As one of the testers of the 4.0.x line, I can say that MySQL AB should be proud of this release. I've seen some posts here about instability and data loss, but I assume this is from the Postgres 'but WE have the better database - everybody look over here' crowd. I've done some pretty stupid things to our MySQL box - like running Imagemagick's 'convert' on over 200MB of images and running the box out of virtual memory, which made the kernel start killing processes - starting with MySQL. When it came back up - no data loss at all. InnoDB recovers VERY well from this sort of thing. MySQL also handles multiple MS Access clients far better than MS SQL Server. We have over 10 tables now which basically can't be accessed if placed on SQL Server because of the way MS Access grabs record locks willy nilly. If I place the tables in MySQL as MyISAM tables, I get a little bit (3 or 4 months) use out of them. Then record locking issues start up again. So then I put them in MySQL's InnoDB tables with row-level locking, and I've never had any further issues with those tables. Quite impressive. And as well as being 100% stable for me, MySQL is so incredibly fast... When we convert standard Acccess queries to pass-through queries we get up to 15x speed increases. We actually use pass-through queries as substitues for views. Works nicely. The tech support it great. When I was having type-conversion issues with our pass-through queries I got responses from the developers on the same day - often in the same hour. And we haven't paid for any support - just downloaded the source. The lead-up to MySQL-4.0.x being stable has felt like the lead up to Mozilla-1.0; everyone using it felt it was ready, but the developers insisted on thoroughly testing everything to make sure they could stand by their decision to declare it stable. Congrats to the MySQL team. I will be compiling 4.0.12 when I get to work...
I had to do some work on a Postgres system over the weekend. I come from a MySQL background.
Having heard people (a handful of noisy Postgres users I suspect) rant about how much better Postgres is and how unfair it is that MySQL is the No1 open source database, I had high hopes for my first experience.
I was quite disappointed. There are bugs. And those bugs have bugs. And the bugs' bugs have bugs too. You can't import from a backup made by a different verion of Postgres. That was my first problem. The older version I was using was trying to parse the comment marks (---). OK. So I upgraded to the latest version. The GUI (pgadmin) didn't work. I frigged with it for a while and decided to give up and get back to work. The command-line psql segfaults. Now that is a SERIOUS problem. I have never seen the MySQL client segfault, and I have used it a lot. Then there are stupid, stupid things like not being able to delete a column, or change a column type. Having used MySQL, I took those things for granted. I am always changing a column type to varchar(x) and pruning garbage off it (eg dollar signs and commas) and then converting it back to a numeric (double) field. Can't do it in Postgres. Why? I assume it's because all the developers have since migrated to MySQL.
Now I understand that Postgres supports views and stored procedures - both of which I'm not particularly impressed with. There are very easy work-arounds that you can do on the client side (which I do here at work), such as put all 'views' in functions, and just call the function to initialise the SQL string you want. Not very hard. As for the relational stuff, InnoDB has supported that for ages and ages. Don't give us that non-relational argument crap no more.
Why do people use Postgres? I don't know. Maybe there are some who really really really need triggers. God knows why. As the MySQL developers point out (and they are quite correct) - this sort of thing should NOT happen on the server; it should be contained in the client software or middle tier. Views? See above. Don't need them. Stored procedures? Handy but honestly can be done just as easily at the client end.
Having used both, I can honestly say that I'd rather wait for MySQL to add the one thing I'm actually waiting for: stored procedures, than use Postgres. Postgres just gives me the shits. Maybe that's why MySQL is the No1 open source database.
