I don't run a datacenter, but I sure would like to get rid of the power bricks that all small electronic appliances seem to come with these days!
Still, you make a good point - if they all used a standardised voltage, polarity, and plug, then we'd have seen elegant solutions for DC power distribution appear ages ago, both for the home and the datacentre.
Exactly. He was in fact explicitly supporting embryonic stem-cell research, it's just been translated badly. "Little children" should have been "embryos", and everyone knows that the "kingdom of heaven" was actually Jesus's stem-cell research lab.
1. Find out the vendor and device IDs of the USB devices (can't be too hard, probably will show up on Wikileaks soon enough)
2. Modify the USB ports with an extra, switch-on-offabble connection to the PSU (some USB devices are pretty power hungry these days)
3. Write a "driver" for the police dongle that makes use of this extra functionality
Or...
3. Write a "driver" for the police dongle that uploads child porn to it, but makes it register a clean scan. Then when they take it back with them it downloads the child porn back on to their PCs.
I don't know why everyone is getting so excited about private spaceflight as if it's a new thing. Arianespace have been around since 1980 and have pretty much cornered the market in satellite launches.
You are both essentially in agreement, and what you're saying boils down to "I'm used to X, and when I tried to do the same thing with Y, which I'm not used to, it took me longer that it would have done with X". It doesn't really say anything about either MySQL or Postgres.
I've used both systems a fair bit. As a sysadmin I find MySQL easier to work with, because the way the data files closely mirror the structure of the database, and it doesn't mind too much if you tar up a database, copy it over to another machine, and start it up. Postgres's on-disk format is by comparison pretty obtuse, and if you get data corruption it's a lot harder to recover from. (Of course if you're doing it properly you've got battery-backed RAID and periodic hot backups to restore from, but this isn't always within budget or the data isn't that important).
When I've got my developer hat on I prefer Postgres because it's more strict and more predictable and feels a lot more refined.
If you've got any names of service providers that are offering this kind of deal I'd be very grateful if you could send them my way. I've been looking into various options to get some serious bandwidth into our London office and the best I've found so far was almost £30k a year for a 100Mbit point-to-point metro ethernet link.
Thank you, that was exactly the point that I wanted to make. This weekend, Rolf Heuer still gave summer 2009 as the restarting date, I do not understand why they aren't more open about the damage that was caused by the incident.
My guess is that they want to avoid the inevitable negative press coverage. What with everyone bleating on about "the economy" at the moment, it could get quite political with people calling for less public money to be spent (or "wasted") on projects like this. Of course the amount that the LHC has cost is pretty tiny when you consider the number of countries that are involved, and the money already spent would most definitely have been a waste if the project was canned, but when did anyone let facts and reason get in the way of a nice little political shit-storm?
They're just keeping quiet and drawing as little attention to themselves as possible... probably quite sensible.
With all of that, you'd think I was truly enamored with GCC. Let's just say that when I'm developing software with GCC and my wife walks into the room, I feel a little uncomfortable.
Agreed, but probably best to wait for 8.10. 8.04 falls quite short in terms of hardware support for netbooks. It is possible to get them about 85% working with a lot of manual tweaking. 8.10's newer kernel works much better with netbook hardware, and the netbook remix packages are also much better integrated.
I also hear that Fedora 10 works nicely with netbooks, if that's your thing.. personally I much prefer something Debian based.
The thing I dislike about xkcd is the cringeworthy lameness of it, which crosses the line (as this site often does) from 'geeky but interesting' to 'jesus, I hope your nerdiness doesn't rub off on me'.
I disagree, although I do see where you're coming from as this is pretty much exactly how I feel about User Friendly. XKCD does have it's slightly lame/cringe moments but for the most part it's inspired observational comedy imho.
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But how will they know what to buy?
A DTV box and/or a new TV, obviously.
But, but, then how do you plug it into the UPS? Priorities man!
It's got its own UPS :)
I don't run a datacenter, but I sure would like to get rid of the power bricks that all small electronic appliances seem to come with these days!
Still, you make a good point - if they all used a standardised voltage, polarity, and plug, then we'd have seen elegant solutions for DC power distribution appear ages ago, both for the home and the datacentre.
Of course, your boss will fire you when he plugs in a 120VAC coffee pot and it explodes in his face.
Yeah, but you don't take a coffee pot into the datacenter.
Come to think of it, you don't take the boss into the datacenter either...
who uses FreeBSD anymore?
Lots of people. All Juniper products' firmware is FreeBSD based, for example.
Exactly. He was in fact explicitly supporting embryonic stem-cell research, it's just been translated badly. "Little children" should have been "embryos", and everyone knows that the "kingdom of heaven" was actually Jesus's stem-cell research lab.
