gborg is just a repository of projects for postgresql.
But on gborg itself you should have seen the Postgresql Replication project. Read this for a good technical summary of different types of replication and the basis for the new groundwork to implement robust, industrial strength replication for postgresql. This new project (for the 7.x series) is based on an academic implementation on the 6.x series, but looks like the 7.x core developers are working to forward port the implementation to the current series.
Mind you, there are already other replication solutions for postgresql, it's just that they aren't Good Enough(tm) for some db needs.
Heck, there's some serious technical discussion on what exactly to do on those pages, so it isn't on the Wishlist -- they're doing it already. (Is mysql's subselect being worked on or just on the Wishlist?)
As compared to mod_perl? Unlikely. The syntax is slightly different, but they all look similar, and would have similar performance boost. PHP slightly more popular for database queries, at least as "advertise" and hence your assumption of the edge. It's only perceived as having that extra edge.
If you want speedy prototyping of SQL enabled webpages, RXML from Roxen (GPL) beats them all Open Source solutions (database and host is specified in config file):
Equivalent code from mod_perl and PHP might be slightly faster, but this is higher level, easier to maintain code (once you understand the XML based RXML).
YMMV, as usual. They simplified certain things (rules) but increased the complexity of the overall game. The "dumbing down" is superficial, IMHO. e.g. Go as a board game thas "simpler" (dumber?) rules than Chess, but could be a lot more complicated than it. Besides, I believe the simplication is WotC's MtG Division's decision, not Hasbro.
They've been announcing the imminent demise of Magic as long and as often as the collapse of the Internet. AFAIK, it is one of the one line of WotC products that have huge repeat sales as compared with just-buy-the-rulebooks-and-play D&D. How many times you've bought stuff for D&D as compared with the stereotypical Magic player?
Oh yeah, if it wasn't clear, I'm still spending $ on Magic, and I think it's better than ever. For the past year or so, any way.
Interesting. But for the same exact reasons 1D commandline hasn't died out to the 2D desktop and can be more productive, the 2D desktop could be more productive than the 3D window manager.
On the other hand (no puns intended), the command line needs the keyboard. The desktop needs the mouse, even though the keyboard alone can be used. Which brings us to the 3D desktop. Without a faster interface (e.g. data glove), the mouse might not be the ideal interface for it.
Food for thought: how many people would prefer the trackpad over the rubber joystick on the notebook for extended desktop work?
Ugh. I have, and it's been a waste of time. While there are many things that are cool, they're poor substitutes of interface (gestures -- cool, but ultimately frustrating for me) and A.I. (it's easier to teach a goldfish to dance than to teach these critters anything). In the end, it feels more like work to me to find "fun" in the game.
On the other hand, I swear the critters are TEACHING ME to do all the hard work managing the villagers, while pretending to be learning from me.
"Oooh... Master wants me to water the grains, and put grain into granary. Fine, I'll do it once."
"Again?! Okay, I'll pretend to forget how to do it so Master can demonstrate it a few more times. Heheh. Then I'll do it and he'll feed me... Life is goooood!"
This says nothing, just Your Mileage May Vary, and I'm glad you liked it -- because I knew a lot of people who don't.
If I remember correctly, the 3D LucasArts games, starting from Grim Fandago (excellent!) have been done using the Lua programming language. That bar (Lua) being renamed from Scumm in Escape from Monkey Island reflects that too.
Lua the programming language, BTW, is a Open Source (but not GPL copyleft) Brazillian developed language.
Does the Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson count as Utopia or the building of one?
It isn't peachy keen all the time, but it did have: an alternative economy, longevity treatment (up to a few hundred years), a large focus on ecology of the planet.
Rather whimpsical towards the ending, and two characters at odds with each other for a couple of hundred years got finally hitched up... I guess that would qualify as "feel good" if you haven't fallen asleep at that point!
I guess screenshots wouldn't do it justice, since it's intended to move. Realism in these engines would be tied more to model animation rather than curves. Put it this way: even when you can't see the lines and corners, if it moves and turns jerkily, it's still going to look bad.
On the other hand, if you see it walk over a debris strewn floor properly, (ie. interact with environment) you shouldn't even notice the lines.
Me, I'm keeping up with Doom 3 just for keeping up with real time graphics technology. "Think of the game they could make with this!"
In a related news, a news publisher's attorney has declared his intend to persecute a number of readers based on their copyright infringement for interfering with the publisher's exclusive right to control how their news is presented and viewed. These people include:
- colour blind people.
