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  1. Code Review on Open Source Programmers Stink At Error Handling · · Score: 1

    I believe the number of error can be reduced with code reviews. This site can help you get reviews :)

  2. Re:who uses? on MySQL · · Score: 1

    > he reason it's popular is that it's blisteringly fast and has all of the features needed for many applications.

    What application doesn't care if the data returned to it is correct? What application doesn't care if the data becomes corrupted on crashes?

    > the usual whining about no transactions (though they'll be out shortly)

    why are they being added if they aren't necessary?

    > who have no need of a bloated product like Oracle, DB2 etc

    there are many real database packages that don't cost money. Berkeley DB comes to mind. Even gdbm provides some of the ACID properties

  3. who uses? on MySQL · · Score: 1

    Why do people use mySql? My understanding is that it has none of the ACID properties. If this is try it would seem fairly useless as a database.

  4. Re:Geez,when did slashdot become news of sysadmins on The Dual 1GHz Pentium III Myth · · Score: 1

    > Examples of apps that are compute bound.
    > 1) 3D, games, rendering,modling, you name it.

    Usually video card bound

    > 2) Any kind of realtime graphics.

    What does this term mean? Did you make it up?

    > 3) Photoshop type apps depending on wether you
    > use filters more often or just edits to large
    > files.

    Cache size and speed dependent

    > 4) Compiling.

    Cache and I/O bound

    > 5) Audio editing
    > 6) Real-time video editing. (What, I have to
    > wait 2 minutes to render the changes!)

    Usually depend upon FPU which is largely ignored in commodity chips.

    It's not that nothing is CPU bound. It's just very rarely the bottleneck.

  5. Re:The best of the new sendmail ... on Sendmail 8.10.0 Released · · Score: 2

    Alexey from Messaging direct has been keeping lists of all things that support SASL. I'm not sure if the sites moved but here's a cached copy http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.taxxi.com /homerus/mail/SASL_ClientRef.html

    Hopefully you'll be able to add mozilla to that list shortly too.