I hate mobile phones. I get a sharp headache after using one for only 2 or 3 minutes. One of my sister's friend's nose started bleeding uncontrollably (also accompanied by a sharp headache) after using one for a few minutes. They blast all kinds of radiation through your head which is designed to go through some pretty though stuff - buildings, concrete, pretty much everything apart from solid metals. In particular they emit microwaves. These obviously travel though your brain and eyes. Not good. Even if they don't heat up your flesh a significant amount, they do cause damage. Microwaves shake water molecules violently - this is how they heat water. So basically all the cells in your head are being shaken violently - almost to the point of noticably raising their temperature, but not quite... And then there is the fact that we don't really know the relationship between brain & consciousness. Do we really want to be throwing a spanner in the works in this way? Mobile phones should be for emergencies only.
The world does not need America, and neither do we. Of course we have been threatened with economic 'ruin' by Bush and his gun-slinging parliament. That doesn't mean we have to do what they want. I'm not saying there wouldn't be consequences for those who didn't stand up to him, but economic consequences should never be traded for human casualties - especially in a war of conquest and pilliage such as Bush's invasion and seizure of what is rightfully Iraq's natural resources.
Go to http://www.abc.net.au/news/multipoll3/vote/ and vote against the war. It's not like fucking Howard will listen to us, but at least we can make personal attacks based on his arrogance when we know the number of people against him.
I see. Maybe those funding the benchmarking should throw some money at the MySQL people to make their transactions pass the test. I think it would increase the performance over SAP DB incredibly.
I disagree that evidence suggests that life cannot exist in these conditions. I assume you mean that the evidence we have is that has evolved on Earth cannot exist there. But science can't extrapolate from that that NO life can exist there. And that is the problem that mainstream science has - that it is not willing to accept the POSSIBILITY of things outside what we have evidence for, ie that if something was not been witnessed before that it cannot exist. This view assumes that all of reality is mostly the same as what has been noted so far, but misses the point that what has been noted so far is only a very small, insignificant slice of what actually exists. Another problem science has, which is especially evident when dealing with life itself, is that it refuses to investigate PURPOSE. Any attempt to add purpose to a discussion with a scientists results in being told that we are now talking about religion. And I agree - we ARE talking about religion, but that doesn't mean we are not also still talking about science. Without understanding purpose, science will only be able to descibe very limited features of our universe. But I think there is hope in quantum mechanics, and other theories such as the 'holographic theory' (search on google). But I'm wandering too far off-topic...
What do politicians care about exploring Pluto? This is just another superiority assertion by the US government. The fact that NASA was against the mission shows how much the government cares about the opinions of those who will be actually performing the mission. WTF are we going to find on Pluto? How about that moon that may have a liquid ocean beneath it's surface? (can't remember it's name) It's closer, it will cost lest and happen faster. There's far more potential of finding something interesting.
You blame the parties, I'll keep blaming the people who keep voting for the republicrats, and the vast majority who don't vote at all - not even to go and spoil their votes by writing "none of the above" on their ballots.
I wouldn't blame the people so much. I think the current form of government we have is not so democratic. It's rigged. Running for election costs far too much. To have a hope in hell of getting decent exposure you have to have big finacial support. So the only people that get to the top are corrupt. A wise man once told me:
Anyone capable of getting themselves elected the president of the USA should never under any circumstances be allowed to do the job
We need to remove politicians' financial dependance on big business. That's the first step. Then we remove our dependance on the politicians. The people should have more direct control over big decisions. No country should be able to go to war without having a referendum. That is democracy... when you ask the people what they want. Can you imagine the US government asking it's own people if they support the upcoming war of plunder? Or the Patriot Act(s)?
Maybe. But only because they're responding to common sense and public opinion. The US government has been told by the high court that it is no longer bound by such technicalities such as the number of votes they receive in an election, so they are free to attack anyone they please in the name of money and power.
If they spend the money directly then it wouldn't be that much. But since they are funding others who are developing open-source software, the effect is much greater.
I would expect that each group that worked on open-source developments would receive about 5-10% of their funding from the government. Or in other words, the funding is affecting development costing $4.5M.
This reduction in costs of 5-10% will give developers a great incentive to switch from other systems to Linux.