- people reading the papers while drunk or on crack.
- people who ditched the useless Sports section without looking at the advertisements.
This is true for smaller, less involved programs. Note that the original poster said: "wxWindows... native widgets... though this approach has its own problems". These problems are trivial if you're writing a text editor or a GUI ftp client (or see below for my PS), but when your inner widgets like the Submit buttons need to conform to CSS properties (color, border sizes, etc), you'd probably end up with a lot of redundant, platform specific code.
This is what they tried to avoid at the early design stage of mozilla. The early developers HAVE tried the native widgets path and got fried, and wanted to make things better and the code more maintainable. Well, it took them quite some time and the performance will never match that of native widgets. The upside is that porting to newer platforms, e.g. BeOS would be much easier and faster.
Heck. Shades of "Low Level vs High Level Language" debates here. Let's not go there.
P.S. While I think skinnable mozilla turned out to be fine, I still think the skinnable GUIs of WinAmp, XMMS, the new Windows Media Player, ICQ client, etc sucks big time and the developers ought to be shot.
Thanks for the info, but the book I have is the Chronicles of Narnia (IIRC), which is a collection of all of the Narnia books (as thick as the entire LoTR), arranged in the order you just described. So, I did read them in that order. Funny thing is, the earlier in the chronological order, the more I like it. My waning attention contributed, perhaps?
I've bought the complete Narnia Chronicles last year after hearing good things about it for quite a while. I've struggled to finish it, and had to restart at the beginning of a few chapters a lot of times after my mind drifted off or me literally fell asleep.
Even Neil Gaiman liked it and inspired some scenes in his excellent Sandman series. Can't be that bad, right? Not so for me.
Of course, I wasn't his target audience. I'm mildy Buddhist/agnostic and well in my mid twenties. I'm very open-minded and love to read and learn about other religions, but the overall tone and content of the story is really, really uninteresting. I can pick a children's book, say, The Hobbit or even Enid Blyton's and have a fun time, but I doubt I can bring myself to open Narnia again. Lewis's tone was way too preachy, and the inspiration behind his characters are very obviously Christian, and the most irritating feature is that there isn't anything left of the plot if you take out or skim over the Christian parts. It felt like he was a preacher first, writer second.
To non-Christians who had always wanted to read Narnia, I suggesst borrowing rather than buying them. But please do, Narnia's world (not story) has inspired many a fantasy setting over the years. Bits and pieces of Barbie's world in Sandman, Ultima (Richard Garriott's game), The Neverending Story all bear similarity to Narnia.
I'm currently reading E.A. Poe's complete unabridged works. Hard to read, but still way easier than Narnia for me! ("Techy reader proclaims classic literature easier to read than a children's book! News at 11!").
In their infinite wisdom, they've decided that only Linux users get the privlidge of using Ogg. For any other platform, it has to be ported, for no good reason.
If you've been bothered to look, you'd easily find this page, where there's plenty of binaries for Linux/Unix, Windows, Macintosh and BeOS.
As for the GPL/LGPL argument: we've already a hardware player, lots of software players/editors with plugin support for the ogg/vorbis... It's the "marketshare" that's holding it back more than anything.
See Roxen for a similar, GPL'd product, using "RXML". Too bad there's not enough cool examples on that site. I don't have much experience in CFML, but I believe whatever CFML can pull off, RXML can handle better and more elegantly. BTW, RXML is XML compliant.
Great stuff for development. Incredibly easy, flexible (just gotta learn the internals), and source available.
I like Crichton, but I hated that book. The Hugo and Nebula winning novel, "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis is by far a better book on the same subject (time travel back to medieval times).
On the other hand, I didn't find Doomsday Book that good either. YMMV.
Aye. I don't use Gnome, but I can relate. It took me a while to get used WindowMaker's workspaces after getting used to Afterstep's viewports. This is waaaay back when WM first came out, and when every window manager has a pager, and _this_ one doesn't.
I finally realized that the pagers are just eye candy and eating valuable screen real estate, and workspaces are just plain BETTER and more efficient. Besides, no one complained (don't start:) )that the text-mode virtual Linux consoles has no pagers nor viewports, but people can use it just fine. Ditto for this.
The Template Toolkit encourages the seperation of code and data ala XML/XSLT whereas Mason integrates the two (by design).
Of course, YMMV, but do try out both HTML::Mason and Template before undertaking a large project based on either of them. Perl beginners, on the other hand, should stick to HTML::Mason for its simplicity.
