the most common complain (and mistake) about gentoo is that it "takes forever compiling" etc etc yadda yadda.... this is BS....
first: I have like 20 servers running gentoo, the oldest of them is a pentium3-1ghz... even on this machine mostly everything compiles just fine (doesn't take long).
2nd: for the things that WOULD take a lot to compile on this hardware, I can always resort to the binary packages (emerge -k)... kde/openoffice/gnome/etc gets installed in seconds....
3rd: most my servers don't need kde/X/gnome/etc...
4th: if there is a package i use often, and it's not avaliable as a precompiled package... i can just have emerge "create" one and store it on the network... if i do an emerge things get compiled from source... if I do emerge -k , the portage will first look into my packages dir to see if it finds a precompiled version, and if it does... use it...
5th: distcc is your friend... i have 5 xeons 3.06ghz on my distcc farm... talk about fast compiles:)
6th: gentoo rox:) i would never, ever trade it for other distro....
i'm yet to understand why is this of any relevance.... Why would a sane person run mysql over postgres is beyond me... Speed? have you ever compared the two? almost the same... and after mysql add support for real database functions I doubt the speed will be the same...
People cheering up for finally having store procedure and sub-queries...
postgres has had that for millenia.../me refuses to install a toy-db-access-like-crap like mysql....
oh and by the way... does it still choke if you have a high load on or big db on it? all previous versions would...
correct:) and to add many small business everywhere in the world warez... it's the big business that matter to vendors such as microsoft... loosing the sale of 1 copy of office? doesn't matter selling 1500 -2000 licenses that are anually renewed? that's business....
People always complain that the "quality of the outsourced products are poor" etc etc... but imho it's mainly due to poor choice of professionals, not because of origin. The indian for example, have a very good educational system (even before the oursourcing fad, many good mathematicians/chemists WORKING AT US companies were from India). then they argue "but it's too cheap! it can't be good... you will get what you pay for"
this is likely untrue. The cost-of-life on India is also a lot smaller than on the US. With half the salary that a IT manager would get in the U.S, an indian resident could probably afford a very luxourious life (maids, huge confortable house, clothing, food). The costs are NOT the same for them. I am in Brazil and I used to work at an educational research institution that would provide scholarships to high-level researchers to study in a foreign country. The problem was: the scholarship values were fixed, When it was best to send the academic to a poor country, (china? etc) the scholarship value would allow him to live anyway he wanted (beach houses, etc etc). but when it was best that his research were done on a rich country (sweden, etc) he would have a very difficult time mantaining his living.
As a IT worker here in Brazil, I can say the following:
1) Posts saying that Brazil goverment is just replacing pirate MS products for free ones are trolls....
I've worked with 4 Goverment agencies (hell, my first job was at one of them) and I can say that most of all software are proper licensed.
Brazil home users don't care much about piracy issues, but corporations and the goverment sure do (MS-Brazil could sue ANY goverment agency for gazzilion dollars if they found pirate software is being used.... In fact, most places have a "select" contract with them [volume licenses]).
So, "not renewing" means *SURPRISE* NOT RENEWING* the licenses
PS: This is the home of our beloved Marcelo Tosetti (tosseti?) which is the current mantainer.
2) "this will take away jobs/money.
lie... 2 of the places i've seen that are already in the migration process are using conectiva linux (http://www.conectiva.com.br/) which is a Brazilian RedHat based distro. They PAY for their copies (mostly to get tech support/etc).
This is money that would be otherwise going to MS
3) Goverment migrating to OpenSource makes a HUGE difference, as it allows other companies (or corporations) that have to interact with the goverment (exchanging documents/etc/etc) to use OSS. A while back most downloadable documents on goverment webpages were in DOC format, now they're mostly PDF or pure HTML, which is good... But email-exchanged documents are still using DOC/etc.
Hmmm I think this is it for now:)
i'll probably get modded down for saying this, but i think these worms are good on the long run. Why? If it is preparing a p2p spam grid, it helps pushing forward the ideia that we need to change the email system (new SMTP RFCs that ARE IMPLEMENTED instead of staying as just ideias, secure email (signed/user confirmed [sending the email back to the sender with a code asking for manual confirmation etc]) *AND* shows that we need more secure servers/networks by either showing M$ admins that they REALLY need to keep patching up, or show them that they can migrate to a more trusted platform (and HELL NO I DON'T MEAN PALADIUM)...
