The headline implies that Rasmus blames PostgreSQL for breaking the web which is not the case. The focus of his ire is web application programmers for putting too much trust in user input. I don't think anyone can truthfully argue with that.
His comment regarding PostgreSQL was:
"If you can fit your problem into what MySQL can handle it's very fast, you can gain quite a bit of performance."
As someone who uses both MySQL and PostgreSQL in production environments, I couldn't agree more. The key qualifier is "If you can fit your problem into what MySQL can handle". In order to argue that this statement is wrong you would have to argue that PostgreSQL is faster than MySQL in situations that are ideal for MySQL.
If you split cells off of an early embryo, aren't they also viable embryos in their own right? Isn't this what creates identical twins?
The whole pro-life religious argument is that fertilization creates a soul. By this argument, all identical siblings are either possess only a fraction of a soul or God has given the additonal natural clones a bonus soul. The latter is the acceptable choice since sharing souls doesn't fit the afterlife scenario very well. Human interference is the key factor (e.g. taking a drug that makes your uterus reject the fertilized egg is killing souls). Therefore if a human creates identical clones they have no souls and therefore can be destroyed without eternal damnation. QED.
Not to mention the fact that the combine will probably still be able to harvest much of what's been knocked down. It' just a matter of how thorough they were in stomping the oats they knocked over into the ground.
Kernel 2.4.33? Is that serious? What is wrong with 2.6.x?
Nothing is wrong with 2.6, but for some of us having the 2.4 option is essential. For example, certain applications built for 2.4 LinuxThreads will tend to be very unstable running on the new POSIX threads in 2.6.
People are looking at this the wrong way. It's not that Slackware doen't included the 2.6 kernel (it does), it offers the versatility to run either 2.4 or 2.6 which is a major advantage over other distros. Especially for us poor bastards who have to run expensive closed-source proprietary software at work.
Let me get this straight. There's a climatologist named "Boris Winterhalter" who is loudly proclaiming that global warming is not real. If I was reading that in a novel I would probably sigh and stop reading right there.
The Linux client doesn't really work. I had to set up tinyproxy to handle its socket connections. You can download without the client, but it's tedious.
When emusic started requiring the download manager around 2003 I cancelled my subscription for this same reason. Recently I renewed it when I found the EMusic/J program mentioned above. I was pleasantly surprised to find that their music library has exploded (in terms of new labels) since the last time I used it.
Linux developers should be telling nVidea to go to hell.
I assume you mean "should" in the sense that they're correct in doing so. Search LKML for NVidia and look for a kind word. Not only does NVidia not release documenation for the graphics hardware, but even their network, sound, and SATA hardware needs to be essentially reverse engineered. If it wasn't for my gaming addiction coupled with my not-so-steely resolve, I would never buy anything from NVidia.
And since its most likely they'll be 4S (8 core) servers, for ever server dell sells, they'll need 4 chips from AMD.
No doubt this is the reason for the switch. AMD is offering what is basically an 8-way SMP on boards and cpus that don't fall out of line with commodity parts. Hell, Supermicro even has a 4-cpu (8 core) opteron board designed for 1U. Intel's solutions for anything more that 2-way smp still require special, uber-expensive Xeon MP cpus last time I checked and good luck cramming one into 2U or 1U.
It seems obvious to me that the Diebold machines will NEVER be secure. They are utterly too complex (and expensive) for the simple task that they are given.
In order for a voting system to provide a sense of validity, it must be simple enough that even the layperson can understand how the entire system works. Replace acryonms TCP/IP, SQL, SSL, PCMCIA, USB, and WinCE with the acronyms ROM, EEPROM, and PIC and you've simplified the system by many orders of magnitude. Not to mention the fact that the system would actually be auditable. Add a failsafe into the overall system that only allows each election worker a small number of votes that he/she could possibly tamper with and we're getting somewhere. Add a reciept printing device that has no hooks into the vote tallying mechanism and we're there.
The Indian model is a step in the right direction. It should be emulated and expanded (by adding the paper audit trail).
There is no doubt that internet pornography has a negative effect on Society. I witness it daily.
This message is for you fellow customers of AceDSL: Stop all the downloads. I'm trying to play ET and you're killing my ping. You're not the only one with addictions you know.
If we have any hope of salvaging our society you must redeem yourselves! Remember, the first path towards salvation is moderation, so start rate limiting.
I still keep a copy of Warcraft 2 lying around simply for the sheer amount of fun that can be had playing with 1 friend on this map against 6 computer players.
No matter what the skill level of each of the 2 human players you'll usually have to restart about 10 times until you figure out how to build a wall around your bases before the computers pump out their first offensive units.
After that you have about a 80% chance of accidentally letting someone break the wall down and the MAX_UNITS number of computer controled hoards destory you in about 2 seconds. However, successfully executed the map will take about an hour before the computer runs out of resources and you can begin to break them down. Then you can spend the next 15 minutes selectively destroying a massively stonger force.
Warcraft 2 is quite an old game, but it has some staying power if for no other reason that the Ogres are hilarious.
You may need the version that is rewritten in DirectX (called BattleNet Edition) to play on modern hardware though. The DOS version tended to rely on the fact that your CPU was operating at under 200Mhz so it plays way to fast on modern hardware.
Science is based on consensus of opinion and may change over time. The two *are* mutually exclusive as religion implies faith over consensus of opinion.
In religion, consense of opinion certainly changes over time, it's just that it takes a lot longer since it involves a generation of leaders dying off.
