Interesting... perhaps it's exactly what it says... maybe a viral-marketing ploy to get people talking about potential Google services. You know... creating a Buzz.
I originally read that headline as "Possible Cryptovolcano Discovered on Titan", and found myself oddly excited -- even if I have no idea what a Cryptovolcano might be.
Master-Slave replication is available through Slony1. (This is currently used by Afilias on the.info domain) Slony2 is in progress and will provide multi-master replication.
Vacuuming is still necessary, but it no longer locks tables. The distribution includes a utility called pg_autovacuum which can take care of all the vacuuming tasks on an automated basis if you desire. (The gentoo release automatically installs this with a nice init script:) )
I've had great experience with dyndns.org -- with both dynamic and static IPs. Their web control panel is functional and fast, their support is pretty good, and they automatically lock your domain for you. (Their part of the OpenSRS system, so I don't know if everybody in OpenSRS gets the same feature or not)
Yup -- a company I used to work for (large international pharma, though I won't give the name), owns an entire Class A. They have about 40,000 employees, and let's be generous, let's say they need 100,000 IPs. That's nowhere CLOSE to the 16.x million they have at their disposal...
Good luck on seeing them ever give that up though.
So important in fact, that it made the FAQ (try RTFA):
4.1 Can I still run the Apple firmware?
Assuming a backup is made of the original firmware it is possible to roll-back the firmware to the original so that it can be used. It is intended that eventually a small uClinux application will also allow direct loading of the original firmware
Maybe we're forgetting that the "normal" (32bit, 33Mhz) PCI Bus has a total bandwidth of (32 bits = 4bytes) * (33Mhz) = 132 Mbytes/second. ...
Until they start designing southbridges with multiple PCI busses and the embedded EIDE attached to one of those, all of this is plainly pointless. Many really high-end chipsets as ServerWorks' already do this, but they cost so much that in that case you'd go for a SCSI subsystem anyway:-)
I'm probably being really ignorant here, so please enlighten me:). Even if you do go for SCSI, most SCSI cards still plug into those same old PCI buses --- you're still hit with the same performance problem when shoving data through that pipe. right?
Go to the linked MSDN doc, and "Rate this Page". We can at least register our disgust that way.... (It's already at 1.3 out of 5, 1 being the lowest possible:-)
Sun has refused to let Apache be the de facto standard (inspite of that being what i believe most java developers want), and has instead put out alternative APIs which its embedded with the JDK, thus locking everybody w/ 1.4 down to a standard that now has little room to grow.
Look -- nobody is locked down to anything. If develoeprs see more benefit in using Apache software packages for logging or xml parsing, there is nothing stopping them from packaging those along with their application and using them instead.
I saw an X-Box demo machine at Wal-Mart the other day with Munch's odysee on it (The Oddworld series was one of my favorites on the PS1). Believe it or not (I think you will), the machine was totally locked up....My PS1 and PS2 have *never* locked up on me before....
When I played around with Enhydra some time ago, the only really nice thing was the polished, web-based administration console. Hopefully, JBoss will come up with something like that soon.
I'm afraid I have to disagree. I'm a pretty strong Java advocate, but I still don't feel that it's ready for desktop use because of Swing performance issues. I spoke with several of the engineers that worked on JBuilder while I was at JavaOne this year. They spent a *LOT* of time writing custom classloaders, etc. to make their GUI so snappy. JBuilder is a spectacular example of a well written Java GUI, but I don't know if it would be reasonable to say that just anybody could write something like it in 1/10 the time of some other language.
Now on the server...that's a totally different story. I write server apps all day in Java --- my development times are SLASHED from what they would be in C/C++, or even CGI's. Maintenance and documentation are a breeze, and performance is fabulous. Java really has done great things on the server.
Are you forgetting that Java code *is* compiled natively? (in memory when the app* is executed) This is why Java can be performant on the server-side -- there are start-up costs associated with this, but a good JIT compiler (Sun's Server HotSpot compiler is good) can identify optimizations *at run time* and compile even faster code on the fly....
I don't know when the last time you checked was, but there are seomthing like 6-10 J2EE certified app servers available now. Of course they all have value-added features to try and make you stick with their product, but basically, follow the spec, and there's a nice pool of other vendors you could always jump to...
I saw Linux running on PS2's with pre-release hard drives at JavaOne. Sun has ported the Java runtime to work on the PS2 hardware, and was demonstrating that. They were running WindowMaker for their WindowManager.
I have had several students here who started to experiment with all sorts of arcane features like inner classes and operator overloading without learning how to write good programs first.
Funny...Java doesn't have operator overloading (just method overloading and overriding). If your students are doing that, then they are skilled indeed (as they have probably modified the compiler to do what they want)
I'm current at Sun's JavaOne conference, where they have had several demonstrations of Linux/WindowMaker/Java2 running on a Playstation2 equipped with an "early-release" hard drive. Very cool stuff.
Maybe things have changed recently....Several years ago I had to support an art department that used Macs (Then on a 7.x version of MacOS, we upgraded to 8.x while I was there). Compared to the 2 artists who used NT Workstation, the Macs bombed all the time. The Macs were definitely faster on the same apps, but the cost was much higher, plus we were constantly wasting time trying to get extensions "just so", contorting our bodies to reset the PROM, etc....
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What is "Buzz Team"?
Interesting... perhaps it's exactly what it says... maybe a viral-marketing ploy to get people talking about potential Google services. You know... creating a Buzz.I originally read that headline as "Possible Cryptovolcano Discovered on Titan", and found myself oddly excited -- even if I have no idea what a Cryptovolcano might be.
I think you mean:
27.4% of all statistics are completely made up.
Master-Slave replication is available through Slony1. (This is currently used by Afilias on the .info domain) Slony2 is in progress and will provide multi-master replication.
