If it never snows, he's probably ok with the jeep. If it snows at all (or, god forbid, the roads get icy), the 4-wheel-drive system is basically just begging for a roll-over.
So, you have one small database, which is running read only on a few dedicated servers running MySQL?
Frankly, I'm not suprised that you had problems with MySQL. Like all databases, it may be brittle. However, in my experience, ALL databases may be brittle. I've never met ANY database server that couldn't be taken down by a configuration mistake or a misbehaving application.
But serving out small read-only databases inexpensively and reliably is one of MySQL's great strengths -- in fact, its only strength in my opinion. Better uptimes can be acheived, but only through the correct application of large dollars to many points on your server infrastructure.
I would be interested in hearing which database you've changed to which you've found more reliable for small read-only databases than MySQL, and what Operating System you're running both on. I'd also be interested in knowing what kind of performance difference you've seen -- have you had to buy additional servers, or can you get by with fewer now? I'm guessing you have a fairly high-performance application if you're using multiple DB servers, and benchmarking is important to you. Last, I'd be interested in knowing how much you've spent on Licensing, if applicable.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but real databases generally don't behave like this.
<flamebait>Well, my experience is that MySQL barely qualifies as a "real database" anyhow.</flamebait>
But, seriously, if you're using MySQL in read-only mode, then either you're not using a database, or our definition of database is very different. But in my experience MySQL is a reasonably stable "network filesystem with a psuedo-SQL interface." We've had servers here that have only gone down once in two years, and only then because we had to shut them down to change co-los.
On low and mid-range hardware (i.e., not on a $50,000 cluster), my experience is that MySQL is as stable as Oracle and MS SQL. When the database becomes innaccessible to the network, it's rarely because of problems with the database software.
Especially when you've got dozens, or even hundreds, of SQL servers.
You have hundreds of servers, each running a seperate, individual copy of MySQL, with multiple databases on each?
If I were you, I wouldn't worry about the uptime of your MySQL instances -- in my experience, that's rarely a problem. I would, however, worry about the intellectual capital you're expending to catalog and manage hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of databases.
Simply dealing with the administration requests for database permissions and roles must be a full time job for several people. The dozens of people required to understand and manage the schemas for those databases must be a huge drain on your organization.
I suspect that using Oracle or MS SQL would save your organization literally millions of dollars a year, simply because of the improved management interfaces and flexibility of the databases as a whole.
I'm really confused. You claimed that micheal wrote:
The Intuit PR rep is quoted as saying that people can install the software on multiple computers using the same activation code - the very thing that the activation process is supposed to prevent - so he is misquoted, misinformed, or lying.
But the in the article, micheal currently says:
The Intuit PR rep is quoted as saying that people can install the software on multiple computers using the same activation code, but I don't think an unworking installation really counts.
Everyone knows that changing stories without notification is a very, very bad practice, and an ethical editor like micheal would never stoop to such a low level.
but I do not believe IE 5 or 6 supports getElementById.
Well, you're wrong. Programming DHTML for IE versions greater than 5 is a joy, because it does follow W3 DOM standards fairly well, as does Mozilla.
DHTML support only goes straight into the crapper once you have to support IE 4 or NS 4. Those two programs are fucking hideous to program for, since their object model is almost entirely incompatible, with each other and anything created since then. Part of that incompatibility was "document.all", which you should really give up using...
Re:Where the fuck do these asswipes come form?
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I have never before heard of this trademarked term "Xwindows."
If is some type of software then I imagine that both Microsoft (which holds the trademark for the operating system named "Windows") and the X Consortium (which holds the tradmark on the window system named "X") would have something to say about it.
It would be cool if the people who made this obviously infringing "Xwindow" software you're talking about were sued by the people who made the "X" window system, but I can't really see that happening. I imagine Microsoft will get to them first.
BTW Xwindows only differs from windows by only letter too
No, the trademarked name of the window system is "X". The trademarked name of Microsoft's operating system is "Windows". I fail to see how "X" and "Windows" differ by only one letter.
I'm assuming this entire incoherent article is just an attempt at a viral advertisement for your website.
Did you get paid to submit it to Slashdot every day until some editor came back from lunch stoned and accepted it, or did your company's marketing department just give up and slip Cliff $100 worth of ditch weed and tijuana hookers to post this trite?
I have an easy answer for all of you lamers. Throw away your television. Pick the damned thing up right now, carry it out to the curb, and drop it hard enough to shatter the tube.
If everyone did that, at least 25% of the gloom-and-doom articles here on slashdot would immediately become irrelevant.