OK, name a web browser with a resizeable preferences panel;-)
Um. Mozilla on Linux?
Of course, the pref window hints the window manager that it has no resize bar, but it isn't enforced. On my WindowMaker, I can just resize it using Meta+Right-drag, or just ask WM to maximize the window. (Yay, WindowMaker!) However, the default size's fine for me.
The one workaround for certain huge option screens like the prev poster mention is to stick it inside a scrollable vertical widget (or frame, depending on what GUI background you're used to).
On the other hand, the Category selection panel on the pref window itself has a fixed size, which might be unusable on some setups.
Even before we handle the CJK/Unicode human interface and application integration problems, Linux (don't know about the rest) should have proper support for Unicode in the kernel, especially the filesystem's filenames. What's the point of writing a Chinese document when you can only save it as 'abcde.doc'?
Granted, you could just mount/home as a UTF8 friendly VFAT/umsdos (see here for details, grep for "Unicode"), but that's a huge kludge.
And after that, we have a whole load of typical unix software AND file formats that handles files suchs as tar to fix to make them Unicode/UTF8 friendly while making sure that they are backwards-compatible.
One minor thing software developers (that's YOU) can do is to make sure that all your new software you create is UTF8 friendly. That way you'd save yourself lots of redesign problems later. It used to be 640Kbytes, then Y2K. It's Unicode now.
Back on topic, don't underestimate the influence of.tw. They've manage to dominate the popular desktop motherboards and misc. electronics market. Given the right conditions and some time, they can hugely influence the software market as well. This is the best chance for the world to break free of a certain US company's monopoly on software. After all, would you ten years ago believe that most desktop motherboards today are made in Taiwan?
From the brief glance, it seems like there are a number of rewrites of the experimental hacks in 2.4 ("Bluetooth no longer experimental", framebuffer rewrite, Video 4 Linux redesign, Generic ACPI, etc).
Mostly stuff I wouldn't use in a hurry. After all, I use Linux for stability over Windows, and really cutting-edge stuff is secondary to rock-solidiness.
Qi-Gong jumping out the window to grab a flying vehicle
Your slip is showing. Qi-Gong literally means Breath-Force in chinese (or "ki" in japanese). See those funky martial arts moves (whether in real life or Crouching Tiger)? Qi Gong. That's an inspiration for Star War's Force, of course.
Anyway, I've no problems with Obi-wan doing that. I do have plenty of problems with the Jedis NOT using the force-push to throw down the hordes of drodes surrounding them. Heck, they did it in Episode 1, why not now? Worst. Stupidity. Ever.
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But on gborg itself you should have seen the Postgresql Replication project. Read this for a good technical summary of different types of replication and the basis for the new groundwork to implement robust, industrial strength replication for postgresql. This new project (for the 7.x series) is based on an academic implementation on the 6.x series, but looks like the 7.x core developers are working to forward port the implementation to the current series.
Mind you, there are already other replication solutions for postgresql, it's just that they aren't Good Enough(tm) for some db needs.
Heck, there's some serious technical discussion on what exactly to do on those pages, so it isn't on the Wishlist -- they're doing it already. (Is mysql's subselect being worked on or just on the Wishlist?)
If you want speedy prototyping of SQL enabled webpages, RXML from Roxen (GPL) beats them all Open Source solutions (database and host is specified in config file):
Equivalent code from mod_perl and PHP might be slightly faster, but this is higher level, easier to maintain code (once you understand the XML based RXML).YMMV, as usual. They simplified certain things (rules) but increased the complexity of the overall game. The "dumbing down" is superficial, IMHO. e.g. Go as a board game thas "simpler" (dumber?) rules than Chess, but could be a lot more complicated than it. Besides, I believe the simplication is WotC's MtG Division's decision, not Hasbro.
They've been announcing the imminent demise of Magic as long and as often as the collapse of the Internet. AFAIK, it is one of the one line of WotC products that have huge repeat sales as compared with just-buy-the-rulebooks-and-play D&D. How many times you've bought stuff for D&D as compared with the stereotypical Magic player?
Oh yeah, if it wasn't clear, I'm still spending $ on Magic, and I think it's better than ever. For the past year or so, any way.
Interesting. But for the same exact reasons 1D commandline hasn't died out to the 2D desktop and can be more productive, the 2D desktop could be more productive than the 3D window manager.
On the other hand (no puns intended), the command line needs the keyboard. The desktop needs the mouse, even though the keyboard alone can be used. Which brings us to the 3D desktop. Without a faster interface (e.g. data glove), the mouse might not be the ideal interface for it.
