In NT 3.51 (I think, it might have been 3.1) NT was more or less a proper microkernel. In the next version, for performance reasons, the graphics stuff was moved back into kernel space. Oops.
AFAIK, IIS 3 was a userspace program. I know for a fact that IIS 4 runs some stuff in kernel space. Ooops.
Now you're saying that SQL Server is magically faster in NT5...hmmmm.
Moving crap into kernel space is NOT an acceptable way of increasing performance, IMNSHO.:)
Ah crap. You mean that the games I've been playing on Win2K Professional AREN'T Diablo 2 and UT? What the hell are they then?
As to the others, there are compatibility upgrades available somewhere on MS's site to fix them. I remember JK2 being one of the ones listed in the last one.
That's like saying "I read your post about how a volkswagon bug isn't suitable for carrying large loads, so I got my Ford 1-ton pickup truck, and guess what, I loaded lots of stuff into it! You're wrong!
PCMCIA is not PCI. Go try it again, after re-reading the preceeding article.
Yeah, and? Life as we know it started when a fork of lightning happend to bung through the right pile of various ammino acids. Anything that is created, by definition, requires something outside of itself to start the process. Even Creation itself was started by either God or The Big Bang; in both cases, convenient piles of energy that came from nowhere because we can't figure out a better explanation.
In four millenia, I'm sure that some robots will be shooting the shit, and one will say 'How did evolution start?' and another will say "Some monkeys were screwing around with sand and copper."
"From now on, all de polling stations in Ca-na-da will not have dese simple 'yes' or 'no' pieces of paper. De polling stations will be equipped with robots that are designed to ehvolve wit de ultimate goal being the re-election of de Liberals.
"Now, I'm not saying dat you should vote for de Liberals or else de robots are going to decide to kill you, but hey, why take de chance? Vote for me, Jean Cretian."
Just as an aside, you do realize that BSD UNIX was the first version made by somebody other than AT&T, right? And you do realize that any flavour of UNIX is said to be either 'SVR4-ish' or BSD-ish' for precisely that reason, right? And you do realize that a lot of the second-wave UNIXes, like SunOS, HP-UX and so on where created because of people who had graduated on BSD UNIX, who went forth to found/work in companies, and say 'Lets do what I did in university!'
BSD may have fewer flashy thingies than Linux, but do try to keep a perspective of history.
I think the reason that it's only 'free on free platforms' is that they still want to sell their commercial version, which is likely the same as the free version, without the 'Free' in the title.
Actually, the 50's would have been the McCarthy commie 'witch' hunts, and teh 70's was the height of Cold War paranoia; CIA/KGB going at it, the Cuban Missile Crisis and all out nuclear war just around the corner, etc etc.
So you're both right. Here's two candies.:-)
Well, considering that x^3 could also be expressed as 'x cubed', much like x^2 could be expressed like 'x squared', I'd say it makes lots of sense to use 'n^3' as shorthand for the 'n-cube'.
Amusingly enough, I'm living in Mississauga, Ontario, and looking at a job that might see me moving to Providence, RI. Looks like I won't notice much of a change....
ROFL!
"Johnson, we need a VB app that does this, that, and the other. But none of our coders know VB. Go put up a job posting for a good VB programmer, and make writing this app part of the interview. Then, don't hire any of them.":-) Just wait until the maintenance requests roll in.....
If you've got a military security clearance, tell them. It might be enough.
Otherwise, find out if it's standard practice with the company for any position above a certain level. They might make it 'routine' specifically so that it doesn't insult individuals.
HOTAS: Hands On Throttle And Stick. The method of controlling a flying vehicle by having a 'throttle' generally mounted on the left side of your chair to control acceleration, and a stick, generally mounted either in front of, or on the right side of the chair, which links to the control surfaces on the wings and possible tail; to point the plane up or down, and, depending on design, to either turn it left or right, or to rotate it on the long axis, at which point pointing up or down has the effect of turning.
Similarly, for rotary winged aircraft, such as helicopters, you get cyclic and collective; basically engine power and rotor tilt.
I know; I've spent the last week scouring video stores and Toy r Us's looking for Super Nintendos and cartridges on a nostalgia kick.
The closest I've been able to come is SNES9x, a laptop with tv/out, and a USB gamepad with fully programmable buttons. Just like playing the original.:-)
Yeah. You can make CD-Rs that are 'DVD-Video' compliant; MPEG-2 video, ac-3 or DTS sound, etc etc. It's just a UDF filesystem with a TS_VIDEO and TS_AUDIO directories, and various 'standard' filenames hold the menus and video and the like. If you have access to a DVD-ROM, go take a look at any DVD video in your favorite file explorer.
Of course, your CD-R will be able to hold maybe 10 minutes of DVD quality video.:-)
There are softwares available to do this to things like home movies and the like, assuming you have some form of vid capture card. Can't find the links off hand, though.
To be chasing a 'phantom menace' is to be chasing something that you think is horrible, but isn't.
