You're just plain wrong. RedHat maintains binary compatibility within major number releases. As someone running phoebe, I can tell you right now that 9 isn't binary compatible with 8.0.
I worked for a guy once who got his entire company together (total hourly cost: $600) to complain that people were using up too much paper (a ream of paper: $5.00). He spent a good half-hour talking about it. (Quiting and taking staff with me: priceless).
Mind you, this was the same boss who promised people "non-voting, non-dividend earning shares" as a bonus.
If only someone had thought to make up symbols that could be used. Perhaps something near the # key for dollars, and maybe some sort of mutant L thing for pounds?
Imagine how pissed off the NSA is going to be if this sort of thing takes off. All those intercepts of evil people planning which turn out to be a couple of bored 23-year-old guys somewhere...
We used to use mySQL, but moved to postgreSQL for performance reasons, and we're glad we have.
On the postgreSQL general mailing list, people rarely talk about mySQL anymore (let along mSQL). It's (mySQL) is generally regarded as a good alternative to the Berkeley DB stuff (i.e. non-relational), whereas postgreSQL these days gets lots of traffic from Oracle people wanting to go somewhere cheaper.
His example on the average intelligence one _is_ a problem - I'd expect less people to be below the average IQ than above it, given that the IQ scale only goes to 0 and is unbounded in the positive direction.
On the other hand, almost half should be below the _median_ IQ (half minus half the people on the median IQ).
Hmm, I think that xerox only means photocopy in some parts of the world - here (.au) most people I know talk about photocopying something.
Similarly, most people refer to "tissues" and "sticky tape". Perhaps it's only Americans who have difficulty distinguishing between a common brand of a product and the class of product in general?
Wheras I always pronounce it "Crappy 8-bit patented image format".:)
When you need _big_ IDE is sooo much cheaper
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We needed the biggest disk array we could get for a project without spending more than about $USD25k.
We built (3 load-balanced) machines with 4 120GB IDE/100 disks on them and used software RAID5 over them (using Promise TX2 cards).
The raw volume does about 50MB/s.
I loaded up 240GB of database onto it - this was around 200,000,000 (two hundred million) rows in a single PostgreSQL table.
I then wrote a program to randomly chose rows from the table. We could select (completely at random) 65 rows/second. I was amazed. With all the random seeking going on, the drives were still doing about 20MB/s throughput, according to iostat!
Since we needed to perform at 5 rows/second, this was wonderful!
The best price we could have done it with SCSI was about 10x as much, due to the small size of modern SCSI disks...
Or even better dont even use an X-Box, just code up some program on a standard PC that pretends to be an X-Box to the Live service and supply whatever serial number/mac address you want..
Then make it the payload of the next Outlook worm...
Is that true? Are they _that_ hot? That would be about 200,000,000 K, which is pretty damn toasty. How does it avoid being very bright, from black body radiation?
Is it compulsory to be unable to speel to be a Slashdot editor? Perhaps the removal of the part of the brain that stops duplicate posts injures the spelling part?
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Hmm, you mean this part:
Posted by timothy on 11:40 2nd April, 2003
I suspect it's adjusted into my local time, but it's waaay past April 1.
I thought April Fools jokes were meant to stop before the 2nd, at least...
You're just plain wrong. RedHat maintains binary compatibility within major number releases. As someone running phoebe, I can tell you right now that 9 isn't binary compatible with 8.0.
I worked for a guy once who got his entire company together (total hourly cost: $600) to complain that people were using up too much paper (a ream of paper: $5.00). He spent a good half-hour talking about it. (Quiting and taking staff with me: priceless).
Mind you, this was the same boss who promised people "non-voting, non-dividend earning shares" as a bonus.
If only someone had thought to make up symbols that could be used. Perhaps something near the # key for dollars, and maybe some sort of mutant L thing for pounds?
Nah, it'd never work.
($, £)
Imagine how pissed off the NSA is going to be if this sort of thing takes off. All those intercepts of evil people planning which turn out to be a couple of bored 23-year-old guys somewhere...
We used to use mySQL, but moved to postgreSQL for performance reasons, and we're glad we have.
On the postgreSQL general mailing list, people rarely talk about mySQL anymore (let along mSQL). It's (mySQL) is generally regarded as a good alternative to the Berkeley DB stuff (i.e. non-relational), whereas postgreSQL these days gets lots of traffic from Oracle people wanting to go somewhere cheaper.
Oracle mustn't be happy, I'd think.
Wow, that _is_ impressive! I didn't know you could even _get_ 3D white boards :)
His example on the average intelligence one _is_ a problem - I'd expect less people to be below the average IQ than above it, given that the IQ scale only goes to 0 and is unbounded in the positive direction.
On the other hand, almost half should be below the _median_ IQ (half minus half the people on the median IQ).
Not in Sydney. Sticky tape is transparent. Duct-tape is the silver heavy-duty stuff. Packing tape is brown sticky-tape.
Hmm, I think that xerox only means photocopy in some parts of the world - here (.au) most people I know talk about photocopying something.
Similarly, most people refer to "tissues" and "sticky tape". Perhaps it's only Americans who have difficulty distinguishing between a common brand of a product and the class of product in general?
You have to turn up to vote. What you do write on the balot paper(s) is secret.
Everyong over 18 at the time of an election must register to vote.
X-Rays from your dentist _do_ cause cancer. All X-Rays probably do. The point is that the benefits outweigh the (tiny) risk.
Wheras I always pronounce it "Crappy 8-bit patented image format". :)
We needed the biggest disk array we could get for a project without spending more than about $USD25k.
We built (3 load-balanced) machines with 4 120GB IDE/100 disks on them and used software RAID5 over them (using Promise TX2 cards).
The raw volume does about 50MB/s.
I loaded up 240GB of database onto it - this was around 200,000,000 (two hundred million) rows in a single PostgreSQL table.
I then wrote a program to randomly chose rows from the table. We could select (completely at random) 65 rows/second. I was amazed. With all the random seeking going on, the drives were still doing about 20MB/s throughput, according to iostat!
Since we needed to perform at 5 rows/second, this was wonderful!
The best price we could have done it with SCSI was about 10x as much, due to the small size of modern SCSI disks...
I seldom forget that I've already done something within a few hours, three times in one day - and even if that was OK, they can _search_.
Is there some way to personalise /. to avoid seeing duplicates? Now that would be useful.
Then make it the payload of the next Outlook worm...
And if it's like neutron decay, it only happens to "free" protons - I guess a hydrogen nucleus would count?
Theres no conduction, but there's plenty of radiation - if you're in shadow (from the sun) you can radiate lots of heat, and the stars are cold.
I'd love to know where they buy their HDD - I haven't seen anything smaller than 20GB for about a year.
Maybe they have a _lot_ of partitions?
Is that true? Are they _that_ hot? That would be about 200,000,000 K, which is pretty damn toasty. How does it avoid being very bright, from black body radiation?
I though neutron stars were dark?
I listen to the voices in preference to the quacks.
Is this a troll? It certainly looks like one.
Perhaps either stop trolling, or actually follow some of the links to find out what Nethack is?
Is it compulsory to be unable to speel to be a Slashdot editor? Perhaps the removal of the part of the brain that stops duplicate posts injures the spelling part?