Very impressive stuff. pg seems to haul ass. Our biggest table is ~ 40 millions records of download logs, but mostly inserts. We do query it often, but queries are simple LIKE "%something%" and there are seldom any joins. Although the filename (which would be the most important column) is a varchar (usually over 60 charachers) I never bothered indexing it because I fear it will slow the writes down to much to be useful. What do you think?
My bad, I reread the parent's article, and it's not one table with 3.5 million rows, it appears to be the total rows in the database.
I just wanted to compare fish stories on large tables. Our downloads table (currently 43M rows) is mainly insert-only, but I run a series of queries against it each month for stats. There's also a web-based stats tool that's open to a select handful of persons.
Nothing transactional, but still a large number of rows to query.
Eclipse's downloads database grows by just shy of 1 million records each day. We keep the current month and last month's records on hand. We also have a tool to run queries against it. Just massive.
FOSS software has no more of an excuse for bugs and exploits then propriatry.
Right. This means we have no "right" to complain about bugs in FOSS because we didn't pay for it, whereas an owner of Windows has the "right" to complain about bugs in IE because they paid for it.
We run a cluster of dual Itanium 2 servers and they work great - Java servers and all. They can handle massive loads compared to Xeon-based servers they replace.
Well don't leave us dangling like a carrot on a stick, man. Enlighten us with your infinite wisdom - or is the extent of your wisdom limited to useless wisecracks?
Umm, are you not aware that someone could DOS your site by spoofing traffic from AOL, SBC, Comcast,... Tough shit. If someone manages to get in and crap my site, it won't work for anyone.
Then, you block those networks, and no one can get to your site. If the attack was that extensive, I'd obviously intervene. The reality is that we get attacked several times a day, but with the amount of hardware and bandwidth we have, it most likely goes unnoticed.
Gets even worse... I might even be able to block you from reaching the root DNS servers! It'll never happen. You'd have to attack my port 53, which is blocked on the firewall anyway. The only ports watching for attacks are listening ports.
I work for a fairly high-profile site, and our solution is fairly simple. Blocks are applied when an attack is detected, but depending on the type of attack, the blocks are removed after a few seconds. Attacks persist? Blocks stay for 1 minute, and so on.
If it's an SSH attach, the.0/24 gets blocked permanently until someone complains. It's that simple.
Instead of saying "Is that new-speak for duped?" you should say, "I applaud the Slashdot editor who did a good job by taking the time to link to previous articles for our reading convenience".
When you click your download file from www.eclipse.org, it will ask you to pick a mirror. Unfortunately many of them haven't sync'ed yet, so many people just zip down the page and pick "Main Eclipse Download Site". That's what I wanted to avoid.
Assuming a perfect non-eliptical orbit, the moon on the horizon is farther away than the moon directly overhead by almost half the diameter of the Earth.
So according to this the moon on the horizon should be even smaller than the moon directly overhead. It adds to the mystery of the Small Moon at Noon.
2G is about where Outlook irreparably damages your mailbox,
Care to provide some evidence of this?
It's not his job to provide evidence. It's a known fact to those who know. He knows what he's talking about. If you don't believe it, you should look it up yourself.
Provide evidence. Sheesh. The world doesn't owe you evidence.
The paint program comparison... WTF! comparing paintbrush with The Gimp?? if you tell me that it is because the Gimp is part of the OS, let me tell you that it is NOT, and you CAN install it on Windows
But GIMP is already packaged on the compared Linux distributions. With Windows, the graphics tool packaged with the OS is Paint.
Same thing for text editors: you can install a bunch on Windows too, but the one that comes bundled with the OS is feature-lean Notepad.
At least the author didn't compare Word Processors: MS's WordPad would have looked equally lame vs. OpenOffice's Write, which, again, is bundled with just about every Linux distro out there. Yes, you can download and install OOo on Windows, but it's not part of the Windows Distribution.
Coincidence? WP Office, Norton Antivirus, IBM's Rational ClearCase, Norton's SystemWorks... Hey, did MS announce that they want to start selling Antivirus software? Might as well start breaking Norton right now!
How often has MS broken a competing product?
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Countless times. I agree with you.
The people who install Netscape may use both browsers until, "hey, this page doesn't render in IE but it does in Netscape. Let's use Netscape for everything."
I think this is a good thing. Hey MS, how's it feel to have other people breaking your functionality?
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Very impressive stuff. pg seems to haul ass. Our biggest table is ~ 40 millions records of download logs, but mostly inserts. We do query it often, but queries are simple LIKE "%something%" and there are seldom any joins. Although the filename (which would be the most important column) is a varchar (usually over 60 charachers) I never bothered indexing it because I fear it will slow the writes down to much to be useful. What do you think?
My bad, I reread the parent's article, and it's not one table with 3.5 million rows, it appears to be the total rows in the database.
I just wanted to compare fish stories on large tables. Our downloads table (currently 43M rows) is mainly insert-only, but I run a series of queries against it each month for stats. There's also a web-based stats tool that's open to a select handful of persons.
