the other countries did not. They put advancement in the hand of the people (Capitalism) rather than trying to do everything themselves. In World War II, the US went from sitting on their hands developing/producing more supplies for the war that all other countries combine. Why? Because they ask the American people and American companies to do it instead of creating a massive bureaucratic overhead that would slow down the production of what was needed. Sure, the United States have done (and still does) many things that I am not proud of and many people should have been removed from power/jailed because of them.
Stop being a f*&king idiot, and smell the coffee. The United States as a whole isn't out to get you, destory your life, or control the world. Those dumbasses that try (corrupted) in the end will be removed from power. (See Richard Nixon among others) The United States is a truly free country even if many times jackasses (IMHO people like Donald Rumsfeld(whom is leaving/being removed from office as I speak), or complete idiots like George Bush) try and take away things that the American Constitution gave us. End the end, the American people have the ability to change it because our govenment isn't the ultimate power. The people are. Soon, Americans will wake up and stop putting people who have no business being Presidential in the race. (Bush, John Kerry, and Al Gore)
Wow, I went into a big rant. I am just one of those people that get so annoyed by listening to idiots spew idoicy. I guess thats why I cannot listen to Bush's public speeches...
May be I just missed your point, but why would IBM, HP, Dell, Sun, etc out source their professional support services if they could do them in-house (per se) cutting the middle man (and all that extra money) out? Today, companies out source to other countries because they can pay pennies on the dollar. With LinuxCare that wasn't a choice. LinuxCare was based in California.
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Perl always had the hype from the *I'm an Uber geek* crowd. The ones that used to scream "BSD command line and Perl. Who needs anything else?" Back in the mid 90s. I remember so many of the uber geek tech support guys (and even some of the admins) from the ISP I was admined at were screaming that. Most of them today (that I know or have any contact with) dual boot Windows/Linux and their primary language is Python or PHP.
As for myself. I don't dual boot. My work supplied laptop is Windows, all my servers are Solaris or Linux. Python is my primary language PHP is my secondary. They are admin tools, as I do not write large applications. My home PC is packed away in the closet. Who needs it when I have a free laptop?:)
The only thing I really use Perl for anymore is very heavy text processing. That isn't very often as we generate our own web stats for special reporting. Python can parse, gather statistics, merge logs and rewrite several million Apache log lines very quickly.
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.NET is Microsoft's next attempt to gain control since the failure of passport.
It's.NET that makes PHP, Python, and Ruby so important. (notice I didn't list Perl...).NET's biggest boon is it is easy to create with. (I've easliy trimed 80% of my development time switching from C/C++ to PHP to Python) I don't hate what.NET is. I think it's great. I just hate some of the motives behind it.
As for Java. It's not legacy yet. Sun attempting Microsoft type moves caused most of it's problems. Just like Solaris now. If they would have opened it up sooner, it wouldn't be quite so deep in the hole it's in now to other technologies. Java has a lot going for it that arn't strong points for LAMP and.NET, but it's got a lot of problems compared to LAMP and.NET also. Ease of the development cycle is a major issue comparatively.
Anyway you look at it, it's still technology and technology has to advance.
As both a developer of technology and a user of it. Sometimes, you have to get the *stupid* (as it was put...) out of the dark. The last thing you want to ever do is hold someone's hand while trying to actually get something done. Sure, you cannot expect to have your users configure their system with (plugin your CLI editor of choice), but you also cannot expect everything to have an "Easy Button". You will waste so much more time trying to hold hands with your user than you will actually getting anything useful out of your work. You will forever be playing catch up.
And I thought Politics in my country (USA) were F'ed up.
France seems closer aligned with Dallas City Hall. Even the corruption is corrupted. This is just plain stupid. How can free software be considered counterfeiting? (or intent to defraud) It's more likely (actually down right ramped) in closed source software to have an intent to defraud. See Gator/Claria failures to be up front and CLEAR about what they are actually doing.
There isn't any doubt in my mind that large sums of money are changing hands behind the scenes...