Now say that of the total spend, 50% comes from people who just migrated to Linux. So that is $2.2M that was being spent on other systems that is now being spent on Linux.
This $5M isn't being spent by government pen-pushers. It is $5M funding research and development by companies that are trying to be as cost-effective as possible. You can do a lot of programming for that much money.
The BSA here in Australia send out flyers and spam regularly to frighten people into coughing up like nice docile consumers should.
While it is true that they can screw you big time if they catch you using unlicenced software, the chances of that are about 1:1000000 unless someone drops your name in to them, and honestly, unless you've had an IT worker leave on bad terms recently, how likely is that to happen?
I would throw the garbage in the bin where it belongs and if (BIG if) they come investigating and catch you red-handed, claim gross ignorance and point the finger back in time to one of many people how have now left the company and may or may not have installed unlicenced software without management's consent.
I would also use the situation to explain to management the merits of getting off the upgrade treadmill, and into the free world of Linux.
I just finished porting our Access XP (MySQL backend) sales system to LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). It was a bit annoying for the first week while I was learning what was going on (didn't know html or php), but now I really enjoy it, and it's not hard. It took me about 3 weeks all up to recreate about 15 different Access forms / reports as web pages. And you should see how fast it runs now... MUCH faster than Access... I'm now installing Gentoo Linux, KDE, OpenOffice and Mozilla for our sales staff. They look a bit puzzled whe they first see KDE, but after they click the little Mozilla icon and it comes up with their email / sales database, they forget all about it and get to work...
This sounds fair but I hope the Europeans aren't harbouring any weapons, because if they are, it's only a matter of time before big business whispers in the ear of the military. Next thing you know we've got UN weapons inspectors who can't find anything but have the harshest of 'suspicions' about what the Europenans are planning to do the the God-fearing, fun-loving, democratic nation of the USA.
Seriously, this will not sit well with American companies. It will not be allowed.
Is there anything Johnny won't do for his master, Baby Bush? We go fight the US's oil war without investigating the facts or paying attention to popular opinion - here or abroad. We accept thee US's GM crap for sale on Australian markets, unlabelled. Now we accept the US's legal system, including their DMCA. We might as well burn the Australian flag, loose 50% of our brains, adopt a "GIVE ME, GIVE ME" attitude and call ourselves the 53rd state of the USA. So welcome George Bush; Australia's collective anuses awaits your shrivelled tool. I believe John Howard has already had his share.
From this I get the netbios name of the computer, and then do a:
smbdie -i $IPADDRESS -p 139 -t $NETBIOSNAME
This blue-screens the offender's computer. When I'm satisfied it works (some people have patched their systems), I add it to a cron job to repeat every 4 minutes.
So the spamming faggot doesn't get a chance to spam me as he is continually rebooting.
So yes I agree 100% with the suggestion that we take down others' malicious processes. If only it were so easy to bring the US military industrial complex back into line...
After having read many of your posts on this topic, I have come to the conclusion that you are a rich bastard trying to protect the masses from reclaiming what is rightfully theirs. You probably also work for Nike.
And what exactly is wrong with the ideals of socialism, anyway. Socialism asserts the rights of individuals over corporations, as opposed to capitalism, which asserts the rights of corporations over individuals.
Now there have been more than one instance of oppressive regimes operating under the guise of socialism that the world would probably have been better off without. North Korea, for example. But then there are a lot of instances of oppressive regimes operating under the guise of capitalism that the world would probably have been better off without. The US, for example. Ignoring these real-world examples, and focusing on ideals, socialism wins hands-down to capitalism, except if you are a corporation, or a rich bastard who has clawed his way to the top of the corporate world.