Food for thought: how many people would prefer the trackpad over the rubber joystick on the notebook for extended desktop work?
Ugh. I have, and it's been a waste of time. While there are many things that are cool, they're poor substitutes of interface (gestures -- cool, but ultimately frustrating for me) and A.I. (it's easier to teach a goldfish to dance than to teach these critters anything). In the end, it feels more like work to me to find "fun" in the game.
On the other hand, I swear the critters are TEACHING ME to do all the hard work managing the villagers, while pretending to be learning from me.
"Oooh... Master wants me to water the grains, and put grain into granary. Fine, I'll do it once."
"Again?! Okay, I'll pretend to forget how to do it so Master can demonstrate it a few more times. Heheh. Then I'll do it and he'll feed me... Life is goooood!"
This says nothing, just Your Mileage May Vary, and I'm glad you liked it -- because I knew a lot of people who don't.
Lua the programming language, BTW, is a Open Source (but not GPL copyleft) Brazillian developed language.
Does the Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson count as Utopia or the building of one?
It isn't peachy keen all the time, but it did have: an alternative economy, longevity treatment (up to a few hundred years), a large focus on ecology of the planet.
Rather whimpsical towards the ending, and two characters at odds with each other for a couple of hundred years got finally hitched up... I guess that would qualify as "feel good" if you haven't fallen asleep at that point!
I guess screenshots wouldn't do it justice, since it's intended to move. Realism in these engines would be tied more to model animation rather than curves. Put it this way: even when you can't see the lines and corners, if it moves and turns jerkily, it's still going to look bad.
On the other hand, if you see it walk over a debris strewn floor properly, (ie. interact with environment) you shouldn't even notice the lines.
Me, I'm keeping up with Doom 3 just for keeping up with real time graphics technology. "Think of the game they could make with this!"
My own 2 cents.
In a related news, a news publisher's attorney has declared his intend to persecute a number of readers based on their copyright infringement for interfering with the publisher's exclusive right to control how their news is presented and viewed. These people include:
- colour blind people.
- people reading the papers while drunk or on crack.
- people who ditched the useless Sports section without looking at the advertisements.
and more pending further investigations...
This is what they tried to avoid at the early design stage of mozilla. The early developers HAVE tried the native widgets path and got fried, and wanted to make things better and the code more maintainable. Well, it took them quite some time and the performance will never match that of native widgets. The upside is that porting to newer platforms, e.g. BeOS would be much easier and faster.
Heck. Shades of "Low Level vs High Level Language" debates here. Let's not go there.
P.S. While I think skinnable mozilla turned out to be fine, I still think the skinnable GUIs of WinAmp, XMMS, the new Windows Media Player, ICQ client, etc sucks big time and the developers ought to be shot.
Thanks for the info, but the book I have is the Chronicles of Narnia (IIRC), which is a collection of all of the Narnia books (as thick as the entire LoTR), arranged in the order you just described. So, I did read them in that order. Funny thing is, the earlier in the chronological order, the more I like it. My waning attention contributed, perhaps?
I've bought the complete Narnia Chronicles last year after hearing good things about it for quite a while. I've struggled to finish it, and had to restart at the beginning of a few chapters a lot of times after my mind drifted off or me literally fell asleep.
Even Neil Gaiman liked it and inspired some scenes in his excellent Sandman series. Can't be that bad, right? Not so for me.
Of course, I wasn't his target audience. I'm mildy Buddhist/agnostic and well in my mid twenties. I'm very open-minded and love to read and learn about other religions, but the overall tone and content of the story is really, really uninteresting. I can pick a children's book, say, The Hobbit or even Enid Blyton's and have a fun time, but I doubt I can bring myself to open Narnia again. Lewis's tone was way too preachy, and the inspiration behind his characters are very obviously Christian, and the most irritating feature is that there isn't anything left of the plot if you take out or skim over the Christian parts. It felt like he was a preacher first, writer second.
To non-Christians who had always wanted to read Narnia, I suggesst borrowing rather than buying them. But please do, Narnia's world (not story) has inspired many a fantasy setting over the years. Bits and pieces of Barbie's world in Sandman, Ultima (Richard Garriott's game), The Neverending Story all bear similarity to Narnia.
I'm currently reading E.A. Poe's complete unabridged works. Hard to read, but still way easier than Narnia for me! ("Techy reader proclaims classic literature easier to read than a children's book! News at 11!").