In Episode 1, the Phantom Menace is the Trade Federation dispute; the intrepid heroes think that it's the real crisis, and they think that they've sovled it, and will prevent similar from happening in the future with the removal of Valorean as Chancellor.
In actuality, they've put Palpatine in place as Chancellor, where he'll slowly move more and more power to the office, away from the Senate, turning the Republic into an Empire, Roman style. That is the REAL menace, and he spun an entire Phantom Menace to not only futher his plans, but to get the Jedi to help him, and to feel good about it.
You'd have needed to license CSS from the MPAA in the first place. It's still THEIR software, not yours.
But they still refuse to admit that it's playback protection, not copy protection.
Sir, you yourself seem to have problems telling the difference between a Relational Database, and a Relational Database Management System. I notice that you use the terms interchangeably.
Before you try to look like you know what you're talking about, know what you're talking about.
Sarcasm must be a lost art. OF COURSE most people do selects and updates and inserts on the same table. The data has to get there somewhere.
I was lambasting the guy for whining that "the only reason PostgressSQL people use that particular thing for their tests is because MySQL doesn't do it well." That's like Ford saying "The only reason GM keeps touting the fact that their cars can go over 2 kilometers per litre is because oursc can't, so it's a worthless benchmark of car efficiency."
ACID stands for Atomicity, Consistancy, Isolation and Duribility.
Atomicity means, basically, a transaction. A series of commands are issued, then either commited or rolled back. All happens, or none happens. The classic example is doing an update on Joes_Account_Balance to subtract 100 dollars, then failing to do the update on Suzys_Account_Balance to add 100 dollars. The transaction failed, so it should be rolled back so that the 100 doesn't get removed from Joe.
Consistency means that the database must always be in a valid state, and that usually means rules are enforced. If there's a database rule that states that any subtraction of 100 dollars from an account needs to add a record to the audit table, so you subtract 100 dollars from Joes_Account, but the audit table cannot be updated due to disk full/network break/act of Gods/whatever, then the subtract needs to be rolled back, or not happen in the first place.
Isolation means that users don't see other users. If two people are both doing multi-stage updates to Joes_Account, user one doesn't see the fact that user two just did an insert, and an update.
Durability means that if bad things happen, the database survives. Logs, backups, that sort of thing.
I'm sorry, do I actually have to drag out the ACID definition of a RDBMS, and point out all the places where MySQL does NOT meet the criteria, and hence can NOT be defined as a Relational Database Management System, or even a Relational Database?
Try to understand what you're talking about afore ye sling the troll accusations, bucko.
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In NT 3.51 (I think, it might have been 3.1) NT was more or less a proper microkernel. In the next version, for performance reasons, the graphics stuff was moved back into kernel space. Oops. AFAIK, IIS 3 was a userspace program. I know for a fact that IIS 4 runs some stuff in kernel space. Ooops. Now you're saying that SQL Server is magically faster in NT5...hmmmm. Moving crap into kernel space is NOT an acceptable way of increasing performance, IMNSHO. :)
Ah crap. You mean that the games I've been playing on Win2K Professional AREN'T Diablo 2 and UT? What the hell are they then? As to the others, there are compatibility upgrades available somewhere on MS's site to fix them. I remember JK2 being one of the ones listed in the last one.
That's like saying "I read your post about how a volkswagon bug isn't suitable for carrying large loads, so I got my Ford 1-ton pickup truck, and guess what, I loaded lots of stuff into it! You're wrong! PCMCIA is not PCI. Go try it again, after re-reading the preceeding article.
Yeah, and? Life as we know it started when a fork of lightning happend to bung through the right pile of various ammino acids. Anything that is created, by definition, requires something outside of itself to start the process. Even Creation itself was started by either God or The Big Bang; in both cases, convenient piles of energy that came from nowhere because we can't figure out a better explanation. In four millenia, I'm sure that some robots will be shooting the shit, and one will say 'How did evolution start?' and another will say "Some monkeys were screwing around with sand and copper."
"From now on, all de polling stations in Ca-na-da will not have dese simple 'yes' or 'no' pieces of paper. De polling stations will be equipped with robots that are designed to ehvolve wit de ultimate goal being the re-election of de Liberals. "Now, I'm not saying dat you should vote for de Liberals or else de robots are going to decide to kill you, but hey, why take de chance? Vote for me, Jean Cretian."
Aren't both FreeBSD and NetBSD open? Or have I been licking the hallucenogenic toads again?
I think the reason that it's only 'free on free platforms' is that they still want to sell their commercial version, which is likely the same as the free version, without the 'Free' in the title.
Actually, the 50's would have been the McCarthy commie 'witch' hunts, and teh 70's was the height of Cold War paranoia; CIA/KGB going at it, the Cuban Missile Crisis and all out nuclear war just around the corner, etc etc. So you're both right. Here's two candies. :-)
Hold down the CTRL key and scroll your way to bigger fonts.
