I'll second that Oracle is a bear -- but considering the alternatives for RDBMS solutions that need the scale like you and I are using... I've got little to gripe about.
Our data-mart is about 4TB from what I hear, and about to get a lot bigger with two recent mergers. I've got access to about 400 tables right now, but there are thousands more company-wide.
Somehow, we get along with a very small DB Admin team, (and I'm no expert, just an NMS engineer), and I've never seen this thing go down or choke performance-wise.
Frankly, I'm still wondering if the GP is just trolling - bloat is whatever some overly-picky ricer decides it is today. Yes, I've been guilty of rebuilding a whole Gentoo system just because I discovered a new optimization flag. *And* I've pared down a Debian system to the point that it's got the absolute bare minimum packages... And before Gentoo, I rolled mbut frankly, if a system does what I need it to do in the time I want to do it... who cares?
I count bloat based on the usage and maintanance requirements of a system. Oracle isn't bloated for what I do, but it is for my parent's online photo-album. Ubuntu isn't bloated for *my* daily desktop use - but it certainly is for a dial-up gateway system.
I do get the sense of the SNES port having a 'floatier' jump, as you described it.
SNES Mario also seems to skid a little more when running. It's been a few months since I played the original on the NES - but I've always felt the control of the original NES gane was tighter. It might simply be a matter of perception though.
That all-stars cart is one of the best packages of games available. I still play it to this day.:)
I appreciate the correction, and the credentials. Xen is an exciting technology to me so I have a tendency to jump in to the discussion. My only defense is that there is *a lot* of inaccurate information available, even from what would normally be considered reliable sources.
I hope my employer will choose Xen as their virtualization platform, but I know that much of that decision will hinge on whether or not Windows can run stably. Since the decision won't be made until next quarter, I'm crossing my fingers for a supported solution to that quandry. (My company tends to prefer 'traditional' commercial software, but they're not afraid of open source type stuff, as long as there's going to be long-term support - I'm pushing XenSource)
Xen is a freestanding hypervisor that runs directly on the metal.
I feel I should get a little pedantic with this statement. Xen, specifically, is a modification of the linux kernel that provides hypervisor capabilities for the host OS (Linux) and integration with the guest OSes. Xen's host components can't run directly on the metal, like VMWare ESX can. It needs the rest of the linux (I can't remember if it's been ported into other kernels) kernel to provide hardware access. Also, Xen requires (until pacifica, et al) that the guest OS kernels be modified to integrate with the host's hypervisor layer. Without that, Xen does nothing. (VMWare ESX does not require a modified guest OS)
So, if you think of a Xen-enabled linux kernel as Xen, you're right. But I see it as a seperately developed, ported, and integrated extension that requires a kernel to operate. Again - I believe there are efforts to get it running inside other kernels, but I don't remember.
On second thought - someone fill me in here - I'm guessing that VMWare ESX probably runs as part of some ther's OSes HAL, but of course they don't say so in the sales pitch...
*disclaimer* -- While I really like VMWare's product for functionality and ease-of-use, for performance I'd go with Xen. I'm currently involved with a project at my company to virtualize as much of our datacenter as possible, and I've been pitching Xen to the group, over VMWare, provided XenSource's product lives up to it's marketing specs.
The bottom line on Kevin Mitnick is this: Kevin was a criminal, Kevin was caught. Kevin was then denied several of his constitutional rights for an extended period of time. When the 'official' sentence was handed down, I believe he got fair treatment for his crimes - but his incarceration until then extended far beyond what I could consider reasonable justice.
While I do not support criminal activity, I do sympathize with injustice and prosecution under unreasonable laws, and I assume Woz would agree.
Admittedly, the facts I remember are fuzzy and may be wrong - but I'm open to being educated.
hehe - I've seen some of your work - and built some systems on top of it. I'm not so sure the moderators know your background; I would have modded as interesting.
(Unless you really are kidding - then the joke's on me:) )
The first point you made is very interesting - using a detectable 'watermark' (or some other scheme) to determine which format is pirated more readily - is just the type of thing I know I would do. It would provide a useful metric for determining prudent business decisions in a changing marketplace with new dynamics.
A good businessman would then weigh those results with the rest of the reliably collected demographic, technical, and marketing data so as to make a competitive, profitable decisions.
Ah, who am I kidding... it's easier to pay off senators and lawers and keep your head in the sand.
While I don't subscribe to the fanboy lit, I do remember being really impressed with OS/2 back in 1995 or so.
