Huge ubuntu fan - no more. Took me 6hrs to get my workstation back to sane/stable after 11.04 upgrade. Unity kept disappearing leaving me with a desktop and no way to launch anything. Finally got my login changed to where I can pick the session type - and set it at "Ubuntu Classic" to get back to the gnome2 setup I love so much - and don't like having major clusterfsck changes like forced on me - period.
This is the first time in many years of using Ubuntu (so stuff just works, so I can spend my time admin'ing servers) - where Ubuntu really, really dropped the ball.
Revenue generating sites on EC2 should at least use multiple regions - and dns failover between them - to avoid this kind of problems. DNS failover works extremely well - and kept my sites on ec2 through this. Its also very cheap if you use dns failover from dnshat ( http://www.dnshat.com ) which only costs $19.95/month unlimited.
Because MySQL works great for small to medium businesses... you can even grow to fairly decent size with MySQL's cripped master/master multi-slave abilities.... and then when all of your companies architecture is built around the brain dead way you have to scale the MySQL backend - and you start hitting bottleneck's that even massive EMC san storage can't fix - well - then some suit thinks its a good idea to switch to the Enterprise version to get the support you "need"... and after you pay for it the consultants will tell you your screwed you have to change your architecture - but can't tell you how so it will scale any larger than what you've already got - and then they'll hide behind MySQL's immaturity and avoid an direct statements to reinforce what your sys admins have been screaming for years - go Oracle or DB2 - but oops - too late... and then you have disastrous fallout that kills the small to medium business that saved a few bucks back in the day but starting on MySQL.
But screw it - MySQL got there money in the process.
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I have Fukushima in my pants.
I have the world's largest amateur rocket in my pants.
I have a missing mass in my pants.
I have Fukushima in my pants.
I have a happy towel in my pants.
I have t-mobile in my pants.
I have Fedora in my pants.
I have first posts in my pants.
I have mac sales surging in my pants.
I have google's jet in my pants.
I got Chrome in my pants.
I got RIAA in my pants.
I have robots in my pants.
I have smallpox in my pants.
Seriously - that sucks.
your momma
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Huge ubuntu fan - no more. Took me 6hrs to get my workstation back to sane/stable after 11.04 upgrade. Unity kept disappearing leaving me with a desktop and no way to launch anything. Finally got my login changed to where I can pick the session type - and set it at "Ubuntu Classic" to get back to the gnome2 setup I love so much - and don't like having major clusterfsck changes like forced on me - period.
This is the first time in many years of using Ubuntu (so stuff just works, so I can spend my time admin'ing servers) - where Ubuntu really, really dropped the ball.
Ubuntu + Unity = Fail
I never in a million years thought I'd see a story like this posted on /. Cool lol.
Revenue generating sites on EC2 should at least use multiple regions - and dns failover between them - to avoid this kind of problems. DNS failover works extremely well - and kept my sites on ec2 through this. Its also very cheap if you use dns failover from dnshat ( http://www.dnshat.com ) which only costs $19.95/month unlimited.
"researchers at SecureWorks have infiltrated the Chinese underground"
*sigh* God. Damn. That's the funniest thing I've ever read on slashdot.
High, I'm slashpot.
Because MySQL works great for small to medium businesses... you can even grow to fairly decent size with MySQL's cripped master/master multi-slave abilities.... and then when all of your companies architecture is built around the brain dead way you have to scale the MySQL backend - and you start hitting bottleneck's that even massive EMC san storage can't fix - well - then some suit thinks its a good idea to switch to the Enterprise version to get the support you "need"... and after you pay for it the consultants will tell you your screwed you have to change your architecture - but can't tell you how so it will scale any larger than what you've already got - and then they'll hide behind MySQL's immaturity and avoid an direct statements to reinforce what your sys admins have been screaming for years - go Oracle or DB2 - but oops - too late ... and then you have disastrous fallout that kills the small to medium business that saved a few bucks back in the day but starting on MySQL.
But screw it - MySQL got there money in the process.
Integrate java into MySQL?
Oh god. Someone shoot me.
Quick - Switch all your servers to FreeBSD/OpenBSD!!!!!