Please tell me how. I have a medium-sized Movable Type install, and I'd like to run WordPress.
I don't want to have to use unsupported third-party hacks that are a year or more out of date, like the existing postgres port of WordPress.
I would love to ditch mysql, which has single-handedly been responsible for more downtime than any other program I have used, and I'm including "Windows" in that list.
Tragically, much like Windows, MySQL has adopted an "embrace and extend" policy encouraging the use of extensions unavailable elsewhere, so in fact, if you have a substantial mysql code base and database involvement, it's rather expensive to move it, and requires serious programmer time.
But if you know of a trivial and fast way to ditch it in favor of postgres, lemme know. I would do it in an instant. I would pay good money to be able to run whatever I want and never have to see another mysql daemon again.
I remember a Next Generation cover that was a beautiful, if slightly low-polygon count, scene. Full-page bright color, every line flawless. No jaggies. High-resolution textures.
Headline: With playstation graphics like this, can 3DO keep up?
Now, the thing is, those weren't playstation graphics; they were at least 100dpi, putting us up to about 850x1000 pixels; a tad larger than the PS1's standard display. They were higher resolution than anything the PS1 could do at any speed, and indeed, the PS2 can't do it either.
NG just loves to pimp Sony. They're crazy.
(It's true, of course, that the PS1 generally had better 3D support than the 3DO. But it wasn't THAT good.)
The specific intent of Blue's thing was to shut people down under load. It was intentional network abuse, and I am very glad they're gone. They know as well as everyone else does that the opt-outs don't work, and I think the damage to bystanders alone was enough to disqualify the plan.
Something doesn't have to be an effective threat to be opposed. I mean, I live in America, and if you look at our history of when we break out the military, we don't always wait for actual threats to our wellbeing.
But mostly I'm saying that the blunt reality is that I've met maybe two people, ever, who make "backups" and don't then sell the originals to someone else, or whose "backups" are of games they have ever owned.
Mostly, it's just infringing copies made to allow multiple people to play a single copy of a game.
I like how that got modded "troll". We dare not admit that gamers are sometimes guilty of some of what they're accused of!
Terrorist thugs get themselves shut down. No one cries.
These people were not solving spam; they were making the problem worse in a way that let people delude themselves into thinking it mattered. They were not contributing, and the essential problems with their model were first sorted out and identified probably in 1997 or so. Maybe 1998. It wasn't a new idea, and it wasn't a good idea. I am very glad that they are gone.
Please don't reinvent it. You can't fix the fundamental problems, all you can do is waste more bandwidth accomplishing nothing.
Citibank's been pushing it heavily. They ask me to sign up for it, put in my account information, and give them information about any and all citibank-related stuff I have which might allow me to earn ThankYou Points.
Is it a citibank thing, or a third party? It seems to be just citibank. However, the site isn't anywhere in "citi.com".
When some phisher comes along and registers "gratefulrewards.com" and tells people to please "reenter your data from ThankYou Network on our new site", it'll be citi's fault that people fall for it. Citi's phone staff can't tell you what is or isn't a legitimate citibank site. I've heard people reporting advice like "Make sure it has a citibank logo on it" or "just click on the site that's in the email".
Phishing works because vendors are aggressively dumb about preventing it. They are trying so hard to train users to fall for phishes...
First off, we all know damn well how many people really use things like this for "backups". (It's no surprise that Alcohol Software had to go to online authorization and activation; their customer base is 99% dishonest.)
Secondly, all these people "playing backups" must be awfully incompetent to have lost their originals so quickly. If you're "playing the backup" when you still have access to the original, it's not a backup, it's a working copy. The one that's stored in case of disaster is the backup; the one you actively use normally isn't.
I seem to recall someone I knew got in a conflict with an Apple manager over whether or not "barefoot" was okay. I might be wrong, though. It's a long time since I heard the story.
Unions are like any other bureaucracy; their ultimate goal is their own preservation, no matter what their ostensible goal is. Unions screw up relations between employees and management because doing so keeps them "relevant". Union dues? Thanks, I don't think that solves my "low pay" problem.
Unionized industries tend to go bust, because unions tend to disrupt the adaptations companies need to make to survive. I'll pass.
A friend of mine and I can reliably crash some similar-generation AMD chips with a loop setting a region of memory to all zeroes, but not with a loop setting it to 0xaaaaaaaa. The chips just lock up. Takes anywhere from a few seconds (linux) to a few minutes (windows).