Does anybody here have an ISO of the last version? I would love to spend some quality time poking around for old time's sake. (just send an email about it if you don't want to advertise having a copy to the world)
Oh, yeah one other thing - the fishes 'motion sensors' - commonly part of the 'lateral line' (pulling from memory, may be wrong) can be affected by electrical currents. Even teeny ones. Just laying it out there. I don't think it's a big deal.
It's an interesting conjecture, but probably more or less akin to the idea that windmills may change weather patterns.
Except for solar energy, the energy in this planet is somewhat of a closed system. The trade-off: Possibly affecting an ocean current may well be much better than the effects of smog, mining.
I won't pretend to know nearly enough about such things, but just considering the volume of water moving in the ocean, I believe it would take an incredible number of turbines like this to measurably affect any ocean current.
As far as the fish are concerned, you are correct, a current-driven turbine poses little danger to them, unless it somehow messes with the temperature or causes some sort of pollution. (something I actually know about for a change)
Yeah, baby. I had the 8088 upgrade module in there, too. And a 10MB hard disk drive that was 2x bigger than my whole mid-tower PC case today.
Okay, it was a hand-me-down from my dad's business when he discovered the Macintosh 128K was *way* better than the PCs of that time (I think he used Great Plains for the accounting). After buying a Mac SE/30 for my stepmother (who was a graphic designer) I also got their Apple//c!
Man, that NCR was close to useless. CP/M and MS-DOS 1.0. But we had the full library of technical manuals and assembler dumps of the ROMs and such. While I never did any programming with it, I learned a lot from that system before it caught fire. (yes, you read that right)
And though my parents threw out the Apple//c when it's keyboard started to fail, I bought another on ebay, and still fire it up just for old-time's sake. I don't even have any working floppies anymore, but my second programming language after AppleSoft BASIC was 65C02 assembler, and so I'll occasionally hack up something silly just for fun.
Ah, those were the days - when you could simply memorize an entire ISA.
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Before I learned Java, I wrote some pretty large, complex apps in perl. Object-orientation, casting, closures, marshalling... perl made so much of that easy (at least to me)
Now, I work in a department where Java is the canonical language, and other languages are discouraged (except expect - *ugh* - but I understand why)
And guess what? For the most of the applications we write and deploy, Java is a great choice! Looking back on some of my larger perl programs, I wish I could re-write them in Java. They'd be easier to maintain and extend.
But that's not always the case. There are days when I'm parsing a log file, or listening on a socket using Java - only to parse it and correlate to a database table and maybe store it someplace else - and my brain is *screaming* to be writing this in Perl.
Data munging is beautiful in Perl.
Interoperability is terrific in Java.
Each was built for different reasons, and it shows.
*BTW - I think perl interoperates just fine, but not with everything java does.
That was a fine, fine troll there. You managed to *sound* knowledgeable, intelligent, and empassioned without being crude and obvious! You even worked up some righteous indignation to cover for your logical errors. You are truly a professional in your field...
which is obviously not systems administration, development, design, or support.
And, if that wasn't a troll... I suggest you get yourself some warm milk and a blanket, and boot back into Windows XP.
Well, I wouldn't call it the be-all and end-all of UI, but I can imagine a touchscreen-style device being very intuitive and useful.
I can't go into my ideas right now (which I know is not very helpful, but I've got work to do), but used as an extension to a standard computer setup I can imagine all sorts of uses. For one thing, move the functionality of all those little tray-apps into a small touchscreen next to the keyboard. Volume for Winamp, Email notifications, appointment notifications, IM messages, etc. Anything that would normally be distracting me from my work could go there, to deal with as I see fit.
And, *yes* I've been doing that with dual-screens on X for years, but I still feel it's a non-optimal solution, and configuring it is annoying.
First day available, only allow 10,000 downloads, priced based on bids. Two days later, release another 10,000.
A month later, release another 10,000 of an album-rejected REMIX!!!
Yes, I'm trolling. I just think the whole idea's stupid.
It's like why I make my own coffee now. Dunkin' Donuts used to charge a dollar for a medium. Sure, it was cheaper to brew at home, but a dollar was *so* convenient and simple. (actually, it was.95+ tax or something like that)
I surrendered my money *every damn morning* without thinking!
Well, now... coffee's between 1.70 and 1.95 depending on where I go. I always think about stopping... but I don't anymore. The coffee in the office tastes just as good and it's free.
And one more thing to wrap up my point: Let's hypothesize that DD ups the price to $3... and the coffee at work becomes $2 a cup... and the coffee at home is, um, poisoned. Guess what I'll do?
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Lars, You win the thread! :)
Parent poster wins the thread!
/Oh, wait... this isn't fark.com...
I'll second that Oracle is a bear -- but considering the alternatives for RDBMS solutions that need the scale like you and I are using... I've got little to gripe about.