But I would suspect that perhaps in certain niche computing markets there has been good attention paid to forging ironclad audit trails. Maybe in the military? Keeping track of nuclear weapon activation codes?
Games should not be doing the kind of things that need Administrator privilege to do!
Most new FPS games use the third-party software Punkbuster to detect cheats.
This software requries that you run the game with Administrator privs when using it on Win32 because you need to be an Administrator to detect many of the cheats, read MAC addresses, and read the serial numbers off harddrives.
The problem, of course, is that many apps these days require the gnome libs to run. Look at firefox as an example.
This is not true, but I can see how you made the mistake because I thought that for a bit too. The problem is this:
~/.gtkrc-2.0 is ignored if gnome-settings-daemon is running
It seems like it shouldn't be a problem, but it confuses a lot of people who want to manually configure gtk+ simply because they don't know gnome-settings-daemon is running when they try to edit the file and assume it's no longer used.
I too use FVWM. I find both KDE and GNOME buggy and annoying, but I can't help but to try them each out for a day every time a new one is released. Mabye I'll learn eventually.
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The headline implies that Rasmus blames PostgreSQL for breaking the web which is not the case. The focus of his ire is web application programmers for putting too much trust in user input. I don't think anyone can truthfully argue with that.
His comment regarding PostgreSQL was:
"If you can fit your problem into what MySQL can handle it's very fast, you can gain quite a bit of performance."
As someone who uses both MySQL and PostgreSQL in production environments, I couldn't agree more. The key qualifier is "If you can fit your problem into what MySQL can handle". In order to argue that this statement is wrong you would have to argue that PostgreSQL is faster than MySQL in situations that are ideal for MySQL.
Not to mention the fact that the combine will probably still be able to harvest much of what's been knocked down. It' just a matter of how thorough they were in stomping the oats they knocked over into the ground.
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Cores
Nothing is wrong with 2.6, but for some of us having the 2.4 option is essential. For example, certain applications built for 2.4 LinuxThreads will tend to be very unstable running on the new POSIX threads in 2.6.
People are looking at this the wrong way. It's not that Slackware doen't included the 2.6 kernel (it does), it offers the versatility to run either 2.4 or 2.6 which is a major advantage over other distros. Especially for us poor bastards who have to run expensive closed-source proprietary software at work.
For regular Slack users there is also the Subscription.
Let me get this straight. There's a climatologist named "Boris Winterhalter" who is loudly proclaiming that global warming is not real. If I was reading that in a novel I would probably sigh and stop reading right there.
What happens when someone can have locally an mp3 playlist that rivals that of a local radio station? You mean 20 songs?
I guess it's time to rethink that mantra.
It seems obvious to me that the Diebold machines will NEVER be secure. They are utterly too complex (and expensive) for the simple task that they are given.
In order for a voting system to provide a sense of validity, it must be simple enough that even the layperson can understand how the entire system works. Replace acryonms TCP/IP, SQL, SSL, PCMCIA, USB, and WinCE with the acronyms ROM, EEPROM, and PIC and you've simplified the system by many orders of magnitude. Not to mention the fact that the system would actually be auditable. Add a failsafe into the overall system that only allows each election worker a small number of votes that he/she could possibly tamper with and we're getting somewhere. Add a reciept printing device that has no hooks into the vote tallying mechanism and we're there.
The Indian model is a step in the right direction. It should be emulated and expanded (by adding the paper audit trail).
Then why hasn't every slave throughout history killed himself? Their masters had dibs.
There is no doubt that internet pornography has a negative effect on Society. I witness it daily.
This message is for you fellow customers of AceDSL: Stop all the downloads. I'm trying to play ET and you're killing my ping. You're not the only one with addictions you know.
If we have any hope of salvaging our society you must redeem yourselves! Remember, the first path towards salvation is moderation, so start rate limiting.
I still keep a copy of Warcraft 2 lying around simply for the sheer amount of fun that can be had playing with 1 friend on this map against 6 computer players.
No matter what the skill level of each of the 2 human players you'll usually have to restart about 10 times until you figure out how to build a wall around your bases before the computers pump out their first offensive units.
After that you have about a 80% chance of accidentally letting someone break the wall down and the MAX_UNITS number of computer controled hoards destory you in about 2 seconds. However, successfully executed the map will take about an hour before the computer runs out of resources and you can begin to break them down. Then you can spend the next 15 minutes selectively destroying a massively stonger force.
Warcraft 2 is quite an old game, but it has some staying power if for no other reason that the Ogres are hilarious.
You may need the version that is rewritten in DirectX (called BattleNet Edition) to play on modern hardware though. The DOS version tended to rely on the fact that your CPU was operating at under 200Mhz so it plays way to fast on modern hardware.
Well, it also says full color by late 2006, so perhaps they're just working the kinks out of Red.
Yeah... about that... funny story...
This software requries that you run the game with Administrator privs when using it on Win32 because you need to be an Administrator to detect many of the cheats, read MAC addresses, and read the serial numbers off harddrives.
This is not true, but I can see how you made the mistake because I thought that for a bit too. The problem is this:
~/.gtkrc-2.0 is ignored if gnome-settings-daemon is running
It seems like it shouldn't be a problem, but it confuses a lot of people who want to manually configure gtk+ simply because they don't know gnome-settings-daemon is running when they try to edit the file and assume it's no longer used.
I too use FVWM. I find both KDE and GNOME buggy and annoying, but I can't help but to try them each out for a day every time a new one is released. Mabye I'll learn eventually.
fu** is a world?
Oh, I see, did you just forget to include the footnotes for * and **?