If you compare a 60's or 70's japanese bike to an AMF era Harley, it is like comparing a sports car to a full sized luxury car.
Sure, if that luxury car is a 1978 Jaguar (and no, that's not a compliment, to Jaguar or Harley).
Motorcycles can be built for a number of different things -- they can go hell fast through corners, or fast away from stoplights, or be comfortable to sit on for hours and hours on end, while carrying lots of gear. Or, they can be heavy, slow, uncomfortable relics with bad suspensions and sloppy frames that look good parked in front of the bar and in your dentist's garage.
They want something air cooled that goes 'blat blat, blat blat' at idle...
I like bikes because they're fast, easy to park, inexpensive, a blast around town, and fun to take on long tours. I've owned both air cooled and water cooled bikes, but never once did my buying decision hinge on it (except for the "water buffalo", which I bought entirely for the name). And, the last time my bike went "blat-blat" it was because the carbs were filled with goo.
it's sister-article is much more interesting. It's on how much product placement is featured in the new bond movie,
Do they talk about how much product placement is featured on the front page of MSN, too? Or are we to assume Norelco paid the movie producers to put their product in the movie, but the movie producers did not pay MSN to put their movie on the front page?
Re:doubts about future of wine
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Microsoft can snap it any time. All they need to do, is to change thier APIs and making them incompatible.
Uhh... perhaps you've been living under a rock for the last two years? They did change all of their APIs to make WINE obsolete. Here are the new ones: http://www.microsoft.com/net/
A field that doesn't require interaction with others? Did you read the article, or just look at the pictures?
She makes her cash by arranging business deals with with people want her services, and by selling her mailing list to other spammers. She's in a very competitive field right now, and she claims that she makes $200,000.00 in the last year. Not only has she managed to do very well in a field that is, essentially, person-to-person and business-to-business sales, but she's also managed to get her face on the front page of both the WSJ and Slashdot.
This 45 year old woman probably has more money, charisma, moxy, and business sense than 99% of the people reading this, and you're making fun of her looks?
Now - who has most to gain from a highly visible trojan that's in fact virtually useless - Microsoft.
No! It's John Ashcroft! This is just the first step towards the Brave New World Order, as correctly fortold on that ground-breaking show "The X-Files."
Before Chris Carter and David Duchovney were eliminated and replaced with robotic clones by the old CIA lackeys of George Bush Senior, that show was the only thing on television that really explained what was going on in the world. There was a brief attempt by the FOX network to continue feeding you important news about technology and politics, but the Lone Gunmen show was quickly eliminated by the evil forces...
Wow. It turns out that it moves away about 3.8 centimeters a year -- it's a good hundred feet farther away today than it was at the dawn of recorded history!
Intuitively, I had guessed that the tidal friction slows down the moon as it orbits about the earth. It might (I need to do some math), but much more suprisingly, the rotation of the earth around its axis also slows, and the moon picks up that energy. As a net effect, it's actually ended up farther away.
(Yeah, I know... thinking of the earth-moon system as being stable a stable earth while the dynamic moon orbits about it is not going to win me any brownie points. But, from where I'm sitting, that's how it looks, so it's how I'm going to describe it on slashdot, ok?)
Wow. Science is cool.
Re:I'm your token skeptic
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I've done a sustained 200mph (sea level) on a slightly tricked out GSXR,
I call Bullshit.
There's not a track in America where you can reach that speed on a GSXR. Even the GP bikes weren't hitting 200 on the track until a few years ago. And, if you were on the highway the draft from passing a truck would be enough to sail you off the road like a paper airplane.
Have you ever seen what happens to a car when it loses downforce at 200 mph? It turns into a cesna. The same thing will happen on a bike.
With the boat shape of this stupid landshark, they may as well just stick pop-out wings on the thing and cover all of their bases.
What kind of environmental concerns will be raised about this?
My biggest concern is that we would be leaching even more energy from the orbit of the moon around the earth. Tidal friction is already slowing the moon down, and by increasing tidal friction, we're accelerating the collapse of the system...
Slashdot Mirror
Although the real reason is more likely to be because people were actually believing that the fake stories were true.
If that's the case, perhaps Slashdot should cast a very critical eye on the bbspot slashdot random story generator.
How much does it snow in Kansas?
Thats a good point.
If it never snows, he's probably ok with the jeep. If it snows at all (or, god forbid, the roads get icy), the 4-wheel-drive system is basically just begging for a roll-over.
Actually, three of them are "Frozen Bubble", two are "Freeciv", two are "Quake 3 Arena", and one is the "Simple Direct Media Player Library".
There are only two versions of solitaire, and one version of nethack. Rejoice!
