I want an extension that - in case of a crash - tries to save the URLs of all open windows and tabs somewhere.
Often, when I come across an interesting link, I just open it in a browser window or in a tab and place it minimized on my desktop somewhere; to be read at a later time when it's more convenient. When Mozilla or Firefox crash, which still happens too often, these "read for later" links are lost.
How comes you know the carpenter who worked at our house?
Seriously, this kind of behaviour is observable in all trades, not only with computers. Sometimes one has no other choice than to put up with such lousy attitudes, sometimes one has other choices. (We switched the carpenter...)
I would like to try Firefox. Where is a version that's built for glibc 2.2? (I'm using SuSE 8.1, and this installation is just a bit more than a year old. I consider installations of such an age not as new any more, but still as current.) Demanding glibc 2.3 is not a Good Thing(tm), IMO.
The switch goes away from a format that is rougly ISO 6801, minus the punctionation, to UTC. Interestingly, the new format will wrap earlier now. (In 2038, instead of 2148.)
If the Nazis would have been really left-wing, the West German "government-mandated education system" would have taken that up with love, as they could have associated the Evil Commies(tm) with the Nazis during the cold war. (That's when I grew up, FYI.)
But looking at your article history, your opinion seems to be very simple structured: "bad" => "left", "good" => "right". I.e., no much use in discussing such issues further with you. By god, what must it be to live in such a one-dimensional state of mind?! (You don't need to answer, that's a rhetorical question.)
Addition to his first law (not by AC himself): "Except he can proof it and the axioms are appropriate for the case."
I love the guys who still think they can solve the halting problem, due to statements as AC's First Law. Well, I love viewing them, unmasking themselves as dumb idiots; I don't like it if I must work with such folks.
I'm 42, and have been a assistant professor in the past. I have 24 years of experience in the IT area, 22 of them related to databases. Related to me, he is a kid. Now, I'm a CEO of a mid-size IT company, and I wouldn't give a job to somebody like him. Yes, there is a difference between a DBA who is responsible for databases of automotive or banking companies -- that's those I most often work with -- and those who do the work as a student. (They would never get the job there.)
When somebody expresses an opinion on software, he must explain it -- otherwise it remains just this: an unsubstiantiated opinion. To post such unsubstiantiated opinions is typical of kids, too. That was actually what I was attacking, not the opinion itself: That the GP did neither tell us what his grand "DBA experience" is, nor that he told us any situation where he would prefer MySQL over other DBMSs. He just announced his preference.
And, reread my post, I gave two reasons why I dislike the GP: (1) MySQL is not the right tool for mission-critical data, and (2) he stated an opinion without any qualifiers (you said it: one size does not fit all), and added credentials that were not qualified either. (With "qualified" I don't mean his qualification, but information about type of work and type of company he's working at.)
Your flame might be made in good faith, but is not appropriate here. I was harsh to this kid, but it was not a personal attack.
But I would prefer if IBM would support Linux for its TPs, even though they do not need to recommend it.
And with support, I mean: Work with distributors and vendors to get ACPI working, suspend-to-ram working (incl. accelerated graphics, USB, Ethernet, WLAN, etc.), suspend-to-disk working, battery life prolongation to the same level of Windows, graphics performance w/support of suspend.
For the record: I do own TPs, several of them, and on my T20 and my T41 I even run Linux. But it's a hella lot of work to make it functional.
You might make a living as a DBA, but not for mission-critical data of a company. Or, if you do so, that company is seriously screwed.
But perhaps you learn something about data integrity and data format checks in the last 1/3rd of your way to a CS Master.
There's always reason to hope, even with CS students.
Btw, you know that you don't do yourself a favor for your future career? I check everybody who's applying on Google. Posts like yours make for quick decisions. (Kid, before you're flaming: The issue is not that you use MySQL; the issue is that you declared your MySQL preference without any qualifiers and with your work-as-student DBA experience as justification.)
That doesn't matter. The slashdot crowd don't know who Brad Myers is and don't care about his type of research (cutting-edge HUI research, not development or product creation).
1 : Red Herring. People who receive this treatment are generally whining or complaining. That's a way to shrug them off, because developers have no time to waste with such people. People who want to help post on bugzilla, explain to the author, tell him about the problem, without feeling compelled to say that the product "sucks".
That's certainly the case sometimes, but not always. Several times I've gotten the "You want it, you write it" reply when requesting new features, like supporting a database other than MySQL. If the developers would reply "I just don't have time to add this feature, I have to focus on supporting the stuff most people have or prefer," that's fine.
You are both right.
The reply "I don't have time" or even simply "Sorry, I do not want to work on this feature" should be fine. For many, it isn't. They come in with the same topic again and again. Once can either ignore them, or one can ridicule them. Of coures, both isn't polite -- but the latter often happens to people who are particularly unfriendly in the start. And that's what the GP poster meant with "shrug off", IMO.