If it depends on my ability to click accurately and quickly, then the character's abilities may be a limit on my ability, but my ability is also limiting the character, and that's not coherent for an RPG. It's not my job to have combat reflexes.
If the game won't let me (actually fairly clumsy, I have to say) play a graceful, agile, rogue, then it's not D&D.
I run MySQL because I have to; programs that users demand run only with it.
MySQL regularly hangs. Now, there's definitely a kernel bug there, because killing the mysql process generally fails, even with -9, and the machine can't always reboot cleanly once mysql is hung. But I don't think the kernel is the sole malefactor; no other program I run, multithreaded or otherwise, does this.
I don't take MySQL seriously. Every shred of documentation I've seen for it covering users and passwords tells you to enter the password on the command line. If a server's documentation specifically instructs you to do something suicidally stupid, that's a sign to me that they are fundamentally not getting it.
Does it have an impressive checklist of features? You betcha. Very impressive. It's got lots of features, all perfectly checkboxed, just like MS Office. What it doesn't show any signs of is the kind of serious engineering design I'd want to see.
So that's the thing; even if you hate mysql, you still have to use it to get a lot of programs to run, because they have dependencies on particular quirks or extensions. So unless you want to spend a few days revising something, you're stuck.
That said, I think I might have lost less time by simply reimplementing stuff rather than putting up with this crap.
There was a time when Microsoft's official answer to "What API should I use" was "OS/2". This was before they found out that Windows 3.1 was commercially successful enough that they didn't care that they couldn't figure out how to engineer it.
As to.NET, I seem to recall someone complaining about compatibility between versions.
Hosted by IBM just because it's a regular column on standardization. In all the years I've written for IBM, the only edit they've ever made on such grounds is that they changed the word "Belkin" to the name "Company X" in my article about Belkin's packet-hijacking routers. Oh, wait; I think they disliked a couple of comments I made about Verisign once. Mostly, if there's no obvious liability, they don't get involved.
What makes you think it's the filesystem that's patented? Sounds to me like it's something in the communications chain, not the actual data written, that they patented.
The variety of patently impossible and mutually-exclusive claims being made here is insane.
We don't know exactly what effects farmers have on the economy, but when there was a famous exploit many farmers were using to obtain lots of Ace of Warlords, you know what happened? The price dropped, a lot.
I don't think farmers are necessarily driving prices up or down that much. My guess would be that they slightly lower the costs of trade goods (by selling enough to meet demand), but increase the price of blues (by giving people more money to twink with). But I don't know.
I have a few characters, and I've found that it's pretty consistently possible to make money if you know your fields. There's exceptions; very few alchemy potions are worth detectably more than the cost of their ingredients, for instance. But you can rake in money on arcanite transmutes...
I don't think the economy is that broken. I also don't see much point in buying gold; it's pretty easy to make a LOT of money.
Example 1: Patent lawsuits. Amazon filed a business-method patent. Amazon sued B&N over it. Business-method patents are plainly evil. Furthermore, Jeff Bezos very publically backed down... Sign of reform? Not hardly. Amazon is still filing business-method patents, still requesting secrecy so people can't present prior art, and so on. No actual change; just schmooze. Example 2: Spam. Amazon doesn't spam everyone, but then, most people will never meet anyone who knew anyone Ted Bundy killed. Amazon has in the past spammed. They have made people jump through hoops to get off lists they never asked to be on. Example 3: Everything from purchase circles on; Amazon doesn't do the right thing unless threatened or forced. Amazon starts with a default assumption that they have no obligation to behave in an ethical manner. Scratch that; Amazon has never shown any awareness of any kind of "ethical" concern at all. All they care about is public outcry.
Conclusion: Amazon may, if actively policed and watched and given clear threats of retaliation for misbehavior, behave in a tolerable manner. They have never shown any interest in doing the right thing without being threatened. Even when they publically back down from a bad thing (say, Bezos talking about the need for patent reform), they may continue doing it if they can get away with it.
To this day, Amazon has never acknowledged that there is a reason to prefer opt-in mailings. To this day, Amazon has not apologized for their frivolous lawsuit. Amazon has not stopped filing business-method patents, or declaring secrecy on their patents, despite allegedly realizing the problems with these practices.