- Best Free Game - Frozen Bubble
- Best Free 3D Action Game - Cube
- Best Free Arcade Game - Frozen Bubble
- Best Free Cards/Board/Gambling Game - PySol
- Best Free Multiplayer Action Game - BZFlag
- Best Free Multiplayer Strategy Game - Freeciv
- Best Free Role-Playing Game - NetHack: Falcon's Eye
- Best Free Simulation Game - Flight Gear
- Best Free Single Player Strategy Game - Freeciv
Non-Free Games- Best Non-Free
Game - Quake 3 Arena
- Best Non-Free 3D Action Game - Return To Castle Wolfenstein
- Best Non-Free Arcade Game - Space Tripper
- Best Non-Free Cards/Board/Gambling Game - Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
- Best Non-Free Multiplayer Action Game - Quake 3 Arena
- Best Non-Free Multiplayer Strategy Game - Heroes of Might and Magic 3
- Best Non-Free Role-Playing Game - Ultima I: A Legend Is Reborn
- Best Non-Free Simulation Game - SimCity 3000 Unlimited
- Best Non-Free Single Player Strategy Game - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Miscellaneous CategoriesSo, you have one small database, which is running read only on a few dedicated servers running MySQL?
Frankly, I'm not suprised that you had problems with MySQL. Like all databases, it may be brittle. However, in my experience, ALL databases may be brittle. I've never met ANY database server that couldn't be taken down by a configuration mistake or a misbehaving application.
But serving out small read-only databases inexpensively and reliably is one of MySQL's great strengths -- in fact, its only strength in my opinion. Better uptimes can be acheived, but only through the correct application of large dollars to many points on your server infrastructure.
I would be interested in hearing which database you've changed to which you've found more reliable for small read-only databases than MySQL, and what Operating System you're running both on. I'd also be interested in knowing what kind of performance difference you've seen -- have you had to buy additional servers, or can you get by with fewer now? I'm guessing you have a fairly high-performance application if you're using multiple DB servers, and benchmarking is important to you. Last, I'd be interested in knowing how much you've spent on Licensing, if applicable.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but real databases generally don't behave like this.
<flamebait>Well, my experience is that MySQL barely qualifies as a "real database" anyhow.</flamebait>
But, seriously, if you're using MySQL in read-only mode, then either you're not using a database, or our definition of database is very different. But in my experience MySQL is a reasonably stable "network filesystem with a psuedo-SQL interface." We've had servers here that have only gone down once in two years, and only then because we had to shut them down to change co-los.
On low and mid-range hardware (i.e., not on a $50,000 cluster), my experience is that MySQL is as stable as Oracle and MS SQL. When the database becomes innaccessible to the network, it's rarely because of problems with the database software.
Especially when you've got dozens, or even hundreds, of SQL servers.
You have hundreds of servers, each running a seperate, individual copy of MySQL, with multiple databases on each?
If I were you, I wouldn't worry about the uptime of your MySQL instances -- in my experience, that's rarely a problem. I would, however, worry about the intellectual capital you're expending to catalog and manage hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of databases.
Simply dealing with the administration requests for database permissions and roles must be a full time job for several people. The dozens of people required to understand and manage the schemas for those databases must be a huge drain on your organization.
I suspect that using Oracle or MS SQL would save your organization literally millions of dollars a year, simply because of the improved management interfaces and flexibility of the databases as a whole.
but I do not believe IE 5 or 6 supports getElementById.
Well, you're wrong. Programming DHTML for IE versions greater than 5 is a joy, because it does follow W3 DOM standards fairly well, as does Mozilla.
DHTML support only goes straight into the crapper once you have to support IE 4 or NS 4. Those two programs are fucking hideous to program for, since their object model is almost entirely incompatible, with each other and anything created since then. Part of that incompatibility was "document.all", which you should really give up using...
"Good art borrows; great art steals."
Um Xwindows and Windows differ by one letter
I have never before heard of this trademarked term "Xwindows."
If is some type of software then I imagine that both Microsoft (which holds the trademark for the operating system named "Windows") and the X Consortium (which holds the tradmark on the window system named "X") would have something to say about it.
It would be cool if the people who made this obviously infringing "Xwindow" software you're talking about were sued by the people who made the "X" window system, but I can't really see that happening. I imagine Microsoft will get to them first.
BTW Xwindows only differs from windows by only letter too
No, the trademarked name of the window system is "X". The trademarked name of Microsoft's operating system is "Windows". I fail to see how "X" and "Windows" differ by only one letter.
I'm assuming this entire incoherent article is just an attempt at a viral advertisement for your website.