This is one of the central problems with capitalism. Corporations should ONLY have rights when those rights don't conflict with the rights of any other person, animal or plant on the planet. We are alive. They are constructions supposedely build to better our environment. Note the word 'capitalism'. The capital has all the rights. This must change if we are to survive.
gas prices in the USA upwards of 60 cents per gallon and cost tens of billions more per year in direct costs to the government, not to mention wide reaching economic reprecussions
Fuck the economic consequences. The current generation has no right to fuck the environment, potentially for the rest of the life of the planet, just to maintain your fucked up vision of a properly run economy. Burning fossil fuels adds to greenhouse gases which screws with the environment in ways which we can't undo. So we have to stop burning fossil fuels. Simple as that. And if there are other things contributing to global warming, then we have to do something about them too. And fuck the economic cost. Or there'll be no-one left in 500 years to count your precious pennies.
With regards to North Korea, why doesn't somebody else deal with them?
What exactly has to be dealt with? The weapons, or the reason people want to use them? What can you realistically DO something about? The weapons, or the reason people want to use them?
If you think that North Korea (or Iraq) as aspirations to take over the world, then I think you are mistaking them with the most power / money-hungry country on Earth - the US. Everyone else (except for Israel) is quite happy left to their own devices, and only has weapons to protect themselves from the inevidable invasion from the US military / economy.
If you want to get upset about who has weapons of mass destruction, then have a look at 'our' side. The US has more nuclear, chemical and biological weapons than every other country on earth combined. And they have proved on numerous occasions that they are willing to use them to assert their economic 'rights' (while pretending that they are fighting the 'good fight' for decomcracy).
When will we see UN, or Iraqi, or North Korean inspectors checking out the US's weapons of mass destruction and shaking their heads and saying 'This is not good enough. These are clear signs or your intent to invade us. We will therefore make a pre-emptive strike!'. Until the US disarms itself (and all countries should), then it has no right to demand other countries disarm themself. If the US insists on hunting down every last terrorist and every last weapon on the 'other side', then it is going to produce more terrorists and more weapons in the act.
But I think this is what the US wants - because it's good for the economy. Wars are very good for the US economy. The US banks are well known for lending money to BOTH sides of wars to buy weapons from the US industrial military complex. Very good for the economy...
And the threat of terrorism provides the perfect environment to justify taking away more of our rights to privacy and choice so we can pave the way for more civilian monitoring devices and more paramilitary troups to 'keep the peace' (squash resistance) and protect us from ourselves (protect big business from consumers with a conscience).
We use Access 2002 as a front-end to our SQL Server / MySQL databases. Access 2002 is the most unstable product we have ever had from anyone, apart from maybe Windows 3.11. It regularly crashes and damages databases with dialog boxes saying "Microsoft appologises for the inconvenience. Would you like to send a bug report?". And once the mdb file gets more than about 10MB (forms and code - no data) things very really strange. Forms get corrupted and dropped. Saving changes to anything takes 5+ minutes, and often results in a crash. It really is a pile of shit. If only there were a reasonable open-source alternative that didn't require learning some obscure language like Object Pascal (for God's sake, what were they thinking). No upgrading for us anyway. We'll put up with this and save our money for faster machines.
AMD and Intel are pushing for integrated DRM in all systems. Using Transmetta products might be a way of avoiding that - if enough people boycott AMD and Intel and are vocal about their reasons we might be able to get compulsory DRM at bay. However I did notice that they use an ATI video card. Bad move if you're wanting to use that under Linux. Their video cards are all tied up in patents. I have been trying for 18 months to get an answer on why ATI asked people to cease development of TV-out support on my Radeon. That was one of the reasons I bought it, and it WAS supported and worked well at the time. Now however it only works with 18-month old drivers that don't really sit well with X. Damned ATI. Oh and Damned nVidia also. Their driver lock my system every 20 mins without fail - the other reason I chose to buy a Radeon. Maybe I should just redirect my console to my canon bubblejet...
Would it be acceptable to you to rent DVDs for a night and convert them to DivX;) for later viewing (time-shifting)? And if someone happens to use a P2P file-sharing utility to make illegal copies of your personal for-single-viewing-only DivX collection, well, that's not your fault.