As an example: I maintain xindy, an indexing processor written in Common Lisp. I was approached multiple times by people who want an implementation in another programming language (typically Perl, Python, Java, or C). The answer "sorry, but I don't want to spend my time for this" is OK for most of them -- but in the past some didn't stop to send flames to the mailing list about me "being so unresponsive". For them, the answer "Hey, do it yourself, or find willing contributors for this task. But DO NOT come back asking me. I will immediately give you the commit rights in the project's CVS if you want to engage." was much more appropriate, as it stopped their flaming on the mailing list. Some people only get it if one is very frank.
In large scale database deployments (e.g., last year I was involved in a bank project with 40,000+ programs accessing 100+ TB), all access is done via views.
Integrated vacuuming is quite new, so I wouldn't use it for mission-critical data. In addition, 7.5 will change it again. (Or was it 7.6? I only read a note on PostgreSQL news, linked to from LWN. I don't follow development plans closely enough.)
But please use other examples than the Palme d'Or. He didn't get the price because it was an anti-Bush polemic, but despite it was an anti-Bush polemic.
The awards commitee seriously had their doubts; as they knew exactly what has happened: that many US folks think the award is a political statement and/or French propaganda. It's well documented that this has not been the case.
I would never ever drink coffee that has been in a thermos for more than half an hour.
In fact, I'm reluctant to drink that bitter stuff at all. This is no Real Coffee(tm). I have an Espresso machine here, of course; as all serious coffee aficionados will have.
Marcus Ranum's advice is never to believe for a magic bullet. He's too long in the business, longer than you by a probability of \approx 1.
You don't seem to recognize the name of the person who wrote the world's first firewall (fwtk) and who is one of the most outspoken security gurus, do you?
One might not agree with his opinion (I do not in many points), but to reduce his arguments (that most development tools give no support for security properties of software systems, but should) to some rambling about "M$" just shows your unprofessionality.
As I wrote, I know ulogd and hack on it myself.
ulog-php is not able to create views on the logs, and is not configurable. That's the real advantage of SmartTracker.
I'm missing a good firewall log interface, both to create logs and to view them. I want to be able to
configure what fields are logged,
configure what fields are shown to me,
configure what records are shown to me,
configure if conversion from raw to symbolic values happen or not (e.g., hostname lookup, services lookup, etc.),
save those view configurations and be able to reuse them later
auto update with new log entries (like less -F, but with the above features)
Checkpoint's FW-1/VPN-1 is a dubious product in terms of security and licensing woes, but SmartTracker is an interesting log viewer.
Anybody got similar functionality for iptables? I've looked around, but found nothing. I'm even now hacking new ulogd plugin to give me at least feature (1).
What these tools don't do is event correlation.
Data warehouses and BI report tools are nice for this. And that's where the money comes in, such tools come bundled with Tivoli, Unicenter, and BMC Patrol.
In addition, they're much more scalable. We do Nagios deployments for a living; but we will not propose to use it for a network of 50,000 devices. For that, other tools are needed. These other tools are expensive to buy, and even more expensive to deploy. But with them and good people, you have a chance to succeed.
Of course, if one doesn't use the correlation and reporting facilities; and if one has only a few hundred or a few thousand systems to manage - then Open Source solutions are a real boost. But these are small- to mid-size installations, not big ones.
The sign of a good crafts man is that he knows when to select the right tools.
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Why don't I have mod points and can mod you Insightful?
Today, Solaris ships with all those packages that you named, and most other OSS. For the rest, there's sunfreeware.com, supported by Sun.
Great! Thanks for this hint.
Often, when I come across an interesting link, I just open it in a browser window or in a tab and place it minimized on my desktop somewhere; to be read at a later time when it's more convenient. When Mozilla or Firefox crash, which still happens too often, these "read for later" links are lost.
Seriously, this kind of behaviour is observable in all trades, not only with computers. Sometimes one has no other choice than to put up with such lousy attitudes, sometimes one has other choices. (We switched the carpenter...)
I would like to try Firefox. Where is a version that's built for glibc 2.2? (I'm using SuSE 8.1, and this installation is just a bit more than a year old. I consider installations of such an age not as new any more, but still as current.) Demanding glibc 2.3 is not a Good Thing(tm), IMO.
The switch goes away from a format that is rougly ISO 6801, minus the punctionation, to UTC. Interestingly, the new format will wrap earlier now. (In 2038, instead of 2148.)
But looking at your article history, your opinion seems to be very simple structured: "bad" => "left", "good" => "right". I.e., no much use in discussing such issues further with you. By god, what must it be to live in such a one-dimensional state of mind?! (You don't need to answer, that's a rhetorical question.)
Ever heard of Hitler, or Mussolini? Or do you claim they're leftist?
But who I'm to tell -- I'm from Germany. And according to your definition, we had never to do anything with fascism, did we?
I love the guys who still think they can solve the halting problem, due to statements as AC's First Law. Well, I love viewing them, unmasking themselves as dumb idiots; I don't like it if I must work with such folks.
I don't even understand your remark. But this might be because I'm not a native English speaker.
