>The Village Voice is running a story about New York City's troubles with the vendor who built the subway Metrocard system - magnetic swipe cards that work so well, I almost got arrested once because the system was... deficient.
I looked at this story, read the above, and then realised how silly it was.
Think about it....
If you open-sourced something like the that then you'd open up the market for black-market/fake Metrocards, which would cost the Govenrment lots more in the long term than a few glitches with a contractor.
Face facts. Open Source isn't the be all and end all, and isn't ideal in the Real World.
I'm not sure how commercially viable a switch the size of a refrigerator can be
That's because you don't know what you're talking about! Do you think that a company that can afford a switch this size cares that it's this "big"? You've obviously never seen how "big" a good unix box is.
PS: Moderators: It's not flamebait, I have a clue....
It also includes some embarassing (but justified in my opinion) comments for Slashdot's redhat 7 bug story.
I know that the slashdot Editors/Hemos/etc say they're overworked & don't have time to check their facts, but just how much damage do you think that the original story that slashdot posted did?
The mainstream media (who don't know any better) often look to slashdot as a source for stories - I just wonder how much trouble it stirred up for no apparent reason? Isn't that FUD?
I've been using RH7 for a few days & have found it to be a good, if not a little bloated, distribution.
Please, please, please start checking the stories before you post them.....
Maybe it's time that the Recording Industry put a unique ID on each CD case (different for each individual CD, rather than for each artist or album) so that it can be used to uniquely identify it & validate ownership....
The fact that MySQL was involved implies one thing:M
1) There were no stored procedures or triggers used in the tests [1]
which leads to:
2) This is not a real-world test because of 1). The "Real World" uses stored procedures and transactions. The fact that this test didn't use either puts it in the same league as filesystem performance tests.....
[1] If the test was fair this must be a fact, 'cos MySQL doesn't support either.
Sorry I've done my independant benchmarks in the "real-world".
I'm sorry, but whoever moderated this up is just plain wrong.
You may think you've done your "independant benchmarks in the real world", but you haven't.
You may think that MySQL kicks ass & is scalable, but you're so wrong. How would you go about deploying a 4 terabyte database that could handle several hundred transactions/second using MySQL? You couldn't! In the real world, you work with real databases (in the order of 4-6Tb), not little toy ones.
Don't get me wrong, MySQL is good for small deployments, but you just can't compare its performance with other databases that provide stored procedure and trigger functionality. MySQL is nothing more than a glorified file-system at the moment.
I routinely work with large (4Tb) Oracle and Sybase databases and, to be perfectly honest, these figures don't mean a whole lot to us people living in "The Real World" that use proper commercially supported databases rather than toy MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
This isn't meant to be flame-bait, but it's about time that you lot in the geek open-source world realised that open source isn't always the be-all-and-end-all!
Open source may well be the buzz-word of right now, but I fear for any company that relies on either MySQL or PostgreSQL to look after their data.....
Oh, and I don't mean to whore karma, but if this gets moderated down it'll show once and for all that the regulars that visit this site are well blinkered towards Linux/Open source and really can't see the real world.
I think people pirating Dreamcast games is a little bit more worrying [for Sega] than people trading 10 year-old Megadrive (aka Genesis, for you poor American souls) games.
As soon as Microsoft get their thumbs out of their arses and start saving word/excel/etc documents in XML, with open schemas that everybody has access to, the world will be a better place.
Slashdot Mirror
There's a silmulation of it here and another here.
&l t;BR>Also, How does the enigma work? and a short history of the Enigma Machine,
> Firstly, switching to Exchange means putting a Windows box on *every* desktop
No it doesn't. Exchange servers can talk IMAP & there's also a web-based interface that works nicely in Netscape on Linux.
Here's the official link on the Monopoly website. Also here is a big picture of the game board.
It's good to see that Tux has made it on to one of the squares!
>The Village Voice is running a story about New York City's troubles with the vendor who built the subway Metrocard system - magnetic swipe cards that work so well, I almost got arrested once because the system was... deficient.
I looked at this story, read the above, and then realised how silly it was.
Think about it....
If you open-sourced something like the that then you'd open up the market for black-market/fake Metrocards, which would cost the Govenrment lots more in the long term than a few glitches with a contractor.
Face facts. Open Source isn't the be all and end all, and isn't ideal in the Real World.