Thats just flat out ridiculous. Your obvious hate of Americans blurs your vision. Nobody likes poor products and they don't just *forgive* them because they are of the same country. Don't believe me? Ask the US auto industry; they are still suffering for the hideous quality from the 70s and early 80s.
You should separate your emotions from your descions. You will make better (more logical) ones and be more successful in your ventures.
I'm a Dallas native living in New York. I read the idoicy and even seen it a lot here in New York since this place is very anti-Bush and he is associated with Texas. Personally, I just ignore it. There are a lot of idiots in Texas, but I can name just as many here in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey as well. I lived in San Francisco and San Diego and it's all the same. I've been to London, Paris, and even Rome. (Hong Kong next year) Yep, international idiots exist too!
What I've found is those who like to sling insults or openly stereotype are generally have intelegents just above those without any common sense whatsoever.
When I hear people say things like that about Texas, the US, or any other place that I may not even be associated with. I just smile and wave. (and cast insults and stereotype those jackasses in my mind!!!):)
Anyway, my point is let idiots be idiots. People with that mentality generally do not amount to much in the end anyhow. Sometimes it's amusing anyway.
Databases run better on AMD64 than they do on EMT64. Dell wants to sell more servers. They have to compete IBM (sells AMD64) Sun (AMD64). Dell doesn't want their sales to erode. They want to gain share. Customers want AMD, Dell is going to give them AMD. We own both Dell and IBM. Our database servers are IBM (AMD64) and our app servers are Dell. While I may not like Dell's support, I don't have to call them very much and am very happy with their hardware. (especially, their price!)
I've found that Solaris 10 has so many problems that I wouldn't dream of using it even in a box at my house that I test on. It's proven to be trash and not worth the ascii text it's written in.
Now, we are in the same boat. I made several claims that one OS sucks yet I didn't list any references to support my claim.
That force me to discount your entire statment and all creditability.
Solaris 10 is a very nice OS, but my Oracle 10g RAC runs quite nicely on RHEL3 x86-64. (SMP Opterons (DBs) and SMP Xeon (app servers)) We migrated away from Sun for several reasons. Solaris 10 fixed many of them, but today it's a little to late and we arn't willing to fix whats not broke. I mean why add cost and work if everything is working as it should?
I would love to hear where your "serious disappointment in terms of reliability" stems from. I can tell you where my disappointment in Solaris 7-8-9 stem from but I see no reason to bash Solaris. I found Linux superior in almost every way for what we use it for in a weighted comparison. (YMMV) It's why we use it now and will continue to until we find enough reason to switch again. (Obviously once it's time to upgrade again)
Anyway, if you make a claim support your claim with references otherwise you shoot your creditability in the foot.
This is great as an "Ultimate E-Commerce Admin PDA" type device. You can carry it with you, and use it for remote access to your environment and still do your everyday work on it without carrying around a full laptop. To bad I cannot go to the closest office product store and get a closer look. It looks great though.
What I love about open source is that it's about choice and options. That is something Apple isn't. While I think OS X is nice, Apple is a mini-Microsoft wannabe. They are as lock-in (customer) and lock-out (competition) as anything Microsoft has ever done. I like their products, I hate their philosophy. I'll take OSS, thanks anyway.
References: See, iPod, Aqua, OS X on Intel requires Apple's hardware, and even the unfair business practices their own resellers filed against them, etc...
Unless Oracle has a big trick up its sleeve, its relational database hasn't gotten much more impressive over the years.
I disagree. Oracle 8i to Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g. I think there were great advances. Not just in the database either. OCFS is an open sourced cluster filesystem created by Oracle.
As for my notes on the Oracle MySQL subject.