When somebody expresses an opinion on software, he must explain it -- otherwise it remains just this: an unsubstiantiated opinion. To post such unsubstiantiated opinions is typical of kids, too. That was actually what I was attacking, not the opinion itself: That the GP did neither tell us what his grand "DBA experience" is, nor that he told us any situation where he would prefer MySQL over other DBMSs. He just announced his preference.
And, reread my post, I gave two reasons why I dislike the GP: (1) MySQL is not the right tool for mission-critical data, and (2) he stated an opinion without any qualifiers (you said it: one size does not fit all), and added credentials that were not qualified either. (With "qualified" I don't mean his qualification, but information about type of work and type of company he's working at.)
Your flame might be made in good faith, but is not appropriate here. I was harsh to this kid, but it was not a personal attack.
And with support, I mean: Work with distributors and vendors to get ACPI working, suspend-to-ram working (incl. accelerated graphics, USB, Ethernet, WLAN, etc.), suspend-to-disk working, battery life prolongation to the same level of Windows, graphics performance w/support of suspend.
For the record: I do own TPs, several of them, and on my T20 and my T41 I even run Linux. But it's a hella lot of work to make it functional.
But perhaps you learn something about data integrity and data format checks in the last 1/3rd of your way to a CS Master. There's always reason to hope, even with CS students.
Btw, you know that you don't do yourself a favor for your future career? I check everybody who's applying on Google. Posts like yours make for quick decisions. (Kid, before you're flaming: The issue is not that you use MySQL; the issue is that you declared your MySQL preference without any qualifiers and with your work-as-student DBA experience as justification.)
Strange people exist... ;-)
That doesn't matter. The slashdot crowd don't know who Brad Myers is and don't care about his type of research (cutting-edge HUI research, not development or product creation).
The reply "I don't have time" or even simply "Sorry, I do not want to work on this feature" should be fine. For many, it isn't. They come in with the same topic again and again. Once can either ignore them, or one can ridicule them. Of coures, both isn't polite -- but the latter often happens to people who are particularly unfriendly in the start. And that's what the GP poster meant with "shrug off", IMO.
As an example: I maintain xindy, an indexing processor written in Common Lisp. I was approached multiple times by people who want an implementation in another programming language (typically Perl, Python, Java, or C). The answer "sorry, but I don't want to spend my time for this" is OK for most of them -- but in the past some didn't stop to send flames to the mailing list about me "being so unresponsive". For them, the answer "Hey, do it yourself, or find willing contributors for this task. But DO NOT come back asking me. I will immediately give you the commit rights in the project's CVS if you want to engage." was much more appropriate, as it stopped their flaming on the mailing list. Some people only get it if one is very frank.
In large scale database deployments (e.g., last year I was involved in a bank project with 40,000+ programs accessing 100+ TB), all access is done via views.
Integrated vacuuming is quite new, so I wouldn't use it for mission-critical data. In addition, 7.5 will change it again. (Or was it 7.6? I only read a note on PostgreSQL news, linked to from LWN. I don't follow development plans closely enough.)
Yes, Saddam is a war-monger. Why is that an argument against Bush being a war-monger, too?
But please use other examples than the Palme d'Or. He didn't get the price because it was an anti-Bush polemic, but despite it was an anti-Bush polemic.
The awards commitee seriously had their doubts; as they knew exactly what has happened: that many US folks think the award is a political statement and/or French propaganda. It's well documented that this has not been the case.
In fact, I'm reluctant to drink that bitter stuff at all. This is no Real Coffee(tm). I have an Espresso machine here, of course; as all serious coffee aficionados will have.
You don't seem to recognize the name of the person who wrote the world's first firewall (fwtk) and who is one of the most outspoken security gurus, do you?
One might not agree with his opinion (I do not in many points), but to reduce his arguments (that most development tools give no support for security properties of software systems, but should) to some rambling about "M$" just shows your unprofessionality.
As I wrote, I know ulogd and hack on it myself. ulog-php is not able to create views on the logs, and is not configurable. That's the real advantage of SmartTracker.
- configure what fields are logged,
- configure what fields are shown to me,
- configure what records are shown to me,
- configure if conversion from raw to symbolic values happen or not (e.g., hostname lookup, services lookup, etc.),
- save those view configurations and be able to reuse them later
- auto update with new log entries (like less -F, but with the above features)
Checkpoint's FW-1/VPN-1 is a dubious product in terms of security and licensing woes, but SmartTracker is an interesting log viewer.Anybody got similar functionality for iptables? I've looked around, but found nothing. I'm even now hacking new ulogd plugin to give me at least feature (1).
In addition, they're much more scalable. We do Nagios deployments for a living; but we will not propose to use it for a network of 50,000 devices. For that, other tools are needed. These other tools are expensive to buy, and even more expensive to deploy. But with them and good people, you have a chance to succeed.
Of course, if one doesn't use the correlation and reporting facilities; and if one has only a few hundred or a few thousand systems to manage - then Open Source solutions are a real boost. But these are small- to mid-size installations, not big ones.
The sign of a good crafts man is that he knows when to select the right tools.