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As one of the testers of the 4.0.x line, I can say that MySQL AB should be proud of this release.
I've seen some posts here about instability and data loss, but I assume this is from the Postgres 'but WE have the better database - everybody look over here' crowd. I've done some pretty stupid things to our MySQL box - like running Imagemagick's 'convert' on over 200MB of images and running the box out of virtual memory, which made the kernel start killing processes - starting with MySQL. When it came back up - no data loss at all. InnoDB recovers VERY well from this sort of thing.
MySQL also handles multiple MS Access clients far better than MS SQL Server. We have over 10 tables now which basically can't be accessed if placed on SQL Server because of the way MS Access grabs record locks willy nilly. If I place the tables in MySQL as MyISAM tables, I get a little bit (3 or 4 months) use out of them. Then record locking issues start up again. So then I put them in MySQL's InnoDB tables with row-level locking, and I've never had any further issues with those tables. Quite impressive.
And as well as being 100% stable for me, MySQL is so incredibly fast... When we convert standard Acccess queries to pass-through queries we get up to 15x speed increases. We actually use pass-through queries as substitues for views. Works nicely.
The tech support it great. When I was having type-conversion issues with our pass-through queries I got responses from the developers on the same day - often in the same hour. And we haven't paid for any support - just downloaded the source.
The lead-up to MySQL-4.0.x being stable has felt like the lead up to Mozilla-1.0; everyone using it felt it was ready, but the developers insisted on thoroughly testing everything to make sure they could stand by their decision to declare it stable.
Congrats to the MySQL team. I will be compiling 4.0.12 when I get to work...
I had to do some work on a Postgres system over the weekend. I come from a MySQL background.
Having heard people (a handful of noisy Postgres users I suspect) rant about how much better Postgres is and how unfair it is that MySQL is the No1 open source database, I had high hopes for my first experience.
I was quite disappointed. There are bugs. And those bugs have bugs. And the bugs' bugs have bugs too. You can't import from a backup made by a different verion of Postgres. That was my first problem. The older version I was using was trying to parse the comment marks (---). OK. So I upgraded to the latest version. The GUI (pgadmin) didn't work. I frigged with it for a while and decided to give up and get back to work. The command-line psql segfaults. Now that is a SERIOUS problem. I have never seen the MySQL client segfault, and I have used it a lot. Then there are stupid, stupid things like not being able to delete a column, or change a column type. Having used MySQL, I took those things for granted. I am always changing a column type to varchar(x) and pruning garbage off it (eg dollar signs and commas) and then converting it back to a numeric (double) field. Can't do it in Postgres. Why? I assume it's because all the developers have since migrated to MySQL.
Now I understand that Postgres supports views and stored procedures - both of which I'm not particularly impressed with. There are very easy work-arounds that you can do on the client side (which I do here at work), such as put all 'views' in functions, and just call the function to initialise the SQL string you want. Not very hard.
As for the relational stuff, InnoDB has supported that for ages and ages. Don't give us that non-relational argument crap no more.
Why do people use Postgres? I don't know. Maybe there are some who really really really need triggers. God knows why. As the MySQL developers point out (and they are quite correct) - this sort of thing should NOT happen on the server; it should be contained in the client software or middle tier. Views? See above. Don't need them. Stored procedures? Handy but honestly can be done just as easily at the client end.
Having used both, I can honestly say that I'd rather wait for MySQL to add the one thing I'm actually waiting for: stored procedures, than use Postgres. Postgres just gives me the shits. Maybe that's why MySQL is the No1 open source database.
I hate mobile phones. I get a sharp headache after using one for only 2 or 3 minutes. One of my sister's friend's nose started bleeding uncontrollably (also accompanied by a sharp headache) after using one for a few minutes. They blast all kinds of radiation through your head which is designed to go through some pretty though stuff - buildings, concrete, pretty much everything apart from solid metals. In particular they emit microwaves. These obviously travel though your brain and eyes. Not good. Even if they don't heat up your flesh a significant amount, they do cause damage. Microwaves shake water molecules violently - this is how they heat water. So basically all the cells in your head are being shaken violently - almost to the point of noticably raising their temperature, but not quite...