Nothing transactional, but still a large number of rows to query.
Has nothing to do. I'm just comparing stories, slack your shorts.
I didn't say one platform was better.
That's exactly what it is .. from what I read the parent's 3.5 million records is equally a log table.
Just comparing 3.5 million records to 45 million.
Eclipse's downloads database grows by just shy of 1 million records each day. We keep the current month and last month's records on hand. We also have a tool to run queries against it. Just massive.
Handled by MySQL.
FOSS software has no more of an excuse for bugs and exploits then propriatry.
Right. This means we have no "right" to complain about bugs in FOSS because we didn't pay for it, whereas an owner of Windows has the "right" to complain about bugs in IE because they paid for it.
D.
I wouldn't call Itanium a dying architecture.
We run a cluster of dual Itanium 2 servers and they work great - Java servers and all. They can handle massive loads compared to Xeon-based servers they replace.
Small companies are bullied out of business because they can't afford to prove your point, although they haven't done anything wrong.
Sad.
ping -f -s 64000 somehost.com &
ping -f -s 64000 someotherhost.com &
ping -f -s 64000 someotherotherhost.com &
ping -f -s 64000 someotherotherotherhost.com &
Run this for a few hours and it should be good to consume a few bits.
Well don't leave us dangling like a carrot on a stick, man. Enlighten us with your infinite wisdom - or is the extent of your wisdom limited to useless wisecracks?
WebSphere is open source: it's called Eclipse.
Umm, are you not aware that someone could DOS your site by spoofing traffic from AOL, SBC, Comcast, ...
Tough shit. If someone manages to get in and crap my site, it won't work for anyone.
Then, you block those networks, and no one can get to your site.
If the attack was that extensive, I'd obviously intervene. The reality is that we get attacked several times a day, but with the amount of hardware and bandwidth we have, it most likely goes unnoticed.
Gets even worse... I might even be able to block you from reaching the root DNS servers!
It'll never happen. You'd have to attack my port 53, which is blocked on the firewall anyway. The only ports watching for attacks are listening ports.
Read Dan Kaminsky's DefCon presentations.
I work for a fairly high-profile site, and our solution is fairly simple. Blocks are applied when an attack is detected, but depending on the type of attack, the blocks are removed after a few seconds. Attacks persist? Blocks stay for 1 minute, and so on.
.0/24 gets blocked permanently until someone complains. It's that simple.
If it's an SSH attach, the
Worth every cent.
I understand this is funny, but we should be reinforcing and encouraging good behaviour instead of continuously punishing for past bad behaviour.
t ml
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/gd_reinforcement.h
Instead of saying "Is that new-speak for duped?" you should say, "I applaud the Slashdot editor who did a good job by taking the time to link to previous articles for our reading convenience".
Really.
It's also the Data Link. After that it's network and transport, which have nothing to do with Ethernet.
Actually, I meant hammered as in drunk... But whatever works for you!
We were beyond maxed out about 30 minutes after the build was pushed in. Five hours later (still maxed out) we got a Slashdot front page... Nice.
When you click your download file from www.eclipse.org, it will ask you to pick a mirror. Unfortunately many of them haven't sync'ed yet, so many people just zip down the page and pick "Main Eclipse Download Site". That's what I wanted to avoid.
Assuming a perfect non-eliptical orbit, the moon on the horizon is farther away than the moon directly overhead by almost half the diameter of the Earth.
So according to this the moon on the horizon should be even smaller than the moon directly overhead. It adds to the mystery of the Small Moon at Noon.
If you make a sweeping comment in a forum, you should be willing and able to back it up with documentary evidence.
Do you have evidence to back up this claim?
2G is about where Outlook irreparably damages your mailbox,
Care to provide some evidence of this?
It's not his job to provide evidence. It's a known fact to those who know. He knows what he's talking about. If you don't believe it, you should look it up yourself.
Provide evidence. Sheesh. The world doesn't owe you evidence.
The paint program comparison... WTF! comparing paintbrush with The Gimp?? if you tell me that it is because the Gimp is part of the OS, let me tell you that it is NOT, and you CAN install it on Windows
But GIMP is already packaged on the compared Linux distributions. With Windows, the graphics tool packaged with the OS is Paint.
Same thing for text editors: you can install a bunch on Windows too, but the one that comes bundled with the OS is feature-lean Notepad.
At least the author didn't compare Word Processors: MS's WordPad would have looked equally lame vs. OpenOffice's Write, which, again, is bundled with just about every Linux distro out there. Yes, you can download and install OOo on Windows, but it's not part of the Windows Distribution.
I can count a few on this list:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=884130
Coincidence? WP Office, Norton Antivirus, IBM's Rational ClearCase, Norton's SystemWorks... Hey, did MS announce that they want to start selling Antivirus software? Might as well start breaking Norton right now!
Countless times. I agree with you.
The people who install Netscape may use both browsers until, "hey, this page doesn't render in IE but it does in Netscape. Let's use Netscape for everything."
I think this is a good thing. Hey MS, how's it feel to have other people breaking your functionality?