Amazon employees have posted to Usenet from Amazon IP space to defend Amazon's practices, while not admitting to being employees. When busted, the guy disappeared without comment. Did Amazon do anything about this? No. We reasonably infer that it isn't a violation of company policy for staff to pretend to be customers instead of staff and give "unbiased" defenses while on the payroll.
In short, why would you ever trust them?
Yes, it saves money. Slave labor saves money, too. Amazon cheats other people, abuses the patent system, and passes the savings on to you.
The EFF, and MoveOn, and other pro-spam organizations (and in the case of MoveOn, spammers), are objecting to the possibility that their spam will not be given extra special preference unless they certify that it's not spam.
Legitimate companies mailing their customers are funding the technology needed to keep overloaded filters (and clueless users) from binning their solicited messages. That's not a tax on email.
It has no effect on regular folks sending email.
Who cares? Only people who have a vested interest in being able to spam AOL into submission.
Okay, you managed to think of three other evil companies.
How about, say, Powell's, B&N, Tattered Cover, Borders... There are less-evil companies.
Anyway, where's the false statement? Amazon are lying scumbags. They have been abusive and evil since the day they came into play, they have dramatically harmed the state of the art in patent law, they have spammed... Why should we tolerate them just because Sony's nasty?
So, a company which spams, files frivolous patents, files lawsuits based on an allegedly "purely defensive" patent portfolio, pretends to oppose the current patent system while systematically abusing it, and is consistently "the worst neighbor we can get away with being" as a matter of policy...
Failed to act in a forthright manner?
Amazon? DECEITFUL? HOW CAN THIS BE?!?
Oh, that's right. They've been like this since day 1.
What amazes me is the number of apologists who will do anything but admit the plain reality. Amazon sucks. We would be better off with pretty much any other company replacing them.
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I can drop mysql? Easily?
Please tell me how. I have a medium-sized Movable Type install, and I'd like to run WordPress.
I don't want to have to use unsupported third-party hacks that are a year or more out of date, like the existing postgres port of WordPress.
I would love to ditch mysql, which has single-handedly been responsible for more downtime than any other program I have used, and I'm including "Windows" in that list.
Tragically, much like Windows, MySQL has adopted an "embrace and extend" policy encouraging the use of extensions unavailable elsewhere, so in fact, if you have a substantial mysql code base and database involvement, it's rather expensive to move it, and requires serious programmer time.
But if you know of a trivial and fast way to ditch it in favor of postgres, lemme know. I would do it in an instant. I would pay good money to be able to run whatever I want and never have to see another mysql daemon again.
I remember a Next Generation cover that was a beautiful, if slightly low-polygon count, scene. Full-page bright color, every line flawless. No jaggies. High-resolution textures.
Headline: With playstation graphics like this, can 3DO keep up?
Now, the thing is, those weren't playstation graphics; they were at least 100dpi, putting us up to about 850x1000 pixels; a tad larger than the PS1's standard display. They were higher resolution than anything the PS1 could do at any speed, and indeed, the PS2 can't do it either.
NG just loves to pimp Sony. They're crazy.
(It's true, of course, that the PS1 generally had better 3D support than the 3DO. But it wasn't THAT good.)
The specific intent of Blue's thing was to shut people down under load. It was intentional network abuse, and I am very glad they're gone. They know as well as everyone else does that the opt-outs don't work, and I think the damage to bystanders alone was enough to disqualify the plan.
Something doesn't have to be an effective threat to be opposed. I mean, I live in America, and if you look at our history of when we break out the military, we don't always wait for actual threats to our wellbeing.
Well, yeah.
But mostly I'm saying that the blunt reality is that I've met maybe two people, ever, who make "backups" and don't then sell the originals to someone else, or whose "backups" are of games they have ever owned.
Mostly, it's just infringing copies made to allow multiple people to play a single copy of a game.
I like how that got modded "troll". We dare not admit that gamers are sometimes guilty of some of what they're accused of!
Well, yay.
Terrorist thugs get themselves shut down. No one cries.
These people were not solving spam; they were making the problem worse in a way that let people delude themselves into thinking it mattered. They were not contributing, and the essential problems with their model were first sorted out and identified probably in 1997 or so. Maybe 1998. It wasn't a new idea, and it wasn't a good idea. I am very glad that they are gone.
Please don't reinvent it. You can't fix the fundamental problems, all you can do is waste more bandwidth accomplishing nothing.
