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  1. Re:This isn't new. on Reconfigurable Computers - Again? · · Score: 2
    You know you need sleep when you parse this as:
    Mobile processors have been disabling their caches while
    (in low-power mode for 5 or more years).
  2. Read the version numbers! ;P on MySQL Developer Contests PostgreSQL Benchmarks · · Score: 3

    Oh, forgot to emphasize a very, very important part of the 2nd PR (as I posted before): The version numbers of the databases (BIG HINT):

    What versions of the databases did you use?
    1. PostgreSQL - 7.0 release version
    2. Proprietary 1 - 8.1.5
    3. Proprietary 2 - 7.0
    4. MySQL - 3.22.32
    5. Interbase - 6.0

    Very nice workaround for the EULAs, dontcha think? :P

    P.S. I really should learn to spell postgreSQL properly...

  3. Even more: Official PR on benchmark methodology on MySQL Developer Contests PostgreSQL Benchmarks · · Score: 3

    Great Bridge just released a Press Release (pun not intended) here (http://www.greatbridge.com/news/p_081620001.html) regarding the software, tuning, etc. used in the benchmark.

  4. More info: make your own conclusions on MySQL Developer Contests PostgreSQL Benchmarks · · Score: 4
    See the The posgres-general mailing list for more info regarding the benchmark, esp. comments from the Great Bridge Hacker Relations guy (Ned Lilly). In short:
    1. The proprietary RDBMS tested "were not IBM, Informix, or Sybase".
    2. One "other" propriety RDBMS "prefers to run on NT"
    3. Every RDBMS tested used ODBC, so every RDBMS is handicapped by it ("apples-to-apples" comparison).
    4. The test system specs: single 600MHz Pentium III, 512MB RAM, 2x18GB SCSI hot-pluggable.
  5. Re:First make GNOME not suck on Let's Make UNIX Not Suck · · Score: 2
    lynx -source go-gnome.com | sh

    OUCH! I don't know about you guys, but isn't this obvious? Whoever doing that is asking for it, esp. when you are su'd as root, as recommended by the Helix website.

    BOFHs, LART 'em with a big cluestick.

    <rant> Say whatever you want about how crap other OSes' security are, or how good unices are at security. But when such a big unix developer recommends such an insecure method of installing software... argh. I'm lost for words. </rant>

    <hint> Any admin controlling the your DNS can own your system when you do that. </hint>