Been watching Distant Origin?
That would be four-flushing. The term originated in poker.
I'd like to think it refers to someone who lays turds that are so full of gas it takes four flushes to get rid of them.
Citrix?
The guys that sell proprietary, incompatible, inferior OpenVPN replacement and proprietary, incompatible, inferior VNC replacement?
Licensing aside, how do you come to the conclusion that is VNC superior to Citrix?
1. Find out the vendor and device IDs of the USB devices (can't be too hard, probably will show up on Wikileaks soon enough)
2. Modify the USB ports with an extra, switch-on-offabble connection to the PSU (some USB devices are pretty power hungry these days)
3. Write a "driver" for the police dongle that makes use of this extra functionality
Or...
3. Write a "driver" for the police dongle that uploads child porn to it, but makes it register a clean scan. Then when they take it back with them it downloads the child porn back on to their PCs.
4. ...
5. Profit!!! (a good laugh counts as profit)
Yup, I'm running DD-WRT on a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 in client bridge mode. S'alright.
I don't know why everyone is getting so excited about private spaceflight as if it's a new thing. Arianespace have been around since 1980 and have pretty much cornered the market in satellite launches.
As an addendum, an accidental "Net Send" to a domain rather than your buddy will also get you noticed ;)
Heh, I saw that happen in a call centre once. They were a lot less understanding than a college would have been...
You are both essentially in agreement, and what you're saying boils down to "I'm used to X, and when I tried to do the same thing with Y, which I'm not used to, it took me longer that it would have done with X". It doesn't really say anything about either MySQL or Postgres.
I've used both systems a fair bit. As a sysadmin I find MySQL easier to work with, because the way the data files closely mirror the structure of the database, and it doesn't mind too much if you tar up a database, copy it over to another machine, and start it up. Postgres's on-disk format is by comparison pretty obtuse, and if you get data corruption it's a lot harder to recover from. (Of course if you're doing it properly you've got battery-backed RAID and periodic hot backups to restore from, but this isn't always within budget or the data isn't that important).
When I've got my developer hat on I prefer Postgres because it's more strict and more predictable and feels a lot more refined.
Preferences come down to what you're used to.
not to get too pedantic, but that should be an echo-reply.
bad puns should really be a SYN.
I quite agree. Everyone was out of order when they arrived at this thread, but things could be amicably resolved with a three-way handshake.
If you've got any names of service providers that are offering this kind of deal I'd be very grateful if you could send them my way. I've been looking into various options to get some serious bandwidth into our London office and the best I've found so far was almost £30k a year for a 100Mbit point-to-point metro ethernet link.
Thank you, that was exactly the point that I wanted to make. This weekend, Rolf Heuer still gave summer 2009 as the restarting date,
I do not understand why they aren't more open about the damage that was caused by the incident.
My guess is that they want to avoid the inevitable negative press coverage. What with everyone bleating on about "the economy" at the moment, it could get quite political with people calling for less public money to be spent (or "wasted") on projects like this. Of course the amount that the LHC has cost is pretty tiny when you consider the number of countries that are involved, and the money already spent would most definitely have been a waste if the project was canned, but when did anyone let facts and reason get in the way of a nice little political shit-storm?
They're just keeping quiet and drawing as little attention to themselves as possible... probably quite sensible.
But you don't pay to drive on a freeway, and that's pretty expensive to keep up. You don't pay the cost of the pollution you emit either.
we do...
Sounds reasonable.
Seriously! From TFA:
Yeah, GCC 4 has more backends, the little slut.
Agreed, but probably best to wait for 8.10. 8.04 falls quite short in terms of hardware support for netbooks. It is possible to get them about 85% working with a lot of manual tweaking. 8.10's newer kernel works much better with netbook hardware, and the netbook remix packages are also much better integrated.
I also hear that Fedora 10 works nicely with netbooks, if that's your thing.. personally I much prefer something Debian based.
How about cat shit coffee?
I'm glad the 'not being a moron' thing worked out for you. But, what would you suggest to those in the audience that cannot claim the same. :-)
OS X?
I don't get what all the whinging about idle is about. Can't you just disable it in your preferences?
The thing I dislike about xkcd is the cringeworthy lameness of it, which crosses the line (as this site often does) from 'geeky but interesting' to 'jesus, I hope your nerdiness doesn't rub off on me'.
I disagree, although I do see where you're coming from as this is pretty much exactly how I feel about User Friendly. XKCD does have it's slightly lame/cringe moments but for the most part it's inspired observational comedy imho.