I'm not sure how commercially viable a switch the size of a refrigerator can be
That's because you don't know what you're talking about! Do you think that a company that can afford a switch this size cares that it's this "big"? You've obviously never seen how "big" a good unix box is.
PS: Moderators: It's not flamebait, I have a clue....
It also includes some embarassing (but justified in my opinion) comments for Slashdot's redhat 7 bug story.
I know that the slashdot Editors/Hemos/etc say they're overworked & don't have time to check their facts, but just how much damage do you think that the original story that slashdot posted did?
The mainstream media (who don't know any better) often look to slashdot as a source for stories - I just wonder how much trouble it stirred up for no apparent reason? Isn't that FUD?
I've been using RH7 for a few days & have found it to be a good, if not a little bloated, distribution.
Please, please, please start checking the stories before you post them.....
Here's a link to a slashdot review of the Code Book by Simon Singh, which covers this stuff :-)
(It's by Jon Katz BTW, so you might not want to read it....)
Think about it... How do lawyers feed their kids?
.com chasing
20th Century: Ambulance chasing
21st Century:
It's just the latest easy-peasy way of lining their pockets. I bet they charge $100 per letter/e-mail!
Maybe it's time that the Recording Industry put a unique ID on each CD case (different for each individual CD, rather than for each artist or album) so that it can be used to uniquely identify it & validate ownership....
This made me laugh so hard.
:M
The fact that MySQL was involved implies one thing
1) There were no stored procedures or triggers used in the tests [1]
which leads to:
2) This is not a real-world test because of 1). The "Real World" uses stored procedures and transactions. The fact that this test didn't use either puts it in the same league as filesystem performance tests.....
[1] If the test was fair this must be a fact, 'cos MySQL doesn't support either.
Sorry I've done my independant benchmarks in the "real-world".
I'm sorry, but whoever moderated this up is just plain wrong.
You may think you've done your "independant benchmarks in the real world", but you haven't.
You may think that MySQL kicks ass & is scalable, but you're so wrong. How would you go about deploying a 4 terabyte database that could handle several hundred transactions/second using MySQL? You couldn't! In the real world, you work with real databases (in the order of 4-6Tb), not little toy ones.
Don't get me wrong, MySQL is good for small deployments, but you just can't compare its performance with other databases that provide stored procedure and trigger functionality. MySQL is nothing more than a glorified file-system at the moment.
....but what about real world databases?
I routinely work with large (4Tb) Oracle and Sybase databases and, to be perfectly honest, these figures don't mean a whole lot to us people living in "The Real World" that use proper commercially supported databases rather than toy MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
This isn't meant to be flame-bait, but it's about time that you lot in the geek open-source world realised that open source isn't always the be-all-and-end-all!
Open source may well be the buzz-word of right now, but I fear for any company that relies on either MySQL or PostgreSQL to look after their data.....
Oh, and I don't mean to whore karma, but if this gets moderated down it'll show once and for all that the regulars that visit this site are well blinkered towards Linux/Open source and really can't see the real world.
This HOWTO explains how to install Linux on the IPAQ. Enjoy!
I quote, from handhelds.org:
The Compaq 802.11b wireless PCMCIA card is working
Looks like you're buying one Taco!
Forgot - The FAQ-O-Matic is Here.
You can get binaries and the kernel Here (that's if you're mad enough to try :-)
I think Sega should be more worried about this.
I think people pirating Dreamcast games is a little bit more worrying [for Sega] than people trading 10 year-old Megadrive (aka Genesis, for you poor American souls) games.
Also see this BBC News article!
using it is beyond the ken of most computer users
ken? Are you scottish, Timothy?
As soon as Microsoft get their thumbs out of their arses and start saving word/excel/etc documents in XML, with open schemas that everybody has access to, the world will be a better place.
.NET strategy will do?
Maybe that's what their
You never know - They may make it nice and easy for the open source community to at last easily provide MS-compatible apps.
Here is one of the .plan anouncements that first pointed to it, and
here are a few pictures of the actual machine.
This page on DVD Reviewer has a list of DVD players, and how to multi-region hack them! :-)
Not fair! Fascist!
Yeah, yeah - I don't care - I've just been destroying your Karma :-)
That's 'cos my leg isn't 200 miles long......