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  1. Re: The cries of a dying business on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Third's search is amazing. Where does it fail you, having to select the fields you are searching for? It is great even without local indexing, on both exchange imap and dovecot.

  2. Re: The cries of a dying business on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Except no one but old farts and programmers notice or modify urls.

  3. Except the mythical man month proved that wrong. What if they put all their resources on goal X, but X isn't what you want?

    I argue for thunderbird and a few, focused other programs, to keep their mindset nimble and let good ideas spread internally.

  4. And then you need to purchase a retail license to go with it. The OEM key won't work (which sucks for virtual machines too).

  5. Re:FS needs to innovate on Software Freedom Conservancy Asks For Supporters · · Score: 1

    Where are the modern day philanthropists when we need them? There are a ton of AOSP forks and modifications, but all specific to devices. It seems like you're advocating for a Free Hardware movement (including firmware/microcode in that), which is great, but it costs even more money than free software. We need a few 0.1%ers to step up to the your cause.

  6. Re: Agreed: "Less is More = Good Engineering" on CIOs Spend a Third of Their Time On Security (enterprisersproject.com) · · Score: 1

    If you could provide a rest api for the host file, many would appreciate it. The same many of us don't have the time to download a Windows package (which we don't use) and extract it.

    The effort to curate a hosts file is extraordinate. Thank you for your generous time, but it doesn't help us.

  7. Re:Go Work for the Competition on Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This. Focus on the core and see if developers are open to modifying it to be API / service-architecture driven. Then you can build new UIs on top of the old code without breaking the current UIs as it inevitably takes time.

  8. Re:I miss pgsql on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 1

    Yes, Postgres has more, but the extra features it has don't necessarily add much value for most programs.
    MySQL multi-master replication features are immensely valuable

    I guess it depends on your programs. It does take effort to maintain two or more connections (one for write, the others for reads).

    If your use case needs balanced multi-master replication, but simple features, you should use a NoSQL solution.

    Postgres is amazing for reporting where you can bring anything you want in a single query, including JSON output (without using plsql procedures), and bulk updates are fantastic, with CTEs for selects and layers of them for updates/deletes, especially great with regex_replace and windowing functions. (Not even MS SQLServer has regex replace! Nor does it have a query planner to guide you through optimization of giant queries.)

    If your never directly touch the database outside of basic application code, then don't use an SQL solution! The benefit of using Structured Query Language is for human interaction. One-off reports can be tuned and converted to simple tools or repeatable cron jobs that use single queries to extract any data you want.

    If you are using MySQL, you're doing it wrong.

  9. Re:I miss pgsql on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 1

    Even with streaming replication in 9.3 onward? And tuning it? This a single instance with multiple schemas? Or separate instances?

  10. Re:Greenplum's contributions? on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 1

    Interesting, it appears Greenplum has recently been open sourced.

  11. Re:I miss pgsql on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 5, Informative

    MySQL/MariaDB are still toys in comparison to PostgreSQL.

    Postgres has recursive CTEs, regex replacement, native JSON support (as a record type and trivially convert every query return type), and even base64 decoding and xpath parsing.

    MySQL has had some nice features for years, like REPLACE, but since the 9.x branch, CTEs can do that and more. And now PG has UPSERT for simplicity. Replication has always been great with MySQL, but PG's replication is now easy to administer. I've relied on Postgres' streaming replication since 9.1 in production and it's been great for years.

  12. Re:I miss pgsql on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 2

    The native solution (streaming replication with many options) has been production stable since 9.1 and only increased in features, speed, and reliability.

  13. Fuck Yeah. PostgreSQL FTW on PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query · · Score: 1

    I've been using Postgres for well over a decade now, and I still love it. Yes, you have to tune it, like any powerful tool.

    Granted this first pass is only for sequential scans, but those are the simplest to parallelize and generally the slowest. Some queries rely on table scans as not every column can be indexed.

    Postgres' growing feature set is amazing. Thanks team!

  14. Payment between devices? on Apple Apparently Planning Mobile Peer-To-Peer Payment Service (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    would facilitate payment transfers directly between Apple devices such as the iPhone and the Apple Watch

    Don't they mean, payment between people? I don't see how transferring anything, especially money, makes sense from an iPhone to an Apple Watch.

    (I know what they meant: transfer from account holder to account holder via their devices... but an Apple Watch is just an extension of the phone, so is unnecessary to label it in this context.)

  15. Re:Halley's Comet on Comet Catalina To Pass By Earth For the Final Time · · Score: 1

    #1. Gamify Investing
    #2. Profit

  16. TFA Link? on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Holy tracking link Batman! Try this one instead:
    http://www.computerworld.com/article/3002681/it-outsourcing/fury-and-fear-in-ohio-as-it-jobs-go-to-india.html

  17. Re: MS Band 2 on Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? · · Score: 1

    Can it really play music without your phone? It does not appear to support that: http://www.microsoft.com/micro...

  18. Re:I'm not a runner, but... on Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? · · Score: 1

    Not everyone runs on roads... there are lots of great trails to run where you don't fear for your life and need to listen for passing cars.

    Earbuds block more sound, but over the ear phones with a low volume can still be enjoyed while being aware of surroundings.

  19. Re: Failing upwards on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, the Chief Executive Officer is a cheerleader, while the Chief Operating Officer does the day to day. Still, the CEO is at the top and needs to build a strong team to implement the corporate message, thus they are ultimately responsible.

  20. Re: But what about HP-UX? on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't used HP-UX in years, but in the late 90s it was super stable, including X11 and all programs I used. It had an alternate compiler to gcc which was great for learning C.

    The included gnu tools were always behind those in Linux distros (like grep color, tar options, etc), and the same might happen today. But there are dedicated users of every OS, similar to declining spoken languages, so some people must enjoy certain features of HP-UX and would like it to live and even grow.

  21. Re: Year of the Hurd Desktop? on GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released · · Score: 2

    Why would you want to work? Mobile devices are designed for consumption, not creation. Once all devices are mobile, will there be any content to consume?

  22. If that works, can't you just detect malware using the same method on the regular laptop? (Boot it via cd/usb and check bios and other firmware.) Seems to me a compromised bios could lie about it's checksum.

    I guess if you always flashed all your bios/firmware back to defaults from read-only media after crossing a border, it might work...

  23. short of hardware inside it to spy on you

    You mean like modifications to the bios? Which can infect a running OS even after you boot from another device?

  24. Re: What the frack on Naval Academy Reinstates Teaching of Celestial Navigation · · Score: 2

    And hardware never fails, cosmic rays never affect memory, and programs never terminate unexpectedly.

  25. I wouldn't call Ubuntu slim...