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  1. Re:MacOS X port? on MySQL Administrator v1.0.1a-Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    Expect one a little later this year.

  2. Re:Alpha is right on MySQL Administrator v1.0.1a-Alpha Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Admin is just the first tool to be released (more to come this year). So, expect to see some of the features you are asking to be coming in additional tools later this year.

  3. Re:A very simple question with a complex answer? on Using Single Apache SSL/Non-SSL in Production? · · Score: 1

    Each additional virtual host requires additional memory (especially with Slash where memory is tied to the virtual host directly). So, you want as few virtual hosts as possible.

  4. Slashdot/Sourceforge/etc... on Using Single Apache SSL/Non-SSL in Production? · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is what Slashdot does (and sourceforge too for that matter), they use one Apache host to serve content and use pound to do the SSL.
    Good luck!

  5. Re:fp on MySQL 5.0-alpha Released to the Public · · Score: 1

    It is a dupe.

  6. Re:More evidence on the pile on El Nino Fires A Key Source Of Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wrote papers about this in graduate school. None of the facts in the article are new at all, we have been aware of these facts for over a decade.

  7. Re:eh? on MySQL 5.0.0 (Alpha) Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    MySQL hires people from around the world, and not everyone celebrates Christmas (though for the company it is a holiday). Several people showed up to our scrum meeting this morning and I have spent the last couple of hours talking about a few slight changes to our protocol this morning.

    Personally I will later on be celebrating the day by watching Return of the King :)

  8. Re:Six times better? on MySQL & Open Source Code Quality · · Score: 1

    It should be made clear though that MySQL did not hire this company. Nor did we have any time to do a release or even look at these issues before they did their review.

  9. Re:Krow on MySQL Gets Functions in Java · · Score: 3, Informative

    Auditing the code should be trivial for anyone (judf is actually quite small).

    I resigned because I had been working on Slash for 3 years and wanted to do something new. I rather like the people who run this site, and still follow the development of it and point out feature improvements from time to time. I no longer develop the code myself, except for a few sites that I happen to help with.

    Just to poke another hole in this, if I was fired would I still be an author on the site some 7 months later? I think not.

  10. Re:Well... on MySQL Gets Functions in Java · · Score: 1

    Bingo :)

  11. Re:That's great on MySQL Gets Functions in Java · · Score: 1

    I will grant you that.

    I have it running right now and I know it is working for others.

    That and I know for a fact that the first binary release is pretty close to happening :)

  12. Re:That's great on MySQL Gets Functions in Java · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stored Procedures are in 5.0.

  13. Re:License on Compiere on Postgres/MySQL · · Score: 1

    5.0 has stored procedures in it now (and its close to alpha). Its the ANSI stored procedure language so its documented and decently easy to use. It should only be a short time before you can use other languages to (and you can already write functions in C, Perl, and PHP).

  14. Re:Does this mean the Meadow Party runs on Berkeley Breathed Back in the Funnies · · Score: 1

    I still wear my "Don't blame me, I voted for Bill and Opus" t-shirt every four years :)

  15. Re:No on-box display? on Prisimq MediaServer Support For Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    You might want to look at a SliMP3. I have one and adore it. The display is large enough to read across the room and it makes zero noise (unlike a computer). I use its remote, but find that if I am sitting near my laptop that I will just use the browser interface.

  16. Re:Methinks... on Sell Your Music on iTunes Music Store · · Score: 1

    The cat makes him do it..

  17. Re:SliMP3 is the way to go... on Build a Multi-Output MP3 Server? · · Score: 1

    I completely agree. I bought one a couple of weeks ago and I have already found it to be just as cool as my Tivo. I spent a lot of time reviewing different products and this one easily came out the best.

    The only question I have right now, is if I should buy one for the kitchen or living room first (the one I bought is in my bedroom and I listen to it at night before going to bed).

  18. Re:Can be said about any open source OS on New Zaurus ROM (V. 3.10) Released · · Score: 1

    Because the desktops at this point are quite useable while Open Zaurus crashes a lot :)

    I am up to 76 days of uptime for my desktop linux box (servers are much higher). I found that Open Zaurus locked up a couple of times a day, more if you tried to use its applications instead of just clicking around to look at the eye candy.

    Most of the Linux dists at this point are very useable by an end user who needs to do a certain number of tasks. Its fairly easy to sit someone down in front of a default redhat install and watch them work. Its not optimal, but to be honest I don't see Windows being much better at this point. OS X if it had market share might fly, but I am not sure that will happen.

  19. Re:OpenZaurus on New Zaurus ROM (V. 3.10) Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nicer to me means that it works better :)
    OpenZaurus is pretty but that is about all it has going for it at this point. I am hoping that in the future they become a legit option for those who want to upgrade but at this point its just not the case (despite what every Zaurus story's comments on Slashdot would make you think).

    Having the source is nice, but it doesn't matter to most people, and lets face it, having the source only gives you the option if you have the time, the source is well documented, and it is fairly bug free in the first place (if not you end up going off on tangents and never getting around to fixing what you started out wanting int the first place).

    Open Zaurus still has a long way to go before it can be used by the masses, telling people to use it at its current state is just dishonest and makes open source look bad in general.

  20. Re:OpenZaurus on New Zaurus ROM (V. 3.10) Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I also found that it crashes more and has applications that are less developed (the backup tool being a very large sore point).

  21. Re:Well CT? on Real World Webserver Price vs. Performance Figures? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been looking at this laely. Most sites seem to be able to do a million pages per webhead.

    The answer for slashdot is more complex because we have three groups.

    Article/comment servers can handle 200K of pages views a piece.
    Index/All can handle 100K.
    Static/XML can take a million per server.

    I have a fix that goes in this week which should up Article/Comment, for index I am looking at a new system for caching the stories that should increase the index servers.

  22. Re:All this talk... on Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually water vapor is a major green house gas.

  23. Re:The married life on The First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory? · · Score: 1

    What she says:

    1. How do we ditch the kids?
    Pig Farm

    2. Why do you pay more attention to your buddies than me?
    That is just your imagination, but I will be gone every weekend this month to go hiking with them.

    3. Why do you pay more attention to that computer than me?
    What did you say? I found another cool site where the guy has all of the cats in bondage gear.

    4. Do you think that woman's attractive?
    Oh yeah, can you hold the bags and stand way over there why I go hit on here.

    5. I can pay $100 for a new purse, but you can't pay $49.95 for a new game (see #3)
    Right, because I blew our entire cash reserves on a bigger Tivo!

    6. You don't care about my feelings.
    Yes I do. What are you thinking?

    7. You're not sensitive to my needs.
    I bought you that video game right?

    8. Why don't you do something constructive.
    I did. Just last weekend I rewired most of the house so that we could have ethernet in the bedroom.

    9. Rub my feet.
    My hands really hurt from typing all day.

    10. Do we have to do that again? Why can't we just cuddle?
    Because you are blocking the screen.

  24. Re:Thanks for the UI tip, Slashdot. on New iBooks and Apple Store · · Score: 1

    Yeah right..... :)

  25. Re:Don't know how many times I'm going to post thi on Home-Grown TiVo Stories? · · Score: 1

    So what do you think of the video quality?