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  1. Re:SQL Server experience on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    No, i'm not doing it wrong.

    There's no business requirement for us to failover in 5 seconds, or 5 minutes for that matter; so long as we can continue business in an hour we will get by; people do have pens and paper to keep things running.

    I'm currently unengineering a predecessors stupid decision to put an Enterprise DB cluster in place, one that costs us around 20% of our cash flow, we can't afford to upgrade and gives the HA levels we do not need.

  2. SQL Server experience on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 2

    I recently inherited an application built on .NET, we're a Linux organisation. The devs had typically built it on SQL Server Express with not a care in the world, but it was a core business app.

    We bought a single license of SQL Server standard, and put it in Master Slave replication mode. Not having touched Windows for years (as a server) it was a bit of faff to get an Active Directory setup going, but it actually works okay. You don't need to license the failover server for SQL Server.

    If there's a failure, it's about 10 minutes on notification to flip the servers over and a bit of manual intervention. You can cut this down by buying a third box to use as an observer, but that seems to be another SPF.

  3. Re:Duke Nukem on SeaMicro Unveils 512 Atom-Based Server · · Score: 1

    Yes, but everyone knows Duke Nukem Forever hasn't been ported to Linux, BSD or any other of the Unix OS's yet. They'll probably try to get it running on OSX first anyway.

  4. Re:Artificial blurring sucks on Do You Have a Secret Immunity To 3D Movies? · · Score: 1

    I went to see Avatar at the local IMAX in 3D, and had to leave the movie halfway through with a massive headache. My eyesight is basically okay, but I just couldn't relax and watch the focal point the director insisted you watch - rather my cognition is rather pan and scan, I was constantly looking around the scene and kept on hitting things that I couldn't focus on and strained my eyes trying to compensate.

  5. Re:So what about trucks? on White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards · · Score: 1

    This is an interesting point, the UK is very highly densely populated compared to the USA. England is 395/km2 compared to the US 31/km2 - that surely has an impact on fuel consumption.

  6. Re:No (or little) change to mpg on White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards · · Score: 1

    Toyota is in direct competition with whatever shitheap cars your government are building.

  7. Re:In 5 years on SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media? · · Score: 1

    You are right, eSATA is better - it's what we are using. The cradle is an eSATA/USB hybrid & the controller is a LaCie eSATA PCI card (only one we could find at reasonable prices with win2k3 drivers)

    There's not much need for using something like BartPE on Vista/7 really - you just right click drag folders from drive to drive.

  8. Re:In 5 years on SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm doing this already, it works bloody well. I have my OS and Programs installed on a 120GB SSD, which sits around 50% utilisation and use NTFS junctions (aka symlinks) to map storage for stuff that doesn't need superfast seek speed (aka data) onto a group of 1.5TB drives. It takes a little management, so isn't quite ready for the average user yet - but you do effectively get something like 5TB of online disk space combined with SSD performance.

    Interestingly, i've found on Windows 7 that by running OS/Programs from the SSD that the contention issues you would normally get on a spinning disk are mitigated a great deal - and there's no noticeable hit with having the entire user profile (including junk like web cache). The system is booted in 5 seconds after finishing its POST, and the desktop is snappy right from the get go.

    As to the hard disks as backup, it works pretty good. At work we have maybe 1.2TB in a full backup - we do a weekly full backup and incrementals onto LTO tapes, and a second weekly backup onto a consumer grade SATA 1.5TB drive in a USB cradle. The SATA drives are taken offsite in case the office burns down, £80 + carrying a few hundred grams around makes for really cheap and fast data transfer.

  9. Re:Microsoft on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 1

    Another vote for Security Essentials. I've replaced Nod32 at home, and Symantec at work with it. It's light, fast, free and does what it says on the tin.

  10. Re:Borg with a heart of gold on Bill Gates Responds To Apple iPad · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens when they turn 6?

    Madonna adopts them.

  11. Re:Good and bad, computer chair version and some b on Honda's Answer To the Segway · · Score: 1

    "The least-obese area in the UK is London. London has the least people who drive to work, a result of having the best public transport and the most walkable communities."

    Is the ONLY thing that differentiates London and the rest of the UK? The highest per capita income is not relevant?

  12. Indian Democracy on India To Issue Over a Billion Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Having spent a lot of time in India, those guys couldn't organize a meeting about writing an article about a potential piss up in a brewery. And this is the private sector, as soon as the Government gets involved there would be 400 forms to fill out in triplicate before discussing the running of the meeting (or the "runnage" of the meeting). And lets hope the people wanting to start the meeting are licensed organisers.

  13. Re:Fuck'em (2nd FAGGOT) on Fighting For Downloaders' Hearts and Minds · · Score: -1, Troll

    you are a gigantic great faggot
    you're the man now dog!
    netcraft confirms it, you are a faggot
    in Soviet Russia faggots are you
    I for one do not welcome you as our gigantic faggot overlords!

    faGGOT@CRABAPPLE.COM

  14. Re:YOU ARE A GIGANTIC GREAT FAGGOT on Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops · · Score: -1, Troll

    you are a gigantic great faggot
    you're the man now dog!
    netcraft confirms it, you are a faggot
    in Soviet Russia faggots are you
    I for one do not welcome you as our gigantic faggot overlords!

    faGGOT@CRABAPPLE.COM

  15. YOU ARE A GIGANTIC GREAT FAGGOT on Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you are a gigantic great faggot
    you're the man now dog!
    netcraft confirms it, you are a faggot
    in Soviet Russia faggots are you
    I for one do not welcome you as our gigantic faggot overlords!

  16. Re:Intent? on Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Never mind the fact that if you have a Cold or Flu the doctor will say stop wasting my time and infecting everyone else in the waiting room and take some over the counter pain killers, for instance Ibuprofen or Paracetemol.

  17. Re:Any GA implementation.. woo on Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming · · Score: 1

    What a waste of time, just use the Emacs macro.

  18. Re:Rockets falling to earth? on SpaceX Launch Failure Due To Timing Problem · · Score: 2, Funny

    You cannae break the laws of Physics

  19. Re:EA - another sh@t of a company on Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues · · Score: 1

    press shift 4

  20. Rhino on Next-Gen JavaScript Interpreter Speeds Up WebKit · · Score: 1

    Will this Rhino (http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/) get this? We use it extensively as an embedded scripting engine on the server side - and use a lot of CPU cycles running it.

  21. Re:So, after the break-in, during the post-mortem. on Rails 2.1 Is Now Available · · Score: 1

    The golden rule:

    Don't trust any data input. Escape out user input, use prepare / execute....

  22. Re:I'm sorry, I can't resist.... on Anatomically Strange Dinosaur Vacuumed Up Food · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It was a Dysonsaur (TM)

  23. Re:army? on Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pilots to See Through Planes · · Score: 1

    Isn't the EF supposed to be an Interceptor / Air Superiority fighter primarily?

  24. Re:Just wondering? on US Internet Control To Be Topic #1 In Rio · · Score: 1

    Wasn't logged in before. The cables go in all directions, however there is a *lot* more bandwidth going from London to NY to LA to Tokyo than the other way. The majority of traffic will get routed via the US because it's the path of least resistance. The stuff going across the ME is a fall back route and depending on demand may sometimes be quicker.

    Think I mentioned it in the previous post, theres a whole bunch of cable being laid between London and Cape Town, and assume between Cape Town and say Singapore - precisely because it doesn't need to go across the Middle East.

  25. Re:Multilingual URLs... on ICANN Mulling Multilingual URLs · · Score: 1

    Books are still top to bottom