Our data-mart is about 4TB from what I hear, and about to get a lot bigger with two recent mergers. I've got access to about 400 tables right now, but there are thousands more company-wide.
Somehow, we get along with a very small DB Admin team, (and I'm no expert, just an NMS engineer), and I've never seen this thing go down or choke performance-wise.
Frankly, I'm still wondering if the GP is just trolling - bloat is whatever some overly-picky ricer decides it is today. Yes, I've been guilty of rebuilding a whole Gentoo system just because I discovered a new optimization flag. *And* I've pared down a Debian system to the point that it's got the absolute bare minimum packages... And before Gentoo, I rolled mbut frankly, if a system does what I need it to do in the time I want to do it... who cares?
I count bloat based on the usage and maintanance requirements of a system. Oracle isn't bloated for what I do, but it is for my parent's online photo-album. Ubuntu isn't bloated for *my* daily desktop use - but it certainly is for a dial-up gateway system.
Nah, that's not normal at all... you should have twice that! ;-)
/Loves ubuntu.
//Thinks parent poster must be one of those 'Type A' personalities.
I do get the sense of the SNES port having a 'floatier' jump, as you described it.
:)
SNES Mario also seems to skid a little more when running. It's been a few months since I played the original on the NES - but I've always felt the control of the original NES gane was tighter. It might simply be a matter of perception though.
That all-stars cart is one of the best packages of games available. I still play it to this day.
I appreciate the correction, and the credentials. Xen is an exciting technology to me so I have a tendency to jump in to the discussion. My only defense is that there is *a lot* of inaccurate information available, even from what would normally be considered reliable sources.
I hope my employer will choose Xen as their virtualization platform, but I know that much of that decision will hinge on whether or not Windows can run stably. Since the decision won't be made until next quarter, I'm crossing my fingers for a supported solution to that quandry. (My company tends to prefer 'traditional' commercial software, but they're not afraid of open source type stuff, as long as there's going to be long-term support - I'm pushing XenSource)
So, if you think of a Xen-enabled linux kernel as Xen, you're right. But I see it as a seperately developed, ported, and integrated extension that requires a kernel to operate. Again - I believe there are efforts to get it running inside other kernels, but I don't remember.
On second thought - someone fill me in here - I'm guessing that VMWare ESX probably runs as part of some ther's OSes HAL, but of course they don't say so in the sales pitch...
*disclaimer* -- While I really like VMWare's product for functionality and ease-of-use, for performance I'd go with Xen. I'm currently involved with a project at my company to virtualize as much of our datacenter as possible, and I've been pitching Xen to the group, over VMWare, provided XenSource's product lives up to it's marketing specs.
The bottom line on Kevin Mitnick is this: Kevin was a criminal, Kevin was caught. Kevin was then denied several of his constitutional rights for an extended period of time. When the 'official' sentence was handed down, I believe he got fair treatment for his crimes - but his incarceration until then extended far beyond what I could consider reasonable justice.
While I do not support criminal activity, I do sympathize with injustice and prosecution under unreasonable laws, and I assume Woz would agree.
Admittedly, the facts I remember are fuzzy and may be wrong - but I'm open to being educated.
Please mod parent up! That is all.
My top nine are all perl. The tenth is a sledge hammer.
Hard liquor would have made the list, but I use that for more than sysadminning.
hehe - I've seen some of your work - and built some systems on top of it. I'm not so sure the moderators know your background; I would have modded as interesting.
:) )
(Unless you really are kidding - then the joke's on me
The first point you made is very interesting - using a detectable 'watermark' (or some other scheme) to determine which format is pirated more readily - is just the type of thing I know I would do. It would provide a useful metric for determining prudent business decisions in a changing marketplace with new dynamics.
A good businessman would then weigh those results with the rest of the reliably collected demographic, technical, and marketing data so as to make a competitive, profitable decisions.
Ah, who am I kidding... it's easier to pay off senators and lawers and keep your head in the sand.
Parent post highlights reason #56973 slashdot needs a moderation tag for 'Obscure'
I've been watching this project for a few weeks and I've seen nothing indicating that this project is in any way affiliated with Google.
I'm rather disappointed that that the summary wasn't verified by the editors... oh, wait... this is Slashdot.
While I don't subscribe to the fanboy lit, I do remember being really impressed with OS/2 back in 1995 or so.
Does anybody here have an ISO of the last version? I would love to spend some quality time poking around for old time's sake. (just send an email about it if you don't want to advertise having a copy to the world)
Oh, yeah one other thing - the fishes 'motion sensors' - commonly part of the 'lateral line' (pulling from memory, may be wrong) can be affected by electrical currents. Even teeny ones. Just laying it out there. I don't think it's a big deal.