And then there is the fact that we don't really know the relationship between brain & consciousness. Do we really want to be throwing a spanner in the works in this way?
Mobile phones should be for emergencies only.
The world does not need America, and neither do we.
Of course we have been threatened with economic 'ruin' by Bush and his gun-slinging parliament. That doesn't mean we have to do what they want. I'm not saying there wouldn't be consequences for those who didn't stand up to him, but economic consequences should never be traded for human casualties - especially in a war of conquest and pilliage such as Bush's invasion and seizure of what is rightfully Iraq's natural resources.
Go to http://www.abc.net.au/news/multipoll3/vote/
and vote against the war.
It's not like fucking Howard will listen to us, but at least we can make personal attacks based on his arrogance when we know the number of people against him.
I see.
Maybe those funding the benchmarking should throw some money at the MySQL people to make their transactions pass the test. I think it would increase the performance over SAP DB incredibly.
I disagree that evidence suggests that life cannot exist in these conditions.
I assume you mean that the evidence we have is that has evolved on Earth cannot exist there. But science can't extrapolate from that that NO life can exist there. And that is the problem that mainstream science has - that it is not willing to accept the POSSIBILITY of things outside what we have evidence for, ie that if something was not been witnessed before that it cannot exist. This view assumes that all of reality is mostly the same as what has been noted so far, but misses the point that what has been noted so far is only a very small, insignificant slice of what actually exists.
Another problem science has, which is especially evident when dealing with life itself, is that it refuses to investigate PURPOSE. Any attempt to add purpose to a discussion with a scientists results in being told that we are now talking about religion. And I agree - we ARE talking about religion, but that doesn't mean we are not also still talking about science. Without understanding purpose, science will only be able to descibe very limited features of our universe.
But I think there is hope in quantum mechanics, and other theories such as the 'holographic theory' (search on google).
But I'm wandering too far off-topic...
I was under the impression that MySQL supported transactions with the innodb table type.
I use them anyway, and have done for 2 years now.
What do politicians care about exploring Pluto?
This is just another superiority assertion by the US government. The fact that NASA was against the mission shows how much the government cares about the opinions of those who will be actually performing the mission.
WTF are we going to find on Pluto? How about that moon that may have a liquid ocean beneath it's surface? (can't remember it's name) It's closer, it will cost lest and happen faster. There's far more potential of finding something interesting.
I wouldn't blame the people so much. I think the current form of government we have is not so democratic. It's rigged. Running for election costs far too much. To have a hope in hell of getting decent exposure you have to have big finacial support. So the only people that get to the top are corrupt.
A wise man once told me:
We need to remove politicians' financial dependance on big business. That's the first step. Then we remove our dependance on the politicians. The people should have more direct control over big decisions. No country should be able to go to war without having a referendum. That is democracy
I thought the Iraqis invented "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION". So it was the fucking US all along, eh?
Double standards.
Maybe. But only because they're responding to common sense and public opinion. The US government has been told by the high court that it is no longer bound by such technicalities such as the number of votes they receive in an election, so they are free to attack anyone they please in the name of money and power.
Why does everyone in the USA assume that everyone else in the world will somehow obey US law when it is made "illegal"?
'cause you guys have the largest stockpile of "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" in the world.
If they spend the money directly then it wouldn't be that much. But since they are funding others who are developing open-source software, the effect is much greater.
I would expect that each group that worked on open-source developments would receive about 5-10% of their funding from the government. Or in other words, the funding is affecting development costing $4.5M.
This reduction in costs of 5-10% will give developers a great incentive to switch from other systems to Linux.