Vacuuming is still necessary, but it no longer locks tables. The distribution includes a utility called pg_autovacuum which can take care of all the vacuuming tasks on an automated basis if you desire. (The gentoo release automatically installs this with a nice init script :) )
I've had great experience with dyndns.org -- with both dynamic and static IPs. Their web control panel is functional and fast, their support is pretty good, and they automatically lock your domain for you. (Their part of the OpenSRS system, so I don't know if everybody in OpenSRS gets the same feature or not)
- Go to the Java web site for developers/technical people: http://java.sun.com
- Go to the consumer-branded website: http://java.com
Both have the downloads readily available and pretty easy to find.Yup -- a company I used to work for (large international pharma, though I won't give the name), owns an entire Class A. They have about 40,000 employees, and let's be generous, let's say they need 100,000 IPs. That's nowhere CLOSE to the 16.x million they have at their disposal...
Good luck on seeing them ever give that up though.
Is your name Jonathan Green?
So important in fact, that it made the FAQ (try RTFA):
4.1 Can I still run the Apple firmware?
Assuming a backup is made of the original firmware it is possible to roll-back the firmware to the original so that it can be used. It is intended that eventually a small uClinux application will also allow direct loading of the original firmware
Guinness
Maybe we're forgetting that the "normal" (32bit, 33Mhz) PCI Bus has a total bandwidth of (32 bits = 4bytes) * (33Mhz) = 132 Mbytes/second.
... :-)
Until they start designing southbridges with multiple PCI busses and the embedded EIDE attached to one of those, all of this is plainly pointless. Many really high-end chipsets as ServerWorks' already do this, but they cost so much that in that case you'd go for a SCSI subsystem anyway
I'm probably being really ignorant here, so please enlighten me :). Even if you do go for SCSI, most SCSI cards still plug into those same old PCI buses --- you're still hit with the same performance problem when shoving data through that pipe. right?
Anyone find this comment from the release kind of ironic?
The field-upgradeable SSD system can hold 27 copies of the Human Genome and transfer data at a rate equivalent to 100 Human Genomes per second.
yum!
Go to the linked MSDN doc, and "Rate this Page". We can at least register our disgust that way.... (It's already at 1.3 out of 5, 1 being the lowest possible :-)
Sun has refused to let Apache be the de facto standard (inspite of that being what i believe most java developers want), and has instead put out alternative APIs which its embedded with the JDK, thus locking everybody w/ 1.4 down to a standard that now has little room to grow.
Look -- nobody is locked down to anything. If develoeprs see more benefit in using Apache software packages for logging or xml parsing, there is nothing stopping them from packaging those along with their application and using them instead.
I saw an X-Box demo machine at Wal-Mart the other day with Munch's odysee on it (The Oddworld series was one of my favorites on the PS1). Believe it or not (I think you will), the machine was totally locked up....My PS1 and PS2 have *never* locked up on me before....
Much better that the "black-hats" "secretly" circulate the information.
</sarcasm>
If the security experts didn't find and pubilsh the holes, good luck on Microsoft making the fixes a "priority".
When I played around with Enhydra some time ago, the only really nice thing was the polished, web-based administration console. Hopefully, JBoss will come up with something like that soon.
I'm afraid I have to disagree. I'm a pretty strong Java advocate, but I still don't feel that it's ready for desktop use because of Swing performance issues. I spoke with several of the engineers that worked on JBuilder while I was at JavaOne this year. They spent a *LOT* of time writing custom classloaders, etc. to make their GUI so snappy. JBuilder is a spectacular example of a well written Java GUI, but I don't know if it would be reasonable to say that just anybody could write something like it in 1/10 the time of some other language.
Now on the server...that's a totally different story. I write server apps all day in Java --- my development times are SLASHED from what they would be in C/C++, or even CGI's. Maintenance and documentation are a breeze, and performance is fabulous. Java really has done great things on the server.
Are you forgetting that Java code *is* compiled natively? (in memory when the app* is executed) This is why Java can be performant on the server-side -- there are start-up costs associated with this, but a good JIT compiler (Sun's Server HotSpot compiler is good) can identify optimizations *at run time* and compile even faster code on the fly....
I don't know when the last time you checked was, but there are seomthing like 6-10 J2EE certified app servers available now. Of course they all have value-added features to try and make you stick with their product, but basically, follow the spec, and there's a nice pool of other vendors you could always jump to...
I saw Linux running on PS2's with pre-release hard drives at JavaOne. Sun has ported the Java runtime to work on the PS2 hardware, and was demonstrating that. They were running WindowMaker for their WindowManager.
I have had several students here who started to experiment with all sorts of arcane features like inner classes and operator overloading without learning how to write good programs first.
Funny...Java doesn't have operator overloading (just method overloading and overriding). If your students are doing that, then they are skilled indeed (as they have probably modified the compiler to do what they want)I'm current at Sun's JavaOne conference, where they have had several demonstrations of Linux/WindowMaker/Java2 running on a Playstation2 equipped with an "early-release" hard drive. Very cool stuff.
Maybe things have changed recently....Several years ago I had to support an art department that used Macs (Then on a 7.x version of MacOS, we upgraded to 8.x while I was there). Compared to the 2 artists who used NT Workstation, the Macs bombed all the time. The Macs were definitely faster on the same apps, but the cost was much higher, plus we were constantly wasting time trying to get extensions "just so", contorting our bodies to reset the PROM, etc....
Kind of like Microsoft and Linux. MS is a monopoly, until you put Linux in the picture.
Not really...there's lots of other OS' and manufacturers (Sun, IBM, Be, QNX, BSD, etc). All with varying degrees of acceptance on the desktop.