As for the GPL/LGPL argument: we've already a hardware player, lots of software players/editors with plugin support for the ogg/vorbis... It's the "marketshare" that's holding it back more than anything.
Bah, I should stop feeding the troll.
The only thing worse than a complete Python geek is one who only codes in Perl.
Great stuff for development. Incredibly easy, flexible (just gotta learn the internals), and source available.
I like Crichton, but I hated that book. The Hugo and Nebula winning novel, "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis is by far a better book on the same subject (time travel back to medieval times).
On the other hand, I didn't find Doomsday Book that good either. YMMV.
Aye. I don't use Gnome, but I can relate. It took me a while to get used WindowMaker's workspaces after getting used to Afterstep's viewports. This is waaaay back when WM first came out, and when every window manager has a pager, and _this_ one doesn't.
:) )that the text-mode virtual Linux consoles has no pagers nor viewports, but people can use it just fine. Ditto for this.
I finally realized that the pagers are just eye candy and eating valuable screen real estate, and workspaces are just plain BETTER and more efficient. Besides, no one complained (don't start
Close enough? It's not clippy, and Mozilla's green, but it's real.
Mozilla stomps IE
Of course, YMMV, but do try out both HTML::Mason and Template before undertaking a large project based on either of them. Perl beginners, on the other hand, should stick to HTML::Mason for its simplicity.
Of course, the pref window hints the window manager that it has no resize bar, but it isn't enforced. On my WindowMaker, I can just resize it using Meta+Right-drag, or just ask WM to maximize the window. (Yay, WindowMaker!) However, the default size's fine for me.
The one workaround for certain huge option screens like the prev poster mention is to stick it inside a scrollable vertical widget (or frame, depending on what GUI background you're used to).
On the other hand, the Category selection panel on the pref window itself has a fixed size, which might be unusable on some setups.
Even before we handle the CJK/Unicode human interface and application integration problems, Linux (don't know about the rest) should have proper support for Unicode in the kernel, especially the filesystem's filenames. What's the point of writing a Chinese document when you can only save it as 'abcde.doc'?
/home as a UTF8 friendly VFAT/umsdos (see here for details, grep for "Unicode"), but that's a huge kludge.
.tw. They've manage to dominate the popular desktop motherboards and misc. electronics market. Given the right conditions and some time, they can hugely influence the software market as well. This is the best chance for the world to break free of a certain US company's monopoly on software. After all, would you ten years ago believe that most desktop motherboards today are made in Taiwan?
Granted, you could just mount
And after that, we have a whole load of typical unix software AND file formats that handles files suchs as tar to fix to make them Unicode/UTF8 friendly while making sure that they are backwards-compatible.
One minor thing software developers (that's YOU) can do is to make sure that all your new software you create is UTF8 friendly. That way you'd save yourself lots of redesign problems later. It used to be 640Kbytes, then Y2K. It's Unicode now.
Back on topic, don't underestimate the influence of
I've no idea myself, but I found this on linuxhq.
From the brief glance, it seems like there are a number of rewrites of the experimental hacks in 2.4 ("Bluetooth no longer experimental", framebuffer rewrite, Video 4 Linux redesign, Generic ACPI, etc).
Mostly stuff I wouldn't use in a hurry. After all, I use Linux for stability over Windows, and really cutting-edge stuff is secondary to rock-solidiness.
Nope. You're looking for 'googol' (10^100), which the google's glossary can't find. Yet. It points to dictionary.com which did, though.
I don't think you grok[1] "grok[2]". Of course you'd probably be groggy because of grokking[4] too much grog[5], which is semi-grokkable[6].
[1] Ref: Jargon4.3.0: cf. "Stranger in a Strange Land"[3]: 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge.
[2] Ref: Your post (...just grokked this off...)[7]
[3] Yes, I've read the other posts.
[4] Ref: "SiaSL": To drink.
[5] Ref: Webster1913: A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.
[6] Ref: Grok[1]. Semi-grok: Understandable.
[7] You want "grep". All this could be avoided if you grabbed "dict"[8][9], and used it grep for terms liberally.
[8] DICT Protocol Client. See "man 1 dict".[9]
[9] Just don't read these sentences out loud.
HTH. HAND.
Anyway, I've no problems with Obi-wan doing that. I do have plenty of problems with the Jedis NOT using the force-push to throw down the hordes of drodes surrounding them. Heck, they did it in Episode 1, why not now? Worst. Stupidity. Ever.