Now say that of the total spend, 50% comes from people who just migrated to Linux. So that is $2.2M that was being spent on other systems that is now being spent on Linux.
This $5M isn't being spent by government pen-pushers. It is $5M funding research and development by companies that are trying to be as cost-effective as possible. You can do a lot of programming for that much money.
The BSA here in Australia send out flyers and spam regularly to frighten people into coughing up like nice docile consumers should.
... MUCH faster than Access... I'm now installing Gentoo Linux, KDE, OpenOffice and Mozilla for our sales staff. They look a bit puzzled whe they first see KDE, but after they click the little Mozilla icon and it comes up with their email / sales database, they forget all about it and get to work...
While it is true that they can screw you big time if they catch you using unlicenced software, the chances of that are about 1:1000000 unless someone drops your name in to them, and honestly, unless you've had an IT worker leave on bad terms recently, how likely is that to happen?
I would throw the garbage in the bin where it belongs and if (BIG if) they come investigating and catch you red-handed, claim gross ignorance and point the finger back in time to one of many people how have now left the company and may or may not have installed unlicenced software without management's consent.
I would also use the situation to explain to management the merits of getting off the upgrade treadmill, and into the free world of Linux.
I just finished porting our Access XP (MySQL backend) sales system to LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). It was a bit annoying for the first week while I was learning what was going on (didn't know html or php), but now I really enjoy it, and it's not hard. It took me about 3 weeks all up to recreate about 15 different Access forms / reports as web pages. And you should see how fast it runs now
This sounds fair but I hope the Europeans aren't harbouring any weapons, because if they are, it's only a matter of time before big business whispers in the ear of the military. Next thing you know we've got UN weapons inspectors who can't find anything but have the harshest of 'suspicions' about what the Europenans are planning to do the the God-fearing, fun-loving, democratic nation of the USA.
Seriously, this will not sit well with American companies. It will not be allowed.
Glad they can afford to pay off the judges.
The US justice system stinks.
And don't even get me started on their foreign policy.
Is there anything Johnny won't do for his master, Baby Bush?
We go fight the US's oil war without investigating the facts or paying attention to popular opinion - here or abroad.
We accept thee US's GM crap for sale on Australian markets, unlabelled.
Now we accept the US's legal system, including their DMCA.
We might as well burn the Australian flag, loose 50% of our brains, adopt a "GIVE ME, GIVE ME" attitude and call ourselves the 53rd state of the USA.
So welcome George Bush; Australia's collective anuses awaits your shrivelled tool. I believe John Howard has already had his share.
Whenever some Korean faggot spams me, I do a:
smbclient -L $IPADDRESS
From this I get the netbios name of the computer, and then do a:
smbdie -i $IPADDRESS -p 139 -t $NETBIOSNAME
This blue-screens the offender's computer. When I'm satisfied it works (some people have patched their systems), I add it to a cron job to repeat every 4 minutes.
So the spamming faggot doesn't get a chance to spam me as he is continually rebooting.
So yes I agree 100% with the suggestion that we take down others' malicious processes. If only it were so easy to bring the US military industrial complex back into line...
After having read many of your posts on this topic, I have come to the conclusion that you are a rich bastard trying to protect the masses from reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
You probably also work for Nike.
And what exactly is wrong with the ideals of socialism, anyway. Socialism asserts the rights of individuals over corporations, as opposed to capitalism, which asserts the rights of corporations over individuals.
Now there have been more than one instance of oppressive regimes operating under the guise of socialism that the world would probably have been better off without. North Korea, for example. But then there are a lot of instances of oppressive regimes operating under the guise of capitalism that the world would probably have been better off without. The US, for example. Ignoring these real-world examples, and focusing on ideals, socialism wins hands-down to capitalism, except if you are a corporation, or a rich bastard who has clawed his way to the top of the corporate world.
This is one of the central problems with capitalism.
Corporations should ONLY have rights when those rights don't conflict with the rights of any other person, animal or plant on the planet. We are alive. They are constructions supposedely build to better our environment.