This was clearly a step towards protecting their (Oracle) business. They can (and probably will) strong arm MySQL in one way or another. How that effects MySQL depends on them and just exactly what Oracle wants to do. MySQL *can* help themselves by using the OSS community if in fact Oracle does try to strong arm them. MySQL made a mistake. They bet their business on someone elses technology. If I were MySQL, I would start looking at their options. Possibly forking InnoDB or finding out exact what Oracle really wants and nailing down a long term deal that will protect and extend MySQL's business with the help Oracle has to offer. That or sell out to Oracle. If I were Oracle, hah I would buy MySQL and use it as a product offering. I wouldn't be supprised if Oracle spoke to MySQL got rejected then said. Hello InnoDB, I want to buy you out! {wink MySQL}
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Thousands of small file retrieval without the seek time overhead.
Large DNS zone files, millions of e-commerce product images (we have about 1.2 million images that consume less than 4GB of space), and heavily queried LDAP data. May be even a MySQL database that many very small tables.
I see it kind of the mini ResierFS of hardware...
I would love to have some R&D time to workout the possibilities with some of my operations.
I'm happy to hear you got all of these working, but this is exactly why I do not replace my Windows Domain/File servers with Samba. I've got enough to deal with now. I do not have the times to dedicate. I've been keeping a eye on the status of Samba and I have used Samba (Samba 2) before, but until I can get easy integration; It's just not a choice.
I have a request though, Publish your work. Let others know how you did it. That information can lead to strides forward for Samba and those that wish to implement it.
I use slashboxes for viewing other sites RSS feeds and Slashdot sectional content. This new feature you've added disrupts my flow of reading. I do not wish to miss any content that could be of interest to me, but then again I don't want 50 stories with abbreviated text littering the home page or being purged off the page due to excessive stories being listed. Is it possible to make "Sectional Content" appear as a Slashbox option? (I didn't see the option in my "Home Page Preferences") I would rather much prefer the ability to scan a slashbox for a subject that interests me rather than the other options currently presented.
The algorithm is based on a library of neutral face images of young women and determined that Mona Lisa was 83% happy and 9% disgusted.
:P or am I!
Some say it's DiVinci in drag. So, the neutral face young women doesn't help. It should have been a neutral face images of guys in drag. (i.e all the male OSX users!)
hah I'm kidding damnit!
I've got a t7100. I hate the smart keyboard. It's not smart enough. I should have gotten something else. The regular black berry is to large. The t7100 is perfect size, it's just that the keyboard sucks. Also, I would like to kill T-Mobile for *disabling* features of it. I should be able ot choose how I wish to use the bluetooth. It should work with my BMW's bluetooth if I want it too, but T-Mobile decided for me that it won't. I should be able to transfer data with bluetooth to my computer.... Nope, T-Mobile said no. I'm just looking for a reason to take it back to T-Mobile and make them switch it for a different product. The Email issue looks like it would be the key, but NTP is catching a lot of flack from PTO.
Who modded this Insightful? If anything it should have been Troll or Flamebait. I love how everyone hates the United States, yet almost everything they enjoy in life is in response to how the United States has changed the world. (Not the the US did it all, but the US inspired the rest of the world) Capitalism gave you the Internet, remote control, and incredible amounts of other technologies today due to the space research. (I like how some people give CERN credit for inventing the Internet, they didn't. They invented the HTTP protocol that traverses the Internet. I give the credit for that though.) The United States did something the other countries did not. They put advancement in the hand of the people (Capitalism) rather than trying to do everything themselves. In World War II, the US went from sitting on their hands developing/producing more supplies for the war that all other countries combine. Why? Because they ask the American people and American companies to do it instead of creating a massive bureaucratic overhead that would slow down the production of what was needed. Sure, the United States have done (and still does) many things that I am not proud of and many people should have been removed from power/jailed because of them.
Stop being a f*&king idiot, and smell the coffee. The United States as a whole isn't out to get you, destory your life, or control the world. Those dumbasses that try (corrupted) in the end will be removed from power. (See Richard Nixon among others) The United States is a truly free country even if many times jackasses (IMHO people like Donald Rumsfeld(whom is leaving/being removed from office as I speak), or complete idiots like George Bush) try and take away things that the American Constitution gave us. End the end, the American people have the ability to change it because our govenment isn't the ultimate power. The people are. Soon, Americans will wake up and stop putting people who have no business being Presidential in the race. (Bush, John Kerry, and Al Gore)
Wow, I went into a big rant. I am just one of those people that get so annoyed by listening to idiots spew idoicy. I guess thats why I cannot listen to Bush's public speeches...