Consider this site: Thank You Network
Citibank's been pushing it heavily. They ask me to sign up for it, put in my account information, and give them information about any and all citibank-related stuff I have which might allow me to earn ThankYou Points.
Is it a citibank thing, or a third party? It seems to be just citibank. However, the site isn't anywhere in "citi.com".
When some phisher comes along and registers "gratefulrewards.com" and tells people to please "reenter your data from ThankYou Network on our new site", it'll be citi's fault that people fall for it. Citi's phone staff can't tell you what is or isn't a legitimate citibank site. I've heard people reporting advice like "Make sure it has a citibank logo on it" or "just click on the site that's in the email".
Phishing works because vendors are aggressively dumb about preventing it. They are trying so hard to train users to fall for phishes...
It's not "backups". It's "copies".
First off, we all know damn well how many people really use things like this for "backups". (It's no surprise that Alcohol Software had to go to online authorization and activation; their customer base is 99% dishonest.)
Secondly, all these people "playing backups" must be awfully incompetent to have lost their originals so quickly. If you're "playing the backup" when you still have access to the original, it's not a backup, it's a working copy. The one that's stored in case of disaster is the backup; the one you actively use normally isn't.
I seem to recall someone I knew got in a conflict with an Apple manager over whether or not "barefoot" was okay. I might be wrong, though. It's a long time since I heard the story.
Unions are like any other bureaucracy; their ultimate goal is their own preservation, no matter what their ostensible goal is. Unions screw up relations between employees and management because doing so keeps them "relevant". Union dues? Thanks, I don't think that solves my "low pay" problem.
Unionized industries tend to go bust, because unions tend to disrupt the adaptations companies need to make to survive. I'll pass.
A friend of mine and I can reliably crash some similar-generation AMD chips with a loop setting a region of memory to all zeroes, but not with a loop setting it to 0xaaaaaaaa. The chips just lock up. Takes anywhere from a few seconds (linux) to a few minutes (windows).
If it depends on my ability to click accurately and quickly, then the character's abilities may be a limit on my ability, but my ability is also limiting the character, and that's not coherent for an RPG. It's not my job to have combat reflexes.
If the game won't let me (actually fairly clumsy, I have to say) play a graceful, agile, rogue, then it's not D&D.
If it requires player dexterity, it's not an RPG. In an RPG, success and failure are functions of the character.
Total agreement. 50 comment spammers hitting a blog backed by mysql == mysql hung permanently. Not "slow". Hung. Will not come back.
I run MySQL because I have to; programs that users demand run only with it.
MySQL regularly hangs. Now, there's definitely a kernel bug there, because killing the mysql process generally fails, even with -9, and the machine can't always reboot cleanly once mysql is hung. But I don't think the kernel is the sole malefactor; no other program I run, multithreaded or otherwise, does this.
I don't take MySQL seriously. Every shred of documentation I've seen for it covering users and passwords tells you to enter the password on the command line. If a server's documentation specifically instructs you to do something suicidally stupid, that's a sign to me that they are fundamentally not getting it.
Does it have an impressive checklist of features? You betcha. Very impressive. It's got lots of features, all perfectly checkboxed, just like MS Office. What it doesn't show any signs of is the kind of serious engineering design I'd want to see.
So that's the thing; even if you hate mysql, you still have to use it to get a lot of programs to run, because they have dependencies on particular quirks or extensions. So unless you want to spend a few days revising something, you're stuck.
That said, I think I might have lost less time by simply reimplementing stuff rather than putting up with this crap.
If they can't sell needed changes to senior management, then the management is the problem.
If that's not the problem, then your problem statement is wrong.
There was a time when Microsoft's official answer to "What API should I use" was "OS/2". This was before they found out that Windows 3.1 was commercially successful enough that they didn't care that they couldn't figure out how to engineer it.
.NET, I seem to recall someone complaining about compatibility between versions.
As to
Hosted by IBM just because it's a regular column on standardization. In all the years I've written for IBM, the only edit they've ever made on such grounds is that they changed the word "Belkin" to the name "Company X" in my article about Belkin's packet-hijacking routers. Oh, wait; I think they disliked a couple of comments I made about Verisign once. Mostly, if there's no obvious liability, they don't get involved.
"will usually run faster than"? Why?