Did you get paid to submit it to Slashdot every day until some editor came back from lunch stoned and accepted it, or did your company's marketing department just give up and slip Cliff $100 worth of ditch weed and tijuana hookers to post this trite?
I have an easy answer for all of you lamers. Throw away your television. Pick the damned thing up right now, carry it out to the curb, and drop it hard enough to shatter the tube.
If everyone did that, at least 25% of the gloom-and-doom articles here on slashdot would immediately become irrelevant.
If you compare a 60's or 70's japanese bike to an AMF era Harley, it is like comparing a sports car to a full sized luxury car.
Sure, if that luxury car is a 1978 Jaguar (and no, that's not a compliment, to Jaguar or Harley).
Motorcycles can be built for a number of different things -- they can go hell fast through corners, or fast away from stoplights, or be comfortable to sit on for hours and hours on end, while carrying lots of gear. Or, they can be heavy, slow, uncomfortable relics with bad suspensions and sloppy frames that look good parked in front of the bar and in your dentist's garage.
They want something air cooled that goes 'blat blat, blat blat' at idle...
I like bikes because they're fast, easy to park, inexpensive, a blast around town, and fun to take on long tours. I've owned both air cooled and water cooled bikes, but never once did my buying decision hinge on it (except for the "water buffalo", which I bought entirely for the name). And, the last time my bike went "blat-blat" it was because the carbs were filled with goo.
this is the funniest damned thing i've read in a long time...
it's sister-article is much more interesting. It's on how much product placement is featured in the new bond movie,
Do they talk about how much product placement is featured on the front page of MSN, too? Or are we to assume Norelco paid the movie producers to put their product in the movie, but the movie producers did not pay MSN to put their movie on the front page?
Microsoft can snap it any time. All they need to do, is to change thier APIs and making them incompatible.
Uhh... perhaps you've been living under a rock for the last two years? They did change all of their APIs to make WINE obsolete. Here are the new ones: http://www.microsoft.com/net/
check it out!
A field that doesn't require interaction with others? Did you read the article, or just look at the pictures?
She makes her cash by arranging business deals with with people want her services, and by selling her mailing list to other spammers. She's in a very competitive field right now, and she claims that she makes $200,000.00 in the last year. Not only has she managed to do very well in a field that is, essentially, person-to-person and business-to-business sales, but she's also managed to get her face on the front page of both the WSJ and Slashdot.
This 45 year old woman probably has more money, charisma, moxy, and business sense than 99% of the people reading this, and you're making fun of her looks?
Now - who has most to gain from a highly visible trojan that's in fact virtually useless - Microsoft.
No! It's John Ashcroft! This is just the first step towards the Brave New World Order, as correctly fortold on that ground-breaking show "The X-Files."
Before Chris Carter and David Duchovney were eliminated and replaced with robotic clones by the old CIA lackeys of George Bush Senior, that show was the only thing on television that really explained what was going on in the world. There was a brief attempt by the FOX network to continue feeding you important news about technology and politics, but the Lone Gunmen show was quickly eliminated by the evil forces...
First off: we are not all gonna die.
I'm pretty sure we are
I won't
Wow. It turns out that it moves away about 3.8 centimeters a year -- it's a good hundred feet farther away today than it was at the dawn of recorded history!
Intuitively, I had guessed that the tidal friction slows down the moon as it orbits about the earth. It might (I need to do some math), but much more suprisingly, the rotation of the earth around its axis also slows, and the moon picks up that energy. As a net effect, it's actually ended up farther away.
(Yeah, I know... thinking of the earth-moon system as being stable a stable earth while the dynamic moon orbits about it is not going to win me any brownie points. But, from where I'm sitting, that's how it looks, so it's how I'm going to describe it on slashdot, ok?)
Wow. Science is cool.
I've done a sustained 200mph (sea level) on a slightly tricked out GSXR,
I call Bullshit.
There's not a track in America where you can reach that speed on a GSXR. Even the GP bikes weren't hitting 200 on the track until a few years ago. And, if you were on the highway the draft from passing a truck would be enough to sail you off the road like a paper airplane.
Have you ever seen what happens to a car when it loses downforce at 200 mph? It turns into a cesna. The same thing will happen on a bike.
With the boat shape of this stupid landshark, they may as well just stick pop-out wings on the thing and cover all of their bases.
What kind of environmental concerns will be raised about this?
My biggest concern is that we would be leaching even more energy from the orbit of the moon around the earth. Tidal friction is already slowing the moon down, and by increasing tidal friction, we're accelerating the collapse of the system...
This is dangerous stuff, people!