Note the word 'capitalism'. The capital has all the rights. This must change if we are to survive.
Fuck the economic consequences. The current generation has no right to fuck the environment, potentially for the rest of the life of the planet, just to maintain your fucked up vision of a properly run economy. Burning fossil fuels adds to greenhouse gases which screws with the environment in ways which we can't undo. So we have to stop burning fossil fuels. Simple as that. And if there are other things contributing to global warming, then we have to do something about them too. And fuck the economic cost. Or there'll be no-one left in 500 years to count your precious pennies.
What exactly has to be dealt with? The weapons, or the reason people want to use them?
What can you realistically DO something about? The weapons, or the reason people want to use them?
If you think that North Korea (or Iraq) as aspirations to take over the world, then I think you are mistaking them with the most power / money-hungry country on Earth - the US. Everyone else (except for Israel) is quite happy left to their own devices, and only has weapons to protect themselves from the inevidable invasion from the US military / economy.
If you want to get upset about who has weapons of mass destruction, then have a look at 'our' side. The US has more nuclear, chemical and biological weapons than every other country on earth combined. And they have proved on numerous occasions that they are willing to use them to assert their economic 'rights' (while pretending that they are fighting the 'good fight' for decomcracy).
When will we see UN, or Iraqi, or North Korean inspectors checking out the US's weapons of mass destruction and shaking their heads and saying 'This is not good enough. These are clear signs or your intent to invade us. We will therefore make a pre-emptive strike!'. Until the US disarms itself (and all countries should), then it has no right to demand other countries disarm themself. If the US insists on hunting down every last terrorist and every last weapon on the 'other side', then it is going to produce more terrorists and more weapons in the act.
But I think this is what the US wants - because it's good for the economy. Wars are very good for the US economy. The US banks are well known for lending money to BOTH sides of wars to buy weapons from the US industrial military complex. Very good for the economy...
And the threat of terrorism provides the perfect environment to justify taking away more of our rights to privacy and choice so we can pave the way for more civilian monitoring devices and more paramilitary troups to 'keep the peace' (squash resistance) and protect us from ourselves (protect big business from consumers with a conscience).
We use Access 2002 as a front-end to our SQL Server / MySQL databases. Access 2002 is the most unstable product we have ever had from anyone, apart from maybe Windows 3.11. It regularly crashes and damages databases with dialog boxes saying "Microsoft appologises for the inconvenience. Would you like to send a bug report?". And once the mdb file gets more than about 10MB (forms and code - no data) things very really strange. Forms get corrupted and dropped. Saving changes to anything takes 5+ minutes, and often results in a crash. It really is a pile of shit. If only there were a reasonable open-source alternative that didn't require learning some obscure language like Object Pascal (for God's sake, what were they thinking).
No upgrading for us anyway. We'll put up with this and save our money for faster machines.
AMD and Intel are pushing for integrated DRM in all systems. Using Transmetta products might be a way of avoiding that - if enough people boycott AMD and Intel and are vocal about their reasons we might be able to get compulsory DRM at bay.
However I did notice that they use an ATI video card. Bad move if you're wanting to use that under Linux. Their video cards are all tied up in patents. I have been trying for 18 months to get an answer on why ATI asked people to cease development of TV-out support on my Radeon. That was one of the reasons I bought it, and it WAS supported and worked well at the time. Now however it only works with 18-month old drivers that don't really sit well with X. Damned ATI. Oh and Damned nVidia also. Their driver lock my system every 20 mins without fail - the other reason I chose to buy a Radeon. Maybe I should just redirect my console to my canon bubblejet...
Would it be acceptable to you to rent DVDs for a night and convert them to DivX ;) for later viewing (time-shifting)?
And if someone happens to use a P2P file-sharing utility to make illegal copies of your personal for-single-viewing-only DivX collection, well, that's not your fault.