People who did a lot of assembler, in my experience, are full of theories about "what will run faster" that stop being true six months later.
What makes you think it's the filesystem that's patented? Sounds to me like it's something in the communications chain, not the actual data written, that they patented.
The variety of patently impossible and mutually-exclusive claims being made here is insane.
We don't know exactly what effects farmers have on the economy, but when there was a famous exploit many farmers were using to obtain lots of Ace of Warlords, you know what happened? The price dropped, a lot.
I don't think farmers are necessarily driving prices up or down that much. My guess would be that they slightly lower the costs of trade goods (by selling enough to meet demand), but increase the price of blues (by giving people more money to twink with). But I don't know.
I have a few characters, and I've found that it's pretty consistently possible to make money if you know your fields. There's exceptions; very few alchemy potions are worth detectably more than the cost of their ingredients, for instance. But you can rake in money on arcanite transmutes...
I don't think the economy is that broken. I also don't see much point in buying gold; it's pretty easy to make a LOT of money.
If it's patented, then it's already been published, so publishing it doesn't change anything.
If it's a trade secret, it's their tough luck; trade secret law provides no protection against people figuring out what you did.
IANAL.
Example 1: Patent lawsuits. Amazon filed a business-method patent. Amazon sued B&N over it. Business-method patents are plainly evil. Furthermore, Jeff Bezos very publically backed down... Sign of reform? Not hardly. Amazon is still filing business-method patents, still requesting secrecy so people can't present prior art, and so on. No actual change; just schmooze.
Example 2: Spam. Amazon doesn't spam everyone, but then, most people will never meet anyone who knew anyone Ted Bundy killed. Amazon has in the past spammed. They have made people jump through hoops to get off lists they never asked to be on.
Example 3: Everything from purchase circles on; Amazon doesn't do the right thing unless threatened or forced. Amazon starts with a default assumption that they have no obligation to behave in an ethical manner. Scratch that; Amazon has never shown any awareness of any kind of "ethical" concern at all. All they care about is public outcry.
Conclusion: Amazon may, if actively policed and watched and given clear threats of retaliation for misbehavior, behave in a tolerable manner. They have never shown any interest in doing the right thing without being threatened. Even when they publically back down from a bad thing (say, Bezos talking about the need for patent reform), they may continue doing it if they can get away with it.
To this day, Amazon has never acknowledged that there is a reason to prefer opt-in mailings. To this day, Amazon has not apologized for their frivolous lawsuit. Amazon has not stopped filing business-method patents, or declaring secrecy on their patents, despite allegedly realizing the problems with these practices.
Amazon employees have posted to Usenet from Amazon IP space to defend Amazon's practices, while not admitting to being employees. When busted, the guy disappeared without comment. Did Amazon do anything about this? No. We reasonably infer that it isn't a violation of company policy for staff to pretend to be customers instead of staff and give "unbiased" defenses while on the payroll.
In short, why would you ever trust them?
Yes, it saves money. Slave labor saves money, too. Amazon cheats other people, abuses the patent system, and passes the savings on to you.
There is no "email tax".
The EFF, and MoveOn, and other pro-spam organizations (and in the case of MoveOn, spammers), are objecting to the possibility that their spam will not be given extra special preference unless they certify that it's not spam.
Legitimate companies mailing their customers are funding the technology needed to keep overloaded filters (and clueless users) from binning their solicited messages. That's not a tax on email.
It has no effect on regular folks sending email.
Who cares? Only people who have a vested interest in being able to spam AOL into submission.
Okay, you managed to think of three other evil companies.
How about, say, Powell's, B&N, Tattered Cover, Borders... There are less-evil companies.
Anyway, where's the false statement? Amazon are lying scumbags. They have been abusive and evil since the day they came into play, they have dramatically harmed the state of the art in patent law, they have spammed... Why should we tolerate them just because Sony's nasty?
So, a company which spams, files frivolous patents, files lawsuits based on an allegedly "purely defensive" patent portfolio, pretends to oppose the current patent system while systematically abusing it, and is consistently "the worst neighbor we can get away with being" as a matter of policy...
Failed to act in a forthright manner?
Amazon? DECEITFUL? HOW CAN THIS BE?!?
Oh, that's right. They've been like this since day 1.
What amazes me is the number of apologists who will do anything but admit the plain reality. Amazon sucks. We would be better off with pretty much any other company replacing them.