May be I just missed your point, but why would IBM, HP, Dell, Sun, etc out source their professional support services if they could do them in-house (per se) cutting the middle man (and all that extra money) out? Today, companies out source to other countries because they can pay pennies on the dollar. With LinuxCare that wasn't a choice. LinuxCare was based in California.
Perl always had the hype from the *I'm an Uber geek* crowd. The ones that used to scream "BSD command line and Perl. Who needs anything else?" Back in the mid 90s. I remember so many of the uber geek tech support guys (and even some of the admins) from the ISP I was admined at were screaming that. Most of them today (that I know or have any contact with) dual boot Windows/Linux and their primary language is Python or PHP.
:)
As for myself. I don't dual boot. My work supplied laptop is Windows, all my servers are Solaris or Linux. Python is my primary language PHP is my secondary. They are admin tools, as I do not write large applications. My home PC is packed away in the closet. Who needs it when I have a free laptop?
The only thing I really use Perl for anymore is very heavy text processing. That isn't very often as we generate our own web stats for special reporting. Python can parse, gather statistics, merge logs and rewrite several million Apache log lines very quickly.
.NET is Microsoft's next attempt to gain control since the failure of passport.
.NET that makes PHP, Python, and Ruby so important. (notice I didn't list Perl...) .NET's biggest boon is it is easy to create with. (I've easliy trimed 80% of my development time switching from C/C++ to PHP to Python) I don't hate what .NET is. I think it's great. I just hate some of the motives behind it.
.NET, but it's got a lot of problems compared to LAMP and .NET also. Ease of the development cycle is a major issue comparatively.
It's
As for Java. It's not legacy yet. Sun attempting Microsoft type moves caused most of it's problems. Just like Solaris now. If they would have opened it up sooner, it wouldn't be quite so deep in the hole it's in now to other technologies. Java has a lot going for it that arn't strong points for LAMP and
Anyway you look at it, it's still technology and technology has to advance.
As both a developer of technology and a user of it. Sometimes, you have to get the *stupid* (as it was put...) out of the dark. The last thing you want to ever do is hold someone's hand while trying to actually get something done. Sure, you cannot expect to have your users configure their system with (plugin your CLI editor of choice), but you also cannot expect everything to have an "Easy Button". You will waste so much more time trying to hold hands with your user than you will actually getting anything useful out of your work. You will forever be playing catch up.
With the help of Nostradamus, I shorted their stock before hand cashed in afterwards and then did a hostile takeover of Larry Ellison's house...
And I thought Politics in my country (USA) were F'ed up.
France seems closer aligned with Dallas City Hall. Even the corruption is corrupted. This is just plain stupid. How can free software be considered counterfeiting? (or intent to defraud) It's more likely (actually down right ramped) in closed source software to have an intent to defraud. See Gator/Claria failures to be up front and CLEAR about what they are actually doing.
There isn't any doubt in my mind that large sums of money are changing hands behind the scenes...
Thats just flat out ridiculous. Your obvious hate of Americans blurs your vision. Nobody likes poor products and they don't just *forgive* them because they are of the same country. Don't believe me? Ask the US auto industry; they are still suffering for the hideous quality from the 70s and early 80s.
You should separate your emotions from your descions. You will make better (more logical) ones and be more successful in your ventures.
s/intelegents/Intelligence/... :( I'm an idiot from Texas too!
I'm a Dallas native living in New York. I read the idoicy and even seen it a lot here in New York since this place is very anti-Bush and he is associated with Texas. Personally, I just ignore it. There are a lot of idiots in Texas, but I can name just as many here in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey as well. I lived in San Francisco and San Diego and it's all the same. I've been to London, Paris, and even Rome. (Hong Kong next year) Yep, international idiots exist too!
