I think anyone doing even a cursory examination that a major contributor to aggressive and belligerent behavior is TESTOSTERONE... Yeah, let's ban testosterone! It'll be like the Teletubbies!
You aren't forgiven of your sins until you confess them (admission and repentance). It is implicitly assumed in confession that you will try not to commit those past sins again (determination). Then (for lesser sins) you are usually directed to pray the rosary several times to receive forgiveness (acts of atonement). Well, that's alright then!
I'd love to see proper multi-master replication on MySQL, I can't see any other way of doing an HA setup on an insert-heavy database (something I'm currently looking into). As it is, replication is a bit sketchy, it completely falls over on a few things that it shouldn't - delayed inserts and temporary tables, to name two. I think they've addressed some of the problems in 5.1 with a hybrid of SQL-based and row-based replication but haven't tried it out yet (mainly due to Debian only being on 5.0)... anybody have any experience of this?
Remember that when multiuser system starts choking due to unoptimized process handling code. Linux can run on setups that differ from your single user workstation. I know this all too well and had this in mind in my original post, most of my Linux work is on servers (although I do have a Linux workstation) - being able to reserve/restrict I/O and CPU per user or better still per website and database would be like, totally useful.
Linux really doesn't need a new process scheduler. What it could really do with is I/O prioritisation. Windows now has it, so there's no excuse. CPU power is fairly abundant these days so managing its usage is less of an issue than it used to be, but I/O bandwidth is often in short supply and I/O-bound applications can choke a system and make interactive processes a pain in the ass to use. I'd like to see some way of reserving and limiting bandwidth to particular devices for particular processes. And an equivalent of "top" for monitoring processes' I/O activity would also be extremely handy... as far as I know, the system calls don't even exist in the kernel to do this yet.
Same in the UK. We've had lovely weather for about two weeks and completely clear skies at night but this is guaranteed to put a stop to it. Come to think of it, it was a bit colder this morning...
It claims to be able to proxy and load balance database connections, supports different database backends and implements the PHP APIs for MySQL and PostgreSQL itself, so you can use it as a drop in replacement. In theory it should be possible to use it to talk to PostgreSQL using the MySQL API. I was planning to check it out with a view to moving some MySQL/PHP sites over to Postgres, but never did (and don't work at that place any more), so I can't vouch for how well it achieves this.
Alternatively people could just learn some manners and consideration for others. It's not hard to make/take a phone call in a public place discreetly and quietly without intruding on anyone else's day. That said, putting all the children together and all the phone users together (at opposite ends of the plane please - I'd much rather listen to a phone call than a baby) wouldn't be a bad idea at all.
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Have you ever stopped to consider that if 90% of your "debug problems", as you'd call it, are in such simple syntactical structures like for loops, you might want to learn to type? This is a typically elitist attitude that the IT world could really do with a lot less of IMHO.
Not everybody's lucky enough to have your advanced level of hand-eye coordination - some people make a lot of typos - if their tools help them pick them up and correct them, what's wrong with that?
Has it occurred to you that this is Regeneration number 10 for the doctor if you count Paul McGann? He has two more, then what will they do? Yeah, tell me about it, it's stressing me right out. I haven't slept for days!
The first vendor to deliver a $200 computer with nothing but free software on it is going to win big time and there's nothing M$ will be able to do about it. Didn't Walmart do exactly that a couple of years back, with Lindows preinstalled?
I seem to remember it wasn't such a huge success... although I could be wrong as I live in the UK and haven't seen first-hand how popular they are, but I certainly haven't read anything about them in ages.
If he was being ironic, then MAN he made a good impression of a pissed-off Debian nut.
Egg on my face...:) If that's a good pissed-off Debian nut impression, I'd love to see his pissed-off FreeBSD nut impression... or even better, Gentoo...
It's early days at the moment - they're still basically trying to get their heads round the whole concept of preinstalling Linux as an actual possibility for them, hence this survey. They're a long way off from actually coming out with any new product lines with Linux. Just because they've had such a big response from their "IdeaStorm" site doesn't mean they're ready to denounce Microsoft and turn all fluffy and Linux-loving overnight - it'd be an extremely risky business move and just wouldn't make sense.
Several thousand Linux users flaming them about their continued close relationship with Microsoft, which, let's be realistic, isn't going away any time soon - is only going to hurt the cause by making the Linux community come across as arrogant, self-righteous, and impossible to please.
Maybe if it was learnt from birth like a spoken language, yeah.. but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that brains just aren't made to handle regular patterns (such as you might find on an ethernet cable...) and cope much better with making sense out of chaotic input. That's what we've evolved to cope with after all. Of course there are exceptions like expecting a certain day and year length, but again that's what we've evolved to live with. Epileptic fits are often triggered by patterns like flashing lights or sounds, kind of sends the brain into a spasm because it doesn't know how to deal with it. And even if you're not epileptic, nobody really likes looking at bright flashing lights for any length of time or hearing loud repetitive sounds (unless you're a raver of course!)
Yes - there's economies of scale involved with Java, it comes into its own in huge server-side applications... the startup time and overhead are nothing compared to the benefits you get from the built-in memory management and dynamic re-optimisation. It often works out faster and more memory efficient than the C/C++ equivalent.
Further information: according the the man page the ln command can make hard links to directories, but root privledges are required.
Not on my Linux workstation here (Ubuntu)...
From "ln --help":
-d, -F, --directory allow the superuser to attempt to hard link
directories (note: will probably fail due to
system restrictions, even for the superuser)
And sure enough...