They're what Hubble used to spot the expansion of the universe in the 1920s, but they're relatively dim and impossible to find in very distant galaxies.
aha! I knew they had Hubble all along... This is an alien artifact, not a satellite!
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: IPV4 is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered IPV4 community when recently IDC confirmed that IPV4 accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that IPV4 has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. IPV4 is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict IPV4's future. The hand writing is on the wall: IPV4 faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for IPV4 because IPV4 is dying. Things are looking very bad for IPV4. As many of us are already aware, IPV4 continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Natted IPV4 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developer
Google is not a god... it's only 2 3rds of it... loook
Gods = Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. google = omnipresent (accessible anywhere) omniscient (knows every fraggin thing) but still not omnipotent:)
when it starts creating global cathastrophes or ressurecting people, please warn me....
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man.... you couldn't be more wrong .. :
it's not $50,000
it's $500
as per
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html
the most common complain (and mistake) about gentoo is that it "takes forever compiling" etc etc yadda yadda....
:)
:) i would never, ever trade it for other distro....
this is BS....
first: I have like 20 servers running gentoo, the oldest of them is a pentium3-1ghz...
even on this machine mostly everything compiles just fine (doesn't take long).
2nd: for the things that WOULD take a lot to compile on this hardware, I can always resort to the binary packages (emerge -k)... kde/openoffice/gnome/etc gets installed in seconds....
3rd: most my servers don't need kde/X/gnome/etc...
4th: if there is a package i use often, and it's not avaliable as a precompiled package... i can just have emerge "create" one and store it on the network... if i do an emerge things get compiled from source... if I do emerge -k , the portage will first look into my packages dir to see if it finds a precompiled version, and if it does... use it...
5th: distcc is your friend... i have 5 xeons 3.06ghz on my distcc farm... talk about fast compiles
6th: gentoo rox
who cares about computers?
will we have Milla Jovovich fighting zombies on this one?
:) you are more likely to say
OMG! ZERG RUSH! LOL
you forgot *BSD...
oh sorry... that's already dead...
They'll understand me now when i wave my hand in thin air and tell my cursor
"this is not the icon you are looking for"
jedi master since 1991
And then Atuk, our great-great-great-great-great grandfather looked up to the sky and said:
"OH FUCK! NOT AGAIN...."
nah.... gentoo users could do that for years....
:) :( 'im ashamed
we just
emerge debian-stable
this is a very lame joke
i'm yet to understand why is this of any relevance....
/me refuses to install a toy-db-access-like-crap like mysql....
Why would a sane person run mysql over postgres is beyond me...
Speed? have you ever compared the two? almost the same... and after mysql add support for real database functions I doubt the speed will be the same...
People cheering up for finally having store procedure and sub-queries...
postgres has had that for millenia...
oh and by the way... does it still choke if you have a high load on or big db on it? all previous versions would...
IGOR is a good debugger :)
:) how many programmers named Igor do you think that exist in russia? :)
:(
seriously
ciao....
this was lame
correct :)
and to add
many small business everywhere in the world warez...
it's the big business that matter to vendors such as microsoft...
loosing the sale of 1 copy of office? doesn't matter
selling 1500 -2000 licenses that are anually renewed? that's business....
for you soulseek needs, try nicotine (http://thegraveyard.org/nicotine)...
:)
I find it better than the original soulseek (for win).
the search filters rule
ciao...
Hey Momma.....
Yo ass so big, that your gravity pull has a moon orbiting uranus....
People always complain that the "quality of the outsourced products are poor" etc etc...
but imho it's mainly due to poor choice of professionals, not because of origin.
The indian for example, have a very good educational system (even before the oursourcing fad, many good mathematicians/chemists WORKING AT US companies were from India).
then they argue "but it's too cheap! it can't be good... you will get what you pay for"
this is likely untrue. The cost-of-life on India is also a lot smaller than on the US. With half the salary that a IT manager would get in the U.S, an indian resident could probably afford a very luxourious life (maids, huge confortable house, clothing, food).