:)
What I've found is those who like to sling insults or openly stereotype are generally have intelegents just above those without any common sense whatsoever.
When I hear people say things like that about Texas, the US, or any other place that I may not even be associated with. I just smile and wave. (and cast insults and stereotype those jackasses in my mind!!!)
Anyway, my point is let idiots be idiots. People with that mentality generally do not amount to much in the end anyhow. Sometimes it's amusing anyway.
Databases run better on AMD64 than they do on EMT64. Dell wants to sell more servers. They have to compete IBM (sells AMD64) Sun (AMD64). Dell doesn't want their sales to erode. They want to gain share. Customers want AMD, Dell is going to give them AMD. We own both Dell and IBM. Our database servers are IBM (AMD64) and our app servers are Dell. While I may not like Dell's support, I don't have to call them very much and am very happy with their hardware. (especially, their price!)
I've found that Solaris 10 has so many problems that I wouldn't dream of using it even in a box at my house that I test on. It's proven to be trash and not worth the ascii text it's written in.
Now, we are in the same boat. I made several claims that one OS sucks yet I didn't list any references to support my claim.
That force me to discount your entire statment and all creditability.
Solaris 10 is a very nice OS, but my Oracle 10g RAC runs quite nicely on RHEL3 x86-64. (SMP Opterons (DBs) and SMP Xeon (app servers)) We migrated away from Sun for several reasons. Solaris 10 fixed many of them, but today it's a little to late and we arn't willing to fix whats not broke. I mean why add cost and work if everything is working as it should?
I would love to hear where your "serious disappointment in terms of reliability" stems from. I can tell you where my disappointment in Solaris 7-8-9 stem from but I see no reason to bash Solaris. I found Linux superior in almost every way for what we use it for in a weighted comparison. (YMMV) It's why we use it now and will continue to until we find enough reason to switch again. (Obviously once it's time to upgrade again)
Anyway, if you make a claim support your claim with references otherwise you shoot your creditability in the foot.
This is great as an "Ultimate E-Commerce Admin PDA" type device. You can carry it with you, and use it for remote access to your environment and still do your everyday work on it without carrying around a full laptop. To bad I cannot go to the closest office product store and get a closer look. It looks great though.
What I love about open source is that it's about choice and options. That is something Apple isn't. While I think OS X is nice, Apple is a mini-Microsoft wannabe. They are as lock-in (customer) and lock-out (competition) as anything Microsoft has ever done. I like their products, I hate their philosophy. I'll take OSS, thanks anyway.
References:
See, iPod, Aqua, OS X on Intel requires Apple's hardware, and even the unfair business practices their own resellers filed against them, etc...
Unless Oracle has a big trick up its sleeve, its relational database hasn't gotten much more impressive over the years.
I disagree. Oracle 8i to Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g. I think there were great advances. Not just in the database either. OCFS is an open sourced cluster filesystem created by Oracle.
As for my notes on the Oracle MySQL subject.
This was clearly a step towards protecting their (Oracle) business. They can (and probably will) strong arm MySQL in one way or another. How that effects MySQL depends on them and just exactly what Oracle wants to do. MySQL *can* help themselves by using the OSS community if in fact Oracle does try to strong arm them. MySQL made a mistake. They bet their business on someone elses technology. If I were MySQL, I would start looking at their options. Possibly forking InnoDB or finding out exact what Oracle really wants and nailing down a long term deal that will protect and extend MySQL's business with the help Oracle has to offer. That or sell out to Oracle. If I were Oracle, hah I would buy MySQL and use it as a product offering. I wouldn't be supprised if Oracle spoke to MySQL got rejected then said. Hello InnoDB, I want to buy you out! {wink MySQL}
If they patented part of *my* gene after my date of birth I'm sueing!
50 billion to me!
You can't forget "Wireless Wireless" either!
What about their dingleberries?
Um, my Blackberry T7100 is a phone. So are all the other Blackberrys I beleive.
I love the GPL, but we don't need GPL fundamentalist (RMS) terrorizing anyone that wants to use free software.