It's an interesting conjecture, but probably more or less akin to the idea that windmills may change weather patterns.
Except for solar energy, the energy in this planet is somewhat of a closed system. The trade-off: Possibly affecting an ocean current may well be much better than the effects of smog, mining.
I won't pretend to know nearly enough about such things, but just considering the volume of water moving in the ocean, I believe it would take an incredible number of turbines like this to measurably affect any ocean current.
As far as the fish are concerned, you are correct, a current-driven turbine poses little danger to them, unless it somehow messes with the temperature or causes some sort of pollution. (something I actually know about for a change)
I clicked on that real fast when my brain interpreted the headline as Advnet Children Dead!
But seeing as that's not the case, I say "Woo-Hoo!"
I really enjoyed that game. Probably as much as FF9. (Which I haven't finished)
Yeah, baby. I had the 8088 upgrade module in there, too. And a 10MB hard disk drive that was 2x bigger than my whole mid-tower PC case today.
//c!
//c when it's keyboard started to fail, I bought another on ebay, and still fire it up just for old-time's sake. I don't even have any working floppies anymore, but my second programming language after AppleSoft BASIC was 65C02 assembler, and so I'll occasionally hack up something silly just for fun.
Okay, it was a hand-me-down from my dad's business when he discovered the Macintosh 128K was *way* better than the PCs of that time (I think he used Great Plains for the accounting). After buying a Mac SE/30 for my stepmother (who was a graphic designer) I also got their Apple
Man, that NCR was close to useless. CP/M and MS-DOS 1.0. But we had the full library of technical manuals and assembler dumps of the ROMs and such. While I never did any programming with it, I learned a lot from that system before it caught fire. (yes, you read that right)
And though my parents threw out the Apple
Ah, those were the days - when you could simply memorize an entire ISA.
Before I learned Java, I wrote some pretty large, complex apps in perl. Object-orientation, casting, closures, marshalling... perl made so much of that easy (at least to me)
Now, I work in a department where Java is the canonical language, and other languages are discouraged (except expect - *ugh* - but I understand why)
And guess what? For the most of the applications we write and deploy, Java is a great choice! Looking back on some of my larger perl programs, I wish I could re-write them in Java. They'd be easier to maintain and extend.
But that's not always the case. There are days when I'm parsing a log file, or listening on a socket using Java - only to parse it and correlate to a database table and maybe store it someplace else - and my brain is *screaming* to be writing this in Perl.
Data munging is beautiful in Perl.
Interoperability is terrific in Java.
Each was built for different reasons, and it shows.
*BTW - I think perl interoperates just fine, but not with everything java does.
Golf clap for you sir!
That was a fine, fine troll there. You managed to *sound* knowledgeable, intelligent, and empassioned without being crude and obvious! You even worked up some righteous indignation to cover for your logical errors. You are truly a professional in your field...
which is obviously not systems administration, development, design, or support.
And, if that wasn't a troll... I suggest you get yourself some warm milk and a blanket, and boot back into Windows XP.
Well, I wouldn't call it the be-all and end-all of UI, but I can imagine a touchscreen-style device being very intuitive and useful.
I can't go into my ideas right now (which I know is not very helpful, but I've got work to do), but used as an extension to a standard computer setup I can imagine all sorts of uses. For one thing, move the functionality of all those little tray-apps into a small touchscreen next to the keyboard. Volume for Winamp, Email notifications, appointment notifications, IM messages, etc. Anything that would normally be distracting me from my work could go there, to deal with as I see fit.
And, *yes* I've been doing that with dual-screens on X for years, but I still feel it's a non-optimal solution, and configuring it is annoying.
Bah. Just auction off each song ebay-style.
.95+ tax or something like that)
First day available, only allow 10,000 downloads, priced based on bids.
Two days later, release another 10,000.
A month later, release another 10,000 of an album-rejected REMIX!!!
Yes, I'm trolling. I just think the whole idea's stupid.
It's like why I make my own coffee now. Dunkin' Donuts used to charge a dollar for a medium. Sure, it was cheaper to brew at home, but a dollar was *so* convenient and simple. (actually, it was
I surrendered my money *every damn morning* without thinking!
Well, now... coffee's between 1.70 and 1.95 depending on where I go. I always think about stopping... but I don't anymore. The coffee in the office tastes just as good and it's free.
And one more thing to wrap up my point: Let's hypothesize that DD ups the price to $3... and the coffee at work becomes $2 a cup... and the coffee at home is, um, poisoned. Guess what I'll do?
I'll stop drinking coffee.
Assuming mountain dew remains affordable.
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