I don't think it has to do so much with complexity or simplicity or anything like that, but actually more to do with the appearance of simplicity. MySQL has a ton of really good documentation in many places on the web, whereas Postgres has a crappy online manual that even folks with years of experience with other dbs find confusing (like, um, me).
Also, for select intensive applications MySQL is faster. And you don't need to worry about optimizations like you need to with postgresql. Vacuum? I don't even do that to my house.
Throw parted into the mix and then you've got an argument. Upgrading from win95 to win2k is a lot easier when you can convert a 2GB fat16 partition to fat32 and then make it grow to fill the rest of the drive. Just make sure you've got Win95C or you won't be booting anymore (a and b can't read fat32).
I set SUS up at my organization as well, and it works great, as long as you don't rely on it for critical patches. If something on par with the welchia/blaster rpc stuff comes up, we couple the mighty power of SUS with SMS and send the patch out two ways. Follow that up with a script scanning your network for machines that aren't patched yet and then net send them harrassing messages until they patch them. This dual method approach has saved me many a late night patch fest.
If you don't have SMS there are other ways, including login scripts and AD policies.
You can use my favorite backup method. Burn everything of importance to a CD. Let said CD sit on your desk with no label or case to keep it from becoming scratched like a mofo. When CD is unreadable, its time for another backup. Sure, it might take a few CD's to backup 120GB, but that's what that 40x burner is for.
In sincerity, I think NTI makes a backup program for Windows that'll burn a whole bunch of data across multiple CDs in a compressed format. Check it out if you're into that Windows thing. Even supports DVD burners.
I have a job working at a small private college. Sure, the pay is less than industry, but the environment is amazing. Actually enjoying your education might be a prereq however.;)
CDE is simple and beautiful. Sure, its not an entire feature plentiful graphical environment, but for what it does, it does well and in an elegant manner. Things like start menus are pathetic attempts at copying CDE's drawer-like menus. I don't use CDE an awful lot anymore, KDE has some things that prove very useful, but I still miss those niftly menus.
ran fine for me, that is until it crashed.;)
i did the upgrade from 8.0 rather than a clean install, and am using my old kernel for reasons that don't concern this discussion. ran fine, albeit very slowly, and crash as soon as i started playing with settings.
i agree... battery life in a notebook and many other devices is pathetic. they weigh an awful lot, some of them need to be fully drained for optimum battery longevity, the list goes on. nobody's done anything "revolutionary" in the world of power sources for decades. Li-ion is nice in that you can top it off whenever, but its still heavy and they still do die in about a year with normal to heavy use.
My first year at a small private college I probably helped half my dorm get on the network. I thought about charging for my "services," but it was payment enough to get to know everyone in my dorm.
Switch upgrades, VLAN changes, new dorms, added bandwidth, packet shapers, I could go on and on... I've been working for a small private college in Minnesota for about a year, and this is just a small list of major changes we've made to the network in the past year, mostly over the summer.
Um, while really neato transition effects might not work perfectly, SO's presentation software is so much less bloated than Powerpoint its unbelievable. Try converting a presentation to html in powerpoint, then convert it to html in SO. You'll notice a *huge* difference in design appeal and bloat. Also, a client of mine handed me a 90MB powerpoint presentation that SO cut down to around 5MB with very little loss of quality (none to the untrained eye).
they seem to be doing a good job of it too. I particularly find the european focus of the 200m interesting. linux started in europe, makes sense to keep a lot of development in europe.
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I don't think it has to do so much with complexity or simplicity or anything like that, but actually more to do with the appearance of simplicity. MySQL has a ton of really good documentation in many places on the web, whereas Postgres has a crappy online manual that even folks with years of experience with other dbs find confusing (like, um, me).
Also, for select intensive applications MySQL is faster. And you don't need to worry about optimizations like you need to with postgresql. Vacuum? I don't even do that to my house.
Yes, Netscape was first. However, the most recent version of Netscape was based off of the Firefox branch, not the Mozilla suite.
Throw parted into the mix and then you've got an argument. Upgrading from win95 to win2k is a lot easier when you can convert a 2GB fat16 partition to fat32 and then make it grow to fill the rest of the drive. Just make sure you've got Win95C or you won't be booting anymore (a and b can't read fat32).
I set SUS up at my organization as well, and it works great, as long as you don't rely on it for critical patches. If something on par with the welchia/blaster rpc stuff comes up, we couple the mighty power of SUS with SMS and send the patch out two ways. Follow that up with a script scanning your network for machines that aren't patched yet and then net send them harrassing messages until they patch them. This dual method approach has saved me many a late night patch fest.
If you don't have SMS there are other ways, including login scripts and AD policies.
You can use my favorite backup method. Burn everything of importance to a CD. Let said CD sit on your desk with no label or case to keep it from becoming scratched like a mofo. When CD is unreadable, its time for another backup. Sure, it might take a few CD's to backup 120GB, but that's what that 40x burner is for.
In sincerity, I think NTI makes a backup program for Windows that'll burn a whole bunch of data across multiple CDs in a compressed format. Check it out if you're into that Windows thing. Even supports DVD burners.
Won't touch OS X until window focus can follow the mouse. Sorry.
I have a job working at a small private college. Sure, the pay is less than industry, but the environment is amazing. Actually enjoying your education might be a prereq however. ;)
CDE is simple and beautiful. Sure, its not an entire feature plentiful graphical environment, but for what it does, it does well and in an elegant manner. Things like start menus are pathetic attempts at copying CDE's drawer-like menus. I don't use CDE an awful lot anymore, KDE has some things that prove very useful, but I still miss those niftly menus.
ran fine for me, that is until it crashed. ;)
i did the upgrade from 8.0 rather than a clean install, and am using my old kernel for reasons that don't concern this discussion. ran fine, albeit very slowly, and crash as soon as i started playing with settings.
i agree... battery life in a notebook and many other devices is pathetic. they weigh an awful lot, some of them need to be fully drained for optimum battery longevity, the list goes on. nobody's done anything "revolutionary" in the world of power sources for decades. Li-ion is nice in that you can top it off whenever, but its still heavy and they still do die in about a year with normal to heavy use.
My first year at a small private college I probably helped half my dorm get on the network. I thought about charging for my "services," but it was payment enough to get to know everyone in my dorm.
Switch upgrades, VLAN changes, new dorms, added bandwidth, packet shapers, I could go on and on... I've been working for a small private college in Minnesota for about a year, and this is just a small list of major changes we've made to the network in the past year, mostly over the summer.
> And forget about presentations!
Um, while really neato transition effects might not work perfectly, SO's presentation software is so much less bloated than Powerpoint its unbelievable. Try converting a presentation to html in powerpoint, then convert it to html in SO. You'll notice a *huge* difference in design appeal and bloat. Also, a client of mine handed me a 90MB powerpoint presentation that SO cut down to around 5MB with very little loss of quality (none to the untrained eye).
here's an article on that technology... http://www.lantimes.com/97/97jul/707a020b.h tml
they seem to be doing a good job of it too. I particularly find the european focus of the 200m interesting. linux started in europe, makes sense to keep a lot of development in europe.
i think taco said on a geeks in space (don't remember which one) that they will eventually release it when its ready, whatever that means.