# mkdir a # ln a b ln: `a': hard link not allowed for directory # ln -d a b ln: creating hard link `b' to `a': Operation not permitted
WTF is a "Pug", I thought that was a kind of dog? Anyway, I am amazed at how much you seem to know about me and my opinions from just seven words. I am not counting the Iraqi deaths against Saddam, I'm just counting them. If Iraq hadn't been invaded then they wouldn't have happened, and neither would Saddam's death sentence, so when the OP mentioned 5000 American deaths I thought it needed putting into perspective.
Interesting links anyway, shame you had to be so patronising when you posted them.
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I'd love to see proper multi-master replication on MySQL, I can't see any other way of doing an HA setup on an insert-heavy database (something I'm currently looking into). As it is, replication is a bit sketchy, it completely falls over on a few things that it shouldn't - delayed inserts and temporary tables, to name two. I think they've addressed some of the problems in 5.1 with a hybrid of SQL-based and row-based replication but haven't tried it out yet (mainly due to Debian only being on 5.0)... anybody have any experience of this?
Linux really doesn't need a new process scheduler. What it could really do with is I/O prioritisation. Windows now has it, so there's no excuse. CPU power is fairly abundant these days so managing its usage is less of an issue than it used to be, but I/O bandwidth is often in short supply and I/O-bound applications can choke a system and make interactive processes a pain in the ass to use. I'd like to see some way of reserving and limiting bandwidth to particular devices for particular processes. And an equivalent of "top" for monitoring processes' I/O activity would also be extremely handy... as far as I know, the system calls don't even exist in the kernel to do this yet.
Same in the UK. We've had lovely weather for about two weeks and completely clear skies at night but this is guaranteed to put a stop to it. Come to think of it, it was a bit colder this morning...
My SpeedTouch ADSL router (cheap and cheerful ISP supplied one... for now) doesn't support this, I've tried. TCP and UDP only.
Take a look at this - http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/
It claims to be able to proxy and load balance database connections, supports different database backends and implements the PHP APIs for MySQL and PostgreSQL itself, so you can use it as a drop in replacement. In theory it should be possible to use it to talk to PostgreSQL using the MySQL API. I was planning to check it out with a view to moving some MySQL/PHP sites over to Postgres, but never did (and don't work at that place any more), so I can't vouch for how well it achieves this.
Alternatively people could just learn some manners and consideration for others. It's not hard to make/take a phone call in a public place discreetly and quietly without intruding on anyone else's day. That said, putting all the children together and all the phone users together (at opposite ends of the plane please - I'd much rather listen to a phone call than a baby) wouldn't be a bad idea at all.
Not everybody's lucky enough to have your advanced level of hand-eye coordination - some people make a lot of typos - if their tools help them pick them up and correct them, what's wrong with that?
This sounds like a total hassle. What's wrong with proper package management? (I'm not trying to troll, I'd really like to know!)
I seem to remember it wasn't such a huge success... although I could be wrong as I live in the UK and haven't seen first-hand how popular they are, but I certainly haven't read anything about them in ages.
Egg on my face...
Don't you think that's a bit of an overreaction?
It's early days at the moment - they're still basically trying to get their heads round the whole concept of preinstalling Linux as an actual possibility for them, hence this survey. They're a long way off from actually coming out with any new product lines with Linux. Just because they've had such a big response from their "IdeaStorm" site doesn't mean they're ready to denounce Microsoft and turn all fluffy and Linux-loving overnight - it'd be an extremely risky business move and just wouldn't make sense.
Several thousand Linux users flaming them about their continued close relationship with Microsoft, which, let's be realistic, isn't going away any time soon - is only going to hurt the cause by making the Linux community come across as arrogant, self-righteous, and impossible to please.
Maybe if it was learnt from birth like a spoken language, yeah.. but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that brains just aren't made to handle regular patterns (such as you might find on an ethernet cable...) and cope much better with making sense out of chaotic input. That's what we've evolved to cope with after all. Of course there are exceptions like expecting a certain day and year length, but again that's what we've evolved to live with. Epileptic fits are often triggered by patterns like flashing lights or sounds, kind of sends the brain into a spasm because it doesn't know how to deal with it. And even if you're not epileptic, nobody really likes looking at bright flashing lights for any length of time or hearing loud repetitive sounds (unless you're a raver of course!)
Yes - there's economies of scale involved with Java, it comes into its own in huge server-side applications... the startup time and overhead are nothing compared to the benefits you get from the built-in memory management and dynamic re-optimisation. It often works out faster and more memory efficient than the C/C++ equivalent.
Not on my Linux workstation here (Ubuntu)...
From "ln --help": And sure enough...
Here's one for all the procrastinators.... I still haven't got round to ordering one though...
Say it 20 times quickly... bet you can't.
This was inevitable, and I'm surprised it even took this long. It's DVD+/-RW all over again...
The tags are stupid and don't even make any sense most of the time. And am I the only one that's a bit confused as to what they're actually for?
ermm... let me start again.
OMG LOL tags are so cool!11 Web 2.0 r0x0rz hehehe
WTF is a "Pug", I thought that was a kind of dog? Anyway, I am amazed at how much you seem to know about me and my opinions from just seven words. I am not counting the Iraqi deaths against Saddam, I'm just counting them. If Iraq hadn't been invaded then they wouldn't have happened, and neither would Saddam's death sentence, so when the OP mentioned 5000 American deaths I thought it needed putting into perspective.
Interesting links anyway, shame you had to be so patronising when you posted them.
Are the 3000 American deaths worth the hanging of Saddam?
Not to mention the 500,000 Iraqi deaths