The only flaw with this logic is that I bought my DVDs. Now I am the owner of that DVD, NOT MPAA.
I should be able to put MY dvd into MY microwave and make a nice coaster for MY table.
Since I purchased MY DVD, I should be allowed to do whatever I want.
The region 2 disks that I bought are useless to me except for to be used as coasters. I don't want to pirate my DVDs. I want to watch MY DVDs on MY DVD player.
Having alarms go off when someone is plugged into an unathorized jack is nice. But what is to prevent someone from splicing the uplink, adding a tap, and just SNIFFING the traffic that goes by for that segment? Unless you do quite a bit of work, Nothing.
In most places, wiring closets are HORRIDLY laid out. An extra device can easily be hidden, especually if it all the device is doing is sniffing.
All of the high end RMDBS use raw file system access. By not using a "regular" file system, you gain a huge performance jumps. If MySQL is doing its own locking and recovery, then the overhead from the file system is wasteful.
Oracle has been doing this for years.
This is just another important step that MySQL needs hurdle before it is concidered for high end applications.
After having watched the show, anyone should notice that the "battlebots" are nothing more than nifty remote controlled cars with the ability to destroy things.
There is no point to running linux (or any os for that matter) on a system that can be controlled with a RC car remote. Humans can drive robots much better than a "robot" could.
I would really like to see the Lego wars on TV, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon.
A bunch of us geeks at my company are building battle bots (built with legos only) and hope to do the same sort of thing, but with the mindstorm controling it, instead of humans.
Thats pretty easy. Its all about catching the users attention.
Everyone uses napster. Everyone gets into mp3s. A few months down the road, when napster beats these lame lawsuits. In the meantime, they have got more press than anyone involved thought they could. They get even more people into using Napster and MP3s.
After a while of collecting data, they will go to some record company.
"We can garenty that your ads on napster will be seen by 30 million people. We can also garrenty that these 30 million people LIKE your music, and will WANT to listen to it."
Gee, DUH. What kind of company would turn down an advertising plan like that one? Of course napster is going to take off. Of course everyone involved is going to get rich. When they go IPO, they will blow away RedHat and the likes.
Its not every day that you see a hacked up IRC client on the cover of NewsWeek.
> Get these bases covered (hi-quality hardware, > reliable power with a big UPS or generator, non- > Micros~1 OS, and a DBA that knows what they're > doing) and you most likely won't need a > failover system.
Um... What? Look at the issues from a larger standpoint than an ISP. Lets pretend you are developing a database for VISA. They get millions of transactions a SECOND. A database being down for 20 seconds means losing millions of dollars. Not having failover systems is not acceptable when you have that much money relying on that system.
Thanks, but I would much rather have my bank use Oracle, and have some sort of warrenty that the system will be running, than not be able to get to my money when I need it.
Yet again this is another show of bad journalism. the above infoworld article got most of the information wrong.
the virginia SENATE has passed it, and the house is still working on it. They are studing it, and deciding if they want to create a committee to look at it.
I don't believe that news of a web hosting service like this one being down belongs on slashdot. If a web site is down, then we complain about it... but I for one do not feel that it is appropriate to warrent a post to slashdot about. It's not really news for nerds. nor does it really matter.
After going to the link [?] on the above article, I realized that the link for GPL goes to the description on everything.blockstackers.com instead of a non-opinion based description of GPL. A better place for the [?] link of GPL would be to point either to www.gnu.org or http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html (the gpl).
This is *great* I have been looking forward to sun doing this for a long time. I have been running s-linux for quite some time, but with sun help, maybe they will start supporting random hardware like the random video cards sun has been putting out but not releasing specs for.
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The only flaw with this logic is that I bought my DVDs. Now I am the owner of that DVD, NOT MPAA.
I should be able to put MY dvd into MY microwave and make a nice coaster for MY table.
Since I purchased MY DVD, I should be allowed to do whatever I want.
The region 2 disks that I bought are useless to me except for to be used as coasters. I don't want to pirate my DVDs. I want to watch MY DVDs on MY DVD player.
Having alarms go off when someone is plugged into an unathorized jack is nice. But what is to prevent someone from splicing the uplink, adding a tap, and just SNIFFING the traffic that goes by for that segment? Unless you do quite a bit of work, Nothing.
In most places, wiring closets are HORRIDLY laid out. An extra device can easily be hidden, especually if it all the device is doing is sniffing.
All of the high end RMDBS use raw file system access. By not using a "regular" file system, you gain a huge performance jumps. If MySQL is doing its own locking and recovery, then the overhead from the file system is wasteful.
Oracle has been doing this for years.
This is just another important step that MySQL needs hurdle before it is concidered for high end applications.
After having watched the show, anyone should notice that the "battlebots" are nothing more than nifty remote controlled cars with the ability to destroy things.
There is no point to running linux (or any os for that matter) on a system that can be controlled with a RC car remote. Humans can drive robots much better than a "robot" could.
I would really like to see the Lego wars on TV, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon.
A bunch of us geeks at my company are building battle bots (built with legos only) and hope to do the same sort of thing, but with the mindstorm controling it, instead of humans.
Everyone uses napster. Everyone gets into mp3s. A few months down the road, when napster beats these lame lawsuits. In the meantime, they have got more press than anyone involved thought they could. They get even more people into using Napster and MP3s.
After a while of collecting data, they will go to some record company.
"We can garenty that your ads on napster will be seen by 30 million people. We can also garrenty that these 30 million people LIKE your music, and will WANT to listen to it."
Gee, DUH. What kind of company would turn down an advertising plan like that one? Of course napster is going to take off. Of course everyone involved is going to get rich. When they go IPO, they will blow away RedHat and the likes.
Its not every day that you see a hacked up IRC client on the cover of NewsWeek.
> Get these bases covered (hi-quality hardware,
> reliable power with a big UPS or generator, non-
> Micros~1 OS, and a DBA that knows what they're
> doing) and you most likely won't need a
> failover system.
Um... What? Look at the issues from a larger standpoint than an ISP. Lets pretend you are developing a database for VISA. They get millions of transactions a SECOND. A database being down for 20 seconds means losing millions of dollars. Not having failover systems is not acceptable when you have that much money relying on that system.
Thanks, but I would much rather have my bank use Oracle, and have some sort of warrenty that the system will be running, than not be able to get to my money when I need it.
Yet again this is another show of bad journalism. the above infoworld article got most of the information wrong.
:(
the virginia SENATE has passed it, and the house is still working on it. They are studing it, and deciding if they want to create a committee to look at it.
Check it out for yourself:
HB561,
HJ277,
and SB372 [0]
[0] the last url is sponsered by the senator from my home town
I don't believe that news of a web hosting service like this one being down belongs on slashdot. If a web site is down, then we complain about it... but I for one do not feel that it is appropriate to warrent a post to slashdot about. It's not really news for nerds. nor does it really matter.
After going to the link [?] on the above article, I realized that the link for GPL goes to the description on everything.blockstackers.com instead of a non-opinion based description of GPL. A better place for the [?] link of GPL would be to point either to www.gnu.org or http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html (the gpl).
This is *great* I have been looking forward to sun doing this for a long time. I have been running s-linux for quite some time, but with sun help, maybe they will start supporting random hardware like the random video cards sun has been putting out but not releasing specs for.