Who's going to blow 300 dollars on a PS2 when they can get a PS-One for 100?
Well, considering that x^3 could also be expressed as 'x cubed', much like x^2 could be expressed like 'x squared', I'd say it makes lots of sense to use 'n^3' as shorthand for the 'n-cube'.
Amusingly enough, I'm living in Mississauga, Ontario, and looking at a job that might see me moving to Providence, RI. Looks like I won't notice much of a change....
ROFL! "Johnson, we need a VB app that does this, that, and the other. But none of our coders know VB. Go put up a job posting for a good VB programmer, and make writing this app part of the interview. Then, don't hire any of them." :-) Just wait until the maintenance requests roll in.....
If you've got a military security clearance, tell them. It might be enough. Otherwise, find out if it's standard practice with the company for any position above a certain level. They might make it 'routine' specifically so that it doesn't insult individuals.
HOTAS: Hands On Throttle And Stick. The method of controlling a flying vehicle by having a 'throttle' generally mounted on the left side of your chair to control acceleration, and a stick, generally mounted either in front of, or on the right side of the chair, which links to the control surfaces on the wings and possible tail; to point the plane up or down, and, depending on design, to either turn it left or right, or to rotate it on the long axis, at which point pointing up or down has the effect of turning. Similarly, for rotary winged aircraft, such as helicopters, you get cyclic and collective; basically engine power and rotor tilt.
I know; I've spent the last week scouring video stores and Toy r Us's looking for Super Nintendos and cartridges on a nostalgia kick. The closest I've been able to come is SNES9x, a laptop with tv/out, and a USB gamepad with fully programmable buttons. Just like playing the original. :-)
Yeah. You can make CD-Rs that are 'DVD-Video' compliant; MPEG-2 video, ac-3 or DTS sound, etc etc. It's just a UDF filesystem with a TS_VIDEO and TS_AUDIO directories, and various 'standard' filenames hold the menus and video and the like. If you have access to a DVD-ROM, go take a look at any DVD video in your favorite file explorer. Of course, your CD-R will be able to hold maybe 10 minutes of DVD quality video. :-)
There are softwares available to do this to things like home movies and the like, assuming you have some form of vid capture card. Can't find the links off hand, though.
To be chasing a 'phantom menace' is to be chasing something that you think is horrible, but isn't. In Episode 1, the Phantom Menace is the Trade Federation dispute; the intrepid heroes think that it's the real crisis, and they think that they've sovled it, and will prevent similar from happening in the future with the removal of Valorean as Chancellor. In actuality, they've put Palpatine in place as Chancellor, where he'll slowly move more and more power to the office, away from the Senate, turning the Republic into an Empire, Roman style. That is the REAL menace, and he spun an entire Phantom Menace to not only futher his plans, but to get the Jedi to help him, and to feel good about it.
You'd have needed to license CSS from the MPAA in the first place. It's still THEIR software, not yours. But they still refuse to admit that it's playback protection, not copy protection.
Hmmm. I don't know if slashdot actually keeps the user comments in the database, but I'm assuming yes. That's an insert, and they're fairly frequent.
Sir, you yourself seem to have problems telling the difference between a Relational Database, and a Relational Database Management System. I notice that you use the terms interchangeably. Before you try to look like you know what you're talking about, know what you're talking about.
Sarcasm must be a lost art. OF COURSE most people do selects and updates and inserts on the same table. The data has to get there somewhere. I was lambasting the guy for whining that "the only reason PostgressSQL people use that particular thing for their tests is because MySQL doesn't do it well." That's like Ford saying "The only reason GM keeps touting the fact that their cars can go over 2 kilometers per litre is because oursc can't, so it's a worthless benchmark of car efficiency."
ACID stands for Atomicity, Consistancy, Isolation and Duribility. Atomicity means, basically, a transaction. A series of commands are issued, then either commited or rolled back. All happens, or none happens. The classic example is doing an update on Joes_Account_Balance to subtract 100 dollars, then failing to do the update on Suzys_Account_Balance to add 100 dollars. The transaction failed, so it should be rolled back so that the 100 doesn't get removed from Joe. Consistency means that the database must always be in a valid state, and that usually means rules are enforced. If there's a database rule that states that any subtraction of 100 dollars from an account needs to add a record to the audit table, so you subtract 100 dollars from Joes_Account, but the audit table cannot be updated due to disk full/network break/act of Gods/whatever, then the subtract needs to be rolled back, or not happen in the first place. Isolation means that users don't see other users. If two people are both doing multi-stage updates to Joes_Account, user one doesn't see the fact that user two just did an insert, and an update. Durability means that if bad things happen, the database survives. Logs, backups, that sort of thing.
I'm sorry, do I actually have to drag out the ACID definition of a RDBMS, and point out all the places where MySQL does NOT meet the criteria, and hence can NOT be defined as a Relational Database Management System, or even a Relational Database? Try to understand what you're talking about afore ye sling the troll accusations, bucko.