The costs are NOT the same for them.
I am in Brazil and I used to work at an educational research institution that would provide scholarships to high-level researchers to study in a foreign country.
The problem was:
the scholarship values were fixed,
When it was best to send the academic to a poor country, (china? etc) the scholarship value would allow him to live anyway he wanted (beach houses, etc etc).
but when it was best that his research were done on a rich country (sweden, etc) he would have a very difficult time mantaining his living.
just my 2c
Shit! I forgot to close that bold :(
note-to-self: remember to preview posts next time...
As a IT worker here in Brazil, I can say the following: 1) Posts saying that Brazil goverment is just replacing pirate MS products for free ones are trolls.... I've worked with 4 Goverment agencies (hell, my first job was at one of them) and I can say that most of all software are proper licensed. Brazil home users don't care much about piracy issues, but corporations and the goverment sure do (MS-Brazil could sue ANY goverment agency for gazzilion dollars if they found pirate software is being used.... In fact, most places have a "select" contract with them [volume licenses]). So, "not renewing" means *SURPRISE* NOT RENEWING* the licenses PS: This is the home of our beloved Marcelo Tosetti (tosseti?) which is the current mantainer. 2) "this will take away jobs/money. lie... 2 of the places i've seen that are already in the migration process are using conectiva linux (http://www.conectiva.com.br/) which is a Brazilian RedHat based distro. They PAY for their copies (mostly to get tech support/etc). This is money that would be otherwise going to MS 3) Goverment migrating to OpenSource makes a HUGE difference, as it allows other companies (or corporations) that have to interact with the goverment (exchanging documents/etc/etc) to use OSS. A while back most downloadable documents on goverment webpages were in DOC format, now they're mostly PDF or pure HTML, which is good... But email-exchanged documents are still using DOC/etc. Hmmm I think this is it for now :)
i'll probably get modded down for saying this, but i think these worms are good on the long run.
Why? If it is preparing a p2p spam grid, it helps pushing forward the ideia that we need to change the email system (new SMTP RFCs that ARE IMPLEMENTED instead of staying as just ideias, secure email (signed/user confirmed [sending the email back to the sender with a code asking for manual confirmation etc])
*AND*
shows that we need more secure servers/networks by either showing M$ admins that they REALLY need to keep patching up, or show them that they can migrate to a more trusted platform (and HELL NO I DON'T MEAN PALADIUM)...
just my 2 euros...
I for one welcome our new console overlords...
Be them from microsoft, sony or nintendo...
long awaited Smartphone 2003 SDK was released today.
I know I wasn't waiting for it at all....
No news here... move along... until smartphone gets some market at least...
They're what Hubble used to spot the expansion of the universe in the 1920s, but they're relatively dim and impossible to find in very distant galaxies.
aha! I knew they had Hubble all along...
This is an alien artifact, not a satellite!
Time to get my tinfoil back....
brb...
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: IPV4 is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered IPV4 community when
recently IDC confirmed that IPV4 accounts for less than a fraction of 1
percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft
survey which plainly states that IPV4 has lost more market share, this
news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. IPV4 is collapsing
in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last
[samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict IPV4's
future. The hand writing is on the wall: IPV4 faces a bleak future. In
fact there won't be any future at all for IPV4 because IPV4 is dying.
Things are looking very bad for IPV4. As many of us are already aware,
IPV4 continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of
blood. Natted IPV4 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of
its core developer
Google is not a god... it's only 2 3rds of it... loook
:)
Gods = Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient.
google = omnipresent (accessible anywhere)
omniscient (knows every fraggin thing)
but still not omnipotent
when it starts creating global cathastrophes or ressurecting people, please warn me....
(sorry for my bad english)
Imagine a Mandrake cluster of those.... ;)
I mean... the opterons
I'm glad I live here... :)
time to shift those POS win boxen... to something free...
Oh, and does anyone know the GPS coordinates of either SCO-HQ or redmond?
:)
Or both if we are really going cluster